The Fayetteville City Council met on March 14, 2024, to address routine matters, receive presentations on the city's sustainability plan and community satisfaction survey, approve appointments to boards and commissions, and authorize legal action regarding body camera footage. The meeting opened with an invocation, recognition of pageant queens, and several proclamations declaring March as Women's History Month, Transit Driver Appreciation Day, and American Red Cross Month.
2024, I'm sorry. Kind of got turned around a little bit. Um, first I would like to have for the invocation. I'm in Adult Hassine. Thank you so much. And if you could do the prayer for us, but could everybody could stand and after prejudice, we'd like to hear more about your um church. To the Fayetteville City Council, the mayor. Let us pray. Our creator, the merciful benefactor, the merciful redeemer who opens for all people a way to have good conscience and a good life. Bless the efforts of the mayor and council and all other efforts in progress for more opportunity for more of us. Open their hearts to human compassion, tolerance, cooperation, determined perseverance for justice, and for what is right. We pray you protect this governing body from partial vision and argumentative mindset from arrogance, racism, narrow-mindedness, mean spirit, and negative politics. We implore the creator to bless, guide, inspire, and motivate the council and mayor to hold and not let go the rope of right-minded thinking, strong ethics, inclusive vision for business, culture, and social justice, to strive for a prosperous Fayetteville, taking pride in human decency and diversity. Give this governing body the keys needed to open their mind and their vision to see in their reality in order to make progress smoothly for all families, neighborhoods, and communities of Fayetteville. Remember your position of leadership is not from you, but it is from the Creator and is a test to your compliance to who gave you the gift of life. We pray the Creator, Almighty God, bless, guide, protect, and make you successful and bless you with the most excellent outcomes in your duties, obligations, and responsibilities in your service to all the people of Fayetteville. With God's name, I'm in the United States. One nation. Thank you for coming. Thank you. I'm a member of Masjid Omar Ibn Saeed on 2700 Mercoson Road. We are in the month of Ramadan, the month that the Quran, which is a book believed to be revealed to Mohammed the Prophet from Almighty God, Allah, that we believe is the creator, the maintainer, the sustainer of the heavens and the earth, and the Holy Quran is his book of guidance for all humanity and Islam, which means peace and submission to the will of God and Muslim who submits to Allah's will. And we invite you to attend and visit Masjid Omar ibn Saeed. Thank you so much. Thank you. So we would like to invite Miss Mally Munro up to the podium so she can present some very special guests from us from the Cumberland County Hometown Bronco Pageant. I love when my two worlds collide. Good evening. I would like to present to you what we call our pride and joy of the Cumlin County chapter. Each year will be sponsor scholarship, not excuse me, a pageant to raise money for two and two scholarships that the Cumberland County Chapter helped develop. Okay. This year we had six contestants, and they are in two groups. One called the Pre-Teen, and they are in ages from 9 through 12. And then we have the little miss, they are from five to eight. Will you please come forward? Um, preteen queen. She will serve from twenty twenty-three to twenty twenty-four. If she decides that she wants to run again, she would can run until she gets 12. So hopefully we'll see her again as our queen that she, if not, she will represent us from now on when we have special events. Let me see if any others are there. Her name. Oh, her name. Okay. Her name. My name is Kennedy Marie Witekay. Agreed on. Okay, again, congratulations to you from the chapter, and we are honored to have you serve as our queen this year. The others ones that are not present, we'd just like to call their name. Um the co we had a little miss Lilith Miss FSU, Hometown Bronco. Her name was um Madison McLaughlin.