The Charlotte City Council held committee discussions on Monday, October 6, 2025, starting at 6:00 PM at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center. The meeting focused on the Metropolitan Public Transportation Authority (MPTA) appointment process, recommendations from the Housing Trust Fund, and reports from various council committees. A vote on the MPTA process was deferred to allow further refinement, and the Housing Trust Fund proposals were discussed but not voted on.
So we don't do that. Oh, it's seven. All right, thank you. Um good afternoon, everyone. Um, thank you today. Oh, wait a minute. What's gonna feel back? I hear it now. Okay, Chris. Okay, I think we're we're set now. Amanda, thank you so much. Okay, so I want this is the call to order, and welcome. This Monday evening is a meeting for us to discuss the work that we've been doing in the committee setting. Um, and so I with that I'd like to call this meeting to order. Let's begin to introduce ourselves to we'll start with our clerk. Ariel Smith, lead city clerk. Anthony Fox, interim city attorney. Um, Marjorie Molina, District Five. Jane Smith at large. Demple and Schmerz at large. Ed Drigs, District Seven. The one of the old council member at large. All right. Thank you all for being Oh, I'm sorry. I think I've just seen Victoria on camera so long today. So thank you. No, my apologies, Miss Watson. Um, so we're going to um have we have had this opportunity, but I thought that we might go ahead and have an update from the City Council Work Group on appointments to the Metropolitan Public Transportation Authority. And I'm going to recognize the three members of that. Oh, I I'll have the chair recognize the membership. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Uh let me recognize the three musketeers who who've been working uh feverishly on on this great assignment that the mayor gave us. Mr. A. Driggs, District 7, and the one and only Councilmember Lawana Mayfield at large. And so today, Mayor and Council, we gave a great presentation to the Transportation Plan Development. Through that feedback, I think we have even made the process better based on some recommendations we've made. So the work group, and we're going to start off with Ken, Liz. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. It doesn't usually be. While it's fairly long, it does talk about things that may be expansive for your view of what public transportation is, and things like higher capacity vehicles, micro transit, carpools or vampos program, special transportation services that are often run by transit systems can certainly fall within that. Again, that that's the only direction that the Act gives you for the use of those terms. The application process, uh, your clerk uh has developed uh an application process which aligns with the application process that this body has used for boards and commissions. Um the only exception is that that there have been some provisions added to the application process that are dictated by the PAVE Act, things like allowing the applicant to to speak to their qualifications in one of the enumerated fields to speak to uh their demonstrated experience in one of the enumerated fields. Um the window for applications uh is open now, and it closes on the 13th of October, and then the council makes appointments on or by November 24th of 2025. I'll yield back to the council member. Any questions for our interim city attorney? If there are none lists, can you then uh prepare the work group uh recommendations and we can share that with council? Thank you, Liz.