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UID:meeting-1530@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212248Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250825T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250825T190000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nCommissioners consider a resolution urging state lawmakers to keep funding SNAP after a federal law shifts costs to North Carolina\, and hold a public hearing on naming the Administrative I Building's second-floor lobby for former commissioner and Durham Mayor William "Bill" Bell. The consent agenda carries a $312\,000 budget amendment for the Cooperative Extension 4-H program\, an electric-vehicle charging contract for the new 500 E. Main Street parking deck\, and the reappointment of Daniel Edwards to chair the ABC Board. The board also fills two board and commission seats and returns from closed session with pay decisions for board-appointed positions.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1505\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1530
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1505
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1521@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212248Z
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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UID:meeting-1546@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212248Z
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-1557@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212248Z
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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UID:meeting-1548@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212248Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners held two incentive hearings on 8 December\, worth $6.25 million between them. The larger is up to $5\,500\,000 for Novartis Gene Therapies\, covering two manufacturing projects that the county says will create about 280 jobs and $540 million of investment over five years. The smaller is up to $750\,000 for Aspida Financial Services to build its headquarters in Durham\, against roughly 1\,000 jobs and $28.75 million. Both are performance-based: nothing is paid until the county verifies each year that the company met its job\, investment and community targets\, and the money comes out of the new tax revenue the projects themselves generate. Novartis also agreed to give $35\,000 a year to the schools foundation and about $100\,000 of equipment to Durham Tech.\n\nThe third hearing was franchises for four companies to run non-emergency ambulance transport in the county\, which the code requires a hearing for. A twelve-item consent agenda carried the rest\, the largest piece being $865\,273.57 with Stryker for ambulance equipment -- eleven power cot loaders\, 45 stair chairs and seven mechanical CPR devices -- and $1\,524\,565 to HDR Engineering for the East Durham rail project\, most of it grant money against a $305\,000 local match. Only the agenda is published for this meeting\, so the votes are not on the record here.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1521\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1548
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1521
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1543@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212248Z
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-1528@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212248Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260209T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260209T200000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners took a public hearing on 9 February on a development ordinance text amendment governing RV parking\, and awarded the year's matching grants: $24\,455 to Urban Community Agrinomics\, $24\,000 to Central Park School for Children\, $23\,045 to Historic Stagville\, $18\,500 to El Futuro and $10\,000 to Unique Places to Save.\n\nThe board also adopted a resolution honouring the life of Judge Willis P. Whichard and met the county library's newly appointed director.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1526\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1528
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1526
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1552@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212248Z
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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UID:meeting-2923@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261012T212248Z
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:20261012T212248Z
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:20261012T212248Z
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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