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UID:meeting-3276@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221017
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221018
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council votes on an ordinance to create the city's first Social District\, after a staff presentation on the plan. Four public hearings follow: rezonings at 4214 Fayetteville Road and on South Alston Avenue\, and annexations of the Courtyards at Doc Nichols II and Kemp Road Residential developments\, plus a vote to permanently close Water Street.\n\nThe consent agenda includes a $4\,448\,550 contract for Hydrostructures to inspect sewer outfalls in north Durham and a $1.1 million amendment for biosolids handling at the North Durham Water Reclamation Facilities. The council would also appoint seven people to city boards and commissions\, repay $675\,298 in stabilization funds to the state\, and accept two HUD fair housing grants.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2888\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3276
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2888
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3294@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221206
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nThe council holds public hearings on two annexations\, each paired with a rezoning. Developer Hopper Communities\, Inc. is bringing in Mockingbird Lane and Sherron Road under Planned Development Residential zoning. Tri Pointe Homes Holdings\, Inc. is bringing in Crescent Townes under Residential Compact zoning. Both would take effect December 31 if the council approves. The council also holds hearings on permanently closing Fontanelle Street and a 361-foot stretch of Gilbert Street.\n\nThe agenda carries four large road contracts. Carolina Sunrock\, LLC would get $5.67 million for street repairs and repaving and $1.66 million for unpaved road improvements. Slurry Pavers\, Inc. would get $3.28 million for pavement preservation. FSC II\, LLC\, doing business as Fred Smith Company\, would get $1.48 million for bridge repairs. The council would also authorize a $1.52 million design contract for the Durham Station Transit Center Improvements project. It would appoint Melissa Southern to the Open Space and Trails Commission\, and receive third-quarter crime and fire department audit reports.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2894\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3294
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2894
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3249@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240904
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council took up two federal airport grants at its September 3 meeting\, both through the FAA's Airport Improvement Program: $1\,016\,279 and $35\,478\,766. The larger grant is the biggest dollar figure on the agenda\, bigger than the Microsoft software contract ($2.9 million with contingency) and the utility easement maintenance contract ($3.86 million with contingency) combined.\n\nThree annexation public hearings close out the agenda. Two pull subdivisions called Woodlands Preserve\, on Torredge Road and on Koback Drive\, into the city with utility extension agreements tied to Marlowe Development Partners. A third annexes a tract called Leigh Valley with Greenhawk Corporation. The council also considered a $650\,000 grant renewing Legal Aid of North Carolina's eviction diversion program and a five-year\, $542\,810.10 playground replacement contract at Sherwood Park.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3105\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3249
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3105
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3277@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250617
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council adopts the 2025-26 budget and the 2026-31 capital improvement plan on 16 June. The same item raises every city pay plan by 1.45 percent — open range\, step\, fire and police — lifts part-time starting rates by the same\, and widens the part-time step spreads from 3 to 5 percent. Six capital project ordinances go with it\, covering general projects\, water and wastewater\, stormwater\, solid waste\, transit and the performing arts centre\, alongside fee increases for solid waste\, public works\, and water and sewer.\n\nHousing and homelessness run through the rest of the agenda: an operational assistance loan to the Durham Housing Authority\, contracts with the North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness\, Housing for New Hope and Volunteers of America\, and an update on the redevelopment of 505 W. Chapel Hill Street. Three separate condemnation actions would take easements the city could not obtain by agreement.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3218\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3277
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3218
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-262@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's town council accepted a $400\,000 donation from the Shane Pegram Family Foundation to fully fund an accessible playground renovation at Davis Drive Park. It approved two annexations and rezonings on its consent agenda\, for 227 and 309 Barbee Road and a zoning map correction at 200 Glendon Way\, and extended the borrowing authority on $225 million in 2019 voter-approved bonds by three years\, with $100 million still unspent.\n\nThree more annexation and rezoning cases drew public hearings without a final vote: a 12.61-acre\, 24-home proposal on Pittard Sears Road that neighbors argued is too dense and would worsen stormwater and traffic\; a 48.79-acre assemblage at Yates Store Road and New Hope Church Road\; and a 4.33-acre tract on White Oak Church Road. All three were sent to the Planning and Zoning Board\, with council action deferred to a future meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2682\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/262
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6007
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1169@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Holly Springs: Town Council Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nHolly Springs' town council took up a 222-unit rezoning at Piney Grove Wilbon and Adcock roads\, an annexation and rezoning for a Duke Energy substation on Deer Path Road\, and a quasi-judicial vote on a disputed office development at 1317 N. Main Street. The council also held public hearings on three sections of the Comprehensive Plan and 25 proposed UDO text amendments\, and considered an economic development agreement with Ypsomed Manufacturing.\n\nConsent items included a $124\,200 contract for a water infrastructure risk assessment\, up to $1.1 million in sole-source equipment for the Utley Creek Water Reclamation Facility upgrade\, and a resolution starting the annexation process for a subdivision on Avent Ferry Road.\n\nAgenda: https://hollyspringsnc.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1026\,plainText=false)\nWatch: https://www.hollyspringsnc.gov/501/Video-Archives\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1169
URL:https://hollyspringsnc.portal.civicclerk.com/event/568/overview
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-629@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251209
SUMMARY:Town of Pittsboro: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting Materials-6 p.m.
