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This is the City of Score City Council meeting. | 00:00:01 | |
Tuesday, June 6th to 2023 World Cup Please Mayor Basker here. | 00:00:04 | |
Councillor Travis Lopez, Councillor Dean. | 00:00:10 | |
Councillor Fleming. | 00:00:13 | |
Councillor hits. | 00:00:15 | |
Councillor Ocampo. | 00:00:17 | |
Councillor Olguin. | 00:00:19 | |
Councillor Romero here. Councillor Salome. | 00:00:20 | |
We have a quantum. | 00:00:23 | |
And we have Jaden Miller here. | 00:00:25 | |
He's gonna meet up. | 00:00:30 | |
You're good. | 00:00:36 | |
Pledge allegiance to 1. | 00:00:38 | |
And to. | 00:00:43 | |
Yeah. | 00:00:45 | |
One patient and their God. | 00:00:46 | |
Yeah, that's what's wrong. | 00:00:50 | |
Ohh, thank you. | 00:00:53 | |
Yeah. | 00:01:02 | |
Mr. Who? | 00:01:03 | |
Romero, I move We approve the consent agenda. | 00:01:06 | |
Thank you. | 00:01:09 | |
Moved and seconded discussion all in favor, aye? | 00:01:11 | |
We have Jason. | 00:01:16 | |
Is he here? I know. | 00:01:19 | |
No. | 00:01:21 | |
No, Jason Frame. | 00:01:22 | |
He man, he was going to talk about the Socorro County Community Alternative program. Are they still going to have their. | 00:01:25 | |
Celebration. I think that's what he wanted to talk to you about. Tell me, do you know much about it? I don't know anything about | 00:01:32 | |
it. | 00:01:35 | |
OK. And they were gonna use the. | 00:01:38 | |
The Rodeo arena for that? | 00:01:41 | |
So anyway, I thank you for the compliance program and. | 00:01:44 | |
They do a lot of good work. We are right here off the Plaza. | 00:01:47 | |
And I have. | 00:01:51 | |
The. | 00:01:53 | |
Proclamation. | 00:01:54 | |
For. | 00:01:56 | |
Immigrant Heritage Month, where generations of immigrants from every corner of the globe have built our country's economy and | 00:01:58 | |
created the unique character of our nation. | 00:02:02 | |
Whereas immigrants continue to grow businesses, innovate, strengthen our community economy and create American jobs in Socorro. | 00:02:07 | |
And whereas immigrants have provided the United States with a unique social and cultural influence, fundamentally enriching the | 00:02:12 | |
cultural extraordinary character of our nation. | 00:02:17 | |
And whereas immigrants have been tireless leaders not only in securing their own rights and access to equal opportunities, but | 00:02:23 | |
also have campaign to create a fair and more just society for all Americans. | 00:02:28 | |
Whereas despite the countless contribution, the role of immigrants in building and. | 00:02:34 | |
Enriching our nation has frequently been overlooked. | 00:02:38 | |
And undervalued throughout our history and continuing to the present day, Now therefore be it resolved by the city of Sikora. | 00:02:41 | |
City Council and Mayor Ravi Vasquez assembled that June 2020 third is designated as Immigrant Heritage Month. | 00:02:47 | |
And as you know, I'm an immigrant. | 00:02:55 | |
And we certainly have a lot of. | 00:02:56 | |
Problems at the border. | 00:02:59 | |
But we're talking about legal immigration. We're not talking about illegal immigration. | 00:03:01 | |
I think it's important to note that. | 00:03:05 | |
I I have something to say about that this proclamation? | 00:03:09 | |
And as we know, these proclamations are public announcements of matters of great importance. | 00:03:13 | |
And so. | 00:03:19 | |
For someone to put forth a proclamation to the City Council to have it voted on means that it's a very important matter. | 00:03:20 | |
And in my reading of this proclamation, I think it falls short. | 00:03:29 | |
Um, the proclamation in the fourth paragraph says, despite these countless contributions, the role of immigrants in building and | 00:03:35 | |
enriching our nation has frequently been overlooked and undervalued. | 00:03:42 | |
Throughout our history and. | 00:03:49 | |
Continuing through the present day. | 00:03:51 | |
To me, that that raises eyebrows. That's that's a concern. That's a problem. And for someone to put forth a proclamation. | 00:03:53 | |
To say that, yeah. | 00:04:02 | |
City Council votes on it. It's an issue. It's it's a it's a it's a a problem and move forward. | 00:04:03 | |
I think they're underestimating the UH. | 00:04:10 | |
Purpose of. | 00:04:14 | |
Public officials in terms of. | 00:04:16 | |
People vote, People elect, people run for these office, for these chairs to sit up here. And the reason that we do that is we're | 00:04:18 | |
here to try to solve problems. | 00:04:23 | |
Not just announcing proclaim that there's a problem and then sweep it under the rug. | 00:04:28 | |
And and looking at this. | 00:04:34 | |
I look at the folks out there and and I want to know how many folks out there are you guys are. | 00:04:36 | |
Direct. | 00:04:42 | |
Immigrants. | 00:04:44 | |
Or descendants. | 00:04:45 | |
Of immigrants. I know I am. I'm, I'm a descendant of multiple of immigrants. In 1910, my grandfather came from Lebanon and I bet | 00:04:47 | |
if we look back, every one of us sitting in this in this Chamber. | 00:04:54 | |
Are immigrants everybody in Socorro? If you're not a Native American, you're an immigrant. | 00:05:02 | |
That's that's my view of this and I think for us to not bring forth to the table the folks that asked. | 00:05:09 | |
The mayor to put forth this proclamation to discuss some of the issue. Who's undervaluing the immigrants contribution? Who's doing | 00:05:19 | |
that? | 00:05:23 | |
We need to know who's doing that, who will under appreciate the immigrants contribution to this beautiful country that we have. | 00:05:28 | |
Doesn't say who, but I think if we bring those folks forward to the table, we can sit down and maybe we can work on resolving that | 00:05:36 | |
issue rather than proclaiming that the problem and then moving on to the next item. | 00:05:42 | |
So. | 00:05:49 | |
I'm going to abstain from voting on this proclamation. | 00:05:50 | |
Because I would like to sit with. | 00:05:54 | |
And talk to the folks that that brought this proclamation forward to the mayor. | 00:05:57 | |
And see what their views are on it. Maybe we can come to some kind of a issue that this, that this council can vote on an | 00:06:02 | |
ordinance, a resolution, another proclamation that helps with that horrible issue of of being undervalued. | 00:06:09 | |
And overlooked because that's a problem. | 00:06:16 | |
Mr. Mayor, how are these initiated? | 00:06:21 | |
I have got a request from a group. | 00:06:24 | |
That supports immigrants and since I have a personal. | 00:06:27 | |
Investment in that type of thing. | 00:06:34 | |
And they asked me to do that. | 00:06:37 | |
But I don't ask City Council to vote on it. | 00:06:39 | |
I'm making that proclamation on behalf of the City Council, Mr. Soulmate says. He would like to abstain, and that's fine. | 00:06:41 | |
But I don't usually get the City Council to sign off on these things. | 00:06:48 | |
I basically make a proclamation, you know, as we did on the motorcycle that we did on different things. And and this one, I had a | 00:06:53 | |
real specific concern about it because my I'm, I'm, I'm a. | 00:06:58 | |
Immigrant. I'm not even first generation Mr. Ocampo. | 00:07:03 | |
Yeah. Mayor, we're we're there. Were there issues that they did bring up to you or were they just trying to highlight the. | 00:07:07 | |
No, I think with the atmosphere of the country at this point, with the people at the border right now trying to get into the | 00:07:12 | |
United States is the best country in the world to come and and be able to bring your children to have a future. | 00:07:19 | |
Uh, but this is a this is more of a routine thing, as Mr. Shlomi said, doesn't really have a lot of. | 00:07:26 | |
Underlying questions and through things under the surface, as Mr. Swamy pointed out, and I would be more than happy we've gotten | 00:07:32 | |
in touch with them and ask them to come and have a dialogue with us. | 00:07:37 | |
Right. | 00:07:43 | |
Mr. Brown, Yeah, on on this proclamation. If it did come to a road, I'd be willing to vote on it, but also. | 00:07:43 | |
If, if Mr. Solomon. | 00:07:49 | |
Was to have some kind of a meeting on this I I'd be more than happy to attend and and discuss it. But immigration is a big problem | 00:07:53 | |
in this country and like I said, I got my green card. | 00:07:58 | |
In 1965 because. | 00:08:03 | |
I actually my family when my parents came. | 00:08:06 | |
They came on a student visa. My dad was a doctor and once he finished his training. | 00:08:09 | |
We had to leave to go to Canada because we couldn't stay here on a student visa. | 00:08:14 | |
So we had to leave the country for two years. | 00:08:19 | |
Then we came back on a green card. | 00:08:22 | |
Legally. And he had a job and he had a place to, you know, go. But we came back on a green card and I didn't become a citizen. | 00:08:25 | |
Until 1965. | 00:08:32 | |
When we had the ceremony with the daughters of the Revolution, they give you a flag. | 00:08:34 | |
And then you, you, you, you pay. You pay your commitment to the Constitution. | 00:08:39 | |
He answered those questions to give you a book to read. | 00:08:45 | |
So. | 00:08:48 | |
Those are the things, but that's not what's happening with the border. | 00:08:48 | |
That's a totally different situation and I think we could certainly have a more. | 00:08:52 | |
More of a a. | 00:08:56 | |
Conversation about it later, as Mr. Swamy said. | 00:08:58 | |
I think, being that it is a matter of such importance that we we do owe it to them to. | 00:09:02 | |
Uh. | 00:09:08 | |
To kind of follow up on, you know the we'll do that. | 00:09:08 | |
I would do that. Thank you. You're welcome. | 00:09:13 | |
And Mr. Frame. | 00:09:16 | |
You're 2 minutes late. | 00:09:17 | |
Come on up. Tell us about your program. I'm sorry for being late. Not at all. | 00:09:19 | |
Well, tell the group to come and join us. | 00:09:24 | |
So my name is Jason Frame. I represent the Sport County Community Alternatives program. | 00:09:28 | |
We have asked this year for. | 00:09:33 | |
Ohh. | 00:09:36 | |
$3000 from Recovery Communities of New Mexico. | 00:09:39 | |
For a grant proposal for a 2023 recovery celebration. | 00:09:43 | |
So we can look at the Sequoia County Community Alternatives program. | 00:09:49 | |
Have come to understand that while change is something that is not easy. | 00:09:53 | |
For those struggling with mental illness and substance abuse, people can and do recover. | 00:09:58 | |
We believe that there are a number of things that the individual must change in order to be successful. This starts with | 00:10:04 | |
developing a new way of thinking. | 00:10:08 | |
Forming healthy habits and surrounding themselves with supportive community community members. | 00:10:12 | |
A support system can be comprised of people that work in our schools, universities, courts, hospitals, law enforcement. | 00:10:18 | |
First responders, churches, local business. | 00:10:26 | |
And a representative of a diverse ethnic. | 00:10:29 | |
Community. | 00:10:32 | |
This not only model. | 00:10:34 | |
A positive and healthy way of life, but embody a life. | 00:10:36 | |
That most addicts would love to have. | 00:10:40 | |
We would like to request. | 00:10:43 | |
Like I said, $3000 last year we got 2000. | 00:10:44 | |
To host the recovery celebration in the form of an all tribes, all Ethnicities. Powell. | 00:10:48 | |
On Saturday, September 30th. | 00:10:54 | |
2023 and hopefully. | 00:10:57 | |
Either the soccer. | 00:11:00 | |
Complex from the radio complex. Would like it to be in the rodeo complex. | 00:11:02 | |
If we can arrange such. | 00:11:06 | |
Well, that's true. | 00:11:08 | |
The event will welcome all of those diverse ethnicities. | 00:11:10 | |
And occupations to participate in a day of music, cultural and traditional presentations. | 00:11:14 | |
By those who may sing, dance, and play instruments, as well as express themselves. | 00:11:20 | |
Through the art of storytelling. | 00:11:24 | |
And we'll be selling their wares. We invite the community to come out and celebrate. | 00:11:27 | |
Those in recovery by performing providing. | 00:11:31 | |
Some kind of service? | 00:11:34 | |
Or selling crafts. These individuals would do so without having to pay service. | 00:11:36 | |
Fees or taxes? | 00:11:40 | |
We would also. | 00:11:42 | |
Like to ensure that this event be drug and alcohol free? | 00:11:44 | |
We strongly believe that this event will help to promote a sense of Wellness. | 00:11:48 | |
And belong in the community for those who struggle with mental illness. | 00:11:53 | |
And substance abuse. | 00:11:57 | |
So the reason why we've come, I've come today to ask for. | 00:11:59 | |
The rodeo arenas, because we've got several. | 00:12:04 | |
Different new agencies. | 00:12:08 | |
In Socorro we have full circle, full circle recovery. | 00:12:10 | |
Cornerstone Christian Counseling. | 00:12:14 | |
We've always had a Sequoia mental health. | 00:12:17 | |
Umm. | 00:12:20 | |
Alamo Behavioral Health is going to be on board also. | 00:12:22 | |
So in light of that, our whole community will be represented. | 00:12:26 | |
Then we would like to ask for the use of the rodeo complex. | 00:12:30 | |
