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UID:meeting-4246@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241021T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners adopted the 2024 farmland protection plan on 21 October 2024\, the first update since 2009\, along with a protection blueprint running to 2028 and the year's farmland preservation trust fund budget.\n\nThey held the hearing on the draft schedule of values for the 2025 revaluation and a hearing on the subdivision text amendment on concept plans\, and held back the Sanford water merger vote until the full board was present.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/10/1370_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-10-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4246
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1370&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4248@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241104T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241104T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners voted on 4 November 2024 to merge the county's water system and its three water districts into the City of Sanford's\, and set new water rates and system development fees to take effect 1 March 2025. The county keeps land use control: its own development ordinance governs what gets built.\n\nThey also worked through the last open questions on the Unified Development Ordinance before adopting it a fortnight later\, and saw the 2026-2032 capital plan.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/11/1374_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-11-04_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4248
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1374&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4249@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T180000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners adopted the Recode Chatham Unified Development Ordinance on 18 November 2024\, ending four years of work. Three weeks later the General Assembly overrode a veto on Senate Bill 382\, which removed local downzoning authority\, and the ordinance has not taken effect since.\n\nThe same evening drew about thirty-five comments\, most of them on a Dollar General proposed at NC 87 and Castle Rock Farm Road in Hadley Township. That rezoning hearing was held and referred to the Planning Board. The board also held the hearing on the 2026-2032 capital plan and honored the outgoing chair.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/11/1400_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-11-18_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4249
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1400&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4250@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241119T110000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners spent 19 November 2024 on the capital plan for 2026 through 2032. Two projects were new: a $3\,850\,000 roof replacement at Siler City Elementary\, and a $1\,285\,000 dam replacement at the Northeast District Park.\n\nThe plan funds large projects with debt. School debt is repaid from impact fees\, lottery proceeds and the debt reserve\, and other debt from 9.7 cents of the tax rate going into that reserve.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/11/1376_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-11-19_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4250
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1376&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4252@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241216T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241216T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners denied the Summit Church's rezoning on 16 December 2024\, refusing both halves of the request: 46.607 acres on US 15-501 N back to residential\, and 50.117 acres at 9780 US 15-501 N to conditional district office and institutional for a place of worship. The church sued the county\, and the board was still in closed session over that suit in June 2025.\n\nThe same meeting took the 2024 financial audit\, the capital plan for 2026 through 2032\, the digital inclusion plan\, a shelter needs assessment\, the climate committee's annual report\, and the retirement of the county manager after fourteen years.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/12/1372_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-12-16_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4252
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1372&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4253@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250107T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250107T110000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Board of Commissioners Annual 3 Day Budget Retreat\nDay 1 - January 7\, 2025 (begin at 9am\, lunch break at noon)\nDay 2 - January 8\, 2025 (begin at 9am\, lunch break at noon)\nDay 3 - January 9\, 2025 (begin at 9am\, lunch break at noon)
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture and Convention Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners held their annual budget retreat over three days from 7 January 2025\, and the revaluation was the number everything else turned on: values were expected to rise 40 to 60 percent on average\, with the notices about to go out.\n\nThey also worked through the capital debt model\, the Article 46 sales tax\, a draft public art plan\, early childhood education\, pay and benefits\, and non-profit funding\, and gave staff guidance for the 2026 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/1/1401_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-01-07_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4253
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1401&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-4254@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250121T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250121T170000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners set up their property tax relief program on 21 January 2025\, $200\,000 paying up to $500 each to low-income homeowners\, and awarded $150\,000 from the housing trust fund to Rebuilding Together of the Triangle.\n\nThey also heard what Senate Bill 382 does to the Unified Development Ordinance the county had adopted two months earlier. The weather cut the meeting short before the appointments\, which were made in special session on 30 January.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/1/1402_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-01-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4254
