City Council Strategy Session on 2025-05-05 6:00 PM - May 05, 2025
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What was the purpose and agenda of the City Council’s introductory meeting?
Oh yes so. So what I'd like to say is that you know this is our um introductory meeting. So we have lots of time and s and have get allocated a number of times when we'll have budget public hearing on the twelfth, and we'll have adjustments and comments from the council members, and we would need to have those hopefully by the nineteenth, so that everyone can be ready and prepared for the next. next year's budget. So with that, I'm going to um turn it over to the manager, unless there's something else that the council Has some hand I'm sorry. We're gonna do introductions, thank you. All right, let's start with our clerk.
Billy Thomas, Deputy City Clerk.
Anthony Fox, interim city attorney.
Renee Johnson and I have the honor of representing District Four. Good evening, Marjorie Molina, District Five.
Good evening, Dempalajmira
at large. Good evening, Dante Anderson, Mayor Pro Tem, District One.
Good evening, Vi Lyles Mayor.
Good evening, Malcolm Graham, District Two. Ed Drigs, District
Seven.
All right. If you would introduce yourself?
Of course it is Tijuana Brown. Charlotte City Council District Three. All right.
All right. Julia Martin, City Manager's Office. Okay. Any other things that we need to do before we dive in? Hearing none, Mr. Jones, you have the floor.
Thank you. Thank you, Mayor and members of council. Uh Julia and I were trying to count and and we're counting on our fingers and I guess that's not the best way to start a budget presentation. But we think this is the uh ninth uh budget presentation that I provided to the city council. So I I'm pleased to begin the the presentation. Um and I really want to start with FY twenty twenty-four. We talked a bit about being at an inflection point uh in this community in trying to navigate how we could go about providing excellent services. Um and to make sure that it's a cost effective to uh residents. So in FY twenty twenty four we talked a bit about um whether we would be in a decline Be on the steady trajectory or even it advance it a bit.
And so by the time we got to FY25, you did approve a 1.37 property tax increase with about 0.82 going to operating primarily public safety, another 0.24 going to capital, really housing and mobility, and lastly 0.31 going into RPC. I will tell you that in uh the current budget What that allowed us to do, especially around the capital piece, is to have historic investments in our corridors and affordable housing as well as in transportation. So I'll start with the corridors and I don't think the story has been told enough. That it's really uh a five year journey, starting off with some investments in the corridors. I believe it was fourteen point five million in the CIP and ten million dollars in paygo uh back in twenty twenty.
And I just want to say that those investments over the years at ninety five point six million has really pulled in for every dollar that the city has invested one point seven one dollars in the private sector and federal grants. So really as we start to look at this not as ninety five point six million dollars of city investment, but two hundred and sixty million in community investment over the last five years. I would be remiss if I I didn't bring up with Angela Charles says to me over and over again. She says, Marcus, don't leave out what's happening with infrastructure. So you take that same period of time. Charlotte Water has invested three hundred and ninety-six million in the corridors and Stormwater another hundred and fifty-four million.
So eight hundred and ten million dollars invested in our corridors for opportunity. It was never the thought process that the city would do this alone. And the great news is that folks have come along with us. Also with that Property tax increase last year. We were able to do more in terms of the bond with the Housing Trust Fund. What's important is if you look at the uh three bars, um not quite to the far right, but before the blue bar, uh that's when the Housing trust fund went up to fifty million. And so if you start to look at those bonds, that's forty-seven percent of all the units that have been constructed since the beginning of the housing trust fund back in 2002.
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Agenda
8 items
1
What was the purpose and agenda of the City Council’s introductory meeting?
0:42–8:06
2
How did the council members introduce themselves and outline their districts?
8:06–17:02
3
What are the key highlights of the FY 2024‑25 budget presentation?
17:02–25:40
4
How is the city investing in corridors, affordable housing, and transportation infrastructure?
25:40–33:44
5
What role do the housing trust fund and the 2024‑25 bond play in affordable‑housing financing?
33:44–40:04
6
How will the proposed sales‑tax and property‑tax revenues affect the FY 2026 budget?
40:04–47:57
7
What cost‑saving measures and employee compensation changes are planned for FY 2026?
47:57–55:05
8
What questions, comments, and next steps were raised during the council’s Q&A and closing?
55:05–58:50
Speakers
8 identified
Marcus Jones 32 min
Vi Lyles 3 min
Malcolm Graham 3 min
Victoria Watlington 2 min
Dimple Ajmera 2 min
Renee Johnson 2 min
Dante Anderson 2 min
Ed Driggs 1 min
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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