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• Because ecosystems take a long time to recover from physical destruction (if they can at all), the County will mitigate its impact through wise land use policies, low-impact maintenance practices and environmentally friendly design. • Because everyone deserves to be healthy and safe, the County will work to ensure safe working and living environments for its residents, visitors and employees. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the County of Hawaii will approach decisions about policies, operations and capital improvements in a more systematic way. Using sustainability framework, the County of Hawaii Green Team will: • Work to increase awareness of sustainability among its staff and management. This will provide us with a common language and keep all of us thinking about the impact we have during the course of our daily tasks. • Take an inventory of current efforts that make progress toward sustainability and do a baseline assessment based on the Local Government Operation Protocol (LGOP) to enhance our current efforts and identify additional improvements. • Formulate a vision of what sustainability means for the County of Hawaii and identify short-term, medium-term, and long-term goals and benchmarks necessary to achieve that vision. • Incorporate the awareness and terminology of sustainability into our budget decisions, program administration and project development. To achieve this, the County of Hawaii will ask questions of relevant projects or policies like: • Does this help move the County of Hawaii toward sustainability (even if incrementally)? • Will elements of this project serve as a potential stepping stone toward other changes or initiatives? • Will increased implementation costs yield savings in the long-run or provide a social or environmental return on investment? BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the County Clerk shall forward copies of this resolution to the Honorable Mayor William Kenoi, the Managing Director, the Corporation Counsel, the Prosecuting Attorney's Office, the Chief of the Hawaii Fire Department, the Chief of the Hawaii Police Department, the Administrator of Civil Defense, the Administrator of Mass Transit Agency, the Administrator of the Office of Housing and Community Development, the Executive of Aging at the Office of Aging, the Immigration Information Specialist, and to the Directors of the following departments: the Department of Data Systems, the Department of Environmental Management, the Department of Finance, the Department of Human Resources, the Department of Liquor Control, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Department of 5