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4. Consider adoption or direction to Staff on matters discussed in Executive Session. The San Marcos City Council reconvened into regular session at 6:05 p.m. on Tuesday, August 16, 2011. The City Council provided direction to staff to place the appointee evaluations on the September 6, 2011, Agenda. 5. COUNCIL MEMBER UPDATES: Receive status reports and updates from the Mayor and/or Council Members and a general discussion regarding the following: Council Member Terry — Update on CAPCOG Executive Committee activity. Council Member Terry provided a brief update on the recent activity of the CAPCOG Executive Committee. Mr. Terry provided a handout introducing a new Homeland Security feature from CAPCOG. Council Member Jones — Report on the recent InternInSanMarcos event Council Member Jones provided an update on the recent InternInSanMarcos event that the City partnered with Texas State University and other surrounding communities on. The program reached out to students in order to aid them in acquiring an internship in the San Marcos area. Mr. Jones shared that the event was highly successful. They hosted 154 Students of those students 117 were from Texas State, 30 from San Marcos High School, 6 from Luling High School, and 2 from Texas Lutheran University. They will be hosting the event during the spring. 6. invocation. Chris Carrier from the San Marcos Baptist Academy provided the invocation. 7. Pledge of Allegiance. Aidan Cape a 4 1 grade gifted and talented student from Hernandez Elementary led the assembly in the Pledge of Allegiance and the Texas Pledge. 8.30 Minute Citizen Comment Period. Ted Breihan, 111 W Hillcrest, has been a resident of San Marcos for 60 years and wants to try and continue to make San Marcos a better place to live. He provided Council with a handout that contains data from Lisa Spencer regarding the budget. Mr. Breihan stated that he was against the $149 million budget and that it needed to be brought back down. He stated that the Purgatory Creek Nature Center needed to be wiped away entirely and use this $318,000 to plan the loop around town. Rob Roark, 1804A Hunter Rd, thanked Mr. Jones for the Intern fair. Spore against the budget and stated that we are going into the hole, and that we have to stop the spending and taking money from the electric utility and transferring to the general fund. Mr. Roark also stated that Council needed to start looking at cuts and to stop the rate increases and the tax increases.