 He's going to hold the Bible along with 10 other children. Good evening, we'd like to call the Board of City Councils leading to order. And certainly want to welcome all of you that are here with us this evening. And I appreciate the fact that you took time to be here on a very special occasion. As we organize the City Council, as we recognize those that have been elected and re-elected to the City Council, as we pay, I'm getting ready to say homage, as we pay tribute to one of our long-standing colleagues, Mr. A.J. Howard Clement III. If we could just take a moment of silent meditation, please. Thank you. And I'm going to ask Howard if he would lead us in the pledge. Foundation under God. Before I begin, I certainly want to recognize I saw some of our colleagues from the Board of County Commissioners and the Board of Education here this evening. I saw Vice Chair Brenda Howard, who I understand was just re-elected as Vice Chair of the Board of County Commissioners. I thought I saw a commission winner, Jacobs. And I don't know any of the colleagues here this evening. I'm going to the school, but I wanted to invite us from there. The Vice Chair, I saw Heidi Carter of the Durham Public School. I saw Nancy Natalie Brier. That's Natalie in the back, okay. I saw Nancy Cox. Is she still around? Okay. Did I miss anyone else? I saw Omega Parker. Where's one else? All right. Yeah, I'm going to get our former colleague, Senator Mike Woodard, former City Council person, and your colleagues here. Okay. Okay. Representative Michelle, Mickey Michelle, senior, longest serving in the House, and Senator Floyd McKessie coming in the door. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right. I would first ask Michael Perry as we begin the process, the director of the Board of Elections. He would come forward, please, and Bill Bryan. Bill, you chair? Great. Okay. Good evening. I'll introduce myself again. I am Michael Perry, director of elections for Durham County Board of Elections. And with me is Mr. Bill Bryan, chairman of the Durham County Board of Elections. We will present the election results to the city clerk and certificates of elections to the winning candidates. Good evening. It's a pleasure and a privilege to be here this evening. The Durham County Board of Elections conducted the 2013 City of Durham Municipal Elections. And the results of that election have been unanimously approved and certified by the Board of Elections. The abstract of the results of the election will now be given to the city clerk. In the 2013 City of Durham Municipal Elections, the citizens of Durham elected as mayor of the City of Durham, Mr. William B. Bell. Congratulations very well. The citizens of Durham elected for Council seat for Ward 1, Ms. Cora Cole McFadden. Congratulations, Councilor McFadden. The citizens of Durham elected to City Council seat Ward 2, Mr. Eddie Davis. Congratulations, Mr. Davis. Last but not least, the citizens of Durham elected to Council seat for Ward 3, Mr. Don Moffat. Congratulations, Mr. Moffat. Again, it was my pleasure to have been here and congratulations to you all. Thanks, Bill. We have several presentations to be made this evening and I will present the first one to Howard Clement. Howard is coming down. I don't think I have to tell, interview the amount of service and time that Howard Clement has given to this community, not just to the City Council, but in all the civic affairs that have gone on in this community, especially important ones, Howard has been somewhere a part of it. It's been my pleasure, and I'm sure the pleasure of my colleagues to have had the opportunity to serve with Howard on this City Council. I can tell you that Howard is the person that whenever there's some need for levity or some need for humor, we can always depend on Howard, even if he's talking about himself, because he doesn't share it. Howard is a person that, as long as I've known him, if there's to be, wherever you want to be Howard, if there's ever to be a meeting, if there's to be a meeting, you can always count on Howard being there. And I know there are probably, if you talk about meeting, there are probably three things that Howard says. Where is it? What time is it? And can I get a ride? And what I'd like to do... This is a sort of small token in a way, but it certainly represents our feelings toward this man that we are recognizing this evening. To Howard and certainly to the family and all of those that have supported him over the years and continue to support him. This year has been the best year for Howard, as probably most of you know him, but he's always been with us in spirit, not in presence. I don't hesitate if you want to call him. He's there to be of some type of advice, because he says he doesn't want to give a lot of advice, but I know on Howard he'll give it. And so, Howard, what we'd like to do is to present this plaque and it reads, an appreciation to Arthur, John, Howard, Clement III. For 30 years of dedicated service and commitment as Council Member and Mayor Pro Tem to the City of Durham and Citizens of War II, presented from May 16, 1983 to December 2, 2013, and is signed by myself, William B. Bell, Mayor, Colcor, Mifatin, Mayor Pro Tem, Council Member Eugene Brown, Councilperson Diane Cattati, Councilperson Don Moffitt, and Councilperson Steve Shul. Steve probably wanted to have something to say also, but we're going to pass Steve up this time and we're going to give this to Howard. And Howard, certainly, I don't know, we talk about great things happening in the City of Durham and Howard has been very much a part of it in every way. I remember when I first met Howard, he was talking and laughing, and I'm not going to say what else he was saying, but he was saying some pretty good things along the way, always willing to give words of wisdom. And when we talk about institutional knowledge, which is very, very important, as you sit on this Council and you try to make decisions in times you have to reflect back, well, why did the Council do this? Why did they do this? You could always call on Howard to tell him why they did it. Now, if it's a good thing, Howard would say why we did it. If it's a bad thing, it's why they did it. But knowing Howard, he always had good things to say about anyone. Always has a pleasant smile, and I'm not going to talk about other good things. He talks about Howard and our alumni of Howard University, and it's always been