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UID:meeting-2016@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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-2133@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250715
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250716
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard 13 property tax assessment appeals\, including one request for a tax deferment program and one request for a tax exclusion\, alongside the usual valuation disputes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152025-2308\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2133
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152025-2308
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2129@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250731
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250801
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review hears fourteen property tax appeals\, in what its agenda marks as its last day accepting 2025 appeals\, and takes up a staff request for neighborhood-level value corrections.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07312025-2317\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2129
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07312025-2317
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2031@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250813
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board planned to review updates on the Long Time Homeowners Tax Assistance Program and the county's HOME-funded housing programs\, and to plan a community meeting in Chapel Hill on affordable housing and property tax concerns.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2328\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2031
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2328
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2128@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review reconvened to hear six more property tax assessment appeals\, continuing its work following the county's property revaluation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2331\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2128
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2331
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2126@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250820
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review decided ten property tax appeals from the 2025 revaluation\, with Chair Leon Meyers presiding alongside Regular Member Richal Vanhook and alternate Barbara Levine after Regular Member Saru Salvi's absence.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192025-2334\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2126
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192025-2334
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2125@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250820
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250821
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review decided 12 appeals from the 2025 revaluation: a religious property tax exemption request\, an elderly/disabled exclusion request\, and ten property value appeals. With Chair Leon Meyers and Regular Member Saru Salvi both absent\, alternates Barbara Levine and Tony Blake filled in alongside Regular Member Richal Vanhook.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2335\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2125
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2335
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2015@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250827
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Orange County Board of Commissioners takes up bridge funding for residents displaced by Tropical Storm Chantal after hearing extended public comment from displaced Camelot Village residents and tenant advocates\, adopts the Eno-Haw Regional Hazard Mitigation Plan\, and approves the charge and composition of a new Tax Assessment Work Group to review the county's 2025 property revaluation. The board also takes up short-term funding to keep a senior takeaway meal program running and a routine consent agenda covering vehicle purchases and a cloud migration contract.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2336\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/4?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2015
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2336
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2124@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250827
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review hears eleven property tax appeals\, including three requests to accept late Present Use Value applications for farmland and forestry\, and value disputes on eight residential parcels around the county.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2337\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2124
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262025-2337
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2122@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250903
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard nine 2025 revaluation appeals\, from a vacant tract on White Cross to homes on Faison Road\, Briarbridge Lane\, and Sibling Pine Drive. Each owner argued the county's assessed value was too high\; the board weighs evidence from both sides on each parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022025-2380\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2122
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022025-2380
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2014@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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-2120@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review hears four commercial property tax appeals: a Walmart-owned parcel on Hampton Pointe Boulevard and three Wendy's and L4 Carolina Properties parcels\, each seeking a reduction from the county's assessed value.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2382\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2120
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2382
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2012@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2118@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250917
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard eighteen individual appeals of 2025 property tax assessments\, mostly land and homes revalued earlier in the year. Owners argued for lower values based on condition\, comparable sales\, or site limitations like septic capacity\; county appraisers presented their own evidence and a recommended figure for each parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162025-2385\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2118
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09162025-2385
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2116@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250919
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard 13 property tax value appeals\, most disputing this year's countywide revaluation. Six owners won reductions\, ranging from a few thousand dollars to a $315\,000 cut on a Mint Springs Lane property\; five appeals ended with no change to the assessed value\; and one appeal was continued so an appraiser could gather more information.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09182025-2387\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2116
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09182025-2387
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2115@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250924
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review decided 12 property value appeals from the 2025 revaluation and separately approved 20 untimely applications for religious property tax exemptions filed by seven Chapel Hill and Hillsborough-area congregations\, including Jones Grove Missionary Baptist Church\, University United Methodist Church\, Ebenezer Baptist Church\, Hickory Grove Baptist Church\, and two Pentecostal Holiness churches.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09232025-2392\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2115
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09232025-2392
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2114@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250925
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review decided 13 property tax appeals from the county's 2025 revaluation\, all on written evidence since none of the appellants appeared in person. Four of the appeals came from the same owner\, covering a set of properties on Partridgeberry Road in Chapel Hill.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2393\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2114
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2393
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2113@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard thirteen 2025 revaluation appeals in a single afternoon session\, from vacant land on Willowbrook Road to homes on Bristol Drive\, Gwen Road\, and Crimson Court. Each owner argued the county's assessed value was too high\; the board weighs evidence from both sides on each parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2394\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2113