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1402&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4259@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250317T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250317T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners worked through the agenda their February meeting never reached\, on 17 March 2025. They opened a quasi-judicial hearing on a new EMS station at 9251 US 15-501 N\, appointed members to the Planning Board and four other committees\, and adopted resolutions for Black History Month\, Women's History Month\, Black Maternal Health Week and the community library's twentieth anniversary.\n\nThe District 4 Planning Board appointment drew four written objections\, all of them saying the appointee lives in District 2 while qualified applicants from District 4 had applied.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/3/1399_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-03-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4259
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1399&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4260@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners committed $1.29 million in opioid settlement money to treatment\, recovery support\, early intervention\, naloxone and recovery housing on 21 April 2025. They also approved the year's farmland preservation grants\, received the 2023-2024 greenhouse gas inventory\, and heard the climate committee's case for a climate retreat.\n\nIn the evening they adopted a resolution honoring free speech\, opened a rezoning hearing at 680 Pea Ridge Road and a hearing on pushing the Unified Development Ordinance's effective date to 31 December\, and terminated the county's agreement with the Chatham Rescue Squad of Siler City.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/4/1412_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-04-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4260
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1412&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4261@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250505T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250505T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's manager laid the recommended 2025-2026 budget before the commissioners on 5 May 2025: $288.3 million\, with a tax rate of 60 cents per $100 against the current 72.5 cents. This is the first budget after the 2025 revaluation\, and the revenue neutral rate would be 52.96 cents\, so the recommended rate is a real increase against the new values.\n\nThe board also gave staff direction on rewriting the advisory committee policy\, and adopted a resolution objecting to the planning and zoning bills moving through the General Assembly.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/5/1422_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-05-05_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4261
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1422&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4262@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250519T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners held the first budget hearing for 2025-2026 on 19 May 2025 and drew the largest turnout of the year. Dozens spoke or wrote\, on the Haw River State Trail\, a part-time arborist\, a day program for adults with disabilities\, a full-time election coordinator\, and master's pay for teachers.\n\nThe board also heard a quasi-judicial hearing on a fueling station at the Chatham Downs shopping center\, took a waiver request for a pump-and-haul wastewater option at Briar Chapel\, appointed five members to the Housing Authority\, and adopted resolutions recognizing Juneteenth as an official county holiday and Pride Month.\n\nIn the afternoon it received the quarterly American Rescue Plan update\, the third-quarter budget update\, and a presentation from Chatham Economic Development.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/5/1411_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-05-19_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4262
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1411&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4263@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250520T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250520T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Siler City Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners held the public hearing on the recommended 2025-2026 budget at Siler City Town Hall on 20 May 2025. Eight people commented\, in person and in writing\, and the board took no action.\n\nThree subjects came up: a full-time election coordinator the Board of Elections had asked for and the manager had not recommended\, master's pay for teachers\, and a cut to the county's rescue squad funding.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/5/1420_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-05-20_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4263
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1420&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-4264@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250522T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250522T110000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Day 2 and 3 Cancelled
LOCATION:Agriculture Conference Center
STATUS:CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners spent 22 May 2025 going through the recommended 2026 budget department by department\, and finished in one day. The two remaining days of the scheduled three-day work session were cancelled.\n\nStaff walked the board through fee and rate changes\, the general fund's revenue and expenses\, the enterprise and special revenue funds\, and the fire district tax rates.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/5/1421_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-05-22_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4264
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1421&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4265@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250616T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250616T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners adopted the 2025-2026 budget on 16 June 2025 and opened four rezoning hearings\, all of them referred on to the Planning Board with nobody signed up to speak.\n\nIn the afternoon work session they widened the low income tax relief program\, adopted a rewritten advisory committee policy\, and approved two signs on US 15-501 honoring George Moses Horton\, the enslaved poet known as the Bard of Chatham. The consent agenda carried thirty-eight items\, among them the Berrybrook Crossing subdivision at 188 lots on 232 acres\, a rezoning at 680 Pea Ridge Road\, three solid waste hauling contracts and a $275\,081-a-year Microsoft licensing agreement.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/6/1413_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-06-16_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4265
