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Thank you.

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All right. Welcome, as I call to order, the January 20th, our city of Murphy regular city council meeting. The time is 6 p.m.

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Rise with me as I offer the implication, lead the pledge of allegiance,

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our Heavenly Father. Bless us, we consider the agenda in front of us tonight. Give us the wisdom to act with compassion and vision for what is best for the community. Bless and watch over our public safety officers in the community they serve. Your name, we pray, amen.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which

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it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all of us.

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All right.

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At this time, I'll turn the time over to the city secretary for the whole call and certification

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of a quorum.

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Mayor Scott Bradley.

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Here.

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Mayor Proto and Elizabeth Abraham.

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Here.

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Deputy Mayor Proto and Janae Butler.

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Councilmember Place 2, Scott Smith, Councilmember Place 3, Andrew Chase, Councilmember Place 4, Ken Olman, Councilmember Place 5, Laura Dill, Mayor Certified in the presence of a call.

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Thank you. All right. I'm going to move on to item 4, public comments. I had a conversation with as many people as we're here earlier to kind of lay out how this is going to work.

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Public comments is an opportunity for you to address counsel on an item that is not on the agenda this evening.

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There's nothing on the agenda this evening that is relating to the concerns of the vast majority of the people here.

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That being that counsel is prohibited by law for discussing those items.

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But we can listen and we will listen intently.

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If this is going to be a rather long meeting for us in exec tonight, but coming out

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of exec, we'll have some, we'll have some, some motions and if anyone who wants to stick

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around and have a conversation, continue the conversation we were having earlier or if

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you weren't opportunity to have further conversation, I'll make myself available at that time.

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A request has been made to have some kind of a town hall.

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I'm going to be looking at that as an opportunity for some time in the future based on the best

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timing for that kind of a thing to happen.

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So with that said, I'm going to open this up.

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There's been a number of people who weren't comfortable giving their names, so I'm going

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to do this a little bit differently.

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If you have filled out, and I've gotten a lot of them, a form, fantastic, if you haven't

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just place it up on my desk and I'm just going to give you guys an opportunity to come up

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and speak with council on your concerns tonight. Just a organized line behind here if you feel

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like you've already heard what you said you can say great but you have everybody as an opportunity

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Can you speak tonight and be heard? Go ahead.

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We need the mics on for.

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I am really short, so.

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I'll move towards you.

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Yeah, well, fortunately, that's five minutes.

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Five minutes.

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Okay, so dear City Council, I have lived in Murphy for 11 years and coming to you today

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with deep concern that is long overdue.

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Over the last few years I've witnessed Murphy become a town that is growing more and more

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unrecognizable at lightning speed.

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New developments, some quite literally in our neighbor's backyard are springing up left

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and right and there seems nobody speaking up and pointing out blatant issues of these developments

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come with today and in the long run as of today the silence is over with. If nobody else has

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spoken that before then I will. I have been a licensed real estate agent for seven years and have

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a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin in urban geography. My main goal is to

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make sure that Murphy makes decisions that help maintain Murphy's small rural Texas charm

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that thousands of us film up with and call home. I respectfully want to point out that recent

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development of the mosque on Macmillan Road is one of highest concern. This mosque is less

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in the football field away from my beloved natural creek. It is a part of a watershed ecological

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system that has documented wildlife conservation concerns. According to expert testimony, the state

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and state level environmental discussions, species such as the alligator snapping turtle have

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been reported in this watershed. In case you want to wear, these turtles are listed as threatened

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of becoming and endangered species in Texas development and construction near water

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rays such as the mosque on McMillan can and do the great habitat through runoff erosion

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and human disturbance, even when it does not occur directly in or adjacent to the creek bed.

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I'm asking the city to ensure that any projects near Maxwell Creek undergo proper environmental

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review and coordination with Texas Parks and Wildlife before approvals are granted.

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This also includes the proposed parking lot sites being proposed at the center of Islamic

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acknowledge on Murphy Road. That parcel of land runs right, the creek runs right through

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that parcel of land. I also want to point out that this mosque has completely paved over

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four residential parcels that were home to large, beautiful, mature trees. I want to

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encourage the City Council to ensure that this developer is following Murphy's tree ordinance.

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It's been over a year and a half and I haven't yet to see any trees be replaced that were removed.

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I drive down this road multiple times a day and it is the main third way to Murphy Road for me.

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The infrastructure on McMillan has already been so taxed by this development that has

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dragged on for over a year.

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I want to ask why does the City of Murphy have to put the bill of this damage?

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It is my belief at the entity that let the city to believe that they don't have the funds

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for this bill of damage did so maliciously because they have since then turned around and purchased

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that for other large parcels of land at the Betsy and Murphy intersections, the unethical

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and immoral nature of these entities is something we should be aware of and cautious about.

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To expand on the point of fact that as a numerality, a particular developer, which is, I'm not

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going to name, in Murphy, has allegedly been running illegally discriminatory real estate

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deals out of their own development.

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I myself have called this particular entity and have been told that all of the lots to build

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on were sold.

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Well, it's been over six years and some of these lots are still very much available to build

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on, just not to those who are not Muslim.

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This same entity has purchased and are in the amount of commercial and residential real estate

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They all consolidated to one will know and will travel intersection within our city.

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My assumption is that he will run these shops, parcels, and even other residential housing units in a similar fashion,

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which do not only take away the opportunity for others of different religious backgrounds to come or be home,

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but will be breaking federal hair, their housing laws while doing so, and as he has been doing for the last six plus years.

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With time constraints, I want to just glaze over other concerns like left hand turn lanes on McMillan from this mosque and they urge you to seriously consider the implications that that will have on traffic, wear and tear accidents, noise and light pollution, etc.

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Similar mosque and neighboring cities have even had a pool in city police force to help direct traffic.

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Who is left footing in this ongoing cost of this task force?

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Who will pay for the eventual widen of the roads and turn signals that will eventually be needed at that intersection?

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We all know the answer to those questions and I highly encourage you to continue to think about things to continue to think things through and how things will like this will affect Murphy, not just today or tomorrow, but in 35 or 10 or 15 years from now, thank you.

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Thank you.

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Good evening, Council, and Mayor, I do want to thank you all for everything you do for the city.

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I want to say that first.

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Second of all, I did put a paper in front of you that I will refer to in a minute from an FBI raid.

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But first, I'd like to urge you not to approve the proposed building and extra parking lot.

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Our existing roadways are already showing signs of stress from increased traffic volumes.

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Also will you please place on your city website whether you have completed a study evaluating

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the rate of road deterioration from increased traffic.

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Has the property owner or city engineer transparently informed you of the true traffic

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flow at the certain times of day of increased traffic?

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Have you and the construction team or city engineer modeled and completed a traffic study?

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Have you determined the degree of increased congestion from additional traffic?

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We already face longer commute times.

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Is it okay with the residents on the side roads to cut through those neighborhoods and

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avoid the area of expansion, I doubt it. Have you modeled and calculated the safety concerns

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from busy intersections? Have you proactively worked with the county? Because you're

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going to need to solve additional road widening or new turn lanes that will trigger right-way

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issues. Have you modeled or calculated the additional maintenance from city crews? Have

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your engineers analyze the significant increase of surface runoff from new paved lots? Is there

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a water model for storm water protection program to reveal or prevent the burden of our storm

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water system increase in the risk of localized flooding and costly drainage repairs.

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Have you contacted and benchmarked with the city of Plano to inquire and receive feedback

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on the number of police required to be directed away from crime, solving and crime prevention

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to directing traffic multiple times a day.

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I suggest you please do that.

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It is significant.

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Will you need to hire additional officers?

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Have you studied and shared with the citizen tax payers?

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The cost of road repairs and the cost of extra police needed?

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Does Murphy have a revenue surplus?

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Will it result in increased taxes to the citizens?

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Does Murphy have a constrained revenue?

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With infrastructure and service demands rising,

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Do you have the power to keep the tax rate slow, which residents love?

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Have you interviewed your neighbors about this, not just tonight?

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Have you asked them about concerns about noise, lighting, or aesthetics?

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Are you confident that special interests do not have too much influence?

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Are they putting pressure on you?

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You do not have to say yes.

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Recently, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma said no.

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No, Keller, Texas said no, Alabama said no.

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I'm asking you to deny or delay your decisions, same thing with planning and zoning.

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Now back to the paper.

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I would like to also make you aware for whether it's tax reasons, attorney review, or anything

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else.

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In the handout I gave you from the FBI raid, I would like you to also consider this is not

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a religious issue.

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because an Islamic center is a place for study, family,

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battalion, courses, seminars, visit, sport, school,

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social clubs, women's gathering,

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kindergarten for males and females,

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offices for domestic political resolution,

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and centers for distributing newsletters.

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This is in Arabic from an FBI raid.

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It is true, because I have a Egyptian Christian

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and translate it and say it was accurate.

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Now, also at the very end, I would like to remind you

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that you all took an oath to the Constitution

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of the United States.

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All you have to do is remember the number four.

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Article four, section four of the United States Constitution

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says we will be protected against many things.

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And I won't go into details, but all you have to do

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is remember the number four, Article four, section four.

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I know you have very difficult decision in front of you.

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And so do many other cities around us, it's not just you, and you're not the first, but you can say no.

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Thank you very much and have a great day.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you very much.

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Honourable Scott Bradley mayor.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you very much for your kindness to allowing us to talk today.

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I just want to explain to you, I cannot show my face here today because my life is in danger.

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If I show who I am, I may get killed for what I am going to tell you right now.

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The reason is, decades ago, I was put into Islamic learning center when I was a kid, to

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learn Islam.

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I was beat up, every Thursday was a beat up.

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If I could not say that he of the basement law correctly, I was a beat up, they were putting

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my foot up and they hitting it up in the stick so many times that I finally be able to say

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that hair correctly. Now you guys need to know what's coming next to you guys and I'm

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going to just read it off of the Quran. Right to the point of this learning center what

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they're going to teach our kids.

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Bataloo Allah Zinnalam Yom Al Menuna. That means Bataloo. You see this word multiple times

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called remove kill

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people

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love your man欲

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is one of us lemon is not

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them as so the capital

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blah blah if you don't do it

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Coconut incomparable

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not one of us if we don't do

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hear battalion that she was saying

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what battalion they're going to make

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that the kids

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and your grandkids are in danger if you bring these guys here to learn this kind of

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not and you can't just cherry picking war on. So I don't want to learn this and

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this area, this area, no. It's either you are Muslim, you read this and memorize it

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and do it or you're not a Muslim. A lot of Ramuna. Okay. From the dress code they have,

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it's quite obvious. They are not assimilating to America. They are still living in

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seven centuries and they will go by these words. If they say no, they're doing what's called tabi,

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lying to you, to pass their religion. Now, if you're not done yet, it's getting just going,

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I'm more interested. The people like me who turn away from them, what are they going to do?

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I just said again, the kote lu, home, haisah, bajah, tamohat, tamohama, vahama, vahlo, tattakuzalabis,

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the ones who turned away from us, if they turn away, sees them, I kill them. Whenever you find them, that means the city hall right now, if one of them is here, over there the good life be.

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That's why I'm covering-

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My face. So apostate. I mean, you can be say, I don't like Jesus. I don't like Buddha. I don't

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bother you. If you say, I don't like Muhammad, he was the psychopathic, you know, crazy guy.

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Your death sentence is right here. Okay. And they're going to come teach these to the kids.

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Bring, wash them. And these kids finally get weapons on there. It's called a second amendment.

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If you do weapons on your hand too, thank you very much. Okay. You're sick. And it goes on about

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Now, the coffers, the Lazina Cafferou,

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the talks about how the coffers have to be,

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you guys are coffers under mortette,

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just to let you, they have category.

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The coffers are here, mortette is mortette,

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immediately has to be killed.

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Coffers, they talk to you, will not see had.

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If you learn to change and come and do like this,

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you know, Islamic behavior,

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you have a chance, as long as you pay Jezea,

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which is like a mafia, you pay your part

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to stay alive for protection money, not Jezea.

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So, it goes on and on and on, then the right of the woman, you all know that that one woman

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have half of a right of a man, a man can marry four wives, a woman by nature or half

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brain, another so hell of the color.

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They are born without a good brain to begin with, therefore you could hit them.

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I have parts, if you guys are interested to read it.

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Another thing about translation, they have gone and paid money to AI to change the translations

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on AI so if you don't know Arabic you cannot read it.

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They totally is different.

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Like here says, what do you do in the Yama Muna?

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That is the kill.

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The guys who are not women AI goes and says fight.

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What do you do?

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That's not being fight.

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What do you mean kill?

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Fight is haraba.

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So they're very smart.

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The money that goes around to change transactions online.

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The money that checks are written for city councils and mayors and lawmakers.

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We don't really what is coming from overseas. I think CIA is with it too, honestly, not that they don't know these things.

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So my suggestion is don't be afraid for first amendment.

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Oh, first amendment, really? No, no, no, wait a minute.

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If California can infringe on second amendment like that, and it's not, you know, practice if you have carries on free totally in California.

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you know, in United States, local governments can also say, oh, wait a second, this is too

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violent for my blood, I don't want my kids to be raised with this, get out of here.

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Another thing is drugs codes, you guys need to put some foot down for the rest codes, they

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were like that, I've seen their job and their job and things like that, that's unacceptable,

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really, coming to Walmart, here, there, the schools, you need to put your foot down, sorry,

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like France, you can't do it like that.

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Thank you very much. I want to give

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everybody an opportunity to who wants to speak tonight

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and I don't want to be in a position where I'm cutting you off. I really, really don't.

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So go ahead. Good evening, Councilmembers. My name is Michael Bavilla. I'm here today to

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ask Council to deny or pause its application for the approval of the Islamic Knowledge

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tender located at 1030 Murphy Road. The following questions and commentary are the

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basis for my request. Parking, please share how will safety be insured

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regarding the possibility of double parking on streets, parking on sidewalks,

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parking between a safety zone and the curb, and a long-sider opposite street

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obstructions during daily and special events. Water, please share the water

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model that examines adequate water resources for current residents after new

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developments are built and any proposed zoning applications has the city staff discuss

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future water pressure with the fire department.

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Will any new developments or zoning applications affect our city's effort to fix our existing

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water leakage issues?

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Traffic.

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Have the developers revealed an accurate description of the volume of daily traffic flowing

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in and out of the property?

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Has the city conducted a recent city limits traffic study?

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Roads and bridges.

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What would be the cost of road repair from heavy construction and increased traffic

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volume?

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Police and fire.

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What would be the cost and a number of policemen needed to direct daily traffic or weekly,

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for weekly, political, legal, cultural, or special events from the property?

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What would be the cost to all taxpayers of the increased police presence that will be needed

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in the next one to five years?

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What are the costs and time needed to train new firemen over the next five years?

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Commentary.

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Preserve, protect, and defend the U.S. Constitution.

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Local American governments must maintain our national and state identities as well as

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our secularism.

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Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution establishes the Constitution as a supreme law of the land,

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our political, legal, and social structure all flow from it.

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Islam is a way of life that is incompatible with our constitutional republic.

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It is a distinct and separate political, separate legal, and separate social structure.

