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Budget and appropriations items in Orange County, between 13 Oct 2025 and 13 Oct 2026

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Budget and appropriations137
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  1. 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 for school debt, a property tax cap on the November ballot, state shifting of SNAP costs, and about $11 million a year at peak for $110 million in referendum bonds.
  2. 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
  3. Wed, Sep 16 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    A $33,000 Orange contribution to a $100,000 study of bus priority options on NC 54 from US 15-501 to I-40. It would compare center-running lanes, curbside lanes, bus-on-shoulder operation and a signal-priority option with no lanes, and recommend one to fold into NCDOT project U-5774A-F. Durham's transit plan would fun…
  4. Wed, Sep 16 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Five additional weekday revenue hours on Route 800, between UNC Hospitals and the Regional Transit Center via Southpoint and RTP. Boardings rose 29 percent between the fourth quarters of FY2025 and FY2026, and round trips with layovers now routinely exceed 120 minutes, which pushes later trips off schedule. The reques…
  5. Wed, Sep 16 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    An additional $32,438 for the Transit Assistance Program, which funds fully subsidized fixed-route and paratransit trips for adults with low or no income. TAP riders took more than 400,000 trips in FY25 against an original FY26 budget of $82,500. GoTriangle presents the Route 800 and TAP requests together as cost-neut…
  6. Wed, Sep 16 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    $60,000 for advertising, marketing and public engagement funded by the transit plan, including outreach for the coming Orange Transit Plan update. Staff list route map displays at county and partner facilities, brochures for the orange and blue routes, and promotional items for community events.
  7. Wed, Sep 16 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    $20,000 added to the staff working group administrator's existing $65,798 allocation, for a total of $85,798. The administrator plans meetings, coordinates the member agencies, keeps records and maintains the group's website and archive.
  8. Tue, Sep 15 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Borrows $504,000 to replace Durham Tech's two rooftop HVAC units in Orange County, spends $40,000 on repairs at the cold weather shelter at 828 MLK Jr. Blvd., moves $337,096 of Chapel Hill-Carrboro school capital from the McDougle roof to an FPG Elementary boiler, and lets the Orange Rural Fire District spend $52,000…
  9. Tue, Sep 15 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Hires Habitat for Humanity of Orange County for about four home repairs worth $180,000 of state money, and accepts a $273,000 NC Housing Finance Agency grant for the program.
  10. Wed, Sep 2 Orange County · Parks & Recreation Council
    The acting parks superintendent is introduced to the council.
  11. Wed, Sep 2 Orange County · Parks & Recreation Council
    What the adopted budget and capital improvement plan decisions mean for parks and recreation.
  12. Tue, Sep 1 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The second budget amendment of the fiscal year.
  13. Tue, Sep 1 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A fiscal year 2026-27 contract with Elsewhere Idea & Design Shop, Inc.
  14. 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 amendment.
  15. Tue, Aug 25 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The tax collector's annual settlement, the formal close-out of the year's collections.
  16. 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 to change. Fifty minutes.
  17. Sat, Aug 22 Orange County · Human Relations Commission
    A 2027 budget, a master calendar carrying every event, and a proclamations list.
  18. Sat, Aug 22 Orange County · Human Relations Commission
    Forty-five minutes in teams on each approved event: location, budget, communications plan and partnerships.
  19. Sat, Aug 22 Orange County · Human Relations Commission
    A vision statement for where the county will be in ten years, and three or four core pillars defining the equity goals to be achieved in that decade.
  20. 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
  21. Wed, Aug 19 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Presented by GoTriangle.
    Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsTransit
  22. Wed, Aug 19 Orange County · Animal Services Advisory Board
    A budget update from staff.
  23. Mon, Aug 17 Orange County · Orange Unified Transportation Board
    The state list that decides which road and transit projects receive money and when.
  24. Tue, Jul 28 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A commissioner announced the Eno Arts Mill reopening on 7 August. The vice-chair reported from the Board of Social Services that federal and state SNAP changes are expected to add significant cost to the county budget, and that the prospect of consolidating DSS into a unified human services department has hurt staff m…
  25. Wed, Jul 15 Orange County · Agricultural Preservation Board
    A grant application to the state Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund to pay for a new cost of community services study, which compares what land uses pay in taxes against what they cost the county to serve.
  26. Tue, Jul 14 Orange County · Economic Development Advisory Board
    Report from the county's economic development director.
