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UID:meeting-3670@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Board of Health
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health's September 25 agenda covered dental fee policy\, refugee health screening\, and children's screen time\, alongside the county's Community Health Improvement Plans for access to care\, behavioral health\, and connections to community support.\n\nThe board also planned to approve minutes from its August 28 meeting and hear the health director's monthly report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2112\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3670
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2112
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3671@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Minutes of
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health met September 25 to consider Community Health Improvement Plans for the county's three priority areas: access to care\, behavioral health\, and connections to community support. Members also reviewed proposed updates to the board's own policy and procedures manual\, including a dental fee schedule that stops sliding at the 20% pay level and a shorter window\, 10 days instead of 30\, for verifying a client's income.\n\nTwo annual staff reports were also on the agenda: health screening for refugees and asylees arriving in the county\, and research on how screen time affects children's mental health. The board also planned to approve its August 28 minutes and hear the health director's monthly report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2121\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3671
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2121
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3614@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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-3626@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241009
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe Orange County Advisory Board on Aging is ending free takeaway lunches for seniors on October 31\, once the federal ARPA funding that pays for them runs out. The board also tracks county staffing for aging services and the county's Multisector Plan for Aging.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2174\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3626
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2174
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3613@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241009
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Orange County Chiefs' Association and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners met with the county's fire and rescue chiefs\, then held a work session on a draft policy for spending bond and other capital money on school construction ahead of the November 5 bond referendum. The board also took up nine appointments to advisory boards\, from the Planning Board to the Historic Preservation Commission.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2100\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1757?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3613
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2100
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3669@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241024
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes of
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's dental clinic logged 100 satisfaction-survey responses out of roughly 5\,000 appointments this year\, and environmental health drew 120 out of more than 10\,000 clients served\, results the Board of Health reviewed alongside its annual policy manual update. The board tightened its income-verification window from 30 days to 10 and locked in monthly billing statements.\n\nMembers also began setting up next year's leadership\, with Alison Stuebe agreeing to become chair in 2025\, and closed part of the meeting to review Health Director Quintana Stewart's annual performance.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10232024-2122\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3669
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10232024-2122
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3611@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3625@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe Orange County Advisory Board on Aging's November meeting covered staff changes at the Passmore and Seymour Centers\, continued funding for two senior programs\, and the first quarterly report of year three of the 2022-27 Master Aging Plan. The board also planned to approve its 2025 meeting calendar and hear updates from three affiliated groups: the Senior Tar Heel Legislature delegation\, the Nursing Home and Adult Care Home Joint Community Advisory Committee\, and the Friends groups at both senior centers.\n\nNew business included a proposal from board member Jon Wilner to pair seniors with schoolchildren in an after-school art program developed with the ArtsCenter\, aimed at grades 3\, 7 and 11.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2175\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3625
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2175
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-3644@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections met the Tuesday after the November 5 general election to handle post-election business ahead of canvass. The agenda covered administrative challenges to absentee and early voting ballots cast by voters no longer eligible\, and same-day registrants whose addresses could not be verified.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2169\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3644
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2169
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3668@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Board of Health Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health adopted revisions to the county wastewater rules on November 20\, 2024\, elected officers for 2025\, and set its annual work plan. Members asked that concerns about federal public health policy under the incoming administration be added to that plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202024-2147\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3668
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202024-2147
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3608@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241203
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners organized for a new term on December 2\, 2024. Four members took the oath of office\, Jamezetta Bedford was re-elected chair and Jean Hamilton elected vice-chair\, and the board named its delegates to the state and national county associations.\n\nThe only regular item was the Global Agreement for Capital\, the document each member government must sign under the transit tax governance the board adopted with GoTriangle in June 2023.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022024-2138\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1773?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3608
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022024-2138
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3624@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging closed 2024 with a working meeting at the Seymour Center: first-quarter reports on year three of the 2022-27 Master Aging Plan\, staffing changes at the Department on Aging\, and talks with Mebane about serving its older residents.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102024-2176\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3624
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102024-2176
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3623@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250115
