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of County Commissioners liaison; and WHEREAS, the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee created and approved the County's first Affordable Housing Advisory Committee Report on November 18, 2008, which was subsequently approved by the Board of County Commissioners on December 9, 2008 and submitted to the Florida Housing Finance Corporation; and WHEREAS, since approval of that report, three additional Affordable Housing Advisory Committee reports were prepared, recommended for approval by Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, approved by the Board' of County Commissioners, and submitted to the Florida Housing Finance Corporation; one in 2011, one in 2014, and the other in 2017; and WHEREAS, on December 4, 2018 the Board of County Commissioners directed staff, outside of the three year statutorily required time frame, to schedule Affordable Housing Advisory Committee meetings to discuss, study, and review the affordable housing issue within the county; and WHEREAS, since receiving that direction, the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee has met a total of five times, however, it has been difficult to achieve a quorum of a minimum of nine of the seventeen Affordable Housing Advisory Committee members; and WHEREAS, Section 420.9076, Florida Statute was recently changed to require Affordable Housing Advisory Committee membership to be between eight and eleven members, with at least six of those members from eleven categories established in statute; and WHEREAS, on October 22, 2019, the Board of County Commissioners directed staff to prepare an amendment to Chapter 308 of the Indian River County Ordinance Code and a resolution to reduce the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee size from seventeen members to eleven members plus the Board of County Commissioners liaison. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, that: 162