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UID:meeting-3611@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
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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UID:meeting-3637@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment heard one case on November 13\, 2024: a special use permit for Canine Adventures to run a Class II kennel off Monotropa Trail in Efland\, in Bingham Township. A second case\, a watershed variance\, came off the agenda when the applicant withdrew it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132024-2130\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3637
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132024-2130
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3689@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment spent December 9\, 2024 finishing its annual report to commissioners and deciding who should write the county's next State of the Environment report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092024-2141\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3689
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092024-2141
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3734@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250206
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nThe Fairview Community Watch and Fairview Youth in Action brought the Orange County Parks and Recreation Council a plan for their own park on 5 February 2025\, worked up with a UNC research collaborative. Their first priority is soccer.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2186\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3734
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2186
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-3687@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment settled how it will produce its State of the Environment report on 10 February 2025: no outside consultant\, a shared folder\, subcommittees meeting between regular meetings\, and a target of finishing by 2026.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102025-2187\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3687
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102025-2187
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3602@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250218
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Hillsborough Board of Commissioners
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners and the Hillsborough Board of Commissioners met jointly on 17 February 2025 on six subjects: the interlocal planning agreements between them\, contracted services\, town water and sewer capacity\, the closed Fairview landfill and the park above it\, the Hillsborough Station rail project\, and the crisis diversion facility.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172025-2190\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1786?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3602
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172025-2190
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3592@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250423
SUMMARY:Orange County: CIP Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners went through the manager's recommended 2025-35 capital investment plan on 22 April 2025\, project by project. The plan assumes 2 percent annual property tax growth and 4 percent sales tax growth and relies substantially on debt. Approving it commits the county to first-year funding only\; the other nine years are planning.\n\nSchool projects were held for the 15 May work session\, after the November 2024 bond changed how they are funded and organised.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222025-2229\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1809?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3592
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222025-2229
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-3585@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250528
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe last of the departmental budget sessions. Every functional leadership team comes to the board in turn - public safety\, human services\, support services\, general government and community services\, twenty-odd departments and the Sportsplex - to talk through operating requests\, capital\, and proposed fee changes. The board takes no public comment at a work session\; the public hearing follows on 29 May.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05272025-2272\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1828?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3585
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05272025-2272
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-3583@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
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
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UID:meeting-3582@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250605
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250606
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe meeting where Orange County's 2025-26 budget is actually decided. The manager put a recommended budget in front of the commissioners on 6 May\, two public hearings followed\, and this three-hour work session at the Southern Human Services Center is where the board works down the amendment list and settles the numbers: the ten-year capital plan first\, then the operating budget and what the two school districts get per pupil\, then the fee schedule\, then the county property tax rate\, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district tax and twelve fire district rates. Formal adoption follows on 17 June. The board takes no public comment at a work session\; written comments go to ocbocc@orangecountync.gov.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06052025-2279\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/2?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3582
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06052025-2279
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-3683@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250609
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250610
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nThe Commission for the Environment's last meeting before its summer break\, at the Bonnie B. Davis Environment and Agriculture Center and on Teams. The agenda runs to a schedule by the minute: membership and candidate introductions at 7:04\, an environmental awards proposal at 7:15\, progress on the State of the Environment report at 7:35\, and fifty minutes of subcommittee breakouts before the room reconvenes to report back. The commission advises the county commissioners and does most of its work through three subcommittees: air and energy\, water\, and land.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06092025-2282\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3683
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06092025-2282
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2230@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250807
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's Parks and Recreation Council considers whether to send its Parks and Recreation 2030 Master Plan mid-plan review to the Board of County Commissioners\, more than a year after finishing the report. Staff are recommending a new cover letter and a start on the plan's successor.\n\nThe council also reviews results of the 2025 Nature of Orange photography contest\, previews which items it will take up between September and December\, and hears a director's update on Fairview Park and county park facilities.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2321\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2230
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2321
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-2007@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
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
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UID:meeting-2004@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
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
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UID:meeting-2159@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment considers a petition to widen its Community Climate Action Grant fund. County Commissioner Sally Greene wants the fund to cover climate adaptation\, not only mitigation. The commission also plans to approve a final draft of its annual report and work plan\, due to the clerk's office in January. It will also decide whether to keep sponsoring the Nature of Orange photo contest.\n\nThe agenda sets aside time for a State of the Environment report round table and sub-committee breakouts on the year's projects. It also lists updates on the commission's RIPPLE environmental awards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01122026-2485\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2159
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01122026-2485
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
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
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UID:meeting-1996@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
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
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UID:meeting-1981@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040359Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThree regular agenda items\, each about housing or the money behind it: up to $32 million of installment financing for capital projects\, a $100\,000 request to help buy supportive housing units for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities\, and the annual federal housing plan. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/54?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1981
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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