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City Council Meeting Minutes July 7, 2020 collectively represents a larger property tax base. Yet it's Belvin that remains blissfully traffic free and SMPD officers are working to ensure it stays that way. We realize the traffic has to go somewhere, but it's both unfair and unnecessarily dangerous for San Antonio alone to shoulder this burden (and let's face it ... it's not realistic to expect any motorist to drive all the way to Bishop more than once before coming up with an alternate route). A more equitable solution would be to divert traffic headed into town onto San Antonio St., and outbound traffic onto Belvin. Use signage to route large trucks onto Bishop. Michael Scheirn: Yesterday afternoon our children, ages 10, 10 & 11, helped us in the yard and got all their chores done early so we could go swim in the San Marcos River. We drove down town to find fences and keep out signs. You sought Office believing that you could, and would, do good for your community. I am sure you truly believe you are doing the "right thing" by closing parks and making grand proclamations about behaviors that residents should do that even though you yourself don't actually follow it 24 hrs a day. In short, you are human just like us and my children. The difference is: My children are not denying you nature's gifts or steal your summer by denying you the things you want most and, even my Children recognize One Size DOES NOT Fill all whether it is shoes, homework, or policies that adults impose upon others. YOUR one -size -fits -all policy is NOT SAVING my healthy children --they are in a near zero risk cohort. You are NOT saving their grandparents, ages 88. The latter well -understand COVIDI9 would kill them so they are prudently isolated until a vaccine appears. What I see it doing is: 1) Bankrupting the City by crippling tax revenues and exorbitant expenditures for unwarranted fencing 2) Creating the pre -conditions for a True medical disaster this Winter when Flu Season Returns with cold, wet weather that forces everyone indoors. I'm not advocating City Council ignore COVIDI9 and we all do a big kumbaya hug, or City Council promulgate 50 different policies for 50 different cohorts that confuses everyone. What I'm asking you to recognize and act on is: 1) the Majority of Tourists and Residents are young, healthy people who are at extremely low risk and should be able to draw upon City Services with little to no encumbrances. SPECIFICALLY, PUBLIC ACCESS TO CITY PARKS AND IN -FACILITY LIBRARY READING AND EVENTS. 2) The City and County need extreme diligence and pro -activity centered on retiree and elderly facilities that COVIDI9 could decimate. My precautionary note is that these ham-fisted, one -size -fits -all approach City of San Marcos Page 3