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2394
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2112@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250930
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251001
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard nine 2025 revaluation appeals\, ranging from a lakefront home on S. Lakeshore Drive to a 57.66-acre tract on Mt. Willing Road and a condo unit on West Franklin Street. Each owner argued the county's assessed value was too high\; the board weighs evidence from both sides on each parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09302025-2401\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2112
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09302025-2401
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2111@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251002
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review held individual value hearings on 17 scheduled matters: 12 residential and business property appeals plus four listing-penalty compromise requests from Weaver Street Market. James A. Phillips III alone brought three separate appeals on Borland Road and Ed Faucette Road parcels.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012025-2400\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2111
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012025-2400
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2108@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251009
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review was scheduled to hear seven 2025 revaluation appeals\, five of them from State Employees Credit Union over branch banks across the county\, plus a student housing complex on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and a home on West Queen Street. Each owner argued the county's assessed value was too high\; the board weighs evidence from the owner and county appraisal staff and either keeps or adjusts the figure.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082025-2404\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2108
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082025-2404
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2107@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251010
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review was scheduled to hear five property-value appeals from the 2025 countywide revaluation: a Walgreens-anchored store on US 70 East\, a parking lot on Mallette Street\, and three adjoining lots on New Hope Drive owned by the Saponaro family. Each owner argued the county's assessed value was too high\; the board weighs evidence from the owner and from county appraisal staff on each parcel and either keeps or adjusts the figure.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10092025-2452\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2107
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10092025-2452
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2106@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review holds ten property tax appeal hearings stemming from the county's 2025 revaluation. Five of the appeals involve Habitat for Humanity homes in the Waterstone Community\, where owners are seeking reductions tied to resale restrictions in their deeds\; the rest challenge assessed value based on comparable sales or the condition of the home.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2415\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2106
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2415
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2105@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251016
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard 14 individual property tax valuation appeals stemming from the 2025 revaluation\, several disputing values on rural or unclear-title parcels along Sesame Road.\n\nEach case gets its own evidentiary hearing before the board\, with the property owner and a county appraiser presenting evidence and the board voting on a final assessed value.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152025-2416\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2105
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152025-2416
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2104@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251016
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251017
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears twelve individual property value appeals from this year's revaluation\, scheduled across a morning and afternoon session.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10162025-2417\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2104
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10162025-2417
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2008@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2103@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251022
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard 14 individual property tax valuation appeals stemming from the 2025 revaluation\, most disputing assessed value based on comparable sales\, condition\, or appraisal reports.\n\nEach case gets its own evidentiary hearing before the board\, with the property owner and a county appraiser presenting evidence and the board voting on a final assessed value.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2430\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2103
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2430
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2102@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251023
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard 17 property tax valuation appeals on October 22\, 2025\, each tied to a specific parcel. Owners challenged the county's assessed value citing property condition\, comparable sales\, independent appraisals\, flooding\, or a lack of water and sewer access.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222025-2431\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2102
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222025-2431
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2101@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251024
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard 23 property tax valuation appeals on October 23\, 2025\, split between a morning and afternoon session. Owners challenged the county's assessed value using comparable sales\, appraisals\, insurance estimates\, or zoning arguments\, and a county appraiser presented a recommended value for each parcel.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10232025-2432\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2101
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10232025-2432
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2100@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251029
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard 13 property tax valuation appeals on October 28\, 2025\, each tied to a specific parcel. Owners challenged the county's assessed value using comparable sales\, independent appraisals\, or documented property conditions\, and a county appraiser presented a recommended value for each.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10282025-2433\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2100
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10282025-2433
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2099@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251030
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears ten individual property value appeals from this year's revaluation\, plus a seven-property consent list of value adjustments already negotiated between owners and staff.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292025-2434\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2099
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292025-2434
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2098@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251030
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251031
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears 25 individual property value appeals from this year's revaluation\, scheduled across a morning and afternoon session. Appellants challenge the county's assessed values on grounds ranging from construction quality and property condition to comparable sales.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10302025-2435\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2098
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10302025-2435
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2261@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251101
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's newly formed Tax Assessment Work Group holds its first meeting: introductions\, a review of ground rules\, and a staff presentation on the countywide property revaluation and appeals process. The group has no votes or formal actions on this agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10312025-2465\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2261
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10312025-2465
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2097@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251105
