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Commission debates format for leadership lunches, agrees to survey stakeholders
Summary
After low turnout in the fall, commissioners discussed changing the day, format and invite list for monthly leadership lunches, agreed to poll partner organizations and attempt a restart next month, and considered keeping meetings informal (no formal votes).
Commissioners spent an extended portion of the meeting discussing the county's leadership-lunch series and how to improve attendance and usefulness.
"The attendance on the leadership lunch for the fall was very, very low," said Unidentified Speaker 4, summarizing the impetus for rethinking the meeting format. Commissioners discussed moving the lunches to different days (including Tuesdays or aligning them with commission meetings), polling partner organizations for preferred times, and whether to keep the meetings informal and administrative rather than turning them into formal public meetings with motions.
Speakers recommended broadening invitations to include local entities such as the road district, fire and EMS, the school district and special service areas while preserving a flexible format (potluck or paid catering). One option proposed was to hold a short pre-meeting for boards in the same building and then proceed into the leadership lunch so more partners could attend.
Commissioners asked staff to circulate a survey to potential participants and to schedule a trial for next month; they emphasized keeping the meetings useful without generating excessive administrative burden.
Next steps: staff will prepare a poll of likely invitees and propose a date for the next leadership lunch; any resulting schedule will be posted for public notice.