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1413&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4328@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250618T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250618T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Recreation Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Parks & Recreation Office\, 964 East Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Recreation Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Recreation Advisory Committee met on 18 June 2025 and recommended funding two recreation agency grants in full: $9\,000 for the Youth Sprott Center and $4\,537.08 for the Deep River Park Association. It also took up changes to the grant application\, an update on Parker's Ridge\, and trail projects.\n\nThe county did not win the AP grant it applied for\, and is waiting on a decision on a state parks grant in August.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/73123/638854131139370000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4328
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47024/5655
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-4321@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250626T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met on 26 June 2025. The commissioners had not taken up the climate retreat at their 16 June meeting\, and the committee spent its time on the retreat's new timing and what preparation it owed. It also reviewed what is left of federal climate funding.\n\nA member demonstrated a mapping tool that puts revenue and service cost side by side for different kinds of development.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/73204/638862722296700000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4321
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47360/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-70@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250721T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250721T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners adopted proclamations for Overdose Awareness Day and National Breastfeeding Month\, honored NBA draft pick Drake Powell\, and worked through a large consent agenda of contracts\, grants and committee reappointments. The board also opened a public hearing on updated Planning Board ordinance rules\, continued to the following month\, and heard the county attorney explain why a car wash's wastewater disposal plan near Briar Chapel does not require board approval as a waiver\, over strong opposition from nearby residents.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/7/1414_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-07-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/70
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1414&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-71@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250818T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250818T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners held an afternoon work session on housing programs\, Tropical Depression Chantal recovery\, and a planned climate retreat\, then a 6 p.m. regular session with a 20-item consent agenda and four legislative public hearings on rezonings\, including a contested plan to expand a wastewater treatment plant inside the Conservancy at Jordan Lake subdivision into a regional utility.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/8/1424_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-08-18_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/71
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1424&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-72@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250915T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250915T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners took up a rezoning fight over Bear Creek Fabrication's plan to expand into 10 acres of neighboring residential land near Campbell Road\, and a proposal to push back the Unified Development Ordinance's effective date to December 2026 because of a state downzoning law still tied up in the legislature. The consent agenda carried $405\,000 for ten police vehicles\, $143\,000 for two more\, a $100\,000 public health grant\, and several county contracts and land-use approvals\, alongside eight advisory board appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/9/1416_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-09-15_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/72
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1416&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-76@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners held a packed October 20\, 2025 work session and regular meeting: a rezoning to allow a new wastewater treatment plant within the Conservancy at Jordan Lake subdivision\, a public hearing to join the C-PACE commercial energy-financing program\, and three separate subdivision and phasing requests tied to major developments. The board also approved gymnasium replacements at three K-8 schools and $701\,340 in renovations to the Aging Services Western Center in Siler City.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/10/1437_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-10-20_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/76
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1437&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-77@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212311Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T180000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners consider a resolution supporting a constitutional amendment that would deny corporations the legal rights of natural persons and allow regulation of campaign spending. The board also takes up revisions to the Vickers Village conditional district off US 15-501 North: an extended phasing schedule\, a twenty-four month extension for the development's 183-lot first plat\, and a fee-in-lieu agreement in place of building the project's required affordable housing units.\n\nOn consent\, the board considers writing off $12\,908.48 in Public Health Department debt\, accepting $73\,000 for a UNC-Chapel Hill heart health research partnership\, and expanding the Climate Change Advisory Committee from nine to eleven members with two new appointments. The agenda also includes presentations on the MoveChatham transportation plan\, the county's draft FY2027-2033 capital improvement plan\, and options for selecting a new county attorney.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/11/1438_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-11-03_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/77
