The San Marcos City Council meeting is postponed until Wednesday so that residents may enjoy National Night Out, according to the city of San Marcos. The meeting preview will be published in tomorrow’s paper.
People have been spending a lot of money in Hays County recently. Every city in the county is up for spending in this allocation period compared to the same time frame last year, which is a rare occurrence. That will help the city of San Marcos catch up, as it has received $269,114 less for 2024 year to date, as compared to 2023.
College is expensive, and for many, scholarships can be life-changing, particularly when they come with one on one professional mentorship. Three Hays County high school students, including two from San Marcos High School, will now receive $7,500 per school year and receive mentorship and support services for the next four to eight years, courtesy of St. David’s Foundation. The Neal Kocurek Scholarship was awarded to 45 students. The three from Hays County are Dayannara Cruz — San Marcos High School, Eva Moore — San Marcos High School and Javeryn Gallo — Moe and Gene Johnson High School. According to Ashley Gomez, St. David’s Foundation scholarship program manager, many of the award recipients will be first generation college students and were chosen for their “exceptional personal stories.”
Photos courtesy of Ballet Nepantla
Centro Cultural Hispano to host ballet folklorico and contemporary dance performance at SMHS
San Marcos City Council covered several items of note in the regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday. The council approved the upcoming Fiscal Year budget and the proposed tax rate of 60.3 cents per $100 of taxable property value. They also discussed the Hopkins City Center Steering Committee that would provide guidance and feedback throughout the new City Hall and Hopkins Redevelopment Project. The council also approved the annexation and rezoning of a 51 acre property near the high school that will have multifamily units as well as commercial development.
San Marcos City Council voted unanimously to approve the tax rate at 60.3 cents per $100 of taxable value on the first of two readings at the regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday.
Editor’s note: This is part two of a two part series on Texas State Mexico.
Jane Hughson
Mayor Hughson went skydiving with Alex Broussard, a San Marcos Fire Department Firefighter, to benefit the Hays Caldwell Women's Center.
Photo provided by Jane Hughson
The November election will see candidates for San Marcos mayor on the ballot. Mayor Jane Hughson, will be running for re-election against current San Marcos CISD Board of Trustee Juan Miguel Arredondo. Hughson plans to run for her final term, if elected.
The San Marcos Consolidated Independent School District approved the certified appraisals from Hays County, Caldwell County and Guadalupe County and adopted the tax rate of $1.0152 per $100 of taxable value. According to SMCISD Board President Anne Halsey, this means that the November ballot will be a Voter Approved Tax Rate Election with the option to vote for or against the district receiving two additional Golden Pennies on its total tax rate, which are worth a penny a piece per $100 of taxable value.
A 712 acre development with nearly 3,000 planned lots called Sedona is coming to the eastside of San Marcos and will roll out in several phases, the first of which will begin in the next couple of weeks. Sedona developer John Lloyd said the “vast majority” of the development, which will be near Cottonwood Creek and divided by Lovelady Lane, will be single- family residential, but the land is zoned mixeduse commercial; 100 acres on the southwest corner of the development along Highway 123 will either be commercial and could “conceivably be some multi-family,” according to Lloyd.
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