    Received
  27. 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, financial policies for the transit tax working group, the Rigsbee subdivision preliminary plat, a reinstated interlocal agreement with Chapel Hill, and a Duke Energy grant for a flood detec…
    Approved unanimously.
  28. Wed, Jun 24 Orange County · Historic Preservation Commission
    Paying for a radar survey to locate unmarked graves at the cemetery.
  29. Wed, Jun 24 Orange County · Historic Preservation Commission
    A delay in funding architectural planning for the historic courthouse, and the court staff security requirements bearing on it.
  30. 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 approved by the county, with the cuts it carries and the bureau's four priorities for the year.
    Received
    Staff or committee report Budget and appropriations
  31. 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 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
  32. Tue, Jun 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The fiscal 2027 operating budget, the county fee schedule, an opioid settlement fund spending authorization the state requires, and a resolution defining how occupancy tax is used. Built from decisions the board reached at a 4 June work session after a January retreat where the manager described an unprecedented $21 m…
    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.
  33. 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, McKee opposed over total borrowing and the tax burden he expects it to create over the next decade.
  34. Tue, Jun 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Final design and guaranteed maximum price for the Crisis Diversion Facility, an amendment to the Gilbane construction manager-at-risk contract, and the budget amendment raising capital authority to match.
    Approved unanimously. The financing resolution for it, up to $27 million, followed on 9 July.
  35. Tue, Jun 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    An amendment to the county's 2022 public-private broadband contract, extending service to another 105 unserved households. The original roughly $10 million deal aimed at about 6,370 passings, was cut back to 5,852 homes in autumn 2025, and has paid Lumos $9.2 million with about $800,000 in ARPA money left. 5,859 locat…
    Approved unanimously.
  36. Tue, Jun 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Fourth-quarter transit work program amendments covering county administrative funding, a Chapel Hill Transit shift from operating to capital, and GoTriangle's Route 800 and TAP.
    Approved.
  37. 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 amendment, an amended contract with Clarion Associates for a comprehensive plan, and an emergency watershed protection agreement with the federal conservation service.
    Approved.
  38. 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 could not be claimed as a commissioner's own.
    Agreed unanimously after an amended first vote carried 4-3.
  39. Thu, Jun 4 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    How much of a tax increase to levy for schools. Three increases were on the table.
    0.81 cents failed 3-4; 0.47 cents passed 4-3.
  40. Thu, Jun 4 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The county fee schedule for the coming year.
    Not reached.
  41. Thu, Jun 4 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The resolution setting out what the board would adopt on 16 June: an ad valorem rate of 68.05 cents per $100, a Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district tax of 14.79 cents, and fire district rates.
    Approved 6-1, McKee opposed.
  42. Tue, Jun 2 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    How to spend the county's share of the national opioid settlement. Orange County expects $12,748,445 over eighteen years from the $26 billion agreement all 100 North Carolina counties joined.
    Recommendations received unanimously; staff directed to bring a final spending authorization resolution on 16 June, where it passed on the consent agenda.
  43. 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 public safety and social safety net direct services, maximizing efficiencies and cost recovery while preserving core services, and modest investment in employee compensation.
  44. Thu, May 28 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The formal hearing on the recommended budget, opened and closed by motion.
  45. Tue, May 26 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Asset management services, community relations, finance and administrative services, human resources, information technologies and non-departmental.
  46. Thu, May 21 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Forty-five minutes on the twelve fire and fire service district rates.
  47. Thu, May 21 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Courts, criminal justice resources, emergency services and the sheriff.
  48. 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 Ted Vorhees, both in draft pending their governing boards.
    Minutes approval Budget and appropriations
  49. Wed, May 20 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Ten minutes, non-agenda items.
  50. 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 governing boards.
  51. Wed, May 20 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Cancelling the 17 June meeting and updating the 2027 annual work programme adoption schedule.
  52. Wed, May 20 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Project agreement groupings for 2027 and a financial model updated 7 May.
  53. Wed, May 20 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Including Orange transit's 2025 financial results.
    Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsTransit
  54. Wed, May 20 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Draft global capital and operating agreements for 2027, proposed by the regional operator to stay consistent with this year's.
  55. Wed, May 20 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Revised policies and procedures for the working group.
