The Fayetteville City Council met on Monday, October 7, 2024, at 2:00 PM in the Council Chamber for a work session. The meeting covered multiple topics including updates on Hurricane Helene response, partnerships with Fort Liberty, funding for a cultural exchange with Saint Avold, France, PWC rezoning authority, the 2025 meeting calendar, the Residential Traffic Management Program (RTMP), and two council member requests regarding driving equality laws and transit improvements. Several items were discussed with votes and consensus reached.
Well well, good afternoon, everyone. Like to call our Monday, October 7th uh City Council work session to order. Uh thank you, those who are joining us in the audience and those who maybe tuning in remotely. Uh at this time, as with every meeting, we typically start with an invocation and we will right on time. Councilmember Deacon Thompson, if he could give us a invocation. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Let us go to the Lord in prayer. Heavenly dear Father, we thank you, dear Lord, for another day and another opportunity. We get to praise and lift up and magnify your name, Heavenly Father. We thank you for all those who are here today that these proceedings will go according to your word and your will and your way. As we come together, Heavenly Father, we also want to mention those on the Western part of our fellow North Carolinians in the Western part of North Carolina. I am thankful that we can come together as one to support those in need. The Bible tells us to love thy neighbor as we love ourselves, Heavenly Father. So we thank you for the love that's in our heart. So put a little bit of heart and love in our heart and some heart and our love, Heavenly Father, that we can do your will. Bless these proceedings and all things that's gonna happen this evening, Heavenly Father. We thank these in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. If we can do the Pledge of Allegiance, Pledge of Allegiance of the United States of America. Under God and indivisible liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Trustee Thompson, wasn't it? I'm sorry, called to Deacon, but thank you for the prayer. Stewart, okay. I'll get it right in a little bit. All right. But uh councillors we move on to uh the next item, city manager's report. Mr. Manager, if you um as you're giving the report, you want to talk to us about maybe what um assistance will we help Asheville with? Yes, sir. Um thank you. Mayor and members of council actually have our emergency management coordinator and um fire chief here as well. And I'd have to should come forward and um and share him uh what we're doing in Western Fairville as well as um a brief update on what it looks like could be Hurricane Milton in Florida. Hello. Hello, hello. Okay, we will start. Good afternoon, everyone first. Um we'll start with Hurricane Milton. Hurricane Milton is now a category five and expected to impact North Carolina at zero percent. Um is just gonna go from west to east Florida, and by the time it reaches the other side of Florida be a category one. So they're expecting heavy storm surge and all of those by Wednesday time frame. So it's definitely gonna be a major hurricane by the time um and stay a major hurricane by the time it hits landfall. All right. Now for our Western North Carolina efforts. Um currently we have about 30 people um deployed. Um all but two of those folks are employed with the city of Fayetteville, either through police department or fire department. They are on missions uh for search and rescue, hazardous materials, and helping with security and other measures to help folks get supplies. Achiefs association. As for donations, I've reached out to the state, and they are requesting no donations in the form of tangibles at this time.