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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: June 18, 2019 <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. 8-u <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Approval of a Change in the Meeting Locations for the Affordable Housing <br />Advisory Board (AHAB) <br /> <br />DEPARTMENT: Department of Housing and <br />Community Development <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Attachment 1: Letter Dated May 23, 2019 from <br />AHAB Chair Keith Cook to BOCC <br />Chair Penny Rich <br />Attachment 2: 2019 AHAB Meeting Schedule <br />Attachment 3: AHAB Policies and Procedures <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> Sherrill Hampton, Director, Housing and <br />Community Development, (919) 245-2490 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />PURPOSE: To approve a change to the Affordable Housing Advisory Board’s (AHAB) regular <br />meeting locations to allow the Advisory Board to schedule some of its meetings at various sites <br />throughout the County. <br /> <br />BACKGROUND: A priority of the Advisory Board for the upcoming year is to directly engage <br />with the community on affordable housing issues. To this end, the Advisory Board wants to vary <br />the location of its regularly scheduled monthly meetings to allow for no more than four meetings <br />during FY2019-20 and ongoing to be held at community centers and other public facilities <br />throughout the County. Presently, the AHAB’s Specific Policies and Procedures require that its <br />meeting location rotate between Chapel Hill and Hillsborough (see Attachment 3). A copy of <br />the 2019 AHAB meeting schedule as filed with the County Clerk is also attached (see <br />Attachment 2). On May 23, 2019, AHAB Chair Keith Cook sent a letter to the BOCC formally <br />requesting that the Advisory Board be granted permission to vary the location of its meetings <br />(see Attachment 1). <br /> <br />At its May 14, 2019 meeting, the AHAB discussed its proposed schedule and decided that the <br />Board would like to move its September 10th meeting to the Hargraves Community Center in <br />Chapel Hill and its November 12th meeting to the Efland-Cheeks Community Center in Efland, if <br />space is available at these locations. Additional alternative sites have been identified in case <br />the initial identified locations are not available. The Advisory Board would like to schedule one <br />and possibly two other meetings in 2020 at different locations but will wait until the FY2019-20 <br />meeting schedule is finalized. <br /> <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: The only potential for a negative impact to the County is if there is a cost <br />for any of the additional meeting venues. However, the meeting venue cost should be nominal. <br /> <br />1