The Charlotte City Council met on April 14, 2025, at 5:00 PM in Room 267 of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center. The meeting opened with recognitions, including proclamations for Autism Awareness Month (April 2025) and Arbor Day (April 25, 2025), as well as honors for the City Clerk’s Office winning the 2025 Program Excellence and Governance Award and the Quill Award. The council then proceeded through the consent agenda, a major Housing Trust Fund action review, and two public hearings, and ended with a closed session.
Housing Trust Fund Recommendations (Action Review)
Ready to go live? I got two. Hey, because you know where to be better eating. I say bugger you. Hey Doc. Okay. Good evening. Good evening. I'd like to call the Charlotte City Council meeting into order and welcome everyone to the April 14th, 2025 Charlotte City Council business meeting for this evening. For this evening, we will be hosting the full meeting in this room and space. And there's signs out there. If you've told someone to go downstairs, you know, text them and say, come on upstairs to two sixty-seven. Everybody knows what that word means for us. So thank you very much. And I would like to ask if we could start with our city clerk. Stephanie Kelly, City Clerk. Anthony Fox Interim City Attorney. Marcus Jones, City Manager. Now Graham District Two. Okay. No, you have to stay here. No, I'm just joking. Go ahead. Um, I wanted to um recognize Mr. Bakari. I would like to acknowledge the receipt of your resignation from this council effective April twentieth, twenty twenty-five. Thank you for your dedication and service for the past seven and a half years, not only to your district, but to all of our city. You haven't yielded the floor many times to seven years. Well, every time you did, it was magical. Um I was a lot longer-winded when I started this seven and a half years ago. Something is beaten it out of me, but we've been through a lot of very rough times, and we've been through a lot of really great victories and times together. So I'll just say um it has been the honor of a lifetime. I will continue to do everything I can to support Charlotte and the city we all love and support you all and everything that um that you're working on. And again, you know, we leave the rules of procedure behind, everyone focusing on these. And um, and and you know, it's just yeah, it's bittersweet. It's it's been a long time. We've done a lot, it's been rocky at times, but this has just been a uh quite the experience of a lifetime, and I would just say the only thing I ask is that every year you select the right person to read the MechDeck proclamation. We will do it in the traditional Charlatan voice that I I have tried to do every year for seven and a half years, and uh, and I'm sure we won't have seen the last of each other. Thank you. Well, thank you very much. So now we'll go into our invocation. Maybe we can pray for clock talk as well. Ms. Watlington, we are recognized. Thank you, madam. Oh, Heavenly Father, thank you for today, Mort. Thank you, God that even as we experience weather changes, we recognize a change in seasons, Lord. And so as we continue to do the work of this city, I pray for our wisdom, I pray for our unity. Um, I pray that we keep a heart with the people to understand uh the community and their needs. Um Lord, as Tarek goes, I I just plead the blood of Jesus over him, God, and I ask that he continues to move forward, Lord, with the spirit of love, with the spirit of wisdom, Lord, and integrity, God, that he continues to represent this community in addition to all of his other responsibilities, Lord.