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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: May 13, 2010 Action Agenda Item No. 1 SUBJECT: Draft Social Justice Goal DEPARTMENT: Housing/Community Dev PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): Draft Social Justice Goal INFORMATION CONTACT: Tara L. Fikes, 245-2490 PURPOSE: To review the draft Social Justice Goal for Orange County from the Human Relations Commission and provide feedback regarding the content of the goal document. BACKGROUND: In February 2004, the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) asked the Orange County Human Relations Commission through the Human Rights and Relations Office to develop a social justice goal for Orange County. Since that time, much work has been done to develop the current draft goal as chronicled by the following timeline. Feb. 2004, 2005, 2006 Feedback was solicited from diverse segments of the County population including County human services departments, the Orange County Human Services Management Team (internal), the Human Relations Commission (HRC) and the Human Rights and Relations (HRR) Department. More feedback was provided by individual citizens as well. Research was also undertaken to inform the development of these goals. October 2007 A draft written Social Justice Goal was presented to the BOCC at a regular meeting. February 2008 The goal was further discussed on February 12, 2008 at a joint work session with the Human Relations Commission (HRC) and the BOCC. After the work session the HRC edited the draft goal based on these discussions. April 2008 At the request of the BOCC, the HRC presented the environmental justice criteria from the Social Justice Goal at a Solid Waste Transfer work session on April 15, 2008, and the BOCC instructed the consultants to incorporate those criteria into all future drafts of the Community-Specific Criteria for the site search.