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ERY410000 WIN MOKOKE City of San Marcos <br />Meeting Minutes <br />CouncilCity <br />Tuesday, June 2, 2020 6:00 PM Virtual Meeting <br />Due to COVID-19, this will be a virtual meeting. To view the meeting please go to <br />www.sanmarcostx.gov/videos or watch on Grande channel 16 or Spectrum channel 10. <br />I. Call To Order <br />With a quorum present, the regular meeting of the San Marcos City Council <br />was called to order by Mayor Hughson at 6:05 p.m. Tuesday, June 2, 2020. <br />This meeting was held virtually. <br />II. Roll Call <br />Present: 7 - Council Member Melissa Derrick, Mayor Jane Hughson, Mayor Pro Tem Ed <br />Mihalkanin, Council Member Joca Marquez, Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Mark <br />Rockeymoore, Council Member Maxfield Baker and Council Member Saul Gonzales <br />III, 30 Minute Citizen Comment Period <br />The following comments were submitted as written comments and read aloud <br />during the citizen comment portion of the meeting: <br />Josh Hunter Simpson: <br />Taxing citizens more after almost 40 million people have lost their jobs in this <br />country and many more struggles to pay monthly bills during COVIDI9 <br />situation is wrong. You as a city, 9 figures in debt, have decided it necessary to <br />even discuss raising tax rates on already hurting people. Fiscal irresponsibility <br />is at the root of this. Voting on "bond" packages binds future generations to <br />your debt. Voting for more debt doesn't make it acceptable. The reality is our <br />city is notorious for being anti -business due to ideological extremism. Which <br />lends to our dependence on retail and service industries. Forced to shut down <br />by government and now you have turned your head toward the peoples coffers <br />to squeeze out revenue. The individual financial irresponsibility translates to <br />continued city policy that facilitates more debt and putting that debt on <br />children who have NO SAY via "bond elections." Whether it be bonds or <br />higher taxes you are where the buck stops. The appraisal district is a <br />convenient scapegoat and it is gross behavior to blame another government <br />agency for you as a body ignoring the obligation to adjust the tax rates to <br />lessen the burden of appraisal district property tax pressure EVERY YEAR. <br />None of that is going on and I'm not confident it will take place. I sincerely <br />City of San Marcos Page 1 <br />