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UID:meeting-3323@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211018
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211019
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting - Virtual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting - Virtual Meeting\n\nDurham's council will vote on five contracts worth more than $1.8 million to fund emergency shelter and homelessness prevention services. The money comes from federal COVID relief funds and goes to Families Moving Forward\, Open Table Ministry\, Project Access of Durham County\, Urban Ministries of Durham and Volunteers of America of the Carolinas. The council also holds a public hearing on a resolution approving up to $60 million in Public Finance Authority revenue bonds for United Methodist Retirement Homes\, and a separate hearing on council salary adjustments.\n\nFive appointees\, including a youth member\, would join the Racial Equity Commission for terms ending in 2024. The council would adopt Durham's Carbon Neutrality and Renewable Energy Action Plan. It would also join Duke Energy's Green Source Advantage solar program in agreements with Durham County and Quaker Creek Farm Solar. Other items include a $290\,000 purchase of 11.62 acres on Buren Road for the future expansion of Lake Michie and a corrected annexation ordinance for the Twin Lakes case. The council would also expand the Longtime Homeowner Grant Program to the Walltown neighborhood.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2757\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3323
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2757
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3246@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220104
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting- Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting- Virtual\n\nDurham's city council opens the year with two annexation hearings\, at 2211 Page Road and at NC55 and Hopson\, both taking effect March 31 if adopted. Each would also rezone the land\, one to office and institutional use\, the other to industrial light.\n\nThe consent agenda would raise a three-year Legal Aid of North Carolina contract by $1\,060\,000\, to $2\,605\,450\, to keep funding eviction defense for residents. It would also authorize up to $17\,000\,000 in housing revenue bonds for the Hardee Street Apartments project\, sell a six-acre option on the former Rolling Hills site to a developer for $1\, and commit close to $8\,000\,000 combined to contracts\, grants and change orders\, including new water infrastructure contracts for the Western Intake Partnership on Jordan Lake.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2789\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3246
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2789
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3312@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220119
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting - Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting- Virtual\n\nThe Durham City Council considers two pandemic-era airport grants from the FAA\, $44.8 million and $5.9 million under the American Rescue Plan. Members would authorize agreements to spend both awards. The consent agenda also carries eight appointments to city boards and commissions. Two street contracts add up to $11.2 million: $6.4 million for repaving and $4.8 million for pavement preservation.\n\nA $2.3 million amendment would raise the city's sewer system evaluation survey contract with CDM Smith to $3.6 million. The council also takes up a $250\,000 contract with the Cypress Fund and NEO Philanthropy for the We Are the Ones program. A staff report covers the city's response to Bull City Tenants United's proposals. Market adjustments to police and fire pay take effect the same day.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2794\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3312
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2794
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3301@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220221
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220222
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting- Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting- Virtual\n\nDurham City Council would add $1.9 million to a sidewalk repair contract with Browe Construction Company\, bringing the total to $4.7 million. It would also hire Summit Design and Engineering Services for up to $600\,000 to inspect sidewalk projects. The council holds a public hearing on community development needs for the city's FY2022-2023 Annual Action Plan\, which sets priorities for federal housing and community development funding.\n\nThe agenda also fills seven vacancies on advisory boards\, receives annual reports from a dozen boards and commissions covering audits\, tourism\, planning\, historic preservation and the airport\, and takes up a resolution urging the federal government to cancel student loan debt.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2806\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3301
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2806
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3254@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220419
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham City Council considers up to $7.7 million in financing and contracts for the Lofts at Southside affordable apartments\, an $8.68 million contract for the Githens sewer lift station\, and a $30.5 million bond order to refinance existing city debt.\n\nTwo public hearings follow: a rezoning that would allow multifamily housing at Cedar Trace Apartments\, and the city's draft plan for $4.23 million in federal housing and homelessness grants for FY2022-2023. The consent agenda also includes a fire inspection agreement with Durham County\, a $437\,771 refuse truck purchase\, and three contracts up to $857\,876 combined for bike lane striping and neighborhood bike boulevard construction.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2836\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3254
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2836
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3326@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220802
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham City Council holds five public hearings on land use. Three are rezonings. One would allow multifamily housing at 5202 Garrett Road. Another would shift land near the county's utility administration building to industrial use. A third would rezone a tract off East Cornwallis Road for commercial use\, barring nightclubs\, payday lenders and firing ranges. The other two hearings would annex a project called Carolina Civil Works and close a 157-foot stretch of Henderson Street.\n\nThe council would approve $22.5 million in multifamily housing revenue bonds for a project called 300 East Main. It would raise the cap on the design-build agreement for Fire and EMS Station 18 to $7.4 million. Twelve appointments to city boards and commissions are on the consent agenda. So are contracts for reservoir safety work\, a transit corridor project and an opioid-settlement grant to Lincoln Community Health Center.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2865\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3326
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2865
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3247@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221122
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council would award Crowder Industrial Construction a $70 million contract for the Lake Michie and Little River Raw Water Pump Station Improvements. It is the largest sum on a 33-item agenda dominated by water and sewer work. A companion ordinance would reallocate capital improvement funding for the same project.\n\nThe council also holds public hearings on two annexations and three rezonings\, including sites near a Durham school and North Carolina Central University. It would adopt an ordinance setting new ward boundaries after redistricting and fill five seats on city boards and commissions. It would also fund a seven-month shelter contract with Open Table Ministry for people experiencing homelessness in cold weather.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2892\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3247
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2892
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3293@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230220
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230221
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Durham City Council