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An Islamic Center, through my research, is a behind designed to be a seed for a separate

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and distinct society.

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It is a place for study, for family meetings, for supply and the battalion of men, for academic

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for political and legal training for sports is designed as a social club,

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as an office for domestic, political and legal resolutions,

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and the center for distributing their media.

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I must say again, local American governments must maintain

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our national and state identities as well as our secularism.

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We as a nation and as a society do not have to accommodate

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the Islamic way of life.

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It is okay to say no.

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In fact, there are times that we must say no.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Good evening.

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I've provided my information already on the comment form.

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So I have concerns about a lot of the different developments that are happening in the city also

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with the mosque, but I really want to focus my time on the newly proposed parking lot on 10,

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26, 10, 30 North Murphy Road.

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Currently they are residential lots.

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We all know that that is not likely the intent to stay that way.

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We know that it will definitely be a larger center, that will have a lot more use than

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what we think might be proposed there today.

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And I'd like to say that no group is exempt from zoning requirements.

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We all need to make sure that everyone's following the right rules.

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And that is the right thing for the city of Murphy.

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I have concerns personally about the accuracy of the application that was submitted at the

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last planning and zoning meeting, I have concerns about compatibility with what they're planning

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with the surrounding area. They failed to describe the full range of activities, the participation

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levels, the hours of use, the frequency of the use. We all know that there is likely also

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going to be larger attendance and higher activity for even certain months of the year. For example,

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holidays such as Ramadan and Eid. We also know there could be ceremonial events, festivities

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that often generate weekend-long crowds?

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Are they going to be hosting regional programs?

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They had previously on their website

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that they had planned to have this be,

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they advertised it as a center for all of the surrounding area

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naming cities such as Wiley, St. Paul, Lucas.

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These are large areas.

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They expect people to be coming in

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from a lot of different places, okay?

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It's going to be a lot of traffic.

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Not to mention, we have the moss

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that's coming in concerns about that traffic as well.

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Additionally, we know that there are often peak attendance at different days and times.

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Knowing those participation levels are foundation to the understanding of its use.

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Furthermore, we might be talking about multiple times a day, five times a day, they're having

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certain activities.

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That will just think about the amount of people, one person, five times a day, let's assume

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that person does.

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That one person is really five different trips, so a lot of traffic.

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I also have concerns about the fact that we don't know the burden that we will have on

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the surrounding area, the traffic activity, the frequency of gathered, the anticipated

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noise. There is a ranch subdivision that borders the backside of this property, an entire

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residential subdivision. There are backyards on the right-hand side, depending on what you're

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standing, that boards backyards of the ranch neighborhood. It's not compatible with what

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that current use is across the street,

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you have rolling ridge of states.

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Down the road, we're gonna have really nice

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the states as well that are gonna be filled

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over by South Fork.

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So it's really very much a residential area.

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And I think the city is planning and zoning

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or need to really consider how this will impact

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the surrounding areas.

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In addition, we have the Wiley ISD and Plano ISD buses

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that travel those roads frequently,

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getting kids to and from school.

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We also have two schools down the street.

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We have the high school in the middle school, we have city hall, we have police and fire station, we have PSA, tons of traffic.

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Have you guys gone to PSA on the weekends? It's intense. Okay, so I think we just need to really think about that.

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Also, the noise, as I mentioned, we have residential areas nearby.

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People are entitled to have their quiet use and enjoyment of their property.

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I don't think that this is going to be that when we build all these centers around here.

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It's not going to be the same.

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There's also environmental concerns.

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As of last week, I actually saw the listing for that property that the seller had put

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up.

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It listed on the actual, I forget if it was realtor.com, but it was one of these, it was

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basically the cyber they had listed it for sale.

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It actually said that part of the property at 1026 and 1030 was on flood plain, the back

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part where it goes to the creek.

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Now it's not there anymore.

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I was actually going to print a copy of it, no longer there anymore as if I looked out

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of it today. So, I don't know if that's intentional or not, but I think we need to also look at

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the environmental concerns with the creek. I think someone else did a great job of explaining

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why we also have concerns there. And also, I'd like to urge the Planning and Zoning Commission

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and Board to make sure that they're thinking of these things before they make decision.

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I think making a decision as of in a few weeks is probably too soon. We need to understand

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the full intent of what they plan to build there and make sure it's the right thing for the city.

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Good evening Council and everybody here Mayor Bradley. I'm not here to talk about a whole lot. I'll try to keep it short.

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We were one of the couples that looked into possibly buying a property over there when they first opened it up and we were turned away because we were not Muslim and found that shocking.

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Okay. Can you

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hear me now?

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Okay. Anyways, we were one of the couples, my wife and I, have a growing family, and

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we looked into possibly purchasing a property over there when it first came up, and we returned

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away they wouldn't even talk to us because we're not Muslim. And I found that to be shocking.

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It seems like if they're going to only let Muslims build over there, they're just building

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a compound.

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My other concern again, I do support all the other comments that came before

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me today. I'm in total agreement with everything I've heard so far. I haven't heard anything

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that I disagree with, so I'm not going to rehash everything other than I am very concerned

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about the congestion on the mill and road right there. The road currently seems to be in

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shambles, is falling into the ground on both sides of the road. A lot of people are driving

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down the middle of the road, and as you come over the bridge going west, you go around

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the turn, and it's treacherous because if people are coming home from work, there's three

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or four or five cars driving down the middle of the road, and I'm trying to avoid hitting

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them, I'm about to be in a ditch.

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So I'm also concerned about the condition of the bridge and how old it is.

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Do you guys, or does the state or some agency come and check on the bridges and make sure

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that they're up to code still and that they don't need some kind of repair, especially with a lot more traffic going through there now.

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I'm concerned that the bridge might have problems and recently there was a crash over there that I think someone ended up in the creek as they crashed over the bridge rail.

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But just any time of day, now, I mean, there's several times a day when you go out and you're trying to get on to Murphy Road, which is my main access to Murphy Road from Maxwell Creek.

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I'm on the mill and I might be waiting five, ten minutes depending on what time of day, but more than one time of day.

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And I'm concerned about crashes there, turning left especially.

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I'm concerned that if the mosque goes in over there, they're praying five times a day.

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So it's going to be five times a day that they're going to be needing to have parking and people going in and out over there.

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And there is an entrance over there. It's just going to be just a cluster.

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I mean, it's going to be a really bad situation.

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I'm also concerned about whenever they have events,

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if they're parking lot doesn't hold everything,

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maybe they're going to be parking on the side of the road,

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on the mill and road on either side.

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And to my understanding, the people who owned the houses

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before they sold out also owned part of the land

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on the other side of the road up to the creek,

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or close to the creek.

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So the landowner probably owns both sides of the road anyway.

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They probably feel like they could park over there.

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Anyways, these are my concerns, and I don't really have anything else to say other than

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thank you for your time.

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Thank you, Mike.

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Hello, Councilor Mayor.

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My name is Charles Andrew Krauch.

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I'm here to address you tonight on the Islamic Center you guys are considering.

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I'm currently a candidate for Governor here in the state of Texas, and I have a unique

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knowledge of Islam and Sharia law in the Muslim communities. 20 years ago I

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deployed overseas to the country of Iraq and the Ambar province and I knew

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Arabic. That was my language in the military and I think I may be one of the

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most knowledgeable persons on the subject of Muslims in this room except for the

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other man who spoke Arabic on a juice el-Lugat al-Arabia on a lugat al-Lugat al-Lugat

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I said I love the language of Arabic. I studied it in the military. It's a beautiful language. But it's a different culture in so many ways.

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I wanted to come and encourage you guys tonight to remember who we are as a people. You guys have a decision before you. In our Constitution and our people, we live a Christian Protestant way of life. On a national level, on a national level,

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state level and on a local level. You guys have an opportunity to declare this is who

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we are. Letting other cultures come in that doesn't really mix with our faith, kind

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of just brings all the problems associated with it. And it is a different culture. And

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it does clash. I could list some things for the past 20 years. People wouldn't believe

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me what I saw overseas. They look at humanity a different way. They look at sexuality

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and marriage in children a different way. They honor life in just a different way. And

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I believe in my heart. It's time for us. I believe Texas is going through a little bit

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of an identity crisis right now. Not really knowing who we are. And I believe it's time

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for us to say and you guys have an opportunity to do this, to say we are Christian people and

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if I get the opportunity to serve as governor I will stand up there and I will declare Texas is a

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Christian state in a Christian nation and that's who we are and if you don't know who we are we're

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dead this problem won't go away it will encroach on your kids and your grandkids and you have an

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opportunity to protect that heritage legacy bloodline of your family tree tonight on a local

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level and send that message. I encourage you to do that. And you will sleep better at night.

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God bless. Thank you.

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Welcome. I'm approaching this I guess a little bit different. Same concerns,

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but obviously we're hearing a lot of the same rhetoric over and over again. I agree with all of

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those. My position, I believe, is a little bit different. Move to Murphy in 2001. I was

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one of the few people originally elected to the original charter commission to write

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the charter for the city. We spent months and months and months going through chargers

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from all different surrounding cities that were relatively the same size or going to be

444
00:32:46,530 --> 00:32:49,830
the same size is what we saw the growth pattern of Murphy going to be.

445
00:32:49,830 --> 00:32:59,670
The entire focus of writing that charter was to keep the community of Murphy, a community

446
00:32:59,670 --> 00:33:00,830
and city of Murphy.

447
00:33:01,390 --> 00:33:07,590
It was to be people that reunited and had neighborhoods and had things in common where

448
00:33:07,590 --> 00:33:11,170
you still had your kids riding up and down the street and that sort of thing, which was

449
00:33:11,170 --> 00:33:13,530
very common back in 2001.

450
00:33:15,210 --> 00:33:23,630
As the charter has been reviewed and rewritten, there have been some changes that as original

451
00:33:23,630 --> 00:33:28,490
charter members were not 100% happy with, but still seem to be somewhat congruent with

452
00:33:28,490 --> 00:33:29,470
the growth of Murphy.

453
00:33:30,630 --> 00:33:38,170
However, with this long situation, it is completely contrary to everything that this city started

454
00:33:38,170 --> 00:33:44,070
out as being. This was a small town city that we had roots in and everybody knew their

455
00:33:44,070 --> 00:33:50,670
neighbors and we liked that. That's why people navigated here and came here instead of moving

456
00:33:50,670 --> 00:33:58,490
to Frisco and moving to these populated areas. They wanted that feel, that home. And once you

457
00:33:58,490 --> 00:34:05,230
start getting a community that does not integrate into that and has different value systems and

458
00:34:05,770 --> 00:34:08,430
does not want to be a part of us.

459
00:34:08,510 --> 00:34:09,510
They've made that very clear.

460
00:34:09,710 --> 00:34:10,290
They do not.

461
00:34:10,510 --> 00:34:11,570
They want to be separate.

462
00:34:11,850 --> 00:34:13,450
They don't allow us in their areas.

463
00:34:13,950 --> 00:34:15,830
If you go as the gentleman just said,

464
00:34:15,990 --> 00:34:18,290
you try to buy a house in these areas,

465
00:34:18,410 --> 00:34:19,190
and they flat refuse.

466
00:34:19,590 --> 00:34:20,690
They do not want us in it.

467
00:34:22,450 --> 00:34:23,990
So I see a problem with that.

468
00:34:24,630 --> 00:34:25,930
One of my biggest concerns.

469
00:34:26,190 --> 00:34:28,190
I mean, I really, really apologize.

470
00:34:28,670 --> 00:34:36,290
Hey, um, uh, Mark, jeep acclustin, uh, X-team, X-team?

471
00:34:36,810 --> 00:34:38,330
Why don't you keep your family here?

472
00:34:38,450 --> 00:34:40,710
As soon as she's done, uh, we'll do the swearing in.

473
00:34:40,890 --> 00:34:42,870
So your, your family doesn't have to come back.

474
00:34:43,070 --> 00:34:43,550
Is that okay?

475
00:34:44,190 --> 00:34:44,690
Uh, sure.

476
00:34:44,870 --> 00:34:45,290
All right.

477
00:34:45,650 --> 00:34:47,070
Go ahead and finish up.

478
00:34:47,330 --> 00:34:47,550
All right.

479
00:34:48,090 --> 00:34:52,550
Um, one of the things I guess that I found, um, concerning

480
00:34:52,550 --> 00:34:55,650
because initially when Murphy started out, it was the mayor

481
00:34:55,650 --> 00:35:03,370
and that was kind of in lead and we have since changed that to where we had an admin as well as the mayor as well as the council.

482
00:35:03,970 --> 00:35:12,430
I'm trying to keep this open to where there was a different point of view coming in and seem to encompass more of an idea from everybody.

483
00:35:13,030 --> 00:35:18,270
I don't find the communication with City Council to have been as open as I would have preferred.

484
00:35:19,070 --> 00:35:24,350
I have moved from a home that we originally had, as I said now, to the older part of Murphy

485
00:35:24,350 --> 00:35:26,730
that sits on an acre, the old houses.

486
00:35:28,290 --> 00:35:31,070
I have a Muslim group that has moved next door.

487
00:35:31,730 --> 00:35:38,330
I filed a complaint because there are a lot of mother-in-law suites and that sort of things,

488
00:35:38,330 --> 00:35:42,550
and those have been allowed given the size of those properties, but there had to be a roof

489
00:35:42,550 --> 00:35:43,230
connecting them.

490
00:35:43,230 --> 00:35:48,350
I don't know where or how this came about in the zoning, but apparently now it's okay

491
00:35:48,350 --> 00:35:54,650
for people to start renting out their barns, building new external buildings that aren't

492
00:35:54,650 --> 00:35:59,330
connected, and they can be Airbnb's or what they call short-term rentals.

493
00:36:00,450 --> 00:36:06,750
I saw the barn next door turn into a community thing, and they've also built some other issues.

494
00:36:06,750 --> 00:36:14,030
So, I think the community needs more communication directly involving the City Council and

495
00:36:14,030 --> 00:36:15,890
involving the residents as well.

496
00:36:16,230 --> 00:36:16,470
Thank you.

497
00:36:16,830 --> 00:36:17,250
Thank you.

498
00:36:22,330 --> 00:36:26,230
I really apologize to take a little bit of a break here.

499
00:36:26,330 --> 00:36:30,990
There is an item on the agenda, which is to swear in a new fire marshal.

500
00:36:31,390 --> 00:36:35,450
This whole family is here, so if you guys will allow us to do that,

501
00:36:38,660 --> 00:36:40,600
then we'll get back to the public comments.

502
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:50,100
Okay, so I'm going to put that item on hold for just a moment and I'm going to call item a 6D oath of office administer

503
00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:53,100
oath of office to Fire Marshal Scott X-D.

504
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:07,170
It looks like a just lost one. I'm sorry. There we go.

505
00:37:08,910 --> 00:37:14,960
I became unprepared during that time. I apologize for that. Thank you.

506
00:37:19,780 --> 00:37:21,120
I may have to wing this.

507
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:23,300
a few words up here.

508
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,020
I guess I'm just place to go. I'm sorry, let's get this. Oh, here

509
00:37:28,020 --> 00:37:31,140
we go. Thank you very much, my name is Michael.

