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UID:meeting-2173@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250723
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250724
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission tested a revised landmark evaluation form on the Morris Grove School\, a rare surviving early-1900s Black schoolhouse on Eubanks Road\, reviewed draft text for two America's 250th historical markers\, and heard updates on Hurricane Chantal damage to the Occaneechi Village and Faucett Mill and a planned marker honoring lynching victim Cyrus Guy.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2313\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2173
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2313
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2334@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2062@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250805
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250806
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections adopted its early voting schedule for the November 4\, 2025 municipal and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board elections\, setting five early voting sites with hours running from mid-October through the Saturday before the election. The board also heard that 296 voters' registrations have been repaired under a state program addressing missing ID numbers.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08052025-2325\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2062
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08052025-2325
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2014@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250905
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners held a public hearing on rezoning 110 acres at 4809 Friends School Road to let Carolina Friends School expand\, plus a hearing on $874\,702 in state and federal transit grant applications. The board also took up an 11-item consent agenda\, an annual Climate Action Plan report\, and continued deliberations on the schedule and budget for outside experts helping draft the county's Land Use Plan 2050. A broadband agreement amendment with Lumos was pulled from the agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09042025-2341\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/7?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2014
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09042025-2341
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2060@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nThe Orange County Board of Elections takes up a routine director's report on voter registration and the year-to-date budget\, then appoints early voting officials for the November 4\, 2025 municipal and Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board election.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2526\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2060
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2526
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2012@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
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-2172@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250925
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission reviewed four candidates for new historic landmark status\, including a Black-owned log house dating to around 1850 and a church-owned school and cemetery\, and got a look at plans to install solar panels on several county-owned historic buildings. The commission also discussed a proposed addition to the Board of Education Building\, planning for the nation's 250th anniversary\, and a marker for lynching victim Cyrus Guy.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2395\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2172
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2395
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2011@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
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:20260903T123621Z
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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UID:meeting-2050@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251115
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOE Meeting Canvass
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's board of elections certified the November 4 municipal and Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board election on November 14. Turnout was 15.25 percent: 11\,751 ballots cast out of 77\,070 registered voters eligible for that ballot.\n\nThe director reported that voter history and total ballots cast matched in every election day and administrative precinct.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2516\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2050
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2516
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2260@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
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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UID:meeting-2138@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
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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UID:meeting-2147@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
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-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
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-2049@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251203
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's board of elections adopted its early voting plan for the March 3 primary on December 2\, setting six sites and hours running February 12 through 28. It also heard\, after a closed session on personnel\, that the board chair is moving out of the county and resigning effective January 1.\n\nThe board acknowledged reports of safety concerns at the Drakeford Library\, one of the six early voting sites\, and the director said she would raise them with library leadership.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2515\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2049
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2515
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2259@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
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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UID:meeting-2245@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board ordinance review committee went through an omnibus package of development ordinance amendments on December 3 — error corrections\, changes required by new state law\, internal inconsistencies\, provisions for school needs\, and other revisions the planning director initiated.\n\nOn landscaping\, the committee questioned whether the county's current standards are doing what they were meant to do. Two members pressed the importance of preserving existing trees and planting new ones in county developments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2459\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2245
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2459
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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UID:meeting-2020@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
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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UID:meeting-2044@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's board of adjustment held an evidentiary hearing on December 10 on a major modification to the Emerson Waldorf School's special use permit\, updating the campus master plan approved in 2015.\n\nThe school\, a Pre-K through grade 12 private school on 54 acres at 6211 New Jericho Road\, wants a road map for buildings phased over ten years\, supporting growth from about 294 students and 48 staff to roughly 350 students and 55 staff by 2035. It would build less than it is already permitted to: total new square footage drops from 56\,562 to 37\,684\, with the 13\,942-square-foot gymnasium\, an eighth-grade classroom building and a shop addition all dropped. No new land is involved.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2470\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2044
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2470
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2170@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
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-2217@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251216
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nThe Orange Unified Transportation Board spent its December 15 meeting looking back at 2025 and setting priorities for 2026\, and moved its January meeting to Thursday the 15th so it could sit jointly with the parks and recreation council and consultants working on the bike and pedestrian plan and the trails plan.\n\nAsked which subjects had mattered most\, members named the ones tied to service on the ground: fare-free transit\, Mobility on Demand\, the Blue and Orange routes\, Highway 70 and multimodal assessments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12152025-2473\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2217
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12152025-2473
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2048@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's board of elections voted on January 13 to move the Efland precinct's election day polling place from the Efland Ruritan Club to the Efland-Cheeks Community Center\, about 1.8 miles away\, effective immediately. Voters will be told by a bright orange postcard and a newspaper notice.\n\nThe board also approved the slate of early voting officials for the March 3 primary and the Orange County Schools board of education election.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2514\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2048
