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City Council Meeting Minutes May 5, 2020 STREET SIDEWALKS. BERT is abusing his authority and so it this council. As soon streets will be gentrified because the first thing out of a city planners mouth during re zoning is "it has sidewalks and connect ability." We all got our yards butchered on my side of the street except the city worker who makes sidewalks and fills out a survey he wanted a sidewalk on Belvin. He just does not want one in his yard, he wants one in everyone else yard so he can get over time pay and preserve his property value. We don't get that special treatment from the wanna be emperor Bert. A 50K budgeted sidewalk that has turned into well over $300,000. Note the city worker who makes sidewalks, and got all this over time working months of Saturdays laughing as he butchered my yard is the ONLY resident not getting his yard butchered? Your city workers are not wearing masks and they are refusing to social distance. Citizens have footage of this behavior and this is because your city manager thinks that city employees can be treated differently than the taxpayer who foots the bill for his exorbitant salary special benefits to the Kissing Tree where he lives in a mansion. I'm sure the public can eat sidewalks when they have no food because they lost their jobs due to the pandemic. But, city workers gleefully push on the payroll not following basic CDC guidelines while the rest of the public is on lock down. I say let them eat sidewalks. Your agenda item on Belvin is a pure joke tonight. It was created because Bert has a special relationship with 1333 Belvin. Your city staff ignored the opposition to the sidewalk open records demonstrate secret meetings and secret emails with Bert and 1333 Belvin, who filed a false police report on me (verified by two different video cameras) are the DIRECT RESULT OF THE AGENDA ITEM REGARDING BELVIN TRAFFIC. These meetings at the activity center I was targeted by your city staff and this video is in the public domain. The city will soon find a racial discrimination law suit for its actions on my street. Thank you for your time and God Bless San Marcos. Liz Dobbins: Thank you for addressing the critical safety issues involving Sessoms Drive (2020-92R). The improvements identified should help decrease opportunity for additional serious injuries and help improve safety for cyclists. You may receive pushback about disrupting a major thruway at a time when another major cross town traffic area will be disrupted for several months/years (Hopkins). Regardless, it's important we move forward with the Sessoms improvements. My second short comment involves 2020-30, Parklets. It's impossible to have it both ways—removing parking spaces from the downtown area even temporarily until August 14—is going to cause most San Marcos residents who use downtown businesses great angst. Setting up a parklet for a special "day" event is one thing; however, allowing expansion will be a City of San Marcos Page 3