510
00:37:32,980 --> 00:37:36,480
It's our citizens here. Thank you all for giving me the opportunity to this. We have a gentleman

511
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,520
that's getting sworn in here. His family made a trip in to get this done and he has small

512
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:43,880
children and stuff that need to kind of move on with the remiss. So thank you for your time

513
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:45,620
on this and give us a moment. So thank you.

514
00:37:51,340 --> 00:37:53,780
All right. Thank you very much, Council. As most

515
00:37:53,780 --> 00:37:57,200
Most of you know, we've recently had a change in our fire prevention office with our

516
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:02,440
formal, former Fire Marshal John Grant was returning to the operation side of our house.

517
00:38:02,660 --> 00:38:08,040
So with that opening, we have a new member that's joining our team at this evening officially.

518
00:38:08,180 --> 00:38:12,740
He joined us on December 29th on the 25th, and in his first three weeks, he's already

519
00:38:12,740 --> 00:38:13,460
making an impact.

520
00:38:13,900 --> 00:38:17,940
He wasted no time settling in and going to work at a high degree of experience and professional

521
00:38:17,940 --> 00:38:18,320
realism.

522
00:38:18,860 --> 00:38:21,420
He comes us from Richardson Fire Department right next door.

523
00:38:21,420 --> 00:38:26,000
He has spent his entire 21-year service career with Richardson Fire Department.

524
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:31,260
Of that time, he has been in the operation side for nine years and the remainder of that

525
00:38:31,260 --> 00:38:35,060
time in the Fire Prevention Office and the Fire Marshal's office.

526
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:43,140
Scott is a licensed paramedic, a master structural firefighter, a master fire inspector, and a

527
00:38:43,140 --> 00:38:44,280
master arson investigator.

528
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:51,940
He serves on a National Fire Prevention Association Committee 17 and 17 A for the standards and

529
00:38:51,940 --> 00:38:56,640
the National Fire Protection Association 96 Committee for the National Standards. He

530
00:38:56,640 --> 00:39:01,040
earned his bachelor's degree from the University of North Texas in 2000, and he has set to complete

531
00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:06,380
and earn his master's degree in public service administration this coming May from Texas

532
00:39:06,380 --> 00:39:13,280
A&M University. For those here, Mayor and Council members, it's my honor and my pleasure to present

533
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:17,280
to you Division Chief Scott Eckstein, our Fire Marshal for Mercy Fire Rescue.

534
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:33,620
He's here to that with his wife Ashley Marie, his daughter Elisa, and son Canon, and his

535
00:39:33,620 --> 00:39:33,920
parents.

536
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:39,540
The kiddos and his wife there will be participating in his swearing in and his

537
00:39:39,540 --> 00:39:40,220
oath of office.

538
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,780
So, Miss Xsteen, if you and your children are pleased, come on up and join us, she is.

539
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:47,880
And yep, then come on.

540
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,620
That way they can also see up there if they need to face.

541
00:39:55,930 --> 00:39:57,210
Also, we're going to stop with that.

542
00:39:57,210 --> 00:40:02,110
We have one other portion. This will stop with that this evening. So thank you. At this point here, I will let Kandy take over.

543
00:40:12,110 --> 00:40:15,270
Raise your right hand. Repeat after me. I state your name.

544
00:40:15,470 --> 00:40:28,740
I, Scott X. Dean, do solemnly swear or firm that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of Fire Marshall, of the city of Murphy,

545
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:38,600
of the city of Murphy, the state of Texas, and will to the best of my ability, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend,

546
00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:48,260
the City of Murphy Charter and the Constitution in law of the United States and of the state.

547
00:40:48,540 --> 00:40:49,820
So how have we got?

548
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:50,760
Congratulations.

549
00:41:03,580 --> 00:41:04,060
Congratulations.

550
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:05,020
We have one more.

551
00:41:05,260 --> 00:41:09,040
Chief Elliott told me that I couldn't talk, but I have to talk for 30 seconds or less.

552
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:19,560
The unique aspect of Fire Marshal's office is that you are a certified firefighter and you're also a certified Texas Peace Officer.

553
00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:25,260
So the swearing-in component that we're about to do is to swear our fantastic new

554
00:41:25,260 --> 00:41:27,560
parmortial in as a Texas peace officer.

555
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:30,780
Sir, please raise your right hand.

556
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:32,560
I state your name.

557
00:41:33,740 --> 00:41:35,020
Do solemnly swear or affirm.

558
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:37,980
I apologize.

559
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,080
I will faithfully execute the duties.

560
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:43,080
That I will faithfully execute the duties.

561
00:41:43,780 --> 00:41:45,360
Of the office of police officer.

562
00:41:45,540 --> 00:41:46,800
Of the office of police officer.

563
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:54,460
of the city of Murphy, the state of Texas, and we'll do to the best of my ability,

564
00:41:54,860 --> 00:42:02,720
preserve, protect, and defend, the Murphy City Charter, and the Constitution and Laws

565
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:10,840
of the United States, and of this state, and of this state, so help me God, so help me God.

566
00:43:01,800 --> 00:43:03,260
No, not a problem.

567
00:43:03,420 --> 00:43:04,360
Thanks for coming out.

568
00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:06,240
And welcome to the city.

569
00:43:12,430 --> 00:43:20,350
I am going to push the cert presentation.

570
00:43:20,970 --> 00:43:26,450
And I'm going to push the police chief's presentation to the next meeting.

571
00:43:26,930 --> 00:43:28,110
Thank you guys for coming out.

572
00:43:28,110 --> 00:43:33,370
apologize. I want to give our residents as much opportunity as we can to be heard.

573
00:43:34,450 --> 00:43:42,910
Again, once again, thank you guys for waiting. We will resume the public comments.

574
00:43:44,330 --> 00:43:51,290
Again, I am dedicated to giving you as much time as you want and need as pithy as possible,

575
00:43:51,430 --> 00:43:57,470
because we have a lot of people. But make sure you express yourself in the way you feel necessary.

576
00:43:57,470 --> 00:44:09,370
Good evening. I'm Elizabeth Alejandro and I live in Murphy. I'm coming before you to support all the other people that have come before me.

577
00:44:10,870 --> 00:44:21,630
I'm speaking regarding the case number 2025-017 and the application for zoning and I think everybody's already spoken on that.

578
00:44:21,630 --> 00:44:32,190
I want our city to stand against terrorism and protecting our community and our way of life and not to

579
00:44:32,190 --> 00:44:43,630
accommodate and allow people not to assimilate into our culture. There's a lot of things that happen and they happen in

580
00:44:43,630 --> 00:44:53,790
increments, slow but sure, such as parts of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria,

581
00:44:53,790 --> 00:44:59,750
and parts of modern day Turkey. Who once were Christian majority nations?

582
00:45:03,630 --> 00:45:28,310
So, I just want you to know that they have different ways of coming in and inputting their information in. Sometimes they hide it in such a way as they can't see it. It may be written into their H.O.I. by-laws, where they're kind of put in their Sharia ideology.

583
00:45:31,550 --> 00:45:33,550
It's very hard to say no.

584
00:45:33,550 --> 00:45:41,910
So you can't do your religious sect here for any reason because it's supposedly based

585
00:45:41,910 --> 00:45:52,070
on being a religious sect, but perhaps there is a way that you can find that you can

586
00:45:52,070 --> 00:45:58,450
protect our culture that we have and our Christian nation.

587
00:45:58,970 --> 00:45:59,690
Thank you for your time.

588
00:45:59,930 --> 00:46:00,170
Thank you.

589
00:46:00,170 --> 00:46:01,270
My

590
00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,380
name is Diane Galway.

591
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:16,420
The City of Josephine is about to be taken over by Muslims.

592
00:46:17,660 --> 00:46:22,280
Our City of Murphy is very diverse but it's very small.

593
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:26,920
About 20,000 people and only five square miles.

594
00:46:28,580 --> 00:46:37,200
I think you can see today that there are a lot of citizens of Murphy who don't want Murphy to be taken over.

595
00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:41,580
or the Muslims have said they're going to take over Josephine.

596
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:43,800
We don't want that to happen here.

597
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:48,820
And the other thing I want to comment on, I agree with at least one other person that

598
00:46:48,820 --> 00:46:53,660
said, could you please keep us better informed of what you are doing?

599
00:46:54,020 --> 00:46:58,060
There are lots of ways you can do that, but we hope that you will keep us better informed.

600
00:46:58,800 --> 00:46:59,140
Thank you.

601
00:46:59,380 --> 00:46:59,660
Thank you.

602
00:47:04,810 --> 00:47:05,450
Thank you, Brown.

603
00:47:08,700 --> 00:47:09,680
Can everybody hear me?

604
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:10,060
Yeah.

605
00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:10,540
Are we good?

606
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:11,200
Okay.

607
00:47:11,740 --> 00:47:12,180
Hello.

608
00:47:12,180 --> 00:47:16,480
So thank you for Councilmembers, thank you for letting us come and speak to you tonight.

609
00:47:17,260 --> 00:47:24,160
My name is Karen and let me start out with, I've been in a lot of different countries,

610
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:29,620
lived in a lot of places, I'll tell you, there's a lovely little neighborhood in Dallas

611
00:47:29,620 --> 00:47:36,700
that let a Moscow mix to it, and there are cars now, several times a day, in the driveways,

612
00:47:36,900 --> 00:47:42,020
down the streets, in the parking, on the grass, in the yards, and the citizens of that

613
00:47:42,020 --> 00:47:43,740
neighborhood are throwing fits.

614
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,220
They spent a lot of money on that neighborhood.

615
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:49,880
Anyway, so what I want to talk about today.

616
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:50,720
Can you right hear me?

617
00:47:51,300 --> 00:47:54,020
There's going to be something on the ballot coming up

618
00:47:54,020 --> 00:47:56,480
at the primary called Ban Sheree Law.

619
00:47:56,940 --> 00:48:00,160
Everywhere I go, I ask people, what the heck is Sheree Law?

620
00:48:00,520 --> 00:48:01,580
What are we banning?

621
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:03,780
So I'd like to address that.

622
00:48:04,500 --> 00:48:07,640
For one thing, our government is allowing

623
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:10,480
the spread of Sheree Law through enforcing

624
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:16,260
a tolerance of Sharia doctrine under the banner of freedom and diversity and religion.

625
00:48:16,900 --> 00:48:19,380
But this is not the case, this is political Islam.

626
00:48:20,240 --> 00:48:26,620
It starts in the demands that the Muslims are going to make to you and to the town.

627
00:48:27,060 --> 00:48:33,340
First of all, in the schools, France and several other countries in Europe have banned the

628
00:48:33,340 --> 00:48:41,320
hijab, the iberka, and all this kind of covering in the name of safety, secularism, and national

629
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:47,800
identity. Schools here can do the same thing. It is pointless to ask a seven-year-old

630
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:56,600
girl to wear hijab. We have to say no. To fasting during Ramadan, it's a month-long fast

631
00:48:56,600 --> 00:49:02,520
where they stop eating, drinking, and putting candy in their mouth, gum anything in your

632
00:49:02,520 --> 00:49:09,180
else from sun up to sun down and they would like their kids to participate in that.

633
00:49:09,980 --> 00:49:17,420
So imagine some modern kids in the school who are starving and can't even swallow, say

634
00:49:17,420 --> 00:49:22,100
no to fasting during Ramadan because they're not required to.

635
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:23,840
It's not a requirement.

636
00:49:25,020 --> 00:49:30,640
It'd be nice like your parents asking you to make well longer skirt when you leave the

637
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:32,780
house, but you're not going to.

638
00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:39,300
So fasting is not done if you're sick, pregnant, nursing,

639
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,480
or other medical or life circumstances.

640
00:49:43,460 --> 00:49:47,740
You can make up that fast another day or in the evening.

641
00:49:48,140 --> 00:49:50,420
You do not have to suffer.

642
00:49:51,340 --> 00:49:53,780
Several companies are also being requested

643
00:49:54,220 --> 00:49:58,460
to not bring food into the office or cook during Ramadan.

644
00:49:59,160 --> 00:50:06,360
This was asked of my company where I was living and my boss fortunately said no if you

645
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:10,900
are Muslim and you're fasting go to your office and shut the door but we're still

646
00:50:10,900 --> 00:50:18,820
going to eat just say no and again it's if you cannot faster in the day the

647
00:50:18,820 --> 00:50:25,260
Quran says you can do it another time let you know most Muslims don't even

648
00:50:25,260 --> 00:50:27,500
and suggest fasting for their kids

649
00:50:27,500 --> 00:50:29,420
till they're teenagers or grown.

650
00:50:30,060 --> 00:50:32,620
So keep that in mind and say no

651
00:50:33,070 --> 00:50:36,520
for the safety and health of our schools and teachers.

652
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:38,620
Prayer rooms,

653
00:50:39,220 --> 00:50:41,780
Muslims are going to ask that you put a prayer room

654
00:50:41,780 --> 00:50:45,660
in the school so their precious children can go pray.

655
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,460
It's at seven, six o'clock, don't worry about that.

656
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:54,680
Seven, 20, 12, 20, three o'clock, five, 21.

657
00:50:54,680 --> 00:51:01,000
in 630. So you can see there's only a couple of times they might pray. Guess what? They don't have

658
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:07,160
to have a prayer room. It says in the Cron you can pray at your desk. If you have to, you can pray

659
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:13,300
in your car, you can pray on the stairs. You do not have to have a special room. Do you give a special

660
00:51:13,300 --> 00:51:18,260
room to the Baptist for their prayer meetings? Do the kids have a Bible study during lunch?

661
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:24,260
Do the Catholics get to have Mass every morning because they prefer you have a Mass every morning.

662
00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:30,460
I know I lived with a family of Catholics, so I don't think we accommodate them, say, no.

663
00:51:34,020 --> 00:51:37,620
Oh, companies made me ask to break up the work.

664
00:51:38,260 --> 00:51:42,000
Like, I have to stop this time and this time, like we said, to pray.

665
00:51:42,260 --> 00:51:47,420
So you're going to have to just live without me on the line or in the shop or whatever.

666
00:51:48,060 --> 00:51:49,320
No, you say, no.

667
00:51:49,320 --> 00:51:56,120
I know from the caronser that you can make up that prayer night, guess what, say no.

668
00:51:58,380 --> 00:52:04,300
Schools, who is going to pay for the hallal meals when they ask you to serve hall meals

669
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at your school, in your hospitals, in government offices?

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00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:09,440
Who's going to pay for that?

671
00:52:09,700 --> 00:52:16,820
The tax payers, more money out of our pocket, to pay for these accommodations, say, no.

672
00:52:17,500 --> 00:52:18,400
Guess what?

673
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:27,580
But if it says, in a Quran, you don't have to skip eating if there's no halal food.

674
00:52:27,940 --> 00:52:31,380
It says, go ahead and eat what's available so you don't starve.

675
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:37,180
It says that in the Quran, so don't let them tell you they can't live without halal

676
00:52:37,180 --> 00:52:37,600
food.

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00:52:38,860 --> 00:52:42,100
Broadcasting allowed call to prayer of the loudspeakers.

678
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:46,040
Well, once upon a time, Arabia housed Muslims.

