Presentation 1: New City Hall Project
The city needs a new City Hall. (Discussed here and here.)
Laurie Moyer was handling the new City Hall project, but she is retiring. The new person basically gave a presentation to introduce herself and pitch how she sees things unfolding.
Here’s what she was handed:
In other words, City Hall is going here:
across the street from Old City Hall.
So apparently this location is settled? I don’t know how I feel about this. I also have concerns about what might happen to the old site.
However: they’ll need voter approval in 2025 to re-purpose park land as City Hall, so I guess we’ll be hearing some sales pitches. In the end, the voters will decide whether or not it sounds ok.
The new person is imagining making a whole Hopkins Project out of it:
Parts of this sound good to me!
I like the idea that Hopkins could look more like CM Allen.
P3 means “Public-Private Partnership”. This part is inevitable because the city doesn’t think that the voters would pass a bond in an election. So they want to bring in private partnerships. (More things that I feel weird about.)
This whole thing will take forever to complete. If the stars align, it will take seven years.
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Presentation #2: It’s Sidewalk Maintenance time!
Here’s the game plan:
Here’s what’s coming up in 2025:
or if you prefer a chart:
Would you like to play along at home, over the next year? Go here:
www.sanmarcostx.gov/306/StreetsSidewalks
Would you like YOUR pet peeve to be selected for a project in 2026?
Would you like some more photos?
here you go. Enjoy!
The San Marxist 