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Agenda items in Orange County, matching "budget", between 13 Oct 2025 and 13 Oct 2026

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Budget and appropriations83
Health and human services25
Tax rate and revaluation19
Bonds and debt17
Schools and education17
Public facilities12
Transit11
Police and public safety9
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Grants and outside funding7
Fees and utility rates6
Housing and affordability6
  1. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    An unmodified, clean audit opinion, with unassigned fund balance at 16.9 percent of general fund expenditures against a 16…
    Contract amendment approved unanimously
  2. Tue, Sep 15 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …roof to an FPG Elementary boiler, and lets the Orange Rural Fire District spend $52,000 of its fund balance.
  3. Tue, Sep 1 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The second budget amendment of the fiscal year.
  4. Oct 21, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    8b Fiscal Year 2025-26 Budget Amendment #3
    Approved as part of the consent agenda, unanimous
  5. Thu, May 14 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools, covering both the operating appropriation and each district's capital plan.
  6. Wed, Sep 2 Orange County · Parks & Recreation Council
    What the adopted budget and capital improvement plan decisions mean for parks and recreation.
  7. Oct 15, 2025 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    …a proposal to fund marketing from the bureau's fund balance. Board voted to present a marketing plan to the…
    Board voted to present a marketing plan to the Board of County Commissioners and allocate up to $200,000 from the Visitors Bureau fund balance for marketing the event; motion by Bryan, seconded by Gr…
  8. Tue, Sep 1 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A funding request against the county's opioid settlement money, with an amended spending authorization resolution and a matching budget…
  9. Dec 9, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …services fee changes; budget amendment #5; a transit scheduling and dispatch software agreement with budget amendment #5-A; and a…
    Approved unanimously
  10. Wed, Jan 21 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    …Thirty thousand dollars was appropriated from fund balance, which remains at 8 percent. Occupancy tax revenues are projected flat, attributed…
  11. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …date; the 2026 listing period extended to February 13; budget amendment #6; ordinance execution for the impervious surface, watershed overlay…
    Approved unanimously
  12. Thu, Jun 4 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    3 Fiscal Year 2026-27 County Fee Schedule
    Not reached.
  13. Oct 21, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Agreement and related budget amendment for a solar feasibility study of Hillsborough-owned properties, with a professional services contract to…
    Approved as part of the consent agenda, unanimous
  14. Tue, Jun 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Consent items including a Pollinator Week proclamation, a resolution supporting Tobacco 21 against youth vaping, the year's twelfth budget…
    Approved.
  15. Tue, Sep 1 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A fiscal year 2026-27 contract with Elsewhere Idea & Design Shop, Inc.
  16. Tue, Aug 25 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    4.a Tax Collector's Annual Settlement for Fiscal Year…
  17. Tue, Sep 15 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …of Orange County, and Approval of Budget Amendment #3-A
  18. Tue, Jun 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …the Gilbane construction manager-at-risk contract, and the budget amendment raising capital authority to match. Approved unanimously. The financing…
    Approved unanimously. The financing resolution for it, up to $27 million, followed on 9 July.
  19. Thu, Jul 9 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Fifteen consent items, including the first fiscal 2026-27 budget amendment, a state grant for a mobile integrated health program…
    Approved unanimously.
  20. Thu, Jun 4 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    2 Fiscal Year 2026-27 Budget Decisions — Education Funding
    0.81 cents failed 3-4; 0.47 cents passed 4-3.
  21. Nov 12, 2025 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    …Underspending on staffing, technology, legal and real estate returned about $603,000 to fund balance. The tax district's finances…
  22. Tue, May 19 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …Heat Awareness Week proclamations, a household hazardous waste contract, budget amendment 10, easements and restrictive covenants for the crisis diversion…
  23. Nov 18, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Fifteen items including the October 21 minutes, board and commission appointments, the Abolition Day proclamation, budget amendment #4, a Governor…
    Approved unanimously
  24. Tue, Jan 13 Orange County · Economic Development Advisory Board
    …It discussed requiring applicants to strive to pay a living wage and allowing one larger award per fiscal year. All…
  25. Nov 19, 2025 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    …The website drew 617,000 visitors last fiscal year, a record, with paid media and search about 30 percent; new…
  26. Tue, Jun 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    6.a Approval of Fiscal Year 2026-27 Budget Ordinances…
    A motion to send the budget back to the manager for another 0.47 cents in cuts failed 3-3. The budget then passed 5-1, McKee opposed, saying he feared the beginning of a long line of tax increases.
  27. Wed, Feb 25 Orange County · Board of Health
    VII.A Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2026-2027
  28. Tue, May 5 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Consultants engaged to evaluate the county's reappraisal and assessment process and recommend improvements, following community feedback and board concerns…
  29. Thu, Jun 4 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    How the board would take amendments: each named with the funding source it draws on, so a staff-proposed cut…
    Agreed unanimously after an amended first vote carried 4-3.
  30. Wed, Jan 21 Orange County · Board of Health
    Earnings at 35 percent against 50 percent expected at the fiscal midpoint. Personal Health is in deficit from renovations, medical…
  31. Fri, Jan 9 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    …The tax district confirmed $2.5 million in liquidity for FY26, on the strength of which a Carrboro budget transfer…
  32. Wed, Sep 16 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    …TAP riders took more than 400,000 trips in FY25 against an original FY26 budget of $82,500. GoTriangle presents…
  33. Tue, May 19 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …The finance officer said the 5 percent planning rate stands and the county's credit profile means no significant budgetary…
  34. Oct 21, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Reduced-cost design options, after the original $28.2 million design exceeded budget, range from a stripped-down 10,080…
    Board selected Option C, with a friendly amendment to evaluate natural-light features, and directed staff to finalize design for a guaranteed maximum price; unanimous
  35. Tue, Jun 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The 2026-36 capital investment plan with county, proprietary and school capital projects for the coming year. Accepted 5-1…
    Accepted 5-1, McKee opposed over total borrowing and the tax burden he expects it to create over the next decade.
  36. Mon, Mar 23 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …in school operating and capital needs, and preserving county taxing authority while funding any expanded exemptions from the state budget.
  37. Thu, Apr 30 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The county manager's recommended capital investment plan and updates on ongoing projects. School capital funding was eventually set at…
  38. Wed, May 6 Orange County · Parks & Recreation Council
    The director walked the council through the manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan and the parks department projects…
  39. Tue, Apr 7 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The county manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan. The chair reminded the board that voters had approved the…
  40. Thu, Apr 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The ten-year plan as recommended, before the board's amendments on 4 June.
  41. Oct 31, 2025 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Amends an existing project to move already-allocated capital vehicle funding from operating to capital, and renames it to reflect…
  42. Tue, Feb 3 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …districts. They adopted three changes the districts had requested: appropriation language, milestone-based design payments, and a recommendation instead of…
  43. Oct 14, 2025 Orange County · Affordable Housing Advisory Board
    …and HOME federal funding, plus an update on AHAB's review of the county's bond-funded Capital Investment Plan.
  44. Fri, Jan 9 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    …About $12.5 million in operating costs and $3.2 million in capital costs have been added to the plan…
    Vote taken on the timeline for releasing the finalised plan
  45. Tue, Jan 13 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    The budget process kicked off January 8, and staff shared the county's budget guidelines with the board.
  46. Wed, Aug 19 Orange County · Animal Services Advisory Board
    A budget update from staff.
  47. Wed, Sep 16 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    A budget update from Matt Hughes and Hannah Hemphill.
    Staff or committee report Budget and appropriations
  48. Tue, Mar 10 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    The FY 2026-27 budget as it affects aging services.
  49. Tue, Feb 10 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    The FY 2026-27 budget as it affects aging services.
  50. Wed, Aug 19 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    A budget update from finance chair Matt Hughes and business officer Hannah Hemphill.
    Staff or committee report Budget and appropriations
  51. Sat, Aug 22 Orange County · Human Relations Commission
    Forty-five minutes in teams on each approved event: location, budget, communications plan and partnerships.
  52. Dec 9, 2025 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    A technology project request for a RecTrac upgrade, discussed with county IT on December 8, with the budget due mid…
  53. Thu, Apr 30 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The superintendent presented the district's budget alongside performance and state accountability data and a career and technical education update.
  54. Oct 22, 2025 Orange County · Historic Preservation Commission
    County budget cuts have eliminated funding to preserve the historic bungalow, barn and outbuildings at Twin Creeks Park's Cate…
  55. Wed, May 20 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    A review of the FY 2026-27 budgets recommended by Orange County Manager Travis Myren and Chapel Hill Town Manager…
    Minutes approval Budget and appropriations
  56. Nov 19, 2025 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    …The fee consumed most of the promotions budget, so $30,000 came from reserves for marketing, and the budget office…
  57. Thu, Mar 19 Orange County · Housing Authority Board
    …Staff said the loophole could significantly affect Orange County's budget and other municipalities' budgets.
