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UID:meeting-3707@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240919
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240920
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nOrange County's Housing Authority Advisory Board meets to review the prior month's minutes and hear the Housing Choice Voucher program's monthly report: utilization\, voucher issuance\, informal hearings and payment standards. The Housing Department also briefs the board on its broader operations.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09192024-2198\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3707
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09192024-2198
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3680@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-3614@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-3631@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241009
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board met to hear from Justice United and to take up consolidated planning\, along with routine updates from board members and staff. The agenda lists only item titles and time blocks\; it does not say what either topic covered.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2220\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3631
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2220
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3669@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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:20261014T051204Z
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-3610@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's Board of Commissioners spent its November 12 work session on three long-range planning items and nine advisory board appointments\, taking no formal vote on the substance of any of them. Consultants from Clarion Associates presented results from the second round of public engagement on the county's Land Use Plan 2050: 420 completed surveys testing four modeled growth alternatives\, split closely on extending water and sewer service to rural areas. The board also reviewed a revised scoring matrix for the Affordable Housing Bond and Capital Investment Plan\, and a School Capital Funding Policy shaped by the Woolpert facilities report and the school construction bond voters approved November 5.\n\nAppointments were up for the Advisory Board on Aging\, the Animal Services Hearing Panel Pool\, the Chapel Hill Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board\, the Commission for the Environment\, the Human Relations Commission and the Orange County Parks and Recreation Council. The board also added a Jury Commission appointment to the agenda after it convened.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2132\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1769?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3610
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2132
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3609@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners received an independent assessment of the detention center on November 19\, 2024\, commissioned after a petition from Commissioner Anna Richards\, whom the board honored the same night as she left office. They also adopted the county's Transportation Multimodal Plan and held a public hearing on the annual report of federal housing spending.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192024-2136\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1771?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3609
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192024-2136
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3668@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-3706@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241122
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority's advisory board met virtually on November 21\, 2024 for the program manager's monthly report on the Housing Choice Voucher program: voucher utilization and issuance\, terminations\, informal hearings\, payment standards\, submissions to HUD's information center\, and the authority's SEMAP score\, the federal rating of how well a housing authority runs the program.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212024-2199\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3706
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212024-2199
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3608@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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:20261014T051204Z
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-3607@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners opened work on the 2025-2029 consolidated plan\, the document that steers federal housing money through the county's HOME Consortium with Chapel Hill\, Carrboro and Hillsborough. They also decided how the county will count future students\, awarded a year of climate grants\, and gave a broadband contractor another twelve months.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102024-2143\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1775?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3607
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102024-2143
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3636@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment heard two quasi-judicial cases on December 11\, 2024. Case A-7-24 asked to halve the reservoir setbacks at Lake Orange so a house could be built about 145 feet from the water\, where the ordinance requires 150 feet for buildings and 300 feet for septic. Case A-8-24 asked for a special use permit letting Schoolhouse of Wonder run a camp on Triangle Land Conservancy's Brumley Forest Nature Preserve\, a use that has operated there for years without one.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112024-2142\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3636
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112024-2142
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3623@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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:20261014T051204Z
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-3705@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250117
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board finalised its 2025 work plan on 16 January 2025 and took the programme manager's monthly report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162025-2202\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3705
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162025-2202
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3606@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250118
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners spent their 17 January 2025 retreat on four subjects: how the county's housing programmes work\, the outlook for the 2025-26 budget under the coming revaluation\, federal revenue sources\, and the state of local agriculture.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01172025-2177\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3606
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01172025-2177
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3604@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners opened the public hearing on Fiddlehead Corner on 4 February 2025\, a housing cooperative's plan for a 55-and-over community on 90 acres off Morrow Mill Road at Gold Mine Loop. The application asked for 150 dwellings\; the applicant cut that to 100 at the hearing. After 33 people spoke\, the board continued the hearing to 6 March.\n\nThe project needs a rezoning from agricultural residential to a master plan conditional district\, amendments to the comprehensive plan\, and changes to the development ordinance. The Planning Board recommended denial of all three. The agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042025-2185\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1779?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3604
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042025-2185
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3742@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250206
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board's Ordinance Review Committee spent 5 February 2025 on proposed rewrites to the county's subdivision rules\, initiated by the commissioners and the planning director to line up with the coming comprehensive plan update.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2184\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3742
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2184
