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UID:meeting-3614@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241002
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners are due to decide whether to keep covering child care subsidy parent fees the county already pays alone in the state\, a new five-year contract for the Piedmont Food Processing Center\, and next steps for the Greene Tract's affordable-housing master plan.\n\nThe board is also holding public hearings on landscaping rules in its development ordinance and on the county's 2025 property reappraisal schedule\, ahead of a consent agenda covering tax refunds\, ambulance and defibrillator purchases\, and lease renewals.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012024-2099\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1755?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3614
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012024-2099
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3609@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners received an independent assessment of the detention center on November 19\, 2024\, commissioned after a petition from Commissioner Anna Richards\, whom the board honored the same night as she left office. They also adopted the county's Transportation Multimodal Plan and held a public hearing on the annual report of federal housing spending.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192024-2136\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1771?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3609
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192024-2136
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3699@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
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-3604@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners opened the public hearing on Fiddlehead Corner on 4 February 2025\, a housing cooperative's plan for a 55-and-over community on 90 acres off Morrow Mill Road at Gold Mine Loop. The application asked for 150 dwellings\; the applicant cut that to 100 at the hearing. After 33 people spoke\, the board continued the hearing to 6 March.\n\nThe project needs a rezoning from agricultural residential to a master plan conditional district\, amendments to the comprehensive plan\, and changes to the development ordinance. The Planning Board recommended denial of all three. The agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042025-2185\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1779?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3604
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042025-2185
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3697@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250424
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission heard a local historian correct the record on Faucett Mill at its 23 April 2025 meeting\, and took an update on the Old Courthouse preservation project. There were no decisions on the agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2239\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3697
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2239
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3696@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250529
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nNo decisions on the agenda. The commission spends the evening on how it decides instead: testing a rewritten landmark evaluation form against a real house\, considering a university proposal to take DNA samples from a burial ground for enslaved people\, and organising a historical marker programme. Two site visits and the question of whether to meet at all in June round it out.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2274\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3696
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2274
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3583@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
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:20261014T040741Z
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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UID:meeting-2115@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250924
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears appeals from 13 property owners contesting the county's 2025 revaluation of their homes and land\, and considers 19 late-filed applications for the property tax exemption available to religious institutions under a state law enacted in July 2025.\n\nEach appeal weighs the owner's evidence — comparable sales\, flood damage\, an unbuildable easement\, an incorrect property record — against the county assessor's own analysis\, and the board decides whether to keep\, lower or continue the assessed value.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09232025-2392\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2115
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09232025-2392
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2172@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250925
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe Orange County Historic Preservation Commission will review four candidates for local landmark status: the Currie-Neville Log House\, the Ridge Road School\, the cemetery at Little River Presbyterian Church\, and the Morris Grove School. The commission recommends landmark designations to the county commissioners\, who have final say\; it does not decide them itself.\n\nThe agenda also covers a planned solar panel project on county-owned historic buildings\, a proposed addition to the county Board of Education Building\, planning for the nation's 250th anniversary\, and a proposal for temporary flags on Old Courthouse Square. No item is up for a vote beyond approving the July minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2395\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2172
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2395
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2007@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
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-2004@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251119
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners continue a public hearing on a conditional rezoning of 78.11 acres at 1039-UT NC 86 North\, Hillsborough\, for a 49-lot conservation cluster subdivision of single-family homes. Forestar Group filed the application on behalf of the property's owners. The hearing carried over from November 6. The planning board split 4-4 in September\, then voted 9-0 in October to recommend approval with conditions. The planning director recommends the board either approve the rezoning and its statement of consistency or deny it as not in the public interest.\n\nCommissioners also hold a public hearing on planning-director-initiated amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance covering impervious surfaces\, watershed protection overlay districts and stream buffers. The changes would simplify impervious-surface limits across the county's thirteen watershed overlay districts\, drop an obsolete sliding-scale table\, and adjust reservoir buffer widths near Lake Orange. Other business includes a Native American Heritage Month proclamation\, a discussion of when closed sessions appear on meeting agendas\, and a fifteen-item consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2448\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/33?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2004
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2448
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251202
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness's annual report to the board flags a new HUD funding notice that could cut money for permanent housing by 70 percent and cap annual renewal funding at 30 percent. Commissioners also elect a new chair and vice-chair for the year\, name voting delegates to the state and national county associations\, and review which outside boards still need a commissioner to serve on them in 2026.\n\nThe consent agenda covers routine property tax releases\, a five-year renewal of the county's Fairview Park agreement with the Town of Hillsborough\, and a school enrollment forecasting contract with UNC's Carolina Demography.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12012025-2461\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/35?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2002
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12012025-2461
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2170@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
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-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners consider $267\,750 in Community Climate Action Grants\, recommended for eight of sixteen applications requesting $619\,095 combined. The other eight applicants\, including Habitat for Humanity's $150\,000 weatherization proposal\, ranked third\, would get nothing.\n\nThe agenda also carries the county's clean audit opinion for the year ended June 30\, 2025\, plus a $15\,000 increase in the audit services contract. Commissioners also consider a condominium agreement that would put the Drakeford Library Complex under shared ownership with the Town of Carrboro.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2492\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/37?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1999
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2492
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2146@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
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's January 21 agenda calls for a report from the executive director\, a finance report\, and updates from members\, along with approval of the November 19 minutes. No new business is listed.\n\nThe finance report attached to the agenda puts the bureau 69 percent through its annual budget as of December\, with 84 percent of its sales and marketing line and about half its arts commission budget already spent.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2494\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2146
