 Okay, I'm terrified, but please tell me what they're about. I'm literally shaking in my white bucks. What do you got? Oh, is this instead of cider we get we have Skittles tonight Keep it in mind. I'm glad you're not injured. I was afraid you had some head wound All right Oh I never mind getting a couple of showers asleep Really, I'm feeling especially white today Not just the outfit but the outfit reinforces my my internal whiteness The Japanese person Good evening Like to call this meeting of the Durham City Council to order for Tonight Monday June 4th 2018 and certainly want to welcome all of you all who are in attendance Could you please now join me for a moment of silent meditation? Thank you. I Would now like to recognize councilmember Reese to lead us in the pledge. Thank you, Mr. Mayor Good evening everyone if it's your practice to do so and if you're able please join me in rising for the Pledge of Allegiance And to the Republic Thank you very much and now madam clerk, will you please call the roll mere shul here mere pro tem Johnson here Councilmember Alston here comes member caballero here comes member Freeman president comes member Middleton here comes member Reese here Thank you very much We have no ceremonial items tonight, so I'm going to move directly to announcements by the council Are there any announcements by members of the council? Thank you, mr. Mayor Sorry, I wanted to take just a minute or two tonight to thank you For recently signing a letter alongside 75 other mayors from across the country in support of the federal title 10 program Title 10 is our country's federal program that funds Affordable birth control and reproductive health care, but last month the federal government proposed a new rule that would prevent doctors from providing Their patients with full and accurate information about their reproductive health care options Including abortion currently title 10 requires health care providers to provide that full and accurate information to their patients and the federal gag rule That's been proposed would do just the opposite Title 10 is a vital federal program that helps millions of Americans by funding health centers that provide cancer screenings earth control sexually transmitted infection screenings Pregnancy testing and annual exams right here in Durham I just one provider of those services Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Provided preventive health care to two thousand two hundred and twenty seven patients just last year and that's just one provider So mr. Mayor, I was proud to see that you joined 75 of America's mayors Who in total represent over 32 million Americans in opposing the federal gag rule and y'all are in really good company More than 200 members of Congress have come out in opposition to the gag rule including Durham's two members of the US House of Representatives Representative David Price and representative GK Butterfield and over 100 public health organizations are also opposing this including the American Medical Association The American College of Physicians and the American College of Obstetricians and gynecologists So thank you, mr. Mayor for adding your voice to the course of those who believe as I do that every American is entitled to Accurate and complete information about their health care including information about safe legal abortion and let's hope that the policy America's in Washington, DC Listen to that course and turn away from the sudden dangerous federal gag rule. Thank you. Thank you very much councilmember recent Thank you for drawing the letter to my attention and I was glad to be able to sign it. So thank you Councilmember Cabiano, yes, just really quickly. I will not be pulling I know there have been some folks who wanted to potentially comment on number two of the consent agenda And so if we pull that then we will you will not be able to do a comment until the very end of the evening So I see everyone who's here in support and I just want to say thank you And if you are here in support everyone who's here is wearing white if you could please stand so we can all acknowledge you So let's get okay, let's go to see it. Okay No, vamos a Ablar de la declaración misma esta noche, pero les quería decir que estamos Con ustedes que les apoyamos que apoyamos a todos los inmigrantes Especialmente Samuel y José chicas y esta declaraciones por ellos. Gracias por estar aquí con nosotros. Thank you Thank you very much councilmember Any further announcements right and now our next order of business Is our priority items and I'll recognize the city manager for any priority items. Thank you mr. Mayor Good evening everyone members of council this evening priority item have for the council item number 19 Which is the contract for software solution to automate the city of Durham employee performance evaluation program Would like to request that that be referred back To the administration to be brought back the the next council meeting and then I would also like to take this opportunity To thank and congratulate The Durham police department the Durham fire department to keep Durham beautiful Many other city departments and many many community partners who spent this past Saturday For a community cleanup day and community relationship building day at McDougal Terrace It was a tremendous tremendous Outpouring of work and support by a lot of city employees a lot of city partners But also a lot of the McDougal Terrace community who who came out in very large numbers to celebrate their community clean up Their community and and look to establish more meaningful Relationships with the the city see Anthony Scott with Durham housing authority. I know he was there There's a lot of housing authority represented as well, but it was a great day I'm not sure all of which members of council attended I saw the mayor there So thank you and thank anyone who came but really want to congratulate and thank in particular keep Durham beautiful in the the city police and fire departments for really Great turnout and a great morning. