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UID:meeting-3305@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211220
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211221
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting -Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting- Virtual\n\nDurham's council takes up a stack of contracts. The largest: a five-year\, $3\,830\,831 renewal with Axon Enterprise for police body-worn and in-car cameras\, and a $1\,213\,186 purchase of 29 marked police sedans. Other consent items fund water tank maintenance\, biosolids disposal and a valve auditing program. Three more appoint the city's finance officer\, deputy finance officer and tax collector.\n\nIn its only public hearing\, the council considers rezoning 518 Martin Luther King\, Jr. Parkway from commercial to residential multifamily. Two land conservancies would also receive Watershed Protection Fund money for farm conservation projects\, and the council hears the city's 2021 financial audit.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2785\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3305
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2785
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3456@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T175800
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230720T195800
SUMMARY:Town of Wake Forest: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOne matter is before Wake Forest's Board of Adjustment on 20 July 2023: an appeal against two notices of violation issued over a beekeeping operation on North Main Street\, where the town says the use and an accessory structure were never permitted.\n\nThe attachments show what the argument turns on. Alongside the notices\, the inspection photographs and the stop-work order posting\, the file carries a state conditional farmer exemption card\, a deed for a parcel in another county\, an LLC's annual report\, and articles from NC Extension on present-use value. The question is whether the property qualifies as a farm\, which would put it outside the town's zoning reach.\n\nAgenda: https://wake-forest.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1393\nWatch: https://wake-forest.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3456
URL:https://wake-forest.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1393
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3385@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T175900
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230921T195900
SUMMARY:Town of Wake Forest: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nThree quasi-judicial matters come before Wake Forest's Board of Adjustment on 21 September 2023. Carried over from an earlier meeting is an appeal against two notices of violation issued over a beekeeping operation on North Main Street\, where the town says the use and an accessory structure were never permitted.\n\nThe other two both concern The Factory at 1839 S Main Street. One is an appeal of the planning director's ruling that a proposed sign is an awning or canopy sign rather than a wall sign\, a distinction that decides how large it may be. The other is a variance request from three sections of the sign ordinance: awning sign area\, directional sign height\, and the number of monument signs allowed. A variance needs a four-fifths concurring vote.\n\nAgenda: https://wake-forest.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1414\nWatch: https://wake-forest.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3385
URL:https://wake-forest.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1414
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4279@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241001T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241001T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Old Agriculture Building\, 65 E. Chatham Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board recommended denying both halves of the Summit Church rezoning on 1 October 2024\, unanimously. The commissioners did the same in December\, and the church sued the county.\n\nThe board also recommended New Hope Overlook\, 22 lots on 45.115 acres off New Hope Church Road\, and took two items on consent: a phasing revision for Vicker's Village and a final plat in Fearrington.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/69981/638627019293930000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4279
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/43431/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3613@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241009
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Orange County Chiefs' Association and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners met with the county's fire and rescue chiefs\, then held a work session on a draft policy for spending bond and other capital money on school construction ahead of the November 5 bond referendum. The board also took up nine appointments to advisory boards\, from the Planning Board to the Historic Preservation Commission.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2100\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1757?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3613
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082024-2100
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-3612@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241016
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's Board of Commissioners held a public hearing on the county's first Short Range Transit Plan\, a five-year plan for same-day demand-response service\, a new Mebane circulator and two phases each of Hillsborough circulator consolidation and improvements. The board also weighed $275\,000 in added debt financing for an all-electric heat pump system and LED lighting at the Durham Tech Orange County campus expansion.\n\nThe rest of the agenda held four proclamations\, an Arts Commission economic-impact report\, and a 12-item consent agenda covering the 2025 property reappraisal schedule\, construction contracts for the Fairview Park pickleball courts and the Efland-Cheeks Community Center\, and board and commission appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152024-2103\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1763?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3612
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152024-2103
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4246@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners adopted the 2024 farmland protection plan on 21 October 2024\, the first update since 2009\, along with a protection blueprint running to 2028 and the year's farmland preservation trust fund budget.\n\nThey held the hearing on the draft schedule of values for the 2025 revaluation and a hearing on the subdivision text amendment on concept plans\, and held back the Sanford water merger vote until the full board was present.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/10/1370_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-10-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4246
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1370&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3611@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241108
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners were set to decide whether to raise the pay cap for the county's ABC General Manager from $132\,000 to as much as $150\,000\, and whether to raise ABC board member stipends for the first time since 2004. The agenda also carried an updated Safe Routes to School plan recommending crosswalks\, sidewalks and reduced speed zones near schools across the county.\n\nHousing staff planned to report on the first quarter under new Emergency Housing Assistance rules\, including a rising share of denied applications. A 20-item consent agenda covered property tax releases\, vehicle and equipment purchases for Solid Waste and Emergency Services\, two donated conservation easements\, and a $2 regional vehicle registration tax increase for GoTriangle.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11072024-2126\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1767?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3611
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11072024-2126
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3634@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe Orange County Agricultural Preservation Board\, meeting at the Chestnut Ridge Camp and Retreat Center\, took up two applications to enroll farms in the county's voluntary agricultural district program: a 33-acre farm in the Cedar Grove Agricultural District and a 45.17-acre farm in the Caldwell Agricultural District. The board also reviewed its 2025 meeting calendar and a draft update to the county's farmland protection plan\, last revised in 2009.\n\nStaff briefed the board on a December 3 farm succession workshop and on the county's agricultural economic development grant program\, which drew about 15 applications this cycle. The board also heard an update on the county's Land Use Plan 2050 process\, tied to the farmland protection plan discussion.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2133\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3634
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122024-2133
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4249@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T180000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners adopted the Recode Chatham Unified Development Ordinance on 18 November 2024\, ending four years of work. Three weeks later the General Assembly overrode a veto on Senate Bill 382\, which removed local downzoning authority\, and the ordinance has not taken effect since.\n\nThe same evening drew about thirty-five comments\, most of them on a Dollar General proposed at NC 87 and Castle Rock Farm Road in Hadley Township. That rezoning hearing was held and referred to the Planning Board. The board also held the hearing on the 2026-2032 capital plan and honored the outgoing chair.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/11/1400_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-11-18_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4249
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1400&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3744@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board heard the results of the second public engagement round for Land Use Plan 2050 on December 4\, 2024\, and approved its own annual report and 2025 work plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12042024-2139\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3744
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12042024-2139
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3607@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners opened work on the 2025-2029 consolidated plan\, the document that steers federal housing money through the county's HOME Consortium with Chapel Hill\, Carrboro and Hillsborough. They also decided how the county will count future students\, awarded a year of climate grants\, and gave a broadband contractor another twelve months.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102024-2143\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1775?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3607
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102024-2143
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4319@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241210T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241210T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Cooperative Extension Conference Room - Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 Business\, Pittsboro\, LEFT ENTRANCE TO AGRICULTURE & CONFERENCE CENTER Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board elected officers on 10 December 2024\, approved two voluntary agricultural district applications and turned down a third\, and heard what the Unified Development Ordinance will mean for farmland.\n\nThe ordinance creates an agricultural zoning district meant to protect prime soils and working farms\, mostly north and south of Siler City. The county then has to rezone itself to match\, and nobody had approved a process or a timeline for that.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/71715/638773726062070000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4319
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/43232/1795
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4252@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241216T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241216T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners denied the Summit Church's rezoning on 16 December 2024\, refusing both halves of the request: 46.607 acres on US 15-501 N back to residential\, and 50.117 acres at 9780 US 15-501 N to conditional district office and institutional for a place of worship. The church sued the county\, and the board was still in closed session over that suit in June 2025.\n\nThe same meeting took the 2024 financial audit\, the capital plan for 2026 through 2032\, the digital inclusion plan\, a shelter needs assessment\, the climate committee's annual report\, and the retirement of the county manager after fourteen years.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/12/1372_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-12-16_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4252
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1372&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4253@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250107T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250107T110000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Board of Commissioners Annual 3 Day Budget Retreat\nDay 1 - January 7\, 2025 (begin at 9am\, lunch break at noon)\nDay 2 - January 8\, 2025 (begin at 9am\, lunch break at noon)\nDay 3 - January 9\, 2025 (begin at 9am\, lunch break at noon)
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture and Convention Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners held their annual budget retreat over three days from 7 January 2025\, and the revaluation was the number everything else turned on: values were expected to rise 40 to 60 percent on average\, with the notices about to go out.\n\nThey also worked through the capital debt model\, the Article 46 sales tax\, a draft public art plan\, early childhood education\, pay and benefits\, and non-profit funding\, and gave staff guidance for the 2026 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/1/1401_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-01-07_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4253
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1401&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4275@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250107T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250107T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Old Agriculture Building\, 65 E. Chatham Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board recommended cutting the first phase of The Conservancy at Jordan Lake from 322 lots to 163 on 7 January 2025\, and dropping the per-phase lot counts from the development schedule altogether. The developer's argument was that the total lot count and the ten-year deadline do not change.\n\nThe board also planned its year\, including updating its code of ethics and implementing the Unified Development Ordinance if that became possible.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/71119/638703050758600000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4275
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/46006/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3633@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250116
