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28 <br /> <br /> 1 <br />Attachment B – Tabular Format – Walks abstract writers and readers through the elements of 2 <br />the County’s goals and their relation to the proposed action being requested of the Board. 3 <br />The first of the attached draft templates makes the fewest changes to the current abstract 4 <br />template in grouping the Financial, Social Justice, and Environmental Impacts together and 5 <br />providing an open text field in which staff can select from the goals documents. 6 <br /> 7 <br />The second template uses a tabular format to guide the selection of the relevant goals and 8 <br />objectives that should be considered, and provides staff with an area to address the goals to 9 <br />which the abstract applies. 10 <br /> 11 <br />The current Social Justice Impacts section of the abstract template allows staff to select the 12 <br />relevant Social Justice Goals adopted by the BOCC in 2010 (note Attachment B). Similarly, the 13 <br />County also adopted an Environmental Responsibility Goal with 10 related objectives in 2005 14 <br />(note Attachment C). The CFE also periodically adopts a State of the Environment report with 15 <br />metrics to assess environmental impacts. For the Board’s reference, the 2014 State of the 16 <br />Environment Report can be found at this link: www.orangecountync.gov/Archive.aspx?AMID=63 17 <br />One or both of these documents can be used as the base reference documents for the 18 <br />proposed environmental impacts section. 19 <br /> 20 <br />During the work session, staff will present these concepts and will facilitate the Board’s 21 <br />discussion to generate guidance for staff and the Commission for the Environment. 22 <br /> 23 <br />It is proposed that the CFE, which considered this subject several years ago, review and advise 24 <br />on how this could be holistically addressed in the framework on an agenda abstract. The CFE 25 <br />will begin discussing this topic at its November meeting. 26 <br /> 27 <br /> David Stancil, Department for the Environment, Agriculture, Parks and Recreation 28 <br />(DEAPR) Director, made the following PowerPoint presentation: 29 <br /> 30 <br />Assessing Environmental Impact In BOCC Abstracts 31 <br />November 8, 2018 32 <br /> 33 <br />Need a concise, yet informative tool 34 <br />Must be able to assess in reasonable time, but be as holistic as possible 35 <br />Metrics should be understandable and usable by all types of abstract writers 36 <br />Some constraints may exist in usage 37 <br /> 38 <br />How To Measure - Agenda Abstract 39 <br />Opportunity to create a sustainability framework for agenda item impact (equity, economy, 40 <br />environment) 41 <br />Equity (Social Justice) and Economy (Financial Impact) addressed now 42 <br />Engage the Commission for the Environment to review possible tools 43 <br /> 44 <br />One Possible Approach 45 <br />1. A quick measure against a set of environmental goals (Environmental Responsibility 46 <br />Goal) 47 <br />2. A tabular assessment using locally-created checklist (drawn from ER Goal, State of 48 <br />Environment, other sources if desired) 49 <br />3. Some combination of the two, or an alternative metrics 50 <br /> 51