City Council Business Meeting on 2023-10-09 5:00 PM
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What items are on the consent agenda and how are they approved?
Consent and action review meeting to order.
You wanna start with it? You wanna start with
it We will
start with LeBron. No. During four weeks.
The meeting is in order. Thank you very much. We will start uh with introductions and we will start to my right uh with uh the deputy city clerk.
Deputy City Clerk Billy Times.
Good evening everyone. James Mitchell, City Council at Large.
Good evening, everyone. Renee Johnson, and I'm honored to represent
district four.
Good evening. Luana Slight Mayfield, Councilmember at Large.
Braxton Winston, Mayor Pro Temp. Marcus Jones, City Manager. Malcolm Graham, District Two.
Driggs,
District Seven.
Ed Driggs, District Seven.
Patrick Baker, City Attorney.
Thank you very much.
Congratulations and the baby got married.
Congratulations to Father the Bride who just entered right on time. Um we'll s uh next go to our consent agenda items, number twenty items number twenty-five uh through thirty-nine, and and these may all be considered in one motion except for those items removed by a council member. Um Ms. Harris, do we have any Uh items that have been pulled from council members?
No, sir. Ms. Mayfield, did that answer your question?
I would like for number thirty three to be pulled aside for comment. Thank you, Miss Harry.
Do any other council members have an item they want to pull for comment or separate vote? Hearing that I'm I'll make a motion uh to Huh? I'm uh I'll make a motion to approve consent agenda items twenty five through thirty nine. Second Um we'll have discussion. Um Miss Mayfield, I recognize you for item number thirty three, was it?
Yes, thirty three. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim. So n item number thirty three is the Blanchard Development Training. And I reached out. To get just a little bit more detail and I am happy to say that this training because what we have on here is to approve a not to six exceed contract for eight hundred and twenty thousand dollars. But this is specifically for the training of our staff. We have around five thousand five hundred participants over a five over the five year contract term. This is the situational leadership style competency that's being developed. to meet people where they are and provide them what they need. And some of the courses are situational leadership, coaching essentials, conversational capacity.
building trust and self leadership and it costs around a hundred and fifty dollars per person to attend the trainings but I want to say that I am happy that this is a training program that is offered. To leadership to make sure that we are to the best of our ability. working towards creating true equity. And the conversations so with that, Mayor Pro Tem, I would like to move to approve items A, B, and C. Approve the purchase, approve not to exceed and authorize the city manager.
They're included, aren't they?
Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you very much. Do we have any further comments? Um well we have we have a motion uh that that's that that item is part of. So any further comments, questions? Uh yes, Ms. uh Johnson.
Thank you. Um so this is Pretty much this is supervisory development materials.
How does the council move from the consent agenda to the Eastland redevelopment update?
Mr. Jones, will we have any benchmarks for will there be any surveys before and after um or any assessments in this training so that we can see uh the effectiveness of the training?
I'd like to call up uh Sheila Simpson, uh who could address the uh any types of benchmarks that you have with the training.
Thank you, members of council. I'm Sheila Simpson. Thank you, Manager Jones. Um This session has been held the first set of sessions have been held across the city with our leadership teams and we do have several testimonials about the session. Um but I think your question was do we survey was your question a survey? What was your Do we have any quantitative measurements um for the effectiveness of this training? such as maybe pre-assessments and then post assessments. We did not conduct pre assessments. So we do have uh feedback from participants and it is not in a quantifiable way, it is in a testimonial format. So Mr. Manager, I would just say with eight hundred for eight hundred and twenty thousand dollars it's it's it's a lot of money.
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Agenda
8 items
1
What items are on the consent agenda and how are they approved?
0:08–3:59
2
How does the council move from the consent agenda to the Eastland redevelopment update?
3:59–14:23
3
What are the key components and community concerns of the Eastland redevelopment proposal?
14:23–33:26
4
How are social districts introduced and what questions do council members raise about them?
33:26–1:23:46
5
What public comments were made about the Plaza Midwood Social District and merchant training?
1:23:46–1:36:22
6
How did the council hear the Smart Charlotte digital‑inclusion update and what progress was reported?
1:36:22–1:58:35
7
What concerns were raised about seniors, libraries, and the digital‑divide for vulnerable residents?
1:58:35–2:36:04
8
How were nominations for boards and commissions presented and approved?
2:36:04–2:43:24
Speakers
7 identified
Dante Anderson 28 min
LaWana Mayfield 22 min
Malcolm Graham 9 min
Marcus Jones 7 min
Dimple Ajmera 7 min
James Mitchell 4 min
Ed Driggs 3 min
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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