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TO THE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4TH, 2020 SPECIAL MEETING OF THE GARLAND CITY COUNCIL, WE'VE

[Special City Council on December 4, 2020.]

CALLED THIS SPECIAL MEETING TO CONSIDER APPOINTING ON AN INTERIM BASIS A PERSON TO FILL THE VACANCY ON THE CITY COUNCIL FOR DISTRICT ONE.

AUTHORIZING THE GIVING OF THE OATH OF OFFICE TO THE PERSON SO APPOINTED AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY ATTORNEY TO TAKE SUCH OTHER AND FURTHER ACTION AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY LAW TO LAWFULLY SEAT THE PERSON SO APPOINTED AS THE INTERIM REPRESENTATIVE FOR DISTRICT ONE OF THE CITY COUNCIL. ALL SUCH ACTIONS BEING CONTINGENT ON THE FULFILLMENT OF THE CONDITIONS PRECEDENT REQUIRED BY THE CITY CHARTER FOR MAKING FOR THE MAKING OF SUCH AN INTERIM APPOINTMENT. SO WHAT THAT SO ALL THOSE WORDS.

WE ARE HERE TO WE ARE HERE TO NOT TO SEEK NOMINATIONS AT OUR AT OUR WORK SESSION ON MONDAY NIGHT, WE INTERVIEWED 11 CANDIDATES.

AND SO WE ARE HERE THIS EVENING.

AND JUST REAL QUICKLY, IF I COULD ASK MR. NEIGHBOR TO GIVE US ANY UPDATES THAT HE HAS FOR US ON THIS SUBJECT.

YOUR MUTED BRAD.

CAN Y'ALL HEAR ME NOW? THERE YOU GO, SIR. OK, I CAN'T AVOID THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY I FEEL LIKE THE WARDEN WAITING FOR THE CALL FROM THE GOVERNOR AND WE'VE HAD NO CALL NOW.

I DID TALK TO OUR CONTACT ABOUT ONE O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON.

SHE WAS SURPRISED THAT WE HADN'T RECEIVED ANYTHING.

AND I REMINDED HER THAT AN EMAIL EVEN A TEXT WOULD BE FINE.

SHE WAS GOING TO CHECK ON THAT AND LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS SHE COULD.

BUT I JUST CHECKED ALL OF MY DEVICES HERE AND WE'VE RECEIVED NO WORD.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, MR. NEIGHBOR. I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE YOU HAVE APPLIED YOUR PERSISTENCE TO GETTING THIS ANSWER FOR US. AND HOPEFULLY, HOPEFULLY, HOPEFULLY IN THE LONG RUN, MAYBE VERY SOON, THEY'LL GET TIRED OF HEARING FROM YOU AND THEY'LL JUST THEY'LL JUST DO WHAT THEY NEED TO DO.

SO THANK YOU FOR THAT UPDATE.

ALL RIGHT, COUNCIL, AS FAR AS HOW WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS HERE IN THE YOU KNOW, JUST TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT IT WILL TAKE SIX VOTES TO TO CONFIRM ANY APPOINTMENT.

HERE IN THE FIRST ROUND, WE'LL CALL IT, I WILL ASK ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS TO MAKE THEIR APPOINTMENTS IF THERE'S ONE TWO THREE.

THAT WAY, EVERYBODY KIND OF KNOWS WHO'S IN THE WHO'S IN THE RUNNING, SO TO SPEAK.

AND THEN WE WILL VOTE ON THOSE, VOTE ON THOSE NOMINEES IN THE ORDER THEY ARE RECEIVED.

AND FOR THIS, I'M ONLY LOOKING FOR AFFIRMATIVE VOTES.

SO IF YOU ARE FOR NOMINATION NUMBER ONE.

YES. OR A THUMBS UP AND THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE SECOND AND HOWEVER MANY NOMINATIONS WE HAVE, SO. SO AT THIS POINT, I'LL OPEN THE FLOOR FOR NOMINATIONS.

COUNCIL LADY MORRIS, I'M SORRY.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. I'D LIKE TO NOMINATE DOROTHY BROOKS FOR THE POSITION AND I'LL HOLD MY COMMENTS UNTIL COUNCIL DISCUSSION.

