City Council Work Session - Regular Meeting

Minister, thank you. Minister Terrence, thank you for a great prayer. Thank you for joining us. We know you, very familiar with you, even though you got the wrong shirt on. Is that Duke up there? Lord have mercy. But tell us a little bit about yourself and the great ministry that you're part of.

All right. My name is Terrence Phillips. I am a member of True Vine Ministries, which is at 5315 Morganton Road. And if you guys are familiar with True Vine Ministries, this Sunday we are actually having a old school Sunday at True Vine. You know, we we're normally very casual, but. What makes this old school is we're going back to wearing suits and big hats and going back before there was such thing as praise and worship. So we're going to the choirs and things like that. So if you want to attend, hey, we welcome you there.

We appreciate it, and thank you. And Pastor Jones, you're going back to heisting up the windows back in the day. Yes, yes. All right. Yes, sir. But thank you. Thank you so much. Let's give him a round of applause.

Yes, sir.

All right, and again, as we work through our audio, we appreciate your patience. So with that, we will move to the announcements. I have Council Member Jones, Mayor Pro Tem Thompson, and Council Member Hare.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just want to announce that on Tuesday, September the 29th, at the time of 6.30 p.m., we will be having a community-wide district meeting at Country Club Community Outreach Center at 651 Country Club Drive. In Fayetteville, all are invited. It's for District 3, but all and any city residents are there. We're going to have some information that we want to share what's going on. We will have some individuals that will be sharing some pertinent information as it relates to our youth, to our seniors, and some health-related activity. Again, that's Tuesday, September 29th, 6.30 p.m. We will also have at least one of our state representatives there to answer some questions that we have before them. So thank you so much, Mr. Mayor.

All right. Thank you. And I think we got audio. Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. First, let me say that tomorrow, the 15th of September through the 15th of October, is Hispanic Heritage Month. Let's recognize the Hispanic population who has contributed so much to this society. This is a month that we celebrate them. Also, September is Suicide Prevention Month. Let's make sure we reach out to all those individuals who may be going through some difficulties and let them know that they are not alone and you are here to support and help them with the services they might need just to get them in the right mindset. And thirdly, let me add that WIDU anniversary is coming up the 22nd and 23rd of October. The women's luncheon will be the 22nd. The prayer breakfast will be the 23rd. And the concert will be that evening at Kingdom Global Impact. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Councilman Hare.

Thank you, Mayor. calling on all divine nine organizations we will be having a get out to vote praise and worship sunday on this coming september the 20th that will be at kingdom impact global ministries 2503 That is September the 20th. The service starts at 9 a.m. Please wear your dress colors. A praise and worship divine nine. Get out to vote service. And we'd love to see all the brothers, all nine of the brothers and sisters in the organizations there. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you. Councilman Davis.

Thank you, Mr. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just wanted to announce, as some of us can see, that we do have Fevel Next Advisory Commission here. They will be having their 9-1-0 Future Fest on September the 26th. Tickets are now live. They have a lot of nice featured guests. And also the 82nd Airborne Division Band will also be there. So please go to their Facebook and sign up and get your tickets. Thank you, sir.

Thank you and welcome favor next. Now you've had your busy days and look forward to what you what you bring into the city. So thank you for your work. All right, Council. No further announcements seen. Go to Mr. Dr. Hewitt for city managers report.

Thank you, Mayor Colvin and members of council. Several things tonight, and we'll be asking Mr. Cuffee to come up and give us a little bit more information along the lines of what House Member Davis was talking about as well. But first, I'd like to say, I'd like to take a moment to recognize and announce the upcoming retirement of several valued members of our organization. Their years of dedicated service, leadership, commitment have made a lasting impact on our city and our community. We're deeply grateful for their contributions and wish them all the best as they begin their well-earned new chapter of their lives. Starting with Ms. Tracy Trogdon, Assistant 9-1-1 Communications Manager for 29 years of service, who's retiring October 1st, 2026. and um mr david guy traffic signal technician three with 11 years of service he'll also be retiring in october first mr lynn mcdonnell five years of service as a maintenance worker will be retiring october 1st as well i'm going to ask chris cauley if he's here just a moment to come up as well um in addition to the 25 million hud award we were notified today that some additional grants from HUD came through, which I think will provide council with more information on, but always looking for good news, positive news that we can share with the community. If you will start with that, and then I will do the, if you can also talk about the Strong Partners Initiative as well, if you have that.

