Industrial Authority Retreat 2012 02 23

The Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority is having a retreat 9AM-2PM today. They have a facilitator, who is going through what looks like the usual facilitated procedures. She claims to be camera-shy, but Chairman Roy Copeland tells me he wants the Industrial Authority to be transparent and to be seen as transparent.

Here the facilitator is getting the board and staff to answer some initial questions.


Valdosta-Lowndes County Industrial Authority Retreat, 101 N Ashley St., Valdosta, GA
Pictures and videos by John S. Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange, 23 February 2012.

After they gave individual answers, they broke into groups each including board and staff:

I’m not videoing most of this meeting. If you’ve ever been to one of these things, you’d know why: unless you’re directly involved, they’re, ah, rather longwinded and repetitive. If they come up with something pithy I’ll try to video that.

The gist so far seems to be that they want to lead and maybe facilitate the community in economic development.

-jsq

4 thoughts on “Industrial Authority Retreat 2012 02 23”

  3. Barbara Stratton

    John – I know this if off the main post topic and you don’t like to hear it. But, since you are aware and admitting that all these facilitated meetings follow the same format with the groups & the written poster lists, etc., I just have to remind you what I said from the beginning. The reason they all follow the exact same format is because they are all originated from the same source – UN Agenda 21. This is what they consider “consensus” which is just a fancy new label for the old Delphi Method of controling any group by making them think they are having input, when in reality the outcomes were already pre-decided. Those in the organization who will assist the facilitator are usually as innocent as the audience, and they are pre-conditioned to be supper nice so the other “sheep” will not realize they are being controled. Often they even provide food & beverages to compliment the engineered expreience. Please cut me some slack since you’ve experienced this numerous times now and start giving some credence to the existence of UN Agenda 21 methodology amongst us. I was trained to recognize the Delphi Method aka “consensus”, but CUEE meetings were my first real time exposure on the local level. Since that initial experience I have encountered it in every facilitated meeting I’ve attended locally & you have been in many of them with me. It will ruin Lowndes County if we don’t educate citizens and elected officials of the dangers of its source and its designed outcomes.
    Sorry, but its a trained passion. I have to comment when I see an open door. Since we are both activists for non-partisan transparency in government surely you can realize manipulated “consensus” is an illusive shrouded enemy of transparency.

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