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UID:meeting-3614@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-3612@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241016
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's Board of Commissioners held a public hearing on the county's first Short Range Transit Plan\, a five-year plan for same-day demand-response service\, a new Mebane circulator and two phases each of Hillsborough circulator consolidation and improvements. The board also weighed $275\,000 in added debt financing for an all-electric heat pump system and LED lighting at the Durham Tech Orange County campus expansion.\n\nThe rest of the agenda held four proclamations\, an Arts Commission economic-impact report\, and a 12-item consent agenda covering the 2025 property reappraisal schedule\, construction contracts for the Fairview Park pickleball courts and the Efland-Cheeks Community Center\, and board and commission appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152024-2103\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1763?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3612
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152024-2103
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3611@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-3695@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nGrant rules\, a pending economic development strategy\, and a Chapel Hill nonprofit's work with disabled adults filled most of the agenda. Orange County's Economic Development Advisory Board planned to review revised guidelines for the Business and Agricultural Investment grant programs\, including a new requirement that recipients report the jobs and sales their grants generate. The board also expected updates on a countywide Economic Development Strategic Plan\, for which the county fielded 11 proposals\, and on revised performance targets headed to the Board of Commissioners under the county's Vibrant & Diverse Economy strategic-plan goal.\n\nAlso on the agenda: a presentation from the Blue Hill Event Center's executive director on the venue's programs for employees with intellectual and developmental disabilities\, and the board's own annual report and work plan\, due to the county clerk by January 17\, 2025.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2129\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3695
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2129
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3609@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners received an independent assessment of the detention center on November 19\, 2024\, commissioned after a petition from Commissioner Anna Richards\, whom the board honored the same night as she left office. They also adopted the county's Transportation Multimodal Plan and held a public hearing on the annual report of federal housing spending.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192024-2136\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1771?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3609
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192024-2136
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3668@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-3678@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nUNC's athletics department told the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau advisory board on November 20\, 2024 that it is weighing seven options for the Dean E. Smith Center\, including building a new arena at one of five sites. Simply repairing and maintaining the existing building would cost $150 million over twenty years.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202024-2135\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3678
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202024-2135
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-3607@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-3700@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission took no decisions on December 11\, 2024. It spent the meeting on the county's justice facility expansion\, which will affect the historic courthouse and the master plan for courthouse square\, and on three properties moving toward the National Register.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112024-2146\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3700
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112024-2146
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3605@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners certified the November 2024 school bond result on 21 January 2025\, 56\,138 to 27\,040 in favour of $300 million in general obligation bonds for both school districts\, which authorises the county to issue them. They also asked the state to deny UNC's application to burn pelletized fuel at its cogeneration plant.\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/_01212025-2180\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1777?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3605
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212025-2180
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3601@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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
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UID:meeting-3640@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250304
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250305
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nThe Orange County Board of Elections took its 2026 budget request on 4 March 2025\, covering four elections\, and heard that the state has identified its election management software as needing replacement. Registration stood at 109\,167\, down 6\,165 since 1 December 2024 after biennial list maintenance.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03042025-2295\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3640
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03042025-2295
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3600@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250306
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250307
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners denied the Fiddlehead Corner rezoning on 6 March 2025\, refusing a 150-unit master plan development on 90.133 acres off Morrow Mill Road at Gold Mine Loop in Bingham Township. The board also denied the comprehensive plan amendment and the applicant-initiated ordinance text amendment that would have made the rezoning consistent.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03062025-2194\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1791?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3600
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03062025-2194
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3596@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3595@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250402
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe county manager presented the recommended 2025-35 capital investment plan to Orange County commissioners on 1 April 2025. Its tax estimates are built on the FY2025-26 valuation from the revaluation rather than the current one\, it assumes 2 percent property tax growth and 4 percent sales tax growth\, and it relies substantially on debt.\n\nThe board also approved the county's transportation priority list for the state's SPOT 8 prioritisation round\, which feeds the 2027-2036 state transportation improvement program\, and eleven consent items.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012025-2214\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1799?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3595
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012025-2214
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3593@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250416