And you know the. | 00:12:35 | |
All of the utilities have. | 00:12:37 | |
That it provides. | 00:12:39 | |
Well, you know, it's actually. | 00:12:42 | |
Kind of. We've talked on the messenger. I I think the council will certainly leave it to the Council, but I think. | 00:12:44 | |
If it doesn't conflict with any other event. | 00:12:50 | |
We'd be more than happy to support that. I think mental health is a big issue. | 00:12:53 | |
And it's not around Labor Day though, is it? Is it a? | 00:12:57 | |
It's on the 30th which is. | 00:12:59 | |
At the end of the month, yeah, so. | 00:13:02 | |
Maybe beginning at the beginning? | 00:13:06 | |
So when is the County Fair gonna get At the beginning of the month? I believe on the 14th through the 16th. As long as it doesn't | 00:13:08 | |
conflict with that, I I don't see any. Trying to avoid everything, especially Sequiro. What would what sectoral fest last year? | 00:13:15 | |
Yeah, we almost look like in competition with them, so it didn't go too well. | 00:13:23 | |
You know so. | 00:13:28 | |
If the Council approves, I mean we certainly. | 00:13:29 | |
And we'll make that available to you and the funding. | 00:13:32 | |
Where would that come from, you know? | 00:13:35 | |
Are you is that a state fund or did you say that so recovery communities of Mexico as a behavioral health? | 00:13:37 | |
Ohh. | 00:13:43 | |
Let's just see. | 00:13:45 | |
Ohh agency so they are providing. I believe it's. | 00:13:46 | |
$40,000 throughout. | 00:13:51 | |
The study he requested, the 3000. | 00:13:54 | |
Yes, but that's last year we got 3000. We haven't gotten an answer on, on how much they're going to give us this year. | 00:13:56 | |
From the state, OK, so you're not requesting funding, Not funding, just the use of the complex and. | 00:14:05 | |
You know, he's the facility manager, Steve Matthews. So yeah, I I spoke with. | 00:14:12 | |
Yeah, I was. I was waiting for a call from Daniel. | 00:14:20 | |
Um. | 00:14:24 | |
That was going to give us information. Did you have a comment? | 00:14:25 | |
Filter available. | 00:14:39 | |
And then for the. | 00:14:40 | |
If we could use the fields, that would be fine in that case. | 00:14:42 | |
Louie could use the city's tent. | 00:14:47 | |
Well, that's no, this is getting to be a longer thing. Alright, why don't you give me a written request? | 00:14:50 | |
As to what you need and then I'll present it to Steve. | 00:14:56 | |
And then we can designate the area. We're more than happy to cooperate with this. I just want to make sure there's no conflict. | 00:14:59 | |
And then if you give me a written request. | 00:15:05 | |
As to what you need and then let me see if we can comply with that. OK. And at the minimum, you can use the fields if that's OK | 00:15:08 | |
with Steve. | 00:15:12 | |
We we want to make sure it doesn't hurt the grass and no vehicles and things like that but on the on the field but but let's let's | 00:15:16 | |
get together and and. | 00:15:20 | |
Work with Steve and and Donald and try to put this together, but let's see if I could get a written request. It would be much | 00:15:25 | |
better. Yes, I will do that. | 00:15:28 | |
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the work you've done. | 00:15:33 | |
Mr. Miss. | 00:15:39 | |
They're moving. | 00:15:40 | |
Public comment on my public comment. | 00:15:42 | |
Done. | 00:15:45 | |
Let's move on to the ordinance. I'll make a motion. We approve ordinance number. | 00:15:47 | |
23-06-28. | 00:15:52 | |
And Mr. Mayor, Mr. Monette, anybody second? | 00:15:57 | |
Mr. Mr. Mr. Chavez, this is just the first reading of this ordinance. It will actually be up for a vote at the next meeting. | 00:16:01 | |
This is for the landfill grant, I mean loans 1.4 million to reimburse ourselves for the new self. | 00:16:08 | |
So this is just. | 00:16:15 | |
The first reading. | 00:16:16 | |
Ruby wasn't feeling good this evening. | 00:16:18 | |
OK. | 00:16:20 | |
OK. So all in favor for approval of publication? | 00:16:22 | |
Aye. | 00:16:25 | |
And the ordinance, 23-06. | 00:16:28 | |
Mr. Mayor, that is again, this is what I hope will be the final one this is for. | 00:16:33 | |
Splitting the Clean Water State Revolving Fund into the two different projects and this project specifically is for a belt press. | 00:16:38 | |
Mr. Again, I'll make a motion. We approve Ordinance #23-06-06 second. | 00:16:49 | |
Consecutive discussion, all in favor, aye. | 00:16:55 | |
So we have ICP Public Input meeting #1. | 00:16:59 | |
If we could go into public meeting or public forum. | 00:17:06 | |
Any comments stir Hogan like motion going to public hearing. I second. | 00:17:10 | |
Ohh. | 00:17:18 | |
Anybody here have a comment about the? | 00:17:20 | |
We need to do we advertise this pretty heavily or? | 00:17:24 | |
I. | 00:17:27 | |
I'm going to have three more meetings that will be advertising accompanied by surprise because if they moved up the due date, it's | 00:17:29 | |
due in August, now August 18th. | 00:17:32 | |
So I want to have four public hearings and we'll have three more that we'll be had for. So this is for projects that the public | 00:17:37 | |
feels necessary for the city to be placed on the IC IP's that the legislatures. | 00:17:42 | |
And the grant people look at us to see what our priorities are. | 00:17:48 | |
Estrogen and I know in the past we put them in the in the utility bills we do that again. | 00:17:52 | |
And do that again. And the newspaper, maybe the radio. | 00:17:58 | |
Is our, is our. | 00:18:02 | |
Ohh icon for the. | 00:18:03 | |
Public input is not up yet. | 00:18:05 | |
No. | 00:18:09 | |
Apple still hasn't approved the app. | 00:18:13 | |
OK. Because that would be one thing that could do. | 00:18:15 | |
To get information, shall we go out of public hearing? | 00:18:17 | |
Miss Match two again. Thank you Motion. We'll go back in regular session. | 00:18:23 | |
2nd. | 00:18:27 | |
On the second, on favor both. So there will be another two more meetings. | 00:18:28 | |
Three more meetings, 4 meetings total. Yes, Sir. | 00:18:33 | |
So we really recommend to the public that they come and speak up. | 00:18:35 | |
On behalf of any projects they have in mind, and that would mean any kind of projects really, There's no specific. | 00:18:40 | |
Thing. | 00:18:47 | |
A good example of that is last year, I believe Councillor Solomon requested the streets north of Tech. | 00:18:48 | |
To be. | 00:18:54 | |
Added And they were funded at a level of 600,000 this year through capital outlay. So the process does work. | 00:18:55 | |
That's great. Thanks. | 00:19:02 | |
Are we going to be getting the? | 00:19:05 | |
List of all the new projects that we've had. Again, updated projects. Yes, underscoring seats. | 00:19:07 | |
Now you do have a list. | 00:19:13 | |
That's like. | 00:19:16 | |
40 projects going on right now. | 00:19:18 | |
So anyway, thank you the this is the preliminary engineering design for electric utility substation and distribution system at the | 00:19:22 | |
industrial park. | 00:19:26 | |
Mr. Mr. Login. | 00:19:30 | |
I'll make a motion that we postpone this bid award or anything dealing with the electricity until after the election. | 00:19:32 | |
That should be ridiculous. | 00:19:40 | |
Who told you to say that? The electric coop. | 00:19:42 | |
I kill myself. | 00:19:45 | |
Well, anyway, is there a second for that postponement? | 00:19:48 | |
I'm I I guess I'm OK with postponing that. I don't know. | 00:19:52 | |
And figure out. | 00:19:56 | |
Is that it's not discussion right now. Would you want to second it? We can take it second. | 00:19:58 | |
So, so I guess when Mr. Olguin is saying that the I'm seconding, you seconded. OK, all in favor? | 00:20:06 | |
No, no, no. This is a. This is a. This is. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Michael. | 00:20:12 | |
Mr. Hogan asked to postpone this item till after the city election. | 00:20:17 | |
Which means would be January, not November, right? | 00:20:22 | |
Because then, I'm still the mayor, by the way. | 00:20:27 | |
Till January. | 00:20:30 | |
So just to let you know. | 00:20:33 | |
So if you want to postpone it till January. | 00:20:35 | |
You want to say that after you say after the election? | 00:20:37 | |
The election isn't is November, but then. | 00:20:40 | |
I still carry my. | 00:20:43 | |
My. | 00:20:45 | |
I just want to clarify this. | 00:20:47 | |
So you're saying November or January, January, January 2024? | 00:20:49 | |
And it's been seconded. So discussion Miss Chavez, Lopez. | 00:20:52 | |
The only problem that I have with it is that it's stating. | 00:20:55 | |
Preliminary. | 00:20:59 | |
Well, this is this is a rewarding for for engineering. You called it a PDR. | 00:21:01 | |
Disciplinary engineering. | 00:21:05 | |
Report to get this thing started so we can bid on it. Let me give you a little background on the coop. | 00:21:07 | |
United Power that gives power to Denver. | 00:21:14 | |
Over a billion dollars of electricity bought from. | 00:21:18 | |
Tri-state. | 00:21:21 | |
Is leaving tristate. | 00:21:23 | |
They're paying a fine of something like $400 million, but they're gonna they're gonna leave tri-state. | 00:21:26 | |
Tri-state, in my opinion, is going to go bankrupt. | 00:21:32 | |
Is going to be probably bought up by a company in Salt Lake City called Basin Electric. | 00:21:35 | |
We've had for six years a resolution and another resident an ordinance that the City of Sequoia is going to be a. | 00:21:41 | |
Electric utility. | 00:21:49 | |
This is the beginning of it. | 00:21:51 | |
I've had meetings with the coop. | 00:21:53 | |
Uh. | 00:21:55 | |
Trustees. | 00:21:56 | |
They sent me a boilerplate. | 00:21:57 | |
Franchise agreement, so we could just stamp it and go on for another 25 years getting choked to death with electric bills. | 00:21:59 | |
I'm not gonna go for that. | 00:22:07 | |
I'm going to put my election of that if we're talking about my election. | 00:22:09 | |
I'm going to put that, you know. | 00:22:13 | |
On the chopping block. | 00:22:16 | |
Obviously that's what the cop wants to do, is to have another mayor that's going to change the the. | 00:22:18 | |
City Council's direction and trying to continue getting our utility bills like the coop had nothing to do with my motions. I heard | 00:22:24 | |
you the first time. My my motion was merely by the fact that yeah, we you give us information, but I think that it's beneficial | 00:22:28 | |
for the council. | 00:22:33 | |
I mean you. You. | 00:22:38 | |
You can say. | 00:22:40 | |
What's being done in Colorado? Five states going to go bankrupt? | 00:22:42 | |
Coop is saying this. Coop is saying that. | 00:22:47 | |
But until we conceive and have, both sides have. I don't know what you said about the call, but do you mean the cooperation that I | 00:22:51 | |
said, whatever you you're saying about the coop? | 00:22:55 | |
The meetings that you have with the coop, everything that's going on. | 00:23:00 | |
I think the council should be Privy to the information that's being said. | 00:23:03 | |
The information you just gave right now with Denver? | 00:23:07 | |
And we have as a Council this information. | 00:23:10 | |
To help support our vote whenever we come time for the vote for the electric utility. | 00:23:13 | |
Not to say you're wrong, I'm not saying you're wrong, but I think that we need the information. | 00:23:18 | |
In order to move forward and fast to move forward from both sides. | 00:23:21 | |
Of the table. | 00:23:25 | |
Let me ask you, Mr. Logan. | 00:23:26 | |
Number one, I've given you information for the past six years. I don't know if you absorbed it, but you also voted for the | 00:23:29 | |
ordinance for the city to become a utility. | 00:23:33 | |
Mr. Panetta sent you sent all the Councils. | 00:23:37 | |
Information. | 00:23:40 | |
About gift Carson. | 00:23:41 | |
How much money they've saved, I don't know if you read it. | 00:23:44 | |
But he sent you that e-mail. | 00:23:46 | |
About how much money did Carson has save? | 00:23:49 | |
And also talking about. | 00:23:51 | |
You know, and if you Google, just all you have to do, Google is United power. | 00:23:54 | |
Denver, Co and you'll see what they're talking about. tri-state. | 00:23:57 | |
I can't spoon feed you everything I think you're gonna have. We haven't. This hasn't come up on on you. I've never seen you at | 00:24:02 | |
City Hall even asking about not come up. | 00:24:06 | |
With the with the intent of the Council. | 00:24:10 | |
What in the past, however many months you want to wait till the elections coming up, now that we're having this discussion and we | 00:24:14 | |
want to move forward and I feel like me personally, I don't know about the other councillors. | 00:24:18 | |
But it feels like it's going to be round down or throw before the selection happens. Nothing been rammed down your throat for | 00:24:23 | |
seven years. You've been taking it for that long. I think I just feel like, OK, Pandemic set things back. We all know that and we | 00:24:29 | |
haven't talked about this since before the pandemic. We haven't had meetings about it. We have. You had mentioned that the Co-op | 00:24:34 | |
