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MENU OF BOARD PRIORITIES FOR FY 2007-2008 <br />1/16/07 <br />This menu has two parts: <br />I. Substantive Issues <br />II. Board Process Issues <br />Note: The number in parenthesis next to an issue indicates how many Commissioners <br />proposed one or more of the goals listed under the issue to be a priority for FY 2007-2008. <br />1. Substantive Issues <br />Comprehensive Plan (4) <br />1. Continue the process for updating the County's comprehensive land use plan and related <br />elements. <br />Space/Facilities/Construction Project Improvements (4) <br />2. Adopt a County buildings/facilities long-range plan. <br />3. Identify and implement plans to remedy space needs. <br />4. Define a vision for the downtown Hillsborough and Homestead Road campuses, <br />including what services are to be provided at each site, how citizens are to be informed <br />about the services that will be available, and how citizens will be able to travel to and <br />between the campuses. <br />5. Figure out what we want to do with the Homestead Road campus so we can move on <br />with it and will have a context in which to address IFC's proposal to relocate the men's <br />shelter there. <br />6. Keep moving ahead on all of our capital projects: two senior centers, animal shelter, <br />justice facilities, County Campus, solid waste operations center, Durham Tech campus. <br />Taxes 4 <br />7. Limit the increase in the tax rate to no more than is required to service the new debt. <br />8. No tax increase in the FY 07-08 budget. <br />9. Hold the line on taxes. <br />10. Develop a coherent set of strategies for economic development in Orange County that <br />will increase the commercial tax base, improve our revenue stream, and address 18 <br />consecutive years of County tax increases.