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Staff Report Page Two "How can we inspire others to become part of the City's future - to help develop the City's Vision, its Goals and the Strategies to realize the successful attainment of those Goals? "Everyone who lives and works in the City of Mounds View has a vested interest in the success of the community, in the development of the future of the City and in the direction in which the City will take to meet the growing, diverse and changing needs of the people. Everyone who lives in Mounds View, works in Mounds View "has a stake" in the City - they are the City's very valued "stakeholders". And what better way of inspiring them to participate in the future than to establish a community-driven process by which the stakeholders, of all ages, will have an opportunity to shape the "vision of the future of the City of Mounds View? Therefore, the decision was made to implement a City-wide, community-driven visioning process that would provide the stakeholders with the opportunity to invest in their community, shape its future and be a part of Mounds View's history. The process begins on Monday, April 12, 1993 as the Council officially "kicks off" the 1993/94 City Visioning Process by appropriating funds and signaling the start of the process with the announcement of the "Mounds View Look Into The Future" contest for Mounds View students in grades 1st through eigth. Flyers have been prepared (attached) which will be distributed to the students on Tuesday, April 13th. The students are being asked to name the process (Roseville called their visioning process, Vista 2000, Casper, Wyoming - Future Focus) . There will be a winning name from each grade level and the student submitting the name will receive a $50 gift certificate. The overall winning name will be selected from the grade level winners and will receive a $100 gift certificate. The contest will run from April 13th through April 23rd. The grade winners and top winner will be presented with their prizes at the May 10th City Council meeting. The winning name will be used in all promotional literature, the City newsletter, Cable shows and throughout the entire process. The next step of the Visioning Process will be two community-wide Public Forums to be held Wednesday, July 21st and Thursday, July 22nd (site as yet designated) . The format of the two forums will be the same. The forums will be conducted by a non-Council, non-staff facilitator and will host special guest speakers who will discuss the future trends that will impact Minnesota cities, the growing public safety issues facing communities and the accomplishments that have been made by communities who involve all their stakeholders in the long range planning process of a city. After the speaker presentations, all of the Forum participants will be asked to join others in small discussion groups to begin to brainstorm about the issues, problems and concerns they see facing Mounds View now and those that will impact the City in the future;