[CALL TO ORDER]
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INADEQUATE THAT THE PLANO CITY COUNCIL IS RECONVENED IN OPEN SESSION THAT ALL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT.
COUNCIL MEMBER WILLIAMS IS ON ZOOM AND MAYOR PRO TEM PRINCE IS ABSENT.
WE'LL BEGIN TONIGHT'S REGULAR MEETING WITH THE INVOCATION LED BY REVEREND DR.
GAIL LANDIS FROM FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, PLANO AND THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND TEXAS PLEDGE LED BY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLLIN COUNTY PLANO.
WOULD YOU PLEASE RISE? LET US PRAY.
GRACIOUS GOD, WE PAUSE IN THE MIDST OF A BUSY DAY TO GIVE YOU THANKS.
WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR THOSE WHO ARE GATHERED HERE FOR THEIR PASSION FOR THE CITY THAT WE SHARE AND FOR THEIR DEEP DEVOTION TO ONE ANOTHER.
REMIND US THIS EVENING THAT UNDERNEATH THE MANY WORDS, IN BETWEEN THE MANY NUMBERS AND TANGLED UP IN DIFFERENCES OF OPINION, THERE IS ALWAYS STILL THE DEEP DESIRE SHARED BY ALL TO WORK FOR THE COMMON GOOD THAT WE MIGHT SHOW IN EVERYTHING WE SAY AND DO OUR LOVE FOR OUR CITY AND OUR LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER.
GRANT, EACH PERSON GRACE HERE THIS EVENING TO SEE IN ONE ANOTHER THAT GREAT PASSION, AMEN TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS.
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVIDUAL WILL FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO BE TEXAS.
ONE CHAIR UNDER WITHOUT ONE INDIVIDUAL.
YOU HAVE WHATEVER COLOR YOU WANT AS LONG AS IT'S RED OR BLUE.
EVERYBODY GET ONE HERE? ALRIGHT, NOW WE GOTTA TAKE A PICTURE.
DO YOU WANT THE RED? OKAY, EVERYBODY GOOD? COME HERE.
ALL RIGHT, CAN EVERYBODY, CAN WE SEE EVERYBODY? YES.
THANK YOU GUYS FOR DOING THAT.
[COMMENTS OF PUBLIC INTEREST]
OKAY.COMMENTS OF PUBLIC INTEREST, COMMENTS OF PUBLIC INTEREST.
THIS PORTION OF THE MEETING IS TO ALLOW UP TO THREE MINUTES PER SPEAKER WITH 30 TOTAL MINUTES ON ITEMS OF INTEREST OR CONCERN AND NOT ON ITEMS THAT ARE ON THE CURRENT AGENDA.
THE COUNCIL MAY NOT DISCUSS THESE ITEMS, BUT MAY RESPOND WITH FACTUAL OR POLICY INFORMATION.
THE COUNCIL MAY CHOOSE TO PLACE THE ITEM ON A FUTURE AGENDA.
AND JUST AS A REMINDER, WHEN YOU COME UP TO THE PODIUM, PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH OR YELL INTO THE MICROPHONE.
UH, WE HAVE THREE SPEAKERS THIS EVENING.
UH, THANK YOU'ALL FOR LETTING ME BE HERE AND FOR YOUR SERVICE.
UM, I'VE BEEN A RESIDENT OF PLANOS SINCE THE MID EIGHTIES, AND IT SEEMS TO ME FROM A COUPLE OF EXPERIENCES
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I'LL SHARE WITH YOU FOLKS THAT THERE MIGHT BE A NEED YOU GUYS, UH, MIGHT BE SEEING OR MIGHT BE OVERLOOKING.SO, UM, AS I DRIVE AROUND THE CITY, AS YOU GUYS MAY EXPERIENCE, SOMETIMES I COME ACROSS A CORNER, WHETHER THERE'S SOMEBODY STANDING ASKING FOR MONEY AS A SIGN UP, SOME OF THOSE FOLKS SAY THEY'RE HOMELESS.
EXAMPLE TWO, I RIDE MY BIKE MOST DAYS ON THE PLANO TRAIL SYSTEM, AND THERE'S A COUPLE OF GENTLEMEN I SEE THAT SEEM TO BE HOMELESS.
