City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. The formal meeting of the Richmond City Council will now come to order. Madam Clerk, if you would have the Spanish interpretation announcement, followed by the introduction of the invocation speaker.

At this time, we'll have the invocation speaker, Reverend Chris Crowley of Grace Baptist Church. Welcome, Pastor.

Thank you, Reverend Crowley. With that, I'll ask if you will join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam Clerk, if we could have the emergency evacuation plan followed by the public speaker guidelines.

Thank you, Madam Clark. Pursuant to Rule 3D4B of Council's Rules of Procedure, Councilor Andrew Breton has requested to participate in this meeting via Microsoft Teams due to a personal matter. He is attending an out-of-town work retreat preventing his physical attendance today. He will be participating from the location at 240 Representative John Lewis Way North, Nashville, Tennessee 37219. The council members present must adopt a motion to approve Mr. Breton's participation in this meeting by electronic communication means if it appears to the body that this request complies with council's a

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Let's proceed with appointments and reappointments this evening.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Let's proceed with the speakers for public comment this evening.

believe you have been advised that clapping is not an acceptable component of the public comment speaker okay thank you that announcement was made by the clerk that's not

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Let's proceed with the amendments to tonight's agenda.

Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Are there any other amendments to tonight's agenda?

Thank you, Mr. Clark. At this time, we will have a public hearing on the consent agenda items. All those present desires of speaking in opposition to any item on the consent agenda, if you would please come forward.

Thank you. Are there any other person's present desires of speaking in opposition to any item on the consent agenda if you would now come forward?

Thank you. seeing no other persons who come forward to speak in opposition to any item on the consent agenda. I will invite those present desires of speaking in favor of items on the consent agenda.

Are there any others present desires of speaking in favor of any? And if there are others, if you will line up as well, please.

Seeing no other speakers' desires of speaking in favor, the public hearing is now closed. Bring it back to Council for discussion.

Thank you, Madam and or Mr. Clark. Let's proceed to move into the motions for this evening.

I would like to ask, invite Mr. Vaughn to come forward, please, to speak to this paper, if you will, by virtue of your review.

Thank you. Let's proceed with the next item.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Let's proceed to the approval of the minutes.

Thank you, Mr. Clark. Let's proceed to address tonight's list of papers for introduction.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. At this time, we'll proceed to provide opportunity for members to share reports and announcements. And we'll start with Council Member Albuquerque.

Thank you, Councilwoman Knopperbach and Councilwoman Trammell.

Thank you, Councilwoman Dremel. Councilwoman Gibson.

Thank you, Madam President. So our next district meeting will be actually this week on Thursday at 6 p.m. And on the topic of the code refresh, we will be joined by Mayor Vula and Planning Director Vonk, who will be there to talk a bit about draft three on the code refresh and to answer residents' questions. I do want to express that I also support allowing residents to have input on this if a resolution, a referendum were to go to voters. And our office has received many emails from folks who have expressed some concern that the Zoning Advisory Committee seems to be finished with their work.

Thank you, Councilmember Gibson. Councilwoman Jones?

Thank you, Council Member Jones. Councilwoman Robertson.

Thank you, Council Member Robertson. Vice President Jordan.

Thank you, Vice President Jordan. Council Member Breton.

Thank you, Council Member Brett. Just a few announcements for the 7th District. Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 15th at 6 p.m., the Department of Housing and Community Development will be hosting a community meeting on the development of the former first precinct located at 2503 Q Street. That meeting again will start at 6 p.m. and it will be held at the VCU Health Hub located at 1330 North 25th Street. My first code refresh meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 16th at 6 p.m. at the Powertown Community Center located at 5051 North Hampton Street. The second Code Refresh meeting will be he

Thank you, Ms. Trammell, for making that. I don't think we say thank you enough. And we do have an extraordinary group of entities that are reportable to city council. You've named them already. We're doing a great job. So thank you. With that, members, the formal meeting of the Richmond City Council now stands adjourned.