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UID:meeting-3615@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240927
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners met jointly with the Orange County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro school boards to hear how each district is closing a budget shortfall and to review a schools facilities bond. Neither school board brought a decision for commissioners to vote on\; the session was reports and questions.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09262024-2095\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1753?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3615
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09262024-2095
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3617@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241002
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241003
SUMMARY:Orange County: Fifth meeting-2024 Bond Education Committee
DESCRIPTION:2024 School Bond Education Committee\n\nThe Bond Education Committee builds public awareness for a school bond headed to voters\, but this record does not state the bond's dollar amount or what it would fund. Its work is communications\, not a vote on the bond itself.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10022024-2117\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3617
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10022024-2117
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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UID:meeting-3613@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241009
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Orange County Chiefs' Association and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners met with the county's fire and rescue chiefs\, then held a work session on a draft policy for spending bond and other capital money on school construction ahead of the November 5 bond referendum. The board also took up nine appointments to advisory boards\, from the Planning Board to the Historic Preservation Commission.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2100\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1757?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3613
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2100
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3616@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241016
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241017
SUMMARY:Orange County: Sixth meeting-2024 Bond Education Committee
DESCRIPTION:2024 School Bond Education Committee\n\nOrange County's School Bond Education Committee met on October 16 to review its outreach ahead of the school bond referendum\, and to decide whether to meet again before Election Day.\n\nCo-chairs Jean Hamilton and Phyllis Portie-Ascott and the consulting firm Avenir Bold walked through what the campaign to inform voters had produced so far: a promotional video\, website and social media analytics\, media inquiries\, and the public events held to date. The committee then discussed next steps\, including whether to keep its October 30 meeting. The agenda also called for approving minutes from the October 2 meeting and taking a group photo. The agenda does not state the bond's amount or what it would pay for.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10162024-2118\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3616
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10162024-2118
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3610@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's Board of Commissioners spent its November 12 work session on three long-range planning items and nine advisory board appointments\, taking no formal vote on the substance of any of them. Consultants from Clarion Associates presented results from the second round of public engagement on the county's Land Use Plan 2050: 420 completed surveys testing four modeled growth alternatives\, split closely on extending water and sewer service to rural areas. The board also reviewed a revised scoring matrix for the Affordable Housing Bond and Capital Investment Plan\, and a School Capital Funding Policy shaped by the Woolpert facilities report and the school construction bond voters approved November 5.\n\nAppointments were up for the Advisory Board on Aging\, the Animal Services Hearing Panel Pool\, the Chapel Hill Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board\, the Commission for the Environment\, the Human Relations Commission and the Orange County Parks and Recreation Council. The board also added a Jury Commission appointment to the agenda after it convened.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2132\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1769?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3610
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2132
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3682@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Climate Council
DESCRIPTION:Climate Council\n\nThe Orange County Climate Council\, which brings together elected officials and staff from the county\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, both school districts and UNC\, met November 21\, 2024 to compare notes on what is working\, plan a joint public campaign\, and look at how little young people are involved in any of it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212024-2131\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3682
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212024-2131
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3606@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250118
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners spent their 17 January 2025 retreat on four subjects: how the county's housing programmes work\, the outlook for the 2025-26 budget under the coming revaluation\, federal revenue sources\, and the state of local agriculture.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01172025-2177\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3606
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01172025-2177
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3605@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners certified the November 2024 school bond result on 21 January 2025\, 56\,138 to 27\,040 in favour of $300 million in general obligation bonds for both school districts\, which authorises the county to issue them. They also asked the state to deny UNC's application to burn pelletized fuel at its cogeneration plant.\n\nThe agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212025-2180\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1777?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3605
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212025-2180
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3601@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250226
SUMMARY:Orange County: Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners took the 2025 revaluation\, the annual audit and the county's legislative priorities at a special meeting on 25 February 2025. The tax office reported that all roughly 58\,700 real property parcels had been reviewed\, with notices going out in early to mid-March. The board also continued its unfinished discussion of how to manage construction under the school bond.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252025-2193\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1789?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3601
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252025-2193
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-3629@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250312
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board reviewed twenty years of the county's HOME awards on 11 March 2025 and considered changes to how affordable housing bond and capital projects are scored. The proposal would take scoring out of this board's hands.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2222\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3629
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2222
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3599@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250312
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners heard nine advisory boards present their annual work plans on 11 March 2025\, took the consultant's presentation on the draft 2050 land use plan\, worked through appointments to six boards\, and added a letter to their congressional delegation about federal budget reconciliation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2203\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1793?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3599