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2494
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-1998@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2018@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's advisory board on aging met February 10 at the Passmore Center\, a building still being restored after a water event. Quarterly reports for year four of the Master Aging Plan were due on community supports and health services\, outdoor spaces and buildings\, and housing.\n\nThe board also took the FY 2026-27 budget\, appointments\, and a report on Medicare Part D open enrollment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2545\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2018
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2545
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2188@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260224
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260225
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission took an open meetings law refresher from the county attorney on February 24\, thirteen minutes of the ninety-minute agenda. That is unusual enough on an advisory board agenda to be worth noting.\n\nThe commission also worked its secretary and membership vacancies\, recapped its community conversations\, and took subcommittee reports on a youth initiative\, tabling\, and the Pauli Murray Awards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02242026-2639\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2188
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02242026-2639
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1995@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2144@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
SUMMARY:Orange County: March Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board met in Carrboro on March 18\, at the Drakeford Library Complex\, and opened with a welcome from the Carrboro town manager and a reading by a former Carrboro poet laureate who sits on the board.\n\nThe executive director reported on final details for a sold-out Savannah Bananas event\, other major April events in the county\, and the bureau's plans for a July 4 event at the Colonial Inn tied to the nation's 250th anniversary.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2583\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2144
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2583
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2168@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission had three decisions on March 25\, all of them about Montrose or the nation's 250th anniversary. It evaluated Montrose for landmark designation and started the process of an interlocal agreement with the Town of Hillsborough to designate it\, which is needed because the property sits in Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction. It also decided whether to join the statewide Landmark Tree project.\n\nUnder updates the commission took a proposed memorial marker honoring the enslaved community associated with St. Matthew's Church\, progress toward National Register listing for Moorefields\, and the donation process and timeline for the Harvey's Chapel cemetery.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2168
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1977@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260603
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThree substantial items: how the county spends next year's opioid settlement money\, acceptance of a farmland stewardship plan replacing one from 2009\, and notice to terminate a 99-year interlocal agreement under which the county collects taxes for its municipalities. 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/_06022026-2620\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/58?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1977
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2166@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260625
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nNo items for decision\, and two of the discussion items are about the same piece of ground: how to recognise the County Poor House Cemetery and the lynching of Cyrus Guy\, who is buried there\, and how to pay for a ground penetrating radar survey of the site. Also on the agenda: the landmark designation process for Montrose\, a funding delay at the historic courthouse\, and a new proposal for the historic buildings at the future Twin Creeks park.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2628\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2166
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2628
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1973@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260729
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe item that matters most is at number eleven: the board discusses and makes an appointment to fill a vacant seat on itself. An elected board choosing its own missing member is the closest a county gets to selecting a representative without an election.\n\nOtherwise a short agenda. No public hearings\, no regular agenda items and no minutes to approve. The consent agenda carries three things: an amendment letting Habitat for Humanity transfer lots at Weaver's Grove to another affordable housing developer\, acceptance of a state trails grant for Seven Mile Creek\, and a proclamation honouring a late resident. An hour is set aside for public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282026-2644\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/64?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1973
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282026-2644
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2183@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
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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UID:meeting-2165@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260827
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nNo items for decision. An evening of staff presentations and updates: new renovation concepts for the Murphey School\, a county historic landmark\; proposed changes to the federal review rules that govern how historic properties are treated when public money or permits are involved\; progress on the Occaneechi village\; and a long list of possible field trips to eighteenth-century burying grounds\, farms and old schoolhouses.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262026-2658\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2165
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262026-2658
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2918@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
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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UID:meeting-3839@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260916
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Planning Public Hearing with the Town of Chapel Hill
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners and the Chapel Hill town council sat together Tuesday evening to hear one case: Holy Trinity Anglican Church wants to rezone about 15.5 acres at 1651 Old Lystra Road for a place of worship and up to ten homes. The land sits in the Chapel Hill Joint Planning Transition Area\, where Chapel Hill's zoning rules apply but both bodies have to approve a change.\n\nBoth planning bodies have already recommended approval. Chapel Hill's Planning Commission voted 5-1 in May with four conditions\, among them a height cap on the Old Lystra Road lots and a definition of the "tiny homes" the applicant's plan mentions but nobody has defined. Orange County's Planning Board voted unanimously in June\, asking for traffic control to stop cut-through traffic between Old Lystra Road and Wave Road. Staff recommended approval and asked both bodies to close the hearing and vote later: the county at its business meeting the same night\, the town on September 23.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09152026-2670\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/70?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3839
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09152026-2670
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
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UID:meeting-3840@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040741Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260916
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nHoly Trinity Anglican Church asks Orange County's commissioners on 15 September to rezone about 15.5 acres at 1651 Old Lystra Road\, in the joint planning area with Chapel Hill\, from R-LD1 to a conditional R-4 district. The church plans an 11\,200-square-foot building with a 300-seat sanctuary\, a later 6\,240-square-foot addition\, and up to ten church-owned tiny homes to house people in need\, all on well and septic. The county planning board recommended approval unanimously on 3 June\, with a condition against cut-through traffic\, and the rezoning takes effect only if Chapel Hill's council adopts it too. The joint public hearing is held at 6 p.m. that evening.\n\nThe board also holds hearings on the HOME program's annual report and on a $191\,911 state and federal rural transit application\, hears from OWASA on the drought and PFAS\, and gets an update on the J Branch rail trail study. The consent agenda buys 35 Motorola portable radios for $352\,560\, hires engineers for the first phase of the VIPER radio expansion for $186\,200\, and borrows $504\,000 to replace Durham Tech's rooftop HVAC units. It also shifts $337\,096 of Chapel Hill-Carrboro school money from the McDougle roof to a boiler at FPG Elementary\, and removes two advisory board members for missed meetings.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09152026-2671\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/69?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3840
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09152026-2671
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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