Thank you.

All right.

Welcome as I call to order the January 20th City of Murphy regular city council meeting.

The time is 6 p.m.

Rise with me as I offer the invitation to leave the Pledge of Allegiance.

Our Heavenly Father, bless us as we consider the agenda in front of us tonight.

Give us the wisdom to act with compassion and vision for what is best for the community.

Bless and watch over our public safety officers and the community they serve.

In your name we pray.

Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

All right.

At this time, I'll turn the time over to City Secretary for roll call and certification of a quorum.

Mayor Scott Bradley.

Here.

Mayor Pro Tim Elizabeth Abraham.

Here.

Deputy Mayor Pro Tim Janay Butler.

Councilmember Place 2, Scott Smith.

Here.

Councilmember place three, Andrew Chase.

Here.

Council Member Place 4, Ken Oldman.

Here.

Council Member Place 5, Laura Dill.

Here.

Mayor certify the presence of a quorum.

Thank you.

All right.

I'm going to move on to item four, public comments.

I had a conversation with as many people as were here earlier to kind of lay out how this is going to work.

Public comments is an opportunity for you to address counsel on an item that is not on the agenda this evening.

There's nothing on the agenda this evening that uh that is relating to the conjure concerns of the vast majority of the people here.

That being that, council is prohibited by law for discussing those items.

But we can listen and we will listen intently.

Uh if this is going to be a rather long meeting for us in exec tonight, but coming out of exec, we'll have some uh we'll have some uh some motions.

Uh and if anyone wants to stick around uh and have a conversation, uh continue the conversation we were having earlier, or if you weren't opportunity to have further conversation, I'll make myself available at that time.

A request has been made to have some kind of a town hall.

I'm gonna be looking at that as an opportunity for uh sometime in the future uh based on uh the best timing for the for that kind of a thing to happen.

So with that uh said, I'm going to open this up.

There's been a number of people who weren't comfortable giving their names, so I'm gonna do this a little bit differently.

If you have filled out um, and I've gotten a lot of them, a form, fantastic.

If you haven't, just place it up on my desk.

Uh and I'm just going to give you guys an opportunity to come up and speak to speak with counsel on your concerns tonight.

Uh just uh a organized line behind here.

If you feel like you've already heard what you said, you can say great.

Uh but you have everybody has an opportunity to speak tonight and be heard.

Go ahead.

Uh we need uh the mics on for I am really short, so pull it towards you.

Yeah, well, unfortunately, so it's five minutes.

Five minutes.

Okay.

So, dear city council, I have lived in Murphy for 11 years and coming to you today with deep concern that is long overdue.

Over the last few years, I've witnessed Murphy become a town that is growing more and more unrecognizable at lightning speed.

New developments, some quite literally literally in our neighbor's backyard are springing up left and right, and there seems nobody speaking up and pointing out blatant issues that these developments come with today and in the long run.

As of today, the silence is over with.

If nobody else has spoken up before, then I will.

I have been a licensed real estate agent for seven years and have a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin in urban geography.

My main goal is to make sure that Murphy makes decisions that help maintain Murphy's small rural Texas charm that thousands of us fell in love with and call home.

I respectfully want to point out that recent developments of the mosque on McMillan Road is one of highest concern.

This mosque is less than a football field away from our beloved Maxwell Creek.

It is a part of a watershed ecological system that has documented wildlife conservation concerns.

According to expert testimony, the state and state level environmental discussions, species such as the alligator snapping turtle, have been reported in this watershed.

In case you weren't aware, these turtles are listed as threatened of become becoming an endangered species in Texas.

Development and construction near water race, such as the mosque on McMillan, can and due to grade habitat through runoff, erosion, and human disturbance, even when it does not occur directly in or adjacent to the creek bed.

I'm asking the city to ensure that any projects near Maxwell Creek undergo proper environmental review and coordination with Texas Parks and Wildlife before approvals are granted.

This also includes the proposed parking lot sites being proposed at the Center of Islamic knowledge on Murphy Road.

That parcel of land runs right the creek runs right through that parcel of land.

I also want to point out that this mosque has completely paved over for residential parcels that were home to lar to large, beautiful mature trees.

I want to encourage the city council to ensure that this developer is following Murphy's tree ordinance.

It's been over a year and a half, and I haven't yet to see any trees be replaced that were removed.

I drive down this road multiple times a day, as it is the main thoroughway to Murphy Road for me.

The infrastructure on McMillan has already been so taxed by this development that has dragged on for over a year.

I want to ask why does the city of Murphy have to foot the bill of this damage?

It is my belief at the entity that led the city to believe that they don't have the funds for this bill of damage did so maliciously because they have since then turned around and purchased several other large parcels of land at the Betsy and Murphy intersections.

The unethical and immoral nature of these entities is something we should all be aware of and cautious about.

To expand on the point of fat ethics and immorality, a particular developer, which is I'm not going to name in Murphy has allegedly been running illegally discriminatory real estate deals out of their own development.

I myself have called this particular entity and have been told that all of the lots to build on were sold.

Well, it's been over six years, and some of these lots are still very much available to build on, just not to those who are not Muslim.

This same entity has purchased an alarming amount of commercial and residential real estate all consolidated to one well-known and well-traveled intersection within our city.

My assumption is that he will run these shops, parcels, and even other residential housing units in a similar fashion, which do not only take away the opportunity for others of different religious backgrounds to call Murphy home, but will be breaking federal hair housing laws while doing so.

And as he has been doing for the last six plus years.

With time constraints, I want to just glaze over other concerns like left hand turn lanes on McMillan from this mosque, and they urge you to seriously consider the implications that that will have on traffic, wear and tear accidents, noise and light pollution, etc.

Similar mosques and neighboring cities have even had a pull in city police force to help direct traffic.

Who is left footing in this ongoing cost of this task force?

Who will pay for the eventual widening of the roads and turn signals that will eventually be needed at that intersection?

We all know the answer to those questions, and I highly encourage you to continue to think about things to continue to think things through and how things will like this will affect Murphy not just today or tomorrow, but in three to five or ten or fifteen years from now.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good evening, council and um mayor.

I do want to thank you all for everything you do for the city.

I want to say that first.

Second of all, I did put a paper in front of you that I will refer to in a minute from an FBI raid.

But first, I'd like to urge you not to approve the proposed building an extra parking lot.

Our existing roadways are already showing signs of stress from increased traffic volumes.

Also, will you please place on your city website whether you have completed a study evaluating the rate of road deterioration from increased traffic?

Has the property owner or city engineer transparently informed you of the true traffic flow at the certain times of day of increased traffic?

Have you and the construction team or city engineer modeled and completed a traffic study?

Have you determined the degree of increased congestion from additional traffic?

We already face longer commute times.

Is it okay with the residents on the side roads to cut through those neighborhoods and avoid the area of expansion?

I doubt it.

Have you modeled and calculated the safety concerns from busy intersections?

Have you proactively worked with the county?

Because you're going to need to solve additional road widening or new turn lanes that will trigger runway issues.

Have you modeled or calculated the additional maintenance from city crews?

Have your engineers analyze the significant increase of surface runoff from new paved lots?

Is there a water model for stormwater or stormwater protection program to reveal or prevent the burden of our stormwater system increasing the risk of localized flooding and costly drainage repairs?

Have you contacted and benchmarked with the city of Plano to inquire and receive feedback on the number of police required to be directed away from crime solving and crime prevention to directing traffic multiple times a day?

I suggest you please do that.

It is significant.

Will you need to hire additional officers?

Have you studied and shared with the citizen taxpayers?

The cost of road repairs and the cost of extra police needed.

Does Murphy have a revenue surplus?

Will it result in increased taxes to the citizens?

Does Murphy have a constrained revenue with infrastructure and service demands rising?

You have the power to keep the tax rates low, which residents love.

Have you interviewed your neighbors about this?

Not just tonight.

Have you asked them about concerns about noise, lighting, or aesthetics?

Are you confident that special interests do not have too much influence?

Are they putting pressure on you?

You do not have to say yes.

Recently, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma said no.

Keller, Texas said no.

Alabama said no.

I'm asking you to deny or delay your decisions.

Same thing with planning and zoning.

Now back to the paper.

I would like to also make you aware for whether it's tax reasons, attorney review, or anything else.

In the handout I gave you from the FBI raid, I would like you to also consider this is not a religious issue, because they an Islamic center is a place for study, family, battalion, courses, seminars, visits, sports, schools, social clubs, women's gathering, kindergartens for males and females, offices for domestic political resolution, and centers for distributing newsletters.

This is in Arabic from an FBI raid.

It is true.

Because I had a Egyptian Christian translate it and say it was accurate.

Now, also at the very end, I would like to remind you that you all took an oath to the Constitution of the United States.

All you have to do is remember the number four.

Article 4, section 4 of the United States Constitution says we will be protected against many things.

And I won't go into details, but all you have to do is remember the number 4, Article 4, Section 4.

I know you have very difficult decision in front of you, and so do many other cities around us.

It's not just you.

And you're not the first, but you can say no.

Thank you very much and have a great day.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much.

Uh Honorable Scott Bradley Mayor.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much for uh your kindness to allowing us to talk today.

Uh I just want to explain to you, I cannot show my face here today because my life is in danger.

Uh, if I show who I am, I may get killed for what I'm gonna tell you right now.

Uh the reason is uh decades ago I was put into Islamic learning center when I was a kid to learn Islam.

I was beat up uh every Thursday was a beat up.

Uh if I could not say that of the Besmell law correctly, I was beat up, they were putting my foot up and they're hitting it up with a stick so many times that I finally be able to say that he correctly.

Now, you guys need to know what's coming next to you guys, and I'm gonna just read it uh off of the uh Quran.

Uh right to the point of this uh learning center, what they're gonna teach our kids.

That means you see this word multiple times in Quran.

Kill.

Woman is one of us, law is not one of us.

So they kill them.

But low vallo.

If you don't do it, well okay, so you're not one of us if you don't do it.

So they're telling you right here, batalyan that she was saying, what battalion they're gonna make.

That the kids and your grandkids are in danger if you bring these guys here to learn this kind of and you cannot just cherry pick your own.

So I don't want to learn these and this review.

No, it's either you are Muslim, you read these and memorize it and do it, or you're not a Muslim.

Laura Ramuna.

Okay?

From the duress code they have is quite obvious.

They are not assimilating to America.

They're still living in the seventh century, and they will go by these words.

If they say no, they're doing what's called tahib, lying to you to pass their religion.

Now, if you're not done yet, just it's getting just more and more interested.

The people like me who turn away from what they're gonna do.

I'll just say it again.

Uh that means the ones who turned away from us, if they turn away, seize them and kill them.

Wherever you find them.

That means the city hall right now.

If one of them is here, order the good life be.

That's why I'm covering my face.

So apostat, I mean, you can be saying I don't like Jesus, I don't like Buddha, and nobody bothers you.

If you say I don't like Muhammad, he was doing psychopathic, you know, crazy guy.

Your death sentence is right here.

Okay?

And they're gonna come teach this to the kids.

Brainwash them.

And these kids finally get weapons on there.

It's called a second amendment.

You can do weapons on your hand too.

Thank you very much.

Okay, you're sick.

And then goes on.

Uh about the kofars, the Lazina Kafaru, Tasmaud talks about how the Koffarts have to do.

You guys are Koffar on the Mortad.

Just a little bit.

They have category.

That the koffars are here, mortad is mortat immediately has to be killed.

Kaffar, they talk to you with Nasihat.

If you learn to change and come and do like this, uh, you know, uh Islamic behavior, uh, you have a chance as long as you pay jazia, which is a like a mafia.

You pay your part to stay alive for protection money called jazia.

So uh it goes on and on and on.

Then the right of the woman, you all know about that one woman of half of the right of a man, a man can marry four wives, and woman by nature are half brain, Nogas al Khilh, they call them.

They are born uh without a good brain to begin with.

Therefore, you could hit them.

Uh I have parts here if you guys are interested to read it.

Another thing about translation, they have gone and paid money to AI to change the translations on AI.

So if you don't know Arabic, you cannot read it.

They totally is different.

Like here, says Gotalu Lazila Yomamunai, that is kill the guys who are not women.

AI, it goes and says fight.

Go to does not mean fight.

Fight bizarra.

So they're very smart.

The money that goes around to change translations online, the money that checks are written for city councils and mayors and lawmakers.

We don't know really what it's coming from.

From overseas.

I think CIA is with it too, honestly.

Not that they don't know these things.

So my suggestion is don't be afraid for First Amendment.

They keep coming, oh, it's the first amendment and religion.

No, no, no.

Wait a second.

If California can infringe on second amendment like that, and stop your you know, carry protect if you have charity zone free.

Totally in California.

In United States, local governments can also say, oh, oh, wait a second.

This is too violent for my blood.

I don't want my kids to be raised with this.

Get out of here.

Another thing is dress codes, you guys need to put some foot down for the rest codes.

They were like that.

I see Negab and Hey Job and things like that.

That's unacceptable, really.

You're coming to Walmart here, there, the schools.

You need to put your foot down.

So sorry, you like France.

You can't do it like that.

I'm gonna have to ask you to cut it.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

I want to give.

I'm gonna give everybody an opportunity who wants to speak tonight, and I don't want to be in a position where I'm cutting you off.

I really, really don't.

Um, so go ahead.

Good evening, Council members.

My name is Michael Padia.

I'm here today to ask Council to deny or pause its application for the approval of the Islamic knowledge tenor located at 1030 Murphy Road.

The following questions and commentary are the basis for my request.

Parking.

Please share how will safety be insured regarding the possibility of double parking on streets, parking on sidewalks, parking between a safety zone and the curb, and alongside or opposite street obstructions during daily and special events.

Water.

Please share the water model that examines adequate water resources for current residents after new developments are built and any proposed zoning applications.

Has the city staff discussed future water pressure with the fire department?

Will any new developments or zoning applications affect our city's effort to fix our existing water leakage issues?

Traffic.

Have the developers revealed an accurate description of the volume of daily traffic flowing in and out of the property?

Has the city conducted a recent city limits traffic study?

Roads and bridges.

What would be the cost of road repair from heavy construction and increased traffic traffic volume?

Police and fire.

What would be the cost and the number of policemen needed to direct daily traffic or weekly for weekly political, legal, cultural, or special events from the property?

What will be the cost to all taxpayers of the increased police presence that will be needed in the next one to five years?

What are the costs and time needed to train new firemen over the next five years?

Commentary.

Preserve, protect, and defend the US Constitution.

Local American governments must maintain our national and state identities as well as our secularism.

Article 6 of the US Constitution establishes the constitution as a supreme law of the land.

Our political, legal, and social structure all flow from it.

Islam is a way of life that is incompatible with our constitutional republic.

It is a distinct and separate political, separate legal and separate social structure.

An Islamic Center, through my research, is a beehive designed to be a seed for a separate and distinct society.

It is a place for study, for family meetings, for supplying a battalion of men, for academic courses, for political and legal training, for sports.

It is designed as a social club, as an office for domestic, political and legal resolutions, and the center for distributing their media.

I must say again, local American governments must maintain our national and state identities as well as our secularism.

We as a nation and as a society do not have to accommodate the Islamic way of life.

It is okay to say no.

In fact, there are times that we must say no.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good evening.

I've provided my information already on the comment formed.

So I have concerns about a lot of the different developments that are happening in the city, also with the mosque, but I really want to focus my um time on the newly proposed parking lot on 1026, 1030 North Murphy Road.

Currently they are residential lots.

We all know that that is not likely the intent to stay that way.

We know that it will definitely be a larger center that will have a lot more use than what we think might be proposed there today.

Um and I for like to say that no group is exempt from zoning requirements.

We all need to make sure that everyone's following the right rules and that it's the right thing for the city of Murphy.

I have concerns personally about the accuracy of the application that was submitted at the last um uh planning and zoning um meeting.

Um I have concerns about the compatibility uh with what they're planning with the with the surrounding area.

They've failed to describe the full range of activities, the participation levels, the hours of use, the frequency of the use.

We all know that there is likely also going to be larger attendance and higher activity for even certain months of the year, for example, holidays such as Ramadan and Eid.

We also know there could be ceremonial events, festivities that often generate weekend long crowds.

Are they going to be hosting regional programs?

They had previously on their website that they had planned to have this be, they advertised it as a center for all of the surrounding area, naming cities such as Wiley, St.

Paul, Lucas.

These are large areas.

They expect people to be coming in from a lot of different places.

Okay?

It's going to be a lot of traffic.

Not to mention we have the mosque that's coming in.

Concerns about that traffic as well.

Additionally, we know that there are often peak attendance at different days and times.

Knowing those participation levels are foundation to the understanding of its use.

Furthermore, we might be talking about multiple times a day, five times a day, they're having certain activities.

That will just think about the amount of people, one person, five times a day.

Let's assume that person does.

That one person is really five different trips.

So a lot of traffic.

Um we don't know the burden that was will have on the surrounding area, the traffic activity, the frequency of gathered, the anticipated noise.

There is a ranch subdivision that borders the back side of this property, an entire residential subdivision.

There are backyards on the right-hand side, well, depending upon what right you're standing, that borders backyards of the ranch neighborhood.

They're already it's not compatible with what that current use is.

Across the street, you have rolling ridge estates.

Down the road, we're gonna have really nice estates as well that are going to be built over by um South Fork.

So we it's really very much a residential area, and I think the city is a planning and zoning board need to really consider how this will impact the surrounding areas.

In addition, we have the Wiley ISD and Plano ISD buses that travel those roads frequently, getting kids to and from school.

We also have two schools down the street.

We have the high school and the middle school, we have city hall, we have police and fire station, we have PSA.

Tons of traffic.

Have you guys gone to PSA on the weekends?

It's intense.

Okay, so I think we just need to really think about that.

Also, the noise.

As I mentioned, we have residential areas nearby.

People are entitled to have their quiet use and enjoyment of their property.

I don't think that this is going to be that when they we build all these centers around here.

It's not going to be the same.

There's also environmental concerns.

Um, as of last week, I actually saw the listing for that property that the seller had put up.

It listed on that on the actual I forget if it was realtor.com, but it was one of these, it was basically the site where they had listed it for sale.

It actually said that part of the property at 1026 and 10 30 was on floodplain, the back part where it goes to the creek.

Now it's not there anymore.

I actually was going to print a copy of it.

It's no longer there anymore as if I looked out of it today.

So I don't know if that's intentional or not, but I think we need to also look at the environmental concerns with the creek.

I think someone else did a great job of explaining why we also have concerns there.

And also I'd like to urge the planning and zoning commission and board to make sure that they're thinking of these things before they make a decision.

I think making a decision as of in a few weeks is probably too soon.

