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All right, welcome to the meeting of city council. We are at frisco city hall, the georgia pure 4 municipal center and council

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chambers, 6101 frisco square boulevard in frisco, texas. It

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is 511 p.m. On tuesday, march 17, 2026, and I will call the meeting to order. We are joined

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by the entire council this evening. That moves into closed session. Item 2, recess into closed session in compliance with section

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551.001, texas government code, item a, section 551.071, meeting with the city

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attorney. Regarding a matter in which the duty of the city attorney under the texas

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disciplinary rules of professional conduct of the state bar of texas conflicts with the open meetings act

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regarding 1. Receive legal advice regarding proposed interlocal agreement with collin county, texas, and other political subdivisions

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for the use of the collin county animal shelter and related issues. Item b,

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section 551.072, to deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property. Located 1,

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north of stonebrook, west of preston, east of dallas-north, tollway, and

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south of el dorado. And item two, north of el dorado, west of preston, east of dallas,

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north tollway, and south of pga parkway. And item c, section 551.087, deliberation

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regarding commercial or financial information that the city has received from a business prospect. Or

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to deliberate the offer of a financial or other incentive to a business prospect I have a

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motion. Motion by brian. Second. Second by laura. All

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in favor? Aye. Passes 6-0. Recess an executive session at 5-12. All right, council,

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can I have a motion to reconvene? Motion by bryan, second by byrd. All in favor? Aye. That passes 6-0.

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as a result of executive session, there is no action for council to take. And we are reconvened at 6.31 p.m. And I will turn it

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over to laura for the invocation and the pledge. Good evening, everybody. This

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evening, our invocation will be provided provided by jessica skidmore,

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pastor and executive leader at elevate life church, where she serves as the executive

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director of experience. She oversees key areas of ministry and helps shape the overall

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experience of the congregation. She is also married and has children. Elevate life church,

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also called the cathedral of frisco, is a non-denominational church founded 26 years ago

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by lead pastors keith and sheila craft. Thank you and welcome for praying

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for us today. Thank you. It's truly an honor to be here,

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representing elevate life church and serving our community by offering tonight's

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invocation. So good evening, mayor. And all the council and everybody, the guests here

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today. So please join me as we bow our heads in prayer. Heavenly father, we come before you tonight

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with hearts full of gratitude. We invite your presence into this place and ask that you preside

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over this meeting. Thank you for being a god who loves us and for the unique purpose and

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gifts you've placed within each of us. Thank you for the opportunity to serve our neighbors and

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to be good stewards of the people, the resources, and the responsibilities

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entrusted to the city. Tonight, we lift up our mayor, our council members, and every member

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of our city staff. We thank you for their service and dedication to this community.

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we ask for your provision, your favor, your protection over each of them

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and their families. Lord, grant them wisdom beyond their understanding.

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give them strength and courage to do what is right and what serves the common good

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of all citizens. May every decision be guided by integrity, humility, and a genuine care

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for the people they represent. As they consider the agenda before them tonight,

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we ask that you guide their thoughts, conversation, and decisions. Bring clarity

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where there are challenges and inspire creativity as solutions are discussed. Help this

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meeting to be productive and fruitful. Give them a spirit of unity as they work together toward the shared mission

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of serving the city well. Direct their words, decisions, and actions towards the right

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path. We thank you, lord, for the many people who serve and strengthen our community. And

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all those that work each day to make this place we call home

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such a wonderful city. May the city continue to flourish. May its people be blessed,

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its leaders be guided, and may peace, wisdom, and prosperity rest upon this community. We

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give you thanks and praise. In jesus' name, amen. Amen.

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thank you. Next for our pledge, we have boy scout troop 216, if you

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wouldn't mind coming to the

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stage. I pledge allegiance

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to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands,

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one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all. Honor the texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee,

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texas, one state under god, one and indivisible.

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alright well thank you all you'll hang out there for just one moment.

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we always like to welcome our scouts. Thank you all for being here with us tonight. And I'd

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love to give you all the opportunity to introduce yourselves and ask

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kind of one burning question. So here's kind of the gig.

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it's just your name, your grade, school. And your tough question for tonight is, so

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today is our city manager wes pearson's birthday. And

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unfortunately, he's spending it with us working. So to make him feel even worse,

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I want you to say for your next birthday, where you would like

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to spend it in frisco. What would be your favorite place or favorite thing that you could

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be doing on your birthday? That wes can sit over here and

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wish he was doing tonight? Sorry, wes. You guys ready? You can pass it. So name, age,

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school. You could do your birthday anywhere in frisco.

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my name is ian, I'm in fifth grade and I'm ten years old

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and the mall? Yeah, sure. You

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like the mall? My name's

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ayanch. I'm in fifth grade, I'm 10, and I'll spend it playing tennis

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at my tennis academy. My name is austin, I'm

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in ninth grade, I go to reedy high school, and I would go rock climbing at canyons rock

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climbing gym. Hi, my name is vishnu, and I'm 11, and I go to lawler middle school, and I

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would spend my birthday at like, main event or pinstock. My name is pritish.

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I'm in sixth grade. I go to lawlor middle school and if I could spend my birthday anywhere, I would go to ifly

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indoor skydiving. My name is arya patap. I'm 13 years old. I

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go to pioneer heritage middle school and I'd probably like to spend my birthday

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at home playing video games. Hi, my name is chris. I'm

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in eighth grade and I'm 13. I go to clark middle school and I'd like to go to pinstack and

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spend time with my friends on my birthday. Hi, my name is arav. I'm in 10th grade and I'm

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currently going to richland high school. If I could celebrate my birthday anywhere,

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I'd be celebrating at home with my family because they're the ones who appreciate me most.

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my name is aditya. I'm in 10th grade and I go to richland high school. And I

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don't have a specific place, but I'd probably go somewhere nice to eat for my birthday. I

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would actually love in frisco

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to go to one of the beautiful parks that frisco offers. We're going

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to try to squeeze. There you go. Y'all three kind of move up there. There we go. We have to face your fans

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over here. Alright, let's thank

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our scouts again. We have some frisco pins for y'all. I'm going to hand you to make you

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in charge, but thank y'all for being here. Much appreciated. Thank you.

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alright, we have a couple proclamations tonight. One is to celebrate cindy lemus, 20

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years of service. So, cindy and anyone that would like to join

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you, make your way up come on, bring the whole crew. Come on,

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everyone. All right, and it

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reads, whereas cindy lima began her service to the city of frisco in 2005 as an accountant temp in the old city hall

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building. Before moving into a full-time role in 2006 as a customer service

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representative and central cashier in revenue collections. And whereas in 2011, cindy

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brought her talents to accounts payable, where her reliability, accuracy, and deep knowledge of

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the field became indispensable. In 2019, she was promoted to senior accounting

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technician, a role in which she continues to excel. Through her expertise,

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professionalism, and steadfast commitment to ensuring smooth and efficient

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operations. And whereas cindy embodies a spirit of joy and connection through cherished traditions,

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whether cheering on her grandchildren at their sports and activities,

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creating memories while making gingerbread houses, enjoying peaceful days at the lake property,

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or rocking out at classic rock concerts. And whereas her contributions

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extend far beyond her job duties, as she is known for elevating holiday celebrations,

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especially easter, where she serves as the department's expert egg hider, and

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for brightening the workplace in thoughtful trinkets,

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spontaneous bubble machine moments, and an ever-present supply of dr. Pepper. How come you've

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never brought this to council meetings? And whereas cindy's willingness to support her team,

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her generosity of spirit, and her dedication to both her family and the city of frisco make her a treasured

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colleague and a shining example of service. Delivered with heart. She is recognized

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for her exceptional service, her vibrant spirit, and the positive impact she makes each

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day. Her legacy of dedication, joy, and kindness continues to inspire all who have the

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privilege of working alongside her. Now, therefore, I, jeff chaney, mayor of the city of

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frisco, on behalf of the city council, do hereby bestow special recognition for 20 years of service dedicated

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to the city of frisco. And proclaim march 17, 2026, as cindy lima day. Testing.

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okay, this is my husband danny and my son chad. And I have a daughter, but she thought

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her trip to mexico was more important. You

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know. She's watching online. Probably not. She's probably

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at the beach. I mean, you know. You have another 20 years left in you? I'm getting

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on up there. I don't know. I'll try. How about that? That.

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alright, let's thank cindy and family one more time.

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alright, we have a twofer

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tonight, so hank johnson celebrating 20 years. Man,

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thank goodness this guy didn't run for mayor of council. We'd be in trouble. Popular. All

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right. Whereas henry or hank? Johnson began his service

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to the citizens of frisco on march 27, 2006, and currently serves as crew leader in

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frisco public works meters division. And whereas hank johnson's life has been marked not only by dedicated work,

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but by passions that enrich the spirit. His commitment to our community began long

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before joining the city. Including three years serving the youth of frisco

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at the boys and girls club. And continued contributions through his work with primmo

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school, berry best academy, and petty ann's flowers on main street. And whereas,

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since joining the city of frisco in 2006, hank johnson has exemplified loyalty,

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reliability, and perseverance, consistently demonstrating a strong work ethic and

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unwavering dedication to the community. Whereas, amongst his greatest

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accomplishments are his daily acts of purpose, positivity and kindness, brightening the days of those

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around him. Henry is known for embracing life's joys, smoking fine cigars, listening

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to music, gathering with friends, and playing the drums.

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he's the most interesting man in the world. Jeff chaney,

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mayor of the city of frisco, on behalf of the city council, do hereby bestow special recognition for 20

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years of dedicated service to the city of frisco. And proclaim march 17th, 2026, as

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hank johnson day. Let's hear it for hank. Well, I didn't know I

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was going to be sharing with cindy lima, so it would be lima johnson. Sound

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like a law firm. Well, I want to thank all my family that

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made it. Fuego family back there smell like cigars.

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but yeah, I just want to give this day to my parents who are not here. You know, my dad passed away

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december of 20 years this year. And my mom, the day

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before my birthday in 2007, bestowed all this upon me

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to give to y'all. And I bet some of y'all are like,

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they gave him the microphone.

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yeah, I was like, yeah, wes, I told you. But no, yeah,

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it's been a good 20 years. And just to let you know, I changed my name to frisco

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king. And also, I am the mayor

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of frisco square. So thank

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y'all for being here. Those of y'all can make it. And people on youtube, I see you.

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well, thank y'all and have a great evening. Be safe when y'all get to your homes. Come

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on, alright, let's hear it for hank one more time. All

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right, we have one more proclamation. This is to celebrate our

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north texas community and mayor's cleanup challenge. We've got our team coming up

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here. Hank's a tough show to follow, but I'm confident.

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all right, the proclamation reads, whereas the north texas community cleanup challenge, otherwise known as

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ntccc, is an annual region-wide litter cleanup competition

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organized by the north central texas council of governments. That encourages

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the north texas communities to work together to reduce litter, beautify the neighborhoods, and protect

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environmental quality. And whereas? The city of frisco's environmental services and sustainability division has

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proudly participated in the north texas community cleanup challenge in previous years,

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demonstrating its ongoing commitment to environmental stewardship, community pride,

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and sustainability. And whereas? The 2026 fifa world cup has established several

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sustainability initiatives in advance of the global sporting event,

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including tree planting efforts and community litter cleanup activities. And whereas fifa

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has partnered with netcog

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on the fifth annual north texas community cleanup challenge, further highlighting

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the importance of environmental responsibility and community engagement on both a regional

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and international scale. And whereas the 2026 north texas community cleanup challenge

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will take place from march 1st through may 31st, 2026, providing residents,

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volunteers, and organizations an opportunity to come together to remove litter and improve local

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environments. And whereas participation in this event fosters civic engagement,

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promotes environmental awareness, and regional collaboration,

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with the mayor's challenge, the city of frisco demonstrates its support of the next north texas community cleanup

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challenge, and it encourages residents, organizations, and businesses to take on an active role in keeping

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north texas clean. Now, therefore, I, jeff chaney, mayor of the city of frisco, do

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hereby recognize the months of march through may 2026 as the north texas community and

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mayor's cleanup challenge month. So, thank y'all. Hi

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everyone, my name is jackie sudeiky. I serve as the city's sustainability manager. We invite you all to participate

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in our clean it and green it earth day litter cleanup event,

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taking place on april 18th. It supports this community cleanup challenge. Bring your family,

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your friends, your neighbors. We invite you all. We supply all the materials. We will pick

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up your litter, weigh it, and you'll take part

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in keeping frisco clean. Thanks everyone. All right,

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let's thank our environmental services team again. All right,

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council, that will move us to to item seven, which is council

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comment or acknowledgement of proclamations issued

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since our last meeting. Anything noted? I just want to wish everybody a very happy

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st. Patrick's day. Traditional way to say, you know, may the

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sun always shine to your face, may the wind

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always be to your back, and may god hold you in the palm of his hand. And with that, please be safe tonight if you

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go out and celebrate. And if you've had one too many to celebrate today. Definitely

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call an uber, get a ride from somebody else. Okay, that

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will take us to our report section. Item 8 is our visit frisco report.

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good evening, mayor and council. You probably noticed that january was a little bit slow, and part of that had

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to do with fcs not being here, but also the week of ice that we had. Really killed

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a lot of group business, but I did see our february report this morning and it

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looked really strong, so we'll have better numbers to reflect. I also wanted to just say a note of congrats

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to our marketing team. They launched a drip campaign mid january to our convention

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client database, which was about 5,800. And right off,

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just today, we've had 143 leads. And after lost business,

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we still have about 80 that we're targeting. So it's been really successful, and it's going to continue

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over the course of the next couple of months. So it's a new initiative that we haven't done before,

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so we're really proud of them for working with our sales team to get that launched. Other

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than that, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. All right. Counsel, what questions do you have?

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okay. Thank you. That takes us to item nine, our development services report. Good evening,

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mayor and council. Ralandria russell with development services. You all have our february report

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in your packet and I'm happy to answer any questions. All right. Council, what questions

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do you have on the development report? All

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right. Thank you. Item 10 is our fire department monthly report. Good evening,

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mayor and council. Lee glover, fire chief. On march

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2nd, 2026, frisco fire department amended a peak

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demand ambulance program that will operate daily between the hours of 8 a.m.

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and 8 p.m. The peak demand program will increase our total

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ambulance count from 7 to 8 for a 12-hour period that it's

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in service. This decision was made following the continuous increase in ambulance call volume over the last six months.

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we expect this unit to provide relief to the entire ems system during our busiest time frame

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of the day. And we will continue to monitor this monthly. Looking at our data to make sure that it's still the right

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thing to do. Junior citizens fire academy application period

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will open on april 1st. This program is designed for middle school age students who live

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in frisco or attend frisco schools. Similar to our citizens fire academy, this

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program gives students a front row seat in the frisco fire department operations,

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training, and normal a day functions.

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this program is free to attend and runs between the hours of 9 and 3 p.m. Each day and concludes

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with a graduation on each friday at noon that we invite family and friends to come to the graduation. These

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classes will be offered on june 1st through the 5th and june 8th through the 12th. If

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you'd like to attend, please go to friscofire.com and go to the program section and go

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down to the link for the junior citizens fire academy.

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we'd also like to remind all of our citizens about our free cpr aed

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awareness class and stop the bleed classes. We offer it on the third wednesday

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of each month from 630 to 9 p.m. Stop the bleed occurs on odd months. And cpr and aed

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awareness is on even months. Again, if you would like

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to attend one of these classes, go to friscofire.com and register

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online. With that, you have our february report.

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I'd be happy to answer any questions. All right. Thank you

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for the report. Counsel, any questions? Thank you, chief.

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and item 11 is our police

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department report. Good evening, mayor and council. David chilson, chief of police. I'll start with, you

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were sent our latest bias-based profiling report. This is a

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report that we're required to submit to the state

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by law, but one of the things that we're very proud of. At the police department is we

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were doing this report long before it was required by law. So this is the 22nd

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year that we've submitted this report, and really just some highlights

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from it. You can see, year over year the numbers are very similar. One thing that we did

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notice in our report was we did have an increase in racial profiling complaints.

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however, that increase, all those complaints were...

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unfounded, and so certainly something that we will continue to monitor and be very

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transparent about. This report is available to the public,

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you can scan that qr code, it's also available off of our website, and you can see the previous versions of the

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report as well. I also wanted

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to highlight we recently had our annual awards banquet and many of you were there,

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had a chance to be there. We don't ever want to take for granted the great work that the

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men and women of our police department do, both sworn and non-sworn.

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really, just some highlights from the evening were the six life-saving awards that we

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honored. All of those officers involved in that, as well as all the award recipients in the various

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categories that we had. Really want to highlight the chief's

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unit award, which was our training division. And one of

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the reasons that that unit received the chief's unit award this year was,

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as I'm sure you're aware, we started our first police academy here in frisco. And

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that was a huge lift for our training division. They took it on, and we have

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already started our third police academy. So we were in our third class. So that

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group, very hardworking. That was a big project, and they continue to make each

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academy class better. I also want to highlight the chief's award for service that we

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recognized our it department. Certainly, it's not just about public safety,

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it isn't just about the people in our department, it's the partnerships that we have with

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our other city departments. And our it department has been instrumental in guiding us

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through what has been the biggest technology project

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in our city's history. As we changed from one computer aided dispatch system and records management system to another

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system. And this was a huge lift, didn't just affect us, affected the fire department as

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well, and so they helped get us through that transition. We're still learning our new system,

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but it is providing us a lot more functionality than we've ever had. And that will pay big

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dividends to public safety. Here in frisco, which we're very proud of,

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couldn't have done it without our it department, and last but not least, we say

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that opportunity lives here in frisco. Coming up on the 27th, we will celebrate

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the latest promotions within our department, and we will swear

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in another set of officers. And so just a way that we

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welcome and recognize those that are being promoted and those that are just joining us.

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so certainly want to make sure that everybody has a chance to attend that if they want. If you can't be here,

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it's also live streamed on facebook. With that, you have our february report.

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I'll be happy to answer any questions. Thank you, chief. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, and item 12 is our

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rail district update. Good

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evening, mayor and council. Jason brodigan, director of engineering services. Just to provide a quick update

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on construction in the rail district. The aesthetic features on main street keep kind

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of rolling in. You should see planter boxes now, and I believe trash cans were delivered and installed today.

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we won't be able to take credit for this, but when the trees start to bud here in a couple

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of weeks, it's gonna look even better. For 4th street plaza, concrete

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pours are continuing, which will help us get the brick pavers in. It's a really big

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step. In the next week, we ought to start seeing the support columns

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for the shade structure start to arrive. And finally, the parking garage is still working

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on the facade, the mep, the mechanical, electrical,

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plumbing, and then it started the hardscape on 3rd and 5th streets. So good

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progress being made, starting to look really good. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have on the construction.

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when will the plants start going in the flower pots? I don't have an answer

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for that question yet, but I will get it. All right. I'm going to bug you every time. Are we

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still on track for the plaza? We are on track. We will be done by june. We will be done.