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners published the revenue neutral tax rate for 2025-26 on 15 April 2025: 63.84 cents per $100\, down from 86.29 cents\, after the revaluation raised the tax base by $9 billion to $32.6 billion\, an increase of 38.6 percent. They also approved buying a five-acre site off Waterstone Drive in Hillsborough for a crisis diversion facility and hired its construction manager.\n\nThe agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152025-2225\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1806?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3593
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152025-2225
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3639@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250416
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nThe Orange County Board of Elections watched demonstrations of two election management software systems on 15 April 2025 and made a preliminary recommendation to the county commissioners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152025-2294\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3639
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152025-2294
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3590@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe county manager presented his recommended 2025-26 operating budget to Orange County commissioners on 6 May 2025\, a plan carrying a 6 percent increase. The board also held the statutory public hearing on financing up to $78 million for capital projects\, and took recommendations from the Opioid Advisory Committee on five community grants.\n\nThe agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062025-2243\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1815?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3590
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062025-2243
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3587@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners held two public hearings on 20 May 2025 on how the county will spend its HOME housing money: the five-year 2025-29 consolidated plan\, and the annual action plan that carries it out. The consortium of Carrboro\, Chapel Hill\, Hillsborough and the county is allocated $367\,013.59 for the coming programme year\, and staff proposed concentrating it on home repair and tenant-based rental assistance for households under 30 percent and between 30 and 50 percent of area median income.\n\nThe board also adopted the final financing resolution for up to $78 million in installment financing for capital projects and equipment\, secured against county and school properties\, and a twelve-item consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-2265\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1823?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3587
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-2265
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3638@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nThe Orange County Board of Elections ran a simulated election on 20 May 2025 to test ES&S Electionware 5.2.4.0\, the software that would replace the county's election management system\, and then voted on whether to ask the State Board of Elections to approve it. The director also reported on voter registration\, the year-to-date budget and what the county manager's recommended 2026 budget does to the elections office.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-2323\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3638
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-2323
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3717@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3583@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe commissioners' business meeting two days before the budget is settled. Three public hearings on land use: a county-initiated rezoning of the 69.58 acres Cedar Ridge High School sits on\, an applicant's request to put a 41-building self-storage development on 11.22 acres at Rougemont\, and the first rewrite of the county's telecommunications facility standards since the development ordinance was adopted in 2011. Also on the agenda: the Solid Waste Master Plan aiming at zero waste by 2045\, a solar array text amendment\, and a twenty-one item consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2278\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1832?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3583
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2278
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3581@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-2132@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250722
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250723
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard thirteen residential and vacant-land tax appeals\, including three landlocked tracts owned by the same company near US 70 West\, and lowered the assessed value in all but one case.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07222025-2309\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2132
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07222025-2309
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2131@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250723
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250724
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard six property tax matters\, including five owner appeals and a county-initiated request to lower building grades\, and cut assessed value across three duplexes\, on a night that also briefed the board on a third-party vertical equity study of 2024-2025 valuations.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2310\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2131
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2310
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2011@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's Board of Commissioners meets jointly with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Orange County Boards of Education for a briefing session\, not a vote. The agenda opens with budget\, programming\, cell-phone-policy and staffing updates from both districts\, then turns to a draft interlocal agreement setting out how the county and the two districts manage bond-funded school construction\, including a joint staff working group and commitments on public updates.\n\nCounty planning staff are set to present demographic trends and their impact on school enrollment. The three boards close with a discussion of issues for future collaboration\; the agenda names no specific topics beyond the heading.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2391\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/19?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2011
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2391
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2010@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-2008@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-2004@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-2179@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251121
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority board considers letting graduates of the Foster Youth to Independence program move onto the housing choice voucher program. The change would add a preference point that places them on the wait list\, the same approach the authority uses for emergency housing vouchers. The Foster Youth to Independence program runs 36 months\, and graduates currently have no route onward once it ends.\n\nThe agenda also carries the program manager's monthly report and an update on project-based vouchers. Members also plan to discuss flood zone policy for voucher holders and a draft 2026 work plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2455\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2179
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2455
