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Good afternoon, everyone.

Um, as you can see, we do not have a quorum yet present um here in the council, so we will be um just waiting for a couple more of our colleagues to arrive.

There are three of our colleagues who have excused absences today, so we're only gonna have um four of us when when folks get here, but uh, we've got to wait for those four.

Um, so apologies for the delay.

We'll be with you as soon as possible.

So we currently have the votes to send everybody on a field trip.

We could take all the youth in Durham right now and send them on a magical school bus field trip.

We have the votes to do a lot right now.

I mean, sure, if they'd like to speak to you, absolutely.

Like our weird out of the right.

So we think anybody's coming out.

I am not getting a definitive from either the remote or the whole hand.

Neither of them had exposed that.

All right.

Uh quorum now being present.

I'm going to call this meeting to order at eleven eleven PM.

Um, this is the Thursday, April, I'm sorry, one eleven PM.

Uh, this is the Thursday, April twentieth, twenty twenty-three uh Durham City Council work session.

Madam Clerk, would you please call the role?

Certainly.

Um, Mayor O'Neill, Mayor Pro Tem Middleton, and Javiera Caballero.

I have all requested excused absences for today, and so I will conduct the roll call for the present members.

Presiding Chair Johnson.

So okay.

Councilmember Freeman.

Present.

Councilmember Holsey Hyman.

Councilmember Williams.

I'm here.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Clerk.

Are there any announcements by members of the Council?

Oh, Council Member Lane.

Uh, hosted the um I cringe when I say it this way, the Raleigh Durham Tech Stars Startup Week that was hosted in Durham.

So the Durham Tech Stars uh with Raleigh accompanying uh Startup Week.

It was quite the experience.

Uh, techies from all over um, we're all over downtown utilizing our facilities and folks from all over the world were here.

Um, served as a guest speaker on um policing and advanced technologies uh with Barry Friedman from the New York University policing project.

It was a really balanced conversation and just really excited how Durham has modeled and shape progressive public safety.

And it was just it was an experience.

And uh welcome to all of those folks that are now just leaving.

It was great to have them here.

Thank you, Councilmember.

I'll make a quick announcement as well.

You uh reminded me that last night um a number of us were fortunate to attend a documentary screening about the um city's heart crisis response program.

Um the documentary was developed by RTI um in partnership with the folks at our community safety department.

Um they filmed during the first few months of the department's work last year, so it was a really incredible look at um the start, like the initiation and the um initial work of that of that program, and of course, now that we have almost an entire year looking back, we can see that the success that they saw in those first three months has continued.

Um we also were able to um hear a panel of speakers, including um our police chief, the department director Ryan Smith, a number of the um heart staff and the director of the film, Dil C Davis.

Um, and that film will soon we hope fingers crossed be available on YouTube.

So encourage everybody to check it out as soon as it's available to the public.

Um we will now move on to priority items.

Um, Madam Manager, do you have any priority items?

Good afternoon, and thank you, uh Council.

Uh Council person Johnson, uh presiding chair.

I do have a few priority items for this afternoon.

Agenda item number seven, which is the Illerby Creek Watershed Association Dedicated Nature Preserve proposal alternative.

It is a 15-minute uh presentation that has been included uh today.

Uh agenda item number 12, united development ordinance text amendment simplifying codes for affordable development.

This item is being referred back to the city county planning department.