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3622@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3603@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3630@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250214
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board heard on 13 February 2025 that homelessness in the county rose 22 percent\, with unsheltered homelessness up 17 percent\, and that cold weather cot services ran 23 nights out of 40.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02132025-2221\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3630
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02132025-2221
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3704@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250221
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250222
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board elected a chair and vice chair on 21 February 2025 and heard the programme manager's monthly report. Nobody spoke in public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02212025-2201\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3704
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02212025-2201
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3601@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250226
SUMMARY:Orange County: Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners took the 2025 revaluation\, the annual audit and the county's legislative priorities at a special meeting on 25 February 2025. The tax office reported that all roughly 58\,700 real property parcels had been reviewed\, with notices going out in early to mid-March. The board also continued its unfinished discussion of how to manage construction under the school bond.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252025-2193\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1789?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3601
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252025-2193
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3711@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3600@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3621@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-3629@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250312
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board reviewed twenty years of the county's HOME awards on 11 March 2025 and considered changes to how affordable housing bond and capital projects are scored. The proposal would take scoring out of this board's hands.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2222\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3629
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2222
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3599@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-3693@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250312
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nThe Orange County Economic Development Advisory Board worked through a strengths and weaknesses exercise with a consultant on 11 March 2025\, as the first step toward a strategic plan for the county's economic development department.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2197\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3693
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2197
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3598@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-3675@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250320
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board met on 19 March 2025 with the future of its occupancy tax funding recently settled. The commissioners had considered three options\, including diverting a third of the fund to other tourism initiatives\, and instructed the county manager to leave the budget as it is while putting more money into the Arts Commission.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192025-2207\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3675
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192025-2207
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3710@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3665@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3596@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-3628@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250409
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board spent 8 April 2025 on where federal housing money is going and what the revaluation will do to the county's tax assistance programme for long-time homeowners. HOME funding now runs at about 60 percent of what the county received in 2010.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2223\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3628
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2223
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3741@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250410
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board recommended three land use cases to the commissioners on 9 April 2025\, all headed to a 3 June public hearing. The county is rezoning its own Cedar Ridge High School site\, an applicant wants to put a self-storage business on 11 acres off NC 57 at Rougemont\, and a 38-lot subdivision on Dairyland Road came back for its preliminary plat.\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/_04092025-2215\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3741
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2215
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3703@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250418
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board spent most of its 17 April 2025 meeting on when a household should lose its housing choice voucher. Terminations in March were much higher than usual\, and the authority had sent notice that it could no longer help with rent.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04172025-2237\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3703
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04172025-2237
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3664@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-3739@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250508
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board recommended two rewrites of the Unified Development Ordinance on 7 May 2025\, both headed to a commissioners' public hearing on 3 June. The telecommunications amendment repeals Section 5.10 outright and replaces it\, because the county's rules have not changed since the ordinance was adopted on 5 April 2011 and no longer match federal or state law. The solar amendment rewrites the standards for roof- and ground-mounted arrays as an accessory use\, last touched on 8 November 2012.\n\nThe emergency services director also presented the county's hazard mitigation plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05072025-2242\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3739
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05072025-2242
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3619@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-3627@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250514
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board spent an hour on 13 May 2025 with the developers who apply for its capital and bond money\, asking what the county's process is like from their side. Five organisations came: EmPOWERment\, CASA\, Pee Wee Homes\, Habitat for Humanity and the Community Empowerment Fund.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2277\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3627
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2277
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3589@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-3702@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250516
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board voted on 15 May 2025 to add project-based vouchers to its administrative plan\, and tightened two rules on when a household loses its voucher. Nobody from the public attended.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05152025-2269\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3702
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05152025-2269
