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UID:meeting-2016@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2335@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250708
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250709
SUMMARY:Orange County: CANCELLED Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nThis meeting of Orange County's Economic Development Advisory Board was cancelled. The posted agenda had called for board member introductions and a strategic-plan workshop for the county's Economic Development Department\, led by consultant Crystal Morphis of Creative Economic Development Consulting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07082025-2304\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2335
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07082025-2304
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2134@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250710
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review met July 9 to hear twelve property tax valuation appeals\, including three units at the same Chapel Hill address owned by NKB Properties LLC and two Carl Durham Road properties owned by the same appellant.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092025-2307\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2134
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092025-2307
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2250@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250710
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board Ordinance Review Committee met July 9\, an informal session with no quorum requirement\, to go over two staff-initiated Unified Development Ordinance text amendments: one covering impervious surfaces\, watershed protection overlay districts and stream buffers\, the other covering subdivision review processes and classifications.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092025-2305\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2250
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092025-2305
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2133@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2063@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250722
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250723
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's newly sworn-in Board of Elections organized for its 2025-2027 term\, adopted an early voting schedule for the October 7 Durham municipal primary\, and voted to move Eno precinct voters to the adjacent Patterson precinct for upcoming Durham elections.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07222025-2324\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2063
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07222025-2324
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2132@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250722
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250723
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard thirteen residential and vacant-land tax appeals\, including three landlocked tracts owned by the same company near US 70 West\, and lowered the assessed value in all but one case.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07222025-2309\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2132
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07222025-2309
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2131@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250723
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250724
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard six property tax matters\, including five owner appeals and a county-initiated request to lower building grades\, and cut assessed value across three duplexes\, on a night that also briefed the board on a third-party vertical equity study of 2024-2025 valuations.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2310\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2131
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2310
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2173@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250723
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250724
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission tested a revised landmark evaluation form on the Morris Grove School\, a rare surviving early-1900s Black schoolhouse on Eubanks Road\, reviewed draft text for two America's 250th historical markers\, and heard updates on Hurricane Chantal damage to the Occaneechi Village and Faucett Mill and a planned marker honoring lynching victim Cyrus Guy.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2313\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2173
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07232025-2313
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2130@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250724
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250725
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard four property tax appeals\, covering a senior living facility on Estes Drive and three commercial properties on US 70A and Conner Drive\, and voted to schedule a special July 30 meeting on a county-requested value correction tied to a vertical regression study.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07242025-2311\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2130
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07242025-2311
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2334@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250729
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Economic Development Advisory Board holds a workshop with consultant Crystal Morphis on the county's Economic Development Strategic Plan\, covering SWOT analysis results\, a business survey\, and revised vision and mission statements for the department.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282025-2322\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2334
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282025-2322
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2038@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250730
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250731
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's Agricultural Preservation Board debates revisions to its draft Ag Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan ahead of a future presentation to the Board of County Commissioners\, recommends new and returning members to fill five vacancies\, and plans its fall Voluntary Agricultural District breakfast.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07302025-2319\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2038
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07302025-2319
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2129@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2062@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250805
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250806
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections adopted its early voting schedule for the November 4\, 2025 municipal and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board elections\, setting five early voting sites with hours running from mid-October through the Saturday before the election. The board also heard that 296 voters' registrations have been repaired under a state program addressing missing ID numbers.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08052025-2325\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2062
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08052025-2325
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2230@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250807
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's Parks and Recreation Council reviewed results of the 2025 Nature of Orange photography contest\, voted to send the Parks and Recreation 2030 Master Plan's mid-plan review back to county commissioners with an updated cover letter\, and heard a director's update on Fairview Park community coordination and Hurricane Chantal damage to Eno River park facilities.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2321\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2230
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2321
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2249@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250806
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250807
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board reviewed a rezoning request from Forestar Development to build 43 single-family homes on a 61-acre Rigsbee family tract on NC Highway 54 West in White Cross\, changing the zoning from Rural Residential to a Residential Conditional District ahead of an October 7 public hearing before county commissioners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2318\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2249
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08062025-2318
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2164@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250811
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250812
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment planned to recommend a new member for county commissioner appointment\, refine its proposed Environmental Award program\, and review 18 pending applications for this year's $262\,500 Climate Action Grant round. The commission also planned to continue work on its State of the Environment Report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08112025-2320\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2164
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08112025-2320
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2024@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2031@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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-2047@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250813
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250814
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment met Aug. 13 to hold a quasi-judicial hearing on a single variance request: property owners James and Tammy McHale sought a 10-foot reduction to the required 40-foot front setback along Eno Cemetery Road\, to a 30-foot setback\, for a 0.47-acre unaddressed parcel in the Cedar Grove Township.\n\nThe board also had before it its June 11\, 2025 minutes for approval. The document available at posting time contains those June minutes and the staff report package prepared for the McHale hearing\, but not a record of what the board decided at this meeting\; that will appear in minutes approved at a later meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08132025-2326\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2047
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08132025-2326
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2127@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250813
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250814
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review met Aug. 13 to hear four residential property tax valuation appeals in Hillsborough and the surrounding county\, ranging from a $126\,100 condominium unit to a $1 million home on New Isley Trail.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08132025-2332\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2127
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08132025-2332
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2192@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250818
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250819
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCPEH Leadership Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:OCPEH Leadership Team\n\nThe Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness Leadership Team decided how to split a shrunken pot of Emergency Solutions Grant funding\, down to $44\,000 from $98\,000\, between two homeless-services programs: rapid rehousing and the Inter-Faith Council's Homestart shelter. The team also heard about upcoming HUD technical assistance on the Continuum of Care's governance structure.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2342\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2192
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08182025-2342
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2220@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2061@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250820
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections considers appointing precinct officials for the 2025-2027 term. The rest of the agenda is routine: approving prior minutes\, scheduling the next meeting\, and updating board time and travel records.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192025-2527\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2061
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192025-2527
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2126@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2125@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2150@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250820
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250821
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's board heard from the head of the North Carolina Restaurant & Lodging Association on state hospitality-industry issues\, including occupancy and meals tax policy and short-term rental regulation\, and got an update on the bureau's roughly $3 million FY26 budget and a new tourism study. Board members also shared updates from their own organizations\, including Hillsborough and Chapel Hill's continued recovery from Tropical Storm Chantal.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2327\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2150
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08202025-2327
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2208@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2181@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250821
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250822
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority Advisory Board reviews the Program Manager's monthly report on housing voucher utilization and adopts a new policy on repayment and overpayment agreements for participants who miss payments\, along with updated repayment terms based on the amount owed. The board also reviews 2025 Fair Market Rents.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08212025-2333\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2181
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08212025-2333
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2015@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2124@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2123@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250827
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250828
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard 11 property tax value appeals\, none of them in person except one. In each case the board lowered the assessment\, generally accepting the county's own revised value\; on one property\, a house on Timberly Drive\, the board cut further than the county recommended\, splitting the difference toward the owner's appraisal. A twelfth appeal\, from ADJA Group LLC\, was on the schedule but not heard\, the second time it has been bumped without a hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08272025-2338\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2123
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08272025-2338
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2141@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250827
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250828
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health voted to let a resident\, Richard Gurlitz\, build a car port after a district court ruled the county's groundwater-protection rules were both unsupported by evidence and too vague to enforce. The board also got a first look at a resolution urging local governments to encourage more affordable housing\, through smaller minimum lot sizes\, density bonuses and "missing middle" housing like duplexes and cottage courts\, with a vote planned for September.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08272025-2423\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2141
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08272025-2423
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2122@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2121@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250904
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard ten property tax appeals\, including four related Clarence Drive properties and two Carrboro homes on Weatherhill Point and Riverbirch Point seeking reductions for flood damage from Tropical Storm Chantal.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2381\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2121
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2381
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2229@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250904
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's Parks and Recreation Council reviewed survey results ranking Fairview Park as its top discussion priority for the rest of 2025\, got an update on the county's Trails Plan workshops\, and discussed whether to host a Great Trails State Day hike.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2339\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2229
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2339
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2248@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250904
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board considered a rezoning of 78.11 acres on NC 86 North from agricultural to conditional residential use\, and a staff-initiated text amendment on impervious surfaces\, watershed protection\, and stream buffers in the county's development ordinance.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2340\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2248
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09032025-2340
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2014@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2163@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250909
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment took up new-member appointments\, a vote on creating an environmental awards program\, an update on the 2025 Climate Action Grant\, and progress on the annual State of the Environment Report\, followed by sub-committee breakout sessions on air\, water\, and land data.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09082025-2375\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2163
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09082025-2375