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review heard three appeals on November 4 and split them. Two adjoining lots on West Lakeview Drive were both assessed at $150\,000 and both appealed at $100\,000\; the board cut one to $120\,000 and left the other where it was.\n\nA third parcel\, unimproved and 0.17 acres\, carries an assessed value of $100 and was left unchanged.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11042025-2436\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2097
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11042025-2436
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2096@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251106
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review cut the assessment on a 230-unit apartment complex at 605 Jones Ferry Road by $439\,950 on November 5\, to $26\,849\,950. The owner had asked for $26\,410\,000.\n\nThe county's commercial appraisal consultant had argued against any cut\, saying the existing $118\,652 a unit sits below what recent apartment sales\, the income approach and past sales of apartment complexes in Chapel Hill and Carrboro indicate.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2437\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2096
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2437
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2007@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251107
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners released $54\,000 from the Social Justice Reserve on November 6 to buy food\, after the federal shutdown cut SNAP benefits in half. About 4\,700 county households — 8\,700 people — received SNAP in September\, and all of them faced a 50 percent reduction until the programme was fully funded again.\n\nThe money went out in four parts: $15\,000 each to the Interfaith Council in Chapel Hill and Orange Congregations in Mission in Hillsborough to stock their pantries\, and $12\,000 each to Porch Chapel Hill and Porch Hillsborough for special food distributions held two days later\, on November 8. To remove a barrier\, Orange Congregations in Mission agreed to waive its referral requirement for new clients until benefits were restored in full.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062025-2427\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/29?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2007
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062025-2427
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2095@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251106
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251107
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review dismissed the single appeal on its November 6 docket because nobody appeared to present it.\n\nThe property is a 41\,341-square-foot building at 110 Rebecca Drive holding a grocery store and an attached retail store\, built in 1983. The owner had asked for a reduction\; the county's commercial appraisal consultant supported the existing value.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062025-2442\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2095
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11062025-2442
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2028@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's affordable housing advisory board learned on November 11 that 949 people applied to the county's property tax relief programme\, a jump staff attributed to the 2025 revaluation. Cold weather night shelters had opened\, with one night used so far\, and new repair and rehabilitation funds are available for older residents.\n\nThe board spent most of the meeting planning 2026\, and the plan is largely about getting other county departments in the room. Members drafted questions for planning staff — how the land use plan addresses affordable housing needs\, what makes affordable housing hard to build\, what is happening with the rural buffer — and for economic development\, where they noted flatly that there is currently no collaboration between economic development and housing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2444\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2028
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2444
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2094@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 16 property-tax appeals of 2026 revaluation values on November 11\, running from 1:00 p.m. to 5:23 p.m. with a short recess. The board repeatedly went beyond the county's own recommendations in appellants' favor\, cutting a Basnight Lane home to $429\,000 against a staff figure of $448\,600\, a Starfield Circle home to $780\,200 despite staff recommending no reduction at all\, a Cates Farm Road home to $855\,300 against a staff figure of $927\,700\, and a Brookside Drive home to $780\,600 against a staff figure of $830\,600. Its only divided vote sustained a vacant Forest Creek Drive lot's $350\,000 value 2-1\, with Saru Salvi dissenting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2450\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2094
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2450
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2204@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district cut its FY27 revenue projection from $13.3 million to $11.845 million at the staff working group's November 12 meeting\, after an unexpected drop in FY25 sales tax. FY24 had finished above $11.5 million\, which makes the decline unusual and rules out the earlier $12.2 million estimate.\n\nGiven layoffs\, slowed growth and mixed indicators\, the tax district also recommended holding FY27 revenue flat rather than applying the 3 percent growth assumption it had been using\, with a 2 percent pessimistic increase for FY28 and the old baseline for later years. It will revisit the figure in January or February once several months of Article 43 sales tax data are in.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122025-2438\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2204
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122025-2438
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2093@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 17 property-tax appeals of 2026 revaluation values on November 13\, split between a morning session (9:00 a.m. to 11:13 a.m.) and an afternoon session (1:08 p.m. to 4:18 p.m.). Most appeals ended in a reduction after county appraisers found deferred maintenance\, land-adjustment corrections or measurement errors\; two land-value appeals from Land Marks LLC entities in the Franklin-Rosemary Historic District were sustained with no change\, as were several homes the county's own sales analysis found already in line with the market. Chair Leon Meyers recused himself from two adjoining Carriage Trail appeals because the appellant was his neighbor\, with Richal Vanhook chairing in his place.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2451\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2093
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2451
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2260@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2092@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251119
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 13 property-tax appeals of 2026 revaluation values on November 18\, running from 1:02 p.m. to 4:11 p.m. with a recess from 3:12 to 3:20 p.m. It went beyond the county's own recommendation on several appeals\, most notably cutting a lakefront Lake Hogan Farms-area home on North Lakeshore Drive from $2\,263\,100 to $1\,313\,100 with a 50% floodplain land adjustment\, and reducing a farmstead on Marions Ford Road further than county staff had proposed. The board's only divided vote came on its final appeal\, when it reduced a 1962 house on Markham Drive to $740\,300 over Chair Leon Meyers's dissent.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2456\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2092
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2456
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2091@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 17 property-tax appeals of 2026 revaluation values on November 19\, running from 1:00 p.m. to 3:41 p.m.\, plus one business-personal-property penalty request\, a correction to an earlier consent-agenda vote\, and an eight-parcel consent agenda. Most valuation appeals ended in a reduction after the county's own site reviews and sales analyses found adjustments to grade\, condition or land factors\, including cutting a Mafolie Court parcel from $434\,900 to $341\,700 for a power-line easement and road noise\, and a Todd Edwards Trustee property on the consent agenda from $4\,065\,800 to $3\,123\,700 for a land and grade equity correction\; a handful\, including a Macrae Court home and a Dove Street property near a flood plain\, were sustained at the county's value with no change.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2457\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2091
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2457
