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“If we engage the public, we have a good chance of moving forward in a
positive way,” Orange County Business Council President Stan Oftelie told
participants.
At the leadership forum, participants made
suggestions on how to improve the concept. Among them were inviting a member
of the Orange County Grand Jury to participate at the Center, vigorously
encouraging involvement from individual citizens instead of only citizen
associations and selecting a particular group to be a “vehicle” for
particular issues.
Organizers hope to capitalize on Monday’s
show of support by focusing on “formal buy-in” from major public and
private groups over the next 60 days. Entities such as the Orange County
Business Council, the Orange County Board of Supervisors and others will soon
consider whether to “buy-in.”
“The deep mistrust of government is the most
difficult aspect of making the Center for a New Orange County a success,”
Oftelie said. “Yet we firmly believe that it is an opportunity to do good
things together.”
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