my pleasure to be able to talk to him about things back then and listen to some of the things that he can tell us about. But Howard, again, we just appreciate your service. We know you aren't going to be far away from us. You're still here in the City, and you want to feel that this is always home for you, and certainly if we called on you, we would hope that you would honor us by giving you some words of wisdom. But again, on behalf of the Durham City Council and the citizens of Durham, it's our honor to present this to you. Now, I know we have a couple more presentations. Is Kim Griffin present? Kim is a former City Council person and has a presentation he'd like to make to Howard also. Thank you, Mayor Bill. Howard, this is what happens when you miss a meeting. I am a realtor for those of you that don't know and have been for 41 years, and the Durham, the real estate board of Durham was formed in 1922. We had 15 members. Today, we're known as the Durham Regional Association of Realtors, over 1,100 members and serve in Durham and surrounding counties. And our purpose is to provoke professionalism, development, research, and exchange of information with members, the general public and the government, to preserve the free enterprise system and the right to own, use, and transfer real property. The meeting I missed, Haywood Davis and some of the members said, if there's one person that we really need to recognize for his achievements, it's AJ Howard Clement III. And I did not know what AJ stood for until I read the agenda, but now I do. I was elected to the city council in 1979 with the purpose of extending the expressway, and at the time, the Crest Street was quite controversial area that needed to be addressed. And as a councilman, we addressed that, we solved the problem, and I think Mayor Gully received an award from HUD several years later. The expressway is now built, the reservoir is now built. We had to create a new zone to, if y'all can believe this, redevelop Brightleaf, and to start, continue what other folks had started with the redevelopment of downtown. And, of course, that would be the Civic Center, and that was a very important vote. But I think of all the things that we did that has had the most impact has been appointing Howard to the Durham City Council. And I know that once you get elected, you go to the Institute of Government and they tell you all the things that you can and can't do since you got elected, and they tell us what the law says. And I would submit to you that if we need to shine any example of a good elected official bit of high integrity, and he is a character, it would be Howard Clement, and therefore the Durham Regional Association of Realtors would like to make a presentation in our past president of the Durham and North Carolina Association of Realtors and North Carolina Realtor of the Year, Wendell Bullard and our current President, Kirk West. Would you go ahead? Mr. Clement, the Durham Regional Association of Realtors declaration of appreciation and recognition, the People's Councilman in appreciation and recognition of your unselfish dedication and courageous service to the citizens of Durham as a member of the Durham City Council. Durham, North Carolina, resolved December 2013. Thank you so very much for each and every one of us. Thank you. Well, we all read about that 50-page speech that Howard was in the process of preparing. I'm getting ready to give it to you now. I'm getting ready to give it to you now. It's all yours. Thank you all so much, Mr. Mayor. So what I have to say tonight is, you know, what's the expression? Keep it brief, sweet. No, be seated. No, be seen, be brief, and then be seated. And I intend to adhere to that. But to say that 30 is, and it doesn't seem like 30 is, it's been a wonderful experience. And if I start calling names to who contributed to that kind of characterization, I'd be in a world of trouble. But since I'm not running for reelection, and somebody just said thank goodness. But in behalf of my family, represented here tonight by The Rock, I call Ann The Rock, my wonderful wife. And other family members, I have Brian Daniels, daughter's husband. My daughter couldn't be here tonight, but she sent Brian. And of course, there's my sister-in-law. Any other sisters-in-law out there? But I have, I think, five sisters-in-law. Claire, you represent all five of them. So thank you for coming. I certainly want to thank our father in heaven for having made it all possible for me to be here tonight through him, all mercies, and bound his flow. And I'm grateful. Secondly, I want to thank the citizens of Durham, all of you who were here tonight. Thank you so much. My colleagues on the council, I think I counted them. During my tenure, I think they were 49 members of the council who served with me. And some of them are here tonight who've been with me and who've moved on to greener pastures. And I want all of you to remember that Howard Clement never worked as in his behalf. He worked in behalf of the citizens of Durham. And all of you and my colleagues on the council, you're a team. And where's Eddie Davis? I know you can hardly wait until he gets to that seat. And it won't be long, Eddie. But personal, profound congratulations, Eddie, for taking on the Ward 2 seat. And I anticipate you will serve 30 years. I'll be 100 years old. And to the other members of the council, thanks so much for your service and looking forward. Because it doesn't seem like 30 years, I'll tell you. It doesn't seem like it. But then sometime it felt like 100 years. I certainly want to thank Hattie Johnson, Hattie Standup. Is Evelyn here tonight? She's on. But these two ladies worked in the clerk's office. And certainly was a big help to me in my capacity as a member of the city council. And Hattie, to you and Evelyn. And of course there are other members of the staff. And Gray is here, Lottie. Menetta. Amos is here. Brooks is here. Because some of you may not even want to admit that you all worked with me. But these ladies did a wonderful job. And Anna and I are very grateful. Working for the city of Durham and all the employees who are here, you all have done beautiful, really. And to Tom Bonfield, in my opinion, the best city manager Durham has ever had. Y'all keep me there after I'm gone, I don't. I think just because I'm leaving, y'all can get rid of him. Because he's good. He's earned the consideration this council has given