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Michael Cosentino, City Attorney
Legal_Info@sanmarcostx.gov
512.393.8150
512.393.3983 FAX
Role of the Legal Department
- Provide legal advice to the City Council, to boards and
commissions, and to City staff members on municipal issues
including economic development laws, ordinance drafting and
enforcement, civil liability, open government laws, criminal
law, employment law, procurement law, real estate law, annexation
law, land use/development law, and public utility law.
- Prepare City Council agenda worksheets to track materials
for meetings, and draft and review ordinances and resolutions
for City Council action.
- Draft and review contracts, including procurement contracts,
interlocal agreements, grant contracts, construction contracts,
and professional services contracts.
- Manage real property interests of the City, including
acquisitions and dispositions of property, easements, rights-of-way,
leases, franchises and licenses.
- Represent the City’s interests in lawsuits and administrative
proceedings, including water rights matters, collection actions
and tort and contract claims involving the City; and coordinate
with the outside counsel to ensure effective representation
of the City’s interests when the City is represented
by outside counsel.
- Provide staffing to the Ethics Review Commission, the
Charter Review Commission, and the San Marcos Industrial Development
Corporation Board of Directors.
- Support the law and ordinance enforcement efforts of other
City departments through day-to-day advice, Municipal Court
prosecution, prosecution of appeals in the County Courts-at-Law,
injunction suits, and the filing of liens related to code
enforcement.
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