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. Manager. It was a wonderful wonderful event You all have heard the city manager's priority item. Can I hear a motion on his item? Second and moved and seconded the manager's priority item, which is to refer item 19 back to the city administration Any discussion if not madam clerk, will you please open the vote? Close the vote Motion passes seven zero Thank you very much Mr. Attorney any priority items tonight. Thank you. Mr. Mayor members of council. No priority items Madam clerk. No items. Mr. Mayor. Thank you so much we're now going to proceed to the Next item on the agenda, which is the consent agenda All items on the consent agenda must be approved in one vote unless an item is removed From the consent agenda by any member of the council or by any member of the public If if if a member is removed it would be Considered as council member Caballero said at the end of the meeting Thank you very much And so I'm going to let's see Okay Just looking at our speaker requests here. I'm going to read the consent agenda items item one dependent eligibility verification performance audit for April 2018 Item two resolution in support of the national movement of congregations of faith for item two I have two speakers Lee Mortimer and Chris Tiffany And we can pull those that item, but we won't be taking them up until the end of the meeting I just want to make that clear So we'll be pulling item two Item three appointment of civilian police review board members and this has also been pulled by Chris Tiffany Item four contract amendment with a housing authority the city of Durham DHA for affordable housing development activities Item five supplemental agreement for you four seventy two six HM Avondale Road sidewalk project item six you five seven four five roundabout at NC 751 and University Drive municipal agreement Item seven downtown Durham transportation study contract with altar planning and design Inc Item eight interlocal agreement for triangle regional call center item nine construction manager risk Prequalification process for the Department of Water Management facility complex and compliance services building item 10 contract with Ralph Hodge construction company for the 2018 manhole manhole rehabilitation project Rehabilitation program Item 11 contract with in in situ forum technologies LLC for the 2018 sewer lining program north Item 12 contract with Amliner East Inc for the 2018 sewer liner program south Item 13 bid report for April 2018 item 14 proposed sale of property located 700 Canal Street to Copernica properties LLC Okay, we'll pull item 14 item 15 cell tower lease and license agreement with Selco partnership DBA Verizon 801 Ellis Road Item 17 contract with trademark properties to provide commercial real estate leasing property management services for the new mixed-use parking garage Item 19 has been referred back to the city manager's office for further consideration Item 21 fiscal year 2018-19 amendment to contract for city services and programs Item 21. Yes for the downtown municipal service district item 22 fiscal year 2018-19 contract to fund economic development programs and services operated by downtown Durham Inc Using City of Durham grant funds item 23 second amendment to economic and community development agreement between Austin Lawrence partners east LLC in the city of Durham Item 24 contract with North Carolina polygraphic Inc to conduct pre-employment polygraph examinations of police applicants Item 25 contract for janitorial services for public works operation centers P walk I am 26 Kimmely Horn and associate city Duke University permitting and design services triangle fiber project Item 27 city Duke University fiber optic network partnership item 29 can be found on the general business agenda under public The items that have been pulled are items to item 3 item 14 and item 21 With the exception of those items do I hear a motion that we approve the consent agenda still moved second moved a second We approve the consent agenda Madam clerk. We please open the vote Close the vote Motion passes seven zero. Thank you very much We will take those items up Subsequent to our other business We'll now move to the general business general public hearings. We have one item today under public hearings This is item 29 the public hearing of the proposed FY 2018-19 budget an FY 19 to 24 capital improvement plan with CIP And we will now hear our report from staff Good evening mayor and members of council Bertha Johnson director of budget and management services This is a public hearing to receive public comments on the proposed 2018-19 budget and 2019-24 capital improvement plan this item is required by North Carolina general statute 159-12 and the item has been advertised in the local newspaper as required. I'm happy to answer any questions Thank you very much You have now we've now heard the staff report and I'm going to declare this public hearing open and first I'm going to ask if there are any questions by members of the council for staff at this point If not, we will hear from members of the public we have we have seven Speakers who have signed up and as I call your name if you'll proceed over here to my right and line up here on this side of the room and Everyone will have three minutes to make their comments and so first we'll hear from Katherine Malloy Next is Denise Hester Third is Larry Hester Diane standard Max Davis Sarah Vukalich I hope I have your name right and Lendis Maasnor Say again close enough mason or I see you tried to help me by putting the long mark over the a and I still messed it up Mr. Mason or I apologize. Thank you for the grammatical help, and I'll do better next time We will now start with Katherine Malloy miss Malloy welcome, and you have three minutes Please state your name and address Okay, my name is Catherine Malloy. I live at 608 Price Avenue, and I thank you for letting me speak I want to speak about an area where I live We've all seen Durham growing and changing quickly, but some parts of it need to be preserved I look at the area around Lakewood shopping center and West Chapel Hill Street These areas are being preserved because they represent the real or bare bones of Durham's past Another area needs preservation, and that is the historic favela Street area Attention to this area would continue to progress that we're making from the new police headquarters The east wall of the headquarters faces favela Street And if you will come on down favela Street across the train tracks Come past the new Bull City apartments. You'll get to the beginning of the historic favela Street area So I'm asking the city council to consider funds for a sign at the entrance to historic favela Street The sign could be located near Land that is near the exit of favela Street off of 147 South Or there's also available space at the former ABC store on favela Street There are other suitable places up and down the quarter There are already two new signs in the area one is located across from Haytai Heritage Center a lost firm that has constructed a sign there and the second new sign is Where central or if I center has constructed one at the corner of favela and Dupri a Sign like this could be the beginning project or end project to preserve the area for cultural designation Preserving terms pass is important The surrounding areas would also benefit from some extra attention and emphasis on the area some positive attention and also Focus on the need for the area to have an update Thank you. Thank you very much miss Galloway Miss Hester welcome. You have three minutes. Please give us your name and address Thank you. Good evening. I'm Denise Hester 3526 Abercrombie Drive in Durham I am a member of the Durham business and professional chain and the favela Street planning group Two organizations who have a great interest in the development activities of our city We request a five million dollar Allocation for engineering and construction of a streetscape for the favela Street corridor Streets gates have been built for the other three corridors into downtown some funded more than once But favela Street again has been left out The favela Street corridor is too important to be left out. It's a major north south Transportation route to RTP the airport and I-40 and it's a feeder for local traffic This historic corridor is the southern gateway into downtown for residents businesses students and visitors It is home to historic landmarks the city's only African-American local and national historic districts North Carolina Central University and hillside high school It needs in its infrastructure needs should not continue to be overlooked Infrastructure improvements would lift all boats Not just for one specific business person or institution But for the stakeholders who helped build this corridor over the past a hundred and fifty years And who are currently still located here? Statements one from one high-tech source and one from a rural source underscore how important it is in our state and city to support local businesses already here Patrick Woody president of the North Carolina Rural Center said we've got to really work at building the ecosystem in this state for Supporting existing businesses already here emphasis on already here and Several real estate developers commenting on the incentives for the potential entry of Apple and Amazon to the triangle Also express caution that we should not lose sight of support needed for our existing businesses New businesses coming in are fine, but we should never lose sight of those who helped build our city to where it is today From the high-tech triangle to the rural North Carolina Supporting stakeholders already present is critical to advancing the city's goal of shared economic prosperity The resulting physical improvements would stimulate business development Create jobs much-needed jobs to lift families out of poverty Reduce crime and increase revenues for the city And I don't know what municipality is not interested in more revenue If the city really wants to create shared economic prosperity now is the time to start sharing. Thank you Thank you very much. Miss Hester Mr.. Hester welcome. You have three minutes. I Follow my wife My name is Larry Hester And I live at 3526 Abercrombie Drive in Durham I am chair of the Durham business and professional chain and member of the Fayetteville Street planning group My business is located in the Haytah district of the Fayetteville Street corridor We have a vision for a safe Livable sustainable and affordable community that supports vibrant residential neighborhood Thriving shopping districts and a nationally acclaimed cultural district Some say that you cannot stop market forces once they start moving I Disagree I Was there when downtown Durham was at its lowest point years ago And the city of Durham decided to stop the market forces of decline By creating the environment for economic recovery These efforts paid off for downtown That same vision should also apply to the Fayetteville Street corridor We request that ten million dollars be set aside in the fund To assist businesses and property owners with business incentives and Development funds scale for neighborhood businesses and rehab fund for owners to improve their property and prevent demolition We've seen demolition in other places Fayetteville Street is home to over 100 African-American businesses More than anywhere else in the county or the city of Durham 200 merchants and residents of the corridor work for a year in 2005 To produce a plan for the improvement of this corridor The city council's response was that it was too comprehensive and Continued its investment in downtown and other areas of our city and investment in infrastructure improvements and business development funds for existing businesses and Residents already in the corridor can help mitigate gentrification High unemployment and the wealth disparity in this historic corridor and begin to position the Fayetteville Street corridor For economic recovery We