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UID:meeting-298@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212339Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251113T150000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Quarterly
LOCATION:Courtyard by Marriott Raleigh Cary/Parkside Town C\, 1008 Parkside Main St\, Cary\, NC 27519
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's quarterly council meeting on November 13 produced one figure worth remembering: 12 percent. The town manager told the council that when residents say the council approves nearly every rezoning\, the technically correct answer is that only 12 to 20 percent of potential rezonings ever reach a council vote\, because the council's policy goals filter out the rest before that.\n\nThe council also learned it recouped $46.9 million from reassessed capital projects — $15 million back to the general fund balance and $31.9 million to capital reserve\, of which $18.2 million is restricted to transportation\, $7.6 million to parks from developer payments in lieu\, and $6.1 million unrestricted.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2718&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/298
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=5998
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261012T212339Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251211T190000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Work Session
LOCATION:Herbert C Young Community Center\, 101 Wilkerson Avenue\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's Town Council previewed a possible South Hills Municipal Service District\, a self-imposed additional tax on the South Hills mall redevelopment property to fund public improvements there\, and got an early look at results from the town's 2026 biennial citizen survey and current property tax collection trends.\n\nNo public comment period is part of a work session.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2735&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/319
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6014
CATEGORIES:Work session
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DTSTAMP:20261012T212339Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260108T170000
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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 voted 6-0 on January 8 to refer two sets of governance requests to a future meeting with a staff report and recommendations. Between them they would rewrite how the town controls spending: the town manager's spending authority\, a written requirement for council approval before budgeted money is reallocated to special projects such as land purchases\, a structured review of senior staff expenditures and time out of office\, travel expense review\, and a policy requiring explicit council approval for any real property acquisition regardless of amount.\n\nOne councilmember said reducing the manager's spending authority is not about the current interim manager. It is meant to take pressure off the manager and put significant spending decisions on the record as council actions.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2745&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/328
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6152
CATEGORIES:Work session
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DTSTAMP:20261012T212339Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260108T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260108T203000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Council Chambers\, 316 N. Academy Street\, Cary Town Hall\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nSeventeen people spoke at Cary's January 8 council meeting\, almost all of them about the town's finances and the former town manager\, who resigned in December. The clerk also logged eighteen written comments. Several speakers called on the mayor\, the mayor pro tem\, or the whole council to resign.\n\nThe council's actual business took under an hour and a half. It approved up to $125\,000 to improve the gravel parking lot beside the Walnut Street parking deck\, and called a January 22 public hearing on annexing two Chatham County properties for a 230-house subdivision. A petition to create a South Hills municipal service district was pulled at the applicant's own request.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2743&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/329
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6011
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261012T212339Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260221T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260221T103000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Town Council Annual Meeting
LOCATION:Courtyard by Marriott Raleigh Cary/Parkside Town C\, 1008 Parkside Main St\, Cary\, NC 27519
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nThe second day of Cary's council and staff retreat\, on February 21\, turned to money. The finance director presented the FY 2026 second quarter financial update and took the council through fund balance: what the town holds\, what it can actually spend\, and how the policy floor works.\n\nStaff also moved the council's framework from what they had been calling pillars to priorities\, and gave a preliminary budget overview drawing on early figures from department directors.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2768&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/354
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6156
CATEGORIES:Annual or organizational meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261012T212339Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T200000
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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DTSTAMP:20261012T212339Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T193000
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 March 24 on the capital budget\, working from a list of requested general capital improvement projects and a pulse report handout. A closed session followed.\n\nThis was the first of the capital and operating budget sessions that ran through spring. The recommended FY 2027 budget went to the council on May 14.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2782&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/370
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6184
CATEGORIES:Work session
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DTSTAMP:20261012T212339Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260428T193000
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 took a briefing on ACT 37 and ACT 38 in late April\, the amendments that fold the Parks\, Recreation and Cultural Resources System Plan and the Bike Plan into the Imagine Cary Community Plan and then into the land development ordinance. Staff asked for the council's input ahead of a public hearing that Thursday. The agenda also listed a meeting schedule review\, announcements and a closed session\; work sessions take no public comment.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2798&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/393
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6187
CATEGORIES:Work session
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DTSTAMP:20261012T212339Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260430T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260430T203000
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 held a regular meeting covering four proclamations\, a four-item consent agenda\, and three public hearings: the 2026-2027 CDBG annual action plan\, a 175-unit rezoning proposal on Trenton Road\, and bike-plan-related amendments to the town's comprehensive plan. Public comment ran long\, with more than twenty residents\, faith leaders and advocates speaking on affordable housing funding and on the Trenton Road rezoning.\n\nCouncil approved a larger\, $5.3 million CDBG funding package on a 5-1 vote\, took no action on the Trenton Road rezoning or the bike-plan amendments (both referred to the planning and zoning board)\, and approved routine consent\, annexation and right-of-way items unanimously.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2797&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/395
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261012T212339Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260514T150000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Quarterly
LOCATION:Herbert C Young Community Center\, 101 Wilkerson Avenue\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's Town Council held its May quarterly meeting\, running roughly five and a half hours through the biennial citizen survey\, employee survey\, a Q3 financial update and the interim town manager's recommended FY2027 operating and capital budget. The recommended budget proposes a property tax rate of 37.75 cents per $100 of value\, a 3.75-cent increase\, alongside a $2 increase in the monthly solid waste fee and a 4% utility rate increase.\n\nNo public comment period is part of a quarterly meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2807&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/404
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6189
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261012T212339Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T193000
SUMMARY:Town of Cary: Work Session
LOCATION:Herbert C Young Community Center\, 101 Wilkerson Avenue\, Cary\, NC 27513
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nCary's Town Council spends its May 26 work session on the FY 2027 recommended budget: cuts already made\, further cuts it could make\, and possible new revenue. Staff bring a list of about $2.5 million in operating reductions they did not recommend\, including the $375\,000 Cary Chamber of Commerce contract\, and about $10.5 million in general capital projects funded by General Fund transfers. The meeting ends in closed session.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2813&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/408
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6222
CATEGORIES:Work session
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DTSTAMP:20261012T212339Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260528T203000
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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DTSTAMP:20261012T212339Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260611T203000
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-427@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212339Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260625T203000
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 adopted its fiscal 2027 budget and awarded a $49.4 million construction bid for the GoCary bus operations and maintenance facility\, both 7-0. It also heard a rezoning that would put 52 houses on 23 acres in west Cary.\n\nAgenda: https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/FileOpen.aspx?Type=14&ID=2825&Inline=True\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@caryncgovchannel/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/427
URL:https://carync.iqm2.com/Citizens/Detail_Meeting.aspx?ID=6208
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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