The Telegraph is holding a think-tank kind of excercise tomorrow. Basically some of Macon's movers and shakers will sit in a room for the day and talk about community priorities with facilitators from the Fanning Institute at UGA.
I'm going to sit in and cover it for the paper, so look for something in Saturday's editions. And here's the list of contributors that was emailed to me:
Confirmed for Mission Possible Force:
1. Lynn Cass
2. Melvin Kruger
3. Billy Pitts
4. James Bumpus
5. Beverly Blake
6. Pearlie Toliver
7. Juanita Jordan
8. John Hiscox
9. Lindsay Holliday
10. Kathryn Dennis
11. Roy Fickling
12. Brian Mink
13. Albert Billingslea
14. Cass Hatcher
15. Gene Dunwoody
16. Mike Ford
17. Sam Hart
18. Horace Fleming
19. Lynn Murphey
The Telegraph:
20. P.J. Browning
21. Charles E. Richardson
Fanning Institute:
22. John Jeffreys
23. Brenda Hayes
24. Dionne Rosser-Mims
3 comments:
Great, just what Macon needs another talking group. At times we seem like a county of 130,000 people with 129,000 individual focus groups and only a handfull of people that are actually rolling up their sleeves and doing the necessary dirty work.
The groups and churches that could solve our problems are already in existence, unfortunately, the action oriented volunteers are not.
Travis, what time does this MI-TG meeting start? Georgia Improper wants to cover it.
This is too funny. I heard a rumor that bloggers & the press were requested NOT to attend the Mission Possible Forum.
A large majority of Middle Georgia's problems can be traced to the recurring fact that very few of our "public leaders" discuss isues of substance in a public forum.
All of that will begin to change June 14th at the IAF meeting.
Have fun today and good luck with your public policy isolationism.
Victor Jones
Macon, Georgia
I know that Lindsey Holiday, who values keeping meetings open, (recorded on video) would not put aside his principals and participate in a closed meeting hosted by the legal organ of the city. Nor do I believe the Editor that helped handpick the participants, would forbid a reporter from attending. So much for open and frank dialogue of problems faced by our community repeatedly called for by the Editors. Tell me this didn't happen in the halls of the Telegraph that is the organ responsible for insuring the peoples business is discussed in the "sunshine". Makes one wonder if this meeting was held in the interest of the people or the agenda of a few. You be the Judge.
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