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Work Session

Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Work session Appointments and personnelHealth and human servicesHousing and affordabilityParks and recreationArts and public artDrugs and addictionEthics and transparencyHomelessness and shelterRoads and transportation

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What's on this agenda

Orange County commissioners heard ten advisory boards present annual work plans on 11 February 2025 and discussed the state of the county's homelessness partnership. Two of the partnership's guiding documents are years out of date.

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Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

The ten-year plan to end homelessness has not been updated since 2020. The systems gaps analysis, meant to be updated annually, has a 2023 draft that appears never to have been finalised; the last finished version is from 2021. Staff attributed the gap to losing key staff and changes of leadership over the past year, and said both documents would be updated by January 2026.

Staff agreed to stakeholders' request for monthly data: how many people contacted the housing helpline, how many completed coordinated entry intakes, how many left homelessness, how many engaged with street outreach and harm reduction, and how many were sheltered at the Inter-Faith Council or on cold weather cots. Reporting starts at the partnership's April leadership meeting and runs monthly thereafter.

Staff are also reviewing the governance charter and the municipal memorandum against the actual composition of the leadership team and executive committee, the latter of which has not met in over a year. They want broader participation on the leadership team, particularly from people with lived experience of homelessness and residents of the northern part of the county.

The boards reporting were the parks council, historic preservation, agricultural preservation, the commission for the environment, the transportation board, animal services, human relations, affordable housing, the housing authority and social services. The parks council noted it will not take part in outside agency funding review in 2025 and that its members were thankful for that.

How the votes went

One unanimous vote, to adjourn. This was a work session.

From the published minutes.

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Agenda items (8)

Appointment · 6Staff or committee report · 1Discussion item · 1
  1. 1 Boards and Commissions - Annual Work Plan Summaries
    Staff or committee report Appointments and personnelHealth and human servicesHousing and affordabilityParks and recreation
    Ten boards reported: parks and recreation, historic preservation, agricultural preservation, the commission for the environment, the transportation board, animal services, human relations, affordable housing, the housing authority and social services. A second group follows on 11 March.
  2. 2 Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness Discussion
    Discussion item Ethics and transparencyHomelessness and shelterHousing and affordability
    The ten-year plan has not been updated since 2020 and the gaps analysis not since 2021, which staff attributed to losing key staff and leadership changes; both are due by January 2026. Monthly data reporting starts in April, covering helpline contacts, coordinated entry intakes, exits from homelessness, street outreach engagement and shelter use. The executive committee has not met in over a year.
  3. 3 Adult Care Home and Nursing Home Community Advisory Committee - Appointments
    Appointment Appointments and personnelHealth and human services
  4. 4 Arts Commission - Appointment Discussion
    Appointment Appointments and personnelArts and public art
  5. 5 Chapel Hill Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board - Appointments Discussion
    Appointment Appointments and personnel
  6. 6 Opioid Advisory Committee - Appointments Discussion
    Appointment Appointments and personnelDrugs and addiction
  7. 7 Orange Unified Transportation Board - Appointment Discussion
    Appointment Appointments and personnelRoads and transportation
  8. 8 Orange County Parks and Recreation Council - Appointments Discussion
    Appointment Appointments and personnelParks and recreation

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