Agenda 04-07-2026; 8-o - FY 2025-26 Memorandum of Understanding Renewal for the Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness (OCPEH)

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3 Memorandum of Understanding between Orange County and the Towns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough: Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness (OCPEH) Whereas, in April 2008, the Orange County Board of Commissioners, Chapel Hill Town Council, Carrboro Town Council , and Hillsborough Board of Commissioners endorsed the Orange County 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness and entered into a memorandum of understanding to fund and support the Plan's implementation by the Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness (OCPEH), and Whereas,the Partnership has made significant progress in ending and preventing homelessness in Orange County, and Whereas, the parties to this Memorandum came together and revised this Memorandum of Understanding in 2015, and Whereas, reflecting a combination of national best practices, national funding models, and local experience, the Orange County 10-Year Plan to End Chronic Homelessness has evolved to become an ongoing program, the Orange County Plan to End Homelessness, and Whereas, the role of the Partnership is to implement Orange County's Plan to End Homelessness and serve as the Continuum of Care for Orange County, and Whereas, the parties to this Memorandum understand the value of this work to each jurisdiction and accordingly intend to continue to fund and support it, and Whereas, the initial 10-Year Plan created a body called the Executive Team, now called the Leadership Team, consisting of representatives appointed from each of the above governmental partners and a cross-section of community representation, charged with providing oversight and direction to the plan, and the parties to this Memorandum intend for the Leadership Team to continue to perform this role, and Whereas, the parties to this Memorandum intend to continue funding the Partnership's Homeless Programs Manager and Housing Access Coordinator, and provide partial funding for the Homeless Programs Coordinator, all of whom have job responsibilities outlined in a Job Description (Attachment A), and Whereas, in order to implement the Plan, the Partnership is providing direct service programs via pass-through funding from other sources, and Whereas, the four elected appointees continue to recommend and serve on the OCPEH Executive Team, which shall consist of the four elected appointees, to ensure that the interests of all four funding jurisdictions are consistently represented;