him. And thanks so much, Tom, for your service to you and Karen and family. You have our blessing. I think that's about all I need to say. I said thank you, thank you, and thank you. And may God bless you. Well done. I see a lot of family members are here. The first lady and her family along with the mayor here. And they even do it a whole lot. And Ms. Davis, as you see your husband take on the role that he's decided to take on, you'll find out, you'll say, goodness, is this what you did all the hours of the night, all the hours of the morning? The best meeting I ever attended was at 4 o'clock in the morning. And as a result of that meeting, I had the best breakfast I've ever had. And I want to thank all of you for allowing that to happen. May God bless all of you. And as the new season, as the holiday season, as you go deeper into the holiday season, don't forget the reason for the season. Sometimes we forget. But it all happens through him, our Lord and Savior. God bless you all, and good night. I failed when I came down to the floor. I failed to recognize. I saw Nick Tennyson, former mayor. Now with DOT here. Thank you. Now we'll go on to the swearing in part of this program. And this evening, it's a pleasure to have District Court Judge Pat Evans to do the swearing in of the Surr City Council persons. And Pat, I'll follow your instructions on what we need to do. My wife and Emily, if they can join me. Good evening, Mayor. Mayor Pro Tem, City Council members, wonderful, wonderful citizens of Durham. It's an honor to administer the oath tonight. I bring you greetings on behalf of the Durham County District Court bench. You would repeat after me, Mayor Bell. I, William V. Bill Bell. Do hear by solemnly swear. That I will support and maintain. The Constitution of the United States. And the Constitution and Laws of North Carolina. Not inconsistent therewith. And I will faithfully and impartially discharge. charge and I will faithfully and partially discharge the duties of my office the duties of my office as mayor of the city of Durham as mayor of the city of Durham so help me God so help me God and now I will administer the rest of the oaths in the following order coral M Cole McFadden followed by Eddie Davis the third and Don Moffitt all my children all right if you would repeat after me I coral M Cole McFadden I coral M Cole McFadden do hear by solemnly swear do hear by solemnly swear that I will support and maintain that I will support and maintain the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of North Carolina and the Constitution and laws of North Carolina not inconsistent there with not inconsistent there with and that I will faithfully and impartially and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of my office discharge the duties of my office as the council member of the city of Durham as council member of the city of Durham so help me God so help me God thank you yes and the constitution in law of North Carolina not inconsistent and then I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of my office as council member of the city of Durham so help me God we have a few more things that we like to do before we take a break and I'd first like to recognize the recently elected city council persons for comments and Eddie I'll start with you thank you Marbelle it is a great honor for me to be able to sit on this platform and to begin my service as a member of the governance team for the city of Durham North Carolina I believe that my parents Eddie Davis and Nora Shannon Davis just finished a praise dance as they look down from at upon the swearing-in ceremony of few minutes ago I feel that they are sharing that heavenly view with my father-in-law Walter Van Hook and with my father-in-law Bill Watson and with my former hillside high school colleague vernell Strayhorn who is the mother of Jackie Strayhorn Brown here on earth I want to thank my entire families for supporting my quest for this office throughout the campaign my wife Harriet stood beside me as she always does and tonight I was honored to have her standing beside me as I took the oath of office I want to thank my grandchildren Nikoya and alibi for holding their great-grandfather's Bible during the oath thanks also go out to our son Christopher and his wife Kay who are here in the chamber with us and to our daughter Jessica her husband Glenn and their daughter Lola who through the wonders of Skype and time Warner cable are able to witness this Durham County Durham City Council meeting from their home in Houston Texas also thanks to my sister Delma Marie Davis Bowser and to my mother-in-law Gladys Watson to my nephew Michael Kindle Goodwin and his wife Tawanna and to my cousin Nicole Davis there are three other very special people who stood with me during the swearing-in they are Jackie Brown my campaign manager who represents a wide array of Durham citizens and organizations who supported me from July 5th until November 5th Dr. John Harding Lucas who just a few days ago received the prestigious North Carolina Award from Governor Pat McCurry Dr. Luke Lucas is the person most responsible for bringing me here to Durham in 1980 he represents all of my former colleagues at Hillside High School and the Durham Public Schools and my pastor the Reverend Dr. Terry Thomas who who represents the wonderful gracious caring and giving congregation at the West Durham Baptist Church I want to thank the Durham County Board of Elections and its staff which which is directed by Michael Perry for the flawless and unbiased electoral work they performed for the citizens of Durham I want to thank Dale Matioli Bishop Franklin Haynes Omar Beasley and their supporters for a spirited yet professional campaign to determine which of us would replace the tallest tree in the Durham City Council Forest I certainly thank each of the organizations that endorsed me and all of the individuals who cast their ballots for me during the primary and general elections however I also respect and honor the people and the organizations who supported my opponents having made the transition from campaigning to governing I want the entire community to know that I will listen, converse, interact and serve in a manner that will show no distinction between past political allies and past political adversaries our democracy hinges on the right of the people to make their individual choices however our democracy also depends upon the