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City Council Meeting Minutes June 18, 2020 Laurie Moyer, Director of Engineering and CIP, stated waiving impact fees only applies when it is connected to utilities. City facilities according to the impact fee ordinance are waived and does not believe there is cost associated with this project. Ms. Moyer stated that in Austin parks, they have apps visitors use to pay for parking. Council Member Baker asked Virginia Condie, Executive Director of SMRF, if the organization supports the paid parking. Ms. Condie stated yes, it is supported and stated that the Parks department will be managing this project and can't do it for free and needs to come up with finances for the project. Ms. Condie mentioned residents can access the trail via bike, hiking and use the parking lot for a proposed $1/hr for residents and $2/hr for non-residents however, decisions will be made by Council on the parking fees. Council Member Derrick asked Ms. Condie what they think on the impervious parking lot. Ms. Condie responded that SMRF is about the nature and not doing any harm to it but does like the semi impervious parking. Council Member Derrick asked if SMRF is going to reach out to private donors or have additional fundraisers every year to help maintain this specific park after the 5 year period. Ms. Condie stated the parking lot idea is to provide the cost, original goal was to pull one million to place in an endowment for parks but it is prohibited on the grant. Ms. Condie stated the sooner we have the trail and parking lot, any revenue can be added to the endowment especially for parks and another reason to charge per hour is to raise more money for the Parks department long term. Mr. Wells responded to the concern of eminent domain and stated this could be a component in the MOU and in agreement with SMRF that the City would not be supportive of eminent domain if it was part of the potential agreement of the land acquisition strategy. Council is in support and provided consensus to move forward to partner with SMRF on this project and authorized staff to bring back a Resolution of support for the Lone Star Prize application. Council also authorized staff to draft and negotiate a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the City and SMRF and not use eminent domain when creating the MOU. NON -CONSENT AGENDA 3. Consider approval, by motion, of the following meeting Minutes: A. May 26, 2020 - Budget Work Session Minutes B. June 2, 2020 - Work Session Minutes City of San Marcos Page 9