August 10–16 · back to this week
What local government did, 10–16 August
Chatham County Schools made the week's most consequential personnel decision on 11 August. The board extended Superintendent Anthony Jackson's contract by a year, through June 2029, after Jackson asked it to waive the 5 percent performance bonus his contract allowed him, citing state and federal budget pressure.
Wake County took up the week's largest pot of money the same day, reviewing a joint process with Raleigh for awarding $23.5 million in hospitality tax capital grants. Durham County's consent agenda carried a $1,500,000 amendment for the Durham Affordable Housing Loan Fund. Pittsboro's board handled two more voluntary annexation petitions from Chatham Park Investors, a permanent closing of part of Suttles Road, and a consent agenda reorganizing several staff positions.
Apex ran the heaviest land-use night of the week on 12 August with nine public hearings, covering transportation plan amendments and a rezoning for the Ashburn PUD, plus an annexation and rezoning tied to them. Knightdale's Land Use Review Board moved the Terravita and Hopkins Farm master plans toward a joint hearing. Wake Forest's Planning Board took public comment on rezoning 14.12 acres at 0 Star Road for 2-over-2 condominiums, a case that ran into November.
Orange County held four meetings on housing and aging in two days: the Advisory Board on Aging elected new officers after its chair resigned, the Affordable Housing Advisory Board reviewed the Long Time Homeowners Tax Assistance Program, the Commission for the Environment worked through 18 applications for its award program, and the Board of Equalization and Review sat twice more, on 12 and 13 August, hearing ten appeals between them.
25 boards met across 13 governments, with 157 agenda items on file.
Written when 23 of this week's meetings had posted an agenda; 27 have now. The counts below are current.
By the numbers
19 figures
Every line is a link to the items behind it, so any figure here can be opened and counted by hand.
- Chatham County Schools will take up 15 schools and education items
- Wake County Public School System will take up 13 schools and education items
- Orange County will take up 12 tax rate and revaluation items
- Orange County will hold 11 public hearings
- Town of Apex will hold 7 public hearings
- Town of Apex will take up 6 roads and transportation items
- Town of Pittsboro will take up 6 annexation items
- Town of Pittsboro will hold 6 public hearings
- Chatham County Schools will take up 5 closed session items
- Town of Cary will take up 3 historic preservation items
- Wake County Public School System will take up 3 health and human services items
- Town of Chapel Hill will take up 3 historic preservation items
- Town of Knightdale will take up 3 rezoning items
- Durham County will take up 2 transit items
- Town of Knightdale will take up 2 land conversion and large development items
- Wake County will discuss 2 items
- Wake County will hear 2 presentations
- Town of Cary will receive 2 reports
- Town of Chapel Hill will hold 2 public hearings
The week, day by day
- Board of Adjustment Regular Meeting Town of Fuquay-Varina 2 items
- Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting Materials-6 p.m. Town of Pittsboro 7 items
- Commission for the Environment Orange County 5 items
- Planning Board Meeting Town of Apex 4 items
- Board of Commissioners — Work Session Wake County 6 items
- Regular Session Durham County 3 items
- Regular Session Chatham County Schools 28 items
- Board of Commissioners Regular Town of Pittsboro 7 items
- Land Use Review Board Town of Knightdale 4 items
- Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda Orange County 5 items
- AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting, Agenda and Orange County 3 items
- Board of Equalization and Review Orange County 6 items
- Combined BOCC/City/BOE Meeting Durham County 2 items
- Community Engagement Committee Meeting Wake County Public School System 8 items
- Development Review Committee Town of Holly Springs
- Facilities & Operations Committee Wake County Public School System 13 items
- Planning Board Town of Wake Forest 5 items
- Advisory Board Meeting Town of Cary 8 items
- Regular Town Council Meeting Town of Apex 14 items
- Historic District Commission Town of Chapel Hill 17 items
- Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Town of Pittsboro 2 items
- Board of Adjustment Orange County 1 item
- Board of Equalization and Review Orange County 4 items
- Commission Meeting Town of Cary 3 items
- Quarterly Town of Cary Cancelled
- Environmental Review Advisory Committee Meeting Chatham County Cancelled
- Parks & Recreation Advisory Committee-No Meeting--PRAC Committee Member Mixer Town of Holly Springs
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