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March 7, 2008 (Board Retreat) Page 730 education. The committee would identify areas of need both for the Latino population and the county school system. $50 *Follow through on growth summit consensus to address individual identified areas from the first summit, expanding the participation from elected officials to general public, countywide. The goal of auah wide conversations is to create an overall vision usable by all entities countywide to encourage cohesive decisions that have become so intertwined. $22 Analyze ways in which public is informed. Expand County newsletter frequency to encourage directmail dissemination of information. Targeted direct mailings for major issues involving public input opportunities or educating public about changes that impact them, ie: ordinance changes, fees, regulations. PARKING LOT ITEM - COMMUNICATIONS Value Specific Outcome $65 *Provide for ease one-atop community information on webaite. Teat webaite of use. Goal 5 - Year 1 Item Specific Outcome $40 *Encourage the School Board to collaborate in the development of coat effective and oomprehenaive construction standards. $2.75 Determine the number and types of schools needed to support the current school population and what will occur with the current backlog. $17 Determine the total current cost of services, educational, law enforcement, roads, libraries, etc. on a per house basis. $28 Increase the home building standards so that residential growth focuses on quality and not quantity. $29 BOC to review the status of the "health condition" of a selected population in our county. This review will focus on healthcare disparity issues, healthcare accessibility, cost and assessment of client understanding relating to "healthy lifestyles", the importance.of education, etc. $29 Study current help offered to young and small businesses that do not qualify for incentive help. Analyze areas of potential growth of small, locally owned businesses. Study current county policies and actions as they relate to small businesses versus large businesses. PARKING LOT ITEM(S) - ECONOMIC Value Specific Outcome $40 *Review sad modify economic development incentive program to target specific industries and bueinesaea. Require grant recipients to provide health inauranae to all full time employees at no costto them. $60 *Eatablish a set of criteria that determines whether we grant inaentivea. We could also see other metrics, such ae the WC experience rating, OSHA incident rates, history of litigation, public philanthropy S contributions, eta. to determine if it is good for our community. $60 *Review in-what capacity and how the incentive program should move forward inlight of the potential of Biotech businesses, etc. Break p.m, The Board took a short break at 3:12 p.m. The retreat resumed at 3:26 Goal 1 - Year 2 Value Item $45 *Encourage all local governments to collaborate in an effort to modify development regulations to mitigate iaeuea related to reaurring':droughta. $70 *The BOC will meat with school boards, WSACC and all muniaipalitiee to create an opportunity of collaboration regarding. growth and development. Aa a result of these opportunities, agreements will be entered into by all parties to provide oonaistent standards of development (including elements relating to quality) approval county and citywide. Those agreements will take into consideration the needs of school conatruation ae well as water and wastewater proviaiona (inclusive of utility extension policies).