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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: January 22, 2019 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 4-e <br /> SUBJECT: Resolution Requesting That Representative David Price Endorse Alexandria <br /> Ocasio-Cortez's Resolution for a Select Committee on a Green New Deal <br /> DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Commissioner Mark Marcoplos <br /> 1) Four Pillars of Green New Deal (from Donna Baker, 919-245-2130 <br /> the Green Party of the United States <br /> Website) <br /> 2) Draft Resolution <br /> PURPOSE: To consider a draft Resolution Requesting That Representative David Price <br /> Endorse Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Resolution for a Select Committee on a Green New Deal. <br /> BACKGROUND: At the December 3, 2018 BOCC regular meeting, Commissioner Mark <br /> Marcoplos petitioned the Board to consider approving a resolution in support of the Green New <br /> Deal at the Board's next regular meeting. Because a short timeframe did not allow the Board to <br /> consider the resolution at the December 11, 2018 regular meeting, it is presented for Board <br /> consideration at this meeting. <br /> The Green New Deal is a four part program for moving America quickly out of crisis into a <br /> secure, sustainable future. Inspired by the New Deal programs that helped the United States <br /> out of the Great Depression of the 1930s, the Green New Deal will provide similar relief and <br /> create an economy that makes communities sustainable, healthy and just. <br /> The four pillars of the Green New Deal, as outlined on the Green Party of the United States <br /> website, are: <br /> • The Economic Bill of Rights <br /> • A Green Transition <br /> • Real Financial Reform <br /> • A Functioning Democracy <br /> Additional information from the Green Party of the United States website on the four pillars is <br /> provided at Attachment 1. <br /> Attachment 2 is a draft resolution for Board consideration declaring that a climate emergency <br /> exists and requesting that Representative David Price join with the growing number of his <br />