With a new school year approaching and no final budget, Orange County Schools Board of Education members, teachers and parents have high hopes for the upcoming year. Orange County Schools have been working around the restraints of doing “more with less,” a common phrase highlighting budget and teacher cuts during the past academic school years.
Locals schools will merge job responsibilities by creating two new positions for the upcoming school year which aim to improve student achievement from kindergarten to 12th grade.
Leon Schaller has been living in Chapel Hill for 10 years. He never considered moving until recently, and he’s not the only one. Schaller, a retiree, is among many residents of Homestead Village who disagree with the proposal of additional student housing near the neighborhood.
Mary Mason sat quietly in the front row as her peers spoke about the proposed budget for the county — but when they spoke about keeping schools funded, she clapped as loud as she could.Mason, a reading specialist at Pathways Elementary, was one of many residents at an Orange County Board of Commissioners hearing to voice concerns about potential budget cuts to departments.
Pedestrians will soon be able to breathe easier as they cross Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. Chapel Hill is building seven pedestrian refuge islands, or medians, in the center lane of the boulevard.The project is expected to be completed by July 1. The project will cost $403,952.
The Chapel Hill Town Council and local residents shared similar concerns about the size of a potential student housing development during Monday’s meeting.
Funding for county projects created confusion for the Orange County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday night. After an hour of deliberation, they only postponed voting.The commissioners couldn’t agree on what to do about incomplete projects in the County Capital Projects Fund.
The Orange County Board of Commissioners will get a look at the master plan of a new park in May after seeing a preliminary map at its Tuesday meeting.New Hope Park at Blackwood Farm will be located near the intersection of New Hope Church Road and N.C. 86 between Chapel Hill and Hillsborough.
If Orange County introduces a new method of waste disposal, the trash you throw away could become the trash you drive on.
The vast majority of volunteer boards and commissions that advise Chapel Hill government don’t have enough members. The town is looking for applicants to fill 85 empty spots on 22 boards and commissions. The spots come from a combination of term expirations and already unfilled seats.
