who celebrate happy primary [Laughter] Eve Victoria watlington District 3 Patrick Baker City attorney all right um we have um consent items on our agenda items 12 through 29 we have a note from Miss Mayfield for separate votes on several items and so if you will take a note take note of the following ones for a separate vote and Miss Mayfield track me if I get make sure I'm inclusive all at 14 not 14 so item 19 item 20 item 21 item 22 item 24 28 and 29 will have a separate vote and yes ma'am just to clarify number 19 was a speaker in the chamber that's true I should have mentioned that we have a speaker on item 19 so we'll put do that in the chamber um I think that Miss Mayfield has been working with Miss Harris on a series of questions so I'll let Miss Mayfield um address those items for the separate vote thank you madam mayor Maria I had excuse me if we start with number 20 this is year three of our internship program for the Youth and I sent you a question as far as what is I starting in intern pay since we do have in here that these are paid internships and when we're looking at what mainly is to pay comparable to some of our corporate partners and what is that internship pay thank you yes ma'am and this is for juniors in high school and the starting pay so it's a it the starting pay throughout the program so it's a short like it's over the summer or a semester type deal and it's a fellowship of $15 an hour thank you that's good information to know I wanted a clarification of that may do I just go through all of my questions well no if you're ready to um okay move to approve all right we have a motion to approve item 20 which is the TW three three-year internship program for youth um let's go ahead and do we have a second to that we have a second all in favor raise your hands anyone oppos thank you all right Miss Mayfield we'll do your singular ones that you've pulled and then we'll do the remaining ones as a result thank you mayor 21 the public auction for disposal of surplus equipment I wanted to get an idea of how much has the city earned on Surplus sales since our last Council request for Surplus thank you and yes for this one this was specific for our auction an on-site auction and it the last auction was in April and it gave the city a net of $831,000 but there's also ongoing online but smaller numberers so there's actually um additional Revenue but that's comes in throughout the year as well as our auction but our last auction was $831,000 net the city thank you that's also good information to know move to approve all right do we have a second we have a second any further discussion hearing none all in favor please raise your hand anyone oppose no oppose thank you all right the next one is item 22 yes ma'am this one is for the mbrm remedy for 940 een Circle through housing and Neighborhood Services I wanted to get a idea on this and this is was really a question for our City attorney Mr Baker I wanted to find out with our inms do we charge the residents for the demolition cost that we pay up front for IMM cuz this demolition cost I believe we estimated around $9,000 yes the uh demolition cost is added as a lean to the property so when the property uh gets sold or foreclosed upon that's when we would get our money back thank you for the clarification move to approve second we have a motion and a second any further discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion please raise your hand anyone oppose all right and now we'll go to item 24 yes now this one I would is the property transaction backwith metal for the storm drainage Improvement project parcel number 27 I'm trying to get a understanding cuz what we have on here is for 7200 square ft which is point 165 of uh the total parcel area is 7 200 ft but we're asking for easement of 629 692 Square ft of this so I want to know if when staff is looking at a potential condemnation because the property owner is concerned about the amount of compensation which the compensation for this was $ 22,721 property tax bill is going to be based on for the next four years this particular parcel in home has a value of $349,450 46 in 2019 with the new re-evaluation that same tax bill is now for 2023 27 27199 all this public record through mecklinburg County specialist so I wanted to to know if this easement reduces the value of their home because unfortunately I get fortunately for me I get everything online but it did not have any pictures attached so I couldn't see exactly where this easement was so I want to make sure I want to know if this is going to have an impact with reducing the value of the home and if that's taken into consideration yes ma'am not for this particular one they already have an easement a water easement in their backyard and this is um growing that storm water easement in their backyard and it would still be grass they could still use it how they use it now um the only impact would be if they the city needs to come in and update a project years from now um but it's still so this particular one wasn't but to your point if there are some that are um impacting the property value General services staff that's part of the negotiations then they do Factor that in it's not just the value of the portion in those cases thank you for that clarification move to approve have a second any discussion hearing none all in favor please raise your hand anyone oppos that's unanimous item 28 I believe is next Noor it's unanimous okay conf Mr Drake's vot Miss Mayfield no no I'm sorry the clerk was trying to confirm the vote confirm Mr uh dr's vote oh I okay all right thank you sorry I didn't hear that all right Miss Mayfield number 28 Shamrock driver which this one I definitely have a challenge with it's basically the same question excuse me as the consideration because this particular property again that new appraise that new re-evaluation has this particular parcel apprais that 820,000 $400 the 2019 tax bill on this was $457 421 the latest appraisal has this tax bill now increased to $615 6.77 this one is will the easement reduce the value of the property also I ask for Miss Harris to provide pictures cuz we don't have pictures cuz this one I have a concern about cuz it's a new bill and I feel like you have to have permitting in order to develop and build a home seemed like there should have been a discussion during that pering process when you look at the house that's directly next to it how the setback is a lot further back if we were to approve this particular request for this sidewalk addition that would eat up a good part of this front yard so whether they have a child or a small pet they don't have a front yard to play in anymore so I'm trying to figure out one in our process if there is a resoning or if there's a permit for Bill and if we know that we already having a system that we're going to be identifying certain easements within a 5 to sevene window are we sharing that on the front end versus you start development and then we come back and we say we're going to need a portion of this property of which this particular portion is about 127 square feet so yes ma' we try to be as transparent as possible like you mentioned um seven years out we would not know you know the detail level needed um but the our plans are public and as soon as they come through the planning phase into development but there wouldn't be that much of a window as you said but as much as possible yes we do work with them so what we have in here noted as far as the property owner concerns is that the property owner concerned about the design of the project and I thank you again Miss Harris for the photos I can see where there currently is a sidewalk but also I can see the properties on either side of this particular Bill the setback is a lot different so the a widening of the sidewalk isn't going to imp impact the house to the left or the right the way it potentially is going to impact this one and this was a question I didn't ask you early and I don't know if we have the appropriate staff here to discuss it cuz this is in my colleagues council member Anderson's district and I didn't have a chance to reach out to her this morning to get her feel on this but when we're [Music] looking I'm concerned about this one I've asked the question the easement is considerable not just the dollar amount with this sidewalk I will not be supporting this so my colleagues can do a motion do we have a motion for item 28 we have a motion and a second um all any further discussion all in favor please raise your hand I'll oppose all right thank you Miss Mayfield um our last one is 29 yes madame mayor and thank you this one is also Shamrock dry improvements parcel number 13 this one the property has outstanding title issues so we want to move forward but I wanted to get a idea of what is the impact of the on this particular property for this sewer easement because again if we look at the photos and I don't know Council Anderson did you get a chance do you get a copy of the photos for the easements I didn't get it until earlier today but when we look at the impact of this area I want to get a better idea of what that impact could be on that particular resident and that residential owner yes ma'am and and just to clarify this one the owner is completely in agreement but they weren't able to clear the title so otherwise this would have been an acquisition so there's no concerns outstanding from the property owner but this one if and sorry everybody can't see the picture but um it's a it's a temporary easement for construction and then a like 11 Square ft more of water easement but it'll still be grass so they can still utilize that yard the same way they do today so it'll be grass that the city plant we providing no ma' the grass for the Eastman cuz they currently have some grass but it's also dirt excuse me we'll we'll we'll once we go in and and any will'll make it grass but we don't maintain it then it goes to the homeowners yard and they to your point yes homeowners always have to mow over their easements the city doesn't okay so we will provide once we complete our work we'll provide the S to continue but they will be maintaining the property moving forward okay we'll to appr thank you all right we have a motion and a second any further discussion all hearing none all in favor raise your hand hands anyone opposed no one's opposed okay so now if we can go back to the consent items 12 13 14 15 16 17 and 18 do I have a motion for second we have a motion and a second any discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion for items 12 through 18 please raise your hand all right that takes us through our consent agenda and now it's time for our action review agenda overview the first item that we have is under our Housing Trust Fund recommendations and I guess we are going to have the manager and Mr Heath come and talk about this with us hey thank you Mr Heath please join us at the podium we're ready to talk about the Housing Trust Fund recommendations now um and you'll address the change in the agenda as well today um mayor L if I could ask for clarification on the last question okay no that's good I'm I'm sorry I'm getting ahead of myself okay okay so let's go through the Housing Trust Fund recommendations thank you Sean eath housing and Neighborhood Services a quick Refresh on the Housing Trust Fund I think everybody's familiar with the fund itself self and this is our vehicle that we rely on to provide Gap funding for affordable housing creation of creation and preservation of affordable housing throughout the city the Housing Trust Fund has been in place since 2002 and since that time it's been relied upon to support creation and preservation of over 11,000 units as we've discussed before the reference to Gap financing simply means that for any given project we're looking for an attractive leverage ratio and on average for every dollar that the city puts into a project we're generally seen other investors that are bringing about $7 to the table so we're just one piece of the capital stack on the next two bullets here this is direct reference to the value proposition that city council expects to see first everything that we do associated with affordable housing investments will come with a long-term deed restriction which can vary from anywhere from 15 to 99 years depending on the nature of the project there are also requirements around focus on area median income all of the projects we support will be at 80% Ami or below where it falls within the Ami Continuum depends on the nature of the project and as a matter of policy a number of years ago city council established a requirement whereby for multifam units multif family developments that those include 20% of the units devoted to 30% Ami and Below households and then of course the funding source for the Housing Trust Fund is through the housing bonds that are put in front of Voters through a referendum every other year and voters have historically been very supportive of the housing bonds this is our standard schedule for the summer Housing Trust Fund RFP released in late June submissions Late July the briefing this evening and then two weeks from now put in front of you for for consideration and approval on September 21st you'll receive what we refer to as the hdf booklet which will provide you with a project summary for each of the recomend recommended projects along with staff's rationale for the recommendation and some other data points including location scores one thing we wanted to share with you before we get into the specific recommendations is this is really the first RFP where we're activating on all of the outcomes from the Housing Trust Fund tuneup which we completed earlier this year some pieces of the Housing Trust Fund tuneup were incorporated into the winter RFP but this was really the first opportunity to activate on everything so we wanted to highlight a few things here and first you can see the minimum affordability period for new multif family construction projects now in our RFP we've established a floor of 40 years for those projects and if you recall in pre-co days generally the norm for the new construction multif family projects was 30 years so we were pleased with the responses that we received to this RFP as you'll see