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UID:meeting-1546@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212345Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251103T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Board of County Commissioners reviews the pending Research Triangle Park rezoning and UDO text amendment\, covering 164 parcels across 5\,059 acres\, ahead of a November 24 public hearing\, then suspends its own rules to move two rail-trail funding items: a $500\,000 Great Trails grant agreement and a $1\,151\,445 NCDOT agreement (netting $223\,000 in county cost) to acquire the 26-mile Durham-to-Roxboro corridor before a November 19 closing deadline. The county's financial advisor presents strategies for capital improvement planning and preserving Durham's bond rating\, and staff brief the board on the Durham Bus Rapid Transit Vision Plan and on the federal shutdown's effect on SNAP and Medicaid\, citing nearly $6 million in November SNAP benefits at risk for 32\,529 Durham residents.\n\nIn items carried over from the October 27 regular session\, the board considers reallocating $1\,690\,296 in ARPA funds\, pausing the DCo Thrives guaranteed income pilot amid pending state legislation and redirecting the money\, along with $199\,590 cut from an East Durham Market SNAP pilot\, to raise the Early Years childcare grant to $4\,090\,296. Also on that agenda: a $182\,173 commissioning contract for the new Durham City/County Emergency Operations Center and a $3\,020\,000 appropriation toward a $2\,476\,112.96 construction contract for a temporary OES fleet maintenance facility. The work session also previews the following week's consent agenda\, topped by a 10-year\, $3\,112\,658.44 Taser contract with Axon Enterprise.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1516\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1546
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1516
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1555@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212345Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260105T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260105T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners set aside 290 minutes for discussion at their 5 January work session\, and the two largest blocks were both about the rules for building in the county: an hour on the new Unified Development Ordinance being written by consultants to carry out the 2023 comprehensive plan\, and half an hour on a narrower text amendment that would loosen the rules for parking recreational vehicles in residential districts. Neither was an adoption. A work session is where the board comments and gives direction.\n\nThe item with a deadline behind it was the emergency services fleet maintenance shop. The county has leased space at 122 Stone Park Court since 2016\; the railroad bought that property in 2023 and it is to be demolished for a rail realignment\, so the county must vacate by 1 May 2026. The board was asked to suspend its rules and let the manager sign a lease at 1129 E Geer Street rather than wait for another meeting. Staff also gave notice that the homeless day shelter contract will go to Urban Ministries of Durham\, with the scope and budget still to be settled\, and took an hour on how the county's child welfare system works.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1522\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1555
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1522
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1543@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212345Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260112T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260112T200000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners open the year on 12 January with a consent agenda heavy on utility extensions: standard non-reimbursable contracts would run water and sewer to five developments — Windhaven Crossing\, Bethpage Apartments Phase 2\, Spanish for Fun Daycare\, the Page Road Parcels and Page Corners. The agenda also carries a manhole and sewer line contract for Taplin Group\, a public art agreement\, an amendment to a geospatial services contract\, a $212\,138 budget amendment for courtroom video equipment\, several other capital project and budget ordinance amendments\, and property tax releases and refunds for December 2025.\n\nA proclamation would recognize BULLS Academy Life Sciences Day\, a workforce program that has graduated 190 students across its first eleven cohorts. The board also plans a closed session on economic development incentives for a business considering the area.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1523\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1543
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1523
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1520@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212345Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's manager presents the recommended 2026-27 budget\, taking forty-five minutes of other business. Before it\, half an hour of ceremonial items: Memorial Day\, emergency medical services week\, mental health awareness month\, treatment court month\, and a week recognizing the clerks who keep boards of commissioners running.\n\nThe night's only public hearing is on the first phase of the county's first biennial Evaluation and Assessment Report\, with four separate resolutions changing the Place Type Map. One would move land at Treyburn out of the rural and agricultural place type into rural and agricultural reserve and employment campus\, and bring those parcels inside the Urban Growth Area.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1539\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1520
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1539
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1542@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212345Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA morning work session where the county first asks itself what it needs to know about data centres. Also on the agenda: the final recommended 2027 transit work programme\, the annual funding plan for outside agencies\, hospital board appointments\, and a rules suspension to pass a budget amendment.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1545\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1542
