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UID:meeting-2016@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250708
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250709
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners met July 8 for a business meeting dominated by a tax revaluation report that drew thirteen public speakers\, most from historically Black neighborhoods in Chapel Hill and Carrboro\, who said the county's 2025 property revaluation is pricing out longtime residents. The board also approved a resolution opposing state Senate Bill 205\, which would curtail local zoning authority\, and pulled the Eno-Haw Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan from the agenda before the meeting began.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07082025-2306\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/5?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2016
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07082025-2306
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2011@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
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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UID:meeting-2008@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
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-2227@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251106
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council had phase 2-B of Blackwood Farm Park on its November 5 agenda\, along with its 2025 annual report and work plan\, an update on the county trails plan and one on Fairview Park.\n\nNo minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what the council decided is not on the record. The county commissioners approved a Blackwood Farm Park master plan amendment on their consent agenda on November 18.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2426\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2227
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2426
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2332@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board met at a Carrboro pub on November 11 to hear from the local chamber's business success navigator and from Carrboro's economic development director and specialist.\n\nNo minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what came of those conversations is not on the record. The agenda also carried the 2026 calendar and meeting locations\, member disclosure statements due December 31\, the annual report and work plan due January 16\, a vacancy in the board's agriculture seat\, and a director's update on commercial and industrial projects.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2429\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2332
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2429
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2152@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
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-2260@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251115
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nThe consultant reviewing Orange County's assessment neighbourhoods told the tax assessment work group on November 14 that vertical inequity is easy to identify and much harder to correct. The properties his analysis flagged as anomalous were ones not maintained or updated\, picked out from among thousands\, and the problem is that they had been treated differently in the valuation process.\n\nThe work group also took a grounding session on how reappraisal works in North Carolina\, from the UNC School of Government and the state Department of Revenue.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2447\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2260
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2447
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2147@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
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-2003@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251122
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent the afternoon of November 21 on conservation subdivisions with Randall Arendt\, the planner who wrote Rural by Design\, as the last educational session before the 2050 land use plan goes back out for public comment. His advice was blunt in places: get rid of flexible development\, because it counts unbuildable land toward density\, and preserve 50 percent of the buildable land rather than 50 percent of everything including riparian buffers.\n\nHe also suggested a gradual approach — put conservation subdivisions in one part of the county for five years and see how it goes — and said the only thing that actually counts is ordinance language\, not guidance in a plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212025-2449\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/34?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2003
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212025-2449
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2259@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251203
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group spent its December 2 meeting hearing from Wake County's tax administrator about how that county runs its assessments. Wake's approach was cited approvingly at the county commissioners' meeting a week later: technology upgrades\, bringing appraisal work in house including commercial appraisals\, a two-year reappraisal cycle rather than the usual four\, and integrating operations with customer relationship management software and the call centre.\n\nThe published summary records that the presentation happened and was attached for reference\, but not what members took from it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2464\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2259
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2464
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2226@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council heard on December 3 that the county commissioners will entertain offers from nonprofit organisations to buy part of the future Millhouse Road Park property and run a soccer and playing field complex there in the public interest. The back portion of the site stays with the county and will not be developed.\n\nStaff also reported the kickoff of a feasibility study on the UNC CoGen rail corridor\, which along with Chapel Hill's Everywhere to Everywhere greenways plan will intersect with the county's trails plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2468\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2226
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2468
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2246@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board asked on December 3 to start meeting the county commissioners once or twice a year\, and wrote the request into its own work plan. The reason was specific: the board had recommended approval of a development north of NC 86 and the commissioners turned it down\, and members said they want to know what happens to the recommendations they send up.\n\nOne member noted that between the planning board's vote and the commissioners' decision\, groups had approached commissioners with a different view. Staff were plain that this is allowed — a rezoning is a legislative matter\, not quasi-judicial\, so commissioners may talk to anyone about it and need not disclose it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2460\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2246
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2460
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2170@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe church that owns the Harvey's Chapel cemetery has told Orange County it will consider donating the site\, on condition that it be permanently protected. The county's historic preservation commission heard that on December 10\, alongside news that a grant will pay for expanding the trail network at Seven Mile Creek Preserve\, including a spur trail letting hikers walk up to the cemetery and the site of the original church.\n\nStaff want a high-quality interpretive sign at the cemetery and have arranged to meet a church leader about how to proceed. Members will hike the site late in the winter.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2472\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2170
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2472
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2203@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit staff working group voted 9-2 on December 10 to add the transit tax district administration as a non-voting member of the group. The argument for it was recognising the tax district's authority and clarifying roles to avoid conflict\; the concern raised against was that it gives GoTriangle more representation. One suggestion was to keep the arrangement non-voting until the GoTriangle staffing study concludes and then look at it again.\n\nThe group also approved a charter for a financial policies and procedures subcommittee\, chaired by Orange County\, to standardise reimbursement documentation across the organisations involved. Unclear documentation requirements had caused delays in reimbursements before.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2469\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2203
