BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//govwatch//local government meetings//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Local government meetings: durham-city\, legislative-agenda
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:19701101T020000
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
TZNAME:EST
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:19700308T020000
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU
TZNAME:EDT
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3254@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T163644Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3282@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T163644Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1577@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T163644Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1576@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T163644Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T213000
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council votes 8 September on more than 20 million dollars of water and sewer work: a 10.37 million dollar contract for bypass pipe improvements at the Brown Water Treatment Plant\, and 9.73 million for the 2026 sewer lining program. Both carry ten percent contingencies on top. Four consolidated annexations get public hearings the same night\, each bringing county land into the city with a utility extension agreement attached.\n\nTwo resolutions are the unusual items. One endorses the recommendations of the Durham Violence Reduction Working Group\, presented at the August work session. The other\, brought by a council member rather than staff\, recognizes two tenant unions by name and affirms the role tenant unions play in housing. The council also takes a 1.38 million dollar right-of-way agreement with the state for the Durham to Roxboro rail trail.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2080\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1576
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2080
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1594@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T163644Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3944@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T163644Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1570@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T163644Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T150000
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Durham City Council Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Durham City Council Work Session\n\nDurham's council spends Thursday's work session on contracts\, and the biggest is transit. A purchase from Gillig covers eight buses for GoDurham: five 40-foot diesels at $803\,691 each and three 40-foot battery-electric buses at $1\,311\,645 each\, $7.95 million in all. The electric buses cost about 63 percent more apiece than the diesels. Two more transportation items follow\, an interlocal agreement with Raleigh for bus mobile ticketing and $262\,770 toward a Triangle region transit survey.\n\nWater work is the other large number: an $11.48 million construction award to T.A. Loving for the Elizabeth Street waterline replacement\, with a contingency taking it to $12.64 million\, and a sixth amendment to the Hazen and Sawyer engineering contract for East Durham water and sewer rehabilitation and the Belt Street stormwater project\, taking that contract to $9.53 million. The council also renews its lobbying contracts\, $480\,000 with Checkmate Government Relations for the state and $346\,000 with The Ferguson Group for Washington\, and authorizes condemnation of temporary construction easements at 710 W. Cornwallis Road and 3414 Hillsborough Road for two sidewalk and bike projects.\n\nTwo annexation hearings close the session\, MIS Durham Headquarters Two and 3815 Wake Forest Highway\, each bringing land from county into city jurisdiction with a utility extension agreement. Parks and Recreation asks to apply for a $15 million Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership grant\, and the police department presents second quarter crime figures.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2083\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1570
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&event_id=2083
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1598@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T163644Z
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
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR