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Budget Public Hearing and Work Session

Orange County · Board of County Commissioners
Thursday, May 28, 2026

Public hearing Appointments and personnelBudget and appropriationsTax rate and revaluationFees and utility ratesHealth and human servicesPolice and public safetySchools and education

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What's on this agenda

The public hearing on the county manager's recommended 2026-27 budget, followed by three appointment discussions. The manager presents, the hearing opens and closes by motion, and the board takes no decisions on the budget itself - those come at the 4 June work session.

Summarized from the published agenda. Read the agenda itself before acting on it.

Meeting recap

What happened, drawn from the records published after the meeting. Minutes

The hearing runs to more than three hundred lines of the record, which is what a budget hearing looks like in a county where the previous year's revaluation is still raw and the rate is heading from 63.83 cents to 68.05.

Afterwards the board took up appointments to three bodies: social services, the visitors bureau advisory board and the broadband task force. The last of those matters more than it sounds - the task force spent the following months deciding how to spend the final $800,000 of federal pandemic recovery money before a December 2026 deadline, and recommended extending service to 105 more households.

How the votes went

Procedural only: opening and closing the public hearing and adjournment, each unanimous. No budget decisions were taken.

From the published minutes.

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Agenda items (5)

Appointment · 2Procedural · 1Presentation · 1Public hearing · 1
  1. 1 Opening Remarks
    Procedural
  2. 2 Presentation of the County Manager's Recommended FY 2026-27 Budget
    Presentation Budget and appropriationsFees and utility ratesPolice and public safetyTax rate and revaluation
    The county manager presented the recommended FY 2026-27 budget, organized around five priorities: minimizing the tax rate increase, prioritizing public safety and social safety net direct services, maximizing efficiencies and cost recovery while preserving core services, and modest investment in employee compensation.
  3. 3 Public Comments and Public Hearing
    Public hearing Budget and appropriationsSchools and educationTax rate and revaluation
    The formal hearing on the recommended budget, opened and closed by motion.
  4. 4 Board of Social Services – Appointment Discussion
    Appointment Appointments and personnelHealth and human services
    A work session discussion of appointments to the Board of Social Services.
  5. 5 Chapel Hill-Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board – Appointments Discussion
    Appointment Appointments and personnel
    A work session discussion of appointments to the Chapel Hill-Orange County Visitors Bureau Advisory Board.

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