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so if we can get everybody in here and
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ready
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all right come again thank you very much
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miss jackson um good evening everyone
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um welcome to the charlotte city council
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business meeting on our june 14 meeting
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and now i want to call this meeting to
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order tonight's meeting is being held
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as a virtual meeting in accordance with
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the electronic
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meeting statutes all the requirements of
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that statute are being met for
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electronic means
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we are really always glad to have the
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public and media
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who are not in attendance with us today
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we've got several folks from the media
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inside the space that we are today but
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if you're not
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um here physically we hope that you're
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watching us on the government channel
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the city's facebook page or on the
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city's youtube page
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so we're going to begin with
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introductions um
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provided and i believe that we'll start
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with those folks that are at the
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um in the building and we'll just go
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ahead and start
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i'm bylaws and i serve as mayor and
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we'll go ahead to the mayor pro tem
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good evening i'm julie eisel mayor of
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pro tem and serving at large
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good evening and happy flag day i'm greg
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phipps
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serving at large fraction winston at
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large
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all right mr booker picard district six
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malcolm graham district two mark and
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eigelston district one
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ed drake's district seven and we have
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two council members joining us virtually
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i'd like to recognize
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our at large member
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followed by our district
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representative renee johnson district
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four
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all right now i'd like to have the staff
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that support us to make it possible for
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us to have these meetings i'd like to
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start with our city attorney
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patrick baker city attorney marcus jones
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city manager
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billy tons interim deputy city clerk
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stephanie kelly city clerk all right
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not a jackson office of constituent
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services okay cunningham mayor's office
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all right we have additional staff that
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support us that are
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in a separate room to maintain we are
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still under our pandemic rules and
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emergency orders and
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we hope that everyone will continue to
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keep themselves safe
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get the vaccination and really excited
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to
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see that we're able to gather together
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but we still have to meet that place
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where
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we have enough immunity for us to
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unchange
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the way that we're operating from the
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current state to something better for
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the future
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so get out there and get your
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vaccination remember you can win a
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million dollars
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in that vaccination lottery governor um
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cooper has set that up and i think that
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there's a lot to be said about that
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but i also think it's just a lot of to
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be say said about just getting your
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vaccination for your friends and family
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as well
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so with that um we begin our meeting
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with an invocation or an expression of
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inspiration
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followed by the pledge of allegiance
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tonight council member driggs will give
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our invocation
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and council member graham will lead us
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in our pledge of allegiance mr driggs
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thank you mayor the invocation tonight
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is adapted from a blessing by
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charles chaput who was the first
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native american archbishop of the
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catholic church
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it is a non-sectarian blessing however
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so please pray with me
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heavenly father thank you for the gift
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of life and the opportunity to serve the
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people of our city
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help us to act with character and
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conviction help us to listen with
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understanding and good will
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help us to speak with charity and
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restraint
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give us a spirit of service guide us to
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be the leaders your people need
