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City Council Meeting Minutes April 16, 2019 <br />City and believe a one day, during the day, outreach is not the real public <br />opinion. She would like Staff to send code patrol to actually clean up the lots <br />instead of ticketing individuals, some of these tickets were a direct result of the <br />flood, which is direct result of the Woods Apartment Complex, which is direct <br />result of Staff not following due diligence. <br />Griffin Spell, spoke in support of the proposed amendment presented this <br />evening. He stated these CDBG-DR funds have strings attached to them and <br />are not allowed to be used for Code Enforcement. They have to be very specific <br />requirements so please make sure that these funds are used correctly. He stated <br />that the 100 year flood is something that we can't handle ourselves, but we can <br />mitigate effects of this flood. This will be a regional solution. He stated that <br />people are still trying to finish their homes and recover from the floods. Please <br />make sure that your consultants are aware of the completion dates and make <br />sure they are started before funds expire. <br />Gloria Salazar, spoke as a member of the Housing Authority Board during the <br />time of the flood in 2015. She stated these funds were given to San Marcos to <br />help those families affected by the flood. Have we really done everything that <br />we can to help these citizens? The people that were impacted the most are <br />those that live there and many have not been able to get back to their lives. <br />The community can come together and use these funds to help those people <br />and find money somewhere else for the infrastructure projects. <br />There being no further comments, the Mayor closed the Public Hearing at 7:31 <br />p.m. <br />Mayor Hughson asked Ms. Brown to discuss the outreach that has been done <br />to this point and the specific requirements these funds can be used for. <br />Ms. Brown indicated there has been public outreach for the past two and a half <br />years with six different door to door visits, letters to property owners, facebook <br />posts, website postings, television and news reports about the grant, radio <br />shows, and all kind of media outreach the Communications Department could <br />come up with. Staff went to festivals and the school district open houses, and <br />anywhere we knew people would gather that may be from this neighborhood. <br />Council had concerns and questions about the reimbursement policy and if <br />there was a program under the first round of funds for reimbursement to <br />property owners. Ms. Brown indicated at that time they were unaware of a <br />reimbursement policy. However, with the new round of money, there are new <br />City of San Marcos Page 9 <br />