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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 12 <br />th, 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 />x 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 />x 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 />$WWDFKPHQW