679
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:54,040
It's a sandy place, a desert, and they lived in tents, and nobody knew when 1205 came around, so they had a call to prayer.

680
00:52:54,360 --> 00:53:02,180
Here it is 2026, and we have cell phones, and we can set alarms, and it will tell us when we can pray.

681
00:53:02,820 --> 00:53:15,400
You do not need a loudspeaker, okay? And may I remind you, if you do allow loudspeaker five times a day, I know the Baptist are going to put a loudspeaker up and play Billy Graham five times a day.

682
00:53:19,720 --> 00:53:25,320
And the Mormons are going to play the Mormon tower knuckle choir five times a day, so get

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a thought of that idea.

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So I say no, tell them to get their apple thrown updated.

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Another really quick item, rest shots, hair soons, hospital rooms are going to be asked to

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00:53:41,540 --> 00:53:46,460
set aside a specific area just for their women to have walled off because they don't think

687
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their women should be seen with their hair showing, go somewhere else.

688
00:53:51,760 --> 00:53:58,480
I am not going to ask a small business to have that impact of extra money to put

689
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:02,180
walls around every single thing and in the restaurants also.

690
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:03,260
I'm going to ask you to close.

691
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Okay, let me close.

692
00:54:05,060 --> 00:54:11,160
So all of us, you have to say no, understand what they're asking and understand, would

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00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:12,480
you do it for the Baptist?

694
00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:14,320
They like to eat casseroles all the time.

695
00:54:14,580 --> 00:54:15,980
Would you do it for the Catholics?

696
00:54:15,980 --> 00:54:21,160
they say math. The Hindus don't like our food that much. They love to bring their own food.

697
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:26,940
Think about what you're doing. And I, for one, have never worried about my neighborhood

698
00:54:26,940 --> 00:54:33,440
Hindu temple coming to get me or cut my throat. I lived in Kuwait for almost three years.

699
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:39,060
I've worked in Israel. I've been in Bahrain. The Emirates. I have seen it in action.

700
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I thank you for listening. Please consider what I'm saying. Thank you.

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Thank you.

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00:54:50,090 --> 00:54:50,530
Welcome.

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00:54:54,720 --> 00:55:00,680
Hi, my name is Lee and I will, I submitted an online application, but I'll do the printed one as well.

704
00:55:00,940 --> 00:55:06,360
So, anyway, so thank you for allowing us to speak tonight and thank you for serving your community.

705
00:55:06,880 --> 00:55:11,240
I know you've given your own time and money to serve on the council because you care about your community.

706
00:55:11,740 --> 00:55:14,480
Not only for today, but for your children and grandchildren.

707
00:55:15,340 --> 00:55:17,180
And that's why I'm here today as well.

708
00:55:17,980 --> 00:55:23,520
specifically to speak about the Moscow approval that was discussed at the last council meeting.

709
00:55:24,260 --> 00:55:29,100
I'm not from Murphy but I'm from Fairview where I've been addressing a major zoning issue since

710
00:55:29,100 --> 00:55:35,180
April of 2024 regarding a gigantic structure and all of the headaches it will bring by being

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00:55:35,180 --> 00:55:36,960
crammed into our tiny little town.

712
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:43,920
As an advocate or small towns throughout North Texas, I respectfully urge you to delay this approval.

713
00:55:43,920 --> 00:55:48,980
Do the concerns about the roads, bridges, fire, and police safety, water infrastructure,

714
00:55:48,980 --> 00:55:53,460
and parking, noise and lighting concerns that have been noted by others tonight.

715
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:58,320
These are major concerns that will impact a small town like yours and you need to be certain

716
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:03,720
that you've crossed every T and dotted every I before approving, as this will be your forever.

717
00:56:04,820 --> 00:56:09,920
The double R mud, or formerly known as EPIC, development in Josephine and Colin County

718
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:15,300
We'll soon be presenting to the commissioners court where the many decisions design issues

719
00:56:15,300 --> 00:56:20,760
will be discussed and some of those will impact what's going to go on here as well and

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00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:21,560
what will be allowed.

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And then like others today, I'm formally requesting a postponement of this development decision.

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This critical pause will give you as council members the necessary time to thoroughly examine,

723
00:56:34,240 --> 00:56:38,920
as I said, the water fire, police parking and street infrastructure issues arising from

724
00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:41,420
from the population boom that will be created,

725
00:56:41,920 --> 00:56:44,600
but especially their ability to assimilate

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00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:45,960
into your community.

727
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:47,960
That needs to be a consideration.

728
00:56:49,100 --> 00:56:51,700
Please delay until you've examined all these issues

729
00:56:51,700 --> 00:56:53,100
to ensure you're making the decisions

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00:56:53,100 --> 00:56:55,140
that protect the future of current residents

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00:56:55,140 --> 00:56:57,040
and all of your children and grandchildren.

732
00:56:57,980 --> 00:56:59,620
And as previous speakers have said,

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00:57:00,460 --> 00:57:02,000
please honor your oath.

734
00:57:02,460 --> 00:57:05,460
And most importantly, the oath to the Constitution.

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And Islam is not compatible.

736
00:57:07,940 --> 00:57:09,660
Thank you. Thank

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00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:29,360
you. Next. Good evening. Thank you for allowing me to speak tonight. I am a local resident and a frequent driver through the area near North Murphy Road and

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00:57:29,800 --> 00:57:41,580
McMillan Road. I want to share my concern about the Oasis Springs Manor's development and the associated mosque project by the Islamic Association of Murphy. When I first saw the

739
00:57:41,580 --> 00:57:46,780
construction, I was excited. It looked like a promising new neighborhood where I could

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00:57:46,780 --> 00:57:53,240
build a new home. But after researching, I visited the Oasis Springs Manor's website.

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00:57:53,700 --> 00:57:59,600
I found very little information available. The site offers little detail about the project's

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00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:06,260
vision and much of the advertising still relies on older Murphy pamphlets that has nothing

743
00:58:06,260 --> 00:58:12,420
to do with the actual development. I also came across recent online discussions and videos

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00:58:12,420 --> 00:58:19,140
noting that all the street names in the development such as Osmond Drive and others appear to honor

745
00:58:19,140 --> 00:58:25,500
historic Islamic figures. For example, one video highlighted the street name is Sadiq Drive,

746
00:58:25,820 --> 00:58:33,640
referencing to Jafar al-Sadiq, the 6th Imam. He's credited by many Muslim writers with the principle

747
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:39,900
that whatever is contrary to the Quran should be rejected, despite any evidence supporting

748
00:58:39,900 --> 00:58:46,400
it. This philosophy raises questions about proven science, common facts, logic, and Western

749
00:58:46,400 --> 00:58:53,160
American values. A major red flag is the attached mosque, combined with the same developer

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00:58:53,160 --> 00:59:00,640
of the residential homes. Islamic only street means no transparency as a developer on the

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00:59:00,640 --> 00:59:09,740
residential site, yet he has given more clear, straightforward statements on the mosque's

752
00:59:09,740 --> 00:59:16,540
motives via website. But his mosque is set up to serve the Islamic residential neighborhoods

753
00:59:16,540 --> 00:59:22,560
but attend this mosque. This entire development appears hidden under the microscope of what

754
00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:28,820
seems obvious that this will potentially become a private gated, exclusive Islamic community.

755
00:59:28,820 --> 00:59:34,580
With prospects of turning this later into a private serial law commune, this sounds similar

756
00:59:34,580 --> 00:59:39,480
to the former epic city project now known as the Meadow that gained headlines around

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00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:39,880
the world.

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00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:49,420
I highlighted again that the concern of the mosque attached to the suburb, the attached

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00:59:49,420 --> 00:59:53,920
mosque shows on their website the vision statement for the neighborhood attached.

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This is a quote from the Mosques website under the category vision statement.

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Our vision is to establish an Islamic community environment based on the model of the community of the Prophet Muhammad to exemplify the best of character by contributing to the neighborhoods in which we live through intense attention to the spiritual education and material needs of our unified community. So, again, reading this vision statement as an outsider gives me a strong impression that the building

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01:00:29,920 --> 01:00:34,580
strategically established the mosque with the residential homes to have an

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01:00:34,580 --> 01:00:41,080
Islamic neighborhood, confidentially or conveniently, I'm sorry, attached. So the

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mosque can fully serve their Islamic neighborhood, community modeled after the

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01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:50,620
Prophet Muhammad's way of life. I will note that I hope everyone has done a

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01:00:50,620 --> 01:00:57,020
thorough research on Muhammad's way of life. After my research on Islam, I found out

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that the countries that have been conquered by Islam will not allow Westerners or any

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other backgrounds of faith to come in and live freely. In fact, they are persecuted for trying.

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Very alarming ideology with strict laws that Westerners do not practice, follow or believe in.

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01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:22,000
So again, what this vision statement from the builder is implying is that intention is to establish

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01:01:22,000 --> 01:01:29,100
Islamic community, Islamic environment based on their prophet Muhammad, for that

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01:01:29,100 --> 01:01:34,520
cancels out any non-Muslims to feel welcome and fit in. If that's not the case,

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then I'm wondering, can LGBT communities live there? Can people with no religion

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01:01:40,460 --> 01:01:46,340
of faith live there without having to follow the prophet Muhammad's way? What

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about all the other religious backgrounds can they move into this community? This

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It raises questions for me about long-term transparency for the Oasis Springs Manners and

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how the project will integrate with the broader Murphy community.

778
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Additionally, the developer has acquired Agisent Land to build the Murphy Gardens community.

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And there's the center of Islamic knowledge known as the SICK facility further up the road, though separately owned.

780
01:02:14,940 --> 01:02:22,400
And all this clustering with no necessarily connection feels coordinated in some degree.

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01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:28,920
This will significantly increase traffic in an area already challenged by McMillan High

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01:02:28,920 --> 01:02:29,200
School.

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Parents have shared with me their struggles with school drop-offs, pickups, and evening

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01:02:36,100 --> 01:02:36,480
events.

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01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:41,840
Adding regular mosque activities like Friday prayer or gatherings during peak times would

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likely add to the congestion on local roads. I support diversity and believe Murphy benefits

787
01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:56,300
from it when it's balanced and inclusive for everyone. However, many long time residents

788
01:02:56,300 --> 01:03:03,580
worry about rapid changes that could easily shift the character of our small town. We see evolving

789
01:03:03,580 --> 01:03:10,440
local businesses like more Hual options, which is fine minimally in its own, on its own, but

790
01:03:10,440 --> 01:03:16,060
But combined with these large residential Islamic projects, it contributes to a sense that

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01:03:16,060 --> 01:03:19,240
one cultural influence is growing dominant to take over.

792
01:03:19,720 --> 01:03:25,820
I don't see any similar clustered ethnic religious developments with residential homes built

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01:03:25,820 --> 01:03:30,040
directly around their own place of worship here in this area.

794
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:37,720
If the goal of Oasis Springs is a religious enclave, excluding non-Muslims, it violates

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01:03:37,720 --> 01:03:43,920
the 14th Amendment by discriminating against Native residents and the Fair Housing Act by potentially

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01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:49,020
bearing non-Muslim buyers. The lack of transparency on the Oasis Springs

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01:03:49,020 --> 01:03:54,760
Manor's website comes across as though they don't want anyone to know about the vision of their

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01:03:54,760 --> 01:04:00,600
project. Is there something that they don't want us to know? Again, the mosque attached to this

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01:04:00,600 --> 01:04:06,440
neighborhood tells us exactly what their vision and mission is. Nothing here shows intent of a

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01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:12,420
simulation with our community. It's alarming that this was approved without broader discussion.

801
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Announcements for residents to have a clear understanding input and vote.

802
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I urge the council to investigate these issues, the fair housing laws for fairness and safety.

803
01:04:23,820 --> 01:04:30,780
I am requesting that this moss be stopped and permanently cancelled from ever being built due to

804
01:04:30,780 --> 01:04:34,440
what appears to be wrong motives. Thank you. Thank you.

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01:04:41,510 --> 01:04:49,590
Okay. Good evening. Can you hear me fine? Okay, great. My name is Barbara and I'm here

806
01:04:49,590 --> 01:04:54,610
to educate this government body and the citizens of Murphy on the threat that faces many

807
01:04:54,610 --> 01:05:02,870
Texas cities and American cities. There was a very major trial held here in Dallas, Texas

808
01:05:03,310 --> 01:05:10,790
back in 2007 and 2008 known as the Holy Land Foundation trial. Some of you might be aware

809
01:05:10,790 --> 01:05:16,130
of this trial. Not your head if you are. Okay, good, good. I'm glad to hear that.

810
01:05:17,690 --> 01:05:23,250
In my opinion, this was one of the most important trials in American history on terrorism.

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And there was a document discovered during that trial called the explanatory memorandum.

812
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I urge you to read this document. All elected officials should read this document because

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01:05:37,910 --> 01:05:46,830
It was discovered during this trial, and it was written by the Muslim Brotherhood describing their plans to make the United States a Muslim country.

814
01:05:47,330 --> 01:05:49,890
It's written in their own hand, their own writing.

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01:05:50,730 --> 01:05:54,790
It was originally written in Arabic and then later translated to English.

816
01:05:55,950 --> 01:06:02,830
The results of this trial was five terrorists were convicted and currently serving time in federal prisons.

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They were funding Hamas.

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The Muslim Brotherhood has a plan to make our country a Muslim nation under Sharia as part

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01:06:13,090 --> 01:06:16,630
of the goal of establishing a global Islamic state.

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01:06:17,090 --> 01:06:23,030
The Muslim population in the United States is growing rapidly as a process of settlement.

821
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Their plan is to infiltrate.

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Muslims into our society and they are appearing to be assimilating in as Americans while the

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01:06:33,210 --> 01:06:36,630
real purpose is to capture positions of power

824
01:06:36,630 --> 01:06:39,710
using the rights granted under our Constitution.

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Between using our Constitution and naive,

826
01:06:43,630 --> 01:06:47,130
welcoming Americans, the Muslim Brotherhood

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01:06:47,130 --> 01:06:50,330
is working to create this as an Islamic nation.

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This document that I'm referring to,

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01:06:53,370 --> 01:06:57,550
the explanatory memorandum, can be located on this website.

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01:06:58,450 --> 01:07:00,450
Defending our Republic dot com.

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Again, defendingourrepublic.com, it's a PDF document that you can download and I urge everyone to read it.

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I was pleased to see tonight the fire marshal being sworn in with his hand on the Bible

833
01:07:17,550 --> 01:07:22,610
and swearing to his oath to the Constitution of the United States.

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He was not, he did not put his hand on the Quran, and he did not swear in to protect

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Sharia laws.

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He's forced to protect the United States Constitution, and that's what each of you

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01:07:35,110 --> 01:07:35,810
here have done.

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01:07:36,210 --> 01:07:37,370
I'm sure in the past.

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A mask is not like a church.

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It is more comparable to a city hall.

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All of their financial and political businesses conducted here.

