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10 <br /> 1 Slide #14 <br /> Healthy Community: Feedback <br /> More focus on accessible spaces. <br /> Act in the areas of education, housing,and healthcare. <br /> Extend bike lanes. More affordable housing. <br /> Training space for EMS. <br /> Explore freedom to roam legislation. <br /> Improve the life expectancy by 8 years in the next 5 years is not achievable. <br /> Objectives should focus on public health and preventive health services. <br /> Decreasing poverty rate does not belong here. <br /> Suggest measures that include delivery of health services: coverage indicators like %of elders receiving <br /> indicated vaccinations, or% of diabetics achieving glucose control. <br /> 3 Include overdoes prevention efforts that already exists. <br /> b <br /> 2 <br /> 3 Chair Bedford noted that improved training areas for EMS is already something the county <br /> 4 is working on. <br /> 5 Charline Kirongozi said the "Freedom to roam" suggestion is accessing publicly owned <br /> 6 lands. <br /> 7 Commissioner McKee said there are problems with accessing publicly owned lands <br /> 8 without crossing private land. <br /> 9 Commissioner Portie-Ascott asked how"freedom to roam" legislation impacts schools and <br /> 10 people accessing school grounds during the school day. She said it can be a safety issue. <br /> 11 Chair Bedford said it was not something the county was going to pursue. <br /> 12 Vice-Chair Greene said the legislation is something that comes from Europe and agreed <br /> 13 that it's not something that the county is going to pursue. <br /> 14 Vice-Chair Greene suggested changing the first objective on slide #13 to, "Improve harm <br /> 15 reduction, prevention, and support services for adults and children experiencing substance use <br /> 16 disorders and/or behavioral health issues and intellectual or developmental disability," doesn't <br /> 17 include adults and children experiencing substance use. <br /> 18 Commissioner Fowler said it was important to be specific. <br /> 19 <br /> 20 <br />