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UID:meeting-3707@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240919
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240920
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nOrange County's Housing Authority Advisory Board meets to review the prior month's minutes and hear the Housing Choice Voucher program's monthly report: utilization\, voucher issuance\, informal hearings and payment standards. The Housing Department also briefs the board on its broader operations.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09192024-2198\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3707
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09192024-2198
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3715@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240925
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meetings
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's Human Relations Commission meets monthly on fair housing\, county equity work and its own subcommittees on policies and procedures\, outreach and engagement\, and community events. The September meeting's agenda covered county updates on the FY2025 budget and the One Orange racial history project\, an executive committee report on board vacancies\, and elections for chair and vice chair.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242024-2251\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3715
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242024-2251
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3670@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Board of Health
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health's September 25 agenda covered dental fee policy\, refugee health screening\, and children's screen time\, alongside the county's Community Health Improvement Plans for access to care\, behavioral health\, and connections to community support.\n\nThe board also planned to approve minutes from its August 28 meeting and hear the health director's monthly report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2112\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3670
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2112
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3671@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Minutes of
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health met September 25 to consider Community Health Improvement Plans for the county's three priority areas: access to care\, behavioral health\, and connections to community support. Members also reviewed proposed updates to the board's own policy and procedures manual\, including a dental fee schedule that stops sliding at the 20% pay level and a shorter window\, 10 days instead of 30\, for verifying a client's income.\n\nTwo annual staff reports were also on the agenda: health screening for refugees and asylees arriving in the county\, and research on how screen time affects children's mental health. The board also planned to approve its August 28 minutes and hear the health director's monthly report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2121\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3671
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2121
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3680@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/ Orange County Visitors Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau's advisory board tracks how the county spends its hotel-tax dollars and how it courts visitors. On its agenda: North Carolina's America 250 grant program\, which has already awarded about $990\,000 of a $2 million fund for events marking the country's 250th anniversary\, a fundraising push for a hockey rink near Carraway Village\, and a proposed rebrand of the bureau's logo.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2097\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3680
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2097
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3615@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240927
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners met jointly with the Orange County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro school boards to hear how each district is closing a budget shortfall and to review a schools facilities bond. Neither school board brought a decision for commissioners to vote on\; the session was reports and questions.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09262024-2095\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1753?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3615
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09262024-2095
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3730@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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UID:meeting-3614@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-3651@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241002
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections meets weekly through absentee season to decide which mailed\, military and overseas ballots count toward the November general election. Each session includes a bipartisan review of ballot envelopes\, with any flagged for a problem set aside for a board vote to approve or reject.\n\nThis meeting also took up how early voting sites handle campaigning near the polls and a written policy for how the board runs its own absentee sessions.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012024-2162\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3651
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012024-2162
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3617@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241002
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241003
SUMMARY:Orange County: Fifth meeting-2024 Bond Education Committee
DESCRIPTION:2024 School Bond Education Committee\n\nThe Bond Education Committee builds public awareness for a school bond headed to voters\, but this record does not state the bond's dollar amount or what it would fund. Its work is communications\, not a vote on the bond itself.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10022024-2117\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3617
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10022024-2117
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3737@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-3626@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241009
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe Orange County Advisory Board on Aging is ending free takeaway lunches for seniors on October 31\, once the federal ARPA funding that pays for them runs out. The board also tracks county staffing for aging services and the county's Multisector Plan for Aging.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2174\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3626
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2174
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3631@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241009
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board met to hear from Justice United and to take up consolidated planning\, along with routine updates from board members and staff. The agenda lists only item titles and time blocks\; it does not say what either topic covered.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2220\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3631
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2220
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3613@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241009
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Orange County Chiefs' Association and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners met with the county's fire and rescue chiefs\, then held a work session on a draft policy for spending bond and other capital money on school construction ahead of the November 5 bond referendum. The board also took up nine appointments to advisory boards\, from the Planning Board to the Historic Preservation Commission.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2100\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1757?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3613
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2100
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3650@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241009
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections meets weekly during absentee voting season to accept or reject mailed-in ballots for the November 2024 general election\, working through envelopes flagged for missing signatures\, incomplete witness information or other problems before the ballots can be counted.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2160\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3650
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2160
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3691@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241015
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment met to keep scoring its fourth round of Community Climate Action Grant applications: 25 requests totaling $1\,151\,873 against $262\,500 available. The commission also planned routine business\, including reappointments for four members whose terms end December 31 and updates on county environmental programs.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142024-2101\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3691
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142024-2101
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3612@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-3649@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241016
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections met to review absentee ballots cast ahead of the 2024 general election. The board's business was staff's recommendations on which ballots to approve\, plus routine tabulation and ballot security steps.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152024-2161\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3649
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152024-2161
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3616@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241016
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241017
SUMMARY:Orange County: Sixth meeting-2024 Bond Education Committee
DESCRIPTION:2024 School Bond Education Committee\n\nOrange County's School Bond Education Committee met on October 16 to review its outreach ahead of the school bond referendum\, and to decide whether to meet again before Election Day.\n\nCo-chairs Jean Hamilton and Phyllis Portie-Ascott and the consulting firm Avenir Bold walked through what the campaign to inform voters had produced so far: a promotional video\, website and social media analytics\, media inquiries\, and the public events held to date. The committee then discussed next steps\, including whether to keep its October 30 meeting. The agenda also called for approving minutes from the October 2 meeting and taking a group photo. The agenda does not state the bond's amount or what it would pay for.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10162024-2118\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3616
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10162024-2118
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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UID:meeting-3679@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241016
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241017
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's advisory board took up a staff request to move $201\,842 from the bureau's fund reserve to cover higher advertising costs\, including a sponsorship tied to Sonark Media's PBS special. Members also heard a presentation on the economic impact of arts spending in Orange County and approved minutes from two earlier meetings.\n\nThe board also reviewed the tourism agency's branding\, including a possible logo redesign\, and got an update on new tenants at the Innovate Carolina Junction\, where the meeting was held\, including added space for Durham Tech's Small Business Center.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10162024-2104\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3679
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10162024-2104
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-3723@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241016
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241017
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange Staff Working Group oversees Orange County's share of the regional transit work program — the quarterly amendments to funded projects and the project sheets that describe them to GoTriangle\, Durham and Wake. The group's October 16 meeting took up a proposed amendment to the FY25 Annual Work Plan and checked progress on the FY26 project sheets\, due in final form October 25.\n\nGoTriangle also reported on vehicle rental tax revenue split among the three counties\, and each town with an active transit project — Chapel Hill\, Mebane\, Hillsborough and Carrboro — gave a status update.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10162024-2102\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3723
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10162024-2102
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3729@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3648@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241023
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections meets repeatedly during early voting to act on absentee-by-mail ballots. Staff recommend each ballot for approval or rejection\, and the board reviews and votes on those recommendations before ballots are run through the tabulator.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222024-2159\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3648
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222024-2159
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3714@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241023
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's Human Relations Commission runs subcommittees on policies and procedures\, outreach and engagement\, and community events\, and oversees the county's One Orange equity policy and the Pauli Murray Awards. Its October meeting covered commission vacancies\, subcommittee structure\, meeting format and the timing of next year's Pauli Murray Awards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222024-2252\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3714
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222024-2252
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3669@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3701@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241024
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission met to rework how it scores properties for local landmark status. It also weighed a memorial marker for an enslaved burial ground at Blackwood Farm Park and reviewed architects competing for the county's Old Courthouse preservation project.\n\nThe agenda also called for approving the 2025 meeting calendar and August's minutes\, plus updates on a lynching memorial for the courthouse square\, a log-restoration project and the county's in-progress local history book.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10232024-2107\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3701
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10232024-2107
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3647@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241030
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's elections board meets weekly during the fall election season to open\, inspect and vote on absentee ballots returned by mail\, accepting some and rejecting others under state rules on witness signatures\, photo identification and voter eligibility. Each session also carries an early-voting turnout update from the director and a public comment period.\n\nBallots are sorted into civilian\, overseas and military categories. Board members review a sample of the batch staff recommend for approval\, then vote the civilian\, overseas and military groups separately before approved ballots go through a second tabulator and get sealed for the eventual count.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292024-2158\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3647
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292024-2158
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3646@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241105
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nElection Day was one day away\, and Orange County's elections board spent this meeting clearing its absentee ballot backlog. Director Rachel Raper reported 69\,131 ballots cast during early voting\, a record turnout\, plus 1\,439 civilian\, 224 overseas and 22 military absentee-by-mail ballots that staff recommended for approval and 18 recommended for disapproval\, after eligible voters were contacted and sent replacement ballot packages.\n\nAlso pending: 34 civilian absentee envelopes where a photo ID document might have been sealed inside rather than attached outside\, which needed board review before staff could act on them.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11042024-2170\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3646
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11042024-2170
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3645@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241106
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's election board meets on Election Day itself to process absentee ballots before polls close. The agenda covers the director's report on absentee-by-mail ballots cast to date\, board review of ballot envelopes flagged for approval or disapproval\, and the procedures for tabulating and sealing results ahead of the 7:30 p.m. release.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052024-2166\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3645
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052024-2166
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3736@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241107
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nA splash pad or other water feature at an Orange County park was on the agenda for the county's Parks and Recreation Council\, along with a letter backing a state trails grant and updates on the council's 2025 work plan. Members also reviewed construction progress at three parks and results from the county's yearly nature photography contest.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062024-2119\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3736
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062024-2119
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3611@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3690@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nSeven proposals for the county's Community Climate Action Grant\, a chair and vice-chair contest\, and a first look at results from the county's nature photo contest made up the agenda. The commission also had its October summary to approve and started drafting the annual report and work plan it sends to county commissioners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112024-2127\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3690
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112024-2127
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3625@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3634@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe Orange County Agricultural Preservation Board\, meeting at the Chestnut Ridge Camp and Retreat Center\, took up two applications to enroll farms in the county's voluntary agricultural district program: a 33-acre farm in the Cedar Grove Agricultural District and a 45.17-acre farm in the Caldwell Agricultural District. The board also reviewed its 2025 meeting calendar and a draft update to the county's farmland protection plan\, last revised in 2009.\n\nStaff briefed the board on a December 3 farm succession workshop and on the county's agricultural economic development grant program\, which drew about 15 applications this cycle. The board also heard an update on the county's Land Use Plan 2050 process\, tied to the farmland protection plan discussion.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2133\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3634
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2133
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3610@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3644@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections met the Tuesday after the November 5 general election to handle post-election business ahead of canvass. The agenda covered administrative challenges to absentee and early voting ballots cast by voters no longer eligible\, and same-day registrants whose addresses could not be verified.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2169\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3644
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2169
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3695@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nGrant rules\, a pending economic development strategy\, and a Chapel Hill nonprofit's work with disabled adults filled most of the agenda. Orange County's Economic Development Advisory Board planned to review revised guidelines for the Business and Agricultural Investment grant programs\, including a new requirement that recipients report the jobs and sales their grants generate. The board also expected updates on a countywide Economic Development Strategic Plan\, for which the county fielded 11 proposals\, and on revised performance targets headed to the Board of Commissioners under the county's Vibrant & Diverse Economy strategic-plan goal.\n\nAlso on the agenda: a presentation from the Blue Hill Event Center's executive director on the venue's programs for employees with intellectual and developmental disabilities\, and the board's own annual report and work plan\, due to the county clerk by January 17\, 2025.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2129\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3695
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2129
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3637@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment heard one case on November 13\, 2024: a special use permit for Canine Adventures to run a Class II kennel off Monotropa Trail in Efland\, in Bingham Township. A second case\, a watershed variance\, came off the agenda when the applicant withdrew it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132024-2130\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3637
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132024-2130
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3643@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241115
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nTwo days before the county certifies its election results\, the Orange County Board of Elections meets to work through the ballots still in question: supplemental absentee ballots that arrived or were resolved after Election Day\, and 601 provisional ballots cast by voters whose eligibility staff had to check. The agenda also sets a sample audit count comparing hand counts to machine totals at three precincts\, and asks the board to certify the supplemental absentee results for the state board of elections.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142024-2168\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3643
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142024-2168
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3642@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241116
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections canvassed the November 5\, 2024 presidential general election on November 15. Turnout was 77 percent: 88\,217 ballots cast from 114\,899 eligible registered voters. The board heard the director's reconciliation of every precinct and early voting site\, ruled on challenged ballots\, and certified the result.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11152024-2165\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3642
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11152024-2165
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3728@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3609@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3661@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review took eight appeals on November 19\, 2024\, a mixed list: two homeowners denied the elderly and disabled property tax exclusion\, one contested land value\, three businesses asking to have late-listing penalties waived\, and two procedural requests. Appeals from individual owners are summarized here without names or parcel references.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192024-2144\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3661
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192024-2144
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3713@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241120
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's Human Relations Commission met November 19\, 2024 short of members. A resignation took effect immediately\, leaving the outreach and engagement chair and the secretary's seat open and the commission struggling for a quorum.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192024-2249\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3713
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192024-2249
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3668@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3678@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nUNC's athletics department told the Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau advisory board on November 20\, 2024 that it is weighing seven options for the Dean E. Smith Center\, including building a new arena at one of five sites. Simply repairing and maintaining the existing building would cost $150 million over twenty years.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202024-2135\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3678
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202024-2135
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3682@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3706@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241122
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority's advisory board met virtually on November 21\, 2024 for the program manager's monthly report on the Housing Choice Voucher program: voucher utilization and issuance\, terminations\, informal hearings\, payment standards\, submissions to HUD's information center\, and the authority's SEMAP score\, the federal rating of how well a housing authority runs the program.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212024-2199\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3706
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212024-2199
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3608@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241203
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners organized for a new term on December 2\, 2024. Four members took the oath of office\, Jamezetta Bedford was re-elected chair and Jean Hamilton elected vice-chair\, and the board named its delegates to the state and national county associations.\n\nThe only regular item was the Global Agreement for Capital\, the document each member government must sign under the transit tax governance the board adopted with GoTriangle in June 2023.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022024-2138\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1773?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3608
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022024-2138
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3641@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241203
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections met December 2\, 2024 to hear the director's report on the statewide recount in the race for Seat 06 on the North Carolina Supreme Court. The rest is housekeeping: minutes from three November meetings held during the canvass\, the director's work plan and performance review\, and setting the next meeting date. No minutes are on file\, so what the board was told about the recount is not part of the record here.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022024-2167\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3641
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022024-2167
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3735@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3744@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3689@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment spent December 9\, 2024 finishing its annual report to commissioners and deciding who should write the county's next State of the Environment report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092024-2141\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3689
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092024-2141
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3624@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging closed 2024 with a working meeting at the Seymour Center: first-quarter reports on year three of the 2022-27 Master Aging Plan\, staffing changes at the Department on Aging\, and talks with Mebane about serving its older residents.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102024-2176\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3624
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102024-2176
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3607@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3636@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3700@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission took no decisions on December 11\, 2024. It spent the meeting on the county's justice facility expansion\, which will affect the historic courthouse and the master plan for courthouse square\, and on three properties moving toward the National Register.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112024-2146\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3700
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112024-2146
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3722@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3712@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241218
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's Human Relations Commission met virtually on December 17\, 2024\, for a short business meeting: subcommittee reports\, planning for its February retreat\, and filling seats within its own leadership.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12172024-2250\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3712
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12172024-2250
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3688@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment decided to write its own State of the Environment report this year and\, on 13 January 2025\, brought in four people who had worked on earlier editions to ask how it is done. It also ranked three applicants for membership.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132025-2148\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3688
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132025-2148
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3623@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250115
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging opened its 2025-26 budget discussion on 14 January 2025. The department needs county money to replace federal pandemic funding that paid for the take-away meal programme and some in-home services.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142025-2260\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3623
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142025-2260
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3694@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250115
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nThe Orange County Economic Development Advisory Board asked to be given a formal say in the 2050 land use plan on 14 January 2025\, adding a statement to its own annual report and work plan to that effect. It also heard that the county and Chapel Hill will not renew funding for LAUNCH Inc. in the coming fiscal year.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142025-2171\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3694
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142025-2171
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3633@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250116
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe Orange County Agricultural Preservation Board approved two farms into the voluntary agricultural district programme on 15 January 2025 and worked through the draft farmland preservation plan it will take to the commissioners in April.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152025-2173\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3633
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152025-2173
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3677@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250116
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 at the state high school athletic association's headquarters on 15 January 2025. Staff presented twenty years of tourism growth in the county\, and the board began considering whether to redesign its logo.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152025-2179\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3677
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152025-2179
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3705@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250117
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board finalised its 2025 work plan on 16 January 2025 and took the programme manager's monthly report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162025-2202\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3705
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162025-2202
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3606@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250118
