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19 • The County’s Rapid Response Team met on March 13, 2018 to review a draft proposal 1 of services for residents of the Homestead Mobile Home Park. A representative from 2 Orange County Schools participated in the meeting to discuss school assignment issues 3 as students move within the District. 4 • On March 17, 2018, staff will met again with the residents of Homestead Mobile Home 5 Park to discuss and evaluate potential options for relocation. 6 • On March 20, staff proposed two options for relocation services and assistance to the 7 Board of Orange County Commissioners. One option would assist residents in locating 8 alternative affordable housing in existing multifamily units dedicated to serving low and 9 very low-income individuals and families. The other options would initiate a contract with 10 Empowerment Inc. to provide Relocation Coordinator Services including serving as a 11 property manager. 12 None of their families opted for option one. They preferred Option 2 and staff is moving forward 13 with option 2. 14 15 Council Member Buansi referred to the meeting in April, and asked if those who will be 16 in attendance can be identified. 17 Sherrill Hampton said there are two groups, with representatives from each of the 18 jurisdictions: the work g roup formed before she got here, and the rapid response team, which 19 includes interdepartmental members, along with representatives from the school districts. 20 Town Council Member Anderson asked if the meeting will include Lakeview. 21 Sherrill Hampton said all mobile park owners will be invited, including the owner of 22 Lakeview. She said she will ask Loryn Clark if the Town would like to invite the developer, and 23 if the park owner is agreeable she will invite the developer. She said the meeting is for the 24 owners. She said staff wants to create a database of these mobile park owners. 25 Town Council Member Anderson asked Sherrill Hampton to elaborate on the 26 collaboration process. 27 Sherrill Hampton said information is shared where each of the jurisdictions are in that 28 process, as well as via a monthly update. 29 Town Council Member Anderson asked if there is any strategic overlap, beyond 30 information sharing. 31 Sherrill Hampton said she received the information from Loryn Clark, and staff is 32 reviewing this. She said she and Loryn Clark have spoken about agreeing upon the protocol of 33 resident engagement. 34 Council Member Anderson said for the future, it would be helpful to know of shared 35 strategies and resources, etc. 36 Sherrill Hampton said the County has shared about the Millhouse property site with the 37 Town of Chapel Hill, which the Town is analyzing. 38 Council Member Parker said this is the first instance of a county-wide rolling problem 39 with this mobile home parks relocation. He asked if there are countywide strategies that could 40 be deployed at specific mobile home parks, rather than looking at each park as an individual 41 entity. He said each park is unique, but there must be common threads through all. He said 42 the current approach seems like a game of ping-pong, and asked if it would be more beneficial 43 to look at this problem countywide. 44 Sherrill Hampton said yes, but both jurisdictions had to analyze the various situations. 45 She said county-wide strategies will grow over time, and Chapel Hill’s processes may be a bit 46 different than those in rural areas. She said resident engagement is crucial in all scenarios, as 47 well as reaching out to developers in the redevelopment process. 48 Loryn Clark said extensive outreach to the mobile home park residents is being 49 completed, which is providing a lot of useful information. 50