City Council Zoning Meeting on 2024-02-19 5:00 PM

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What motions were made to open a closed session at the start of the meeting?

Vi Lyles 2:02

zoning meeting to order. Um we are going to have a motion to The meeting is officially open and then I'm going to ask the city attorney to read a motion for a closed session.

Unknown 2:14

And we'll need a motion to go into closed session to instruct city staff concerning the position taken by the city in negotiating material terms of the contract for the acquisition of real property interest under GS 143-318-11A5.

Vi Lyles 2:28

Do I have second motion and a second? Who's my second? Second. All right. Ms. Mayfield is a second. And so with that, all in favor of the motion, please raise your hand. Anyone opposed? No one's showing opposed. All right, so we are now going into close.

Vi Lyles 3:34

Field council member at large. Sharp card is six. Good evening. Good evening, Dante Anderson, district one, Mayor Pro Ten.

Keith McVeigh 3:47

Good evening everyone. Jane Smith Joy Large.

Vi Lyles 3:51

Good evening everyone. Marjorie Molina, District Five. Billy Thomas, Deputy City Clerk. We begin our meetings with an invocation um that is followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. The invocation is intended to solemnize our work to make us better servants for you. And I think that if you would like to participate in both the um listening from the council member Driggs for our our invocation and then we feel free to stand with us as we do the Pledge of Allegiance following that. Mr. Driggs.

Dave Petton 4:22

Thank you, Mayor. So uh I am not going to do an invocation as such tonight. I'm just going to talk about the fact That um

Reverend Janet Garner Mullins 4:31

Today is President's Day. Last month I notified residents who were interested in a very controversial rezoning in my district that the hearing had been postponed until today. In fact, it's been postponed again. Concerned that there might be a misunderstanding about the date, several questioned me as to what why we were having a meeting on President's Day, a holiday. I wasn't sure about the answer, so I looked into it and I was interested to learn more about President's Day. Since 1879, Washington's birthday has been a federal government holiday observed since 1968 on the third Monday of February every year. The day is also an official

Dave Petton 5:06

State holiday in most states, but it's optional. It has names like Washington's birthday, President's Day, Washington and Lincoln's birthday. In fact, the various states use fifteen different names. Depending on the specific law, the state holiday may officially

Reverend Janet Garner Mullins 5:20

celebrate Washington alone, Washington and Lincoln, or some other combination of US presidents. Since we are all here tonight, it does not appear to be an official state holiday in North Carolina. Uh I believe it's appropriate today to honor the memory of

Dave Petton 5:33

arguably our two greatest presidents. Founding father George Washington led the Continental Army to victory in the American Revolutionary War, presided at the Constitutional Convention of seventeen eighty seven, and was the first US president. Abraham Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, preserved the Union, abolished slavery,

Reverend Janet Garner Mullins 5:52

bolstered the federal government, and modernized the US economy.

Malcolm Graham 5:57

To honor the legacy of these two historic

Dave Petton 5:58

figures, let us challenge ourselves to continue to fight for what they believed in and sacrificed so much for. In their respective ways, they shaped a great nation. Today we should all remember them and work together to live up to the promise they created all those years ago. Thank you, Mayor.

Vi Lyles 6:15

Thank you. Please stand if you choose for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States

Dimple Ajmera 6:27

Reverend Janet Garner Mullins 6:27

America

Dimple Ajmera 6:28

and to the Republic for

Unknown 6:30

which it stands,

Dimple Ajmera 6:31

one nation under God

Unknown 6:33

and

Dimple Ajmera 6:33

invisible

Unknown 6:34

with liberty

Dimple Ajmera 6:35

and

Vi Lyles 6:35

justice for all.

Dimple Ajmera 6:38

Okay.

Vi Lyles 6:42

So I'm going to take a minute or so to those of you who don't frequent our space often on these days of zoning meetings to explain the zoning process. The process begins with applications submitted to the planning staff for review. There are two types of cases on the agenda. They are decisions and hearings. Decisions on cases for which a public hearing was previously held gets no further public comment. Hearing. Anyone wishing to speak is asked to see the clerk before the start of the hearing.