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APPROVED 1 01912 0 0 7 <br />Orange County Board of County Commissioners {BOCC) <br />Orange County Affordable Housing Advisory Board {ARAB) <br />.IOINT WORK SESSION <br />Thursday, August 30, 2007 <br />5:30 pm {Dinner) <br />6:00 pm {Meeting begins) <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a Joint Work Session with the <br />Orange County Affordable Housing Advisory Board (ARAB) on Thursday, August 30, 2007 at <br />5:30 p.m. in the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Moses Carey, Jr. and Commissioners <br />Valerie Foushee, Alice M. Gordon, and Barry Jacobs <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Mike Nelson <br />COUNTY ATTORNEY PRESENT: Brian Ferrell <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager Laura Blackmon, Assistant County <br />Managers Willie Best and Gwen Harvey, and Clerk to the Board Donna Baker (All other staff <br />members will be identified appropriately below) <br />ARAB BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT: Chair Martha Hoyleman, Vice-Chair Artie Franklin, <br />and members Barbara Mull, Ida Ballard, Rashii Purefoy, Gary Gaddy, and Jabrina Robinson <br />ARAB BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT: Vivian Herndon-Latta, Steven Clemens, Alejandro <br />Hansen <br />HOUSINGICOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT STAFF PRESENT: Tara Fikes <br />NOTE: ALL DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO IN THESE MINUTES ARE IN THE <br />PERMANENT AGENDA FILE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE <br />Introductions and Opening Comments <br />Introductions were made. <br />Chair Carey said that Commissioner Nelson was out of town. <br />II. Orange County Housing Authority Proposal <br />Housing and Community Development Director Tara Fikes said that last fall <br />Commissioners Jacobs and Foushee met with a few local housing non-profit directors to <br />discuss various issues, such as interest in utilizing housing bond money for land banking. <br />There was some concern about the County acquiring property because of the State laws <br />regarding disposition of property. The conversation then turned to using a legal entity, The <br />Orange County Housing Authority, as the entity that could acquire land and hold it for <br />development. The group has been investigating the possibility of using the housing authority for <br />land banking. After some research, she found that a resolution of the Orange County Board of <br />Commissioners was passed in 1969 declaring a need for a housing authority. She distributed a <br />copy of the minutes from September 2, 1969. The resolution also declared that the members of <br />the Board of County Commissioners were the members of the housing authority. In December <br />