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UID:meeting-2012@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123620Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250917
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners took up a contested amendment to the county's 2022 broadband deployment contract with Lumos (now T-Fiber\, owned by T-Mobile)\, which would cut the number of homes to be connected from 6\,370 to 5\,852 and push the deadline to July 2026. They also considered a proposed ten-year\, rent-free ground lease with UNC for a building at 2700 Homestead Road to house the county's cold weather cots program and a future integrated day center for unhoused residents. The board additionally held its annual public hearing on HOME program housing funds and a lengthy consent agenda covering ordinance amendments\, equipment purchases and appointments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162025-2384\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/16?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2012
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162025-2384
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2009@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123620Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Orange County Chiefs' Association and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners met jointly with the county's fire chiefs and rescue squad leaders\, who described the unprecedented flooding and rescues during Tropical Storm Chantal\, staffing levels ranging from volunteer-heavy rural departments to career staff\, and requests for continued county support. After the joint session\, commissioners moved into a work session covering the Land Use Plan 2050 process\, including a presentation on Hillsborough's water and sewer boundary constraints\, and voted to have county staff rather than an outside consultant facilitate the board's November 21 retreat.\n\nCommissioners also worked through several advisory board appointments\, reappointing members to the Affordable Housing Advisory Board and Parks and Recreation Council and filling seats on the Opioid Advisory Committee.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2409\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/22?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2009
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2409
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1997@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123620Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners gave an hour and 45 minutes on February 10 to the first group of county boards and commissions presenting their annual work plans\, then 45 minutes to a fee study covering emergency services\, planning and inspections\, and the environment\, agriculture\, parks and recreation department.\n\nA fee study is where a county works out what its services cost and what it charges for them. The commissioners adopted the resulting FY 2026-27 fee schedule in June.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2512\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/39?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1997
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2512
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1986@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123620Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260422
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County adopted a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centers on April 21\, unanimously and after a public hearing at which everyone who spoke was in favor. The ordinance covers artificial intelligence data centers\, cryptocurrency mining facilities\, data centers\, data processing facilities and similar uses.\n\nThe board also approved a loan to the Orange Grove Fire District for fire station improvements\, and returned to a discussion of the county's strategic communications approach.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/49?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1986
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1981@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123620Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took final approval on May 19 for up to $32 million in installment financing\, the first of two pieces of a spring borrowing that started at roughly $60.8 million for capital projects and equipment. The Local Government Commission was expected to sign off on June 2\, which sets the final amount and terms.\n\nThe board also considered putting $100\,000 toward four townhomes at Weaver's Grove\, and approved the HOME program's annual action plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/54?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1981
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1980@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123620Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260522
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners set aside 45 minutes on May 21 for the FY 2026-27 fire district tax rates\, then more than two hours for the public safety and human services departments in the recommended budget. Work sessions take no spoken public comment\; written comments go to the board by email.\n\nThe department list covered the courts\, criminal justice resources\, emergency services and the sheriff on the public safety side\, and aging\, Alliance Health\, child support services\, civil rights and civic life\, the health department\, housing\, library services\, social services and the opioid settlement fund on the human services side.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212026-2608\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/55?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1980
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212026-2608
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1976@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123620Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260605
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners met on June 4 to make the decisions that fix the budget: which amendments to fund on the ten-year capital investment plan\, what to give the two school systems\, what the fee schedule looks like\, and where to set the tax rates. The work session was scheduled to run three hours and no public comment is taken at these.\n\nThe evening ends with a resolution of intent\, which commits the board to adopting the budget at its June 16 business meeting on the terms agreed that night.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042026-2621\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/59?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1976
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042026-2621
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-2327@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123620Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260902
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe one public hearing is the consequential item. A county-initiated text amendment would take by-right subdivisions of fewer than 21 lots out of Planning Board and commissioner review entirely and hand them to staff\, on the reasoning that state law requires the county to approve plats meeting its own criteria anyway. It also drops the separate concept plan application\, widens the expedited track to parcels between two and five acres\, and deletes three subdivision categories that have never been used. The Planning Board recommended approval unanimously with one change: doubling the mailing notice before a neighborhood meeting from 14 days to 30.\n\nThe board also fills the Register of Deeds vacancy left by a resignation in mid-August\, and honors Commissioner Jamezetta Bedford\, who died in June\, by naming the crisis diversion facility now under construction after her. Consent carries $350\,000 in tourism marketing contracts\, a $37\,783 opioid settlement award\, and ratification of a $123\,500 inspections contract the county manager had already signed to keep construction moving.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09012026-2661\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/66?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2327
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09012026-2661
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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