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188. Promote a tax system that recognizes the unique challenges of persons who are not <br /> wealthy but own property. <br /> 190. Promote a budget process which fairly balances and evaluates competing needs. <br /> 191. Promote balanced and open decision making that helps identify possible unintended <br /> consequences. <br /> 193. Promote efficient and effective county government. <br /> 212. Resolve public market dispute <br /> 215. Review proposed Transfer Station site <br /> 218. Revise meeting rules of procedure and etiquette <br /> 220. Seeks ways to operate with greater enterprise efficiencies. <br /> 228. Streamline cumbersome regulatory processes. <br /> 239. Update the countywide Strategic Communications Plan. <br /> C - Implement planning and economic development policies which create a balanced, <br /> dynamic local economy that promotes diversity, sustainable growth, and enhanced <br /> revenue while embracing community values <br /> 2. Acknowledge continuing decrease in federal and state funding streams requiring more <br /> local resources to maintain service levels. <br /> 5. Address concerns about local food and continued food availability through community <br /> gardening, a countywide food policy that encourages production and consumption of local <br /> food, and assisting farmer transition to local food production <br /> 10. Address impacts of fluctuations in local economy-sub-prime mortgages, retail sales, <br /> employment, fuel prices. <br /> 11. Address jobs/economic development so residents can afford to stay in Orange County. <br /> 19. Aggressively pursue economic development goals. <br /> 22. Alternative revenue options -spring referendum. <br /> 23. Appropriate economic development to lessen property tax burden. <br /> 30. Broaden tax base. <br /> 43. Complete the Orange County Comprehensive Plan. <br /> 44. Complete Town of Hillsborough/Orange County Strategic Growth Plan Phase II. <br /> 49. Continue to work with the W.C. Breeze Family Farm Incubator Program as a regional <br /> facility. <br /> 54. Create a target percentage for locally produced food for all meals served at county- <br /> sponsored events or facilities. <br /> 55. Create a zoning code section to govern the development or operations of sexually oriented <br /> businesses. <br /> 59. Define what a sustainable community is and how it fits with economic development. <br /> 61. Determine if we are relying too much on employers outside the county to employ our <br /> citizens. <br /> 62. Determine sustainable lot size in rural water resource areas (i.e. not on public water and <br /> sewer) based on USGS studies. <br /> 64. Develop a comprehensive "water budget" assessment to comprehensively look at ground <br /> water and surface water systems. <br /> 68. Develop Access Management plan. <br /> 73. Develop county definition of sustainable community. <br /> 75. Develop specific goals, responsibilities, and mechanisms to enhance county efforts to buy <br /> locally. <br /> 76. Develop sufficient infrastructure to support future economic development. <br />