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City Council Meeting Minutes March 16, 2021 <br />- Rent Increase: Council should direct City Staff to determine fair market <br />value for lease of the property based on local commercial real estate rates and <br />similar municipal leases in other municipalities. Additionally, a surcharge of <br />$2.00 per tube rental and shuttle service must be added and provided to the <br />City of San Marcos Parks and Recreation Department to support operations <br />and improvements within the parks. <br />- Litter Pick-up: The lessee must provide an employee to clean litter from the <br />river channel, much of which is contributed by tubers. The Board recommends <br />at least 2 hours of cleanup per operating day. <br />- Lease Term: Change the lease renewal from 5 years to 2 years. This will <br />provide the City better flexibility in making changes if future changes need to <br />occur. <br />The San Marcos Lion's Club provided the following response to the Parks and <br />Recreation Board recommendations: <br />- Limit Days of Operation: Lions Club disagrees with this stipulation and is <br />adamantly against closing any days of the week. They are willing to agree to <br />only be open on weekends prior to Memorial and after Labor day. They feel <br />that limiting the days of operation will only cause confusion to our customer <br />base and will not allow us to have any staff to help with liter control and <br />educate park patrons of park rules. <br />- Rent Increase: Lion's Club disagrees with the drastic increase in rent. The <br />rental agreement was mutually agreed upon by both parties with staggered rent <br />increases built into the contract. They have strived to keep the Lion's Tube <br />rental an affordable friendly event for all. The 78666 area code is the most <br />popular zip code from all their customers. Increasing rent will not allow the <br />Lion's Club to keep it affordable for local families and will cause a drastic <br />reduction in donations to local charities. In 2019 they increased the tube <br />rentals by $2 a tube; and that caused an 11 percent decrease of tube rentals. <br />They would like to start a "River park Improvements" donation fund to be <br />utilized by the parks. They would start by having a donation page on their <br />website and will add it to their Point of Sale asking every customer for <br />donations to help keep the river and parks beautiful. <br />- Litter Pick-up: Agrees to add 2 additional hours for the weekends. They <br />would also cover the parking lot to the river and up to the pedestrian bridges <br />in City Park. We will also cover across the river at the Dog Park. In addition, <br />City of San Marcos page 6 <br />