Tonight was the regular Frisco City Council meeting. Here are the notes from the meeting.

Mayor Maher Maso and Councilman Jeff Cheney were absent and the meeting was led by Mayor Pro Tem Bob Allen.

Councilman Tim Nelson led in prayer from the devotional he used in his tour in Afghanistan.

Girl Scout Troop 5201 led the pledges.

A proclamation was given in support of the Safe Place Program. It’s currently National Safe Place week from March 15-21.

The Water Resources Team was recognized for their work in educating the public on conservation and receiving the Environmental Excellence award and the Blue Ribbon Water Conservation Award.

In 2000 Frisco was around 300 gallons per person per day and in 2014 that was down to 148.

The recent rain has taken the Lake Lavon water levels to just 7 feet below full. The last time it was full was 2012.

Ray Humphries and Gary Hartwell were both recognized for 25 years of service.

Reports

Frisco sales tax revenue is up 21% over last session.

Safety Town recognized it’s 300,000th visitor after eight years of training residents on safety.

On May 9th Frisco Can will have a Community Awareness Night with block parties in neighborhoods around Frisco.

Texas State Button Society will meet this weekend.

Pinball Festival is next weekend.

Regular Agenda

The city approved a permit for a Licensed Child Care Center on Coit Road. No testimony was given for or against and was approved unanimously.

A proposal was put forth for an ordinance to effect electioneering at polling locations. The new ordinance would require all signs and literature be removed in 72 hours from public locations. Councilman Nelson proposed changing that to 24 hours.

The new ordinance would also put in a place a fine for candidates that do not remove signs and allows the city to pull down signs.

Electioneering under the new ordinance would be banned in parking lots and medians at public polling locations.

Janet Evens Webb, who is running for Place One on the City Council, asked the city to consider private property as well as the public property. City Attorney Richard Abernathy said that ordinances on private property would be against the Texas Constitution and not likely upheld.

The city council did change the ordinance to have signs removed from 72 hours to 24 hours, parking lots and medians will be allowed to have electioneering, and item four from the ordinance was struck completely.

Shona Huffman, with the Frisco Chamber of Commerce, gave an update. The Chamber board voted to support all May 9th bond issues.

The Chamber voted to oppose SB 182 which changes the property tax growth cap from 8% to 4%. The Chamber says this is about local control.

The Council Adjourned at 8:01 p.m.

Check back the rest of this week for analysis on these votes.