 So we're not meeting tomorrow. Good evening. We'd like to call the Durham City Council meeting door at 7.01 p.m. Tuesday, January 20th. And certainly want to welcome all of you that are here with us this evening. We just take a moment for silent meditation, please. Thank you. Ask Councilman Brown if he would lead us in a pledge. Madam Clerk for the call of roll, please. Mayor Bell. Present. Mayor Pro Tem Cole McFadden. Councilmember Brown. Councilmember Cattati. Councilmember Davis. Councilmember Moffitt. And Councilmember Schuyl. This evening we have the distinct pleasure of presenting and announcing an award. I'm going to ask Patrick Beiker and Comfort. If you join me, how are you doing? In 2011, Convention South Magazine created a Readers Choice Award for the best meeting sites in the South. Over 175 sites were nominated by meeting professionals for exemplary service for group events with 400,800 voters participating in the selection process. And we're pleased to announce tonight that for 2014, the Global Spectrum Management of the Durham Convention Center received 2014 Readers Choice Award for best meeting sites in the South for 2014. It was done by Convention South Magazine. And Patrick as the Chair of the Convention Center, I'd like to welcome you for any comments and certainly thank you. Thank you Mayor Bell, Mayor Pro Tem Cole McFadden, members of the City Council. This is just a tremendous privilege to stand before you today and receive this award from the Convention South. It is remarkable given where the Convention Center was a few years ago that we are operating this efficiently, effectively and without with outstanding customer service which resulted in this award. I believe we are the only Convention Center in North Carolina to receive this recognition. And so in addition to all the other outstanding amenities we have downtown and throughout Durham, we have a world class Convention Center folks. We have a Convention Center that is not the biggest, not the biggest Charlotte, not the biggest Raleigh. In terms of quality, we can go toe to toe with any Convention Center in the South. And it is only because of the outstanding team we have that we've been able to achieve this. I'd like to recognize our board members because we have an outstanding board at the Convention Center these days. Keeping us on the straight and narrow financially are Don Paffenroth and Dick Ford, if you both would stand up in the back. They do a great job along with Al Bass on our board of making sure that we stretch our taxpayer dollars as far as possible. And then in regards to marketing on our board, we have Alice Sharp, Bill Kalkov, and Dara White, who do an outstanding job thinking about strategically how to market the Convention Center and how to keep it moving forward. Also want to acknowledge the great leadership we have from the city. Administration with Joel writes her in General Services and Gina Probst. And then of course on the county side, Assistant County Manager Drew Cummings does a great job. And now I'd like to turn it over to Jen Noble because she is really the reason why we're here tonight, our outstanding leader at the Convention Center. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, members of the City Council. I just wanted to recognize that we are very excited to win this award this year. Since February of 2011, Global Spectrum's team has dedicated themselves to the pursuit of excellence in our attention to detail, quality of food and beverage operations and customer service. We look forward to the future opportunities to grow our business in the downtown area and create a greater economic impact for the city as new hotels come on board. We recognize the support and leadership of the city and the county of Durham, as well as the Convention Center Authority Board in order to achieve the success for the center and exceed our expectations for our guests. We are a proud partner of the city and the Durham community, and we share the vision for the future of the city. Thank you for your continued support and commitment to Global Spectrum in our efforts and with the approval of our contract extension to manage the center through 2019. Thank you on behalf of Global Spectrum. I'm going to ask the mayor pro tem if she would join me at the podium. I am honored to proclaim Dr. Brian Lamont Johnson Day. Ms. Johnson with you and Dr. Johnson's executive assistant and the other family members come. This is just an honor because this is the second college president or chancellor that we've honored from Durham this year. And it reads, whereas Dr. Brian L. Johnson grew up with his sister Jennifer and his mother, Gwendolyn, who possessed a deep abiding faith in God in the few gardens development in East Durham, North Carolina. And whereas Dr. Johnson had big dreams to go beyond his environment, growing up without a father, salt male mentors who took on the role of father figures in his life to assist him in his growth in areas of stability, intellectual, spiritual, and cultural insight. And whereas in 2000, Dr. Brian Johnson married his college sweetheart, Shamika Barnes, and became a father to two sons, Brian Asa and Nathan Morgan Kudesh. As he reflected on fatherhood by quoting, I want my sons to think my dad is there and whatever happens, even if I make a mistake, it doesn't matter because this guy will protect me, back me and support me. How awesome. And whereas Dr. Brian Johnson graduated from Durham High School, received his bachelor of arts degree in English from Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte in 1995, received his master's degree in English from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1998, and earned his PhD degree specializing in 17th to 19th century American Literature from the University of South Carolina at Columbia. That was in 2003. And whereas he held administrative and academic posts in the firing capacities, vice president for strategic planning and institutional effectiveness, assistant provost for academic affairs, associate vice president for academic affairs, chief of staff, director, coordinator and associate and assistant professor of English, has received numerous administrative and academic awards fellowships named American Council of Education Fellow, Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis Chancellor's Office, IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. Philanthropy, please excuse me. And Association of American Schools and Colleges and Universities Millennium Leadership Initiative Fellow, a non resident fellow within the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Studies at Harvard, and an Andrew W. Mellon, Benjamin May's postdoctoral fellowship, just to name a few, and serves on the Greenville College, Illinois Board of Trustees. And whereas he is the editor and author of seven academic and scholarly books, and has also published an article in the Raleigh News and Observer title, A Young Man Apart, A World Apart, describing his experiences hailing from inner city Durham, North Carolina. And whereas Tuskegee University has historical ties to the city of Durham through the visit and writings of Booker T. Washington, the Washington papers from 1911, Durham, North