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City Council <br />Meeting Minutes January 11, 2019 <br />session on Neighborhood Enhancement. <br />Discussion was held regarding the utilization of the Greater San Marcos <br />Partnership solely as the project lead for the Workforce Development <br />initiative. <br />Ms. Jackson reconfirmed that the Council was good with adding Downtown <br />and Workforce Development. <br />Council provided consensus that they were good with the two as priorities. <br />Ms. Jackson opened the topic of Public Transit. <br />Discussion was held regarding changing the title from Public Transit to <br />Multi -Modal Transportation and public transit being a piece of that initiative. <br />Pete Binion, GIS Transit Analyst, provided the Council with a transit overview. <br />Mr. Lumbreras addressed walkability and connectivity infrastructure needs. <br />Ms. Crane moved the discussion along to workforce housing. <br />Stacy Brown, Housing and Community Development Manager, reminded the <br />Council that they had previously directed Staff to establish an Emergency <br />Housing Rehabilitation Program and that it should be added to the outcome <br />list. The outcome list includes: Prevent displacement, Long term affordability <br />& Home ownership. <br />Council provided consensus to adopt the current outcomes and to include the <br />establishment of an Emergency Housing Rehabilitation Program as a strategy. <br />Council also provided consensus regarding keeping the name of Workforce <br />Housing. <br />Council agreed to continue with the existing three outcomes for City Facilities <br />and also added a fourth new outcome: Identify opportunities for land and/or <br />facility acquisition. <br />The Council began to discuss the outcomes for their new initiative of <br />Workforce Development. <br />Discussion was held regarding the desire to have a resource center on the east <br />side of town to facilitate opportunities for job training for residents. <br />Discussion was held regarding Incentivizing the hiring and advancing within a <br />company. <br />Discussion was held regarding workforce development from "cradle to <br />workforce" pipeline. <br />City of San Marcos Page 3 <br />