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UID:meeting-2016@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
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-2220@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250819
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's Unified Transportation Board approved a revised orientation packet for members and a draft Non-STIP Program of Projects for coordinating low-cost safety and mobility improvements with NCDOT. The board also heard staff updates on a new bus shelter policy and the Hillsborough Circulator's expansion into two routes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2329\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2220
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2329
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2208@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250820
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250821
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit staff working group\, which coordinates transit planning between the county\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, Mebane\, GoTriangle and Triangle West MPO\, debated a $500\,000 funding placeholder for the Orange County Transit Plan amendment before deferring a decision to build a shared scope document first. The group also elected new officers\, with outgoing chair Doug Plachcinski stepping down.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2330\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2208
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2330
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-2014@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
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-2207@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250918
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange Staff Working Group\, the interlocal body overseeing Chapel Hill Transit\, GoTriangle and Orange County's shared transit funding\, took up four proposed FY26 second-quarter budget amendments: a new Mebane Circulator route\, a funding reallocation for North-South Bus Rapid Transit\, a 14-vehicle purchase tied to driver shortages\, and added service hours for GoTriangle's Route 800. The group also had two sets of draft minutes on its table and a GoTriangle financial report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2379\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2207
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2379
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2206@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251016
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County Staff Working Group\, which coordinates transit planning across Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, Mebane\, GoTriangle and Orange County\, planned to take up FY27 project sheets due in December and discuss a proposed set of financial policies and procedures for the transit program.\n\nThe group also planned to approve its August and September minutes and hear routine project updates from each member government.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152025-2408\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2206
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152025-2408
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2205@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251101
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's Staff Working Group\, which coordinates the county's transit partners\, reviews eight amendments to the FY26 Orange County Annual Transit Workplan. The substantive changes move Chapel Hill Transit funding for its North-South Bus Rapid Transit vehicles from operating to capital\, add a GoTriangle service-planning position funded partly by Orange County\, and request five more revenue hours for GoTriangle's Route 800.\n\nThe rest of the agenda is housekeeping: five Orange County transit projects\, covering circulator operations\, paratransit\, fixed-route service\, and mobility-on-demand\, get only a change to their listed project contact.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10312025-2425\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2205
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10312025-2425
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2021@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's advisory board on aging heard on November 11 that the state's handling of SNAP was unclear and that back pay would not be required in North Carolina. The county receives about $2 million a month in SNAP benefits\, so any interruption is a serious shortfall\, and staff urged members to publicise the department's lunch and food box programmes.\n\nThe federal government shutdown did not threaten the department's newly acquired grants\, because that funding was already built into the budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2542\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2021
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2542
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2204@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2218@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251118
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTBoard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's transportation board was shown ten concept designs from the county bicycle and pedestrian plan on November 17 and asked how those ten were chosen. The consultants' answer was that eight came from a prioritised list of twenty and two from community engagement\, that they had not made the selection themselves\, and that the person who picked them had since left — so the team is working out parts of it now and taking the board's feedback into the wider prioritisation.\n\nMembers said they want more data before they can judge the recommendations.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11172025-2454\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2218
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11172025-2454
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2004@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251119
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners denied a 49-lot conservation cluster subdivision on 78.11 acres at 1039-UT NC 86 North on November 18\, voting 6-1 that the rezoning is not in the public interest. It is the case the county planning board had recommended for approval\, and the split later prompted that board to ask for regular meetings with the commissioners so it can find out what happens to its recommendations.\n\nThe objections were about density without services. One commissioner said 49 houses on 20\,000-square-foot lots is urban-style development that would be acceptable with water and sewer but does not fit an area without them\, or the county's principle of preserving rural landscape. The chair said the open space here is fragmented and does not achieve what clustering is for\, and that she found no greater public interest served given the septic\, traffic and rural character issues. She said she was not worried about the proposed community well or water depletion.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2448\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/33?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2004
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11182025-2448
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251202
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners were told on December 1 that federal rules could cut deeply into the money that houses homeless residents here. The new HUD Continuum of Care funding notice mandates a 70 percent cut to permanent housing and guarantees only 30 percent of annual renewal funding. Those grants pay for 79 percent of the Interfaith Council's permanent supportive housing programme\, 64 percent of the county partnership's rapid rehousing programme and 80 percent of the coordinated entry housing helpline.\n\nThe board also elected a new chair and vice-chair\, both unanimously\, and worked through which outside boards still need a commissioner on them.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12012025-2461\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/35?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2002
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12012025-2461
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2226@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council heard on December 3 that the county commissioners will entertain offers from nonprofit organisations to buy part of the future Millhouse Road Park property and run a soccer and playing field complex there in the public interest. The back portion of the site stays with the county and will not be developed.\n\nStaff also reported the kickoff of a feasibility study on the UNC CoGen rail corridor\, which along with Chapel Hill's Everywhere to Everywhere greenways plan will intersect with the county's trails plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2468\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2226
