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8 • Identify initiatives or ways to leverage current programs to help break cycle of poverty • Employment as articulated by staff(crossed with transportation as relevant). • Survey of unmet transportation needs for education and employment needs of low income residents, used to prioritize additional services. • Housing living wage for orange county staff. • Connect students to community colleges. 3. Housing — Board members said that Goals 1 and 4 contain the following priorities that fit under this theme, as follows: • Decent, standard housing options for all residents regardless of household income level. • Funds to develop targeted number of[affordable housing] units (set numerical goal). • Especially [affordable housing] rentals • Develop explicit plan to inform bond expenditures and other BOCC affordable housing funding. • Housing living wage for orange county staff. 6. Wrap Up Board members were asked to evaluate the retreat in their final thoughts before adjourning: Commissioner Pelissier said the pace of the day was good, and the voting process was a very good method to clearly identify each Commissioner's thoughts, and allow for discussion. Chair McKee said he liked this process a lot, as it helped him to focus. He said seeing other Commissioners' ideas written down was informative. He added that the voting process gave him a chance to see other's priorities without having to argue back and forth, or feel like raising his hand would leave him as the outlier. Commissioner Burroughs said she liked that the meeting began by meshing this process with the staff process. She would recommend to next year's retreat committee that this be done again, even more effectively. She said she liked the way the tasks were set up in advance, as well as the on the spot facilitation; and she would like to see this again in the future. Commissioner Jacobs said he did not find the pre-meeting instructions at all clear, but thought that the meeting itself was fine. He thought the facilitator did a good job, and found meeting space was acceptable but he wished that separately packaged creamers were not used, which just increases the waste. He wished there had been a receptacle into which one could place paper for recycling. He said he would have liked for there to have been a free-for- all session, where the Board could bring up ideas that did not necessarily fit any of the goals, and where the facilitator did manage the discussion, allowing for more of a human interaction. Commissioner Rich said she like the meeting facility, as it allowed a change of scenery. She also liked that the goals were change on the "fly". She said word-smithing would happen later, and appreciated the updating of some of the goals. She said the Clerk did a great job ordering food, and making sure that they were all taken care of. She liked the voting process, but sometimes felt unsure as to which idea to put her sticker on. She agreed with Commissioner Dorosin that ultimately priorities are not being eliminated, but rather put in a list of those which received the most dots. There were some items with only one vote, but if these items are easily accomplished, staff me complete them as well. She said overall, she thought the retreat was good and she got a lot out of it. She thanked the facilitator. Commissioner Dorosin said he hoped, and liked the idea, that coming out of the retreat there will be specific, practical things. Goals are compelling but they are abstract. He thinks it