Well, so I got a really cool email today from HUD. So one of the things that kind of the platform of the new HUD, I guess you could say is, yes, they want to fund initiatives to help make housing affordable and create housing opportunity in our country. But they also want to look at how cities and counties and local governments can make development easier, faster and cheaper. so that they can open up some of those different housing pipelines. And so one weekend, about a month and a half ago, I stayed up till 3 a.m. applying for a grant on a LARC that we might get it. We worked with our chief information officer and our development services director and then our development services manager Alex Mangiana and we put together a grant for an automated permitting system so using some new technology some emerging things and working alongside HUD to see how we can speed up and automate our permitting and plan review process create a better experience for folks that are coming in and submitting to build in our city so today we got an email saying that we'd won a million dollar grant for that I couldn't have done it without Alex. Alex Mangiana, he interviewed, I lost count of the number of different software vendors and platforms and things that are out there that we could take advantage of and talked about what they did really well and what they don't do well and what we could try to sell HUD on and we were able to make that successful. So we'll be doing a lot more talking about that in the future. We still have to bring it back to council for approval. But we'll be partnering with HUD, hopefully trying to make our development processes a little bit easier and more streamlined. So.

Thank you, Mr. Collar. We always like to hear about receiving money. So in addition to the million dollar grant, I know Many members of the community heard about the Choice Neighborhood Award, which you and your office and many members of the community, we highlighted that last week in their work. Do you want to talk a little bit about just very briefly some of the things that could actually help us to unlock over there?

Yeah, absolutely. In fact, I recently had a conversation with some home builders in our community that asked how could they help revitalize the Merkison Road area and they had some plans for housing and they wanted a fast track approval, like just give them a stand. I was like, we got standards, like council is very intentional about development. But this is the stuff that they're looking for, is how can they build upon the $531 million of public and private investment that we've got going here and create more of that. And we can do that by working on innovative systems like this with HUD as a partner across multiple departments, our IT department, our development services department with city council, the manager's office, to make development easier for people to navigate. The $25 million is huge. I mean, the lion's share of that money goes towards housing development. And so that becomes, about $20 million of that money becomes $100-plus million of new development on the Merckston Road corridor with $300 million i think 23 new housing units those housing units will replace the affordable that is there add a little bit more affordable and then add mixed income units on top of that so that we have communities with families at different stages in their journey all living together and creating neighborhoods and communities we also got some home ownership thrown in there too and if y'all want me i can stay here all night and talk about stuff we've done no we don't want that yes sir so the other thing that the manager asked me to talk about really quick was our stronger partners initiative So I came to the city about seven years ago, and something really cool has happened in the last seven years. Things are no longer my idea, and they keep happening with my team. And this is one of them. So we hired this bright lady, Jackie, and she came in, and I kind of gave her a general, hey, I want to make nonprofits in our community better. We've done a lot to help nonprofits begin, but how do we take the ones that are here and help make them stronger? And so she went out and did a bunch of best practice research with other cities. Alex Baker, my assistant director, went to Duke and got a nonprofit executive director certification. And we took all that information and we started coming together with Mary Holmes, a couple of other leaders in our community Scott Embry from the United Way and said how can we put together a roundtable to help executive directors of nonprofits grow and make their nonprofits stronger and so what they came up with was this nonprofit roundtable And Alex just brought me the notes that he wrote for this. But really, it's just to build that capacity and deepen their impact on our community. You know, we don't need a million nonprofits. If we had 20 really strong ones with great roots in the community and impactful programs, what would that do? And that's the idea is how do we take some nonprofits that have been established in our community and build them up to be stronger? So we're going to talk to them about strategic planning. We're going to talk to them about board development, about oversight of financial resources, and make sure that what they're doing is what matters in our community and that they can measure it.

Thank you. Thank you so much. And let's give a round of applause for community economic development doing big things in our community. We appreciate the work and look forward to seeing, continue to see the fruits of the labor of you and your team. So thank you. Thank you for the briefing.

