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RIGHT.[I. Call Meeting to Order]
TIME IS 6:30 PM I'M GOING TO CALL THIS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO ORDER.UH, WOULD THE CITY SECRETARY PLEASE CALL? OH, JENNIFER'S NOT HERE.
I THOUGHT I THOUGHT YOU WERE SITTING THERE.
YOU WANT ME TO DO IT AGAIN? YEAH.
WITH THE CITY SECRETARY, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL MITCHELL.
[1. A Resolution Canvassing the Returns and Declaring the Results of the December 13, 2022 Runoff Election of the City of Kyle, Texas. ~ Travis Mitchell, Mayor]
UH, THIS, UH, THIS IS A VERY SHORT SPECIAL MEETING WHERE WE ARE GOING TO CANVAS THE RESULTS OF ELECTIONS.UH, I WILL BE READING OUT THE RESULTS, UH, AND THEN WE WILL TAKE A VOTE AND THEN ADJOURN.
UH, AND THEN IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THAT ADJOURNMENT, WE'LL HAVE A SPECIAL SWEARING IN CEREMONY FOR COUNCIL MEMBER ELECT HEISER.
UH, WE'RE ALSO VERY HONORED TODAY, UH, BY HAVING STATE SENATOR JUDE ZINI HERE.
SO IF Y'ALL WANNA GIVE HER A HAND, THANK YOU FOR COMING TO DO THE SWEARING IN.
IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO COME FORWARD AND SPEAK? SEEING NONE.
I'M GONNA CLOSE CITIZEN COMMENTS.
UH, THE ONE AND ONLY AGENDA ITEM IS TO CONSIDER AND POSSIBLE ACTION FOR A RESOLUTION CANVASSING THE RETURNS IN DECLARING THE RESULTS OF THE DECEMBER 13TH, 2022 RUNOFF ELECTION OF THE CITY OF KYLE, TEXAS.
THERE CAME TO BE CONSIDERED THE RETURNS OF THE RUNOFF ELECTION HELD ON THE 13TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 2022 FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING A CITY COUNCIL MEMBER AT DISTRICT ONE, AND IT APPEARING FROM SAID RETURNS DULY AND LEGALLY MADE THAT EACH OF THE CANDIDATES IN SAID ELECTION RECEIVED THE FOLLOWING VOTES, UH, DISTRICT ONE AMANDA STARK, 199 EARLY AND 103 ON ELECTION DAY FOR A TOTAL OF 302 VOTES, BEAR HEISER 526 EARLY 241 ON ELECTION DAY FOR A TOTAL OF 767 VOTES.
IT IS FOUND, DETERMINED AND DECLARED BY THE CITY COUNCIL THAT SAID ELECTION WAS DULY CALLED THAT NOTICE OF SAID ELECTION WAS GIVEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW.
AND THAT SAID ELECTION WAS HELD IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW, AND THAT BEHE WAS DULY ELECTED TO DISTRICT ONE SAID ABOVE NAME PARTIES HEREBY DECLARE DULY ELECTED TO SAID OFFICE, SUBJECT TO THE TAKING OF THE OATH OF OFFICE AS PROVIDED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS.
AND WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE, UH, THE RESOLUTION, CANVASSING THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION.
SECOND MOTION BY THE MAYOR, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER PARSLEY.
IS THERE ANY COMMENTS, UH, ON THE MOTION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
ALL OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ZERO, AND WE WILL NOW ADJOURN INTO A, UH, SWEARING IN CEREMONY.
UH, IT, UH, IT'S MY HONOR TO INTRODUCE, UH, UH, SENATOR ZINI AND COUNCILMAN ELECT BEAR HEISER.
UH, WE'LL DO THE OATH OF OFFICE.
UH, UH, SENATOR ZINI WILL ADMINISTER THE PLEDGE.
AND THEN AFTERWARDS, UH, UH, COUNCILMAN ELECT HEISER WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO SAY A FEW WORDS, UH, AND THEN IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THAT, WE DO HAVE SOME RECEPTIONS IN THE BACK, UH, AS YOU WANNA MINGLE.
AND OUR OFFICIAL, UH, COUNCIL MEETING WILL START AT EXACTLY SEVEN O'CLOCK.
WOULD YOU PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND REPEAT AFTER ME? I STATE YOUR NAME.
I VER HEISER DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR.
