Grants and outside funding items in Orange County
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| Subject | Items |
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| Grants and outside funding | 47 |
| Environment and sustainability | 14 |
| Budget and appropriations | 11 |
| Health and human services | 8 |
| Housing and affordability | 8 |
| Farmland and open space | 7 |
| Parks and recreation | 5 |
| Transit | 4 |
| Broadband and technology | 3 |
| Faith and cultural communities | 3 |
| Homelessness and shelter | 3 |
| Intergovernmental agreements | 3 |
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The second budget amendment of the fiscal year.
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A funding request against the county's opioid settlement money, with an amended spending authorization resolution and a matching budget amendment.
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8.j Approval to Reallocate Returned Community Climate Action Grant Funds to the FY 2026-2027 Grant CycleMoving climate action grant money that was returned unspent into the 2026-27 grant cycle.
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Amy Eckberg presents on the climate action grant program, the longest item on the agenda.
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Members review the grant program's mission, what past rounds funded, and the tools used to score applications.
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Accepts a Great Trails State Program grant from the state Division of Parks and Recreation for the Mountains-to-Sea Trail expansion at the Seven Mile Creek Natural Area, and authorizes the chair to sign.Approved on the consent agenda
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A grant application to the state Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund to pay for a new cost of community services study, which compares what land uses pay in taxes against what they cost the county to serve.Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsFarmland and open spaceGrants and outside funding
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Update from the committee reviewing agricultural economic development grant applications.Staff or committee report Economic development incentivesFarmland and open spaceGrants and outside funding
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Fifteen consent items, including the first fiscal 2026-27 budget amendment, a state grant for a mobile integrated health program, financial policies for the transit tax working group, the Rigsbee subdivision preliminary plat, a reinstated interlocal agreement with Chapel Hill, and a Duke Energy grant for a flood detec…Approved unanimously.
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An amendment to the county's 2022 public-private broadband contract, extending service to another 105 unserved households. The original roughly $10 million deal aimed at about 6,370 passings, was cut back to 5,852 homes in autumn 2025, and has paid Lumos $9.2 million with about $800,000 in ARPA money left. 5,859 locat…Approved unanimously.
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An update on county climate action work.Received.
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How to spend the county's share of the national opioid settlement. Orange County expects $12,748,445 over eighteen years from the $26 billion agreement all 100 North Carolina counties joined.Recommendations received unanimously; staff directed to bring a final spending authorization resolution on 16 June, where it passed on the consent agenda.Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsDrugs and addictionGrants and outside fundingHealth and human services
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An application to the Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund for a new Cost of Community Services study.
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Approval of the annual action plan for the federal HOME program, which funds affordable housing.
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Forty-five minutes on FY 2026-27 funding for outside agencies.
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A substantial amendment to the county's HOME-ARP allocation plan, which governs federal pandemic-era housing money aimed at homelessness and housing instability.
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The public hearing on the draft annual action plan for the federal HOME Investment Partnership program, which funds affordable housing.
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A presentation on the origins of visitors bureaus and a comparison of the three in the Research Triangle. Orange County's was funded in 1992 by occupancy tax, runs $2.5 million with six staff, and works against roughly $300 million a year in tourism spending. New advertising promotes local businesses and the Ackland A…
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Chapel Hill's bus rapid transit federal risk review is nearing completion with a grant submission expected in February. Carrboro reported the Morgan Creek Greenway progressing. Triangle West is releasing a staffing study request for qualifications, contingent on funding. Hillsborough, GoTriangle, the tax district and…Staff or committee report Grants and outside fundingParks and recreationRoads and transportationTransit
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Sixteen applications requesting $619,095 against $267,750 available. Nine projects were funded in whole or part: a farm expansion at Twin Creeks park growing food for Table, student-installed riparian buffers in areas hit by tropical storm Chantal, Carrboro's home energy programme for over 230 households, tree plantin…Approved unanimously
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Changes to the small business grant guidelines. The board decided software is an eligible use of funds under inventory and supplies but training, licensure and certificates are not. It discussed requiring applicants to strive to pay a living wage and allowing one larger award per fiscal year. All applicants must now h…
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A petition from a county commissioner asking that the Community Climate Action Grant fund cover climate adaptation as well as mitigation. The commission discussed how the current grant process differs from the proposal and agreed changes are needed before next year's round.Supported; one member opposed, the vice chair abstained
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An update from the director of the North Carolina Department of Information Technology's Broadband Infrastructure Office on the federal BEAD programme and the state's Stop Gap funding.
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III UpdatesStaff asked for help on a data analysis project for the repair and rehabilitation programme: working through the long-term repair assistance list, updating it, checking which applicants qualify for federal repair funds, and looking at where the properties are. Four board members volunteered.