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2147@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2090@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 29 property-tax appeals of 2026 revaluation values on November 20\, split between a morning session (9:03 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.) and an afternoon session (1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.). It reduced the assessment in most cases\, including four Northside Chapel Hill rental properties owned by the James W. C. Pendergraft Trust and four more owned by Mastin Holdings LLC and CHNS LLC\, both disputing their Designed Rental Single Family Residence classification. On one appeal\, Russell C. Briggs's Brookhollow Road property\, the board's own review found a misclassified garage and raised the value from $223\,100 to $225\,800 despite the appellant's request for a reduction.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2458\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2090
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2458
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251202
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners were told on December 1 that federal rules could cut deeply into the money that houses homeless residents here. The new HUD Continuum of Care funding notice mandates a 70 percent cut to permanent housing and guarantees only 30 percent of annual renewal funding. Those grants pay for 79 percent of the Interfaith Council's permanent supportive housing programme\, 64 percent of the county partnership's rapid rehousing programme and 80 percent of the coordinated entry housing helpline.\n\nThe board also elected a new chair and vice-chair\, both unanimously\, and worked through which outside boards still need a commissioner on them.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12012025-2461\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/35?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2002
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12012025-2461
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2089@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251203
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review took a day of large commercial appeals on December 2 — apartment complexes\, office buildings and hotels along the NC 54 bypass\, Estes Drive and East Franklin Street. It reduced fourteen assessments and held nine\, with one nominal increase of $10\,000.\n\nThe deepest cuts were on multifamily and office property. 100 Pinegate Circle came down from $41\,298\,300 to $35\,800\,000\, further than the county had recommended. 306 Estes Drive fell $4\,707\,800\, 501 NC 54 Bypass $4\,805\,900\, and 200 Barnes Street $4\,190\,700.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2475\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2089
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2475
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2259@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2088@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard six adjoining appeals from Jeff Erick Essen on vacant\, non-perking lots off Shadylawn Road Extension\, all contesting 2026 revaluation values on the grounds that the land is unbuildable and lacks sewer access. The board left two lots unchanged\, at $31\,800 and $39\,800\, but cut the other four\, originally valued at $66\,300 and three at $53\,000\, down to $39\,800 apiece\, applying the county's own long-standing -75% non-perking adjustment rather than the steeper -80% and -85% adjustments the county had used on those parcels. It also approved fifteen further parcels by consent\, including six owned by Andrew Ben Lloyd\, Jr. cut for floodplain\, topography and watershed restrictions.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2476\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2088
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2476
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2258@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251206
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County has not studied whether its property assessments are regressive — whether cheaper houses are over-appraised relative to expensive ones\, as national research on assessments suggests. The tax administrator said so plainly to the county's tax assessment work group on December 5\, and said the county is addressing it instead through partnerships and outreach that help lower-income owners use the free appeal process.\n\nMost of the meeting went to the draft request for proposals for a consultant to review the 2025 reappraisal. Community members on the work group pushed for it to go further than the county had drafted.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12052025-2466\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2258
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12052025-2466
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2001@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's 2025 property revaluation has cost the county $232\,489\,448 in assessed value through appeals\, with a median cut of $38\,000 on residential property and $66\,400 on non-residential. The commissioners were given those figures on December 9\, along with a separate $60\,972\,300 in reductions from neighbourhood-level reviews covering 1\,460 properties.\n\nThe scale of the appeals is what stands out. The tax office received 3\,346 informal appeals in the window that ran March 21 to April 30\, then another 1\,109 formal appeals — 4\,455 in all across 3\,966 unique properties. All the informal appeals had been decided\; the board of equalization and review had finished 655 formal appeals\, 64 percent\, with 367 more in progress and the rest due by January 22.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2471\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/36?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2001
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2471
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2087@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 16 tax appeals of 2025 revaluation values on December 9\, 2025\, plus a correction to a prior meeting's consent agenda decision. The board reduced fourteen properties\, sustained one\, and raised one after the county found undocumented improvements.\n\nThat outlier was Justin Chandler's 80-acre NC 57 property: he appealed for a reduction because some structures had been removed\, but a site visit found new outbuildings\, a home addition and an updated grade the county had not previously recorded\, and the board raised the value from $722\,874 to $817\,874. Two large land reductions stood out on the other side: Evans Estates REI LLC's 11.9-acre Farm Lane tract was cut from $471\,900 to $294\,900 for combined creek\, powerline and topography constraints\, and John Billing's second appeal\, a 32.1-acre parcel near Honeypot Lane that cannot pass a soil perc test and is landlocked\, was cut from $483\,900 to $215\,100.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2477\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2087
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2477
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2086@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nEvery one of the thirty-five property appeals Orange County's board of equalization and review heard on December 10 was granted. The assessments came down from $11\,872\,965 to $9\,201\,065 in total\, a cut of $2\,671\,900 or 22.5 percent\, with individual reductions running from 2.2 percent to 62.8 percent and a median of about 21.\n\nThe properties were not scattered. They sit in Chapel Hill's Northside district and the Lloyd/Broad district of Carrboro\, on Merritt Mill Road\, Graham Street\, Sykes Street\, McDade Street\, Lindsay Street\, Eugene Street\, Alabama Avenue\, Guthrie Avenue and Glosson Circle — historically Black neighbourhoods where longtime homeowners have faced rising assessments. One attorney represented twenty-eight of the thirty-five owners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2478\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2086
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2478
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2085@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 20 residential tax appeals of 2025 revaluation values on December 11\, 2025\, in a morning session of ten appeals and an afternoon session of ten more. The board reduced eleven properties and sustained nine.\n\nSeveral reductions went beyond what county staff themselves had proposed. Sam Barbee's vacant Nunn Street lot dropped from $165\,000 to $55\,000\, half of the county's own $110\,000 recommendation\, after the appellant argued the triangular parcel's small size limits its development potential. Carolyn Hickman Vaughan's Occoneechee Street home was cut to $667\,800 even though the county had found additional finished square footage supporting a higher $821\,200 value. The board also reduced a vacant Shadylawn Road lot to $39\,800 after hearing testimony from a witness about the county's denial of a building permit\, despite the county recommending no change.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112025-2479\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2085
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12112025-2479
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2084@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251217
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review reduced sixteen of twenty-five assessments on December 16 and held nine\, none increased. It was a largely residential docket.\n\nThe largest cut in dollars was on 201 South Cameron Street in Hillsborough\, down from $4\,333\,000 to $2\,922\,700 — $277\,300 below what the owner had asked for.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12162025-2482\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2084