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1545
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1519@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212345Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Budget Work Session - Day Four
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDay four of the county's budget work sessions\, starting at 9:00 AM. Two departments present: the library service and the animal protection society that runs the county shelter. Then future policy discussions and the budget ordinance itself.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1547\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1519
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1547
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1525@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212345Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260824T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260824T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nNinety minutes of the two-hour agenda go to one public hearing: whether Durham County should stop accepting applications for large data centers while it works out how to regulate them. Also on the agenda\, a fourteen-item consent list including the county's proposed statewide legislative goals for 2027\, easements for a stream restoration that would cut flood risk in a mobile home park\, and a new governance structure for the county and city's homelessness continuum of care.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1555\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1525
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1555
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2923@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212345Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260908T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners spent Tuesday's work session on two long-range plans and a $48.9 million building. The consent agenda carries a capital amendment appropriating $48\,919\,120 for the new Emergency Operations Center and a guaranteed maximum price contract with Bordeaux Construction not to exceed $45\,422\,037\, along with three agricultural conservation easements covering 312 acres on Thompson Road\, Johnson Mill Road and Roxboro Road.\n\nThe discussion items run to four hours of scheduled time. Staff bring the final report on the Cultural Roadmap Plan\, recommendations from the Durham Violence Reduction Working Group with a resolution endorsing them\, the 2026 Agriculture Development and Farmland Preservation Plan\, results from the 2025 Community Health Assessment survey of more than 1\,200 residents\, a first-quarter amendment to the Durham Transit work program\, and a resolution adopting a five-year framework to make homelessness rare and brief by 2031.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1557\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2923
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1557
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-3849@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212345Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260914T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260914T193000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners committed to a new Emergency Operations Center and backup 911 call center on Monday\, appropriating $48.9 million and awarding Bordeaux Construction a guaranteed maximum price contract of up to $45.4 million. The building goes at 2422 Broad Street and is shared with the City of Durham: the total project budget is $55\,156\,315.24\, of which the county carries $25\,869\,253\, or 46.9 percent. The city council takes up its side on September 21.\n\nThe board also approved buying three agricultural conservation easements covering 313 acres\, at an estimated $3.5 million with federal funds expected to cover half. The rest of the agenda ran to public safety and health: a $330\,000 contract with Hayti Reborn - Justice Movement to coordinate violence interruption work\, a resolution endorsing the Durham Violence Reduction Working Group's recommendations\, a peer support specialist post funded from opioid settlement money\, and a $5.3 million equipment financing agreement letting Durham Public Schools buy about 1\,996 interactive classroom panels over five years. Staff presented the 2025 county-wide community health assessment survey\, which reached more than 1\,200 residents.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1558\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3849
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1558
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-4046@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212345Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners spend most of Monday morning's work session on homelessness. Housing for New Hope reports on UNITE Street Medicine\, a federally funded team that takes health care to people living outside. Urban Ministries of Durham then reports on the Hope Day Services Center\, a $350\,000 pilot running through January 2027\, with five months of data on who has used it.\n\nThe consent agenda carries four budget actions. The biggest is $2 million in county cash for the Museum of Life and Science\, whose 2022 bond projects face a $3.5 million gap that the museum blames on inflation and tariffs. The board would also spend $1 million in opioid settlement money on a seven-bedroom house on Holloway Street\, appraised at $770\,000\, as a new Justice Services transition house. Two smaller items close the purchase of 15.4 acres of bottomland forest at 4370 Garrett Road and add $8\,292 to the state forest service contract. Planners close the session by presenting Orange Factory's request to be recognized as a county Heritage Community.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1561\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4046
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1561
CATEGORIES:Work session
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