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<br /> 298 statistically significant, is really important in terms of identifying the needs and opinions and views of the
<br /> 299 County residents. The community engagement window, did I get those numbers right? There were only like
<br /> 300 16 online surveys?
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<br /> 302 Leigh Anne King: That's right. I was surprised about that too. That is, as Emily was stating, that is not
<br /> 303 normal. Even before the pandemic, most communities that we work with, very few people show up at the
<br /> 304 public meetings, the in-person meetings, and a lot more folks respond online, and it was kind of the flip, here in
<br /> 305 Orange County, which was interesting. That it's a good thing, I think people are feeling safe to come out and
<br /> 306 go to these meetings, which is good. But there's something about in-person engagement, maybe, that they're
<br /> 307 more attracted to, than doing a survey online. And part of that could be, because you do have a lot—the
<br /> 308 Climate Action Plan, the Strategic Plan, the Land Use Plan—there's been a lot of surveys and public
<br /> 309 engagement, and that might be part of the reason why there weren't more higher level of online responses as
<br /> 310 well.
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<br /> 312 Lamar Proctor: Well, I do think that more data is better. So, anything that we can do to facilitate the next
<br /> 313 round... Will there be another round of online surveys? I know that this one's closed.
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<br /> 315 Leigh Anne King: Every engagement round comes with both an online and an in-person component. And
<br /> 316 they're the same thing, so it makes it accessible if folks'schedules don't permit them to come to the meeting.
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<br /> 318 Lamar Proctor: Well, I think knowing that we had such a low number on the online, we should be
<br /> 319 cognizant of that, in the next window to try and get links out to as many sources as possible.
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<br /> 321 Leigh Anne King: I think that's right. And that probably is part of the story behind why we didn't have folks in
<br /> 322 the younger age brackets, that Emily was mentioning, because that's where get, typically speaking, we get a
<br /> 323 lot of feedback from those groups online.
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<br /> 325 Lamar Proctor: I felt when I read the community stakeholder interview themes, that they didn't really... 1
<br /> 326 guess my question is, how did y'all present that? How was that decided on the narratives there? Was it just
<br /> 327 verbatim from people? How did you compile those interviews and present them in this format?
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<br /> 329 Leigh Anne King: So, what we did was we tried to organize under key critical topics that we were hearing
<br /> 330 about from multiple interviewees, or survey respondents, across the 57 interviews and the survey responses
<br /> 331 that we received. Some of these issues are, many people, if not all people, were speaking to them. Some of
<br /> 332 them had maybe fewer responses. This was more of a qualitative exercise than the quantitative exercise that
<br /> 333 we just showed you with respect to the community engagement, so there may have been some issues that
<br /> 334 maybe we only heard from 5 or 10 people about, but we feel like as, with our expertise and our experience,
<br /> 335 that this is an important issue to be raising, even if the entire group was not necessarily speaking to it, it's an
<br /> 336 important idea to be sharing and publishing as part of this report.
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<br /> 338 Lamar Proctor: Because there was, in the stakeholder interview themes and narratives, there was a much
<br /> 339 stronger push for development that I don't think was reflected in the surveys and the community engagement,
<br /> 340 and I was wondering if you noticed that, if I'm misreading that, or if—
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<br /> 342 Leigh Anne King: I think that's right. That's part of the reason why I kept the economic development stool
<br /> 343 on the Sustainable Development Venn Diagram, because, not to underplay the community engagement, 1
<br /> 344 think it's very important, but there are also some important stakeholders that we met with in this process that
<br /> 345 had a slightly different view about things, and those inputs are important as well in this process. So, we're
<br /> 346 collectively looking at all those inputs, even if they don't match up. And that's going to happen. That's very
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