City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Oakland City Council on January 6th, 2026. It is 6:30 p.m. We'll have a roll call starting with council member St. Pierre. St. Pierre here.

Rodriguez here. You're here. Has here. Gibson here. here love here. The mayor is out under the weather and she did not want to spread it to us. Um I did hear from her and council member Crim who is almost back from his heart surgery. So, we have heard from him to accept any um

we have a motion from council member Swain and a second from council member Gibson to excuse uh Mayor McShan and council member Crimain. Swain, yes. Love, yes. St. Pierre, yes. Rodriguez, yes.

Frasier, yes. Yes. Gibson, yes. And the motion passes. Invocation. If you will bow your heads. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this glorious day and for the many blessings you bespoke bestow upon us each and every day. Thank you for the opportunity to gather here in service to our community. We ask for your continued blessing, protection, and guidance over our town, our citizens, and all who call this city home. Be present with us this evening. Lord, grant us wisdom, discernment, and unity as we seek to make sound and fair decisions. Decisions that honor you and serve the best interest of those we represent both now and in the future. Lord, please bless and protect all of our city staff as they continue to strive to make our city a better place. Forgive us of our many shortcomings and watch over us as we conclude our work and return safety safely to our homes. We ask all of this in your holy name. Amen.

If you'll please rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands nation flag. I aliance to the Texas one state.

Next up is public comment. The city secretary says we currently have no public comment. [snorts] So moving on to agenda item six, announcements. Heather Good evening. Um, okay. I'm just gonna highlight just a few so don't take up too much of y'all's time. So, uh, we are going, the library will be doing Yeti week beginning Tuesday, January 13th, and it will go through January the 17th. We have story time for the littles. We're going to offer um steam Yeti crafts, bilingual story time, coding club. Uh we'll also be doing family movie night, blue blocks. So um please um y'all know anybody in that age that would like to come and participate participate with them, please do that. Also, um, the Elgen Parks and Wreck will be doing Prime Timer Crafts, the faux flower arrangements, which will be on Monday, January 19th, uh, from 2 to 4 o'clock. And this is for, uh, ages 55 and older. So, um, and then last and certainly not least, we're going to be, um, doing our last parenting session that is through the St. David's, I'm sorry, not David is the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. We have received a grant for um focused on sensory. And so we will be doing our last parenting session and it's a free event. It will be on January 22nd and at 700 PM and it's focused on ADHD. It's going to be providing a lot of great resources for parents. So please, if you know of anyone, send them our direction.

Thank you so very much. Thank you, Heather. And thanks for all the great things for all the age groups. You've seen all the how much the library has been used last. [cough]

Okay, moving on to agenda item [snorts] seven. We have a presentation and it is for our Martin Luther King Day. Whereas Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dedicated his life to bringing about social, political, and economic equality for all Americans by nonviolent means. Devoted his life to the struggle for justice and equality, sewing seeds of hope for a day when all people might claim the riches of freedom and the security of justice and challenged our nation to recognize that our individual liberty relies upon our common equality. And whereas at a time when our nation was sharply divided, Dr. King called on a generation of Americans to be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. And we must face today's challenges with the strength, persistence, and determination that he personified. And whereas the impact of Dr. King's contributions to civil rights are witnessed daily in the United States of America and throughout the world. And whereas downplaying the honors bestowed upon him, including the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King wanted most to be remembered as a servant to others. And whereas because of his accomplishments in civil rights, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by an assassin on April 4th, 1968 at the age of 39 years. And whereas the Bastro County MLK Jr. Holiday Commission was established in 1988 to revere, promote, and celebrate the legacy, actions, and memory of this great American leader. And whereas the county judge and the mayors of city

councils of Bastrop, Elgen, and Smithville recognized Dart Dr. King Jr. as a distinguished leader, [snorts] orator, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. minister, prominent leader in the struggle for human and civil rights for all people and truly great American who dream whose dream lives on after him in all of us. And whereas the president and Congress of the United States of America have declared the birthday of doc Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a national, state, and local holiday. And whereas the theme for the holiday is mission possible too building community uniting a nation the nonviolent way and whereas funds raised by the Bastrop County Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Commission scholarship committee each year helps students from Bastrop County pursue higher education and all citizens are urged to join with Bastrop High School, Smithville High School, Elgen High School, McDade High School, Cedar Creek High School, and Colorado River Collegiate Academy in supporting the scholarship program. Now therefore, be it proclaimed by the county judge, mayors of city councils of Bastrop, Elgen, and Smithville that Bastrop County recognizes January 19th, 2026 as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day and further urges all citizens to join with the Bastrop County Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Commission in their work for universal peace with justice, human rights, and social and economic progress for all people, area churches and other nonprofit organizations and the cities of Smithville, Elgen and Bastrop, as well as all school districts and the

