>> Welcome, everybody, to the July 6th,
2026 Board of Commissioners meeting.
And we're going to go ahead and call to order.
I would like to start by congratulating
our awesome country for 250 years.
So a great experiment has proven to be pretty amazing
and for what all it has done in the world.
So I think we are all lucky to have been Americans.
With that, we are going to start off with our invocation
by Commissioner Kerik.
>> Let us pray.
Gracious Heavenly Father we thank you for the day
that you've given us.
We thank you, as the mayor just said,
for 250 years of a country.
Let us not take any of those 250 for granted.
When we think about the many people who
sacrificed in many ways and we have that freedoms that we have
here let's not take that for granted as we come Off
of a celebration weekend, I am thankful for the local service
men and women who worked the weekend and take care of
and protect as people were celebrating
and having a good time.
Those men and women were both out working,
and I'm very thankful for that.
I thank you for the time that we have
to come together this evening.
We certainly remember Mr. Owens, keep him in our prayers.
He's continuing to heal.
And the town manager, she's working through some sickness.
We ask that your hand be upon them.
And as we sit here tonight, as we look at business in the town,
we ask for your wisdom.
We ask for your discernment, and your guidance in our decision
making process.
Lord, in the areas that we need your grace,
we ask that you give us your grace.
Give us your mercy.
That what we do, our decisions and our process,
we do it to bring honor and glory first and foremost to you.
We are humbled by the opportunity to sit here.
We are thankful for all of the many blessings you give us.
In Christ's name , Amen.
>> Will you all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance?
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Next, we are going to have our public comment.
And if we would, I'm going to read our public comment
practices.
At the first meeting each month, we
set aside some time to allow public comment for our citizens
or anyone wanting to address the board.
Each speaker is given three minutes.
You should be civil and respectful
to the board in their language and presentation.
It is the board's practice not to respond or engage
in conversations with anyone who speaks in order
to give the speakers the full amount of time
to voice their concerns.
You would like to address either by the board or by town staff,
raise your matter.
Please understand that the state law Prevents us
from discussing employee personal matter with you.
We're going to start off with Mr. Patrick Reitz.
I believe I saw Will and Cheryl.
Do we have will and Cheryl?
You have six minutes.
>> Good evening, most importantly,
citizens of Mooresville.
Happy birthday, America.
I have a couple of thoughts about this,
and as I have mentioned before, maybe the board
can make some changes.
I would like to state that there are several of my neighbors
who would like to be in the audience to support my views.
As you might say, they are like minded individuals.
Unfortunately, due to constraints,
it's difficult for them to attend a meeting
and to be part of my audience for the extended comment
period of six minutes.
Rather than the three minutes granted under current policy.
So what can be done to change this?
Is it possible that a written affidavit can be accepted?
Would it have to be notarized?
Would it have to be each and every time?
That in itself could be a burden, both logistically
and financially.
Can you all come up with an alternative?
I'm sure Miss Crawford and her team
could have a revised policy.
Certainly, it would be a gesture of goodwill
towards the community with all of the negative stuff going on.
And while you're at it, how about public
comment at the second meeting of the month,
as we know how things can change rather rapidly around here.
Next, although he would rather I not say his name,
I'm gonna say it anyways.
Mr. Ryan, town manager.
Last month I mentioned the vegetation at white
and shears again.
I spoke about the condition of the sidewalk
and driveways along the north side of Church Street
near Liberty Park.
Guess what?
Several of these things have been addressed
and have been completed.
Ryan told me that the accolades need
to be directed to the traffic and engineering teams,
so I will mention Randy Asegura, who also called with an update.
Mr. Your efforts are being recognized.
Next up, Assistant manager Kelly Strickland.
Parks and rec.
My grandchildren and I have been to several of the activities
provided by the town.
I just can't wait to go to the foam party next Tuesday.
Safety Officer Dave Harding, he made sure
that my niece and nephews visiting from California
had plenty of Mooresville PD swag to take home with them.
And not to be undone, Mooresville Fire Chief
made sure that he and his staff dug
through several boxes and cabinets
to ensure that they had enough stuff to take home.
I don't know what's with you guys.
Fire department, men and women run into danger every day
for our community.
I feel that it's important to accentuate the positive
and those responsible.
Enough about the rainbows and unicorns.
What about the lawsuits, the payouts and the NDAs?
So many people are concerned about backroom deals.
Palms being greased, bribes and advantages being offered,
hush money.
Mostly just conspiracy theories until proven true
at a later date.
It's just not a good look for the town.
And who was this Dan guy guy that tried to defame Mr. West?
Was that just a bunch of smoke and mirrors
to get people to look the other way?
Look away from what?
Here we go.
Another conspiracy theory.
Thank you to Mr. Lee Sullivan and Lake Norman Citizen
for setting the record straight.
Mr. West has been a public servant in one way
or another all of his life.
We need more like him.
Maybe we should start a GoFundMe page
for Mr. West for his legal team to see the council.
We really don't need people that are not from our community
stirring the pot, Fanning the flames.
That's what Mr. Beck and Mr. Binion and I do.
