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Meeting Summary
August 12, 2019; 7:30 pm
West Campus Office Building, Room 302, 131 West Margaret Lane, Hillsborough
Present: Bradley Saul (Chair), Carrie Fletcher, Bill Ward, Jim Eichel, Laura Doherty,
Lynne Gronback, Kim Piracci, Jeremy Marzuola
Absent: Jody Eimers, Alan Parry, Matt Crook, William Newby
Staff: David Stancil, Brennan Bouma
I. Call to Order— Saul called the meeting to order at 7:30.
II. Additions or Changes to Agenda—No additions or changes to the agenda were
requested.
III. Approval of Draft Minutes from August 12t", 2019—
IV. Coordinated Environmental Summit—Update
The CFE will review planning for this joint event, which includes the State of the
Environment 2019, for this fall.
V. State of Environment (SOE) Report Edits
• During the course of the meeting, the State of the Environment Edits section created a
detailed and productive discussion that began to spill over into the planned update
discussion on the County's Planning and Development Process. At that point the Chair
asked CFE member if they would like to continue with the edits discussion and postpone
the remainder of the topics on the agenda for later discussion. The CFE members
unanimously agreed and the remainder of the meeting was used to complete edits and
comments on the State of the Environment report.
• As a single group, the CFE discussed and completed final edits and comments to the draft
pages of the Lands section of the 2019 State of the Environment Report. Two remaining
sections on Air/Energy and Water remained to be edited at a later meeting. Plans were
made to hold an additional meeting for the sole purpose of completing these edits and
staff was tasked with identifying the date and location.
VI. Adjournment- Saul adjourned the meeting at 9:10 following the unanimous approval of
a motion to adjourn the meeting which was offered by Piracci and seconded by
Gronback.