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help us see the humanity and dignity of
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those who disagree with us
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and to treat all persons with the
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reverence your creation deserves
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and finally help us to build a community
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worthy of all those who choose to live
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here
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we ask this as your sons and daughters
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amen
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thank you there to stand for our pledge
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of allegiance
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mr graham
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of the united states of america and to
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the republic for which it stands
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one nation under god and indivisible
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with liberty and justice for all right
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thank you everyone um
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the next items that we carry through are
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those resolutions that we have to
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recognize
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various occasions and people
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today we're going to start first with
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one the mayor pro tem will
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read for us thank you madam mayor
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whereas the nation celebrates june 17th
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as global garbage monday
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and whereas no collection of people be
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it state city
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township or county could efficiently run
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without these people
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and whereas the men and women employed
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by the city's solid waste services
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department
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perform their jobs daily with excellence
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in all weather conditions and on most
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holidays
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to keep our local community and the
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world at large safe
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and healthy and whereas waste and
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recycling workers contribute to a tidy
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and clean community and whereas the
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solid waste services department provides
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service to more than 72 000 residential
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units each day
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and collects more than 433 000 tons of
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refuse
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recyclables and yard waste annually and
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whereas the city of charlotte values and
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celebrates its sanitation
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engineers who serve residents and local
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businesses
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now therefore i by lyle vi
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alexander lyles mayor of charlotte do
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hereby
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proclaim june 17 2021
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as sanitation engineer appreciation day
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to be observed in the city of charlotte
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in recognition
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of the importance of our solid waste
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collection workers
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and in accordance with the
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aforementioned national day of
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recognition
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thank you mayor pro tem i think all of
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us across this
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community all of our residents
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especially our
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residents in housing we know how
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important the service is it's probably
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the number one thing that
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people know about our community and the
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work that gets done
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is done by these fabulous folks that are
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in our solid waste services department
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led by rodney jameson and i just want to
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say thank you
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we're going to celebrate a little bit
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more um this weekend
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and on friday i'm going to go out and i
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hope that we're going to have
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time to talk about what you'd like to
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talk about
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as you work here in the city but i want
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to just brag on you because that's what
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you deserve so thank you very much
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our second proclamation is in
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recognition of juneteenth
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coming up whereas on june 19th 1865
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nearly two and a half years after
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president abraham lincoln signed the
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emancipation
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proclamation union soldiers led by
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general gordon granger
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arrived in galveston texas bringing to
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some of the last
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enslaved americans news of their legal
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status as free persons
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and whereas the 19th of june has become
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nationally recognized as juneteenth
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to commemorate the abolition of slavery
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and honor the strength determination and
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triumphs of african americans in the
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face of this extreme
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oppression and hardship and on this
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anniversary each year
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individuals communities and
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organizations across
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north carolina here in charlotte and our
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country celebrate
