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Other Business Annette Moore shared with the AHAB board that the Annual Work Plan is due. Ms. Moore suggested to recess the meeting and finish the meeting on Monday, March 20, 2017 so the board could have more input on the Annual Plan. Ms. Moore introduced the board to Renee Holmes as the new staff person assigned to the AHAB board. Ms. Moore discussed the HUD budget and that they would possibly eliminate HOME and CDBG funds. A letter has been sent to David Price about this issue and Home and CDBG will be in the HOUSE budget. Ms. Holmes stated that Orange County is the entitlement community that receives HOME funds from HUD. Each year the partner nonprofits apply for the HOME dollars. Most of the money is used for homeowner assistance, rehabilitation, tenant based rental assistants and acquisitions. The Orange County Home Consortium made recommendations for the awards. The recommendations for the awards are: Habitat for Humanity, $250,000, Rebuilding Together the Triangle, $33,680, Empowerment acquisition for a rental property for $82,000 and the Rehab program for $65,900. These recommendations will go to the BOCC for final approval. Ms. Holmes shared with the board that another funding source is North Carolina Housing Finance Agency. They have a rehabilitation program and we received funding in 2008, 2011, and 2014. She stated that we have been very successful with the NCHFA. The meeting was recessed at 7:15 p.m. until March 20th at 6:00 p.m. in Hillsborough at the Department of Housing Human Rights and Community Development office. Patsy Barbee, Chair, called the meeting called back to order at 6:15 p.m. Ms. Barbee asked if everyone had a chance to look at their Outside Agency packet of information and she explained the scoring process. The board proceeded to score each outside agency. They did scores for Community Home Trust, Empowerment and Habitat for Humanity. The board discussed each one and gave total scores for each agency. Ms. Moore stated that the Affordable Housing Strategic Plan has not been approved by the BOCC. It will be looked at in sections and pass by issues rather than the whole document. The board agreed to make the Affordable Housing Strategic Plan a part of their Annual Work Plan. It was suggested to look at the plan and break it down into sections and discuss as a board. The board discussed goals for the work plan for next year. There was also discussion to have a joint meeting with the Orange County Housing Authority. Ms. Kinnaird stated that she would like to concentrate on rentals and landlords. Ms. Kinnaird made a motion to study rental housing in Orange County and engage various groups that are actively involved in the rental business. The motion was seconded by Noah Oswald and the motion was approved unanimously. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 7:51 p.m. Respectfully submitted: Angela Rockett, Administrative Assistant Annette Moore, Interim Director Housing, Human Rights and Community Development Department