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging opened its 2025-26 budget discussion on 14 January 2025. The department needs county money to replace federal pandemic funding that paid for the take-away meal programme and some in-home services.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142025-2260\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3623
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142025-2260
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3633@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250116
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe Orange County Agricultural Preservation Board approved two farms into the voluntary agricultural district programme on 15 January 2025 and worked through the draft farmland preservation plan it will take to the commissioners in April.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152025-2173\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3633
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152025-2173
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3667@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250123
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health approved its annual work plan and a revised 2025 meeting schedule on 22 January 2025\, and heard a year's report from the health department's nutrition services.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222025-2235\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3667
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222025-2235
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3622@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging reviewed second-quarter Master Aging Plan reports on 11 February 2025. Two housing items stood out: the senior housing guide is being updated for summer release\, and a developer is seeking rezoning for low-income independent senior housing across from the Seymour Center.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112025-2261\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3622
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112025-2261
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3603@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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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UID:meeting-3602@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250218
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Hillsborough Board of Commissioners
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners and the Hillsborough Board of Commissioners met jointly on 17 February 2025 on six subjects: the interlocal planning agreements between them\, contracted services\, town water and sewer capacity\, the closed Fairview landfill and the park above it\, the Hillsborough Station rail project\, and the crisis diversion facility.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172025-2190\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1786?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3602
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172025-2190
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3666@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250226
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250227
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health approved a $9\,152\,248 budget request for 2025-26 on 26 February 2025\, plus a $74\,071 increase in the personnel budget\, and sent it and a set of fee changes to the county commissioners. It also heard from Chapel Hill's Vision Zero coordinator on traffic deaths.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02262025-2234\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3666
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02262025-2234
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3600@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250306
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250307
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners denied the Fiddlehead Corner rezoning on 6 March 2025\, refusing a 150-unit master plan development on 90.133 acres off Morrow Mill Road at Gold Mine Loop in Bingham Township. The board also denied the comprehensive plan amendment and the applicant-initiated ordinance text amendment that would have made the rezoning consistent.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03062025-2194\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1791?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3600
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03062025-2194
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3621@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250312
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging discussed the revaluation and safety at the Seymour Center on 11 March 2025\, and reviewed second-quarter reports on the Master Aging Plan. It asked the tax office to come to its next meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2262\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3621
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2262
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3599@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250312
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners heard nine advisory boards present their annual work plans on 11 March 2025\, took the consultant's presentation on the draft 2050 land use plan\, worked through appointments to six boards\, and added a letter to their congressional delegation about federal budget reconciliation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2203\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1793?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3599
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2203
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3598@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Legislative Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe commissioners' annual legislative breakfast with the county's state senator and two state representatives\, at 8:30 AM in the Whitted Building. The county sent them its 2025 priority legislative issues in advance\; this is the meeting to talk them through. The only document on file is that packet - the letter and the priorities themselves - and a single-page record of the meeting that does not extract as text.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172025-2206\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3598
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172025-2206
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3597@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3665@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250326
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250327
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health adopted its department strategic plan on 26 March 2025 and passed a resolution on social media use\, screen time and youth mental health. It also heard from the NC Navigator Consortium and Legal Aid North Carolina about health insurance enrolment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03262025-2236\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3665
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03262025-2236
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3596@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250328
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Carrboro Town Council
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners and the Carrboro Town Council met jointly on 27 March 2025 on five subjects: the first year of the Drakeford Library Complex\, what federal cuts do to the county budget\, affordable housing and the Greene Tract\, expanding the CARE mobile crisis team\, and where the two bodies might advocate together.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03272025-2209\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1797?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3596
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03272025-2209
