Anticipating a large crowd, the council meeting was moved to the W. E. Hill Community Center in Sealy. A large crowd gathered outside the center before the council meeting began collecting signatures with the occasional yell of “Honor The Contract!” being heard.
The Sealy City Council on Tuesday went into executive session for quite a while before finally emerging to address the large crowd. Michael Kubricht was the first one to take the opportunity to address the people in the audience followed by other members of the council. Questions were fielded by the council from the crowd with tempers rising regularly. The primary concern voiced by council was Sealy’s aging waste-water treatment plant and the mounting costs it is going to entail to build the necessary expansion. The other was the need for more time to clear the details of the recent proposal of TxDot funding the entire project. In the end, the council voted to file an appeal to allow for more time after that days court hearing between the city and Town Park Center in Judge Steinhauser’s court where the city was ordered to pay its part of the contract within 10 days.
The video below contains the entire exchange at city council.
