May 13, 2008 Public Forum

At the Committee's first public forum on May 13, 2008, a facilitated large-group exercise was conducted where attendees were asked to silently spend 20 minutes writing thoughts and ideas about Northampton decision-making on butcher paper lining the walls of the JFK Community Room. Participants then broke up into small groups to discuss and develop these ideas further followed by each group reporting back to the entire group.

(A video of the event can be viewed online here with special thanks to Adam Cohen and the North Street Association)

The Committee transcribed all of the input gathered during the large and small group exercises and then synthesized that material into a final summary of public forum recommendations. Those documents are downloadable below followed by a photographic archive of the actual written comments: