City Council Business Meeting on 2025-11-10 5:00 PM - Nov 10, 2025
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What is the opening of the council meeting and who are the initial speakers?
Good afternoon, everyone. Good afternoon. Thank you very much, Ms. Brown. Um, I want to call to order the um consent and action review portion of our agenda, which has started a little bit late, like five PM. And we'll start that by saying um we're glad for those that are watching us online and or those that are joining us on in person the same thing we'll say about that when we go downstairs for our the remainder of our business meeting so right now what I'd like to um say is that we um are ready for the call to order we'll start with our introductions with the city clerk Ariel Smith, lead city clerk. Andrea Leslie Fight, City Attorney. Welcome. Andrea, we're really we'll talk a little bit more about you later, but want you to welcome upstairs, downstairs.
That's the way it works. All
right, here we go. I'm Marjorie Molina, District Five.
What's my name today? Oh James Mitchell La
Dimple Ashmer at large. Dante Anderson, Mayor Pro Tim, District One. Vy
Lau's Mayor.
Marcus Jones, City Manager. Johnson C. Smith, District Two.
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championship game on Saturday. Malcolm Bram, District Two. Wow. Ed Driggs, District Seven.
Luana Mayfield, Councilmember at large. I do wanna say that um yesterday Oh I'm sorry, Miss Brown. Say the best for last year. Oh of course, of course. Council member Brown, district three, J C S U, you know. Oh my gosh. Pretty soon you're gonna be doing that all day long. So um I just wanna actually um address yesterday we had a Panthers football game. Well that game perhaps wasn't exactly what we wanted it to be. We had the Aggie Pride band come in and perform for that and they did a fantastic job. Oh, A and T there we gotta we gotta keep up, Smith. Hey, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, y'all gotta you gotta start keeping it.
They're not playing for a championship Saturday at all. We won nine games, they won two. They can keep the band.
Who's killed? I I I don't I don't I don't know what he's talking about. I really don't. So congratulations on all of that. I d I just think that When I saw those young men and women come out of that tunnel, it just I it just showed us that while we have the stadium, the stadium is actually made for the people in this community. And I just want to say that and especially um because it's something that I think we really sh can be proud of. But nonetheless, I think right now we're going to start with the city council policy. Well, no, we're gonna talk a little bit with the city manager. Mr. Jones, do you wanna comment for us? The consent agenda is important to do. Miss Mayfield is gonna help us with that. Let me see if I can find our pages.
Let's see. I don't know that I have here we go. Alright, we've had the clerk and so Everybody's okay. Um Ms m Miss Watlington has joined us and so um we will now consider consent items on tonight's agenda. And so I see Miss Mayfield has raised her hand, but before we begin this, I know it's really hard when I can't see around the dais downstairs about who's making the motion, and often it's I r really uh like to have your help that when we are gonna have a emotion or you are making emotion that it's easy that I see have some eye contact. That would really be helpful. So Miss Mayfield, why don't you start me out like that? Thank you, Madam Mayor. So for the items for consent to pull put aside for either.
Separate vote and or discussion item number twenty six. Twenty seven and thirty four, please.
Could you repeat that um
twenty six? Твоті сев. And the number thirty four. Okay. In addition to that, the staff has pulled item thirty. А звел Yes. Do we have any others pull from the staff? Okay. So thirty will not um be addressed this morning this afternoon as well. So with that, um why don't we start with item twenty six? Miss Mayfield? I'm sorry. So Madam Mayor Mayor. Marie, I wanna I just wondered if Miss Mayfield wanted to make the motion. a ono da je nisu bio moć. I'm not making a motion.
Okay, you're not doing a motion. So madam mayor, can I I'd I'd like to motion uh that we approve all the consent items uh withstanding twenty-six, twenty-seven, thirty, and thirty-four.
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Agenda
8 items
1
What is the opening of the council meeting and who are the initial speakers?
4:28–32:36
2
How does the council handle the consent agenda and the vote on items 26, 27, 30, and 34?
32:36–37:59
3
Why is a deferral motion proposed for the Spectrum traffic‑control contract and what are the arguments around it?
37:59–1:58:01
4
What are the key points of the mobility and strategic investment update presented later in the meeting?
1:58:01–2:04:19
5
What are the categories and percentages of public comments on the area plans?
2:04:19–3:16:37
6
What happens if the area plan is not adopted?
3:16:37–3:27:43
7
How are council members debating a phased implementation of the area plans?
3:27:43–3:42:06
8
What motions and votes are taken at the end of the meeting?
3:42:06–4:03:11
Speakers
9 identified
LaWana Mayfield 57 min
Marcus Jones 16 min
Dante Anderson 12 min
Renee Johnson 10 min
Ed Driggs 9 min
Dimple Ajmera 8 min
James Mitchell 5 min
Malcolm Graham 3 min
Stephanie Kelly 2 min
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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