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Approved August 2 , 2023 220 221 Beth Bronson : I had asked about the May 311t 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 30th 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 .