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okay. Good answer. Yes, ma'am.

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okay, good evening, mayor and council. A quick update on the gift card program. It's expired. Yeah, it's expired.

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the gift cards have all been redeemed, or they're in the process

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of being redeemed back to the chamber or a third-party administrator. As you can see at the bottom,

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the grand total so far is over $400,000 worth of physical gift cards have been redeemed

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at participating businesses in the rel district. The digital gift card program,

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the bonus card program portion of it, has expired. Approximately $548,000 have

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been redeemed, total. Of that, 232 are gift cards that do not expire, and

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315,000 gift cards were the bonus gift cards that do expire, that have expired. Our

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advertising program, again, this is static, but $123,000 in direct investment.

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since this program went live. And we'd continue with the

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digital marketing efforts for the billboards. So as a

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reminder, we talked about this at the winter work session. Our near term goals, as jason

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mentioned, is finished construction, kick off the downtown circulator,

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complete all the work downtown, and begin to pivot towards,

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you know, redevelopment efforts. The long term strategy is

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activation of events, implementing leasing strategy for the garage, retail,

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and other city-owned buildings, define and implement the governance structure,

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and evaluate downtown circulator pilot. So these are kind of the goals

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for fiscal year 27 and beyond. So next steps, excited to talk

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about the next steps. We're going to roll out another digital gift card program

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beginning june 1st. And also help market that to world cup traffic that's coming to

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frisco. We're going to roll out the advertising grant program on april 15th. We're looking

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to do a mural on the side of the old city hall, the former school of rock building.

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we're talking about downtown circulator beginning in june, once the garage is complete.

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we continue to have discussions in coordination with the rail district advisory board, rail

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district roundup, and merchants on main, formerly the save main group. We talk

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about budget discussions for special events, holiday decorations, programming, and

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the activations I mentioned above. And also, a forthcoming will be an april

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work session, a deep dive into the special events planned for the 4th street plaza. So,

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with that, I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. You can still go out and buy a gift card. Just

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no bonus match, not until june 1st. We did notice when we started the program, initially

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in november, that there was a huge rush of excitement. So we want to time that excitement june 1st with the grand opening

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events that we're having downtown. Right, right.

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council, any questions for ben? Ben, can you just expound

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a little bit so that the public knows what you mean by downtown circulator? We're

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evaluating an electrical

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vehicle, it's a large bus. Capacity up to 18 people, ada

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compliant, accessible, and the general path would be the

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parking garage. Downtown on come down elm street, if you can visualize, to north

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county, along main street, to rollertown, and may even go

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beyond into simpson plaza, past toyota stadium. So that would be the circulator that we're

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evaluating. Thank you. Okay,

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council. Item 13 is council subcommittee reports. Any

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updates? So for those

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of you who did not make it out to the work session earlier, this is a continuation from

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efforts at the cog and the rtc. We will be working

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with dcta very quickly to bring some public transportation to frisco, so specifically

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for areas. That need help. So, senior citizens that are living in frisco lakes,

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in the grove, as well as students, all members of our

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community will have access to a beta test. And really, really want to thank brian

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moen, jason brodigan, the city staff for bringing this up

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to light. So that should help with people. And the second thing is. We are currently also

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working to get flood mitigation dollars from the state of texas to provide relief

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for you areas in frisco that could be flooded. So wes and team are definitely on it. So

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wanted to give that update from the rtc. And yes, the item mentioned will be

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on an april agenda, where there will be a full presentation for the contract with dcta.

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all right, that will move us to our consent agenda. Items placed on the consent agenda are considered routine in nature and are considered

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non-controversial. The consent agenda can be acted upon in one motion. The majority of the council is required

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to move any item for discussion in separate action. Council members may vote nay on any single item

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without comment. You may submit written comments as part of the official record. And council, you have 14 through 27 for consideration. Motion

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by laura. Second. Second by angelia. All in favor? Aye.

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that motion passes 6-0. Legislative agenda. These items may legally require council

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action, but by council policy should be the city manager's responsibility. The legislative

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agenda can be acted upon on one motion. The concurrence of two council members is

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required to move any item for discussion and action. Council members may vote nay on any single item

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without comment and may submit written comments as part of the official record. There's one item, council, item

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28. Motion by laura. Second.

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second by angelina. All in favor? Aye. That motion passes 6-0. That'll move us

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to our regular agenda. Item 29 is consider an act upon adoption of an ordinance

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amending frisco's code of ordinances number 06-03-31, as amended, chapter 2, article 2,

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division 1, section 2-19. Article 3, section 2-76, rules or procedures for the conduct

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of public testimony at meetings, modifying certain rules of procedure for the conduct

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of public testimony at meetings of the city council, boards, commissions, and committees of the city of

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frisco. Good evening, marion city council. Ken schmidt, director of special projects for the city. So, the rules

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of procedure for public testimony were initially established in the late 1980s. And they

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were applied to the conduct of testimony at city council, board, commission, and

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committee meetings. Recently, council gave direction to staff to consider updates

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to the rules of procedure, and as a result, staff facilitated several work sessions

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with council. Addressing themes related to speaker duration and registration procedures,

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frequency and timing of public testimony

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on non-agenda items, and additional rules of decorum. For the ordinance

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that is before you tonight, for your consideration, it addresses several updates

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related to speaker duration. Most notably, it proposes a reduction

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in speaker duration from five minutes to three minutes for testimony

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on both agenda and non-agenda items. For speakers that

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require a translator, it proposes a proportional

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reduction from ten minutes to six minutes for those speakers. This

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proposed ordinance also eliminates an existing ordinance provision that

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provides discretion to the presiding bodies. To reduce speaker time

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on a single agenda item based on the number of speakers who wish to speak

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on that item. For speakers on non-agenda items, this

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ordinance limits those speakers to three minutes

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of speaking time in total, regardless of the number of people they wish

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to speak on. This ordinance

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also addresses speaker registration procedures.

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specifically, it transitions our speaker registration process from a paper form filled

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out prior to or during the meeting to an online registration form

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to be completed prior to the start of each meeting.

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it does provide for reasonable accommodations to be made by the city

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secretary's office for members of the public. Who may need assistance with that process.

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outside of the ordinance, as part of our administrative

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standards and procedures, the city secretary's office will provide for promotional

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materials, as well as administrative standards to support the online

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registration process if this ordinance were to be approved. This ordinance

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also addresses the topic of placement of citizen input

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on the council agenda. For agenda items,

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it clarifies that process in that it provides speakers opportunity to speak

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on specific agenda items, either before or at the time

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of consideration of that agenda item, but not at both times. This codifies

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our existing process, and I will note that this was a change that occurred

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after the agenda packet was. Posted specifically to account

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for the during the agenda item component that does provide

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additional opportunity for speakers to address

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during the agenda item. So that refinement was an improvement

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to what was originally included in the agenda packet.

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for non-agenda items, it defines an opportunity for speakers to speak

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on those items at the end of the meeting. Where a citizen

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input session would be defined at the end of the council agenda, with the exception

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of regular council meetings. And consistent with current practice today,

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public testimony at all other city meetings would be limited to testimony on specific agenda

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items. The proposed ordinance also provides for additional

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rules of decorum, specifically prohibitions against disruptive and unruly

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behavior, to include the disruptive use of props, threatening speech

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not protected by the first amendment. The use of electronic devices

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to impede or disrupt a meeting, physically approaching the presiding body more closely

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than the room is set up to accommodate, or displaying a sign, placard,

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poster, or banner in the meeting room. This does not include shirts or apparel

433
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that may communicate a message. This also addresses a process

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for treatment of decorum violations,

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beginning with a warning. From the presiding officer of the meeting and identifying the

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specific violation. And if that individual does not correct

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their violation of the rules of decorum, the presiding officer will ask a police

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officer to remove that individual from the meeting. So staff does

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recommend approval. The proposed updates to the public testimony rules

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of procedures. These are aligned with best practices in the region, most notably

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speaker duration time at three minutes. That is a very common practice in north

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texas. If you do adopt this ordinance as presented, it would be effective

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for your april 7th council meeting. We'd be happy to address any questions that you

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have. All right. Well, thank you for the presentation. Some

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color I want to add first. Because this isn't just

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in a silo. And anytime you're talking about public input, especially

447
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during campaign season, it's fodder for perhaps

448
00:43:47,700 --> 00:43:51,133
political gain or misinformation. So city council receives public input in a number of ways. We do

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three town halls a year where we physically call out to every single home in frisco, asking them to listen

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in to the town hall. We usually have thousands of people that will listen to

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the town hall all the way through. We stream it live on facebook and we also always

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00:44:05,933 --> 00:44:09,600
invite people to join us in audience. It's an intentional effort we've been doing now

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for almost a decade, to try to get input from all four corners of the community. That's just

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one item. We have multiple times when we'll actually go

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out into the community to solicit input. It could be a scenario where it's a very

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specific issue in a part of the city that residents want to point things to. It's maybe

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meeting with an hoa. I probably give two dozen presentations a year to various groups with

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00:44:39,900 --> 00:44:42,900
frisco updates and seeking input. Every part of our decision-making process is a

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00:44:45,033 --> 00:44:47,200
citizen driven process. So it starts with our comprehensive

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plan, which we just had a citizen body who solicited input, along with consultants

461
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and surveys and feedback to build our 2040 comprehensive

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plan. And then every decision goes through a variety of committees, all citizen

463
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,833
appointed committees, whether it's planning and zoning, parks and rec,

464
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and you name can go all down the list, where their entire initiative is to expand our scope

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of being able to hear the community and provide additional opportunities

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for citizen input. Council then does many things on their own. I can say this entire council

467
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will spend time meeting with residents at coffee shops for long-form discussions or

468
00:45:29,733 --> 00:45:33,200
meeting them in their home. During campaign season, walking and knocking doors,

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listening to the needs of the community. Many people

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don't want to speak in front of a council meeting. I'd say, probably the citizen input is probably the tool used the

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least by the community to reach us. Oftentimes, it's

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just a simple email that we may get. It may be, you know,

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one person articulated an issue very well, so they may send

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out. A petition that they want to show support, that they agree

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with those points. So kind of the point is, you know, we've always been a city

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that wants to seek citizen input, you know,

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and have that information for essentially every single decision. I think two years ago

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was the first time we actually did a citizen survey, and that's actually going to be

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followed up again later this year. So all we're addressing

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tonight, all those other outreach where we're both kind of pushing for feedback and

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pulling for feedback, will continue. All we're

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addressing tonight is official city meetings and how

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to handle citizen input during official city business.

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and really, as was mentioned in the presentation, we've already had multiple work

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sessions, and council has kind of narrowed into a scope of things we wanted to think

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about and discuss. Some of them were coming regardless because of our new electronic system,

487
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where we needed to change policies. Be able to kind of manage that. So that was

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already on the horizon. And then some of the of the others are just changes

489
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to practices and codifying practices that we've always used during citizen input.

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there's probably really only kind of one change for consideration tonight other than practice,

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which is the length of time. And I'll just kind of open

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with my comments on that. So it's always interesting when you're in the market

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for a car, then all of a sudden all you can see on the road is that car. You know, just because you become

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more observant of what's happening with you. And so I thought, you know, with this coming up,

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it's made me kind of more perceptive. Of our

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citizen input process and how we can make it better for the person presenting,

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but also for how our meetings operate.

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and so last meeting was a great example where we had more than

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10 speakers. Show up. And so all of those speakers on that agenda item then went

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to the three minute time. And so what I found really

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fascinating is that usually when we do citizen input, five minutes is a really long

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time, and it sounds like a really long time. And so people will struggle because

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they feel like they need to fill the time. And so there's usually kind

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of what we would call the the academy awards. Beginning part of the presentation where kind

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of everyone is thanked and you know, and then maybe kind

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of ramble through some points. And then all of a sudden they look up and they're out,

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they're out of time. Well, last meeting, I thought we had a lot. Of speakers, and I thought it

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was actually probably one of the most efficient presentations from a citizen input. Because suddenly three minutes doesn't

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sound like.and three minutes is I need to get my points articulated. If someone said one of my points, really well,

510
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I can say an agreeing statement. Like my neighbor bill, really, I agree with him

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on that point. Let me focus on some other points. In the past, we've seen

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strategies where multiple speakers will want to come in, and they may take

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different parts of the presentation. And so it

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really kind of, in my mind, made me realize that it actually created a more

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effective communication tool, I thought, and the most shocking thing is, when we're at five minutes, I

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would say a very high percentage of people run out of time. When we went

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to three minutes last meeting, I think 90% of the people of the people finished

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in two minutes. Because it just changed the mentality of the presentation that we were giving, and I thought it was a

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much better communication. So that's kind of my take on it, but council, we'll just kind

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of take these one by one, and the first one is just that duration time. So those are my

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thoughts and comments, but I'll look for any other comments or questions. Are we

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looking to take public input before we start? Oh, yes, let's do that. Sorry. We do

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have three people wanting to speak on this item tonight. So we will start with josh meek, and after that we'll have mark

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pyland. All right, mr. Mayor,

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city council members, my name is josh meek. I'm a resident here in frisco and my

526
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address is listed there on the blue card. What's going

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on? It's been a long time since I've kind of been here consistently,

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so back in the rhythm of it. You know, after reading through the proposed ordinance, I do have some comments. You

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know, for general public comment, non related, you know, to an agenda item, I think,

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you know, three minutes is fair. I think, to your point, I think, to your point, I think, you

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know, most of the stuff that gets covered in a public comment during that time, you know,

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gets addressed. But I do struggle, honestly, every time. We reduce from five minutes to three minutes whenever we do have

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more than 10 speakers, just because a lot of the general public isn't up to date with, you know,

534
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what the rules of practice are. So they come prepared for that five-minute window.

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it gets reduced down to three. And, you know I think back to a lot of the times that we've had residents,

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you know, recently, with the warehouse there on the south side of

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ridgewoods. But, you know, also the residents there of cobb hill when universal park was coming in,

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and the residents surrounding harold backus park, you know, with the forest bark dog

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park. The recent, you know, stuff related to the performing arts center, and, you know, things related

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to civil service, collective bargaining and unions, you know, is three minutes for some

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of the density. Of these topics to be, you know, is it enough time, you know, three minutes for that

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to be allotted? And I would argue that it's not, especially, you know, I think

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the reason I'm also up here is really for the citizen, the resident that isn't as informed. You know, they're

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showing up and they don't understand the rules and the procedures, which is one of the

545
00:51:55,667 --> 00:51:58,500
things that I was kind of, as I was brainstorming through the process,

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is that if there's a way to even kind of hyperlink to the electronic form, which I'm all for. If there is

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a way to hyperlink specifically to that form, or however that's going to be submitted,

548
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if there is a way to do that within the actual agenda. But I just don't believe that. Three,

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you know, reducing from five minutes to three minutes. And I know it's a practice that we've had,

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you know, in, you know, lockstep for a few years now here locally. A lot

551
00:52:25,667 --> 00:52:28,200
of municipalities use it down in austin. Three minutes is used. But since when is frisco

552
00:52:29,733 --> 00:52:32,900
ever conformed? Right. We've been the leader. And you guys are the closest level

553
00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:37,933
of government. To the people. And so, like I said, reflecting back on some of the

554
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public comment that I've heard and seeing, you know,

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the public comment reduced down from five minutes to three minutes, I just kind

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00:52:47,567 --> 00:52:51,567
of struggle with that. And just kind of, you know, conforming that moving forward from here on out, and not even

557
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allowing that opportunity. Obviously, the last council meeting, we had a lot of public speakers. But, you

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00:52:57,900 --> 00:53:01,800
know, if you only have a handful, allowing them that extra time to me is something that is

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00:53:04,333 --> 00:53:07,467
supportive of what we should be giving to our residents and to the citizens of frisco. The

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only other thing I was kind

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00:53:12,933 --> 00:53:15,700
of concerned about, too, was related to the times. You

562
00:53:17,133 --> 00:53:20,433
know, the council meetings start at five o'clock. Your average everyday frisco resident is probably not getting

563
00:53:21,867 --> 00:53:25,467
off work yet. Five o'clock, six o'clock, commute time. And I understand there's going to be a component of, you know,

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electronic, electronic submission, but. With that, do they understand that they can

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do that? Do they show up at a council meeting, there's an agenda item that they wanted to speak about, and now they can't speak

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about it? So there's going to have to be a massive amount of education, I think, you know, if we're going

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to conform to some of these standards. You know, the other thing that I kind

568
00:53:45,467 --> 00:53:48,167
of struggle with is, you know, myself and my three minutes would have already been up.

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but essentially. There's been several times where I have not planned on speaking at a

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00:53:54,767 --> 00:53:56,767
meeting and I felt inspired or motivated, or compelled. So I've seen other residents also

571
00:54:00,267 --> 00:54:03,200
do that as well. So I struggle with also to kind of I understand the rules and having

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an order and structure, but I struggle for that in the moment. Maybe somebody that wasn't brave enough

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to speak decided to speak up on a topic or something. Triggered was triggered

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in them, and then they felt motivated and compelled to then speak and stand up for their neighborhood. So

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there's, I think, a couple of things that I just really struggle with on this. So I

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00:54:25,267 --> 00:54:28,933
just think that, you know, deliberately, of course, you know, reducing the time is just too much. But there's a couple

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00:54:30,733 --> 00:54:33,967
courses of action available of action available to you guys tonight. And I'd

578
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ask that you guys continue to edit the ordinance. I don't entirely agree with it

579
00:54:40,767 --> 00:54:44,300
in its entirety, and I do believe that it should be edited. But as always, thank you guys for everything

580
00:54:45,500 --> 00:54:48,133
you do. I know you all come under the gun recently. I watch these meetings. I attend these

581
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:53,733
meetings. And one thing that I would love to see more of is more professionalism at this dais and treating each

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other like neighbors. So thank

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you guys for my time. Thank you. After that, we have shauna sowell. Good evening,

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mayor and council. Mark pylative in the hollyhock

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section of frisco. First, a couple comments, mayor, to your comments. The city's

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getting ready to be a quarter of a million people. And while I know that there are meetings and neighborhoods and

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00:55:23,933 --> 00:55:27,133
gatherings, and that's all great, but the only other thing that's videotaped that the

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00:55:28,867 --> 00:55:32,233
masses of this city can see are our town halls and these meetings here. So while you

589
00:55:33,633 --> 00:55:37,400
may have coffee with the mayor, you may have meetings in different communities,

590
00:55:39,267 --> 00:55:41,667
the mass of frisco don't see that. They don't hear what you're talking about. So I

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think for us, we have to evolve into a city that's not 30,000

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00:55:48,267 --> 00:55:50,533
people anymore. It's growing. It's big. And I think that we

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need to embrace that and think of different ways to get information out

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of the community. I'm okay with the decorum on the ordinance. I think that's fair. I think all persons that address this council and this

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body and this chamber should have decorum. I think they all

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should behave themselves in a proper manner. But I also believe this ordinance is a

597
00:56:12,200 --> 00:56:15,233
slippery slope. And as josh said, limiting people to three

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00:56:16,267 --> 00:56:19,567
minutes, you've always had that ability. That's in the current ordinance now.