That's what we are here for we really
do have enough stuff to deal with already in this town.
One more thing, you all passed the town budget.
If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Carney has
stated that he may step down to spend more time with his family.
Could we get Mr. West Appointed as mayor?
Could we get Tommy device back as Commissioner at large?
Let that sink in for a minute.
There's much more to say.
I wish people would get involved.
Actually come to the board meetings and stay till the end,
which might be difficult to do tonight as USA versus Belgium is
on at 8 p.m..
So I may be leaving early.
Remember to love your neighbor as yourself,
pray for your enemies, volunteer in the community if you can,
and give of your time, treasure and talent to the glory of God.
May God bless the Earth.
>> Appreciate you, sir.
Miss Caldwell.
Miss Caldwell has a truly inspiring story.
Thank you for coming.
>> I'm a little nervous.
>> You have three minutes.
>> To sum it all up, I have a rare brain condition.
You are now looking at a person who
does not have the whole right side of her brain.
This surgery was December 9th, 2025.
They said it was going to take 12 to 18 months for me
to start talking again.
Here I am.
I am back in school.
I definitely have a testimony, so I
want to give all honor to God.
All praises are due to God.
My mom is here, my daughter is here.
But what I am here to say is Ms. Peggy at the front office.
He is now retired.
But let me tell you something.
I've had some things that happened to me unfortunately,
because I can't work and do things,
and I told them that I was ready to go back to school.
I enrolled in.
Everything that they said that I wasn't going to be able to do,
I am doing.
I called out and reached out.
And I got the call and I got to Nicole.
She said, thank you for sharing your story.
How can we help you?
I am enrolled in school.
But unfortunately I'm not working and things like that.
What can we do?
And it was like, I got you.
Because this is rare.
I was the number six person in the United States.
You all are going to hear way more about it.
I'm going to be speaking in a lot of rooms.
This is just the start.
I have some names.
I want to thank Mayor Chris Khan.
I wanted not only to thank you privately, but also publicly.
My town elected officials have done exactly what I
needed him to do.
And that is to give back and pull the citizens up.
Thank you for being a part of my healing journey.
When I say I am forever grateful and gracious for the things
you've done for my family, I have a daughter
in medical school and I have one studying right now in Japan
because she's in international corporate law.
They told me I'm their inspiration.
Because I have a testimony and a purpose to fulfill.
Thank you guys.
Thank you, Nicole.
Thank you for being a part of that journey.
From the bottom of my heart, I just wanted to thank you.
Not privately, publicly.
You have definitely done what you
were supposed to do in my eyes and continue to do.
Thank you.
That's all I have to say.
>> I'm so proud of you.
[Applause]
Next, Roland Bell.
How are you, my friend?
You have three minutes.
>> Good evening mayor and members of the board.
My name is Roland Bell.
I'm a resident here in Mooresville.
I'm a father, a husband.
I'm also a veteran in the United States Air Force.
I'm here tonight not to speak out
of hatred or personal animosity, about a concern for this town
and the integrity of its public offices.
Someone who served in the military.
And the mayor also served, I know
we both understand the standards that come up when in uniform.
We're taught that our actions reflect not only on ourselves
but on that we represent.
We're expected to avoid conduct that would embarrass the service
or damage public trust.
I believe that elected office holds that same responsibility.
The mayor may not wear physical uniform,
but the office itself in a sense is a uniform.
A position carries responsibility, symbolism
and public trust at all times.
No matter when, no matter where.
The conduct in the mayor reflects on multiples itself.
I appreciate that you've issued multiple apologies.
I think that in a town with strong Christian values,
that many residents are willing to accept that apology.
Forgive this matters.
Grace matters.
Forgiveness is not a grace or accountability piece someone
can be forgiven while still recognizing they're
not in the best position to lead effectively.
At this point, the controversy surrounding the mayor
has become a distraction for the town, an embarrassment
and a source of division within its local government.
Whether fair or unfair, the office of mayor
has been diminished by it.
And because of that, I respectfully
believe the right thing for the mayor to resign.
He truly cares about Mooresville,
its reputation and integrity of its government stepping aside
would allow the town to move forward and begin
rebuilding public trust.
>> Thank you.
Appreciate you coming tonight.
Next is Lynn Taylor.
We always appreciate you coming.
>> Greeting town board members, staff, and citizens.
Were you shocked and disheartened as I was when I
read the news that the town had forked out almost $72,000 of tax
payer money for legal fees to prevent security footage
of the mayor's October 2024 incident being released?
On June 25th, we TV news published that we had not only
paid those legal fees, but that we had also paid almost 100,000
to another settlement and probably will see more
of our taxes go for pending lawsuits.
If that's not insufferable enough,
we also saw in the same week TV report
that the commissioner stated that protecting
the safety of government buildings was their goal.
That's further salt in our wounds.
When did the government building become
more worthy of protecting the honor of the very people you
serve?
After, you the board have stated that we are your bosses.
As such, our honor is far more precious than brick and mortar.
Knowing that the overall philosophy seems
to be a building above the peace of mind and what we the people
want, that's a rude wake up call.
