City briefs for October 7

Commissioners to discuss permits for Buckhorn Village

The Orange County Board of Commissioners is scheduled for a 7 p.m. meeting at the F. Gordon Battle Courtroom in Hillsborough.

Items on the agenda include:

- The commissioners might take action on applications for rezoning and permits for Buckhorn Village submitted in December 2007.

The Orange County Planning Board and the commissioners held joint public hearings in February and April to review the proposed 1.14 million-square-foot retail development.

- Resolutions that endorse priority transportation projects for the 2011-17 Transportation Improvement Program.

- Receiving a consultant’s report that concludes that the available technologies for disposing of waste would not be justified for Orange County.



Aldermen to discuss repair funds, new disc golf course

The Carrboro Board of Aldermen is scheduled to have a meeting at 8 p.m. today at Carrboro Town Hall.

Items on the agenda include:

- An update by the Carrboro Parks Project on the progress of the funds raised for a proposed disc golf course in Anderson Park, a project that the board approved in March.

- A request for funding from the Affordable Housing Special Revenue Fund for Empowerment Inc. for an emergency repair to a sewer line at 105 Cobb St.



Local school to give virtual desktops to students, faculty

Frank Porter Graham Elementary School will take part in a pilot program for virtual desktops.

The pilot is part of the SIMtone Education Thunder Program, which aims to close the digital gap and provide people with access to computers without having to own one.

The educational content of the program is provided by the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

The school will provide about 600 students and faculty members with SIMtone’s Universal Cloud Computing products, also called “PCs in the Cloud,” which are usable anywhere there is broadband connection without a computer.

The pilot will be launched during the fall 2008 semester.