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UID:meeting-3614@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
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-3613@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241009
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Orange County Chiefs' Association and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners met with the county's fire and rescue chiefs\, then held a work session on a draft policy for spending bond and other capital money on school construction ahead of the November 5 bond referendum. The board also took up nine appointments to advisory boards\, from the Planning Board to the Historic Preservation Commission.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2100\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1757?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3613
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2100
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-3611@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241108
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners were set to decide whether to raise the pay cap for the county's ABC General Manager from $132\,000 to as much as $150\,000\, and whether to raise ABC board member stipends for the first time since 2004. The agenda also carried an updated Safe Routes to School plan recommending crosswalks\, sidewalks and reduced speed zones near schools across the county.\n\nHousing staff planned to report on the first quarter under new Emergency Housing Assistance rules\, including a rising share of denied applications. A 20-item consent agenda covered property tax releases\, vehicle and equipment purchases for Solid Waste and Emergency Services\, two donated conservation easements\, and a $2 regional vehicle registration tax increase for GoTriangle.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11072024-2126\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1767?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3611
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11072024-2126
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3609@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
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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UID:meeting-3607@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
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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UID:meeting-3595@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250402
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe county manager presented the recommended 2025-35 capital investment plan to Orange County commissioners on 1 April 2025. Its tax estimates are built on the FY2025-26 valuation from the revaluation rather than the current one\, it assumes 2 percent property tax growth and 4 percent sales tax growth\, and it relies substantially on debt.\n\nThe board also approved the county's transportation priority list for the state's SPOT 8 prioritisation round\, which feeds the 2027-2036 state transportation improvement program\, and eleven consent items.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012025-2214\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1799?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3595
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012025-2214
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3590@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe county manager presented his recommended 2025-26 operating budget to Orange County commissioners on 6 May 2025\, a plan carrying a 6 percent increase. The board also held the statutory public hearing on financing up to $78 million for capital projects\, and took recommendations from the Opioid Advisory Committee on five community grants.\n\nThe agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062025-2243\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1815?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3590
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062025-2243
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3587@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners held two public hearings on 20 May 2025 on how the county will spend its HOME housing money: the five-year 2025-29 consolidated plan\, and the annual action plan that carries it out. The consortium of Carrboro\, Chapel Hill\, Hillsborough and the county is allocated $367\,013.59 for the coming programme year\, and staff proposed concentrating it on home repair and tenant-based rental assistance for households under 30 percent and between 30 and 50 percent of area median income.\n\nThe board also adopted the final financing resolution for up to $78 million in installment financing for capital projects and equipment\, secured against county and school properties\, and a twelve-item consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-2265\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1823?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3587
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-2265
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3586@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250523
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA budget work session on four things: the twelve fire district tax rates\, countywide revenue changes\, countywide employee compensation\, and the recommended budgets of the human services departments - aging\, child support\, civil rights and civic life\, health\, housing\, libraries and the opioid settlement fund. Fire chiefs attend to make their own case. No public comment is taken at a work session.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05222025-2268\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1825?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3586
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05222025-2268
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-3585@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250528
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe last of the departmental budget sessions. Every functional leadership team comes to the board in turn - public safety\, human services\, support services\, general government and community services\, twenty-odd departments and the Sportsplex - to talk through operating requests\, capital\, and proposed fee changes. The board takes no public comment at a work session\; the public hearing follows on 29 May.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05272025-2272\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1828?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3585
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05272025-2272
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-3582@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250605
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250606
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe meeting where Orange County's 2025-26 budget is actually decided. The manager put a recommended budget in front of the commissioners on 6 May\, two public hearings followed\, and this three-hour work session at the Southern Human Services Center is where the board works down the amendment list and settles the numbers: the ten-year capital plan first\, then the operating budget and what the two school districts get per pupil\, then the fee schedule\, then the county property tax rate\, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district tax and twelve fire district rates. Formal adoption follows on 17 June. The board takes no public comment at a work session\; written comments go to ocbocc@orangecountync.gov.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06052025-2279\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/2?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3582
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06052025-2279
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-3662@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250625
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250626
