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The Carrollton City Council held a combined Worksession and Regular Meeting on Tuesday, September 15, 2026. The worksession convened at 5:45 PM in the Council Briefing Room, where the council received a briefing on police technology and crime reduction strategies. The regular meeting began at 7:00 PM in the Council Chambers, featuring a proclamation for Emergency Preparedness Month, approval of consent agenda items, a separate public comment period and vote on a consolidated Flock Safety contract, and council reports.
The following items were approved unanimously via consent, exclusive of Items 9 and 13, which were considered separately:
Item 9 (approval of September 1, 2026 minutes) was pulled for individual consideration and passed unanimously.
Mayor Steve Babick read a proclamation declaring September as Emergency Preparedness Month, recognizing the city’s emergency management staff and encouraging residents to prepare emergency kits and plans. Emergency Management Coordinator Jay Johnson accepted the proclamation and thanked the council for their support.
Police Chief Robert Arredondo, Assistant Chief Caleb West, and Commander Zach White presented the department’s crime reduction strategy, which has reduced overall crime by nearly 50% over four years. Key points:
A large number of residents and stakeholders spoke during the public comment period, with about 20 speakers presenting both opposition and support.
Opposition arguments (from Jeffrey Faust, Brian Chandler, Hannah Fausto, Claire Neago, Kim Crossley, Kurt Booth, Arya Dean, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Baim, Nicholas Brown, Amara, Micah Dumont, John Etzel, Kenneth Vagans, Laurie Foster, Christian Hernandez, Amna Malik, James McAllister, Ketzia Mendez, Nicholas Solis, Joseph Sutton, Michelle Wiggington, and others) included:
Support arguments (from Rusty Pendleton, Harold Vinson, Alexander Fincher, and others) included:
Councilmembers debated Item 13 at length before the vote:
All right, counselor, I'll come to our um September fifteenth uh work session. We will start with our uh just walking through our consent agenda items. Starting with our minutes, number eight and nine. Any uh questions or edits or concerns on the minutes as posted. Uh number ten. Uh let me let me also just say that we're gonna pull items number thirteen will be full for separate considerations. So it's um uh it'll we'll do the consent agenda item, then we'll turn to item thirteen for for uh even citizen comments. Um is consider authorizing the city managers to enter into a three-year agreement with environmental systems research institute uh throughout the or through the Texas Department of Information Resources contract number DIR CPO 4699 for enterprise GIS software licensing and an amount not to uh an amount of 157,564 dollars in a three-year total amount not to exceed 472. Uh I said uh I'm sorry, in an amount of 157,564 dollars and a three-year total not to exceed 472,692 dollars. Questions on the item. Okay, uh number 11 consider authorizing the city manager to execute uh change order number one with ESO solutions for the fire department records management solution and amount not to exceed 61,461 and 55 cents, increasing the total project contract to 307, 307.75. Question Yes. I'm a little fuzzy about how it breaks down into five years. 245,000 plus plus divided by five is 49,000. So the 61,000 is a little confusing for me. Okay, cheap poll clear that right up. Yeah, uh chief. Uh so this is actually uh due to some unexpected cost with the contract, specifically some unfunded mandates by the state that created a mandatory overdose reporting system. So we had to add a module that cost additional funds. Uh secondarily, we had to add a new module when we approved the International Fire Code, the 2024 version. There's an additional module that they charge us for when we move updated our fire code. And the primary difference is when we first got on with the ESO, uh, they told us we'd have full access to our data. It's not exactly 100% the way it needed to work for us, the way our data analyst uses that data. So we had to book we had basically upgrade to a what's called a snowflake system, which provides a full data suite so that we can do our own data analysis outside of their CAN reports, and that's what the difference in the cost is. It's like a correction of the original calculation. Okay, thank you. Okay. Uh moving on. Uh number 12. Um consider authorizing the city manager to renew agreements with various furniture vendors through interlocal co-op agreements with call in county government uh purchasers forum and collin county college in an amount not to exceed $880,000 for fiscal year 2027. I have a question. Yes, sir. Are we saying that we're gonna spend eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars on furniture in 2027? Uh I believe that's what it says. I I'm that's why I'm asking most of that is due to the fire stations coming online, so this covers the purchases of all of the furniture coming in with the fire stations. Okay, yeah, we do it as one blanket so that it covers everything. Thank you very much.