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13 DRAFT 328 probably not too interested in this. This is about a county land-use plan, blah, blah, blah, and 329 they're like, okay,thank you, cool map. And they move on. 330 331 Chris Johnston: Right. 332 333 Tom Altieri: Typically. Maybe take a piece of candy. But if they do live in Orange County,then we engage 334 with them differently and encourage them to take the survey. 335 336 Chris Johnston: Perfect. 337 338 Tom Altieri: The online survey hasn't opened yet. It doesn't open until September 18th. And since we've 339 started attending some events already,we were taking paper copies, and when the survey opens, 340 we'll just manually input those. And we did well. We got over 40 surveys at the Latino Americano 341 Festival. Half of them were completed in Spanish. We did have an interpreter there with us for 342 about half of the festival. Jack was there too, speaks a little bit of Spanish. And all of the 343 materials were available in Spanish there. And our relationship there was with El Centro Hispano, 344 and they've been very helpful. 345 346 Chris Johnston: And that was going to be my final question, and I apologize,Whitney; sorry about taking up all the 347 time. In regard to the community engagement meetings, is there going to be any kind of childcare 348 or multilingual capabilities for those meetings for people who might need those services? 349 350 Tom Altieri: So,for the targeted meetings El Centro Hispano,for example,they'll have their interpreters on 351 site.That's just part of the arrangement that we've made with them. And then for these two 352 workshop meetings,for example, that are more general public,we've advertised that if you need 353 those services to let us know,we'll provide them. So that's how that's been handled. As far as 354 daycare aspects and that type of thing,we haven't gotten into that. 355 356 Chris Johnston: That's perfect. I just wanted to clarify on that. 357 358 Adam Beeman: Whitney. 359 360 Whitney Watson: Thank you. So, I am really interested in how the consultants and how the planning staff have 361 been engaging with the leadership from the various municipalities involved and whether it's at the 362 planning department level or if it's at the council level. Because that's really different folks. 363 364 Tom Altieri: You'll recall, during Community Engagement Window 1,the consultant had stakeholder 365 interviews, and there were county elected officials, or Board of County Commissioners and 366 planning directors from the municipalities. At that point in time,there was not interviews of 367 city/town elected officials. There was an attempt at a survey that did go out. Survey from 368 Community Engagement Window 1 that was distributed to all of the elected officials of the 369 municipalities, encouraging them to participate and return a survey. I believe that went via 370 manager to managers to elected officials, and the response rate was quite low, although we did 371 get some response. 372 373 Whitney Watson: Well, to be very transparent about it,when I look at the alternative maps and see the projected 374 changes and development for the western edge of Orange County, I'm very concerned, and I'm 375 wondering if the Mebane elected officials are looking at this at all or thinking that they are perhaps 376 going to continue to go about their merry way and do what they want. 377 378 Tom Altieri: I can't speak to that. We are certainly considering the municipal plans, and they are kind of built 379 into the alternatives. We do know urban services boundaries. Town of Hillsborough has recently 380 updated its urban services area through its comprehensive sustainability plan, so we're 381 synchronizing with the outer boundary of that boundary. And also, Mebane has recently updated 382 its urban services boundary and has just engaged with a consultant to update its land-use plan to