DESCRIPTION:1. Board of Commissioners (BOC)\n\nPittsboro's board of commissioners swore in a re-elected mayor and two new commissioners on December 8\, elected a new mayor pro tem\, and then split three times on appointments and once on a road dedication — the first divided votes this board has taken in months.\n\nThe new board tabled the Chatham Parkway dedication for NCDOT project R-5930A until January by a 3-2 vote. When it came back on January 12 it passed 4-1.\n\nAgenda: https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12082025-391?html=true\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@townofpittsboronc/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/629
URL:https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12082025-391?html=true
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1466@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Pittsboro: Board of Commissioners Regular
DESCRIPTION:1. Board of Commissioners (BOC)\n\nPittsboro's Board of Commissioners installed its newly elected members\, honored two retiring commissioners and a retiring deputy police chief\, elected a new mayor pro tempore\, made a round of board and committee appointments\, and\, after a commissioner objected to it being handled as routine business\, voted to table a right-of-way dedication tied to a 2023 agreement that gave Chatham Park's developers millions of dollars in NCDOT bonus allocation funds.\n\nThree residents used public comment to raise concerns about the town's license-plate-reader camera contract with Flock Safety.\n\nAgenda: https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12082025-391?html=true\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@townofpittsboronc/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1466
URL:https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12082025-391?html=true
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-81@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251215T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251215T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe board's Monday session opens with a work session covering four presentations: an update on the county's 1980s-era architectural survey\, a briefing from managed-care provider Vaya Health\, a recap of a two-day climate retreat with the Central Pines Regional Council\, and a review of trail and open-space projects. Commissioners are also asked to award $325\,000 in Housing Trust Fund grants and a $1\,094\,800 supplementary loan for affordable housing\, and to hear a $1.4 million reimbursement request from Chatham County Schools tied to underfunded charter transfers. A closed session is added to negotiate a real estate purchase.\n\nThe regular session's consent agenda covers a full slate of contracts\, tax releases\, board appointments\, and the FY27-33 Capital Improvements Plan. The board also considers two large rural subdivisions -- Pine Tree Creek's 11 lots and Riverbend Estates at Laurel Ridge's 107 lots -- and holds a public hearing on writing the state fire code's road-access standards into the county's subdivision rules. December's agenda also includes the annual election of a chair and vice chair and a resolution honoring outgoing County Attorney Robert Hagemann.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/12/1427_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-12-15_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/81
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1427&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2019@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
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
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UID:meeting-1745@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260126T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260126T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Hillsborough: CANCELLED: Board of Commissioners Fiscal Year 2027-29 Budget Retreat
STATUS:CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe Board of Commissioners opens its first Fiscal Year 2027-29 budget retreat with a Black History Month proclamation and a routine batch of budget amendments and transfers on the consent agenda. The board then turns to a broader review of town finances\, starting with a Fiscal Year 2027-33 Capital Improvement Plan that previews requests from every department\, including a new N. Churton Street fire station\, two fire trucks\, garbage and leaf trucks\, greenway and sidewalk projects\, and water\, sewer and stormwater upgrades. None of the requests has yet been matched to funding.\n\nStaff also bring a list of "noteworthy" operating and personnel requests\, warning of large deficits across the general\, water and sewer funds for fiscal 2027 and beyond\, and ask the board to weigh in on a 9% increase in employee health insurance premiums that would add a $200 monthly subsidy for GLP-1 medication. The rest of the agenda covers an information technology update\, a review of the town's nonprofit funding process\, and the board's annual refresher on how members request information from staff\, before a wrap-up on decision points and items left for later meetings.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/hillsbronc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-04eb4347146045db9ba70e0b9e332224.pdf\nWatch: https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1745
URL:https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/cancelled-board-commissioners-fiscal-year-2027-29-budget-retreat
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-3009@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260203T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260203T193000
SUMMARY:Wake County Public School System: Board of Education Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Education Meeting\n\nWake County's school board takes stream bank repairs at Carnage Middle on 3 February\, with a reimbursement agreement with the City of Raleigh and a change order alongside it.\n\nThe board also reports the net savings found in the 2025-26 local budget\, takes the quarterly budget and expenditure report\, and grants temporary construction and permanent drainage easements to a developer. Three contract amendments cover providers serving children with disabilities.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/user/WakeCountySchools/videos\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3009
