City Council Business Meeting on 2024-06-10 5:00 PM - Jun 10, 2024
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Charlotte City Council
3h 20m
10 speakers
8 agenda items
transcribed 4 days ago
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What introductions and roll‑call are made at the beginning of the meeting?
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us for our action review that we have in advance of our council meeting. Today, we want to call this action review to order. Let's start with introductions, starting with our deputy clerk.
Ariel Smith, lead city clerk. Mr.
Mitchell. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm thinking about food, man.
I don't have
my
utensils. Y'all
know what
my
priorities are. I'm sorry. All
right.
James Mitchell, the greedy one, at large.
Dimple Archmire, at large.
Dante Anderson, Mayor Pro Tem, District 1.
Vi Lyles, Mayor.
Marcus Jones, City Manager. Malcolm Graham, District 2. Ed Drees, District 7.
Good evening. LaWanna Mayfield, Council Member, at large. Good evening. Victoria
Watlington, at large.
Patrick Baker, City Attorney.
All right. Thank you, everyone. We now have the consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve consent agenda items? Well, let me first start off with, is there anyone that would like to have an item for a separate vote? Ms.
How is the consent agenda approved and what motions are taken?
Harris, anything? No, ma'am. I spoke to Ms. Mayfield earlier. Did you get all your questions answered? Thank
you. All right. Would anyone like to speak on any of the items or make a note on them? Hearing none of that, do we have a motion to approve the consent agenda items 27 through 29? So moved. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor of that motion, please raise your hands. All right. Mr. Graham, is your hand? Thank you very much. Ms. Mayfield, I did see your hand go up and down. Thank you very much. Okay. The next item on our agenda is for the city manager to provide a review of what we're going to discuss this afternoon.
thank you mayor members of council today we have two items for the action review one is the bank of america stadium improvements where we will have our consultant who's been with us for a while david abrams and tracy dodson my assistant city manager and then we'll have an update from a um referral or outcome that came from the housing committee on the youth crime reduction, the Katie Blessing Center. This is an opportunity for the full council to get briefed by Sean Heath, and we may have some input from the chair and the vice chair of that committee. Mayor, with that said, those are the items that we have for the action briefing tonight.
All right, let's go ahead and start with our Bank of America's Improvements Project. Ms. Dotson.
Thank you, Mayor. Thanks for having me up here again tonight. We want to do a couple of things tonight. We want to first... introduce you to David Abrams and Inner Circle Sports. And I will do that in just a second. And then we want to provide some public feedback that we've received to date, as well as give you some staff response to council questions. As I asked David to come up here, David is a consultant that we have worked with for many years, going back to when Tepper Sports and Entertainment originally acquired the stadium. But David also has helped us with the Hornets. He helped us with MLS years ago. I've even consulted with him on tennis as we pursued that last year. So all things and anything sports.
I'm going to ask David to come up and talk a little bit about what he sees as trends across the country. And then before he finishes, we'll pause for a second, let you guys ask David any questions, and then I'll come back for the remaining pieces.
David, do
you want to come up? You're just going to push that button right there. All
right. Mayor, city council members, city managers, nice to see you all. I'm David Abrams with Inner Circle Sports. As Tracy mentioned, I have been working with the city on a number of sports-related projects. For those of you that haven't met me before, and I do know a number of the staff, it's nice to see everybody. Inner Circle Sports is a sports-centric, financial services firm that I have worked at for between eight and nine years. I focus on sports facilities, which means stadiums and arenas, mostly in the United States, but we do some work outside of the country as well in all of the major North American sports leagues. In addition to my work at Inner Circle Sports, I'm a full-time faculty member at NYU and I teach finance in the sports space.
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Agenda
8 items
1
What introductions and roll‑call are made at the beginning of the meeting?
1:13–2:27
2
How is the consent agenda approved and what motions are taken?
2:27–8:50
3
What are the key points of David Abrams’ presentation on the stadium improvement project?
8:50–1:33:02
4
How do council members discuss equity, financing, public hearings, and timeline concerns for the stadium deal?
1:33:02–1:43:08
5
What is the Katie Blessing Center recommendation and how does it relate to juvenile crime trends?
1:43:08–2:03:28
6
How are the public hearings and annexation motions conducted and voted on?
2:03:28–2:37:03
7
What are the key points and controversies in the FY 2025 budget approval?
2:37:03–3:05:27
8
How does the council wrap up the meeting and outline next steps?
3:05:27–3:20:50
Speakers
10 identified
Vi Lyles 22 min
Malcolm Graham 17 min
Victoria Watlington 13 min
Dimple Ajmera 11 min
LaWana Mayfield 10 min
Dante Anderson 9 min
Renee Johnson 8 min
Ed Driggs 7 min
James Mitchell 3 min
Marcus Jones 3 min
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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