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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: April 3, 2001 <br />Action .Agenda <br />Item No, j®`Q-^ <br />SUBJECT: Commissioners Affordable Housing Task Force Report <br />DEPARTMENT: Hausing/CD PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S):. INFORIIAATION CONTACT: <br />Tara L. Fikes, ext 2490 <br />Executive Summary <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To receive the report of the Commissioners Affordable Housing Task Force. <br />BACKGROUND:. In April 2000, the BOCC created the Commissioners Affordable Housing <br />Task Force to investigate and analyze information and problems, and recommend strategies <br />and policies, to assist the County Commissioners in formulating a comprehensive, long-range <br />vision of decent and affordable housing in Orange County. Commissioners Margaret Brown <br />and Barry Jacobs served as Co-Chairs for this Task Force. <br />The results of these deliberations were presented as a Preliminary Report to the BOCC at its <br />March 13 work session. Comments received at that meeting and a subsequent full Task Force <br />meeting on March 28 have been considered in the further development of the Final Task Force <br />Report. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: No immediate financial impact. <br />RECOMMENDAT9ON(S): The Manager recommends that the Board of County <br />Cammissioners: <br />a. Provide comments regarding the Preliminary Report; <br />b. Approve -the Executive Summary of the Report and forward it to the Capital Needs <br />Advisory Task Force; and <br />c. Receive the Final Report at the end of April 2001 after incorporation of final <br />camments from the Board and Task Force. <br />