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UID:meeting-3614@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
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:20261014T040618Z
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-3669@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241024
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes of
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's dental clinic logged 100 satisfaction-survey responses out of roughly 5\,000 appointments this year\, and environmental health drew 120 out of more than 10\,000 clients served\, results the Board of Health reviewed alongside its annual policy manual update. The board tightened its income-verification window from 30 days to 10 and locked in monthly billing statements.\n\nMembers also began setting up next year's leadership\, with Alison Stuebe agreeing to become chair in 2025\, and closed part of the meeting to review Health Director Quintana Stewart's annual performance.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10232024-2122\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3669
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10232024-2122
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3610@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's Board of Commissioners spent its November 12 work session on three long-range planning items and nine advisory board appointments\, taking no formal vote on the substance of any of them. Consultants from Clarion Associates presented results from the second round of public engagement on the county's Land Use Plan 2050: 420 completed surveys testing four modeled growth alternatives\, split closely on extending water and sewer service to rural areas. The board also reviewed a revised scoring matrix for the Affordable Housing Bond and Capital Investment Plan\, and a School Capital Funding Policy shaped by the Woolpert facilities report and the school construction bond voters approved November 5.\n\nAppointments were up for the Advisory Board on Aging\, the Animal Services Hearing Panel Pool\, the Chapel Hill Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board\, the Commission for the Environment\, the Human Relations Commission and the Orange County Parks and Recreation Council. The board also added a Jury Commission appointment to the agenda after it convened.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2132\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1769?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3610
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2132
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-3668@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Board of Health Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health adopted revisions to the county wastewater rules on November 20\, 2024\, elected officers for 2025\, and set its annual work plan. Members asked that concerns about federal public health policy under the incoming administration be added to that plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202024-2147\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3668
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202024-2147
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3744@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board heard the results of the second public engagement round for Land Use Plan 2050 on December 4\, 2024\, and approved its own annual report and 2025 work plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12042024-2139\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3744
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12042024-2139
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3607@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners opened work on the 2025-2029 consolidated plan\, the document that steers federal housing money through the county's HOME Consortium with Chapel Hill\, Carrboro and Hillsborough. They also decided how the county will count future students\, awarded a year of climate grants\, and gave a broadband contractor another twelve months.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102024-2143\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1775?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3607
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102024-2143
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3636@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment heard two quasi-judicial cases on December 11\, 2024. Case A-7-24 asked to halve the reservoir setbacks at Lake Orange so a house could be built about 145 feet from the water\, where the ordinance requires 150 feet for buildings and 300 feet for septic. Case A-8-24 asked for a special use permit letting Schoolhouse of Wonder run a camp on Triangle Land Conservancy's Brumley Forest Nature Preserve\, a use that has operated there for years without one.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112024-2142\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3636
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112024-2142
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3604@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners opened the public hearing on Fiddlehead Corner on 4 February 2025\, a housing cooperative's plan for a 55-and-over community on 90 acres off Morrow Mill Road at Gold Mine Loop. The application asked for 150 dwellings\; the applicant cut that to 100 at the hearing. After 33 people spoke\, the board continued the hearing to 6 March.\n\nThe project needs a rezoning from agricultural residential to a master plan conditional district\, amendments to the comprehensive plan\, and changes to the development ordinance. The Planning Board recommended denial of all three. The agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042025-2185\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1779?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3604
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042025-2185
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3742@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250206
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board's Ordinance Review Committee spent 5 February 2025 on proposed rewrites to the county's subdivision rules\, initiated by the commissioners and the planning director to line up with the coming comprehensive plan update.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2184\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3742
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2184
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3602@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3600@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250306
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250307
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners denied the Fiddlehead Corner rezoning on 6 March 2025\, refusing a 150-unit master plan development on 90.133 acres off Morrow Mill Road at Gold Mine Loop in Bingham Township. The board also denied the comprehensive plan amendment and the applicant-initiated ordinance text amendment that would have made the rezoning consistent.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03062025-2194\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1791?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3600
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03062025-2194
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3686@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250310
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250311
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment recommended two applicants for membership on 10 March 2025\, voted to pursue a youth delegate seat\, and set up how its subcommittees will divide the State of the Environment report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102025-2196\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3686
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102025-2196
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3693@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250312
