The Fayetteville City Council met on Monday, June 9, 2025, at 6:30 PM in the Council Chamber. The meeting included recognitions, a public forum with 17 speakers, public hearings on a rezoning appeal and the Can Do Performance Financing Program, adoption of a nuisance party ordinance, implementation strategy for a youth protection safety ordinance, and adoption of the Fiscal Year 2025-2026 budget. The meeting adjourned after 11:00 PM.
Well, good evening, everyone. We'd like to call our Monday, June 9th, uh City Council meeting the order. We welcome those who are joining us in the audience, those who are logging in, joining us virtually. We welcome you. Uh, at this time, we're gonna ask Pastor Jamel Johnson, senior pastor at Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church, if he would come to the podium and lead us in our invocation. We ask that all would please stand for the prayer. Immediately following, if we could please repeat the Pledge of Allegiance together. Pastor, how are you, sir? Let us pray. We thank you for this day that you have allowed us to see. You have been good to us all day long. Yes. You have allowed us to breathe your air, and we want to say thank you for allowing us to have life. We thank you, Lord, for the liberties in which you have allowed us to experience in this city and in this country. We pray God that you would forgive us of our sins, our transgressions, and our wrongdoings. We pray, Lord, that you would wash us and cleanse us, renew us, that we may be in right standing with you, so that we may trust you and lean upon you. We ask God that you would bless this city of Fairville. Let it continue to be a beacon of light for others across this country to look to to see what right looks like. We pray, Lord, for a spirit of righteousness to be invoked all across this city. We pray, Lord, that you bless this council meeting this evening. We pray, Lord, that your wisdom would reside over this meeting, that it would govern every thought and govern every action. We thank you for our mayor. We thank you for every council person. We thank you, Lord, for all staff and government officials who run this city of Fairville. We ask God that you would endow them with your Holy Spirit and give them Lord your strength to do the job that they need to do. And then, Lord, please let it rain down uh all over this city that you will bless all citizens of Cumberland County and the city of Fairville. We bless your name, and in the precious name of Jesus we say, Amen. Amen. Under God. Many do uh know you. Your father was a former city council member. Uh Reverend Johnson, but uh if you can tell us a little bit about yourself and the ministry that you have, uh Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church on Merchant Road. Uh thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, my name is uh Jamel Johnson, and I do pastor to Mount Sinai Missionary Baptist Church. Uh twelve seventeen Mercoson Road, a hundred and three years in existence and ministry there. Um, graduate of Eastmith Senior High School. And um the Ministry of Mount Sinai believes in young people. Uh one of our I will say our cornerstone ministries is our after school tutorial ministry. Uh, we believe in education. I'm a firm believer in education, and so that's where we put a lot of emphasis uh as far as outreach ministry worship services every Sunday, 8 30 a.m. and 11 30 a.m. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Yes, sir. Thank you, Pastor Johnson. Appreciate you joining us tonight. Council, at this time we'll move to our announcements and recognition. Uh I'll turn it over to Councilmember Thompson uh for a special recognition of Mr. David Council.