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Affordable Housina Commissioner Brown feels that now is a great opportunity to develop along-range affordable housing plan. She said that she asked Housing and Community Development Director Tara Fikes to develop a draft plan. She made reference to the proposed affordable housing summit scheduled for March 15tH Commissioner Halkiotis said that the issue of repayment of appreciated value has not been addressed sufficiently. Commissioner Jacobs would like to have an advisory board that includes representatives from the various stakeholders including the elderly and handicapped. Commissioner Brown suggested appointing the advisory board after the summit. Commissioner Brown and Commissioner Jacobs will meet as an ad hoc committee to finalize the proposed affordable housing summit and came up with a framework for consideration of the applications which were tabled with the idea that the framework would be developed to identify the information the Board needs from the applicant. John Link said that he would be meeting soon with Geoffrey Gledhill and Tara Fikes to develop a clear rationale for the equity of the subsidy repayment. Commissioner Gordon feels that the Board should solve the problem of how to ensure long-term affordability before the applications are considered. The Board decided to adopt along-term housing affordability policy before considering any other projects. Commissioner Jacobs asked that the Communication goal and the charge to the Solid Waste Advisory Board be on one of the next two meeting agendas. He is also concerned about an outreach plan for the Comprehensive Land Use Plan. 5. WaterlSewer Boundary Task Force Chair Carey and Commissioner Gordon reviewed the Water and Sewer Boundary Agreement and identified the major outstanding issues. Chair Carey and Commissioner Gordon did not have an opportunity to meet with the Hillsborough Town Board. Chair Carey said that no decisions would be made until the Hillsborough Town Board and OWASA considered this agreement. Commissioner Gordon said that her initial position was to support the original agreement. She suggested that the Board review the document and come up with something that the Commissioners could support. The County Commissioners decided to go through the document and discuss the parts that have been changed. Commissioner Brown asked why Chapel Hill and Carrboro were deleted from the bottom of page eight regarding the adherence to boundaries. Commissioner Jacobs said that the Board prefers that any extension of lines or service into Chatham County should have the approval of Orange County, Chatham County, and OWASA. He said that he would be willing to settle for Orange County, Chatham County, OWASA, and the appropriate jurisdiction on that side of the line. Commissioner Gordon made reference to the bottom of page 13 where the statement, "or serve another essential public facility" was added. She said that the issue was the perception of what might lead to sprawl. Chair Carey said that a lot of time was spent an this issue and it had to do mainly with the placement of schools. Commissioner Jacobs clarified that it was not that the lines were going to be extended to serve a public facility, it was whether the line that was extended to address an adverse public health condition would be sized so as to prohibit even a public facility from having access to it. He said that the next item, E, was saying that the Board's preference was to have these facilities sited where public facilities were readily available.