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african-american heritage culture
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freedom and tradition
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whereas all charlatans of all colors
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creeds and origins share a love of and a
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respect for freedom
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whereas work is underway in our city to
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eliminate the current effects of past
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and current
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racial discrimination within policing
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housing
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financial lending practices job
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placement and
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other sectors of our society and whereas
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the city of charlotte encourages all
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people
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to observe june 19th as a day to reflect
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on and learn from the past
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a day of healing and renewal a day to
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spur on efforts to build a brighter
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future for all
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now therefore i via alexander lyles
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mayor of charlotte to
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hereby proclaim june 19 2021
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as juneteenth day in charlotte and
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recommend its
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observance to all of our people thank
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you very much
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um there will be a number of
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opportunities for celebration of
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juneteenth in this community sponsored
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by various
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arts cultural and community-based
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organizations i hope that we'll all find
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a place that we feel
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comfortable going and participating with
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some of those opera
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those celebrations so with that
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um we're going to go into our action
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consent item questions q's and a's are
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there any questions
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consent items
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hearing any questions hearing no
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questions then we're good so we're going
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to proceed
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to our action review but before we have
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our action review
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there are two items that i want to speak
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to prior to beginning our meeting
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first is the current legislation under
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review by the general assembly on the
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local elections
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added one more task to the budget and
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effectiveness
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committee chaired by edric's and and
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with participation by
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four of our council members and they're
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adding that
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we look and we're looking at for the
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budget and effective
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committee charged to recommend a process
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on
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to the council on how to be consistent
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with both state and federal laws
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now and may include the discussion and
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recommendation whether or not the
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charlotte city council election
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should be bifurcated and how the what
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their guiding principles
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are as they develop the recommendation
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for that decision
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and so we're adding that to the
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budget and effective government
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committee work
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which they are going to try i hope to
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meet again this week
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um to be able to address we didn't get
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i think at your last meeting you didn't
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have time to get to the redistricting
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portion
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of the rest we didn't but
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this adds a new urgency mayor because if
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the intention was to try and have
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those at-large elections this year that
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timeline is already quite compressed so
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we would need to get busy
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so i'll find out when the members are
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able to meet i would hope that you could
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do it this week
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if at all possible but of course we
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still have to wait for the legislation
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to pass
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we are we're still waiting to see what
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the final version will be
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and then the second thing that i wanted
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to do is that i want to invite
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all of the council members to
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participate in the charlotte pride
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weekend
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of service on august 21st and 22nd
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as our lgbtq residents begin to
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celebrate
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charlotte pride month and with our
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council break beginning in july
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i want to share with a community that we
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the recommended non-discrimination
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ordinance will be on the council's
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august ninth agenda to be a part of the
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recommend
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recognition of our commitment to
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equality and equity
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during pride month i want to thank each
