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<br /> Goal 1:Put Community-Building First BOCC,ensuring adequate representation exploring options for local governments to
<br /> Our community's diversity and inclusiveness for citizens living in the ETJ and rural areas, receive more planning and managing powers,
<br /> is the foundation for creating and maintain- continuing to ensure that boards and corn- ensuring decisions regarding infrastructure
<br /> ing a vibrant and healthy community life. missions have broad-based representation in are consistent with environmental protection
<br /> Thus,to have a truly sustainable community terms of gender,race,and ethnicity,and con- goals, coordinating land use and transporta-
<br /> we must foster multicultural involvement in tinuing to make government processes open tion planning boundaries,and improving
<br /> the local traditions,history,heritage,and to the public. To do this,SOCF suggests: communication among governments and
<br /> memories,and we need to fully include all • convening a short term committee con- citizens regarding programs,initiatives,and
<br /> people within the community. The County's sisting of diverse geographical,gender,racial, processes. Strategies to use to address this
<br /> cultural,recreational,and historic resources and ethnic persons to study the representa- goal include:
<br /> must be solidly supported and nurtured by tion of ETJ and rural area citizens in govern- • adopting a County APFO,
<br /> the community,so that each Orange County ment processes,and • coordinating water/sewer and growth
<br /> resident has the opportunity to participate in • developing options to improve geographi- boundaries,
<br /> and enjoy these remarkable assets that enrich cal representation if a lack is determined to • collaboration on school site selections,
<br /> all of our lives. exist. and
<br /> • establishing a communication system
<br /> «-;,4` Goal 3:Create and Maintain a Central- among all local governments.
<br /> i. x.44 r, ized Information Base for Decision-
<br /> making Goal 5:Adopt Policies to Move the
<br /> Data collection and analysis are critical to ef- Community Toward Sustainability
<br /> j j 7 ' fective decision-making. More complete and Moving toward sustainability will take a
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<br /> _ consistent data is needed for policy-makers concerted_effort on the part of local govern-
<br /> a o„o to better determine the effectiveness of poli- merits to be leaders in educating the public
<br /> cies and programs,to determine the limits on sustainability, assessing the limits of the
<br /> of natural resources to support growth in County's natural resources(land,water,and
<br /> i the County,to determine the fiscal impacts air),formulating policies to become more
<br /> To attain this goal,several recommendations of growth,and to monitor sustainability sustainable,and measuring the success of
<br /> have been established,including fostering indicators. such policies. J
<br /> community interaction and activity,support- -
<br /> ing the purposeful inclusion of all people, SOCF recommends providing a central In order to move the community towards
<br /> and improving parks and recreation facili-
<br /> ties and services. Action strategies that are information base for all decision-making. sustainability,several recommendations have
<br /> To do this,a jointly-funded,countywide been made. These include setting sustain-
<br /> proposed
<br /> ability proposed to achieve this goal include: intergovernmental Data Center should be ty indicators and benchmarks to achieve,
<br /> • creating mixed-use community facilities, created. The Data Center would be charged creating mechanisms to regional planning,
<br /> • promoting neighborhood design that with the task of collecting and analyzing and adopting and implementing policies and
<br /> encourages social interaction, data in the areas of economy,environment, programs that require using the most sustain-
<br /> • improving services for minority popula- human services,education,local govern- able technology and practices. Strategies to
<br /> tions,such as non-English speaking persons, ment and school finance,and transporta- carry out this goal involve:
<br /> and tion. This information would then be made • using the SOCF list of 44 sustainability
<br /> available to all agencies,organizations,and indicators and tracking progress,
<br /> • funding acquisition of land for future individuals. • developing a"Triangle-West”regional
<br /> parks with bonds,impact fees,and donation
<br /> plan with Durham and Chatham Counties,
<br /> incentives.
<br /> Goal 4:Improve Government Efficien- • adopting green building standards,
<br /> Goal 2:Address Citizen Concerns cy
<br /> and Effectiveness • joining the Cities for Climate Protection
<br /> As our community grows and our collec- Campaign,and
<br /> about Representation in Government • instituting a sustainability education
<br /> Ensuring that all citizens'opinions are heard tive needs change and expand,many of our program.
<br /> and taken into account is essential to a expectations of government services will also
<br /> healthy community. While Orange County grow. To become a sustainable
<br /> citizens have been fortunate in the many
<br /> community we must call for and .1
<br /> different avenues of public involvement and support more efficient and effective A,.
<br /> services from the local government I �'"+G _
<br /> government representation,improvements "''
<br /> can still be made,especially for the residents and the public schools. 1 r ' s.
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<br /> County. The Task Force has identified sew I �.;
<br /> eral recommendations for accom- �i`i1 i
<br /> Several recommendations were created in plishing the goal to improve govern- r ` , _ :�`i *,
<br /> ment efficiency and effectiveness. w ` x`,.., ,; i '"
<br /> an effort to realize this goal. They included �, �I
<br /> addressing the issue of representation on the Among these recommendations are , t
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