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2023@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nThe Orange County Advisory Board on Aging meets for its regular monthly update\, covering a new Aging Transitions specialist\, Medicare open enrollment starting October 15\, and the county's Master Aging Plan year-three progress across housing\, social participation and outdoor spaces. The board also expects a budget update on state Home and Community Care Block Grant funding and two new grants for food boxes and home repair.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2540\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2023
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2540
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2030@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board meets to plan a community outreach meeting on housing set for October 14 at the RENA Community Center in the Rogers Road neighborhood\, and to hear staff updates on the county's HOME funding\, its Longtime Homeowners Tax Assistance Program\, and the Land Use Plan 2050 process.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2378\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2030
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2378
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2013@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThe Orange County Board of Commissioners meets in work session to hear the first in a series of presentations answering the board's own questions about the Land Use Plan 2050 update\, covering the plan's factual basis\, watershed impacts on development\, and joint planning agreements including the Water and Sewer Management\, Planning and Boundary Agreement. The board also takes up annual reappointments to seven advisory boards\, discusses moving closed sessions earlier on the agenda\, and considers next steps for its Strategic Communications Work Group.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2377\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/12?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2013
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2377
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2060@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nThe Orange County Board of Elections takes up a routine director's report on voter registration and the year-to-date budget\, then appoints early voting officials for the November 4\, 2025 municipal and Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board election.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2526\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2060
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2526
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2120@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2333@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250910
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Economic Development Advisory Board reviews a draft strategic plan for the Economic Development Department\, presented by consultant Crystal Morphis\, and takes up new grant application guidelines and a vacancy on the grant review committee.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2376\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2333
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09092025-2376
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2119@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250911
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review met Sept. 10 to hear eight property tax valuation appeals\, all commercial or vacant parcels in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill ranging from a $220\,000 dirt lot to the $16.3 million Top of the Hill restaurant building on Franklin Street.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09102025-2383\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2119
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09102025-2383
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2012@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2037@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250918
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's Agricultural Preservation Board elected Mary Beth Miller vice chair\, denied a Voluntary Agricultural District application for a small horticulture operation on Erwin Road that fell short of the one-acre cultivation threshold\, and heard a presentation from Preserve Rural Orange urging the board to push harder on farmland preservation as the county updates its land use plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2389\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2037
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2389
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2117@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250918
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard seventeen scheduled property tax appeals for the 2025 tax year\, though three appellants did not appear and the board proceeded on the remaining fourteen. Most appeals turned on effective year built\, land adjustments for irregular shape or unbuildable acreage\, or comparable sales the county said fell outside the January 1\, 2025 valuation window.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2386\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2117
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2386
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2149@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250918
SUMMARY:Orange County: September 17\,2025 Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau's advisory board met to hear a presentation from tourism consultant Chris Cavanaugh of Magellan Strategy Group\, who is studying the bureau's long-term direction\, along with routine updates from the executive director and the bureau's media-buying firm\, Media Two. The board also took up nominations for vice chair and treasurer.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2388\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2149
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09172025-2388
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2207@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2116@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2180@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250919
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nOrange County Housing Authority's advisory board approved changes to how it prioritizes applicants transitioning from Emergency Housing Vouchers to its regular Housing Choice Voucher program\, and dropped a requirement to advertise Project-Based Voucher competitions in the newspaper.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09182025-2390\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2180
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09182025-2390
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2115@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2140@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250925
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health heard how a recent court reversal of one of its own permit denials will affect groundwater protection rules\, and worked through two draft resolutions\, one on immigration enforcement's effect on access to public health services and one on affordable housing\, sending both back for revision ahead of an October vote. The board approved a set of policy updates\, discussed a vacant at-large seat\, and went into closed session to review the health director's annual performance.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2424\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2140
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2424
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2172@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250925
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission reviewed four candidates for new historic landmark status\, including a Black-owned log house dating to around 1850 and a church-owned school and cemetery\, and got a look at plans to install solar panels on several county-owned historic buildings. The commission also discussed a proposed addition to the Board of Education Building\, planning for the nation's 250th anniversary\, and a marker for lynching victim Cyrus Guy.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2395\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2172
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09242025-2395
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2011@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's Board of Commissioners met jointly with the Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Orange County Boards of Education for a briefing session\, not a voting meeting. The three boards reviewed each district's state budget situation\, an interlocal agreement and bond-funded construction projects\, enrollment demographics\, and topics for future collaboration such as school nursing and mental health staffing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2391\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/19?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2011
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252025-2391
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2113@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2112@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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-2228@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251002
SUMMARY:Orange County: Parks and Recreation Council
DESCRIPTION:Parks & Recreation Council\n\nOrange County's Parks and Recreation Council takes up a recreation division annual update\, an update on Fairview Park improvements\, and the status of one board vacancy for a Carrboro resident. The council also reviews progress on the county's Trails Plan workshops.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012025-2397\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2228
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012025-2397
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2247@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251001
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251002
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board voted 8-1 to recommend the Board of Commissioners approve a conditional rezoning for a 49-lot conservation subdivision on 78.11 acres at 1039-UT NC 86 North near Hillsborough\, adding conditions on trail access for a neighboring school and a request to lower the speed limit on the frontage road. The board also unanimously recommended a package of Unified Development Ordinance text amendments covering impervious surfaces\, watershed protection overlay districts and stream buffers\, prompted mainly by a 2024 state regulatory change.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012025-2396\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2247
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10012025-2396
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2110@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251002
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251003
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 nine property tax appeals from its scheduled docket\, then added a tenth. Owners asked the board to lower assessments set in the county's revaluation\, with requested reductions ranging from about $2\,000 to more than $470\,000.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10022025-2402\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2110
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10022025-2402
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2010@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251008
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners hold a public hearing on rezoning about 61 acres at 3531 NC Highway 54 W in Chapel Hill's Bingham Township\, from rural residential to a conditional district for a 43-lot conservation-cluster subdivision. The applicant\, Forestar Group on behalf of Carolyn Rigsbee\, needs the change after the Planning Board recommended approval 6-3 in August.\n\nThe board also considers reviving its Broadband Task Force with an expanded charge\, a resolution letting commercial property owners in the county finance energy upgrades through the state's new C-PACE program\, and a resolution naming a Cedar Grove Park athletic field for softball coach and civil rights advocate Willie Lawrence Vanhook. The consent agenda covers a two-year Granicus contract for the Visitors Bureau website\, animal control contracts with three towns\, a chiller replacement at the Whitted Building\, and a budget amendment funding a second year of the CARE mobile crisis team.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2399\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/20?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2010
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2399
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2059@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251008
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections handles routine business tied to two elections at once: certifying absentee and early-voting results for the City of Durham's October 7 municipal primary\, and preparing for the county's own November 4 municipal election. The board considers buffer zone rules for early voting sites\, precinct assistant appointments\, and a report on voter registration repairs.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2525\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2059
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2525
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2109@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251008
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review hears three property tax value appeals: Industrial Connections and Solutions LLC over 6801 Industrial Drive\, and two from Thomas L. Watts\, over a Main Street retail unit and a house on Mary Street.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2403\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2109
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072025-2403
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2046@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251009
SUMMARY:Orange County: Meeting Canceled
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's Board of Adjustment had one case on its calendar: a quasi-judicial appeal of interpretation from The Brough Law Firm\, on behalf of Bandit Farms and HarperGrace LLC\, over whether farm stays on property known as Union Grove Farm were correctly classified as a principal farm use rather than agritourism. The applicant withdrew the case on September 30\, 2025\, and the county canceled the October 8 meeting\; no other business was scheduled.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082025-2398\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2046
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10082025-2398
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2108@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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-2162@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251013
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251014
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's Commission for the Environment reviews the design of its new environmental recognition award\, works through applications for the 2025 Climate Action Grant\, and meets in subcommittees on the State of the Environment report. The commission also welcomes two new members and takes up reappointments for four members whose terms expire at year's end.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10132025-2405\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2162
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10132025-2405
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2022@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging approved its September minutes with one correction and heard staff updates on hiring\, upcoming Medicare and scam-awareness events\, and the county's Master Aging Plan process. The board reported the takeaway lunch program's transition is complete\, with Meals on Wheels Orange County now serving previously homebound clients\, and reviewed two new grants: $56\,627 for home repairs through the Choosing Home Program and $34\,430 for a Providing Elders Additional Sustenance food-box program.\n\nCommittee members also reported on the Senior Tar Heel Legislature's recent meeting and continuing inspections of local nursing and adult care homes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2541\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2022
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2541
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2029@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's Affordable Housing Advisory Board held a community outreach meeting rather than a formal business session. Housing Manager Aaron Cohen walked residents through the county's tax-relief and repair programs and heard from board members on a $15 million capital-investment bond fund the board helps prioritize.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2558\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2029
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2558
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2009@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Orange County Chiefs' Association and Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County commissioners met jointly with the county's fire chiefs and rescue squad leaders\, who described the unprecedented flooding and rescues during Tropical Storm Chantal\, staffing levels ranging from volunteer-heavy rural departments to career staff\, and requests for continued county support. After the joint session\, commissioners moved into a work session covering the Land Use Plan 2050 process\, including a presentation on Hillsborough's water and sewer boundary constraints\, and voted to have county staff rather than an outside consultant facilitate the board's November 21 retreat.\n\nCommissioners also worked through several advisory board appointments\, reappointing members to the Affordable Housing Advisory Board and Parks and Recreation Council and filling seats on the Opioid Advisory Committee.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2409\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/22?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2009
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2409
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2057@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections meets to canvass and approve absentee by-mail ballots received ahead of the October municipal elections. The agenda also covers scheduling the board's next meeting and updating member time and travel records.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2524\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2057