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2514
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2000@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
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-2026@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's affordable housing advisory board spent its January 20 meeting\, rescheduled from the 13th\, working through its 2026 work plan. The 2025 annual report and the work plan had already gone to the county commissioners the week before\, with the presentation expected in the second week of February.\n\nThe commissioners had signalled they want to hear about gaps in affordable housing across the county. Board members said they would look at past analyses\, and noted that specialist consulting firms do this kind of gap study.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2490\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2026
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2490
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123621Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners awarded $267\,750 in Community Climate Action Grants on January 20\, splitting the money across seven of sixteen applications. Requests totalled $619\,095\, so more than half the applicants got nothing — including Habitat for Humanity's $150\,000 weatherization proposal\, which scored third.\n\nThe board also took a clean audit for the year ended June 30\, 2025 and approved a $15\,000 increase in the audit fee\, and signed off on the condominium agreement that puts the Drakeford Library Complex in shared ownership with Carrboro.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2492\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/37?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1999
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2492
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2137@govwatch
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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
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UID:meeting-1998@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners approved the school construction interlocal agreement on February 3\, the document that governs how the county and its two school systems build schools together. They also took an update on the interlocal agreements under which the county collects taxes for its towns.\n\nProclamations for Black History Month and Human Relations Month opened the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02032026-2507\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/38?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1998
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02032026-2507
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-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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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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UID:meeting-1989@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260408
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took the manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan on April 7\, held two public hearings\, and heard a school enrollment forecast. One hearing covered the draft HOME Investment Partnership annual action plan\; the other a county-initiated zoning amendment moving a watershed overlay boundary on a single 19.4-acre parcel in Bingham Township.\n\nThe board also discussed how the county communicates with residents and how its online content measures against the Americans with Disabilities Act.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/45?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1989
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1988@govwatch
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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-1987@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260417
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session - CIP
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took the county manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan on April 16\, working from summaries of the county\, proprietary and school capital programs alongside two presentations\, one on county and proprietary projects and one on school capital funding.\n\nThe plan came back through the budget process in May and June. The board accepted it on June 16 and set school capital funding at $112\,524\,049 for the year.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162026-2579\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/47?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1987
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162026-2579
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1985@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260501
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Joint Meeting with the School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent April 30 with the two school systems. Each brought its FY 2027 local budget request alongside performance and state accountability data and an update on career and technical education\, with 80 minutes set aside for both.\n\nThe last 45 minutes went to capital: the county manager's recommended capital investment plan and updates on projects already underway.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04302026-2591\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/50?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1985
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04302026-2591
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1984@govwatch
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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
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UID:meeting-1982@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260515
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent the evening of May 14 on the money that goes to other people's institutions. The first 45 minutes went to funding requests from outside agencies\, and the next hour and a half to Durham Technical Community College\, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools\, on both the operating and capital sides.\n\nWork sessions take no spoken public comment\; the second budget and capital plan public hearing was set for May 28.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2603\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/53?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1982
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2603
CATEGORIES:Work session
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260605
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners met on June 4 to make the decisions that fix the budget: which amendments to fund on the ten-year capital investment plan\, what to give the two school systems\, what the fee schedule looks like\, and where to set the tax rates. The work session was scheduled to run three hours and no public comment is taken at these.\n\nThe evening ends with a resolution of intent\, which commits the board to adopting the budget at its June 16 business meeting on the terms agreed that night.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042026-2621\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/59?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1976
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042026-2621
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1975@govwatch
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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-1973@govwatch
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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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UID:meeting-2153@govwatch
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260811
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260812
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review August 11\, 2026 meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review sat on August 11 to hear property tax appeals\, and the first question was whether one appellant had any right to bring them. The board also had two residential value appeals and three business late-listing penalties on its list.\n\nThe board runs during the revaluation appeal season and meets on consecutive days. This session ran two hours with three of its nine members present\, two being the quorum.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08112026-2653\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2064
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08112026-2653
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260827
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission took no votes on August 26 and spent the evening on staff presentations. The substantive one was Murphey School\, a county historic landmark\, where staff brought new renovation concepts ahead of an eventual certificate of appropriateness request. Staff also walked the commission through proposed federal changes to Section 106 review\, the rule that requires federal projects to account for their effect on historic properties.\n\nThe updates ran long and covered a lot of ground: the Montrose landmark process\, ground penetrating radar at the Poor House Cemetery\, a cemetery donation at Harvey's Chapel\, new hut designs at Occaneechi Village\, and complaints about the appearance of the historic courthouse. Commissioners also heard that a historic house at 752 Rex Drive in Hillsborough had been destroyed\, and discussed scheduling field trips to sites including the Hughes House in Cedar Grove\, the Old Eno Quaker Burying Ground and the Capt. John Pope Farm.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262026-2658\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2165
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262026-2658
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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