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Approved 12.4.24 probably not too interested in this. This is about a county land-use plan, blah, blah, blah, and 328 they're like, okay, thank you, cool map. And they move on. 329 330 Chris Johnston: Right. 331 332 Tom Altieri: Typically. Maybe take a piece of candy. But if they do live in Orange County, then we engage 333 with them differently and encourage them to take the survey. 334 335 Chris Johnston: Perfect. 336 337 Tom Altieri: The online survey hasn't opened yet. It doesn't open until September 18th. And since we've 338 started attending some events already, we were taking paper copies, and when the survey opens, 339 we'll just manually input those. And we did well. We got over 40 surveys at the Latino Americano 340 Festival. Half of them were completed in Spanish. We did have an interpreter there with us for 341 about half of the festival. Jack was there too, speaks a little bit of Spanish. And all of the 342 materials were available in Spanish there. And our relationship there was with El Centro Hispano, 343 and they've been very helpful. 344 345 Chris Johnston: And that was going to be my final question, and I apologize, Whitney; sorry about taking up all the 346 time. In regard to the community engagement meetings, is there going to be any kind of childcare 347 or multilingual capabilities for those meetings for people who might need those services? 348 349 Tom Altieri: So, for the targeted meetings El Centro Hispano, for example, they'll have their interpreters on 350 site. That's just part of the arrangement that we've made with them. And then for these two 351 workshop meetings, for example, that are more general public, we've advertised that if you need 352 those services to let us know, we'll provide them. So that's how that's been handled. As far as 353 daycare aspects and that type of thing, we haven't gotten into that. 354 355 Chris Johnston: That's perfect. I just wanted to clarify on that. 356 357 Adam Beeman: Whitney. 358 359 Whitney Watson: Thank you. So, I am really interested in how the consultants and how the planning staff have 360 been engaging with the leadership from the various municipalities involved and whether it's at the 361 planning department level or if it's at the council level. Because that's really different folks. 362 363 Tom Altieri: You'll recall, during Community Engagement Window 1, the consultant had stakeholder 364 interviews, and there were county elected officials, or Board of County Commissioners and 365 planning directors from the municipalities. At that point in time, there was not interviews of 366 city/town elected officials. There was an attempt at a survey that did go out. Survey from 367 Community Engagement Window 1 that was distributed to all of the elected officials of the 368 municipalities, encouraging them to participate and return a survey. I believe that went via 369 manager to managers to elected officials, and the response rate was quite low, although we did 370 get some response. 371 372 Whitney Watson: Well, to be very transparent about it, when I look at the alternative maps and see the projected 373 changes and development for the western edge of Orange County, I'm very concerned, and I'm 374 wondering if the Mebane elected officials are looking at this at all or thinking that they are perhaps 375 going to continue to go about their merry way and do what they want. 376 377 Tom Altieri: I can't speak to that. We are certainly considering the municipal plans, and they are kind of built 378 into the alternatives. We do know urban services boundaries. Town of Hillsborough has recently 379 updated its urban services area through its comprehensive sustainability plan, so we're 380 synchronizing with the outer boundary of that boundary. And also, Mebane has recently updated 381 its urban services boundary and has just engaged with a consultant to update its land-use plan to 382