Asheville For All Questionnaire 2024
Date: July 31, 2024 (300 word limits) In your opinion, what do Asheville and its residents stand to benefit from pro-housing policies? Our whole community will benefit from a healthy, housing ecosystem, but we don’t have that now. Many in Asheville struggle to make ends meet as the cost of living rises while unchecked tourism […]
Roney’s Sierra Club Questionnaire 2024
1) Would you like your candidacy to be endorsed by the Sierra Club and why? Yes, as an environmental advocate committed to climate & neighborhood resiliency and striving for a zero-waste campaign, I would be honored to again be endorsed by the local chapter of Sierra Club as a candidate for Asheville City Council! As […]
Councilmember Roney’s Budget Analysis 2024-25
Councilmember Roney’s Budget Analysis 2024-25 … and there still aren’t enough votes for $18.25 for firefighters. First, gratitude: Sharing the work. Thanks to neighbors who engaged through this tough budget season, including surveys, emails, and public hearings! Living Wages: While none of the proposed budget options secure $22.10-hour based on housing costs, public pressure = […]
Mountain Xpress: Campaign Life
1. You first ran for City Council in 2017 (correct me if I’m wrong here!). What do you remember about your first run for office? Can you share a story or paint a picture of what running for the first time felt like? Looking back through my 2017 calendar and scrapbook, those days of juggling […]
Budgets, Pools, Schools, and Bathrooms
Council’s Strategic Priorities Friends and neighbors, it’s budget season at City Hall and our City Council retreat is this week. What are Strategic Priorities? Each year at the City Council retreat, Council sets our strategic priorities for the coming year which influence our City’s budget, plans, and policies. In addition to our Asheville Comprehensive Plan, […]
Candidate Questionnaires 2024
Thank you to our local media and organizations participating in voter education and engagement through questionnaires and forums! Mountain Xpress Voter Guide 2024 (state, judicial, and local) Vote411.org (enter your address for answers from candidates on your ballot and other resources) Blue Ridge Public Radio Asheville Citizen Times Asheville Area Arts Council Asheville on Bikes […]
“Ceasefire Now!”
Call Congress to demand “Cease Fire Now!” (202) 224-3121 A solidarity note from Councilmember Kim Roney: Friends & Neighbors, My heart is broken with Jewish, Palestinian, and Israeli people, with human family grieving locally and across the world through these past weeks of escalated violence. Join me in the call for negotiations to end the violence, […]
An Amendment: A Necessary Path Towards Reimagining Public Safety for All
Friends and Neighbors, Considering the recent letter by a majority of my colleagues outlining a “Both/And” approach to public safety, I hear and reiterate shared concern as I offer this amendment. Everyone in our community deserves to be safe! Council has both obligations and opportunities to strategize a necessary path from the situation we’re in […]
About our 2023 budget…
While the City of Asheville’s 2023-2024 fiscal budget vote was covered in the Asheville Citizen Times, my full statement and position are available here: Budgets are moral documents that fund our public services and represent our community values through allocation of our public tax dollars. This is my 8th budget cycle, 5 years from the […]
On Pruning, Connecting, and Growing Together in 2023
Celebrating Black History Month In celebrating Black History Month, we honor the brilliance, leadership, and contributions of Black Americans in the United States. In Asheville, examples of resilience in historic Black neighborhoods through devastating impacts of urban renewal, redlining, and gentrification are heard in the stories told through efforts like the Montford & Stumptown Fund. […]