hope you hear us this year. Thank you Thank you very much. Mr. Hester This standard you have three minutes Good evening. My name is Diane standard. I live at 1114 Lane Caster Street Durham, North Carolina Here on behalf of the Human Relations Commission for the city of Durham We just wanted to thank you for taking a great step forward in addressing our city's eviction crisis in this year's budget As you know over 900 people a month in Durham face eviction and this is falling most hard on African-American and Latino communities and low-income people We are pleased to see that $200,000 has been allocated to the eviction diversion program Which will increase the chances that tenants facing eviction will have access to legal representation This investment will help ensure that people have a fighting chance of staying in their homes When faced with what in many ways has essentially become an eviction machine We saw this machine at work in particular in the courtroom where we saw landlords were always represented But tenants most often were not This is an important investment in the safety of our community Ensuring more people are able to benefit from the stability of staying in their homes Which helps reduce homelessness contributes to students success in schools and reduces costs to current and future tenants We hope this is just the first step of the city's commitment and not just the council But for all of us in the community and and more work remains to be done But we did want to say thank you for this item and the budget. Thank you. Thank you. Ms. Stander Max Davis Mr. Davis welcome my name is Max Davis I live at 1611 Merrick Street in Durham And I work for the city of Durham I'm here to talk about three important issues one being the wage issue We're asking that the merit raise has been shown to be Bias Toward workers and intensive positions in the past Workers who do not get exceeds or increase Associated with it historically the higher wages have been management giving money to management We asked that that money be taken and Be equal that's equal to three percent and divide that amount to give the workers the flat Flat raise and part-time workers. Also, we have an issue of understaffing our garbage trucks are grossly understaffed We don't have enough trucks. The trucks are outdated. We're still driving equipment from 2004 and 2005 We don't have enough trucks the equipment is not in good repair and Some of our three-man trucks have two men working on them when there should be three which is unsafe The third and last issue would be the compensation study We request to review the report as soon as it is done and meet with council and the manager on how to implement it Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Davis Uh next we have Sarah Vukalich Vukalich I'm not sure how to say that Welcome. You have three minutes. My name is Sarah Vukalich. I live at 710 Underwood Ave and I just wanted to Also speak to the the city budget I don't repeat anything that max said but I know every year our union pushes on this issue of seasonal Temporary and part-time workers not getting $15 an hour, and I don't know why that continues to fall on deaf ears I'm a part-time city worker I work in Parks and Recreation and I make like significantly less than $15 an hour and I don't know if there's an idea maybe there's an idea that most of these workers are Teenagers with summer jobs or something like that and it's okay not to not to have a living wage But that's that's just not true. Most people I know who are working part-time in my department are working part-time in City parks in Durham and then also part-time in city parks in Chapel Hill or Kerry or Raleigh And it's basically you're working a full-time job, but you don't have benefits You don't have job security and it's a scheduling nightmare, and it's a commuting nightmare so Just wanted to be speaking on behalf of of those city workers and Pushing that issue, and I just also finally want to say that even though we didn't show up in white But our union is is absolutely in support of this resolution In fact Sandra Makina who's the wife of Jose Chica's is is a member of our union as a state worker And yeah, we're here in support of the resolution as well. So thank you Thank you very much Landis Mason or Mr. Mason or welcome you have three minutes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor You know my name. I live at 28 22 picket road and on the board chair of bike Durham a coalition of volunteers working to improve Affordable transportation in Durham We are pleased to see that the proposed budget includes funding for bicycle and pedestrian facilities This shows an understanding that we cannot reach our equity and sustainability goals of affordable housing and job growth without affordable transportation If we fail to provide affordable transportation those two goals suffer as well As the population and density of Durham increases safety becomes even more vital as people opt to use non-automotive transport However, know that decisions like Marine Road made by staff in this body to not explore safer options or disappointment to hundreds of people who Consistently expressed a desire for safer infrastructure These funds in the budget support projects that are necessities not luxuries Protected bike lanes and complete sidewalks are proven tools that provide safety for vulnerable road users They have demonstrated a 90% reduction in injuries and fatalities These types of facilities when part of a complete network can increase biking and walking by more than 400 percent Statistics numb the reality that we're talking about real people whose lives can be saved by better policy decisions Carlos Reed-Oreas comes to mind a Durham dishwasher who bike to work every day for 13 years and was hit and killed by a car in December of last year Carlos represents the majority of bike commuters who do not own cars and rely on bikes to commute to their service jobs Usually riding more often and longer distances than sport cyclists Similar arguments