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3595@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3620@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250409
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging heard from the county tax administrator about the 2025 revaluation on 8 April 2025\, and worked through its budget requests for the coming year. About 42 percent of the department's budget is federal\, and the board was told the Administration for Community Living is being dismantled with the consequences unknown.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2263\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3620
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2263
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3593@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250416
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners published the revenue neutral tax rate for 2025-26 on 15 April 2025: 63.84 cents per $100\, down from 86.29 cents\, after the revaluation raised the tax base by $9 billion to $32.6 billion\, an increase of 38.6 percent. They also approved buying a five-acre site off Waterstone Drive in Hillsborough for a crisis diversion facility and hired its construction manager.\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/_04152025-2225\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1806?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3593
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152025-2225
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3664@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250424
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health heard two educational sessions on 23 April 2025: results of a Photovoice study on how formerly incarcerated people get healthcare\, and a measles briefing from the medical director. It also formed a committee to fill a vacant at-large seat and considered whether to oppose a bill in the General Assembly.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2314\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3664
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2314
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3590@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3619@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250514
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging reviewed the county manager's recommended 2025-26 budget on 13 May 2025 and the third-quarter reports on year three of the Master Aging Plan. The manager is recommending that the takeaway lunch programme end\, with funding for July and August so participants can be told.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2264\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3619
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2264
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3589@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250514
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Public Hearing and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners held the public hearing on the county manager's recommended 2025-26 budget and capital investment plan on 13 May 2025\, then turned to appointments for five advisory boards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2247\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1818?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3589
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2247
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3588@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250516
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners took up outside agency and education funding at their 15 May 2025 budget work session\, the first look at those parts of the manager's recommended budget. Outside agency funding is recommended at $800\,146. Per-pupil current expense funding would rise from $5\,666 to $5\,877\, Durham Tech's current expense by 3 percent\, and the ten-year capital window carries $549.9 million of school projects.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05152025-2248\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1820?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3588
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05152025-2248
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3681@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250516
SUMMARY:Orange County: Climate Council
DESCRIPTION:Climate Council\n\nOrange County's Climate Council met on 15 May 2025 on heat and on electrification. Staff from Chapel Hill\, Carrboro and the county presented this year's heat resilience work and asked members to help recruit a heat task force\, and two UNC journalism students presented research and campaign material for an Electrify campaign the council plans to launch in 2026.\n\nCarrboro's chief sustainability officer also set out C-PACE\, a financing programme for commercial energy\, renewable and water upgrades.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05152025-2227\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3681
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05152025-2227
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3717@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3586@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3585@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3659@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3663@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250529
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nTwo educational sessions carry this meeting: the annual child fatality report\, which comes with a substantial change to what North Carolina requires local teams to review\, and an update on how the county is spending its opioid settlement money. One action item\, a set of new health department fees. Public comment is limited to five minutes for the meeting and three minutes a speaker.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2316\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3663
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2316
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3584@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250529
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250530
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Public Hearing and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe formal public hearing on the county manager's recommended 2025-26 budget and the ten-year capital plan\, followed by a work session. The manager presented the recommended budget on 6 May\; this is the last hearing before the board decides amendments on 5 June. Four board appointment discussions follow the hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05292025-2273\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1830?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3584
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05292025-2273
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3583@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3618@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250611
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe Advisory Board on Aging's quarterly working meeting at the Seymour Center\, running two hours and also on Teams\, which the county switched to from Zoom for this meeting. The agenda covers the aging director's report\, third-quarter reports against year three of the 2022-27 Master Aging Plan\, the new county budget\, and board appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06102025-2302\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3618
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06102025-2302
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3662@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2024@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2192@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250819