  58. Tue, Sep 29 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Staff outline pressures on the 2027-28 and 2028-29 budgets: falling net sales tax, a possible small tax increase…
  59. Thu, May 28 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The county manager presented the recommended FY 2026-27 budget, organized around five priorities: minimizing the tax rate increase, prioritizing…
  60. Nov 11, 2025 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    The federal shutdown does not threaten the department's newly acquired grants because that funding was already in the budget…
  61. Wed, Feb 25 Orange County · Board of Health
    A commissioner reported an $18 million county budget shortfall, likely service cuts and a search for new revenue, and urged…
  62. Wed, May 6 Orange County · Parks & Recreation Council
    The director's updates, including the proposed FY 2026-27 budget.
  63. Thu, May 28 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The formal hearing on the recommended budget, opened and closed by motion.
  64. Thu, May 21 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    2 Discussion of County Departments' FY 2026-27 Recommended Budgets
  65. Sat, Aug 22 Orange County · Human Relations Commission
    A 2027 budget, a master calendar carrying every event, and a proclamations list.
  66. Tue, Oct 6 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The annual $107,500 contract with Habitat for Humanity, already budgeted.
    Contract or award Housing and affordability
  67. Tue, May 26 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    1 Discussion of County Departments' FY 2026-27 Recommended Budgets
  68. Sat, Aug 22 Orange County · Human Relations Commission
    What was spent and what the 2027 budget holds, alongside successes, failures, what the commission learned and what it wants…
  69. Wed, May 20 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    The draft budgets recommended by the Orange County manager and the Chapel Hill town manager, both pending approval by their…
  70. Dec 2, 2025 Orange County · Board of Elections
    …The budget report showed sufficient funds.
  71. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Affordable Housing Advisory Board
    III Updates
    …a Public Schools Strong candidate forum, and a North Carolina budget and tax event in Durham on wages and affordability.
  72. Fri, Jan 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …Risks flagged include the absent state budget, SNAP cost share in FY 2027-28, the timing of the Crisis Diversion…
  73. Tue, May 12 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …of the County Manager's Recommended FY 2026-27 Budget
  74. Tue, Oct 6 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …and demand-response trips, carrying $540,821 in state and federal money and a $263,381 local match already budgeted.
  75. Wed, Jun 17 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    Executive director Laurie Paolicelli reviews the 2025-2026 year and sets out the 2026-2027 budget of $1,749,754…
    Received
    Staff or committee report Budget and appropriations
  76. Wed, Jun 17 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    Staff asked the board to consider meeting every other month rather than monthly because of the budget cuts. Motion by…
    Motion by Sally Greene, seconded by David Putnam, that staff bring a recommendation to the August meeting; carried with all in favor
    Discussion item Budget and appropriations
  77. Oct 14, 2025 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    12 FY 25-26 Budget Updates
  78. Thu, Jun 4 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …Resolution of Intent to Adopt the FY 2026-27 Budget
    Approved 6-1, McKee opposed.
  79. Tue, Apr 7 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …The county's budget director said the finding points to no need for new school facilities for now.
  80. Nov 13, 2025 Orange County · Climate Council
    …heat task force meetings, with the plan, timeline and budget drafted. Next steps are a final draft, educational materials and…
  81. Tue, May 5 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …of Manager's Recommended FY 2026-27 Annual Operating Budget
  82. Tue, Jul 28 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …are expected to add significant cost to the county budget, and that the prospect of consolidating DSS into a unified…
  83. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …Two commissioners warned about budget shortfalls raised at the board's retreat.
  84. Wed, Jan 21 Orange County · Board of Health
    …No approved state budget; rescinded Medicaid rate cuts after litigation; fears Medicaid funds run out in early 2027. Flu is…
  85. Nov 12, 2025 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    The FY27 revenue assumption drops from $13.3 million to $11.845 million to match the current adopted budget, after…
  86. Tue, Jan 13 Orange County · Board of Elections
    …The budget report showed sufficient funds. The director also explained logic and accuracy testing and the mock election, including verification…

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