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Affordable Housing Advisory Board Whitted Building 300 West Tryon Street, Room 250 Hillsborough, NC 27278 Minutes Tuesday, August 9, 2016 Members Present: Patsy Barbie, Chair, Arthur Sprinczeles, Vice Chair; Eleanor Kinnaird; Noah Oswald; Nannie Richmond; Diane Beecham and Keith Cook Excused Absence: Tammy Jacobs Unexcused Absence: None Staff Present: Audrey Spencer - Horsley, Director; and Angela Rockett, Administrative Assistant, Alicia Jones; Housing Program Manager Guest: Corey Root; Orange County Homeless Program Coordinator, Tara May, Intern Orange County Homeless Program and Kolby Herndon Welcome /Introduction The AHAB Chair Patsy Barbee, called the meeting to order at 6:24 pm. Approval of Minutes Correction: Kolby Herndon was listed in the April and May minutes as unexcused member and is not a member. Kolby was a guest. Noah Oswald made a motion to approve the minutes of April 12, 2016 and Nannie Richmond seconded the motion. Mr. Oswald made a motion to approve the minutes of May 17, 2016 and the minutes were approved unanimously. Speaker Audrey Spencer - Horsley introduced Corey Root from Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness. Ms. Root explained that the Partnership to End Homelessness is funded by the county and the three municipalities. The partnership does a number of things including Project Connect. She explained the Outreach Court program which is a therapeutic court that is for people that are homeless or displaced. It helps people get connected to services and get them in housing. There are not many communities that have this program. They are working towards more collaboration and standardization pieces to figure out the gaps in the system and addressing those gaps. The goal is to put people in permanent housing as quick as possible and that is why affordable housing is needed. They have been doing a number of trainings with the communities. Ms. Root stressed the need to have a lot of people on board to make the program work.