[00:00:03] WELCOME TO THE MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL. WE'RE AT FRISCO CITY HALL, GEORGE A. PURE FORD MUNICIPAL CENTER, COUNCIL CHAMBER 6101, FRISCO SQUARE BOULEVARD IN FRISCO, TEXAS. IT IS 4.55 P.M. ON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3RD, 2026. AND I WILL CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER. WE'RE JOINED BY THE ENTIRE COUNCIL THIS EVENING. [CLOSED SESSION] THAT MOVES INTO CLOSED SESSION. ITEM 2, RECESS IN THE CLOSED SESSION IN COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 551.001, TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE, ITEM A. SECTION 551.071, MEETING WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY REGARDING A MATTER IN WHICH THE DUTY OF THE CITY ATTORNEY UNDER THE TEXAS DISCIPLINARY RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT OF THE STATE BAR OF TEXAS CONFLICTS WITH THE OPEN MEETINGS ACT REGARDING 1. RECEIVE LEGAL ADVICE REGARDING PROPOSED INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, AND OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS FOR THE USE OF THE COLLIN COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER AND RELATED ISSUES. ITEM B, SECTION 551.072, TO DELIBERATE THE PURCHASE, EXCHANGE, LEASE, OR VALUE OF REAL PROPERTY LOCATED 1. NORTH OF STONEBROOK, WEST OF PRESTON, EAST OF DALLAS NORTH TOLLWAY, AND SOUTH OF EL DORADO. ITEM C, SECTION 551.074, PERSONNEL MATTERS AUTHORIZING CERTAIN DELIBERATIONS ABOUT OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE GOVERNMENT BODY TO BE HELD IN EXECUTIVE SESSION. ITEM 1, DISCUSSION REGARDING THE ANNUAL EVALUATION OF CITY ATTORNEY RICHARD ABERNATHY. AND ITEM D, SECTION 551.087, DELIBERATION REGARDING COMMERCIAL OR FINANCIAL INFORMATION THAT THE CITY HAS RECEIVED FROM A BUSINESS PROSPECT OR TO DELIBERATE THE OFFER OF A FINANCIAL OR OTHER INCENTIVE TO A BUSINESS PROSPECT. COUNCIL, CAN I HAVE A MOTION? I MOVE. I SECOND. MOTION BY JOHN. SECOND BY BERT. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AND THAT PASSES 6-0, RECESS IN EXECUTIVE SESSION AT 4.56. ALL RIGHT, COUNCIL, CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO RECONVENE? MOTION BY JOHN. SECOND. SECOND BY LAURA. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. PASSES 6-0, RECONVENE FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION AT 7.09 P.M. AS A RESULT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION, THERE IS NO ACTION [INVOCATION (to begin approximately at 6:30 p.m.)] FOR COUNCIL TO TAKE. AND I'LL TURN IT TO LAURA FOR OUR INVOCATION AND OUR PLEDGE. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY. FOR OUR INVOCATION THIS EVENING, WE HAVE SOPHIA KAHN WHO SERVES AS THE DIRECTOR OF THE GIRLS TARABAYEE AT THE ISLAMIC CENTER OF FRISCO. SHE IS A HIGHLY RESPECTED AND INFLUENTIAL PRESENCE AMONG THE YOUNG ADULTS AND YOUTH WITHIN THE DFW MUSLIM COMMUNITY. SHE'S KNOWN FOR BEING APPROACHABLE AND RELATABLE BY NATURE. SHE HOLDS A DEGREE IN PSYCHOLOGY WITH A CONCENTRATION IN MENTAL HEALTH AND HAS A DEEP UNDERSTANDING OF THE CHALLENGES YOUTH PEOPLE FACE. WITHOUT JUDGMENT, SHE OFFERS ISLAMIC GUIDANCE THAT SPEAKS DIRECTLY TO REAL ISSUES YOUTH ENCOUNTERS IN THEIR DAILY LIFE. HER WORK IS GROUNDED IN HER ACADEMIC TRAINING, YEARS OF ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, AND OVER 15 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE MENTORING YOUNG PEOPLE. BORN AND RAISED IN THE UNITED STATES, SHE LATER MOVED TO DUBAI WHERE SHE SPENT 15 YEARS PURSUING TRAINING AND EDUCATION. IN 2019, SHE RETURNED TO THE UNITED STATES WITH HER HUSBAND AND TWO DAUGHTERS AND HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO SERVING THE DFW MUSLIM YOUTH. IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND, PLEASE. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. LET US PRAY. LORD, WE COME BEFORE YOU TODAY ASKING FOR YOUR BLESSINGS ON THIS COUNCIL AND ALL THOSE WHO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY. WE ASK FOR YOUR GUIDANCE AS THEY SEEK TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT WILL BENEFIT ALL WHO CALL THIS CITY HOME. WE PRAY FOR WISDOM, COMPASSION, AND UNDERSTANDING FOR EACH COUNCIL MEMBER AS THEY WORK TOGETHER TO ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF OUR COMMUNITY. MAY THEY BE GUIDED BY YOUR LOVE AND GRACE AS THEY DELIBERATE AND MAKE DECISIONS THAT AFFECT THE LIVES OF SO MANY. MAY THEY MANAGE THEIR TEAMS AND PROJECTS WITH LOVE. MAY THEIR HEARTS REMAIN PURE AS THEY WORK IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE THEY ARE CALLED TO SERVE. WE ASK THAT YOU BLESS OUR CITY WITH PEACE, UNITY, AND PROSPERITY. AND THAT WE MAY CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF ALL. MAY WE HONOR ONE ANOTHER AND GLORIFY YOU TOGETHER AND INSPIRE THE WORLD TO BE UNITED. AMEN. AND NOW WE HAVE FOR OUR PLEDGE, WE HAVE CUB SCOUT PACK 754, THE WEEBLOWS DEN. Y'ALL WOULDN'T MIND COMING TO THE STAGE? REMEMBER, IT'S BACK HERE. HEY, GUYS, REMEMBER, IT'S BACK HERE. COULD YOU DO IT BACK THIS WAY, PLEASE? WE NEVER KNOW ALREADY. GO AHEAD AND START. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. [00:05:04] ON THE TEXAS FLAG, I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ONE STATE, UNDER GOD, ONE INDIVISIBLE. ALL RIGHT, GOOD JOB. ALL RIGHT, LET'S GIVE A WARM WELCOME TO OUR SCOUTS HERE TONIGHT THAT ARE JOINING US. FOR THOSE THAT MAY BE JOINING US FOR THE FIRST TIME, IT'S A TRADITION HERE IN FRISCO, WE HAVE SCOUTS THAT LEAD US, AND WE KNOW THEY HAVE RAVING FANS IN THE AUDIENCE. AND SO I ALWAYS HAVE A VERY DIFFICULT QUESTION FOR THEM TO ANSWER TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE READY, BUT I'M GOING TO PASS THE MICROPHONE DOWN. AND THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY, ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE HERE FOR YOU ALL, TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF. SO, NAME, YOUR GRADE, YOUR SCHOOL, AND YOUR QUESTION IS, I WANT YOU TO TELL ME ONE SKILL THAT SCOUTING HAS TAUGHT YOU. YOU ALL READY? ALL RIGHT. MY NAME IS DANIEL. I'M IN FOURTH GRADE, AND I GO TO BOGART ELEMENTARY. AND ONE THING THAT SCOUTING HAS TAUGHT ME IS HOW TO USE A POCKET KNIFE. MY NAME IS SRI. I GO TO FOURTH GRADE BOGART ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AND WHAT I LEARNED FROM WEEBLSTON IS HOW TO SURVIVE. MY NAME IS INBA, FOURTH GRADE FROM BOGART ELEMENTARY. ONE THING I LEARNED FROM SCOUTS IS HOW TO CONTROL MYSELF. MY NAME IS ARDAV, AND I GO TO FOURTH GRADE BOGART ELEMENTARY, AND ONE THING I LEARNED FROM CUB SCOUTS IS FISHING. MY NAME IS SIDARTH. I AM FOURTH GRADE, AND I GO TO BASES RICHARDSON, AND ONE THING I LEARNED IS HOW TO USE A GUN. I'M ZANE, AND I GO TO FOURTH GRADE, AND MY SCHOOL IS, ANDERSON ELEMENTARY. ONE THING CUB SCOUTING HAS TAUGHT ME IS HOW TO FISH CORRECTLY. MY NAME IS VINAY, AND I'M IN FOURTH GRADE FROM BOGART ELEMENTARY, AND ONE THING CUB SCOUTS HAS TAUGHT ME IS HOW TO BE A LEADER. I'M VEEVAN, AND I'M IN FOURTH GRADE, AND I'M TAYLOR ELEMENTARY. I LEARNED HOW TO USE A SLINGSHOT. HI, MY NAME IS DREETI. I'M IN FOURTH GRADE IN RIDDLE ELEMENTARY, AND ONE THING SCOUTING HAS TAUGHT ME IS HOW TO DO ARCHERY. HI, MY NAME IS MATHILA. I'M IN FOURTH GRADE, AND I GO TO TAYLOR ELEMENTARY. ONE THING I LEARNED FROM CUB SCOUTS IS HOW TO USE A POCKET KNIFE. HI, MY NAME IS ANVIKA, AND I'M IN FOURTH GRADE AT BASES PLANO, AND ONE THING I LEARNED IN SCOUTING IS LEADERSHIP SKILLS. GET IN TIGHT, GUYS, GET IN TIGHT SO WE CAN SEE YOU, QUICKLY, YOU STEP BACK, REAL QUICK, ANVIKA, RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE, OKAY, RIGHT THERE, ANVIKA, OKAY, OKAY. ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE FRISCO PINS FOR YOU ALL. AND YEAH, LET'S HEAR IT FOR OUR... THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. [20 Years of Service Proclamation - Kinney Grisham] ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE ONE PROCLAMATION THIS EVENING. IT'S AN IMPORTANT ONE. TO CELEBRATE MISS KENNY GRISSOM FOR 20 YEARS OF SERVICE. [00:10:02] THE PROCLAMATION READS, WHEREAS, FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS, KENNY GRISSOM HAS SERVED AS AN ESSENTIAL AND STEADFAST MEMBER OF THE CITY OF FRISCO'S LOGISTICS AND FLEET DIVISIONS, CONTRIBUTING HIS EXPERTISE, PROFESSIONALISM, AND UNWAVERING DEDICATION TO THE COMMUNITY. AND WHEREAS, THROUGH HIS DISTINGUISHED TENURE, KENNY HAS OVERSEEN THE PROCUREMENT OF MORE THAN $13 MILLION IN FLEET PARTS AND SUCCESSFULLY FULFILLED OVER 68,000 PART REQUESTS, ENSURING THAT CITY OF FRISCO VEHICLES REMAIN RELIABLE, SAFE, AND READY TO SERVE THE RESIDENTS OF FRISCO. AND WHEREAS, KENNY HAS HONORABLY SERVED IN MULTIPLE ROLES, INCLUDING PARTS SPECIALIST, LOGISTICS SPECIALIST, LOGISTICS COORDINATOR ONE AND TWO, DEMONSTRATING EXCEPTIONAL ADAPTABILITY, LEADERSHIP, AND MASTERY OF HIS CRAFT. AND WHEREAS, WITH MORE THAN 40 YEARS OF FLEET AUTOMOTIVE EXPERIENCE, KENNY IS WIDELY REGARDED AS ONE OF THE MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE AND TRUSTED RESOURCES WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT, CONSISTENTLY OFFERING GUIDANCE, INSIGHT, AND SUPPORT TO COLLEAGUES ACROSS THE ORGANIZATION. KENNY'S RELIABILITY IS UNPARALLELED, AND HE RARELY MISSES A DAY OF WORK, AND CONTINUALLY PROVIDES OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO BOTH LOGISTICS AND FLEET, EMBODYING THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF DEDICATION AND EXCELLENCE. AND WHEREAS, BEYOND HIS PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS, KENNY IS A DEVOTED FAMILY MAN WHO HAS SHARED 28 YEARS OF MARRIAGE WITH HIS WIFE, DEBBIE, REFLECTING THE SAME COMMITMENT, STEADINESS, AND INTEGRITY IN HIS PERSONAL LIFE THAT HE BRINGS TO WORK EACH DAY. AND WHEREAS, KENNY'S HUMOR, CONSISTENCY, AND POSITIVE SPIRIT HAVE LEFT A LASTING AND MEANINGFUL IMPACT ON THE CITY OF FRISCO AND ON ALL WHO HAVE HAD THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING ALONGSIDE HIM. NOW, THEREFORE, I, JEFF CHANEY, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF FRISCO, ON BEHALF OF THE CITY COUNCIL, DO HEREBY BESTOW SPECIAL RECOGNITION TO KENNY GRISSOM FOR 20 YEARS OF SERVICE FAITHFULLY RENDERED TO THE CITY AND ITS CITIZENS, AND DO HEREBY PROCLAIM FEBRUARY 1ST, 2026 AS KENNY GRISSOM DAY. GIVE HIM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. I'M JUST SURPRISED YOU LET ME STAY THIS LONG. IT'S BEEN A PRIVILEGE WORKING FOR THE CITY. I LOVE EVERYBODY THAT WORKS HERE. IT'S LIKE A BIG FAMILY. AND I KNOW WHO I SHOULD HAVE CALLED WHEN I NEEDED CAR REPAIR. TRUE. THIS IS MY WIFE, DEBBIE. I'VE BEEN MARRIED FOR 28 YEARS. LET'S HEAR IT FOR KENNY ONE MORE TIME. THANK YOU AGAIN. [Council comment or acknowledgement of proclamations issued by the Mayor.] OK, THAT WILL MOVE US TO ITEM FIVE, WHICH IS COUNCIL ACKNOWLEDGMENTS OF OTHER PROCLAMATIONS SINCE OUR LAST MEETING. ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO NOTE? I WOULD SAY THAT INSTEAD OF HAVING A GROUNDHOG DAY, WE HAD AN ARMADILLO DAY AT KALEIDOSCOPE PARK FOR THE FIRST TIME WHERE I THINK I DID IT CORRECTLY. AND UNFORTUNATELY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SIX MORE WEEKS OF WINTER. MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO SAY A FEW WORDS. TWO THINGS. FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD REQUEST EVERYONE JUST HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOR ELIZABETH ANGLE AND GRACIE BRITO. THESE WERE TWO FRISCO YOUNG LADIES WHO WERE TRAGICALLY KILLED, WHO TRAGICALLY DIED. AND, YOU KNOW, BROKE MY HEART WHEN I HEARD THEIR STORIES AND LEARNED ABOUT THEM. SO WE COULD JUST JUST FOR A FEW MOMENTS, LET'S JUST HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE. THANK YOU, EVERYONE. AND IF I MAY, COUNCIL AND MAYOR, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, JUST WANT TO SAY A FEW WORDS REAL QUICK. A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE ASKED ME TO SAY SOMETHING TONIGHT, AND SOMEBODY ASKED ME A VERY SIMPLE QUESTION. WHEN WAS AMERICA GREAT? AND I SAY AMERICA WAS GREAT TODAY. AND WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN TOMORROW MORNING. AND BY BEING KIND TO EACH OTHER, BY RECOGNIZING THE SIMILARITIES THAT WE HAVE WITH EACH OTHER, BY RECOGNIZING THAT WE HAVE GOODNESS IN OUR HEARTS, WE KEEP AMERICA GREAT. THE FIRST INDIANS WHO [00:15:03] ACTUALLY CAME TO AMERICA CAME HERE IN THE 17TH CENTURY. THEY WERE SAILORS. AND THEN AROUND 1850, PUNJABIS CAME AND THEY SETTLED IN CALIFORNIA. THEY HELPED TO BUILD RAILROADS. THEY WORKED IN LUMBER MILLS. IN 1924, AN INDIAN, ACTUALLY A PUNJABI GUY, HE SERVED IN WORLD WAR I AND HE TRIED TO GET A CITIZENSHIP AND ENDED UP GETTING IT. IT WAS A VERY FAMOUS STORY. IN 1957, THE FIRST INDIAN AMERICAN WAS ELECTED TO CONGRESS, DALIP SINGH SOUND, IN 1957. AND NOW WE HAVE VETERANS AND ACTIVE DUTY MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY. WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO SERVE ON COUNCILS, MAYORS. IN THE UNITED STATES, INDIAN AMERICANS MAKE UP 1.6% OF THE POPULATION, BUT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR $200 BILLION IN TAXES, HAVE THE LOWEST CRIME RATE. AND I WOULD ARGUE THAT SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY, INDIANS CAME TO AMERICA AND THEN THEY BECAME AMERICANS. AND THEN THEY HELPED TO REINFORCE THE AMERICAN DREAM BECAUSE THE AMERICAN DREAM REQUIRES PARTICIPATION. DURING COVID AND OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, WE'VE SEEN SOME OF THE GREATEST POLARIZATIONS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA. WE SAW TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS TAKEN AWAY FROM PRIVATE CITIZENS. WE'VE SEEN NEIGHBORS TURN AGAINST NEIGHBOR. WE'VE SEEN POLITICIANS WHO CAN COME TOGETHER AND DECLARE WAR AND SEND OFF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OVERSEAS WITHOUT TAKING CARE OF THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE HERE. AND AS A RESULT OF THAT, PEOPLE ARE UPSET. AND I SUPPOSE WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS THIS. LOOK TO THE LEFT OF YOU, LOOK TO THE RIGHT OF YOU. THIS IS FRISCO. THIS IS A CITY WITH THE LOWEST CRIME STATISTIC IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WITH OPPORTUNITIES. THE AMERICAN DREAM IS ALIVE AND WELL HERE, AND IT'S NOT BECAUSE THE STREETS ARE PAVED WITH GOLD. IT'S PAVED WITH THE INGOTS OF POSSIBILITIES. AND TOGETHER, WE CAN DO AMAZING THINGS. WE CAN DO INCREDIBLE THINGS. WE'RE ABOUT TO GO TO THE MOON IN TWO DAYS. I UNDERSTAND THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE UPSET. THE AMERICAN DREAM HAS BEEN STOLEN FROM A LOT OF YOU. TRUST ME, I UNDERSTAND. I'VE BEEN TO ATHENS, OHIO, AND I'VE BEEN TO CHEHALIS, WASHINGTON, AND I'VE BEEN TO WACO, TEXAS. I'VE BEEN ACROSS THE BORDER, AND PEOPLE ARE FED UP WITH PEOPLE WHO DON'T CARE ABOUT THEM. AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS. EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM IS FULL OF LOVE. THEY LOVE THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WE MAY APPROACH IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY, BUT WE'RE AMERICANS. AND FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART, I WANT US ALL TO REALIZE WE THE PEOPLE, IN ORDER TO MAKE A MORE PERFECT UNION, THE UNITED STATES, WE BELIEVE IN A FEW THINGS. WE REALIZE WE ARE NOT PERFECT, BUT WE'RE GOING TO TRY. WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO ENSURE DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY. WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO ESTABLISH JUSTICE. WE'RE GOING TO PROMOTE DEFENSE AND THE GENERAL WELFARE AND SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. I'M SO PROUD OF EVERYBODY HERE WHO'S COMING TO SPEAK. I WILL GO TO MY GRAVE DEFENDING YOUR RIGHT TO SPEAK, EVEN IF I DISAGREE WITH IT. SOME OF YOU WHO HAVE BEEN CENSORED, I'M SO SORRY. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. BUT UNDERSTAND THIS. IT'S WORDS. THIS IS THE BEAUTIFUL PART OF AMERICA. IT'S DIALOGUE. AND TOGETHER, WE CAN ALL CHANGE. AND TOGETHER, HOPEFULLY, IN THE WORDS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE BEST WAY TO DEFEAT YOUR ENEMY IS TO TURN THEM INTO YOUR FRIENDS. AND AMERICA IS AN IDEA. IT LIVES IN THE HEARTS OF ALL OF US, THE 243,000 RESIDENTS OF FRISCO, OR THE FOUR PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE ORBITING THE MOON IN A COUPLE DAYS. AND I SAY THIS WITH LOVE. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. OKAY. COUNCIL, ANY OTHER ITEMS OF NOTE? [Library Report on monthly statistics and activities.] OKAY. THAT'LL TAKE US TO OUR REPORT SECTION. ITEM SIX IS OUR LIBRARY REPORT. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. MY NAME IS SHELLEY HAWLEY, AND I'M THE FRISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY DIRECTOR. IT'S MY HONOR TO PRESENT OUR REPORT TO YOU. WE ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT ONE OF OUR MOST POPULAR SERVICES IS UP AND RUNNING NOW. AND SO FOR THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED, WE OFFER, THROUGH THE AARP, WE OFFER TAX ASSISTANCE. THIS YEAR, YOU MUST SCHEDULE [00:20:02] IN ADVANCE. YOU CAN USE THE QR CODE THERE, OR YOU CAN GO ON TO OUR WEBSITE TO SCHEDULE A TIME. APPOINTMENTS ARE SCHEDULED NO SOONER THAN THREE WEEKS IN ADVANCE. SO THEY ARE, ESSENTIALLY, WE'RE RELEASING APPOINTMENTS EVERY WEEK. AND SO IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE ASSISTANCE, IT'S ON THURSDAYS AND SATURDAYS, AND IT'S AVAILABLE FOR FREE TO FRISCO RESIDENTS. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, SHELLEY. COUNCIL, WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE IN THE REPORT? ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. [Play Frisco report on activities related to arts, culture, events, park development and operations, natural resources, and recreation services.] OKAY. ITEM SEVEN IS OUR PLAY FRISCO REPORT. GOOD EVENING. CECILIA HSU, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR WITH PLAY FRISCO. I'M GOING TO START OFF AGAIN BY ASKING YOU ALL, HAVE YOU PLAYED TODAY? HOPEFULLY, YOU ALL HAD A CHANCE TO PLAY WITH THE ICE STORMS WE HAD LAST WEEK. SO I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT WE HAD IN THE PAST MONTH. ONE OF OUR KIND OF FAVORED ITEMS BEING THE PRESCRIBED BURN THAT WE HAD AT COMMONS PARK. SO STAFF FROM FRISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE NATURAL RESOURCES TEAM, WE SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED A PRESCRIBED BURN IN THE NORTH PRAIRIE, AND CONTROLLED BURNS SUPPORT OVERALL HABITAT HEALTH BY REDUCING OVERGROWN BRUSH, RETURNING NUTRIENTS TO THE SOIL, AND CREATING A SPACE FOR NATIVE PLANTS. SO WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE PHOTOS AND WHAT THAT RESTORATION EFFORT LOOKS LIKE IN THE SPRING. WE ALSO PLAN TO DO A CONTROLLED BURN WE ALSO PLAN TO DO A CONTROLLED BURN AT GRAND PARK IN MID-FEBRUARY. SO WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT. AND THANK YOU AGAIN TO FIRE FOR HELPING US WITH THAT PROJECT. NORTHWEST COMMUNITY PARK. SO PROGRESS IS IN MOTION AT NORTHWEST COMMUNITY PARK. THE PRAIRIE LOOKOUT STRUCTURE IS NEARING INSTALLATION, COMPLETION WITH THE TOP DECK COMPLETED. CREWS ARE WORKING ON INSTALLING A BIKE RAMP TO COMPLETE THE STRUCTURE, AND THE ASPHALT PUMP TRACK AND BIKE PLAYGROUND ARE 90% COMPLETE. AND THAT'S PICTURED ON THE RIGHT. THE PRAIRIE RESTORATION AREAS ARE ALSO BEING SEEDED WITH NATIVE GRASSES AND WILDFLOWERS. FOR OUR UPCOMING EVENTS, IF YOUR PANTRY IS STOCKED FULL OF MINI MARSHMALLOWS, CORN, AND OR CHEESE, WE INVITE YOU TO USE THAT AS BAIT FOR OUR TRICK-OR-TRIAL EVENT THIS SATURDAY. ADDITIONALLY, WE HAVE OUR SIDECAR JAZZ LOUNGE. IT'S ALWAYS A POPULAR HIT. AND OUR NEVERLAND-THEMED DADDY-DAUGHTER DANCE IN THE HIGH TOP AND HIGH HEELS. TICKETS ARE, WE'VE LEARNED TODAY THAT THEY'RE AT 1,500 TICKETS SOLD. AND SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT BRINGING THAT AND CELEBRATING OUR 30 YEARS OF PLAY. SO WITH THAT, I'LL ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU ALL MAY HAVE. THANK YOU. DOES ANYONE HAS ANY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. [Budget Status Report for December 31, 2025.] ITEM 8 IS OUR BUDGET STATUS REPORT. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, COUNCIL, DEREK COTTON, CFO. WE'RE THROUGH THE FIRST QUARTER OF FISCAL YEAR 26 ALREADY. HAPPY TO REPORT EVERYTHING IS TRACKING AS EXPECTED FOR ALL FUNDS. ONE THING I DID WANT TO NOTE WAS THAT WE GOT THE SALES TAX NUMBERS FOR NOVEMBER, WHICH REPRESENTS OUR FIRST MONTH OF HOLIDAY SALES, AND IT WAS UP 9% OVER THE PRIOR NOVEMBER. THIS KEEPS US ON TRACK WITH OUR SALES TAX FORECAST. IF THERE'S ANYTHING OF NOTE IN THE FUTURE, WE'LL DEFINITELY BRING THAT UP. BUT THAT COMPLETES MY REPORT. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, DEREK. CANCEL ANY QUESTIONS ON THE BUDGET REPORT. THANK YOU. [Public Works monthly report on water production, stormwater updates, and service requests.] ITEM 9 IS OUR PUBLIC WORKS REPORT. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. JEREMY STARRETT, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS. AS YOU SEE HERE, WE HAVE ONE OF OUR WATER TOWERS. DURING OUR WINTER MONTHS, WE HAVE LESS WATER USAGE. THE SPRINKLER SYSTEM SHOULD BE TURNED OFF. WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS TIME TO DO SOME WORK ON OUR WATER TOWERS. THE ONE YOU SEE HERE IS THE TEAL TOWER. OUR WATER UTILITIES GROUP IS TEMPORARILY TAKING THE WATER TOWER OFFLINE TO CONDUCT ROUTINE PREVENTION MAINTENANCE. WE DO THIS EVERY YEAR. THE WATER THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN USED FROM THIS TOWER IS THEN TAKEN OFF FROM TWO OTHER TOWERS IN THE AREA AND WILL BE MONITORED 24-7 BY OUR SCADA TEAM. HERE YOU SEE THE PUBLIC WORKS NUMBERS. THESE ARE ALL THE SERVICE REQUESTS AND WORK ORDERS AND INSPECTIONS THAT WE'VE COMPLETED IN THE PAST MONTH. HERE AGAIN YOU SEE OUR WATER [00:25:01] TOWER. AT THE BEGINNING OF OUR WATER YEAR, WHICH STARTS IN AUGUST, WE ARE NOW 45.8% UP TO OUR TAKE OR PAY USAGE, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHERE WE WANT TO BE SITTING. WE'RE QUITE HAPPY WITH THAT. THE WATER CONSUMED THIS MONTH WAS 943 MILLION, AND UP TO DATE WE'RE AT 7 BILLION GALLONS. OUR TAKE OR PAY THRESHOLD IS 15.36. AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'RE LESS THAN HALFWAY THERE, SO WE'RE DOING QUITE WELL. WE DO, OF COURSE, ENCOURAGE NO WATERING. IF YOU DO WATER, JUST USE YOUR HANDHELD HOSE, SOAKER HOSES, DRIP IRRIGATIONS, OR BUBBLERS. WE DID HAVE AN OIL SPILL. WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS THE STORMWATER TEAM RESPONDING TO THAT SPILL. THIS WAS 2400 GALLONS OF OIL WAS SPILLED ON A CAR LOT HERE IN FRISCO. THE TEAM SUPPORTED THE SPILL CONTAINMENT AND THE CLEANUP AND MONITORED POTENTIAL DOWNSTREAM IMPACTS. WE ARE STILL WORKING ON THAT CLEANUP NOW. IT SHOULD BE DONE BY THE END OF THE MONTH. THEN IN THAT SMALLER PICTURE IN THE RIGHT, YOU SEE SOME CULVERT CLEANOUTS. THIS IS A CONSTANT JOB WE DO ALL YEAR TO ENSURE THAT THE CULVERTS STAY OPEN SO THAT THE WATER FLOWS FREELY. ROAD CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS, THE KINGSRIDGE WATER MAIN AND STREET REHABILITATION PROJECT. OUR CONTRACTORS ARE FINISHING POURING PAVEMENT IN THE LAST PHASE NOW. THIS WILL BE COMPLETED. THIS COMPLETES ALL THE STREET PAVEMENT, AND THEN THE CREWS ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO SIDEWALKS. AS YOU SEE HERE ON THE RIGHT, THE SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTION 25. OUR CONTRACTORS RECENTLY POURED A NEW SECTION OF SIDEWALK TO CONNECT EXISTING SIDEWALKS ALONG STATE HIGHWAY 121 JUST WEST OF PRESTON ROAD. AND THEN THE TOYOTA STADIUM PAVEMENT IMPROVEMENTS. OUR CONTRACTORS ARE CONTINUALLY WORKING ON THE SIDEWALK REPAIRS THERE AROUND THE STADIUM IN PREPARATION FOR THE WORLD CUP. UPCOMING, CLOSE TO MY HEART HERE, YOU'LL SEE ME STANDING AT THE FRONT OF THE LINE. CHUNK YOUR JUNK IS THIS WEEKEND ON SATURDAY, YOUR CHANCE TO BRING US ALL YOUR MATERIALS ALL AT ONCE. WE ALSO, OUR COMPOSTING PROGRAM HAS JUST STARTED. WE ARE QUITE EXCITED. THIS IS A FEDERAL GRANT-FUNDED PROGRAM WHERE OUR RESIDENTS CAN LEARN TO COMPOST AND THEY'LL BRING US THEIR MATERIALS. WE HAVE 150 OF THE 200 POSSIBLE SLOTS FILLED, SO WE STILL HAVE ROOM FOR 50 MORE IF ANY RESIDENTS WANT TO GET SIGNED UP. WE CERTAINLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THAT. AND THEN UPCOMING MARCH 2ND THROUGH 30TH WILL BE THE ANNUAL TEMPORARY CHANGE IN DISINFECTANT, AND THERE WILL BE A MUCH DEEPER LOOK INTO THAT AT THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING. HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, JEREMY, FOR THE REPORT. COUNCIL, ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU. THANK YOU. [Engineering Services Annual Report on planning, design, and construction of roadways, traffic control, water utilities, parks, and trails.] ITEM 10 IS OUR ENGINEERING SERVICES REPORT. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. JASON BRODIGAN, DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING SERVICES. TODAY I PROVIDED YOU A HARD COPY OF OUR ANNUAL REPORT. YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO PICK IT UP IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT JUST YET. VERY GOOD. THERE IT IS. YOU ALSO HAVE A DIGITAL COPY OF YOUR PACKET. I'D LIKE TO THANK FIRST JOYCE WARREN FOR PRODUCING THAT. SHE DID A GREAT JOB. IT LOOKS FANTASTIC. BUT THE PURPOSE OF THAT ANNUAL REPORT IS TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE GREAT WORK THE ENGINEERING SERVICES TEAM DID IN 2025 AND LOOK AHEAD TO 2026 AND HIGHLIGHT THE WORK THAT'S COMING. I ALWAYS DO THAT IN FEBRUARY BECAUSE COMING UP IN THREE WEEKS IS NATIONAL ENGINEERING WEEK. AND JUST A REMINDER, TO CELEBRATE THE ENGINEERING FOLKS IN OUR LIVES AND THE CONTRIBUTION THEY MAKE TO THE WORLD. SO WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE ON THE ENGINEERING REPORT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. COUNCIL, ANY QUESTIONS? [Frisco Rail District update.] OKAY. AND ITEM 11 IS THE FRISCO RAIL DISTRICT UPDATE. YEAH, JUST A QUICK HIGHLIGHT ON THE THREE ONGOING PROJECTS. MAIN STREET, WE WERE OBVIOUSLY IMPACTED A LITTLE BIT BY THE WEATHER. BUT NOW WE'VE GOT THE BRICK CREWS BACK IN, FINALIZING THAT PLACEMENT AROUND THE PLAZA. AND THEN WE'RE EXPECTING JUST TO KEEP CONTINUING TOWARDS THE END HERE WITH SOME OF THE AESTHETIC FEATURES. MOST OF THE LANDSCAPING'S IN. ALL THE LIGHTING'S IN. IT'S JUST A MATTER OF GETTING SOME OF THOSE OTHER FEATURES, BIKE RACKS AND BENCHES AND TRASH CANS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. LOOKING GREAT. YEAH. ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PLAZA? UNDERGROUND WORK IS FINISHING UP. SO WE WERE EXPECTING CONCRETE SLABS TO START GETTING POURED NEXT WEEK. AND THAT'LL SUPPORT THE BRICK PAVERS THAT WILL GO IN FOR THE PLAZA. SO REALLY START TO SEE SOME PROGRESS HAPPENING [00:30:01] OUT THERE INSTEAD OF JUST MOVING DIRT AROUND. FINALLY, THE GARAGE, THEY'RE WORKING ON THE BRICK FACADE, I'M SURE, AS EVERYBODY HAS SEEN. IT'S STARTING TO REALLY COME TOGETHER NICELY. THEY'RE ALSO WORKING ON STAIRWELLS AND PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL ITEMS. EVERYTHING'S KIND OF HEADING TOWARDS THAT JUNE 1ST DATE THAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS GETTING DONE. I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS BEFORE TURNING IT OVER TO BEN. ANY QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTRUCTION SIDE? NO? OKAY. THANK YOU. EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. A QUICK UPDATE ON THE RAIL DISTRICT AND OUR EFFORTS DOWNTOWN WITH THE GIFT CARD PROGRAM. WE PRINTED OFF 6,000 GIFT CARDS, AND WE ARE AT ABOUT 54%, 55% REDEMPTION RATE, WHICH IS REALLY GOOD. THE CARDS WERE SET TO EXPIRE AT THE END OF JANUARY, BUT DUE TO THE ICE STORM, WE EXTENDED THAT THROUGH THE END OF FEBRUARY, AND A LOT OF FOLKS HAVE WRITTEN AND APPRECIATED THAT GESTURE. SO IF YOU STILL HAVE A GIFT CARD, PLEASE GET OUT AND USE IT. THE BONUS GIFT CARD, THE DIGITAL GIFT CARD, WILL ALSO EXPIRE AT THE END OF FEBRUARY. SO THESE ARE THE TWO DIFFERENT STYLES OF GIFT CARDS HERE. THE COPPER IS FOR NON-RESTAURANT USE, AND THE BLUE IS GOOD AT ANY PARTICIPATING BUSINESS. HERE'S A LIST OF THE BENEFICIARIES SORTED BY COPPER CARDS. SO YOU CAN SEE IT'S HAD THE INTENDED EFFECT, WHICH IS TO HELP GET THOSE CARDS TO NON-RESTAURANTS. OUR PROMOTION PROGRAM WAS LAUNCHED IN OCTOBER. IT WENT VERY WELL. I HEARD A LOT OF POSITIVE COMMENTS. $3,000 ADVERTISING GRANTS, ABOUT $123,000 IN DIRECT ADVERTISING GRANTS INVESTMENT INTO OUR RAIL DISTRICT BUSINESSES, AND WE LOOK TO DO THIS AGAIN AS WE GET CLOSER TO THAT JUNE OPENING DATE THAT JASON MENTIONED. THE DIGITAL GIFT CARDS, WE ARE AT 656,000 GIFT CARDS PURCHASED, AND ALMOST HALF A MILLION DOLLARS OF THOSE HAVE BEEN REDEEMED, WHICH IS PRETTY SIGNIFICANT. HALF A MILLION DOLLARS INTO THE RAIL DISTRICT JUST IN A FEW SHORT MONTHS. OF THAT HALF A MILLION, $285,000 IS THE BONUS CARD, WHICH IS THE MONEY THAT THE CDC HAD PUT UP FOR MATCHING. AND AGAIN, THESE BONUS CARDS WILL EXPIRE AT THE END OF THIS MONTH, SO IF YOU HAVE A BONUS CARD, GO OUT AND USE IT. THE CARD YOU PURCHASED WILL NOT EXPIRE, JUST THE BONUS CARD. SO IT'S ABOUT 15% OF Y'ALL OUT THERE WHO NEED TO USE THEIR CARD. IF YOU GO TO THIS WEBSITE, YOU CAN BUY A CARD. YOU WON'T GET THE MATCHING CARDS, BUT YOU CAN BUY A CARD AND GIFT A CARD STILL, AND YOU CAN ALSO FIND OUT WHICH BUSINESSES ARE PARTICIPATING THAT ACCEPT THESE GIFT CARDS. WE HAD A CAMPAIGN WITH FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES OVER THE HOLIDAYS. WE GAVE THEM APPROXIMATELY 01,200 CARDS, AND THEY HAD A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF RETURN ON THOSE CARDS, OVER 401 VOLUNTEER HOURS, SEVERAL TOY DONATIONS, CLOTHING DONATIONS, GROCERY DONATIONS, SO IT REALLY HELPED THE COMMUNITY THERE AND LEVERAGED THOSE GIFT CARDS SO THEY WERE ABLE TO GIVE THOSE OUT, GET THEM BACK IN THE COMMUNITY. WE CONTINUE WITH OUR RAIL DISTRICT MEDIA BLITZ. IN THE NEWSPAPER, FRISCO STYLE MAGAZINE, VISIT FRISCO, AND OF COURSE OUR BI-WEEKLY, EXCUSE ME, BI-MONTHLY NEWSLETTER, AND THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE ADS THAT IS RUN IN THE PAPER. WE STILL HAVE THE BILLBOARDS UP THROUGHOUT THE METROPLEX. SHOW SOME LOVE. VISIT THE RAIL DISTRICT. SO WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN TO PIVOT FROM THE CAPITAL PHASE TO THE SUPPORT OF THE RAIL DISTRICT AND WORK WITH OUR STAKEHOLDERS DOWNTOWN TO CONTINUE THE MOMENTUM. VISIT FRISCO HAS DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB HERE PROMOTING THE RAIL DISTRICT THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA, DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES HERE THAT THEY'VE PROVIDED. HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. THANK YOU FOR THAT UPDATE. COUNCIL, ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS? THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK. ITEM 12. SURE. [Council Subcommittee reports for current activities of the Legislative Committee, Governance Committee, Budget and Audit Committee, Frisco Square Management District, Dallas Regional Mobility Commission, North Central Texas Emergency Preparedness Committee, Frisco Veterans Advisory Committee, North Texas Commission, and Regional Transportation Council.] ITEM 12 IS OUR COUNCIL SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS. COUNCIL, ANY UPDATES ON SUBCOMMITTEES? YES, JEFF, I HAVE A QUICK UPDATE. WE HAD A GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE MEETING TODAY, OUR FIRST ONE IN A WHILE. WE SELECTED A NEW CHAIR THAT HAPPENED TO BE ME AND WE HAD A VERY LIVELY DEBATE ON THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS AND WE GAVE STAFF SOME DIRECTION ON A FEW TOPICS. AND THEN WE ADJOURNED. ANY OTHER UPDATES? ALTHOUGH IT DOESN'T CLEANLY FIT HERE, I DO WANT TO SAY THAT WE DID HAVE AN ELECTION ON SATURDAY. HOPEFULLY EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM VOTED. THIS WILL BE COUNCIL MEMBER KEATING'S LAST FULL MEETING AFTER 12 YEARS? 15. 15 YEARS SERVING YOU ON FRISCO CITY COUNCIL. THANK YOU. WE'LL OFFICIALLY CELEBRATE HIM NEXT MEETING WHEN WE KICK HIM [00:35:01] OUT THE DOOR. JUST KIDDING, JOHN. BUT NEXT MEETING AS WELL, WE'LL SIGN IN OUR NEWEST COUNCILWOMAN, ANNE ANDERSON. I SAW HER IN THE BACK. ANNE, IF YOU WANT TO STAND UP AND JUST WAVE REALLY QUICK. THAT'S OUR NEWEST COUNCILMEMBER. AND BEFORE WE FINISH THIS AND INPUT, WE'RE JUST GOING TO KNOCK OUT THESE TWO OTHER [CONSENT AGENDA] ITEMS REAL QUICK, WHICH IS OUR CONSENT AGENDA. ITEMS PLACED IN THE CONSENT AGENDA ARE CONSIDERED ROUTINE IN NATURE AND ARE CONSIDERED NON-CONTROVERSIAL. THE CONSENT AGENDA CAN BE ACTED UPON ON ONE MOTION. A MAJORITY OF THE COUNCIL IS REQUIRED TO MOVE ANY ITEM FOR DISCUSSION AND SEPARATE ACTION. COUNCIL MEMBERS MAY VOTE NAY ON ANY ITEM WITHOUT COMMENT AND MAY SUBMIT WRITTEN COMMENTS AS PART OF THE OFFICIAL RECORD. COUNCIL, DO YOU HAVE ITEMS 13 THROUGH 31 FOR CONSIDERATION? MOVE TO APPROVE ITEM 13 THROUGH 31. MOTION BY ANGELIA. SECOND BY BYRD. [Consider and act upon adoption of an Ordinance repealing Ordinance No. 03-06-09; adopting a New Service Policy for the Frisco Public Library. (Library/SH)] ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. PASSES 6-0. [Consider and act upon adoption of an Ordinance to rezone 1.0± acre on the west side of Rogers Road, 555± feet north of Meadow Hill Drive (“Property”) from Agricultural to Single Family-16, and to amend the Zoning Ordinance (Ordinance No. 11-04-09, as amended). Zoned Agricultural. Neighborhood #11. Zoning Case Z24-0007. Applicant: Robert Gloyna. (Development Services/RR)] [Consider and act upon adoption of an Ordinance to consider possible amendments to Zoning Ordinance Subsection 3.02, Use Chart, and Subsection 7.01, Terms and Words Defined. Zoning Case No. ZA25-0008. Applicant: City of Frisco. (Development Services/JH)] [Consider and act upon adoption of an Ordinance approving a full release of assessment lien related to the Panther Creek Estates Public Improvement District; making certain findings; providing a severability clause; and providing an effective date. (Financial Services/DC)] [Consider and act upon adoption of an Ordinance approving a full release of assessment lien related to the Panther Creek Estates Public Improvement District No. 2; making certain findings; providing a severability clause; and providing an effective date. (Financial Services/DC)] FOR OUR LEGISLATIVE AGENDA, THESE ITEMS MAY LEGALLY REQUIRE COUNCIL ACTION, BUT BY COUNCIL POLICY SHOULD BE THE CITY MANAGER'S RESPONSIBILITY. THE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA CAN BE ACTED UPON ON ONE MOTION. THE CONCURRENCE OF TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS IS REQUIRED TO MOVE ANY ITEM FOR DISCUSSION AND SEPARATE ACTION. COUNCIL MEMBERS MAY VOTE NAY ON ANY ITEM WITHOUT COMMENT AND MAY SUBMIT WRITTEN COMMENTS AS PART OF THE OFFICIAL RECORD. COUNCIL, DO YOU HAVE ITEMS 32 THROUGH 36 FOR CONSIDERATION? MOVE TO APPROVE ITEMS 32 THROUGH 36. MOTION BY LAURA. SECOND. SECOND BY JOHN. ALL IN FAVOR? [CITIZEN INPUT (to begin approximately at 7:30 