What we want should be the rhetorical question.
But as we're witnessing it, it is not.
The mayor cannot honor his own words or the will
of the citizens he claims to hold in such high regard.
And the board appears to be sitting on their hands
and blind to it all.
And meanwhile, our hard earned money
is being spent protecting something that shouldn't be.
The board even voted no confidence.
The WBTV report also acknowledged
that the trust in our city administration is horrendous.
And that is probably the most understated fact
in this never ending saga.
According to the Town Charter page nine,
the town manager under section 5.5 letter F
is to make available to the public
a complete report of finances.
Letter H of the same section details
how the Town Manager is to perform any other duty required
authorized by the board.
I realize there's other conditioning statements in both
of these letter clauses, but however,
knowing the very people the board serves are angry,
hurt, feel betrayed and marginalized enough already.
How difficult would it have been to approve a special Town
report so we felt informed, not blindsided.
Before I close, I want to leave you
with some facts that are easily found.
Can be referenced in are certainly relevant.
No confidence votes are legally binding.
The citizens of Mooresville demand due justice.
The mayor publicly stated that the board
could do as they saw fit with him after the 2027 budget was
passed.
It past, nothing happened.
It's been adopted and so far nothing has happened.
The mayor went back on his word and will no longer voluntarily
stepped down.
So staff, what do you want?
To continue to abandon your bosses
or repair the massive damages that have made us
an international bad example?
Thank you.
>> Thank you for coming.
We appreciate you.
Next we have Mr. Richard Beck.
You have three minutes.
>> Mr. Mayor, town board, members of staff and members
of the public, I begin this evening paraphrasing from
a document from which most of you are familiar,
the Declaration of Independence.
And so therefore petition this Board of Commissioners.
Particular grievance from among the many grievances
listed in the declaration, and address many forms
by Mooresville residents includes imposing taxes on us
without our consent.
Sentences have many occasions petitioned for redress
in the most humble terms.
Our repeated petitions have been answered only
by repeated injury.
Among the grievances and injury from the most recent
past budget, which was approved and adopted
include the following.
What happened to the original $105,000 of credit card fee
expense in the original proposed budget within the planning
and Community Development Department that has been reduced
to $5,000?
Where did the other $100,000 expense go since the entire,
not specifically expense budget, amount did not increase
by $100,000?
May a missing $100,000, just a minor amount.
Why have taxpayers paid $72,000 and perhaps more for legal fees
incurred by inappropriate actions of town staff?
Why are taxpayers being tasked a budgeted amount of $50,000
for legal fees within a town manager's office so such office
can defend itself from inappropriate actions of its own
making?
Why are Tusk payers being tasked to pay $90,000 for risk
management consultants when a town already employs a risk
management director.
Why the duplication?
Why are taxpayers being tasked to fund the purchase
for a police department, new K-9 vehicle for $90,000 with
additional payments of $115,000 for the same are listed
on another line on the PG budget,
and also fleet management replacement budget.
A whopping $205,000 for a new gold plated police K-9 vehicles.
Great.
Why taxpayers directly earned directly through third parties
made responsible through tax paid to subtle,
almost $100,000 compensation?
The former employee --
wire citizens being tasked with such egregious payments
without due consideration of their necessity
by this Board of Commissioners?
Is it the intention of this board
to address or ignore such payments after the mayor resigns
as he stated after the current budget was approved?
Your actions speak louder than your words.
Thank you.
>> Thank you.
So next is -- forgive me.
I'm going to do my best with this.
Teresita Placencia.
Thank you for coming tonight.
You have three minutes.
>> Good evening Mayor board of commissioners,
town of Mooresville.
My name is Terry Placencia.
Teresita is my legal name.
Rules that are assumed by public officials
and enforced by the authorities are discriminatory in itself.
And when arbitrarily enforced Illegal.
Public offices -- on stated rules --
the problem is not just unfairness.
It can become arbitrarily state action.
Government rules affecting citizens should be published,
noble and administered consistently
especially when they affect access rights and penalties.
The officers are not bailiffs in this public forum.
That is not a bunch.
That is a commissioner or desk.
When public officials or public body
enforces unstated or selectively applied rules,
it creates arbitrary state action
that undermines equal treatment notice and procedural fairness.
Public officials must operate under published standards
and open meeting requirements so citizens are not
subjected to hidden or inconsistent rules.
A police officer can still enforce safety or decorum
of the meeting rules and the presiding officer, the mayor,
authorizes intervention.
But officers should be acting under identified rule
statute or discretion from the presiding officers.
Not by importing courtroom language
that does not fit the study.
The meeting rules do not identify the prohibition
against the respectful approach or consensual
embrace of a board member.
The mayor, in this case.
By Mr..
Where officials routinely permit physical approach
to board members behind their desk,
but a citizen is threatened with arrest for comparable contact
enforcement becomes arbitrary and potentially discriminatory
in Operation.
Any restraints on a citizen in public meetings
should be grounded.
In published rule, a valid statutory basis
and consistent application.
Citizen legislators@Gmail.com is here to serve the public
since we are in need of protection.
