THE SAN MARXIST
Paraphrasing and editorializing City Council since mid-Pandemic.
April 21st City Council Meeting
Hidey ho, Neighborino! We’re back. Will Council regulate data centers? Will this grandmother in Dunbar get her home repair nightmare resolved? (Seriously, her story is awful.) Get your zesty details here! Let’s go: Hours 0:00 – 5:07: Forming our policy on Data Centers, annexing Five Mile Dam parks, loopholes for downtown restaurants, and a total…
Hours 0:00 – 5:07, 4/21/26
Citizen Comment: By the numbers: (I just pooled them all together here.) The biggest theme of the night: Data Centers in the Land Development Code. (5 speakers during Citizen Comment, and another 19 at the public hearing.) Roughly speaking, everyone said: “When you revise the land development code, either ban data centers altogether, or at…
Bonus! 3 pm workshop, 4/21/26
Workshop #1: The Homeless PIT count “PIT” stands for “Point in Time”. The PIT Count is a fixed day in January, where cities nationwide try to actually figure how many people are homeless in their communities. Each city assembles a team of people who go out into the community and try to actually count and…
April 7th City Council Meeting
Welcome back! It’s time for a big, important EMS conversation. Also CDBG money and some neat photos. Let’s go: Hours 0:00 – 1:56: Let me say right up front: sorry about all the digressions. CDBG money, and a bunch of cool photos. Bonus! 3 pm workshops: The EMS discussion. This is the weighty part of…
Hours 0:00 – 1:56, 4/7/26
Citizen Comment: Three people spoke. Main topics: … Item 13: $740K in CDBG money “CDBG” stands for Community Development Block Grant. This is money that San Marcos gets from the federal department of Housing and Urban Development. Local nonprofits apply to San Marcos for the money. Today is a rough draft of how to allocate…
Bonus! 3 pm workshop, 4/7/26
Citizen Comment: Five people talk. They all talk about EMS, so I’ll put their comments down below. … The backstory: There are nine different Emergency Service Districts, called ESD #1 – #9, which make up Hays County. Some are fire, some are just EMS, and some are both. The districts with EMS are 1, 2,…
March 31st City Council Meeting
Aaaand we’re back! Spring break is over and we’ve got a $4 million budget hole looming for 2027. Also we’re going to start charging out-of-towners to swim at Rio Vista this summer. Enjoy? Let’s dive in! Hours 0:00 – 3:05: the North campus area plan, some 2027 Budget planning, paid parking at the Lion’s Club…
Hours 0:00-3:05, 3/31/26
Citizen Comment: Two people spoke at 3 pm, and four at 6 pm. Major points: *sadly this blog doesn’t come out in time for this to be helpful. It was yesterday. …. Items 1-3: Q1 finances Every three months, the city reviews its finances. This one covers October, November, and December 2025. Here’s the summary…
March 3rd City Council Meeting
Hello everyone! Ahead of time, it sounded like Council might have a big fight night, but it ended up being pretty mellow. We didn’t kill citizen comment nor give data centers a fast track. Read all about how it all fizzled out! Jump in: Hours 0:00 – 4:32: The biggies: the land development code and…
Hours 0:00 – 4:32, 3/3/26
Citizen Comment Two big topics! There were 41 speakers, and 40 of them covered the two topics above. Main points on Topic 1: Main points on Topic 2: We will get to this! Sit tight. Finally, that last 41st speaker, on his own topic: Clearly last meeting, everyone said they love the river. Can we…
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