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Monday, August 10, 4:00-6:00pm
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Chair Comments and Approval of July 13 Minutes:
4:00-4:15
Think Tank Item 5-2020
4:15- 4:45 The Impact of COVID-19 and the New Normal of Work
Jeanne Meister, Founding Partner at Future Workplace
4:45-5:15 Q & A with Jeanne
5:15-5:30 Next Steps
Unscheduled Items
Pragmatic perspectives on the digital divide**
Changes in Service Delivery **
How to co-create in the midst of COVID-19**
Slow Cities **
Design Thinking **
Livable Cities **
Future of Housing**
City as a Platform **
Regionalism (Larimer/Weld county)
University of the Future
Futurists
Cultural Heritage
Learning
Curiosity
Mental Health
Learning (knowledge and
wisdom)
Digital Equity
Committee Members
Mayor Wade Troxell (Chairperson)
Councilmember Emily Gorgol
Councilmember Julie Pignataro
Staff Liaison: Jacqueline Kozak-Thiel, Chief Sustainability Officer
Staff Support: Megan DeMasters, Specialist, Environmental Services
**Committee Priority topic
Think Tank Items 2020
1-2020 Becoming Fort Collins:
Regenerative
Approaches for Our
Future
2-2020 The Future of Health
Equity
3-2020 Voices of Youth
4-2020 The Future of
Community
Engagement
5-2020 The Impact of COVID-
19 and the New
Normal of Work
Think Tank Items 2019
1-2019 Future of Philanthropic
Partnerships
2-2019 Polarities in data and
smart cities:
connectivity and
privacy, big data and
security
3-2019 The Future of
Community
Architecture
4-2019 The Future of Regional
Transportation
5-2019 Future of a Mindful,
Compassionate Fort
Collins: Learnings from
the Mindful Cities
Initiative
6-2019 The Future of Libraries
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MINUTES
CITY OF FORT COLLINS
FUTURES COMMITTEE MEETING
Date: July 13, 2020
Location: CIC Room, City Hall, 300 Laporte Ave.
Time: 4:00-6:00pm
Committee Members Present:
Mayor Wade Troxell
Julie Pignataro
Emily Gorgol
Kristin Stephens (alternate)
City Staff:
Jackie Kozak-Thiel, (Staff Liaison)
Presenters:
Patti Schmitt, Director of the Family Leadership Training Institute (FLTI) at CSU Extension
Dr. David MacPhee, CSU Prevention Research Center and interim director, School of Social Work
Additional Staff present:
Alyssa Stephens, Neighborhood Services
Amanda King, CPIO
Caroline Mitchell, Environmental Services
Lindsay Ex, Sustainability Services Area
Clark Mapes, CDNS
Dean Klingner, PDT
Ginny Sawyer, Connexion
Honore Depew, City Manager’s Office
Meaghan Overton, CDNS
Noah Beals, CDNS
Rebecca Everette, CDNS
Ryan Mounce, CDNS
Maren Bzdek
Tyler Marr, City Manager’s Office
Keli DiMartino, City Manager’s Office
Shannon Hein, EHO
Shawna Van Zee, CDNS
Sue Beck-Ferkiss, SSD
Yaz Haldeman, CDNS
Leo Escalante, CPIO
Community members:
Kevin Jones, FC Chamber
Brenda Miles
Carolyn Tredinnick
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Hannah Eppley
Sabrina Duey
Heather Meyer
Mark Rose
Shannon Hughes
Sue Tungate
Lisa Auer
Marc Winokur
Meeting called to order at 4:05 pm
Approval of Minutes:
Julie moved to approve June 08 minutes. Emily seconded. Motion passed unanimously. 3-0-0.
Chairman Comments: None
Summary
• The future of Civic Engagement is a timely topic as the City considers how we are
responding during COVID, reckoning with racial injustice and how to be resilient and
regenerative
• Co-creation with the community is necessary to build Civic muscle and divergent views
are necessary to strengthen those muscles
• Building Civic Capacity and community driven change is about Planning, Acting and
Learning together with the community
o It is important to think about our capacity for vital social connections
• Community driven change requires a sense of belonging and the ability to share power
o Consider how to build skills to navigate system and redesign our current system
through power-sharing lens
o Consider if City as a Platform can be used as a way to share power with
community members
• Community driven change is a key part of resilience and recognition no one sector or
institution can solve the problems we are facing
• City has begun an equity indicators project and there may be alignment with utilizing the
Civic Capacity index
• Reimagining engagement is a Council priority
o Using the Our Climate Future and Home2Health as examples, we need to think
about how we engage those most impacted that also have historically had the least
power
o BFO process can be a place of opportunity to reimagine engagement
Think Tank Item 4-2020: The Future of Community Engagement: Civic Capacity
Building
• David and Patti each share a bit about their experience and what drives them to do
community engagement and system change work.
• Introduce Family Leadership Training Institute (FLTI) which is a state-wide collaborative
that looks at bridging the gap between community members and decision-makers
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o 20-week leadership program and graduates represent many diverse community
voices
• There are many community challenges such as racial inequity, job loss, and COVID that
can seem overwhelming and addressing these issues takes bringing together many people
with varied experiences
• Question becomes how do we look forward and strengthen our community knowing that
these challenges can bubble up? And how do we do this in a community-driven way?
