Citizen comment:
- The intersection out in front of the Methodist Church, back behind to Little HEB. It’s dangerous and needs a four way stop sign. Several people spoke about this. They are probably right!
- Many people spoke against the warehouse in Victory Gardens. Strongly opposed.
- A lot of people spoke against the Texas Aviation Partners. I gather that they run the airport, having gotten a contract from the city in 2012. They sound like total shitheads? Everyone basically described them as inept at best, and vindictive and corrupt at worst.
The Victory Gardens warehouse is the only item on the agenda, though, in Hour 2.
Item 1: Upcoming Community Survey
Council wants to know what’s important to us all. Right now they’re fine-tuning the questions that the survey-people will add in, specific to San Marcos. Like: Why do San Martians go to New Braunfels and spend our money there? Are we doing enough to protect the aquifer? Do San Martians realize how much money we drop on the Greater San Marcos Partnership and do we feel it’s worth it?
(That last one is courtesy of Max Baker, who loathes GSMP. While I agree GSMP is mostly a bag of hot air, I can’t imagine that a survey question will reveal much.)
And lastly: should the survey go out in the summer, and exclude the college students, or should it wait till fall, and include the college students?
The main argument put forward (by Councilmember Garza) was that outreach efforts will be hindered if the public schools are closed. Max Baker agreed with this. (I am still mildly curious if they actively prefer having college students participate in the survey or not.)
Shane Scott straight-forwardly says that it will be biased without college students, and so we should include them.
The vote:
Exclude them: Saul Gonzalez, Max Gleason
Include them: Alyssa Garza, Max Baker, Shane Scott, Jude Prather
Mayor Hughson avoided sharing her opinion. After Jude voted, she just said, “So that’s four for September” and left it at that.
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