entirety of Bastrop County to recognize and celebrate the works of this truly remarkable American. In witness whereof, I here to set my hand and cause the seal of the city of Elgen to be fixed the sixth day of January, 2026. Terresa Yshan, mayor, city of Elgen, Texas.

Anybody? on the committee.

[clears throat]

Okay, moving on to agenda item number eight, city manager report. City manager eat. Yes, thank you. One library.

Pretty impressive with the sheer amount of input. Agenda item number nine is the consent agenda. We have um the city uh council mess for December 2nd and December 16th. Um that's items one and two. Items three is a resolution of the city council authorizing the manager to execute an agreement with um text for temporary closure of state rightway uh as necessary for the Bastrop County Martin Luther King Jr. Walk. And item number four is a resolution of the city of Elgen authorizing the mayor to execute a payment in the amount of 205,957 for upsizing utility lines in the Briwood development and making certain findings.

I'll make a motion. I'll second. We have a motion by council member Cosnowski and a second by council member Love. Any other discussion? [snorts] Kasnovski. Yes. Gibson. Yes. Yes.

Love. Yes. St. Pierre. Yes. Rodriguez. Yes. Frasier. Yes. Motion [clears throat] passes. Item number 10, new business. Number one [clears throat] is discussion and possible action on reviving and promoting a city model where perfectly situated truly reflects Elgen's identity. manager eat.

Yes, thank you. Um, appreciate that. So, uh, this item came by way of council member St. Pierre. Um, we have some graphical representations that she's provided as well. um with the basic idea of of keeping and promoting what what we are uh referred to and what we refer to ourselves as perfectly situated. Uh I definitely would uh ask to defer to to the council member to speak uh to the item, but staff is ready to answer any questions. You

guys don't mind me explaining? go ahead and say um so I've been thinking a lot lately and after a recent trip uh trip to Sugarland something kind of sparked inside of me where we have this slogan which is really cute which is perfectly situated but other than it being per location wise to Austin perfectly situated to me it doesn't really have any purpose or meaning and I thought that we could use that slogan to start shaping the way that we provide de development. One of the things that I have a problem with when it comes to driving through these HOA homes is the lack of character and the continuity and consistency with the way that these homes look. They're not representative of Texas and they're certainly not representative of small farmtown Elgen. There's no character and in my opinion they're soulless and they're not the direction that I think our city should be taking. I drove three blocks on Main Street and was able to provide ample evidence of what brought me to Elgen. It's the aesthetics. It's the difference in the way that these homes look. It's the architecture. It's the uniqueness. It's the quaintness. That's what brought me here. And I we are losing that. And these developers are shaping who we are and we should be shaping the developers as to who we are. And so um I would like to maybe get some community input with regards to what they would like to see in developments. Um, I think that we have a real opportunity with some recent developments that have been spoken about, such as like the rodeo that may be coming that we could really use to our advantage. We have the Black Prairie

Land that's beautiful. We have a lot of things that we can use to our advantage to maybe attract tourism. We could maybe get developers to design some kind of resort that reflects old western style where people coming from Austin may want to come and visit when they come to see the rodeo because it reminds them of oldtown western. When you drive downtown, especially Main Street, the shops, those buildings are beautiful. The rest of our developments commercially could look the same or or somewhat representative of that. Granted, we can have modernized looks, but I just want to see more of this and less of what we're getting. Sure. And if I I can um point out a couple things that we can jump into for sure with this. And um I believe on the staff level side, we we definitely can be doing some things to look uh at things that can be approached at our level. There's going to be things that that are perspective, their priorities set by council. And so that would come um as I think we talked a little bit about it in our upcoming strategic planning as one that's in house. That's that's us talking to each other. But I think what you're representing council members is a broader input shares or you know community meetings where people would have inputs uh into to try to do I wouldn't say both things but not have it also just a very clear distinction between old elegant and new elegant if um there's a way that we can bridge that gap I don't know what that bridge looks like but I definitely know what staff will do and we can we can look into

