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UID:meeting-1567@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250804T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250804T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners meet for a work session on August 4\, 2025\, opening with a 30-minute public comment period. The consent agenda previews a $1\,500\,000 budget amendment for the Durham Affordable Housing Loan Fund\, part of a $5 million push by the county\, city and Duke University to grow the fund to $30 million\; a $656\,331.78 purchase of Sheriff's Office vehicle equipment\; a $246\,815.70 contract to replace bleacher seating at Durham County Memorial Stadium\; a $287\,014 renewal of the Governor's Highway Safety Program grant funding three deputies' traffic enforcement\; approval of the FY26 transit work program's global agreements with GoTriangle\; and a $127\,050 contract with Student U to run the Durham Community Schools Program.\n\nDiscussion items include an FY 2025-26 budget update from Alliance Health\, which manages mental health and substance use services locally\; a joint presentation from Social Services and Public Health on federal and state policy changes affecting SNAP and Medicaid funding in Durham County\; and a briefing on how the County Manager endorses local projects seeking Golden LEAF Foundation grants. 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=1502\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1567
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1502
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1545@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250811T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250811T180000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners hold a regular session on August 11\, 2025\, opening with a 4 p.m. closed session on a personnel matter. The consent agenda carries a $1\,500\,000 budget amendment to fund the Durham Affordable Housing Loan Fund\, part of a $5 million push by the county\, city and Duke University to grow the revolving loan fund to $30 million\; a $656\,331.78 purchase of Sheriff's Office vehicle equipment\; a $562\,240.31 EMS billing and collection contract\; and a $246\,815.70 contract to replace bleacher seating at Durham County Memorial Stadium.\n\nAlso on consent: a $448\,250 contract to clean and restore ductwork at the County Detention Center\; a $447\,732.98 construction contract with Samet Corporation for the first phase of the Office of Emergency Services fleet maintenance facility renovation at 1129 E. Geer Street\; a $287\,014 renewal of the Governor's Highway Safety Program grant funding three deputies' traffic enforcement\; a resolution authorizing the county attorney to execute opioid settlements with secondary manufacturers\, Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family\; and the removal of a Juvenile Crime Prevention Council member for repeated absences. 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=1503\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1545
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1503
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1556@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250812T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250812T113000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Combined BOCC/City/BOE Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County\, the City of Durham and Durham Public Schools meet jointly on August 12\, 2025 for a Combined BOCC/City/Board of Education meeting. The agenda lists discussion items with presenters but no descriptive text. Planning staff from NCDOT\, the Triangle West Transportation Planning Organization\, Research Triangle Foundation and GoTriangle are slated to brief the boards on a possible passenger rail station in Research Triangle Park\, and budget and school officials will take up who is responsible for funding after-school care.\n\nTransportation staff from the county\, Durham Public Schools and the city will update the boards on transit infrastructure near schools\, and the county's Deputy Chief of Emergency Management will report on coordination of Tropical Storm Chantal flood recovery. The boards will also approve minutes from their June 10 joint meeting and take public comment. 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=1504\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1556
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1504
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1546@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
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-1549@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
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:20261013T012915Z
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:20261013T012915Z
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-1523@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260406T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners' April 6 work session previewed the draft FY27 Durham Annual Transit Work Program\, the annual budget under the county's transit governance agreement with GoTriangle\, ahead of a final adoption vote expected in June. The Sheriff's Office and its detention medical contractor\, Wellpath\, briefed the board on rising medical costs\, pharmaceutical spending and outpatient care for detainees to inform future budget decisions.\n\nWomenNC presented student research from Duke\, NC State and NC Central on women's health and safety in Durham\, following up on the county's 2017 CEDAW resolution on women's human rights. The same consent agenda taken up formally at the following week's regular meeting -- grants for library technology and child welfare programs\, an EMS equipment purchase\, and contract amendments for electrical services and stormwater work -- was introduced here for discussion.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1533\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1523
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1533
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1554@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260414T113000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Joint City-County Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners and Durham City Council members meet jointly on April 14 on a resolution opposing state changes to county property tax authority.\n\nThe resolution responds to a North Carolina General Assembly proposal to change counties' property tax authority. County staff bring it for the joint body's consideration. The board also gets an update on the draft FY27 work program for the Durham Transit Plan. It is also asked to approve minutes from the February 10\, 2026\, combined City/County/DPS meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1535\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1554
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1535
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1547@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260519T110000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Budget Work Session - Day One
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDay one of Durham County's budget work sessions\, opening at 9:00 AM with the budget overview and then four departments: organisational effectiveness and performance review\, risk management\, transportation and the office of emergency services.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1541\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1547
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1541
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1542@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
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-1539@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
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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UID:meeting-1568@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
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-1522@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
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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UID:meeting-1552@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
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-1525@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
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:20261013T012915Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3849@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261013T012915Z
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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