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CFE Meeting Ground Rules (Adopted 9/12/11) <br />1. Keep to agenda topic under discussion <br />2. Share relevant information <br />3. One person speaks at a time after recognition by the Chair <br />4. Everyone can participate in discussion /no one person should dominate discussion <br />5. Strive to reach consensus before voting <br />Activities the CFE expects to carry out in 2017: <br />• Continue to write news articles on environmental issues of importance to Orange <br />County, including climate change, energy conservation, and other important topics <br />• Continue to explore ways to improve the County's ability to foster local sustainable <br />energy production and energy efficiency strategies, including making Orange County an <br />even better place for appropriately -sited solar energy generation, including developing <br />incentives for increasing energy efficiency in new construction <br />• Recommend ways to reduce the County's "carbon footprint" and implement the County's <br />Environmental Responsibility Goal (BOCC Priority #10) <br />• Continue to help with public outreach and management efforts related to hydrilla in the <br />Eno River <br />• Participate in a County effort to identify and preserve important landscape corridors that <br />connect significant natural areas and open space (BOCC Priority #1) <br />• Co- sponsor the annual DEAPR photography contest (The Nature of Orange) <br />• Help plan for and participate in County's annual Earth Evening event <br />Concerns or emerging issues the CFE has identified for 2017: <br />• The CFE will continue to advocate for an expansion of the County's commercial food waste <br />pickup and composting services to reduce food waste in the solid waste stream <br />• The CFE remains interested in developing incentives for increasing energy efficiency in new <br />construction <br />• The CFE will continue to learn more about environmental justice matters and incorporate <br />relevant information and considerations in the next State of the Environment report (2020) <br />and its other activities <br />• The CFE will continue to follow the Solid Waste Advisory Group's discussions of how to <br />improve the handling and disposal of Orange County's solid waste, and will advocate for <br />better long -term solutions <br />• The CFE will continue to advocate for increased efforts to gather information related to water <br />resources in Orange County and to increase public awareness and understanding of water <br />supply sources, related concerns, and what steps can be undertaken to maintain or improve <br />the quantity and quality of Orange County water supply resources <br />• The CFE will continue to address, as appropriate, the critical environmental issues for Orange <br />County as enumerated on page 3 of the 2014 State of the Environment report, which include <br />potential adverse effects from a) invasive, non - native, plant and animal species; b) reductions <br />in State -led collection of water resources data; c) potential drilling for natural gas in the Deep <br />River basin; d) urban sprawl; and CFE support for e) the responsible deployment of clean and <br />appropriately -sited renewable energy and reductions in energy use to help fight climate <br />change <br />