All right, welcome as I call to order the uh May 19th, 2026 regular city council meeting.

Time is 6 p.m.

Rise with me as they offer the invocation to leave the Pledge of Allegiance.

There's a meeting.

Our heavenly father, we 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.

Thanks, sir.

Your name is Craig.

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.

Thank you.

And I'll turn the time over to City Secretary for Will Call and Certification Requiring.

Mayor Scott Bradley.

Here.

Mayor Pro Tim Elizabeth Abraham.

Here.

Deputy Mayor Pro Tim Janae Butler.

Councilmember Place to Scott Smith.

Here.

Council Member Place 4 Ken Oldman.

Here.

Mayor certified the presence of a quorum.

Thank you.

Alright.

Moving on.

We've got public comments.

The time we set aside on the agenda to allow residents to address council and an item not on the agenda this evening.

We do have one uh requested public comment, Mr.

Luke Treyan.

Please provide your name and address for the record.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor and Aretha Frank and the City Council.

My uh esteemed residents as well.

Uh my name is Luke Trahan.

Uh my office is at 318 West Murphy Road.

I'm sorry, West FM 544 Suite C2.

Uh I am with the Chamber of Commerce.

Um I am the immediate past chairman of the Chamber and currently the co-chairman of the Murphy Chamber of Commerce uh Scholarship Foundation, and currently I am serving as the chairman of the Murphy Local Option Campaign that the Murphy Chamber of Commerce has begun as of May 17th of this week.

I come before you to give you some quick updates regarding processes for the chamber as well as local option.

First, for the chamber of commerce, we have begun a complete rebranding campaign with our new executive director, Ty Lake, including a brand website rebranding, new logo, new marketing materials.

Additionally, we have added some new events this year, including a November 13th golf tournament to benefit the chamber and our foundation.

I hope you can join us this fall.

We are working to strengthen our partnership with the Parks and Recreations Department as well and are super excited about our current growth trajectory and offerings for our members as well as residents of the City of Murphy.

Our new website should be live this coming Friday, and we will be providing a much improved experience not only for our members but also for the members of the community seeking more information regarding our Chamber of Commerce.

Second, on the local option campaign front, the Chamber of Commerce has been able to hire three individuals to help with the Warnocking campaign as well as attending events and running some of the events with the Chamber of Commerce to promote a local choice option for the City of Murphy residents to have a choice in November regarding the sale of packaged alcohol via a quality full-service liquor store.

Our signature deadline is July 17th to attain 2,698 signatures to add to the November ballot, after which the City Council will need to approve the petition to be added to the November ballot, and then the Collin County Commissioner's Court will need to approve the request at their August 17th meeting.

We are excited to help the citizens of Murphy participate in the democratic process to allow for their voices to be heard this fall on the issue of alcohol sales.

City of Murphy has taken on the mantle of alcohol sales in the sorry the uh Chamber of Commerce has taken on the mantle of alcohol sales in the past, in which it has become a wet city with sales of beer and wine only.

Currently, the surrounding cities have all completed the process and are we are hopeful that Murphy will do the same so that we can retain tax dollars here locally and potentially attract new guests to our city.

We will be hosting a kickoff event at our 501 mixer this Thursday at 501 p.m.

at Backyard Murphy.

We will be answering questions and gathering signatures toward the petition there.

Finally, the Murphy Chamber of Commerce Scholarship Foundation has awarded six recipients, twelve hundred dollars each.

Uh they are graduating seniors that are residents of the city of Murphy.

We'll be hosting a on uh June 2nd at 5 30 p.m.

outside of the council chambers, a brief reception for the winners, uh, and their family, and we'll be presenting their awards at City Council that evening.

We are excited to be able to acknowledge their achievements in such a public form so that they can get the recognition that they so deserve.

For any questions regarding any items mentioned tonight or any questions regarding the Chamber of Commerce, please contact Ty Lake at tie.org or myself, Luke Trahan at 214 886 1432.

Thank you for your time this evening.

Hey Luke, real quick, what's uh what's the petition window?

The prominent two days.

So it's May 17th through July 17th.

Okay.

All right, very good.

Thank you.

Would anyone else like to address counsel on an item not on the agenda this evening?

Yeah.

Name and address for the record, please.

I did submit it, but it probably didn't make me in time.

My name is Rhonda Bellamy Hodge, and my address is 421 Hawthorne Drive.

Anything else you did?

No.

Okay.

It's been a long time.

Hello to the city council and guest.

I am Rhonda Bellamy Hodge, a longtime resident of Murphy.

As is my custom and in appropriate settings.

Whenever I'm talking about land and anything connected to it, I always start by paying homage to the original inhabitants and caretakers of that land.

The indigenous people who were here before any of us who now call this home.

It is now called Texas, Collin County, Murphy, and these include the indigenous tribes of the Cato, the Kickapoo, the Comanche, the Apache, the Alabama Casada, the Tewakene, and the Tuqua, among others.

It is my vow to continue to be a caretaker and steward for those current and who will follow me to the best of my ability.

It's been a long time since I attended a Murphy City Council meeting, and I take responsibility for that.

Perhaps, like some of you, I've been living my best life, raising my children and now enjoying my grandchildren running around in the place we've called home since February 27, 1999.

In fact, I used to be the newspaper reporter for the Murphy Messenger.

Like so many local newspapers that grew smaller and smaller until they no longer existed.

As a longtime resident of Murphy, I come today asking a question.

Is this our Murphy?

Yes, we've experienced a tremendous amount of growth, given that the city is barely 5.2 square miles with no post office and no school district of its own.

Indeed, we split our students between Wiley and Murphy.

To that extent, I like some of you may have taken it for granted that our little bedroom community was immune from the hateful rhetoric that has plagued our state and our national politics.

And that concept has its merits.

I don't know how long I have, but I'm gonna I'm gonna speed it up.

In recent years, it seems like every issue and every race has taken on a national approach.

And I remember not too long ago when city council people were candidates, hopefully.

They would go door to door, neighborhood by neighborhood, introducing themselves and asking for our vote.

Those gave way to yard signs and door hangers.

Then the emails and the text, so many texts.

I wonder how the proposed candidates get our numbers.

Yes, it's probably a sign that they have resources to buy our numbers from the data brokers.

