City Council - Special Meeting

community with this. All right. Good evening. I'd like to call the special meeting for the Greenville City Council on April 20th, 2026 to order. I'm Mayor PJ Connelly for presiding over tonight's meeting. First, I'd like to call on our city clerk for the roll call.

Yes, sir. Mayor Connelly here. Mayor Pro Tim Foreman here. Council member Jones here. Council member Hardy here. Council member Scully here. Council member Robinson here. Council member Willis here. All right, Mayor Connley, you have a quum. Thank you very much. We'll now move on to the public comment period. The public comment period is a period reserved for comments by the public. Items that were scheduled to be the subject of a public hearing at the same meeting or another meeting during the same week shall not be discussed. A total of 30 minutes is allocated with each individual being allowed no more than 3 minutes. Individuals who registered with the city clerk will speak in the order registered until the allotted 30 minutes expires. If time remains after all persons who have registered have spoken, individuals who do not register will have an opportunity to speak until the allotted 30 minutes expires. Madam clerk, our first speaker, Mayor Connley, we do not have any registered speakers.

All right. Anyone present that would like to speak during the public comment period, please come forward. State your name for the record. You have three minutes. Seeing none, we'll close public commentary period. We'll move on to new business. Mr. Manager.

All right. Thank you, Mayor. Tonight's special meeting of the Greenville City Council is being held to consider a resolution in support proposed amendment to chapter 571 of the 1967 sessions law of the North Carolina General Assembly. Chapter 571 of the 1967 Sessions Law created the Pit Greenville Airport Authority as an agency of Pit County and the city in order to maintain and operate the airport. As currently written, the Sessions Law places the Pit Greenville Airport at a significant competitive disadvantage with other airports in attracting aviation development and attracting personal and business aircraft. The airport authority is seeking to amend chapter 571 in order to find alternative revenue sources so as to enhance its financial position. During the upcoming North Carolina General Assembly short session, Representative Tim Reer will be submitting an amendment to chapter 571. on behalf of the Pit Greenville Airport in order to enhance the airport's ability to attract aviation development and attract personal and business aircraft. The Pit Greenville Airport is seeking a resolution of support of the proposed amendment from Pit County and the city. Vice Chair of the Pit Greenville Airport Authority, Michael Overton, is in attendance tonight to make a few comments and answer any questions from council. And I'll now ask Mr. Overton to come forward. Thank you members of the council for one having a special meeting for us and just allowing us to come today to ask for your support in the resolution. Uh this is an important thing that we need for the Pit Greenville airport to make us competitive. Our goal is uh as we are continuing to work on the airport, the operations and the future of the airport to make us competitive with other communities in our area that are close by as well as uh putting us in a position where we can recruit higherend aircraft which brings in tax dollars. higher in aircraft also rent hangers and buy fuel and those are the things that we need to continue to produce revenue for the airport and so your support is important for this uh as well as for the

future Greenville airport. Answer any questions? Any any questions for Mr. Overton? No questions. But I would just like to say, Michael, I know you have put a tremendous amount of time into this project trying to make this happen and I sincerely appreciate all your hours you put in here because I know it's been a lot of effort you put in personally uh above beyond what would be considered to be normal. I appreciate your help, sir. Thank you. Any other questions, comments,

here? I would like to make one comment. In addition to the uh changes to enhance the ability to generate more revenues, the amendment also would require any uh proposed purchase of property for by the airport by the city or the county, state or or local dollar or federal dollars to require a public hearing of the public prior to a vote of individual vote of both the city council and the county commissioners of P County. All right. So, with that, we would recommend We have a motion. Motion to approve. Second. All right. Motion made by council Hardy, second by Council Robinson. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. Those opposed say nay. Motion passes 60. Thank you.

Thank you very much. And now we'll move on to the next item on the agenda. I need a motion to adjurnn. Motion to journ. Second. All right. Motion been made by council Robinson. Second by council me or excuse me, Mayor Pro Tim Foreman. All those in favor say I. I post say nay. Motion passes 6. We're ajourned.