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Attachment 1 <br />Orange County Commission for the Environment <br /> <br />Meeting Summary <br />October 9, 2017 <br />Whitted Building, 300 West Tryon Street, Hillsborough <br />Present: Lynne Gronback (Chair), Bill Kaiser (V-Chair), Bill Newby, Marshall Gray, <br />Sheila Thomas-Ambat, Matt Crook, May Becker, Jeremy Marzoula, <br />Bradley Saul <br />Absent: Peter Cada, Jeanette O’Connor, Alan Perry, Will Stanley <br />Staff: Kim Livingston, Brennan Bouma <br /> <br />I. Call to Order - Gronback called the meeting to order at 7:34. <br />II. Additions or Changes to Agenda –Livingston requested that the group <br />nominate a CFE member to the Intergovernmental Parks Working Group to fill a <br />current vacancy. Kaiser offered before the meeting began; therefore, this item <br />was not added to the agenda. <br />III. Approval of Draft Minutes from September 11, 2017. Kaiser motioned to <br />approve the minutes as written. Gray seconded. Minutes were approved <br />unanimously. <br />IV. Lands Legacy Action Plan Update - Livingston clarified the background <br />information on the Lands Legacy Plan update. Primarily through the effort of <br />Marzuola and Kaiser, the CFE has provided a good amount of text guidance for <br />the update that staff may need to pare down. Kaiser and Marzuola give consent <br />for condensing the text and Gronback joined them in highlighting the content that <br />was the most important to them to emphasize. The CFE agreed that the <br />priorities in the text provided by Marzuola and Kaiser are the top CFE priorities <br />for the next Lands Legacy Action Plan. <br />V. Recruitment – Kaiser reported that there are currently two vacancies and <br />Becker and Cada will go off the CFE in December creating two additional <br />vacancies. He stressed the importance of recruiting qualified candidates to fill <br />the vacancies. Kaiser suggested that the ad for CFE membership should be <br />posted on the website and social media more often. He suggested that all <br />current members recruit others that they may know who are qualified, and if they <br />are not interested, ask if they could suggest others. Kaiser suggested making it <br />part of a CFE members job to recruit new members. <br /> Bill Ward (guest interested in becoming a member) recommended providing as <br />much information to applicants as possible. Bouma clarified that some positions <br />are restricted to certain technically expertise but not geographically restricted.