And this brings me to my main reason for being here tonight.

We received this postcard last month prior to the recent election.

Maybe some of you all did too.

It made me very nervous, I'm gonna be honest.

I thought it was something promoting, I don't know, a war, a crime in progress.

As a former citizen police officer, I was ready to call the police, but I didn't know who to call.

To realize that it was political advertising for our city council election was an unsettling, and I wanted to find out more about its claim and who was it supporting.

Ironically, I had received two text messages from two of the candidates seeking my vote.

I responded with a question of my own.

It was a simple one, yet neither one of them bothered to respond to my direct question.

I felt that perhaps they thought there was no need.

If they can simply benefit from the fear tactics reflected on the postcard, and yes, fear is a motivator, especially when you present people with darkened skinned scowls on their faces, weapons in their hands, and let's not forget threats to their women, children, and faith.

Where did this come from?

Where are their facts?

As a student of history, because that's what I did once I stopped being a reporter.

I went back and I studied under a master's degree program.

Unless you are a member of the indigenous people that I talked about earlier, we all have come here from somewhere.

The Europeans and the Spaniards came by choice, the Africans by force.

The first two communities love to cite their heritage and how they pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Yet they often forget to tell the history that they were often displaced and discriminated against by groups who managed to get a foot up on them.

And now here in Murphy, we find ourselves faced with this type of hate landing in our mailboxes, trying, and I dare say successfully raising fear, hate, and racism about our neighbors.

And to compare Murphy with Dearborn, Michigan.

Have any of you been to Dearborn?

Do you know somebody from Dearborn?

Why Dearborn?

I know a little bit about Dearborn, but I'm not afraid of Dearborn.

Nobody ever says anything bad about Highland Park, and if you flip the switch, it's kind of the same, actually.

And to compare Murphy with Dearborn.

I won't go down each point of the postcard, but I will say this.

Murphy has changed in his growth and demographics.

That's undeniable.

Again, I've been here since 1979.

There were 1680 people when we moved here.

Now it's over 22,000 from the last sign I saw.

But because of that growth and change in demographics, if you are a resident, a business owner, a shopper, or simply enjoy passing through Murphy going to somewhere else, you've benefited from that growth and that diversity.

If you were sick, your family members, you would go down here to Baylor Scott in White.

There are a lot of black and brown people there in medical capacities.

By the way, I'm not Muslim.

I've often been asked that question.

I just like colorful head things.

But even if I was, it would make a difference.

I am, in fact, Christian, have been all my life.

But if you went to the hospital and you were sick and near death, would you care that perhaps one of these people would be your doctor, your nurse, your phlebotomist, any of that?

Would they care that you've allowed hate to come into your heart and you've participated by not saying anything?

Because bad things happen when good people do nothing, when good people say nothing.

And I come tonight to say I'm no longer gonna not say anything because I've earned the right and I've paid the price to be able to come.

And I want to thank whoever I talked to at the city that told me what the process was because I had kind of forgotten.

I want this to be my Murphy because it is.

Again, I'm a Christian, so I brought my Bible.

And the Bible is full of uh scripture about how we should treat each other.

One, love our neighbors as ourselves.

I don't have a Quran.

I don't have a uh a Jewish holy book.

I don't have the Book of Mormon.

I just have my Bible that teaches me and instructs me on how to treat everyone here.

And I brought my handy dandy pocket calm.

Because it too is full of how we should treat each other.

And I don't think this postcard is representative of any of the things that I've brought tonight.

And I hope that all of us will take it upon ourselves to think about that and how we're going to treat each other.

And one of the candidates that I approached, he told me that this was a part of a pack, that he had nothing to do with it, but clearly he benefited from it.

Clearly.

So he has the opportunity, and perhaps the other candidate does now city council person, has the opportunity to disavow it to say this is not what we want in Murphy.

Thank you.

Would anyone else like to address council and item not on the agenda this evening?

Michael Padilla, 323 Apache Trail.

I just like to state that uh several members of the community, along with the candidates, block walked and knocked on doors for weeks on end, uh, just to let everyone know that we are more than just text messages and emails and mailers.

We knocked on doors, we walked many streets.

My God, I'm tired of seeing the same houses over and over again.

So I just want to let the council know we walked and we knocked on doors.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any else, anyone else want to address council and item not on the agenda this evening?

Hi, I'm Dedra, also Precinct 25.

I just want to say um from everyone from Murphy to everyone to all the precinct chairs.

Half of the people in Murphy didn't even know there was a voting going on, and our group and a big group of percent chairs wants Murphy to be safe, and that's the reason.

We spent hoursly, hours talking to people, telling people about these candidates, and everything else just to get people a Murphy and to keep our community the way we want it to.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, I'm just gonna address today.

Is an opportunity to celebrate uh candidates who are joining council, they're qualified candidates, their candidates are very passionate about uh about the city.

Uh last week we um we had an opportunity to celebrate the departure of a couple of uh uh sitting council members who are also very passionate, very qualified uh on the city.

Uh so uh so this is a job that is uh that is complicated, it's difficult.

The community itself has a lot of different passions.

We are going through an interesting time uh in our national politics, but some of that starts to drive in.

Uh but I'm really excited about the future of our council, and I've been really happy with uh the councils that I've served in in the past.

So let's uh we have an opportunity today to uh to welcome our new council members and to get excited about what's in the future.

So we're gonna we're gonna move forward with that.

Uh and we'll that'll count as my mayor's report.

Is there anything else anybody would like to add?

Okay, uh moving on with the uh the presentations.

Administer of the oath and certificate election statement of office, uh uh Katie Jackson, and I will meet uh council uh councilmember Debbie Ison and Councilmember Kevin Kelly at the daisy same first one members uh sure okay.

Let's start with uh is uh uh Debbie Ison in the name of you want what do you want how you want to do this come on your family comes up that's the oath right you're gonna do the oath you're gonna do the election why don't you do the oath then so she can sure probably want to come stand by my okay raise your right hand repeat after now I state your name Debbie Isaac do solemnly swear or affirm do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the duties and I will faithfully execute the duties of the Office of Council member place three of the office of council member place three of the city of Murphy of the City of Murphy the state of Texas the state of Texas and will to the best of my ability and will 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 the state and of this congratulations in the name and by the authority of the state of Texas this is the certified that a general election held on May 2nd 2026 Debbie Ison was duly elected council member place three in the city of Murphy congratulations all right yes that's yours.