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12162025-2482
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2083@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251218
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review reduced twenty of the twenty-seven assessments it heard on December 17 and held seven\, with none increased.\n\nThe docket mixed large Chapel Hill commercial property with small residential parcels. The three Market Street units in Southern Village came down together\, and 1129 Weaver Dairy Road fell $1\,860\,700 to $15\,053\,600.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12172025-2483\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2083
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12172025-2483
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2082@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251219
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review cut seventeen of the twenty-three assessments it decided on December 18\, held five and raised one. It also compromised listing penalties on three business personal property accounts\, which had been assessed for late or missing listings rather than appealed on value.\n\nThe largest reduction was $6\,809\,600\, on the industrial property at 6801 Industrial Drive\, which came down to $35\,935\,300 — below the $38\,800\,000 the owner had asked for.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12182025-2484\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2082
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12182025-2484
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2257@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group took a legal briefing on January 12 on how the board of equalization and review is supposed to operate\, and learned that four vendors turned up to the pre-submittal conference for the county's reappraisal request for proposals. Proposals were due January 23.\n\nThe group was set up after complaints about how property is assessed in the county\, and it includes county commissioners\, staff\, community representatives from several districts\, and representatives from the NC Housing Coalition and Property Tax Justice.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01122026-2489\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2257
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01122026-2489
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2019@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's advisory board on aging heard on January 13 that the state area agency on aging arrives February 3 and 4 for its annual monitoring visit\, covering health promotion programmes\, senior center operations\, information and assistance\, options counselling\, and two grants.\n\nThe board also worked on the FY 2026-27 budget\, which kicked off January 8\, and its annual report to the county commissioners\, due to be filed by January 16 and presented in February or March.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2544\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2019
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2544
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2081@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review cut the assessment on 6.6 acres at 403 Jones Ferry Road in Carrboro from $3\,955\,700 to $1\,150\,000 on January 13\, taking the owner's appraisal in full and rejecting the county's own recommendation of $3\,649\,400. It is the largest proportional reduction on any docket in the winter appeal season — 71 percent.\n\nThe county had argued that Carrboro's 2022 comprehensive plan designates the site for mixed-use development including affordable housing or a recreation center\, with the current industrial use pushed further from the town centre\, and that the owner's appraisal never accounted for what that means for highest and best use.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2496\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2081
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2496
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2080@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260115
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThree property owners who asked Orange County's board of equalization and review to cut their assessments on January 14 left with higher ones. In each case the county came back recommending a value above the one on the books\, and the board adopted it.\n\nCarraway Village Luxury Apartments went from $80\,142\,700 to $84\,004\,700 against an appeal for $71\,088\,800. Thermo Fisher Scientific's plant at 6086 West Ten Road went from $36\,100\,500 to $39\,670\,900. Shadowood Apartments at 101 Shadowood Drive went from $40\,759\,500 to $42\,196\,200.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142026-2497\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2080
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01142026-2497
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2079@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260116
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 18 residential tax appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 15\, 2026\, in a morning session of 11 appeals and an afternoon session of seven more. The board reduced twelve properties and sustained six.\n\nThe largest cut went to Abriata Group LLC's two 1938 and 1939 homes on McCauley Street in Chapel Hill\, reduced from $894\,600 to $501\,900 after inspectors found both structures needed significant repairs\, well below even the county's own $786\,700 recommendation. A companion appeal by the same owner's neighbor\, Adrian Halpern\, was reduced after the county reclassified his building from a multifamily apartment to a two-to-four-family residence. The board also fully accepted Matthew McClory's own requested value for his Bennington Drive home\, $405\,000\, rather than the county's smaller proposed reduction. One appeal\, Thomas Merritt's Church Street home\, was sustained here but later reopened: the appellant's representative asked to move it to the board's January 21 session\, and it was ultimately reduced there.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152026-2498\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2079
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01152026-2498
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2000@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260117
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners were told at their January 16 retreat that the county faces a $21.5 million gap to close in the FY 2026-27 budget\, and that the same model puts the gap at $37.6 million the following year and $53.6 million the year after that. Closing this year's would take about seven cents on the property tax rate\; one penny raises roughly $3.37 million on a $33.9 billion tax base.\n\nThe drivers are debt service\, the phase-in of school capital pay-as-you-go\, non-discretionary personnel costs like health insurance and retirement\, and the county's practice of never cutting education funding. Commissioner McKee said across-the-board reductions may be needed and asked staff to look at how the county balanced its FY 2010-11 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2000
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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-2078@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 17 residential tax appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 20\, 2026\, in a morning session of 11 appeals and an afternoon session of six more. The board reduced sixteen properties and sustained one.\n\nThree appeals from related Chapel Hill rental entities\, 304 Caldwell LLC\, 300 Caldwell LLC and 215 Broad LLC\, stood out: the county recommended raising two of the Caldwell properties' values after finding they were misclassified as duplexes rather than single-family rentals\, but the board cut all three below both the current and the county's proposed figures. In the afternoon\, the board applied a -75% flood adjustment to a vacant Lannie Drive parcel prone to flooding\, cutting its value from $60\,600 to $15\,600\, and reduced a comparably steep\, stream-crossed lot on Carl Drive after the owner said unsolicited purchase offers had run as low as $10\,000.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2499\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2078
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2499
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2035@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board signed off on the final draft of its Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan on January 21\, ready to go to the county commissioners after a subcommittee revised and vetted it. The commissioners accepted it on June 2\, replacing a document from 2009.\n\nThe board also heard a progress report on the present-use value audit from the county's compliance review appraiser.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2495\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2035
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2495
