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SOCIAL JUSTICE GOALS GOAL: Foster a Community Culture that Rejects Oppression and Inequity The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race or color; religious or philosophical beliefs; sex, gender or sexual orientation; national origin or ethnic background; age; military service; disability; and familial, residential or economic status. GOAL: Ensure Economic Self-Sufficiency The creation and preservation of infrastructure, policies, programs and funding necessary for residents to provide shelter, food, clothing and medical care for themselves and their dependents. GOAL: Create a Safe Community The reduction of risks from vehicle/traffic accidents, childhood and senior injuries, gang activity, substance abuse and domestic violence. GOAL: Establish Sustainable and Equitable Land-Use and Environmental Policies The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of people of all races, cultures, incomes and educational levels with respect to the development and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, policies, and decisions. Fair treatment means that no group of people should bear a disproportionate share of the negative environmental consequences resulting from industrial, governmental and commercial operations or policies. GOAL: Enable Full Civic Participation Ensure that Orange County residents are able to engage government through voting and volunteering by eliminating disparities in participation and barriers to participation. RECOMMENDED ACTIONS Recommended Actions for Overcoming Oppression and Inequity: • Expand Orange County's Civil Rights Ordinance to include protection against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. • Recommend that the County's municipalities and school boards adopt this Social Justice Goal. Recommended Actions for Ensuring Economic Self-Sufficiency: • Develop a countywide economic responsibility policy to outline the allocation of County funding to balance the needs of affordable housing, economic development, county infrastructure and a sustainable environment to improve employment opportunities. • Commission a study to explore establishing a job opportunities program for the economically disadvantaged and a temporary employment agency to provide benefits for trainees and new workers while they gain permanent status and benefits. • Amend the County's economic development plan to include a strategy to attract businesses that provide a living wage and health insurance; and to diversify tax revenues by recruiting and nurturing new businesses. • Conduct a pay equity study to determine if Orange County government provides equal pay for equal work considering education, experience and job responsibility, aswell asrace and gender; and ensure that all employees are paid the local housing wage. • Implement a Countywide policy requiring developers of new housing to make a contribution to a housing trust fund or to set aside a portion of the development for affordable housing units. Recommend that funds be used to create housing to meet pent-up demand for public (below 50 of Area Median Income (AMI)), affordable (50 percent of AMI), work-force affordable (80 to 120 percent of AMI) housing and family housing at all levels; and to accept only units that address these needs. _-___ _- ~RANGE CocrwTYDRAFT SOCIAL JusrlcE Goal