in a moment we're continuing to see some positive Trends associated with developer commitments on a affordability and that's as as a direct outcome from the Housing Trust Fund tuneup second within the RFP we establish some new evaluation criteria and preferences first there's reference now to cost per unit per year which is simply another way for us to underscore the importance of extended affordability periods so all else equal if we have two projects with a cost per unit of $30,000 we're more interested in ones that have affordability periods of 50 60 99 years for instance so we're starting to move um not necessarily away from the cost per unit metric but this is a a slightly more sophisticated way to bundle together both cost and affordability into a single number second one of the things that we're doing now is as part of the Housing Trust Fund RFP is we're also requesting developers to provide us with some indication for their willingness to accept federal funds and their willingness to accept federal funds is reflected favorably in our review so this is a way for us to take some pressure off of the housing trust fund and with some of the recommendations tonight you'll see that we've braided together locally sourced Housing Trust Fund dollars along with federal funds such as cdbg and home and hoo would be some examples uh third bullet point here is developer commitments to Supportive Services or economic Mobility Investments over the last 12 months or so in conversations here with Council many of you have encouraged us to have more of a horizontal lens at as it relates to our housing investments and this is intended to address that sort of feedback so what we're asking developers to do is in addition to your funding request and kind of the regular value proposition that you would put in front of us what are some specific commitments you're willing to make related to Supportive Services or economic Mobility uh a number of our development partners are are still kind of probing into that area I will say that Ascent housing which you're familiar with through a number of our Noah deals naturally urable affordable housing deals in the past continues to distinguish themselves in this area and we do have one proposal from Ascent housing tonight where we'll talk specifically about that point number three here higher mwsb utilization targets so in partnership with Steve Coker and the team we uh retooled our minimum mwsb requirements in the Housing Trust Fund RFP so for example now for a developer that receives an HTF Award of it in the past it was 10% so pushing for more aggressive participation in that area and then last the idea of having a a rolling RFP so to speak came through the Housing Trust Fund tuneup which is just a recognition that oftentimes with Noah they're opportunistic it's driven by timing in the marketplace it doesn't always lend itself to the fixed schedule that we have for our traditional rfps so we released the rolling RFP in May so far we've only received one formal response which is reflected in one of the recommendations this evening but the idea there is to just keep that open throughout the year and subject to available funding we'll evaluate proposals uh what we like about it is it demonstrates to the market that we have a a transparent process transparent review criteria so any member of the community that has great Noah ideas that are eligible we encourage them to pursue that it's um available at any point this is a format you're accustomed to before and and I mean I think over time it's turned into even more of an ey chart so this is a summary of The Seven recommended projects and what I'm going to do here is really hit the highlights in the very bottom very bottom row and then since there's a one-page development summary for each of the recommendations we'll just jump straight into those and then we can come back to the slide as a bit of a home base at the end if it's helpful so first I would say that we have a good mix of different types of projects we've got some 4% and 9% litec new construction multif family so that that's a mouthful but those are the four at the top we have uh one Noah opportunity one home ownership opportunity and one Supportive Housing uh transitional housing in particular here so it's a good mix of different project types going down to the bottom of the slide you can see that these seven recommendations in total are 730 units the overall recommended award is about 17.5 million of that 17 half million 13 million would be sourced from the Housing Trust Fund and 4.5 million would be sourced from uh from federal sources you can see here on affordability period this is an average across all the different project types and as I mentioned before you wouldn't necessarily compare some there's a little bit of apples and oranges in the average here but the bottom line here the punchline is we're continuing to see positive Trends in terms of extending affordability periods in these proposals and then finally on the two final columns on the right we're we're cons continuing to see costs prices moderate you know we experienced significant spikes during Co I know back in the October November of last year there was concern about spending more and more hdf dollars for for less and less units and I can't predict the future and and we obviously can't control market conditions but I think with some of the things that we've done with the tuneup um and some of the experienced development partners that we have stepping forward with some good proposals uh we're seeing positive movement in terms of cost per unit and cost per unit per year so like I said I'm not trying to rush through this I just didn't want to spend 30 minutes on this one slide so we'll jump into some of the specifics and then come back to this as needed one last point on this there's generally about a 6we time period between the time the proposals are submitted and when we come to council to make our recommendations and I just want to underscore that that's really our opportunity to do the vetting on the projects and it's our opportunity to do the negotiations as well so we don't don't just accept the proposals at face value we are always looking for ways to to squeeze more value out of the proposals uh you know we go about this in a way where we're respectful of of you know the other side of the negotiation but here we were successful in squeezing out about $ million from the original asks so that's not reflected on here the original asks we're just showing you essentially the negotiated outcomes but wanted you to be aware that we're working hard on your behalf to try and get the best deals possible we think it's always helpful to give you a sense for what the Ami mix looks like so this would be across all seven recommended projects that we'll discuss tonight you can see 160 of the total 730 units would be at the 30% Ami level which represents 22% of the total number of units you can follow the numbers on the way down there this looks generally consistent with what we've seen in the past of course it depends on the types of projects underneath of it whether it's a home ownership or new multi family construction or Noah and I I would remind everybody that um for a family of four and this will change from year to year of course but for a family of four right now at 30% Ami that would equate to about $30,000 a year so these are easier to remember this year because it just so happens they align with the percentages U for a family of four at 80% Ami it just so happens that that would be about $880,000 a year so good Ami mix uh you know a lot of this is obviously heavy influence by Council Direction and policy in terms of what we're seeing at the 30% Ami level and below so I will quickly go through each of these recommended slot each of the recommended projects and then we'll open it up for questions here so first is awood homes this is a project in District 3 we've got a a very experienced developer the NRP group we've done a handful of projects with the NRP group here locally over the last few years and I believe they have about 800 units that are in various stages of development with City support So to really um in each case what I'm going to do is really just try and drive directly into what are the defining attributes of the project that staff is excited about here number one it's an opportunity to leverage City own land and you can see on the slide that we've referenced here in the second row in the financial summary that we've identified the most recent assessed value appraised value of the City owned land number two uh affordability period of 99 years is very noteworthy uh number three as I mentioned before some of the projects we've rating local and federal funds for this particular project the overall 5.5 million in gap financing would be a combination of 2.5 million from the trust fund and 3 million from federal funding sources we love the location for this particular project site it's directly adjacent to light rail the Arrowwood station and the project also has a mix of bedrooms 1 2 3 and four bedrooms and that's noteworthy we don't often see uh four bedroom opportunities the last thing I would mention about this particular project is on the city own land piece and just as a reminder that we in the housing and Neighborhood Services Department don't just pluck City on land out of the portfolio and say this will be used for affordable housing this has gone through a multi-year process with Council engagement along the way so back in 2021 in partnership with General services a handful of City owned Parcels were identified that were suitable for affordable housing it's kind of the same exercise that Phil rer talked about with Council not that long ago that they're in the midst of coordinating now with Department site housing and economic development well they did one back in 2021 handful of sites were located we put those sites out for an RFP and we asked Developers for these particular sites what are your best ideas for how we could bring affordable housing to life on these locations so on February 7th of 2022 I came to council with recommendations um this was one of them NRP had proposed 120 affordable units on this particular location multif family rental and as we expected and as I had shared at the time uh for many of these city-owned projects we expect them to come back in seeking Housing Trust Fund support at the appropriate time which is just what this one is doing here it's just what the Crossland Southeast project in district 7 did in the last cycle so this is all as expected um so I just wanted to make sure everybody understood that the the city-owned land piece was through a defined process and and with Council engagement along the way skipped one second project Central at Old Concord this is a district one project it's about 5 miles Northeast of Uptown it's pretty close to the district one and District Four boundaries the annex group is an experienced developer that over, 1500 affordable units across the country have been developed during in the last decade there's one fairly recent project that the city has provided support for and it's currently under construction in District 4 in terms of the defining attributes for this project that were most attractive to us first you can see the the investment per unit and investment per unit per year are quite attractive as well as once again an affordability period of 99 years and once again we really like the location here it's about a half mile from Light Rail this one is the Old Concord Road station in particular and this is a 200 unit project which you can see two important things that I wanted to mention on this project one is it has not yet received planning approval so uh the developers in the process of revising the plans in order to accommodate feedback uh from the planning team and our hope is that all that can be settled by September 25th when this would be scheduled for a vote that may not happen and if that's the case and if Council has an appetite for this project in the RCA we could have it structured as a conditional funding based on them uh addressing the planning requirements and ultimately receiving the planning approval before any funds are released so wanted you to make wanted to make you aware that we're still working through that process and the second thing is I wanted to make you aware for this particular location there are currently 17 mobile homes and these are occupied mobile homes um we've been working very closely with the developer to understand what their intent would be what their plans would be associated with relocation um and the only reason that we're bringing this to you as a recommendation today is because at the staff level we're comfortable with the plan that they have developed and if I may i' just like because this is is a kind of a bit of a unique scenario I wanted to just outline a couple items related to that relocation plan and then I'll be happy to answer any other questions that you have so the first thing is even though this particular project is not contemplated as a federally funded project the developer has agreed to voluntarily adhere to hudon standards associated with scenarios like this where you have an acquisition and Redevelopment that results in a need for relocation so the elements of that relocation plan are fa fairly well outlined in the HUD guidelines so you know it doesn't leave a lot to the imagination and I mean that in a good way so the developer will H hire a relocation consultant that will go through a process to do a resident needs assessment one-on-one interviews and then essentially provide housing navigation and referral services and the developer will also have a budget that's available for relocation assistance for example reasonable moving costs would be covered by the developer in this instance so um we're comfortable with the plan that they're sketching out um once again if Council has an appetite for this particular project what our intent would be is to establish you know either in the RCA or in the agreement itself that the developer would be required to complete the relocation plan as a condition of our funding and the last thing I'll mention on that point CU we've grappled with this one