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3 <br /> 1 <br /> APPROVED 12/3/2018 <br /> MINUTES <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> November 8, 2018 <br /> 7:00 p.m. <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 /> COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair ❑orosin 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 /> Chair ❑orosin called the meeting to order at 7:02 p.m. <br /> 1. Presentation on Racial Equity Assessment of Manufactured Housing <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> A student team from ❑r. 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 /> 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 /> 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 /> Orange County Mobile Home Parks: Proposals from a Racial Equity Lens <br /> Shodeah Kelly, Julia Corbett, Ariella Hirsch, Lucas Risinger and Serena Singh <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 /> 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. <br />