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UID:meeting-3255@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3320@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3266@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220404
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220405
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Durham City Council
DESCRIPTION:Durham City Council\n\nDurham has not published the agenda document for this City Council meeting\; this summary comes from the portal's item list alone\, without the staff reports a packet would carry. The 27-item agenda lists a rezoning for Bull City Townhomes\, a construction contract for the Eno River Force Main relocation\, a purchase contract to repower GoDurham buses\, and a lease with Durham County at 2725 Holloway Street. It also lists appointments to the Participatory Budgeting Steering Committee and an amendment to the FY2021-22 budget and grant project ordinances.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2829\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3266
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2829
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3279@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220516
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220517
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham City Council gets its first public look at the manager's recommended budget for the fiscal year starting July 1\, along with the 2023-28 Capital Improvement Plan\, though the agenda itself gives no dollar total. The council also holds two public hearings: one on annexing the Angier Avenue Apartments and extending city utilities to the site\, and one on proposed stormwater rates for FY2023.\n\nThe consent agenda carries a $3\,592\,186 street maintenance contract with Browe Construction Company\, a $648\,000 utility locate services amendment with KCI Associates\, and a new water and sewer rate ordinance for the coming fiscal year. Council also fills three board seats\, on the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission\, the Mayor's Hispanic/Latino Committee and the Historic Preservation Commission.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2848\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3279
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2848
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3273@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3326@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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-3276@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221017
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221018
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's council votes on an ordinance to create the city's first Social District\, after a staff presentation on the plan. Four public hearings follow: rezonings at 4214 Fayetteville Road and on South Alston Avenue\, and annexations of the Courtyards at Doc Nichols II and Kemp Road Residential developments\, plus a vote to permanently close Water Street.\n\nThe consent agenda includes a $4\,448\,550 contract for Hydrostructures to inspect sewer outfalls in north Durham and a $1.1 million amendment for biosolids handling at the North Durham Water Reclamation Facilities. The council would also appoint seven people to city boards and commissions\, repay $675\,298 in stabilization funds to the state\, and accept two HUD fair housing grants.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2888\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3276
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2888
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3294@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20221206
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nThe council holds public hearings on two annexations\, each paired with a rezoning. Developer Hopper Communities\, Inc. is bringing in Mockingbird Lane and Sherron Road under Planned Development Residential zoning. Tri Pointe Homes Holdings\, Inc. is bringing in Crescent Townes under Residential Compact zoning. Both would take effect December 31 if the council approves. The council also holds hearings on permanently closing Fontanelle Street and a 361-foot stretch of Gilbert Street.\n\nThe agenda carries four large road contracts. Carolina Sunrock\, LLC would get $5.67 million for street repairs and repaving and $1.66 million for unpaved road improvements. Slurry Pavers\, Inc. would get $3.28 million for pavement preservation. FSC II\, LLC\, doing business as Fred Smith Company\, would get $1.48 million for bridge repairs. The council would also authorize a $1.52 million design contract for the Durham Station Transit Center Improvements project. It would appoint Melissa Southern to the Open Space and Trails Commission\, and receive third-quarter crime and fire department audit reports.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2894\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3294
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2894
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3314@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3322@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240820
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nThe council will decide whether to back $29 million in multifamily housing revenue bonds for a project called 500 East Main. It will also vote on naming The Peebles Corporation as developer for a site at 505 W. Chapel Hill Street. That comes with a $250\,000 consulting contract for HR&A Advisors and a non-binding term sheet to negotiate. Two public hearings follow: a rewrite of eleven Unified Development Ordinance articles\, and a zoning map change for Duke's Central Campus addition.\n\nThe consent agenda covers three board appointments and engineering contracts for solid waste concrete repairs and yard-waste site repairs. It also seeks to condemn an easement at 1505 Holloway Street for the Holloway Street Transit Corridor project. Other items add software and security contracts\, a $25\,000 grant for tennis courts at Southern Boundaries Park\, and the 2025 meeting schedule.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3101\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3322
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3101
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3285@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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:20261013T002520Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3296@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3256@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3282@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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-3277@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1590@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1569@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250819
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council had a regular meeting Aug. 18 with a long consent agenda of board appointments\, contracts and housing loans\, followed by four land use public hearings: the Walltown Small Area Plan\, a rezoning called Fayetteville Flats\, a rezoning at 4218 South Alston Avenue\, and a rezoning for a warehouse near US 70.\n\nConsent items included a $26.5 million installment purchase financing\, a $1.34 million hazmat truck purchase\, a $2 million increase to the city's loan for the 902 S. Briggs Avenue redevelopment paired with up to $22.5 million in housing revenue bonds\, and an increase to the city's Sandy Ridge Station affordable housing loan to $7.449 million. No minutes were available for this meeting at the time of writing\, so the outcomes of these items are not reflected here.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3229\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1569
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3229
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1584@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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-1599@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1579@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251216
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nDurham's city council takes up three consolidated annexations (3306 Page Road\, Hamlin Reserve\, and the Leigh Village Center)\, a zoning map amendment at 3404 Page Road\, and a public hearing to adopt the Downtown Durham Blueprint: 2035 as an amendment to the comprehensive plan. The council also holds a second public hearing on the city's federal HUD performance report (CAPER) for FY2024-2025.\n\nOn the consent agenda\, the council considers a $19 million loan agreement with the Durham Housing Authority for the Tribute Rising (Forest Hill Heights) redevelopment\, a HOME program subrecipient agreement of up to $1.6 million for a homeowner rehabilitation program\, purchase contracts for tennis court lighting at two parks\, a compact rear loader purchase for solid waste collection\, a land lease with the Durham Regional Association of Realtors\, and an engineering contract amendment for dam inspection and rehabilitation work at the Brown Water Treatment Plant reservoir. Also on the agenda: an update on the future of the 505 W. Chapel Hill Street site\, where staff recommend pausing full redevelopment and instead subdividing the property to preserve the historic Milton Small Building.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3265\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1579
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3265
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1595@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260303
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nCouncil's consent agenda is dominated by financing: a resolution seeking Local Government Commission approval for up to $218 million in utility system revenue refunding bonds\, and a separate resolution for up to $136 million in limited obligation bonds (including a public hearing requirement on that amendment). Also on consent is a $674\,025 construction contract for 2026 National Bridge Inventory structural repairs on bridge BR-11\, and a sole-source-adjacent\, high-value Advanced Meter Infrastructure contract: Ferguson Enterprises would supply and install water meters citywide for a combined purchase-and-installation cost up to about $91.8 million.\n\nOther consent items include two board appointments\, a Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation grant ordinance with Johns Hopkins\, an interlocal agreement with Durham County to jointly fund a low-income homeowner relief program (up to $500\,000 in grants plus outreach costs)\, a one-year extension of the city's Equal Business Opportunity Program ordinance with updated minority/women business participation goals\, and a $367\,500 contract for ArcGIS Indoors implementation. Several annual reports (finance\, crime\, recreation) are also received. Three proclamations open the meeting: NC Cleaning Week\, Girl Scouts' 114th anniversary\, and a Million Milers transit recognition.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3292\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1595
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3292
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1593@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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-1577@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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-1573@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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-1576@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1594@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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:20261013T002520Z
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-1570@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1598@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T002520Z
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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