City Council - Regular Meeting

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Oh. Yeah. It's a queen. Thank you for coming tonight. I'd like to ask you to silence your phones and join us for an invocation and then the pledge.

Stephanie, would you offer our invocation tonight? Sure.

Heavenly Father, we just come to you this evening and we just ask for your grace and your provision. We just ask that you help us with making decisions that is best for the community. And we just ask for your peace and we thank you for this weather that we're having. We just ask that you cool it down just a little bit. And, yeah, thanks, Lord, and we pray these things in your precious name. Amen. Amen.

Please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. The next item on the agenda is items of community interest. I don't think there's a lot of big events this month. If I'm other than school starting, if you guys think of anything, does anybody in the public have a meet item they'd like for us to know about? If not, then we're going to move on to the city manager's report.

This is mostly good news for the week. The bid came in on the rock and pillar drain project well below the engineer's estimate. And we will be awarding that project at the next meeting. The estimate is within the $2 million range. And the base bid with alternative bids all came in at $1,300,000 and change. The lowest bidder was Wall Contractors LLC from Denton. They're a highly recommended company. We look forward to working with them. As you will recall, we are self-funding this project with surplus funds. This is the project that we're doing the resolution 2026-23 for financing. If we need to borrow money for this project, I don't think we will, but better safe than sorry. This was recommended by Government Capital, our financial advisors. The low bidder for the Glen Hills Lift Station, which you're voting on tonight, is Venus Construction Company. Their bid of $800,299.79 was $400,000 lower than the previous bid that we had. Initially, we bid out the project before we had a clear easement to build the lift station so that the project had to be rebid because of the amount of time it took to get the easement. It turns out that we will save around $400,000. This project is being funded by our loan with the Texas Water Development Board. If you will recall, the legislature passed the bill that requires we have a wildfire mitigation plan in place by January 2027. which is this coming January, we get an information that the cost of the wildfire mitigation plan and utility pole inspection plan would both cost around $200,000 to have professional engineers write the plans for us. Jay Evans, Kirk Higgins met with a company to do the pole inspection for us and we'll be able to write a plan that should work. However, we're concerned with the wildfire mitigation plan would be very difficult for us to figure out what the PUC wanted in the plan because they had not given anyone a template for what they wanted. At the TPPA meeting last month, I let the head of the PUC know that smaller utilities like us were having problems financing the plan because we did not have the financial resources that larger utilities have. Right after I spoke, a couple of people who work for Impact Engineering approached me said that they could do a wildfire mitigation plan at a reasonable cost. Two gentlemen from MPAC came a week before last and told us about their process and we decided to work with them to put the plan together at a much lower cost than we initially thought. We should have a mitigation plan well before the deadline in January.

Any questions? So that $200,000 estimate, is that for the pole inspection and the plan together?

Yeah, that's what I put in the budget for those things, both together. It looks like we're going to come out on the good on that.

I mean, what are they looking for? I guess you don't really know. We really don't know.

You just pretty much have to go to the IRS and see if they'll approve.

Wow.

Yeah, that's what we say, too. Wow. Any other questions?

All right. Well, let's move on to the public hearing, which is for the municipal budget. We are going to open the public hearing at 605. And Bart is going to present the budget. Council members, you have a budget in your packet. So would you mind presenting it to the council and the public?

A quick overview of the budget. Y'all all have a copy of it, should have. The utility fund will have revenue of $13,150,090. We've budgeted for expenses $13,109,050, which leaves us a surplus balance in the utility fund of $41,037. The general fund revenue should be around $13,701,861. Expenses in the general fund will be in the vicinity of $13,278,431, which will give us a $423,430 surplus. The total surplus for both revenue and general fund will be $464,000. $467. Hopefully, the majority of that surplus we'll use on the rocking pillar along with some other certain surplus funds. The tax rate is budgeted at .575 per $100 valuation, which will bring us to $2,990,988. Certified values this year were $520,171,884.

The departmental contract services, they went down quite a bit from the last iteration to this one.

That was a mistake I made when I was doing the budget. I left revenue of $200,000 out of the general fund, which I shouldn't have left out because we're spending that money on rock and pillar. We're using surplus funds, so that messed it up. So I had to move numbers around.

Anyway, I fixed it before we did the budget. It brings it in line with what we've been actually spending. Yeah. Hold on a minute, sir.

