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San Marcos council approves ordinance to codify business license administrative fees
Summary
After a staff presentation and a public hearing, the City Council voted unanimously to amend San Marcos Municipal Code Chapter 3.08 to implement business license administrative fees established in a 2024 fee study.
The San Marcos City Council on Jan. 28 adopted an ordinance amending Title III (Revenue and Taxation) — Chapter 3.08 of the San Marcos Municipal Code to codify business license administrative fees that were established by a November 2024 user-fee study.
A city staff presenter told the council the proposed ordinance would implement administrative regulatory fees to recover the city’s costs for processing business licenses and would clarify and clean up the code language. The staff presentation noted the fees themselves were established earlier via the city’s 2024 user-fee study and associated council action.
After a brief public hearing with no substantive public opposition recorded, a councilmember moved to close the public hearing and the council then voted to adopt the ordinance. The motion to approve carried with councilmembers responding “Aye” and no “No” votes recorded in the transcript.
The ordinance as described would implement the administrative fees and update code language in Chapter 3.08; the staff presenter said the fees had already been set by the November 2024 action and the ordinance would codify those fees into the municipal code.
The council did not identify specific vote tallies in the transcript beyond an affirmative voice vote and did not request further changes during the meeting. Staff offered to answer questions and none were raised before the council acted.
