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The North Richland Hills City Council held a special meeting on April 9, 2025, at 6:00 PM in City Hall Council Chambers. The meeting focused on an executive session and subsequent public discussion regarding a resolution to publicly reprimand Councilmember Place 5 Blake Vaughn for violations of rules of procedure and house rules. The meeting adjourned at 8:13 PM.
The City Council entered executive session under Texas Government Code sections 551.071 (consultation with city attorney regarding pending litigation, investigations, and legal opinions) and 551.074 (personnel matters concerning Councilmember Place 5 and the City Manager). No specific outcomes were announced for the executive session itself.
Good evening and welcome to the North Richmond Hills City Council meeting at six o'clock. Uh and I will call the April 9th, 2025 City Council meeting to order. A quorum of the City Council is present, and the meeting has been duly posted according to Text Openings Act of the Texas government code. Moving to the first item is public comments. Yes. Okay. John Schleeder, um, sixty-five fifty-three Northern dancer. Uh I'm here tonight uh to speak on this item, and by way of metaphor, if animal control were to get a call about um a loose dog in the neighborhood, and it turns out it was reported as a rabid uh pit bull. Uh you know, that would that would uh elicit one type of response from animal control. But if it was a hyperactive yapping Pomerinian that was out running around the neighborhood, that is certainly not an emergency. I am just wondering why something has dragged out everyone on tonight for a specially called city council meeting uh from what my understanding from an action taken by a city council person that is really running out the clock on his city council seat with a couple of weeks left. If there is some sort of emergency lawsuit that's been filed or action with the AG's office or something, I could understand it. But if this is just some hurt feelings or some, you know, somebody's gonna have to really explain to me why this level of uh back and forth and angst is being spent on something that just to me is amounting to almost nothing. Um what I'm irritated about is I have been an area resident. I've lived in this area my entire life. It is disheartening to me to see the state of our city streets and roads. There are things that need our attention in North Richon Hills. If it was especially called city council meeting to discuss road funding, I'm all for it. But I doubt we're here tonight for something that important. Uh I would love to see this city council focus on business at hand, serving the citizens of this uh city and doing something that matters. Um that's what I wanted to say. Thank you. Thank you, John. Um else. Um, seeing no one else, we will um adjourn into executive session. It's let me start reading. Hold on. Uh 501071, consultation with city attorney, it seeks advice opinion and contemplated litigation on the matter as duly uh, which is a which is the duty of the attorney of the governmental body of the under the Texas disciplinary rules, professional conduct of the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts with the open meetings act versus investigations by city council, legal opinion related to March 24th, 2025 council meeting and providing direction to the city count city attorney and disclosure in executive session discussions. Uh the second item is section 551074, personnel matters to discuss the appointment, employment, evaluation, and uh reassigned duties, discipline and and dis or dismissal of a public official and employee to hear a complaint and charge against the officer or employee in uh uh executive session, we will be speaking on the city manager, which we will return to open session to discuss the council member place five. Uh adjourn. 702, we're reconvening into open sessions. Sorry, that was kind of loud, wasn't it? Um let's see. Okay, we're in open session now, and we have we will have a public hearing of the discussion related to council member place five. We will start with Bradley to read the resolution for consideration into the record. He will begin as soon as the council has a copy of the to follow along, the city secretary will bring um each council member a copy uh to follow along. Mayor, I have a question for clarification. Yes. Is this a resolution regarding me? But I'm only finding out about it right now, and I have no real chance to review it. You get to review it as we read it.