Mr. Mayor, just two other items. First is, as we contemplate tomorrow's possible championship game between the Fayetteville Woodpeckers and the Charleston Riverdogs, it's a game two. And whoever wins that, if the Woodpeckers win, we'll be the Carolina League champions, which is very exciting. Hopefully we'll be able to have that as something we'll be able to hang our hat on on Wednesday morning as well. But in addition to that, we have Mr. Cuffee here. If he could briefly come forward and announce a little bit about the 9-1-0 Fest, which is coming up as well in just a few short weeks. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Colvin, City Council, City Manager Hewitt, and City staff. Thank you again for allowing me to stand before you, as well as for your continued support and efforts throughout this process. After months of planning, conversations, partnerships, and a whole lot of work, we are officially just days away from the 910 Future Fest, and Fayetteville, we are ready. From September 24th through the 26th, we're celebrating our city, our people, our ideas, our talent, and the opportunities that exist right here at home. Throughout the festival, we'll be creating opportunities for people to connect and grow, with volunteers joining us from colleges and universities across our community, our Lunch and Learn with PWC and the city's economic development team, focusing on career and workforce opportunities and our business pitch competition in collaboration with Fayetteville State University, the Fayetteville Cumberland Entrepreneurship and Business Hub, and Camelback Ventures. We'll also be supporting youth-focused programming through the 2-6 project and additional activations happening throughout the festival. And then Saturday, September the 26th, we're celebrating. We're taking over Segra Stadium for the 910 Future Fest concert, featuring Lloyd, Waka Faka Flame, and an incredible lineup of local and regional talent, to include our very own 82nd Airborne Band. This entire festival is about showing what Fayetteville has to offer, not just who we can bring here, but the talent we grow here and the businesses we build here, the opportunities we create here and the culture that makes this city ours. So Fayetteville, this is your invitation. Come learn something. Come support a local entrepreneur. Come experience an activation. Come to the concert. Bring somebody with you. And most importantly, come be part of what we're building here. Tickets are on sale now, and for festival information, updates, activations, you can follow us on all platforms at Fayville Next. Mayor, council, city manager, and city staff, thank you again for helping us get to this point. Now it's time to show everybody what the 9-1-0 can do. We'll see you at the 9-1-0 Future Fest.

Lastly, sir, let's see.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Cuffee. I know you all have put in some long hours to make this possible, so I look forward to seeing the fruits of your labor as well. So thank you for activating that energy in the federal next. Yes, sir. Dr. Hewitt.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. And then the last one is you contemplate your next item, which is approval of the agenda. I'd ask that you take 7.086 and move that to your upcoming work session. And item 8.01, move to the 928 meeting, have a staff member who couldn't be here tonight for that presentation. So those are the two items I would ask you to consider as you adopt the agenda.

All right, thank you that he was a counselor is a look for motion to approve with the modifications mentioned it will be to approve the agenda with the exception 7.0 a 6 which you can elaborate for the minutes that will be moved to the next available upcoming work session and 8.01 will be moved to the 9.28 meeting so with that out entertain a motion to approve with those changes. we'll get to those in in consent so move mr. mayor all right most by Mayor Pro Tem second by Hondros discussion on the motion all right council look to you for your votes Oh councilmember McNair you joining us how are you you know Okay. Did she thumbs up or down green? All right. Can you hear me? We can hear you. How are you? I'm good. Are you green on this approval of the agenda?

Yes.

All right. Thank you. All right. Motion carries unanimous. So, Council, as we look to move to the items under consent, there was some desire to go there. 7.0, a 3, 7.0, a 5 and 0, a 6. 7.08 10 and 11 and 12 well 6 was moved so it's disregarded but I'll go to councilman Mahindra thank you mr. mayor would like to approve the consent agenda with the exception of items 7.08 5 and 7.08 11 for a separate up-and-down vote in items 7.08

So a 3, a 10, and a 12 for a brief presentation from staff and or a question comment period.

All right. So we had 7.083, and I think we missed 11.

So 5 and 11 were for a separate up or down vote. Three, I mean, 5 and 11 separate up and down vote, 3, 10, and 12 for a brief staff presentation and or questions.