We need to understand the full intent of what they plan to build there and make sure it's the right thing for the city.

Thank you.

Good evening, council and everybody here, Mayor Bradley.

I'm not here to talk about a whole lot.

I'll try to keep it short.

We were one of the couples that uh uh looked into possibly buying a property over there when they first opened it up.

And we were turned away because we were not Muslim, and I found that shocking.

Yes.

Okay.

Can you hear me now?

Okay.

Anyways, we were one of the couples, or my wife and I have a growing family, and we looked into possibly purchasing a property over there when it first came up, and we were turned away, they wouldn't even talk to us because we're not Muslim.

And I found that to be shocking.

Um seems like if they're gonna only let Muslims build over there, they're just building a compound.

Um other concern again, and I do support all the other comments that came before me today.

Um I'm in total agreement with everything I've heard so far.

I haven't heard anything that I disagree with, so I'm not gonna rehash everything other than I am very concerned about the congestion on McMillan Road right there.

Um the road currently seems to be in shambles, is falling into the ground on both sides of the road.

Uh a lot of people are driving down the middle of the road, and as you come over the bridge going west, you go around the turn and it's treacherous because if if people are coming home from work, there's three or four or five cars driving down the middle of the road, and I'm trying to avoid hitting them.

I'm about to be in a ditch.

Right.

So I'm also concerned about the condition of the bridge and how old it is.

Do you guys uh or does the state or some agency come and check on the bridges and make sure that they're up to code still and that they don't need some kind of repair, especially with a lot more traffic going through there now.

I'm I'm concerned that the bridge might have problems.

And uh recently there was a crash over there that I think someone ended up in the creek because they crashed over the bridge rail.

Um but just uh any time of day now.

I mean, there's several times a day when you go out and you're trying to get on to Murphy Road, which is my main access to Murphy Road from Maxwell Creek.

I'm on McMillan.

I might be waiting five, ten minutes, um, depending on what time of day, but it's more than one time of day.

And uh I'm concerned about crashes there, turning left especially.

I'm concerned that um if the mosque goes in over there, they're praying five times a day.

So it's gonna be five times a day that they're gonna be needing to have parking and people going in and out over there, and there's an entrance over there.

It's just gonna be just a cluster.

I mean, it's gonna be a m a really bad situation.

I'm also concerned about um whenever they have events, uh if their parking lot doesn't hold everything, maybe they're gonna be parking on the side of the road on McMillan Road on either side.

And to my understanding, the people who owned the houses before they sold out also owned part of the land on the other side of the road up to the creek or close to the creek.

So the landowner probably owns both sides of the road anyway.

They probably feel like they could park uh over there.

Uh anyways, these are my concerns, and um I don't really have anything else to say other than thank you for your time.

Thank you, Mike.

Hello, council, mayor.

My name is Charles Andrew Crouch.

I'm here to address you tonight on the Islamic Center you guys are considering.

I'm currently a candidate for governor here in the state of Texas, and I have a unique knowledge of Islam in Sharia law in the Muslim communities.

Twenty years ago, I deployed overseas to the to the country of Iraq and the Ambar province, and I knew Arabic.

That was my language in the military.

And I think I may be one of the most knowledgeable persons on the subject of Muslims in this room, except for the other man who spoke Arabic.

Anna Jussa alugat El Air to Bia.

Anna Uhabu Elugat, Anna Adrice Aluga El Air to be a Vijay.

I said I love the language of Arabic.

I studied it in the military.

It's a beautiful language.

But it's a different culture in so many ways.

You guys have a decision before you.

We live a Christian Protestant way of life.

On a national level, on a state level, and on a local level.

You guys have an opportunity to declare this is who we are.

Letting other cultures come in that doesn't really mix with our faith, kind of just brings all the problems associated with it.

And it is a different culture.

And it does clash.

I could list some things for the past 20 years.

People wouldn't believe me what I saw overseas.

They look at humanity a different way.

They honor life in just a different way.

Not really knowing who we are.

And I believe it's time for us to say, and you guys have an opportunity to do this to say, we are a Christian people.

And if I get the opportunity to serve as governor, I will stand up there and I will declare Texas is a Christian state.

In a Christian nation.

And that's who we are.

And if you don't know who we are, we're dead.

This problem won't go away.

It will encroach on your kids and your grandkids.

And you have an opportunity to protect that heritage, legacy, bloodline of your family tree tonight on a local level, and send that message.

So I encourage you to do that.

And you will sleep better at night.

God bless.

Thank you.

Welcome.

I'm approaching this, I guess, a little bit different.

Same concerns, but obviously we're hearing a lot of the same rhetoric over and over again.

I agree with all of those.

My position, I believe, is a little bit different.

Moved to Murphy in 2001.

I was one of the few people originally elected to the original charter commission to write the charter for this city.

We spent months and months and months going through charters from all different surrounding cities that were relatively the same size or going to be the same size as what we saw the growth pattern of Murphy going to be.

It was to be people that reunited and had neighborhoods and had things in common where you still had your kids riding up and down the street and that sort of thing, which was very common back in 2001.

As the charter has been re uh reviewed and rewritten, there have been some changes that uh us original charter members were not a hundred percent happy with, but still seem to be somewhat congruent with the growth of Murphy.

However, with this Islam situation, um, it is completely contrary to everything that this city started out as being.

This was a small town city that we had roots in, and everybody knew their neighbors, and we liked that.

That's why people navigated here and moved came here instead of moving to Frisco and moving to these populated areas, they wanted that feel, that that home.

And once you start getting a community that does not integrate into that and has different value systems and uh does not want to be a part of us.

They've made that very clear.

They do not, they want to be separate, they don't allow us in their areas.

If you go as the gentleman just said, you try to buy a house in in these areas, and they flat refuse.

They do not want us in it.

Um so I see a problem with that.

Uh, one of my biggest concerns I really really apologize.

Sure.

Hey, um uh Gackleston.

Why don't you keep your family here as soon as she's done, uh, we'll do your swearing in so that your your family doesn't have to come back.

Is that okay?

Uh all right.

Go ahead.

Go ahead and finish.

All right.

And we have since changed that to where we had an admin as well as the mayor as well as the council.

I'm trying to keep this open to where there was a different point of view coming in and seemed to encompass more of an idea from everybody.

I don't find the communication with City Council to have been as open as I would have preferred.

And they can be Airbnbs or what they call short-term rentals.

So I think the community needs more communication directly involving the city council and involving the residents as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I really apologize to take a little bit of a break here.

There is an item on the agenda, which is to swear in a new fire marshal.

His whole family is here.

So if you guys will allow us to do that.

Okay.

So I'm gonna I'm gonna put uh that item on hold for just a moment.

Yeah, and I'm going to call uh item uh six B, oath of office, administer oath of office to fire marshal Scott X Dean.

It looks like I just lost one.

I'm sorry.

There we go.

I became unprepared during that time.

Apologize for that.

Thank you.

I can't find my I may have to wing this.

Um I guess I misplaced it.

I'm sorry, let's get this.

Oh, here we go.

Thank you very much, my name council.

Um to our citizens here.

Thank y'all for giving me the opportunity to do this.

We have a gentleman that's getting sworn in here.

His family uh made a trip in to get this done, and he has small children and stuff and need to kind of move on with their evening.

So thank you for your time on this and give us just a few moments, and thank you.

All righty, thank you very much, Council.

Uh as most of you know, we recently had a change uh in our fire prevention office with our former former fire marshal John Grant um was returning to the operation side of our house.

So with that opening, we have a new member that's joining our team um uh this evening officially.

He joined us on December 29th on the 25th, uh, and in his first three weeks he's already making an impact.

He wasted no time settling in and going to work at a high degree of experience and professionalism.

He comes to us from Richardson Fire Department right next door.

He has spent his entire 21-year career, service career, with Richardson Fire Department.

Uh of that time, he has been in the operation side for nine years and the remainder of that time uh in the fire prevention uh office in the fire marshal's office.

Uh Scott is a licensed paramedic, a master structural firefighter, a master fire inspector.

A master of fire investigator, and a master arson investigator.

He serves on the on a uh National Fire Prevention Association Committee 17 and 17A uh for the standards and the National Fire Protection Association 96 Committee for the National Standards.

Um he earned his bachelor's degree from the University of North Texas in 2000, and he is set to complete and earn his master's degree in public service administration this coming May uh from Texas AM University.

For those here, whoop Mayor and Council members, it's my honor and my pleasure to present to you uh Division Chief Scott Eckstein, our fire marshal for Murphy Fire Rescue.

Okay, sure.

Uh he's here tonight with his wife Ashley Marie, his daughter Elisa and son Cannon, and his parents.

Uh his immediate family, the the kiddos and his wife there will be participating in a swearing in and and his oath of office.

Uh so Ms.

Xtean, if you and your children would please come on up and join us.

There she is.

And then come on.

That way they can also see up there if they need a face.

Uh also um we're gonna stop with that.

We had one other portion of this.

We'll stop with that this evening.

So thank you.

At this point here, I will let Candy take over.

State your name.

I Scott X Dean.

Do solemnly swear or affirm.

Do solemnly swear or affirm.

That I will faithfully execute the duties.

That I will faithfully execute the duties.

Of the office of fire marshal.

Of the office of fire marshal.

Of the city of Murphy.

Of the city of Murphy.

The state of Texas.

The state of Texas.

I will to the best of my ability.

And will to the best of my ability.

Preserve, protect, and defend.

