Broadband and technology items between 12 Oct 2025 and 12 Oct 2026
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| Broadband and technology | 85 |
| Contracts and procurement | 17 |
| Budget and appropriations | 11 |
| Intergovernmental agreements | 10 |
| Roads and transportation | 6 |
| Schools and education | 6 |
| Water and sewer | 6 |
| Bonds and debt | 5 |
| Data centers and large loads | 5 |
| Land conversion and large development | 5 |
| Transit | 5 |
| Grants and outside funding | 4 |
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Proclamation or recognition Broadband and technology
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Notice, not a vote. The next annual payment on a five-year Cisco Capital contract signed in 2025 exceeds the $750,000 threshold the council set in June 2026 for its own approval.
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A master encroachment agreement with Google Fiber for work in town rights of way.
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A five-year licensing agreement for Broadcom VMware through Presidio Networked Solutions, the software the county's servers run on.That the Board of Commissioners approves a sixty-month subscription agreement through Presidio Networked Solutions LLC to provide licensing for Broadcom VMWare software. The request is to authorize t…
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A sustainable instructional device strategy, covering how the district plans to keep student devices in service over time.
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Speaker: Jared Thomas No advance preparation is requiredPresentation Broadband and technology
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Speaker: Nicole Coughlin No advance preparation is requiredStaff or committee report Broadband and technology
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A quasi-judicial request by Anthemnet for a 199-foot wireless telecommunications tower.
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The follow-up actions list from the 25 August meeting, three tax collector's reports, the tax assessor's releases and refunds under $100, and a memorandum on the broadband project.
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Speaker : Heather Whelehan, Planning and Community Development Executive Summary: In May 2026, Council directed staff to bring forward a moratorium on the acceptance and processing of development applications for data centers in Cary. Data centers are a rapidly growing land use across the Triangle region and the count…
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Winding up the Broadband Task Force.
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Adjusting the final service locations and milestones in the county's agreement with Lumos, its broadband partner.Contract or award Broadband and technology
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Interlocal agreement covering the town's Public, Educational, and Government (PEG) cable access channel.
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Anthemnet, Inc. requests a Special Use Permit for a new 199-foot wireless telecommunications tower on Parcel 2834 at 1879 Andrews Store Road; hearing open to evidence from people with standing on direct impact to their property.Public hearing Broadband and technology
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Recognition of six National Association of Counties Achievement Awards and a Digital Counties Survey award placing Durham County among the top 10 digital counties nationwide.
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Authorizes the town manager to sign a water and sewer extension contract for the Orange County Crisis Diversion Facility, a new 16-room mental health facility on Waterstone Drive, adding about 711 feet of 8-inch water main and 567 feet of 8-inch sewer main to the town's system at a requested capacity of 2,400 gallons…Approved on the consent agenda 4-0
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A special use permit for a 199-foot cell tower at 4813 Hilltop Needmore Road, sought by Alpha Towers PropCo III, LLC on a 17.48-acre parcel in the Residential Agricultural district behind an existing church. The ordinance requires at least 10 acres and no other tower within 3,000 feet. The case was tabled from the Jul…Approved 6-0 on all four findings of fact and on the permit
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Special Use Permit petition, tabled from a prior meeting, for a site at 4813 Hilltop Needmore Road sought by Alpha Towers PropCo III, LLC -- consistent with a wireless communications tower use.Public hearing Broadband and technology
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A service agreement with A3 Communications under bid 251-25-111.
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Speaker: Amsys No advanced preparation is required.Discussion item Broadband and technology
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Consent agenda Broadband and technology
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Utility updates covering the replacement of the town's utility billing system and customer portal with Oracle customer cloud service, targeted for 2027; a drought briefing covering Jordan Lake supply, state allocations and the triggers for each level of water restriction; and the Western Regional Wastewater Partnershi…
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Special Use Permit petition for a site consistent with a wireless communications tower use, marked on the agenda to be tabled rather than decided.Marked on the agenda to be tabled
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How the town tracks attendance at its events using geofencing rather than gate counts.
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Multi-year on-call agreements with two utility contractors through June 2029, a fleet management information system through 2028, digital reconstruction of vehicle accidents for police investigations through April 2027, and the annual 911 service and maintenance agreement for 2026.
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26-0360 Chatham County Annual HighlightsThe county chair on its new Aaa bond rating, farmland preservation, its data center moratorium, broadband support, a flood incidents dashboard, bilingual outreach and the America 250 programming.Presented. No vote.