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I WILL FAITHFULLY EXECUTE, THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY EXECUTE THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICE, OF THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICE OF KYLE CITY, COUNCIL MEMBER, DISTRICT ONE, KYLE CITY, COUNCIL MEMBER, DISTRICT ONE OF HAYES COUNTY, AND THE STATE OF TEXAS, OF HAYES COUNTY, AND THE STATE OF TEXAS.AND WILL TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY AND WILL TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY, PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND, PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS, THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
OF THE UNITED STATES, AND OF THIS STATE.
WOULD YOU PLEASE KEEP YOUR RIGHT HAND RAISED AND REPEAT AFTER ME AGAIN? YEP.
DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I HAVE NOT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, THAT I HAVE NOT DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY PAID, OFFERED, PAID, OFFERED, PROMISED TO PAY, PROMISE TO PAY, CONTRIBUTED, OR PROMISED TO CONTRIBUTE, CONTRIBUTED OR PROMISED TO CONTRIBUTE ANY MONEY, ANY MONEY OR THING OF VALUE OR THING OF VALUE, OR PROMISED ANY PUBLIC OFFICE, OR PROMISED ANY PUBLIC OFFICE OR EMPLOYMENT OR EMPLOYMENT FOR THE GIVING OR WITHHOLDING FOR THE GIVING OR WITHHOLDING OF A VOTE OF A VOTE AT THE ELECTION, AT WHICH, AT THE ELECTION AT WHICH I WAS ELECTED, I WAS ELECTED OR AS A REWARD OR AS A REWARD TO SECURE MY APPOINTMENT, TO SECURE MY APPOINTMENT OR CONFIRMATION OR CONFIRMATION, WHICHEVER THE CASE MAY BE, WHICHEVER THE CASE.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY HE HELP YOU.
LADIES AND JUDGMENT, THE NEW COUNCIL MEMBER FOR DISTRICT ONE, CITY OF KYLE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, THE HONORABLE BERT HEIS.
UM, THIS IS, LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE WORN A TIE IN, UH, I DUNNO, MAYBE SINCE MY WEDDING DAY, UH, LIKE NINE YEARS AGO.
UM, SO, UH, THIS IS JUST SO AMAZING AND SURREAL TO SEE EVERYBODY HERE.
UM, IT'S, UH, IT'S REALLY A DREAM COME TRUE TO BE IN THIS POSITION, TO TAKE THIS OATH OF OFFICE, AND, UH, TO HAVE SENATOR ZINI HERE, UH, TO CONDUCT IT.
AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING TIME OUT OF YOUR SCHEDULE TO, TO BE HERE.
UM, SO, UH, WHEN I TOLD MY KIDS THAT, UH, I WAS, UH, GONNA BE SWORN IN AND THEY WERE GONNA COME TO THE SWEARING IN CEREMONY, UH, CHARLOTTE RIGHT HERE, UH, SHE'S SEVEN, SHE VERY QUICKLY INTERRUPTED ME AND SAID, UH, DADDY, YOU SWEAR EVERY DAY
AND, UH, SHE'S ALREADY TROLLING ME.
SO, UM, I, YEAH, YOU SWEETHEART.
SO ENOUGH OF THE JOKES JOKE, UM, TO THE SERIOUS PART.
UM, EVERYONE IN THIS ROOM, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
UM, MY HAND IS SHAKING, SO, UM, I KNOW EVERYONE ISN'T HERE FOR ME, BUT IT'S GREAT TO SEE SO MANY FAMILIAR FACES.
UM, YOU KNOW, I'D REALLY LIKE TO THANK, UH, MY FAMILY, OBVIOUSLY MY WIFE ERIN, WHO COULDN'T BE HERE.
UH, SHE HAS A MAJOR WORK, UM, MEETING TONIGHT WITH LIKE, HER WHOLE COMPANY.
AND SHE HAD ASKED ME, FUNNY ENOUGH, A COUPLE WEEKS AGO IF SHE SHOULD TAKE THIS DAY OFF, AND I SAID, ABSOLUTELY NOT.
UM, WE'LL, WE'LL MAKE IT WORK, UH, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
SO I'M NOT SURE IF SHE'S WATCHING RIGHT NOW, BUT I LOVE YOU VERY MUCH AND TO CHARLOTTE AND NOLAN, UM, YOU GUYS, YOU'RE AMAZING AND, UH, I LOVE YOU.
