Agenda 06-18-19 Item 8-a - Minutes

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15 through the support of all local entities, as well as partner organizations, EmPowerment’s 1 affordable rental inventory will rise to at least 57 units by the end of the next fiscal cycle. 2 Commissioner Price referred to the list of community development priorities, and asked 3 if “clearance and revitalization” could be made a higher priority within this generally low priority 4 area. 5 Commissioner Price said in the homelessness category, she would like to stress the 6 importance of keeping families together whenever possible. 7 Sherrill Hampton said 2015 Consolidated Plan was completed before she worked for the 8 County, and the Housing Department will be working with the collaborative and making the RFP 9 in the fall, which can look at all of the information that came out of MAP and other data sources. 10 Commissioner Dorosin said he is the BOCC representative on the HOME committee, 11 and gave kudos to Sherrill Hampton. 12 Commissioner Dorosin called out EmPowerment as an exemplary service provider, and 13 said the Board set priorities, and one in particular was affordable rental housing. He said 14 Empowerment is the provider that has really been able to provide direction and resources for 15 rental housing. He said this is difficult and expensive, but crucial, work. He said EmPowerment 16 is becoming a Certified Housing Development Organization (CHDO), which is an intensive 17 process. He said EmPowerment is the only organization to take on this process, and it will 18 bring additional resources to this work. 19 Commissioner Dorosin said the TBRA program is targeted at rental housing, and the 20 rapid re-housing is a tremendous gap in addressing the issue of homelessness. He said there 21 is so much work yet to do, but he is thrilled to see the County focusing on the most critical 22 needs. 23 Commissioner Greene said Corey Root is a doing a tremendous job at the 24 homelessness program coordinator, and in these past two months there have been 9 people 25 moved from homelessness to housing. 26 Sherrill Hampton said the Board has allowed staff and their partners to be innovative, 27 and not many places have local vouchers like Orange County does. She said Orange County 28 has the cooperation and opportunities to enhance this creativity. 29 Chair Rich echoed the comments already made. She said the local voucher program 30 will be a great story to promote, as Orange County can be a leader in this realm. 31 32 A motion was made by Commissioner Greene, seconded by Commissioner Bedford to 33 close the Public Hearing. 34 35 VOTE: UNANIMOUS 36 37 6. Regular Agenda 38 a. 2020 Census Complete Count Committee 39 The Board considered establishing a 2020 Census Complete Count Committee 40 consisting of a group of community volunteers and local government elected officials and staff 41 dedicated to increasing awareness and motivating residents to respond to the 2020 Census. 42 Todd McGee, Community Relations Director, presented this item: 43 44 BACKGROUND: The United States Census is conducted every 10 years as directed by the 45 U.S. Constitution. With more than 300 million people in the United States, the U.S. Census 46 Bureau cannot conduct the census alone and encourages communities to create a local 47 Complete Count Committee (CCC). 48 49