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January 11, 2021 Annual Strategy Session Minutes Book 151, Page 518 January 11, 2021 Annual Strategy Session Minutes Book 151, Page 518 The City Council of the City of Charlotte, North Carolina convened for their Annual Strategy Session on Monday, January 11, 2021 at 8:16 a.m. in Room 267 of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Government Center with Mayor Vi Lyles presiding. Councilmembers present were Dimple Ajmera, Tariq Bokhari, Ed Driggs, Larken Egleston, Julie Eiselt, Malcolm Graham, Renee Johnson, James Mitchell, and Braxton Winston II. ABSENT UNTIL NOTED: Councilmembers Matt Newton and Victoria Watlington. * * * * * * * ITEM NO. 1: Breakfast No comments were made. * * * * * * * ITEM NO. 2: Welcome and Opening Thoughts Mayor Lyles said good morning to everyone that is up and watching us; this is an electronic meeting of the City of Charlotte’s Annual Strategy Session. We’ve done all of the appropriate legal requirements for this meeting and if you are up and watching Face Book Life or the City’s TV Channel or YouTube, welcome to the meeting. Before we begin, I would like to recognize Councilmember James Mitchell. Councilmember Mitchell said Mayor Lyles thank you for this opportunity to share some news with my colleagues, City staff, and members of the Charlotte community this morning before we begin the Retreat. I would like to let you all know today will be my last day as Councilmember for the City of Charlotte. After careful consideration and prayer, I have decided to resign my position as Councilmember at Large, effective today at 5:00 p.m. The Family Justice Center presentation, I would like to share with Council and Denada, you will make sure they get a copy of it, correct. Mayor Lyles and the City Manager have officially received my resignation. This was a tough decision to make because servicing the citizens of Charlotte for 20-years has been my greatest honor. But, given my new role as minority-owned and President of R. J. Leeper Construction Company, I have determined this is the best in the interest of me, the company, and the City that I step aside from my position today. I am confident I will continue to have a positive impact leading the largest minority construction company in the region with providing jobs and critical resources to make up a vital part of the City’s economy. As a third-generation native Charlottean you know I am so proud and passionate about moving our City forward. I love Charlotte; I will continue to be a cheerleader for our City. I am grateful for the City staff, the City employees who we have worked together to make Charlotte a place to live and play. I am sad to say good-bye, but I leave today with joy and satisfaction knowing how much we have accomplished together on this journey. North Lake Mall, Rosa Park Transit Center, Metro Police Stations, the naming of the Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard, the Charlotte Knights, and the CIAA Basketball Tournament just to name a few. I look forward to helping and continue to contribute to this great City of ours as a private citizen in many positive ways. Mayor; thank you for this opportunity, thank you City Manager, thank you colleagues, and more importantly, thank you to the citizens of Charlotte for allowing me to represent you. Councilmember Newton arrived at 8:21 a.m. Mayor Lyles said I think that Councilmember Mitchell said that he had been a part of the City Council for 20-years. He spent 12 of those years servicing District 2 before becoming an At-Large Member. When I think about Councilmember Mitchell, his service, while he named some of those accomplishments; at the time they seemed like we renamed a street in our center city for Martin Luther King and perhaps we didn’t really understand mpl January 11, 2021 Annual Strategy Session Minutes Book 151, Page 519 the gravity and the impact that his service provided with years before for us that we have to live in a city today. He has made our City and always thought about the ideas of how do we represent this community as a whole? Now you know he leads our Workforce and Business Development Committee, he has always been a champion for small, minority, and women-owned businesses. He worked really closely with our INClusion Program, those difficult times he was on the Council when we were challenged in court, our first Disparity Study, and now what is considered a routine process in our policymaking. So, starting something and getting it ingrained in governance is a huge accomplishment for him. But I have to say his commitment to good-paying jobs and a strong workforce in this community is exceptional and the work that he does in that area. When we had the CARES ACT (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) money come in and COVID (mild to severe respiratory infection caused by the coronavirus), immediately the Small Business Task Force, and we are going to hear more about that later but look at the amount of money. I think that we rival any municipality in this county in terms of success and I think that is in part due to James's relationship across this country. He was our National League of Cities President, the only second one from North Carolina, but more importantly, if you actually wanted to talk to anyone in this country and you had a city in that place you could get them through James Mitchell. He mentioned many of the small things, the CIAA (Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association), North Lake Mall, all of these efforts made a difference for us and it was done prior to perhaps all of our growth and success. I want to say this, if you are ever out with James Mitchell you can see people that love him for his love for West Charlotte High School, you can see the joy in his life from his family, so to Queen Joanie, I want to say thank you for going on this journey with us, to his two blessings, thank you for going on his journey with us because we know the many hours that he could have been at home watching Monday night football, he spent with us on Monday nights. I also want to say when you see people gravitate towards him, that infectious smile and that support for the love of this City is clear around this. At a later time, we are going to recognize all of his work in a formal way, but today we say God speed and do well. What your work going forward will mean for this community is building a minority business that can be not just in Charlotte but let’s say regional and let’s say this is something that we can be recognized for nationally. So, taking this, we know is a hard decision, but this decision is one that doesn’t mean anything more than keep going and keep influencing what this community can be. I just want to say that Mr. Mitchell, we were going to talk about infrastructure and some of our projects and Mr. Mitchell has left us a project that he feels passionate about. Now usually does this on the last day of our budget deliberations, that is when he usually does it, but because of his retirement from Council, he is going to leave us with a presentation and talk about the passion that he has for dealing with domestic violence and the Family Justice Center. We will talk about that tomorrow, so with that, I was teasing Mr. Mitchell a couple of weeks ago at our Council meeting, you don’t have to doze off, you can just move on, so for your service, it is really appreciated and thank you very much for giving us part of you, and it will be forever. Thank you very much, Mr. Mitchell. We will have a formal public ceremony recognizing Mr. Mitchell and hopefully, we will have a private ceremony that we will Roast Mr. Mitchell. That is the plan. Thank you, Mr. Mitchell, we appreciate you. I didn’t do the Annual Strategy Session, but I did want to say two things about this time. This is an important meeting, it defines us for the next year, it gives us direction, it gives us ways to evaluate what we are doing. Is it being strategic, is it meeting our priorities, is it contributing to the kind of City that we want to have? When we are having this discussion today, I encourage everyone to be open-minded, to be flexible to hear what everyone’s ideas are to be able to say to our staff and to our guest, not just the questions, but both the easy questions and the hard questions because once we walk out of this room tomorrow the goal is to have something that is embedded in us for our strategy for building or continuing to build this great City. With that, I’m going to turn it over to the City Manager. * * * * * * * mpl January 11, 2021 Annual Strategy Session Minutes Book 151, Page 520 ITEM NO. 3: YEAR IN REVIEW Marcus Jones, City Manager said Mr. Mitchell, what a way to kick off an Annual Strategy Meeting, I will personally truly miss not having you on Council. Thank you for all the guidance you’ve given me. As the Mayor said, what we use the Annual Strategy Meeting for is to really put out a roadmap for the next year and hopefully we get to a point where it is multi-years, but what we also do today, gives us an opportunity to show the Council the progress that we’ve made towards some of your priorities and that is progress from an administrative standpoint to staff, but also the Council and the Committees.
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