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UID:meeting-3678@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nUNC's athletics department told the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau advisory board on November 20\, 2024 that it is weighing seven options for the Dean E. Smith Center\, including building a new arena at one of five sites. Simply repairing and maintaining the existing building would cost $150 million over twenty years.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202024-2135\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3678
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202024-2135
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3605@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
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-3699@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250130
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe Orange County Historic Preservation Commission took a redrafted landmark evaluation form on 29 January 2025 and started work on a new website. There were no decision items. The commission also discussed how to find and map historic Black cemeteries and Indian stone mounds.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01292025-2182\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3699
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01292025-2182
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3603@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners heard ten advisory boards present annual work plans on 11 February 2025 and discussed the state of the county's homelessness partnership. Two of the partnership's guiding documents are years out of date.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112025-2188\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1783?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3603
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112025-2188
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3601@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3597@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250319
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners spent 18 March 2025 on three long discussions: the annual update from the Orange Water and Sewer Authority\, where Medicaid expansion stands a year on\, and two accumulated fund balances the board has to decide what to do with. Nobody spoke in public comment.\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/_03182025-2208\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1795?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3597
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182025-2208
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3594@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250409
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners took four subjects at their 8 April 2025 work session\, then worked through appointments to five advisory boards. The most consequential is the 2050 comprehensive land use plan: the board asked for more background before it will review the draft\, and the third community engagement window\, scheduled for May through July\, has been postponed with the consultant's work paused.\n\nThe board also reviewed performance measures for the countywide strategic plan\, the draft Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan\, and a status report on the Soccer.com Center.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2217\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1803?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3594
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2217
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3660@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250506
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review convened for 2025 on 5 May\, opened for appeals\, and set its calendar: sittings from late May through 31 July before adjournment\, then post-adjournment dates running to mid-December. It heard one appeal\, from Montgomery Farm Ventures LLC\, and took a briefing on its power to compromise taxes under GS 105-312(k).\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052025-2244\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3660
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052025-2244
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3673@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250522
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nA ninety-minute board meeting at the Hyatt Place in Southern Village. On the agenda: the university's local relations director as guest speaker\, preparations for an international football match at Kenan Stadium in June\, summer events\, a meeting planning partnership\, and officers for the coming fiscal year.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2266\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3673
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2266
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-3717@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250522
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe staff working group that administers the Orange County Transit Plan\, with representatives from the county\, GoTriangle\, the metropolitan planning organisation\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Mebane and Hillsborough. On the agenda: next year's meeting schedule\, the work programme amendment calendar\, and a revised matrix setting out which agency leads which function. Project sponsors then report in turn.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2267\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3717
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2267
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3659@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250528
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nFifteen quarter-hour slots on the agenda before the Board of Equalization and Review at West Campus. Unlike most of its sittings\, this one is largely about who qualifies for a property tax exclusion rather than what a property is worth.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05272025-2270\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3659
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05272025-2270
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3658@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nFourteen hearings scheduled before the Board of Equalization and Review at quarter-hour intervals from 1:00 to 4:30 PM at West Campus. Three owners expected to attend\, one of them by phone.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2280\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3658
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2280
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3635@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250612
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOne case: A-3-25\, a request to modify the special use permit for a cricket facility on Old Greensboro Road and Holly Creek Lane\, granted in 2020. The owners ask to change the conditions on seasonal play and to revise the site plan to add accessory structures for maintenance and on-site services\; everything else in the original permit stays. This is a quasi-judicial hearing\, which means the board decides only on competent\, material and substantial evidence\, and only people who establish legal standing may put evidence in front of it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06112025-2284\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3635
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06112025-2284
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3653@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250625
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard eleven appeals on 24 June 2025: one registered motor vehicle\, seven contesting real property values\, two asking that present-use value be reinstated on parcels removed from the program\, and one asking the board to accept a present-use value application filed after the deadline. Five appellants appeared. The board also discussed how the county's evidence reaches appellants before a hearing\, and its handling of registered motor vehicle appeals.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242025-2299\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3653
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242025-2299
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2024@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging's August 12 agenda notes that Chair Ann Bradford has resigned. Members are set to elect a new chair and vice-chair\, hear FY 2025-26 budget updates\, update the Senior Center Registration Form and Code of Conduct\, and review Year 3 reports on the county's 2022-27 Master Aging Plan covering communications\, transportation\, health services and employment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2539\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2024
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2539
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2015@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250827
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Orange County Board of Commissioners takes up bridge funding for residents displaced by Tropical Storm Chantal after hearing extended public comment from displaced Camelot Village residents and tenant advocates\, adopts the Eno-Haw Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan\, and approves the charge and composition of a new Tax Assessment Work Group to review the county's 2025 property revaluation. The board also takes up short-term funding to keep a senior takeaway meal program running and a routine consent agenda covering vehicle purchases and a cloud migration contract.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2336\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/4?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2015
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2336
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2215@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260420
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260421
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nThree regular items: the regional planning organisation's master transportation plan and air quality report\, the draft 2027 transit work programme\, and the county's priorities for the next round of state project scoring. Anyone may comment by email and the comments are read aloud during the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-2584\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2215
