I'm bringing the meeting to order.

Mayor Pro Tem are you here?

We'll do a roll call right now.

Council Mr.

Ravenmore.

Councilmember Spears.

I know I'm gonna give him an absent because we cannot connect with him at this moment, but we're trying.

Councilmember Wadell is out of town.

Oh, he's on his way.

Okay, very good.

Uh Councilmember Andrews?

Here.

Councilmember Joyner.

Here.

Chair's here.

C One is approval of the minutes.

C2 is a resolution authorizing a lease of the ninth floor of Skyline Center to ANSA Services LLC.

C3 is a resolution authorizing the city manager to enter into a three-year agreement with EPLU Technology Incorporated Hundred Virginia to purchase various varones, cybersecurity software in the amount of 510,344.

C4 is a resolution authorizing city manager to deply for a grant from the Department of Justice Bulletproof Vest Partnership in the amount of 125,621 dollars with the required local match of 62,811.

Public hearings, PH1 is an ordinance amending the land development code chapter 618 to modify use and dimensional standards within the R3 medium high density mixed residential zoning district.

PH2 is an ordinance amending the land development code chapter 18 to establish food bank as a new use.

Then ordinances 01 is an ordinance making supplemental appropriations in the amount of 98,000 from committed revenue funds for Live Oak Bank Pavilion and Riverfront Park.

Is a resolution authorizing city manager to execute a change order to Samut Corporation for the River Lights Fire Station in the amount of 250,677.

And then finally, our resolution R1 is a resolution composing the Fuqua Barina Interbasin Transfer Request and call for additional public hearings.

And this is being brought forward by Councilmember Ravenborough.

This is uh of all the things that we've had come to us from the Lower Cape Fair Water and Sewer Authority and requests for uh for upstream people taking water out of the Cape Fair River.

We have never had a opposition to lending water to anybody upstream with the cop with the caveat that they return the water to the Cape Fair River and this particular uh request from the town of Fuquave Arena does not do that.

And I hope everybody will take three minutes to read this and see that the uphill battle we have faced with this, asking for information.

They've been working on this for years, and now they've sent two thousand pages of stuff and given us 90 days to digest it.

So we um this has far reaching effects on our area and our water intake.

There's a domino effect, so this is extremely important.

Thank you for your consideration.

Okay, thank you.

Anyone else?

Okay.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

We do have one presentation uh this morning, which is from the deputy director of the WMPO, Abby Lorenzo, who will be talking to council about the Metropolitan Transportation Plan.

Welcome, Abby.

Good morning.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor, members of council for the opportunity to present to you all this morning.

Um as uh Ms.

Hawk just stated, I'll be presiding this morning on the WMPO's recently adopted Metropolitan Transportation Plan, Cape Fear Navigating Change 2050.

So my presentation is going to briefly touch upon what the WMPO is and our requirements about the Metropolitan Transportation Plan, its development process, um, how to support this MTP uh moving forward, and then I'm happy to answer any questions anyone might have.

So, real quick, just a refresher about the Wilmington Urban Area Metropolitan Planning Organization.

It was established in the early 1970s and today serves a population of over 300,000 and has approximately 494 square mile planning area.

We have a 13 member board comprised of 12 elected officials and one appointed member from the North Carolina Board of Transportation.

Our board sets the organization's policy and direction as well as ensures that our processes are coordinated and comprehensive, meeting federal and state requirements.

The WMPO is federally required to plan and prioritize how federal transportation dollars are spent within our region.

This is accomplished through what we call the 3C planning process, standing for continuing cooperative and comprehensive.

Federally specified WMPO responsibilities include maintaining the Metropolitan Transportation Plan, which I'm going to talk about today, as well as helping to prioritize projects for the MPO and state transportation improvement programs for funding.

Federal law requires every MPO to maintain a metropolitan transportation plan, or MTP for short, with at least a 20-year planning horizon that is updated on a four or five year basis.

MTPs identify regional transportation project needs as well as provide a roadmap, if you will, towards implementing them over the coming years.

The WMPO's plan recently adopted Cape Fair Navigating Change 2050, looks ahead 25 years, and was adopted on October 29th, 2025 by the WMPO board within five years of our previously adopted MTP.

There are federal requirements for MTPs, including that it be multimodal, fiscally constrained, as well as consider local and future land uses.

This means that we plan for all six modes of transportation that are available here to the public in the WMPO region, including aviation, bicycle and pedestrian, ferry and water transportation, rail, public transportation, and roadway.

The plan's development span more than three years and involved extensive public outreach, technical analysis, and collaboration with the WMPO's member jurisdictions.

To support the effort, the WMPO established two committees.

The first was the Metropolitan Transportation Plan Steering Committee, or MTPC for short.