The Charlotte City Council met on April 8, 2024, at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center. The meeting included a consent agenda, public hearing, presentations on the Aviation Budget Outlook and Affordable Housing Funding Recommendations, and approval of the Regional Housing Consortium. Key actions included the approval of the Matheson Avenue Bridge Streetscape project (with one dissenting vote), approval of consent items, and adoption of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Regional Housing Consortium agreement.
You're just getting older. If you what number and then because I've got another 12. And Councilmember Wattlinton had identified 10 and 11. They responded to in here, but definitely number 12. All right. 12, 10, and 11. A proxy. That's well, she'll be back in. Um, and then any comments that council would have about any item on the consent agenda. Madam Mayor, I would like to make a comment about 12, but should I hold it since we're voting? Hold it since it's going to be a separate item. Thank you. So hearing that we now know 12, 10, and 11 will be a separate vote. Do I have a motion to uh allow consent agenda items 10 through 14 with the exception of those three be considered as a motion? So move, Madam Mayor. Have a motion and a second. Second. Any further discussion? Given none. All in favor. Do we have yes? All in favor that passes. All right. So the items that we have that are been suggested for a separate comment. The first one I believe is Miss Mayfield's, which was 12. And so item 12 is the construction of Matheson Avenue Bridge Steep Streetscape Project. So with that, questions by who would Miss Mayfield, I want to recognize you. Thank you, Madam Mayor. We've been having a lot of conversations with CBI and looking at how we approve contracts and minority participation. This particular project, we has been in discussion, I think, since around December. We've been having a conversation with staff long before that. But this particular project for the construct Matheson Avenue Bridge Streetscape is a 12 million $885,000 project. This particular project had a three had a 7% and a 3% goal on it. One of the things that council member Mitchell and I was hoping he would have been finished with work to be here to speak to it. But one of the concerns that we have had and we've shared with staff is these hard bids, and how do we truly break up these contracts in a way to address our goals that we've established for participation? So this one for the police station, the firehouses. When we do construction manager at risk, CMARs, those hard bids are creating some challenges that's already been identified. We're looking at it for future projects, but at some point we have to stop saying on the next one, we'll try to get it right and we'll do better. We had an opportunity with this one. And or trying to combine the two, saying at 10%. Any other comment? Mayor Pro Tim. Thank you, Madam Mayor. Um, I want to say that uh this particular project is very exciting to see it tonight on the agenda. District one residents are very excited for this project. Even last term I met with uh residents from NODI, Villa Heights, and neighboring uh other communities to talk about the high injury network and the accidents that were going on, and they have known about this project being in development, and they're very excited to see it on the agenda tonight because it will open up uh pedestrian accessibility and connect to the Charlotte Cross Trail and the Blue Line extension in ways that hasn't existed in this particular corridor. And um, I just want I've gotten lots of letters of support for this from the NOD business association and other residents within the community, and so I just want to say I'm very excited to see this as phase one. There's a phase two that is a part of the CDOT overall plan that's further down the line, but this will really give a facelift to the Matheson Bridge in a way that has been much needed over the years, and I'm also glad that as we talk about CBI, that in this particular bid we did meet our current policy um levels for our minority and women uh businesses to participate. So very excited to support this, and I hope the rest of my colleagues will as well. Thank you.