May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry
May 31, 2013 - Phoenix Sinclair Inquiry
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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