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners spent their 17 January 2025 retreat on four subjects: how the county's housing programmes work\, the outlook for the 2025-26 budget under the coming revaluation\, federal revenue sources\, and the state of local agriculture.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01172025-2177\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3606
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01172025-2177
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3721@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3605@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners certified the November 2024 school bond result on 21 January 2025\, 56\,138 to 27\,040 in favour of $300 million in general obligation bonds for both school districts\, which authorises the county to issue them. They also asked the state to deny UNC's application to burn pelletized fuel at its cogeneration plant.\n\nThe agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212025-2180\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1777?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3605
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212025-2180
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3727@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3667@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250123
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health approved its annual work plan and a revised 2025 meeting schedule on 22 January 2025\, and heard a year's report from the health department's nutrition services.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222025-2235\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3667
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222025-2235
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3699@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250130
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe Orange County Historic Preservation Commission took a redrafted landmark evaluation form on 29 January 2025 and started work on a new website. There were no decision items. The commission also discussed how to find and map historic Black cemeteries and Indian stone mounds.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01292025-2182\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3699
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01292025-2182
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3604@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3734@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250206
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nThe Fairview Community Watch and Fairview Youth in Action brought the Orange County Parks and Recreation Council a plan for their own park on 5 February 2025\, worked up with a UNC research collaborative. Their first priority is soccer.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2186\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3734
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2186
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3742@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3743@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250206
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board elected its chair and vice chair on 5 February 2025 and approved minutes. It had no cases before it\, and the meeting closed with tributes to a departing member.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2183\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3743
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2183
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3687@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment settled how it will produce its State of the Environment report on 10 February 2025: no outside consultant\, a shared folder\, subcommittees meeting between regular meetings\, and a target of finishing by 2026.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102025-2187\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3687
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102025-2187
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3622@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging reviewed second-quarter Master Aging Plan reports on 11 February 2025. Two housing items stood out: the senior housing guide is being updated for summer release\, and a developer is seeking rezoning for low-income independent senior housing across from the Seymour Center.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112025-2261\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3622
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112025-2261
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3603@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3630@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250214
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board heard on 13 February 2025 that homelessness in the county rose 22 percent\, with unsheltered homelessness up 17 percent\, and that cold weather cot services ran 23 nights out of 40.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02132025-2221\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3630
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02132025-2221
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3602@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3726@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3676@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250220
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 at the Carolina Inn on 19 February 2025 for a budget overview and a presentation on drawing more meetings business to the area. The bureau's director was absent for surgery and the sales director stood in.\n\nNo minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what the board decided is not on the record here. The agenda packet carries the January minutes\, which record a presentation from the North Carolina High School Athletic Association at its own headquarters.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02192025-2192\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3676
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02192025-2192
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3720@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3704@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250221
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250222
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board elected a chair and vice chair on 21 February 2025 and heard the programme manager's monthly report. Nobody spoke in public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02212025-2201\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3704
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02212025-2201
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3601@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250226
SUMMARY:Orange County: Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners took the 2025 revaluation\, the annual audit and the county's legislative priorities at a special meeting on 25 February 2025. The tax office reported that all roughly 58\,700 real property parcels had been reviewed\, with notices going out in early to mid-March. The board also continued its unfinished discussion of how to manage construction under the school bond.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252025-2193\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1789?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3601
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252025-2193
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3711@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250226
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nThe Orange County Human Relations Commission voted on 25 February 2025 to place a commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms in recognition of the burial ground for enslaved people there. Geological testing is complete and the inscription comes back at the next meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252025-2258\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3711
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252025-2258
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3666@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3640@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250304
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250305
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nThe Orange County Board of Elections took its 2026 budget request on 4 March 2025\, covering four elections\, and heard that the state has identified its election management software as needing replacement. Registration stood at 109\,167\, down 6\,165 since 1 December 2024 after biennial list maintenance.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03042025-2295\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3640
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03042025-2295
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3733@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3600@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3686@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3621@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3629@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250312
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board reviewed twenty years of the county's HOME awards on 11 March 2025 and considered changes to how affordable housing bond and capital projects are scored. The proposal would take scoring out of this board's hands.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2222\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3629
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2222
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3599@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250312
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners heard nine advisory boards present their annual work plans on 11 March 2025\, took the consultant's presentation on the draft 2050 land use plan\, worked through appointments to six boards\, and added a letter to their congressional delegation about federal budget reconciliation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2203\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1793?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3599
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2203
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3693@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3598@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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:20261014T031139Z
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-3632@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250320
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe Orange County Agricultural Preservation Board endorsed the draft Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan on 19 March 2025\, ahead of presenting it to the county commissioners on 8 April. It also approved one new voluntary agricultural district application and heard where the 2050 land use plan stands.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192025-2210\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3632
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192025-2210
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3675@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250320
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 19 March 2025 with the future of its occupancy tax funding recently settled. The commissioners had considered three options\, including diverting a third of the fund to other tourism initiatives\, and instructed the county manager to leave the budget as it is while putting more money into the Arts Commission.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192025-2207\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3675
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192025-2207
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3719@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-3710@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250326
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nThe Orange County Human Relations Commission spent most of its 25 March 2025 meeting on the graves at Blackwood Farm\, where the county's cultural resources coordinator asked the commission to help erect markers. Staff also told the commission that the equity and inclusion office will be renamed Human Relations and Civil Rights\, and that fair housing work will return to it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252025-2256\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3710
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252025-2256
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3665@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250326
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250327
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health adopted its department strategic plan on 26 March 2025 and passed a resolution on social media use\, screen time and youth mental health. It also heard from the NC Navigator Consortium and Legal Aid North Carolina about health insurance enrolment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03262025-2236\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3665
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03262025-2236
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3698@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250326
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250327
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe Orange County Historic Preservation Commission took up two subjects on 26 March 2025: new research dating Faucett Mill on the Eno to 1823 rather than the late 18th century\, and a project to find\, map and protect historic Black cemeteries and stone burial mounds. There were no decision items and three members were absent\, so the landmark evaluation form and the historical marker project were deferred.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03262025-2212\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3698
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03262025-2212
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3596@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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:20261014T031139Z
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:20261014T031139Z
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-3620@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250409
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging heard from the county tax administrator about the 2025 revaluation on 8 April 2025\, and worked through its budget requests for the coming year. About 42 percent of the department's budget is federal\, and the board was told the Administration for Community Living is being dismantled with the consequences unknown.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2263\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3620
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2263
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3628@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250409
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board spent 8 April 2025 on where federal housing money is going and what the revaluation will do to the county's tax assistance programme for long-time homeowners. HOME funding now runs at about 60 percent of what the county received in 2010.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2223\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3628
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2223
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3594@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250409
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners took four subjects at their 8 April 2025 work session\, then worked through appointments to five advisory boards. The most consequential is the 2050 comprehensive land use plan: the board asked for more background before it will review the draft\, and the third community engagement window\, scheduled for May through July\, has been postponed with the consultant's work paused.\n\nThe board also reviewed performance measures for the countywide strategic plan\, the draft Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan\, and a status report on the Soccer.com Center.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2217\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1803?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3594
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2217
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3716@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-3740@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250410
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board's Ordinance Review Committee took a first look on 9 April 2025 at two Unified Development Ordinance rewrites the planning director had initiated: telecommunications facilities and residential solar arrays. The committee takes no votes and needs no quorum\; both amendments went to the full board in May.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2216\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3740
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2216
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3741@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250410
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board recommended three land use cases to the commissioners on 9 April 2025\, all headed to a 3 June public hearing. The county is rezoning its own Cedar Ridge High School site\, an applicant wants to put a self-storage business on 11 acres off NC 57 at Rougemont\, and a 38-lot subdivision on Dairyland Road came back for its preliminary plat.\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/_04092025-2215\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3741
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2215
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3685@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3593@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250416
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners published the revenue neutral tax rate for 2025-26 on 15 April 2025: 63.84 cents per $100\, down from 86.29 cents\, after the revaluation raised the tax base by $9 billion to $32.6 billion\, an increase of 38.6 percent. They also approved buying a five-acre site off Waterstone Drive in Hillsborough for a crisis diversion facility and hired its construction manager.\n\nThe agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152025-2225\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1806?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3593
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152025-2225
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3639@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250416
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nThe Orange County Board of Elections watched demonstrations of two election management software systems on 15 April 2025 and made a preliminary recommendation to the county commissioners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152025-2294\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3639
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152025-2294
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3674@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3718@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-3703@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250417
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250418
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board spent most of its 17 April 2025 meeting on when a household should lose its housing choice voucher. Terminations in March were much higher than usual\, and the authority had sent notice that it could no longer help with rent.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04172025-2237\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3703
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04172025-2237
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3725@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-3592@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3709@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250423
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nThe Orange County Human Relations Commission met on 22 April 2025 to fill four of its own vacancies\, hold executive board elections\, and vote on an honorarium. The commission also took an update on the Blackwood Farms marker and its headstone\, and prepared invitations for the Pauli Murray Awards.\n\nIts three subcommittees reported: strategic advisory nominations and governance\, outreach and engagement\, and community events. County equity and inclusion staff brought updates on upcoming events\, support for board diversity\, and a community dinner.\n\nNo minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what the commission decided is not on the record here.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222025-2257\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3709
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222025-2257
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3664@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250424
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health heard two educational sessions on 23 April 2025: results of a Photovoice study on how formerly incarcerated people get healthcare\, and a measles briefing from the medical director. It also formed a committee to fill a vacant at-large seat and considered whether to oppose a bill in the General Assembly.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2314\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3664
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2314
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3697@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250424
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission heard a local historian correct the record on Faucett Mill at its 23 April 2025 meeting\, and took an update on the Old Courthouse preservation project. There were no decisions on the agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2239\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3697
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2239
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3591@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250430
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with Schools
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners met jointly with both school boards on 29 April 2025 to hear each district's budget request and a joint presentation on what federal cuts would do to them. The commissioners then went into closed session with their attorney.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04292025-2240\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=82\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3591
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04292025-2240
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3660@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250506
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review convened for 2025 on 5 May\, opened for appeals\, and set its calendar: sittings from late May through 31 July before adjournment\, then post-adjournment dates running to mid-December. It heard one appeal\, from Montgomery Farm Ventures LLC\, and took a briefing on its power to compromise taxes under GS 105-312(k).\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052025-2244\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3660
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052025-2244
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3590@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe county manager presented his recommended 2025-26 operating budget to Orange County commissioners on 6 May 2025\, a plan carrying a 6 percent increase. The board also held the statutory public hearing on financing up to $78 million for capital projects\, and took recommendations from the Opioid Advisory Committee on five community grants.\n\nThe agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062025-2243\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1815?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3590
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062025-2243
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3739@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250507
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250508
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board recommended two rewrites of the Unified Development Ordinance on 7 May 2025\, both headed to a commissioners' public hearing on 3 June. The telecommunications amendment repeals Section 5.10 outright and replaces it\, because the county's rules have not changed since the ordinance was adopted on 5 April 2011 and no longer match federal or state law. The solar amendment rewrites the standards for roof- and ground-mounted arrays as an accessory use\, last touched on 8 November 2012.\n\nThe emergency services director also presented the county's hazard mitigation plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05072025-2242\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3739
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05072025-2242
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3684@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3619@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-3627@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250514
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board spent an hour on 13 May 2025 with the developers who apply for its capital and bond money\, asking what the county's process is like from their side. Five organisations came: EmPOWERment\, CASA\, Pee Wee Homes\, Habitat for Humanity and the Community Empowerment Fund.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2277\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3627
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2277
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3589@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250514
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Public Hearing and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners held the public hearing on the county manager's recommended 2025-26 budget and capital investment plan on 13 May 2025\, then turned to appointments for five advisory boards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2247\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1818?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3589
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2247
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3692@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250514
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nThe Orange County Economic Development Advisory Board picked three names for its own vacancies on 13 May 2025\, elected new officers\, and reviewed the county's small business grant programme. The county manager has decided to drop the start-up grant from the programme.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2246\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3692
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2246
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3588@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250516
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners took up outside agency and education funding at their 15 May 2025 budget work session\, the first look at those parts of the manager's recommended budget. Outside agency funding is recommended at $800\,146. Per-pupil current expense funding would rise from $5\,666 to $5\,877\, Durham Tech's current expense by 3 percent\, and the ten-year capital window carries $549.9 million of school projects.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05152025-2248\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1820?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3588
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05152025-2248
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3681@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250516
SUMMARY:Orange County: Climate Council
DESCRIPTION:Climate Council\n\nOrange County's Climate Council met on 15 May 2025 on heat and on electrification. Staff from Chapel Hill\, Carrboro and the county presented this year's heat resilience work and asked members to help recruit a heat task force\, and two UNC journalism students presented research and campaign material for an Electrify campaign the council plans to launch in 2026.\n\nCarrboro's chief sustainability officer also set out C-PACE\, a financing programme for commercial energy\, renewable and water upgrades.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05152025-2227\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3681
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05152025-2227
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3702@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250515
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250516
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board voted on 15 May 2025 to add project-based vouchers to its administrative plan\, and tightened two rules on when a household loses its voucher. Nobody from the public attended.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05152025-2269\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3702
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05152025-2269
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3587@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners held two public hearings on 20 May 2025 on how the county will spend its HOME housing money: the five-year 2025-29 consolidated plan\, and the annual action plan that carries it out. The consortium of Carrboro\, Chapel Hill\, Hillsborough and the county is allocated $367\,013.59 for the coming programme year\, and staff proposed concentrating it on home repair and tenant-based rental assistance for households under 30 percent and between 30 and 50 percent of area median income.\n\nThe board also adopted the final financing resolution for up to $78 million in installment financing for capital projects and equipment\, secured against county and school properties\, and a twelve-item consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-2265\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1823?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3587
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-2265
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3638@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nThe Orange County Board of Elections ran a simulated election on 20 May 2025 to test ES&S Electionware 5.2.4.0\, the software that would replace the county's election management system\, and then voted on whether to ask the State Board of Elections to approve it. The director also reported on voter registration\, the year-to-date budget and what the county manager's recommended 2026 budget does to the elections office.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-2323\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3638
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202025-2323
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3673@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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:20261014T031139Z
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-3586@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250523
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA budget work session on four things: the twelve fire district tax rates\, countywide revenue changes\, countywide employee compensation\, and the recommended budgets of the human services departments - aging\, child support\, civil rights and civic life\, health\, housing\, libraries and the opioid settlement fund. Fire chiefs attend to make their own case. No public comment is taken at a work session.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05222025-2268\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1825?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3586
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05222025-2268
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3585@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-3659@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250528
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nFifteen quarter-hour slots on the agenda before the Board of Equalization and Review at West Campus. Unlike most of its sittings\, this one is largely about who qualifies for a property tax exclusion rather than what a property is worth.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05272025-2270\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3659
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05272025-2270
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3663@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3696@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250529
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nNo decisions on the agenda. The commission spends the evening on how it decides instead: testing a rewritten landmark evaluation form against a real house\, considering a university proposal to take DNA samples from a burial ground for enslaved people\, and organising a historical marker programme. Two site visits and the question of whether to meet at all in June round it out.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2274\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3696
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2274
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3584@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-3583@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe commissioners' business meeting two days before the budget is settled. Three public hearings on land use: a county-initiated rezoning of the 69.58 acres Cedar Ridge High School sits on\, an applicant's request to put a 41-building self-storage development on 11.22 acres at Rougemont\, and the first rewrite of the county's telecommunications facility standards since the development ordinance was adopted in 2011. Also on the agenda: the Solid Waste Master Plan aiming at zero waste by 2045\, a solar array text amendment\, and a twenty-one item consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2278\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1832?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3583
