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UID:meeting-3323@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211018
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211019
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting - Virtual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting - Virtual Meeting\n\nDurham's council will vote on five contracts worth more than $1.8 million to fund emergency shelter and homelessness prevention services. The money comes from federal COVID relief funds and goes to Families Moving Forward\, Open Table Ministry\, Project Access of Durham County\, Urban Ministries of Durham and Volunteers of America of the Carolinas. The council also holds a public hearing on a resolution approving up to $60 million in Public Finance Authority revenue bonds for United Methodist Retirement Homes\, and a separate hearing on council salary adjustments.\n\nFive appointees\, including a youth member\, would join the Racial Equity Commission for terms ending in 2024. The council would adopt Durham's Carbon Neutrality and Renewable Energy Action Plan. It would also join Duke Energy's Green Source Advantage solar program in agreements with Durham County and Quaker Creek Farm Solar. Other items include a $290\,000 purchase of 11.62 acres on Buren Road for the future expansion of Lake Michie and a corrected annexation ordinance for the Twin Lakes case. The council would also expand the Longtime Homeowner Grant Program to the Walltown neighborhood.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2757\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3323
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2757
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3255@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211102
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting - Virtual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting - Virtual Meeting\n\nDurham City Council considers raising a rehabilitation contract for affordable housing at 2816 Ross Road from $2.35 million to just over $6 million\, and a $2.2 million construction loan for Bryan Place Apartments on North Duke Street. It also holds three land-use hearings: annexing and rezoning land called Griffin Place from rural and light-industrial designations to a residential planned development\, rezoning an industrial tract to office use for Bethpage Office II\, and rezoning a Residential Suburban-20 lot to commercial and residential use for Latta Park.\n\nOther business includes a $3.3 million contract for trail repairs\, a $336\,930 planning contract for outdoor aquatics facilities\, and a $135\,000 purchase of 1.458 acres for the future expansion of Lake Michie. The council also considers appointments to several boards\, including the Racial Equity Commission and the Civilian Police Review Board.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2766\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3255
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2766
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3305@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20211220
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20211221
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting -Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting - Virtual\n\nDurham's council takes up a stack of contracts. The largest: a five-year\, $3\,830\,831 renewal with Axon Enterprise for police body-worn and in-car cameras\, and a $1\,213\,186 purchase of 29 marked police sedans. Other consent items fund water tank maintenance\, biosolids disposal and a valve auditing program. Three more appoint the city's finance officer\, deputy finance officer and tax collector.\n\nIn its only public hearing\, the council considers rezoning 518 Martin Luther King\, Jr. Parkway from commercial to residential multifamily. Two land conservancies would also receive Watershed Protection Fund money for farm conservation projects\, and the council hears the city's 2021 financial audit.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2785\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3305
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2785
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3246@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220104
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting- Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting - Virtual\n\nDurham's city council opens the year with two annexation hearings\, at 2211 Page Road and at NC55 and Hopson\, both taking effect March 31 if adopted. Each would also rezone the land\, one to office and institutional use\, the other to industrial light.\n\nThe consent agenda would raise a three-year Legal Aid of North Carolina contract by $1\,060\,000\, to $2\,605\,450\, to keep funding eviction defense for residents. It would also authorize up to $17\,000\,000 in housing revenue bonds for the Hardee Street Apartments project\, sell a six-acre option on the former Rolling Hills site to a developer for $1\, and commit close to $8\,000\,000 combined to contracts\, grants and change orders\, including new water infrastructure contracts for the Western Intake Partnership on Jordan Lake.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2789\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3246
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2789
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3312@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220119
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting - Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting - Virtual\n\nThe Durham City Council considers two pandemic-era airport grants from the FAA\, $44.8 million and $5.9 million under the American Rescue Plan. Members would authorize agreements to spend both awards. The consent agenda also carries eight appointments to city boards and commissions. Two street contracts add up to $11.2 million: $6.4 million for repaving and $4.8 million for pavement preservation.\n\nA $2.3 million amendment would raise the city's sewer system evaluation survey contract with CDM Smith to $3.6 million. The council also takes up a $250\,000 contract with the Cypress Fund and NEO Philanthropy for the We Are the Ones program. A staff report covers the city's response to Bull City Tenants United's proposals. Market adjustments to police and fire pay take effect the same day.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2794\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3312
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2794
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3301@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220221
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220222