over the last couple weeks certainly is we can't predict the future we don't know what would happen if this particular project doesn't go forward but it's not unreasonable to think of a scenario where with this site being on the market that another developer could purchase this location and without city funding uh do nothing associated with relocation assistance they could have a very abrupt displacement with zero navigation support services or covering any relocation cost so I don't know for certain that would happen uh but it's certainly something that could happen and we've all seen scenarios in the last 3 years where things have happened very abruptly in the community so I like the idea of working with a development partner who's willing to lean into this with us voluntarily on the front end to ensure that these households are treated fairly and equitably Sycamore Station 2 uh district one again district one again so this project is in East Charlotte close to WT Harris and uh winterwood development has a lot of experience in the multif family rental housing market throughout the South they've developed over 1,700 units over the past 10 years here the defining attributes the affordability period and Ami mix and cost per unit were all very attractive to us uh you can see with the Ami mix that all of the units are at 60% and below and uh a few of them at 30% in order to to meet to meet our requirements so good leverage ratio here as well as 1 to 20 oops okay trying to move along here as fast as I can mount Mariah seniors this project is located in Matthews it's about one mile from the center of town and you may ask Matthews that's outside of Charlotte so the $825,000 recommended here would be sourced from the home program which is administered by Hud so once again it's one of our federal funding sources and for the home program the city of Charlotte receives this funding um kind of on behalf of a Consortium of the city itself meinberg County and the six towns and you know generally speaking a large share of the home funds are deployed in the city of Charlotte just given our size relative to the other entities but there is an expectation and an understanding that the funds be deployed across the full Consortium and Warren won on my team participates in periodic meetings with the Consortium Partners to identify potential projects that could be pursued outside of the city of Charlotte and this one emerged as a great opportunity in terms of the defining attributes that we were attracted to very experienced developer with laal Laurel Street we've of course done probably a dozen or more projects with Laurel Street over the past 10 years or so when you look at Cost profile affordability period and Ami mix those all look those all look very attractive for this one at the Ami 30% and below 20 units actually represents 28% of the total number of units which is typically what you'll see for the 9% Li Tech deals you're going to see something even better than than what we require we like the fact that this supports a regional approach to Housing Solutions uh one thing that's not mentioned explicitly on the slide is we like the fact that this project is a yet again another opportunity to partner with meinberg County meinberg county has pledged a significant amount of funds in support of this particular project and I would just close this one out by mentioning that the mayor of Matthews has submitted a letter of support for the project i' like to know if you want to have questions on each un Sor I'd like to know if you'd like to take questions on each slide that you're doing um because we have some requests but also we can wait until the end what's what helps you best to address this so I'll of course be differential to to your preference um my preference I guess would be since I'm almost done would be to just plow through it and then pause we'll do that okay thank you okay Kings on Lamar district one this one's near the Elizabeth neighborhood that so this is Supportive Housing more more specifically it's transitional housing and the idea here is to rehab two existing buildings these are the old King's College buildings I know them well okay you know them well okay um and the idea would be to do Rehab on these buildings and then in summer fall of 2024 establish a transitional housing program for men experiencing homeless homelessness uh roof above actually leased these uh buildings back in 2020 and then during Co they used these facilities for Emergency Shelters for a period of time uh then in 2021 they purchased the buildings with an intent to develop a plan uh such as this which we're presented with here tonight in terms of the defining attributes that attracted us to the project you know roof above is of course a very experienced nonprofit partner they work across the entire Continuum in terms of Street Outreach Emergency Shelters transitional housing permanent Supportive Housing uh this program is laser focused on men who are employed Andor in vocational training so kind of tying back to that reference I made earlier you know our desire to look for those opportunities to do things across the horizontals and not just purely in our housing Tower um like I said these would be men that are either already employed or in vocational training but experiencing homelessness the target stay would be about 18 months with Supportive Services provided during that time time period in order to position these men to be better equipped for life sustaining wages and permanent housing the participants in the program would be required to pay a fee of $100 per month so they would have skin in the game that fee would be waved during the periods when they're in vocational training which is estimated to be about four to 6 months and given the F the focus on workplace Readiness this will be a substance-free environment so there'll be periodic breathalyzers and and drug test to ensure these individuals are really ready to go into uh into into the workforce or if they're in the workforce to ensure they're ready to sustain that so um once again this is the one Supportive Housing request that we have in this particular mix and uh we're excited about it in terms of the cost profile and and affordability period and you can see the Ami mix on here as well okay we have one home ownership opportunity which is here this is a dream key project in district one in the Druid Hills neighbor neighborhood this will be 14 units uh seven Duets you can see a picture here so these seven Duets would be on scattered sites in Druid Hills and the the defining attribute that was the most interest to us is if you look at the sales price range in the financial summary we know there's a severe shortage of affordable housing we know in particular there's a shortage of for sale housing at the sub $300,000 level so this is a model that can help um in a small way but in a meaningful way uh move us in the the direction of providing more access for individuals at the 60 to 80% Ami level um as an aside I would mention that um through some conversations with council member watlington we've discussed the idea of having a part of our January committee meeting devoted to home ownership models because I think I mentioned before that the like the value proposition for the multif family stuff that we do I think is is pretty straightforward but for the home ownership models whether it be dream key or habitat or Westside Community Land Trust they're more complicated when you get under the H um I'm still learning a lot about it and we think it'd be a great opportunity to talk about the different models in a committee setting and spend as much time as the committee is interested in to really understand what I think in all cases what is we're trying to do and what our partners are trying to do is to balance affordability with economic mobility and you know the affordability piece is pretty intuitive right you know we want to have homes that are at affordable levels for low income buyers and we'd like to keep that particular Home Affordable for low-income buyers for a long period of time but The Balancing Act is for individuals that are low-income that are moving into that house we also want them to benefit from home ownership and we want them to benefit from having the opportunity to harvest the equity um in that particular residence so all of these home ownership models kind of find different ways to balance the home ownership and economic Mobility equation and in Committee in January um we're going to ask Warren wton on my team to spend some time kind of going through those and talking about some of of the pros and cons in hopes of getting some feedback from committee if there's a strong point of view on on you know kind of where in that Continuum uh city council would like us to be so um once again this is 14 units and all in the 60 to 80% Ami level last one is Swan Run this is the one naturally urable affordable housing opportunity and you can see here uh funds recommended our 2.4 million with an affordability period of 20 years and I would say quickly um first of all the location for for this so in district 7 it's a little bit north of the Arboretum it's kind of it's it's off Providence Road but you wouldn't see it unless you really wanted to see it because it's not right on the main road but it's tucked away in between Pineville Matthews and Ray Road um I run by this place all the time and and Swan Meadow Lane or or Swan's run it's about a 3/4 mile stretch and it's a very diverse um area where there's single family uh there's multif family there town homes and so I love that the diversity on the street um and the the defining attributes for this particular project so it's uh 92 units as I mentioned before the project was built in the 1970s it's a mix of one two and three bedrooms and we're always looking for opportunities in district 7 to activate on affordable housing this has the normal Ami mix from Ascent housing which is very attractive we have 30% of the units devoted to 30% Ami as we've talked about before with Noah it it's really a two-fold uh value proposition one is we're getting the deed restriction for 20 years but the other is we're also minimizing risk of displacement for the existing residents here in this location uh the cost per unit for this particular Noah if you look here on the upper right of 26,000 is is about 10% lower than the cost per unit for the last two Noah deals that Council approved uh you'll recall Charlotte woods and pepper tree were both very large noas uh 20 66 and 290 U 292 units respectively so uh you know we like where this one lands kind of on that cost profile and then last as I had alluded to before Ascent housing has really done a lot around economic mobility and support of services because they have this community health worker model in partnership with Atrium in place in their Noah communities so what we love about this is there are Community Health there's a community health worker actually assigned to a community they're embedded in that community and they're providing some mix of on-site programming one one-on-one counseling and referral navigation and it's focused on a range of barriers so it could be Healthcare it could be child care it could be education Workforce Development that sort of thing so um like I said before not only are they doing this but they're developing a sustainable model to keep doing it uh in terms of the Housing Trust Fund balance I will just mention that if the seven projects this evening were approved in two weeks the balance would go from 20 roughly 22 million today to about $9 million we can talk more about that if you're if you're interested at the end and then I did want to make you aware there is one project that was not recommended for funding here it's West Boulevard Flats in District 3 uh we think the project has Merit no doubt but just in evaluation as we're comparing and contrasting across opportunities there were other ones that we felt at this particular time are most attractive and it also weighed heavily on us that the funding request for this particular project you can see in the upper right corner is about $7.5 million dollar and given what I showed you on the previous slide uh that would really stretch resources so thin that the Housing Trust Fund would for all intents and purposes be closed until the next Bond so we felt like this one was just a bridge too far at this time um that's not to say they wouldn't come back at at a future round and maybe with a slightly revised proposal that that we would take a close look at for sure very last slide uh moving forward September 25th is when this would be put on for a vote uh Financial closings for this you know this is always a fairly extended time period so decisions that Council made two years ago around affordable housing projects are just now coming online today for example so the financial closings are generally within about 3 to six months of council approval and then construction units for these particular seven projects would be brought online anywhere from 2425 to early 2026 depending on the nature of the project so uh city manager Jones and may LS with that I'll stop there and answer any questions thank you my question is quick um if you could go back to I'm not sure what slide it is can you go back to the slide you were on when we talked about whether or not have to have questions I think it was here or here it was this one thank you um I just wanted to understand this one I I heard your discussion around why it's before the city of Charlotte I'm just curious if the uh town of Matthews will have any outside of that Consortium that you mentioned is there any formal action that they need to take so the the site is is zoned appropriately um and I'm not aware that there's any additional action that would be necessary other than cobbling together the financing plan and and you can see here with the leverage ratio this would be a rather small part of the overall financing yeah all right Miss Anderson thank you madam mayor so Sean I heard district one a ton yeah which is great and as you were talking I was just sort of doing some back of the envelope calculations so of the 822 units you are recommending that we bring online 446 of them will be in District 1 and