THANK YOU. SORRY, I'M NOT USED TO NOT USED TO DOING THIS FROM HOME, SO I'M A LITTLE TECHNOLOGICALLY CHALLENGED HERE THIS EVENING.

COUNCIL MEMBER AUBIN.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. I WOULD LIKE TO NOMINATE MR. RICKY MCNEAL. OK, THANK YOU, SIR, AND COUNCIL MEMBER HEDRICK. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. I'D LIKE TO NOMINATE MR. JAMES VANDYKE. OK, THANK YOU SIR, AND COUNCIL MEMBER NICKERSON.

I WOULD LIKE TO NOMINATE JAMES VANDYKE.

OK, SO WE HAVE WE HAVE TWO NOMINATIONS FOR MR. VANDYKE. OK.

AND SO HERE, DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TEM VERA.

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I REPEAT, MCNEAL.

OK, WE ALREADY HAVE A NOMINATION FOR MR. MCNEAL. COUNCIL MEMBER WILLIAMS. THANKS, MR. MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO NOMINATE RICKY MCNEAL.

OK, SO WE HAVE THREE NOMINATIONS FOR MR. MCNEAL AND COUNCIL, JUST LIKE JUST A REMINDER THAT IT WILL TAKE SIX TO CONFIRM . IF AT THE END OF THE FIRST ROUND WE DO NOT HAVE SOMEONE WHO GETS SIX.

WE WILL TAKE THE TOP TWO AND MOVE TO A SECOND ROUND.

ALL RIGHT. SO FIRST UP WAS THE NOMINATION OF DOROTHY BROOKS BY COUNCIL LADY MORRIS.

THOSE. GO AHEAD, MA'AM, IF YOU HAD.

ARE WE GOING TO HAVE DISCUSSION, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO QUICKLY SHARE MY THOUGHTS BEHIND THAT NOMINATION, IF THAT'S THE WAY YOU'D LIKE TO DO IT.

WE CAN ANSWER.

OK, WE HAD A NUMBER OF EXCELLENT APPLICANTS AND I THINK WE'VE ALL ACKNOWLEDGED THAT.

AND GIVEN THE QUALITY OF APPLICANTS WE HAD, I AM PERSONALLY HOPING TO SEE SOME OF THESE PEOPLE ACTUALLY RUNNING FOR THE FULL OFFICE IN COMING YEARS.

SO THAT BEING SAID, BECAUSE I'M AN ENGINEER'S DAUGHTER AND WIFE, I WENT THROUGH THIS KIND OF ANALYTICALLY FROM THE TIME THAT WE WERE TAKING NOTES.

AND I BOIL THIS DOWN IN MY MIND TO THREE PRIORITIES, THREE TOP PRIORITIES FOR ME.

AND ONE WAS ENGAGEMENT WITH DISTRICT ONE AND FAMILIARITY WITH DISTRICT ONE PLANS AND ISSUES. AND A FAIR NUMBER OF OUR APPLICANTS DIDN'T SHOW ANY PARTICULAR FAMILIARITY WITH CURRENT ONGOING PLANS FOR THE DISTRICT.

BUT I DID NOTICE THAT THERE WERE THREE OF OUR APPLICANTS THAT SHOWED SOME FAMILIARITY.

AND ONE, OF COURSE, WAS FORMER COUNCIL MEMBER TIM CAMPBELL.

ANOTHER WAS JAMES VANDYKE, AND THE THIRD WAS DOROTHY BROOKS.

SO THAT WAS ONE OF MY FIRST CUTTING POINTS.

SECOND OF THE PRIORITIES THAT I FORMED IS A BACKGROUND IN WORKING WITH AND ANALYZING LARGE BUDGET SINCE WE'RE COMING UP ON CIP AND NORMALLY NEWLY ELECTED OFFICIALS GET A NUMBER OF MONTHS TO COME UP ON THIS AND THEY GET A LOT OF STAFF TIME AND WHOEVER WE SEAT, IF WE SEAT SOMEONE, IS NOT GOING TO HAVE THAT ADVANTAGE OF ALL THOSE MONTHS.