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3587@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners held two public hearings on 20 May 2025 on how the county will spend its HOME housing money: the five-year 2025-29 consolidated plan\, and the annual action plan that carries it out. The consortium of Carrboro\, Chapel Hill\, Hillsborough and the county is allocated $367\,013.59 for the coming programme year\, and staff proposed concentrating it on home repair and tenant-based rental assistance for households under 30 percent and between 30 and 50 percent of area median income.\n\nThe board also adopted the final financing resolution for up to $78 million in installment financing for capital projects and equipment\, secured against county and school properties\, and a twelve-item consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-2265\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1823?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3587
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-2265
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3673@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250522
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nA ninety-minute board meeting at the Hyatt Place in Southern Village. On the agenda: the university's local relations director as guest speaker\, preparations for an international football match at Kenan Stadium in June\, summer events\, a meeting planning partnership\, and officers for the coming fiscal year.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2266\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3673
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2266
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3717@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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:20261014T051204Z
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-3663@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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:20261014T051204Z
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-3581@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250618
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners adopted the 2025-26 budget on 17 June 2025\, setting the countywide tax rate at 63.83 cents per $100 of value\, and accepted a ten-year capital investment plan totalling $75.3 million with $75.3 million of first-year projects across county\, school and proprietary funds. The evening also held a public hearing on changes to the Hillsborough Circulator bus route and a report on the January point-in-time count of homelessness.\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/_06172025-2293\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/6?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3581
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172025-2293
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3662@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2250@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250710
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board Ordinance Review Committee\, an informal session that does not require a quorum\, reviews two staff-initiated Unified Development Ordinance text amendments: one on impervious surfaces\, watershed protection overlay districts and stream buffers\, the other on subdivision review processes and classifications.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092025-2305\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2250
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092025-2305
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2249@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250807
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board takes up a rezoning request from Forestar Development for 61.11 acres on NC Highway 54 West in White Cross\, on the Rigsbee family's longtime tract. The company proposes a Residential Conditional District with 43 single-family homes on half-acre lots\, keeping the historic farmhouse and about 41 percent of the site as open space.\n\nThe board's vote is a recommendation. The Board of County Commissioners holds its own public hearing on the case October 7.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2318\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2249
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2318
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2031@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250813
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board's August 12 agenda lists item titles only\, with no descriptions attached. Members are set to approve minutes\, welcome new members\, and hear brief updates on local housing assistance and HOME funding. The board sets aside 45 of its 90 scheduled minutes\, half the meeting\, to plan a community meeting\, and 25 minutes to build a 2025-26 work plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2328\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2031
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2328
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2181@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250821
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250822
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nOrange County Housing Authority's advisory board takes up a vote on the Project Based Voucher program's admin plan and considers a new board member. The program manager reports on voucher utilization\, issuance\, terminations and informal hearings for May\, June and July. The agenda also sets aside time for member updates and public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08212025-2333\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2181
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08212025-2333
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2015@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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:20261014T051204Z
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-2014@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250905
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners consider a rezoning that would let Carolina Friends School bring its 110-acre Chapel Hill Township campus into compliance with county zoning and expand within a 500-student cap\, plus $874\,702 in combined federal\, state and local FY 2027 transit grant applications for rural service\, senior and disability transportation\, and capital equipment. The board also weighs a presentation schedule and up to $80\,870 in outside consultants and a facilitator for its Land Use Plan 2050 update\, an amendment to a broadband agreement with Lumos\, an 11-item consent agenda\, and the county's first annual report on its Climate Action Plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09042025-2341\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/7?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2014
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09042025-2341
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2023@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2030@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nThe Orange County Affordable Housing Advisory Board devotes most of its September meeting to planning a community outreach event\, then takes updates from board members and staff. The agenda also calls for approval of the August meeting's minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2378\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2030
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2378
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2012@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2180@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250919
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nOrange County Housing Authority's advisory board takes up a preference score for families moving from Emergency Housing Vouchers onto the regular Housing Choice Voucher waiting list\, set at 101 points on the agenda. It also considers an admin plan revision dropping the requirement to advertise Project-Based Voucher competitions in a newspaper.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09182025-2390\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2180
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09182025-2390
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2140@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2010@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2029@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board meets to approve its prior minutes and hear updates from board members and county staff. Most of the agenda is a 60-minute community outreach session on county affordable-housing programs\, open to public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2558\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2029
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2558
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2009@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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:20261014T051204Z
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-2099@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251030
