We're gonna bring this agenda briefing order.

I mean meeting to order.

I'm gonna take a roll call at this time.

Mayor Pro Tem, you here?

I am you.

Councilmember Join are you here?

Here.

Councilmember Andrews?

Here.

Councilmember Lyle?

Here.

Councilmember Santa Guida?

Here.

Councilmember Clinton Quintana?

Here.

And the chair is here.

Everybody's here and accounted for.

Um we have two presentations tomorrow night.

First presentation will be a recognition of the Marine Major Capers, who is the middle of honor recipient, and then we will break after we do that presentation for a reception in the area here outside of city chambers.

Then we have, of course, the downtown wayfinding presentation, consent agenda.

C one is a resolution awarding on-call contracts for five firms for professional engineering design services.

C2 is a resolution authorized city manager to enter into an agreement with leads online LLC for the purchase of ballistics IQ equipment and software.

C three is a resolution authorized city manager to execute a lease amendment with TOPA Wealth Management LLC for a portion of the seventh floor of the Skyline Center.

C4 is a resolution authorized city management to enter into a new lease on the fourth floor of the Skyline Center with the Honorable Ted Budd, the United States Senator's Office.

C five is a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute contract amendment number four with LITG Incorporated for the landscape maintenance of city-owned properties.

C6 is a resolution authorizing city manager to enter into a contract with Brady Train Services Incorporated in the amount of 168,400 for HVAC repairs at the Wilmington Convention Center.

C7 is a resolution providing approval of multifamily housing facility in the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, and the financing thereof with multifamily housing revenue bonds and an amount not to exceed 20 million dollars.

And I think this is a pass-through, correct?

Correct.

Yes, sir.

Okay.

C eight is an approval of the minutes of the council's budget work session for May 15, 2026, and May 29th, 2026 agenda briefing meetings from June the 15, 2026, and the regular council meetings on June the 16th, 2026.

Then we'll have public information, then public hearings, pH one is an ordinance amending the official zoning maps of the city of Wilmington.

I have a question.

Yes, sir.

Um items.

Can you hear me okay?

Yes, we can.

Go ahead, JC.

Um, on the C1 with the RFQs, I love the process and speeding things up.

Uh just wondered if we're not doing three bids.

How do we know we're getting um the best deal for the city?

Ms.

Hulk, you have a Mr.

Carter's gonna answer that.

Thank you, Councilwoman.

Um, mayor, mayor pro tem, members of council.

So when we go through this process with all of our consultants, and it's required by law, we go out and find the most qualified firm and we select that firm.

We then enter into negotiations to determine, you know, again, what's the final scope and fee of that?

Um, if we are not if we do not believe that to be reasonable, we then have to tell that firm we are not interested, and then we move on to another the next qualified most qualified firm.

That is required by law for us to do that.

Um we do not go out as we do with a construction contract.

We don't get bids and then determine the lowest responsible bidder and then take that bid.

Um it's much different for engineering projects and products, um, where again we do it based on qualifications.

Um so this on call allows us to select firms that are qualified in the realm that we're looking for.

So in this would be mainly civil site engineering, transportation, and then we would look through them when we have a project, determine the most qualified of those firms that we've already pre-selected and kind of pre-audited, and then we enter in negotiations with that one firm, go through that.

If they're not, if we do not believe that to be a good cost and price, then we would go to the next firm on our on-call list.

Should we determine that there are none there, nobody qualified, or there is not a good price there, then we can always put it out to the normal RFQ process that we would for much larger projects, which you'll see coming forward for the park project that we're looking for here in the next week or two.

Yeah, it um it kind of does.

There's only I mean 25 firms um applied, and the intent was to just do five, or is this really just five that um were uh selected based on the criteria?