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May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry

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B.A. CYR - DR.EX. (WALSH) MAY <strong>31</strong>, <strong>2013</strong><br />

D.L. ROUSSIN - DR.EX. (WALSH)<br />

S.E. TAYLOR - DR.EX. (WALSH)<br />

D.M. KNOL - DR.EX. (WALSH)<br />

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share certain values.<br />

And then you just keep building on<br />

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it, so that's how I sort of collaborate with people.<br />

MS. WALSH: Diane.<br />

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MS. ROUSSIN:<br />

Yeah, maybe I'll jump in here and<br />

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just sort of speak for, for some of us at the table or all<br />

of us at the table because we all participate in, in one<br />

example, which is the Community Led Organizations United<br />

Together.<br />

MS. WALSH: So that's CLOUT.<br />

MS. ROUSSIN: CLOUT coalition.<br />

MS. WALSH: And that's a formal, then, coalition?<br />

MS. ROUSSIN: Yes.<br />

MS. WALSH: Okay.<br />

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MS. ROUSSIN:<br />

So, and that formalized in about<br />

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2003-ish but really it's based on a longstanding<br />

relationship that organizations have had, and like we've<br />

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historically worked together.<br />

And like for some of us<br />

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around the table, we're, we're newer ED's but there's the<br />

group of ED's that were before us and so those<br />

relationships were there then. And so, you know, trying to<br />

meet the needs of families in the community, you have to<br />

work together, and that's just the way it is.<br />

So in about 2003 there was a decision that -- in,<br />

in -- that we needed to formalize that, you know, very<br />

organic natural working relationship and that's why we came<br />

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