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears ten individual property value appeals from this year's revaluation\, plus a seven-property consent list of value adjustments already negotiated between owners and staff.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292025-2434\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2099
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292025-2434
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2139@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2096@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251106
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review takes up two cases on November 5. Westdale Poplar Place LP appeals the $27.29 million value of its 230-unit complex at 605 Jones Ferry Road\, seeking $26.41 million. It argues for the lower figure on an income approach. A second appellant asks the board to hear a personal property appeal on a utility trailer\, filed after the 30-day window had closed.\n\nA consent agenda separately proposes four more residential value reductions\, negotiated directly between the assessor's office and the owners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2437\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2096
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2437
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2007@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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:20261014T051204Z
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-2028@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board has a short agenda for its November 11 meeting: board and staff updates\, approval of the October meeting's minutes\, and an hour of annual planning for 2026. The posted agenda gives no more detail than those headings.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2444\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2028
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2444
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2006@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners consider options for selling all or part of 79.05 acres at 6823 Millhouse Road. The county bought the land in 2004 and 2007 for a soccer complex that was never built. A March 2025 appraisal puts the property at $1\,976\,000\, about $24\,997 an acre. State law bars conditions on a sale to the public. Restricting the land to active recreation means selling to a nonprofit or another government instead.\n\nThe board also gets a third briefing on the Land Use Plan 2050's rural activity nodes. It also discusses whether to continue\, change or end the Strategic Communications Work Group.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2440\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/30?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2006
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2440
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2094@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review hears 16 property-tax appeals beginning at 1 p.m. on November 11. Fifteen appellants are individual homeowners\, including two with adjoining parcels on Old Orchard Road\; the sixteenth\, Gronks Doghouse LLC\, contests a commercial assessment on Coker Lane.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2450\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2094
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2450
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2093@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review is scheduled to hear 18 property-tax appeals of the county's 2025 revaluation. Grounds range from comparable sales to land value and measurement corrections. Two of the appeals are commercial land-value challenges from Land Marks LLC entities in the Franklin-Rosemary Historic Area. The board's consent agenda proposes changes on two more parcels.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2451\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2093
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2451
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2005@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2004@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251119
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners continue a public hearing on a conditional rezoning of 78.11 acres at 1039-UT NC 86 North\, Hillsborough\, for a 49-lot conservation cluster subdivision of single-family homes. Forestar Group filed the application on behalf of the property's owners. The hearing carried over from November 6. The planning board split 4-4 in September\, then voted 9-0 in October to recommend approval with conditions. The planning director recommends the board either approve the rezoning and its statement of consistency or deny it as not in the public interest.\n\nCommissioners also hold a public hearing on planning-director-initiated amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance covering impervious surfaces\, watershed protection overlay districts and stream buffers. The changes would simplify impervious-surface limits across the county's thirteen watershed overlay districts\, drop an obsolete sliding-scale table\, and adjust reservoir buffer widths near Lake Orange. Other business includes a Native American Heritage Month proclamation\, a discussion of when closed sessions appear on meeting agendas\, and a fifteen-item consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2448\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/33?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2004
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2448
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2091@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review hears appeals from 16 property owners contesting their 2025 real estate assessments\, plus a business asking to reduce penalties from a personal-property tax discovery. It also acts on an eight-parcel consent agenda of value corrections and exemption requests.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2457\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2091
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2457
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2138@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2090@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 29 property-tax appeals of 2025 revaluation values on November 20. It split the docket into a morning session\, 9:03 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.\, and an afternoon session\, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Fourteen of the 29 owners appeared or sent a representative\; the rest let their appeal proceed on the record. The board reduced 20 assessments\, left eight unchanged\, and raised one\, cutting the combined value of the properties it heard from $18\,206\,100 to $17\,147\,100.\n\nEight appeals concerned Northside Chapel Hill rental properties: four from one trust\, four from Mastin Holdings LLC and CHNS LLC. Most disputed their Designed Rental Single Family Residence classification\, and the board reduced six of the eight\, leaving two unchanged. On its last appeal of the day\, the board's own review found a misclassified garage and raised a property's value from $223\,100 to $225\,800\, over the owner's request for a reduction.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2458\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2090
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2458
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2179@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2003@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251122
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners held the last of their educational sessions on the 2050 land use plan\, this one on conservation subdivisions\, with planning consultant Randall Arendt presenting. Planning director Cy Stober framed the questions: where in the county these belong\, where they would do most good\, and how to build them from what the board has learned. A facilitated discussion on next steps followed.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212025-2449\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/34?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2003
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212025-2449
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2089@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251203
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears twenty-three commercial appeals on December 2\, all contesting 2025 valuations on apartment complexes\, hotels and offices in Chapel Hill. Assessments run as high as $41\,298\,300. Owners argue for lower values using income approaches built on 2022 through 2024 financial statements\; the county defends its numbers with its own income and sales analyses.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2475\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2089
