Minutes-06-20-2023-Business Meeting

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19 the Board from the $5.7 million. She said the proposals will be scored based on the criteria adopted by the Board a couple of years ago. She said if there is no interest in the land, then the recommendation would be to sell the land and put the money of the sale to affordable housing. Commissioner Greene asked that the Board get to review the criteria for the $5 million bond again before they decide that is what will be used. She asked if any elected people would have an opportunity to look at the RFP before it goes out. Bonnie Hammersley said it would require a delay in the process but if the Board would like to do that, it is fine. Commissioner Greene said she does not want to slow down the process and asked what the RFP will say. Bonnie Hammersley said they can share it with the Board. Erika Cormack said they were being intentional about when they hope to put the RFP out due to staff capacity, so they had planned for that. Commissioner Fowler asked how they would add up the column for income targeted units. Chair Bedford said it is prorated in the orange. She said that it would show the points and do a sum. Bonnie Hammersley said the criteria and the points were determined by the Board. Commissioner Fowler said it seems like more points should be considered for local residency. Bonnie Hammersley said there was a discussion at the time and there was an issue that they might not accept someone that was not in Orange County and would move to Orange County. She said it was a legal discussion at the time. John Roberts said there is a problem with only allowing Orange County residents access. He said it is an equity problem. He said that a points criterion was discussed for local residents and that might have been workable. Vice-Chair McKee said his understanding is the RFP is a request from the county to providers for proposals. He said that the providers would then respond and then the RFPs will go to a group for scoring and the points would be used to score the responses to the RFP. Commissioner Greene said that maybe there is not time for the Board to review the RFP and the scoring, but she had an issue that there was no attention to transportation. Commissioner Fowler said there are five points allocated for that issue. Commissioner Greene said there are people who do not live in Orange County who would like to be in Orange County, so she is not troubled by the 5 points for that. PUBLIC COMMENT: Delores Bailey, executive director of Empowerment Inc, said Empowerment has been around since 1996. She said that they are building affordable housing with the Peach Project and the land is being partially conveyed by Chapel Hill. She said that Peach is on Johnson St. and three of those properties are on the corner of Johnson St. and would be perfect for Peach #2. She said that Empowerment has also been given an option of an 8-10 acre property and there are currently five homes on the lots. She said there is potential for more diversity and affordable housing. She said this is an amazing time for this to be happening. She said that her concentration will be rentals from 30% to 80% AMI. She said this is going to be an amazing opportunity. Chair Bedford said the Board of Commissioners did not go with the recommendations from the advisory groups because they were looking more for the lower in the 30% AMI. She said these criteria isn't good enough because she'd like to prioritize the number of units that are 30% AMI. She said she would allocate another 30 points for that. She said some of the Towns are doing 60% AMI, but they say it is up to the county. She said she is a parent of a special needs adult, and those populations need additional points. She said that should be the priority. She said