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UID:meeting-1566@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012709Z
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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UID:meeting-1540@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012709Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250922T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250922T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners hold a regular session on September 22\, 2025. The board is asked to approve a five-year\, $1-a-year lease with One Park Venture LLC for a Sheriff's Office annex at 4000 Sancar Way in Research Triangle Park\, with the landlord covering up to $875\,000 in upfit costs\; a $591\,000 capital project moving Debt Service Fund balance to pay for repairs\, including a new generator and two replacement elevators\, at the Lincoln Community Health Center at 1301 Fayetteville Street\; and an $80\,684.65 contract with Blink Charging for 12 electric-vehicle charging stations at the 500 E. Main Street parking deck. The consent agenda also carries $663\,509.46 in property tax releases and refunds for August\, a grant application for the Chin Page Road lift station\, and a letter of support for the federal FEMA Act.\n\nThe board will also consider three proclamations\, vote on appointments to five boards and commissions\, and adjourn into closed session to discuss economic development incentives and an attorney-client matter. 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=1509\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1540
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1509
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1546@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012709Z
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-1516@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012709Z
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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UID:meeting-1568@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012709Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260713T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260713T190000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nA regular session opening with closed session at 5:00 PM\, then a resolution honouring a civil rights figure\, half an hour of citizen comments\, and a consent agenda of the annual service contracts that keep a county running - mental health\, animal sheltering\, economic development\, small business support.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1551\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1568
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1551
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3849@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012709Z
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-4045@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012709Z
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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