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of you many of you have had lots of
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conversations around us
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for the work that you've done to build
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consensus around the ordinance
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and i look forward to our august 9th
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vote
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as we celebrate pride month again the
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date of our
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weekend of service august 21st and 22nd
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you'll be getting more information about
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how to sign up sign
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up for activities that will help our
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community
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see the impact that our lgbt community
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members can make in a community
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so with that i'm going to go ahead and
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recognize the manager
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for the agenda review for our action
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items that we have tonight
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thank you mayor and members of council
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so tonight we have
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two items on the action review agenda
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the first one is leveraging city owned
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land for affordable housing
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and that presentation or update will be
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a tag teamed by
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our new assistant city manager brent
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cagle
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and pam weidman and then as we do
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annually we have an update on the
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municipal service districts
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and that would be both the
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darlene heater and michael smith who's
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with us tonight
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and mayor before i turn it over to brent
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and pam i would just like to talk a
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little bit
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about uh the presentation tonight and
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what we may which you'll see over the
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course of the next uh
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two weeks so my 30 day memo last time we
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talked about
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having a staying in place strategy
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discussion
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on the 28th of june as well
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as we will have sean heath
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give you an update about where we are
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with some of the
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this last round of stimulus funds
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it's difficult to just jump into
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this um leveraging city owned land for
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affordable housing without
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having a bigger picture so as we start
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to think about it
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there are a number of initiatives that
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are happening and there are a number of
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opportunities
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much like the 14 million dollars
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that is in hopefully the budget that you
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approve tonight
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that would be in our corridors which is
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both for housing
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in some workforce and economic
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development initiatives
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as well as programs that work well
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during the first
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year of the corridors of opportunity but
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also
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as you start to think about it michael
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may talk about this a little bit later i
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won't steal your thunder michael but the
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charlotte center city partners have a
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2025 homelessness strategy
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that's being discussed
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across the community so there are
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opportunities for us to think about
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housing homelessness some of the funds
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that
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are in the fy 2022 proposed budget
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as well as stimulus funds and
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partnerships between
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the city and the county in in the
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private sector so
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this is not just limited to the
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discussion tonight it's
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one piece of it and i had a i would call
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it a
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great discussion with councilmember
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graham
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last week and he said well i want more
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so let's start off
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with what we have tonight knowing that
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over the course of the next two weeks
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we'll have more information about
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additional initiatives
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so with that said i'll turn it over to
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brent and pam
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thank you thank you
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thank you
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thank you mayor and members of council
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for having us tonight
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ms weidman and i are going to go through
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um a brief presentation to talk about
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how we're going to
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how we would envision leveraging
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city-owned land
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part of this will be starting out with
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just an
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explanation of the roles and
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responsibilities moving on into the
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affordable housing and real estate
