OAR 813-112-0030: Public Meeting

(1) The governing body of each applicable city identified by OHCS, as determined by the data and analysis described in OAR 813-112-0020, must conduct at least one public meeting no later than December 31 of the year in which OHCS provided the qualifying data. The purpose of such public meeting shall be to discuss: (a) The causes and consequences of severe rent burdens within the city; (b) The barriers to reducing rent burdens; and (c) Possible solutions to reduce the number of severely rent burdened households within the city. (2) In order to conduct the public meetings as identified in subsection (1) above, each governing body must: (a) Act in accordance with Oregon’s public meeting laws (ORS 192.610 through 192.690). (b) Provide notice of the public meeting in accordance with ORS 192.640 and to at least the city’s local housing providers; local service providers; and households experiencing severe rent burden, or their representatives, including the city’s local Public Housing Authority (defined in ORS 456.005 ), Community Action Agency (described in OAR 813-230-0000), and nonprofit housing and service providers. (c) Submit the public meeting agenda, together with a list of attendees and their affiliation and geographic location within the city, to the Public Affairs Division of OHCS by February 1 of the following year .