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00:56:21,633 --> 00:56:24,967
why make it a mandatory three minutes? If you've got ten or more speakers,

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you've always had the ability to limit that time limit. So I'm not sure why that now

601
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becomes mandatory. Putting non-agenda item speakers

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at the end of the meeting, let's just be honest. That is trying to discourage people

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00:56:39,667 --> 00:56:42,600
from coming here and speaking. What you're saying is, if you have a non-agenda item,

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we're going to make you wait to the end of the meeting, when maybe most people have

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left, or when you just can't spend here that long, or you're just too tired or whatnot, so we're going

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to put you at the end. I mean, that's what this is. Let's just be honest. For once,

607
00:57:02,033 --> 00:57:06,000
let's just be truthful about what we're doing here. That's what we're doing. It's a deliberate attempt to discourage people.

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from speaking. This is an issue to limit citizen speech cloaked

609
00:57:13,333 --> 00:57:15,100
in good governance, and that is not what this is.

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the job of the council is to listen. That is your job as an elected official. If you

611
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don't want to listen anymore, reconsider your position, because that's why you were

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elected. You were elected on transparency and

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00:57:33,500 --> 00:57:37,367
accountability. But you don't want transparency and accountability because you want the transparent people

614
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to be there in the meeting when no one's here. That's not transparency, and that certainly is not

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accountability. Public discourse is an american right.

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and limiting free speech by

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time and opportunity is wrong. I can't even begin to think

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of our people in our country, the men and women, who have sacrificed everything

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to give us free speech. And this is a slippery slope of this council to try

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to limit that. It's a knee-jerk reaction to february 3rd and some other times when there's

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been a lot of speakers here criticizing this council or saying some things that people

622
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did not want to hear. But that's what free speech is about. It's

623
00:58:22,867 --> 00:58:25,867
about not you agreeing with what they have to say, but you defending their right

624
00:58:28,300 --> 00:58:31,133
to say that. And, as josh said, it's comparing us to other cities. I welcome that

625
00:58:32,500 --> 00:58:36,167
comparison. Let's make that comparison because it's working here for 10 years. I can tell you, when there's something

626
00:58:37,633 --> 00:58:40,567
that we want to do, we'll find a city to make that comparison. But when we don't want

627
00:58:41,767 --> 00:58:45,700
to compare with them, we say we're frisco, we're different. I've seen it over a 10-year career here.

628
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,733
we'll talk about neighboring cities. Let's have that discussion. We

629
00:58:51,267 --> 00:58:54,967
can talk about that because we want to compare ourselves. Let's do the full comparison because I've got some great

630
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,167
ideas about how we can be better if we're going to compare with our neighboring cities.

631
00:59:00,567 --> 00:59:03,633
this basically is a solution in search of a problem is what this is. And it is limiting.

632
00:59:06,100 --> 00:59:09,800
let's just be honest. It's limiting people's ability for free speech. It's just we

633
00:59:10,733 --> 00:59:12,600
table this item. This agenda item was posted on march

634
00:59:14,867 --> 00:59:18,833
11th at 5 30 p.m. Let's let other people in this city understand what you're doing

635
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:24,567
here, and let's have this discussion at this podium and get their ideas as well. Thank you very

636
00:59:26,167 --> 00:59:26,167
much. Next, we have shauna

637
00:59:33,733 --> 00:59:37,633
sowell. Good evening shauna sowell, and you have my address

638
00:59:39,333 --> 00:59:43,333
here in frisco. Many of you know that I spent the first 12 years of my professional career

639
00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:47,667
as a high school government and history teacher and speech and debate coach. One of my

640
00:59:49,733 --> 00:59:53,133
master's degrees also had a heavy emphasis on political speech and first amendment law. So I ultimately

641
00:59:54,733 --> 00:59:57,533
have fairly strong thoughts about free speech and the democratic process, especially

642
00:59:59,867 --> 01:00:01,633
at the local level. The ability for residents to speak

643
01:00:04,767 --> 01:00:07,400
to their elected leaders on issues that matter to them is paramount to our

644
01:00:10,167 --> 01:00:13,133
democracy. I believe the residents have every right to come before their leaders in

645
01:00:14,500 --> 01:00:16,833
this recorded public forum and share the things that matter

646
01:00:18,700 --> 01:00:21,700
to them. Pertaining to city business and activities. Democracy and the activities

647
01:00:23,533 --> 01:00:26,367
therein are messy. There is always a push and pull that the

648
01:00:27,967 --> 01:00:30,967
founding fathers recognized would always exist between the freedoms that we hold dear and

649
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:36,367
the process. But they ultimately landed on protecting the freedoms as much

650
01:00:37,600 --> 01:00:39,633
as possible, even when it led to messy results. The recent

651
01:00:42,767 --> 01:00:45,233
meetings have led to this discussion

652
01:00:46,967 --> 01:00:48,500
among the current city council about the citizen input

653
01:00:51,100 --> 01:00:54,700
process. There are some changes that I think are fine. I do believe that residents should

654
01:00:55,633 --> 01:00:58,733
have the first priority in speaking before city council. Residents should not

655
01:00:59,833 --> 01:01:03,633
have to wait behind a long list of those who do not live here, regardless of the issue.

656
01:01:05,000 --> 01:01:08,167
but moving all speakers to the end of the meeting makes it more difficult

657
01:01:09,767 --> 01:01:12,767
for residents to speak. And honestly, the message that it sends is that whatever the

658
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:18,000
resident has to say just isn't as important as whatever. We have planned

659
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:22,067
for the agenda that evening. It also sends the message that we hope you'll get tired of

660
01:01:23,500 --> 01:01:26,767
waiting and go home. I also have concerns with requiring speakers

661
01:01:27,700 --> 01:01:30,200
to sign up before the meeting starts. Electronically is fine, but

662
01:01:32,267 --> 01:01:34,767
often people who attend the meetings are moved to speak by hearing comments of others

663
01:01:36,500 --> 01:01:38,867
for or against a topic. And that right should not be

664
01:01:40,567 --> 01:01:41,867
limited because of wanting to shorten a meeting. We can

665
01:01:44,700 --> 01:01:47,900
list a litany of supreme court cases and legal gymnastics to determine what can be done.

666
01:01:49,567 --> 01:01:52,133
but just because it can, doesn't mean it should be done.

667
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:57,033
building public trust, especially of times

668
01:01:59,800 --> 01:02:01,867
of disagreement, is paramount to a functioning democracy,

669
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:06,867
including at the local level. Something the audience needs

670
01:02:08,433 --> 01:02:12,200
to consider. Is the decorum in our meetings. We must all remember that city council

671
01:02:13,433 --> 01:02:16,200
meetings are legislative proceedings, and civil debate and discourse is so needed.

672
01:02:17,833 --> 01:02:21,667
you can be passionate about your issue and still show respect and decorum for the

673
01:02:24,233 --> 01:02:26,733
process, respect the time of others and maintain civility

674
01:02:30,833 --> 01:02:34,100
in the discussion. How we go about our public input process as members of this community

675
01:02:35,267 --> 01:02:38,600
matters, and in the manner in which we speak matters. It is the most basic level of interacting

676
01:02:39,467 --> 01:02:42,667
with our government. So while I stand for your right to speak, I also stand

677
01:02:43,667 --> 01:02:47,433
for your right to do it respectfully. I've sat through public input,

678
01:02:48,767 --> 01:02:52,333
both as an elected official on that side of the dais, and as a member

679
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:57,533
of the public waiting to speak on several issues on this side of the dais. And regardless

680
01:02:58,500 --> 01:03:00,933
of the side of the dais, I have maintained the same position. It wasn't about campaigning.

681
01:03:02,833 --> 01:03:06,233
it wasn't about the issue. It's always been the same. The public must retain the right

682
01:03:07,933 --> 01:03:11,367
to speak on the issues they deem important. To limit or discourage that right because

683
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:15,600
it makes our meetings longer? Presents not only a slippery

684
01:03:17,167 --> 01:03:19,367
slope, but a weight of conspiracy, a lack of trust, and, ultimately,

685
01:03:21,467 --> 01:03:24,967
a disrespect for the residents you represent. And I don't believe that's what any of you really want to do.

686
01:03:26,800 --> 01:03:29,700
don't let your frustration with some of these meetings relegate how those who have

687
01:03:31,467 --> 01:03:34,700
come and respected the process are treated. Things will settle down and we go on

688
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:38,600
about the city's business, but we cannot complain about residents not being informed or

689
01:03:40,100 --> 01:03:43,800
engaged and then shut them down when it's convenient. Democracy is messy. It takes

690
01:03:45,467 --> 01:03:47,500
time, but it is certainly worth it. All right, that's all we had

691
01:03:55,833 --> 01:03:59,300
to speak on this item. And I do want to be very clear that city council landed very

692
01:04:01,300 --> 01:04:04,933
quickly during work sessions to not limit the topics of citizen input or the content.

693
01:04:07,067 --> 01:04:10,400
so that's not even something the city council is inquiring or discussing here tonight.

694
01:04:12,867 --> 01:04:15,000
and as far as the timing of the agenda, the thoughts

695
01:04:17,067 --> 01:04:20,433
around that is when there's citizen input for agenda items and non-agenda items. When you

696
01:04:22,767 --> 01:04:25,300
have people in the audience like we do tonight,

697
01:04:27,100 --> 01:04:31,000
three that spoke on agenda items and others that are waiting for non-agenda items, somebody in the audience is

698
01:04:32,400 --> 01:04:33,867
waiting to speak. And so it's council's discussion

699
01:04:36,633 --> 01:04:39,867
as far as where that priority should be. Should the priority be the citizens that are coming to speak,

700
01:04:40,967 --> 01:04:44,133
like happened at last meeting with the neighborhood? Where we took citizen input first,

701
01:04:45,900 --> 01:04:49,133
and those 20 to 30 residents that were there to speak on an agenda before the council

702
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:54,500
that evening, all had to wait. So that is the argument is who should get

703
01:04:56,133 --> 01:04:59,700
priority when speaking before council. And so kind of with that, those clarifying

704
01:05:01,700 --> 01:05:04,000
remarks, we'll just kind of go through these one by one. So

705
01:05:05,733 --> 01:05:08,467
kind of the top line one is, you know, probably the biggest

706
01:05:10,033 --> 01:05:13,400
one is the duration. So, council. I don't know if this would even be a fact while I

707
01:05:14,400 --> 01:05:16,367
was still mayor, so it won't really impact me,

708
01:05:18,433 --> 01:05:20,933
but what's y'all's thoughts? Are you starting, murray? So

709
01:05:23,100 --> 01:05:26,700
the question, we're just going to do one by one, so from five to three? I think so. I

710
01:05:27,833 --> 01:05:31,767
personally don't have a problem with that. We've discussed it in three minutes. I mean,

711
01:05:33,167 --> 01:05:36,433
in speech class, it seemed about like three hours when I was doing it, so I personally

712
01:05:37,733 --> 01:05:37,733
don't have a problem with it.

713
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:44,767
please keep your comments from the audience. Thank you. Citizen input is over. I have

714
01:05:50,300 --> 01:05:52,200
heard from many citizens that have, countless citizens

715
01:05:55,133 --> 01:05:58,367
who have said, can we shorten the amount of time to three minutes? And

716
01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:02,567
it's not on one specific thing, but I can't not unhear the

717
01:06:06,233 --> 01:06:09,900
multitude of citizens who have been disturbed. By things that have been said

718
01:06:10,800 --> 01:06:12,633
in these council chambers, and I know that democracy is messy.

719
01:06:15,067 --> 01:06:16,833
but allowing non-agenda items to go on for longer periods

720
01:06:19,600 --> 01:06:23,533
of time to the point the citizens don't feel safe in our

721
01:06:25,133 --> 01:06:26,433
city anymore is a problem that our. Please remain quiet. I

722
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:34,233
have to ask you to leave. Thank you. Excuse me, sir. There's no more comment,

723
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:38,400
thank you. If you cannot follow our decorum, we're going

724
01:06:40,567 --> 01:06:43,733
to have to ask you to leave. So that's where I,

725
01:06:45,567 --> 01:06:49,400
when we had conversations in council work session about it, I believe three

726
01:06:52,567 --> 01:06:56,300
minutes is plenty of time. There's lots of opportunity to come and speak

727
01:06:57,367 --> 01:07:00,333
with council, to speak to council members. Like I said, I've had many citizens reach

728
01:07:01,500 --> 01:07:04,200
out to me personally and repeatedly said, I don't feel safe in frisco.

729
01:07:06,733 --> 01:07:10,300
that's not right. I don't think anybody supports that. I don't think anybody wants that. And I

730
01:07:12,533 --> 01:07:15,333
think part of it comes from what's happening here in council chambers. And I

731
01:07:18,400 --> 01:07:21,833
think that three minutes is perfectly acceptable to get our points across. I've been

732
01:07:24,100 --> 01:07:27,900
on council for about five years now, and I can say that this conversation

733
01:07:30,333 --> 01:07:33,400
around how we govern public input. Has come up several

734
01:07:35,567 --> 01:07:37,900
times, so I think it's important for the audience

735
01:07:39,600 --> 01:07:42,633
to know that we are not dealing with the recency effect here. I will not give credence to that

736
01:07:44,333 --> 01:07:47,600
issue as being the sole reason why we're having this conversation. This conversation

737
01:07:49,133 --> 01:07:52,467
has surfaced on a number of occasions around putting governance

738
01:07:54,067 --> 01:07:56,967
in place. It is not about eliminating free speech, it's about brevity of speech. I

739
01:07:59,067 --> 01:08:00,667
watch this clock because I am responsible

740
01:08:03,300 --> 01:08:06,833
for pressing the button. To ensure that we start the clock. And I can tell you that there

741
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:12,467
are many who come up here and speak and have completely gotten their point across

742
01:08:14,133 --> 01:08:16,233
in less than three minutes. Generally, when it hits the

743
01:08:18,767 --> 01:08:22,633
four-minute mark, people are then repeating themselves. But the essence of the message and the point that they're

744
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:27,567
hoping to deliver has come across very clearly. Josh, you did that tonight. I watched the

745
01:08:29,167 --> 01:08:32,567
clock. You hit all of your key points. Your message was well taken

746
01:08:34,933 --> 01:08:37,133
at the three-minute mark. So it can be done. I am strongly

747
01:08:39,267 --> 01:08:42,533
in favor of going to three minutes and asking the audience to think about what you say ahead

748
01:08:43,767 --> 01:08:47,533
of time. And practice the art of brevity. There's nothing restricting people from coming

749
01:08:48,700 --> 01:08:50,367
every meeting if they want to come every meeting. So I'm

750
01:08:54,067 --> 01:08:58,033
also okay with the three minutes. And the purpose of that is that. When we've had the amount

751
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:02,233
of people that come in and we've got ten or more, we get down to three minutes.

752
01:09:04,300 --> 01:09:07,433
and those same people are able to communicate the same way that the people who have had

753
01:09:09,300 --> 01:09:11,467
five minutes. The one concern that I heard that I actually

754
01:09:13,500 --> 01:09:16,833
wanted to investigate further was for someone who? This is their second language. And

755
01:09:18,600 --> 01:09:21,133
by using a translator, we've taken account into that, to being able

756
01:09:22,933 --> 01:09:26,900
to say, if you need a translator to help get your point across, we will make that available to you. And that is very easily

757
01:09:28,267 --> 01:09:30,533
accessible, as long as you let us know ahead of time. I did some research

758
01:09:33,567 --> 01:09:36,100
around all the neighboring areas, plano, prosper, denton, mckinney, they're all

759
01:09:38,100 --> 01:09:41,667
at three minutes already. So, with frisco and the population and the size that we have,

760
01:09:43,133 --> 01:09:46,333
I think it's also respectful to our residents. To do this in an expedient fashion, so

761
01:09:48,167 --> 01:09:51,967
that other people have the opportunity to speak as well. So with that, I am okay with

762
01:09:54,333 --> 01:09:54,333
the three minutes. I guess I'm

763
01:10:00,800 --> 01:10:04,133
going to be the dissenting voice here. If people had come to the work session when we

764
01:10:05,733 --> 01:10:09,300
discussed this. I was against going from five minutes

765
01:10:13,700 --> 01:10:16,733
to three minutes. What makes america the best country, quite frankly,

766
01:10:17,900 --> 01:10:21,533
is that people have the right to speak their mind, as long as

767
01:10:25,300 --> 01:10:28,967
they're not breaking the law. If you look at europe now, that's gone. They don't have that ability anymore. We're

768
01:10:32,633 --> 01:10:33,700
basically the last country that allows that. I don't want

769
01:10:37,300 --> 01:10:41,300
to see that changed. Yes, the last couple of meetings, I

770
01:10:42,533 --> 01:10:44,733
think we broke a record that we had to stay here,

771
01:10:46,933 --> 01:10:46,933
but that's okay. That's okay. I

772
01:10:51,233 --> 01:10:53,133
do get comments from citizens,

773
01:10:56,667 --> 01:11:00,533
and I specifically tell them at the end of our conversation, please, if you have more stuff,

774
01:11:01,733 --> 01:11:03,000
call me back. That's what I'm here for. That's why I got

775
01:11:06,467 --> 01:11:09,433
elected. That's why you elected me, that you can call and tell me, because I don't know what

776
01:11:12,933 --> 01:11:16,200
your problems are until you tell me. And so, yes, am I for efficiency? Absolutely. Some of the things

777
01:11:17,667 --> 01:11:21,533
in the ordinance are good. You know, the electronic part, good. I mean, that's what we're

778
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:24,600
all going to. I went to a play down in dallas, and they didn't

779
01:11:28,833 --> 01:11:31,367
accept a paper ticket. And me, being kind of old school,

780
01:11:34,367 --> 01:11:37,367
we were fumbling around trying to get the app going, but we figured it

781
01:11:39,000 --> 01:11:41,200
out and we got it going. So we need to kind of get in the 21st

782
01:11:43,067 --> 01:11:45,800
century when it comes to some of the stuff, which I think is a good thing.

783
01:11:48,067 --> 01:11:52,000
but I personally want to encourage openness. And I will tell you, I've been

784
01:11:53,433 --> 01:11:56,467
on that side and I'm up here. You get nervous. You're not sure what you're saying. And

785
01:11:58,100 --> 01:12:01,333
five minutes. Is not as much time as you think it is. And so

786
01:12:04,700 --> 01:12:07,233
I think there's also the aspect, we talk about some very

787
01:12:09,167 --> 01:12:11,300
complicated issues at times, not all the time,

788
01:12:13,567 --> 01:12:16,200
but occasionally we do. And five minutes allows someone

789
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:21,367
to articulate that, if they choose. They don't have

790
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:26,567
to go to five minutes. They don't have to. It just allows them the ability if they have

791
01:12:27,433 --> 01:12:31,067
something more to say. What I don't like, though, is when

792
01:12:32,967 --> 01:12:36,633
people, when we ask them to stop, you've got five minutes and they try

793
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:40,733
to abuse that. And that I don't want to happen.