The public.
And I tell the chief, the officers need more training,
specifically.
And what constitutes a threat?
We are in danger if they do not understand this.
Thank you very much.
>> I appreciate you coming out.
Mr. Jack Banyan.
Jack, three minutes.
>> Yes.
My name is Jack Benyon.
Thank you for allowing me to speak.
I see that you will probably be approving another $219,758
on consulting fees to fix the sewer system that you can keep
telling us there's no problem.
I have a sort of hypothetical question.
If I were to stand at this podium
and ask your approval to do ABC, and got your vote to do A B C,
but instead did XYZ.
I guess that hypothetically I would have stood here
and lied to both of you and the people sitting or standing
behind me, and I guess it would be up to you and the staff
to make sure that I did A B C, as it was presented.
And if you and the staff did not hypothetically,
it would sort of put you all in the same boat with me
as to lying to the people in this room.
Let's go back in history.
Before many of you were sitting in those
chairs, some crazy things going on.
Projects that were presented and approved.
But were completed drastically different from the presentation.
And some were, I don't want to use the expression snuck.
So I would say hurried through.
Example, three different housing projects
were hurried through after using a 13 year old traffic study,
adding 360 single family and multifamily and apartment units,
all on a road less than a mile long.
When asked why this was used and approved,
the term fixing a mistake was used.
The one mile road was never widened.
It was never added turning lanes into these three communities,
and we were told that there would probably
be one vehicle per unit.
So there shouldn't be any worries.
A very large portion of the town officials that were involved Are
long gone in terms --
I bring this up because it seems at least to some of us
out here that history is beginning to repeat itself.
I ask that you please go through all the applications.
Please be respectful to the homeowners already living here.
Please do nothing that would possibly
have some of those terms I've previously
mentioned be attached to any of you now sitting before us.
Thank you.
[Applause]
All right.
We have an addition, Gabriel Moping.
I'll try not to make that mistake twice.
Thank you.
You have three minutes.
We appreciate you coming out tonight.
>> So I was really just here for you, I'll be honest.
I'm really here for you.
And I'm looking at everybody else in this room.
And I'm noticing the lack of effort of anything that was done
about what happened on October 10th,
do you remember what happened that day?
I remember what happened that day.
I was told.
I just want to say that the fact that you're still
sitting here right now in front of me, and the fact
that I'm able to talk to you as my mayor
is the most disrespectful thing as a citizen I have ever
seen in my life.
Truly.
Do you have anything to say about that?
No?
Okay.
Really, what I'm going to say to you.
You need to resign.
Because truly, your actions are not
fit for this place, for what's happening in here.
Whoever came up here before and was talking good about you,
I'm not here to deny their experience with you.
You may have done great to them.
You haven't done great to me.
Just know that.
And I'm gonna say this, you need to resign.
Because what you did constitutes an impeachment.
I hope you know that.
You should not be in this office right now.
At all.
Do you understand?
Oh, you do?
Those looks that give, disrespectful to the people that
came up here and were talking about you.
Completely disrespectful.
Think about your actions, please.
>> Appreciate you, Gabriel.
Next.
We're going to move on to our presentations.
And with that, we have a proclamation
for Parks and Recreation.
If you'll join me up here.
Appreciate you.
We're always excited to recognize parks and Rec.
And if you want to talk about a group
that has had a busy year this year.
Opening the Eastern Heights Park.
We're working on a massive baseball facility downtown.
The golf course continued to make profit.
And I try to remind everybody back in my first time around.
We were losing $250,000 a year.
And Luke and his crew now have turned it around
and just doing a great job.
Not to mention all of the different events
that we've been able to hold in our town.
You guys have done a really great job.
I appreciate it.
With that, the town of Mooresville proclamation Park
and recreation Month July 2026, whereas this July Parks
and Recreation Month highlights the power of Parks
and recreation, community belonging and the people who
make the possible to improve the overall quality of life
in Mooresville.
And Whereas Parks and Recreation Month celebrates the power
of connection and offering public space for everyone
to gather, enjoy nature and bond as a community,
and whereas Parks and recreation are fundamental
to the environment well-being of our community and support
our safety, community well-being and for--
therefore, now it be resolved that the mayor and the Board
of Commissioners do hereby proclaim July 26th as Parks
Recreation Month in the town of Mooresville and encourage
residents to visit a park to participate in one
of their outstanding recreation programs in the month of July
throughout the year this day of July, 6th, 2026.
Thanks, brother!
[Applause] Next, we're going to have our town manager report.
And with Miss Jerome recovering from a stomach bug,
I think we're all thinking about her
and hopefully she'll return in a day or two
when she's not contagious.
With that, Miss Strickland, you're going to take over?
>> Yes.
As we do start the manager's report,
we want to recognize the new members of the staff who
have come on board and will be contributing
to the high level of service we provide to the residents
of Mooresville.
We wish you every success as you begin with your careers
in the town.
We also highlight promotions and transfers
within the organization and acknowledge
the professional growth and advancements of our employees,
the commitment and dedication exhibited by our staff members
is greatly appreciated, and I'd like to take this opportunity
to say thank you for the exceptional work ethic
that our team exemplifies every day.
