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UID:meeting-1566@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250728T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250728T200000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners hold a regular session on July 28\, 2025\, opening with a 6 p.m. closed session on economic development incentive negotiations and the National Opioid Litigation. The consent agenda carries the year's routine $19\,398\,358 appropriation of County Contribution (PAYGO) funds across dozens of ongoing capital projects\, from HVAC and roof replacement to a new $750\,000 Sheriff's RTP annex and $2.25 million in EMS radio and tower upgrades\; a $1\,500\,000 transfer to the Collection System Rehabilitation project\; and $380\,600 to help buy two farmland conservation easements\, 42 acres at 3901 Red Mill Road from William and Margie Sparrow and 30 acres at 1300 Red Mountain Road from Neil and Catherine Frank.\n\nAlso on consent: a four-year\, $119\,550-a-year lease at 1129 E. Geer Street for a temporary Office of Emergency Services fleet maintenance facility\; three new janitorial contracts covering county libraries\, administration buildings and the Health and Human Services Building\, worth roughly $897\,700 combined\; a $250\,000 workforce-development contract with Made in Durham and a $225\,000 business-recruitment contract with the Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce\; and the closing of several completed capital projects\, including the $47.6 million Main Library upgrade. Separately\, the board takes up a $200\,000 economic-development contract with Downtown Durham\, Inc.\, from which Chair Nida Allam must recuse herself\, and votes on appointments to eleven boards and commissions. Only the agenda is published for this meeting\, so the votes are not on the record.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1501\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1566
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1501
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1518@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250902T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250902T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners meet for a work session on September 2\, 2025\, opening with a 30-minute public comment period. The consent agenda previews a $146\,073.12 purchase of EMS video laryngoscopes from Boundtree Medical\, a $932\,221 Home and Community Care Block Grant funding plan for Social Services\, a $105\,000 ballot-printing contract with Runbeck Election Services\, several public health grant recognitions\, a $210\,289.02 increase to Carolina Civilworks' sewer-repair contract (to $610\,289.02)\, a $142\,000 increase to McGill Environmental Systems' wastewater-residuals contract (to $550\,600)\, and the acquisition of three conservation easements totaling about $1.8 million on a 119-acre farm at the Person County line\, a 147-acre cattle farm on Hopkins Road\, and a 76-acre tract on Bahama Road.\n\nDiscussion items include an annual update from the Farmland Protection Advisory Board\, a review of the 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey and 2024 State of the County Health data\, and an update on the 2025 property tax revaluation\, which the Tax Administrator says produced an average 72% increase in assessed values and more than 10\,000 appeals.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1507\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1518
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1507
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1544@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners hold a regular session on September 8\, 2025. The board holds a second public hearing on renaming the County Administrative II Building for former commissioner William V. "Bill" Bell\, after taking no action on the same request at an August 25 hearing.\n\nThe consent agenda carries a $6\,173\,542 contract with Alliance Health to manage mental health\, developmental disability and substance use services\, a $932\,221 Home and Community Care Block Grant funding plan for the Department of Social Services\, and the acquisition of three conservation easements totaling about $1.8 million: 119 acres in five parcels along US 15-501 at the Person County line\, a 147-acre farm at 1717 Hopkins Road\, and 76 acres at 5615 Bahama Road. Also on consent: a $210\,289.02 increase to Carolina Civilworks' sewer-repair contract\, bringing it to $610\,289.02\; a $142\,000 increase to McGill Environmental Systems' wastewater-residuals contract\, to $550\,600\; a $291\,000 tax-reappraisal contract with Vision Government Solutions\; a $146\,073.12 purchase of video laryngoscopes for EMS\; a $195\,426-a-year medical-director contract with Duke University Health System\; a $105\,000 ballot-printing contract with Runbeck Election Services\; several public health grant recognitions\; and $72\,560 in opioid settlement funds for a peer-support specialist. The board will also hear proclamations\, including one honoring the women of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion\, and a resolution recognizing the NAACP's state convention in Durham.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1508\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1544
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1508
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1521@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251006T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners meet for a work session on October 6\, 2025\, opening with a 30-minute public comment period. The consent agenda includes a capital project amendment shifting $80\,300 to help buy a 25-acre conservation easement on Tilley Farm\, with $213\,000 coming from the Army National Guard's REPI program for a total purchase price of $293\,300\, plus a $14\,470 change to RND Architects' design contract for water-damage repairs at Stanford L. Warren Library\, bringing that contract to $242\,669. Other consent items include an extension of the interlocal crisis-communications agreement with the City of Durham\, a $1\,861.78 agreement with Central Pines Regional Council for the Triangle Region Solid Waste Consortium\, and several public health grant budget amendments.\n\nDiscussion items include an operational update from the Public Defender's Office\, a presentation on the 26-mile Durham-to-Roxboro Rail Trail Plan\, board comment on a proposed annexation for Hamlin Reserve outside the Urban Growth Boundary\, and a look at the framework for the FY 2026-27 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1512\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1521
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1512
