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UID:meeting-3680@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/ Orange County Visitors Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau's advisory board tracks how the county spends its hotel-tax dollars and how it courts visitors. On its agenda: North Carolina's America 250 grant program\, which has already awarded about $990\,000 of a $2 million fund for events marking the country's 250th anniversary\, a fundraising push for a hockey rink near Carraway Village\, and a proposed rebrand of the bureau's logo.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2097\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3680
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2097
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3613@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
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-3612@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241016
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's Board of Commissioners held a public hearing on the county's first Short Range Transit Plan\, a five-year plan for same-day demand-response service\, a new Mebane circulator and two phases each of Hillsborough circulator consolidation and improvements. The board also weighed $275\,000 in added debt financing for an all-electric heat pump system and LED lighting at the Durham Tech Orange County campus expansion.\n\nThe rest of the agenda held four proclamations\, an Arts Commission economic-impact report\, and a 12-item consent agenda covering the 2025 property reappraisal schedule\, construction contracts for the Fairview Park pickleball courts and the Efland-Cheeks Community Center\, and board and commission appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152024-2103\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1763?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3612
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152024-2103
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3714@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241023
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's Human Relations Commission runs subcommittees on policies and procedures\, outreach and engagement\, and community events\, and oversees the county's One Orange equity policy and the Pauli Murray Awards. Its October meeting covered commission vacancies\, subcommittee structure\, meeting format and the timing of next year's Pauli Murray Awards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222024-2252\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3714
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222024-2252
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3701@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241024
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission met to rework how it scores properties for local landmark status. It also weighed a memorial marker for an enslaved burial ground at Blackwood Farm Park and reviewed architects competing for the county's Old Courthouse preservation project.\n\nThe agenda also called for approving the 2025 meeting calendar and August's minutes\, plus updates on a lynching memorial for the courthouse square\, a log-restoration project and the county's in-progress local history book.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10232024-2107\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3701
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10232024-2107
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3700@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission took no decisions on December 11\, 2024. It spent the meeting on the county's justice facility expansion\, which will affect the historic courthouse and the master plan for courthouse square\, and on three properties moving toward the National Register.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112024-2146\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3700
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112024-2146
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3699@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250130
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe Orange County Historic Preservation Commission took a redrafted landmark evaluation form on 29 January 2025 and started work on a new website. There were no decision items. The commission also discussed how to find and map historic Black cemeteries and Indian stone mounds.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01292025-2182\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3699
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01292025-2182
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3711@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250226
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nThe Orange County Human Relations Commission voted on 25 February 2025 to place a commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms in recognition of the burial ground for enslaved people there. Geological testing is complete and the inscription comes back at the next meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252025-2258\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3711
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252025-2258
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3599@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3710@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250326
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nThe Orange County Human Relations Commission spent most of its 25 March 2025 meeting on the graves at Blackwood Farm\, where the county's cultural resources coordinator asked the commission to help erect markers. Staff also told the commission that the equity and inclusion office will be renamed Human Relations and Civil Rights\, and that fair housing work will return to it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252025-2256\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3710
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252025-2256
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3698@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250326
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250327
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe Orange County Historic Preservation Commission took up two subjects on 26 March 2025: new research dating Faucett Mill on the Eno to 1823 rather than the late 18th century\, and a project to find\, map and protect historic Black cemeteries and stone burial mounds. There were no decision items and three members were absent\, so the landmark evaluation form and the historical marker project were deferred.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03262025-2212\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3698
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03262025-2212
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3595@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250402
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe county manager presented the recommended 2025-35 capital investment plan to Orange County commissioners on 1 April 2025. Its tax estimates are built on the FY2025-26 valuation from the revaluation rather than the current one\, it assumes 2 percent property tax growth and 4 percent sales tax growth\, and it relies substantially on debt.\n\nThe board also approved the county's transportation priority list for the state's SPOT 8 prioritisation round\, which feeds the 2027-2036 state transportation improvement program\, and eleven consent items.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012025-2214\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1799?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3595
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012025-2214
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3732@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250402
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250403
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nThe Orange County Parks and Recreation Council heard consultants set out four possible priority trail connections for the county trails plan on 2 April 2025\, and planned the community vision workshops for May. It also re-elected its chair and vice chair and reviewed a capital plan that puts county money into schools and defers park projects.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04022025-2213\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3732
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04022025-2213
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3709@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250423
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nThe Orange County Human Relations Commission met on 22 April 2025 to fill four of its own vacancies\, hold executive board elections\, and vote on an honorarium. The commission also took an update on the Blackwood Farms marker and its headstone\, and prepared invitations for the Pauli Murray Awards.\n\nIts three subcommittees reported: strategic advisory nominations and governance\, outreach and engagement\, and community events. County equity and inclusion staff brought updates on upcoming events\, support for board diversity\, and a community dinner.\n\nNo minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what the commission decided is not on the record here.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222025-2257\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3709
