Meeting Minutes

[Robert Owen]

The September 3rd draft meeting minutes are attached.

 

[Robert Owen]

The September 17th draft meeting minutes are attached.

 

[Robert Owen]

The September 17th draft meeting minutes are attached.

9/17/25 version 2 - corrected date in the footer.

 

[Robert Owen]

The 10/1/25 draft minutes are attached.

 

[Robert Owen]

The draft 10/15/25 minutes are attached.

• Follow Up: Councilor Prince requested Sec Owen post the final presentation and charter presented in July on the CRC discussion board for reference.
• Follow Up: Mr. Douglas to take the lead on public outreach using social media to solicit citizen input on the charter re-write.
• Follow Up: The committee requested Councilor Prince revisit the legality of the Stacked Rank Voting method of conducting elections with the City Attorney.

 

[Lynda Aird]

The draft 10/15/25 minutes are attached.

• Follow Up: Councilor Prince requested Sec Owen post the final presentation and charter presented in July on the CRC discussion board for reference.
• Follow Up: Mr. Douglas to take the lead on public outreach using social media to solicit citizen input on the charter re-write.
• Follow Up: The committee requested Councilor Prince revisit the legality of the Stacked Rank Voting method of conducting elections with the City Attorney.

At the Council meeting last night, Councilor Prince asked City Attorney Bullock about ranked choice voting - he responded that he had addressed this with CRC previously but he would review the matter and follow up with advice.

 

[Robert Owen]

The draft 11/5/25 minutes are attached.

• Follow Up from 10/15/25 : The committee requested Councilor Prince revisit the legality of the Stacked Rank Voting method of conducting elections with the City Attorney which he did at the 10/16 CC meeting. The CRC is still awaiting legal response.
• Follow Up: committee members should independently research how other charters create Boards of Ethics and wordsmith suggested language using the CRC discussion board.

 

[Robert Owen]

The draft 11/19 minutes are attached for review and feedback.

Follow ups:

• CP Ayrd to provide additional research on boards of ethics and commentary published by the Texas Government Accountability Board.
• Ms. Grunewald agreed to draft suggested language to replace LV 2.01 and 2.02 with Aubrey 2.01, and edit 2.03 Eminent Domain per language CP Ayrd will provide as found in the NCL appendix.
• Mr. Douglas agreed to draft a poll for social media regarding 2 year vs 3 year terms.
• Sec. Owen will add the topic for 3.02 to the Consolidated Notes grid.
• Sec. Owen will draft suggested new language for 3.06 and post to the discussion board.
• The committee may want to replace LV 3.07, 3.08, and 3.09 with an edited version of Aubrey 3.06. Sec. Owen will draft such language and post for review.
  

 

[Robert Owen]

The draft 12/8/25 minutes are attached for review and feedback.

Follow ups:

• Ms. Grunewald will revise and update her discussion board post for the Article II draft.
• The committee was asked to review and provide additional feedback on the discussion board on Sec. 3.06.
• The committee was asked to review and provide additional feedback on the discussion board on Sec. 3.07.
• Mr. Owen will post a draft of 3.13 to the discussion board.
• Mr. Harris will post a draft of 3.14 to the discussion board.