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2469
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-2211@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Broadband Task Force
DESCRIPTION:Orange County Broadband Task Force\n\nOrange County's broadband task force met on December 10 for updates from its private partner Lumos and from the state Broadband Infrastructure Office on BEAD and Stop Gap — the federal Broadband Equity\, Access\, and Deployment programme and the state's stopgap funding for areas awaiting it.\n\nNo minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what was said about either is not on the record. The agenda also carried the task force's action register and approval of earlier notes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2474\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2211
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2474
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2019@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
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
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UID:meeting-2000@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
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
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UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
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-2201@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County transit staff working group used its January 21 meeting to check administrative corrections in the FY27 annual work program and get project sponsors to confirm their submissions\, ahead of the substantive funding argument scheduled for a special meeting on February 6.\n\nThe group is the technical committee where Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, Mebane\, Orange County\, GoTriangle and the Triangle West planning organisation divide up transit money raised by the county's transit tax district.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2493\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2201
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2493
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2169@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260129
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission held a public hearing on January 28 on the Moorefields National Register nomination\, taking additional documentation and a technical correction\, then voted whether to endorse it. National Register listing is a federal designation\, and the commission's endorsement is part of the state's review.\n\nThe commission also considered a certificate of appropriateness for repair work at Faucette Mill as minor works\, and whether to cancel its February meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2502\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2169
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2502
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1998@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2225@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council spent most of February 4 planning a joint meeting with the Orange Unified Transportation Board set for March 11. That meeting did not happen: the Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan was still stalled awaiting a state transportation department contract amendment\, and the joint session was eventually held on June 3.\n\nThe council also worked through its own vacancies\, terms expiring\, and a Trails Plan update.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2508\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2225
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2508
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2200@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260207
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group changed its own FY 2027 schedule on February 6\, recommending approval of a revised timetable. The work programme was already running a year behind\, and the change is what let the group compress the public review period in March.\n\nMembers also closed out sponsor questions on the draft work programme and discussed how to prioritise what goes into it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02062026-2513\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2200
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02062026-2513
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2210@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Broadband Task Force
DESCRIPTION:Orange County Broadband Task Force\n\nOrange County's broadband task force spent half an hour on February 11 with the state broadband office\, taking an update on BEAD and the Stop Gap programme. BEAD is the federal money North Carolina is distributing to reach unserved addresses\; Stop Gap is the state's own effort to fill what is left.\n\nThe county's chief information officer then walked the task force through the GIS map of where service actually reaches\, the same review the group repeated in April.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2529\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2210
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2529
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-2216@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260217
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's unified transportation board took two information items on February 16: the FY 2027 annual work programme for transit\, and a call for pedestrian safety projects. Neither required a vote.\n\nStaff also reported a Mebane route change and the usual round on the planning organisations and the state transportation department. Public comment at this board comes by email and is read aloud during the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02162026-2528\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2216
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02162026-2528
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2199@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260219
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group had two recommendations to make on February 18: approval of GoTriangle's regional technology plan\, and the status quo option for Orange Transit's FY 2027 work program.\n\nThe status quo choice mattered. The FY 2027 work program was already running a year behind its own schedule\, and the group spent the following month compressing the public review period to fit.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2530\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2199
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2530
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2198@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group took the FY 2026 second quarter unaudited financial update on March 18\, along with fourth-quarter amendments to the annual work program.\n\nThis is also the meeting where the group discussed shortening the public review period for the FY 2027 work program below the customary 30 days\, weighing two weeks against 21 days. It settled on 21 the following week.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2555\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2198
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2555
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-1992@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260320
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Mebane City Council
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners met jointly with Mebane's mayor and officials on March 19\, and the agenda ran in the order the questions actually depend on each other: first each government's comprehensive land use plan update\, then water and sewer capacity\, then proposed new schools in the Orange County part of Mebane.\n\nThe school question got the longest block\, 45 minutes\, covering candidate sites\, what recreation might go with them\, and how they could serve as emergency shelters.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2552\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/43?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1992
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2552
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2168@govwatch
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2197@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260328
SUMMARY:Orange County: SWG Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group released the draft FY 2027 annual work program for public comment on March 27 and adopted a revised development and approval schedule to go with it. The program directs the half-cent transit sales tax voters approved in 2011.\n\nThe schedule needed revising because the work program was originally meant to be adopted in May 2025. At its March 18 meeting the group had discussed cutting the customary 30-day public review to two weeks or 21 days\; it settled on 21\, running April 1 to April 21.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03272026-2562\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2197
