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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 2, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~- ~, <br />SUBJECT: Draft Environmental Responsibility Goal <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource PUBIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />Conservation <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />1, Commission for Environment Proposed David Stancil, Environment and <br />Environmental Responsibility Goal Resource Conservation Director, <br />2. Wake County Environmental Telephone 919-245-2590 <br />Stewardship Committee <br />PURPOSE: To receive the recommendation of the Commission for the Environment on a draft <br />Environmental Responsibility in County Government goal and consider adoption of the goal. <br />BACKGROUND: At the Board of Commissioners' annual retreat, the Board asked the <br />Commission far the Environment (CfE) to draft an Environmental Responsibility goal for the <br />Board's consideration to identify basic guidelines for County government to act in an <br />environmentally responsible manner and provide "leadership by example." <br />Draft Goal Development <br />Upon completion of the State of the Environment report, the CfE began discussing the <br />framework for this goal. It was quickly noted that many of the areas to be addressed cut across <br />a number of departments and government functions, As such, over the next several months, <br />the CfE completed a process for developing the goal. This included two brainstorming sessions <br />with department heads and advisory board representatives. At these brainstorming sessions <br />(November 2004 and June 2005), participants were asked to inventory current County activities <br />toward environmental responsibility, and identify possible future objectives, actions or policies <br />for the different areas and functions of County government. Between the first and second <br />brainstorming sessions, the GfE refined the ideas generated and sorted them into categories.. <br />In September, a draft goal was created and reviewed by the CfE, based on the principles and <br />ideas from the reviews and brainstorming sessions,. This consists of a goal statement and a set <br />of 10 objectives. Through this the CfE has attempted to identify general areas of current and <br />new activities to be continued or undertaken, <br />Board of Commissioners' Consideration <br />This draft Environmental Responsibility goal is being provided to the Board for its consideration <br />