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MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF SOCIAL SERVICES <br />October 15, 2018 <br /> <br />1 <br /> <br />THE ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF SOCIAL SERVICES MET ON MONDAY: October 15, 2018 at the <br />Hillsborough Commons, Hillsborough, North Carolina. <br /> <br />BOARD OF SOCIAL SERVICES MEMBERS PRESENT: Tamara Dempsey-Tanner, Ann Wilkerson, Susie <br />Enoch and Pat Garavaglia. <br /> <br />GUEST: None. <br /> <br />BOARD OF SOCIAL SERVICES MEMBERS ABSENT: Earl McKee. <br /> <br />STAFF PRESENT: Nancy Coston, Director; Sharron Hinton, Human Services Manager; Lindsey Shewmaker, <br />Human Services Manager; and Crystal Mitchell, Human Services Manager. <br /> <br />I. Call to Order and Introductions <br /> <br />DSS Chair, Tamara Dempsey-Tanner, called the meeting to order at 4:03 pm. <br /> <br />II. Board Comments <br /> <br />Pat Garavaglia asked that an update on the Huesner Fund be added to an upcoming meeting agenda. <br /> <br />III. Public Comments <br /> <br />None. <br /> <br />IV. Agenda Changes <br /> <br />The Hurricane Florence Response and Recovery was moved to first. <br /> <br />V. Action Items <br /> <br />On a motion by Pat Garavaglia, the Board approved the minutes of August 20, 2018. Ann Wilkerson <br />seconded the motion. The motion was carried without dissent. <br /> <br />VI. Items for Discussion and/or Decision <br /> <br />1. Hurricane Florence Response and Recovery <br /> <br />Lindsey Shewmaker gave the Board an overview of the agency’s initial response to Hurricane <br />Florence. Two shelters were opened prior to the arrival of the storm, one at Smith Middle School in <br />Chapel Hill and the other at Stanford Middle School in Hillsborough. At the highest, the shelter <br />census for Smith reached about 160 residents and the census for Stanford reached about 60 <br />residents. Once the initial shelters closed, additional flooding caused a new shelter to open at <br />Hillsborough Commons to accommodate Orange County residents displaced by flooding. <br /> <br />Sharron Hinton provided an overview of the recovery process from Hurricane Florence. Eight <br />families were identified as having no other housing alternative when the Friday Center shelter <br />closed. These eight families were provided with hotel accommodations paid by DSS. Five of the <br />eight families were from the Camelot Apartment community. Currently, two of the families have <br />located new housing (apartments) and one family has identified housing to move into next week.