  56. Tue, May 19 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Up to $32,000,000 of installment financing for capital investment projects and equipment, from a preliminary determination of about $60.8 million made at a hearing on 5 May. The finance officer said the 5 percent planning rate stands and the county's credit profile means no significant budgetary impact from Treasury r…
  57. Tue, May 19 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Minutes from three April meetings, the tax collector's partial FY 2025-26 settlement through March 31, an excise tax overpayment refund, renewal of the health services agreement for medical care at the county detention center, EMS Week and Heat Awareness Week proclamations, a household hazardous waste contract, budget…
  58. Thu, May 14 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The recommended list with outcomes attached. Funded: a community organising group at $25,000 and a health provider at $25,000. Not funded: $10,000 for disability access, referred to the aging department; $1,500 for a laundry service; $5,000 for a children's fund; $900 for a historical society, also referred to aging.…
  59. Thu, May 14 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Durham Technical Community College, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools, covering both the operating appropriation and each district's capital plan.
  60. Tue, May 12 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Built on five priorities: minimising the tax rate increase, prioritising public safety and the social safety net, maximising efficiencies in county operations, and modest investment in employee compensation.
  61. 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 in it. Approval commits the county only to the first year's funding; the remaining nine are a planning document.
  62. Wed, May 6 Orange County · Parks & Recreation Council
    The ten-year plan, in which parks and environment projects had been deferred behind school bond and renovation funding.
  63. Wed, May 6 Orange County · Parks & Recreation Council
    The director's updates, including the proposed FY 2026-27 budget.
  64. Tue, May 5 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Financing contracts for up to about $60.8 million for the year's capital projects and equipment, with a resolution supporting the county's application to the state Local Government Commission. Staff recommended splitting the package in two, closing in June and in late July or early August, with financing and transacti…
  65. 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 about deficiencies after the 2025 revaluation. The tax assessment work group that recommended the firm includes three commissioners and county officers alongside r…
  66. 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.
  67. 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 $112,524,049.
  68. Wed, Apr 22 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    The programme allocating the half-cent transit sales tax Orange County voters approved in 2011, which can fund only projects approved by both the county commissioners and the regional transit board. Adoption was a year late; the draft was released for 21 days of public comment rather than 30 because of the consolidate…
  69. Tue, Apr 21 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A one-year moratorium on large-scale data centres as a land use, explicitly covering artificial intelligence data centres, cryptocurrency mining facilities, data processing facilities and similar uses. Directed on 5 March, presented on 17 March, and heard here, with staff simultaneously drafting ordinance amendments t…
    Approved unanimously
  70. Tue, Apr 21 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A $1.7 million loan for capital improvements at Rocky Ridge Fire Station 2, converting a garage structure into a working fire station with living quarters, office space and kitchen facilities, with the county including the amount in its spring financing. A commissioner noted greater county involvement may bring more s…
  71. Mon, Apr 20 Orange County · Orange Unified Transportation Board
    The draft released for a 21-day public comment period rather than the usual 30 because the adoption schedule had slipped a year. Comment closed 21 April and the working group adopted it on 22 April.
  72. Mon, Apr 20 Orange County · Orange Unified Transportation Board
    The county's priorities for the next round of state project scoring, where the local share of the score is what a county board controls.
  73. Thu, Apr 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The ten-year plan as recommended, before the board's amendments on 4 June.
  74. Wed, Apr 15 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Fourth-quarter amendments to the FY 2026 annual work program, with separate requests from Chapel Hill Transit, GoTriangle, Orange County and Triangle West. GoTriangle's covered Route 800 and Triangle West's a staffing study. A public comment period on the amendments ran from March 27 to April 27.
  75. 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 bond referendum funding part of it.
  76. Tue, Apr 7 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A ten-year enrollment projection from Carolina Demography forecasts declines of about 10% in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and 9% in Orange County Schools, driven by falling birth rates and reduced in-migration. The county's budget director said the finding points to no need for new school facilities for now.
