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UID:meeting-3668@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Board of Health Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health adopted revisions to the county wastewater rules on November 20\, 2024\, elected officers for 2025\, and set its annual work plan. Members asked that concerns about federal public health policy under the incoming administration be added to that plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202024-2147\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3668
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202024-2147
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3744@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board heard the results of the second public engagement round for Land Use Plan 2050 on December 4\, 2024\, and approved its own annual report and 2025 work plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12042024-2139\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3744
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12042024-2139
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3607@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners opened work on the 2025-2029 consolidated plan\, the document that steers federal housing money through the county's HOME Consortium with Chapel Hill\, Carrboro and Hillsborough. They also decided how the county will count future students\, awarded a year of climate grants\, and gave a broadband contractor another twelve months.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102024-2143\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1775?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3607
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102024-2143
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3598@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
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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UID:meeting-3740@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250410
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board's Ordinance Review Committee took a first look on 9 April 2025 at two Unified Development Ordinance rewrites the planning director had initiated: telecommunications facilities and residential solar arrays. The committee takes no votes and needs no quorum\; both amendments went to the full board in May.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2216\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3740
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2216
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3739@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250508
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board recommended two rewrites of the Unified Development Ordinance on 7 May 2025\, both headed to a commissioners' public hearing on 3 June. The telecommunications amendment repeals Section 5.10 outright and replaces it\, because the county's rules have not changed since the ordinance was adopted on 5 April 2011 and no longer match federal or state law. The solar amendment rewrites the standards for roof- and ground-mounted arrays as an accessory use\, last touched on 8 November 2012.\n\nThe emergency services director also presented the county's hazard mitigation plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05072025-2242\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3739
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05072025-2242
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3583@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe commissioners' business meeting two days before the budget is settled. Three public hearings on land use: a county-initiated rezoning of the 69.58 acres Cedar Ridge High School sits on\, an applicant's request to put a 41-building self-storage development on 11.22 acres at Rougemont\, and the first rewrite of the county's telecommunications facility standards since the development ordinance was adopted in 2011. Also on the agenda: the Solid Waste Master Plan aiming at zero waste by 2045\, a solar array text amendment\, and a twenty-one item consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2278\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1832?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3583
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2278
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2125@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250820
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250821
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review scheduled 12 appeals from the 2025 revaluation: a religious property tax exemption request\, an elderly or disabled exclusion request\, and ten property value appeals. The board heard and decided all 12 that day\; none were continued. Only one appellant\, appearing for Unity Center of Peace\, attended in person\, and the rest were decided on the written record each side submitted. With Chair Leon Meyers and Regular Member Saru Salvi absent\, alternates Barbara Levine and Tony Blake sat in alongside Regular Member Richal Vanhook.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2335\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2125
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2335
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2014@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250905
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners consider a rezoning that would let Carolina Friends School bring its 110-acre Chapel Hill Township campus into compliance with county zoning and expand within a 500-student cap\, plus $874\,702 in combined federal\, state and local FY 2027 transit grant applications for rural service\, senior and disability transportation\, and capital equipment. The board also weighs a presentation schedule and up to $80\,870 in outside consultants and a facilitator for its Land Use Plan 2050 update\, an amendment to a broadband agreement with Lumos\, an 11-item consent agenda\, and the county's first annual report on its Climate Action Plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09042025-2341\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/7?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2014
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09042025-2341
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2012@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250917
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners take up a contested amendment to the county's 2022 broadband deployment contract with Lumos\, now T-Fiber and owned by T-Mobile. It would cut the number of homes to be connected from 6\,370 to 5\,852 and push the deadline to July 2026. The board also considers a proposed ten-year\, rent-free ground lease with UNC for a building at 2700 Homestead Road to house the county's cold weather cots program and a future day center for unhoused residents. It holds its required annual public hearing on HOME program housing funds and works through a lengthy consent agenda covering ordinance amendments\, equipment purchases and appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162025-2384\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/16?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2012