All right, so that's most approved with those changes is there a second second about it here. I think this green beach to account for here. All right, so motion. It would probably second council look to you for your votes for approval with the those exceptions. Councilmember McNair. That is green. All right, most cares unanimous all right we'll start with some point away 3, I think that was yours. Councilmember McMillan.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. This item was the accept and appropriate $112,000 for the fiscal year 25 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant. I wanted to ask Chief if you could join us for this discussion. Pulled this for a couple of reasons. Definitely wanted the public to understand the implications of accepting this grant. What we talked about upstairs first was the piece of the grant application that applied towards dual purpose K-9 acquisition. uh and chief if you could uh describe the difference between uh search and patrol dogs uh and then also if you could tell us the uh the data that we collect and report to the the public about uh use of force in terms of uh of dogs and their use on the public

Yes sir, Council Member McMillan, Mayor, City Manager, staff. Just in reference to this particular grant, just so that everyone's clear, and you stated it was, we submitted it back in October of 2024, October 1st, 2024. And we received the award letter in July, July 31st of 2026. So this grant was submitted before I even came on board. we have found in terms of this particular grant is for utilization of equipment. So we also, in terms of our equipment, one of the items that we were desperately in need of are the replacement of our canines. As you understand, in terms of our canines, after a certain age, they wear very quickly in terms of the lifespan of it being a credible and formidable organism. talent in terms of being able to work in enforcement capacity so therefore we try to go ahead and utilize a period of time and then go ahead and trade them out so we need to replace our canines so three of these um three of them will be replaced with this particular grant and if you notice it's about thirty six thousand dollars because it's about twelve thousand per uh per canine and so he says it's a dual purpose so it's in a able to sniff out narcotics but also tracking or tracing of articles as well so that's the particular utilization of the canines for the police department now and when we talk about use of force any particular use of force involving our canine it goes through the chain of command and it's also brief to to myself and our executive staff and we evaluate whether or not if it was within policy or not. And if it was outside of policy, then we would determine the proper disciplinary action or counseling that would take place at that point. And that is reported on our quarterly report that you'll see in our use of force that we report to you.

Thank you for explaining that. Of course, concerns about the utilization of K-9s for so many different reasons, some of them historic in terms of how they've been used by law enforcement. But of course, our opportunity to make sure that there's oversight and accountability, even in employment of K-9s. The other thing that really concerned me was just looking through the agreement with the federal government. It was about four different paragraphs that focused on anti-DEI measures as well as cooperation with ICE. My read on it was that this comes with strings attached, that accepting these funds would also incur a responsibility to report certain things to the government, some of which I know the North Carolina State Assembly has kind of doubled down on. but wanted to really speak towards these types of grants, how often we're seeing these requirements, and then what we can do as a city to keep each other informed about what we're signing up for and the strings that are attached.

So what we will say in terms of these particular grants, it's not only just the grants that police apply for. I believe any particular grant that you see curbing down economic development, whatever the grants that they receive, there's certain wording also. that's also implied or addressed in those particular grants. So it's not just for police. And for us in terms of when we look at these grants, and if I state it again, you notice that it was October 2024 that we submitted for this grant. And on the back end was when these certain wording or conditions, I think the attorneys had an opportunity to take a look at that. But in terms of the police department, we're not doing anything more or less than we would do in terms of enforcement with anything, with the city or state legislature. that we have within our ordinances or within North Carolina state law. So when I say that, I just want to make sure that everyone's clear that we're not doing anything more than what we would do normally in our everyday cooperation with the federal government.

Thank you for clarifying this. And just for the city attorney, I understand now that this is something that we're seeing quite often and frequently. Would this be something that we could flag for ourselves, for the council's oversight of, and then also for the public to understand Every time that we take a fund with these strings attached to help the public understand what we're doing, and I'm really speaking towards the anti-DEI language that's in this, as well as the ICE cooperation, about three paragraphs worth of commitments that we're making to the federal government.

Yes, sir. Councilman McMillan, we are seeing this language in all of the grant agreements from the federal government that, as the chief said, not just police, but ECD, our HUD grants, our airport grants. we're being awarded a grant but this is a voluntary process where we applied for the grant so i don't see where the city would challenge that part of the process however i have seen cities get involved with challenging the omb or the white house's office of management and budgets rule overhaul of the grant making process as well as when they re retract or terminate grants or contracts I've seen those be challenged but not on this end where you've applied for a grant and in order to receive it you have to agree to these conditions so your options are you don't accept the funds or you accept the terms in the agreement

Right. So I appreciate that. So it feels like there's more leverage on this end pre-application, maybe for some future purposes and more opportunities for discussion as a council on what we commit ourselves to. And I appreciate the robust conversation around the Model Cities Initiative and would just encourage the council that we all keep this in mind, the strings that are attached now to asking for these federal dollars. But thank you for your time as well, Chip.

