City Council Business Meeting on 2026-01-12 5:00 PM - Jan 12, 2026
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Charlotte City Council
3h 30m
5 speakers
7 agenda items
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Who is introduced and what is the purpose of this business meeting?
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm going to budget a new chair for you, man. I'll help you all, okay?
I got you, man. Okay, so good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to our program that we have and calling this meeting to order. It's basically where we will be having a... what I call our ability to have more conversation, more dialogue around what we've been doing and achieving over the last couple of days or weeks. So I just want to start with that. And we will have our first business meeting this afternoon. I guess we'll be down in the chamber by that time. Is that correct? We'll be moving down to the chamber. So I want to say to everyone, I hope everyone had a really good holiday. And now it's time to get back on the grinding street. So... Let's start with introductions around our room, starting with our city clerk, Billy.
Billy Tons, deputy city clerk. Good evening, Dimplege Mayor, at large. Joy Mayo, District 3. Happy New Year, Dante Anderson, District 1. Good evening, Victoria Watlington. I have the pleasure of serving you as a member at large.
Good evening, everyone. James Mitchell, Mayor Pro Temp.
Vi Liles, Mayor.
Marcus Jones, City Manager.
Kimberly Owens, speaking for District 6.
Malcolm Graham, District 2.
Good evening. Luana Mayfield, Council Member-at-Large.
Good evening. J.D.
Masueta-Adias, proudly representing East Charlotte District 5. All right. Is that our City Attorney just coming in? Good evening, everyone. Andrea Leslie-Pites, City Attorney. Thank you, everyone. Did we miss anyone? If we didn't, welcome to all. And we'll start off with our consent items. Questions and answers are in consent. Our consent items start with item 13, I believe. James, don't let me mess this up a little bit. And then we'll start with that, and then we'll go through with the, there are some exceptions that we have for some of these items today. Would it be your preference to hear the items that will not be on the agenda? Okay, let's start with that. The first one that I have is deferred by staff.
Item number 34, set a public hearing on the Charlotte Fire Station historic landmark designation. So that's done. That's deferred. Thank you. Okay, and then on item 36, Charlotte Water Property Transactions, Barrington LCR 77 replacement for sewer parcel number 35 has been settled since we published the agenda. So that's 36. And then the next one is item 40, Harrisburg Road sidewalk and shared use path Ponderosa Pine to Colwick's Hill, parcel number 7, settled again since we had the print of the agenda. Mayor, what number was that last one? The last one is item 40.
Okay, thank you.
And, ma'am, sorry, that one was deferred, not settled. Deferred, not settled. Thank you. It says settled in here, but deferred we understand as well. Okay, thank you very much. Do we have any further items to address? Yes, ma'am. So we had a lot of questions for this evening. I got to speak to several of you, but some of you I didn't get around with the answers. So if we have time, I'd like to go through the Q&A real quick and see if anybody has additional questions. Absolutely. Let's begin. Okay, thank you. First of all, Council Member Mayfield pointed out about making sure we're conscious of putting bid tabs. as an attachment, and we do that, and I'll follow up to see if there's any that we don't. There was one that we did in this time, number 24, water and sanitary sewer infrastructure construction, but that only had one bid, and now we did add the bid tab, even though it's one bid down.
And we'll make a conscious effort to make sure those are always included going forward. And then for number 14, Governor's Highway Safety Patrol, grant for traffic safety, driving while impaired. Ms. Johnson wanted a little bit more information, and we'll follow up with her as well, but she wanted to know what schools they do and what the proactive component. And the staff that administered this program said if you have any contacts for different schools, to please let them know, because they're definitely open to going to other schools as well. But they already go to Ardrukel, Butler, Myers Park, McLennan Middle,
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Agenda
7 items
1
Who is introduced and what is the purpose of this business meeting?
0:25–24:53
2
Which consent items and staff updates are reviewed during the Q&A?
24:53–1:34:26
3
Why is the lease of 501 West Trade (Pivot Parking) controversial and what federal constraints apply?
1:34:26–1:45:34
4
How will the City’s workforce grants and phased curriculum support small businesses and job placement?
1:45:34–1:48:29
5
What timeline and fund distribution plan did staff outline for scaling businesses to bid on transit projects?
1:48:29–1:57:13
6
How are councilmembers responding to Vision Zero findings and what actions are they requesting?
1:57:13–2:10:29
7
Which small businesses are proposed for Eastland Yards and what concerns did council raise about tenant selection?
2:10:29–3:30:37
Speakers
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