842
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In fact, their non-profit status should have never been approved by the United States

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01:07:51,730 --> 01:07:56,750
government. You only need to look at England, Belgium and other European countries to see

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01:07:56,750 --> 01:08:02,850
what will happen in America. Or look at Dearborn, Michigan or Patterson, New Jersey, where

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01:08:02,850 --> 01:08:08,410
they have taken over the city government and raised the Palestinian flag and now calling

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01:08:08,410 --> 01:08:14,290
it the fourth holiest city in the world. So they removed the American flag and replaced

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01:08:14,290 --> 01:08:20,570
it with the Palestinian flag. And that police force in that community wears Palestinian flags

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01:08:20,570 --> 01:08:22,690
on their uniforms, not American flags.

849
01:08:23,010 --> 01:08:25,010
That's here in America, that's in New Jersey.

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01:08:28,660 --> 01:08:31,920
In these other countries like England and the Netherlands,

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01:08:32,260 --> 01:08:34,840
they reported Muslim rape gangs

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01:08:34,840 --> 01:08:38,200
that have raped young girls nine to 14 years of age

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01:08:38,800 --> 01:08:41,320
and more than 60,000 rapes were reported

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01:08:41,320 --> 01:08:43,780
in the United Kingdom alone last year.

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These are self-segregated communities

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01:08:48,800 --> 01:08:50,760
that are being built across Texas.

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01:08:51,880 --> 01:08:54,220
City councils and planning and zoning committees

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01:08:54,220 --> 01:09:00,260
need to strengthen their building codes and ordinances. We stop this takeover at the local

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01:09:00,260 --> 01:09:06,400
government level. You can use traffic codes, fire codes, drainage codes, noise ordinances,

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01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:13,000
and a plethora of other codes and ordinances to stop these buildings and developers from receiving

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01:09:13,000 --> 01:09:20,240
permits. Also, it's important to note that nothing should be approved while ongoing litigation

862
01:09:20,240 --> 01:09:25,380
is currently taking place by our Texas Attorney General's Office, Ken Paxton.

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01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:26,260
Thank you.

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01:09:35,740 --> 01:09:37,160
Hello, my name is Ralph Spilker.

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I'm actually a resident of Grayson County up north near Sherman and Dennison.

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01:09:44,260 --> 01:09:48,360
I'm a retired Navy captain and a veteran of 26 years.

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01:09:49,420 --> 01:09:50,180
We are up

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01:09:53,060 --> 01:09:57,540
in Sherman and Dennison are watching to see how this plays out.

869
01:09:57,540 --> 01:10:06,800
We see the headlines in the news, the national news, about places like Minnesota and Michigan.

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01:10:08,000 --> 01:10:16,440
And what's the next state on that list? Texas. And it's incomprehensible why Texas would be on that list.

871
01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:23,340
But it is. Of course, Plano and you all are on the front lines and everybody is watching.

872
01:10:24,100 --> 01:10:33,660
It looks to me like you've heard the folks before me and you're trying to build a strategy

873
01:10:33,660 --> 01:10:40,040
on how to say no and a lot of the folks have given you some of that ammunition to do

874
01:10:40,040 --> 01:10:40,340
that.

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I propose that we are looking at, I try to figure out how to say no in my own head,

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01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:50,060
right?

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01:10:50,060 --> 01:10:59,500
We have freedom of religion, we have discrimination laws, so how do we bounce that against this group of Islamists?

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01:11:00,560 --> 01:11:03,780
And the lady that preceded me said it perfectly.

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They're less religious than they are a political movement and a set of governance.

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01:11:10,460 --> 01:11:18,900
So, when we say Islam, the religion, we kind of akin that to Catholicism, or baptism,

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01:11:19,760 --> 01:11:22,780
or some of the other Protestant religions.

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01:11:23,300 --> 01:11:23,880
They are not.

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They're more like a government, like capitalism, like socialism, like communism, like, so,

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So you have to figure out how to say no, not on the basis of religion, but on the way

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01:11:41,820 --> 01:11:42,420
of governance.

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01:11:43,200 --> 01:11:50,900
As people have preceded me, said, hey, this Sharia law, oddly, it's a law, I.e. a government,

887
01:11:50,980 --> 01:12:01,320
it's not a religious code, it's a law, they allow for perjury, lying, they allow for assault,

888
01:12:01,960 --> 01:12:10,440
They allow for rape. They allow for polygamy. They allow for pedophilia and they allow for murder.

889
01:12:12,580 --> 01:12:20,140
I don't think we want that here in your community. I don't want it for myself up north and we don't want it in our nation.

890
01:12:20,720 --> 01:12:31,980
I also particularly enjoy the fire chief and the fire marshal swearing at allegiance to Murphy, to Texas and to the United States.

891
01:12:31,980 --> 01:12:33,900
And I think that was awesome.

892
01:12:34,100 --> 01:12:34,680
Awesome.

893
01:12:37,660 --> 01:12:45,380
These Islamists are not compatible with the Constitution of the United States of America,

894
01:12:45,840 --> 01:12:49,780
the Bill of Rights, the Constitution of Texas.

895
01:12:50,280 --> 01:12:57,180
And I apologize I haven't read the Murphy charter or Constitution, but I'm sure they're

896
01:12:57,180 --> 01:12:59,220
not in a line with you guys either.

897
01:12:59,220 --> 01:13:07,860
So, like everybody else said, and I particularly like the lady who preceded me, figure out how to delay.

898
01:13:08,300 --> 01:13:16,260
If you can't say no outright, delay, delay, delay, seek guidance from the state and national level.

899
01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:20,740
We're going to figure this out. We're going to figure out how to say no to Islam.

900
01:13:21,560 --> 01:13:24,380
We haven't done it yet. You guys are on the front line.

901
01:13:24,380 --> 01:13:29,220
Thank you for your support and fighting this.

902
01:13:29,620 --> 01:13:31,080
I urge you to keep fighting.

903
01:13:31,400 --> 01:13:33,660
If you can't figure out how to say no, delay.

904
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:35,600
Delay, delay, delay.

905
01:13:36,140 --> 01:13:37,360
Don't say yes.

906
01:13:37,640 --> 01:13:39,560
That's, I think, what we're asking right now.

907
01:13:40,540 --> 01:13:40,780
Thank you.

908
01:13:41,020 --> 01:13:41,220
Thank you.

909
01:13:46,800 --> 01:13:47,300
Can you read?

910
01:13:48,680 --> 01:13:52,320
So I'm not going to repeat what everybody else has said.

911
01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:55,480
I have something different to say.

912
01:13:55,920 --> 01:13:57,540
So there were citizens who made it clear

913
01:13:57,540 --> 01:14:00,700
that we didn't want our names and addresses, you know, on the record.

914
01:14:01,340 --> 01:14:04,280
And thank you for accommodating that.

915
01:14:04,820 --> 01:14:10,940
But prior to you gabbling in, Mayor, Councilmember Laura Deal took photos and or video

916
01:14:10,940 --> 01:14:14,580
of the citizens that were waiting to speak.

917
01:14:15,140 --> 01:14:17,140
Again, that was prior to gabbling in.

918
01:14:17,740 --> 01:14:24,120
Being in a public forum, there is no expectation of privacy and I understand that, generally speaking.

919
01:14:24,120 --> 01:14:30,700
However, I want it to be on the record that this occurred and may be perceived as intending

920
01:14:30,700 --> 01:14:32,900
to intimidate or harass speakers.

921
01:14:33,580 --> 01:14:34,840
We won't be intimidated.

922
01:14:36,180 --> 01:14:41,080
I don't know if Robert's Rules of Orders has anything about photography, but I know

923
01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:44,900
that it discusses filming, and it is subject to reasonable rules.

924
01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:50,480
And I don't know if our charter or ordinances discuss council members taking pictures, but

925
01:14:50,480 --> 01:14:52,900
I would like, if it doesn't, I will be looking.

926
01:14:53,560 --> 01:14:57,860
I work for a local government, another local government, and I know that it is addressed

927
01:14:57,860 --> 01:14:58,460
in some.

928
01:14:58,700 --> 01:14:59,940
If it's not part of this one.

929
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:04,980
I would ask that it be looked into by our attorneys. Thank you. Thank you.

930
01:15:14,780 --> 01:15:27,040
Can you hear me? Yeah, it works pretty well. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and City Council. Thank you for your service, of course. And thank you for letting me speak. I'll be very brief.

931
01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:39,320
I agree with everything I've heard today, like the gentleman before me. It sounds very reasonable for this community.

932
01:15:39,320 --> 01:15:48,200
I was a foreign service officer for 20 plus years, and I dealt with many cultures.

933
01:15:49,100 --> 01:15:56,100
I lived in Afghanistan, Yemen, several countries on the east, Africa, all Muslim.

934
01:15:57,220 --> 01:16:01,480
My job was to assimilate in the culture, which I did.

935
01:16:01,980 --> 01:16:07,620
I didn't like it because it's not the way I grew up, but it was my job.

936
01:16:08,900 --> 01:16:15,500
Well, after 20 years, I wanted to retire and go back to Texas and hang out in my culture.

937
01:16:18,160 --> 01:16:19,780
Murphy, I didn't grow up in Murphy.

938
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:26,440
I grew up in Tyler, but Murphy is very similar to way I grew up and I liked it.

939
01:16:26,760 --> 01:16:31,880
I liked it a lot, and I still like it, but it is changing and I'm being a little disturbed.

940
01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:41,220
I came to Murphy not to assimilate, assimilate in someone else's culture.

941
01:16:41,380 --> 01:16:42,900
I want it to be in my culture.

942
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:50,480
And I definitely do not want Islamic Student Center in my backyard.

943
01:16:52,630 --> 01:16:53,390
Thank you.

944
01:16:53,590 --> 01:16:53,830
Thank you.

945
01:16:59,590 --> 01:17:00,110
Welcome.

946
01:17:05,450 --> 01:17:07,670
I feel bad if paperwork and turned it in.

947
01:17:07,910 --> 01:17:08,170
That's fine.

948
01:17:08,950 --> 01:17:13,470
I live in the Timbers next to what you should be the goat farm.

949
01:17:13,470 --> 01:17:16,930
That's the first thing I want to address, that neighborhood is nearly finished.

950
01:17:18,250 --> 01:17:23,250
And I don't remember the date of the last major meeting that we had, but I stood probably

951
01:17:23,250 --> 01:17:28,370
in podium like this and I said no less than a dozen times, no bump and go gate at the

952
01:17:28,370 --> 01:17:29,810
end of Oak Lake Drive.

953
01:17:31,050 --> 01:17:38,230
And I also said on whatever gate that is put up that is presentable, which all the pictures

954
01:17:38,230 --> 01:17:42,450
they showed us and all the pretty little displays had a beautiful ornate gate.

955
01:17:42,970 --> 01:17:48,410
I want to remote for our fire department so that when he comes hauling through there in the middle of the night, he can get on through.

956
01:17:50,210 --> 01:17:57,830
What did we get? A bump and go gate that's got removed. Why? It's a bump and go gate.

957
01:17:59,070 --> 01:18:04,150
Why did he got the removed? Where's my gate? It's nice and pretty that I don't have to look at.

958
01:18:05,150 --> 01:18:10,430
That just takes something my husband's truck can bump and go through to somebody that he wants to.

959
01:18:11,990 --> 01:18:18,730
problem number two it's black has maybe two reflector stickers I'm waiting for the day we get to

960
01:18:18,730 --> 01:18:23,670
call 911 for the person who hauled through that because they didn't see it I can't tell me

961
01:18:23,670 --> 01:18:29,410
times we've run outside and stopped people they think it's a bypass when there's an accident so

962
01:18:29,410 --> 01:18:35,490
please third thing how many times don't need to move my trash can down the road before I get my

963
01:18:35,490 --> 01:18:40,960
road fixed because it's about to be in the neighbors because the trash truck has

964
01:18:40,960 --> 01:18:45,600
messed up my driveway so bad I had a cart one point I couldn't get out because

965
01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:51,920
it scratched it was so low please fix my road at some point on Oak Lake all

966
01:18:51,920 --> 01:18:57,600
the way down to the end and why did a new neighborhood get to put in a great new

967
01:18:57,600 --> 01:19:04,860
beautiful neighborhood with drainage and not connect my neighborhood can somebody

968
01:19:04,860 --> 01:19:10,760
please explain. We don't have one drainage for water flow. And a week and a

969
01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:14,340
whole lot just too bad it's going to freeze this time or I could have taken pictures for you.

970
01:19:14,820 --> 01:19:16,760
But all of our trash fans are out in the middle of the street.

971
01:19:20,580 --> 01:19:22,020
Please go into check to make sure

972
01:19:22,020 --> 01:19:25,020
they've done everything the way they said they were going to do it when they put a

973
01:19:25,020 --> 01:19:30,080
neighborhood in. Because the last couple of houses are being finished. The

974
01:19:30,080 --> 01:19:35,080
fences, the stain is already faded but the fence is falling down in some

975
01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:35,620
points.

976
01:19:38,030 --> 01:19:39,570
Hello. Those

977
01:19:42,510 --> 01:19:46,390
are million dollar homes. Have you walked in them? I have. They're gorgeous,

978
01:19:46,770 --> 01:19:51,230
but they can't put a fence that is going to last mother-vilded much less after they leave.

979
01:19:52,430 --> 01:19:57,230
And they didn't even consider joining in the drainage from an existing neighborhood that's been here

980
01:19:57,230 --> 01:20:05,150
since the beginning of time almost. Parts of the timbers have been. They didn't even think to tie into

981
01:20:05,150 --> 01:20:05,910
In

982
01:20:12,500 --> 01:20:17,040
everything, you know, these people have been saying, God help us.

983
01:20:17,420 --> 01:20:18,860
Number three, scared the crap out of me.

984
01:20:19,360 --> 01:20:21,140
Please go back and listen to one, two, and three.

985
01:20:21,500 --> 01:20:22,360
I think it was a four.

986
01:20:22,680 --> 01:20:24,560
I can't remember which one of it that I was scared of.

987
01:20:25,740 --> 01:20:29,140
Please go back and listen to these because God put them here for a reason.

988
01:20:30,260 --> 01:20:35,160
He put those speakers number one, number two, whoever's the purple leopard outfit.

989
01:20:36,360 --> 01:20:38,920
Put these people here for you to go back and listen to it.

990
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:40,240
I know this is being recorded.

991
01:20:40,240 --> 01:20:44,520
go back and find the last time I was here and said over a dozen times don't do

992
01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:47,420
something and it got done behind your backs.

993
01:20:50,610 --> 01:20:52,150
Please stop letting things get done

994
01:20:52,150 --> 01:20:58,650
behind your backs. How did those streets get named? How did that capacity print

995
01:20:58,650 --> 01:21:04,850
planning and zoning committee? Please tell me answer me has something been approved

996
01:21:04,850 --> 01:21:10,390
already in this community that I was unaware of that was being voted on? What

997
01:21:10,390 --> 01:21:13,390
What are you advertising your agenda on?

998
01:21:13,610 --> 01:21:14,730
I'm on next door.

999
01:21:14,890 --> 01:21:15,550
I'm on Facebook.

1000
01:21:15,590 --> 01:21:16,510
I'm on Instagram.

1001
01:21:16,870 --> 01:21:17,590
What are you put?

1002
01:21:17,670 --> 01:21:21,710
Do I have to go to your specific website to find out what my town's talking about?