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe Orange County Agricultural Preservation Board approved two farms into the voluntary agricultural district programme on 15 January 2025 and worked through the draft farmland preservation plan it will take to the commissioners in April.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152025-2173\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3633
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152025-2173
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3606@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250118
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners spent their 17 January 2025 retreat on four subjects: how the county's housing programmes work\, the outlook for the 2025-26 budget under the coming revaluation\, federal revenue sources\, and the state of local agriculture.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01172025-2177\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3606
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01172025-2177
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4254@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250121T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250121T170000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners set up their property tax relief program on 21 January 2025\, $200\,000 paying up to $500 each to low-income homeowners\, and awarded $150\,000 from the housing trust fund to Rebuilding Together of the Triangle.\n\nThey also heard what Senate Bill 382 does to the Unified Development Ordinance the county had adopted two months earlier. The weather cut the meeting short before the appointments\, which were made in special session on 30 January.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/1/1402_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-01-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4254
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1402&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3699@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250130
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe Orange County Historic Preservation Commission took a redrafted landmark evaluation form on 29 January 2025 and started work on a new website. There were no decision items. The commission also discussed how to find and map historic Black cemeteries and Indian stone mounds.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01292025-2182\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3699
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01292025-2182
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3604@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners opened the public hearing on Fiddlehead Corner on 4 February 2025\, a housing cooperative's plan for a 55-and-over community on 90 acres off Morrow Mill Road at Gold Mine Loop. The application asked for 150 dwellings\; the applicant cut that to 100 at the hearing. After 33 people spoke\, the board continued the hearing to 6 March.\n\nThe project needs a rezoning from agricultural residential to a master plan conditional district\, amendments to the comprehensive plan\, and changes to the development ordinance. The Planning Board recommended denial of all three. The agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042025-2185\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1779?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3604
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042025-2185
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3742@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250206
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board's Ordinance Review Committee spent 5 February 2025 on proposed rewrites to the county's subdivision rules\, initiated by the commissioners and the planning director to line up with the coming comprehensive plan update.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2184\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3742
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02052025-2184
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3687@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment settled how it will produce its State of the Environment report on 10 February 2025: no outside consultant\, a shared folder\, subcommittees meeting between regular meetings\, and a target of finishing by 2026.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102025-2187\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3687
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102025-2187
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4258@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250303T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250303T110000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting - Legislative Breakfast
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center 1192 US Hwy 64 West\, Pittsboro\, NC 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners\, the Town of Pittsboro\, the school board and Central Carolina Community College laid their 2025 legislative priorities before the county's state senator and representative over breakfast on 3 March 2025.\n\nThe county's first ask was to get its downzoning authority back\, which Senate Bill 382 had taken away four months earlier and which had stopped the Unified Development Ordinance from taking effect.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/3/1405_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-03-03_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4258
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1405&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-4318@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250311T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Cooperative Extension Conference Room - Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 Business\, Pittsboro\, LEFT ENTRANCE TO AGRICULTURE & CONFERENCE CENTER Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board heard a state geologist on the county's groundwater on 11 March 2025\, approved two voluntary agricultural district applications covering 99.35 acres\, and recommended three farmland preservation projects covering 366 acres to the commissioners.\n\nThe geologist said a groundwater vulnerability study could identify areas where new wells should not go. Nobody in North Carolina is doing one\, and it would be a way to steer development away from fragile groundwater.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/71721/638773726910670000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4318
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47296/1795
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4259@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250317T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250317T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners worked through the agenda their February meeting never reached\, on 17 March 2025. They opened a quasi-judicial hearing on a new EMS station at 9251 US 15-501 N\, appointed members to the Planning Board and four other committees\, and adopted resolutions for Black History Month\, Women's History Month\, Black Maternal Health Week and the community library's twentieth anniversary.\n\nThe District 4 Planning Board appointment drew four written objections\, all of them saying the appointee lives in District 2 while qualified applicants from District 4 had applied.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/3/1399_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-03-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4259
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1399&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3632@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250320
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe Orange County Agricultural Preservation Board endorsed the draft Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan on 19 March 2025\, ahead of presenting it to the county commissioners on 8 April. It also approved one new voluntary agricultural district application and heard where the 2050 land use plan stands.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192025-2210\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3632
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192025-2210
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3594@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250409
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners took four subjects at their 8 April 2025 work session\, then worked through appointments to five advisory boards. The most consequential is the 2050 comprehensive land use plan: the board asked for more background before it will review the draft\, and the third community engagement window\, scheduled for May through July\, has been postponed with the consultant's work paused.\n\nThe board also reviewed performance measures for the countywide strategic plan\, the draft Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan\, and a status report on the Soccer.com Center.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2217\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1803?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3594
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2217
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3740@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250409
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250410
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County Planning Board's Ordinance Review Committee took a first look on 9 April 2025 at two Unified Development Ordinance rewrites the planning director had initiated: telecommunications facilities and residential solar arrays. The committee takes no votes and needs no quorum\; both amendments went to the full board in May.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2216\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3740
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04092025-2216
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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UID:meeting-3685@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250415
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment welcomed two newly appointed members on 14 April 2025 and spent most of the meeting in subcommittee\, working on the State of the Environment report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142025-2218\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3685
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142025-2218
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3593@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250416
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners published the revenue neutral tax rate for 2025-26 on 15 April 2025: 63.84 cents per $100\, down from 86.29 cents\, after the revaluation raised the tax base by $9 billion to $32.6 billion\, an increase of 38.6 percent. They also approved buying a five-acre site off Waterstone Drive in Hillsborough for a crisis diversion facility and hired its construction manager.\n\nThe agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152025-2225\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1806?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3593
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152025-2225
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3725@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250422
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTBOARD
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nThe Orange Unified Transportation Board took up four items on 21 April 2025: a replacement for the county's 2009 Farmland Protection Plan\, an update to its own procedures\, progress on the bicycle and pedestrian plan\, and a proposal to require multimodal transportation assessments of development applications.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212025-2228\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3725
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212025-2228
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4260@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners committed $1.29 million in opioid settlement money to treatment\, recovery support\, early intervention\, naloxone and recovery housing on 21 April 2025. They also approved the year's farmland preservation grants\, received the 2023-2024 greenhouse gas inventory\, and heard the climate committee's case for a climate retreat.\n\nIn the evening they adopted a resolution honoring free speech\, opened a rezoning hearing at 680 Pea Ridge Road and a hearing on pushing the Unified Development Ordinance's effective date to 31 December\, and terminated the county's agreement with the Chatham Rescue Squad of Siler City.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/4/1412_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-04-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4260
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1412&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3697@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250424
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission heard a local historian correct the record on Faucett Mill at its 23 April 2025 meeting\, and took an update on the Old Courthouse preservation project. There were no decisions on the agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2239\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3697
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2239
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4323@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250424T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met on 24 April 2025\, three days after the commissioners agreed to hold a climate retreat on the committee's recommendation. It reviewed the county's 2024 greenhouse gas inventory and saw the county's new GIS conservation viewer.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/72154/638810119692070000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4323
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47352/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-3684@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250513
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment took up two things on 12 May 2025: whether to create county environmental awards\, and how its subcommittees are progressing on the State of the Environment report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122025-2245\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3684
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122025-2245
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3584@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250529
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250530
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Public Hearing and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe formal public hearing on the county manager's recommended 2025-26 budget and the ten-year capital plan\, followed by a work session. The manager presented the recommended budget on 6 May\; this is the last hearing before the board decides amendments on 5 June. Four board appointment discussions follow the hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05292025-2273\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1830?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3584
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05292025-2273
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3583@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe commissioners' business meeting two days before the budget is settled. Three public hearings on land use: a county-initiated rezoning of the 69.58 acres Cedar Ridge High School sits on\, an applicant's request to put a 41-building self-storage development on 11.22 acres at Rougemont\, and the first rewrite of the county's telecommunications facility standards since the development ordinance was adopted in 2011. Also on the agenda: the Solid Waste Master Plan aiming at zero waste by 2045\, a solar array text amendment\, and a twenty-one item consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2278\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1832?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3583