DESCRIPTION:Durham City Council\n\nDurham's agenda document for this meeting is not published on the city's Granicus portal. This summary is written from the council's own list of agenda items\, so items the portal lists without further detail cannot be described beyond their titles.\n\nThe council considers a resolution expressing solidarity with Durham's LGBTQ+ community\, a design contract with DTW Architects & Planners for the former Wheels Skating Center\, and a consolidated annexation petition for Welcome Venture Park. Two zoning map changes are before it\, for American Village Townhomes and for 1907 South Miami Boulevard\, along with public hearings on the use of HOME-American Rescue Plan funds and on proposed amendments to six years of federal annual action plans\, FY 2016-17 through FY 2021-22. A consent agenda covers items 1 through 44 and 54.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2906\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3293
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2906
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3298@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240618
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Durham City Council
DESCRIPTION:Durham City Council\n\nDurham's city council had one item outside the consent block and the ceremonial openings on 17 June 2024: the 2024 general obligation bond referendum\, carried as item 38. A bond referendum is the council's decision to put borrowing to the city's voters rather than approve it itself. The council also filled seats on the Durham Homeless Services Advisory Committee.\n\nFour ceremonial items opened the night — proclamations for Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month and Durham Refugee Day\, and recognitions for the Bull City Little League Mayor's Cup softball and baseball winners. Durham's portal no longer serves the agenda document for this meeting\, so the item list is all the record holds\; what the bond order covered and at what amount is not in it.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3075\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3298
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3075
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3249@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240904
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council took up two federal airport grants at its September 3 meeting\, both through the FAA's Airport Improvement Program: $1\,016\,279 and $35\,478\,766. The larger grant is the biggest dollar figure on the agenda\, bigger than the Microsoft software contract ($2.9 million with contingency) and the utility easement maintenance contract ($3.86 million with contingency) combined.\n\nThree annexation public hearings close out the agenda. Two pull subdivisions called Woodlands Preserve\, on Torredge Road and on Koback Drive\, into the city with utility extension agreements tied to Marlowe Development Partners. A third annexes a tract called Leigh Valley with Greenhawk Corporation. The council also considered a $650\,000 grant renewing Legal Aid of North Carolina's eviction diversion program and a five-year\, $542\,810.10 playground replacement contract at Sherwood Park.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3105\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3249
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3105
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3315@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241105
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nA $2.67 million contract for six automated refuse trucks and a $347\,832 contract for one bucket truck lead the council's cooperative-purchasing awards. Five ordinances would recognize more than $4.5 million in federal housing grants already awarded to the city\, covering community development\, home investment\, emergency shelter and HIV/AIDS housing aid\, and a separate ordinance would accept a $770\,999 Department of Justice grant for a mental health and justice collaboration program.\n\nThree land use cases go to public hearing. Sherron Grove and Winsford at the Park would be annexed into the city\, with Sherron Grove's developer\, The Drees Homes Company\, also entering a utility extension agreement with the city. A third case would rezone land from Residential Rural to Planned Development Residential 8.326 for the Lynley Townhouses.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3146\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3315
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3146
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3611@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3608@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241203
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners organized for a new term on December 2\, 2024. Four members took the oath of office\, Jamezetta Bedford was re-elected chair and Jean Hamilton elected vice-chair\, and the board named its delegates to the state and national county associations.\n\nThe only regular item was the Global Agreement for Capital\, the document each member government must sign under the transit tax governance the board adopted with GoTriangle in June 2023.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022024-2138\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1773?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3608
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022024-2138
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3607@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
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-4252@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
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-3606@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
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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UID:meeting-3603@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners heard ten advisory boards present annual work plans on 11 February 2025 and discussed the state of the county's homelessness partnership. Two of the partnership's guiding documents are years out of date.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112025-2188\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1783?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3603
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112025-2188
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3630@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250214
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board heard on 13 February 2025 that homelessness in the county rose 22 percent\, with unsheltered homelessness up 17 percent\, and that cold weather cot services ran 23 nights out of 40.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02132025-2221\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3630
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02132025-2221
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3256@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250218
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council took eleven annual reports from its own boards and commissions on 17 February\, from planning and historic preservation to the homeless services advisory committee.\n\nThe substantive items were an interlocal agreement on distributing sales tax\, a third amendment to the lease with Duke University\, work on the solid waste transfer station\, and ratification of five festival and event contracts.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3172\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3256
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3172
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3666@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250226
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250227
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health approved a $9\,152\,248 budget request for 2025-26 on 26 February 2025\, plus a $74\,071 increase in the personnel budget\, and sent it and a set of fee changes to the county commissioners. It also heard from Chapel Hill's Vision Zero coordinator on traffic deaths.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02262025-2234\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3666
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02262025-2234
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3621@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250312
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging discussed the revaluation and safety at the Seymour Center on 11 March 2025\, and reviewed second-quarter reports on the Master Aging Plan. It asked the tax office to come to its next meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2262\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3621
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2262
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3629@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250312
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board reviewed twenty years of the county's HOME awards on 11 March 2025 and considered changes to how affordable housing bond and capital projects are scored. The proposal would take scoring out of this board's hands.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2222\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3629
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2222
