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UID:meeting-3270@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220906
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220907
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Durham City Council
DESCRIPTION:Durham City Council\n\nDurham has not published the agenda document for this meeting\, so this summary comes from the city's own item list. Two annexation ordinances are on the agenda: one for a parcel at 5909 Leesville Road\, the other for a residential area along East Geer Street.\n\nA consent agenda bundles 19 items without detailing what each covers. The council also takes up a resolution naming a stretch of Fayetteville Street for Dr. Dock J. Jordan and Carrie Thomas Jordan\, and issues proclamations for Welcoming Week and National Recovery Month.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2873\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3270
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=2873
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3670@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Board of Health
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health's September 25 agenda covered dental fee policy\, refugee health screening\, and children's screen time\, alongside the county's Community Health Improvement Plans for access to care\, behavioral health\, and connections to community support.\n\nThe board also planned to approve minutes from its August 28 meeting and hear the health director's monthly report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2112\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3670
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2112
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3671@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240926
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Minutes of
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health met September 25 to consider Community Health Improvement Plans for the county's three priority areas: access to care\, behavioral health\, and connections to community support. Members also reviewed proposed updates to the board's own policy and procedures manual\, including a dental fee schedule that stops sliding at the 20% pay level and a shorter window\, 10 days instead of 30\, for verifying a client's income.\n\nTwo annual staff reports were also on the agenda: health screening for refugees and asylees arriving in the county\, and research on how screen time affects children's mental health. The board also planned to approve its August 28 minutes and hear the health director's monthly report.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2121\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3671
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09252024-2121
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3260@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241021
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241022
SUMMARY:City of Durham: Regular City Council Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Regular City Council Meeting\n\nThe Durham City Council weighed a $799\,204 contract with Motorola Solutions to upgrade the portable and mobile radios police and other public safety crews use\, the largest sum on the October 21 agenda. Other contracts ranged from $599\,350 for 60 new bus shelters to $258\,723 for a police digital evidence system and $250\,000 for an immigration legal defense grant to JusticeMatters\, Inc.\n\nFour public hearings closed the meeting: annexations for the Mineral Springs Townhouses and Oxford Ridge developments\, a zoning map change for 302 Morreene Road\, and a request to close 165 feet of Hamlin Street. Council members also considered nine board appointments and a plan to widen eligibility for the city's low-income parking discount.\n\nAgenda: https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3144\nWatch: https://durham.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3260
URL:https://durham.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=2&clip_id=3144
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3668@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20241120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20241121
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Board of Health Agenda and
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nOrange County's Board of Health adopted revisions to the county wastewater rules on November 20\, 2024\, elected officers for 2025\, and set its annual work plan. Members asked that concerns about federal public health policy under the incoming administration be added to that plan.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202024-2147\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3668
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11202024-2147
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-3621@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250312
SUMMARY:Orange County: Orange County Advisory Board on Aging Agenda
DESCRIPTION:Advisory Board on Aging\n\nOrange County's Advisory Board on Aging discussed the revaluation and safety at the Seymour Center on 11 March 2025\, and reviewed second-quarter reports on the Master Aging Plan. It asked the tax office to come to its next meeting.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2262\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3621
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_03112025-2262
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3673@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250522
SUMMARY:Orange County: Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board