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Chatham County Chair Amanda Robertson reviewed the county's new Aaa bond rating, updated farmland preservation efforts, the county's data-center moratorium, broadband support, an information hub and flood-incident dashboard tool, bilingual outreach, and the county's America 250 event planning.Staff or committee report Bonds and debtBroadband and technologyData centers and large loadsFarmland and open space
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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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Fourth-quarter transit work program amendments covering county administrative funding, a Chapel Hill Transit shift from operating to capital, and GoTriangle's Route 800 and TAP.Approved.
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Slides for the meeting.
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The town entered a wireless equipment agreement with Verizon.
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A quasi-judicial special use permit for a 199-foot wireless telecommunications tower at 460 Murchison Road in Goldston. The applicant certified it would lease the other positions to carriers at commercially reasonable rates.Recommended for approval 10-0
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Presenter: Sandi Bailey No advance preparation needed.
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Speaker : Scot Berry, Town Manager’s Office Executive Summary: Cary has provided information technology support to Central Pines Regional Council (CPRC) since 2019 and, as part of that partnership, purchased various technology assets on CPRC’s behalf. If returned to Cary, the equipment would be considered surplus. Con…
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A discussion of a SecureNC partnership with the state Department of Information Technology, presented alongside the town's data center moratorium discussion.
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referred · This Agenda Item was referred to the Planning Board.Public hearing Broadband and technology
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In open discussion, council members reported on community events and said state law prevents the town from regulating Google Fiber, a subject raised by residents.Discussion item Broadband and technology
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A proposed cybersecurity information-sharing partnership between the town and the North Carolina Department of Information Technology.
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A certificate of appropriateness application to replace wood siding with Hardie Board (fiber cement siding) at 115 E. Queen St.
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IT staff and a representative of vendor Huwise presented a redesign of the town's open data portal. Board members raised accessibility concerns about site color contrast, suggested adding dataset descriptions to the NC Catalog, and asked about mobile access, maintenance and marketing plans; no vote was taken.Discussion item Broadband and technology
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How the town itself should use artificial intelligence.
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A thirty-minute update from a Lumos director on the stop gap work, the effort to reach households left out after the original contract's location count was reduced.Procedural Broadband and technology
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An hour reviewing the county's GIS map of broadband coverage with the chief information officer, to identify which locations remain unserved.Minutes approval Broadband and technology
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Thirty minutes from the provider's director on where the build stands.
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Staff update on the town's fiber loop broadband infrastructure project.Discussion item Broadband and technology
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A lease allowing a wireless carrier to attach antennas to the town's Lee Street water tower.Contract or award Broadband and technology
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Amends the city's fiber contract with Duke University, adding $426,899 for a revised total near $6.8 million.Contract or award Broadband and technology
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Preview of possible topics for the next work session: a budget update, nonprofit partnership applications, and a tentative fiber project update.
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Recognizing $72,878 from the State Library of North Carolina's Libraries Strengthening Connections grant to buy laptops for library programming.Approved unanimously on the consent agenda (voice vote, per the recording)
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A 2024 update to the Americans with Disabilities Act requires local governments the county's size to bring websites, forms and PDFs into compliance with WCAG 2.1 Level AA by April 24, 2026. The county's chief civil rights officer said any content posted online after that date must already meet the standard.
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The Board approves an FCC Letter of Agency authorizing a vendor, Sound E-rate, to pursue five years of federal E-Rate telecommunications funding for the library system.approved · Pass · A motion was made by Commissioner Karen Howard, seconded by Commissioner Katie Kenlan, that the FCC Letter of Agency authorizing Sound E-rate, Inc to submit the five-year funding of…Contract or award Broadband and technology
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Council proclaimed March 11, 2026 as 311 Day, recognizing the town's 311 service line for non-emergency requests and information.
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Speaker : Jamie Revels, Utilities Executive Summary: Cary is renovating the Harrison Avenue water tank, applying new coatings to the interior and exterior. Wireless carriers with equipment co-located on the tank were required to remove their equipment for this work. All three carriers, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, hav…
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The board reviews the town's preliminary FY 2027 budget outlook, including departmental position requests and Cary's property tax rate compared with neighboring towns, ahead of the council's May budget schedule.
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Applicant proposes a fence in lieu of landscaping to screen the base of a cell tower; commission approved on condition that materials match those used elsewhere on the site.approved · Pass · A motion was made by Biggs, seconded by Chair Washburn, that the project be approved w/ the condition noted. The motion carried by a unanimous vote. -Applicant to use block/material…Discussion item Broadband and technology
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GoTriangle's regional technology plan, recommended for approval.
