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The Charlotte City Council held a special meeting at 4:00 p.m. on Monday, October 19, 2026, in the Council Chamber of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center, solely to reconsider Mayor Robert Harrington’s veto of a Council motion made at the October 12, 2026 Action Preview regarding the Airline Use and Lease Agreement. The vetoed motion would have created a review period and set a Council decision for the November 23, 2026 business meeting. Under the City Charter, overriding the veto required at least seven affirmative votes. No Council member made a motion to readopt the measure, so the veto stood.
Now call this meeting to order. Good afternoon, and thank you all for joining us here in person and those watching online. Let's start with introductions going around the room, starting with Council Member Masara Arias. Council Member J.D. Masueta audio is probably representing East Charlotte District Five. Good afternoon. Joy Mayo, representing District Three. Good afternoon. I'm Victoria Watlington, and I have the pleasure of serving you as a member at large. Okay, the purpose of today's special Wow, yes after them. We have two more people. All right, now we'll try to do this better. All right. The purpose of today's four o'clock special meeting is for council to reconsider the motion made at the October 12th action preview meeting regarding the airline use and lease agreement. That motion provided for a period of review and a council decision at the November 23rd council business meeting. I vetoed that motion and I maintain my position on that veto. However, the city charter requires council to reconsider any motion that has been vetoed by the mayor at its next meeting, which is where we are. Today's special meeting is limited to that this item and the city charter requires at least seven affirmative votes to override and readopt the override the veto and readopt the motion. Before council votes on this item, we will open the floor for public comments. Are there any speakers that have been signed up to make public comment? No, sir. Okay. So we don't have any speakers that are signed up. Uh therefore we will move to whether there is a motion to readopt the October 12th motion to have a period for review and a decision to be made by this council at the November 23rd business meeting regarding the airline use and lease agreement. In essence, a motion to override the mayor's veto. Is there such a motion? All right. I think the item fails for want of a motion. Madam City Attorney, is there anything else we should consider? Nothing else, sir. Okay. The uh item has been agended and considered by council at this special meeting of the city council. There is not a motion at this meeting to override the motion the uh veto and readopt the motion, and therefore it has been heard, duly considered, and the veto stands. Is that correct, madam city attorney? Correct, sir. And madam clerk. Yes. Okay. All right. Is there a if there is a motion, we'll have a motion. Is there is a motion in order at this point to schedule the vote, or would that be out of order at this meeting? No, the motion failed for lack of action at this point. Sorry. So there can't be any other motions. No. Okay. We're done, right?