The regular meeting of Katy’s city council, originally on the calendar for March 10, was cancelled earlier in the month due to lack of a quorum for the meeting, which fell during spring break week.

The city council held a special meeting on March 4, lasting about 15 minutes, for the second public reading of a temporary moratorium on in-ground installation of new telecommunications fiber lines. Only one public speaker – mayoral candidate Michael Payne – spoke during public comments; Payne urged that the moratorium ban all telecommunications companies’ installation, even those with current contracts.

The ordinance passed 5-0.

City Secretary Becky McGrew said, in the reading of the ordinance, that the moratorium does not apply to projects currently in progress or which have been grandfathered in.