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Regular Council Meeting September 9, 2024 Page 5 disannexations from the City Attorney and this was the first time a company had requested for disannexation from the City, and that she was not in favor of it. Council Member Putnam asked Council to make sure to ear mark the $400,000.00 the company was paying to the City, if the disannexation was approved so that the funds did not get lost. Mayor Pankaj said he was also pro-business, and was in favor of this disannexation. Subject to the disannexation agreement being executed by Nexus, a Motion to approve this item was made by Council Member Moore and seconded by Council Member Kessel. Motion carried, 4 ayes — 2 nays, with Council Members Norment and Putnam casting the dissenting votes. 15. Discuss downtown trash ordinance, and provide direction to staff. Mayor Pankaj said Council Member Norment placed this item on the agenda. Council Member Norment said she understood that the City did not have an Ordinance addressing the trash and trash bins downtown, and there was a lot of growth downtown. Mayor Pankaj said they needed to take steps to make downtown beautiful and asked how Council wanted to move forward. Council Member Norment suggested they form a committee and Council Member Putnam volunteered to serve on the committee. Council Member Norment also suggested they ask volunteers from the Paris Downtown Association. Mayor Pankaj said they may want to involve Main Street Coordinator Cheri Bedford with regard to possibly doing a survey. 16. Receive presentation about a PEG Channel, discuss and provide direction to City Staff. Public Information Officer Jon McFadden explained that prior to 2005, Texas cities could issue franchise agreements to wire -based cable television. He said subsequently Senate Bill 5 created Chapter 66 of the Texas Utilities Code, providing a State issued cable and void franchise agreement and ending local CATV franchises. Mr. McFadden explained that Chapter 66 addressed Public, Educational Government (PEG) channels provided on a CATV system, and Municipal PEG channels offered televised meetings, videos about services, emergency information and bulletin board content. Mr. McFadden reported that after Chapter 66 took effect and existing local franchise agreements expired, Texas cities could choose to accept a 1 % PEG and Paris chose to do so. Mr. McFadden explained capital costs for operation of a PEG channel, and that the City must utilize the channel for at least eight hours daily, or the cable system could reclaim the channel for other programming. He said there was no cost for the use of a channel for PEG programming. Mr. McFadden reported that as of September 3, 2024, the PEG fund contained $865,231. Mr. McFadden said the PEG channel would improve the City's ability to share information with citizens, particularly adults 65 and up. He said a PEG channel would be another tool for sharing information and could reach many people who were not internet or social media users. He also said equipment purchased for PEG could be used for other purposes when not in use for PEG programming. It was a consensus of City Council that Mr. McFadden move forward with establishing a PEG Channel and bringing back a channel use agreement.