You may have that figure this out and I state your name I Kevin Kelly to solemnly swear or affirmly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of the office of council member place five council member place five of the city of Murphy of the City of Murphy the state of Texas State of Texas and will to the best of my ability preserve protect and depend and depend the Murphy City Charter the Murphy City Charter and the Constitution and laws the constitutional laws of the United States and of the state and the state so help me God in the name and by the authority of the state of Texas this certify that at a general election held on May 2nd 2026 Kevin Kelly was duly elected council member place five of the city of Murphy congratulations thank you.

I have to take the oath you have to take the oath all right after me say your name I Scott Bradley do solemnly swear or affirm do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties that I'll faithfully execute the duties of the mayor of the office of mayor of the office of the mayor of the city of Murphy of the city of Murphy.

Of the state of Texas and will to the best of my ability and will to the best of my ability preserve protect and defend preserve protect and defend.

Murphy City Charter the Murphy City Charter and the Constitution and the Constitution and the laws of the United States and of this Kevin's here and again I want to um elections are uh are an integral part of what we do in a community.

Uh it's at the very local level, and it goes up to the national level.

And it's a it's an opportunity for candidates to represent themselves and their vision, and it's an opportunity for the residents to measure those candidates against the future that they think is uh is is what they where they want to move their community.

There are going to be people that are excited about the outcomes of those elections, and there's going to be people who are not happy about the outcomes of those elections.

But it's contingent, especially at the local level, that uh that we as council serve the entire community, everyone who lives here, right?

We are a community.

Murphy is the sum of all its residents, and so the promise of the of the council is to do what's right for the community, to make those assessments, make those decisions, and to make sure that we're building a place that everyone who lives here can call on home.

And I'm as I said, uh, I have worked with dozens now of city council members.

I've seen them come and I've seen them go.

I've seen council members who are extremely engaged.

I've seen council members who show up and uh and respond to the stimulus that's put in front of them.

Uh I think we've got a really exciting council right now.

Uh and I there's one thing I love to say.

Uh what your uh, whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, it doesn't matter because what we focus on is putting the wet stuff on the red stuff, right?

It doesn't matter what your partisanship alignment is when you're talking about keeping the streets and the sidewalks and the police department uh and the parks.

And so the focus of uh of city council is about the community.

It's about how we make a home.

And the promise you have for me as mayor and the council members who sit up here is that when we are making our decisions, it's about the long-term stability, the long-term uh health of the community, and making Murphy a place that you want to move.

Thank you.

Moving on, item B, proclamation, Asian American Pacific Islander uh Heritage Month, and going to ask um Elizabeth Abraham to give that presentation.

Good evening.

I'd like to ask my guests to come uh to the front, uh representing the Philippine uh American Chamber of Commerce, India Association of North Texas, and Save Texas.

Come on up.

You're fine.

So this evening, the city of Murphy is honored to recognize Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, a time when communities across the nation celebrate the history, achievements, and cultural richness of AAPI Americans.

Here in Murphy and throughout North Texas, AAPI residents and organizations play a vital role in strengthening our civic life, enriching our cultural landscape, and contributing to the economic and social vibrancy of our region.

We are privileged to have with us several distinguished representatives from organizations that exemplify leadership, service, and community partnership.

Representing the Philippine American Chamber of Commerce, DFW, we welcome Rob Revro Kaye, whose organization continues to uplift Filipino entrepreneurs and foster America economic opportunity across our region.

Thank you, Rob, for joining us.

From the India Association of North Texas, one of the oldest and most respected cultural organizations in North Texas.

We are joined by members of the executive board, Mahindra Rao, President, Rajiv Kamat, immediate path president, and Janentek JP Punya, Secretary.

Thank you for being here.

Their long-standing commitment to cultural preservation, education, and community service has made a lasting impact across generations.

Thank you.

We are also honored to welcome representatives from Save Texas, South Asian American Voter Education, Engagement and Empowerment.

Hope I said those right.

Thank you for joining us.

We are grateful for the leadership each of these organizations brings to Murphy and the greater DFW community.

Their work reflects the values of service, unity, and cultural pride that we celebrate during AAPI Heritage Month.

At this time, I would like to thank all of you for being here as we present the City of Murphy's official proclamation recognizing Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Whereas the United States proudly recognizes the month of May as Asian American and Pacific Islander AAPI Heritage Month, honoring the rich history, culture, and achievements of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders who have contributed to the strength, diversity, and fabric of our nation.

And whereas the AAPI community encompasses a vast range of cultures, languages, and traditions, representing more than 50 ethnic groups with roots in East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and the Pacific Islands, Islands, each bringing unique perspectives and enduring contributions to American life.

And whereas throughout our history, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have made significant contributions in all areas of American society, from science and technology, arts and literature, business and innovation, to public service and the armed forces.

And whereas this month also serves as a time to reflect on the challenges faced by AAPI communities, including discrimination and systemic barriers, and to reaffirm our commitment to equity, inclusion, and justice for all.

And whereas the strength of our nation lies in its diversity and the celebration of AAPI Heritage Month deepens our understanding of the vibrant cultures that help define our shared American identity.

Now, therefore, I, Elizabeth Abraham, on behalf of Mayor Scott Bradley, do and the rest of City Council, do hereby proclaim May 2026 as Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month in Murphy, Texas.

I call upon all residents to learn more about the histories and cultures of AAPI communities and to celebrate the many ways they enrich our lives.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Item 7C proclamation National EMS Week.

Chief, not going to come down.

I guess not.

Chief, you want to be a part of this?

Uh I'll be a little moment.

All right.

Well, it's my honor tonight to read this proclamation.

Whereas emergency medical services are a vital public service, and whereas the members of emergency management services teams are ready to provide life saving care to those in need 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

And whereas access to quality emergency care dramatically improves the survival and recovery rate of those who experience sudden illness or injury.

And whereas the emergency medical service system consists of first responders, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, educators, administrators, emergency nurses, emergency physicians, and others.

And whereas the members of the emergency medical services team, whether career or volunteer, engage in thousands of hours of specialized training and continuing education to enhance their life-saving skills.