can be made for the importance of connected sidewalks and frequent crosswalks For these reasons protect bike lanes and connected sidewalks on streets with higher speeds and traffic volumes are standard best Practices in pier cities across the country in the world They are no longer luxuries but a requirement for a city like Durham The goal should be to build facilities that meet our commitment to vision zero and federal design standards in the inevitable cases Like Marine Road where because of site factors or budget or timeline There are trade-offs in safety council must know what stands in the way of industry best practices Knowing something will cost more or take no longer is not the same as knowing how much more or how much longer We believe it is the role of this body to make policy decisions that weigh these trade-offs But you cannot make them without complete information This knowledge can enlighten whether there is a way to divert or rearrange funds to accommodate best practices and save lives Thank you again for your time You're considering the necessity of full information and this funding especially so the best decisions with respect to resident safety can be made We look forward to working more with you in the future on important issues Thank you very much. Mr. Mason or is there anyone else who would like to be heard on this item? This is a public hearing This is a public hearing concerning our budget. Is there anyone else in the room who would like to be heard on this item? If not, are there count are there comments by council members at this point or questions for staff? The comments by council members Before I close the public hearing. I want to thank everyone that spoke today And I want to assure you the in the phrase one of our eloquent speakers Your comments did not fall on dead deaf ears We are very concerned about all the issues that you raised and we will take all of them very seriously And I want to just thank you all for being here And and making your voices heard. Thank you so much. If there are no further comments I want to declare this public hearing closed. I want to thank those that were here in attendance for that item We're now going to move mr. Further record might want to just confirm that the council will consider the final adopting of the budget at the next council meeting On uh, june the 18th. Yes. Thank you. Yes, we will be voting on the on the budget itself Two weeks from tonight. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Thank you, mr. Manager Now we'll move to item two resolution support of the national movement of congregations of faith and uh, we have We have four speakers On this item Uh, and as I call your name, I'm going to ask you to come over to the right And uh, you will have three minutes to speak the first speaker is lee mortimer The second speaker is chris tiffani the third speaker is reverend eric John c i'm not sure couldn't quite read your Hand writing, but I think you probably know who you are Uh, and the final speaker is uh, faisal kahn And so if the four of you all could please come over here to the right and we will begin with you Mr. Mortimer And you will have three minutes welcome and please give us your name and address Thank you, mr. Mayor. I'm lee mortimer 41 16 living stone place 30-year resident of durham I wish to speak in favor of council members caballero's resolution to support immigrants Currently facing deportation My wife and I have done shifts at the ucc church in raleigh that provides sanctuary to one such immigrant The current surge of immigrants includes many fleeing horrific criminal violence in their home countries Those who have led their children away from that violence now face the prospect Of their children being taken from them and turned over to an uncertain fate We should be mindful of our country's role in shaping the social conditions in those countries In the 1980s. I participated In efforts that supported popular movements to throw out brutal u.s supported dictatorships in central america Our government propped up some of the world's worst human rights violators in the name of opposing marxist revolution We can't know what might have happened if marxist had come to power in honduras guatemala or el salvador What we do know is that the governments who received our lavish military support Have supported have allowed those countries to become hell holes of violence Driving a flood of refugees to our southern border Two years ago I was able to make a first visit to ireland and the city of cork where my grandmother immigrated to america And eventually brought most of her family All that my grandmother needed was to buy was the money to buy a boat ticket Many americans including those who complained so loudly about illegal immigrants are here today Only because their grandparents and great-grandparents Enjoyed virtual virtually unlimited entry into the united states This resolution appropriately follows your recent unanimously approved policy statement Rejecting militarized police training from governments such as israel Durham should continue standing up for human rights and reject practitioners of violent repression Especially when they receive support and comfort from our government and our tax dollars Thank you Thank you very much. Mr. Mortimer and we'll now hear from chris tiffani. Mr. Tiffany Please state your name and address and you have three minutes Thank you chris tiffani PO box 25331 I'm wearing white to support immigrants and first amendment rights including religious freedoms and freedom of expression including the right of the people To petition for redress of grievances in other words to complain including The right to complain about for example violations of the right of the people including pedestrians to be secure against unwarranted Search and seizure like being face planted and told we don't like mexicans Dating our women When the citizens review board was being designed I strenuously objected to the exclusion of public input and review And to the intended