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3598@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Legislative Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe commissioners' annual legislative breakfast with the county's state senator and two state representatives\, at 8:30 AM in the Whitted Building. The county sent them its 2025 priority legislative issues in advance\; this is the meeting to talk them through. The only document on file is that packet - the letter and the priorities themselves - and a single-page record of the meeting that does not extract as text.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172025-2206\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3598
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172025-2206
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3596@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250328
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Carrboro Town Council
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners and the Carrboro Town Council met jointly on 27 March 2025 on five subjects: the first year of the Drakeford Library Complex\, what federal cuts do to the county budget\, affordable housing and the Greene Tract\, expanding the CARE mobile crisis team\, and where the two bodies might advocate together.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03272025-2209\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1797?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3596
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03272025-2209
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3628@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250409
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board spent 8 April 2025 on where federal housing money is going and what the revaluation will do to the county's tax assistance programme for long-time homeowners. HOME funding now runs at about 60 percent of what the county received in 2010.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2223\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3628
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082025-2223
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3664@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250424
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health heard two educational sessions on 23 April 2025: results of a Photovoice study on how formerly incarcerated people get healthcare\, and a measles briefing from the medical director. It also formed a committee to fill a vacant at-large seat and considered whether to oppose a bill in the General Assembly.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2314\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3664
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04232025-2314
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3627@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250514
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board spent an hour on 13 May 2025 with the developers who apply for its capital and bond money\, asking what the county's process is like from their side. Five organisations came: EmPOWERment\, CASA\, Pee Wee Homes\, Habitat for Humanity and the Community Empowerment Fund.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2277\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3627
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132025-2277
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3673@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250522
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nA ninety-minute board meeting at the Hyatt Place in Southern Village. On the agenda: the university's local relations director as guest speaker\, preparations for an international football match at Kenan Stadium in June\, summer events\, a meeting planning partnership\, and officers for the coming fiscal year.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2266\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3673
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2266
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3586@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250522
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250523
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA budget work session on four things: the twelve fire district tax rates\, countywide revenue changes\, countywide employee compensation\, and the recommended budgets of the human services departments - aging\, child support\, civil rights and civic life\, health\, housing\, libraries and the opioid settlement fund. Fire chiefs attend to make their own case. No public comment is taken at a work session.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05222025-2268\nWatch: https://orange-nc.granicus.com/player/clip/1825?view_id=2&redirect=true\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3586
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05222025-2268
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3277@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250617
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council adopts the 2025-26 budget and the 2026-31 capital improvement plan on 16 June. The same item raises every city pay plan by 1.45 percent — open range\, step\, fire and police — lifts part-time starting rates by the same\, and widens the part-time step spreads from 3 to 5 percent. Six capital project ordinances go with it\, covering general projects\, water and wastewater\, stormwater\, solid waste\, transit and the performing arts centre\, alongside fee increases for solid waste\, public works\, and water and sewer.\n\nHousing and homelessness run through the rest of the agenda: an operational assistance loan to the Durham Housing Authority\, contracts with the North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness\, Housing for New Hope and Volunteers of America\, and an update on the redevelopment of 505 W. Chapel Hill Street. Three separate condemnation actions would take easements the city could not obtain by agreement.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3218\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3277
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3218
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3581@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250618
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners adopted the 2025-26 budget on 17 June 2025\, setting the countywide tax rate at 63.83 cents per $100 of value\, and accepted a ten-year capital investment plan totalling $75.3 million with $75.3 million of first-year projects across county\, school and proprietary funds. The evening also held a public hearing on changes to the Hillsborough Circulator bus route and a report on the January point-in-time count of homelessness.\n\nThe agenda document could not be retrieved\; this account is written from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172025-2293\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/6?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3581
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172025-2293
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3662@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250625
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250626
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health met on 25 June 2025 to receive the 2024 State of the County's Health report and the health director's report. The agenda also carried public and board comment\, updates from the board's three priority committees\, and a media packet.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06252025-2315\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3662
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06252025-2315
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2192@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250819
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCPEH Leadership Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:OCPEH Leadership Team\n\nThe Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness Leadership Team will decide how to divide a shrunken Emergency Solutions Grant pot\, $44\,000 this year against $98\,000 last year\, between the rapid rehousing program and the Inter-Faith Council's Homestart shelter\, which has appealed for a larger share. The Funding Review Committee recommends keeping the full amount with rapid rehousing rather than splitting it between the two. The team also expects an update on HUD technical assistance for the Continuum of Care's governance structure\, ahead of a September 11 public town hall\, along with partnership data reporting and committee updates.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2342\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2192
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2342
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-71@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250818T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250818T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners held an afternoon work session on housing programs\, Tropical Depression Chantal recovery\, and a planned climate retreat\, then a 6 p.m. regular session with a 20-item consent agenda and four legislative public hearings on rezonings\, including a contested plan to expand a wastewater treatment plant inside the Conservancy at Jordan Lake subdivision into a regional utility.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/8/1424_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-08-18_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/71