Whereas it is appropriate to recognize the value and the accomplishments of emergency medical services providers by designating emergency medical service week now.

So therefore, I Scott Smith, on behalf of the whole city council of Murphy, and Scott Bradley, mayor of the city of Murphy, recognize the event to be hereby proclaimed the week of May 17th through 23rd, 2026 as emergency medical service week with the theme we care for everyone.

I urge this appropriate recognition thereof.

These are the guys that actually get out and do the work.

They put all the training in, they do do everything that it takes to get everything out there to provide the quality service we have right now.

Our EMS service starts uh at the beginning with uh our dispatch telecommunicators, they they receive the calls.

Uh, they they then dispatch it to us.

Uh many times our brothers in blue stand in the back, beat us to the scene, and they were able to initiate some initial EMS uh services for us.

So we want to also acknowledge them as part of this.

Then these guys get here and they do what they do and they do it rather well.

So I'm really proud of all of them.

I'm proud of the whole system.

I'm proud of our medical director that's been with us for many, many, many years.

And uh I will go ahead and say as as good of a job as they do, we'll announce it a little bit later on.

But so far into this year, we've already had two life saves uh on the books for us, and we've also had one birth of a new child in the back of the anger and so we we've hit the ground running this year, bringing in some new ones, but uh the guys are doing a really wonderful job, and I just want to let y'all know that they deserve the spotlight, that's why I hesitate to come down.

So I certainly appreciate y'all.

May I say something real quick?

Okay, so weren't y'all honored uh someone was in Wiley.

We had two gentlemen, um, Sean and Benny.

Uh Sean wasn't able to make it, but that was a a run with Wiley.

It was their run in their town.

Our ambulance was called over to help, and they they provided the services that rode uh in the ambulance up to the hospital providing care all the way up.

So they've already had their AMS week, which was last week, and uh Sean wasn't able to make it.

Benny was there, so we went over there and helped congratulate them.

Well, thank you.

But uh either way, we certainly appreciate it.

Thank you very much.

Yes, and as per as a first responder myself, um, in working with you all, because we have to call sometimes uh our clinics, the EMS to come and pick patients up.

So always very thankful for y'all.

Always have great information because I'm like, here's the patient's demographic sheet, and here's all their stuff so that you guys have what you need to do your job, but you respond in the worst part of somebody's life, the worst day of their life, you know, sometimes.

So just thank you for all you do and being superheroes for everybody.

Thank you.

Moving on to item 7D presentation financial report for the quarter ending March 31st.

Hold up.

Good evening, Mayor.

Good evening, council.

Tonight we have the second quarter fiscal year 2026 financial report.

This quarter ending March 31st, 2026 finds the financial condition of the city healthy.

There's no need to activate the contingency plan.

Good.

Well, I was really worried about that one.

Okay.

Um, here we talk about the variances in capital expenditures over $10,000.

Details are in your packet.

The budget amendments were presented to council at the February 3rd meeting.

The budget amendments are all project related.

All the funds are within range except for fund 30, 63, 65, and the MDD.

Here we have the sales tax.

We're all the sales tax collected through March 31st, halfway through the fiscal year.

The total sales tax revenue collected is over 3.2 million dollars.

This figure is ahead of the budget at 55.9% collected.

Here we have the general revenue, general fund revenues, the 2026 compared to 2025.

And here we have expenditures by department, fiscal 2026, compared to fiscal 2025.

And here we are gonna have three slides.

We have a lot of funds, all fund summaries, and uh it starts with the fund balance at the beginning of uh September 30th, 2025 for all the funds, and it's got all the revenues, actual revenues and actual expenditures for the quarter.

And you can see that beginning in September 30th, 2025, we had a fund balance of 62.1 million dollars, and the projected fund balance at March 31st, 2026, is 67.1 million dollars, and here we have the capital projects that are currently.

There's I believe there's 17, and there's one completed.

Am I going too fast?

I think there's like four pages.

It starts out with the original budget, actuals spent through the quarter, the project activity today, the budget balance, the percentage of the phase completed.

This is information that we get from our uh project manager from public works, and we've uh spent 388,000 through this quarter.

The project activity to date is 1.6 million, and we have a uh but budget balance of 26 million left for these projects.

Okay, here we have the capital project expenditures, the funding source.

Getting ready for this uh for tonight.

The numbers didn't tie out.

The uh number, the 380,0101 is not correct.

So I did um, there's a correction uh on the the correction column has the correct numbers.

You also have uh a revised page 14 for your packet, and this was discovered after everything was um posted to the website, but we wanted to give you the correct information.

All the numbers are correct except for streets and sidewalk maintenance, and then and the amount for the 2018 CO, and then the total is 388,612.

Any questions?

Um I'm happy to see that our sales tax revenue increased um compared to last year, a little bit surprised by that since we've lost some places, but happy to see that uh that's strong there.

Um, with since you mentioned before that, and we did uh several capital projects, uh we had some budget amendments approved.

Um, and this may not be for you, but just so that we get updates on the gables pavement rehab and project paint, so we know where we are with those.

Um the other thing that I was looking at is that we did have a significant fluctuation in permits and licenses.

Yes, which are 64.1% of the budget.

So where did that come from?

Okay, so last year there were some storms, and there was a lot of um permits issued.

Okay, okay, and that's why you see that uh the permit and licenses you have you have the 566,000 versus right now.

We have we're at 341.

Okay, perfect, thank you.

So a lot of that was roof replacement, rehabilitation, all those things that we have to do.

Bad things I had things that we need to do.

We need more hail, is what you're saying?

No, we don't I didn't say that.

I do any more.

Um, and then why did the municipal court spend significantly less this year?

Okay, so oh the are the expenditures okay.

I actually know that compared to like what FY25 they were at 180, okay.

They had three full-time employees in 2025.

Okay, and then now they have two and a half.

Oh, so that's why there's there that it went down.

Is that is that a choice uh on the staffing?

Is that the it was a retirement?

And then then when they uh they did a they had a part-time employer, and part-time um they had they added a part-time employee.

So as far as by choice, um, it is by choice.

We we have restructured that department.

That's the question.

Yes, all right.

Thank you.

I've got one question.

On the expenditure side, uh, under the solid waste, there seems to be a substantial increase of 150,000, something increase uh from is this a true increase in okay.