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222025-2257
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3697@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250424
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission heard a local historian correct the record on Faucett Mill at its 23 April 2025 meeting\, and took an update on the Old Courthouse preservation project. There were no decisions on the agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2239\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3697
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2239
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3696@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250529
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nNo decisions on the agenda. The commission spends the evening on how it decides instead: testing a rewritten landmark evaluation form against a real house\, considering a university proposal to take DNA samples from a burial ground for enslaved people\, and organising a historical marker programme. Two site visits and the question of whether to meet at all in June round it out.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2274\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3696
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2274
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2173@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250723
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250724
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe Orange County Historic Preservation Commission tests a revised landmark evaluation form on Morris Grove School\, an early 20th-century Black school building on Eubanks Road named for the formerly enslaved farmer Morris Hogan. Members also review draft text for two America's 250th interpretive markers\, at the Dickson House and the former Hogg House site\, and hear about an NCSU ASHES Lab DNA-sampling event planned for Burwell School.\n\nUpdates on the agenda cover flood damage from Tropical Storm Chantal at Occaneechi Village and Faucett Mill\, a proposed historical marker for lynching victim Cyrus Guy near White Cross AME Church\, and the release of federal historic preservation funding to the states. The commission also considers cancelling its August 27 meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2313\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2173
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2313
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2122@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250903
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears nine 2025 revaluation appeals on its September 2 docket: a vacant tract\, a manufactured home\, a condominium and six single-family homes\, including one in the Chapel Hill Historic District. Each owner disputes the county's assessed value\; the board weighs the owner's evidence against the county appraisal staff's recommendation for each parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022025-2380\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2122
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022025-2380
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2172@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250925
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe Orange County Historic Preservation Commission will review four candidates for local landmark status: the Currie-Neville Log House\, the Ridge Road School\, the cemetery at Little River Presbyterian Church\, and the Morris Grove School. The commission recommends landmark designations to the county commissioners\, who have final say\; it does not decide them itself.\n\nThe agenda also covers a planned solar panel project on county-owned historic buildings\, a proposed addition to the county Board of Education Building\, planning for the nation's 250th anniversary\, and a proposal for temporary flags on Old Courthouse Square. No item is up for a vote beyond approving the July minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2395\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2172
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2395
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2171@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251023
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission has no items up for a vote this month\; the agenda is discussion only. Staff will brief the commission on a pending National Register nomination for the Efland Milling Company\, a mill in continuous use since 1842. Its owners have filed a Study List application with the State Historic Preservation Office. Staff will also outline three archaeological surveys planned for 2026: a ground-penetrating radar study of the county's Old Poor House cemetery\, a Phase I survey of the 225-acre Seven Mile Creek Preserve ahead of a new trail\, and further GPR work at the Blackwood Farm enslaved burial ground.\n\nThe commission is also set to discuss county budget cuts that have eliminated funding to preserve the historic bungalow\, barn and outbuildings at Twin Creeks Park's Cate Farm. Staff will propose a field trip to the Henry Calvin Andrews farmstead and update members on a planned interpretive sign for the Cedar Grove baseball field.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222025-2418\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2171
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222025-2418
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2170@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe church that owns the Harvey's Chapel cemetery has told Orange County it will consider donating the site\, on condition that it be permanently protected. The county's historic preservation commission heard that on December 10\, alongside news that a grant will pay for expanding the trail network at Seven Mile Creek Preserve\, including a spur trail letting hikers walk up to the cemetery and the site of the original church.\n\nStaff want a high-quality interpretive sign at the cemetery and have arranged to meet a church leader about how to proceed. Members will hike the site late in the winter.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2472\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2170
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2472
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2910@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260128
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's Human Relations Commission takes up a commemorative marker for the Blackwood Farms gravesite\, vacancies on its own board\, and its events for February through April. Staff bring an update on the marker\, which is meant to mark a cemetery on the former farm property.\n\nThe rest of the ninety-minute agenda is reports. The executive committee has the secretary post and the open commissioner seats on its slate\, the outreach and community events subcommittees report back\, and new business covers what the commission calls its social justice vision and any emerging issues members want to raise.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01272026-2638\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2910
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01272026-2638
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2169@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260129
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission holds a public hearing on updates to the Moorefields National Register nomination\, which adds new boundaries covering sites tied to enslaved workers and the Waddell cemetery\, and considers whether to recommend it for listing. The agenda also includes a certificate of appropriateness for repair work at Faucette Mill and a proposal to cancel the commission's February meeting.\n\nIn discussion\, the commission takes up a possible historic landmark designation for Montrose\, the Governor Graham house\, which sits inside Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction. Members also plan a field trip to Harvey's Chapel Cemetery and hear updates on the annual report\, a possible landmark at the Norwood-Webb-Cheshire House\, and the commission's book project.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2502\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2169
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2502
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2145@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260219
SUMMARY:Orange County: February Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board took a consultant's report on February 18 from focus groups assessing where tourism in Orange County stands now and what it should prioritise. Magellan Strategies ran them.\n\nThe board also took an update on planning for the nation's 250th anniversary\, an observance it built a July 4 event around at the Colonial Inn.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2533\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2145
