City Council - Regular Meeting

Saturday, August 8, 2026

The De Soto City Council meeting on August 8, 2026, was primarily focused on resolving audio technical difficulties, with participants attempting to conduct mic checks and adjust volume settings for an extended period.

About this meeting

Government Body
City Council
Meeting Type
City Council
Location
De Soto, KS
Meeting Date
August 8, 2026

Transcript

37 sections

1:36 – 1:59Speaker 1

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2:13 – 3:46Speaker 2

Can you guys hear me? Hey, Zach. Can you do a mic check? What is going on here? Let me turn myself down.

3:46Speaker 3

Can you do a mic check for us, Zach?

4:09Speaker 1

I CAN'T HEAR YOU RIGHT NOW. LET ME SEE. CAN YOU TRY AGAIN?

4:19 – 5:19Speaker 3

HOLD ON. Try again. Let me see if I can't get you. I can't hear him. Why are we trying to play with it? Oh, look at you.

5:21Speaker 1

All right, let's see what we got going on here.

5:50 – 6:07Speaker 2

Okay, so I got that. Oh, now I can hear you. We can hear you. Can you turn yourself up? Can you make yourself a little louder? On your device, can you make yourself a little louder?

6:15Speaker 3

Pretty quiet.

6:17Speaker 2

Let me see if I can't turn up the room.

6:53Speaker 2

Okay, Zach, let's try it one more time. I can kind of hear you. You're still kind of faint. I'm gonna...

7:27Speaker 3

You're pretty faint. And I'm all the way up.

8:03Speaker 3

I might be. You never know. Oh, okay. That sounds fun. All right, Zach, I have you turned up all the way on my end.

8:33Speaker 2

A few more juice.

8:36Speaker 3

I get it. You don't like me and you're not helping me. I think we lost.

9:06Speaker 2

Did you start the – I just got this message from – oh, that was a while ago.

9:14 – 9:50Speaker 3

Yeah. That might be it, but I can't hear. Well, yeah. Naturally. You've got to do it when you can do it.

9:50Speaker 2

It's a surprise.

9:54Speaker 3

It's a surprise.

10:01Speaker 2

I guess worst case, I could just...

11:25 – 11:59Speaker 3

Now he's not online. Do you need a link or something? Yeah, sometimes your phone gets you better audio.

11:59Speaker 2

We found that. You're not Amy, are you?

12:25Speaker 2

Okay, there you are right there. I'm going to enable your camera.

12:31Speaker 3

And then I'm going to turn on your volume.

12:35Speaker 2

Enable your mic. You want to give us a sound check? You should be able to unmute yourself now.

12:41Speaker 3

Okay. I'm going to ask you to unmute. Okay.

12:56Speaker 2

Oh, that's much better.

12:58Speaker 3

Okay, keep talking.

13:04 – 13:16Speaker 2

I think you're a little better. I can also, we can just put you on my phone. That might be easier. The audio is probably a little better on my phone at this point, the microphone.

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