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11 <br /> many other tenets of a Green New Deal effort as the mobilization to restore a safe climate is <br /> launched; <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of Commissioners <br /> declares that a climate emergency threatens our county, region, state, nation, civilization, <br /> humanity and the natural world; <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Orange County Board of Commissioners requests that <br /> Representative David Price join with the growing number of his Congressional peers and <br /> endorse Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's resolution for a select committee on a Green New Deal. <br /> This the 22nd Day of January 2019. <br /> PUBLIC COMMENT: <br /> Riley Ruske said 3 minutes is not nearly enough time to discuss this resolution, and the <br /> Board of County Commissioners should hold several public hearings on this matter before <br /> bringing it to a vote. He said these hearings should invite both supporters and opponents to <br /> allow for open discussion and full information to the public. He said the Green New Deal is a <br /> radical agenda hiding behind a concern about climate change, and is an effort to destroy our <br /> democratic republic and its constitution, and replace them with a hybrid socialist/communist <br /> bureaucracy, which is nothing to do with climate change. He said this would end rights and <br /> freedoms. He said the agenda item abstract write up is grossly misleading. He said citizens <br /> should not be fooled by this effort to turn the United States into a socialist/communist China, <br /> North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, or Russia. He encouraged the Board to remember its oath to <br /> protect and uphold the constitution, and voting in favor of this resolution would be a willful <br /> abandonment of said oath. <br /> Commissioner McKee asked, rhetorically, if the resulting costs from enacting this "deal" <br /> could be identified. <br /> Commissioner Price said there is a lot in this resolution, but in the end, Commissioner <br /> Marcoplos is asking Congressman David Price to support the forming of a committee to look <br /> into this Green New Deal. She said an affirmative vote this evening would not be equal to the <br /> BOCC endorsing everything in this resolution. <br /> Commissioner Marcoplos said the resolution says that these conditions are so pressing <br /> that a committee is needed to enact the Green New Deal. <br /> Commissioner Price said an affirmative vote for the resolution would acknowledge that <br /> there is a climate change crisis and support the formation of a special task force to look into the <br /> Green New Deal, but does not indicate that the Board is going to enact the Green New Deal. <br /> Commissioner Greene said the Green New Deal is very complicated and has many <br /> parts, including changing to the status of corporations, and would restore a lot of democracy. <br /> She said it will cost money, and this resolution is asking David Price to support a select <br /> committee on a Green New Deal. <br /> Commissioner Greene referred to the cost, and asked if the counter thought is what will <br /> it cost us if this is not done. She said it may be radical, but we are at a crisis point and <br /> something must be done. <br /> Commissioner Bedford said one of her concerns with the party platform is some of the <br /> economic changes that are proposed to be made, but overall she agrees with Commissioner <br /> Greene and Commissioner Price. She said wanted to know if anyone has talked with David <br /> Price about this and his intentions. She suggested it may be wise to have a conversation with <br /> him, and said she left a message for him today. She does support the need for climate change, <br /> but wonders if this is the best way to approach working with Congressman Price. <br />