Civil rights and nondiscrimination items in Orange County
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| Subject | Items |
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| Civil rights and nondiscrimination | 110 |
| Historic preservation | 22 |
| Faith and cultural communities | 14 |
| Budget and appropriations | 11 |
| Housing and affordability | 11 |
| Arts and public art | 8 |
| Ethics and transparency | 8 |
| Health and human services | 7 |
| Parks and recreation | 7 |
| Appointments and personnel | 6 |
| Elections and districts | 4 |
| Tax rate and revaluation | 4 |
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The three-year update of the transit system's federally required nondiscrimination plan.
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Paul Slack, director of the Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life, gives the county update.Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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An update on the anti-lynching proclamation the Board of Commissioners adopted on September 10. It names the 2026 deaths of Juliana Umba Nzita in Charlotte and Demetrius Fleming in Roanoke Rapids, Mario Kaiser Jr. in Charlotte in 2025, and Javion MaGee in Vance County in 2024, and calls on law enforcement and medical…
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The packet carries a draft proclamation on immigration enforcement for the Board of Commissioners. It would declare that county funds, facilities and personnel are reserved for local public health, safety and community services and will not be used to assist civil federal immigration enforcement, on the ground that fe…Proclamation or recognition Civil rights and nondiscriminationHealth and human servicesImmigration and enforcement
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II New BusinessHeading for the items that follow, scheduled from 6:40.
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2 OpeningThe commission's advisory role: promoting goodwill and harmony across communities, identifying concerns about discrimination and civil inequality, supporting education and outreach, and making recommendations to the county commissioners on human relations and social justice.Procedural Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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Ten minutes. Speakers are asked not to share personal identifying information or details of an active complaint, investigation or case; the chair may pause or redirect anyone who does and refer them to the complaint process, to protect the rights of all parties and the integrity of any review.
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An update from Paul Slack, director of the county's Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life.Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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A commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms. The same marker goes to the Parks and Recreation Council as new business on 2 September.
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Outreach and engagement on tabling and contact with Orange County organisations; community events on a housing series and the Blackwood Farms dedication.
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Members raise issues they are hearing in the community and identify potential areas for future work or commission response.Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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What was spent and what the 2027 budget holds, alongside successes, failures, what the commission learned and what it wants to change. Fifty minutes.
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An exercise, prepared in advance, on what the commission keeps doing and what it stops.Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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An hour: fifteen minutes on subcommittee charters with the full board, then forty-five in breakout on each subcommittee's 2027 priorities and events.Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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A one-page charter for each subcommittee defining the work it owns, and a priority statement in a fixed form naming what it will focus on, how, and by when.
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7 BreakNinety minutes on the event checklist and the process with office staff.Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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A marquee event on 16 May 2027 with placeholders for 2028 and 2029. Pre-approved: a Blackwood Farms event, a community conversation in February 2027, and housing sessions in October 2026, April 2027 and June 2027. New events proposed by subcommittees and by individual members.
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Black History Month, Women's History Month and others.Proclamation or recognition Civil rights and nondiscriminationFaith and cultural communitiesHousing and affordability
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A 2027 budget, a master calendar carrying every event, and a proclamations list.
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Forty-five minutes in teams on each approved event: location, budget, communications plan and partnerships.
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12 LunchWhat to focus on through 2030, which partnerships to prioritise, how to gather more community data, and how to take regular readings of how residents feel.
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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.
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An update to the county public transport rider's guide and handbook, alongside the operator's manual.
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The plan setting out how the agency involves the groups protected by the federal civil rights statute in decisions about service.
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Public comment.One resident spoke, on a property tax error she said had run since 1969 on a half-acre and since 1952 on a further acre. She argued the five-year limit on back-collection removes any incentive to cor…
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Changes to the Longtime Homeowner Assistance program, which discounts or rebates property tax for low-income owners. Now in its fifth year.Approved unanimously: eligibility widened to ten years of ownership, with a new component for owners aged 70 or over at 30% of area median income or below who have been in their home twenty years. St…
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Staff concepts for marking the county Poor House Cemetery, where Cyrus Guy, a lynching victim, is buried.
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A new proposal for what to do with the historic buildings on the site of the future Twin Creeks park.
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Public comment on human relations, civil rights and community conditions, with speakers asked to keep identifying details of active complaints out of it.Procedural Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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Update from the county office that staffs the commission.Procedural Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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An update on the Blackwood Farms commemorative marker, the only item listed for action.
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Outreach and engagement, including tabling at events and outreach to county organizations, and community events.
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A social justice vision and events for July through September.Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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Proclaiming Juneteenth.Adopted unanimously.
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Proclaiming Pride Month.Adopted unanimously — a vote Pittsboro's board took 4-1 six days later.
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Ten minutes for comment on human relations, civil rights and community conditions in Orange County.Procedural Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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The commission's advisory role on discrimination, civil inequality, education and outreach, and its recommendations to the county commissioners.Procedural Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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Ten minutes. Speakers are asked not to share personal identifying information or details of an active complaint, investigation or case, and the chair may redirect anyone who does to the complaint process.