Preserve, protect, and defend.

The City of Murphy Charter.

The City of Murphy Charter.

And the Constitution and Laws.

And the Constitution and Laws.

Of the United States.

Of the United States.

And of the state.

And of the state.

So help me God.

So help me God.

Congratulations.

Congratulations.

We have one more.

Chief Elliott told me that I can't talk, but I have to talk for 30 seconds or less.

The unique aspect of fire marshal's office is that you are a certified firefighter and you're also a certified Texas peace officer.

So the swearing in component that we're about to do is to swear our fantastic new fire marshal in as a Texas peace officer.

Sir, please raise your right hand.

I state your name.

I Scott Executive.

Do solemnly swear or affirm.

Do solemnly swear or affirm.

I apologize.

That's right.

That I will faithfully execute the duties.

That I will faithfully execute the duties.

Of the Office of Police Officer.

Of the Office of Police Officer.

Of the city of Murphy.

Of the city of Murphy.

The state of Texas.

The state of Texas.

And we'll do.

And we'll do.

To the best of my ability.

To the best of my ability.

Preserve, protect, and defend.

Preserve, protect, and defend.

The Murphy City Charter.

The Murphy City Charter.

And the Constitution and Laws.

And the Constitution and Laws.

Of the United States.

Of the United States.

And of this state.

And of this state.

So help me God.

So help me God.

Right.

Okay.

Council, thank you for the assessment.

No, not a problem.

Thanks for coming out.

And welcome to the city.

All right.

I am going to uh push the um uh the cert uh presentation, and I'm gonna push the uh the police chiefs uh presentation to the next meeting.

Thank you guys for coming out.

I apologize.

I want to give uh our residents as much opportunity as I as we can to be heard again.

Once again, uh thank you guys for uh for waiting.

Uh we will uh we will resume the public comments.

Uh you I again I am dedicated to giving you as much time as you want and need.

As pithy as possible, because we have a lot of people, but get sure you express yourself in the way you feel necessary.

Okay.

Good evening.

I'm Elizabeth Alejandro, and I live in Murphy.

Um I'm coming before you to support all the other peoples that have come before me.

Um I'm call I'm speaking regarding the case number 2025-017 and the application for zoning, and I think everybody's already spoken on that.

Um I want our city to stand against terrorism and protecting our community and our way of life, and not to accommodate and allow people not to assimilate into our culture.

There's a lot of things that happen and they happen in increments, slow but sure, such as parts of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and parts of modern day Turkey.

Who once were Christian majority nations?

So I just want you to know that they have different ways of coming in and putting their information in.

Sometimes they hide it in such a way that you can't see it.

It's very hard to say no, you can't do your religious sect here for any reason because it's supposedly based on being a religious sect.

But perhaps there is a way that you can find that you can protect our culture that we have and our Christian nation.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

My name is Diane Galloway.

The city of Josephine is about to be taken over by Muslims.

Our city of Murphy is very diverse, but it's very small.

About 20,000 people and only five square miles.

I think you can see today that there are a lot of citizens of Murphy who don't want Murphy to be taken over.

The Muslims have said they're going to take over Josephine.

We don't want that to happen here.

And the other thing I want to comment on, I agree with at least one other person that said, could you please keep us better informed of what you are doing?

There are lots of ways you can do that, but we hope that you will keep us better informed.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am.

Can everybody hear me?

Are we good?

Okay.

Hello, thank you for council members.

Thank you for letting us come and speak to you tonight.

My name is Karen.

And let me start out with I've been in a lot of different countries, lived in a lot of places.

I'll tell you, there's a lovely little neighborhood in Dallas that let a mosque go next to it.

And there are cars now several times a day in the driveways, down the streets, in the parking, on the grass, in the yards, and the citizens of that neighborhood are throwing fits.

They spent a lot of money on that neighborhood.

Anyway, so what I want to talk about today, can everybody hear me?

Yeah.

There's going to be something on the ballot coming up at the primary called ban Sharia law.

Everywhere I go, I ask people, what the heck is Sharia law?

What are we banning?

So I'd like to address that.

For one thing, our government is allowing the spread of Sharia law through enforcing a tolerance of Sharia doctrine under the banner of freedom and diversity and religion.

But this is not the case.

This is political Islam.

It starts in the demands that the Muslims are going to make to you and to the town.

First of all, in the schools.

France and several other countries in Europe have banned the hijab, the burqa, and all this kind of covering in the name of safety, secularism, and national identity.

Schools here can do the same thing.

It is pointless to ask a seven-year-old girl to wear a hijab.

We have to say no.

Fasting during Ramadan.

It's a month-long fast where they stop eating, drinking, and putting candy in their mouth, gum, anything in your mouth from sun up to sundown, and they would like their kids to participate in that.

So imagine some Muslim kids in the school who are starving and can't even swallow say no to fasting during Ramadan because they're not required to.

Several companies are also being requested to not bring food into the office or cook during Ramadan.

This was asked of my cup company where I was living.

And my boss fortunately said, No, if you are Muslim and you're fasting, go in your office and shut the door.

But we're still going to eat.

Just say no.

And again, it's if you cannot fast during the day, the Quran says you can do it another time.

What do you know?

Most Muslims don't even suggest fasting for their kids till they're teenagers or grown.

So keep that in mind and say no for the safety and health of our schools and teachers.

Prayer rooms.

Moslems are going to ask that you put a prayer room in the school so their precious children can go pray.

It's at seven six o'clock, don't worry about that.

Seven twenty twelve twenty, three o'clock, five twenty-one, and six thirty.

So you can see there's only a couple of times they might pray.

Guess what?

They don't have to have a prayer room.

It says in the Quran, you can pray at your desk if you have to.

You can pray in your car, you can play pray on the stairs.

You do not have to have a special room.

Do you give a special room to the Baptists for their prayer meetings?

Do the kids have Bible study during lunch?

Do the Catholics get to have Mass every morning because they prefer you have a Mass every morning.

I know I lived with a family of Catholics, so I don't think we accommodate them.

Say no.

Um, your companies may be asked to break up the work.

Like I have to stop this time and this time, like we said, to pray, so you're gonna have to just live without me on the the line or in the shop or whatever.

No, you say no.

I know from the Quran, sir, that you can make up that prayer at night.

Guess what?

Say no.

Schools.

Who is going to pay for the halal meals when they ask you to serve phalal meals at your school, in your hospitals, in government offices.

Who's gonna pay for that?

The taxpayers, more money out of our pocket to pay for these accommodations, say no.

Guess what?

If it says in the Quran, you don't have to skip eating if there's no halal food.

It says go ahead and eat what's available so you don't starve.

It says that in the Quran, so don't let them tell you you can't they can't live without halal food.

Broadcasting a loud call to prayer over loud speakers.

Well, once upon a time, Arabia housed Moslems.

It's a sandy place, a desert, and they lived in tents, and nobody knew when 1205 came around.

So they call had to call it to prayer.

Here it is 2026, and we have cell phones, and we can set alarms and it will tell us when we can pray.

You do not need a loudspeaker.

Okay.

And may I remind you if you would do allow a loud speaker five times a day?

I know the Baptists are gonna put a loud speaker up and play Billy Graham five times a day.

And the Mormons are gonna play the Mormon Tabernacle choir five times a day.

So get a thought of that idea.

Um so I say no.

Tell them to get their Apple phone updated.

Another really quick item.

Restaurants, hair salons, hospital rooms are going to be asked to set aside a specific area just for their women to have walled off because they don't think their women should be seen with their hair showing.

Go somewhere else.

I am not going to ask a small business to to have that impact of extra money to put walls around every single thing, and in the restaurants also.

I'm gonna ask you to close.

Okay, let me close.

So all this you have to say no.

Understand what they're asking and understand.

Would you do it for the Baptists?

They like to eat casseroles all the time.

Would you do it for the Catholics?

They say mass.

The Hindus don't like our food that much.

They'd love to bring their own food.

Think about what you're doing.

And I, for one, have never worried about my neighborhood Hindu temple coming to get me or cut my throat.

I lived in Kuwait for almost three years.

I worked in Israel, I've been in Bahrain, the emirates, I have seen it in action.

I thank you for listening.

Please consider what I'm saying.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Hi, my name is Lee, and I will I submitted an online application, but I'll I'll talk to the printed one as well.

So anyway, so thank you for allowing us to speak tonight, and thank you for serving your community.

I know you've given your own time and money to serve on the council because you care about your community, not only for today, but for your children and grandchildren.

And that's why I'm here today as well.

Specifically to speak about the mosque approval that was discussed at the last council meeting.

I'm not from Murphy, but I'm from Fairview, where I've been addressing a major zoning issue since April of 2024 regarding a gigantic structure and all of the headaches it will bring by being crammed into our tiny little town.

As an advocate of small towns throughout North Texas, I respectfully urge you to delay this approval due to the concerns about the roads, bridges, fire and police safety, water infrastructure, and parking, noise and lighting concerns that have been noted by others tonight.

These are major concerns that will impact a small town like yours, and you need to be certain that you've crossed every T and dotted every I before approving, as this will be your forever.

The double R MUT, or formerly known as EPIC development in Josephine and Collin County will soon be presented to the commissioner's court, where the many decisions, design issues will be discussed, and some of those will impact what's going to go on here as well and what will be allowed.

And then like others today, I'm formally requesting a postponement of this development decision.