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nThe Orange County Economic Development Advisory Board worked through a strengths and weaknesses exercise with a consultant on 11 March 2025\, as the first step toward a strategic plan for the county's economic development department.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2197\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3693
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2197
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3597@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3685@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250415
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment welcomed two newly appointed members on 14 April 2025 and spent most of the meeting in subcommittee\, working on the State of the Environment report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142025-2218\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3685
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142025-2218
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3674@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250417
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board met on 16 April 2025 with its budget under pressure. Chapel Hill's interim manager is proposing to cut the town's funding from $550\,000 to $200\,000\, and staff expect the bureau's fund balance to be drawn on for other county projects.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162025-2238\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3674
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162025-2238
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-3592@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3684@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250513
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment took up two things on 12 May 2025: whether to create county environmental awards\, and how its subcommittees are progressing on the State of the Environment report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122025-2245\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3684
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122025-2245
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3585@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3663@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250529
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nTwo educational sessions carry this meeting: the annual child fatality report\, which comes with a substantial change to what North Carolina requires local teams to review\, and an update on how the county is spending its opioid settlement money. One action item\, a set of new health department fees. Public comment is limited to five minutes for the meeting and three minutes a speaker.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2316\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3663
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2316
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3584@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250529
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250530
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Public Hearing and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe formal public hearing on the county manager's recommended 2025-26 budget and the ten-year capital plan\, followed by a work session. The manager presented the recommended budget on 6 May\; this is the last hearing before the board decides amendments on 5 June. Four board appointment discussions follow the hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05292025-2273\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1830?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3584
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05292025-2273
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3683@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2132@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250722
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250723
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard thirteen residential and vacant-land tax appeals\, including three landlocked tracts owned by the same company near US 70 West\, and lowered the assessed value in all but one case.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07222025-2309\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2132
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07222025-2309
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2126@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250820
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review holds hearings on ten property tax appeals from the 2025 revaluation\, with current assessed values ranging from $81\,000 to $1\,903\,100. Appellants challenge their valuations on grounds including comparable sales\, lot subdivision limits\, drainage and erosion\, and lack of utility access. County appraisers Jimmy Milliken\, Cyle Anderson and Kelly Wells present the county's evidence at each hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192025-2334\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2126
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192025-2334
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2125@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250820
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250821
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review scheduled 12 appeals from the 2025 revaluation: a religious property tax exemption request\, an elderly or disabled exclusion request\, and ten property value appeals. The board heard and decided all 12 that day\; none were continued. Only one appellant\, appearing for Unity Center of Peace\, attended in person\, and the rest were decided on the written record each side submitted. With Chair Leon Meyers and Regular Member Saru Salvi absent\, alternates Barbara Levine and Tony Blake sat in alongside Regular Member Richal Vanhook.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2335\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2125
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2335
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2121@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250904
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review is scheduled to hear ten property tax appeals\, including four adjoining parcels on Clarence Drive and two Carrboro homes on Weatherhill Point and Riverbirch Point seeking relief for damage from the July 6 Tropical Storm Chantal flooding. Other appeals raise incorrect square footage\, land inequities on a dirt road\, and a vacant lot with no well or sewer connections.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2381\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2121
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2381
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2013@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
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-2247@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251002
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board decides whether to recommend a conditional rezoning at 1039-UT NC 86 North to the Board of Commissioners. The rezoning would move 78.11 acres from Agricultural Residential to a Residential Conditional District. It's a 49-lot subdivision that keeps over half the tract as open space.\n\nThe board also decides whether to recommend a package of Unified Development Ordinance amendments to the commissioners. The changes cover impervious surfaces\, watershed protection overlay districts and stream buffers. Planning Director-initiated\, they respond mainly to the state's 2024 Regulatory Reform Act and adjust reservoir setbacks around Lake Orange.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012025-2396\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2247
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012025-2396
