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Agricultural Preservation

Orange County · Agricultural Preservation Board
Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Regular meeting Farmland and open spaceComprehensive planHealth and human servicesAppointments and personnelGrants and outside fundingBudget and appropriationsEconomic development incentives

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What's on this agenda

Seventy minutes, no items for decision. The board picks up the agricultural viability and farmland stewardship plan after the county commissioners approved it on 2 June, hears about a food access programme, and looks at membership applications going to the commissioners on 10 September.

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Meeting recap

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

The board had no decisions in front of it and spent the evening on discussion. Ashton Tippins presented the TABLE food access program. Staff followed up on the Agricultural Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan after the commissioners approved it on June 2, including a draft web version of the plan. The board also went through current and new membership applications, which the commissioners were due to consider on September 10, and took updates on the voluntary agricultural districts, the trust fund grant application for a new Cost of Community Services study, and the agricultural economic development grant review committee.

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Agenda items (8)

Procedural · 3Discussion item · 3Presentation · 1Staff or committee report · 1
  1. 4 Meeting Summary/Minutes: May 20, 2026
    Procedural
    Minutes of the 20 May meeting.
  2. 6a Presentation about TABLE food access program
    Procedural Farmland and open spaceHealth and human services
    Briefing on TABLE, a food access program serving children in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro area.
  3. 6b Ag Viability and Farmland Stewardship Plan: follow up
    Procedural Comprehensive planFarmland and open space
    Follow-up on the agricultural viability and farmland stewardship plan the county commissioners approved on 2 June, and review of a draft web version of it.
  4. 6c Extension Service staff reports
    Presentation Farmland and open spaceHealth and human services
    Reports from Cooperative Extension staff.
  5. 6d Membership: current and new applications
    Discussion item Appointments and personnelComprehensive planFarmland and open space
    Applications for seats on the board, to go before the commissioners on 10 September, plus a review of the current roster.
  6. 7a VAD update
    Discussion item Appointments and personnelFarmland and open spaceHealth and human services
    Update on the county's voluntary agricultural districts, which give enrolled farms notice protections against nuisance complaints.
  7. 7b ADFP Trust Fund grant application for a new Cost of Community Services Study
    Discussion item Budget and appropriationsComprehensive planFarmland and open spaceGrants and outside funding
    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.
  8. 7c Ag Economic Development Grant review committee
    Staff or committee report Economic development incentivesFarmland and open spaceGrants and outside funding
    Update from the committee reviewing agricultural economic development grant applications.

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