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UID:meeting-248@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250804T183000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Quasi-Judicial Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Zoning Board of Adjustment\n\nCary's Zoning Board of Adjustment unanimously approved a restroom and storage building at Wake Memorial Park cemetery and\, in a separate evidentiary hearing\, approved both a setback reduction and a development plan for a 199-foot stealth cell tower disguised as a pine tree on Trenton Road\, next to an existing Duke Power substation. No members of the public spoke at either hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2669&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/248
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=5869
CATEGORIES:Quasi-judicial hearing
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UID:meeting-262@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250828T183000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's town council accepted a $400\,000 donation from the Shane Pegram Family Foundation to fully fund an accessible playground renovation at Davis Drive Park. It approved two annexations and rezonings on its consent agenda\, for 227 and 309 Barbee Road and a zoning map correction at 200 Glendon Way\, and extended the borrowing authority on $225 million in 2019 voter-approved bonds by three years\, with $100 million still unspent.\n\nThree more annexation and rezoning cases drew public hearings without a final vote: a 12.61-acre\, 24-home proposal on Pittard Sears Road that neighbors argued is too dense and would worsen stormwater and traffic\; a 48.79-acre assemblage at Yates Store Road and New Hope Church Road\; and a 4.33-acre tract on White Oak Church Road. All three were sent to the Planning and Zoning Board\, with council action deferred to a future meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2682\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/262
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6007
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-296@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251110T180000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Conference Room 11130\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Information Services Advisory Board\n\nCary's information services advisory board discussed live-streaming public meetings on November 10\, ten days before the council voted to do it. Members weighed recording meetings or audio\, offering a Zoom or WebEx option\, and a fixed-camera setup like the one used for council meetings\, and asked how many residents actually watch and how many had asked for streaming. One point drew a direct answer: the town does not post a notification when a recording goes live.\n\nThe board also reviewed the 2026 biennial citizen survey and asked for two additions — a question about using AI for information or event planning\, and affordable housing as a focus area.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2716&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/296
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=5829
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-307@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251120T183000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nThis was the meeting at which Cary's council voted\, in closed session\, to place Town Manager Sean Stegall on administrative leave. The mayor disclosed that on December 15\, saying the vote on November 20 was unanimous and followed public records requests that surfaced activities the council then reviewed and confirmed with staff.\n\nNothing on the published agenda says so. It shows two consent items\, a park naming\, and a council-initiated item on televising remote meetings — which the council approved\, and which put all future work sessions\, quarterly meetings and retreats on stream starting December 9.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2723&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/307
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6001
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-308@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251201T180000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Conference Room 11130\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Information Services Advisory Board\n\nCary's information services advisory board approved its 2026 work plan on December 1 and moved emergency preparedness and public education earlier in the year\, then spent the rest of the meeting on two technology items: an update to the town's technology appropriate use policy and a demonstration from a vendor whose AI agent handles accessory dwelling unit permits.\n\nThe permit agent was pressed on where its information comes from. The vendor said it pulls state\, local and municipal plans to scope the agent\, and that staff maintain it as policy and local rules change.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2727&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/308
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=5830
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-310@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251202T180000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Conference Room 11130\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations\, Inclusion\, & Diversity Advisory Board\n\nCary staff brought the town's utility billing system to the human relations\, inclusion and diversity advisory board on December 2 for feedback\, and got a long list. A member said the system feels outdated. Others said it should be available in other languages\, that setting up notifications is not easy\, and that the monthly bill and current water usage do not line up.\n\nThe board's clearest recommendation was to opt every resident into consumption notifications by default and let them opt out\, rather than the other way round.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2728&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/310
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=5948
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-326@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260105T180000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual / Conference Room 21275\, 316 N Academy Street\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Information Services Advisory Board\n\nCary's information services advisory board took a presentation on January 5 about using AI in public services\, and the first question from the board was whether any decision or action would be taken without a person in the loop. The presenter confirmed guardrails would be in place.\n\nMembers also asked for an option to leave a chat interface and reach a human\, and discussed what productivity gains the town should expect\, whether specific use cases would be required\, and pilots to test the tools.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2744&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/326
