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UID:meeting-2334@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123630Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250729
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Economic Development Advisory Board holds a workshop with consultant Crystal Morphis on the county's Economic Development Strategic Plan\, covering SWOT analysis results\, a business survey\, and revised vision and mission statements for the department.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282025-2322\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2334
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282025-2322
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2010@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123630Z
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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UID:meeting-2036@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123630Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board decided on November 19 that its farmland preservation plan is finally ready to go to the county commissioners\, after a marathon editing session on November 12 that worked through every change legal staff\, planning and others had asked for. Members said careful rewording had got the document to a point where they were comfortable it says what they need it to say.\n\nThe commissioners accepted the plan on June 2\, replacing a document from 2009.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2445\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2036
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2445
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123630Z
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
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UID:meeting-2001@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123630Z
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
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UID:meeting-2145@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123630Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260219
SUMMARY:Orange County: February Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board took a consultant's report on February 18 from focus groups assessing where tourism in Orange County stands now and what it should prioritise. Magellan Strategies ran them.\n\nThe board also took an update on planning for the nation's 250th anniversary\, an observance it built a July 4 event around at the Colonial Inn.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2533\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2145
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2533
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2330@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123630Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board gave 45 minutes on March 17 to a staff presentation on the county's economic development goals\, successes and challenges\, the longest item on the agenda. The director's report followed.\n\nUnder new business the board welcomed a new member and adopted an updated attendance policy.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2550\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2330
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2550
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2144@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123630Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
SUMMARY:Orange County: March Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board met in Carrboro on March 18\, at the Drakeford Library Complex\, and opened with a welcome from the Carrboro town manager and a reading by a former Carrboro poet laureate who sits on the board.\n\nThe executive director reported on final details for a sold-out Savannah Bananas event\, other major April events in the county\, and the bureau's plans for a July 4 event at the Colonial Inn tied to the nation's 250th anniversary.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2583\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2144
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2583
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-1988@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123630Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260415
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent April 14 on three substantive items and then an hour of appointments. Durham Technical Community College's president presented on the college's goals\, its K-12 partnerships in the county\, county-supported workforce initiatives and the Orange County campus addition and renovation project.\n\nThe board then discussed the 2026 Longtime Homeowners Assistance Program\, which the chair later cited as evidence the county has taken deliberate steps to protect low-wealth residents from property tax increases\, and took the draft county Trails Plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142026-2578\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/48?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1988
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142026-2578
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-2143@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123630Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260416
SUMMARY:Orange County: April Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board hosted two senior UNC real estate officials on April 15: the associate vice chancellor for real estate and campus enterprises\, and the executive director for real estate development. The university is the largest single influence on visitor traffic in the county\, so what it builds shapes what the bureau markets.\n\nThe executive director gave her report\, board members brought community updates\, and the board approved minutes from March.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2582\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2143
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2582
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2329@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123630Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260513
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board elected its officers on May 12\, nominating and voting on a chair\, vice chair and secretary. It also worked through its own housekeeping: a vacancy on the core business and grant committee\, a review of the attendance policy\, and whether to change its meeting schedule and time.\n\nThe county's community and rural development agent gave an update\, and members had ten minutes of open discussion.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122026-2600\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2329
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122026-2600
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2142@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123630Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: May Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board met over breakfast on May 20 with a leadership question in front of it. The chair opened on the executive director's announced retirement\, and proposed holding off on forming strategic subcommittees until later in the summer\, once Orange County's succession planning process gives more guidance.\n\nThe board also reviewed the FY 2026-27 budgets recommended by the county manager and the Chapel Hill town manager\, both still in draft\, and analyzed what the Savannah Bananas event returned.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2610\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2142
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2610
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2328@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123630Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260714
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260715
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board met over lunch at Bru's Public House in Carrboro on July 14\, with one thing to vote on: which applicants to recommend to the county commissioners for its own open seats. The commissioners take up advisory board appointments at their September 10 work session and confirm them September 15.\n\nThe longest item was a guest presentation from the county's strategic planning manager. Members also spent twenty minutes on who they want to hear from at future meetings\, and took the director's report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07142026-2642\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2328
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07142026-2642
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2032@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123630Z
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
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