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portfolio
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talking about the parcels that we've
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identified for affordable housing
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and a discussion of some of the other
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properties that we've identified and
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what the
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council should expect on those and also
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looking at next steps now i'll say a
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couple things
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up front i want to thank all of the city
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staff who were involved in this a lot of
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time and energy went into this but
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especially housing and neighborhood
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services and the general services
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department
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worked very very long hours trying to
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pull all of this together
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and i'll also point out that tonight is
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really informational only
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there is no decision required but we do
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want you
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to hear where we're at know where we're
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going for the next steps
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and also be aware of it as some of these
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items that we discussed tonight
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become future actions or action items
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for
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the council to consider oops next slide
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okay so a little bit real quick about
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real estate services um
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you know sometimes i think we forget
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that the city is
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a very large land owner in the city of
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charlotte
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as well as all of the other private
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entities that own property
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so what does real estate do real estate
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is a division inside of the general
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services department
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and they basically buy sell and manage
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the city's property portfolio
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real estate also coordinates with city
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departments to identify their property
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needs and to purchase the properties
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for their use a good example of this
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would be when we when it's time to build
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a new police station
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or a fire station or any variety of city
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service centers real estate is who we
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call when we need property
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the other thing that real estate will do
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is try to marry up
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vacant properties with needs right so
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sometimes
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we may not have a vacant property
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sometimes we may but they're always
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trying to find
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the perfect match for our needs
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they also manage properties that are
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donated to the city and tonight we'll
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talk about a couple of those types of
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properties
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so they manage those inside of the
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portfolio as well
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and the last bullet here i think is
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important
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the way real estate operates or has
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traditionally operated is
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they retain properties they purchase
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properties and retain
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properties that are needed to support
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city operations
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right so that's why when you'll see
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from time to time we dispose of
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properties is because those properties
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haven't been id
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haven't been identified as a property
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with a city operational need
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so real estate's role in the rfp or
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the eventual rfp that will be moving
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forward
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real estate and housing and neighborhood
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services conducted a review of the
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city's current inventory of vacant land
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they also conducted interviews with city
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departments to understand what their
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future
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property needs would be so as they
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started to look at what we have that's
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vacant
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and what the next five ten years look
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like
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for new properties
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those needs that the city has they tried
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to marry that up
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with vacant properties that didn't have
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an identified use
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now the other piece of this and this is
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where housing and neighborhood services
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really
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helped they also have to look at other
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factors
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we do have many vacant pieces of
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property
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but not all of those vacant pieces of
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property
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are actually developable a lot of the
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vacant property we have
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are really remnants that are left over
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from other
