The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s (CMPD’s) Community Policing Crisis Response Team Services (CPCRT) was established to provide improved public safety and service through the deployment of Officers and licensed mental health clinicians. The objective of the CPCRT is to decrease the number of injuries and incarcerated mentally ill individuals by acting as an entry point into mental health treatment.

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (“CMPD”) will be seeking proposals from qualified service providers to provide Special Events and Secondary Employment scheduling software and payment system able to schedule and organize over 500,000 hours of jobs per year and process payment from vendor to employee.

Scope of Work

The selected partner will design and implement an accelerator program with multiple cohorts each year during the two-year period. The accelerator will assist entrepreneurs through modalities such as coaching, mentor meetings, networking events, pitch practice, and others to support them through funding or other significant milestones. The scope of the project includes but is not limited to:

• Designing and launching a program of acceleration and/or pre-acceleration for startups
• Build key community partnerships to ensure buy-in and collaboration with the ecosystem
• Achieve engagement with underserved founder communities (ethnic minority and women)
• Conduct outreach in the community to recruit applicants and necessary partners
• Create connectivity between the Charlotte entrepreneurial community and capital sources
• Build measurements and metrics to show impact and success of the program over time
• Assist in messaging to build support for the program after the two-year project period

Prepare program participants for fundraising and achieving milestones post-graduation

The City of Charlotte’s Economic Development Department is seeking an experienced and knowledgeable consulting firm to conduct a comprehensive assessment and develop an implementation plan for the small business ecosystem in Charlotte to help increase equitable opportunities and address challenges/gaps in resources. This assessment and implementation plan is to provide an in-depth understanding of the challenges, opportunities, and key factors affecting small businesses in Charlotte.

The storm drainage improvement project is for the area in and around Hill Street.  The construction project boundaries are Tryon Street to the southeast, Trade Street to the northeast, South Cedar Street and West 1st Street to the north, and Palmer Street to the southwest. The project includes storm drainage improvements that reduce house and street flooding or will repair failing infrastructure.

This project will incorporate pedestrian, bicycle and bridge improvements on Matheson Avenue from North Tryon Street to Jordan Place. The project will include a westbound one-way bicycle path along the north side of Matheson Avenue and a two- way bicycle path and sidewalk along the south side. Both sides will include a three-foot buffer between the bicycle paths and the road.

This project is bordered by Rama Road to the north, McAlpine Creek to the south, Monroe Road to the east and Burlwood Road to the west.  The drainage system consists of open channel and closed pipe systems underneath City maintained roads.  This was previously identified as a major capital project from the watershed ranking prioritization process with a score of 54 of 100.  The ranking protocol identifies 30 structures that experience flooding in the 100-year storm event and 16 roads that experience transverse overtopping events that do not meet current standards.  A holistic project is needed to cost beneficially address the drainage system issues.

The purpose and need for this construction project is to improve the storm drainage infrastructure (i.e. pipe systems and culverts) to reduce flooding and to enhance degraded stream reaches to reduce erosion and improve water quality.  This project is under review.  Location and project details will be provided after review is complete.

Concrete expansion joints are cuts in concrete slabs, or the joints between walls and concrete slabs, that go completely through the slab to the base material. The purpose of an expansion joint is to allow the concrete slab to expand and contract with temperatures changes, without cracking the slab. Expansion joints must be sealed with a flexible sealant, to prevent water from penetrating the joint and deteriorating the sub-base.