there's roughly 40 54% of the entire base and of the total seven projects four of them are in district one which is great and um I I like to see the mix and the balance here I just have a couple questions for you um for the avaline Legacy uh Duets the affordability period is the lowest of all of the projects can you speak a little about that because I'm very interested in as you mentioned uh Dr watlington is speaking about homeowners being able to unlock the benefit of home ownership um so can you speak about why that is so low the lowest of the entire portfolio yes I will and as one very quick detail I would mention that from you know from cycle to cycle sometimes we'll see in a and maybe not necessarily to this degree but uh you know District 3 I can recall in the past has had a lot of projects in a particular cycle or District 4 we we did actually internally run some analysis recently where we have a little heat map that shows dots for every city supported affordable housing project since 2002 and there's there's reasonably good dispersion across districts 1 through five and then District six and seven not as much given the cost of land in those areas um but but I did just want to acknowledge that it's something we're sensitive to um and then more more direct to your question so um as I mentioned before you know with this particular ular slide sometimes there's a little bit of an apples and oranges Dynamic here um because I wouldn't necessarily compare home ownership to new multif family construction uh other than the fact that they're both activating on affordable housing goals but with with homeownership you know where with new multif family construction whereas we have a 40-year minimum requirement now with home ownership the minimum requirement is 15 years and that's historically what we've seen for many of our home ownership Investments through the Housing Trust Fund over the last five years and as I mentioned before it's a balancing act between wanting to have as long an affordability period as possible but at the same time not undercutting the ability of the homeowner to extract value um from that home through Equity like everyone else would do you know but for the deed restriction placed on this house so that's a long-winded way of saying that I would suggest that for home ownership um 15 isn't low it it certainly looks low compared to these other ones but there's a little bit of an apples and oranges Dynamic and what I'm looking forward to in January is really doing some comparison and some contrasting and maybe even talking about pros and cons to the extent possible because if you think about the housing support grants where we have the Westside Community Land Trust and some of the things that that they're trying to advance around home ownership affordability and perpetuity um I think it'd be great to get under the hood on that and and and really understand well what does that look like for the city and for the and for the homeowner owner compared to a scenario like this where we're looking at 15 years affordability I would also mention that um we didn't want to overly complicate the slide but in addition to the 15-year affordability restriction for years 16 through 30 there will also be a right of first refusal associated with this whereby the city could step in buy the house at market value and then turn it back in and kind of recycle it back into the community at an affordable level so in a way you could say it's really like a 30-year requirement got it thank you for that sure and then of the seven projects that are up on the board you mentioned we have displacement occurring for 17 residents at the central at Old Concord site do any of the other projects have displacement at all they do not okay and then can you just speak a little bit about the community engagement for the those 17 residents that reside in those mobile homes yes thank you very much for that question so for any projects that we for any project submissions that come to us through the Housing Trust Fund RFP we require Community engagement so for and it's very specific any residents that live within a certain radius of the site any homeowners associations that were are within a certain radius of the site and we require that that Community engagement be done um in advance of the scheduled date for the council's vote so um many of these have already done their Community engagement for this particular project in conversation ations with the developer we've indicated that we need the community engagement done no later than uh September 20th because when we provide information to Council in the HTF booklet on September 21st um either in that booklet or as supplemental we want to be able to shine a light on the nature of the community feedback that's received at that session um so you have that information in front of you in advance of the vote excellent okay I just wanted to make sure that it's clear that those families who live there will have plenty of time to engage in the project that's coming aboard and then lastly I just wanted to lift up ascent and their involvement in the Swan Run project that's within district 7 you know asent is a great Noah partner for us and they were at the Helm of the Charlotte Woods at another district one project in Pepper Tree and now Swan Run and 30% of those uh units will be for uh 30% Ami and Below they have some of the lowest rents in the entire market and this property has actually been potentially sold twice um to be demolished and have Luxury Apartments built on that site so this is yet another opportunity for us to protect nearly 100 units for affordable housing um in district 7 which we has been a struggle for us to historically do so I just just want to thank the sent for their partnership and what we're doing with your team Sean thank you thank you Miss Anderson I want to add to miss Anderson's questions about the um avaline um information you know when we work with habitat and we fund them they have a policy around how they utilize um home ownership as well so I'd like for us to at least survey our partners so that we stay in sync not necessarily completely in sync but at least understand what other people are doing and these models around home ownership that have been successful so if we just do a little bit of work on before the committee dis begins that discussion that would be great all right and so our next request is from mayor proen thank you be quick um I think that extra column uh City cost per unit per year while it might turn it into more of an eye test I think that's very helpful it illuminates it you know honestly it even goes even further you know a monthly kind of subsidy it makes it I don't know it just illuminates it a lot more um versus the cost per unit you know that that just brings Clarity even to to me um quick question about the nine the competitive 9% proposal that has that already been that tax credit already been um I don't believe that one's been awarded yet but I'm looking at Warren for confirmation okay thank you all right missir thank you Madame mayor uh couple of questions Sean a great presentation appreciate the work that you Warren and your entire team is doing um if you go back to slide where we have Arrowwood homes slide number eight uh where you have City on land valuated $1.3 million is that already factored into the investment per unit cost yes and last year with a few of these scenarios I recall members of council being clear with me that when we're presenting these that we needed to show an all-in reflection of the value the city's providing so yes it does yes that that's great I had requested that to really give us so we are comparing Apples to Apples here um and to so to follow upon Miss Anderson's question earlier about affordability period for uh avalin Legacy in Droid Hills um I I have um from what I recall when we have Habitat for Humanity uh to mayor's point was that 30 years uh affordability period that we had approved for home ownership opportunity we've had a recall we had a recent Rec cycle there may have been one habitat project and one dream key project and we've seen 15 and 30 years from different partners um but as I mentioned before some of it is just we're still struggling with the best way to present this because with the right of first refusal arguably I I could put 30 years on here with an aster to better explain what the 30 years really means so uh I just wanted to sort of um there's a lot to untangle here because certainly home ownership is very different than some of the rental opportunities um I understand when you shared how you want resident to harvest the equity that they will build over the 15 years um so my question is let's say if we have 30-year affordability period does that stay with the same resident or would we have given another Resident an opportunity at home ownership uh because when we are out in the community the question we often get asked is hey I've been in the waiting list for far too long and we have over 30,000 people in our waiting list and that waiting list continues to increase year over-year as home values go up interest rates are going up um I'm trying to figure out a way where we continue to allow homeowner and opportunity to build equity but at the same time we are trying to create opportunities for new residents and trying to really address that long waiting list that we have and how do we balance that um I look forward to having that conversation in January but I think it would help it will help uh to it will help for me to understand how how does this really work and where do we where does the home ownership transition where we can allow next Resident to have a shot at home ownership I I agree and in fact I think uh in January one of the things we want to do is actually look at specific scenarios homeown you know homeowner buys it in year zero or year one and what if they sell in year 10 or in year 20 what are the implications for the homeowner uh what what restrictions are there in terms of the house being resold to an affordable homeowner or not so to kind of go through it on a scenario by scenario basis yes I think that will help me understand uh where we should land on affordability period um when it comes to home ownership um that's all I have thank you all right Miss Mayfield thank you Madame mayor thank you for this presentation Mr Heath I have a couple of questions for you one I want to go back recently I've had conversations with some both single family and Commercial excuse me developers part of the challenge that I'm hearing is on our end the fees that we put that we have in development and there's not necessarily a tier system as far as if you're building a duet versus the fees that are identified for sewer and water if you're building a six to eight bedroom home so when we're allocating funds for development is that taking into consideration the fees that we have on developments or are we working with our partners to help create a more affordable product I probably can't give a full answer to that question it's a sort of thing I'll need to touch base with members of my team and follow up with you on but at least for the Gap financing scenarios to the extent that we are providing Housing Trust Fund dollars to a project that means that there sources in uses of funds match up on a one forone basis so um it's it's you know it's enabling them to address all costs um hard cost soft cost every Everything developer fees would just be one component of that um but I I'll I'll get back with you with a more thorough answer because I don't really have anything additional so I think that would be helpful in that January conversation to actually look at what are all of our developmental fees that have been identifed ified through the most recent plan adopted by Council and seeing where we have more opportunity there if it is our fees that's causing some of the additional Financial costs also with any of these noas do you know if any of these Noah addresses have ever previously received funding I remember a number of years ago we had a challenge where the apartment complex will be sold whether it's sold to a family member or to a cousin the name change the address doesn't the people receiving the funding doesn't but we still had challenges in those developments so are any of these noers any addresses that previously have received funding from the city CU I know one of them was built in the 70s so the Noah Project that's presented tonight has never received city funding through the trust fund not just through the trust on period period yeah that's what I want to clarify also a follow up on the questions my colleagues as for the central at Old Concord that's where we're potentially going to be relocating you said the current individuals live in trailer are those rent rental trailer homes yes they are they're all rentals so I think what I heard or maybe it's just what I wanted to hear cuz we hear what we wanted here is a opportunity where we know historically with these weight lists each development creates their own weight list you and I Mr wooden and I have had plenty of conversations over the years about this idea of a Master weight list cuz you have people that have been out there five seven years and you have residents who move into the city 3 months 6 months and they're already in a brand new development do you know if there's a opportunity since this particular developer has committed to a relocation plan as well as relocation assistance to either identifying housing within since they have a total of 200 units for the individuals there versus the idea of we'll relocate you somewhere else if they're building something new it's possible but I think it's too soon to say and it's one reason why I'm I'm glad that one of the the first steps in the process is to do the one-on-one interviews because really a lot of it boils down to what are the individual needs and desires of a particular household um and with a navigation referral consultant by their side trying to evaluate what are the best options for that particular household whether it be staying in a mobile park scenario in a different location or moving to another form of affordable housing so we know it takes can be two to three years two to five years for a