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Jay Bryan said that some of the advisory boards could have specal meetings in order to meet the deadline. Discussion ensued about the deadline for comments. Commissioner Gordon asked if it is okay to make flexible revision for the advisory boards and Jay Bryan said that it would be tough. Michelle Kempinski said that the Planning Board has already received a lot of comments. Commissioner Gordon asked how Clarion is being paid and what will happen if there is a delay and Clarion is not doing any work, It was answered that Clarion bills by the hour. 2. Draft Comprehensive PUan — BOCCUnput* Chair Jacobs suggested going through the plan chapter by chapter. Commissioner Gordon said that there is so much information in the comprehensive plan and it is hard to figure out what is important and what is secondary. She said that this is going to guide what the County does, and it can be more of a reference document. Commissioner Carey said that he read it as being all important. He made reference to the schedule, and with two Commissioners not here tonight, they will not see this again and make comments until the August 25th meeting. He thinks that it will take more than one meeting to address this. Chair Jacobs suggested that the minutes be verbatim from this point forward. Chair Jacobs: First of all, I want to thank all of the advisory boards, and especially the Planning Board for their hard work. The County Commissioners requested £taying with a schedule, and the Planning Board and staff have kept to it. I also think that we can't • underestimate how much these other advisory boards worked together in trying to be as comprehensive as possible. One thing we might want to think about, toward the end, is using Chapter 2 that summarizes our planning principles, and under each one of these principles, there might need to be a reference to where it is reflected in the Land Use Plan. For example, Chapter 3, Economic Development Element, relates to number 2 and it relates to number 7; but you might have to go through the whole document to see how that relates. Commissioner Gordon: Do you literally mean that chapter on the Land Use Plan, as opposed to all of the other elements? Do you mean where it is reflected tn the Land Use Plan, or do you mean where is it reflected in the Comprehensive Plan document? Chair Jacobs: In the Comprehensive Plan document. Commissioner Carey: This would be a cross-reference from each of the elements in the Comprehensive Plan back to the principles. Chair Jacobs: Yes, I think that would make it a little clearer. One over-arching thing, and I would have waited until we got to Chapter 8, except as we go through it, think a lot of things will relate to Chapter 8, which at this poiOt, seems to be a catchall of Services and Facilities Element. I would like to call it Sustainable Government and start capturing all of the things that have to do with the way in which the government operates. There are a lot of things as we go through this document; that relate to the sustainable use of resources, and how the government operates. I have copies of our Environmental Responsibility goals that we adopted three years ago. I think part of the purpose of the document, the Comprehensive P|an, is that it will outlive all of us. He said the Chair of the Planning Board elaborated on having some kind of community building. That fits under Sustainable Government as one of the elements. I was