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City Council Meeting Minutes September 17, 2019 <br />you get a ticket and then you are released. In Cite and Divert you never get <br />placed in the system you are diverted around it, and the gold standard is Law <br />Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD). Council Member Rockeymoore <br />advocated for this program and on September 30th there will be a National <br />Advocate for the LEAD program. He invited people to join Council that <br />afternoon for the LEAD presentation. In the paper today, there was an article <br />from Chief Stapp which challenged the County's report stating that the degree <br />to which people were arrested in lieu of citing was overstated and his counter <br />argument was that they only arrest 88% of the time for low level marijuana <br />charges. This is the leading arrest charge in the City. He said going to jail for <br />one night is not pleasurable especially for charges that can be dismissed just <br />like traffic infractions. Hopefully the new chief will implement cite and release <br />policies and this should be the default and go to and an arrest should be the <br />exception to the rule. We need to commit to LEAD because this is the gold <br />standard and introduce the Ordinance by the end of October. <br />Lisa Marie Coppoletta, spoke on #26 and thanked the Neighborhood <br />Commission, Planning and Zoning Commission, Historic Preservation <br />Commission and the many people that want to shut down the Belvin Street <br />project. She stated that a recording of Steve Parker is on the sound cloud that <br />states if one objection is was made they would shut down the project. Three <br />months later (tonight) the GAP sidewalk project is on the agenda as a reactive <br />measure because of the waste of tax payers' dollars. After three months of <br />demolition a sidewalk was busted out in one day. The very policy implemented <br />in 2013 by the dais stated that there will be no one sided sidewalks. The <br />Sidewalk GAP program has been manipulated because Staff says they work in <br />right-of-way, but staff refuses to review abstract and she claims the City does <br />not have right-of-way. The Citizens deserve accountability and communication <br />instead of promises being broken. Promises were made to go around heritage <br />live oaks, promises to have neighborhood meetings, and promises to have 45 <br />days' notice. None of these promises were kept. The policy is that we do not <br />have one side sidewalks, that we have neighborhood meetings, that we do not <br />touch critical tree roots, and that we would have a shovel test for native <br />American artifacts. She claims 100s of thousands of dollars were lost by this <br />project. She appreciates that this is on the agenda this evening. <br />Mike Boone, addressed agenda Item #8 and stated that he has seen Bob Klett <br />in the school 100's of times and after 29 years in law enforcement, there isn't <br />one Chief of Police that is in the Public School right now. He stated that since <br />the school has been in session he has seen him numerous times. He stated that <br />he should be named the permanent Chief of Police. He is always smiling, has a <br />City of San Marcos Page 3 <br />