The Raleigh City Council met on June 3, 2025, in afternoon and evening sessions. The afternoon session (1:00 PM – approximately 6:30 PM) included employee awards, consent agenda approval, special items, public hearings, committee reports, and appointments. The evening session (7:00 PM) agenda items (budget public hearing, municipal service districts, street closings, rezoning) were not covered in the provided transcript.
Note: The evening session (7:00 PM) agenda—including public hearings on the FY2025-26 budget, Downtown and Hillsborough Street Municipal Service Districts, street closing STC-08-2024, and rezonings Z-19-24 and Z-43-24—was not covered in the provided transcript.
Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the City Council session. And I know we've got a particularly exciting one today because we have Employee of the Year Awards as well as some recognition of those in the executive development program. So we're happy to have uh so many good public servants out there, but uh before we do that, I'm gonna we're gonna have the Pledge of Allegiance, and uh because uh Councilor Silver is already standing. I will double task you with leading us in the flat. Counselor Lambert Melton will be right back. He was having a computer issue, and here he comes. Uh so I will hand it over to the city manager to uh take us through these uh employee awards. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. The first round of um employee recognition goes to the recipients of the employees of the year. So we have Sharnell Jones here to announce the departmental awardees for this prestigious award. So as I call your name, I would just ask that you stand for recognition. James Albert for Information Technology. Mark Weldon, Housing and Neighborhoods. And these are your departmental employee of the year. I think you skipped over Miller Spencer. I'm sorry, Miller Spencer, I'm sorry. Solidway services. Thank you. And these are your departmental employee of the year. Congratulations. And from our department employee of the year, we do recognize and select one employee of the year, and that was Gregory Baker, who was named. Photo op coming. Now on to the executive development program. Yes, so this program was started a couple of years ago. It's part of our attempt to be more intentional about succession planning and making sure that we get the next step of up and rising stars ready to take that next big professional step. So we created the executive development program, and this is our second cohort, third cohort. And so at this time, Ms. Jones will recognize those graduates from that program. I'll just ask you to stand and then come down to the front as well if you are present. Alexandra Guterres, Raleigh Fire Department, Andrew Bullet, Human Resources, Alisa Halley Shram, Planning and Development, Barbara Moranta, Engineering Services, Brian Clark, Raleigh Convention and Performing Arts Complex, Brianna Scurry, Equity and Inclusion. Bonham Walter, Planning and Development, Deshay Blake, Parks, Recreation, and Cultural Resources, Diane Cooper, Raleigh Water, Emily Le Poole, City Manager's Office. Jennifer Stevens, Finance, Jonathan Hamm, Raleigh Water, Martin Hogan, Raleigh Police Department, Miller Spencer, Solidway Services, Robert Parrish, Emergency Communications, Sarah Heinsen, Office of Special Events, and Sean Driscoll Transportation. Present to you the twenty four twenty-five cohort for the executive development program. Again, if you could come to take a photo out. Okay. Thank you all. And understand if many of you are going back to work. We will continue our work with the consent agenda. And I don't believe there was anything pulled. Move full approval. Okay. Second. Okay. Any other discussion on consent? If not, all in favor of the motion, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. All right. So that passes.