offered an olive branch, but what did they offer? We don't know that we we don't want up to speed on anything at this point. | 00:24:39 | |
That's what my feeling. | 00:24:45 | |
The coop. | 00:24:51 | |
I guess you don't want to take my word for it hasn't offered anything. | 00:24:52 | |
But this, this is what we're seeing is a lot of times we're not included. You might include us, but it'd be welcoming to us if you | 00:24:55 | |
would at least invite one of us to attend your meeting. | 00:25:00 | |
Why did you come to the meeting that we had? | 00:25:07 | |
I mean that in public. Nobody showed up. This Dean was here for a second, I think, and you have another thing going on on on my | 00:25:10 | |
way. And I invited all of you to come to that meeting. I if you want to see the minutes in my video. | 00:25:16 | |
About inviting you to that meeting. | 00:25:22 | |
Between us and Guzman and and we invited the coop and actually the coop was here and when they saw no city councillors here, they | 00:25:24 | |
left. Mr. Havana was sitting outside. | 00:25:29 | |
I did invite you. I mean, I'm not sure what the Council is doing here. | 00:25:35 | |
If you want to stop it, that's up to you. We're going to take a vote. We're going to postpone it till January. | 00:25:39 | |
The the Council gave me a mandate to proceed with the Socorro Municipal Electric Utility. | 00:25:44 | |
And I'm doing it. | 00:25:50 | |
And that's what I've been elected to do if you guys had killed the Socorro. | 00:25:51 | |
Municipal electric utility. | 00:25:57 | |
Well, I would have gone on to another project. | 00:25:59 | |
But this is a project I've been doing very slowly and trying to get to it. | 00:26:01 | |
If if you want to wait till January and I'm guarantee you, I'm going to win. | 00:26:05 | |
And so you know and and so just like who's the guy on the basketball team said he was gonna win but he lost five point but but you | 00:26:10 | |
know. | 00:26:14 | |
If that's what you're waiting for is through my defeat and and I've been after this for so long. | 00:26:18 | |
I'm in public saying I'm still going to be forward in January. | 00:26:24 | |
Mr. Showing. So what were you saying, Jayden? | 00:26:29 | |
We have one. | 00:26:32 | |
Hello. | 00:26:35 | |
Uh. | 00:26:36 | |
So this. | 00:26:37 | |
Bid award for the preliminary engineering design for an electric utility substation. | 00:26:40 | |
Is a an approval of companies that build? | 00:26:46 | |
Electric utility substations, 3 companies put in their proposal to the City of Socorro saying this is what we can do for you. They | 00:26:51 | |
didn't say how much it's going to cost. They say what did they say? Can you give us some? | 00:26:57 | |
This is less than $200. I think Polo has it. | 00:27:05 | |
It's 176,700 and 52150 for the design. Well, this will be a design. | 00:27:08 | |
For the leg of the industrial park, about 10 megawatts. | 00:27:16 | |
With solar. | 00:27:19 | |
With two megawatts of solar, 2 megawatts of storage. | 00:27:21 | |
And it will serve. | 00:27:26 | |
Tech. | 00:27:28 | |
The hospital high school nursing home. | 00:27:29 | |
The mind. | 00:27:32 | |
Squirrel complex. | 00:27:33 | |
And it is. | 00:27:35 | |
You're right. It's the first shot heard across the mouth. | 00:27:37 | |
That they need to, you know, come to term fast. Two things of them. | 00:27:42 | |
I asked decreased rates, which I can promise you this will do. | 00:27:46 | |
For that group. | 00:27:50 | |
And I asked them. | 00:27:52 | |
To have more public. | 00:27:53 | |
Oriented. | 00:27:55 | |
Kiara. | 00:27:56 | |
That requested the same thing too. On that we they did not comply. And I'll show you the franchise agreement. I sent it to Jerry. | 00:27:58 | |
A lawyer. | 00:28:05 | |
And then winner, our lawyer. | 00:28:07 | |
And. | 00:28:09 | |
That is a blueprint of what we had with them before. | 00:28:10 | |
That they didn't offer anything. And the other thing they said we're going to continue going on with broadband. | 00:28:14 | |
I've got a company that came in and spent $8,000,000 putting in a broadband on their own. | 00:28:19 | |
And they're still going to put it. You know, we couldn't get a deal with them to put broadband on the line. This has been an | 00:28:25 | |
ongoing process that we've been doing for many, many, many years. | 00:28:29 | |
If you want to scuttle it because you're thinking the election is going to change. | 00:28:34 | |
That's great right there. But here's The thing is that I just want to make sure that we're all being we we all have the right | 00:28:38 | |
information and and. | 00:28:42 | |
We're proceeding in the we're giving everything, still being a good faith effort. | 00:28:46 | |
I don't want to. I don't plan to kick this can down the road like you might want to. I've been working on this for 7-8 years and | 00:28:50 | |
I'm not going to stop now. | 00:28:53 | |
So if you guys want to postpone it till the. | 00:28:57 | |
January 2024 election. | 00:28:59 | |
I'll just go out and start campaigning for a little bit more. | 00:29:02 | |
So anyway, Mayor, the ordinance that that. | 00:29:05 | |
We approve that we voted on unanimously. | 00:29:08 | |
Said. | 00:29:11 | |
Uh. | 00:29:12 | |
Can can you revisit exactly what that ordinance said? It basically said the city of Socorro will move forward in making these | 00:29:13 | |
electric utility for this city of Sikora. | 00:29:18 | |
Or was it to to allow the city to have a municipal? | 00:29:24 | |
Electricity. | 00:29:29 | |
Having this publicity, was it to move forward with it or was it to allow the city to have it? | 00:29:30 | |
This is kind of what I'm getting at. We don't nobody knows, you know, so long. I mean, we're not clear. | 00:29:35 | |
I voted for the city just in case the city would would need to have a municipal electricity. | 00:29:42 | |
That's what I voted for. | 00:29:48 | |
Well, if you give me a hint that you're going to have this problem, I would have brought the ordinance up. I don't have the | 00:29:50 | |
ordinance right now, but if you got to postpone something because you haven't looked at the ordinance yourself. | 00:29:54 | |
In my mind, the ordinance basically said the city of Sequoia will. | 00:30:00 | |
Not May. | 00:30:04 | |
Will form a utility to deliver electricity to the city of Socorro. | 00:30:06 | |
That's what Norton in my mind that's what it said and if you can bring it up or not. But. | 00:30:12 | |
I'll. I'll find it and e-mail that out with the article. Yeah. But I guess they want it right now so they don't have to, you know, | 00:30:17 | |
make a decision. | 00:30:20 | |
Anyway, let's talk about unlike. | 00:30:26 | |
We're voting to postpone this until. | 00:30:29 | |
There's a new mayor in January 2024. | 00:30:32 | |
Yeah. | 00:30:36 | |
I speak German, so I understand it's. | 00:30:38 | |
You know people are passionate about this deal. | 00:30:42 | |
I'm passionate about. | 00:30:44 | |
Something happened with our electricity. Something happening with our electricity that can help the. | 00:30:47 | |
The people's equal. And I'm fired up about it and I understand like. | 00:30:51 | |
Things need to be done for people to take us serious so but I understand. | 00:30:56 | |
Everybody else is coming from, too. | 00:31:01 | |
I am not in favor of tabling this that long. | 00:31:02 | |
But I am in favor of if there's any other information that would make. | 00:31:05 | |
Other councillors. | 00:31:09 | |
More confident in making a decision if we could get that and maybe tabling it till the next meeting. | 00:31:11 | |
But this is my personal opinion. I am not in favor of tabling it that long. | 00:31:17 | |
I think that uh. | 00:31:21 | |
But they have, they're not ready. You have to amend the motion. | 00:31:23 | |
I mean that's because the motion is what's my motion. So and whatever, how you get a minute. | 00:31:26 | |
I'm gonna make a motion. | 00:31:31 | |
2nd. | 00:31:34 | |
I can amend it, I amend the motion for it to be for the next City Council meeting. | 00:31:35 | |
You can postpone the motion. | 00:31:41 | |
I don't think you're a separate councillor. Cannot amend another councillor motion. Why not? You could. I'm sorry. Well, let's | 00:31:44 | |
vote on this one, then you can make another motion. | 00:31:48 | |
Or you can make this one pass. | 00:31:52 | |
So roll call please. | 00:31:53 | |
And what we brought in on the boarding is to. | 00:31:55 | |
Postpone this till January 2024 and Mr. Mayor, one other point to keep. | 00:31:58 | |
In mind when you're voting, the Franchise Agreement expires in May of 2024. | 00:32:03 | |
So that shortens our window to five months. | 00:32:08 | |
You know what? How can I say one more thing? You know when industrial electric rates are 85% higher than the state average? | 00:32:12 | |
You're not going to draw anybody here to live here and build here and create. | 00:32:22 | |
Jobs here because that's a fixed cost. | 00:32:28 | |
Think that we need. | 00:33:01 | |
To reduce those rates. And you know what? It's a shame. | 00:33:03 | |
It's a shame that they don't agree to get together and say, you know what, we're going to lower this rate. We can't lower this | 00:33:07 | |
one, but we can lower this one and we can help people put poles outside of here and there and we can, we can work through this | 00:33:12 | |
that's been tried for seven years and hasn't been done that we've been getting moved so much. | 00:33:18 | |
And this makes it There are other, there are other co-ops who? | 00:33:24 | |
Who opted and pull up and tell us more. | 00:33:29 | |
To. | 00:33:32 | |
Go partially. | 00:33:33 | |
Away from. | 00:33:34 | |
The rates that. | 00:33:36 | |
Yeah, him as Electric is is opting. | 00:33:38 | |
This cop had the chance about. | 00:33:42 | |
Ohh, what was it four or five months ago to vote on this? | 00:33:44 | |
But they had a chance that it came before them where they could opt in. | 00:33:47 | |
50% they could stay with tri-state 50% go out on their own 50% and and one Co-op which is the largest cop. | 00:33:51 | |
In the state of him as electric Optical 5050. So which electric? | 00:33:58 | |
Him as electrical, him as. | 00:34:03 | |
So they they opted to go, I mean this quote. Well, I mean, you gotta do it. You heard it. We know it. You know, Mr. Panetta | 00:34:05 | |
republished on this, on this vote to postpone this till January 2024. | 00:34:11 | |
Councillor Chavis Lopez. | 00:34:19 | |
Councillor Dean, Yes. | 00:34:23 | |
Councillor. | 00:34:26 | |
Ocampo. | 00:34:27 | |
No. | 00:34:29 | |
Councillor Ogin, Yes. | 00:34:30 | |
Councillor Romero No. | 00:34:35 | |
Councillor Salomi. | 00:34:38 | |
Nose window. The motion fails now if you want to make another motion. | 00:34:40 | |
For the next meeting and tell me what you want. You want the ordinance? | 00:34:45 | |
You want the. | 00:34:49 | |
Agreement that the franchise agreement that the proposed. | 00:34:51 | |
What else would you like to see with you? I hope you read the e-mail we sent you from Kit Carson. | 00:34:55 | |
That tells you about the cost that they've saved. They've saved $10 million. | 00:35:01 | |
For their people. | 00:35:05 | |
So if you if you want to make that motion, I I'm, I'm all for it. I mean that's fine. So what I want to do is make the motion that | 00:35:07 | |
we look at our cost, how much is it going to cost us. | 00:35:13 | |
We want to. I want to see the ordinance again. | 00:35:19 | |
And. | 00:35:23 | |
More information, more information. You want the well, but you don't have to be on the franchise agreement that they offer. Yes, | 00:35:24 | |
and. | 00:35:28 | |
I can I can give you. | 00:35:33 | |
And the and the cost to the consumer as well. That way we know that we're doing that. Again, I was going to say I can give you | 00:35:35 | |
that. | 00:35:39 | |
In broad terms. | 00:35:43 | |
But I can't. You know, we already been to bed for. | 00:35:45 | |
Electricity and Guzman. | 00:35:50 | |
For what? | 00:35:52 | |
Trash data charging eight and a half cents a kilowatt. Guzman was going to charge 4.7 cents. | 00:35:54 | |
And it was fixed for seven years. | 00:36:00 | |
+4 | 00:36:04 | |
So. | 00:36:05 | |
I can. I can give you round figures as to what it would end up, but I can't give you I can say 11 cents or $0.12 but I can't give | 00:36:07 | |
you a specific number. | 00:36:10 | |
Until we start getting this. | 00:36:15 | |
Substation and make an agreement with Guzman person and then they go by themselves as well. | 00:36:18 | |
Kick Carson. They did. They paid $16 million penalty. | 00:36:25 | |
Guzman bankrolled that penalty. | 00:36:30 | |
They took five years and they have paid the penalty off. | 00:36:33 | |
And if you read that e-mail, it'll tell you how much money they've saved. | 00:36:37 | |
And on top of that, they're going to be 100% alternative energy. | 00:36:41 | |
And 20. | 00:36:45 | |
40. | 00:36:47 | |
I'm not sure exactly when. | 00:36:48 | |
30. | 00:36:50 | |
2030. | 00:36:51 | |
But that's that's good person who actually close to it. When I talked to Kit Carson there, it said maybe 30. | 00:36:53 | |
So you know why you know then, Then if you talk to Luis Reyes, who's the manager there? | 00:36:59 | |
They did. | 00:37:04 | |
There they There's still a coop. | 00:37:06 | |
But they don't buy their electricity from Christ State. | 00:37:08 | |