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2077@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 29 appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 21\, 2026\, in a morning session of 17 industrial and commercial hearings plus a four-item consent agenda\, and an afternoon session of eight residential appeals in Chapel Hill and Hillsborough. The board sustained the county's original assessment on eleven commercial properties\, reduced values in fourteen cases\, denied one appeal as untimely\, and in one unusual case raised a property's value above what the county itself had originally assessed.\n\nThat outlier was Ralcar Corp's 7411 Rex Road warehouse\, where the county's own analysis found the building undervalued and the board agreed to raise it from $1\,967\,400 to $2\,399\,300. On the residential side\, most reductions followed the same pattern: appraisers found homes' effective ages\, conditions or square footage overstated\, and the board corrected them\, including Grace Beeler's fire- and rot-damaged Eno Street home\, cut from $304\,200 to $208\,900 to match an independent appraisal.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2500\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2077
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2500
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2146@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
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 January 21 that occupancy tax revenue is projected to come in flat\, blamed on federal travel cuts and the closure of the Siena Hotel. The bureau was 69 percent through its budget at the end of December and had drawn $30\,000 from fund balance\, which stands at 8 percent.\n\nThe executive director gave a grounding presentation on what the bureau is and how it compares with its neighbours. It was created in 1992 on Orange County's occupancy tax\, runs a $2.5 million budget with six staff\, and counts roughly $300 million a year in tourism spending in the county.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2494\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2146
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2494
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2076@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260123
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard 16 appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 22\, 2026: a morning session of 13 commercial and apartment appeals in downtown Chapel Hill\, followed by an afternoon session on three modest homes on Rogers Road. The board sustained the county's assessment on twelve properties and reduced four.\n\nMost of the morning's appeals\, brought by the same ownership group (Morgan Fowler / Ryan LLC) across a downtown "Life Science Center Redevelopment" assemblage and the Chapel Ridge student housing complex\, argued for reductions based on collective income and market proformas\; the board granted only one\, cutting 214 West Franklin Street from $1\,713\,400 to $1\,199\,900. In the afternoon\, the board went beyond even the county's own recommendations to further reduce two of three Rogers Road homes owned by the Allen family.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222026-2501\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2076
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222026-2501
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2075@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260129
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nThe Orange County Board of Equalization and Review heard seven residential tax appeals of 2026 revaluation values on January 28\, 2026\, plus one more decided on the consent agenda. The board reduced four properties\, sustained the county's original assessment on three\, and reduced an eighth on the consent agenda.\n\nThe largest change went to Sandra Theard's family home at 8500 Union Grove Church Road\, cut from $514\,400 to $429\,200 after the board downgraded the main house's construction grade and wrote off two dilapidated outbuildings on her land to $300 each. In a separate case\, Doris Wilson missed her scheduled hearing\; the board later agreed to reopen her appeal for new evidence\, with a rehearing set for February 4\, 2026.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2505\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2075
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2505
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2074@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260130
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review heard eighteen property value appeals on January 29\, one of its longest sittings of the season. The assessments ranged from $173\,100 to $103.3 million\, so a single docket covered both a modest house and a major commercial holding.\n\nThis was among the board's first meetings of the 2026 appeal year\, which it had formally opened the previous spring.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01292026-2506\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2074
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01292026-2506
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1998@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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-2073@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review heard eleven property value appeals on February 4\, a residential docket rather than the commercial one it took a week later. Most of the values in front of it were modest\, from $68\,000 up to $2.16 million.\n\nThe board runs through the appeal season on consecutive weeks\, and this was among the first sittings of 2026.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2510\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2073
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2510
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2256@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group heard two things on February 9: research findings gathered from the community\, presented by the group's representative from the NC Housing Coalition\, and a report from the chair of the board of equalization and review.\n\nPutting those two next to each other is the point of this group. One side is what residents say about how assessment feels\; the other is what the appeals board actually decides.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02092026-2547\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2256
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02092026-2547
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2072@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review sat from 1 p.m. to 4:28 p.m. on February 11 and heard fifteen property value appeals\, nearly all of them commercial and every appellant present. The names on the docket are institutional: retail property companies\, student housing partnerships\, a university real estate holding company\, and a warehouse owner.\n\nTax leadership also gave the board an overview of the neighborhood review project the board itself had ordered at an earlier meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2532\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2072
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2532
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1996@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260217
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260218
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOWASA came before Orange County's commissioners on February 17 with its annual update\, and the numbers were the substance. The utility's five-year capital programme needs $250 million\, nearly $200 million of it for two projects\, against gross revenue of about $55 million a year and net revenue of about $10 million.\n\nThe board also took a report on the Longtime Homeowner Assistance programme's 2025 results\, a history of animal services and its new community clinic\, and second-quarter amendments to the transit work programme.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172026-2531\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/40?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1996
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02172026-2531
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2255@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260303
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group heard two appraisers on March 2\, one making the case that the county's 2025 commercial revaluation was aggressive but correct\, and one from Stanly County explaining why his county brought all its revaluation work in house twenty years ago.\n\nThe group is unusually broad for a technical committee. Alongside three county commissioners and county staff it seats community representatives from two districts\, a representative of the NC Housing Coalition\, one from Property Tax Justice\, and a non-profit housing provider.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03022026-2548\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2255
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03022026-2548
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1995@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260305
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260306
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners received the final report on neighborhood reviews and revaluation appeals on March 5\, closing out the assessment cycle that had occupied the board of equalization and review and a separate work group for months. They also renewed employee health and dental insurance and continued the county's participation in the state health insurance pool.\n\nThe board took up its proposed 2026 priority legislative issues\, which it adopted later in March\, and adopted a Women's History Month proclamation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052026-2537\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/41?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1995