794
01:12:42,933 --> 01:12:45,767
but I think we should stick to the five minutes. I think we should adjust this one item,

795
01:12:49,067 --> 01:12:51,967
table it, and redo the ordinance. And that's what, just this one

796
01:12:54,767 --> 01:12:57,833
item, the five minutes. And I'm for keeping also the

797
01:13:01,333 --> 01:13:05,233
decorum is fine. That can't have banners and stuff like that. We'll go through the other ones. Okay.

798
01:13:06,967 --> 01:13:10,433
all right. But so anyway, I'm for the five minutes. So let's

799
01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:17,800
just be real. Five minutes to three minutes. Doesn't seem

800
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:21,400
like a lot, right? Five minutes to three minutes. We're doing

801
01:13:23,500 --> 01:13:27,100
it administratively. We vote. We do this. We do that. The reality is, how many of you are

802
01:13:30,133 --> 01:13:32,700
professional speakers? Probably not many. Josh, you know why you were on time?

803
01:13:34,867 --> 01:13:36,333
because you ran for office and you know what it's like

804
01:13:38,967 --> 01:13:42,233
to answer something in a minute or two minutes, or three minutes. Most people, you know, to jared's point,

805
01:13:44,133 --> 01:13:47,967
people get nervous. People have issues that they want to talk about. And look, what are we doing

806
01:13:49,667 --> 01:13:51,267
by cutting the public's time by 40 percent to be able to get an idea out? I get it. There are issues and we want

807
01:13:55,167 --> 01:13:57,567
to have efficiencies and we want to have government function

808
01:14:00,167 --> 01:14:03,767
to a point. To get right down to the point. I argue that public input is not meant

809
01:14:05,433 --> 01:14:06,500
to be efficient. It's meant to be representative. That's

810
01:14:10,233 --> 01:14:13,600
it. And everybody, thank you, everybody has a right

811
01:14:17,567 --> 01:14:20,400
to speak, to get up here. And if you can't form your words, you have the right

812
01:14:21,867 --> 01:14:24,367
to come and speak for the five minutes. This argument, oh, we can do better

813
01:14:25,967 --> 01:14:28,533
in frisco. Okay, we are. We are at five minutes. The

814
01:14:30,133 --> 01:14:33,300
comparables that you're using between denton and all these other places, well, does

815
01:14:34,900 --> 01:14:38,333
denton have the safest city? Does denton have the best police force? Does denton have

816
01:14:39,367 --> 01:14:42,433
the greatest city staff? I don't want to be a comparator. I want us to be the paragon

817
01:14:44,233 --> 01:14:46,267
of what should be. And look, a lot of people,

818
01:14:48,433 --> 01:14:51,767
while they might be. Afraid or be perturbed, or this and that

819
01:14:54,100 --> 01:14:56,433
with opinions that don't matter. Guess what? They're words. We saw what whether

820
01:14:59,567 --> 01:15:03,400
or not you agree with charlie kirk, okay? That guy died because he was expressing a

821
01:15:05,067 --> 01:15:08,567
viewpoint. Like, what are we doing here? We should give everybody the right to speak.

822
01:15:10,267 --> 01:15:13,833
and this notion, dear council, this notion that we're going

823
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:20,467
to fix something by going from five minutes to three minutes? Well, guess

824
01:15:21,533 --> 01:15:24,900
what? The other night, when we sat here and we listened to 35 residents speak

825
01:15:26,600 --> 01:15:29,967
about warehouses, if we hadn't, you know, jared and I, we both voted no on it

826
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:35,133
to reduce that time. Maybe if we had listened to all of them for five minutes, maybe some of the council would have actually

827
01:15:38,900 --> 01:15:42,100
heard what their beliefs were and they would have tabled it. You know what? I know what it's like to sit on the other side, too. And I

828
01:15:43,200 --> 01:15:46,867
remember how tough it was for me to get up here and talk about issues. And mr. Mayor, with all due respect, this isn't about campaigning.

829
01:15:48,000 --> 01:15:50,867
this isn't about... This is about affording the citizens a chance to come

830
01:15:52,667 --> 01:15:56,300
in here and say what they need to say. And if somebody wants to come from an hour away, or they want to come

831
01:15:57,700 --> 01:16:01,167
from five minutes away, to use this platform to get something

832
01:16:02,033 --> 01:16:05,467
off their chest, it's their right to do so. And you know what we'll do? We'll sit up here as elected

833
01:16:06,733 --> 01:16:10,200
officials and we'll listen to it. Because that's the american way. So, if you can't

834
01:16:11,333 --> 01:16:15,267
tell, thank you, if you can't tell, I'm firmly against changing it, why fix

835
01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:19,667
something that's not broken? What is the issue that we're trying to solve? And as opposed

836
01:16:21,233 --> 01:16:25,200
to leading from a place of love, why are we approaching this from a place of fear that we call government efficiency?

837
01:16:26,900 --> 01:16:30,633
sorry. I got a little passionate. I just want to clarify the last two council

838
01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:35,700
members' remarks because I think people may be misled that

839
01:16:36,800 --> 01:16:40,367
council is restricting content or speech, which we're not. So that was off the table

840
01:16:41,533 --> 01:16:45,467
immediately when council had these discussions, so people will be free

841
01:16:47,333 --> 01:16:51,267
to come and address this. Mr. Mayor, that's not what I said. I said, I'm against limiting five minutes

842
01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:56,967
to three minutes. Understood what you said. Thank you. Thank you. But I think people could have inferred both of your remarks separately that we

843
01:16:58,500 --> 01:17:02,033
were restricting. Okay, so to anybody listening, that is not what I'm saying. I'm saying I'm against limiting it

844
01:17:03,500 --> 01:17:06,767
from five minutes to three minutes. There's no inference. Okay. Speaker represent registration

845
01:17:07,600 --> 01:17:11,167
procedures. City staff, you've been working on electronic registration. You want to give council kind

846
01:17:12,967 --> 01:17:16,100
of an update on that? Yes, we continue to work on those, and a lot of that

847
01:17:17,467 --> 01:17:20,833
is just based on what is decided here tonight, what we make available. We are

848
01:17:23,167 --> 01:17:26,333
mirroring other surrounding cities that have done this and it is a way to make the process

849
01:17:28,500 --> 01:17:31,933
more efficient. And quite frankly, I mean, when you have these blue cards,

850
01:17:33,433 --> 01:17:36,567
it is incredibly difficult to read people's handwriting. I don't know how many people are

851
01:17:37,867 --> 01:17:41,600
writing letters these days, but if you see what we see, most of the time it's

852
01:17:42,567 --> 01:17:46,500
not legible. And it makes it difficult for staff and for you as a council to even see what it is that they're

853
01:17:48,267 --> 01:17:52,267
even writing on their form. A lot of times they leave email addresses that say, hey, I want

854
01:17:53,667 --> 01:17:56,733
to be contacted, and they say, hey, contact me. And staff is sitting there trying

855
01:17:58,500 --> 01:18:01,500
to distinguish what in the world is their email address so that we can contact them. And

856
01:18:03,133 --> 01:18:06,033
so I feel like this is just a more modern way and an efficient way

857
01:18:07,800 --> 01:18:10,567
to have people register, to speak. And it gets it electronically so that we can

858
01:18:11,967 --> 01:18:15,933
be able to get through them and read them and note the record more easily. But yes,

859
01:18:17,433 --> 01:18:21,333
that process is ongoing with our it team. And we had talked during our work

860
01:18:23,367 --> 01:18:27,233
session about, you know, even having a qr code kind of here on site, so, you know, people that kind of came here

861
01:18:29,267 --> 01:18:32,067
would be easily accessible. And the process would be pretty easy, just a form would come up

862
01:18:33,433 --> 01:18:36,900
and they would fill it out and it would get routed to you somehow. I don't know

863
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:41,267
about the qr code yet, but yes, we're still working on the basics of the form right now

864
01:18:42,267 --> 01:18:45,567
with the it plan. You know, hearing some of the comments tonight, you know, kind

865
01:18:46,567 --> 01:18:48,933
of a fair compromise, maybe that kind of came

866
01:18:51,700 --> 01:18:55,000
to mind, which is I would say, being the person who's had to run these meetings

867
01:18:56,233 --> 01:18:59,867
for nine years, it is nice to know. Kind of where citizen input is coming to the agenda,

868
01:19:00,700 --> 01:19:04,067
so you can adjust the agenda to get our citizens out the door and home quicker. I think to the point, excuse me, sir.

869
01:19:07,067 --> 01:19:10,433
if you have one more outburst, you're going to be asked to be removed. Do you

870
01:19:12,100 --> 01:19:14,267
understand? Thank you. Is everyone who is there

871
01:19:18,167 --> 01:19:22,033
for an agenda item, they'll typically register and say they don't want to speak, you know,

872
01:19:24,033 --> 01:19:26,900
but they want their comment known? I think it's reasonable

873
01:19:28,167 --> 01:19:31,367
that if someone has at least registered a comment card or an opinion card on the site saying,

874
01:19:34,367 --> 01:19:35,800
this is how I feel about this item, should they change

875
01:19:39,500 --> 01:19:42,567
their mind during the meeting and want to speak, but they've registered, that could potentially be something

876
01:19:43,667 --> 01:19:46,033
that council could do. Consider to some of our speakers points.

877
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:49,800
but my question was, what was the cutoff time for that? 5 p.m. And

878
01:19:54,067 --> 01:19:57,900
but when will they first be able to file, or to submit it online? And to clarify, sorry, 5 p.m.

879
01:19:59,433 --> 01:20:02,833
on the day of the council meeting, right? So how long? So that? I mean, we're not going to start

880
01:20:04,533 --> 01:20:07,500
at 8 a.m that day. They'll have. So as soon as the agenda is posted,

881
01:20:08,900 --> 01:20:12,533
we will open up those forms for people to register. Which, how many days is that now? That is now three business

882
01:20:13,633 --> 01:20:16,267
days prior to the meeting. So it's three business days prior. So they'll,

883
01:20:18,700 --> 01:20:21,400
given that our meetings are on tuesday, they'll have to have a weekend as well. So

884
01:20:23,833 --> 01:20:27,767
they'll have, yes. So they'll have plenty of time to do it. Correct. Almost a week in some cases. Well, I am

885
01:20:29,300 --> 01:20:33,100
normally resistant to all things technology. I personally,

886
01:20:34,533 --> 01:20:37,067
I don't have a problem with that. If we give them five days to if they have five

887
01:20:38,833 --> 01:20:42,067
days, a minimum of five days to do it and we advertise it, I like the idea

888
01:20:43,400 --> 01:20:46,700
of putting the link in the agenda. As long as we advertise it and let people

889
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:51,400
know how we're doing it. And not just switch one meeting where everybody shows up and they can't talk,

890
01:20:52,333 --> 01:20:55,900
but advertise, hey, as a effect of this date, it's going to switch to this. I think that's,

891
01:20:57,333 --> 01:21:00,867
unfortunately, that's just the way everything's going. And as we get more and more people speaking, I think it's

892
01:21:01,967 --> 01:21:04,900
for the staff and for the record keeping, and for the communication. I actually,

893
01:21:11,867 --> 01:21:15,100
I believe that going electronic is really good. I know it helps with record-keeping,

894
01:21:16,133 --> 01:21:18,967
which is important and paramount to the city. But I could also see individuals

895
01:21:22,700 --> 01:21:25,233
coming in to counsel on the night of and wanting

896
01:21:27,300 --> 01:21:31,067
to make a comment. And regardless, we're going to have to communicate this

897
01:21:33,500 --> 01:21:36,967
very strongly to citizens to let them know what going on, but I would almost encourage a

898
01:21:37,667 --> 01:21:41,433
more phased approach to going. Like, not fully electronic, but gradually phasing

899
01:21:43,200 --> 01:21:46,967
out blue cards, or even leaving people the opportunity to use the blue cards going forward,

900
01:21:48,500 --> 01:21:51,700
but encourage everyone to use the qr code and use the electronic form as a way

901
01:21:54,567 --> 01:21:54,567
to keep that avenue

902
01:22:00,567 --> 01:22:03,533
of communication open. I'm in total agreement with going to the electronic option of pre registering and getting the

903
01:22:06,700 --> 01:22:09,967
blue cards out ahead of time. I would ask, though, if there's like a five day minimum. Three

904
01:22:11,667 --> 01:22:15,267
days feels a little short, so I don't know what our options are when it comes to posting the agenda,

905
01:22:17,000 --> 01:22:20,600
but I would love to be able to do that and have at least so it always be

906
01:22:21,733 --> 01:22:24,900
at least five days, because if you think about it, it's three business days and that does not include

907
01:22:26,267 --> 01:22:28,633
holidays. So typically, we are posting on either a tuesday or a wednesday

908
01:22:30,600 --> 01:22:32,900
before the actual council meeting. So you typically have a full week, no less than six

909
01:22:36,033 --> 01:22:39,600
days, not business, but just six days

910
01:22:40,767 --> 01:22:43,933
to get that agenda, to get signed up. Okay. I am in full support. That is

911
01:22:45,767 --> 01:22:48,333
accurate. That is just one addition. If we had a special call meeting that didn't cross

912
01:22:50,867 --> 01:22:54,133
over a weekend, then we would still just have the three

913
01:22:55,567 --> 01:22:59,267
business days. So, for example, if we had a friday meeting for whatever reason. We posted

914
01:23:00,667 --> 01:23:04,500
the agenda on tuesday, or whatever the requirement would be. Yeah, it would be the, no,

915
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:08,733
so it would be friday, so monday. Monday, so that would

916
01:23:11,833 --> 01:23:14,900
be, so you wouldn't have the weekend in the case of a special called meeting.

917
01:23:16,667 --> 01:23:20,233
but for any normally scheduled city council meeting, what christy explained would apply.

918
01:23:22,367 --> 01:23:22,367
and, to ann's point, I think

919
01:23:26,633 --> 01:23:29,533
anything that the council decides to change, there's probably going to be a grace

920
01:23:31,333 --> 01:23:35,233
period and a rollout period where we extend some grace for people who don't know the new

921
01:23:36,333 --> 01:23:39,033
rules. So I'm sure that would be part of just our process. And plus, staff still has

922
01:23:40,700 --> 01:23:44,500
to get this up and running, and we probably were going to test it. So it will probably

923
01:23:45,833 --> 01:23:48,800
be a more phased approach anyway, for the registration, at least. I'm also in support

924
01:23:51,800 --> 01:23:55,200
of having a transition plan, of moving us into the new thing, but as somebody who has to read

925
01:23:57,400 --> 01:24:00,900
the names and has a very hard time trying to read them, I am in full support

926
01:24:03,067 --> 01:24:06,533
of giving people more time. To be able to register where you're not having

927
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:10,600
to rush up here just to fill out a blue card and turn it in. You can do it days in advance.

928
01:24:12,367 --> 01:24:14,700
but then also, it makes it a lot easier for staff, and selfishly also

929
01:24:16,467 --> 01:24:19,733
for me, to be able to call your name appropriately. When it's time to have you come to the

930
01:24:22,033 --> 01:24:25,533
podium. I personally think we should, I like the electronic

931
01:24:29,233 --> 01:24:31,433
because my kids are whizzes on that stuff and they're great

932
01:24:36,133 --> 01:24:39,733
at it. But I'm kind of old school, my wife will tell you. I think we should keep the blue cards

933
01:24:41,033 --> 01:24:44,133
for people that struggle with that kind of stuff. But I definitely don't want

934
01:24:45,600 --> 01:24:48,800
to do the cutoff at 5 o'clock. Because people are rushing here from work, I get it. You know,

935
01:24:50,467 --> 01:24:53,933
traffic is really harsh now. In the city of frisco, not just

936
01:24:55,933 --> 01:24:58,533
the city of frisco, the whole north, actually all of dallas, fort worth. I can't

937
01:25:00,433 --> 01:25:03,367
name a city that doesn't have traffic. So I think we should,

938
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:08,100
I think the cutoff should be, you know, once the meeting

939
01:25:11,167 --> 01:25:14,000
starts, we start at 7, I say, give it an extra 30 minute.

940
01:25:18,833 --> 01:25:22,000
grace, 7.30. I want to make sure that anybody that comes here wants to sign up and talk, they can do it, and that's good for them. And so, I'm all

941
01:25:27,633 --> 01:25:30,433
for the electronic. I know, christy, you had mentioned that. I asked you, well, how

942
01:25:32,133 --> 01:25:34,967
quickly, if someone does the electronic, does it get to you? And you were like,

943
01:25:37,667 --> 01:25:40,700
well, I'm not sure yet. And that may take 30 minutes. I don't know. Sometimes I get stuff that I submit electronic, doesn't come in right away. So

944
01:25:41,833 --> 01:25:41,833
until we get that perfected,

945
01:25:46,433 --> 01:25:47,467
that it's instantaneous. But I know some older people,

946
01:25:51,033 --> 01:25:53,700
they struggle with the electronic stuff. So I'm for keep for

947
01:25:55,500 --> 01:25:57,133
introducing the electronic, but also keeping the paper.

948
01:25:59,833 --> 01:26:01,800
but at least I'm for maybe a cut off at 7, 30, 30 minutes

949
01:26:07,700 --> 01:26:10,533
after the meeting starts. Well, you all know which way I'm gonna go. Uh, look,

950
01:26:12,967 --> 01:26:16,800
electronically, covet taught us how to use these to read a menu. So I don't

951
01:26:18,167 --> 01:26:20,000
think it's gonna be that tough for anybody to go figure

952
01:26:22,733 --> 01:26:25,933
out electronic stuff and look. Anything that increases efficiency and lowers level

953
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:30,167
of effort on four from an engineering perspective, right? However, what mark and

954
01:26:32,833 --> 01:26:36,600
shauna and what josh said really holds sway, because it reminds me also. I've sat there

955
01:26:37,867 --> 01:26:39,767
right where you are, sir, and I've been inspired

956
01:26:42,167 --> 01:26:45,667
to speak because of what somebody else said before me. How do I know

957
01:26:46,900 --> 01:26:48,900
sometimes what I'm going to say? Or even if I have the courage. To speak until I hear

958
01:26:51,300 --> 01:26:53,333
somebody else speak. This is, yes, it is a function

959
01:26:56,367 --> 01:26:59,767
of government to talk about the agenda items and this and that, but as far as having a cutoff.

960
01:27:01,233 --> 01:27:04,567
for people to have the right to speak, to have the right to be able to get their voices heard,

961
01:27:05,800 --> 01:27:05,800
that is paramount. Mr. Mayor,

962
01:27:12,200 --> 01:27:13,233
please. So, to that end, what I would respectfully request.

