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• Educate the public and local officials on environmental issues <br /> <br /> <br />What are your Board/Commission’s most important accomplishments? <br /> <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)