CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Something a bit unexpected happened at Tuesday's Corpus Christi City Council meeting.
Two women began shouting at council members and eventually had to be escorted out. The two were upset about the decision to hold city budget meetings virtually instead of allowing people to show up in-person.
The women wondered why those meetings changed while Tuesday's council meeting was still open to the public.
"The budget meetings for the public were canceled, but yet we have about 100 people who showed up, like you had noticed, without masks," protester Sylvia Campos said. "That's another issue but for the city to cancel the budget meetings to the public is a double standard. Either you cancel them all or you open them all one or the other."
City Manager Peter Zanoni said the City did not want to switch council meeting to virtual because starting September 1, the governor is mandating all public meetings be held in-person.