Good evening, let's call our meeting for 1873 our committee work Monday, March the 4th to order.

Um, and I'd like to start off with an if you're watching us, um, we're gonna start with introductions, and we'll start with our city attorney.

Good evening, Patrick Baker, City Attorney.

Good evening, Victoria Watlington, serving at large.

Good evening, Lawana Mayfield, serving counsel at large.

Chart Pakar District 6.

Ed Drake's district seven, Malcolm Graham, district two.

Marcus Jones, City Manager.

Hi, Lyles, Mayor.

Dante Anderson, Mayor Pro Tem, District 1.

Good evening, Marjorie Molina, District 5.

Ariel Smith, Lead City Clerk.

All right.

Thank you for those introductions.

Today is um on the first Monday of each month.

Um, we have um the council committees um tackle their issues and referrals that they have that are helping us move towards policy positions in our organization.

And so today we had three committee meetings um, and so we are going to hear from each person.

Um, it is a time for the council to get asked questions as I think most of us have watched all of the meetings during the day, but the ability to ask each colleague what else do they need to know?

What else do they think could be added that would make um the conversation more substantial or or reflect the entirety of the council?

Um so I know that we have several council members that were absent today, and so we will proceed with this.

And I thought we might start off by instead of asking Ed to go first to go the first shall be last and the last shall be first.

And um, and especially especially since it's right on the tip of your tongue.

Um, so I want to um ask if we can begin with our um housing and safety committee report out, and again, the highlights of your discussion or the questions that you have of the council.

I'm gonna recognize Ms.

Wattlington.

Thank you, madam mayor.

Um, today we had a wonderful meeting.

And I just want to say the the staff that supports the housing safety and community committee, ACM Renee Askew, ACM Sean Heath, Director Rebecca Hefner, and I should not have started naming names because now I'm like, oh my god, Julia Martin, Warren Wooten, and our wonderful data folks, Andrew and Jackie.

Jackie.

Hey, okay.

They're doing a great job.

They really are.

It was exciting to see the updates that we had today because we really are moving in a in a tangible direction on the things that we have said are important to us.

Um Councilmember Mayfield um let us all kick us off with the faith-based development initiative that she's leading, and certainly I won't steal her thunder, so if you want to add to it, that would be um awesome.

But that's something that she's been working on.

I know that the mayor also um had received some information and was um reviewing it and assessing it's fit for our city, and it looks like we've got some opportunity to come alongside our faith-based community um to provide housing and if not housing, wraparound services.

It's really about how how to how do we create a space for our faith-based community and partners uh to meet the meet some of the needs in the community that we couldn't just do from within the city walls.

Do you justice?

Awesome.

So we look forward to an update from that.

There is going to be a small, not large stakeholder group that will be working on some of those projects and bringing them forward to us.

So that was the first thing.

Um we built on that momentum by revisiting our community safety framework referral, and that I have to tell you I'm so excited about.

They have been working so very hard since January, and they brought us back not only like the basis data, if you will, for what we're looking at and really understanding how our crime involving youth is is shaped in our community, where it's happening.

Um we learned what I thought that was most alarming in the discussion was that 10 the top 10 percent of folks are really committing almost half of the crime that results in arrest.

Um, and so that on the one hand is very alarming, but on the other, it does almost help to wrap our arms around what are we really dealing with.

I think about Councilmember Bakari, who really started that conversation about let's really focus on the the faithful few, I'll say it that way.

Um, and I think that we've got the data now to really have those conversations.

Um we heard from Mecklenburg County and some of our neighborhood services, Dr.

Stewart and others about the Office of Violence Prevention work and how that marries up.

Um, we heard about ongoing research that is uh that we're doing in partnership with UNC Charlotte uh to really understand where can we plug in into the system to interrupt um interrupt crime as it happens.

Um and it was just overall a great opportunity to hear about the strategy.

But if you weren't able to catch the meeting, uh please definitely um tune in because it was very very meaty in that discussion.

I'll look forward to what comes back.

And then finally, uh as another follow-up to our annual uh retreat this year, uh we reviewed our performance management framework and how the metrics that or the goals that we pointed out tied to metrics.

Um I think we're well in our way with that as it relates to great neighborhoods and safe communities.

One of the things that is particularly important to our committee is making sure that we tie these measures to um output metrics.

There are certainly some things that the city uh I appreciate the distinction between the city and the community measures and understanding our sphere of influence.

Um, and I think on top with that, we can also um just take another look at making sure that what we have is in process metrics, our behaviors are matching the output.

Um, so for example, we know that we can control where we invest and how much we invest.