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28 .s- Regular Meeting January 23, 1957 On this, the 23rd day of January 1957, at 2:00 P. M. the city Council of the City of San Marcos, Texas, met in a regular meeting at the City Hall in San Marcos, with the following members present and participating, I C. M. Allen, Acting Mayor S. R. Beecroft, Alderman Herman Korff, Alderman W. M. Davis, Alderman Others present were: Terry Jacks, John J. Stokes, Walter Feltner, Paul Rogers, Zeb Fitzgerald, W. G. Barbee, and Fredericka Hopkins. A quorum being present the meeting was called to order by Mayor C. M. Allen and the following transpired: I Four members representing the San Marcos Developers met with the City Council to discuss the provisions of the proposed San Marcos Subdivision Ordinance. The.City Council at a previous meeting had, in considering the proposed ordinance cut down from 90 per cent to 50 per cent the reimbursement to subdividers for otilities installed by them; and changed the repayment period from 20 years to 10 years. After a lengthy discussion of this change in the proposed Ordinance, with both sides stating their position, Mr. Allen asked Mr. Stokes what would be the very best proposition he could make for the Developers, that would help solve the problem, and be advantageous to both the Developers and the City. Mr. Stokes then made this proposition: That subdividers be reimbursed to the extent of eighty (SO) per cent of the cost of utilities installed by them. If both sewer and water systems have been installed by a subdivider, the City shall pay to the subdivider a sum equal to seventy-five (75) per cent of the net amount of the revenue realized from the sales and service of the water and sewer system so installed by a subdivider for a period of twenty (20) years; and if only either a water or a sewer system alone is installed by a subdivider, the City shall pay the subdivider a sum equal to f~rty (40) per cent of the net amount of income realized from the sale and service of said system so installed, also for a period of twenty (20) years. Mr. Korff then made a motion to accept Mr. Stokes' PFoPosition. Mr. Davis seconded the motion. A vote was taken which resulted as follows: Korff yes Davis yes Beecroft no The motion was carried. Mr. Terry Jacks was then instructed to put the ordinance in final form and present to the Council for final action. Mr. Ed Williams, principal of the James Bowie Elementary School then came before the Council with two suggestions he wished the Council could and would enforce. They were (1), strengthen the building code by setting a certain height and distance from a corner that hedge can be planted at street corner intersections; (2), strengthen the building code by prohibiting any person or persons from living in what are commonly called "chicken coops". I The Council said that they would look into the matter, instructing the City Building Inspector, the City Sanitarian, and the City Attorney, to see what stand the City could take in the matter. Action on an Ordinance, authorizing the issuance of City of San Marcos Refunding Bonds in the maximum amount of $85,000.00, for the purpose of canceling, refunding and in lieu of a like amount of City of San Marcos Fire Station and Equipment Warrants dated August 15, 1955, which was set for this date, and duly and legally advertised, was deferred to a later date by unanimous vote of the Council. Next on the agenda was a motion by Mr. Beecroft to adopt an ordinance duly submitted, providing for the construction and maintenance, (note: by the State) "of the portion of U. S. Highway 81 in the City of San Marcos, for the expanded U. S. Highway 81 Right-of-Way by the State Highway Department. Mr. Korff seconded the motion. A vote was taken which resulted unanimously in favor of the motion,