So I want, I want the public to be aware that this budget is online. If you want to go through it at home or your phone, wherever, if anybody wants a copy of it, give me your email address and I'll send you a copy of it. So did anybody have any, I'm assuming you all went all over it. So if anybody had any questions, are we going with the.

contingency for the health insurance?

Is that going to be more boast in line? I sent y'all an email this week about what our insurance advising company said. They're still battling with Blue Cross Blue Shield. There was I think five or six companies that turned down our policies because basically you could call it the experience rate. We have a Some sick people or a lot of claims, let's put it like that. And so they're trying to negotiate with Blue Cross Blue Shield, and they still don't have a solid number yet. That's why I left that contingency in there.

Does the public have any questions? Council? OK, well, I'm about to close the public hearing. So if that's the case, then we'll close the public hearing at 6 0 9. Now we'll open the podium to public comments. If anybody has any, um, ask you to go to the podium and state your name. And if Barbara needs you to spell it, my name is, uh, Isaiah. You want to spell that last name?

DER, D-E-R-R. MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL AND CITIZENS OF BUEY, I'M ISAIAH DER AND I'D LIKE TO PUBLICLY OPPOSE THE IDEA OF HAVING AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE READER CAMERAS OR ALPR, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS FLOT CAMERAS IN OUR TOWN. IN THIS DAY AND AGE WE LIVE IN, A CONSTANT SURVEILLANCE STATE WITH OUR SMARTPHONES CONTAINING AGE VERIFICATION, facial recognition, web cookies, ad tracking, and thumbprint scanning. It's no secret that online security should always be our priority, so why are we embracing a further breach of our privacy? LPRs have been reported to identify your Bluetooth chips, track your individual phone, not just your plate number, been reported to pick up residential conversations despite Flock's claim that they are unable to do so. Some ALPRs such as the Flock Commodore have been proven to physically track humans and their phone screens. The argument can be made that there is no expectation of privacy on public roadways, but with devices like the Flock drone and Flock Condor, how are we to feel safe in the fact that our residential privacy is not in jeopardy? In addition to this, there have been several reports of officers of the law misusing ALPRs for personal use or failing to use these tools for what they are intended to do. The statistics for violent crimes being solved with ALPRs is shockingly low. And in an area with such a low crime rate, I fail to understand what our community would gain from the installation, aside from an unnecessary infiltration of our daily lives. Obviously, I'm not the only citizen concerned with this matter. I have lived in Bowie my entire life. And just like many of you, I contribute to the local economy. And my taxes benefit our local systems, just like many of you. The petition to have ALPRs banned in our city is nearing the required amount of signatures, and I implore you, my neighbors and friends, to consider adding your name to stand up for the privacy and safety of our people. Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Anybody else?

Oh, gosh. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name's Wes Stell. I've lived here in town, I guess, jeez, since 1973. Uh, grandpa bought the shop, dad run it, I got to run it for a while. Um, as far as the flock cameras go, uh, I somewhat do agree with the young man. The residential privacy, especially in a town like this, is very important to a lot of us. That's why we've moved here. That's why we like living in a small town like this. Everybody knows everybody. It's kind of a secure place. It's safe for all of us. Um, the flock cameras being in town, I am somewhat opposed to that however on the other side of that point i would like to point out that down in jacksboro they've got a lot of flock cameras set up at the city limits and they have really cleaned up jacksboro they really have um they've gotten a lot of drug busts they've gotten a lot of arrests and anybody that's lived here in this town knows excuse me knows that we have had a lot of problems with drugs in this town i for one have I've been a victim of that in the 90s, admittedly. If they had had flock cameras back then, I'm sure I would have gotten in a lot more trouble. And it's hard for me to admit that in front of everybody, but I'm 50, I guess it's time. But I would feel remiss if I saw flock cameras right downtown. Admittedly, it is a major intersection where the highways come through, but I feel like If we had the perimeter, like they do in Jacksboro, and have the flock cameras set up, if somebody left town, say one of your family members left town, they'd be able to know, well, they left Bowie at such a time, they got through Decatur, they got through Fort Worth. They left Fort Worth, they got through Decatur, but they haven't made it home. I can understand how it's a very effective tool to help with the public. But again, as I'm trying to play devil's advocate, on the other side of the coin, There have been several internet reports, nothing that I've seen personally, but you always read and you always see that some officers have used the flock cameras incorrectly. And I'm not saying that our police would. I'm saying that maybe a license plate reader might read a license plate number wrong or things like that. But these are the things that we as the public and we as the world are having to deal with now with the way technology is. I want to let you guys know that I really oppose the flock cameras being in town. I don't know if we really need them, you know. I don't know if I need to get flocked running to Brookshires to grab a bottle of milk or not. But if I'm going to Fort Worth and I get caught on a flock camera and I don't make it back home, that flock camera might help to protect me. It's a slippery slope. And I'm here to say that I would like to advise the city council and the public, all of us, to look at this with an open mind and try to work together. If the public doesn't want it in town, if that's what the rest of the league, because they've got the thing where you can sign up now, and If you want to sign up, I'm taking too long. I'm sorry. I ramble.