They buy it from this other company called Guzman. | 00:37:12 | |
And and so does, so does Laplata. | 00:37:15 | |
In in. | 00:37:19 | |
Southern Colorado as short as Aztec. The city of Aztec owns their electric coop, their electric company. They buy their their. | 00:37:21 | |
Electricity from Guzman. Bloomfield is about getting ready to do that at all. Also the city utility and thereby their electricity | 00:37:30 | |
from the coop. I mean from the Guzman and not from tri-state. | 00:37:35 | |
So we have different cities that do that Delta Montrose one of those Delta Montrose Tri states largest coops that's them to go | 00:37:42 | |
small. | 00:37:46 | |
So I'm giving you that, you know, you guys can take that information up yourself, but I'm giving you that information right now | 00:37:51 | |
they they start losing more customers especially. | 00:37:55 | |
The the big one there in Denver, they start losing that. Who's going to absorb the cost? It's going to be Coral Electric and the | 00:38:00 | |
smaller co-ops. All these larger crops are leaving them. | 00:38:04 | |
It's gonna leave the bulk of the OHS to the smaller courts. The three things I'll get you. I'll get you the ordinance. I'll get | 00:38:10 | |
you the franchise that they offer. | 00:38:14 | |
And I'll give you a round Number to break. | 00:38:18 | |
The cost of delivering electricity included is included a cost of electricity. | 00:38:21 | |
The cost of what they call Wheeling which is comes over the line, that's what it costs you to. | 00:38:27 | |
You know you're using. Actually you're using tri-state lines. | 00:38:32 | |
They're going to charge you two cents, probably. | 00:38:35 | |
And then it cost of debt service because we're going to have to borrow money. | 00:38:37 | |
All that. | 00:38:41 | |
Right now it's $0.17. As far as the coop is concerned, we're hoping to be at 11 or $0.12. | 00:38:42 | |
And I'm gonna breakdown as to what we're going to ask for. I I haven't asked. | 00:38:49 | |
At the meeting with the. | 00:38:53 | |
Prestige and they never got back with me with Mr. Harada there. Please give me a breakdown of how you charge. | 00:38:55 | |
For your electricity, when you somebody gets a bill, break it down and tell me what you charge and how much you charge. | 00:39:02 | |
I never got that information. | 00:39:09 | |
This is a month ago. | 00:39:11 | |
So you're not willing to sit down and deal with us at all in good faith? | 00:39:14 | |
They just want the franchise and get it done. Maybe the next mayor will do that, but that's what you want. But I'll get you those | 00:39:18 | |
three. There's not gonna be another mayor. You said you're gonna win. | 00:39:22 | |
Well, I don't know. You might win, Mr. Racy, you might win. But anyway, I'm just we are we are we in this country about it? We | 00:39:27 | |
still in discussion on this? Yes. No. Well, let's make a motion on those three things. | 00:39:32 | |
At the next meeting, that's my motion. | 00:39:38 | |
I said. | 00:39:40 | |
Yes, Sir. Thanks Mayor. And then so my, my again, it was not because I was running for mayor or anything like that on that last | 00:39:41 | |
one of my last hope was that. | 00:39:45 | |
Obviously the Cooper knows that the council and the mayor serious about moving forward this. | 00:39:49 | |
We got a little bit of time. Maybe there still could be time for negotiation and move and some room to move forward. | 00:39:53 | |
And that's why I was hoping that a little bit of time could help make that happen. Like you said, it's been, we're going on 10 | 00:40:00 | |
years now trying to get this stuff settled and nothing's happening now. The coop knows that, the council and the mayor. | 00:40:06 | |
Are serious about moving forward so. | 00:40:11 | |
It is what it is on them. | 00:40:14 | |
Well, I mean, I. | 00:40:16 | |
Are you telling me you had no discussion with any of the trustees or with the coop? | 00:40:18 | |
I've I've had discussions with them. | 00:40:22 | |
So I'm saying. | 00:40:24 | |
That. | 00:40:27 | |
We continually move. We continue to say we're going to do it. The mayor, you're not going to do anything. Well, it took me this | 00:40:27 | |
long to put all this together, isn't that? | 00:40:32 | |
What they they haven't moved. They actually they. | 00:40:38 | |
They've even added that they're going to put broadband. | 00:40:41 | |
They're gonna, they're gonna sell broadband, I think. Good luck, you know. But anyway. | 00:40:44 | |
Any other discussion? | 00:40:49 | |
So as I say all in favor of Miss Travis Lopez's. | 00:40:51 | |
Mr. Bennett, you got it. | 00:40:55 | |
Rocco, yeah. | 00:40:57 | |
This is just to clarify, this is to postpone this. | 00:40:58 | |
This meeting, so the next meeting with the information, with the information. | 00:41:02 | |
Councillor Travis Lopez, yes. | 00:41:08 | |
Councillor Dean, Yes. | 00:41:10 | |
Councillor Ocampo? Yes, Councillor Ogeen, Yes, Councillor Romero, Yes, Councillor Salome. | 00:41:12 | |
I would like to add. | 00:41:20 | |
The money from this for this is coming. | 00:41:22 | |
From a fund. | 00:41:25 | |
That the Council approved. | 00:41:27 | |
To be used for electrification of Sikora. | 00:41:29 | |
It was also meant for economic development. | 00:41:32 | |
But it was meant that was secondary. There is a motion already been made. | 00:41:34 | |
I don't know when. | 00:41:39 | |
For using that those funds for legal and. | 00:41:41 | |
Who start their own. | 00:41:45 | |
Like electrification of the of the city. | 00:41:47 | |
And so those funds are not being taken from any other fund except that fund. | 00:41:50 | |
To pay for this preliminary engineering and and is the economic development going to be reimbursed? | 00:41:55 | |
You'll be reimbursed by lower rates. | 00:42:03 | |
But but but I need. | 00:42:05 | |
What they've made it very clear. | 00:42:08 | |
Design made this PR this preliminary engineering report. | 00:42:10 | |
To take to a. | 00:42:14 | |
Funding Agency to be able to. | 00:42:16 | |
Fund the substation and the Funding Agency is New Mexico Finance Authority. | 00:42:19 | |
Now they can't come back and have more money, correct? OK, the person that we got, who was it? | 00:42:24 | |
They always come back Sunday, Finley Consulting, They always come back, but I don't know, it was pretty well set. | 00:42:30 | |
You know they're going to be designing A10 MW substation. | 00:42:37 | |
And we're also we are already in, we're already in control, actually, you know the gentleman Rabbi Motra. | 00:42:41 | |
We're dealing with him for for solar. | 00:42:47 | |
And he's trying to get us grants for two men. | 00:42:51 | |
Solar battery storage. | 00:42:54 | |
Out here at the industrial park. | 00:42:56 | |
So we're already dealing with that with with people that are going to give us solar and and you know. | 00:42:59 | |
The coop has not moved a inch and matter of fact people who put solar and they spend 1015 thousand I think. | 00:43:05 | |
Representative Harmil did that for her, for her business, and she's paying zero rates. | 00:43:12 | |
But she could put electricity back into the grid, which we all need right now because we're energy poor. They won't they they | 00:43:17 | |
won't be able. I think they give her one cent. Maybe used to be $0.09, used to be $0.08. | 00:43:23 | |
Truly gone down. | 00:43:29 | |
So I I can go on and on about this. I I I thought you guys knew about all this, but I'll make sure we inform you more about this. | 00:43:31 | |
So we'll make sure we get those three things and I think make available Kit Carson's. | 00:43:37 | |
Uh. | 00:43:43 | |
Information also again. | 00:43:44 | |
Yes, Sir. And Speaking of Kick Carson, they are 100% solar during the daytime. | 00:43:46 | |
Currently. | 00:43:51 | |
Currently 100% so. | 00:43:52 | |
Anyhow, well, we'll stay in the dark ages, I guess. | 00:43:55 | |
Kind of a fun. | 00:43:58 | |
No. OK, here we go one more time. This is engineering service for Evergreen www.collectionsexpansion and Spring Street. | 00:43:59 | |
Shoreline replacement. | 00:44:07 | |
Bit of work. | 00:44:09 | |
I make the motion we accept. | 00:44:10 | |
Second moved and seconded question discussion. | 00:44:12 | |
All in favor, aye. | 00:44:15 | |
Well, it's about time we got. | 00:44:18 | |
We have a you heard the Sensia right, everybody heard of Sanzia. Well, they were kind of partly acquired by the company by the | 00:44:20 | |
Path Pattern Energy. | 00:44:24 | |
And we have a presentation. | 00:44:29 | |
Which I think you need to take an action on, but if I don't know if you know there was a substation. | 00:44:32 | |
And a gas line. | 00:44:40 | |
Right around. | 00:44:42 | |
Bernardo, if you go West. | 00:44:44 | |
Pattern Energy is putting a high or Sanzia putting a high energy line that's going from the east of the state. | 00:44:47 | |
Across country to Arizona, California, but I'll let coming up and we will introduce you and then. | 00:44:55 | |
Ohh, OK you can explain it much better than I can, but the gas line that belongs to the city needs to be moved because it's too | 00:45:02 | |
close to the substation. | 00:45:06 | |
And and we're going to try to do a joint agreement with them with some compensation to the city. | 00:45:10 | |
To do this. | 00:45:16 | |
Thank you Mayor and councillors. My name is Jeremy Turner. I'm the director of New Mexico Project Development for Pattern Energy. | 00:45:17 | |
And Jeremy actually was. | 00:45:23 | |
We know him from. | 00:45:25 | |
Work he did with Forsgren. | 00:45:27 | |
Electric electricity with How long ago was that? | 00:45:29 | |
About eight years now. So just to lay the groundwork so he knows it or. | 00:45:33 | |
And thank you, Mayor. And and prior to that, I was at the New Mexico Finance Authority for about 9 years. So very familiar with | 00:45:39 | |
the city and also the county lent a lot of money when I was there at that time and also with the school district. | 00:45:45 | |
So very much appreciate the opportunity to be in front of you this evening. So the Mayor's absolutely right. Pattern Energy last | 00:45:52 | |
year acquired Sunza Transmission. This is, and as I think most of you are aware in the past, somebody has been under development | 00:46:00 | |
since 2006. And in the past, it was 2 proposed transmission lines. One is a 3000 MW DC line, the other is a 1500 MW AC line. What | 00:46:08 | |
we acquired was the DC portion, so we acquired the 3000. | 00:46:15 | |
GW direct current line. | 00:46:23 | |
UH Southwestern Power Group, which is a subsidiary of Mr. They are still retaining the rights. | 00:46:25 | |
To the second line, the 1500 MW transmission line. | 00:46:32 | |
MMR is a large construction company out of Louisiana and they are the parent company of Southwestern Power Group. | 00:46:37 | |
So we acquired the transmission line. Since that time, we have been working through the final permitting with the NEPA process | 00:46:43 | |
with BLM as the lead federal agency. There are a number of cooperating, cooperating agencies involved in that process including | 00:46:50 | |
Squirrel County and a number of others. Fish and Wildlife of courses along with all of your federal agencies are cooperating in | 00:46:56 | |
the agencies. The NEPA process has been wrapped up. | 00:47:03 | |
For the most part after since like I said it's been since 2008, we've been going through the NEPA process in one form or another. | 00:47:10 | |
That process is now wrapped up. The final environmental impact statement was recently released here in May. The notice to proceed | 00:47:16 | |
we are expecting later this month, possibly in July and at that point we will have achieved all of our final permitting at the | 00:47:23 | |
federal level for the Sunday transmission line. | 00:47:30 | |
In addition to that we received all of the permits and approvals that we need at the state level and we are nearing a point where | 00:47:37 | |
we are looking to begin construction as we were going through the final design on some of the transmission as part of the NEPA | 00:47:45 | |
process. We are actually going to be Co locating the transmission line on Tri States existing transmission line through the | 00:47:52 | |
Sevilleta Wildlife Refuge And the reason for that is we are able to place. | 00:48:00 | |
The transmission line within the same footprint, the same right of way without actually expanding that or having additional impact | 00:48:08 | |
on the National Wildlife Refuge. So that's the reason why. | 00:48:13 | |
Um. As part of that Co location though, the Tri-state Bernardo substation does need to be expanded per Tri states rules and So | 00:48:18 | |
what we are asking. | 00:48:23 | |
Is right outside the fence and there is a packet of information I believe that you should have. At the back of that there is an | 00:48:29 | |
exhibit and what it shows is the existing Socorro natural gas line. | 00:48:35 | |
UH runs just outside the fence line of the Bernardo substation. | 00:48:42 | |
And So what we are requesting is consideration by the City Council. | 00:48:46 | |
Uh, to move the? | 00:48:51 | |
Natural gas line entirely at our expense. We will also pay for the induction studies. We'll pay for the easement and convey that | 00:48:54 | |
