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Orange County Commission for the Environment <br /> Meeting Summary <br /> August 12, 2019; 7:30 pm <br /> West Campus Office Building, Room 302, 131 West Margaret Lane, Hillsborough <br /> Present: Bradley Saul (Chair), Carrie Fletcher, Bill Ward, Jim Eichel, Laura Doherty, <br /> Lynne Gronback, Kim Piracci, Jeremy Marzuola <br /> Absent: Jody Eimers, Alan Parry, Matt Crook, William Newby <br /> Staff: David Stancil, Brennan Bouma <br /> I. Call to Order— Saul called the meeting to order at 7:30. <br /> II. Additions or Changes to Agenda—No additions or changes to the agenda were <br /> requested. <br /> III. Approval of Draft Minutes from August 12t", 2019— <br /> IV. Coordinated Environmental Summit—Update <br /> The CFE will review planning for this joint event, which includes the State of the <br /> Environment 2019, for this fall. <br /> V. State of Environment (SOE) Report Edits <br /> • During the course of the meeting, the State of the Environment Edits section created a <br /> detailed and productive discussion that began to spill over into the planned update <br /> discussion on the County's Planning and Development Process. At that point the Chair <br /> asked CFE member if they would like to continue with the edits discussion and postpone <br /> the remainder of the topics on the agenda for later discussion. The CFE members <br /> unanimously agreed and the remainder of the meeting was used to complete edits and <br /> comments on the State of the Environment report. <br /> • As a single group, the CFE discussed and completed final edits and comments to the draft <br /> pages of the Lands section of the 2019 State of the Environment Report. Two remaining <br /> sections on Air/Energy and Water remained to be edited at a later meeting. Plans were <br /> made to hold an additional meeting for the sole purpose of completing these edits and <br /> staff was tasked with identifying the date and location. <br /> VI. Adjournment- Saul adjourned the meeting at 9:10 following the unanimous approval of <br /> a motion to adjourn the meeting which was offered by Piracci and seconded by <br /> Gronback. <br />