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UID:meeting-2024@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging planned to elect a new chair and vice-chair after Chair Ann Bradford's resignation\, adopt an updated Senior Center Registration Form and Code of Conduct\, and review Year 3 reports on the county's 2022-27 Master Aging Plan covering communication\, transportation\, health services and employment goals.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2539\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2024
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2539
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2192@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250819
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCPEH Leadership Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:OCPEH Leadership Team\n\nThe Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness Leadership Team decided how to split a shrunken pot of Emergency Solutions Grant funding\, down to $44\,000 from $98\,000\, between two homeless-services programs: rapid rehousing and the Inter-Faith Council's Homestart shelter. The team also heard about upcoming HUD technical assistance on the Continuum of Care's governance structure.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2342\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2192
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2342
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2015@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250827
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Orange County Board of Commissioners takes up bridge funding for residents displaced by Tropical Storm Chantal after hearing extended public comment from displaced Camelot Village residents and tenant advocates\, adopts the Eno-Haw Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan\, and approves the charge and composition of a new Tax Assessment Work Group to review the county's 2025 property revaluation. The board also takes up short-term funding to keep a senior takeaway meal program running and a routine consent agenda covering vehicle purchases and a cloud migration contract.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2336\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/4?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2015
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2336
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2141@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
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-2012@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2140@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250925
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health heard how a recent court reversal of one of its own permit denials will affect groundwater protection rules\, and worked through two draft resolutions\, one on immigration enforcement's effect on access to public health services and one on affordable housing\, sending both back for revision ahead of an October vote. The board approved a set of policy updates\, discussed a vacant at-large seat\, and went into closed session to review the health director's annual performance.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2424\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2140
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2424
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2011@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's Board of Commissioners met jointly with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Orange County Boards of Education for a briefing session\, not a voting meeting. The three boards reviewed each district's state budget situation\, an interlocal agreement and bond-funded construction projects\, enrollment demographics\, and topics for future collaboration such as school nursing and mental health staffing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2391\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/19?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2011
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2391
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2010@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251008
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners hold a public hearing on rezoning about 61 acres at 3531 NC Highway 54 W in Chapel Hill's Bingham Township\, from rural residential to a conditional district for a 43-lot conservation-cluster subdivision. The applicant\, Forestar Group on behalf of Carolyn Rigsbee\, needs the change after the Planning Board recommended approval 6-3 in August.\n\nThe board also considers reviving its Broadband Task Force with an expanded charge\, a resolution letting commercial property owners in the county finance energy upgrades through the state's new C-PACE program\, and a resolution naming a Cedar Grove Park athletic field for softball coach and civil rights advocate Willie Lawrence Vanhook. The consent agenda covers a two-year Granicus contract for the Visitors Bureau website\, animal control contracts with three towns\, a chiller replacement at the Whitted Building\, and a budget amendment funding a second year of the CARE mobile crisis team.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2399\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/20?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2010
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2399
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2022@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging approved its September minutes with one correction and heard staff updates on hiring\, upcoming Medicare and scam-awareness events\, and the county's Master Aging Plan process. The board reported the takeaway lunch program's transition is complete\, with Meals on Wheels Orange County now serving previously homebound clients\, and reviewed two new grants: $56\,627 for home repairs through the Choosing Home Program and $34\,430 for a Providing Elders Additional Sustenance food-box program.\n\nCommittee members also reported on the Senior Tar Heel Legislature's recent meeting and continuing inspections of local nursing and adult care homes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2541\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2022
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2541
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2009@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
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-2008@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251022
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners held a public hearing on joining the state's C-PACE program\, which lets commercial property owners finance energy and resiliency upgrades through a voluntary assessment rather than county funds. The board also reviewed cost-cutting design options for the Crisis Diversion Facility\, whose original $28.2 million design came in over budget\, and discussed a draft interlocal agreement setting up joint oversight of school construction projects with both school districts.\n\nConsent items included a $500\,000 school capital analyst position funded from already-budgeted pay-go funds\, a solar feasibility study agreement with the Town of Hillsborough\, a six-month extension of an opioid-funding contract with Freedom House Recovery Center\, and a $97\,503 state arts grant.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2412\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/26?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2008
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2412
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2139@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251030