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1560@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251013T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251013T193000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Board of County Commissioners meets in closed session at 5:30 p.m. on a personnel matter before its regular session\, where it recognizes Brad Caison as the county's HIV Navigator and Bridget Nelson as its new Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience Coordinator\, and proclaims October 2025 Domestic Violence Awareness Month\, citing the survivor-led nonprofit Shining Light In Darkness. A second closed session\, on economic development incentives\, follows the regular agenda.\n\nThe consent agenda's largest items include a $293\,300 farmland conservation easement from Wesley and Cristan Poole\, funded in part by $213\,000 from the Army National Guard's Readiness and Environmental Protection program\; a $142\,415 sole-source purchase from SimuLab for difficult-airway training equipment\; and the creation of three new positions\, including a $131\,000 Senior Project Manager\, in the Sewer Utility Enterprise Fund to support a $65 million to $100 million program renewing aging lift stations and the Triangle Wastewater Treatment Plant. The board also commits $62\,505 in current renewable-energy rebates toward future efficiency and fleet-electrification projects. Only the agenda has been published for this meeting\, with no minutes available\, so how any of these items were voted is not on the record.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1513\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1560
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1513
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1546@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1557@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251110T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251110T193000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Board of County Commissioners meets in closed session at 5:30 p.m. on a personnel matter before opening its regular session\, where commissioners honor the life and legacy of DeWarren K. Langley\, introduce new Early Childhood Coordinator Ileana Vink\, and proclaim November 19 GIS Day. Under Other Business\, the board considers a $159\,547 contract with Key Environmental Consulting for a food system assessment and 10-year strategic plan\, responding to food insecurity the county estimates affects 14% of its residents. A second closed session\, on economic development incentives\, follows the regular agenda.\n\nThe consent agenda's largest items include a 10-year\, $3\,112\,658.44 contract with Axon Enterprise to replace and expand the Sheriff's Office's Taser inventory to 200 units\; a purchase of five Braun Liberty ambulances from Spartan Fire and Emergency Apparatus not to exceed $2\,119\,440.00\; a $1\,001\,500 budget amendment recognizing city and county funds for the Low-Income Homeowners Tax Relief Program\; a $764\,499.84 Sheriff's Office FY26 vehicle equipment contract\; $587\,393.88 in PAYGO funding for Sheriff's Office body-worn cameras\; and the purchase of 32 acres at 3601 Southwest Durham Drive to permanently protect open space along the New Hope Creek corridor.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1517\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1557
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1517
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1538@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260302T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners' March 2 work session took comment on an annexation request for a 69.16-acre tract at 4802 Cheek Road\, where developer Humabuilt wants to shift from county Residential Rural zoning to city Planned Development Residential to connect to city water and sewer and build up to 190 homes\, mixing townhouses and single-family units. The board also got its first look at the proposed Mangum Fire Protection Service District\, needed because Moriah Volunteer Fire and Rescue says it can no longer serve that Rougemont-area territory without dedicated county revenue\; a public hearing follows at the March 9 regular meeting.\n\nStaff briefed the board on the Capital Improvement Plan\, county economic development and utilities infrastructure needs\, and progress on greenhouse gas and renewable energy goals. Commissioners also worked through a 15-item consent agenda -- including grant funding for the Farm Campus\, food security and public health programs\, and a $401\,025 contingency increase for the OES Fleet Maintenance construction contract -- that goes to the March 9 regular meeting for a vote.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1528\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1538
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1528
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1535@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260309T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260309T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners' March 9 agenda held a public hearing on creating the Mangum Fire Protection Service District\, after Moriah Volunteer Fire and Rescue said it can no longer cover that Rougemont-area territory without dedicated revenue. Staff also briefed the board on a recommendation to replace the county's 2005-era SAP enterprise resource planning system with Oracle\, at a $5.19 million platform cost\, with a contract expected in April and phased implementation over three to four years.\n\nThe consent agenda ran to more than two dozen items\, including $475\,000 in Golden LEAF Foundation funding to launch a Durham County Farm Campus and a new farm manager position\, a $401\,025 contingency increase for the OES Fleet Maintenance construction contract with Samet Construction (to a not-to-exceed $3\,100\,944)\, $584\,085 toward the 500 E. Main St. downtown parking project\, and a $234\,000 emergency HVAC chiller replacement at the Southwest Regional Library.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1530\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1535
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1530
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1515@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260413T193000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners' April 13 agenda opened the county's second bond issuance of the spring: a resolution authorizing an application to the state Local Government Commission\, introduction of a bond order\, and a call for a public hearing on up to $240 million in general obligation refunding bonds\, with the hearing set for April 27. The board also took up a resolution opposing General Assembly proposals to limit county property tax authority\, to be sent to legislative leaders including Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger and House Speaker Destin Hall.\n\nCeremonial items recognized a $117\,318 gift from the Durham Library Foundation\, the Southern School of Energy and Sustainability's boys' and girls' basketball seasons\, and the Beta Pi Sigma Durham Alumnae Chapter's 75th Charter Day. The consent agenda carried more than a dozen budget amendments\, including a $2.78 million purchase of Stryker cardiac monitors and defibrillators for EMS\, a $161\,039 increase to an electrical services contract bringing it to $300\,544\, and grants for library technology\, dental care and child welfare programs. The board planned to close the meeting in closed session to discuss economic development incentives.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1534\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1515