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCPEH Leadership Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:OCPEH Leadership Team\n\nThe Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness Leadership Team will decide how to divide a shrunken Emergency Solutions Grant pot\, $44\,000 this year against $98\,000 last year\, between the rapid rehousing program and the Inter-Faith Council's Homestart shelter\, which has appealed for a larger share. The Funding Review Committee recommends keeping the full amount with rapid rehousing rather than splitting it between the two. The team also expects an update on HUD technical assistance for the Continuum of Care's governance structure\, ahead of a September 11 public town hall\, along with partnership data reporting and committee updates.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2342\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2192
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2342
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2015@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2141@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250827
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250828
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe board would vote whether to issue a carport permit. A district court had struck down the county's groundwater-protection rules as unsupported by evidence and too vague to enforce\, forcing the vote. It would also get its first look at a resolution urging Orange County\, Carrboro\, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough to encourage affordable housing. A vote is expected in September.\n\nThe agenda also carries the 2024 communicable disease report\, the health department's fourth-quarter finances\, and a request to move the October meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08272025-2423\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2141
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08272025-2423
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2023@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe Orange County Advisory Board on Aging takes up year-three progress on the 2022-27 Master Aging Plan\, covering housing\, social participation and outdoor spaces\, and reviews FY2025-26 budget updates that include two new grants for food boxes and home repair. The agenda also previews Medicare Open Enrollment\, which opens October 15\, and notes a still-vacant board seat on the plan's Employment workgroup.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2540\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2023
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2540
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2013@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Orange County Board of Commissioners hears the first of several staff presentations answering its own questions about the Land Use Plan 2050 update. This one covers the plan's data sources and how watersheds limit development. It also covers the county's joint planning agreements with its towns\, including the Water and Sewer Management\, Planning and Boundary Agreement. The board also takes up reappointments to seven advisory boards\, discusses where closed sessions fall on future meeting agendas\, and weighs the future of its Strategic Communications Work Group.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2377\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/12?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2013
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2377
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2012@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2140@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250925
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health considers two draft resolutions\, one on access to public health resources amid immigration enforcement and one on affordable housing\, and reviews a set of Board of Health policy updates that would apply directly to the health department. An educational session covers the fallout from a court reversal of one of the board's own permit denials over a well setback. The board also discusses a vacant at-large seat and meets in closed session on the health director's annual performance review.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2424\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2140
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2424
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2011@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's Board of Commissioners meets jointly with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Orange County Boards of Education for a briefing session\, not a vote. The agenda opens with budget\, programming\, cell-phone-policy and staffing updates from both districts\, then turns to a draft interlocal agreement setting out how the county and the two districts manage bond-funded school construction\, including a joint staff working group and commitments on public updates.\n\nCounty planning staff are set to present demographic trends and their impact on school enrollment. The three boards close with a discussion of issues for future collaboration\; the agenda names no specific topics beyond the heading.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2391\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/19?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2011
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2391
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2010@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251008
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners hold a public hearing on rezoning about 61 acres at 3531 NC Highway 54 W in Chapel Hill's Bingham Township\, from rural residential to a conditional district for a 43-lot conservation-cluster subdivision. The applicant\, Forestar Group on behalf of Carolyn Rigsbee\, needs the change after the Planning Board recommended approval 6-3 in August.\n\nThe board also considers reviving its Broadband Task Force with an expanded charge\, a resolution letting commercial property owners in the county finance energy upgrades through the state's new C-PACE program\, and a resolution naming a Cedar Grove Park athletic field for softball coach and civil rights advocate Willie Lawrence Vanhook. The consent agenda covers a two-year Granicus contract for the Visitors Bureau website\, animal control contracts with three towns\, a chiller replacement at the Whitted Building\, and a budget amendment funding a second year of the CARE mobile crisis team.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2399\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/20?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2010
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2399
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2022@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging takes up two new funding streams for older adults: a $56\,627 Choosing Home Program grant for home repairs and a $34\,430 Providing Elders Additional Sustenance grant for biweekly food boxes for older adults with cognitive impairment. Staff also report on the takeaway lunch program's transition to Meals on Wheels Orange County\, which has taken over serving the county's previously homebound clients\, and give an FY 2025-26 budget update touching on the federal government shutdown.\n\nThe agenda also covers two open staff positions\, a Wellness Program Assistant and a Seymour Center evening facility manager assistant\, an update on the county's next Master Aging Plan covering 2027 to 2032\, and committee reports from the Senior Tar Heel Legislature and the Nursing Home and Adult Care Home Joint Community Advisory Committee. The board opens by taking up approval of its September minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2541\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2022
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2541
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2009@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2008@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251022
