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UID:meeting-2022@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2029@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2009@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2057@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2058@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2106@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2105@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2148@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2206@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2104@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2219@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2008@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2103@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2102@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2101@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2055@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2100@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2099@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2139@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2090@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251122
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners held the last of their educational sessions on the 2050 land use plan\, this one on conservation subdivisions\, with planning consultant Randall Arendt presenting. Planning director Cy Stober framed the questions: where in the county these belong\, where they would do most good\, and how to build them from what the board has learned. A facilitated discussion on next steps followed.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212025-2449\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/34?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2003
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212025-2449
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2226@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2160@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2020@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2001@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2044@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2170@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2000@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2026@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2035@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2077@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2137@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health takes up a second-quarter financial and billing report on January 21. It also weighs a change to the delinquent-account policy\, stretching the write-off window from twelve to twenty-four months and sending accounts to the state twice a year instead of once. Two presentations follow: a request that the board back adding two rare diseases\, metachromatic leukodystrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy\, to the state's newborn-screening panel\, and the department's yearly update on immigrant and refugee health services.\n\nThe rest of the agenda is routine. The board takes up November's minutes\, a possible change to its spring meeting schedule\, priority-committee updates and board comments\, the health director's report and the month's media items.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2575\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2137
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2575
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2146@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2201@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County transit staff working group's January 21 meeting takes up administrative corrections to the FY27 annual work program. Project sponsors are asked to confirm their submissions\, ahead of a special meeting on February 6 for the substantive funding discussion.\n\nThe group is the technical committee where Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, Mebane\, Orange County\, GoTriangle and the Triangle West planning organization divide up transit money raised by the county's transit tax district.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2493\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2201
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2493
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2076@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2177@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2910@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2075@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2074@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-1998@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2073@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2225@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2243@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-1997@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-2072@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-2210@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-2216@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-2199@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-2176@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-2136@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-2224@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-2242@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-2157@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1994@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1993@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners take up a one-year moratorium on data centers as a land use. Staff present the impacts of large-scale data centers - power and water demand\, environmental effects\, and costs that could shift onto other ratepayers. The county attorney lays out two moratorium options and a possible amendment to the development ordinance regulating the use. The board decides which\, if any\, to pursue.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2553\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/44?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1993
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2553
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2330@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2034@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2144@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2198@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1992@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1991@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260324
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Legislative Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners set their 2026 priority legislative issues on March 23\, aligning what they will ask the General Assembly for with the state association of county commissioners' advocacy goals and the county's own strategic plan.\n\nThe list runs across agriculture\, environment\, health and human services\, justice and public safety\, public education\, and tax and finance. The county's top-tier goal is protecting and expanding farmland preservation programs.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03232026-2559\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=85\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1990
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03232026-2559
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2187@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2135@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission had three decisions on March 25\, all of them about Montrose or the nation's 250th anniversary. It evaluated Montrose for landmark designation and started the process of an interlocal agreement with the Town of Hillsborough to designate it\, which is needed because the property sits in Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction. It also decided whether to join the statewide Landmark Tree project.\n\nUnder updates the commission took a proposed memorial marker honoring the enslaved community associated with St. Matthew's Church\, progress toward National Register listing for Moorefields\, and the donation process and timeline for the Harvey's Chapel cemetery.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2168
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2197@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2223@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260408
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took the manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan on April 7\, held two public hearings\, and heard a school enrollment forecast. One hearing covered the draft HOME Investment Partnership annual action plan\; the other a county-initiated zoning amendment moving a watershed overlay boundary on a single 19.4-acre parcel in Bingham Township.\n\nThe board also discussed how the county communicates with residents and how its online content measures against the Americans with Disabilities Act.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/45?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1989
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2191@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2156@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2042@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2196@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1987@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2215@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260420
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260421
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nThree regular items: the regional planning organisation's master transportation plan and air quality report\, the draft 2027 transit work programme\, and the county's priorities for the next round of state project scoring. Anyone may comment by email and the comments are read aloud during the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-2584\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2215
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-2584
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1986@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2186@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1985@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2071@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1984@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2222@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nThe ten-year capital investment plan is the substantive item\, alongside an update on where the county trails plan stood after going to the commissioners on 14 April\, and the proposed 2026-27 budget from the director.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2598\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2222
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2598
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2240@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2241@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260512
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nThe commission introduces a new applicant but takes no membership vote this month\, discusses its Earth Day event and the first of a new award\, and works through the final drafts of the State of the Environment report. Each subcommittee needs to supply one person to help with final edits.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05112026-2599\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2155
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05112026-2599
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1983@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-1982@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2151@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1978@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1977@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2213@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2221@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2237@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2238@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2239@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1976@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2040@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3976@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4789@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2251@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2184@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2166@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2235@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2236@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260702
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County planning board reviews two draft long-range plans: a county Trails Plan and a Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan\, both presented for discussion and board feedback. The board also considers minutes and training notes from its June 3 meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07012026-2634\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2236
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07012026-2634
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1974@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2328@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2032@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1973@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2066@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2233@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2234@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3821@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2212@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4741@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2039@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2183@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4628@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2165@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2327@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2917@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3840@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-3974@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-3824@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-3989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-4432@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-4765@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-4523@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-4740@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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UID:meeting-4713@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-4730@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-4691@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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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UID:meeting-4725@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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UID:meeting-4764@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T031154Z
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
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