certain things and and as you mentioned the last thing I'll mention when council member noted as we with developers at that point. Um because these aren't mandated, this wouldn't be law. But at that point, we we do have an ability to have those conversations to say, well, you know, you're asking the city of X, you know, in response, the council has a priority to do Y, whatever that is. And and so I I think there's opportunity for sure. Um I like the I'll be honest, that's what, you know, hooked me for sure. Um So we'll facilitate uh as needed for sure. Like I said the back stop is going to be that strategic planning next month at the end of next month uh sometime but between now and then there's there's still opportunity to look into this and ask you all how you all want to proceed. And that's that's I think at least why you know we see it on the agenda to from my part from staff's part to see what y'all thought of it and you know how you wanted to see this come forward and it could be again staff we'll go and take a look to see what we able to do. We've already done some late work. Bo has done some leg work for us and so we know some things that we could u possibly entertain. Um so we'll do that. on our part. Um but yeah, for sure I I think trying to draw back to the council members item. U we do also we all want to make sure that we are truly perfectly situated in a lot of different ways and I told you know a lot of the conversation that I get is so are we just going to turn this place vanilla and I I I promised

until my dying breath as much power that I have which is very limited [snorts] um that will bubble wrap almost figuratively that essence of what you can't reproduce that once once you lose an ounce of it that ounce is gone and so it is a finite quantity and so I truly get uh you know where the council members going with this um but just wonder a little bit more on our side so we can start that conversation for sure

so what you [snorts] from us right now is input um and a direction to carry forward and then we can discuss it like you explain strategic yeah I mean I'm not expecting something to happen today I really would like to give time for community input I would really like to have them have a say in it I'd love to I know I talked about um he said that you would help me generate like a QR code where we could distribute I would love to have people send in the pictures of homes that they would love to see I would love to see them send in stuff that they don't want to see

and then go from there. I'm not expect expecting something to happen overnight. I was thinking maybe give it like three or four months, maybe like a quarter [snorts] and then really start planning and getting something all together, you know, that we can agree on that this is how we want to see things go.

I just wanted to have a convers Yes. I'm just stated because it says discussion, possible action. So, yeah. No, no. I'm not trying to make any action tonight other than the support that you guys think that this is maybe something that we should do. Um, I have some thoughts. Shocker. [laughter]

Um, yeah. I mean, I think most of us who were not born or didn't, you know, weren't raised here were were drawn to kind of Elgen's unique um and quaint downtown and kind of the older part of town. Um, I guess from a practicality standpoint, one, I wouldn't want newcomers who are building those or sorry, who are buying those homes feeling excluded to say, "Hey, we think your homes are really ugly, right?" Because that's essentially kind of what I'm hearing, especially if we're trying to integrate old Elgen into new Elgen.

And also, I would ask too, and this maybe is a question for Bo, perhaps there's a sharet with developers because developers are building what people want to And what we may think is not desirable is something that somebody else does. And so I think we have to be a little mindful that when we say we ask the community what they want, are we asking people in Oldtown Elgen what they want or are we asking people in Harvest Ridge or Tri they want.

Absolutely. Everybody. Um because they're buying those homes, right? Yeah. Um, so, so anyways, yeah, I mean I, you know, and then I guess it would be, you know, I don't know if we're talking about changing building codes and that sort of thing. You know, that starts getting into pretty prescriptive and again, we may want to talk about the pluses and minuses and and you know, and I'm open also.

I don't know. I mean, I can't speak to many new developments that I think I mean, probably the one that comes to mind closest to us is probably the Mueller development. Um, but I, you know, I can't think of a lot of new developments that I'm like, "Wow, this is great." You know, it doesn't have that quaintness to it. But if there's others, you know, around our area or something that we could take some cues from, I'm all I'm all for it. Cuba. So in talking to Robert, what we were kind of proposing that's the direction council was prior to y'all's strategic planning meeting basically saying this is what state law will allow you to be prescriptive. These are suggestions in your current code to where you could write where it's black and white code. Any developer would have to meet that that you could potentially make changes. Obviously, council approve that and having staff call those out, show you what there's today, what it could be, and providing you those as an option to kind of look over and review as you're talking about your strategic planning. That's a very engineering. You know, that's it's black and white. That's what you have to meet. Meet state law. You can be prescriptive. Are we going to be able to be prescriptive to that? It's a 12 to1 roof pitch. No. Can you be potentially looking at you can't have the exact type of home in a development within eight units or 12 units away from each other. Like you can't have the same one next to each other basically. Those are some things that we can look into that would be legally that you guys could take action from a code standpoint.