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2278
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3658@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nFourteen hearings scheduled before the Board of Equalization and Review at quarter-hour intervals from 1:00 to 4:30 PM at West Campus. Three owners expected to attend\, one of them by phone.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2280\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3658
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2280
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3731@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-3738@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250605
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOne substantive item: a recommendation to the county commissioners on rezoning about 110.456 acres at 4809 Friends School Road\, in the Chapel Hill Township of Orange County\, from planned development housing and rural buffer to a non-residential conditional district. A conditional district rezoning is both use specific and site specific\, so what the board recommends is a particular plan with a signed list of conditions attached\, not an open change of zone. The commissioners' public hearing is expected on 4 September 2025.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042025-2275\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3738
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042025-2275
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3582@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250605
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250606
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe meeting where Orange County's 2025-26 budget is actually decided. The manager put a recommended budget in front of the commissioners on 6 May\, two public hearings followed\, and this three-hour work session at the Southern Human Services Center is where the board works down the amendment list and settles the numbers: the ten-year capital plan first\, then the operating budget and what the two school districts get per pupil\, then the fee schedule\, then the county property tax rate\, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district tax and twelve fire district rates. Formal adoption follows on 17 June. The board takes no public comment at a work session\; written comments go to ocbocc@orangecountync.gov.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06052025-2279\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/2?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3582
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06052025-2279
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3657@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250605
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250606
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThree property tax appeals scheduled before the Board of Equalization and Review at West Campus\, the first two with the owner expected to attend. Fifteen further quarter-hour slots on the agenda were left empty.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06052025-2281\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3657
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06052025-2281
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3683@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-3618@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-3656@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250611
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nTwo property tax appeals scheduled before the Board of Equalization and Review\, at 1:00 and 1:15 PM at West Campus\, both owners expected to attend.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06102025-2289\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3656
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06102025-2289
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3635@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250612
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOne case: A-3-25\, a request to modify the special use permit for a cricket facility on Old Greensboro Road and Holly Creek Lane\, granted in 2020. The owners ask to change the conditions on seasonal play and to revise the site plan to add accessory structures for maintenance and on-site services\; everything else in the original permit stays. This is a quasi-judicial hearing\, which means the board decides only on competent\, material and substantial evidence\, and only people who establish legal standing may put evidence in front of it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06112025-2284\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3635
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06112025-2284
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3655@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250612
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Board of Equalization and Review's longest scheduled day of the 2025 appeal season: fifteen hearings booked at quarter-hour intervals from 1:00 PM to 4:30 PM at West Campus. Most owners were listed as not appearing\, which means the board decides on the written record and the appraiser's presentation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06112025-2290\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3655
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06112025-2290
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3654@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250612
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250613
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Board of Equalization and Review met to hear property tax appeals from owners who disagreed with the county's 2025 revaluation of their land. Two hearings were scheduled\, at 1:00 and 2:30 PM\, in the training conference room at West Campus. The board is the county's appeal body: an owner who cannot settle a valuation with the tax office argues it here before going to the state Property Tax Commission.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06122025-2291\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3654
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06122025-2291
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3724@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-3581@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250618
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners adopted the 2025-26 budget on 17 June 2025\, setting the countywide tax rate at 63.83 cents per $100 of value\, and accepted a ten-year capital investment plan totalling $75.3 million with $75.3 million of first-year projects across county\, school and proprietary funds. The evening also held a public hearing on changes to the Hillsborough Circulator bus route and a report on the January point-in-time count of homelessness.\n\nThe agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172025-2293\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/6?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3581
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172025-2293
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3672@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250618
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250619
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 18 June 2025 at the Graduate hotel to hear from the head of Visit Raleigh and to take up the bureau's own long-term strategy and 2025-26 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06182025-2292\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3672
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06182025-2292
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3653@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250625
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard eleven appeals on 24 June 2025: one registered motor vehicle\, seven contesting real property values\, two asking that present-use value be reinstated on parcels removed from the program\, and one asking the board to accept a present-use value application filed after the deadline. Five appellants appeared. The board also discussed how the county's evidence reaches appellants before a hearing\, and its handling of registered motor vehicle appeals.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242025-2299\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3653
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242025-2299
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3652@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250625
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250626
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nTen property tax appeals scheduled before the Board of Equalization and Review at quarter-hour intervals from 1:00 PM at West Campus.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06252025-2300\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3652
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06252025-2300
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3662@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250625
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250626
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health met on 25 June 2025 to receive the 2024 State of the County's Health report and the health director's report. The agenda also carried public and board comment\, updates from the board's three priority committees\, and a media packet.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06252025-2315\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3662
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06252025-2315
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2016@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250708
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250709
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners are set to hear a tax office report on the county's 2025 property revaluation\, plus a resolution opposing state Senate Bill 205\, which would rewrite Chapter 160D of the state statutes and narrow local governments' zoning and planning authority. The board would also take up the Eno-Haw Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan and a condominium agreement with Carrboro for the Drakeford Library Complex.\n\nThe consent agenda covers minutes from three May meetings\, FY26-27 transit grant paperwork\, and a $700\,386 purchase of 312 laptops\, 108 desktops and 312 docking stations from Lenovo. The board would close in closed session on emergency preparedness and pending litigation\, Zander and Galloway v. Orange County.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07082025-2306\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/5?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2016
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07082025-2306
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2335@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250708
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250709
SUMMARY:Orange County: CANCELLED Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County canceled the July 8 meeting of its Economic Development Advisory Board\, according to the agenda posted for that date. Had it gone forward\, the board would have opened with introductions for new members before a workshop on the Economic Development Department's strategic plan\, led by Crystal Morphis\, founder and CEO of Creative Economic Development Consulting.\n\nThe agenda also called for approving minutes from the board's May 13 meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07082025-2304\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2335
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07082025-2304
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2134@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250710
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 twelve property tax appeals\, including three condominium units at 400 W. Rosemary Street owned by NKB Properties LLC and two Carl Durham Road parcels owned by Sedelia Campbell.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092025-2307\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2134
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092025-2307
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2250@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250710
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board Ordinance Review Committee\, an informal session that does not require a quorum\, reviews two staff-initiated Unified Development Ordinance text amendments: one on impervious surfaces\, watershed protection overlay districts and stream buffers\, the other on subdivision review processes and classifications.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092025-2305\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2250
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092025-2305
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2133@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250715
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250716
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears 13 property tax appeals\, including a circuit breaker deferment request from Wei Ting Chan and an elderly or disabled exclusion request from James Atwater Jr.\, alongside eleven valuation disputes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152025-2308\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2133
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152025-2308
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2063@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250722
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250723
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nThe Orange County Board of Elections opens its 2025-2027 term at a special meeting: members take the oath of office and elect a secretary\, then adopt the director of elections' duties. The board also considers an early voting schedule for the October 7 Durham municipal primary and a resolution moving Eno precinct voters to the Patterson precinct for that primary and the November 4 Durham election.\n\nThe agenda also carries the director's year-to-date budget and voter registration reports and adoption of the board's 2025 meeting schedule.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07222025-2324\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2063
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07222025-2324
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2132@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2131@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250723
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250724
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard six property tax matters\, including five owner appeals and a county-initiated request to lower building grades\, and cut assessed value across three duplexes\, on a night that also briefed the board on a third-party vertical equity study of 2024-2025 valuations.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2310\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2131
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2310
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2173@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250723
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250724
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe Orange County Historic Preservation Commission tests a revised landmark evaluation form on Morris Grove School\, an early 20th-century Black school building on Eubanks Road named for the formerly enslaved farmer Morris Hogan. Members also review draft text for two America's 250th interpretive markers\, at the Dickson House and the former Hogg House site\, and hear about an NCSU ASHES Lab DNA-sampling event planned for Burwell School.\n\nUpdates on the agenda cover flood damage from Tropical Storm Chantal at Occaneechi Village and Faucett Mill\, a proposed historical marker for lynching victim Cyrus Guy near White Cross AME Church\, and the release of federal historic preservation funding to the states. The commission also considers cancelling its August 27 meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2313\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2173
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2313
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2130@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250724
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250725
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard four property tax appeals\, covering a senior living facility on Estes Drive and three commercial properties on US 70A and Conner Drive\, and voted to schedule a special July 30 meeting on a county-requested value correction tied to a vertical regression study.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07242025-2311\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2130
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07242025-2311
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2334@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250729
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nThe Economic Development Advisory Board holds a workshop on the Economic Development Department's draft strategic plan. Consultant Crystal Morphis of Creative Economic Development Consulting presents findings from a SWOT analysis\, a cluster and workforce study and a business survey of about 80 companies. The board also takes up minutes from its May 13 meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282025-2322\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2334
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282025-2322
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2038@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250730
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250731
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's Agricultural Preservation Board debates revisions to its draft Ag Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan ahead of a future presentation to the Board of County Commissioners\, recommends new and returning members to fill five vacancies\, and plans its fall Voluntary Agricultural District breakfast.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07302025-2319\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2038
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07302025-2319
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2129@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250731
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250801
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review hears 15 property tax appeals from 12 owners\, including three Locust Road properties appealed together by Gilded Homes LLC\, on what its agenda marks as the last day for accepting 2025 appeals. The board also takes up a staff request for neighborhood-level value corrections.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07312025-2317\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2129
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07312025-2317
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2062@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250805
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250806
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nThe Orange County Board of Elections is set to adopt an early voting schedule for the November 4\, 2025 municipal election and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board election. The plan covers five sites running from mid-October through the Saturday before the election.\n\nThe board will also hear an update on the state's Registration Repair Project\, which addresses voter records missing a driver's license number or Social Security digits\, and discuss adding a group photo and members' email addresses to the county elections website.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08052025-2325\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2062
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08052025-2325
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2230@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250807
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's Parks and Recreation Council considers whether to send its Parks and Recreation 2030 Master Plan mid-plan review to the Board of County Commissioners\, more than a year after finishing the report. Staff are recommending a new cover letter and a start on the plan's successor.\n\nThe council also reviews results of the 2025 Nature of Orange photography contest\, previews which items it will take up between September and December\, and hears a director's update on Fairview Park and county park facilities.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2321\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2230
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2321
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2249@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250807
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board takes up a rezoning request from Forestar Development for 61.11 acres on NC Highway 54 West in White Cross\, on the Rigsbee family's longtime tract. The company proposes a Residential Conditional District with 43 single-family homes on half-acre lots\, keeping the historic farmhouse and about 41 percent of the site as open space.\n\nThe board's vote is a recommendation. The Board of County Commissioners holds its own public hearing on the case October 7.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2318\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2249
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2318
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2164@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250811
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250812
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment plans to recommend a new member for county commissioner appointment\, refine its proposed Environmental Award program\, and review 18 pending applications for this year's $262\,500 Climate Action Grant round. The commission also plans to continue work on its State of the Environment Report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08112025-2320\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2164
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08112025-2320
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2024@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2031@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250813
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board's August 12 agenda lists item titles only\, with no descriptions attached. Members are set to approve minutes\, welcome new members\, and hear brief updates on local housing assistance and HOME funding. The board sets aside 45 of its 90 scheduled minutes\, half the meeting\, to plan a community meeting\, and 25 minutes to build a 2025-26 work plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2328\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2031
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2328
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2128@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review reconvened to hear six more property tax assessment appeals\, continuing its work following the county's property revaluation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2331\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2128
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2331
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2047@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250813
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250814
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment met Aug. 13 to hold a quasi-judicial hearing on a single variance request: property owners James and Tammy McHale sought a 10-foot reduction to the required 40-foot front setback along Eno Cemetery Road\, to a 30-foot setback\, for a 0.47-acre unaddressed parcel in the Cedar Grove Township.\n\nThe board also had before it its June 11\, 2025 minutes for approval. The document available at posting time contains those June minutes and the staff report package prepared for the McHale hearing\, but not a record of what the board decided at this meeting\; that will appear in minutes approved at a later meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08132025-2326\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2047
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08132025-2326
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2127@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250813
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250814
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review met Aug. 13 to hear four residential property tax valuation appeals in Hillsborough and the surrounding county\, ranging from a $126\,100 condominium unit to a $1 million home on New Isley Trail.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08132025-2332\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2127
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08132025-2332
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2192@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250819
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCPEH Leadership Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:OCPEH Leadership Team\n\nThe Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness Leadership Team will decide how to divide a shrunken Emergency Solutions Grant pot\, $44\,000 this year against $98\,000 last year\, between the rapid rehousing program and the Inter-Faith Council's Homestart shelter\, which has appealed for a larger share. The Funding Review Committee recommends keeping the full amount with rapid rehousing rather than splitting it between the two. The team also expects an update on HUD technical assistance for the Continuum of Care's governance structure\, ahead of a September 11 public town hall\, along with partnership data reporting and committee updates.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2342\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2192
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2342
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2220@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2061@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250820
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections considers appointing precinct officials for the 2025-2027 term. The rest of the agenda is routine: approving prior minutes\, scheduling the next meeting\, and updating board time and travel records.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192025-2527\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2061
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192025-2527
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2126@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2125@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2150@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250820
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250821
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's board heard from the head of the North Carolina Restaurant & Lodging Association on state hospitality-industry issues\, including occupancy and meals tax policy and short-term rental regulation\, and got an update on the bureau's roughly $3 million FY26 budget and a new tourism study. Board members also shared updates from their own organizations\, including Hillsborough and Chapel Hill's continued recovery from Tropical Storm Chantal.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2327\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2150
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2327
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2208@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250820
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250821
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit staff working group\, which coordinates transit planning between the county\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, Mebane\, GoTriangle and Triangle West MPO\, debated a $500\,000 funding placeholder for the Orange County Transit Plan amendment before deferring a decision to build a shared scope document first. The group also elected new officers\, with outgoing chair Doug Plachcinski stepping down.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2330\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2208
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2330
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2181@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250821
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250822
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nOrange County Housing Authority's advisory board takes up a vote on the Project Based Voucher program's admin plan and considers a new board member. The program manager reports on voucher utilization\, issuance\, terminations and informal hearings for May\, June and July. The agenda also sets aside time for member updates and public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08212025-2333\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2181
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08212025-2333
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2015@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250827
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Orange County Board of Commissioners takes up bridge funding for residents displaced by Tropical Storm Chantal after hearing extended public comment from displaced Camelot Village residents and tenant advocates\, adopts the Eno-Haw Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan\, and approves the charge and composition of a new Tax Assessment Work Group to review the county's 2025 property revaluation. The board also takes up short-term funding to keep a senior takeaway meal program running and a routine consent agenda covering vehicle purchases and a cloud migration contract.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2336\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/4?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2015
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2336
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2124@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2123@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250827
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250828
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review lists 12 property tax value appeals on its August 27 agenda. One is from ADJA Group LLC\; the other 11 are individual property owners contesting the county's revalued assessment of their homes. Owners may appear in person or submit evidence in writing. The board weighs each case against the county's own appraisal before setting a final value for the parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08272025-2338\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2123
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08272025-2338
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2141@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250827
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250828
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe board would vote whether to issue a carport permit. A district court had struck down the county's groundwater-protection rules as unsupported by evidence and too vague to enforce\, forcing the vote. It would also get its first look at a resolution urging Orange County\, Carrboro\, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough to encourage affordable housing. A vote is expected in September.\n\nThe agenda also carries the 2024 communicable disease report\, the health department's fourth-quarter finances\, and a request to move the October meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08272025-2423\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2141
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08272025-2423
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2122@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250903
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears nine 2025 revaluation appeals on its September 2 docket: a vacant tract\, a manufactured home\, a condominium and six single-family homes\, including one in the Chapel Hill Historic District. Each owner disputes the county's assessed value\; the board weighs the owner's evidence against the county appraisal staff's recommendation for each parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022025-2380\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2122
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022025-2380
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2121@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2229@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2248@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250904
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board takes up a rezoning of 78.11 acres at 1039-UT NC 86 North. Forestar Group wants to shift the land from Agricultural Residential to Residential Conditional District for a 49-lot subdivision. The board also considers a staff-initiated text amendment to the county's development ordinance covering impervious surfaces\, watershed protection overlay districts\, and stream buffers.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2340\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2248
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2340
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2014@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250905
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners consider a rezoning that would let Carolina Friends School bring its 110-acre Chapel Hill Township campus into compliance with county zoning and expand within a 500-student cap\, plus $874\,702 in combined federal\, state and local FY 2027 transit grant applications for rural service\, senior and disability transportation\, and capital equipment. The board also weighs a presentation schedule and up to $80\,870 in outside consultants and a facilitator for its Land Use Plan 2050 update\, an amendment to a broadband agreement with Lumos\, an 11-item consent agenda\, and the county's first annual report on its Climate Action Plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09042025-2341\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/7?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2014
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09042025-2341
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2163@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250909