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1424&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2030@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nThe Orange County Affordable Housing Advisory Board devotes most of its September meeting to planning a community outreach event\, then takes updates from board members and staff. The agenda also calls for approval of the August meeting's minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2378\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2030
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2378
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1584@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250916
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council considered two major contracts for the East End and Long Meadow Parks bond project: a $4.75 million design contract with Surface 678 and a $487\,000 preconstruction contract with Balfour Beatty Construction/Holt Brothers Construction. The consent agenda also carried a $2.98 million renovation contract for the Public Works Operations Center\, a $558\,000 Cityworks software renewal\, a $357\,684 amendment to the Durham Bulls stadium operating agreement\, and appointments to the Mayor's Hispanic/Latino Committee and the Durham Housing Authority board. No minutes were available for this meeting at the time of this summary\, so the outcomes of these items are not reflected here.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3236\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1584
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3236
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-18@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250915T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250915T130000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — BOC Affordable Housing Committee
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County's Board of Commissioners Affordable Housing Committee\, chaired by Commissioner Safiyah Jackson\, met to review updates on the county's Affordable Housing Development Program and a new Housing Rehabilitation Program 2.0. The agenda also covered a Continuum of Care system buildout update and the county's White Flag emergency cold-weather shelter response plan.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2025/9/6187_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-09-15_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/18
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6187&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2012@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250917
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners take up a contested amendment to the county's 2022 broadband deployment contract with Lumos\, now T-Fiber and owned by T-Mobile. It would cut the number of homes to be connected from 6\,370 to 5\,852 and push the deadline to July 2026. The board also considers a proposed ten-year\, rent-free ground lease with UNC for a building at 2700 Homestead Road to house the county's cold weather cots program and a future day center for unhoused residents. It holds its required annual public hearing on HOME program housing funds and works through a lengthy consent agenda covering ordinance amendments\, equipment purchases and appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162025-2384\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/16?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2012
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162025-2384
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2180@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250919
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nOrange County Housing Authority's advisory board takes up a preference score for families moving from Emergency Housing Vouchers onto the regular Housing Choice Voucher waiting list\, set at 101 points on the agenda. It also considers an admin plan revision dropping the requirement to advertise Project-Based Voucher competitions in a newspaper.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09182025-2390\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2180
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09182025-2390
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-29@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T160000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — BOC Affordable Housing Committee
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County's Affordable Housing Committee reviews a redesign of the Wake Prevent! homelessness prevention program and gets an update on building out the county's Continuum of Care system at its November 3 meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2025/11/6195_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-11-03_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/29
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6195&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2028@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board has a short agenda for its November 11 meeting: board and staff updates\, approval of the October meeting's minutes\, and an hour of annual planning for 2026. The posted agenda gives no more detail than those headings.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2444\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2028
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2444
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1599@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251118
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council takes up a loan of up to $17 million for the first phase of The Villages of Hayti redevelopment\, the affordable housing project on the former Fayette Place site\, at its November 17 meeting. The council also holds a public hearing on permanently closing 229 feet of Hayti Lane east of Old Fayetteville Street and redesignating the land as a transit opportunity area in the comprehensive plan.\n\nConsent items include an $8.5 million contract for South Ellerbe Restoration utility and drainage upgrades\, a design-build contract worth up to $5.9 million for Carolina Theatre HVAC upgrades\, a $313\,750 increase to a homelessness coordinated-entry services contract\, new procedures for city boards and commissions\, and a $117\,649 Department of Justice community policing micro-grant.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3257\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1599
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3257
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-31@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1549@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Board of County Commissioners hears the 2025 State of the County Address and takes up two Research Triangle Park land-use hearings: a privately initiated text amendment creating a new University and College-3 zoning district for large research campuses\, and a related rezoning of 164 parcels covering 5\,059 acres across nearly all of RTP within Durham County. The board also recognizes new Office of Emergency Services Chief Paramedic Seth Komansky\, the Rougemont Ruritan Club's 75th anniversary\, and the life of Private First Class Booker T. Spicely.\n\nThe consent agenda carries a $1\,193\,227.00 contract with Southern Wall Systems for exterior refurbishment and window replacement at the Justice Services Center\; a $974\,879.51 contract with KBS Earthworks for the Whispering Pines stream restoration project\, paired with a $600\,000 state grant for the same work\; a $535\,356 annual grant agreement with Urban Ministries of Durham\, the county's primary publicly funded homeless shelter\; adoption of a plan to convert a 26-mile inactive rail corridor into the Durham-to-Roxboro Rail Trail\; and $1\,922\,738.56 in October property tax releases and refunds.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1518\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1549
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1518
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1748@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Hillsborough: Board of Commissioners Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nHillsborough's Board of Commissioners takes up a resolution that would shrink the town's urban service boundary\, the area where the town extends water and sewer service\, after staff identified capacity limits in the wastewater system and concerns about meeting nutrient limits under its discharge permit and the Falls Lake Rules. The board also hears the year-end report on the FY24-26 Strategic Plan and a staff request to extend that plan by a year\, to FY27\, after Tropical Storm Chantal delayed work on its successor.\n\nA short consent agenda covers three special event permits\, including the Hillsborough Arts Council's Solstice Lantern Walk and Market\, expected to draw 4\,000 to 6\,000 people on Dec. 20\, plus a resolution updating the interlocal agreement funding the Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness and the reappointment of Gary Miller to the Historic District Commission. The board also closes to discuss the town manager's evaluation.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/hillsbronc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-767533ef9bd94cb197b377c38d53447c.pdf\nWatch: https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1748