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-2584
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2186@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260428
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260429
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nThe longest item on the agenda is forty-five minutes for all commissioners to score submissions for the Pauli Murray Awards. The commission also takes the Blackwood Farms marker\, sets its August retreat date\, and hears committee reports on outreach and community events.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04282026-2590\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2186
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04282026-2590
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2071@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260501
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board Of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nNo appeals. The Board of Equalization and Review sets its hearing calendar for the year and spends the meeting on how it will conduct itself - eight questions of process\, from what counts as good cause for a late appeal to whether a property owner can be represented by someone who is not a lawyer.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04302026-2611\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2071
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04302026-2611
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1984@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2240@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nA 43-lot subdivision on 61 acres\, and the subdivision ordinance rewrite that governs how such things are reviewed. 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/_05062026-2592\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2240
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2592
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2043@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260514
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nNo cases. The Board of Adjustment spends this meeting on itself: oaths of office\, its rules of procedure\, annual legal training including guidance on standing\, the year's calendar\, and elections for chair and vice-chair.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132026-2601\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2043
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132026-2601
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2252@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260519
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nA ninety-minute virtual meeting with two outside firms: consultants engaged to review the 2025 revaluation\, and an executive search firm hired to recruit the county's next tax administrator. The tax administrator's post is currently held on an interim basis.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2606\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2252
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2606
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2194@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe staff group administering the county's transit tax district\, with a consent agenda that cancels its own June meeting and revises the 2027 work programme adoption schedule. Discussion items cover the quarterly tax district update\, the regional operator's annual financial report\, next year's global agreements\, revised financial policies\, and the state of the group's own minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2609\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2194
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2609
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2185@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nA ninety-minute monthly meeting. The Blackwood Farms commemorative marker returns as an action item\, the executive committee reports on elections and membership vacancies\, and the August retreat is fixed for 22 August. Ten minutes for public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2615\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2185
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2615
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1976@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2184@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260624
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nA ninety-minute monthly meeting on Revere Road and on Teams. The commission takes an action item on a commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms\, hears a county update from the Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life\, and reports on membership vacancies and the retreat set for 22 August. Ten minutes for public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06232026-2626\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2184
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06232026-2626
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1974@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2193@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260820
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe staff group that administers Orange County's transit tax district meets at 10 a.m. with representatives from Carrboro\, Chapel Hill\, Hillsborough\, Mebane\, GoTriangle\, the county and the regional planning organization. It is asked to approve nine sets of minutes\, from 31 October 2025 through 20 May 2026. GoTriangle presents quarterly financial results for the Orange transit plan\, each member reports on its projects\, and the group elects officers for the coming year.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2649\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2193
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2649
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-2183@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260822
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260823
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nA seven-hour Saturday retreat\, 9:00 to 4:00\, where the commission sets its own direction for the year and the decade. Morning: closing out the 2026 budget year and opening 2027\, a keep-or-toss exercise on what the commission does\, and subcommittee breakouts to write charters and priority statements. Afternoon: planning the year's events\, then a three-year strategy and a ten-year vision.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08222026-2656\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2183
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08222026-2656
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
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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UID:meeting-2182@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260826
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nThe commission's monthly meeting\, 6:00 to 7:30 PM on Revere Road and on Teams\, with every item timed to the minute. It advises the county commissioners on human relations and social justice\, and its job as the agenda describes it is promoting goodwill across communities\, identifying concerns about discrimination and civil inequality\, and supporting education and outreach.\n\nThe business: a climate action grant presentation\, a county update from the Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life\, a decision on a commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms\, and a review and vote on applications to fill membership vacancies. Subcommittees report on outreach\, a housing series and the Blackwood Farms dedication.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2655\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2182
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2655
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260902
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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DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260911
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners meet Thursday for the twice-yearly progress report on the countywide strategic plan\, and for a first look at a draft Strategic Communications and Civic Partnership Plan. The rest of the evening is appointments to thirteen advisory boards.\n\nThe communications plan would set a county-wide framework for how Orange County talks to residents and staff\, treating communication as a core public service rather than a support function. Its stated aims are clearer and more consistent messaging\, wider access\, stronger internal capacity\, and durable relationships with communities.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09102026-2664\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/67?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2918
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09102026-2664
CATEGORIES:Work session
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DTSTAMP:20261014T040459Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260917
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group September 16\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group votes September 16 on $113\,000 of second-quarter changes to the FY27 transit work program\, then sends them out for public comment. The largest piece is a $33\,000 Orange share of a $100\,000 alternatives analysis for bus lanes on NC 54 between US 15-501 and Interstate 40. GoTriangle wants the study done now because NCDOT is already running environmental work on that stretch\, and the corridor is part of the Chapel Hill to Triangle Town Center project that scored highest of any regional transit project in SPOT 8.0. Durham's transit plan would pay the other 67 percent.\n\nThe rest is operating money. GoTriangle asks for five more weekday revenue hours on Route 800\, which runs between UNC Hospitals and the Regional Transit Center by way of Southpoint and RTP. Boardings there rose 29 percent over the past year and round trips routinely run past 120 minutes\, putting the route behind schedule. GoTriangle also wants $32\,438 more for the Transit Assistance Program\, which paid for more than 400\,000 fully subsidized trips in FY25 against an $82\,500 budget. Orange County asks for $60\,000 for marketing and public engagement ahead of the transit plan update\, and $20\,000 more for the working group's own administrator.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162026-2667\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3824
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162026-2667
CATEGORIES:Other
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