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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: April 3, 2001 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. IO-c. <br /> SUBJECT: Commissioners Affordable Housing Task Force Report <br /> DEPARTMENT: Housing/CD PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Tara L. Fikes, ext 2490 <br /> Executive Summary <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br /> Hillsborough 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br /> Durham 688-7331 <br /> Mebane 336-227-2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To receive the report of the Commissioners Affordable Housing Task Force. <br /> BACKGROUND: In April 2000, the BOCC created the Commissioners Affordable Housing <br /> Task Force to investigate and analyze information and problems, and recommend strategies <br /> and policies, to assist the County Commissioners in formulating a comprehensive, long-range <br /> vision of decent and affordable housing in Orange County. Commissioners Margaret Brown <br /> and Barry Jacobs served as Co-Chairs for this Task Force. <br /> The results of these deliberations were presented as a Preliminary Report to the BOCC at its <br /> March 13 work session. Comments received at that meeting and a subsequent full Task Force <br /> meeting on March 28 have been considered in the further development of the Final Task Force <br /> Report. <br /> FINANCIAL IMPACT: No immediate financial impact. <br /> RECOMMENDATION(S): The Manager recommends that the Board of County <br /> Commissioners: <br /> a. Provide comments regarding the Preliminary Report; <br /> b. Approve the Executive Summary of the Report and forward it to the Capital Needs <br /> Advisory Task Force; and <br /> c. Receive the Final Report at the end of April 2001 after incorporation of final <br /> comments from the Board and Task Force. <br />