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September 29-30 | Robeson County
Meeting Schedule - September 29
- 10:00am - Encouraged Pre-Session Bus Tour of Lumberton (Meet at parking lot--Lot 36 on UNC Pembroke campus)
- 11:45am - Lunch available (UNC Pembroke, Thomas School of Business)
- 12:15pm - Welcome and Goals
- 12:45pm - Values Revisited
- 2:15pm - Break
- 2:35pm - Data related to key concerns from Session 1
- 3:15pm - Narrow down concerns
- 4:30pm - Actions to address concerns, session 1
- 5:15pm - Close
- 5:30-6:00pm - Reception (Patio off Chancellor's Dining Room)
- 6:00-8:00pm - Dinner. Presentation by UNC Pembroke Chancellor Cummings and Panel of local Robeson County leaders moderated by Anita Brown-Graham
Meeting Schedule - September 30
- 8:15am - Breakfast available at UNC Pembroke, Thomas School of Business
- 9:00am - Introduction for Day
- 9:15am - Actions to address concerns, session 2
- 10:00am - Break
- 10:15am - Actions to address concerns, session 3
- 11:00am - Break
- 11:15am - Actions to address concerns, session 4
- 12:00pm - Close
- 12:15pm - Boxed Lunch (Stay or take to-go)
- Optional tour of Southeast American Indian Museum (following lunch at 12:45pm)
Homework Assignment
Meet with your buddy before Sept 29-30 and have a conversation for at least an hour on any topic of substance.
August 25-26 | Duke University
Meeting Schedule - August 25
- 10:00am - Check-in
- 10:30am - Welcome and ground rules. Getting to know Who's in the Room. (Meeting Room A)
- 12:15pm - Lunch (JB Duke Marketplace)
- 1:00pm - Getting to Know Who's in the Room continued (Meeting Room A)
- 2:15pm - Break
- 2:30pm - Presentation on Basic Facts related to NC Revenue (Dan Gerlach, Guest) (Meeting Room C)
- 3:30pm - Homework discussion: Report and discuss concerns related to NC Revenue (Meeting Room C)
- 4:45pm - Hotel Check-in
- 6:00pm - Reception and Dinner at JB Duke Ballroom D-E and Gallery/Veranda
Welcome by Duke President Vincent Price and "Fireside Chat” between Frank Bruni, NY Times Columnist and Duke Professor and NCLF Co-Chair Leslie Winner
Meeting Schedule - August 26
- 8:00am - Informal Breakfast (JB Duke Marketplace)
- 8:30am - Introduction for Day; Finalize Clusters of Concerns (Meeting Room C)
- 10:45am - Break
- 11:00am - Underlying Values (Meeting Room C)
- 12:00pm - Wrap-Up, Questions, Homework for Meeting 2
- 12:30pm - Boxed Lunch (Stay or take to-go)
Homework Assignment
Gather input on the concerns of people in your community that are relevant to our discussion topic and bring them to the first session. Please talk with 5 people in your community: they can be friends, neighbors, co-workers or others; they do not need to be experts and ideally they will include some people that you think might disagree with you. Ask them the following questions and write down their concerns (capture the language people use to the extent possible):
- When you think about revenue and how we pay for state and local government in North Carolina, what concerns you? What bothers you the most, personally?
- What concerns do you hear friends and family members—or people you don’t know well—talk about when it comes to talking how we pay for state and local government in NC?
Details for November and December meetings will be made available soon.