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners hold a public hearing on joining the state's C-PACE program\, which lets commercial property owners finance energy and resiliency upgrades through a voluntary assessment rather than county funds. The board also reviews cost-cutting design options for the Crisis Diversion Facility\, whose original $28.2 million design came in over budget\, and discusses a draft interlocal agreement setting up joint oversight of school construction projects with both school districts.\n\nConsent items include a solar feasibility study agreement with the Town of Hillsborough\, a six-month extension of an opioid-funding contract with Freedom House Recovery Center\, and a $97\,503 state arts grant.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2412\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/26?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2008
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2412
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2139@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251030
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health considers options for its Groundwater Protection Rules after a recent adjudication appeal invalidated part of its well-setback requirements\, ranging from case-by-case enforcement to repealing the local rules entirely. The board also takes up resolutions on affordable housing and on immigration enforcement's effect on access to public health resources\, plus a proposed Chair/Vice-Chair slate for 2026.\n\nThe board goes into closed session to discuss the health director's annual performance review.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292025-2462\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2139
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292025-2462
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2007@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2021@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging meets November 11 for an FY 2025-26 budget update on the federal shutdown and changes to SNAP benefits. The board also plans to discuss Maddry Meadows\, a senior housing development planned across from the Seymour Center.\n\nOther business includes first-quarter reports from the board's transportation and communication workgroups. The board is set to hear an update from the Senior Tar Heel Legislature and take up its 2026 meeting calendar.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2542\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2021
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2542
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2045@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment holds a quasi-judicial hearing on a special use permit for a "Care Facility" at 1009 Hi Mar Lane. Jubilee Integrated Wellness\, a farm-based mental health day program\, already operates there on part of a 9.67-acre parcel under bona fide farm status. The permit would let the site get a fire inspection now denied to farm structures. That would open the way to state licensing. Licensing would let Jubilee bill insurers as a facility instead of an office practice\, and take Medicaid patients\, whom it cannot serve now.\n\nThe board also reviews its annual report and work plan for 2026.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122025-2439\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2045
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122025-2439
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2152@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Climate Council Meeting Agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Climate Council\n\nThe Climate Council holds a small-group discussion on AI's effects on climate\, led by UNC's sustainability lead\, Melanie Elliott. It also takes updates on a heat action plan\, a Community Climate Action grant program\, and a Year of Electrification effort. The council is a joint body of Orange County\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, both school boards and UNC.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2407\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2152
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2407
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2005@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251115
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners hold a half-day retreat on two subjects for the county's Land Use Plan 2050 process: septic and wastewater treatment\, and groundwater. An outside engineer presents on individual and community septic systems\, addressing construction and maintenance costs and failure rates. An independent hydrogeologist presents on the county's water supply. He addresses how rock type affects wells\, and whether a well can be tested before a zoning or building approval.\n\nThe board set this presentation schedule at an April 8 work session\, as part of updating its Land Use Plan for the first time since 2008. This retreat and one set for November 21 bring in outside experts\; the board covered other topics itself at work sessions in September\, October and November.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2441\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=84\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2005
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2441
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2218@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251118
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTBoard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's transportation board takes up two informational items: an update on the county's bicycle and pedestrian plan for unincorporated areas\, and a staff report on a proposal to drop fares on the county's four fixed bus routes. The board also considers the June 2025 minutes\, added to the agenda\, and the October 20 minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11172025-2454\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2218
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11172025-2454
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2138@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health considers its 2026 chair and vice-chair slate\, then a recommendation to fill the board's vacant at-large seat. Members also take up a debt write-off and set-off\, an amended 2026 meeting schedule\, and the annual workplan. A policy review and a fee update for COVID vaccines\, which would go to the county commissioners\, are also on the agenda.\n\nThe board also hears client satisfaction survey results from dental\, environmental and personal health services\, plus committee updates on behavioral health and well rules. It meets in closed session afterward on the health director's annual review.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2463\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2138
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2463
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2179@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251121
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority board considers letting graduates of the Foster Youth to Independence program move onto the housing choice voucher program. The change would add a preference point that places them on the wait list\, the same approach the authority uses for emergency housing vouchers. The Foster Youth to Independence program runs 36 months\, and graduates currently have no route onward once it ends.\n\nThe agenda also carries the program manager's monthly report and an update on project-based vouchers. Members also plan to discuss flood zone policy for voucher holders and a draft 2026 work plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2455\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2179
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2455