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment plans to vote on a new environmental recognition award and forward it to the Board of County Commissioners. It also expects to consider recommending a new appointee to the commission.\n\nThe commission will review the timeline for scoring this year's Climate Action Grant applications on a new platform\, Submittable. It will also discuss progress on the State of the Environment Report and break into air\, water and land subcommittees.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09082025-2375\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2163
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09082025-2375
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2023@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe Orange County Advisory Board on Aging takes up year-three progress on the 2022-27 Master Aging Plan\, covering housing\, social participation and outdoor spaces\, and reviews FY2025-26 budget updates that include two new grants for food boxes and home repair. The agenda also previews Medicare Open Enrollment\, which opens October 15\, and notes a still-vacant board seat on the plan's Employment workgroup.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2540\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2023
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2540
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2030@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nThe Orange County Affordable Housing Advisory Board devotes most of its September meeting to planning a community outreach event\, then takes updates from board members and staff. The agenda also calls for approval of the August meeting's minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2378\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2030
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2378
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2013@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2060@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nThe Orange County Board of Elections considers appointing early voting officials for the November 4 municipal election and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools board of education election. The agenda also carries the director's monthly budget and voter-registration reports and approval of the August 19 minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2526\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2060
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2526
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2120@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review hears four commercial property tax appeals: a Walmart-owned parcel on Hampton Pointe Boulevard and three Wendy's and L4 Carolina Properties parcels\, each seeking a reduction from the county's assessed value.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2382\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2120
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2382
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2333@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Economic Development Advisory Board reviews a draft strategic plan for the county's Economic Development Department\, presented by consultant Crystal Morphis. The board also considers updated grant application guidelines\, a vacant seat on its grant review committee\, and a director's report on commercial and industrial projects.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2376\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2333
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2376
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2119@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250911
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears eight appeals of commercial and vacant-land property tax values\, in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill. The properties range from dirt lots assessed at $220\,000 each to the Top of the Hill restaurant building on Franklin Street\, assessed at $16.3 million.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09102025-2383\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2119
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09102025-2383
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2012@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250917
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners take up a contested amendment to the county's 2022 broadband deployment contract with Lumos\, now T-Fiber and owned by T-Mobile. It would cut the number of homes to be connected from 6\,370 to 5\,852 and push the deadline to July 2026. The board also considers a proposed ten-year\, rent-free ground lease with UNC for a building at 2700 Homestead Road to house the county's cold weather cots program and a future day center for unhoused residents. It holds its required annual public hearing on HOME program housing funds and works through a lengthy consent agenda covering ordinance amendments\, equipment purchases and appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162025-2384\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/16?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2012
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162025-2384
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2118@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250917
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears eighteen individual appeals of property values set in the 2025 revaluation\, covering houses\, manufactured homes\, vacant land and a condominium unit. Owners contest the county's figure on grounds ranging from condition and comparable sales to septic and access limits on undeveloped land\, and a county appraiser presents a recommended value for each parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162025-2385\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2118
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162025-2385
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2037@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250918
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe Orange County Agricultural Preservation Board plans to elect a vice chair and consider a Voluntary Agricultural District application for a small horticulture operation on Erwin Road. Preserve Rural Orange is set to present on the county's land use plan update\, and staff plan to brief the board on a Cost of Community Services study grant and possible improvements to the board's website.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2389\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2037
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2389
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2117@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250918
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 seventeen appeals of 2025 property tax valuations. Hearings run about every 10 to 15 minutes from 1 p.m.\, with a county appraiser presenting the assessor's case on each parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2386\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2117
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2386
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2149@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250918
SUMMARY:Orange County: September 17\,2025 Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau's advisory board takes up two officer nominations\, for vice chair and treasurer. It also hears from tourism consultant Chris Cavanaugh of Magellan Strategy Group\, who is studying where the bureau should focus over the long term\, plus updates from the executive director and from Media Two\, the bureau's advertising buyer.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2388\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2149
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2388
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2207@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2116@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250919
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review is scheduled to hear property tax value appeals from 13 owners contesting this year's countywide revaluation\, one carried over from an August 13 hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09182025-2387\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2116
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09182025-2387
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2180@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250919
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nOrange County Housing Authority's advisory board takes up a preference score for families moving from Emergency Housing Vouchers onto the regular Housing Choice Voucher waiting list\, set at 101 points on the agenda. It also considers an admin plan revision dropping the requirement to advertise Project-Based Voucher competitions in a newspaper.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09182025-2390\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2180
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09182025-2390
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2115@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250924
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears appeals from 13 property owners contesting the county's 2025 revaluation of their homes and land\, and considers 19 late-filed applications for the property tax exemption available to religious institutions under a state law enacted in July 2025.\n\nEach appeal weighs the owner's evidence — comparable sales\, flood damage\, an unbuildable easement\, an incorrect property record — against the county assessor's own analysis\, and the board decides whether to keep\, lower or continue the assessed value.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09232025-2392\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2115
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09232025-2392
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2114@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250925
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review takes up 14 property tax appeals from the county's 2025 revaluation\, all set to go forward on written evidence since none of the owners are scheduled to appear in person. Four of the appeals concern adjoining multi-family parcels on Partridgeberry Road in Chapel Hill\; the rest are single properties spread from Carrboro and Hillsborough to Efland and Mebane.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2393\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2114
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2393
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2140@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250925
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health considers two draft resolutions\, one on access to public health resources amid immigration enforcement and one on affordable housing\, and reviews a set of Board of Health policy updates that would apply directly to the health department. An educational session covers the fallout from a court reversal of one of the board's own permit denials over a well setback. The board also discusses a vacant at-large seat and meets in closed session on the health director's annual performance review.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2424\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2140
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2424
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2172@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250925
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe Orange County Historic Preservation Commission will review four candidates for local landmark status: the Currie-Neville Log House\, the Ridge Road School\, the cemetery at Little River Presbyterian Church\, and the Morris Grove School. The commission recommends landmark designations to the county commissioners\, who have final say\; it does not decide them itself.\n\nThe agenda also covers a planned solar panel project on county-owned historic buildings\, a proposed addition to the county Board of Education Building\, planning for the nation's 250th anniversary\, and a proposal for temporary flags on Old Courthouse Square. No item is up for a vote beyond approving the July minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2395\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2172
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2395
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2011@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's Board of Commissioners meets jointly with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Orange County Boards of Education for a briefing session\, not a vote. The agenda opens with budget\, programming\, cell-phone-policy and staffing updates from both districts\, then turns to a draft interlocal agreement setting out how the county and the two districts manage bond-funded school construction\, including a joint staff working group and commitments on public updates.\n\nCounty planning staff are set to present demographic trends and their impact on school enrollment. The three boards close with a discussion of issues for future collaboration\; the agenda names no specific topics beyond the heading.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2391\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/19?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2011
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2391
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2113@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250926
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 thirteen 2025 property-value appeals in a single session\, covering land and homes from Willowbrook Road to Bristol Drive\, Gwen Road and Crimson Court. Each owner argues the county's assessed value is too high\; the board weighs evidence from both sides on each parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2394\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2113
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2394
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2112@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250930
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251001
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review is set to hear nine 2025 revaluation appeals\, from a lakefront home on S. Lakeshore Drive to a 57.66-acre tract on Mt. Willing Road and a condo unit on West Franklin Street. Each owner is contesting the county's assessed value\, and the board weighs evidence from both sides on every parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09302025-2401\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2112
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09302025-2401
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2111@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251002
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears individual challenges to the county's property assessments. The docket lists 17 matters: appeals of residential and commercial real-property values\, plus requests to compromise personal-property listing penalties.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012025-2400\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2111
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012025-2400
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2228@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2247@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2110@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251002
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251003
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears nine scheduled appeals of property values set in this year's revaluation. A tenth appeal is added the day of the hearing. Owners cite home condition\, comparable sales\, independent appraisals and recent purchase prices as grounds for lower assessments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10022025-2402\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2110
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10022025-2402
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2010@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251008
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners hold a public hearing on rezoning about 61 acres at 3531 NC Highway 54 W in Chapel Hill's Bingham Township\, from rural residential to a conditional district for a 43-lot conservation-cluster subdivision. The applicant\, Forestar Group on behalf of Carolyn Rigsbee\, needs the change after the Planning Board recommended approval 6-3 in August.\n\nThe board also considers reviving its Broadband Task Force with an expanded charge\, a resolution letting commercial property owners in the county finance energy upgrades through the state's new C-PACE program\, and a resolution naming a Cedar Grove Park athletic field for softball coach and civil rights advocate Willie Lawrence Vanhook. The consent agenda covers a two-year Granicus contract for the Visitors Bureau website\, animal control contracts with three towns\, a chiller replacement at the Whitted Building\, and a budget amendment funding a second year of the CARE mobile crisis team.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2399\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/20?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2010
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2399
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2059@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251008
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections handles routine business tied to two elections at once: certifying absentee and early-voting results for the City of Durham's October 7 municipal primary\, and preparing for the county's own November 4 municipal election. The board considers buffer zone rules for early voting sites\, precinct assistant appointments\, and a report on voter registration repairs.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2525\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2059
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2525
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2109@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251008
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 three property tax value appeals: a commercial appeal from Industrial Connections and Solutions LLC over 6801 Industrial Drive\, and two individual appeals over a retail unit on W. Main Street and a house on Mary Street.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2403\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2109
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2403
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2046@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251009
SUMMARY:Orange County: Meeting Canceled
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment had one case on its calendar: a quasi-judicial appeal of interpretation from The Brough Law Firm\, on behalf of Bandit Farms and HarperGrace LLC\, over whether farm stays on property known as Union Grove Farm were correctly classified as a principal farm use rather than agritourism. The applicant withdrew the case on September 30\, 2025\, and the county canceled the October 8 meeting\; no other business was scheduled.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082025-2398\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2046
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082025-2398
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2108@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251009
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 seven 2025 revaluation appeals: five from State Employees Credit Union over branch banks around the county\, a 154-unit student housing building on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard\, and a home on West Queen Street. Each owner argues the county's assessed value is too high\, and the board will weigh evidence from the owner and county appraisal staff before keeping or adjusting the figure.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082025-2404\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2108
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082025-2404
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2107@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251010
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review is set to hear five property-value appeals from the 2025 countywide revaluation: a Walgreens-anchored store on US 70 East\, a commercial parking lot on Mallette Street\, and three adjoining lots on New Hope Drive. Each owner argues the county's assessed value is too high\, and the board weighs that evidence against county appraisal staff's analysis before keeping or adjusting each figure.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10092025-2452\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2107
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10092025-2452
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2162@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251014
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment reviews the design of its new environmental recognition award\, works through applications for the 2025 Climate Action Grant\, and meets in subcommittees on the State of the Environment report. The commission also welcomes two new members and takes up reappointments for four members whose terms expire at year's end.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10132025-2405\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2162
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10132025-2405
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2022@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging takes up two new funding streams for older adults: a $56\,627 Choosing Home Program grant for home repairs and a $34\,430 Providing Elders Additional Sustenance grant for biweekly food boxes for older adults with cognitive impairment. Staff also report on the takeaway lunch program's transition to Meals on Wheels Orange County\, which has taken over serving the county's previously homebound clients\, and give an FY 2025-26 budget update touching on the federal government shutdown.\n\nThe agenda also covers two open staff positions\, a Wellness Program Assistant and a Seymour Center evening facility manager assistant\, an update on the county's next Master Aging Plan covering 2027 to 2032\, and committee reports from the Senior Tar Heel Legislature and the Nursing Home and Adult Care Home Joint Community Advisory Committee. The board opens by taking up approval of its September minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2541\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2022
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2541
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2029@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board meets to approve its prior minutes and hear updates from board members and county staff. Most of the agenda is a 60-minute community outreach session on county affordable-housing programs\, open to public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2558\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2029
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2558
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2009@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2057@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nThe Orange County Board of Elections takes up absentee by-mail ballots received to date. The director reports the count\, then the board acts to accept and process those ballots. The agenda also calls for scheduling the board's next meeting and updating members' time and travel records.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2524\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2057
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2524
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2058@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOE Meeting Canvass
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections meets to certify the results of the City of Durham's October 7 municipal primary. The board also covers scheduling its next meeting and updating member time and travel records.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2523\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2058
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2523
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2106@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review holds ten property tax appeal hearings stemming from the county's 2025 revaluation. Four of the appeals come from Habitat for Humanity homeowners in the Waterstone Community\, who are seeking reductions tied to resale restrictions in their deeds\; the other six challenge assessed value based on comparable sales or the home's condition.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2415\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2106
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2415
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2105@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251016
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review takes up 14 individual property tax appeals from the 2025 revaluation. Four are rural or vacant parcels along Sesame Road and Old Greensboro Road\, where the appellants dispute unclear title and a lack of legal access\; the rest challenge valuations on the condition of the home\, comparable sales\, or an error in the property record.\n\nEach appeal gets its own hearing\, with the owner or an agent presenting evidence against a county appraiser before the board sets a final assessed value.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152025-2416\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2105
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152025-2416
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2148@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251016
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's advisory board hears from Lewis Broadnax\, president of Hillsborough-based Adam & Eve parent company PHE\, Inc.\, on how the retailer is adapting its marketing to younger consumers. The board also considers appropriating money from its own fund balance to market this spring's Savannah Bananas games at Kenan Stadium. The agenda also includes a sales and campaign update from the bureau's media partner and routine community updates.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152025-2410\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2148
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152025-2410
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2206@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2104@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251016
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251017
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 twelve individual property value appeals in one day: three at a 9 a.m. session and nine at a 1 p.m. session. Each hearing pits the owner's requested value against the county's own recommendation\, and the board sets the final assessment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10162025-2417\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2104
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10162025-2417
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2219@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251020
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251021
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's Unified Transportation Board takes up updated orientation materials for its own members. It also considers a draft plan for transportation projects funded outside the State Transportation Improvement Plan\, and minutes from its August meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10202025-2411\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2219
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10202025-2411
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2008@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251022
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners hold a public hearing on joining the state's C-PACE program\, which lets commercial property owners finance energy and resiliency upgrades through a voluntary assessment rather than county funds. The board also reviews cost-cutting design options for the Crisis Diversion Facility\, whose original $28.2 million design came in over budget\, and discusses a draft interlocal agreement setting up joint oversight of school construction projects with both school districts.\n\nConsent items include a solar feasibility study agreement with the Town of Hillsborough\, a six-month extension of an opioid-funding contract with Freedom House Recovery Center\, and a $97\,503 state arts grant.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2412\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/26?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2008
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2412
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2056@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251022
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections met to process absentee ballots ahead of the 2025 municipal election\, assign board members to visit early voting sites\, and receive an update on ballots cast to date.\n\nThe agenda was otherwise routine\, with no discussion items announced in advance.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2522\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2056
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2522
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2103@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251022
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review is scheduled to hear 14 property tax appeals from the 2025 countywide revaluation. Thirteen come from individual homeowners\; one\, at 220 James Street\, comes from a business\, Engelhardt Ventures LLC.\n\nEach appellant presents evidence for a lower value — a comparable sale\, an independent appraisal\, or documentation of the property's condition — and a county appraiser lays out the basis for the current assessment. The board then sets a final value for each parcel by vote.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2430\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2103
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2430
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2102@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2171@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251023
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission has no items up for a vote this month\; the agenda is discussion only. Staff will brief the commission on a pending National Register nomination for the Efland Milling Company\, a mill in continuous use since 1842. Its owners have filed a Study List application with the State Historic Preservation Office. Staff will also outline three archaeological surveys planned for 2026: a ground-penetrating radar study of the county's Old Poor House cemetery\, a Phase I survey of the 225-acre Seven Mile Creek Preserve ahead of a new trail\, and further GPR work at the Blackwood Farm enslaved burial ground.\n\nThe commission is also set to discuss county budget cuts that have eliminated funding to preserve the historic bungalow\, barn and outbuildings at Twin Creeks Park's Cate Farm. Staff will propose a field trip to the Henry Calvin Andrews farmstead and update members on a planned interpretive sign for the Cedar Grove baseball field.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222025-2418\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2171
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222025-2418
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2101@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2055@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251029
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections meets to act on absentee by-mail ballots received so far. The agenda also lists director's reports on early voting turnout and voter-list maintenance\, plus a discussion of members' early voting site visits.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10282025-2521\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2055
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10282025-2521
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2100@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251029
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review will hear 13 property tax appeals in one afternoon\, one per parcel assigned to a county appraiser for review. Twelve appeals come from individual property owners\; the other concerns an unimproved lot owned by a company.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10282025-2433\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2100
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10282025-2433
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2099@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251030
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears ten individual property value appeals from this year's revaluation\, plus a seven-property consent list of value adjustments already negotiated between owners and staff.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292025-2434\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2099
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292025-2434
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2139@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251030
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health considers options for its Groundwater Protection Rules after a recent adjudication appeal invalidated part of its well-setback requirements\, ranging from case-by-case enforcement to repealing the local rules entirely. The board also takes up resolutions on affordable housing and on immigration enforcement's effect on access to public health resources\, plus a proposed Chair/Vice-Chair slate for 2026.\n\nThe board goes into closed session to discuss the health director's annual performance review.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292025-2462\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2139
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292025-2462
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2098@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2205@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251101