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2524
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2058@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251015
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOE Meeting Canvass
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections meets to certify the results of the City of Durham's October 7 municipal primary. The board also covers scheduling its next meeting and updating member time and travel records.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2523\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2058
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10142025-2523
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2106@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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-2148@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251016
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's advisory board heard from Lewis Broadnax\, president of Hillsborough-based Adam & Eve parent company PHE\, Inc.\, on how the retailer is adapting its marketing to younger consumers. The board also planned to discuss appropriating bureau funds toward marketing this spring's Savannah Bananas games at Kenan Stadium.\n\nThe rest of the agenda covered a sales and campaign update from the bureau's media partner and routine community updates.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152025-2410\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2148
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10152025-2410
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2206@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2104@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2219@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251020
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251021
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's Unified Transportation Board approved updated orientation materials and a draft Non-STIP Project Management Plan on October 20\, 2025\, and discussed how state transportation funding is allocated and why Orange County transit options are not reaching residents effectively.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10202025-2411\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2219
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10202025-2411
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2008@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2056@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251022
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections met to process absentee ballots ahead of the 2025 municipal election\, assign board members to visit early voting sites\, and receive an update on ballots cast to date.\n\nThe agenda was otherwise routine\, with no discussion items announced in advance.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2522\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2056
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10212025-2522
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2103@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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-2171@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251022
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251023
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's Historic Preservation Commission met with no items up for a vote. The agenda was discussion only: a pending National Register nomination for the Efland Milling Company\, three archaeological survey projects the county plans to start in 2026\, and a proposal to send an interpretive sign to the Cedar Grove baseball field.\n\nThe commission also planned a field trip to the Henry Calvin Andrews farmstead and took up budget cuts that have eliminated preservation funding for the historic farmstead at Twin Creeks Park.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222025-2418\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2171
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10222025-2418
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2101@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2055@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251029
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections met to process absentee by-mail ballots ahead of the 2025 election\, review early voting turnout\, and discuss list-maintenance procedures for the voter rolls.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10282025-2521\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2055
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10282025-2521
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2100@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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-2139@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251030
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health considers options for its Groundwater Protection Rules after a recent adjudication appeal invalidated part of its well-setback requirements\, ranging from case-by-case enforcement to repealing the local rules entirely. The board also takes up resolutions on affordable housing and on immigration enforcement's effect on access to public health resources\, plus a proposed Chair/Vice-Chair slate for 2026.\n\nThe board goes into closed session to discuss the health director's annual performance review.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292025-2462\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2139
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10292025-2462
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2098@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2205@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2261@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2054@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251104
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's Board of Elections meets to process absentee ballots ahead of the November 4\, 2025 municipal election and to hear a director's report on early voting turnout. The agenda also covers a precinct visit list and scheduling the board's next meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11032025-2520\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2054
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11032025-2520
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2053@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251104
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251105
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's board of elections sat through election night on November 4\, reviewing absentee ballots as they arrived between 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. and approving 33 of them: 11 civilian\, one military and 21 overseas.\n\nThe tabulator ended the night at 232 absentee ballots. Results were held until 7:30 p.m.\, when the polls closed.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11042025-2519\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2053
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11042025-2519
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2097@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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-2227@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2007@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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-2052@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251107
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251108
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's board of elections ruled on 87 provisional ballots from the November 4 municipal election on November 7\, accepting staff recommendations to fully approve 64\, partially approve two and reject 21.\n\nThe state board had randomly picked the OWASA and Town Hall precincts for the sample audit count\, to be carried out by bipartisan election officials on November 10.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11072025-2518\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2052
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11072025-2518
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2161@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251111
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's commission for the environment allocated the county's $267\,750 Community Climate Action Grant fund among the selected applicants on November 10\, closing out a round in which sixteen applicants had asked for $619\,095. The county commissioners approved the recommendations on January 20.\n\nThe commission also re-elected its chair and vice chair and welcomed a new member.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11102025-2428\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2161
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11102025-2428
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2021@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2028@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2006@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners agreed on November 11 to move toward selling part of 79.05 acres at 6823 Millhouse Road\, land the county bought in 2004 and 2007 for a soccer complex that has never been built. A 2025 appraisal put the whole property at $1\,976\,000\, about $24\,997 an acre.\n\nThe legal constraint shaped the discussion. The county attorney told them that if the land goes to public sale\, no use restriction can be attached. To restrict the use\, the buyer must be a nonprofit or another government. Members generally favoured selling the eastern portion for active recreation while keeping roughly 30 acres on the west\, which holds a state-listed Natural Heritage site next to Duke Forest\, either by subdividing or by placing an easement on it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2440\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/30?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2006
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2440
CATEGORIES:Work session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2094@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2332@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251112
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board met at a Carrboro pub on November 11 to hear from the local chamber's business success navigator and from Carrboro's economic development director and specialist.\n\nNo minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what came of those conversations is not on the record. The agenda also carried the 2026 calendar and meeting locations\, member disclosure statements due December 31\, the annual report and work plan due January 16\, a vacancy in the board's agriculture seat\, and a director's update on commercial and industrial projects.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2429\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2332
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11112025-2429
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2045@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's board of adjustment granted a special use permit on November 12 for Jubilee\, a farm-based mental health day programme already operating at 1009 Hi Mar Lane\, so it can be inspected by the fire marshal and licensed as a facility.\n\nThe reason is financial and specific. Jubilee runs an intensive outpatient programme — group and individual therapy\, yoga\, cooking\, therapeutic horticulture\, animal care and music therapy — for adults whose lives have been derailed by mental illness. Because the site is a bona fide farm\, it was refused a fire inspection\, so it cannot be licensed\, so it must bill insurers as office-based rather than facility-based. Many insurers pay a quarter of the facility rate for office-based intensive outpatient care\, or nothing. Without a licence it cannot contract with Medicaid at all\, and the application notes a shortage of mental health day treatment for Medicaid patients in Orange County.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122025-2439\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2045
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11122025-2439
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2204@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2051@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's board of elections handled three late overseas absentee ballots on November 13\, ahead of the canvass. It approved two and rejected one\, because the voter confirmed they had never lived in North Carolina.\n\nThe two approved ballots were run through the tabulator in front of the board\, which verified the opening tape started at zero and signed the results.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2517\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2051
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2517
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2093@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2152@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Climate Council Meeting Agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Climate Council\n\nOrange County's climate council — a joint body of the county\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough\, both school boards and UNC — spent part of its November 13 meeting on data centres and AI\, presented by UNC's sustainability lead. The figures given: data centres consume about 26 percent of Virginia's electricity against 2 percent of North Carolina's\; the average data centre land transaction in 2024 was 224 acres\, up 144 percent since 2022\; some sites need up to 500 acres and some companies buy 1\,000 or more for future expansion. A July 2025 federal order expedites permitting of data centre infrastructure including land and transmission lines.\n\nThe council also took an update on a multi-jurisdictional heat action plan and heard that 2026 is proposed as a Year of Electrification\, run regionally with the Central Pines Regional Council\, with the programme launching by April.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2407\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2152
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11132025-2407
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2005@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251115
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent a morning on November 14 on the two things that decide how much rural development the county can carry: septic and groundwater. The engineer who presented on wastewater told them the state has been steadily reducing what local health departments can say about system design\, and that under the engineered option permit adopted eight or nine years ago\, private engineers can design a system\, stand in the place of the regulator\, check their own drawings and issue the construction permit. State staff now review roughly 10 percent of large system designs\; about 90 percent go the private route.\n\nHe was equally direct about the limiting factor. Suitable soil for on-site wastewater is in short supply in Orange County\, and that reality is what limits rural development in this part of the piedmont. He called it a precious and limited resource.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2441\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=84\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2005
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2441
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2050@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251115
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOE Meeting Canvass
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's board of elections certified the November 4 municipal and Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board election on November 14. Turnout was 15.25 percent: 11\,751 ballots cast out of 77\,070 registered voters eligible for that ballot.\n\nThe director reported that voter history and total ballots cast matched in every election day and administrative precinct.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2516\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2050
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2516
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2260@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251115
SUMMARY:Orange County: Tax Assessment Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Tax Assessment Work Group\n\nThe consultant reviewing Orange County's assessment neighbourhoods told the tax assessment work group on November 14 that vertical inequity is easy to identify and much harder to correct. The properties his analysis flagged as anomalous were ones not maintained or updated\, picked out from among thousands\, and the problem is that they had been treated differently in the valuation process.\n\nThe work group also took a grounding session on how reappraisal works in North Carolina\, from the UNC School of Government and the state Department of Revenue.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2447\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2260
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11142025-2447
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2218@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2092@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2036@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board decided on November 19 that its farmland preservation plan is finally ready to go to the county commissioners\, after a marathon editing session on November 12 that worked through every change legal staff\, planning and others had asked for. Members said careful rewording had got the document to a point where they were comfortable it says what they need it to say.\n\nThe commissioners accepted the plan on June 2\, replacing a document from 2009.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2445\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2036
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2445
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2091@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2138@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's health department has seen a notable rise in appointment cancellations since Immigration and Customs Enforcement became active in the area\, the health director told the board of health on November 19. The department is offering telehealth or home visits where appropriate\, letting some staff work remotely\, and has reminded staff of the ICE guidelines it set in the spring. A board member added that schools have reported marked increases in absenteeism from fear.\n\nThe board also elected its 2026 chair and vice-chair\, recommended a candidate for its vacant at-large seat\, and wrote off $7\,511 in uncollectible patient debt.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2463\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2138
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2463