URL:https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-work-session-26
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1575@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251202
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's Dec. 1 city council meeting begins with an organizational session\, then moves to a consent agenda covering a board appointment\, minutes approval\, several infrastructure and utility contracts (Lakewood Avenue stream stabilization\, an Esri GIS licensing agreement\, and waterline/water-treatment-plant contract amendments)\, a homelessness-services contract extension with Open Table Ministry\, and a CDBG-funded rehab agreement for the Calvert Place and Main Street Townhomes. A proposal to designate 500 West Main Street as the permanent home of the Museum of Durham History was referred back to staff.\n\nIn general business\, council appoints two members to the Citizens Advisory Committee and holds a public hearing on a rezoning for the East Geer Towns project\, which would rezone land near I-85 to Planned Development Residential. A supplemental item covers certified results of the Oct. 7 primary and a verbal report on the Nov. 4 general election.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3260\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1575
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3260
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251202
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness's annual report to the board flags a new HUD funding notice that could cut money for permanent housing by 70 percent and cap annual renewal funding at 30 percent. Commissioners also elect a new chair and vice-chair for the year\, name voting delegates to the state and national county associations\, and review which outside boards still need a commissioner to serve on them in 2026.\n\nThe consent agenda covers routine property tax releases\, a five-year renewal of the county's Fairview Park agreement with the Town of Hillsborough\, and a school enrollment forecasting contract with UNC's Carolina Demography.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12012025-2461\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/35?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2002
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12012025-2461
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2020@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe county's advisory board on aging discusses how to serve unsheltered people using the Seymour Center. The agenda also has a technology budget request for a Rec Trac software upgrade and a report on new SNAP work requirements for older adults.\n\nWorkgroup leaders give first-quarter reports on the county's current master aging plan. The board also opens planning for the plan that follows it\, covering 2027 through 2032.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2543\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2020
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2543
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1555@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260105T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260105T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners set aside 290 minutes for discussion at their 5 January work session\, and the two largest blocks were both about the rules for building in the county: an hour on the new Unified Development Ordinance being written by consultants to carry out the 2023 comprehensive plan\, and half an hour on a narrower text amendment that would loosen the rules for parking recreational vehicles in residential districts. Neither was an adoption. A work session is where the board comments and gives direction.\n\nThe item with a deadline behind it was the emergency services fleet maintenance shop. The county has leased space at 122 Stone Park Court since 2016\; the railroad bought that property in 2023 and it is to be demolished for a rail realignment\, so the county must vacate by 1 May 2026. The board was asked to suspend its rules and let the manager sign a lease at 1129 E Geer Street rather than wait for another meeting. Staff also gave notice that the homeless day shelter contract will go to Urban Ministries of Durham\, with the scope and budget still to be settled\, and took an hour on how the county's child welfare system works.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1522\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1555
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1522
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2000@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260117
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners were told at their January 16 retreat that the county faces a $21.5 million gap to close in the FY 2026-27 budget\, and that the same model puts the gap at $37.6 million the following year and $53.6 million the year after that. Closing this year's would take about seven cents on the property tax rate\; one penny raises roughly $3.37 million on a $33.9 billion tax base.\n\nThe drivers are debt service\, the phase-in of school capital pay-as-you-go\, non-discretionary personnel costs like health insurance and retirement\, and the county's practice of never cutting education funding. Commissioner McKee said across-the-board reductions may be needed and asked staff to look at how the county balanced its FY 2010-11 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2000
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1572@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-35@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T160000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County commissioners face a light agenda built almost entirely of consent items\, including grant acceptances for HIV/AIDS care (Ryan White Part B) and homeless services (Continuum of Care)\, a construction contract for the Marbles Kids Museum courtyard expansion\, an affordable-housing loan assumption in Garner\, additional affordable-housing funds for the Biltmore Hills project in Raleigh\, a new full-time Animal Center operations director position\, a slope easement at the Brier Creek Reservoir site\, and a tax-exempt bond issuance (not to exceed $40 million) for the Bennett Apartments North affordable housing project.\n\nOn the regular agenda\, the board holds a public hearing on the county's 2026 Annual Action Plan for federal affordable-housing and community-development funding\, and considers schematic design approval for the new county Animal Center. The meeting also includes routine reports (uncollectible accounts receivable\, advisory board updates) and a closed session before adjournment.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/1/6202_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-01-20_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/35
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6202&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1529@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260202T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260202T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners met virtually on 2 February because of inclement weather\, and gave over 125 minutes to discussion rather than decisions. The four subjects were an update on consolidating 911 dispatch alongside the H.E.A.R.T. crisis response programme\, the Durham Bike and Walk plan\, a presentation from the Greater Durham Black Chamber of Commerce\, and the county's legislative goals ahead of the General Assembly short session.\n\nThe consent business included a resolution endorsing the Downtown Durham Blueprint: 2035\, a contract with Urban Ministries of Durham\, and a justice-related contract with Hayti Reborn.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1525\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1529
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1525
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3008@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T150000
SUMMARY:Wake County Public School System: Safety and Security Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Safety and Security Committee Meeting\n\nWake County's school board safety and security committee introduces the Standard Response Protocol on 10 February\, the common set of commands — lockdown\, secure\, evacuate\, hold\, shelter — that lets schools and responders use the same words.\n\nIt also takes emergency shelter collaboration with Wake County emergency management\, and follows up the 2024 joint meeting with the county commissioners.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/user/WakeCountySchools/videos\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3008
