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Agenda Briefing Worksession (For  June 24 Formal Meeting)
June 18, 2025
(Public comment is not accepted at worksessions)
Remote

Agenda

Orden del día en español

Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute § 143-318.13 this will be a remote worksession which the public can access by any of the following means found at https://publicinput.com/g1267

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EVERTHING BELOW IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Formal Meeting
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 – 5:00 p.m. 
Council Chamber- 2nd Floor of City Hall
Agenda

Orden del día en español

Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute § 143-318.10 this will be an in-person meeting which the public can access by any of the following means found at https://publicinput.com/g1267

Hearing Loop technology for assistive listening is available in Council Chambers.

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Pledge of Allegiance

I. Proclamations:   

• July, 2025, as “40th Anniversary of Parks & Recreation Month”

II. Consent Agenda:

A.    Approval of the combined minutes of the agenda briefing worksession held on June 10, 2025, and the formal meeting held on June 5, 2024.   Documents

B.1. Resolution authorizing the City Manager to accept a donation of up to $110,000, from Brown, Parker & DeMarinis Advertising, LLC, on behalf of Mission Health Hospital Manager to help reduce the costs associated with establishing temporary recreation amenities; and to execute any documents necessary related to the use of these donated funds.    Documents

2. Budget amendment, in the amount of $110,000, to budget the donated funds within the Special Revenue Fund. 

C.  Resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into a contract for internal audit program services with Plante Moran for a term of one year, with two additional one year renewal options, and further authorizing the execution of change orders to adjust the total amount of the contract in future fiscal years, contingent on budget appropriations in future fiscal years.    Documents

D.  Technical budget amendment  in the amount of $4.2 million in the City’s Multi-Year Enterprise Funds for year-end clean up related to Tropical Storm Helene budgets adopted earlier in the fiscal year, and in the amount of $776,000 for debt refunding expenses in the Transit Services Fund.  Documents   

E. 1. Resolution to enter into a Round 2 cashflow loan agreement with the State of North Carolina and to authorize the City Manager to execute the associated documents.  Documents   

2. Budget amendment in the amount of 1,842,175.47 to budget the loan in the Helene Cashflow Loan Fund, as required by the loan agreement.

F.  Resolution delegating the authority to the City Manager, or its designee, to accept donations offered to the City.  Documents

G.  Resolution   authorizing an agreement whereby the City receives compensation from Buncombe County for fire protection and rescue services in certain areas of the County.    Documents

H.  Resolution authorizing the City Manager to enter into an extension to the agreement with N.C. Emergency Management for the State Regional Hazardous Materials Response Team #6.  Documents

I.  Resolutions to permit the possession and consumption of malt beverages and/or unfortified wine at the following events:      Documents

1. Independence Day Block Party on July 4, 2025
2. Asheville Half Marathon 10K & 5K on August 23, 2025 
3. Boomtown Arts & Heritage FestAVL on August 29 – 31, 2025
4. Blue Ridge Pride Festival on September 27, 2025

J.  Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract with Tarheel Paving and Asphalt for the Fiscal Year 2025 Asphalt Resurfacing Project.  Documents

K.  Ordinance amending Chapter 15 of the Code of Ordinances, Solid Waste Management, to provide clarifying information about the provision of waste collection services on private roads.  Documents

L.  Resolution repealing Resolution No. 22-16 which authorized the City Manager to execute a N.C. Dept. of Transportation (NCDOT) funding agreement for Patton Avenue Sidewalk Improvements and replacing it with a new resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a new NCDOT funding agreement.   Documents

M.  Resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a contract with Haynes Electric Utility for the traffic and pedestrian signal and pole installation at the South Charlotte Street and Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive intersection.    Documents

N. Resolution for City Manager to accept the Internal Revenue Service clean energy tax credit funds from purchase of electric vehicles and installation of a photovoltaic array at Broadway Public Safety Station and to authorize the City Manager or her designee to execute any related documents.    Documents

O. Ordinance enacting a 20 mph speed limit on Atlanta Avenue in its entirety; Baker Avenue in its entirety; Boyd Avenue in its entirety; Bryant Street in its entirety; Buffalo Street in its entirety; Clay Street in its entirety; Downing Street in its entirety; Edgar Street in its entirety; Fayetteville Street in its entirety; Ivy Street in its entirety; Mardell Circle in its entirety; Martin Avenue in its entirety; Ohio Street in its entirety; Saratoga Street in its entirety; and Texas Street in its entirety.    Documents

III.  Presentations and Reports: 

IV. Public Hearings:  

City Council has Established the Following Time Limits for Public Hearings:

• Applicants Have Up to Ten Minutes to Complete a Presentation.

• Individuals Have up to Three Minutes to Speak to City Council.  
• A Person Representing a Group of Three or More Persons (Speaker Plus Three Others – Total of Four) Present in the Council Chamber has up to Ten Minutes to Address City Council.

• Public Comment Period for Any Item May Not Exceed One Hour. 

A.  Public hearing to consider rezoning 99999 Trade Street from River Arts Form District – Neighborhood Transition (RAD-NT) to RM-8 Residential Multi-Family Medium Density District.  Documents   

B. Public hearing to consider amendments to Chapter 7 of the Asheville Code of Ordinances, to reinsert sections 7-11-8(c), (d), (e), and (f) which were inadvertently removed during the recent zoning text amendment adopted in Ord. No. 5127 on March 11, 2025.    Documents   

C.  Public Hearing regarding submission of the 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan and the 2025-2026 Annual Action Plan for the Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), as well as substantial amendments to previous Annual Action Plans.   Documents   

   1.  Resolution authorizing the submission of the 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan and the 2025-2026 Annual Action Plan for the Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG) and HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as substantial amendments to previous Annual Action Plans; authorizing the City Manager to execute all documents necessary to give effect to this resolution. 

2. Budget amendment in the amount of $1,022,202 for CDBG and $1,245,387 for HOME to accept the grant awards from HUD. 

V.  Unfinished Business:

VI.  New Business: 

A.  Consideration of a resolution approving a $250,000 grant for the purchase of 32 Grail Street and 32 Olive Street by the Asheville Buncombe County Land Trust to allow the homes to be sold to qualifying households at or below 80% AMI and be permanently affordable.   Documents   

B.  Consideration of a resolution approving a development and lease agreement with Laurel Street Residential LLC for the development of mixed-income and affordable housing at 319 Biltmore Avenue (3 & 4 John Walker Avenue); a re-affirmation of Resolution No. 22-184 to sell the property to Laurel Street Residential LLC via long-term ground lease; and approval of a Housing Trust Fund loan and tax grant to Laurel Street Residential LLC for the same development.    Documents   

C.  Boards & Commissions:  (Council to determine who, if any, to interview)  Documents

    – Historic Resources Commission

VII. Informal Discussion and Public Comment 

VIII.  Adjournment

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