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18 <br /> Slide#6 <br /> Staff propose tight timeline to <br /> distribute funds & land quickly <br /> RFP Release: July 10, 2023 <br /> -Application Works hop(s): July 10- July 21, 2023 <br /> -Applications Due: August 31, 2023 <br /> -Application Review: September 2023 <br /> • BOCC Considers Award Recommendations for <br /> Funding and Land: October 2023 <br /> Project Kickoff: November 2023 <br /> 0 RAN GE COUNTY <br /> �► HOUSINGDEPAHT111111M <br /> Slide#7 <br /> Manager recommendations <br /> 1) Receive and approve the timeline to <br /> release Request for Proposals (RFP) for <br /> use of County bond funds and CIP funds <br /> for affordable housing projects <br /> 2) Approve and authorize the Chair to sign <br /> the resolution (Attachment 3) declaring <br /> eleven (11 ) County owned parcels as <br /> surplus land for the purposes of affordable <br /> housing COUNTY <br /> i� HOUSING USING dEPA"MEN <br /> Chair Bedford asked if the land could be given away. <br /> John Roberts said the land could be sold for essentially nothing, or $1, or a negotiated <br /> amount. He said that most county property is owned by the taxpayers so it can't be given away. <br /> He said that a nonprofit could be an exception because they would be carrying out the work of <br /> the government on that land. He said that this would be a sale and how it is structured could be <br /> for nothing or have other requirements attached to it. <br /> Chair Bedford asked how this will work. <br /> Bonnie Hammersley said staff will put out an RFP and a non-profit may come in with a <br /> proposal to build a duplex. She said they would identify a property and then request funding from <br />