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Regular Council Meeting March 11, 2024 Page 4 three applications that would be processed, one was from Adam Bolton, and two were from Invest Fannin. Mr. Vine said Staff recommended pausing future applications until they could review data from the housing assessment and then could come back with recommendations. Council Member Savage said he was in support of granting the moratorium and stepping back to make the program better. Mayor Pro -Tem Pankaj agreed, as did Mayor Hughes. Mr. Vine said the goal was to bring back an even better product. A Motion to approve the moratorium was made by Council Member Norment and seconded by Council Member Savage. Motion carried, 5 ayes — 0 nays. 13. Receive a presentation about the events for the April 8, 2024 Eclipse. Mr. Vine gave a presentation about the upcoming Eclipse which included the expected number of visitors, traffic, impact on local restaurants, impact on fuel providers, impact on city services and impact on local business services. Mr. Vine advised of the preparation efforts which consisted of public education and planning meetings with emergency management, first responders, TxDOT, Lamar County Chamber of Commerce, medical facilities, school districts, PJC, hotel/motels, ministerial alliance and grocers, fuel providers and other local businesses. With regard to City preparation efforts, Mr. Vine stated that no City employees would be taking vacation during this time, some employees may be performing other duties as assigned, some non-essential services may not be available on April Stn, there would be 20 portable toilets to supplement facilities in parks, that City trash trucks would be placed in strategic locations to help with trash, there would be increased staffing in the police department, fire department and EMS, staff planned to fill all ground and elevated storage tanks for water production ahead of time, that the Emergency Operations Center would be up, and the City would have their own supply of fuel. Mr. Vine said the City was working with businesses that had message signs to share welcome Eclipse messages, recorded a PSA to educate the public and recorded a PSA for public and visitors starting April 4th through the Eclipse weekend. 14. Convene into executive session pursuant to 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 financial or other incentive to a business prospect described by Subdivision (1), as follows: retain development. Mayor Hughes convened City Council into executive session at 6:16 p.m. 15. Reconvene into open session and possibly take action on those matters discussed in Executive Session. Mayor reconvened City Council into open session at 6:51 p.m. and said there was no action to be taken.