City Council Business Meeting on 2024-08-26 5:00 PM - Aug 26, 2024

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What are the city’s strategic priorities and funding framework introduced at the beginning?

Unknown 9:58

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Marcus Jones 9:58

little bit on the slide and I think it speaks volumes because when we start to take one issue in isolation, you can pick that issue apart. But this council through numerous uh annual strategy meetings and days and days of looking at goals and objectives and priorities have really landed on what what I call a three legged stool. You know, it's a А a good place to live, a good paying job and a way to get back and forth. And so I start off with that because we have uh you have continued to do a lot of great things even before the discussion tonight. A lot has happened since the Charlotte Moves group. Your efforts on council alongside the community leaders have come to advance all the priorities and not just this one.

Marcus Jones 10:49

And we believe it's done in a way that's never been done before, whether it's through the corridors of opportunity programs. Program or efforts to address safety and the environment through Vision Zero and CAP. These efforts work together. You have been building on minority business enterprise and transformational investments in affordable housing. These programs, especially when we start to think about MWSBEs, these programs provide capital, technical expertise, critical networking, as well as production. Bringing the MBEs to the next level, legal assistance programs, how to n navigate complex issues. And so when we start to think about some of the things that you've done, not just the the C app or what's happening around um

Marcus Jones 11:35

CBI, but even the Charlotte Small Business Growth Fund, which together with the private sector and the philanthropic community, that supports forty million dollars in lending to businesses that are unable to get traditional capital. Your two million dollar investment helped make that happen. What's going to happen tonight is Aet McKinney does his uh presentation, you'll see Uh, what's in it for the city of Charlotte and that includes in year one of the one cent sales tax, the forty percent portion that comes to transportation in Charlotte's worth a hundred million dollars. And and that and that grows. So I guess what I'm saying is The community is poised to have a discussion around transportation, much like what you've done with affordable housing and what you've done with good paying jobs.

Marcus Jones 12:28

I do want to talk a little bit about affordable housing before I turn it over to to Ed. In this last budget, you doubled your efforts from the housing bond from fifty million to a hundred million. There's some great work and I won't do a spoiler alert, but there's some great work that's going on in the Housing Estate Communities Committee about how to deploy those funds in a way that's never been done before. So what what I would say is that as we're talking about mobility tonight or transportation tonight. That doesn't wipe out four years of work around some other key areas that actually work together with what we're trying to do here. So with that said, I'd like to turn it over Mayor to Ed McKinney.

Unknown 13:10

Thank you again, Ed McKinney, uh special assistant to the manager for mobility. Um a couple of things I'll just gonna go back real quick, just a reminder, what we're gonna do tonight is talk really about two things and two actions coming up for you. Transportation funding, which is really centered around the draft legislation, and then uh the red line. So I'll walk through and Sarah Hazel and I will walk through the draft legislation. Uh, specifically around the funding, and then we'll turn it over to Brent Kegel to talk through uh the red line purchase. Quick schedule. Uh we've talked about this before. Here's where we are. Um on on our action review and and again the goal next uh next week it's September third is these two uh requested actions.

Unknown 13:52

Couple things just to kind of build upon what the manager just described. Again, number of things we've been doing, certainly the plans that have already been described by the mayor. thing that I think we want to sort of reemphasize is really the time is now. This this notion of funding uh is critical to moving forward.