ARGYLE — Mayor Greg Landrum called off a regularly scheduled meeting of the Town Council on Tuesday evening after it became clear there would be no quorum.

Only council member Bonny Haynes showed up.

City Secretary Codi Delcambre said she could not recall, in her seven years in Argyle, the mayor ever having to cancel a meeting this way before. A quorum requires a minimum of three council members, not including the mayor.  

Two council members said the staff already knew that they weren’t going to be there. Council member Jay Pellicone, a reserve pilot for American Airlines, said he alerted town staff by e-mail Friday that he was flying through the weekend and wouldn’t be back in time for the meeting. Council member Jayne Marshall said she thought the staff knew that her son had just come home from Iraq and that she needed to be with him.

Both Marshall and council member Mark Bogosian lost their seats in a hard-fought election Saturday, in which 818 people cast ballots.

About 37 percent of the town’s 2,244 registered voters turned out, the largest turnout in the area. Cross Roads, Oak Point and Double Oak had the next highest turnouts, at 32 percent, 23 percent and 20 percent respectively. Some residents also compared the Argyle contest to the 2001 mayoral battle when Richard Tucker ousted Yvonne Jenkins — 734 votes were cast in that race.

Bogosian said he had family visiting from out of town and the schedule got hectic.

“We had things we needed to take care of,” Bogosian said. 

Council member Joe Phelps, who was re-elected by a wide margin, did not return a call Wednesday for comment.

About two dozen residents came to Tuesday’s meeting, with some hoping to speak during the open forum. Jim Haltom, a local developer, said he thought there would be some fireworks about the election and that he had a speech prepared.

The official agenda included a presentation on the town audit and business related to the agreements with the Trinity River Authority and the Belmont and Canyon Falls developers to build new sewer lines.

The Texas Local Government Code makes the audit due in January, but this year’s report was delayed because the town changed software accounting systems, Delcambre said.

The audit and the TRA agreements would be moved to the May 27 agenda, Delcambre said.

As Landrum canceled the meeting, he said the election results would be canvassed today. Canvassing requires two council members be present and a mayor’s vote cannot be substituted for either, Delcambre said.

PEGGY HEINKEL-WOLFE can be reached at 940-566-6881. Her e-mail address is pheinkel-wolfe@dentonrc.com .