Congratulations to Brian Overcash in fleet
Maintenance for 25 years of service to the town,
and to Candace Klein in finance for ten years.
It's an honor to celebrate these milestones with you,
and we wish you all the best in the years ahead.
I'm happy to announce that for the 15th consecutive year,
the town has received the government Finance Officers
Association's Certificate of Achievement for Excellence
in Financial Reporting for our annual Comprehensive Financial
Report for the fiscal year ending June 30th 2025.
This prestigious recognition reflects the Finance Departments
commitment to transparency, accountability
and the highest standards of financial reporting.
Additionally, for the sixth consecutive year,
Mooresville has received the GOS Triple Crown
Award for fiscal Year 2024.
In order to receive the Triple Crown,
a local government must have earned all three
of the GFOA's mayors honors in a single year.
This means that for fiscal year 2024,
the town received the excellence in Financial Reporting Award.
The popular annual Financial Reporting Award
and the distinguished Budget Presentation Award.
We are only one of 441 governments across the United
States and Canada to achieve this award.
Achieving this distinction year after year
is a testament to the professionalism, expertise,
stewardship and dedication of our finance team
and serving our community with integrity and excellence.
Thank you so much to our finance team.
Mooresville fire rescue, Swift Water Rescue Team
is already preparing for hurricane season 32.
Mooresville Fire and Rescue, first
responders attending three days of intensive training
at the new Swift Water facility in Stanly County.
It's hard to think about hurricane season
during the heat wave we're currently enjoying,
but our first responders are keeping their skills sharp
and will be ready to answer the call if it comes.
Speaking of responding to the call when it comes,
Mooresville Fire and Rescue Engine 2C and ladder five C team
recently received a Life Save commendation for their response
to a cardiac arrest call on May 7th,
during which they resuscitated a citizen on highway 150.
Thank you to everyone of those teams for your quick action
and compassion and for the profound difference you make
in our community every day.
Final slide we have tonight on Mooresville Fire and Rescue
is about our recent promotions within that department.
Three new fire captains, four new fire lieutenants,
and four new senior firefighters pinned in a ceremony on July
1st.
Congratulations, and thank you for your commitment
to excellence and your commitment
to the town of Mooresville.
And now I will ask Police Chief Ron Camperchani
to give us this update.
>> You caught me off guard.
I'm not able to read my first slide.
So for those four officers that would deploy to Washington DC,
help keeping the community safe and secure --
represented Mooresville for this historic event they're going
to be up there for a month.
They went up on July 18th.
They went up June 18th and they will be there till July 18th.
So they are working 12 hour days.
They're very busy up there.
I talked to them the other day.
And they are under the auspice of the U.S. Marshal service
that reached out and asked if they wanted to send people.
It's a pretty cool thing that they're
able to go up there and do that.
The MPD will hold a canine demo, a police visit Wednesday July
29th, 11 a.m.
At the main library.
One thing that I don't have a slide for,
manager Jerome wasn't here today.
We couldn't get in.
I'm going to go off script here a little bit.
I wanted to get this in because it's important.
There has been a common events happening
across the country where people are being hurt,
assaulted during these Facebook Marketplace meetings.
Facebook Marketplace becomes so big now that a lot of people
are using it.
And we tell people all the time, please use our police station
to meet people.
Please use our address.
If you're going to go on Facebook Marketplace,
tell them to meet.
The parking lot is monitored.
There's cameras there.
Dispatch is directly out there.
They are increasing across the country.
I really wanted to get that out there.
It's important and we're going to get it on our Facebook page.
We're trying to get it on our social media venue
talking to everybody we can about that.
It's so important.
Kids are using this a lot.
My daughters use it.
It's really popular now.
But when things like that happen, this is what we see.
Assaults and rapes and everything
happening across the country.
It's just not good.
For us, please use our police station.
If you're ever going to go on Facebook marketplace,
please use our police station.
Turn it back to Kelly Stricklin.
Thank you .
>> Our rock department summer concert series continues this
Friday July 10th at 6:30 p.m.
In Liberty Park.
You don't want to miss this part of the American 250
celebration featuring the legacy Motown revue.
Go to Mooresville events.com for more information
about the remaining concerts this summer.
Mooresville Parks and Recreation invites everyone to Mazeppa Park
on Tuesday July 14th for a fun party from 10 a.m.
To noon.
Come join this fun filled way to cool off from the summer sun.
This event is free and registration is not required.
Paul baseball registration is open until July 17th.
Youth ages 4 to 17 can be registered online at Mooresville
nc.gov forward slash sports leagues for our T-ball, baseball
and softball leagues.
You can also register for our Adult Softball league online.
Here's an update on Mooresville Public Library Summer Reading
program.
2465 patrons have participated in 74 programs
so far this summer.
Almost 400 new library cards have been issued this summer.
Almost 26,000 items have been checked out.
Summer reading is a great way to stay cool.
And I'm looking forward to providing
more impressive statistics over the next two months.
