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ELEMENT <br />REF # <br />EJ <br />IMPLEMENTATION ACTION <br />AGENCY <br />TIME <br />2022 UPDATE <br />FRAME <br />Community <br />1.1 <br />Yes <br />Engage EJ communities on recreation and cultural <br />PRCSA/ <br />2023 <br />In 2022, Parks, Recreation and Community Services Agency (PRCSA) established <br />programs. Incorporate community stakeholders from <br />PBA <br />and will continue to hold event planning committees for Juneteenth, Chicano <br />environmental justice communities to form an <br />Heritage Festival, Mid -Autumn Festival and Indigenous Peoples Day in an effort <br />Environmental Justice Action Committee to guide the <br />to receive feedback from the community for recreational and cultural programs. <br />identification of recreational and cultural programing <br />PRCSA is collaborating with Environmental Justice (EJ) neighborhoods and non - <br />needs and desires. <br />profit organizations for several cultural programs. <br />Community <br />1.2 <br />Yes <br />Community conversation. Plan for and conduct a <br />CMO <br />Every <br />Held preliminary discussions about working with the EJ ad hoc committee, once <br />community survey every two years related to community <br />two <br />it is formed, to identify priority areas to develop and capture for a community - <br />health, pollution concerns, parks, community <br />years <br />based survey model. <br />engagement, and community service needs, with focused <br />outreach to environmental justice priority areas utilizing <br />various platforms, such as social media and school events, <br />to encourage substantial survey participation. <br />Community <br />1.3 <br />Yes <br />Collaboration. Develop intentional, strategic partnerships <br />PBA/ <br />2022- <br />City staff established partnerships with Orange County Health Care Agency <br />with public, private, and nonprofit entities to improve <br />PRCSA <br />2024 <br />(OCHCA), Orange County Environmental Justice (OCEJ), and the University of <br />health outcomes by leveraging capacity, resources, and <br />California, Irvine (UCI), to seek out funding/grants to further studies and <br />programs around mutually beneficial initiatives that <br />remediation projects related to lead pollution. During 2022, City staff began <br />promote health, equity, and sustainability in <br />collaborating with UCI EcoGovLab and Madison Park Neighborhood Association <br />neighborhoods within environmental justice area <br />GREEN (MPNA GREEN) to present EJ updates at neighborhood meetings and to <br />boundaries. Develop a comprehensive partnership policy <br />prepare for EJ stakeholder meetings regarding Department of Justice (DOJ) <br />providing guidelines that can be used throughout the City <br />Grant Studying Vehicle Air Emissions on high traffic corridors in Santa Ana. <br />organization. <br />Community <br />1.4 <br />Yes <br />Community coordination on underutilized spaces. <br />PBA/ <br />2022 & <br />Ongoing discussion with Davis Elementary School (located in a Park Master Plan <br />Coordinate with community residents, property owners, <br />PRCSA <br />ongoing <br />park gap area) to identify possible acquisition of land for park development. <br />and other stakeholders to identify vacant and potentially <br />Created internal open space forum to foster regular interagency discussion <br />underutilized properties and strategize how such <br />about potential open space acquisition. <br />properties could be repurposed into public parks or <br />commercial recreation facilities. <br />City Council 8 — 31 3/21/2023 <br />