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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: May 5, 2016 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 5-e <br /> SUBJECT: Policy Priorities for 2016 <br /> DEPARTMENT: County Manager's Office <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> 2016 Policy Priorities Bonnie Hammersley, County Manager, <br /> 919-245-2306 <br /> Travis Myren, Deputy County Manager, <br /> 919-245-2308 <br /> PURPOSE: To adopt the policy priorities established during the Board of County <br /> Commissioners' 2016 retreat <br /> BACKGROUND: The Board of Orange County Commissioners held its annual retreat on <br /> January 29, 2016. The focus of the 2016 Retreat was to define and establish priorities for the <br /> coming year. The Board reaffirmed the existing goals with one change to the goal associated <br /> with communication where the word "transparency" was replaced by the term "engaging." <br /> After the overarching goals were reaffirmed, Board members were asked to contribute their <br /> individual policy priorities and to submit those ideas to the entire Board to be ranked and <br /> prioritized. Each Commissioner's individual policy ideas were then associated with an existing <br /> Board goal, and each Commissioner was given a limited number of votes to award to each <br /> policy initiative. This process resulted in a ranked set of policy priorities which is attached to this <br /> abstract. <br /> At the April 7, 2016 Board work session, the County Manager reviewed the list of policy priorities <br /> with the Board of Commissioners. During that discussion, the Board indicated that policy <br /> initiatives that did not receive any votes through the prioritization process would be omitted from <br /> this list. The Board also discussed the role of the Social Justice Goals in their decision making. <br /> The Board suggested that the Social Justice Goals are values that influence and motivate all <br /> decision making and should not compete with the other policy initiatives. As a result, the Social <br /> Justice Goals have been renamed into Social Justice Values that apply to the entirety of the <br /> Board's decision making. <br /> FINANCIAL IMPACT: The information presented will have no immediate fiscal impact. <br /> SOCIAL JUSTICE IMPACT: The following Social Justice Goal is applicable to this item: <br />