Cal Horton

Life and Orange County connections

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1. 1990 Cal Horton becomes Chapel Hill's town manager Cal Horton, Chapel Hill's public safety director, took over as town manager in 1990 after Sonna Loewenthal's months as interim manager. He held the post until 2006.Search the index · Town of Chapel Hill: Minutes of a public hearing of the Mayor and Council, September 17, 1990
2. January 11, 1993 Chapel Hill Town Council funds the Midway Development Commission The council unanimously approved a $6,000 grant to promote Black-owned businesses and housing in the Midway district between Chapel Hill and Carrboro. James Brittian, NAACP president and the commission's project development coordinator, said the money would bring in millions. People: Cal HortonSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, January 12, 1993, page 1 (Council OKs grant for black-owned Midway businesses)
3. 1996 Black public works employees bring a discrimination charge against the Town of Chapel Hill The Black Public Works Association, with the NAACP's help, filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging racial discrimination in promotions, pay and training in Chapel Hill's Public Works Department, where about 75 of some 110 employees were Black and none were managers. The EEOC assigned an investigator in the summer of 1996. People: Cal HortonSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, August 19, 1996, page 19
4. September 1996 Orange Regional Landfill takes Hurricane Fran yard waste free as Chapel Hill faces tens of thousands of tons of debris The Orange Regional Landfill on Eubanks Road accepted yard waste at no charge until further notice. Town Manager Cal Horton estimated Chapel Hill had 25,000 to 40,000 tons of fallen limbs and trees and said the town would eventually remove curbside debris, while urging residents to haul debris to the landfill themselves. People: Cal HortonDaily Tar Heel (DigitalNC): Officials: cleanup process efficient, September 11, 1996
5. October 13, 1997 Duke University easement to NASA stalls landfill candidate site OC-17 Chapel Hill's manager reported that Duke University had filed an easement in favor of NASA on candidate site OC-17, leaving the towns unable to test the land. The council voted 8 to 0 to have the town attorney write to the U.S. Attorney and called an Assembly of Governments for October 22, 1997. People: Cal HortonTown of Chapel Hill: Minutes of the Town Council, October 13, 1997
6. 2006 Cal Horton retires after sixteen years as Chapel Hill's town manager Horton retired in 2006 after the longest tenure of any Chapel Hill town manager. At his request, money raised in his honor went to a town award for employees who have given at least ten years of exceptional service, now the Cal Horton Service Award.Search the index · Chapelboro: Town of Chapel Hill Issues 2023 Service Award to Public Works Employee (Brighton McConnell, October 5, 2023)