  77. Fri, Mar 27 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Releasing the draft FY 2027 annual work program for public review and adopting a revised work program development and approval schedule. The program allocates the half-cent transit sales tax approved by voters in 2011, and can only fund projects approved by both the county commissioners and the GoTriangle board. The r…
  78. Mon, Mar 23 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The county's 2026 priority legislative issues, matched to the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners' 2025-26 advocacy goals and the county's FY 2025-29 strategic plan. Farmland preservation is a top-six goal. Others include protecting clean water supplies and watersheds, state funding for disaster mitigat…
  79. Thu, Mar 19 Orange County · Housing Authority Board
    Member Sykes described a tax loophole tied to affordable-housing status and a Hillsborough project, across from a Walgreens, converting a 55-and-older community to general multifamily housing with 10 percent of units affordable. Staff said the loophole could significantly affect Orange County's budget and other munici…
  80. Wed, Mar 18 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    The tax district's cash balance stood at $32.7 million, with $16 million encumbered for projects still awaiting reimbursement; only 17 percent of operating costs have been reimbursed so far. Orange County's half-cent sales tax may come in short of its $11.9 million projection, and members compared tax bases and land a…
    Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsTransit
  81. Wed, Mar 18 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Fourth-quarter requests included shifting Orange County funding toward a radio-system replacement, GoTriangle's request for five more weekly revenue hours and $50,000 to ease Route 800 delays, a GoTriangle transportation-alternatives grant request, and a request to raise the Staff Working Group Administrator position…
  82. Tue, Mar 10 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    The FY 2026-27 budget as it affects aging services.
  83. Thu, Mar 5 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Commissioners approved a 2026-27 employee health plan that adds a $375 monthly card for GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, after pharmacy claims rose 40% in a year. The county remains in the North Carolina Health Insurance Pool, and dental rates will not increase.
  84. 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 members to advocate through budget season. Another member described resigning from a hospital role after a private equity purchase and cited research finding worse patient outcomes under private…
  85. Wed, Feb 25 Orange County · Board of Health
    The department's FY 2026-27 budget request and proposed fee changes. The goal is a flat budget, adding no new expenditure without matching revenue, against ongoing cuts and the absence of a state budget. The request is calculated as authorized expenditures net of service revenue, about $10.1 million for FY 2025-26 on…
  86. Wed, Feb 18 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    The status quo option for the Orange Transit FY 2027 work program. The draft went out for a shortened 21-day public review on April 1 and the group adopted the program on April 22.
  87. Tue, Feb 17 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Second-quarter amendments to the FY 2026 transit annual work program.
  88. Mon, Feb 16 Orange County · Orange Unified Transportation Board
    An information item on the FY 2027 transit annual work programme, which was already running behind its own schedule and went out for a shortened public review in April.
    Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsTransit
  89. Tue, Feb 10 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    The FY 2026-27 budget as it affects aging services.
  90. Fri, Feb 6 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    A change to the FY 2027 work programme development and approval schedule, recommended for approval. The programme had originally been due for adoption in May 2025.
  91. Fri, Feb 6 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Options for prioritising projects within the FY 2027 annual work programme.
  92. Tue, Feb 3 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Commissioners approved the interlocal agreement governing school construction with both school districts. They adopted three changes the districts had requested: appropriation language, milestone-based design payments, and a recommendation instead of a required construction manager at risk. The board also created a Sc…
  93. Wed, Jan 21 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    A presentation on the origins of visitors bureaus and a comparison of the three in the Research Triangle. Orange County's was funded in 1992 by occupancy tax, runs $2.5 million with six staff, and works against roughly $300 million a year in tourism spending. New advertising promotes local businesses and the Ackland A…
  94. Wed, Jan 21 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    The bureau was 69 percent expended as of December, with $1.08 million or 84 percent of the sales and marketing budget spent and the arts commission at $383,000. Thirty thousand dollars was appropriated from fund balance, which remains at 8 percent. Occupancy tax revenues are projected flat, attributed to federal trave…
  95. Wed, Jan 21 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    A status update on the second-quarter amendments to the annual work program, expected before the county commissioners in February. Items the commissioners reject or modify return to this group, which may need a special meeting depending on timing.
    Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsTransit
  96. Wed, Jan 21 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Review of administrative corrections to the FY27 annual work program, with project sponsors confirming their submissions ahead of the February 6 special meeting where substantive funding decisions are due.
  97. 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 leave and staff turnover; Dental Health is recovering from last year's data breach. Clinic improvements were paid from countywide capital funds and Medicaid cost settlement money. Staff ai…
  98. Wed, Jan 21 Orange County · Board of Health
    A proposed change extending the point at which a delinquent account is treated as uncollectible from 12 months to 24, and sending delinquent accounts to state debt setoff twice a year rather than once. Could not be voted on without a quorum.
