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UID:meeting-3730@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240930
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241001
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTBOARD
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's transportation board was asked on 30 September 2024 to recommend two plans to the commissioners for October: a Short Range Transit Plan for 2025 to 2030 and an updated Safe Routes to School plan. The transit plan\, by Nelson\\Nygaard\, splits the Hillsborough Circulator into two routes running every 45 minutes from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.\, adds a Mebane circulator\, reorganizes on-demand service into four zones\, and aligns the Orange-Chapel Hill Connector with GoTriangle Route 420. It projects a transit budget of about $3.8 million a year. The staff memo lists reinstating the Orange-Alamance Connector as a short-term step\, while the plan itself proposes discontinuing it and bringing back a redesigned route in the long term.\n\nThe Safe Routes to School plan\, by WSP\, covers 13 schools within two miles of each\, names NC 86\, Orange Grove Road and Richmond Road as the most dangerous corridors\, and ranks crosswalks\, sidewalks\, traffic calming and paths by need. It carries no cost estimates. Staff also report on NCDOT projects\, among them the $236.5 million I-40 widening and the Hillsborough passenger rail station. Public comment is item 3\, and emailed comments are read aloud.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09302024-2096\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3730
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09302024-2096
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3614@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
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-3737@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241002
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241003
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's Parks and Recreation Council advises the Board of County Commissioners on parkland\, trails and recreation facilities. At its October 2 meeting the council took up two vacant seats on its own board\, the county's progress connecting to the Mountains to Sea Trail\, a letter asking the state to add pedestrian signals to the Dimmock's Mill bridge\, and whether the county should build a public pool or splash pad.\n\nStaff also briefed the council on construction at Perry Hills Mini Park and a coming vote by the commissioners on a bid for pickleball and tennis courts at Fairview Park.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10022024-2098\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3737
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10022024-2098
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3612@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
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-3729@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241022
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nThe Orange Unified Transportation Board met to review a countywide short-range transit plan and the 2024 Safe Routes to School plan\, both drafted by outside consultants. The transit plan covers rider messaging\, on-demand booking\, the regional transit hub network and the Hill to Hill route between Hillsborough and Chapel Hill. The school plan sets walking and biking improvements at schools across the county\, including three Hillsborough schools the town asked to add: Central Elementary\, River Park Elementary and Hillsborough Elementary.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212024-2105\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3729
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212024-2105
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3611@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
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-3625@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe Orange County Advisory Board on Aging's November meeting covered staff changes at the Passmore and Seymour Centers\, continued funding for two senior programs\, and the first quarterly report of year three of the 2022-27 Master Aging Plan. The board also planned to approve its 2025 meeting calendar and hear updates from three affiliated groups: the Senior Tar Heel Legislature delegation\, the Nursing Home and Adult Care Home Joint Community Advisory Committee\, and the Friends groups at both senior centers.\n\nNew business included a proposal from board member Jon Wilner to pair seniors with schoolchildren in an after-school art program developed with the ArtsCenter\, aimed at grades 3\, 7 and 11.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2175\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3625
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2175
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3728@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241119
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's Unified Transportation Board took comments on the county's first bicycle and pedestrian plan on November 18\, 2024\, elected officers for the coming year\, and approved the annual report it sends to commissioners.\n\nStantec is writing the plan\, which covers the unincorporated county and will feed into an update of the county's multimodal transportation plan. The board's own year\, as its report tells it\, went into recommending the NC 54 multimodal corridor study\, getting NC 10 and a regional transit center in Hillsborough named county priorities in the state's Strategic Prioritization process\, and pressing for grant money for three mobility-on-demand vans. For 2025 it lists finishing the US 70 multimodal corridor study\, expanding mobility on demand\, advancing the Hillsborough regional transit center\, and widening Safe Routes to School to cover every school in the county. No minutes are on file for this meeting\, so how the board voted is not recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182024-2128\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3728
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182024-2128
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3609@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners received an independent assessment of the detention center on November 19\, 2024\, commissioned after a petition from Commissioner Anna Richards\, whom the board honored the same night as she left office. They also adopted the county's Transportation Multimodal Plan and held a public hearing on the annual report of federal housing spending.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192024-2136\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1771?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3609
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192024-2136
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3682@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Climate Council
DESCRIPTION:Climate Council\n\nThe Orange County Climate Council\, which brings together elected officials and staff from the county\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, both school districts and UNC\, met November 21\, 2024 to compare notes on what is working\, plan a joint public campaign\, and look at how little young people are involved in any of it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212024-2131\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3682
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212024-2131
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3735@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's Parks and Recreation Council learned on December 4\, 2024 that it will steer the county trails plan\, its main work for 2025. The council also recommended appointments to three of its own seats and heard the transportation director open a year-long bicycle and pedestrian plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12042024-2140\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3735
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12042024-2140
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3722@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241217
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County transit staff working group met December 16\, 2024 to review project sheets against the 2022 Orange County Transit Plan\, approve a quarterly work program amendment\, and hear GoTriangle's plans for a February service change.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12162024-2145\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3722