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2203
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3598@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Legislative Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe commissioners' annual legislative breakfast with the county's state senator and two state representatives\, at 8:30 AM in the Whitted Building. The county sent them its 2025 priority legislative issues in advance\; this is the meeting to talk them through. The only document on file is that packet - the letter and the priorities themselves - and a single-page record of the meeting that does not extract as text.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172025-2206\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3598
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172025-2206
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3595@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250402
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe county manager presented the recommended 2025-35 capital investment plan to Orange County commissioners on 1 April 2025. Its tax estimates are built on the FY2025-26 valuation from the revaluation rather than the current one\, it assumes 2 percent property tax growth and 4 percent sales tax growth\, and it relies substantially on debt.\n\nThe board also approved the county's transportation priority list for the state's SPOT 8 prioritisation round\, which feeds the 2027-2036 state transportation improvement program\, and eleven consent items.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012025-2214\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1799?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3595
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012025-2214
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3592@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250423
SUMMARY:Orange County: CIP Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners went through the manager's recommended 2025-35 capital investment plan on 22 April 2025\, project by project. The plan assumes 2 percent annual property tax growth and 4 percent sales tax growth and relies substantially on debt. Approving it commits the county to first-year funding only\; the other nine years are planning.\n\nSchool projects were held for the 15 May work session\, after the November 2024 bond changed how they are funded and organised.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222025-2229\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1809?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3592
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222025-2229
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3590@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe county manager presented his recommended 2025-26 operating budget to Orange County commissioners on 6 May 2025\, a plan carrying a 6 percent increase. The board also held the statutory public hearing on financing up to $78 million for capital projects\, and took recommendations from the Opioid Advisory Committee on five community grants.\n\nThe agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062025-2243\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1815?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3590
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062025-2243
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3627@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250514
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board spent an hour on 13 May 2025 with the developers who apply for its capital and bond money\, asking what the county's process is like from their side. Five organisations came: EmPOWERment\, CASA\, Pee Wee Homes\, Habitat for Humanity and the Community Empowerment Fund.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2277\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3627
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2277
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3588@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250516
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners took up outside agency and education funding at their 15 May 2025 budget work session\, the first look at those parts of the manager's recommended budget. Outside agency funding is recommended at $800\,146. Per-pupil current expense funding would rise from $5\,666 to $5\,877\, Durham Tech's current expense by 3 percent\, and the ten-year capital window carries $549.9 million of school projects.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05152025-2248\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1820?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3588
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05152025-2248
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3587@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners held two public hearings on 20 May 2025 on how the county will spend its HOME housing money: the five-year 2025-29 consolidated plan\, and the annual action plan that carries it out. The consortium of Carrboro\, Chapel Hill\, Hillsborough and the county is allocated $367\,013.59 for the coming programme year\, and staff proposed concentrating it on home repair and tenant-based rental assistance for households under 30 percent and between 30 and 50 percent of area median income.\n\nThe board also adopted the final financing resolution for up to $78 million in installment financing for capital projects and equipment\, secured against county and school properties\, and a twelve-item consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-2265\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1823?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3587
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-2265
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3585@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250528
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe last of the departmental budget sessions. Every functional leadership team comes to the board in turn - public safety\, human services\, support services\, general government and community services\, twenty-odd departments and the Sportsplex - to talk through operating requests\, capital\, and proposed fee changes. The board takes no public comment at a work session\; the public hearing follows on 29 May.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05272025-2272\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1828?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3585
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05272025-2272
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3731@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250605
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nThe Parks and Recreation Council's last meeting before its summer break\, at the Bonnie B. Davis Environment and Agricultural Center in Hillsborough. The agenda is timed to the minute: a State of the Parks presentation from the parks superintendent\, a review of the two public outreach sessions for the county trails plan\, and an update on where the ten-year capital plan leaves parks projects. The council is a thirteen-member advisory body with two youth delegates.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042025-2276\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3731
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042025-2276
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3582@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250605
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250606
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe meeting where Orange County's 2025-26 budget is actually decided. The manager put a recommended budget in front of the commissioners on 6 May\, two public hearings followed\, and this three-hour work session at the Southern Human Services Center is where the board works down the amendment list and settles the numbers: the ten-year capital plan first\, then the operating budget and what the two school districts get per pupil\, then the fee schedule\, then the county property tax rate\, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district tax and twelve fire district rates. Formal adoption follows on 17 June. The board takes no public comment at a work session\; written comments go to ocbocc@orangecountync.gov.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06052025-2279\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/2?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3582
