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Attachment <br />.... ............................... <br />Orange County State of the Environment 2019 — Context and Workplan: <br />History: <br />• 5 past reports starting in the year 2000— find them at this link <br />• Now on a 5 -year update cycle <br />• 19 main indicators <br />• Several indicators have been tracked since the first report in 2000 <br />Scope: <br />• As much as feasible, limit to Orange County's political boundaries <br />Original Purpose and Audience: <br />• As written in 2014: <br />• "Describe the current status of Orange County's natural environment;" <br />■ Education - For whom? <br />• "Provide measures to monitor and evaluate progress toward a cleaner, healthier <br />environment;" <br />■ Monitoring -This is the monitoring report. Is someone else monitoring in <br />between? <br />• "Highlight the major environmental challenges facing the County; and" <br />■ Education - More focused restatement of first bullet <br />• "Recommend actions to confront those challenges." <br />• Recommendation - Who do we hope will use the SCE to take action? <br />• Analysis of most recent purpose as written: <br />• Pros: Broad, methodical <br />o Critical Issues and Highlighted Recommendations are good <br />policy suggestions <br />• Cons: Not focused on a specific audience, Slightly repetitive, Sets out a <br />huge task, only possible if not comprehensive and only once per 5 years, <br />resulting report lacks focus for implementation <br />o Critical Issues and Highlighted Recommendations are hard to <br />scan <br />• Both not seen until pages 10 and 11 of pdf <br />• No summary scorecard <br />■ No ratings or trends at all until page 16 of the pdf, then <br />one at a time <br />