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Sugar Land mayor pushes back on election misinformation, clarifies city positions on power plant, gondola, taxes and surface-water treatment
Summary
Mayor Zimmerman opened the May 20 council meeting by urging an end to what he described as misinformation in the community and clarifying city positions on several contested topics, including a proposed power plant, a gondola feasibility application, the tax rate and surface-water treatment requirements.
Mayor Zimmerman opened the meeting with a request that misinformation circulating during the current election cycle stop and provided specific clarifications about several topics residents had raised.
On the proposed power plant, Zimmerman said the project was terminated in March of this year and that “there’s no other plan for a power plant, not gonna be a power plant,” urging people to stop circulating claims that a plant would be built. On tax rates and bonds, the mayor said the council…
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