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2278
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3658@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nFourteen hearings scheduled before the Board of Equalization and Review at quarter-hour intervals from 1:00 to 4:30 PM at West Campus. Three owners expected to attend\, one of them by phone.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2280\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3658
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032025-2280
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4270@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250603T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250603T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Old Agriculture Building\, 65 E. Chatham Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board heard one quasi-judicial case on 3 June 2025: a special use permit revision adding a fueling station to the Chatham Downs shopping center at 88 Chatham Downs Drive.\n\nThe board also received the first countywide Natural Heritage Program inventory in 32 years\, and an update on the county's architectural survey.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/72850/638839382213900000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4270
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47369/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3683@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250609
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250610
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nThe Commission for the Environment's last meeting before its summer break\, at the Bonnie B. Davis Environment and Agriculture Center and on Teams. The agenda runs to a schedule by the minute: membership and candidate introductions at 7:04\, an environmental awards proposal at 7:15\, progress on the State of the Environment report at 7:35\, and fifty minutes of subcommittee breakouts before the room reconvenes to report back. The commission advises the county commissioners and does most of its work through three subcommittees: air and energy\, water\, and land.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06092025-2282\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3683
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06092025-2282
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4317@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250610T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250610T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Little Way Farm\, 5778 Siler City Snow Camp Road Siler City\, North Carolina 27344
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board met at Little Way Farm outside Siler City on 10 June 2025\, its last meeting of the fiscal year. It elected officers\, heard that the county has won a $295\,000 state grant for farmland preservation\, and reviewed House Bill 126.\n\nThe farm's owner\, a board member\, described running a direct-to-consumer meat and honey business in its fifth year\, mostly on subscriptions shipped or delivered.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/73012/638846320007130000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4317
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47298/1795
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-3653@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250625
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard eleven appeals on 24 June 2025: one registered motor vehicle\, seven contesting real property values\, two asking that present-use value be reinstated on parcels removed from the program\, and one asking the board to accept a present-use value application filed after the deadline. Five appellants appeared. The board also discussed how the county's evidence reaches appellants before a hearing\, and its handling of registered motor vehicle appeals.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242025-2299\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3653
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242025-2299
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-10@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250707T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250707T160000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County's Board of Commissioners held a public hearing and unanimously approved an authorizing resolution for a Series 2025 installment financing agreement of up to $703.6 million for school construction\, covering major renovations at Brentwood Elementary and Northern Garner and new construction at Morrisville High School. No one spoke at the hearing. The board also approved a general obligation bond anticipation note of up to $172.975 million for Wake Tech and heard a presentation on the county's 2025 Community Health Needs Assessment.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2025/7/6175_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-07-07_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/10
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6175&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1811@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250716T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250716T210000
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 council took up three annexation matters: continuing public hearings on the Lyndon Oaks annexation and its development agreement\, holding a hearing on the Hinton Oaks Industrial Park annexation\, and setting a future hearing on the Haven at Griffith Meadows annexation. In old business\, the council was set to take final action on the Clifton Road Conservation Subdivision rezoning\, ZMA-8-24. The consent agenda carried advisory board appointments\, cleaning and landscaping contracts for FY26\, and law enforcement center training-room and security contracts.\n\nAgenda: https://pub-knightdalenc.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=b056f40d-dbf7-4cfe-905a-0cd7be777eb5&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English\nWatch: https://pub-knightdalenc.escribemeetings.com/\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1811
URL:https://pub-knightdalenc.escribemeetings.com/Meeting.aspx?Id=b056f40d-dbf7-4cfe-905a-0cd7be777eb5&Agenda=Agenda&lang=English
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1566@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250728T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250728T200000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners hold a regular session on July 28\, 2025\, opening with a 6 p.m. closed session on economic development incentive negotiations and the National Opioid Litigation. The consent agenda carries the year's routine $19\,398\,358 appropriation of County Contribution (PAYGO) funds across dozens of ongoing capital projects\, from HVAC and roof replacement to a new $750\,000 Sheriff's RTP annex and $2.25 million in EMS radio and tower upgrades\; a $1\,500\,000 transfer to the Collection System Rehabilitation project\; and $380\,600 to help buy two farmland conservation easements\, 42 acres at 3901 Red Mill Road from William and Margie Sparrow and 30 acres at 1300 Red Mountain Road from Neil and Catherine Frank.\n\nAlso on consent: a four-year\, $119\,550-a-year lease at 1129 E. Geer Street for a temporary Office of Emergency Services fleet maintenance facility\; three new janitorial contracts covering county libraries\, administration buildings and the Health and Human Services Building\, worth roughly $897\,700 combined\; a $250\,000 workforce-development contract with Made in Durham and a $225\,000 business-recruitment contract with the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce\; and the closing of several completed capital projects\, including the $47.6 million Main Library upgrade. Separately\, the board takes up a $200\,000 economic-development contract with Downtown Durham\, Inc.\, from which Chair Nida Allam must recuse herself\, and votes on appointments to eleven boards and commissions. Only the agenda is published for this meeting\, so the votes are not on the record.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1501\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1566
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1501
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2038@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250730
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250731
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's Agricultural Preservation Board debates revisions to its draft Ag Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan ahead of a future presentation to the Board of County Commissioners\, recommends new and returning members to fill five vacancies\, and plans its fall Voluntary Agricultural District breakfast.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07302025-2319\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2038
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07302025-2319
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4210@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250731T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250731T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met on 31 July 2025\, with a guest presentation on spreading basalt fines across farmland: Sunrock's quarry waste used for enhanced weathering\, which pulls carbon dioxide out of the air while conditioning soil.\n\nThe committee also worked on the climate retreat and selecting new members.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/73881/638894619777000000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4210
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47361/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2124@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250827
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review hears eleven property tax appeals\, including three requests to accept late Present Use Value applications for farmland and forestry\, and value disputes on eight residential parcels around the county.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2337\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2124
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2337
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1518@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250902T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250902T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners meet for a work session on September 2\, 2025\, opening with a 30-minute public comment period. The consent agenda previews a $146\,073.12 purchase of EMS video laryngoscopes from Boundtree Medical\, a $932\,221 Home and Community Care Block Grant funding plan for Social Services\, a $105\,000 ballot-printing contract with Runbeck Election Services\, several public health grant recognitions\, a $210\,289.02 increase to Carolina Civilworks' sewer-repair contract (to $610\,289.02)\, a $142\,000 increase to McGill Environmental Systems' wastewater-residuals contract (to $550\,600)\, and the acquisition of three conservation easements totaling about $1.8 million on a 119-acre farm at the Person County line\, a 147-acre cattle farm on Hopkins Road\, and a 76-acre tract on Bahama Road.\n\nDiscussion items include an annual update from the Farmland Protection Advisory Board\, a review of the 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey and 2024 State of the County Health data\, and an update on the 2025 property tax revaluation\, which the Tax Administrator says produced an average 72% increase in assessed values and more than 10\,000 appeals.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1507\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1518
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1507
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1544@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners hold a regular session on September 8\, 2025. The board holds a second public hearing on renaming the County Administrative II Building for former commissioner William V. "Bill" Bell\, after taking no action on the same request at an August 25 hearing.\n\nThe consent agenda carries a $6\,173\,542 contract with Alliance Health to manage mental health\, developmental disability and substance use services\, a $932\,221 Home and Community Care Block Grant funding plan for the Department of Social Services\, and the acquisition of three conservation easements totaling about $1.8 million: 119 acres in five parcels along US 15-501 at the Person County line\, a 147-acre farm at 1717 Hopkins Road\, and 76 acres at 5615 Bahama Road. Also on consent: a $210\,289.02 increase to Carolina Civilworks' sewer-repair contract\, bringing it to $610\,289.02\; a $142\,000 increase to McGill Environmental Systems' wastewater-residuals contract\, to $550\,600\; a $291\,000 tax-reappraisal contract with Vision Government Solutions\; a $146\,073.12 purchase of video laryngoscopes for EMS\; a $195\,426-a-year medical-director contract with Duke University Health System\; a $105\,000 ballot-printing contract with Runbeck Election Services\; several public health grant recognitions\; and $72\,560 in opioid settlement funds for a peer-support specialist. The board will also hear proclamations\, including one honoring the women of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion\, and a resolution recognizing the NAACP's state convention in Durham.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1508\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1544
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1508
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2013@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Orange County Board of Commissioners hears the first of several staff presentations answering its own questions about the Land Use Plan 2050 update. This one covers the plan's data sources and how watersheds limit development. It also covers the county's joint planning agreements with its towns\, including the Water and Sewer Management\, Planning and Boundary Agreement. The board also takes up reappointments to seven advisory boards\, discusses where closed sessions fall on future meeting agendas\, and weighs the future of its Strategic Communications Work Group.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2377\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/12?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2013
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2377
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-560@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250909T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250909T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Regular Town Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nApex's town council had a regular meeting Sept. 9 with an 11-item consent agenda covering a 51.822-acre annexation on Jessie Drive tied to a rezoning case\, an NCDOT agreement to replace a stormwater culvert on Olive Chapel Road\, a wastewater-capacity study with Cary and Holly Springs\, and a new parks and recreation pricing policy. New business included establishing an Apex Community Land Trust\, a facade grant pre-authorization step\, and nine board appointments\, followed by a closed session on attorney-client matters.\n\nNo public hearings were scheduled. No minutes were available for this meeting at the time of writing\, so the outcomes of these items are not reflected here.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/apexnc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-5188a3482fc3421fa6e08c04f32943a2.pdf\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/560
URL:https://apex-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-towncouncil/page/regular-town-council-meeting-74
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4192@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250909T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250909T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Fidelis Fields Farm\, 424 Jim Moody Rd. Siler City\, North Carolina 27344
