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City Council Meeting Minutes April 24, 2017 <br />following areas: Blanco Gardens, Clarewood/Barbara Drive, <br />Midtown/Aquarena Springs, Clarewood/Hwy 80, Uhland Road/County Road, <br />Fairlawn, River Ridge, and Rio Vista. This includes proposed new storm <br />sewers, new outfalls, street and road regrading, ditch vegetation clearing, and <br />the addition of culverts. <br />Marcie O'Connell with AECOM presented the prioritization matrix and <br />explained the scoring and ranking of each item. The top five projects <br />recommended with use of Disaster Recover, City and Other funds include: <br />Midtown, Blanco Gardens, Clarewood/Barbara Dr., Bank & Trail <br />Improvements, and Uhland Road. The Rio Vista, River Ridge, and Fairlawn <br />projects were prioritized as the bottom three initiatives, but staff will roll these <br />projects into the CIP and will be completed as funding and staff workload <br />becomes available. <br />Laurie Moyer, Director of Engineering and CIP, discussed the costs and <br />schedule of completion of the top rive projects. Council consensus was to move <br />forward with these recommendations. <br />III. Question and Answer Session with Press and Public. <br />Grace Davis: 616 Conway Drive <br />What is the Woods drainage like at this time? She noted that a senior staff was <br />onboard when the Woods Apartment Complex was constructed and the River <br />Road in front of the Woods Apartment is at a slant and she believes this was a <br />factor of flooding in Blanco Gardens. <br />Laurie Moyer stated the design of the Woods drainage is 4000 cubic feet per <br />second. The City will use this capacity for other floods and not just the 100 <br />year flood. She also stated The Woods Apartment did provide some of the <br />funding to the City. <br />Ms. Davis asked what about the total cost in loss of the homes that are not <br />being bought out? Staff indicated this is not known at this time, but will talk <br />with Ms. Davis. <br />Ms. Davis asked how the City will explain to the citizens when they are fearful <br />when flooding occurs? She mentioned receiving a call from her mother who <br />lives at Mariposa and when Hunter Road began flooding there was a lot of <br />concern by residents. <br />Sharon Smith: 943 Haynes Street <br />She questioned the alert system sent to citizens regarding flooding. In 1998 Ms. <br />Smith could not get out of her neighborhood and in 2015 her son could not get <br />out. She said no alert was sent out on April 11th. She was in Austin so had no <br />City of San Marcos Page 2 <br />