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45 <br /> • Educate the public and local officials on environmental issues <br /> What are your Board/Commission's most important accomplishments? <br /> • Submitted priority recommendations for Lands Legacy Actions Plan 2021- <br /> 2024 <br /> • Ranked and submitted preferences of first recipients for the first <br /> distribution of Climate Action Tax Funds FY2019-20. Ranking Funds for <br /> FY 2020-21 will proceed through December 2020/January 2021. <br /> • Planning the 2019 State of the Environment report and 12/4/19 <br /> Environmental Summit (2018, 2019) <br /> • Prepared resolutions for BOCC consideration concerning: Anti-Idling <br /> Campaign, Support for Carbon Fee and Dividend legislation, Request for <br /> NC to Divest from Fossil Fuel Corporations, Roadside Wildflower <br /> Conservation (2018) <br /> • Developed recommendations for the County's Climate Change Program <br /> scoring system (2019) <br /> • Created subcommittee for Roadside Wildflower Conservation (2019) <br /> • Requested the BOCC consider joining the Global Covenant of Mayors and <br /> Chairs organization concerned with global climate change (2018) <br /> • Wrote a series of climate change articles (2017) <br /> • Developed and posted a Facebook page (2017) <br /> • Edited and recommended a renewable energy resolution to the BOCC <br /> (2017) <br /> • Recruited UNC capstone students to assist with the 2019 State of the <br /> Environment report (2017) <br /> • Provided input on updates to the Lands Legacy Action Plan (2017) <br /> • Made recommendations to BOCC on UDO amendment to flexible <br /> subdivisions (2016) <br /> • Initiated a series of newspaper articles on environmental issues featured <br /> previously in the Orange County State of the Environment report (2015- <br /> 16) <br /> • Made recommendations to BOCC on 2016 bond package, the use of <br /> pesticides at County facilities, and incentives for energy efficient <br /> construction (2015) <br /> • Commented to Planning Bd. on proposed changes to impervious surface <br /> rules (2015) <br /> • Provided ideas for Public Services Announcements for County radio spots <br /> (2015) <br /> • Collaborated with others on energy conservation and mgmt. projects <br /> (2015-16) <br /> • Published the 2014 Orange County State of the Environment report <br /> (reports were previously completed in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2009) <br /> • Convened Orange County Environmental Summit (2005, 2009, 2014) <br />