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2147@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau advisory board heard on November 19 that occupancy tax revenue is projected flat and traced the reasons: federal job cuts\, federal travel cuts\, fewer people working in Research Triangle Park\, general economic anxiety\, and the closure of the Siena Hotel for most of next year. The Siena had a higher average daily rate than other hotels in the county.\n\nThe bureau collected about $2.196 million in occupancy tax last year\, $1.529 million of it from thirteen Chapel Hill properties. Carrboro has one collecting property\, Hillsborough five\, five more carry Durham addresses\, and seven are short-term rentals. The county tax office is starting an audit of occupancy tax remittance this year.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2446\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2147
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2446
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2090@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2179@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251121
SUMMARY:Orange County: OCHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board voted unanimously on November 20 to let graduates of the Foster Youth to Independence programme move onto the housing choice voucher programme. That programme lasts 36 months\; without a route onward\, young people age out of it. The change gives graduates a preference point that places them on the voucher wait list\, following the pattern used for emergency housing vouchers.\n\nA board member also flagged a pending zoning change that would cut the affordable unit requirement in new developments from 50 percent back to 10 percent. Because firms can pay a fee instead of building the units\, she argued that at 10 percent developers would simply pay\, which she said would not work out well for the county.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2455\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2179
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202025-2455
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2003@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251122
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent the afternoon of November 21 on conservation subdivisions with Randall Arendt\, the planner who wrote Rural by Design\, as the last educational session before the 2050 land use plan goes back out for public comment. His advice was blunt in places: get rid of flexible development\, because it counts unbuildable land toward density\, and preserve 50 percent of the buildable land rather than 50 percent of everything including riparian buffers.\n\nHe also suggested a gradual approach — put conservation subdivisions in one part of the county for five years and see how it goes — and said the only thing that actually counts is ordinance language\, not guidance in a plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212025-2449\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/34?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2003
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11212025-2449
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2002@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2049@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251203
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's board of elections adopted its early voting plan for the March 3 primary on December 2\, setting six sites and hours running February 12 through 28. It also heard\, after a closed session on personnel\, that the board chair is moving out of the county and resigning effective January 1.\n\nThe board acknowledged reports of safety concerns at the Drakeford Library\, one of the six early voting sites\, and the director said she would raise them with library leadership.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2515\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2049
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12022025-2515
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2089@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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-2226@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2245@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board ordinance review committee went through an omnibus package of development ordinance amendments on December 3 — error corrections\, changes required by new state law\, internal inconsistencies\, provisions for school needs\, and other revisions the planning director initiated.\n\nOn landscaping\, the committee questioned whether the county's current standards are doing what they were meant to do. Two members pressed the importance of preserving existing trees and planting new ones in county developments.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2459\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2245
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2459
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2246@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board asked on December 3 to start meeting the county commissioners once or twice a year\, and wrote the request into its own work plan. The reason was specific: the board had recommended approval of a development north of NC 86 and the commissioners turned it down\, and members said they want to know what happens to the recommendations they send up.\n\nOne member noted that between the planning board's vote and the commissioners' decision\, groups had approached commissioners with a different view. Staff were plain that this is allowed — a rezoning is a legislative matter\, not quasi-judicial\, so commissioners may talk to anyone about it and need not disclose it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2460\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2246
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12032025-2460
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2258@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2160@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251209
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's commission for the environment had four things down for December 8: renewing its sponsorship of the Nature of Orange photo contest\, approving its annual report and work plan for January submission\, deciding whether to support a county commissioner's petition to widen the Community Climate Action Grant fund to cover climate adaptation as well as mitigation\, and working on the State of the Environment report.\n\nNo meeting summary was published for this date\, and the identical agenda ran again on January 12\, where the commission approved the minutes of its November 10 meeting rather than any December one. All four items were taken up and decided at that January meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12082025-2467\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2160
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12082025-2467
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2020@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's advisory board on aging spent most of its December 9 meeting on a problem its senior centers did not choose: unsheltered people using the Seymour Center. Staff are considering a bag policy\, worked out with the library and the county attorney\, and the county's street outreach team offered training for centre staff and more frequent rounds now that it is back to full strength.\n\nThe timeline for anything better is long. The building at 2700 Homestead Road is about a year away from hosting cold weather cots\, and a day centre is a couple of years out. The county has approved the lease for the cots\, but what happens after that is not settled.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2543\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2020
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2543
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2027@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's affordable housing advisory board took on a piece of concrete work on December 9: four members volunteered to help staff go through the long-term home repair assistance waiting list\, update it\, and check which applicants qualify for federal repair funding. UNC holds the current list and database.\n\nThe board also assembled the questions it wants to put to county planning staff at a coming meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2481\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2027
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12092025-2481
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2001@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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-2044@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's board of adjustment held an evidentiary hearing on December 10 on a major modification to the Emerson Waldorf School's special use permit\, updating the campus master plan approved in 2015.\n\nThe school\, a Pre-K through grade 12 private school on 54 acres at 6211 New Jericho Road\, wants a road map for buildings phased over ten years\, supporting growth from about 294 students and 48 staff to roughly 350 students and 55 staff by 2035. It would build less than it is already permitted to: total new square footage drops from 56\,562 to 37\,684\, with the 13\,942-square-foot gymnasium\, an eighth-grade classroom building and a shop addition all dropped. No new land is involved.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2470\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2044
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2470
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2086@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2170@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nThe church that owns the Harvey's Chapel cemetery has told Orange County it will consider donating the site\, on condition that it be permanently protected. The county's historic preservation commission heard that on December 10\, alongside news that a grant will pay for expanding the trail network at Seven Mile Creek Preserve\, including a spur trail letting hikers walk up to the cemetery and the site of the original church.\n\nStaff want a high-quality interpretive sign at the cemetery and have arranged to meet a church leader about how to proceed. Members will hike the site late in the winter.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2472\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2170
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2472
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2203@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2211@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Broadband Task Force
DESCRIPTION:Orange County Broadband Task Force\n\nOrange County's broadband task force met on December 10 for updates from its private partner Lumos and from the state Broadband Infrastructure Office on BEAD and Stop Gap — the federal Broadband Equity\, Access\, and Deployment programme and the state's stopgap funding for areas awaiting it.\n\nNo minutes have been published for this meeting\, so what was said about either is not on the record. The agenda also carried the task force's action register and approval of earlier notes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2474\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2211
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12102025-2474
CATEGORIES:Other
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2085@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2217@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2084@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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-2178@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251219
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board voted on December 18 to amend its HUD five-year plan so the authority can select project-based voucher projects non-competitively rather than through a competition. Project-based vouchers attach rental assistance to specific units rather than to a household\, so the change affects how the authority commits subsidy to particular developments.\n\nThe board also adopted its 2026 work plan\, leaving staff room to edit it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12182025-2480\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2178
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_12182025-2480
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2202@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2159@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260113
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's commission for the environment voted on January 12 to support a petition from Commissioner Sally Greene asking the county to widen its Community Climate Action Grant fund to cover climate adaptation as well as mitigation. It was the only split vote of the night: one member voted against and the vice chair abstained.\n\nBefore voting\, the commission compared how the grant process works now against what the petition proposes\, and agreed that some things need changing before next year's round regardless.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01122026-2485\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2159
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01122026-2485
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2257@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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-2048@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Elections
DESCRIPTION:Board of Elections\n\nOrange County's board of elections voted on January 13 to move the Efland precinct's election day polling place from the Efland Ruritan Club to the Efland-Cheeks Community Center\, about 1.8 miles away\, effective immediately. Voters will be told by a bright orange postcard and a newspaper notice.\n\nThe board also approved the slate of early voting officials for the March 3 primary and the Orange County Schools board of education election.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2514\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2048
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2514
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2081@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2331@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260114
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board worked through changes to its small business grant programme on January 13 and settled several questions. Software counts as an eligible purchase under inventory and supplies\; training\, licensure and certificates do not. Every applicant will now have to meet a county economic development staff member before submitting an application.\n\nThe board also discussed asking employers who apply for a grant to strive to pay a living wage\, and the option of approving one larger award per fiscal year.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2486\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2331
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01132026-2486
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2080@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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:20260903T104937Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2000@govwatch
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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-2026@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260121
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's affordable housing advisory board spent its January 20 meeting\, rescheduled from the 13th\, working through its 2026 work plan. The 2025 annual report and the work plan had already gone to the county commissioners the week before\, with the presentation expected in the second week of February.\n\nThe commissioners had signalled they want to hear about gaps in affordable housing across the county. Board members said they would look at past analyses\, and noted that specialist consulting firms do this kind of gap study.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2490\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2026
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01202026-2490
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1999@govwatch
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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
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2035@govwatch
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2077@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2137@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260122
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's board of health met on January 21 without a quorum\, so nothing could be voted on. The chair ran the agenda anyway and the board took its presentations and reports\, but the November minutes\, a change to the delinquent accounts policy and the approval of the agenda itself all rolled to February 25.\n\nThe health director reported eleven measles cases in North Carolina\, all tied to the outbreak in South Carolina and none in Orange County. Chapel Hill wastewater showed nothing\, but staff were reviewing immunization records and had quarantine and isolation templates ready. Two elementary schools in the county\, Emerson Waldorf and Ephesus\, have low MMR coverage.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2575\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2137
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2575
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2146@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2201@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2076@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2177@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260123
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board met virtually on January 22 and finalised its 2026 work plan. The program manager's report covers voucher utilization and issuance\, the state voucher management system report\, terminations and informal hearings.\n\nTerminations and informal hearings are the part of this routine agenda that decides whether a household keeps its rental assistance.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222026-2491\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2177
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01222026-2491
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2189@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260128
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01272026-2637?html=true\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2189
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01272026-2637?html=true
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2075@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2169@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260129
