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Agenda items in Orange County, matching "budget", between 3 Sep 2025 and 3 Sep 2026

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Budget and appropriations77
Health and human services25
Tax rate and revaluation17
Schools and education14
Bonds and debt13
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  1. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    An unmodified, clean audit opinion, with unassigned fund balance at 16.9 percent of general fund expenditures against a 16…
    Contract amendment approved unanimously
  2. Tue, Sep 1 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The second budget amendment of the fiscal year.
  3. Oct 21, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    8b Fiscal Year 2025-26 Budget Amendment #3
    Approved as part of the consent agenda, unanimous
  4. Thu, Apr 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …Only the first year of a capital plan commits money; the remaining nine are a planning document.
  5. Oct 15, 2025 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    …a proposal to fund marketing from the bureau's fund balance. Board voted to present a marketing plan to the…
    Board voted to present a marketing plan to the Board of County Commissioners and allocate up to $200,000 from the Visitors Bureau fund balance for marketing the event; motion by Bryan, seconded by Gr…
    Discussion item
  6. Wed, Sep 2 Orange County · Parks & Recreation Council
    What the adopted budget and capital improvement plan decisions mean for parks and recreation.
  7. Sep 25, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …impasse; Chapel Hill-Carrboro outlined a plan to rebuild its fund balance through staff attrition and frozen non-personnel spending.
  8. Wed, Jan 21 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    …Thirty thousand dollars was appropriated from fund balance, which remains at 8 percent. Occupancy tax revenues are projected flat, attributed…
  9. Tue, Sep 1 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A funding request against the county's opioid settlement money, with an amended spending authorization resolution and a matching budget
  10. Dec 9, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …services fee changes; budget amendment #5; a transit scheduling and dispatch software agreement with budget amendment #5-A; and a…
    Approved unanimously
  11. Thu, Jun 4 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    3 Fiscal Year 2026-27 County Fee Schedule
    Not reached.
  12. Nov 12, 2025 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    …Underspending on staffing, technology, legal and real estate returned about $603,000 to fund balance. The tax district's finances…
  13. Wed, May 20 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    A status report on outstanding FY26 minutes, and approval of minutes from every meeting in the fiscal year.
    Minutes approval Budget and appropriations
  14. Tue, Sep 1 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A fiscal year 2026-27 contract with Elsewhere Idea & Design Shop, Inc.
  15. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …date; the 2026 listing period extended to February 13; budget amendment #6; ordinance execution for the impervious surface, watershed overlay…
    Approved unanimously
  16. Tue, Aug 25 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    4.a Tax Collector's Annual Settlement for Fiscal Year
  17. Sep 16, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    8.e Fiscal Year 2025-26 Purchase of Seven LIFEPAK…
    Approved as part of the consent agenda
  18. Thu, Jun 4 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    2 Fiscal Year 2026-27 Budget Decisions — Education Funding
    0.81 cents failed 3-4; 0.47 cents passed 4-3.
  19. Oct 21, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Agreement and related budget amendment for a solar feasibility study of Hillsborough-owned properties, with a professional services contract to…
    Approved as part of the consent agenda, unanimous
  20. Oct 7, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Annual animal control services contracts with the three towns for the current fiscal year. Approved as part of the consent…
    Approved as part of the consent agenda
  21. Tue, Jun 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Consent items including a Pollinator Week proclamation, a resolution supporting Tobacco 21 against youth vaping, the year's twelfth budget
    Approved.
  22. Tue, Jun 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …the Gilbane construction manager-at-risk contract, and the budget amendment raising capital authority to match. Approved unanimously. The financing…
    Approved unanimously. The financing resolution for it, up to $27 million, followed on 9 July.
  23. Tue, Feb 17 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …Rate increases ran 5, 16, 9, 15 and 7 percent from FY 2022 through FY 2026, building fund balance ahead…
  24. Thu, Jul 9 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Fifteen consent items, including the first fiscal 2026-27 budget amendment, a state grant for a mobile integrated health program…
    Approved unanimously.