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting- Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting - Virtual\n\nDurham City Council would add $1.9 million to a sidewalk repair contract with Browe Construction Company\, bringing the total to $4.7 million. It would also hire Summit Design and Engineering Services for up to $600\,000 to inspect sidewalk projects. The council holds a public hearing on community development needs for the city's FY2022-2023 Annual Action Plan\, which sets priorities for federal housing and community development funding.\n\nThe agenda also fills seven vacancies on advisory boards\, receives annual reports from a dozen boards and commissions covering audits\, tourism\, planning\, historic preservation and the airport\, and takes up a resolution urging the federal government to cancel student loan debt.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2806\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3301
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2806
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3320@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220307
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220308
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nThe Durham City Council holds two rezoning hearings. One would move the Ellis Road PDR Rezoning II tract from Commercial General with a Development Plan into a Planned Development Residential 18.220 district. The other would take the U Tower site out of Office and Institutional with a Development Plan and into a plain Office and Institutional district. Both require a Consistency and Reasonableness Statement under state law.\n\nOn the consent agenda\, the council considers a $1\,139\,721 contract with Schnabel Engineering South for Little River Dam embankment settlement and seepage repairs\, with spending authority up to $1\,253\,721 including contingency and amendments. Members also take up a resolution declaring support for reproductive freedoms and the appointment of a new finance officer. Separately\, an interlocal agreement would have GoTriangle reimburse the city for adjusting a 36-inch transmission waterline under Gregson Street.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2814\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3320
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2814
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3273@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220606
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220607
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city manager holds a public hearing on the proposed Fiscal Year 2022-23 budget and the Fiscal Year 2023-28 Capital Improvement Plan. The council also considers a resolution to approve a Limited Obligation Bond\, Series 2022\, amending an installment financing contract not to exceed $132\,000\,000.\n\nTwo land-use hearings are on the agenda: a consolidated annexation of 509 Sherron Road that would also rezone the tract to Planned Development Residential\, and a zoning map change for the Highgate Commercial site. The council would also authorize an economic development incentive agreement of up to $206\,000 with Greene Solutions\, LLC for building renovations on Simmons Street and Fayetteville Street\, and a consent agenda carries nine board and committee appointments\, two fire truck purchase contracts\, a $3\,626\,422 sewer outfall inspection contract\, and an ordinance retaining a criminal penalty for noise violations.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2860\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3273
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2860
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3326@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220802
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham City Council holds five public hearings on land use. Three are rezonings. One would allow multifamily housing at 5202 Garrett Road. Another would shift land near the county's utility administration building to industrial use. A third would rezone a tract off East Cornwallis Road for commercial use\, barring nightclubs\, payday lenders and firing ranges. The other two hearings would annex a project called Carolina Civil Works and close a 157-foot stretch of Henderson Street.\n\nThe council would approve $22.5 million in multifamily housing revenue bonds for a project called 300 East Main. It would raise the cap on the design-build agreement for Fire and EMS Station 18 to $7.4 million. Twelve appointments to city boards and commissions are on the consent agenda. So are contracts for reservoir safety work\, a transit corridor project and an opioid-settlement grant to Lincoln Community Health Center.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2865\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3326
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2865
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3269@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221108
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council takes up close to $22 million in revenue bonds to finance the Cedar Trace Apartments. It also weighs a $5.3 million construction contract with Dellinger\, Inc. for the Celeste Circle sewer lift station. It holds four public hearings on annexations: 1110 Old Oxford Road\, 5202 Leesville Road\, and the Junction and Ferrell and Wilkinson Estates tracts. Each pairs the annexation with a rezoning from county to city jurisdiction. A fifth hearing would rezone the Greater Love Worship Center site from office and institutional use to light industrial.\n\nThe consent agenda appoints Nadera A. Salaam to the Board of Adjustment\, John V. Brown Jr. to the Durham Convention & Visitors Bureau\, and Valon Alford to the Citizens Advisory Committee. It also carries a $261\,631 stormwater grant to the Ellerbee Creek Watershed Association and three refuse-truck purchases totaling about $2.1 million. Council members also take up a resolution backing Duke graduate students' right to organize a union. Separately\, they consider a social district that would let Downtown Durham Inc. manage where people can carry alcohol downtown.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2890\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3269
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2890
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3247@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221122
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council would award Crowder Industrial Construction a $70 million contract for the Lake Michie and Little River Raw Water Pump Station Improvements. It is the largest sum on a 33-item agenda dominated by water and sewer work. A companion ordinance would reallocate capital improvement funding for the same project.\n\nThe council also holds public hearings on two annexations and three rezonings\, including sites near a Durham school and North Carolina Central University. It would adopt an ordinance setting new ward boundaries after redistricting and fill five seats on city boards and commissions. It would also fund a seven-month shelter contract with Open Table Ministry for people experiencing homelessness in cold weather.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2892\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3247
