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UID:meeting-2024@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging planned to elect a new chair and vice-chair after Chair Ann Bradford's resignation\, adopt an updated Senior Center Registration Form and Code of Conduct\, and review Year 3 reports on the county's 2022-27 Master Aging Plan covering communication\, transportation\, health services and employment goals.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2539\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2024
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122025-2539
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2220@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
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-2207@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
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:20260903T123659Z
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-2227@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251105
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251106
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council had phase 2-B of Blackwood Farm Park on its November 5 agenda\, along with its 2025 annual report and work plan\, an update on the county trails plan and one on Fairview Park.\n\nNo minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what the council decided is not on the record. The county commissioners approved a Blackwood Farm Park master plan amendment on their consent agenda on November 18.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2426\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2227
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11052025-2426
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2204@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
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:20260903T123659Z
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-2226@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
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-2203@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
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:20260903T123659Z
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-1999@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners awarded $267\,750 in Community Climate Action Grants on January 20\, splitting the money across seven of sixteen applications. Requests totalled $619\,095\, so more than half the applicants got nothing — including Habitat for Humanity's $150\,000 weatherization proposal\, which scored third.\n\nThe board also took a clean audit for the year ended June 30\, 2025 and approved a $15\,000 increase in the audit fee\, and signed off on the condominium agreement that puts the Drakeford Library Complex in shared ownership with Carrboro.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2492\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/37?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1999
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2492
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2201@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2225@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council spent most of February 4 planning a joint meeting with the Orange Unified Transportation Board set for March 11. That meeting did not happen: the Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan was still stalled awaiting a state transportation department contract amendment\, and the joint session was eventually held on June 3.\n\nThe council also worked through its own vacancies\, terms expiring\, and a Trails Plan update.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2508\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2225
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2508
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2216@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260217
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's unified transportation board took two information items on February 16: the FY 2027 annual work programme for transit\, and a call for pedestrian safety projects. Neither required a vote.\n\nStaff also reported a Mebane route change and the usual round on the planning organisations and the state transportation department. Public comment at this board comes by email and is read aloud during the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02162026-2528\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2216
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02162026-2528
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2224@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260304
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260305
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council filled three of its own seats on March 4 and said goodbye to a member finishing his second term after more than five years. It also took an update on the county Trails Plan\, which had spent months tied to a second plan that was not moving.\n\nThe joint meeting with the Orange Unified Transportation Board\, scheduled for March 11\, was called off.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03042026-2546\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2224
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03042026-2546
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2017@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260310
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260311
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's advisory board on aging met March 10 with a full slate of program news and its own reporting obligations. Quarterly reports for year four of the 2022-27 Master Aging Plan were due on transportation\, social participation and inclusion\, employment\, and communication\, and the board discussed the survey and next steps for the 2027-32 plan.\n\nThe board also gave its report to the county commissioners that same evening\, and took up appointments\, its attendance policy and the FY 2026-27 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102026-2569\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2017
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102026-2569
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2223@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260402
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council elected its chair and vice chair on April 1 and spent more than an hour reviewing the draft county Trails Plan. The plan proposes nine trail connections with a priority ranking\, and it came back to this council repeatedly through the spring and summer.\n\nUnder old business the council took up the joint meeting with the Orange Unified Transportation Board\, which was held on June 3.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012026-2563\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2223
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04012026-2563
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2191@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260409
SUMMARY:Orange County: Intergovernmental Parks Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Intergovernmental Parks Work Group (IPWG)\n\nOrange County's intergovernmental parks work group met April 8 with three plans on the table\, all of them about connecting places rather than building in one. Chapel Hill staff presented on its parks and recreation comprehensive master plan and on the Everywhere to Everywhere plan\, and county staff on the feasibility of turning the J Branch rail corridor into a trail.\n\nThe group is where Mebane\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough and the county compare notes\, so the second half of the agenda was each department saying what is coming.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082026-2564\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2191
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082026-2564
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
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UID:meeting-1988@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260415
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent April 14 on three substantive items and then an hour of appointments. Durham Technical Community College's president presented on the college's goals\, its K-12 partnerships in the county\, county-supported workforce initiatives and the Orange County campus addition and renovation project.\n\nThe board then discussed the 2026 Longtime Homeowners Assistance Program\, which the chair later cited as evidence the county has taken deliberate steps to protect low-wealth residents from property tax increases\, and took the draft county Trails Plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142026-2578\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/48?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1988