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2009@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Orange County Chiefs' Association and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners met jointly with the county's fire chiefs and rescue squad leaders\, who described the unprecedented flooding and rescues during Tropical Storm Chantal\, staffing levels ranging from volunteer-heavy rural departments to career staff\, and requests for continued county support. After the joint session\, commissioners moved into a work session covering the Land Use Plan 2050 process\, including a presentation on Hillsborough's water and sewer boundary constraints\, and voted to have county staff rather than an outside consultant facilitate the board's November 21 retreat.\n\nCommissioners also worked through several advisory board appointments\, reappointing members to the Affordable Housing Advisory Board and Parks and Recreation Council and filling seats on the Opioid Advisory Committee.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2409\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/22?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2009
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2409
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2102@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251023
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review takes up 17 property tax appeals from the 2025 revaluation\, on parcels the county assessed from $67\,400 to $842\,700. Two appeals come from business entities\; the other 15 are individual owners contesting the value of their own homes or land.\n\nAppellants argue mostly from comparable sales. Others point to the property's condition\, an outside appraisal\, 2025 storm flooding\, or a lack of public water and sewer service on rural parcels.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222025-2431\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2102
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222025-2431
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2101@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251024
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review holds 23 property-value appeal hearings from this year's revaluation on October 23. The day splits into a morning and an afternoon session. A county appraiser recommends a value for each parcel. Owners argue for a lower one\, citing comparable sales\, appraisals\, zoning\, or septic suitability.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10232025-2432\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2101
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10232025-2432
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2098@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251031
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears 25 individual property value appeals from this year's revaluation\, scheduled across a morning and afternoon session. Appellants challenge the county's assessed values on grounds ranging from construction quality and property condition to comparable sales.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10302025-2435\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2098
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10302025-2435
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2005@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251115
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners hold a half-day retreat on two subjects for the county's Land Use Plan 2050 process: septic and wastewater treatment\, and groundwater. An outside engineer presents on individual and community septic systems\, addressing construction and maintenance costs and failure rates. An independent hydrogeologist presents on the county's water supply. He addresses how rock type affects wells\, and whether a well can be tested before a zoning or building approval.\n\nThe board set this presentation schedule at an April 8 work session\, as part of updating its Land Use Plan for the first time since 2008. This retreat and one set for November 21 bring in outside experts\; the board covered other topics itself at work sessions in September\, October and November.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2441\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=84\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2005
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2441
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2004@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251119
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners continue a public hearing on a conditional rezoning of 78.11 acres at 1039-UT NC 86 North\, Hillsborough\, for a 49-lot conservation cluster subdivision of single-family homes. Forestar Group filed the application on behalf of the property's owners. The hearing carried over from November 6. The planning board split 4-4 in September\, then voted 9-0 in October to recommend approval with conditions. The planning director recommends the board either approve the rezoning and its statement of consistency or deny it as not in the public interest.\n\nCommissioners also hold a public hearing on planning-director-initiated amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance covering impervious surfaces\, watershed protection overlay districts and stream buffers. The changes would simplify impervious-surface limits across the county's thirteen watershed overlay districts\, drop an obsolete sliding-scale table\, and adjust reservoir buffer widths near Lake Orange. Other business includes a Native American Heritage Month proclamation\, a discussion of when closed sessions appear on meeting agendas\, and a fifteen-item consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2448\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/33?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2004
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2448
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2138@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health considers its 2026 chair and vice-chair slate\, then a recommendation to fill the board's vacant at-large seat. Members also take up a debt write-off and set-off\, an amended 2026 meeting schedule\, and the annual workplan. A policy review and a fee update for COVID vaccines\, which would go to the county commissioners\, are also on the agenda.\n\nThe board also hears client satisfaction survey results from dental\, environmental and personal health services\, plus committee updates on behavioral health and well rules. It meets in closed session afterward on the health director's annual review.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2463\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2138
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2463
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2003@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251122
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners held the last of their educational sessions on the 2050 land use plan\, this one on conservation subdivisions\, with planning consultant Randall Arendt presenting. Planning director Cy Stober framed the questions: where in the county these belong\, where they would do most good\, and how to build them from what the board has learned. A facilitated discussion on next steps followed.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212025-2449\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/34?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2003
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212025-2449
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2088@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard six adjoining appeals from Jeff Erick Essen on vacant\, non-perking lots off Shadylawn Road Extension\, all contesting 2026 revaluation values on the grounds that the land is unbuildable and lacks sewer access. The board left two lots unchanged\, at $31\,800 and $39\,800\, but cut the other four\, originally valued at $66\,300 and three at $53\,000\, down to $39\,800 apiece\, applying the county's own long-standing -75% non-perking adjustment rather than the steeper -80% and -85% adjustments the county had used on those parcels. It also approved fifteen further parcels by consent\, including six owned by Andrew Ben Lloyd\, Jr. cut for floodplain\, topography and watershed restrictions.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2476\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2088
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2476