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-2258@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-2001@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-2203@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County Staff Working Group is set to vote on two changes to how the group runs. One creates a financial policies and procedures subcommittee\, chaired by Orange County\, to standardize reimbursement documentation across the participating organizations after unclear requirements caused delays. The other would add the transit tax district administration as a non-voting member\, to recognize its authority and clarify roles. Some members worry that would give GoTriangle more influence on the group.\n\nThe group will also see FY27 project sheets ahead of a January 9 review\, and get an FY26 first-quarter update on the county's and GoTriangle's transit funding agreements. Chapel Hill\, Carrboro and Triangle West are due to give project updates\, including a transit corridor study and a greenway construction bid.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2469\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2203
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2469
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2178@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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:20261014T020549Z
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-2331@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Economic Development Advisory Board takes up a grant program update on January 13\, covering guideline changes and a vacant seat on the grant review committee. The board also hears from Scott Czechlewski\, CEO of the Hillsborough Orange County Chamber of Commerce\, and gets the director's report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2486\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2331
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2486
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-2201@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County transit staff working group's January 21 meeting takes up administrative corrections to the FY27 annual work program. Project sponsors are asked to confirm their submissions\, ahead of a special meeting on February 6 for the substantive funding discussion.\n\nThe group is the technical committee where Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, Mebane\, Orange County\, GoTriangle and the Triangle West planning organization divide up transit money raised by the county's transit tax district.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2493\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2201
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2493
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2169@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260129
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission holds a public hearing on updates to the Moorefields National Register nomination\, which adds new boundaries covering sites tied to enslaved workers and the Waddell cemetery\, and considers whether to recommend it for listing. The agenda also includes a certificate of appropriateness for repair work at Faucette Mill and a proposal to cancel the commission's February meeting.\n\nIn discussion\, the commission takes up a possible historic landmark designation for Montrose\, the Governor Graham house\, which sits inside Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction. Members also plan a field trip to Harvey's Chapel Cemetery and hear updates on the annual report\, a possible landmark at the Norwood-Webb-Cheshire House\, and the commission's book project.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2502\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2169
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2502
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1998@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners approved the school construction interlocal agreement on February 3\, the document that governs how the county and its two school systems build schools together. They also took an update on the interlocal agreements under which the county collects taxes for its towns.\n\nProclamations for Black History Month and Human Relations Month opened the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02032026-2507\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/38?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1998
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02032026-2507
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2255@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-1995@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260306
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners received the final report on neighborhood reviews and revaluation appeals on March 5\, closing out the assessment cycle that had occupied the board of equalization and review and a separate work group for months. They also renewed employee health and dental insurance and continued the county's participation in the state health insurance pool.\n\nThe board took up its proposed 2026 priority legislative issues\, which it adopted later in March\, and adopted a Women's History Month proclamation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052026-2537\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/41?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1995
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052026-2537
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1993@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners take up a one-year moratorium on data centers as a land use. Staff present the impacts of large-scale data centers - power and water demand\, environmental effects\, and costs that could shift onto other ratepayers. The county attorney lays out two moratorium options and a possible amendment to the development ordinance regulating the use. The board decides which\, if any\, to pursue.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2553\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/44?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1993
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2553
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2254@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260320
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group reached the decision point on March 19: which vendor to recommend to the county commissioners to evaluate the county's reappraisal and assessment process. Members went round the table on the strengths and weaknesses of each proposal before settling on a recommendation.\n\nThe group also reread the charge the commissioners gave it in September 2025 and its own ground rules\, and set out what came next: contract negotiations\, then commissioner approval on April 7 or April 21.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2554\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2254
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2554
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2168@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission had three decisions on March 25\, all of them about Montrose or the nation's 250th anniversary. It evaluated Montrose for landmark designation and started the process of an interlocal agreement with the Town of Hillsborough to designate it\, which is needed because the property sits in Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction. It also decided whether to join the statewide Landmark Tree project.\n\nUnder updates the commission took a proposed memorial marker honoring the enslaved community associated with St. Matthew's Church\, progress toward National Register listing for Moorefields\, and the donation process and timeline for the Harvey's Chapel cemetery.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2168
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-2253@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260414