URL:https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_Meeting.aspx?S=HnXLls1F9Zx0AgDMtBXriA==&MID=DBplusXx60ycV2aOprycas4MQ==
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-42@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260316T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260316T120000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Affordable Housing Committee
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County's Affordable Housing Committee\, chaired by Commissioner Tara Waters\, takes up several housing and homelessness items: an announcement and presentation on the county's Opportunity Fund administrator\, an update and memorandum of understanding on the Continuum of Care (CoC) transition\, the CoC's annual system performance measures\, and a presentation from the Wake County Housing Authority (WCHA).\n\nThe agenda lists topics and presentations only\, with no attached staff reports describing dollar amounts or specific proposals.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/3/6223_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-03-16_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/42
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6223&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1550@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260408
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took the manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan on April 7\, held two public hearings\, and heard a school enrollment forecast. One hearing covered the draft HOME Investment Partnership annual action plan\; the other a county-initiated zoning amendment moving a watershed overlay boundary on a single 19.4-acre parcel in Bingham Township.\n\nThe board also discussed how the county communicates with residents and how its online content measures against the Americans with Disabilities Act.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/45?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1989
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-50@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T160000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Work Session
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThis is a briefing session with no votes on the agenda: commissioners hear four staff updates. The largest is a schematic design presentation for Phase 3 of the county detention center\, a three-story\, 220\,000-square-foot addition adding about 600 beds and staff support space\, currently estimated at $175-210 million with a projected opening in early 2030. Staff also present an update on the countywide Comprehensive Parks and Recreation Master Plan\, organized around three core service areas (open space\, recreation and leisure\, and education)\, and noting the county has lost about 3.6% of its tree canopy since 2010.\n\nTwo shorter items round out the session: an update on the 2026 employee benefits RFP process\, covering medical\, dental\, vision\, and Medicare Advantage plans\, with finalist interviews running into May and board recommendations expected in June and July\; and a strategic initiative on homelessness built around a 2026-2027 'direct to housing' surge\, informed by new federal Continuum of Care renewal funding of roughly $3.3-6.1 million for Wake-area projects.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/4/6214_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-04-13_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/50
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6214&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1740@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T210000
SUMMARY:Town of Hillsborough: Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe board's main land-use item is a general-use rezoning and development agreement for 13.44 acres at 715 US Hwy 70 East\, from Assisted Living Neighborhood to Multifamily\, to allow up to 67 attached dwelling units on a parcel that was originally master-planned for a retirement campus that never got built. This item is being tabled rather than decided at this meeting. The board also takes up a staff-proposed reorganization that would merge Public Works\, Public Space & Sustainability\, and Stormwater & Environmental Services into a single "Community Services and Sustainability" department\, prompted by a manager's resignation\, and a request from the Hillsborough Youth Athletic Association for stricter trespassing enforcement against unhoused people camping near its ball field.\n\nMost of the rest is routine consent-agenda business: budget amendments\, three capital-project ordinance amendments for water/sewer plant upgrades\, a year-end audit contract\, a legal-services agreement with the town attorney's firm\, a reappointment to the Parks and Recreation Board\, and a resolution opposing a proposed state constitutional amendment that would limit local governments' property tax authority (tied to an active NC House committee process). Financial impacts on the rezoning are described as low to moderate\, with private streets and trash collection.\n\nAgenda: https://mccmeetings.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/hillsbronc-pubu/MEET-Agenda-ccc861b4797c402ea3646d913f1e473f.pdf\nWatch: https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-regular-meeting-39\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1740
URL:https://hillsborough-nc.municodemeetings.com/bc-boc/page/board-commissioners-regular-meeting-39
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1650@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T103000
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Town Council
LOCATION:Library\, Meeting Room B
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nThis is Chapel Hill's annual Legislative Breakfast\, where the town council meets with the Orange County delegation to the North Carolina General Assembly and partner organizations. The agenda is a run of updates rather than decisions: the mayor's update on the town's Complete Community initiative\, staff updates on town initiatives\, the town manager on legislative priorities and federal funding\, remarks from state legislators on General Assembly priorities\, and quick updates from partner organizations.\n\nNo votes or formal council actions are on this agenda. The council distributed a handout of its 2026 legislative priorities to the attending legislators.\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2026/4/2414_A_Town_Council_26-04-16_Council_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1650
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2414&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1577@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260420
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260421
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nThe biggest items on this Durham council agenda are a $37 million construction contract for the Williams Water Treatment Plant basin improvements\, a preconstruction contract for the Durham Rail Trail\, and four separate annexation and rezoning public hearings that bring new development into the city (Bella Ridge\, Patterson Hall\, Morgan Farm\, and a tract on NC 751 Highway). Council will also vote on its 2026 legislative priorities ahead of the NC General Assembly's short session.\n\nMost of the rest is routine: grant acceptances (a $25\,000 No Kid Hungry grant\, a $138\,000 cybersecurity grant\, an FTA bus grant)\, utility extension agreements for two properties\, a purchase contract for ten diesel buses for GoDurham\, a 10-year lease for an arts pavilion\, and a fiber contract amendment with Duke University.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3301\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1577
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3301
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-51@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T160000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County's board is taking up a fairly routine April agenda\, with most business bundled into the consent agenda: a multi-year library software contract\, an agreement with the state on sediment control\, an opioid-settlement participation resolution\, $31.7 million in library bond proceeds from the 2024 referendum\, easements for two Crabtree Creek flood-control structures\, and schematic design approval for a phase 3 expansion of the county detention center.\n\nOn the regular agenda\, commissioners will approve 2026 loan recommendations steering federal and county housing funds toward several low-income tax-credit apartment developments in Raleigh\, sign off on schematic designs for a new Wendell public safety station and the West Wake Solid Waste Facility in Morrisville\, and vote on a resolution opposing any state move to cap or restrict county property tax authority.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/4/6215_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-04-20_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/51
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6215&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1986@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260422
