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2.6 Focused Outreach to Stakeholder Groups <br />Based on our prior experience with the 2002 General Plan and the 2011 Housing <br />Element, it is recommended that the outreach strategy include direct meetings with <br />existing community organizations in San Leandro. These organizations include <br />various Homeowners Associations, the Chamber of Commerce, neighborhood <br />groups, and others, such as the South Area Business Association Council, Friends <br />of San Leandro Creek, and Building Futures. Utilizing the City's existing "civic <br />infrastructure" may ultimately be a more cost-effective way of reaching the <br />community than holding large General Plan workshops. Surlene Grant of CCP will <br />assist in identifying and reaching out to specific groups. Barry Miller will be the <br />primary team member attending these meetings, as he was during the 1999-2002 <br />Update. The communication strategy developed in Task 2.1 might identify <br />additional tasks to be performed as part of this task. <br />2.7 Resident Outreach Meetings <br />Some residents will be very interested in what is going on in their community but <br />will not necessarily be a member of any of the organized stakeholder interest <br />groups targeted in Task 2.6. In order to bring a broad spectrum of new voices into <br />the process, Barry Miller and CCP will organize up to six strategically timed <br />informational meetings where people can learn about the process and how to get <br />involved, whether through face-to-face meetings or online engagement. <br />Preliminarily, these meetings could include meetings at the Senior Community <br />Center or meetings in language- specific formats (such as a Spanish -only meeting <br />held immediately after mass at St. Leander or St. Felicitas). We also recommend <br />one to two Youth Roundtables, incorporating the Youth Advisory Council and <br />middle- or high-school students, contacting teachers to encourage them to <br />incorporate the process into a civic curriculum or offer extra credit for students <br />who participate. <br />Task 3. Policy and Plan "Audit" <br />Barry Miller and Strategic Economics will conduct an "audit" of the City's existing <br />planning policies and planning documents. This task has three components <br />♦ First, it will include a systematic review of all policies and programs in the 2002 <br />General Plan to determine which should be carried forward, edited, or deleted. <br />It is our understanding that the City's primary objective is to "fine tune" its <br />existing Plan and move the time horizon forward, rather than to start from <br />scratch. Thus, it is important to systematically review the existing Plan to <br />