• Fort Collins demographics are changing and in about 10 years approximately 25% of the
population will be representative of the Latin X community
o This highlights the need for strategies that reflect multiple voices
o What are the various ways community is brought to the decision-making table?
Are we willing to “roll up our sleeves” work with and learn from community?
o Building Civic Capacity is connected to Council priorities to reimagine
engagement and to promote diversity, equity and inclusion
• Consider how community works together in the next 10 years? New challenges require
multiple agencies, organizations and people working together to solve them and ensure
strategies reflect community needs
o There are many strengths in how the City of Fort Collins works and there is an
opportunity to consider what new and dynamic ways we can work with
community?
• Need to bring both content and context experts together
o Content experts are the professionals and staff in organizations with formal
power, knowledge, tools and resources
o Context experts are the people with lived experiences including children and
youth. They experientially know about these issues
• In the next 10 year, how can the City of Fort Collins Learn, Plan and Act Together?
o This is Civic Capacity
o When you have a strong civic capacity strong ability for community driven
change
• Benefits of community driven change
o More likely to have lasting effects
o More inclusive and more democratic
o Leads to more resilient communities
• Community driven change is part of 7 vital conditions for community well-being
o Increases sense of belonging and builds civic muscle
• Civic capacity results in community benefits including better social connection:
o This also leads to more empathy, willingness to work with others, lower levels of
anxiety and depression
• Community-driven change is key to resilience:
o Resilience can happen at the individual, family and community levels and
includes things like developing coping skills, problem solving and reframing of
issues, social support, and risk reduction adaptive processes
o Parallels between individual/family resilience with community resilience include
problem solving, involving multiple stakeholders, and having community
resources including social capital and coalitions, processes addressing equity
• Community driven change involves examining the following:
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o Who does the work (organizations and agencies OR neighborhoods, communities
and regions)?
o Nature of the process (decide and announce OR agenda setting, problem solving
and consensus building)
o Who organizes and energizes the process (content experts OR content and context
experts)?
o Key leadership tasks—Consider how City of Fort Collins can share the leadership
and power
• The Civic Capacity Index is a practical tool for communities to assess how well they can
work together to create long-lasting change. It is a tool for:
o Governments
o Foundations
o Civic Actors
o Nonprofit organizations
o Community groups
• The Index was created by a panel of 34 experts on leadership including government
leaders, practitioners and academics who generated ideas related to community driven
change
• There are 7 dimensions of the Civic Capacity index:
o Collective leadership
o Confronting racism and injustice
o Institutional Synergy
o Engaging civic culture
o Organic coalitions
o Purposeful collaboration
o Learning together
• The City of Fort Collins is already doing some amazing work in building Civic Capacity
o Specifically, the work of Home2Helath that Meaghan Overton is leading is a good
example of cross-collaboration bringing different groups together and being
thoughtful about how to engage community and partners move the needle on
important issues
• Core Elements of Civic Capacity and Resilient Community
o Social Justice
o Social Capital
o Collaborative leadership
o Collective Efficacy
o Resource Equity
o Adaptive Capacity
• Ultimately the City needs to consider where and how we learn, plan and act with our
community? Patti concludes with the question of What is the difference that will make
the difference in the City of Fort Collins?
Comments/Q&A:
• Mayor reiterates that the City of Fort Collins has a priority around reimaging engagement
and that we
• Mayor asks how community is defined
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o Community is how it defines itself and there are smaller communities within
larger communities
o It is also important to recognize that community can be how it defines itself
• Councilmember Gorgol reiterates the need for sharing power in leadership roles and
wants to learn more about how the City can move into a place where it is not always
hosting events and rather participate and leverage other resources
• There was discussion around how to help create a sense of belonging and make it
possible for community members to feel like they have a seat at the table
o Patti reiterates the need to be creative and to be willing to try new things without
fear of failure
• Patti shares that it is important to invest in programs such as FLTI in order to see
dynamic change of who is at the table
• Discussion around how to support work where community driven change is boiling up—
what kinds of organizations, systems and platforms will allow for collaboration and
inclusivity?
• Councilmember Pignataro mentions that there is engagement fatigue from the community
and that one of the challenges in bringing context experts to the table is the fact that they
have difficult life situations
• To continue to have context experts participate it is important to provide food, childcare
and compensation
• It is important that we never ask people to share their opinion or story if we are not
willing to act on it—we see this especially now when we are looking at racial injustice
o Don’t ask if you aren’t willing to dive into what this is and really understand what
we as an organization need to own and what needs to be changed.
o Assess where you are with trust building—map where the organization is with
perceptions of trust then think about what needs to be done to strengthen those
areas of trust—recognize that this is an ongoing process
▪ Mayor adds that trust can be a long time to build up and is quickly
dismantled.
• Think about both the ways we engage and where we engage
o Connect with people to design that process.
• The discussion ended with a question about how to authentically engage with the budget
and there is hope that new engagement strategies can be built into the 2022 budget
process
Additional Discussion: None
Meeting adjourned by Mayor Troxell at 5:50pm