to the city. We will cover all of the costs. We'll reimburse the city for staff time spent on this. | 00:49:00 | |
And in addition to that, what we are proposing and what we've talked with the mayor and the manager about is a compensation of | 00:49:07 | |
225,000 paying the bull to the city for the right to move the gas line. As I said, that will be done entirely at our expense. | 00:49:16 | |
Um, and what we are proposing to do is begin construction later this year. We are working on a $10 billion financing right now. | 00:49:26 | |
About 2 billion of that is the Sun Zia transmission line. The remaining 8 is the 3500 MW wind farm that I lead development on | 00:49:33 | |
located in San Miguel, Torrance and Lincoln counties. | 00:49:40 | |
And we expect to close financing hopefully in October. | 00:49:47 | |
And actually go ahead and start full construction at that time. | 00:49:52 | |
And being construction all the way through 2026, April 26 is when we will be done with both the wind and the transmission line. | 00:49:56 | |
But we are already starting on site development work. There's site grading activities already happening on private land and we are | 00:50:03 | |
gearing up for full construction in anticipation of getting that notice to proceed and the whole financial close. So again, what's | 00:50:10 | |
in front of you today is a request. | 00:50:17 | |
Uh, to give us the ability to move. | 00:50:24 | |
The natural gas line at our expense about 90 feet outside of the fence line. So the tri-state can expand that Bernardo substation. | 00:50:27 | |
And it's about 690 feet long. And we again will cover those costs as well as the induction studies and cathodic protection studies | 00:50:36 | |
to make sure that there is no impact to the city and that's. | 00:50:44 | |
Basically what's in front of you tonight? Happy to answer any questions on the wind or transmission or anything associated with | 00:50:51 | |
it. Thank you. | 00:50:55 | |
It's just to give you a background. Isaac has looked at it. | 00:51:00 | |
We had some work done about. | 00:51:04 | |
Six years ago to change the valves in the gas line. | 00:51:06 | |
And we didn't. We went live every time on that. They didn't stop any gas delivery. | 00:51:10 | |
So we're hoping that the contractor that does this, which they will pay for and all that will jump it. | 00:51:17 | |
And we'll do it live. | 00:51:24 | |
And but there is a caveat that there might be a chance that the city might be without natural gas. | 00:51:26 | |
For. | 00:51:32 | |
Half a day or something like that. But we're hoping that and and I'm just telling you how this happened when we changed the. | 00:51:34 | |
The valves to give us more pressure in that line. I don't know if you remember about 6-7 years ago we changed these. | 00:51:41 | |
I don't know what they call them pig valves or something like that. And and so they did it live when they changed them, which they | 00:51:47 | |
bypassed and then they put then they jumped in and they put it back like so that's that's the only drawback. | 00:51:53 | |
I think. | 00:51:59 | |
That the the 225, they're going to give us 25 up front. | 00:52:00 | |
And the rest is after the gas lines been. | 00:52:03 | |
Moved Or is it as when your project is funded? | 00:52:06 | |
Mayor and Councillors, the second the $200,000 payment will be paid after financial close or no later than December 31st of this | 00:52:10 | |
year. So we'll pay 25,000 within these 30 days after it's approved and signed by the city, and then we'll pay the remaining amount | 00:52:16 | |
no later than the end of the year. | 00:52:23 | |
And so that that's that's. | 00:52:29 | |
Or, or the deal, Mr. Romero, I guess the plan for that money that's coming to us is. | 00:52:31 | |
Going to improvements of course. | 00:52:36 | |
Yeah. | 00:52:40 | |
We do have Mr. Miller. I'm a We approve the Pattern Energy agreement. The City of Support. | 00:52:41 | |
I second. | 00:52:47 | |
Some of the second discussion. | 00:52:48 | |
Jeremy, thank you all in favor, aye. | 00:52:52 | |
Thank you for taking the time to come. | 00:52:55 | |
And good luck with your and you're gonna supply. | 00:52:57 | |
California with this. | 00:52:59 | |
Mayor and councillors, that's correct. Most of the power will be sold to California. We do have another project located in the | 00:53:01 | |
states, the largest single phase build in North American history already operating. A portion of that power is sold here in New | 00:53:07 | |
Mexico. And at this point we would be happy to sell power here, but at there's nobody's RFP for power at this point in time where | 00:53:12 | |
we've been able to win a bid. | 00:53:18 | |
Thank you Mayor, councillors, appreciate your time. Thank you. | 00:53:25 | |
You're selling it for? | 00:53:29 | |
Mayor and Councillor, all of our agreements, our power purchase agreements are confidential, but they are. | 00:53:32 | |
I will say it's self attentions. | 00:53:39 | |
I'm sorry, it's South of $0.10. | 00:53:42 | |
So. | 00:53:44 | |
But you know, and and we always said, well, you've got this line going through here. Can you drop a line for it cost a fortune to | 00:53:45 | |
drop a line. I didn't know that, but Jerry was trying to drop a line. | 00:53:51 | |
So that we could use some of that because it's supposed to go by tech also I think. | 00:53:57 | |
But how much is that mayor? | 00:54:01 | |
Because it is a DC direct current line, those are typically used for long haul transmission. So there's one on ramp basically and | 00:54:05 | |
one off ramp. | 00:54:09 | |
And the reason being is the average cost of a. | 00:54:13 | |
500 Gilbo DC converter stations, about 350 to 400 million each. | 00:54:17 | |
Whereas on an AC system you can build a substation for. | 00:54:22 | |
15 to 16 million probably depending on if it's a 345 or a 500. So that's the difference. So the intent here is we will build and | 00:54:28 | |
connect at the wind farms as I said located in San Miguel, Torrance and Lincoln and from there we'll transmit the power all the | 00:54:35 | |
way into Arizona and then it will use the existing transmission network to get. | 00:54:42 | |
To California. | 00:54:49 | |
Thank you, thank you very much. Thank you Mayor councillors. | 00:54:52 | |
Excuse me? | 00:54:57 | |
Mr. Mayor. | 00:54:59 | |
Mr. Logan, we passed resolution #23-06-06A. | 00:55:01 | |
2nd. | 00:55:06 | |
Who can second it? What is it? | 00:55:07 | |
Collection. | 00:55:10 | |
City Clerk what is that Ohh. | 00:55:12 | |
That is a. | 00:55:15 | |
Resolution for the election one mayor and four councillors. | 00:55:16 | |
That will take place. | 00:55:20 | |
November 7th. | 00:55:22 | |
Great. | 00:55:25 | |
OK, we have moved and 2nd on favor, aye. | 00:55:26 | |
The. | 00:55:31 | |
Metuchen Ave. on Center St. | 00:55:33 | |
Local Rosman fund. | 00:55:37 | |
That's true again, I'll make a motion to pass resolution #23-06-06D. | 00:55:39 | |
So moved and seconded on discussion. | 00:55:45 | |
I just missed your minute. Let the council know that we picked this. | 00:55:48 | |
Project. | 00:55:53 | |
Because of thinly being remodeled, we wanted the street to look nice as well. | 00:55:54 | |
And we asked for 400,000. | 00:55:58 | |
To do the entire project, we were awarded all of its We'll probably have to. | 00:56:00 | |
Do McCutcheon separate and then center St. on its own? | 00:56:04 | |
Have a question, Is it just an overlay or is it? | 00:56:10 | |
Like, really doing the road. | 00:56:13 | |
It would. It would not. I don't know much about the road construction process, but I'm pretty sure it's just an alternate. It's | 00:56:15 | |
not. | 00:56:18 | |
Look, yeah. No. | 00:56:22 | |
Yeah, why not? | 00:56:24 | |
And there's not Bullock. I mean that was that was all the way down to the dirt and it's this one has to be a they grind it up and | 00:56:25 | |
then they. | 00:56:28 | |
You know which. | 00:56:33 | |
Which lasts maybe 10 years, 15 years. | 00:56:34 | |
And I'm not touching. They'll go from Park Street to California Street, and on Center Street is both from. | 00:56:37 | |
McCutcheon to Spring Street. | 00:56:44 | |
Well I hope you can pass this one. It's an authorizing development of pro forma financial statement the city of sucrose for | 00:56:48 | |
Manipal electric utility. This a resolution just to try to get everything set together So if you do pass the our ability to. | 00:56:56 | |
Get that utility started. We'd have something ready to get this financed. | 00:57:04 | |
Mr. | 00:57:10 | |
Rommel Make a motion to approve resolution #23-06-06C. | 00:57:12 | |
7. | 00:57:19 | |
Moved and seconded discussion Mr. again. | 00:57:20 | |
The city staff does this. Who does this? Pro forma sheets. | 00:57:24 | |
Financial statements that they're going to be within the city that does it or are we? | 00:57:29 | |
Hiring somebody to do those statements. | 00:57:33 | |
Work on those statements. | 00:57:35 | |
Our our consultants. | 00:57:37 | |
Mr. Ed. | 00:57:40 | |
Race and. | 00:57:41 | |
Mr. Hyde from Guzman. | 00:57:44 | |
And then winter will help us put this together and. | 00:57:47 | |
It may have been some cost associated to it, but I don't think it's. | 00:57:50 | |
Didn't I mean? | 00:57:58 | |
It's something the city has to do anyway, to have any kind of. | 00:57:59 | |
Perform machine that would do any projects to show that because it's kind of a general statement, it'll be staff that compiles all | 00:58:02 | |
the numbers and this is based on anticipated rates and cost and distribution and all that stuff. Is that where this comes from? | 00:58:09 | |
No, this is the health. | 00:58:17 | |
This is the health of the city, where to do it and and the revenue that could be gained from. | 00:58:19 | |
This line that we're going to put up, yeah. And by August 31st, we'll have a briefing from the administration on this. | 00:58:25 | |
We'll have everything on by the administration on this, but it says in the resolution, the performance. Sure, absolutely. | 00:58:32 | |
Brazil. | 00:58:40 | |
New business. | 00:58:43 | |
As you may or may not know. | 00:58:46 | |
We are having an event. | 00:58:49 | |
That's still me. | 00:58:52 | |
OK, we're having an event here on Saturday. | 00:58:56 | |
And it is a funeral, which we certainly. | 00:59:01 | |
Recognize as something that's. | 00:59:06 | |
Remembering somebody who passed away and died. | 00:59:09 | |
It is. It is, however, an event that. | 00:59:12 | |
That. | 00:59:15 | |
The whole state knows about. | 00:59:17 | |
And. | 00:59:19 | |
Many of the cities who have motorcycle rallies have canceled them. | 00:59:21 | |
The person, the person whose funeral were having. | 00:59:27 | |
Will be at the Convention Center. | 00:59:30 | |
And we're expecting a fair number of people. | 00:59:32 | |
From the group that he belonged to. | 00:59:36 | |
So. | 00:59:40 | |
Saturday it will start about. | 00:59:41 | |
9:00 o'clock. | 00:59:43 | |
It'll probably end around 3:00, but they say 3:00 o'clock. | 00:59:45 | |
So just to. | 00:59:50 | |
Informed the public that there it is. | 00:59:52 | |
It'll be a good time for an impact in the city, because they'll more than likely be. | 00:59:55 | |
Around 300 to 500 people. | 00:59:59 | |
Coming into town? | 01:00:02 | |
So I just wanted to. | 01:00:04 | |
Inform me of that. | 01:00:06 | |
I wish Ruby was here, everybody who was in business. | 01:00:08 | |
Received the letter. | 01:00:11 | |
About the gross receipts tax. | 01:00:13 | |
The governor vetoed that .5 that they were going to take away from. | 01:00:17 | |
The gross receipts from the States point. | 01:00:21 | |
4.75. | 01:00:24 | |
Out of the. | 01:00:27 | |
Out of the gross receipts that we sent to. | 01:00:28 | |
Santa Fe. | 01:00:32 | |
We. | 01:00:34 | |
The stake holds 4.75 cents. | 01:00:36 | |
And the governor had made a proposal that she was going to give back with five. | 01:00:39 | |
And the state was going to take that away. Was she vetoed that? | 01:00:43 | |
So I don't know if you got a letter and my office got a letter, people got a letter that are. | 01:00:46 | |
Gross receipts tax was. | 01:00:51 | |
Seven point. | 01:00:54 | |
Three or something like that. | 01:00:56 | |
And actually it's not it's you have to add the .5 back, so. | 01:00:58 | |
Just to let the businesses know that make sure that you call into Ruby or finance to make sure what the city gross receipts, | 01:01:02 | |
taxes, because there was an additional tax. But we got 2 letters, right? Yeah, we got one. The first one was wrong, I guess. And | 01:01:07 | |
we got another letter. Yeah. So and then just to let you know, it wasn't the city who raised that gross receipts. It was the | 01:01:12 | |
county who raised it, but it was in the city also. | 01:01:17 | |
That .3 I think it was, wasn't it? | 01:01:22 | |
But just to if there's a confusion, there was confusion then. | 01:01:25 | |
Our business as to what? Which one to pay? | 01:01:29 | |
So I think that needs to be clarified. | 01:01:31 | |
And maybe we did get the 2nd letter out, but I think it's important to people don't. | 01:01:34 | |
Ignore the 2nd letter and pay the first one. | 01:01:39 | |
Because that included an extra .5. I think that goes into effect July 1. | 01:01:42 | |
