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The City of Coppell City Council met on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, beginning with an Executive Session at 5:30 p.m. (closed to the public), followed by a Work Session at 6:35 p.m., and the Regular Session at 7:34 p.m. in the Council Chambers at Town Center. All eight council members were present. The meeting included proclamations, a consent agenda with 14 items, public comments, a public hearing on zoning text amendments, and a work session discussion on a Non-Park Building Naming Policy.
Howdy everybody. Today is Tuesday, October 13th, 2026, and the time is 5.30 p.m. We're here for the regular session of the Coppel City Council. We do have a quorum presence, so I'm calling the meeting to order. We will be convening into executive session in the first floor conference room. At the end of the executive session, I'll come back out, announce work session at which time the public is invited and encouraged to join us. Thank you very much. Good evening, everybody. The time is 6 30 p.m. and we adjourn from executive session and we'll move into work session in the first floor conference room. The public is invited and encouraged to join us. Thank you. The time is 6 35. We're moving into work session. We only have two items on the on the agenda. The first one is deliberation regarding the agenda items. Do we have any questions on uh consent or otherwise? I did have one. Um the purchase of the seating. Um I was puzzled how buying it um separately outside of the contract is gonna speed things up. And also who does the installation, why don't you handle that one? Uh we got brief on that at 4 30, so it is a story, but okay. So Mark's question is uh there the original I'll let Jamie correct. Yes. Okay, okay. Um so yeah, you missed our our final discussion earlier. I missed it too, so things are for the yeah. Yeah, absolutely. So we had uh what during construction bidding, it was brought to our attention several contractors, but that was a very long lead item, and so it was causing issues. So the 22 weeks kind of from the time we approved and did some levels and approvals. So the conversation that we had, we went ahead and called the seating manufacturer, and so I just called them directly to see if there's any other opportunities to speed up the process. Um we had the discussion with Kent and Mike Land about the we were able to, if we were able to sign an agreement on before October 6th, that with the stipulation upon approval tonight that it would be approved, that we could go ahead and get the order process in in line. And so the conversation was we're still in line because you're in a hurry, hurry up to get in line. And so the manufacturing window, if we ordered before October 6th, would be keeping us with the end of January, early February delivery date for those seats. And so we just made that internal decision to go ahead and get in line because if you missed that October 6th deadline, it was the March April seating manufacturing window, and then we would have to move into like temporary seating solutions right here. So we just took that number that they gave to the contractors and deducted it out of the contractor award number. Correct. Okay. So apparently they batch manufacture these, so they only do them not continuously. So they you have to wait till the next group of your like furniture is gonna be manufactured. Which he said the good thing was we'd already done all the legwork because they had the materials and the fabric and everything chosen and all the layouts ready to go. We just had to basically execute that to get in line. So it was like everything is already actually ready to go. The hard part's done, we just need to execute the very other white part of it was that. So we got that executed before October 6th with the little last shirt saying upon approval tonight.