City Council - Regular Meeting

3:06 – 3:37•EMEsther E. Manheimer

All right, good evening everyone. Welcome to the Asheville City Council meeting. It's very cheery in the chamber tonight, like a dinner party. If everyone could just take a moment to silence their cell phones. If you haven't already signed up to speak, you can do so at any time by going out in the hall and talking to our assistant clerk and they will sign you up to speak on tonight's agenda. If you would, please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

4:01 – 5:22•EMEsther E. Manheimer

Tonight, our Councilwoman Maggie Ullman is in New York City for Climate Week, where she is participating in the conferences that are happening up there, so she is not able to join us tonight. All right. Tonight, we don't have any proclamations on our agenda. We do have a consent agenda, and before I... Move to the consent agenda, I will read our chamber decorum statement. Members of the public attending council meetings or addressing the council shall abide by the following rules. Everyone shall follow the instructions of the mayor or any other presiding officer or official, and shall refrain

5:23 – 5:44•EMEsther E. Manheimer

Second. All right, I have a motion and a second. I don't have anyone signed up to speak under the consent agenda. Any questions? If not, all those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right, that is a six to zero approval of the consent agenda. Next, we have presentations and reports, and I'll turn it over to the city manager, DK Wesley, for that.

13:29•EMEsther E. Manheimer

recognize Dan and his team for this work.

13:53 – 14:07•EMEsther E. Manheimer

Okay, so that concludes the manager's report. All right, we have one public hearing on our agenda for tonight, and that is a public hearing on the substantial amendment to the home ARP allocation plan, and we're going to hear from James Shelton.

24:03•EMEsther E. Manheimer

Do you think it's confusing to call it short-term rental assistance? Since most people think of short-term rental as a vacation rental.

24:18•EMEsther E. Manheimer

Maybe short-term. Temporary. Short-term. Temporary rental assistance. I don't know. Something that makes sure that we're not subsidizing short-term rentals.

24:35 – 24:46•EMEsther E. Manheimer

Temporary. Temporary. Limited. Do you have a... Anybody have any other questions? No. Okay.

32:09 – 32:34•EMEsther E. Manheimer

That's my input. Received. Any other questions before we open it up for public comment? Okay, we have one person signed up under public comment for this piece, so I'll open the public hearing. That person is Sarah Newberry. Please come forward, Sarah. And you'll have three minutes to speak. Just watch the lights on the lectern. Green means go, orange means get ready to stop, and red means stop.

33:13 – 34:27•EMEsther E. Manheimer

Appreciate that, thank you. I don't have anyone else signed up to speak under this item, so I will close the public hearing. We are only having the public hearing on this tonight, and so that is concluded now, thank you. All right, that concludes our printed agenda. I mean, it's pretty short. But we have a number of folks signed up to speak under general public comment, so we're going to move to that part of the agenda. So folks who are speaking under general public comment, I think you already heard the instructions. You'll get three minutes, unless you're a group, and you'll just watch the l

34:29 – 34:46•EMEsther E. Manheimer

Okay, and those yielding their time, please just raise your hand when I call your name. Peggy Wells, okay, and Diane McIntyre, all right, and Wally Pearson, and for good measure, Diane O'Rourke. Okay, thank you. All right, you'll have 10 minutes, and our clerk will set the timer.

44:12 – 44:28•EMEsther E. Manheimer

Thank you. I feel like we need to have a follow-up meeting about this, but we can't hash it out tonight. But if we could set something up, that would be greatly appreciated. I don't know if you all have had a chance to meet with the manager yet or not.

45:13 – 45:59•EMEsther E. Manheimer

Yeah, we have... So, you know, just to suss this out a little bit, and just we'll move on to the next commenter, but this is an owner's association that has damage to common area, and it's substantial given the size of your community, and a lot of... Subdivisions have experienced millions of dollars worth of damage as well, and they've all handled it in different ways, but this one also abuts the public right away, so it's a more complex situation. But I'd be glad to participate in a discussion about what, if anything, can be done and kind of understand the journey that you've been on there.

53:52•EMEsther E. Manheimer

If you could direct your comments to council, please.

1:07:50•EMEsther E. Manheimer

Will you send that to me? Yes, I will. Bobby Skelton?

1:13:23 – 1:13:38•EMEsther E. Manheimer

Thank you. That concludes the folks that are signed up tonight under public comment. We do have a closed session. And I think, do you have the closed session motion? All right, if you would please read the closed session motion.

1:15:14•EMEsther E. Manheimer

All right, we have a motion. Do we have a second?

1:15:23•EMEsther E. Manheimer

All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Opposed? All right, do we have a 6-0 vote to go into closed session? We're going to adjourn from the closed session.