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Comments, I do not have anybody signed up to speak. I'm seeing nobody else. We will move right on to item C1. City Council, I'm going to read both C1 and C2. City Council will convene in to close the executive session.

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President to Texas Government Code Section 5F1.074, personnel and Section 5F1.071,

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consultation with attorney to consider and deliberate and to seek legal advice from

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the City Attorney regarding a complaint, alleging a violation of the City's Code of Ethics

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against the Council Member for District 4 pursuant to Section 2-284 of the City's Code

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filed August 10, 2026.

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Item C2, the City Council will convene in close executive session pursuant to Texas Government

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Code Section 551.071 legal advice and Section 551.074 personnel to receive legal advice

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from the City Attorney and to discuss a code of ethics complaint filed on August 24th,

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2026 against an appointee to the Board of Directors of the Farmer's Ranch Local Government

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Corporation. So at this time we will recess to the City Manager's Conference Room and then

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come back right after we finish in there. Thank you. Thank you all for your patience.

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As a result of executive session, we had two items on our agenda,

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C1.

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This is a ceramic emotion that we take no action on C1.

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Why do you C2 for?

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I'm sorry.

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We'll do C2 first, which was in regards to a board of pointy.

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Go ahead.

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All right, Mr. Mayor, I make a motion that we see too.

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Thank you.

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Take no action on C2.

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No action or no action. Or dismiss, is there difference here,

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or?

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Yes, technical action, council, other votes and investigations.

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So the motion is to take no action, or the motion is to dismiss.

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Is my question?

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Disman.

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Dismiss.

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I'll clarify the motion is to dismiss.

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Thank you.

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My second.

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Thank you.

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A motion is second, if you would, please indicate your vote accordingly.

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The motion to dismiss passes.

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Thank you. Next is C1.

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I'm Mr. Mayor. Make a motion that we dismiss C1.

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I second. Thank you. Motion as second to dismiss C1. If you would please indicate you've

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heard a corny.

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Motion to dismiss passes. Thank you.

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Okay. Mr. Mayor. Yes. I'd like to

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We request and move that we conduct an executive session on next week's agenda under 551.071 of the government code to seek legal advice from the city attorney relating to disciplinary action involving council member from district four.

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I'll second.

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We thank you. We have motion a second to add an executive session item to next week's meeting.

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Point of order, Mayor? Yes. There isn't a place in the agenda to add agenda items for the next meeting.

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I think this falls under D, which is, except for D, take action necessary.

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The result of the closed executive session.

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Yeah.

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I thought I understood it was dismissed.

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Well,

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dismissed and passed, it should be done.

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To be clear, number one, the language in the agenda is brought up to include the motion that was just made regarding the executive session for next week.

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Assuming that it was necessary as a result of matters discussed during the executive session, number one, number two.

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under the Youth and Meeting Act doesn't have to be on a post to the agenda to discuss whether

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or not to play something on a future agenda, that doesn't have to be agendized.

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So we do have a motion and a second to add an executive session item to next week's meeting.

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If you would please indicate your vote.

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Is there a discussion?

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I'm sorry.

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Is there a discussion?

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I'd like for a sake of transparency.

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I'd like for all of the residents to know what is going on.

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Is there any additional discussion Councilwoman Gazzauce?

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I think for me, Mayor.

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Councilwoman Bennett.

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Councilwoman Reed, nothing for me.

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Councilwoman.

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So if we moved to dismiss it and everybody voted to dismiss it, why would there be another agenda item?

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We're always talking about transparency.

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I would love to hear your thoughts.

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As Councilwoman Benabert said, I think that to dismiss.

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I understood that we were going to dismiss.

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That's what my understanding was.

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If I'm just.

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Councilman.

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What we're doing here is we are dismissing the.

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Code of Ethics complaint brought by.

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Uh...

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And we're adding an executive session item to discuss additional matters pertaining that came out of the executive session discussion of the ethics complaint.

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So just for my clarification, the ethics complaint filed by Mr. Roman against Elizabeth, it has been dismissed per our vote.

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And now you have offered an additional motion or separate motion for another item.

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Could you, would you mind restating what that motion is again for me?

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Sure, I request a move that we conduct an executive session on next week's agenda under

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551.071 of the government code to seek legal advice from the city attorney relating

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to disciplinary action involving council member from district four.

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And what are there any parameters around such disciplinary action given that the ethics complaint was dismissed?

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It's separate from the ethics complaint.

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So it's not pertaining to the ethics complaint itself.