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03272026-2562
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-2191@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260409
SUMMARY:Orange County: Intergovernmental Parks Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Intergovernmental Parks Work Group (IPWG)\n\nOrange County's intergovernmental parks work group met April 8 with three plans on the table\, all of them about connecting places rather than building in one. Chapel Hill staff presented on its parks and recreation comprehensive master plan and on the Everywhere to Everywhere plan\, and county staff on the feasibility of turning the J Branch rail corridor into a trail.\n\nThe group is where Mebane\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough and the county compare notes\, so the second half of the agenda was each department saying what is coming.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082026-2564\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2191
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082026-2564
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-2196@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260416
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County SWG
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group took fourth-quarter amendments to the FY 2026 annual work program on April 15\, with requests from Chapel Hill Transit\, GoTriangle\, Orange County and Triangle West. GoTriangle's request concerned Route 800\; Triangle West's was a staffing study.\n\nThe group also took project sponsor updates from each participating government and agency. Two public comment periods were running at the time: one on the FY 2027 work program\, from April 1 to April 21\, and one on these fourth-quarter amendments\, from March 27 to April 27\, both announced by news release.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2580\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2196
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2580
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2215@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260420
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260421
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's unified transportation board took three regional items on April 20: the Triangle West metropolitan planning organization's master transportation plan and air quality report\, the staff working group's draft FY 2027 annual work program for transit\, and the county's transportation priorities for the state's Spot 8.0 prioritization round.\n\nSpot 8.0 is how North Carolina ranks and funds transportation projects\, so what the county submits determines what the state pays for. Public comment at this board comes by email and is read aloud during the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-2584\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2215
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-2584
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2195@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260423
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group adopted the FY 2027 annual work program on April 22 and sent it to the county commissioners. The program directs the proceeds of the half-cent sales tax voters approved in 2011\, which can only fund projects both the commissioners and the GoTriangle board have approved.\n\nThe schedule was compressed. The work program was originally meant to be adopted a year earlier\, and the public review period was cut from 30 days to 21 to fit the consolidated timeline. The draft went out April 1 with a news release\, and comment closed April 21\, the day before this meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2587\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2195
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2587
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-2151@govwatch
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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
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UID:meeting-2214@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260519
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's unified transportation board spent 40 minutes on new business May 18\, and much of it was housekeeping: an attendance policy\, electing a chair and vice chair\, and conflict of interest statements. Two items had substance for riders\, an update on the fare free program and one on the county transit software system.\n\nStaff also reported on the annual work plan\, the county bicycle and pedestrian plan\, and the metropolitan and rural planning organizations and NCDOT.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2605\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2214
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2605
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2194@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group met May 20 to review the money. The tax district administrator gave a quarterly update covering how FY27 project agreements are grouped and an updated financial model\, and presented GoTriangle's annual financial report for FY25 along with Orange Transit's own FY25 results.\n\nThe group also took up the FY27 global capital and operating agreements GoTriangle proposes to keep consistent with FY26\, revised financial policies and procedures for the group itself\, and GoTriangle's fourth-quarter amendment requests. On consent it cancelled its June 17 meeting and updated the adoption schedule for the FY27 annual work program.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2609\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2194
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2609
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-1977@govwatch
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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-2237@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board recommended approval of a rezoning at 1651 Old Lystra Road\, a 15.5-acre parcel that sits inside Chapel Hill's transition area under the joint planning agreement between the county and the two towns.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2617\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2237
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2617
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
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
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UID:meeting-2166@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
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
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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:20260903T123530Z
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-2039@govwatch
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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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UID:meeting-2193@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260820
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group met August 19 with a striking amount of catching up to do: nine sets of minutes on the approval list\, running from October 31\, 2025 through May 20\, 2026. Fifteen minutes were allotted for all of them.\n\nThe substance was a quarterly financial report on Orange Transit and round-robin updates from the project sponsors\, which include Carrboro\, Chapel Hill\, Hillsborough\, Mebane\, Orange County\, GoTriangle and the Triangle West transportation planning organization. This group is staff rather than elected officials\, and it steers how the county's transit tax money gets spent.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2649\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2193
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2649
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-1972@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
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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UID:meeting-2495@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123530Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260903
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council meets Wednesday evening to hear what the FY 2026-27 budget and capital investment plan decisions mean for parks\, and to check on the countywide Trails Plan before it goes to the county commissioners for adoption. The trails plan lays out nine proposed trail connections with a priority ranking. This council gets a last look at it.\n\nThe county Human Relations Commission is also bringing a marker at Blackwood Farm Park to the council. The agenda does not say what the marker would commemorate. Shorter items round out the night: a disc golf status report\, an introduction of acting parks superintendent Sharon Kelly\, and approval of the June 3 meeting summary.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2662\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2495
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2662
CATEGORIES:Other
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