The General Government Committee of the Winston-Salem City Council met on Monday, August 11, 2025, at 4:00 PM under Chair Mayor Pro Tempore Denise D. Adams. The committee considered a consent agenda with two items and five general agenda items. Notable discussions included a proposal to lease public parkland for a new downtown amphitheater, a presentation on the WS/FC Housing Loan Fund, and approvals for a pier naming, additional Choice Neighborhoods funding, and a loan assumption for Goler Manor. The meeting adjourned at 5:31 PM.
No, everyone. Welcome to the general government committee. As you all know, we did not meet during the month of July. So we are I'm really, I think we had a packed agenda in June. I'm almost sure of it. And uh I'm glad to see that this one is not so much packed today. Uh we have two consent items and we have five general agenda items. And usually the uh process for committee and the council is that we uh review the consent items first, but first are there any first clerk call the role, please. See, this is what happens when you get a month off from school. Um chairperson, Mayor Pro Tim. Here vice chair, council member joyner. Present. Councilmember Burke here, and council member hall. Here would the clerk please call with any uh council members, committee members. Well, all I got is the well, I got one council member. How are you doing? Doing good. All right. Would like to see any of the consent items pulled. I think earlier uh councilmember uh Hall Ford said that Ford Hall said that she wanted C1 pulled. Yes. Okay, uh may are there any others. If not, now I have a motion to receive the balance of the consent agenda. Move for approval. Second. All those in favor of the uh motion. Uh we will we're voting with verbal, right? All of those please say aye. Aye. All those opposed, like signed. Would the clerk please call item C1? Item C1 resolution authorizing annual submission of continuum of care homeless assistance grant application, acceptance of grant funds, and execution of subgrantee agreements. Councilmember. Thank you. Um Mayor Pro Tim Adams. Thank you for being here. I uh called this, pulled this item because I wanted to make sure that uh residents understood just kind of what the protocol was once we receive federal funds from um HUD and then how that is broken down with our continuum of care, particularly as we are allocating funds to local agencies who may operate in this space. No problem. Sharika Floyd Housing Programs Manager with the neighborhood services department. Um currently the res the action item that you have before you is for us to actually apply for funds for the next um HUD fiscal year. So we are um we opened our application cycle for local agencies to submit applications. Um we will submit our application to HUD once the RFP from HUD is released. Once the agency submit applications, we have a rating panel consisting of seven individuals from the community who review the applications, they complete site visits and then they determine on a ranking score on how the funds are distributed in the community. The recommendations from the rating panel are then presented to the continuum care council. The Contemporary Care Council is a group of over 48 agencies, advocates, and local providers from Novant to our local shelters that um review that recommendation, and that recommendation again goes to our continuum of care commission on ending homelessness. The commission on ending homelessness is 16 individuals appointed by city council and the mayor, as well as by the containment care council and the county commissioners who oversee the funds, policies, and procedures, and though um they will submit that for approval and then it will come back here to you to the city council for approval for the submission of the application. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Pro Tim. I just want to say, Ms. Floyd, that uh probably uh our newer members don't know that we did tweak or edit our process over the past year or so.