Deliberation is how you figure out how to move toward the Shared Goal:

For Akron residents to have greater access to safe, well-maintained, and affordable housing.

In your deliberation, you’ll listen closely, ask questions, compare options, and weigh tradeoffs. That way, your recommendations are based on reasons, not on who talked the most or the loudest. 

A recommendation is not a perfect solution. 
And it isn’t a law.

Your work here is a partnership between the Assembly and the people who work in government. As Delegates, you represent the broader community. Elected officials are responsible for making final decisions. 

Your role is to offer informed guidance: based on what you learn and carefully consider, you recommend what you believe will drive progress toward the Shared Goal.

This partnership rests on a simple idea: when community members take the time to think carefully about hard problems, and public leaders are willing to listen and respond, progress becomes possible.

Good recommendations lay out clear strategies and practical direction for change.

The detailed work of implementation happens later, after the Assembly concludes. What decisions-makers need from you now is clarity: where should energy, attention, and resources be focused to make meaningful progress?

That’s the question you’re here to help answer.