The library also wants to make residents aware that we
offer a virtual chat service.
You can text (704) 630-7993 during operating hours,
and a staff member will respond to it,
assist with any questions about the library, and its services.
And now, let's hear from Assistant Town Manager Ryan
Rice with his updates.
>> I just have one slide for this evening.
While the recent rains are helping the lake level remain
significantly under way should be for this time of the year,
we will continue to be in the enhanced stage two water
conservation measures.
They monitor that mid-month.
So we'll have another update in August.
Please visit the link that you see there
for a full list of updated restrictions, exceptions
and water saving tips.
With that, that concludes my report.
>> Thank you, ATM Race.
And now our town attorney, Sharon Crawford,
will speak on the scope of municipal authority.
>> Thank you.
I just want to take a minute to talk
about the scope of municipal authority in North Carolina.
Municipalities are granted authority from the state,
states are referred to either as home rule or as--
in Dillon's rule states municipalities only
express powers that are expressly
granted that are implied or that are essential to their purpose.
North Carolina is a little bit more stringent
than a Dillon's real estate.
In North Carolina, cities and towns
only exercise powers that are expressly granted from the state
legislature.
There's no inherent authority to act
and authority is granted through state statutes
or local bills that are adopted by the legislature.
And ultimately the legislature controls
whether the state, a county or a municipality
has authority over a service or a governmental function.
For example, counties have exclusive responsibility
for social services.
And the state legislature determines through state statute
what the town can or cannot do.
As an example, the town cannot charge development impact fees.
Happy to answer any questions.
>> Question on the board.
We will move on to adjustments to the agenda.
On the regular we're going to add 8D,
Consider a request from the nominating committee to adopt
a resolution making appointments to the Town of Mooresville Board
and committees.
And on closed session, add consult
with Attorney GS143-3181183.
And next on the Senate agenda regular agenda,
we're going to add those -- can I have a motion for the approval
of any adjustments to the agenda?
>> Motion.
>> Second.
>> Any discussion?
[Members voting] Before we open this,
can I have a motion from the board
to recuse Mr. Carriker and myself
due to our significant others being
a member of the group that's asking for the request?
It's a fantastic ask, but I I want
to make sure that nobody accuses us of inappropriately voting on.
Can I get a motion to recuse the two of us?
>> Motion.
>> Second.
>>
[Members voting]
>> Go ahead and proceed.
>> Sure.
We do need to call the public hearing.
>> Open the public hearing.
>> This is text amendment 2602 for the open Mooresville.
The applicant is Amy.
The purpose is to amend the Udo to provide
a clearly defined use and standards for the development
of supportive housing.
This does support the strategic priority of individual and --
to support economic sustainability.
Under our chapter nine definitions,
a supporting housing development is a residential development
consisting of multifamily dwelling units.
Integrated with on site support services
intended to assist residents in achieving and maintaining
stable housing and improving quality of life.
Supportive services may include but are not
limited to counseling case management, job training,
educational programs and other social human services
provided to residents.
Such developments may include ground floor integrated service
spaces designed to support residents, needs and program
operations.
This use does not include emergency shelters, group homes
or residential care facilities as defined elsewhere
in the ordinance.
Multifamily dwelling units associated with supportive
housing developments otherwise comply with the residential
design and dimensional standards of the --
unless modified through conditional zoning or plan
development approval.
Supportive housing development was
proposed in these three districts, downtown extension,
corridor mixed use and community commercial.
The purpose of this section is to allow residential
developments that combine multifamily housing with On-Site
supportive --
and maintaining stable housing and accessing social,
educational and employment resources . --
including counseling for life choices and personal financial
management.
Residents of supportive housing facility
are expected to occupy their units not less than one year.
Nor more than two years to allow sufficient
time to complete the program transition from the facility
to a stable permanent housing.
Under our general standards development
shall contain multifamily dwelling units
as the principal residential use.
Supportive housing facilities served on or housing
the pedestrian -- nor more than 25 dwelling units.
Supportive services may be located on the ground floor
with a portion of the building shall
be limited to service intended only for residents
of the development.
The supportive services would include
classrooms or similar spaces.
Services may include live choice counseling and financial
management, education and -- they should tailor
their programs to the unique needs of the residents ensuring
all of the approaches to the empowerment.
Under our operational Standards and Management
plan describing provisions of supportive services
and on site management shall be submitted as part
of the development process.
Development shall maintain on site management and property
management staff responsible for oversight
of buildings and operations in residential support
coordination.
Reasonable recording that maintains the confidentiality
of residents regarding the ongoing --
shall be provided to the town on an annual basis.
Building form scale and design by the applicable district
and nonresidential service components shall be integrated
into the building and shall complete --
be compatible with the residential character
of the development and not operate as standalone commercial
establishments.
All of the supporting housing developments
will comply with the density and standards of underlying district
unless approved through condition or planning
development district.
Multifamily building shall be set back from all private drives
and parking lots of minimum of ten feet
as measured from the back of the curve.
Provisions shall not apply to projects in the zoning district.
Multifamily dwelling shall not be
located within ten feet of any other building.