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1438&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Agriculture Advisory Board Special Meeting
LOCATION:Cooperative Extension Conference Room - Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 Business\, Pittsboro\, LEFT ENTRANCE TO AGRICULTURE & CONFERENCE CENTER Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Agriculture Advisory Board\n\nChatham County's Agriculture Advisory Board met on 4 November 2025 for one thing: reviewing the 2026 farmland preservation projects it recommends to the county commissioners. The agenda carries five lines and nothing else.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/74975/638974314229600000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4191
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/49618/1795
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners take up a first-plat review for Riverbend Estates at Laurel Ridge\, a 107-lot subdivision on 622 acres off Rock Rest and Old Graham roads\, at a joint work session and regular meeting. The agenda also includes public hearings on a countywide zoning text amendment to permit gyms and yoga studios in Industrial Light districts and a 66-acre rezoning at 3378 Christian Chapel Church Road for a recreational facility\, plus a consent agenda covering park\, library and reappraisal contracts.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/11/1426_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-11-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/79
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1426&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T110000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Capital Improvement Plan Work Session
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners review the FY2027-2033 capital improvement plan at a November 18 work session\, covering dozens of projects in infrastructure\, facilities\, parks and technology. The agenda also includes a presentation on general obligation bonds\, with a possible 2026 referendum\, and early planning for the board's January budget retreat\, including whether affordable housing gets its own dedicated session.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/11/1431_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-11-18_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/80
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1431&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-4226@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Recreation Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Parks & Recreation Office\, 964 East Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Recreation Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Recreation Advisory Committee met on 19 November 2025 at the parks and recreation office with park funding at the top of the list\, ethics training\, an update on Parker's Ridge\, and its annual report. It also adopted its 2026 meeting dates and took up members' terms.\n\nThe agenda is a ten-line list with no staff report behind it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/75099/638986487437830000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4226
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47028/5655
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251215T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251215T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe board's Monday session opens with a work session covering four presentations: an update on the county's 1980s-era architectural survey\, a briefing from managed-care provider Vaya Health\, a recap of a two-day climate retreat with the Central Pines Regional Council\, and a review of trail and open-space projects. Commissioners are also asked to award $325\,000 in Housing Trust Fund grants and a $1\,094\,800 supplementary loan for affordable housing\, and to hear a $1.4 million reimbursement request from Chatham County Schools tied to underfunded charter transfers. A closed session is added to negotiate a real estate purchase.\n\nThe regular session's consent agenda covers a full slate of contracts\, tax releases\, board appointments\, and the FY27-33 Capital Improvements Plan. The board also considers two large rural subdivisions -- Pine Tree Creek's 11 lots and Riverbend Estates at Laurel Ridge's 107 lots -- and holds a public hearing on writing the state fire code's road-access standards into the county's subdivision rules. December's agenda also includes the annual election of a chair and vice chair and a resolution honoring outgoing County Attorney Robert Hagemann.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/12/1427_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-12-15_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/81
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1427&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260106T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260106T110000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Agriculture & Conference Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThis is Chatham County's annual three-day Board of Commissioners budget retreat\, spanning January 6-8. Most of the agenda is informational: staff and department heads (Schools\, Sheriff's Office\, Elections\, Health Department\, HR) walk the Board through FY2027 budget projections and pressures\, and the Board reviews ground rules\, roles\, rules of procedure\, its FY2027 goals and priorities\, travel policy\, general obligation bond status\, and the county's economic development incentive policy. The Climate Change and Affordable Housing advisory committees are also expected to have quorums present for their respective retreat discussion segments.\n\nThe one substantive vote recorded is the Board's approval of a shift to a biennial (every two years) nonprofit funding application process\, carried on a motion by Commissioner Delaney. Nearly everything else was received and filed rather than voted on\, consistent with a retreat format built around briefings and guidance to staff rather than formal action.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/1/1439_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-01-06_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/82