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health considers options for its Groundwater Protection Rules after a recent adjudication appeal invalidated part of its well-setback requirements\, ranging from case-by-case enforcement to repealing the local rules entirely. The board also takes up resolutions on affordable housing and on immigration enforcement's effect on access to public health resources\, plus a proposed Chair/Vice-Chair slate for 2026.\n\nThe board goes into closed session to discuss the health director's annual performance review.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292025-2462\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2139
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292025-2462
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2007@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251107
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners released $54\,000 from the Social Justice Reserve on November 6 to buy food\, after the federal shutdown cut SNAP benefits in half. About 4\,700 county households — 8\,700 people — received SNAP in September\, and all of them faced a 50 percent reduction until the programme was fully funded again.\n\nThe money went out in four parts: $15\,000 each to the Interfaith Council in Chapel Hill and Orange Congregations in Mission in Hillsborough to stock their pantries\, and $12\,000 each to Porch Chapel Hill and Porch Hillsborough for special food distributions held two days later\, on November 8. To remove a barrier\, Orange Congregations in Mission agreed to waive its referral requirement for new clients until benefits were restored in full.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062025-2427\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/29?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2007
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062025-2427
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2021@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2045@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's board of adjustment granted a special use permit on November 12 for Jubilee\, a farm-based mental health day programme already operating at 1009 Hi Mar Lane\, so it can be inspected by the fire marshal and licensed as a facility.\n\nThe reason is financial and specific. Jubilee runs an intensive outpatient programme — group and individual therapy\, yoga\, cooking\, therapeutic horticulture\, animal care and music therapy — for adults whose lives have been derailed by mental illness. Because the site is a bona fide farm\, it was refused a fire inspection\, so it cannot be licensed\, so it must bill insurers as office-based rather than facility-based. Many insurers pay a quarter of the facility rate for office-based intensive outpatient care\, or nothing. Without a licence it cannot contract with Medicaid at all\, and the application notes a shortage of mental health day treatment for Medicaid patients in Orange County.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122025-2439\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2045
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122025-2439
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2152@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Climate Council Meeting Agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Climate Council\n\nOrange County's climate council — a joint body of the county\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, both school boards and UNC — spent part of its November 13 meeting on data centres and AI\, presented by UNC's sustainability lead. The figures given: data centres consume about 26 percent of Virginia's electricity against 2 percent of North Carolina's\; the average data centre land transaction in 2024 was 224 acres\, up 144 percent since 2022\; some sites need up to 500 acres and some companies buy 1\,000 or more for future expansion. A July 2025 federal order expedites permitting of data centre infrastructure including land and transmission lines.\n\nThe council also took an update on a multi-jurisdictional heat action plan and heard that 2026 is proposed as a Year of Electrification\, run regionally with the Central Pines Regional Council\, with the programme launching by April.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2407\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2152
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2407
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2005@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251115
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent a morning on November 14 on the two things that decide how much rural development the county can carry: septic and groundwater. The engineer who presented on wastewater told them the state has been steadily reducing what local health departments can say about system design\, and that under the engineered option permit adopted eight or nine years ago\, private engineers can design a system\, stand in the place of the regulator\, check their own drawings and issue the construction permit. State staff now review roughly 10 percent of large system designs\; about 90 percent go the private route.\n\nHe was equally direct about the limiting factor. Suitable soil for on-site wastewater is in short supply in Orange County\, and that reality is what limits rural development in this part of the piedmont. He called it a precious and limited resource.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2441\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=84\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2005
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2441
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-2218@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251118
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTBoard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's transportation board was shown ten concept designs from the county bicycle and pedestrian plan on November 17 and asked how those ten were chosen. The consultants' answer was that eight came from a prioritised list of twenty and two from community engagement\, that they had not made the selection themselves\, and that the person who picked them had since left — so the team is working out parts of it now and taking the board's feedback into the wider prioritisation.\n\nMembers said they want more data before they can judge the recommendations.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11172025-2454\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2218
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11172025-2454
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2138@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's health department has seen a notable rise in appointment cancellations since Immigration and Customs Enforcement became active in the area\, the health director told the board of health on November 19. The department is offering telehealth or home visits where appropriate\, letting some staff work remotely\, and has reminded staff of the ICE guidelines it set in the spring. A board member added that schools have reported marked increases in absenteeism from fear.\n\nThe board also elected its 2026 chair and vice-chair\, recommended a candidate for its vacant at-large seat\, and wrote off $7\,511 in uncollectible patient debt.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2463\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2138
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2463
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2179@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251121
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board voted unanimously on November 20 to let graduates of the Foster Youth to Independence programme move onto the housing choice voucher programme. That programme lasts 36 months\; without a route onward\, young people age out of it. The change gives graduates a preference point that places them on the voucher wait list\, following the pattern used for emergency housing vouchers.\n\nA board member also flagged a pending zoning change that would cut the affordable unit requirement in new developments from 50 percent back to 10 percent. Because firms can pay a fee instead of building the units\, she argued that at 10 percent developers would simply pay\, which she said would not work out well for the county.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2455\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2179
