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4 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1994 effort are: (1) retired people and those on fixed incomes; (2) couples and families who do not have children at home; (3) individuals who are unemployed or underemployed; (4) individuals who are undereducated themselves; (5) people who do not vote; (6) individuals who pay no taxes; (7) those with children in private schools; and (8) people who do not care. The groups then discussed building a public information system. They noted that if such a system is to be successful, Council and the School Board must: (1) identify what issues must be clarified and what concepts must be sold; (2) examine other successful public information models and emulate them when possible; (3) put priorities on the issues that must be sold and build a long-term plan of public education; (4) add public education to the priority list of all opportunities the City has to inform the public (i.e. City newsletter); (5) simplify the message to the fullest extent possible; (6) involve the press and media in the oversight of education; (7) convince the media to increase its reporting of education matters and issues that impact public education; (8) consider creating a public information position that would be shared by ~6th the City and Schools; (9) eliminate blocks that prevent the media .And public from observing education and its impact in the community; ! and ( 10 ) cause a public information strategy to be developed. To that end, those in attendance agreed that: The Martinsville City Council and the Martinsville City School Board will develop a joint plan for providing public information to the community on those programs determined to be critical to the development of the best educational system ,= possible. The groups agreed that a task force will b e appointed by the Mayor and Chairman of the School Board to assist in the creation of strategies