1003
01:21:23,970 --> 01:21:28,050
That's ridiculous because if we party to prove something, that's serious.

1004
01:21:28,770 --> 01:21:30,130
And we know about it

1005
01:21:32,820 --> 01:21:35,680
and rethink what you're doing because you did not get the citizens

1006
01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:37,120
opinion on this.

1007
01:21:40,070 --> 01:21:41,150
We trusted y'all.

1008
01:21:41,250 --> 01:21:42,310
We voted you in.

1009
01:21:44,700 --> 01:21:46,440
I'm wearing red for a reason.

1010
01:21:46,440 --> 01:21:52,240
it's part of what's behind you. If you don't know how to handle this have you

1011
01:21:52,240 --> 01:21:58,140
reached out to your brothers and sisters in the neighboring towns. Seriously I'm

1012
01:21:58,140 --> 01:22:04,380
looking at you. Have you reached out next door. I'll shake your hand later

1013
01:22:04,380 --> 01:22:07,380
explain why but buddy you're not alone.

1014
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:12,060
Dear God we're five square miles protect

1015
01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:18,280
When I moved here, it was country living in the city.

1016
01:22:19,380 --> 01:22:22,260
When the hell did it change to what is it now?

1017
01:22:22,480 --> 01:22:25,300
I wrote it down, living life at your pace.

1018
01:22:26,080 --> 01:22:27,760
Did I get to vote on that?

1019
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:32,640
Did I as a citizen, it pays your tax dollars,

1020
01:22:32,820 --> 01:22:35,200
get to vote on changing my town motto?

1021
01:22:36,780 --> 01:22:37,940
No, I didn't.

1022
01:22:38,280 --> 01:22:39,760
It got done behind my back.

1023
01:22:40,560 --> 01:22:41,880
I don't appreciate that.

1024
01:22:41,880 --> 01:22:46,300
That's my town motto. I moved here and I appreciated that town motto.

1025
01:22:48,730 --> 01:22:49,430
I didn't

1026
01:22:49,430 --> 01:22:53,670
appreciate you moving the pace of it like you have. You didn't listen to us

1027
01:22:53,670 --> 01:22:58,070
very well with the goat farm, but please, by God, don't let him exit stage left

1028
01:22:58,070 --> 01:23:02,230
and leave it already falling down to our neighbors.

1029
01:23:24,140 --> 01:23:25,340
And I'm looking you

1030
01:23:25,340 --> 01:23:31,720
Good evening Council. Many people have shared their facts and views which I support and I won't repeat it

1031
01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:37,100
for the benefit of everyone here and keep this short. I'll just share my personal view on this.

1032
01:23:37,860 --> 01:23:42,300
I've lived in Murphy now for three years and I've been in America for six years. I can't do this

1033
01:23:42,300 --> 01:23:47,280
country for many reasons but a big reason was because I believe America is a great country with

1034
01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:54,120
strong beliefs that it's people are willing to fight for. Of all the states I chose Texas as it is

1035
01:23:54,120 --> 01:23:57,200
the greatest of them all and best embodies American ideals.

1036
01:23:58,460 --> 01:24:01,500
What I see happening to Americans through this development and

1037
01:24:01,500 --> 01:24:06,020
boss sick in me, we all know that through whatever means they have made their

1038
01:24:06,020 --> 01:24:10,320
developments only available to Muslim buyers and have excluded everyone else.

1039
01:24:11,280 --> 01:24:15,440
They tried to establish epic city which is still an ongoing battle for them, but

1040
01:24:15,440 --> 01:24:18,760
they have already implemented their Muslim-only area here.

1041
01:24:19,800 --> 01:24:23,880
They have come to an American city and said Americans are not welcome in their

1042
01:24:23,880 --> 01:24:29,400
own land. The founding fathers never envisioned religions coming in and establishing their

1043
01:24:29,400 --> 01:24:32,700
own communities and telling Americans you are not welcome.

1044
01:24:34,100 --> 01:24:39,980
Governor Abbott has recently banned this very thing. I urge you to fight this invasion

1045
01:24:39,980 --> 01:24:46,680
and keep America free for all Americans. Every single battle, no matter how small or how

1046
01:24:46,680 --> 01:24:53,200
large, needs to be fought. People internationally seek out living America, living in America,

1047
01:24:53,200 --> 01:24:59,540
such as myself, because it is such a great country and doesn't allow this, please keep

1048
01:24:59,540 --> 01:25:05,200
your courage and hold the line for your people. We the people are behind you. Thank you.

1049
01:25:10,980 --> 01:25:11,580
Welcome.

1050
01:25:14,870 --> 01:25:22,030
There's been a lot said about Islam tonight, but what is Islam? This is from

1051
01:25:22,030 --> 01:25:30,210
one of their books on Islam. Islam is the name of a way of life that is followed by nearly

1052
01:25:30,210 --> 01:25:35,770
a billion people around the world. Muslims are majorities in over 50 countries and their

1053
01:25:35,770 --> 01:25:40,910
numbers are growing every year. That's because they're having 10 kids for family instead

1054
01:25:40,910 --> 01:25:48,010
of our 1.1. The name Islam is an Arabic word that means both peace and surrender. The full

1055
01:25:48,010 --> 01:25:52,690
definition implies that when you surrender your will to God you will find peace in your soul.

1056
01:25:52,690 --> 01:26:00,710
Muslim then is a person who surrenders to God and finds peace. Islam is not a

1057
01:26:00,710 --> 01:26:07,390
religion. However, it's a complete way of life that is patterned after the

1058
01:26:07,390 --> 01:26:13,290
natural trend in the universe. Its goal is to help people live in harmony with the

1059
01:26:13,290 --> 01:26:19,120
universe and the natural order of things. Then why is there jihad? Why do they need to

1060
01:26:19,120 --> 01:26:23,940
people. What happened to peace? The name for a law, for a God, an

1061
01:26:23,940 --> 01:26:27,860
Arabic is a law, and he caused the universe to come into being

1062
01:26:27,860 --> 01:26:32,200
billion years ago. He set up natural laws in accordance with

1063
01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:37,040
his will, so that the the entire universe would be Muslim and

1064
01:26:37,040 --> 01:26:42,240
submit to his will, which means you will have the higher truth

1065
01:26:42,240 --> 01:26:46,920
and live in peace and harmony with all. Why is there jihad?

1066
01:26:46,920 --> 01:26:52,860
you have to force people to do that. That's in our Constitution. They're the ones with the problem.

1067
01:26:53,320 --> 01:26:59,600
So we don't need to allow them, and since it's not a religion, we don't need to rely on freedom of religion

1068
01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:02,380
as the excuse to let them get away with anything.

1069
01:27:10,710 --> 01:27:12,350
Hi, my name is Peter.

1070
01:27:12,550 --> 01:27:12,670
Welcome.

1071
01:27:13,090 --> 01:27:23,150
And I am a veteran. I've been here since 1997, since we first, the first subdivision was come in as

1072
01:27:23,150 --> 01:27:30,090
glimmered just dates. I've seen Murphy, it's grown extremely big, some areas I

1073
01:27:30,090 --> 01:27:35,670
agree with, some I don't. Murphy Road is just extremely overwhelmed with

1074
01:27:35,670 --> 01:27:41,250
traffic and also Betsy Lane and even getting out on Heritage. I want to take

1075
01:27:41,250 --> 01:27:45,550
you to another section of this. I remember when Murphy had cows in it. I

1076
01:27:45,550 --> 01:27:51,970
remember when I was in this year and you know it's it's terrible to see how

1077
01:27:51,970 --> 01:27:56,450
Murphy grow and I knew it would because I'm from East Texas and I love the country living.

1078
01:27:57,110 --> 01:27:59,750
But I want to say another thing.

1079
01:28:00,410 --> 01:28:07,730
I don't know if y'all have seen other cities around you grow into like mosque or grow

1080
01:28:07,730 --> 01:28:08,410
in everywhere.

1081
01:28:09,210 --> 01:28:15,490
And I have lived for 21 years every day going by epic mosque.

1082
01:28:15,950 --> 01:28:17,950
And I see the traffic.

1083
01:28:17,950 --> 01:28:19,430
I see what it's brought.

1084
01:28:19,430 --> 01:28:28,330
It started out as a strict law. It went to a big epic that Plano had given them for some of their reasons.

1085
01:28:28,990 --> 01:28:36,910
And then it expanded not only in front. Now they had their medic center. They had their medical center. They have across the street.

1086
01:28:37,330 --> 01:28:41,470
And that's just going to grow. Why do we need this in Murphy when we got it down the road?

1087
01:28:41,890 --> 01:28:48,390
Why do we need an Islamic learning center when we already had everything halfway down on 14th Street?

1088
01:28:48,390 --> 01:28:51,190
and then it's trying to go in all our communities.

1089
01:28:51,610 --> 01:28:54,030
We need to wake up and realize what's going on.

1090
01:28:54,450 --> 01:28:57,150
Islam is growing in Texas and we need to stop it.

1091
01:28:57,490 --> 01:28:59,310
We need to get with our representatives

1092
01:28:59,310 --> 01:29:01,850
that don't listen in our communities

1093
01:29:01,850 --> 01:29:03,970
and stop this all across Texas

1094
01:29:04,350 --> 01:29:08,070
and make Texas red, white, and blue American.

1095
01:29:08,410 --> 01:29:10,610
We are veterans here, we have people,

1096
01:29:10,990 --> 01:29:13,870
and we need to just keep fighting,

1097
01:29:14,270 --> 01:29:15,230
and you need to listen,

1098
01:29:15,450 --> 01:29:17,250
and you need to listen to Murphy residents.

1099
01:29:17,250 --> 01:29:22,330
I did not know there was a meeting a month ago or I would have been here sick or not I would have been here

1100
01:29:22,330 --> 01:29:23,790
But nobody knew

1101
01:29:23,790 --> 01:29:29,510
Half the people don't know. We did a better way to communicate with our Murphy residents

1102
01:29:29,510 --> 01:29:35,550
And as Murphy, you need to stand together and fight this. You do not need to let this happen. Thank you.

1103
01:29:35,610 --> 01:29:36,550
Thank you.

1104
01:29:47,270 --> 01:29:48,790
Well, I'll

1105
01:29:54,510 --> 01:29:59,700
say don't tear down the flags, the statues, the monuments

1106
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:29,880
Don't turn down America, peace by peace, plank by plank. I've been saying that for 10 years, right down the road here in front of a plan pair to that very thing. What we've got going on now, I don't have to even really talk about. That told you, they are these people are telling you how the panel, the, the, the dagger at your neck that we have here. But what? I'm an evangelist that I got called to this. I got called.

1107
01:30:29,880 --> 01:30:36,340
to be a preacher. And that's what I talk about. I talk about God and Jesus and devil and the Bible.

1108
01:30:36,820 --> 01:30:42,340
That's my vernacular. That's my corner my realm, if you will. And so that's what I was supposed to

1109
01:30:42,340 --> 01:30:47,080
talk about. But what's been on the wall, that's what we're supposed to be. You go out and tell people

1110
01:30:47,080 --> 01:30:52,640
about the sword that's coming. And if they don't want to listen to you, they'll die on their own

1111
01:30:52,640 --> 01:30:58,460
sins, but you'll preserve your own life. And so that was an old test. But nowadays you say, pick up

1112
01:30:58,460 --> 01:31:03,740
you cross and follow Jesus, right? Well, that's what we're supposed to do, we're supposed

1113
01:31:03,740 --> 01:31:09,680
to come out here and say, while we had a hard time, my leg hurts, my foot hurts, I've

1114
01:31:09,680 --> 01:31:14,360
had more trouble today getting here. And I was over there in front of the deal and the policeman

1115
01:31:14,360 --> 01:31:19,780
came and tapped on my window and he said, we're not talking about his lobby stuff and essentially

1116
01:31:19,780 --> 01:31:20,920
tried to get me to go away.

1117
01:31:23,970 --> 01:31:27,750
I say the devil has come out for me real hard today, even

1118
01:31:27,750 --> 01:31:33,950
me, and he doesn't want us talking, he don't want us talking about this, but we've got

1119
01:31:33,950 --> 01:31:43,590
a cancer growing, literally a cancer, and not only that, I don't think we realize all

1120
01:31:43,590 --> 01:31:48,550
of Texas is looking at us, all of the United States, matter of fact the world, as a matter

1121
01:31:48,550 --> 01:31:54,590
of fact God in heaven, we don't realize how big this is, but if you don't stop this,

1122
01:31:59,000 --> 01:31:59,300
if

1123
01:31:59,300 --> 01:32:01,780
It'll be the end of our country, it'll be the end of us.

1124
01:32:02,380 --> 01:32:04,740
They don't want to turn down the flags, the statues,

1125
01:32:05,020 --> 01:32:06,160
I got all kinds of signs,

1126
01:32:06,760 --> 01:32:07,740
pray to end abortion,

1127
01:32:08,400 --> 01:32:11,220
Alamo, things like that, then I'll sit, I'll put them around me.

1128
01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:13,620
Well, that's all a message, right?

1129
01:32:15,100 --> 01:32:16,880
That's bull corn, that don't matter.

1130
01:32:17,080 --> 01:32:19,140
You know, when they get rid of all of that,

1131
01:32:19,320 --> 01:32:20,380
you know who they're coming for next?

1132
01:32:23,620 --> 01:32:25,100
Thus, they want to destroy,

1133
01:32:25,220 --> 01:32:27,700
these people want to destroy America

1134
01:32:27,700 --> 01:32:30,700
and the American Americans. I'll let you up there.

1135
01:32:32,960 --> 01:32:35,400
The other side, you become a Muslim

1136
01:32:35,400 --> 01:32:43,060
and you believe our religion. I can't. Jesus 12-1-3, God says those who curse the Jews,

1137
01:32:43,180 --> 01:32:47,920
I will curse. These people are cursed. And He says, we'll be cursed if we have anything

1138
01:32:47,920 --> 01:32:53,740
to do with them. In Deuteronomy, it says, don't do what these others do. And if anyone

1139
01:32:53,740 --> 01:33:00,700
come to Stranger, don't let them do it, or even the ground will vomit you out. I got

1140
01:33:00,700 --> 01:33:09,080
a Bible verse on the search that you will be watched away. God will pull out his wrath

1141
01:33:09,580 --> 01:33:15,900
like water. Well, we've got to put in stories about that, don't we? I think God Himself

1142
01:33:15,900 --> 01:33:20,520
is watching all of this. I think He's watching all of you.

1143
01:33:22,860 --> 01:33:24,600
And I think that He expects

1144
01:33:24,600 --> 01:33:30,900
you to turn away. Those that turn away from God and the Lord of God, the Bible says it's very clear.

1145
01:33:31,760 --> 01:33:35,640
You're going to be destroyed. Even that they would put a band around your neck and you would be

1146
01:33:35,640 --> 01:33:43,720
a slave until you die. But having said all that, you know what? I'm impressed with you guys. You're doing

1147
01:33:43,720 --> 01:33:50,400
the best you can. It seems me and I can bend over backwards trying to be not stuck. And so I can say

1148
01:33:50,400 --> 01:33:53,820
As far as I don't know any of you, I've first been here.

