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I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I A Primer for Hosting Buyout Workshops Page 10 · The workshop should provide project planning and project development skills by training those organizations that would be providing assistance to the communities; · The workshop should bring together experts-those people who have actually worked with every aspect of a community acquisition and relocation project, and those people who managed financial and technical assistance programs that could become part of a community's overall strategy and funding program; · The workshop should be interactive and lively, where Iowa communities could share their experiences, problems, and frustrations with the experts in a non-hostile, non- competitive environment. Partnerships should be established and founded on information sharing; · The workshop should emphasize developing multi-objective community mitigation plans as fundamental to project and program development; · The workshop should be professionally facilitated by personnel experienced in assisting communities develop local plans; · The workshop should provide a mechanism for identifying unresolved issues and following-up with answers, commitments, or alternatives; and · The workshop should provide an opportunity for informal social gatherings where individual issues and questions could be addressed on a one-on-one basis. SETI1NG THE AGENDA Objective The workshop agenda will not only guide the progress of the workshop, it will serve to meet the objectives of the workshop framework. Equally important, the agenda will serve as the primary means to attract the target audience. An agenda that meets the needs of the intended audience will motivate them to take the time, expense, and energy to attend. Thus, the agenda is critical to the success of the workshop.