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UID:meeting-2173@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250723
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250724
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission tested a revised landmark evaluation form on the Morris Grove School\, a rare surviving early-1900s Black schoolhouse on Eubanks Road\, reviewed draft text for two America's 250th historical markers\, and heard updates on Hurricane Chantal damage to the Occaneechi Village and Faucett Mill and a planned marker honoring lynching victim Cyrus Guy.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2313\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2173
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2313
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2141@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250827
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250828
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health voted to let a resident\, Richard Gurlitz\, build a car port after a district court ruled the county's groundwater-protection rules were both unsupported by evidence and too vague to enforce. The board also got a first look at a resolution urging local governments to encourage more affordable housing\, through smaller minimum lot sizes\, density bonuses and "missing middle" housing like duplexes and cottage courts\, with a vote planned for September.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08272025-2423\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2141
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08272025-2423
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2021@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's advisory board on aging heard on November 11 that the state's handling of SNAP was unclear and that back pay would not be required in North Carolina. The county receives about $2 million a month in SNAP benefits\, so any interruption is a serious shortfall\, and staff urged members to publicise the department's lunch and food box programmes.\n\nThe federal government shutdown did not threaten the department's newly acquired grants\, because that funding was already built into the budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2542\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2021
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2542
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2004@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251119
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners denied a 49-lot conservation cluster subdivision on 78.11 acres at 1039-UT NC 86 North on November 18\, voting 6-1 that the rezoning is not in the public interest. It is the case the county planning board had recommended for approval\, and the split later prompted that board to ask for regular meetings with the commissioners so it can find out what happens to its recommendations.\n\nThe objections were about density without services. One commissioner said 49 houses on 20\,000-square-foot lots is urban-style development that would be acceptable with water and sewer but does not fit an area without them\, or the county's principle of preserving rural landscape. The chair said the open space here is fragmented and does not achieve what clustering is for\, and that she found no greater public interest served given the septic\, traffic and rural character issues. She said she was not worried about the proposed community well or water depletion.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2448\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/33?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2004
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2448
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2147@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau advisory board heard on November 19 that occupancy tax revenue is projected flat and traced the reasons: federal job cuts\, federal travel cuts\, fewer people working in Research Triangle Park\, general economic anxiety\, and the closure of the Siena Hotel for most of next year. The Siena had a higher average daily rate than other hotels in the county.\n\nThe bureau collected about $2.196 million in occupancy tax last year\, $1.529 million of it from thirteen Chapel Hill properties. Carrboro has one collecting property\, Hillsborough five\, five more carry Durham addresses\, and seven are short-term rentals. The county tax office is starting an audit of occupancy tax remittance this year.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2446\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2147
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2446
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners awarded $267\,750 in Community Climate Action Grants on January 20\, splitting the money across seven of sixteen applications. Requests totalled $619\,095\, so more than half the applicants got nothing — including Habitat for Humanity's $150\,000 weatherization proposal\, which scored third.\n\nThe board also took a clean audit for the year ended June 30\, 2025 and approved a $15\,000 increase in the audit fee\, and signed off on the condominium agreement that puts the Drakeford Library Complex in shared ownership with Carrboro.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2492\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/37?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1999
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2492
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2910@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260128
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's Human Relations Commission takes up a commemorative marker for the Blackwood Farms gravesite\, vacancies on its own board\, and its events for February through April. Staff bring an update on the marker\, which is meant to mark a cemetery on the former farm property.\n\nThe rest of the ninety-minute agenda is reports. The executive committee has the secretary post and the open commissioner seats on its slate\, the outreach and community events subcommittees report back\, and new business covers what the commission calls its social justice vision and any emerging issues members want to raise.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01272026-2638\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2910
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01272026-2638
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1998@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners approved the school construction interlocal agreement on February 3\, the document that governs how the county and its two school systems build schools together. They also took an update on the interlocal agreements under which the county collects taxes for its towns.\n\nProclamations for Black History Month and Human Relations Month opened the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02032026-2507\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/38?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1998
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02032026-2507
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2188@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260224
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260225
