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.
Budget season continues for local government, with public hearings and work sessions for Orange County Commissioners, the Pittsboro town board, and the Durham and Orange County school boards. The Orange County School Board doesn’t stop there, though: they have not one, not two, but five separate meetings scheduled in the first two days of the week alone.
Here’s a rundown of local government meetings this week in Durham, Orange, and Chatham Counties.
Orange County
The Orange County School Board‘s busy week begins at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, April 3, with a brief meeting of the board’s Budget & Capital Needs Committee, followed at 7:00 by a public hearing on next year’s budget – after which the budget committee will reconvene to discuss possible budget revisions. Then the full board will gather again at 9:00 p.m. for a special meeting to discuss various contracts, including janitorial and landscape services. Then on Tuesday, April 4, the board will hold a retreat from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Orange High School, with an agenda that includes discussions of student well-being and the district’s culture and climate. Click here for links to all the agendas for those meetings.
The Carrboro Town Council meets at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4. Council members will consider adopting an official naming policy for town-owned facilities and rooms, and they’ll vote to approve a new “truth plaque” (the town’s third) to recognize a historical site. Click here for a link to the full agenda.
Orange County Commissioners also meet at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 4, in the Whitted Building in Hillsborough. County Manager Bonnie Hammersley will present her recommended 10-year capital investment plan, and board members will look ahead to next week’s budget work session. Get the full agenda at this link.
Chatham and Durham Counties
The Pittsboro town board is holding an all-day budget retreat on Thursday, April 6, beginning at 9:00 a.m. in the Chatham County Agriculture and Conference Center. Click here to read an agenda for the retreat.
The Chatham County School Board meets Monday, April 3, at 6 p.m. in George Moses Horton Middle School. Their agenda includes a vote on upgrading school security cameras and a resolution opposing HB 219, a proposed bill in the State House that would allow charter schools to claim funds that have been reserved for traditional public schools. Click here for the full agenda.
In Durham, the City Council has a pair of meetings this week: first a regular meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday, April 3, then a work session at 1 p.m. on Thursday, April 6. Get links to both agendas here.
Durham County Commissioners are holding an all-day work session on Monday, April 3, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Commissioners will get an update on a feasibility study for the proposed Greater Triangle Commuter Rail project, which would link Durham, Wake, and Johnston Counties. In addition, they’ll receive an update on the use of federal COVID relief funds, reports from local chambers of commerce and emergency officials, and a presentation on current market statistics and how they may affect the county’s upcoming tax revaluation. (That revaluation is not set to occur until 2025.) Click here for the full agenda.
And the Durham County School Board is meeting on Thursday, April 6. The meeting will begin at 5:00 p.m. with a public hearing on next year’s budget, followed by a budget work session at 5:30. Click here for more details.
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