Active recreation facilities shall be set back a minimum
of 50ft from all adjacent land used for single family
residential purposes.
Except as otherwise provided in this section
multifamily dwelling shall be oriented
to Front Street or Common green or plaza
landscaped with trees and shrubs.
Pedestrian access to each dwelling
shall be provided from the greener plaza
by improved sidewalks.
Multifamily dwelling that is not part
of a multi-building development that
contains four or fewer dwellings shall face the streets
from which the dwelling derives its street address.
If a parking lot is provided for such a building
it should not be located between the front or side
of the building of the street.
Building entrance and parking lots and sidewalks
and recreation facilities.
At least five feet in width and be
constructed of concrete or asphalt, pavers
or similar material.
Configured to connect to parks greenways and the development,
and all utilities should be buried.
Planning Board heard this case on May 26th,
and recommended unanimous approval.
The applicant is here with a presentation.
However, I'm happy to answer any questions now or defer.
>> Any comments or questions?
Thanks.
Dr. Amy Dacaring.
>> Thank you.
Hi, I am Amy Dickinson, the executive director
of Hope on Mooresville.
Thanks for having us tonight.
I'm here tonight to talk about a request for a Udo text
amendment.
As we move forward in expanding with our mission.
And if you don't know what our mission is, hope of Mooresville
provides safe and dignified interim housing
and maintain support services for the unhoused
in our community.
So what have we done up until now?
What is Hope of Mooresville all about?
We have served 157 women and children.
We currently operate two houses.
And have had over 2000 nights of housing provided.
We are very happy about our 75% graduation rate,
by graduation I mean that people in our program
have successfully worked through the case management process,
gotten stable and have transitioned
into permanent, affordable housing we have
a 100% rate of urinating families, which also keeps kids
out of foster care.
And everyone in graduation is either employed
or on disability.
We are very proud of our strong community partnerships
with the other local nonprofits and with our school system.
They have been wonderful to work with,
and are vital to the services we provide.
So I am here tonight to talk about more housing
options and the need for that.
You probably heard this before, lack of affordable housing.
And there's so many factors that go into achieving housing.
And there's qualification barriers
that so many people have, and they
need us to walk them through the process
so we can get them on the waitlist
and have them ready so that they do actually qualify for housing.
The long waitlist, I'm not sure if you realized this,
but Mooresville Housing Authority,
right now their waitlist for the units are 2 to 3 years.
The units that serve people 62 and older and those
on disability, that waitlist is so long it is.
There are a lot of challenges moving from temporary stability
to long term independence and we are here
to tackle this challenge.
We call it hope of more skills phase two and that's what
I'm here to talk about tonight.
We want to support the transition to long term housing
and it is called transitional housing.
Is defined by up to 24 months.
Case management program which is vital to our success
as many assets in many facets to it such as helping people
find jobs.
Helping people get enrolled in school
financial coaching life skills.
We take it very serious to hold all of our guests accountable
and set goals and work through this program.
And we always want to just focus on getting people
ready, self-sufficient and independent
so they can be successful in long term housing.
I want to clarify the vision of what home is not.
If you're not familiar with everything that we do.
We are not a homeless shelter.
We do not provide emergency housing.
It is not an unsupervised apartment complex.
So people from the public aren't coming in and out.
And our staff are 24 hours a day.
We have night shift and day shift.
We are not a high density housing development.
And we're not tied currently to a specific property.
Were not seeking approval for the project tonight we just
focused on the -- we are just focused on the Udo text
amendment.
Why do this?
We want to improve the community.
We want the best for our citizens.
What would this look like with a phase two?
We would have greater housing stability.
We would have increased workforce participation,
stronger family stability and reunification
and a reduced reliance on the crisis and emergency services.
I'm sure they would love to have some help with that.
You want to do our part we want to improve our pathways
to long term, self-sufficiency.
And we want to build this community
to be even better than it already is.
So the request before you tonight is we
have a gap between temporary housing and long term housing.
The current Udo does not clearly accommodate
for this housing model.
The proposed text amendment provides a framework
for future consideration of transitional housing
opportunities.
Any future sites and development would
remain subject to separate public review and approval.
So what would happen next with our phase two?
If this amendment is approved, we
would continue our planning and feasibility analysis.
We will need to identify a site and evaluate that.
We are looking to engage with our community stakeholders,
and obviously there will be future public review
and approval process.
We have even hired a consultant to help us through this process.
As I have come to learn doing this
there's a lot of steps involved even just to get here.
I appreciate all the help we have gotten.
To sum it up, HOMe respectfully request
approval of the proposed Udo text amendment
to provide a framework for future considerations
of transitional housing while preserving
all future public review and approval requirements.
>> Any comments or questions?
Mr. West.
>> Thank you.
I am familiar with-- it sounds like an exciting new concept.
I like the idea of multifamily with onsite assistance, job
support, especially with the counseling.
And with this text amendment to the UDO,
do you anticipate having one of these set up in a pipeline?
When do you anticipate one of these openings?
>> As far as the actual phase two project?
I have learned through this process,
we are thinking about those things,
but we have not set deadlines or schedules simply
because we have to get through this text amendment part first.