URL:https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_Meeting.aspx?S=HnXLls1F9Zx0AgDMtBXriA==&MID=OOHgZX8CEpxZZKeEvrclEg==
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-358@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual / Conference Room 21275\, 316 N Academy Street\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Information Services Advisory Board\n\nCary's Information Services Advisory Board takes up the town's FY 2027 budget outlook on March 2\, its chance to weigh in on the technology side before the manager's recommended budget reaches the council in May.\n\nThe rest of the agenda is the board's standing watch list: economic development areas\, future technologies\, greenway technology\, smart and connected cities\, social media and town communications.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2771&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/358
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6018
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-88@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThis regular meeting opens with a large consent agenda (25 items) covering routine business: a Board of Health reappointment\, a surplus-property sale\, closing a defunct library foundation fund\, an Agriculture and Conference Center Phase II project ordinance\, FY2025-26 budget amendments\, several small state and federal health grants\, tax collection reports\, a road-naming request\, a wedding pyrotechnics permit\, and contracts for software\, an audit\, a nutrition-services provider\, and county health insurance. The one larger consent item is a request from the Silk Hope Volunteer Fire Department to hold a public hearing on up to $10 million in tax-exempt borrowing.\n\nOutside consent\, commissioners hear an update on the Pittsboro Redevelopment Project and a farmland-preservation funding request (both tabled to the next meeting)\, approve a 60-lot Bramblewood subdivision plat off US 64 West\, and take up several Climate Change Advisory Committee recommendations\, including a resolution on state energy policy addressed to Governor Stein. That resolution and a related committee appointment slate both failed on their first vote\, then passed in revised form later in the meeting after a closed session. The Board also approves a $1.42 million one-time reimbursement to Chatham County Schools for prior-year charter-school costs and goes into closed session for attorney-client consultation.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/3/1451_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-03-24_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/88
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1451&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1740@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Hillsborough: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe board's main land-use item is a general-use rezoning and development agreement for 13.44 acres at 715 US Hwy 70 East\, from Assisted Living Neighborhood to Multifamily\, to allow up to 67 attached dwelling units on a parcel that was originally master-planned for a retirement campus that never got built. This item is being tabled rather than decided at this meeting. The board also takes up a staff-proposed reorganization that would merge Public Works\, Public Space & Sustainability\, and Stormwater & Environmental Services into a single "Community Services and Sustainability" department\, prompted by a manager's resignation\, and a request from the Hillsborough Youth Athletic Association for stricter trespassing enforcement against unhoused people camping near its ball field.\n\nMost of the rest is routine consent-agenda business: budget amendments\, three capital-project ordinance amendments for water/sewer plant upgrades\, a year-end audit contract\, a legal-services agreement with the town attorney's firm\, a reappointment to the Parks and Recreation Board\, and a resolution opposing a proposed state constitutional amendment that would limit local governments' property tax authority (tied to an active NC House committee process). Financial impacts on the rezoning are described as low to moderate\, with private streets and trash collection.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/hillsbronc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-ccc861b4797c402ea3646d913f1e473f.pdf\nWatch: https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-regular-meeting-39\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1740
URL:https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-regular-meeting-39
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1577@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260420
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260421
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nThe biggest items on this Durham council agenda are a $37 million construction contract for the Williams Water Treatment Plant basin improvements\, a preconstruction contract for the Durham Rail Trail\, and four separate annexation and rezoning public hearings that bring new development into the city (Bella Ridge\, Patterson Hall\, Morgan Farm\, and a tract on NC 751 Highway). Council will also vote on its 2026 legislative priorities ahead of the NC General Assembly's short session.\n\nMost of the rest is routine: grant acceptances (a $25\,000 No Kid Hungry grant\, a $138\,000 cybersecurity grant\, an FTA bus grant)\, utility extension agreements for two properties\, a purchase contract for ten diesel buses for GoDurham\, a 10-year lease for an arts pavilion\, and a fiber contract amendment with Duke University.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3301\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1577