1149
01:33:54,200 --> 01:33:59,320
I'm certainly not mad at you, and I'm also using up part of my time to brag on you.

1150
01:33:59,440 --> 01:33:59,840
How about that?

1151
01:34:00,300 --> 01:34:04,960
Because I think you guys are really trying hard, and what I say, I'm showing you one.

1152
01:34:05,020 --> 01:34:05,780
Thank you very much.

1153
01:34:05,900 --> 01:34:06,120
Thank you.

1154
01:34:14,120 --> 01:34:18,600
I would just like to agree with everything everybody has said before, but also I want to

1155
01:34:18,600 --> 01:34:25,540
say, for a lot of us, we're probably sitting here as casual Christians, and we've been taught

1156
01:34:25,540 --> 01:34:29,020
to love our neighbors and not speak ill against people.

1157
01:34:30,540 --> 01:34:36,380
But also we're casual Americans, we're casual voters, we're casual Murphy residents.

1158
01:34:37,140 --> 01:34:42,260
So part of what I want to request is most of us haven't been in this room before.

1159
01:34:42,600 --> 01:34:46,720
We don't know what you do, we now appreciate what you do, but we don't know what our role

1160
01:34:46,720 --> 01:34:47,200
is.

1161
01:34:47,700 --> 01:34:52,740
And so if there's a way before the next meeting, if maybe on the website, if you can pose

1162
01:34:52,740 --> 01:34:59,280
things like how the meetings generally go. If we want to attend, what is the role? So it was

1163
01:34:59,280 --> 01:35:04,160
helpful tonight for you to say you can't talk about things that aren't on the agenda. How do

1164
01:35:04,160 --> 01:35:11,620
we get things on the agenda? What's the process for that? Is there, you know, you mentioned the

1165
01:35:11,620 --> 01:35:17,060
town hall earlier, which is a great idea. If we want things like that to happen, who do we go to?

1166
01:35:17,060 --> 01:35:22,440
how do we make those requests? Are there timelines? So when things are on the agenda,

1167
01:35:23,080 --> 01:35:28,120
what's the normal time frame it takes to get things approved? What's that process like?

1168
01:35:28,320 --> 01:35:33,800
A lot of people have appeal tonight to please postpone making decisions. But if we could just kind of

1169
01:35:33,800 --> 01:35:41,080
understand what's the normal process like, how can we be involved? What can we do when we have concerns

1170
01:35:41,080 --> 01:35:47,480
concerns in the city, whether that's about the Islamic issue, you know, personally I feel

1171
01:35:47,480 --> 01:35:51,960
like we can't handle an HEP parking lot. So how are we going to handle this? Murphy's

1172
01:35:51,960 --> 01:35:57,560
not big enough for those two things from one end to the other. So just in general, if

1173
01:35:57,560 --> 01:36:03,940
we as citizens have concerns, what do we do? And also I think one thing at the beginning

1174
01:36:03,940 --> 01:36:09,760
of the meeting that would be helpful is to talk to us as a group and say, silence our

1175
01:36:09,760 --> 01:36:13,080
cell phones, please be quiet while other people are talking.

1176
01:36:13,600 --> 01:36:18,180
People can hear you whispering, so you may think your voice is low, but it's really not

1177
01:36:18,180 --> 01:36:23,920
and it's distracting, so just to kind of give us newcomers a sense of what the process

1178
01:36:23,920 --> 01:36:24,240
is.

1179
01:36:24,340 --> 01:36:24,600
Very good.

1180
01:36:28,580 --> 01:36:32,900
I want to thank you all from coming out tonight.

1181
01:36:33,560 --> 01:36:41,040
Actually we're not discussing anything on the open agenda on this topic, but you can't

1182
01:36:41,040 --> 01:36:46,040
I don't believe how helpful it is for you to come out and have a conversation, express

1183
01:36:46,040 --> 01:36:55,680
yourselves, and it is hugely important for Council to understand urgency in your voices.

1184
01:36:56,980 --> 01:37:04,020
So with that, there's, again, I'm really limited to what I can address.

1185
01:37:11,840 --> 01:37:21,660
I just want to say Muslims are your citizens too, the taxpayers, like everybody else, I don't see the danger the gentleman was talking about.

1186
01:37:22,260 --> 01:37:30,720
What is his danger? Muslims believe in Jesus, they believe in Mary, I don't see what the issue, what is this?

1187
01:37:30,720 --> 01:37:37,820
Just racism, if you replace Muslim with anything else, is it an issue? Is it an issue with

1188
01:37:37,820 --> 01:37:45,740
just Muslims or everybody else? Is this like America of 1800? Is it the blacks moving

1189
01:37:45,740 --> 01:37:52,280
to the neighborhood? What's the problem? I don't understand it. Where are citizens? Muslims

1190
01:37:52,280 --> 01:37:58,980
have been in this country since the beginning of America. Why is it an issue? Can somebody

1191
01:37:58,980 --> 01:38:02,780
explain to me what's a Muslim group? Please come and explain to me what's your

1192
01:38:02,780 --> 01:38:07,260
partner? So I want to, I want to, I want to, I want to, I want to, I want to

1193
01:38:07,260 --> 01:38:11,100
hold Muslims at that space, like citizens, like everybody else. They should be

1194
01:38:11,100 --> 01:38:14,860
considered the same way. I understood. Very. Can you finish your comments in that

1195
01:38:14,860 --> 01:38:23,180
hour? Yeah. I mean, this is like KKK without masks. This is horrible. I was listening

1196
01:38:23,180 --> 01:38:27,660
to three or four people. This is like, the danger is coming. So that's like, what is

1197
01:38:28,520 --> 01:38:30,860
What is this venture? Can somebody expand on this venture?

1198
01:38:32,560 --> 01:38:34,700
Yeah, I need to call out.

1199
01:38:35,240 --> 01:38:36,920
Okay, we can sit down and talk about the clock.

1200
01:38:37,460 --> 01:38:40,420
Thank you. Hold on, hold on.

1201
01:38:40,800 --> 01:38:42,480
I gotta go ahead and have a seat.

1202
01:38:42,600 --> 01:38:43,880
Thank you.

1203
01:38:48,440 --> 01:38:50,880
So this is, hold on.

1204
01:38:53,060 --> 01:38:55,020
What's important to hold on?

1205
01:38:55,760 --> 01:39:02,580
What's important is that when we have these conversations and we're here that we are

1206
01:39:02,580 --> 01:39:03,160
respectful.

1207
01:39:03,400 --> 01:39:10,640
Council is here to listen to the words, to the thoughts, to your passions, to what's

1208
01:39:10,640 --> 01:39:11,620
important to you.

1209
01:39:13,200 --> 01:39:18,940
And while I'm going to allow that to go on, I'll be here at El Midnight, if that's the conversation

1210
01:39:18,940 --> 01:39:27,060
you guys want, but you're expressing your thoughts and opinions to council, not to the group.

1211
01:39:28,080 --> 01:39:31,820
And we're going to keep this focused on what's happening within the city.

1212
01:39:32,180 --> 01:39:37,300
So I'm going to give you an opportunity to respond, but if this becomes into something

1213
01:39:37,300 --> 01:39:43,140
that is getting ugly, I'll put a stop to it. And I don't want to, but I think that that's important.

1214
01:39:43,140 --> 01:39:43,760
Go ahead.

1215
01:39:44,520 --> 01:39:45,380
Thank you.

1216
01:39:45,740 --> 01:39:53,880
I have no intention of being combative, but he asked what the problem is.

1217
01:39:54,120 --> 01:39:56,980
And no one has said it, called it what it is.

1218
01:39:57,280 --> 01:39:59,100
They are building segregated neighborhoods.

1219
01:39:59,720 --> 01:40:01,440
That is the only word you can use.

1220
01:40:01,560 --> 01:40:03,020
You can't say Muslim only.

1221
01:40:03,240 --> 01:40:06,540
You can't say exclusive.

1222
01:40:07,000 --> 01:40:07,640
It's segregation.

1223
01:40:08,440 --> 01:40:09,740
Segregation is illegal.

1224
01:40:10,320 --> 01:40:11,740
That is the problem I have.

1225
01:40:11,740 --> 01:40:18,740
I have problems with a lot of it, but when we moved here 25 years ago, every culture

1226
01:40:18,740 --> 01:40:22,460
was equally represented at the elementary school that my kids were at.

1227
01:40:23,100 --> 01:40:24,300
We loved it.

1228
01:40:24,760 --> 01:40:25,860
They lived among us.

1229
01:40:26,000 --> 01:40:27,460
We had neighborhood night out.

1230
01:40:28,000 --> 01:40:33,960
We visited other homes, talked about each other's cultures, our religions, we shared food.

1231
01:40:34,380 --> 01:40:36,560
That is not what is coming in.

1232
01:40:36,860 --> 01:40:40,900
That is not the Muslims that are coming in.

1233
01:40:40,900 --> 01:40:47,740
And I don't even want to say the word Muslims because I feel like it is the powers to be

1234
01:40:47,740 --> 01:40:51,900
that have built epic and whatever else they're going to call themselves.

1235
01:40:52,560 --> 01:40:53,460
They are

1236
01:40:55,580 --> 01:41:05,740
dishonest, they are no transparency and they are breaking laws by creating segregated

1237
01:41:05,740 --> 01:41:06,240
neighborhoods.

1238
01:41:06,620 --> 01:41:11,180
And then they want to call us Islamophobic, racist, whatever.

1239
01:41:11,820 --> 01:41:16,080
Everybody needs to ignore those names. That's not what it's about. And we know that.

1240
01:41:16,520 --> 01:41:23,460
We just need to stick to laws and facts and not be drugged into name calling because we know it goes so much deeper than that.

1241
01:41:23,820 --> 01:41:31,400
We've had Muslims living in this town as long as I can remember. Some of my good friends are Muslims that have lived here forever. They're not happy either.

1242
01:41:32,100 --> 01:41:36,540
So it's not a Muslim and anti-Muslim thing. Just want to make that clear.

1243
01:41:36,940 --> 01:41:37,260
Thank you.

1244
01:41:44,480 --> 01:41:49,620
Did you fill out a form if you didn't tell lunch you to fill out a form when you're done when you're done?

1245
01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:50,100
I have it.

1246
01:41:50,280 --> 01:41:50,440
Okay.

1247
01:41:50,880 --> 01:41:51,140
Okay.

1248
01:41:51,900 --> 01:41:53,000
Good evening everyone.

1249
01:41:53,840 --> 01:41:54,800
All right.

1250
01:41:55,760 --> 01:41:58,140
So I listened and I tried to take notes.

1251
01:41:59,020 --> 01:41:59,680
I don't know.

1252
01:41:59,740 --> 01:42:00,400
Can you hear me?

1253
01:42:01,640 --> 01:42:03,560
I listened is better now.

1254
01:42:04,280 --> 01:42:04,660
Okay.

1255
01:42:04,760 --> 01:42:12,100
So I listened and I tried to take notes about the different concerns everyone has.

1256
01:42:12,100 --> 01:42:19,940
And those are definitely fair because, I mean, I have been part of working in the council

1257
01:42:19,940 --> 01:42:25,140
in different cities throughout America thus far.

1258
01:42:25,620 --> 01:42:35,220
And the only concern that I had that I want to bring up was the few people who claimed

1259
01:42:35,220 --> 01:42:43,460
to be interpreting the religious book of the Muslims and made completely false claims.

1260
01:42:44,320 --> 01:42:46,900
I hope you're not basing your decision on that.

1261
01:42:47,940 --> 01:42:59,540
As far as using codes to deny people the ability to build a center for praying five times a day,

1262
01:42:59,540 --> 01:43:09,360
I see where the concern of parking would come in, would come to most people's mind.

1263
01:43:09,580 --> 01:43:10,580
And that's fair by the way.

1264
01:43:10,740 --> 01:43:17,900
It definitely is fair because Muslims do go and pray five times a day in big numbers

1265
01:43:18,540 --> 01:43:22,560
and sometimes it can get really bad with the parking.

1266
01:43:22,560 --> 01:43:31,060
So perhaps the question, the answer there would be for you guys to work closely with them

1267
01:43:31,060 --> 01:43:37,720
and enforce the laws of parking, which can definitely make a huge difference.

1268
01:43:41,560 --> 01:43:48,560
Yeah, that's basically the only issue that I thought I could give you a take on

1269
01:43:48,560 --> 01:43:58,420
Besides that, I hope you guys realize that, like most Muslims, we don't mean to come and take over anything.

1270
01:43:59,500 --> 01:44:06,520
I became Muslim here in America. I speak seven languages, lived in eight different countries going up.

1271
01:44:07,280 --> 01:44:15,360
And I have met all kinds of people. There's good and bad everywhere in everything, literally.

1272
01:44:17,120 --> 01:44:31,820
And in the case for Muslims, I would say I've met way more good people, and I hope that you guys can have wonderful neighbors so that you can see how beautiful Islam truly is.

1273
01:44:32,420 --> 01:44:33,640
That's all I have to say. Thank you.

1274
01:44:33,720 --> 01:44:33,980
Thank you.

1275
01:44:35,060 --> 01:44:35,240
All right.

1276
01:44:38,180 --> 01:44:40,600
So I'm going to, I'm going to close.

1277
01:44:41,260 --> 01:44:42,220
You've already spoken.

1278
01:44:44,540 --> 01:44:46,040
No, no, I think I think we're good.

1279
01:44:46,040 --> 01:44:46,660
I think we're good.

1280
01:44:47,220 --> 01:44:53,940
I'm going to close the public comments and there's going to be five more meetings.

1281
01:44:54,320 --> 01:44:55,920
Trust me that you guys can.

1282
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:29,180
We've indicated that you guys know we've got a number of items that are left on this agenda that we'd like to hit tonight, and that we have a long meeting with our attorneys tonight. If anybody wants to stick around, I will be here after the meeting, and I'll continue to have a conversation with you, listen to you, and I'll be in a position where I can communicate, because it'll be outside the meeting. But that'll be probably another hour.

1283
01:45:30,480 --> 01:45:36,860
But I do thank you all for coming out, and I expect this is not the last time I'm going

1284
01:45:36,860 --> 01:45:41,240
to see you guys visiting with us, so, and I appreciate you coming.

1285
01:45:42,540 --> 01:45:42,620
Huh?

1286
01:45:46,150 --> 01:45:51,890
Yeah, there's no votes currently scheduled, so yes, there'll be more meeting for that.

1287
01:45:52,370 --> 01:45:52,530
Okay?

1288
01:45:54,370 --> 01:45:56,850
Yeah, we'll see what it goes on there if I were your fifth.

1289
01:45:56,850 --> 01:45:59,270
If you'll watch that agenda,

1290
01:46:01,500 --> 01:46:01,740
okay?

1291
01:46:03,200 --> 01:46:03,840
Thank you.

1292
01:46:06,770 --> 01:46:11,730
I'm very first not a council meeting, it's a DNZ, so it's not a final decision either.

1293
01:46:12,110 --> 01:46:12,390
Thank you.

1294
01:46:14,710 --> 01:46:15,670
Thank you, everybody.

