[CALL TO ORDER]
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CALLING CITY COUNCIL TO ORDER, 8:30 A.M., I'M ABOUT TO INVOCATION ON TODAY, AND THE MAYOR WILL LEAD US IN THE PLEDGES, LET'S' PRAY, WE'RE SO THANKFUL FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE GIVEN US AND THE MANY WAYS YOU HAVE BLESSED US AND AS WE ENTER THIS WEEK OF THANKSGIVING WE ARE VERY MINDFUL AND APPRECIATE OFIVE EVERYTHING THAT HAS OCCURRED IN OUR CITY AND OUR PRAYER AND OUR HOPE IS THAT WE USE THIS WEEK AS REFLECTIVE WEEK TO HAVE APPRECIATION FOR HOW YOU HAVE BLESSED US AND HOW YOU PROVIDED FOR THIS COMMUNITY. WE ASK YOU TO LEAD AND GUIDE US AS OUR CONVERSATION TODAY ON THIS BRIEF BUT IMPORTANT MEETING, GATHERING OF THE ABILENE CITY COUNCIL, THAT WE DO THINGS TO GLORIFY YOU, YOUR SON AND YOUR NAME.
THIS WEEK IS IN YOUR NAME, YOUR SON'S NAME, A MANY I PLEDGE A LEG ANS 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 I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE NEW TEXAS, ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE AND
INDIVISIBLE. >> FOLKS, WE ARE GOING TO TO A
[EXECUTIVE SESSION]
BRIEF EXECUTIVE SESSION MEETING SO IT IS NOW 8:31.AND EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT TO THE OPENING MEETING ALGT SECTION 5512.071,-- SECTION 551.072, ABOUT REAL PROPERTY, SECTION 551.07. BY GIFTS AND DONATIONS, SECTION 551.074, PERSONNEL MATTERS, SECTION 551.076, ABOUT DEVICES AND SECTIONS IT NOW 8:48 A.M.
AND WE CONVENE TO OPEN SESSION, NO VOTES WERE TAKEN IN EXECUTIVE
[PUBLIC COMMENTS]
SESSION. WE WILL NOW MOVE TO THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. THIS WILL BE THE OPPORTUNITY TODAY TO MAKE ANY KIND OF PUBLIC COMMENT BOTH ON ANY ISSUES WITHIN THE CITY AND OR AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON ONE OF THE AGENDA ITEMS. THERE WILL BE NO VOTES OR ANY FORMAL ACTIONING TAKEN ON PUBLIC COMMENT.THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD WOULD ONLY ALLOW MEMBERS TO PRESENT IDEAS AND INFORMATION TO CITY OFFICIALS AND STAFF.
LIES COME FORWARD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND CITY YOU RESIDE IN FOR THE RECORD. DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENT CARDS.
>> AND WE'LL HAVE A THREE MINUTE LIMIT ON THIS MORNING.
>> GOOD MORNING, FOR RECORD, IN OLD TOWN WEST, TODAY WE'RE HERE CUZ WE'RE FREE TO VOTE AND CANVAS AN ELECTION ON OUR OWN NOT SO LONG AGO JUST A FEW GENERATIONS AGO WE CAME TOGETHER AS AMERICANS TO FIGHT FASCISM. LITTLE DID THEY KNOW THE ACCESS POWERS KNOW THAT WE HAD A SECRET, THIS IS THE SHOW AND TELL PART IF YOU EVER WAS IN SCHOOL.
WE HAD THIS PRODUCT THAT HELPED WIN WORLD WAR II.
YES, IT'S SPAM. BELIEVE IT OR NOT BEFORE THE U.S. GOT INVOLVED, DURING THE WAR, THE BRITS WERE UNDER SEIGE BY HITLER. WE SENT TONS AND TONS OF SPAM TO THE BRITISH AISLES TO FEED THE PEOPLE BEFORE WE GOT INVOLVED.
AFTER WE GOT INVOLVED, THE GIS AND THE EUROPEAN THEATER LATER NORTH AFRICA AND THE PACIFIC ALL ENJOYED THIS PRODUCT BECAUSE IT HELPED WIN THE WAR. MY FRIEND, 19 YEARS OLD, HE WAS DRAFTED, ARMY AIR CORPS. THEY WENT AFTER BASIC TRAINING TO PICK UP THEIR AIRCRAFT AT GLEN MARTIN IN GEORGIA.
SEVEN NEW B-26 AIRCRAFT, THEY HAD TO FLY THEM TO ENGLAND, OF COURSE. IT WAS IN NOVEMBER THIS TIME ABOUT THIS TIME. THEY FLEW THE SOUTHERN ROUTE,
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THEY FLEW FROM FLORIDA, BAHAMAS, OVER TO SOUTH AMERICA, ACROSS TO AFRICA AND THEN WHEN THEY WERE LEAVING AFRICA ONE AIRCRAFT CRASHED AND MY OLD FRIEND WROTE IN HIS JOURNAL AND SAID AIRCRAFT CRASH, KILLED CREW ON TAKEOFF. WE PARKED OUR PLANE AND DRANK BEER THE REST OF THE DAY. ANYWAY, THEY GOT TO ENGLAND, FIRST DIOR TWO AND HE WENT INTO THE MESS HALL AND THERE WAS A WHOLE BUNCH OF CHICKEN FRIED STEAKS OUT AND HE SAID BOY, THIS IS JUST LIKE HOME, JACK COUNTY. THEY GOT CHICKEN FRIED STEAK, WELL, IT TURNS OUT IT WAS SPAM MADE IT LOOKED LIKE CHICKEN FRIED STEAKS. SO LIKE I SAID, IF YOU HAVE GOT AT LEAST ONE CAN OF THIS IN YOUR PANTRY DURING THESE HOLIDAYS COMING UP, YOU WILL NEVER GO HUNGRY.AND I WANT TO SAY IF YOU ARE ENJOYING THE HOLIDAY IT IS BECAUSE THERE IS A U.S. SERVICE MEMBER SOMEWHERE OVERSEAS AWAY FROM THEIR FAMILIES RIGHT NOW, SO YOU CAN HAVE YOUR HOLIDAY AND YOUR BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING BECAUSE WE HAVE FREEDOM LIKE WE HAVE FREEDOM TO VOTE AND EXPRESS OURSELVE.
WE MAY NOT BE A COUNTRY BUT IN ITS WHOLE WE ARE AMERICANS
TOGETHER. >> DAVID, I WANT YOU TO KNOW I JUST BOUGHT SOME SPAM FIGUREY PUDDING SPAM.
I WILL TELL YOU, I WILL LET YOU KNOW HOW IT TASTES.
>> I SAW THAT. >> I CAN PROBABLY TELL YOU HOW
THAT'S GOING TO TASTE. >> IT DOESN'T TAKE A LOT OF
IMAGINATION. >> I AM NO EXPERT BUT.
>> NEXT PERSON OR COMMENTS ABOUT SPAM?
>> SEEING NO ONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD.
[2. Resolution: Receive a Report, Hold a Discussion, and Take Action on Canvassing the Returns and Declaring the Results of the Sanctuary City for the Unborn Ordinance Special Election and the Charter Amendment Special Election Held in the City of Abilene on November 8, 2022]
WE'LL NOW MOVE TO ITEM NUMBER 2 AND I WILL ASK THE SECRETARY TOPRESENT THIS ITEM. >> GOOD MORNING MAYOR AND COUNCIL. WE ARE HERE TODAY TO CANVAS THE ELECTION FROM NOVEMBER 7TH, 2022.
WE HAVE TWO ITEMS BEFORE YOU TODAY SO WE WILL START WITH THE FIRST ONE. THE FIRST ONE WAS CALLED BY RESOLUTION 130, 2022 FOR ITS SANCTION AREA CITY FOR UNBORN ORDINANCE AND CHARTER NUMBER 4422 SO THERE WERE 27 VOTE CENTERS IN TAYLOR COUNTY AND ONE IN JONES COUNTY.
AND WE HAVE THE ELECTION RESULTS ON THE NEXT SLIDE HERE.
SO FOR PROPOSITION B, SAFNG WEAR-- SANCTUARY CITY FOR UNBORN, THAT PASSED. PROPOSITION C THROUGH H ARE THE CHARTER AMENDMENTS, C WAS CHANGING THE GINGER LANGUAGE AND THAT PASSED. D IS REPLACING COUNCILMEN AND COUNCIL MAN WITH COUNCIL MEMBERS.
AND THAT PASSED. PROPOSITION H WAS THE PARK BOARD RESPONSIBILITIES AND THAT ONE ACTUALLY FAILED.
PROPOSITION F WAS THE PARKS DIRECTOR AND THAT ONE PASSED.
PROPOSITION G WAS THE PLANNING AND ZONING DUTIES AND THAT PASSED. AND PROPOSITION H IS THE CIVIL SERVICE POLITICAL ACTIVITY AND THAT ONE PASSED AS WELL.
SO ALL OF THEM BUT PROPOSITION E PASSED.
I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
>> THANK YOU. QUESTIONS, SHAWNA, PRIOR TO THE
VOTE. >> I WILL TAKE A MOTION FOR
SECONDS FROM THE COUNCIL. >> SO MOVED.
>> WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER MCALYSTER.
>> A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER PRICE AND ANY DISCUSSION?
WE'RE READY TO VOTE. >> PROTEM MCALYSTER.
>> YES. >> COUNCIL MEMBER PRICE.
>> YES. >> COUNCIL MEMBER BEARD.
>> YES. >> COUNCIL MEMBER ABIS.
[3. Resolution: Receive a Report, Hold a Discussion, and Take Action on Canvassing the Returns and Declaring the Results of Bond Election Held in the City of Abilene on November 8, 2022]
>> YES. >> AND MAYOR WILLIAMS.
>> YES W NOW TO ITEM NUMBER 3, PRESENT THIS ITEM.
>> FOR OUR LAST ITEM WE ARE CANVASSING THE BOND ELECTION IT WAS CALLED ON AUGUST 11TH WITH RESOLUTION 141-2022 FOR FIRE STATION NUMBER NINE. AGAIN THE SAME VOTE CENTERS AS BEFORE. AND THIS ELECTION PASSED.
THAT IS IT. >> HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
>> YOU DID WELL TODAY. >> THANK YOU.
>> DOESN'T SHE HAVE A GOOD LOOKING BLAZER ON TODAY.
>> YES. >> I GOT IN TROUBLE FOR MY
SWEARS, SHE GETS PRAISE FOR HER. >> DOES COUNCIL HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? A MOTION AND SECOND.
>> I MOVE TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION BY CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ABILENE TEXAS CANVASSING RETURNS AN DECLARING RESULTS OF BOND ELECTION AND CONTAINING PROVISIONS FES AND INCIDENTAL THERETO AND I CAME UP WITH THAT OFF THE TOP OF MY
>> WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER BEARD AND SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER PRICE. ANY DISCUSSION? MADAME SECRETARY WE'RE READY TO VOTE.
>> COUNCIL MEMBER BEARD. >> YES.
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>> YES. >> AND MAYOR WILLIAMS.
IT IS 8:56 A.M. AND THIS MEETING OF YOUR ABILENE CITY COUNCIL IS ADJOURNED.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.