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group met virtually on April 13 to review the Tanner valuation report\, take a status report on contract negotiations\, and look at property tax reform recommendations coming out of the General Assembly.\n\nThe state work matters directly to the county. A House select committee on property taxes was proposing a constitutional amendment\, which commissioners cited weeks later as a reason to make sure this year's budget genuinely met the county's needs\, since future flexibility would be narrower.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04132026-2581\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2253
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04132026-2581
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2209@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260430
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Broadband Task Force
DESCRIPTION:Orange County Broadband Task Force\n\nTwo hours\, co-chaired by two county commissioners\, with the broadband provider's director in the room. Thirty minutes on a stop-gap update from the provider\, then a full hour reviewing the mapping of who is and is not served.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04292026-2595\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2209
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04292026-2595
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1984@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-2252@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2194@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe staff group administering the county's transit tax district\, with a consent agenda that cancels its own June meeting and revises the 2027 work programme adoption schedule. Discussion items cover the quarterly tax district update\, the regional operator's annual financial report\, next year's global agreements\, revised financial policies\, and the state of the group's own minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2609\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2194
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2609
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1977@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260603
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThree substantial items: how the county spends next year's opioid settlement money\, acceptance of a farmland stewardship plan replacing one from 2009\, and notice to terminate a 99-year interlocal agreement under which the county collects taxes for its municipalities. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/58?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1977
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nBudget adoption night. The board also decides the ten-year capital plan\, amends its broadband contract to reach the last houses before a federal deadline\, and refuses a set of transit amendments. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/62?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1975
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2067@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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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UID:meeting-1974@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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-1972@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260826
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners opened their August 25 meeting with the oath of office for Commissioner Rani Dasi\, and directed on the consent agenda that the crisis diversion facility under construction be named for Jamezetta Bedford. The formal resolution honoring Bedford\, who died on June 21\, came back to the board a week later.\n\nThe one item of regular business was how the county advertises its land for sale. Until now it did the legal minimum\, a notice in The Herald Sun. The new process adds a listing on the MLS\, county social media\, the community newsletter\, a sign at the property and the asset management webpage\, with the winning bidder covering the costs: $200 to $3\,500 for legal ads\, $500 for the MLS listing and $1\,200 for an appraisal. The tax collector reported a 99.33 percent current-year collection rate for FY 2025-26. Consent also carried the sale of a 1.24-acre placeholder lot on Mollie Court\, four bus shelters for Hillsborough\, and dissolution of the broadband task force whose work produced the county's $10 million fiber contract with Lumos.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2654\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/65?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1972
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2654
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2327@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260902
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe one public hearing is the consequential item. A county-initiated text amendment would take by-right subdivisions of fewer than 21 lots out of Planning Board and commissioner review entirely and hand them to staff\, on the reasoning that state law requires the county to approve plats meeting its own criteria anyway. It also drops the separate concept plan application\, widens the expedited track to parcels between two and five acres\, and deletes three subdivision categories that have never been used. The Planning Board recommended approval unanimously with one change: doubling the mailing notice before a neighborhood meeting from 14 days to 30.\n\nThe board also fills the Register of Deeds vacancy left by a resignation in mid-August\, and honors Commissioner Jamezetta Bedford\, who died in June\, by naming the crisis diversion facility now under construction after her. Consent carries $350\,000 in tourism marketing contracts\, a $37\,783 opioid settlement award\, and ratification of a $123\,500 inspections contract the county manager had already signed to keep construction moving.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09012026-2661\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/66?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2327
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09012026-2661
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2917@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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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UID:meeting-3840@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260916
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nHoly Trinity Anglican Church asks Orange County's commissioners on 15 September to rezone about 15.5 acres at 1651 Old Lystra Road\, in the joint planning area with Chapel Hill\, from R-LD1 to a conditional R-4 district. The church plans an 11\,200-square-foot building with a 300-seat sanctuary\, a later 6\,240-square-foot addition\, and up to ten church-owned tiny homes to house people in need\, all on well and septic. The county planning board recommended approval unanimously on 3 June\, with a condition against cut-through traffic\, and the rezoning takes effect only if Chapel Hill's council adopts it too. The joint public hearing is held at 6 p.m. that evening.\n\nThe board also holds hearings on the HOME program's annual report and on a $191\,911 state and federal rural transit application\, hears from OWASA on the drought and PFAS\, and gets an update on the J Branch rail trail study. The consent agenda buys 35 Motorola portable radios for $352\,560\, hires engineers for the first phase of the VIPER radio expansion for $186\,200\, and borrows $504\,000 to replace Durham Tech's rooftop HVAC units. It also shifts $337\,096 of Chapel Hill-Carrboro school money from the McDougle roof to a boiler at FPG Elementary\, and removes two advisory board members for missed meetings.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09152026-2671\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/69?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3840
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09152026-2671
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4713@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T020549Z
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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