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45: "The other situation that we are dealing with is the contract with Triangle Housing Development, Inc. and the rehabilitation in Carrboro using Title XX funds as the local match for the Title XX Grant. 5ti11 another thing is the upcoming Section Eight Housing, where we have a proposal to contract with the Chapel Hill Housing Authority and the County Manager has still another recommendation that we will get into later. Then we have an application to Community Development funds to hire additional work crews to rehabilitate houses in our target areas, that did not get funded this year. I think we have a continued interest in this sort of rehabilitation program. In looking at these four sepa- rate kinds of things and now that they have been accomplished, .it appears to me that we need some mechanism to coordinate this; maybe as a part of County government so that we will have a better idea pf what kind of~housing activities are going on within the County and better control on scheduling the work so that in dealing with the public they will have a better idea df.how this is going. This dovetails into Item XVIII on the Agenda. My recommendation will be that we bring the entire housing effort into the community development effort, since Chapel Hill is tied into housing so that we can use the extising Task Force as a Citizen Advisory Group for Housing and Community Development. We might want to consider also the entire housing authority concept. This Board is being enpowered to make the Housing Authority for the County so at some point, we could appoint or name a separate Housing Authority as we get more and more involved in housing." Discussion ensued. Chairman Garrett proposed a six person group to see that allocations were properly distributed. Commissioner Gustaveson inquired of what legal framework would be needed and no one was able to reply to this question. Commissioner Whitted suggested that someone from the Housing Authority be invited to address this matter befoxe the Commissioners. Upon motion of Commissioner Gustaveson, seconded by Commissioner Whitted, it was moved and adapted to invite Mr. Purcell to lay out for the Commissioners information for the establishing of a separate Housing Authority on the third Tuesday regular meeting. Chairman Garrett referred to Item XVII: Section Eight Housing: The Contract between the CountyHousing Authority and the Chapel Hill Housing Authroty to implement Section Eight Housing in Orange County was modified by the Chapel Hill Housing Authority at its last meeting. These modifications add two additional features to the pro- posed contract: A. A sixty day cancellation provision by either party. B. A section clarifying the administrative relationship between employees of the Section Eight Program and the Chapel Hill Housing Authority. The County Managers recommends these modifications be accepted. Upon motion of Commissioner Gustaveson, seconded by Commissioner Whitted, it was moved and adopted that Orange County accept the Contract between Orange County Housing Authority and the Chapel Hill Housing Authority with the understanding that Subsection A and B would be included in the contract. The Chairman referred to Item XVIII - The County Manager recommends the Board of Commissioners approve a new position, Section Eight Program Administrator, in pay grade 69 at Step I ($11,676). Funds to pay this salary will be recoverable from the Section Eight Project. Upon motion of Commissioner Whitted, seconded by Commissioner Gustaveson, it was moved and adopted that the County Manager be authorized to proceed with the hiring of a Section Eight 'Program Administrator. Commissioner Pinney stated that he had problems with bringing someone an County payroll who was under the jurisdiction of another governmental unit.