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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2023-05-03 Agenda NEW HANOVER COUNTY PLANNING & LAND USE AGENDA COUNTY-CITY WORKFORCE HOUSING ADVISORY COMMITTEE | Meeting Government Center Training Room136, 230 Government Center Dr. May 3, 2023 – 3:00 PM Estimated Minutes 2 I.Call to Order Establish Quorum 2 II.Approve Agenda 5 III.Approve Minutes April 12, 2022 5 IV.Public Comments 30V.OldBusiness Debrief – Annual Report and Presentation Update Draft Workforce Housing Services Program Criteria and Priorities for Year Two RFP, Theo McClammy 20VI.NewBusiness Community Health Improvement Plan Overview, New Hanover County Health Educators, Eugenia Johnson 10 VII.Staff Updates County City 10VIII.Announcements IX.Adjourn Attachments: DraftApril, 2023MeetingMinutes Purpose: The Committee shall be organized for the purpose of developing a comprehensive workforce housing study, workforce housing opinion study and public awareness campaign, support for increasing equitable access and the supply of workforce housing thatis affordable; informing the Appointing Authorities and other organizations of their findings; and making recommendations, in an advisory capacity, to the Appointing Authorities and other organizations, as necessary. NEW HANOVER COUNTY-CITY OF WILMINGTON WORKFORCE HOUSINGADVISORYCOMMITTEE Draft Minutes |April 12, 2023 | RESCHEDULED MEETING Committee Members Present: Sharm Brantley,Liz Carbone,Melanie James,Krysti Keser,Eric Knight,Katrina Knight,Katrina Redmon NHC Staff Present:Tufanna Bradley,Katie Burket,Rachel LaCoe,Sarah Lipkin Sularz,Theo McClammy,Jennifer Rigby,Pam Robbins, Andrew Zeldin City ofWilmington StaffPresent:Abie Bonevac,Chianti Johnson,Suzanne Rogers Call to Order The meetingwas called to order at 3:23by ChairpersonSharm Brantleyand aquorum was established. Agenda Approval and Minutes Ms. Katrina Redmonmade a motion to approve themeetingagenda, seconded byMs. Krysti Keserand adopted unanimously. Ms.Liz Carbonemade a motion toadopttheMarchminutes, seconded byMr. Eric Knightand adopted unanimously. Public Comments None. Old Business Presentationsto City Council and County Commissioners ChairpersonBrantley willbe presentingtheWorkforceHousingAdvisory CommitteeAnnual th Report to theNew Hanover County Commissionerson MondayApril 17at 9am and tothe th WilmingtonCityCouncilonTuesdayApril 18at 6:30pm. The committeeworking onfinalized theAnnual Report and thepresentations. Staff provided an overview of the draft presentation slides and ChairpersonBrantley’sspeakingnotes. The group will confirm byemail which membersof thecommittee will be presentat each meeting. New Business Draft Workforce HousingServices Program Criteria and Priorities for Year Two RFP New Hanover CountyHousing Program ManagerTheo McClammygave a briefupdateabout theyear twoHousing Services Programrequest for proposal.Mr. McClammy requestedthe committee’s input on changingor keepingthe goals andpriorities from year one.County staff will be working onrefining itoverthe nextfew months for release in July. 1 The committee wants to be sure that the RFPpriorities are specific enough that projects meet the mission, but not too specificthat good projects get denied. The committee concurredwith moving forward with the same goals and prioritiesas last year’s RFP. The committee discussed issues in last year’sapplications. Reasonsprevious applications were not recommended include: Project proposal included higher AMI limits, Projects did not have site approval, Sites already had county investment, Scale of proposal / Investment per unit, Staff Updates City of Wilmington Community Development and Housing Planner Suzanne Rogers announced that the public comment period is open for theCity’sAnnual Action Plan for CDBG and HOME funds, open through May 16, 2023. There will beapublic hearingat theCityCouncil meeting on May2. Announcements th There wasa CommunityHealthImprovementPlan(CHIP) meetingonApril 11that several WHAC membersand staff attended. Housing isa toppriorityin the county’s Community Health Assessment (CHA). Furtherwork willbe done to define thegoals ofcombined work between housing and public healthefforts. There may be an opportunity totie CHIP’spublic health education focus intothepublic education campaign that WHAC will be developing in the coming months. Adjourn Ms. Carbonemade a motion to adjourn the meeting, seconded byMs.Katrina Knight. The meetingwasadjournedat5:06. 2