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2475
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2258@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251206
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group reviews a draft request for proposals for a consultant to study the reappraisal. The group also hears an update on property appeals and neighborhood reviews\, and takes questions from members before discussing next steps.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12052025-2466\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2258
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12052025-2466
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2020@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2027@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's affordable housing advisory board took on a piece of concrete work on December 9: four members volunteered to help staff go through the long-term home repair assistance waiting list\, update it\, and check which applicants qualify for federal repair funding. UNC holds the current list and database.\n\nThe board also assembled the questions it wants to put to county planning staff at a coming meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2481\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2027
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2481
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2001@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2087@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard 16 appeals of 2025 property revaluation values on December 9\, 2025\, from 14 individual owners and one company\, Evans Estates REI LLC. One owner filed two separate appeals on different parcels. Before the docket\, the board also rescinded a December 3 consent-agenda vote on one property and revised its value to $460\,900.\n\nThe appeals argued comparable sales\, home condition and age corrections\, conservation-easement and floodplain restrictions\, a parcel shrunk by road construction\, storm damage\, and land that cannot pass a soil-perc test. Evans Estates argued that zoning and site limits diminish the marketability of an undeveloped Farm Lane tract. The current assessed values at issue ranged from $143\,400\, for an unimproved land parcel\, to $1\,260\,600\, for a house.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2477\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2087
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2477
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2086@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review hears thirty-five appeals over 2025 real estate assessments on December 10. Fifteen owners appear in the morning\, twenty in the afternoon. Most of the properties are on streets in Chapel Hill's Northside district and Carrboro's Lloyd/Broad district.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2478\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2086
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2478
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2085@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard 20 appeals of 2025 property revaluations on December 11\, 2025\, split into a ten-case morning session and a ten-case afternoon session. Assessed values in dispute ranged from $132\,500 to $1\,865\,300. Owners challenged square footage\, comparable sales\, property condition and\, in one case\, a denied building permit. Keyway LLC contested a Lake Hogan Farms townhouse valuation\, arguing the county's figure reflected a 2025 market peak that has since cooled.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112025-2479\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2085
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112025-2479
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2084@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251217
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review hears 25 appeals contesting 2025 property tax assessments\, from a $176\,100 vacant lot to a $4\,333\,000 house. Owners argue the county's value is too high\; a county appraiser defends the number at each hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12162025-2482\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2084
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12162025-2482
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2083@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251218
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review has 28 property tax appeals on its December 17 docket. A morning session covers 13 commercial and larger parcels\, including office and retail buildings on Market Street and Weaver Dairy Road. An afternoon session covers 15 houses and vacant lots\, including several on North Street and Clarence Drive.\n\nMost of the morning's appellants are limited liability companies and a family partnership. Most of the afternoon's appellants are individual owners appealing their own homes or land. All contest what the county says their property is worth.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12172025-2483\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2083
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12172025-2483
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2082@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251219
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears twenty-three real-property value appeals and three requests to compromise business personal-property listing penalties at its December 18 sitting. The property appeals span Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, Mebane and Efland\, from an $8\,400 vacant lot to a $42.7 million industrial building.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12182025-2484\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2082
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12182025-2484
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2178@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251219
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nOrange County's Housing Authority Advisory Board takes up an amendment letting it select project-based voucher projects without competition. Project-based vouchers attach rental assistance to specific units rather than to a household\, changing how the authority commits subsidy to particular developments. The board also takes up its 2026 work plan and the program manager's monthly report. That report covers voucher utilization\, voucher issuance\, terminations and informal hearings.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12182025-2480\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2178
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12182025-2480
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2257@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's Tax Assessment Work Group takes up a legal briefing on how the Board of Equalization and Review operates\, an update on the request for proposals for the county's property reappraisal\, and community research findings from the NC Housing Coalition's Hudson Vaughan. The group also approves minutes from its December 5 meeting and discusses next steps.\n\nThe group was set up after complaints about how property is assessed in the county. It includes county commissioners\, staff\, community representatives from several districts\, and representatives from the NC Housing Coalition and Property Tax Justice.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01122026-2489\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2257
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01122026-2489
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2019@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2081@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review hears 21 property tax appeals on January 13. Seven individual homeowners appear in the morning. Fourteen limited liability companies and corporations that own apartment complexes and commercial buildings in Chapel Hill\, Carrboro and Hillsborough appear in the afternoon.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2496\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2081
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2496
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2080@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260115
