Hi Greg, I have the same questions. There's lots of moving parts here. We have been listening, and what I "hear" from all this is that there's lots of valid concerns among various community groups and organizations, and the feel they're not being heard. They are looking for a forum to represent them. As you know, I have been involved in Democratic politics inGeorgia and while we have our issues, we're pretty unified in NW Ga (let's not talk about atlanta) But hamilton county is terribly divided among personal, ideological, economic and racial lines. At the same time, the River City Company and the chamber and other interests seem to have a fairly unified economic development vision which may leave lots of community groups behind. The good news is that all these interests talk to you. We have an opportunity to provide a non-partisan forum to pull things together. How to do that I dunno. Bur I do feel there is a real niche for your efforts Jack On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. <greg@eduity.net> wrote:
As you know, we've been wrestling with what the Study Group should be when it grows up.
The purpose has always been to learn about community engagement. We're evolving from passive to active learning.
So what is it we're doing? On one level, listening. To what end? What's going to come of it? The first step in the community venturing is to envision what we want for the future. We're listening to hear about people's vision.
We also an issue of "branding" for folks to easily grasp what it's all about. How do we talk about it?
So...
I think we should embrace "Visioning"! We're "crowdsourcing visioning." That's what Venture called it and we're using their methodology.
What do you think?
-- Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. *Executive Officer and Principal* Eduity, LLC www.eduity.net greg@eduity.net 706-271-5521
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