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County holds its public hearing on a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centres as a land use - explicitly including artificial intelligence data centres\, cryptocurrency mining and data processing facilities. Also on the agenda: a $1.7 million loan to a volunteer fire district\, and a discussion of the county's communications approach. The published packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/49?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1986
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-53@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T190000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting - Budget Presentation
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County commissioners hear the county manager's recommended budget for the fiscal year that starts in July\, which sets up public hearings later in May. The rest of the meeting is routine: consent-agenda items add funding for the GoWake Access paratransit service and county crime-prevention grants\, and update the required income mix at the Tryon Station apartment project.\n\nThe board also proclaims National Police Week and Military Appreciation Month\, and works through a batch of advisory-board appointments covering everything from the Energy Advisory Commission to the Apex Planning Board.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/5/6219_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-05-04_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/53
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6219&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1984@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260506
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe county hires consultants to examine what went wrong with its 2025 property revaluation\, and holds a public hearing on financing up to $60.8 million of capital projects. The published agenda packet exceeds what this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052026-2597\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/51?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1984
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052026-2597
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1981@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThree regular agenda items\, each about housing or the money behind it: up to $32 million of installment financing for capital projects\, a $100\,000 request to help buy supportive housing units for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities\, and the annual federal housing plan. The published agenda packet is larger than this site's document relay will pass through\; this reading is taken from the approved minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/54?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1981
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1661@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260529
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260530
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Town Council
LOCATION:INFORMATION ITEMS ONLY
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nThis is a Chapel Hill Town Council information packet with a single item: staff asked the council to receive the Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness (OCPEH) Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Report. No council action or vote is requested\, and the packet does not include the report's substance beyond its executive summary attachment.\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2026/5/2341_A_Town_Council_26-05-29_Information_Packet.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1661
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2341&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-63@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T120000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Affordable Housing Committee
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County's Affordable Housing Committee\, chaired by Commissioner Tara Waters\, met June 22 to review the Cornerstone Pilot Program\, reflect on the county's Housing Symposium ('Aligning for Impact')\, and hear updates on the 2026 Point in Time homelessness count\, the Continuum of Care funding forecast\, and the Continuum of Care strategic initiative.\n\nOnly the agenda was available\, not minutes\, so no discussion outcomes are recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/6/6240_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-06-22_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/63
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6240&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-64@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
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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UID:meeting-3116@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T140000
SUMMARY:Town of Apex: Multimodal Transportation Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Town Council and advisory boards\n\nApex's Multimodal Transportation Advisory Board held a two-and-a-half-hour work session on 8 July 2026 on the transportation element of Peak Plan 2055\, the town's comprehensive plan. The town publishes no agenda or minutes for this board\, so this is written from the meeting's captions.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk-J_Goepi0\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3116
URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk-J_Goepi0
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-100@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
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:20261013T203355Z
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-1525@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260824T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260824T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nNinety minutes of the two-hour agenda go to one public hearing: whether Durham County should stop accepting applications for large data centers while it works out how to regulate them. Also on the agenda\, a fourteen-item consent list including the county's proposed statewide legislative goals for 2027\, easements for a stream restoration that would cut flood risk in a mobile home park\, and a new governance structure for the county and city's homelessness continuum of care.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1555\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1525
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1555
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2560@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260831T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260831T140000
SUMMARY:NC General Assembly: House — Session Convenes
LOCATION:House Ended
DESCRIPTION:House — Session Convenes\n\nThe House convened at noon on August 31 with veto overrides as its unfinished business. The printed calendar lists two bills. Senate Bill 50 would let any United States citizen aged 18 or older carry a concealed handgun without a permit\, and the governor vetoed it in June 2025. House Bill 437 would create 300-foot drug-free zones around homeless shelters and service providers and would restrict camping in public spaces. The governor vetoed that one on July 8\, 2026.\n\nThree further vetoed bills are attached to this meeting but were placed on the calendar for September 2: an expedited process for removing squatters from residential property without an eviction case\, an omnibus court bill that would recognize electronic wills\, and an elections bill that would require one early voting site per 30\,000 registered voters in each county.\n\nAgenda: https://calendars.ncleg.gov/CalendarDoc/2025/10005/House Calendar\nWatch: https://www.ncleg.gov/Streaming\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2560
URL:https://calendars.ncleg.gov/CalendarDoc/2025/10005/House Calendar
CATEGORIES:Legislative session
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UID:meeting-2498@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260902T123000
SUMMARY:NC General Assembly: House — Session Convenes
LOCATION:House Ended
DESCRIPTION:House — Session Convenes\n\nFive bills the Governor has vetoed sat on the House calendar for 2 September. Whether the chamber took any of them up is a separate question\, and the answer appears to be no.\n\nNothing was recorded against these bills that day. Senate Bill 50's own action history ends in April 2026\, when it was placed on the calendar for the 21st\; House Bill 437's ends on 27 July. A bill can sit on a chamber calendar for months — Senate Bill 50 has been carried on this one since its veto in June 2025 — so its presence there says what may be considered\, not what was.\n\nThe five span unrelated subjects: permitless concealed carry\, a statewide bar on local governments allowing public camping\, a rewrite of election administration\, a court and family law package\, and an expedited route for removing someone occupying a residence. What each would change is set out below\, which is the durable part of this record.\n\nAgenda: https://calendars.ncleg.gov/CalendarDoc/2025/10007/House Calendar\nWatch: https://www.ncleg.gov/Streaming\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2498
