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MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING
OF THE CITY COMMISSION
BOZEMAN,MONTANA
November 8-9, 2002
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A quorum of the Commissioners of the City of Bozeman participated in a two-day seminar which was
held from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Friday, November 8, and from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday,
November 9,2002. Present were Mayor Steve Kirchhoff (until 2:15 p.m. on Friday), Commissioner Marcia
Youngman, Commissioner Lee Hietala, Commissioner Jarvis Brown, Commissioner Andrew Cetraro, City
Manager Clark Johnson, Assistant City Manager Ron Brey, Director of Public Service Debbie Arkell, Director
of Public Safety Mark Tymrak, Director of Administrative Services Miral Gamradt, Planning Director Andy
Epple, City Attorney Paul Luwe, Personnel Director Pattie Berg, and Clerk of the Commission Robin Sullivan.
Seminar re workinQ effective Iv with others
The fourteen participants in this two-day seminar/workshop conducted by Doug Saarel included the
five Commissioners and nine of the City's management staff. Everyone met at City Hall each morning and
then traveled to the Sky Ranch, located on Elk Ridge Road. The morning sessions were devoted to reviewing
changes in views and relationships over the past several hundred years, stressing the importance of
relationships in today's world, particularly in light of technology. There were several break-out sessions, in
which triads discussed various issues, including roles and responsibilities, shifting one's paradigm, identifying
"who we are", where we want to go, what we should be doing, what we can do, and what we are willing to do
as a City. Each of those triads contained one or two Commissioners. After ,each discussion in the triads,
everyone returned to large group discussion, forwarding the ideas that came from the various triads.
In the afternoons of both days, we traveled to the Wineglass Ranch, located south of Livingston, and
received practical lessons in working with people by working with horses that had previously been broken or
were being broken under the new "horse whisperer" techniques.
The information garnered from this seminar was designed to assist City staff and the City Commission
in working together, and is not the factual basis upon which any Commission decisions or policies will be
made.
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ROBIN L. SULLIVAN
Clerk of the Commission
11-08-2002 Special