A council member at the La Marque City Council meeting said the council should receive regular quarterly updates on pending legal cases and requested clarity on whether each case is covered by the Texas Municipal League (TML) and whether the city is paying associated costs.

The council member said they had previously asked for legal updates and asked for a one-on-one meeting with the interim city manager to discuss misinformation related to ongoing matters. "I'm glad you're here. I had long ago asked, and I'm gonna be adamant about this, council members, regular quarterly updates on legal cases," the council member said. They asked staff to make clear "whether the case is covered by TML, are we, I said, cost that we're covering things," noting they had not received recent updates.

The request came during a period of discussion about the city's recent budget and staff work. The council member asked staff to provide both status reports on open litigation and explicit information about whether the Texas Municipal League — which provides legal representation and insurance services to many Texas cities — was covering costs for particular cases or whether the city had direct expenditures.

Meeting participants did not record a formal motion or vote on instituting a quarterly reporting schedule during the excerpted discussion. The council member said they would follow up with the interim city manager to arrange a one-on-one meeting to review details and address misinformation.

The council did not provide a timeline in the transcript for when the first quarterly legal report would be distributed, nor did staff state in the excerpt whether they would accept the request or set a schedule.