  25. Sep 4, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Included July 8 meeting minutes, motor vehicle and property tax releases and refunds, a budget amendment, a health department fee…
    Approved unanimously as a block
  26. Oct 7, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    8.q Approval of Budget Amendment #2-A to Fund…
    Approved as part of the consent agenda
  27. Tue, Jan 13 Orange County · Economic Development Advisory Board
    …It discussed requiring applicants to strive to pay a living wage and allowing one larger award per fiscal year. All…
  28. Tue, May 19 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …Heat Awareness Week proclamations, a household hazardous waste contract, budget amendment 10, easements and restrictive covenants for the crisis diversion…
  29. Nov 18, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Fifteen items including the October 21 minutes, board and commission appointments, the Abolition Day proclamation, budget amendment #4, a Governor…
    Approved unanimously
  30. Sep 16, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …authorized negotiation of the lease and a budget amendment for a compliance and design study
    Approved unanimously: authorized negotiation of the lease and a budget amendment for a compliance and design study
  31. Nov 19, 2025 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    …The website drew 617,000 visitors last fiscal year, a record, with paid media and search about 30 percent; new…
  32. Tue, Jun 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    6.a Approval of Fiscal Year 2026-27 Budget Ordinances…
    A motion to send the budget back to the manager for another 0.47 cents in cuts failed 3-3. The budget then passed 5-1, McKee opposed, saying he feared the beginning of a long line of tax increases.
  33. Wed, Feb 25 Orange County · Board of Health
    VII.A Proposed Budget for Fiscal Year 2026-2027
  34. Tue, Apr 21 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …of the FY 2025-26 spring financing, with a budget amendment. The district raised its tax rate from 5.81…
    Approved unanimously
  35. Thu, May 14 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …the capital investment plan. The board eventually set per-pupil current expense at $6,290 and school capital funding at…
  36. Wed, Jan 21 Orange County · Board of Health
    Earnings at 35 percent against 50 percent expected at the fiscal midpoint. Personal Health is in deficit from renovations, medical…
  37. Thu, May 28 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The public hearing on the recommended budget and the capital investment plan. Residents could sign up to speak in person…
  38. Tue, May 12 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …recommended FY 2026-27 operating budget and the FY 2026-36 capital investment plan, both published in full online. The…
  39. Thu, Jun 4 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    How the board would take amendments: each named with the funding source it draws on, so a staff-proposed cut…
    Agreed unanimously after an amended first vote carried 4-3.
  40. Fri, Jan 9 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    …The tax district confirmed $2.5 million in liquidity for FY26, on the strength of which a Carrboro budget transfer…
  41. Oct 21, 2025 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Staff presented reduced-cost design options after the original $28.2 million design exceeded budget, ranging from a stripped-down…
    Board selected Option C, with a friendly amendment to evaluate natural-light features, and directed staff to finalize design for a guaranteed maximum price; unanimous
  42. Tue, Jun 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The 2026-36 capital investment plan with county, proprietary and school capital projects for the coming year. Accepted 5-1…
    Accepted 5-1, McKee opposed over total borrowing and the tax burden he expects it to create over the next decade.
  43. Mon, Mar 23 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …in school operating and capital needs, and preserving county taxing authority while funding any expanded exemptions from the state budget.
  44. Thu, Apr 30 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The county manager's recommended capital investment plan and updates on ongoing projects. School capital funding was eventually set at…
  45. Wed, May 6 Orange County · Parks & Recreation Council
    The director walked the council through the manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan and the parks department projects…
  46. Tue, Apr 7 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The county manager's recommended ten-year capital investment plan. The chair reminded the board that voters had approved the…
  47. Oct 31, 2025 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Amends an existing project to move already-allocated capital vehicle funding from operating to capital, and renames it to reflect…
  48. Tue, May 5 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The public hearing required before the county borrows for capital projects and equipment, on a package of roughly $60.8…
  49. Sep 17, 2025 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    Orange County requested adding a new Mebane Circulator route, funded through the Short-Range Transit Plan for a capital vehicle…
    Failed, 5-3
  50. Fri, Jan 9 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    …About $12.5 million in operating costs and $3.2 million in capital costs have been added to the plan
    Vote taken on the timeline for releasing the finalised plan
  51. Tue, Jan 13 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    The budget process kicked off January 8, and staff shared the county's budget guidelines with the board.
  52. Wed, Aug 19 Orange County · Animal Services Advisory Board
    A budget update from staff.