Anyway, thank you for your time.

And y'all have a good evening.

Thank you. I ramble. I'm sorry.

Anybody else? All right. Well, let's move on from public comments. Let's go to the consent agenda items. In your packet, you had the meeting minutes from both the workshop and the regular meeting. On the 28th. So I would entertain a motion to accept the agenda items, the consent agenda items as presented. So most. Post.

Second.

Shaw. Holstein.

Aye.

Sprouls. Aye. Post. Aye. McEwen. Aye. Truax. Aye. And Shaw. Aye. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is the discussion of the proposed 2026-27 budget for the Bowie Economic Development Corporation and the Bowie 4B sales tax, of which we'll start with the Bowie Economic Corporation.

Good evening, council. I'm Carla Swofford. I'm president of the 4A board. In your packet, you have two pages of our budget, which is an expenditure budget. First page, all the line items you'll see are very close to last year's amounts. There's been very little changes. Um, the insurance is as Burt was saying, we don't know for sure what ours is going to be either. So we've just plugged in a flat fee. But other than that, it's very close to what our expenses run. And again, with very little change over last year. On page two, you'll see that our expenditures are 2.2 million. Sounds like a lot of money. But when you look under business expansion and recruitment, you see that most of that money is going to finish our spec building in the industrial park. And we always try to have money left over for small projects that might come up during the year. But the big expenditure for our year is finishing that spec building and hopefully getting a leasee or a renter or get it sold. Anybody have any questions on anything you've seen?

What buildings are covered in your building maintenance? Is it just the office across the street?

Well, no. I mean, we own the we call it the big green giant building out on 81 for the waste management company is even though they're released, they take care of most of little maintenance. But this last year we did have to do some work on the loading dock. So we didn't have sure that come up. We also own the building I don't know if that's Montague Street, Sanders Street. I call it the old dress factory, but most of you are not as old as I am, so you know it as something differently. But we own that building, and we've had some expense with it. We've had to do some roof repair that insurance didn't cover, replace a couple of broken windows, you know, that kind of thing. And then, of course, we have maintenance on our office building.

Anything else? Any other questions? Thank you, Mr. Salford. All right. Let's go ahead and hear the 4B Sales Tax Corporation.

Good evening. I'm Ward Wallace representing the 4B. You also have our budget with you, about two pages there. Overall, I know... So pretty much our expenses, we budgeted a decline of about 8% and our revenues are approximately the same. So really we've got a couple of projects that we're finishing the project by the pickleball court. We've got playground equipment, covered playground area, and we're in the process of working on some other stuff out there to improve the park system and make it a lot better for our citizens. Fantastic. Any questions?

I don't.

Council?

I love the length of your budget.

Thank you.

All right, so let's go ahead and go back to the vote on the Bowie Economic Development Corporation budget. I would entertain a motion to accept as presented. So moved. Sproles, do I have a second?

Second.

Truex? Shaw? Yes. Holstein?

Sure, yeah.

Post? Aye. McEwen? Aye. Sproles? Aye. And Truex? Aye. Again, I would entertain a motion to accept the budget presented for a buoy four B cell tax corporation.

So moved.

Shaw. Do I have a second?

Second.

Thank you. Truex. All right. All right. Sproles post McEwen. All right. And Shaw.

All right.

So the next item on our agenda is a reappointment to the Boone Economic Development Corporation Board. You'll see two names there. First is Zach Gunner. The second is Randy West and. You'll hang on a second. Let me get there on this. We have to, um, consider them individually. So we will take Zach gunner as the first is Zach in the room. I didn't see him come in. Um, so I'd entertain a motion to accept the reappointment of Zach gunner to the economic development corporation post. Do I have a second? Second Sproles. Shaw.