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1439&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T180000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners cleared a long\, mostly routine consent agenda covering appointments\, interlocal hazardous-waste agreements with Cary and Pittsboro\, a hazard mitigation plan\, budget amendments\, tax refunds\, a recycling grant\, and two zoning matters: a text amendment letting recreation facilities like gyms and yoga studios locate in Industrial Light districts\, and a 66-acre rezoning off Christian Chapel Church Road for a recreation facility. All consent items passed together on one motion.\n\nOutside the consent agenda\, the board adopted a resolution marking the Haw River Trail's 20th anniversary and one honoring International Holocaust Remembrance Day\, took quarterly updates on ARPA funds and the FY26 budget\, and voted to hold a public hearing on February 11 to begin considering a moratorium on new data centers and crypto-mining facilities in the county. The board also went into closed session for attorney-client consultation before adjourning.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/1/1444_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-01-20_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/83
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1444&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4201@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T210000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Climate Change Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Climate Change Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Climate Change Advisory Committee met by video on 22 January to debrief the report it gave the commissioners at their budget retreat and to take up the data center moratorium. Three members' terms were due to end on 28 February.\n\nNew business also covered Orange County's RIPPLE award for local environmental and climate work.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/75641/639044967227270000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4201
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/51431/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260216T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260216T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nCommissioners open with a work session covering the county's FY2025 financial audit\, a resident satisfaction survey\, and a review of board rules of procedure. In the regular session\, an eight-item consent agenda handles routine business -- an NCDOT street resolution\, a resolution of intent to close part of NC Highway 902\, an amended Northeast District Park dam ordinance\, budget amendments\, tax refunds\, an economic-development contract increase\, private road naming\, and a 131-lot subdivision final plat. Separately\, the board adopts a Black History Month proclamation\, a resolution backing state juvenile-justice funding requests\, an amended project ordinance for Parkers Ridge Park\, and an $8.3 million construction contract with Blum Construction for the same park.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/2/1441_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-02-16_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/85
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1441&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Joint Meeting with Board of Education
LOCATION:Chatham County Schools Central Services\, 468 Renaissance Drive\, Pittsboro
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nCommissioners and school board members meet jointly to talk through the growth pressure both bodies face together: enrollment projections\, the buildout of the large Chatham Park development\, county-wide school growth\, and how capital and long-range planning can be better aligned between the county and the school system. Presentations only\, no votes.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/3/1449_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-03-02_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/86
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1449&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260324T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThis regular meeting opens with a large consent agenda (25 items) covering routine business: a Board of Health reappointment\, a surplus-property sale\, closing a defunct library foundation fund\, an Agriculture and Conference Center Phase II project ordinance\, FY2025-26 budget amendments\, several small state and federal health grants\, tax collection reports\, a road-naming request\, a wedding pyrotechnics permit\, and contracts for software\, an audit\, a nutrition-services provider\, and county health insurance. The one larger consent item is a request from the Silk Hope Volunteer Fire Department to hold a public hearing on up to $10 million in tax-exempt borrowing.\n\nOutside consent\, commissioners hear an update on the Pittsboro Redevelopment Project and a farmland-preservation funding request (both tabled to the next meeting)\, approve a 60-lot Bramblewood subdivision plat off US 64 West\, and take up several Climate Change Advisory Committee recommendations\, including a resolution on state energy policy addressed to Governor Stein. That resolution and a related committee appointment slate both failed on their first vote\, then passed in revised form later in the meeting after a closed session. The Board also approves a $1.42 million one-time reimbursement to Chatham County Schools for prior-year charter-school costs and goes into closed session for attorney-client consultation.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/3/1451_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-03-24_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/88
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1451&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Agriculture and Convention Center\, 1192 US Hwy 64 West Business\, Pittsboro\, NC 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThis is a special budget-retreat session with a single substantive item: county staff walking the Board through the Fiscal Year 2027 budget picture ahead of the annual retreat. Topics on the table include requested fee changes\, general fund revenue projections\, continuation and expansion budget requests by department\, the Solid Waste Enterprise Fund\, and other county funds.\n\nNo votes or formal actions are on this agenda apart from adjournment\; it is a working discussion meeting to prepare commissioners for the budget process\, not a decision meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/4/1452_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-04-06_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/89
