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UID:meeting-1546@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012301Z
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-1549@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012301Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251124T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Board of County Commissioners hears the 2025 State of the County Address and takes up two Research Triangle Park land-use hearings: a privately initiated text amendment creating a new University and College-3 zoning district for large research campuses\, and a related rezoning of 164 parcels covering 5\,059 acres across nearly all of RTP within Durham County. The board also recognizes new Office of Emergency Services Chief Paramedic Seth Komansky\, the Rougemont Ruritan Club's 75th anniversary\, and the life of Private First Class Booker T. Spicely.\n\nThe consent agenda carries a $1\,193\,227.00 contract with Southern Wall Systems for exterior refurbishment and window replacement at the Justice Services Center\; a $974\,879.51 contract with KBS Earthworks for the Whispering Pines stream restoration project\, paired with a $600\,000 state grant for the same work\; a $535\,356 annual grant agreement with Urban Ministries of Durham\, the county's primary publicly funded homeless shelter\; adoption of a plan to convert a 26-mile inactive rail corridor into the Durham-to-Roxboro Rail Trail\; and $1\,922\,738.56 in October property tax releases and refunds.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1518\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1549
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1518
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1555@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012301Z
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-1528@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012301Z
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-1536@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012301Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThirty-five minutes of ceremonial items open this one: a new chief fire marshal introduced\, a soil and water director recognised for 42 years\, fifty years of general services\, and proclamations for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day\, Durham Refugee Day and Summer Learning Week. Then a consent agenda that includes next year's opioid settlement spending\, and a fifty-minute public hearing block with one zoning map change in it.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1549\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1536
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1549
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1525@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012301Z
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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