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25 <br />Page 1 of 2 <br />James Eichel <br />Volunteer Application <br />Orange County Advisory Boards and Commissions <br />Name: <br />Name Called: <br />Home Address <br />Phone (Day): <br />Phone (Evening): <br />Phone (Cell): <br />Email: <br />Place of Employment: <br />Job Title: <br />Year of OC Residence <br />Township of Residence: <br />Zone of Residence: <br />Sex: <br />Ethnic Background <br />Mr. James Eichel <br />621 Tinkerbell Road <br />Chapel Hill NC 27517 <br />919 818 7622 <br />919 818 7622 <br />919 818 7622 <br />jimeichel @gmail.com <br />Community Home Trust <br />Construction Manager <br />1979 <br />Chapel Hill <br />Male <br />wh ite <br />Community Activities /Organizational Memberships: <br />Knights of Columbus /St. Thomas More Catholic Church <br />Assistant Basketball Coach, YMCA Girls Youth Basketball (age 7) <br />Past Service on Orange County Advisory Boards: <br />None <br />Boards /Commissions applied for: <br />Affordable Housing Advisory Board <br />Background, education and experience relevant to this board: <br />Educated in Civil Engineering and Construction Management; served in the USArmy Corps of <br />Engineers (Veteran); over 30 years experience in construction project and company <br />management, including both commercial and residential components; served as a housing code <br />enforcement officer for the Town of Chapel Hill; managed 54 low income rental housing <br />dwellings in Orange County for CASA (2011- 2015); currently serve as the Construction Manager <br />for Community Home Trust (255 affordable single family trust homes, where improvements <br />only are owned by the occupants, and 58 low income rental apartments located at The <br />Landings at Winmore in Carrboro - have sustainability oversight responsibility). <br />Reasons for wanting to serve on this board: <br />Many of our constituents, live and work in Orange County, only because there is a source of <br />housing that makes it affordable for them to do so. Many have been homeless or disabled, <br />some for many years, and the opportunity to have a key and a place to call home provides the <br />self esteem that many take for granted. I believe being an advocate for affordable housing is an <br />honor and a responsibility. <br />Conflict of Interest: <br />If there was any funding provision for which the Board convened to consider an award, and it <br />related to Community Home Trust s mission, I would recuse myself. I would also be open to <br />recusing myself for any other real or perceived concern of the Board. <br />