DEFINE• Ask Workshop

In order to set priorities for the year, a 60 minute brainstorming workshop will take place for delegates to share and get support on their proposals. All proposals will be in the form of an ‘initial ask’: the specific action, policy initiative, legislative or regulatory change. Initial asks are meant to be ambitious: they are raw de-sires, which will be modified after research and strategic delibera-tions.

The submittor of a priority will be given an opportunity to pres-ent their reasons for submitting during the PRIORITIZE session. Upon the completion of the session, staff will add one pager of background and context to the submitted priority, to assist del-egates in their subsequent deliberations.

Asks from the year prior will be automatically reintroduced, and returning delegates will have been assigned to defend them.

10:00Tuesday

IntroductionIdea scroll

5 minutes60 minutes

• Partners present• Staff support present

Support time 85 minutes

PRIORITIZE• Public Speech• Debate Lounge• Priority Balloting

Two parallel sessions will be taking place. In the public speech room, a schedule will have been posted for each priority. Delegates will have the chance to speak to their priorities for five minutes in an auditorium-like setting. Immediately outside of the public speech room, a lounge will be set up for delegates to persuade one another on their priority lists.

At 9:30 pm, balloting opens. Each member association will be entitled to one approval ballot. They are to check those propos-als which they believe should be priorities, and they are to leave blank those which they think should not. The top twenty-four proposals will be declaredas the CASA priorities for the year.

19:00Tuesday

IntroductionDebate and discussion

5 minutes145 minutes

Balloting 30 minutes• Public speech will be video taped• Delegates encouraged to use both rooms• Balloting overseen by returning officer

STRATEGIZE• Opportunity Assessment• Policy Assessment

Delegates will decide to attend one, and only one, of two assess-ment sessions. The policy assesssment session will determine which of the twenty-four priorities requires more work at the policy committee level. The opportunity assessment session will rank each of the priorities in accordance with how achievable it will be in course of the year.

The results from each session will be brought together to form the policy development framework diamond, which dictates the organization’s strategic work plan for the year.

13:15Wednesday

IntroductionAssessments

• No changing while sessions in progress• Policy committee to attend policy assess-

ment.

5 minutes115 minutes