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69 Regular Meeting June 24T 1996 Page 4 sidewalks and clean-up work in neighborhoods. She stated there are too many senior organizations, and they need to be working together. She stated she thinks the City should run the building Mr. Price left. (3) Kyev Tatum stated the Council needed to hear from the public before determining they wanted to spend money on infrastructure. Mayor Moore stated the Council discussed over a one-year period the need to spend the money for permanent on the ground projects. Mr. Tatum stated the money should be used as the community wants, not spent on projects the City should be fixing anyway. Mr. Tatum stated infrastructure is important, but the funds should be spent to benefit areas where it is really needed. He asked the Council to consider carefully their decisions, and there is a need to make young people productive. (4) Celestino Mendez stated he was echoing what has been said. He stated he served on the Urban Renewal Board, and the Council needs to balance needs with funds available. He stated some things should be funded with the general budget. He is in favor of expenditures in Parks facilities. Mr. Mendez stated the information regarding Staff's recommendations should have been made available prior to decisions being made. (5) Earl Moseley, a member of the Abundant Life Christian Church, stated it is an exciting time for the church. He thanked the City for the use of the church. They have been located in the church fora year and have grown tremendously. They are interested in pursuing a program for unmotivated youth through the Justice Center and want to build residences in San Marcos. They are interested in purchasing the church from the City at a fair price and wish to work cooperatively with the City. (6) Dr. Martin Juel asked what has transpired to make things difficult to work with the Christian Church. Mr. Hernandez replied the City has the option to sell the property. No one else wished to speak, so Mayor Moore closed the public hearing. Mr. Guerra asked what the time frame is, and Mr. Patterson advised him there is a tight time frame and a thirty-day comment period following Council's approval of the expenditures. This has to be in to HUD by August 15. Mr. Guerra asked Messrs. Hart, Moore, Cox and Hernandez if any wanted to change their minds of the direction for Staff to go forward with infrastructure recommendations, and if so, the bidding war could begin. Mr. Hart stated he is committed to go with-the infrastructure recommendations. Mr. Cox stated he essentially agrees with Mr. Hart. Mr. Cox stated he would look at subsequent year funding options, but not this year. He stated it would be unwise to use CDBG funds as operating funds that will eventually go away. The Council decided and he thinks it would be prudent for this year to go with the infrastructure recommendations. Mr. Cox referred to the City's general funds use by service agencies being recommended to the Council through the Human Services Advisory Board. Mr. Hernandez stated this commitment to infrastructure started a year ago. He stated he wants to ask questions regarding a couple of the programs, but the overall impact of these expenditures will be dollars well spent. Mayor Moore stated we are at the end of the process and need to make decisions of the CDBG funds. Mayor Moore advised Dr. Juel the church is not a low priority, but the estimate of repair is $435,000, and the City has a tremendous amount of funding requests. Ms. Huffman advised Mr. Mihalkanin the church repairs were estimated in September of 1994 to be $350,000.00. Mayor Moore advised Mr. Mihalkanin the church has structural problems and is not up to City Code requirements to be utilized by the City. Ms. Huffman advised Mr. Mihalkanin the Abundant Life Christian Church is now using one room, not all of the building. Mr. Mihalkanin stated the negative appearance of Staff's recommendations prior to the third public hearing process. He stated some of the recommendations are wonderful, and some of the projects, such as sidewalks, streets and drainage the City should be paying for. He would like to see the City make a promise to continue the sidewalks program to connect to the ones funded in the recommendations. Mayor Moore stated the drainage improvements are necessary, but since all citizens do not have the problem, it is an unpopular expenditure but still needs to be built. Ms. Hughson stated she agreed with Mr. Mihalkanin and is not convinced all the recommendations would qualify for CDBG funding. She thinks a senior citizen center would be a good thing, and the Committee for the Activity Center greatly considered the recommendations of senior