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1452&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260420T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners open an afternoon work session with proclamations for Child Abuse Prevention Month\, Foster Care Awareness Month\, Black Maternal Health Week and Older Americans Month\, plus a resolution opposing state limits on county property tax authority. The agenda adds presentations on farmland preservation funding\, the Pittsboro Redevelopment Project\, a regional transportation needs study and a new GIS flood-mapping tool\, along with a review of the board's own rules of procedure and a discussion of the county's contract with Flock Safety\, a license-plate-reader camera vendor.\n\nThe evening regular session carries a long consent agenda -- budget amendments\, tax administration items\, a $251\,294 state trails grant\, a Duke Energy street-lighting easement in Pittsboro\, and a subdivision ordinance update tied to state fire code -- followed by five public hearings: closing a stretch of NC Highway 902\, delaying the county's Unified Development Ordinance effective date\, a 292-acre rezoning to heavy industrial off Christian Chapel Church Road\, a joint land-use plan amendment with Cary near Earnest Jones Road\, and a 372-acre conditional-district rezoning off Andrews Store Road.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/4/1462_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-04-20_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/90
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1462&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260504T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe board gets its first formal presentation of the recommended FY2026-27 budget\, alongside a third-quarter FY2026 budget update and an ARPA (federal pandemic relief) funds quarterly update. On the consent agenda: a $425\,000 purchase of real property on Renaissance Drive\, a renewed $279\,309 inmate healthcare contract with Southern Health Partners\, a letter of commitment supporting Beacon Management Corporation's Low-Income Housing Tax Credit application\, easements with the Town of Pittsboro for Lewis Freeman Park\, sole-source purchasing exemptions for emergency-management and weather-alert software vendors\, and approval of the ABC Board's request to pay its general manager above the state-authorized salary cap. The board also closes in closed session to discuss pending litigation\, ECO TIP West LLC v. Chatham County.\n\nThe meeting opens with proclamations for Vulnerable Adult and Elder Abuse and Exploitation Awareness Month\, Professional Clerk's Week\, and Mental Health Awareness Month.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/5/1453_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-05-04_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/91
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1453&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260518T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThe board's biggest land-use item is a legislative public hearing on rezoning about 372 acres off Andrews Store\, Parker Herndon\, and Morris roads from Residential to a Conditional District Compact Community\, requested by Fearrington Property Development -- but the hearing is being continued rather than decided at this meeting. The board also holds a quasi-judicial hearing on a special use permit for a 199-foot wireless telecommunications tower on Murchison Road in Goldston\, and the required public hearing on the recommended FY2026-27 budget.\n\nThe day starts with a 2 p.m. work session covering three proclamations (Race Amity Day\, Juneteenth as an official holiday\, and Pride Month)\, an annual child protection and fatality prevention presentation\, updates on minority entrepreneur support and digital inclusion\, and two closed sessions -- one on pending litigation (ECO TIP West LLC v. Chatham County) and one on economic development incentive negotiations. The 6 p.m. regular session's long consent agenda includes reappointing two members to the Board of Health\, adding the NC Investment Pool as an official depository\, several capital project ordinance amendments\, budget amendments\, grant acceptances from Duke Energy Foundation and NC DHHS\, a subdivision plat approval for a 45-lot\, 57-acre development called Conservancy Estates\, delaying the county's new Unified Development Ordinance by a year in response to state legislative action\, and numerous contracts including weather-alerting software\, cybersecurity incident response services\, and a Wake County interlocal agreement for firearms training access. The board recognizes a student filmmaker's documentary on George Moses Horton before public hearings and closes with a health department vaccine-storage agreement with Chatham Hospital.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/5/1464_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-05-18_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/92
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1464&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Elections Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Board of Elections Office\, 964 East Street\, Suite 101 Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nChatham County's Board of Elections took up early voting for the November election at its 19 May meeting and set a date to appoint the officials who would run it. It also adopted a resolution redrawing the West Siler City precinct lines so that the precinct includes its own polling place.\n\nOther business was the 2027 budget update\, the director's report\, and a sample letter from Rowan County on extending the time allowed to research provisional ballots. The board closed the meeting to approve closed session minutes and discuss election security. The agenda is a scan\, marked tentative.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77043/639148673943170000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4115
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/50318/5665
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Siler City Budget Public Hearing
LOCATION:Town of Siler City Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners traveled to the Siler City Courtroom to hold a public hearing on the recommended fiscal year 2026-2027 county budget\, giving Siler City-area residents a chance to weigh in before the board finalizes it.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/5/1455_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-05-19_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/93
