City Council Business Meeting on 2025-05-12 5:00 PM - May 12, 2025

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

Unknown 4:04

Unknown 4:10

Vi Lyles 11:46

Yeah.

Vi Lyles 16:42

for being here on the um May twelfth twenty twenty five Charlotte City Council business meeting. I want to say thank you for all of you being here and I want to take a few moments. We have we have a lot of things that are going on and so I want to talk a little bit about this after our introduction. So we'll start with our city clerk for introductions. Billy Thomas, Deputy City Clerk.

Anthony Fox 17:10

Anthony Fox, interim city attorney.

Vi Lyles 17:12

Good evening, I'm Rene Johnson and I have the honor of representing district four. Good evening, Dimplechmara, at large member. Philos Mayor.

Anthony Fox 17:22

Marcus Jones, City Manager.

Vi Lyles 17:24

Good evening, Luana Mayfield, Councilmember at large. Good evening, Victoria Watlington at large. Good afternoon, Tijuana Brown, District Three. Did I miss anyone? Did we miss anyone else? Okay, thank you all for those introductions. Um before we begin with our agenda, I want to announce a couple of changes to the council schedule for next week. The budget occ the budget adjustments meeting that was scheduled for two PM on Monday. will be on Monday, May the nineteenth will now be at one PM and the zoning meeting that was scheduled for five PM on Monday, May ninth will now begin at four PM. Um and I also wanted to review and I think um the clerk I'm sorry, you want to introduce yourself? Oh Dante Anderson, Mayor for Attem District One.

Vi Lyles 18:14

All right, thank you. Um in addition to this, um, we will be holding a forum. I'm sorry. Well, I'm sorry, miss Molina, would you like to introduce yourself? Um yes, ma'am. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Uh Marjorie Molina, District Five. Thank you very much. Um and then we also have in addition for that information we will be holding a forum for the candidates that who have applied to fill the vacant district six council seat and that forum will be in this room on Thursday, May the fifteenth at two PM. And our format for doing this is to allow each person to have five minutes to address their information, whatever they've put in their um I guess what they would call donated or put in together. And then we will have council will have uh five ten minutes to consider questions that may be asked of those folks that are participating.

Vi Lyles 19:12

I believe we have about five people, Madam Clerk. I believe we have seven. Севенпи. So we will be glad to be able I think the last one that I had, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Maybe even up to eight, so we'll know that because it doesn't close until tomorrow. So that's one of the other things that I wanted to mention. But I also wanted to recognize um that it's been a tough week, a lot of words played and said and in conversations, but I think at this point in what I would say is that this council has an opportunity to really think stop and think to do some things that we made to do differently. So I've asked Councilmember Johnson if she would join me in this effort to help decide and what we need to do to address the kinds of things that we want to do and be as a c really good council as we grow and as we get ready for this election this year.

Vi Lyles 20:17

And I think that she said yes. I'm waiting to make sure she said yes. And so working with her, I and I respect any other comments or requests or com you know things that count the council members want to see addressed. Please let us know. Let either um Miss Johnson know or let me know what we want to do. We're gonna try to do this after the budget adoption so that we can get all of those things off that stand and then continue to bill what I believe a real active council that's working together. and pulls together, not necessarily agreeing all the time, but actually understanding each other better. So with that, I think we're gonna move into our con I'm sorry. Did you raise your hand? Yes, I did. Yes, Miss Johnson.

Vi Lyles 21:07

Thank you. Thank you, Madam Mayor. And I look forward to the opportunity. And as I stated, I think we've done enough talking over the last few years. I think um Um I think we need to do things differently. So I look forward to that discussion. Um as we we talked about uh You and I have uh some