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2892
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3248@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230620
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230621
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Durham City Council
DESCRIPTION:Durham City Council\n\nDurham City Council's 20 June 2023 agenda opens with three proclamations: the Mayors' Monarch Pledge\, cleft and craniofacial awareness month\, and the fiftieth anniversary of hip hop. A consent agenda follows\, then five numbered items taken up one at a time — items 15\, 40\, 44\, 22 and 45.\n\nThe agenda document itself is gone. Durham's Granicus portal answers with a notice that the agenda is not currently published\, and no minutes are filed there. The clerk's index of the recording carries the proclamation titles and the numbers of the business items\, but not their titles\, so what each numbered item covered cannot be said from the record on file.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2932\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3248
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2932
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3314@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240604
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council took up two General Obligation Bond Orders on this agenda — $85 million for parks and recreation\, $115 million for streets and sidewalks — with a resolution to set a public hearing on both for June 17. It also held a public hearing on the city manager's proposed FY2024-25 budget and FY2025-30 Capital Improvement Plan.\nThe consent agenda included three grant agreements with Development Ventures Inc. totaling $7.7 million for affordable housing projects\, six appointments across city boards and commissions\, and contracts for water and sewer work\, a new traffic signal\, and public art restoration. A second public hearing covered a proposed increase to fire department inspection and permit fees.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3058\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3314
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3058
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3285@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240917
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council will decide whether to accept a $10 million federal grant for airport improvements\, the largest sum on the agenda. Consent items also include four bid-term contracts for water treatment plant chemicals. The largest\, with Pennco Inc. for ferric sulfate\, runs up to $7.52 million a year. Other contracts cover bridge engineering\, bicycle facility design and new buses for GoDurham Access.\n\nThe council closes the meeting with four public hearings. One sets special use permits for the planned Lyons Farm Elementary School. The other three are annexations that would rezone land at 5802 South Miami Boulevard\, on Hurley Road and on Farrington Road for multi-family housing.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3117\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3285
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3117
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3260@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241022
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nThe Durham City Council weighed a $799\,204 contract with Motorola Solutions to upgrade the portable and mobile radios police and other public safety crews use\, the largest sum on the October 21 agenda. Other contracts ranged from $599\,350 for 60 new bus shelters to $258\,723 for a police digital evidence system and $250\,000 for an immigration legal defense grant to JusticeMatters\, Inc.\n\nFour public hearings closed the meeting: annexations for the Mineral Springs Townhouses and Oxford Ridge developments\, a zoning map change for 302 Morreene Road\, and a request to close 165 feet of Hamlin Street. Council members also considered nine board appointments and a plan to widen eligibility for the city's low-income parking discount.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3144\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3260
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3144
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3296@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241119
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council set a guaranteed maximum price of $21\,860\,400 for rebuilding the Durham Station transit center on November 18\, 2024\, bringing the construction manager at risk contract with the Samet and W.C. Construction joint venture to $21\,950\,402 with a further $962\,151 in contingency. It also bought 12.2 acres on Junction Road for $2\,000\,000 for a GoDurham Access maintenance facility.\n\nFive public hearings closed the meeting\, four of them about the city's edge. Three were consolidated annexations\, Constitution Drive right-of-way\, Doc Nichols Towns and Tri-Creek\, each bringing land into the city with a utility extension agreement and a rezoning from county to city jurisdiction\; two of them sit in the Falls/Jordan watershed overlay. The other two were rezonings\, Vivo Living Durham on the I-40 corridor and an expansion for Caring House. The consent agenda doubled the city's Spanish interpretation contract to $270\,000\, awarded $1\,172\,653.10 for polymer system work at the Brown water treatment plant\, and accepted a $175\,000 community policing development micro-grant.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3148\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3296
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3148
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3284@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241203
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council awarded a $20\,355\,978 construction contract to Moffat Pipe on December 2\, 2024\, to rehabilitate and replace utilities along the West Club Boulevard corridor\, with $2\,035\,597 in contingency behind it. The same agenda carried a condemnation resolution taking an easement at 1025 Ninth Street for that project\, and a $267\,508.66 engineering amendment with Dewberry that pushes its design contract to $2\,150\,615.87.\n\nFour public hearings closed the evening. Two were rezonings\, Vivo Living Ivy Creek to Planned Development Residential and a Hillsborough Road parcel to Commercial Infill. One was a statutory vested rights determination for Davis Park Pod G\, fixing its site plan expiry at December 2\, 2029. The last would permanently close 2\,899 square feet of the old Victory Lane cul-de-sac. Elsewhere on the consent agenda\, the council took up $1\,000\,000 in federal recovery money for the Fayetteville Street corridor\, accepted $750\,000 from Durham County for digital equity work and $297\,140 from the Department of Energy for rooftop solar at the W.D. Hill Recreation Center\, and confirmed five appointments to the Civilian Police Review Board.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3150\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3284
