Remarks by Wesley Lyon II
54 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
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“We're calling to order. We do have a quorum. And we have someone to come up and say the prayer. Make it a good one. No pressure.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“We'll go ahead and move into open session. Public comments. The City Council welcomes citizen participation and comments at all council meetings. Citizen comments are limited to three minutes out of respect for everyone's time. The council is not permitted to respond to your comments. The Texas Open Meetings Act requires the topics of discussion deliberation be posted on the agenda no less than three business days in advance of the council meeting. If your comments relate to a topic that is on the agenda, the council will discuss the topic on the agenda at that time that the topic is…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Anybody from the public want to speak? Just state your name and county or city.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. Anyone else? All right, thank you. We'll go ahead and move into the consent agenda. Items on the consent agenda are approved through a single council motion, which applies to all items listed. Consent agenda listed are considered routine, not likely to require discussion or deliberation, and may discuss prior to making a motion. There will be no separate discussion on these items unless the council member requests an item be removed and considered separately. Item number one, consider approval of the August 27th and September 1st, 2026 meeting minutes. And item number two, consider…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Madam Secretary, can we get a vote, please?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“All right, motion passed unanimously. Just a side note, Rob's sick. We don't know if he has COVID or flu or what. So he is here with us. I just want to let you all know that you should be able to see him. All right, let's go ahead and move on to item number three in the regular agenda, discuss and consider mid-year salary adjustments for sworn police officers and certified firefighters.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Madam Secretary, can we get a vote, please?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“All right. Passed unanimously. Item number four, hold a public hearing to discuss and consider a vote on tax rate for fiscal year 2026. And it'll be that you, Rebecca. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“All right, sounds good. We'll open up public hearing. Anybody from the public want to speak?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Is there discussion from the council? Anything?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“We'll close the hearing. Thank you, Rebecca. We'll go ahead and get a motion.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I second the motion. Madam Secretary, agree to vote, please.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Aye. Aye. All right, I'm Pastor Jameson. I'm going to move on to item number five, hold a public hearing to discuss and consider ordinance 2026-23, adopting a budget for fiscal year 2026-2027.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Let's go ahead and open the public hearing. Anybody have anything to speak on? Council?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Let's stick to the budget. This is the budget. It doesn't sound like the budget. It sounds like Walmart again.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“All right. That's enough. Do you want to be escorted out, Kyle? Kyle, do you want to be escorted out? No, you're not. This is the budget meeting. No, it's not. Chief. No, you're not talking about the budget. Everybody in the room knows you're not. I just heard Walmart. I just heard Candace. No, it's budget. Do you have anything to say about the budget? Okay, you said it. Thank you. Anybody else? And Debbie, so there is one change in the budget that the council wants to do. And if it's okay, Debbie, is it okay if you lead it? Okay, go ahead, Mike.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And I think we've figured out a way where we don't, where we won't have to delay it. We'll come up with what we did last year. So it'll basically be Councilman Corbell will be option A and Councilman Hinton will be option B. And we can make, we should be able to make that change, right? And still pass it with those amendments in it.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So Candace, did you get a copy of this? The paper, and does Rob have an electronic copy of it? He did. Oh, no, but he's going to have to make the proposal on it. But we can get it to him. And I also want to make sure that this is, Okay.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“We need to close, though, right? I haven't closed the hearing yet.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So is anybody else in the public hearing?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. We could do it right after this public comment.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. Rebecca, will you be able to speak on that?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Do you have the figure on what we are spending this year making sure that our police officers and our firemen are up to the minimum salary requirements?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I wouldn't want to do that job. This is something that we took care of in one year that was supposed to be a three-year plan to get everybody up to their minimum amount.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'd like to speak We're going close close the hearing So it seems like we're gonna pass this with option a or option B, right?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026