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I NOW DECLARE THAT THE PLANO CITY COUNCIL IS CONVENED IN OPEN SESSION, THAT ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT.

[PRELIMINARY OPEN MEETING]

THE COUNCIL WILL NOW RECESS INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION IN TRAINING ROOM A TO HOLD A CLOSED EXECUTIVE MEETING PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF VERNON'S TEXAS CODE ANNOTATED GOVERNMENT CODE, CHAPTER 551. THE OPEN MEETINGS ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AUTHORITY CONTAINED IN SECTION 551.071, TO CONSULT WITH THE ATTORNEY AND RECEIVE LEGAL ADVICE AND DISCUSS LITIGATION.

AND SECTION 551.087 TO DISCUSS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MATTERS.

THANK YOU.

I NOW DECLARE THAT THE PLANO CITY COUNCIL PRELIMINARY OPEN MEETING IS RECONVENED INTO OPEN SESSION, THAT ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE PRESENT. OUR FIRST ITEM ON THE PRELIMINARY AGENDA IS CONSIDERATION AND ACTION RESULTING FROM THE EXECUTIVE SESSION.

OUR NEXT ITEM IS PISD CLOSED CAMPUSES INFORMATION SESSIONS PRESENTED BY CURTIS HOWARD.

THE PISD CAMPUSES THAT WERE CLOSED. AND THE CITY IS IN THE PROCESS OF PURCHASING.

SO JUST KIND OF SOME HIGHLIGHTS ON THIS ISSUE.

FIRST OF ALL, THE CITY OF PLANO, AS YOU WELL KNOW, IS STILL IN THE PROCESS OF PURCHASING THE PROPERTIES.

WE HAVE NOT DONE SO YET. AND WE'RE GOING THROUGH THAT PROCESS.

AND WHAT WE STARTED OFF DOING IN SEPTEMBER THROUGH OCTOBER WAS AN INITIAL OUTREACH.

WHAT WE WERE LOOKING AT DOING IS TRYING TO GATHER COMMUNITY INPUT, ESPECIALLY FROM THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS, THOSE PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE AFFECTED BY THESE PROPERTIES.

GET COMMUNITY INPUT, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'VE DONE.

AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT HERE TONIGHT.

OVERALL, THERE HAVE NOT BEEN ANY DECISIONS MADE ON WHAT THESE PROPERTIES OR WHAT'S GOING TO BE DONE WITH THESE PROPERTIES, THAT WILL BE UP TO COUNCIL.

AND THEN THE COMMUNITY, OF COURSE, CAN STILL PROVIDE INPUT THROUGH THE TRADITIONAL MEANS OF COMMUNICATION WITH COUNCIL OR COUNCIL MEETINGS AND THAT SORT OF THING.

SO TONIGHT I'M JUST GOING TO GO OVER WHAT WE'VE DONE AND WHAT THE RESULTS ARE FROM THE COMMUNITY INPUT.

YOU'LL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE ANY DIRECTION TO STAFF THAT YOU NEED TO.

AND I'LL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE. OKAY.

SO JUST A LITTLE BIT, WHAT WE DID IS, AS PART OF THE AGREEMENT WE HAD WITH PISD REGARDING THE PURCHASE OF THESE THREE SCHOOLS, DAVIS ELEMENTARY, FORMAN ELEMENTARY AND ARMSTRONG MIDDLE SCHOOL IS TO TRY AND DO COMMUNITY OUTREACH.

AND SO WE SCHEDULED SIX LISTENING SESSIONS OVER ABOUT A SIX WEEK PERIOD.

WE DID IT AT VARIOUS PLACES, VARIOUS TIMES IN AN EFFORT TO GET AS MUCH COMMUNITY INPUT AS POSSIBLE.

WE PUT OUT YARD SIGNS. WE PUT OUT OVER 1250 MAILERS.

THIS INFORMATION WENT OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA, NEWS OUTLETS, AND WE DID AS MUCH AS WE COULD TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMUNITY UNDERSTOOD WHAT WE WERE DOING AND TRYING TO ENCOURAGE COMMUNITY INPUT.

SO OVER THE TOTAL OF THESE SIX LISTENING SESSIONS THAT WE HAD, WE HAD 354 RESIDENTS COME AND WE KIND OF BROKE IT DOWN. THREE OF THESE LISTENING SESSIONS WERE GEARED TOWARDS DAVIS ELEMENTARY, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY AND DURING THAT MEETING, WE HAD 282 ATTENDEES ACROSS THREE MEETINGS, AS YOU'RE WELL AWARE OF, THIS PROPERTY IS ZONED SINGLE FAMILY. AND SO THAT BEING THAT THAT'S WHAT IT WAS ZONED, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS WE HAD IS, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO WITH THIS PROPERTY? AND OF COURSE, I THINK THAT IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT THERE WAS GENERAL OPPOSITION ABOUT HOUSING ON THIS PROPERTY. SO A LOT OF RESIDENTS VOICED KIND OF CONCERN THAT IF WE DID PUT SOME SORT OF HOUSING ON THERE, THAT IT WOULD NOT MATCH THE AESTHETICS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

AND THEN THERE WAS JUST A STRONG COMMUNITY SENTIMENT THAT DAVIS ELEMENTARY WAS THE HEART OF THE COMMUNITY.

AND SO CITIZENS REALLY LET US KNOW KIND OF WHAT WAS GOING ON.

AND YOU CAN SEE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID IS, AS PART OF THIS PROCESS IS, WE HAD SOME POSTER BOARDS OUT THERE WITH SOME EXAMPLES.

WE HAD THE ABILITY FOR PEOPLE TO WRITE COMMENTS AND IN VARIOUS WAYS.

AND YOU CAN SEE ONE OF THE EXAMPLES THAT WE HAVE HERE.

AND I THINK SOMEBODY BROUGHT ONE OF THEIR KIDS THERE, AND YOU CAN SEE HOW THEY PLACED THE DOTS ON THAT SPECIFIC POSTER BOARD THERE.

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SO AS FAR AS DAVIS ELEMENTARY, OVERALL THE DESIRED USE, YOU CAN SEE THAT THOSE PEOPLE, ABOUT 85% OF IT, WANTED IT TO BE A PARK. AND THEN WE HAVE OTHER COMMUNITY USES.

SO THINGS LIKE A DOG PARK, THINGS LIKE A COMMUNITY GARDEN WHERE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE HEARD.

REC CENTER, SPORTS FACILITY, SENIOR CENTER, SOME SORT OF PUBLIC FACILITY, THERE WAS SOME, BUT NOT A LOT OF SENTIMENT FOR THAT. AND THEN THOSE PEOPLE THAT SAID SOMETHING ABOUT HOUSING, IF YOU CAN LOOK AT IT, BASICALLY SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED FOR THOSE PEOPLE, THAT WOULD BE GENERALLY WHAT PEOPLE WANTED.

BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT 85% WAS JUST OPPOSED TO HOUSING IN GENERAL, WHICH WAS THE GENERAL SENTIMENT THROUGH ALL SIX OF THESE LISTENING SESSIONS.

AND THEN ARMSTRONG MIDDLE SCHOOL. SO AGAIN, WE HAD THREE ADDITIONAL MEETINGS THERE, TALKING ABOUT ARMSTRONG AND SO 72 ATTENDEES ACROSS THREE MEETINGS AGAIN ZONE SINGLE FAMILY.

AND THERE WAS AGAIN JUST THAT OPPOSITION TO ANYTHING BUT PARKLAND.

YOU KNOW, THERE WAS SOME LOSS OF USE OR THERE WAS SOME CONCERN ABOUT LOSS OF USE OF SOME OF THE AMENITIES THAT WE HAD THERE.

AND THEN JUST THE FACT THAT TWO SCHOOLS ON THAT SIDE OF TOWN THAT WERE CLOSED WITHIN CLOSE PROXIMITY REALLY HIT THAT NEIGHBORHOOD HARD.

AND SO THAT WAS A LOT OF THE INFORMATION, THE INPUT THAT WE WERE GETTING.

SO DESIRED USE. YOU CAN SEE AGAIN 63, NOT QUITE AS MUCH AS WE SAW AT DAVIS, BUT 63% WANTED EITHER PARK AND 48% INDICATED OTHER COMMUNITY USES IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THEY WANTED.

AND THEN ALSO AS FAR AS HOUSING SENTIMENT GOES, YOU CAN KIND OF SEE HOW THAT GOES.

THAT IS STRONG OPPOSITION TO HOUSING, LESS SO FOR SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED, MORE SO FOR KIND OF MULTIFAMILY OR DUPLEXES OR THAT SORT OF THING.

AND THEN FORMAN, SAME SORT OF THING. THERE WAS SUPPORT FOR THE FACT THAT WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FIRE STATION 3 THERE.

COMMUNITY HAD A LOT OF SUPPORT FOR THAT. AND BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE COMMUNITY WANTED US TO DO WAS REACH OUT.

AND IF WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE REMAINING PART OF THAT PARCEL AFTER THE FIRE STATION HAS BEEN DESIGNED AND BUILT. AND SO WITH THAT, I THINK JUST PROBABLY OVERALL, IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT THE GENERAL SENTIMENT OF THE COMMUNITY ON THESE PROPERTIES WAS TO KEEP IT IN SOME SORT OF PARKLAND.

THERE WAS A LOT OF OPPOSITION TO PUTTING HOUSES OR SOME SORT OF HOUSING.

BUT SOME PEOPLE WERE OPEN TO SOME OTHER COMMUNITY TYPE USES.

AND THAT'S GENERALLY WHERE IT WAS. SO FOR THOSE OF YOU AND, YOU KNOW, I GOT TO CERTAINLY GIVE KUDOS TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES.

BEST NEIGHBORHOOD STAFF THAT PUT THIS ON. A LOT OF WORK WENT INTO THIS AND THEY DID A GREAT JOB, AND I APPRECIATE THOSE OF YOU THAT CAME TO ATTEND THESE MEETINGS ALSO.

MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THIS IS JUST INFORMATION ONLY AT THIS POINT. WE ARE NOT EXPECTING DIRECTION TONIGHT. WE WANTED TO PRESENT THIS INFORMATION, PRESENT IT TO THE PUBLIC, ALLOW IT TO BE OUT THERE, AND THEN WE CAN COME BACK AT A FUTURE MEETING TO ACTUALLY ENGAGE IN A DISCUSSION AND SEEK DIRECTION FOR WHERE YOU MIGHT WANT TO GO WITH THESE PROPERTIES.

SO TONIGHT THIS IS JUST INFORMATIONAL AND WE WILL COME BACK AT A FUTURE MEETING TO HAVE FURTHER DISCUSSION WITH YOU.

THANK YO, CURTIS. I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU EVERYBODY.

OKAY. NEXT ITEM IS CONSENT AND REGULAR AGENDAS.

IS THERE AN ITEM A COUNCIL MEMBER WOULD LIKE TO REMOVE? ALL RIGHT. NEXT ITEM IS COUNCIL ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION AND FUTURE AGENDAS.

ALL RIGHT. WE WILL MOVE ON TO OUR REGULAR MEETING.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.