DESCRIPTION:Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau\n\nA ninety-minute board meeting at the Hyatt Place in Southern Village. On the agenda: the university's local relations director as guest speaker\, preparations for an international football match at Kenan Stadium in June\, summer events\, a meeting planning partnership\, and officers for the coming fiscal year.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2266\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3673
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05212025-2266
CATEGORIES:Advisory board meeting
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UID:meeting-3663@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250529
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nTwo educational sessions carry this meeting: the annual child fatality report\, which comes with a substantial change to what North Carolina requires local teams to review\, and an update on how the county is spending its opioid settlement money. One action item\, a set of new health department fees. Public comment is limited to five minutes for the meeting and three minutes a speaker.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2316\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3663
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05282025-2316
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-1544@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250908T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County commissioners hold a regular session on September 8\, 2025. The board holds a second public hearing on renaming the County Administrative II Building for former commissioner William V. "Bill" Bell\, after taking no action on the same request at an August 25 hearing.\n\nThe consent agenda carries a $6\,173\,542 contract with Alliance Health to manage mental health\, developmental disability and substance use services\, a $932\,221 Home and Community Care Block Grant funding plan for the Department of Social Services\, and the acquisition of three conservation easements totaling about $1.8 million: 119 acres in five parcels along US 15-501 at the Person County line\, a 147-acre farm at 1717 Hopkins Road\, and 76 acres at 5615 Bahama Road. Also on consent: a $210\,289.02 increase to Carolina Civilworks' sewer-repair contract\, bringing it to $610\,289.02\; a $142\,000 increase to McGill Environmental Systems' wastewater-residuals contract\, to $550\,600\; a $291\,000 tax-reappraisal contract with Vision Government Solutions\; a $146\,073.12 purchase of video laryngoscopes for EMS\; a $195\,426-a-year medical-director contract with Duke University Health System\; a $105\,000 ballot-printing contract with Runbeck Election Services\; several public health grant recognitions\; and $72\,560 in opioid settlement funds for a peer-support specialist. The board will also hear proclamations\, including one honoring the women of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion\, and a resolution recognizing the NAACP's state convention in Durham.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1508\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1544
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1508
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2140@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
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 considers two draft resolutions\, one on access to public health resources amid immigration enforcement and one on affordable housing\, and reviews a set of Board of Health policy updates that would apply directly to the health department. An educational session covers the fallout from a court reversal of one of the board's own permit denials over a well setback. The board also discusses a vacant at-large seat and meets in closed session on the health director's annual performance review.\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
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UID:meeting-2103@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
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 is scheduled to hear 14 property tax appeals from the 2025 countywide revaluation. Thirteen come from individual homeowners\; one\, at 220 James Street\, comes from a business\, Engelhardt Ventures LLC.\n\nEach appellant presents evidence for a lower value — a comparable sale\, an independent appraisal\, or documentation of the property's condition — and a county appraiser lays out the basis for the current assessment. The board then sets a final value for each parcel by vote.\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
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UID:meeting-2100@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
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 will hear 13 property tax appeals in one afternoon\, one per parcel assigned to a county appraiser for review. Twelve appeals come from individual property owners\; the other concerns an unimproved lot owned by a company.\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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2139@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-79@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251117T160000
SUMMARY:Chatham County: Board of Commissioners
LOCATION:Historic Courthouse Courtroom
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nChatham County commissioners take up a first-plat review for Riverbend Estates at Laurel Ridge\, a 107-lot subdivision on 622 acres off Rock Rest and Old Graham roads\, at a joint work session and regular meeting. The agenda also includes public hearings on a countywide zoning text amendment to permit gyms and yoga studios in Industrial Light districts and a 66-acre rezoning at 3378 Christian Chapel Church Road for a recreational facility\, plus a consent agenda covering park\, library and reappraisal contracts.\n\nAgenda: https://legistar.granicus.com/chathamnc/meetings/2025/11/1426_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-11-17_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chathamnc.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=2\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/79