July 1. | 01:01:46 | |
Right. So just to let you know, have any questions? We have a lot of our city directors here. | 01:01:47 | |
Any questions? | 01:01:52 | |
Commands. | 01:01:55 | |
Look at How is the animal shelter? Are you making any? | 01:01:59 | |
Transports. | 01:02:02 | |
Active. | 01:02:05 | |
If they have the Utah, but they got in a little bit of hot water through infected. | 01:02:08 | |
They're accepting our rental because head of accepting. | 01:02:13 | |
Cities. | 01:02:16 | |
So they put a hold on it. So helpful are you? | 01:02:17 | |
You've been forced into January. Ohh gosh. | 01:02:21 | |
And how about your dispatch? How are you doing with that dispatch? All my 3 cadets at the Academy graduated in top five. | 01:02:25 | |
Andrew Garcia was given Leadership Award in the Academy. | 01:02:33 | |
Genetic decay mists. | 01:02:38 | |
That would be formed by half a percent. | 01:02:42 | |
And. | 01:02:45 | |
Our third one was place #5. | 01:02:46 | |
So they're all back. We have one left to go and you'll probably either go in August or November. | 01:02:50 | |
Christy, we're getting ready for the new health insurance. | 01:02:59 | |
What's going to happen? | 01:03:04 | |
Oh, oh, come on, you're OK alright. | 01:03:07 | |
I can't hear you either. Put your microphone. | 01:03:11 | |
So are we getting ready for the? | 01:03:16 | |
So for. | 01:03:19 | |
Um. | 01:03:20 | |
Open enrollment won't be till October. | 01:03:21 | |
Everything's on a calendar year now now that we're with state of New Mexico, but we did find out that 2024 there are no increases | 01:03:24 | |
20 of our premiums. | 01:03:28 | |
You already found that out. Yeah, I emailed you. Ohh, that's one e-mail I should have. Yeah, no. If they emailed us that for the | 01:03:33 | |
2024 rates, there's no increases to any of the policies, so. | 01:03:38 | |
That's good. | 01:03:44 | |
Instrumental in this, league has sent out some letters, apparently. I can't remember the bill number, but a bill was passed | 01:03:45 | |
clawing back. | 01:03:49 | |
Health insurance fees from municipalities. | 01:03:54 | |
In the last year, so they're fighting that, but luckily we weren't on the plane back then so it shouldn't affect us. | 01:03:57 | |
They still send us, uh? | 01:04:04 | |
An amount though that we would have to pay so. | 01:04:06 | |
And they're still factoring us in there, but yeah, we we didn't have state of New Mexico. So it's. | 01:04:10 | |
We're just waiting for a little favor there. | 01:04:17 | |
Alright, thank you. | 01:04:19 | |
Any other comments, Steve, anything? | 01:04:21 | |
Ohh, here comes the enforcer. Alright, we've got. | 01:04:24 | |
Enforcement Office. | 01:04:29 | |
There you guys are. | 01:04:34 | |
This month we're doing spring cleaning with the Landfill Street Department. We're trying to get out there. | 01:04:36 | |
Pick up. | 01:04:42 | |
Whatever you guys don't want, so you know. | 01:04:43 | |
Potential. | 01:04:47 | |
Uh, so this week we'll be doing. | 01:04:48 | |
The Mike. | 01:04:51 | |
Yeah, two days pick up. | 01:04:54 | |
And then next week we'll be doing Wednesdays, week after Thursdays, so. | 01:04:56 | |
All this month. | 01:05:02 | |
That means put your sofas and mattresses outside. Yeah, we'll get after it, but since the beginning of the year means we've been | 01:05:03 | |
able to pick up about 7 tons with their little trailer and truck and since we started doing it. | 01:05:10 | |
We have about 18 tons so. | 01:05:17 | |
Congratulations. Great. Great. | 01:05:21 | |
Do you do you spend anytime at the schools or is this always over the summer? No. | 01:05:23 | |
But I mean when you did. No. Yeah. scooby-doo. | 01:05:27 | |
At least two hours in the beginning for a pickup. | 01:05:32 | |
Or for drop off sorry and then I would do 2 hours at the end of the day for drop off or pick. | 01:05:35 | |
So the council knows that we, you know, we have resource officers at the junior high. | 01:05:41 | |
Yeah. | 01:05:46 | |
Sorry, Majang. | 01:05:47 | |
I don't. | 01:05:48 | |
OK. Thank you. | 01:05:49 | |
Does he? | 01:05:51 | |
So we're planning the 4th of July event. | 01:05:59 | |
Um, it just sent out an e-mail today asking for vendors since we have the. | 01:06:02 | |
10 new electric water hookups back there in Vendor Alley. | 01:06:07 | |
Um, so yeah, anybody that wants to be a vendor? | 01:06:10 | |
They can e-mail me and we can get them going. | 01:06:14 | |
By the 4th. | 01:06:17 | |
It's going to be an all day event just like every year. | 01:06:19 | |
We're still trying to get a July 3rd event, yes, but that'll be next year. | 01:06:22 | |
Because we we got, we did get somebody. | 01:06:26 | |
Little Texas. | 01:06:29 | |
But they sent us like. | 01:06:30 | |
A laundry list of stuff that they have to have. | 01:06:32 | |
Like fresh lunch meat. I mean, they went down to the littlest things. | 01:06:35 | |
And we didn't think we could come up with that right away. It was get up and send it back. | 01:06:40 | |
But we're trying. We're going to try to get a personality people know. | 01:06:46 | |
At the so we can have an event before July 4th. | 01:06:51 | |
So maybe next year. | 01:06:54 | |
Good job. | 01:06:58 | |
Good luck this Saturday. | 01:06:59 | |
Anybody else? | 01:07:02 | |
Chelsea. | 01:07:04 | |
Chief. | 01:07:06 | |
The first part of the had hired some officers. | 01:07:11 | |
To those cadets. To those officers. Just graduated from Mexico Law Enforcement Academy last week. | 01:07:15 | |
Uh. | 01:07:20 | |
On that grant that we've got. | 01:07:21 | |
Or officers. | 01:07:24 | |
There's the, like you said, a big event this weekend that we're all prepared for. | 01:07:27 | |
Can have a lot of meanings. | 01:07:31 | |
In reference to that. | 01:07:33 | |
If you guys have any questions, I'll be glad to answer them after. | 01:07:34 | |
The meaning. | 01:07:37 | |
Are you seeing any fentanyl coming over you you catching guys that have that? | 01:07:41 | |
Yeah, We had spent almost on a daily basis, so yeah. | 01:07:46 | |
Yeah. | 01:07:51 | |
That's not a lot, but when you catch them. | 01:07:51 | |
Quite often. | 01:07:54 | |
Yeah, that's not a good thing. No, Sir. Thank you, Sir. | 01:07:56 | |
Thank you. | 01:08:03 | |
Don't tell me, don't tell me, one of the garbages. Don't tell me. It's wind out there and you're closing the landfill. | 01:08:06 | |
It was a beautiful day today. | 01:08:14 | |
This is a new one, so the garbage doesn't seem to stop. We've seen. | 01:08:20 | |
Celtic collective it. | 01:08:25 | |
We're not open on the new cell yet because we haven't got approved through enemy yet. | 01:08:28 | |
But you're ready to go to the Orlando, no? | 01:08:33 | |
We don't have the ordinance, we get approved to open it, but if you, but if you get the approval to tomorrow, yes you will start | 01:08:37 | |
closing that other one that last. | 01:08:41 | |
I'm gonna say a good 6 1/2 years going on seven years. | 01:08:48 | |
They were actually designed for five years and we actually stretched it out pretty good. | 01:08:52 | |
So we've been 12 years in both of themselves. | 01:08:57 | |
So. | 01:09:00 | |
Hopefully this next two cells will last. | 01:09:01 | |
A good 12 years. | 01:09:03 | |
I won't be here to see the end. | 01:09:05 | |
And I won't be here to see the the next two, so. | 01:09:07 | |
You gonna retire today? | 01:09:12 | |
Maybe it's end of the year? | 01:09:14 | |
No one. | 01:09:17 | |
But anyway, I just want to add to the Council that. | 01:09:18 | |
Now, a lot of small towns have their own landfill. I mean, this is a. | 01:09:21 | |
And. | 01:09:24 | |
Las Monas Balan Tier C. | 01:09:26 | |
They're all tricking their stuff, and so to run a landfill is something that Mikes done a great job and just keeping those | 01:09:28 | |
certified in. | 01:09:31 | |
And doing well, we get a lot of. | 01:09:35 | |
Los Lunas Belen piercey, so yeah. | 01:09:38 | |
Mr. Mayor. | 01:09:42 | |
I have a question for you. So the. | 01:09:43 | |
Last two cells lasted over 10 years. | 01:09:45 | |
Yes, OK. I was just concerned because that bond we were talking about earlier or that 1.4 million financed for 10 years and I want | 01:09:48 | |
to make sure the life of the sales was longer than 10 years. What do you care? | 01:09:54 | |
He's going to be here for the next. | 01:10:01 | |
Great. Thank you. Thank you, Mike. | 01:10:04 | |
Alright, anybody else questions? | 01:10:06 | |
Mr. Mayor, under new business, I don't know if it's new business. I just want to send out a reminder because the time is coming | 01:10:09 | |
up. | 01:10:12 | |
About us passing that 4th of July ordinance. | 01:10:17 | |
Ohh yeah, that limits the amount of time, how or how often people can light fireworks. You want to put that in the bills. | 01:10:20 | |
Is it time every time to do it? | 01:10:26 | |
And we put a little make sure that at least the timing of the yeah and one one way that I that I as a visual thing if the standard | 01:10:29 | |
up and open you can light. | 01:10:34 | |
Fireworks. If they're closed, you can't. | 01:10:39 | |
Make it very simple so that people know. | 01:10:43 | |
Thank you. | 01:10:45 | |
Saint Chris out there to enforce it. | 01:10:46 | |
All right, Executive session. | 01:10:51 | |
We already had it. | 01:10:54 | |
OK, this is the thing to get the Senior Center going. They had a great opening on June 1st, but the site manager root driver. | 01:10:56 | |
Route, driver cook and dishwasher prep. You've got the descriptions. | 01:11:05 | |
In your. | 01:11:10 | |
Packets, so we could let you. | 01:11:12 | |
Approve those if you could. | 01:11:15 | |
Mr. Romero, I still move to approve those job descriptions. | 01:11:18 | |
I second to move and seconded discussion. | 01:11:23 | |
And we're really grateful for. | 01:11:26 | |
Miss Morrison and all the people that have. | 01:11:29 | |
Taking the jobs because. | 01:11:32 | |
It's been hard, I mean, to find the cooks and so forth, so I think that's great. | 01:11:33 | |
Onto supposed. | 01:11:38 | |
Hope OK Do I have personnel changes or no? | 01:11:42 | |
Yeah. | 01:11:46 | |
You know the sheet over there. | 01:11:47 | |
Thank you, Judith. | 01:11:51 | |
We have James Gomez, Police Officer New Hire. Where's James? | 01:11:53 | |
That's why you brought the baby, alright? That guy? Is that guy big enough? | 01:11:59 | |
Angel. | 01:12:04 | |
All right. Congratulations. | 01:12:07 | |
Dominic Montano. | 01:12:09 | |
I'm an ex there. You guys are getting bigger every day, I swear. | 01:12:11 | |
Officer. | 01:12:16 | |
And run, Run. Zano St. Roman Completed probation. Julio Carrasco. | 01:12:17 | |
Completed probation. | 01:12:23 | |
Mr. Approve the personnel changes as read. | 01:12:25 | |
And seconded and at this point. | 01:12:30 | |
We're fully staffed at the Police Department. | 01:12:32 | |
Hey. | 01:12:35 | |
Angel, thank you so much for getting all that put together. | 01:12:36 | |
Ohh, all in favor, aye. | 01:12:40 | |
OK, here we got some goodies here. Welcome. Thanks for coming guys. | 01:12:43 | |
Yeah, Thank you. Who's that boy there? | 01:12:48 | |
Did you want to sit up here too? | 01:12:51 | |
Next time. | 01:12:54 | |
Just woke up. | 01:12:56 | |
Give me a seat. | 01:12:57 | |
Why don't you trade seats with him? | 01:12:58 | |
So we can say that while we finish up the game. Thanks for. | 01:13:00 | |
Thanks for saying the allegiance. | 01:13:03 | |
Alright man, get him up here so you can be on TV. | 01:13:05 | |
You can. You can get those back on on the archives when you look at City School website and you tell us who your name is and all | 01:13:08 | |
that. | 01:13:12 | |
Come on, you gotta talk. No, no, don't talk to him. Talk to us. | 01:13:16 | |
What's your name? | 01:13:19 | |
Mason Presser Alright, I like your haircut. | 01:13:21 | |
So we've got a penal arborist services. Andro Peno. | 01:13:25 | |
Tree trimming and this is this the one that's doing the trimming at the. | 01:13:30 | |
Or is that somebody else? | 01:13:34 | |
OK, so. | 01:13:37 | |
They're doing the trees. They're doing the trees for the coop subway 47314 Socorro. | 01:13:38 | |
But that woman fast food restaurant? | 01:13:46 | |
Dispensary near me. | 01:13:50 | |
124 B Manzaneros Trevor Donaldson Retail Lost Trapitos. | 01:13:53 | |
Mexican food transit vendor Vegita Ricardo Campo Sanchez Food Truck. | 01:13:58 | |
What's that all about, Miss Dean? | 01:14:03 | |
Is that the truck that's parked over there? No, I haven't seen this one. | 01:14:06 | |
Ohh OK. | 01:14:09 | |
We're getting there's more than. | 01:14:11 | |
One that's coming through town. | 01:14:13 | |
One man grill another one. Transient vendors, 1515 terabyte. But that's hometown. | 01:14:14 | |
Anthony Aparicio. | 01:14:20 | |
AP By selling Pawn. | 01:14:23 | |
That's Spring Street. Joel Partridge, Bissell Pawn and Trade. | 01:14:25 | |
Windy tree incorporated in the atmosphere utility line. | 01:14:30 | |
The clearing Wendy Quinn. | 01:14:35 | |
I'm looking for the car. | 01:14:37 | |
History now. | 01:14:39 | |
I'm going to approve the business registrations as read. | 01:14:41 | |
And discussion. | 01:14:45 | |
All in favor, aye. | 01:14:47 | |
Next meeting is June 20th, Tuesday. | 01:14:50 | |
At 6:00 o'clock. | 01:14:53 | |
