City Council Business Meeting on 2024-11-25 5:00 PM - Nov 25, 2024
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What agenda items and consent items are being reviewed at the start of the meeting?
Agenda review, I believe is what do we call this now? We call this the agenda overview and we are going to start with our city council. We had some questions and Miss Marie, would you, are there questions that have been submitted that we have to review in advance? Yes. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. And y'all should all have a copy at your table. And I had a few questions that are actually on consent items. Mr. Bakari and Ms.
Ajmera,
I don't know if you've had a chance to look over them yet or if you would like additional information. Ms. Ajmera, you requested some questions from Marie, and so I think they've been distributed. But she wanted to know if you had any additional questions. No. My questions were on the business items. Okay. So I don't have anything on consent agenda items. And I appreciate Marie for helping me understand there was one consent item which you provided a response to. So I'm good. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Any other questions on the consent items? All right. I would probably
just pull for comment, not for a separate vote. 17.
All right.
How does the council discuss police recruitment and the related data?
So item 17 is police recruit advertising services. And Mr. Bakari would like to make a brief comment about that. Is there any other item that anyone wants to pull from consent? Harry Nunn, we'll go through 18 through 29. I
think we can
just vote
on them all at once and
I'll comment just briefly. Sorry, that would be 17 through 32. 17 through 32. Sorry, I saw the consent agenda down here. Okay, so Mr. Bakari, your
comments? We'll do a motion probably first. I'll
move
to approve. Second.
We have a motion and a second to approve. Now, Mr. Bakari, were you including item 17? Yes, I'm just going
to make a comment. We used to do comments.
Yes, we can do a
comment.
All right, Mr. Bakari, your
comments. This is one of the first times we've seen some data like this. And again, I'm not going to belabor the point or even at this point try to figure out and hold back the vote of the consent item. I want it to move forward at this point. But we don't get to see a lot of the data that I believe at the core of many of our organizations, get towards things like recruitment, retention, overall morale. And I would just say that there are some concerning things here to look at. And if you look at your numbers, like recruit class 197, large number coming in, 85, but only 48 ended up graduating. 26 resigned during the process. 14 were recycled, a record-breaking number. This could mean a lot of things, and I haven't drawn any conclusions, but I do think this is the kind of exercise we need to start drilling into because I do personally believe this is indicative of what could be a serious problem down the road.
And the culture, the morale issues, the recruitment and retention are all critical to that. So I think it dovetails nicely after this comment into what the manager is already going to be doing in a series of our meetings drilling into, particularly in CMPD, different topics where we as a council can ask questions of data we want brought back, of things we want to understand. So I'm not going to jump to any conclusions now, but I think it dovetails nicely into that. It was a concern I had. I was glad to hear you were doing that. So I just wanted to make sure that everyone kind of saw some of those numbers there so that we keep that in the back of our mind in this series of conversations.
All right. I think Mr. Bakari is referring to the manager's presentation along with the chief this afternoon, but that will be on our existing dais after we have the speakers and all of that. So we'll have that included from the manager's report. Okay? I'm sorry, Ms. Sajmira? Thank you, Madam Mayor. So I wanted to follow up on Mr. Bocari's point about police recruitment. I know usually we discuss this item specifically during the budget process. So I think having if we can get a head start on this item, so if there are budget implications to it, we are prepared for it ahead of time. So I'm Mr. Jones, in the presentation that will be provided to us later today, are you expecting in terms of if we can tie this to our overall budget discussion for next year so that we are really being proactive?
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Agenda
8 items
1
What agenda items and consent items are being reviewed at the start of the meeting?
0:00–1:20
2
How does the council discuss police recruitment and the related data?
1:20–9:42
3
What is included in the proposed 2025 legislative agenda and calendar review?
9:42–30:27
4
How are public‑safety statistics and community perception addressed?
30:27–1:54:38
5
What acknowledgments and police precinct questions open the meeting?
1:54:38–2:02:13
6
How do community members describe safety and homelessness concerns in East Charlotte?
2:02:13–2:18:17
7
What issues of racial harassment and housing insecurity are raised by public speakers?
2:18:17–2:29:16
8
How does the council move from public comments to formal motions and agenda items?
2:29:16–3:35:00
Speakers
5 identifiedOfficials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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