BUILDING FOR SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY - Kennedy Bibliothek

- discuss the issues and priorities of the project and
appoint Task Forces.
The Public Forum provides an opportunity for every participant
to see his own contributions in relation to everyone else's, and
to see their impact on the program. It enables the Steering
Committee and the technical staff to understand the viewpoint of
their constituents. And it allows participants to either volunteer
themselves or name others to work on the Task Forces.
h) Once the Public Forum has met and expressed its ideas with regard
to the issues and priorities, and suggested names for the Task
Forces, the Steering Committee and the technical staff should
meet to draw up a summary of the Public Forum, broken out as
groups or "clusters" of tasks. Each situation will, of course,
produce its own appropriate inventory, but examples of such clusters
might be:
- educational programs, children and adults;
- recreation programs, indoors and out;
- arts programs;
- programs for senior citizens;
- interdepartmental relations;
- capital and operational budgets;
- administration.
Each cluster of tasks would then become the directive from the
Steering Committee to its appropriate• Tasfe Force. The Steering
Committee would also be responsible for appointing the Task
Forces, ensuring that each Task Force has the appropriate mix of
citizen and user members with official or departmental representation.
i) The Task Forces will then hold working meetings. These meetings
are in two stages:
- first each Task Force will concentrate on its own "cluster"
of tasks, and within a given time-frame it will produce a
written program for that cluster;
- then all the Task Forces will meet in plenary sessions
with the Steering Committee and the technical staff, and
a preliminary comprehensive program (with inter-departmental
or inter-sectoral co-ordination) will be drawn up which
will, in turn, become the basic program for the planners
and architects.
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