I

now declare that the Plano City Councils convened in open session, that all council members are present.

The

council will now recess into executive session and training remain to hold a closed executive meeting.

Pursuant to the provisions of Vernon's Texas Codes annotated government code.

Chapter 551.

The open meetings act in accordance with the authority contained in.

Section 551071 to consult with the attorney and receive legal advice.

And discuss litigation.

And section 551087 to discuss economic development matters.

Thank

you.

Our first item on the preliminary agenda is consideration and action resulting from the executive session.

Our

next item is PISD closed campuses information sessions presented by Curtis Howard.

And we're going through that process.

What we're looking to at doing is trying to gather community input, especially from those neighborhoods, those people that would be affected by these properties, get community input, and then and that's what we've done, and that's what we're going to talk to you about here tonight.

So tonight I'm just going to go over what we've done and uh what the results are from the community input.

Have the uh you'll have the opportunity to provide any direction to to uh to staff that you need to, and and I'll answer any questions that you

have.

All

right.

Okay.

So

uh just a little bit uh what what we did is uh as part of the agreement we had with PISD regarding the purchase of these three schools, Davis Elementary, Foreman Elementary, and Armstrong Middle School, is uh to try and do community outreach.

And so we scheduled six listening sessions uh over about a six-week period.

Uh we did it at various places, various times in an effort to uh to get as much much uh community input as possible.

Uh we put out yard signs, we put out over twelve hundred and fifty mailers.

Uh this information went out on social media, uh, news outlets, and uh we did as much as we could to make sure that the community understood uh what we were doing and and try and uh encourage community input.

Uh so over the total of these six uh listening sessions that we had, we had 354 residents uh come.

Uh the and and we kind of broke it down.

Uh three of these uh listening sessions were geared towards Davis Elementary, but not exclusively.

Uh and uh and and so in that um during that meeting we had 282 attendees across three meetings.

Uh as you're well aware of, this property is zoned single family.

And uh and so that you know, being that that that's what it was zoned, you know, one of the questions we had is what do you want to do with this property?

And of course, I think that uh it's fair to say that that there was general opposition about uh about housing on this property.

So a lot of uh residents voice kind of concern that if we did put some sort of housing on there, that it would not match the aesthetics of the neighborhood, and then there was just uh a strong community sediment that the Davis Elementary was the heart of the community, and so citizens really let us know kind of what was going on.

And you can see one of the things that we did is as part of this process is uh we had some poster boards out there with some examples.

We had the ability for people to write comments and and in various ways, and you can see one of the examples that we have here, and uh, I think there was a uh well somebody brought a uh one of their kids there, and you can see how they place it placed the dots on that specific uh poster board there.

Uh

so as far as Davis Elementary, overall desired use, you can see that uh those people about 85 percent of it wanted it to be a park, uh, and then we have other community uses.

So things like uh a dog park, things like a community garden, uh, were some of the things that that we we heard recenter, sports uh facility, senior center, some sort of public uh facility.

There was uh some but not a lot of sediment for that.

Uh

and then those people that uh that uh said something about housing.

If you can look at it basically, uh single family detached uh for those people, that would be uh generally what uh what people wanted, but you can see that 85 percent uh was just opposed to housing in general, so which was the this the general sediment through all six of these listening sessions,

and

then Armstrong Middle School.

So uh again we had three additional meetings there.

Uh Armstrong talking about uh Armstrong and uh and so 72 attendees across three meetings again, single family zone single family, and there was again that uh that uh just that opposition to anything but park land.

Um, you know, could there were there was there was some loss uh of uh use uh or there was some concern about loss of use of some of the amenities that we had there, and then just the fact that two schools on that side of town that that were closed within close proximity really hit that neighborhood hard, and so that was a lot of the the information, the input that we were getting.

So

desired use, you can see again uh 63, not quite as much as we saw at Davis, but 63 percent uh wanted either a park and uh 48 percent uh indicated uh other community use is is one of the things that they wanted, and then also uh as far as housing sediment goes, you can kind of see how that goes that uh there's strong opposition to uh to housing, less so for single family detached, more so for uh for kind of multifamily or duplexes or that sort of

thing.

And

then foreman, uh same sort of thing.

There was support for the fact that we're gonna move fire station number three there.

Uh community had a lot of support for that.

Uh, and because we don't know what that's gonna look like, one of the things that the community wanted us to do is reach out and uh uh if we need to do something with the remaining part part of that parcel after the fire station has been uh designed and built.

So and so with that, I think just probably overall it's fair to say that uh the general sediment of the community on on these properties was to keep it in some sort of park land.