post election coalescing of our citizens for the benefit of one united Durham since November 5th I have received an excellent orientation to city council operations from the staff members in the office of the city manager the office of the city clerk and the office of the city attorney I appreciate the lessons and I hope I did not ask too many questions my new colleagues the sitting city council members also have been warm hospitable and welcoming they have offered their continued assistance as I gain knowledge and experience as I move forward in my role as a member of the council I salute the record-breaking 30-plus year tenure that has been rendered by Mr. Clement he has dedicated a major portion of his life to Durham and its people I personally have not measured the width and the length of his feet but I am certain that my very small footprint cannot match cannot match the proverbial canyons that have been indelibly carved into the Durham landscape by the work the advocacy and a legacy of author John Howard Clement the third Mr. Mayor I want to assure you my council colleagues and the residents of Durham that I will work hard to represent all of the people and to be a bridge that will pass over race ethnicity gender sexual orientation age abilities economic class and geography I pledge to be both a team player and an independent voice for the citizens of our great municipality the city of Durham North Carolina thank you thank you Eddie and we look forward to working with you as we go for the next two years for me I'm going to now recognize councilman Don Moffitt good evening Mayor Bell fellow city council members and all of the people of Durham present here and watching tonight on DTV8 I have to begin by thanking my beloved family my wife Sydney Cruz and my daughter Isabel Moffitt who put up with my absence many nights and more than a few weekends and do so without complaint they encourage me to do my best and I'm grateful thank you Mr. Clement Howard I'm grateful for your 30 years of service on city council and for all of the years of service that you've given to Durham you took risks and you worked hard to push and prod Durham into the 21st century you helped bring our community together and I thank you to all of you who supported my election thank you as well your faith and trust are humbling and frankly a little scary and I will do my best to hold up my end of the bargain in the short time I've been on council I have found my colleagues to be hardworking thoughtful and caring Mr. Davis while I've not had the opportunity to work closely with you yet I enjoyed getting to know you during the election season Mr. Mayor and members of city council each of you have my greatest respect and I look forward with pleasure to continuing our work together Mr. Bonfield I appreciate the ethic of customer service transparency and excellence that you support so strongly I see it throughout our city staff it's a measure of your management ability that you have built a great team on all levels as I look out over everyone here I'm struck by the diversity of the city by how many caring intelligent creative people make Durham home I love Durham and I'm happy that I have the opportunity to conserving to continue serving all of the people who make their homes here great things are happening here we see new development projects rising and new employers coming but we know that this new wave of prosperity isn't reaching into every part of Durham there are parts of Durham where unemployment is high and people are working hard just to stay afloat my job our job is to continue to find ways to bring together every part of Durham to create jobs improve housing and improve the transit system we have to find new ways to bring all of the people together to build our beloved community out of the many colored threads that make up our city we have challenges to address just three of them are addressing the issues of institutional racism developing a budget for the next year that will require some hard choices and creating real incentives for affordable housing but I'm confident that we that's the entire community with City Council will work together on the challenges ahead I look forward to that work to working with all of you over the next four years thank you thank you Don and it's been a pleasure to have had the opportunity to work with you over the past year and look forward to the next two years thank you now I'd like to recognize the Mayor Pro Tem Corps Cole McFadden good evening I am just so grateful for the opportunity to serve the city where I was born reared educated and shaped for community service but first of all let me just give honor to God for leading and guiding me along my political journey and I thank God for all of his blessings that you know that because without him we would be absolutely nothing I'm grateful to my family for your love my daughter beautiful daughter Lori who looks like I did 50 years thank her for her patience and always reminded me mama there is another life other than city government having worked in city government at this point 35 years Howard I is Howard still here I worked in city government 23 years and so I've been on council 12 years so I've given most of my life to public service and it's just a blessing to be able to serve now the children that you saw with me tonight are kids that I've adopted and as my grandchildren I have a granddaughter who lives in Sherman Oaks, California but I don't have any other grandchildren that's okay Lori children were Nicole who is it is granddaughter Emanuel and you might remember Emanuel Coleman is the kid that I made my godson during one of our city council meetings a few months ago and London Starnes who is one of my children she's raising her hand back there who's one of my children and Marcus Gordon who is also one of the children from my church West Durham where is Marcus yeah Marcus from from West Durham Baptist Church I'd like to thank all of the citizens for your vote of confidence in my work I think everybody knows that I love Durham I'm a cheerleader for Durham ever where I go I want to thank all of the organizations that endorsed my candidacy you even though I was unopposed you really didn't have to endorse me but you thought enough of me in my work to do so and so it was a hard-run race I was my own worst enemy but I did well Patrick so that's okay I would like to thank kids voting for 100% of their vote