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UID:meeting-3670@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Board of Health
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health's September 25 agenda covered dental fee policy\, refugee health screening\, and children's screen time\, alongside the county's Community Health Improvement Plans for access to care\, behavioral health\, and connections to community support.\n\nThe board also planned to approve minutes from its August 28 meeting and hear the health director's monthly report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2112\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3670
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2112
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3671@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Minutes of
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health met September 25 to consider Community Health Improvement Plans for the county's three priority areas: access to care\, behavioral health\, and connections to community support. Members also reviewed proposed updates to the board's own policy and procedures manual\, including a dental fee schedule that stops sliding at the 20% pay level and a shorter window\, 10 days instead of 30\, for verifying a client's income.\n\nTwo annual staff reports were also on the agenda: health screening for refugees and asylees arriving in the county\, and research on how screen time affects children's mental health. The board also planned to approve its August 28 minutes and hear the health director's monthly report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2121\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3671
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2121
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3668@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
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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UID:meeting-3621@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
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
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UID:meeting-3673@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
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
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UID:meeting-3663@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
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
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UID:meeting-2140@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
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
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UID:meeting-2103@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251022
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review is scheduled to hear 14 property tax appeals from the 2025 countywide revaluation. Thirteen come from individual homeowners\; one\, at 220 James Street\, comes from a business\, Engelhardt Ventures LLC.\n\nEach appellant presents evidence for a lower value — a comparable sale\, an independent appraisal\, or documentation of the property's condition — and a county appraiser lays out the basis for the current assessment. The board then sets a final value for each parcel by vote.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2430\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2103
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2430
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2100@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251029
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review will hear 13 property tax appeals in one afternoon\, one per parcel assigned to a county appraiser for review. Twelve appeals come from individual property owners\; the other concerns an unimproved lot owned by a company.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10282025-2433\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2100
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10282025-2433
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2139@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
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
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UID:meeting-2138@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
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
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UID:meeting-2147@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
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 takes up a budget update and Savannah Bananas planning under the executive director's report\, plus a communications and digital strategy update from bureau staff. UNC's newly appointed director of special projects\, Marcus Ginyard\, addresses the board on coordination between the university and local governments. Board members also share community updates.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2446\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2147
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2446
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2087@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
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
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UID:meeting-2137@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
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
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UID:meeting-2910@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260128
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's Human Relations Commission takes up a commemorative marker for the Blackwood Farms gravesite\, vacancies on its own board\, and its events for February through April. Staff bring an update on the marker\, which is meant to mark a cemetery on the former farm property.\n\nThe rest of the ninety-minute agenda is reports. The executive committee has the secretary post and the open commissioner seats on its slate\, the outreach and community events subcommittees report back\, and new business covers what the commission calls its social justice vision and any emerging issues members want to raise.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01272026-2638\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2910
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01272026-2638
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2136@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
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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UID:meeting-3989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040612Z
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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