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3150
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3256@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250218
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council took eleven annual reports from its own boards and commissions on 17 February\, from planning and historic preservation to the homeless services advisory committee.\n\nThe substantive items were an interlocal agreement on distributing sales tax\, a third amendment to the lease with Duke University\, work on the solid waste transfer station\, and ratification of five festival and event contracts.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3172\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3256
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3172
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3328@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250303
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250304
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council took the GoDurham 2024 annual report on 3 March and a second amendment to the contract with RATP Dev\, the company that runs the buses.\n\nIt also let four construction contracts\, took a procurement card performance audit\, renovated the public works operations centre\, and set the governing agreements for the city's 2025-28 community development block grant programme.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3177\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3328
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3177
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3282@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250318
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council opened a request for proposals for its opioid settlement money on 17 March — the payments North Carolina governments receive from the drug manufacturers and distributors\, which have to be spent on treatment and prevention.\n\nIt also took general obligation parks\, streets and sidewalks bonds\, the 2024 equal business opportunity report\, a lease of part of Duke Park\, and annual reports from the human relations commission and the mayor's Hispanic and Latino committee.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3182\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3282
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3182
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3318@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250408
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council approved its Vision Zero action plan on 7 April — the commitment to eliminate traffic deaths\, and the works programme that follows from it.\n\nIt also set the 2025-26 budget development guidelines\, revised the council's code of ethics\, took a performance audit of flexible working\, and approved a multifamily housing facility resolution. A condemnation action would take an easement at 5727 Grandale.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3185\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3318
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3185
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3324@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250603
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council revised its own code of ethics on 2 June\, and commissioned a 2025 disparity study — the analysis a city needs before it can lawfully steer contracting toward minority and women-owned firms.\n\nIt also amended the 2024-25 budget and capital ordinances\, took the first-quarter crime report\, and let contracts for pre-employment psychological testing and post-hire psychological services for police officers.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3210\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3324
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3210
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1590@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250804
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250805
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's City Council agenda for August 4 includes five public hearings\, on a Cliff Street partial closing\, rezonings at 401 East Lakewood Avenue and the Durham Rescue Mission's East Main Street site\, stormwater fund ordinance revisions\, and the draft Five-Year Consolidated Plan for federal housing funds\, plus a 24-item consent agenda covering appointments\, contract awards including a $53.4 million GoDurham ACCESS mobility contract and a $9.3 million ERP system amendment\, and a $301\,189 domestic violence and gang violence prosecution agreement. No minutes were available for this meeting at the time of review\, so this summary reflects the agenda only and does not report what the council decided.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3220\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1590
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3220
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1585@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250903
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council agenda includes public hearings on two consolidated annexations\, Courtyards at Oak Grove and Durham Gateway at Brier Creek\, each pairing annexation into the city with a rezoning to a planned development district. The consent agenda covers five HUD grant project ordinances totaling more than $4.5 million for community development\, home investment\, homelessness and HOPWA programs\, plus construction contract awards exceeding $10.6 million and $5.9 million for water\, sewer and stormwater replacement in East Durham and the West End. Council also considers three USDA Forest Service grants for tree canopy assessment\, an urban forestry management plan and right-of-way tree planting\, and several board appointments. Minutes for this meeting are not yet available\, so the outcomes of these items are not on record here.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3234\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1585
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3234
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1584@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250916