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2468
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2001@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's 2025 property revaluation has cost the county $232\,489\,448 in assessed value through appeals\, with a median cut of $38\,000 on residential property and $66\,400 on non-residential. The commissioners were given those figures on December 9\, along with a separate $60\,972\,300 in reductions from neighbourhood-level reviews covering 1\,460 properties.\n\nThe scale of the appeals is what stands out. The tax office received 3\,346 informal appeals in the window that ran March 21 to April 30\, then another 1\,109 formal appeals — 4\,455 in all across 3\,966 unique properties. All the informal appeals had been decided\; the board of equalization and review had finished 655 formal appeals\, 64 percent\, with 367 more in progress and the rest due by January 22.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2471\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/36?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2001
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2471
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2203@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit staff working group voted 9-2 on December 10 to add the transit tax district administration as a non-voting member of the group. The argument for it was recognising the tax district's authority and clarifying roles to avoid conflict\; the concern raised against was that it gives GoTriangle more representation. One suggestion was to keep the arrangement non-voting until the GoTriangle staffing study concludes and then look at it again.\n\nThe group also approved a charter for a financial policies and procedures subcommittee\, chaired by Orange County\, to standardise reimbursement documentation across the organisations involved. Unclear documentation requirements had caused delays in reimbursements before.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2469\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2203
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2469
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2217@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251216
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nThe Orange Unified Transportation Board spent its December 15 meeting looking back at 2025 and setting priorities for 2026\, and moved its January meeting to Thursday the 15th so it could sit jointly with the parks and recreation council and consultants working on the bike and pedestrian plan and the trails plan.\n\nAsked which subjects had mattered most\, members named the ones tied to service on the ground: fare-free transit\, Mobility on Demand\, the Blue and Orange routes\, Highway 70 and multimodal assessments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12152025-2473\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2217
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12152025-2473
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2202@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260110
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County transit staff working group decided at a special meeting on January 9 to hold the FY27 annual work program back from public comment until it has been constrained to the money actually available\, rather than releasing the unbalanced version.\n\nThe tax district administrator explained why there is a deficit: about $12.5 million in operating costs and $3.2 million in capital costs have been added to the multi-year plan through 2035\, and the plan has to stay positive all the way out to 2040.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01092026-2487\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2202
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01092026-2487
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2000@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260116
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260117
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners were told at their January 16 retreat that the county faces a $21.5 million gap to close in the FY 2026-27 budget\, and that the same model puts the gap at $37.6 million the following year and $53.6 million the year after that. Closing this year's would take about seven cents on the property tax rate\; one penny raises roughly $3.37 million on a $33.9 billion tax base.\n\nThe drivers are debt service\, the phase-in of school capital pay-as-you-go\, non-discretionary personnel costs like health insurance and retirement\, and the county's practice of never cutting education funding. Commissioner McKee said across-the-board reductions may be needed and asked staff to look at how the county balanced its FY 2010-11 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2000
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01162026-2488
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2201@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nThe Orange County transit staff working group used its January 21 meeting to check administrative corrections in the FY27 annual work program and get project sponsors to confirm their submissions\, ahead of the substantive funding argument scheduled for a special meeting on February 6.\n\nThe group is the technical committee where Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, Mebane\, Orange County\, GoTriangle and the Triangle West planning organisation divide up transit money raised by the county's transit tax district.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2493\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2201
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2493
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2200@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260207
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group changed its own FY 2027 schedule on February 6\, recommending approval of a revised timetable. The work programme was already running a year behind\, and the change is what let the group compress the public review period in March.\n\nMembers also closed out sponsor questions on the draft work programme and discussed how to prioritise what goes into it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02062026-2513\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2200
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02062026-2513
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2216@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260217
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's unified transportation board took two information items on February 16: the FY 2027 annual work programme for transit\, and a call for pedestrian safety projects. Neither required a vote.\n\nStaff also reported a Mebane route change and the usual round on the planning organisations and the state transportation department. Public comment at this board comes by email and is read aloud during the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02162026-2528\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2216
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02162026-2528
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1996@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
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-2199@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260219
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group had two recommendations to make on February 18: approval of GoTriangle's regional technology plan\, and the status quo option for Orange Transit's FY 2027 work program.\n\nThe status quo choice mattered. The FY 2027 work program was already running a year behind its own schedule\, and the group spent the following month compressing the public review period to fit.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2530\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2199
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2530
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2198@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group took the FY 2026 second quarter unaudited financial update on March 18\, along with fourth-quarter amendments to the annual work program.\n\nThis is also the meeting where the group discussed shortening the public review period for the FY 2027 work program below the customary 30 days\, weighing two weeks against 21 days. It settled on 21 the following week.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2555\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2198
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2555
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2197@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260327
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260328
