Remarks by Michael French
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for being here tonight. It's kind of like a big packed crowd. I call this regular meeting in the New Braunfels City Council to order. Today's date is August 24, 2026, and the time is 6 o'clock p.m. We requested all cell phones and other devices be on silent except on emergency on-call personnel. Madam Secretary Gale, can you please call roll?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“I am here. A quorum is present and we will now proceed. Please join me in the invocation brought to you by Councilwoman Carter, followed by the two pledges of allegiance.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“We have proclamation tonight. It's the National Payroll Week. Hello, is anyone here for the National Payroll Week? Carol? Carlin, sorry, I read that wrong. Davis, you're the only one? Proclamation, the State of Texas, County of Comel, City of New Braunfels, whereas payroll professionals play a vital role in ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time while supporting compliance with federal, state, and local tax and wages laws, and whereas payroll professionals help support the economic well-being of workers, businesses, and communities, by administering wages, tax withholdings,…”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Is there anyone else that would like to speak? Thank you very much, everyone, for coming up. Hearing no further comments, I now close citizens' communication, citizens to be heard. The next is consent agenda. And all items listed below are considered to be routine and non-controversial by the City Council and will be approved by one motion unless a City Council member or a citizen requests an item be pulled for a separate discussion, in which case the item will be removed from the consent agenda and considered as part of the normal order of business. Madam Secretary, has anything been pulled?…”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“So item E has been removed and will be placed on the regular agenda as item A, is that okay? Without objection, we will consider this as item J under the regular agenda tonight, so we will address it immediately after consent.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Hold on, hold on. Should I read the items?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Oh, so Councilmember Sprandley motioned and Councilwoman Lebowski seconded the motion. All those in favor, raise your hand. All those not in favor, raise your hand. Consent agenda items have passed. So we're going to move to the items for consideration and the agenda items. We're going to first start with the item that was pulled from consent agenda, and that's approval of the budget amendment for FY 2026 airport fund. Becky Whitrack.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Please state your name and if you live in the city or not in the city or ETJ, thanks.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Anyone else wanna come in? Anybody up here have a question on agenda E or A? Mayor, I'll motion to approve.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay, so we have a motion to approve the agenda item by Mayor Pro Tem Capizzi and seconded by Councilwoman Lebowski. All those in favor, raise your hand. All those not in favor, raise your hand. The motion is passed. I was gonna try to make a motion to see if we could put Councilwoman Carter's presentation up first before the agenda items. If that's okay with everyone, without objection, to move the presentation up first. All right, we're gonna move up with Councilwoman Carter's presentation of the, and this is spaced out. For presentations, it's item A, presentations of New Braunfels Airport…”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“I do have some questions. Yeah, I hope that we do get a radar. This is the first time I ever heard an airport not having a radar. It's kind of weird. Boats have radars.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay, that's news to me. But if the Air Force is going to provide it, I hope that we can keep track of that. But as far as radio communications, do you guys do five minutes out for airplanes or two minutes out at this airport? When do they communicate to the tower when they're about five minutes out?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“That makes sense. I must have missed it. Are you asking for an upgrade in radios at any point? Because I'm not really satisfied with radio communications that keep going out.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay. As far as flights, how many flights come in at night on average? It doesn't matter what day it is, just...”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“And how big is the plane? The biggest that you guys get?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“And the reason I bring this up, because just like Councilwoman Carter, I do think that we have to keep track of what comes in our airport. However we can do it, A tail number, we gotta communicate with planes that are coming here. They can't just pop up anywhere. Maybe that's a normal routine.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Yeah, is that because we decided not to do it? We wanna go in favor with everyone else?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“I am not satisfied with not knowing who lands at our airport. And I do believe we're in the corridor of crime. We are in the corridor of drugs and children, women trafficking. There's about 1,600 cases open right now in this county, and that's Comal County, but it's not your fault. I'm just telling you what I know, and I don't like the fact that the airport is not manned in the tower, and we're not keeping track of cargo, or tell number maybe little beacons, but people don't like beacons when they're doing a bad thing.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Yeah. Yeah. How much would it cost to be a manned tower 24-7?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“As far as crashes, I know we probably haven't had a crash in a long time, but we don't have a foam truck, right, for jet fuel?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“You know, in Bagram, I did witness a cargo plane go down and there was about 10 of them and they were spraying the crud out of those, that cargo plane. But I'm just kind of worried. We have to see a disaster before it happens. How do we put out a jet fuel fire in the cabin and everything?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay. No, I'm just curious. Thank you very much, Chief. That's all I got. This is about Air Force safety, or airport safety, and I just, it's a lot of concerns for me. I'm an outsider for airport here. But that's all I got. Anyone got anything else? Thank you very much. Thank you, Doctor.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Thank you. Any further discussion up here? I'm going to open it up to the public. If you could please go to the podium, state your name if you live in the city, not in the city, ETJ. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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City Council · Aug 24, 2026