Thank you, everybody. Thank you for sitting up here. Congratulations. | 01:14:56 | |
Ohh. | 01:14:59 | |
Wanna take a picture? | 01:15:02 | |
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Erratic. | 00:00:00 | |
This is the City of Score City Council meeting. | 00:00:01 | |
Tuesday, June 6th to 2023 World Cup Please Mayor Basker here. | 00:00:04 | |
Councillor Travis Lopez, Councillor Dean. | 00:00:10 | |
Councillor Fleming. | 00:00:13 | |
Councillor hits. | 00:00:15 | |
Councillor Ocampo. | 00:00:17 | |
Councillor Olguin. | 00:00:19 | |
Councillor Romero here. Councillor Salome. | 00:00:20 | |
We have a quantum. | 00:00:23 | |
And we have Jaden Miller here. | 00:00:25 | |
He's gonna meet up. | 00:00:30 | |
You're good. | 00:00:36 | |
Pledge allegiance to 1. | 00:00:38 | |
And to. | 00:00:43 | |
Yeah. | 00:00:45 | |
One patient and their God. | 00:00:46 | |
Yeah, that's what's wrong. | 00:00:50 | |
Ohh, thank you. | 00:00:53 | |
Yeah. | 00:01:02 | |
Mr. Who? | 00:01:03 | |
Romero, I move We approve the consent agenda. | 00:01:06 | |
Thank you. | 00:01:09 | |
Moved and seconded discussion all in favor, aye? | 00:01:11 | |
We have Jason. | 00:01:16 | |
Is he here? I know. | 00:01:19 | |
No. | 00:01:21 | |
No, Jason Frame. | 00:01:22 | |
He man, he was going to talk about the Socorro County Community Alternative program. Are they still going to have their. | 00:01:25 | |
Celebration. I think that's what he wanted to talk to you about. Tell me, do you know much about it? I don't know anything about | 00:01:32 | |
it. | 00:01:35 | |
OK. And they were gonna use the. | 00:01:38 | |
The Rodeo arena for that? | 00:01:41 | |
So anyway, I thank you for the compliance program and. | 00:01:44 | |
They do a lot of good work. We are right here off the Plaza. | 00:01:47 | |
And I have. | 00:01:51 | |
The. | 00:01:53 | |
Proclamation. | 00:01:54 | |
For. | 00:01:56 | |
Immigrant Heritage Month, where generations of immigrants from every corner of the globe have built our country's economy and | 00:01:58 | |
created the unique character of our nation. | 00:02:02 | |
Whereas immigrants continue to grow businesses, innovate, strengthen our community economy and create American jobs in Socorro. | 00:02:07 | |
And whereas immigrants have provided the United States with a unique social and cultural influence, fundamentally enriching the | 00:02:12 | |
cultural extraordinary character of our nation. | 00:02:17 | |
And whereas immigrants have been tireless leaders not only in securing their own rights and access to equal opportunities, but | 00:02:23 | |
also have campaign to create a fair and more just society for all Americans. | 00:02:28 | |
Whereas despite the countless contribution, the role of immigrants in building and. | 00:02:34 | |
Enriching our nation has frequently been overlooked. | 00:02:38 | |
And undervalued throughout our history and continuing to the present day, Now therefore be it resolved by the city of Sikora. | 00:02:41 | |
City Council and Mayor Ravi Vasquez assembled that June 2020 third is designated as Immigrant Heritage Month. | 00:02:47 | |
And as you know, I'm an immigrant. | 00:02:55 | |
And we certainly have a lot of. | 00:02:56 | |
Problems at the border. | 00:02:59 | |
But we're talking about legal immigration. We're not talking about illegal immigration. | 00:03:01 | |
I think it's important to note that. | 00:03:05 | |
I I have something to say about that this proclamation? | 00:03:09 | |
And as we know, these proclamations are public announcements of matters of great importance. | 00:03:13 | |
And so. | 00:03:19 | |
For someone to put forth a proclamation to the City Council to have it voted on means that it's a very important matter. | 00:03:20 | |
And in my reading of this proclamation, I think it falls short. | 00:03:29 | |
Um, the proclamation in the fourth paragraph says, despite these countless contributions, the role of immigrants in building and | 00:03:35 | |
enriching our nation has frequently been overlooked and undervalued. | 00:03:42 | |
Throughout our history and. | 00:03:49 | |
Continuing through the present day. | 00:03:51 | |
To me, that that raises eyebrows. That's that's a concern. That's a problem. And for someone to put forth a proclamation. | 00:03:53 | |
To say that, yeah. | 00:04:02 | |
City Council votes on it. It's an issue. It's it's a it's a it's a a problem and move forward. | 00:04:03 | |
I think they're underestimating the UH. | 00:04:10 | |
Purpose of. | 00:04:14 | |
Public officials in terms of. | 00:04:16 | |
People vote, People elect, people run for these office, for these chairs to sit up here. And the reason that we do that is we're | 00:04:18 | |
here to try to solve problems. | 00:04:23 | |
Not just announcing proclaim that there's a problem and then sweep it under the rug. | 00:04:28 | |
And and looking at this. | 00:04:34 | |
I look at the folks out there and and I want to know how many folks out there are you guys are. | 00:04:36 | |
Direct. | 00:04:42 | |
Immigrants. | 00:04:44 | |
Or descendants. | 00:04:45 | |
Of immigrants. I know I am. I'm, I'm a descendant of multiple of immigrants. In 1910, my grandfather came from Lebanon and I bet | 00:04:47 | |
if we look back, every one of us sitting in this in this Chamber. | 00:04:54 | |
Are immigrants everybody in Socorro? If you're not a Native American, you're an immigrant. | 00:05:02 | |
That's that's my view of this and I think for us to not bring forth to the table the folks that asked. | 00:05:09 | |
The mayor to put forth this proclamation to discuss some of the issue. Who's undervaluing the immigrants contribution? Who's doing | 00:05:19 | |
that? | 00:05:23 | |
We need to know who's doing that, who will under appreciate the immigrants contribution to this beautiful country that we have. | 00:05:28 | |
Doesn't say who, but I think if we bring those folks forward to the table, we can sit down and maybe we can work on resolving that | 00:05:36 | |
issue rather than proclaiming that the problem and then moving on to the next item. | 00:05:42 | |
So. | 00:05:49 | |
I'm going to abstain from voting on this proclamation. | 00:05:50 | |
Because I would like to sit with. | 00:05:54 | |
And talk to the folks that that brought this proclamation forward to the mayor. | 00:05:57 | |
And see what their views are on it. Maybe we can come to some kind of a issue that this, that this council can vote on an | 00:06:02 | |
ordinance, a resolution, another proclamation that helps with that horrible issue of of being undervalued. | 00:06:09 | |
And overlooked because that's a problem. | 00:06:16 | |
Mr. Mayor, how are these initiated? | 00:06:21 | |
I have got a request from a group. | 00:06:24 | |
That supports immigrants and since I have a personal. | 00:06:27 | |
Investment in that type of thing. | 00:06:34 | |
And they asked me to do that. | 00:06:37 | |
But I don't ask City Council to vote on it. | 00:06:39 | |
I'm making that proclamation on behalf of the City Council, Mr. Soulmate says. He would like to abstain, and that's fine. | 00:06:41 | |
But I don't usually get the City Council to sign off on these things. | 00:06:48 | |
I basically make a proclamation, you know, as we did on the motorcycle that we did on different things. And and this one, I had a | 00:06:53 | |
real specific concern about it because my I'm, I'm, I'm a. | 00:06:58 | |
Immigrant. I'm not even first generation Mr. Ocampo. | 00:07:03 | |
Yeah. Mayor, we're we're there. Were there issues that they did bring up to you or were they just trying to highlight the. | 00:07:07 | |
No, I think with the atmosphere of the country at this point, with the people at the border right now trying to get into the | 00:07:12 | |
United States is the best country in the world to come and and be able to bring your children to have a future. | 00:07:19 | |
Uh, but this is a this is more of a routine thing, as Mr. Shlomi said, doesn't really have a lot of. | 00:07:26 | |
Underlying questions and through things under the surface, as Mr. Swamy pointed out, and I would be more than happy we've gotten | 00:07:32 | |
in touch with them and ask them to come and have a dialogue with us. | 00:07:37 | |
Right. | 00:07:43 | |
Mr. Brown, Yeah, on on this proclamation. If it did come to a road, I'd be willing to vote on it, but also. | 00:07:43 | |
If, if Mr. Solomon. | 00:07:49 | |
Was to have some kind of a meeting on this I I'd be more than happy to attend and and discuss it. But immigration is a big problem | 00:07:53 | |
in this country and like I said, I got my green card. | 00:07:58 | |
In 1965 because. | 00:08:03 | |
I actually my family when my parents came. | 00:08:06 | |
They came on a student visa. My dad was a doctor and once he finished his training. | 00:08:09 | |
We had to leave to go to Canada because we couldn't stay here on a student visa. | 00:08:14 | |
So we had to leave the country for two years. | 00:08:19 | |
Then we came back on a green card. | 00:08:22 | |
Legally. And he had a job and he had a place to, you know, go. But we came back on a green card and I didn't become a citizen. | 00:08:25 | |
Until 1965. | 00:08:32 | |
When we had the ceremony with the daughters of the Revolution, they give you a flag. | 00:08:34 | |
And then you, you, you, you pay. You pay your commitment to the Constitution. | 00:08:39 | |
He answered those questions to give you a book to read. | 00:08:45 | |
So. | 00:08:48 | |
Those are the things, but that's not what's happening with the border. | 00:08:48 | |
That's a totally different situation and I think we could certainly have a more. | 00:08:52 | |
More of a a. | 00:08:56 | |
Conversation about it later, as Mr. Swamy said. | 00:08:58 | |
I think, being that it is a matter of such importance that we we do owe it to them to. | 00:09:02 | |
Uh. | 00:09:08 | |
To kind of follow up on, you know the we'll do that. | 00:09:08 | |
I would do that. Thank you. You're welcome. | 00:09:13 | |
And Mr. Frame. | 00:09:16 | |
You're 2 minutes late. | 00:09:17 | |
Come on up. Tell us about your program. I'm sorry for being late. Not at all. | 00:09:19 | |
Well, tell the group to come and join us. | 00:09:24 | |
So my name is Jason Frame. I represent the Sport County Community Alternatives program. | 00:09:28 | |
We have asked this year for. | 00:09:33 | |
Ohh. | 00:09:36 | |
$3000 from Recovery Communities of New Mexico. | 00:09:39 | |
For a grant proposal for a 2023 recovery celebration. | 00:09:43 | |
So we can look at the Sequoia County Community Alternatives program. | 00:09:49 | |
Have come to understand that while change is something that is not easy. | 00:09:53 | |
For those struggling with mental illness and substance abuse, people can and do recover. | 00:09:58 | |
We believe that there are a number of things that the individual must change in order to be successful. This starts with | 00:10:04 | |
developing a new way of thinking. | 00:10:08 | |
Forming healthy habits and surrounding themselves with supportive community community members. | 00:10:12 | |
A support system can be comprised of people that work in our schools, universities, courts, hospitals, law enforcement. | 00:10:18 | |
First responders, churches, local business. | 00:10:26 | |
And a representative of a diverse ethnic. | 00:10:29 | |
Community. | 00:10:32 | |
This not only model. | 00:10:34 | |
A positive and healthy way of life, but embody a life. | 00:10:36 | |
That most addicts would love to have. | 00:10:40 | |
We would like to request. | 00:10:43 | |
Like I said, $3000 last year we got 2000. | 00:10:44 | |
To host the recovery celebration in the form of an all tribes, all Ethnicities. Powell. | 00:10:48 | |
On Saturday, September 30th. | 00:10:54 | |
2023 and hopefully. | 00:10:57 | |
Either the soccer. | 00:11:00 | |
Complex from the radio complex. Would like it to be in the rodeo complex. | 00:11:02 | |
If we can arrange such. | 00:11:06 | |
Well, that's true. | 00:11:08 | |
The event will welcome all of those diverse ethnicities. | 00:11:10 | |
And occupations to participate in a day of music, cultural and traditional presentations. | 00:11:14 | |
By those who may sing, dance, and play instruments, as well as express themselves. | 00:11:20 | |
Through the art of storytelling. | 00:11:24 | |
And we'll be selling their wares. We invite the community to come out and celebrate. | 00:11:27 | |
Those in recovery by performing providing. | 00:11:31 | |
Some kind of service? | 00:11:34 | |
Or selling crafts. These individuals would do so without having to pay service. | 00:11:36 | |
Fees or taxes? | 00:11:40 | |
We would also. | 00:11:42 | |
Like to ensure that this event be drug and alcohol free? | 00:11:44 | |
We strongly believe that this event will help to promote a sense of Wellness. | 00:11:48 | |
And belong in the community for those who struggle with mental illness. | 00:11:53 | |
And substance abuse. | 00:11:57 | |
So the reason why we've come, I've come today to ask for. | 00:11:59 | |
The rodeo arenas, because we've got several. | 00:12:04 | |
Different new agencies. | 00:12:08 | |
In Socorro we have full circle, full circle recovery. | 00:12:10 | |
Cornerstone Christian Counseling. | 00:12:14 | |
We've always had a Sequoia mental health. | 00:12:17 | |
Umm. | 00:12:20 | |
Alamo Behavioral Health is going to be on board also. | 00:12:22 | |
