Frank.

Good afternoon, everyone.

Welcome to the Tuesday, February 17th, 2026 technical review meeting for the city of Musquite.

It is 2 30.

We're gonna get going.

We're gonna start with our opening public comment.

Uh please come forward.

You have three minutes.

Okay, seeing no one come forward, we're gonna go ahead and move on to number two, our work session.

Any additions?

Councilman Ennis.

Oh any additions over there?

I I'd like to get going on this e-bike ordinance.

And so I've got a draft ready.

I think that we should put that on the next council agenda.

Okay.

And then we can so it'd be a resolution to consider an amendment to the municipal code to adopt regulations regarding e-bikes and e-scooters.

That will be part of the definitions as well that are addressed in there.

Yep.

Okay, councilman Ennis.

I will make a motion as to what the city attorney just said.

Those are the best motions, right?

All right, hold on one sec.

Well, let's take a step back.

Do we have any public comment on adding that resolution?

That's awesome.

Okay, so we'll jump back over, Councilman Ennis.

Uh councilman Fielding.

Yeah, he made the motion.

So do you wanna I'll second that.

Okay, call for the vote.

Fielding, I perish I NSI.

Galloway.

Okay.

Thank you.

I would like to add an item as well.

Um few members of the public had brought up to me about the process of choosing the mayor pro tem.

So I would like to add an item.

One part being the process of selection of the mayor pro tem by the city council, and two part being the length of term of the mayor pro tem.

Do we have any discussion or public comment on adding that item?

Okay.

Uh Councilman Wanless.

I actually have one question.

Is there any way we can inspire the charter committee to change the regulations so it's actually correct and everyone knows what they're doing?

Because I thought we followed those regulations last week.

So yes, you can speak to the charter committee.

There's different ways to address the issue in my mind.

One way is through the a change to the charter, and then you can you could do a more restrictive regulation as long as it's not inconsistent with the charter.

So the charter says it's gotta be elected.

It's pretty broad.

You could, in theory, have more rules like it's got to be done once a year, or it has to rotate, or who knows, whatever, you know.

And that's not for discussion right now, but it can be something that that's more restrictive than what we have.

The only question I have is could the mayor suggest the name and bring it to a vote.

Not formally under the charter.

The charter says it's just elected by the city council, so it would be someone from the council.

And and I in so like a change to say, well, the mayor's gonna say that.

That would have to go in the charter, because that would be inconsistent with what we we currently has uh, yeah.

So you're you're welcome to discuss individually with the charter, you know, keeping in mind open meeting laws, any member of the committee, and we've met where they're starting to work to get ready for the 2027 legislative session.

So that's that type of a change I would say would need to go to the charter committee.

Councilman Parish.

So if we put this on the agenda for next week, we can task the charter committee to insert it into the charter for the 2027 election.

Is that what you're saying?

Um you could.

You don't need a meeting, I guess, necessarily to well.

I guess if you wanted it to come from the the council as like a formal direction, then yes, there'd need to be a vote in the formal direction.

They don't the charter would the committee's not required to follow your direction.

Um, but if that's something that's communicated or individually, you could communicate that to members of the charter committee as well.

So how do how do we make sure that the charter committee is gonna address this so that we can vote on it down the road so we can present it to the 2027 legislature?

So you would want to just encourage members of the committee to make those proposals in these upcoming meetings.

And the way just to clarify too, the way the charter works, they in time will come back to the city with all the proposals that they have.

Okay, the charter requires that.

And then what the charter says is if you agree, then you agree, and it's a kind of a joint effort that goes to the legislature to make the changes.

If you disagree, then the charter committee can still go straight to the legislature.

You know, and make they could they can make a sweeping change that you didn't like, but they could still go and try to do that with the legislature.

That's that's part of their role.

So there doesn't have to be agreement between the two.

It's a good idea to get it through the legislature.

And but there doesn't on this issue, you wouldn't need to make a you could, but I'm saying that it's up to the charter committee, they wouldn't be forced to consider that or do that, but it's good for them to know.

Councilwoman Fielding.

So putting this on the agenda, taking it to city council, is really just a repetition because then they can come back and deny our request.

Um in theory, yes, they could say, well, thank you for that suggestion.

We decided as a committee that that's not important to us, right?

They could they could do something like that.

But the council can still, you govern yourselves within within the confines of the charter.

So on this specific issue, like I said, you could have a new resolution that says, here's how we're gonna elect a pro tem.

We're gonna the charter just says we have to do it.

Here's we're gonna impose on ourselves rules on how to do it, you know, and then you would have to come up with that.

But so if there's a motion to add this to the next meeting, it could be a resolution to discuss those potential guardrails to how that that selection is made.

So correct me if I'm wrong, but it can be on the code.

So we can set a city code that says this is how it's done.

It wouldn't change the charter.

The only reason we'd have to change the charter if we wanted the mayor to do it, correct?

But if the city council wants to do it a specific way, we can just add to the code that that's how it's going to be done.

I would say um, yes.

If you're making a change that's inconsistent with the charter, then you got to change the charter.

If you're making a change consistent with the charter, then you can just do it by ordinance.

This person is supporting the mayor when he's not here.