963
01:27:17,433 --> 01:27:20,733
the council to do is to table this again. There's an old adage that's, if it ain't

964
01:27:22,467 --> 01:27:25,700
broke, don't fix it. And the system, the system isn't broken.

965
01:27:26,967 --> 01:27:29,400
what we can do is we can optimize it with engineering controls,

966
01:27:31,233 --> 01:27:33,867
but let's not have a cutoff. This is nonsensical. Okay. The third item was placement

967
01:27:35,833 --> 01:27:39,300
on citizen input on the council agenda. You

968
01:27:39,933 --> 01:27:39,933
know, and again,

969
01:27:46,933 --> 01:27:49,233
this is choosing to who are you going to prioritize

970
01:27:52,100 --> 01:27:54,833
for people who come to speak? So tonight we prioritized people that were speaking

971
01:27:57,400 --> 01:27:59,900
on an agenda item. Last meeting, we prioritized

972
01:28:02,233 --> 01:28:05,033
residents that came to speak during non-agenda items, while 35 people that were waiting for

973
01:28:07,700 --> 01:28:10,567
an actual city business item waited to get through that. My personal take on this one,

974
01:28:12,633 --> 01:28:15,533
after thinking over it the last couple weeks, is I personally don't think

975
01:28:17,767 --> 01:28:21,467
this needs to be defined. You know, I think that, you know,

976
01:28:25,400 --> 01:28:28,733
the mayor runs the meetings per the city charter, and we've kind of moved citizen input

977
01:28:30,867 --> 01:28:33,500
over the years, just depending on where we were in the agenda. And so one

978
01:28:35,700 --> 01:28:39,200
of the benefits of having an electronic system is that, you know, the future mayor that

979
01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:42,867
would be running these meetings will know that if there's agenda item 27 that has five

980
01:28:45,267 --> 01:28:47,700
people waiting to speak that they can prioritize that agenda item. So my personal

981
01:28:49,800 --> 01:28:53,700
belief is that when the mayor is planning to run the meeting, you know, after reflection over these

982
01:28:55,933 --> 01:28:58,733
last couple meetings, is. The mayor should prioritize all

983
01:29:00,733 --> 01:29:04,300
items with citizen input, but giving a higher priority to agenda items

984
01:29:05,500 --> 01:29:09,333
with citizen input first. And so that's usually how we build our agendas. When we move to the agenda,

985
01:29:10,467 --> 01:29:12,367
to the regular agenda, if we typically know or think that

986
01:29:18,900 --> 01:29:22,900
people will be showing up to speak on an item, we tend to move that up higher in the agenda, knowing to get them out. So I don't

987
01:29:24,233 --> 01:29:26,800
know that it has to specifically be defined per ordinance,

988
01:29:28,533 --> 01:29:31,233
as far as where it is in the agenda. I think it can be part

989
01:29:32,633 --> 01:29:35,067
of a city charter mayor discretion, depending on what

990
01:29:38,133 --> 01:29:42,067
that night looks like. I'm actually okay with that. Yeah, that's, I don't know how you document that, but I guess just mayor's

991
01:29:42,933 --> 01:29:46,267
discretion. But yeah, I mean, my whole point is, I want to be able to get through the business

992
01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:49,033
of the city and the business of the citizens and get

993
01:29:51,833 --> 01:29:54,467
through that. And do it in a timely manner so that those that show up to participate

994
01:29:56,500 --> 01:30:00,133
in that can do it. Respect the people that come to speak on other things,

995
01:30:01,067 --> 01:30:04,767
and your point's valid of how do you manage that? When there could be. Three

996
01:30:07,500 --> 01:30:11,433
people for an agenda item and 150 people for a non agenda item, so I'm fine with the mayor's discretion. I think that gets

997
01:30:12,333 --> 01:30:15,100
us to achieve our goal without having to create unforced errors in how you document it,

998
01:30:16,500 --> 01:30:16,500
so I'm fine with that. I agree.

999
01:30:23,000 --> 01:30:26,667
I think that having the ability to move the citizen input

1000
01:30:28,033 --> 01:30:30,200
around, I think at the end of the day, we want our residents

1001
01:30:33,233 --> 01:30:36,700
to be able to speak and to get to city business. And I heard that in the public comments.

1002
01:30:38,800 --> 01:30:42,367
council meetings are about city business. They're about listening to the residents, and we want to also ensure that we have

1003
01:30:43,167 --> 01:30:45,933
public trust in council's ability to listen and hear what's being said. So

1004
01:30:47,733 --> 01:30:50,700
I like the idea that it doesn't necessarily get pushed to the end of the meeting,

1005
01:30:51,867 --> 01:30:55,567
that you have the discretion, jeff, but also, I'd like to reiterate that I think even

1006
01:30:57,267 --> 01:31:00,533
with the electronic system, that we have the ability for people to use the blue cards still.

1007
01:31:02,767 --> 01:31:06,633
maybe just gradually phase it all out. I think meetings have an agenda for a reason, and the agenda is

1008
01:31:07,533 --> 01:31:07,533
to keep people focused. And to

1009
01:31:14,100 --> 01:31:17,133
ensure that you are covering what you set out to accomplish at the onset of a meeting. And with that, I think,

1010
01:31:18,433 --> 01:31:22,400
to mayor's point, having residents who have comments on

1011
01:31:25,133 --> 01:31:28,967
the agenda should be prioritized. And however we do that, whether it's

1012
01:31:30,033 --> 01:31:33,433
I'm putting in governance around that. In terms of the timing that they speak

1013
01:31:35,433 --> 01:31:38,200
on the agenda, or whether it's up to the mayor to make that decision. I'm fine, either way,

1014
01:31:40,300 --> 01:31:43,367
but I do want to prioritize those who are speaking on the agenda because that is the

1015
01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:45,000
business of the city. Yeah, we

1016
01:31:49,900 --> 01:31:52,733
had quite a bit of discussion of whether or not this was going to stay where it is. Or

1017
01:31:54,000 --> 01:31:57,733
it was going to go to the end of the meeting. And it could probably be a very valid argument, either way.

1018
01:31:58,967 --> 01:32:02,200
but I do think the in the interest of the city, we want to do what's best

1019
01:32:04,100 --> 01:32:07,367
for our residents specifically. So I'm fine with the mayor's discretion,

1020
01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:12,600
knowing that the mayor will do what's best for the residents. For citizen input, I agree. I

1021
01:32:13,933 --> 01:32:17,633
think we need the agenda items first, but we can do the agenda items first and then do the non-agenda behind it and then

1022
01:32:18,833 --> 01:32:22,700
get on with the meeting. I do want to hear the agenda stuff first. I think that's

1023
01:32:23,933 --> 01:32:27,167
important because that's what most of the meeting is about, typically. But I don't think it

1024
01:32:28,900 --> 01:32:30,800
should be put at the end of the meeting. I disagree

1025
01:32:33,233 --> 01:32:36,667
with that too, because the meetings sometimes drag

1026
01:32:38,733 --> 01:32:41,167
on and if people come to speak. Most

1027
01:32:43,200 --> 01:32:47,000
of these meetings, these items, I mean, people wanting to speak is not that long. And

1028
01:32:48,900 --> 01:32:48,900
so there's been times, yes,

1029
01:32:53,567 --> 01:32:57,067
but for most of the time that I've been doing this, it's pretty short. I'm

1030
01:32:59,567 --> 01:33:02,633
with keeping citizen input at the same spot, but I don't mind the agenda item first,

1031
01:33:04,333 --> 01:33:07,800
but then the non agenda right behind it, but at the same time. And for me,

1032
01:33:10,567 --> 01:33:13,433
I'm for it because it's another law that we don't have to put on the books. So if it ain't

1033
01:33:15,200 --> 01:33:18,033
broke, don't fix it. We'll leave it up to the mayor. So I'm good with that. I think I

1034
01:33:21,400 --> 01:33:22,233
heard consensus on that one. Okay, and rules of decorum,

1035
01:33:26,033 --> 01:33:27,933
this is how we. This is a simple, essentially codifying

1036
01:33:30,467 --> 01:33:34,067
how we've operated in the past, you know, as a city, but actually making it

1037
01:33:36,233 --> 01:33:40,000
something more enforceable. Any comments or turns on on this item? Okay, so that's,

1038
01:33:43,433 --> 01:33:45,533
that's all the items. I heard consensus on decorum,

1039
01:33:47,567 --> 01:33:48,967
I heard consent. We're going to change, you know,

1040
01:33:51,600 --> 01:33:55,533
this paragraph is far as the agenda, so I guess we won't have a physical change.

1041
01:33:58,100 --> 01:34:02,033
but whether we want to codify, sound like there's consensus.

1042
01:34:03,233 --> 01:34:04,967
to prioritize agenda items, citizen input yeah, sorry,

1043
01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:09,400
I didn't know my mic was. Prioritize citizen input

1044
01:34:14,700 --> 01:34:17,000
in general, but here agenda items first,

1045
01:34:18,900 --> 01:34:22,433
I think is a good way to summarize that. We're going to the cards. I heard, I'm not

1046
01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:28,467
sure, maybe I'm 100% solid on the majority of this one. I heard a majority saying fine

1047
01:34:29,967 --> 01:34:33,467
going to the electronic system, having some type of rollout period

1048
01:34:34,900 --> 01:34:38,333
in education, but ann, you may have been the one that differed, that said, wanted to keep blue cards. I wanted

1049
01:34:40,667 --> 01:34:42,633
to keep it, too. Yeah. Mayor, so when we wrote the ordinance,

1050
01:34:46,167 --> 01:34:49,267
we were trying to create alternatives for sign-up. So one thing we

1051
01:34:50,833 --> 01:34:54,767
discussed was have electronic sign-up, potentially have a phone number or email where

1052
01:34:58,733 --> 01:35:02,667
people could call if they were having trouble electronically. And if it didn't work,

1053
01:35:03,833 --> 01:35:07,400
then we would figure out something like a blue card or some other method

1054
01:35:09,200 --> 01:35:11,733
to sign up. So we weren't limited to electronic sign-up. The goal was

1055
01:35:13,700 --> 01:35:17,633
to get as many as we could, but if there's somebody who just can't do it, then we're going to do everything we can

1056
01:35:18,933 --> 01:35:21,900
to accommodate that person, to be able to speak. Okay, that's a good, that's a good,

1057
01:35:23,133 --> 01:35:27,000
helpful distinction. Thank you. Yeah, so to distinguish that, what we do with pirs, pirs are already online,

1058
01:35:28,033 --> 01:35:31,167
but if someone wants to come in and submit a pir in writing, we facilitate that in our office. Like, if they

1059
01:35:32,833 --> 01:35:35,867
can't manage the computer, they can't do any of that. We're already doing that. We would just extend that same

1060
01:35:37,333 --> 01:35:40,100
service to people being able to come into our office and complete a blue card, and we

1061
01:35:41,967 --> 01:35:43,633
will get that entered electronically for them. All

1062
01:35:46,433 --> 01:35:49,767
I'm saying is, I don't think you need to change the ordinance. I think it was baked in there. Got it.

1063
01:35:51,967 --> 01:35:54,833
thank you for that. And then the final, I did hear majority

1064
01:35:56,667 --> 01:35:58,733
of going from the five to the three minutes. So.

1065
01:36:02,633 --> 01:36:05,500
council, I'll look for mr. Mayor, before you say that, can I ask something? Sure.

1066
01:36:06,833 --> 01:36:08,467
given that, you know, I think you said something, and

1067
01:36:11,133 --> 01:36:14,600
I think I stand a good chance of being done before you, without a runoff, and then you.

1068
01:36:17,933 --> 01:36:21,367
I would like to, unless there's opposition to this, I

1069
01:36:22,633 --> 01:36:25,233
like what we're doing. We're trying to become efficient.

1070
01:36:27,700 --> 01:36:30,633
we're trying to add some structure as we get bigger and have more issues and have more

1071
01:36:32,067 --> 01:36:34,567
people come here. I think that's important. I think I brought that up

1072
01:36:37,800 --> 01:36:41,767
on other things, just about our rules of procedure and previous things about making motions. I'm all for structure.

1073
01:36:42,767 --> 01:36:46,733
I personally, while I am for the most of them, of these changes, and you summarize my views great, I personally would like to table it and just have some

1074
01:36:47,933 --> 01:36:51,833
more time to think about it. Because we are impacting our citizens' ability to come speak to us. And I'd

1075
01:36:53,133 --> 01:36:56,833
rather just take another look at it, think about it some more, and just before we start

1076
01:36:58,167 --> 01:37:01,233
making changes, make sure we're getting it right and not. Not rushing into something,

1077
01:37:02,300 --> 01:37:05,067
I know that's extra staff time, but I feel like there was

1078
01:37:06,467 --> 01:37:08,233
enough questions and minor differences that it might not

1079
01:37:10,567 --> 01:37:13,167
hurt. Just to take one more look at it and push it. But that's just my

1080
01:37:14,933 --> 01:37:18,267
well, it would come before us one final time, right? Or no? We could make it

1081
01:37:19,600 --> 01:37:22,233
come before the council. You're going to either have to write the ordinance tonight

1082
01:37:24,033 --> 01:37:27,700
with the changes in it, or you're going to have to come back. So you'll bring it back with the revised

1083
01:37:28,833 --> 01:37:30,333
changes anyway? Yes, sir. Okay, except I'm not clear on

1084
01:37:32,933 --> 01:37:35,767
the revised changes. I'm not either. I'm not even sure. Some of the stuff I said, you

1085
01:37:38,433 --> 01:37:39,800
know, I was kind of going back and forth and waffling. I would

1086
01:37:42,500 --> 01:37:43,867
just, this is important. It's not only important about how it

1087
01:37:46,567 --> 01:37:50,100
looks from the citizens, how it looks at what we're doing. I just want to make sure we get it right,

1088
01:37:51,400 --> 01:37:53,467
especially since.I'm not going to be up here. Probably when it becomes effective. I just want

1089
01:37:56,433 --> 01:37:59,633
to make sure we get it right. I don't have a problem with it. I'm not as passionate about burt. Thinking that, you know, losing two minutes of your

1090
01:38:00,533 --> 01:38:02,800
time to speak is violating your first amendment, right? Didn't say that. But I don't want

1091
01:38:06,333 --> 01:38:10,100
to rush into it, and I'd rather just sit and take another look at it. So to give, I guess,

1092
01:38:12,600 --> 01:38:15,733
direction, you said you're not clear. I think the only change would be the third item,

1093
01:38:17,100 --> 01:38:19,100
the placement on the city. Yes. Well, thank you, ken, but

1094
01:38:21,333 --> 01:38:24,467
I heard some things that were unresolved. So let me, if I may, just real quick. The

1095
01:38:25,667 --> 01:38:28,933
quorum is good. Everybody, I think I'm clear that everybody wants to leave it to the discretion of the mayor

1096
01:38:31,100 --> 01:38:33,167
for the non-agenda comment period. So that's,

1097
01:38:35,367 --> 01:38:38,267
I'm clear there. Bert said something about no cutoff time.

1098
01:38:39,933 --> 01:38:43,800
does anybody support that from the council? Yeah, so no, you can sign up whenever you

1099
01:38:45,100 --> 01:38:47,533
want. Oh. That's one that I'm not sure when I want the cutoff

1100
01:38:49,233 --> 01:38:52,800
time to be, honestly. Five o'clock. I do hear the thought of I'm sitting there and I want

1101
01:38:55,200 --> 01:38:56,233
to say something, but I also don't want. Just all

1102
01:38:59,233 --> 01:39:02,600
night, you know, three in the morning, people just walking up with cars at the last second.

1103
01:39:04,000 --> 01:39:06,600
to start talking about all sorts of things that we've seen,

1104
01:39:08,133 --> 01:39:11,633
some, you know, crazy stuff. But I do want a cutoff. I'm not sure it's five o'clock. So we

1105
01:39:14,000 --> 01:39:17,933
need to get an direction on that. Yeah. Because, frankly, chrissy can talk to the mechanics of that,

1106
01:39:18,767 --> 01:39:22,633
because at 5 o'clock she's up in our office taking notes in executive session. And then

1107
01:39:23,900 --> 01:39:26,600
back at 6.30, trying to get the meeting started. So if it's 5 o'clock,

1108
01:39:28,233 --> 01:39:30,933
they can prep in advance. Is, I think, why you came up with that. Yes. And, honestly,

1109
01:39:32,267 --> 01:39:34,600
5 o'clock is the latest of any surrounding city. Some

1110
01:39:36,467 --> 01:39:39,900
require them the day before, so like monday. Others require it to be done by noon. I found one that allowed it to be by 4

1111
01:39:42,533 --> 01:39:45,000
o'clock if the meeting started at 630. And so it does,

1112
01:39:50,433 --> 01:39:53,433
it does complicate things to be able to gather all that information and get it

1113
01:39:55,733 --> 01:39:59,533
transferred to all of you and in an efficient manner. Just because we're already

1114
01:40:01,300 --> 01:40:04,167
in a meeting at the time. So I, you know, we're already double-duty at that point.

1115
01:40:08,367 --> 01:40:11,500
so while it's not impossible, I would just say that it just,

1116
01:40:14,467 --> 01:40:17,467
it does complicate things. I guess if we do five, sorry. Okay. If we do by five o'clock,

1117
01:40:19,000 --> 01:40:22,467
but we leave the blue cards open until later, or something like that. I like that idea.

1118
01:40:23,533 --> 01:40:27,000
but that's another thing that needs to be correct. I just would like another, I mean, I don't know. No, that's fine.

1119
01:40:28,767 --> 01:40:31,667
I just, I just personally don't, I like the way we're

1120
01:40:33,133 --> 01:40:36,533
going. I like adding structure. I just don't personally I see the need to. And I just need clarity so

1121
01:40:37,567 --> 01:40:38,667
we can write the ordinance the right way. Right. That's all.

1122
01:40:43,167 --> 01:40:46,600
so if we're going to do a mix of blue cards and electronic,

1123
01:40:47,233 --> 01:40:51,000
the potential issue there is that nobody is going to use the electronics. We're

1124
01:40:52,133 --> 01:40:55,900
just doing blue cards, and we're not solving the issue. That's fair. And then if you're

1125
01:40:57,067 --> 01:41:00,667
trying to prioritize timing and meetings, like right now, most of the speakers,

1126
01:41:02,100 --> 01:41:04,833
they just fill the blue card. Because that's the way. They've always done it.