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Whether to support a county commissioner's petition asking that the Community Climate Action Grant fund cover climate adaptation as well as mitigation.
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The Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness reported system-level data submitted to HUD along with obstacles and successes. The main risk is the HUD Continuum of Care grant: the new funding notice mandates a 70 percent cut to permanent housing and guarantees only 30 percent of annual renewal funding, affecting p…
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A $14,000 application to the North Carolina Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund to update the county's 2006 cost of community services study, matched by a $2,000 gift from the county Farm Bureau, due December 22.
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An update on Orange County's Community Climate Action grant programme.
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The board drafted framing questions for planning staff on how the land use plan addresses affordable housing, what challenges lie ahead in building it, and the rural buffer; and for economic development, noting there is currently no collaboration between that department and housing. Other plans: a March community meet…
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The commission finished its grant application discussions and decided how to allocate $267,750 among the selected applicants. It will continue drafting feedback for applicants, and set aside changes to next year's scoring for a later meeting.Selections and allocations approved
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Volunteers were sought to sort State of the Environment report data. Staff reported a repair café on November 15, a $765,000 agrivoltaics grant being co-written with Cooperative Extension, three sustainability interns at work, the Hillsborough Climate Challenge returning in 2026, and a Trees for the Triangle giveaway…Staff or committee report Environment and sustainabilityFarmland and open spaceGrants and outside funding
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Recognition of artists and organisations receiving 2025-26 county arts grants. Total funding available was $108,036 — $49,525 from the state arts council for the grassroots programme, $28,800 in county artist support grants and $29,711 in outside agency funding — against $139,112.50 in requests. Thirty-one grants were…
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A $97,503 state arts grant, partly funding a county Programs Coordinator position and partly sub-granted to local nonprofits and schools.Approved as part of the consent agenda, unanimous
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Board discussed how state transportation funding is allocated and approved a draft project management plan for non-STIP funded projects, with minor amendments.Approved unanimously
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Update on the federal government shutdown's limited local impact so far, a $56,627 Choosing Home Program grant for home repairs, and a $34,430 Providing Elders Additional Sustenance grant funding biweekly food boxes for older adults with cognitive impairment.Staff or committee report Budget and appropriationsGrants and outside fundingHealth and human services
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The commission began scoring 16 grant applications totaling $619,095 in requests against $267,750 available, prioritizing greenhouse-gas reduction.Scoring incomplete; to be finished at the next meeting.
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The amendment adds a second year of state grant funding, awarded through Alliance Healthcare, for the CARE mobile crisis team, a three-person unit run jointly with Chapel Hill that responded to 1,040 calls in its first year without an arrest 93% of the time.Approved as part of the consent agenda
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Staff described a pending grant application to the NC ADFP Trust Fund for up to $14,000, matched with a $2,000 gift from the Orange County Farm Bureau, to update the board's 2006 study on the cost of servicing farmland versus residential development.
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The county's required annual hearing on its HOME program report, covering about $539,000 in available funds, of which $169,166 was spent on tenant-based rental assistance; the public comment period runs through September 24.Public hearing opened and closed; no public comments received
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An amendment to the county's 2022 broadband grant agreement with Lumos (T-Fiber/T-Mobile) reducing the number of homes to be connected from 6,370 to 5,852, extending the deadline to July 1, 2026, and revising the $5.2 million remaining payment schedule; about 600 homes in three areas would be dropped from the contract.Approved 5-2; the board separately voted unanimously to reconvene the county's broadband task force
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The Human Relations Commission is still scoring this year's grant applications; the environment commission will score once that finishes, using a new platform called Submittable.
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Approves $874,702 in combined federal, state, and local transit funding for FY 2027, covering rural transit administration ($219,202), operations for seniors and people with disabilities ($500,000), and capital equipment ($155,500). No one spoke at the hearing.Approved unanimously
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Staff reported first-year progress toward the county's goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions 50% by 2030 and 100% by 2050, including a new grant application portal and fewer available federal solar and climate grants than in past years.
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The Leadership Team debated splitting a reduced $44,000 Emergency Solutions Grant pot between the rapid rehousing program and the Inter-Faith Council's Homestart shelter, which had appealed for funding. The team ultimately awarded the full amount to rapid rehousing.Full $44,000 awarded to rapid rehousing; three recused, one opposed, rest in favor
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Staff reported Home and Community Block Grant funding running about $7,000 below last year and that the takeaway lunch program at the senior centers is ending this month.
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Staff reported $262,500 available for the 2025 Climate Action Grant round, with 18 applications already submitted ahead of the August 15 deadline.
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The board approved state and federal transit grant certification and pre-application documents required by the FTA and NCDOT for FY26 and FY27.Approved, part of consent agenda
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