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1455&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260521T110000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Budget Workshop Day 1 of 3
LOCATION:Agriculture and Convention Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nDay one of Chatham County's three-day FY2026-27 budget workshop (the board noted all three scheduled days may not be needed). The consent agenda carries one item: amending the county's land lease with Central Carolina Community College to add infrastructure for book lockers at the Chatham County Health Sciences Campus. The rest of the day is a walkthrough of the budget recommendation -- an introduction\, General Fund revenue and fee/rate changes\, General Fund expenses\, and other funds -- followed by board discussion. The agenda gives only section titles\, with the substance in the linked budget recommendation document rather than the agenda text itself.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/5/1456_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-05-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/94
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1456&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Work session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260604T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260604T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Affordable Housing Advisory Committee
LOCATION:Chatham Community Library\, 197 NC Hwy 87 N Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Affordable Housing Advisory Committee brought in housing staff from Cary\, Chapel Hill and Wake County on 4 June to describe how they handle housing supply\, and what of it Chatham could use. The county's housing director then walked the committee through what the 2027 budget recommends for housing.\n\nThe committee also reviewed the Housing Trust Fund report and its own 2025 annual report for adoption\, and heard a staff recommendation to cancel the housing retreat set for 28 and 29 September. The committee needs six voting members present to do business.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77101/639159137962870000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4179
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/53093/5382
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners adopted the FY 2026-2027 Budget Ordinance on June 15\, alongside amended financial and budgetary policies and several capital project ordinance amendments covering a Chatham County Schools HVAC replacement\, Briar Chapel Park (including a Phase II project)\, an Emergency Operations Center expansion\, and a new Sheriff's Office administration building. The evening's public hearings include a $14 million capital-investment economic development incentive grant request for Mosaic Hospitality LLC\, a legislative rezoning of about 20.7 acres on Silk Hope Gum Springs Road for outdoor sports fields including cricket grounds\, and a quasi-judicial Special Use Permit for a contractor's storage yard on Campbell Road in Bear Creek requested by Lockley Holdings\, LLC -- a case that would still be unresolved when it reappeared on the board's August 17 agenda. Two large subdivisions\, Webster Farm (132 lots) and Hickory Mountain Reserve (48 lots)\, come up for first-plat approval\; both cases would appear again\, apparently undecided\, on the board's July 27 agenda.\n\nThe consent agenda runs to dozens of routine contracts -- solid waste hauling and recycling agreements\, software and IT subscription renewals\, a Human Services Funding Program-style Home and Community Care Block Grant acceptance of $724\,467\, School Nurse funding with Chatham County Schools\, and pyrotechnics display permits for two July 4 events. The board also receives a presentation on filling a District 3 Board of Commissioners vacancy. Only the agenda was available\, not minutes\, so outcomes\, vote splits\, and public comment on the hearings are not recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/6/1459_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-06-15_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/95
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1459&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Recreation Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Parks & Recreation Office\, 964 East Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Recreation Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Recreation Advisory Committee met on 17 June at the parks and recreation office to work on recommendations about recreation agencies\, the outside groups the county funds and works with. It also took an update on Parker's Ridge and returned to how the county pays for parks.\n\nThe agenda is an eight-line list with nothing behind it\, so the substance of any item is not on the public record here.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/77213/639168758337970000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4222
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/50247/5655
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260727T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260727T150000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners' July 27 session is one of the heaviest of the summer. On the consent agenda\, the board votes to direct the county attorney to send notice terminating the economic development agreement between the county and VinFast Manufacturing USA\, LLC -- ending an incentive deal for the electric vehicle plant. Also on consent: a $424\,550 five-year contract with Priority Dispatch for the Emergency Communications Center\, additional Farmland Preservation Fund money for the Dry Creek Farm conservation easement\, a quasi-judicial approval of a 199-foot wireless tower near Goldston\, and interlocal tax-collection agreements with Pittsboro\, Apex\, Cary\, Goldston\, and Siler City. The board also announces a special meeting for public comment on the proposed Enbridge Gas pipeline expansion (held the following week) and adopts a resolution backing the Downtown Pittsboro Public Properties Pre-Development Analysis.\n\nThe evening's public hearings and land-use votes are substantial: a legislative rezoning by Fearrington Property Development\, LLC of roughly 372 acres off Andrews Store\, Parker Herndon\, and Morris roads from Residential to a Conditional District Compact Community\; a vote on EC PROPCO\, LLC's 292-acre rezoning from Residential to Heavy Industrial off Christian Chapel Church Road\; and first-plat approvals for two large subdivisions -- Webster Farm (132 lots on 183 acres) and Hickory Mountain Reserve (48 lots on 164 acres). Only the agenda was available\, not minutes\, so outcomes\, vote splits\, and public comment on these items are not recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/7/1479_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-07-27_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/98