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board met at Fidelis Fields Farm in Siler City on 9 September 2025. It reviewed a voluntary agricultural district application\, took up the county's new advisory committee policy\, and reviewed candidates for its own vacancies.\n\nThe board also heard about House Bill 126\, which gives voluntary agricultural district members a right to a hearing when their zoning changes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/74397/638924949066170000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4192
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/49370/1795
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-72@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250915T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250915T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners took up a rezoning fight over Bear Creek Fabrication's plan to expand into 10 acres of neighboring residential land near Campbell Road\, and a proposal to push back the Unified Development Ordinance's effective date to December 2026 because of a state downzoning law still tied up in the legislature. The consent agenda carried $405\,000 for ten police vehicles\, $143\,000 for two more\, a $100\,000 public health grant\, and several county contracts and land-use approvals\, alongside eight advisory board appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/9/1416_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-09-15_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/72
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1416&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2037@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250918
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nThe Orange County Agricultural Preservation Board plans to elect a vice chair and consider a Voluntary Agricultural District application for a small horticulture operation on Erwin Road. Preserve Rural Orange is set to present on the county's land use plan update\, and staff plan to brief the board on a Cost of Community Services study grant and possible improvements to the board's website.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2389\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2037
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2389
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1610@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250924T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Town Council
LOCATION:RM 110 | Council Chamber
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nChapel Hill's town council opened legislative hearings on three conditional zoning applications: a mixed-use project of up to 575 apartments and 135 townhomes at 860 Weaver Dairy Road\, a 170-unit project at 115 Chapel Point Road\, and a 76-unit townhome development at 5640 Old Chapel Hill Road. The council heard extensive public comment and staff and applicant presentations on each\, then continued all three hearings to later meetings rather than voting on them that night. The council also adopted a resolution authorizing the town to enter opioid settlement agreements and called a hearing on an omnibus set of land use ordinance changes covering housing\, permitting\, signs and parking.\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2025/9/2302_A_Town_Council_25-09-24_Council_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1610
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2302&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2112@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250930
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251001
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review is set to hear nine 2025 revaluation appeals\, from a lakefront home on S. Lakeshore Drive to a 57.66-acre tract on Mt. Willing Road and a condo unit on West Franklin Street. Each owner is contesting the county's assessed value\, and the board weighs evidence from both sides on every parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09302025-2401\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2112
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09302025-2401
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1521@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners meet for a work session on October 6\, 2025\, opening with a 30-minute public comment period. The consent agenda includes a capital project amendment shifting $80\,300 to help buy a 25-acre conservation easement on Tilley Farm\, with $213\,000 coming from the Army National Guard's REPI program for a total purchase price of $293\,300\, plus a $14\,470 change to RND Architects' design contract for water-damage repairs at Stanford L. Warren Library\, bringing that contract to $242\,669. Other consent items include an extension of the interlocal crisis-communications agreement with the City of Durham\, a $1\,861.78 agreement with Central Pines Regional Council for the Triangle Region Solid Waste Consortium\, and several public health grant budget amendments.\n\nDiscussion items include an operational update from the Public Defender's Office\, a presentation on the 26-mile Durham-to-Roxboro Rail Trail Plan\, board comment on a proposed annexation for Hamlin Reserve outside the Urban Growth Boundary\, and a look at the framework for the FY 2026-27 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1512\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1521
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1512
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2046@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251009
SUMMARY:Orange County: Meeting Canceled
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment had one case on its calendar: a quasi-judicial appeal of interpretation from The Brough Law Firm\, on behalf of Bandit Farms and HarperGrace LLC\, over whether farm stays on property known as Union Grove Farm were correctly classified as a principal farm use rather than agritourism. The applicant withdrew the case on September 30\, 2025\, and the county canceled the October 8 meeting\; no other business was scheduled.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082025-2398\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2046
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082025-2398
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1560@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251013T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251013T193000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Board of County Commissioners meets in closed session at 5:30 p.m. on a personnel matter before its regular session\, where it recognizes Brad Caison as the county's HIV Navigator and Bridget Nelson as its new Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience Coordinator\, and proclaims October 2025 Domestic Violence Awareness Month\, citing the survivor-led nonprofit Shining Light In Darkness. A second closed session\, on economic development incentives\, follows the regular agenda.\n\nThe consent agenda's largest items include a $293\,300 farmland conservation easement from Wesley and Cristan Poole\, funded in part by $213\,000 from the Army National Guard's Readiness and Environmental Protection program\; a $142\,415 sole-source purchase from SimuLab for difficult-airway training equipment\; and the creation of three new positions\, including a $131\,000 Senior Project Manager\, in the Sewer Utility Enterprise Fund to support a $65 million to $100 million program renewing aging lift stations and the Triangle Wastewater Treatment Plant. The board also commits $62\,505 in current renewable-energy rebates toward future efficiency and fleet-electrification projects. Only the agenda has been published for this meeting\, with no minutes available\, so how any of these items were voted is not on the record.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1513\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1560
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1513
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-75@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251017T110000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting Agenda with the Climate Change Advisory Committee for a Climate Retreat Day 1
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center located at 1192 US Hwy 64 West Business in Pittsboro
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's Board of Commissioners spends a full day with the Climate Change Advisory Committee on the first of a two-day climate retreat\, hearing from outside experts on climate science\, how other communities build climate action plans\, and how to engage residents on the subject. The day closes with a look at agriculture as a starting sector for a future county climate plan.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/10/1435_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-10-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/75
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1435&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4206@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251023T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met on 23 October 2025 to take up what came out of the first day of the county's climate retreat\, held the week before\, and to set agriculture goals for the climate action plan the commissioners had asked for.\n\nThe environmental quality director also reported\, and the committee looked ahead to the retreat's second day on 6 November.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/74893/638967169354300000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4206
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47364/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2098@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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-1546@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Board of County Commissioners reviews the pending Research Triangle Park rezoning and UDO text amendment\, covering 164 parcels across 5\,059 acres\, ahead of a November 24 public hearing\, then suspends its own rules to move two rail-trail funding items: a $500\,000 Great Trails grant agreement and a $1\,151\,445 NCDOT agreement (netting $223\,000 in county cost) to acquire the 26-mile Durham-to-Roxboro corridor before a November 19 closing deadline. The county's financial advisor presents strategies for capital improvement planning and preserving Durham's bond rating\, and staff brief the board on the Durham Bus Rapid Transit Vision Plan and on the federal shutdown's effect on SNAP and Medicaid\, citing nearly $6 million in November SNAP benefits at risk for 32\,529 Durham residents.\n\nIn items carried over from the October 27 regular session\, the board considers reallocating $1\,690\,296 in ARPA funds\, pausing the DCo Thrives guaranteed income pilot amid pending state legislation and redirecting the money\, along with $199\,590 cut from an East Durham Market SNAP pilot\, to raise the Early Years childcare grant to $4\,090\,296. Also on that agenda: a $182\,173 commissioning contract for the new Durham City/County Emergency Operations Center and a $3\,020\,000 appropriation toward a $2\,476\,112.96 construction contract for a temporary OES fleet maintenance facility. The work session also previews the following week's consent agenda\, topped by a 10-year\, $3\,112\,658.44 Taser contract with Axon Enterprise.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1516\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1546
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1516
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4191@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Special Meeting
LOCATION:Cooperative Extension Conference Room - Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 Business\, Pittsboro\, LEFT ENTRANCE TO AGRICULTURE & CONFERENCE CENTER Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board met on 4 November 2025 for one thing: reviewing the 2026 farmland preservation projects it recommends to the county commissioners. The agenda carries five lines and nothing else.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/74975/638974314229600000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4191
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/49618/1795
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2227@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2161@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1557@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251110T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251110T193000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Board of County Commissioners meets in closed session at 5:30 p.m. on a personnel matter before opening its regular session\, where commissioners honor the life and legacy of DeWarren K. Langley\, introduce new Early Childhood Coordinator Ileana Vink\, and proclaim November 19 GIS Day. Under Other Business\, the board considers a $159\,547 contract with Key Environmental Consulting for a food system assessment and 10-year strategic plan\, responding to food insecurity the county estimates affects 14% of its residents. A second closed session\, on economic development incentives\, follows the regular agenda.\n\nThe consent agenda's largest items include a 10-year\, $3\,112\,658.44 contract with Axon Enterprise to replace and expand the Sheriff's Office's Taser inventory to 200 units\; a purchase of five Braun Liberty ambulances from Spartan Fire and Emergency Apparatus not to exceed $2\,119\,440.00\; a $1\,001\,500 budget amendment recognizing city and county funds for the Low-Income Homeowners Tax Relief Program\; a $764\,499.84 Sheriff's Office FY26 vehicle equipment contract\; $587\,393.88 in PAYGO funding for Sheriff's Office body-worn cameras\; and the purchase of 32 acres at 3601 Southwest Durham Drive to permanently protect open space along the New Hope Creek corridor.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1517\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1557
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1517
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2028@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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
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UID:meeting-2332@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2045@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-553@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Regular Town Council Meeting *NOTE THURSDAY*
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nApex's town council holds four public hearings November 13: three small annexations on Roberts Road\, Evans Road and Secluded Acres\, and two linked rezoning cases -- the Hopson Gateway PUD and an associated transportation plan amendment\, and the Veridea Expansion IV. The council also holds a hearing on the November batch of Unified Development Ordinance amendments.\n\nConsent items include a funding commitment to the Raleigh Area Land Trust to help buy ten townhomes in the Huxley development\, a construction contract for HVAC renovation at Public Safety Station No. 4\, and final action on the Ashburn PUD rezoning. New business includes an ordinance on temporary seating in rights-of-way at special events and a council member's request to discuss student parking near 8008 Humie Olive Road. The council closes with four closed sessions on personnel and attorney-client matters.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/apexnc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-5a77db3d82744bf99be70f1d95d8777e.pdf\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/553
URL:https://apex-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-towncouncil/page/regular-town-council-meeting-note-thursday-0