Yes.

Truex Holstein post. Aye. McEwen.

Aye.

And Sproles. Aye. The second individual is Randy. I think I did see him come in. Didn't I? Yeah. There you are. You're hiding. I would entertain a motion to, uh, reappoint, accept the reappointment of Randy west to the economic development corporation.

So moved.

McEwen. Do I have a second? Second rolls. Holstein?

Aye.

Sproles? Aye. Post? Aye. McEwen? Aye. Truex? Aye. And Shaw? Aye. Thank you. Now we have a new one. We have a... Recommendation for appointment to the Bowie Economic Development Corporation for the unexpired term of Dean Myers. And that recommendation is Keith Mundy, who is in the back of the room with us tonight. So I would entertain a motion to, in case you don't know, Keith is with American Hat. Allow the appointment of Keith Mundy to the Bowie Economic Development Corporation. So moved.

Second.

Wait a minute. Sproles? Aye. McEwen?

Aye.

Holstein? Aye. Post? Aye. Shaw? Aye. Truex? Aye. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mundy. Thank you, Randy. And tell Zach we said thank you. All right. So for the next appointment reappointments, they are for the four B sales tax corporation, which is also a two year term. We'll also do them individually. And they are Tim Hall, Seth Johnson and Kim Williams. And I don't think any of them are here tonight. Okay. So the, and the first one is Tim Hall of reappointment to the four B I would entertain a motion to accept.

So moved.

True acts. Do I have a second? Second post Holstein.

Aye.

Sprouls? Aye. Post? Aye. McEwen? Aye. Truex?

Aye.

Shaw?

Aye.

The next individual is Seth Johnson. I would entertain a motion to accept Seth Johnson's reappointment. So moved. I'm going to go with Shaw and then Sprouls. Thank you. Holstein?

Aye.

Truex. Aye. Shaw. Aye. McEwen. Aye. Post. Aye. Sproles. Aye. And then the last individual is Kim Williams. I'd entertain a motion. So moved. Post. Do I have a second?

Second.

Shaw. Sproles. Aye. Post. Aye. McEwen. Aye. Holstein. Aye. Truex. Aye. And Shaw.

Aye.

All right, let's move on. All right, as far as the Bowie Economic Development Corporation, you're welcome to leave if you want to. If you want to stay, we're happy to have you. But don't feel like you're obligated to stay the rest of the meeting. I make lots of friends when I do that. You can't leave. Ward, you better run. Thank you.

Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you.

There's a seat right there.

Doing a good job. Thank you. See you, Randy.

All right. So the next item on your agenda is to award the bid to Venus Construction Company for the Texas Water Development Board. Glen Hills Lift Station, which you heard Bart talk about earlier and sludge pump replacement on the phase two project.

Have we done work? Have they done work for us in the past? No.

Not since I've been here. But they came highly recommended. Their recommendations were good.

Can you remind me a little bit about the funding on this? I don't recall.

Well, this is Texas Water Development Board Loan money. This has been part of the initial project. It's phase two, they call it. sewer project it's a different project than the rest of phase two and just that we got this uh the lift station pumps are under the lift station and the pumps are undersized and we have a lot of problems over there and we bid this out a couple of years ago but i we didn't have a an easement and it took me a long time to get the easement we finally got it It had been so long that we had to rebid it. We rebid it. It came in $400,000 cheaper than what the initial bid was.

Sounds great.

Well, and the reason it happened is when we bid it before, we were coming out of the COVID era, and the government money was flowing, and everybody was busy, and now they're not so busy. They're kind of hungry, so we get better prices.

So this motion is to accept a bid for Venus Construction Company. Do I have a motion?

So moved.

Sprouls, do I have a second? Second. McEwen?

Aye.

Post? Aye. Shaw? Aye. Truax? Aye. Sprouls? Aye. Holstein?

Aye.

Thank you. All right, so let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is Resolution 2026-22, a resolution expressing the city council's intent to place a proposal on a future council agenda approving a property tax rate in accordance with the Texas Property Tax Reform and Transparency Act of 2019, scheduling one public tax rate hearing and establishing the date to vote on same. Does everybody understand that? Yes. So the tax rate will go on the next agenda, the next agenda on it. Yeah, the next agenda. It was presented tonight to you as 0.575. So I entertain a motion to accept the resolution 2026 22.