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projects and because of topography or
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size or other factors being in a flood
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plain for example
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they may not be actually developable and
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so they look at that they look at the
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potential future uses
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and then for affordable housing they
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also put that through
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another set of guidelines and ms weidman
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we'll talk about those
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here in just a second so what were the
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results
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we've identified six properties for
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affordable housing
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that represents approximately 24 acres
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of land now not all of those acres may
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be developable but
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the parcels themselves are or
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combination of the parcels
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equals about 24 acres we also have
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identified one property for affordable
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housing
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with the possibility of a mixed use
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component
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included in it and then we want to talk
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to you about two additional properties
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that we've identified for
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for future study and future inclusion in
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an rfp
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at some point in the future with that
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i'll turn it over to
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ms weidman to go through the affordable
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housing properties
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[Laughter]
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thank you mr bakar you tried
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good evening mayor and city council it's
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great to see you all in one place
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many of you all in one place and to the
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city manager thank you for allowing us
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to be here
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to give this brief update thank mr cagle
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and allow me to add
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um to his thanks the thanks to my
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colleagues in
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general services um this has really been
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a team effort and
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and the team in housing and
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neighborhoods to get us here tonight
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so i'm just going to walk through the
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six parcels that we've identified
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for potential uses affordable housing
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just in terms of background i'll just um
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remind us that you all approve your
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housing framework
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in 2018 since
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that time last summer we reviewed that
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housing framework the mayor reminds us
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all the time that we ought to be
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reviewing that and we ought to be
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evolving it
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and the thing that came out of the
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review last summer was that
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you all agreed to set aside a portion of
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those of the funds our housing trust
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fund dollars our bond dollars for home
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ownership
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and so you'll hear about um our thoughts
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about some of this as i walk through
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and then just also just to give you all
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um just further applause the the housing
26:23
framework continues to be used as a
26:25
model across the country
26:27
uh most recently atlanta georgia denver
26:30
colorado
26:30
and raleigh north carolina people really
26:32
really like um your framework that you
26:34
approved and the pillars that it's built
26:36
on so just want to
26:38
continue to appreciate you all for that
26:42
within that housing framework you'll
26:43
recall that was three pillars right it
26:45
was building new was preserving what we
26:46
already have and then it was creating
26:48
family self-sufficiency
26:49
and then we embedded in those three
26:51
pillars one of the strategies
26:53
that's relevant to the conversation
26:55
tonight was how do we use publicly owned
26:57
land to advance affordable housing
26:59
and let me just before i get further in
27:01
there the manager mentioned
27:03
the work that is being led by center
27:05
city to do this housing and homelessness
27:07
strategy
27:08
as a part of that i have the privilege
27:10
of co-leading kind of the grow
27:11
affordable housing work stream and so
27:14
within
27:15
our early meetings again using publicly
27:17
owned land has come up and it still
27:19
remains to be
27:20
one of the strategies that people are
27:21
interested in and that we
27:23
believe we ought to use and so you guys
27:24
are far ahead in terms of doing that so
27:26
thank you for that city council
27:29
let's see um am i doing these or are
27:32
they
27:34
okay i'm sorry next slide please so
27:37
mr cagle alluded to this earlier um in
27:39
2019 you all approved
27:41
some guidelines about how we would
27:44
evaluate and dispose of city on property
27:46
particularly for
27:47
affordable housing and just some of the
27:49
high level things that were identified
27:51
in that in that policy was obviously
27:53
want to achieve
27:54
housing for households earning 80
27:56
percent and below the area median income
27:59
we want to have long-term deed
28:00
restrictions when we utilize properties
28:03
in this way
28:05
we do this because we want to reduce
28:07
costs and we want to be able to monetize
28:10
our assets right and so this helps us
28:12
further leverage our housing trust fund
28:14
and other dollars that are needed to do
28:15
long-term affordable housing
28:17
and then some of the things that we want
28:18
to look at are
28:20
tran proximity to transit how are they
28:24
zoned
28:25
are they near commercial employment
28:26
centers we want to make sure that we're
28:28
not
28:29
using land that is in the flood plain so
28:31
there are about 13 and i won't read
28:33
those all to you but 13
28:35
categories that we looked at to make
28:38
sure that
28:39
that properties are suitable for
28:41
affordable housing development
28:43
if you go to the next slide for me
28:44
please this is not a new concept and
28:47
many of you all will recall that you've
28:48
done this before with some city on land
28:51
and i won't go to the granular detail
28:53
but i will tell you as a result of what
28:55
you've previously done
28:56
there are about 200 housing units
28:59
some multi-family and some home
29:01
ownership that are
29:02
in the works through the use of publicly
29:04
owned land your city on land
