Garinger High School

I know there's no you in there, okay? But it's fun to say.

Superintendent Hill says that school board members were not all aware of McGregor's involvement with the affordable housing project at Garinger High School.

This was the project where they were going to build affordable homes for teachers, right? And They announced this a couple years ago, and they've been securing the money.

The city of Charlotte kicked in a million dollars, and now they're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, we haven't signed off on this yet, so now we're not going to until this all gets sorted out.

And, you know, as I understand, you spent a little bit of time at Central Piedmont Community College on the enrollment management and student success side of things.

As an aside, I started my career as a math teacher at Garinger High School.

So I'm familiar with the community over there.

over there in Charlotte and we had some students participate in dual enrollment at CPCC.

Charlotte budgeted $1 million to help fund the school district's affordable housing teacher village.

They did this last year, a $1 million grant to build teacher and workforce housing over at Garinger High School.

The city, though, still has not executed the grant agreement or dispersed any of the money.

Just the timeline hasn't gotten to that point where they would release the funds.

What are you doing? What expertise could you possibly have in affordable housing building to act as a consultant to warrant $30,000 a month? The district launched its At Home in CMS initiative in 2024 to make housing costs more affordable for teachers through rental discounts, as well as pathways to homeownership, as well as financial literacy resources.

The city pledged the $1 million grant to support that mission.

The school board voted in May to set aside seven acres next to Garinger High School to be developed for up to 138 apartments for educators.

Innovative Housing Solutions Foundation, a local nonprofit developer, partnered with the district to design, construct, and manage the housing community.

This was from the city of Charlotte for affordable housing.

They were going to build teacher workforce housing over at Garinger.

And so there was this pot of money.

And then CMS hires a law firm to help with that project.