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission held a public hearing on January 28 on the Moorefields National Register nomination\, taking additional documentation and a technical correction\, then voted whether to endorse it. National Register listing is a federal designation\, and the commission's endorsement is part of the state's review.\n\nThe commission also considered a certificate of appropriateness for repair work at Faucette Mill as minor works\, and whether to cancel its February meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2502\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2169
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01282026-2502
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2074@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1998@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260204
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners approved the school construction interlocal agreement on February 3\, the document that governs how the county and its two school systems build schools together. They also took an update on the interlocal agreements under which the county collects taxes for its towns.\n\nProclamations for Black History Month and Human Relations Month opened the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02032026-2507\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/38?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1998
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02032026-2507
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2073@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2225@govwatch
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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-2243@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board elected its chair and vice chair for 2026 on February 4\, then took a county-initiated zoning amendment moving a watershed overlay boundary. The parcel is about 19.4 acres\, unaddressed\, off Dodson's Crossroads at Arden Estate Court in Bingham Township.\n\nThe amendment shifts the line between the Jordan Lake unprotected watershed overlay and the University Lake protected watershed overlay. Watershed protection overlays are part of the zoning atlas\, so moving one takes a zoning atlas amendment and a full hearing.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2503\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2243
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2503
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2244@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260205
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County planning board's ordinance review committee met at 8 p.m. on February 4\, straight after the regular meeting\, to begin reviewing the planning director's amendments to the county's subdivision review processes and classifications.\n\nAttendance is optional and no quorum is needed\, so the committee takes no votes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2504\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2244
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02042026-2504
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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UID:meeting-2200@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260207
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group changed its own FY 2027 schedule on February 6\, recommending approval of a revised timetable. The work programme was already running a year behind\, and the change is what let the group compress the public review period in March.\n\nMembers also closed out sponsor questions on the draft work programme and discussed how to prioritise what goes into it.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02062026-2513\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2200
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02062026-2513
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2158@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's commission for the environment opened voting on the first annual RIPPLE Awards on February 9\, reviewing nominations and starting a process the chair expected to run into March. The awards were finalised on March 9 and presented at an Earth Day ceremony in April.\n\nThe commission also discussed which county and municipal Earth Day events to take part in\, with staff reporting a change to the county's own event\, and kept working on the State of the Environment Report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02092026-2509\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2158
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02092026-2509
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2256@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2018@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's advisory board on aging met February 10 at the Passmore Center\, a building still being restored after a water event. Quarterly reports for year four of the Master Aging Plan were due on community supports and health services\, outdoor spaces and buildings\, and housing.\n\nThe board also took the FY 2026-27 budget\, appointments\, and a report on Medicare Part D open enrollment.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2545\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2018
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2545
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2025@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260211
SUMMARY:Orange County: AHAB Regular Monthly Meeting\, Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Affordable Housing Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's affordable housing advisory board gave an hour on February 10 to preparing for a community meeting\, the bulk of a short agenda. The rest was updates from members and staff and approval of minutes.\n\nThe agenda also carries a note that members have been having trouble getting into the Teams call\, with a staff mobile number to ring if the browser hangs.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2511\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2025
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2511
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1997@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260210
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260211
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners gave an hour and 45 minutes on February 10 to the first group of county boards and commissions presenting their annual work plans\, then 45 minutes to a fee study covering emergency services\, planning and inspections\, and the environment\, agriculture\, parks and recreation department.\n\nA fee study is where a county works out what its services cost and what it charges for them. The commissioners adopted the resulting FY 2026-27 fee schedule in June.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2512\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/39?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1997
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02102026-2512
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2072@govwatch
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2210@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260212
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Broadband Task Force
DESCRIPTION:Orange County Broadband Task Force\n\nOrange County's broadband task force spent half an hour on February 11 with the state broadband office\, taking an update on BEAD and the Stop Gap programme. BEAD is the federal money North Carolina is distributing to reach unserved addresses\; Stop Gap is the state's own effort to fill what is left.\n\nThe county's chief information officer then walked the task force through the GIS map of where service actually reaches\, the same review the group repeated in April.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2529\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2210
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02112026-2529
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2216@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260217
SUMMARY:Orange County: OUTboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's unified transportation board took two information items on February 16: the FY 2027 annual work programme for transit\, and a call for pedestrian safety projects. Neither required a vote.\n\nStaff also reported a Mebane route change and the usual round on the planning organisations and the state transportation department. Public comment at this board comes by email and is read aloud during the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02162026-2528\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2216
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02162026-2528
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1996@govwatch
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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
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UID:meeting-2145@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260219
SUMMARY:Orange County: February Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board took a consultant's report on February 18 from focus groups assessing where tourism in Orange County stands now and what it should prioritise. Magellan Strategies ran them.\n\nThe board also took an update on planning for the nation's 250th anniversary\, an observance it built a July 4 event around at the Colonial Inn.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2533\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2145
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2533
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2199@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260219
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group had two recommendations to make on February 18: approval of GoTriangle's regional technology plan\, and the status quo option for Orange Transit's FY 2027 work program.\n\nThe status quo choice mattered. The FY 2027 work program was already running a year behind its own schedule\, and the group spent the following month compressing the public review period to fit.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2530\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2199
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02182026-2530
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2176@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260220
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board met virtually on February 19. The program manager's report is where the substance sits: voucher utilization and issuance\, the state's voucher management system report\, terminations\, and informal hearings.\n\nTerminations and informal hearings are the two that decide whether a household keeps its rental assistance\, so they are the part of a routine agenda worth reading.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02192026-2534\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2176
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02192026-2534
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2188@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260224
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260225
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission took an open meetings law refresher from the county attorney on February 24\, thirteen minutes of the ninety-minute agenda. That is unusual enough on an advisory board agenda to be worth noting.\n\nThe commission also worked its secretary and membership vacancies\, recapped its community conversations\, and took subcommittee reports on a youth initiative\, tabling\, and the Pauli Murray Awards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02242026-2639\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2188
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02242026-2639
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2136@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260225
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260226
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's board of health took the health department's FY 2026-27 budget request on February 25\, built to stay flat. The department is aiming to add no new spending without matching new revenue\, and its request nets out at authorized expenditures minus service revenue\, about $10.1 million on the prior year's figures.\n\nThe board also welcomed two new members\, including a county commissioner\, and heard that a resolution in support of expedited newborn screening was coming.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252026-2576\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2136
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_02252026-2576
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2255@govwatch
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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
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UID:meeting-2224@govwatch
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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-2242@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260304
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260305
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board spent March 4 on the Land Use Plan 2050\, answering a request for information it had made in December. Staff sent the memo out two weeks ahead and asked members to come with questions.\n\nThe material was what the county commissioners saw at two half-day retreats in November: community septic\, wastewater treatment and groundwater resources on the 14th\, and conservation subdivisions on the 21st.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03042026-2536\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2242
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03042026-2536
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1995@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2157@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260309
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260310
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's commission for the environment finalized its Community Environmental Excellence Award on March 9\, reviewing the tallies from the previous meeting and settling on winners to be notified ahead of an Earth Day ceremony in April. Commission members were needed to present them.\n\nThe chair introduced two new applicants and the commission discussed how to make orientation smoother and a new attendance procedure. Subcommittees then swapped sections of the State of the Environment Report\, each group reviewing another's work and giving feedback\, with all emerging-issue topics to be assigned.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03092026-2538\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2157
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03092026-2538
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2017@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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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UID:meeting-1994@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260310
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260311
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent 90 minutes on March 10 hearing the second group of county boards and commissions present their annual work plans\, a yearly exercise in which each board reports what it did and what it plans\, measured against the commissioners' strategic goals. The first group presented on February 10.\n\nThe board then returned to the Land Use Plan 2050 information request\, and closed with appointment discussions for seven bodies.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102026-2549\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/42?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1994
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03102026-2549
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-1993@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2330@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260318
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board gave 45 minutes on March 17 to a staff presentation on the county's economic development goals\, successes and challenges\, the longest item on the agenda. The director's report followed.\n\nUnder new business the board welcomed a new member and adopted an updated attendance policy.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2550\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2330
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03172026-2550
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2034@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board reviewed and approved new farms for the voluntary agricultural district on March 18\, the one decision on its agenda. Voluntary agricultural districts give farms some protection from nuisance complaints and a formal signal that the land is meant to stay in agriculture.\n\nThe board also discussed the single membership application it had on file and how to recruit more\, took an update on the Land Use Plan 2050\, and looked for agriculture-themed photographs to illustrate the final draft of its Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2556\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2034
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2556
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2144@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
SUMMARY:Orange County: March Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board met in Carrboro on March 18\, at the Drakeford Library Complex\, and opened with a welcome from the Carrboro town manager and a reading by a former Carrboro poet laureate who sits on the board.\n\nThe executive director reported on final details for a sold-out Savannah Bananas event\, other major April events in the county\, and the bureau's plans for a July 4 event at the Colonial Inn tied to the nation's 250th anniversary.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2583\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2144
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2583
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2198@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260319
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group took the FY 2026 second quarter unaudited financial update on March 18\, along with fourth-quarter amendments to the annual work program.\n\nThis is also the meeting where the group discussed shortening the public review period for the FY 2027 work program below the customary 30 days\, weighing two weeks against 21 days. It settled on 21 the following week.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2555\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2198
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03182026-2555
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1992@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260320