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review hears twenty-three property tax appeals over two sessions on January 14. Most are commercial and multifamily property in Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. Ten of the appeals are a single owner's duplexes on Regent Place and Weaver Dairy Road. The board also takes up a consent agenda of thirteen further adjustments county staff propose without a hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142026-2497\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2080
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142026-2497
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2079@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260116
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review meets January 15\, 2026\, to hear 19 property tax appeals from the county's 2025 revaluation. A 9 a.m. session covers 11 cases and a 1 p.m. session covers eight more. The properties span single-family houses\, a duplex\, a condominium\, rental housing and vacant land in Chapel Hill\, Hillsborough and Mebane\, plus two commercial parcels appealed by their owners\, O'Neal Rental Properties\, LLC and Abriata Group LLC. Two cases carry over from the board's October 30 session.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152026-2498\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2079
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152026-2498
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2000@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2026@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nThe agenda for Orange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board's January 20 meeting\, rescheduled from January 13\, lists four items with time estimates and no other detail: five minutes to approve minutes\, ten minutes of updates from board members and staff\, and 60 minutes to work on the board's 2026 work plan. The agenda does not say what the work plan discussion will cover.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2490\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2026
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2490
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2078@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 17 residential tax appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 20\, 2026\, in a morning session of 11 appeals and an afternoon session of six more. The board reduced sixteen properties and sustained one.\n\nThree appeals from related Chapel Hill rental entities\, 304 Caldwell LLC\, 300 Caldwell LLC and 215 Broad LLC\, stood out: the county recommended raising two of the Caldwell properties' values after finding they were misclassified as duplexes rather than single-family rentals\, but the board cut all three below both the current and the county's proposed figures. In the afternoon\, the board applied a -75% flood adjustment to a vacant Lannie Drive parcel prone to flooding\, cutting its value from $60\,600 to $15\,600\, and reduced a comparably steep\, stream-crossed lot on Carl Drive after the owner said unsolicited purchase offers had run as low as $10\,000.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2499\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2078
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2499
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2137@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2076@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260123
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 16 appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 22\, 2026: a morning session of 13 commercial and apartment appeals in downtown Chapel Hill\, followed by an afternoon session on three modest homes on Rogers Road. The board sustained the county's assessment on twelve properties and reduced four.\n\nMost of the morning's appeals\, represented by the same agent (Morgan Fowler / Ryan LLC) across a downtown "Life Science Center Redevelopment" assemblage and the Chapel Ridge student housing complex\, argued for reductions based on collective income and market proformas\; the board granted two\, cutting 214 West Franklin Street from $1\,713\,400 to $1\,199\,900 and Glen Lennox Shopping Center from $6\,641\,300 to $6\,018\,600. In the afternoon\, the board went beyond even the county's own recommendations to further reduce two of three Rogers Road homes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222026-2501\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2076
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222026-2501
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2177@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260123
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority's advisory board takes up its monthly program manager's report and moves to finalize its 2026 work plan. The report covers voucher utilization and issuance\, the state's voucher management system\, and terminations and informal hearings.\n\nTerminations and informal hearings are the part of this routine agenda that decides whether a household keeps its rental assistance.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222026-2491\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2177
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222026-2491
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2075@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260129
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard seven residential tax appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 28. One more case was decided on the consent agenda. The board reduced five of the eight assessments and left three unchanged\; none went up. Combined value on the five reductions fell from $2\,417\,000 to $2\,148\,100.\n\nAppellants argued storm damage\, floodplain limits\, comparable sales and needed repairs. Five of the seven appeared in person\; one sent a family member and one did not attend. The board later agreed to reopen one case after the appellant said she had missed the hearing date and wanted to submit new evidence. That appeal is rescheduled for February 4. The largest single cut lowered one home's construction grade and wrote down two outbuildings on the same tract. Its assessment fell from $514\,400 to $429\,200.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2505\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2075
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2505
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2256@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group heard two things on February 9: research findings gathered from the community\, presented by the group's representative from the NC Housing Coalition\, and a report from the chair of the board of equalization and review.\n\nPutting those two next to each other is the point of this group. One side is what residents say about how assessment feels\; the other is what the appeals board actually decides.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02092026-2547\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2256
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02092026-2547
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2018@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2025@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260211
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's affordable housing advisory board gave an hour on February 10 to preparing for a community meeting\, the bulk of a short agenda. The rest was updates from members and staff and approval of minutes.\n\nThe agenda also carries a note that members have been having trouble getting into the Teams call\, with a staff mobile number to ring if the browser hangs.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2511\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2025
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2511
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2072@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review sat from 1 p.m. to 4:28 p.m. on February 11 and heard fifteen property value appeals\, nearly all of them commercial and every appellant present. The names on the docket are institutional: retail property companies\, student housing partnerships\, a university real estate holding company\, and a warehouse owner.\n\nTax leadership also gave the board an overview of the neighborhood review project the board itself had ordered at an earlier meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2532\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2072
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2532
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1996@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2176@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260220