development to be completed I think we have an opportunity if we're really going to assist residents that are being relocated then we have projects that we have approved within the last 3 to 5 years that are just coming out the ground now that are just getting ready to open up while they're creating their own weight list I think the city has an opportunity on the front end to be more proactive and identify cuz we already have all that information the individuals that through our approvals are being displays to get them in direct communication with some of these new developments that are going to have their Ribbon cuting or already have started moving people in within the next 2 to 6 months versus waiting for a project that's two plus years down the line we already have some projects that are coming out the ground that may be an opportunity for us to be proactive on the front end I appreciate you breaking down for the Matthew's property and that the county does have some money you did not share how much but I appreciate the fact that this is not just the city right looking at H funds when you go to the Kings on Lamar development where as far as our investment for those our men that are experiencing homelessness I'm glad that we're at that place but of course you know I'm going to have questions for you on avalene of which my colleagues have already had a couple I appreciate the fact that it's ownership and that they are Duets it is still mind-blowing to me that I'm that you're looking at 260 to 285,000 for half a home but that's the place we're in today what is the language on the front end for how long on our occupancy needs to be cuz one year two years is not enough we saw the impact in bright walk we saw when we've made Investments because you have individuals that know how to Target vulnerable community so if we don't have language in place for a minimum of say 3 to 5 years of owner occupancy of that original owner one to keep investors out cuz if that language is written the deed you have less chance of it being an investor you have less chance of that home being flipped and you have less chance of someone basically being convinced out of their home so someone might offer them 280 or 300,000 on the house which sounds like a good bit of funds until you need to go somewhere else and we've already seen the impact where we've made Investments throughout the city and L a number of those residents don't live there today because we didn't put certain language in To Not only protect our investment but to protect our residents that are sometimes vulnerable so do you know what the minimum of what the language is going to say for owner occupancy I'm War's giving me hand signals it's 30 years no for the person that when I buy this when I'm applying for this loan is the deed going to state state minimum OCC owner occupied 3 years 5 years versus not having any language because we've seen where individuals have received access but then two years later they're not in that home and they're now back in our system needing assistance cuz there's a difference even when you think of a HOA how we've been how a number of communities have been able to minimize the impact of investors is they've updated their HOA language to say this must be owner occupied for a minimum of three four or five years and that's kept investors out of it so do we know if we have cuz we're not going to tell someone you got to live here for 30 years but are we say that oner occupancy there's a minimal man Jones and mayor L can I invite Mr Woon to a microphone to answer the question sure but I I think miss m Mayfield's point is accurate I think that some of the institutions that we've had have gone through this and we have had in Belmont particularly the habitat houses were so so I that's why I asked we ought to survey people that have got this in place not just in Charlotte but where other places are that are high you know high growth communities where they're dealing with affordable housing because it is a real question and people need to have clarity so Mr Wooten yeah Ward Wooten housing and Neighborhood Services Miss Mayfield there's two restrictions on the property there's the initial restriction that goes to the buyer that they sell it to so for in that in that language for 15 years it has to be sold to an owner occupant at are below 80% of Ami there's a second restriction that's going to be recorded against these properties it is a 30-year restriction that 30-year restriction is your right of first refusal which means the City can buy it back and it is your it is a Prohibition to renting the property so for 30 years these properties will be only allowed to be sold to owner occupants and the city will maintain and watch that with our asset management grp so I appreciate the additional part that you just added regarding the properties not being able to be a rental cuz I guess I missed that part years and I apologize Mr Heath if I missed that part and beginning because at the end of the day if we have the opportunity to try to protect residents based off what we've seen cuz we can go into bright walk today and see that a number of those homes have flipped hands in a relatively short period of time that defeats our investment goals to make sure that we're protecting residents and giving them access to the resources to maintain ownership so I appreciate that what you're telling me and what we're getting in a minute is that there is a clear expectation on the front end that these are to be owner occupied and that there is a minimum time period so that we don't see house flipping happening in this particular situation and that was all that I have for you so thank you have Mr dggs thank you mayor um so Swan Run uh I'm I'm grateful that there was some money for district 7 and it didn't all go to District One um I'm interested though uh it looks like there are some sort of low-level structures there is this all going to be repurposing existing buildings there's no expansion or new construction that's correct it's all repurposing existing buildings and with a total development cost there's about 1.8 million in renovation and the balance of it is the acquisition itself right uh are there any other subsidies aside from the 2.4 million uh from any Source yes okay so the capital stack includes the pursuit of funding from Cho Charlotte Housing Opportunity investment fund Lisk has been a great partner with us in the past this particular project does not include funding from the county generally speaking the city county collaborations on those will be for the larger more like transformational size kind of no us so do we know how much is coming from Choi um I don't have that number off the top of my head but Mark has shared it with me let me know when you can uh and then uh does this deal have all of the same features of some of our prior transactions with the end uh is there tax anglees it does it it would be modeled uh in the same fashion as the previous deals correct and they also have a provision about uh special services or uh uh for the lowest income people there is that right same deal yes the community health worker model will be embedded in this community that's correct okay thank you all right Mr barari real Qui question for the for the home ownership uh why not do some little like encumbrance on the property and then uh if they sell after 15 years take out the the the city subsidy to refill the pot back for the next investment I'm not sure if that's different than what's contemplated here um if there's a scenario Beyond year 15 where there's a sale that occurs to a household above 80% Ami can after 15 years they can sell it at market rate right right and then we we have the right of fuse right of first refusal so we could choose to be that buyer or an agent of the city could choose to be that buyer what if they decide to sell it for two times the value that you don't agree with so I think under the dream key model the emphasis is on you know once you get beyond the 15-year Horizon there is an opportunity for that owner to harvest Equity based on whever market prices I totally agree I like that what I'm saying is if the city had 25 or 30,000 or whatever how much in it why wouldn't we if we're going to have a sustainable model every year if you do that by the time 15 years comes all of a sudden every year as people sell that original money they might sell it for $100,000 more 30,000 comes back to the city they keep 70 and that money can now be deployed and then you've got a rolling capability yeah and that's one of the things I keep referring to January but a lot of these models have the shared Equity component in it where there's a there's a piece of that Equity that the owner takes and then there's a piece that's left behind in the project in order for it to be retained at affordable levels going forward so I think that's what you're referring to it be like shared Equity I'm not trying to make that unit retained affordability overall I'm trying to figure out sustainable ways to can keep the Housing Trust Fund populated over time and if somebody is the Home Ownership one is the most exciting one potentially uh where it might go but you've got to figure out some way to to make that funding possible because it's going to cost right right so just something to think okay thank you and is that in the committee discussion that you're going to be having Miss watlington okay that model would be good all right Mr thank you you got all that you need and more um I think that we're going to do the man in the manager's report we're going to talk about the corridors at that time and so why don't we go downstairs it's 6:30 and that's what time we were supposed to start [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] w [Music] um thank you all that are joining us for the city council meeting those that are in the chamber those that are watching us streaming online or on this um City's um YouTube channel that we want to say welcome um we will begin to um with our call to order for this um meeting um we are going to really address several issues but let's begin our meeting with introductions of people at the dis and we'll start with our City attorney uh good evening Patrick Baker City attorney good evening Victoria watlington District 3 good evening Dante Anderson District One district 6 braxon Winston mayor Pro Temp V serving as mayor good evening Lana Mayfield council member at large good evening on this Monday James Mitchell at large good evening dimple AR at large Billy Deputy city clerk okay we begin our meeting with an invocation um we do this in respect for what we our invocation and our ability to come and think about how we can um work together and and to solize our proceedings please do so we'll follow that with an in following the invocation we will have a pledge of allegiance to our flag and again if you choose to participate tonight we're asking council member Driggs sorry Mr Dr this red carpet moment I know to provide us our words of expression or invocation thank you mayor today is September 11th 2023 22 years to the day since the most devastating terrorist attack in history on that fateful day the World Trade Center in New York was destroyed the Pentagon was attacked and nearly 3,000 innocent people died most of us who are old enough to remember vividly where we were when we first got word of the plane hitting the South Tower and how our horror grew as the second tower was struck and the buildings then collapsed we wince when we remember the Dreadful images of that day but most of us were eventually able to carry on with our lives because our great country was stunned But ultimately not deterred by the events of 9/11 we kept calm and be carried on for some however the pain of that day is still current the course of lives of the loved ones of the victims changed permanently they have had to learn to live with an empty space where one of the most important people in their lives used to be we should keep those who continue to feel a personal loss in our thoughts and prayers let us also recall that among those who died that day were 343 members of the New York City Fire Department and 71 Law Enforcement Officers they fear fearlessly rushed in as others rushed out and many were caught inside when the towers collapsed today let us recognize their bravery and sacrifice and honor them along with all First Responders who have protected us at Peril to themselves right up until this day thanks to the engagement of our men and women in uniform and Security Services we have not had a major terrorist incident in this country since 911 let us also give thanks to them finally we should take this opportunity to appreciate apprciate how actions of the worst people can bring out the best in good people at a board meeting of the visited Nurse Service of New York a large nonprofit home nursing agency my colleagues and I received a report of the activity of the nurses who had urgently visited patients in lower Manhattan following the attack concerned that many were Homebound and frightened or exposed to harm from the smoke and dust one crew of 50 nurses went out for three 8 hour shifts in a row to look after their patients when they met at headquarters after the third shift grimy and tired their supervisor told them to go home and to get some rest before they tired themselves out every single one went right back out to tend to more patients on this anniversary of 9/11 may we all comfort those who still feel the pain of personal loss and let us commit that the collective courage and kindness of our nation will always shelter us from the actions who of those who wish us harm let us not forget thank you mayor thank you Mr drgs please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance if you choose I pledge allegiance to the of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you um tonight we'll begin with our first public hearing we're now going to open a public hearing regarding the issuance of General obligation refunding bonds not to exceed $235 million to fund Street and neighborhood Improvement projects do we have any speakers Madam clerk um if we do um have any speakers so we will um do I motion to close the public hearing do I have a motion to close the public Hearing in a