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12162024-2145
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3721@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250118
SUMMARY:Orange County: January 2025 Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County transit staff working group reviewed the new projects proposed for the FY26 annual work program on 17 January 2025 and recommended the third-quarter FY25 amendment to the county commissioners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01172025-2172\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3721
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01172025-2172
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3727@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250122
SUMMARY:Orange County: January 2025 OUTBOARD
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nThe Orange Unified Transportation Board adopted its 2024 annual report and 2025 work plan on 21 January 2025\, and discussed how a multimodal transportation assessment of development applications might be paid for.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212025-2178\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3727
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212025-2178
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3603@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners heard ten advisory boards present annual work plans on 11 February 2025 and discussed the state of the county's homelessness partnership. Two of the partnership's guiding documents are years out of date.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112025-2188\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1783?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3603
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112025-2188
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3726@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250218
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTBOARD
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nThe Orange Unified Transportation Board reviewed the 2019 Efland-Buckhorn-Mebane access management plan on 17 February 2025 against what has actually been built. The plan projected 175\,000 trips a day\; current development generates 25\,000.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172025-2189\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3726
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172025-2189
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3720@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250220
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County transit staff working group released the draft FY26 annual work program for a 21-day public review on 19 February 2025. A financial assessment found the transit model viable\, with its low point at $2.5 million in FY28.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02192025-2191\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3720
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02192025-2191
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3666@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250226
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250227
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health approved a $9\,152\,248 budget request for 2025-26 on 26 February 2025\, plus a $74\,071 increase in the personnel budget\, and sent it and a set of fee changes to the county commissioners. It also heard from Chapel Hill's Vision Zero coordinator on traffic deaths.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02262025-2234\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3666
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02262025-2234
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3733@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250306
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nThe Orange County Parks and Recreation Council heard the consultants' opening presentation on the county trails plan on 5 March 2025\, and recommended a new member to fill a vacancy left by its vice chair's resignation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052025-2195\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3733
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052025-2195
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3621@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
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-3598@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Legislative Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe commissioners' annual legislative breakfast with the county's state senator and two state representatives\, at 8:30 AM in the Whitted Building. The county sent them its 2025 priority legislative issues in advance\; this is the meeting to talk them through. The only document on file is that packet - the letter and the priorities themselves - and a single-page record of the meeting that does not extract as text.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172025-2206\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3598
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172025-2206
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3597@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250319
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners spent 18 March 2025 on three long discussions: the annual update from the Orange Water and Sewer Authority\, where Medicaid expansion stands a year on\, and two accumulated fund balances the board has to decide what to do with. Nobody spoke in public comment.\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/_03182025-2208\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1795?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3597
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182025-2208
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3719@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250320
SUMMARY:Orange County: March 19th Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County transit staff working group recommended the FY26 annual work program to the county commissioners on 19 March 2025 and released the fourth-quarter FY24 amendments for public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192025-2205\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3719
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192025-2205
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3596@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250328
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Carrboro Town Council
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners and the Carrboro Town Council met jointly on 27 March 2025 on five subjects: the first year of the Drakeford Library Complex\, what federal cuts do to the county budget\, affordable housing and the Greene Tract\, expanding the CARE mobile crisis team\, and where the two bodies might advocate together.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03272025-2209\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1797?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3596
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03272025-2209
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3595@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3732@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250402
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250403
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nThe Orange County Parks and Recreation Council heard consultants set out four possible priority trail connections for the county trails plan on 2 April 2025\, and planned the community vision workshops for May. It also re-elected its chair and vice chair and reviewed a capital plan that puts county money into schools and defers park projects.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04022025-2213\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3732
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04022025-2213
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3716@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250410
SUMMARY:Orange County: Intergovernmental Parks Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Intergovernmental Parks Work Group (IPWG)\n\nThe Intergovernmental Parks Work Group met on 9 April 2025 to hear about the Orange County Trails Plan and to go round the table on connectivity projects from Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, Chapel Hill\, Mebane and the county. It closed on two subjects for future meetings: community use of schools\, and the effects of federal funding decisions.\n\nThe group brings together parks staff and elected members from the county\, its three towns\, Mebane and both school boards. It meets twice a year\; the next meeting was set for 8 October 2025. No minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what was said is not on the record here.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2224\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3716