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162025-2384
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2010@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251008
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners hold a public hearing on rezoning about 61 acres at 3531 NC Highway 54 W in Chapel Hill's Bingham Township\, from rural residential to a conditional district for a 43-lot conservation-cluster subdivision. The applicant\, Forestar Group on behalf of Carolyn Rigsbee\, needs the change after the Planning Board recommended approval 6-3 in August.\n\nThe board also considers reviving its Broadband Task Force with an expanded charge\, a resolution letting commercial property owners in the county finance energy upgrades through the state's new C-PACE program\, and a resolution naming a Cedar Grove Park athletic field for softball coach and civil rights advocate Willie Lawrence Vanhook. The consent agenda covers a two-year Granicus contract for the Visitors Bureau website\, animal control contracts with three towns\, a chiller replacement at the Whitted Building\, and a budget amendment funding a second year of the CARE mobile crisis team.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2399\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/20?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2010
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2399
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2007@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251107
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners are set to consider releasing $54\,000 from the Social Justice Reserve to help food providers after the federal shutdown cut November SNAP benefits in half. About 4\,700 county households — 8\,700 people — received SNAP in September\, and all of them face a 50 percent reduction until the program is fully funded again.\n\nThe county manager proposes splitting the money four ways: $15\,000 each to the Interfaith Council in Chapel Hill and Orange Congregations in Mission in Hillsborough to stock their pantries\, and $12\,000 each to Porch Chapel Hill and Porch Hillsborough for food distributions two days later\, on November 8. Orange Congregations in Mission has agreed to waive its referral requirement for new clients until benefits are restored in full.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062025-2427\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/29?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2007
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062025-2427
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2021@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging meets November 11 for an FY 2025-26 budget update on the federal shutdown and changes to SNAP benefits. The board also plans to discuss Maddry Meadows\, a senior housing development planned across from the Seymour Center.\n\nOther business includes first-quarter reports from the board's transportation and communication workgroups. The board is set to hear an update from the Senior Tar Heel Legislature and take up its 2026 meeting calendar.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2542\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2021
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2542
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2147@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board takes up a budget update and Savannah Bananas planning under the executive director's report\, plus a communications and digital strategy update from bureau staff. UNC's newly appointed director of special projects\, Marcus Ginyard\, addresses the board on coordination between the university and local governments. Board members also share community updates.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2446\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2147
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2446
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2246@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board takes up its 2025 annual report and 2026 work plan on December 3. The report lists the year's work — five conditional-district rezoning reviews\, three text-amendment recommendations\, one subdivision plat — and sets 2026 priorities led by the county's land use plan update. Members can amend the draft before it goes to the clerk's office by January 16 and on to county commissioners early next year.\n\nThe board also approves minutes from its October 1 meeting\, reviews the planning board and commissioners' December and January meeting calendars\, and hears chair comments on the attendance rules for county advisory boards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2460\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2246
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2460
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2170@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe church that owns the Harvey's Chapel cemetery has told Orange County it will consider donating the site\, on condition that it be permanently protected. The county's historic preservation commission heard that on December 10\, alongside news that a grant will pay for expanding the trail network at Seven Mile Creek Preserve\, including a spur trail letting hikers walk up to the cemetery and the site of the original church.\n\nStaff want a high-quality interpretive sign at the cemetery and have arranged to meet a church leader about how to proceed. Members will hike the site late in the winter.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2472\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2170
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2472
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2203@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County Staff Working Group is set to vote on two changes to how the group runs. One creates a financial policies and procedures subcommittee\, chaired by Orange County\, to standardize reimbursement documentation across the participating organizations after unclear requirements caused delays. The other would add the transit tax district administration as a non-voting member\, to recognize its authority and clarify roles. Some members worry that would give GoTriangle more influence on the group.\n\nThe group will also see FY27 project sheets ahead of a January 9 review\, and get an FY26 first-quarter update on the county's and GoTriangle's transit funding agreements. Chapel Hill\, Carrboro and Triangle West are due to give project updates\, including a transit corridor study and a greenway construction bid.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2469\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2203
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2469