URL:https://chathamnc.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=1426&GID=246&G=4B928CDD-81EA-4353-807D-AA8CEB756487
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2138@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251120
SUMMARY:Orange County: Approved Agenda and Minutes for
DESCRIPTION:Board of Health\n\nThe Orange County Board of Health considers its 2026 chair and vice-chair slate\, then a recommendation to fill the board's vacant at-large seat. Members also take up a debt write-off and set-off\, an amended 2026 meeting schedule\, and the annual workplan. A policy review and a fee update for COVID vaccines\, which would go to the county commissioners\, are also on the agenda.\n\nThe board also hears client satisfaction survey results from dental\, environmental and personal health services\, plus committee updates on behavioral health and well rules. It meets in closed session afterward on the health director's annual review.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2463\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2138
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_11192025-2463
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2147@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
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 board takes up a budget update and Savannah Bananas planning under the executive director's report\, plus a communications and digital strategy update from bureau staff. UNC's newly appointed director of special projects\, Marcus Ginyard\, addresses the board on coordination between the university and local governments. Board members also share community updates.\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-1623@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T200000
SUMMARY:Town of Chapel Hill: Town Council
LOCATION:RM 110 | Council Chamber
DESCRIPTION:Town Council\n\nChapel Hill's Nov. 19 council meeting opens with proclamations for OWASA's Care to Share Day\, Small Business Saturday\, and Native American Heritage Month\, followed by public comment. On consent\, council enacts a franchise agreement letting PSNC Energy provide natural gas service in town\, and separately discusses applications to fill a current council vacancy.\n\nThe bulk of the meeting covers land-use business: a public hearing on a conditional zoning modification for 146 Stancell Drive\, and an extensive\, multi-motion debate over a wide-ranging package of amendments to the town's Land Use Management Ordinance and Town Code (covering site plan review\, concept plan review\, floor area and parking limits for two-family dwellings\, and stormwater definitions). Council also enters closed session under General Statute 143-318.11(5)\, during which it authorizes extending the town's option to repurchase the Wallace Deck parking facility. Several council members and a resident add last-minute discussion items on ICE activity in the community\, SNAP funding\, tree protection\, and a program encouraging residents to leave fallen leaves in place.\n\nAgenda: https://chapelhill.legistar1.com/chapelhill/meetings/2025/11/2307_A_Town_Council_25-11-19_Council_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://chapelhill.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=5\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1623
URL:https://chapelhill.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=2307&GID=695&G=B2734B8A-E6A5-4A62-BE5B-2E714AA20188
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-32@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251201T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251201T190000
SUMMARY:Wake County: Board of Commissioners — Regular Meeting
LOCATION:Wake County Justice Center
DESCRIPTION:Board of Commissioners\n\nThis is Wake County's first Board of Commissioners meeting of a new term\, opening with the election of a board chair and vice chair and recognition of the outgoing chair and outgoing county attorney Scott Warren. Most of the substantive business runs through the consent agenda: two federal grants that would each add a full-time position (one for a mental health project\, one for an accreditation program)\, Wake Transit funding agreements covering GoWake Access and SmartRide service\, added funding for the county's pharmacy program\, a multiyear agreement with East Carolina University\, an interlocal agreement with municipalities\, and a services agreement for the county's Historic Preservation Commission and Landmark Program.\n\nThe one item requiring a public hearing is a rezoning of two parcels totaling nearly 14 acres from low-density residential (R-80) to industrial (I-2). The board also takes up a large slate of appointments to advisory boards - including its own Energy Advisory Commission and Fire Commission\, plus county seats on several municipal and regional boards - and closes with a closed session.\n\nAgenda: https://wake.legistar1.com/wake/meetings/2025/12/6198_A_Board_of_Commissioners_25-12-01_Meeting_Agenda.pdf\nWatch: https://wake.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=18\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/32
URL:https://wake.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?LEGID=6198&GID=605&G=53B536B7-DAB7-4DC0-9617-B0772D508F49
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2087@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251210
SUMMARY:Orange County: Board of Equalization and Review
