Visioning Workshop:
Nominal Group Process

A "nominal group process" was used to collect and rank responses from the visioning workshop.

• A question was posed and participants had several minutes to write down their responses on worksheets.
• Each participant then shared one of their answers, which was recorded on a sheet of paper with minimal discussion.
• Participants continued to share until all responses were exhausted.
• Participants were asked to discuss the responses and combine similar ideas to reduce the number of categories.
• Answers were then ranked by participants based on the response's perceived importance.
• Each participant was given 15 points per question. They could distribute the points however they wanted among responses, but no response could be given more than 5 points by a single person.
• This ranking is included after each response on the results document. For example, a (6) means that participants gave the response 6 points.

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Participants at the Visioning
Workshop. August 16, 2007