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Shaping Orange County ' s Future <br /> Progress Report <br /> Orange County Health Department <br /> September 5 , 2001 <br /> Goal 4 : Improve government efficiency and effectiveness <br /> Objective 44e) Explore new water/waste water technologies created over time and <br /> proven effective. <br /> • Environmental Health Services staff are active in state and national organizations that <br /> regularly explore new technologies in depth . Several staff members have been <br /> faculty at national meetings in environmental health in the past two years . <br /> Goal 5 : Adopt policies to move the community toward sustainability <br /> Objective 5 - la) Create a set of sustain ability indicators using the SOCF Sustain ability <br /> Committee indicators as a starting point. <br /> • The Board of Health discussed potential modeling aspects of growth and public <br /> health infrastructure needs during its spring work session in 2001 . Invited speakers <br /> included the Director of Planning from Orange County and faculty from the UNC <br /> School of Public Health . <br /> • The Health Department is currently exploring the possibility of a doctoral student <br /> assignment from the UNC Public Health Leadership Program to further develop <br /> public health indicators and a model for predicting future needs . May begin in the <br /> spring of 2002 . <br /> Objective 54b ) Create a permanent County database for these key indicators. <br /> • No indicators as yet developed for public health . <br /> Objective 5 - 1 d) Use the indicators to help determine effectiveness of current policies <br /> and identify needed policy changes. <br /> • No indicators as yet developed . <br /> Objective 5 -2b ) Establish a general guide of standards and criteria based on resource <br /> limits that will help to define parameters of sustainability in Orange County. <br /> • No knowledge of work by ERCD in this regard . <br /> ENVIRONMENT AND LAND USE <br /> Goal 4 : Pollution prevention and waste reduction <br /> Objective 4 - lb) : Fund expanded inspection programs to insure individual water <br /> systems are not polluted and individual waste water systems and underground storage <br /> tanks are non polluting. <br /> C :\WINDOWS\TEMP\MXLibDir\Shaping Orange Bullets Update 0901 . doc <br />