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13 <br /> <br />VOTE: Yeas, 6; Nays, 1 (Commissioner McKee) <br /> <br />7. Reports <br />NONE <br /> <br />8. Consent Agenda <br /> <br />• Removal of Any Items from Consent Agenda <br />Commissioner Price asked to remove items 8-f and 8-h. <br />Commissioner Dorosin asked to remove item 8-b to be read aloud <br /> <br />• Approval of Remaining Consent Agenda <br /> <br />A motion was made by Commissioner McKee, seconded by Commissioner Bedford to <br />approve the remaining items on the Consent Agenda. <br /> <br />VOTE: UNANIMOUS <br /> <br />• Discussion and Approval of the Items Removed from the Consent Agenda <br /> <br />8-b Fair Housing Month Proclamation <br />The Board considered voting to approve a proclamation designating April 2020 as Fair <br />Housing Month in Orange County, North Carolina. <br /> <br /> Commissioner Dorosin read the resolution: <br /> <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS PROCLAMATION <br />FAIR HOUSING MONTH <br /> <br />WHEREAS, April 11, 2020 marked the 52nd anniversary of Title VIII of the Civil Rights <br />Act of 1968 (formally known as the Fair Housing Act) and the 37th <br />anniversary of the North Carolina Fair Housing Act prohibiting <br />discrimination in housing on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, <br />national origin, disability and familial status; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Orange County Board of Commissioners enacted the Orange County <br />Civil Rights Ordinance on June 6, 1994, which affords to the residents of <br />Orange County the protections guaranteed by the Fair Housing Act and <br />additionally encompasses the protected classes of Veteran Status and <br />Age; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Orange County and the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban <br />Development as well as concerned residents and the housing industry <br />are working to make fair housing opportunities possible for everyone by <br />encouraging others to abide by the letter and the spirit of fair housing <br />laws; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development annually <br />declares the month of April as National Fair Housing Month, designating <br />Call HUD: Because Sexual Harassment In Housing is Illegal as the