SEVEN POINTS–The city council of Seven Points met for a special meeting called June 26. Tempers flared due to an executive session agenda item. The stated item was a personnel matter concerning police chief Raymond Wennerstrom. 
Mayor Keith Betts opened for citizens to comment on any of the action items. Citizen Gerald Taylor questioned where agenda item eight had gone.  Betts clarified, “Yes, we are not doing any of that.” Taylor then asked, “Per the city attorney?” Betts asked, “What about the city attorney?” Taylor wanted to know where the city attorney was, continuing to ask about the city attorney, “Is he going to resign?” Betts told Taylor that the only comments to be made were the action items not the executive session items. Taylor was adamant, if the item is on the agenda then comments could be made. Betts reiterated that the executive item is not going to be up for discussion. Again, Taylor said, if it is on this agenda then we can comment. As the two began to raise their voices, Betts firmly said, “If it is not on the agenda then I am through, not another word.” Taylor responded with, “Shut up, Keith” which led him to be escorted out of city hall by a police officer.
Council member LaJohnna Wells spoke up and said, “I can say something. Item eight is on here (the executive session item on the agenda).” Speaking to Betts, Wells continued, “You yourself cannot table the item a council person has to do that.” Betts said, “I am not even bringing it up because I am not doing anything on it.” Wells went on, “I am telling you that it is on here. It was addressed to the public. So, we kind of need to know what is going on here.” Another audience member asked, “Why are you doing it?” Betts‘ answer was, “We do not have the paperwork ready to do anything.” Again, the same audience member interrupted the mayor, “Why aren’t you doing it?” Betts replied with, we do not have the paperwork to do anything. Wells argued, “You should not have put it on the agenda if you did not have the stuff, you have the public in an uproar. They are all here and we are trying to figure out what is going on. We are your council, and we do not know what the hell is going on Keith.”
Betts reiterated that, “We are not doing anything and I am not going any further with it. We can either adjourn or move into our budget meeting.” Wells continued with, “This makes for a hostile work environment for everybody, that’s my concern.” Betts said, “It is not the first time that we have had stuff on the agenda that we didn’t discuss.” Wells raised the concern that the council has been left in the dark. Betts countered with, “I have not spoken to Raymond about any of this, so I am not going to discuss with y’all.” Betts also said, “I thought we were going to have stuff from the attorney. We put it on there because I thought we were going to have everything in order, but it is not. I wish he had not told us to do it until I could speak to Raymond.” Another audience member asked if Wennerstrom had done something wrong. Council member Kevin Reynolds spoke up saying, “That’s not something we can discuss.” Wells grabbed Reynolds’ wrist and said, “You’re not supposed to talk to the public either.” Pointing to Betts, Wells said, “He is the only one that is supposed to be doing that.”
During another agenda item, the mayor asked for a vote on Code Red, a public text alert system. As he counted the votes, Wells pointed to Reynolds and said, “You either need to give a yay or nay, but you can’t just sit there.” Reynolds gave his vote of a yay. Once the meeting was adjourned Reynolds told Wells to stop correcting him during a meeting. Wells told him that he was not going to tell her what to do and to meet him in the parking lot. As Reynolds exited the building Wells followed him. Several officers surrounded Wells and asked her to calm down. Wells yelled, “He is not going to disrespect me.” Reynolds left the area and Wells, still angry, went back into city hall.
Editors note: Executive session items on city council agendas in Texas are matters that can be discussed in private (closed to the public) due to specific exceptions that generally involve personnel matters, real estate negotiations, legal consultations and/or security issues. 
In other business, council members: 
• Approved removing LaJohnna Wells and Andy Perdue from the bank account. 
• Review and consider two remaining quotes for the repair of the damaged roof of City Hall.
• Created a budget wishlist.