[snorts] So that's the black and white portion very engineer developers generally will probably be part of that process if you do open it up to the public because they have a vested interest into that because in general um the one thing that the decision council would have to make at your strategic session how you want to move forward with that is what I would call more of the architectural standards. So there's things that you can't put into because you're not allowed to by law but as I to council each and every time that a development comes before you for approval. If it's through a PDD or development agreement, those are basically negotiated contracts where you're talking about granting variances and things for lot sizes that you basically are coming in. If the city had a vision that you felt was in writing or some kind of guiding document, those are the times when you are going through those particular developments which generally are the larger ones. You know, if you have a 100 home subdivision, it's probably not they're not go through that process with the city. When you're talking about some of the larger ones, 400 up to 2500 as we have coming up in Elvin, those are things that you can place within that negotiated document and still be well within the realm of it because again, it is a negotiated. Here's the architectural standard. You guys were here, you approved the MMD for that was brought up as a question and the developer told you they will put forth an architectural standard and they'll share that with you. you guys at those kinds of developments you could require that as part of the agreement is that architectural standard to already be developed. The developer will tell you though before I develop that what is your vision and so if you don't have that somehow laid out it kind of leaves them in a quandry because they're just kind of guessing at that point in time.

I would say today for [snorts] the last document that might have played into it was a vision and it was done in 2020. It took it through 2020. So, you know, if it's a refresh of that document, if it's something completely different, I think developers, that's always going to be the first question. It's worked very, very well with the parks master plan because every time they come in, we're like, "Hey, parks are very big connectivity." They say, "Okay, what is it that you think that you want?" We've handed them that document. And I would say nine times out of 10, what they've come back and recommended or said, "This is what we're willing to do," has gone to the parks board. been in line with that plan or that vision of what they have. Um, so as you're thinking about that, I look at the black and white portion which city staff can pull together for y'all's consideration and say this is within state when you're thinking about how you go to the more aesthetics or what that envision is and I'm black line straight lines. So don't ask for my input there, but as a way to get where you want to see it, you need to have that discussion of what that looks like. Is the public included or not? Is it envision refreshed or a separate document? But then I think once you have that, it is much easier to leverage that with future developments and even potentially developments you currently have going on. As you guys have been aware, multiple developments have come back for amendments. Some of those larger developments are over 10, 15, 20 years to fully build out. So they're constantly evolving within the development itself. It's very hard to say we want you to match El without you know as a guiding document.

Excuse me. Bo, I appreciate you bringing up envision [snorts] Elgen. That's precisely what I was thinking about when Tiffany was was talking. Um, to me, this is an opportunity for a bigger conversation, you know, and envisioned Elgen is probably one of those things that needs to be revisited. Uh, perfectly situated uh is more than just aesthetics. Uh, obviously it's it's economics, it's diversity, it's it's culture. Um it's about making sure that the the needs of old Elgen and the needs of new Elgen are met. Um and so a strategic strategic planning session or sessions [snorts] with community input which I totally agree with. We need that um is I think it's called for because this conversation is is bigger than just the architecture. It's where do we want to be 5 years, 10 years, 20 years from now? And how are we going to make sure that we provide for the least of us as much as we provide for the most of us? Um, and that's that's our role here to to set that. Uh, I think a share with developers would be great. Um, but I I would caution us as well because we don't want to put ourselves in a corner where we scare off possibilities, scare off potential development, uh, which we all know that we we we want the area to, uh, to have the resources that we need, safety, [snorts] security, uh, hospital systems, doctors, we we need those things here. Uh, and that has to be has to be part of the discussion as well.