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2455
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
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UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251202
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners were told on December 1 that federal rules could cut deeply into the money that houses homeless residents here. The new HUD Continuum of Care funding notice mandates a 70 percent cut to permanent housing and guarantees only 30 percent of annual renewal funding. Those grants pay for 79 percent of the Interfaith Council's permanent supportive housing programme\, 64 percent of the county partnership's rapid rehousing programme and 80 percent of the coordinated entry housing helpline.\n\nThe board also elected a new chair and vice-chair\, both unanimously\, and worked through which outside boards still need a commissioner on them.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12012025-2461\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/35?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2002
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12012025-2461
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2020@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's advisory board on aging spent most of its December 9 meeting on a problem its senior centers did not choose: unsheltered people using the Seymour Center. Staff are considering a bag policy\, worked out with the library and the county attorney\, and the county's street outreach team offered training for centre staff and more frequent rounds now that it is back to full strength.\n\nThe timeline for anything better is long. The building at 2700 Homestead Road is about a year away from hosting cold weather cots\, and a day centre is a couple of years out. The county has approved the lease for the cots\, but what happens after that is not settled.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2543\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2020
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2543
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2001@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's 2025 property revaluation has cost the county $232\,489\,448 in assessed value through appeals\, with a median cut of $38\,000 on residential property and $66\,400 on non-residential. The commissioners were given those figures on December 9\, along with a separate $60\,972\,300 in reductions from neighbourhood-level reviews covering 1\,460 properties.\n\nThe scale of the appeals is what stands out. The tax office received 3\,346 informal appeals in the window that ran March 21 to April 30\, then another 1\,109 formal appeals — 4\,455 in all across 3\,966 unique properties. All the informal appeals had been decided\; the board of equalization and review had finished 655 formal appeals\, 64 percent\, with 367 more in progress and the rest due by January 22.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2471\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/36?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2001
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2471
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2019@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
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 January 13 that the state area agency on aging arrives February 3 and 4 for its annual monitoring visit\, covering health promotion programmes\, senior center operations\, information and assistance\, options counselling\, and two grants.\n\nThe board also worked on the FY 2026-27 budget\, which kicked off January 8\, and its annual report to the county commissioners\, due to be filed by January 16 and presented in February or March.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2544\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2019
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2544
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2000@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260117
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners were told at their January 16 retreat that the county faces a $21.5 million gap to close in the FY 2026-27 budget\, and that the same model puts the gap at $37.6 million the following year and $53.6 million the year after that. Closing this year's would take about seven cents on the property tax rate\; one penny raises roughly $3.37 million on a $33.9 billion tax base.\n\nThe drivers are debt service\, the phase-in of school capital pay-as-you-go\, non-discretionary personnel costs like health insurance and retirement\, and the county's practice of never cutting education funding. Commissioner McKee said across-the-board reductions may be needed and asked staff to look at how the county balanced its FY 2010-11 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2000
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2137@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's board of health met on January 21 without a quorum\, so nothing could be voted on. The chair ran the agenda anyway and the board took its presentations and reports\, but the November minutes\, a change to the delinquent accounts policy and the approval of the agenda itself all rolled to February 25.\n\nThe health director reported eleven measles cases in North Carolina\, all tied to the outbreak in South Carolina and none in Orange County. Chapel Hill wastewater showed nothing\, but staff were reviewing immunization records and had quarantine and isolation templates ready. Two elementary schools in the county\, Emerson Waldorf and Ephesus\, have low MMR coverage.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2575\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2137
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2575
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2018@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's advisory board on aging met February 10 at the Passmore Center\, a building still being restored after a water event. Quarterly reports for year four of the Master Aging Plan were due on community supports and health services\, outdoor spaces and buildings\, and housing.\n\nThe board also took the FY 2026-27 budget\, appointments\, and a report on Medicare Part D open enrollment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2545\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2018
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2545
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1996@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260218
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOWASA came before Orange County's commissioners on February 17 with its annual update\, and the numbers were the substance. The utility's five-year capital programme needs $250 million\, nearly $200 million of it for two projects\, against gross revenue of about $55 million a year and net revenue of about $10 million.\n\nThe board also took a report on the Longtime Homeowner Assistance programme's 2025 results\, a history of animal services and its new community clinic\, and second-quarter amendments to the transit work programme.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172026-2531\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/40?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1996
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172026-2531
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2136@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260226
