Remarks by Kim Roney
39 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
- Play at 12:24
“I'm sure the public will appreciate that.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 31:05
“Well, I'm curious where this fits with HCD, too, because it seems like in my review and input that I'm getting, we have some neighbors who... forgot that we had a missing middle housing study and displacement risk assessment and affordable housing plan, and that we didn't adopt either of them, but we're making some changes. And so now they're reaching out to us saying like, wait, wait, there's changes happening. So there's a need for more public awareness, whether it's even in our own networks for the city. But at the PNZ level, it seemed like One of the reasons PNZ members were recommending…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 34:48
“Well, it did seem like there's that missing part that I'm hearing from my colleagues as well around the missing part of having their recommendation come forward in the staff report. So I do think it deserves some follow-up on the lot size.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 37:17
“I think my main concern in talking with neighbors is that they have seen so much high density, unaffordable development and not enough supportive infrastructure that now the solutions that they actually maybe want feel like too much. That's the temperature that I'm getting across the board. And so conversations have been helpful, and it seemed like more awareness from the city as an organization to neighborhoods and addressing community concerns would be helpful. I don't think that they're wrong to be upset. I think that they're just, it seems like they're overloaded. It's a bigger…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 44:49
“I brought this up to staff already, but just to reiterate, the transportation department, maybe back in 2017 or 18, revamped all of our materials for the passport program. And the goal was to invite more private partnership to help fund as a funding partner with the city by paying for their employees to ride the bus. So essentially marketing our system as a solution for transportation. And I never saw us really use those materials, but they would probably need significant updates. And in the conversations with businesses, especially on corridors that were considered for cuts, I heard folks…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 45:44
“But it did make me wonder if on corridors that could, like South Asheville, have more transit service, could we also reach out for potential private transit? public partnership with the Passport Program. If we're not selling our own program, then we're not doing what we can, I think, to seek funding solutions. And I know it's small, but it also has that ability to invite more riders, which I think is a goal. So that would be a helpful update. If we're gonna use the Passport Program, can we make it visible, make it easy, and for us to share?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 47:42
“That's my hope. I know we're talking about this at PEDE soon, but we have a community-led and transit committee member-led recommendation to have mobile fares. And I heard from some of our staff that when they drive the bus to the airport and then there's people who are visiting our city who want to get on the bus, they can't because we don't have a way for them to pay. So if this is a fast, cheap solution where we don't have to have an RFP and a big expensive piece of equipment and we can get more riders on the bus, I hope we can expedite that.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:00:31
“Okay, so a couple things. I want to start with appreciation. I'm glad we're on the same page with the Flock contract because of the specific vulnerabilities of Flock. These are well documented by the ACLU and Electronic Frontiers Foundation. So it's an important first step. I'm grateful for that. The community concerns I'm hearing are around for-profit data companies that sell equipment for license plate readers that collect information, compile information, and share our information, and that in itself creates the warrantless search that violates the constitutional rights. But I do have some…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:02:21
“It is a committee of eight people, 16 people, unclear. Some people in the public are on that committee and are talking about who's on it. We don't know who's on it. Do we want to talk about that?”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:02:42
“Okay. Transparency is an ingredient in the recipe for public trust, so having more contracts on a public-facing dashboard is very much appreciated. I think that's the right direction. There's still one, I think, that's outstanding, and it's the Axon Customer Experience Improvement Program documents that it seems like it's going to be part of a public records request, but we may or may not put it on the dashboard. It seems like if it's going to be available in a public records request in a FOIA, we should just put it on the dashboard. And then the last is the logistics question. Because this…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:04:05
“Well, we're sharing. We have sharing agreements, right? We have interlocal agreements that we voted on.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:04:13
“So for-profit data companies collect the data. We have our own interlocal. Well, okay, so an example. The housing authority used to have a closed-loop system, and if there was evidence, could turn it in. Now it's part of the city and county system. So it applies, my understanding from the city attorney's office, the same rules at the state statute level apply to body cam footage as now apply to those camera footage as well. If we're getting new information, then we should share it with the council.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:08:45
“So the memo that I suggested that we share publicly that was informing our decision doesn't say body cams and dashboard footage. It does read We are working to right-size our flock deployment while expanding and integrating Axon's automated license plate reader capabilities based on our operational needs. So the community question that I'm hearing is if we cancel the flock contract and replace with Axon's same functioning equipment, then we still have a violation of our constitutional rights problem. Canceling the flock contract is important, but replacing it just with Axon is still a…”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026
- Play at 1:10:24
“Same for same is the same problem. That's the concern I hear.”
City Council · Aug 20, 2026