there was a kid who was 12 years old who at our end of you said I see you're unopposed I'm gonna take you on well I thank him for his mercy because he decided he would not challenge me in this race I haven't been on city council for the past three terms I've just been blessed to work with the guy who I think is one of the greatest mirrors on this earth the honorable William V Bill Bell and he is the person that has really inspired me to work as hard as I have worked they what inspires me to work also is that I know that God has blessed me not just for me but that I might bless others and so I see the work that I do as an extension of what he has given me to do in the city and to make it a better place for those who normally are not able to come to meetings and speak for themselves those who so many times we don't even think about when making decisions those who need us to see them as human capital that we need to invest in we have no problems investing in buildings streets infrastructure but the human infrastructure that is what I am committed to making sure that I uplift from this day forward as I have in the past I love Durham and I thank God for Durham and I thank God for each of you who saw fit to assemble in this place tonight and I will say again and I say without a shame that I just thank God and I give him all the glory for everything that he has done through me thank you so much like you core almost said Reverend Coran let me ask you my fellow council members have comments council I did have remarks particularly for Howard is he still here I can share them privately okay that's a good point okay thank you well first of course I want to congratulate all my colleagues you've been a wonderful wonderful team to work with and I'm just looking forward to additional time for Howard I had wanted to thank him for his tremendous years of service and share one story during early on during my first term on council Howard was a staunch ally when we tried to fight with the YMCA to reduce barriers for same-sex couples and it reminded me of his great history of civil rights work and just really deepened my respect for him and so I just wanted to thank him especially for all his tremendous contributions to this community and what a pleasure it had been to serve with him for the last 10 years so I hope I just wanted to share that piece and also you know again congratulate all of you and I'm looking forward to working with you Eddie I'm you know very looking forward to working with you and getting to continue to work with dawn and everyone else so thank you recognize Councilman Schuall thank you Mr. Mayor it's hard to lose somebody like Howard Clement but it's also very appropriate that somebody with with a record of community service like Eddie Davis is risen to fill his shoes we were blessed this year I believe with very good candidates I thought that our candidates were really really good everyone and really cared and we're really committed people and democracy is is majestic and on a night like this I think we all realize that and what I want to say to to Eddie in particular is when I came on here two years ago I didn't know exactly what it would be like but what I would say is that I have I've felt in these two years and I bet Don feels the same way just so welcomed and by my colleagues we're so well led by Mayor Bell and by our mayor pro tem and it is a group that we really we really function well together we work well together and it's just been such a pleasure to be a part of that and so I welcome you to that Eddie and congratulate our mayor and our mayor pro tem and Don for your reelection Steve I recognize Councilman Brown thank you Mr. Mayor I also want to say a few words about Howard and I'm sure he'll be watching this later I recall 10 years ago when I was first elected that and I was new to the job and I really thought I knew everything but I really didn't know that much at all but of course Howard was sitting here and this was the second or third meeting I do not even recall the issue itself but I leaned over and said Howard I've got some constituents here in the audience and watching on television at home and they want me to speak out on this issue and I said Howard I'm actually a little nervous about it what should I do and he grabbed my arm and looked up at me with those caring lovely eyes and he said I think it's better your constituents wonder why you didn't speak than why you did you know Howard some of you know changed political parties but he never he never turned his back on his core beliefs yet when he organized the the boycott of Durham businesses in the 1960s or when he would speak out for development projects that he thought were necessary for the city or when he demanded equity in the hiring of Durham city employees we all knew where he stood but I guess if there's one word that to me characterizes Howard is that he was always always first and foremost a gentleman a gentleman and he was subscribed to the belief that's been articulated by many of us up here and especially the mayor that when it comes to the major issues that we debate we discuss we dissect we dialogue and then we vote but after we vote we move on we move on Howard it was not one to carry grudges last night I was reading the bully pulpit by Doris Kerns Goodman about of course Teddy Roosevelt and there was a quote from Teddy after he finished his first term in the General Assembly in New York where he said basically that he had little use for politicians with timid souls that what America needs are men of great and generous emotion of high pride stern belief and lofty enthusiasm but above all we need men who can quell the storm and ride Howard Clement was one man who could quell the storm and ride the thunder and Durham is a much better place because of him and his leadership thank you well as you can see we you have a very well-spoken eloquent city council so it doesn't leave much for me to say I first want to thank my family Judith and our four children one of which is here on today and now afford grandchildren for being there when I wasn't there being supportive of things that I've attempted to do I certainly want to thank all the voters and supporters and the citizens of Durham for their support for me over the few years I've had the honor and pleasure to serve not only the board of county commissions but now in this Durham City Council in fact I was talking to the clerk of somebody