second any discussion all in favor please raise your hand that's unanimous anyone oppose I guess do not with mous V all right so um now if we could have a motion to um hear adopt the public adopt the bond order and resolution to provide for the issuance of General obligation refunding bonds not to exceed $235 million adopt a budget ordinance appropriating same amount and bond proceeds to the municipal service debt fund as well as adopt a resolution authorizing a bond anticipation note for up to 200 million to be used for projects approved in the 2018 and 2020 referendum and authorize the city officials to make the necessary actions to complete the financing including making the application to the local government commission do I have a ABCDE and adopt second we have a motion and a second any discussion caring no discussion all in favor please raise your hand that is unanimous thank you the next item on our agenda is the city manager's report and Mr Jones I'm going to recognize you thank you mayor members of council I sent out a 30-day memo earlier today uh we originally had planned on uh speaking with you about the digital inclusion during the manager report we believe it uh makes more sense to have this discussion on October the 9th uh which actually opens up an opportunity for us to catch up on an item that we had for the action briefing that we didn't have a chance to get to the quarters of opportunity which was in the uh Ed committee uh earlier this month with a plan to have a larger discussion tonight I know during that committee discussion many of you had questions and were willing to hold off until tonight so mayor there are any questions I'd like to invite Monica Holmes down all right Miss Holmes okay good evening how are you guys doing good evening good evening I am going to give them just a second to pull up my presentation and I'll go ahead and get started while that is happening um so as you know we were in front of committee last week at the jobs and economic development committee and you'll see some of the same information but with more depth to it so let's get started so tonight I'm going to give you a broad overview go through where we are in 2023 some corridors updates uh talk through our upcoming initiatives and projects and then next steps um and what we will be doing in the coming years can you all you can't see it can you see it now we can now you can okay great good I saw the looks that it did not look like it was working so as a reminder corridors of opportunity is in its third year uh and we have been working through infrastructure projects Public public private Partnerships and a variety of programs uh to about $72 million of City investment so again as a reminder if people are not familiar what with what the corridors of opportunity program is it supports investment in six underinvested historic torically underinvested corridors and the core goals of the program are to Foster thriving communities to build lasting Legacy and to grow our community equitably the core of the program is to support existing businesses residents and community members to grow economically with more opportunity there are six corridors West Boulevard Freedom Wilkinson Bates Ford rosell's fairy shur Creek and 85 Graham North Tron and Central alamor so at the beginning of 2023 we came to you and told you a little bit about what our goals were for the year and our goals were really focused around continuing to build Partnerships focusing on implementation Ure Creek and albam getting into project prioritization and completing the playbooks for Graham North Trion and Wilkinson freedom and to build a more robust Community engagement and communication effort uh and really get into the meat of the corridor's work so I'm happy to say that we have been moving forward on all fronts with that work and I'll talk a little bit about these individually as I get through this tonight so as a framework for corridors our work and our structure both internally and externally and how we collaborate across departments is focused around the framework for the Charlotte future 2040 plans so there are 10 goals in that plan there are six that we work uh we call them work streams and themes and corridors and we collaborate across those there are three or more City County departments in each one and we're moving forward with implementation across all six of those so you can see here what an example of programs and projects and Partnerships in each of those buckets are so you'll see things like the placemaking projects in West Boulevard and batty Ford which I'll talk about a little bit tonight Transportation projects uh our strategic Acquisitions uh some of the support we're doing for Spanish uh language businesses safe Biz our camera pilot program and corridors connect road to hire which you just voted on so I really want to recognize some of the great Partners externally that are doing this work uh in partnership with us so you'll see actually up here in the audience tonight uh we have resty Mills with Lisk and cther firm and sellers with United Way and Tracy Russ with the foundation for the Carolinas representing that Wells Fargo Beyond open piece and really our partner in the work so the things that the city are not experts at these are the experts helping us to fill those gaps and to do some of the really human needs work uh working on supporting small business with Beyond open working to leverage our dollars with Lisk and helping us really achieve the bigger goal so uh we call it our big hairy goal our team here at the city has set a big goal over the next three years of raising hundred million do both privately and through federal grants um in addition to the city's funding so we're well on our way with that but we just want to really thank our partners and the close relationship we have with them to help us reach that bigger broader goal so now I'm just going to quickly go Corridor by Corridor as to where we are uh again some of these we talked about last week we some we didn't but you'll hear a little bit uh deeper into how we are doing the work so first North Trion North Graham we finished that Playbook uh in the winter of last year we are focused on implementing projects and focusing on how we build the employment Hub that is North Trion North Graham leveraging some of the great projects like Camp norn some of the great things that we're seeing happen in the north Trion Corridor and making sure that that Corridor is still strong connecting people to job jobs housing uh and that we are not displacing that community so a lot of the work we're doing in that Corridor is focused on providing opportunity and connectivity to those existing residents so the freedom and Wilkinson Drive Corridor we're actually in the middle of a Playbook process right now for that Corridor uh we welcome people to get involved with that work we had the kickoff August 24th there were approximately 65 to 70 people at that kickoff you can see some of the photos here from that meeting we're partnering with some local organizations to do some creative engagement as part of the process um and you see we'll be done in the winter with uh that Corridor Playbook and then we'll start working on implementation so in album r Road uh we are we finished that playbook in summer of 2022 uh we quickly moved from the Playbook into what we call the road map which is really our strategic three-year how we're doing the work uh and you can see some of those projects starting to shap take shape now uh we have the city property that was um sold earlier this year uh I just want to point out here that there are other Investments we're leveraging in that Corridor like the umbrella Center the pepper tree Noah partnership um prospera which is funded from corridors of opportunity which is a small business cohort uh to support it's our first in language program as a city where we've done it in another language to support small business uh we have a staying in place pilot Community there we have some exciting work that'll kick off in this winter spring around what we call the album cultural Trail um we have a big investment going on in our sidewalk gaps which I'll show in just a minute and then we've been working with some other partners like the YMCA in the area on what their future programming and planning looks like so in West Boulevard I want to focus on you'll see later tonight uh the three sisters market and the work that's starting to happen there we also are working on our parcel the Strategic acquisition parcel starting to review those proposals and really understanding what that Redevelopment will look like uh we are going to continue to support the Merchants Association uh our staff has been participating in their meetings and they are getting ready to kick off a membership Drive uh which is very exciting they're also participating and what we call the breaking barriers to Business program uh which is a partnership with truest in Main Street America uh they participated in a legacy project around the intersection of West Boulevard and remount which we have some great planning work that was the result of that and then multiple Partnerships with placemaking you'll see a little bit um around those projects when I dive into those and then finally last but definitely not least is the Bates Ford Road Corridor uh that is our first Corridor that we launched with implementation a couple years ago and it's been really special to see the organic evolution of um City driven work with Community Support to now community-driven work with City support um so we are helping historic Weston Partners uh Washington Heights uh the alternatives to violence team really giving them the Staffing and support that they ask for around specific projects and Partnerships that they're are putting together so uh they are really leading the work and we are just helping along the way uh where we need to help put those pieces together so really great work happening in Bat Ford and it's interesting to see what the evolution years later uh looks like so around the Strategic Acquisitions uh there were three City acquired Parcels that we had all the requests for proposals due August 31st we received 10 applications we had four for four applications for the Double Oak site three applications for the economan site and three applications for the West Boulevard site uh we are currently in review of those uh they are at they are all for different uses as you can see here the Double Oak site is mixed residential with Community input again each of the applications is a little different we're just starting to get into those a West Boulevard and remount is more focused on the commercial side um and then the economy in is for sale residential affordable housing uh so with the economy in if anybody is driven by the Sugar Creek intersection this week the economy in no longer exists it has been demolished uh we finished up the bestus abatement towards the uh beginning of last week uh we uh have really moved quickly and I'm very proud of our city team the project managers that have taken lead of it um to move fast and be responsive to that community so we also are focused on opportunity hubs we had uh a grant open it's for our Community Partners based in corridors that Focus around uh small businesses jobs and Entrepreneurship uh we had an open application for about 6 weeks we received 21 applications we're currently reviewing those and working um with our team on figuring out the right Partnerships and getting through those applications it's going to be exciting work there will be a physical location in each Corridor and it'll provide us the opportunity to have a home base for other resources too and other partners to work together um in each Corridor so more to come on those you will you will see more about the opportunity hubs as we continue to move them forward the emerging developer training program uh you will see that in the coming weeks as well as we move forward with with uh that proposed partnership with Lisk uh and our some private Partners this program is focused on building more diversity in our commercial real estate industry and uh getting developers up and running to really scale from smaller projects to bigger projects it will be a cohort model uh and we'll be able to have mentors that are not just from the Charlotte area but from Regional and even nationally and we also have uh has been working hard on getting private funding into this training program as well as getting uh extra dollars for projects to get off the ground for recent graduates so exciting work there and I'm going to quickly these are some new things I just wanted to Showcase that are in work streams outside of just that uh diverse and resilient economy so I want to talk a little bit about some of the creating special places which these might be smaller projects but they're very meaningful to the community uh we have a project in West Boulevard that we've been working hard with uh the West Boulevard uh neighborhood group on uh to do some historic markers and there's a local artist that was actually born and raised in the West Boulevard Corridor who is helping us with these uh we've been working closely with ncdot and they will be completed fairly soon um and the in the Bates Ford cordor uh we have a partnership with the library and the KN Foundation to fund public space in front of the legra Westbrooks Library which the library will program um and the artist who is working on this project is a Northwest School of the Arts graduate uh and then we also have some enhancements happening at the Bates Ford in Lal intersection in conjunction with historic Weston Partners so interesting things happening there in the north Trion North Graham Corridor uh we received a $260,000 grant from the L's Foundation uh to build an partnership between our Urban Design Team and the urban forestry team to build uh Urban the urban Arboretum Trail which are taking Remnant City properties that are really not able to be used for anything else and adding tree canopy to a community that lacks um trees so there will be three separate properties uh and this will be a very quick project it will have the ribbon cutting later this fall um and we will have a lovely public space that people in the