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2224
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3718@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250417
SUMMARY:Orange County: April Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County transit staff working group met on 16 April 2025 to recommend the fourth-quarter FY25 work program amendments to the county commissioners and to settle the final FY26 annual work program. Its members are staff from the county\, Hillsborough\, Carrboro\, Chapel Hill\, GoTriangle\, UNC and the regional planning organisation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162025-2226\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3718
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162025-2226
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3725@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250422
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTBOARD
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nThe Orange Unified Transportation Board took up four items on 21 April 2025: a replacement for the county's 2009 Farmland Protection Plan\, an update to its own procedures\, progress on the bicycle and pedestrian plan\, and a proposal to require multimodal transportation assessments of development applications.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212025-2228\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3725
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212025-2228
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3619@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250514
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging reviewed the county manager's recommended 2025-26 budget on 13 May 2025 and the third-quarter reports on year three of the Master Aging Plan. The manager is recommending that the takeaway lunch programme end\, with funding for July and August so participants can be told.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2264\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3619
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2264
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3673@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250522
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nA ninety-minute board meeting at the Hyatt Place in Southern Village. On the agenda: the university's local relations director as guest speaker\, preparations for an international football match at Kenan Stadium in June\, summer events\, a meeting planning partnership\, and officers for the coming fiscal year.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2266\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3673
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2266
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3717@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250522
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe staff working group that administers the Orange County Transit Plan\, with representatives from the county\, GoTriangle\, the metropolitan planning organisation\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Mebane and Hillsborough. On the agenda: next year's meeting schedule\, the work programme amendment calendar\, and a revised matrix setting out which agency leads which function. Project sponsors then report in turn.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2267\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3717
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2267
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3585@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3731@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250605
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nThe Parks and Recreation Council's last meeting before its summer break\, at the Bonnie B. Davis Environment and Agricultural Center in Hillsborough. The agenda is timed to the minute: a State of the Parks presentation from the parks superintendent\, a review of the two public outreach sessions for the county trails plan\, and an update on where the ten-year capital plan leaves parks projects. The council is a thirteen-member advisory body with two youth delegates.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042025-2276\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3731
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042025-2276
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3618@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250611
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe Advisory Board on Aging's quarterly working meeting at the Seymour Center\, running two hours and also on Teams\, which the county switched to from Zoom for this meeting. The agenda covers the aging director's report\, third-quarter reports against year three of the 2022-27 Master Aging Plan\, the new county budget\, and board appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06102025-2302\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3618
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06102025-2302
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3724@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250617
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nThe Orange Unified Transportation Board met on 16 June 2025 to comment on three staff documents\, none of them requiring a vote. The substantial one is a draft State of County Transit report\, which would set out what county transportation services have done since the 2022 transit plan and what it wants next. Staff make the case in that draft that the department covers all 150\,626 county residents at the lowest cost per service hour in the Triangle while receiving the smallest share of transit tax investment in the county.\n\nThe board also reviewed a draft project management plan for projects outside the state transportation improvement program\, drawn from the county's Transportation Multimodal Plan and aimed mainly at safety for vulnerable road users\, and an update to its own orientation material. Staff reported on the county land use plan\, the Hillsborough Circulator and a corporate extension partnership\, the FY26 annual work program\, and business at the metropolitan and rural planning organisations and NCDOT.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162025-2285\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3724
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162025-2285
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2024@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging's August 12 agenda notes that Chair Ann Bradford has resigned. Members are set to elect a new chair and vice-chair\, hear FY 2025-26 budget updates\, update the Senior Center Registration Form and Code of Conduct\, and review Year 3 reports on the county's 2022-27 Master Aging Plan covering communications\, transportation\, health services and employment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2539\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2024
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2539
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2220@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250819
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's Unified Transportation Board takes up a revised orientation packet for its own members and a draft Non-STIP Program of Projects\, a framework for coordinating low-cost safety and mobility fixes with NCDOT. Staff also brief the board on a new bus shelter policy and the recent split of the Hillsborough Circulator into two routes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2329\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2220
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2329
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2124@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250827
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review hears eleven property tax appeals\, including three requests to accept late Present Use Value applications for farmland and forestry\, and value disputes on eight residential parcels around the county.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2337\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2124
