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z. Alamance County/Orange County Boundary Line Resolution This item was removed and placed at the end of the consent agenda for separate consideration. VOTE ON CONSENT AGENDA: UNANIMOUS ITEMS REMOVED FROM CONSENT AGENDA: m. Orange County Small Business Loan Pool The Board considered approving bylaw provisions pertaining to directors for the Orange County Small Business Loan Program (revised to include Orange County Financial Services Director as the eighth voting Board Member). Chair Jacobs asked about the timetable and next steps to put this into action. Willie Best said that the next steps are to formulate the committee, then the committee will look at the applications received. A motion was made by Chair Jacobs, seconded by Commissioner Foushee to approve bylaw provisions pertaining to directors for the Orange County Small Business Loan Program (revised to include Orange County Financial Services Director as the eighth voting Board Member). VOTE: UNANIMOUS o. Memorandum of Understanding — Partnership to End Homelessness The Board considered approving a Memorandum of Understanding with the Executive Team for the Partnership to End Homelessness and authorizing the Chair to sign pending final review and approval by the County Attorney. Commissioner Gordon said that she is generally supportive of this. She asked about the execution of this, and said that when this was discussed before, her understanding was that Orange County was going to provide overhead needs to begin with and then in subsequent years, it would be prorated with other entities. She said that she did not see this stated. Housing and Community Development Director Tara Fikes said that the overhead was combined with all other operating expenses. She said that the arrangement is for one year, and every year the costs will be assessed. All entities will share the operating expenses. A motion was made by Commissioner Gordon, seconded by Commissioner Carey to approve a Memorandum of Understanding with the Executive Team for the Partnership to End Homelessness and authorize the Chair to sign, pending final review and approval by the County Attorney, with the understanding that the operating expenses will be shared by all entities. VOTE: UNANIMOUS Orange County Housing Bond Program Policy Amendment The Board considered a proposed amendment to the Orange County Housing Bond Policy to amend the definition of eligible applicants to include for-profit organizations. Commissioner Gordon said that, for the current bond program, there were statements indicating there was some difficulty in getting this money allocated when only non-profits were included. She asked if this policy was just for that bond program and Tara Fikes said yes. Commissioner Gordon said that she will go forward with this, but she is a little uneasy with for-profits being involved and if the profit would come from County dollars.