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission took an open meetings law refresher from the county attorney on February 24\, thirteen minutes of the ninety-minute agenda. That is unusual enough on an advisory board agenda to be worth noting.\n\nThe commission also worked its secretary and membership vacancies\, recapped its community conversations\, and took subcommittee reports on a youth initiative\, tabling\, and the Pauli Murray Awards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02242026-2639\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2188
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02242026-2639
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1995@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260306
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners received the final report on neighborhood reviews and revaluation appeals on March 5\, closing out the assessment cycle that had occupied the board of equalization and review and a separate work group for months. They also renewed employee health and dental insurance and continued the county's participation in the state health insurance pool.\n\nThe board took up its proposed 2026 priority legislative issues\, which it adopted later in March\, and adopted a Women's History Month proclamation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052026-2537\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/41?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1995
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052026-2537
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2187@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260324
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260325
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission met March 24 in a format the chair had tightened\, with times attached to each item and the commission's own purpose read into the record at the top: to promote goodwill across communities\, identify concerns about discrimination and civil inequality\, and recommend to the county commissioners on human relations and social justice.\n\nStaff from the Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life gave the county update. The agenda also carries an accessibility line offering interpretation and other support on 48 hours' notice.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03242026-2640\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2187
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03242026-2640
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2168@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission had three decisions on March 25\, all of them about Montrose or the nation's 250th anniversary. It evaluated Montrose for landmark designation and started the process of an interlocal agreement with the Town of Hillsborough to designate it\, which is needed because the property sits in Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction. It also decided whether to join the statewide Landmark Tree project.\n\nUnder updates the commission took a proposed memorial marker honoring the enslaved community associated with St. Matthew's Church\, progress toward National Register listing for Moorefields\, and the donation process and timeline for the Harvey's Chapel cemetery.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2168
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260408
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took the manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan on April 7\, held two public hearings\, and heard a school enrollment forecast. One hearing covered the draft HOME Investment Partnership annual action plan\; the other a county-initiated zoning amendment moving a watershed overlay boundary on a single 19.4-acre parcel in Bingham Township.\n\nThe board also discussed how the county communicates with residents and how its online content measures against the Americans with Disabilities Act.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/45?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1989
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2167@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260423
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission had nothing to decide on April 22 and gave its discussion block to one subject: preserving the history of Black tenant farming\, through the B. C. Corbett farmstead and related sites in the Carr community of northwest Cedar Grove Township. Staff brought a presentation.\n\nThe updates that followed covered preservation problems at the Hughes Academy and the Cameron Ice House\, revised cost estimates from the historic courthouse Phase I report\, logistics for a Montrose tour\, and plans for a joint town and county event on July 4 marking the nation's 250th anniversary.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2589\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2167
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2589
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2186@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260428
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260429
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission set aside 45 minutes on April 28 to score submissions for its annual awards\, the longest item on the agenda by some distance. It also took up the Blackwood Farms commemorative marker\, an item that returned to the commission in May\, June and August before reaching the county parks council in September.\n\nThe executive committee reported on the secretary and membership vacancies and set the date for the August retreat. Subcommittees reported on outreach to local organizations and on the Pauli Murray Awards and community conversations.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04282026-2590\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2186
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04282026-2590
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2185@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission took up the Blackwood Farms commemorative marker on May 26\, the first of four meetings this summer where the item appears. The executive committee reported on elections and membership vacancies and confirmed the commission's August 22 retreat.\n\nSubcommittees reported on outreach to local organizations and on community events\, including the Pauli Murray Awards and community conversations. The commission's charge is to identify community concerns about discrimination and civil inequality and recommend on them to the county commissioners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2615\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2185
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2615
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1977@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260603
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took up the opioid advisory committee's recommendations for settlement money on June 2 and directed staff to bring a final spending resolution back on June 16. They also accepted an updated Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan\, replacing a document from 2009\, and heard where the interlocal tax collection agreement with the towns stands.\n\nTwo proclamations opened the meeting\, one for Juneteenth Freedom Day and one recognizing June as Pride Month.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/58?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1977
