This is a special meeting of the Charlotte City Council to discuss and vote on proposed adjustments to the Fiscal Year 2027 budget. Councilmembers presented requests for funding modifications, debated the use of the financial partner scoring process, and conducted straw votes to determine which items staff would analyze for the final budget on June 1. The meeting began at approximately 6:15 PM and included discussion of public safety, transit equity, housing, economic development, and tax policy.
Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. Couple of questions. So when we go back to the beginning and we look at the NCDLT and C. Partnerships, and this is something you could bring back later, because I don't expect Peter have this answer. But if we're thinking about partnerships, it would be nice to know currently how many unfunded role projects that are state responsibility that we have. We know that we have been having conversations for years off of North Tryon and the Steel Creek area. But if we're highlighting a partnership, one of our challenges as we experience the growth is the fact that a lot of the roads that need maintenance are crossing over and connected to those state maintained roles that are not being funded. So as we look to believe that this will give us an opportunity to address some needs, the current needs still need to be identified. So having an idea of how many unfunded roles in this beautiful little map would be helpful for me. Good afternoon, everyone. We are so grateful to see so many of you sitting here helping us decide what you want us to do and how we can do it well. So I want to say thank you for being here, and um all of us are aware that we are at a time that it's very it's really the time to start putting the rubber against the road, right? So that's not I shouldn't have said it that way. Sorry about that. Okay. But for the process today, I am proposing that each council member be recognized to have an opportunity to express their perspectives and provide any suggestions for amendments or adjustments to the proposed manager's budget. The budget staff will record the items for consideration on the screen, and then after we have heard from each council member, we'll go through the list to vote on those items. As a reminder, that we have a rule around this that we have used, and it's I think pretty successfully is that we have um we have this reminder that says we will have the adjustments receiving the lease, at least five votes will be analyzed and costed out by the staff, and they will come back to the council and begin the work that we would have for a final document. So before we get started, I want to make sure that we call it that I forgot we should we have a name for it, straw votes. I don't think we have any straw, but they are votes for it. So any questions on the process before we begin. Has someone already picked up these, or is there a need to put these into the I'm not sure. Okay, I'll read them in, no worries. Okay, I don't have a copy of that letter. All right, I'll take care of it. No worries. Okay, no, I'm sorry, just turned around on me. Here we go. That's fine. It was covered up. All right, so um, I hope that we would begin uh with us um beginning. Um we're gonna start off with uh Miss Ashmira. Okay, thank you, Madam Mayor. So are we doing intro or just budget adjustments directly? Budget adjustments. This is where we are right now. Okay. Um, this helps us with uh keeping our trained officers, firefighters, while contributing uh while we honor their service and uh recovery. Uh I do not have an amount for that. Uh so I would like a budget staff to come back with that amount. That's that's really what we will do as soon as we get up there, and then we'll go from there. Okay, thanks. Uh, second line item we have I have is restore safe alliance funding. Um, in previous years, uh, they were funded approximately 400,000 uh to support victim assistance, uh, court support, and these are really essential services. Um, from what I understand, the 24-hour hotline would not exist if we do not support it. So I'm concerned about that. Uh and I, you know, we are making increased investments in public safety thanks to the manager and the entire budget team. Uh I think that's great because that shows our commitment to public safety, but I consider safe alliance funding as also part of public safety to protect survivors and domestic domestic violence survivors, and it helps prevent crisis from escalating in our neighborhoods. Uh number three, so that's I think 393 some change, so roughly you can just put 400k.