1127
01:41:06,467 --> 01:41:07,667
right. Right? But we've got quite a few people that want

1128
01:41:11,733 --> 01:41:15,733
to speak during citizen input that probably would have gladly filed online yesterday or today at 430. And I'm not trying to be difficult. I just want

1129
01:41:16,800 --> 01:41:19,867
to make sure we get it right. Yeah. That's where I'm coming from, and I feel like there's been enough nuances

1130
01:41:21,133 --> 01:41:25,000
between what everybody said, that the smart thing to do or not. My opinion about the smart thing

1131
01:41:26,233 --> 01:41:28,400
to do would be to take another look at it. Just pause. I definitely concur

1132
01:41:30,467 --> 01:41:32,533
with brian. That's brian. Weed. What? Livingston, sorry.

1133
01:41:36,967 --> 01:41:40,100
livingston, sorry. Yeah, definitely, I'm for progress using electronic.

1134
01:41:41,667 --> 01:41:45,367
we need to keep the paper. I'm for opening it up, no time

1135
01:41:46,767 --> 01:41:46,767
limit, because,

1136
01:41:51,567 --> 01:41:54,900
like councilman thacker said, someone may get it may get moved and say they want

1137
01:41:56,333 --> 01:41:59,767
to speak and, you know, they're trying to fumble with their phone and stuff.

1138
01:42:01,533 --> 01:42:05,033
and the blue card allows them to do it real quickly and give it to christy. Because I've

1139
01:42:06,333 --> 01:42:10,233
seen people, you know, come up after the meeting has started and handing in a blue card.

1140
01:42:12,467 --> 01:42:14,733
I've seen it more times than not that happens. So, again,

1141
01:42:17,533 --> 01:42:20,867
I want to give people an opportunity. If they're running late or they're not sure,

1142
01:42:22,200 --> 01:42:25,067
and then they decide they want to speak. Let him do it. So I want to keep the time limit

1143
01:42:26,367 --> 01:42:29,433
open. All right, well, to move us along. I think there's enough support, maybe, to table it and

1144
01:42:31,033 --> 01:42:34,667
have another bite at the apple. Um, give staff time to finalize some of the changes they heard tonight and

1145
01:42:35,900 --> 01:42:38,400
then take final action at our next meeting. Make a motion to no. Mayor, sorry,

1146
01:42:40,133 --> 01:42:43,100
you still got more items? I mean, I don't I'm hearing

1147
01:42:44,500 --> 01:42:47,633
what, what jared is saying, but I've not heard consensus from the council. I don't so what do you want

1148
01:42:49,267 --> 01:42:51,500
us to write? That's what I'm saying. So if we want to come

1149
01:42:53,300 --> 01:42:57,000
back and talk about this in another work session, I'd like us to each send you, can

1150
01:42:57,800 --> 01:43:01,133
we send you our comments and thoughts after the meeting tonight? Well, we need to give clear direction

1151
01:43:01,867 --> 01:43:04,767
for what they're supposed to be doing, and they need to know that they have a consensus of counsel. And so this is my

1152
01:43:06,400 --> 01:43:08,500
birthday. I'd love to go home. Yeah, I bet. So I'm

1153
01:43:10,467 --> 01:43:13,433
not trying to be difficult. I just need direction. I'm not trying to be difficult either. I just want to make sure we get

1154
01:43:14,800 --> 01:43:18,200
it right. I agree. I would say that let's bring it back to another work session to have another conversation. Because,

1155
01:43:19,133 --> 01:43:23,133
one, for efficiency. For this evening, we can send you all our thoughts of considerations.

1156
01:43:24,267 --> 01:43:27,533
you can understand where each of us are coming from. But then ultimately we can come back,

1157
01:43:28,733 --> 01:43:32,600
have a conversation, another debate in another setting where you can go enjoy

1158
01:43:33,800 --> 01:43:35,767
your birthday cake. Well, I mean, every time we do a work

1159
01:43:37,933 --> 01:43:41,000
session, that's, I mean, I think we could handle that at a council meeting. I mean,

1160
01:43:42,133 --> 01:43:46,067
I think really, kind of the only item that's maybe I'm hearing not a majority

1161
01:43:47,200 --> 01:43:50,167
comfortable. Is this cutoff time, right? And so cutoff

1162
01:43:56,667 --> 01:43:58,800
time and whether or not we keep the blue cards or not. Right. Yeah, I think that's kind

1163
01:44:00,867 --> 01:44:03,800
of together with it. Now, the city attorney's already said we'll do blue cards if people cannot figure out. Like, we're

1164
01:44:04,900 --> 01:44:08,300
going to accommodate a registration process, right? We're trying to point people to the electronic. We're trying

1165
01:44:09,400 --> 01:44:12,200
to train. That's the way to do it. That's the easiest way to do it. You know,

1166
01:44:14,900 --> 01:44:17,867
but if we're going to accommodate other ways, so that's already baked

1167
01:44:19,367 --> 01:44:22,267
into it. So, really, it comes down to the cutoff time, right? So just for my clarity,

1168
01:44:24,367 --> 01:44:27,967
so the purpose of sending this back is not to discuss lowering this from five minutes to three minutes, but only

1169
01:44:29,967 --> 01:44:32,833
about the cutoff time and also whether or not we're going

1170
01:44:35,133 --> 01:44:38,633
fully electronic. That's it. Council can talk about anything they want if it comes back. I

1171
01:44:39,867 --> 01:44:43,200
think the time can change their mind. Yeah, is to postpone it, to think about it more. That's what I'm

1172
01:44:46,133 --> 01:44:49,700
asking. That's a great idea. I third that. Okay. I will take that as a motion by brian

1173
01:44:51,000 --> 01:44:52,833
to table to the following council meeting. I'm trying

1174
01:44:55,333 --> 01:44:55,333
to give direction. Second. It

1175
01:45:02,933 --> 01:45:05,333
sounds like the only change council will be expecting you

1176
01:45:07,033 --> 01:45:10,567
is maybe the third item. We may still have some discussion on the others. Council, I mean,

1177
01:45:13,033 --> 01:45:15,833
the third item means the non-agenda can go wherever you want it to go? It's basically

1178
01:45:17,433 --> 01:45:21,033
going to stay how it is. It's going to, the change is going to be removed from the ordinance as far as, it'll be on the

1179
01:45:22,600 --> 01:45:25,600
agenda. And then depending on when people, you know, sign

1180
01:45:27,200 --> 01:45:30,167
up, that's how it will be prioritized. The third item

1181
01:45:32,800 --> 01:45:36,467
being the cutoff time and the blue cards. That's, those are the two. Okay. That's the second item. I mean, we're not

1182
01:45:37,033 --> 01:45:40,300
asking, council still needs to have a discussion on that. But I think the third item. Is already direction to change the ordinance? Yes, I

1183
01:45:42,767 --> 01:45:46,167
can, uh. Motion by brian, second, second, second by jared, all in favor. Aye, that

1184
01:45:47,733 --> 01:45:49,800
passes um, six, zero. Um. So that was our last regular city,

1185
01:45:52,600 --> 01:45:56,333
regular gen item, so now we will go

1186
01:45:57,800 --> 01:46:01,367
to public input. Citizen okay, so we do have quite a few this evening. Um, I will

1187
01:46:02,167 --> 01:46:05,933
say your name and then I will give the next person after you. If you could come to the podium, please state your name and address

1188
01:46:07,333 --> 01:46:10,833
for the record, that would be fantastic at the podium. You will see your time clock and,

1189
01:46:13,600 --> 01:46:16,900
as you saw with the agenda earlier. It will beep at you once you get close

1190
01:46:18,633 --> 01:46:22,400
to time, and then it will beep at you again once you or your five minutes are up. So first we have mark palaciano, next we

1191
01:46:24,500 --> 01:46:24,500
have kelly smith. Hello,

1192
01:46:35,100 --> 01:46:38,533
tyrants. I have you guys exposing yourselves tonight. Y'all are doing an excellent

1193
01:46:40,800 --> 01:46:44,333
job, showing everyone your disdain for the first amendment. Of course, you're reducing the time limit

1194
01:46:45,567 --> 01:46:49,000
from five minutes to three minutes. You guys are proving the pressure that I'm applying is working. You guys

1195
01:46:50,067 --> 01:46:54,033
have no respect for the first amendment, and you act like we're being disrespectful for saying things you don't

1196
01:46:55,400 --> 01:46:58,833
like. Nice virtue signaling, ann. But I wouldn't feel safe having elected officials in

1197
01:46:59,967 --> 01:47:03,367
america who don't respect the united states constitution and first amendment. Do you even

1198
01:47:05,567 --> 01:47:08,733
know why I started coming here in april last year to speak? Because t-mobile got me

1199
01:47:10,333 --> 01:47:13,900
censored and shadow banned on every social media platform I was using to expose them as a

1200
01:47:15,367 --> 01:47:18,500
whistleblower. And I knew this was the only place I could come where t-mobile couldn't have me

1201
01:47:20,233 --> 01:47:23,300
deleted from the internet. The first amendment is dying because of tyrants like you all

1202
01:47:25,167 --> 01:47:29,167
and tyrannical companies like t-mobile. And tonight, you're proving it even more. Mayor cheney, the last time you

1203
01:47:30,600 --> 01:47:33,567
talked about ethics and how you're compliant with the law, does that include

1204
01:47:35,033 --> 01:47:38,900
the time your 18-year-old son hosted a graduation party where underage people were drinking alcohol and doing keg stands

1205
01:47:40,633 --> 01:47:40,633
in your backyard? Face a bunch

1206
01:48:00,200 --> 01:48:03,233
of 18 year olds drinking in your backyard. Let me play, uh, well, let me,

1207
01:48:04,633 --> 01:48:08,300
I already played your snapchat. I found that interesting, especially since someone filed an ethics

1208
01:48:09,733 --> 01:48:13,600
complaint about it and the city council shut it down. Also, I have a lot of respect for the frisco police department.

1209
01:48:14,700 --> 01:48:17,800
but now I'm curious as to why they didn't show up to your house. When there were 911 calls about this party,

1210
01:48:19,233 --> 01:48:21,933
maybe the police chief knows more about that. Why wasn't there any more investigation? I

1211
01:48:23,567 --> 01:48:27,000
know if it were me or anyone else in the audience hosting underage kids drinking alcohol

1212
01:48:28,767 --> 01:48:31,900
on our property, we would have went to jail and been prosecuted for it. But since it was the

1213
01:48:33,267 --> 01:48:36,800
mayor of frisco, nothing happens. Maybe it's just another odd coincidence, like your net

1214
01:48:38,333 --> 01:48:41,667
worth exploding while being the mayor. Frisco is cooked. This city is done. You may as well

1215
01:48:43,333 --> 01:48:46,200
change the city name to mumbai, because in a few years, this entire

1216
01:48:47,900 --> 01:48:51,033
city council and mayor will be indian. Last meeting helped prove my point. A bunch of woke

1217
01:48:52,900 --> 01:48:55,867
boomers showed up and virtue signal. While completely not understanding what we're

1218
01:48:58,000 --> 01:49:01,867
talking about. How many of them do you think reached out to me to try and understand more about what I'm exposing? Not a

1219
01:49:02,967 --> 01:49:06,400
single one, even though their entire message was built on with communicating with people. In a few years,

1220
01:49:07,800 --> 01:49:10,767
they'll be sitting in a retirement home needing someone to take care of them, and

1221
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frisco will be completely unrecognizable. I've heard from a lot of frisco residents about the schools here being

1222
01:49:16,400 --> 01:49:19,867
70% indian kids. That is not diversity. This is an indian takeover, and the rate it's

1223
01:49:21,533 --> 01:49:24,567
happening will continue to increase. Over the last few weeks, I've visited a lot

1224
01:49:26,567 --> 01:49:29,400
of companies with h-1b employees registered

1225
01:49:30,767 --> 01:49:33,600
to them. Do you know what I saw? Ghost offices. Empty offices with businesses registered to them, and tons

1226
01:49:34,967 --> 01:49:37,933
of h-1b employees that were supposed to be there, but weren't. You guys want

1227
01:49:39,367 --> 01:49:42,200
to call me an outside agitator, but I'm a lifelong dallas texan, and what's going on

1228
01:49:43,900 --> 01:49:47,433
with h-1b and the shadiness behind it affects me where I live. People are speaking

1229
01:49:48,733 --> 01:49:52,333
at the plano city council about this issue. The same issue in prosper. The same issue in irving. All of you

1230
01:49:53,533 --> 01:49:57,500
elected officials say it's a federal problem. But I bet if you found me breaking a federal law, your frisco police

1231
01:49:59,167 --> 01:50:02,933
department would engage the feds to prosecute me. But it's funny how that same mindset doesn't work with h-1b visa

1232
01:50:04,733 --> 01:50:07,733
fraud. I can promise you right now, you haven't even seen the attention that you're going

1233
01:50:09,367 --> 01:50:13,267
to get with h-1b and the indian takeover. There are a lot of journalists with big platforms digging

1234
01:50:14,833 --> 01:50:18,567
into what's going on, and there's going to be a day when it goes really viral. And just so you guys know,

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01:50:20,133 --> 01:50:24,133
I'm personally being targeted by indians. Indians are now violating federal law with how they've targeted me

1236
01:50:25,633 --> 01:50:28,500
with spam calls. My phone rings over 30 times a day, when it used to go days or weeks

1237
01:50:30,600 --> 01:50:34,100
without ringing. And on top of federal law, they're breaking state law with targeted harassment. But I'm sure none

1238
01:50:34,967 --> 01:50:38,333
of you care, because none of you serve your oath to the constitutions. And as a reminder, t-mobile is the

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01:50:39,767 --> 01:50:42,600
biggest private sector employer in frisco, and they're laying off texans while opening up a

1240
01:50:43,833 --> 01:50:46,733
new office in hyderabad, india. And the whole reason I speak here is because t-mobile

1241
01:50:47,867 --> 01:50:51,100
violated my constitutional rights in their office in frisco, texas. At warren

1242
01:50:52,367 --> 01:50:55,433
parkway and the tollway. I've exposed how they use diversity, equity, inclusion

1243
01:50:56,533 --> 01:50:59,400
to discriminate against americans, how they censor text messages during covid, how they

1244
01:51:00,667 --> 01:51:03,767
provide unlimited money for transgender surgeries. And, in fact,

1245
01:51:04,867 --> 01:51:08,567
let me play a little clip of a video of a t-mobile employee sharing their transition surgery

1246
01:51:09,767 --> 01:51:13,333
on a company website, on a company webcast. My top surgery. And so with the dreams

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01:51:14,400 --> 01:51:17,200
we're beginning to this is what you get for supporting t mobile. Kelly smith,

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01:51:48,267 --> 01:51:49,533
after that we have blake. Hey guys, glad I can

1249
01:51:56,833 --> 01:52:00,833
come up here and give this speech before we turn into europe. I dove deeper and looked into some housing.

1250
01:52:02,533 --> 01:52:05,467
several homes are being bought. The owner is returning to india and renting out every

1251
01:52:07,067 --> 01:52:09,800
room. Some of these homes are even listed as homesteaded on the cad tax wise, even

1252
01:52:14,133 --> 01:52:17,200
though it's being used as a mini-apartment building with the owner in india. And that makes sense, considering

1253
01:52:18,500 --> 01:52:22,400
all the tech companies hiring h-1b employees that are being ran out of them. This advertisement says they will sell a home to an indian family

1254
01:52:23,733 --> 01:52:27,100
for $136,000 less than the advertised price. Registered llcs are buying up properties

1255
01:52:29,067 --> 01:52:32,033
in collin county and only selling to indians and muslims. It's right here.

1256
01:52:33,300 --> 01:52:36,767
there is clear and consistent housing discrimination going on, and the major demographics

1257
01:52:38,200 --> 01:52:41,067
change is further proof of this. Harry whalen flew to india to beg them all

1258
01:52:43,333 --> 01:52:47,100
to come here. There is something like 22,000 h-1b filings in the frisco area

1259
01:52:48,400 --> 01:52:51,233
alone. I thought city council was supposed to represent the taxpayers. I'm pretty sure

1260
01:52:53,100 --> 01:52:56,067
nobody voted to be replaced with india, yet here we are, and this is starting to affect

1261
01:52:57,700 --> 01:52:59,933
the surrounding cities. I'm going to stand up

1262
01:53:01,867 --> 01:53:04,033
for the white kids for a second because I've got two of them. And my daughters don't know

1263
01:53:06,067 --> 01:53:09,300
where they fit into in this country anymore because of what's going on. In 1999, frisco was a rapidly growing

1264
01:53:10,333 --> 01:53:13,600
suburban district with a predominantly white demographic. Tossed test scores exceeded the state averages,

1265
01:53:14,867 --> 01:53:18,133
and the district gained recognition for quality schools. These kids are now

1266
01:53:20,900 --> 01:53:23,800
being downplayed as if they are not intelligent enough to work in their own country.

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01:53:25,633 --> 01:53:28,400
microsoft, apple, google, facebook, nvidia, all american-made companies. Dell

1268
01:53:30,400 --> 01:53:33,033
was founded by a university of texas at austin graduate. William higginbotham of

1269
01:53:34,533 --> 01:53:37,600
connecticut created the first video game. Steve russell, an mit student, created

1270
01:53:39,833 --> 01:53:42,700
spaceway, the first game to be played across multiple installations. I could go

1271
01:53:44,400 --> 01:53:48,167
on and on. Americans are forefront, top-tier innovators

1272
01:53:48,567 --> 01:53:51,767
and inventors. Why is our own government failing us? And letting other countries take away our jobs and not investing

1273
01:53:52,867 --> 01:53:56,467
into its own people. The texas house passed house bill 2038, streamlining foreign

1274
01:53:58,667 --> 01:54:01,667
doctors into our system. When our own federal government capped spending

1275
01:54:02,967 --> 01:54:05,733
to fund required residency for its own american doctors in 1997, we need

1276
01:54:07,633 --> 01:54:11,133
to support our american doctors. On my dad's side, I'm a texan through and

1277
01:54:12,567 --> 01:54:16,533
through. I have a county named after my family. My brother serves in the united states

1278
01:54:18,500 --> 01:54:22,000
navy to support my right to free speech. On my mom's side, I'm a third-generation

1279
01:54:24,467 --> 01:54:27,167
italian immigrant. When my italian family came here from sicily, they did not get

1280
01:54:28,967 --> 01:54:31,733
government handouts. There was no welfare, no direct job placement, just

1281
01:54:33,033 --> 01:54:36,000
for being italian. They had to learn english and create work for themselves out

1282
01:54:37,767 --> 01:54:41,733
of thin air. They had to become innovative and embody the american spirit of creating something out

1283
01:54:42,967 --> 01:54:46,000
of nothing. They spoke italian and celebrated their heritage at home, but the moment

1284
01:54:47,300 --> 01:54:49,967
they walked out of the front door, they were americans first. This is my pop-pop.

1285
01:54:51,633 --> 01:54:55,467
look at that american flag. That's the difference between the immigrants back in

1286
01:54:56,733 --> 01:55:00,067
the day and the immigrants coming now. I'm really confused as to what country we live in.