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06052025-2279
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3581@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250618
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners adopted the 2025-26 budget on 17 June 2025\, setting the countywide tax rate at 63.83 cents per $100 of value\, and accepted a ten-year capital investment plan totalling $75.3 million with $75.3 million of first-year projects across county\, school and proprietary funds. The evening also held a public hearing on changes to the Hillsborough Circulator bus route and a report on the January point-in-time count of homelessness.\n\nThe agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172025-2293\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/6?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3581
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172025-2293
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2011@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's Board of Commissioners meets jointly with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Orange County Boards of Education for a briefing session\, not a vote. The agenda opens with budget\, programming\, cell-phone-policy and staffing updates from both districts\, then turns to a draft interlocal agreement setting out how the county and the two districts manage bond-funded school construction\, including a joint staff working group and commitments on public updates.\n\nCounty planning staff are set to present demographic trends and their impact on school enrollment. The three boards close with a discussion of issues for future collaboration\; the agenda names no specific topics beyond the heading.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2391\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/19?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2011
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2391
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2029@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board meets to approve its prior minutes and hear updates from board members and county staff. Most of the agenda is a 60-minute community outreach session on county affordable-housing programs\, open to public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2558\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2029
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2558
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2028@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board has a short agenda for its November 11 meeting: board and staff updates\, approval of the October meeting's minutes\, and an hour of annual planning for 2026. The posted agenda gives no more detail than those headings.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2444\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2028
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2444
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
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UID:meeting-2000@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260117
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners were told at their January 16 retreat that the county faces a $21.5 million gap to close in the FY 2026-27 budget\, and that the same model puts the gap at $37.6 million the following year and $53.6 million the year after that. Closing this year's would take about seven cents on the property tax rate\; one penny raises roughly $3.37 million on a $33.9 billion tax base.\n\nThe drivers are debt service\, the phase-in of school capital pay-as-you-go\, non-discretionary personnel costs like health insurance and retirement\, and the county's practice of never cutting education funding. Commissioner McKee said across-the-board reductions may be needed and asked staff to look at how the county balanced its FY 2010-11 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2000
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1998@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners approved the school construction interlocal agreement on February 3\, the document that governs how the county and its two school systems build schools together. They also took an update on the interlocal agreements under which the county collects taxes for its towns.\n\nProclamations for Black History Month and Human Relations Month opened the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02032026-2507\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/38?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1998
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02032026-2507
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1995@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260306
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners received the final report on neighborhood reviews and revaluation appeals on March 5\, closing out the assessment cycle that had occupied the board of equalization and review and a separate work group for months. They also renewed employee health and dental insurance and continued the county's participation in the state health insurance pool.\n\nThe board took up its proposed 2026 priority legislative issues\, which it adopted later in March\, and adopted a Women's History Month proclamation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052026-2537\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/41?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1995
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052026-2537
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260408
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took the manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan on April 7\, held two public hearings\, and heard a school enrollment forecast. One hearing covered the draft HOME Investment Partnership annual action plan\; the other a county-initiated zoning amendment moving a watershed overlay boundary on a single 19.4-acre parcel in Bingham Township.\n\nThe board also discussed how the county communicates with residents and how its online content measures against the Americans with Disabilities Act.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/45?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1989
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1987@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260417
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session - CIP
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA work session on the manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan and an update to the operating budget model - the two documents that set what the county can afford and for how long. The published packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162026-2579\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/47?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1987
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162026-2579
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1986@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260422
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County holds its public hearing on a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centres as a land use - explicitly including artificial intelligence data centres\, cryptocurrency mining and data processing facilities. Also on the agenda: a $1.7 million loan to a volunteer fire district\, and a discussion of the county's communications approach. The published packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/49?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1986
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1985@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260501
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Joint Meeting with the School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA joint meeting of the county commissioners with both school boards\, running to 9:24 PM. Each district presents its budget alongside performance and state accountability data and an update on career and technical education\, then the budget director presents the recommended capital investment plan. The agenda was built collaboratively at the standing school collaboration meetings.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04302026-2591\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/50?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1985
