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 Town will lead by following through on 2014 commitment, and leave room for community to use this <br />plan to move other recommended initiatives forward. The education component will be the harde st <br />component. <br /> <br /> Town has adopted the plan and has asked the Task Force to wait while they work on hiring additional <br />staff to help move these initiatives forward. <br /> <br /> A large hurdle for Carrboro is that many of their residents are renters and they have less co ntrol over <br />their home’s efficiency. Another hurdle is the large proportion of English-as-a-second-language <br />residents. <br /> Crook offered the idea that Carrboro’s model plan might be picked up by other municipalities. <br /> <br /> Kaiser asked about how the Task Force divided up the work. The group initially broke into committees <br />and came up with a category and tangible recommendations under that category, and then they <br />volunteered to write the sections. <br /> <br /> Randy Dodd wrote the introduction and unified the formatting and assembled all the pieces. <br /> <br /> Becker asked what feedback the plan has gotten from the public. The Town sent out a survey which <br />had a good response and had several forums in Town Hall associated with other events. Many people <br />also emailed Randy Dodd with comments. <br /> <br /> The biggest push-back was from the Save Bolin Creek group about the recommendation to finish a <br />greenway to connect through the Town. <br /> <br />VI. Orange County Climate Resilience Assessment – Bouma led discussion of Regional Effort: <br /> <br /> In June of 2016, Sustainability Managers from Cary and Durham invited other local government <br />sustainability staff from Orange County, Wake County, Chapel Hill, and Raleigh to attend initial meetings. <br />Monthly meetings were held at TJCOG to convene potentially interested project partners to discuss <br />shared interests in assessing the resilience of the core of the Triangle. The County Sustainability <br />Coordinator and Emergency Services staff participated to assess possible benefits to Orange County. A <br />proposal was solicited and has now been received from The National Environmental Modeling and <br />Assessment Center (NEMAC) to complete a joint resilience assessment which would cover the 7 local <br />governments. NEMAC is a national center based in Asheville that wrote the "U.S. Climate Resilience <br />Toolkit" for the Federal government. <br /> <br /> This assessment would use the information and public input from the comprehensive plans and <br />hazard mitigation plans of all participants, and model likely impacts of severe weather events and <br />other hazards within the context of a rapidly changing society and climate. <br /> <br /> Funding is available to complete the first two phases of the six phases proposed and the remaining <br />funding has been requested in the FY18 budget. <br /> <br /> Once vulnerabilities are assessed and strategies are created to increase resilience they can then be <br />incorporated into the County’s FEMA-mandated mitigation plan. <br /> <br />VII. CFE Committee Break-out Sessions - <br /> <br />Air and Energy Committee Meeting Notes: <br /> <br /> The Air and Energy committee will continue to monitor the proposed budget cuts at EPA and the <br />possible impacts on Orange County.