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's Staff Working Group\, which coordinates the county's transit partners\, reviews eight amendments to the FY26 Orange County Annual Transit Workplan. The substantive changes move Chapel Hill Transit funding for its North-South Bus Rapid Transit vehicles from operating to capital\, add a GoTriangle service-planning position funded partly by Orange County\, and request five more revenue hours for GoTriangle's Route 800.\n\nThe rest of the agenda is housekeeping: five Orange County transit projects\, covering circulator operations\, paratransit\, fixed-route service\, and mobility-on-demand\, get only a change to their listed project contact.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10312025-2425\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2205
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10312025-2425
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2261@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251101
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's newly formed Tax Assessment Work Group holds its first meeting: introductions\, a review of ground rules\, and a staff presentation on the countywide property revaluation and appeals process. The group has no votes or formal actions on this agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10312025-2465\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2261
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10312025-2465
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2054@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251104
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections meets to process absentee ballots ahead of the November 4\, 2025 municipal election and to hear a director's report on early voting turnout. The agenda also covers a precinct visit list and scheduling the board's next meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11032025-2520\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2054
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11032025-2520
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2053@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251105
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's board of elections meets on election night. Members report on what they saw at their assigned precincts. The board also reviews absentee ballots arriving during the day — civilian\, military and overseas — and considers them for approval. It verifies tabulator and results tapes ahead of canvass.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11042025-2519\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2053
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11042025-2519
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2097@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251105
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Board of Equalization and Review hears three tax appeals November 4\, all from one owner with parcels on West Lakeview Drive. Two of the parcels are assessed at $150\,000\, with the owner asking for $100\,000 on each and citing zoning concerns. The third\, an unimproved 0.17-acre corner lot\, is assessed at $100.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11042025-2436\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2097
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11042025-2436
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2096@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251106
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review takes up two cases on November 5. Westdale Poplar Place LP appeals the $27.29 million value of its 230-unit complex at 605 Jones Ferry Road\, seeking $26.41 million. It argues for the lower figure on an income approach. A second appellant asks the board to hear a personal property appeal on a utility trailer\, filed after the 30-day window had closed.\n\nA consent agenda separately proposes four more residential value reductions\, negotiated directly between the assessor's office and the owners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2437\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2096
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2437
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2227@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2007@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251107
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners are set to consider releasing $54\,000 from the Social Justice Reserve to help food providers after the federal shutdown cut November SNAP benefits in half. About 4\,700 county households — 8\,700 people — received SNAP in September\, and all of them face a 50 percent reduction until the program is fully funded again.\n\nThe county manager proposes splitting the money four ways: $15\,000 each to the Interfaith Council in Chapel Hill and Orange Congregations in Mission in Hillsborough to stock their pantries\, and $12\,000 each to Porch Chapel Hill and Porch Hillsborough for food distributions two days later\, on November 8. Orange Congregations in Mission has agreed to waive its referral requirement for new clients until benefits are restored in full.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062025-2427\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/29?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2007
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062025-2427
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2095@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251107
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review has one appeal on its November 6 docket. JGW Investments LLC is seeking a reduction in the assessed value of its commercial building at 110 Rebecca Drive.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062025-2442\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2095
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062025-2442
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2052@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251108
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's board of elections acts on provisional ballots cast in the November 4 municipal election. It follows a recommendation from the elections director on which ballots to approve. The board also hears a report on the sample audit count for the OWASA and Town Hall precincts\, randomly selected by the state board.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11072025-2518\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2052
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11072025-2518
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2161@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251111
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment will close out this year's Climate Action Grant review. It will vote on how to divide $267\,750 among sixteen applications that together requested $619\,095.\n\nThe commission will also introduce new member Leto Copeley and elect a chair and vice chair for the coming year. It will begin work on its 2025 annual report and work plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11102025-2428\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2161
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11102025-2428
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2021@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging meets November 11 for an FY 2025-26 budget update on the federal shutdown and changes to SNAP benefits. The board also plans to discuss Maddry Meadows\, a senior housing development planned across from the Seymour Center.\n\nOther business includes first-quarter reports from the board's transportation and communication workgroups. The board is set to hear an update from the Senior Tar Heel Legislature and take up its 2026 meeting calendar.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2542\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2021
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2542
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2028@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board has a short agenda for its November 11 meeting: board and staff updates\, approval of the October meeting's minutes\, and an hour of annual planning for 2026. The posted agenda gives no more detail than those headings.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2444\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2028
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2444
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2006@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners consider options for selling all or part of 79.05 acres at 6823 Millhouse Road. The county bought the land in 2004 and 2007 for a soccer complex that was never built. A March 2025 appraisal puts the property at $1\,976\,000\, about $24\,997 an acre. State law bars conditions on a sale to the public. Restricting the land to active recreation means selling to a nonprofit or another government instead.\n\nThe board also gets a third briefing on the Land Use Plan 2050's rural activity nodes. It also discusses whether to continue\, change or end the Strategic Communications Work Group.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2440\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/30?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2006
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2440
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2094@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review hears 16 property-tax appeals beginning at 1 p.m. on November 11. Fifteen appellants are individual homeowners\, including two with adjoining parcels on Old Orchard Road\; the sixteenth\, Gronks Doghouse LLC\, contests a commercial assessment on Coker Lane.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2450\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2094
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2450
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2332@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board hears from the Chamber for a Greater Chapel Hill-Carrboro and from Carrboro's economic development staff on November 11. The meeting is at Bru's Public House in Carrboro. The agenda also lists a vacancy in the board's agriculture seat and the 2026 meeting calendar. Board members' disclosure statements are due December 31\, and the annual report and work plan are due January 16.\n\nThe board also takes up minutes from its September 9 meeting and hears a director's update on commercial and industrial projects. No minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what the board actually did is not on the record.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2429\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2332
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2429
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2045@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment holds a quasi-judicial hearing on a special use permit for a "Care Facility" at 1009 Hi Mar Lane. Jubilee Integrated Wellness\, a farm-based mental health day program\, already operates there on part of a 9.67-acre parcel under bona fide farm status. The permit would let the site get a fire inspection now denied to farm structures. That would open the way to state licensing. Licensing would let Jubilee bill insurers as a facility instead of an office practice\, and take Medicaid patients\, whom it cannot serve now.\n\nThe board also reviews its annual report and work plan for 2026.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122025-2439\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2045
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122025-2439
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2204@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2051@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nThe Orange County Board of Elections meets to act on overseas absentee ballots received after the November 4 municipal election. It also takes up certification of the supplemental absentee ballots cast to date.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2517\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2051
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2517
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2093@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review is scheduled to hear 18 property-tax appeals of the county's 2025 revaluation. Grounds range from comparable sales to land value and measurement corrections. Two of the appeals are commercial land-value challenges from Land Marks LLC entities in the Franklin-Rosemary Historic Area. The board's consent agenda proposes changes on two more parcels.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2451\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2093
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2451
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2152@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Climate Council Meeting Agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Climate Council\n\nThe Climate Council holds a small-group discussion on AI's effects on climate\, led by UNC's sustainability lead\, Melanie Elliott. It also takes updates on a heat action plan\, a Community Climate Action grant program\, and a Year of Electrification effort. The council is a joint body of Orange County\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, both school boards and UNC.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2407\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2152
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2407
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2005@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2050@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251115
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOE Meeting Canvass
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's board of elections meets to canvass the November 4 municipal and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools Board of Education election. The agenda calls for a director's report on the election\, a vote to certify the results\, and two routine items: scheduling the board's next meeting and updating its time and travel records.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2516\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2050
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2516
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2260@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251115
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nThe Orange County Tax Assessment Work Group hears presentations on how reappraisal works in North Carolina\, from the UNC School of Government and the state Department of Revenue. The group also gets an update on appeals and neighborhood reviews\, and discusses next steps.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2447\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2260
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2447
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2218@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2004@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2092@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251119
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review is scheduled to hear 13 real-property valuation appeals from owners contesting their 2025 revaluation assessments\, including back-to-back appeals on Sharpe Road and a lakefront home on North Lakeshore Drive.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2456\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2092
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2456
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2036@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board takes up a farmland preservation plan\, reworked to meet legal and planning requests\, before it goes to county commissioners. Members also review a first draft of the board's 2025 annual report and work plan\, due to commissioners by January 16.\n\nThe board considers a $14\,000 grant application to update the county's 2006 cost of community services study\, matched by a $2\,000 Farm Bureau gift.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2445\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2036
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2445
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2091@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review hears appeals from 16 property owners contesting their 2025 real estate assessments\, plus a business asking to reduce penalties from a personal-property tax discovery. It also acts on an eight-parcel consent agenda of value corrections and exemption requests.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2457\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2091
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2457
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2138@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2147@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board takes up a budget update and Savannah Bananas planning under the executive director's report\, plus a communications and digital strategy update from bureau staff. UNC's newly appointed director of special projects\, Marcus Ginyard\, addresses the board on coordination between the university and local governments. Board members also share community updates.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2446\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2147
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2446
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2090@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 29 property-tax appeals of 2025 revaluation values on November 20. It split the docket into a morning session\, 9:03 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.\, and an afternoon session\, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Fourteen of the 29 owners appeared or sent a representative\; the rest let their appeal proceed on the record. The board reduced 20 assessments\, left eight unchanged\, and raised one\, cutting the combined value of the properties it heard from $18\,206\,100 to $17\,147\,100.\n\nEight appeals concerned Northside Chapel Hill rental properties: four from one trust\, four from Mastin Holdings LLC and CHNS LLC. Most disputed their Designed Rental Single Family Residence classification\, and the board reduced six of the eight\, leaving two unchanged. On its last appeal of the day\, the board's own review found a misclassified garage and raised a property's value from $223\,100 to $225\,800\, over the owner's request for a reduction.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2458\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2090
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2458
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2179@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251121
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority board considers letting graduates of the Foster Youth to Independence program move onto the housing choice voucher program. The change would add a preference point that places them on the wait list\, the same approach the authority uses for emergency housing vouchers. The Foster Youth to Independence program runs 36 months\, and graduates currently have no route onward once it ends.\n\nThe agenda also carries the program manager's monthly report and an update on project-based vouchers. Members also plan to discuss flood zone policy for voucher holders and a draft 2026 work plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2455\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2179
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2455
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2003@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251202
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness's annual report to the board flags a new HUD funding notice that could cut money for permanent housing by 70 percent and cap annual renewal funding at 30 percent. Commissioners also elect a new chair and vice-chair for the year\, name voting delegates to the state and national county associations\, and review which outside boards still need a commissioner to serve on them in 2026.\n\nThe consent agenda covers routine property tax releases\, a five-year renewal of the county's Fairview Park agreement with the Town of Hillsborough\, and a school enrollment forecasting contract with UNC's Carolina Demography.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12012025-2461\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/35?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2002
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12012025-2461
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2049@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251203
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's board of elections adopted its early voting plan for the March 3 primary on December 2\, setting six sites and hours running February 12 through 28. It also heard\, after a closed session on personnel\, that the board chair is moving out of the county and resigning effective January 1.\n\nThe board acknowledged reports of safety concerns at the Drakeford Library\, one of the six early voting sites\, and the director said she would raise them with library leadership.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2515\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2049
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2515
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2089@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251203
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears twenty-three commercial appeals on December 2\, all contesting 2025 valuations on apartment complexes\, hotels and offices in Chapel Hill. Assessments run as high as $41\,298\,300. Owners argue for lower values using income approaches built on 2022 through 2024 financial statements\; the county defends its numbers with its own income and sales analyses.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2475\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2089
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2475
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2259@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251203
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's Tax Assessment Work Group hears a presentation from Wake County's tax administrator on how that county runs property assessments. It also takes up approval of its November 14 meeting summary and turns to questions and next steps.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2464\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2259
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2464
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2088@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2226@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2245@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nAn omnibus package of changes to Orange County's unified development ordinance goes before the planning board's ordinance review committee. The planning director proposed the amendments to fix errors\, incorporate recent state law\, resolve internal inconsistencies and address school needs.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2459\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2245
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2459
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2246@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2258@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251206
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group reviews a draft request for proposals for a consultant to study the reappraisal. The group also hears an update on property appeals and neighborhood reviews\, and takes questions from members before discussing next steps.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12052025-2466\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2258
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12052025-2466
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2160@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251209
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment planned to weigh a petition from Commissioner Sally Greene. It would widen the Community Climate Action Grant fund to cover climate adaptation as well as mitigation. Members were also due to approve a final draft of their annual report and work plan for January submission. They also planned to decide whether to keep sponsoring the Nature of Orange photo contest.\n\nThe agenda set aside time for a State of the Environment report round table and sub-committee breakouts on the year's projects. It also listed updates on the commission's RIPPLE environmental awards\, whose application window opens December 1 and closes February 1. No summary of the meeting is on file.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12082025-2467\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2160
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12082025-2467
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2020@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe county's advisory board on aging discusses how to serve unsheltered people using the Seymour Center. The agenda also has a technology budget request for a Rec Trac software upgrade and a report on new SNAP work requirements for older adults.\n\nWorkgroup leaders give first-quarter reports on the county's current master aging plan. The board also opens planning for the plan that follows it\, covering 2027 through 2032.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2543\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2020
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2543
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2027@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's affordable housing advisory board took on a piece of concrete work on December 9: four members volunteered to help staff go through the long-term home repair assistance waiting list\, update it\, and check which applicants qualify for federal repair funding. UNC holds the current list and database.\n\nThe board also assembled the questions it wants to put to county planning staff at a coming meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2481\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2027
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2481
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2001@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nProperty tax appeals have cut $232\,489\,448 from Orange County's assessed value this year. The tax office reports to commissioners on the count so far: 3\,346 informal appeals and 1\,109 formal ones across 3\,966 properties. A separate review of assessment neighborhoods has already adjusted 1\,460 properties downward by nearly $61 million.\n\nThe board also considers a $100\,433 incentive to move CITEL America's US headquarters and manufacturing from Florida to Hillsborough. Also on the agenda: more money for the Longtime Homeowner Assistance Program\, a fare-free pilot for county bus routes\, and two Juvenile Crime Prevention Council appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2471\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/36?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2001
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2471
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2087@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard 16 appeals of 2025 property revaluation values on December 9\, 2025\, from 14 individual owners and one company\, Evans Estates REI LLC. One owner filed two separate appeals on different parcels. Before the docket\, the board also rescinded a December 3 consent-agenda vote on one property and revised its value to $460\,900.\n\nThe appeals argued comparable sales\, home condition and age corrections\, conservation-easement and floodplain restrictions\, a parcel shrunk by road construction\, storm damage\, and land that cannot pass a soil-perc test. Evans Estates argued that zoning and site limits diminish the marketability of an undeveloped Farm Lane tract. The current assessed values at issue ranged from $143\,400\, for an unimproved land parcel\, to $1\,260\,600\, for a house.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2477\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2087
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2477
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2044@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's board of adjustment holds an evidentiary hearing on December 10 on a major modification to the Emerson Waldorf School's special use permit\, updating the campus master plan approved in 2015.\n\nThe school\, a Pre-K through grade 12 private school on 54 acres at 6211 New Jericho Road\, wants a road map for buildings phased over ten years\, supporting growth from about 294 students and 48 staff to roughly 350 students and 55 staff by 2035. It would build less than it is already permitted to: total new square footage drops from 56\,562 to 37\,684\, with the 13\,942-square-foot gymnasium\, an eighth-grade classroom building and a shop addition all dropped. No new land is involved.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2470\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2044
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2470
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2086@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review hears thirty-five appeals over 2025 real estate assessments on December 10. Fifteen owners appear in the morning\, twenty in the afternoon. Most of the properties are on streets in Chapel Hill's Northside district and Carrboro's Lloyd/Broad district.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2478\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2086
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2478
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2170@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe church that owns the Harvey's Chapel cemetery has told Orange County it will consider donating the site\, on condition that it be permanently protected. The county's historic preservation commission heard that on December 10\, alongside news that a grant will pay for expanding the trail network at Seven Mile Creek Preserve\, including a spur trail letting hikers walk up to the cemetery and the site of the original church.\n\nStaff want a high-quality interpretive sign at the cemetery and have arranged to meet a church leader about how to proceed. Members will hike the site late in the winter.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2472\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2170
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2472
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2203@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2211@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Broadband Task Force
DESCRIPTION:Orange County Broadband Task Force\n\nOrange County's Broadband Task Force gives its December 10 meeting to two outside briefings. Andrew Stevenson\, a director at Lumos\, the fiber provider building service in the county\, updates the task force on the company's work. Angie Bailey\, director of NCDIT's Broadband Infrastructure Office\, presents on the federal BEAD program and its Stop Gap funding for addresses BEAD leaves out. County staff also give a broadband update.\n\nNo minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what Stevenson and Bailey reported is not on the record. The agenda also carries the task force's action register and approval of earlier minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2474\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2211
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2474
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2085@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard 20 appeals of 2025 property revaluations on December 11\, 2025\, split into a ten-case morning session and a ten-case afternoon session. Assessed values in dispute ranged from $132\,500 to $1\,865\,300. Owners challenged square footage\, comparable sales\, property condition and\, in one case\, a denied building permit. Keyway LLC contested a Lake Hogan Farms townhouse valuation\, arguing the county's figure reflected a 2025 market peak that has since cooled.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112025-2479\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2085
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112025-2479
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2217@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2084@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251217
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review hears 25 appeals contesting 2025 property tax assessments\, from a $176\,100 vacant lot to a $4\,333\,000 house. Owners argue the county's value is too high\; a county appraiser defends the number at each hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12162025-2482\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2084
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12162025-2482
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2083@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251218
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review has 28 property tax appeals on its December 17 docket. A morning session covers 13 commercial and larger parcels\, including office and retail buildings on Market Street and Weaver Dairy Road. An afternoon session covers 15 houses and vacant lots\, including several on North Street and Clarence Drive.\n\nMost of the morning's appellants are limited liability companies and a family partnership. Most of the afternoon's appellants are individual owners appealing their own homes or land. All contest what the county says their property is worth.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12172025-2483\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2083
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12172025-2483
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2082@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251219
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears twenty-three real-property value appeals and three requests to compromise business personal-property listing penalties at its December 18 sitting. The property appeals span Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, Mebane and Efland\, from an $8\,400 vacant lot to a $42.7 million industrial building.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12182025-2484\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2082