THERE'S ONE I'VE SEEN FOR ABOUT A YEAR NOW THAT'S EXAMPLE TWO.
I VOLUNTEER FOR AN ORGANIZATION IN CENTRAL PLANO THAT HELPS THE POOR AND THE UNDERPRIVILEGED IN THE ZIP CODE OF 7 5 0 2 3, WE INJECT ABOUT $200,000 A YEAR INTO THAT ZIP CODE.
AND THE ASK OF US IS EVEN LARGER THAN THAT.
SO A LOT OF TIMES THEY'LL COME AND ASK US FOR MONEY, BUT WE CAN ONLY GIVE PART OF IT.
AND THEN WE HAVE TO HAVE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS HELP OUT OR THEY HAVE TO HAVE THEIR FAMILIES HELP OUT.
AND IN THE CONVERSATIONS WITH THOSE FOLKS, I, I GENERALLY TAKE, TAKE CALLS ON THURSDAYS AND IT'S VERY COMMON, VERY FREQUENT THAT ON, YOU KNOW, MY CALL DAY, THERE'S GOING TO BE AT LEAST ONE PERSON CALLING FROM A HOTEL WHO'S HOMELESS.
THEY TEND TO BE ALONG 75 BETWEEN PARKER AND SPRING CREEK, BASICALLY.
UM, BUT THOSE FOLKS ARE IN NEED OF MONEY BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A PLACE TO GO.
THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO STAY WHERE THEY'RE AT.
THEY DON'T WANNA BE IN THEIR CAR.
SO, UM, THAT'S THE THIRD EXAMPLE OF, OF WHAT I HAVE.
SO IT SEEMS TO ME THERE'S, THERE'S KIND OF A NEED IN PLANO TO, TO HELP THE HOMELESS THAT WE'RE NOT DOING.
WE HAVE WOMEN'S SHELTERS, WE HAVE KID SHELTERS, WE HAVE WARMING STATIONS.
WHEN IT GETS COLD, I THINK COOLING STATIONS WHEN IT GETS WARM.
I KNOW MCKINNEY HAS THE SAMARITAN IN, BUT WE DON'T REALLY HAVE A GENERAL PLACE THAT THAT FOLKS CAN GO THAT ARE IN NEED.
UM, I TALKED TO THE, THE HOUSING COMMUNITY SERVICES MANAGER HERE, AND SHE THINKS THERE WAS A NEED FOR ABOUT, EH, COVERING 75 PEOPLE.
THAT WAS JUST, YOU KNOW, OUT OF, OUT OF CONTEXT CONVERSATION.
UM, UH, I'M QUITE WELL AWARE THAT THERE'S A VERY 22ND FOREST, UH, BORDER AND THERE ARE MAYORS OF BIG MAJOR METROPOLITAN CITIES THAT ARE SANCTUARY CITIES AND THEY'RE LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD ENOUGH.
SO I REALIZED THAT PLANO DOESN'T WANT TO BECOME A DESTINATION FOR FOLKS THAT DON'T LIVE HERE.
AND WE DON'T WANT IT TO BE A DESTINATION FOR EVEN PEOPLE IN THE METROPLEX TO GO, HEY, WE WANT TO GO TO PLANO.
BUT I THINK THERE'S A NEED IN PLANO FOR, FOR FOLKS THAT ARE IN NEED OF A PLACE TO GO.
AND THAT'S MY REQUEST THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD CONSIDER PERHAPS, UH, SOME FUNDING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON AND IF IT, IF IT MAKES SENSE AND IF THERE'S A NEED WE CAN FULFILL, LET'S DO IT.
OVERALL, SHARON OVERALL SECONDHAND SMOKE AND THE DAMAGE TO CHILDREN'S GENETIC MARKERS.
A STUDY DONE AT THE VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY IS THE FIRST EVIDENCE THAT SECONDHAND SMOKE DREAM PREGNANCY CORRELATES WITH CHANGES IN DISEASE RELATED GENE REGULATION IN BABIES.