1287
01:55:01,467 --> 01:55:05,067
these people are coming here, they're taking away jobs, they're piggybacking on systems

1288
01:55:06,767 --> 01:55:09,600
that were already built and put into place. We need to bring back the american

1289
01:55:11,400 --> 01:55:14,467
worker, support our american companies, doctors, and future generations, instead of just

1290
01:55:15,733 --> 01:55:19,567
giving our country away. Greg abbott if you hear this, you're a coward for selling

1291
01:55:20,933 --> 01:55:23,800
out texas the way you did. Frisco city council is even worse for exploiting the city

1292
01:55:25,267 --> 01:55:28,100
and surrounding areas for profit over its own texan kids and citizens. Was harry

1293
01:55:29,833 --> 01:55:33,733
weyland aware that the united states commission on international religious

1294
01:55:34,700 --> 01:55:38,633
freedom is calling our government to name india a country of particular concern? They are dragging christian

1295
01:55:40,533 --> 01:55:44,500
preachers in the streets, beating them with bats, and forcing them

1296
01:55:45,333 --> 01:55:48,200
to eat cow dung. You guys only care about money. Not the aftermath of bringing a culture

1297
01:55:49,600 --> 01:55:52,900
here that isn't assimilating and could care less about america. Texas isn't just one

1298
01:55:54,800 --> 01:55:58,633
big business park. It's our home. It's our legacy to pass down to our children. The land,

1299
01:56:00,200 --> 01:56:03,100
the natural resources, the water. Texas needs to be treated as more than an

1300
01:56:04,367 --> 01:56:06,967
investment for foreign interests. Our traditions and traditions and our country

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01:56:08,867 --> 01:56:11,900
matter, but we will not survive at this rate of infiltration. I hope the money is worth it.

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01:56:13,367 --> 01:56:13,367
god bless y'all. Kaylee,

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01:56:22,700 --> 01:56:26,000
seaver and then clayton, york. Good evening, council.

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01:56:45,000 --> 01:56:47,333
first, I want to thank these two gentlemen on the end for speaking up for the first

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01:56:49,033 --> 01:56:51,500
amendment. And the opposition to limiting the ability for

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01:56:54,467 --> 01:56:57,933
public input. And then I'm going to address the public to address the public input. Because claiming it's been a

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01:56:59,067 --> 01:57:01,667
long thought process and not a immediate reaction to propose these changes doesn't seem

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entirely true. Here's an excerpt from community impact on this topic from february

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19th. A non agenda item could be a city related issue, mayor jeff cheney said. It

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01:57:14,200 --> 01:57:16,100
could be. I know it's not on the agenda, but I still want

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01:57:18,367 --> 01:57:22,167
you to not build the dog part next to my neighborhood, and I'm going to come every

1312
01:57:24,267 --> 01:57:27,467
meeting and tell you that. This is not the first time city council has considered

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01:57:29,500 --> 01:57:33,267
changing its rules regarding public comment. City attorney richard abernathy said council members previously asked him

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01:57:34,567 --> 01:57:37,633
to review their options for changing the public comment policy when there was an issue about the palestinians.

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01:57:39,333 --> 01:57:42,733
quote, particularly young people came every council meeting, asking the council to pass a resolution. We came

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01:57:45,467 --> 01:57:48,633
back with a bunch of suggestions. It was decided not to do anything at the time

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because the council didn't think it was the right time. So why is now the right time?

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01:57:54,567 --> 01:57:57,400
cheney said city council has opted against changing the

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01:57:58,900 --> 01:58:02,033
public comment policy in the past because council members assume the situation won't

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01:58:03,333 --> 01:58:06,233
eventually pass. Now, council members are reconsidering rule changes because they believe

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01:58:07,567 --> 01:58:11,233
what occurred on february 3rd may not be a one-time issue. Quote, it has always been where agitators have moved along,

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01:58:13,100 --> 01:58:14,567
and so then three or four months go by, we have normal

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01:58:19,567 --> 01:58:22,800
citizen input, whatever that means, and then we just kind of forget about it, cheney said. But it's becoming

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01:58:25,467 --> 01:58:26,667
increasingly likely that this is not going to go away. End

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quote. Three, five minutes, it doesn't matter. Some of you clearly don't listen

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01:58:36,167 --> 01:58:38,633
to each other. Like, you don't listen to us, you clearly aren't listening to each other.

1327
01:58:40,933 --> 01:58:44,633
why would you listen to us? Now I'll address what I was here to actually talk about. In 2024, frisco ranked number

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01:58:45,400 --> 01:58:47,500
eight in texas for h-1b approvals, the same year that ms. Kelly was talking about

1329
01:58:49,600 --> 01:58:52,733
the director of economic development accompanying the governor in

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01:58:54,167 --> 01:58:57,633
flying to mobile. As of right now, 33 h-1b dependent companies are registered

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01:58:59,300 --> 01:59:02,367
to one building on warren parkway, an h-1b ghost office. That I went and saw three days

1332
01:59:04,133 --> 01:59:06,067
in a row this week. Empty. No one there. Lights off. I got

1333
01:59:08,267 --> 01:59:11,200
pictures. They also run a foreign investment construction fund, which is building that

1334
01:59:13,067 --> 01:59:15,133
same strip right there on coit, donated to a member

1335
01:59:17,633 --> 01:59:21,267
of this council. A restaurant off preston has been caught only hiring f1 students and

1336
01:59:23,100 --> 01:59:26,600
paying them cash under the table. Now, maybe tonight's facebook post will

1337
01:59:27,600 --> 01:59:30,433
contain h-1b visas or federal issue outside agitators came to spew hate, but does

1338
01:59:32,400 --> 01:59:35,167
anyone really believe that the trip to a foreign country doesn't impact the city of

1339
01:59:36,500 --> 01:59:38,600
frisco? Could he not have said no and commit a hundred percent

1340
01:59:41,700 --> 01:59:45,333
to the economic development of frisco and its citizens already here? If the city official can intermingle

1341
01:59:47,367 --> 01:59:50,167
in foreign affairs, which one could say is also a federal issue, what is stopping the city

1342
01:59:52,000 --> 01:59:54,733
from staying right here? And adopting a resolution requesting state and federal

1343
01:59:56,567 --> 01:59:58,233
authorities to investigate the fraud in the city. Nothing

1344
02:00:01,267 --> 02:00:05,100
in state law prohibits the city council from adopting a resolution that formally requests an investigation

1345
02:00:06,133 --> 02:00:09,700
from entities like the texas ag, attorney general, the state auditor's office, the

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02:00:12,333 --> 02:00:15,967
fbi, department of justice, or any agencies under the federal jurisdiction. There's already a

1347
02:00:17,633 --> 02:00:20,967
petition with over 200 signatures requesting this action. But instead,

1348
02:00:23,067 --> 02:00:26,700
we've gotten these proposals to change public input, social media posts calling citizens'

1349
02:00:28,933 --> 02:00:32,767
names, and then literally the next sentence calling for unity, unless you get blocked, cheney. That's lazy

1350
02:00:34,800 --> 02:00:38,400
leadership. You haven't addressed anything. You just made it easier for you

1351
02:00:40,067 --> 02:00:42,033
to not hear criticism. We would like answers, action, not

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02:00:45,267 --> 02:00:46,233
facebook posts, and then protections for you.

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02:00:49,367 --> 02:00:49,367
thank you. Clayton, york. And

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then next is martin petetti.

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02:01:06,767 --> 02:01:08,200
hello, sir. I am sanjay gutpa. I am transracial indian. Sir, I

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02:01:12,033 --> 02:01:15,600
just want to say thank you for everything you're doing for the indian community. We need 10,000 more h-1bs.

1357
02:01:17,000 --> 02:01:20,133
to stand in solidarity with the indian community, I've stopped using the city garbage

1358
02:01:21,300 --> 02:01:23,933
service, and I've started throwing my trash outside and pooping everywhere. I love

1359
02:01:25,733 --> 02:01:29,667
poop. The city smells too clean and it is offensive to me and my culture. And I need it to smell more

1360
02:01:30,700 --> 02:01:34,100
like poop so I can feel at home. I also ask that we remove all deodorant and soap from the stores and frisco. Is

1361
02:01:35,667 --> 02:01:38,633
it offensive? Shout out vivek ramaswamy and shout out kash

1362
02:01:40,267 --> 02:01:43,367
patel. We need to legalize public defecation. Thank you. Martin, martin

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02:01:58,400 --> 02:01:59,467
pedetti, and then after that, paul jessen. City council

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02:02:05,333 --> 02:02:08,367
members and respected mayor, I'm not criticizing anyone, you can laugh. And I don't

1365
02:02:10,667 --> 02:02:13,100
like to disrespect any country's flag on this floor.

1366
02:02:21,367 --> 02:02:25,367
let's respect each other. We are all here, we all live together. Okay, my name is

1367
02:02:26,567 --> 02:02:29,900
martin pariti. I live in majestic gardens on west frisco. I ran into the primaries.

1368
02:02:32,867 --> 02:02:34,433
recent elections and I'm not here for campaign speech.

1369
02:02:37,367 --> 02:02:39,833
and I ran for a justice of peace in denton county prison, too,

1370
02:02:42,000 --> 02:02:45,133
and I got closely, like a 2400 votes. And during my campaign, I listened a lot of people.

1371
02:02:47,033 --> 02:02:49,533
they said people are getting evicted and I didn't realize

1372
02:02:51,467 --> 02:02:53,233
it's a true story or the people are telling the lies. Then I

1373
02:02:55,500 --> 02:02:59,467
went to my fellow judge friend and took court and sit into the eviction process

1374
02:03:01,133 --> 02:03:04,700
in one week. And I saw 80% of the people are getting evicted, and all of these people are

1375
02:03:06,200 --> 02:03:10,000
from the job loss. And then I realized, I asked a couple of questions, why? This is related to the job loss. They

1376
02:03:11,133 --> 02:03:15,033
said that they are all related to the tech jobs, because they have been replaced with the foreign workers. I

1377
02:03:16,300 --> 02:03:19,067
know this night, a lot of people saying about india, indians occupying and all that

1378
02:03:20,700 --> 02:03:23,333
story. We have a solution here. We have a lot of people here talking

1379
02:03:24,800 --> 02:03:27,933
about ordinance. We talked about an ordinance, and I wanted to introduce what

1380
02:03:29,067 --> 02:03:32,867
this ordinance means. The ordinance is a city law that has the same power as your federal and state government.

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02:03:34,200 --> 02:03:36,233
you have the law here, and I'm requesting this night all the

1382
02:03:39,833 --> 02:03:43,267
city council members and issue an ordinance. In the h-1b, f-1b, visa fraud is prohibited.

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02:03:45,033 --> 02:03:45,033
do you will? Because all these

1384
02:03:49,100 --> 02:03:52,667
people are blaming indians and because a few people are doing something wrong and we have a

1385
02:03:54,700 --> 02:03:57,900
ghost companies. And if you go to any restaurants, you can see students are

1386
02:03:59,267 --> 02:04:02,200
working in the restaurants. So these people did not come here to study, they are coming here

1387
02:04:04,367 --> 02:04:07,500
to settle down. So you can fix the issue, pass an ordinance law, you can make frisco proud.

1388
02:04:08,767 --> 02:04:12,433
we all wanted to live together. We don't want this to be continuing for every week, continuing all this time. So, I

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02:04:13,467 --> 02:04:17,333
humbly request all the city council members, try to see if there is a possibility. You can issue an ordinance so that we

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02:04:18,167 --> 02:04:21,300
can declare there is no visa fraud is encouraged in this city. That will make

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02:04:22,800 --> 02:04:25,933
the frisco proud, that will make united. Thank you so much. This is paul

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02:04:35,067 --> 02:04:37,367
jessen. After that, we have sehas kaul. I told you, these

1393
02:05:08,800 --> 02:05:08,800
meetings were entertaining. I

1394
02:05:13,267 --> 02:05:17,133
don't know if that light's going to be out there for me tonight, but just wanted to make sure

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02:05:18,700 --> 02:05:20,733
that maybe there'd be some work done on it. My name is paul

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02:05:23,667 --> 02:05:26,433
jessen. Paul, I know you intend well, but please don't do that again. I have an eye issue,

1397
02:05:29,733 --> 02:05:33,233
and I've been helped to go to the doctor because of the flash. I'm sorry. I can't have

1398
02:05:35,400 --> 02:05:39,200
bright lights. Thank you. I know you wasn't it was cute. I'll leave it out. Thank you.

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02:05:40,133 --> 02:05:42,600
I'll just do verbal. No props. Thank you. Thank you. And

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02:05:46,367 --> 02:05:50,133
by the way, I appreciate the correction I got last time. I misunderstood the dynamics. So

1401
02:05:52,000 --> 02:05:55,367
by knowing that, I can do what I need to do properly. So I appreciate

1402
02:05:56,733 --> 02:05:59,933
that. I like being corrected, especially when I'm wrong. So that's good. I want to talk about two things briefly,

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02:06:02,067 --> 02:06:04,100
I hope. One of them is this paper that you're probably

1404
02:06:08,200 --> 02:06:11,833
familiar with. It's got 130 businesses from the rail district, and they're still,

1405
02:06:14,367 --> 02:06:18,000
just haven't been clarified. For me. Whether the fact that

1406
02:06:22,933 --> 02:06:26,000
businesses have gone out of business, that shouldn't have

1407
02:06:27,033 --> 02:06:30,667
gone out of business, based upon the decision, and whether intentional or not,

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02:06:32,833 --> 02:06:35,167
you just have a result. Oops, these people need to be reimbursed for being businesses here,

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02:06:36,967 --> 02:06:40,267
ready for 10, 15, 20 years and all of a sudden going out of business because

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02:06:41,667 --> 02:06:45,100
of what happened to it. Just in talking to a lot of people around frisco, there's a lot

1411
02:06:46,833 --> 02:06:50,667
of small businessmen looking at this and saying, hey, if they can do that to their rail district, maybe they can do it to us. So

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02:06:51,933 --> 02:06:55,433
it's an optic thing, if not a real thing, that probably needs to be addressed. Second thing I

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02:07:00,667 --> 02:07:01,733
wanted to mention was prop 10 on the election. And I think

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the exact wording was texas should prohibit sharia law and the islamic legal code in

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texas. 94.6% agreed

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with that. And this has nothing to do with being, with freedom

1417
02:07:23,667 --> 02:07:26,133
of religion, freedom of anything else. It's just that there's a law thing that

1418
02:07:28,000 --> 02:07:31,667
is if you look at it, it's fairly inconsistent with our laws in terms of the

1419
02:07:33,333 --> 02:07:35,867
constitution. So the answer is, why would there be such a huge

1420
02:07:39,767 --> 02:07:43,067
94% thing on that? One could be, if we look at the history,

1421
02:07:44,600 --> 02:07:48,267
george washington was asked as president, what was your toughest part of your

1422
02:07:50,933 --> 02:07:53,867
presidency? And he said, islam. And then adams didn't do anything about it,

1423
02:07:56,133 --> 02:07:57,733
but jefferson was in on this. He said, wait a minute. What is

1424
02:08:00,400 --> 02:08:04,133
the real deal? Because over in the barbary coast off of africa, right where libya is,

1425
02:08:06,567 --> 02:08:09,867
our merchant marines were being attacked by the barbary pirates and killed and sold

1426
02:08:12,633 --> 02:08:16,133
into slavery. And stuff like that. So they got a meeting together in london, said, guys, what is going on?

1427
02:08:17,467 --> 02:08:20,033
we've been very respectful. We've not done anything. Why are you doing this to us? And

1428
02:08:21,700 --> 02:08:24,833
the response from the leadership there was, it's simple. Our book says, you're infidels.

1429
02:08:26,133 --> 02:08:29,467
therefore, we get to kill you and do what we do to you. And when the word got

1430
02:08:30,533 --> 02:08:32,100
back to jefferson, he basically said, just deal with it. And

1431
02:08:35,900 --> 02:08:38,733
people don't know this, but the leatherneck, the marines are called

1432
02:08:41,033 --> 02:08:44,567
leathernecks. And that was to prevent the sword from the other side. And then,

1433
02:08:46,300 --> 02:08:49,867
in the marine hymn, it says, from the halls of montezuma to the shores of tripoli.

1434
02:08:52,033 --> 02:08:55,767
that's where this took place. And they got rid of it so that our merchant marine would be

1435
02:08:57,100 --> 02:09:00,733
safe and no longer be harassed. So there seems

1436
02:09:03,400 --> 02:09:05,033
to be a difference. And I appreciated the, who was it,

1437
02:09:10,267 --> 02:09:11,333
distinguishing. We treat all religions alike. I agree

1438
02:09:16,267 --> 02:09:19,233
with that. But islam, what does that mean? Oh, okay. Islam seems to be more a political ideology that does not want

1439
02:09:20,400 --> 02:09:23,533
to adapt and contribute. But take over and dominate. And so there is a wondering why

1440
02:09:28,367 --> 02:09:31,800
all this is there, and maybe there needs to be

1441
02:09:33,467 --> 02:09:33,467
some more discussion. I think I

1442
02:09:37,733 --> 02:09:41,133
mentioned that quote before, that some only fools say we should not discuss religion and

1443
02:09:42,567 --> 02:09:44,433
politics. Why? Because then thieves keep their power and

1444
02:09:48,433 --> 02:09:51,433
false prophets keep teaching. So we need to clarify what really is happening,

1445
02:09:53,067 --> 02:09:57,033
what really are the beliefs. And you look at london, you look at new york city, you look at new jersey, you look at

1446
02:09:59,467 --> 02:10:02,567
michigan, you look at minnesota, you look at all these things that are going on

1447
02:10:04,367 --> 02:10:08,133
in cities, but it's not going to happen here. People say, yeah, but it won't happen in texas. Well, that's what the

1448
02:10:09,467 --> 02:10:12,500
other people said, too. So what is it that's happening? What do we need to be aware of so we

1449
02:10:13,667 --> 02:10:15,333
can make the correct steps, make the right decisions so we

1450
02:10:17,733 --> 02:10:19,500
don't get taken over by those who are not american? Thank you. Okay, next

1451
02:10:22,233 --> 02:10:25,333
we have sehas kaul, and then after that we have neha sutran. Hello everyone,

1452
02:10:30,467 --> 02:10:31,933
my name is sehas kaul, and I've lived in frisco for 22 years. I

1453
02:10:34,500 --> 02:10:34,500
was born at texas health

1454
02:10:39,300 --> 02:10:41,700
presbyterian in plano, so I've been here for quite a while now.