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Outreach and Engagement reported on tabling and outreach to Orange County organizations. Community Events reported on the Pauli Murray Awards and community conversations.Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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A commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms, which returns to the commission in June and August and goes to the Parks and Recreation Council in September.
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Elections and membership vacancies, and the August retreat fixed for 22 August.
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Consultants set out a review built on four principles - comprehensive, statistically rigorous, focused on vertical inequity, and operational - with a formal report due September 2026. Work group members raised overvaluation of lower-income properties against undervaluation of higher-income ones, how lower-income owner…
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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…
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Ten minutes on human relations, civil rights and community conditions, with speakers asked not to raise active complaints or identifying details.
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An update from the director of the county's Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life.Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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An update on the commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms.
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Outreach and engagement on tabling and contact with county organisations; community events covering the Pauli Murray Awards and community conversations.
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A social justice vision item and events from May through July.Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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A social justice vision and events from May to July.Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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A staff presentation on preserving the history of Black tenant farming through the B. C. Corbett farmstead and associated sites in the Carr community, in northwest Cedar Grove Township.
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6.b (updates) Hughes Academy and Cameron Ice House preservation issuesA staff presentation on the farmstead and associated sites in the Carr community of northwest Cedar Grove Township.
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Submitted by email and read to the board during the meeting.Procedural Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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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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A proposed memorial marker honoring the enslaved community associated with St. Matthew's Church.Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscriminationFaith and cultural communitiesHistoric preservation
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No one signed up to speak during public comment.Procedural Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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The Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life said it is handling three civil rights cases and has closed one. It is also preparing a systemic discrimination case.Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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Commissioners read a proclamation naming March 2026 Women's History Month, marking this year's theme, 'Leading the Change: Women Shaping a Sustainable Future.'
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Comment on human relations, civil rights and community conditions in Orange County. Speakers are asked not to share identifying information or details of an active complaint or investigation before the Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life, and the chair may redirect a speaker who raises one.Procedural Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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An update from Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life staff.Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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Outreach and Engagement reported on a youth initiative and tabling. Community Events reported on the Pauli Murray Awards.Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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A social justice vision item, proclamations for Women's History Month and Jewish Heritage Month, and events from March through May.
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Members raise issues they are hearing in the community and identify areas for future commission work.Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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A Black History Month proclamation.
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A Human Relations Month proclamation.Proclamation or recognition Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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Staff from the Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life report on county events and openings the commission may want to take part in.Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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The two subcommittees report on a youth engagement project, which organizations they plan to table with this year, and the February community conversation on resilience.Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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Members set the spring event calendar and raise emerging community concerns. The social justice vision discussion was carried to the next meeting.
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A proclamation marking January 27, 2026 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, joining the national Light Up in Yellow campaign by lighting selected county buildings. A resident spoke in support.Approved unanimously
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Members discussed ICE activity in the Triangle, with a county commissioner reading a joint statement, one member predicting economic impact as people stay home, another reporting Carrboro's Fourth Amendment know-your-rights events, and a third recommending training from a local immigrant rights organization. A local f…
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Approved unanimously
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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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The board considers five recommended appointments and reappointments to the Human Relations Commission, which studies discrimination and works to promote goodwill among groups in the county. If approved, no vacancies would remain.Approved the appointments of April Thompson, Benjamin King, Shane Lukas and Rhian Carreker-Ford by consensus but declined to appoint Mary Lucas, who already serves on two other advisory boards, and d…
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The board voted to let the appellant build a carport on his property. A district court had found the county's groundwater-protection rules unsupported by evidence and too vague to enforce. The case was first heard by the board in May 2024.Approved without dissent
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The Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition is planning a historical marker near White Cross AME Church on Lebanon Road honoring Cyrus Guy, who was lynched near Efland.
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A proclamation naming 19 June 2025 as Juneteenth Freedom Day in Orange County, and recognition of the 2025 Orange County Government Academy graduates.Approved unanimously
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A proposal to sample graves at the cemetery for enslaved workers at Hardscrabble Plantation, analysing burial soil for bacterial microbiome DNA and possibly human DNA, which could speak to the health and diseases of that community and might correlate with living descendants. The commission discussed how invasive the s…
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A log house built by a white farmer and bought in the early twentieth century by the Nevilles, a Black farming family who lived in it until 1962. The new owner is interested in landmark status.
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The fair housing programme returns to the county from the federal housing department, which has been running it. The office must process eight cases and hire an investigator, who will need fair housing investigations and intake training, before it can restart intake and case investigations. A county attorney is assign…
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The county manager recommends ending the takeaway lunch programme with funding through August for transition. Training and language access requests are in the budget; a $58,000 respite services request came back at $40,000. SHIIP funding is at risk at state and federal level, and Older Americans Act funding is unconfi…
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III County UpdatesEquity and inclusion staff on upcoming events, four commission nominations, support for diversity on county boards, and a community dinner.
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An update on the marker and its headstone.
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Invitations for the awards.
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Reports from strategic advisory nominations and governance, outreach and engagement, and community events.Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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Reports on 76 townhomes being built by Habitat, a fair housing event from the disability council, a search for county land suitable for development, and coverage of the federal housing budget.
