2026-09-28 - City Council

Summary

Based on the council's posted live captions, which are heavily garbled with dropped letters; names, addresses and figures were left out where they could not be confirmed.

The council met in open session after an executive session to consult with its attorney and discuss a personnel matter. A pastor gave the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance and the Texas pledge followed.
Presentations: the Sons of the American Revolution recognized several city first responders and public safety staff with commendations, medals and lifesaving awards across the police, fire and emergency medical services and the public safety communications unit. Mayor Muns proclaimed National Night Out for Tuesday, October 6, and National Hispanic Heritage Month, September 15 to October 15, noting that Hispanic and Latino residents make up about 16 percent of the community.
Consent agenda: approved in a single motion, with one item pulled by a council member. The pulled item was an expenditure of $270,487 with Walter P Moore and Associates for engineering services for erosion control improvements at various locations. Staff said the city's stream bank erosion assessment was done over about three years by a consultant, scoring each erosion site, structure and lake system for risk and criticality on a scale to 100; the highest scores go to sites where homes, businesses or public infrastructure such as sewer or water lines are threatened. The current contract studies mitigation options before any construction contract, and staff said sites are reassessed when conditions change. The item then passed. See Erosion Control Improvements Engineering Services.
Individual items: the council approved a resolution designating an 842-square-foot city-owned strip on an avenue between 14th and 15th streets as public right of way, so the sidewalk can be widened to the width called for in the downtown thoroughfare plan; the city acquired the land with land bank funds used by the police department for storage. It also approved, with a single recorded vote, an ordinance finding public necessity to acquire sidewalk easements from two properties along the same stretch for paving and water improvements, and authorizing the initiation of eminent domain proceedings if negotiations fail. Staff said the city first seeks to buy such property voluntarily at fair market value. The ordinance passed on a verbal roll call, with every member answering yes. See 14th To 15th Street Sidewalk Easement Acquisition.
When the council reconvened after the executive session, it made board and commission appointments, each approved by voice vote: Board of Adjustment members, alternates and chair; Building Standards Commission; Heritage Commission chair; Planning and Zoning Commission member and chair; Animal Shelter Advisory Committee chair; Community Relations Commission; Cultural Arts Commission; Library Advisory Board; Parks and Recreation Planning Board; Plano Housing Authority chair and member; Retirement Security Plan Committee chair; Senior Advisory Board; and the chairs of Tax Increment Reinvestment Zones Numbers Two, Three and Five. Appointees are not listed here because the captions garble the names.
Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone Number Four: the council kept the existing members and deferred appointing its members and chair until the next meeting, by a motion to table that passed.
No items were raised for future agendas and the meeting adjourned.