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Trueblood reinforced the idea that the overall workplan should be set by the <br />Council overall. <br /> <br />Slade offered that the County's Food Policy Council gets its directions from the work <br />groups and then get approved by the central council. <br /> <br />Trueblood clarified that she is proposing something similar. The ideas could come <br />from the Workgroups initially at the beginning of the year and then be coordinated, <br />refined, and approved by the Council overall. This way all the priorities are <br />coordinated. <br /> <br />Bouma then summarized that there seemed to be good agreement around <br />restructuring by audience and product. He also mentioned that having a <br />membership driven workplan would not exclude the Council’s ability to respond to <br />requests from any of our authorizing member governments. <br /> <br />Monast clarified that our assistance to local governments does not have to be in <br />response to an explicit request, but rather should come from the Council being <br />aware of where the jurisdictions are on climate action, what barriers and questions <br />they have, and what they would like to accomplish that they haven't been able to. <br />This may work better than starting with our own action ideas. Bouma agreed. <br /> <br />Smylie offered that OC Schools does not have an overarching climate plan and <br />limited staff capacity for additional work, and that what would be most useful from <br />the Council would be a sense of what the biggest opportunities are. <br /> <br />Slade offered that advisory boards and contractors might be a good source for these <br />kinds of ideas and one idea in particular to consider is performance contracting. <br /> <br />Smylie responded that they do not have an advisory board on climate. <br /> <br />Kaufman responded that the Climate Council might be able to offer some ideas to <br />OC Schools on things like building energy efficiency. <br /> <br />Bedford offered that there are school construction standards that speak to energy <br />efficiency, but they may not have been updated since 2009. It’s another idea that <br />could be impactful for this group to lend their expertise to. <br /> <br />Kuhn offered that the Working Groups may want to meet and discuss the details of <br />how they want to focus their work, based on this discussion. This could be brought <br />back to the next meeting. Trueblood and Tiger agreed. <br /> <br />Trueblood asked for a copy of the meeting recording to be shared with all the <br />members. Bouma said that he would send it out. <br /> <br />Bouma called back to Miller’s comment about the importance of private sector <br />involvement. Slade mentioned that regarding the business community is that Duke <br />Energy is a big funder of the Chamber of Commerce, and that may makes it more