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UID:meeting-3323@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
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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UID:meeting-3246@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
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:20261012T203640Z
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:20261012T203640Z
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-3254@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220419
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham City Council considers up to $7.7 million in financing and contracts for the Lofts at Southside affordable apartments\, an $8.68 million contract for the Githens sewer lift station\, and a $30.5 million bond order to refinance existing city debt.\n\nTwo public hearings follow: a rezoning that would allow multifamily housing at Cedar Trace Apartments\, and the city's draft plan for $4.23 million in federal housing and homelessness grants for FY2022-2023. The consent agenda also includes a fire inspection agreement with Durham County\, a $437\,771 refuse truck purchase\, and three contracts up to $857\,876 combined for bike lane striping and neighborhood bike boulevard construction.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2836\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3254
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2836
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3326@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
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-3247@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
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-3293@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230220
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230221
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Durham City Council
DESCRIPTION:Durham City Council\n\nDurham's agenda document for this meeting is not published on the city's Granicus portal. This summary is written from the council's own list of agenda items\, so items the portal lists without further detail cannot be described beyond their titles.\n\nThe council considers a resolution expressing solidarity with Durham's LGBTQ+ community\, a design contract with DTW Architects & Planners for the former Wheels Skating Center\, and a consolidated annexation petition for Welcome Venture Park. Two zoning map changes are before it\, for American Village Townhomes and for 1907 South Miami Boulevard\, along with public hearings on the use of HOME-American Rescue Plan funds and on proposed amendments to six years of federal annual action plans\, FY 2016-17 through FY 2021-22. A consent agenda covers items 1 through 44 and 54.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2906\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3293
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2906
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3298@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240618
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Durham City Council
DESCRIPTION:Durham City Council\n\nDurham's city council had one item outside the consent block and the ceremonial openings on 17 June 2024: the 2024 general obligation bond referendum\, carried as item 38. A bond referendum is the council's decision to put borrowing to the city's voters rather than approve it itself. The council also filled seats on the Durham Homeless Services Advisory Committee.\n\nFour ceremonial items opened the night — proclamations for Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness Month and Durham Refugee Day\, and recognitions for the Bull City Little League Mayor's Cup softball and baseball winners. Durham's portal no longer serves the agenda document for this meeting\, so the item list is all the record holds\; what the bond order covered and at what amount is not in it.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3075\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3298
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3075
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3249@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240904
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council took up two federal airport grants at its September 3 meeting\, both through the FAA's Airport Improvement Program: $1\,016\,279 and $35\,478\,766. The larger grant is the biggest dollar figure on the agenda\, bigger than the Microsoft software contract ($2.9 million with contingency) and the utility easement maintenance contract ($3.86 million with contingency) combined.\n\nThree annexation public hearings close out the agenda. Two pull subdivisions called Woodlands Preserve\, on Torredge Road and on Koback Drive\, into the city with utility extension agreements tied to Marlowe Development Partners. A third annexes a tract called Leigh Valley with Greenhawk Corporation. The council also considered a $650\,000 grant renewing Legal Aid of North Carolina's eviction diversion program and a five-year\, $542\,810.10 playground replacement contract at Sherwood Park.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3105\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3249
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3105
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3315@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241105
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nA $2.67 million contract for six automated refuse trucks and a $347\,832 contract for one bucket truck lead the council's cooperative-purchasing awards. Five ordinances would recognize more than $4.5 million in federal housing grants already awarded to the city\, covering community development\, home investment\, emergency shelter and HIV/AIDS housing aid\, and a separate ordinance would accept a $770\,999 Department of Justice grant for a mental health and justice collaboration program.\n\nThree land use cases go to public hearing. Sherron Grove and Winsford at the Park would be annexed into the city\, with Sherron Grove's developer\, The Drees Homes Company\, also entering a utility extension agreement with the city. A third case would rezone land from Residential Rural to Planned Development Residential 8.326 for the Lynley Townhouses.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3146\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3315
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3146
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3256@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
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-3277@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250617
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council adopts the 2025-26 budget and the 2026-31 capital improvement plan on 16 June. The same item raises every city pay plan by 1.45 percent — open range\, step\, fire and police — lifts part-time starting rates by the same\, and widens the part-time step spreads from 3 to 5 percent. Six capital project ordinances go with it\, covering general projects\, water and wastewater\, stormwater\, solid waste\, transit and the performing arts centre\, alongside fee increases for solid waste\, public works\, and water and sewer.\n\nHousing and homelessness run through the rest of the agenda: an operational assistance loan to the Durham Housing Authority\, contracts with the North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness\, Housing for New Hope and Volunteers of America\, and an update on the redevelopment of 505 W. Chapel Hill Street. Three separate condemnation actions would take easements the city could not obtain by agreement.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3218\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3277
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3218
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1584@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
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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UID:meeting-1599@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251118
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council takes up a loan of up to $17 million for the first phase of The Villages of Hayti redevelopment\, the affordable housing project on the former Fayette Place site\, at its November 17 meeting. The council also holds a public hearing on permanently closing 229 feet of Hayti Lane east of Old Fayetteville Street and redesignating the land as a transit opportunity area in the comprehensive plan.\n\nConsent items include an $8.5 million contract for South Ellerbe Restoration utility and drainage upgrades\, a design-build contract worth up to $5.9 million for Carolina Theatre HVAC upgrades\, a $313\,750 increase to a homelessness coordinated-entry services contract\, new procedures for city boards and commissions\, and a $117\,649 Department of Justice community policing micro-grant.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3257\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1599
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3257
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1575@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
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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UID:meeting-1572@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
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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UID:meeting-1577@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260420
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260421
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nThe biggest items on this Durham council agenda are a $37 million construction contract for the Williams Water Treatment Plant basin improvements\, a preconstruction contract for the Durham Rail Trail\, and four separate annexation and rezoning public hearings that bring new development into the city (Bella Ridge\, Patterson Hall\, Morgan Farm\, and a tract on NC 751 Highway). Council will also vote on its 2026 legislative priorities ahead of the NC General Assembly's short session.\n\nMost of the rest is routine: grant acceptances (a $25\,000 No Kid Hungry grant\, a $138\,000 cybersecurity grant\, an FTA bus grant)\, utility extension agreements for two properties\, a purchase contract for ten diesel buses for GoDurham\, a 10-year lease for an arts pavilion\, and a fiber contract amendment with Duke University.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3301\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1577
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3301
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1592@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T203640Z
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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