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Quality Community Life and Participation Goal 1. Create a Strong Sense of Community Crossing Cultural, Economic, Racial, Generational, Geographical and Educational Barriers Objectives: • Fully include all people within the community, including minorities, seniors, and people with disabilities; foster multicultural involvement • Comply fully with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) • Improve relationships between the University and Orange County residents Goal 2. Support and Foster a Vibrant Community Life Objectives: • Locate and empower an agency or individual to lead the way to better collaboration and communication among artists, the community, and community leaders • Increase funding for the arts /find public - private partnership to fund arts • Complete the Orange County Arts Commission data base • Conserve significant historic and archeological sites and landscapes created by the different Orange County ethnic, national, and cultural groups, and by industrial and other activities important to the history of the county • Increase developer and citizen awareness of significant historic resources and the need to protect them • Improve parks and recreation facilities by 1) creating more parks adjacent to schools, in high density areas, and along New Hope Creek, 2) developing bikeways, 3) expanding access to existing school facilities, and 4) Increasing incentives for landowners to donate small plots for neighborhood benches, playgrounds • Improve parks and recreation services by providing more outdoor education services • Celebrate Orange County's Uniqueness Basic Human Needs, Services and Issues Goal 1. Provide Healthy, Quality Child Care for all Children Objectives: • Ensure provision of available, accessible, quality child care for all families who require it • Provide level of government funding for child care similar to that for public schools • Ensure provision of adequate salaries for child care workers • Ensure provision of adequate supervision for all young children such as after school care, tutors, summer programs, cultural, and social experiences • Provide health care coverage for new and expectant parents • Promote responsible parenthood by expanding proy en approaches (provide solid information and support to parents, as well as more intensive assistance when needed) • Safeguard children in early care and education programs from harm and promote their learning and development; eliminate unsafe, substandard day care • Enable communities to have the flexibility and the resources (funding) they need to mobilize on behalf of young children and their families