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All right, I have 433. This time I'm
going to call the meeting and King State

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Commission to order with that part.
Dear heavenly father, we're so grateful

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to be here and have the opportunity to
represent the the people of C. Lord,

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please just help us make wise decisions.
We just uh we thank thank you for all

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all of our city employees and
everything.

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Just

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ask all this in your name, Jesus.

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Amen.

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I allegiance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic

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for which it stands. One nation under
God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all.

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[clears throat]

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» To item number four, public comment
comments from citizens.

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» That's right. No one has been here
before.

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Okay. Item number five, approval of the
minutes to be August 18th, 2026.

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There's no addition.

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» Have a motion, a second uh to accept as
written. All in favor? 65 by

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motion passes.

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[clears throat] All right. Um item
number six,

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uh consider and take appropriate action
on ordinance number 1259, an ordinance

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of the city commission for the city of
King, Texas, committing the city's

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budget for the fiscal year beginning
October 1, 2026, and ending September

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30th, 2027, providing a decrease of
expected property tax revenue and

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adjusting related revenues, expenses,
and transfers of certain funds.

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Providing that prior parts of ordinance
number 1257 inconsistent with and in

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conflict with any provision of this
ordinance are hereby expressing repeal

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to the extent of any such inconsistency
or conflict providing for building

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providing for.
>> Yes sir. Thank you.

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The property tax rate that was adopted
on August 18th is expected to generate

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less revenue than was included in the
2026 2027 budget. Therefore, next year's

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budget needs to be amended. Uh, the
proposed amendment would lower property

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tax revenue in the general fund by
$396,191.

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Lower the transfer expense from the
general fund to the TIER fund by $4,744

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and lower the budgeted revenue in the TI
fund by that $4,744.

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Implementing these changes would result
in a budgeted general fund deficit of

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$364,447,

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which will be covered by the proceeds of
this year's sale of Kim Road property.

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Staff recommends the adoption of
ordinance 1259 amending the 2026 2027

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fiscal year budget.
Move to approve second. Have a motion

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and second uh to approve [clears throat]
ordinance number 1259. Is there any

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further discussion?
All in favor?

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Thank you. Thank you.

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Okay. Uh [clears throat]
item number seven, consider take

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appropate action on purchase of police
department vehicles.

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» Yes, sir. Uh next year's budget includes
$350,000

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for the purchase of five vehicles for
the Canyon Police Department. Staff

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would like to place this order now as it
takes several months uh after the order

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is placed before delivery is made.
quotes for these vehicles totaling4

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$341,419
has been received which is $8,581

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below budget. The five vehicles include
one detective Ford Explorer, one Ford

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Explorer out upfitted to facilitate a K9
unit, and three Ford Explorers to be

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used as patrol units.
Staff recommends the city commission

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authorize the purchase of five vehicles
for the police department not to exceed

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$350,000.

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Have [clears throat] a motion and a
second. Is there any further discussion?

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All
>> in favor of the motion signify by

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raising your right hand
like that. Motion passes.

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» Thank you.

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» All right. Item number eight, consider
take appropriate action on proposed CEDC

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budget for 2026 2027.

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Good evening
everyone.

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So [clears throat]
before you I hope is is the uh the

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budget for next fiscal year. Uh in the
previous year the EDC dispersed a little

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over 109,000 for marketing and promotion
efforts and uh just under 500,000 in

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project commitments of 49196.
So, if you look at the the budget's

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going to look different than what y'all
seen in the past. So, I've uh created a

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a chart of accounts that matches exactly
what we have in QuickBooks, which is

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going to make this so much uh easier in
the future. And I can run a a actual

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versus projected at any point and and
see where we're at. So, you're going to

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see three categories of marketing and
promotion, operations, and projects. And

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the white the white columns are our
current fiscal year uh that we're in

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now. The yellow columns are the proposed
budget. Uh if you look at the at the

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marketing and and promotion budget,
there's no change in the total from last

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year. Um if you look at the operating
budget, you're actually going to see a

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decrease of about 27,000.
A lot of that's mainly due to our

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insurance cost. We uh joined TML with
all of the EDC property last year and

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dropped our insurance premiums
drastically. So uh that's that's why

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you'll see that number uh smaller.
[snorts] One thing that was done

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differently this year, last year we
actually showed a net profit in the

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budget. Uh this year this is a zero
budget with any additional proceeds

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outside of marketing and operations is
all going into projects. So, if you look

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at the far right column, uh you'll see
that $67,000 number. That's the net, uh

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outside of projected expense, and that
just all went into project. So, it's

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available for project uh expense
throughout the year. And so, it makes it

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makes it a zero budget
about 6.8% increase on our proposed

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sales tax revenue uh from from the
current fiscal year. And so that gives

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us a a budget that we're proposing of
1,442

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200.
Uh at the very bottom of the page, you

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can see on August the 17th, we can look
at a balance sheet here in just a

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second, but on August the 17th, that
shows what our checking account balances

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were.
So, you're not going to really see much

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change in any of the line item numbers
other than we did create we we did not

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have a category for any repairs and
maintenance on the property that the EDC

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owns and we're always having to work on
an air conditioner, do something, and we

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didn't have I didn't have a category to
pull that out of. We now have a budgeted

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repairs and maintenance category. Uh so
that'll be something different from from

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the previous year. And we have itemized
uh cost of uh benefits on for staff.

