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thinking about how the County campus reflects a lot of the values that would be in a sustainable government; it's compact, it does not bring more traffic to downtown Hillsborough, it has consolidated services, and our buildings are green to the greatest extent possible. Those are the kinds of things, that as you go through the document, chapter after chapter, we have different references for green building standards, or energy efficiency, or public transportation, or taking care of land that we own in a way that's environmentally responsible. All of those things fit under the notion of sustainable government. I bring it up now, not necessarily to have a discussion, but just to bring it to your attention, so as we go through the document, you'll see • all of the elements that relate to it, and I wrote down a few that I think would be perfectly characteristic of what would be an idea of sustainable. Commissioner Gordon: I would say that the whole document is supposed to be sustainable government, if you look at the Plan Overview. So, I wouldn't want to label Chapter 8 Sustainable Government. I want that to be a theme throughout. I realize Services and Facilities is a little bit of a catchall, but it seems to me that what we want in each of these elements is to reference a sustainable government. So I wouldn't call Chapter 8 Sustainable Government, because the,whole thing is supposed to be sustainable government. Discussion ensued about which chapter it was, because Commissioner Carey had this information in Chapter 9. Planning staff member: I believe the difference is that in the original draft, the draft had Chapter 3 as a County Profile Element, and the May 6th draft had pulled the County Profile Element out and put it in the appendices, so that would have shifted down all of the previous chapters. So, what was once 9 would now be 8. Tom Altieri: The CD that was distributed should match the hard copy version. Apparently there is some type of formatting issue. I will look into this. Chair Jacobs: So why don't we refer to the chapters by name and not number. Plan Overview Commissioner Gordon: I'll draw your attention to page 1-2, underlying theme near the bottom is, "the County's vision of becoming a more sustainable community. Section 1.3: Toward a Sustainable Future, provides a summary of ways that the Plan works toward achieving that vision." That is where it should be highlighted and all should be sustainable. Chair Jacobs: I don't disagree. What else do you have in that chapter? Commissioner Gordon: On page 1-11, 1.4.5, Decisions on Implementation: "The Board of County Commissioners will, as needed and appropriate, prepare a work plan for Comprehensive Plan implementation strategies that identifies strategies to be initiated in a given year, the human and financial resources allocated to implementation of the strategies, and the parties responsible for implementing the strategy." Is that in there just so they won't say, "we're not doing that, but the Board of Commissioners is doing that," as opposed to referring any particular task that the Commissioners have. The decisions on implementation will come later, is that all that really is? Because it looks like a work plan sounds like some kind of document that we prepared and here's all the things we do to get this done.