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UID:meeting-4244@govwatch
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting Agenda Between the Town of Siler City Board of Commissioners and the Chatham County Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Siler City Aging Services Building Located at 112 Village Lake Road\, Siler City\, NC 27344
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners met with the Siler City town board at the Siler City aging services building on 30 September 2024. The town's parks and recreation director reported on its master plan: six parks\, a gymnasium\, a sports complex\, an aquatic facility\, a veterans memorial and a greenway\, with recent work at Washington Park and Boling Lane Park.\n\nThey also took the reappraisal program ahead of the 2025 revaluation\, the county's reentry program\, and the TriRiver utility merger talks.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/9/1394_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-09-30_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4244
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1394&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-4245@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241007T143000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners held the public hearing on the draft Unified Development Ordinance on 7 October 2024\, and heard where the county's three water districts stand in the TriRiver merger talks.\n\nThey also bought the Johnson Heirs parcel on Bynum Beach Road for $43\,000\, a tract beside the South Bynum river access.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2024/10/1396_A_Board_of_Commissioners_24-10-07_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4245
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1396&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4249@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241118T160000
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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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UID:meeting-4254@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250121T150000
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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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UID:meeting-4258@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250303T090000
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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting - Legislative Breakfast
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center 1192 US Hwy 64 West\, Pittsboro\, NC 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County's commissioners\, the Town of Pittsboro\, the school board and Central Carolina Community College laid their 2025 legislative priorities before the county's state senator and representative over breakfast on 3 March 2025.\n\nThe county's first ask was to get its downzoning authority back\, which Senate Bill 382 had taken away four months earlier and which had stopped the Unified Development Ordinance from taking effect.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/3/1405_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-03-03_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4258
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1405&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-4259@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250317T130000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250401T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250401T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center\, 1192 US 64 W Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board heard one case on 1 April 2025: a special use permit for a new EMS station at 9251 US 15-501 N in Baldwin Township\, on about three acres the county already owns. There is no station in that part of the county and the crews there work out of the ambulance itself.\n\nThe board also worked on text amendments to the ordinance that establishes it\, and welcomed new members.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/71854/638784241903600000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4272
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47119/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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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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UID:meeting-4261@govwatch
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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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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-4268@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250805T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250805T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Old Agriculture Building\, 65 E. Chatham Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board took three subdivisions on 5 August 2025\, together more than 800 acres. Meadow Pointe is 40 lots on 201.90 acres off NC 87. Intrepid Reserve is 29 lots on 36.98 acres off US 15-501. Riverbend Estates at Laurel Ridge is 107 lots on 622.32 acres off Rock Rest Road and Old Graham Road. The final plat for Parks at Meadowview Phase 2A\, 15 lots on 7.2 acres\, rode on consent.\n\nA member also asked the board to take up pausing development to reduce flood hazards\, five weeks after Tropical Storm Chantal.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/73843/638892973416370000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4268
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/48170/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4267@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002607Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250902T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250902T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Planning Board Meeting
LOCATION:Old Agriculture Building\, 65 E. Chatham Street Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nChatham County's Planning Board took two large subdivisions and a wastewater plant rezoning on 2 September 2025. Riverbend Estates at Laurel Ridge is 107 lots on 622.32 acres off Rock Rest Road and Old Graham Road\, tabled from August. Harris Ridge is 49 lots on 138.58 acres off NC 42. The rezoning would put a wastewater treatment plant on 21.417 acres inside the Conservancy at Jordan Lake subdivision.\n\nThree items rode on consent: a revision to the Vickers Village compact community phasing schedule\, a twelve-month extension of its 183-lot first plat\, and a text amendment allowing automobile sales and service in light industrial districts. The board also adopted the ordinance establishing itself and sent the flooding working group's recommendations to the commissioners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/74328/638917297122830000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4267
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/48172/198
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4109@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002607Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250911T203000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Environmental Review Advisory Committee
LOCATION:Virtual Meeting\, Virtual Pittsboro\, North Carolina 27312
DESCRIPTION:Environmental Review Advisory Committee\n\nChatham County's Environmental Review Advisory Committee met by video on 11 September 2025 to discuss the Planning Board's recommendation to the commissioners on flooding in the county. The Planning Board had formed a working group after Tropical Storm Chantal\, and sent its recommendations to the commissioners on 2 September.\n\nThe agenda is an eight-line list with no staff report behind it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/74415/638929334726970000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4109
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/49403/775
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261013T002607Z
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-4208@govwatch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T210000
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 25 September 2025\, mostly on the two-day climate retreat the commissioners had approved for 17 October and 6 November. A member presented a set of climate indicators for the county.\n\nThe agenda also carried a notice of the county's public input session on the regional hazard mitigation plan\, held 30 September at the emergency operations center on Innovation Way.\n\nAgenda: https://www.chathamcountync.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/74597/638941544691370000\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4208
URL:https://www.chathamcountync.gov/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/47363/4930
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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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: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
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260120T200000
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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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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SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center\, 1192 US Hwy 64 West\, Pittsboro\, NC 27312
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThis is Chatham County's annual legislative breakfast\, a special meeting where the county\, the Town of Pittsboro\, the Town of Siler City\, Chatham County Schools\, and Central Carolina Community College each present their 2026 legislative priorities to the county's state legislative delegation. It's informational\, not a voting meeting.\n\nState legislators give remarks in response before the meeting adjourns.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/3/1450_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-03-18_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/87
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1450&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 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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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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UID:meeting-4115@govwatch
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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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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260817T130000
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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:20260915T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260915T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting
LOCATION:Agriculture and Conference Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nCommissioners meet in a special session built mostly around closed-door business. They would close the meeting three times. One session would cover economic development incentives for an industry considering a move to or expansion in the county. A second would cover the county's defense in ECO TIP West LLC v. Chatham County. A third would review the performance of a public officer or employee.\n\nThe consent agenda holds seven items. Commissioners would appoint Rob Schooley to the Juvenile Crime Prevention Council. They would accept $4\,248 in family planning funds and $2\,700 for foster care\, both from state health officials. A $310\,000 federal-state contract with Chatham Transit Network would cover medical trips and rides to county centers. A separate $417\,135 agreement with the N.C. Forest Service\, split 60-40 with the state\, would fund forestry and wildfire work for another year. The agenda also includes a pyrotechnics permit for an October 2 display at Chatham Charter School. Commissioners would also name two private roads\, Stella Maris Way and Martin Brothers Lane.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2026/9/1484_A_Board_of_Commissioners_26-09-15_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3578
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1484&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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