Mayor Roberts tweets about frustrations following final City Council meeting

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts said she’s frustrated following a heated debate at Monday night’s City Council meeting.

Roberts was not happy after the meeting and tweeted that she's frustrated she doesn't have a vote on City Council. She wanted to vote for two environmental issues that were voted on, but both failed to pass.

The first issue was a clean energy resolution that would've created a goal for Charlotte of using 100 percent clean energy by 2050. Some council members don't want to approve it until the details are clearer.

Can I just say how frustrating it is to have no vote on matters before City Council? As Mayor, I conduct our meetings but I have no vote.Two items that failed tonight--both on protecting the environment--could have used my vote. The new council will have some good work to do!
— Jennifer Roberts (@JenRobertsNC) November 28, 2017

The resolution does not lay out which sectors will use clean energy or how the city would work with Duke Energy to achieve the goal.

“We also have so many of our neighbors in North Carolina who have already adopted this,” Roberts said during the meeting. “Hillsboro, Carrboro, you heard them earlier.”

“I’m pretty sure they didn’t come up with a number 2035 or 2045 in this last-minute kind of knee-jerk fashion,” said Councilman Ed Driggs.

Council having a heated discussion on whether to help teach every 5th grader abt the importance of clean water and protecting the environment, in partnership with Discovery Place. It costs 25 cents a year per household. Well worth it IMHO. @SierraClub pic.twitter.com/hoBLulhI6n
— Jennifer Roberts (@JenRobertsNC) November 28, 2017

The second issue council members argued over was a partnership between Charlotte Water and the Discovery Place Museum in uptown.

Council wants to spend more than $350,000 to have Charlotte Water visit Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools classrooms to teach students about the importance of protecting the environment.

After some members asked if the city has developed any metrics yet to identify if that is a good investment to make, the council also voted to send that second issue back to committee as well.

Vi Lyles, who will be sworn in as mayor next week, voted to send both issues back to a committee.

Monday night was the last City Council meeting for Roberts, Patsy Kinsey, Carlenia Ivory and Kenny Smith.

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