Susan Lea Clifford Narvaiz won election
as Mayor of San Marcos on May 15, 2004 and re-election on November 7, 2006. She previously was elected to Place 3 on the San Marcos City Council on June 4, 2002, for a three-year term.
She is President and CEO of Core Strategies, Inc., and General Manager of Sedona Staffing in San Marcos and New Braunfels. She moved to San Marcos in 1995 to open a branch office for a national staffing company.
Mayor Narvaiz established her business, Core Strategies, Inc. in June 1997 to provide employment and training to the I-35 corridor. She launched Sedona Staffing Partnership in March 1999 and opened a second office in New Braunfels in October 1999. She founded the Sedona Staffing Industrial Development Center in December 2000 to offer light manufacturing training to local citizens who were under-skilled at no charge.
She is the First Vice president of the Capital Area Council of Governments (CAPCOG) where she has served on the Executive Committee since 2004. She also has served on the FAIR Policy Committee for the National League of Cities since 2003, and on the Intergovernmental Relations Task Force for the Texas Municipal League in 2006.
Mayor Narvaiz is very active in a wide variety of community organizations. She has served on a number of city-related boards, including the Youth Commission, Economic Development Board, and Convention and Visitors Bureau.
She served as president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce from 1996-98 and on its board from 1995-98. She was a member of the board of directors of the San Marcos Chamber of Commerce from 1998-2001.
She has been a leader on numerous other boards of directors and organizations, including the United Way of Hays County, 1998-present; Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center, 1998-2002; Salute to Educators Banquet, 1997-98; and America’s Promise Youth Summit Fund raising Chair, 1998.
Clifford Narvaiz has also served on the boards of the Texas Association of Business Chambers of Commerce, (San Antonio Chapter Education Chair-1993-96); the Corridor Business Innovation Center Board, 2000-Present; Habitat for Humanity-San Marcos, 1995-96; and as Hays County representative for the Tri-County Human Resources & Occupational Safety Management Association, 1996-2001.
She founded "A Blessing in San Marcos" Thanksgiving Day Feast in 1998 and coordinated the "Salute to America and our Local Heroes" in November 2001. She also coordinated a fund raising event, "Be Bop with the Cops" in 2000 to raise money for the restoration of a historic jail, is a member of Friends of the Playscape, and a past member of Rotary Club.
She actively supports the San Marcos Education Foundation and has contributed to many school-related organizations, including faculty events, SMHS Basketball and Baseball Boosters, Air Force ROTC scholarships, America’s Promise, Sigma Delta Lambda, and 4-H.
She also is involved in supporting the San Marcos Fire Department, American Cancer Society, American Red Cross, Hospice, the Senior Association Building Fund, the Chamber of Commerce Building Fund and Central Texas Medical Center Foundation.
Clifford Narvaiz is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Sam Walton Business Leader Award, the Small Business Person of the Quarter-Chamber of Commerce, Citizen of the Year-San Marcos Area Board of Realtors; Certificate of Appreciation-Youth Summit; Badge of Recognition-San Marcos Police Department; Salute to Women Entrepreneurs; Outstanding Member-Hispanic Chamber; Community Service Award-Hispanic Chamber; the United Way Volunteer of the Year Award, and Woman of Distinction Award, Lone Start Girl Scout Council.
A native of Dayton, Ohio, she moved to San Antonio when she was young. She is married to Mike Narvaiz and they share in the lives of their children and six grandchildren.