This critical pause will give you as council members the necessary time to thoroughly examine, as I said, the water fire, police parking, and street infrastructure issues arising from the population boom that will be created, but especially their ability to assimilate into your community.

That needs to be a consideration.

Please delay until you've examined all these issues to ensure you're making the decisions that protect the future of current residents and all of your children and grandchildren.

And as previous speakers have said, please honor your oath and most importantly, the oath to the Constitution.

And Islam is not compatible.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Next.

Good evening.

Thank you for allowing me to speak tonight.

I am a local resident and a frequent driver through the area near North Murphy Road and McMillan Road.

I want to share my concern about the Oasis Springs Manor's development and the associated mosque project by the Islamic Association of Murphy.

When I first saw the construction, I was excited.

It looked like a promising new neighborhood where I could build a new home.

But after researching, I visited uh the Oasis Springs Manor's website.

I found very little information available.

The site offers little detail about the project's vision and much of the advertising still relies on older Murphy pamphlets that has nothing to do with the actual development.

I also came across recent online discussions and videos noting that all the street names in the development, such as Osman Drive and others, appear to honor historic Islamic figures.

For example, one video highlighted the street name is Sadiq Drive, referencing to Jafar al-Sadiq, the sixth Imam.

He's credited by many Muslim writers with the principle that whatever is contrary to the Quran should be rejected, despite any evidence supporting it.

This philosophy raises questions about proven science, common facts, logic, and Western American values.

A major red flag is the attached mosque combined with the same developer of the residential homes.

Islamic only street memes, no transparency as a developer on the residential side.

Yet he has given he has given more uh clear, straightforward statements on the mosque's motives uh via website.

That his mosque is set up to serve the Islamic residential neighborhoods that attend this mosque.

This entire development appears hidden under the microscope of what seems obvious that this will potentially become a private gated exclusive Islamic community with prospects of turning this later into a private Sharia law commune.

This sounds similar to the former Epic City project, now known as the Meadow that gained headlines around the world.

I highlighted I highlight again that the concern of the mosque attached to the suburb, the attached mosque shows on their website the vision statement for the neighborhood attached.

This is a quote from the mosque's website under the category vision statement.

Our vision is to establish an Islamic community environment based on the model of the community of the Prophet Muhammad to exemplify the best of character by contributing to the neighborhoods in which we live through intense attention to the spiritual education and material needs of our unified community.

So again, reading this vision statement as an outsider gives me a strong impression that the builder strategically established the mosque with the residential homes to have in an Islamic neighborhood confidentially or conveniently, I'm sorry, attached.

So the mosque can fully serve their Islamic neighborhood, community modeled after the Prophet Muhammad's way of life.

I will note that I hope everyone has done a thorough research on Muhammad's uh way of life.

After my research on Islam, I found out that the countries that have been conquered by Islam will not allow Westerners or any other backgrounds of faith to come in and live freely.

In fact, they are persecuted for trying.

Very alarming ideology with strict laws that Westerners do not practice, follow or believe in.

So again, what this vision statement from the builder is implying is that intention is to establish an Islamic community, Islamic environment based on their Prophet Muhammad.

Therefore that cancels out any non-Muslims to feel welcome and fit in.

If that's not the case, then I'm wondering: can LGBT communities live there?

Can people with no religion of faith live there without having to follow the Prophet Muhammad's way?

What about all the other religious backgrounds?

Can they move into this community?

This raises questions for me about long-term transparency for the Oasis Springs Manors and how the project will integrate with the broader Murphy community.

Additionally, the developer has acquired adjacent land to build the Murphy Gardens community.

And there's the center of Islamic knowledge known as the SIC facility further up the road, though separately owned.

All the this clustering with no uh necessarily connection feels coordinated in some degree.

This will significantly increase traffic in an area already challenged by McMillan High School.

Parents have shared with me their struggles with school drop-offs, pickups, and evening events.

Adding regular mosque activities like Friday prayer or gatherings during peak times would likely add to the congestion on local roads.

I support diversity and believe Murphy benefits from it when it's balanced and inclusive for everyone.

However, many long-time residents worry about rapid changes that could easily shift the character of our small town.

We see evolving local businesses like more hawal options, which is fine minimally in its own on its own, but combined with these large residential Islamic projects, it contributes to a sense that one cultural influence is growing dominant to take over.

I don't see any similar clustered ethnic religious developments with residential homes built directly around their own place of worship here in this area.

If the goal of Oasis Springs is a religious enclave excluding non-Muslims, it violates the 14th Amendment by discriminating against Native residents and the Fair Housing Act by potentially bearing non-Muslim buyers.

The lack of transparency on the Oasis Springs Manors website comes across as though they don't want anyone to know about the vision of their project.

Is there something that they don't want us to know?

Again, the mosque attached to this neighborhood tells us exactly what their vision and mission is.

Nothing here shows intent to assimilation with our community.

It's alarming that this was approved without broader discussion.

Announcements for residents to have a clear understanding, input, and vote.

I urge the council to investigate these issues, the fair housing laws for fairness and safety.

I am requesting that this mosque be stopped and permanently canceled from ever being built due to what appears to be wrong motives.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Okay.

Good evening.

Can you hear me fine?

Okay, great.

My name is Barbara, and I'm here to educate this government body and the citizens of Murphy on the threat that faces many Texas cities and American cities.

There was a very major trial held here in Dallas, Texas, back in 2007 and 2008, known as the Holy Land Foundation trial.

Some of you might be aware of this trial.

Nod your head if you are.

Okay, good, good.

I'm glad to hear that.

This in my opinion, this was one of the most important trials in American history on terrorism.

And there was a document discovered during that trial called the explanatory memorandum.

I urge you to read this document.

All elected officials should read this document because it was discovered during this trial, and it was written by the Muslim Brotherhood describing their plans to make the United States a Muslim country.

It's written in their own hand, their own writing.

It was originally written in Arabic and then later translated to English.

The results of this trial was five terrorists were convicted and currently they're currently serving time in federal prisons.

They were funding Hamas.

Muslims into our society, and they're appearing to be assimilating in as Americans, while the real purpose is to capture positions of power using the rights granted under our Constitution.

Between using our Constitution and naive welcoming Americans, the Muslim Brotherhood is working to create this as an Islamic nation.

This document that I'm referring to, the explanatory memorandum, can be located on this website.

Defending our republic.com.

Again, defending our republic.com.

It's a PDF document that you can download and print, and I urge everyone to read it.

I was pleased to see tonight the fire marshal being sworn in with his hand on the Bible and swearing to his oath to the Constitution of the United States.

He was not, he did not put his hand on the Quran, and he did not swear in to protect Sharia laws.

He swore to protect the United States Constitution.

And that's what each of you here have done, I'm sure, in the past.

A mosque is not like a church.

It is more comparable to a city hall.

All of their financial and political business is conducted here.

In fact, their nonprofit status should have never been approved by the United States government.

You only need to look at England, Belgium, and other European countries to see what will happen in America.

Or look at Dearborn, Michigan, or Patterson, New Jersey, where they have taken over the city government and raised the Palestinian flag and now calling it the fourth holiest city in the world.

So they removed the American flag and replaced it with the Palestinian flag.

And that police force in that community wears a Palestinian flags on their uniforms, not American flags.

That's here in America.

That's in New Jersey.

In these other countries like England and the Netherlands, they've reported Muslim rape gangs that have raped young girls nine to fourteen years of old of age.

And more than 60,000 rapes were reported in the United Kingdom alone last year.

These are self-segregated communities that are being built across Texas.

City councils and planning and zoning committees need to strengthen their building codes and ordinances.

We stop this takeover at the local government level.

You can use traffic codes, fire codes, drainage codes, noise ordinances, and a plethora of other codes and ordinances to stop these buildings and developers from receiving permits.

Also, it's important to note that nothing should be approved while ongoing litigation is currently taking place by our Texas Attorney General's office, Ken Paxton.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Hello, my name is Rolf Spelker.

I'm actually a resident of Grayson County up north near Sherman and Denison.

I'm a retired Navy captain and a veteran of 26 years.

We are watching.

We up in Sherman and Denison are watching to see how this plays out.

We see the headlines in the news, the national news about uh places like Minnesota and Michigan.

And what's the next state on that list?

Texas.

And it's uncomprehensible why Texas was would be on that list.

But it is.

Of course, Plano and you all are on the front lines, and everybody is watching.

It looks to me like uh like you you've heard uh the the folks before me, and um you're trying to build a strategy on how to say no, and a lot of the folks have given you some of the that uh ammunition to do that.

Um I propose that that we are looking at I I've I try to figure out how to say no in my own head, right?

We have freedom of religion, uh we have discrimination laws.

So how do we bounce that against this group of uh Islamists?

And and the and the lady that preceded me said it perfectly.

They're less religious than they are a political movement and a set of governance.

So when we say uh Islam the religion, we kind of akin that to Catholicism or Baptism or uh some of the other uh Protestant religions.

They are not.

They're more like a government, like capitalism, like socialism, like communism, uh, like uh so we we you have to figure out how to say no, not on the basis of religion, but on the way of governance.

As people have preceded me said, hey, this Sharia law, oddly, it's a law, i.e.

a governance, not a religious set code, it's a law.

They allow for perjury, lying, they allow for assault, they allow for rape, they allow for polygamy, they allow for pedophilia, and they allow for murder.

I don't think we want that here in your community.

I don't want it uh for myself up north, and we don't want it in our nation.

I I also particularly enjoy uh the fire chief and the fire marshal swearing an allegiance to Murphy, to Texas, and to the United States, and I think that was awesome.