Yes, sir. Chief, thank you. Councilman McMillan. Mr. Manager, how much of the city's budget comes from federal? That CDBG block grant that handles poverty reduction and what would you say our percentage of?

Roughly. I couldn't have it to say I think from Chris colleagues shop we get several billion dollars from airport we get several million dollars transit probably for me four million dollars that's 80 20 on transit I'm sure something like that and I think that's accounted for as well

but a significant amount of it and in addition to that not only is it the federal government but some of the language that came down from the state also promulgates the same thing so so my point was and you know i like this spirit of what you're saying but the reality is is that there's an executive order that applies to the 25 million dollar choice neighborhood grant It applies to any federal grant because we had to revise. When we went to D.C., they told us that you had to revise it to comply with the new rules. And then the state, of course, who gives us, you know, our authorization to exist, already said that law enforcement had to comply with federal government and ICE, correct? Correct. And so I... although good in spirit i think that you know this is a result of elections having consequences but at the end of the um the city runs on federal and state uh state direction and dollars but federal dollars in particular are intertwined in everything so um but the good part about this is that this grant not only this is the city and the sheriff's office that applied for this

That is correct. We split this grant.

And this is for, it says, to support technology and equipment, which is certainly needed, mobile connectivity, which is cell phones and the ability to be able to communicate, medical kits, crime scene response tools, lights, lighting systems, portable power, off-road vehicles. So there's a whole number of things that, of usages that you can use this grant for. Is that right, Chief?

Right. And specifically for this particular grant for us, we're going to be utilizing it for patrol. And the patrol is going to be purchasing the canines, but also for our emergency response team, or ERT. Also, many people may know it to be a SWAT, but it's our push to talk capabilities, our voice projection units. Another critical area that we needed to replace was our ballistic vest. And so we were able to purchase about 100 plates for expired plates that we were operating and trying to, you know, to replenish. So that's going to be really critical for the safety of our officers. And that in itself was about $80,000. Right.

So, well, we appreciate it. Council, any other questions? I just wanted to clarify that some of these things are.

If I may, Mr. Mayor.

Yeah, for sure. If I may, Mr. Mayor. Yes, sir. Second round.

Thank you again. Just wanted to underscore that late last year when we understood that the country was going to be going through a lot of changes, that some rights were going to be taken away, we understood the beast that ICE would become. and how that would impact us. A lot of people ask the question, well, what are our values as a city? How do we stand up for each other as a city? And I think in terms of underscoring and understanding the implications that this is having on us, on our institutions, on even the agreements, the basic agreements we're making to fund the city, we have to at least speak about what's happening. We can't let it happen in silence. We cannot allow it to happen without underscoring what our values are as a city and who we are as Fayetteville. So for that reason, I'm appreciative of the opportunity to have this discussion. And thank you, Mr. Mayor.

All right. So, Council, I look to you for an up or down vote for this. Councilman Hodges.

I was just going to move to approve.

All right, so most accounts 100 so prove second by Davis had robust discussion on its accounts, I look to you for you vote. Councilmember McNair rain, all right. Most cares 911 those vote in opposition Councilmember McMillan all right, thank you chief. Yes, sir. All right. Council look to the next item which was pulled for up or down with 7.085 and 11 I think are are connected Councilman here that was your request.

Thank you, sir. I'll read it out, but my colleague will move on the motion. But it was to adopt the ordinance amending section 5.5 of the city code to authorize alcohol sales by permit vendors at the courts of Glenville Lake

other designated city facilities all right so you had well so basically I guess you wanted to up or down vote this was to mr. manager who's from your team it's Helen a 5 and 11 document sale I guess with A5, as the city looks to host and to start to become a hosting site, it has some tournaments coming up. I guess you can speak to that, Dr. Minza.

The vote would have been just enough for me. Oh, okay. I didn't need it. Oh, he didn't need it. Okay. I didn't need the presentation.

All right. So he just wanted an up or down vote. He didn't need it. So y'all get a break. All right. Council, I'll look to you. Councilman Hondros.

I move to approve 7.085 and 7.0811.