name And insisted that it be called the civilian police complaint review board not citizen The rights of the people to justice Are not limited to just us Citizens or to citizen gentry But extend to all the people including immigrants and various indian nations And people in and near unposted target areas of whatever nationality or ethnicity age sex race color or class Thank you very much. Mr. Tiffany And now we'll hear from reverend eric Johnson That's right. Johnson. Johnson. My name may yama eric johnson. I live at 21 27 Edwin avenue here in Durham. I'm a presbyterian minister. My wife and I liby recently moved here from east tennessee I worship and an active participant at the church of reconciliation in chappahill Which is a sanctuary church. We support rosa the carman cruise But every wednesday night My wife and I In other community members here in durham We sit down for a meal with hosei chicas who is at the school of the conversion here in durham He's in sanctuary He's a a colleague of mine in in ministry He's a minister of the gospel And he yearned to be reunited with his family here who live in Raleigh We see and we eat together with his wife rosa with his sons ultska Darwin in its ekeom And it's a beauty to sit down and feast with them And i'm here to speak words of gratitude for this resolution and particularly to over here councilman cover your error for Putting the fourth this resolution. I think and I support the Chair, I mean the overview of the reason why people are clogged in the road for Safety from latin america. I've been there numerous time as well. It's for my five children We are involved in a web of life and They would be grateful for this resolution because it would be a sign of hope To the tens and tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of other people who are facing deportation and I'm proud to be part of this community With the passage that this resolution because it provides a sense of liberation It says something about what we are about and who we are We are welcome in community. We embrace people and we will respectfully honor their struggle And their hardship and they will find refuge of monuments So i'll bring you gratitude from jose chicas And as i'm certain that samuel Bruno his conjugation that support him in san jure to offer his Thanksgiving as well. So thank you. Mr. Mayor members of the council and others here tonight. Thank you very much Thank you very much reverend johnson and now we'll hear from faisal kahn Mr. Kahn welcome. You have three minutes Please introduce yourself and state your address a phasal kahn carolina peace center 501 jones ferry road in carboro Mr. Mayor and the council member. Thank you very much for giving the opportunity to be here I didn't come through a prepared speech, but I just wanted to thank Uh, miss heavy arrow cabillero and everybody else and the members to support this resolution I think it's really important for City like durham and other cities in state of north carolina and across the country To show support to our immigrants and refugees who are being marginalized and directly targeted with Horrible from policies and I thank the city of durham for taking a stand and being on the side of justice And at least passing this symbolic resolution that is extremely important. I Been really touched by this gentleman who's been who's taken a century at the umster church park For about six months now I've got to know him personally a little bit an amazing gentleman an amazing gentleman an amazing artist. He's building these beautiful Burke houses that are just unbelievable Um, he has a member of a family. He has one beautiful children and it's really Unacceptable how our government is treating these people. They would not be here people from nicaragua from honduras From guadamala and even from mexico would not be here if it wasn't for united states Horrible overt and covert policies of destabilizing these countries That are now facing Unpresident level of violence and gang violence and and dire socioeconomic conditions And that really has allowed these people to escape those countries to find A peaceful life in this country to make their lives make their ends meet And they have a peaceful life as a citizen of this country So I ask also other members of the community to stand up and support these kind of resolutions in their own cities Also, it's important that us congressman Butterfield and congressman david price to present a private bills has been issued before To stop the deportation of samuel and jose so they may return home to their families Immediately without any threat of deportation. I think it's really important that this is a symbolic gesture And a movement for all of us to join That if it takes a village to raise a child It's going to take a city and a town to come together to protect these people and succumbed upon us as people of our society As a citizen of this nation to stand up and support our brothers and sisters from immigrant and refugee communities And I thank you for taking the stand Thank you very much We will now hear from ellie azar posada And while mr. Posada is coming to the lectern Is there anyone else that would like to speak on this item? Is there anyone else? Thank you Thank you very much Te apprasamos in Durham Estamos contigo ellie azar Good afternoon everyone elas are posada uh 1325 jennifer street. Um So I am the community engagement advocacy manager for our center hispano And I don't have anything prepared. Uh, as you saw I just put my name on the sheet I wanted to take some time to acknowledge every single one of you for all the work that you are doing to protect our communities In the past Durham has always been an ally and they'll continue to be and we see Durham as a place for all of us to come together and be one be a community And more than that be a family So I want to thank not just councilwoman canviera, but the entire council For all the work that you do And reiterate in some of the words that we already heard tonight This is a fight that will