Good morning.

Called the meeting to order the Wilmington City Council in this pre agenda meeting.

Um do a roll call right now.

Mayor Pro Tim, are you here?

Yeah.

Councilmember Raven Barker, are you here?

Councilmember Spears, are you here?

Councilmember Waddell, are you here?

Councilmember Andrews?

Here.

I know Councilmember Joyner is uh has court this morning, so he's already called and said he was not gonna be able to make it, and the chair is here, so we have a quorum.

We'll start off.

We're gonna have two presentations tomorrow night.

You can see them on the screen there.

So you want to consent agenda.

C one is approval of the council's uh meeting minutes.

C two is a resolution authorized city manager to enter into an agreement with Sound Thinking Incorporated for the continued lease of the shot spotter system for year 2026.

C three is a resolution authorized city manager to enter into a three-year contract with FMRT group LLC for Wilmington Police Department pre-hire, post-hire, and post critical incident evaluations.

C4 is a resolution declaring Mount Police Mount Comet as surplus property and authorizing transfer of retired police mount comet to retired Mount Police Officer John Gordon.

C5 is a resolution authorized an interlocal agreement between the Wilmington Housing Authority and the City of Wilmington to assign three Wilmington police officers to Wilmington Housing Authority property.

C six is a resolution authorized city manager to enter into an agreement to purchase 48 sets of firefighting coats and pants from NAFCO of Decatur, Alabama for 209,210 through the NPP Gov Government Cooperative Buying Agreement.

C seven is a resolution rejecting all bids for the Hooker Road MUP, Hinton Avenue MUP, and Riceville Avenue slash Greenville Avenue intersection improvement projects.

C eight is a resolution providing approval for the Wilmington Housing Authority's finance of a multifamily housing facility to be known as Avenue Flats in the city of Wilmington, North Carolina with multifamily housing revenue bonds in an amount not to exceed 28 million dollars.

Public hearings, PH1 is an ordinance closing a portion of Aubrey Alley between Parsley Street and Davis Street.

PH2 is an ordinance admitting the land development code, chapter 18 to reduce the number of uses permitted by special use permit.

Ordinances 01 is an ordinance adding adding sections uh 6-10 through 10 certain actions prohibited on city property to Chapter 6, Article 1 of the Wilmington City Code.

Resolutions are one is a resolution authorized city manager to enter into a purchase and sell agreement of surplus property located at 1702 Burnett Boulevard to the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

Our two is a resolution in support of additional early voting locations, and last but not least is reports and report of council's evaluations committee.

Um and those of this pre-agenda.

I mean Becky.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

We have uh three presentations for you this morning.

Um the first one uh is to go over the consideration of the community relations advisory board, and that is going to be uh DCM Mary Baegue.

Good morning, Mayor, members of council.

Uh this morning we're here to talk about the community relations advisory committee.

I'm sorry it says board on front of your presentation.

Uh recently the county had made some changes to our joint uh structure, and so I wanted to highlight some things.

Uh back in 2015, the Wilmington City Council agreed to support the creation of the joint committee with New Hanover County.

At the same time, the board of commissioners also voted to support the joint committee.

City staff worked on the joint bylaws, and in 2016, they were adopted by city council and the county commissioners.

Um just recently at the last county commissioners meeting uh in 2025.

They voted to conclude the county's participation, and we received a letter from them announcing uh that it was dissolving.

Uh so there it is.

A six members uh board or committee appointed by the council.

Six are appointed by the county commissioners.

Uh, you can see on the screen how they are represented.

There are two from the civil rights community, two from the faith, two from the business community, two from the education, and then there's four at large members, two from the city and two from the county.

And so, what is the community uh the committee's duties?

Uh, based on the the bylaws that were adopted by both the county commissioners and city council, uh, there were six areas of focus.

And the first was really to research and study those conditions which represent prejudice or discrimination.

It was also to develop educational and instructional materials and programs, uh, and it was to promote those intergroup communications and relationship building within the community.

It was also to serve as a resource for the city and the county during times of community crisis that stems from intergroup conflict.

And it was also to provide information and referrals to organizations that promote healthy relations, and then last it was to advise whether it was city council or the county commissioners, the necessary procedures, programs, or policies that promote equal rights and recognition and appreciation of human diversity.

And so it was a raw broad range of items that the committee was assigned to.

There were some additional highlights I want to show from the bylaws.

It was told to have three subcommittees that would meet healthy intergroup communication and interaction.

There was to be a public education piece to it, and the third was a crisis prevention and preparedness.

They were to meet at least quarterly.

Uh at least monthly, they would take uh a break in the summer, uh, and then city county would rotate the operational operational support every two years.