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Regular Council Meeting October 23, 2023 Page 5 PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT; AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Ms. Ellis said on October 91h the City Council nominated Pat Murphy to serve on the Lamar County Appraisal District Board of Directors and subsequently, the City Staff learned that a State statutory provision rendered Mr. Murphy ineligible to serve. She also said that Council Member Pilgrim and Mayor Pro -Tem Pankaj had been working together to bring a name forward for consideration. Council Member Pilgrim said their recommendation was Bryan Glass, a local realtor. A Motion to repeal Resolution 2023-045 and to Nominate Bryan Glass to serve on the Board of the Lamar County Appraisal District was made by Council Member Pilgrim and seconded by Council Member Norment. Motion carried, 6 ayes — 0 nays. 18. Discuss and act on an Agreement with Placer.ai in the amount of $5,000.00 (total cost of $15,000.00), for a joint program with Paris Economic Development Corporation and the Lamar County Chamber of Commerce for the purpose of collecting area analysis. City Manager Grayson Path explained that Placer.ai was a location analytics company that collected geolocation data from mobile devices, and supported needs to measure store traffic, foot traffic counts and provided insight to understand how promotions, holidays, seasonality and events impact business. Mr. Path said the City of Paris wanted to partner with the Paris Economic Development Corporation and the Lamar Chamber of Commerce to fund the purchase of a one-year subscription with each organization providing $5,000.00. Lamar County Chamber President Paul Allen said the detail of this data provided a lot of information, and gave an example of 10,000 people attending the Festival of Pumpkins, where they are from and where they spend their money in the City. He said this information was gathered from "pings" on cell phones. A Motion to approve this item was made by Council Member Savage and seconded by Council Member Norment. Motion carried, 6 ayes — 0 nays. 19, Convene into executive session pursuant to: A. Section 551.071 of the Texas Government Code, Consultation with Attorney, to receive legal advice from the City Attorney about (1) pending or contemplated litigation and/or (2) on matters in which the duty of an attorney to her client under the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct of the State Bar of Texas clearly conflict with this chapter, to -wit: City of Paris v. Essent PRMC. B. Section 551.087 of the Texas Government Code, (1) to discuss or deliberate regarding commercial or financial information that the governmental body has received from a business prospect that the governmental body seeks to have locate, stay, or expand in or near the territory of the governmental body and with which the governmental body is conducting economic development negotiations; or (2) to deliberate the offer of a