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Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. The Republic for which it stands. One nation under God. Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you gentlemen. Thank you all very much for being here. And now, Madam clerk, could you please call the roll. Mayor Schuyl. Here. Council Member Alston. Here. Council Member Freeman. Present. Council Member Middleton. Here. Council Member Reese. Here. Thank you very much. You did that very well. Mayor Pro Tem Johnson. Did you miss anyone? Yeah. Whoops. Okay. Not quite as well. But it was your first attempt, Diana. Thank you. And we're very, we appreciate you being here and your inter-roll. And Tonetta, thank you for filling in tonight as well. Appreciate you. And now I'm going to introduce the ceremonial items. And we have two, we have two ceremonial items tonight. And the first is a proclamation regarding National Mentoring Month. And I'm going to ask Council Member Reese if he would do the honors tonight. We do. Uh-huh. Dwarren Langley and others, I believe. Yes, and others. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you members of the public for being here tonight. We're doing a proclamation tonight on National Mentoring Month. And I appreciate the mayor for giving me this opportunity. I'll read this. And then we'll give Dwarren a chance to say a few words if that's all right with you. Awesome. Whereas in 2002, the Harvard School of Public Health and Mentor, the National Mentoring Partnership, created National Mentoring Month. And whereas the goals of National Mentoring Month are to raise awareness of mentoring, recruit individuals to mentor and encourage organizations to engage and integrate quality in mentoring into their efforts. And to motivate youth to persevere even in the toughest of times. And whereas a mentor is a caring, consistent presence who devotes time to a young person to help that young person discover personal strength and achieve their potential through a structured and trusting relationship. And whereas quality mentoring encourages and empowers young people to make positive choices, promote self-esteem, support academic achievement, and introduces young people to new ideas that put them on a path for making better life decisions to improve opportunities. And whereas mentoring programs have shown to be effective in combating school violence and discipline problems, substance abuse, incarceration, and truancy. And whereas mentors help young people set career goals and use their personal contacts to help young people meet industry professionals and find jobs. And whereas youth development experts agree that mentoring is critical to the social, emotional, and cognitive development of youth, helping them navigate the path to adulthood more successfully. Now therefore, I, Stephen M. Schul, Mayor of the City of Durham, North Carolina, do hereby proclaim January 2018 as National Mentoring Month in Durham. And hereby call upon public officials, educators, business and community leaders, as well as encourage all citizens to observe this month with appropriate ceremonies, activities, and programs. In order to, number one, recognize the men and women who serve as staff and volunteers at quality mentoring programs who are helping our young people find inner strength and to reach their full potential. Number two, promote the creation and expansion of quality mentoring programs here in the City of Durham and across the country to equip young people with the tools needed to lead healthy and productive lives. And number three, support initiatives to close the mentoring gap. Witness my hand in the corporate seal of the City of Durham, North Carolina, the second day of January 2018, and it's signed by Stephen M. Schul, Mayor of the City of Durham. So congratulations. Got to warn Langley here. He's going to say a few words. Here you go. Mr. Mayor, members of the City Council, thank you so very much for claiming January as Mentoring Month. This is a very important month to me as well as others throughout the community who have grown up with mentors who've helped us navigate college to career, helped us to navigate the challenges of our community and just build the self-esteem and awareness necessary to be successful. This evening we have a few organizations represented. I represent the Charles Hamilton Houston Foundation which works with the Young Winter of Color in high school and college to help them understand what their career pathway is and also to connect with internships and other work-based learning opportunities and help them transition to full-time employment. Also have with me the MBK, My Brother's Keeper, Durham Coordinator, Mr. Edmund Lewis will be working together to have an event on Tuesday, January the 16th at Mellow Mushroom where we're the goal of My Brother's Keeper in the month of January is to have 31 mentors in 31 days. We also have Atreus Good. He represents movement of youth as well as mentors, Carolina. That is an organization that is going to be working to expand mentoring, quality mentoring programs and provide support to organizations in North and South Carolina. We also have with us the President of Men in Vision, Steve Chalmers which is working in the McDougal Terrace neighborhood to provide a mentoring to young people and help improve quality of life of families. So thank you so very much for this opportunity and thank you for your support and continuing efforts to provide young people in this community with meaningful opportunities as well as supporting mentors. Thank you very much DeWarren. Thank you, Council Member Rees. And now we will have a proclamation honoring the life of late Martin Luther King Jr. and I'm going to ask Mayor Pro Tem Johnson if she would do the honors. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I believe that this is also being presented to Mr. DeWarren Lang. I can back up. And the Durham Martin Luther King Jr. Steering Committee. Proclamation honoring the life of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Whereas a champion of justice, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. devoted his life to strengthening the content of the American character and fought unrelentingly for the civil rights of all Americans and taught us that through nonviolence that courage displaces fear, love transforms hate, acceptance dissipates prejudice and mutual regard cancels enmity. And whereas Dr. King helped to organize efforts, plan events, and lead marches to advance the rights of African Americans to vote, for desegregation, for recognition and respect for labor rights and to ensure other basic civil rights. And whereas Dr. King was one of the leaders of the successful Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and helped found and served as the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 to coordinate and support nonviolent direct action as a method of desegregating bus systems across the south. And whereas between 1960 and 1964 Dr. King made addresses in Durham, North Carolina at White Rock Baptist Church the Durham Business and Professional Chain Hillside High School Jack Tar Hotel to the Southern Political Science Association North Carolina College now North Carolina Central University and Duke University urging civil disobedience and nonviolent protests to end racial segregation and discrimination. And whereas Dr. King helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama that drew national attention to the struggle for civil rights and to the hateful and brutal responses of the local law enforcement and helped organize the march on Washington during which he delivered his eloquent and moving I Have a Dream speech. And whereas he helped to organize the monumentally inspiring Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965 to advocate for passage of the Voting Rights Act to guarantee African American citizens the right to vote. And whereas Dr. King was supporting the garbage workers in Memphis, Tennessee and planning the Poor People's Campaign to promote economic justice when he was assassinated in Memphis in 1968. Now therefore I, Stephen M. Schul, Mayor of the City of Durham do hereby honor the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for his service and dedication in his committed work towards a free and just world and hereby urge all citizens to take special note of this observance in celebrating and honoring Dr. King as we reflect on his life in his dream. Witness my hand in the corporate seal of the City of Durham, North Carolina the second day of January, 2018. Stephen M. Schul, Mayor. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Good evening, distinguished members of the City Council. I feel like I'm too tall for the mic. Well, you're following Mayor Pro Tem Johnson. That's right, that's exactly right. I'm going to leave that alone. My name is William Lucas, Pastor William Lucas and I'm the Chair of the Durham MLK Steering Committee and tonight we want to thank you for being a part of a city that will stop to honor a man named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The name itself represents so many virtues. It represents love, grace, mercy, kindness, goodness, freedom, etc. and for you to stop and honor Dr. King and for us to live in a city where individuals would take time to do that. We, the Durham Committee do not take that lightly. We thank you for this honor and as we continue to live out the legacy of Dr. King and to remember the legacy of Dr. King this year we will remember 50 years since his assassination. We still have a lot of work to do. Our committee every year tries to honor that with various programs that we have throughout the city. Also we try to honor that by keeping the dream alive through an ecumenical service that we have this month. This is the beginning of our services. We consider this a part of the program this year. So again we want to thank you for honoring Dr. King and all the virtues that he stood for. We have several members here standing behind me that are members of the committee and I'm going to ask if anyone is in the audience that is a member of the Durham Martin Luther King Junior Steering Committee which you stand at this time. Thank you mayor. Thank you city council. Thank you pastor Lucas and the rest of the folks representing the Martin Luther King Steering Committee I just want to say to the members of our public that on that weekend not only on Monday but on other days of that weekend there are wonderful celebratory events here in Durham and I urge everyone to check out your various sources of information to find out when they are it's always a great weekend in Durham and I urge everyone to try to I'll certainly be at several of the events very much look forward to it and I know a lot of other people will be as well. So thank you all so much. Are there any announcements by members of the council? Mr. Mayor I have an announcement. Council Member Middleton. Thank you sir. Happy New Year to