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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: November 15, 2005 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. <br />SUBJECT: Draft Environmental Responsibility Goal <br />DEPARTMENT: Environment and Resource <br />Conservation <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />1. Commission for Environment Proposed <br />Environmental Responsibility Goal <br />2. Wake County Environmental <br />Stewardship Committee <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />David Stancil, Environment and <br />Resource Conservation Director, <br />Telephone 919-245-2590 <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 for 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 far 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 CfE refined the ideas generated and sorted them into categories. <br />In September, a draft goal was created and reviewed by the CfE, based an 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 />