SUMMARY:Orange County: Joint Meeting with the Mebane City Council
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners met jointly with Mebane's mayor and officials on March 19\, and the agenda ran in the order the questions actually depend on each other: first each government's comprehensive land use plan update\, then water and sewer capacity\, then proposed new schools in the Orange County part of Mebane.\n\nThe school question got the longest block\, 45 minutes\, covering candidate sites\, what recreation might go with them\, and how they could serve as emergency shelters.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2552\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/43?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1992
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2552
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2175@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260320
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board met virtually on March 19 for its monthly session. The program manager's report is the substance of these meetings\, covering the housing choice voucher program\; the presentation is available on request rather than posted.\n\nMembers gave updates and a three-minute public comment period was offered.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2560\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2175
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03192026-2560
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2254@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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UID:meeting-1991@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260321
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260322
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Housing Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners held a half-day retreat on March 21 to hear about housing markets and pricing\, part of a long sequence of background sessions they asked for before setting direction on the Land Use Plan 2050.\n\nTwo outside presenters came: Yonah Freemark on housing economics\, and Todd Taylor of OWASA on utility service. The board then held a roundtable discussion.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03212026-2557\nWatch: https://orangecountync.gov/CivicMedia?VID=86\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1991
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03212026-2557
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-1990@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2187@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260324
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260325
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission met March 24 in a format the chair had tightened\, with times attached to each item and the commission's own purpose read into the record at the top: to promote goodwill across communities\, identify concerns about discrimination and civil inequality\, and recommend to the county commissioners on human relations and social justice.\n\nStaff from the Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life gave the county update. The agenda also carries an accessibility line offering interpretation and other support on 48 hours' notice.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03242026-2640\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2187
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03242026-2640
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2135@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's board of health had three action items on March 25. One was a resolution urging the state to speed up its evaluation of newborn screening for metachromatic leukodystrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy\, two rare conditions where early detection changes what treatment can do. The others were an update to the county's well rules and a revision of the board's own operating procedures.\n\nThe health director also briefed the board on accreditation\, and a program director gave an update on the campus community coalition.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2577\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2135
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2577
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2168@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260325
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260326
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission had three decisions on March 25\, all of them about Montrose or the nation's 250th anniversary. It evaluated Montrose for landmark designation and started the process of an interlocal agreement with the Town of Hillsborough to designate it\, which is needed because the property sits in Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction. It also decided whether to join the statewide Landmark Tree project.\n\nUnder updates the commission took a proposed memorial marker honoring the enslaved community associated with St. Matthew's Church\, progress toward National Register listing for Moorefields\, and the donation process and timeline for the Harvey's Chapel cemetery.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2168
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03252026-2561
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2197@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2223@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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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DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260407
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260408
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took the manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan on April 7\, held two public hearings\, and heard a school enrollment forecast. One hearing covered the draft HOME Investment Partnership annual action plan\; the other a county-initiated zoning amendment moving a watershed overlay boundary on a single 19.4-acre parcel in Bingham Township.\n\nThe board also discussed how the county communicates with residents and how its online content measures against the Americans with Disabilities Act.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/45?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1989
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04072026-2565
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2191@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260409
SUMMARY:Orange County: Intergovernmental Parks Work Group
DESCRIPTION:Intergovernmental Parks Work Group (IPWG)\n\nOrange County's intergovernmental parks work group met April 8 with three plans on the table\, all of them about connecting places rather than building in one. Chapel Hill staff presented on its parks and recreation comprehensive master plan and on the Everywhere to Everywhere plan\, and county staff on the feasibility of turning the J Branch rail corridor into a trail.\n\nThe group is where Mebane\, Chapel Hill\, Carrboro\, Hillsborough and the county compare notes\, so the second half of the agenda was each department saying what is coming.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082026-2564\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2191
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04082026-2564
CATEGORIES:Other
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2156@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260413
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260414
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's commission for the environment worked on its State of the Environment Report on April 13\, settling the top three to five recommendations for each section along with formatting\, editing and images\, and taking a tree canopy study update from the chair.\n\nMembers also planned the Earth Day event at Blackwood Farm Park and the first Ripple Awards\, where commissioners were needed to present. Recruitment and retention came up with no vote on new members this month.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04132026-2568\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2156
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04132026-2568
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2253@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260415
SUMMARY:Orange County: Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent April 14 on three substantive items and then an hour of appointments. Durham Technical Community College's president presented on the college's goals\, its K-12 partnerships in the county\, county-supported workforce initiatives and the Orange County campus addition and renovation project.\n\nThe board then discussed the 2026 Longtime Homeowners Assistance Program\, which the chair later cited as evidence the county has taken deliberate steps to protect low-wealth residents from property tax increases\, and took the draft county Trails Plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142026-2578\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/48?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1988
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04142026-2578
CATEGORIES:Work session
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UID:meeting-2042@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260416
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's animal services advisory board took up a survey sent to county residents on April 15\, and reported on the vacancies it was carrying at that point. The director gave developments from the shelter and introduced a new business officer.\n\nOld business ran to the board's 2026 goals\, including a proposal to seat a youth delegate and plans for a staff appreciation day.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2588\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2042
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2588
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2143@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260416
SUMMARY:Orange County: April Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board hosted two senior UNC real estate officials on April 15: the associate vice chancellor for real estate and campus enterprises\, and the executive director for real estate development. The university is the largest single influence on visitor traffic in the county\, so what it builds shapes what the bureau markets.\n\nThe executive director gave her report\, board members brought community updates\, and the board approved minutes from March.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2582\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2143
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04152026-2582
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2196@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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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UID:meeting-1987@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260417
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session - CIP
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took the county manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan on April 16\, working from summaries of the county\, proprietary and school capital programs alongside two presentations\, one on county and proprietary projects and one on school capital funding.\n\nThe plan came back through the budget process in May and June. The board accepted it on June 16 and set school capital funding at $112\,524\,049 for the year.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162026-2579\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/47?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1987
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162026-2579
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2174@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260416
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260417
SUMMARY:Orange County: OSHA Regular Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Housing Authority Board\n\nThe Orange County Housing Authority advisory board met virtually on April 16 for a routine monthly session. The program manager's report covers a monthly overview\, programmatic reports and the voucher inventory\, which tracks how many housing choice vouchers the authority holds and how many are in use.\n\nThe board also had two months of minutes to approve\, February and March\, plus member updates and a public comment period of three minutes per speaker.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162026-2585\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2174
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04162026-2585
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2215@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260420
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260421
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's unified transportation board took three regional items on April 20: the Triangle West metropolitan planning organization's master transportation plan and air quality report\, the staff working group's draft FY 2027 annual work program for transit\, and the county's transportation priorities for the state's Spot 8.0 prioritization round.\n\nSpot 8.0 is how North Carolina ranks and funds transportation projects\, so what the county submits determines what the state pays for. Public comment at this board comes by email and is read aloud during the meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-2584\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2215
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04202026-2584
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-1986@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2167@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260423
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission had nothing to decide on April 22 and gave its discussion block to one subject: preserving the history of Black tenant farming\, through the B. C. Corbett farmstead and related sites in the Carr community of northwest Cedar Grove Township. Staff brought a presentation.\n\nThe updates that followed covered preservation problems at the Hughes Academy and the Cameron Ice House\, revised cost estimates from the historic courthouse Phase I report\, logistics for a Montrose tour\, and plans for a joint town and county event on July 4 marking the nation's 250th anniversary.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2589\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2167
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2589
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2195@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260423
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group Special Meeting
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group adopted the FY 2027 annual work program on April 22 and sent it to the county commissioners. The program directs the proceeds of the half-cent sales tax voters approved in 2011\, which can only fund projects both the commissioners and the GoTriangle board have approved.\n\nThe schedule was compressed. The work program was originally meant to be adopted a year earlier\, and the public review period was cut from 30 days to 21 to fit the consolidated timeline. The draft went out April 1 with a news release\, and comment closed April 21\, the day before this meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2587\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2195
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04222026-2587
CATEGORIES:Special or emergency meeting
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UID:meeting-2186@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260428
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260429
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission set aside 45 minutes on April 28 to score submissions for its annual awards\, the longest item on the agenda by some distance. It also took up the Blackwood Farms commemorative marker\, an item that returned to the commission in May\, June and August before reaching the county parks council in September.\n\nThe executive committee reported on the secretary and membership vacancies and set the date for the August retreat. Subcommittees reported on outreach to local organizations and on the Pauli Murray Awards and community conversations.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04282026-2590\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2186
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04282026-2590
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2209@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260430
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Broadband Task Force
DESCRIPTION:Orange County Broadband Task Force\n\nOrange County's broadband task force gave half an hour on April 29 to a Lumos stop gap update\, presented by a director from the company itself\, and a full hour to reviewing the GIS map of where service actually reaches. Two county commissioners co-chair the task force.\n\nThe map matters because the county's $10 million American Rescue Plan contract with Lumos is measured in locations passed\, and construction delays in 2024 cut the required count from 6\,370 to 5\,852.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04292026-2595\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2209
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04292026-2595
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260501
SUMMARY:Orange County: BOCC Joint Meeting with the School Boards
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent April 30 with the two school systems. Each brought its FY 2027 local budget request alongside performance and state accountability data and an update on career and technical education\, with 80 minutes set aside for both.\n\nThe last 45 minutes went to capital: the county manager's recommended capital investment plan and updates on projects already underway.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04302026-2591\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/50?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1985
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_04302026-2591
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260506
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners hired an outside firm on May 5 to look at how the county does reappraisal and tax assessment. The contract with GAR Associates comes while the tax office is running under an interim administrator and a work group has been meeting on assessment improvements.\n\nThe board also held the public hearing required before borrowing for capital projects\, took a substantial amendment to the HOME-ARP allocation plan\, and received the manager's recommended FY 2026-27 operating budget. Two proclamations opened the meeting\, one honoring a local principal named the national high school principal of the year and one for Mental Health Awareness Month.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052026-2597\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/51?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1984
