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11 220 221 Beth Bronson: I had asked about the May 31s'deadline for the"hold your own meeting styles"... 222 223 Tom Altieri:You are referring back to the strategic plan... 224 225 Beth Bronson: Is that the strategic plan?Thank you, it flowed together so I wasn't sure which one was which. 226 227 Tom Altieri:The commencement date for our consultant is June 301h so one of the first things they will do is a project 228 website for the comprehensive land use plan, but it doesn't exist now. 229 230 Statler Gilfillen:There are 20 pages of material that you submitted about this to us. Can I ask you if Clarion wrote that or 231 did someone in your department write that? 232 233 Tom Altieri: Clarion wrote that. 234 235 Statler Gilfillen: I read through this, I am an architect, licensed and have done a great deal of planning, 11 years teaching 236 architecture, business marketing at the university level. I've read a lot of reports, I've worked for NASA at Cape 237 Canaveral,the language that they used is about as rambling, obtuse and general that you could drive a truck through it. 238 I'm concerned about the presentation. I don't know how many people here actually tried to read through this, but they 239 use words like"relevant"which doesn't mean a thing,anything can be relevant. I am concerned about the language 240 having meaning.We complain about lawyers and how they write things in detail but sometimes there is a reason. 241 242 Tom Altieri:What you have here,these 24 pages you referred to, is a portion of the contract. There's 20 other pages of 243 legal jargon.Attachment A is the consultant's deliverables and the schedule. The two go together. There is a link in your 244 packet if you are interested in seeing the whole ball of wax, it's there on our website for the Commissioner's meeting. 245 246 Statler Gilfillen:As a member of the Planning Board, in my own experience, can I suggest that within your department, 247 please try to keep it more focused than what I was reading here because the public is going to get totally lost. If we really 248 want to get the public involved,we want developers to understand what's going on.The language of how we present this 249 is important and I would hope as a message that somebody is watching for that based on what I've read here. 250 251 Beth Bronson: I have a comment on the stakeholders and who they plan to engage. They said that they would spend 252 what period of time looking for the stakeholders, all the different boards and municipalities ...? 253 254 Tom Altieri:The stakeholders they will be reaching out to for the stakeholder interviews in July have already been 255 identified and they have that contact list. I can give you a quick rundown if you like of the various groups. 256 There are groups of 8 or 10 listed. 257 258 A list of boards, commissions and groups was read aloud for the planning board. 259 260 Beth Bronson: Have they identified the"neighboring and partner jurisdictions"as anybody touching Orange County? 261 262 Tom Altieri: Primarily the ones we have agreements with, at this time that would be Durham City-County and Chatham 263 County then of course the municipalities including Mebane, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Hillsborough. 264 265 Beth Bronson: There is no intention to interview with Alamance? 266 267 Tom Altieri: It wasn't identified at this time. I think if that were brought up, I'm sure Clarion would entertain it. 268 269 Beth Bronson: I want to make sure its noted that Alamance was not identified. 270 271 Statler Gilfillen:You hit on communication with the stakeholder groups and less than accessible communities. It seems 272 like there is a strong technology component to this and I know that Orange County is working hard to get broadband to 273 its areas. I would encourage Clarion to think beyond just sending emails or directing them to the website because that 274 may not be feasible for broad swaths of Orange County even yet.