1455
02:10:44,133 --> 02:10:46,633
and I feel like, with a lot of the rhetoric being said about,

1456
02:10:48,433 --> 02:10:51,100
particularly indians, I feel like I have an interesting perspective on this. Being a

1457
02:10:52,600 --> 02:10:55,400
first-generation american, with my parents migrating over in, I think, 2000, it's

1458
02:11:01,433 --> 02:11:03,667
really sad to see what's going on. The fact that I came to this

1459
02:11:06,400 --> 02:11:08,467
meeting and I saw someone bring out an indian flag, talk

1460
02:11:10,600 --> 02:11:14,533
in an indian accent, very saddening. And that's kind of, that's aside from what I was

1461
02:11:16,100 --> 02:11:17,767
going to say, but I just wanted to make that clear with

1462
02:11:20,933 --> 02:11:24,433
everyone that I don't think anyone should be applauding. That sort of behavior, and it is quite

1463
02:11:25,700 --> 02:11:28,000
saddening seeing that in my community, and it truly

1464
02:11:30,433 --> 02:11:33,067
does make me very emotional. But I feel like a divide has been created and the root cause

1465
02:11:34,767 --> 02:11:38,467
of that is misinformation. I feel like there are players that are outside

1466
02:11:40,467 --> 02:11:44,067
of our community that want to bring this rhetoric in here. And I mean,

1467
02:11:45,700 --> 02:11:48,433
I'm looking at the audience, the people that primarily made the the false claims against

1468
02:11:50,333 --> 02:11:54,167
indians, they're not even in this room anymore. They're not here to listen. They're here to just make their

1469
02:11:55,567 --> 02:11:55,567
statement and leave. And

1470
02:12:02,867 --> 02:12:06,167
it's us, as frisco, as a community, can't fall into that. It's dangerous. This misinformation causes

1471
02:12:07,433 --> 02:12:09,967
unnecessary conflicts, unnecessary stirrups,

1472
02:12:11,767 --> 02:12:15,300
and I feel like it just causes divide within our community. And, I mean, I had some statistics

1473
02:12:18,200 --> 02:12:19,500
that I wanted to talk about, but I think it's deeper than

1474
02:12:23,233 --> 02:12:24,200
that. I can say as much as I want about h-1bs, all this,

1475
02:12:27,833 --> 02:12:30,900
but, I mean with my experience here, as the indian population has grown, crime has gone down,

1476
02:12:31,967 --> 02:12:34,800
there's been a lot more economic growth. I had the

1477
02:12:36,700 --> 02:12:39,400
pleasure of talking with chief of police david shielson

1478
02:12:41,700 --> 02:12:44,300
earlier today, and he even said most cities with first class population would be envious of

1479
02:12:46,300 --> 02:12:48,133
our crime rate and our community. Anyone that really

1480
02:12:51,033 --> 02:12:51,033
wants to learn and be educated

1481
02:12:59,633 --> 02:13:02,500
and understand the perspective of someone that's within that community,

1482
02:13:03,800 --> 02:13:07,167
you can come to me, talk to me afterwards, and I'll give you that. Because I feel like this sort of information is

1483
02:13:08,667 --> 02:13:11,800
only spread when you're in your own echo chamber. When you're in your echo chamber

1484
02:13:12,700 --> 02:13:16,500
of thoughts and with social media, with all these things around us, we just get stuck

1485
02:13:17,700 --> 02:13:21,367
within our own thoughts and our own beliefs. And they become extreme. The only way we change that is through communication

1486
02:13:23,067 --> 02:13:24,567
and through coming together as a community. Thank you. Just let

1487
02:13:33,933 --> 02:13:35,200
me know when you start the time. I'll just start the time

1488
02:13:43,233 --> 02:13:46,100
like on my own side, so I can see how I'm doing time wise. You have it on there. Oh, oh my

1489
02:13:48,100 --> 02:13:51,733
god, it started. Okay. Hi, my name is neha surathran. I've lived in texas since 2016, and

1490
02:13:53,700 --> 02:13:57,400
I've significantly watched a demographic change. So today here, I'm here essentially

1491
02:13:59,133 --> 02:14:02,967
to address misinformation about the indian community that has been stated

1492
02:14:04,800 --> 02:14:07,267
at previous meetings, the blatant racism that was displayed quite literally 20

1493
02:14:09,000 --> 02:14:12,033
minutes ago, and all of this has spread to the news. Times of india is

1494
02:14:13,733 --> 02:14:16,767
writing about councilman tucker and how this, that so called activist paul

1495
02:14:19,133 --> 02:14:20,833
has blatantly made racist claims towards him. But many

1496
02:14:23,233 --> 02:14:26,267
of these people that have spoken at previous town halls, they've used the word alleged.

1497
02:14:27,333 --> 02:14:30,867
alleged fraud, alleged activity, alleged concerns. I will not be using that word

1498
02:14:32,500 --> 02:14:36,267
tonight. I'm not here to speculate. I'm here to present facts. I'm here to cite real data,

1499
02:14:37,767 --> 02:14:41,367
and I am here to address directly the misinformation surrounding h-1b visas and harmful stereotypes about the

1500
02:14:42,533 --> 02:14:45,533
indian community in frisco. Tonight, I'm here to talk about two things, the truth

1501
02:14:47,267 --> 02:14:50,900
about h-1b visas and the reality of the indian community in our city. I spoke directly

1502
02:14:52,333 --> 02:14:56,233
with the frisco chief of police, david shilson. Something that I want to make clear to everybody

1503
02:14:57,833 --> 02:14:59,767
here tonight. The frisco council is not responsible for h1b

1504
02:15:02,967 --> 02:15:05,867
visa fraud. That directly goes to a federal bureau.

1505
02:15:07,467 --> 02:15:10,600
complaining here, the only reason why people are

1506
02:15:13,767 --> 02:15:16,333
complaining to the council is to spread blatant hate towards

1507
02:15:21,067 --> 02:15:24,133
the indian community. Because they feel uncomfortable seeing people that do not look like them. What sahas had said

1508
02:15:25,333 --> 02:15:27,967
earlier, frisco is consistently ranked one of the safest cities in america. Not despite its

1509
02:15:29,433 --> 02:15:33,300
diversity, not despite its indian population, but alongside it. And as of today, there are no verified reports

1510
02:15:34,867 --> 02:15:36,600
of h-1b fraud in frisco. If the word alleged continues to be

1511
02:15:39,100 --> 02:15:42,100
used one more time, at this point, I would urge citizens to assume that it is false.

1512
02:15:43,567 --> 02:15:46,600
unless you do a quick research on google. Look at a, like, federal bureau website. The

1513
02:15:48,067 --> 02:15:49,700
statistics, the data, it's all there. Chief shilson

1514
02:15:52,500 --> 02:15:54,867
also said misinformation is one of the biggest threats.

1515
02:15:56,833 --> 02:15:59,833
to our country today. It creates divisiveness and hostility and does everything but promote unity. And that is

1516
02:16:01,100 --> 02:16:04,067
exactly what we are seeing. People are forming strong opinions based

1517
02:16:05,500 --> 02:16:09,467
on social media clips, group chats, and viral posts. Kelly, for example, today at this meeting made a claim that

1518
02:16:11,167 --> 02:16:14,300
hate crimes were happening in india against the christian community. She referenced the

1519
02:16:15,900 --> 02:16:19,367
cornell report. Upon looking at this report, you can see that there have been 200 cases

1520
02:16:21,533 --> 02:16:24,300
of hate crimes towards christians, but india is home to 1.2 billion people.

1521
02:16:26,067 --> 02:16:28,567
relative to the size of population, there has been

1522
02:16:30,167 --> 02:16:33,867
significantly more hate crimes towards muslims and jewish people within india. America.

1523
02:16:36,833 --> 02:16:39,800
so hate crimes happen everywhere, but are disproportionately happening

1524
02:16:40,933 --> 02:16:44,567
in the u.s. Due to uninformed rhetoric spread by people that do not educate themselves. So let's talk

1525
02:16:46,200 --> 02:16:49,767
facts. What about an h-1b visa? You need to have a specialized job offer, work in tech or

1526
02:16:51,733 --> 02:16:54,800
medicine, have at least a bachelor's degree or higher, be sponsored by a u.s. Employee,

1527
02:16:56,867 --> 02:16:58,633
and also, the company has to prove that you, that,

1528
02:17:01,000 --> 02:17:04,800
that that. They're paying the h-1b visa holder the same, if not higher amount as they would a u.s. Resident. They're not

1529
02:17:06,067 --> 02:17:09,900
outsourcing cheaper labor. And it's not an easy system to enter. It's selective,

1530
02:17:11,000 --> 02:17:13,533
competitive, and regulated. And there's a reason that this program exists. Around 70% of

1531
02:17:15,067 --> 02:17:18,267
ai and machine learning graduate students in the u.s. Are international students. In overall stem fields, over

1532
02:17:19,400 --> 02:17:22,967
50. That means that the very people being trained in our universities in the most

1533
02:17:24,100 --> 02:17:26,967
advanced fields are often not u.s. Citizens. Without programs like h-1b,

1534
02:17:28,733 --> 02:17:31,500
we are not protecting jobs, we are pushing away talent that our own system helped create.

1535
02:17:33,067 --> 02:17:36,767
for every one h-1b worker, approximately 1.8 additional

1536
02:17:38,733 --> 02:17:42,700
jobs are created for u.s. Workers. So the idea that these individuals are taking jobs is

1537
02:17:44,500 --> 02:17:48,367
just not supported by the data. Regions like frisco, with higher h-1b participation, have been shown to experience faster wage

1538
02:17:49,733 --> 02:17:52,700
growth for u.s.-born. Workers. Now, let's talk about the indian community. About 75% of americans hold a bachelor's

1539
02:17:53,833 --> 02:17:57,067
degree, compared to 38%. The medium. Income is 150k, double the u.s. Median. We are among the highest contributing

1540
02:17:58,167 --> 02:18:01,767
groups per capita towards taxes. And if you look towards the crime data, 1.2% of fraud arrests, despite being a larger share

1541
02:18:03,400 --> 02:18:06,500
of the population at 6%. So, statistically, the indian community is associated with higher education, higher

1542
02:18:11,000 --> 02:18:13,833
income, and lower crime rates. So if a group is associated

1543
02:18:17,300 --> 02:18:20,667
with safer communities, stronger schools, and higher economic contribution, why are we afraid?

1544
02:18:22,067 --> 02:18:25,767
if your goal is for your children to grow up in safe neighborhoods. High-performing schools,

1545
02:18:27,200 --> 02:18:29,933
stable communities, then this is not something to fear. This is something

1546
02:18:31,633 --> 02:18:34,833
to welcome. And let me be clear about cultural visibility. We also celebrate thanksgiving,

1547
02:18:36,367 --> 02:18:39,933
christmas. We are not forcing religion onto you. Hinduism does not convert. We believe

1548
02:18:41,800 --> 02:18:44,600
everybody goes to heaven, as long as you're a good person. Can I talk for a little more,

1549
02:18:45,933 --> 02:18:47,533
if possible? Sorry, ma'am. Thank you. Okay,

1550
02:18:56,467 --> 02:18:58,333
but thank you. We have harlan papert and then, finally,

1551
02:19:02,267 --> 02:19:04,233
we have donna schmittler. Well, hi, honestly, after all of this and what we talked

1552
02:19:06,367 --> 02:19:08,000
about, you know, having your time and what you want to talk

1553
02:19:10,900 --> 02:19:14,033
about. I don't even know what to say right now. I haven't been to the city council

1554
02:19:16,100 --> 02:19:19,533
meeting in some years. I think the last time I talked, it was like, about frisco arts, like,

1555
02:19:22,633 --> 02:19:22,633
whatever before covid. Just

1556
02:19:26,700 --> 02:19:30,700
having experienced this, I feel like I'm seeing democracy in action, but I do have

1557
02:19:33,800 --> 02:19:35,367
something to say. I'm looking at the makeup of this board

1558
02:19:38,000 --> 02:19:41,367
here, right, of this council. We have representation of

1559
02:19:43,500 --> 02:19:47,167
different cultures and different people from different places. So when I hear these outsiders

1560
02:19:50,933 --> 02:19:53,133
coming in and talking about frisco, I find that. Terribly

1561
02:19:55,967 --> 02:19:59,833
annoying and terribly frustrating, and I don't know how you all have to sit here and listen

1562
02:20:01,800 --> 02:20:05,133
to that. I didn't know. That's part of the process. That doesn't have anything to do with our city council, right?

1563
02:20:06,633 --> 02:20:10,533
there's nothing you can do about that. Whatever is going on, whatever that is, if it's a problem, it's not a

1564
02:20:12,233 --> 02:20:15,100
frisco problem, it's not a city council problem, you shouldn't have to deal with

1565
02:20:17,333 --> 02:20:19,567
that. I do have some questions though, because initially I

1566
02:20:22,067 --> 02:20:25,133
came here because I think I got a little bit blindsided, and I think some

1567
02:20:26,300 --> 02:20:29,033
of us were blindsided. About that industrial park, what used to be becky's horse

1568
02:20:31,833 --> 02:20:31,833
rescue. So I think a lot

1569
02:20:37,667 --> 02:20:40,600
of my neighbors are rather upset about the whole thing,

1570
02:20:44,867 --> 02:20:47,267
and I thank brian livingston and jeff cheney for speaking

1571
02:20:49,233 --> 02:20:52,567
to me about it when I first got here. I appreciate that because I really didn't know what was

1572
02:20:54,067 --> 02:20:55,667
going on, but I also feel uninformed. And I don't know

1573
02:20:59,033 --> 02:20:59,033
if there's a better way for

1574
02:21:03,833 --> 02:21:06,700
city to inform the residents who would be most impacted

1575
02:21:08,867 --> 02:21:10,667
about some type of construction that will impact their

1576
02:21:13,567 --> 02:21:13,567
backyards. So I think that that

1577
02:21:23,967 --> 02:21:26,433
measure was a little bit rushed. I know that was already something discussed. I heard

1578
02:21:28,700 --> 02:21:30,800
that 25 or 30 people came out. I've also found out just

1579
02:21:33,633 --> 02:21:35,433
yesterday that there was a petition that went around. I

1580
02:21:38,967 --> 02:21:41,000
don't know what impact that had, but I'm just wondering,

1581
02:21:44,067 --> 02:21:46,500
you know, about that and how myself and others could be more

1582
02:21:48,800 --> 02:21:52,400
informed, because I asked a few of my neighbors, and my neighbor showed up,

1583
02:21:54,467 --> 02:21:58,333
and I have another neighbor. They had no idea about this industrial park going on in our backyard,

1584
02:22:00,333 --> 02:22:04,333
and I know it's upset a lot of people. The other part to that is the impact

1585
02:22:07,100 --> 02:22:09,567
environmentally, public safety, and public health. I live in

1586
02:22:14,133 --> 02:22:17,000
prestmont, which was built in 95, 96. I moved there in 2012.

1587
02:22:19,133 --> 02:22:22,500
and when I moved to frisco in 2012, it was a very different

1588
02:22:23,767 --> 02:22:27,033
city, right? The exit from prestmont goes out to

1589
02:22:28,967 --> 02:22:32,500
prestmont and ohio. Where we have all that new, well,

1590
02:22:35,033 --> 02:22:38,167
it's not new anymore. There was nothing there many years ago. Now we have a lot of stores and

1591
02:22:39,333 --> 02:22:42,700
retail and apartments, and there's a lot of traffic. And years ago, we were told

1592
02:22:45,933 --> 02:22:48,867
that there would be traffic controls put in place. And one roundabout was built at warren

1593
02:22:51,300 --> 02:22:53,533
and ohio. But we also have, I think, and I'm sure the

1594
02:22:55,867 --> 02:22:57,767
police can look into, you know, the type of safety problems

1595
02:23:00,633 --> 02:23:02,200
we've had, but... At gaylord and ohio, we have this immense

1596
02:23:06,467 --> 02:23:10,100
intersection, and we were told there was going to be a roundabout put there

1597
02:23:12,167 --> 02:23:14,800
to control the traffic. It never happened. We were also told that potentially something

1598
02:23:16,500 --> 02:23:18,833
was going to be put at presmont, because I will tell

1599
02:23:21,000 --> 02:23:24,933
you, it's a dangerous intersection. Oftentimes, there's a police car posted there because of the

1600
02:23:26,767 --> 02:23:26,767
danger. Personally, I used

1601
02:23:31,633 --> 02:23:34,667
to walk my dog through there, and I can tell you a number

1602
02:23:36,567 --> 02:23:40,067
of times that I had to leap out of the way with my dog. Because I almost got hit

1603
02:23:42,533 --> 02:23:46,367
by a car. My neighbor got hit by a car there. He got t-boned right there. So I just want

1604
02:23:48,233 --> 02:23:51,467
to also ask that we can look into what happened to the traffic control there, because I think with that

1605
02:23:53,933 --> 02:23:55,467
industrial park also going in, we're going to see more traffic.

1606
02:23:59,167 --> 02:24:01,967
so that's what I have to say. Thank you all for your time, and I appreciate everything you all

1607
02:24:03,867 --> 02:24:03,867
are doing here. Thank you.

1608
02:24:08,233 --> 02:24:11,833
thank you. I will add really y quickly, the developer of that project is going to be

1609
02:24:13,233 --> 02:24:17,000
doing another neighborhood town hall. I know laura romel has been working with them

1610
02:24:18,067 --> 02:24:21,500
to coordinate that. I think it's after spring break for people to learn more about the projects,

1611
02:24:22,433 --> 02:24:25,567
and they're also offering to have residents come see another one of their projects

1612
02:24:28,267 --> 02:24:31,233
to understand it. So if you want to know more information about that, we can. We can get

1613
02:24:32,367 --> 02:24:35,500
that to you. Thank you. And jason, would you mind grabbing them afterwards, too, to give them a status

1614
02:24:37,267 --> 02:24:37,267
on the roundabout? Yeah, I

1615
02:24:41,967 --> 02:24:45,133
think it's in design. Donna. Good evening, mayor and council. Donna schmittler, 7037, white rock court,

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frisco, texas. Just want to give you some information

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about the heritage association of frisco. We are having, on march 31st, we are having a

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lecture and a meeting at... At the heritage depot, and it

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will feature the 1903 alan bickerstaff house. That the new

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owners, the petruskas, have spent two years and much blood, sweat, and tears, and some

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dollars restoring the house. So it's open to everybody. We'd love you

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to come and see it. And she has written a book, which will be featured that night as well.

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and we're still working on frisco 125. Which is coming up

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in 2027, and some of you will be hearing from many people. We have hired

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some writers and some authors to help with that. So if you get a call from us,

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it's not a spam call. We really want your input. And thank you so much. I know it's difficult

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what you do. I was on the school board once and it's not an easy thing. So it compels

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in comparison to what you guys are up to. But I appreciate frisco and

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like I said on more than one occasion. I came to frisco for a new life, and frisco has

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given me a good one. Thank you. Thank you, donna. All right.

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item 30 is city council discussion with city staff concerning any actions required by staff. We had the tabled

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item that will come back. Item 31 is governance monitoring, which I had this evening. And

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so council had good discussion on the one regular agenda item. Citizen input. So I gave us

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tonight. With that, I will look for a motion to adjourn motion by burt,

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second by and all in favor that passes 6-0. We are adjourned at 856. Thank you.