SO LOOKING AT THE APPLICANTS WHO HAD SOME BACKGROUND OR A LARGE BACKGROUND AND WORKING WITH AND ANALYZING BUDGETS, AGAIN, FORMER COUNCIL MEMBER TIM CAMPBELL, HAVING DONE THIS BEFORE, HAS THAT.

JAMES DOBBINS APPEARED TO AT LEAST HAVE SOME OF THAT.

AND DOROTHY BROOKS, AGAIN, HAS AN EXTENSIVE BACKGROUND IN ANALYZING BUDGETS.

SHE APPARENTLY HAS DONE THIS FOR YEARS.

AND MY THIRD POINT WAS A WILLINGNESS TO FINISH OUT DAVID GIBBONS TERM AND HONOR HIS DIRECTION AND GOALS RATHER THAN PUSHING FOR SOME NEW OR DIFFERENT AGENDA.

AND HERE'S MY THOUGHT.

DAVID GIBBONS JUST RECEIVED ALMOST 12000 VOTES IN DISTRICT ONE AFTER HIS RESIGNATION.

IN A VERY WELL-INFORMED DISTRICT, ALMOST 12000 DISTRICT ONE CONSTITUENTS EXPRESSED THEIR AFFIRMATION AND APPRECIATION OF HIS LEADERSHIP AND THE WAY HE'S DONE THIS.

AND THAT BEING THE CASE, LISTENING AGAIN TO ALL OF OUR APPLICANTS AND THEIR AGENDAS AND THOUGHTS, A QUITE A FEW OF THEM HAD THEIR OWN IDEAS AND AGENDAS, WHICH, AGAIN, WOULD BE VERY APPROPRIATE FOR AN ELECTED OFFICIAL.

BUT I FEEL IT'S IMPORTANT SINCE WE ARE WE DON'T HAVE THE ADVANTAGE OF HAVING THE VOTERS' VOICE ON THIS, THAT WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE VOTERS OF DISTRICT ONE LIKED WHAT DAVID GIBBONS DID AND THAT WE SHOULD TRY TO ADHERE TO THAT.

SO, AGAIN, LOOKING AT THE APPLICANTS, JAMES VANDYKE STATED THAT THIS IS A TEMPORARY POSITION, NOT MY AGENDA.

I WOULD WANT TO FOLLOW DAVID GIBBONS LEAD.

RICKY MCNEAL SAID THERE'S A GREAT TRAJECTORY TO CONTINUE IN ADDITION TO ADDING SOME THINGS HE WANTED TO ADDRESS.

AND DOROTHY BROOKS SAID, I'D LIKE TO CONTINUE THE WORK OF DAVID GIBBONS AND PREPARE THE WAY FOR THE NEXT ELECTED OFFICIAL.

SO THE ONLY THE ONLY APPLICANT THAT SHOWED UP IN ALL THREE OF MY QUESTIONS WAS DOROTHY

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BROOKS. AND THAT IS WHY I'M HAPPY TO NOMINATE HER TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION.

SO THANKS.

THANK YOU, MA'AM.

OK, SORRY, IS THERE ANY MORE DISCUSSION ON THE CURRENT NOMINEES? COUNCIL MEMBER HEDRICK, YOU WERE YOU HAD YOUR HAND UP AND THEN IT WAS DOWN, I'M HAVING A LITTLE BIT OF A DELAY HERE, SO I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT.

I APOLOGIZE MAYOR, YOU SAID THE CURRENT I ROSE THE HAND BEFORE YOU SAID CURRENT NOMINEE.

SO I HOLD MY COMMENTS TILL MY NOMINATION.

OK, ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, THE FIRST NOMINATION WAS FOR MS. BROOKS, THOSE IN FAVOR OF MS. BROOKS. SORRY, MAYOR PRO TEM SMITH, YOUR HAND IS UP, SIR.

YES, THANK YOU, MAYOR. I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR ALL THE COMMENTARY FROM THE VARIOUS COUNCIL MEMBERS BEFORE WE GET TO ANY SORT OF VOTING.

I THINK THAT'S. SO I'D VERY MUCH LIKE TO HEAR WHAT COUNCILMAN HEADRICK HAS TO SAY ABOUT HIS NOMINEE. I THINK THAT IS A VERY GOOD POINT, SIR.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

COUNCIL MEMBER HEDRICK. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR, LIKE COUNCIL LADY MORRIS I, TOO, HAD SEVERAL CRITERIA THAT I'D LIKE TO SEE IN ALL THE CANDIDATES AND THE THREE CRITERIA THAT SHE MENTIONED VERY NEARLY FOLLOWS WHAT I HAD.