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2184@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260624
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission took up the Blackwood Farms commemorative marker on June 23\, the first of three meetings this summer where the item appears. The executive committee reported on membership and vacancies\, and set the commission's retreat for August 22\, a full day from nine to four.\n\nThe rest was reports: an update from the county's Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life\, subcommittee reports on tabling and outreach to local organizations and on community events\, and announcements running through September. The commission's stated charge is to identify community concerns about discrimination and civil inequality and to recommend on them to the county commissioners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06232026-2626\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2184
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06232026-2626
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2166@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260625
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission had nothing to decide on June 24 and spent the evening on five staff presentations. The first was how to mark the county Poor House Cemetery\, and specifically the lynching of Cyrus Guy\, who is buried there. A second item covered paying for a ground penetrating radar survey of the same site\, which would locate unmarked graves.\n\nThe commission also took up the process for designating Montrose a landmark inside Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction\, a funding delay in architectural planning for the historic courthouse alongside court staff security requirements\, and a new proposal for the historic buildings at the future Twin Creeks park. It does not meet in July.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2628\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2166
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2628
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1974@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260710
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners met for the first business meeting after Commissioner Jamezetta Bedford's death\, with her seat held vacant on the dais. They adopted the $27 million financing for the Crisis Diversion Center\, widened the tax relief program for longtime homeowners\, and settled a year-old argument about who supervises the tax administrator.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092026-2641\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/63?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1974
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092026-2641
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2212@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260817
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260818
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's unified transportation board gave an hour on August 17 to five transit and planning items\, and the one with the most direct effect on riders was a rewrite of the county transit rider's guide. Most of it concerns paratransit. A visitor already certified as ADA paratransit eligible where they live can ride here 21 days out of any 365 before having to apply locally. The pickup window is defined as 15 minutes either side of the negotiated time\, and an operator waits five minutes before marking a rider a no-show. An ADA certified rider brings a personal care attendant free and one companion at the rider's fare.\n\nThe guide also sets out a three-level passenger code of conduct. Level I brings a suspension of 30 days to three months\, Level II 90 days to six months\, and Level III at least 180 days or a permanent exclusion. A suspended rider can appeal in writing within 30 days and ask for a hearing with the transportation director. Alongside that the board took up the Title VI public participation plan\, an agency safety plan and safety committee\, the state transportation improvement program\, and the bicycle and pedestrian plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08172026-2650\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2212
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08172026-2650
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2183@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260822
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260823
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission spent a full day on August 22 setting its own direction\, and the last ninety minutes went to the longest horizon. Members worked on a vision statement for where the county should be in ten years and on three or four core pillars defining the equity goals to reach in that time. A separate hour covered the next three years: which topics to focus on through FY30\, which partnerships to prioritize\, and how to gather community data and take what the agenda calls pulse checks on how residents feel.\n\nThe morning was more concrete. The commission closed out FY26 spending\, set an FY27 budget\, and had each subcommittee draft a one-page charter and a priority statement naming what it will accomplish and by when. Members also fixed an event calendar: a Blackwood Farms event\, three housing events between October 2026 and June 2027\, a community conversation in February 2027\, and the annual PMA event on May 16\, 2027. They discussed which proclamations to send the county commissioners for FY27\, with Black History Month and Women's History Month on the list.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08222026-2656\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2183
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08222026-2656
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-2182@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123806Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260826
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission spent its August 25 meeting largely on itself. The executive committee brought membership vacancies for application review and a vote\, and recapped the retreat the commission held three days earlier. The packet runs to several volunteer applications filed over the summer.\n\nThe commission also took an update on a commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms\, which it is bringing to the county parks and recreation council the following week. Amy Eckberg presented on the Climate Control Action Grant\, the longest item at fifteen minutes. Subcommittees reported on tabling and outreach to local organizations\, a housing series\, and the Blackwood Farms dedication. The agenda carries a pointed instruction for public comment: speakers are asked not to share identifying information or details of an active complaint before the Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life\, and the chair may redirect anyone who does.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2655\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2182
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2655
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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