The San Marcos City Council finds itself split on the issue of third party review of spending as it pertains to a compensation package expected to soon be approved.
The measure would allow the council to take the money ($500 a month for council members and $750 a month for the mayor) and accept it as an addition to their reimbursable expense account or refuse to take it at all.
With all due respect to present and future council members, the more transparency in government we can have ... especially when it comes to compensation and expense accounts ... the better.
This is especially true with a new system like the one this city is now initiating.
Taxpayers are curious how this compensation plan will work, and they deserve adequate assurances that it is operating as it should.
A quarterly third party review of this system speaks not to the honesty and integrity of our elected officials, but simply to the important public business at hand.
It is a business which works best for everyone when the sun shines brightly on all the fine print. RHR
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Just follow the Yellow Brick Road
Residents looking for a boring place to hang out, twiddle their thumbs and watch quietly as life passes them by should stay far away from the Price Seniors Center.
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A partnership with potential
The possibility of World Heritage Site designation for the headwaters of the San Marcos River will be discussed tonight at 6:30 p.m. at the Price Seniors Center.
- A foot-tapping good time awaits
- Happy trails to you, Jeff
- Crucial building blocks in place
- A touchdown for San Marcos
- James D. Nay
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Saludo: Ofelia Vasquez-Philo
The honoring of local historian Ofelia Vasquez-Philo with the Premio Letras de Aztlan Award from the National Association of Chicana & Chicano Studies this week is certainly exciting news for this city.
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City horning in – thank goodness
Many San Marcos residents may soon be able to hear themselves think thanks to a long-awaited city project to create a number of “Railroad Quiet Zones” across the city.
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Misguided and unacceptable
The Hays County Commissioners Court would like to ban still and video cameras from its public meetings.
It would like to, but it can’t. - More Editorials Headlines
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