All right is most accounts from a hundred's second by Davis discussion. All right Council of the people you vote. Councilmember McNair. And it's green, Sir. All right. All right. Motion carries 9 to 1. All right. Thank you, Councilmember here. Council, moving to the next item, which is 7.0810. That's Councilmember Jones, I believe, wanted to have this little more discussion from our Director of FAS, Ms. Neal.

yes yes thank you mr mayor and and briefly what i wanted to uh do is want director neal to just come and share with the public uh the standards uh and of course i'm i'm very very very excited to be a part of a council that prioritize transit transportation and I'm really excited I know you've even before council we've had some robust discussions on bus amenities specifically the benches shelters trash cans things of that nature so to be able to put forth this council request and have a gracious council to support it because I know they were dealing with the same thing to get us here to basically allow you to put these amenities in place. I know we allotted $300,000 during budget season, and you worked your magic and are basically going to bring us a return of almost four times that amount. So what I want you to do is just for the general public to let them know what that looks like, the standards, what were they, why were they important, because, again, we're a policymaking body. We had to request some policies to be changed in regards to the threshold. So I just wanted you to speak to that so that our community can know what we did, why we did it, and how it's going to go forward. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Turn your mic on. Thank you. Okay, there we go. There you go.

Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Dr. Hewitt, City Attorney. Tiffany Ngo, Transit Director. The service standards that we have is just a policy tool. And so, Council, you are responsible for adopting some service standards that help us define what service delivery and design is. It's only in place just to make sure there's an open and equitable distribution of assets. So transit doesn't get to choose arbitrarily where we want to just put our bus stop amenities our policy defines that for us so in april dr jones brought a council member request for us to look at that we conducted an analysis to see if it made sense for us to reduce our service standards and it does in our current policy that was dated or revised back in 2021 it stated that our Amenities were, for a shelter, it had to be 15 boardings on average. For a bench, it was six on average, and there was no standard for a trash can. Well, part of this upgraded, revised service standards, we've lowered the threshold to allow us to have more of an impact. A lot of people think that customer service for transit starts as soon as a person gets on the bus, but it doesn't. It starts with them waiting at a bus stop. And so because of your graciousness, prioritizing transit and putting your money where your mouth is, you've given us a few extra dollars that we can leverage and blend in with our FTA funding, which is a great thing so we can make it stretch further. We've already met with our bus stop amenities vendor. They are excited about the project. So over the next 12 to 18 months, you will see a huge impact of us not only modernizing our stops and changing out amenities at certain stops, you will find that we will be adding amenities to some areas that have not been able to reach that ridership threshold to be able to get amenities.

All right. Thank you, Ms. Neal. Keep up the good work. I am starting to see more benches, trash cans, and so we see the fruits of your labor. Thank you. Mr. Mayor.

Dr. Jones. There's one thing I was looking for that I didn't get from Mrs. Neal, and that was to uplift our transit. Please ride transit because they're going places.

all right um uh councilman jones you want to make this motion yes if there are no more questions i'd like to move to adopt the updated service standards and direct staff to implement the changes all right there's a motion by council member jones davis is the second looks like a discussion we've had council look to you for your vote all right all right look to you for your votes y'all Oh, Council Member McNair. That is green. All right. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. All right. All right, Council 7.012, 0812, let's see, Mr. LaGala here, Robert is here. There was a desire to, Council Member Honduras, she wanted to have this, mention this Golden Leaf grant that Robo is,

Yes, just very briefly. We know the airport's kind of an enterprise fund, and they typically operate in the black and are not a drain on general funds. But as we approve this tonight, I just wanted to get a very brief, in a nutshell, depiction of the funding. Thank you.

Yes, happy to be here with you. Quite frankly, this is a project that we were able to get a grant from Golden Leaf through our work with the airport. They've been able to allocate grant funds, and we've been able to put together the funding necessary to expand the sewer capacity, which will allow growth at the airport and in the surrounding area along Airport Boulevard. And to take all those different funding sources, we went out and did all the proper procurement. You approved the contract, but we have to adopt it. And I defer to your finance staff. We have to adopt a capital project ordinance to account for and then disperse the funds within your budget accounting matrix, if you will. So it does take an additional act, even though you've already approved the contract, and we do have the funds available.

All right.

How much was the grant? The grant from only was $965,000 and there's a duty grant for another say 750,000.

So 1.6 million from granted funds and then we approve this but you're saying it takes a formal action to get you to get to adopt the project budget order said please stop me if I'm misspeaking it all and then OK.

I want to be compliant and say I'm right that I'm I'm trying the right path there but it's really not so hard as you can receive this one point $6 million.