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's board of health took the health department's FY 2026-27 budget request on February 25\, built to stay flat. The department is aiming to add no new spending without matching new revenue\, and its request nets out at authorized expenditures minus service revenue\, about $10.1 million on the prior year's figures.\n\nThe board also welcomed two new members\, including a county commissioner\, and heard that a resolution in support of expedited newborn screening was coming.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252026-2576\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2136
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252026-2576
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2017@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260310
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260311
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's advisory board on aging met March 10 with a full slate of program news and its own reporting obligations. Quarterly reports for year four of the 2022-27 Master Aging Plan were due on transportation\, social participation and inclusion\, employment\, and communication\, and the board discussed the survey and next steps for the 2027-32 plan.\n\nThe board also gave its report to the county commissioners that same evening\, and took up appointments\, its attendance policy and the FY 2026-27 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102026-2569\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2017
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102026-2569
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1993@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took the step on March 17 that led to the county's data center moratorium: after a staff presentation on what large-scale data centers would mean here\, they voted to advertise a public hearing on a one-year moratorium and directed staff to draft ordinance amendments regulating the use. The hearing was held April 21 and the moratorium adopted unanimously.\n\nThe board also appointed the tax administrator to serve as acting tax collector and acting tax assessor\, and solicited offers on county-owned land at 6823 Millhouse Road.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2553\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/44?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1993
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2553
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1990@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260323
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260324
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Legislative Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners set their 2026 priority legislative issues on March 23\, aligning what they will ask the General Assembly for with the state association of county commissioners' advocacy goals and the county's own strategic plan.\n\nThe list runs across agriculture\, environment\, health and human services\, justice and public safety\, public education\, and tax and finance. The county's top-tier goal is protecting and expanding farmland preservation programs.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03232026-2559\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=85\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1990
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03232026-2559
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2135@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's board of health had three action items on March 25. One was a resolution urging the state to speed up its evaluation of newborn screening for metachromatic leukodystrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy\, two rare conditions where early detection changes what treatment can do. The others were an update to the county's well rules and a revision of the board's own operating procedures.\n\nThe health director also briefed the board on accreditation\, and a program director gave an update on the campus community coalition.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2577\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2135
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2577
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2042@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260416
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's animal services advisory board took up a survey sent to county residents on April 15\, and reported on the vacancies it was carrying at that point. The director gave developments from the shelter and introduced a new business officer.\n\nOld business ran to the board's 2026 goals\, including a proposal to seat a youth delegate and plans for a staff appreciation day.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2588\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2042
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2588
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1986@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1984@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260506
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners hired an outside firm on May 5 to look at how the county does reappraisal and tax assessment. The contract with GAR Associates comes while the tax office is running under an interim administrator and a work group has been meeting on assessment improvements.\n\nThe board also held the public hearing required before borrowing for capital projects\, took a substantial amendment to the HOME-ARP allocation plan\, and received the manager's recommended FY 2026-27 operating budget. Two proclamations opened the meeting\, one honoring a local principal named the national high school principal of the year and one for Mental Health Awareness Month.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052026-2597\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/51?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1984
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052026-2597
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2151@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260515
SUMMARY:Orange County: Climate Council Meeting Agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Climate Council\n\nThe Orange County Climate Council met May 14 with staff from the county\, Carrboro\, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough around one table. Drought and water conservation took a block of the agenda\, led by OWASA\, and staff from three governments reported jointly on the Heat Action Plan.\n\nChapel Hill briefed the group on its electrification program and Hillsborough on Climate Challenge 2026. The council then broke into small groups for what the agenda calls barrier buster conversations. It does not meet again until November 18.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2594\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2151
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2594
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1981@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2041@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's animal services advisory board worked through three open seats on May 20: a Town of Chapel Hill vacancy\, a seat reserved for the owner or manager of a retail pet service\, and a non-municipal seat coming open in June. Two people were named for board appointments and upcoming votes.\n\nThe board also followed up on its 2026 goals\, a proposal to add a youth delegate\, staff appreciation plans and a county survey. Staff reported on the shelter and foster programs\, the clinic\, and a fundraiser silent auction.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2631\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2041
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2631
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1980@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1978@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260529
