Ed Driggs
speaker
13,582 appearances
62 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2023
last heard 14 Sep
Ed Driggs’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Thank you.
Kimberly Owens representing District 6 now from Graham District 2 at Driggs District 7.
Close the public hearing.
Second.
I'm also a resident of District 1 and working closely with transgender and gender diverse individuals navigating housing and healthcare systems across our city.
We regularly encounter situations where housing instability, discrimination, and gaps in provider knowledge make it harder for people to access care and feel safe in the systems meant to support them.
these are not abstract issues they affect our clients our neighbors our friends and our family members.
And those impacts are felt especially deeply by black transgender women and members of immigrant communities already facing disproportionate barriers to safety and housing stability.
When housing systems are accessible neither is care.
Housing is often the front door to stability to health care and to mental health support.
With targeted support from the city, we could expand this work within housing systems, providing ongoing education and capacity building for shelters and housing programs.
First, I want to say that Sustained Charlotte strongly supports the people's budget.
It reflects community priorities around housing, transportation, and equity, and we appreciate the leadership behind it.
I know you'll be discussing I-77 later tonight, which also has a massive impact on our budget now and in the future.
And over the past several weeks, our coalition has worked in good faith with several members of council.
We provided detailed written feedback, including specific word edits to strengthen the proposed resolution.
Yet none of those recommendations are reflected in the current draft before you tonight.
Instead, the resolution keeps the analysis in the hands of NCDOT and refocuses on refining the current proposal rather than evaluating fundamentally different solutions and does not ensure that this analysis will occur before the RFP is issued.
In other words, this resolution reflects what NCDOT is already doing and keeps the project moving forward toward a predetermined outcome that toll lanes will be built rather than determining whether that is the right solution at all.
So we need to be clear, we cannot support this resolution in its current form.
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