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 is a lighter one in local government, as budget season has wrapped up and many town and county boards have gone on summer recess. But there’s another critical issue that two local boards are tackling this week: Durham County Commissioners and the Hillsborough town board are both considering a longer moratorium on new AI data centers within municipal boundaries. Both Hillsborough and Durham County have already imposed a brief 60-day moratorium, but this week they’ll discuss whether to extend the time out to a year or longer. (There is a logistical snag in Durham’s case, though: county ordinances restrict commissioners’ ability to impose extended development moratoriums, so this week they’re considering a measure to remove some of those restrictions.)

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

Orange County

The Hillsborough Board of Commissioners meets at 7 p.m. Monday, June 22. This week, the board will hold a public hearing and may vote on a proposal to extend the town’s moratorium on new AI data centers from 60 days to a full year. Click here for the full agenda.

The Chapel Hill Town Council meets at 6 p.m. Monday, June 22 – technically a continuation of their June 17 meeting, to discuss a single agenda item: a staff update on the process of updating the town’s Land Use Management Ordinance, or LUMO. (That process is still ongoing: a final vote on the updated LUMO isn’t slated to occur until November.) Click here for a link to the agenda.

Chatham and Durham Counties

Chatham County Commissioners are meeting jointly with the Pittsboro, Siler City, and Goldston town boards Monday, June 22, at 6 p.m. in the Agriculture & Conference Center in Pittsboro. Click here for a link to the agenda, which includes an annual update from each board as well as a countywide update from the TriRiver water utility.

Durham County Commissioners meet at 7 p.m. Monday, June 22. This week’s top agenda item is a public hearing on a proposal that would make it easier for the county to impose a long-term moratorium on approving new AI data centers. (The proposal would eliminate two county-level policies: one that bans any moratorium longer than one year, and another that requires any moratorium longer than 60 days to be approved by the Planning Commission first.) Click here for the full agenda.

Finally, the Durham school board is slated to meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 25. Their agenda will be available at this link.

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