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health met on 25 June 2025 to receive the 2024 State of the County's Health report and the health director's report. The agenda also carried public and board comment\, updates from the board's three priority committees\, and a media packet.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06252025-2315\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3662
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06252025-2315
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2012@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
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-2009@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Orange County Chiefs' Association and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners met jointly with the county's fire chiefs and rescue squad leaders\, who described the unprecedented flooding and rescues during Tropical Storm Chantal\, staffing levels ranging from volunteer-heavy rural departments to career staff\, and requests for continued county support. After the joint session\, commissioners moved into a work session covering the Land Use Plan 2050 process\, including a presentation on Hillsborough's water and sewer boundary constraints\, and voted to have county staff rather than an outside consultant facilitate the board's November 21 retreat.\n\nCommissioners also worked through several advisory board appointments\, reappointing members to the Affordable Housing Advisory Board and Parks and Recreation Council and filling seats on the Opioid Advisory Committee.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2409\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/22?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2009
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2409
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1997@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners gave an hour and 45 minutes on February 10 to the first group of county boards and commissions presenting their annual work plans\, then 45 minutes to a fee study covering emergency services\, planning and inspections\, and the environment\, agriculture\, parks and recreation department.\n\nA fee study is where a county works out what its services cost and what it charges for them. The commissioners adopted the resulting FY 2026-27 fee schedule in June.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2512\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/39?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1997
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2512
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260408
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took the manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan on April 7\, held two public hearings\, and heard a school enrollment forecast. One hearing covered the draft HOME Investment Partnership annual action plan\; the other a county-initiated zoning amendment moving a watershed overlay boundary on a single 19.4-acre parcel in Bingham Township.\n\nThe board also discussed how the county communicates with residents and how its online content measures against the Americans with Disabilities Act.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/45?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1989
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1986@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260422
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County holds its public hearing on a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centres as a land use - explicitly including artificial intelligence data centres\, cryptocurrency mining and data processing facilities. Also on the agenda: a $1.7 million loan to a volunteer fire district\, and a discussion of the county's communications approach. The published packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/49?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1986
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1981@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThree regular agenda items\, each about housing or the money behind it: up to $32 million of installment financing for capital projects\, a $100\,000 request to help buy supportive housing units for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities\, and the annual federal housing plan. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/54?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1981
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1980@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260522
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThree hours and fifteen minutes at the Southern Human Services Center\, starting with the twelve fire district tax rates and then working through public safety and human services department by department - courts\, criminal justice resources\, emergency services and the sheriff\, then aging\, mental health\, child support\, civil rights\, health\, housing\, libraries\, social services and the opioid settlement fund.\n\nNo public comment is taken at a work session\; written comments go to the board's email address. The county publishes a detail worth knowing: anyone who needs transport to a board meeting can book a demand response ride from county public transport by noon the day before\, free.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212026-2608\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/55?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1980
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212026-2608
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1976@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260605
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe session where Orange County's 2026-27 budget is actually settled. The board works down the capital and operating amendment lists\, sets the tax rates\, and passes a resolution of intent that binds it to adopt on 16 June. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042026-2621\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/59?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1976
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042026-2621
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-2327@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
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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UID:meeting-3840@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
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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UID:meeting-4713@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051107Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261006
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261007
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners receive the final report Tuesday night from GAR Associates\, the firm hired in May to audit the 2025 property revaluation after residents and board members questioned it. GAR finds the values meet the minimum statistical standards but that several office practices do not. It recommends a true sales-comparison approach for homes\, a new land valuation strategy and a statistical appraisal specialist on staff. The only public hearing is on fiscal 2028 transit grant applications seeking $515\,928.\n\nThe 23-item consent agenda carries $251\,517 in property tax refunds\, new agreements with eight rural fire departments\, and a $135\,000 salary for Register of Deeds Amy McLamb. It also awards the county's federal HOME-ARP rental assistance money to Housing for New Hope\, the only applicant\, and endorses the Andrews House\, a 1950s Modernist home\, for the National Register. Information memos set out a schedule for data center rules\, with a hearing expected in March 2027\, and report bus ridership up 52% to 137% under the fare-free pilot.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10062026-2686\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/73?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4713
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10062026-2686
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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