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Each year the Leadership Steamboat class produces a group project. This year's class envisions a new process for important community decisions. A procedure that fosters more community involvement, a forum in which the citizens can find the facts first, and then encourage a healthy discussion before a decision. An intelligent progression through which community leaders can reach the best solution for the greater good. Stemmed from a similar program in Gunnison, Colorado, the premise of Dialogue Before Decision is to investigate a community issue and provide in-depth information about the issue to the community. By connecting with the many voices and attempting to answer the questions citizens have, Dialogue Before Decision will enable creative, collaborative, and productive decision-making. In this inaugural year the topic for Dialogue Before Decision is the proposed Community Recreation Center. Leadership Steamboat selected this topic because decisions are being made that have the potential to effect concrete change in taxation and the use of areas of the community. The class also published a series of articles in the Steamboat Today newspaper on this topic. In case you missed them here they are:
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