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The Wake Forest commissioners and mayor
are making a list, checking it twice,
and preparing to ask several of you to
serve on the steering committee for the
new community or land use plan.
“This may be the biggest
thing we do,” Commissioner Frank Drake
said, because the decisions of the
committee will set the course for the
future of the town for at least 10
years, maybe more.
The commissioners and mayor
spent the better part of an hour during
Friday’s retreat refining the
characteristics – age, occupation, sex,
residence, interests, civic involvement
and others – they will use to assure the
15 or 18 members of the steering
committee reflect the diverse people and
groups in town.
Those characteristics went
into a matrix that is now on a wall in
town hall where the commissioners and
mayor can write the names of the people
they want to nominate and check off the
boxes for the characteristics that
person brings.
Once they have 30 or so
names, the board will meet and decide
which people they want to invite to be
on the steering committee. They are sure
to have refusals, which is why they have
a back-up number.
The committee members, when
they are asked, will be warned they will
be expected to attend all the meetings,
which could be six to eight meetings
over 15 months, meetings that could last
three to four hours.
An ideal candidate might be
a black, 40ish, female doctor living
along North Allen Road with two children
in school, a Rotary Club and Greenways
advisory board member and a church
deacon whose husband commutes to a
high-tech company in the Research
Triangle. They could check off a lot of
boxes with this person. |