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03052026-2537
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1993@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took the step on March 17 that led to the county's data center moratorium: after a staff presentation on what large-scale data centers would mean here\, they voted to advertise a public hearing on a one-year moratorium and directed staff to draft ordinance amendments regulating the use. The hearing was held April 21 and the moratorium adopted unanimously.\n\nThe board also appointed the tax administrator to serve as acting tax collector and acting tax assessor\, and solicited offers on county-owned land at 6823 Millhouse Road.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2553\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/44?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1993
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2553
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2254@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260320
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group reached the decision point on March 19: which vendor to recommend to the county commissioners to evaluate the county's reappraisal and assessment process. Members went round the table on the strengths and weaknesses of each proposal before settling on a recommendation.\n\nThe group also reread the charge the commissioners gave it in September 2025 and its own ground rules\, and set out what came next: contract negotiations\, then commissioner approval on April 7 or April 21.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2554\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2254
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2554
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1990@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1989@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2253@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260414
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group met virtually on April 13 to review the Tanner valuation report\, take a status report on contract negotiations\, and look at property tax reform recommendations coming out of the General Assembly.\n\nThe state work matters directly to the county. A House select committee on property taxes was proposing a constitutional amendment\, which commissioners cited weeks later as a reason to make sure this year's budget genuinely met the county's needs\, since future flexibility would be narrower.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04132026-2581\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2253
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04132026-2581
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1988@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1986@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260421
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260422
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County adopted a one-year moratorium on large-scale data centers on April 21\, unanimously and after a public hearing at which everyone who spoke was in favor. The ordinance covers artificial intelligence data centers\, cryptocurrency mining facilities\, data centers\, data processing facilities and similar uses.\n\nThe board also approved a loan to the Orange Grove Fire District for fire station improvements\, and returned to a discussion of the county's strategic communications approach.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/49?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1986
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04212026-2586
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2071@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260501
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board Of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review opened for the 2026 appeal year on April 30. Members took the oath of office\, the board formally declared itself open to hear appeals\, and it set its hearing calendar for the year.\n\nThe rest of the session was about how it will run those hearings: what counts as good cause for accepting a late appeal\, how to schedule appointments\, and whether appellants should see the county's evidence before they walk in.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04302026-2611\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2071
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04302026-2611
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1984@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260506
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners hired an outside firm on May 5 to look at how the county does reappraisal and tax assessment. The contract with GAR Associates comes while the tax office is running under an interim administrator and a work group has been meeting on assessment improvements.\n\nThe board also held the public hearing required before borrowing for capital projects\, took a substantial amendment to the HOME-ARP allocation plan\, and received the manager's recommended FY 2026-27 operating budget. Two proclamations opened the meeting\, one honoring a local principal named the national high school principal of the year and one for Mental Health Awareness Month.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052026-2597\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/51?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1984
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052026-2597
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1983@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260513
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Public Hearing and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's county manager presented the recommended FY 2026-27 budget and the FY 2026-36 capital investment plan to the commissioners on May 12. The operating budget document runs past 300 pages.\n\nThis was the opening of the county's budget season. Work sessions took the departments one group at a time on May 14\, 19\, 21 and 26\, public hearings followed on May 28\, the board settled its amendments on June 4\, and it adopted the budget on June 16 at a rate of 68.05 cents.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122026-2602\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/52?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1983
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122026-2602
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2252@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260519
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group met virtually on May 18 with two outside firms on the agenda: GAR Associates\, and Developmental Associates\, the recruiter hired to find a tax administrator. The county has been running its tax office under an interim administrator.\n\nThe group then discussed next steps. The agenda lists nothing else beyond roll call.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2606\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2252
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2606
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1980@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260522
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners set aside 45 minutes on May 21 for the FY 2026-27 fire district tax rates\, then more than two hours for the public safety and human services departments in the recommended budget. Work sessions take no spoken public comment\; written comments go to the board by email.\n\nThe department list covered the courts\, criminal justice resources\, emergency services and the sheriff on the public safety side\, and aging\, Alliance Health\, child support services\, civil rights and civic life\, the health department\, housing\, library services\, social services and the opioid settlement fund on the human services side.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212026-2608\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/55?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1980
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212026-2608
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2070@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review Appeals Hearing
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review worked through thirteen property tax matters on May 26\, most of them residential value appeals argued on condition and maintenance or incorrect data. Hearings were scheduled in fifteen-minute slots through the afternoon\, and several appellants had not confirmed whether they would attend.\n\nThe board also took a consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2624\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2070
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2624
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1978@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260529
