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<br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: April 26, 2018 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 2 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Environmental Impact as Part of Agenda Abstracts <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Manager <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br /> <br /> <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Bonnie Hammersley, 245-2300 <br /> <br /> <br />PURPOSE: To consider incorporating an additional information section into the Board of <br />Commissioners’ meeting agenda abstracts to address Environmental Impact. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: At the Board of Commissioners’ February 6, 2018 regular meeting, a petition <br />was submitted that the Board consider incorporating an additional Environmental Impact <br />information section into the Board of Commissioners’ meeting agenda abstracts. <br /> <br />The Board’s meeting agenda abstracts currently include information such as the Subject, the <br />responsible Department, the Purpose, Background information, the Financial Impact and <br />Recommendations from the Manager (and other staff on occasion). Agenda abstracts also <br />include a Social Justice Impact section, which was added in September 2015 and relates to the <br />five (5) Social Justice Goals adopted by the Board of Commissioners in September 2010. <br /> <br />This item gives the Board the opportunity to discuss possibly incorporating an additional <br />information section to address Environmental Impact. If the Board does determine to move <br />forward with the additional section, it will be necessary to establish a framework as a basis for <br />any statements or conclusions included by staff in the Environmental Impact section of future <br />abstracts. In conjunction with that framework, the Board will also need to determine the <br />topics/issues that would and would not be addressed in the new section. Topics that could or <br />could not be considered for inclusion are: air quality, drinking water quality, groundwater impact, <br />watershed impact, visual impact, vehicular impacts, pedestrian impacts, safety impacts, noise <br />impacts, vegetation impacts, and likely others. <br /> <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no financial impact associated with consideration of <br />incorporating an additional information section into the Board of Commissioners’ meeting <br />agenda abstracts to address Environmental Impact. <br /> <br />SOCIAL JUSTICE IMPACT: There is no Orange County Social Justice Goal impact associated <br />with consideration of incorporating an additional information section into the Board of <br />Commissioners’ meeting agenda abstracts to address Environmental Impact. <br /> <br />RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board discuss incorporating an <br />additional information section into the Board of Commissioners’ meeting agenda abstracts to <br />address Environmental Impact and provide any direction to staff. <br />1