Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education

Welcome to the open thread for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education candidate forum happening on October 11, 2015. Comments on this post will open at that time.

There are eight candidates running for four seats:

• Joal Hall Broun
• Rani Dasi
• Gregg Gerdau
• Pat Heinrich
• Margaret Samuels
• David Saussy
• Annetta Streater
• Theresa Watson

You can observe the forum at http://orangepolitics.org/elections-2015/forums/chccs.

We hope you'll use this open thread to post your thoughts and reactions. Also, if you want to propose additional discussion topics, you can reach the editors during the forum via Twitter, Facebook, or the contact page. The forum moderator will have final say in question selection.

Budgets will be the focus for the both the county commissioners, Chapel Hill Town Council and Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board this week. The Carrboro Alderfolks will talk about the rezoning of the Triem/South Green Lot, while the county commissioners will discuss the Eubanks Road Solid Waste Convenience Center and Southern Government Services Center in addition to their already-mentioned work on the budget. GoTriangle will present the environmental impact studies done of the Durham-Orange light rail corridor.

Both the Hillsborough Town Board and Orange County Board of Education are on break this week.

Here's the 

CARRBORO BOARD OF ALDERPERSONS

• Meeting: Tuesday, June 2, 7:30 pm @ Carrboro Town Hall
  • The board will receive further public comment on the re-zoning and develepment of the Triem/South Green Lot.

CHAPEL HILL TOWN COUNCIL