Mesa council member pulls consent item on cul‑de‑sac agreement ahead of public comment

Council Member Duff asked the Mesa City Council on Sept. 8 to remove consent item 5A, a cul‑de‑sac agreement, from the consent agenda so members of the public could speak at the regular meeting. "I just wanna pull off consent item 5 a, the cul de sac agreement. I think we'll have members attending, when they'll be speaking on it," Duff said during the study session. The removal was framed as a procedural request to allow public speakers to address the item at tonight's council meeting; no formal vote on the pull was recorded in the study session transcript. The request occurred during the study session's agenda review, which the mayor and council use to identify items needing separate discussion at the regular meeting. The transcript does not record further details of the cul‑de‑sac agreement, the parties to the agreement, or any motion related to its removal. The agenda packet or the regular meeting minutes should show whether the item was later placed on the regular meeting agenda for separate consideration.