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161 MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, JULY 11, 1988 PRESENT: Mayor Kathy M. Morris Mayor Pro-Tern Council Members Fred Guerra Billy G. Moore Rick Hernandez Karl W. Brown Betty Jane Kissler Bill Plummer City Manager Assistant City Manager City Secretary City Secretary's Office City Attorney Assistant City Attorney Director of Finance Director of Engineering A. C. Gonzalez Larry Gilley *Janis K. Womack Susan N. Ripps *Lamar Hankins Gayle Grassle Donna Farley Stephen Jenkins Others present: Patti Wenk, Melissa Millecam, Jody Dodd, Charles Swart, George VonderLippe, Virginia VonderLippe, Susan Miller, Dan Gibson, Sue Frankewicz, Roxanne McKimmey, Jack Doughty, McBride Wilson, Jane Hughson, Ted Breihan, Joe Garcia, Benny L. Hawkins, and others. Mayor Morris called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. Mayor Morris introduced for consideration approval of appointment to Sunset Advisory Commission. Mr. Brown moved to appoint Margie Hernandez and Ms. Kissler seconded the motion which passed unanimously. Mayor Morris introduced for consideration approval of appointment to No-Smoking Ordinance Committee. Mr. Brown moved to appoint Chandrika Arnin to represent the tourist industry and Mr. Hernandez seconded the motion which passed unanimously. Mayor Morris introduced City Manger and Assistant City Manger to submit proposed budget for 1988-1989 fiscal year to City Council. City Manager Gonzalez stated there were three levels of information provided to the Council. The first was the large grey notebook which included departmental requests, the second was the executive summary which summarized the large grey notebook and the third was the budget highlights which he handed out. Mr. Gonzalez stated the budget he was presenting to the Council was a stand-still budget of 9.1 million. He further went on and stated Staff departments virtually omitted vast amounts from their budgets in order to create the stand-still budget. He stated the street assessment pro- gram was still in the budget. He also addressed areas of concern in the budget which included salary increases, capital improvements, CIP Programs, matching funds not being available for FAA grant. He stated that 5% was cut for service output to create the stand-still budget. He emphasized that if there was no levels of increase, what services would need to be cut back. It was the concensus of the Council to set the Public Hearing on the budget for Monday, August 1, 1988 at 7:00 p.m. and directed the City Secretary to publish notice and summaries. Mayor Morris introduced a public hearing to consider annexing a tract of land containing 196 acres, more or less, situated on the Southeast side of River Road between Highway 80 and San Marcos River in Hays County, Texas, the caption which was read as follows: * Ms. Womack and Mr. Hankins were not present at this meeting.