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The Manager said that the information would be ready in the morning and faxed to the Commissioners. Rod Visser spoke about the materials that will be presented tomorrow evening at the Capital Needs Advisory Task Force meeting. He said that that Manager's office would do whatever is needed to keep the Board of County Commissioners informed. Chair Halkiotis said that after each meeting of a task force a one-page summary needs to ga out to the Board of County Commissioners of what happened. Chair Halkiotis said that it would be interesting to see a summary of what is happening with affordable hauling in other parts of the country. Commissioner Jacobs said that Triangle J Council of Governments could probably provide this. Commissioner Jacobs made reference to the HUT, {Housing /UNC Task Farce), and said that the idea was that the mayors would get together a few times and then meet with the University officials about affordable housing in Orange County. Commissioner Jacobs spoke about the fact that Commissioner Brown feels that we should have some kind of RFP process (he referred to page 56}. Commissioner Jacobs spoke about weighting the formula. Commissioner Carey said that maybe we should take this particular piece out of this for more consideration because the weighting could change. Commissioner Carey made reference to number seven and haw to keep affordable housing affordable. Commissioner Gordon spoke about the difference between the mobile home parks within the towns and outside the towns. She said that you could infer that probably affordable housing is more of a problem in Carrbaro and Chapel Hill than it is in the unincorporated portions of the County. She envisioned it more as collaboration between the cities and the County and the University. She noticed that the tone of the report focuses more on the County as being the responsible one rather than the collaboration between the cities and the County. Chair Halkiotis asked if the towns were open to the County taking the lead in the affordable housing issue. Commissioner Jacobs said that the towns were open to the County taking the lead, but were also doing their awn thing with affordable housing. Commissioner Carey said that he thinks we can count on the towns to encourage the County to take the lead and to even expect the County to finance mast or all of it. He does not think that we should let what the towns do influence what the County does. He does support collaboration between the County and the Towns. Commissioner Jacobs wants a brief presentation on this report at the meeting next week with Hillsborough so that they know what the County is doing with affordable housing and how Hillsborough can work with the County. Robert Dowling made reference to inclusionary zoning and said that there is a sense that this should be done by all the local jurisdictions. He spoke about how Chapel Hill is very aggressive in enforcing the policy that any rezoning to increase density must include 15°~ affordable units. He said that there was a lot to be done about education and the "not in my backyard" attitude. Commissioner Gordon said that the money has to come from other places than just the County. She feels that the towns need to take some responsibility far funding affordable housing. She sees it as a shared issue between the towns and the County. Commissioner Jacobs suggested that Commissioner Gordon ga to the next task force meeting instead of him. Commissioner Gordon said that she did not want to go if he had been already attending. She will send her comments with Commissioner Brown. Chair Halkiotis made reference to the second task force, Housing/UNC Task Force and said that Commissioner Jacobs would be representing the Chair since Commissioner Jacobs has been working with the Commissioners' Affordable Housing Task Force. John Link said that affordable housing could be brought to the CCC {Coordination and Consultation Committee) because the UNC Chancellor would be in attendance. Commissioner Jacobs said that Commissioner Brawn would also be attending the HUT meetings.