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82 y., u ..!------ MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN MARCOS, TEXAS, JULY 14, 1997 PRESENT: Mayor Billy G. Moore Mayor Pro-Tern Ronald K. Hart Council Members Ed Mihalkanin Jane Hughson -- Fred Guerra Joe B. Cox, Jr. Rick Hernandez City Manager Larry Gilley Assistant City Manager Laura Huffman City Secretary Janis K. Womack City Attorney Mark Taylor Municipal Court Judge Ross Allegro Director of Planning and Dev. Ron Patterson Director of Parks and Recreation Rodney Cobb Director of MIS Ramona Brown Acting Police Chief Dan Nelson Fire Chief Dan O'Leary Director of WIC Eddie Ortega Director of Finance Bill White Director of Human Resources Carolyn Liner Also Present: Dolores Crittendon, Rose Brooks, Ollie Giles, Marsha Cooper, John Cooper, Scott Maier, Mario Gutierrez, Collette Duran, Melissa Millecam, Phil Neighbors, Kelly Franks, Linda Keese, Michelle Burleson, Frank Arredondo, Matt Dunda, Joe Castillo, Cheryl Pantermuehl and others. Mayor Moore called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. Mayor Moore introduced the Citizen comment period. (1) Maria Fedrick is seeking library services for the children in Redwood. She has requested assistance from the Commissioners in Seguin and from Doug Stewart, and is interested in working with the City to take care of getting these children to a library. (2) Linda Keese stated Mayor Moore requested her to initiate a City-sponsored rebate program to replace water-demanding plants with more drought-tolerant ones for all R-1 residential homes and the prospect of establishing a committee to develop a plan of action. She has discussed this with several Texas cities who have done this and has provided the Council with copies of this information. Other Cities have determined the most cost effective method is to work with County Agents to teach citizens to replace existing plqnts with drought-tolerant plants and have achieved much success with the free landscaping programs offered to the public as a one day eight-hour course for beginning and advance levels in Austin and Galveston or twice a year as a four half-days seminar in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. This would require the City to appoint a City liaison to work with the County Agent to develop training criteria for the surrounding area. Billy Kniffen is willing to work with the City and possibly use the library or activity center. San Marcos has Ordinances in place regarding landscaping for multi-family and commercial buildings, but the Planning Department does not have a qualified landscape designer to critique plans. Some other Cities have appointed Boards of professional landscape designers, I architects and nurserYmen who live in the area to review landscape designs. Ms. Keese hopes we can look forward to making these programs available to the public. Ms. Keese stated there are 45 certified master gardeners in our area and 23 in a new class that began last week. Mayor Moore introduced for consideration one appointment to the Human Development Commission. Mr. Mihalkanin moved to appoint Shirley Robinson and stated Ms. Robinson will resign from Main Street if appointed to serve on this Commission. The Council voted unanimously for the appointment of Ms. Robinson.