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stakeholder participation, open communication, and consensus-based decision-making are followed in subcommittees. Article 5. Governance Section 5.1. In addition to the responsibilities expressed in Senate Bill 3, the Steering Committee will adopt procedures to: address employment of a Program Manager and determine the Program Manager's role in the Program; establish appropriate Program subcommittee processes, to include membership, responsibilities, and decision-making recommendations; obtain funding for the Program; adopt or amend Program Operational Rules; and other matters for which the Steering Committee determines procedures are necessary. Section 5.2. The goal of the Steering Committee is to achieve consensus-based decision- making. Consensus is reached when no Member of the Steering Committee is opposed to a proposal. It is understood and accepted that in order to achieve a consensus on the Steering Committee, each Member will be open to pursuing "win-win" alternatives and to considering variations on the proposal that he or she might initially prefer. In its deliberations, the Steering Committee shall seek to exhaust every reasonable and practicable effort to reach consensus. Section 5.3. In furtherance of consensus-based decision-making, when a proposal to the Steering Committee involving a Tier 1 decision (as set out in Section 5.5) does not achieve consensus, the Steering Committee will adopt a process which requires further deliberation and development of the proposal by an Issue Team. The Issue Team will be a smaller team of stakeholders as appointed by the Steering Committee and will include, to the extent practicable, participants representing all different viewpoints on the proposal, which may include participants who are not members of the Steering Committee. The Issue Team process will provide an opportunity for input from other stakeholders. The goal of the Issue Team is to achieve consensus on the proposal, or to develop a restatement of the proposal that may better achieve consensus of the Steering Committee. If after resubmission to the Steering Committee, or restatement of the proposal and resubmission to the Steering Committee, consensus has not been achieved, the Steering Committee will then vote on the proposal. A resubmitted or restated proposal will be deemed to have been approved by the Steering Committee when at least 75 percent of the entire Steering Committee has voted in favor of the proposal in accordance with voting procedures to be adopted by the Steering Committee. Section 5.4. The Steering Committee will adopt procedures for appointment of Issue Teams, time requirements for resubmission and restatement of proposals, flexibility to continue to pursue consensus, an allowance for a minority report to be included with Tier 1 decisions, and voting procedures. These procedures to be adopted by the Steering Committee will apply to all Tier 1 decisions. Section 5.5. The following types of decisions are considered to be Tier 1 decisions: (a) Hiring or terminating of Program Manager; (b) Approval of annual budget; (c) Formal Recommendations to the EAA; December 13,2007 4