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Public Hearing and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners held the public hearing on the FY 2026-27 budget and the capital investment plan on May 28\, then went straight into a work session. Residents could sign up to speak at the hearing or send written comments\; the work session takes no comment.\n\nThe county manager presented the recommended budget\, built on five stated priorities: minimize the tax rate increase\, prioritize public safety and social safety net direct services\, maximize efficiencies and cost recovery while preserving core services\, and modestly invest in employee compensation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282026-2614\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/60?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1978
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282026-2614
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1977@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners adopted the FY 2026-27 budget on June 16\, setting the property tax rate at 68.05 cents per $100 of assessed value\, a 4.22-cent increase. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district tax was set at 14.79 cents\, which puts the combined rate for Chapel Hill residents at 82.84 cents. Twelve fire district rates were set alongside them\, and county employees got a 2 percent raise with the living wage recognized at $20.02 an hour.\n\nThe same night the board approved a guaranteed maximum price of $22\,906\,906 from Gilbane to build the crisis diversion facility\, accepted the ten-year capital investment plan\, and amended its broadband contract with Lumos to reach 105 more unserved households.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/62?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1975
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2040@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260618
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's animal services advisory board spent June 17 on its own vacancies. Three seats were open\, each reserved for a different kind of member: a non-municipal seat\, a seat for the owner or manager of a retail pet service\, and a seat for animal welfare and advocacy. One applicant was named for each\, and two of them attended.\n\nThe rest was routine. Staff gave shelter and foster updates\, and the board planned a July ice cream truck for staff appreciation day and discussed meeting with other county boards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172026-2629\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2040
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172026-2629
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1974@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2032@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260715
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260716
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board had nothing to decide on July 15 and spent the hour on discussion. The main item was following up on the Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan\, which the county commissioners approved on June 2\, and reviewing a draft web version of it.\n\nAshton Tippins presented on TABLE\, a food access program. The board also reviewed membership applications going to the commissioners on September 10\, took a voluntary agricultural district update\, and heard about a trust fund grant application to pay for a new Cost of Community Services study.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152026-2643\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2032
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152026-2643
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1973@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260729
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners added this July 28 meeting to their calendar for one reason: to fill the District 1 seat left vacant when Jamezetta Bedford died on June 21. State law gave them until August 20\, after which the clerk of superior court would have made the choice instead.\n\nThe board had already decided on July 9 to use the Orange County Democratic Party's application process rather than run its own. Six people applied\, all confirmed by the board of elections as registered Democrats living in District 1\, and the party's executive committee recommended one of them on July 20. A short consent agenda followed.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282026-2644\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/64?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1973
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282026-2644
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2153@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260810
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260811
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's commission for the environment gave twenty minutes on August 10 to what PFAS is doing to OWASA's operations. Two staff from the water utility came to present and to ask the commission what it makes of their draft guiding principles\, and what the community's input on them should be.\n\nThe commission also took a vote it has been building toward: accepting the final draft of its State of the Environment Report. Members reviewed the Community Climate Action Grant program\, its past awards and its scoring tools\, heard a summer intern report on the Heat Action Cohort\, and broke into subcommittees to set goals for the next four months.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08102026-2645\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2153
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08102026-2645
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260820
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's animal services advisory board met August 19 with staffing at the shelter as the main subject. The director reported on relief veterinarian coverage in the clinic\, the open program manager position\, and follow-up from the rabies clinic. Staff also gave a budget update.\n\nThe board's own business was thinner. It checked on the subcommittee it created in June to coordinate with animal advisory boards in neighboring counties\, chaired by Michael Dempsey\, and recapped the July 15 staff appreciation event. Board appointments and upcoming votes were listed under new business.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2657\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2039
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2657
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260826
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners opened their August 25 meeting with the oath of office for Commissioner Rani Dasi\, and directed on the consent agenda that the crisis diversion facility under construction be named for Jamezetta Bedford. The formal resolution honoring Bedford\, who died on June 21\, came back to the board a week later.\n\nThe one item of regular business was how the county advertises its land for sale. Until now it did the legal minimum\, a notice in The Herald Sun. The new process adds a listing on the MLS\, county social media\, the community newsletter\, a sign at the property and the asset management webpage\, with the winning bidder covering the costs: $200 to $3\,500 for legal ads\, $500 for the MLS listing and $1\,200 for an appraisal. The tax collector reported a 99.33 percent current-year collection rate for FY 2025-26. Consent also carried the sale of a 1.24-acre placeholder lot on Mollie Court\, four bus shelters for Hillsborough\, and dissolution of the broadband task force whose work produced the county's $10 million fiber contract with Lumos.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2654\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/65?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1972
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2654
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20260903T124218Z
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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