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84. Regular Meeting July 26, 2004 Page 8 San Marcos Senior Citizens' Advisory Board for the City Council. He stated he is familiar with the Senior Programs at the City, the Price Center and Community Action, which all serve different groups of seniors. He stated the Community Action clientele is older and less able to pay than those at the other Centers. He encouraged the Council to fund both of the Community Action budget requests. 5) Cynthia Juniper stated she is the Director of Family Services for Community Action. She stated the Senior Center serves a very unique population, who are in their 80s and 90s, and many are ill. She stated these elderly folks rely on the Center, daily, to receive the hot meals, assistance with translations and other numerous situations that arise. She encouraged the Council to reconsider the proposal and to continue supporting the Center. Mayor Narvaiz asked if anyone else wished to speak. No one did, so Mayor Narvaiz closed the public hearing. Mr. Mihalkanin stated he would like to see the Council consider funding Community Action Center and the Price Senior Center. He stated he feels both of these organizations serve different sectors of the senior population, and they both do an excellent job. Mayor Narvaiz stated there are several budget items that were left undetermined; the Capital Improvement Programs at $150,980.00 from the General Fund; the consideration of the Neighborhood Traffic Enforcement Program, which is an additional $87,350.00 from the General Fund; and the San Marcos EMS, which is $58,000.00 from the General Fund, and the consideration of televising the Board and Commission meetings at an additional $20,000.00. Mr. O'Leary stated these undetermined budget items are from the last Workshop. Mayor Narvaiz inquired whether a couple of CIP Projects were moved to the potential sale of bonds that should have been added to the CIP list. Mr. O'Leary stated yes, the Blue Ribbon Bond Committee is item 25 on the third page. He stated once the Council has determined to sell Certificate of Obligations for the Rio vista Reconstruction and the Transportation Improvement, then they will be removed from the list. He stated there is a fire truck requested in the category Sale of Certificates of Obligations and the new Fire Chief, after his evaluation, feel he needs a ladder truck replacement worse than the fire engine. Mr. O'Leary recommends the Council consider switching those two projects. Mr. Thomaides inquired if the $500,000.00 for the Transportation Improvements is in the CIP. Laurie Anderson, Director of Engineering, stated the Transportation Participation is a funding mechanism to oversize roadway facilities in the same manner the City oversize the water and wastewater lines. She stated this would allow Staff, to request oversizing when development came in on our Transportation Master Plan, which exceeded the requirements of that development at the time of development. She stated then Staff could go ahead and put in the full road anticipated for the ultimate use, without having so search for funding. Mr. Thomaides stated he feels the Rio Vista Street Reconstruction is long overdue and supports the additional CIP money for that project. He also stated he supports the additional requests from EMS, Community Action and Price Senior Center and the Summerfest Program. Mr. Thomaides inquired as to the Traffic Enforcement Program, which he feels is a good idea. Mr. O'Leary stated the City would