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I I . 149c III. San Marcos Citizen Participation Plan The City of San Marcos has approached viable citizen participation through six (6) methods: 1. Neighborhood meetings held through the community by the Urban Renewal Board of Commissioners; 2. Questionaires distributed to civic and social groups soliciting input regarding community needs and problems; 3. Distribution of 4,000 questionaires dealing with neighborhood problems through the utility billing system; 4. Public hearings with Council-appointed boards and commissions - Planning and Zoning and Downtown Revitalization; 5. Public hearings with the City Council; and 6. Use of the media to include radio, television, and newspaper. 1. Neighborhood Meetings Since most of the data gatherings, including the complete Housing Stock survey, has been built around the enumeration districts established by the R. L. Polk Company, the neighborhood meeting schedules are drawn based on district lines. This allows City staff members to dis- seminate to area residents particular information unique and relevant to readily identifiable sections of the city. We have grouped the districts for meeting purposes because of the size of the community. During the first year of citizen participation when ten (10) meetings were held, some meetings were cancelled when no one other than City staff attended. Grouping the districts as we are now doing enhances our attendance, we feel, since publicity on the upcoming meetings can be more concentrated. The districts were formed for the purpose of neighbor- hood meetings by combining the ten (10) enumeration districts into five (5) sets of two districts. For example, Enumeration Districts Two (2) and Six (6) were combined to form Neighbor- hood District I. The five (5) neighborhood districts are drawn on a map provided herein (Appendix A). Information to be presented at the meetings includes the purpose of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 and its objectives, specific objectives, eligible activities, ineligible activities, and the rules governing the Act which pertain to environmental clearances, A-95