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12182025-2484
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2178@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251219
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nOrange County's Housing Authority Advisory Board takes up an amendment letting it select project-based voucher projects without competition. Project-based vouchers attach rental assistance to specific units rather than to a household\, changing how the authority commits subsidy to particular developments. The board also takes up its 2026 work plan and the program manager's monthly report. That report covers voucher utilization\, voucher issuance\, terminations and informal hearings.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12182025-2480\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2178
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12182025-2480
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2202@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260110
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County Staff Working Group reviews the FY27 Annual Work Program. The plan would fund transit operations\, planning and capital projects at Orange County\, Chapel Hill\, Hillsborough\, GoTriangle and the Triangle West Transportation Planning Organization. It totals $19.2 million\, split $10.8 million operating and $8.4 million capital\, with revenues matching expenditures and no projected surplus or deficit as filed.\n\nThe group also weighs whether to release the constrained work program for public comment before or after it is finalized. It also reviews FY26 solvency against the FY27 funding requests.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01092026-2487\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2202
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01092026-2487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2159@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2257@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's Tax Assessment Work Group takes up a legal briefing on how the Board of Equalization and Review operates\, an update on the request for proposals for the county's property reappraisal\, and community research findings from the NC Housing Coalition's Hudson Vaughan. The group also approves minutes from its December 5 meeting and discusses next steps.\n\nThe group was set up after complaints about how property is assessed in the county. It includes county commissioners\, staff\, community representatives from several districts\, and representatives from the NC Housing Coalition and Property Tax Justice.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01122026-2489\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2257
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01122026-2489
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2019@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe area agency on aging visits Orange County February 3 and 4 for its annual monitoring visit. The review covers health promotion programs\, senior center operations\, information and assistance\, options counseling\, and two grants.\n\nThe board also plans to take up the FY 2026-27 budget\, which kicked off January 8. It also owes its annual report to the county commissioners by January 16\, to be presented in February or March.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2544\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2019
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2544
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2048@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's board of elections considers moving the Efland precinct's Election Day polling place from the Efland Ruritan Club to the Efland-Cheeks Community Center\, 1.8 miles away. The director's case rests on facility consistency\, cost savings and voter familiarity\, plus turnout comparisons showing the new site can handle the volume. Voters there would get an orange postcard and a newspaper notice.\n\nThe board also takes up a slate of early voting officials for the March 3 primary and the Orange County Schools Board of Education election\, drawn from party recommendations and a survey of officials who worked the 2024 and 2025 elections. The director's report covers voter registration\, absentee ballots and the budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2514\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2048
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2514
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2081@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review hears 21 property tax appeals on January 13. Seven individual homeowners appear in the morning. Fourteen limited liability companies and corporations that own apartment complexes and commercial buildings in Chapel Hill\, Carrboro and Hillsborough appear in the afternoon.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2496\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2081
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2496
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2331@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Economic Development Advisory Board takes up a grant program update on January 13\, covering guideline changes and a vacant seat on the grant review committee. The board also hears from Scott Czechlewski\, CEO of the Hillsborough Orange County Chamber of Commerce\, and gets the director's report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2486\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2331
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2486
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2080@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260115
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review hears twenty-three property tax appeals over two sessions on January 14. Most are commercial and multifamily property in Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. Ten of the appeals are a single owner's duplexes on Regent Place and Weaver Dairy Road. The board also takes up a consent agenda of thirteen further adjustments county staff propose without a hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142026-2497\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2080
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142026-2497
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2079@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260116
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review meets January 15\, 2026\, to hear 19 property tax appeals from the county's 2025 revaluation. A 9 a.m. session covers 11 cases and a 1 p.m. session covers eight more. The properties span single-family houses\, a duplex\, a condominium\, rental housing and vacant land in Chapel Hill\, Hillsborough and Mebane\, plus two commercial parcels appealed by their owners\, O'Neal Rental Properties\, LLC and Abriata Group LLC. Two cases carry over from the board's October 30 session.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152026-2498\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2079
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152026-2498
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2000@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260117
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners were told at their January 16 retreat that the county faces a $21.5 million gap to close in the FY 2026-27 budget\, and that the same model puts the gap at $37.6 million the following year and $53.6 million the year after that. Closing this year's would take about seven cents on the property tax rate\; one penny raises roughly $3.37 million on a $33.9 billion tax base.\n\nThe drivers are debt service\, the phase-in of school capital pay-as-you-go\, non-discretionary personnel costs like health insurance and retirement\, and the county's practice of never cutting education funding. Commissioner McKee said across-the-board reductions may be needed and asked staff to look at how the county balanced its FY 2010-11 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2000
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2026@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nThe agenda for Orange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board's January 20 meeting\, rescheduled from January 13\, lists four items with time estimates and no other detail: five minutes to approve minutes\, ten minutes of updates from board members and staff\, and 60 minutes to work on the board's 2026 work plan. The agenda does not say what the work plan discussion will cover.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2490\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2026
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2490
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2078@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 17 residential tax appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 20\, 2026\, in a morning session of 11 appeals and an afternoon session of six more. The board reduced sixteen properties and sustained one.\n\nThree appeals from related Chapel Hill rental entities\, 304 Caldwell LLC\, 300 Caldwell LLC and 215 Broad LLC\, stood out: the county recommended raising two of the Caldwell properties' values after finding they were misclassified as duplexes rather than single-family rentals\, but the board cut all three below both the current and the county's proposed figures. In the afternoon\, the board applied a -75% flood adjustment to a vacant Lannie Drive parcel prone to flooding\, cutting its value from $60\,600 to $15\,600\, and reduced a comparably steep\, stream-crossed lot on Carl Drive after the owner said unsolicited purchase offers had run as low as $10\,000.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2499\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2078
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2499
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2035@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board considers a final draft of its Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan\, revised by a subcommittee\, before sending it to the county commissioners. The board also hears a progress report on the county's present-use value audit and gets updates on the voluntary agricultural district program.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2495\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2035
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2495
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2077@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 29 appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 21\, 2026\, in a morning session of 17 industrial and commercial hearings plus a four-item consent agenda\, and an afternoon session of eight residential appeals in Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. The board sustained the county's original assessment on eleven commercial properties\, reduced values in fourteen cases\, denied one appeal as untimely\, and in one unusual case raised a property's value above what the county itself had originally assessed.\n\nThat outlier was Ralcar Corp's 7411 Rex Road warehouse\, where the county's own analysis found the building undervalued and the board agreed to raise it from $1\,967\,400 to $2\,399\,300. On the residential side\, most reductions followed the same pattern: appraisers found homes' effective ages\, conditions or square footage overstated\, and the board corrected them\, including one Hillsborough home in poor condition\, cut from $304\,200 to $208\,900 to match an independent appraisal.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2500\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2077
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2500
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2137@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health takes up a second-quarter financial and billing report on January 21. It also weighs a change to the delinquent-account policy\, stretching the write-off window from twelve to twenty-four months and sending accounts to the state twice a year instead of once. Two presentations follow: a request that the board back adding two rare diseases\, metachromatic leukodystrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy\, to the state's newborn-screening panel\, and the department's yearly update on immigrant and refugee health services.\n\nThe rest of the agenda is routine. The board takes up November's minutes\, a possible change to its spring meeting schedule\, priority-committee updates and board comments\, the health director's report and the month's media items.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2575\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2137
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2575
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2146@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
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's January 21 agenda calls for a report from the executive director\, a finance report\, and updates from members\, along with approval of the November 19 minutes. No new business is listed.\n\nThe finance report attached to the agenda puts the bureau 69 percent through its annual budget as of December\, with 84 percent of its sales and marketing line and about half its arts commission budget already spent.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2494\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2146
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2494
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2201@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
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UID:meeting-2076@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260123
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 16 appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 22\, 2026: a morning session of 13 commercial and apartment appeals in downtown Chapel Hill\, followed by an afternoon session on three modest homes on Rogers Road. The board sustained the county's assessment on twelve properties and reduced four.\n\nMost of the morning's appeals\, represented by the same agent (Morgan Fowler / Ryan LLC) across a downtown "Life Science Center Redevelopment" assemblage and the Chapel Ridge student housing complex\, argued for reductions based on collective income and market proformas\; the board granted two\, cutting 214 West Franklin Street from $1\,713\,400 to $1\,199\,900 and Glen Lennox Shopping Center from $6\,641\,300 to $6\,018\,600. In the afternoon\, the board went beyond even the county's own recommendations to further reduce two of three Rogers Road homes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222026-2501\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2076
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222026-2501
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2177@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260123
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority's advisory board takes up its monthly program manager's report and moves to finalize its 2026 work plan. The report covers voucher utilization and issuance\, the state's voucher management system\, and terminations and informal hearings.\n\nTerminations and informal hearings are the part of this routine agenda that decides whether a household keeps its rental assistance.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222026-2491\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2177
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222026-2491
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2910@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260128
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's Human Relations Commission takes up a commemorative marker for the Blackwood Farms gravesite\, vacancies on its own board\, and its events for February through April. Staff bring an update on the marker\, which is meant to mark a cemetery on the former farm property.\n\nThe rest of the ninety-minute agenda is reports. The executive committee has the secretary post and the open commissioner seats on its slate\, the outreach and community events subcommittees report back\, and new business covers what the commission calls its social justice vision and any emerging issues members want to raise.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01272026-2638\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2910
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01272026-2638
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2075@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260129
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard seven residential tax appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 28. One more case was decided on the consent agenda. The board reduced five of the eight assessments and left three unchanged\; none went up. Combined value on the five reductions fell from $2\,417\,000 to $2\,148\,100.\n\nAppellants argued storm damage\, floodplain limits\, comparable sales and needed repairs. Five of the seven appeared in person\; one sent a family member and one did not attend. The board later agreed to reopen one case after the appellant said she had missed the hearing date and wanted to submit new evidence. That appeal is rescheduled for February 4. The largest single cut lowered one home's construction grade and wrote down two outbuildings on the same tract. Its assessment fell from $514\,400 to $429\,200.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2505\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2075
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2505
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2169@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260129
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission holds a public hearing on updates to the Moorefields National Register nomination\, which adds new boundaries covering sites tied to enslaved workers and the Waddell cemetery\, and considers whether to recommend it for listing. The agenda also includes a certificate of appropriateness for repair work at Faucette Mill and a proposal to cancel the commission's February meeting.\n\nIn discussion\, the commission takes up a possible historic landmark designation for Montrose\, the Governor Graham house\, which sits inside Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction. Members also plan a field trip to Harvey's Chapel Cemetery and hear updates on the annual report\, a possible landmark at the Norwood-Webb-Cheshire House\, and the commission's book project.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2502\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2169
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2502
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2074@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260130
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review heard eighteen property value appeals on January 29\, one of its longest sittings of the season. The assessments ranged from $173\,100 to $103.3 million\, so a single docket covered both a modest house and a major commercial holding.\n\nThis was among the board's first meetings of the 2026 appeal year\, which it had formally opened the previous spring.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01292026-2506\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2074
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01292026-2506
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners approved the school construction interlocal agreement on February 3\, the document that governs how the county and its two school systems build schools together. They also took an update on the interlocal agreements under which the county collects taxes for its towns.\n\nProclamations for Black History Month and Human Relations Month opened the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02032026-2507\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/38?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1998
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02032026-2507
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2073@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review heard eleven property value appeals on February 4\, a residential docket rather than the commercial one it took a week later. Most of the values in front of it were modest\, from $68\,000 up to $2.16 million.\n\nThe board runs through the appeal season on consecutive weeks\, and this was among the first sittings of 2026.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2510\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2073
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2510
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2225@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
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UID:meeting-2243@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2244@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County planning board's ordinance review committee met at 8 p.m. on February 4\, straight after the regular meeting\, to begin reviewing the planning director's amendments to the county's subdivision review processes and classifications.\n\nAttendance is optional and no quorum is needed\, so the committee takes no votes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2504\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2244
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2504
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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UID:meeting-2200@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260207
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group changed its own FY 2027 schedule on February 6\, recommending approval of a revised timetable. The work programme was already running a year behind\, and the change is what let the group compress the public review period in March.\n\nMembers also closed out sponsor questions on the draft work programme and discussed how to prioritise what goes into it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02062026-2513\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2200
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02062026-2513
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-2158@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's commission for the environment opened voting on the first annual RIPPLE Awards on February 9\, reviewing nominations and starting a process the chair expected to run into March. The awards were finalised on March 9 and presented at an Earth Day ceremony in April.\n\nThe commission also discussed which county and municipal Earth Day events to take part in\, with staff reporting a change to the county's own event\, and kept working on the State of the Environment Report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02092026-2509\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2158
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02092026-2509
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2256@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group heard two things on February 9: research findings gathered from the community\, presented by the group's representative from the NC Housing Coalition\, and a report from the chair of the board of equalization and review.\n\nPutting those two next to each other is the point of this group. One side is what residents say about how assessment feels\; the other is what the appeals board actually decides.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02092026-2547\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2256
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02092026-2547
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-2018@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's advisory board on aging met February 10 at the Passmore Center\, a building still being restored after a water event. Quarterly reports for year four of the Master Aging Plan were due on community supports and health services\, outdoor spaces and buildings\, and housing.\n\nThe board also took the FY 2026-27 budget\, appointments\, and a report on Medicare Part D open enrollment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2545\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2018
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2545
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2025@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260211
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's affordable housing advisory board gave an hour on February 10 to preparing for a community meeting\, the bulk of a short agenda. The rest was updates from members and staff and approval of minutes.\n\nThe agenda also carries a note that members have been having trouble getting into the Teams call\, with a staff mobile number to ring if the browser hangs.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2511\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2025
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2511
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1997@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners gave an hour and 45 minutes on February 10 to the first group of county boards and commissions presenting their annual work plans\, then 45 minutes to a fee study covering emergency services\, planning and inspections\, and the environment\, agriculture\, parks and recreation department.\n\nA fee study is where a county works out what its services cost and what it charges for them. The commissioners adopted the resulting FY 2026-27 fee schedule in June.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2512\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/39?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1997
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2512
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2072@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review sat from 1 p.m. to 4:28 p.m. on February 11 and heard fifteen property value appeals\, nearly all of them commercial and every appellant present. The names on the docket are institutional: retail property companies\, student housing partnerships\, a university real estate holding company\, and a warehouse owner.\n\nTax leadership also gave the board an overview of the neighborhood review project the board itself had ordered at an earlier meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2532\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2072
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2532
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2210@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Broadband Task Force
DESCRIPTION:Orange County Broadband Task Force\n\nOrange County's Broadband Task Force gives half its February 11 meeting to the state broadband office: a presentation from Jeffrey Brooks of NCDIT's Broadband Infrastructure Office on the federal BEAD program and the state's Stop Gap effort to reach addresses BEAD leaves out.\n\nThe task force then reviews its GIS coverage map with Robert Reynolds of the county's information technology department\, followed by old and new business — the group's action register\, how often it should meet\, and approval of its minutes. No minutes are on file for this meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2529\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2210
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2529
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2216@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1996@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260218
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOWASA gives its annual update to the county commissioners on the utility's recent activities and finances\, presented by its board chair\, secretary and executive director.\n\nThe board also takes a report on the 2025 results of the Longtime Homeowner Assistance program\, a history of Animal Services and its new Community Animal Clinic\, and second-quarter amendments to the transit work program.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172026-2531\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/40?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1996
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172026-2531
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2145@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260219
SUMMARY:Orange County: February Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board took a consultant's report on February 18 from focus groups assessing where tourism in Orange County stands now and what it should prioritise. Magellan Strategies ran them.\n\nThe board also took an update on planning for the nation's 250th anniversary\, an observance it built a July 4 event around at the Colonial Inn.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2533\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2145
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2533
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2199@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260219
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group had two recommendations to make on February 18: approval of GoTriangle's regional technology plan\, and the status quo option for Orange Transit's FY 2027 work program.\n\nThe status quo choice mattered. The FY 2027 work program was already running a year behind its own schedule\, and the group spent the following month compressing the public review period to fit.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2530\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2199
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2530
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2176@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260220
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board met virtually on February 19. The program manager's report is where the substance sits: voucher utilization and issuance\, the state's voucher management system report\, terminations\, and informal hearings.\n\nTerminations and informal hearings are the reports that decide whether a household keeps its rental assistance.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02192026-2534\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2176
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02192026-2534
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2188@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260224
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260225
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission took an open meetings law refresher from the county attorney on February 24\, thirteen minutes of the ninety-minute agenda. That is unusual enough on an advisory board agenda to be worth noting.\n\nThe commission also worked its secretary and membership vacancies\, recapped its community conversations\, and took subcommittee reports on a youth initiative\, tabling\, and the Pauli Murray Awards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02242026-2639\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2188
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02242026-2639
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2136@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260226
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's board of health took the health department's FY 2026-27 budget request on February 25\, built to stay flat. The department is aiming to add no new spending without matching new revenue\, and its request nets out at authorized expenditures minus service revenue\, about $10.1 million on the prior year's figures.\n\nThe board also welcomed two new members\, including a county commissioner\, and heard that a resolution in support of expedited newborn screening was coming.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252026-2576\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2136
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252026-2576
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2255@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260303
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group heard two appraisers on March 2\, one making the case that the county's 2025 commercial revaluation was aggressive but correct\, and one from Stanly County explaining why his county brought all its revaluation work in house twenty years ago.\n\nThe group is unusually broad for a technical committee. Alongside three county commissioners and county staff it seats community representatives from two districts\, a representative of the NC Housing Coalition\, one from Property Tax Justice\, and a non-profit housing provider.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03022026-2548\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2255
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03022026-2548
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2224@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2242@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1995@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2157@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260309
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260310
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's commission for the environment finalized its Community Environmental Excellence Award on March 9\, reviewing the tallies from the previous meeting and settling on winners to be notified ahead of an Earth Day ceremony in April. Commission members were needed to present them.\n\nThe chair introduced two new applicants and the commission discussed how to make orientation smoother and a new attendance procedure. Subcommittees then swapped sections of the State of the Environment Report\, each group reviewing another's work and giving feedback\, with all emerging-issue topics to be assigned.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03092026-2538\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2157
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03092026-2538
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2017@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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UID:meeting-1994@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260310
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260311
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners heard the second group of county boards and commissions present their annual work plans on March 10\, a yearly exercise in which each board reports what it did and what it plans\, measured against the commissioners' strategic goals. The first group presented on February 10.\nThe board then returned to the Land Use Plan 2050 information request and closed with appointment discussions for eight advisory bodies.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102026-2549\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/42?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1994
