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Global Green will also coordinate with City staff to identify key internal stakeholders (City staff) that should be involved in the Climate Action Plan development process. At a minimum, the staff team should include representatives from the City Manager's Office, Planning, Building, and Public Works functions_ Subtask 86. Community Stakeholder Meetings Global Green will organize three community meetings at key stages of the target-setting and CAP development. The first will be conducted during the target-setting phase and the second during the measures development component of the Plan_ The third community event will be a formal public meeting to present the Public Review Draft CAP and solicit comment during the public review period. The goals of each community stakeholder meeting are to inform the community of the current status of the project and what the next steps will be in the process, and to gain insight and direction on the focus, priorities, and administration of the plan at key stages _ The first two community meetings will be interactive workshops and will use a combination of the World Cafe and Deliberative Dialogue facilitation techniques_ World Cafe utilizes a small table format to encourage all participants to contribute. Deliberative Dialogue is an approach to gain a direction from a large group through preference surveys or sticker voting exercises_ The workshops will be conducted in English with Spanish translation provided. Global Green staff member Ted Bardacke is also a fluent Spanish speaker and regularly conducts green building trainings in Spanish. ICLEI's online CAPPA tool will be utilized in Workshop 2 to help participants visualize the impact of various potential emissions reduction measures in real time. The tool calculates and illustrates the effect of emissions reduction measures in charts and graphs as the input is changed. This feature lends itself well to a "scenario planning" approach that enables workshop participants to weigh the benefits and tradeoffs of different climate mitigation approaches. Subtask 8c_ Targeted Stakeholder Meetings To complement the larger community workshop approach, Global Green plans to conduct two clusters of targeted stakeholder meetings with key stakeholder groups such as the Chamber of Commerce, major property owners, key institutions, and other groups that may have specific and detailed issues that need to be discussed in a smaller format. These meetings will be conducted in a focus group format, with facili#ation provided by Global Green staff. Global Green will conduct up to 3 meetings in each cluster. Subtask 8d. interns! Stakeholder Workshop and Meetings The internal stakeholder process will consist of an initial workshop following completion of the inventory_ Two additions[ meetings will be conducted with the internal stakeholders through the course of the project as means of sharing the input from the community and to gain direction on the priorities, schedule, and robustness of the Climate Action Plan_ This group will also provide critical substantive guidance and Zo