everyone. Mr. Mayor and fellow council members last night I attended a vigil in Durham as part of their week of peace to commemorate victims of gunfire in our city from the last year and also to call on our community to unite together to combat gun violence and I want to just publicly acknowledge Bull City United and congratulate them on their work I do also want to say Mr. Mayor that vigils by definition are held after the fact after something happens and I heard a number of people from the community last night say we need to do this we need to do that we need our government to do things well I want to say to activists throughout the city and community members this council I know I speak for this council I want you to feel just as comfortable coming to this chamber as developers do often times we do things as a council because people ask us we change zoning designations we dole out incentives if you have ideas or request or recommendations of your government things that you think we can do to silence gunfire in our city and we've made some progress in terms of homicides this year but we still got some work to do on gunfire you should feel just as comfortable coming to this chamber as multi-millionaire developers nothing wrong with that but this is your chamber as well and I heard a number of our community members say we need help from the city we need us to do things well this is your chamber please come and let's stop just lighting lights after the fact let's light a light before the fact and keep it burning as we move forward during this year thank you Mr. Mayor happy new year thank you for those comments anyone else alright thank you for those excellent comments councilmember and now we're going to we'll get to the priority items are there any priority items by the city manager thank you Mr. Mayor members of the council good evening I want to wish everyone a happy new year and to report that the city manager's office does no priority items this evening thank you Mr. Manager city attorney any priority items thank you Mr. Mayor no priority items city clerk thank you Mr. Mayor no items thank you very much and now we'll move to the consent agenda the next order of business is the consent agenda all items on the consent agenda may be approved by a single vote unless an item is removed by a council member or a member of the public for separate consideration at the end of the meeting tonight and I'm going to read each of these consent agenda items item 1 approval of city council minutes item 3 municipal record retention and disposition schedule amendments item 4 FY18 19 budget development schedule item 5 FY2017 18 grant project ordinance amendment for us department of housing and urban development block grant home investment partnerships agreement emergent solutions grant and housing opportunities for persons with HIV AIDS performance grant item 6 option contracting commitment of subordinate financing for the Jackson pedigree street development with self-help ventures fund and DHIC Inc item 7 the city of Durham and North Carolina Department of Transportation grant project ordinance for the downtown transportation study I have a question on that Mr. Mayor we'll pull item 7 item 8 master agreement for bicycle facility design item 9 amend chapter 15 part 15-120 100 meter deposits and rental rates of the fee schedule item 10 bid report for November 2017 I will now entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda with the exception of item 7 so moved is there any discussion if not Madam clerk will you open the vote close the vote motion passes 6-0 thank you very much and now we'll move to item 7 councilmember is there a staffer this is going to be real quick I love the amount of money that the city's got a pony up for this most important study but I notice I apologize for not bringing this up into work session I noticed some language in the memo that said due to the nature of this agreement this item was not reviewed for compliance with the ordinance to promote equal business opportunities in city contracts I was just wondering what is the particular nature of this agreement that exempts it from that type of consideration Terry Bellamy director of transportation city of Durham the reason why that statement is in there because the funding that we receive is federal funding which is a minority and women business program which is separated which is separate from the local program and so that's the reason why that statement is in there secondary question is that it is also a professional service agreement but it does note that it follows the federal regulation as relates to minority and women businesses great and we don't we have not determined who's conducting the study yet right right now the RFQ is just came back we received the packages right before the holiday break it'll be reviewed by our panel and we'll come back with a selection this is just the grant project ordinance which establishes the funding authority got you thank you thank you very much thank you very much Terry is there any other business to come forward do we have a motion to approve the item second is there any discussion if not madam clerk will you please open the vote close the vote motion passes 60 thank you very much y'all can see I'm still getting the hang of this is there any other business to come before this body if not I'm happy to say that this meeting is adjourned at 721 p.m. thank you all for being here tonight and happy new year I should say to the scouts it's not always this quick