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05052026-2597
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board had two things to recommend on May 6. One was the preliminary plat for Rigsbee Estates\, a 43-lot subdivision on 61.11 acres at 3531 NC Highway 54 West in Bingham Township\, with 35.24 acres\, more than half the site\, set aside as open space. The commissioners had approved the concept plan for it as a conditional district rezoning in October.\n\nThe other was the planning director's rewrite of the county's subdivision review processes and classifications\, the amendment that would move most by-right subdivisions to staff review.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2592\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2240
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2592
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260506
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260507
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board Training Session
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board held a training session on May 6 for members appointed recently\, covering the basics of land use regulation in the county. Attendance was optional and no quorum was required.\n\nThe board ran a second such session on June 3.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2593\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2241
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05062026-2593
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260511
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260512
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's commission for the environment spent most of May 11 on the State of the Environment Report\, working through edits and formatting for the final drafts and taking an update on the tree canopy study. Subcommittees then broke out to fill gaps\, each naming one person to help with final edits.\n\nThe chair also led a discussion of the Earth Day event at Blackwood Farm Park and the first Ripple Awards\, including how to make sure event announcements reach the whole county rather than the people already paying attention. Membership recruitment and retention came up\, with a new applicant introduced but no vote this month.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05112026-2599\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2155
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05112026-2599
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260512
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260513
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board elected its officers on May 12\, nominating and voting on a chair\, vice chair and secretary. It also worked through its own housekeeping: a vacancy on the core business and grant committee\, a review of the attendance policy\, and whether to change its meeting schedule and time.\n\nThe county's community and rural development agent gave an update\, and members had ten minutes of open discussion.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122026-2600\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2329
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05122026-2600
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260514
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Adjustment
DESCRIPTION:Board of Adjustment\n\nOrange County's board of adjustment held an administrative meeting on May 13 with no cases to decide. Half the agenda was annual legal training from the county staff attorney\, including guidance on standing\, which governs who is entitled to bring an appeal before the board.\n\nMembers also discussed changes to their own rules of procedure\, particularly the attendance policy and tenure\, and approved minutes from December 10\, 2025\, the last time the board met.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132026-2601\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2043
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05132026-2601
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260515
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent the evening of May 14 on the money that goes to other people's institutions. The first 45 minutes went to funding requests from outside agencies\, and the next hour and a half to Durham Technical Community College\, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools and Orange County Schools\, on both the operating and capital sides.\n\nWork sessions take no spoken public comment\; the second budget and capital plan public hearing was set for May 28.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2603\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/53?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1982
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2603
CATEGORIES:Work session
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260514
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260515
SUMMARY:Orange County: Climate Council Meeting Agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Climate Council\n\nThe Orange County Climate Council met May 14 with staff from the county\, Carrboro\, Chapel Hill and Hillsborough around one table. Drought and water conservation took a block of the agenda\, led by OWASA\, and staff from three governments reported jointly on the Heat Action Plan.\n\nChapel Hill briefed the group on its electrification program and Hillsborough on Climate Challenge 2026. The council then broke into small groups for what the agenda calls barrier buster conversations. It does not meet again until November 18.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2594\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2151
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05142026-2594
CATEGORIES:Other
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260518
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260519
SUMMARY:Orange County: Outboard
DESCRIPTION:Orange Unified Transportation Board\n\nOrange County's unified transportation board spent 40 minutes on new business May 18\, and much of it was housekeeping: an attendance policy\, electing a chair and vice chair\, and conflict of interest statements. Two items had substance for riders\, an update on the fare free program and one on the county transit software system.\n\nStaff also reported on the annual work plan\, the county bicycle and pedestrian plan\, and the metropolitan and rural planning organizations and NCDOT.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2605\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2214
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05182026-2605
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260520
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took final approval on May 19 for up to $32 million in installment financing\, the first of two pieces of a spring borrowing that started at roughly $60.8 million for capital projects and equipment. The Local Government Commission was expected to sign off on June 2\, which sets the final amount and terms.\n\nThe board also considered putting $100\,000 toward four townhomes at Weaver's Grove\, and approved the HOME program's annual action plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/54?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1981
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05192026-2607
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board spent May 20 finishing its Farmland Plan before taking it to the county commissioners on June 2. Members reviewed new front sections that had been added to the draft\, a preface\, acknowledgements and a call to action\, and settled the logistics for the presentation: who speaks and who attends.\n\nThe board also took a voluntary agricultural district update\, discussed upcoming retirements from its own membership and the applications to replace them\, and heard about a trust fund grant application for a new Cost of Community Services study.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2612\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2033
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2612
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's animal services advisory board worked through three open seats on May 20: a Town of Chapel Hill vacancy\, a seat reserved for the owner or manager of a retail pet service\, and a non-municipal seat coming open in June. Two people were named for board appointments and upcoming votes.\n\nThe board also followed up on its 2026 goals\, a proposal to add a youth delegate\, staff appreciation plans and a county survey. Staff reported on the shelter and foster programs\, the clinic\, and a fundraiser silent auction.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2631\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2041
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2631
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: May Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nThe Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau board met over breakfast on May 20 with a leadership question in front of it. The chair opened on the executive director's announced retirement\, and proposed holding off on forming strategic subcommittees until later in the summer\, once Orange County's succession planning process gives more guidance.\n\nThe board also reviewed the FY 2026-27 budgets recommended by the county manager and the Chapel Hill town manager\, both still in draft\, and analyzed what the Savannah Bananas event returned.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2610\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2142
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2610
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260521
SUMMARY:Orange County: Staff Working Group
DESCRIPTION:OCPT Staff Working Group\n\nOrange County's transit tax district staff working group met May 20 to review the money. The tax district administrator gave a quarterly update covering how FY27 project agreements are grouped and an updated financial model\, and presented GoTriangle's annual financial report for FY25 along with Orange Transit's own FY25 results.\n\nThe group also took up the FY27 global capital and operating agreements GoTriangle proposes to keep consistent with FY26\, revised financial policies and procedures for the group itself\, and GoTriangle's fourth-quarter amendment requests. On consent it cancelled its June 17 meeting and updated the adoption schedule for the FY27 annual work program.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2609\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2194
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05202026-2609
CATEGORIES:Other
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners spent three hours on May 26 going through department by department in the FY 2026-27 recommended budget. No public comment is taken at work sessions.\n\nThe list ran across support services\, general government and community services: asset management\, community relations\, finance\, human resources\, information technologies\, the commissioners' own budget\, elections\, the county attorney and manager\, register of deeds\, tax administration\, animal services\, cooperative extension\, the environment and parks department\, economic development including the Article 46 sales tax fund\, fleet services\, planning and inspections\, solid waste\, the Sportsplex and transportation services.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2613\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/56?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1979
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2613
CATEGORIES:Work session
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260527
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission took up the Blackwood Farms commemorative marker on May 26\, the first of four meetings this summer where the item appears. The executive committee reported on elections and membership vacancies and confirmed the commission's August 22 retreat.\n\nSubcommittees reported on outreach to local organizations and on community events\, including the Pauli Murray Awards and community conversations. The commission's charge is to identify community concerns about discrimination and civil inequality and recommend on them to the county commissioners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2615\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2185
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05262026-2615
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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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
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260602
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260603
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners took up the opioid advisory committee's recommendations for settlement money on June 2 and directed staff to bring a final spending resolution back on June 16. They also accepted an updated Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan\, replacing a document from 2009\, and heard where the interlocal tax collection agreement with the towns stands.\n\nTwo proclamations opened the meeting\, one for Juneteenth Freedom Day and one recognizing June as Pride Month.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/58?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1977
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06022026-2620
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2213@govwatch
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2221@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2237@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's Planning Board recommended approval of a rezoning at 1651 Old Lystra Road\, a 15.5-acre parcel that sits inside Chapel Hill's transition area under the joint planning agreement between the county and the two towns.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2617\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2237
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2617
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2238@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County planning board's ordinance review committee met right after the June 3 regular meeting to review the planning director's omnibus amendments to the development ordinance\, which staff describes as mostly housekeeping across several topic areas.\n\nAttendance is optional for board members and no quorum is required\, so nothing is voted on here.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2618\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2238
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2618
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2239@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260604
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board Training
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board held a training session on June 3 for members appointed recently\, on the basics of land use regulation in the county. Attendance was optional and no quorum was needed.\n\nTwo board members came. The session ran 45 minutes.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2619\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2239
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06032026-2619
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1976@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260604
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260605
SUMMARY:Orange County: Budget Work Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners met on June 4 to make the decisions that fix the budget: which amendments to fund on the ten-year capital investment plan\, what to give the two school systems\, what the fee schedule looks like\, and where to set the tax rates. The work session was scheduled to run three hours and no public comment is taken at these.\n\nThe evening ends with a resolution of intent\, which commits the board to adopting the budget at its June 16 business meeting on the terms agreed that night.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042026-2621\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/59?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1976
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06042026-2621
CATEGORIES:Work session
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2154@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2069@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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UID:meeting-1975@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260617
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners adopted the FY 2026-27 budget on June 16\, setting the property tax rate at 68.05 cents per $100 of assessed value\, a 4.22-cent increase. The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district tax was set at 14.79 cents\, which puts the combined rate for Chapel Hill residents at 82.84 cents. Twelve fire district rates were set alongside them\, and county employees got a 2 percent raise with the living wage recognized at $20.02 an hour.\n\nThe same night the board approved a guaranteed maximum price of $22\,906\,906 from Gilbane to build the crisis diversion facility\, accepted the ten-year capital investment plan\, and amended its broadband contract with Lumos to reach 105 more unserved households.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/62?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1975
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06162026-2625
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2040@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260618
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's animal services advisory board spent June 17 on its own vacancies. Three seats were open\, each reserved for a different kind of member: a non-municipal seat\, a seat for the owner or manager of a retail pet service\, and a seat for animal welfare and advocacy. One applicant was named for each\, and two of them attended.\n\nThe rest was routine. Staff gave shelter and foster updates\, and the board planned a July ice cream truck for staff appreciation day and discussed meeting with other county boards.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172026-2629\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2040
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06172026-2629
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2251@govwatch
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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
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UID:meeting-2184@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260624
