City Council Special Meeting

Melvin Municipal Building

300 W. Washington Street

Greensboro, NC 27401

City of Greensboro

Meeting Minutes - Final

City Council Special Meeting

9:00 AM ACC Hall of Champions BoardroomFriday, February 9, 2018

February 8, 2018 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

February 9, 2018 9 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

This City Council meeting of the City of Greensboro was called to order at 9:08 a.m. on the above date in the ACC

Hall of Champions Boardroom of the Greensboro Coliseum Special Events Center with the following members

present:

Mayor Nancy Vaughan, Mayor Pro-Tem Yvonne J. Johnson, Councilmember Marikay Abuzuaiter, Councilmember

Sharon M. Hightower, Councilmember Nancy Hoffmann, Councilmember Michelle Kennedy, Councilmember Justin

Outling, Councilmember Tammi Thurm and Councilmember Goldie F. Wells.

Also present were City Manager Jim Westmoreland, City Attorney Tom Carruthers, City Clerk Elizabeth H .

Richardson and Deputy City Clerk Angela R. Lord.

I. Council Discussion Items

1. ID 18-0060

Council Discussion Items

a. Poverty

b. Housing

c. Transit/Transportation

d. Economic Development/Work Force Development

e. M/WBE Program and Disparity Study

f. Public Safety/Crime

g. City Communications and Marketing

h. City Boards/Commissions

City Manager Jim Westmoreland welcomed everyone; spoke to the agenda for the day; and introduced United Way

President and CEO Michelle Gethers-Clark for an update.

Ms. Gethers-Clark made a PowerPoint Presentation (PPP); stated that Greensboro had 30% more poverty than the

average City in the country; spoke to the Self-Sufficiency Standard for North Carolina 2017 Report; emphasized the

Page 1City of Greensboro

February 9, 2018City Council Special Meeting Meeting Minutes - Final

need to put together programs and solutions to resolve the issue; provided the working definition of self -sufficiency;

voiced the challenges of rising costs for housing and child care; and provided an overview of the calculation formula

for inflation measurement. Ms. Gethers-Clark explained the sufficiency metric for 100 counties within North

Carolina; that families making less than $35,000 could not meet their basic needs; provided a comparison of the

self-sufficiency standard and poverty; self-sufficiency calculation comparison of five family types; emphasized that

minimum wage earners remained at the poverty level; and voiced the importance of economic development to