Kimberly Owens

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Charlotte City Council · City Council Business Meeting on 2026-02-09 5:00 PM - Feb 09, 2026 · 9 Feb 2026 meeting

One, just commenting on the agenda.

And then another, perhaps addressing a concern that I had that was not expressed during committee.

But it does go to Council Member Anderson's question around other tiers of inquiry.

It's been brought to my attention most recently by community members that our state legislature, and I'll put this in the housing category, that our state legislature is withholding IOLTA dollars.

And IOLTA is interest that is earned on trust funds that are held by lawyers.

And traditionally those dollars go to fund legal aid.

And the needs of our legal aid community are absolutely paramount to me in terms of keeping people in place.

Because as people have issues with their rents, they have issues with their landlords, they are dependent on legal aid to help them stay in place.

And so if I had a second tier, if I had an opportunity to have a bite at that apple, I had not appreciated that those monies were being held.

And I would encourage us in any ways that we do have any...

influence to encourage those monies that are being withheld.

I don't fully appreciate the dynamics of that, but I do appreciate the effect that it's having on our legal services, particularly here in Mecklenburg County where we continue to have legal aid available to people.

our attorneys who serve legal aid are servicing so many other counties that have now lost their funding and have lost their legal aid.

So I think, again, when we're looking at retaining housing, that's a big concern of mine, and I'll put that out there.

But just so that, briefly on that topic, the other one I do want to mention, and I don't view tier one as having

a particular prioritization.

And so I do note the last one that's in tier one is one that I was very keen to have escalated.

And I think we've all received a lot of constituent inquiry around red light cameras and some of the things that perhaps we could inquire of our state legislature to make more clear.

I think to that point, we did also discuss that Greensboro is confronting similar issues in wanting to appreciate how those monies can be applied

and what portion of that goes for schools.

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