So on the solid waste is 626,666 versus the 474.

That is for the um contract disposal fees in 2025.

They were like 94,886.

They've gone up to 104, 104,496.

So it's it's it's an increase, but it's attributed to that line item contract disposal fees.

Okay, is that not something that was planned?

So this is showing you the expenditures year versus year.

If you'll recall last year, the rates for that did go up.

So it was anticipated that we would expend more this year.

Right, but that was covered on rate um the we had a rate change in order to adjust for that as well.

Yeah, okay, that's all I did.

Thank you.

Oh wait, wait, I have one more.

So um the interest expense.

So looking at that, it was five hundred and eleven thousand one hundred and eighty-four dollars.

The interest expense on your packet,184.

Yeah.

I think which was higher than FY25, right?

So just curious if we have the increase.

Um how does that relate to our debt management strategy?

Which page are you on?

That one, I think uh, where was the looking for it again?

So I looked at it earlier.

For interest, where is it?

Where is it?

I can't find it, but isn't our interest higher this year compared to last year?

Our interest in our interest income.

Um trying to get to that.

So we last year we revamped our our um investment strategy.

We came to council and talked about that.

Right.

Previously, we had not been investing to capture as much interest as we could.

Since we did that restructure with council's approval, we have been taking in more interest than we have historically.

So it's put us in a much better position.

Those interest payments, if you recall, we've been able to use those from some for some budget amendments for some projects, and it also does lend itself to helping us pay off our debt a bit faster than we anticipate in some cases.

It sounds like that's what her question is on the revenue side.

So it's all aligning with yes, it it all aligns.

And if when we recapture more than we anticipated, we always come to you all and ask, hey, this is how we propose to spend this money to make sure that you all agree with the philosophy and the policy.

Okay.

I can also further clarify that it is going to be directly related to receiving the money from the 2025 CO.

So now since we have that larger balance, um we chose the the strategy this time to go ahead and put it in a text pool instead of leaving it in our depository bank, which was immediately able to gather more interest.

That interest is then applied to the project that is associated with the reason why we received that debt, and then it's used on that project itself until the project is um completed.

Okay, thank you.

That's what I was looking for.

All right, any other questions.

Thank you very much.

All right, and uh item 7E presentation water loss.

Good evening, mayor, members of council.

Uh coming to before you today just to give a uh a quick water loss update.

So the period we're looking at tonight is is mostly the first quarter of the calendar year.

But before we get going, here's kind of a historical summary of of what we've done over the last 10 years.

Uh you can see 2023 was our our uh peak water loss of 497 uh million gallons since that time it's steadily gone down, so it's definitely getting better.

Um 2025's numbers uh total water from North Texas 1.34 billion gallons.

Uh water pumped into for into our system from the Hawthorne pump station, 1.33 billion gallons.

Total accounted for water consumption was 1.60 billion gallons, which gives us a water loss of 186 million or 13 percent, which is which is good, but uh we're striving to do better.

You can see when we move into oops, sorry, our 2026 numbers, they are looking a lot better.

Uh January's uh water loss was seven percent versus the 15 percent at the same time and 25.

February was a little bit higher, but you as you remember we had some uh cold weather which caused a lot of uh leaks.

I think at one point we had eight or nine leaks in our on our board for uh for February, and it just took some time to get those fixed, so um uh that one actually that that at that uh month was a little bit worse than what we'd like.

Uh March is looking good again, looked good again, 9% in March versus uh 14% for the uh year that same time the previous year, and then I don't have the numbers up here, but I got them today late.

Uh April is six percent versus eighteen percent, same time last year.

So looking really good.

What was it about six versus what eighteen?

So our current leak detection methods uh we try to do most of it proactively.

We we go out and we actively look for water leaks.

Uh we're patrolling the town, we're uh when we're doing other jobs cleaning out outfalls, we're looking for anything that may be entering the outfall, and we'll trace that back to try to find active leaks.

Uh we're also using our uh Neptune 360 software, which which is not a leak on our side, but it does help our customers.

Typically, those would be leaks that are on the customer side, and so we'll try to notify those customers as quick as we can.

And then of course we have reactive leak detection methods, which is primarily a customer calling and saying, hey, we've got low water pressure, we'll go out and see if they have a leak.

Um, sometimes they do.

Most of the time, you know, it's it's on our side and it's uh it just hasn't surfaced yet, so we'll have to go in and we'll have to find it.

Most of those we try to investigate immediately, and then depending on how bad it is, we try to get those uh repaired within 48 hours.

Here are some leaks that we've had recently.

Well, first of all, we and you know, we repaired 51 leaks in 2024, 40 and 25, and 14 so far this year.

If that trend holds, we're looking at probably 55 to 56 uh leaks uh again if that trend holds.

Here's a few leaks that we had.

Unfortunately, these leaks uh just because of staffing issues and cold weather and uh uh other items we had uh some of these leaks went a little bit longer than what we'd like them to, but we're uh we've got all the leaks off the board now, and right now, knock on wood, we don't have any leaks.

So what's next?

The biggest project we have on the board to help with our leaks is to replace the remaining 5300 uh copper service lines with high density polyethylene.

Um that project actually uh went out to bid in March, and we opened those bids on April 2nd.

The bids were uh higher than what we expected, so we came to council and recommended that uh we reject those bids, which which we did or which y'all did May 5th.

Uh since that time, uh staff has worked with our engineering firm to uh kind of take that project from a Cadillac to a Chevrolet, you know, try to find some things that uh some cost savings methods to help it get back under budget while still getting a quality product uh and meeting the goals that council has.

And so it is scheduled to uh it open it went out back back out for bid on May 14th and scheduled to open on June 4th, and we hope to bring it back uh to council for consideration uh no later than July 7th.

Donald, I think it's an unfair question, but I'm gonna uh if you had to ask to me, what do you think we spend a year repairing these these leaks?

The 50 50 or so leaks we do a year.

So it's usually three guys on a crew, it's a whole day process just to repair the leak.

Uh then it's another part of a day repairing concrete, uh going back and putting sod out and repairing and dressing everything up.

So 50 of them we probably spend a couple hundred thousand dollars a year on it.

I mean I don't have an exact number for them, but it's significant.

And and that's fair.