DESCRIPTION:Board of Equalization & Review\n\nOrange County's Board of Equalization and Review heard 16 appeals of 2025 property revaluation values on December 9\, 2025\, from 14 individual owners and one company\, Evans Estates REI LLC. One owner filed two separate appeals on different parcels. Before the docket\, the board also rescinded a December 3 consent-agenda vote on one property and revised its value to $460\,900.\n\nThe appeals argued comparable sales\, home condition and age corrections\, conservation-easement and floodplain restrictions\, a parcel shrunk by road construction\, storm damage\, and land that cannot pass a soil-perc test. Evans Estates argued that zoning and site limits diminish the marketability of an undeveloped Farm Lane tract. The current assessed values at issue ranged from $143\,400\, for an unimproved land parcel\, to $1\,260\,600\, for a house.\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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-3076@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260113T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260113T103000
SUMMARY:Chatham County Schools: Mid-Year Board Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Board of Education\n\nChatham County's school board spent a day-long January retreat on growth and on what it costs. The morning covered a district overview\, early considerations for the 2026-27 budget\, and what charter schools are doing to the district's enrollment and its money. A half-hour block was set aside for the effect of immigration policy on students and school operations\, including what it is doing to graduation cohorts and attendance.\n\nThe afternoon was building. Staff presented enrollment projections from the research laboratory at NC State\, a Chatham Park update\, municipal development trends\, a new elementary school at North Village\, a modular classroom pod at Margaret B. Pollard Middle School\, and three gymnasium replacements. The board was also briefed on future redistricting\, on theme schools and the programs pulling parents elsewhere in the region\, and on annual revisions to the district's mental health plan. The district publishes an item list and no agenda document or minutes\, so what the board settled on is not on file here.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@ChathamCountySchools/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3076
URL:https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_Meeting.aspx?S=WRDnq5hf4PuArDJJDg7LsQ==&MID=BCpWbC2n8mxqBplMkeCxPg==
CATEGORIES:Retreat or planning session
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UID:meeting-2137@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
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 takes up a second-quarter financial and billing report on January 21. It also weighs a change to the delinquent-account policy\, stretching the write-off window from twelve to twenty-four months and sending accounts to the state twice a year instead of once. Two presentations follow: a request that the board back adding two rare diseases\, metachromatic leukodystrophy and Duchenne muscular dystrophy\, to the state's newborn-screening panel\, and the department's yearly update on immigrant and refugee health services.\n\nThe rest of the agenda is routine. The board takes up November's minutes\, a possible change to its spring meeting schedule\, priority-committee updates and board comments\, the health director's report and the month's media items.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2575\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2137
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01212026-2575
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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UID:meeting-2910@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260128
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's Human Relations Commission takes up a commemorative marker for the Blackwood Farms gravesite\, vacancies on its own board\, and its events for February through April. Staff bring an update on the marker\, which is meant to mark a cemetery on the former farm property.\n\nThe rest of the ninety-minute agenda is reports. The executive committee has the secretary post and the open commissioner seats on its slate\, the outreach and community events subcommittees report back\, and new business covers what the commission calls its social justice vision and any emerging issues members want to raise.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01272026-2638\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/2910
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_01272026-2638
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:meeting-2136@govwatch
DTSTAMP:20261014T063336Z
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260511T180000
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SUMMARY:Town of Pittsboro: Board of Commissioners Regular
DESCRIPTION:1. Board of Commissioners (BOC)\n\nPittsboro's commissioners had to decide on 11 May whether to keep the town's Flock Safety license plate reader cameras. The contract runs to January 2027. The mayor recommended continuing the system to that date under written conditions — monthly audits of every search\, 30-day data retention\, no new cameras without board approval\, and a standing bar on using it for traffic enforcement\, immigration enforcement\, reproductive care investigations or facial recognition — with a decision point in November.\n\nFour unified development ordinance amendments came with public hearings: definitions\, wetland protection standards\, the annexation procedure and the accessory use table. The planning board had recommended all four on 20 April. The manager's recommended 2026-27 budget had its public hearing the same night\, and the board took a construction manager selection and a budget amendment for the new town hall.\n\nAgenda: https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05112026-479?html=true\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@townofpittsboronc/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1324
