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UID:meeting-1521@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T192913Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners meet for a work session on October 6\, 2025\, opening with a 30-minute public comment period. The consent agenda includes a capital project amendment shifting $80\,300 to help buy a 25-acre conservation easement on Tilley Farm\, with $213\,000 coming from the Army National Guard's REPI program for a total purchase price of $293\,300\, plus a $14\,470 change to RND Architects' design contract for water-damage repairs at Stanford L. Warren Library\, bringing that contract to $242\,669. Other consent items include an extension of the interlocal crisis-communications agreement with the City of Durham\, a $1\,861.78 agreement with Central Pines Regional Council for the Triangle Region Solid Waste Consortium\, and several public health grant budget amendments.\n\nDiscussion items include an operational update from the Public Defender's Office\, a presentation on the 26-mile Durham-to-Roxboro Rail Trail Plan\, board comment on a proposed annexation for Hamlin Reserve outside the Urban Growth Boundary\, and a look at the framework for the FY 2026-27 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1512\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1521
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1512
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1537@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T192913Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260226T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: BOCC Budget Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners spent 26 February in a day-long retreat opening the FY 2026-27 budget\, at the Human Services Building rather than the county chambers. The morning was the fiscal picture: financial highlights from the chief financial officer\, tax projections tied to the revaluation from the tax administrator\, and an economic and demographic outlook.\n\nThe afternoon turned to policy\, and the choice of topics says what the board expects to be squeezed. Human services took the first slot\, presented jointly by the public health director and the social services director under the heading of federal and state support — the question of what Washington and Raleigh will still be paying for.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1527\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1537
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1527
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-1550@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T192913Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260323T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260323T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners' March 23 agenda centered on a public hearing on a proposed economic development agreement with Welcome Venture Park\, LLC\, developer of a 157-acre industrial park off Hamlin Road. The deal would pay the company $1 million toward sewer upgrades once complete and give the county a six-month option to buy an adjacent 7.81-acre parcel near the planned Durham-to-Roxboro Rail Trail for $1 million\, plus a commitment to internships and workforce programs. The board also held its advance public comment session on the FY 2026-27 budget and filled five board and commission vacancies.\n\nCeremonial items marked 25 years of Durham County farmland protection covering 20 farms and 2\,491 acres\, alongside proclamations for National County Government Month\, Second Chance Month and Fair Housing Month. The consent agenda included a $25\,000 interlocal agreement with the City of Durham to fund a consultant on a homelessness strategy\, an $82\,500 transfer to replace a Fire Marshal's Office vehicle\, and the removal of a citizen board member from the Environmental Affairs Board for repeated absences.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1531\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1550
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1531
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1520@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T192913Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's manager presents the recommended 2026-27 budget\, taking forty-five minutes of other business. Before it\, half an hour of ceremonial items: Memorial Day\, emergency medical services week\, mental health awareness month\, treatment court month\, and a week recognizing the clerks who keep boards of commissioners running.\n\nThe night's only public hearing is on the first phase of the county's first biennial Evaluation and Assessment Report\, with four separate resolutions changing the Place Type Map. One would move land at Treyburn out of the rural and agricultural place type into rural and agricultural reserve and employment campus\, and bring those parcels inside the Urban Growth Area.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1539\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1520
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1539
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1563@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T192913Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260512T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260512T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Joint BOCC/BOE Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA joint morning meeting of the county commissioners and the school board\, running two and a half hours. Fifty minutes on the county's pre-kindergarten program\, half an hour each on the county budget update and the school system's final budget request\, and ten minutes on a memorandum of understanding between them.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1540\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1563
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1540
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1547@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T192913Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Budget Work Session - Day One
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDay one of Durham County's budget work sessions\, opening at 9:00 AM with the budget overview and then four departments: organisational effectiveness and performance review\, risk management\, transportation and the office of emergency services.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1541\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1547
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1541
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1551@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T192913Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T150000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Budget Work Session - Day Two
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDay two of Durham County's budget work sessions\, from 1:00 PM. Four items: the public school system\, justice services\, an update on violence reduction\, and a sewer fee increase.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1542\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1551
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1542
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1516@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T192913Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T193000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nAn evening regular session whose largest item authorises up to $100 million of general obligation bonds. The board also changes its vision insurance provider\, keeps its health plan vendor\, awards the annual audit contract\, and removes a citizen from one of its boards for not turning up.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1543\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1516
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1543
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1519@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T192913Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Budget Work Session - Day Four
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDay four of the county's budget work sessions\, starting at 9:00 AM. Two departments present: the library service and the animal protection society that runs the county shelter. Then future policy discussions and the budget ordinance itself.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1547\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1519
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1547
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1539@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T192913Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T193000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nBudget adoption night for Durham County\, taken under other business rather than as a hearing - state law requires the annual budget to be adopted no later than 1 July. Before it\, thirty-five minutes of ceremonial items including a resolution honouring a life of service and sacrifice\, and proclamations for National Pride Month\, Women Veterans Day\, Gun Violence Awareness Month and National Re-Unification Month.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1548\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1539
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1548
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1536@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T192913Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThirty-five minutes of ceremonial items open this one: a new chief fire marshal introduced\, a soil and water director recognised for 42 years\, fifty years of general services\, and proclamations for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day\, Durham Refugee Day and Summer Learning Week. Then a consent agenda that includes next year's opioid settlement spending\, and a fifty-minute public hearing block with one zoning map change in it.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1549\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1536
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1549
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1552@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T192913Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260810T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260810T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners held one public hearing on August 10\, on policy changes to the comprehensive plan coming out of its evaluation and assessment report. The money was elsewhere. The county took on nine new positions in social services\, paid for by $850\,290 in extra state funding\, to handle the Medicaid changes H.R. 1 requires\, and separately wrote to its congressional delegation asking for more time before the new SNAP cost-share rules take effect.\n\nThree conservation easements moved: 41 acres from Billy and Toni Stevens with a $330\,000 contribution from the Army National Guard's readiness and environmental protection program\, 19.27 acres from Robin Davis at 505 Mason Road with $117\,500 from the City of Durham's water supply protection fund\, and a donated 22-acre easement from David and Carmen Durack on Woodstock and West Cornwallis roads. The board also put $506\,945 toward buying the Durham-to-Roxboro Rail Trail corridor from the state\, distributed the 2 percent cost of living adjustment worth $3.6 million across departments\, and hired a temporary staffing agency for $255\,747.66 to run election operations through the general election. It proclaimed September 10 to 19 as Welcoming Week.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1553\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1552
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1553
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3849@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T192913Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260914T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260914T193000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners committed to a new Emergency Operations Center and backup 911 call center on Monday\, appropriating $48.9 million and awarding Bordeaux Construction a guaranteed maximum price contract of up to $45.4 million. The building goes at 2422 Broad Street and is shared with the City of Durham: the total project budget is $55\,156\,315.24\, of which the county carries $25\,869\,253\, or 46.9 percent. The city council takes up its side on September 21.\n\nThe board also approved buying three agricultural conservation easements covering 313 acres\, at an estimated $3.5 million with federal funds expected to cover half. The rest of the agenda ran to public safety and health: a $330\,000 contract with Hayti Reborn - Justice Movement to coordinate violence interruption work\, a resolution endorsing the Durham Violence Reduction Working Group's recommendations\, a peer support specialist post funded from opioid settlement money\, and a $5.3 million equipment financing agreement letting Durham Public Schools buy about 1\,996 interactive classroom panels over five years. Staff presented the 2025 county-wide community health assessment survey\, which reached more than 1\,200 residents.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1558\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3849
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1558
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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