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council considered two major contracts for the East End and Long Meadow Parks bond project: a $4.75 million design contract with Surface 678 and a $487\,000 preconstruction contract with Balfour Beatty Construction/Holt Brothers Construction. The consent agenda also carried a $2.98 million renovation contract for the Public Works Operations Center\, a $558\,000 Cityworks software renewal\, a $357\,684 amendment to the Durham Bulls stadium operating agreement\, and appointments to the Mayor's Hispanic/Latino Committee and the Durham Housing Authority board. No minutes were available for this meeting at the time of this summary\, so the outcomes of these items are not reflected here.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3236\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1584
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3236
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1580@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251020
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251021
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's City Council holds four public hearings: a partial closing of Cliff Street\, two rezonings (Ravenstone Commercial and 1607 East Cornwallis Road)\, and the Wake Olive annexation and rezoning to Planned Development Residential. The consent agenda includes a $32 million bond resolution for the Page Road Apartments\, a $3.5 million affordable housing loan fund amendment\, and a $1.75 million contract to run the city's new accessory dwelling unit loan pilot.\n\nOther consent items include a $806\,145 design contract amendment for the Durham Rail Trail (formerly the Beltline)\, rooftop solar contracts for city buildings\, a $1.99 million lead-and-copper water line program amendment\, and five board and commission appointments. The general business agenda includes a housing code penalty ordinance revision.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3249\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1580
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3249
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1586@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251104
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's City Council takes up a 22-item consent agenda with no public hearings scheduled. The largest items are a $9.68 million construction award for the Glenn Road 1 lift station\, a $4.82 million software contract with Carahsoft for a new permitting system called Clariti\, and a resolution backing up to $44 million in multifamily housing revenue notes for Fayette Place Phase 1.\n\nOther items include five bond-funded street\, sidewalk\, and unpaved-road contracts\, a $1.94 million utility relocation agreement with NCDOT for the East End Connector project\, a $300\,000 state conservation grant\, and two board appointments to fill resignations on the Planning Commission and Human Relations Commission.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3252\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1586
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3252
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1575@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251202
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's Dec. 1 city council meeting begins with an organizational session\, then moves to a consent agenda covering a board appointment\, minutes approval\, several infrastructure and utility contracts (Lakewood Avenue stream stabilization\, an Esri GIS licensing agreement\, and waterline/water-treatment-plant contract amendments)\, a homelessness-services contract extension with Open Table Ministry\, and a CDBG-funded rehab agreement for the Calvert Place and Main Street Townhomes. A proposal to designate 500 West Main Street as the permanent home of the Museum of Durham History was referred back to staff.\n\nIn general business\, council appoints two members to the Citizens Advisory Committee and holds a public hearing on a rezoning for the East Geer Towns project\, which would rezone land near I-85 to Planned Development Residential. A supplemental item covers certified results of the Oct. 7 primary and a verbal report on the Nov. 4 general election.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3260\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1575
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3260
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1572@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council takes up a large consent agenda of contracts and grants alongside three land-use public hearings. The consent items include several committee appointments\, a $2 million interlocal agreement funding Durham Tech's street and right-of-way upgrades near its new Health Sciences Building\, a $24.2 million construction amendment for Fire/EMS Station 19\, cooperative purchases of police and patrol vehicles and rear-loading trash trucks\, and multiple HUD/CDBG and ARPA grant actions tied to Hayti Promise Community Development Corporation's Southside and Fayetteville Street Corridor revitalization work. Also on consent: sewer and watershed-protection contract amendments with CDM Smith\, funding for a conservation easement in the Davis watershed area\, and a bike-lane design contract amendment for downtown Durham.\n\nThe council will hold public hearings on three land-use cases: consolidated annexation of the 'Brittmore' development with a rezoning to residential use\, a zoning map change to allow the Andrews Chapel Apartments project\, and consolidated annexation of the 'Trenton Road Assemblage.' Each involves an annexation or rezoning ordinance plus a required state-law consistency statement. As an agenda rather than minutes\, the document does not report how these items were ultimately decided.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3272\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1572
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3272
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1593@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260406
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260407
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council takes up two rezoning public hearings: Preserve at Infinity\, which would shift land out of low-density residential (with a utility extension agreement and Eno Watershed Overlay protections) into a planned residential/office development\, and a second phase of the Top Golf Durham mixed-use project\, converting industrial park land near I-40 to commercial use. The council also votes on a resolution to authorize condemnation of four parcels on E. Trinity Avenue for the Durham Rail Trail project\, and on the sale of up to $218 million in utility system revenue refunding bonds.\n\nThe rest of the agenda is routine consent business: several board and commission appointments\, a $650\,000-plus contract for flashing beacons at school and trail crossings\, NCDOT maintenance agreements for two road projects and the Durham Amtrak station lease\, a bulk water-meter purchase\, a contract amendment for a landlord-engagement housing program\, and a batch of ordinances closing out completed capital improvement projects across water\, stormwater\, housing\, and transit funds.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3297\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1593
