55C - RESO OC HOUSING FINANCE JOINT POWERS

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Adoption of Resolution to Join the Orange County Housing Finance Trust June 4, 2019 Page 3 representation from city managers, housing authorities, the County CEO, law enforcement, and the public. The selection of the city representatives shall be made by the City Selection Committee. Cities who are members of the Trust are eligible to be members of the Board. Any Orange County city is eligible to be a member of the Trust. In addition to the above regarding the Governing Board, the JPA document expresses that (among other things): • The Trust can have staff level assistance, but such assistance shall come from contractors; • Members of the Trust can leave at any time; • Members of the Trust cannot have, as a condition of membership, a requirement to provide any number of housing units; • The Trust shall have an annual report to maximize transparency; and • The Trust cannot issue debt. If at a later date the Trust governing board wishes to pursue debt, a recirculation and amendment of the JPA document is required. The governing board reflects a compromise between the County and the city officials that negotiated this early iteration of the Trust. The County argued that it was entitled to near equal representation on the Board, given that the County provides such a significant percentage of funding. The city officials argued that cities are the likely sites for the new housing, and therefore cities should have more seats. The negotiators discussed the overall size of the Governing Board — talking about seven, nine, eleven, and even thirteen members. In the end, the nine -member Board (with a 5-4 City -County split) was agreed to. The nine member Board means that many cities who are Trust members will not have a seat on the Governing Board. All parties are intended to have a seat at the table in terms of discussions, debates, and project by project reviews. Draft Bylaws. From November to December 2018, a Working Group of Orange County local elected officials and staff worked to develop draft bylaws (along with Vision and Mission Statements) that the Trust Board would consider adopting. These are included as Exhibit 3. The draft bylaws, among other things, set forth more specificity as to the Governing Board (in terms of population), meeting requirements, a conflict of interest section, and more. The Working Group included Supervisors Andrew Do and Shawn Nelson, city elected representatives Jennifer Fitzgerald (Fullerton), Wendy Bucknum (Mission Viejo), Barbara Delgleize (Huntington Beach), Fred Whitaker (Orange), and city management representatives Kristine Ridge (Santa Ana), Lori Ann Farrell (Huntington Beach), Laurie Murray (La Palma), and retired city managers Allan Roeder and Dave Kiff. County representatives included CEO Frank Kim, Director of Care Coordination Susan Price, and Orange County Housing Authority Executive Director Julia Bidwell. Draft bylaws may differ slightly from the language in the JPA (especially in regards to the 55C-3