The Raleigh City Council met on September 2, 2025, in afternoon (1:00 PM) and evening (7:00 PM) sessions. The meeting covered consent agenda items, planning commission reports, a Fayetteville Street streetscape plan update, public hearings, committee reports, appointments, and a closed session.
Planning Commission Report (Bynum Walter, Vice Chair Roberta Fox):
City Manager Report:
Committee Reports:
We will go ahead and call the meeting to order because everybody got quiet and it is that time. Uh first, as always, is the Pledge of Allegiance. And uh Counselor Patton, would you help lead us? One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right. Next uh we have the consent agenda, and we had one item polled for discussion, which was B for E. Uh, do we have a motion to approve the remainder of the agenda? Motion to approve. Second. Right. All in favor of the motion, aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. Right. And that passes. And do we want to talk about B4E? Just had a question on this contract services. It is authorizing a three-year contract not to exceed seven point five million with an opportunity to extend. In the backup, it says that uh the convention center recaptures this money. So I'm just trying to understand if this is a wash, is there actual expenditure, or we get it it is net after the clients or whoever's using the convention center get billed. Uh so I'm just trying to understand authorize execute a contract for certain amount only be reimbursed. So if you could just clarify that. Absolutely. Uh Carrie Painter Ray Convention and Performing Arts Complex. Um, this is for five years, and um it is in three different venues. So I know uh the bulk, it seems like a lot. But um, it's three different venues, and what basically happens is the customer goes into conversation about planning. We determine what do they need, how much do they need, where do guards need to be, then we create this um uh quote and plan and security plan for them. They have to use our approved security company, and then the amount shows up later on their settlement along with rent and tables and food and all the other things afterwards. So each customer gets billed according to usage, and um, if somebody doesn't book, then we wouldn't use all the money, but we can't always predict how many events there are either, and so it has increased over time. So do you recapture 100% of the expenses or the city bears some type of shared cost? Because in here in the back of it was saying that the clients are billed for the services they used, but it's unclear to me. Are we made whole or there's still an expense from the city for this seven point five or ultimately fifteen million? Right. No, we're made whole. We capture it all. Unless something happened to go wrong and we asked for extra, and we might pay for that because we felt more comfortable with an extra person or something. But almost always we're made whole. It is separate from the building's security, which is our cost to bear. So that is a whole separate set of security people in a different company. And that's part of the process of the case. So this contract is all clients and we bill it and we're made whole. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions or I make a motion to uh approve uh the contract services for convention center, performing arts center event, and security services. All in favor of the motion, aye. Aye, aye. All opposed, nay. All right, so that passes. Thank you.