Carolina, a city of Negro enterprises, and echoing the words of Booker T. Washington, Dr. Johnson concurs that success is not measured by the height you achieve, but by the depths from which you come. And whereas Tuskegee University, the home to the only school of veterinarian medicine at a historical black college, and also awards degrees in engineering and agriculture, founded in 1881 by Booker T. Washington in Tuskegee, Alabama. And whereas the city of Durham extends congratulations to Dr. Brian Lamont Johnson as the seventh president of Tuskegee University, a dynamic academic leader with a strong stature as a scholar, manager, and administrator, and who is one of the youngest individuals to be selected president of an HBCU in recent years. Now, therefore, I, William V. Bill Bell, mayor of the greatest city in the United States of America, the city of Durham, do hereby proclaim January 20 of 2015 as Dr. Brian Lamont Johnson Day in Durham, and hereby urge all citizens to take special note of this observance. What a blessed day this is, Ms. Johnson. Would you like to say something? Well, not really. I'm not the talker. My son is the talker. And he always been a person that loves to talk and loves to, even as a little boy, I was called to the school several times because he was talking, he would do his own work, but he would come back and, you know, try to help somebody else. And but he always had that in him that he wanted to be a professor. I always called him the professor. And then he, as a girl, he wanted to be president of college, any college. And so, you know, he, he's always asked a question. He wanted to know the reason for the 5W, what, when, where, why, and how, and all of that. But I'm glad that he, I know that he was going to be somebody. Yeah, we all were somebody. You know, even my daughter, this is my daughter, Jennifer. And this is my sister, Marilyn Slaughter. And this is his secretary, executive secretary. What she, she can. Would you like to say, tell us who you are. I'm Vernon Little, Dr. Johnson's executive assistant. And on behalf of Dr. Johnson, thank you very much for this recognition. Mayor as well as City Councilman, it's very well deserved, as you can see from his awesome background. He would have been here this evening, but due to a commitment, he's speaking at Clemson University and wanted very much for us to offer his deep appreciation for this great honor. Thank you. And she came all the way from Tuskegee to be with us tonight. Thank you so very much. Thank you. Thank you. I recognize council persons for comments. The mayor pro tem for one proud of what these two young people have accomplished. Becoming college presidents and having gone through the Durham Public School system and having stayed on course. And I just congratulate you, Miss Johnson, for what you did because you, in essence, raised him as a single parent and it took the whole community, the whole village to help raise him. So you did an outstanding job. Thank you so much. I'd like to thank also the Durham Community Martin Luther King steering committee for the peaceful commemorative MLK march yesterday. And I'd like to thank the Harold's son for recognizing who I was this time. Instead of just saying I was a participant, I actually had a name. And I shared who I was. So thanks to the Harold's son for for doing that. And then the celebration at first Presbyterian Church was just awesome. And the children saying and people prayed and it was just wonderful. And then last night, the celebration at peace missionary Baptist Church was just wonderful. Five students received scholarships. And it's noteworthy to congratulate the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority for sponsoring one of the scholarships. And yesterday morning, one of our own, Dr. James Johnson was the guest speaker for the prayer breakfast. I think that's what we're going to echo interfaith. Okay, I just keep praying for the interfaith breakfast. And he was simply superb. Um, we are blessed in Durham, all over the city. Yesterday, people were volunteering. I think quite rock Baptist Church. That's the church that two of our deputies attend had an ad in the paper. I think it was your church right, Wanda, inviting citizens to join them and volunteering at different venues. I know Habitat for Humanity, healing with care and some other kinds of sites. And so it was just a blessing to see that kind of spirit, which is what Dr. King was all about and what he expects us to do. Not just crowding all everything in one day, but sort of spreading it out throughout the year. And it will certainly make a difference. Thank you. Welcome. Can I say any other comments? Not entertained prior times by the city manager. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good evening, everyone. No priority items. Likewise, city attorney. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. On your agenda tonight, the agenda item number six is the proposed sale of no build easements at 505 Rigsby Avenue. I just want to add for the record that additional legal authority to enter in that transaction comes from Charter section 86 of the Durham City Charter. And just to advise council that I city attorney's office is working with the developer to finalize that document based in part on conversations that we had at the work session. That was this information, not a priority. Sorry. Okay. I mean, it didn't require action. Likewise, recognized the city clerk. No lines. Mr. Mayor. In that case, we'll proceed with the agenda. Consent agenda being first. The council persons can remove an item. We discuss it later. Someone in public can remove an item. Likewise, we discussed that later also read the heading as usual. Item one is in a local agreement among city of Durham, research triangle, regional public transportation authority in town of Chapel Hill for the curing of buses, bus equipment and parts. Item two is resolution approving city of Durham data 2014 title six program update. Item three is North Durham water reclamation facility generator improvements. Item four is contract SR 60 Hope Valley and Keystone lift station abandonments and West Street sewer outfall repair. Item five is North Durham water reclamation facility and Acadia Street water line replacement contract awarded to the John R McAdams company. I am six proposed cell of no bill easements at 505 Riggs Bay Avenue parcel number 104933 to Liberty warehouse apartments LLC. Item eight is contract with Mid Atlantic Socialist Inc. for implementation of EPA brown fields assessment grant. Item nine is contract SD 2014 dash 01 municipal separate storm sewer system MS for inspections. Item six is chrono sales software license and service agreement. I'm 11 is dream of Kramden Institute Inc. for computer donation, entertain the motion for the approval of consent agenda items for property moves. Second, Madam clerk, we open the vote. Close. Before we adjourn, I say seven zero. Thank you. Before we adjourn, I would like an excuse absence for the work session this coming Thursday from property moves. Second, Madam clerk, we open the vote. Close the vote. Pass the seven is zero. Any other items to come before the council? If not, we're adjourned at 722 p.m. Thank you.