that asked me how many mares is Durham had and I had to go to the clerk to get the information Durham is 144 years old it's had 43 mayors on the 43rd mayor and I certainly appreciate that and honor that deposition we have a lot of challenges in our community I think we've made a lot of progress it's no question in my mind that we're up to meeting those challenges and we'll make more progress but we'll do it as a team and we'll do it as members of this council members of the city and hopefully with the support of the citizens of Durham so I again want to thank all of you of not on what you've done but continue to do to make this a great city with great things happen and I certainly appreciate the fact that you came out tonight to be a part of this program we're going to say thank you we're going to take a brief break it's 802 we reconvene at 815 what why don't we do this when we get to our regular meeting if you don't mind yes if you don't mind I'm sorry what is this that's a very important role that's why I've got the mayor pro tem who has my back it has been my honor and pleasure also to have the support and this council's had to support of Coral Cole McFadden to serve as the mayor pro tem of the city of Durham one of the responsibilities and privileges that the mayor has is to recommend to this council the person to be sitting as the mayor pro tem and upon that I again recommend to this council that the pro mayor pro tem mayor Coral Cole McFadden continue to serve as the mayor pro tem of this council I didn't attain a motion on that matter it's been proper move the second madam clerk will you open the vote close the vote it passes seven zero thank you congratulations core so now instead of reconvening at 815 we're going to reconvene at 820 thank you we'd like to reconvene the city council meeting ask the clerk as you call the roll again please mayor bell present mayor pro tem Cole McFadden council member brown council member cattati council member Davis council member Moffitt council member sure we have a couple of ceremonial items I don't present one of them then turn it up to the city manager human rights and bill of rights today proclamation presented to El Centro oh you're right in front of how I know I saw you join me in the rest of you please couldn't see for looking sorry about that this is proclamation recognizing human rights and bill of rights day whereas the city of Durham is home to a diverse population including students working people and retirees citizens and non-citizens all of whom add to Durham's cultural richness and economic vitality where the city of Durham is committed to the human and civil rights of all of its residents the actions that both protect and preserve those rights where the city of Durham respects and recognizes the civil rights and liberties guaranteed all by the bill of rights where the city of Durham in October 2003 adopted the bill of rights defense resolution and resolution number 9046 supporting the rights of persons regardless of immigration status where the city of Durham recognizes the importance of maintaining the climate of acceptance and solidarity thereby decreasing fear and promoting the cooperation of all residents with law enforcement whereas each year December 10th through 16th is designated as human rights week and the bill of rights is commemorated on December 15th now therefore I will invite Bill Bell mayor of the city of Durham North Carolina to have our proclaim December 15th 2013 as human rights and bill of rights day in Durham and hereby urge all citizens to take special note of this observance and to reaffirm our support of the bill of rights and all the civil rights and liberties that guarantees all residents of Durham place to continue our city's policy of non-discrimination on basis of ethnicity race national origin and immigration status and place that our city's 287 g program will continue to focus on felons and to encourage immigrant groups of the government agencies community institutions local business leadership to make Durham a welcoming place for new residents from other countries with my hand corporate solicitor Durham North Carolina this is second day December 2013 our presenters the power who is the director of El Centro Hispanics and others that are with her for in a comments that they may have thank you mayor Bell thank you to all the city council members and I really congratulate you for recognizing human rights and also the diversity of the great city of Durham and I love Durham and I'm very happy to be part of this great community and also I want to thank John Walsh and the bill of rights and immigrant solidarity committee for all the work they do to really support the all the immigrants here in Durham and also to support in El Centro Espanol so thank you very much and please count on us to work for the great city of Durham thank you excuse me I would also like to say thank you to all of you to mayor Bell and to the city council for this proclamation ten days ago I was at Stewart detention center in Georgia as part of the school of the Americas Watch demonstration and I I can't say enough how moving it was to actually go up to the gates of this detention center which is a for-profit prison run by corporations corrections corporation of America CCA one of the two largest for-profit prison chains in the country there are about 1900 men at Stewart most of them have not committed anything that any of us would recognize as a crime other than to be here to try to do better by themselves and their families you all probably know of many stories of some of these men and women who have been apprehended in the dead of night many times and taken to prisons where their families have no idea where they are and have to go through all kinds of hassle to try to locate them and a woman spoke there that day who had walked from Columbus Georgia to the prison which is approximately 35 miles because the Greyhound bus stops in Columbus and does not go out into the middle of nowhere in South Georgia where this prison is located that's just something I wanted to share with you and I it made me feel more than I ever had before the urgency of this issue so I hope that and trust that you will work very hard to continue to make Durham a welcome play welcoming place for immigrants and a place where people who are just here to work hard for their families will not have to fear detention or deportation thank you very