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Public Hearing and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners held the public hearing on the FY 2026-27 budget and the capital investment plan on May 28\, then went straight into a work session. Residents could sign up to speak at the hearing or send written comments\; the work session takes no comment.\n\nThe county manager presented the recommended budget\, built on five stated priorities: minimize the tax rate increase\, prioritize public safety and social safety net direct services\, maximize efficiencies and cost recovery while preserving core services\, and modestly invest in employee compensation.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282026-2614\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/60?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1978
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282026-2614
CATEGORIES:Public hearing
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1977@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260603
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took up the opioid advisory committee's recommendations for settlement money on June 2 and directed staff to bring a final spending resolution back on June 16. They also accepted an updated Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan\, replacing a document from 2009\, and heard where the interlocal tax collection agreement with the towns stands.\n\nTwo proclamations opened the meeting\, one for Juneteenth Freedom Day and one recognizing June as Pride Month.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/58?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1977
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1976@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2069@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260609
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260610
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review heard twelve residential property value appeals on June 9\, nearly all of them arguing from comparable sales\, property condition\, or both. It also took a consent agenda and worked on its own procedural rules.\n\nThe session ran until 3:48 p.m.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06092026-2635\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2069
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06092026-2635
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners adopted the FY 2026-27 budget on June 16\, setting the property tax rate at 68.05 cents per $100 of assessed value\, a 4.22-cent increase. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district tax was set at 14.79 cents\, which puts the combined rate for Chapel Hill residents at 82.84 cents. Twelve fire district rates were set alongside them\, and county employees got a 2 percent raise with the living wage recognized at $20.02 an hour.\n\nThe same night the board approved a guaranteed maximum price of $22\,906\,906 from Gilbane to build the crisis diversion facility\, accepted the ten-year capital investment plan\, and amended its broadband contract with Lumos to reach 105 more unserved households.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/62?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1975
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2251@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260622
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260623
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nOrange County's tax assessment work group met virtually for ninety minutes on June 22 to hear what the tax office has actually changed so far. The tax administrator and deputy assessor presented on the assessment improvement measures put in place to date\, and the group then discussed what to do next.\n\nThe agenda lists nothing else beyond roll call and minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06222026-2627\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2251
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06222026-2627
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2068@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260625
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review worked through eight property value appeals on June 24\, plus a consent agenda and three neighborhood valuation reviews. It also approved its own draft procedural rules for the county commissioners to consider.\n\nThe grounds ran the usual range: incorrect data\, condition and maintenance\, comparable sales\, recent purchases and third-party appraisals.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2636\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2068
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2636
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2067@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260701
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review June 30th\, 2026 Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review heard eight property value appeals on June 30 and then spent the rest of the session on how the county values things at all. Staff brought two neighborhood reviews\, a methodology for valuing purpose-built single-family rental properties\, and a legal question about whether someone can appeal a property they do not own.\n\nThe board also set its August hearing calendar and pulled four self-storage appeals off the consent agenda.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06302026-2648\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2067
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06302026-2648
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1974@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260710
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners met for the first business meeting after Commissioner Jamezetta Bedford's death\, with her seat held vacant on the dais. They adopted the $27 million financing for the Crisis Diversion Center\, widened the tax relief program for longtime homeowners\, and settled a year-old argument about who supervises the tax administrator.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092026-2641\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/63?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1974
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092026-2641
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2066@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260805
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260806
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review heard residential property tax appeals on August 5\, four of them with the owner present. The grounds ranged from a disputed parcel area to a recent purchase price\, comparable sales\, a flood zone\, and a lot hemmed in by a railroad and town-owned land.\n\nThe board also had a consent agenda of appeals it could decide without a hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08052026-2651\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2066
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08052026-2651
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2065@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260807
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's board of equalization and review spent August 6 on commercial appeals\, and every appellant sent a representative rather than appearing. On the list were 58 rental townhomes in Chapel Hill held by a single owner\, a student housing property on Martin Luther King Jr. Drive\, and four self-storage parcels off Ashley Wade Lane and Booth Road.\n\nThe board sat for 49 minutes. It also received a staff analysis of how the county values purpose-built single-family rental properties.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062026-2652\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2065
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062026-2652
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2064@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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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UID:meeting-1972@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
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-2327@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123718Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260902
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe one public hearing is the consequential item. A county-initiated text amendment would take by-right subdivisions of fewer than 21 lots out of Planning Board and commissioner review entirely and hand them to staff\, on the reasoning that state law requires the county to approve plats meeting its own criteria anyway. It also drops the separate concept plan application\, widens the expedited track to parcels between two and five acres\, and deletes three subdivision categories that have never been used. The Planning Board recommended approval unanimously with one change: doubling the mailing notice before a neighborhood meeting from 14 days to 30.\n\nThe board also fills the Register of Deeds vacancy left by a resignation in mid-August\, and honors Commissioner Jamezetta Bedford\, who died in June\, by naming the crisis diversion facility now under construction after her. Consent carries $350\,000 in tourism marketing contracts\, a $37\,783 opioid settlement award\, and ratification of a $123\,500 inspections contract the county manager had already signed to keep construction moving.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09012026-2661\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/66?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2327
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09012026-2661
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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