community can enjoy um while seeing the new trees very specific species that are special to North Carolina so in the mobility front uh we are really focused around prioritizing pedestrians and cyclists who are trying to get to jobs and resources so most of our uh Transportation projects in corridors are focused on safety uh these are high injury corridors and we are working d ly to leverage federal dollars to make our dollars go further with our transportation project so as you can see here we have been able to um win 16.2 million federal dollars for about $15 million uh locally on projects um so I think we're we're doing pretty well and this is a example you'll see below um on the album Road Corridor uh what a project looks like so what we are doing is we are taking several projects and making sure that they connect to places and where people want to go so it's not just what we would call a safe Crossing but it's a safe Crossing that gets to a sidewalk connection that gets to a new bus stop so again that theme of leveraging our our federal dollars we're also very proud to be a part of the thriving communities program which is a bonus program for federal dollars for the next three years so the cordor of opportunity program um um is participating in the thriving communities Network where we will get special technical assistance and we get bonus points on every grant that we apply for so very exciting we actually have our kickoff this week for this program and Lisk and United Way are also our partners in that program and so we will be doing some community-based work to help identify projects and then go after federal grants to build them so across housing you just heard a lot about housing from Sean so maybe we need to keep it light on this but uh we're again you saw some of the projects earlier but I just want to reiterate that it is very cross- collaborative so uh you know we have some great projects in that recent round of Housing Trust Fund that are in our corridors we're working on that staying in place pilot with our housing and Neighborhood Services team and then we have a couple of the Strategic Acquisitions that we'll be working on at Double Oaks in the economy and that'll provide some some housing options so uh getting towards the end here I just want to talk a little bit about corridors connect which is going to be a great opportunity for uh us all to connect with our corridors communities in uh October 8th the 15th and the 22nd we will have uh it's basically a neighborhood based open streets event where uh the community is invited to come there will be food trucks activities we're giving Community activation grants that is actively open so if Community groups would like to participate uh we will be providing $500 for groups to rent a boun bounce house give out popsicles whatever you think is the appropriate um activity for your community uh we also can provide information for people who are interested in getting involved these events are in partnership with the county partners for Parks um and public health uh we're very excited about this and again uh we're just getting the word out there will be doing press later this week the activities will happen on Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on those dates there will be two each weekend I put the website up here so people could go to open Street 704 for more information here are some fun uh images of all the things that we hope to see people doing at the corridors connect event painting the street chalk um dancing having a good time and then to finish up I just want to take the time to say what we're looking forward to and what we'll be moving towards in 2024 and then I'm going to finish with the last but not least but a success story from our Sugar Creek Corridor so as we move forward into 2024 we are focused on continuing to grow uh if you'll see that common theme our private investment and to build our Partnerships we're focusing implementation across all six corridors uh we are working to get those Community groups up running strengthened so that they're doing more the work uh which we know they are we will finish out that prioritizing projects and we'll consent in Freedom and then again continuing our Communications effort uh one other thing we're really focusing on um in the next coming months too is how we're measuring success with the program so I just want to uh shout out a little bit to United Way is I think we'll be working a little closer together on how we're measuring their program and our program and where there's intersection points so that we really can see what our impact is um so I think more to come on that front and I'll be happy to come back with those um those things as we continue to move forward and then last I just want to point out how all these different theme projects different Corridor work can all work together to really add up to us starting to move the needle towards success so you can see here in the Sugar Creek Corridor uh those different highlighted things on the map are different projects uh across all six themes so we have a couple of placemaking Grant recipients in the corridor doing work in daa and in um in the Hidden Valley part of the Sugar Creek Corridor uh we have things like street light upgrades we've been making inroads building a Business Association opportunity hub we know will happen in this Corridor uh we just were the recipients of the raise Grant which we'll be working on uh there's strong Community Partnerships already happening um and then we obviously have some of the hotel Redevelopment occurring and really what all that has done has been able for us to leverage and layer all these things to work towards a safer stronger Sugar Creek Corridor that's done with the community and not to the community so really proud of this work we always have more work to do uh I think that you will continue to see the nonprofits working in the corridor uh continue to grow and continue to prosper and continue to be our partners in the work uh and I also just want to make sure we talked about this in committee but that we recognize the fact that we have invested estimated about $10 million in the corridor or scheduled about that much um and we've already seen over $22 million of private investment uh we've been able to reduce the hotel rooms through the work and the partnership with people like Hill Charlotte um with uh we have some private interest in the hotel rooms with our investment in the hotels and if you add all that up it's about a 38% reduction so great work happening there uh the Sugar Creek Business Association has a full seated board um and we just look to see the work in this Corridor continue to grow so I'll end on that positive note and if we have time for any questions I I welcome them Mr Jones so mayor that's the thank you so much uh and we keep um lifting up the corridors as this horizontal way that we work within the organization so very proud of the team and all the work that's going on with quor so thank you um we have a few questions and comments so we'll start with Miss azira followed by um Mr Mitchell and Miss Anderson thank you Madame mayor um I'm absolutely proud of the work that Mr Jones uh has been done under your leadership I remember about 3 to four years ago we started talking about corridors of opportunity and historically underinvested areas and this is a bold step of over $72 million in just 3 years alone and we are leveraging our our funding with public uh with private sector and federal and state funding because we are in this together it's going to take the federal state city working together with the private sector and nonprofits to really move the needle in the right direction um I'm really impressed with the comprehensive approach here where we are focused not just on the housing uh but jobs opportunities for our small businesses who has been part of the corridors for far too long but has not seen that type of investment before um really I love the environment piece and how you are integrating that because there are many parts of our city especially uh this corridors of opportunities where we don't have reach tree canopy so I love the Arboretum Trail and hopefully we will continue to expand that um while retaining our culture and identity uh every Corridor is unique and and it's important that we integrate that as part of our Playbook um but I'm really impressed with the work Monica that's been done and uh I hope that we continue to keep the momentum that is uh to really invest in this corridors of opportunities thank you thank you Mr Mitchell uh thank you Madame mayor uh Monica just two quick um takeaways you can provide this later on one is you mentioned there was one slide about PR PR in invest Investments and so I like to get a copy of all those who are providing grants at what level they will be providing grants that's number one and number two ID like to get a copy of the rfps that out there on the street just to see what criteria do we that we put in those proposals thank you all right Miss Sanderson thank you Madame mayor Monica I just want to congratulate your team for the work I mean we love it when a plan comes together but you guys have really been doing a lot of heavy lifting and it's evident of course in the Sugar Creek Corridor but I do want to make a comment about the north trian North Graham Corridor I had the opportunity actually along with the mayor to attend the grand opening of the Gaston and um you know it's a former Charlotte Housing Authority property Delah courts that had 36 units that were cinder block wall no HVAC um really dilapidated and in that same footprint there are 144 brand new apartments that are phenomenal they're gorgeous apartments one through three bedrooms and uh still maintaining 36 units for 30% Ami and the city helped provide Gap funding for that project otherwise it would not have come to fruition and so it's a great example of something we're doing in the corridor where we're collaborating with the county and olivan to really change uh a neighborhood and bring it um up to 2023 standards so I I want to lift up that work and everything you're doing in the North Graham Corridor especially as it relates to the digital divide and career Readiness so keep up the good work congratulations and I'm looking forward to everything thing that's coming down the pipeline thank you Madame mayor okay thank you Miss Anderson Miss Mayfield thank you madam mayor Monica thank you for the presentation and for the opportunity for us to go out and meet with not only some of the Business Leaders but also community members regarding what is happening in investment when I look at the freedom wierson Playbook I want I'm hoping that as we're moving forward for full transparency you remember I used to have a lot of questions regarding corridors of opportunity and the basic ones was who were the opportunities for so you look at Freedom Drive today so you look at the eight years when I served as the distri gr and a a number of the businesses do not reflect the residents that once lived there they reflect the residents that live there today which is a different socioeconomic from a community that had homes right off a Freedom Drive in what was once Westwood Apartments which were over 650 lower income apartments new development came in you now have a community that was once Regal Heights that is now under historic Camp green that have $700,000 homes in them today as we're moving forward I'm hoping we're putting the language in place that is definitely much more targeted to create opportunities because what I would hope is that we learned a lesson that happened with the good life and enderly part because it took a lot of work to get at least one blackowned business along the Freedom Drive Corridor and in essence that only blackowned business was ran out there was plenty of media attention people can do their own Google search on it but that was a major challenge as the former rep of that area to work hard and thinking that our language was going to encourage one type of development and then to see the implementation create something that was very different so we can say unintended consequences the challenge is now we know better so the question is are we going to put the language in place as we move to expand our corridors of opportunity and learn the lessons from the initial Investments to ensure that the community Who currently lives there not the community of the future cuz we have in here that we're going to engage the community business owners and stakeholders in a concise process to identify priorities well the business owners that are there today are not the ones that were there even 5 years ago so if there's not diversity in those conversations that truly reflect the neighborhoods I have a concern that we will be opening the door for more transition than what we're already seeing so I hope that we can follow up at some point to really look at the impact and when you look at Tua you look at the Investments we put in the roundabout that took six plus years to get the roundabout there when we look at who is having opportunity you look at all of the breweries there's maybe two blackowned businesses that are alone Tucker cure and one of them is on the other side in the greater enderly neighborhood so we have to really and man manager this is really also a thought for you and your team how can we be much more conscious with the with the equity framework that my colleagues previously adopted to ensure as as we move forward with these conversations we're actually achieving the goals that we're telling the community are our Target thank you thank you Miss watlington thank you madam mayor I just want to lift up a couple of quick items um the first one is um specific to the goals from the C 2040 that were called out and I would I noticed that 10-minute neighborhoods and neighborhood diversity and inclusion weren't specifically included um so I just wanted to lift up that absolutely I see corridors as a um a vehicle to achieve those goals uh whether by enabling Professional Services for instance uh where people might have had to travel outside of the neighborhood to get dentist or accountant or whoever if there are ways that we can uh support those kinds of businesses