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2246@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board takes up its 2025 annual report and 2026 work plan on December 3. The report lists the year's work — five conditional-district rezoning reviews\, three text-amendment recommendations\, one subdivision plat — and sets 2026 priorities led by the county's land use plan update. Members can amend the draft before it goes to the clerk's office by January 16 and on to county commissioners early next year.\n\nThe board also approves minutes from its October 1 meeting\, reviews the planning board and commissioners' December and January meeting calendars\, and hears chair comments on the attendance rules for county advisory boards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2460\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2246
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2460
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2159@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2137@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health takes up a second-quarter financial and billing report on January 21. It also weighs a change to the delinquent-account policy\, stretching the write-off window from twelve to twenty-four months and sending accounts to the state twice a year instead of once. Two presentations follow: a request that the board back adding two rare diseases\, metachromatic leukodystrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy\, to the state's newborn-screening panel\, and the department's yearly update on immigrant and refugee health services.\n\nThe rest of the agenda is routine. The board takes up November's minutes\, a possible change to its spring meeting schedule\, priority-committee updates and board comments\, the health director's report and the month's media items.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2575\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2137
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2575
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2243@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board elects its chair and vice chair for 2026\, then takes up a county-initiated zoning atlas amendment moving a watershed overlay boundary. The parcel is about 19.4 acres\, unaddressed\, off Dodson's Crossroads at Arden Estate Court in Bingham Township.\n\nThe amendment shifts the line between the Jordan Lake unprotected watershed overlay and the University Lake protected watershed overlay. Watershed protection overlays are part of the zoning atlas\, so moving one takes a zoning atlas amendment and a full hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2503\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2243
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2503
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1996@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260218
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOWASA gives its annual update to the county commissioners on the utility's recent activities and finances\, presented by its board chair\, secretary and executive director.\n\nThe board also takes a report on the 2025 results of the Longtime Homeowner Assistance program\, a history of Animal Services and its new Community Animal Clinic\, and second-quarter amendments to the transit work program.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172026-2531\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/40?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1996
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172026-2531
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2242@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260304
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260305
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board spent March 4 on the Land Use Plan 2050\, answering a request for information it had made in December. Staff sent the memo out two weeks ahead and asked members to come with questions.\n\nThe material was what the county commissioners saw at two half-day retreats in November: community septic\, wastewater treatment and groundwater resources on the 14th\, and conservation subdivisions on the 21st.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03042026-2536\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2242
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03042026-2536
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1995@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260306
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners received the final report on neighborhood reviews and revaluation appeals on March 5\, closing out the assessment cycle that had occupied the board of equalization and review and a separate work group for months. They also renewed employee health and dental insurance and continued the county's participation in the state health insurance pool.\n\nThe board took up its proposed 2026 priority legislative issues\, which it adopted later in March\, and adopted a Women's History Month proclamation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052026-2537\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/41?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1995
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052026-2537
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1993@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners take up a one-year moratorium on data centers as a land use. Staff present the impacts of large-scale data centers - power and water demand\, environmental effects\, and costs that could shift onto other ratepayers. The county attorney lays out two moratorium options and a possible amendment to the development ordinance regulating the use. The board decides which\, if any\, to pursue.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2553\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/44?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1993
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2553
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1992@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260320
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Mebane City Council
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners meet jointly with Mebane's mayor and officials on March 19\, and the agenda runs in the order the questions actually depend on each other: first each government's comprehensive land use plan update\, then water and sewer capacity\, then proposed new schools in the Orange County part of Mebane. The school question gets the longest block\, 45 minutes\, covering candidate sites\, what recreation might go with them\, and how they could serve as emergency shelters.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2552\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/43?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1992
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2552
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1991@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260321
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260322
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Housing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners hold a half-day retreat on March 21 on housing markets and pricing. It's part of a long series of sessions the board asked for before setting direction on the Land Use Plan 2050.\n\nYonah Freemark of the Urban Institute presents on housing economics and Todd Taylor of OWASA on utility capacity. A roundtable with affordable housing groups\, the chamber and the homebuilders association follows.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03212026-2557\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=86\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1991
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03212026-2557
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1990@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260324
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Legislative Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners set their 2026 priority legislative issues on March 23\, aligning what they will ask the General Assembly for with the state association of county commissioners' advocacy goals and the county's own strategic plan.\n\nThe list runs across agriculture\, environment\, health and human services\, justice and public safety\, public education\, and tax and finance. The county's top-tier goal is protecting and expanding farmland preservation programs.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03232026-2559\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=85\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1990