p.m.)] AYE. PASSES 6-0. THE LAST ITEM ON OUR AGENDA IS CITIZEN INPUT. BEFORE I TURN IT OVER TO LAURA TO READ THESE CARDS, I DID WANT TO JUST KIND OF SPEAK TO THE GROUND RULES AND HOW WE RUN CITIZEN INPUT AND OUR EXPECTATIONS OF THOSE THAT SPEAK BEFORE US. YOUR COUNCIL IS HERE TO LISTEN TO YOU WITH RESPECT AND HEAR YOUR CONCERNS, AND WE EXPECT THE SAME FROM OUR SPEAKERS. SO, FOR SOME GROUND RULES, WE DON'T ALLOW SIGNS AS PART OF PRESENTATIONS. YOU'LL GET UP TO FIVE MINUTES TO SPEAK, AND WE EXPECT YOU TO TREAT EACH ONE KINDLY AND PROFESSIONALLY. THE AUDIENCE, WHEN ANOTHER MEMBER IS SPEAKING, PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT OR CHEER OR GROAN. LET EVERYONE HAVE THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK BEFORE THE CITY, AND WE'LL STAY HERE AS LONG AS WE NEED TO TO HEAR EVERYONE'S INPUT. AND SO, WE'VE GOT A LONG TRACK RECORD. I'VE BEEN SERVING THIS COMMUNITY FOR ALMOST 18 YEARS NOW, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT OUR FRISCO RESIDENTS HAVE ALWAYS DONE, IS ONCE THEY STEP FOOT INSIDE CITY HALL, IN THIS ROOM, THEY TREAT THEIR FELLOW NEIGHBOR WITH RESPECT. SO, WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO LAURA. OKAY. SO, THIS EVENING, WE HAVE QUITE A FEW PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE THE COMMUNITY, SO WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND LET ALL OF OUR NON-FRISCO RESIDENTS GO FIRST. AND THE WAY THAT I'VE TYPICALLY DONE THIS IS I WILL CALL A NAME, AND I WILL CALL THE NEXT PERSON THAT'S GOING TO BE COMING AFTER THAT TO HELP US GET THROUGH THIS IN AN EXPEDIENT FASHION. WHEN YOU GET TO THE PODIUM, PLEASE REMEMBER TO STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD. AND THEN, YOU WILL HAVE FIVE MINUTES. THERE IS A TIMER ON THERE. YOU WILL RECEIVE A WARNING WHEN YOU'RE GETTING TOWARDS THE END OF YOUR TIME. AND DUE TO THE FACT THAT WE DO HAVE QUITE A NUMBER OF SPEAKERS THIS EVENING, WE WILL BE REINFORCING VERY STRICTLY THE TIME LIMIT. FAIR ENOUGH? OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO THEN, GETTING STARTED, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE DAN CHANDLER, AND AFTER THAT, WE WILL HAVE DALE FREY. YES, SIR. WE HAVE A MICROPHONE AT THE TABLE THERE, SIR, IF THAT'S EASIER FOR YOU AS WELL. THERE'S A MICROPHONE AT THE TABLE DOWN HERE IF THAT'S EASIER FOR YOU. OKAY. WE'LL GO WHEREVER YOU'RE COMFORTABLE. OKAY. OKAY. I'M AN EVANGELIST. I'M OLD. I'M RETIRED. AND I GOT A CALL TO DO THAT. I GOT A LOUD VOICE. I GOT TO BE CAREFUL. AND SO, SPEAKING THE TRUTH, GOD'S WORD DESTROYS THE DEVIL'S LIES. WHATEVER GOD PUTS ON MY HEART, I PRAY RIGHT NOW THAT HE'LL SPEAK THROUGH MY MOUTH. THE... I HAVE THAT FLAG, THAT REBEL FLAG OVER THERE, BECAUSE WE CAN'T TEAR DOWN THE FLAGS, THE STATUES, THE MONUMENTS, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, BABY'S BORDER, ALAMO CENOTAPH. WE CAN'T KILL THE POLICEMEN AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. THESE SORTS OF THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING AND SURVIVED, WE WON'T. YOU CAN'T TEAR DOWN AMERICA PIECE BY PIECE, PLANK BY PLANK, AND WE CAN'T OWE... THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THIS. WE CAN'T OWE AND PAY THE DEVIL. AND GOD SAYS, EVEN, THAT THE GROUND, THE VERY GROUND THAT IS HERE, THAT IT WILL VOMIT US OUT IF WE TURN AWAY FROM THE WORD OF GOD AND ALMIGHTY GOD HIMSELF. I GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE SHOWING UP AND THEY'RE SAYING THAT THEY SETTLED AMERICA, NOT THE AMERICANS. [00:40:01] THERE'S A LOT OF LIES BEING TOLD. THEY WANT TO DESTROY HISTORY. THEY WANT TO WIPE THE HISTORY OF AMERICA AND AMERICANS OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT TO DO THAT. AND THEY HATE US. THERE'S ONE PROBLEM, SEE, ABOUT THAT FOR ME. I CAN'T GO TO SOMALIA AND LIVE. THEY WON'T LET ME LIVE THERE. OR MEXICO. THIS IS MY HOME, AMERICA. I WAS DOWN AT RASA UNIDA, DOWN ON THE BORDER. A LADY WAS THERE AND SHE TOLD ME AND THE SOLDIERS AND THE DPS AND EVERYBODY ELSE, GET OUT. GET OUT OF HERE. GIVE US THIS BACK. THIS IS NOT YOUR LAND. IT'S MY LAND. I OWN ALL THAT STUFF, ALL THE WAY FROM HERE TO THE SOUTH POLE. THOSE ARE ALL MY PEOPLE. THEY COME UP HERE AND THEY WANT MONEY. AND YOU DON'T LET THEM HAVE IT. THAT'S RACISM. THAT'S HATRED. YOU GET OUT. WELL, SEE, SHE OWNS ALL OF SOUTH AMERICA. BUT THAT'S NOT ENOUGH. GOD, THE 10TH COMMANDMENT SAYS, IF YOU WANT SOMETHING, ASK ME FOR IT. DON'T GO KILL YOUR NEIGHBOR AND TAKE IT FROM HIM. THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF PEOPLE INTEND TO DO. AS FAR AS THIS H-1B, VISAS AND THESE SORTS OF THINGS, WE'RE AT THE POINT RIGHT NOW WHERE WE HAVE CITY COUNCILS LIKE YOU THAT ARE TELLING THE GANG MEMBERS TO FIGHT AGAINST US. THIS IS INSURRECTION. THIS IS THE OVERTHROW OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT, WHICH IS WHY 20 MILLION PEOPLE WALKED ACROSS THAT BORDER. WE'VE GOT TO BE THINKING ABOUT THAT. THE H-1B VISAS, WE DON'T NEED THEM. NOT RIGHT NOW. SOMEDAY, BUT NOT NOW. WE NEED TO SUPPORT US. AND WE NEED TO SUPPORT AMERICA. OH, GUESS WHAT? I TALK ABOUT GOD AND JESUS AND THE DEVIL. THAT'S MY VERNACULAR. THE COIN OF MY REALM. HE DOESN'T WANT ANY OF YOU TO SURVIVE. ANY OF US, AS A MATTER OF FACT. I KNOW IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU HEAR EVERY DAY. PEOPLE WANT TO TALK ABOUT GOD AND JESUS AND THE DEVIL. THAT'S WHAT I DO. THAT'S WHY I'M DOWN HERE. I CAN'T TALK ABOUT IT. THERE'S NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT THAN I COULD TALK ABOUT. THE H-1B VISAS AND THAT SORT OF THING, AND SUPPORTING US, AND NOT GOING COMMUNIST LIKE DAKOTA. I IMPLORE YOU FOR THE LIVES AND SOULS OF YOUR CONSTITUENTS. DON'T TURN AWAY FROM GOD AND THE WORD OF GOD. DON'T WORSHIP OTHER GODS. DON'T BE IDOLATERS. IT'S NOT THAT YOU WANT TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR BRETHREN. IT'S THAT YOU WANT TO BOW DOWN TO THEM. SOME PEOPLE DO. WE CAN'T DO THAT, OR WE WON'T SURVIVE. ANYWAY, I DIDN'T TELL YOU MY NAME. DAN CHANDLER. AND YOU WANT TO KNOW MY ADDRESS? 1-8208 PRESTON ROAD, DALLAS, TEXAS. AND I'VE BEEN HERE BEFORE. YOU GUYS, SEE, YOU'RE ALL LISTENING. YOU'RE ALL SO NICE. GIVE US PLENTY OF TIME TO SPEAK, YOU KNOW. I TELL YOU WHAT, I THINK THAT WE'RE WELL, FROM WHAT I SEE, WE'RE WELL SERVED TO HAVE YOU GUYS UP THERE. AND I APPRECIATE YOU LETTING ME TALK. THANK YOU. HEY, RICHARD, DO YOU WANT TO JUST QUICKLY ADDRESS THE H-1B VISA AND WHAT THE CITY DOES OR DOES NOT HAVE IN CONTROL WITH THAT? THE CITY DOES NOT HAVE ANY CONTROL OVER THAT PROGRAM. THAT'S A FEDERAL PROGRAM. OKAY. NEXT, WE HAVE DALE FREY, AND THEN FOLLOWING AFTER THAT, DYLAN LAW. GOOD EVENING, FELLOW FRISCO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. MY NAME IS DALE FREY. I LIVE AT 6017 CYPRESS COVE DRIVE IN THE COLONY, TEXAS. I AM THE, I DO PUBLIC RELATIONS FOR PROGRESSIVE LEADERS TOASTMASTERS. I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRISCO DEMOCRATIC CLUB. I'M A FORMER SENATORIAL CANDIDATE FOR TEXAS STATE SENATE DISTRICT 30, WHICH ENCOMPASSES ALL OF FRISCO. I AM A FORMER PRECINCT CHAIR AND I'M CURRENTLY RUNNING FOR THE POSITION OF DENTON COUNTY CLERK. NOW, I COME TODAY IN ORDER TO SUPPLY Y'ALL WITH A COUPLE OF SUGGESTIONS. BUT BEFORE I GET TO THAT, I THINK I NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I KNOW, AND EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM SHOULD KNOW, HOW THIS MICROPHONE WORKS. THAT CONVERSATIONS GO IN ONE DIRECTION. IF I WAS TO ASK YOU A QUESTION, I AM NOT GOING TO EXPECT YOU TO ANSWER ON THE SPOT. BECAUSE AFTER ALL, IF YOU DID, YOU'D BE TAKEN AWAY FROM MY FIVE MINUTE TIME LIMIT. RIGHT? ADDITIONALLY, IF YOU WERE TO ANSWER OR RESPOND TO A QUESTION ON THE SPOT, THIS COULD TURN INTO A DEBATE. WHICH IS WHY I'M NOT GOING TO ASK YOU DIRECTLY A QUESTION OR EXPECT AN ANSWER IMMEDIATELY. AND I THINK EVERYONE IN THE ROOM SHOULD KNOW THAT. NOW, BEFORE I GO INTO MY SUGGESTIONS, AND SPEAKING OF QUESTIONS, BY THE WAY, I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT AN OLD TRICK THAT I SEE A LOT [00:45:02] OF PEOPLE DOING TO THIS MICROPHONE RIGHT HERE. AND THAT IS THE OLDEST TRICK OF THE BOOK, AND THAT IS SUPPLYING A STATEMENT IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION. I SEE LOTS OF PEOPLE DO THIS. I EVEN SOMETIMES SEE PEOPLE MAKING RACIST STATEMENTS IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION. THIS IS VERY CONVENIENT TO THE SPEAKER BECAUSE WHEN THEY DO THIS, HE NOW HAS THE EXCUSE WHERE IF HE GETS CALLED OUT, HE COULD SAY, WHAT'S WRONG? I WAS JUST ASKING QUESTIONS. WHAT ARE YOU, TRYING TO CENSOR ME? THIS IS THE OLDEST TRICK IN THE BOOK. WATCH OUT FOR THIS TACTIC. ANOTHER COMMON TACTIC YOU'LL SEE IS PEOPLE TALKING REALLY, REALLY FAST, GOING FROM TOPIC TO TOPIC, CHANGING THE TOPIC MID-SENTENCE, ASKING A QUESTION OVER HERE, IMMEDIATELY GOING OVER THERE AND ASKING ANOTHER QUESTION. WHEN A SPEAKER, A TRUE, GENUINE SPEAKER, WILL SPEAK AT A RATE AND A PACE WHERE THE AUDIENCE CAN HEAR WHAT THE SPEAKER SAYS, AND THEN PROCESSES THE INFORMATION IN THEIR HEAD. THAT IS WHAT A GENUINE SPEAKER DOES. WHEN SOMEONE TALKS REALLY, REALLY QUICK LIKE THAT, CHANGING THE TOPIC CONSTANTLY, THEY'RE TRYING TO CONFUSE THE AUDIENCE. AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE THE AUDIENCE DOESN'T HAVE THE TIME TO PROCESS THE MESSAGE BECAUSE THIS BREAKS THEIR ABILITY TO SUPPLY CRITICAL THINKING. NOW, ANOTHER THING I DO WANT TO SAY IS THAT I'VE SEEN AN EXAMPLE OF THIS ALL THE TIME. FOR EXAMPLE, IF SOMEONE SAYS, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY, INSERT GROUP HERE, PEOPLE IN FRISCO? PICK YOUR ENEMY. IT COULD BE BLACK PEOPLE, IT COULD BE JEWISH PEOPLE, IT COULD BE, MORE RECENTLY I HEARD, INDIAN PEOPLE. WHEN SOMEONE'S ASKING A STATEMENT LIKE THAT, WHY ARE THERE SO MANY OF THESE, INSERT GROUP PEOPLE HERE, THEY'RE NOT ASKING A GENUINE QUESTION. THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE A STATEMENT. SO MY SUGGESTION IS THIS, AND I KNOW THIS IS GOING TO SOUND CRAZY, BUT I THINK IT'S YOUR ONLY OPTION. YOUR ONLY OPTION IS TO IGNORE THEM. I KNOW THAT SOUNDS CRAZY, BUT YOU HONESTLY HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE. IF YOU WERE TO RESPOND TO THEM, THEY WILL TAKE, BAD ACTORS WILL TAKE EVERYTHING THAT YOU SAY, TAKE SNIPPETS OF THAT CONVERSATION AND PUT IT ON THEIR SOCIAL MEDIA. THERE'S NO WAY OF INTERACTING WITH BAD ACTORS WITHOUT GIVING THEM WHAT THEY WANT. ALSO, OBVIOUSLY, NO ONE'S TRYING TO CENSOR ANYBODY, RIGHT? I THINK WE CAN ALL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT. AND THE THING IS THIS, IF YOU DO CENSOR THEM, WHICH NO ONE'S GOING TO, BUT IF YOU DID, YOU'RE GIVING THEM EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANT. BECAUSE TO A LOT OF THESE BAD ACTORS, TO A LOT OF THESE BAD ACTORS, PERSECUTION IS A SIGNAL OF VIRTUE TO THEM. THEY WANT TO BE PERSECUTED. AND THAT'S WHY YOU SEE A LOT OF THESE REALLY BAD ACTORS LIKE NICK FUENTES, FOR EXAMPLE, WILL SPOUT RACIST RHETORIC ON SOCIAL MEDIA TO THE POINT, HE GETS BANNED BECAUSE HE WANTS TO BE BANNED, BECAUSE WHEN HE DOES GET BANNED, HE GETS TO SAY, LOOK AT ME, I'M BEING CENSORED. BECAUSE TO HIS AUDIENCE, PERSECUTION IS A SIGNAL OF VIRTUE. MY FELLOW CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, IT PAINS ME TO TELL YOU THIS, BUT HONESTLY, THE ONLY OPTION YOU HAVE FOR SOME OF THESE BAD ACTORS IS JUST TO IGNORE THEM. THERE'S NO WAY OF ENGAGING WITH SOME OF THESE INDIVIDUALS IN A WAY THAT WILL BE BENEFICIARY TO ANY OF US. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA. THANK YOU. I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE TO PLEASE NOT SPEAK WHEN THE OTHER SPEAKERS, THIS ROOM WAS DESIGNED TO BE VERY ACOUSTICALLY SOUND, SO EVEN SOMEONE IN THE BACK ROW WHISPERING TO THEIR NEIGHBOR DISTRACTS WITH OTHERS' ABILITY TO HEAR. SO WE'LL ALLOW EVERYONE TO SAY THEIR PIECE. OKAY. NEXT WE HAVE DYLAN LAW, AND FOLLOWING AFTER THAT IS DANE ROSE. HOWDY. MY NAME IS DYLAN LAW. I LIVE AT 10512 MUSCOVILE PLACE IN MCKINNEY. I KNOW OF NO BETTER LIFE PURPOSE THAN TO PERISH ATTEMPTING THE GREAT AND IMPOSSIBLE. NIETZSCHE WROTE THOSE WORDS ABOUT STANDING UP, EVEN WHEN ODDS ARE UNMOVABLE. I DON'T EXPECT THESE FEW WORDS TO SWAY THIS COUNCIL. ENTRENCHED INTERESTS RARELY BEND TO ONE VOICE. BUT I WOULD RATHER STAND HERE DEFYING THE IMPOSSIBLE THAN SIT SILENTLY WHILE MY HOMETOWN IS TRANSFORMED WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF ITS PEOPLE. I GREW UP IN NORTH TEXAS, IN A REAL COMMUNITY. NEIGHBORS KNEW EACH OTHER, STREETS ECHOED WITH FAMILIAR LAUGHTER. MY PARENTS BUILT A LIFE THROUGH WORK, NOT PRIVILEGE. THIS PLACE WAS HOME. TODAY THAT HOME IS FADING. FRISCO IS CHANGING AT A SPEED NO COMMUNITY CAN ABSORB WITHOUT DAMAGE. ROADS ARE CLOGGED, SCHOOLS ARE OVERCROWDED, PUBLIC SPACE IS UNFAMILIAR. WHEN LIFELONG RESIDENTS VOICE CONCERN, WE'RE TOLD OUR DISCOMFORT IS BIGOTRY. THAT IS A LIE. THIS IS NOT HATE, IT IS A LOVE OF HOME. IT IS FIGHTING FOR YOUR OWN SIDE, AND THAT'S OKAY. AS A STUDENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, I'VE WATCHED THE SAME PATTERN UNFOLD. RAPID INFLUX OF F-1 VISA STUDENTS HAVE STRAINED RESOURCES AND FRACTURED IDENTITY. SOME HAVE FALSELY CLAIMED CAMPUS JOBS AND COMMITTED SOCIAL SECURITY FRAUD IN ORDER TO EXTEND THEIR STAYS ILLEGALLY. THAT ISN'T DIVERSITY, IT IS ABUSE. OF OUR LAWS AND OF THE SOCIETY AMERICANS BUILT. MASS IMMIGRATION IS DEFENDED ON THREE PILLARS. ECONOMIC BENEFIT, CULTURAL ENRICHMENT, AND MORAL DUTY. EACH COLLAPSES UNDER SCRUTINY. FIRST, THE ECONOMIC MYTH. H-1B VISAS ARE SOLD AS IMPORTING THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST. IN REALITY, THE SYSTEM IS RIDDLED WITH FRAUD AND BLOAT. TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN PAXTON IS INVESTIGATING NORTH TEXAS FIRMS RUNNING SHAM GHOST [00:50:01] OFFICES. PRIVATE HOMES LISTED AS HEADQUARTERS TO SPONSOR FOREIGN WORKERS WITH NO REAL JOBS. THAT'S NOT INNOVATION, THAT'S A RACKET. IT DISPLACES AMERICAN WORKERS. NOT ONLY THAT, IT ALSO SUPPRESSES OUR WAGES. MEANWHILE, OUR INEQUALITY EXPLODES. IN DFW, INDIAN ORIGIN HOUSEHOLDS EARN A MEDIAN INCOME OF $150,000 A YEAR. THAT'S NEARLY DOUBLE THE REGIONAL AVERAGE. WHEN YOU IMPORT THE TOP 1% OF A NATION OF 1.4 BILLION INTO A CITY OF 220,000, INEVITABLY IT WILL PRICE OUT ITS NATIVES. FAMILIES WITHOUT INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS ARE BEING PUSHED OUT OF THE CITY THEY BUILT. IF THAT'S GROWTH, WHO IS IT TRULY FOR? SECOND, WE HAVE THE SOCIAL ARGUMENT. DON'T GET ME WRONG, ANY IMMIGRANT CAN BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR, BUT SCALE MATTERS. TENS OF THOUSANDS ARRIVING NEARLY EVERY YEAR, CLUSTERING IN THE SAME SUBURBS, TRANSFORMS COMMUNITIES. FRISCO'S INDIAN POPULATION HAS INCREASED MORE THAN 4,000% IN 20 YEARS, AND NOW IT APPROACHES ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF THE CITY. PARENTS ARE WATCHING THEIR CHILDREN BECOME FOREIGNERS IN CLASSROOMS THEIR TAX DOLLARS BUILT. SCHOOLS STRUGGLE WITH LANGUAGE BARRIERS, OVERCROWDING, AND FRACTURED COHESION. THIS DOES NOT CREATE HARMONY. IT BREEDS RESENTMENT. NOT BECAUSE AMERICANS ARE HATEFUL, BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE BEING DISPLACED IN THEIR OWN HOME. TEMPORARY VISAS ARE ONLY TEMPORARY UNTIL LOOPHOLES LIKE BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ARE EXPLOITED, AND ROOTS TAKE HOLD THROUGH CHAIN MIGRATION. ONE H-1B VISA BECOMES EIGHT. MANY ON THE PUBLIC DOLE. IT DOES NOT BENEFIT OUR NATION. IT EXPLOITS THE GENEROSITY AT THE CORE OF OUR NATIONAL CHARACTER. AND LET'S BE HONEST, MANY WHO ARE HERE ON TEMPORARY VISAS DO NOT BEAR THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE. IF THIS COUNTRY IS DAMAGED, THEY CAN LEAVE. WE CAN'T. THIS IS OUR ONLY HOME. FINALLY, WE HAVE THE MORAL CLAIM. A GOVERNMENT'S FIRST DUTY IS NOT TO FOREIGNERS. IT'S TO OUR OWN CITIZENS. IT'S NOT COMPASSION TO IGNORE VISA FRAUD, LET WAGES FALL, HOUSING SOAR, SCHOOL STRAIN AND TRUST COLLAPSE. IT'S NOT. TRUE MORALITY BEGINS WITH PROTECTING YOUR OWN PEOPLE. I DEMAND THIS COUNCIL TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRE FRISCO EMPLOYERS USING H-1B SPONSORSHIPS TO WORK WITH DHS UNDERGO MANDATORY E-VERIFY AUDITS, AND I URGE YOU TO PRESS A.G. PAXTON TO EXPAND HIS INVESTIGATION INTO COLLIN COUNTY BUSINESSES. THIS IS RIGHTFUL ENFORCEMENT. I DO NOT EXPECT APPLAUSE, BUT SILENCE WOULD BE BETRAYAL. I ASK YOU TO RECOGNIZE THE REAL COST OF THIS IMMIGRATION AND PUT OUR RESIDENTS FIRST. NIETZSCHE SAID MEANING IS IN THE FIGHT ITSELF. EVEN IF IGNORED, I WILL HAVE FOUGHT FOR MY HOME BEFORE IT IS LOST TO UNCHOSEN, UNWANTED AND UNINVITED FORCES. I REJECT GLOBAL ZIMBABWE. WE MUST MAINTAIN OUR RHODESIA. TO THIS COUNCIL, LISTEN TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS. WE ARE HERE EN MASSE. BE AMERICA FIRST. AND TO THOSE WHO ABUSE THE SYSTEM MY PEOPLE BUILT, GO HOME BEFORE YOU ARE SENT BACK. NEXT, WE HAVE DAYNE ROSE, AND AFTER THAT WE'LL HAVE I AM HAVING A HARD TIME READING AND WRITING, GUYS. I'M SO SORRY. COUNCIL AND MAYOR. MY NAME IS DANE ROSE. I'M KIND OF WHAT YOU WOULD CONSIDER A GENERATIONAL AMERICAN AND I THINK THAT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE MY FAMILY'S BEEN HERE FOR OVER TWO CENTURIES SINCE AMERICA BECAME AMERICA AND I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF VALUE TO THAT AND I KNOW THAT THIS COUNCIL DOESN'T HAVE ALL THE POWER, ALL THE ANSWERS, BUT I KNOW THERE IS SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN DO AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT YOU LISTEN TO PEOPLE HERE. I WANT TO PAINT SOMETHING THROUGH THE LENS, A DIFFERENT LENS, USING SOME BUZZWORDS THAT I