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Fayetteville City Council decided at its work session Monday to look into childcare options for city employees.
The council voted 7-1 toresearch how best the city could provide assistance on childcare for its employees. Councilwoman Courtney Banks-McLaughlin brought up the issue.
Currently, the city doesn t provide childcare, nor has it done a study to assess the need among essential employees, spokeswoman Nacarla Webb said in an email Tuesday.
Councilwoman Yvonne Kinston told the council that the city needed to look into the daycare facilities as they open back up with limited capacity. She said the city should see if city employees are having issues getting their children into care, as well as look into their other needs. She also said city officials need to look into how many single parents work for the city as essential employees and determine their needs for services.
Clipp added that city employees should continue to mask, continue maintaining social distancing, do staggered reentry, and perform temperature checks on employees and visitors.
On Tuesday, Clipp said in an emailed statement that a four-question survey was sent out to city employees prior to reopening that got 130 responses.
Ninety-five percent of respondents said they were comfortable sharing COVID-19 concerns with their supervisors, Clipp said. Fifty-eight percent said they were already working on-site, and another 47% said they felt confident the city would keep them safe as they returned to work.
City Manager Doug Hewett said that when city leaders looked at reopening City Hall, they said they hoped that long-term changes they were making to chambers and the lobby would help separate employees. One of those changes happening at City Hall, Hewett said, is moving the permanent inspections counter to the front of the building. He hoped they d be able to limit face-to-face contac
A new future is on its way for Fayetteville s long-contested Market House.
Fayetteville City Council voted 9-1 on Thursday to repurpose the building. The city plans to use Department of Justice guidance to make sure the project serves as many community members as possible.
Voting in opposition was Councilwoman Courtney Banks-McLaughlin, who wanted more citizen input and called for a federal investigation into not including that feedback.
Over the course of discussion that lasted nearly 90 minutes, the council was presented with options on relocating the Market, as well as five options for repurposing the building.
The building is a national landmark but has come under fire for its history as a site for selling enslaved people. Its future has been a topic of discussion since last summer s protests following Fayetteville native George Floyd s death in police custody.
Plans to move forward with creating a police advisory board were approved by a vote of 8-2 at the Fayetteville City Council’s work session Monday night.
The request was brought by councilmen Chris Davis and D.J. Haire. Reading from the agenda item, Davis told the council that the advisory board s goals include creating communication between the Fayetteville Police Department and the citizen representatives and improving the relationship between the FPD and the community.
In the packets given out to City Council members Monday were copies of two memos from April 2014 and June 2020: the first being the original resolution sent to the state and the second being the most recent, Davis said.