SUMMARY:Orange County: SWG Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group released the draft FY 2027 annual work program for public comment on March 27 and adopted a revised development and approval schedule to go with it. The program directs the half-cent transit sales tax voters approved in 2011.\n\nThe schedule needed revising because the work program was originally meant to be adopted in May 2025. At its March 18 meeting the group had discussed cutting the customary 30-day public review to two weeks or 21 days\; it settled on 21\, running April 1 to April 21.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03272026-2562\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2197
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03272026-2562
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2196@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260416
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County SWG
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group took fourth-quarter amendments to the FY 2026 annual work program on April 15\, with requests from Chapel Hill Transit\, GoTriangle\, Orange County and Triangle West. GoTriangle's request concerned Route 800\; Triangle West's was a staffing study.\n\nThe group also took project sponsor updates from each participating government and agency. Two public comment periods were running at the time: one on the FY 2027 work program\, from April 1 to April 21\, and one on these fourth-quarter amendments\, from March 27 to April 27\, both announced by news release.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2580\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2196
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2580
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2215@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260420
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260421
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's unified transportation board took three regional items on April 20: the Triangle West metropolitan planning organization's master transportation plan and air quality report\, the staff working group's draft FY 2027 annual work program for transit\, and the county's transportation priorities for the state's Spot 8.0 prioritization round.\n\nSpot 8.0 is how North Carolina ranks and funds transportation projects\, so what the county submits determines what the state pays for. Public comment at this board comes by email and is read aloud during the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-2584\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2215
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-2584
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2195@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260423
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group adopted the FY 2027 annual work program on April 22 and sent it to the county commissioners. The program directs the proceeds of the half-cent sales tax voters approved in 2011\, which can only fund projects both the commissioners and the GoTriangle board have approved.\n\nThe schedule was compressed. The work program was originally meant to be adopted a year earlier\, and the public review period was cut from 30 days to 21 to fit the consolidated timeline. The draft went out April 1 with a news release\, and comment closed April 21\, the day before this meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2587\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2195
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2587
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2214@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260519
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's unified transportation board spent 40 minutes on new business May 18\, and much of it was housekeeping: an attendance policy\, electing a chair and vice chair\, and conflict of interest statements. Two items had substance for riders\, an update on the fare free program and one on the county transit software system.\n\nStaff also reported on the annual work plan\, the county bicycle and pedestrian plan\, and the metropolitan and rural planning organizations and NCDOT.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2605\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2214
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2605
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2194@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group met May 20 to review the money. The tax district administrator gave a quarterly update covering how FY27 project agreements are grouped and an updated financial model\, and presented GoTriangle's annual financial report for FY25 along with Orange Transit's own FY25 results.\n\nThe group also took up the FY27 global capital and operating agreements GoTriangle proposes to keep consistent with FY26\, revised financial policies and procedures for the group itself\, and GoTriangle's fourth-quarter amendment requests. On consent it cancelled its June 17 meeting and updated the adoption schedule for the FY27 annual work program.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2609\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2194
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2609
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1975@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners adopted the FY 2026-27 budget on June 16\, setting the property tax rate at 68.05 cents per $100 of assessed value\, a 4.22-cent increase. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district tax was set at 14.79 cents\, which puts the combined rate for Chapel Hill residents at 82.84 cents. Twelve fire district rates were set alongside them\, and county employees got a 2 percent raise with the living wage recognized at $20.02 an hour.\n\nThe same night the board approved a guaranteed maximum price of $22\,906\,906 from Gilbane to build the crisis diversion facility\, accepted the ten-year capital investment plan\, and amended its broadband contract with Lumos to reach 105 more unserved households.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/62?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1975
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1974@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
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-2212@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260817
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260818
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's unified transportation board gave an hour on August 17 to five transit and planning items\, and the one with the most direct effect on riders was a rewrite of the county transit rider's guide. Most of it concerns paratransit. A visitor already certified as ADA paratransit eligible where they live can ride here 21 days out of any 365 before having to apply locally. The pickup window is defined as 15 minutes either side of the negotiated time\, and an operator waits five minutes before marking a rider a no-show. An ADA certified rider brings a personal care attendant free and one companion at the rider's fare.\n\nThe guide also sets out a three-level passenger code of conduct. Level I brings a suspension of 30 days to three months\, Level II 90 days to six months\, and Level III at least 180 days or a permanent exclusion. A suspended rider can appeal in writing within 30 days and ask for a hearing with the transportation director. Alongside that the board took up the Title VI public participation plan\, an agency safety plan and safety committee\, the state transportation improvement program\, and the bicycle and pedestrian plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08172026-2650\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2212
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08172026-2650
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2193@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260820
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group met August 19 with a striking amount of catching up to do: nine sets of minutes on the approval list\, running from October 31\, 2025 through May 20\, 2026. Fifteen minutes were allotted for all of them.\n\nThe substance was a quarterly financial report on Orange Transit and round-robin updates from the project sponsors\, which include Carrboro\, Chapel Hill\, Hillsborough\, Mebane\, Orange County\, GoTriangle and the Triangle West transportation planning organization. This group is staff rather than elected officials\, and it steers how the county's transit tax money gets spent.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2649\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2193
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2649
CATEGORIES:Other
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UID:meeting-1972@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123613Z
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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