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102026-2549
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1993@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2330@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board gave 45 minutes on March 17 to a staff presentation on the county's economic development goals\, successes and challenges\, the longest item on the agenda. The director's report followed.\nUnder new business the board welcomed a new member and heard about an updated attendance policy.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2550\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2330
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2550
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2034@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board reviewed and approved new farms for the voluntary agricultural district on March 18\, the one decision on its agenda. Voluntary agricultural districts give farms some protection from nuisance complaints and a formal signal that the land is meant to stay in agriculture.\n\nThe board also discussed the single membership application it had on file and how to recruit more\, took an update on the Land Use Plan 2050\, and looked for agriculture-themed photographs to illustrate the final draft of its Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2556\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2034
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2556
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2144@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
SUMMARY:Orange County: March 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 in Carrboro on March 18\, at the Drakeford Library Complex\, and opened with a welcome from the Carrboro town manager and a reading by a former Carrboro poet laureate who sits on the board.\n\nThe executive director reported on final details for a sold-out Savannah Bananas event\, other major April events in the county\, and the bureau's plans for a July 4 event at the Colonial Inn tied to the nation's 250th anniversary.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2583\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2144
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2583
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2198@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group took the FY 2026 second quarter unaudited financial update on March 18\, along with fourth-quarter amendments to the annual work program.\n\nThis is also the meeting where the group discussed shortening the public review period for the FY 2027 work program below the customary 30 days\, weighing two weeks against 21 days. It settled on 21 the following week.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2555\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2198
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2555
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-1992@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2175@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260320
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board met virtually on March 19 for its monthly session. The program manager's report is the substance of these meetings\, covering the housing choice voucher program\; the presentation is available on request rather than posted.\n\nMembers gave updates and a three-minute public comment period was offered.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2560\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2175
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2560
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2254@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260320
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group reached the decision point on March 19: which vendor to recommend to the county commissioners to evaluate the county's reappraisal and assessment process. Members went round the table on the strengths and weaknesses of each proposal before settling on a recommendation.\n\nThe group also reread the charge the commissioners gave it in September 2025 and its own ground rules\, and set out what came next: contract negotiations\, then commissioner approval on April 7 or April 21.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2554\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2254
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2554
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-1991@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1990@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2187@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260324
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260325
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission met March 24 in a format the chair had tightened\, with times attached to each item and the commission's own purpose read into the record at the top: to promote goodwill across communities\, identify concerns about discrimination and civil inequality\, and recommend to the county commissioners on human relations and social justice.\n\nStaff from the Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life gave the county update. The agenda also carries an accessibility line offering interpretation and other support on 48 hours' notice.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03242026-2640\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2187
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03242026-2640
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2135@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2168@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission had three decisions on March 25\, all of them about Montrose or the nation's 250th anniversary. It evaluated Montrose for landmark designation and started the process of an interlocal agreement with the Town of Hillsborough to designate it\, which is needed because the property sits in Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction. It also decided whether to join the statewide Landmark Tree project.\n\nUnder updates the commission took a proposed memorial marker honoring the enslaved community associated with St. Matthew's Church\, progress toward National Register listing for Moorefields\, and the donation process and timeline for the Harvey's Chapel cemetery.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2168
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2197@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260328
SUMMARY:Orange County: SWG Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group released the draft FY 2027 annual work program for public comment on March 27 and adopted a revised development and approval schedule to go with it. The program directs the half-cent transit sales tax voters approved in 2011.\n\nThe schedule needed revising because the work program was originally meant to be adopted in May 2025. At its March 18 meeting the group had discussed cutting the customary 30-day public review to two weeks or 21 days\; it settled on 21\, running April 1 to April 21.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03272026-2562\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2197
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03272026-2562
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2223@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-1989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2191@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2156@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260414
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's commission for the environment worked on its State of the Environment Report on April 13\, settling the top three to five recommendations for each section along with formatting\, editing and images\, and taking a tree canopy study update from the chair.\n\nMembers also planned the Earth Day event at Blackwood Farm Park and the first Ripple Awards\, where commissioners were needed to present. Recruitment and retention came up with no vote on new members this month.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04132026-2568\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2156
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04132026-2568
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2253@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260414
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group met virtually on April 13 to review the Tanner valuation report\, take a status report on contract negotiations\, and look at property tax reform recommendations coming out of the General Assembly.\n\nThe state work matters directly to the county. A House select committee on property taxes was proposing a constitutional amendment\, which commissioners cited weeks later as a reason to make sure this year's budget genuinely met the county's needs\, since future flexibility would be narrower.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04132026-2581\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2253
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04132026-2581
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1988@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2042@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260416
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's animal services advisory board took up a survey sent to county residents on April 15\, and reported on the vacancies it was carrying at that point. The director gave developments from the shelter and introduced a new business officer.\n\nOld business ran to the board's 2026 goals\, including a proposal to seat a youth delegate and plans for a staff appreciation day.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2588\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2042
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2588
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2143@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260416
SUMMARY:Orange County: April Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board hosted two senior UNC real estate officials on April 15: the associate vice chancellor for real estate and campus enterprises\, and the executive director for real estate development. The university is the largest single influence on visitor traffic in the county\, so what it builds shapes what the bureau markets.\n\nThe executive director gave her report\, board members brought community updates\, and the board approved minutes from March.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2582\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2143
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2582
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2196@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260416
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County SWG
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group took fourth-quarter amendments to the FY 2026 annual work program on April 15\, with requests from Chapel Hill Transit\, GoTriangle\, Orange County and Triangle West. GoTriangle's request concerned Route 800\; Triangle West's was a staffing study.\n\nThe group also took project sponsor updates from each participating government and agency. Two public comment periods were running at the time: one on the FY 2027 work program\, from April 1 to April 21\, and one on these fourth-quarter amendments\, from March 27 to April 27\, both announced by news release.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2580\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2196
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2580
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-1987@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260417
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session - CIP
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA work session on the manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan and an update to the operating budget model - the two documents that set what the county can afford and for how long. 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/_04162026-2579\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/47?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1987
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162026-2579
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2174@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260417
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nA virtual meeting of the county housing authority's advisory board. Two months of minutes to approve\, three minutes a speaker for public comment\, and a programme manager's report that is mostly numbers: voucher inventory\, the federal management report\, voucher utilisation\, incoming portable vouchers and fraud recovery.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162026-2585\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2174
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162026-2585
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2215@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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UID:meeting-1986@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2167@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260423
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nNo items for decision. The substantive discussion is a staff presentation on preserving Black tenant farm history - a farmstead and associated sites in the Carr community of northwest Cedar Grove Township. Updates cover a tour\, two preservation problems\, revised cost estimates for the historic courthouse\, and the marker subcommittee.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2589\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2167
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2589
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2195@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260423
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe group adopts the 2027 annual work programme for public transport and sends it to the county commissioners and the regional transit board. The programme spends the half-cent sales tax Orange County voters approved in 2011\, which can only fund projects both boards have approved.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2587\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2195
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2587
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-2186@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260428
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260429
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nThe longest item on the agenda is forty-five minutes for all commissioners to score submissions for the Pauli Murray Awards. The commission also takes the Blackwood Farms marker\, sets its August retreat date\, and hears committee reports on outreach and community events.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04282026-2590\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2186
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04282026-2590
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2209@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260430
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Broadband Task Force
DESCRIPTION:Orange County Broadband Task Force\n\nTwo hours\, co-chaired by two county commissioners\, with the broadband provider's director in the room. Thirty minutes on a stop-gap update from the provider\, then a full hour reviewing the mapping of who is and is not served.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04292026-2595\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2209
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04292026-2595
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-1985@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260501
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Joint Meeting with the School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA joint meeting of the county commissioners with both school boards\, running to 9:24 PM. Each district presents its budget alongside performance and state accountability data and an update on career and technical education\, then the budget director presents the recommended capital investment plan. The agenda was built collaboratively at the standing school collaboration meetings.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04302026-2591\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/50?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1985
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04302026-2591
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2071@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260501
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board Of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nNo appeals. The Board of Equalization and Review sets its hearing calendar for the year and spends the meeting on how it will conduct itself - eight questions of process\, from what counts as good cause for a late appeal to whether a property owner can be represented by someone who is not a lawyer.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04302026-2611\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2071
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04302026-2611
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1984@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260506
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe county hires consultants to examine what went wrong with its 2025 property revaluation\, and holds a public hearing on financing up to $60.8 million of capital projects. The published agenda packet exceeds what this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052026-2597\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/51?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1984
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052026-2597
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2222@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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UID:meeting-2240@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nA 43-lot subdivision on 61 acres\, and the subdivision ordinance rewrite that governs how such things are reviewed. 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/_05062026-2592\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2240
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2592
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2241@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board Training Session
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nA training session for recently appointed planning board members on the basics of land use regulation in the county\, led by staff. Attendance is voluntary\, no quorum is needed\, and nothing is decided. The board approved a summary of it at its June meeting\, so it is on the record as a meeting rather than an internal briefing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2593\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2241
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2593
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2155@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1983@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260513
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Public Hearing and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe first public hearing on the county manager's recommended 2026-27 budget\, followed by appointment discussions for seven bodies: affordable housing\, alcoholic beverage control\, animal services\, the arts commission\, the jury commission\, the juvenile crime prevention council and the housing authority.\n\nThe manager's budget is built on five stated priorities\, and the first is minimising the tax rate increase - which\, in a county where the rate went from 63.83 to 68.05 cents\, tells you what the board was working against. The others are prioritising public safety and the social safety net\, maximising efficiencies in county operations\, and modest investment in employee compensation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122026-2602\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/52?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1983
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122026-2602
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2329@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260513
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nElections for chair\, vice-chair and secretary\, then a vacancy on the core business and grant committee\, a review of the attendance policy\, and a discussion about changing the meeting schedule. A guest appearance from the planning and inspections director.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122026-2600\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2329
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122026-2600
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2043@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260514
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nNo cases. The Board of Adjustment spends this meeting on itself: oaths of office\, its rules of procedure\, annual legal training including guidance on standing\, the year's calendar\, and elections for chair and vice-chair.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132026-2601\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2043
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132026-2601
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1982@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260515
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nForty-five minutes on funding for outside agencies\, then ninety on the education budgets: the community college\, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools\, operating and capital. No public comment at a work session\; written comments go to the board's email or to the second budget hearing on 28 May.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2603\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/53?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1982
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2603
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2151@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2214@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2252@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260519
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nA ninety-minute virtual meeting with two outside firms: consultants engaged to review the 2025 revaluation\, and an executive search firm hired to recruit the county's next tax administrator. The tax administrator's post is currently held on an interim basis.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2606\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2252
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2606
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-1981@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThree regular agenda items\, each about housing or the money behind it: up to $32 million of installment financing for capital projects\, a $100\,000 request to help buy supportive housing units for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities\, and the annual federal housing plan. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/54?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1981
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2033@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe board's last meeting before its farmland plan goes to the county commissioners on 2 June. No items for decision\; the work is reviewing new front matter added to the draft - a preface\, acknowledgements and a call to action - and settling the logistics of who presents on the day.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2612\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2033
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2612
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2041@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nThree vacancies in front of the board - a Chapel Hill seat\, the retail pet services seat\, and a non-municipal one coming in June - plus a follow-up on this year's goals\, a proposal to add a youth delegate\, and results from a county survey.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2631\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2041
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2631
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2142@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: May Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe bureau's executive director has announced her retirement\, and that shapes the whole meeting. The chair opens with it\, and proposes postponing the formation of strategic subcommittees until later in the summer pending guidance on the county's succession planning process. Then the draft 2026-27 budgets from the county and town managers\, and an analysis of what a large sporting event actually returned.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2610\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2142
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2610
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2194@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe staff group administering the county's transit tax district\, with a consent agenda that cancels its own June meeting and revises the 2027 work programme adoption schedule. Discussion items cover the quarterly tax district update\, the regional operator's annual financial report\, next year's global agreements\, revised financial policies\, and the state of the group's own minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2609\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2194
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2609
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-1980@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260522
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThree hours and fifteen minutes at the Southern Human Services Center\, starting with the twelve fire district tax rates and then working through public safety and human services department by department - courts\, criminal justice resources\, emergency services and the sheriff\, then aging\, mental health\, child support\, civil rights\, health\, housing\, libraries\, social services and the opioid settlement fund.\n\nNo public comment is taken at a work session\; written comments go to the board's email address. The county publishes a detail worth knowing: anyone who needs transport to a board meeting can book a demand response ride from county public transport by noon the day before\, free.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212026-2608\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/55?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1980
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212026-2608
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1979@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThree hours on the rest of the county: support services\, general government and community services. Asset management\, community relations\, finance\, human resources\, information technology\; then the commissioners' own budget\, elections\, the county attorney and manager\, register of deeds and tax administration\; then animal services\, cooperative extension\, the environment and parks department\, and economic development including the Article 46 sales tax fund.\n\nNo public comment is taken at a work session. The county publishes a detail worth knowing: anyone who needs transport to a board meeting can book a demand response ride from county public transport by noon the day before\, free.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2613\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/56?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1979
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2613
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2070@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review Appeals Hearing
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThirteen appeals scheduled at quarter-hour intervals from 1:00 PM\, most with attendance still to be confirmed. Two owners each bring two properties\, and one appellant is a company appealing a business personal property abstract rather than land.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2624\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2070
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2624
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2185@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nA ninety-minute monthly meeting. The Blackwood Farms commemorative marker returns as an action item\, the executive committee reports on elections and membership vacancies\, and the August retreat is fixed for 22 August. Ten minutes for public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2615\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2185
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2615
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1978@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260529
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Public Hearing and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe public hearing on the county manager's recommended 2026-27 budget\, followed by three appointment discussions. The manager presents\, the hearing opens and closes by motion\, and the board takes no decisions on the budget itself - those come at the 4 June work session.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282026-2614\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/60?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1978
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282026-2614
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
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UID:meeting-1977@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260603
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThree substantial items: how the county spends next year's opioid settlement money\, acceptance of a farmland stewardship plan replacing one from 2009\, and notice to terminate a 99-year interlocal agreement under which the county collects taxes for its municipalities. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/58?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1977
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2213@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2237@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOne rezoning inside the Chapel Hill joint planning area\, and a page of subdivision ordinance amendments that went missing from last month's package. 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/_06032026-2617\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2237
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2617
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2238@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe ordinance review committee\, meeting straight after the regular board with 85 pages of proposed development ordinance amendments in front of it. Attendance is voluntary and no quorum is needed - this is where the text is worked over before the board recommends on it.\n\nThe package is the planning director's omnibus set\, and it kept coming back: the committee took it again on 1 July\, 12 August and 2 September\, each time carried forward. Much of it is the table of permitted uses\, the grid that decides which uses are allowed\, allowed with conditions\, or need a special use permit in each zoning district - farm supply stores\, feed mills\, commercial stables\, stockyards and livestock markets among them.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2618\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2238
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2618
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2239@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board Training
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nA training session rather than a meeting: staff walk recently appointed planning board members through the basics of land use regulation in Orange County. Attendance is voluntary and no quorum is needed\, so nothing is decided.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2619\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2239
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2619
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1976@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260605
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe session where Orange County's 2026-27 budget is actually settled. The board works down the capital and operating amendment lists\, sets the tax rates\, and passes a resolution of intent that binds it to adopt on 16 June. 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/_06042026-2621\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/59?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1976
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042026-2621
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2154@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2069@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260609
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260610
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nTwelve appeals scheduled at quarter-hour intervals from 1:00 PM\, four of them on properties belonging to one owner. Most owners are attending. The board's 2026 minutes record each decision as a table row - the motion\, what the appeal was based on\, the current value\, the owner's opinion and the value the board set\, with the mover\, seconder and vote. That is a considerable improvement on the 2025 minutes\, which ran to narrative pages per appeal and in several cases would not extract as text at all.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06092026-2635\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2069
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06092026-2635
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nBudget adoption night. The board also decides the ten-year capital plan\, amends its broadband contract to reach the last houses before a federal deadline\, and refuses a set of transit amendments. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/62?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1975
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2040@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260618