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1479&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners' August 17 session runs an afternoon work session into an evening regular session with a heavy land-use docket. The regular session's consent agenda includes a $150\,000 Deep River State Trail feasibility study\, a $477\,558 economic development services contract\, two public safety radio tower repair contracts\, and a scheduled September 21 hearing on special-use-permit zoning text amendments. The evening brings four public hearings: county-initiated zoning text amendments to update bona fide farm exemptions and permitted-use tables for state-law compliance\; revised commercial and industrial landscaping design guidelines\; a rezoning of a 4.089-acre parcel on Bonlee Bennett Road from Neighborhood Business to Residential requested by Candace Beal\; and a quasi-judicial hearing on a proposed 199-foot wireless telecommunications tower on Andrews Store Road requested by Anthemnet\, Inc.\, open to evidence from people with standing on direct property impact.\n\nThe board then votes on two other land-use cases: a legislative rezoning by EC PROPCO\, LLC of 292.288 acres off Christian Chapel Church Road from Residential to Heavy Industrial -- by far the largest acreage change on this agenda -- and a quasi-judicial Special Use Permit for a contractor's storage yard on Campbell Road in Bear Creek. Only the agenda was available for this meeting\, not minutes\, so outcomes\, vote splits\, and any public comment on these hearings are not recorded here.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/8/1481_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-08-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/100
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1481&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260916T200000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Recreation Advisory Committee Meeting
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting via Zoom\,
DESCRIPTION:Recreation Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Recreation Advisory Committee met by video on 16 September with trails and open space at the top of the list\, an update on Parker's Ridge\, and research into how the county pays for parks. The committee also began work on its annual report.\n\nThe agenda is a nine-line list with no staff report behind it\, so what any of those items covered is not on the public record here.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/78152/639247441976070000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4220
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/50249/5655
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260921T130000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners vote Monday evening on a resolution opposing the Enbridge gas pipeline\, a month after the Agriculture Advisory Board held its own public hearing on it. That board reports back the same night\, and the pipeline company's attorney has already written to the county about the zoning amendments further down the agenda.\n\nFour legislative rezoning hearings follow. US HWY 64 Properties asks to take 13.145 acres off US 64 West at Ridge View Road from residential to regional business\; RTP Gardens asks for conditional regional business zoning on a tract off Bob Horton Road near Apex\; a Corinth Road owner in Moncure asks to move from R-5 to R-1. The fourth is the county's own amendment to the special use permit process. A separate set of the county's own zoning amendments sits on the board priorities list\, including one that removes off-street parking requirements to keep the ordinance in step with G.S. 160D. The board also votes on the first plat for Whispering Creek\, 238 lots on 288.6 acres off Bynum Ridge Road\, and on a contractor's storage yard at 1656 Campbell Road in Bear Creek\, where one resident has asked the board to reopen the quasi-judicial hearing before it decides.\n\nThe afternoon work session is where the money is. Commissioners take a space needs study and master plan from Hobbs Architects and The Wooten Company\, a report on whether to run the Expanding Access to Early Learning initiative for a full year\, presentations on opioid settlement spending and farmland preservation\, and a $250\,000 mobile health clinic from Tesco Specialty Vehicles. They close the session with two closed sessions\, one of them on ECO TIP West LLC v. Chatham County.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/9/1485_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-09-21_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3127
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1485&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T090000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting - 2 Day Affordable Housing Retreat (9/28/2026 and 9/29/2026)
LOCATION:Agriculture and Conference Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners spend two full days on housing affordability\, meeting with the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee at the Agriculture and Conference Center on 28 and 29 September. Every business item is a presentation\, and the agenda calls for no vote.\n\nThe first day reviews the county's 2023 Housing Strategic Plan\, the range of housing services now offered in Chatham\, where those services go next\, and the housing authority's work. The second day opens with the advisory committee's recommendations\, among them allowing accessory dwelling units countywide now rather than waiting for the 2024 development ordinance to take effect. Presentations follow on community land trusts\, scattered-site development\, tax credit housing and down payment assistance. Staff proposals posted with the agenda attach costs to each idea. They include a $50\,000 rent subsidy pilot and $175\,000 more for the housing trust fund in fiscal 2028. Larger steps would come later or depend on a bond: rapid rehousing at $300\,000\, $1 million to $2 million in loans to preserve a manufactured home community\, and a 4% tax credit project of up to 200 units. Each day holds a thirty-minute public comment session.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/9/1468_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-09-28_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3126
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1468&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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