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Pee Wee Homes has two of three capital-funded units built in Northside, Chapel Hill, with residents moving in at the end of May. HUD is cutting staff heavily in research and fair housing, though municipal funding is so far untouched. About $1.2 million in HOME ARP money aimed at unsheltered residents is expected in au…Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscriminationHomelessness and shelterHousing and affordability
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Requests for language access support including ASL, assistive technology and community-based services training, and the take-away meal programme. The department would work with Meals on Wheels if take-away meal funding changes.
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Eleven items, including a professional services agreement for Historic Courthouse Square, a stormwater operations and maintenance agreement for the Efland EMS station, proclamations for Black Maternal Health Week, Native Plant Month and Fair Housing Month, an enterprise licence for the county's geographic information…Approved unanimously
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Members relocated the burial ground for enslaved people at the former Poplar Hill plantation, later Julian Carr's farm, and found another at the Holden family plantation inside Eno River State Park. Staff met the Human Relations Commission about a joint mapping and marker project, and will work with planning on langua…
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The county's cultural resources coordinator presented research on the graves at Blackwood Farm and asked the commission to work with other boards on permanent markers at the site.
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The equity and inclusion office will be renamed Human Relations and Civil Rights, and fair housing work returns to it. A youth leadership information session is set for 17 April and a poetry event for 26 April at Eno River Mill.
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Two student entries and no adult or business nominations had come in. The vice chair asked each commissioner to nominate one of each before 1 April.Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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The Pauli Murray Award is set for 18 May at 3 p.m., with the venue unconfirmed and the invited speaker withdrawn for a family medical reason.
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Support for the state racial equity in criminal justice recommendations: legalising marijuana possession and licensed retail sale, policing reforms on use of force and community oversight, county money for diversion and restorative justice, lower court fines and fees, and an end to automatic licence revocation for fai…
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III County UpdatesA community book read on 27 February, a film discussion on 13 March at Eno Arts Mill, a Women's History Month retreat on 22 March, and notice that an anti-DEI bill has been filed in the legislature.
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Geological testing is complete. The inscription will be discussed at the next meeting, and the county's cultural resources coordinator will present his research in March.Marker approved unanimously
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The commissioners gave positive feedback on the outreach work plan. The vice chair named the political climate as a concern and raised a possible listening session, and named affordable housing as a known issue.Staff or committee report Civil rights and nondiscriminationEnvironment and sustainabilityHousing and affordability
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A proclamation modelled on one adopted in Chicago was withdrawn after discussion found the text too open to misinterpretation.Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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A Black History Month proclamation.Approved unanimously
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LIDAR has located stone mounds successfully elsewhere, and owners increasingly ask for site visits. Staff described a cemetery on one of the Hester plantations with at least eleven rows of roughly fifteen burials each, resembling the county's Strayhorn-Blackwood burial ground.
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A programme on 16 February with speakers and the choir of Jones Grove Baptist Church, which owns the Ridge Road School recently placed on the National Register.
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The HOME consortium with Chapel Hill and Carrboro, landlord incentives including signing and referral bonuses and a risk mitigation fund, eviction diversion, and the civil rights programme handling fair housing and public accommodations cases. Emergency housing assistance has fallen from $15 million in pandemic fundin…
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Policies and procedures: a member offered to join the nominations and governance subcommittee. Outreach and engagement: discussion of applying the county's One Orange equity and inclusion policy, and a member offered to co-chair. Community events: the subcommittee still needs a co-chair, and a date for the Pauli Murra…
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The dedication ceremony has been pushed to spring because the marker itself is delayed.
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Policies and procedures voted to keep the fourth Tuesday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. as the meeting time, and discussed adopting Robert's Rules of Order. Outreach and engagement lost its chair to the resignation and agreed to share the duties among remaining members. Community events discussed moving the Pauli Murray awards t…
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The board considered three applicants for at-large seats on the commission, which advises on discrimination based on race, disability, sexual orientation and other categories.Alexander Fowler, Cory Hogans and Shane Lukas appointed by consensus; two seats remain vacant
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A marker commemorating five documented lynchings in the county since 1869 remains in the works. Fabrication has been delayed past its planned early-November date.
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Commissioners discussed moving the Pauli Murray Awards from their usual February date to allow more time for community outreach and nominations, and directed the Community Events subcommittee to propose a new date for a full-commission vote.Discussion item Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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The board proclaimed October 2024 Disability Employment Awareness Month in Orange County.Approved unanimouslyProclamation or recognition Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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The board asked Governor Cooper to commute all 136 North Carolina death sentences to prison terms, citing racial bias findings and wrongful convictions. Representatives of the NC Commission for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, mid-way through a 136-mile walk to Raleigh, spoke in support.Approved unanimouslyResolution Civil rights and nondiscrimination
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Staff reported the commission's FY2025 budget was finalized at $10,000, less than the previous two years, and that no fair housing complaints came in during the month. Staff also flagged access trouble with the SharePoint site and the county's climate action grant application, a request to hold the commission's retrea…
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