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-31@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T160000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County commissioners take up a $234\,000 loan to the Raleigh Area Land Trust for affordable homeownership in Apex\, in the Prestwick and Huxley subdivisions. It is the only item outside the consent agenda. The consent agenda includes a construction contract for the Second Street Place renovation in Raleigh and an easement for the county's farmland preservation program. It also includes mutual aid agreements with 12 municipalities. The board also recognizes three retiring employees and hears public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2025/11/6197_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-11-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/31
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6197&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-79@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners take up a first-plat review for Riverbend Estates at Laurel Ridge\, a 107-lot subdivision on 622 acres off Rock Rest and Old Graham roads\, at a joint work session and regular meeting. The agenda also includes public hearings on a countywide zoning text amendment to permit gyms and yoga studios in Industrial Light districts and a 66-acre rezoning at 3378 Christian Chapel Church Road for a recreational facility\, plus a consent agenda covering park\, library and reappraisal contracts.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/11/1426_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-11-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/79
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1426&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2036@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2147@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board takes up a budget update and Savannah Bananas planning under the executive director's report\, plus a communications and digital strategy update from bureau staff. UNC's newly appointed director of special projects\, Marcus Ginyard\, addresses the board on coordination between the university and local governments. Board members also share community updates.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2446\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2147
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2446
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2003@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251122
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners held the last of their educational sessions on the 2050 land use plan\, this one on conservation subdivisions\, with planning consultant Randall Arendt presenting. Planning director Cy Stober framed the questions: where in the county these belong\, where they would do most good\, and how to build them from what the board has learned. A facilitated discussion on next steps followed.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212025-2449\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/34?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2003
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212025-2449
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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
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UID:meeting-1548@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners held two incentive hearings on 8 December\, worth $6.25 million between them. The larger is up to $5\,500\,000 for Novartis Gene Therapies\, covering two manufacturing projects that the county says will create about 280 jobs and $540 million of investment over five years. The smaller is up to $750\,000 for Aspida Financial Services to build its headquarters in Durham\, against roughly 1\,000 jobs and $28.75 million. Both are performance-based: nothing is paid until the county verifies each year that the company met its job\, investment and community targets\, and the money comes out of the new tax revenue the projects themselves generate. Novartis also agreed to give $35\,000 a year to the schools foundation and about $100\,000 of equipment to Durham Tech.\n\nThe third hearing was franchises for four companies to run non-emergency ambulance transport in the county\, which the code requires a hearing for. A twelve-item consent agenda carried the rest\, the largest piece being $865\,273.57 with Stryker for ambulance equipment -- eleven power cot loaders\, 45 stair chairs and seven mechanical CPR devices -- and $1\,524\,565 to HDR Engineering for the East Durham rail project\, most of it grant money against a $305\,000 local match. Only the agenda is published for this meeting\, so the votes are not on the record here.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1521\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1548
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1521
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2044@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2170@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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
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UID:meeting-81@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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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UID:meeting-33@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260105T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260105T190000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County's Board of Commissioners handled a routine consent agenda at this meeting: a $12.1 million construction contract for renovating the Hammond Road Detention Annex\, a fund transfer of uncommitted rollback tax revenue into the county's capital fund for agricultural conservation easements\, a resolution accepting a donation of historic maps to NC State's special collections\, 2026 appointments to regional boards\, and Tax Committee recommendations on gross receipts penalties and refund requests. The board also adopted a proclamation for the Cary Alumni Chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity's Day of Service.\n\nOn the regular agenda\, the board received (without formal action) the county's Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for fiscal year 2025\, then worked through nine board and commission appointments spanning adult care\, workforce development\, fire services\, historic preservation\, housing\, juvenile justice\, and planning boards\, plus a preview of vacancies coming open in February 2026. The meeting closed with commissioner reports and a closed session.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/1/6201_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-01-05_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/33
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6201&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1678@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260106T174300
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260106T194300
SUMMARY:Town of Wake Forest: Board of Commissioners Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners Work Session\n\nWake Forest's Board of Commissioners work session covers several draft ordinances and planning items\, none of which are voted on at a work session but are teed up for future action. The board discusses a conservation easement on the Pate property\, an ordinance on motorized scooters and e-bikes\, an updated five-year capital improvements plan\, a handicapped-parking ordinance\, a speed-limit ordinance for NC 98\, and introduction of a 2026 expansion of a municipal service district.\n\nThe board also reviews the November monthly financial report\, previews the draft agenda for its Jan. 20 regular meeting\, and takes up a resolution to adopt a formal process for filling board vacancies. The session ends with a closed session under the personnel-related exemption and commissioner reports.\n\nAgenda: https://wake-forest.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1908\nWatch: https://wake-forest.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1678
URL:https://wake-forest.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1908
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1572@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council takes up a large consent agenda of contracts and grants alongside three land-use public hearings. The consent items include several committee appointments\, a $2 million interlocal agreement funding Durham Tech's street and right-of-way upgrades near its new Health Sciences Building\, a $24.2 million construction amendment for Fire/EMS Station 19\, cooperative purchases of police and patrol vehicles and rear-loading trash trucks\, and multiple HUD/CDBG and ARPA grant actions tied to Hayti Promise Community Development Corporation's Southside and Fayetteville Street Corridor revitalization work. Also on consent: sewer and watershed-protection contract amendments with CDM Smith\, funding for a conservation easement in the Davis watershed area\, and a bike-lane design contract amendment for downtown Durham.\n\nThe council will hold public hearings on three land-use cases: consolidated annexation of the 'Brittmore' development with a rezoning to residential use\, a zoning map change to allow the Andrews Chapel Apartments project\, and consolidated annexation of the 'Trenton Road Assemblage.' Each involves an annexation or rezoning ordinance plus a required state-law consistency statement. As an agenda rather than minutes\, the document does not report how these items were ultimately decided.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3272\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1572
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3272
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2035@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board considers a final draft of its Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan\, revised by a subcommittee\, before sending it to the county commissioners. The board also hears a progress report on the county's present-use value audit and gets updates on the voluntary agricultural district program.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2495\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2035
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2495
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1193@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Holly Springs: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nHolly Springs' Planning Board reviews two land-use cases on January 27: a rezoning petition known as the Mira Ridge Rezoning (24-REZ-07)\, and a major subdivision plan for 975 Avent Ferry Road (25-MAS-04). The agenda gives no detail on either beyond the case numbers.\n\nThe rest of the meeting is routine: minutes from November\, a Town Council action overview\, and committee and development services reports.\n\nAgenda: https://hollyspringsnc.api.civicclerk.com/v1/Meetings/GetMeetingFileStream(fileId=1113\,plainText=false)\nWatch: https://www.hollyspringsnc.gov/501/Video-Archives\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1193
URL:https://hollyspringsnc.portal.civicclerk.com/event/597/overview
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1538@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners' March 2 work session took comment on an annexation request for a 69.16-acre tract at 4802 Cheek Road\, where developer Humabuilt wants to shift from county Residential Rural zoning to city Planned Development Residential to connect to city water and sewer and build up to 190 homes\, mixing townhouses and single-family units. The board also got its first look at the proposed Mangum Fire Protection Service District\, needed because Moriah Volunteer Fire and Rescue says it can no longer serve that Rougemont-area territory without dedicated county revenue\; a public hearing follows at the March 9 regular meeting.\n\nStaff briefed the board on the Capital Improvement Plan\, county economic development and utilities infrastructure needs\, and progress on greenhouse gas and renewable energy goals. Commissioners also worked through a 15-item consent agenda -- including grant funding for the Farm Campus\, food security and public health programs\, and a $401\,025 contingency increase for the OES Fleet Maintenance construction contract -- that goes to the March 9 regular meeting for a vote.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1528\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1538
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1528
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1995@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260306
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners received the final report on neighborhood reviews and revaluation appeals on March 5\, closing out the assessment cycle that had occupied the board of equalization and review and a separate work group for months. They also renewed employee health and dental insurance and continued the county's participation in the state health insurance pool.\n\nThe board took up its proposed 2026 priority legislative issues\, which it adopted later in March\, and adopted a Women's History Month proclamation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052026-2537\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/41?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1995
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052026-2537
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1535@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260309T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260309T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners' March 9 agenda held a public hearing on creating the Mangum Fire Protection Service District\, after Moriah Volunteer Fire and Rescue said it can no longer cover that Rougemont-area territory without dedicated revenue. Staff also briefed the board on a recommendation to replace the county's 2005-era SAP enterprise resource planning system with Oracle\, at a $5.19 million platform cost\, with a contract expected in April and phased implementation over three to four years.\n\nThe consent agenda ran to more than two dozen items\, including $475\,000 in Golden LEAF Foundation funding to launch a Durham County Farm Campus and a new farm manager position\, a $401\,025 contingency increase for the OES Fleet Maintenance construction contract with Samet Construction (to a not-to-exceed $3\,100\,944)\, $584\,085 toward the 500 E. Main St. downtown parking project\, and a $234\,000 emergency HVAC chiller replacement at the Southwest Regional Library.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1530\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1535
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1530
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260310T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Cooperative Extension Conference Room - Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 Business\, Pittsboro\, LEFT ENTRANCE TO AGRICULTURE & CONFERENCE CENTER Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board met on 10 March at the agriculture center to review membership applications\, take the farmland preservation report\, and plan the annual update it presents to the commissioners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/75735/639057216608130000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4190
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/51635/1795
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board reviewed and approved new farms for the voluntary agricultural district on March 18\, the one decision on its agenda. Voluntary agricultural districts give farms some protection from nuisance complaints and a formal signal that the land is meant to stay in agriculture.\n\nThe board also discussed the single membership application it had on file and how to recruit more\, took an update on the Land Use Plan 2050\, and looked for agriculture-themed photographs to illustrate the final draft of its Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2556\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2034
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2556
