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28 Collaborative, comprised of one (1) elected official and staff members from Orange County, the 1 Town of Carrboro, Town of Chapel Hill and Town of Hillsborough reviewed the applications 2 received and made recommendations regarding funding for consideration by local elected 3 officials in May 2018 as follows: 4 5 Community Home Trust -- Homeowner Assistance $ 60,201.00* 6 Empowerment, Inc. – Rental Acquisition $145,000.00 7 Habitat for Humanity – Homeownership $ 60,000.00 8 Orange County – Housing Rehabilitation $ 49,211.00 9 Orange County – County-wide TBRA $150,402.00 10 Administration $ 40,134.00 11 Total $504,948.00 12 (*-Denotes Orange County HOME Consortium’s CHDO Set-Aside) 13 14 See Attachment 2 for a revised summary description of the aforementioned projects and their 15 geographic locations. In addition, on May 22, 2018, the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service 16 (IFC) submitted a written request to withdraw its application for FY2018-2019 HOME funding. 17 IFC will no longer serve as the contract provider for the Rapid Re-Housing Program. Orange 18 County will assume responsibility once again for the program. The Housing and Community 19 Development Department will collaborate with the Orange County Department of Social 20 Services (DSS) to directly provide these services. DSS was the applicant for the funding 21 received under the Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG). The Collaborative voted to accept IFC’s 22 request to withdraw its application and awarded those funds to Orange County as the County 23 will assume responsibility for providing the Rapid Re-Housing Program. 24 25 The requested amounts above may still be adjusted based on the exact allocation the HOME 26 Consortium receives from HUD. 27 28 The FY 2018-2019 Annual Action Plan will be submitted to HUD on or before July 2, 2018. This 29 Public Hearing is one of three (3) public hearings held as a part of Orange County’s 30 engagement of residents concerning local housing and community developments needs and 31 the HOME Program. For a proposed revised timeline of the complete process, see Attachment 32 3. 33 In order to inform the general public of this opportunity and encourage participation, notice of 34 the public hearing and locations at which the public can review a draft of the revised proposed 35 Annual Action Plan have been placed in The Herald-Sun, News of Orange and La Noticia, as 36 well as sent to public libraries, local non-profit agencies and placed on Orange County’s 37 website. 38 39 Sherrill Hampton said the InterFaith Council (IFC) submitted a letter in May, asking that 40 its previous application for funds to be withdrawn. She said, since the County was assuming 41 control of the program again, she asked the Collaborative to allow the $25,000 to roll in to the 42 funds designated for countywide, tenant based, rental assistance. She said the Collaborative 43 concurred with that request, and that is the major change seen here. 44 Sherrill Hampton said a very minor change was also made. She said every year, under 45 HOME, the consortium is required to set aside 15% of the funds (minus administrative costs) 46 received to community housing development organizations (CHDO). She said Community 47 Home Trust is a CHDO, and she said the collaborative voted to accept their recommendation to 48 increase their award to $60,201, which takes care of the required set aside for the CHDO. 49 50