And I think I think, you know, as we look at this project where we're coming in and we're going to replace all these source to meters, um, you know, it's important that we really consider there's there's the savings, right?

That is harder to quantify, but on the loss of water because we have the cap and keeping from going over the cap.

But there's real savings in in the effort that it takes to uh uh to continue to chase these down and repair these.

So absolutely about that program.

When are we when do we when are we kicking that off?

I know we're a bid.

So we're hoping to bring that back out to you for approval July 7th with some more uh favorable bids, and then it's just a matter of contracting and get it started.

So I would think early late August to actually start construction, the 12-month project project, yes.

All right, thank you.

Alright, well, what I have something to ask real quick.

So to your point, you know, if we have we replace, you know, the copper, the Chevrolet that we're gonna get here soon, right?

Um, then that reallocates your time to other projects and not having to be stuck on fixing these.

But before, did we always have that 24 hour uh window where we would go out and investigate if someone reported a leak before you started, um, and then the 48 hour window of repair, you know, generally.

I think that was the general idea that that's what we we wanted to do.

I can't say that it was always happening.

Yeah, but uh I do know that the guys have been very very good about going out, especially on the investigation side, just to see what it is, if it's really a leak, and obviously, you know, we're missing the mark a little bit on the repair, but uh uh you know we're getting there.

Yeah, but that's pretty good, you know, to have that um that you're investigating.

Um I don't know, do y'all like capture that on metrics anywhere like comparison from this year last year in 2025?

We did this amount um within 24 hours and repair within.

We don't have the metrics to to that detail.

We do keep a we do keep a spreadsheet that gives us an idea, and that's kind of where I get this uh this information that tells us you know it was four days before we repaired it.

So we do have a spreadsheet on that, but I haven't put it into a metric, you know, a metrics yet, uh performance metrics.

It's on my list of goals that we've talked with the city manager about about using cartograph to uh to uh kind of chase these metrics, these performance metrics, and it's it's one of those items on the list.

Okay, that's perfect.

Thank you.

So Donald, um, you know, just for the audience, you know, we've been fighting this issue for years.

And we've got good times and bad times.

We think we start seeing it a decrease, and we think we're doing good, and then later on it, you know, gets back up there.

Um so hopefully this decrease will will stay.

Just quick research to me says that the word 13 percent, that's that looks like it's an average for this for cities in Texas, 13 percent.

So it's nice that we're down closer to the average and hopefully we can get below average.

The uh Texas Water Development Board, their standard is fifteen percent.

Anything below 10% is considered great.

So, you know, obviously for March we were or for April now, we're six percent, so we're we're kind of gold standard right now, so we want to keep it that way.

Historically in summer uh more loss through the summer months with the irrigation.

If the a lot of that depends on how dry it is, so if you have a lot of ground movement, yeah, absolutely.

These lines will start to break a little bit more often, you'll see it.

So if it's a wetter, a wetter summer, it won't be as bad, but you just never know in Texas.

When did you start with us again?

August of last year.

Last year, right?

So when we're looking, can we go back a couple of slides when you were doing the comparison between 2025 and 2026 as far as the water loss right here?

So some of that was before you were here, right?

So with like the 15%, like in January.

So and they were using a different method as far as how they were calculating their water loss at that time, right?

So in or were they certainly 2025?

Probably so.

I think it was kind of, you know, probably second quarter.

They started using more of the the Texas water development board methodology.

Yeah, and that that's more that's and they became more consistent.

Gotcha, okay.

Prior to that, it was it was seemed like it was different.

Right.

Right, okay.

Yeah, because that's what I was getting to like this could I don't know what this was.

This could yes, but now we've got something more consistent.

So since you start it really, that's what I'm gonna be looking for for like the most accurate numbers that we have because you're gonna be following the same process of how you're calculating it.

Like in my mind.

What this doesn't tell, right?

Is total counted for is not total built.

Right.

Right.

And so um the there is water that gets used that is billed.

Uh there is water that um uh this total accounted for is okay.

We know we have a leak.

We know how much water we've estimated how much water that's that's accounted for, right?

So it's not pumped versus billed with pumped versus we know where it went.

So there's a difference in that.

Yeah, it's so when you're looking at it's basically accounted for water and and non-accounted for water.

Accounted for water is build and metered or metered and build, metered and unbuild, it's fire hydrant usage, it's flushing, it's uh but also but leagues that you know about it's just you take all the things you know about right out, and that's unaccounted for is what we're talking about.

Okay, but I would like to see the unbuild portion because I think that's important, right?

Whatever we're accounting for and what we don't account for.

Now, Aretha did tell me that some of it is city used, city used water, right?

Metered and unbuilt, that's yeah, that's unbuild, but what would be the difference between what we know we're using versus what we don't know and that we're not billing.

We can provide that information going forward if you guys want to see it.

Okay, I'm maybe I missed it.

Can you say that one more time so I understand what you're looking for?

So I think it's like we are accounting, so you you have the build part, right?

That we know, and then we have the unbuild part, right?

The unbuild part has a component of the city's water usage, which we would know what that looks like, and then there's gonna be a portion that we don't know that's unbilled, and it's not we don't know where what that amount is and where maybe possible leaks or things like that are that's where I'm asking.

Yeah, okay.

The city's component is metered, right?

Right, and I think that that's that that's a better word than build, right?

Meter versus unmetered.

Um, because we know total counted for simply means we know where it went, right?

It doesn't mean we it was it was it was metered, right?

Yes, so we had the breakdown you're looking for.

I can add that to the next report for sure.

Yeah, thank you.

All right, very good, all right.

Thank you.

We're gonna move on to item seven, city mayor's staff reports uh aretha.

All right, Mayor and Council, just a few updates.

Murphy's sound at sun sounds at sundown summer concert series is coming back.

Uh starting June 5th, Emerald City will kick off that concert series, and we will go through June 26th.

For more information, please go to the website.

Uh that is our Citizens Academy.

This will be the second annual uh Citizens Academy that we are hosting.

This is a free seven-session community engagement and educational program.

It will run from June 11th through August 6th, Thursdays, 5 30 p.m.

to 8 p.m.

You can enjoy learning about your local government with sessions like parks and break, administrative services, police and courts, fire rescue.

It's really a great way for the community to engage and become a bit more educated about how the local government works for them and for the entire community.