    Deferred to February 25
  99. Wed, Jan 21 Orange County · Board of Health
    Eleven measles cases statewide, all linked to the South Carolina outbreak and none in Orange County, with staff reviewing immunization records and isolation templates prepared. Two county elementary schools have low MMR coverage. No approved state budget; rescinded Medicaid rate cuts after litigation; fears Medicaid f…
  100. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Affordable Housing Advisory Board
    III Updates
    Board and staff updates, covering the March 3 elections including county commissioner races, a Public Schools Strong candidate forum, and a North Carolina budget and tax event in Durham on wages and affordability.
  101. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Commissioners reported on Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances, the state association's general government steering committee on the shortage of affordable housing, and a legislative property tax committee. One commissioner said government regulation accounts for about 25 percent of the cost of a new home on average…
  102. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Affordable Housing Advisory Board
    Work on the 2026 work plan, already submitted to the county commissioners along with the 2025 annual report and still open to adjustment before the February presentation. The commissioners want an account of affordable housing gaps in the county. The board also set up its February agenda around planning an April commu…
  103. 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 percent policy. The audit fee rose from $135,000 to $150,000 because seven programs met the single audit threshold rather than the number assumed when the contract was set. Findings included the D…
    Contract amendment approved unanimously
  104. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Thirteen items approved together: five sets of minutes; motor vehicle and property tax releases for eighteen taxpayers; sixteen late exemption applications; a March 25 tax lien advertisement date; the 2026 listing period extended to February 13; budget amendment #6; ordinance execution for the impervious surface, wate…
    Approved unanimously
  105. Fri, Jan 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The January operating model shows a $21.5 million gap for FY 2026-27, rising to $37.6 million and $53.6 million in the two years after. One cent on the tax rate is worth about $3.37 million against a $33.9 billion base, so the gap is about seven cents. Revenue assumptions include 2 percent natural growth worth $4.3 mi…
  106. Tue, Jan 13 Orange County · Board of Elections
    Registered voters stand at 111,783, up 911 since December 2, including 782 seventeen-year-olds registered January 2 who turn 18 by the November general election. The registration repair project has 1,120 voters still on its list and 517 repaired. As of the meeting 179 absentee ballots had been sent out since January 1…
  107. Tue, Jan 13 Orange County · Economic Development Advisory Board
    Changes to the small business grant guidelines. The board decided software is an eligible use of funds under inventory and supplies but training, licensure and certificates are not. It discussed requiring applicants to strive to pay a living wage and allowing one larger award per fiscal year. All applicants must now h…
  108. 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.
  109. Fri, Jan 9 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    The multi-year plan must stay in positive balance through 2040, so FY27 has to be judged in that context. About $12.5 million in operating costs and $3.2 million in capital costs have been added to the plan through 2035, which explains the deficit. Members disagreed on whether public engagement material should show al…
    Vote taken on the timeline for releasing the finalised plan
  110. Fri, Jan 9 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Whether to put the work program out for public comment before or after constraining it to available funding. Members favored releasing it only once finalized, to keep it consistent with what the money supports. Orange County is hesitant to commit financially while FY26 global agreements are outstanding; Chapel Hill Tr…
    Hold the work program until finalised, then release for public comment
  111. Fri, Jan 9 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Discussion of the FY26 amendments and the cost-per-hour calculation. The tax district confirmed $2.5 million in liquidity for FY26, on the strength of which a Carrboro budget transfer request will proceed as a revenue-neutral information item.
  112. Dec 10, 2025 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Draft project sheets were due in early December with final drafts by December 18, and a special meeting was set for January 9 to review them all.
    Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsTransit
  113. Dec 10, 2025 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    A subcommittee to standardize reimbursement documentation and processes across the participating organizations, after unclear requirements caused delays. Members debated whether a committee was needed or an appendix listing required documents would do. Orange County will chair it.
    Charter approved 11-0, amended 11-0 to let financial staff attend
  114. Dec 10, 2025 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    The FY26 global operating project agreements remain unexecuted for Orange County and GoTriangle; all others are signed. No capital reimbursements have been made. Revenues are trending lower and a conservative approach was recommended.
    Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsTransit
  115. Dec 9, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The program discounts or rebates county property tax for low-income long-term homeowners. Applications rose from 604 in 2024 to 942 in 2025 and approvals from 502 to an estimated 850, following the revaluation. The estimated county tax burden across recipients is $1,894,000; the current $377,805 allocation would cover…
    Approved unanimously to reach 25 percent, with staff to propose how
  116. 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-February.
