Series Description: The collection consists of minutes of both public meetings and the Executive Council, as well as the Community Relations Task Force. Also included are agendas, correspondence, and email correspondence. Additionally, the collection includes records from the Mediation Committee, SWAT, Committee for Affordable Housing, and the Drug and Alcohol Committee, publicity files, news clippings, copies of an annotated bibliography on race relations prepared by Heather Baker, Jim Smith, and John Thornbury as a class project, town of Davidson information compiled by Common Ground members, and a Lake Norman Resources Guide compiled in part by Americorps workers for Common Ground and the YMCA. The Bylaws of Davidson Common Ground Inc., draft articles of incorporation, and financial records are also included. The Community Relations Task Force files for 1998 include materials from the town of Davidson's "It Takes a Village" meetings. These meetings were held in the wake of the shooting deaths of a police officer and a local teenager. It also contains the 1973 town ordinance for the Mayor's Committee on Community Relations. There are also 3 audiocassettes of Common Ground meetings dealing with town history. The tapes are housed with the Audio Collection and are numbers Audio 112, Audio 116, and Audio 123. The Common Ground flag is stored with the Artifact Collection and is number A330. Arrangement: The collection is organized by group or committee, and then further subdivided into correspondence, email correspondence, minutes, and agendas as applicable. Publicity and newsclippings are arranged chronologically where possible. Not all meeting minutes or agendas are present. The Community Relations Task Force folders contain ancillary materials that include the Community Relations Task Force Strategic Plan, notes from a presentation to the Davidson Town Council, membership lists, "An Ordinance to Provide for the Mayor's Committee on Community Relations and to Establish Its Powers and Procedures," and a draft of the CRTF mission statement. The Executive Council file contains ancillary materials including the Common Ground Board job description, contact lists, and executive board activities notes. The Common Ground file contains ancillary materials including activities lists, mailing lists, interest surveys, committee listings, and rules for conflict resolution.