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Those weren't there before. We now have
that itemized out and shown as

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[clears throat] a as an expense to the
EDC.

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Any questions on the budget itself?

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Okay. Um next page is our balance sheet.
Again, uh the very top right is going to

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show you where we're at on our accounts.
We have a a general account and then we

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have a marketing account. Uh a little
over 1.2 million in the bank right now.

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Uh as you pass the balance sheet, you'll
see the sales tax revenue for the year.

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Uh our last payment was 121 that we
received was 121,487, which puts us at,

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and Joel can correct me if I'm wrong,
but I think 7.28%

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up for the year over last year.
Yeah. So, that's great. We still have

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another month to go. I think our
projected sales tax revenue in this

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current budget was 1.259.
Uh we're at 1.206 with another month to

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go that we hope is in the six figures.
So, we ought to be 50 60,000 over what

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our projected sales tax revenue was. So,
that's awesome.

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Uh the last page is a new uh this is our
CRM software that we're that we're using

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more now and uh we used to do a a
project spreadsheet out of Excel. This

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is now being generated by our CRM
software.

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And uh the biggest thing on it is you'll
see the left column is the uh total

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commitment for all of those projects
that are going back. Some of these go

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back numerous years like Lonear and
Hampton. Some of them are just in the

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last couple of years.
>> Sure.

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» But these are the these are the only
projects left that that have not been

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totally fulfilled
per the per the agreements.

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So you can see that the nearly 1,748 is
what the commitment was from the EDC for

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these projects. If you go to the far
right column, you can see what's

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remaining as far as the liability. So,
uh, just a little over 300,000 left to

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fully commit, uh, these projects. I
would think that most of them, uh,

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outside of Hampton
will probably be complete this fiscal

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year.
So,

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and I know we're going to have some some
more coming your way. So, that's a

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that's a good thing in in our business.
So, um, that's kind of it in a nutshell.

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Uh the EDC board met on Thursday, August
20th, and approved this budget to be

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presented to you for your approval.

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Second

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motion, second approve the EDC budget uh
as presented.

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for discussion
on paper favor by original right hand

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side. Thank you.
>> Thank you all very much. Appreciate it.

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» All right. Item number nine, consider
appropriate action on Texas municipality

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intergovernmental risk pool board and
trustees election.

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» Uh thank you, Mr. Mayor. It's that time
of year for the risk pool place one,

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two, three, and four for votes. You'll
see the official ballot [clears throat]

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behind the memo on there.
There are three incumbents coming in and

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then there's one vacancy place. Three
was previously held by

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Jeffrey Snder, city manager.
uh he actually now works as the deputy

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one of the deputy executive directors
for the rest. So he has transitioned

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from being a city manager to that. Uh
and so place three is open. Um Mr.

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Stradling obviously you guys probably
know that I have worked with over years

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my time with [clears throat] his name in
the hat. There's not really a regional

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allocation on this board and so Mr.
Schneider prior and claim he was our

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closest board member and so uh I would
put emphasis on Mr. Straddling to be on

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place three and that uh Buzz is uh is
coming back for place one. Buzz is in

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Henderson over in East Texas. Know Buzz
pretty well. He was on the on the health

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board as the official when I first
started on that board. Super guy. He's

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no longer mayor over there. He has
stepped down. He's on our boards. He's

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in Henderson. Emily Crawford, she is our
our TCMA president, Emmeritus. So, she

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just came off being our TCMA president.
She is the newer city manager of

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Abalene.
And then the last one would be a police.

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He's a city manager in Jersey Village
who's also on the TC board.

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I can speak good about any of these
guys, but I think big one is place three

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for Derek. I'm hoping we can get enough
person down here.

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That'll be a tough spot. Street has a
lot of people.

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This is my recommendation
on those.

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We need to make it
>> uh for all for

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» Yeah, you can just make a motion for the
recommended

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recommendation.

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» Second
motion second uh to approve the agenda

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proposed by city management. Uh is there
any further discussion?

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All in favor say five by raise your
right hand

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like that.

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All right. Very good. And that now takes
us to exec session. Uh pursuant to

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551.071
consultation with attorney legal advice

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551.072 72 deliberations about real
property 55174

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personnel matters
municipal judge and board appointments

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candidate economic development board and
51.087

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for deliberation regarding economic
development negotiations

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with that have 448