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3301
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1212@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260421T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Holly Springs: Town Council Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nThe Holly Springs Town Council's April 21 meeting mixes routine business with two land-use decisions. A run of consent items covers monthly budget amendments\, a wireless antenna lease on the Lee Street water tower\, a grant to resurface tennis courts\, a wastewater treatment chemical contract\, an audit services contract\, and an update to the Downtown Investment Grant policy. The council then opens two public hearings on voluntary annexations: one for the Village at Harris Lake development (formerly known as Ragan) on Avent Ferry Road\, and one for a property on Innovate Avenue.\n\nNew business includes changes to the e-bike safety ordinance\, a design-build contract for new basketball courts and dugouts at Womble Park funded by the 2023 parks bond\, the town's 2026-2027 strategic plan\, and next year's round of nonprofit grants. Several proclamations recognize heritage months\, health-awareness observances\, and recent town awards\, and the meeting closes with a closed session.\n\nAgenda: https://hollyspringsnc.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2156\,plainText=false)\nWatch: https://www.hollyspringsnc.gov/501/Video-Archives\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1212
URL:https://hollyspringsnc.portal.civicclerk.com/event/641/overview
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1739@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260427T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Hillsborough: Board of Commissioners Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nHillsborough's Board of Commissioners work session opens with a presentation on proposed zoning districts as part of the town's Unified Development Ordinance rewrite\, followed by a consent-style block covering budget amendments\, a Period Poverty Awareness Week proclamation\, an Orange County Heat Action Plan resolution\, and capital project ordinance amendments for the Exchange Club Road bridge\, the NC86 facility renovation\, and West Fork Eno Reservoir dam repairs\, plus a pay classification change and a special event permit for an America 250th anniversary celebration.\n\nThe in-depth discussion section covers an annexation interest letter for two parcels on NC 86 South\, nonprofit partnership funding requests tied to the FY2026-27 budget (with its own public hearing)\, and an update on the town's fiber loop project. This agenda does not reference data centers or the town's data-center moratorium.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/hillsbronc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-c8f545e89ff545c0bc4b4544b4be273f.pdf\nWatch: https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-work-session-27\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1739
URL:https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-work-session-27
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1738@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Hillsborough: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe Hillsborough Board of Commissioners considers Tourism Board appointments and a consent agenda that includes a resolution to submit the town's FY2026-27 HOME Annual Action Plan to Orange County and a state cybersecurity partnership. It also hears a Strategic Plan update and a Fiscal Year 2027-29 recommended budget presentation\, and discusses data centers as a land-use and utility issue ahead of a May 27 hearing on a proposed 60-day moratorium on data-center development.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/hillsbronc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-8afc1128c5424f7aa06851284898e191.pdf\nWatch: https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-regular-meeting-32\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1738
URL:https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-regular-meeting-32
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1216@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260512T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260512T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Holly Springs: Town Council Workshop Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nThe Town Manager will present the recommended Fiscal Year 2026-27 Operating Budget and Community Investment Plan\, with a public hearing to follow on May 19 and further review at a May 21 workshop. Staff will also review the 2025 Water Quality Report and update the council on PFAS drinking water regulations\, the Sanford Water Filtration Facility project\, and drought conditions\, and the council is asked to choose a date and location for its 2027 retreat. No vote is scheduled on any of these items.\n\nAgenda: https://hollyspringsnc.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=2168\,plainText=false)\nWatch: https://www.hollyspringsnc.gov/501/Video-Archives\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1216
URL:https://hollyspringsnc.portal.civicclerk.com/event/773/overview
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1736@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260527T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Hillsborough: Board of Commissioners Work Session and Budget Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nHillsborough's board holds a public hearing and then decides whether to impose a 60-day development moratorium on data centers as a land use -- an ordinance that would temporarily block new development approvals for data centers\, cryptocurrency mining operations\, and any use tied to data center processing facilities in town. The board also gets a briefing on a SecureNC partnership with the state Department of Information Technology\, which is likely related to the same data-center policy question\, and holds its second FY2027 budget workshop.\n\nOn the consent agenda: miscellaneous budget amendments and transfers\, a Pride Month proclamation\, and a Gun Violence Awareness Day proclamation.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/hillsbronc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-010ac9061d25490dbc9b72e204d71b08.pdf\nWatch: https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-work-session-and-budget-workshop\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1736
