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City of San Marcos,Texas—2024-2025 Action Plan <br /> AP-12 Participation—91.105,91.200(c) <br /> 1. Summary of citizen participation process/Efforts made to broaden citizen participation <br /> Summarize citizen participation process and how it impacted goal-setting. <br /> The 2024-2025 Action Plan was developed in accordance with the City's Citizen Participation Plan.All dates in the following summary are in 2024: <br /> A notice of funding availability was published March 31,which included the application period April 3-May 6,and a notice of the stakeholder workshop <br /> held April 11 at 4:00pm.The notice of funding availability also noted that City Council would review the applications on June 4 and make a final decision <br /> on August 5 after public hearings at both meetings.Staff emailed this notice and the application forms to a broad list of potential applicants and interested <br /> parties.A display ad was published March 31 to help publicize the application period and workshop. A notice of public hearing was published May 19,and <br /> a press release was published May 21 regarding the public hearing held June 4.On May 28,the press release was covered in the local paper as an article. <br /> On June 4,staff presented a recommended slate of projects for Council's review and a public hearing was held.A notice of the comment period held June <br /> 7-July 9 was published on May 19.A notice of the August 5 public hearing was published July 14. At the August 5 City Council meeting,staff once again <br /> presented the recommended funding allocations and City Council held a public hearing and made the final decision on funding allocations. <br /> Assistance for disabled persons and those with limited English proficiency was publicized with each notice and meeting. All published notices were <br /> translated into Spanish for publication at the same time as the English versions,and a Spanish translator was available at the workshop. <br /> 2024-2025 CDBG ACTION PLAN Page 15 of 59 <br />