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Chapter 308 of the Indian River County Code lists the membership requirements for the County's AHAC, as well as the roles and responsibilities of the AHAC. Under current County Code, one BCC member is required to serve as a non-voting liaison to the AHAC. Based on HB 1339 and recent interpretive guidance from the state, the BCC member can no longer be a non-voting liaison but must be a voting member of the AHAC (even if the liaison is an active participant at AHAC meetings). With respect to studying affordable housing and recommending specific actions in an annual report to the BCC, Chapter 308 also needs to be amended to change the timing of those activities from triennially to annually. Consistent with the state's directive, this staff report provides for BCC consideration proposed AHAC membership revisions, and AHAC reporting time frame revisions to County Code Chapter 308 (Attachment 2). This report also provides a proposed updated AHAC membership Resolution (Attachment 3). ANALYSIS As structured, both the proposed revisions to County Code Chapter 308 and the proposed AHAC resolution will modify the County's current AHAC membership size and composition to be consistent with recently amended state statute and will modify the time frame/period for the AHAC to analyze and prepare reports with affordable housing incentive recommendations for BCC consideration. AIIACMembership Requirements HB 1339 maintains the requirement that the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee must contain between eight and eleven members, and at least six of the members must be selected from housing, finance, business, citizen, and planning related categories (Attachment 1). HB 1339 did, however, impact the remaining five (5) members of the eleven (11) member board. Currently, Indian River County's AHAC membership includes the minimum six members selected from the state mandated categories plus one member from each of the five (5) towns and cities in the County. Combining the six (6) previously mandated categories with the County's five (5) city and town members gets the County's AHAC membership to eleven (11) members. To meet the new HB 1339 requirement to have one (1) BCC member on the AHAC requires the removal of one (1) city/town representative from the AHAC so as to not exceed the state mandated cap of eleven (11) AHAC members. To reduce the City/Town membership number on the AHAC, County staff coordinated with the Town of Orchid City Manager to see if the Town of Orchid due to its small size and relative lack of issues such as homelessness, would graciously agree to revise its status as a voting member to meet the new state mandate. After The Town Manager for the Town of Orchid agreed, an Ordinance was advertised for BCC consideration to include the proposed State mandated AHAC membership changes and State mandated changes to timing for analyzing affordable housing and preparing reports for BCC consideration. A membership resolution was also drafted for BCC consideration. In both documents, it is proposed that the Town of Orchid continue to participate in AHAC meetings as a non-voting member. If needed, Orchid can also serve as an alternate voting 119