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City Council Meeting Minutes January 19, 2021 on them. He also noted that the vaccines are now out. Mayor Hughson stated that much of the transmission of the virus happen at family gatherings where people let their guard down and that a shutdown would not stop the virus. Council Member Gleason stated that many of us know people affected by Covid. He would not want to risk a lawsuit by doing this and noted that vaccines are now being distributed. Council also provided consensus to send a letter to the Governor's office encouraging stronger restrictions. Council would also like to encourage our regional neighbors to participate as well. Mr. Stapp noted in the pending cases regarding City of Austin and El Paso County, The Texas Supreme Court has so far have sided with Attorney General Paxton. Mayor Hughson asked what are the next steps, place this on a future agenda? Mr. Lumbreras stated this will be added to the February 2nd meeting agenda to approve an executive order or letter. Council Member Garza asked how the vaccines are being distributed and tracked and would like more transparency. Mr. Stapp stated we do not have access to the records. Council Member Garza asked about moving forward to help with transparency in the upcoming roll out of the vaccines. Mr. Stapp stated HIPPA is going to prohibit names being released. Mr. Stapp provided a brief introduction on the technology aspect of having council meetings in person and introduced Kristy Stark, Director of Communications to provide the options for short term & long term council chamber & zoom solutions. Ms. Stark stated that a demo was done by city staff on the two options being presented. Ms. Stark provided Scenario 1 with multiple participants in chamber and all connected individually to Zoom. Using this scenario, no in chamber AudioNisua (A/V) Equipment is used, each participant must wear headphones to eliminate feedback, microphone of each participant will be muted when not speaking with only one microphone in use at a time and an additional device will be connected to capture a wide shot of those in room for Zoom. The challenge with this option is that feedback is very high and there will be usage of noise cancelling headphones. Ms. Stark provided Scenario 2 with participants in chamber and only one Zoom connection for ever council member in the room similar to previous meetings in the chamber. Using this scenario will consist of a mix of in chamber AN equipment and Zoom will be used, no need for an in chamber participant to be individually connected to Zoom and would require AN City of San Marcos Page 5