That will go. So the one we have this resolution that we have is not This is point five nine.

What about that? Should we know the budget that was presented tonight? The budget has this one, but this right. But the resolution we're looking at, the resolution will be presented at the next meeting with the tax rate.

So gotcha. You just want to schedule something. Yes. Got it. So moved.

Thank you. So do I have a second? Second. Sorry. Post. Got it. Truex. Aye. Shaw. Aye. Sproles. Aye. Holston. Aye. McEwen.

Aye.

Post. Aye. Thank you. Next resolution is 20, 26, 23, a resolution of the city council of the city of Bowie state of Texas, declaring the intention of said city of Bowie to reimburse itself from the proceeds of one or more tax exempt financings for certain expenditures to be made in connection with the rock and pillar bridge street. As Bart told you earlier, this gives us the option to borrow money should we need to, although we do have it budgeted in our budget. You saw that at the last meeting. So unless something goes tremendously wrong, we shouldn't need this. But we are covering all the legalities for making this happen.

This was recommended by Government Capital Corporation, who is our financial advisor. I usually follow them, exactly what they tell me to do, because they're pretty bright.

So we're not offering anything or doing anything at this present time.

If we got into the project and decided we need to borrow money, it would kind of be illegal. So this makes it legal for future use.

Do we need to do that full amount, I guess?

You're not doing any amount at all.

You're just giving yourself the opportunity to be able to borrow.

It's a legal maneuver to keep us legal. Cut down the time as well.

So I would entertain a motion to accept Resolution 2026-23. So moved. Sproles, do I have a second?

Second.

McEwen? Truex?

Aye.

Holstein?

Aye.

Sproles? Aye. Post? Aye. McEwen? Aye. And Shaw?

Aye.

Thank you.

We'll be awarding that bid at the next meeting.

So the next item on the agenda is 2026 tax rate to record vote of a proposal to consider a tax rate. Is that in two different votes? Yes. Okay. So We had to record a vote to propose and consider the tax rate. This seems so redundant, but it's state law. So, and then the next vote will be on the schedule of public hearing for August the 25th, uh, 2026.

So again, do we not do that earlier?

No, we wrote, we did a resolution. All we're doing is we're following the law branch. We are following the law.

Oh my gosh. Okay.

So our first vote is a motion to record, vote a proposal to consider a tax rate. Do I have a motion?

So moved.

Do I have a second?

You might go ahead and state what you're proposing.

You want me to propose? Okay. So we're gonna record a vote, a proposal to consider a tax rate of 0.575. Yes. Right. So I have a motion still from you or do I have a second? Second post and the Sproul's made the second. Yeah. Um, post. Aye. McEwen. Aye. Shaw. Aye. Truex. Aye. Holston. Aye. And Sproul's. Aye. I'm gonna tell you all something. When we were in the budget workshop, we had proposed in the budget 5.9, I mean .594. But when Bert and I were looking at the numbers again, we were able to bring that down to the 575. So that's why it's changed from the workshop. So the second part of this motion is to schedule a public hearing for August the 25th, 2026. Do I have a motion? So moved. Sprouls? Second?

Aye. Holstein? Jesus.

McEwen?

Aye.

Post? Aye. Sprouls? Aye. Holstein?

Aye.

Truax?

Aye.

And Shaw?

Aye.

Thank you.

Couldn't find my words.

All right, so the next item on the agenda, this is lengthy. Sorry, but I got to read the whole thing. It's Resolution 2026-24, Resolution of the City Council of the City of Bowie, Texas, approving a negotiated settlement between Atmos City Steering Committee, ASCS, and Atmos Energy Corporation. mid-text division regarding the company's 2026 rate review mechanism filing, declaring existing rates to be unreasonable, adopting tariffs that reflect rate adjustments consistent with the negotiated settlement, finding the rates to be set by the attached settlement tariffs to be just and reasonable and in the public interest. approving an attachment establishing a benchmark for pensions and retiree medical benefits requiring a company to reimburse ACSC's reasonable rate-making expenses, determining that this resolution was passed in accordance with the requirement of Texas Open Meetings Act, adopting a savings clause, declaring an effective date, and requiring the delivery of this resolution to the company and ACSC's legal counsel. Would you like to approach?

First, I want to apologize for being late. I was at another city council meeting, so thank you so much, Sandy, for putting me at the end. I have documents if y'all want to see them. I mean, feel free.

