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ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: April t, 2004 Action Agen4a Item No. L}-r; SUBJECT: Substandard Rental Housing Task Force DEPARTMENT: Board of Commissioners PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): Excerpt from AOG Minutes INFORMATION CONTACT: where Task Farce was Approved Clerk's Office, ext. 2130, 2125, 2126, 2129 TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 245-2130 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To consider an appointment to the Substandard Rental Housing Task Force. BACKGROUND: At the September 30, 2003 Orange County Assembly of Governments (AOG) meeting, Carrboro Alderman Jacqueline Gist raised concerns about substandard rental housing. She suggested and the assembly approved a countywide task force with representatives from all three municipalities be established to examine the issue. Tara Fikes, Director of Orange County Housing and Community Development, organized a staff level, pre-Task Force Work Group, which held three meetings to develop background research on the issue. At these meetings, Chapel Mill presented the Chapel Hill rental licensing program and a data base to identify rental properties. This staff work group included representatives appointed by the town managers from Carrboro, Hillsborough, and Chapel Hill. The objective of the pre-Task Force Work Group was to bring information and potential structure back to the BOCC and Town Boards and have the elected officials decide what the charge and composition of the formal, elected-official appointed Task Force would be. Proposed Charge The charge of the Substandard Rental Housing Task Force, as proposed by Carrboro, is to identify the extent of the problem of substandard rental housing in the County, identify the additional resources needed to address the problem and recommend policies and mechanisms to address the issue, The regulations and mechanisms would be presented at a future AOG meeting for discussion..lacquelyn Gist and John Herrera would convene the Task Farce. Because the AOG will not meet again until April, Steve Stewart, Carrboro Town Manager, has requested at this time that each local government appoint an elected official representative to serve on the Substandard Rental Housing Task Farce, FINANCIAL IMPACT: None. RECOMMENDATION(S): Consider making one appointment of an elected official to the Substandard Rental Housing Task Force.