Solid waste and recycling items in Orange County
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| Subject | Items |
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| Solid waste and recycling | 19 |
| Environment and sustainability | 12 |
| Budget and appropriations | 9 |
| Public facilities | 6 |
| Parks and recreation | 5 |
| Water and sewer | 4 |
| Contracts and procurement | 3 |
| Farmland and open space | 3 |
| Police and public safety | 3 |
| Schools and education | 3 |
| Stormwater and flooding | 3 |
| Tax rate and revaluation | 3 |
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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…
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OWASA's annual update to the county commissioners on the utility's recent activities and finances, presented by its board chair, secretary and executive director.
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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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Air and energy resources has drafts for most topics and meets January 26 to move toward a final draft. Water resources discussed data collection, combining documents, and whether Wake County's groundwater study could be replicated in Orange County. Land resources worked on indicator species, planned a meeting with cou…
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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
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Items included minutes from October 7 and October 14, motor vehicle and property tax releases for nineteen taxpayers, nineteen untimely exemption applications, a resolution updating compensation for members of the board of equalization and review following a statewide survey of what other counties pay, and the purchas…Approved unanimously
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The director is expected to update the council on park capital projects and the budget.Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsEnvironment and sustainabilitySolid waste and recyclingStormwater and flooding
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Air and energy worked through carbon dioxide and nuclear generation and where PFAS belongs in the report, naming landfills as a source. Water narrowed to three foundational questions - how much water, what quality, trending which way - because the county has plenty of data that is not comparable, and will arrange expe…
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The ten-year capital plan, of which only the first year commits money. The board worked down a list of amendments: deferrals on several projects, $100,000 for public EV chargers and $50,000 every other year, $1.8 million of solar over ten years, a climate resilience item aimed at heat as the leading weather-related ki…Ten-year plan accepted; first-year funding of $75,322,781 approved
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A plan to reach zero waste by 2045, revised on the board's February 2024 guidance and integrated with the climate action plans of the county, the municipalities, the university and its health system. Discussion covered a glass separation programme at bars and restaurants that pays for itself, and an organics collectio…Approved unanimously
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Twenty-one items approved in one vote, one having been pulled at the start. Among them: a conservation easement purchase at RambleRill Farms; an interlocal agreement letting Durham County bill Orange County's solid waste fee for Chapel Hill properties inside Durham; recycling and municipal solid waste processing contr…Approved unanimously
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The planning department won the American Public Works Association's North Carolina stormwater project of the year award.
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A project-by-project review of the county and proprietary capital plans, plus debt service and debt capacity for the general fund, water and sewer, solid waste and the Sportsplex. Commissioners questioned scheduled electrical replacements at West Campus and the Passmore Center, the size of a planned evidence storage b…
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The closed pre-regulatory landfill covers about 21 acres in the Fairview Park neighbourhood, 17.7 of them on county land, and took waste from the early 1940s to about 1975 with no records kept. A state-reimbursed remedial investigation running since 2017 is nearing completion. A town commissioner said Fairview residen…
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The land subcommittee framed its section around progress against goals set in the 2019 report, choosing land conservation and the Land Legacy programme as its successes, and took on solid waste.
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A resident-developed plan for Fairview Park, worked up with a UNC research collaborative. Priorities are soccer in the baseball outfield, improvements near the Dorothy Johnson Community Center, and expanded walking trails connecting to the neighbourhood. Permanent changes depend on the state's landfill remediation rep…
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About 70 people attended the Repair Café, bringing furniture, jewelry and other items for repair. Two sustainability interns are starting, one on transportation and one on resource conservation. The commission voted unanimously to co-sponsor next year's Nature of Orange photo contest with the Parks and Recreation Coun…Staff or committee report Arts and public artEnvironment and sustainabilityParks and recreationSolid waste and recycling
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A quasi-judicial evidentiary hearing on Canine Adventures' application for a special use permit to develop a Class II kennel off Monotropa Trail in Efland, in Bingham Township. The applicant argued the existing vegetation would be retained to muffle noise, that the site sits low in the surrounding land, and that dogs…Special use permit granted, three unanimous votesPublic hearing Environment and sustainabilityLand conversion and large developmentParks and recreationSolid waste and recycling
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8p Purchase of Solid Waste Vehicles for Recycling Collection and Tire Hauling and Budget Amendment #2-GThe board approved a budget amendment and the purchase of a side-loading recycling truck, two rear-loading recycling trucks and a tractor for hauling tires to the recycling processor.Approved as part of the consent agenda, unanimous.
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