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2337
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2229@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250904
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's Parks and Recreation Council considers what to prioritize for discussion between October and December. It also hears an update on next month's Trails Plan workshops and weighs whether to host a hike for the state's Great Trails Day. The council takes up its one board vacancy and hears the director's report on park projects.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2339\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2229
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2339
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2013@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Orange County Board of Commissioners hears the first of several staff presentations answering its own questions about the Land Use Plan 2050 update. This one covers the plan's data sources and how watersheds limit development. It also covers the county's joint planning agreements with its towns\, including the Water and Sewer Management\, Planning and Boundary Agreement. The board also takes up reappointments to seven advisory boards\, discusses where closed sessions fall on future meeting agendas\, and weighs the future of its Strategic Communications Work Group.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2377\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/12?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2013
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2377
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2207@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250918
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange Staff Working Group\, which coordinates transit funding among Orange County\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, Mebane\, GoTriangle and other member agencies\, will take up four proposed FY26 second-quarter budget amendments: a new Mebane Circulator route\, a funding reallocation for North-South Bus Rapid Transit\, a 14-vehicle purchase tied to driver shortages\, and added service hours for GoTriangle's Route 800. The group also has two sets of draft minutes on its table\, a set of project contact-name changes\, and a GoTriangle financial report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2379\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2207
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2379
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2228@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251002
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's Parks and Recreation Council takes up a recreation division annual update\, an update on Fairview Park improvements\, and the status of one board vacancy for a Carrboro resident. The council also reviews progress on the county's Trails Plan workshops.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012025-2397\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2228
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012025-2397
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2206@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251016
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County Staff Working Group\, which coordinates transit planning across Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, Mebane\, GoTriangle and Orange County\, planned to take up FY27 project sheets due in December and discuss a proposed set of financial policies and procedures for the transit program.\n\nThe group also planned to approve its August and September minutes and hear routine project updates from each member government.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152025-2408\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2206
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152025-2408
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2227@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251106
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council had phase 2-B of Blackwood Farm Park on its November 5 agenda\, along with its 2025 annual report and work plan\, an update on the county trails plan and one on Fairview Park.\n\nNo minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what the council decided is not on the record.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2426\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2227
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2426
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2204@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district recommends cutting its FY27 revenue projection from $13.3 million to $11.845 million\, after an unexpected drop in FY25 sales tax rules out an earlier $12.2 million estimate. FY24 had finished above $11.5 million.\n\nGiven layoffs\, slower growth and mixed indicators\, the tax district also recommends holding FY27 revenue flat rather than applying the 3 percent growth assumption it has been using\, with a 2 percent increase for FY28 and the existing baseline for later years. It plans to revisit the figure in January or February\, once several months of Article 43 sales tax data are in.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122025-2438\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2204
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122025-2438
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2218@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251118
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTBoard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's transportation board takes up two informational items: an update on the county's bicycle and pedestrian plan for unincorporated areas\, and a staff report on a proposal to drop fares on the county's four fixed bus routes. The board also considers the June 2025 minutes\, added to the agenda\, and the October 20 minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11172025-2454\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2218
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11172025-2454
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2226@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council plans to adopt a 2026 meeting calendar and vote on its annual report and work plan. The agenda also lists the biennial joint meeting of area parks boards and the Nature of Orange photography contest. It carries no other detail beyond a director's report and an update from the intergovernmental parks work group.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2468\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2226
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2468
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2203@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
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-2217@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251216
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nThe Orange Unified Transportation Board's December 15 agenda carries one substantive item\, marked for information only: a staff report on what's ahead in 2026. The agenda also moves the board's January meeting to Thursday\, January 15. That session will be held jointly with the Parks and Recreation Council and consultants on the bike and pedestrian plan and trails plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12152025-2473\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2217
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12152025-2473
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
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:20261014T040543Z
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-2225@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council spent most of February 4 planning a joint meeting with the Orange Unified Transportation Board set for March 11. That meeting did not happen: the Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan was still stalled awaiting a state transportation department contract amendment\, and the joint session was eventually held on June 3.\n\nThe council also worked through its own vacancies\, terms expiring\, and a Trails Plan update.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2508\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2225
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2508
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2216@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260217