within the corridors speaking to council member Mayfield's point I think that certainly contributes to Tim in a neighborhood without it even having to be an infrastructure type of um investment so I just want to make sure that we're making that connection um as well as the neighborhood diversity and inclusion component because again to miss Mayfield's point when we're talking about residents that live there now and even the work that we're doing with anti-displacement and wanted to make sure that residents who have been longtime residents can stay even as we welcome in new residents um I think there's a play there for uh Ag and income diversity to say the least right so I just want to make sure that as we think about um how important this program is to achieving our goals that we get the full scope um and then I just wanted to lift up um and ask you to talk a little bit I know we're at the very beginning stages of it but we the corridor's work to date has been very place-based and focused around what we can do within the corridors and now as each of the corridors are in Flight in our neighborhood um quarterbacks are talking to each other and our partner agencies are working together we're now getting to that next level of broader policy type items and talking about how do we not only impact the place but the people in the corridor so I just wanted to to provide just a little color on how you think that might look going forward so I think again we are in the early stages of of talking through that I think one key is that our neighborhood investment advisory committee works really closely together so my friends here tonight are we all sit on that together and we really have to understand what each group's role is and how we how we work together towards our common goal of um place and People based Economic Development and Community Development and then what our lanes are and where we might have intersection in those so we meet monthly uh we can do more to meet more frequently with staff on off topics and I think we're starting to work through that where appropriate um but I think that's step one is understanding what everybody's doing and aligning ourselves which we're I'm I'm proud to say we're getting there I mean Beyond open is solely focused on corridors of opportunity small business you know Lisk work is providing extra ra impact on the development side and they're going to work with us on the developer training piece United Way and all their quarterbacks we're starting to understand what that is but I mean we have work to do especially in spaces that we as a city don't typically sit in that are very people centered and so where we're just figuring out where do we sit in that conversation versus where our partner sits and then let's understand what each other's role is and how we work together towards the common good I mean we have great working relationships with quarterback agencies in in almost every Corridor especially ones we're deep in implementation with like batty Ford West boulev West Boulevard Sugar Creek um just starting to get there with Alam Marl will be kind of get again getting further in the north Trion North Graham Corridor and freedom Wilkinson we're right at the tip of it but so I've talked to some of those agencies to understand kind of where we are in that relationship Spectrum um and how we can kind of grow closer to understand roles and who's doing what thank you and on that note colleagues I'd like to request a refer a referral in the form of a policy item to understand what are some of those items we've got I've got an email in front of me that freedom communities one of our main Partners has sent over that's already outlined several of the uh policy items some of which as Monica mentioned are sit within the city and some might show up at um where we play more of an advocacy role or show up on our legislative agenda but I'd love to have um that conversation within committee whether it's Ed or neighborhoods committee on um what those broader policies coming out of our corridors of opportunity program I be okay um any other speakers okay um thank you very much for the update Mr Jones anything else okay so the next item on our agenda is a business item we've gone to our business agenda is there a motion for item eight to app approve 1.5 million up from the Corona virus State and fiscal and local fiscal Recovery Fund for the West Boulevard neighborhood Coalition in support of the development of Three Sisters market and authorizing with and also including the authorization for the city manager to execute am man and renew the contracts as needed um do I have a motion second second we have a motion and a second um is there any discussion hearing no discussion all in favor of the motion please raise your hand I believe that's unanimous all right thank you the next item is item number nine it's housing support grants for non and nonprofit capacity building support for item number nine um is there a motion to approve the use of 6.4 million from the Corona virus State and and local fiscal Recovery Fund for the following nonprofit organizations providing projects and programming in support of housing security security and stability for lowincome residents heel Charlotte 2,250,000 freedom fighting Missionaries 2 million Westside Community Land Trust 1,750,000 Charlotte family housing $400,000 to approve the use of 1.1 million in Community Development block grant funds for Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte and support of housing security and stability approve the use of 999,000 from the fund for nonprofit capacity building to be provided by next stage Consulting and authorizing the manager to execute amend and renew the contracts as necessary do I have a motion I need a motion on we have a motion do we have a second we have a second on the table we have one speaker and I would like to ask Maryann stagel to come down and address is she here miss steel not here she's not here all right um she signed up to speak about the 16 unit town home complex at the gro Grove um and so I saw Miss Molina Miss Molina um yes ma'am Madame mayor thank you so much um I actually um I I absolutely support item number nine but I would like to I've already spoken to my colleagues and I would like to make a substitute motion please do um I would like to substitute that we adopt um item or action a b c and D but in Action a I would like to actually request from the council that we move specifically just one uh freedom fighting missionaries for $2 million to our next business meeting second we have a motion and a second a substitute motion and a second that would approve all of the items with the exception of freedom fighting missionaries which would be appear on our next agenda yes ma'am all right do we have um a motion and a second is there any discussion on a substitute to Mr Winston yeah I just would uh you know uh a word to uh my colleagues um the issues that we're dealing with are are vast and um the scale at which we need the scale and speed is at which we need Solutions um I fear that sometimes um we've already done a lot of good work uh to to get Community Driven and Community guided policy uh that provides staff the opportunity uh to come back with good Solutions um sometimes um honestly We Kick the Can down the road um and that can uh slow down uh uh that slow down our staff our whole organization uh from getting wins and continue on to the next one and the next one and the next one and the next one um I know this is only two weeks but this is something uh that I've noticed this happens often more often uh than I would like uh personally um and we should just be cognizant of that we um at at the government level at the municipal level um certainly can only um be one small part in the solution to providing that scale um but a lot of folks fall in line um when we M make very deliberate um and strong moves um and likewise other folks uh other part that we deter that uh we depend on uh for scalable solutions to this will kind of hold back when we uh um take our time so I understand that there's a a few folks in the community um that have had some concerns and there's certainly no um issue with with talking um but we can do both at the same time so I would just again urge us to continue to push forward um wherever we can um as fast as we can cuz as fast as we can go it's never going to be fast enough for our constituents out there thank you thank you any further discussion Mr Molina um yes thank you madam mayor and um to my colleague that that point is is absolutely not wasted on me um but what I I want to lift up and the the purpose for my um requesting from my colleagues to um consider this motion with me um is because we actually made the decision in committee um and we're making it with Federal funding um and so I want to offer the and and I do plan to be present um and and I do realize that this is a you know delay um I have talked to Kenny personally um and I did share his rebuttal with the whole of council to show that he is 100% on board that the community members are 100% on board and I want to communicate out loud that this isn't a denial this is just a delay so that we can make sure that there's Clarity you know around what is actually happening I feel like that there's some fear because there's not enough knowledge that's been exchanged so I really want to offer the opportunity to um have that happen and then offer that to you all so that we can make a decision as a council on the next business meeting thank you I don't see any further discussion so we have a substitute motion on the table um all in favor of the substitute motion please raise your hand anyone opposed right that's unanimous all right the next item on our agenda is grants for alternative to violence is for to alternatives to violence program authorizing the city manager or his design to accept a grant in the amount of $1 million from the US Department of Justice fund to fund continued implementation of our alternatives to violence program and adopt a budget ordinance appropriating same amount any do I have a motion to approve and adop we have a second any discussion heing no discussion all all in favor please raise your hand anyone oppos I think it's unanimous our next item is item 11 the Metropolitan planning program Grant Municipal agreement um is there a motion to adopt a resolution authorizing the manager to negotiate and execute a municipal agreement with the ncdot ncdot to support Transit planning activities for the Charlotte region Transportation Planning organization and adopt a resolution authorizing the manager to execute the interlocal agreements required with aradale County area transportation system and Union County transportation to support Transit planning activities for the Charlotte Regional Transportation Planning organization and adopt a resolution authorizing the manager or his designity to execute interlocal agreements with the central L Regional Council the town of Indian Trail the town of Matthew morisville and Stallings to support Transportation Planning projects move to approve a b and c second all right we have a motion and a second I think he I'm sorry after this all right um we have a motion and a second any discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion please raise your hand all right thank you very much all right the next all right item 19 let's go to the consent item 19 my understanding is Mr Ratliff is yes that is our only speaker is our speaker so Mr Ratliff he's coming down yes please come down oh he is not who I was talking about let's go ahead approve the the item is item 19 to approve a contract for up to $5 million to with HDR engineering for planning and Design Services related to the proposed links Red Line and authorized the city manager to amend the contract consistent for the purpose for which the contract was approved so moved we have a motion do we have a second second we have a second um now we're open for discussion and Mr Ratliff hi good evening everyone my name is TJ ralff I live in the Sugar Creek Nota area of Charlotte District 1 if I look familiar it's because I spoke in January advocating for car-free transportation options if you recall mayor you said you enjoyed my speech and that I should be a lobus honestly it took me about 15 minutes to realize that was a compliment regardless I'm here today to encourage everyone to support the HDR engineering contract to design the red line frankly I don't expect much opposition to this measure due to how early this is in the process most procedural items like this would quietly pass without much discussion but I want to say good job keep going when they complete the design push for completion in reality I couldn't find the price of the original design from 2009 but I'm sure it wasn't cheap we don't want to pay another 5 million in 14 years when this design go goes out a date while we wait around for decent rail I'm here to remind you that people care about this and elections are soon if you're nerdy enough to come to City Council on a Monday night you probably already know that there is a primary election tomorrow if you didn't like what you heard tonight you can let them know very directly thank you for your time oh thank you very much appreciate you coming down that was good all right there is a primary election tomorrow and I hope that everyone would come out and exercise their right to vote your vote is your voice um so we have a motion and a second all in favor of this item please raise your hand all right anyone disapprove Mr barari as opposed all right so that takes us through our a agenda yeah I just got want announce if I can uh uh this weekend in Greensboro was a very important day uh between North Carolina a& in North Carolina Central so we' like to thank the folks in North Carolina and for hosting us wow for a great game 22,000 people showed up and to congratulations to North Carolina Central University for winning the game 30-6 so we like to uh say thank you and mayor and Council thank you for allow me make that announcement all right I assume that that means we have a motion to adjourn the motion all ins I'll get ready we'll see you out at the tomor all right right thanks you [Music] [Music] everyone [Music] e for