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An update from the state Department of Information Technology's broadband infrastructure office on the BEAD federal programme and the Stop Gap effort to reach addresses left unserved.
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A review of the county's GIS map of broadband coverage with Robert Reynolds of the county's information technology department, showing where service does and does not reach.Discussion item Broadband and technology
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A contract with Howard Industries, trading as Howard Technology Solutions, for a districtwide internet content filter, approved 8-0. Staff said the current system filters inconsistently, gives the district little visibility into online activity, and admits distraction into the instructional day. The new tool would let…
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Speaker: Lori Bush No advance preparation necessary.
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The IT manager would brief the board on the state of the town's information technology and upcoming projects.Presentation Broadband and technology
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A January 15 retreat. The county's aging director co-leads the Strengthening Community for a Lifetime group, covering housing, connectivity and digital equity, social determinants of health, age-friendly work and adult protective services.Staff or committee report Broadband and technologyHealth and human servicesHousing and affordability
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1. AI UpdateSpeaker: Nicole Coughlin
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The board approved a three-year, $51,024.59 agreement with EPlus for Palo Alto firewall monitoring hardware and software under an NC state contract.approved · Pass · A motion was made by Commissioner Amanda Robertson, seconded by Commissioner Franklin Gomez Flores, that a three-year agreement with EPlus for Palo Alto for hardware and software fo…
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A county broadband update from staff and the county manager.Staff or committee report Broadband and technology
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An update from a director at Lumos, the fiber provider building in the county.Presentation Broadband and technology
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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 program and the state's Stop Gap funding.
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How local preservation commissions act as a consulting party in state and federal review of projects affecting listed or eligible property. Two proposed 5G towers in Chapel Hill, both under 40 feet and away from identified cultural resources, were used as an example of a finding of no adverse effect. Staff also report…
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Chapel Hill Transit has a high-capacity transit corridor study under way with a pilot project being identified. Carrboro has advertised Morgan Creek Greenway Phase 1 for bid. Triangle West will issue a staffing study request for qualifications, concluding procurement by January, and has asked NCDOT about increasing no…Staff or committee report Broadband and technologyContracts and procurementParks and recreationRoads and transportationTransit
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The board approved a position request for a connectivity project manager as part of the consent agenda.Approved 4-0 on consent
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A new connectivity project manager position.Approved 4-0 on consent
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The board's 2025 record and 2026 plan, due to the clerk by January 16 and presented to the county commissioners in February or March. Work in 2025 included five conditional district rezoning reviews, three text amendment recommendations, one major subdivision preliminary plat, and briefings on the land use plan and ha…Approved unanimously as amended
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Speaker: Corrie Bondar, Kristy Buchanan, Wes Everett Members should review the utility billing portal and may bring personal devices for access to the current platform.
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Jared Thomas, Chief Information Security Officer
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The board's 2026 annual work plan, with priorities and timelines set month by month and emergency preparedness and education moved earlier in the year.Presentation Broadband and technology
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A council-initiated item on televising the meetings the town does not currently broadcast: work sessions, quarterly meetings, retreats and district meetings. Staff costed a lower option at $400 to $500 a meeting using existing equipment with webcams and staff support, against about $8,000 for a fully produced setup.
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Media relations work with the state tourism office, travel writers and content creators, including a six-page Southern Living spread on Chapel Hill. Print publications include the 2026 visitors guide, downtown and county maps, a mural map and a restaurant map. The website drew 617,000 visitors last fiscal year, a reco…
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The transportation workgroup reported on the help line, classes and tabling, and the volunteer driver program, tied to county strategic plan objectives on travel training, expanded options for older adults and better collaboration among providers. The communication workgroup produced five 'how to use our website' vide…Staff or committee report Broadband and technologyCivil rights and nondiscriminationHealth and human servicesLGBTQ+ policyTransit
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Susan Moran, Chief Strategy OfficerDiscussion item Broadband and technology
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The board is asked to proclaim November 19, 2025 GIS Day in Durham County, marking the mapping and spatial-analysis tools used across county departments from tax administration to EMS.
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Appointments to the county broadband task force.Approved unanimously
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Amendments to Community Facilities, Infrastructure & Utilities, and Natural Resources sections of the Comprehensive Plan, including new sections on stormwater, fiber optics and tree canopy.Public hearing held, no input received, no vote; goes to Planning Board October 28
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