The meeting was an agenda session for the upcoming September 1, 2026 council meeting. Discussions covered consent agenda items, unfinished business, and new business items. Presentations included the quarterly climate action plan update and the economic development quarterly report. The meeting concluded with an informal discussion on proposed changes to the nominating committee process.
Quarterly climate action plan update. Key progress:
Q2 2026 results:
Okay, I have been re reprimanded by my designated rule follower, Mr. Jonathan Kurth, that I am beginning the meeting 46 seconds late. So let's get started with the tentative agenda for next week's council meeting. Um after we do um the pledge and the call to order and all of that, we will have a sales tax and monthly financial report from our CFO Stephen Dotson. And that's happening next week at the meeting, not this evening. Is that correct? Okay. And then we will be on to the consent agenda. The first item, and I'm gonna read all of these and then let me know if you need someone from the staff to talk more in depth about it. The first is a resolution to waive competitive bid bidding and approve the purchase of MEO vision traffic signal equipment in the amount of eight hundred and sixty-eight thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars from Pinkley Sales Company plus any applicable taxes. Um we'll start with you, Ms. Turk, and I think Keith andor Chris can tag team this. Keith, if you want to go ahead and come up. Thank you, Mayor. Um, you know, I looked uh I read through this, and it looks like this would be a great improvement, but there's been a lot of concerns about license plate, like from Flock, and so I just for the public and I guess our information it would be helpful to understand if those have license plate readers and how that um how that information is provided to other agencies if that's the case. Sure. Uh these are not flock cameras and they uh they do have the ability to record, but we have recording turned off. These are the cameras are specifically utilized to manage our traffic pattern, and that's it. They're not share we don't we do not share the videos with anybody. Uh we actually don't download the videos and look at them or anything. It's purely used where a vehicle pulls up to an intersection, the cameras can identify a vehicles there to help with traffic management. So if there's like some kind of um accident or uh infraction or whatever, would that information ever be used? Uh to date, we have not used that, and we have no intent to do that going forward. So it'd probably be from a court order or something like that. If that I'm just doing a theoretical because there's been so much um concern about those flock cameras. Well, on these cameras where we have the video recording turned off. So because of that, we wouldn't have any video to provide. Okay, thank you for clarifying that. And if I may, just one of the things, I'm assuming the cameras are also facing the front of vehicles, not the rear. That's correct. And so no license plates in Arkansas. Only those Oklahoma people are in trouble. That's correct. Thank you. All right, great. Thanks, Keith. Um, okay. A oh, that was a two. A three, Drake Field. Sorry, Mayor. I do have a question. I'm so sorry. I thought you turned your light off. I apologize. Um, I thought all the questions were asked. I was just trying to figure out why it was um why are we asking for the um to weigh the competitive bidding? Sure. So uh Milevision company requires you to use a local reseller to purchase that. So it's uh in order for like warranty work for them just to provide service. So if there's a reseller like in St.