Broadband and technology items in Orange County
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| Broadband and technology | 33 |
| Intergovernmental agreements | 6 |
| Contracts and procurement | 5 |
| Grants and outside funding | 5 |
| Zoning text amendment | 5 |
| Budget and appropriations | 4 |
| Transit | 4 |
| Appointments and personnel | 3 |
| Health and human services | 3 |
| Arts and public art | 2 |
| Civil rights and nondiscrimination | 2 |
| Comprehensive plan | 2 |
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The follow-up actions list from the 25 August meeting, three tax collector's reports, the tax assessor's releases and refunds under $100, and a memorandum on the broadband project.
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Winding up the Broadband Task Force.
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Adjusting the final service locations and milestones in the county's agreement with Lumos, its broadband partner.Contract or award Broadband and technology
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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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A thirty-minute update from a Lumos director on the stop gap work, the effort to reach households left out after the original contract's location count was reduced.Procedural Broadband and technology
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An hour reviewing the county's GIS map of broadband coverage with the chief information officer, to identify which locations remain unserved.Minutes approval Broadband and technology
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Thirty minutes from the provider's director on where the build stands.
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A 2024 update to the Americans with Disabilities Act requires local governments the county's size to bring websites, forms and PDFs into compliance with WCAG 2.1 Level AA by April 24, 2026. The county's chief civil rights officer said any content posted online after that date must already meet the standard.
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GoTriangle's regional technology plan, recommended for approval.
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An update from the state Department of Information Technology's broadband infrastructure office on the BEAD federal programme and the Stop Gap effort to reach addresses left unserved.
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A review of the county's GIS map of broadband coverage with Robert Reynolds of the county's information technology department, showing where service does and does not reach.Discussion item Broadband and technology
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A January 15 retreat. The county's aging director co-leads the Strengthening Community for a Lifetime group, covering housing, connectivity and digital equity, social determinants of health, age-friendly work and adult protective services.Staff or committee report Broadband and technologyHealth and human servicesHousing and affordability
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A county broadband update from staff and the county manager.Staff or committee report Broadband and technology
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An update from a director at Lumos, the fiber provider building in the county.Presentation Broadband and technology
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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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How local preservation commissions act as a consulting party in state and federal review of projects affecting listed or eligible property. Two proposed 5G towers in Chapel Hill, both under 40 feet and away from identified cultural resources, were used as an example of a finding of no adverse effect. Staff also report…
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Chapel Hill Transit has a high-capacity transit corridor study under way with a pilot project being identified. Carrboro has advertised Morgan Creek Greenway Phase 1 for bid. Triangle West will issue a staffing study request for qualifications, concluding procurement by January, and has asked NCDOT about increasing no…Staff or committee report Broadband and technologyContracts and procurementParks and recreationRoads and transportationTransit
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The board's 2025 record and 2026 plan, due to the clerk by January 16 and presented to the county commissioners in February or March. Work in 2025 included five conditional district rezoning reviews, three text amendment recommendations, one major subdivision preliminary plat, and briefings on the land use plan and ha…Approved unanimously as amended
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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…
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The transportation workgroup reported on the help line, classes and tabling, and the volunteer driver program, tied to county strategic plan objectives on travel training, expanded options for older adults and better collaboration among providers. The communication workgroup produced five 'how to use our website' vide…Staff or committee report Broadband and technologyCivil rights and nondiscriminationHealth and human servicesLGBTQ+ policyTransit
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Appointments to the county broadband task force.Approved unanimously
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The board considers reestablishing the Broadband Task Force with an expanded charge to track state and federal broadband funding, appointing two commissioners and reappointing two at-large members while opening recruitment for three vacant resident seats.Approved unanimously
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An amendment to the county's 2022 broadband grant agreement with Lumos (T-Fiber/T-Mobile) reducing the number of homes to be connected from 6,370 to 5,852, extending the deadline to July 1, 2026, and revising the $5.2 million remaining payment schedule; about 600 homes in three areas would be dropped from the contract.Approved 5-2; the board separately voted unanimously to reconvene the county's broadband task force
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Removed from the agenda; not considered.Other Broadband and technology
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Putnam said the relocated house lacks public sewer or fiber service and sits on a shared driveway easement affected by a neighbor's drainage; the county's inspection found the vacant house molded and rotting throughout and revised its effective year built to 1945.Board reduced the value from $217,200 to $204,000, unanimous.Public hearing Broadband and technologyStormwater and floodingTax rate and revaluationWater and sewer
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The first update to the county's telecommunications standards since the Unified Development Ordinance was adopted on 5 April 2011. It rewrites the table of permitted uses, the telecommunications standards and the definitions, and creates a new section on nonconforming wireless facilities, with the aim of protecting re…Approved unanimously
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Repeals UDO Section 5.10 in whole and replaces it, with revisions to the table of permitted uses in Section 5.2 and the Article 10 definitions. The existing rules date from 2011 and no longer match federal or state law. Staff aim to allow lower-impact towers, shorten approvals, and address coverage gaps in the north o…Recommended to the commissioners 7-3, with a one-word amendment to section 5.10.1(A)(1)
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A first review of the planning director's rewrite. A member asked that the survey of county-owned buildings be supplied and considered in the amendments.
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Removing the state transportation investment law's restriction on funding stand-alone bicycle and pedestrian projects, which limits infrastructure for cyclists, pedestrians and personal mobility device users. Speeding up federal broadband deployment money into eligible parts of the county.
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The board extended the deadline in its 2022 agreement with Lumos Fiber from December 31, 2024 to December 31, 2025 to reach all 6,370 unserved locations. The county funded the partnership with $10 million in American Rescue Plan money paid against benchmarks: $1 million at signing, $3 million when 3,000 homes were pas…Approved unanimously
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The annual report to commissioners, filed each December and taken up at a spring work session. The 2024 list covers rezoning applications, UDO text amendments, major subdivision concept plans and preliminary plats, briefings on the land use plan and the climate action plan, and a work session on public notification re…Approved unanimously as amended
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IX.A Media ItemsThe communications manager presented the media packet: the Bridging the Gap initiative to reduce adolescent vaping, digital literacy classes at local libraries, the Horizons program and maternal mortality, an urgent care reopening in Hillsborough, and a rabies case in the county.
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