Title
Consider Minutes of Special City Council Meeting of May 17, 2022.
Summary
City of Killeen
Special City Council Meeting
Killeen City Hall
May 17, 2022 at 5:00 p.m.
Presiding: Mayor Debbie Nash-King
Attending: Councilmembers Jessica Gonzalez, Riakos Adams, Michael Boyd, Ken Wilkerson, and Mellisa Brown
Absent: Mayor Protem Rick Williams, Councilmember Nina Cobb
Also attending were City Manager Kent Cagle, City Attorney Traci Briggs, City Secretary Lucy Aldrich, and Sergeant-at-Arms Officer Plowick
Approval of Agenda
Motion was made by Councilmember Adams to approve the agenda. Motion was seconded by Councilmember Brown. The motion carried unanimously.
Citizen Comments
No one signed up to speak.
Ordinances
OR-22-008 Consider an ordinance canvassing returns from May 7, 2022 General and Special Elections.
The City Secretary read the caption of the ordinance.
AN ORDINANCE BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KILLEEN, TEXAS, CANVASSING RETURNS AND DECLARING THE RESULTS OF A GENERAL AND SPECIAL ELECTION HELD MAY 7, 2022 FOR THE ELECTION OF A MAYOR AND THREE COUNCILMEMBERS-AT-LARGE AND THIRTEEN (13) CHARTER AMENDMENTS.
Prior to the Special City Council Meeting Councilmember Gonzalez, Councilmember Adams and Councilmember Boyd verified the results of the May 7 election by reviewing the results provided by Bell County. Councilmembers Adams, Boyd and Gonzalez read the ordinance that certified the election results stating the number of votes each candidate received, and that Debbie Nash-King received the most votes for Mayor and further noting that Jose Segarra, Ken Wilkerson, and Ramon Alvarez received the most votes for Councilmember At-Large. A petition for a recount was submitted for the Councilmember At-Large office resulting in continuing with the canvass but not the swearing in of the office. That Propositions A through G, Proposition I, and Propositions K-M passed, and that Propositions H and J failed.
Motion was made by Councilmember Gonz...
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