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03232026-2559
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2135@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's board of health had three action items on March 25. One was a resolution urging the state to speed up its evaluation of newborn screening for metachromatic leukodystrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy\, two rare conditions where early detection changes what treatment can do. The others were an update to the county's well rules and a revision of the board's own operating procedures.\n\nThe health director also briefed the board on accreditation\, and a program director gave an update on the campus community coalition.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2577\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2135
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2577
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260408
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took the manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan on April 7\, held two public hearings\, and heard a school enrollment forecast. One hearing covered the draft HOME Investment Partnership annual action plan\; the other a county-initiated zoning amendment moving a watershed overlay boundary on a single 19.4-acre parcel in Bingham Township.\n\nThe board also discussed how the county communicates with residents and how its online content measures against the Americans with Disabilities Act.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/45?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1989
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1988@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260422
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County holds its public hearing on a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centres as a land use - explicitly including artificial intelligence data centres\, cryptocurrency mining and data processing facilities. Also on the agenda: a $1.7 million loan to a volunteer fire district\, and a discussion of the county's communications approach. The published packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/49?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1986
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260512
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nThe commission introduces a new applicant but takes no membership vote this month\, discusses its Earth Day event and the first of a new award\, and works through the final drafts of the State of the Environment report. Each subcommittee needs to supply one person to help with final edits.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05112026-2599\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2155
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05112026-2599
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2151@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260515
SUMMARY:Orange County: Climate Council Meeting Agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Climate Council\n\nThe Orange County Climate Council met May 14 with staff from the county\, Carrboro\, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough around one table. Drought and water conservation took a block of the agenda\, led by OWASA\, and staff from three governments reported jointly on the Heat Action Plan.\n\nChapel Hill briefed the group on its electrification program and Hillsborough on Climate Challenge 2026. The council then broke into small groups for what the agenda calls barrier buster conversations. It does not meet again until November 18.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2594\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2151
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2594
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-2153@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260810
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260811
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nThe night the commission finishes the report it has been writing for more than a year. The State of the Environment Report comes back as a final draft with a vote to accept it\, ending work the commission was still struggling to draft in June 2025 when members were asked to write their sections over the summer break.\n\nAlso on the agenda: a presentation from the water and sewer authority on what PFAS is doing to its operations\, with the commission asked to comment on draft guiding principles\; a review of the community climate action grant and its scoring tools\; and an update on a summer heat action cohort.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08102026-2645\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2153
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08102026-2645
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260903
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nTwo things to decide: a concept plan for a twelve-lot subdivision on Lebanon Road\, and the county's response to a state law that takes several powers away from it.\n\nThe ordinance amendment is the larger of the two. The North Carolina Regulatory Reform Act of 2025 forces changes the county did not choose\, and the planning director has used the occasion to fold in fixes asked for by the commissioners\, by state environmental regulators and by federal flood officials. It touches more than thirty sections and runs to 140 pages of tracked changes. The board recommends\; the commissioners hold the formal hearing and decide.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2659\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2231
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2659
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261014T040618Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260914
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260915
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spend the morning of 14 September on the draft Land Use Plan 2050\, deciding what must change before it goes out for a third and final round of public comment. Staff pose questions under five headings: the plan's vision themes\, housing\, rural conservation neighborhoods with community septic systems\, rural activity nodes\, and renegotiating the water and sewer boundary agreements with the towns.\n\nStaff recommend dropping conservation neighborhoods from the future land use map and offering them countywide as a subdivision option\, and merging three kinds of rural commercial node into one. They warn that downzoning farmland to one home per ten acres would raise land and home prices. No vote is scheduled and there is no public comment period. A revised draft is due at a November business meeting\, and adoption is expected in late 2027.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09142026-2665\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/71?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2917
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09142026-2665
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260917
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's Agricultural Preservation Board reviews and votes on farm applications to the voluntary and enhanced voluntary agricultural districts on Wednesday evening. Those enrollments are the county's main tool for keeping working farmland in production\, and the board also takes an update on the districts as a whole.\n\nStaff then present the county's Well Net\, the network of wells used to monitor groundwater\, along with an account of the county's role in the Upper Neuse River Basin Association. The board also has to move its November meeting\, which would otherwise fall on the VAD Breakfast on November 12\, and hears where a new Cost of Community Services study stands. That study is funded by an Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund grant.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162026-2676\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4005
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162026-2676
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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