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board met virtually on February 19. The program manager's report is where the substance sits: voucher utilization and issuance\, the state's voucher management system report\, terminations\, and informal hearings.\n\nTerminations and informal hearings are the reports that decide whether a household keeps its rental assistance.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02192026-2534\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2176
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02192026-2534
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2136@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2255@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260303
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group heard two appraisers on March 2\, one making the case that the county's 2025 commercial revaluation was aggressive but correct\, and one from Stanly County explaining why his county brought all its revaluation work in house twenty years ago.\n\nThe group is unusually broad for a technical committee. Alongside three county commissioners and county staff it seats community representatives from two districts\, a representative of the NC Housing Coalition\, one from Property Tax Justice\, and a non-profit housing provider.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03022026-2548\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2255
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03022026-2548
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1994@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260310
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260311
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners heard the second group of county boards and commissions present their annual work plans on March 10\, a yearly exercise in which each board reports what it did and what it plans\, measured against the commissioners' strategic goals. The first group presented on February 10.\nThe board then returned to the Land Use Plan 2050 information request and closed with appointment discussions for eight advisory bodies.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102026-2549\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/42?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1994
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102026-2549
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2330@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board gave 45 minutes on March 17 to a staff presentation on the county's economic development goals\, successes and challenges\, the longest item on the agenda. The director's report followed.\nUnder new business the board welcomed a new member and heard about an updated attendance policy.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2550\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2330
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2550
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2175@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260320
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board met virtually on March 19 for its monthly session. The program manager's report is the substance of these meetings\, covering the housing choice voucher program\; the presentation is available on request rather than posted.\n\nMembers gave updates and a three-minute public comment period was offered.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2560\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2175
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2560
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1991@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260321
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260322
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Housing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners hold a half-day retreat on March 21 on housing markets and pricing. It's part of a long series of sessions the board asked for before setting direction on the Land Use Plan 2050.\n\nYonah Freemark of the Urban Institute presents on housing economics and Todd Taylor of OWASA on utility capacity. A roundtable with affordable housing groups\, the chamber and the homebuilders association follows.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03212026-2557\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=86\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1991
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03212026-2557
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260408
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took the manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan on April 7\, held two public hearings\, and heard a school enrollment forecast. One hearing covered the draft HOME Investment Partnership annual action plan\; the other a county-initiated zoning amendment moving a watershed overlay boundary on a single 19.4-acre parcel in Bingham Township.\n\nThe board also discussed how the county communicates with residents and how its online content measures against the Americans with Disabilities Act.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/45?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1989
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1988@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2174@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260417
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nA virtual meeting of the county housing authority's advisory board. Two months of minutes to approve\, three minutes a speaker for public comment\, and a programme manager's report that is mostly numbers: voucher inventory\, the federal management report\, voucher utilisation\, incoming portable vouchers and fraud recovery.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162026-2585\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2174
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162026-2585
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1986@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1984@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2240@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nA 43-lot subdivision on 61 acres\, and the subdivision ordinance rewrite that governs how such things are reviewed. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2592\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2240
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2592
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1982@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2252@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260519
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nA ninety-minute virtual meeting with two outside firms: consultants engaged to review the 2025 revaluation\, and an executive search firm hired to recruit the county's next tax administrator. The tax administrator's post is currently held on an interim basis.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2606\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2252
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2606
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
END:VEVENT
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UID:meeting-1981@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2237@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOne rezoning inside the Chapel Hill joint planning area\, and a page of subdivision ordinance amendments that went missing from last month's package. 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/_06032026-2617\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2237
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2617
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2069@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260609
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260610
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nTwelve appeals scheduled at quarter-hour intervals from 1:00 PM\, four of them on properties belonging to one owner. Most owners are attending. The board's 2026 minutes record each decision as a table row - the motion\, what the appeal was based on\, the current value\, the owner's opinion and the value the board set\, with the mover\, seconder and vote. That is a considerable improvement on the 2025 minutes\, which ran to narrative pages per appeal and in several cases would not extract as text at all.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06092026-2635\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2069
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06092026-2635
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2068@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260625
