Grants and outside funding items in Orange County, between 13 Oct 2025 and 13 Oct 2026
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| Subject | Items |
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| Grants and outside funding | 49 |
| Budget and appropriations | 12 |
| Environment and sustainability | 11 |
| Housing and affordability | 10 |
| Farmland and open space | 9 |
| Health and human services | 7 |
| Transit | 6 |
| Contracts and procurement | 5 |
| Parks and recreation | 5 |
| Homelessness and shelter | 4 |
| Intergovernmental agreements | 4 |
| Arts and public art | 3 |
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The Arts Commission recognizes 38 grant recipients, 79% of 48 applicants, sharing $106,959.50 in state Grassroots Arts and county funds against $189,843 requested.
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A hearing on Orange County Transportation Services' applications for $515,928 in federal and state transit money for fiscal 2028, on a $764,366 program. It covers demand-response operations for seniors and people with disabilities, a mobility manager, and two 25-foot light transit vehicles.
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Three state grant agreements for transit administration, an accessible electric van and demand-response trips, carrying $540,821 in state and federal money and a $263,381 local match already budgeted.
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Awards the county's HOME-ARP money, of which $1,275,403 was set aside in May for rental assistance and supportive services, to Housing for New Hope, the only applicant.
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Where the county stands on a new Cost of Community Services study, paid for by a grant from the state's Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund.
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An update from the committee that reviews agricultural economic development grants.
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Hearing on the HOME consortium's report for July 2025 to June 2026: $464,907 was available, including local match and program income, and $169,322 went to tenant-based rental assistance.
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Hearing and approval of an application to NCDOT for $191,911 in federal and state rural transit administration money, with a $33,867 local match from transit tax funds.
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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.
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Ratifies a grant of up to $4,999 for replacement tablets used in damage assessment and shelter telehealth.
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Members review the scoring rubric and submittable questions for the 2026-27 Community Climate Action Grants. All scores are due by 9 a.m. on 5 October.
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The second budget amendment of the fiscal year.
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A funding request against the county's opioid settlement money, with an amended spending authorization resolution and a matching budget amendment.
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8.j Approval to Reallocate Returned Community Climate Action Grant Funds to the FY 2026-2027 Grant CycleMoving climate action grant money that was returned unspent into the 2026-27 grant cycle.
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Amy Eckberg presents on the climate action grant program, the longest item on the agenda.
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Sustainability staff review the Community Climate Action Grant's mission, its past awards and the scoring tools the commission uses.Reviewed
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Three items, taken together.Approved unanimously
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Accepts a Great Trails State Program grant from the state Division of Parks and Recreation for the Mountains-to-Sea Trail expansion at the Seven Mile Creek Natural Area, and authorizes the chair to sign.Approved on the consent agenda
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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.
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Update from the committee reviewing agricultural economic development grant applications.Staff or committee report Economic development incentivesFarmland and open spaceGrants and outside funding
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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.
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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.
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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.
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An update on county climate action work.Received.
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Proclaiming Pride Month.Adopted unanimously — a vote Pittsboro's board took 4-1 six days later.
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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.
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Upcoming retirements and new applications.
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A $381,456 federal award which, with match and programme income less a 10 percent administration allowance, gives the consortium about $450,000. Only two applications were received and both funded: $180,000 in full to Habitat for Humanity for repair and rehabilitation, and $271,981 to a homelessness partnership for te…
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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.…
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A substantial amendment to the county's HOME-ARP allocation plan, which governs federal pandemic-era housing money aimed at homelessness and housing instability.
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The public hearing on the draft annual action plan for the federal HOME Investment Partnership program, which funds affordable housing.
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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…
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Chapel Hill's bus rapid transit federal risk review is nearing completion with a grant submission expected in February. Carrboro reported the Morgan Creek Greenway progressing. Triangle West is releasing a staffing study request for qualifications, contingent on funding. Hillsborough, GoTriangle, the tax district and…Staff or committee report Contracts and procurementGrants and outside fundingParks and recreationRoads and transportationTransit
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Sixteen applications requesting $619,095 against $267,750 available. Eight projects were funded in whole or part: a farm expansion at Twin Creeks park growing food for Table, student-installed riparian buffers in areas hit by tropical storm Chantal, Carrboro's home energy program for over 230 households, tree planting…Approved unanimously
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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…
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A petition from a county commissioner asking that the Community Climate Action Grant fund cover climate adaptation as well as mitigation. The commission discussed how the current grant process differs from the proposal and agreed changes are needed before next year's round.Supported; one member opposed, the vice chair abstained
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An update from the director of the North Carolina Department of Information Technology's Broadband Infrastructure Office on the federal BEAD program and the state's Stop Gap funding.
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III UpdatesStaff asked for help on a data analysis project for the repair and rehabilitation programme: working through the long-term repair assistance list, updating it, checking which applicants qualify for federal repair funds, and looking at where the properties are. Four board members volunteered.
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Whether to support Commissioner Sally Greene's petition to widen the Community Climate Action Grant fund to cover climate adaptation as well as mitigation.
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The Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness reported system-level data submitted to HUD along with obstacles and successes. The main risk is the HUD Continuum of Care grant: the new funding notice mandates a 70 percent cut to permanent housing and guarantees only 30 percent of annual renewal funding, affecting p…
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A $14,000 application to the North Carolina Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund to update the county's 2006 cost of community services study, matched by a $2,000 gift from the county Farm Bureau, due December 22.
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An update on Orange County's Community Climate Action grant program.
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The board drafted framing questions for planning staff on how the land use plan addresses affordable housing, what challenges lie ahead in building it, and the rural buffer; and for economic development, noting there is currently no collaboration between that department and housing. Other plans: a March community meet…
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The commission finished its grant application discussions and decided how to allocate $267,750 among the selected applicants. It will continue drafting feedback for applicants, and set aside changes to next year's scoring for a later meeting.Selections and allocations approved
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Volunteers were sought to sort State of the Environment report data. Staff reported a repair café on November 15, a $765,000 agrivoltaics grant being co-written with Cooperative Extension, three sustainability interns at work, the Hillsborough Climate Challenge returning in 2026, and a Trees for the Triangle giveaway…Staff or committee report Environment and sustainabilityFarmland and open spaceGrants and outside funding
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Recognition of artists and organizations receiving 2025-26 county arts grants. Total funding available was $108,036 — $49,525 from the state arts council for the grassroots program, $28,800 in county artist support grants and $29,711 in outside agency funding — against $139,112.50 in requests. Thirty-one grants were a…
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A $97,503 state arts grant, partly funding a county Programs Coordinator position and partly sub-granted to local nonprofits and schools.Approved as part of the consent agenda, unanimous
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Board discussed how state transportation funding is allocated and approved a draft project management plan for non-STIP funded projects, with minor amendments.Approved unanimously
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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.Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsGrants and outside fundingHealth and human services
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