Council Committee Discussions on 2024-03-04 6:00 PM
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Charlotte Council Committee Discussions
35 min
6 speakers
8 agenda items
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Who are the council members and officials introduced at the start of the meeting?
Good evening. Let's call our meeting for our
committee work
Monday, March the 4th to order. And I'd like to start off with, if you're watching us, we're going to start with introductions and we'll start with our city attorney.
Good evening, Patrick Baker, city attorney.
Good evening, Victoria Wallington, serving at large. Good evening, LaWanna Mayfield, serving council at large.
Tarp Card is six. Ed Driggs, District 7. Malcolm Graham, District 2. Marcus Jones, City Manager.
Ty Lyles, Mayor. Dante Anderson, Mayor Pro Tem, District 1. Good evening, Marjorie Molina, District 5.
Ariel Smith, Lead City Clerk. All right. Thank you for those introductions. Today is on the first Monday of each month. We have the council committees tackle their issues and referrals that they have that are helping us move towards policy positions in our organization. And so today we had three committee meetings and so we are going to hear from each person. It is a time for the council to get asked questions as I think most of us have watched all of the meetings during the day. but the ability to ask each colleague what else do they need to know, what else do they think could be added that would make the conversation more substantial or reflect the entirety of the council. So I know that we have several council members that were absent today, and so we will proceed with this.
And I thought we might start off by, instead of asking Ed to go first, to go the first shall be last and the last shall be first. And especially... Especially since it's right on the tip of your tongue. So I want to ask if we can begin with our Housing and Safety Committee report out. And again, the highlights of your discussion are the questions that you have of the council. I'm going to recognize Ms. Watlington.
Thank you, Madam Mayor. Today we had a wonderful meeting. And I just want to say... The staff that supports the Housing, Safety, and Community Committee, ACM Renee Askew, ACM Sean Heath, Director Rebecca Hefner, and I should not have started naming names because now I'm like, oh my God, Julia Martin, Warren Wooten, and our wonderful data folks, Andrew and
Jackie?
Hey, okay. They're doing a great job. They really are. It was exciting to see the updates that we had today because we really are moving in a tangible direction on the things that we have said are important to us. Council Member Mayfield kicked us off with the faith-based development initiative that she's leading, and certainly I won't steal her thunder, so if you want to add to it, that would be awesome. But that's something that she's been working on. I know that the mayor also... had received some information and was reviewing it and assessing its fit for our city, and it looks like we've got some opportunity to come alongside our faith-based community to provide housing, and if not housing, wraparound services.
It's really about how do we create a space for our faith-based community and partners to meet some of the needs in the community that we couldn't just do from within the city walls. Do you, Justice? You got it. Awesome. So we look forward to an update from that.
What updates were presented by the Housing, Safety, and Community Committee?
There is going to be a small, not large, stakeholder group that will be working on some of those projects and bringing them forward to us. So that was the first thing. We built on that momentum by revisiting our community safety framework referral, and that, I have to tell you, I'm so excited about. They have been working so very hard since January, and they brought us back not only the basis data, if you will, for what we're looking at and really understanding how our crime involving youth is shaped in our community, where it's happening. We learned what I thought that was most alarming in the discussion was that the top 10% of folks are really committing almost half of the crime that results in arrest.
And so that, on the one hand, is very Alarming but on the other it does almost help to wrap our arms around. What are we really dealing with? I think about councilmember Bakari who really started that conversation about let's really focus on the the Faithful few I'll say it that way And I think that we've got the data now to really have those conversations We heard from Mecklenburg County and some of our neighborhood services.
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Agenda
8 items
1
Who are the council members and officials introduced at the start of the meeting?
0:00–3:25
2
What updates were presented by the Housing, Safety, and Community Committee?
3:25–8:05
3
What workforce‑development and practice‑facility issues were discussed by the Jobs and Economic Development Committee?
8:05–13:39
4
How did the Transportation Committee report on CATS operations, bridge inspections, and train maintenance?
13:39–18:16
5
What are the key points of the Community Area Plan and policy‑map updates presented by Planning?
18:16–21:31
6
How is the committee measuring progress toward Vision Zero and other performance goals?
21:31–26:18
7
What next steps were outlined for the bus lane on Independence Boulevard and other upcoming projects?
26:18–31:11
8
How did the council conclude the meeting and what motions were taken to adjourn?
31:11–35:26
Speakers
6 identified
Ed Driggs 10 min
Malcolm Graham 9 min
Victoria Watlington 4 min
Vi Lyles 4 min
LaWana Mayfield 2 min
Marcus Jones 1 min
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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