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Board of Commissioners — Special Meeting - Legislative Breakfast

Chatham County · Board of Commissioners
Monday, March 3, 2025 at 9:00 am · Chatham County Agriculture & Conference Center 1192 US Hwy 64 West, Pittsboro, NC 27312

Special or emergency meeting State legislative agendaSchools and educationBroadband and technologyFarmland and open spaceHousing and affordabilityIntergovernmental agreementsPolice and public safetyRezoningStormwater and flooding

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What was decided

  1. Received 25-0105Receive a presentation on the Chatham County Legislative Priorities received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.
  2. Received 25-0107Receive a presentation on the Town of Pittsboro Legislative Priorities received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.
  3. Received 25-0106Receive a presentation on the Chatham County Board of Education Legislative Priorities received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.
  4. Received 25-0108Receive a presentation on the Central Carolina Community College Legislative Priorities received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.

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What's on this agenda

Chatham County's commissioners, the Town of Pittsboro, the school board and Central Carolina Community College laid their 2025 legislative priorities before the county's state senator and representative over breakfast on 3 March 2025.

The county's first ask was to get its downzoning authority back, which Senate Bill 382 had taken away four months earlier and which had stopped the Unified Development Ordinance from taking effect.

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

Four commissioners attended, and the meeting ran from 9:20 to 10:32.

The county's five priorities were restoring local downzoning authority, farmland preservation, more childcare funding, and affordable housing. Its 2024 accomplishments were finishing the work on broadband access and winning grant money for digital equity.

Pittsboro asked for a revolving loan fund for public safety facilities, downzoning authority, protection of its extraterritorial jurisdiction, and help with stormwater control. The school board's priorities were keeping and paying educators, school safety and mental health, student health, and equitable resources and infrastructure. The community college asked for higher salaries, the Moore Center, a multi-campus center, and automatic enrollment growth funding.

The state senator and representative thanked the presenters, spoke to the importance of federal funding, and took questions.

Speaking at this meeting

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Agenda items (9)

Presentation · 4Other · 3Procedural · 2
  1. Special Legislative Breakfast - 9:00 AM - Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center
    Other
  2. CALL TO ORDER AND WELCOMING REMARKS FROM CHAIR HOWARD
    Procedural
  3. LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES
    Other
  4. 25-0105 Receive a presentation on the Chatham County Legislative Priorities
    Presentation
    received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.
  5. 25-0107 Receive a presentation on the Town of Pittsboro Legislative Priorities
    Presentation Broadband and technologyFarmland and open spaceHousing and affordabilityRezoningState legislative agenda
    Restoring local downzoning authority, farmland preservation, more childcare funding, and affordable housing, after a 2024 that finished the county's broadband access work.
    received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.
  6. 25-0106 Receive a presentation on the Chatham County Board of Education Legislative Priorities
    Presentation Intergovernmental agreementsPolice and public safetyState legislative agendaStormwater and flooding
    A public safety facility revolving loan fund, downzoning authority, protection of extraterritorial jurisdiction, and stormwater control improvements.
    received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.
  7. 25-0108 Receive a presentation on the Central Carolina Community College Legislative Priorities
    Presentation Schools and educationState legislative agenda
    Retention and compensation of educators, school safety and mental health, student health and wellbeing, and equitable resources and infrastructure.
    received and filed · This Agenda Item was received and filed.
  8. REMARKS FROM STATE LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION
    Other Schools and educationState legislative agenda
    Community college salaries, the Moore Center, a multi-campus center, and automatic enrollment growth funding.
  9. ADJOURNMENT
    Procedural
    adjourned · Pass · A motion was made by Vice Chair Katie Kenlan, seconded by Commissioner Franklin Gomez Flores, that this was adjourned at 10:32am. The motion carried by the following vote:

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