So, whatever we can do to bring all these entities together, I'm all for. [snorts] I'm not trying to dictate or tell them exactly what they need to do. I would just like to give them examples and be like, "Hey, some of these characteristics in the homes." They don't have to be exactly representative, but look how pretty that is. Look at the brick work on that archway, on that door. That is absolutely gorgeous. I would love to see more of like that the wraparound porches. I had a picture in there that had the room that was Yeah. Or even on the top we have the room that's rounded with the those and and we don't have to dictate and be like you have to do those. But we would just like to see a little bit of that in your development. And I would like to see less like continuity. Like you drive in like pepper and you can't tell the difference between one house or the other. Even if they're single levels, they all look the same. Why can't like every two houses like two houses look somewhat similar, the next two houses have to look different? So that it breaks up the monotony and provides variety. It provides something to look at. It's not just a drive-thru where you don't notice anything because it all looks the same. That's all I'm I'm trying to say with with the direction of this. It's not to dictate or try to scare them off with say no, we want just this. But I'd like to put a list of things together so that when developers come into the city, they already have an idea of what we're looking for. And so we'll attract the developers that want to do this. We're not going to scare people off. We're going to attract the people who are like, "That's a great idea. I want to develop them." And if I can, last thing on on on this too is that we do have the ability with any city asset, any asset that's coming before this council as we build out certain things too where we're in 100% control. And so [clears throat] you mentioned parks and and that sort of idea. So there's already it's it's already uh therevious

you can see it. uh obviously by the park systems that we have downtown. Um but that nuance can be dictated 100% based on this council's preference or priority that's set. But uh we do need like it really does have to have even though there's a lot of preference uh stuff in there, we have to have uh something lined up ready to go uh to where there is uh not a need to go back and um consider once over and over uh the same item. It's the developers now with that guiding document and and that guiding document could be updated as as Bo said uh as years pass. But at least when you're facing them and having a meeting with them, you've you've got that in your back pocket to say this is another option you may consider perhaps. Again, staffwise, uh we're going to march with some background information. Um but it it'll have to pro it'll have to come to that community meetings and we engage.

For me, what I would for you all strategic is to kind of provide you some options there strictly black and white code related things that could make potentially an immediate impact at the time if you guys so chose to vote on it in favor of making those changes. It's a longer runway to get you know the guiding [clears throat] document with public input and stuff that but what I hope to have at least before you guys strategic is this is what state law is this is what we can and can't dictate these are other communities within the state of Texas not necessarily just neighboring to the city of these are communities across the state of Texas these are what are their codes these are things that we could potentially add to and or change the code we currently have that you guys could decide to at that point in time.

So it sounds like we have interest um in pursuing this and if you could do that for us prior staff could do that prior to strategic could we also make sure that we could see document so we could go back over that and maybe use that as a framework.

Sure. Does that sound good? And from the strategic session then we can finish this discussion and start on avenues for input and QR codes and meetings. Yeah, that's perfect. Thank you. That's I was going to say the tourism part of it.

I think we need to drive that a little more. And the tourism and the developments where the homes are is not where they come to see it. So, we're going to need to do something expanded and enlighten it and emphasize it. I'm a little about putting restrictions on development because then you're not buy it. But I'm willing to look.

If I could add real quick, um, y'all could work with historic review board. We could look at expanding the downtown district. U, maybe even opportunities for historic residential district to protect the things that we already have. Um, of course it's great to work with the new people, but let's make sure we don't lose what our history that's already here. So then that also puts back on staff that we're going to have that information as well.

I will make sure you have all of that for the session. All good. So we don't need to take action now. We'll just move forward like that. All good. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Moving on to new business. Item number two, a resolution of the city of Elgen authorizing the mayor to execute contracts for property acquisition for the Kennedy Street drainage project, also known as GLLO contract number 22-085-029-d270 and making certain findings related there too. Michael,

good evening, council. Um, is there a slide on the Kennedy Street project? Okay. So, along Kennedy Street, if you can imagine it, on the east side, there's a number of properties that will need to be acquired to uh to widen the rideway. Um all of the um all the residents on the east side have been offered have have a packet with their survey and offer based on square footage will be needed for this project. Um a number of them here in your packet today have agreed to those terms um to convey to the city for this project and there's some others that are still in negotiations. So, in your packet here, we have [clears throat] each of the property owners that have agreed to those uh terms and they have their survey, have their landowner bill of rights. It's important to note in this um particular [snorts] program, the city will upfront the cost of acquiring those and it's reimbured by the go grant. So, there's any questions I can try to help answer those.

