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DRAFT 31 Rachel Phelps Hawkins: Has the money for the consultant been budgeted? Attachment 6 Michael Harvey: Yes. Continuing on with the review of the abstract I ask that you look with my on page 51, Task Three, when we finalize the Draft of the UDO, the advisory Boards get to comment on it and give direction. Mary Bobbitt- Cooke: Who are the other advisory Boards? Michael Harvey: We kept it nebulous because we may be asking several different advisory Boards to participate. Tom Alfieri: Next, we are going to talk about new ideas. Beginning on page 53, we have outlined how the planning staff and this Board will work together on a regular basis. Larry Wright: You are talking about a Strategic Plan with respect to the Comprehensive Plan? Tom Altied: These would be a list of measurement tools that need to be developed. Craig Benedict: Could you mention in the Comprehensive Plan about the cross referencing for goals and advisory Boards and how things come forward to create that coordination in the future. Tom Altieri: Each element in the Comprehensive Plan has a list of objectives followed by a section of the objectives that have linkages to other plan elements. Those objectives are noted. As ideas come forward to the Board of County Commissioners on plan implementation and how it correspondents to a particular objective in the plan, it will be easy to identify in this matrix. Brian Crawford: Comprehensive Plan implementation is all in you department so if there is an element the Housing Advisory Board has to get to or is part of their work, who is pushing them to start that? How does you department jump start the work they do to the Comprehensive Plan? Tom Alfieri: When we developed the Comprehensive Plan, there was a structure put in place. There was a process and roles were identified and this Board was put in more of a leading role or organizing role for all the plan elements to prepare the plan. Those roles have not been identified for the implementation process. As it stands now, you will have the Affordable Housing Advisory Board bringing items to the Board of County Commissioners independent of what we are doing. They may identify they need planning's help but there is not the bringing together all these ideas from the various advisory Boards and trying to produce a grand prioritization of what can be done. If we develop a process and it works with this Board and the Board of County Commissioners likes it, it may gravitate towards bringing the others in. Brian Crawford: The reason I ask is that we had one in 1981 and nothing happened. My fear is that after we have done all this work and nothing will happen. We have the nice document there but is no one to give it a kick. Tom Altied: Staff will help with the Planning Board prioritizing each year. We will come to this Board with some ideas and try to put it together in some format so you can see, in our opinion, what the priorities are we should be working on and how they relate to the Comprehensive Plan. You will be given the additional material of all the objectives that you can review and come with your own ideas. We have already heard a report on the Comprehensive Transportation Plan so you already have another advisory Board that is out working toward completing one of the objectives. Craig Benedict: On the last attachment of Tom's item is a sort of a Comprehensive Plan Strategy form. This is where we would say the Planning Board has identified that we want to do Transportation Objective 2.1, we think the OUTBoard is involved and there should be two outreach meetings and the Board of County Commissioners agrees. It is clear up front as to who is involved and; what type of outreach mechanism will be used so we don't finish the process and say you forgot the ABC Board. That form will be important because that is the form we can get in front of them and they say this becomes our priority list and work plan. Earl McKee: This may be your most important form otherwise you may end up with a pretty document with players that don't want to play. Jeffrey Schmitt: Brian, you made a great point, too many false plans and no starts. I don't think, when you say we, that we can go back to the public and not show something demonstrateable in the next 18 months. To that degree, I heard you say that this Board, if it chooses, could get involved in the prioritization of the 38 goals in the Comprehensive Plan. Are we ready to step up to the plate on that? If we do that and the Board of County Commissioners says that sounds good, here is numbers one through five is everyone going to line up behind that and everyone agrees.