Move to approve Sir.

All right. Motion by Councilman Mahindra, seconded by Jones. Discussion? All right. You got the giggles tonight. Oh, okay. All right. All right. Well, let's vote while you hear Malik. Having y'all's... All right. Matt. All right. Council Member McNair. Notice Green. All right. You're missing all the fun here. DJ is having a ball.

I'm not missing anything. I see everything and hear y'all. Okay. All right. Thank you.

Thank you very much. All right. All right. Council, we're moving to... Yeah, so that cleared up all of the 7.0 items, eight points moved. So we're at 9.0, the Appointments Committee. I'll go to the Chair, Councilmember Herr.

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, thank you. And there's nothing wrong with a little laughter from time to time. We don't often get that down here. So, yes, sir. Mayor and Council, I am honored to give you a recommended appointments for 14 of our city of fayetteville boards and commissions before i move forward i would like to recognize our members members davis hondros pro tem thompson and of course mayor you're you're on all of the committees and i'm honored to uh serve as the chair of the appointments committees and i will read them uh all and then we can make our final um motion to accept if that's okay with you sir all right for our controls board i mean animal control board is deborah barton for our CPS, a B board is treasure. Hefney treasure Hefney. I did pretty good with all the names last time. So we're keeping more for our economic development board is Patrick Knowles. Nobles for our favorable advisory committee on transit fat is antonio roberts kelly walter carney and lena simmons for our fair housing board eduardo jordan and erica subtly for our historical our historic resources commission david breese Human Relations, Carolyn McLaurin, Crystal Edmonds, Janice Robinson, and Jonathan Logan. Yes sir, I had to turn my page. If you all just give me a minute, I got to turn my page and I would say Catherine Smalls, okay. for our linear Park is Benjamin stout for North Carolina fire fighters relief fund. This note name should be very record recognizable. Our former chief of the fire department, Benjamin Majors jr planning commission Alexander Keith Austin, Joseph Benjamin house, Chris and Tammy Carter, our redevelopment commission, Sharon Pollard, stormwater advisory board, Mark Crow, Lindora Thompson, Our Record Advisory Board, Charles Ray and Timothy Rugg. Our Zoning Commission, Patricia Howard. OK Mayor and Council those are the recommendations to fill our appointments for 14 City of Fayetteville boards and commissions I move that these nominations be accepted

All right, it's a motion by Chairman, Councilmember Heer, and seconded by Mayor Pro Tem. He beat you on that, Malik. All right, council, any questions? All right, council, I look to you for your vote. Councilmember McNair. Wayne. All right, we're waiting on our vote count to come up.

All right, okay.

All right that motion carries unanimous. And then thank you for the hard work you're doing a lot of familiar names on there so we've been working in different capacities so congratulations to you all look forward to the work to continue to do for the for the city of Fayetteville. Council 10.01 Councilman Davis you had a desire to move that to.

If we can with it to the next work says now.

We need clarification still on 9.01 regarding the joint appearance commissions portion. The dissolution of yes, the motion was only to approve the appointments not regarding direction of staff for dissolution if you so choose.

So you want to amend the motion to include the dissolution of that's all you need.

Yeah, we can do 2 motions that are making it OK. All right, so just 7.

Yes, sir, I'm I move as far as 9.01.

so there's a motion to dissolve the joint appearance yeah i was just trying to remember some of the conversation but yes sir it's a motion to move to uh dissolve the joint appearance commission uh in a local agreement all right there's a motion by council member here uh a second motion for this item to dissolve is there a second second pro tem discussion yes yes let me just say what what would be the implications of the solution if any

I'll turn that over to our attorney please our staff who clerk clerk yes ma'am explain it please yes this board has not met since 2019 um there are some of the municipalities that are part of that ILA that are we're not aware that this board is still active and so there really is not much impact the tree board that's also attached to it would be moved under um with this recommendation would be moved under the um parks and rec advisory commission for the city appointments and so anytime we would need the tree board the city appointment so the parks and rec board would act as such thank you all right let's council look to you for your votes councilmember mcnair

Green all right motion carries unanimous Council good job and so 10.01 Councilman Davis, you want to clarify that if we can move that to October 5th work session.

All right, mr.

Manager you tracking that?

10.01 Okay.

All right. So council with that. I'll look to you for a motion to adjourn All right. Y'all have a good evening