Randee Haven-O'Donnell

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1. 1990 Randee Haven-O'Donnell is named Soil and Water Conservation Teacher of the Year Haven-O'Donnell, who taught in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, was named Orange County and North Carolina Soil and Water Conservation Teacher of the Year.Search the index · Town of Carrboro: Council Member Randee Haven-O'Donnell (Internet Archive capture)
2. 2005 Randee Haven-O'Donnell is elected to the Carrboro Board of Aldermen After serving on the Carrboro Planning Board and other town advisory boards, Haven-O'Donnell won a seat on the Board of Aldermen in 2005, the first of five consecutive terms. She had moved to Carrboro in 1978 and taught in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools.Search the index · Town of Carrboro: Council Member Randee Haven-O'Donnell (Internet Archive capture)
3. May 16, 2006 Carrboro aldermen bar police arrests based solely on civil immigration violations The Carrboro Board of Aldermen unanimously adopted Resolution No. 123/2005-06, making it police policy not to arrest or take into custody anyone solely because they have or may have committed a civil immigration violation. The board had asked the town attorney to research the question on April 18, 2006. People: Mark Chilton, Jacquelyn Gist, Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Joal Hall Broun, Alex ZaffronTown of Carrboro (Mount Holyoke IDA repository copy): Board of Aldermen minutes, May 16, 2006
4. December 3, 2013 Lydia Lavelle takes office as Carrboro mayor, the first openly lesbian mayor in North Carolina Lydia Lavelle, who ran unopposed for mayor in the fall 2013 election, was sworn in on December 3, 2013 as North Carolina's first openly lesbian mayor. Aldermen Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Sammy Slade and Jacquelyn Gist were sworn in for new terms at the same meeting. People: Lydia Lavelle, Jacquelyn Gist, Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Sammy SladeChapelboro: Carrboro Celebrates NC's 1st Openly-Lesbian Mayor
5. April 26, 2015 Carrboro's Center for Employment and Leadership for day laborers opens El Centro Hispano, the Carrboro Day Laborer Task Force, Orange County Justice United and the Town of Carrboro opened a workers' center for day laborers at 201 W. Weaver St., which organizers called the first in North Carolina. The opening began with a march from the Jones Ferry and Davie roads corner and followed about ten years of planning. People: Lydia Lavelle, Randee Haven-O'DonnellNational Day Laborer Organizing Network: Carrboro Opens First Workers Center for Day Laborers in North Carolina
6. March 26, 2016 Carrboro Board of Aldermen calls for the repeal of House Bill 2 at a Saturday special meeting Three days after the General Assembly passed and Governor Pat McCrory signed House Bill 2, the Board met in special session and adopted a resolution affirming the dignity of LGBT people, calling for the law's repeal and urging other North Carolina governments to use it as a model, then adopted a second resolution condemning by name the legislators and governor who enacted it. Both passed six to none with Jacquelyn Gist absent, and the Board asked staff to raise the town's rainbow pride flags on March 28. People: Lydia Lavelle, Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Sammy Slade, Damon SeilsTown of Carrboro: Board of Aldermen special meeting minutes, March 26, 2016
7. November 19, 2019 Carrboro's Board of Aldermen votes to rename itself the Town Council After 50 years as the Board of Aldermen, a name the General Assembly approved in 1969, Carrboro's governing board passed a resolution changing its title to Town Council as part of making the town code gender neutral. It had tentatively approved the change after a public hearing on November 12. Randee Haven-O'Donnell said members who had sat on the board had felt the pinch of being called aldermen.Search the index · Chapelboro: Carrboro Board of Aldermen Changes Title to Town Council
8. January 12, 2021 Carrboro Town Council adopts a nondiscrimination ordinance covering sexual orientation and gender identity Six weeks after the state's moratorium on local employment and public accommodation ordinances expired on December 1, 2020, the Council unanimously adopted Ordinance No. 10/20-21, adding to Chapter 8 of the Town Code a ban on discrimination in employment and places of public accommodation that covers sexual orientation and gender identity or expression. The ordinance took effect on adoption and cited the town's March 26, 2016 pledge to seek such protections. People: Lydia Lavelle, Jacquelyn Gist, Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Sammy Slade, Barbara Foushee, Damon SeilsTown of Carrboro: Town Council minutes, January 12, 2021
9. December 7, 2021 Carrboro honors Lydia Lavelle as Damon Seils is sworn in as mayor At the council's meeting the town honored Lavelle for her four terms as mayor, and state senator Valerie Foushee administered the oath of office to her successor, Damon Seils. Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Barbara Foushee and Danny Nowell began council terms at the same meeting. People: Valerie Foushee, Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Barbara Foushee, Damon SeilsSearch the index · Chapelboro: Carrboro Town Council Swears In New Mayor, Council Members
10. May 5, 2022 Ground is broken for the Southern Branch Library in Carrboro Carrboro and Orange County broke ground at 203 South Greensboro Street for the Orange County Southern Branch Library and civic building known as The 203 Project, after both boards gave final approval on March 15, 2022. Mayor Damon Seils led the program, with remarks by commissioners' chair Renee Price, County Manager Bonnie Hammersley, Town Manager Richard J. White III and Nerys Levy of the Friends of the Southern Branch Library. People: Randee Haven-O'Donnell, Damon Seils, Renée Price, Bonnie HammersleyTown of Carrboro news: Groundbreaking for The 203 Project (May 2022)
11. July 18, 2025 Randee Haven-O'Donnell announces she will not seek reelection to the Carrboro Town Council Ending twenty years on the town's governing board, Haven-O'Donnell said she was encouraging new voices and would turn to organizing and advocacy on reproductive rights, tenants' rights, stormwater, water quality and PFAS pollution. Chapelboro noted that during her service the council approved the South Green development, a community safety task force and greenway projects.Search the index · Chapelboro: Carrboro Town Councilor Randee Haven-O'Donnell Won't Seek Reelection