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2026-10-27 - City Council Special Meeting (executive session and work session)

Summary

Built from the posted agenda and the video listing only; no minutes are posted and no transcript has been processed.

  • Executive session (Texas Government Code Chapter 551) covered legal advice on the Open Meetings Act, a lease of city-owned property at 1200 Ballpark Way, possible acquisition of real property for city facilities and for affordable housing, performance reviews of Council appointees, and incentive offers to business prospects.
  • Work session items: International Property Maintenance Code, Data Center Ordinance Options (Data Center Regulation) and a Transportation Services Update.
  • Issues session: citywide art projects update, Finance and Audit Committee (FY26 audit kickoff), Community and Neighborhood Development Committee (attorney consultation, Single-Family Shared Rental Property update, multi-family recycling), board and commission appointments, Texas Municipal League Region 8 Director election, a resolution of support for Ya'akub Ira Vijandre, City/TxDOT project issues, council external committee reports and future agenda items.
  • The video listing shows a running time of about 4 hours 45 minutes.
  • Motions and votes: not found; no minutes are posted and a work session is discussion only.

Agenda

Executive session (12:00 PM) and work session (from 2:00 PM, or on adjournment of the executive session). See the summary above for the items on each part.

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