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2020@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe county's advisory board on aging discusses how to serve unsheltered people using the Seymour Center. The agenda also has a technology budget request for a Rec Trac software upgrade and a report on new SNAP work requirements for older adults.\n\nWorkgroup leaders give first-quarter reports on the county's current master aging plan. The board also opens planning for the plan that follows it\, covering 2027 through 2032.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2543\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2020
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2543
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2001@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nProperty tax appeals have cut $232\,489\,448 from Orange County's assessed value this year. The tax office reports to commissioners on the count so far: 3\,346 informal appeals and 1\,109 formal ones across 3\,966 properties. A separate review of assessment neighborhoods has already adjusted 1\,460 properties downward by nearly $61 million.\n\nThe board also considers a $100\,433 incentive to move CITEL America's US headquarters and manufacturing from Florida to Hillsborough. Also on the agenda: more money for the Longtime Homeowner Assistance Program\, a fare-free pilot for county bus routes\, and two Juvenile Crime Prevention Council appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2471\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/36?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2001
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2471
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2019@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe area agency on aging visits Orange County February 3 and 4 for its annual monitoring visit. The review covers health promotion programs\, senior center operations\, information and assistance\, options counseling\, and two grants.\n\nThe board also plans to take up the FY 2026-27 budget\, which kicked off January 8. It also owes its annual report to the county commissioners by January 16\, to be presented in February or March.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2544\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2019
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2544
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2000@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260117
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners were told at their January 16 retreat that the county faces a $21.5 million gap to close in the FY 2026-27 budget\, and that the same model puts the gap at $37.6 million the following year and $53.6 million the year after that. Closing this year's would take about seven cents on the property tax rate\; one penny raises roughly $3.37 million on a $33.9 billion tax base.\n\nThe drivers are debt service\, the phase-in of school capital pay-as-you-go\, non-discretionary personnel costs like health insurance and retirement\, and the county's practice of never cutting education funding. Commissioner McKee said across-the-board reductions may be needed and asked staff to look at how the county balanced its FY 2010-11 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2000
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2137@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health takes up a second-quarter financial and billing report on January 21. It also weighs a change to the delinquent-account policy\, stretching the write-off window from twelve to twenty-four months and sending accounts to the state twice a year instead of once. Two presentations follow: a request that the board back adding two rare diseases\, metachromatic leukodystrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy\, to the state's newborn-screening panel\, and the department's yearly update on immigrant and refugee health services.\n\nThe rest of the agenda is routine. The board takes up November's minutes\, a possible change to its spring meeting schedule\, priority-committee updates and board comments\, the health director's report and the month's media items.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2575\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2137
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2575
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2018@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1996@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260218
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOWASA gives its annual update to the county commissioners on the utility's recent activities and finances\, presented by its board chair\, secretary and executive director.\n\nThe board also takes a report on the 2025 results of the Longtime Homeowner Assistance program\, a history of Animal Services and its new Community Animal Clinic\, and second-quarter amendments to the transit work program.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172026-2531\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/40?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1996
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172026-2531
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2136@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260226
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's board of health took the health department's FY 2026-27 budget request on February 25\, built to stay flat. The department is aiming to add no new spending without matching new revenue\, and its request nets out at authorized expenditures minus service revenue\, about $10.1 million on the prior year's figures.\n\nThe board also welcomed two new members\, including a county commissioner\, and heard that a resolution in support of expedited newborn screening was coming.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252026-2576\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2136
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252026-2576
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2017@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260310
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260311
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's advisory board on aging met March 10 with a full slate of program news and its own reporting obligations. Quarterly reports for year four of the 2022-27 Master Aging Plan were due on transportation\, social participation and inclusion\, employment\, and communication\, and the board discussed the survey and next steps for the 2027-32 plan.\n\nThe board also gave its report to the county commissioners that same evening\, and took up appointments\, its attendance policy and the FY 2026-27 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102026-2569\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2017
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102026-2569
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1993@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners take up a one-year moratorium on data centers as a land use. Staff present the impacts of large-scale data centers - power and water demand\, environmental effects\, and costs that could shift onto other ratepayers. The county attorney lays out two moratorium options and a possible amendment to the development ordinance regulating the use. The board decides which\, if any\, to pursue.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2553\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/44?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1993
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2553
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1990@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260324
