Closed Session on Mayor Removal Hearing (26-1241)

Context: Identical executive session items citing Texas Government Code § 551.071, Disciplinary Rule 1.05, and Article II, Section 11 of the City Charter were posted for special meetings on August 6 and August 7, 2026, listing referral, reprimand, suspension, or removal of the mayor as possible outcomes.

Recommended: Obtain the full text of Article II, Section 11 of the City Charter along with the posted notices, certified agendas, and any minutes for the August 6 and August 7 special meetings, then confirm whether the charter prescribes hearing steps (notice, charges, open deliberation, vote threshold) that the closed sessions bypassed. The posting invokes only the attorney-consultation exception in Texas Government Code § 551.071, so the open question is whether deliberation on referral to the Ethics Commission, reprimand, suspension, or removal itself stayed within that stated exception — a question that gets much harder to reconstruct once the sessions conclude and any action is ratified.

Context: The same executive session item concerning Article II, Section 11 of the City Charter and the mayor's possible referral to the Ethics Commission, reprimand, suspension, or removal appears on both the August 6 and August 7, 2026 special meeting agendas with no recorded open-session result.

Recommended: Ask the city secretary and city attorney what happened between the August 6 and August 7 special meetings that produced word-for-word identical closed-session postings on consecutive days, and whether the removal hearing was recessed, continued, or reset — then request the open-session minutes for both dates to see whether any vote, referral, or reprimand was taken in public. The record shows only the closed-session posting twice with no disclosed outcome, and the distinction between a continued hearing and a re-noticed one determines whether the mayor received the charter's process.