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260319T160000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe Board of Commissioners held a public hearing and approved a Business Development Grant Agreement with Ralliant Corporation\, an incentive tied to the county's economic development policy\, and separately approved the schematic design for a new EMS Station 5 on Hargrove Road in Raleigh.\n\nThe rest of the meeting was routine business. An eight-item consent agenda covered additional pharmacy program funding\, a WIC program grant agreement with the state\, reimbursement funding for farmland preservation at Freeman Garcia Farm\, a joint-use agreement with Holly Springs for its community library and cultural center\, capital budget adjustments\, and construction contracts for the Animal Center HVAC system\, the South Wake Landfill gas collection expansion\, and a WakeBrook building renovation. The board also recognized a retiring employee and went into closed session before adjourning.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/3/6211_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-03-19_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/44
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6211&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260324
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Legislative Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners set their 2026 priority legislative issues on March 23\, aligning what they will ask the General Assembly for with the state association of county commissioners' advocacy goals and the county's own strategic plan.\n\nThe list runs across agriculture\, environment\, health and human services\, justice and public safety\, public education\, and tax and finance. The county's top-tier goal is protecting and expanding farmland preservation programs.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03232026-2559\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=85\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1990
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03232026-2559
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260323T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260323T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners' March 23 agenda centered on a public hearing on a proposed economic development agreement with Welcome Venture Park\, LLC\, developer of a 157-acre industrial park off Hamlin Road. The deal would pay the company $1 million toward sewer upgrades once complete and give the county a six-month option to buy an adjacent 7.81-acre parcel near the planned Durham-to-Roxboro Rail Trail for $1 million\, plus a commitment to internships and workforce programs. The board also held its advance public comment session on the FY 2026-27 budget and filled five board and commission vacancies.\n\nCeremonial items marked 25 years of Durham County farmland protection covering 20 farms and 2\,491 acres\, alongside proclamations for National County Government Month\, Second Chance Month and Fair Housing Month. The consent agenda included a $25\,000 interlocal agreement with the City of Durham to fund a consultant on a homelessness strategy\, an $82\,500 transfer to replace a Fire Marshal's Office vehicle\, and the removal of a citizen board member from the Environmental Affairs Board for repeated absences.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1531\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1550
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1531
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Regular Town Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nApex's town council took seven public hearings on 24 March 2026\, most of them the same cases its planning board had reviewed two weeks earlier. Welch Homestead comes with both an annexation and a rezoning for up to 270 homes on about 83 acres north of Old US 1. Camp Branch Lane is a smaller rezoning off Holland Road\, and a third annexation covers two small parcels at 631 Wimberly Road.\n\nThree of the hearings deal with the Tingen Road railway crossing\, which closes when the Peakway Southwest connector bridge opens: the feasibility study for a pedestrian and cycle tunnel to replace it\, and two transportation plan amendments. The council also appointed the organizing board of directors for the Peak City Land Trust. Four closed sessions\, all on personnel\, were scheduled at the end.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/apexnc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-93c5cc793e77412f943cb32658159740.pdf\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/538
URL:https://apex-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-towncouncil/page/regular-town-council-meeting-83
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission had three decisions on March 25\, all of them about Montrose or the nation's 250th anniversary. It evaluated Montrose for landmark designation and started the process of an interlocal agreement with the Town of Hillsborough to designate it\, which is needed because the property sits in Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction. It also decided whether to join the statewide Landmark Tree project.\n\nUnder updates the commission took a proposed memorial marker honoring the enslaved community associated with St. Matthew's Church\, progress toward National Register listing for Moorefields\, and the donation process and timeline for the Harvey's Chapel cemetery.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2168
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T190000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThis is the Wake County Board of Commissioners' regular meeting for April 6\, 2026. Most of the substantive business is on the consent agenda: added funding for the GoWake Access paratransit program and the Nurse-Family Partnership\, a technical correction to a school capital-improvement resolution\, construction contracts for two Holly Springs library projects and a solar system at the Marbles Kids Museum/IMAX Theater\, a plat-review designation for Morrisville\, and tax-committee recommendations on penalties and refunds.\n\nThe board also opens with three ceremonial proclamations (Fair Housing Month\, Nepal Day\, and a fraternity charter-day recognition)\, takes public comment\, fills several advisory-board and commission vacancies\, hears routine reports\, and closes with a closed session before adjourning. Nothing on this agenda is a contested land-use or budget item.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/4/6213_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-04-06_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/48
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6213&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Regular Town Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nTwo public hearings stand out on an otherwise routine Apex council agenda: a proposed 12-month moratorium on accepting or approving new development applications for data centers\, cryptocurrency mining\, and related data-processing uses\, and the annual public hearing on the town's fiscal year 2026-27 operating budget. A third hearing covers a 2-acre annexation on Twin Creek Road\; a separate 5-acre annexation on the same road is moving through on the consent agenda as a distinct case.\n\nThe rest of the meeting is routine business: 17 consent items covering service agreements (solid waste consortium\, event vendors\, a wastewater flow-data contract)\, five annexations including a 120-acre tract tied to the large Veridea development\, a tax report\, and board appointments to the culture and arts\, transportation\, and parks and recreation advisory boards. A council member is sponsoring a resolution to create a task force on community resilience and wellbeing. Two items — a memorandum of understanding with NC Children's Hospital and an automated license plate reader program update — were pulled from the agenda before the meeting and did not come up for consideration.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/apexnc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-a15ff460a2124bfc982fccec92075906.pdf\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@TownofApexGov/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/537
URL:https://apex-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-towncouncil/page/regular-town-council-meeting-84
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners open an afternoon work session with proclamations for Child Abuse Prevention Month\, Foster Care Awareness Month\, Black Maternal Health Week and Older Americans Month\, plus a resolution opposing state limits on county property tax authority. The agenda adds presentations on farmland preservation funding\, the Pittsboro Redevelopment Project\, a regional transportation needs study and a new GIS flood-mapping tool\, along with a review of the board's own rules of procedure and a discussion of the county's contract with Flock Safety\, a license-plate-reader camera vendor.\n\nThe evening regular session carries a long consent agenda -- budget amendments\, tax administration items\, a $251\,294 state trails grant\, a Duke Energy street-lighting easement in Pittsboro\, and a subdivision ordinance update tied to state fire code -- followed by five public hearings: closing a stretch of NC Highway 902\, delaying the county's Unified Development Ordinance effective date\, a 292-acre rezoning to heavy industrial off Christian Chapel Church Road\, a joint land-use plan amendment with Cary near Earnest Jones Road\, and a 372-acre conditional-district rezoning off Andrews Store Road.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/4/1462_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-04-20_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/90
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1462&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260422
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County holds its public hearing on a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centres as a land use - explicitly including artificial intelligence data centres\, cryptocurrency mining and data processing facilities. Also on the agenda: a $1.7 million loan to a volunteer fire district\, and a discussion of the county's communications approach. The published packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/49?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1986
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE: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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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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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA morning work session where the county first asks itself what it needs to know about data centres. Also on the agenda: the final recommended 2027 transit work programme\, the annual funding plan for outside agencies\, hospital board appointments\, and a rules suspension to pass a budget amendment.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1545\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1542
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1545
CATEGORIES:Work session
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260603
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThree substantial items: how the county spends next year's opioid settlement money\, acceptance of a farmland stewardship plan replacing one from 2009\, and notice to terminate a 99-year interlocal agreement under which the county collects taxes for its municipalities. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/58?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1977
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe ordinance review committee\, meeting straight after the regular board with 85 pages of proposed development ordinance amendments in front of it. Attendance is voluntary and no quorum is needed - this is where the text is worked over before the board recommends on it.\n\nThe package is the planning director's omnibus set\, and it kept coming back: the committee took it again on 1 July\, 12 August and 2 September\, each time carried forward. Much of it is the table of permitted uses\, the grid that decides which uses are allowed\, allowed with conditions\, or need a special use permit in each zoning district - farm supply stores\, feed mills\, commercial stables\, stockyards and livestock markets among them.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2618\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2238
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2618
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T193000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nBudget adoption night for Durham County\, taken under other business rather than as a hearing - state law requires the annual budget to be adopted no later than 1 July. Before it\, thirty-five minutes of ceremonial items including a resolution honouring a life of service and sacrifice\, and proclamations for National Pride Month\, Women Veterans Day\, Gun Violence Awareness Month and National Re-Unification Month.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1548\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1539
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1548
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260609T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260609T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Cooperative Extension Conference Room - Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 Business\, Pittsboro\, LEFT ENTRANCE TO AGRICULTURE & CONFERENCE CENTER Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board met on 9 June at Woodland Farm on NC 902 and took its first update on the Enbridge pipeline\, the item that would occupy it through the summer. It also reviewed voluntary agricultural district applications\, discussed a new member application\, and took the farmland preservation report.\n\nThe board set its next meeting for 8 September\, and in the event held a special meeting on 30 July to call a public hearing on the pipeline for 18 August.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77123/639159981209330000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4189
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53105/1795
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T160000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County commissioners consider buying two Athens Drive parcels in Raleigh for a new Southwest Raleigh library\, choosing between that site and an alternative on Tryon Road. They hold public hearings on renaming a stretch of Ligon Mill Road to Old Ligon Mill Road and on Ordinance Amendment OA-01-26\, which would reorganize Wake County Development Services within the Unified Development Ordinance. The board also considers the schematic design for Crowder County Park Expansion Phase I and the Wake County Farmland Preservation Plan.\n\nA 15-item consent agenda includes construction contracts for the North Regional Library roof and the South Wilmington Street Center kitchen\, a $202\,766 U.S. Department of Justice grant\, and the proposed bond referenda for schools and Wake Technical Community College for the November 2026 ballot. The board also meets in closed session on the County Manager's and Interim County Attorney's compensation.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/6/6233_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-06-15_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/60
