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32 1 Slide #19 Greene Tract Community Stakeholders Community Advisory Group/Greene Tract Community Stakeholders (GTCS) Group We see the GTCS as a foundational pillar of our outreach work.The Team will work with the established GTCS as a sounding board throughout the project,providing feedback to the engagement team on how best to connect collect input,and establish and maintain trust in the community.0ur goal is to work with the public through this advisory group to ensure that public concerns and aspirations are consistently understood and considered in a proactive .and authentic manner.The GTCS will not only be used to share feedback and findings from the community engagement exercises,but to workshop the best communication and engagement approaches to gather feedback from a diverse array of community members and partners,The group should ideally be between 12-16 participants and expect to meet close to monthly(10) with the Team over the course of the project.The team will host both in person and virtual formats over the course of the efforts, ORANGE COUNTY 19 NOR'I-H CARL7LiNA 2 3 Commissioner Richards asked if all three parties agreed to the Mapping Our Community 4 Future report. 5 Travis Myren said it was shared but there was not a vote taken to approve or accept it. 6 Commissioner Richards said she is concerned about it not being referenced. She said it 7 seems that they are starting all over in terms of what the community wants. She said they are 8 now expanding this to a group of people that creates a power imbalance. She said that she is 9 concerned about who those people are. She said they have been studying this for a long time 10 and they have done the Mapping Our Communities Future and the people that live there told 11 them their wishes. She asked if the new group would make a recommendation. 12 Travis Myren said it is not envisioned that the stakeholder group would create 13 recommendations. 14 Cy Stober said no and that the purpose of the community engagement consultant is to 15 represent the community input to the design team. He said they would make sure that the 16 intensity and density of development reflect the wishes of the community. He said the process is 17 that the steering committee would direct the process. 18 Commissioner Richards said that the community has already said what they want in the 19 Mapping Our Community Future study. She said that in the community engagement for the 20 strategic plan there was low participation in community meetings. She asked what the specific 21 plan is to get real engagement. She said one of the meetings was at Rogers Road and she 22 would like to know what they will do to increase participation. She said that Chapel Hill 23 referenced the $360,000 cost of the plan and asked if the Council supported the amount. 24 Commissioner Fowler said she wanted to understand what we are asking the consultant 25 to produce. 26 Cy Stober said Mapping Our Community Future is 8 or 9 years old. He said that the 27 intention is for the intentions of the RENA community, especially now that the county owns the 28 Headwaters Preserve, is reflected here. He said that the Mapping Our Community Future is not 29 helpful as a planning tool. He said that the community engagement consultant would assist the 30 design team to focus solely on design and land development. He said the community