Comm No 0018.01 - Response - R&D - CA-4 - Amend Section 6-8.3

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precisely meant by "long-term, complex problems." Most every challenge faced by County agencies is long-term and complex, and it would be redundant, inefficient, and impractical for R&D to assume responsibility for such a broad mandate. How CA -4 may Affect CA -3 In our December 3, 2018 memo to the Commission regarding Climate Change responsibilities and CA -3, we provide a possible amendment to Charter Section 6-8,3(b) that largely incorporates the principal concepts in CA -4. Namely, the possible amendment affirms R&D's approach that is emphasized in CA -4 by adding "collaboration and coordination with federal, state, and non-governmental organizations." The possible amendment also affirms R&D's focus on holistic, interdependent issues that is central to CA -4 by adding "environmental, cultural, community, and economic sustainability and resilience" to the R&D mandate, which are currently implied but not explicit. If those concepts in CA -4 are important to the Commission, it could consider those amendments.