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6233&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-95@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners adopted the FY 2026-2027 Budget Ordinance on June 15\, alongside amended financial and budgetary policies and several capital project ordinance amendments covering a Chatham County Schools HVAC replacement\, Briar Chapel Park (including a Phase II project)\, an Emergency Operations Center expansion\, and a new Sheriff's Office administration building. The evening's public hearings include a $14 million capital-investment economic development incentive grant request for Mosaic Hospitality LLC\, a legislative rezoning of about 20.7 acres on Silk Hope Gum Springs Road for outdoor sports fields including cricket grounds\, and a quasi-judicial Special Use Permit for a contractor's storage yard on Campbell Road in Bear Creek requested by Lockley Holdings\, LLC -- a case that would still be unresolved when it reappeared on the board's August 17 agenda. Two large subdivisions\, Webster Farm (132 lots) and Hickory Mountain Reserve (48 lots)\, come up for first-plat approval\; both cases would appear again\, apparently undecided\, on the board's July 27 agenda.\n\nThe consent agenda runs to dozens of routine contracts -- solid waste hauling and recycling agreements\, software and IT subscription renewals\, a Human Services Funding Program-style Home and Community Care Block Grant acceptance of $724\,467\, School Nurse funding with Chatham County Schools\, and pyrotechnics display permits for two July 4 events. The board also receives a presentation on filling a District 3 Board of Commissioners vacancy. Only the agenda was available\, not minutes\, so outcomes\, vote splits\, and public comment on the hearings are not recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/6/1459_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-06-15_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/95
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1459&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-621@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260622
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260623
SUMMARY:Town of Pittsboro: Special Joint Session of the Board of Commissioners-Executive Meeting with Chatham County\, Town of Siler City and Town of Goldston 6pm
DESCRIPTION:1. Board of Commissioners (BOC)\n\nPittsboro's Board of Commissioners met on June 22\, 2026 in a special joint session with the Chatham County Board of Commissioners and the Boards of Commissioners of Goldston and Siler City\, each calling its own meeting to order in the same room at the Chatham County Agricultural Center. The session was informational: officials heard updates on the Scale Chatham economic-development effort and the TriRiver regional water project\, and all four governments took turns presenting their own year's highlights. No votes were taken on the substance\; Pittsboro's own board adjourned on a 5-0 vote.\n\nAgenda: https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06222026-554\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@townofpittsboronc/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/621
URL:https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06222026-554
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1465@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Pittsboro: Special Joint Session of the Board of Commissioners-Executive Meeting with Chatham County\, Town of Siler City and Town of Goldston
DESCRIPTION:1. Board of Commissioners (BOC)\n\nA joint session on 22 June bringing Chatham County's commissioners together with Pittsboro\, Siler City and Goldston. Each government gave its annual highlights\, and the county and towns took a TriRiver Water update — the regional utility that now runs water and sewer for much of the county.\n\nThe session opened with a Scale Chatham presentation from the NC IDEA Foundation\, the entrepreneurship program that came back to Pittsboro's commissioners in September. This account is written from the item list the town published\; the agenda document was not reachable when it was written.\n\nAgenda: https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06222026-554\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@townofpittsboronc/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1465
URL:https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06222026-554
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-1536@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThirty-five minutes of ceremonial items open this one: a new chief fire marshal introduced\, a soil and water director recognised for 42 years\, fifty years of general services\, and proclamations for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day\, Durham Refugee Day and Summer Learning Week. Then a consent agenda that includes next year's opioid settlement spending\, and a fifty-minute public hearing block with one zoning map change in it.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1549\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1536
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1549
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-64@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260706T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260706T160000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe agenda holds public hearings on bond orders for two proposed November 3\, 2026 referenda: a two-year\, $680 million bond for Wake County Public Schools and a four-year\, $149.1 million bond for Wake Technical Community College. Adopting the orders on second reading would put both measures on the fall ballot.\n\nThe board also plans to add a floor resolution honoring Dr. Prezell R. Robinson\, the late eighth president of St. Augustine's University\; act on three anniversary proclamations\, for Wake County EMS\, Wake County Parks\, Recreation and Open Space\, and the Americans with Disabilities Act\; take up a 13-item consent agenda covering a Microsoft licensing agreement\, a Public Safety Center sprinkler-replacement contract\, a Dillard Drive lease assumption and other routine business\; and vote on July appointments to nine citizen advisory boards.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/7/6235_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-07-06_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/64
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6235&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2032@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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-98@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260727T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260727T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners' July 27 session is one of the heaviest of the summer. On the consent agenda\, the board votes to direct the county attorney to send notice terminating the economic development agreement between the county and VinFast Manufacturing USA\, LLC -- ending an incentive deal for the electric vehicle plant. Also on consent: a $424\,550 five-year contract with Priority Dispatch for the Emergency Communications Center\, additional Farmland Preservation Fund money for the Dry Creek Farm conservation easement\, a quasi-judicial approval of a 199-foot wireless tower near Goldston\, and interlocal tax-collection agreements with Pittsboro\, Apex\, Cary\, Goldston\, and Siler City. The board also announces a special meeting for public comment on the proposed Enbridge Gas pipeline expansion (held the following week) and adopts a resolution backing the Downtown Pittsboro Public Properties Pre-Development Analysis.\n\nThe evening's public hearings and land-use votes are substantial: a legislative rezoning by Fearrington Property Development\, LLC of roughly 372 acres off Andrews Store\, Parker Herndon\, and Morris roads from Residential to a Conditional District Compact Community\; a vote on EC PROPCO\, LLC's 292-acre rezoning from Residential to Heavy Industrial off Christian Chapel Church Road\; and first-plat approvals for two large subdivisions -- Webster Farm (132 lots on 183 acres) and Hickory Mountain Reserve (48 lots on 164 acres). Only the agenda was available\, not minutes\, so outcomes\, vote splits\, and public comment on these items are not recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/7/1479_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-07-27_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/98
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1479&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4188@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260730T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260730T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Special Meeting
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 W Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board met on 30 July to decide whether to hold a public hearing on what the proposed Enbridge pipeline would do to farms. Twelve people had asked for one. The board also reviewed this year's slate of voluntary agricultural district applications.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77548/639198747157300000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4188
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53890/1795
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-4195@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260730T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260730T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met by video on 30 July. Its recommendation for an extended data center moratorium had gone to the planning department\, and the committee took an update on where it stood. The other standing item was the climate action plan\, where the county had just hired Blue Strike as its consultant.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77621/639207643012500000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4195
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52263/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-1522@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260803T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260803T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA morning work session with 160 minutes of discussion\, opening with half an hour of citizen comments. The three big items: comprehensive plan policy changes going to a hearing the following week\, an hour on a draft data centre moratorium\, and an hour on the capital improvement plan. The board also starts putting together its statewide legislative asks for 2027 and names a voting delegate to the state association's conference.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1552\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1522
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1552
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-2153@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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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UID:meeting-1552@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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-2233@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOne rezoning: 20.51 acres at 9825 NC Highway 49 in Cedar Grove\, from agricultural residential to a non-residential conditional district\, so the county's own alcohol board can build a store there. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2646\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2233
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2646
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-100@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260817T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260817T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners' August 17 session runs an afternoon work session into an evening regular session with a heavy land-use docket. The regular session's consent agenda includes a $150\,000 Deep River State Trail feasibility study\, a $477\,558 economic development services contract\, two public safety radio tower repair contracts\, and a scheduled September 21 hearing on special-use-permit zoning text amendments. The evening brings four public hearings: county-initiated zoning text amendments to update bona fide farm exemptions and permitted-use tables for state-law compliance\; revised commercial and industrial landscaping design guidelines\; a rezoning of a 4.089-acre parcel on Bonlee Bennett Road from Neighborhood Business to Residential requested by Candace Beal\; and a quasi-judicial hearing on a proposed 199-foot wireless telecommunications tower on Andrews Store Road requested by Anthemnet\, Inc.\, open to evidence from people with standing on direct property impact.\n\nThe board then votes on two other land-use cases: a legislative rezoning by EC PROPCO\, LLC of 292.288 acres off Christian Chapel Church Road from Residential to Heavy Industrial -- by far the largest acreage change on this agenda -- and a quasi-judicial Special Use Permit for a contractor's storage yard on Campbell Road in Bear Creek. Only the agenda was available for this meeting\, not minutes\, so outcomes\, vote splits\, and any public comment on these hearings are not recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/8/1481_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-08-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/100
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1481&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-68@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260817T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260817T160000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County commissioners passed a 24-item consent agenda August 17 covering an opioid-settlement spending resolution\, a $1\,548\,850 construction contract to rebuild the North Wake Household Hazardous Waste Facility\, a forest-land protection agreement with the state\, a Sheriff's Office off-duty scheduling contract\, easements conveyed to the City of Raleigh\, and capital-improvement appropriations for Wake County Public School System and Wake Tech. On the regular agenda\, the board held a public hearing confirming a special assessment roll for road improvements at the Preserve at Long Branch Farms subdivision\, approved an amendment to its Affordable Housing HOME-ARP allocation plan reprogramming money toward permanent housing\, updated its Business Development Grant Policy to add a new incentive tier for large ('transformational') projects\, and held a second public hearing on proposed amendments to WakeMed's Articles of Incorporation and transfer agreement -- a governance matter for the public hospital authority.\n\nEvery recorded item passed. The record available for this meeting reports each motion as carried but does not include the individual roll-call tally\, so whether any of these votes were split is not captured here. The board also worked through a slate of appointments to boards including the Fire Commission\, Historic Preservation Commission\, and Library Commission\, then closed session.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/8/6242_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-08-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/68
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6242&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4187@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260818T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260818T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Public Hearing
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 W Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board held a public hearing on 18 August on what the proposed Enbridge pipeline would do to farmland\, and set aside two and a half hours for it. Comment was limited to three minutes a speaker\, once each\, and strictly to agricultural impacts. Residents could sign up by email until noon that day or in person in the twenty minutes before the meeting\, and the two lists were alternated.\n\nThe board took Enbridge itself and the voluntary agricultural district members as its other two items. Its draft report on the hearing came back to the board on 8 September\, and reached the county commissioners on 21 September\, the night they voted on a resolution opposing the pipeline.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77828/639220540694370000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4187
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/54108/1795