AND IT ALSO DESCRIBES MY CANDIDATE, JAMES VANDYKE.

HE'S BEEN APPOINTED BY COUNCILMAN GIBBONS BEFORE FOR THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS.

HE CERTAINLY HAS A FINANCIAL BACKGROUND.

HE HAS AN MBA FROM SMU.

SO HE'S CERTAINLY FAMILIAR WITH THE FINANCIAL REPORTING PORTION OF IT.

AND LIKE SHE SAID, SHE QUOTED HIM DIRECTLY THAT HE WON'T BE COMING IN WITH HIS OWN AGENDA AND HIS JOB WILL BE TO LISTEN TO RESIDENTS AND SUPPORT WHAT IS BEING DONE BY THE COUNCIL ALREADY. AND I REALLY APPRECIATED ALL THAT.

AND WHAT MADE HIM STAND OUT ADDITIONALLY IS THAT HE SAT THROUGH ALL THE ANSWERS AND THE END OF THE NIGHT AND STILL HAD VERY THOUGHTFUL AND CONSIDERATE AND THOUGHTFUL, CONSIDERED ANSWERS THAT WERE REALLY SET HIM DIFFERENT APART FROM THE OTHERS, I BELIEVE, EVEN AT THE END OF THE LONG NIGHT.

HE I REALLY LIKE THE FACT THAT HE HAD BEEN ON A BOARD PREVIOUSLY, SO HE HAS AT LEAST SOME SIGNIFICANT FAMILIARITY WITH THE CITY AND THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS PROCESS.

I LIKE THE FACT THAT HE HAS CHILDREN IN GARLAND AND HE MOVED TO GARLAND JUST BECAUSE OF THE QUALITY OF THE SCHOOLS, THE QUALITY, THE CITY, AND THAT HE WAS VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE GROWTH IN THE CITY. SO FOR ME, HE WAS MY TOP CANDIDATE.

THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. VERY GOOD, SIR.

THANK YOU. ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THE NOMINEES, ANYBODY'S THOUGHTS ON WHY.

COUNCIL MEMBER AUBIN? THANK YOU, MAYOR.

I'LL JUST JUMP IN THEN WITH RESPECT TO MR. MCNEAL AND ACTUALLY, CANDIDLY COUNCIL, WE REALLY IT WAS WONDERFUL TO SEE A GREAT GROUP OF APPLICANTS. WE HAD QUITE A FEW WHO I THEY WERE ALL WELL QUALIFIED.

I FELT THEY ALL BROUGHT DIFFERENT THINGS TO THE TABLE.

I HOPE REGARDLESS OF WHO THE OF THE CURRENT NOMINATIONS, I DON'T THINK YOU COULD MAKE A WRONG CHOICE. I BUT I ECHO COUNCIL MEMBER MORRIS IN SAYING THAT I HOPE EVERYONE GETS INVOLVED AND FINDS THAT OPPORTUNITY TO FIND WAYS TO BE INVOLVED OR TO RUN FOR THE FULL SEAT OR WHATEVER IT IS THAT THEY CHOOSE TO DO.

IN PARTICULAR, I FELT THAT MR. MCNEAL PRESENTED A LOT OF THE QUALITIES THAT I THAT I LOOK FOR IN AN INTERIM POSITION.

THE MOST IMPORTANT BEING THAT THE FAMILIARITY WITH THE CITY AND WHAT WE'RE DOING AND HOW THINGS WORK, I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE MANY MORE PEOPLE IN THE CITY WHO ARE MORE INVOLVED THAN MR. MCNEAL, WHO'S FAMILIAR.

WE'VE ALL TALKED TO HIM.

HE'S INVOLVED WITH THE WITH HIS INVOLVEMENT, OF COURSE, WITH THE NAACP AND LEADING THE NAACP, WORKING WITH A LARGE GROUP OF FOLKS.