Uh mark your calendars.

Monday City Hall will be closed in observance of Memorial Day on May 25th.

And then the Murphy Veterans Tribute is having its dedication finally after years and years.

We are so excited that uh next Wednesday on May 27th at 11:30 a.m.

We will be on the east side of the parking lot at City Hall, where the new veteran uh Murphy's tribute will be dedicated.

Um I'm sure Mary Pat will be here sometime next week to invite you all personally, but we are excited to see that happen.

And the next council meeting is going to take place on May 27th in the community room, and that will be a budget workshop next Thursday.

Thank you.

Very good.

Looking forward to Mayor.

So please forgive me.

I do want to welcome two new staff members, the assistant to the city manager, Cameron Thompson, and our new planning manager, Stephanie Scott Sims.

We are excited to have them on board and excited about what they're going to contribute to the city.

Thank you, ladies.

Very good.

All right.

Moving on to consent agenda.

All consent agenda items to be considered to be routine by the city council will be enacted by one motion.

There will be no separate discussion of these items unless council members so request, in which event the item will be removed from the consent agenda and voted on separately.

I will be removing item 8C from the consent agenda this evening.

Anyone else like to remove an item from the agenda at this time?

No, I will take uh a motion on item eight on the consent agenda.

A and B.

I move that we approve the consent agenda items A and B as presented.

I have a motion, second.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passes unanimously.

All right.

Uh, item just second.

Right.

C, consider and or act on a resolution authoring the city manager to negotiate and execute a two-year contract agreement with the Valley View Consulting LLC for investment advisory services.

We do have a um uh recusal from this item.

So we're going to dismiss council member Ison from this uh from the dice this time.

With that, does anyone on council have any questions associated with this before we take a motion?

Not I'll take a motion.

I move that we approved consent agenda item C as presented.

Second.

I have a motion.

Second, all those in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Motion passed unanimously.

I'll call council member Iceland back.

No, all right.

Then we will uh go with uh item 9A, consider and or act on restructuring the format of the youth advisory committee.

Kayla.

Hi.

Hello, good evening, Mayor and Council.

It's good to see you guys.

Um, so just to kind of quickly talk about the um history of our three-year youth advisory committee that we had.

Um, year one was kind of a little bit moderate engagement.

It was a lot of me talking to them at them with them, mostly about the uh parks and rec master plan that we went through, not only with them, but we did a couple joint sessions with Parks and Recreation Board as well.

Um pretty successful on getting their input and what they would like to see, a lot of pie in the sky dreams for that.

So that was kind of exciting.

Um, and then we did a lot of kind of event insight and suggestions like when you come to our events.

What do you like to see?

What can we incorporate for the teens?

I.e.

the carnival rides at May's Days, which has been a great thrill for all of them.

Um, and then year two, we actually did kind of similar to what the um adult um Murphy U is right now.

So we had a couple of the different departments.

Finance came, um, police came and kind of talked about their departments, what they do.

Um, it was a lot more engaging.

Uh they did seem very interested in learning more about the things that those departments were doing specifically.

Um, and then we did get a lot more event engagement that year.

Um this year, however, took a little bit of a turn.

Um, I did go and ask, you know, kind of what their goals and initiatives were for this board.

Um, we in the very first meeting did uh get some engagement with them on the um community survey, I believe that Carter was running, or not Carter, I'm sorry.

Reagan was running.

Um got some a little bit of engagement on that, and then after that, um, you know, just kind of wanted to see where they were, if they were interested in kind of maybe planning an event to kind of get the teens more involved, um, whether that be sport related or an event like what we currently do.

And then after that, we uh took a break in December for finals and tried to come back in January.

We called for four months and we got the initial verbal that they were going to show up, but didn't unfortunately have a quorum for the last four months.

So, yes, it was a little disheartening.

But in the initial meetings, when I talked to them just to kind of figure out like what are the teams actually looking for, like what are they wanting to benefit?

What are they, you know, what's gonna bring them in to the city and have you know get them in here.

So a lot of the things that they were looking for were more specific to like what they're already doing in the schools or what some of the schools are offering.

Um I did hear a lot of talks about uh scholarships and how we can get them into medical rounds and different things like that, um, as far as like the internship goes.

Uh, teen court was brought up a couple times.

I think Wiley maybe does that, one of the um youth advisory committee members had mentioned that, and then also they were looking for programs like college app writing, and somebody had did mention the Plano uh mayor's internship, um, which I think one of them left our board to go do that.

Um, and then we did ask them to plan an event for us.

So we kind of did a brainstorming session in November.

That way, when they were supposed to come back in January, we could you know have the last four months to execute and then have the event in May.

Um, the event planning they came up with was a movie night, a splash day and a potluck.

So that was what we were going to intend to try to flush out and commit to for May, unfortunately, just with the lack of participation that didn't happen.

So we are proposing um that we still keep the youth involved and engaged.

Um, but we would like to see maybe uh take a year break from this year because it's coming up really, you know, we're already in summer, by the time they get back in school, it's gonna be a really quick short turnaround time.

Um so taking a year off to then kind of fully execute and work through a youth citizens academy, which would be similar to the adult citizens academy that we did, just because year two, when we brought in the different departments, it was really successful and engaging in the things.

Plus, you know, when you go to the adult citizens academy, you get to cut open a car and shoot fake guns and do all the fun stuff, you know, like obviously the youth is gonna want to um really engage in those things.

So we think condensing it down to uh I know I think the adult one is seven, eight, seven weeks, so either six or seven weeks doing something similar to that, and then maybe kind of giving them some type of capstone project at the end where they go out and survey their peers and other teens from their um, you know, I know we're in two different school districts, and then just kind of identify the gaps that we could be missing on how we can get them more engaged in um, you know, the city services and things that we do, and then after they complete the um citizens' academy, then year two they would be eligible to apply to be a youth board member on you know, like as a liaison, one or two teens on a liaison board with parks and recreation or MCDC or MDB or whatever we think they would best fit.

Um, but that way they went through the whole process, they know what the city does, and then that way they would be able to give some input.

I mean, just a thought.

I mean, the youth citizens academy, I think alone would be pretty successful.