continue We will be working not just on increasing sanctuary and redefining what sanctuary means, right? So that we can see all of us as a community all of us a family But also to fight for the rights of every single person who is marginalized not just our latinx community But anyone who needs our help we are there to help And again, thank you so much. I just want to come up today and thank you Part of myself and on behalf of it in through spinal. Thank you so much for the work that you do Thank you very much Is there anyone else that would like to speak on this item? mis amigos Gracias por estar aquí esta noche para esta importante Resolution Estamos contigo Can I hear a I guess we have a motion on this item already? Is there any more discussion? If not, I'm going to ask the clerk to please open the vote Close the vote Motion passes seven zero Thank you Thank you very much We'll now move to item three appointment of civilian police review board members and we'll hear from mr. Chris tiffani Mr. Tiffany welcome. You have three minutes. Thank you Chief davis responded to my suggestion that when cops use force they should Document the use of force by referring not to policy like the fact that police are required to document Are required to document use of force against strivers, but not pedestrians To complaints saying we cannot depend on cops to complain The complaints have to come from victims I tried to tell her about derm one call professional complaint handling our civilian review board. No, they're useless I'll tell you about that later the cprb are amateurs who don't make complaints When I tried to tell her about derm one call. She said I'd love to talk to you about this process later Okay, but when I tried to talk to her out in the lobby saying I've been stopped hundreds of times sometimes at gunpoint She cut me off and said yeah, I wonder why it turned and walked away After her latest quarterly report after she said should meet with me I followed her out into the lobby and said you've said that or is it true this time? She said right now. I said, okay But she kept cutting me off and arguing when I tried to tell her when this that when the cprb had their first ever public forum Here about complaint handling One complaint was that a cop pulled a gun on their eight-year-old and they described the run around They got unable to get anyone to take their complaint and ironically there was no audio and no transcript and no indication That a cop pulled a gun on an eight-year-old nor that they could not get their complaint taken by anyone including the cprb Which also failed to document their complaint When I went to one of the cprb public meetings, I was told I could only speak for one minute A police attorney said they don't want to document use of weapons because they could they would be swamped with paperwork And the lawyer running the cprb said no wonder you get stopped look at what you're wearing a toboggan and a hoodie And an elderly white woman an english professor said should never have been stopped by the police suggesting that you must have Done something to get stopped by the police And said that the way to improve the complaint form is to use garamond font at which point I slapped my head Anyone in a position of possible oversight should listen To complaints without cutting people off or suggesting that they must be criminals liars are ignorant Okon's where? complainants know Much that politicians are sick of fans writing shotgun in the front seat of police cars with cops don't know If you'd listen you all could even learn about undocumented use of force unknown to elderly white english professors Thank you very much. Mr. Tiffany Yeah, mr. Tiffany you have your bottle of drink. Could you come get it? Thank you I've been informed by the by the by the attorney that we actually did need an item a motion on The last item so we're gonna first go ahead and vote here on item three We need a motion on item three as well move approval Is there a second second been moved and seconded that we approve item three. Madam clerk, please open the vote Close the vote Motion passes seven zero. Thank you. And now we'll go back to item two. Do we have a motion item two? Zoom approval. It's been moved and seconded Madam clerk, will you please open the vote? Close the vote. Thank you Motion passes seven zero Thank you. Sorry about that council members And now we'll move to item 20 no item 14 Proposed sale of property located 700 canal street to Copernica properties LLC councilmember freeman I apologize. I really am trying to figure out the process for this I'm I miss I might have missed an update or a briefing or something But I this is the first that I heard of this in this And so I was just trying to find some more information I'm sorry could you repeat the question? I might be could could just explain the item and how we got to this point Yes, this is a Introduce yourself, please. Excuse me. David Fleischer general services department This was a piece of surplus city real estate and we had an unsolicited offer come from the adjacent property owner For sale of this parcel. We determined staff determined that there was no recommendation by any city department that Retained this property. We also determined that the offer was in keeping with fair market value And we moved to recommend the sale of this surplus surplus property to council Could you also say something about the property itself its shape its size and so forth? I could the adjacent property owner owns a Developable, excuse me a developable piece of property. This property is shaped as a wedge There's no portion of this property that is buildable The widest portion of the wedge will be Retained by the city or reserved by the city as a sanitary sewer easement And the smaller part of the wedge is wholly within the non-buildable area Required adjacent to a creek is the area that would be retained wide enough for a Bike lane or a walkway so that you could have access to the east end park The easement is adjacent to a street and is