URL:https://calendars.ncleg.gov/CalendarDoc/2025/10007/House Calendar
CATEGORIES:Legislative session
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UID:meeting-2923@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
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-3126@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
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-2664@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T140000
SUMMARY:NC General Assembly: House — Session Convenes
LOCATION:House Ended
DESCRIPTION:House — Session Convenes\n\nFive bills vetoed by Governor Stein sit on the House calendar for Monday\, 28 September\, under reconsideration of vetoed bills. They are Senate Bill 50\, which would let adults carry a concealed handgun without a permit\; House Bill 437\, which creates drug-free zones around homeless shelters and bars local governments from allowing camping on public property\; House Bill 96\, a fast court process for removing squatters from homes\; House Bill 377\, an omnibus of court changes\; and House Bill 958\, a package of election law changes that includes shorter early voting for primaries.\n\nA calendar lists what the House may take up\, and it does not record whether the chamber acted. Senate Bill 50 has been on it since its June 2025 veto and House Bill 96 since July 2025. When the bill histories were read on 28 September\, none of the five showed an action on that date.\n\nAgenda: https://calendars.ncleg.gov/CalendarDoc/2025/10009/House Calendar\nWatch: https://www.ncleg.gov/Streaming\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2664
URL:https://calendars.ncleg.gov/CalendarDoc/2025/10009/House Calendar
CATEGORIES:Legislative session
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UID:meeting-4629@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260930T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260930T123000
SUMMARY:NC General Assembly: House — Session Convenes
LOCATION:House Ended
DESCRIPTION:House — Session Convenes\n\nFive bills vetoed by Governor Stein are on the House calendar for Wednesday\, 30 September\, under reconsideration of vetoed bills. They are Senate Bill 50\, permitless concealed carry\; House Bill 437\, drug-free zones around homeless shelters and a ban on camping on public property\; House Bill 96\, a fast court process for removing squatters that also bars local regulation of pet shops\; House Bill 377\, court changes that let the Chief Justice suspend trial judges without pay\; and House Bill 958\, election changes that shorten early voting for primaries.\n\nThis is the same list the House carried on 28 September. A calendar records what may be taken up\, not what happened. When the five bill histories were read on 30 September\, none showed an action on 28 or 30 September. Senate Bill 50's last entry is from April.\n\nAgenda: https://calendars.ncleg.gov/CalendarDoc/2025/10013/House Calendar\nWatch: https://www.ncleg.gov/Streaming\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4629
URL:https://calendars.ncleg.gov/CalendarDoc/2025/10013/House Calendar
CATEGORIES:Legislative session
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UID:meeting-4046@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
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-4718@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T150000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Affordable Housing Committee
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County's Affordable Housing Committee meets Monday afternoon at the Justice Center for four homelessness and housing reports. Homeless and Prevention Services presents an impact report on Bridge to Home\, the county's program for people in shelter\, measured against the years before it began and with interviews by a Duke occupational therapy program. The Continuum of Care reports on Wake at Home\, its encampment effort\, which has rehoused more than 30 people from its first site. The Continuum also covers about $14.8 million in pending federal and state homelessness grants and plans for about 280 cold-weather shelter beds this winter.\n\nThe fourth report is on manufactured housing\, which makes up 2.7% of the county's homes. Staff cover how the 12 municipalities zone it and what July's federal ROAD to Housing Act\, which drops the permanent-chassis requirement\, may change. No votes are scheduled beyond the June minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/10/6257_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/4718
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6257&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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UID:meeting-4680@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T190000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nWake County commissioners hold three public hearings Monday evening. Two of them take the Town of Wendell out of the county fire tax district at Wendell's request\, because the town plans to fund and run its own fire department. The county would abolish the 1999 district on 30 June 2027 and recreate it without Wendell the next day. Staff expect the district to lose about $800\,000 a year and do not expect the fire tax rate to rise. The third hearing is on the schedule of values for the 2027 revaluation\, which will reset more than 88% of a $316.2 billion tax base. The board is due to adopt the schedule on 19 October.\n\nThe board also votes on buying 3211 Bramer Drive in Raleigh for $4.15 million and giving it to the Women's Center of Wake County. The Women's Center runs the county's drop-in shelter there now and would convert the former charter school into up to 20 shelter units for women. The purchase depends on Raleigh granting a special use permit. Money comes from $5 million budgeted in 2024. The consent agenda adds $278\,777 for emergency road repairs at the closed North Wake Landfill\, bringing that job to $1.03 million\, and accepts $375\,673 in Sheriff's Office grants.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2026/10/6253_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/4680
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6253&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4713@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261006
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261007
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners receive the final report Tuesday night from GAR Associates\, the firm hired in May to audit the 2025 property revaluation after residents and board members questioned it. GAR finds the values meet the minimum statistical standards but that several office practices do not. It recommends a true sales-comparison approach for homes\, a new land valuation strategy and a statistical appraisal specialist on staff. The only public hearing is on fiscal 2028 transit grant applications seeking $515\,928.\n\nThe 23-item consent agenda carries $251\,517 in property tax refunds\, new agreements with eight rural fire departments\, and a $135\,000 salary for Register of Deeds Amy McLamb. It also awards the county's federal HOME-ARP rental assistance money to Housing for New Hope\, the only applicant\, and endorses the Andrews House\, a 1950s Modernist home\, for the National Register. Information memos set out a schedule for data center rules\, with a hearing expected in March 2027\, and report bus ridership up 52% to 137% under the fare-free pilot.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10062026-2686\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/73?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4713
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10062026-2686
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1592@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T203355Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T150000
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Durham City Council Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Durham City Council Work Session\n\nDurham's City Council work session on Thursday is mostly contracts\, and the largest are for water. Carolina Civilworks would get $5.1 million to replace waterlines on Duke University Road and North Driver Street. McKim & Creed's design contract for the South Durham Water Reclamation Facility filter replacement would grow by $5.2 million to $6.7 million. Kittelson & Associates would get $1.6 million to design the Duke-Gregson corridor. The council also hears an update on the City Hall reconfiguration and a $547\,698 construction contract for it.\n\nFive public hearings close the session: annexations of Courtyards at Leesville and 508 Olive Branch\, local landmark status for the Cranford-Wannamaker House\, and street assessments on Chalmers Street and Lang Street. Durham schedules hearings at work sessions\, so the council may vote that day. Earlier items accept $297\,222 in federal homelessness grants and carry unspent 2025-26 money into this year's budget.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2085\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1592
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2085
CATEGORIES:Work session
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