Remarks by Janet Cowell
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“Next, we had the consent agenda. My understanding is there were no items pulled, so do we have a motion? So moved. Second. All in favor of the motion, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. Great. And then we have public comment. Are you going to play a video, or should we?”
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
“Thank you for highlighting those concerns. Next we have Mama Kai Sanders.”
“All right, that concludes our public comment. Next, we have the report and recommendation of the Planning Commission.”
“Okay. All in favor of the motion, aye. Aye. All opposed? All right. Thank you. All right, next we have special items.”
“All right. I'll start with Councillor Forte.”
“I guess my comment is... I understand there's a lot of risk in these grants, right? We've got a state auditor that's got a laser focus on these kind of things, and you're trying to put some risk management around it. I guess my concern is that we're creating so many rules and so many just intricacies. And if they've ever gotten money from the city of Raleigh, they're now disqualified. I mean, that list, trying to keep that list, understanding who hasn't received it. the coordination of everybody and the timing. I mean, I'm kind of with Councilor Lambert-Milton. I would prefer, because I just…”
“Go back to Councilor Ford and then Councilor Silver.”
“I'll go back to Ford and then Lambert Milton.”
“I mean, I guess what I would do is try to work with the existing pending, you know, under these new rules. That is exactly what we would do. And then... Moving forward. We can also have this larger conversation too.”
“I mean, my thought would be, because I'm thinking about our terms, that we would go to four years, since that is the term of a council. I'm just trying to think of alignment there.”
“All opposed, nay. All right, so we have just voted on those current sort of pending requests, sticking with these rules, but with the anticipation that we're going to have a bigger package in January. In January.”
“Okay, all in favor of that request, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. All right.”
“All right. All right. Well, that was neat and quick and clean. We appreciate all the work. Okay. Next, we've got report and recommendation of the city manager.”
“Oh, I just had the council contingency. There's the Yigbee later. It's G2.”
“Can I do a counselor patent and ask for an example? So is this like, you've got a kid and they're not making enough money and so the parents come in and say, you know, they can put down $10,000 for this townhome they're gonna buy and the parents are putting in an additional 20,000 so that the payment comes down to, I mean, could you just use that analogy in your gap financing capital stack example?”
“I think I would use the apartment, because I'm curious, are they actually paying interest to their parents, or is this gap financing 0%?”
“OK, thank you. Questions? I see none. Do we have ?”
“Okay. Do we have a motion? Move to approve. Second.”
“All right. All in favor of the motion, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. That is unanimous. Thank you.”
“Well, and then I'll just, first off, thank you to Michelle Millett and the city manager and all the staff who worked on this. It was a lot of work. I felt the same way, so I felt bad for, but on the other hand, lots of benefits too for all the connections and other city managers and staff and mayors that we got to interact with. And very grateful to the Bloomberg Organization for the resources they invest in cities overall. I mean, they're one of the few people right globally that recognize the power of cities and the opportunity. And then also, I know we get a lot of pressure to build on…”
“Can you just post the date again? It's Pullen Park, 6 p.m., October 29th.”
“All right. Next we have Report and Recommendation of Design Review Commission and we have Daniel Stegall from Planning and Development and Dylan Davis from the Design Review Commission.”
“All in favor, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. Thank you. It's unanimous. Thank you.”
“Okay. Appreciate that. And then report and recommendation of Environmental Advisory Board.”