much thank you good evening Mayor Bell members of the City Council members of the community a couple of weeks ago I had the honor of participating with the the police department's leadership team at a banquet in Winston Salem it was the National Association the Commission on the Association of Law Enforcement Agency otherwise known as Kalea's National Awards banquet and at that banquet the City of Durham's Police Department received its re-accreditation and I say re-accreditation because some may not know but since 1991 the Durham Police Department has been accredited by this this Commission on the accreditation of law enforcement agencies it has consistently over the last years received some of the highest recognition that are available as a part of that program it's my pleasure tonight to ask Chief Lopez and members of his leadership team to come forward speak just a bit about the the award and in some respects bestow it on us all because it is a it is an award that we all appreciate and and share in the recognition Chief congratulations thank you very much first of all I'd like to recognize San Farina San Farina was working with our accreditation unit with the Durham Police Department and after we got accredited I guess another police department stole him because he's that good so he's not with the Durham Police Department but he supports us in in many ways and also the Corporal Robert Paffle who was also working in the accreditation division because there's a lot of work that really goes behind the scenes in order to to make it work and I wanted to recognize them for all the work they did at the same point in time I need to recognize my executive staff that you see with the white shirts and one suit who through their leadership as bought this organization not only to the level of being re-accredited after for the 15th consecutive year but also the the golden the golden standard assessment was given to the Durham Police Department and that is a standard that has only fallen to the Durham Police Department in the state of North Carolina for organization of 300 and more so we're the only ones that carry it and then also at the same point in time our forensics unit is also the only one in North Carolina that currently is also accredited all of that has to do with the not just the paperwork that's involved but also the assessment brought on assessors who came in and saw how we did things how we practiced what we spoke and we moved on to receive it and I'd like to really thank the council for your support it is with your support that we're able to attain these achievements we're able to get the first of all the funding that we would need in order to carry it out but also the support in the in the community to make sure that we can get our things done and also with the city manager who as a boss I can't not say enough because it's his endorsement also for some of the what might seem to be outside-of-the-box thoughts that we do that really make the challenge complete and we're able to get to where we are with this organization so and at the same point in time I cannot do this without the help of the community and it's a community support that really makes it a lot easier so without further ado thank you very much for support and thank you staff and I feel very blessed to have an organization with such talented and professional police officers and I think that the community of Durham sees that because quite clearly Kalea sees it so thank you well thank you chief and certainly on behalf of the city council we appreciate the fact that you were able to attain that re-accreditation and at a such a high level that's indicative of the type of work that the department is doing relative to moving forward with accreditation and we would be congratulated the whole staff and whole department thank you we will continue with the agenda and I would ask again are there first comments by announcements by members of the council recognize the mayor pro term miss mayor I failed to recognize members of the youth commission who were here tonight and we're very thankful that they decided to come out and support us and I also failed to recognize our staff during my comments because without them we could do absolutely nothing thank you staff thank you let me ask whether other comments if not prior items first by the city manager thank you mr. mayor no priority items see likewise city attorney thank you mr. mayor no priority items likewise city clerk no items mr. mayor we'll move the gender first being a consent agenda consent agenda can be approved single motion if a member of council or someone in the public as I remove we discussed that later in the agenda I'll read the head of each one of the consent agenda items item one is workforce development board appointment item 2 is Durham open space and trails commission appointment item 4 is the citywide strategic plan performance audit dated October 2013 item 5 is FY 14 15 budget development schedule item 6 is the 6th amendment to the city of Durham and general management solutions ink contract to provide workforce investment WIA dislocated workers to item 7 is substance abuse and mental health services administration grant project ordinance and contract with Alliance behavioral health care item 8 is property tax in a local amendment dream of Durham County item 9 is bid report October 2013 item 10 of bids for 4 yard waste collection trucks item 11 is bids for 2 automated refuse collection collection trucks item 12 is in a local corporation agreement between the city of Durham County of Durham for maintenance and repair fire apparatus item 13 is construction contract with Bernie and Bernie construction company ink for the city hall and annex exterior envelope renovations item 14 is radio equipment building additional support equipment FY 2013 2014 CIP budget amendment request for CIP ordinance number 1 4 4 6 4 item 15 is housing urban development fair housing cooperative agreement for fiscal year 13 14 item 17 is licensed agreement with 21 C Durham LLC item 18 is little creek watershed improvement plan item 19 is amendment number 3 to water regulatory compliance contract item 22 through 23 audience that can be found on general businesses and public hearings entertain a motion to approval of consent agenda item it's been properly moving second madam clerk will you open the vote close the vote it passes 7 is 0 we move to a general business agenda public