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� housing, despite the economy, by forming partnerships with employers like UNC, UNC Healthcare, Orange County Schools, and with the faith communities. Volunteers are used to keep the costs as low as possible. There were 4,000 volunteers that gave 20,000 volunteer hours in 2010. In 2010, Habitat built its 200th home in Orange County. She gave some more encouraging statistics of the activities from the year. She said that Habitat serves people that are between 30-60% of the area median income. For the upcoming fiscal year, Habitat will be asking for HOME funding to continue to support home building efforts in the Rogers Road community with 50 green-certified homes. They will be looking to the HOME funding to help with pre- development and land acquisition costs for a property currently under contract in the Efland community to build 26 affordable homes. This will be submitted as an application to Orange County soon. Robert Dowling, Executive Director of Community Home Trust, said that he gave an update a couple of weeks ago on what was accomplished recently. The Community Home Trust has two requests for HOME funds. One is for operating funds of $30,000. The Home Trust is not asking for additional funding from the County this year or from anyone else, but the $30,000 will help to augment the operating budget. The second request is for funds to help subsidize homes. This request is for$185,000. He said that the reason this is so high is because of the new housing requirements. A motion was made by Commissioner Hemminger, seconded by Commissioner McKee to close the public hearing. VOTE: UNANIMOUS b. Oranqe County's 2011 Leqislative Aqenda The Board conducted a public hearing on Orange County's potential legislative items for the 2011 North Carolina General Assembly Session and reviewed and discussed potential items for inclusion. Assistant to the County Manager Greg Wilder pointed out the two additional documents at the County Commissioners' places (peach and buff-colored). He said that Chair Pelissier and Commissioner Jacobs served as the Board of County Commissioners representatives to the Legislative Issues Work Group. They met with staff and developed this potential legislative package. On January 20th, the County Commissioners approved an advertisement for the public hearing of this meeting. He went through the materials in the agenda packet. The Manager recommends approval of the three Legislative Matters Resolutions that deal with hunting deer with dogs, Orange/Alamance County Line, and Commissioners' Disclosure; approval of the Statewide Issues Resolution; approval of the items of interest and areas of support documents; and consideration of identifying some issues of focus in the February 28th meeting of the Legislative Delegation. Frank Clifton asked Deputy Clerk David Hunt to come forward with a potential legislative agenda item. David Hunt said that this has been a topic of discussion in many counties statewide and the NCACC is putting this as part of its legislative package. He read the statement, "to seek legislation to protect the privacy of email notification and distribution lists of citizens who have requested electronic communication in local governments." In Orange County, in the past year, a new list tool has been implemented and there are 15 different groups within the County that are using this to communicate with the public. Members of the public request to be on this list voluntarily. As it stands right now, this list of email addresses is a matter of public record and anyone can ask for it (including commercial entities). This legislation would allow the list of names to be available to the public, but it would not be provided electronically or in a printed list.