Anyway, I'll be really brief.

First, I wanted to inform the public that because your city council has chosen to be a part of the ACSC coalition, the rate for their attorney is rolled into the rate that's passed on, and that rate is still much lower than what your rate would be if they weren't a member. So they're very conscientious about trying to do what's best for the community, all the residents and commercial customers of Atmos Energy. So I just wanted to inform them. On this, I know that Mayor Burris has one. But I just wanted to give you all an update of the city profile of how Atmos has partnered with the city of Bowie. We show that we have spent $5.8 million plus in capital expenditures within the city limits in the last five years, with $2.2 million just last year. That's for replacements, for repairs, for new pipe in the grounds. Unfortunately, gas leaks that have to be It's all encompassing. And we have 1,774 customers that you are helping to save funding for, so thank you for that. We have roughly 22 employees that live within a radius of 30 miles of Bowie, if not within the city limits. So we do that because we want our employees to be invested in the communities, not just as an employee, but as somebody who pays taxes and has their kids go to school and eat in the restaurants. And so the very last piece of information that's important is in the past year, Atmos has contributed $274,000 in donations that have directly impacted Montague County in one way or another. 50% of that is for energy assistance though, so if you have a resident who is in need of services, you know, they have a leak on their side of the meter and they lived in that house for 50 years and they just don't have it in their budget to pay for it, that money goes to helping citizens like that. And I have my contact information on the bottom because people just don't want my card anymore. So if you happen to have any questions or somebody asks you something and you want to know more about things like the energy assistance, please feel free to call me. On the back page, it does talk about rates here, but you received the big packet. The back page is 8-1-1, because today's National 8-1-1 Day. So I just wanted to plug in to remind people to call 8-1-1 before they dig so they're not cutting our lines. Because if they're cutting our lines, they're cutting your lines. And everybody pays a price. And the most important thing is that we just want people to be safe. So do y'all have any questions for me?

When you're looking at your capital expenditures here on this street, is that for our area?

It's within the city limits of Bowie, Texas.

That's a lot.

Yes, sir. But we do have some older infrastructure that we're trying to replace because we want to be safe. We want all of our piping to be safe throughout our community. So little bits at a time, we're eating that elephant and trying to go back in and put poly where old pipe might be. And you see the pie chart. It shows you coated steel, very good. Pipe plastic very good that bare steel is what will be continuing to replace and there's 8% still left in the community Yes, sir Yes, sir It's it's just the rate that the Railroad Commission deems reasonable for reimbursement per customer If you were to contact a customer service we could see what we can do about reducing Oh dang, okay Yes, sir Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I know that commercial customers pay a higher rate than residents do. Wow.

Um, I also want, would you haven't been here very long, but this is something that we do every single year and the group that does the negotiating for us. I know that they do negotiate a rate for the city of Bowie citizens, because I also have a home on the outside of the city limits and there's considerable difference. So it is a good savings for our residents. Any other questions?

Pamela, thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you. We appreciate it. Do you have to make another city council meeting tonight? It was no Kona. That never happens. No Kona and Bowie had the same night.

Okay. Well then, um, we will take a vote and I'm not going to reread all that, but we will take a vote on resolution 20, 26 dash 24. And I would accept a motion to accept as presented.

So moved.

Shaw. Shaw, Truex, McEwen, Post, Sproles, Holstein, Truex, and Shaw. Nice. All right. At this moment, we are going to slip off and go into executive session at 640. Council, please leave your phones and anything to write with or papers in here, and we will slide out, and it'll just be the council.

Way to go. No, I don't.

You're not coming in. We need to get our stuff. Well, we got to have, I got two of them. Okay, so your time is? 642 to 735. And then we'll come back in here at 7.

We've got coal in here. Get all those people out of here. We need to operate the people.

Where did everybody go?

Sometime in the morning when you come in, go in the bedroom.

Is it cold? Like you can have me. I know, the girls too. You know, we used to have those wooden things and we'd prop the doors open.

I propped them on for the one time and then somebody...

No, they went to the bathroom. I told them they couldn't talk anymore until they got back in here.

They seem to be a group that we have to remind them.

Thank you.

It was warm. Yes, it was. It felt good. It felt good in there.

Okay. I'm going to call us back to order at 737. And I'm going to ask the council if they have any action. All right. No action. Then I'm going to close our meeting tonight at 738.

And you'll just replenish it. Thank y'all.