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The Corpus Christi City Council convened on March 24, 2026, at 11:30 AM in Council Chambers. The meeting included an invocation, pledge of allegiance, roll call, city manager’s comments, public comment, consent agenda, individual consideration items, a water supply briefing, and executive session. Key decisions involved a petition to remove Mayor Paulette Guajardo, approvals of water-related agreements, a failed zoning case, and updates on the ongoing drought.
It should be in our best interest not to put all that risk on our ratepayers. This is a this is a good thing. So my comment is the first time we brought this and this time we bring this, we we brought this in a spirit of let's sit down and work through this and try to come up with a working document that we could all agree to and send over to the Port of Corpus Christi to see if we could get their support for it. But we're we have not been provided an opportunity to do that. So I'm gonna say to the listening public out here, this is an opportunity that we're missing. This is an opportunity for us to save the taxpayers of this city millions of dollars with the port of Corpus Christi helping us pay for this. And we're gonna sit here today and vote against having that opportunity. We're gonna vote against voting for 'cause I know what the outcome's gonna be because the mayor's been talking to everybody in Corpus Christi about this since she found out about it. But this is gonna be an opportunity that this city council is going to once again pass up for us to be able to save the taxpayers of this city millions of dollars. Okay, no, no, I'm we're we're gonna you've spoken I've only spoken once. Okay. So we're gonna go and call the vote. Rebecca, take a roll call, please. We're we're calling the vote. I mean they don't talk to the port that we don't hear things from them as well. You guys put it on, we're voting. Right, that was attached to that agenda. Okay, we have a motion in a second, Rebecca. Okay, so for a roll call vote, Councilmember Ed Nandes. After waiting for seven and a half years for D Sal and following five and a half years before that for any progress in D Sal in the city, I have to vote yes. Yes, okay. No problem. Roy? No. Yes. No. Okay, the item fails. Great. Thank you. I come before you today because I'm really appalled that our city is being sued. It's being sued because of all the lack of process from this council. Our illustrious mayor is named 31 times in this lawsuit. Also, one of the things that really bothered me in looking at this lawsuit is that it says Mayor Paul Edwajardo privately solicited a fellow councilman to vote during the public meeting in violation of Texas government code section 551.021 and 551.14. You know, to me, you are the keepers of the process of Corpus Christi. Your job is not to run the city, it's to set up policy. I was also appalled that Councilman Barrera went on television and chastised the city manager, which would to me is a violation in itself for publicly reprimanding an employee in public on television. So it seems to me that this council people need to go back and review what their job is to set policy not to run the city. Set policy not to run the city. So I am very appalled at this behavior. I'm grateful that the person filing the lawsuit is not asking for money from the tax bears. He's making a request to get it straightened out in your process. And especially the people who I've named. So have a great day. You too, Miss Saldonia.