City Council - Regular Meeting

Morning. Good morning. Are we Are we ready? Yes, sir. Okay. I'd like to bring this uh agenda brief meeting to order. I start doing it by doing a roll call. Uh Mayor Bill Safo, Council Member Kevin Spears, I'm here. Council member David Joiner. Good morning. I'm here. Councilwoman JC Laauo here.

Councilwoman Tea Clinton Quintana here. Councilwoman Celelet Andrews here. Councilwoman Cassidy Santuita here.

All right, we have a quorum. And sorry y'all if you hear a little bit of noise. I'm multitasking as usual. I'm at my niece's award ceremony, so caught a little off guard. Um, we'll start with the consent agenda. Well, we'll have a proclamation naming the week of May 15th through the 22nd. No, is that the Why is that? Yeah. Okay. May 15 through the 22nd, 2026 is say voting week. The consent agenda is C1, a resolution authorizing the city manager to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the New Hover County Sheriff's Office for the Justice Assistance Grant Program. C2 is a resolution authorizing the award of a construction contract in the amount of 1,190,000 to Terry Spellel Mechanical Services Incorporated for the Signal Preemption for emergency vehicles phase 2 project. C3 is the resolution to authorize participation in additional opioid litigation. C4 is a resolution authorizing the purchase of equipment to upfit 25 police vehicles from Mobile Communications America of Morrisville, North Carolina for $440,91.

Yeah. C five is a resolution amending the established 2026 schedule of council meetings. C6 is the approval of minutes of the regular council meeting on March 24th, 2026. The special council meeting budget on March 27, 2026. The council agenda briefing meeting on April 6, 2026 and the regular council meeting on April 7, 2026. Uh then we'll have our public information, public hearings. PH1 is an ordinance designating the Mary Eda Williams House at 709 North Peace Street uh as a local historic landmark. PH2 is an ordinance amending the official zoning maps of the city of Wilmington to reszone property containing 349 acres located at 136 East Westwood Drive from MH manufactured housing district to R15 moderate dis density single dwelling district PH oh 01 ordinance Then we have an ordinance. Ordinance one is ordinance appropriating 3,427,210 to the debt service fund to prepay the remaining balance through on the 2023 B taxable variable rate loan issued for the acquisition of the Skyline Center. O2 is the ordinance amending the Brooklyn Arts District Collective Social District to permit weekly operations on Saturdays from 12 PM to 5:00 pm.

Then we'll have our resolutions. R1 is a resolution in support of keeping the 30-day notification requirements prior to termination of lease for non-payment of rent in public housing. And then we'll have our reports. RP1 report on council's appointments committee for boards, commissions, and committees. Madame city manager, is there anything else? No other presentations this morning. Mayor Prom, but just want to remind those um that need to attend that we have our audit committee meeting immediately following this agenda briefing.

Right. Is that it? So we stand adjourned. Thank you. May I appreciate Thank you.