URL:https://pittsboronc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_05112026-479?html=true
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T193000
SUMMARY:Chatham County Schools: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of Education\n\nThe Chatham County Schools board renewed most of its outside partnerships for 2026-27 at its 1 June meeting. Memoranda with Communities in Schools\, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Carolina\, the Hispanic Liaison\, Spark NC\, the county health department and the Department of Social Services were all on the agenda\, along with the Teach Chatham scholarship agreement and requests to use yellow school buses.\n\nThe board also took up the third amendment to the 2025-26 budget\, a request to surplus property\, the local plan application for career and technical education covering 2026 through 2028\, and updates on Opportunity Culture\, mental health and the UNC Tar Heel Business Academy. The rest of the evening was recognitions: the parent and educator advisory councils\, a state music education award\, a congressional art competition\, a state athletics championship\, and the monthly character and staff awards. The board met in closed session beforehand on student records\, personnel and a matter with its attorney.\n\nThe agenda item list is the only record available for this meeting. Chatham County Schools publishes no agenda document or minutes that can be read from outside its portal.\n\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/@ChathamCountySchools/streams\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3069
URL:https://simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/SB_Meeting.aspx?S=WRDnq5hf4PuArDJJDg7LsQ==&MID=s3FShXYGNFgb1vUXn422iA==
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260622T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nThirty-five minutes of ceremonial items open this one: a new chief fire marshal introduced\, a soil and water director recognised for 42 years\, fifty years of general services\, and proclamations for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day\, Durham Refugee Day and Summer Learning Week. Then a consent agenda that includes next year's opioid settlement spending\, and a fifty-minute public hearing block with one zoning map change in it.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1549\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1536
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1549
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260810T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260810T210000
SUMMARY:Durham County: Regular Session
DESCRIPTION:Board of County Commissioners\n\nDurham County's commissioners held one public hearing on August 10\, on policy changes to the comprehensive plan coming out of its evaluation and assessment report. The money was elsewhere. The county took on nine new positions in social services\, paid for by $850\,290 in extra state funding\, to handle the Medicaid changes H.R. 1 requires\, and separately wrote to its congressional delegation asking for more time before the new SNAP cost-share rules take effect.\n\nThree conservation easements moved: 41 acres from Billy and Toni Stevens with a $330\,000 contribution from the Army National Guard's readiness and environmental protection program\, 19.27 acres from Robin Davis at 505 Mason Road with $117\,500 from the City of Durham's water supply protection fund\, and a donated 22-acre easement from David and Carmen Durack on Woodstock and West Cornwallis roads. The board also put $506\,945 toward buying the Durham-to-Roxboro Rail Trail corridor from the state\, distributed the 2 percent cost of living adjustment worth $3.6 million across departments\, and hired a temporary staffing agency for $255\,747.66 to run election operations through the general election. It proclaimed September 10 to 19 as Welcoming Week.\n\nAgenda: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1553\nWatch: https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/1552
URL:https://durhamcounty.granicus.com/AgendaViewer.php?view_id=3&clip_id=1553
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260922
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260923
SUMMARY:Orange County: HRC Monthly
DESCRIPTION:Human Relations Commission\n\nOrange County's Human Relations Commission meets Tuesday with a draft proclamation on immigration enforcement in its packet. The draft would have the county commissioners declare that county funds\, buildings and staff will not assist civil federal immigration enforcement\, and it argues that fear of ICE operations keeps residents from seeking medical care or calling for help. The commission advises the commissioners\; it does not adopt proclamations itself.\n\nThe other action item is an update on the Blackwood Farms commemorative marker\, with a dedication event set for October 17. Under old business the commission takes up the anti-lynching proclamation the commissioners adopted on September 10\, which names four North Carolina deaths since 2024 and asks that hanging deaths get independent autopsies and full evidence sharing with families before any public finding. Subcommittees report on a first housing event\, provisionally November 14\, and on building a contact list of local non-profits.\n\nAgenda: https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09222026-2675\nWatch: https://www.orangecountync.gov/953/Board-of-County-Commissioners-BOCC\nDetails: https://ncgovwatch.com/meetings/3989
URL:https://www.orangecountync.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_09222026-2675
CATEGORIES:Regular meeting
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