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16 <br /> • Reviewed and submitted recommendations for the two cycles of Climate Action <br /> Tax Grant application for Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools (2022 and 2023) <br /> • Provided input on updates to the Lands Legacy Action Plan (2017 and 2023) <br /> • Reviewed and provided recommendations for the Orange County Climate Action <br /> Plan (2023) <br /> • Created a draft No Net Loss Canopy Policy for Orange County Government, <br /> currently under staff review (2023) <br /> • By request of the BOCC through a citizen concern, conducted research of local <br /> electric utilities allocation/distribution of "solar credits, and provided a letter to the <br /> BOCC describing differences between utilities, and the need to continue support <br /> of expanding solar in the County (2022) <br /> • Participated and provided several booths/educational activities for both the <br /> Carrboro Earth Day and Hillsborough Earth Evening celebrations (2022, <br /> 2023, and 2024) <br /> • Reviewed and submitted recommendation for Piedmont Wildlife Center Outside <br /> Agency Funding Request Application (2022, 2023, and 2024) <br /> • Re-assigned subcommittee for County Right of Way Task force, with two CFE <br /> volunteers to serve and promote the new committee (2022) <br /> • As directed by the BOCC, provided comments and recommendations regarding a <br /> large development proposal in Efland (Efland Station 2021) <br /> • Signed Resolution of Support for the Eno New Hope Landscape Conservation <br /> Plan (2021) <br /> • Ranked and submitted preferences of first recipients for the first distribution of <br /> Climate Action Tax Funds FY2019-20. Ranking Funds for FY 2020-21 will <br /> proceed through December 2020/January 2021. <br /> • Planned and presented the 2019 State of the Environment report at the2019 <br /> Environmental Summit (reports were previously completed in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2009, <br /> and 2014) <br /> • Prepared resolutions for BOCC consideration concerning: Anti-Idling Campaign, <br /> Support for Carbon Fee and Dividend legislation, Request for NC to Divest from <br /> Fossil Fuel Corporations, Roadside Wildflower Conservation (2018) <br /> • Developed recommendations for the County's Climate Change Program scoring <br /> system (2019) <br /> • Requested the BOCC consider joining the Global Covenant of Mayors and <br /> Chairs organization concerned with global climate change (2018) <br /> • Wrote a series of climate change articles (2017) <br /> • Developed and posted a Facebook page (2017) <br /> • Edited and recommended a renewable energy resolution to the BOCC (2017) <br /> • Recruited UNC capstone students to assist with the 2019 State of the <br /> Environment report (2017) <br /> • Made recommendations to BOCC on UDO amendment to flexible subdivisions <br /> (2016) <br /> • Initiated a series of newspaper articles on environmental issues featured <br />