accessible off the street on both corners of this uh of the Developers adjacent property and our property. There's sidewalk there There I'm not certain if there's sidewalk. I don't believe there is sidewalk along canal street I just I just wanted to raise the concern that This piece of property recognizing that we're talking parks and trails and all the conversation around how much we're going to spend If we're giving away parts of property or selling off pieces of property that could be used as a Piece of a trail or partway of a of a greenway. I mean access to a greenway There should be more conversation about it before it gets this far because I hadn't heard anything. I'm sorry Just for the record, sorry miss merrigan confirm you this was reviewed by general services department and the park for recreation department for any potential Utilization for access to trails or trail purposes. Yes, mr. Manager. It was and additionally, of course the transportation department Did not ask for any kind of reservation of anything adjacent to the street. Thank you Thank you very much any more comments or questions Alrighty, can I hear a motion on the item move the item second moved and seconded This is item 14 proposed sale of property located 700 canal street to Copernica properties LLC Any more discussion? If not, madam clerk, can you please open the vote? Close the vote Motion passes six one with council member freeman voting. No, thank you very much now We'll move to item 21 fiscal year 2018 19 amendment to contract for city services And programs for the downtown Durham municipal service district council member freeman, I think you had questions on this one I'm mainly around the description of services and recognizing that it is and I think On page two of the exhibit a And I just it just raises flags for me anytime we talk about tracking unusual activity And then recognizing That it's noted that it'll be electronically tracked I wanted to know if the folks who are providing this service have actually had any professional development around race equity Okay, so to clarify the question is as it relates to So please I'm sorry. Good evening. I apologize summer Austin office of economic and workforce development And so just to make sure I understand the question as it relates to the clean and safe services provided by the ambassadors The question is how have the ambassador has been trained as it relates to this particular item? Yes Okay If it's okay with you the president of downtown Durham incorporated is here I'll let her speak to that specifically But my understanding is is that the ambassadors receive a broad Survey of training in a lot of different areas as part of the services that they provide I doubt that Training of this particular type was singled out It was probably a continuum of things that they've been trained on over time And I just want to share like it's specific to the fact that Um Racism and internalized oppression works hand in hand if you don't recognize what you're doing to To be complicit in the system. You'll continue to operate in the same way shape and fashion and that's all Okay Is there is there something that you would like for us to provide as it Portains to the specificity of the training or that you'd like for us to just acknowledge your concern Both I would like to to have it acknowledged and then also to know exactly what it is that the training Um looks like on the act on the side of race equity or where it is Okay, if it's permissible to you, we will provide that to you subsequent to the meeting. That's fine. Thank you And then there was also a second one And this was this is more of a of a question to to our city manager. I'm sorry I know that um Public urination is an issue As it is a city. Is there any conversation around any public restrooms? I I just had a tour and I saw a really cool one in Atlanta and I'm just trying to make sure that I In the downtown area. Yes, I asked miss Thompson if she Talked about that a bit. I know that does come up from time to time Nicole Thompson president CEO of downtown Durham, Inc. Uh, and you're asking if there are any public restrooms in the downtown area um There are to some degree We are aware of the public urination issue Our ambassadors are aware and property owners will let us know about that We are having conversations as much as we can But to say specifically is there something that has been identified at this time? I do not know I could do a little bit of research and get back with you at a later date And the reason I bring it I know it was pretty expensive for the city of Atlanta to put Install just the one unit and so I don't know what our plan looks like But I would like to know that we're working towards some some type of facility so that folks don't necessarily They're not dinged for not having access to some place to go to the restroom No, that is something we can certainly look into going into the next fiscal year Especially for folks who actually live in like on the streets. Yes. Yes No, we could look into that and have conversations with the city on recommendations. Thank you certainly Thank you Thank you very much any more questions or comments just one additional comment to say that I really appreciate the change of language from I want to say well Changing the language to underutilize to recognize that the business This is not just small businesses, but the the historically underutilized businesses is really helpful. Thank you That is a along the race equity lines Thank you any more questions or comments Do I hear a motion on m21 move to amend? Madam clerk, will you please Open the vote Mr. Councilman melton, did you say amend or amend the contract? Is that not the proper language? Move to approve the item to approve the amendment. I guess what would he say? Thank you. Is it why we have lawyers, right? Okay. Madam clerk open the vote Close the vote The motion passes 7 0 Thank you very much. Is there any other matter to come before this body? If not, we adjourn at 7 58. Thank you. Mr. Mayor