City Council Business Meeting on 2023-12-11 5:00 PM
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What agenda items are introduced at the beginning of the meeting?
Good evening, Marjorie Molina, District 5. that even if you want to bring a district three
uh... city clerk
thank you everyone uh... today i believe that we are going to uh... we're all recognizing that we have a number of important items first we have a public forum and you should understand we have exceeded the number of people that we would have so that people have a two minutes to speak and also uh... we are going to I hope be very respectful and I will ask the audience to be respectful as remarks are being made. This is a continuation of our last meeting that we have for the public forum as well. So divergent views but respected views are what we would have as we do this. In addition, we're all aware, I hope, that we will be watching the video that took place on Arrowwood this evening afterwards. So as we go through this agenda and prepare for that, I hope that everyone is ready to follow enough so that we can also, again, look at that in the view that we are required to do and hear from the chief as an end of that.
So today, right now, we're in our consent items list. So I'm going to ask Ms. Harris if there were any questions regarding our consent agenda. If you would
review those, please. Thank you, Madam Mayor and Council. Good evening. And Ms. Mayfield, I had a chance to speak with you earlier, but I don't know if you had any additional ones or if anybody else had any additional consent item questions.
All right, so without any further questions, I'm going to ask if there is a consent agenda item for a separate vote. I do have items. Let me just start off with a regular motion. May I have a motion to approve consent items 15 through 43? And with the exception of items 36, 37, 39, and 40, which have been deferred by staff and are expected to come back in January's meeting. So
moved.
We have a motion and a second. And so any discussion? Hearing no discussion. We have discussion. We have Mr. Graham.
Just a brief comment. Again, I know we're going to talk about infrastructure earlier today, but there's so many infrastructure projects that we improve in the consent. I just wanted to bring that to the public's attention. There's a lot of stuff that we're doing this week, as we do every month, related to infrastructure that's kind of buried in the consent items. And so it's just another nod to the public that we are addressing the issue.
All right, thank you. Ms. Mayfield? Mayor, will you repeat the consent items that are being pulled again, 36, 37? 39 and 40. Thank you. All right. All right, any further discussion on our consent agenda? Hearing none, all in favor of approval of the consent agenda, please raise your hands. I believe that is unanimous. And so we will now go to our action review over our action review agenda over review oversight. So with the city manager.
Thank you, Mayor, members of council. We have two items on the action review tonight. And as we go back to one of my 30 day memos, we talked about rounding out the year, being able to have a. infrastructure update, and that will be kicked off with Liz Babson, as well as an Eastland update, which will be kicked off with Tracy Dodson. So there's been a lot of things that we've been discussing about infrastructure. I'll let you know that tonight's not the end. We'll continue to have discussions during the annual strategy meeting, as well as in the spring. And I will remind you that as we started to talk about all the projects that we're addressing throughout the city. We had it McKinney and the team come up and really do something that had not been done before in the city of Charlotte.
And let's look at a series of projects from sidewalks to roads, uh, to, uh, greenways, bike paths, uh, and some, uh, rail infrastructure and begin bundling those projects. And so that'll be something that we discuss in the spring. But again, I didn't want anyone to think this is the end of our infrastructure discussion. It's just an update that we committed to you by the end of the fourth quarter of this year. So Mayor, if there aren't any questions, I'd like to turn it over to Liz.
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Agenda
8 items
1
What agenda items are introduced at the beginning of the meeting?
0:00–21:15
2
How is the city’s infrastructure plan presented and what are its three focus areas?
21:15–48:11
3
What updates do the fire, water, and transportation departments provide and how do they impact response times?
48:11–1:16:59
4
Why are council members questioning additional funding, advisory committees, and project scope for Eastland?
1:16:59–1:36:34
5
What is the timeline for the infrastructure feasibility study and its funding sources?
1:36:34–1:56:52
6
How are community animal‑care and feral‑cat programs seeking additional city funding?
1:56:52–2:11:13
7
What motions are being considered to close the public right‑of‑way hearings and adopt resolutions?
2:11:13–2:23:57
8
Why is the council moving into a closed session and what matters are being discussed?
2:23:57–3:39:19
Speakers
6 identified
Vi Lyles 73 min
Dante Anderson 6 min
Malcolm Graham 5 min
Ed Driggs 4 min
Marcus Jones 4 min
Stephanie Kelly 2 min
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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