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16 <br /> <br />The Board received presentation on the 2017 activities of the Orange County <br />Partnership to End Homelessness (OCPEH) and also review an update to the homeless service <br />system gaps analysis. <br />Allison Demarco, OCPEH Chair, and Corey Root, Homeless Programs Coordinator, <br />reviewed the information below, as well as the OCPEH 2017 report, found in this evening’s <br />packet: <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: <br />The Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness was created in 2008 to coordinate <br />funding and activities to end homelessness in Orange County. OCPEH is jointly funded by <br />Orange County (39%) and the Towns of Carrboro (15%), Chapel Hill (41%), and Hillsborough <br />(5%), with the percentages based on the 2010 Census population counts. <br /> <br />Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness Coordinator Corey Root and OCPEH Board <br />Chair Allison De Marco will provide a brief presentation at the meeting and present the <br />homeless service system gaps analysis. <br /> <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: There is no financial impact associated with receiving the report. <br />In addition to utilizing office space at the Link Government Services Center, OCPEH received <br />$43,096 for FY2017-2018 from Orange County. The total OCPEH budget for FY2017-2018 is <br />$170,502. Contributions from the other jurisdictions, based on the Census population <br />percentages noted above, were: <br />• $45,306 from Chapel Hill <br />• $16,575 from Carrboro, and <br />• $5,525 from Hillsborough <br /> <br />OCPEH is requesting $60,782 in FY2018-2019 from Orange County. The full requested <br />budget is $183,352, with the proposed contributions from the other jurisdictions (based on the <br />Census population percentages noted above) as follows: <br />• $63,899 requested from Chapel Hill <br />• $23,378 from Carrboro, and <br />• $7,793 from Hillsborough <br /> <br />Allison DeMarco highlighted the statistics from the 2017 OCPEH report. <br />Chair Dorosin asked if the Allison DeMarco could clarify the statistic regarding 127 <br />people in Orange County who experienced homelessness on one night. <br />Allison DeMarco said of the 127 people, 35 were unsheltered, meaning they were living <br />in a place not meant for human habitation. <br />Chair Dorosin asked if the remaining people were living in better situations. <br />Allison DeMarco said yes and no. <br />Corey Root said this gets into the definition that HUD uses for homelessness, and the <br />others were in shelters or other transitional housing programs. She said one who is living in a <br />shed would be considered to be living in a place not meant for human habitation, but one who is <br />staying on different friends’ couches every night is not counted as homeless, under the HUD <br />definition. She said this definition really prioritizes the most vulnerable of the vulnerable. <br />Corey Root said there a group called the HOME committee, which meets on a monthly <br />basis and goes through a by name list, of those who have given consent to be on the list, and <br />completes housing case conferencing for each person. She said 21 people on this list were <br />housed in 2017, and 85 total since 2012. <br />Corey Root made the following PowerPoint presentation: