I

now declare that the Plano City Council is reconvened into open session, that all council members are present.

We'll begin tonight's regular meeting with the invocation led by Pastor Ashish Matthew, Commission Church, and the Pledge of Allegiance and the Texas Pledge led by BSA Troop 747.

Would you please rise

ladies and gentlemen?

I would like to invite you to join me as we uh pray for the city of Plano today.

Our Heavenly Father, we come before you with hearts filled with gratitude, with praise.

We thank you for being a God of love who is with us now in this very room.

Thank you for creating each and every person in this room and every citizen in our city and your image and your likeness with inherent dignity and immeasurable worth.

Thank you that Jesus rose from the dead and now reigns as king over heaven and earth and over the city of Plano.

I

pray that our city would be known as a city of righteousness.

I thank you, Lord, because we are we're called as a city of excellence, and I pray that we will be a place of hope and peace, where families flourish, where strangers are welcome, where the orphan and the widow and the needy are cared for with compassion.

May we be known as a city that stands for justice and defending the innocent from harm, and above all, a city that boldly declares that Jesus is Lord.

I

thank you tonight for these exceptional servants, our mayor, our city managers, staff, and our council members.

I

give thanks for the way of service that they have chosen to take up on behalf of all of us over here.

We all come to this room tonight as complex human beings.

We carry burdens, joy and hope, and different other things that we're going through in our lives, but we trust that you alone can hold us together.

There

are many here that are looking to voice their pains and concerns to these elected servants.

But more than our fears and our wounds and even our accomplishments, I pray that we will lean on your everlasting arms tonight.

Lord, I'm reminded of Apostle Paul's words writing to the Christians in Rome and telling them that those in authority are first and foremost your servants, O Lord, that honoring you and doing your will is the highest purpose,

and

that any portion of power that they have is given by you and can be taken away.

And so we pray that you would be glorified tonight through the decisions of this city council.

We pray that your kingdom will come in plano.

We pray for wisdom, for strength, for courage to do what is right and good for all the citizens of this beautiful city.

It's my prayer today that our city will be a shining example of a community that loves one another.

In the middle of all the hate and divisiveness that runs rampant in our in our time, in our community, in our society, I pray for peace, unity, and revival in our city and our state and our nation.

Help us to turn from our evil ways and experience healing.

Lord, I pray for our staff again.

We pray for our first responders and all who work hard to play to call to make this place that we call home such a wonderful city.

I pray this prayer in the powerful name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Amen.

And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and

justice for all.

I pledge allegiance to thee.

Texas one state under God, one indivisible.

Thank you.

Please.

I'd love that.

All right.

Come here.

All right.

Here we are.

You come here right here.

I don't know.

Are we good?

Thanks, guys.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate you doing this.

Thanks.

Okay, we're gonna go back to our item that we had one item left on BOM.

So I'd like to uh invite Abby Owens to come on down regarding North Texas uh municipal water district.

I'm short.

Good morning or good afternoon, evening.

I've been here a little bit waiting.

Um just wanted to go through very quickly.