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adopted by BOCC to <br />improve retention rates <br />• Compression reduction <br />funded <br />• Solid Waste financial study <br />completed <br />Goal 5: Create, preserve, and protect a natural environment that includes clean water, clean <br />air, wildlife, important natural lands, and sustainable energy for present and future <br />generations. (Each Commissioner was allotted one vote for the priorities related to this goal) <br />Policy <br />INCLUDE LOCAL AGRICULTURE AS KEY <br />TO UNMENTIONED "OPEN SPACE." (6 <br />• Lands Legacy Program, <br />• Continuation funding for <br />VOTES) <br />18 farms and over <br />agricultural conservation <br />1,700 acres of prime <br />easements provided in CIP <br />farmland conserved <br />• Interest remains high in <br />through perpetual <br />Voluntary Agricultural <br />easements that serve <br />District program with over <br />as de facto open <br />13,000 acres now enrolled <br />space. Many farms <br />• Food Council working to <br />used proceeds or tax <br />examine local food needs <br />credit savings to <br />and availability <br />reinvest in their farm <br />infrastructure <br />• Voluntary Agricultural <br />District program has <br />also enrolled 73 farms <br />and almost 11,000 <br />acres in farmland <br />conservation <br />DEVELOP PLAN FOR RESIDENTS AND <br />FARMERS AND BUSINESSES TO <br />• Greenhouse Gas <br />PREPARE FOR AND ADJUST TO EFFECTS <br />Emissions inventory <br />OF CLIMATE CHANGE (1 VOTE) <br />and forecast <br />completed <br />• Interlocal Clean <br />Energy Working <br />Group, looking at solar <br />and other initiatives <br />