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4056@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260901T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 W Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board took two large subdivisions on 1 September. Fearrington Preserve is 574 lots on 365 acres off Andrews Store Road\, Parker Herndon Road and Morris Road\, and the same seven parcels come back as a rezoning: Fearrington Property Development asks to move about 371.8 acres in Baldwin Township from residential to a conditional district compact community. Floresta Springs is 83 lots on 157.08 acres off Alex Cockman and Elmer Keck Roads.\n\nThe board also heard a quasi-judicial request from Anthemnet for a 199-foot wireless tower at 1879 Andrews Store Road\, and took the county's own zoning text amendments\, which update the bona fide farm exemption and remove off-street parking requirements to stay in step with G.S. 160D. On consent were the revised design guidelines from the Appearance Commission\, a rezoning at 82 Bonlee Bennett Road\, and a year's extension of the first plat for New Hope Overlook.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77910/639231817465670000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4056
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/52281/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2565@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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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UID:meeting-2923@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners spent Tuesday's work session on two long-range plans and a $48.9 million building. The consent agenda carries a capital amendment appropriating $48\,919\,120 for the new Emergency Operations Center and a guaranteed maximum price contract with Bordeaux Construction not to exceed $45\,422\,037\, along with three agricultural conservation easements covering 312 acres on Thompson Road\, Johnson Mill Road and Roxboro Road.\n\nThe discussion items run to four hours of scheduled time. Staff bring the final report on the Cultural Roadmap Plan\, recommendations from the Durham Violence Reduction Working Group with a resolution endorsing them\, the 2026 Agriculture Development and Farmland Preservation Plan\, results from the 2025 Community Health Assessment survey of more than 1\,200 residents\, a first-quarter amendment to the Durham Transit work program\, and a resolution adopting a five-year framework to make homelessness rare and brief by 2031.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1557\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2923
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1557
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-3125@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T190000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County planning staff are asking the Board of Commissioners to deny a rezoning of 10.42 acres at 4605 Windy Knoll Road\, on the northeast edge of Raleigh between Knightdale and Rolesville. The owner wants the tract moved from residential R-30 to conditional industrial. Staff found the request inconsistent with the county comprehensive plan\, and the Planning Board voted 6-2 to recommend denial after taking the case up twice\, in June and again in August. The board holds the hearing Tuesday with two draft ordinances in front of it\, both written to refuse the petition.\n\nMost of the rest is consent business\, 22 items of it. The county would buy an agricultural conservation easement on the Dean Farm near Wendell\, sign a memorandum with Duke Energy covering the Harris nuclear plant\, and adjust affordable housing loans on Carlton Place Apartments on East Davie Street and on Fisher Grove. A second public hearing covers the county's 2028 application to the state community transportation program. Commissioners also set employee health and dental rates for 2027 and consider a resolution capping the fire tax district levy.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/9/6243_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-09-08_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3125
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6243&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4186@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 W Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board reviewed its draft report on the Enbridge pipeline at its 8 September quarterly meeting\, three weeks after holding a public hearing on what the pipeline would do to farmland. The board discussed what to do next with it. That report reached the county commissioners on 21 September\, the same night they voted on a resolution opposing the pipeline.\n\nThe board also took an update on the farmland preservation program ordinance\, reviewed voluntary agricultural district applications\, elected officers\, and opened a new business item on an agricultural impacts committee.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78090/639238575657430000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4186
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53107/1795
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2918@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260911
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners meet Thursday for the twice-yearly progress report on the countywide strategic plan\, and for a first look at a draft Strategic Communications and Civic Partnership Plan. The rest of the evening is appointments to thirteen advisory boards.\n\nThe communications plan would set a county-wide framework for how Orange County talks to residents and staff\, treating communication as a core public service rather than a support function. Its stated aims are clearer and more consistent messaging\, wider access\, stronger internal capacity\, and durable relationships with communities.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09102026-2664\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/67?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2918
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09102026-2664
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-2917@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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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UID:meeting-3849@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260914T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260914T193000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners committed to a new Emergency Operations Center and backup 911 call center on Monday\, appropriating $48.9 million and awarding Bordeaux Construction a guaranteed maximum price contract of up to $45.4 million. The building goes at 2422 Broad Street and is shared with the City of Durham: the total project budget is $55\,156\,315.24\, of which the county carries $25\,869\,253\, or 46.9 percent. The city council takes up its side on September 21.\n\nThe board also approved buying three agricultural conservation easements covering 313 acres\, at an estimated $3.5 million with federal funds expected to cover half. The rest of the agenda ran to public safety and health: a $330\,000 contract with Hayti Reborn - Justice Movement to coordinate violence interruption work\, a resolution endorsing the Durham Violence Reduction Working Group's recommendations\, a peer support specialist post funded from opioid settlement money\, and a $5.3 million equipment financing agreement letting Durham Public Schools buy about 1\,996 interactive classroom panels over five years. Staff presented the 2025 county-wide community health assessment survey\, which reached more than 1\,200 residents.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1558\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3849
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1558
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4005@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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-3944@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T210000
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council held a public hearing Thursday on an incentive agreement with AbbVie worth up to $9\,312\,721\, the only hearing on the agenda. The largest contract was elsewhere: a $32.4 million design-build award to CDM Constructors for the Durham water treatment plant under the Jordan Lake Water Supply Program\, with a contingency taking the ceiling to $35.6 million. Two more lift station contracts went to Carolina Civilworks for $2.3 million and $4.3 million.\n\nThe council also voted on a resolution adopting the Durham Cultural Roadmap\, presented at the September 10 work session\, and on filling seats on the Durham Housing Authority board and the Workers' Rights Commission. The consent agenda ran to two dozen items: 32 patrol vehicles and their up-fitting for $2.2 million together\, a $375\,000 public art contract at the Durham Aquatics Center\, land purchases for three sidewalk and bike projects including a condemnation on South Roxboro Street\, and $350\,000 of watershed protection money for the Tar River Land Conservancy's Dykes tracts.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2082\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3944
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2082
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3127@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260921T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260921T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners vote Monday evening on a resolution opposing the Enbridge gas pipeline\, a month after the Agriculture Advisory Board held its own public hearing on it. That board reports back the same night\, and the pipeline company's attorney has already written to the county about the zoning amendments further down the agenda.\n\nFour legislative rezoning hearings follow. US HWY 64 Properties asks to take 13.145 acres off US 64 West at Ridge View Road from residential to regional business\; RTP Gardens asks for conditional regional business zoning on a tract off Bob Horton Road near Apex\; a Corinth Road owner in Moncure asks to move from R-5 to R-1. The fourth is the county's own amendment to the special use permit process. A separate set of the county's own zoning amendments sits on the board priorities list\, including one that removes off-street parking requirements to keep the ordinance in step with G.S. 160D. The board also votes on the first plat for Whispering Creek\, 238 lots on 288.6 acres off Bynum Ridge Road\, and on a contractor's storage yard at 1656 Campbell Road in Bear Creek\, where one resident has asked the board to reopen the quasi-judicial hearing before it decides.\n\nThe afternoon work session is where the money is. Commissioners take a space needs study and master plan from Hobbs Architects and The Wooten Company\, a report on whether to run the Expanding Access to Early Learning initiative for a full year\, presentations on opioid settlement spending and farmland preservation\, and a $250\,000 mobile health clinic from Tesco Specialty Vehicles. They close the session with two closed sessions\, one of them on ECO TIP West LLC v. Chatham County.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/9/1485_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-09-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3127
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1485&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3126@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T110000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting - 2 Day Affordable Housing Retreat (9/28/2026 and 9/29/2026)
LOCATION:Agriculture and Conference Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners spend two full days on housing affordability\, meeting with the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee at the Agriculture and Conference Center on 28 and 29 September. Every business item is a presentation\, and the agenda calls for no vote.\n\nThe first day reviews the county's 2023 Housing Strategic Plan\, the range of housing services now offered in Chatham\, where those services go next\, and the housing authority's work. The second day opens with the advisory committee's recommendations\, among them allowing accessory dwelling units countywide now rather than waiting for the 2024 development ordinance to take effect. Presentations follow on community land trusts\, scattered-site development\, tax credit housing and down payment assistance. Staff proposals posted with the agenda attach costs to each idea. They include a $50\,000 rent subsidy pilot and $175\,000 more for the housing trust fund in fiscal 2028. Larger steps would come later or depend on a bond: rapid rehousing at $300\,000\, $1 million to $2 million in loans to preserve a manufactured home community\, and a 4% tax credit project of up to 200 units. Each day holds a thirty-minute public comment session.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/9/1468_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-09-28_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3126
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1468&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-4046@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners spend most of Monday morning's work session on homelessness. Housing for New Hope reports on UNITE Street Medicine\, a federally funded team that takes health care to people living outside. Urban Ministries of Durham then reports on the Hope Day Services Center\, a $350\,000 pilot running through January 2027\, with five months of data on who has used it.\n\nThe consent agenda carries four budget actions. The biggest is $2 million in county cash for the Museum of Life and Science\, whose 2022 bond projects face a $3.5 million gap that the museum blames on inflation and tariffs. The board would also spend $1 million in opioid settlement money on a seven-bedroom house on Holloway Street\, appraised at $770\,000\, as a new Justice Services transition house. Two smaller items close the purchase of 15.4 acres of bottomland forest at 4370 Garrett Road and add $8\,292 to the state forest service contract. Planners close the session by presenting Orange Factory's request to be recognized as a county Heritage Community.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1561\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4046
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1561
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-4717@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T120000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Health and Human Services Committee
LOCATION:Remote
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County's Health and Human Services Committee meets remotely Monday to hear what the federal budget law known as HR1 will cost the county in food assistance. Staff put the cost at $2.5 million to $4 million in lost revenue this fiscal year\, as the federal share of SNAP administration falls from 50% to 25% on 1 October. Twice-yearly Medicaid rechecks are estimated to add $2.3 million to $3.3 million from December. From October 2027 the state plans to pass a benefit-cost penalty down to counties. Staff estimate the county's share at $12 million a year\, unless North Carolina keeps its SNAP payment error rate below 6%. Wake's rate was 10.43% in state fiscal 2025 and 7.2% as of May.\n\nStaff also say they plan to move some of the 25 Medicaid positions the board approved this spring over to SNAP to work on that error rate. Cooperative Extension then reports on the 2023 food security plan's ARPA programs\, which close in December\, and Social Services gives an overview of child support\, which collected $44.5 million in fiscal 2026.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/10/6256_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-10-05_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4717
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6256&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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UID:meeting-4713@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T040518Z
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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