2026-10-05 - City Council Agenda Briefing Meeting

Summary

Built from the official minutes and the video captions. Auto-caption wording may contain errors, especially names and dollar amounts.

Agenda briefing meeting 8:30-8:40 AM; Mayor Pro-Tem Spears presiding via video conference.
Present: Councilmembers Andrews, Lyle, Santaguida, Clinton-Quintana; Mayor Saffo and Councilmember Joyner absent/excused.
Special City Council meeting scheduled for 5:30 PM to discuss Community Investment Grant Program and unsolicited funding requests.

New Hanover Community Endowment Lease:

Inquiry about new lease on Fourth Floor of 115 N. Third Street
City Manager Hawke explained tenant expanding floor usage, taking additional kitchen space and larger boardroom
Upfit costs will be reimbursed as incurred; all costs reviewed before reimbursement

Proclamations to be read: Minority Enterprise Development Week (October 5-10), Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and Nuclear Science Week (October 19-25).
Consent agenda: a new lease on the seventh floor of the Skyline Center, a new lease on the fourth floor of 115 North 3rd Street with New Hanover County, and the September 21 and 22 minutes.
Public hearings: one item was to be continued to October 20; the others were rezonings of 2.176 acres at 120 and 124 Canal Street (R-20L to R-7CD, conditional district) and 2.02 acres at 3301 Burnt Mill Drive (light industry to office and institutional).
Funding items: a supplemental appropriation from committed revenue funds for the Live Oak Bank Pavilion and the Hugh Morton Amphitheater, plus an interlocal agreement for up to $257,582 from the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority for utility relocation on the Pirate Cove Drainage Improvement Project and a construction contract for that project to a Wilmington contractor of roughly $1.1 million.
A council member also asked about the fourth-floor lease's net revenue and who approves and verifies the upfit costs; the city manager said details would be emailed before the evening meeting.
Resolution R2 would adopt staff comments on the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge environmental assessment.