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04302026-2591
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1984@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260506
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe county hires consultants to examine what went wrong with its 2025 property revaluation\, and holds a public hearing on financing up to $60.8 million of capital projects. The published agenda packet exceeds what this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052026-2597\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/51?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1984
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052026-2597
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2222@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nThe ten-year capital investment plan is the substantive item\, alongside an update on where the county trails plan stood after going to the commissioners on 14 April\, and the proposed 2026-27 budget from the director.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2598\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2222
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2598
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-1983@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260513
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Public Hearing and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe first public hearing on the county manager's recommended 2026-27 budget\, followed by appointment discussions for seven bodies: affordable housing\, alcoholic beverage control\, animal services\, the arts commission\, the jury commission\, the juvenile crime prevention council and the housing authority.\n\nThe manager's budget is built on five stated priorities\, and the first is minimising the tax rate increase - which\, in a county where the rate went from 63.83 to 68.05 cents\, tells you what the board was working against. The others are prioritising public safety and the social safety net\, maximising efficiencies in county operations\, and modest investment in employee compensation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122026-2602\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/52?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1983
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122026-2602
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
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UID:meeting-1982@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260515
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nForty-five minutes on funding for outside agencies\, then ninety on the education budgets: the community college\, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools\, operating and capital. No public comment at a work session\; written comments go to the board's email or to the second budget hearing on 28 May.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2603\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/53?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1982
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2603
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1981@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThree regular agenda items\, each about housing or the money behind it: up to $32 million of installment financing for capital projects\, a $100\,000 request to help buy supportive housing units for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities\, and the annual federal housing plan. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/54?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1981
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1976@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260605
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe session where Orange County's 2026-27 budget is actually settled. The board works down the capital and operating amendment lists\, sets the tax rates\, and passes a resolution of intent that binds it to adopt on 16 June. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042026-2621\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/59?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1976
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042026-2621
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nBudget adoption night. The board also decides the ten-year capital plan\, amends its broadband contract to reach the last houses before a federal deadline\, and refuses a set of transit amendments. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/62?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1975
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1974@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260710
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe board's first meeting after the death of its chair\, Jamezetta Bedford. Vice-Chair Jean Hamilton chairs\; the seat is filled by appointment later in the month. The regular agenda carries four substantial items: changes to the longtime homeowner assistance programme\, up to $27 million in financing for a crisis diversion centre\, how the tax administrator should report to the board\, and whether to solicit offers on a piece of county land. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092026-2641\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/63?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1974
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092026-2641
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2917@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260914
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260915
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spend the morning of 14 September on the draft Land Use Plan 2050\, deciding what must change before it goes out for a third and final round of public comment. Staff pose questions under five headings: the plan's vision themes\, housing\, rural conservation neighborhoods with community septic systems\, rural activity nodes\, and renegotiating the water and sewer boundary agreements with the towns.\n\nStaff recommend dropping conservation neighborhoods from the future land use map and offering them countywide as a subdivision option\, and merging three kinds of rural commercial node into one. They warn that downzoning farmland to one home per ten acres would raise land and home prices. No vote is scheduled and there is no public comment period. A revised draft is due at a November business meeting\, and adoption is expected in late 2027.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09142026-2665\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/71?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2917
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09142026-2665
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-4523@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051232Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260930
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Joint Meeting with the School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners meet both school boards at 7 p.m. in the Whitted Building in Hillsborough\, and the county's budget outlook is the item with the most at stake. Staff warn that the 2027-28 budget faces high fuel costs\, a possible small tax increase to cover interest on new elementary school construction\, and sales tax receipts that fell in 2025-26 because refunds outgrew collections. A cap on property tax increases is on the November ballot\, and the General Assembly would decide the details in the spring. The 2028-29 year looks harder: about $3 million a year for the crisis care center\, $3.5 million for the final school pay-go step\, and peak payments of roughly $11 million on $110 million in referendum bonds.\n\nChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools each report state test results and enrollment. The county also reports on youth behavioral health: the Jamezetta Bedford Crisis Care Center\, due to open in winter 2027-28 with a 24-hour urgent care unit for children 4 and older\, a mobile crisis pilot\, and a proposed countywide mapping of how young people with behavioral health needs move through schools and the courts. A core team update closes the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09292026-2678\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/72?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4523
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09292026-2678
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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