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission took up the Blackwood Farms commemorative marker on June 23\, the first of three meetings this summer where the item appears. The executive committee reported on membership and vacancies\, and set the commission's retreat for August 22\, a full day from nine to four.\n\nThe rest was reports: an update from the county's Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life\, subcommittee reports on tabling and outreach to local organizations and on community events\, and announcements running through September. The commission's stated charge is to identify community concerns about discrimination and civil inequality and to recommend on them to the county commissioners.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06232026-2626\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2184
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06232026-2626
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2068@govwatch
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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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2166@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260625
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission had nothing to decide on June 24 and spent the evening on five staff presentations. The first was how to mark the county Poor House Cemetery\, and specifically the lynching of Cyrus Guy\, who is buried there. A second item covered paying for a ground penetrating radar survey of the same site\, which would locate unmarked graves.\n\nThe commission also took up the process for designating Montrose a landmark inside Hillsborough's extraterritorial jurisdiction\, a funding delay in architectural planning for the historic courthouse alongside court staff security requirements\, and a new proposal for the historic buildings at the future Twin Creeks park. It does not meet in July.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2628\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2166
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_06242026-2628
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2067@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2235@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2236@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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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UID:meeting-1974@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260710
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners met for the first business meeting after Commissioner Jamezetta Bedford's death\, with her seat held vacant on the dais. They adopted the $27 million financing for the Crisis Diversion Center\, widened the tax relief program for longtime homeowners\, and settled a year-old argument about who supervises the tax administrator.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092026-2641\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/63?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1974
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07092026-2641
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2328@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260714
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260715
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board met over lunch at Bru's Public House in Carrboro on July 14\, with one thing to vote on: which applicants to recommend to the county commissioners for its own open seats. The commissioners take up advisory board appointments at their September 10 work session and confirm them September 15.\n\nThe longest item was a guest presentation from the county's strategic planning manager. Members also spent twenty minutes on who they want to hear from at future meetings\, and took the director's report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07142026-2642\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2328
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07142026-2642
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2032@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260715
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260716
SUMMARY:Orange County: Agricultural Preservation
DESCRIPTION:Agricultural Preservation Board\n\nOrange County's agricultural preservation board had nothing to decide on July 15 and spent the hour on discussion. The main item was following up on the Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan\, which the county commissioners approved on June 2\, and reviewing a draft web version of it.\n\nAshton Tippins presented on TABLE\, a food access program. The board also reviewed membership applications going to the commissioners on September 10\, took a voluntary agricultural district update\, and heard about a trust fund grant application to pay for a new Cost of Community Services study.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152026-2643\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2032
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07152026-2643
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1973@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260728
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260729
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners added this July 28 meeting to their calendar for one reason: to fill the District 1 seat left vacant when Jamezetta Bedford died on June 21. State law gave them until August 20\, after which the clerk of superior court would have made the choice instead.\n\nThe board had already decided on July 9 to use the Orange County Democratic Party's application process rather than run its own. Six people applied\, all confirmed by the board of elections as registered Democrats living in District 1\, and the party's executive committee recommended one of them on July 20. A short consent agenda followed.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282026-2644\nWatch: https://orangecountync.cablecast.tv/show/64?site=1\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1973
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_07282026-2644
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2066@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2065@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2153@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260810
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260811
SUMMARY:Orange County: Commission for the Environment
DESCRIPTION:Commission for the Environment\n\nOrange County's commission for the environment gave twenty minutes on August 10 to what PFAS is doing to OWASA's operations. Two staff from the water utility came to present and to ask the commission what it makes of their draft guiding principles\, and what the community's input on them should be.\n\nThe commission also took a vote it has been building toward: accepting the final draft of its State of the Environment Report. Members reviewed the Community Climate Action Grant program\, its past awards and its scoring tools\, heard a summer intern report on the Heat Action Cohort\, and broke into subcommittees to set goals for the next four months.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08102026-2645\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2153
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08102026-2645
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2064@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2233@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2234@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260813
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe Orange County planning board's ordinance review committee met right after the August 12 regular meeting to keep working through the planning director's omnibus amendments to the development ordinance\, which staff calls primarily housekeeping. The item was carried over from July 1.\n\nAttendance is optional for planning board members and no quorum is required\, so the committee takes no formal action. It carried the same item forward again to September 2.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2647\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2234
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08122026-2647
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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UID:meeting-2212@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2039@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260819
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260820
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County NC Animal Services Advisory Board meeting agenda for
DESCRIPTION:Animal Services Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's animal services advisory board met August 19 with staffing at the shelter as the main subject. The director reported on relief veterinarian coverage in the clinic\, the open program manager position\, and follow-up from the rabies clinic. Staff also gave a budget update.\n\nThe board's own business was thinner. It checked on the subcommittee it created in June to coordinate with animal advisory boards in neighboring counties\, chaired by Michael Dempsey\, and recapped the July 15 staff appreciation event. Board appointments and upcoming votes were listed under new business.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2657\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2039
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08192026-2657
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-2193@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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-2183@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260822
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260823
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission spent a full day on August 22 setting its own direction\, and the last ninety minutes went to the longest horizon. Members worked on a vision statement for where the county should be in ten years and on three or four core pillars defining the equity goals to reach in that time. A separate hour covered the next three years: which topics to focus on through FY30\, which partnerships to prioritize\, and how to gather community data and take what the agenda calls pulse checks on how residents feel.\n\nThe morning was more concrete. The commission closed out FY26 spending\, set an FY27 budget\, and had each subcommittee draft a one-page charter and a priority statement naming what it will accomplish and by when. Members also fixed an event calendar: a Blackwood Farms event\, three housing events between October 2026 and June 2027\, a community conversation in February 2027\, and the annual PMA event on May 16\, 2027. They discussed which proclamations to send the county commissioners for FY27\, with Black History Month and Women's History Month on the list.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08222026-2656\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2183
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08222026-2656
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-1972@govwatch
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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-2182@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260825
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260826
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's human relations commission spent its August 25 meeting largely on itself. The executive committee brought membership vacancies for application review and a vote\, and recapped the retreat the commission held three days earlier. The packet runs to several volunteer applications filed over the summer.\n\nThe commission also took an update on a commemorative marker at Blackwood Farms\, which it is bringing to the county parks and recreation council the following week. Amy Eckberg presented on the Climate Control Action Grant\, the longest item at fifteen minutes. Subcommittees reported on tabling and outreach to local organizations\, a housing series\, and the Blackwood Farms dedication. The agenda carries a pointed instruction for public comment: speakers are asked not to share identifying information or details of an active complaint before the Office of Civil Rights and Civic Life\, and the chair may redirect anyone who does.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2655\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2182
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08252026-2655
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2165@govwatch
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260827
SUMMARY:Orange County: Historic Preservation Commission
DESCRIPTION:Historic Preservation Commission\n\nOrange County's historic preservation commission took no votes on August 26 and spent the evening on staff presentations. The substantive one was Murphey School\, a county historic landmark\, where staff brought new renovation concepts ahead of an eventual certificate of appropriateness request. Staff also walked the commission through proposed federal changes to Section 106 review\, the rule that requires federal projects to account for their effect on historic properties.\n\nThe updates ran long and covered a lot of ground: the Montrose landmark process\, ground penetrating radar at the Poor House Cemetery\, a cemetery donation at Harvey's Chapel\, new hut designs at Occaneechi Village\, and complaints about the appearance of the historic courthouse. Commissioners also heard that a historic house at 752 Rex Drive in Hillsborough had been destroyed\, and discussed scheduling field trips to sites including the Hughes House in Cedar Grove\, the Old Eno Quaker Burying Ground and the Capt. John Pope Farm.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262026-2658\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2165
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_08262026-2658
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2327@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260902
SUMMARY:Orange County: Business Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nOrange County's commissioners meet Tuesday night to name the crisis diversion facility now under construction for Jamezetta Bedford\, the commissioner who died on June 21 after eight years on the board. The same meeting fills a countywide elected office without an election. Mark Chilton resigned as Register of Deeds on August 14 with three months left in his term\, and state law gives the county Democratic Party 30 days to name a replacement. Its executive committee held a special election on August 31\, and the commissioners are then required to appoint whoever the party sends them.\n\nThe public hearing is a rewrite of how the county reviews subdivisions. Under the amendment\, a by-right subdivision creating fewer than 21 lots would be approved by staff alone\, with no planning board or commissioner review. The board asked for the change itself after applicants and staff described the current process as a deterrent. The planning board recommended approval unanimously with one addition: neighbors would get 30 days' notice of a developer's neighborhood meeting rather than 14. Commissioners also hear results from a survey of 419 randomly selected households\, and the consent agenda carries a correction to this year's opioid settlement grants after one applicant's proposal was never passed to the advisory committee.\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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UID:meeting-2495@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
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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UID:meeting-2231@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260903
SUMMARY:Orange County: Planning Board
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nOrange County's planning board takes up two things Wednesday night: a 12-lot subdivision off Lebanon Road\, and a 140-page rewrite of the county's development ordinance. Staff recommends approving the subdivision concept plan. It covers 17.1 acres of rural residential land in Cheeks Township\, and the applicant is dedicating 2.75 acres of open space that a conventional plan does not require.\n\nThe ordinance amendment is the larger item\, and the state made it necessary. The Regulatory Reform Act of 2025 removes county land use authority over University of North Carolina property\, ends the waiting period before a denied zoning or subdivision application can be refiled\, and raises the disturbance threshold that triggers stormwater rules on a single-family lot from half an acre to one acre. Staff has folded in floodplain and stream buffer changes requested by FEMA and the state environmental department\, including stream definitions rewritten to follow the Supreme Court's 2023 Sackett decision. The planning board only recommends\; the county commissioners are scheduled to decide on November 5.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2659\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2231
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2659
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2232@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260903
SUMMARY:Orange County: Ordinance Review Committee
DESCRIPTION:Planning Board\n\nThe planning board's ordinance review committee meets right after Wednesday's regular meeting to keep working through the planning director's omnibus amendments to the development ordinance\, which staff describes as mostly housekeeping. The item has now been carried over twice\, from July 1 and again from August 12.\n\nThis is a separate package from the regulatory reform amendments on the regular agenda the same night. Attendance is optional for planning board members and no quorum is needed\, so the committee takes no formal action.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2660\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2232
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09022026-2660
CATEGORIES:Committee meeting
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UID:meeting-2565@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20260903T104937Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260908
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260909
SUMMARY:Orange County: Economic Development Advisory Board
STATUS:CONFIRMED
DESCRIPTION:Economic Development Advisory Board\n\nOrange County's economic development advisory board holds its September meeting at Sonark Farms in Hillsborough\, where Steven Raets gives a presentation and a tour of the property. That takes up the last forty minutes of the ninety-minute meeting.\n\nThe rest is routine: minutes from July 14\, department updates from staff\, and open discussion among board members. No action items are listed.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09082026-2663\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2565
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09082026-2663
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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