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1534
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1532@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260427T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260427T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA regular session whose one public hearing authorises up to $240 million of refunding bonds - borrowing to replace existing debt on better terms rather than to build anything new. The board also introduces its newly appointed internal audit director and adopts an updated high performance building policy.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1536\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1532
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1536
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1520@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1516@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T193000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nAn evening regular session whose largest item authorises up to $100 million of general obligation bonds. The board also changes its vision insurance provider\, keeps its health plan vendor\, awards the annual audit contract\, and removes a citizen from one of its boards for not turning up.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1543\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1516
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1543
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1542@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1539@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T193000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nBudget adoption night for Durham County\, taken under other business rather than as a hearing - state law requires the annual budget to be adopted no later than 1 July. Before it\, thirty-five minutes of ceremonial items including a resolution honouring a life of service and sacrifice\, and proclamations for National Pride Month\, Women Veterans Day\, Gun Violence Awareness Month and National Re-Unification Month.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1548\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1539
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1548
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1522@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260803T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260803T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA morning work session with 160 minutes of discussion\, opening with half an hour of citizen comments. The three big items: comprehensive plan policy changes going to a hearing the following week\, an hour on a draft data centre moratorium\, and an hour on the capital improvement plan. The board also starts putting together its statewide legislative asks for 2027 and names a voting delegate to the state association's conference.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1552\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1522
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1552
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1552@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260810T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260810T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners held one public hearing on August 10\, on policy changes to the comprehensive plan coming out of its evaluation and assessment report. The money was elsewhere. The county took on nine new positions in social services\, paid for by $850\,290 in extra state funding\, to handle the Medicaid changes H.R. 1 requires\, and separately wrote to its congressional delegation asking for more time before the new SNAP cost-share rules take effect.\n\nThree conservation easements moved: 41 acres from Billy and Toni Stevens with a $330\,000 contribution from the Army National Guard's readiness and environmental protection program\, 19.27 acres from Robin Davis at 505 Mason Road with $117\,500 from the City of Durham's water supply protection fund\, and a donated 22-acre easement from David and Carmen Durack on Woodstock and West Cornwallis roads. The board also put $506\,945 toward buying the Durham-to-Roxboro Rail Trail corridor from the state\, distributed the 2 percent cost of living adjustment worth $3.6 million across departments\, and hired a temporary staffing agency for $255\,747.66 to run election operations through the general election. It proclaimed September 10 to 19 as Welcoming Week.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1553\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1552
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1553
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1525@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2923@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
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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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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DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260928T193000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners take the first step toward borrowing up to $30 million for wastewater work\, mainly the Chin Page Road lift station and its force main and sewer lines. The note would be sold privately to a lender and needs the Local Government Commission's approval. On the same consent agenda the board would spend $278\,200 from fund balance to widen a redevelopment study of the former Lowe's Grove School to two more Durham Public Schools properties\, the Old Northern High School site and the Durham School of the Arts site on North Duke Street.\n\nThe board also votes to create an Early Childhood Task Force on child care for children under four\, sends federal regulators its objections to proposed Head Start rule changes\, and lets state and federal investigators into an old landfill at 3847 Redwood Road. Staff report on a $500\,000 youth grant program opening 16 October. The evening opens with recognitions of Duke Regional Hospital's 50th anniversary and White Rock Baptist Church's 160th\, and a closed session at 5:30 p.m. covers a property acquisition and legal advice.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1559\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/4045
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1559
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20261012T232515Z
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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