Can you tell me how many properties we're still waiting on? So, this would be five out of the eight that I think is on Kennedy Street and there's probably another 10 on road. There's two different uh geographical areas for the same project, but they both cover drainage improvements. County Line Road um phase two essentially is going to be that portion going to 290. Um these folks we've been working, [snorts] well, we've been working with all of them. These folks have been really responsive and they're the first round to come in and agree to those terms.

So, you're waiting on 15 or 15 already agreed? No, five have agreed. Five of the eight. Five of the eight on Kennedy Street and we have not heard back. They have all gotten their packets, but we haven't heard back on agreements from the county road.

And there's how many I'm counting on 10. You said I think there's about 10. Yeah. All of them are listed in our survey in that big packet that we have. I don't remember off the top of my head. And when you say you having her back, is it just y'all sent out packets to them? Has anybody went out there?

Yeah. on the Kennedy uh Kennedy Street project. I've been out there myself walking and talking with the different land owners. Everyone has gotten certified mail with um the landowner bill of rights, their survey, their meats and bounds which is part of this survey here and they also have a third party appraiser. So they have their appraised value of the whole property and the square footage that the city is. I'm curious, have you received any u concerned comments or opposition or

um just on Caroline Road? Just uh we haven't received any counter offers. They have written instructions in their packets to pres present counter offers. Um mainly on Kennedy Street. I've talked to the critos um Joseph Michael Dorst and mainly it's just been where to move their fence back to and so we're working with them on that showing based on this survey where the is and where the new set.

So, we're not going to have to tear up all them garages and all that crap. So far in all of the surveys, it hasn't touched any structures. It's really just about um that first one there has about 15 ft of acquisition and there's some that have a little bit more than that, but in general, it's going to be in that yellow area. And then the next couple of slides have the exact portions to be acquired. going to have flooding after this.

I'll talk to God about it. There's God in mother nature. [clears throat] [snorts] Yeah. Any other questions? [snorts]

The the 10 that's on county line. [snorts] Have you went out there? I have not been out there. I've been speaking to a couple of their representatives though. Yeah. I believe that's the correct number. It's I'm familiar with them individually but not all together.

Um Mark Dubc is one of them. Uh convenience store is another one. Westwind has a small portion as an ement. Um they've all gotten the West Ha. They've gotten certified. being easy. I'll accept. I'll make a motion to approve.

I'll second. We have a motion by Council Member Kosnowski and a second by Council Member St. Pierre. [clears throat] Yes. Gibson, yes. Yes. Love, yes. St. Pierre, yes. Rodriguez, yes.

Frasier, yes. Motion passes. You'll make my road flat again. [snorts] Item number three on new business, a resolution of the city of Elgen, Texas, authorizing city staff to execute an agreement for services with BGE engineers to design wastewater improvements for the Elgen Economic Development Corporation in the amount of $63,25 and making certain findings related there too. Michael, [snorts]

so I don't have a slide on this one, but the council meeting before the holiday break [clears throat] council authorized development commercial retail that's out there in the EDC business park to get from there downhill to another gravity line to our station. There's a certain wastewater improvement project that needs to take place. It's across private land and so staff is engaging engineers to design the wastewater line and then also secure what's needed as far as the ement and the city will later on. This is the most direct path to get wastings in the packet. Any other questions?

So, we already have an ement there now. So, we have an ement that's um taking the main trunk of waste water from north 290. This portion will connect to that and the engineer here.

There's no other questions. I'll entertain a motion. Second. We have a motion by council member Swain and a second by council member Love. Member Swain. Swain. Yes. Love. Yes. St. Pier. Yes. [clears throat]

Rodriguez. Yes. Fraser. Yes. Ski. Yes. Gibson. Yes. And motion passes. Item number 11 will be going into executive session. Uh the city council will convene in executive session pursuant to Texas government code 551.071, consultation with attorney to receive legal advice and discuss matters related to financial audit and investigation, including potential legal issues. It is 7:13 to executive session.

It is 7:35 and we're coming back out of executive session. Um, on the executive session item, there will be no action taken. Do we have any other announcements anybody wants to share? I did.

It was cold and we thought it was going to be warm because it was warm outside. So, I was like, "We got this." And as soon as we hit that water, it feel like ice. Just Okay, if nobody has anything else, we're going to adjourn at 7:36. We respect you after this.