29:06
one of the most recent ones is the
29:08
vantage point site um
29:09
mr graham that's in your district where
29:11
we're creating i believe up to 37 units
29:14
of
29:14
affordable for sale home ownership
29:17
another recent example is the morris
29:19
field property
29:20
ms wellington that is in your district
29:22
that is a partnership with habitat where
29:24
we're creating
29:25
for sale home ownership opportunities as
29:28
well so just wanted to to remind you
29:30
guys of that
29:31
if you go to the next slide for me
29:33
please as mr cagle said we have a lot
29:36
of city-owned properties but this funnel
29:39
is
29:40
if we run it through the funnel if you
29:42
will there and again i won't read this
29:43
to you
29:44
but we want to make sure that whatever
29:46
we're putting out in an rfp
29:48
that it is suitable for affordable
29:50
housing development
29:51
we never want a case where we you know
29:54
put something out
29:55
and and it's not it's not able to be
29:57
developed or it's going to cause us a
29:58
bad news story so
30:00
we really spend a lot of time making
30:02
sure that these are suitable
30:04
so let me just spend a few minutes going
30:05
through the proposed parcels
30:08
if you go to the next slide for me
30:09
please so wendover road
30:11
it is a total of nine parcels 7.5
30:16
acres it's currently zoned residential
30:19
four
30:19
and five and um mr driggs always keeps
30:22
me honest
30:23
there he is i'm in terms of we need to
30:25
know what these
30:26
what the appraised values are and so
30:28
these are the current appraised values
30:30
on these sites
30:30
now we could um do another appraisal and
30:34
we'll determine if that is necessary
30:36
these appraisals are
30:37
i believe they're about a year old um
30:40
and so by the time we get to the
30:42
development phase if we need to do
30:43
another before you all
30:45
approve the land transfer we will do it
30:47
but we don't know if we need to do that
30:49
at this point
30:50
but wendover we believe this one um
30:53
is these lights here are always
30:56
interesting for me
30:57
we believe this one is
31:00
most suitable for some type of for sale
31:03
affordable product type again we don't
31:05
want to be too prescriptive to limit
31:07
the developers creativity but that's
31:10
what we believe there
31:12
so and notice i said a product type if
31:15
you look at that area you see lots of
31:17
town homes there
31:18
there is some level of density there
31:20
today
31:22
but again you can see that it's right
31:23
along wendover road
31:25
and so we believe that this is a this is
31:27
a very suitable opportunity for some
31:30
type of affordable there
31:31
we acquired this one this was left over
31:34
from these remnants were left over from
31:35
the wendover road
31:37
widening and that's i think we acquired
31:41
them in
31:41
in 92 93 time frame so if you'll go to
31:45
the next slide
31:46
for me i'm sorry
31:50
so these are bounded between um kind of
31:53
district
31:54
um district five and district one so
31:56
they're shared
31:57
um let's see
32:02
don't worry there's an echo okay that's
32:05
an echo in the room don't worry
32:06
you get the presentation i don't often
32:09
hear myself talk so that's really
32:10
interesting
32:11
i'm not sure if i particularly like to
32:13
either
32:14
um mr alves elsa i can follow up with
32:17
you on what the cross street is
32:19
admittedly i can't really see the map on
32:22
this screen really good but i'll
32:23
follow up with you on what that cross
32:25
street is um
32:28
let's see providence road west so this
32:31
one is in council district seven
32:33
this is left over from the recently um
32:36
new cmpd south division station
32:39
um that was the rivet that was open or
32:41
we celebrated the opening
32:43
i'm a couple weeks ago and so there's a
32:44
remnant left over
32:46
it was acquired in 2018. what what you
32:49
will see here kind of the yellow outline
32:51
and i don't know if this pointer works
32:54
but basically um although this is
32:57
2.6 acres probably only an acre of this
33:01
is developable so it's kind of the
33:03
everything to the
33:06
to the left of the red line we believe
33:09
is is developable the stuff kind of in
33:12
the lower is kind of is tree safe so
33:14
that's not developable
33:15
so that will probably equate to some
33:17
type of denser develop
33:19
development although we've done this
33:21
before this is is an example where we're
33:24
doing something a little bit different
33:25
because we want to make this site as
33:27
ready as possible um for the for the
33:30
development community
33:31
and also we were trying to um make sure
33:34
that this was in line if people needed
33:36
to acquire
33:37
apply for tax credits or some other type
33:39
of funding that has um a timetable on it
33:42
and so what we're doing here and again
33:44
this is new we're
33:45
the city is leading the rezoning on this
33:48
one
33:49
um and so that's not to say that the
33:50
community won't still have an
33:52
opportunity to input but we wanted to do
33:54
that
33:54
just to take that off of the plate of
33:56
the of the developer here
33:59
we also think that this is a great
34:01
opportunity for
34:02
perhaps our men and women who work at
34:04
that police station to have an
34:06
opportunity
34:07
to have some some type of housing really
34:10
close to their station should they
34:11
should they choose to do that to live
34:14
there
34:14
if you go to the net well this one is
34:16
great newland avenue
34:17
this is just one parcel it's currently
34:20
zoned um residential
34:22
um i'm sorry r12 multi-family you can
34:24
see the appraised value there
34:26
this is a long one of our quarters of
34:28
opportunity um
34:30
and so we believe also that this could
34:33
be
34:34
a ripe site for some type of affordable
34:36
for sale
34:37
product again we don't want to be so
34:39
prescriptive as we don't leave
34:40
room for the the creativity of the
34:43
development community
34:44
but this being along one of our quarters
34:47
of opportunity
34:48
it's in the lasalle lincoln heights area
34:50
and so we're really excited about the
34:52
possibilities here as well
34:54
if you go to the next slide for me this
34:57
is um
34:58
along the blue line extension it is
35:03
university city boulevard i noticed miss
35:05
heater is here today so welcome ms
35:07
heater
35:08
this was this was um appraised it's
35:11
recently 1.3
35:12
million and we believe that this will be
35:15
a great
35:16
opportunity for some type of development
35:18
here so we will include this one in the
35:20
package too
35:21
this is again a city-led rezoning
35:25
we we haven't determined the exact
35:27
zoning type that we're going to request
35:29
but we know it will be some type of tod
35:31
some type of transit oriented
35:33
development
35:34
here so more to come on that if you go
35:37
to the
35:38
next slide for me this is the archdale
35:41
we've heard you've heard a lot about
35:43
this one this is 6.3 acres it's
35:46
currently zoned r4
35:47
i do want to be totally honest with you
35:51
this is a challenging site
35:53
it's challenging for two reasons it's
35:55
challenging because of its lack of
35:57
access and it's to
35:59
topography and you can see that
36:02
you have the little sugar creek that's
36:05
that blue that's running right down
36:06
beside it
36:07
we believe that um if it is going to be
36:11
developed
36:12
that it will probably be developed kind
36:14
of in the
36:15
hockey stick down in the bottom if you
36:17
will um because
36:18
that that grants the most access
36:22
opportunity for access into the site
36:25
again this one is
36:26
we know it's challenging going in so we
36:29
may or may not get any takers on this
36:31
what i would say about this though is an
36:33
opportunity you all will recall that you
36:35
all granted trust fund dollars for
36:37
lake mist i think was last summer and so
36:41
this
36:41
is about a mile and a half from lake
36:43
miss that is a noaa
36:45
that that you all um approved and you
36:48
also approved a rental subsidy
36:50
for that as well and so we think that
36:52
this could be a great
36:54
opportunity if we can determine how how
36:56
to develop it so i did just want to
36:58
point that out
37:00
if you go to the next slide this is one
37:02
of the two
37:03
sites that you all recall was donated
37:06
from the brooks
37:07
family it is along south boulevard
37:12
we believe this is an ideal site
37:15
for redevelopment it's we believe it's
37:18
ready to go
37:20
and so we're really really excited about
37:21
this one as well so
37:23
it's along um the blue line if you go to
37:26
the next slide for me please
37:28
uh i think that
37:32
that ends that's kind of the six slides
37:34
that i'm gonna go over brent will come
37:36
up and talk about um the the um the
37:38
three remaining
37:39
but what i would say in terms of what
37:42
happens next and brent
37:44
hit this again as far as the ones that
37:46