    Staff or committee report Budget and appropriations
  53. Tue, Feb 10 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    The FY 2026-27 budget as it affects aging services.
  54. Tue, Mar 10 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    The FY 2026-27 budget as it affects aging services.
  55. Tue, May 5 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The county manager's recommended FY 2026-27 annual operating budget.
  56. Dec 9, 2025 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    A technology project request for a RecTrac upgrade, discussed with county IT on December 8, with the budget due mid…
  57. Sat, Aug 22 Orange County · Human Relations Commission
    …an FY27 budget, a master calendar carrying every event, and the FY27 proclamations list.
    Discussion item Budget and appropriations
  58. Oct 22, 2025 Orange County · Historic Preservation Commission
    County budget cuts have eliminated funding to preserve the historic bungalow, barn and outbuildings at Twin Creeks Park's Cate…
  59. Wed, May 20 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    A review of the FY 2026-27 budgets recommended by Orange County Manager Travis Myren and Chapel Hill Town Manager…
  60. Tue, May 26 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A department-by-department walk through the recommended budget, covering support services, general government and community services, plus the non…
  61. Nov 19, 2025 Orange County · Chapel Hill/Orange County Visitors Bureau
    …The fee consumed most of the promotions budget, so $30,000 came from reserves for marketing, and the budget office…
  62. Thu, May 28 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    The county manager presented the recommended FY 2026-27 budget, organized around five priorities: minimizing the tax rate increase, prioritizing…
  63. Thu, May 21 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    A department-by-department walk through the public safety and human services budgets: courts, criminal justice resources, emergency services and…
  64. Thu, Apr 30 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    Orange County Schools and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools each presented their board-approved FY 2027 local budget request, together…
  65. Nov 11, 2025 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    The federal shutdown does not threaten the department's newly acquired grants because that funding was already in the budget
  66. Wed, Feb 25 Orange County · Board of Health
    A commissioner reported an $18 million county budget shortfall, likely service cuts and a search for new revenue, and urged…
  67. Wed, May 6 Orange County · Parks & Recreation Council
    The director's updates, including the proposed FY 2026-27 budget.
  68. Sat, Aug 22 Orange County · Human Relations Commission
    Event co-leads work in teams on the FY27 events already approved, covering location, budget, communications plan and partnerships.
    Discussion item Budget and appropriations
  69. Dec 2, 2025 Orange County · Board of Elections
    …The budget report showed sufficient funds.
  70. Sat, Aug 22 Orange County · Human Relations Commission
    Staff present what the commission spent in FY26 and what its FY27 budget is. Members then work through what succeeded…
  71. Fri, Jan 16 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …Risks flagged include the absent state budget, SNAP cost share in FY 2027-28, the timing of the Crisis Diversion…
  72. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Affordable Housing Advisory Board
    III Updates
    …a Public Schools Strong candidate forum, and a North Carolina budget and tax event in Durham on wages and affordability.
  73. Tue, Feb 3 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …School capital funding was set at $112,524,049 in the FY 2026-27 budget adopted in June.
  74. Oct 14, 2025 Orange County · Advisory Board on Aging
    12 FY 25-26 Budget Updates
  75. Thu, Jun 4 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …Resolution of Intent to Adopt the FY 2026-27 Budget
    Approved 6-1, McKee opposed.
  76. Nov 13, 2025 Orange County · Climate Council
    …heat task force meetings, with the plan, timeline and budget drafted. Next steps are a final draft, educational materials and…
  77. Tue, Jul 28 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …are expected to add significant cost to the county budget, and that the prospect of consolidating DSS into a unified…
  78. Tue, Jan 20 Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
    …Two commissioners warned about budget shortfalls raised at the board's retreat.
  79. Wed, Jan 21 Orange County · Board of Health
    …No approved state budget; rescinded Medicaid rate cuts after litigation; fears Medicaid funds run out in early 2027. Flu is…
  80. Nov 12, 2025 Orange County · OCPT Staff Working Group
    The FY27 revenue assumption drops from $13.3 million to $11.845 million to match the current adopted budget, after…
  81. Tue, Jan 13 Orange County · Board of Elections
    …The budget report showed sufficient funds. The director also explained logic and accuracy testing and the mock election, including verification…

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