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Friday, January 27 – Thursday, February 2, 2006
I have to get things moving in Jeff Davis and moving quickly. I started with a staff meeting on Saturday. On Monday I had a planning & orientation meeting with both Parish Teams. We defined who was responsible for each sector and established and schedule page for Jeff Davis similar to the Allen Calendar. Then I asked each person from Jeff Davis to shadow his/her counter part in Allen for the rest of the day.
On Wednesday, the GIS group representative was already planning to come out and we scheduled a “Brain Dump” day so that everyone on the Allen Team could share with each other and with the Jeff Davis team the documents and information they have collected as well as where they found it and tips on finding similar information in Jeff Davis.
The Allen Team continues to do great work and the Jeff Davis team is coming up to speed quickly.
The Director of Economic Development for Jeff Davis – something that Allen Parish does not have and could use – has filled in some of the vacuum by establishing a committee to provide input and by scheduling a series of public meetings around the Parish. I met with him and attended one of the public meetings. Due to staff limitations and the type of agenda differences you would expect, his approach is not quite the same as we need to take. I need the process to be much more actively participatory and move more quickly. I have asked the team to establish a working group in each of their area’s and hold the first meeting next week. I told them to build on but not be limited by what has been done so far. We need to do this in a way that makes it clear we are appreciative of the efforts previously made, that we anticipate a product that will be useful to all and that we are interested in a good partnership. I think the lack of a confident relationship between the Economic Development Director and the previous Parish Lead is on part of the problem in getting things moving.
I also had the Administrative Assistant set up meetings next week with the 5 mayors and the Parish Police Jury President, and to get us on all the council agendas. It will make for a busy week but we have only weeks to do this. There is some resistance to trying to create working groups and hold a meeting by next week, but people are doing it.
I have to get things moving in Jeff Davis and moving quickly. I started with a staff meeting on Saturday. On Monday I had a planning & orientation meeting with both Parish Teams. We defined who was responsible for each sector and established and schedule page for Jeff Davis similar to the Allen Calendar. Then I asked each person from Jeff Davis to shadow his/her counter part in Allen for the rest of the day.
On Wednesday, the GIS group representative was already planning to come out and we scheduled a “Brain Dump” day so that everyone on the Allen Team could share with each other and with the Jeff Davis team the documents and information they have collected as well as where they found it and tips on finding similar information in Jeff Davis.
The Allen Team continues to do great work and the Jeff Davis team is coming up to speed quickly.
The Director of Economic Development for Jeff Davis – something that Allen Parish does not have and could use – has filled in some of the vacuum by establishing a committee to provide input and by scheduling a series of public meetings around the Parish. I met with him and attended one of the public meetings. Due to staff limitations and the type of agenda differences you would expect, his approach is not quite the same as we need to take. I need the process to be much more actively participatory and move more quickly. I have asked the team to establish a working group in each of their area’s and hold the first meeting next week. I told them to build on but not be limited by what has been done so far. We need to do this in a way that makes it clear we are appreciative of the efforts previously made, that we anticipate a product that will be useful to all and that we are interested in a good partnership. I think the lack of a confident relationship between the Economic Development Director and the previous Parish Lead is on part of the problem in getting things moving.
I also had the Administrative Assistant set up meetings next week with the 5 mayors and the Parish Police Jury President, and to get us on all the council agendas. It will make for a busy week but we have only weeks to do this. There is some resistance to trying to create working groups and hold a meeting by next week, but people are doing it.
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