sponsor: deborah raphael, director; speakers: donnie oliveira, program manager, outreach (explanatory document: proposed 2016-2020 department of the environment strategic plan) (discussion). >>director did you want to start? >>yes thank you very much. good afternoon commissioners and pres. omotalade thank you for having me. i would like to start by saying that we need to look at the "why" that we do with this work and before i had my meeting on this i had all of the department watch a ted talk on the "why" these things were happening. and when we examined that our "why" had stayed the same at but we needed to better understand what the new role was and what our new value added was in this new context. and so, our strategic plan and this will be a metaphor that you here in the next hour is that we have to create a path. when you think about articulating a path, a path has both direction and boundaries. clearly, this must have both. clearly we must say no to some things and we have to emphasize others. but, to move this metaphor even deeper, the strategic plan has opportunity to create

sponsor: deborah raphael, director; speakers: donnie oliveira, program manager, outreach (explanatory document: proposed 2016-2020 department of the environment strategic plan) (discussion). >>director did you want to start? >>yes thank you very much. good afternoon commissioners and pres. omotalade thank you for having me. i would like to start by saying that we need to look at the "why" that we do with this work and before i had my meeting on this i had all of the department watch a ted talk on the "why" these things were happening. and when we examined that our "why" had stayed the same at but we needed to better understand what the new role was and what our new value added was in this new context. and so, our strategic plan and this will be a metaphor that you here in the next hour is that we have to create a path. when you think about articulating a path, a path has both direction and boundaries. clearly, this must have both. clearly we must say no to some things and we have to emphasize others. but, to move this metaphor even deeper, the strategic plan has opportunity to create

sponsor: deborah raphael, director; speakers: donnie oliveira, program manager, outreach (explanatory document: proposed 2016-2020 department of the environment strategic plan) (discussion). >>director did you want to start? >>yes thank you very much. good afternoon commissioners and pres. omotalade thank you for having me. i would like to start by saying that we need to look at the "why" that we do with this work and before i had my meeting on this i had all of the department watch a ted talk on the "why" these things were happening. and when we examined that our "why" had stayed the same at but we needed to better understand what the new role was and what our new value added was in this new context. and so, our strategic plan and this will be a metaphor that you here in the next hour is that we have to create a path. when you think about articulating a path, a path has both direction and boundaries. clearly, this must have both. clearly we must say no to some things and we have to emphasize others. but, to move this metaphor even deeper, the strategic plan has opportunity to create

sponsor: deborah raphael, director; speakers: donnie oliveira, program manager, outreach (explanatory document: proposed 2016-2020 department of the environment strategic plan) (discussion). >>director did you want to start? >>yes thank you very much. good afternoon commissioners and pres. omotalade thank you for having me. i would like to start by saying that we need to look at the "why" that we do with this work and before i had my meeting on this i had all of the department watch a ted talk on the "why" these things were happening. and when we examined that our "why" had stayed the same at but we needed to better understand what the new role was and what our new value added was in this new context. and so, our strategic plan and this will be a metaphor that you here in the next hour is that we have to create a path. when you think about articulating a path, a path has both direction and boundaries. clearly, this must have both. clearly we must say no to some things and we have to emphasize others. but, to move this metaphor even deeper, the strategic plan has opportunity to create

sponsor: deborah raphael, director; speakers: donnie oliveira, program manager, outreach (explanatory document: proposed 2016-2020 department of the environment strategic plan) (discussion). >>director did you want to start? >>yes thank you very much. good afternoon commissioners and pres. omotalade thank you for having me. i would like to start by saying that we need to look at the "why" that we do with this work and before i had my meeting on this i had all of the department watch a ted talk on the "why" these things were happening. and when we examined that our "why" had stayed the same at but we needed to better understand what the new role was and what our new value added was in this new context. and so, our strategic plan and this will be a metaphor that you here in the next hour is that we have to create a path. when you think about articulating a path, a path has both direction and boundaries. clearly, this must have both. clearly we must say no to some things and we have to emphasize others. but, to move this metaphor even deeper, the strategic plan has opportunity to create