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it's, uh, and again, that's why we're having the executive session to speak with these city

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attorney regarding, uh, options. So we essentially had no scope or deliverable other than

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to just get some advice from the attorney on disciplinary action. And is that disciplinary

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action warranted? And if so by what mechanism or is it warranted? That is part of the conversation.

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And whether, if disciplinary action is warranted,

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that would be a result of that execution.

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I vaguely recall some language somewhere about,

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I'm sorry I need to think for a minute here.

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I would think if somebody was wanting to bring up disciplinary action against a member of the council that there should be a formal charge.

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state it or presented and there hasn't been at this point.

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So essentially you're looking to have an action or discuss this point of action, but yet

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there's no state of charge so maybe you need to rethink that and then make a charge,

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point of order, we were actually reading exactly what our attorney asked us to read.

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And let me be clear, again, the purpose is to seek legal advice to talk about exactly

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those items, and it's not advisable that we discuss in graphic detail, what we're going

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to be talking about during executive session next week, if we have executive session at all.

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This is a preliminary thing and it's just for the purposes of legal advice.

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we can't go into graphic detail without waving that

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between the client privilege and certainly not tonight,

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but this is a very preliminary thing.

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So I guess I'm not quite following here,

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but it seems as though Council may be fishing for some reason

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of a disciplinary action and based on what.

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It's just not clear to me.

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Can we go to accept to clear our language

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because I feel like we can't fully discuss it

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without breaking exactly on what we just spoke about.

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With all to respect, I'd like this to be an open hearing.

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The residents deserve to know what is going on.

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They deserve to know that this is another, yet another fishing expedition.

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I would like this to be an open session, an open hearing, and I think that everybody should

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know what is going on.

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I'm well for that, but if you want explanation on what we just said, it was an executive

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session, and I'm not breaking executive session.

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I'd like to pull it out of executive session.

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Now, that doesn't apply for public, that only applies for discipline or reaction, not

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public, not legal advice.

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And the purpose of the executive session is to go over these issues.

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I don't think it's a good idea for us to talk about what we might be talking about in a

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close executive session that is subject to the attorney claim privilege.

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I guess I just don't understand why we're looking for a disciplinary action. That's the motion.

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That's a different question. That is the motion to seek legal advice regarding disciplinary action.

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And then I don't know what foundation that disciplinary action is built upon.

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It's to discuss whether it's warranted. That's the whole part of the conversation.

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And so then why wouldn't we do that for all council members?

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Why wouldn't we do that for all the council members, why district four, or why not district five, or district two?

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Because it's to discuss whether disciplinary action is warranted,

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a sword involving the council member from district four.

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So it's specific to that.

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Okay, so I could similarly make a similar motion

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to discuss legal advice regarding disciplinary action on council and district three.

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Is that also available to me?

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I guess it's just not following the logic here.

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That's awesome.

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Mayor, this just sounds like a fishing expedition.

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It's already been dismissed.

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It's already been voted on, and I think that we need to call it a day.

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If someone wants to complain about something in the future, they're free to do so,

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but I don't think that it's appropriate

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to conduct a fishing expedition at this time.

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May we go back into executive session?

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No.

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Hold on.

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Councilman Reed, maybe you want to restate your motion to just have an executive session

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next week to discuss future or just to get legal advice on how to handle future issues,

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something to that effect.

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But that's not the topic of the executive session that we're looking to have.

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This is this is specific.

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Mayor, I'd like a motion to reconsider and restate.

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We have motion to reconsider.

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Is there a second?

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Reconsider and restate.

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Oh, second.

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Point of order.

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Reconsider and restate.

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What? That's not a motion.

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one see once been dismissed already I

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can make a motion to reconsider hold on just one

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May I'd like to make a motion to reconsider that?

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Senator, you, Councilwoman, hold on your out order.

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We already have a motion and a second so that Councilwoman Bennett made to reconsider

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see one

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armamentarian and I believe that was seconded as well to most have been made

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Seconded, that needs to be taken off the table by a vote, or by a vote, but yeah, motion on the table to express it.

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All right. We're going to end all the discussion right now. We're going to go back to Councilman Reed's vote for the motion that he made for an executive session. Next week to discuss disciplinary action.

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And that was already made and seconded, so we will vote on that.

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You didn't second his motion, who seconded your motion?

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Tina.

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Tina.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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So, Hall and Favor of Motion by Councilman Reed, please indicate your vote accordingly,

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or the motion

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does pass,

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so there will be an executive session item added to next week.

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Anything else?

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You don't need to.

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It does sound bad that it was dismissed what they were doing this.

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So I feel like the language doesn't need to be.

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He just took care of it.

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Believe me, it is bad.

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Seeing no other business for this evening, I'm going to adjourn at 724.

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Thank you all very much.