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nThree vacancies to fill and three applicants for them\, two of whom are in the room. The board's seats are designated rather than general: one for a non-municipal resident\, one for the owner or manager of a retail pet service\, and one for animal welfare or advocacy\, and each applicant is matched to a particular seat.\n\nThe board also agrees to meet with other county boards\, plans a staff appreciation day in July\, and takes shelter and foster updates from the animal services director.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172026-2629\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2040
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172026-2629
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-3976@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260618
SUMMARY:Orange County: June Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board heard from Media Two\, its media buying firm\, on how the year's advertising performed and what it plans next. The executive director gave the annual update and the board took community news from its members.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172026-2674\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3976
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172026-2674
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4789@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260618
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260619
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06182026-2694\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4789
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06182026-2694
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2251@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260622
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260623
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nA ninety-minute virtual meeting of a working group set up over the county's property assessment. One substantive item: the tax administrator and deputy tax assessor present what assessment improvement measures have actually been implemented so far\, followed by a discussion of next steps.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06222026-2627\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2251
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06222026-2627
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2184@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260624
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nA ninety-minute monthly meeting on Revere Road and on Teams. The commission takes an action item on a commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms\, hears a county update from the Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life\, and reports on membership vacancies and the retreat set for 22 August. Ten minutes for public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06232026-2626\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2184
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06232026-2626
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2068@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260625
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nEight appeals from 1:00 PM\, including two units in the same building held by one owner and one estate. Three owners are attending\, one of them remotely. The board's 2026 minutes record each decision as a table row - the motion\, what the appeal was based on\, the current value\, the owner's opinion and the value the board set\, with the mover\, seconder and vote. That is a considerable improvement on the 2025 minutes\, which ran to narrative pages per appeal and in several cases would not extract as text at all.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2636\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2068
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2636
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2166@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260625
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nNo items for decision\, and two of the discussion items are about the same piece of ground: how to recognise the County Poor House Cemetery and the lynching of Cyrus Guy\, who is buried there\, and how to pay for a ground penetrating radar survey of the site. Also on the agenda: the landmark designation process for Montrose\, a funding delay at the historic courthouse\, and a new proposal for the historic buildings at the future Twin Creeks park.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2628\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2166
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2628
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2067@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260701
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review June 30th\, 2026 Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nNine appeals from 1:00 PM through the afternoon\, most owners attending. One is on four acres of land rather than a house. The board's 2026 minutes record each decision as a table row - the motion\, what the appeal was based on\, the current value\, the owner's opinion and the value the board set\, with the mover\, seconder and vote. That is a considerable improvement on the 2025 minutes\, which ran to narrative pages per appeal and in several cases would not extract as text at all.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06302026-2648\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2067
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06302026-2648
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2235@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2236@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1974@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260710
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe board's first meeting after the death of its chair\, Jamezetta Bedford. Vice-Chair Jean Hamilton chairs\; the seat is filled by appointment later in the month. The regular agenda carries four substantial items: changes to the longtime homeowner assistance programme\, up to $27 million in financing for a crisis diversion centre\, how the tax administrator should report to the board\, and whether to solicit offers on a piece of county land. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092026-2641\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/63?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1974
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092026-2641
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2328@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260714
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260715
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nAn eighty-minute meeting whose largest block is a guest presentation from the county's strategic planning manager. The board also reviews applicants and votes on a recommendation to the county commissioners - a recommendation that has a fixed route: the commissioners discuss appointments at their 10 September work session and approve them on 15 September.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07142026-2642\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2328
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07142026-2642
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2032@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260715
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260716
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nSeventy minutes\, no items for decision. The board picks up the agricultural viability and farmland stewardship plan after the county commissioners approved it on 2 June\, hears about a food access programme\, and looks at membership applications going to the commissioners on 10 September.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152026-2643\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2032
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152026-2643
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1973@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2066@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260805
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260806
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nSix residential appeals and a consent agenda. Four owners are attending in the opening forty-five minutes\; the last two\, late in the afternoon\, are not.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08052026-2651\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2066
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08052026-2651
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2065@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260807
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nAn afternoon given entirely to commercial appeals\, and to four of them from one company. No owner is attending any of them\; the board decides on the written record and the appraiser's presentation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062026-2652\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2065
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062026-2652
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2153@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2064@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260811
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260812
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review August 11\, 2026 meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nSix matters\, and an unusual one first: a hearing on whether a person has standing to appeal at all\, before any valuation is argued. Then five appeals - two residential properties and three business personal property penalties for filing a listing late.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08112026-2653\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2064
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08112026-2653
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3822@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review August 12\, 2026 meeting agenda and minutes
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard seven residential value appeals on August 12\, plus a consent list of eight more the county and the owners had already settled between them. The appeals rest on comparable sales\, on condition and maintenance\, and in one case on data the county had recorded wrongly. Appeals are summarized here without owner names or parcel references\, because the appellants are private homeowners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2668\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3822
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2668
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2233@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-2234@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Planning Board's ordinance review committee\, meeting after the regular board. One item\, held over from 1 July: the planning director's omnibus development ordinance amendments\, described as mainly housekeeping. Attendance is voluntary and no quorum is needed\, so this is where the text gets worked over rather than decided. The same item was carried again to 2 September.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2647\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2234
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2647
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3821@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260813
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260814
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review August 13\, 2026 meeting agenda and minutes
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard four commercial property value appeals on August 13\, all from companies holding Chapel Hill real estate. The largest was 501 Midtown Apartments at 232 Butler Court\, assessed at $40\,394\,200. Also on the list were a property at 1602 E. Franklin Street\, two Paliouras Enterprises holdings at 157 E. Rosemary Street and 1404 E. Franklin Street\, and the appraisers assigned to each.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08132026-2669\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3821
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08132026-2669
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2212@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4741@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260817
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260818
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08172026-2689\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4741
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08172026-2689
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2039@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260820
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nA ninety-minute meeting at the animal services community room on Eubanks Road. The board takes public comment on non-agenda items for three minutes a speaker\, and accepts written comment by email beforehand. Business is board appointments and upcoming votes\, a subcommittee set up in June to coordinate with animal advisory boards in neighbouring counties\, and a recap of the July staff appreciation event.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2657\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2039
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2657
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260820
SUMMARY:Orange County: August Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board was asked in August to decide whether to meet every other month rather than monthly\, a change staff proposed in June because of the year's budget cuts. Vice chair Creston Woods chaired.\n\nThe board also heard from Brad Ives\, senior adviser to the chancellor for strategy and planning at UNC-Chapel Hill and formerly the university's chief sustainability officer and the state's assistant secretary for natural resources\, and from county manager Travis Myren. Executive director Laurie Paolicelli covered the leadership transition ahead of her retirement\, what remains on her list\, and the outstanding recommendations from the Magellan Strategies strategic plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2673\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3975
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2673
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2193@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2183@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260822
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260823
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nA seven-hour Saturday retreat\, 9:00 to 4:00\, where the commission sets its own direction for the year and the decade. Morning: closing out the 2026 budget year and opening 2027\, a keep-or-toss exercise on what the commission does\, and subcommittee breakouts to write charters and priority statements. Afternoon: planning the year's events\, then a three-year strategy and a ten-year vision.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08222026-2656\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2183
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08222026-2656
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1972@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260826
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners opened their August 25 meeting with the oath of office for Commissioner Rani Dasi\, and directed on the consent agenda that the crisis diversion facility under construction be named for Jamezetta Bedford. The formal resolution honoring Bedford\, who died on June 21\, came back to the board a week later.\n\nThe one item of regular business was how the county advertises its land for sale. Until now it did the legal minimum\, a notice in The Herald Sun. The new process adds a listing on the MLS\, county social media\, the community newsletter\, a sign at the property and the asset management webpage\, with the winning bidder covering the costs: $200 to $3\,500 for legal ads\, $500 for the MLS listing and $1\,200 for an appraisal. The tax collector reported a 99.33 percent current-year collection rate for FY 2025-26. Consent also carried the sale of a 1.24-acre placeholder lot on Mollie Court\, four bus shelters for Hillsborough\, and dissolution of the broadband task force whose work produced the county's $10 million fiber contract with Lumos.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2654\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/65?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1972
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2654
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2182@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260826
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nThe commission's monthly meeting\, 6:00 to 7:30 PM on Revere Road and on Teams\, with every item timed to the minute. It advises the county commissioners on human relations and social justice\, and its job as the agenda describes it is promoting goodwill across communities\, identifying concerns about discrimination and civil inequality\, and supporting education and outreach.\n\nThe business: a climate action grant presentation\, a county update from the Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life\, a decision on a commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms\, and a review and vote on applications to fill membership vacancies. Subcommittees report on outreach\, a housing series and the Blackwood Farms dedication.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2655\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2182
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2655
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4628@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260827
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review - August 26\, 2026 meeting Agenda and Minutes
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review scheduled 15 property value appeals for Wednesday\, 26 August\, plus a consent list of six reductions the county had already agreed. The largest was Laura Jost Malahias's appeal of a $1\,708\,600 value on 103 Founders Ridge Drive\, and the next Noah Ojunugwa Agada's of $1\,436\,800 on 3320 Tree Farm Road. Gerald Gentry had three parcels on the list\, two on Kimbro Road and one on Orange Grove Road.\n\nThe board also had to set added hearing dates in October.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262026-2684\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4628
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262026-2684
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2165@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260827
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nNo items for decision. An evening of staff presentations and updates: new renovation concepts for the Murphey School\, a county historic landmark\; proposed changes to the federal review rules that govern how historic properties are treated when public money or permits are involved\; progress on the Occaneechi village\; and a long list of possible field trips to eighteenth-century burying grounds\, farms and old schoolhouses.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262026-2658\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2165
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262026-2658
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2327@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260902
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe one public hearing is the consequential item. A county-initiated text amendment would take by-right subdivisions of fewer than 21 lots out of Planning Board and commissioner review entirely and hand them to staff\, on the reasoning that state law requires the county to approve plats meeting its own criteria anyway. It also drops the separate concept plan application\, widens the expedited track to parcels between two and five acres\, and deletes three subdivision categories that have never been used. The Planning Board recommended approval unanimously with one change: doubling the mailing notice before a neighborhood meeting from 14 days to 30.\n\nThe board also fills the Register of Deeds vacancy left by a resignation in mid-August\, and honors Commissioner Jamezetta Bedford\, who died in June\, by naming the crisis diversion facility now under construction after her. Consent carries $350\,000 in tourism marketing contracts\, a $37\,783 opioid settlement award\, and ratification of a $123\,500 inspections contract the county manager had already signed to keep construction moving.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09012026-2661\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/66?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2327
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09012026-2661
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2495@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2231@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2232@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260903
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Planning Board's ordinance review committee\, meeting straight after the regular board meeting. One item\, carried over from July and August: a set of development ordinance amendments the planning director started\, covering several topics and described as mainly housekeeping. Attendance is voluntary for board members and no quorum is needed\, so nothing here is decided - the committee works text over before it reaches the board.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2660\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2232
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2660
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2565@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260909
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Economic Development Advisory Board meets for a presentation on Sonark Farms and a tour of it. That is the only substantive item\; the rest of the agenda is the roll call\, minutes\, department updates and open discussion among board members.\n\nThis account is written from the item list the county published. The agenda document was not reachable when it was written\, so what Sonark Farms will present is not on file here.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09082026-2663\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2565
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09082026-2663
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2918@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2917@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3769@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260914
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260915
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment meets Monday night to set the scoring for its 2026-27 Community Climate Action Grants. Members have to finish scoring every application by 9 a.m. on 5 October\, and the meeting covers the scoring questions and that timeline.\n\nThe rest is the board's own work in progress. Its State of the Environment report is with county staff for review\, and members will settle acknowledgements and next steps. The commission also takes up promotion for the RIPPLE Awards\, which open to the public on 1 December and close 1 February\, breaks into subcommittees to set priorities for the rest of the year\, and votes on two applicants for membership.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09142026-2666\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3769
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09142026-2666
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3839@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260916
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Planning Public Hearing with the Town of Chapel Hill
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners and the Chapel Hill town council sat together Tuesday evening to hear one case: Holy Trinity Anglican Church wants to rezone about 15.5 acres at 1651 Old Lystra Road for a place of worship and up to ten homes. The land sits in the Chapel Hill Joint Planning Transition Area\, where Chapel Hill's zoning rules apply but both bodies have to approve a change.\n\nBoth planning bodies have already recommended approval. Chapel Hill's Planning Commission voted 5-1 in May with four conditions\, among them a height cap on the Old Lystra Road lots and a definition of the "tiny homes" the applicant's plan mentions but nobody has defined. Orange County's Planning Board voted unanimously in June\, asking for traffic control to stop cut-through traffic between Old Lystra Road and Wave Road. Staff recommended approval and asked both bodies to close the hearing and vote later: the county at its business meeting the same night\, the town on September 23.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09152026-2670\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/70?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3839
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09152026-2670
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3840@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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-4005@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3974@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260917
SUMMARY:Orange County: September Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nHoteliers in Orange County\, Chapel Hill and Carrboro have been talking among themselves about restructuring the Visitors Bureau and changing the local occupancy tax statutes. Chair DR Bryan briefs the advisory board on those discussions Wednesday morning. The agenda is careful to say the ideas are early and that neither the bureau's board nor Orange County has endorsed them.\n\nThis is also executive director Laurie Paolicelli's next-to-last meeting before she retires on November 2. She reports on tourism projects planned for 2027\, the events the bureau will support with advertising\, and Clean Design's recent Orange County Today presentation. Matt Hughes and Hannah Hemphill give the budget update.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162026-2672\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3974
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162026-2672
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3824@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260923
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's Human Relations Commission meets Tuesday with a draft proclamation on immigration enforcement in its packet. The draft would have the county commissioners declare that county funds\, buildings and staff will not assist civil federal immigration enforcement\, and it argues that fear of ICE operations keeps residents from seeking medical care or calling for help. The commission advises the commissioners\; it does not adopt proclamations itself.\n\nThe other action item is an update on the Blackwood Farms commemorative marker\, with a dedication event set for October 17. Under old business the commission takes up the anti-lynching proclamation the commissioners adopted on September 10\, which names four North Carolina deaths since 2024 and asks that hanging deaths get independent autopsies and full evidence sharing with families before any public finding. Subcommittees report on a first housing event\, provisionally November 14\, and on building a contact list of local non-profits.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09222026-2675\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3989
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09222026-2675
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4432@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260924
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission decides whether to grant a certificate of appropriateness for exterior and interior renovation of the Murphey School\, a county historic landmark. It also holds a public hearing on nominating the Troy and Roberta Andrews House to the National Register of Historic Places. The meeting is at 6:30 p.m. at the Bonnie Davis Center in Hillsborough.\n\nStaff updates cover a 2 December dedication of a historical marker commemorating the lynching of Cyrus Guy\, a security consultant's visit to the Historic Courthouse and interim landscaping there\, and renovation progress at Twin Creeks. The agenda lists no attachments beyond the application and nomination documents\, and no minutes have been published for the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09232026-2677\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4432
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09232026-2677
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4765@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260925
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review meeting\, September 24\, 2026 Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242026-2692\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4765
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242026-2692
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4523@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260929
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260930
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Joint Meeting with the School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners meet both school boards at 7 p.m. in the Whitted Building in Hillsborough\, and the county's budget outlook is the item with the most at stake. Staff warn that the 2027-28 budget faces high fuel costs\, a possible small tax increase to cover interest on new elementary school construction\, and sales tax receipts that fell in 2025-26 because refunds outgrew collections. A cap on property tax increases is on the November ballot\, and the General Assembly would decide the details in the spring. The 2028-29 year looks harder: about $3 million a year for the crisis care center\, $3.5 million for the final school pay-go step\, and peak payments of roughly $11 million on $110 million in referendum bonds.\n\nChapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools each report state test results and enrollment. The county also reports on youth behavioral health: the Jamezetta Bedford Crisis Care Center\, due to open in winter 2027-28 with a 24-hour urgent care unit for children 4 and older\, a mobile crisis pilot\, and a proposed countywide mapping of how young people with behavioral health needs move through schools and the courts. A core team update closes the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09292026-2678\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/72?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4523
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09292026-2678
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4740@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261005
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261006
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10052026-2690\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4740
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10052026-2690
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4713@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261006
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261007
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners receive the final report Tuesday night from GAR Associates\, the firm hired in May to audit the 2025 property revaluation after residents and board members questioned it. GAR finds the values meet the minimum statistical standards but that several office practices do not. It recommends a true sales-comparison approach for homes\, a new land valuation strategy and a statistical appraisal specialist on staff. The only public hearing is on fiscal 2028 transit grant applications seeking $515\,928.\n\nThe 23-item consent agenda carries $251\,517 in property tax refunds\, new agreements with eight rural fire departments\, and a $135\,000 salary for Register of Deeds Amy McLamb. It also awards the county's federal HOME-ARP rental assistance money to Housing for New Hope\, the only applicant\, and endorses the Andrews House\, a 1950s Modernist home\, for the National Register. Information memos set out a schedule for data center rules\, with a hearing expected in March 2027\, and report bus ridership up 52% to 137% under the fare-free pilot.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10062026-2686\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/73?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4713
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10062026-2686
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4730@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261008
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072026-2688\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4730
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072026-2688
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4691@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261008
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072026-2685\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4691
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072026-2685
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4725@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261012
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261013
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10122026-2687\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4725
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10122026-2687
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4764@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261014
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with Chiefs Association\, and BOCC Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10132026-2691\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4764
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10132026-2691
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4779@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031139Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261019
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261020
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10192026-2693\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4779
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10192026-2693
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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