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Monday night’s meeting includes two rezonings, four ceremonial proclamations, major infrastructure and finance items on consent, and questions about flooding, traffic, and affordability at Infinity Road.
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Durham planning commissioners will review a proposed FY27 work plan that keeps the stalled UDO rewrite alive while also weighing a 225-home Virgil Road rezoning with implications for traffic, schools, and South Durham growth.
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Officials cite threatened litigation tied to a 2024 state “down-zoning” restriction; staff will still attend Tuesday’s meeting to answer questions.
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Budget squeeze, tech plan, charter growth headline Monday’s agenda.
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Budget priorities and the new proposed school calendars for traditional and year-round schools are on the agenda in Durham on Jan. 15.
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State-funded PFAS study reimbursement is on a Jan. 5 agenda that also features two annexation hearings and more than $9.6 million in sidewalk work.
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The committee meets Thursday, Dec. 4. On deck: a Private Zones protocol for handling immigration-related visits, a community-submitted rewrite of Policy 5120 on law enforcement in schools, and a new draft to allow naloxone in schools.
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Williams and councilors take oaths as Freeman and Middleton say farewell; Caballero becomes first Hispanic Mayor Pro Tem; brief protest interrupts Kopac’s swearing-in; council addresses ICE activity and an E. Geer St. rezoning for 22 townhomes.
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Dr. Mike Lee takes the gavel as chair, with Nida Allam serving as the board's vice chair.
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Swearing-in for Williams, Kopac, Burris, and Cook, farewells to Middleton and Freeman, and a consent-heavy docket that includes the Museum of Durham History site designation and a rezoning hearing.
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What South Durham parents need to know before tonight’s DPS Board meeting: proposed phone/device rules, athletics eligibility changes, rising charter pass-throughs, two future school calendars, and key contracts on the consent agenda.
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Durham commissioners and Board of Education members meet Wednesday to weigh a new general obligation bond to provide funding in the face of a sales tax shortfall and competing priorities.