Approve excused absences for Mayor O’Neal on October 19, 2023 and November 6, 2023Passed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Appoint Torrell Armstrong to the Durham Housing Authority Board of Commissioners who has: (1) Demonstrated experience in analyzing financial statements; (2) Demonstrated understanding of financing houPassed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Appoint Luis F. Olivieri Robert and Joshua O. Toth to the Mayor’s Hispanic/Latino Committee with the terms to expire on October 1, 2025Passed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Approve the City Council minutes for the following meetings: July 20, 2023 Work Session Minutes, August 7, 2023 Regular Meeting Minutes and August 10, 2023 Work Session MinutesPassed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Receive a report on the bids that were acted upon by the City Manager in August 2023Passed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Receive the Fiscal Year-End 2023 Inventory Performance Audit approved at the August 28, 2023, Audit Services Oversight Committee meetingPassed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Authorize the City Manager to execute an ARPA subrecipient grant agreement with The Triangle Nonprofit & Volunteer Leadership Center (TNVLC) in an amount not to exceed $147,000Passed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Authorize the City Manager to execute a contract with the North Carolina Coalition to End Homelessness, Inc. to provide services as the HMIS Lead Agency for one year in the amount of $63,383.00 usingPassed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Adopt an Ordinance Amending Certain Sections in Chapter 14 of the Durham City Code to Allow for Green Burials in City CemeteriesPassed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Authorize the City Manager to exercise the three-year option to renew the existing lease agreement with LRC-GB, LLC, in the amount of $516,264 for office space at Building 5 Suite 100 of the Golden BePassed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Adopt a resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a ten-year lease with Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless for a portion of the City-owned property located at 1701 Cole Mill Road (parcPassed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Authorize the City Manager to execute a contract with the LIFE Center of Durham, Inc. for the purchase of STEM Equipment in the amount of $145,991Passed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Authorize the City Manager to execute the Articles of Dedication with the State of North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources; To authorize the City Manager to make changes to the Articles of DedPassed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Authorize the City Manager to execute the Third Amendment to the Contract for Commissioning and Peer Review for Durham Performance Arts Center HVAC Upgrades Between the City of Durham and CMTA of KentPassed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Adopt an ordinance amending the Durham Performing Arts Center Capital Improvements Project Ordinance, Fiscal Year 2023-24, as amended, the same being Ordinance #16169, for the purpose of allocating adPassed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Authorize the City Manager to execute Supplemental Agreement #2 with Stantec Consulting Services, Inc. for Multimodal Improvement Design Services in the amount of $353,468.50Passed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Authorize the City Manager to execute the Municipal Agreement with the North Carolina Department of Transportation for the NC 98 & Lynn Road Intersection Improvements project (TIP # HS-2005N) in the aPassed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Authorize the expenditure of $70,000 from the City’s Watershed Protection funds for the Triangle Land Conservancy South Fork Forest Watershed Protection ProjectPassed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Authorize the City Manager to execute Contract Amendment No. 1 to the FY21 Lift Station Improvements Group B Lift Stations project with Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. in the amount of $549,400 increPassed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Adopt an ordinance revising the City’s Capital Facility Fees for water and sewer service as authorized by City of Durham Code of Ordinances, Section 70 - 50, and to make the required changes to Part 1Passed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Adopt an ordinance annexing ‘Brier Creek ACT’ into the City of Durham effective December 31, 2023; and to authorize the City Manager to enter into a utility extension agreement with CSH Brier Creek ACPassed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Adopt an ordinance amending the Unified Development Ordinance by taking property out of the Residential Rural, county jurisdiction and establishing the same as Planned Development Residential 13.367,Passed unanimously✓✓✓✓✓✓✓
Adopt an ordinance annexing ‘Smallwood Townhouses’ into the City of Durham effective December 31, 2023; and to authorize the City Manager to enter into a utility extension agreement with Holly SpringsContestedPassed 6-1−✓✓✓✓✓✓
Adopt an ordinance amending the Unified Development Ordinance by taking property out of the Residential Rural, county jurisdiction and establishing the same as Planned Development Residential 7.405, cContestedPassed 6-1−✓✓✓✓✓✓