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City Council Meeting Minutes August 18, 2020 <br />Recreation, Engineering and Planning (REP) and she would like to see this <br />item postponed until this report can be presented to the entire Council. She <br />believes this report holds a lot of information that will be beneficial in Council <br />making a decision. This report was never presented to council during all the <br />discussions there have been regarding Capes Dam. <br />MOTION TO POSTPONE: a motion was made by Council Member Derrick, <br />seconded by Council Member Baker, to postpone Resolution 2020-177R until <br />the REP report can be presented to council with time for questions and <br />answers. <br />Mayor Pro Tem Mihalkanin stated he is not in agreement with the <br />postponement of this item. <br />Council Member Baker would like to see a compromise on this item and would <br />like to see postponement of this item. <br />Mayor Hughson asked if the REP report is followed, is there a dam at the end <br />of the day? Mr. Lumbreras stated the report is in draft form and was never <br />finalized. Mr. Drew Wells, Director of Parks and Recreation stated the report <br />provided to the city in 2017 was never finalized or presented to Council from <br />REP. During discussions in 2019 the draft report was given to Council. The <br />report provided that no dam would be in the river, but it would be replaced <br />with rock type structure that would provide water to maintain the Mill Race. <br />There would need to be some modifications and dredging to lower the water <br />levels in order to maintain the mill race. <br />Mayor Pro Tem Mihalkanin spoke about the report and stated the REP report <br />entitled "Capes Dam Removal Analysis DRAFT" dated March 27, 2017 does <br />focus on the removal of the dam. He noted the following on page 12 of the <br />report: The Existing Conditions model was calibrated to water surface <br />elevations in the Mill Race and the San Marcos River upstream of Capes Dam <br />provided in the "Cape Dam and Mill Race Assessment" by Dr. Thomas B. <br />Hardy. Dr. Mihalkanin also noted this report only references two resources one <br />authored by Dr. Hardy and one co-authored by Dr. Hardy. <br />Mayor Hughson noted that she has called for a compromise for some time but <br />none of her colleagues were interested. She was asking for a study to see if <br />there can be a dam, with a weir at one end, perhaps, that would preserve part <br />of the dam, continue flow to the Mill Race, at least most of the time with the <br />weir allowing the sediment to be flushed continuously. At the last discussion, <br />City of San Marcos Page 14 <br />