Category: Meetings

I’ve got your Council election candidate recs, fresh off the presses! Plus: VisionSMTX, the exciting new 3rd HEB, TDS, ARWA and some old timey photos of San Marcos. So many acronyms. What a week.

TSM Official Take on City Council Candidates, Fall ’24: Let’s dish about your favorite candidates, and I’ll spill who I’m voting for.

Hours 0:00 – 1:24:  VisionSMTX is done, and we discuss contracts with the Chamber of Commerce and Texas Disposal Systems.

Hours 1:24 – 2:07:  All the exciting details on the new HEB!  Plus ARWA water and naming the downtown alleys.

Bonus! 3 pm workshops: The Mitchell Center gets a new family. 

This is the last post before the election! (A wave of anxiety crashes over me.)

For the love of god, please go vote. And tell your friends and family: you can vote with an expired license. You know how backed up the DMV is right now.

Extremely short meeting this week! VisionSMTX, some art talk, and Quail Creek park. You’ll zip through the blog post in no time flat.

City Council Elections: Here’s what I’ve heard about:
– Realtors debate (on September 19th)
– SMRF Questionnaire (in their newsletter and online this week)
– League of Women Voters debate (not until Thursday, October 19th)

I’ll write up my thoughts and endorsements after the LWV debate. It’ll come out Sunday, October 20th. Stay tuned!

Onto this tiny little meeting:

Hours 0:00-1:00:  We discuss VisionSMTX, the new downtown mural, and Quail Creek park.  

That was it. There wasn’t even a workshop!

You all: we are breaking our river. The most important thing at Council this week was the workshop on the river and river parks. We might have to fence the park in and charge admission. (Also we approved the new budget, zoned some stuff, etc. The usual.)

Here we go:

Hours 0:00 – 2:10:  More on the City Hall steering committee, some parking, some zoning, and the budget for next year is approved.

Bonus! 3 pm workshops: All about the river parks. We might have to fence them in and charge admission. 

Election season!

There was a debate hosted by the real estate agents this past Thursday. The League of Women Voters council and mayoral debates will be on October 17th. If you know of any other debates, let me know!

I will try to write everything up before early voting starts on October 21st. (That’s a tight turnaround, though.)

Don’t forget to make sure you’re registered to vote! Check here to see if you’re registered, or find out how to register, or update your registration. Last day to register is October 7th.

This week’s meeting was just zip, zip, zip.  All these topics that sometimes get tons of deep, gritty discussion – the budget, the tax rate, Axis/SMART Terminal – just sailed through.  (The workshops are great, though! Lots of good pictures.)

Here we go:

Hours 0:00 – 3:38:  The new budget, tax rate, and utilities.  Also the end of the (Axis) road, the end of a useless MUD,  more on School Resource Officers, and a little about the new city hall.

Bonus! 3 pm workshops:  These were great!  The Purgatory Creek project, a $2 million bridge, and the state of utility assistance in San Marcos.

Candidate election news

No debates yet, but I’ll keep an eye out.

Aaaaaannd we’re back! Kicking the new season off hard with some SMART/Axis gobbledy-gook. Plus CBDG money, Hays County Health Department, and the last of the Covid money.

Elections:

Things have actually gotten less exciting – Jane Hughson’s one competitor has withdrawn from the race. So we have three races, each with one candidate running unopposed.

Mayor: Jane Hughson
Place 5: Griffen Spell
Place 6: Maraya Dunn

The last day to register to run is Monday, August 19th! This is where you can check if anyone has signed up.

Onto the meeting!

Hours 0:00 – 2:19:  Distributing CDBG money, and the SMART/Axis monster is back in full force.

Bonus! 3 pm workshops:  We hear from the Hays County Health Department, and the last bit of Covid money is getting doled out.

That’s all I got. Smell ya later, kids.

Hello from the dregs of summer! Council meets once in July, and you lucky duck: it was this week. Lots of talk about low-income housing, we hear from the city on Malachi Williams, Dunbar is getting some new pipes, and Mano Amiga is taking on Civil Service. Plus some new City Hall details are materializing.

Let’s do this:

Hours 0:00 – 1:32:  Malachi Williams, a new LIHTC project, and some smaller items

Hours 1:32 – 2:23:  Mano Amiga submits an unsuccessful petition to repeal Civil Service, and we talk about LIHTC projects a lot.

Bonus! 3 pm workshops:  Where are we going to build the new city hall? And fixing the sidewalks.

That’s it for July! Regular meetings resume in August. Enjoy your summer.

Slow week! This week we talk about Malachi Williams, transit boundaries, CDBG grants, and whether Kissing Tree is a problem for SMCISD.

This is the only meeting for June. Here we go!

Hours 0:00 – 2:06:  Malachi Williams, transit issues, CDBG grants, and Kissing Tree. 
Bonus! 3 pm workshops: How well did the city handle the May 9th storms? 

See you all in July!

What are our zany Councilmembers up to this week? Lots of little things: noise complaints, new low-income housing, that crazy storm, tiny homes, and more. Also, our budget is in trouble, which is definitely a bummer.

Let’s dive in!

Hours 0:00 – 1:36: In which we discuss the Dunbar-Heritage Area Plan split, a noisy warehouse, and two more low-income housing projects.

Hours 1:36 – 2:17: A wee bit of eminent domain, that crazy storm from May 9th, some new developments, Green Guy, and Tiny Houses

Bonus! 3 pm Workshops:  Our budget is not okay.  😦

See you next time.

Hey there kiddos! I hope everyone is safe from the storm on Thursday. Big citizen comment time – mostly Malachi Williams and a call for ceasefire resolution – and then lots of little city business topics.

Here we go:

Hours 0:00 – 2:03:  Two hours of citizen comments! The biggest topics are the SMPD killing of Malachi Williams and a call for a resolution on a ceasefire of Palestine.  (And a bit on Bro-dozers, the resurrection of SMART/Axis Terminal, and some other things.)

Hours 2:03 – 3:58: La Cima, baseball and soccer youth scholarships, selling more water to Kyle, speed cushions, bringing more grocery stores in, concrete, and a new wastewater treatment plant.  Lots of little items. 

Bonus! 3 pm workshops: Three interesting presentations: Equity Cabinets, the Point-in-Time homeless count, and those orange scooters are spreading. This was my favorite part of the meeting!

See you all next time!