Drugs and addiction items in Orange County
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| Drugs and addiction | 26 |
| Health and human services | 20 |
| Budget and appropriations | 9 |
| Grants and outside funding | 5 |
| Tax rate and revaluation | 5 |
| Police and public safety | 4 |
| Public facilities | 4 |
| Appointments and personnel | 3 |
| Contracts and procurement | 3 |
| Fees and utility rates | 3 |
| Fire and EMS | 3 |
| Schools and education | 3 |
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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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Whether to solicit offers to buy county land at 6823 Millhouse Road.Approved 4-1. Portie-Ascott opposed, saying the county has a practice of selling land well below market value. Another commissioner noted the board can stop negotiations at any point, and a member as…Resolution Bonds and debtDrugs and addictionHealth and human servicesLand conversion and large developmentParks and recreationPublic facilities
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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.
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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.
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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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Courts, criminal justice resources, emergency services and the sheriff.
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An update on the campus community coalition, which works on alcohol and substance use around the university.
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IX.A Media ItemsThe media packet covered local families avoiding food bank services out of fear of immigration enforcement, federal funding for Hillsborough water treatment, a pediatric flu death in western North Carolina, a Medicaid change letting foster children stay enrolled across county moves, a measles exposure at RDU airport i…
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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
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The board acted on Opioid Advisory Committee recommendations, moving one member into the substance-use treatment provider seat and appointing three others, after two commissioners asked for a conflict-of-interest opinion on the move.Board agreed by consensus to move Elizabeth Johnson to the substance use treatment provider seat and appoint Richard Cooper, Breana Montgomery and Victoria Menz
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The 2024 report showed no substantial change in morbidity or mortality since the 2023 community health assessment. New work included an opioid response coordinator, a post-overdose response team in county EMS, vaping cessation at Orange High School, and a zoning change restricting new tobacco and vape shops near youth…
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The budget ordinance sets the countywide rate at 63.83 cents per $100, 1.19 cents above revenue neutral. Adopted with the fee schedule and a spending authorization resolution for opioid settlement funds.Approved unanimously
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Reports from the Board of Health, including narrowed child fatality review rules that drop perinatal deaths, and an opioid settlement allocation. Extended comment on the revaluation and vertical equity between commercial and residential property, and on a budget shaped by federal and state cuts arriving in the same ye…
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From July 2025 local teams stop reviewing every child death and every child protective services case, and review nine categories instead. Perinatal deaths and birth defects, which made up most of the ten cases the Orange County team reviewed in 2024, are no longer required. Members objected that birth defects are ofte…
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Orange County chose the more structured of the two spending frameworks and receives $12,296,286 over eighteen years; the state keeps 15 percent of North Carolina's settlement and the 100 counties share 85. Five programmes are funded for 2025-26 from fourteen applications, up from four, starting 1 July. The department…
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The settlement schedule is frontloaded, which delays the point at which programmes need a county subsidy. Restoring a coordinator contract at about $90,000 a year would bring the break-even point forward to roughly 2030 or 2031. The money runs over eighteen years rather than ten, and staff confirmed there is a plan to…
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Twelve items, including opioid settlement fund spending authorization for FY2026, a license agreement with TABLE Ministries, the health department refresh construction contract, fourth-quarter transit work program amendments, changes to Orange Unified Transportation Board policies, a resolution authorizing sale of pro…Approved unanimously; item 8-f pulled and then approved separately
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The county expects $12,748,445 over 18 years and has spent $376,438 since 2022 across eight Option A strategies. Of fourteen community applications, the committee recommended five: Piedmont Health $50,400, El Futuro $50,000, Freedom House $72,000, UNC SHAC $37,600 and the Reintegration Support Network $20,000.Recommendations received; final resolution set for 20 May
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Mental health and substance use funding, community paramedicine and mobile crisis response, Medicaid reimbursement for behavioural health transport and urgent care, fewer people with mental illness in detention, innovation waiver slots against a waiting list of about 17,000, and better pay for providers. Regulation of…
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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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One speakerProcedural Drugs and addiction
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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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Health Director Quintana Stewart reported North Carolina's first 2024 measles case, in Mecklenburg County; said updated COVID and RSV vaccines are available at the health department regardless of insurance status; and said the county's first Opioid Settlement Funds Impact Report was due that week.
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