URL:https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-work-session-and-budget-workshop
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-411@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council opened the door to a data center moratorium on May 28. A council-initiated item asked staff to study pausing approval of new large-scale data centers\, including AI facilities\, while the town looks at what they do to land use\, transportation\, water\, utilities and the environment. Jordan Lake\, the region's drinking water source\, was named as the reason.\n\nThe night also carried two rezonings and the first of two public hearings on the recommended FY 2027 budget. One rezoning\, an amendment to the Sears Farm planned development for 87 townhouses at High House Road\, drew organized opposition from the neighboring Searstone retirement community. The other\, 275 multi-family units and ground-floor retail replacing aging offices on Weston Parkway\, came back after nine months of revisions.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2810&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/411
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6191
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-420@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council held the second of its two public hearings on the fiscal 2027 budget\, awarded $1.8 million to reline a stretch of the Upper Brier Creek sewer interceptor\, and appointed its outside auditor for the year.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2820&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/420
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6204
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nBudget adoption night. The board also decides the ten-year capital plan\, amends its broadband contract to reach the last houses before a federal deadline\, and refuses a set of transit amendments. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/62?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1975
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1552@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260810T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260810T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners held one public hearing on August 10\, on policy changes to the comprehensive plan coming out of its evaluation and assessment report. The money was elsewhere. The county took on nine new positions in social services\, paid for by $850\,290 in extra state funding\, to handle the Medicaid changes H.R. 1 requires\, and separately wrote to its congressional delegation asking for more time before the new SNAP cost-share rules take effect.\n\nThree conservation easements moved: 41 acres from Billy and Toni Stevens with a $330\,000 contribution from the Army National Guard's readiness and environmental protection program\, 19.27 acres from Robin Davis at 505 Mason Road with $117\,500 from the City of Durham's water supply protection fund\, and a donated 22-acre easement from David and Carmen Durack on Woodstock and West Cornwallis roads. The board also put $506\,945 toward buying the Durham-to-Roxboro Rail Trail corridor from the state\, distributed the 2 percent cost of living adjustment worth $3.6 million across departments\, and hired a temporary staffing agency for $255\,747.66 to run election operations through the general election. It proclaimed September 10 to 19 as Welcoming Week.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1553\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1552
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1553
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1733@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260810T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260810T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Hillsborough: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nHillsborough's Board of Commissioners authorizes a water and sewer extension contract for the Orange County Crisis Diversion Facility\, a new 16-room mental health hospital on Waterstone Drive\; the town will take ownership of about 711 feet of 8-inch water main\, three fire hydrants\, 567 feet of 8-inch sewer main\, and six manholes once the county's contractor installs them\, serving a requested capacity of 2\,400 gallons per day. The board also reviews the year-end report on its FY26 Strategic Plan\, the final update before staff bring back a proposed process for building the next plan covering FY28-30\, and reappoints two members to the Board of Adjustment.\n\nOn consent\, the board approves minutes\, routine budget amendments and transfers\, and a memorandum of understanding with the NC Department of Information Technology for Cloudflare web application firewall service. The board also previews hot topics for its August 24 work session and closes the meeting to consult with the town attorney.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/hillsbronc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-1f2e5a122ba44cb68bbd088d1c9c1002.pdf\nWatch: https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-regular-meeting-40\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1733
URL:https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-regular-meeting-40
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1808@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260819T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Knightdale: Knightdale Town Council Meeting
LOCATION:950 Steeple Square Court\, Knightdale\, North Carolina 27545