Awesome.

These Islamists are not compatible with the Constitution of the United States of America, the Bill of Rights, the Constitution of Texas, and I apologize I haven't read the Murphy uh Charter Charter, Constitution, but I'm sure they're not uh in a line with you guys either.

So like everybody else said, and I particularly like the lady who preceded me.

Figure out how to delay.

If you can't say no outright, delay, delay, delay.

Uh seek guidance from uh the state and national level.

We're we're gonna figure this out.

We are gonna figure out how to say no to Islam.

We haven't done it yet.

You guys are on the front line.

Thank you for your uh uh support and uh fighting this.

I urge you to keep fighting.

If you can't figure out how to say no, delay.

Delay, delay, delay.

Don't say yes.

That's I think what we're asking right now.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Good evening.

So I'm not gonna repeat what everybody else has said.

I have something different uh to say.

So there were citizens who made it clear that we didn't want our names and addresses you know on the record, and thank you for accommodating that.

But prior to you gabbling in, Mayor, Councilmember Laura Deal took photos and or video of the citizens that were waiting to speak.

Again, that was prior to gabbling in.

Being in a public forum, there is no expectation of privacy, and I understand that.

Generally speaking.

However, I want it to be on the record that this occurred and maybe perceived as intending to intimidate or harass speakers.

We won't be intimidated.

I don't know if Robert's rules of orders has anything about photography, but I know that it discusses filming, and it is subject to reasonable rules.

And I don't know if our charter ordinances discuss council members taking pictures, but I would like, if it doesn't, I will be looking.

Uh I work for a local government, another local government, and I know that it is addressed in some.

If it's not part of this one, I would ask that it be looked into by our attorneys.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Hello.

Can you hear me?

Yeah, it works pretty well.

Uh good evening, uh Mr.

Mayor and City Council.

Uh thank you for your service, of course.

And uh thank you for letting me speak.

Uh I'll be very brief.

Uh I agree with everything I've heard today, like the gentleman before me.

Uh it uh it sounds uh very reasonable for this community.

Uh I was a uh foreign service officer for um twenty plus years, and I dealt with many cultures.

Uh I lived in Afghanistan, Yemen, uh, several countries on the East Africa, all Muslim.

My job was to assimilate in the in the uh culture, which I did.

I didn't like it because it's it's not the way I grew up, but it was my job.

Well, after 20 years, I wanted to retire and go back to Texas and hang out in my culture.

Um Murphy, I didn't grow up in Murphy.

I grew up in Tyler.

But Murphy is very similar to where I grew up, and I liked it.

I liked it a lot, and I still like it, but it is changing, and I'm being a little disturbed.

Um I came to Murphy not to assiminate assiminate in someone else's culture.

I want it to be in my culture.

And I definitely do not want Islamic Student Center in my backyard.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Sorry.

Um I filled out a paperwork and turned it in.

Sorry.

Um I live next in the timbers next to what used to be the goat farm.

That's the first thing I want to address.

That neighborhood is nearly finished.

And I don't remember the date of the last major meeting that we had, but I stood at public podium like this, and I said no less than a dozen times no bump and go gate at the end of Oak Lake Drive.

And I also said on whatever gate that is put up that is presentable, which all the pictures they showed us and all their pretty little displays had a beautiful ornate gate.

I want a remote for our fire department so that when he comes hauling through there in the middle of the night, he can get on through.

What did we get?

A bump and go gate that's got a remote.

Why it's a bump and go gate?

Why did he got the remote?

Where's my gate that's nice and pretty that I don't have to look at that just takes something my husband's truck can bump and go through to somebody that really wants to?

Problem number two, it's black, has maybe two reflector stickers.

I'm waiting for the day we get to call 911 for the person who hauled through that because they didn't see it.

I can't tell how many times we've run outside and stopped people.

They think it's a bypass when there's an accident.

So please.

How many times do I need to move my trash can down the road before I get my road fixed?

Because it's about to be in the neighbors because the trash truck has messed up my driveway so bad.

I had a car at one point I couldn't get out because it scratched.

It was so low.

Please fix my road at some point on Oak Lake all the way down to the end.

And why did a new neighborhood get to put in?

A brand new beautiful neighborhood with drainage and not connect my neighborhood.

Can somebody please explain?

We don't have one drainage for for water flow.

And when we get a halacious, too bad it's going to freeze this time, or I could have taken pictures for you, but all of our trash cans are out in the middle of the street.

Who's going to check to make sure they've done everything the way they said they were going to do it when they put a neighborhood in?

Because the last couple of houses are being finished.

The fence is the stain is already faded.

The fence is falling down in some points.

Hello.

Those are million dollar homes.

Have you walked in them?

I have.

They're gorgeous.

But they can't put a fence up that's gonna last while they're building, much less after they leave.

And they didn't even consider joining in the drainage from an existing neighborhood that's been here since the beginning of time almost.

Parts of the timbers have been.

They didn't even think to tie into the help.

Please help.

And everything else these people have been saying, I God help us.

Number three scared the crap out of me.

Please go back and listen to one, two, and three.

I think it was a four.

I can't remember which one of it that I was scared of.

Please go back and listen to these because God put them here for a reason.

He put those speakers number one, number two.

Whoever's in the purple leopard outfit.

Put these people here for you to go back and listen to, and I know this is being recorded.

Go back and find the last time I was here and said over a dozen times, don't do something.

And it got done behind your backs.

Please stop letting things get done behind your backs.

How did those streets get named?

How did they get past the planning and zoning committee?

Please tell me, answer me.

Has something been approved already in this community that I was unaware of that was being voted on?

What are you advertising your agenda on?

I'm on next door, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Instagram.

What are you putting?

Do I have to go to your specific website to find out what my town's talking about?

That's ridiculous.

Because if you've already approved something that serious, and we didn't know about it, stop and rethink what you're doing because you did not get the citizens' opinion on this.

I'm wearing red for a reason.

It's part of what's behind you.

If you don't know how to handle this, have you reached out to your brothers and sisters in the neighbor in this in the neighboring towns?

Seriously, I'm looking at you.

Have you reached out next door?

I'll shake your hand later, explain why.

But buddy, you're not alone.

I know.

Dear God, we're five square miles.

Protect us.

Dear God.

When I moved here, it was country living in the city.

When the hell did it change to what is it now?

I wrote it down.

Live in life at your pace.

Did I get to vote on that?

Did I, as a citizen that pays your tax dollars, get to vote on changing my town motto?

No, I didn't.

It got done behind my back.

I don't appreciate that.

That's my town motto.

I moved here.

And I appreciated that town motto.

I didn't appreciate you moving the pace of it like you had.

You didn't listen to us very well with the goat farm.

But please, by God, don't let them exit stage left and leave it already falling down to our neighbors.

And I'm looking you square in the eye, begging you to not let that happen.

And where's my gate?

Welcome.

Hi, good evening, Council.

Uh many people have shared their facts and views which I support, and I won't repeat it for the benefit of everyone here and keep this short.

I'll just share my personal view on this.

I've lived in Murphy now for three years, and I've been in America for six years.

I came to this country for many reasons, but a big reason was because I believe America is a great country with strong beliefs that it's people are willing to fight for.

Of all the states, I chose Texas as it is the greatest of them all and best embodies American ideals.

What I see happening to Americans through this development and mosques sickened me.

We all know that through whatever means they have made their developments only available to Muslim buyers and have excluded everyone else.

They tried to establish Epic City, which is still an ongoing battle for them, but they have already implemented the Muslim own only area here.

They have come to an American city and said Americans are not welcome in their own land.

The founding fathers never envisioned religions coming in and establishing their own communities and telling Americans you are not welcome.

Governor Abbott has recently banned this very thing.

I urge you to fight this invasion and keep America free for all Americans.

Every single battle, no matter how small or how large, needs to be fought.

People internationally seek out living America living in America, such as myself, because it is such a great country and doesn't allow this.

Please keep your courage and hold the line for your people.

We the people are behind you.

Thank you.

Welcome.

There's been a lot said about Islam tonight.

But what is Islam?

This is from one of their books on Islam.

Islam is the name of a way of life that is followed by nearly a billion people around the world.

Muslims are majorities in over 50 countries, and their norm numbers are growing every year.

That's because they're having 10 kids per family instead of our 1.1.

The name Islam is an Arabic word that means both peace and surrender.

The full definition implies that when you surrender your will to God, you will find peace in your soul.

Muslim then is a person who surrenders to God and finds peace.

Islam is not a religion.

However, it's a complete way of life that is patterned after the natural trend in the universe.

Its goal is to help people live in harmony with the universe and the natural order of things.

Then why is there a jihad?

Why do they need to go killing people?

What happened to peace?

The name for a lot for a God in Arabic is Allah.

And he caused the universe to come into being billions of years ago.

He set up natural laws in accordance with his will, so that the you unite the entire universe would be Muslim and submit to his will, which means you will have the higher truth and live in peace and harmony with all.

Why is there jihad?

You have to force people to do that?

That's in our constitution.

They're the ones with the problem.

So we don't need to allow them, and since it's not a religion, we don't need to rely on freedom of religion as the excuse to let them get away with anything.

Hi, my name is uh Tariff.

Welcome.

And um I am a veteran.

I've been here since 1997, since we first the first subdivision was come in is Glenn Ridge Estates.

I've seen Murphy, it's growed uh extremely big.

Some areas I agree with, some I don't.