And then we would definitely love to focus on that
and be able to answer those questions.
>> Appreciate that.
Great job, and appreciate what you guys are doing.
So we don't have anyone for public comment.
But there would be no rebuttal.
Do I entertain a motion?
>> Mayor, I'll make that motion I'll make a motion to approve
to 2026-02 as the amendment is consistent with
the town's Mooresville plan, specifically the amendment
provides a clearly defined use and establishes standard
for the development of supportive housing.
Furthermore, the proposed amendment is reasonable
and the public interest allows residential
that combine multifamily housing with on site support services.
>> Commissioner West with the motion.
Seconded by Commissioner Evan.
>> Just wanted to express appreciation for the town staff
that's worked on this and for Hope of Mooresville
for your work.
Very good case for a need, the work
done to bring it into the legal process to make it happen.
I look forward as this Commissioner West was saying,
and to seeing it move forward into execution.
We're getting this first step is exciting to see
as we look to diversify the opportunities for housing.
It's a very clear presentation.
Thank you both for your work on it.
Looking forward to vote on this.
>> Any more comments or questions?
All in favor, please.
Any no's?
[Members voting] It passes.
Thank you, all.
>> Good job, y'all.
>> Next, item 8B.
Consider a request from the Planning & Community Development
Department to adopt an Ordinance for Voluntary Annexation
and Utility Extension Request AX-2026-17 for 1.028-acres
located at 882 Mt Ulla Highway.
we're going to open the public hearing.
>> Good evening, Mayor and commissioners my name is Patrick
Werner planner with the planning community Development Department
presenting AX-2026-17 for 882 Mount Willow Highway.
This emergency voluntary annexation would allow
for the extension of town utilities for a failed septic
system for an existing single family residential dwelling
at the subject property. -- by supporting the strategic--
an overview of the property.
The owners and applicants are Christopher and Brooklyn Cheryl.
The property is located at 882 Mount Ulla Highway approximately
1.028 acres in size, currently within Mooresville Etj and with
-- and is contiguous to town limits the parcel is within
Mooresville Etj and zoned residential limited services.
Utilities identify the property within tier one of growth map
and Water and sewer are available with no capacity
issues.
Sewer has been connected to this property.
Fire noted that the property is located within the four minute
response time, and five mile response area for fire station
six.
Police noted that the property can
be serviced as this property is within the existing patrol
response and crash zones Pierre code enforcement noted
no issues with the request, and Public Works
noted that the site can be serviced
by sanitation and streets.
Staff identified that the site meets the statutory requirements
for voluntary annexation.
And happy to answer any questions.
>> Questions from the board?
We have no public comment nor any applicant,
because we are the applicant.
Is there any other questions?
Let's close the public hearing.
With that, is there a motion?
>> I'll make a motion to approve voluntary annexation ordinance
and utility extension request AX-2026-17,
882 Mount Ola Highway.
>> Is there a second?
>> Second.
>> Is there any discussion on the motion?
All in favor say aye.
[Members voting] All right.
8C.
Consider a from the Planning and Development Department
to approve Resolution Scheduling Public Hearings Land Use.
>> We proposing one public hearing August 3rd.
It's ZC2609 for Big Daddy storage
and happy to answer any questions.
>> Questions from the board?
Is there a motion to fix the date for Big Daddy storage?
>> I'll make a motion to adopt the resolution.
>> Commissioner West with first.
Second Commissioner Kercher.
Is there a discussion the motion?
All in favor, say aye.
[Members
Item 8D.
>> If you look on your screen you will see Mark ABC board July
through June 30th 2029, ABC board July 1st 2026 and June
30th 2029.
Larry Schaefer Historical Preservation Commission.
July 1st 2026 through June 30th 2030.
Henry Steller, Historical Commission July 1st 2026 June
30th 2030.
Becker, Mooresville Housing Authority,
July 1st 2026 through June 30th, 2031.
Gregory-- Lauren temple, planning board July 1st 2026
through June 30th 2029 Pierre Christin Patterson,
Mooresville traveling Tour--
July 1st 2026 through June 30th.
2030.
Do you know what, --
July 1st 2026 through June 30th 2030.
Daniel Isom, Mooresville travel and Tourism, July 1st,
2026 through June 30th, 2027.
That is your nominations from the Nomination Committee.
For Mayor, Commissioner West, take any comments on that.
>> Any questions or concerns from the board?
Mr. Dingler, would that be your motion?
>> Yes.
>> Motion by Commissioner Dingler seconded by Commissioner
West.
All in favor, please say aye.
Post.
[Members voting] Under new business, which we have none
we will move on to our closed session.
Consult with attorney GS143-318.11A3.
For economic development, GS 143-318. --
Is there a motion to go into Closed session?
Mr. West?
>> Second.
>> Discussion on the motion?
All in favor, say aye.
[Members voting]
[Meeting entering closed session]
Before we adjourn, In case you're
watching the whole meeting Commissioner Owens, we love you.
Look forward to seeing you in August.
With that, can we have a motion to adjourn?