I think the meeting of the minds is the right process. You have to get people together to begin to solve problems. The March meeting was the first step in the watershed community building process. Since then, the working groups have been meeting about every two weeks to discuss issues and prepare for two subsequent community-wide meetings. Dore points out that no-one is the official chairperson of these working groups.
Leadership is shared, and the groups vary in size.
Dore admits that there is some fluctuation in work group meeting attendance. Sometimes there s only four people at a group meeting. But we never slow down or quit making decisions. We keep the momentum going. This attendance was viewed as positive, especially because a lot of people were away on vacation.