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KimRoneyforAsheville
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(she/her) • City Councilor • Music Educator • Neighbor/Settler • Queer • Abolitionist • Transit Commuter 📍 ᏙᎩᏯᏍᏗ (Asheville), ancestral land of ᏣᎳᎩ (Cherokee)
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Happy Diwali to all who celebrate!

Wishing radiant peace, justice, and joy for you and your loved ones as you gather around the light.
Decision making for our state-maintained roads:

⚠️ NCDOT builds and maintains state roads
📝 The French Broad River MPO oversees regional budgets, plans, and priorities
➡️ There are 23 members of the MPO for Districts 13 & 14

Follow along: frenchbroadrivermpo.org

#mondayminute #road #transportation
#OpenStreets Mini-Grants are open!

💰 Grants cover city fees
🚸 Temporary street closures for events
🫶🏻 Supporting economic recovery post-Helene
🗓️ Apply at least 45 days before event

ArtsAVL facilitating, info and application here: artsavl.org/esg

#event #disasterrecovery #supportlocal #Asheville
4/ We have the best City Clerk in NC—it’s not fair to blame her. This is a Council decision. As always you can reach the full Council at: [email protected]
3/ Because our city-imposed deadline is excluding late applicants, there are appeals to include all applicants in this critical work. I support that appeal, which would require a majority of Council to allow, but no one else named support in our agenda briefing.
2/ Helene recovery board info:

🔢 4 boards x 11 members = 44 advisors
🗓️ Two years of planned meetings
💰Advising on budgets, plans, and policies for recovery
➡️ Focus on Infrastructure, Housing, Economy, and People & Environment
🧵 1/ City Council will appoint four Helene recovery boards this Tuesday at the end of our regularly-scheduled meeting.

This is the time for inclusion, not exclusion. Email: [email protected]

#civics #civics101 #mondayminute #disasterrecovery #Asheville
The moon is so pretty over #Asheville tonight!
Council has just two months to hire the next City Manger. Check out the Council agenda briefing to watch a City Manager’s team in action:

🗓️ Thursday, Oct 9th: 11am
📍 Streaming and archived on the City’s YouTube
➡️ Each Thursday Council meetings

#civics #citymanager #MondayMinute #asheville
Asheville deserves a reliable #transit system for all!

1. We need more & dedicated funding
2. We can make meaningful improvements with what we have
3. Not everyone can afford to live on a high-density corridor
4. We can’t afford to cut people out of transit access
Public transit is at the intersection of equitable access, economic mobility, and environmental stewardship. Your input on the survey is needed:

www.ashevillenc.gov/projects/art...

#transit #publictransit #ridethebus #Asheville
I don’t always have time to respond here, but thanks for regularly engaging. I remain hopeful that if we build housing designed for incumbent residents, we can heal and recover from the current crisis while also improving our pre-Helene housing crisis. It’s hard work, I’m in.
One example of many surveys: 6,200+ people participated in the Helene recovery fund survey, a data set we can use to inform investment of those funds as well as current and future bond programs.

Also: Continuum of Care surveys, Affordable Housing Plan (not yet adopted), Missing Middle. Etc.
Federal social service funding is being cut while the authoritarian federal government criminalizes poverty and disability. We’ll see more working, poor, and disabled neighbors slip into poverty

It’s important for me to share what our rights are for when we need them. This is one, current example.
Local government has a role too. Zoning, funding partnership, membership in the Continuum of Care.

Local gov also fails and creates new problems. You may remember in 2021 that Council pulled funding for deeply affordable housing in retaliation for partners speaking against food sharing limitations.
I agree we all have a role to play in ending poverty, and that mutual aid is critical to community safety until we do. It’s why I regularly invite neighbors to join me in sharing time, talent, and resources addressing root causes.
I imagine the vast majority of our neighbors want poverty to be ended, for us to keep neighbors housed and healthy for our collective safety and well-being.
#Climatechange is a human-created, existential crisis. #Mutualaid is critical to our survival.

Rooted in Indigenous culture and practiced by work class people, mutual aid means sharing resources and keeping each other safe when systems fail or cause harm. I saw it in action and it healed my soul.
As the call moves into practice: “We are unstoppable, another world is possible!”

This gratitude reel goes out to my friends and neighbors who stepped up for rescue and recovery in the aftermath of Helene.

#mutualaid #communitycare #communitysafety #hurricanehelene #Asheville #WNC #mountainstrong
I’m grateful to be in our community today as we celebrate Pride on the day we remember those we lost to Helene in WNC. May love fuel the struggle for collective liberation with healing as our focus, resiliency our goal, and equity our demand for how to get there, and may the celebrations be joyful!
This morning I’m thinking of what Pattie Gonia refers to in the intersectional work of economic justice and climate justice, of what Dan Savage noted during the AIDs epidemic: We mourn in the morning, we fight in the afternoon, we dance at night.
• Slide 5: Still Standing Celebration
🗓️ Sat., Sept. 27th: 11am-6pm
📍 @bluntpretzels: 120 Alexander Pl, Swannanoa
➡️ Fundraiser with music, fun, and games!

• Slide 6: Helene Survivors Committee Town Hall
🗓️ Sat., Sept. 27th: 1-4pm
📍 Land of Sky UCC: 15 Overbrook Pl
➡️ Register: bit.ly/WNCFightsBack