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Legislative Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners set their 2026 priority legislative issues on March 23\, aligning what they will ask the General Assembly for with the state association of county commissioners' advocacy goals and the county's own strategic plan.\n\nThe list runs across agriculture\, environment\, health and human services\, justice and public safety\, public education\, and tax and finance. The county's top-tier goal is protecting and expanding farmland preservation programs.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03232026-2559\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=85\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1990
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03232026-2559
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2135@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's board of health had three action items on March 25. One was a resolution urging the state to speed up its evaluation of newborn screening for metachromatic leukodystrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy\, two rare conditions where early detection changes what treatment can do. The others were an update to the county's well rules and a revision of the board's own operating procedures.\n\nThe health director also briefed the board on accreditation\, and a program director gave an update on the campus community coalition.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2577\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2135
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2577
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1988@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260415
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent April 14 on three substantive items and then an hour of appointments. Durham Technical Community College's president presented on the college's goals\, its K-12 partnerships in the county\, county-supported workforce initiatives and the Orange County campus addition and renovation project.\n\nThe board then discussed the 2026 Longtime Homeowners Assistance Program\, which the chair later cited as evidence the county has taken deliberate steps to protect low-wealth residents from property tax increases\, and took the draft county Trails Plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142026-2578\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/48?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1988
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142026-2578
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2042@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260416
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's animal services advisory board took up a survey sent to county residents on April 15\, and reported on the vacancies it was carrying at that point. The director gave developments from the shelter and introduced a new business officer.\n\nOld business ran to the board's 2026 goals\, including a proposal to seat a youth delegate and plans for a staff appreciation day.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2588\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2042
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2588
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-1986@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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-1984@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260506
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe county hires consultants to examine what went wrong with its 2025 property revaluation\, and holds a public hearing on financing up to $60.8 million of capital projects. The published agenda packet exceeds what this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052026-2597\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/51?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1984
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052026-2597
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1982@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260515
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nForty-five minutes on funding for outside agencies\, then ninety on the education budgets: the community college\, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools\, operating and capital. No public comment at a work session\; written comments go to the board's email or to the second budget hearing on 28 May.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2603\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/53?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1982
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2603
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-2151@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260515
SUMMARY:Orange County: Climate Council Meeting Agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Climate Council\n\nThe Orange County Climate Council met May 14 with staff from the county\, Carrboro\, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough around one table. Drought and water conservation took a block of the agenda\, led by OWASA\, and staff from three governments reported jointly on the Heat Action Plan.\n\nChapel Hill briefed the group on its electrification program and Hillsborough on Climate Challenge 2026. The council then broke into small groups for what the agenda calls barrier buster conversations. It does not meet again until November 18.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2594\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2151
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2594
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-1981@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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-2041@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nThree vacancies in front of the board - a Chapel Hill seat\, the retail pet services seat\, and a non-municipal one coming in June - plus a follow-up on this year's goals\, a proposal to add a youth delegate\, and results from a county survey.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2631\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2041
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2631
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-1980@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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-1978@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260529
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Public Hearing and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe public hearing on the county manager's recommended 2026-27 budget\, followed by three appointment discussions. The manager presents\, the hearing opens and closes by motion\, and the board takes no decisions on the budget itself - those come at the 4 June work session.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282026-2614\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/60?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1978
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282026-2614
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
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DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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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DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260605
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe session where Orange County's 2026-27 budget is actually settled. The board works down the capital and operating amendment lists\, sets the tax rates\, and passes a resolution of intent that binds it to adopt on 16 June. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042026-2621\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/59?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1976
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042026-2621
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nBudget adoption night. The board also decides the ten-year capital plan\, amends its broadband contract to reach the last houses before a federal deadline\, and refuses a set of transit amendments. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/62?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1975