AND THE OTHER WORK THAT HE'S DONE, EVEN JUST SITTING EVEN JUST SITTING THROUGH ALL OF THE COUNCIL FORMS, YOU CAN CERTAINLY HEAR ALL OF THE ISSUES THAT GO ON THE VARIOUS CANDIDATE FORMS. AND SO I THINK AND THEN LISTENING TO HIS ANSWERS AND IN HIS UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE COUNCIL POSITION IS AND WHAT IT WILL REQUIRE OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, I THINK THAT MR. MCNEAL WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT CHOICE.

THAT'S ALL. THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

THANK YOU MAYOR. THANK YOU, SIR.

COUNCIL MEMBER NICKERSON.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. YOU KNOW, I TO THINK THAT ALL THE CANDIDATES WERE THOUGHTFUL AND HAD GOOD QUALITIES ABOUT ALL OF THEM AND REALLY ARE THANKFUL THAT WE HAVE SUCH PEOPLE IN OUR CITY THAT ARE WILLING TO VOLUNTEER FOR THIS KIND OF JOB OPPORTUNITY HERE.

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THAT'S ONLY SHORT TERM.

BUT AND I ALSO DID AN ANALYSIS OF THE OF EACH SPEAKER AND RANKED THEM ACCORDINGLY.

AND MR. VANDYKE AND DOROTHY BROOKS AND RICKY MCNEAL WERE THE TOP THREE IN MY RANKING.

SO I REALLY THINK ANY OF THEM WOULD WOULD BE WOULD DO A GOOD JOB HERE, THOSE THREE.

BUT I DID JUST FOCUS ON MR. VANDYKE FOR REALLY VERY MUCH THE SAME REASONS THAT COUNCIL MEMBER HEDRICK MENTIONED.

AND I DON'T WANT TO REPEAT THEM.

BUT IN ADDITION, I THINK HE ALSO HAD MENTIONED HE HAD SET ON A ROCKWALL ISD BOND COMMITTEE AT ONE TIME.

SO I THINK ALONG WITH HIS FINANCIAL BACKGROUND, HE HAS SOME EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH BOND PROGRAMS AS WELL.

AND SO REALLY WITH ALL OF THAT, I JUST I REALLY LIKED HOW HE CARRIED HIMSELF AND HIS EXCITEMENT ABOUT IT AND HAS MENTIONED HAVING HIS FAMILY AND HIS CHILDREN MOVING HERE.

AND I THINK IT'S.

IT CAME ACROSS TO ME AS SOMEONE VERY POSITIVE AND WILLING TO WILLING TO JUMP IN AND TAKE THE REINS THAT COUNCILMAN GIBBONS SO APTLY HELD AND CONTINUE DOWN THAT PATH THAT HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL OVER THERE FOR DISTRICT ONE.

AND SO WITH ALL OF THAT, THAT'S THE REASON I ENDED UP RANKING MR. VANDYKE NUMBER ONE FOR ME.

THANK YOU. VERY GOOD, SIR.

THANK YOU. AND COUNCIL MEMBER WILLIAMS. THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

I WISH THOSE ARE NOT THE RULES, I WISH YOU COULD SOMETIMES HAVE HAD TWO NOMINEES, BUT THOSE ARE NOT RULES THAT YOU SET OUT.

SO WE WON'T DO THAT.

BUT I WON'T REPEAT.

WHAT HAS BEEN SAID, I BELIEVE THAT DISTRICT ONE, WHOMEVER IS THE SELECTEE TONIGHT, IS A VERY GOOD SHAPE. I WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH THE ENTIRE POOL OF CANDIDATES, THE INTEREST, THE COMMITMENT, AND I WOULD BE PLEASED TO SERVE WITH ANY OF THESE FOLKS GOING FORWARD.

I JUST THINK THAT TO HAVE THIS MANY PEOPLE TO STEP UP AND SAY, CONSIDER ME FOR THIS, I THINK IT'S A REAL PLUS WITH IT.

WITH THAT SAID, OF COURSE, MY MR. MCNEAL WAS MY TOP CANDIDATE, YOU KNOW, CERTAINLY I [INAUDIBLE] MR. MCNEAL, MS. BROOKS, MR. VANDYKE. AND THERE WAS ANOTHER NAME THAT HAS NOT BEEN PLACED IN NOMINATION THAT I HAD IN MY TOP FOUR. BUT IF WE GET TO A SECOND ROUND, MR. MAYOR, I WILL OFFER THAT NAME.