hearings item 22 amendment to the economic development incentive agreement with UDI community development corporation eyes to mayor pro tem the hell in this matter and I will not vote on this item will open the public hearing on this item and staff yes share your comments mayor pro tem and members of council my name is Chris Dickey with the office of economic and workforce development on June 4th 2012 City Council approved a neighborhood reviles a grant for a hundred thousand dollars for UDI to renovate a blighted building at 727 North Mangum Street this location is a gateway corridor heading into downtown dorm use our UDI's plan is to renovate a 1500 square foot building into a 4500 square foot misuse commercial residential three-level building the project has experienced a number of delays which has impacted UDI's ability to meet the deadlines that are stipulated in the contract with the city and a letter received on October 24th 2013 UDI informed the office of economic and work workforce development that was unable to complete the project within the required contract time due to delays many which have been beyond their control the item for you as staff is recommending that city council authorizes city manager to execute an amendment to the agreement between UDI community development corporation and city of Durham that would extend the date of the completion of the capital investment to no later than February 4th 2014 and to extend the contract expiration to June 1st 2014 thank you Chris are there any questions for Mr Dickey regarding this item from my colleagues are there persons in the audience who would like to speak on this if not I will declare the public hearing closed and the matter is back before the council probably second madam clerk would you open the vote close the vote it passes six to zero what mayor bail up staining I could move item 23 public service company of North Carolina PSNC gas franchise Mr mayor members of council the item that's in front of you is an extension of the the franchise agreement that was first entered into back in 1981 between the city and public service company of North Carolina this is actually a new term that that takes many of the basic tenants of the previous franchise agreement modernizes it if you will based on recent changes to the statutes and continues on with what I think has been a very good working relationship between the city of Durham and PSNC so the document that you have in front of you is is the work between myself and attorneys for PSNC and certainly want to thank Linda Harris who is here tonight I believe to speak on the item for her assistance in getting this together and if you have questions I'm happy to answer them for you thank you let me ask first of the questions on members of the council I want to recognize Mr. Linda Harris if there are any questions Mr. Harris if you have comments thank you Linda Harris PSNC energy external relations manage out of Raleigh I just wanted to come before you mayor and the council and just say thank you what a what a time we've had in the last past 12 months I think we've been working together on this it has not been arguments fusses or anything like that it was looking at an agreement that would work for the city and work for the gas company working together to make the best agreement we could have and that has been a pleasure it really has been what we found out during this time is you know we wanted to understand what each wanted and that was what we worked toward and the other thing that we learned from all of this was that we want the best for Durham we've had quite a few in system enhancements projects and you've had projects and we've learned from this that we need to work better together over the next five years we have a five-year plan you need to know what we're doing and we need to know what you're doing so we can work together maybe at some of the same times and all so we want to thank you for us getting to this point it really has been a pleasure working with the city attorney and some of your staff they have had a lot of input and so is ours and it's just it's been a wonderful privilege for us to do that thank you and let me again ask for their comments questions is anyone in the public would like to speak on this item let the record flick and the one in the public answer speak on the item I'll declare the community closed as a matter of fact for council it's been proper to move the second I'm correct we open the vote close the vote it passes seven zero before we adjourn Councilman Moffitt all of you receive the committee assignments piece I didn't get feedback so I assume that's acceptable council Moffitt who serves as the liaison to the Human Relations Commission suggested it might want to have an alternate I don't know if you want to speak to Don it was just my thinking that we had a second City Council member involved in the Human Relations Commission and deliberations right now it might be helpful to us as we move forward I told Don I'd bring before the council if they were any volunteers before I pointed someone know if anybody wants to volunteer considering alternate one who shows when the regular member cannot or you want an additional person at the table simply looking for someone to counsel deliberations when we take up some of the issues that might come to us from the Human Relations Commission Mr. Mira I know that my plate is pretty full but I've had an interest in human relations over the years and you want to I'll be glad to do what I can so we accept my clerk except one exception tomorrow night is out alternate right don't let me ask you this is for information as the liaison do you participate in the discussions or how does that work you know I'm I'm still a little unclear exactly on the role of the liaison but what I try to do is to provide advice to the chair on from time to time and in sit back and not participate in discussion except when I feel like there's something that's being missed and then I'll try to add an additional perspective to that but I don't participate in a vote vote but it's one what lovely participate for me to liars on is to attend those meetings and if they ask questions or you provide something more importantly to be able to come back to the council and tell us what what's going on so okay if that's the case we accept that and any other items come before the council if not meetings during 840 p.m. like all of you