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's unified transportation board took two information items on February 16: the FY 2027 annual work programme for transit\, and a call for pedestrian safety projects. Neither required a vote.\n\nStaff also reported a Mebane route change and the usual round on the planning organisations and the state transportation department. Public comment at this board comes by email and is read aloud during the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02162026-2528\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2216
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02162026-2528
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2224@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260304
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260305
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council filled three of its own seats on March 4 and said goodbye to a member finishing his second term after more than five years. It also took an update on the county Trails Plan\, which had spent months tied to a second plan that was not moving.\n\nThe joint meeting with the Orange Unified Transportation Board\, scheduled for March 11\, was called off.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03042026-2546\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2224
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03042026-2546
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2017@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260310
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260311
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's advisory board on aging met March 10 with a full slate of program news and its own reporting obligations. Quarterly reports for year four of the 2022-27 Master Aging Plan were due on transportation\, social participation and inclusion\, employment\, and communication\, and the board discussed the survey and next steps for the 2027-32 plan.\n\nThe board also gave its report to the county commissioners that same evening\, and took up appointments\, its attendance policy and the FY 2026-27 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102026-2569\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2017
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102026-2569
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2223@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260402
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council elected its chair and vice chair on April 1 and spent more than an hour reviewing the draft county Trails Plan. The plan proposes nine trail connections with a priority ranking\, and it came back to this council repeatedly through the spring and summer.\n\nUnder old business the council took up the joint meeting with the Orange Unified Transportation Board\, which was held on June 3.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012026-2563\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2223
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012026-2563
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2191@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260409
SUMMARY:Orange County: Intergovernmental Parks Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Intergovernmental Parks Work Group (IPWG)\n\nOrange County's intergovernmental parks work group meets April 8 with three plans on the agenda\, each about connecting places rather than building in one. Chapel Hill staff present the town's parks and recreation comprehensive master plan and its Everywhere to Everywhere greenway plan. County staff present the feasibility of turning the J Branch rail corridor into a trail.\n\nThe group is where Mebane\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough and the county compare notes. The second half of the agenda has each government report what's ahead.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082026-2564\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2191
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082026-2564
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-1988@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260415
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent April 14 on three substantive items and then an hour of appointments. Durham Technical Community College's president presented on the college's goals\, its K-12 partnerships in the county\, county-supported workforce initiatives and the Orange County campus addition and renovation project.\n\nThe board then discussed the 2026 Longtime Homeowners Assistance Program\, which the chair later cited as evidence the county has taken deliberate steps to protect low-wealth residents from property tax increases\, and took the draft county Trails Plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142026-2578\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/48?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1988
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142026-2578
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2215@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260420
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260421
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nThree regular items: the regional planning organisation's master transportation plan and air quality report\, the draft 2027 transit work programme\, and the county's priorities for the next round of state project scoring. Anyone may comment by email and the comments are read aloud during the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-2584\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2215
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-2584
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2222@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nThe ten-year capital investment plan is the substantive item\, alongside an update on where the county trails plan stood after going to the commissioners on 14 April\, and the proposed 2026-27 budget from the director.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2598\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2222
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2598
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2214@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260519
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nForty minutes of new business: an attendance policy\, chair and vice-chair\, an update on fare-free service\, and the transit scheduling software. Then a staff report covering the annual work plan\, conflict of interest statements\, the county's bike and pedestrian plan\, and the three transport planning bodies the county has to work with.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2605\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2214
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2605
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2213@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint OUTBOARD/PRC
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council and its unified transportation board meet jointly June 3 to compare two plans side by side: the draft county Trails Plan and the draft Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan. The agenda gives twenty minutes to an overview of each\, half an hour to where they overlap and where the gaps are\, and a closing block on next steps and a presentation to the county commissioners.\n\nStaff call the joint format necessary because the two plans are separate documents describing one connected network.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2622\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2213
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2622
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2221@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nA special joint sitting with the Orange Unified Transportation Board takes the first hour\, which is what two boards do when trails are both recreation and a way to get somewhere. Then the council takes up the wildlife centre's proposal for Twin Creeks Park on its own.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2616\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2221
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2616
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-2154@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260608
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260609
