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Board holds an executive session for legal advice on BA 2026‑06, returns with no closed‑session decisions
Summary
The Board entered executive session under the Texas Open Meetings Act to take legal advice from city counsel regarding BA 2026‑06; the board returned and explicitly reported no decisions were made during the closed session before voting to approve the variance.
At 9:04 a.m. the chair announced the board would enter executive session "pursuant to the Texas government code, annotated section 5 5 1 0 7 1 of the open meetings act" to seek legal advice concerning BA 2026‑06. The board consulted the city attorney in closed session and returned at 9:22 a.m. with the chair stating "there were no decisions that were made while we were in executive, executive session." The board then proceeded to discuss findings and voted to approve the variance.
The closed‑session consultation centered on how the board could frame factual findings to meet variance criteria while acknowledging staff's concern that the request was inconsistent with the Land Development Code. The public record shows no change in membership or additional pleading occurred while in executive session; the subsequent vote occurred in open session.
