City Council Special Meeting on 2026-06-15 2:00 PM - Interim Mayor Candidate Forum - Jun 15, 2026

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Who introduces council members and what are the forum ground rules?

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Vi Lyles 0:37

Thank you.

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Bye.

Vi Lyles 3:44

charlotte city council's mayoral vacancy and candidate forum it's june the 15th and it's at two o'clock and i think we have almost everyone i know we haven't i believe we're going to go around and introduce our staff as well as our council members all right miss billy billy tons deputy city clerk

Billy (Deputy City Clerk) 4:07

Good afternoon. Good afternoon.

Vi Lyles 4:12

I'm Victoria Wallington. I have the pleasure of serving you as a member at large. Good afternoon. Joy Mayo, representing District 3. Kimberly Owens, representing District 6. Ed Driggs, District 7. Malcolm Graham, District 2. Luana Mayfield, serving at large. J.D. Masuera-Arias, District 5. Good afternoon, I'm Renee Johnson and I have the honor of representing District 4. Welcome and congratulations to all the candidates. So I want to say thank you and it is a pleasure to have you here this afternoon. So many of you who are beginning to participate in what I think is one of the most important things that we do, which is to have a city that we can work with all the things that we can do for all of the communities that we have and to make sure it works.

Vi Lyles 4:57

So I'm just going to say I'm going to call, we have called the meeting to order and we understand that we have all of our appointments. all of the people that are joining us. So let's go down into what we are going to try to do for our candidate forum. The candidates will appear in alphabetical order by last name. Each candidate has been assigned a number. Candidates will be called by their name and number to the lectern, which is right up here with our city attorney here. And when it is their turn, each one will be given two minutes to provide a statement to counsel. There will be no questions during the forum. However, Ms. Mayfield has asked to be recognized, and I want to do that with her. Ms. Mayfield?

Vi Lyles 5:44

Thank you, Madam Mayor. So, colleagues, as today we are just hearing from the candidates, according to this most updated list, we have about 49 individuals selected. I had mentioned previously that we have an opportunity when we look at what we identified through the MPTA process of trying to narrow down potential, the strongest candidates that potentially may have five or more. I believe we have the opportunity to create the survey again. So today is basically, we have the opportunity of this being part one of a two-part process where we then narrow that down to, a number where we could see where they may be consensus amongst council, five or more, and then we have the opportunity to invite those individuals back and actually ask the questions that we can come together and decide on some questions.

Vi Lyles 6:39

I definitely want to also acknowledge mayor allows for agreeing to stick around a little bit longer. Thank you. And not leaving at the initial June date to give us time to make sure that to the best of our ability, based on the applications that we identified the appropriate candidate to fill out these 17 months. But I do think council should have the opportunity to have discussions. around the candidates and the opportunity for us to be able to ask questions of the candidates after we get through today. Mayor, my question is, do I need to put that in the form of a motion to see if we can get support? If that is the case, I would like to make a motion that part two of this intramural appointment process, we will have the ability for council to then work with staff to identify a survey and from that survey, narrow it down in order to actually have the opportunity for us to ask questions of the candidates.

Vi Lyles 7:42

Y'all are going to get a second or not because we don't have a process after listening to 49 people today. So this is the recommended process that I am suggesting. All right. Ms. Mayfield has made a motion. That's the motion. So if we don't get a second. All right. We have a motion and a second. Any further conversation? All right. So Madam Mayor, I appreciate the opportunity and I will speak on behalf of the motion. I am inclined towards that, but I would ask for a friendly amendment to add in the ability for individual council members to assess folks who do not show up today in person.