Citizen comment periods:
- A woman from the animal shelter came back to angrily describe how shitty a job the social media director is doing. Apparently it use to be the purview of a shelter employee, and now it’s just a random city employee. She read a few descriptions of the animals that were posted online. Essentially, “This dog snapped at a police officer and was unruly during transfer to the shelter.” It was pretty ridiculously hostile to the animals and unlikely to make anyone think, “Oooh! this biter is the dog for me!”
- Jordan Buckley talked about the anti-hate/pro-diversity statement that’s on the agenda in Hour 2. Basically, we approved a statement like this in 2017. Since then, we’ve been doused with anti-semitism, hate speech, the Trump train harassment of the Biden bus, and the recent reports about how the 911 officers and Chief Stapp laughed and mocked the panicked 911 callers, and never sent out any response. San Marcos has been one of the biggest lightening rods for this kind of racial hate across the nation, and yet the council hasn’t wanted to antagonize anyone by timidly peeping about the problem. Buckley’s point is that an empty statement that you never act on is pretty cowardly and lame. Stay tuned for Hour 2.
The rest of the hour was uneventful. There’s going to eventually be a Film/Television studio out by La Cima. Fine. I’m always vaguely annoyed by any development on the river watershed, but it was already zoned Community Commercial, so it wasn’t going to stay undeveloped anyway.
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