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City Council Meeting Minutes May 5, 2015 4. Receive the City Clerk's certification regarding the examination of a petition for a citizen - initiated charter amendment election submitted by the Communities for Thriving Water- Fluoride Free San Marcos. Jamie Lee Pettijohn, City Clerk, certified that the petition submitted to her office on April 2, 2015 by the Communities for Thriving Water - Fluoride Free San Marcos for a charter amendment election is invalid. It does not comply with the requirements for the validity and verification of petition signatures in Section 6.03 of the San Marcos City Charter because none of the petition papers contains an oath or affirmation that each signature was the genuine signature of the person who signed it and that each signature was placed thereon in the presence of a person making such oath or affirmation. Therefore, none of the signatures may be counted. 5. Receive an update from Council Members Prewitt and Thomaides on the recent American Planning Association Conference, and provide direction to Staff. Council Members Lisa Prewitt and John Thomaides provided a brief presentation on the recent American Planning Association Conference that they attending in Seattle, Washington. No direction was provided. 6:00 PM 111. Invocation IV. Pledges Of Allegiance - United States And Texas V. 30 Minute Citizen Comment Period Brad Smith, thanked the council for the opportunity to speak and asked the Council to consider his application to fill the vacancy on the Parks & Recreation board. He read the ordinance of the Parks board's duties and provided his qualifications to the Council. Melissa Derrick, addressed the Council regarding the Greater San Marcos Partnership. She stated that the City gives them 30% of their budget and should be guaranteed on the way that it is spent. She requested that Annual Disclosures be required by private members, and that if they plan to benefit in any way that it should be disclosed. Ms. Derrick also addressed the issue of the Open Meetings Act and that this should be a must, and not just in the "spirit." She stated that we need more than what we have been provided, and that we need more than members of the board advocating for City Council items. Rob Roark, addressed the Council about volunteering and recognized the Staff involved in the neighborhood meeting on Saturday. He stated that we will see the big picture, and that this is just a part of the picture for economic development. He stated that GSMP is only here for a small silver of what we are trying to do, and that it's good that they have transparency and accountability. He asked the Council to listen to the small voices, and stated that there are other things that we need to be looking at locally. Specifically that there are a lot of needs of the people in the neighborhoods. He stated that we have to move on and get out of the trenches. Terry Norris, addressed the Council regarding what he referred to as "nightmare on Mill Street." He stated that there was not a Traffic Impact Study completed for the Wildwood Apartment Complex. This has resulted in very dangerous situations and there have been three repairs. He stated that there is a proposal to repair this section of street in the 2017 CIP. He stated that now the citizens of San Marcos now have to fit the bill of $1,000,000.00 to have this properly repaired permanently. He provided several photographs of the damaged street and code enforcement information to the Council. City of San Marcos Page 2