Um Murphy Road is just extremely overwhelmed with traffic and also Betsy Lane and even getting out on heritage.

I want to take you to another section of this.

I remember when Murphy had cows in it.

I remember when Albertson was here.

And you know, it's it's terrible to see how Murphy grow, and I knew it would, because I'm from East Texas and I love the country living.

But I want to say another thing.

Um, I don't know if y'all have seen other cities around you grow into like mosques are growing everywhere.

And I have lived for 21 years every day going by epic mosque.

And I see the traffic, I see what it's brought.

It started out as a strep mall, it went to a big epic uh that Plano had given them uh for some of their reasons, and then it expanded not only at front now, they had their medic center, they had their medical center, they have across the street, and that's just gonna grow.

Why do we need this in Murphy when we got it down the road?

Why do we need an Islamic learning center when we already have everything halfway down on 14th Street, and then it's time to go in all our communities.

We need to wake up and realize what's going on.

Islam is growing in Texas, and we need to stop it.

We need to get with our representatives that don't listen and our communities and stop this all across Texas and make Texas red, white, and blue, American.

We are veterans here, we have people, and we need to just keep fighting, and you need to listen and you need to listen to Murphy residents.

I did not know there was a meeting a month ago where I would have been here, sick or not, I would have been here.

But nobody knew.

Half the people don't know.

We need a better way to communicate with our Murphy residents.

And as Murphy, you need to stand together and fight this.

You do not need to let this happen.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Well, I'll say don't tear down the flags, the statues, the monuments, the Ten Commandments, babies born out, most central.

Don't tear down America piece by piece, plank by plank.

I've been saying that for ten years, right down the road here in front of a Planned Parenthood.

That very thing.

What we've got going on now, I don't have to even really talk about you.

They've told you, all these people are telling you how the the penalty the dagger at your neck that we have here.

But what I'm an evangelist.

So and that's what I talk about.

I talk about God and Jews as the devil in the Bible.

That's my vernacular.

That's my corner of my realm, if you will.

And so that's what I'm supposed to talk about.

The watchman on the wall, that's what we're supposed to be.

You go out and tell people about the sword that's coming.

And if they don't want to listen to you, they'll die in their own sins, but you'll preserve your own life and soul.

That was in the old testament.

Nowadays you say pick up your cross and follow Jesus, right?

Well.

That's what we're supposed to do.

We're supposed to come out here and say.

Well, we had a hard time.

My leg hurts, my foot hurts.

I've had more trouble today getting here.

And I was over there in front of the deal, and the policeman came and tapped on my window and he said, We're not talking about Islamic stuff.

And essentially tried to get me to go away.

Even me.

And he don't he doesn't want us talking.

He don't want us talking about this.

But we've got a cancer growing.

Literally a cancer.

And not only that, I don't think we realize all of Texas is looking at us, all of the United States.

Matter of fact, the world, as a matter of fact, God in heaven.

We don't realize how big this is.

But if you don't stop this, if you don't stop these people, it'll be the end of our country, and it'll be the end of us.

They don't want to tear down the flags, the statues.

I got all kinds of signs.

Pray down abortion, Alamo, things like that.

That I sit, I put them around me.

That's all a message, right?

That's bull coined.

That don't matter.

You know what the when they get rid of all that, you know who they're coming for next?

Us.

They want to destroy these people want to destroy America and the American Americans.

All of you up there.

They either say you become a Muslim and you believe our religion.

I can't.

Genesis 12, 1 through 3.

God says, those who curse the Jews, I will curse.

These people are cursed.

And he says, we'll be cursed if we have anything to do with them.

In Deuteronomy, it says, don't do what these others do, and if anyone comes a stranger, don't let them do it.

Or even the ground will vomit you out.

I got a Bible verse here on this shirt says that you'll be uh washed away.

God will pour out his wrath like water.

Well, we got plenty of stories about that, don't we?

I think God Himself is watching all of this.

I think he's watching all of you.

And I think that he expects you to turn away.

Those that turn away from God and the Word of God, the Bible says it's very clear.

You're going to be destroyed.

Even that they would put a band around your neck and you would be a slave until you die.

All right.

Having said all that, you know what?

I'm impressed with you guys.

You do you're doing the best you can.

It seems to me like you bend over backwards trying to be nice to us.

And so I can tell you that's why as far as I don't know any of you.

First time I've ever been here.

I'm certainly not mad at you.

And I'm also using up part of my time to brag on you.

How about that?

Because I think you because I think you guys are really trying hard from what I say.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Hello.

I would just like to agree with everything everybody has said before.

But also I want to say for a lot of us, um, we're probably sitting here as casual Christians, and we've been taught to love our neighbors and not speak ill against people.

Um but also we're casual Americans.

We're casual voters, we're casual Murphy residents.

So part of what I want to request is most of us haven't been in this room before.

We don't know what you do.

We now appreciate what you do, but we don't know what our role is.

And so if there's a way before the next meeting, if maybe on the website, if you can post things like how the meetings generally go, if we want to attend, what is the role?

So it was helpful tonight for you to say you can't talk about things that aren't on the agenda.

How do we get things on the agenda?

What's the process for that?

Is there you know you mentioned the town hall earlier, which is a great idea.

If we want things like that to happen, who do we go to?

How do we make those requests?

Are there timelines?

So when things are on the agenda, what's the normal time frame it it takes to get things approved?

What's that process like?

A lot of people have appealed tonight to please postpone making decisions.

But if we could just kind of understand what's the normal process like, how can we be involved?

Um, what can we do when we have concerns in the city?

Whether that's about the Islamic issue, you know, personally I feel like we can't handle an HEV parking lot, so how are we going to handle this?

Murphy's not big enough for those two things from one end to the other.

Um so just in general, if if we as citizens have concerns, what do we do?

And also I think one thing at the beginning of the meeting that would be helpful is to talk to us as a group and say, silence our cell phones, please be quiet while other people are talking.

People can hear you whispering, so you may think your voice is low, but it's really not, and it's distracting.

So just to kind of give us newcomers a sense of what the process is.

Very good.

I want to I want to thank you all from coming out tonight.

Actually, it's we're not discussing anything on the open agenda on this topic, but you can't believe how helpful it is for you to come out, have a conversation, express yourselves.

Uh and it it is it is hugely important for council to understand uh urgency in your voices.

So um uh with that, uh there's again I'm really limited to how I can what I can address.

Can I speak?

You want to come up?

Yeah.

Maybe I'm the only Muslim in this room.

I just want to say Muslims are your citizens too.

The taxpayers, like everybody else.

I don't see the danger the gentleman was talking about.

What is this danger?

Muslims believe in Jesus.

They believe in Mary.

Uh I don't see what the issue.

What is this just uh racism?

If you replace Muslims with anything else, is it an issue?

Is it an issue with just Muslims?

Or everybody else?

Is this like uh America of 1800?

Is it the blacks moving into the neighborhood?

What's the problem?

I don't understand.

We're a citizen.

Muslims have been in this country since the beginning of America.

Why is it an issue?

Can somebody explain to me what's a Muslim?

Please come expect to meet what's your part of the next sense.

All right.

So I want to I want to I I want to I want to hold Muslims that taxpayers are citizens like everybody else.

They should be considered the same way.

I understood.

Yeah, I mean on the other this is like k without the masks.

This is horrible.

I was listening to three or four people who just look danger is coming, sold is gonna what is this?

What is this danger?

Pennsylvania spending this danger.

Yeah.

All right, read the Quran.

All right, okay, we're gonna sit down and I'll talk about the problem at once.

Thank you.

Oh, hold on, hold on.

I gotta go ahead and have a seat.

Thank you.

We need to see So hold on.

Hold on.

What's important to hold on.

What's important is that when we have these conversations and we're here, that we are respectful.

Council is here to listen to the words, to the thoughts, to your to your passions, to what's important to you.

And while I'm going to allow that to go on, I'll be here till midnight if that's the conversation you guys want.

But uh, but you're you're expressing your your thoughts and opinions to council, not to the group, and we're gonna keep this focused on what's what's happening within the city.

So I'm gonna give you an opportunity to respond, but if this becomes in uh into something that that is getting ugly, I'll put a stop to it.

And I don't want to.

But I think that that's important.

Go ahead.

Thank you.

Um I have no intention of being um combative.

Um, but he asked what the problem is, and no one has said it, called it what it is.

They are building segregated neighborhoods.

That is the only word you can use.

You can't say Muslim only.

You can't say exclusive.

It's segregation.

Segregation is illegal.

That is the problem I have.

I have problems with a lot of it, but when we moved here 25 years ago, every culture was equally represented at the elementary school that my kids were at.

We loved it.

They lived among us.

We had neighborhood night out.

We visit each other's homes, talked about each other's cultures, our religions, we shared food.

That is not what is coming in.

That is not the Muslims that are coming in.

And I don't even want to say the word Muslims because I feel like it is the powers to be that have built Epic and whatever else they're gonna call themselves.

They are dishonest, they are no transparency, and they are breaking laws by creating segregated neighborhoods, and then they want to call us Islamophobic, racist, whatever.

Everybody needs to ignore those names.

That's not what it's about, and we know that.

We just need to stick to laws and facts and not be drugged into name calling because we know it goes so much deeper than that.

We've had Muslims living in this town as long as I can remember.

Some of my good friends are Muslims that have lived here forever.

They're not happy either.

So it's not a Muslim, uh anti-Muslim thing.

I just want to make that clear.

