Next regular meeting: Tuesday, June 16, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Lavon City Council meets at City Hall, 120 School Road, Lavon, TX. Regular meetings are typically the first and third Tuesdays of the month at 6:30 PM. The agenda for each meeting is posted on the city website at least 72 hours in advance, as required by the Texas Open Meetings Act.
Upcoming meetings
| Tuesday, June 16, 2026 · 6:30 PM | Regular meeting — posted agenda categorizes the Chalkboard 27 / Ignite / Pathways business prospects as retail projects for the first time (Item 8, Executive Session, §551.087). See Record §6 for what this means. |
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| Tuesday, July 7, 2026 · 6:30 PM (expected) | First-Tuesday regular meeting on the typical cadence. Agenda will be posted to lavontx.gov at least 72 hours before. |
| Tuesday, July 21, 2026 · 6:30 PM (expected) | Third-Tuesday regular meeting on the typical cadence. |
| Tuesday, August 4, 2026 · 6:30 PM (expected) | First-Tuesday regular meeting on the typical cadence. |
Most recent past meeting: Tuesday, June 2, 2026 — regular meeting held; posted agenda. Outcomes are documented in the Record §6.
Special meetings can be called between regular meetings (a Special City Council Meeting was called on April 15, 2026, for example). Special-meeting agendas are also posted to the city website.
What is on the June 16, 2026 agenda
The June 16, 2026 agenda is posted. The items most relevant to the Elevon data-center situation:
| Item 6.A — Future data-center meeting | “Discussion and action regarding a meeting to discuss potential data center use in the City.” This is a procedural open-session item to schedule a future meeting on data-center policy — the first open-session data-center-related item on a posted 2026 agenda. The City Manager’s May 28 staff-research commitment on a stronger noise ordinance (see Record §6b) may surface at that future meeting. |
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| Item 8 — Executive Session (§551.087) | Closed-session deliberation on business prospects Chalkboard 27, Ignite, and Pathways “in proximity to SH 78” — categorized for the first time as retail projects. Prior agendas (May 5, May 19, June 2) referred to them as “projects” without qualifier. The new “retail” descriptor materially weakens the inference that any of the three corresponds to a hyperscale data-center prospect for Parcels 8 and 9. No final action may be taken in closed session. |
The stronger-noise-ordinance amendment a resident requested on May 24 has not yet been agendized (the City Manager said staff is researching it — see Record §6b). The other open-session items on June 16 are routine consent-agenda items and items unrelated to the data-center situation.
How Citizens Comments work
Every Lavon City Council regular meeting includes an item titled “Citizens Comments” near the start of the agenda. The agenda boilerplate is identical from meeting to meeting:
Citizens may provide comments (3-minute time limit/person). The response regarding items that are not on the agenda may be to request items be placed on a future agenda or referred to city staff.
Lavon City Council Agenda (every regular meeting), Item 4 — Citizens Comments
What this means in practice:
- Any Lavon resident may speak for up to three minutes at the podium during Citizens Comments. No reservation is required to speak, though most cities ask speakers to sign in on arrival.
- You may speak on any topic — the topic does not have to appear elsewhere on the agenda. The Elevon data-center situation is a permitted topic of Citizens Comments at every regular meeting.
- Council members are not allowed to deliberate or take action on an item raised in Citizens Comments unless it is also posted on the agenda. The response permitted by the Open Meetings Act is limited to (a) acknowledging the comment, (b) referring it to city staff, or (c) requesting it be placed on a future agenda.
- Citizens Comments are part of the official record. Your statement is recorded; the meeting is open to the public; and minutes are published.
What can and can’t happen in executive session
Some of the Elevon data-center matters have appeared on closed-session (executive-session) agendas in 2026, including the Elevon Amended and Restated Development Agreement and three code-named business prospects (Chalkboard 27, Ignite, and Pathways). This is permitted by the Texas Open Meetings Act:
- Tex. Gov’t Code §551.071 allows the council to consult its attorney in private on a matter where the attorney’s duties conflict with open-meeting requirements.
- Tex. Gov’t Code §551.072 allows private discussion of the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property.
- Tex. Gov’t Code §551.087 allows private discussion of commercial or financial information received from a business prospect and the offer of incentives.
But:
- No final action may be taken in executive session. Any vote — to approve an amended development agreement, to offer a tax abatement, to sell or convey city property — must be taken in the open meeting after the council reconvenes.
- The action must appear on the open-meeting agenda with sufficient specificity that the public can identify what is being voted on.
- Past 2026 Lavon meetings have repeatedly reconvened from executive session with “no action taken” — meaning the negotiations are still ongoing.
The Texas Attorney General’s Open Meetings Act Handbook is the public reference for what officials can and can’t do in closed session.
How to read the published agenda
Each Lavon council agenda follows a similar structure. The items most relevant to the data-center situation are:
| Item 3 — Items of Interest / Communications | Council members can announce community events; not an action item. |
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| Item 4 — Citizens Comments | Where you may speak (three minutes per person). |
| Item 5 — Consent Agenda | Routine items voted on as one motion. Watch this section for resolutions authorizing professional-services reimbursement, plat approvals, and similar items that may be tied to Elevon expansion. (Example: Resolution 2026-05-01 — the Elevon DA expansion reimbursement — appeared as a consent-agenda item on May 5, 2026.) |
| Item 6/7 — Items for Consideration | Substantive discussion and action items. Any zoning amendment, plat, site-plan approval, or ordinance vote for the Elevon Parcels would normally appear here, often with a public-hearing sub-step. |
| Item 9 — Executive Session | Closed-session attorney consultation and business-prospect deliberation. The named matters give the public a window into what is under active negotiation, even though the substance is private. |
| Item 10 — Reconvene From Executive Session | Any action taken as a result of executive-session items must occur here, in open session. |
| Item 11 — Set Future Meetings & Agenda | Includes the date of the next regular meeting. Items can be requested for future agendas during this segment. |
Where to find each meeting’s agenda
Agendas and minutes are posted to lavontx.gov/lavon-city-council-agenda-minutes/. The same page lists agendas, full meeting packets (with backup material), and minutes, organized by date. The Texas Open Meetings Act requires posting at least 72 hours before a regular meeting and at least 2 hours before an emergency meeting.
Tip: the “Agenda” PDF is a short two- or three-page document listing only the agenda items. The “Agenda Packet” PDF can be 5–40 MB and contains the supporting documents staff has compiled for each item — ordinance drafts, site plans, resolution text, professional-services contracts. The packet is where the substantive content lives.