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• Actively engage the public early in decision-making, especially before major land-use or development decisions.

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• Improve public-facing county websites to provide information about development projects.

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• Maintain transparent budgets

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• Create public dashboards to allow public to track budgets, projects, etc.

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• Continue efforts of current BOCC to engage with the community through improved meeting protocols, social media, community newsletters and updates, and specific neighborhood outreach.

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• Create limited duration citizen advisory groups for housing, land use, climate and other significant issues to encourage widespread participation.​

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• Plan regionally, but respect and listen to local voices to inform decisions.

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• Regional cooperation and planning helps to minimize displacement.

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• Encourage governments and developers to assess regional impacts of development and work with local communities to lessen or mitigate impacts wherever possible.

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• Implement "BOCC Office Hours" in Norwood, Placerville, and Telluride monthly for direct constituent access.

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• Livestream all BOCC meetings with Spanish interpretation.

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• Explore establishing participatory budget process of county discretionary funds (e.g., community grants).

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