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14 Proposed Process for Creating a Consolidated County-wide Plan: Summary of Consensus Proposal At a June meeting of the Orange County Assembly of Governments, elected officials from Orange County's four local governments discussed mechanisms for achieving coordinated, long range planning. Two proposals were presented: ► A proposal from a group called "Shaping Orange County's Future Steering Committee" called for creation of a citizens' task force to undertake a series of tasks. The tasks would involve gathering information, identifying common values and objectives, and formulating strategies. Wide participation would be sought both in the composition of the task force and in the meetings that would be scheduled. Upon completion of the tasks, recommendations would be presented to local governing boards. 1 ► A second proposal, from Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Braun, called for creation of an 8- member steering committee, made up of two elected officials from each of the elated boards of Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, and Orange County. A Work Group would also be assembled, made up mostly of Planning Board members from the four jurisdictions, to be charged with coordinating the comprehensive planning work that would be ongoing in each jurisdiction. At the meeting, a consensus proposal evolved, blending the two ideas that had been presented: 1) Create an 8-member Steering Committee, made up of two elected officials'from each of the four governing boards in-Orange County, to oversee the process that was proposed in the "Comprehensive Quality Growth Strategy and Community Building Plan for Orange County" (also known as the "Shaping Orange County's Future Report.') This 8-member, elected official Steering Committee would take the place of the Shaping Orange County's Future Steering Committee, as described in Step I of the "Shaping Orange County's Future Report," and would oversee the whole process. 2) With the change, the process as outlined in the "Shaping Orange County's Future Report" would otherwise remain as proposed. To perform the work program outlined, this process includes the appointment of a large citizen's Task Force which would have representatives from a wide variety of Orange County perspectives. Names would be compiled by the 8-member Steering Committee, and referred to each of the four elected boards for appointment to the Task Force. 3) Corrections during the process would be made as deemed necessary by either the Task Force or the Steering Committee, depending on how the work is progressing toward completion of the 15 steps proposed in the "Shaping Orange County's Future Report." Otherwise the appropriate points for reports back to the four elected boards would be as outlined int the "Shaping Orange County's Future Report."