Orange County
At 7:00 pm on Tuesday night, at the Southern Orange Human Services center at 2501 Homestead Rd in Chapel Hill, the Orange County Comissioners will discuss the Orange County Public Library Draft Strategic Plan for 2013 - 2016. The draft plan can be found in the Work Session agenda (PDF) on the county website.
The last time the library was discussed at the BOCC, the county staff suggested that the plan, which is being written up by Dr. Anthony Chow, an assistant professor in the Department of Library Science at UNC-Greensboro, would be critical to informing the site selection of the Southern Branch of the Orange County Library. The plan begins on page 29 of the PDF after Dr. Chow's Curriculum Vitae.
Appendix A provides a link to a Library Needs Assessment with a completion date of January 2, 2013, which seems to be much more substantive, containing significant amounts of qualitative and quantitative data.
http://orangecountync.gov/library/documents/ocpl_community_needs_analysis_2013.pdf
On
Tuesday evening, the Board of County Commissioners will hold a public
hearing on recycling. There has been a change in the way the law is
being interpreted which makes the current fee system questionable.
Currently the county is divided into 3 sections. Some of the rural
community pays for 2 of the 3R fees (availability and convenience
centers) and the portion of the rural community that gets curbside
collection on recycling pays for those same 2 + an additional fee of $38
for collections. A new funding source is needed for the curbside
collections portion of the fee (a service that effects about 13,000
residents).
The
county is considering 3 options to get around this legal issue. 1) go
to a solid waste authority (like OWASA) that would be a separate
operational and financial unit, 2) create 3 solid waste tax districts,
or 3) eliminate curbside collection for neighborhoods outside of a city
limit.
Orange
County Public Transportation is inviting residents to attend a half-day
workshop for the Triangle Area Rural Planning Organization (TARPO)
Locally Coordinated Human Service Public Transportation Plan. The
workshop will take place from 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. on Friday, April
26, at the County's Southern Human Services Center in Chapel Hill. The
workshop will focus on the needs of rural Chatham and Orange Counties
as a part of the larger TARPO region, and will be facilitated by RPO
staff with assistance from the North Carolina Department of
Transportation (NCDOT) and the local transit service agencies.
This plan will not
focus on the urban transit services provided by Chapel Hill Transit or
Triangle Transit, but will instead be focused on the more rural services
provided by Chatham Transit Network and Orange Public Transportation.
The
recommendations that come out of this workshop will be incorporated
into the Locally Coordinated Human Service Public Transportation Plan
for the region and will identify the specific areas of need for
individuals with disabilities, older adults, and persons with low
incomes; to propose strategies for meeting these needs; and to
prioritize public transportation services to meet these needs.
The
public is invited to complete a survey that will be used to provide
information for the Locally Coordinated Plan. The survey is available
online at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9N3SNYF or at http://www.tarpo.org/topics/lcp.shtml
For more information, please call Matt Day, TARPO senior planner, at 919.558.9397 or send an e-mail to mday@tjcog.org
Date:
Friday, April 26, 2013 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location:
Southern Human Services Center, 2501 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill
It’s about to get a lot harder to vote in Orange County, at least for some of us.
The Republican majority in the General Assembly clearly feels that the racist, anti-woman, anti-urban, and very anti-liberal redistricting which took place last year didn’t do enough to solidify their entrenched majority. Now they’re hard at work systematically disenfranchising people who are unlikely to vote for them. Stringent voter identification requirements, shortened early voting, and other impediments to voting have been proposed in the General Assembly and are all likely to pass.
But of particular note to us in Orange County is the aptly-numbered Senate Bill 666. The most significant change in SB 666 isn’t in chapter 163 which governs elections; rather, it’s a change to the tax code:
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