Overview of February 12th Growth Meeting

The Sandpoint Growth Task Force met for the second time on February 12th, 2009 at Sandpoint City Hall.
Approximately 27 people were in attendance. This is a summary of the meeting.

5:35 p.m.
Facilitating the meeting, Stephen Snedden welcomed everyone and acknowledged all elected officials
and city employees. He proceeded to provide the framework of the group, and a brief summary of
the first meeting. The end result is a compilation of 130+ ideas, and the launch of our blog: www.SdptGrowthTaskForce.blogspot.com

5:45 p.m.
Stephen explains the goal of this meeting is to narrow the 130 ideas down to approximately 25-30.
He provides the criteria for selecting ideas that can be implemented and put into policy.
Everyone breaks up into the same 5 groups:
1) Parks & Recreation
2) Community Design & Land Use- 7 total persons
3) Economic Dev./Downtown Revitalization- 8 total persons
4) Transportation
5) Special Sites
Community Design and Economic Dev/Downtown Revitalization were the most popular groups.

6:45 p.m.
Each work group's reporter presents the top 3-5 ideas to the entire group.

7:00 p.m.
Open floor for any additional ideas .

7:21 p.m.
Stephen acknowledges and introduces the co-chairs, and what their role will be.
Stephen advises those with ideas to do some research to bring back to share with the group.

7:30 p.m. --we are done.