City Council - workshop

Welcome, everyone. And we are going to kick off the meeting with a proclamation recognizing public power week. And so if Alex and his folks will join me. I'll let y'all hang on to that. I got one on here. Okay, it's great to have such a good group to join me up front, so I will read the proclamation. Whereas public power is a crucial component in cities and towns across North Carolina, contributing to the overall health of communities by providing reliable electricity, excellent local service and prompt restoration, And whereas North Carolina's more than 70 public power cities and towns are am

Great. Well, we appreciate what you do. Thank you. Absolutely. And I will present this to you and encourage all of you to shake hands with our city council and give them a chance to say thank you as well. Thank you. Okay. Great. Excellent. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Presentation of petitions and requests. Number one is consider adopting an ordinance amending chapter 10 animals to include section 10 for nuisance to address animal waste removal requirements in the center city. And I think Kevin and Jimmy are gonna talk to us about that.

Okay, questions, council? Yeah, just go ahead.

Just for clarification, we talked about currently the property owner is cited as going forward under this new provision if you do not see this happen then the property owner is still responsible like they currently are that is correct this just adds an additional right so that would allow us to work with the property owners just real quick one of the properties downtown was

Right. So that gets the property owner off the hook if somebody else is responsible. Gotcha. Okay. Any other questions on that one?

Yeah. Okay, thank you. Okay, before we go to the next item, I wanted to recognize our Concord 101 folks that are in attendance today. If you would please stand if you're part of the Concord 101. And I think we got a microphone coming around. And if you would introduce yourself and tell us Just one thing about your experience with Concord 101.

Great, thank you. We appreciate you being here and we appreciate you caring enough about the city to participate in the class. I think it's a wonderful experience. I'll also mention, notice that we have several members missing today. Betty Stocks is on with us virtually. She had a family member with a medical issue, and John Sweat is also on with us virtually. He had some work commitments. Lori Clay, I think, is traveling, so that's the reason we're missing some folks. So we'll move now to item two, consider adopting an ordinance to approve the addition of City Code 62-193, Fats, Oil, and Grea

If I understand you correctly, this gives you a little bit more flexibility if we have an adaptive reuse project for an existing building that we can make exceptions to prevent that from being overly burdensome to the property owner.

I think those are the kind of things that when particularly businesses come to the city, that's why we hear so many compliments coming back about city staff. So thank you. All right, next is item three, consider authorizing the city manager to negotiate and execute a contract with J.D. Goodrum Company for the construction of Academy Gibson Park. We're happy to have Rick from Engineering with us.

Okay, no questions. Thank you very much. All right, next up is item four, considering a preliminary application for water service, and Jackie's gonna talk with us about that one.

questions for Jackie all right thank you okay we have a very short agenda today and next up is consent agenda we have a number of items on there if anybody has any of those that they have additional questions on or between now and Thursday we can certainly talk about those hearing no current questions we do have need of a closed session today so I would entertain a motion that we go into closed session pursuant to North Carolina General Statute 143-318.11 , in order to discuss the location or expansion of industries or other businesses in the area served by this public body. to discuss the amo