1295
01:46:17,210 --> 01:46:19,190
All right, we're going to move on.

1296
01:46:19,490 --> 01:46:21,190
We're skipping the rest of the presentations.

1297
01:46:21,190 --> 01:46:24,030
We're going to move on to this city manager's staff reports.

1298
01:46:25,030 --> 01:46:25,870
Just bring it.

1299
01:46:26,110 --> 01:46:26,490
Thank you.

1300
01:46:29,050 --> 01:46:31,790
Mayor and council, we have a few updates tonight.

1301
01:46:31,790 --> 01:46:34,630
I want me to give it a minute.

1302
01:46:34,710 --> 01:46:35,450
You give it a second.

1303
01:46:35,730 --> 01:46:35,750
Yeah.

1304
01:46:37,010 --> 01:46:37,710
Thank you.

1305
01:47:03,090 --> 01:47:03,910
You want me?

1306
01:47:05,630 --> 01:47:06,670
For exactly.

1307
01:47:07,450 --> 01:47:08,790
Bring them in.

1308
01:47:09,550 --> 01:47:10,690
I'll go get them.

1309
01:47:10,690 --> 01:47:13,170
I actually have some crown upstairs.

1310
01:47:15,150 --> 01:47:17,050
We've got hope in the fridge.

1311
01:47:18,370 --> 01:47:19,170
Love ice?

1312
01:47:20,130 --> 01:47:21,730
I don't know if there's enough ice.

1313
01:47:23,810 --> 01:47:24,850
Thank you.

1314
01:47:28,120 --> 01:47:35,040
You didn't get a chance to speak, I apologize, I apologize, I apologize, please,

1315
01:47:40,540 --> 01:47:43,320
I apologize, what's your name?

1316
01:47:54,700 --> 01:47:59,480
You want to go ahead, you want to go ahead and send me an email, and then no,

1317
01:48:06,620 --> 01:48:08,900
no, another chance, too, I think this is a problem.

1318
01:48:11,440 --> 01:48:12,640
I apologize.

1319
01:48:28,430 --> 01:48:31,670
I think nobody was coming up.

1320
01:48:32,110 --> 01:48:33,550
I think we got.

1321
01:48:34,150 --> 01:48:34,670
I think I did.

1322
01:48:35,710 --> 01:48:43,450
I don't

1323
01:48:45,500 --> 01:48:46,620
want to piss more people off.

1324
01:48:46,960 --> 01:48:47,560
All right.

1325
01:48:49,160 --> 01:48:52,200
Okay, Mayor and Council just a few updates tonight.

1326
01:48:52,560 --> 01:48:56,260
First of all, very exciting news for our Public Works Department.

1327
01:48:56,800 --> 01:48:59,880
An investigation was conducted to evaluate compliance with

1328
01:48:59,880 --> 01:49:02,940
applicable requirements for public water supply systems.

1329
01:49:03,440 --> 01:49:09,340
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ, as we call it, found no violations.

1330
01:49:09,820 --> 01:49:13,820
They stated our public water supply continues to merit recognition as, quote,

1331
01:49:14,360 --> 01:49:15,900
a superior water system.

1332
01:49:15,900 --> 01:49:19,120
So kudos to our public work director and our staff.

1333
01:49:22,480 --> 01:49:26,500
I apologize guys, can we move out, thanks.

1334
01:49:28,890 --> 01:49:34,010
And then also coming up this later next month on February 7th is the Daddy Dordardance

1335
01:49:34,010 --> 01:49:35,330
at the Murphy Community Center.

1336
01:49:35,510 --> 01:49:38,810
Please check our website for more details and to get your tickets.

1337
01:49:39,550 --> 01:49:45,030
And as a reminder, all city offices will be closed on Monday, February 16th and observance

1338
01:49:45,030 --> 01:49:45,990
of Presidents Day.

1339
01:49:46,510 --> 01:49:50,790
At the end of February, the annual rainbow trout roundup

1340
01:49:50,790 --> 01:49:54,070
will be taking place at the Murphy City Hall Pond.

1341
01:49:54,270 --> 01:49:56,130
Please check our website for more information.

1342
01:49:56,810 --> 01:49:58,550
And then as a reminder to the public,

1343
01:49:58,750 --> 01:50:00,410
the next city council meeting will be held

1344
01:50:00,410 --> 01:50:03,170
in this room on February 3rd at 6 p.m.

1345
01:50:03,530 --> 01:50:03,830
Thank you.

1346
01:50:03,850 --> 01:50:04,170
Thank you.

1347
01:50:04,530 --> 01:50:06,470
All right, we're going to move on to item 8,

1348
01:50:06,470 --> 01:50:08,170
individual consideration, 8 a.

1349
01:50:08,310 --> 01:50:10,650
Consider end or act on January 6th, 2026,

1350
01:50:10,650 --> 01:50:11,750
regular council meeting.

1351
01:50:12,610 --> 01:50:14,890
Does anyone have any changes or I'll take a motion?

1352
01:50:18,220 --> 01:50:25,260
Mayor, I move to approve the minutes from the last meeting or all the items and individual

1353
01:50:25,260 --> 01:50:26,420
points. It's consideration.

1354
01:50:27,180 --> 01:50:27,500
Second.

1355
01:50:28,180 --> 01:50:29,320
I have a motion to second all the favour.

1356
01:50:29,600 --> 01:50:29,820
Aye.

1357
01:50:30,400 --> 01:50:30,620
Any opposed?

1358
01:50:31,240 --> 01:50:32,040
Motion passed unanimously.

1359
01:50:32,320 --> 01:50:36,980
Item B, consider and or act to direct staff to prepare an ordinance, calling a special

1360
01:50:36,980 --> 01:50:42,660
election on May 2nd, 2026, for the purpose of reauthorizing the sales tax allocation for

1361
01:50:42,660 --> 01:50:47,740
So the street maintenance repair fund, I don't know if there is any council have any concern on this.

1362
01:50:48,000 --> 01:50:48,160
Okay.

1363
01:50:48,540 --> 01:50:50,900
We know this pretty well, we've done it every year.

1364
01:50:51,440 --> 01:50:56,980
We're only trying to push it up by a year to get cost savings because there is no election next year.

1365
01:50:57,160 --> 01:50:58,320
Very good, I'll take a motion.

1366
01:50:59,380 --> 01:51:09,620
May I move to approve item 8B, consider on or act direct staff to prepare an ordinance calling a special action on May 2nd, 2026

1367
01:51:09,620 --> 01:51:13,960
for the purpose of reauthorizing the sales tax allocation for the street and maintenance

1368
01:51:13,960 --> 01:51:14,380
prepare.

1369
01:51:14,820 --> 01:51:15,300
Second.

1370
01:51:15,700 --> 01:51:16,080
I have a motion.

1371
01:51:16,200 --> 01:51:16,640
Second, all's favor?

1372
01:51:16,960 --> 01:51:17,160
Aye.

1373
01:51:17,600 --> 01:51:17,900
Any opposed?

1374
01:51:18,640 --> 01:51:19,560
Motion passed unanimously.

1375
01:51:20,280 --> 01:51:24,860
Item C, considering our act on a resolution authorizing city manager to execute a general services

1376
01:51:24,860 --> 01:51:29,560
agreement with Neil Schaefer Inc. to provide engineering services for design work associated

1377
01:51:29,560 --> 01:51:34,460
with the rehabilitation replacement from approximately 3,800 linear feet of sanitary

1378
01:51:34,460 --> 01:51:40,040
line long skyline drive in the amount to exceed $174,900.

1379
01:51:40,780 --> 01:51:41,420
Okay.

1380
01:51:42,060 --> 01:51:46,080
Can you remember the council item that you just mentioned is exactly what you said.

1381
01:51:46,380 --> 01:51:51,500
It's to rehab about 3,800 linear feed of sewer line along skyline drive.

1382
01:51:52,340 --> 01:52:00,380
The project is to either remove a replace a variety of different sizes and materials of sewer line pipe.

1383
01:52:01,980 --> 01:52:07,380
It's anticipated that the design will take about six months, staff recommends approval and

1384
01:52:07,380 --> 01:52:09,720
I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

1385
01:52:10,140 --> 01:52:11,260
I just had a quick question.

1386
01:52:11,660 --> 01:52:16,060
I think that this is just proactive maintenance and there isn't a problem.

1387
01:52:16,060 --> 01:52:16,680
Is that correct?

1388
01:52:16,900 --> 01:52:17,340
That's correct.

1389
01:52:17,560 --> 01:52:19,440
There is no major problems right now.

1390
01:52:19,560 --> 01:52:21,380
We have TB that line and it is.

1391
01:52:21,760 --> 01:52:22,620
Most of it is PVC.

1392
01:52:23,580 --> 01:52:27,780
Some of it is a little under size or some six inch sections that need to be replaced.

1393
01:52:28,160 --> 01:52:28,320
Gotcha.

1394
01:52:28,320 --> 01:52:35,100
There's a few bellies and soils in it that's holding water, and there's some clay sewer line that is very old

1395
01:52:35,100 --> 01:52:39,580
and needs to be replaced before it does become a problem, so it is trying to get be proactive.

1396
01:52:40,120 --> 01:52:44,200
Great, yeah, and we definitely don't want a huge problem, because we waited too long.

1397
01:52:44,520 --> 01:52:49,800
The other item is that this is all mostly behind the curb, so we shouldn't have to do a lot of,

1398
01:52:50,520 --> 01:52:51,800
shouldn't be any damage to the street.

1399
01:52:52,120 --> 01:52:52,380
Very good.

1400
01:52:53,980 --> 01:52:54,660
Any questions?

1401
01:52:55,400 --> 01:52:56,620
All right, I'll take a motion.

1402
01:52:56,620 --> 01:52:57,620
There,

1403
01:52:59,680 --> 01:53:04,980
I move that we approve item 8c as presented.

1404
01:53:05,540 --> 01:53:05,740
Second.

1405
01:53:06,020 --> 01:53:07,140
I have a motion to second on the favor.

1406
01:53:07,580 --> 01:53:07,840
Aye.

1407
01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:08,400
Any of them?

1408
01:53:09,320 --> 01:53:10,160
Motion passed unanimously.

1409
01:53:10,660 --> 01:53:22,180
Item D, consider and or act on nominating and selecting a council member to serve a two-year, two-term on North Central Texas 911 Board of Managers.

1410
01:53:31,080 --> 01:53:48,720
I know for two and she did say she's up for another term if you all desire that we good with that all right I'll take a motion on

1411
01:53:48,720 --> 01:53:49,640
Board of Managers.

1412
01:53:50,000 --> 01:53:50,280
Second.

1413
01:53:50,720 --> 01:53:51,460
I have a motion second.

1414
01:53:51,560 --> 01:53:51,900
All is in favor?

1415
01:53:52,260 --> 01:53:52,500
Aye.

1416
01:53:52,860 --> 01:53:53,280
Any opposed?

1417
01:53:54,380 --> 01:53:55,360
Motion passed unanimously.

1418
01:53:55,980 --> 01:53:57,520
Moving on into executive session.

1419
01:53:57,700 --> 01:54:01,580
According to the Texas government code, Chapter 551, Subjector D. City Council will now recess

1420
01:54:01,580 --> 01:54:02,680
into executive session.

1421
01:54:03,340 --> 01:54:07,120
Subjector D. City Council will now to discuss the following.

1422
01:54:07,520 --> 01:54:13,160
Item 551.072 to deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property, project

1423
01:54:13,160 --> 01:54:14,100
tank, and item B.

1424
01:54:14,100 --> 01:54:19,080
The consultation with attorney on pending or contemplated litigation on a matter in which

1425
01:54:19,080 --> 01:54:23,160
the duty of the attorney to the governmental body and the Texas disciplinary rules, a professional

1426
01:54:23,160 --> 01:54:26,100
conduct, the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts with the chapter.

1427
01:54:26,560 --> 01:54:30,560
Zoning applications, development plans, site plans, and plating process.

1428
01:54:30,960 --> 01:54:32,600
The time is 754.

1429
01:54:41,580 --> 01:54:45,120
The Council will reconvene in a regular session pursuant to the provisions chapter 5, but

1430
01:54:45,120 --> 01:54:50,460
you want to subject to D, Texas government code, to take any action necessary guarding

1431
01:54:50,460 --> 01:54:56,740
item A, 551.072, deliberate the purchase exchange lease or value of real property in reference

1432
01:54:56,740 --> 01:55:02,280
to a project tank, item B, 51.071, consultation with attorney on pending or contemplated

1433
01:55:02,280 --> 01:55:06,900
litigation, and on a matter in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body under

1434
01:55:06,900 --> 01:55:11,760
the Texas disciplinary rules, a professional conduct, the state bar of Texas, clearly conflicts

1435
01:55:11,760 --> 01:55:18,000
with this chapter, reference to zoning changes, development plan site plans, and planning process.

1436
01:55:18,000 --> 01:55:25,480
time is 9.09. There was no action taken in exact. There's nothing to do out of that.

1437
01:55:25,800 --> 01:55:28,260
There are two. Is the development agreement in the ordinance?

1438
01:55:28,960 --> 01:55:33,320
Who's got the motion on the development agreement?

1439
01:55:33,600 --> 01:55:38,860
Mayer, I move to approve the economic development and set of agreement between the city of Murphy

1440
01:55:38,860 --> 01:55:42,980
and convenient investments LLC for the purchase of land.

1441
01:55:42,980 --> 01:55:48,040
Sorry, pending final legal review.

1442
01:55:48,600 --> 01:55:50,560
I have a motion of secondals in favor.

1443
01:55:50,880 --> 01:55:51,140
Aye.

1444
01:55:51,600 --> 01:55:52,100
Any opposed?

1445
01:55:53,020 --> 01:55:54,540
Motion passes unanimously.

1446
01:55:55,680 --> 01:55:59,260
All right, and then B.

1447
01:56:03,300 --> 01:56:04,420
B, right?

1448
01:56:05,700 --> 01:56:06,820
All right, 11B.

1449
01:56:06,960 --> 01:56:10,120
Consider and or act on an ordinance establishing fair housing standards.

1450
01:56:11,120 --> 01:56:14,000
Mayor, I move to approve item 11B.

1451
01:56:15,360 --> 01:56:18,660
establishing an ordinance for fair housing standards.

1452
01:56:19,300 --> 01:56:21,100
I have most of the second house favourites.

1453
01:56:21,180 --> 01:56:21,320
Aye.

1454
01:56:21,880 --> 01:56:22,380
Any opposed?

1455
01:56:23,740 --> 01:56:24,740
Motion passes unanimously.

1456
01:56:25,040 --> 01:56:27,020
Moving on to item 12, future agenda items.

1457
01:56:27,560 --> 01:56:31,700
I said the council members may request topics for future agenda meetings.

1458
01:56:32,180 --> 01:56:37,440
No member of the City Council may discuss any of the requested subjects until such a matter has been properly placed in agenda.

1459
01:56:37,920 --> 01:56:41,920
And anyone would like to add an item to a future agenda at this time.

1460
01:56:41,920 --> 01:56:42,840
Seeing

1461
01:56:45,010 --> 01:56:51,070
none, we're adjourned. 9-10. Thank you very much for the evening.