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The Corpus Christi City Council convened on December 3, 2024, to address a full agenda including the recognition of retiring Fire Marshal Randy Page, public comments on the proposed desalination plant and local business, several consent agenda items, public hearings on the Bayside Area Development Plan and the Mirabella Public Improvement District, and individual items for police, parks, and infrastructure projects. The meeting concluded with an executive session on legal and economic development matters.
The council approved the consent agenda (Items 2-31) encompassing routine approvals, including budget amendments for 2024 Bond projects, various equipment purchases, grant applications, and legislative agendas, with the following items pulled for individual discussion:
Well, good morning, everyone. Welcome to City Hall and to our council chambers. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Our invocation today will be given by Pastor Don Laval with Corpus Christi Christian Fellowship. Heavenly Father, thank you very much for who you are and for what you have done. We acknowledge you, and we don't use you to help us do what we want. We come to you because you are the all-wise God. We called you the Almighty. You told us that you would help us, and we ask you to help the mayor and this council and the city manager and his staff. We ask you to help them. Give them the help that comes from God. That's everlasting. That's enduring, not short-sightedness. We ask you to help. Why? Because the scripture says that the spirit helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought. We don't understand those things that are in the dark. But you also promised us. And a promise means that you're going to do it unilaterally. You will do it because that's your will. And so we ask for your will, not a perfunctory prayer here. Just going through the motions. The scripture tells us that the Spirit helps himself makes us, he helps us, he makes intercession for us with groanings that are too deep for words. And I invite that here in this meeting today. You make intercession for us according to the will of God, he says. And then we conclude, we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. And we thank you for your purpose being done here in this council and in our city. We conclude that if God is for us, then who can be against us? Therefore, we invoke the favor of God. Invoke the favor of God upon this council, upon the mayor, upon the city council, the city manager. I pray today that you would resolve to do your will. I pray that the only will done here today and every day is yours. And lastly, make Corpus Christi different from those cities and councils that do what they want or are controlled by other interests rather than yours and those of the local community. Cause us to be in lockstep with you. We will not insist on our own way, and as a result, we will live in peace and harmony in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you. Amen. Thank you, Pastor. And the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States flag. I'm to the United States and to the Texas State flag. It will be led by Mariah Grimaldo. She is a 12th grader from Premier High School. And she is also fourth in her graduating class. She will be planning on attending Tamu CC.