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1 <br />APPROVED 5-4-92 <br />MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY ASSEMBLY OF GOVERNMENTS <br />APRIL 1, 1992 <br />The Orange County Assembly of Governments meeting was held on <br />Wednesday, April 1, 1992 at 6:00 p.m. at the Homestead Community <br />Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Moses Carey, Jr., and <br />Commissioners Alice M. Gordon, Verla C. Insko and Don Willhoit. <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONER ABSENT: Stephen H. Halkiotis <br />BOARD OF ALDERMEN PRESENT: Mayor Eleanor G. Kinnaird and <br />Aldermen Jay Bryan, Hilliard Caldwell, Jacquelyn M. Gist, Tom <br />Gurganus and Frances Shetley. <br />CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL PRESENT: Mayor Kenneth S. Broun and <br />Council Members Julie M. Andresen, Joyce Brown, Mark Chilton, Joe <br />Herzenberg, Alan E. Rimer, Arthur S. Werner and Roosevelt <br />Wilkerson, Jr. <br />HILLSBOROUGH BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Allen A. Lloyd, <br />Evelyn Lloyd, Carol Lorenz and Robert M. Rose. <br />Chair Moses Carey, Jr. made introductory remarks. Mayors <br />Broun and Kinnaird welcomed everyone to the meeting. <br />AFFORDABLE HOUSING DISCUSSION <br />Tara Fikes, Director of Housing and Community Development for <br />Orange County stated that providing affordable housing is very <br />important to everyone in the County. The different groups which <br />provide affordable housing have been discussing the need to work <br />together to further this effort. A strategy has been developed by <br />Orange County represented by Tara Fikes, Chapel Hill represented <br />by Judy Russell, Carrboro represented by James Harris, Hillsborough <br />Planning Department and Donna Dyer representing the Orange <br />Community Housing Corporation. <br />Donna Dyer made a presentation on the report .entitled <br />"Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) for Orange <br />County, North Carolina". She made reference to the document and <br />stated that the high cost of home ownership has left many families <br />out of the housing market or sent them to surrounding counties to <br />buy homes and commute into Orange County. For families needing <br />three or more bedrooms, very little housing exists. Development <br />of this countywide CHAS was undertaken by a working group with a <br />representative from each participating jurisdiction plus staff from <br />Orange Community Housing Corporation, the County's non-profit <br />housing development corporation. This document identified specific <br />needs and prioritized them based on severity of need and <br />availability of resources to address the need. Section I, <br />Community Profile, is a description of the housing need and market <br />