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Home My WebLink AboutOCHA Minutes 24-04-18 ORANGE COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY ORANGE COUNTY ADVISORY BOARD MEETING HOUSING DEPARTMENT Thursday, April 181h, 2024 at 6:00 PM Virtual Meeting: Microsoft Teams Meeting Link MEETING Minutes 6:03 PM Call to Order Members present: Murdock-Doherty, Sykes, Miles, Weatherly-Rosner Excused: Mahood Staff present: Rosser, Christopher Jackson (Housing Access Coordinator) 6:04 PM Approval of March Minutes Miles moves, Sykes seconds, unanimous 6:05 PM Updates from Members Miles: very successful housing conference back in February, and planning another just for housing providers for Aug/Sept Sykes: 7pm tonight there is hearing for Hboro Planning Board to annex property adjacent to mobile home park (near Waterstone). . . issue to keep eye on is residents being evicted from mobile home parks, not sure if this is Mailing Address Hillsborough Office Chapel Hill Office P.O.Box 8181 300 W.Tryon Street 2501 Homestead Road Hillsborough,NC 27278 Hillsborough,NC 27278 Chapel Hill,NC 27516 Telephone(919)245-2490 • Fax(919)944-8496 ORANGE COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY ORANGE COUNTY ADVISORY BOARD MEETING HOUSING DEPARTMENT Thursday, April 181h, 2024 at 6:00 PM Virtual Meeting: Microsoft Teams Meeting Link Ridgewood 6:10 PM Housing Inventory Discussion w/Housing Access Coordinator Christopher Jackson Focuses on LL outreach, recruitment and retention Manages Landlord Incentive Program Online recruitment, in-person searches at area complexes Facilitates LL outreach sessions quarterly Also have Housing Locator who works with individuals with higher barriers to housing (justice-involved, adverse rental history, fixed income, etc.) Facilitates quarterly service provider trainings, to give caseworkers tips on how to make headway with new landlords for their clients Current Landlord incentives: 1k to new landlords to our programs, $500 to landlords that refer others Exploring other options on rewards such as discounts at local hardware stores Risk Mitigation funds available up to $51k, which cover tenant-caused damages that exceed security deposit Member: Sounds like a good program that you're doing Mailing Address Hillsborough Office Chapel Hill Office P.O.Box 8181 300 W.Tryon Street 2501 Homestead Road Hillsborough,NC 27278 Hillsborough,NC 27278 Chapel Hill,NC 27516 Telephone(919)245-2490 • Fax(919)944-8496 ORANGE COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY ORANGE COUNTY ADVISORY BOARD MEETING HOUSING DEPARTMENT Thursday, April 181h, 2024 at 6:00 PM Virtual Meeting: Microsoft Teams Meeting Link a lot Jackson: Over last 2 years there has been a lot of changeover in ownership, especially with out-of-state purchasers, so he has a lot of work to try and convince them to come onto program Member: Do a lot of units have damage due to participants? Jackson: Processed 12-15 RiskMit claims last year, usually in the $5-8k range For that reason we had to implement $5k cap Member wonders about potential consequences for participants who cause this damage Rosser discusses practice of sending notice of program violation, and upon 2nd RiskMit claim would proceed toward termination Member says her next door LL told her he would never rent to HCV again due to a unit that was destroyed previously. . . idea as tenant on program for those having problems with LLs making repairs in a timely fashion, and those who have been in the same unit long-term, is to get improvements done on their homes. . . could be empowering to get new carpet, e.g., would be really nice to get that Mailing Address Hillsborough Office Chapel Hill Office P.O.Box 8181 300 W.Tryon Street 2501 Homestead Road Hillsborough,NC 27278 Hillsborough,NC 27278 Chapel Hill,NC 27516 Telephone(919)245-2490 • Fax(919)944-8496 ORANGE COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY ORANGE COUNTY ADVISORY BOARD MEETING HOUSING DEPARTMENT Thursday, April 181h, 2024 at 6:00 PM Virtual Meeting: Microsoft Teams Meeting Link funded. . . retaining a renter for 7 years is a benefit to the LL Suggesting improvement to property as double-benefit for both tenant and landlord, for more cosmetic Rosser: worries about paying for things that LLs should be doing anyway, but appreciates the thought and wants to discuss further with staff. Jackson: tenants can always request special inspections as well Member expresses fear about doing that be she loves where she lives and would not want unit to fail inspection, which would then cause her to leave Member: do we have a list of handymen or vendors who can do repairs on homes for a reasonable price? Jackson: we stay away from referring repairmen be of liability Member: Perhaps volunteer labor such as sororities, or the Orange HS program, or community service, to help with labor costs. . . 6:55 PM Program Manager Report Mailing Address Hillsborough Office Chapel Hill Office P.O.Box 8181 300 W.Tryon Street 2501 Homestead Road Hillsborough,NC 27278 Hillsborough,NC 27278 Chapel Hill,NC 27516 Telephone(919)245-2490 • Fax(919)944-8496 ORANGE COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY ORANGE COUNTY ADVISORY BOARD MEETING HOUSING DEPARTMENT Thursday, April 181h, 2024 at 6:00 PM Virtual Meeting: Microsoft Teams Meeting Link • Monthly Overview • Programmatic Reports — Utilization, Voucher Issuance, VMS • Informal Hearings — None • HCV Program Update • PHA Plan Update • Changing "Significant Amendment" definition • Admin Plan Update • Waitlist & Consulting Member request: For waitlist, can you include in next month's meeting all the possible preferences to select for so that we can have more informed discussion about which ones we should use? 6:55pm, Rosser reviews changes to PHA Plan and Admin Plan "Significant Amendment/Modification" has been changed in PHA Plan from "any change to Admin Plan" to "Whenever HUD explicitly requires" -HOTMA changes will not be implemented until 1/1/25, despite being approved next month Mailing Address Hillsborough Office Chapel Hill Office P.O.Box 8181 300 W.Tryon Street 2501 Homestead Road Hillsborough,NC 27278 Hillsborough,NC 27278 Chapel Hill,NC 27516 Telephone(919)245-2490 • Fax(919)944-8496 ORANGE COUNTY HOUSING AUTHORITY ORANGE COUNTY ADVISORY BOARD MEETING 6 HOUSING DEPARTMENT Thursday, April 181h, 2024 at 6:00 PM Virtual Meeting: Microsoft Teams Meeting Link 7:00 Rosser reviews steps for Public Hearing 7:02 Motion to open public hearing: Sykes, Miles 2nds, unanimous Vice-Chair requests comments: Members concur that changes sound good Sykes moves to close public hearing, Miles 2nds, unanimous 7:05 PM Adjournment — Motion Sykes, Second Weatherly- Rosner, unanimous Mailing Address Hillsborough Office Chapel Hill Office P.O.Box 8181 300 W.Tryon Street 2501 Homestead Road Hillsborough,NC 27278 Hillsborough,NC 27278 Chapel Hill,NC 27516 Telephone(919)245-2490 • Fax(919)944-8496