Good afternoon.

Welcome to this meeting of Denton City Council.

Today May 12th, 2026.

It is 101 p.m.

We do have a quorum, so I'll call a meeting order first thing on the agenda.

Pledges to the United States and Texas flag.

Please stand with me if you're able.

And for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Honor the Texas flag.

One state one and individual.

All right.

And then first proclamation is to Dr.

Brian Beck.

If you can meet me at the podium, please.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Let's start with uh check check.

Okay.

Yeah.

So I'll give you an opportunity to I have a proclamation, I'll read it, but anything, anything you want to share, the mic is yours.

Oh no, that's dangerous.

It is.

Uh we all know that I am prone to to go on and on.

Yes.

Did I mention on?

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, thank you very much.

No, I want I'll I will keep it brief because as I I just told Jell, um I'm all in my fields right now.

I'm all in compartmentalized about the different aspects of where this leads because we're sort of in a in a holding pattern as we see how things go.

Um, but what I am immensely grateful for is all the people on the stage that I've got to share time with our five years together, Vicky and our five years together, um, we sort of all started this at the same time.

I said this last meeting, uh, and and it has changed me, made me grow as a person.

It has shown me that this community I came to 20 years ago.

Um is it's so important, and it and it really reinforced me giving back over and over and over again.

So I hope that I have the opportunity to continue to give back to the community further, and I I promise you, regardless of what happens in the next uh few weeks, uh I will continue to give back to the community that I love that I've stayed here, that is my home.

But I have immensely enjoyed every aspect of this so much to the point that I actually left UT to just focus on the community.

Um professors normally die in their office, and I chose to focus on the community instead.

So I appreciate every single person up here.

I don't know if I say it um well enough or often enough, but thank you.

Thank you all.

Thank you.

Excellent.

Thank you.

And before I read the proclamation, I'll say just a bit more about that because I've I've done all the things.

I've run for election and lost, I've run for election and won, winning's better.

Uh and then I have also been in a runoff situation.

So if you don't know, it is like you leave council.

I had to turn in everything as though I wasn't coming back.

And that that's a difficult thing, right?

It is just a challenge.

You know, it's the first time in a long time that if uh it was like four years, and so if if I forgot my charger in City Hall, I'd just come grab it.

But after that day, and you gotta wait till 8 o'clock on Monday, uh, and it's just a different experience.

So I appreciate uh I have the similar experience and understand what you're doing and appreciate it.

And so we have a proclamation to read, and it reads a proclamation by the mayor of the city of Denton, Texas, to all whom these presents shall come, greetings.

Whereas Dr.

Brian Beck has served as a council member for District 2 of the city of Denton City Council from May 1st, 2021 to May 12th, 2026, and whereas among this his many contributions to the community, Dr.

Brian Beck has also served as a mayor pro tem and of the city council chair to the committee on environment, vice chair to the mobility committee, and member of the community Partnership committee and development code review committee.

And whereas Dr.

Brian Beck has served with dedication, consistently going above and beyond in contributions to the well-being of the city and earning the respect of his colleagues and the community.

Now, therefore, our Gerard Hudson with mayor of the city of Denton, Texas, formally convey the community's appreciation of Dr.