919-960-1188

cberry@townofchapelhill.org

Term of Service

2021-2025

Camille Berry works as a consultant to both for-profit and nonprofit leaders. She shares with her clients her decades of experience in cultivating relationships that are built upon collaboration, curiosity, and integrity.

For nearly seven years, Camille worked with Community Home Trust to secure resources for its work in increasing and maintaining affordable housing. That work was deeply meaningful to Camille as she and her children had faced housing insecurity for several years prior to her joining the nonprofit organization. Previously, Camille served as executive director with Durham Central Park, Inc. where she led a band of volunteers in redeveloping an urban wasteland into green space used for community gathering space — a result of a public-private partnership. Her vision to create a weekly marketplace destination by closing the street and making it a pedestrian mall on Saturday mornings was a success and continues to grow in attracting locals and visitors.

Camille is mother to three adult children (Jasmine, Allegra, and Anthony), an active alumna of Wellesley College, and past president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Sunrise Rotary Club. A North Carolina native, she returned with her family to her home state and settled in southern Orange County in 2005. All three of her children attended and graduated from Carolina Friends School, a school that was founded to to be different by design — purposefully integrated, student-oriented, and radically equal. Continuing the legacy of her ancestors, Camille serves in a variety of ways that foster a sense of belonging through opportunities and fellowship.

True to her family's ethos and the mottos of her alma mater and Rotary, Camille has found great purpose in service to her community. That continues with her election to the Chapel Hill Town Council.

Membership

• Community Policing Advisory Committee
• Cultural Arts Commission
• Human Services Advisory Board
• Planning Commission

Duties

The primary mission of the Mayor and Council, as the governing body of the Town is to adopt and provide for the execution of ordinances, rules and regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to protect health, life or property, or to promote the comfort, convenience, security, good order, better government, or the general welfare of the Town and its citizens.

The Mayor and eight Council Members constitute the governing body of the Town. In accordance with the Town’s Charter, the voters elect a Mayor every two years. Council Members are elected to four-year, staggered terms on an at-large basis. Town Council duties include:

• Amendment of previously adopted policies through changes in the Town Code of Ordinances and the Development Ordinance, and by revision of policies and documents.
• Appointment of advisory boards, commissions, task forces and committees.
• Appointment of the Town Manager and Town Attorney.
• Establishment of agreements with other governments.