LaWana Mayfield
speaker
5,391 appearances
26 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2023
last heard 11 May
LaWana Mayfield’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The end is in the beginning, right?
And early October, I started getting phone calls from residents who were concerned that surveyors were showing up in their yards unannounced.
Many phone calls.
And then I went to the initial press conference that NCDOT had.
I was the only council member there.
You were not a council member then.
You were a candidate.
Council Member Mayo was there as well when they had the initial announcement that these plans were available for public conversation and presentation.
I reviewed them.
My colleague reviewed them very quickly and I came to the conclusion that they were dead on arrival, that they just did not meet the moment.
I went to a meeting at Johnson C. Smith where they had their first public presentation and you really had to be a traffic engineer to understand what was happening in the room.
And I made that point clear that night.
It did not meet the moment for public engagement.
We agree, he has a job to do.
I have a job to do and I told him that, which was to advocate for my constituents and people of color.
We had a meeting in December
to talk about this issue on the 15th floor, and most of the folks up there were there.
And Mayo was there, and we talked about the project, about our concerns about engagement, our concerns about history, our concerns about the drawings.
And I invited them to participate in my town hall meeting, and they gracefully accepted it.
And then we talked about history.
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