BUT THE PRIMARY REASON THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THAT LEAPS OUT AT ME WITH RICKY MCNEAL IS HIS PROBLEM SOLVING AND THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE DO.

AND I WITNESSED THAT IN A NUMBER OF FORUMS, BOTH WITH CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND OTHER FORUMS UNDER PRESSURE.

SO THAT'S A KEY. BUT AGAIN, ANY OF THOSE TOP THREE CANDIDATES, I THINK, WILL BE WELL SERVED FOR OUR CITY.

SO THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR.

THANK YOU, SIR. AND I JUST WANT TO CORRECT FOR SOMEONE TO BE CONSIDERED IN THE SECOND ROUND, IF THERE IS ONE, THEY NEED TO BE NOMINATED IN THIS ROUND AND RECEIVE ENOUGH VOTES NECESSARILY TO MOVE ON.

SO IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE YOUR NOMINATION TO ANOTHER CANDIDATE HERE IN THE FIRST, THAT THAT'S FINE WITH ME.

BUT I WHEN WE WHEN WE MOVE, WE HAVE THESE WE HAVE THREE NOMINEES.

NOW, WHEN WE MOVE ON, IF WHEN AND IF WE MOVE ON TO A SECOND ROUND, IT WILL ONLY BE FROM THAT THREE GROUP FOR SOMEONE TO BE CONSIDERED.

OK, SO CAN I DO THAT NOW THEN? I WOULD ACCEPT THAT.

OK, THANK YOU. I'D LIKE TO PUT TIM CAMPBELL.

ON THE LIST. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT, COUNCIL, YOU'VE HEARD THE NOMINATIONS AND I AGREE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAD WE HAD A GREAT GROUP.

HONESTLY, I WAS THINKING THAT I WAS THINKING THAT WE MIGHT END UP WITH THREE, MAYBE FOUR

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APPLICANTS. AND WE ENDED UP WITH ULTIMATELY WE INTERVIEWED 11.

SO I THINK THEY ALL I THINK THEY ALL SHOWED GREAT INTEREST.

AND I HOPE THEY WILL CONTINUE TO SHOW INTEREST IN THE CITY.

SO ONTO WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR.

EXCUSE ME. WE WILL TAKE.

SO COUNCIL LADY MORRIS HAS NOMINATED DOROTHY BROOKS, THOSE IN FAVOR OF MS. BROOKS SIGNIFYING THE AFFIRMATIVE.

AND I SEE ONE.

COUNCIL LADY MORRIS.

TWO OUR SECOND NOMINEE, WHICH WAS COUNCIL MEMBER AUBIN AND COUNCIL MEMBER VERA WAS FOR MR . MCNEAL. THOSE IN FAVOR OF MR. MCNEILL'S SIGNIFY IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

I SEE YOU AND ONCE YOU HAVE VOTED, I'M SORRY, COUNCILOR LADY MORRIS, ONCE YOU HAVE VOTED ON, YOU'RE TRYING TO YOU'RE TRYING TO MAKE ME DO MORE MATH AND I'M QUALIFIED FOR.

MR. MCNEAL RECEIVES, IT LOOKS LIKE FOUR.

MAYOR PRO TEM SMITH, DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TEM VERA, COUNCIL MEMBER AUBIN AND THE MAYOR . OUR THIRD NOMINATION WAS FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HEDRICK AND NICKERSON FOR MR. VANDYKE. SO.

THOSE IN FAVOR OF MR. VANDYKE VOTE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND MR. VANDYKE HAS TWO AND THAT BEING COUNCIL MEMBER NICKERSON AND COUNCIL MEMBER HEDRICK.

AND THEN LASTLY, WE HAVE A NOMINATION FOR MR. CAMPBELL FROM COUNCILMAN WILLIAMS, AND I THINK THERE'S ONLY COUNCILMAN WILLIAMS, YOU'RE THE ONLY REMAINING VOTE.