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nTwo presentations open the evening: a wildlife centre proposing to turn the farmstead at Twin Creeks into its operations base with a nature centre in the park\, and the county's parks director on the draft trails plan. Then membership\, the climate action grant\, a PFAS update\, and the State of the Environment report\, whose final sections are due a week later.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06082026-2623\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2154
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06082026-2623
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2235@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260702
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board ordinance review committee meets July 1\, right after the regular meeting\, to review the planning director's omnibus amendments to the development ordinance. The changes touch frontage and setback rules\, accessory dwelling unit standards\, and home occupation permits. They also cover street trees\, subdivision buffers\, RV use standards and school zoning. The item was tabled from the June 3 meeting for lack of time. Attendance is optional and no quorum is required\, since the committee does not vote.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07012026-2633\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2235
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07012026-2633
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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UID:meeting-2236@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260702
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County planning board reviews two draft long-range plans: a county Trails Plan and a Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan\, both presented for discussion and board feedback. The board also considers minutes and training notes from its June 3 meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07012026-2634\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2236
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07012026-2634
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1973@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260729
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe item that matters most is at number eleven: the board discusses and makes an appointment to fill a vacant seat on itself. An elected board choosing its own missing member is the closest a county gets to selecting a representative without an election.\n\nOtherwise a short agenda. No public hearings\, no regular agenda items and no minutes to approve. The consent agenda carries three things: an amendment letting Habitat for Humanity transfer lots at Weaver's Grove to another affordable housing developer\, acceptance of a state trails grant for Seven Mile Creek\, and a proclamation honouring a late resident. An hour is set aside for public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282026-2644\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/64?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1973
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282026-2644
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2233@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOne rezoning: 20.51 acres at 9825 NC Highway 49 in Cedar Grove\, from agricultural residential to a non-residential conditional district\, so the county's own alcohol board can build a store there. 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/_08122026-2646\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2233
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2646
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2212@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260817
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260818
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nTwo hours\, an hour of it on five new business items: a rider's guide for the county's public transport\, a civil rights public participation plan\, an agency safety plan and safety committee\, the state transportation improvement programme\, and the bicycle and pedestrian plan. Public comment runs five minutes a speaker.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08172026-2650\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2212
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08172026-2650
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2193@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260820
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe staff group that administers Orange County's transit tax district meets at 10 a.m. with representatives from Carrboro\, Chapel Hill\, Hillsborough\, Mebane\, GoTriangle\, the county and the regional planning organization. It is asked to approve nine sets of minutes\, from 31 October 2025 through 20 May 2026. GoTriangle presents quarterly financial results for the Orange transit plan\, each member reports on its projects\, and the group elects officers for the coming year.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2649\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2193
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2649
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-2495@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260903
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nThe council's first meeting of the autumn\, at the Bonnie B. Davis centre. The item with consequences is what the 2026-27 budget and capital plan decisions mean for parks - the ramifications\, as the agenda puts it\, of choices made elsewhere. Also on the agenda: a marker at Blackwood Farm Park proposed by the Human Relations Commission\, an acting parks superintendent to introduce\, a disc golf status report\, and where the county trails plan now stands.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2662\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2495
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2662
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-2918@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260911
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners meet Thursday for the twice-yearly progress report on the countywide strategic plan\, and for a first look at a draft Strategic Communications and Civic Partnership Plan. The rest of the evening is appointments to thirteen advisory boards.\n\nThe communications plan would set a county-wide framework for how Orange County talks to residents and staff\, treating communication as a core public service rather than a support function. Its stated aims are clearer and more consistent messaging\, wider access\, stronger internal capacity\, and durable relationships with communities.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09102026-2664\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/67?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2918
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09102026-2664
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-3840@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
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-3824@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040543Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260917
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group September 16\, 2026
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group votes September 16 on $113\,000 of second-quarter changes to the FY27 transit work program\, then sends them out for public comment. The largest piece is a $33\,000 Orange share of a $100\,000 alternatives analysis for bus lanes on NC 54 between US 15-501 and Interstate 40. GoTriangle wants the study done now because NCDOT is already running environmental work on that stretch\, and the corridor is part of the Chapel Hill to Triangle Town Center project that scored highest of any regional transit project in SPOT 8.0. Durham's transit plan would pay the other 67 percent.\n\nThe rest is operating money. GoTriangle asks for five more weekday revenue hours on Route 800\, which runs between UNC Hospitals and the Regional Transit Center by way of Southpoint and RTP. Boardings there rose 29 percent over the past year and round trips routinely run past 120 minutes\, putting the route behind schedule. GoTriangle also wants $32\,438 more for the Transit Assistance Program\, which paid for more than 400\,000 fully subsidized trips in FY25 against an $82\,500 budget. Orange County asks for $60\,000 for marketing and public engagement ahead of the transit plan update\, and $20\,000 more for the working group's own administrator.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162026-2667\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3824
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162026-2667
CATEGORIES:Other
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