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Asheville City Council

June 10, 2025

Regular meeting

Other City businessHousingStreets and transitHelene recoveryBudget and taxesHomelessness

What it did

Votes recorded
14
Voted on separately
4
Routine items, one vote
10
Votes that split
1

Why it matters

Regular meetings are where Council votes on laws, the budget, contracts and zoning. Routine items pass together in one vote, called the consent agenda.

The recording

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Agenda Minutes The City's meeting page

Everything on the agenda

From the minutes, in the order the City lists them. Each item's first lines are the minutes' own words.

CONSENT AGENDA

  1. 10 routine items, passed together in one vote.

PRESENTATIONS & REPORTS

  1. Manager’s report - quarterly capital improvement Program update

    “Interim Capital Management Director Walter Ear outlined the following key takeaways from his presentation: (1) Taking a moment to celebrate 2025 capital projects wins so far, and to highlight continued progress on capital and bond projects; (2) Reviewing planned and programmed work plans with a…”

PUBLIC HEARINGS

  1. Public Hearing to consider conditionally zoning 215 Glenn Bridge Road from CI Commercial Industrial District to Commercial Industrial District - Conditional Zone for the purpose of constructing a 19-unit Multi-family building

    “Principal Planner Will Palmquist said that this is the consideration of an ordinance to conditionally zone 215 Glenn Bridge Rd from CI Commercial Industrial District to Commercial Industrial - Conditional Zone (CI-CZ) for the purposes of constructing a 19-unit multi-family building.”

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

  1. Ordinance adopting the Fiscal Year 2025-26 annual operating Budget

    “City Manager Campbell said that the anticipated action tonight will hopefully complete the budget development process that has been underway for the past 6-9 months.”

INFORMAL DISCUSSION AND PUBLIC COMMENT

  1. Public comment

    • need for access treatments outside of traditional medicines
    • concern about payments due tenants at the Housing Authority

Voted on separately

Each of these had its own motion and vote.

  1. Accepts the 2025 High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA) Grant on behalf of the Asheville HIDTA branch…

    Passed. Voted no: Kim Roney.

    More from the minutes
    • What the minutes say it will do: “The purpose of the HIDTA program is to reduce drug trafficking and especially production in the United States, specifically in areas where drug-related activities are having a significant harmful impact.”
    • The money, in the minutes' words: “The Office of National Drug Control Policy has determined that the City of Asheville is eligible to manage this grant totaling $160,904.00.”
    • “This unit does not focus on, or adopt cases, that are for simple possession, but focuses only on cases that deal in trafficking, manufacturing, and distribution of illegal drugs.”

  2. Rezones 215 Glenn Bridge Rd, with conditions, from Commercial Industrial (CI) to Commercial Industrial - Conditional Zone (CI-CZ).

    Passed. Everyone present voted yes.

    More from the minutes
    • “The project site consists of one parcel totalling 0.54 acres at 215 Glenn Bridge Rd (PIN 9644-91-0522).”
    • “The project site consists of one property totalling 0.54 acres at 215 Glenn Bridge Rd.”
    • “The site is currently zoned Commercial Industrial (CI).”

  3. Adopts the Fiscal Year 2025-26 Annual Budget.

    Passed. Everyone present voted yes.

  4. Moves $45,000 from the City Manager’s Contingency to fund the City’s annual contribution to the Sports Commission.

    Passed.

Routine items, passed together

The consent agenda: items Council approves in one vote, without separate discussion. A member can ask to pull an item out for its own vote.

  1. Changes the contract with Hagerty Consulting Inc. for recovery management services from Tropical Storm Helene, for $5.99 million.

    Passed with the routine items, in one vote, without discussion.

    More from the minutes
    • The money, in the minutes' words: “This contract was amended January 28, 2025 for a total amount not to exceed $5,994,885 for work occurring through June 30,2025 (Fiscal Year 2024-2025).”

  2. Resolution for the City of Asheville to expend and disburse Federal Transit Administration Grants apportioned to the Asheville Urbanized Area for Fiscal Year (fy)…

    Passed with the routine items, in one vote, without discussion.

    More from the minutes
    • The money, in the minutes' words: “The total of pass-through funding in the amount of $4,413,775 will be appropriated by the budget amendment in the Transit Services Multi-Year Fund.”

  3. Lets the City Manager submit a planning grant for the Right at Home initiative and to execute any agreements, if awarded.

    Passed with the routine items, in one vote, without discussion.

    More from the minutes
    • “This funded opportunity will provide critically needed rental assistance to help households maintain housing and avoid entering homelessness.”

  4. Approves, after the fact, a contract with DebrisTech, LLC and All Prior Spending and Future Spending Under… for the purposes of towing and Debris monitoring for Tropical Storm Helene-related recovery…

    Passed with the routine items, in one vote, without discussion.

  5. Approves, after the fact, an emergency contract with Herc Rentals Inc. for the provision of Parks & Recreation operations vehicles damaged by Tropical Storm…

    Passed with the routine items, in one vote, without discussion.

    More from the minutes
    • What the minutes say it will do: “The contract is expected to be fully funded with previously approved FY25 & anticipated FY26 Parks & Recreation operating funds.”

  6. Amends the City of Asheville’s Rules on Boards & Commissions.

    Passed with the routine items, in one vote, without discussion.

    More from the minutes
    • “Revision of Qualifications Section regarding the requirement for City residency for appointment to be amended so that City residents will be given preference to City-managed boards & commissions.”
    • “Board members and residents have a clear and concise set of rules to follow for all boards and commissions.”

  7. Lets the City Attorney enter into a contract for two years with the Ferguson Group, LLC, for Federal lobbying services, with two…

    Passed with the routine items, in one vote, without discussion.

  8. Sets new speed limits, including 20 miles per hour on Short Coxe Avenue from Southside Avenue to Biltmore Avenue.

    Passed with the routine items, in one vote, without discussion.

  9. Motion amending the 2025 City Council meeting schedule to (1) move the 11:00 A.M. virtual City Council Agenda Briefing for thursday, july 17, 2025…

    Passed with the routine items, in one vote, without discussion.

  10. Monthly municipal property tax refunds or releases per N.C. gen. stat. sec. 105-381.

    Passed with the routine items, in one vote, without discussion.

The plain-language lines are written by fixed rules from each item's official title, which is on each decision's page. Every vote the minutes record is listed; procedural motions, like approving the minutes or adjourning, are left out.