CAC leaders,

Please see below for the agenda for our 2010 RCAC Retreat.  In the interest of keeping things a little more relaxed and enjoyable, we've scheduled generous amounts of time for the discussion items.  The current schedule shows us wrapping up our official business at 8:50 p.m., though we hope we scheduled in more time that we'll actually need.   We figured no one would mind going home a little earlier than expected, as this is going to be quite a long day for many of us.  :-D  That said, please try to be there at 5:30 so we can greet one another, settle in and get started on time.

Thanks to Patrick, Justin and Mary Belle for helping the executive committee hammer out the agenda.  See you all on Wednesday!

Ana

RCAC 2010 Retreat
5:30 p.m.
Walnut Creek Wetland Center

MIngle/Welcome (15 minutes)
Introductions/Icebreaker - what do you do in your professional life? (15 minutes)
Minutes

Report out on boundaries exercise (Boundaries committee) (45 minutes)
   - Overview
   - Recommendations: discussion, decision
   - Lessons learned

Discussion:  What is the purpose of the CAC?

In-depth discussion of the kinds of issues and problems the various CACs work on, and what each CAC's biggest challenge is currently.  Discuss CACs roles in their communities, how CACs interact with local institutions, the business community and neighborhood associations. (We'll break into pairs and each pair will have a list of questions to prompt discussion.) (20 minutes)

Report out:  Discuss common themes emerging from various CAC leaders' comments (30 minutes)

BREAK (10 minutes)

Small group discussion:  each group will discuss a particular challenge from the report-out, and discuss ways to address those challenges.  Each small group will present to the full group on the resources/solutions/action steps they came up with to support CACs facing that particular challenge and hear feedback. (20 minutes for group discussion, 25 minutes for presentations)

Wrap up:  How are we doing?  How does our work in 2010 measure up to our original 1970's mission statement?  July meeting agenda?  (20 minutes)

Socializing/dessert/adjournment