Orange County Board of Commissioners Archives - Page 22 of 28

Orange County Evaluates Durham Tech Scholarship Program

Posted by Staff | Jun 9, 2016 | Local Government

Orange County is preparing to commit $50,000 in scholarship money to students who are looking to earn a degree from Durham Tech. The current plan for the program is to award 50 Orange County students, who have graduated in the...

Orange County Establishes Rules for Food Trucks

Posted by Staff | Jun 8, 2016 | Local Government

The Orange County Board of Commissioners passed an ordinance establishing rules for food trucks in the county Tuesday. The ordinance applies to unincorporated land in Orange County outside of town limits. Commissioner Penny Rich...

County Commissioners Discuss Funding Projects

Posted by Staff | May 31, 2016 | Local Government

As part of its budget process, last week the Orange County Board of Commissioners discussed current and upcoming projects to get a sense of where the county is and how each projects fits in the 2016-2017 fiscal budget. One of...

CHCCS Teachers Upset With Project Advance

Posted by Staff | May 27, 2016 | Pre-K - 12 Education

Project Advance is a new payment method Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools will implement during the 2016-2017 school year. The program would base teacher raises not on number of years in the district, but instead on professional...

Orange County Schools Unhappy With Budget Proposal

Posted by Staff | May 26, 2016 | Pre-K - 12 Education

Addressing the Orange County Board of Commissioners for the first time since the 2016-2017 fiscal budget was proposed, chair of the Orange County Schools Board of Education Donna Coffee expressed her displeasure with the current...

County Commissioners To Hold Budget Work Session

Posted by Staff | May 26, 2016 | Local Government

The Orange County Board of Commissioners will be holding a work session Thursday evening to discuss the proposed budget for the 2016-2017 fiscal year. The commissioners have already held two public hearings in preparation for...

Teacher Pay Focus of County Budget Discussion

Posted by Staff | May 19, 2016 | Featured, Local Government, News

School funding, specifically teacher pay, was the focus of Thursday’s public hearing on next year’s Orange County budget. The Board of Commissioners meeting was held at the Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill....

Orange County Names Eight To Firearm Safety Committee

Posted by Staff | May 19, 2016 | Local Government

The Board of Orange County Commissioners has approved eight members of the community to make up the newly-formed Orange County Firearm Safety Committee. Close to 50 applied for the committee that will advise the board on...

Orange County Commissioners To Receive Public Comment On Budget

Posted by Staff | May 19, 2016 | Local Government

The Orange County Board of Commissioners will hear public comment in their meeting Thursday evening on the 2016-2017 fiscal budget that was proposed earlier this month. This will be the second public hearing held by the board,...

Community Members Ask Orange County To Increase School Funding

Posted by Staff | May 12, 2016 | Featured, Local Government

School funding quickly became the focus of the public hearing held by the Orange County Board of Commissioners Thursday night. Teachers, students and parents from Orange County Schools showed up in Hillsborough to ask the board...

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