And I think that having the youth citizens academy as a prerequisite to serve as a liaison on a board shows that they have a commitment and a desire to be involved, and it's not just something they're kind of signing up for to have on the resume, but that they're going to actively be engaged.

So we would require that in order to bring their name forth to you for appointment onto a board as a liaison that they have to go through the youth citizens' academy first.

And to be clear, this is restructuring, so it will no longer be just a board of teenagers.

These teenagers, what we're proposing is that they would serve alongside adults on already established boards so that they can see how does board governance actually work up close.

They're not having to guess at it they're seeing how decisions are made and they're able to to provide their perspective not just on youth centered issues because I mean my philosophy is every issue that affects this community is youth centered right it's going to impact them in some way.

So they get to really be involved in the real things that are coming forth to council as advice.

Kayla.

Yes.

So again like I said we are looking to just pause for this year um take a year to kind of structure that and see what that would look like mimic the um current Murphy you uh formulate you know timelines for curriculum start with the application process um and then obviously appoint them to the boards so that is my suggestion to you.

All right well thank you I have a couple things.

Sure.

So disappointed that we're not doing it this next year I understand you know it's it's a revamped year.

I like what you've got going on.

My experience was that our son did Plano youth leadership.

So like I I like the I wasn't ever like a huge fan of of the students being on a committee like I like it where they're learning about city the city government but also what's going on in the city.

So like engaging the chamber for one of the sessions would probably I mean if you're not already doing that you know do that.

But otherwise I like I like the way where you're going with this and even with the ambassadors coming back because that's that's a good way um to grow leadership in those students because they they're they they have to be in the like they have to show leadership like in what they're doing they can't they can't just like sleep through it they're they're active and they're active in planning and and running these things for you.

So Kayla I've been to a couple of those when Kennedy was on it so I've sat in some so I know you know even just having teenagers period you got to pull everything out of them you know so that's just what it just how it is but um I like that and I was thinking um as Ken was saying you know just having other if we were doing this again having other guest speakers workshops for them just on civic engagement city government um career development but also um I wanted them to have the opportunity to be able to come to council and explain you know like hey this is what we're thinking about doing um and just having that opportunity to come before us to do that which I think bills leadership their communication skills um and then it offers that incentive as well and I don't know with this one are you doing community service hours for them because I know that's a big thing for the for some of them to have those community service hours or have them do community service projects within the city of Murphy.

We haven't talked about that but that is a good point so we can definitely yeah consider that I know a lot um usually like in the last the last year um we did have a couple people reach out and ask for you know letters of recommendation which we gave yeah but I think that you know I guess we see where it goes you know as I say it work we we uh learn as we go yes so we'll see.

As part of the group that did the interview I thought these uh kids that came in were just incredibly smart.

I mean really it was uh impressive to hear them talk way above way above where I was at that age on TV.

And you know I I like the idea of pairing with adults I don't know that they I don't want to say that they did not I mean you put a lot of kids together and they all have all these ideas and it's hard to get some direction out of that.

And I'm I think pairing them with adults is going to help this be a better better not committee but better whatever you want to call it better group.

And so I'll um I'm encouraged to see that.

And I understand uh I like Ken I hate to see it take a break, but I think that may be the most necessary thing to do right now.

Just restructure and and move forward.

Yeah, help with the capstone project.

Um I saw the ideas that they came forward, but I know like that age wants to be very active, and so I'm very surprised that we didn't see like some sort of like teen Olympics or um 5K run or something like that that they're engaged with in school, a lot of them.

Um, but I'm hoping like with the survey or the capstone project that they do, or when they engage with their peers to come back with feedback that you're gonna see a broader um list of um events, proposed events that they'd like to see.

I felt like with the um community survey thing when everybody was there at that one meeting, they did pretty good.

Um, you know, they were pretty engaged, and then I I don't know where it went.

Kind of slowed down, right?

It's busy, you know, a lot of them were seniors, so I mean I understand, but right.

Right.

And you know, uh for a lot of these kids, it's about starting to build their resume, right?

They're they're they're starting to reach out to colleges, they're trying to build a resume for scholarships.

Um, so you know you also get to the point where they've gotten in their schools and yes, maybe that could have been it.

So uh, but yes, I uh I I agree, and I think both of those things are outstanding ideas, right?

So uh, all right.

Look forward to seeing how it matures.

Thank you.

All right, anything else?

All right, moving on with that, we're gonna go into executive.

We have to take a oh, this is an action item, okay.

Um well, what are we asking council?

I will move to approve the restructuring.

So I move we approve restructure in the format of the youth advisory committee.

I have a motion second all in favor.

I any opposed, motion passes unanimously.

All right, item 10, executive session accordance with text of government code, chapter 551, subject to D.

The said the council will now recess into executive session to discuss the following item.

Item A, paragraph 551.071, consultation with the attorney on pending or contemplated litigation and uh on a matter in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body and the text disciplinary rules of professional conduct of the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts with this chapter on it I land use and zoning uh material development plan, site plans and planning plans and two pedestrian bridge.

And uh paragraph uh 551.072 deliberation regarding the purchase exchange lease or value of real property project alpha.

The time is 720.

All right, ready?

All right, city council will reconvene in a regular session pursuant to the provisions, chapter 551 subchapter D, Texas Government Code to take any action regarding our A551.071 constitution with attorney on pending or contemplated litigation on a matter of which the duty of the attorney to the government body under the Texas disciplinary rules of professional contact state bar of Texas color you can fix with this chapter item one land use and zoning manners, development plan, site plans and planning process.

Item two, pedestrian bridge and b 551.072 deliberation regarding the purchase exchange lease or value of real property in reference to project I alpha the time is 847.

There was no action taken in exec.

And um item 12 future agenda items.

Council members may request topics future agenda meetings.

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

Would anyone like to add an item to a future agenda at this time?

Um, I'm just going to add that I know that Candy already has the Juneteenth proclamation, but I will be asking um for another organization from Wally to come and give a presentation or speak necessary if we need to put that as an agenda item, but we can just do that and just mayor report.

No, that's fine.

Well, if you're gonna do a if you're going to do a presentation on Juneteenth, uh we'll do we'll do a proclamation presentation, they can speak as part of that.

Okay, all right.

Anything else?

Seeing none, eight forty-eight, we're adjourned.

Thank you, Mary.

Thank you.