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� <br /> Chapel Hill-Carrboro Public School Foundation Suki Newton & Kim Hoke <br /> Door to Door of UNC Health Care Joy Javits <br /> Eno Publishers Elizabeth Woodman <br /> Franklin Street Arts Collective dba FRANK Gallery Gordon Jameson <br /> Friends of the Carrboro Branch Library Nerys Levy&Anne Pusey <br /> Grady A. Brown Elementary School PTA Nicole Judice, Fay Jones&Terry Law <br /> Hillsborough Arts Council Heather Delisle <br /> Historical Foundation of Hillsborough &Orange County Darcie Martin <br /> McDougle Elementary School PTA Michele Melet <br /> New Hope Elementary School Judy Bruce, Ann Leck <br /> North Carolina Symphony Rachel Ash <br /> PACE Academy Jane Miller&Christine Norton <br /> Public Arts Office, Town of Chapel Hill Jeff York <br /> Mary Carter Taub Mary Carter Taub <br /> Unified Theater, Inc. Elise Hopkins <br /> b. Update on the Recommendations for pomestic Violence Shelter Service <br /> The Board received an update from The Women's Center on activities underway as a <br /> result of the final report of the Domestic Violence Shelter Work Group of the Commission for <br /> Women in the summer of 2010. <br /> Assistant County Manager Gwen Harvey introduced this item. She said that this is an <br /> official update from this work group on the recommendations for a domestic violence shelter <br /> service. The original report was given to the Board of County Commissioners in June 2010 <br /> and the Board asked for an update in early 2011. She said that the Commission for Women <br /> has not been officially sunset by the Board of County Commissioners, but staffing for this issue <br /> is now being done by the Women's Center in Chapel Hill. She introduced Ann Gerhardt, who <br /> is the Executive Director of the Women's Center in Chapel Hill. <br /> Ann Gerhardt said that her agency was charged to follow up on domestic violence <br /> shelter service. She said that the recommendations were attached to the agenda and it was a <br /> tiered approach. Tier one is to use a virtual approach, which is using hotels for shelter for <br /> victims of domestic violence or sexual assault. Last year approximately 30 hotel nights were <br /> utilized, typically one or two nights at a time. This approach also uses volunteers from the <br /> agencies to accompany clients to the hotel and make sure they are available and on call <br /> during the time that the clients are there and until the time that the client leaves the hotel. She <br /> said that she has met with the Executive Directors of Orange County Family Violence <br /> Prevention Center, Orange County Rape Crisis Center continuously over the last six months to <br /> address all of these issues. Within the last couple of weeks, she has met with Linda Efland <br />