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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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KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · Aug 25

See something? Say something. En español abajo.

From CiMA: “Share this information to help us continue keeping each other safe.”
☎️ 24/7 community reporting line (888)839-2839

En español: “Comparten esta información para seguir cuidándonos.”
☎️ Línea comunitaria 24/7 para reportar: (888)829-2839

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KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Diwali to all who celebrate!

Wishing radiant peace, justice, and joy for you and your loved ones as you gather around the light.

KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 1d

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

KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 3d

Know Your Rights / Conozca Sus Derechos

#protest #knowyourrights #conozcasusderechos #nokings

KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 5d

#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

KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 8d

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]

KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 8d

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.

KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 8d

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

KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 8d

🧵 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

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KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 13d

The moon is so pretty over #Asheville tonight!

KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 15d

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

KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 16d

The City of Asheville survey is asking: with our existing budget, should we have

A. Fewer, more frequent transit routes?
B. Better connections and similar coverage?

Or a range between the two extremes?

Survey here: www.ashevillenc.gov/projects/art...

ART Comprehensive Operational Analysis - The City of Asheville

Project Overview The City of Asheville is launching the Asheville Rides Transit (ART) Comprehensive Operational Analysis (COA) to improve public transit services and align resources with community nee...

www.ashevillenc.gov

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KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 16d

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

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KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 16d

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

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KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 21d

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.

KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 21d

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.

KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 21d

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.

KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 21d

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.

KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 22d

#MondayMinute Know Your Rights: Police Body Cam Footage

Full info: www.ashevillenc.gov/service/requ...

#knowyourrights #civics #civics101 #Asheville

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KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 23d

#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.

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KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 23d

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

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KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 24d

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!

KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 24d

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.

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KimRoneyforAsheville @kimroney.bsky.social · 25d

• 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