Thank you.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, come on in.

Did you fill out a form?

If you didn't, I'll want you to fill out a form when you're done.

When you're done.

I have it.

Okay.

Okay.

Um good evening, everyone.

All right.

Um, so I listened and I tried to take notes.

Uh I don't know.

Can you hear me?

I listened.

Is it better now?

Okay, so I listened and I tried to take notes.

Um about the different concerns everyone has.

And those are definitely fair, because I mean I have been part of uh working in the council in different cities throughout America thus far.

And um the only concern that I had that I wanted to bring up was um the few people who claimed to be uh interpreting the religious book of the Muslims and uh made completely false claims.

Um I hope you're not basing your decision on that.

Uh as far as using codes to deny people the ability to build uh center for praying five times a day.

Um I see where the concern of of uh parking would come in um would come to most people's mind.

And that's fair by the way.

It definitely is fair because um Muslims do go and pray five times a day in big numbers, and um sometimes it can get really bad with the parking.

So perhaps the question, the answer there would be for you guys to work closely with them and enforce the laws of you know parking, which can definitely make a huge difference.

Um yeah, that's basically the only issue that I thought I could uh give you a take on.

Besides that, I hope you guys realize that um like most Muslim, we don't mean to come and take over anything.

Um I became Muslim here in America.

I speak seven languages, lived in eight different countries growing up, and uh I have met all kinds of people.

There's good and bad everywhere in everything.

Literally.

And um in the case for Muslims, I would say I've met way more good people.

And I hope that you guys can have wonderful neighbors so that you can see how beautiful Islam truly is.

That's all I had to say.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

So I'm going to I'm gonna close.

You've already already spoken.

I know.

I'm just gonna answer him real quick.

No, no, I think I think we're good.

I think we're good.

I'm gonna I'd like to close the public comments tonight.

You're gonna there's gonna be five more meetings, trust me, that you guys can come in and visit.

We'll make sure that uh that it's communicated that you guys know.

We've got a number of items that are left on this agenda that we'd like to hit tonight, and then we have a long meeting with our attorneys tonight.

Uh if anybody wants to stick around, I will be here after the meeting, and I'll continue to have a conversation with you, listen to you, and I'll be in a position where uh where I can communicate because it'll be outside the meeting.

Um but that that'll be uh probably another hour.

Uh but uh I do thank you all for for coming out.

Um and I expect this is not the last time I'm going to see uh you guys uh visiting with us.

So and I appreciate you coming.

Huh?

Yeah, there's no votes currently scheduled.

So um so yes, there'll be more meetings before that.

Okay.

Yeah, we'll see what goes on there, February 5th.

You'll look watch the watch that uh that agenda.

Okay.

Thank you.

February 5th is not a council meeting, it's a uh P and Z, so it's not a final decision either.

Thank you.

Thank you to everybody.

All right.

We're gonna move on.

Uh we're skipping the rest of the presentations.

We're gonna go move on to this uh city manager staff reports.

Just right here.

Thank you.

Mayor and council, we have a few updates tonight.

Oh, you want me to give it a minute?

You give it a second, yeah.

Thank you.

You want a beer?

For for for exactly.

Can we bring them in?

Oh, go get them up.

I've got I actually have some crown upstairs.

And we got coke in the fridge.

Oh no ice.

There I don't know if there's enough ice.

All right.

Thank you.

You didn't get a chance to speak.

I apologize.

I apologize.

Uh I apologize.

Well, you can't want to see the champ speaking.

I I apologize.

What's your name?

Oh, thank you.

You want to you want to go ahead, you want to go ahead and send me an email?

And then uh another chance to I think this is not the same.

Oh no, I mean the last of the speaking.

I I apologize.

I didn't I was told I'm gonna share the same thing and you will sort of some of you think nobody was coming up.

I think I think we uh I think I gave them.

Well handled.

Yeah.

All right, let's go ahead.

Okay, Mayor and Council, just a few updates tonight.

Um first of all, very exciting news for our public works department.

An investigation was conducted to evaluate compliance with applicable requirements for public water supply systems.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or TCEQ as we call it, found no violations.

They stated our public water supply continues to merit recognition as quote a superior water system.

So kudos to our public works director and our staff.

Um I apologize, guys.

Can we uh uh move out?

Thanks.

And then also coming up this uh later next month on February 7th is the Daddy Daughter Dance at the Murphy Community Center.

Please check our website for more details and to provide to get your tickets.

And as a reminder, all city offices will be closed on Monday, February 16th in observance of President's Day.

At the end of February, the annual rainbow trout roundup will be taking place at the Murphy City Hall Pond.

Please check our website for more information.

And then as a reminder to the public, the next City Council meeting will be held in this room on February 3rd at 6 p.m.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, we're going to move on to item 8, individual consideration.

8A consider and or act on January 6th, 2026, regular council meeting.

Does anyone have any changes or I'll take a motion?

Mayor, I move to approve uh the uh minutes from the last meeting uh or all the items in individual cons consideration.

Second I have a motion second, all in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed.

Motion pass unanimously.

Item B, consider and or act to direct staff to prepare an ordinance calling a special election on May 2nd, 2026 for the purpose of reauthorizing the sales tax allocation for the street maintenance repair fund.

I don't know that anybody on council have any concern on this.

Okay.

We we we know this pretty well.

We've done it everywhere.

We're we're only trying to push it up by a year to get cost savings because there is no election next year.

Very good.

I'll take a motion.

Mayor, I move to approve uh item 8B.

Uh consider act to direct staff to prepare an ordinance calling and special action on May 2nd, 2026 for the purpose of reauthorizing the sales tax allocation for the street and maintenance repair fund.

Second.

I have a motion second, all in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passed unanimously.

Item C consider and our act on a resolution authorizing city manager to execute a general services agreement with Neil Schaefer Inc.

to provide engineering services for design work associated with the rehabilitation replacement of approximately 3,800 linear feet of sanitary sewer line along skyline drive and the amount not to exceed 174,900.

Okay.

Good evening, Mayor members of council.

Uh item that you just mentioned is exactly what you said.

It's uh to rehab about 3800 linear feet of sewer line along skyline drive.

Um the project uh is to either remove or replace a variety of different sizes and materials of uh sewer line pipe.

Uh and it's in ticks anticipated that the design will take about six months.

Uh staff recommends approval, and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

I just had a quick question.

Um I think that this is just proactive maintenance and there isn't a problem.

Is that correct?

That's correct.

There is no major problems right now.

We have TV'd that line, and it is most of it is PVC.

Uh some of it is a little undersized.

There's some six six-inch sections that need to be replaced.

Gotcha.

There is a few uh bellies and swills in it that's holding water.

Uh and there's some clay sewer line that is very old and needs to be replaced before it does become a problem.

So it is trying to get be proactive.

Great.

Yeah, and we definitely don't want a huge problem because we waited too long.

The other item is that this is all mostly behind the curb, so we shouldn't have to do uh a lot of uh shouldn't be any damage to the street.

Very good.

Any questions?

All right.

I'll take a motion.

Mayor, I move that we approve uh item eight C as presented.

Second.

I have a motion second, all in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passing unanimously.

Item D, consider and or act on nominating and selecting a council member to serve a two-year uh two-term on North Central Texas 911 board for uh Board of Managers.

Scott, aren't you currently serving on this?

I'm on preparedness council.

Janae is currently on it.

She's been on it for three years.

Uh I know for two, and she did say she's up for another term if you all desire that.

All right.

Okay with that.

I'll take a motion on Janae.

Uh Mayor, I nominate Janae Butler to be um our representative on the 911 Board of Managers.

Second.

We have a motion, second, all in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passed unanimously.

Moving on to into executive session, according to Texas Government Code, Chapter 551, subchapter D, City Council will now recess into executive session.

Subchapter D of the City Council will now uh to discuss the following.

Item 551.072, deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property, project tank, and item B, consultation of attorney on pending or contemplated litigation on a matter in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body and the text disciplinary rules of professional conduct, the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts with this chapter.

Zoning applications, development plans, site plans, and plating process.

The time is 7.54.

City Council will reconvene in regular session pursuant to the provisions of chapter 551, sub chapter D, Texas Government Code to take any action necessary regarding item A, 551.072, deliberate the purchase exchange, lease, or value of real property in reference to a project tank.

Item B 51.071, consultation with attorney on pending or contemplated litigation and on a matter in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body under the Texas disciplinary rules of professional conduct of the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts with this chapter.

Uh reference to zoning changes, development plan, site plans, and planning process.

Time is 909.

Uh there was no action taken in exact.

There's nothing to do out of it.

There's a development agreement in the ordinance.

Who's got the uh motion?

I'll take a motion on the development agreement.

Mayor, I move to approve the economic development incentive agreement between the city of Murphy and Convenium Investments LLC for the purchase of land.

Sorry, pending final legal review.

I have a motion and second.

All is in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed.

Motion passes unanimously.

All right.

And then B.

B.

Right.

Yeah.

All right.

Uh 11B, consider and or act on an ordinance establishing fair housing standards.

Mayor, I move to approve item 11B.

Uh establishing an ordinance for fair housing standards.

I have a motion, second all in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passes unanimously.

Moving on to item 12, future agenda items.

The council members may request topics for future agenda meetings.

No member of the city council may discuss any of the requested subjects until such a matter has been properly placed on the agenda.

And anyone like to add an item to a future agenda at this time.

Seeing none, we're adjourned.

Thank you very much for the evening.