THINK WILL HIGHLIGHT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PROBLEM THAT WE'RE PRESENTING. ARE YOU AWARE OF THE EXPLOSIVE INCREASE IN THE WHITE EASTERN EUROPEAN POPULATION IN FRISCO? HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT IT GOING FROM 3% TO 40? DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE TECH LAYOFFS AT GOOGLE, AMAZON, MICROSOFT, AND OTHERS? OVER 120,000 U.S. JOBS SLASHED IN 2025 ALONE, PRIMARILY RETAINING H-1B WHITE EASTERN EUROPEANS? THEY LAID OFF GENERATIONAL CITIZENS WHO'VE BEEN HERE FOR CENTURIES, REPLACING THEM WITH THESE H-1B IMPORTS. HAVE YOU SEEN THE WHITE GERMAN NATIVE SHELL COMPANIES WITH FAKE WEBSITES BRINGING IN THOUSANDS OF WHITE GERMAN H-1B WORKERS UNDER FALSE PRETENSES? LIKE FRISCO AREA HOUSES REGISTERING BOGUS FIRMS FOR DOZENS OF 100K PLUS A YEAR VISAS OR GHOST OFFICES CRAMMING SCAM OPERATIONS? HAVE YOU SEEN APARTMENT COMPLEXES PACKED [00:55:02] ENTIRELY WITH H-1B WHITE POLISH NATIVE WORKERS TAKING OVER ENTIRE COMPLEXES WHILE WORKING IN TECH? HAVE YOU SEEN INDIAN AND MUSLIM-LED COMPANIES ONLY HIRING WHITE EUROPEANS ON H-1BS, CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS AND LOWERING THE BARS? IF THAT PISSES YOU OFF, REPLACE IT WITH REALITY. UNQUALIFIED INDIAN AND MUSLIM WORKERS SCAMMING AMERICANS OUT OF JOBS, STEALING TAX DOLLARS, AND DESTROYING OUR NATION IN TEXAS. AND THE FUNNIEST PART, IF THESE WERE TRULY HIGH-SKILLED GERMANS OR POLES, WE'D WELCOME THE NET POSITIVE. INSTEAD, WE GET LOW-QUALITY SCAMMERS WITH FAKE DEGREES ABUSING OUR SYSTEMS MEANT FOR GENERATIONAL AMERICANS. FRISCO'S AT AROUND 235,000 PEOPLE, ASIANS, PRIMARILY INDIANS, ARE SOARING TO 34% OF THAT. WE'RE LOADED WITH THOUSANDS OF YEARLY LABOR-CONDITIONED APPLICATIONS FROM FRAUDSTERS THAT YOU GUYS DO DEAL WITH. AS BLAZE TV'S SARAH GONZALEZ EXPOSED, IT ALL STINKS. IT'S ALL FRAUD. AND HERE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL THE MUSLIMS COMING IN, INDIANS COMING IN, AND IT'S JUST CHANGING THE FABRIC OF OUR COMMUNITIES. COUNCILMEMBERS, IF YOU'RE INFLUENCED BY DONORS OF THESE INDIAN H-1B DONORS, HANDING OUR KIDS' FUTURE TO FIRST-GENERATION INVADERS AND ANCHOR BABIES WHO SHOWED UP YESTERDAY TO TAKE FROM US. WE'RE HERE TO BE HEARD. HIGH-SKILL OR LOW-SKILL JOBS, THEY ARE FOR GENERATIONAL AMERICANS, NOT GUESTS ABUSING OUR SYSTEM. WE NEED PATRIOTS IN POWER TO SHUT DOWN H-1B FRAUD, INVESTIGATE CORRUPTION, AND PUT AMERICA FIRST. THANK YOU. ARE YOU MR. SINGH? GOOD EVENING, COUNCILMEMBERS, FELLOW CITIZENS OF COLLIN COUNTY. MY NAME IS PRAMVEER SINGH. I WAS A PROUD RESIDENT OF COLLIN COUNTY FOR FIVE YEARS. CURRENTLY, I LIVE IN 1143 CHARLESTON LANE, SAVANNAH, TEXAS. I PROBABLY SERVED THE UNITED STATES ARMY FOR THE LAST 16 YEARS. I CALL AMERICA MY ONLY HOME, AND IT WILL BE MY ONLY HOME. I BELIEVE IT'S IMPORTANT FOR EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT WHAT COULD HAVE CAUSED THIS, THE RECENT BACKLASH FOR THE H-1B. HOWEVER, I'M A BLUE-COLLAR WORKER, SMALL BUSINESS OWNER. I'VE NEVER GOT INTO THAT H-1B ISSUE TOO DEEP, BUT I DO KNOW THAT THERE IS A FRAUD THAT'S HAPPENING. WE HAVE A PROOF. I HAVE A PROOF. I'M NOT GOING TO GO TOO DEEP INTO IT. HOWEVER, AS SOLDIERS AND BERT, YOU'RE NAVY. I'M SORRY. I LIKE TO FIND SOLUTIONS. AS A LEADER IN THE MILITARY, WE ARE HERE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS A MISSING LINK. A LOT OF INDIANS WHO HAVE MOVED IN RECENT YEARS, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, I BELIEVE THEY DON'T HAVE A FULL CONCEPT OF WHAT IT IS TO ASSIMILATE WITHIN THE AMERICAN SOCIETY. I MOVED TO UNITED STATES IN 2001. MY PARENTS TOLD US, YOU'RE AMERICANS BEFORE YOU'RE INDIAN, YOU'RE PUNJABI, YOU'RE SIKH. I'M A SIKH BY FAITH. I'M PUNJABI BY BLOOD, BUT AMERICAN BY SOUL. I WILL BLEED AND DIE FOR THIS COUNTRY ANY DAY. THE H-1B ISSUE HAS BEEN OVERLAPPED WITH WHAT I BELIEVE IS A CULTURAL ASPECT. THERE HAS A LOT OF MISUNDERSTANDING AND MISSING LINKS BETWEEN WHAT A LOT OF RESIDENTS ARE NOT ABLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON. TO MY KNOWLEDGE, I BELIEVE THIS HAS TO DO WITH OUR SOCIETY, OUR PEOPLE FROM INDIA COMING IN RECENTLY, NOT ASSIMILATING, OR I SHOULD SAY REFUSE TO ASSIMILATE. I HAVE SEEN THAT ON FACEBOOK WITH A LOT OF INDIAN GROUPS WHERE PEOPLE ARE COMMENTING, I'M LOOKING FOR A RESIDENT, BUT I WANT TO LIVE WITH A LOT OF INDIANS. I DON'T THINK THEY SHOULD BE CALLED OUT, BUT THERE SHOULD BE A FORUM OR SOME SORT OF PLATFORM TO EXPLAIN TO THEM, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING YOU WANT. YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN OPEN MIND. THIS IS HOW YOU GROW IN COMMUNITIES. YOU GROW STRONGER. I DO ALSO BELIEVE IF THERE ARE SUBGROUPS WITHIN THE COLLEGES AND SCHOOLS IN TEXAS WHERE INDIAN KIDS ONLY HANG OUT WITH THEIR OWN RACE, THIS DOES NOT GO UNNOTICED. WHAT I RECOMMEND IS OBVIOUSLY HAVING ANY INDIAN FORUM GROUP OR IANT TO BRING THAT UP TO ATTENTION AND ACTUALLY HOLD A PLATFORM WHERE PEOPLE CAN ACTUALLY SPEAK FREELY AND ENGAGE IF THEY THINK THAT THAT'S AN ISSUE. THIS WILL [01:00:01] BOOST THEIR SELF-CONFIDENCE, ABILITY TO ADAPT, AND HAVING AN OPEN MINDSET. TO MY INDIAN COUNTERPARTS, PLEASE BE RESPECTFUL OF OTHERS WHEN MOVING IN PUBLIC. I AM NOT PUTTING YOU ON BLAST, BUT LIVING IN A MAJORITY INDIAN SUBDIVISIONS, TRY AVOIDING HAVING RELIGIOUS PARADES WHEN SOMEBODY'S TRYING TO SLEEP FROM AN OVERNIGHT SHIFT FROM A HOSPITAL. IT DOES AFFECT THEM. MY KID IS FOUR YEARS OLD. MY WIFE, WHEN SHE CAME FROM INDIA, SHE TOLD ME SHE FEELS LIKE SHE'S LIVING IN INDIA AND NOT IN THE UNITED STATES. DEMOGRAPHICS ARE CHANGING. THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT. IT'S JUST THAT WE HAVE TO INTEGRATE BETTER. THAT SHOULD BE ALL. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING. ALL RIGHT. NEXT WE HAVE MARK PALACIANO. I'M GLAD I WROTE THIS SPEECH OUT. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SHOWED UP. THE SUPPORT IS OVERWHELMING. OKAY, FRISCO CITY COUNCIL, TAKE A LOOK AT THIS ROOM FULL OF CONCERNED CITIZENS. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE YOU REPRESENT, AND THEY'RE HERE TO TELL YOU THERE'S A BIG PROBLEM THAT NEEDS YOUR ATTENTION. A LOT OF FRISCO RESIDENTS HAVE REACHED OUT TO ME OVER THE LAST TWO WEEKS SINCE I SPOKE HERE. THEY WANT YOU TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY SOME OF THE MAYOR'S BIGGEST DONORS ARE INDIANS THAT DON'T LIVE IN FRISCO. IS IT BECAUSE THE MAYOR'S REAL ESTATE BUSINESS, OR IS HE BEING BOUGHT OUT TO IGNORE AN INDIAN TAKEOVER? WHY ARE PEOPLE WITH MULTIPLE H-1B COMPANIES REGISTERED TO ONE ADDRESS DONATING TO FRISCO'S FIRST INDIAN MAYOR? WE KNOW FORTUNE 100 COMPANIES ARE EMPLOYING FOREIGNERS ON H-1B VISAS, BUT WHY ARE INDIANS IN FRISCO OPENING UP THEIR OWN BUSINESSES TIED TO H-1B? IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE THAT FRISCO'S INDIAN POPULATION EXPLODED 4,510%, AND THERE'S POTENTIAL VISA FRAUD HERE. BERT, THAT WAS A NICE SPEECH. IF YOU TRULY CARED ABOUT ME, YOU WOULD HAVE HELPED ME WHEN I TOLD YOU FACE-TO-FACE THAT I WAS A WHISTLEBLOWER EXPOSING A COMPANY THAT'S DOING BUSINESS IN FRISCO. WHY DID YOU RUN FOR CONGRESS ON CLOSING IMMIGRATION LOOPHOLES WHILE COMPLETELY WANTING TO IGNORE THE H-1B LOOPHOLE THAT HAS EXPLODED FRISCO'S INDIAN POPULATION? YOU STATED IT IN YOUR SPEECH. THE INDIAN POPULATION IS 1.6% OF AMERICA, BUT IT'S 33% OF FRISCO. YOU PROVED THE POINT FOR ME. DOESN'T THAT SEEM ODD? FOR ME, IT'S MORE THAN THE INDIAN TAKEOVER THAT'S A BIG DEAL. I'M HERE TO EXPOSE TYRANNY IN TEXAS, AND THE INDIAN TAKEOVER IS JUST ONE PUZZLE PIECE TO THE BIG PUZZLE THAT'S DESTROYING TEXAS AND AMERICA FROM WITHIN. FRISCO CITY COUNCIL, T-MOBILE, AND THE PGA ALL KNOW THEY'VE COLLUDED TO SILENCE A WHISTLEBLOWER. CORPORATIONS OWN FRISCO. CORPORATIONS OWN OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS. WE'RE LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES OF CORPORATIONS WHERE THE CONSTITUTION DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK AN OATH TO THE CONSTITUTION ARE BOUGHT AND PAID FOR. MAYOR CHENEY, I'VE HEARD FROM A LOT OF REAL ESTATE AGENTS THAT THEY HAVE CONCERNS WITH YOU OWNING ONE OF THE LARGEST REAL ESTATE FIRMS IN FRISCO. YOU MAY NOT BE DOING ANYTHING ILLEGAL, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK YOU'RE SHADY AND USING YOUR LEADERSHIP POSITION TO BENEFIT YOUR BANK ACCOUNT. BURT, YOU TOLD DALLAS EXPRESS THAT H-1B FRAUD ISN'T YOUR PROBLEM. IT'S A FEDERAL PROBLEM. WELL, NOW TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN PAXTON HAS OPENED UP INVESTIGATIONS INTO H-1B FRAUD. CAN WE EXPECT YOU TO ASK KEN PAXTON TO INVESTIGATE YOUR DONORS? PEOPLE IN FRISCO BETTER WAKE UP. SOON ENOUGH, YOUR ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL CAN BE INDIAN WITH HOW FAST THE POPULATION HAS GROWN, AND THEY'RE SHOWING UP TO THE VOTING POLLS. IN 2023, THE CITY OF FRISCO RECOGNIZED T-MOBILE USA AS THE BIGGEST PRIVATE SECTOR EMPLOYER IN THE CITY. SINCE THEN, T-MOBILE HAS LAID OFF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND HUNDREDS OUT OF THAT FRISCO OFFICE, AND I'M ONE. THAT'S THE WHOLE REASON I SPEAK HERE. T-MOBILE IS CURRENTLY LAYING OFF EMPLOYEES ALL OVER AMERICA, AND NOBODY IN THE NEWS IS TALKING ABOUT IT BECAUSE THEY'RE BEING PROTECTED FROM BEING EXPOSED. AND NOW, AS OF LATE 2025, T-MOBILE USA OPENED A GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY HUB IN HYDERABAD, INDIA, THAT EMPLOYS THOUSANDS OF INDIANS WHILE THEY'RE LAYING OFF TEXANS AND AMERICANS. THEY'VE EVEN SENT AMERICANS TO GO TRAIN THESE INDIANS IN INDIA. T-MOBILE USA COULD HAVE EASILY OPENED UP THIS TECHNOLOGY HUB IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND THEY COULD HAVE RAN IT OUT OF ONE OF THE TWO FRISCO OFFICES ON WARREN PARKWAY. ON TOP OF THAT, T-MOBILE SPENT $81.5 MILLION ON SALARIES FOR H-1B EMPLOYEES IN THE UNITED STATES IN 2025. ALL SALARIES THAT COULD HAVE WENT TO AMERICANS. IS IT A COINCIDENCE THAT T-MOBILE HAS A NEW INDIAN CEO AS OF NOVEMBER LAST YEAR? PROBABLY NOT. AND LET ME REMIND EVERYONE OF WHAT I'VE EXPOSED TO THE FRISCO CITY COUNCIL ABOUT T-MOBILE AS A WHISTLEBLOWER. T-MOBILE VIOLATED THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION BY CENSORING CUSTOMER TEXT MESSAGES DURING COVID. T-MOBILE DISCRIMINATES AGAINST WHITE CHRISTIAN MEN WITH DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION. T-MOBILE PUSHED THE TRANSGENDER AGENDA ONTO THEIR EMPLOYEES AND EVEN FUNDED PROGRAMS PROMOTING THE LGBTQ AGENDA TO CHILDREN. T-MOBILE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST TEXANS FOR BEING UNVACCINATED, AND THEY COERCED AND BULLIED AMERICANS INTO GETTING UNVACCINATED. T-MOBILE'S HAD ME [01:05:01] CENSORED AND SHADOW BANNED ON SOCIAL MEDIA FOR SPEAKING UP, AND THEY EVEN WEAPONIZED THE TEXAS JUDICIARY SYSTEM TO COME AFTER ME. TO MY FELLOW TEXANS, WE HAVE A BIG PROBLEM, AND WE HAVE TO STAY ON TOP OF THESE PROBLEMS AND NOT LET THEM GO AWAY. I RECOMMEND PEOPLE START SHOWING UP TO THEIR LOCAL CITY COUNCILS AND SPEAKING UP AND DEMANDING THE LEADERSHIP PAY ATTENTION. YOU CAN EXPECT ME TO CONTINUE SPEAKING UP AT LOCAL CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS, AND I'LL BE SPEAKING AT MORE THAN JUST FRISCO. THANKS AGAIN TO ALL THE TEXANS WHO SHOWED UP TO SUPPORT ME. IT'S NOT EASY BEING A WHISTLEBLOWER SPEAKING UP. NOW WE ARE GOING TO GET TO OUR FRISCO RESIDENTS. SO WE ARE GOING TO START WITH DONNA SCHMITTLER, AND FOLLOWING THAT WILL BE PAUL JUSTIN. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, COUNCIL, AND STAFF. DONNA SCHMITTLER, 7037 WHITE ROCK COURT, FRISCO, TEXAS. I'M HERE TO CELEBRATE FRISCO. FRISCO IS GOING TO BE 124 YEARS OLD. ON FEBRUARY 7TH AND 8TH OF 1902, THE BLACKLAND TOWN SITE HELD THEIR FIRST LOT SALES. SO NOW HERE WE ARE IN FEBRUARY CELEBRATING 124 YEARS OF FRISCO. NOW THIS SATURDAY IS FEBRUARY 7TH, BUT WE WILL BE CELEBRATING LUNAR NEW YEAR, SO WE WILL BE PUSHING THE FRISCO CELEBRATION UNTIL NEXT SATURDAY, THE 14TH, AND WE WILL BE CELEBRATING WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY, A LOT OF THINGS GOING ON AT THE MUSEUM, AND WE WILL HAVE OUR FAMOUS PIN THE TAIL ON THE RACCOON CELEBRATION, AND WE'RE GETTING READY FOR FRISCO'S 125TH BIRTHDAY NEXT YEAR. WE TALK ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE ON THE COUNCIL OR IN THE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION, WE TALK ABOUT HOW THE FIRST 100 YEARS, THE CITY OF FRISCO, WELL IT WAS THE TOWN OF FRISCO, IT WAS BUILT BY THE PIONEERS WHO RAN THE TRAIN, THE RAILS, THE CATTLE TRAILS, THE COTTON FIELDS. SO NOW THESE NEXT 25 YEARS ARE ALL THE CITIZENS NOW, WE'RE THE PIONEERS THAT BUILT THIS CITY, AND WE DO HAVE A VERY DIVERSE CITY. WE HAVE ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF ETHNICS AND CULTURES, AND I THINK IN THE UNITED STATES, IT'S A GOOD THING FOR US ALL TO GET ALONG AND LEARN OUR HISTORY, BECAUSE NOW WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW, IN 25 YEARS, THEY'RE GOING TO BE SAYING, THIS IS THE HERITAGE. SO I'D LIKE US ALL TO JOIN THE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION TO CELEBRATE FRISCO AND ITS DIVERSITY AND ITS MANY CULTURES, AND ALSO TRY AND LEARN MORE ABOUT US. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, NEXT WE HAVE PAUL JESSEN, AND THEN AFTER THAT WE HAVE STEVEN GARCIA. GOOD EVENING, MR. MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, FELLOW CITIZENS OF FRISCO. I AM PAUL JESSEN, I LIVE IN FRISCO AT 5857 LEGACY DRIVE. I'M NOT GOING TO SAY ANYTHING NEW TONIGHT THAT YOU HAVE NOT HEARD FOR THE LAST TWO TO THREE MONTHS, AND THAT IS THE CONCERN ABOUT WHAT'S HAPPENED TO THE RAIL DISTRICT. AND WE KIND OF CAME TO AN UNDERSTANDING THAT THE BUSINESSES, A NUMBER OF THEM, HAVE GONE UNDER LONG-STANDING, FAMILY GENERATIONAL, IF I CAN USE THAT WORD, PEOPLE OWNING BUSINESSES ON MAIN STREET. AND YET THEY'VE BEEN TREATED LIKE FOREIGNERS. AND SO BUSINESSES HAVE GONE OUT OF BUSINESS, AND IT WAS A GOOD START TO THROW OUT SOME CARDS, THAT WAS GOOD. AND IT LOOKED LIKE MAYBE THAT $500,000 WAS GOING TO BE GOOD. IT LOOKS LIKE MAYBE $1.5 MILLION WAS GRANTED FOR THIS. BUT AN EASY STARTER, SMARTER THAN A FIFTH GRADER MATHEMATICIAN, CAN TELL YOU THAT THEY NEED AT LEAST $8 OR $9 MILLION TO REPLACE THE BUSINESSES THAT HAVE BEEN DESTROYED AND LIMITED BY THE DECISION OF THE COUNCIL. NOW, I'M NOT PICKING ON YOU GUYS. EVERYBODY MAKES MISTAKES. OOPS, THAT WAS A BIG ONE. BUT THE ONES WHO ARE PAYING FOR IT ARE THE ONES WHO ARE THE BUSINESS OWNERS. AND SO WE HAD [01:10:01] A START. IN FACT, A COUPLE OF MEETINGS AGO, THERE WAS ALMOST A, SORRY, THEY HAD PEOPLE, NICE START, SHOUTING, SHH, DON'T DO THAT. WE NEED TO REALLY PICK UP THE SLACK. THESE ARE GENERATIONAL FRISKS. BEEN HERE A LONG TIME TO RECOGNIZE BUSINESSES, SOLID BUSINESSES, GOING UNDER NOT BECAUSE THEY DID ANYTHING, BUT BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE THING WAS HANDLED. SO I BELIEVE IT IS A MORAL RESPONSIBILITY TO ALSO RECOGNIZE THESE BUSINESS OWNERS ARE FAMILY. LET THAT SINK IN. NONE OF YOU WOULD LET YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS SUFFER THE INDIGNITIES THAT THEY HAVE OF HAVING THEIR BUSINESSES RUINED. WE NEED TO STEP UP AND SAY, LOOK, WE MADE THE MISTAKE. THE MONEY IS THERE, AT LEAST $8 OR $9 MILLION, DISTRIBUTED PROPERLY SO THAT THESE BUSINESSES THAT ARE GOING OUT, NOT BECAUSE OF THEM, BUT BECAUSE OF YOUR OWN DECISION, CAN BE REIMBURSED. AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE THE RIGHT THING TO DO. REIMBURSE THEM FOR WHAT THEY'VE LOST, NOT ON THEIR ACCOUNT, BUT BECAUSE OF THE DECISION THAT CITY COUNCIL MADE. AND REMEMBER, THEY'RE FAMILY. REMEMBER, THEY ARE FELLOW FRISCO RESIDENTS. REMEMBER, THEY'RE PART OF US. AND I DON'T THINK ANYBODY ON COUNCIL WOULD STAND IF THEY WERE ON THAT DISTRICT AND HAD THEIR BUSINESS TREATED THE WAY IT HAS BEEN AND THEN SAY, HEY, IT HAPPENS. NO, IT DOESN'T HAPPEN. IT CAN BE FIXED. SO THAT IS WHAT I'M HERE FOR AGAIN, TO REMIND YOU, BECAUSE I SAID ONCE EARLIER, YOU ONLY HAVE TO TELL A MAN ONCE. BUT THEN YOU HAVE TO REMIND HIM MANY TIMES. SO SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO TELL THE COUNCIL ONCE, BUT THEN YOU NEED TO REMIND THEM MANY TIMES. OH, WE OWE IT TO OUR FAMILY MEMBERS, GENERATIONAL FRISCANS, TO REIMBURSE THAT WHICH WE TOOK FROM THEM, NOT INTENTIONALLY NECESSARILY, BUT OOPS, THESE THINGS HAPPEN. SO I WANT TO IMPLORE YOU AGAIN, FIND THAT, ACTUALLY, IF YOU NEED HELP FINDING THAT $8 OR $9 MILLION, I'LL HELP YOU. BUT IT'S THERE. WE ALL KNOW IT. PLEASE, BEFORE MORE GO OUT OF BUSINESS, WE STOP IT AND GET THEM WHERE THEY NEED TO BE PROPERLY TAKEN CARE OF BY THEIR CITY COUNCIL. OKAY. NEXT IS STEVEN GARCIA. AND AFTER THAT, WE HAVE MOONEY JANAGARAJAN. GOOD EVENING. I COME BEFORE YOU TONIGHT, NOT TO MINCE WORDS, BUT TO SPEAK ABOUT A TOPIC THAT MANY RESIDENTS ARE TALKING ABOUT, FRANKLY, OPENLY AND WITH REAL CONCERNS, WHAT SOME HAVE BEEN CALLING AN INDIAN TAKEOVER FOR OUR CITY. LET'S BE CLEAR. THE PHASE ITSELF HAS BEEN CONTROVERSIAL AND EMOTIONAL CHARGE, BUT IT DID NOT COME FROM NOWHERE. VIDEOS AND POSTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA HAVE GONE VIRAL, SHOWING CROWDS OF INDIAN OR SOUTH ASIAN RESIDENTS AT LOCAL STORES AND IN NEIGHBORHOODS, LEADING LONGTIME RESIDENTS TO ASK WHETHER THE CHARACTER OF OUR CITY IS CHANGING FASTER THAN CIVIC INSTITUTIONS CAN MANAGE. PEOPLE ARE SEEING A DIFFERENCE IN DAILY LIFE AND THEY'RE REACTING TO IT. SIGNIFICANT PART OF THIS DEBATE HAS CENTERED ON H-1B VISAS, THE LOCAL JOB MARKET AND POLITICAL DONATIONS. AT YOUR LAST MEETING, OF COURSE, WE'VE HEARD THE, YOU KNOW, THE INCREASE IN, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE MOVING TO FRISCO. RESIDENTS ARE ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT SOCIAL COHESION. MANY FEEL THAT NEW CULTURE AND BUSINESS ENCLAVES, LEGAL PERSONABLE, HAVE SPRUNG UP SO FAST THAT PEOPLE DISCONTINUE, DISCONNECTED FROM THE BORDER CIVIC CULTURE OF FRISCO. THEY FEEL LIKE THEIR OWN TRADITIONS AND WAYS OF LIFE ARE BEING OVERSHADOWED WHILE CITY LEADERSHIP DISMISSES THESE CONCERNS AS RACIST OR XENOPHOBIC. THAT'S NOT GOOD GOVERNANCE. REAL LEADERSHIP LISTENS TO PEOPLE WITHOUT SHUTTING THEM DOWN. NO ONE, NO ONE HERE WANTS VIOLENCE OR RACIAL HOSTILITY, BUT LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS ABOUT JOBS, COMMUNITY INTEGRATION, CULTURE CHANGE AND POLITICAL INFLUENCE NEED TO BE HEARD AND ANSWERED, NOT WAVED AWAY. I URGE THIS COUNCIL TO STOP DISMISSING THESE CONCERNS AS FRINGE OR EXTREMIST AND INSTEAD ADDRESS THEM WITH TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND A WILLINGNESS TO REPRESENT THE VOICES OF ALL RESIDENTS. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE MOONEY. AND I'M SORRY, MOONEY. JENNIFER RANJAN. AFTER THAT, WE'LL HAVE SACHIN VIKRAM. GOOD [01:15:04] EVENING, MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. MY NAME IS MOONEY JENNIFER RANJAN. I LIVE IN 6869 SHERIDAN GLEN DRIVE, FRISCO, TEXAS, 75035. I HAVE BEEN A PROUD RESIDENT OF THE FRISCO FOR 13 YEARS LIVING IN THE RICHWOODS COMMUNITY. I AM HERE TO REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY THAT VIEWS FRISCO NOT JUST AS A PLACE OF RESIDENCE, BUT AS A PLACE OF DEEP, LONG TERM INVESTMENT. AS INDIAN AMERICANS, WE ARE PROUD TO BE A PART OF THE ENGINE THAT DRIVES THE CITY'S EXCELLENCE, CONTRIBUTING OUR RESOURCES, OUR FAITH AND OUR HARD WORK TO THE VERY FABRIC OF NORTH TEXAS. WE ARE HERE BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN THE NAME OF FRISCO WAY THAT HAS DRAWN FAMILIES OF EVERY RACE AND BACKGROUND TO THIS NORTH TEXAS HOME. OUR IMPACT RIPPLES ACROSS BOTH COLLIN AND DENTON COUNTIES. IN FRISCO, THE ASIAN AMERICAN NOW MAKES UP NEARLY 33% OF THE POPULATION, AND NOW WE ARE AMONG THE MOST ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS IN THE LOCAL ECONOMY. IN COLLIN COUNTY, ASIAN HOUSEHOLDS REPRESENT THE INDIAN AMERICAN, SORRY, HIGHEST MEDIAN INCOME IN THE REGION, AVERAGING APPROXIMATELY $147,000. WE ARE THE ENTREPRENEURS, HIGH SKILLED PROFESSIONALS, FUELING THE TECH AND MEDICAL CORRIDORS THAT MAKE OUR COLLIN COUNTY A NATIONAL LEADER. IN DENTON COUNTY, OUR FAMILIES ARE DRIVING THE EXPANSION INTO THE WESTERN FRISCO, INVESTING IN HIGH VALUE PROPERTIES THAT SECURE A ROBUST TAX BASE FOR DECADES TO COME. WHEN WE BUY HOMES IN FIELDS, NEWMAN VILLAGE, STARWOODS, RICHWOODS OR LEXINGTON, WE AREN'T JUST BUYING THE REAL ESTATE, WE ARE FUNDING THE WORLD CLASS PARKS. EVERY FIRST RESPONDER HAS THE TOOLS THEY NEED TO KEEP US SAFE, AND FRISCO ISD, ONE OF THE TOP RATED SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN TEXAS, THEY BENEFIT EVERY CHILD IN THE CITY. A CITY IS ONLY AS STRONG AS ITS NEIGHBORHOODS. WE ARE PROUD TO LIVE ALONGSIDE NEIGHBORS OF EVERY BACKGROUND WHO SHARE OUR SAME CORE VALUES, HARD WORK, EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE, AND A SPIRIT OF COMPASSION AND KINDNESS. BUT A CITY IS MORE THAN ITS TAX RECEIPTS. IT IS HELD TOGETHER BY ITS VALUES. IN FRISCO, YOU WILL FIND US SERVING IN OUR CHURCHES, SEEKING PEACE IN OUR TEMPLES, PRACTICING CHARITY AT OUR MOSQUES. WE ARE GUIDED BY TIMELESS WISDOM THAT TRANSCENDS BORDERS. THE BIBLE TEACHES, BE KIND AND COMPASSIONATE TO ONE ANOTHER. THE BHAGAVAD GITA TEACHES, SEE THE TRUE EQUALITY OF ALL BEINGS. TREAT THE HAPPINESS OF OTHERS AS YOUR OWN. THE QURAN REMINDS US, WE HAVE MADE YOU PEOPLES AND TRIBES THAT YOU MAY KNOW ONE ANOTHER. THESE AREN'T JUST RELIGIOUS WORDS. THESE ARE THE FOUNDATION OF STABLE, MORAL SOCIETY. WHETHER WE ARE CHRISTIAN, JEWISH, HINDU, SIKH, MUSLIM, OR BUDDHIST, WE ARE UNITED BY A COMMON TEXT AND CREED TO WORK HARD, TO HELP OUR NEIGHBORS, TO RAISE OUR CHILDREN WITH FAITH, MORAL VALUES, AND CHARACTER. WE INSTILL IN THEM A SENSE OF PATRIOTISM AND A DUTY TO SERVE THEIR CITY, THEIR STATE, AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WE BELIEVE IN STRONG FAMILIES, SAFE NEIGHBORHOODS, AND UNWAVERING PATRIOTISM FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WE ARE HERE TO STAND WITH YOU IN PROTECTING THE TEXAS WAY OF LIFE. WE ARE HERE TO SERVE ALONGSIDE YOU IN THE FOOD PANTRIES, ON THE BOARDS, AND IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. WE ARE COMMITTED TO BEING THE KIND OF NEIGHBORS WHO LOOK OUT FOR ONE ANOTHER, WHO VOLUNTEER FOR THE PTA, AND WHO ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES TO SERVE THE LESS FORTUNATE IN OUR CITY. TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND FELLOW RESIDENTS, OUR MESSAGE TONIGHT IS ONE OF PARTNERSHIP. WE ARE DEEPLY COMMITTED TO THE SUCCESS OF FRISCO, TO THE PROSPERITY OF COLLIN AND DENTON COUNTIES, TO THE KINDNESS THAT DEFINES OUR HOME. WE ARE ONE FRISCO, DIVERSE IN HERITAGE, BUT A SINGLE-MINDER IN OUR DEVOTION TO THE CITY'S FUTURE. GOD BLESS AMERICA. THANK YOU. OKAY, NEXT WE HAVE SACHIN VEKRAM, AND THEN AFTER THAT WE'LL HAVE MOHANRAN, AND THEN I CANNOT READ THE LAST BIT. IT LOOKS LIKE RANA LIJIAN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBERS, FOR LETTING ME SPEAK TONIGHT. SO I WOULD LIKE TO START OFF AS FRISCO, TEXAS IS OFTEN RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING AND MOST [01:20:02] SUCCESSFUL CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES. WHAT TRULY FUELS THE SUCCESS IS NOT JUST THE NEW BUILDINGS OR BUSINESSES, BUT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE IN OUR CITY. BUT ONE COMMUNITY THAT'S ALWAYS SEPARATED APART, BUT HAS A MAJOR AND POSITIVE IMPACT ON FRISCO, IS THE INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY. ECONOMICALLY, INDIAN AMERICANS PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE IN FRISCO'S GROWTH. MANY WORK IN HIGH DEMAND FIELDS SUCH AS TECHNOLOGY, HEALTHCARE, ENGINEERING, FINANCE, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP. THESE CAREERS BRING INNOVATION, STABILITY, AND HIGH LEVELS OF PRODUCTIVITY TO THE LOCAL ECONOMY. INDIAN-OWNED BUSINESSES RANGING FROM JUST RESTAURANTS AND GROCERY STORES TO TECH STARTUPS AND TUTORING CENTERS CREATE JOBS, ATTRACT VISITORS, AND KEEP MONEY CIRCULATING WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. THIS STRENGTHENS FRISCO'S TAX BASE AND HELPS FUND SCHOOLS, ROADS, PUBLIC SERVICES THAT BENEFIT EVERYONE LIVING IN OUR CITY. EDUCATION IS ANOTHER AREA WHERE THE INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY HAS MADE A STRONG IMPACT. MANY INDIAN FAMILIES EMPHASIZE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, WHICH LEADS TO HIGH LEVELS OF STUDENT INVOLVEMENT IN ADVANCED CLASSES, STEM PROGRAMS, AND EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES. THIS RAISES ACADEMIC STANDARDS ACROSS ALL FRISCO SCHOOLS AND ENCOURAGES A CULTURE OF HARD WORK, DISCIPLINE, AND AMBITION THAT BENEFITS ALL STUDENTS IN OUR CITY, NOT JUST ONE GROUP OF STUDENTS. CULTURALLY, THE INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY ADDS RICHNESS AND DIVERSITY TO THE FRISCO IDENTITY. WE COME TO AMERICA FOR THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES. EVERY PERSON IN THIS ROOM RIGHT NOW, THEIR ANCESTORS HAVE COME FROM A DIFFERENT COUNTRY, A DIFFERENT CONTINENT. WE CAME TO AMERICA FOR THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES, AND FRISCO IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF WHAT AMERICA MEANS. MANY INDIAN FAMILIES. I'M SORRY. CELEBRATIONS SUCH AS DIWALI, HOLI, AND OTHER INDIAN TRADITIONS BRING PEOPLE OF ALL BACKGROUNDS TOGETHER TO LEARN, SHARE TRADITIONS, AND BUILD AN UNDERSTANDING OF OUR TRADITIONS. THESE EVENTS PROMOTE CULTURAL AWARENESS AND HELP BREAK DOWN STEREOTYPES BY ALLOWING PEOPLE TO CONNECT THROUGH FOOD, MUSIC, AND SHARED EXPERIENCES. DESPITE THESE POSITIVE CONTRIBUTIONS, INDIAN AMERICANS SOMETIMES FACE DISCRIMINATION OR HATE. THIS IS NOT ONLY WRONG, IT GOES AGAINST THE VERY VALUES THAT AMERICA WAS BUILT ON. HATE HAS NO PLACE IN THIS COUNTRY. THIS COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON DIVERSITY AND IMMIGRATION. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF NATIVE AMERICANS, EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES COMES FROM FAMILIES WHO HAVE IMMIGRATED HERE AND AT SOME POINT IN HISTORY. UNDERSTANDING THIS SHOULD REMIND US THAT NO GROUP HAS THE RIGHT TO LOOK DOWN UPON ANOTHER GROUP. INDIAN AMERICANS ARE NOT OUTSIDERS. THEY ARE DOCTORS WHO SAVE LIVES, TEACHERS WHO EDUCATE STUDENTS, BUSINESS OWNERS WHO EMPLOY WORKERS, AND NEIGHBORS WHO CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMUNITY EVERY SINGLE DAY. FRISCO'S SUCCESS IS DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF DIVERSE GROUPS LIKE THE INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY. IN CONCLUSION, THE INDIAN COMMUNITY HAS HELPED FRISCO GROW ECONOMICALLY, ACADEMICALLY, AND CULTURALLY. INSTEAD OF ALLOWING HATE OR MISINFORMATION TO DIVIDE ALL OF US, WE SHOULD RECOGNIZE THAT DIVERSITY IS ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST STRENGTHS. WHEN WE SUPPORT INCLUSION AND RESPECT, FRISCO BECOMES NOT JUST A PLACE TO LIVE, BUT A STRONGER AND MORE UNITED COMMUNITY FOR EVERYONE. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, NEXT WE HAVE MAHANARAM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE GRACE ON THE LAST NAME, I CANNOT READ IT. AND THEN FOLLOWING AFTER THAT, WE WILL HAVE SHRIKANTH REDDY. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. I AM RAM RAMALINGAM, A FRISCO RESIDENT. I LIVE IN 1654 BRIDAL BOULEVARD, FRISCO, TEXAS. AND AN AMERICAN OF INDIAN ORIGIN. I'M SPEAKING BECAUSE WE HAVE HEARD CERTAIN THINGS IN PUBLIC. LET'S BE VERY CLEAR. IT IS NOT A POLICY DISCUSSION. IT IS A RACIAL [01:25:01] GENERALIZATION, A RACIAL STEREOTYPE. NO ONE HERE IS DEFENDING SCAMS. CRIMINALS SHOULD BE DEALT WITH BY LAW ENFORCEMENT. BUT WHEN SOMEONE REPEATEDLY SINGLES OUT INDIANS AS A PROBLEM, THAT STOPS BEING ABOUT CRIME AND BECOMES ABOUT RACE. THAT MATTERS, BECAUSE RHETORIC LIKE THIS ENCOURAGES HARASSMENT, FUELS SUSPICION AGAINST INNOCENT NEIGHBORS, AND UNDERMINES TRUST IN A DIVERSE CITY LIKE FRISCO. YOU DON'T FIGHT CRIME BY BLAMING AN ETHNICITY. YOU FIGHT CRIME WITH THE EVIDENCE, LAW ENFORCEMENT, AND ACCOUNTABILITY. FRISCO IS MUCH BETTER THAN THIS. I URGE THE COUNCIL AND THE RESIDENTS TO REJECT SUCH RHETORIC THAT DIVIDES RESIDENTS BASED ON WHAT OR WHERE THEY CAME FROM, BUT INSTEAD LOOK AT WHAT THEY ARE CONTRIBUTING. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. SHRIKANTH REDDY. AND THEN NEXT WE'LL HAVE SAI KRISHNA. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND ALL CITY COUNCILMEN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY. OKAY. SO PEOPLE OF FRISCO ARE ACTUALLY CONTEMPLATING AND THINKING THAT WHAT EXACTLY IS THE ISSUE HERE? SO IS THE CONCERN THAT MAYOR OR ANY COUNCIL MEMBER OR CONTESTANT WHO ARE RUNNING FOR THE CITY OR FASD, ARE THEY TAKING MONEY FROM SOME ILLEGAL OPTIONS? SO INDIANS MOVING INTO EAST FRISCO, BECAUSE THESE TWO ARE TWO THINGS, INDIANS MOVING INTO FRISCO AND THE ILLEGAL FUNDING. SO IF THE MAYOR OR ANY COUNCILMEN OR CONTESTANTS ACCEPTED ILLEGAL DONATIONS, ESPECIALLY FROM H-1B VISA HOLDERS, THEN SAY THAT CLEARLY AND PROVE IT. THAT IS THE REAL ISSUE AND DESERVE SCRUTINY. BUT IF THIS IS ABOUT IMMIGRANT INDIANS MOVING INTO FRISCO LEGALLY WHO ARE OPENING BUSINESSES, RUNNING THEM SUCCESSFULLY, CONTRIBUTING TO THE ECONOMY OF FRISCO AND FOLLOWING THE LAW, THEN I HONESTLY DO NOT SEE THIS AS A PROBLEM. SO I AM A LAW ABIDING, TAXPAYING, CONSERVATIVE, REPUBLICAN, AMERICAN, AND I AM AS PATRIOTIC AS ANYONE. I BELIEVE IN ACCOUNTABILITY, NOT WHISTLES. SO HOLD ELECTED OFFICIALS RESPONSIBLE WHEN THEY CROSS ETHICAL OR LEGAL TIMES, LEGAL LINES, BUT DON'T TURN THAT INTO AN ATTACK ON ENTIRE COMMUNITY. THAT'S PLAYING BY THE RULES. SO WE BLOCK WALKED WITH EVERY LEADER HERE AND WE DID UNLIMITED MEET AND GREETS WITH JOHN OR MAYOR JEFF CHENEY, EVEN LAURA RUMBLE, JARED, BERT, AS WELL BRIAN. SO ALL OF THEM WE WORKED WITH AND WE ACTUALLY SUPPORTED THEM WIN THESE ELECTIONS. AND NO ONE HAS AN IDEA ABOUT HOW WE ARE WORKING AND BRINGING ALL THESE LEADERS ELECTED, GETTING THEM ELECTED. SO THE, ON THE HIGH VALUE GROWTH, THE INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY ISN'T JUST MOVING TO FRISCO, THEY'RE INVESTING IN ITS FUTURE. WHILE OUR NEIGHBORS IN PLANO AND ALLEN ARE EXCELLENT CITIES, I SHOULD APPRECIATE MAYOR FOR THE GROWTH OF FRISCO. SO BECAUSE FOR EVERY THOUSAND RESIDENTS, FRISCO SEES NEARLY FOUR $1 MILLION HOME SALES ANNUALLY. THAT IS MORE THAN DOUBLE THE RATE OF PLANO AND ALLEN. SO THIS HIGH DENSITY INVESTMENT DIRECTLY FUELS OUR PROPERTY TAX BASE. AND THE INDIAN AMERICANS AREN'T JUST LIVING HERE, THEY'RE DISPROPORTIONATELY FUNDING GOLD STANDARD AMENITIES THAT MAKE FRISCO A NATIONAL DESTINATION. SO THEIR COMMITMENT, SO ON THE EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE, WE CAN SAY TEXAS, THE COMMITMENT TO ACADEMIC RIGOR IS PRIMARY REASON FRISCO REMAINS THE LARGEST DISTRICT IN TEXAS TO MAINTAIN STRAIGHT A RATING. [01:30:03] SO WITH INDIAN AMERICAN MASSIVE GROWTH IN FRISCO, THEY HAVE PRIORITIZED THE STUDENT TEACHER RATIO OF ABOUT 15 TO 1 WHEN COMPARED TO ALLEN. ALLEN IS 19 TO 1. SO HERE IT ACTUALLY GIVING THE, I MEAN, GIVING EMPLOYMENT GROWTH. SO FASD PRODUCED OVER 140 NATIONAL MERIT SEMI-FINALISTS LAST YEAR. THE INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY HELPED FASD MAINTAIN TOP TIER RANKINGS THAT KEEP ALL OUR PROPERTY VALUES HIGH AND ATTRACT BEST CORPORATE EMPLOYERS TO NORTH PLATINUM CORRIDOR. SO ON THE LONG-TERM STABILITY, THIS IS THE FINAL. SO INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SHARES THE SAME FAMILY FIRST VALUES THAT BUILT FRISCO. OUR NEIGHBORHOODS CONSISTENTLY REPORT SOME OF THE LOWEST CRIME RATES AND HIGHEST RATES OF HOME OWNERSHIP IN THE CITY. INDIANS ARE IN TRANSIENT POPULATION. THEY ARE LONG-TERM NEIGHBORS WHO VOLUNTEER IN SCHOOLS, PARTICIPATE IN CITY HALL, ONE-ON-ONE AND POLICE ACADEMY CLASSES AS WELL AS COMMUNITY EVENTS. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GIVING ME THIS OPPORTUNITY, COUNCILMAN, MAYOR. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND THIS IS WHAT I CAN SAY FOR TODAY. THANK YOU. OKAY, NEXT WE HAVE SAI KRISHNA AND THEN AFTER THAT WE HAVE JAGS MALHOTRA. HELLO. GOOD EVENING, MR. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS AND ALSO CITY OFFICIALS. MY NAME IS SAI KRISHNA. I'M A PROUD AMERICAN AND I STAND HERE TODAY AS A CONCERNED CITIZEN OF FRISCO AND AS A PROUD MEMBER OF INDIAN COMMUNITY TO CATEGORICALLY CONDEMN THE RECENT MISINFORMATION AND BLANKET ALLEGATION OF H-1B VISA FRAUD BEING CIRCULATED ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY. THESE CRIMES ARE UNSUBSTANTIATED LACK OF FACTUAL BASIS AND IRRESPONSIBLY PAINT AN ENTIRE ETHNIC GROUP WITH A BRUSH OF ALLEGED WRONGDOING. LET ME BE CLEAR HERE. THERE HAS BEEN NO CREDIBLE EVIDENCE PRESENTED TO ANY WIDESPREAD H-1B VISA FRAUD IN THIS CITY OR WITHIN THIS COMMUNITY. THE H-1B VISA PROGRAM IS FEDERALLY REGULATED, IMMIGRATION CATEGORY ADMINISTERED BY US CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY. IT INVOLVES STRICT DOCUMENTATION, EMPLOYER VERIFICATION, AUDITS AND ENFORCEMENT MECHANISMS. IF ANY INDIVIDUAL ENGAGES IN FRAUD, FEDERAL AGENCIES HAVE A LEGAL AUTHORITY TO INVESTIGATE, DENY PETITIONS, REVOKE APPROVALS AND TAKE OTHER ACTIONS. THAT PROCESS IS GOVERNED BY LAW, NOT BY SOCIAL MEDIA NARRATIVES OR PUBLIC SPECULATIONS. THE INDIAN AND INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTES SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE GROWTH, DIVERSITY, ECONOMY AND CIVIC LIFE OF FRISCO. APPROXIMATELY 18 TO 19% OF FRISCO'S POPULATION IDENTIFIES AS INDIAN, MAKING IT ONE OF THE LARGEST INDIAN POPULATION IN THE CITY OF THIS SIZE IN TEXAS. THE INDIAN COMMUNITY INCLUDES UNIFORMED SOLDIERS, VETERANS, DOCTORS, NURSES, ENGINEERS, EDUCATORS, ENTREPRENEURS, PARENTS, TAXPAYERS AND BUSINESS OWNERS WHO INVEST DEEPLY IN OUR SCHOOLS, NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE LOCAL ECONOMY. I SPEAK NOT ONLY AS A COMMUNITY MEMBER, BUT ALSO AS A NURSE. IN MY PROFESSION, I HAVE CARED FOR INDIVIDUALS OF EVERY RACE, RELIGION, GENDER, ETHNICITY AND A BACKGROUND. I DO NOT ASK WHO SOMEONE IS BEFORE PROVIDING CARE. I DO NOT DISCRIMINATE. I EXECUTE MY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES WITH EQUAL COMPASSION, PROFESSIONALISM AND RESPECT FOR EVERY HUMAN BEING. THAT SAME PRINCIPLE OF FAIRNESS IS WHAT I'M ASKING FOR HERE TODAY. DESPITE OUR CONTRIBUTIONS AND SHARED VALUES, OUR COMMUNITY HAS RECENTLY FACED DEEPLY TROUBLING DEVELOPMENTS THAT GO BEYOND MISINFORMATION. WE HAVE SEEN PROTESTS TARGETING A HINDU TEMPLE WITH INFLAMMATORY AND OFFENSIVE RHETORIC. WE HAVE WITNESSED A VIOLENT INCIDENT INVOLVING A STABBING OF AN INDIAN CHILD IN A LOCAL SUBDIVISION. THESE ARE NOT ABSTRACT POLICY DEBATES. THESE ARE REAL INCIDENTS AFFECTING REAL FAMILIES, REAL CHILDREN AND REAL RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN THIS CITY. I WANT TO THANK MR. BHAKTAKUR AND JAYAT ILAD FOR INVOLVING AND SUPPORTING THE INDIAN COMMUNITY WHEN THE STUDENT GOT STABBED AND WHEN [01:35:01] THERE WAS A... AT THE HINDU TEMPLE. IN MOMENTS LIKE THIS, RESIDENTS LOOK TO CITY LEADERSHIP FOR CLARITY, REASSURANCE AND ACTION. UNFORTUNATELY, THE SILENCE FROM THE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL HAS BEEN DEEPLY CONCERNING. WHEN MISINFORMATION SPREADS UNCHECKED, WHEN RELIGIOUS SPACES FEEL TARGETED AND WHEN VIOLENCE AFFECTS A CHILD, SILENCE IS NOT NEUTRAL. SILENCE ERODES TRUST AND LEAVES COMMUNITIES FEELING UNSEEN, UNSAFE AND UNPROTECTED. MANY MEMBERS OF THE INDIAN AND INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY ACTIVELY PARTICIPATED IN CIVIC PROCESS. WE VOTED, WE SUPPORTED CANDIDATES, WE LISTENED TO THE DEBATES AND CAMPAIGN STATEMENTS WHERE PUBLIC SAFETY WAS REPEATEDLY EMPHASIZED AS A TOP PRIORITY. TODAY, WE ARE ASKING RESPECTFULLY BUT FIRMLY, WHERE IS THAT COMMITMENT? IS PUBLIC SAFETY ONLY A CAMPAIGN SLOGAN OR IS IT A RESPONSIBILITY THAT APPLIES EQUALLY TO EVERY RESIDENT OF FRISCO? BECAUSE TODAY, MANY INDIAN FAMILIES ARE LIVING IN FEAR, FEAR OF THEIR CHILDREN, FEAR OF THEIR PLACES OF WORSHIP AND FEAR THAT THEIR CONCERNS WILL BE ACKNOWLEDGED ONLY DURING ELECTION SEASON. THIS IS NOT WHAT PUBLIC SAFETY SHOULD LOOK LIKE IN THIS CITY. WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR SPECIAL TREATMENT, WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR EQUAL... WE ARE ONLY ASKING FOR EQUAL TREATMENT. WE ARE ASKING FOR TRUTH OVER FEAR, FACTS OVER RUMORS, DUE PROCESS OVER ACCUSATION AND LEADERSHIP THAT REFUSES TO TOLERATE THIS SCAPEGOATING OF ANY GROUP BASED ON NATIONALITY, ETHNICITY OR RELIGION. IF ANYONE HAS CREDIBLE... VERIFIABLE EVIDENCE OF IMMIGRATION FRAUD, THE APPROPRIATE COURSE OF ACTION IS TO REPORT IT TO THE USCIS, DHS OR LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES WITH THE LEGAL AUTHORITY TO INVESTIGATE. COLLECTIVE BLAME, PUBLIC SHAMING AND STEREOTYPING ARE NEITHER LAWFUL NOR ETHICAL. WE CONDEMN FALSE ALLEGATIONS, WE STAND FIRMLY FOR DUE PROCESS AND FACTS AND WE REAFFIRM THAT FRISCO MUST REMAIN A CITY BUILT ON DIVERSITY, MUTUAL RESPECT, PUBLIC SAFETY AND THE RULE OF LAW FOR EVERY RESIDENT WITHOUT EXPECTATION, ET CETERA. I RESPECTFULLY CALL ON THE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL TO PUBLICLY AFFIRM THESE THREE THINGS. FIRST, I WANT TO COMPLETE THESE THREE SENTENCES. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, NOW WE'VE GOT JAGJIT MALHOTRA AND NEXT WE HAVE AMIT RAJDAHASKE. GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL. MY NAME IS JAGJIT MALHOTRA. I LIVE IN FRISCO SINCE 2019 AND I LIVE IN GROVE COMMUNITY WHICH IS ON EAST FRISCO. LAST YEAR I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GRADUATE FROM FRISCO CITY HALL 101 WHERE I LEARNED A REMARKABLE FACT THAT TRULY CAPTURED FRISCO'S JOURNEY. IN 1976 DRIVING FROM DALLAS YOU WILL SEE A SIGN LISTING FRISCO POPULATION JUST AS 1848. TODAY FRISCO IS A HOME TO 240,000 RESIDENTS AND COINCIDENTALLY THE CITY NOW EMPLOYS 848 DEDICATED PUBLIC SERVANTS. THAT SYMMETRY REFLECTS NOT JUST OUR GROWTH BUT A CITY BUILT WITH PURPOSE, SERVICE AND PEOPLE AT ITS HEART. OVER THE LAST TWO DECADES FRISCO HAS EXPERIENCED EXTRAORDINARY, ALMOST PARABOLIC GROWTH. ACCORDING TO RECENT ESTIMATE OVER 20% OF OUR POPULATION IS OF INDIAN ORIGIN. THE INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY IS DEEPLY WOVEN INTO THE FABRIC OF FRISCO. THEY ARE PROFESSIONALS, SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, HEALTHCARE WORKERS, VOLUNTEERS AND PARENTS RAISING THE NEXT GENERATION OF FRISCO RESIDENTS. THESE CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE HELPED SHAPE THE CITY WE PROUDLY CALL HOME. AS A PROUD AMERICAN CITIZEN I OWE MY ALLIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. MY SON PROUDLY SERVES THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, NOW DEPARTMENT OF WAR AND IS BASED OUT OF HAWAII. I ALSO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT MAYOR AND EVERY ELECTED MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL WERE ELECTED WITH THE SUPPORT OF FRISCO DIVERSE COMMUNITY INCLUDING STRONG SUPPORT FROM INDIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY. THAT SUPPORT REPRESENTS TRUST. TRUST THAT OUR CITY LEADERSHIP WILL STAND UP FOR INCLUSION, SAFETY AND DIGNITY FOR ALL RESIDENTS. FRISCO IS A CITY DEFINED BY DIVERSITY, OPPORTUNITY AND MUTUAL RESPECT. PEOPLE FROM EVERY BACKGROUND, CULTURE AND FAITH CALL FRISCO THE HOME. OUR DIVERSITY IS NOT OUR STRENGTH, IT IS OUR IDENTITY. LET'S BE CLEAR, HATE, INTIMIDATION AND DISCRIMINATION [01:40:02] OF ANY KIND HAS NO PLACE IN FRISCO. FRISCO MUST REMAIN A CITY WHERE EVERY RESIDENT FEELS SAFE, RESPECTED AND VALUED. TONIGHT I ARGUE OUR CITY LEADERSHIP TO RE-INFORM FRISCO'S UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO UNITY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND MUTUAL RESPECT. LET'S STAND TOGETHER FOR OUR SHARED VALUES. GOD BLESS AMERICA. AND AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. NEXT WE HAVE AMIT RAJADEKSHA AND THEN NEXT WE HAVE BRIAN SCHMIDT. BRIAN SCHMIDT, EXCUSE ME. GOOD EVENING CITY COUNCIL, MR. MAYOR. MY NAME IS AMIT RAJADEKSHA. I AM A U.S. CITIZEN. I WAS BORN HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. I AM A CITIZEN LIKE MOST EVERYBODY ELSE THAT IS HERE. AND I'M PROUD TO BE INDIAN AND I'M PROUD TO BE AMERICAN. MY WIFE AND I, SANDEEPA, HAVE LIVED IN THIS AREA. WE FIRST LIVED IN MCKINNEY. WE MOVED HERE IN 2005. WHEN WE MOVED TO THIS AREA, I THINK YOU ALL CAN REMEMBER THAT STONEBRIDGE, FROM STONEBRIDGE ROAD ON ELDORADO ALL THE WAY OVER TO PRESTON WAS A DIRT ROAD. THERE WAS A LOT OF WORK YOU HAD TO DRIVE SOUTH DOWN TO MAIN STREET. IT WAS A TWO-LANE ROAD CUT ACROSS IF YOU WANTED TO GO NORTH ON PRESTON. I WANT TO START BY THANKING THE CITY, THANKING THE CITY COUNCIL, THE MEMBERS THAT ARE HERE FOR EVERYTHING THAT THEY HAVE DONE TO GIVE US THIS TYPE OF GROWTH AND GIVE US THIS TYPE OF OPPORTUNITY HERE. I TOYED WITH THE IDEA OF, HEY, DO I SHOW UP TONIGHT? AND YOU KNOW WHAT? I REALLY DECIDED I NEEDED TO. AND I NEEDED TO FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. WHEN I CAME IN HERE TONIGHT, THERE WAS A GROUP OF YOUNG CUB SCOUTS, WEEBLOW SCOUTS. OUR BOYS WERE TWO OF THOSE WEEBLOW SCOUTS. ONE OF THEM IS AN EAGLE SCOUT NOW. THE SECOND ONE IS ABOUT TO BECOME AN EAGLE SCOUT. ONE OF THEM, MR. KEATING, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WOULD REMEMBER THIS, YOU TALKED TO A BUNCH OF KIDS, BUT YOU TOOK THE TIME TO TALK TO OUR SON, ARUN. ARUN'S AN EAGLE SCOUT. HE WAS SO PROUD OF YOUR SERVICE AND WE'RE SO THANKFUL FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE U.S. MILITARY. SAME TO YOU, MR. TUCKER. MY PARENTS CAME HERE 51 YEARS AGO. AND IF MY DAD WERE STILL AROUND, HE WOULD BE SO DISAPPOINTED TO SEE THIS. HE WOULD BE UTTERLY DISAPPOINTED. UTTERLY DISAPPOINTED IN ALL OF US BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T DONE ENOUGH TO HELP EACH OTHER OUT. WE OBVIOUSLY, HERE IN THE COMMUNITY, WE WANT TO DO MORE. WE WANT TO HELP OUT. I WOULD WELCOME ANYONE WHO HAS DIVERGENT VIEWS TO COME SIT DOWN OVER A BEER OR COFFEE AND HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO TO HELP EACH OTHER OUT IN THESE TIMES. I THINK OF THINGS AND WHEN I, YOU KNOW, DON'T HAVE PREPARED REMARKS, BUT I WILL SAY I'M INDIAN, I'M AMERICAN, I'M A PROUD CITIZEN OF FRISCO, AND I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE. WE'RE GOING TO LIVE HERE. WE'RE STAYING HERE. AND IF ANYBODY HAS QUESTIONS, WE ALL HAVE A RIGHT TO VOTE. THE BIGGEST THING PEOPLE CAN DO IS SHOW UP AND VOTE AND STAND FOR THAT RIGHT. THAT IS THE RIGHT AS A CITIZEN. I WILL END BY SAYING THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THINGS AND I WOULD JUST THINK ABOUT HOW THINGS ARE NOW. THIS MONTH IS FEBRUARY. I BELIEVE IT'S BLACK HISTORY MONTH. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT IS NEAR AND DEAR TO ME WAS MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. WE GREW UP WITH THAT IN OUR HOUSEHOLD AND UNDERSTANDING THAT. LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR LIKE YOU LOVE YOURSELF AND BE GRACIOUS. THANK YOU. OKAY, WE HAVE BRIAN SMITH. AND THEN AFTER THAT, WE HAVE MAJ SHANTAM TODI. BRIAN SMITH, 3200 PURDUE STREET, FRISCO, TEXAS. GOOD EVENING. ALLOW ME TO BE DIRECT. THE EVIDENCE OF THE CORRUPTION TAKING PLACE IN FRISCO'S LOCAL GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN STATED IN THIS ROOM TODAY AND IN THE PAST. VIDEOS OF THESE MEETINGS IN THIS ROOM HAVE GONE VIRAL ON SOCIAL MEDIA. THIS INSPIRED PEOPLE LIKE ME TO LOOK INTO IT, COME TO FIND OUT THE CLAIMS ARE TRUE. SO INSTEAD OF REPEATING THEM, I'D LIKE TO ISSUE THE SAME STATEMENT TO LOCAL POLITICIANS THAT WAS ISSUED TO WALL STREET DURING THE OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT. AMERICA HAS BEEN ASLEEP FOR A WHILE. WE HAVE RECENTLY WOKEN UP. WE ARE PAINFULLY AWARE OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WHY YOU'RE DOING IT. [01:45:01] DO I LOOK OLD TO YOU? LET ME ASK YOU SOMETHING. THE MEN WHO THREW THE TEA OVERBOARD DURING THE BOSTON TEA PARTY, WERE THEY OLDER GENTLEMEN SUCH AS YOURSELVES OR WERE THEY MEN IN THEIR EARLY 20S AND 30S? THE DEMOGRAPHIC THAT YOU FEAR MOST HAS AWOKEN. WE NOW REALIZE THAT WE GREW UP INSIDE OF A MASSIVE LIE. WE WERE PROMISED FREEDOM, AFFORDABILITY. WE WERE PROMISED A DECENT CHANCE AT A GOOD LIFE. THIS IS BEYOND IRONIC BECAUSE MY OWN FATHER, WHO SPENT 23 YEARS IN THE MILITARY AND HAS WORKED MOST OF HIS CIVILIAN CAREER IN CYBERSECURITY, HAS BEEN RESTRUCTURED THREE TIMES IN THE LAST SIX YEARS. RESTRUCTURED IN BIG QUOTES. WHAT THAT ACTUALLY MEANT WAS HE WAS FIRED FOR MAKING TOO MUCH MONEY AND WAS QUICKLY REPLACED BY AN H-1B INDIAN WHO WAS WILLING TO BECOME AN INDENTURED SLAVE AT HALF THE SALARY MY DAD WAS EARNING. THIS CONTINUES TO HAPPEN AND HE IS FAR FROM THE ONLY EXAMPLE. THE AMERICAN DREAM THAT MY FATHER SAID WAS AVAILABLE TO ME HAS BEEN STRIPPED AWAY FROM HIM MULTIPLE TIMES. LOOK AROUND. IF INDIANS MAKE UP 1.6% OF THE AMERICAN POPULATION, WHAT DOES THAT SAY ABOUT THIS ROOM THAT WE ARE IN, COUNCILMAN? IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE 1.6% TO ME. THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN BY ACCIDENT. FURTHERMORE, EVERYONE KNOWS THE HOUSING MARKET IS HYPERINFLATED. EVERYONE KNOWS THE JOB MARKET IS CLOSED AND IS REALLY NOT A MARKET AT ALL. EVERYONE HAS WALKED OUTSIDE AND HAS NOTICED THAT WE ARE BEING INVADED BOTH BY ILLEGAL AND LEGAL IMMIGRANTS. TO THE PEOPLE OF INDIA IN ATTENDANCE TODAY, I LOVE YOU. I DO NOT HATE YOU. BUT YOU MUST UNDERSTAND, YOU ARE DRASTICALLY CHANGING MY HOME. YOU ARE TURNING IT INTO SOMETHING IT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE. YOU WOULDN'T LIKE IT IF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS CAME TO YOUR COUNTRY AND STARTED ABUSING YOUR IMMIGRATION LAWS AND MAKING LIFE WORSE IN INDIA IN EXCHANGE FOR ENRICHING OURSELVES. YOU WOULDN'T LIKE IT IF WE DID TO YOUR HOME WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO OURS. I'M SURE YOU ARE UNHAPPY WITH WHAT I HAVE JUST SAID, AS I WOULD BE IF I WAS IN YOUR COUNTRY AT ONE OF YOUR CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS. LOCAL POLITICIANS, LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING. MY GENERATION IS HERE. WE ARE PAYING ATTENTION. YOUR EMOTION-PACKED STATEMENTS DO NOT FAZE US. WE WATCH YOUR ACTIONS. WE LOOK AT WHO YOUR DONORS ARE. WE LOOK AT YOUR BUSINESS INTERESTS. WE WATCH WHAT YOU DO. REST ASSURED, WE KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO. WE ARE NOT AS DUMB AS YOU THINK WE ARE. THIS IS OUR COUNTRY, AND YOU ARE RUINING IT. YOU ARE GUILTY OF MASS CORRUPTION AND EXTORTION OF OUR COMMUNITY. WE KNOW IT, YOU KNOW IT, AND GOD KNOWS IT. IF YOU THINK YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH THIS, YOU ARE GRAVELY MISTAKEN. THANK YOU, AND MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR ROTTEN SOULS. NEXT WE HAVE MAJ SANTHAM TODI, AND THEN AFTER THAT WE HAVE MOHAMED SAEED. HONOURABLE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, AND FELLOW RESIDENTS OF FRISCO. BEFORE I BEGIN, I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT I'M SPEAKING TODAY IN MY PERSONAL CAPACITY AS A RESIDENT AND AS A VETERAN, NOT ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR OR ANY BRANCH OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES. MY NAME IS MAJOR SANTHAM TODI, AND I LIVE AT 13547 EMPIRE MAKER ROAD IN FRISCO. I STAND BEFORE YOU NOT JUST AS AN AMERICAN, AN INDIAN AMERICAN, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY AS AN AMERICAN, AND THIS IS MY HOME. I HAVE LIVED IN THIS COUNTRY 25 OF MY 45 YEARS. THIS NATION RAISED ME, SHAPED ME, TESTED ME, AND GAVE ME OPPORTUNITY. I HAVE WORN THIS NATION'S UNIFORM FOR NEARLY 15 YEARS, INCLUDING OVERSEAS DEPLOYMENTS IN AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ, HOLDING SECURITY CLEARANCES, AND SWORN TO DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, SOMETIMES FAR FROM HOME, SOMETIMES IN HARM'S WAY. CURRENTLY SERVING AS THE DEPUTY G4 AT 95TH INFANTRY DIVISION IN FORT SILL IN US ARMY RESERVES. I'M ALSO A PROUD MEMBER OF THE VETERANS OF FOREIGN WAR RIGHT HERE IN THE COMMUNITY, AND HOST OF THE SECOND TOUR PODCAST ADDRESSING VETERAN MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES. I CHOSE TO SERVE THIS COUNTRY NOT BECAUSE IT WAS EASY, BUT BECAUSE I BELIEVED IN WHAT IT STANDS FOR, THE RULE OF LAW, THE DUE PROCESS, AND EQUAL PROTECTION, AND THE IDEA THAT IN AMERICA, LOYALTY IS DEFINED BY COMMITMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION, AND NOT BY RACE, REGION, RELIGION, OR PLACE OF BIRTH. AND YET TODAY, I STAND HERE NOT TO ASK FOR GRATITUDE, BUT TO DEFEND MY RIGHT TO BELONG. THAT HURTS. LET ME BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT SOMETHING FIRST. FRAUD IS WRONG. IF ANYONE COMMITS FRAUD, IMMIGRATION FRAUD, FINANCIAL FRAUD, OR ANY FRAUD, THEY SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED AND HELD ACCOUNTABLE UNDER THE LAW. NO EXCEPTIONS, NO EXCUSES, AND NO SPECIAL TREATMENT. BUT WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE GOES FAR BEYOND ACCOUNTABILITY. WHAT WE ARE SEEING IS SOMETHING DEEPLY TROUBLING. A NARRATIVE THAT QUIETLY, AND SOMETIMES LOUDLY, [01:50:01] ASKS AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY TO PROVE ITS LOYALTY, TO JUSTIFY ITS PRESENCE, AND TO DEFEND ITS LEGITIMACY. I HAVE DEFENDED THIS CONSTITUTION IN UNIFORM, AND NOW I'M STANDING HERE DEFENDING MY MEMBERSHIP IN THE VERY COMMUNITY I HELPED TO PROTECT. THAT IS PAINFUL CONTRADICTION. SERVING THIS NATION IS NOT JUST SOMETHING I SPEAK ABOUT. IT IS SOMETHING MY FAMILY LIVES EVERY SINGLE DAY. I AM INSPIRED BY MY OWN FAMILY. MY RELATIVE, LIEUTENANT JAY GUTTAM, IS CURRENTLY SERVING IN THE OHIO NATIONAL GUARD. MY SON, CADET AIRMAN SAURISH TOODY, SERVES IN THE THUNDERBOLT CHAPTER OF THE CIVIL AIR PATROL, AND ASPIRES TO JOIN THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE TO SERVE THIS NATION. ANOTHER COUSIN, CADET SIDDHARTH DENDI, SERVES IN THE LONE STAR CHAPTER OF THE SEA CARROTS AND THE GROTC PROGRAM IN FRISCO, AND ASPIRES TO SERVE IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY. ON MY OWN BLOCK, FIVE KIDS ARE PART OF THE CIVIL AIR PATROL PROGRAM. THEY ARE INDIAN AMERICAN CHILDREN, LEARNING DISCIPLINE, LEADERSHIP, AND SERVICE WHILE DREAMING OF WEARING THIS NATION'S UNIFORM SOMEDAY. THESE ARE NOT OUTSIDERS. THESE ARE NOT THREATS. THESE ARE FUTURE DEFENDERS OF THIS COUNTRY. WHEN ACCUSATIONS ARE MADE WITHOUT EVIDENCE, WHEN ENTIRE ETHNIC COMMUNITIES ARE SPOKEN ABOUT AS A PROBLEM, WHEN SILENCE ALLOWS SUSPICION TO SPREAD, WE STOP TALKING ABOUT POLICY, AND WE START DRIFTING INTO COLLECTIVE BLAME. AND COLLECTIVE BLAME IS NOT AMERICAN. TEXAS ITSELF WAS BUILT BY MANY PEOPLE LONG BEFORE IT BECAME PART OF THE UNITED STATES. INDIGENOUS NATIONS, SPANISH SETTLERS, MEXICAN FAMILIES, AND LATER AMERICANS ALL SHAPED THIS LAND. TEXAS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A MEETING PLACE OF CULTURES, A FRONTIER OF IDEAS, A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAME SEEKING OPPORTUNITIES AND STAYED TO BUILD SOMETHING LARGER THAN THEMSELVES. DIVERSITY IS NOT NEW TO TEXAS. IT IS TEXAS. AND THE SAME IS TRUE OF THIS NATION. IMMIGRATION IS NOT A RECENT EXPERIMENT IN AMERICA. IT IS WOVEN INTO OUR VERY FOUNDING. THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO CAME FROM DIFFERENT PLACES, BUT BOUND THEMSELVES TO A CONSTITUTION GREATER THAN ANY ONE GROUP. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, WHAT MATTERED WAS NOT WHERE YOU CAME FROM, BUT WHETHER YOU WERE WILLING TO LIVE UNDER THE LAW, RESPECT THE CONSTITUTION, AND DEFEND THE PRINCIPLES. THAT IS WHAT I DID IN MY UNIFORM, AND THAT IS WHAT MY FAMILY CONTINUES TO DO SO. THAT IS WHAT SO MANY LAW-ABIDING IMMIGRANT FAMILIES IN FRISCO ARE DOING EVERY SINGLE DAY. LEGAL IMMIGRATION, LOYAL TO THE CONSTITUTION, IS NOT A THREAT TO AMERICA. IT IS A HEARTBEAT OF AMERICA. I DID NOT SWEAR AN OATH TO DEFEND A SELECTIVE CONSTITUTION. I SWORE TO DEFEND A DUE PROCESS, EQUAL PROTECTION, AND THE IDEA THAT GUILT IS NOT INDIVIDUAL AND INHERITED BY RACE, ACCENT, OR LAST NAME. I HAVE STOOD WATCH FOR THIS COUNTRY OVERSEAS. TODAY, I STAND WATCH FOR ITS VALUES HERE AT HOME. PLEASE DO NOT LET FEAR SPEAK LOUDER THAN FACTS. PLEASE DO NOT LET SILENCE REPLACE LEADERSHIP. FRISCO CAN BE BETTER THAN THIS. TEXAS EXPECTS IT. AMERICA DEMANDS IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OKAY, NEXT WE HAVE MOHAMMED SAEED, AND THEN AFTER THAT WE HAVE LAKSHMI TUMALA. RESPECTED MAYOR AND THE COUNCIL AND MY FELLOW RESIDENTS HERE TODAY, MY NAME IS ASFAR SAEED. I LIVE AT 13040 ALLENWOOD AVENUE IN FRISCO, TEXAS, 75035. I AM A LONG-TIME FRISCO RESIDENT, AND THIS IS MY 23RD YEAR LIVING IN FRISCO, TEXAS. I'VE SEEN IT GROW. FIRST OF ALL, LET ME SAY SOMETHING, AN INTERESTING THING. I'M A PAKISTANI. I'M NOT AN INDIAN. I'M A PAKISTANI AMERICAN, AND I'M HERE TODAY TO SUPPORT MY INDIAN FRIENDS. PAKISTANIS AND INDIANS DON'T GET ALONG, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT. BUT HERE, I'M STANDING HERE TODAY IN THE SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD, IN THE SPIRIT OF ALL OF US BEING THE CITIZENS OF UNITED STATES AND THE CITIZENS OF FRISCO TO SUPPORT EACH OTHER. WHAT WE ARE WITNESSING TODAY IS NOT ISOLATED, AND IT'S NOT ACCIDENTAL. IN RECENT TIMES, WE HAVE SEEN A CLEAR UPTICK IN FEAR-MONGERING TARGETING MUSLIMS, ONCE AGAIN USING SHARIA LAW AS THE BOOGEYMAN. OLD MYTHS ARE BEING RECYCLED, EXAGGERATED, AND PUSHED BACK INTO PUBLIC CONVERSATION TO SUGGEST THAT MUSLIM COMMUNITIES ARE SOMEHOW A THREAT. THAT RHETORIC IS NOT HARMLESS, AND IT DOESN'T STAY CONTAINED. THE SAME FEAR-DRIVEN MINDSET IS ALSO STOKING ANTI-SEMITISM AS WELL, THROUGH CONSPIRACY THEORIES, COLLECTIVE BLAME, AND DEHUMANIZING LANGUAGE AIMED AT JEWISH COMMUNITIES AS WELL. DIFFERENT TARGETS, SAME FEAR. AND TODAY, THAT SAME FEAR IS BEING AIMED [01:55:01] AT THE VERY SAME TIME AT ANOTHER COMMUNITY, OUR INDIAN NEIGHBORS. WE SEE IT IN ATTACKS ON THE H-1B VISA HOLDERS, PORTRAYED AS PEOPLE TAKING OVER, CHANGING THE CITY, REPLACING OTHERS. WE SEE IT ONLINE, IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE, AND NOW IN SLOGANS LIKE, DON'T INDIA MY TEXAS, OR DON'T INDIA MY FRISCO. DIFFERENT WORDS, SAME STRATEGY. LET'S BE CLEAR ABOUT WHO OUR INDIAN NEIGHBORS ARE. THEY ARE DOCTORS, THEY ARE ENGINEERS, THEY ARE ENTREPRENEURS, EDUCATORS, SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS. THEY STRENGTHEN FRISCO ECONOMY, OUR SCHOOLS AND OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, AND THEY CONTRIBUTE EVERY SINGLE DAY TO THE SUCCESS OF THE CITY. AND ANOTHER THING I WANT TO ADD HERE IS, WHEN MY DAUGHTER STARTED GOING TO FRISCO ISD SCHOOLS, ONE OF THE THINGS I KEPT HEARING WAS THAT THERE IS A LOT OF STUDENTS FROM SOUTH ASIAN COMMUNITY WHO ARE VERY BRILLIANT. LET ME TELL YOU THIS, BECAUSE OF THEM, MY DAUGHTER HAS DONE EXTREMELY WELL, BECAUSE SHE WAS ABLE TO COMPETE AND WORK HARDER SO THAT SHE CAN MATCH THE SKILLS THAT THE SOUTH ASIAN COMMUNITY BROUGHT. AND THAT'S WHY SHE'S IN UT AUSTIN TODAY AND DOING GREAT. THEY'RE NOT OUTSIDERS, THEY'RE NOT A THREAT, THEY ARE FRISCO. FRISCO IS A DIVERSITY, NOT BY ACCIDENT, BUT BY CHOICE. PEOPLE CAME HERE TO BUILD, TO BELONG, AND TO RAISE FAMILIES IN PEACE. WE DID NOT GROW BY EXCLUDING PEOPLE. WE DIDN'T SUCCEED BY TURNING NEIGHBORS INTO THREATS, AND WE ARE NOT BROKEN. WHAT THREATENS FRISCO IS NOT DIVERSITY, IT IS THE DELIBERATE MANUFACTURE OF FEAR, REPACKAGED AS CONCERN AND AMPLIFIED FOR POLITICS. I'M STANDING HERE IN SUPPORT OF THE INDIAN COMMUNITY BECAUSE I RECOGNIZE THIS MOMENT. I KNOW WHERE SILENCE LEADS, AND I KNOW THAT FEAR ONLY STOPS WHEN IT IS CONFRONTED. FRISCO DESERVES BETTER THAN FEAR-MONGERING. HATE HAS NO HOME HERE, NO MATTER WHO TARGETS IT. I WOULD REQUEST MY FELLOW RESIDENTS THAT THE ONLY WAY TO OVERCOME FEAR IS TO GET FROM BEHIND YOUR KEYBOARDS AND YOUR COMPUTERS AND MEET EACH OTHER IN PERSON. TODAY WHEN I WALKED HERE IN THE ROOM, I WAS SEEING SUSAN KERSHAW SITTING HERE. SUSAN KERSHAW RAN FOR FRISCO ISD THREE YEARS AGO. WE DID NOT KNOW EACH OTHER AT ALL. I'M SURE SHE HAD FEARS ABOUT ME. I DIDN'T KNOW WHO SHE WAS. I HAD MY QUESTIONS. WE MET, AND WE FOUND A LOT MORE IN COMMON BY MEETING WITH EACH OTHER. AND I WOULD IMPLORE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU HERE TODAY TO PLEASE GET OUT OF YOUR HOUSES, GET AWAY FROM YOUR DEVICES, AND MEET WITH EACH OTHER AND CONNECT WITH EACH OTHER. AND PLEASE LEAVE OUR NEIGHBORS ALONE. LET FRISCO CHOOSE COMMUNITY OVER FEAR. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, NEXT WE HAVE LAKSHMI TOMALA, AND AFTER THAT WE HAVE MARTIN PATELLI. MY NAME IS LAKSHMI TOMALA, 14708 HARMONY LANE. I WAS BORN AND BROUGHT UP IN MISSISSIPPI, IN THE 1970S AND 80S, AND MOVED TO DFW IN 1997. I AM A U.S. CITIZEN, I AM AN AMERICAN, AND I AM DEEPLY PROUD AND LOVE MY INDIAN ROOTS. AS AN AMERICAN, I GREW UP WATCHING THE SMURFS, KNIGHT RIDER, LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE, WRAPPED IN MY DALLAS COWBOYS BLANKET WATCHING FOOTBALL ON SUNDAYS. I LOVE BISCUITS AND MASHED POTATOES, AND I USED TO WALK TO THE CORNER GAS STATION TO GET AN ICY. AND GROWING UP, I GREW TO APPRECIATE THIS COUNTRY. I PROUDLY SAY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, I PROUDLY SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. THE FABRIC OF THIS COUNTRY IS LIKE A QUILT, WHERE FABRICS OF DIFFERENT SIZES, SHAPES, TEXTURES, COLORS, ARE SEWN TOGETHER TO CREATE A BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ART. THAT IS THE AMERICA THAT I KNOW, THAT IS THE AMERICA THAT I LOVE. I AM AN AMERICAN, AND I AM A DAUGHTER OF IMMIGRANTS. WHETHER FIRST, SECOND, OR TENTH GENERATION, ALL OF US COME FROM IMMIGRANTS, DON'T WE? MY PARENTS CAME TO THIS COUNTRY IN 1965, THEY WORKED HARD, THEY EARNED A LIVING, BUT NOT JUST THEM. INDIAN AMERICANS HAVE MADE A POWERFUL, POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION TO THIS COUNTRY. I'VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT SCAMMING, AND I ABSOLUTELY BELIEVE THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD ABIDE BY THE LAW, BUT HERE ARE SOME FACTS. [02:00:01] INDIAN AMERICANS EXCEL IN DIVERSE FIELDS LIKE TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL, HOSPITALITY, EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, TO NAME A FEW. WE DRIVE INNOVATION, PHILANTHROPY, AND NOTABLY, HIGH-LEVEL CORPORATE LEADERSHIP. PEOPLE OF INDIAN ORIGIN MAKE UP 10% OF ALL PHYSICIANS WHO HAVE SERVED THIS COUNTRY FOR DECADES AND ITS PEOPLE. 10% OF US PATENTS ARE BY INDIAN INVESTORS OR CO-INVENTORS. INDIAN AMERICAN LEADERS ARE BUILDING A LEGACY, AND INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION, PROVING THAT HARD WORK AND A GOOD EDUCATION ARE FUNDAMENTAL TO SUCCESS. THE DIASPORA HAS DONATED $3 BILLION TO US UNIVERSITIES SINCE 2008, AND RAISED HUNDREDS OF MILLION DOLLARS FOR VARIOUS CAUSES, AND THE CONTRIBUTION TO FRISCO IS NO DIFFERENT. HERE IN FRISCO, INDIAN AMERICAN BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS AND LEADERS HAVE LAUNCHED STARTUPS, BUILT COMPANIES, DRIVEN INNOVATION, WHICH HAS CREATED JOBS TO HELP BOOST THE ECONOMY. WE HAVE FOCUSED ON EDUCATION IN A WAY THAT HAS IMPROVED THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, WHICH NOW HAS 146 NATIONAL MERIT SEMIFINALISTS. INDIAN AMERICAN-OWNED BUSINESSES HAVE CONTRIBUTED $8 TO $12 MILLION IN SALES TAX REVENUE FOR FRISCO. INDIAN AMERICANS INVEST IN THE COMMUNITY, NOT ONLY FINANCIALLY, BUT THROUGH THEIR GENEROSITY. THE COMMUNITY SUPPORTS FIRST RESPONDERS, DONATES TO FRISCO FAMILY SERVICES, FAST PACKS, CHILDREN IN SCHOOLS, JUST TO NAME A FEW, AND WE HONOR OUR FALLEN HEROES. WE SERVE ON BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, AND WE VOLUNTEER TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR SCHOOLS ARE TAKEN CARE OF. BUT IN ADDITION TO ALL THE ECONOMIC BENEFITS, THESE FAMILIES ARE ROOTED IN A CONCEPT OF DHARMA, OR RIGHTEOUS ACTION, THE CORE TENANTS OF WHICH INCLUDE PATIENCE, FORGIVENESS, HONESTY, TRUTHFULNESS, RESPECTING ELDERS, AND SERVING THE COMMUNITY. THE RESULT OF THIS IS A STRONGER SOCIETY, FAMILY-FOCUSED, EDUCATION-FOCUSED, COMMUNITY-FOCUSED. THE INDIAN COMMUNITY THAT HAS COME TO AMERICA HAS LEARNED, ADAPTED, EXCELLED, GIVEN BACK, AND LEFT A POSITIVE MARK. AMERICA IS MY HOME. AMERICA IS A GREAT COUNTRY THAT HAS GIVEN EVERYONE THE CHANCE AT THE AMERICAN DREAM. WE ARE SO PROUD OF FRISCO FOR BEING SO WELCOMING AND BEING A SAFE PLACE FOR PEOPLE OF ALL FAITHS AND ETHNICITIES, AND WE THANK EVERYBODY HERE ON COUNCIL AND ALL YOUR PREDECESSORS FOR CREATING THIS ENVIRONMENT OF WELCOMING. I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN. I AM EQUALLY PROUD OF MY INDIAN HERITAGE. I PRAY THAT GOD BRINGS PEACE AND UNDERSTANDING, AND GOD BLESS AMERICA. THANK YOU. WE HAVE MARTIN PEDETTI, AND THEN AFTER THAT, WE WILL HAVE MR. LEE. MARTIN'S STILL HERE? OKAY. I DON'T SEE HIM. WE'VE GOT ONE MORE COMING IN. OKAY. SANDEEPA? NO, I CAN'T READ WRITING. THIS IS SMALL. RAJ? IN GREEN ON BLUE. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, FELLOW CITIZENS. I'M SANDEEPA RAJADEKSHA. I WAS NOT PLANNING ON SPEAKING TODAY. A, IT'S WAY PAST MY BEDTIME, SO I SHOULD BE AT HOME READING, BUT THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT, AND THE REASON WHY I WANTED TO SPEAK ISN'T EVEN BECAUSE OF ME. IT'S BECAUSE OF MY SONS, WHO MY HUSBAND ALLUDED TO. MY SON, I HAVE TO TALK ABOUT MY OLDER SON. HE'S AN 18-YEAR-OLD WHO LOVES COUNTRY MUSIC. I KID YOU NOT, HE HAS A BIG OLD AMERICAN FLAG ON HIS ROOM THAT HE DID THIS SUMMER, AND HE HOPES TO BE IN THE SERVICE ACADEMIES. MY OTHER SON CAN NAME EVERY R&B TUNE THERE IS, HUGE NBA FAN, AND ALSO LOVES HIS BOLLYWOOD. SO I'M HERE TONIGHT FOR THEM BECAUSE I'M REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE DIRECTION SOME OF OUR CONVERSATIONS ARE TAKING, AND I'M ACTUALLY, I WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT A GOOD NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO PROBABLY BROUGHT UP THIS MEETING LEFT AND DIDN'T [02:05:02] WANT TO HEAR OTHERS SPEAK, AND THAT IS ESSENTIALLY WHAT BROUGHT ME UP TO SPEAK. THAT IS THE PROBLEM. SO THERE'S A GROWING SENSE OF FEAR AND SUSPICION TOWARDS THE DESI PEOPLE, AND I'LL SAY DESI BECAUSE THAT INCLUDES EVERYONE IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, AND LET'S FACE IT, MOST PEOPLE CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE WHEN THEY SEE A BROWN PERSON, RIGHT? SO, AND I JUST WANT TO SAY PLAINLY, FEAR IS NOT WHO WE AS THE UNITED STATES ARE, AND IT'S NOT WHO WE SHOULD BECOME, AND ESPECIALLY AS TEXANS, THAT'S NOT WHO WE ARE. THEY SEE FAMILIES WHERE YOUR NEIGHBORS, WHERE DOCTORS, ENGINEERS, SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, TEACHERS, PARENTS, EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK, RIGHT? WE'RE EVERYWHERE. WE, JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, WE CONTRIBUTE TO OUR ECONOMY, WE PAY OUR TAXES, WE VOLUNTEER, WE HELP MAKE OUR CITY FUNCTION. WE'RE NOT A THREAT. WE'RE JUST A PART OF THE COMMUNITY, AND THIS IS WHY I REALLY WANTED TO GET UP AND TALK BECAUSE HISTORY SHOWS US WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FEAR IS ALLOWED TO GROW UNCHECKED, AND THAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING. LET'S GO BACK TO 1930S GERMANY. PEOPLE DIDN'T WAKE UP ONE DAY AND CHOOSE ATROCITIES. IT STARTED WITH SUSPICION, WITH BLAMING ONE GROUP FOR ECONOMIC STRESS, WITH LANGUAGE THAT DEHUMANIZED NEIGHBORS, WITH LEADERS WHO STAYED SILENT INSTEAD OF PUSHING BACK, AND IN THIS DAY AND AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA, ALL OF THIS JUST GETS AMPLIFIED, AND WE ALL KNOW HOW THAT ENDED, AND NONE OF US WANT TO BE, NONE OF US WANT TO REPEAT THAT PART OF HISTORY, AND IF YOU DO, THEN THAT REQUIRES A WHOLE DIFFERENT CONVERSATION AND DEEP DIVE. SO, LET ME BE CLEAR, JUST AS OTHERS HAVE SAID, CALLING THIS OUT DOESN'T MEAN IGNORING REAL CHALLENGES THAT WE ALL ARE FACING. DUDE, LIKE I WENT TO COSTCO THE OTHER DAY. I'M LIKE, HOW MUCH IS A SALMON? THAT'S CRAZY. WE ARE ALL FACING THAT. THE INFRASTRUCTURE, GROWTH, BUT YOU CANNOT BLAME AN ENTIRE GROUP OF PEOPLE FOR CHALLENGES. THAT IS LAZY. THAT IS HARMFUL, AND THAT IS DANGEROUS. PROBLEMS REQUIRE SOLUTIONS, NOT SCAPEGOATS, AND OUR CITY, OUR TOWNS, OUR COUNTRIES, OUR SMALL NEIGHBORHOODS, WE ARE STRONGEST WHEN WE REJECT FEAR, AND WE CHOOSE FACTS, COMPASSION, AND FAIRNESS, WHEN WE JUDGE PEOPLE BY THEIR ACTIONS, NOT THEIR ETHNICITY, NOT WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE, AND WE REMEMBER THAT DIVERSITY IS NOT A WEAKNESS. IT'S OUR GREATEST STRENGTH, AND THE OTHER THING THAT I FOUND PARTICULARLY INTERESTING TODAY AS I WAS JUST LISTENING AND LOOKING AROUND IS HOW MANY PEOPLE AGREEING WITH THINGS THAT I WOULD NOT AGREE WITH, THAT HONESTLY, IF YOU WALK DOWN THE STREET, I WOULD THINK YOU'RE A MINORITY AS WELL, AND IF YOU THINK THESE DISCUSSIONS DON'T HURT YOU TODAY, THEN THAT IS HOW IT STARTS, RIGHT? BECAUSE WE CANNOT LOVE ANYONE IF WE DO NOT LOVE EVERYONE, RIGHT? SO, AGAIN, I AM COMING UP HERE JUST TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF MY KIDS, BECAUSE I WANT THEM TO FEEL AS SAFE AS I DID GROWING UP. THANKS. ALL RIGHT. WE'VE HAD A COUPLE OF LATE CARDS, SO THE NEXT ONE IS SANTOSH. THERE'S NO LAST NAME. READY? THANK YOU. I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WE'VE HEARD ALL NIGHT, WHICH IS PEOPLE JUST TRYING TO DEFEND THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES AND THE OTHER SIDE TALKING ABOUT HOW THIS IS ALL A SCAM PERPETRATED ON THEM. I WANT TO START BY SAYING I WANT TO APOLOGIZE. I WANT TO APOLOGIZE FOR SOMETHING, SOMETHING THAT'S NOT ENTIRELY MY MISTAKE, BUT COULD HAVE BEEN. I WANT TO SAY THAT I'VE SEEN PEOPLE VERY EMOTIONAL, VERY CHARGED UP WHEN THEIR SUPPORTIVE PEOPLE HAVE REPRESENTED THEM, SPOKEN ABOUT THE REAL PAIN, THAT IS, PEOPLE THAT ARE LOCAL, THAT HAVE GROWN UP SEEING THAT THEIR SPACES HAVE CHANGED DRASTICALLY. I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THAT THE PAIN IS PALPABLE. I CAN REALLY SEE THAT PEOPLE ARE HURT. THEY DON'T LIKE WHAT'S HAPPENING. WHY SUDDENLY THEIR SURROUNDINGS ARE DIFFERENT? WHY DO THEY HAVE TO ADJUST TO A NEW REALITY? WHY SHOULD WE NOT TALK ABOUT IT? AND IF WE TALK, WHY SHOULD WE BE CALLED NAMES LIKE RACIST OR XENOPHOBIC? RIGHT? I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND. BUT ONE THING I JUST WANTED TO SAY, I WAS IN CANADA, HAPPILY LIVING WITH MY OWN BUSINESS. I CAME HERE. [02:10:02] I SAW THIS CITY. THIS CITY WAS LIKE A DREAM, LIKE THE ROADS, THE SCHOOLS, ESPECIALLY, I MEAN, THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND THE PRIVATE SCHOOLS, I FELL IN LOVE. I SAID, WOW, LIKE THIS IS GREAT, RIGHT? LIKE HOW CAN A CITY BE SO NICE, LIKE SO WELL MAINTAINED? BECAUSE I'M FROM CANADA, BUT THE CITIES WE ARE IN, THEY'RE GOOD, BUT THEY'RE NOT AS GOOD. I CAN TELL YOU THAT. AND I TOLD EVERYBODY BACK THERE IN CANADA, I'M GOING TO FRISCO. I'M INVESTING LIKE 2 MILLION IN HERE. I DON'T CARE WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. LET MY BUSINESS IN CANADA RUN. I DON'T CARE, RIGHT? AND I'M TELLING MY, I'M PUTTING MY KIDS IN STARWOOD. IT'S LIKE THE AMAZING SCHOOL. I'VE NEVER SEEN SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND THE PEOPLE HERE, IF I TOOK THEM TO THE MALLS, THEY WERE PLAYING WITH MY KIDS. MY KIDS ARE LIKE, ONE OF THEM IS THREE YEARS. ONE OF THEM IS ONE YEAR. AND I'M LIKE, I'VE NOT SEEN THIS, RIGHT? LIKE THE PEOPLE ARE GOOD. LIKE THIS COMMUNITY IS AMAZING. AND THIS MUST BE THE PLACE, LIKE THIS IS PROBABLY WHERE I SHOULD SET THOSE NICE TEMPLES. AND I SEE NOBODY'S EVEN LIKE CARING ABOUT IT. IT'S LIKE PEOPLE GO TO CHURCHES. THESE GUYS ARE RELIGIOUS. THESE GUYS CARE ABOUT FAMILY. THEY'RE LAW ABIDING. THERE'S NO CRIME. I'M LIKE, THIS IS A DREAM CITY TO BE IN, RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. AND THEN I CAME IN. BUT SINCE THE LAST SIX MONTHS, I'VE BEEN SEEING STUFF LIKE INVASION, TAKEOVER, FRAUD. I HAVE NO WORDS TO SAY. I MEAN, HOW IS IT ONE PERSON'S PROBLEM? LIKE IF I WAS TOLD THAT THIS IS A CITY WHERE YOU COULD COME AND INVEST MONEY AND YOU CAN GROW A BUSINESS, I BELIEVED IT. I BELIEVED IT WITH ALL MY HEART. I HAD EIGHT YEARS OF BUSINESS EXPERIENCE. I DID AN MBA AT A BUSINESS SCHOOL. I USED MY SENSE. I SAID, THIS IS A GROWING CITY, AMAZING INCOMES. I CAN GROW A BUSINESS HERE. I DIDN'T THINK TWICE BRINGING MY KIDS. I'VE BEEN SEEING ON SOCIAL MEDIA, SOME OF THE NARRATIVE IS SO HARMFUL. IT'S LIKE DEPORTATION IS SOFT. AND THEN THEY HAVE GUNS PLACED ALL OVER THE TWITTER FEED. AGAIN, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE MEETING THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE THIS ONE. SO THERE WAS A VIDEO ON TWITTER THAT SAID AT 630, THERE'S THIS MEETING, EVERYBODY SHOW UP, TALK ABOUT THE INDIAN INVASION OF TEXAS. AND THEN I WILL TELL YOU, THERE WERE MORE THAN HALF OF THE COMMENTS WERE LIKE WITH GUNS AND WITH LIKE DEPORTATION IS TOO SOFT. WE SHOULD DO THIS. WE SHOULD DO THAT. ALL THE WAY TO 1930S BABY, LIKE IT'S GETTING THE SHIT OUT OF ME ON WHY I TOOK THIS CALL ON WHY I CAME. I WAS PEACEFUL. I KNOW CANADA IS NOT PERFECT. SO MANY THINGS WRONG THERE, BUT IT'S GETTING THE SHIT OUT OF ME WITH TWO KIDS IN HERE, WITH EVERYTHING THAT I'M SEEING HERE. I HAVE NO IDEA. LIKE, I MEAN, THERE'S NOBODY WHO YOU CAN TALK TO. I CAN GO AND MAYBE TRY AND PARTICIPATE IT, BUT THE HATE IS SO MUCH THAT THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO POSSIBILITY OF CONVERSATION THERE. THE WORDS ARE, WE DON'T WANT YOU. I UNDERSTAND IF YOU DON'T WANT US, THAT'S FINE. I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY. IF WE ARE HERE, WE WERE TOLD YOU COULD COME AND STUDY. WE WERE TOLD YOU CAN COME AND WORK. THERE IS S&P 500 COMPANIES OUT THERE ON HEADQUARTERS. EVERYBODY HAS A HEADQUARTERS. THEY'RE ALL EMPLOYING. IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE I WENT TO BUSINESS SCHOOL. A LOT OF THE OTHER INDIANS WENT TO TECH SCHOOLS, WHICH ARE ON PAR WITH MIT, HOWARD, WHATNOT, RIGHT? NEXT, WE HAVE BROOKE MARTINEZ. HI, I LIVE AT 1690 FM 423 IN FRISCO IN THE FOUR CORNERS APARTMENTS. AND THERE ARE A, LET ME FIRST ALL SAY THAT I GREW UP IN DALLAS IN BISHOP ARTSTICK STRICT. SO I GREW UP AROUND DIVERSITY. I'M NOT PREJUDICED. I HAVE MANY INDIAN FRIENDS. I SEE THEM EVERY DAY WHEN I GO ON MY DOG WALKS AND I STOP AND TALK TO THEM. MY POINT IS THAT A LOT OF THE INDIANS HERE HAVE MADE THE POINT TODAY THAT THEY'RE DOCTORS AND THEY'RE ALL THIS KIND OF STUFF. AND WE KNOW THAT. MY FRIEND WHO WALKED OUT BECAUSE HE WAS GETTING VERY ANNOYED, HE USED TO WORK IN A HOSPITAL. THE HOSPITALS NOW ARE NOTHING BUT INDIAN EMPLOYEES BECAUSE I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS IS THEY GET THEIR EDUCATION FREE OVER THERE IN INDIA AND THEN THEY COME OVER HERE AND THEY TAKE ALL THE JOBS OVER HERE. IT'S VERY HARD [02:15:01] FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND FROM WHAT HE WAS TELLING ME FOR THE NURSES TO GET EDUCATION OVER HERE. IT'S MUCH EASIER FOR THE FOREIGNERS TO COME OVER HERE AND TAKE A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT USED TO BE AVAILABLE TO AMERICANS. I'VE NEVER WORKED IN A HOSPITAL, BUT THIS IS WHAT HE TELLS ME. IN NO WAY I DON'T THINK MOST OF THE PEOPLE HERE ARE PREJUDICED. I HAVE A LOT OF INDIAN FRIENDS. I WORK WITH A LOT OF THEM. I KNOW THEM VERY PERSONALLY. I'M NOT AFRAID OF THEM. BUT I'VE SEEN THIS WHOLE AREA CHANGE AND JUST LIKE HIM. WHEN I GREW UP IN THE OAK CLIFF AREA, I WAS OUT HERE ONE DAY IN FRISCO AND I WAS LIKE, WOW, I WANT TO LIVE HERE. I WAS JUST LIKE HIM. I LOVED HOW CLEAN IT WAS. I LOVED HOW NEW EVERYTHING IS. AND I'VE BEEN HERE FOR GOING ON 15 YEARS NOW, I THINK. BUT IT'S CHANGED A LOT. JUST LITTLE THINGS. FOR INSTANCE, WHEN I'M GOING OUT OF MY COMPLEX TO GO ON FM 423, FOR INSTANCE, A LOT OF THE SHOPS AROUND THERE ARE INDIAN, MOST OF THEM. MAYBE THAT'S WHY WE HAVE SUCH A BIG COMMUNITY. MOST OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN MY APARTMENTS ARE INDIAN. WHEN I'M SITTING OUT ON MY BACK PATIO, I'M ON THE BOTTOM FLOOR, I VERY RARELY SEE ANOTHER PERSON THAT LOOKS LIKE ME WALK BY, YOU KNOW. AGAIN, I'M NOT PREJUDICED. WE'RE JUST POINTING OUT THE CHANGES THAT WE'VE SEEN. SO I HAVE A ROUNDABOUT AND WHEN I GO OUT ON THE RIGHT, EVERYBODY KNOWS YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO STAY TO THE RIGHT, RIGHT? I'VE HAD SEVERAL OF MY INDIAN FRIENDS TELL ME THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE DRIVING SCHOOL IN INDIA. SO A LOT OF THE TIMES THEY'RE COMING UP THE WRONG WAY. AND IF I CAN, IF WE'RE STOPPED, I'LL GET OUT AND SAY, HEY, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GO AROUND THE RIGHT. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO STICK TO THE RIGHT. YOU KNOW, I'M ALWAYS HAVING TO TRY TO TEACH THEM THINGS LIKE THAT. AND THEN THEY ALL HAVE THESE BUMPER STICKERS ON THEIR CAR THAT SAY STUDENT DRIVER. AND I'LL LOOK OVER EVERY TIME I SEE THAT TO SEE WHAT DO THEY LOOK LIKE. AND A LOT OF TIMES IT'S LIKE A 40-SOMETHING-YEAR-OLD MAN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. OH, ANOTHER INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED. THERE'S AN ELEVATED PARKING AREA IN THE COURTYARD AREA, WHICH IS WHICH MY APARTMENT FACES. APPARENTLY, THIS GUY WAS TRYING TO TEACH HIS WIFE HOW TO DRIVE IN THAT LITTLE PARKING LOT. WELL, ONE AREA, ONE TIME WE WERE OUTSIDE AND JUST BECAUSE I'M ALWAYS OUTSIDE WHEN IT'S NICE OUTSIDE. SHE DROVE HER CAR THROUGH THE RAILING, AND IT'S ABOUT THIS FAR OFF THE GROUND. AND SHE BROKE THAT WHOLE BRICK WALL DRIVING DOWN THE RAILING. THIS IS JUST THE KIND OF STUFF THAT I THINK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AS A COMMUNITY. EVERY INDIAN THAT GOT UP AND SPOKE HERE WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW PROFESSIONAL THEY ARE, HOW MUCH THEY CONTRIBUTE TO THIS SOCIETY. THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE QUESTIONING. WHAT WE'RE QUESTIONING IS THE OPPORTUNITIES ARE GOING TO A LOT OF THE INDIANS. AND WE HAVE LESS AND LESS OPPORTUNITIES. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT HERE THAT Y'ALL NEED TO GET, OKAY? THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE ANOTHER ONE. CORBIN, IS IT BROCK OR BROOKE? TAKE YOUR TIME. ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. MY NAME IS CORBIN BROCK, AND I'VE BEEN A RESIDENT HERE IN FRISCO SINCE 2001. AND I'M BORN HERE, RAISED HERE, WENT THROUGH FRISCO ISD, GREAT SCHOOLS. MY FAMILY WAS ACTUALLY GOOD FRIENDS WITH MR. KEATING AND HIS FAMILY. I USED TO PLAY SPORTS WITH HIS SON. AND I GREW UP VERY FORTUNATE. MY DAD TAUGHT ME THAT HARD WORK DOES PAY OFF. [02:20:01] I GREW UP IN STARWOOD. MY DAD GREW UP VERY POOR, WORLD WAR II VETERAN FATHER, HOSPITAL NURSE MOTHER. AND HE STARTED OUT DRIVING BREAD TRUCKS, AND THEN HE MOVED ON TO BEING A MILLER LIGHT EXECUTIVE. AND DESPITE ALL OF THAT, I TAKE VERY MUCH PRIDE IN THE FACT THAT I AM A REAL BLUE COLLAR. AND BECAUSE OF THAT, BY THE TIME I WAS 19 UNTIL I WAS ABOUT 23 YEARS OLD, I WORKED ON THE OIL RIG OWNED BY SHELL OLYMPUS IN THE GULF OF MEXICO. AND SINCE I STOPPED THAT, THE REASON I ACTUALLY HAVE KNEE PROBLEMS NOW WAS I WAS IN RESPONSE TO A KICK OF ABOUT 1,395 POUNDS OF PRESSURE BEING HIT BY A NUT RIGHT IN MY LEG. AND NOW AS A RESULT, I WORK AS A PLUMBER. AND THE WHOLE THING NOW IS I'M 24 YEARS OLD. AND WHAT I'M FRIGHTENED OF BY THE MASS FLUX OF IMMIGRATION HERE IS I'M AFRAID THE MORE YOU BRING MORE PEOPLE IN, THE LESS OPPORTUNITY THERE IS AROUND ME. I FEEL LIKE THE AMERICAN DREAM IS BEING SLOWLY BUT SURELY KIND OF PULLED AWAY FROM ME, AND IT'S GETTING HARDER AND HARDER TO OBTAIN. AND ONCE AGAIN, A LOT OF PEOPLE DO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS SOCIETY, ESPECIALLY INDIAN AMERICANS. THEY'RE VERY TALENTED. THEY'RE VERY BRIGHT. THEY'RE VERY GIFTED. I'VE MET A LOT OF THEM, ALL WALKS OF LIFE. AND YES, THERE ARE MASSIVE DEMAND OF THINGS LIKE FINANCE, THINGS LIKE TECH, AND THINGS, YOU KNOW, IN HOSPITALITY, ESPECIALLY ENTREPRENEURSHIP. HOWEVER, THERE'S ALSO HIGH DEMAND FOR THINGS LIKE WHAT I DO, ELECTRICIANS, TRADESMEN, PLUMBERS, YOU KNOW, OIL WORK, OIL FIELDS. AND THERE'S ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD MONEY IN THESE FIELDS. AND ON TOP OF THAT, THESE JOBS ARE ALSO RECESSION-PROOF. SO, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A LITTLE BIT OF A PRO THERE. BUT THE WHOLE THING IS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CONTRIBUTION, I FEEL I'M CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO SAY THAT A LOT OF THOSE OTHER JOBS WOULDN'T EVEN SURVIVE IF IT WASN'T FOR GUYS LIKE ME. AND SO, MY WHOLE THING IS I JUST DON'T REALLY VIEW IT AS BEING FAIR FOR ME TO NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE AMERICAN DREAM WHEN PEOPLE ARE COMING IN, WHEN I'VE BEEN HERE FOR 20 YEARS, AND THEY GET TO DO ABOUT HALF THE WORK THAT I DO, AND I HAVE TO LIVE CHECK TO CHECK. I'VE BEEN EVICTED, HAD CARS REPOSSESSED. I'VE BEEN IMMOBILE. AND MY PARENTS HAVE TRIED TO HELP ME, AND I'VE WANTED TO MAKE IT ON MY OWN BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT MY PARENTS TAUGHT ME. THAT'S THE REAL AMERICAN DREAM. THE REAL AMERICAN DREAM IS NOT SCHEMING YOUR WAY INTO THIS COUNTRY, COMMITTING FRAUD, WHICH, BY THE WAY, IMMIGRATION FRAUD IS A FEDERAL OFFENSE. AND THE POLICE AND THE CITY COUNCIL CAN'T DO MUCH ABOUT IT BECAUSE THAT'S HOMELAND SECURITY BUSINESS. SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S BIGGER THAN ALL OF US. BUT THAT BEING SAID, THE BIGGEST THING THAT I'VE SEEN IS IF WE'RE GOING TO FIX THIS, WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER. TAKE IT FROM ME, I HAVE WAY LESS LIFE EXPERIENCE THAN ALL OF YOU, BUT A WISE MAN ONCE TOLD ME, LET'S ALL LOOK INTO A MIRROR BEFORE WE LEARN INTO, EXCUSE ME, LET'S ALL LOOK INTO A MIRROR BEFORE WE ALL LOOK INTO A MAGNIFYING GLASS. AND I THINK FROM THERE WE CAN LEARN TO WORK TOGETHER AND WE CAN MOVE AWAY FROM THIS ISSUE AND WE CAN ACTUALLY BRING THE CITY OF FRISCO BACK TO THE TEXAS AND THE CITY THAT I FELL IN LOVE WITH. THAT'S ALL I GOT. ALL RIGHT. NEXT WE HAVE DEEPA MORTHY. HEY, HELLO ALL. SORRY, THIS IS LIKE A QUICK MOVE. I WAS JUST LIKE, I HAVE A 23-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER WHO WAS LISTENING TO THIS AND I HAPPENED TO SEE THE VIDEO, SO I THOUGHT LIKE I INVITED MYSELF HERE JUST TO GIVE THE PERSPECTIVE OF MY FELLOW INDIANS, RIGHT? LIKE EVERYBODY TALK LIKE HERE, AND I ALSO WANT TO, LIKE I'M A SINGLE MOM, LIKE WHO RAISED MY DAUGHTER, LIKE WHO WAS BORN AND BROUGHT UP IN THIS COUNTRY FOR 23 YEARS. WE WERE IN CHICAGO. WE MOVED HERE IN 2021, AND SHE'S LIKE GOING TO COLLEGE, LIKE SHE'S DOING HER, WHEN SHE WAS DOING HER MIDDLE OF HER BACHELOR'S, I MOVED HERE. SO IT IS NOT EVEN LIKE, BUT STILL WE PAY THE TAX, RIGHT, PROPERTY TAX, REGARDLESS LIKE WHETHER SHE'S GOING TO SCHOOL OR COLLEGE, I STILL PAY THAT, RIGHT? SO I ACTUALLY LIKE, I DON'T WANT TO BE EMOTIONAL. I, AFTER COMING HERE, I ACTUALLY, I TRIGGERED BY EMOTION, LIKE THAT'S WHY I CAME HERE. BUT AFTER COMING HERE, I REALIZED I DON'T WANT TO BE EMOTIONAL. I JUST CAME TO THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE THIS IS COUNTRY FOR OPPORTUNITY, AND I STILL BELIEVE THIS COUNTRY IS, FOR WHOEVER IS TRYING HARD, THEY ARE GOING TO WIN HERE. IF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE LAZY, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, EVEN I DIDN'T HAVE A JOB, LIKE I HAD A FULL-TIME, I'M A US CITIZEN. I DIDN'T HAVE A JOB FOR LIKE 10 MONTHS, AND THEN I FOUND A JOB, AND STILL I WAS ABLE [02:25:02] TO SURVIVE. I DIDN'T GO ON GETTING ANY SNAP PROGRAM, OR GETTING ANY GOVERNMENT-AIDED PROGRAM, NOTHING, BECAUSE WE HAVE THE, LIKE I WAS ABLE TO SECURE FOR MY 10 MONTHS, AND I WAS ABLE TO WORK THROUGH THAT, RIGHT? SO IT HAPPENS TO EVERYBODY. IT IS LIKE I CANNOT JUST LIKE THAT BLAME, LIKE ONCE A COMMUNITY CAME HERE, THEY STOLE MY JOB, AND I DON'T HAVE JOB ANYMORE LIKE THAT. AND WE ARE STILL LIKE, WE ALL HAVE TO WORK HARD. THAT IS LIKE, THAT IS WHAT I LEARNED IN AMERICA. THERE IS NO STOP IN LEARNING. WE ALL CAN LEARN ANY TIME, AND WE ALL CAN YEARN AT ANY AGE. LIKE WE CAN SEE LIKE BIG EXAMPLE IS LIKE KFC, RIGHT? THAT GUY MADE AFTER 65 ONLY, HE EVEN LIKE FOUND THAT THING. SO THERE IS LIKE, IT IS NOT GOING TO STOP FOR ANYBODY, RIGHT? IF YOU HAVE, IF YOU WANT TO WIN, YOU WILL WORK THROUGH THE WAY. THAT IS WHAT I WANT TO SAY, LIKE WE ARE NOT, WE ARE NOT LIKE STOPPING ANYBODY, AND WE DON'T WANT TO BE A THREAT TO, LIKE WE DON'T WANT OUR KIDS TO HAVE THAT THREAT, BECAUSE NOWADAYS, YEAH, I AM AFRAID. WHEN I AM SENDING MY DAUGHTER TO COLLEGE, I AM LIKE, OKAY, IS SHE GOING TO BE SAFE? BECAUSE SHE IS DOING HER MASTER'S. SO I AM ACTUALLY LIKE AFRAID, LIKE IS SHE GOING TO BE FINE AT THE COLLEGE? LIKE IS SHE, IS EVERYBODY IS GOING TO BE LIKE FINE IN THE UNIVERSITY, LIKE BEHAVING WITH HER? OR LIKE IS THERE ANY, LIKE EVERY DAY IT IS LIKE SAFETY THREAT, RIGHT? OTHER THAN LIKE THIS GUN, WE ARE ALSO LIKE SEEING LIKE THE, THE ANIMOSITY LIKE TOWARDS US. I WANT TO SAY LIKE THIS IS NOT LIKE THE AMERICA I WAS ACTUALLY SEEING, BECAUSE I LIVED IN CHICAGO FOR LIKE 21 YEARS. PRIOR TO THAT, I WAS IN OHIO. I WAS IN ATLANTA. NOWHERE I HAVE SEEN THIS KIND OF HATRED TOWARDS US. AND EVEN IN TEXAS, I DIDN'T SEE THIS, BUT THIS IS LIKE A REALLY LIKE SURPRISE TO SEE THIS LIKE TODAY. AND I JUST WANT TO INVITE MYSELF JUST TO SAY LIKE, HEY, WE NEVER, LIKE THERE IS NO BOUNDARY FOR ANYBODY. IF YOU WANT TO WIN, EVERYBODY CAN WIN. IT IS LIKE, IT'S A DIVERSE COMMUNITY. WHOEVER TRIES HARD, THEY WILL WIN. SO DON'T BRING UP LIKE SOMEBODY, ONE PERSON DID WRONG. DON'T BRING UP LIKE THE WHOLE COMMUNITY IS LIKE THAT, RIGHT? SO I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT, AND THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY. AND THAT'S ALL. MR. LEE, CAN YOU HELP END US ON A POSITIVE NOTE TONIGHT, PLEASE? MR. LEE, YOUR TURN. EVERYBODY, GOOD EVENING. DON'T HELP ME. OKAY, SIT DOWN. AND NOW WE GET TO SIT DOWN. IF A MAN DIE, WILL HE GO DIRECTLY TO HEAVEN? RIGHT OR WRONG? RIGHT? RIGHT. IF SOMEBODY DIE, THEN DIRECTLY GO INTO HEAVEN? NO. NO? NO. THAT IS A VERY HARD QUESTION. OKAY. WHAT HAPPENED IN ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER 9 VERSE 5 SAYS, FOR THE LIVING KNOW THAT THEY SHALL DIE, BUT THE DEAD KNOW NOTHING. DEAD KNOW NOTHING. PSALM 146, 4. [02:30:03] HIS BREATH GO FORTH. HE RETURNS TO THE EARTH. IN THAT VERY DAY, HIS THOUGHT PERISH. PSALM 115 VERSE 17. THE DEAD PRAISE NOT THE LORD, NEITHER ANY THAT GO DOWN IN SILENCE. THE GRAVE IS A SILENT PLACE. NOT HEAVEN. IF THEY GO TO HEAVEN, THEN PRAISE THE LORD. BUT DEAD PERSON GO INTO GRAVE. THE BIBLE, THE WORD SOUL AND SPIRIT. ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED TIMES APPEARS. BUT NOT ONE WORD EVEN IS CONNECTED WITH IMMORTAL LIFE. IMMORTAL LIFE. AMONG THE CATHOLIC PRIESTS, 98% BELIEVE THEY ARE ALIVE SPIRIT. AMONG THE PROTESTANT PASTORS, 86% BELIEVE THEY ARE ALIVE IN SPIRIT. AND JEWISH RABBIS, 68% NEWSWEEK, 58 APRIL 3RD 1972. YOU CAN READ IT IF YOU WANT. FINISH. OKAY. YOU ARE VERY TIRED TODAY. FINISH NEXT TIME. THANK YOU. MAYOR, THAT'S EVERYBODY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, MR. LEE, FOR HELPING US END ON A HIGH NOTE. I DO JUST WANT TO SAY BRIEFLY, I JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR HAVING A DISCUSSION IN A PROFESSIONAL MANNER, FOLLOWING OUR CITY GUIDELINES. AND IT'S THE WAY DIALOGUE SHOULD HAPPEN. EVEN FROM OUR VISITORS WHO ARE WITH US A COUPLE DOZEN PROBABLY EARLIER AND NOW MAYBE WATCHING THE MEETING FROM HOME. YOU KNOW, SOMETHING ELSE I DO WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, I WAS ACTUALLY ASKED A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, YOU KNOW, I'LL ONLY BE YOUR MAYOR FOR ANOTHER FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS. AND SO I GET A LOT OF THESE REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS. AND SOMEONE ASKED ME WHAT WAS MY FAVORITE THING THAT'S HAPPENED SINCE I'VE BEEN MAYOR. YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW, FIRST COMES TO MIND, YOU THINK ABOUT THE BIG PROJECTS OR THE BIG WINS OR THE BIG TITLES. AND MY ANSWER TO THE QUESTION WAS THE WORK THAT HAS HAPPENED ON OUR CULTURAL COMMITTEE HERE IN THE CITY OF FRISCO. YOU KNOW, BACK IN 2017, WE WERE STARTING TO SEE THAT FRISCO WAS BECOMING MUCH MORE DIVERSE, A GROWING INDIAN POPULATION, A GROWING A LOT OF DIFFERENT POPULATIONS. AND WE HAD PEOPLE WITHIN OUR CITY LIKE CHIEF DARREN STEVENS, WHO TOOK UPON THE MISSION THAT WE WANT TO REACH ALL FOUR CORNERS OF THIS COMMUNITY AND KNOW EVERY SINGLE RESIDENT BY THEIR NEED. IF WE STEAL THE FISD SLOGAN, KNOW THEM BY NAME AND NEED. AND SO WE TRIED TO DECIDE HOW ARE WE GOING TO DO THAT. AND THIS WAS AT A TIME WHEN IT WAS BECOMING UNPOPULAR TO EVEN SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS. AND SO AS A COUNCIL, WE MADE A DECISION AND SAID, WE'RE GOING TO BE PROUD TO SAY MERRY CHRISTMAS. WE'RE GOING TO LIGHT THE BIGGEST TREE WE CAN FIND IN SIMPSON PLAZA AND CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS. WE'RE GOING TO GO GET A BIG BLOWTORCH AND LIGHT A MENORAH CANDLE IN SIMPSON PLAZA AS WELL. THAT'S PROBABLY MY FAVORITE EVENT, OTHER THAN WHEN WE STARTED DOING HOLY. AND WE COULD PELT COUNCIL MEMBERS WITH COLORFUL THINGS, AND IT BECAME SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE. ANGELIA LED OUR MLK DAY CELEBRATION, WHICH NOW LIVES ON PAST HER, AND IT STARTED THE CITY'S FIRST MLK CELEBRATION. THIS SATURDAY, MY WIFE AND [02:35:01] THESE LOVELY COUNCIL LADIES WILL BE DRESSING UP AND WALKING DOWN THE RUNAWAY IN OUR ASIAN NEW YEAR FESTIVAL, WHICH FIRST STARTED JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. WE'VE HAD COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS WHEN THERE WAS STOP ASIAN HATE BACK DURING COVID AND MANY OTHER DIFFERENT COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS THAT HAVE HAPPENED ALONG THE WAY. AND THE MISSION STARTED WITH JUST WANTING PEOPLE TO LOVE THY NEIGHBOR. AND THAT'S KIND OF EVERY CITY'S MISSION, AND VERY FEW PEOPLE ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISH IT. AND SO WHAT WE SET OUT TO DO WAS, YOU KNOW, WE WANTED TO GO BEYOND THAT AND WE WANTED RESIDENTS TO START BEING CURIOUS ABOUT THY NEIGHBOR. AND OVER TIME WHAT WE SAW IS WHEN WE HAD AN MLK CELEBRATION, IT WASN'T JUST AFRICAN AMERICANS THERE. WHEN WE CELEBRATED HOLI OR RAMADAN, IT WASN'T JUST INDIAN AMERICANS THERE. PEOPLE WANTED TO START UNDERSTANDING EACH OTHER, AND THAT'S CREATED A REALLY, REALLY POWERFUL COMMUNITY. THE WORK IS NEVER DONE. EVERY COMMUNITY MEMBER WON'T BUY INTO IT, BUT I THINK WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE IS SPECIAL. AND SO EVERYONE IN FRISCO, OTHER THAN A FEW HANDFUL OF NATIVE FRISCONIANS, THERE AREN'T MANY, EVERY ONE OF US ELSE IS FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE. AND WHEN YOU CHOOSE TO CALL FRISCO HOME AND SAY THIS IS GOING TO BE YOUR HOME, IT WILL ALWAYS BE OUR MISSION THAT YOU FEEL WELCOME HERE AND YOU FEEL SAFE HERE. AND I HOPE THAT'S A TRADITION THAT OUTLIVES LONG PAST MY MAYORSHIP, AND I HOPE THAT'S SOMETHING WE CONTINUE TO LEAN IN HAND-IN-HAND AS A COMMUNITY. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. [City Council discussion with City Staff concerning any actions required by City Staff as a result of any item on tonight's agenda.] EXCUSE ME, SIR. IF YOU CAN'T BE QUIET, THEN WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ASK YOU TO LEAVE. [Discussion on Governance Monitoring of present City Council Meeting.] ITEM 37 IS CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSION WITH CITY STAFF CONCERNING ANY ACTIONS REQUIRED BY CITY STAFF AS A RESULT OF TONIGHT'S AGENDA. ANYTHING NOTED? OKAY. 38 IS GOVERNANCE MONITORING. I HAVE THAT. I THINK GIVEN ALL WE WENT THROUGH TONIGHT, I GIVE US A SOLID A AND APPRECIATE EVERYBODY. LOOK FOR A MOTION TO ADJOURN. SO MOVED. MOTION BY LAURA, SECOND BY JOHN. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. PASSES 6-0. WE'RE ADJOURNED AT 9.45. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.