ALL RIGHT, AND THAT IS SO HERE'S WHERE WE HAVE FOLKS, WE HAVE A MS. BROOKS WITH ONE, MR. MCNEAL WITH FOUR, MR. CAMPBELL WITH ONE, AND MR. VANDYKE WITH TWO.

SO AT THIS POINT, WE WILL MOVE FORWARD WITH THE SECOND ROUND AND THE NOMINEES THAT UNDER CONSIDERATION WILL BE MR. MCNEAL AND MR. VANDYKE AND.

SORRY. SO THOSE IN FAVOR OF MR. MCNEAL SIGNIFY IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

I SEE ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, BEING MAYOR, PRO TEM SMITH, COUNCIL MEMBER MORRIS, COUNCIL MEMBER WILLIAMS, DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TEM VERA, COUNCILMAN AUBIN AND THE MAYOR.

THAT WOULD PUT MR. MCNEAL AT SIX.

AND I WOULD ASSUME THE REMAINING TWO VOTES WOULD GO FOR MR. VANDYKE. COUNCILMAN HEDRICK.

COUNCILMAN NICKERSON.

ALL RIGHT, WELL, FOLKS, I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON, LET IT STAND THAT RICKY MCNEAL HAS RECEIVED SIX VOTES OF COUNCIL.

AND AS MR. NEIGHBORS STATED, WE ARE HE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK TO GET US THE AFFIRMATION FROM AUSTIN THAT WE NEED AND HOPEFULLY THAT WILL BE EARLY NEXT WEEK.

AND MY POINT TO STAFF IS, AS SOON AS WE GET THAT AFFIRMATIVE LETTER, MR. BRADFORD AND MR. NEIGHBOR, LET'S MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO GET MR. MCNEAL UP TO SPEED AND SWORN IN AND EQUIPMENT AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF THAT HE WILL NEED. COUNCIL MEMBER AUBIN? YOU HAD YOUR HAND UP, SIR.

COUNCIL MEMBER AUBIN.

[INAUDIBLE] YOU'RE FREEZING UP ON US A LITTLE BIT.

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[INAUDIBLE] COUNCILMAN AUBIN, WE ARE HAVING A TRY AGAIN.

WE'RE HAVING SOME WE'RE HAVING A SIGNIFICANT DELAY IN YOUR IN YOUR FEED.

NO, IT'S PROBABLY MY KIDS ALL WATCHING DISNEY CHANNEL OR SOMETHING.

YOU'RE GOOD NOW. [LAUGHTER] MY SUGGESTION WAS THAT ALTHOUGH WE CANNOT FORMALLY SEAT HIM AS A VOTING COUNCIL MEMBER THAT IN THE EVENT WE DON'T HEAR FROM THE GOVERNOR BY THE TIME OF OUR NEXT MEETING, I STILL WOULD LIKE MR. MCNEAL THE EXTENT POSSIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE WORK SESSION IN REGULAR MEETING AND START GETTING. OK, MR. NEIGHBOR, IS THAT IS THAT POSSIBLE FOR US? WELL, WE'LL GET HIM BRIEFED UP AND READY, AS WE SPOKE ABOUT BEFORE.

WE DON'T HAVE THE WORD FROM THE GOVERNOR.

HE'LL SIT AS AN EX OFFICIO.

IN OTHER WORDS, HIS VOTE WON'T COUNT, BUT HE MAY PARTICIPATE, DEBATE THAT SORT OF THING.

BUT WE'LL GET HIM BRIEFED UP AND READY TO GO BY THE 15TH.

ALL RIGHT, WELL, VERY GOOD.

THANK YOU, MR. NEIGHBOR. AND AGAIN, THANK YOU, COUNCIL, AND THANK YOU.

ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR APPLICANTS.

WE CERTAINLY APPRECIATE YOUR INTERVIEWS.

AND OBVIOUSLY FROM THE DISCUSSION HERE TONIGHT, SOME VERY THOUGHTFUL IT TRIGGERED SOME VERY THOUGHTFUL DELIBERATION WITH THE COUNCIL.

AND THAT IS THAT'S NEVER A BAD THING.

SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

AND THAT WAS THE ONLY THING ON OUR AGENDA FOR THIS EVENING.

SO AT FIVE TWENTY SEVEN, WE ARE ADJOURNED.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND, EVERYBODY.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.