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Housing and Community Development Director Tara Fikes also presented the long-term <br />alternatives as listed below: <br />Lona-Term Alternatives - Fiscal Year 1999-2000 <br />1. A special funding request can be presented to the Carrboro Board of Alderman; the Chapel Hill Town <br />Council; the Hillsborough Town Board; and the Orange County Board of Commissioners to provide funds <br />for housing repairs and administrative costs. <br />2. Ask the Orange County legislative delegation to support the N.C. Housing Trust Fund bill which <br />provides funding to the N.C. Housing Finance Agency for various housing programs including the Urgent <br />Repair Program. <br />3. Ask the Orange County legislative delegation to pursue discretionary funding in the amount of <br />$60,000.00 for this program. <br />4. Some funding may be available during the 1999-2000 fiscal year through the Orange County Bond <br />Program. The Bond Policy approved by the Commissioners in December 1998 targets 33 percent of the <br />funding or $594,000.00 for existing housing programs including such programs as the Urgent Repair <br />Program. <br />5. Some funding may be available from the Orange County HOME Program with the consent of the <br />Consortium members: Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, and Orange County. It should be noted that <br />federal housing funds are difficult to use for this type of program due to the regulatory requirement of <br />repairing housing to meet local housing code standards. <br />6. Some funding may be available from the Chapel Hill CDBG Program upon the approval of the Chapel <br />Hill Town Council. It should be noted that federal housing funds are difficult to use for this type of program <br />due to the regulatory requirement of repairing housing to meet local housing code standards. <br />The Manager recommends concentrating on items 2, 3, and 4 of the short-term alternatives <br />to identify funding for the Urgent Repair Program for the remainder of this fiscal year. Further, County staff <br />will continue to explore long-term funding alternatives and provide a status report of those efforts to the <br />Board on May 4, 1999. <br />Commissioner Brown asked for information on where this money was used. <br />In answer to a question from Commissioner Jacobs, Tara Fikes said that we need $24,000 <br />through June 30, 1999. Commissioner Jacobs stated that he believes that they could use contingency <br />monies to take care of any shortfall. <br />Commissioner Brown suggested using the manager's recommendation short-term and <br />attempt to address Alternatives 2 and 3 with the legislators. <br />A motion was made by Commissioner Brown, seconded by Commissioner Halkiotis to use <br />Alternatives 2, 3, 4 in the short-term, and to receive a status report on May 4, 1999, regarding long-term <br />funding. <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br />f. Woodgreen Subdivision Preliminary Plan <br />The Board considered a preliminary plan for the Woodgreen subdivision located on a 30.7- <br />acre tract in Cheeks Township near the intersection of Dimmocks Mill and Moorfields roads. <br />Planner Karen Lincoln made this presentation. The applicant, Tri-Star, Inc., proposes to <br />subdivide the property (30.7 acres) into 25 new residential lots with an average lot size of 1.03 acres <br />(smallest lot size of 0.92 acre). The proposal includes 11.04 acres, or 36 percent, open space. The <br />property is located in Cheeks Township at the southern intersection of Moorefields Road (SR 1135) and <br />Dimmocks Mill Road (SR 1134). The current zoning is Agricultural Residential (AR) and Upper Eno