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<br /> 55 consultant and the Board of County Commissioners and have chosen the project name of Orange County Land Use Plan
<br /> 56 2050, the tagline"Guiding Our Future,"and a logo. Mr.Altieri also described the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)
<br /> 57 database which includes organizations, businesses and other groups and individual contacts that are representative of the
<br /> 58 County's DEI communities to support promotions throughout the process and to help in our outreach efforts. The project
<br /> 59 team will continue to work with Clarion on targeting notification and where future meetings will be held.
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<br /> 61 Lamar Proctor: Can you give me an example of groups and how you obtain information about which groups?
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<br /> 63 Tom Altieri: So, I certainly can. That database includes 244 organizations in it. Representing these various groups are
<br /> 64 Black, Indigenous and People of Color,the DEI-focused organizations I mentioned,women and veteran-owned
<br /> 65 businesses, as well as additional non-profit volunteer organizations. So,there are quite a few there, and the concept is
<br /> 66 hopefully these organizations can help us get the word out. You know, they all maintain their own distribution lists and so
<br /> 67 forth so that we can garner some good participation throughout the process, not just in person but our online engagement
<br /> 68 as well.
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<br /> 70 Chris Johnson asked whether the member organizations know they are on the list. Mr.Altieri clarified that most do.
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<br /> 72 Tom Altieri continued to update the Planning Board on efforts by the consultant team including community engagement in
<br /> 73 the Plan. This included presenting photographs from the workshop, how engagement is tracked, and further efforts to
<br /> 74 improve engagement, specifically targeting members of identified marginalized communities. Mr.Altieri discussed the
<br /> 75 workshop on October 261", including the format, type of activities held,turnout, and feedback. Mr.Altieri explained digital
<br /> 76 engagement with the Plan and features on the Plan's website. The project team is planning future engagement,with a
<br /> 77 focus on making use of community events.
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<br /> 79 Beth Bronson: So,this equity database is an Excel spreadsheet at the moment?
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<br /> 81 Tom Altieri: It is.
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<br /> 83 Beth Bronson: And are there plans to actually turn it into a database are part of the budget or part of the plan?
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<br /> 85 Tom Altieri: I think the spreadsheet is the product, and the plan is to continue to add organizations if we're able to
<br /> 86 research, and instead of a generic email address, obtain a name of a person and a direct email address. And so we'll
<br /> 87 continue to work on that with the consultant team. But it will be used to both target groups as well as to help us advertise.
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<br /> 89 Beth Bronson: Absolutely. It's an opportunity, I think. This would just, I guess, be a comment. We have an opportunity
<br /> 90 to expand in a database of businesses, stakeholders, and community members and leaders who are involved in the DEI
<br /> 91 process but also are looking for more exposure, either within the county or within the state, or looking for more inclusion.
<br /> 92 So, in more of these types of conversations, it would be something to see if, turning this into an actually searchable
<br /> 93 database either internally for the county or publicly for other departments to use for future efforts in the Chamber of
<br /> 94 Commerce, Economic Development, Planning, Inspections, Board of Commissioners. I can see a lot of opportunities for
<br /> 95 the Commissioners to be able to use that in other areas. It would just be a good note.
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<br /> 97 Cy Stober: So the Director of our Office of Equity and Inclusion, Dr. Shamika Fairbanks, has expressed a keen interest in
<br /> 98 this database and speaking with Tate Consultants. So, any engagement with the Commissioners or the Boards will be
<br /> 99 something she works with our contractor consultant on as a byproduct of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan. It's kind of a
<br /> 100 happy accident, I guess. I don't know if accident's the right word, but it was not necessarily the intention of the
<br /> 101 Comprehensive Land Use Plan to get a robust database for equity and inclusion as a product to this level, but frankly, she
<br /> 102 shared with Tom and myself that we don't have anything like this at our fingertips to date, so it would be an asset for her
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