UM, SO, UM, JUST A COUPLE MORE THANK YOUS.
I WANT TO THANK AMANDA STARK FOR RUNNING A GREAT CAMPAIGN AND BEING, UM, VERY, A VERY GRACIOUS OPPONENT, UH, THROUGHOUT STARTING WITH THE GENERAL AND ALL THE WAY UP UNTIL THE END WHEN WE WERE, UM, YOU KNOW, HOLDING UP SIGNS OUTSIDE CITY HALL, YOU KNOW, RIGHT OVER, RIGHT OVER HERE, UH, UP UNTIL THE POLLS CLOSED.
UM, I'M VERY THANKFUL FOR, FOR THE WAY THAT SHE RAN HER CAMPAIGN.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW WE KIND OF GREW, UH, A FRIENDSHIP AND AS I DID WITH MANY OF THE CANDIDATES WHO, WHO INITIALLY RAN, UM, TO EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTED ME IN THIS CAMPAIGN, A LOT OF YOU ARE HERE.
UM, LIKE YOUR BELIEF IN ME HAS INSPIRED ME MORE THAN, YOU KNOW, TO THINK AS BIG AS I POSSIBLY COULD.
AND, UH, I BELIEVE THAT IS WHY I AM STANDING HERE TODAY, AND I DEFINITELY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO IT WITHOUT ALL OF YOU.
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UM, AND EVERYONE ON COUNCIL WHO PRETTY MUCH FROM DAY ONE, UH, TOOK MY CALLS, SOMETIMES A LOT OF MY CALLS, ASKING A LOT OF QUESTIONS, UM, AND JUST ALWAYS BEING OPEN TO, TO ME, AND I KNOW THERE WERE SIX OF US, SO I'M SURE THERE WERE A LOT OF CALLS THAT YOU GUYS WERE TAKING.UM, IT REALLY DOES MEAN A LOT, AND I FEEL, UH, VERY WELL PREPARED TO BE STANDING UP HERE IN LATER TO BE SITTING UP THERE, UM, ON BEHALF OF THE CONSTITUENTS OF DISTRICT ONE.
UH, SO, YOU KNOW, JUST IN, IN CLOSING, UH, NOT TO BE FORMAL, BUT I, I'VE THOUGHT A LOT ABOUT THIS MOMENT.
AND, UM, OVER THE COURSE OF, I THINK LIKE THE 2,700 DOORS THAT I KNOCKED ON, UM, FROM DATING BACK TO THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST UNTIL ELECTION DAY WHEN I WAS DRAGGING PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR HOUSES, LIKE LITERALLY DURING DINNER TO GO OUT AND VOTE.
AND, UM, IN, IN HAVING A LOT OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS, JUST, UH, THE REALITY, UM, IS THAT THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE CITY WHO, WHO DON'T FEEL REPRESENTED.
UM, AND I, UH, VOWED TO ALL OF THEM TO, TO STAND UP HERE ONE DAY AND TO REPRESENT EVERYONE IN THE CITY, NO MATTER WHERE THEY LIVE, MAKING SURE THAT THE GROWTH THAT'S TAKING PLACE HERE IS BENEFICIAL TO EVERYBODY.
UM, AND SO TO ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO PROBABLY AREN'T, UH, NOT, NOT EVERYONE'S HERE, UM, YOU KNOW, OF THE COUPLE THOUSAND PEOPLE FROM DOOR KNOCKING EVENTS, BUT, UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GOING OUT TO VOTE, UM, IN THIS RUNOFF.
AND, UM, I, I WILL GIVE YOU EVERYTHING THAT I HAVE FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS.
UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I AM, YOU HAVE AN OPEN DOOR WITH ME, UM, WHETHER IT'S EMAIL, PHONE, TEXT, UH, I WILL BE THERE TO TRY TO ADDRESS WHATEVER IS, UH, IS YOUR CONCERN AND DO WHATEVER THAT I CAN TO TRY TO CREATE A SOLUTION FOR YOU.
UM, SO IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE? UM, NO, I THINK THAT THAT ABOUT COVERS IT.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF I'VE SPOKEN WAY TOO LONG, BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE AND, UM, THIS IS GONNA BE AWESOME.
UH, WE'LL UH, START OUR MEETING AT SEVEN O'CLOCK.