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44 <br /> 1 Slide #3 <br /> Climate Council Background <br /> Assembly of Govemments-January 2019 <br /> — Idea to create multijunsbictional Climate Council <br /> • Goveming Board Action-Spring 2019 <br /> — No sinle consistent action across juri5diclions on membembip amd composition <br /> • Current Organization-31 members <br /> Coumly and Towns <br /> — Schod districts,IJNC, Durham Tectl.Cooperalive Extermien <br /> Orange Water and Sewn Authorlty(CWASA), UNC Hospital <br /> Chapel Hm-Carrboro and Northern Orange NAACP <br /> — O angelChalham Sierra Club <br /> Al targe appotntmerds <br /> • Average of 15.9 members at meetings in 2021 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> N011'n t CAROLINA <br /> 2 <br /> 3 Travis Myren said that the first idea of the Climate Council came about at an Assembly <br /> 4 of Governments meeting in 2019. <br /> 5 <br /> 6 Slide #4 <br /> Climate Council Background <br /> • Mission Statement <br /> — To aweterale joint action addressing the climate emergency by sharing <br /> suecersOul stralegles and Identifying equitable opporlumitles to reduce <br /> graanhousa gas emhsslons,provide stewardship of the natural world,and 1protcct <br /> ail County residerrta from climate lotpacts. <br /> • Climate Council Request for Memorandum of Understanding{MOU} <br /> -December2021 <br /> • Mayors and Chair request to draft MOU using Intergovernmental <br /> Parks Work Group as model <br /> GRANGE COUNTY <br /> NORT11 CAR01.INA <br /> 7 <br /> 8 Travis Myren said the Climate Council asked the governments to formalize the Council <br /> 9 and the legal councils drafted the memorandum of understanding. <br /> 10 <br /> 11 <br />