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2040@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260618
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nThree vacancies to fill and three applicants for them\, two of whom are in the room. The board's seats are designated rather than general: one for a non-municipal resident\, one for the owner or manager of a retail pet service\, and one for animal welfare or advocacy\, and each applicant is matched to a particular seat.\n\nThe board also agrees to meet with other county boards\, plans a staff appreciation day in July\, and takes shelter and foster updates from the animal services director.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172026-2629\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2040
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172026-2629
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260710
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe board's first meeting after the death of its chair\, Jamezetta Bedford. Vice-Chair Jean Hamilton chairs\; the seat is filled by appointment later in the month. The regular agenda carries four substantial items: changes to the longtime homeowner assistance programme\, up to $27 million in financing for a crisis diversion centre\, how the tax administrator should report to the board\, and whether to solicit offers on a piece of county land. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092026-2641\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/63?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1974
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092026-2641
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2032@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260715
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260716
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nSeventy minutes\, no items for decision. The board picks up the agricultural viability and farmland stewardship plan after the county commissioners approved it on 2 June\, hears about a food access programme\, and looks at membership applications going to the commissioners on 10 September.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152026-2643\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2032
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152026-2643
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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-2153@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260810
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260811
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nThe night the commission finishes the report it has been writing for more than a year. The State of the Environment Report comes back as a final draft with a vote to accept it\, ending work the commission was still struggling to draft in June 2025 when members were asked to write their sections over the summer break.\n\nAlso on the agenda: a presentation from the water and sewer authority on what PFAS is doing to its operations\, with the commission asked to comment on draft guiding principles\; a review of the community climate action grant and its scoring tools\; and an update on a summer heat action cohort.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08102026-2645\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2153
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08102026-2645
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2039@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260820
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nA ninety-minute meeting at the animal services community room on Eubanks Road. The board takes public comment on non-agenda items for three minutes a speaker\, and accepts written comment by email beforehand. Business is board appointments and upcoming votes\, a subcommittee set up in June to coordinate with animal advisory boards in neighbouring counties\, and a recap of the July staff appreciation event.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2657\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2039
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2657
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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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DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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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DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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:20261014T040731Z
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:20261014T040731Z
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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DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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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DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260923
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's Human Relations Commission meets Tuesday with a draft proclamation on immigration enforcement in its packet. The draft would have the county commissioners declare that county funds\, buildings and staff will not assist civil federal immigration enforcement\, and it argues that fear of ICE operations keeps residents from seeking medical care or calling for help. The commission advises the commissioners\; it does not adopt proclamations itself.\n\nThe other action item is an update on the Blackwood Farms commemorative marker\, with a dedication event set for October 17. Under old business the commission takes up the anti-lynching proclamation the commissioners adopted on September 10\, which names four North Carolina deaths since 2024 and asks that hanging deaths get independent autopsies and full evidence sharing with families before any public finding. Subcommittees report on a first housing event\, provisionally November 14\, and on building a contact list of local non-profits.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09222026-2675\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3989
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09222026-2675
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260930
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Joint Meeting with the School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners meet both school boards at 7 p.m. in the Whitted Building in Hillsborough\, and the county's budget outlook is the item with the most at stake. Staff warn that the 2027-28 budget faces high fuel costs\, a possible small tax increase to cover interest on new elementary school construction\, and sales tax receipts that fell in 2025-26 because refunds outgrew collections. A cap on property tax increases is on the November ballot\, and the General Assembly would decide the details in the spring. The 2028-29 year looks harder: about $3 million a year for the crisis care center\, $3.5 million for the final school pay-go step\, and peak payments of roughly $11 million on $110 million in referendum bonds.\n\nChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools each report state test results and enrollment. The county also reports on youth behavioral health: the Jamezetta Bedford Crisis Care Center\, due to open in winter 2027-28 with a 24-hour urgent care unit for children 4 and older\, a mobile crisis pilot\, and a proposed countywide mapping of how young people with behavioral health needs move through schools and the courts. A core team update closes the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09292026-2678\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/72?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4523
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09292026-2678
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261014T040731Z
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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