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Charlotte council approves grants, annexations, traffic project and bond steps
Summary
At its August meeting, the Charlotte City Council approved multiple business investment grants, several voluntary annexations and municipal agreements including a $91,000 traffic-signal project and introduced a general-obligation refunding bond order with an updated not-to-exceed amount.
The Charlotte City Council on the August meeting approved a series of business investment grants, annexations, municipal agreements and a bond financing measure, voting each item by voice or hand vote during a consolidated consent and public-hearing portion of the agenda. Council also approved a contract authorization for interpretation, translation and transcription services covering numerous languages and American Sign Language.
The approvals were routine and largely uncontroversial: councilmembers moved and seconded each item and, where a public hearing was opened, no members of the public spoke. Mayor Vi Lyles called for hands on each motion and recorded no opposition to the items described below.
Votes at a glance - Consent item 31: Authorized the city manager to negotiate and execute contracts for interpretation, translation and transcription services covering Spanish, American Sign Language and more than a dozen additional languages. Motion to approve carried…
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