# SPANISH VERSION CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION 08202026


**Body:** City of Durham NC 
**Date:** October 16, 2026
**Jurisdiction:** SLED

**Tags:** Construction & Infrastructure, Professional Services, Physical Infrastructure, Grants & Funding


The Durham City Council work session, dated October 16, 2026, included discussion of public housing, homelessness response, neighborhood safety, and tenant organizing. Council members discussed inviting the Durham Housing Authority to provide a public update and coordinating community engagement; staff said they would work to schedule the update. Residents also raised concerns about encampments and conditions around a business on South Plum Street. City staff described interim housing efforts and noted that additional resources would be needed to expand the response. No vote on the proposed tenant-resolution item is recorded in the transcript.

The consent agenda listed several procurement- and funding-related items, but the transcript does not capture final approval votes on them. Items included an AECOM Technical Services of North Carolina contract for municipal stormwater-system support; amendments to professional design-service contracts for building roof repairs and a Third Fork Creek project; an increase to the construction-management contingency for Durham Station transit-center improvements; and a proposed loan commitment of up to $6.3 million for the 505 W. Chapel Hill Street project. The agenda also included grant ordinances and a utility-service extension. The down-payment assistance item and some other agenda items were pulled for further discussion; the surplus-property item was also set aside for questions. Earlier, council approved priority items by motion, but no procurement award vote is shown.

**Source:** City of Durham NC