The Process: Accomplishments
Vision for Staten Island consists of three phases that collectively will involve thousands of members of the community.
The initial Preparatory Phase addressed issues of governance, staffing, outreach, and logistics (April - November 2008).
Phase 2: Conducting the Vision, is characterized by Generative and Analytical Meetings. Generative meetings gathered ideas using the nominal group technique, visualization exercises and brainstorming. Between December 2008 and February 2009, 900 community members including over 100 middle and high school students from throughout the borough, attended 41 generative meetings at which 2,881 ideas were gathered.
Reality Check Workshops (the first of a set of "Analytical Meetings") were held in late April and early May. These workshops are designed to bring together the intuitive knowledge, or ideas collected from the community, with factual information from various topical experts. The Reality Check results are available for public review.