  117. Dec 9, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Eight items: two sets of minutes; motor vehicle and property tax releases; four electric conversion vans for accessible transportation for people who cannot use fixed-route buses; health department personal health services fee changes; budget amendment #5; a transit scheduling and dispatch software agreement with budg…
    Approved unanimously
  118. Dec 2, 2025 Orange County · Board of Elections
    The county has 110,872 registered voters, up 104 since October 7. The registration repair project still lists 1,142 voters with 495 repaired. The budget report showed sufficient funds.
  119. Nov 19, 2025 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    Media relations work with the state tourism office, travel writers and content creators, including a six-page Southern Living spread on Chapel Hill. Print publications include the 2026 visitors guide, downtown and county maps, a mural map and a restaurant map. The website drew 617,000 visitors last fiscal year, a reco…
  120. Nov 19, 2025 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    The Savannah Bananas play Kenan Stadium April 11 and 12, with an $80,000 bid fee from occupancy tax revenue plus $7,200 from Carrboro. The fee consumed most of the promotions budget, so $30,000 came from reserves for marketing, and the budget office advised against further draws. Occupancy tax revenue was about $2.196…
  121. Nov 19, 2025 Orange County · Board of Health
    Debt of $50 or more that is sixty days past due goes to the state debt set-off program, which collects from tax refunds and lottery winnings; it recovered $6,668 in FY 2024-25, up from $3,373. Debt of $50 or less outstanding a year goes inactive and is written off, though it can be reactivated if the person returns fo…
    Approved
  122. 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's Highway Safety Program grant for the sheriff's office, White Cross fire truck financing, booth replacement and equipment for solid waste and recycling, vehicles for sever…
    Approved unanimously
  123. Nov 13, 2025 Orange County · Climate Council
    A multi-jurisdictional plan covering mitigation, preparedness, adaptation and response to extreme heat, built around outreach and education, better emergency response, and cooling homes and communities. Work so far includes a stakeholder survey, three community meetings and three heat task force meetings, with the pla…
  124. Nov 12, 2025 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Preliminary unaudited FY25 results. Sales tax came in low, including one month posting negative because of refunds, and the district is checking with the state Department of Revenue and the DMV. Interest earnings above $1 million at nearly 5 percent brought total revenue to $13.6 million despite a $400,000 drop in Art…
  125. 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 the FY25 decline. Given economic uncertainty, the district recommends holding FY27 flat rather than assuming 3 percent growth, with 2 percent for FY28 and the existing baseline beyond, and will revisit in…
  126. 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. SNAP was unclear in North Carolina, with back pay not required; the county receives about $2 million a month, so an interruption would be a major shortfall. Staff urged publicizing the departme…
  127. Nov 6, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Emergency assistance for food providers, proposed after the federal shutdown cut November SNAP benefits to half the normal allotment. About 4,700 county households and 8,700 individuals receive SNAP. The county manager proposed releasing $54,000 from the Social Justice Reserve: $15,000 each to the Interfaith Council a…
    Approved unanimously
  128. 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 that the funds now cover North-South Bus Rapid Transit vehicles replacing Chapel Hill Transit's existing NS Route. The fiscal impact on the overall FY26 work plan is $0.
  129. Oct 31, 2025 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Amends the project description and scope of the combined NSBRT vehicles project to clarify how the $2.07 million in allocated funding will be used, needed for Chapel Hill Transit's federal funding readiness review.
  130. Oct 31, 2025 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    GoTriangle requests 5 additional revenue service hours for Route 800, with 50% of the added cost allocated to Orange County.
  131. Oct 31, 2025 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    A new project funding 0.34 of a full-time GoTriangle service planning staff position.
  132. 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 Farm, which staff described as vulnerable to vandalism.
  133. 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-square-foot version to fuller options preserving a 16-bed detox unit and 12-bay behavioral health urgent care.
    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
  134. Oct 21, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Budget, grant and capital project ordinance amendments including an $8,152 increase to the HUD HOME affordable housing grant.
    Approved as part of the consent agenda, unanimous
  135. 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 Pisgah Energy.
    Approved as part of the consent agenda, unanimous
  136. Oct 15, 2025 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    Update on the Savannah Bananas' two games at Kenan Stadium next April, expected to draw 55,000 attendees per day, and a proposal to fund marketing from the bureau's fund balance.
    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…
  137. Oct 14, 2025 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    Update on the federal government shutdown's limited local impact so far, a $56,627 Choosing Home Program grant for home repairs, and a $34,430 Providing Elders Additional Sustenance grant funding biweekly food boxes for older adults with cognitive impairment.

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