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Affordable Housing Advisory Board 300 West Tryon Street Room 250 Hillsborough, NC 27278 Tuesday, December 13, 2016 Minutes Members Present: Patsy Barbee, Chair; Nannie Richmond, Tammy Jacobs, Joshua Brown, Narayanan Venkatakrishnan Palikad and Noah Oswald Excused Absence: Arthur Sprinczeles, Eleanor Kinnaird, Daniel Bullock, Alex Nickodem Unexcused Absence: Adrian Moreno, Kolby Herndon Staff Present: Audrey Spencer - Horsley, Director and Angela Rockett, Administrative Assistant Welcome /Introduction The AHAB Chair Patsy Barbee, called the meeting to order at 6:12 pm. Approval of Minutes Minutes were tabled due to lack of quorum. Department /County Report Audrey Spencer - Horsley discussed the priorities the Board of Orange County Commissioners (BOCC) approved for income targets for the use of county funds for county owned land and the bond approved by referendum in November 2016. She provided copies of the income targets and scoring criteria. She advised that the BOCC decided not to have a CAP for each income category except for households with incomes over 60% to 80 %; a 20% cap on funds was established. She also discussed the evaluation criteria that was revised and updated from the previous bond criteria. She reviewed the scoring process that will be used for project proposals for the bond funding. The greatest number of points is for projects that provide affordable housing for people at the lowest incomes and with special needs. Some of the criteria the BOCC discussed as important were universal design and accessibility to basic services, energy efficiency and access to transportation. The BOCC also wanted to make sure that people in the rural area of the county have an opportunity to be assisted. Community systems in rural areas will be added to points to be given in the scoring process. The AHAB discussed the criteria and asked questions including community design which address for example the quality of appearance and impact on the environment. The BOCC would like to see mixed incomes and types of housing throughout the county. An applicant must meet a minimum score and have points in each category. Ms. Spencer - Horsley informed the AHAB about the role of the AHAB in the project approval process and that two members of the AHAB would serve on the project selection evaluation team. There will be a staff technical team and two members from AHAB that will provide recommendations to the BOCC through the county manager to forward to the BOCC for consideration of approval. She stated that the