DESCRIPTION:Knightdale Town Council Meeting\n\nKnightdale's Town Council works through a long consent agenda and two public hearings. On the financing side\, the council holds a public hearing on an installment financing agreement of up to $9\,495\,000\, arranged with First Tryon Advisors\, to buy the Lofts building (20-year term) and new fire apparatus (10-year term). The council also approves the development agreement for Faison Reserve\, a 58.85-acre mixed-use subdivision from Old Faison Partners LLC with up to 184 homes and a commercial outparcel\, built in seven phases and tied to construction of the Widewaters Parkway Extension Bridge\; a rezoning for a small mental-health office practice at 5845 Farmwell Road\; and an update to the flood damage prevention and environmental protection chapter of the development ordinance.\n\nThe rest of the consent agenda is routine business: minutes from three prior meetings\, a meeting schedule amendment\, a PEG cable interlocal agreement\, advisory board appointments\, a military banner policy\, a future park master plan\, alcohol permits for town-run special events\, an arts council contract\, two public safety grants (Firehouse Subs and Axon TASER replacement)\, an ABC Board youth camp grant\, a budget amendment\, a new grants and special revenues fund\, a bond reimbursement resolution for next year's vehicle purchases\, deputy finance officer and review officer appointments\, street names for three subdivisions\, a right-of-way dedication\, and a position classification plan update. The council closes the meeting to discuss a personnel or legal matter under state law.\n\nAgenda: https://pub-knightdalenc.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=d9327946-34e3-4065-8986-05fb93f2e21b&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English\nWatch: https://pub-knightdalenc.escribemeetings.com/\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1808
URL:https://pub-knightdalenc.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=d9327946-34e3-4065-8986-05fb93f2e21b&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2327@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
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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UID:meeting-3882@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T193000
SUMMARY:Wake County Public School System: Board of Education Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Education Meeting\n\nWake County's school board took second readings on fourteen policies Monday evening\, and the run of them is the story: equity\, the selection of instructional materials and objections to them\, religious-based exemptions from school programs\, and eight separate purchasing and bidding policies including participation by historically underutilized businesses and minority business enterprise participation in construction contracts. Second reading is the stage at which a policy is adopted.\n\nThe board also received the 2025-26 testing and accountability results and heard a sustainable instructional device strategy. Construction ran through the consent agenda: guaranteed maximum prices at Briarcliff Elementary and Brentwood Elementary\, change orders at Ligon Middle\, North Garner Middle and Wakefield High\, contract amendments at Brassfield and West Millbrook\, mobile classroom removal at West Lake Middle\, safety and security hardware upgrades\, and easements to the Town of Cary at Panther Creek High and to a developer at Southeast Raleigh High. The board named the outdoor amphitheater at Farmington Woods Magnet Elementary for retired principal Winston Pierce. The district publishes item titles through its portal but no agenda document\, so this account comes from the item list.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/user/WakeCountySchools/videos\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3882
URL:https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_Meeting.aspx?S=HnXLls1F9Zx0AgDMtBXriA==&MID=aTlHpwTMv6o7cJfFmmSt9A==
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-473@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T002003Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council takes up the Alston Commons rezoning on Thursday\, 22.74 acres at NC 55 and Petty Farm Road moving from office and research zoning to mixed use. The plan allows 500 to 625 apartments\, 200\,000 square feet of office and 55\,000 of commercial\, including a car wash of up to 30\,000 square feet. The applicant has committed to structured parking\, 48 electric vehicle charging spaces\, and renting at least 5 percent of the units to households at or below 80 percent of area median income for thirty years. The Planning and Zoning Board found the request consistent with the Imagine Cary plan 8-1\, in July 2025.\n\nThe council also votes on extending its smoking ban. The 2007 ordinance covers town buildings and vehicles\; the amendment would reach all town grounds\, the whole parks system including greenways and trails\, and private enclosed places open to the public across the town\, with a narrow allowance for designated outdoor smoking areas. E-cigarettes are covered throughout\, and the effective date is 1 July 2027.\n\nTwo more items and a long consent agenda. The Flat Iron development downtown asks to raise its permitted apartments from 200 to 250 and to cut the town's funding commitment\, in an amendment to the 2022 development agreement for what was the Number 5 Mixed Use project. A council member asks to make the Transportation and Mobility Committee a formal board. On consent are a five-year fuel management contract worth up to $14.81 million\, a $13.7 million amendment to the GoCary transit operations contract\, a $1.62 million water main on Optimist Farm Road that interconnects with Holly Springs for emergency backfeed\, and a $2\,367\,765 appropriation to cover an arbitrage rebate the town owed the federal government after unspent 2021 bond proceeds earned more interest than federal limits allow.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2861&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/473
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6218
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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