Alamance County Commissioners Hold Feb. 16 Meeting, Post Agenda and Livestream

Alamance County Board of Commissioners convened a regularly scheduled business meeting on Monday, Feb. 16, 2026 at 6:30 p.m., and the county published the agenda and supporting materials on its eScribe meeting portal while making the full meeting available as a public livestream that is archived on the county’s meetings playlist. The meeting appears on the county’s YouTube listings as “All 2026 meetings of the Alamance County Board of Commissioners · February 16, 2026 Commissioners Meeting · February 16, 2026 Commissioners Meeting Live Stream.”

At the Feb. 16 meeting the board adopted a revised meeting policy by a recorded margin of 4-to-0. Alamancenews reporter Tomas Murawski summarized the policy and the procedural changes: “The rules that the commissioners ultimately adopted retained a staff level suggestion to label their first meeting of the month as a ‘work session,’ while retaining the public comment period that currently kicks off all of the board’s regularly-scheduled gatherings. The new policy also shifts the board’s responses to public comments so they occur immediately after the commissioners hear from their constituents. It nevertheless limits each board member to 3 minutes for his or her response to these comments - and gives each commissioner a maximum of 5 minutes to share any other remarks they may have at the end of each meeting.”

County Manager Heidi York first pitched the staff-generated recommendations in December and, after more than two months of deliberation, “agreed to tweak the staff’s recommendations to suit the board’s wishes, and she returned with this revised draft when the commissioners convened their latest regularly-scheduled gathering on Monday,” Murawski reported. The paper added that the commissioners “passed these new protocols by a margin of 4-to-0 on Monday after more than two months of hemming and hawing over a staff-generated proposal that made its debut in December.”

Chairman Kelly Allen framed the change as a benefit to residents, telling the board that, with the restoration of two public comment periods a month, the staff’s revised rules were a “vast improvement” and that the distinction between “work sessions” and regular “business meetings” would be invaluable to residents who have sat through lengthy staff presentations and board deliberations to hear items pertinent to themselves, Murawski reported.

The county’s published 2026 schedule of regular meetings lists the board’s dates and times exactly as posted: January 20 (Board Winter Work Session) 9:30 AM; January 21 (Board Winter Work Session) 9:30 AM; February 2 – Work Session 9:30 AM; February 16 – Business Meeting 6:30 PM; March 2 – Work Session 9:30 AM; March 16 – Business Meeting 6:30 PM; April 6 – Work Session 9:30 AM; April 20 – Business Meeting 6:30 PM; May 4 – Work Session 9:30 AM; May 18 – Business Meeting 6:30 PM; June 1 – Work Session 6:30 PM; June 9 – Budget Work Session 9:30 AM; June 15 – Business Meeting 6:30 PM; July 20 – Business Meeting 6:30 PM; August 3 – Work Session 9:30 AM; August 17 – Business Meeting 6:30 PM; September 8 Tuesday – Work Session 9:30 AM; September 21 – Business Meeting 6:30 PM; October 5 – Work Session 9:30 AM; October [...] Meeting 6:30 PM; October 5 – Work Session 9:30 AM; October 19 – Business Meeting 6:30 PM; November 2 – Work Session 9:30 AM; November 16 – Business Meeting 6:30 PM; December 7 (Organizational Meeting) – Work Session 9:30 AM; December 21 – Business Meeting 6:30 PM. The schedule page also carries a note that “• Date changes due to holiday schedules.”

The Feb. 16 agenda packet and the archived livestream provide the public record for what transpired; the county’s eScribe portal contains the posted supporting materials and the YouTube listing confirms the recorded livestream is available. The board’s next listed meeting is a work session on March 2 at 9:30 AM, per the county’s 2026 schedule.