City Council Business Meeting on 2024-04-22 5:00 PM

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Charlotte City Council 4h 38m 5 speakers 8 agenda items transcribed 3 days ago official recording ↗

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What introductions and opening remarks are made at the start of the council meeting?

Vi Lyles 0:24

Thanks everyone for being here. It's April the twenty second. I'm sorry. Thank you everyone. It's April the twenty second and we're gonna start our city council meeting off as in our action review. So I'm now calling it to order. And let's start with our introductions. We'll start with our city attorney.

Patrick Baker 0:41

Good evening, Patrick Baker, City Attorney.

Vi Lyles 0:45

Good evening, Victoria Watlington at large. Good evening, Lawana Mayfield, Councilmember at large. Malcolm Graham, District Two. Marcus Jones, City Manager. By Liles, Mayor. Dante Anderson, Mayor Pro Ten, District One. Temple Lajmira at large. Good evening, happy earth day. I'm Marjorie Molina, I represent District Five. Good evening, Rene Johnson, and I'm honored to represent district for. Ariel Smith, Lead City Clerk. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Melina, for reminding us that it is Earth Day today. And especially since it Earth Day was preceded by PASO. PASO. That's right. Thank you very much. So now we'll go to our agenda for the action review. The first item that we have is the Mayor and Council consent item questions and answers.

Vi Lyles 1:35

Um are there any consent items that would be requested as a s separate vote? Okay. Ms Ma Ms Ms Mayfield? Thank you, Madam Mayor. I have asked for Marie to I would like to have eighteen Twenty. Twenty one. Twenty six. Thirty one. Thirty three. Alright. Thirty three. Uh just thirty three through thirty six or just thirty three? Thirty three. Okay, thank you. All right. Anyone else? Yes. Yes, Miss Watlington. I'd I'd like to uh go ahead and pull seventeen from thirty. I'm sorry. Seventeen through thirty. Seventeen through thirty. Okay. All right. So that we're gonna have separate items for those. And so I believe the first item on our agenda then will be adopt a resolution supporting the North Carolina Department of Transportation safety project.

Vi Lyles 2:53

Do we have a motion? So move

Dante Anderson 2:55

second.

Vi Lyles 2:56

We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor of the motion, please raise your hand. All right, that passes. Anyone opposed? All right, so the next item um is requested as a separate vote. Item seventeen, traffic signal installation and maintenance change order. Miss Watlington. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Um I've got some general questions around each one of these particular items. I've bring them up because as we are looking at um making updates to our CBI work and really making sure that we are uh supporting MWSBE through our government contracts, I know that they're we're in the middle of transition. So I wanna make sure that we're super transparent with the public as we're seeing these each month while we wait for that.

Vi Lyles 3:45

Next um update about what it is that we're doing and why. So I've asked for staff to go through and just give a brief explanation for each of these in regards to um the goals, if there are some, and um speaking to how we kind of ended up to where we uh are. So these can be just As far as I'm concerned, these can be hit in one um piece uh just to answer those questions because there are three particular policy items I want to make sure is is clear as we take a look at them. Okay, thank you. I'm gonna ask the manager to address your questions. question.

Unknown 4:23

So Marie if it's Works best. Would it be good to just go through the responses? Okay, thank you.

Jeanette Wilson 4:30

Thank you. So traffic, signal,

Brent K. (Brent Kegel) 4:32

installation, and maintenance change order. That's the first one, number seventeen. And this is a change order and it's under the same

Jeanette Wilson 4:40

goal as the original contract. An important note for this change order is it's not a change order in terms of different scope.

Brent K. (Brent Kegel) 4:50

It's in it's more of the same basically. It's more we're having to do more than we projected in terms of installing traffic signals and maintaining traffic signals. And the goal was exceeded, it's two point one percent, but that was based on a review of availability matrix of the current um vendors that would be available to participate, and also due to the fact that there's not much subcontracting opportunities with this specific contract.

Patrick Baker 5:22

Uh follow up Mike? Oh god.

Vi Lyles 5:24

Mr. Mitchell.

Patrick Baker 5:27

I'm sorry, go ahead, Doc Wall.