It makes a lot of sense that that direction came from him.

Yeah, and and that issue, like how that should be done.

I don't want that to be discussed because it's not an agendized thing.

That would be good for the next meeting, right?

If if you want to have this on the agenda, um, but but it a change like that would require a change to the charter, in my opinion.

Because it changes who makes that determination.

So it sounds like to me that we need to get some specific, like you said, guardrails put in place before we even because sitting up here at the next meeting, we're not gonna be able to write all the necessary codes and proper language for the change.

We need to get somebody to write that for us.

Is am I wrong in saying that, Paul?

No, because I I'm not I I'm not smart enough to write it.

That's what I'm sure.

But well, that that could be if if you wanted to have this on the agenda, there could be a discussion about that.

Here's generally what we're thinking, here's what I want to see.

You know, we can't discuss that here.

I guess you could come to me and say this is what I'm thinking, and I could you know work on something.

Um, but if there was a meeting to discuss that, the public could put their opinion in, and then at that meeting, we'd have some direction.

Okay, this is what we want it to look like, and then you could pass something at a subsequent meeting.

One change of motion so far.

Yeah, we can do that.

Should we and I I'd want a motion from a member of the council too.

Okay.

Um can I ask you this?

Sure.

What would what would be the best language going forward for this item?

For this motion, you mean?

Yeah, yeah, for the item that we'd that we want to add.

Um kind of talked about it would be it'd be consider of a of a resolution regarding the selection process for a mayor pro tem, something like that.

To amend the musquite city code to consider a selection process for the mayor pro tem.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

So hearing all that, do we have any public comment?

John.

Thank you, Mr.

Mayor, City Council members.

Um, I do want to point out that this can be a two-step process.

That is to say, you can create a resolution to uh consider and review the proper procedures by which a mayor pro tem is elected.

That could be a prolonged process, depending on how involved the discussion gets and what other type of research you want to do.

You can also have a different resolution, which is basically a one-time resolution, which says under the current charter, we will hold an election with these rules, which we define.

Now, those may not be the final rules, but they can be the rules that are used to make the selection process much more like a legitimate election than was actually happened last week.

Thank you.

Thank you, John.

Okay, so I'm gonna turn it back over to council if somebody wants to make a motion.

Councilman Wilness.

I appreciate what you said.

But I don't I don't want to encumber future future councils with something we dictate a slaw right now.

What Adam said that we just move towards language that that's something that makes sense moving forward.

She already said Julie would make that motion the way you said it, and that's the motion I'd like to make.

Okay.

Julie, do you want to restate?

Just so everybody's clear.

I'll let Adam.

Adam, you want to restate how you can see how good my memory is.

Uh it was a motion to amend the municipal code to consider the selection process for a mayor potem.

Okay.

That's what I said.

Yeah, perfect.

Do we have a second?

All second.

Okay, call for the vote.

It'll be nice.

One more second.

I'm still a little confused to be honest with you.

So are we voting on going forward or are we voting on going backward?

So this would be uh rules going forward.

It only could be going forward.

Okay.

So nothing changes.

Nothing changes.

It's not you, we're not selecting a new mayor pro tem.

It's just, hey, do we want to impose on ourselves more rules about this than just what the charter says?

The charter just says you got to elect.

Now you can govern yourselves accordingly.

You know, you could, like I said, you could say it has to happen every month.

It have to have it has to happen every year.

Um, it can't be the person who did it last time.

You know, there's all kinds of different things that could be considered, but that would be just the next the next meeting would be your opportunity to discuss what each of you would want that to look like and for the public to come in and say this is what we think it should look like as well.

And then if something gets passed, that would be the rules going forward.

Okay, so it's just going forward.

Okay, then I'm I'm fine with that.

Yeah, I'm fine, I'm good with that.

All right, okay.

Anyone else have anything to add or subtract?

Okay, seeing nothing, we will open it up to our final public comment.

Mayor?

Yep.

So uh just wanted to give a quick update on something, not necessarily with the projects, but it has been in the public eyes for a little bit.

Um the roundabouts that are on Oasis Boulevard.

We um looked at those and we have modified some of the striping signage and pavement markings in the roundabouts.

So as you go up there now, you will see painted markings on the road.

And the big change is if you are in the outside lane, you are to exit the next exit that you come to.

So if you were going up Oasis Boulevard at the first roundabout, and you're in the outside lane, you will now be directed to exit onto Ivy Lee Crest instead of going all the way around.

That's to minimize any of the the crashes that happen with people continuing around on the outside and the inside lane wants to go.

The inside lane can still make that turn because then both would be going in that direction.

But um, you'll see that um we've actually got some good feedback from that already um to make that a whole lot clearer.

Um, but I did want to make that known that we did modify that striping to make that uh a little bit easier to navigate those roundabouts, and we will be evaluating this and and following to see if that has done enough to try to help the safety in those locations.

So thank you.

Thank you, Travis.

Any other public comment?

Councilwoman Fielding?

Travis, and thank you for that.

I noticed that last week because I go around there a lot, and that was the first thing I noticed was the modifications.

So thank you.

Okay, with that, this meeting is adjourned.