The Committee of the Whole of the Winston-Salem City Council met on January 21, 2025, at 4:00 PM in the City Hall Council Chamber. Mayor Allen Joines presided. Eight members were present initially; Council Member Barbara Hanes Burke joined later. The meeting covered consent agenda items, a resolution for an affordable housing project extension, a food resilience report, a resolution on natural areas in parks, an ordinance amending administration policies, and a proposed sponsorship policy. The meeting adjourned at 3:57 PM (note: minutes state 3:57 PM, which is before the 4:00 PM start time; likely a typo).
Good afternoon. I'm Alan Joins, Mayor of Winston Salem. It's my pleasure to call to order this committee of the whole meeting. And ask the city clerk to call the roll, please. Councilmember joyner. Present. Councilmember Clark. Here. Councilmember Andrew Bowen. Here. Councilmember Scipio. Here. Mayor Pro Tim Adams. Here. Councilmember Taylor. Present. Councilmember Hall. Present. And Councilmember Burke. Thank you very much. We will operate as a committee of the whole pretty much like a council regular council meeting in that we have two items, two sections of the agenda, consent agenda as well as a general agenda. There will be no cons uh discussion of the items on the consent agenda unless the council member so requests and we will remove that item and then consider it individually. Items not removed from the consent agenda will be enacted with one motion. We would just go on and uh are there any items that a council member would like to have pull from the consent agenda? Item CI. Is there a motion on the balance? Move for approval of the consent of the balance of the consent agenda. Second Council McClark, and by the way, we will be voting uh manually tonight, basically. So all those in favor of the motion to approve the consent agenda, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed, and that's unanimous. We'll now go to item C6. Item C6 resolution extending the time for Winfield Properties Inc. to close on the purchase of real property from the city for the purpose of developing the loss at Motor Road to provide affordable housing. Councilmember Jim Adams, you asked. Yes. Since this is part of right now our priority one with the city and us doing a better job of communicating anything that happens with these properties that we've already budgeted for or our funding to some degree. Uh any time it comes up that we are changing uh the process or what they're doing, what we first signed up for. If you could give us a brief description of what is taking place. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mayor Jones, Mayor Pro Tem Adams, and members of City Council, Chantale McClam, Neighborhood Services Director. Um in this situation, Winfield Properties has asked to extend the time frame in which we in which they signed their agreement with us, and that's due to a couple good things. Um they actually received uh a LITEC award, and it's going to take them some time in order to get the financing from that award completed. They also received a uh project-based voucher award from the housing authority, which is also good because it gives us more affordable units. So there's a couple good things that happened to them at the end of the year. It's to where they were unable to sign that agreement with us in order to get that other financing in place. All right. Thank you. I move for approval of item C six. Second.