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nEight appeals from 1:00 PM\, including two units in the same building held by one owner and one estate. Three owners are attending\, one of them remotely. The board's 2026 minutes record each decision as a table row - the motion\, what the appeal was based on\, the current value\, the owner's opinion and the value the board set\, with the mover\, seconder and vote. That is a considerable improvement on the 2025 minutes\, which ran to narrative pages per appeal and in several cases would not extract as text at all.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2636\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2068
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2636
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2067@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260701
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review June 30th\, 2026 Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nNine appeals from 1:00 PM through the afternoon\, most owners attending. One is on four acres of land rather than a house. The board's 2026 minutes record each decision as a table row - the motion\, what the appeal was based on\, the current value\, the owner's opinion and the value the board set\, with the mover\, seconder and vote. That is a considerable improvement on the 2025 minutes\, which ran to narrative pages per appeal and in several cases would not extract as text at all.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06302026-2648\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2067
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06302026-2648
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2235@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260702
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board ordinance review committee meets July 1\, right after the regular meeting\, to review the planning director's omnibus amendments to the development ordinance. The changes touch frontage and setback rules\, accessory dwelling unit standards\, and home occupation permits. They also cover street trees\, subdivision buffers\, RV use standards and school zoning. The item was tabled from the June 3 meeting for lack of time. Attendance is optional and no quorum is required\, since the committee does not vote.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07012026-2633\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2235
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07012026-2633
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1974@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-1973@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2065@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260807
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nAn afternoon given entirely to commercial appeals\, and to four of them from one company. No owner is attending any of them\; the board decides on the written record and the appraiser's presentation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062026-2652\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2065
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062026-2652
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3821@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260813
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260814
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review August 13\, 2026 meeting agenda and minutes
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard four commercial property value appeals on August 13\, all from companies holding Chapel Hill real estate. The largest was 501 Midtown Apartments at 232 Butler Court\, assessed at $40\,394\,200. Also on the list were a property at 1602 E. Franklin Street\, two Paliouras Enterprises holdings at 157 E. Rosemary Street and 1404 E. Franklin Street\, and the appraisers assigned to each.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08132026-2669\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3821
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08132026-2669
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2183@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260822
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260823
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nA seven-hour Saturday retreat\, 9:00 to 4:00\, where the commission sets its own direction for the year and the decade. Morning: closing out the 2026 budget year and opening 2027\, a keep-or-toss exercise on what the commission does\, and subcommittee breakouts to write charters and priority statements. Afternoon: planning the year's events\, then a three-year strategy and a ten-year vision.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08222026-2656\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2183
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08222026-2656
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2182@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-2327@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2231@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260903
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nTwo things to decide: a concept plan for a twelve-lot subdivision on Lebanon Road\, and the county's response to a state law that takes several powers away from it.\n\nThe ordinance amendment is the larger of the two. The North Carolina Regulatory Reform Act of 2025 forces changes the county did not choose\, and the planning director has used the occasion to fold in fixes asked for by the commissioners\, by state environmental regulators and by federal flood officials. It touches more than thirty sections and runs to 140 pages of tracked changes. The board recommends\; the commissioners hold the formal hearing and decide.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2659\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2231
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2659
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2917@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260914
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260915
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spend the morning of 14 September on the draft Land Use Plan 2050\, deciding what must change before it goes out for a third and final round of public comment. Staff pose questions under five headings: the plan's vision themes\, housing\, rural conservation neighborhoods with community septic systems\, rural activity nodes\, and renegotiating the water and sewer boundary agreements with the towns.\n\nStaff recommend dropping conservation neighborhoods from the future land use map and offering them countywide as a subdivision option\, and merging three kinds of rural commercial node into one. They warn that downzoning farmland to one home per ten acres would raise land and home prices. No vote is scheduled and there is no public comment period. A revised draft is due at a November business meeting\, and adoption is expected in late 2027.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09142026-2665\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/71?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2917
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09142026-2665
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3839@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260916
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Planning Public Hearing with the Town of Chapel Hill
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners and the Chapel Hill town council sat together Tuesday evening to hear one case: Holy Trinity Anglican Church wants to rezone about 15.5 acres at 1651 Old Lystra Road for a place of worship and up to ten homes. The land sits in the Chapel Hill Joint Planning Transition Area\, where Chapel Hill's zoning rules apply but both bodies have to approve a change.\n\nBoth planning bodies have already recommended approval. Chapel Hill's Planning Commission voted 5-1 in May with four conditions\, among them a height cap on the Old Lystra Road lots and a definition of the "tiny homes" the applicant's plan mentions but nobody has defined. Orange County's Planning Board voted unanimously in June\, asking for traffic control to stop cut-through traffic between Old Lystra Road and Wave Road. Staff recommended approval and asked both bodies to close the hearing and vote later: the county at its business meeting the same night\, the town on September 23.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09152026-2670\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/70?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3839
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09152026-2670
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3840@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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-4713@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T051204Z
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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