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6016
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-342@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260202T180000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual\, Webex\, Cary\, NC 27511
DESCRIPTION:Information Services Advisory Board\n\nCary's Information Services Advisory Board takes up one discussion item on February 2: brainstorming ways to explain the town budget to residents\, led by staff member Lori Bush. The agenda gives no other detail and says the item needs no advance preparation. The board also works through its standing watch list of economic development\, technology\, social media and town communications\, and hears from its council liaison\, staff and citizens.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2760&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/342
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6017
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-358@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T180000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual / Conference Room 21275\, 316 N Academy Street\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Information Services Advisory Board\n\nCary's Information Services Advisory Board takes up the town's FY 2027 budget outlook on March 2\, its chance to weigh in on the technology side before the manager's recommended budget reaches the council in May.\n\nThe rest of the agenda is the board's standing watch list: economic development areas\, future technologies\, greenway technology\, smart and connected cities\, social media and town communications.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2771&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/358
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6018
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-366@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260312T183000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council cut posted speed limits on a set of streets on March 12\, amending the traffic schedule to bring them nearer what the road design actually invites. It also put off a decision on Alston Commons\, a rezoning that would allow up to 625 apartments on 22.74 acres at NC 55 and Petty Farm Road.\n\nThe consent agenda carried two right-of-way closings\, a new full-time assistant town clerk position\, an adjustment to the council's own meeting schedule\, and a revision to policy 143 adding procedures for how minutes are kept.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2774&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/366
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6159
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T180000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual / Conference Room 21275\, 316 N Academy Street\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Information Services Advisory Board\n\nCary's Information Services Advisory Board takes up a refresh of the town's open data portal\, which publishes town datasets for public use\, and hears from a new marketing and communications supervisor. The board also works through its standing sections on economic development areas\, future technologies\, smart and connected cities\, social media and town communications.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2803&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/397
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6020
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-411@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T183000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council opened the door to a data center moratorium on May 28. A council-initiated item asked staff to study pausing approval of new large-scale data centers\, including AI facilities\, while the town looks at what they do to land use\, transportation\, water\, utilities and the environment. Jordan Lake\, the region's drinking water source\, was named as the reason.\n\nThe night also carried two rezonings and the first of two public hearings on the recommended FY 2027 budget. One rezoning\, an amendment to the Sears Farm planned development for 87 townhouses at High House Road\, drew organized opposition from the neighboring Searstone retirement community. The other\, 275 multi-family units and ground-floor retail replacing aging offices on Weston Parkway\, came back after nine months of revisions.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2810&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/411
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6191
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T180000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual / Conference Room 21275\, 316 N Academy Street\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Information Services Advisory Board\n\nCary's Information Services Advisory Board reviewed the Greenway System Plan Explorer\, the town's online map of its greenway network.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2818&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/412
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6021
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-420@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T183000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council held the second of its two public hearings on the fiscal 2027 budget\, awarded $1.8 million to reline a stretch of the Upper Brier Creek sewer interceptor\, and appointed its outside auditor for the year.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2820&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/420
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6204
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-426@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260624T180000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual / Conference Room 11130\, Call-in information will be available on agenda\, For in person attendance: 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Cultural Arts Committee\n\nCary's Cultural Arts Committee gets an update on the FY 2027 cultural arts grant timeline and sets its meeting topics for the rest of 2026. Jenna Kustka previews the 50th Lazy Daze Arts and Crafts Festival\, and Sarah Preston presents event attendance analytics\, listed on the portal as geofence event tracking. The committee's nonprofit education work group\, Kristen Farrell\, Mary Margaret Barnes and Todd Hemphill\, proposes briefings for members ahead of the January grant review.\n\nThe packet's June report lists Pride Month events\, the NC Summerfest season at Koka Booth Amphitheatre\, and gallery shows at the Cary Arts Center and Page-Walker. Liaisons report on the Friends of Page Walker and Koka Booth. The next meeting\, July 22\, is a bus tour of Cary historic properties. No minutes or recording of this meeting were available at the time of reading.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2824&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/426