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2533
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2168@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission had three decisions on March 25\, all of them about Montrose or the nation's 250th anniversary. It evaluated Montrose for landmark designation and started the process of an interlocal agreement with the Town of Hillsborough to designate it\, which is needed because the property sits in Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction. It also decided whether to join the statewide Landmark Tree project.\n\nUnder updates the commission took a proposed memorial marker honoring the enslaved community associated with St. Matthew's Church\, progress toward National Register listing for Moorefields\, and the donation process and timeline for the Harvey's Chapel cemetery.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2168
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2167@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260423
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nNo items for decision. The substantive discussion is a staff presentation on preserving Black tenant farm history - a farmstead and associated sites in the Carr community of northwest Cedar Grove Township. Updates cover a tour\, two preservation problems\, revised cost estimates for the historic courthouse\, and the marker subcommittee.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2589\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2167
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2589
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2186@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260428
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260429
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nThe longest item on the agenda is forty-five minutes for all commissioners to score submissions for the Pauli Murray Awards. The commission also takes the Blackwood Farms marker\, sets its August retreat date\, and hears committee reports on outreach and community events.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04282026-2590\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2186
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04282026-2590
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2185@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nA ninety-minute monthly meeting. The Blackwood Farms commemorative marker returns as an action item\, the executive committee reports on elections and membership vacancies\, and the August retreat is fixed for 22 August. Ten minutes for public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2615\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2185
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2615
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2154@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260608
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260609
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nTwo presentations open the evening: a wildlife centre proposing to turn the farmstead at Twin Creeks into its operations base with a nature centre in the park\, and the county's parks director on the draft trails plan. Then membership\, the climate action grant\, a PFAS update\, and the State of the Environment report\, whose final sections are due a week later.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06082026-2623\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2154
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06082026-2623
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2184@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260624
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nA ninety-minute monthly meeting on Revere Road and on Teams. The commission takes an action item on a commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms\, hears a county update from the Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life\, and reports on membership vacancies and the retreat set for 22 August. Ten minutes for public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06232026-2626\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2184
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06232026-2626
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2166@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260625
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nNo items for decision\, and two of the discussion items are about the same piece of ground: how to recognise the County Poor House Cemetery and the lynching of Cyrus Guy\, who is buried there\, and how to pay for a ground penetrating radar survey of the site. Also on the agenda: the landmark designation process for Montrose\, a funding delay at the historic courthouse\, and a new proposal for the historic buildings at the future Twin Creeks park.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2628\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2166
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2628
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2182@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260826
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nThe commission's monthly meeting\, 6:00 to 7:30 PM on Revere Road and on Teams\, with every item timed to the minute. It advises the county commissioners on human relations and social justice\, and its job as the agenda describes it is promoting goodwill across communities\, identifying concerns about discrimination and civil inequality\, and supporting education and outreach.\n\nThe business: a climate action grant presentation\, a county update from the Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life\, a decision on a commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms\, and a review and vote on applications to fill membership vacancies. Subcommittees report on outreach\, a housing series and the Blackwood Farms dedication.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2655\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2182
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2655
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2165@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260827
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nNo items for decision. An evening of staff presentations and updates: new renovation concepts for the Murphey School\, a county historic landmark\; proposed changes to the federal review rules that govern how historic properties are treated when public money or permits are involved\; progress on the Occaneechi village\; and a long list of possible field trips to eighteenth-century burying grounds\, farms and old schoolhouses.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262026-2658\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2165
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262026-2658
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2495@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260903
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nThe council's first meeting of the autumn\, at the Bonnie B. Davis centre. The item with consequences is what the 2026-27 budget and capital plan decisions mean for parks - the ramifications\, as the agenda puts it\, of choices made elsewhere. Also on the agenda: a marker at Blackwood Farm Park proposed by the Human Relations Commission\, an acting parks superintendent to introduce\, a disc golf status report\, and where the county trails plan now stands.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2662\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2495
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2662
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2918@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4432@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission decides whether to grant a certificate of appropriateness for exterior and interior renovation of the Murphey School\, a county historic landmark. It also holds a public hearing on nominating the Troy and Roberta Andrews House to the National Register of Historic Places. The meeting is at 6:30 p.m. at the Bonnie Davis Center in Hillsborough.\n\nStaff updates cover a 2 December dedication of a historical marker commemorating the lynching of Cyrus Guy\, a security consultant's visit to the Historic Courthouse and interim landscaping there\, and renovation progress at Twin Creeks. The agenda lists no attachments beyond the application and nomination documents\, and no minutes have been published for the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09232026-2677\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4432
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09232026-2677
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4713@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051156Z
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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