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1 <br /> <br />APPROVED 12/3/2018 <br /> <br />MINUTES <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />November 8, 2018 <br />7:00 p.m. <br /> <br />The Orange County Board of Commissioners met for a work session on Thursday, November 8, <br />2018 at 7:00 p.m. at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill, N.C. <br /> <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Dorosin and Commissioners Mia Burroughs, <br />Mark Dorosin, Barry Jacobs, Mark Marcoplos, Earl McKee, Renee Price and Penny Rich <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: None <br />COUNTY ATTORNEYS PRESENT: John Roberts <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: Deputy County Manager Travis Myren and Clerk to the Board <br />Donna Baker (All other staff members will be identified appropriately below) <br /> <br /> Chair Dorosin called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. <br /> <br />1. Presentation on Racial Equity Assessment of Manufactured Housing <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: <br />A student team from Dr. Allison De Marco's economic justice course in the UNC School of <br />Social Work worked with Commissioner Mia Burroughs, the Board’s representative to the <br />Leadership Team of the Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness (OCPEH), on a <br />racial equity assessment of manufactured housing (mobile homes), which have been an option <br />for affordable housing in Orange County. Using a racial equity toolkit, the team interviewed key <br />stakeholders and developed two proposals: <br /> <br />1) The Towns and Counties could partner to purchase the land of mobile home communities <br />at risk for displacement. <br />2) Relocation of residents of Chapel Hill and Carrboro mobile home parks to other <br />predesignated, town-owned parcels of land. <br /> <br />Both of proposals include measures for ensuring accountability, including conducting follow-up <br />surveys with the Orange County Health Department and the Family Success Alliance <br />throughout the implementation process as well as after the process. <br /> <br />Orange County Mobile Home Parks: Proposals from a Racial Equity Lens <br />Shodeah Kelly, Julia Corbett, Ariella Hirsch, Lucas Risinger and Serena Singh <br /> <br />Executive Summary <br />Orange County, in cooperation with the Towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, seeks a proposal for <br />how to use funds allocated to assist residents of mobile home parks at risk of being displaced <br />by development. We outlined two proposals for the use of these funds and analyze both using a <br />racial equity lens. <br /> <br />The Orange County Health Department and Family Success Alliance conducted a survey of <br />eight mobile home parks in the area and we largely rely on these data in our proposals; in the <br />survey results, it is clear that the residents of the mobile home parks strongly preferred <br />remaining in their homes and communities.