This series of posts will be made weekly on Chapelboro to help inform our community about local government meetings. All meeting days, locations and times may be subject to change. Check town, county, and school district websites for additional information.

As we move into the fall, local government boards are ending their summer breaks and resuming their meeting schedules. Agendas are still light this week, but the Chapel Hill-Carrboro and Orange County School Boards are both meeting as the two school districts return to school for the 2022-23 academic year.

Here’s a rundown of local government meetings this week in Durham, Orange, and Chatham Counties.

Orange County

The Hillsborough Board of Commissioners is the only town board meeting this week: commissioners are holding a special meeting Monday, August 29, at 7 p.m. in Town Hall Annex to discuss a recommendation from the Mayor’s Task Force on Re-Imagining Public Safety to establish a standing advisory board. Click here for more information.

The Orange County School Board meets on Tuesday, August 30, in the board room on E. King Street, beginning in closed session at 6 p.m. and moving to open session at 7 p.m. Their agenda includes a work session on final budget requests for the coming year, as well as a proposal to increase salaries for school bus drivers. Click here for the full agenda.

And the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City School Board meets Thursday, September 1, at 6 p.m. in the Southern Human Services Center, with a brief agenda that includes an as-yet-unspecified work session. Get the full agenda at this link.

Chatham and Durham Counties

No meetings in Durham this week, but Chatham County Commissioners are holding a special meeting Monday, August 29, at 1:30 p.m. in the historic courthouse in Pittsboro. Among their agenda items, commissioners will weigh in on the latest plans for development and infrastructure in Moncure around the future site of the VinFast vehicle plant. Click here for a link to the full agenda.

And the Pittsboro town board is holding a special meeting on Wednesday, August 31, at 10:00 a.m. in Town Hall to consider the hiring of an interim town manager.

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