THESE FINDINGS SUPPORT THE IDEA THAT MANY ADULT DISEASES HAVE THEIR ORIGINS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE SUCH AS STRESS, POOR NUTRITION, POLLUTION, OR TOBACCO SMOKE.
DURING EARLY DEVELOPMENT, NEARLY A QUARTER PREGNANT WOMEN REPORT BEING EXPOSED TO SECONDHAND SMOKE, WHICH ACCORDING TO NEW RESEARCH, IS LINKED TO EPIGENETIC CHANGES, MEANING CHANGES TO HOW GENES REGULATE RATHER THAN CHANGES TO GENETIC CODE ITSELF.
IN THESE BABIES THAT COULD RAISE THE RISK OF DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS AND CANCER, THEY RECOMMEND TO MOTHERS IN GENERAL THAT NO LEVEL OF CIGARETTE OF SECONDHAND SMOKE EXPOSURE IS SAFE.
EVEN LOW LEVELS OF SECONDHAND SMOKE EXPOSURE AFFECT EPIGENETIC MARKS IN DISEASE RELATED PATHWAYS.
THEY USE PART OF THE NEWBORN EPIGENETIC STUDY NEST OF INFANT UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD RESULTS SUGGEST THAT EVEN LOW LEVELS OF SECONDHAND SMOKE EXPOSURE DURING PREGNANCY, WHICH LIKELY REPRESENTS EXPOSURE TO OTHER FAMILY AND OR COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO SMOKE IN THE WOMEN'S
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ENVIRONMENTS IS RELATED TO ALTERATIONS.IN D N A METHYLATION OF UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD, THE SECONDHAND EXPOSURE WAS MEASURED VIA CODINE IN MATERNAL PLASMA AMONG A SAMPLE OF NON-SMOKING WOMEN.
A NUMBER OF THESE C P G SITES WERE FOUND WITHIN GENES IMPLICATED IN NEUROLOGICAL SIGNALING, METABOLIC PATHWAYS, AND CANCER PATHWAYS.
WHEN COTININE LEVELS WERE HIGHER, THE NEWBORNS WERE MORE LIKELY TO HAVE EPIGENETIC MARKS ON GENES THAT CONTROL THE DEVELOPMENT OF BRAIN FUNCTION AS WELL AS AS GENES RELATED TO DIABETES AND CANCER.
TO SOLIDIFY THE RESULTS, THEY TOOK ANOTHER SAMPLE OF NON-SMOKING WOMEN AND FOUND THE CHANGES TO TWO OF THE SAME DISEASE RELATED EPIGENETIC REGIONS THAT REGULATE INFLAMMATION AND DIABETES, AND ANOTHER THAT REGULATES CARDIOVASCULAR AND NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTIONS, WHICH ARE CORRELATED WITH COTININE LEVELS.
IN THE MOTHERS RECAP, COTININE CAN BE FOUND IN THE BLOOD OF PREGNANT WOMEN WITH EVEN BRIEF EXPOSURE TO SECONDHAND SMOKE.
TWO, THERE WAS A DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN THE AMOUNT OF COTININE LEVELS IN THE MOTHERS AND EPIGENETIC MARKS ON GENES AND THE UMBILICAL CORD.
THE CITY OF PLANO NEEDS TO DO MORE TO PROTECT ITS CITIZENS FROM SECONDHAND SMOKE.
[CONSENT AGENDA]
CONSENT AGENDA, PLEASE MAKE MARK MAYOR PRO TEM ON ZOOM.THE CONSENT AGENDA WILL BE ACTED UPON IN ONE MOTION, AND T CONTAINS ITEMS WHICH ARE ROUTINE AND TYPICALLY NON-CONTROVERSIAL.
ITEMS MAY BE REMOVED FROM THIS AGENDA FOR INDIVIDUAL DISCUSSION BY A COUNCIL MEMBER OF THE CITY MANAGER OR ANY CITIZEN PRESIDING OFFICER WILL ESTABLISH TIME LIMITS BASED UPON THE NUMBER OF SPEAKER REQUESTS.
MR. MAYOR I MOVE, WE APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED.
I HAVE A MOTION, A SECOND TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA, PLEASE VOTE YES.