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.
This week in local government features several big agenda items. Orange County Commissioners will talk transportation, with a vote on a new multimodal plan; the Chapel Hill Town Council will consider dissolving nine advisory boards; and the CHCCS school board will vote to extend superintendent Nyah Hamlett’s contract by an additional year. But the biggest agenda item of the week may be in Pittsboro, where – after months of discussion – Chatham County Commissioners will vote on an updated county-wide Unified Development Ordinance.
Here’s a rundown of local government meetings this week in Durham, Orange, and Chatham Counties.
Orange County
The Carrboro Town Council meets at 6 p.m. Tuesday, November 19. On this week’s agenda: the council will hold a public hearing on a proposed subdivision at 904 Homestead Road; they’ll receive a quarterly budget update; and they’ll get an update on implementation of the town’s race and equity initiatives, including a quarterly equity report from the police department. Click here for a link to the full agenda.
Orange County Commissioners also meet on Tuesday, November 19, at 7 p.m. in the Southern Human Services Center. Commissioners will consider approving a new Transportation Multimodal Plan for the county. In addition, commissioners will hold a public hearing on the HOME Investment Partnerships program and receive a report on staffing concerns at the county’s detention center. Get the full agenda here.
The Chapel Hill Town Council meets at 6 p.m. Wednesday, November 20. Council members will consider disbanding nine advisory boards, following a staff assessment that found that it’s difficult to recruit diverse voices for the boards, that town staff are already doing much of the boards’ work anyway, and that the town could save money in the budget by dissolving them. (Those nine boards include the Community Policing Advisory Committee, which was originally created in the spring of 2011 and did take on a very prominent role just a few months later, when the police department reexamined its policies in the wake of the Yates Building incident.) In addition, the council will get an update on the process of rewriting the town’s Land Use Management Ordinance (LUMO), and they’ll vote to appoint Donovan Livingston as the town’s next poet laureate. Click here for the full agenda.
And the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board meets at 6 p.m. Thursday, November 21. The board will vote on a school improvement plan for Northside Elementary and a one-year contract extension for superintendent Nyah Hamlett; in addition, Hamlett will provide an update on the district’s sustainability efforts from the 2023-24 school year. Get the full agenda here.
Chatham and Durham Counties
Chatham County Commissioners meet twice this week, beginning Monday, November 18. After a brief work session at 4 p.m., commissioners will reconvene at 6:00 for a regular meeting that includes a vote on a new Unified Development Ordinance for the county, as well as a public hearing on a proposed six-year capital improvements plan. Then the board will reconvene at 9 a.m. Tuesday, November 19, for a work session on that capital improvements plan. Click here for links to both agendas.
The Durham City Council also meets twice this week: at 7 p.m. Monday, November 18, and again at 1 p.m. Thursday, November 21. Click here for links to both agendas, which include a quarterly crime report and an annual financial report on Thursday.
Finally the Durham school board is slated to meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, November 21. Their agenda has not yet been posted, but will be available at this link.
Photo via the Town of Chapel Hill.
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