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6141
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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UID:meeting-440@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260723T170000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Work Session
LOCATION:Herbert C Young Community Center\, 101 Wilkerson Avenue\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council met in work session July 23 for utility updates and a closed session. The agenda names no specific subject\, but staff came with two: replacing the town's utility billing system\, and where the drought stands.\n\nCary runs a regional utility. It supplies drinking water to Cary\, Morrisville\, RDU\, the Wake County part of Research Triangle Park\, Apex and Chatham County\, which together hold more than 300\,000 people\, and it does the billing for the first four of those\, about 200\,000 people across 75\,000 meters.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2834&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/440
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6209
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-445@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260803T180000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual / Conference Room 21275\, 316 N Academy Street\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Information Services Advisory Board\n\nCary's Information Services Advisory Board met on 3 August with one item: progress on AskCary and feedback on it. AskCary is the town's resident-facing service tool. Nothing else was listed.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2838&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/445
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6023
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-458@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260827T183000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council considers an 18-month moratorium on accepting or processing data center and cryptocurrency-mining development applications\, exempting on-site equipment that draws under a megawatt\, while staff study power demand\, water use\, noise and site design and draft permanent rules. It also holds a hearing on annexing 8.99 acres at 4312 Jacobs Creek Lane\, tied to a rezoning for up to 16 detached houses\, with a vote deferred to a later meeting so the two can be decided together.\n\nA twelve-item consent agenda would authorize contracts including $905\,200 for engineering on the Western Wake Regional Water Reclamation Facility expansion\, a $4.14 million bid to rebuild the Cary Tennis Park courts\, and adoption of the ENGAGE and MOVE chapter updates to the Imagine Cary plan. Council also considers making permanent a parking ban on East Cedar Street.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2843&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/458
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6214
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-466@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260914T180000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Advisory Board Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual / Conference Room 21275\, 316 N Academy Street\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Information Services Advisory Board\n\nCary's Information Services Advisory Board meets at six\, in conference room 21275 and by phone. Three items of business: a presentation on the 311 service and a Parks\, Recreation and Cultural Resources resident survey\, an item on Cyber Security Month\, and the board's annual report. The agenda marks all three as needing no advance preparation.\n\nThe board then works its standing watch list: economic development\, future technologies\, smart and connected cities\, social media\, and town communications. Minutes from the 3 August meeting are up for approval.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2855&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/466
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6024
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-473@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232622Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T183000
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SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's council takes up the Alston Commons rezoning on Thursday\, 22.74 acres at NC 55 and Petty Farm Road moving from office and research zoning to mixed use. The plan allows 500 to 625 apartments\, 200\,000 square feet of office and 55\,000 of commercial\, including a car wash of up to 30\,000 square feet. The applicant has committed to structured parking\, 48 electric vehicle charging spaces\, and renting at least 5 percent of the units to households at or below 80 percent of area median income for thirty years. The Planning and Zoning Board found the request consistent with the Imagine Cary plan 8-1\, in July 2025.\n\nThe council also votes on extending its smoking ban. The 2007 ordinance covers town buildings and vehicles\; the amendment would reach all town grounds\, the whole parks system including greenways and trails\, and private enclosed places open to the public across the town\, with a narrow allowance for designated outdoor smoking areas. E-cigarettes are covered throughout\, and the effective date is 1 July 2027.\n\nTwo more items and a long consent agenda. The Flat Iron development downtown asks to raise its permitted apartments from 200 to 250 and to cut the town's funding commitment\, in an amendment to the 2022 development agreement for what was the Number 5 Mixed Use project. A council member asks to make the Transportation and Mobility Committee a formal board. On consent are a five-year fuel management contract worth up to $14.81 million\, a $13.7 million amendment to the GoCary transit operations contract\, a $1.62 million water main on Optimist Farm Road that interconnects with Holly Springs for emergency backfeed\, and a $2\,367\,765 appropriation to cover an arbitrage rebate the town owed the federal government after unspent 2021 bond proceeds earned more interest than federal limits allow.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2861&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/473
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6218
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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