are being developed for just straight
37:48
affordable housing um
37:50
we are in the process right now we we
37:52
updated you tonight i talked to you
37:54
about the two that are
37:55
in the rezoning process um you all will
37:58
receive
37:59
for the ones that are in the zoning
38:00
process obviously you all will see these
38:02
on your zoning document
38:04
in in a couple of months and we'll keep
38:06
you updated on that
38:08
we're publishing we're working on
38:10
drafting the rfp
38:11
so um that that'll um be completed by
38:14
the end of november
38:17
and then well that those will be back we
38:19
will have released it those will be back
38:20
by the end of november
38:22
we'll be working with the developers to
38:23
select um the developer
38:25
who presents the proposal that we
38:27
believe best based on your goals and
38:29
where we want to grow as a city
38:31
and then we will publish our housing
38:33
trust fund rfp
38:35
so this is the land we'll publish an rfp
38:38
in the event that people need both land
38:40
and money we're not saying they will we
38:42
don't know at this time but we want to
38:44
create an environment where we can do
38:46
land and money at the same time
38:48
and then we'll be back to you all in may
38:52
to award um any htf allocations that
38:55
are needed please know that we will be
38:58
going as fast as we can we know that you
39:00
guys have been patiently waiting on this
39:02
we've said
39:02
we we are doing it and and again we'll
39:05
keep you updated as we go through this
39:07
process
39:07
and at that time i'll turn back to brent
39:09
to complete the presentation
39:18
okay so we have three more properties
39:20
left to go through let's start with
39:21
england street so england street is the
39:24
second of the
39:25
two donated parcels this parcel is an
39:28
interesting parcel and that it's
39:30
rather large 15.64 acres
39:33
and i apologize for not having this map
39:35
but if you look at this
39:37
site the south boulevard site is
39:39
basically
39:40
adjacent to this site it's just off this
39:42
map because
39:43
it's this this map is only showing the
39:46
one site so that they're basically
39:48
a pair they're right next to each other
39:50
um again it is zoned correctly or is it
39:53
in a good zoning place with tod dash cc
39:57
current appraised value is 2.5 million i
40:00
will
40:01
say that as far as the size goes
40:04
this site does have some
40:07
topography issues so we're not sure
40:10
exactly what the developable size of
40:12
this property is but it is
40:15
significantly less than the 15.64 acres
40:18
now i will say we put this one into a
40:20
separate category because
40:22
we'd like to see what the market brings
40:24
it could be all affordable housing
40:27
it could be affordable housing with some
40:29
mixed use components
40:31
but we don't know what that is and we
40:33
really would like to see what the market
40:34
brings
40:35
i would say that so as pam pointed out
40:38
the process for rfps that are straight
40:40
affordable housing will be moving
40:41
forward
40:42
this property will move forward on a
40:44
similar timeline as well
40:46
it is a separate rfp because this rfp
40:49
would allow for the possibility of
40:52
mixed-use components possibly
40:56
okay next slide and then there are two
40:58
remaining uh
40:59
properties uh next slide eureka street
41:02
or double oaks
41:03
so this again i'm sure the council is
41:05
very very familiar with this site
41:07
one parcel about 11.1 acres
41:10
it's zoned r22 mf the appraised value is
41:15
3.1 million
41:17
and again we think that this site would
41:20
be
41:20
desirable for affordable housing but
41:23
possibly affordable housing with
41:25
mixed use components i will also say
41:28
this site has
41:29
a conceptual plan that is completed
41:32
already
41:33
and that conceptual plan would envision
41:37
affordable housing with mixed-use
41:39
components
41:40
next slide please so statesville avenue
41:42
and these two i want to
41:44
talk about almost in tandem statesville
41:46
avenue
41:47
most of the council will probably be
41:49
familiar with the ojcc site
41:51
that is statesville avenue and so this
41:54
is the old jcc
41:55
site and you can see the the jcc site
41:58
currently it is one parcel that includes
42:02
fire
42:03
headquarters the red line at the bottom
42:06
of the map
42:07
would be the subdivided parcel so that's
42:10
we would envision needing to subdivide
42:12
this parcel
42:13
and then it would be the northern half
42:15
of the site or the top half of this map
42:18
that would be offered up so this site um
42:21
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42:22
it's it's a 10 acre parcel but it will
42:25
be something less than that maybe
42:27
seven to six or seven acres after it's
42:30
subdivided
42:32
it's currently zoned i2 and
42:35
portions are mud o
42:38
and so at some point this will need a
42:41
zoning change
42:43
but what we'd like to do is
42:46
think about this in terms of affordable
42:48
housing with mixed-use components
42:50
but because it's also in the same
42:52
proximity of double oaks
42:54
we'd like to think about how these two
42:56
properties
42:59
work together in this area and so
43:03
when when i talk about further
43:04
consideration what we really need is a
43:07
little more time for the planning
43:09
staff for the housing and neighborhood
43:11
staff
43:12
and the general services staff to come
43:13
together think about what we've already
43:15
completed for double oaks
43:17
and think about how that works together
43:19
in harmony with this site as well
43:23
okay next slide and so this is just kind
43:26
of bringing it home
43:28
pam already talked about the timeline
43:31
underway now developing the rfp
43:35
the rezoning process the city-led
43:37
rezoning
43:38
process on the two parcels that will
43:40
have city literacy zoning
43:42
is we've already started those
43:43
conversations with the planning
43:45
department
43:46
we would in tish anticipate in the fall
43:49
that city council would have
43:50
the rezoning decisions before council
43:54
and we will be publishing the city-owned
43:56
land
43:57
rfp or rfps in this case
44:00
november through february february
44:02
working with developers
44:04
as we select the rfp going through
44:07
contract negotiations
44:09
site conveyance finishing out all of the
44:12
contract work
44:14
january through february of 2022 moving
44:17
into
44:18
publishing the housing trust fund rfp
44:21
and april through may
44:22
of 22 awarding the trust fund
44:24
allocations in land conveyance
44:27
with that i will wrap up next slide
44:31
questions council questions
44:35
i want to um first just remind us
44:38
of the families that donated property
44:41
for this purpose
44:42
the brooks family prior to the loss
44:45
of their brother of his brother they
44:48
made this decision
44:50
because they wanted to give something
44:51
back when we were everyone was
44:53
announcing we're going to give you money
44:55
he said we're going to give you land and
44:57
i think that that was
44:59
a great decision then and even today
45:01
looking at through the lens of what land
45:03
cost in charlotte what they've done was
45:06
i mean it was visionary
45:08
and then i just also want to recognize
45:10
the family
45:11
of former commissioner jerry blackman
45:14
who left in his will
45:16
those 20 acres to say i believe in the
45:19
mission
45:20
that you have adopted and approved as a
45:23
city
45:23
to provide affordable housing and the
45:26
land is
45:26
zone industrial and he could have done a
45:29
lot of things jerry blackmon was
45:31
known for his business acumen and a lot
45:34
of acquisitions but
45:35
on at the time that he was really new
45:38
that he was going to be passing away
45:40
he left us to 20 acres to the city for
45:43
affordable housing
45:45
so i just want to say thank you to them
45:46
and always acknowledge
45:49
that this is possible through their
45:51
generosity
45:53
but more importantly i think through
45:54
their commitment to the city
45:56
as residents long-term residents to
45:58
knowing that we can do
46:00
things like this and make it better so
46:02
with that i'm going to
46:04
recognize mayor pro tem and then miss
46:06
watlington and mr drake's
46:08
thank you madam mayor and thank you
46:12
for the for the presentation um
46:15
i have a question double oaks was
46:18
answered but
46:18
the other question i have when we look
46:20
at some of these land values and where
46:22
they are and pam you had mentioned that
46:24
some that topography is challenging do
46:26
we do we look at it and say
46:29
um let's talk to the county about this
46:32
becoming a park
46:33
or just really consider green space the
46:36
need for green space
46:37
especially in neighborhoods that don't
46:40
have access to parks
46:43
yes are any of these contenders for that
46:46
possibly some of these may be what i
46:48
would say is
46:50
as as housing and neighborhood