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committee needed to come up with a name and a logo for the visioning project as quickly as possible. Hours of meetings were spent on those tasks alone. A subcommittee took the time necessary to consult Hawaiian teachers in an effort to create a tagline that was as close to a literal translation of the new slogan as possible. This subcommittee also discussed symbolism with these teachers to come up with a logo. No steering committee member had graphic art or fine art experience, and this obstacle delayed development of a logo until the assistance of a graphic artist was enlisted. At least for the upcoming workshop, the committee had a slogan, Hawaiian tagline, and a timeframe—EnVision Downtown Hilo 2025 'Ike is Hi/o. FDHSC reviewed the Oregon Model of Community Visioning with Steven and discussed ways to integrate the valuable information gathered at the first two workshops into this process. The previous workshops had failed to analyze trends and did not include opportunities to collect community input related to its shared core values. This next community workshop would address those two missing pieces and would provide the community a third opportunity to contribute thoughts to the driving questions asked at previous meetings: Where are we now and where would we like to be? In addition to preparing an agenda for the community workshop, Steven advised the committee that two ancillary activities were equally vital to successful visioning: (1) Local government must be formally consulted and invited into the process as a partner with the community; (2) community workshops must have facilitators and recorders specifically trained in community visioning for the breakout groups. The FDHSC was lucky to have a treasure trove of trained facilitators willing to help. While they had training and experience in strategic planning and group dynamics, none had ever experienced an overwhelmingly broad planning process such as this. Strategic planning with a board of directors or facilitation of a mission-specific community meeting is just a taste of facilitating community visioning, which has a comprehensive scope and an almost unlimited list of stakeholders. Hiding in the looming cloud of unknowns Behind-the-scenes in community visioning is an infinite number of opportunities to stall, hard work: derail or halt the process. It bears repeating that visioning appears All events required deceptively easy. It is in fact very difficult. meeting rooms, invita- tions, flyers, telephone A seemingly straightforward plan to hold a third community calls, press releases, workshop became three separate events. On September 30, 2004, pules, refreshments, Steven addressed Hawaii County representatives and employees. He easels and pads, pens, showed how this form of community-based planning worked in other leis, handouts designed, printed, collated; name- communities and how it could be implemented in Hawaii County. On tags, sign-in sheets; October 1, 2004, Steven conducted community visioning facilitation evaluations; clean-up training for facilitators who volunteered to assist the FDHC and also for crews; and facilitator& other facilitators interested in the process. On Saturday, October 2, steering committee de- 2004, a six-hour community workshop was held at a packed Aupuni briefing meetings. Center Conference Room, and the community began to draw its vision for Downtown Hilo. 17