Res 2026-017 Approving the City of San Marcos Historic Preservation Plan

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PRESERVATION FUNDING Federal and state government funds and non-profit funds benefit the Historic Preservation Program and its partners. HISTORIC PRESERVATION FUND (HPF) NPS gives federal money to THPOs and SHPOs like THC from the HPF_established in 1976, each fiscal year. SHPOs must internally match 40% of the HPF received. SHPOs must pass 10% of the HPF received to CLGs like San Marcos in the form of CLG Grants and Competitive Grants for NRHP nominations, rehabilitation work, design guidelines, educational programs, training, structural assessments, and feasibility studies, to name a few. CLGs must internally match 50% of the HPF passed through the SHPO to the CLG with non-federal money from the City Capital Improvements Plan or with U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), which benefit various other programs in addition to historic preservation when granted. The following are recent HPF Grants, which passed through THC to San Marcos and required 50% match. 2018 CLG Grant —My Historic SMTX survey $39,290.85 $39,290.85 Underrepresented Communities Grant —Dunbar Neighborhood National Register Nomination, 2022 Calaboose African American Museum, and Ulysses $15,000.00 $15,000.00 Cephas House to the NRHP Based on a THC-produced summary of National HPF CLG grants administered by THC and awarded between 2013-2022, the average grant award per project was about $15,000, which represented about 47% of the total project cost. The number of grants awarded to the City of San Marcos was slightly below the average for all other communities (2.7). Georgetown, a city of similar size, was awarded two projects totaling about $40,000 during the same period. TEXAS PRESERVATION TRUST FUND (TPTF) The TPTF, established in 1989 and administered by the THC, is managed by the Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust Company. Investment earnings are distributed as matching grants, typically between $10,000 and $50,000, to qualified applicants for acquisition, survey, restoration, preservation, planning, and heritage education activities leading to the preservation of historic architectural and archaeological properties and associated collections of the State of Texas. Applicants for grant assistance must provide a minimum of $1 in cash to match each state dollar of the project's approved cost, and $1 is reimbursed for every $2 spent until the grant amount is reached. CLGs must internally match 50% of TPTF grants. San Marcos' Historic Preservation Program accomplishes this through allocations set in the Annual Budget and Capital Improvements Plan. 112 SAN MARCOS HISTORIC PRESERVATION PLAN (2026)