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-2211@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Broadband Task Force
DESCRIPTION:Orange County Broadband Task Force\n\nOrange County's Broadband Task Force gives its December 10 meeting to two outside briefings. Andrew Stevenson\, a director at Lumos\, the fiber provider building service in the county\, updates the task force on the company's work. Angie Bailey\, director of NCDIT's Broadband Infrastructure Office\, presents on the federal BEAD program and its Stop Gap funding for addresses BEAD leaves out. County staff also give a broadband update.\n\nNo minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what Stevenson and Bailey reported is not on the record. The agenda also carries the task force's action register and approval of earlier minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2474\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2211
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2474
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-2019@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe area agency on aging visits Orange County February 3 and 4 for its annual monitoring visit. The review covers health promotion programs\, senior center operations\, information and assistance\, options counseling\, and two grants.\n\nThe board also plans to take up the FY 2026-27 budget\, which kicked off January 8. It also owes its annual report to the county commissioners by January 16\, to be presented in February or March.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2544\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2019
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2544
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2210@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Broadband Task Force
DESCRIPTION:Orange County Broadband Task Force\n\nOrange County's Broadband Task Force gives half its February 11 meeting to the state broadband office: a presentation from Jeffrey Brooks of NCDIT's Broadband Infrastructure Office on the federal BEAD program and the state's Stop Gap effort to reach addresses BEAD leaves out.\n\nThe task force then reviews its GIS coverage map with Robert Reynolds of the county's information technology department\, followed by old and new business — the group's action register\, how often it should meet\, and approval of its minutes. No minutes are on file for this meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2529\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2210
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2529
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2199@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260219
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group had two recommendations to make on February 18: approval of GoTriangle's regional technology plan\, and the status quo option for Orange Transit's FY 2027 work program.\n\nThe status quo choice mattered. The FY 2027 work program was already running a year behind its own schedule\, and the group spent the following month compressing the public review period to fit.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2530\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2199
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2530
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-1989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2209@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260430
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Broadband Task Force
DESCRIPTION:Orange County Broadband Task Force\n\nTwo hours\, co-chaired by two county commissioners\, with the broadband provider's director in the room. Thirty minutes on a stop-gap update from the provider\, then a full hour reviewing the mapping of who is and is not served.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04292026-2595\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2209
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04292026-2595
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-1975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
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-1972@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040542Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260826
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners opened their August 25 meeting with the oath of office for Commissioner Rani Dasi\, and directed on the consent agenda that the crisis diversion facility under construction be named for Jamezetta Bedford. The formal resolution honoring Bedford\, who died on June 21\, came back to the board a week later.\n\nThe one item of regular business was how the county advertises its land for sale. Until now it did the legal minimum\, a notice in The Herald Sun. The new process adds a listing on the MLS\, county social media\, the community newsletter\, a sign at the property and the asset management webpage\, with the winning bidder covering the costs: $200 to $3\,500 for legal ads\, $500 for the MLS listing and $1\,200 for an appraisal. The tax collector reported a 99.33 percent current-year collection rate for FY 2025-26. Consent also carried the sale of a 1.24-acre placeholder lot on Mollie Court\, four bus shelters for Hillsborough\, and dissolution of the broadband task force whose work produced the county's $10 million fiber contract with Lumos.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2654\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/65?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1972
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2654
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe one public hearing is the consequential item. A county-initiated text amendment would take by-right subdivisions of fewer than 21 lots out of Planning Board and commissioner review entirely and hand them to staff\, on the reasoning that state law requires the county to approve plats meeting its own criteria anyway. It also drops the separate concept plan application\, widens the expedited track to parcels between two and five acres\, and deletes three subdivision categories that have never been used. The Planning Board recommended approval unanimously with one change: doubling the mailing notice before a neighborhood meeting from 14 days to 30.\n\nThe board also fills the Register of Deeds vacancy left by a resignation in mid-August\, and honors Commissioner Jamezetta Bedford\, who died in June\, by naming the crisis diversion facility now under construction after her. Consent carries $350\,000 in tourism marketing contracts\, a $37\,783 opioid settlement award\, and ratification of a $123\,500 inspections contract the county manager had already signed to keep construction moving.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09012026-2661\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/66?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2327
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09012026-2661
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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