Remarks by Esther E. Manheimer
143 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 6
- Play at 7:47
“Wait, not at the agenda. Well, I'm missing the decorum statement that's usually sitting here.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 7:59
“We'll forego the reading of the decorum statement. All right, tonight we do not have any proclamations on our agenda. We have a consent agenda, and we have one item that we need to allow for a recusal. So can I have a motion to recuse the vice mayor from item E on the consent agenda? So moved. Second. All right. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 8:54
“Logan got it. Logan got it. Thank you, Logan. Okay, so you are recused from item E. Are you gonna stay? Yeah, we'll do that and then come back and we'll do the rest of the consent agenda. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, that's important. All those in favor, please say aye. I think we did. Aye. Any opposed? I did, but not on the mic, so that was a unanimous vote to recuse you. All right, do I have a motion to adopt item E on the consent agenda?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 9:27
“Second. All right, I have a motion and a second. All right, we do not have anyone signed up to speak under the consent agenda. However, I would like to highlight item E, which I'll just read it. It's a resolution authorizing the city manager to enter into a contract with City Collective LLC to develop a master plan for land in the Deaverview neighborhood owned by the City of Asheville and the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville. And just to expand a little bit on this project for several years, it has been in the making that the Housing Authority would redevelop the Deaverview…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 12:24
“Okay, Maggie, Councilwoman Roney made the motion and Councilwoman Turner seconded that motion. Again, we don't have anyone signed up to speak under this item.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 12:36
“Aye. Any opposed? All right. Okay, we have one presentation tonight and that is going to be under the manager's report and I'm going to turn it over to our city manager, DK Wesley.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 22:04
“Do you, this is for the historic lights, the historic lights.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 22:16
“Because I was down there this weekend in the evening and I noticed there's temporary lighting. It's not historic by any means, but it's lighting.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 26:44
“Alright, thank you. That concludes the manager's report. Tonight we don't have any public hearings, we don't have any unfinished business, and we have one item of new business, that is an ordinance amending Chapter 4 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Asheville by adding a new Section 4-209C in order to provide additional protections for tenants from unsafe dwelling conditions. And there is attached to the agenda the amendment to the existing ordinance. This is an ordinance that regards life safety slash unsafe conditions. And in this, there is a list of conditions that are considered…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 33:50
“We do have a number of people signed up to speak under this item, so we can go ahead and proceed with that. All right, folks, you'll have three minutes to speak. Please watch the lights on the lectern. Green means go, orange means getting ready to stop, and red means stop. Our first speaker is Nina Tovish.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 34:14
“Motion. I'm sorry. That's right. We're not on a public hearing. Do we have a motion to? Second. Okay. We have a motion and a second. Second. Okay. Maggie made the motion. Sorry. Second. Thank you. Okay. We got it now. Thank you. All right. Please.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 38:10
“Okay, we have the next speaker, Al Sottorelli, has several people yielding their time to him. If you are one of those people, please raise your hand when I call your name. Kyle Moss, okay, and Corrine Kelly, and Linda Baker. Okay, you'll have 10 minutes, up to 10 minutes.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 52:43
“Thank you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Rachel Weiss.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 55:38
“Pryor Ray? Maggie, can we provide the... She's got it. Okay, or we can do that.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:01:28
“Thank you. Okay, that is all the folks we have signed up to speak under this item.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:04:13
“I did want to, there was one comment about the opportunity to cure that was mentioned. The existing ordinance and what this refers to does say the following regarding the process. So once the inspection is completed and there is a notice of violation, There is also then, after this notice is provided, there's an opportunity to be heard. And it says, if after such notice and hearing, the housing code coordinator slash designee, okay, inspector, determines that the dwelling under consideration is unsafe or unfit for human habitation, according to the standards of this code, he or she shall…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:06:21
“Well, you know, I guess the question is, is there, is council satisfied with the wording of the ordinance? And again, what's attached to the agenda, Brad has asked that we add this additional phrase And I can pass this. I don't know if anyone's looked at this.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:06:45
“It just makes it clear that there has to be an order.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:06:50
“So my only concern, so there's that, whether or not we want to need to change this language any further. The other is that one of the commenters said that this would allow someone to stop paying rent. And that is true, except that there has to be this due process and there has to be an order entered. And that is an order, as I said at the beginning of this, that is an order entered by one of our inspectors. And again, state law still says the tenant may not unilaterally withhold rent prior to judicial determination of a right to do so. So I do want to make clear, I don't want people who are…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:11:51
“when a city inspector would have to address it and then also when the landlord would have to address it that would just give clarity to everybody so all these questions are kind of making me a little bit worried about making this decision tonight and that is because in our existing code let me just read this to you it says um that when a complaint comes in um and it is determined that any dwelling is unfit for human habitation for one of these reasons. The code enforcement officer shall, and this is like old existing language, if their preliminary investigation discloses a basis for such…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:13:09
“No. It was in the ordinance. This is in the current ordinance.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:13:21
“Well, this is the... It's our current code.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:14:25
“Yeah, we already have a motion and a second. So let me make clear that the motion and the second is to adopt this version that Brad sent us.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:14:50
“Well, I don't know that we need an amendment as long as the initial motion was to. I think that was the initial motion. Or was it?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:14:58
“No, because someone said I'm so moved or something. Right.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026