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18. Consider approval by motion of a proposed tax rate of 53.02 cents per $100 valuation. MOTION: Upon a motion made by Council Member Thomason and a second by Council Member Jones the City Council voted (7) for and (0) opposed, to approve the proposed tax rate of 53.02 cents per $100 valuation, as previously captioned. The motion carried unanimously. 19. Receive staff presentation regarding the upcoming Communitv Vision Work Plan and how it will tie into the Master Plan update and Big Picture Infrastructure. Matthew Lewis, Development Services Director, presented Council with the City's new Community Vision Work Plan. 20. Receive Staff presentation on the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program and review Implementing Agreement, Funding and Management Agreement, Adaptive Management documents, and Habitat Conservation Program. Tom Taggart, Public Services Director, presented Council with a follow up to the previous presentations of the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program; the presentation reviewed the work that has been done on drafting the Implementation Agreement, the Funding and Management Agreement, the Adaptive Management documents, and the Habitat Conservation Program. 21. Discussion on the proposed Fiscal Year 2011 -2012 Budget and provide direction to staff. Steve Parker, Finance Director, provided Council with updates regarding direction that Council had provided to Staff at the previous budget workshops. HSAB Needs Assessment funding is something that Staff is currently researching. They did find out that we can use CDBG funding, but it will have to come out of a different allocation of CDBG funds. Staff is looking for additional dollars and going back through the budget and will have a recommendation on the September 6, 2011 meeting. Looking at an amount around $35,000 for the assessment. CVB and Tanger are actually currently working on a joint agreement and will present that to the City Manager's office and the City Council at the September 6, 2011 meeting as well. 2012 CIP discussion will also take place at the September 6, 2011 meeting. Mr. Parker reported that the tax rate held at 53.02 cents, the effective tax rate is 53.41 cents and the property tax valuation increased by 4.1%. We are still preceding with the proposed rate increases of 3% in water and 2.5% in wastewater. 22. Open San Marcos Resolution discussion and provide direction to Staff. Jamie Lee Pettijohn, City Clerk, provided City Council with an explanation of what is currently being done to meet each item of the "First Ten" list that Open San Marcos is requesting to be included as an exhibit with their Open Government Resolution. Council directed Staff to consider sending Item #4 regarding the number of times a zoning ordinance is read to the Charter