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142026-2578
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2215@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
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-2222@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council took the ten-year capital investment plan on May 6\, the piece of it covering the environment\, agriculture\, parks and recreation department. Only the first year of a capital plan commits money\; the rest is a blueprint.\n\nThe council also welcomed new members appointed by the commissioners\, took an update on where the county Trails Plan stood after its April 14 appearance before the commissioners\, and heard the director on the proposed FY 2026-27 budget.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2598\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2222
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2598
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2214@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
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-2213@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint OUTBOARD/PRC
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council and its unified transportation board met together on June 3 to look at two plans side by side: the draft county Trails Plan and the draft Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan. The agenda gave twenty minutes to overviews of each\, half an hour to where they overlap and where the gaps are\, and a closing block on next steps and a presentation to the county commissioners.\n\nStaff called the joint format necessary because the two plans are separate documents describing one connected network.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2622\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2213
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2622
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2221@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council opened June 3 with a special joint session alongside the Orange Unified Transportation Board\, so the two bodies could look at the draft county Trails Plan and the draft Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan together. The plans are separate documents\, but the trails and the bike and pedestrian network overlap enough that staff wanted them discussed in one room.\n\nAfter the joint hour the council took up the Piedmont Wildlife Center's proposal for Twin Creeks Park\, a 193-acre site north of Carrboro the county bought in 2001 for a future district park. The nonprofit wants to convert the farmhouse and barn into an operations base and use the surrounding grounds for nature programming.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2616\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2221
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2616
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2154@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260608
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260609
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's commission for the environment heard two proposals for county land on June 8. The Piedmont Wildlife Center asked to turn the farmstead at Twin Creeks into an operations base\, with a nature center inside the park. Dave Stancil then presented the draft county Trails Plan and took comments.\n\nThe rest of the evening went to the commission's own work: voting on a membership applicant and meeting three more\, checking where county commissioner funding for the Climate Action Grants stands\, a member update on a UNC well collaboration study and a PFAS remediation tour\, and finishing the State of the Environment Report\, whose section drafts were due June 15.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06082026-2623\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2154
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06082026-2623
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2235@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260702
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County planning board's ordinance review committee met at 8:17 p.m. on July 1\, straight after the regular meeting\, to work through the planning director's omnibus amendments to the development ordinance. The item had been tabled from June 3 for lack of time.\n\nAttendance is optional and no quorum is needed\, so nothing is voted on here. Seven board members stayed.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07012026-2633\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2235
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07012026-2633
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260702
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County planning board spent July 1 on two long-range plans and took no action. The draft county Trails Plan came first\, presented by the director of the environment\, agriculture\, parks and recreation department. The draft Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan was scheduled after it.\n\nThe board also approved minutes and notes from its June 3 meeting and training session. Its ordinance review committee met immediately afterward.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07012026-2634\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2236
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07012026-2634
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260729
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners added this July 28 meeting to their calendar for one reason: to fill the District 1 seat left vacant when Jamezetta Bedford died on June 21. State law gave them until August 20\, after which the clerk of superior court would have made the choice instead.\n\nThe board had already decided on July 9 to use the Orange County Democratic Party's application process rather than run its own. Six people applied\, all confirmed by the board of elections as registered Democrats living in District 1\, and the party's executive committee recommended one of them on July 20. A short consent agenda followed.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282026-2644\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/64?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1973
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282026-2644
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2233@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County ABC Board wants to build a liquor store on NC Highway 49 in Cedar Grove\, and on August 12 the county planning board took up the rezoning that would allow it. The application covers 20.51 acres now zoned Agricultural Residential\, and would move it to a non-residential conditional district for retail use. Summit Design & Engineering filed it for the ABC Board and the current owner\, Charles A. Wells.\n\nBecause it is a conditional district\, the site plan and any agreed conditions bind what can be built there. Staff on the county's development advisory committee recommended conditions\, which are written into the draft ordinance. The applicant held a neighborhood meeting at the Cedar Grove Community Center on July 22\, and owners within 1\,000 feet were notified by mail 14 days before this meeting. The county commissioners are expected to hold the public hearing on October 6. The board also had a presentation of the draft county bicycle and pedestrian plan\, postponed from July 1.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2646\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2233
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2646
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2212@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
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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DTSTAMP:20260903T123659Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260903
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's parks and recreation council meets Wednesday evening to hear what the FY 2026-27 budget and capital investment plan decisions mean for parks\, and to check on the countywide Trails Plan before it goes to the county commissioners for adoption. The trails plan lays out nine proposed trail connections with a priority ranking. This council gets a last look at it.\n\nThe county Human Relations Commission is also bringing a marker at Blackwood Farm Park to the council. The agenda does not say what the marker would commemorate. Shorter items round out the night: a disc golf status report\, an introduction of acting parks superintendent Sharon Kelly\, and approval of the June 3 meeting summary.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2662\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2495
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2662
CATEGORIES:Other
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