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Attachment 2 • "Highlight the major environmental challenges facing the County; and" ■ Education - More focused restatement of first bullet • "Recommend actions to confront those challenges." ■ Recommendation - Who do we hope will use the SCE to take action? • Pros: Broad, methodical • Cons: Slightly repetitive, Sets out a huge task, only possible if not comprehensive and only once per 5 years, resulting report lacks focus for implementation o Critical Issues and Highlighted Recommendations are good policy suggestions • Both are hard to scan • Both not seen until pages 10 and 11 of pdf o No summary scorecard! ■ No ratings or trends at all until page 16 of the pdf, then one at a time • Recommendations for discussion: o If this is meant to deliver evidence to support recommended actions to protect environment... • Use a more narrowly defined audience to focus the effort • Who do we hope will use the SCE to take action? • What information and format do they want to see? • How many actions can we expect them to take? • Move our mission to increase broad understanding to other efforts — e.g. ongoing news media outreach • OR • If this is primarily meant to be a broad reference on status and trends of air, energy, water, and land, then we should let users decide what to do with the information. • We still may do well to keep in mind who will be motivated to read /use the SOE. • Among all the other sources of reference material at their disposal, why will they choose this one? • Follow up with aggressive distribution to the Commissioners, schools, other advisory boards • Move away from making recommendations Primary Audience: • Board of County Commissioners • Must be written in direct, concise, non - technical terms • Focus on things they can control • Maybe we should ask them? • Schools and /or Environmental Educators • UNC- Chapel Hill • Durham Tech Orange County Campus • CHCCS and OCS - Secondary level • Others?