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'i CITY lli� <br />SAR XIi'6os Cityn Marcos 630 East Hopkins <br />�Y� San Marcos, TX 78666 <br />Meeting Minutes <br />City Council <br />Tuesday, March 3, 2020 6:00 PM City Council Chambers <br />630 E. Hopkins <br />I. Call To Order <br />With a quorum present, the regular meeting of the San Marcos City Council <br />was called to order by Mayor Hughson at 6:02 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, 2020 in <br />the City Council Chambers, 630 E. Hopkins, San Marcos, Texas 78666. <br />Present: 7- Council Member Melissa Derrick, Mayor Jane Hughson, Mayor Pro Tem Ed <br />Mihalkanin, Council Member Joca Marquez, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Mark <br />Rockeymoore, Council Member Maxfield Baker and Council Member Saul Gonzales <br />III. Invocation <br />Rev. Krista Weber Huang, with San Marcos Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, <br />provided this evening's invocation. <br />IV. Pledges of Allegiance - United States and Texas <br />Elsa Sanchez, 2019 Miss Beautiful, led the assembly in the pledges of <br />allegiance. <br />V. 30 Minute Citizen Comment Period <br />Eduardo Camargo, Director of Governmental Affairs for the Student <br />Government at Texas State University, spoke on the stewardship of the <br />environment. Students are becoming aware of the faults in efforts to divert <br />waste, to properly dispose food waste and recyclable materials. Texas State <br />University lobbied the state legislature to create the environmental service fee <br />which creates a revenue of $80,000 for environmental projects. Bobcat Blend, a <br />student -run organization at Texas State focuses on collecting compost out of <br />kitchens on dining locations on campus. The student government passed a <br />piece of legislation that advocates addition post consuming composting on the <br />Texas State University campus, which is having compost bins to compost their <br />food scraps. Mr. Camargo mentioned that this will make Texas State <br />University one of the very first schools in Texas to implement a post consume <br />compost system. He mentioned the issues that students are facing and how <br />Council can help. Students main issue when composting and diverting food <br />City of San Marcos Page 1 <br />