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Affordable Housing Advisory Board 300 West Tryon Street Room 250 Hillsborough, NC 27278 Minutes of Tuesday, April 11, 2017 Members Present: Patsy Barbee, Chair; Arthur Sprinczeles, Vice Chair, Noah Oswald, Ellie Kinnaird, Nannie Richmond Excused Absence: N.V. Parlikad, Josh Brown, Tammy Jacobs Unexcused Absence: Adrian Moreno, Alex Nickodem, Daniel Bullock, Staff Present: Annette Moore, Interim Director, Renee Holmes, Housing Program Coordinator and Angela Rockett, Administrative Assistant Welcome/Introduction Patsy Barbee, Chair, called the meeting to order at 6:18 p.m. Approval of Minutes Minutes tabled due to lack of quorum. Departmental/County Reports Annette Moore shared information from her budget meeting she had with the County Manager on April 7, 2017. Ms. Moore is requesting another Housing Rehabilitation Specialist and a Housing Resource Coordinator position. The Housing Resource Coordinator position will work with our community partners on coordinating the rehab work in the county, working with landlords and tenants to increase the number of rentals units available for Affordable Housing. Ms. Moore is asking for $100,000 in displacement funds. These funds will augment the rapid rehousing program to help people who are homeless or almost homeless to get into some kind of housing. Those needs could include down payment assistance, rental assistance, utility payments, and all the things necessary to stabilize them until they can enter the Section 8 program. Also we will be asking for $10,000 for Individual Development Accounts. These funds will help people who are moving from Section 8 to home ownership and we will match their funds up to $1,000. Also the Centre for Homeownership and Economic Development will ask for funds from the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency to match that. This will give the recipient a total of $3,000 towards home ownership. Ms. Moore shared that we will be coordinating with Rebuilding Together of the Triangle and Habitat to leverage funds. Ms. Moore stated they have asked the Board for $200,000 to supplement what they have. They are creating a pool of money to do rehab and critical repairs. They also have $175,000 from the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency to do Essential Single Family Rehabilitation.