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3297
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1573@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260504
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260505
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council holds a public hearing on an ordinance for a 24-month moratorium on new data centers\, cryptocurrency mining and related high-impact data-processing facilities citywide. The same meeting includes economic-development incentive agreements for two small building-renovation projects and four annexation hearings on the city's western and eastern edges.\n\nThe consent agenda is dominated by utility and infrastructure contracts: a $9 million-plus amendment to the city's ERP software contract with IBM\, engineering work on two water-system pump stations\, and design work on the Central Durham Bus Rapid Transit project.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3303\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1573
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3303
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1594@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260910T150000
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Durham City Council Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Durham City Council Work Session\n\nDurham's city council takes up a $32.4 million design-build contract Thursday for a water treatment plant under the Jordan Lake Water Supply Program\, the largest single item on a work session agenda running to 25 pieces of business. With contingency the authorization reaches $35.6 million. Two sewage lift station rebuilds sit alongside it\, Downing Creek at $2.3 million and the Audubon and Glenn View pair at $4.3 million.\n\nThe council also has a $7.1 million amendment to the design contract for the Junction Road paratransit facility and the Fay Street renovation\, which takes a roughly $2.4 million agreement with Teeple Architects to $9.5 million. It is asked to condemn part of 2538 S. Roxboro Street for a bike and sidewalk project\, buy easements at two other sidewalk sites\, adopt the Durham Cultural Roadmap\, and fill eleven seats across four appointed boards. A 30-minute briefing covers the city's federal legislative priorities.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2081\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1594
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2081
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3944@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260917T210000
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council held a public hearing Thursday on an incentive agreement with AbbVie worth up to $9\,312\,721\, the only hearing on the agenda. The largest contract was elsewhere: a $32.4 million design-build award to CDM Constructors for the Durham water treatment plant under the Jordan Lake Water Supply Program\, with a contingency taking the ceiling to $35.6 million. Two more lift station contracts went to Carolina Civilworks for $2.3 million and $4.3 million.\n\nThe council also voted on a resolution adopting the Durham Cultural Roadmap\, presented at the September 10 work session\, and on filling seats on the Durham Housing Authority board and the Workers' Rights Commission. The consent agenda ran to two dozen items: 32 patrol vehicles and their up-fitting for $2.2 million together\, a $375\,000 public art contract at the Durham Aquatics Center\, land purchases for three sidewalk and bike projects including a condemnation on South Roxboro Street\, and $350\,000 of watershed protection money for the Tar River Land Conservancy's Dykes tracts.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2082\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3944
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2082
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1598@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T210000
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's City Council holds public hearings Monday night on two annexations. One brings in 3815 Wake Forest Highway for Accord Holdings under a planned residential district. The other brings in a second MIS Durham headquarters site for DTM Properties\, keeping its light industrial zoning.\n\nMost of the evening is a 21-item consent agenda\, and water is the largest share. T.A. Loving Company would get $11.5 million to replace the Elizabeth Street waterline\, and Hazen and Sawyer's East Durham water\, sewer and stormwater contract grows by $339\,446 to $9.5 million. The council would also buy eight GoDurham buses for $7.95 million\, three of them battery-electric at about $1.31 million each. It would renew its state and federal lobbying contracts for up to $826\,000\, hire Gallagher for a $399\,700 pay and classification study\, and authorize two eminent domain actions for sidewalk projects. Four proclamations open the meeting\, including Hispanic Heritage Month and Disability Awareness Month.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2084\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1598
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2084
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1592@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012357Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T150000
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Durham City Council Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Durham City Council Work Session\n\nDurham's City Council work session on Thursday is mostly contracts\, and the largest are for water. Carolina Civilworks would get $5.1 million to replace waterlines on Duke University Road and North Driver Street. McKim & Creed's design contract for the South Durham Water Reclamation Facility filter replacement would grow by $5.2 million to $6.7 million. Kittelson & Associates would get $1.6 million to design the Duke-Gregson corridor. The council also hears an update on the City Hall reconfiguration and a $547\,698 construction contract for it.\n\nFive public hearings close the session: annexations of Courtyards at Leesville and 508 Olive Branch\, local landmark status for the Cranford-Wannamaker House\, and street assessments on Chalmers Street and Lang Street. Durham schedules hearings at work sessions\, so the council may vote that day. Earlier items accept $297\,222 in federal homelessness grants and carry unspent 2025-26 money into this year's budget.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2085\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1592
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2085
CATEGORIES:Work session
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