·   Providing for a quality education system,
·   Providing for accessible and affordable health care,
·   Maintaining an effective transportation system,
·  Sustaining a functional state budget, and
·   Ensuring a quality state workforce.
 
TBD will be unique in several ways:

SIZE:   By hosting meetings in over 30 communities throughout the state, TBD will be one of the largest and most inclusive civic engagement efforts in our state's history. 

SCOPE:   The whole purpose of the TBD dialogue is to make citizens aware of the major public policy challenges facing our state and, by putting each of these issues on the same table for discussion, require citizens to consider the relative importance of each issue and make the difficult value judgments necessary to help develop a comprehensive plan forward for Colorado's future.

STRUCTURE:   The TBD conversation will take place through THREE conversations in each community during the months of April, May and June. The April meeting will establish the baseline facts of each issue so that we're all operating from the same set of data.

The May meeting will engage the participants in a discussion to define the nature of the problem, and possible strategies forward.

The June meeting will evaluate the relative appeal of different potential strategies.

In order to best ensure a constructive dialogue on these important issues, participation in the April and May conversations will be limited to a group of 35-50 selected citizens within each community who collectively represent the diversity of that community.   Because of DOLA's unique relationships in the 20 rural TBD regions of the state, our eight DLG Regional Managers are playing a lead role in working with community leaders in each of those regions to help identify these lists of meeting participants.