So in light of that, our whole community will be represented. | 00:12:26 | |
Then we would like to ask for the use of the rodeo complex. | 00:12:30 | |
And you know the. | 00:12:35 | |
All of the utilities have. | 00:12:37 | |
That it provides. | 00:12:39 | |
Well, you know, it's actually. | 00:12:42 | |
Kind of. We've talked on the messenger. I I think the council will certainly leave it to the Council, but I think. | 00:12:44 | |
If it doesn't conflict with any other event. | 00:12:50 | |
We'd be more than happy to support that. I think mental health is a big issue. | 00:12:53 | |
And it's not around Labor Day though, is it? Is it a? | 00:12:57 | |
It's on the 30th which is. | 00:12:59 | |
At the end of the month, yeah, so. | 00:13:02 | |
Maybe beginning at the beginning? | 00:13:06 | |
So when is the County Fair gonna get At the beginning of the month? I believe on the 14th through the 16th. As long as it doesn't | 00:13:08 | |
conflict with that, I I don't see any. Trying to avoid everything, especially Sequiro. What would what sectoral fest last year? | 00:13:15 | |
Yeah, we almost look like in competition with them, so it didn't go too well. | 00:13:23 | |
You know so. | 00:13:28 | |
If the Council approves, I mean we certainly. | 00:13:29 | |
And we'll make that available to you and the funding. | 00:13:32 | |
Where would that come from, you know? | 00:13:35 | |
Are you is that a state fund or did you say that so recovery communities of Mexico as a behavioral health? | 00:13:37 | |
Ohh. | 00:13:43 | |
Let's just see. | 00:13:45 | |
Ohh agency so they are providing. I believe it's. | 00:13:46 | |
$40,000 throughout. | 00:13:51 | |
The study he requested, the 3000. | 00:13:54 | |
Yes, but that's last year we got 3000. We haven't gotten an answer on, on how much they're going to give us this year. | 00:13:56 | |
From the state, OK, so you're not requesting funding, Not funding, just the use of the complex and. | 00:14:05 | |
You know, he's the facility manager, Steve Matthews. So yeah, I I spoke with. | 00:14:12 | |
Yeah, I was. I was waiting for a call from Daniel. | 00:14:20 | |
Um. | 00:14:24 | |
That was going to give us information. Did you have a comment? | 00:14:25 | |
Filter available. | 00:14:39 | |
And then for the. | 00:14:40 | |
If we could use the fields, that would be fine in that case. | 00:14:42 | |
Louie could use the city's tent. | 00:14:47 | |
Well, that's no, this is getting to be a longer thing. Alright, why don't you give me a written request? | 00:14:50 | |
As to what you need and then I'll present it to Steve. | 00:14:56 | |
And then we can designate the area. We're more than happy to cooperate with this. I just want to make sure there's no conflict. | 00:14:59 | |
And then if you give me a written request. | 00:15:05 | |
As to what you need and then let me see if we can comply with that. OK. And at the minimum, you can use the fields if that's OK | 00:15:08 | |
with Steve. | 00:15:12 | |
We we want to make sure it doesn't hurt the grass and no vehicles and things like that but on the on the field but but let's let's | 00:15:16 | |
get together and and. | 00:15:20 | |
Work with Steve and and Donald and try to put this together, but let's see if I could get a written request. It would be much | 00:15:25 | |
better. Yes, I will do that. | 00:15:28 | |
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the work you've done. | 00:15:33 | |
Mr. Miss. | 00:15:39 | |
They're moving. | 00:15:40 | |
Public comment on my public comment. | 00:15:42 | |
Done. | 00:15:45 | |
Let's move on to the ordinance. I'll make a motion. We approve ordinance number. | 00:15:47 | |
23-06-28. | 00:15:52 | |
And Mr. Mayor, Mr. Monette, anybody second? | 00:15:57 | |
Mr. Mr. Mr. Chavez, this is just the first reading of this ordinance. It will actually be up for a vote at the next meeting. | 00:16:01 | |
This is for the landfill grant, I mean loans 1.4 million to reimburse ourselves for the new self. | 00:16:08 | |
So this is just. | 00:16:15 | |
The first reading. | 00:16:16 | |
Ruby wasn't feeling good this evening. | 00:16:18 | |
OK. | 00:16:20 | |
OK. So all in favor for approval of publication? | 00:16:22 | |
Aye. | 00:16:25 | |
And the ordinance, 23-06. | 00:16:28 | |
Mr. Mayor, that is again, this is what I hope will be the final one this is for. | 00:16:33 | |
Splitting the Clean Water State Revolving Fund into the two different projects and this project specifically is for a belt press. | 00:16:38 | |
Mr. Again, I'll make a motion. We approve Ordinance #23-06-06 second. | 00:16:49 | |
Consecutive discussion, all in favor, aye. | 00:16:55 | |
So we have ICP Public Input meeting #1. | 00:16:59 | |
If we could go into public meeting or public forum. | 00:17:06 | |
Any comments stir Hogan like motion going to public hearing. I second. | 00:17:10 | |
Ohh. | 00:17:18 | |
Anybody here have a comment about the? | 00:17:20 | |
We need to do we advertise this pretty heavily or? | 00:17:24 | |
I. | 00:17:27 | |
I'm going to have three more meetings that will be advertising accompanied by surprise because if they moved up the due date, it's | 00:17:29 | |
due in August, now August 18th. | 00:17:32 | |
So I want to have four public hearings and we'll have three more that we'll be had for. So this is for projects that the public | 00:17:37 | |
feels necessary for the city to be placed on the IC IP's that the legislatures. | 00:17:42 | |
And the grant people look at us to see what our priorities are. | 00:17:48 | |
Estrogen and I know in the past we put them in the in the utility bills we do that again. | 00:17:52 | |
And do that again. And the newspaper, maybe the radio. | 00:17:58 | |
Is our, is our. | 00:18:02 | |
Ohh icon for the. | 00:18:03 | |
Public input is not up yet. | 00:18:05 | |
No. | 00:18:09 | |
Apple still hasn't approved the app. | 00:18:13 | |
OK. Because that would be one thing that could do. | 00:18:15 | |
To get information, shall we go out of public hearing? | 00:18:17 | |
Miss Match two again. Thank you Motion. We'll go back in regular session. | 00:18:23 | |
2nd. | 00:18:27 | |
On the second, on favor both. So there will be another two more meetings. | 00:18:28 | |
Three more meetings, 4 meetings total. Yes, Sir. | 00:18:33 | |
So we really recommend to the public that they come and speak up. | 00:18:35 | |
On behalf of any projects they have in mind, and that would mean any kind of projects really, There's no specific. | 00:18:40 | |
Thing. | 00:18:47 | |
A good example of that is last year, I believe Councillor Solomon requested the streets north of Tech. | 00:18:48 | |
To be. | 00:18:54 | |
Added And they were funded at a level of 600,000 this year through capital outlay. So the process does work. | 00:18:55 | |
That's great. Thanks. | 00:19:02 | |
Are we going to be getting the? | 00:19:05 | |
List of all the new projects that we've had. Again, updated projects. Yes, underscoring seats. | 00:19:07 | |
Now you do have a list. | 00:19:13 | |
That's like. | 00:19:16 | |
40 projects going on right now. | 00:19:18 | |
So anyway, thank you the this is the preliminary engineering design for electric utility substation and distribution system at the | 00:19:22 | |
industrial park. | 00:19:26 | |
Mr. Mr. Login. | 00:19:30 | |
I'll make a motion that we postpone this bid award or anything dealing with the electricity until after the election. | 00:19:32 | |
That should be ridiculous. | 00:19:40 | |
Who told you to say that? The electric coop. | 00:19:42 | |
I kill myself. | 00:19:45 | |
Well, anyway, is there a second for that postponement? | 00:19:48 | |
I'm I I guess I'm OK with postponing that. I don't know. | 00:19:52 | |
And figure out. | 00:19:56 | |
Is that it's not discussion right now. Would you want to second it? We can take it second. | 00:19:58 | |
So, so I guess when Mr. Olguin is saying that the I'm seconding, you seconded. OK, all in favor? | 00:20:06 | |
No, no, no. This is a. This is a. This is. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Michael. | 00:20:12 | |
Mr. Hogan asked to postpone this item till after the city election. | 00:20:17 | |
Which means would be January, not November, right? | 00:20:22 | |
Because then, I'm still the mayor, by the way. | 00:20:27 | |
Till January. | 00:20:30 | |
So just to let you know. | 00:20:33 | |
So if you want to postpone it till January. | 00:20:35 | |
You want to say that after you say after the election? | 00:20:37 | |
The election isn't is November, but then. | 00:20:40 | |
I still carry my. | 00:20:43 | |
My. | 00:20:45 | |
I just want to clarify this. | 00:20:47 | |
So you're saying November or January, January, January 2024? | 00:20:49 | |
And it's been seconded. So discussion Miss Chavez, Lopez. | 00:20:52 | |
The only problem that I have with it is that it's stating. | 00:20:55 | |
Preliminary. | 00:20:59 | |
Well, this is this is a rewarding for for engineering. You called it a PDR. | 00:21:01 | |
Disciplinary engineering. | 00:21:05 | |
Report to get this thing started so we can bid on it. Let me give you a little background on the coop. | 00:21:07 | |
United Power that gives power to Denver. | 00:21:14 | |
Over a billion dollars of electricity bought from. | 00:21:18 | |
Tri-state. | 00:21:21 | |
Is leaving tristate. | 00:21:23 | |
They're paying a fine of something like $400 million, but they're gonna they're gonna leave tri-state. | 00:21:26 | |
Tri-state, in my opinion, is going to go bankrupt. | 00:21:32 | |
Is going to be probably bought up by a company in Salt Lake City called Basin Electric. | 00:21:35 | |
We've had for six years a resolution and another resident an ordinance that the City of Sequoia is going to be a. | 00:21:41 | |
Electric utility. | 00:21:49 | |
This is the beginning of it. | 00:21:51 | |
I've had meetings with the coop. | 00:21:53 | |
Uh. | 00:21:55 | |
Trustees. | 00:21:56 | |
They sent me a boilerplate. | 00:21:57 | |
Franchise agreement, so we could just stamp it and go on for another 25 years getting choked to death with electric bills. | 00:21:59 | |
I'm not gonna go for that. | 00:22:07 | |
I'm going to put my election of that if we're talking about my election. | 00:22:09 | |
I'm going to put that, you know. | 00:22:13 | |
On the chopping block. | 00:22:16 | |
Obviously that's what the cop wants to do, is to have another mayor that's going to change the the. | 00:22:18 | |
City Council's direction and trying to continue getting our utility bills like the coop had nothing to do with my motions. I heard | 00:22:24 | |
you the first time. My my motion was merely by the fact that yeah, we you give us information, but I think that it's beneficial | 00:22:28 | |
for the council. | 00:22:33 | |
I mean you. You. | 00:22:38 | |
You can say. | 00:22:40 | |
What's being done in Colorado? Five states going to go bankrupt? | 00:22:42 | |
Coop is saying this. Coop is saying that. | 00:22:47 | |
But until we conceive and have, both sides have. I don't know what you said about the call, but do you mean the cooperation that I | 00:22:51 | |
said, whatever you you're saying about the coop? | 00:22:55 | |
The meetings that you have with the coop, everything that's going on. | 00:23:00 | |
I think the council should be Privy to the information that's being said. | 00:23:03 | |
The information you just gave right now with Denver? | 00:23:07 | |
And we have as a Council this information. | 00:23:10 | |
To help support our vote whenever we come time for the vote for the electric utility. | 00:23:13 | |
Not to say you're wrong, I'm not saying you're wrong, but I think that we need the information. | 00:23:18 | |
In order to move forward and fast to move forward from both sides. | 00:23:21 | |
Of the table. | 00:23:25 | |
Let me ask you, Mr. Logan. | 00:23:26 | |
Number one, I've given you information for the past six years. I don't know if you absorbed it, but you also voted for the | 00:23:29 | |
ordinance for the city to become a utility. | 00:23:33 | |
Mr. Panetta sent you sent all the Councils. | 00:23:37 | |
Information. | 00:23:40 | |
About gift Carson. | 00:23:41 | |
How much money they've saved, I don't know if you read it. | 00:23:44 | |
But he sent you that e-mail. | 00:23:46 | |
About how much money did Carson has save? | 00:23:49 | |
And also talking about. | 00:23:51 | |
You know, and if you Google, just all you have to do, Google is United power. | 00:23:54 | |
Denver, Co and you'll see what they're talking about. tri-state. | 00:23:57 | |
I can't spoon feed you everything I think you're gonna have. We haven't. This hasn't come up on on you. I've never seen you at | 00:24:02 | |
City Hall even asking about not come up. | 00:24:06 | |
With the with the intent of the Council. | 00:24:10 | |
What in the past, however many months you want to wait till the elections coming up, now that we're having this discussion and we | 00:24:14 | |
want to move forward and I feel like me personally, I don't know about the other councillors. | 00:24:18 | |
But it feels like it's going to be round down or throw before the selection happens. Nothing been rammed down your throat for | 00:24:23 | |
seven years. You've been taking it for that long. I think I just feel like, OK, Pandemic set things back. We all know that and we | 00:24:29 | |
haven't talked about this since before the pandemic. We haven't had meetings about it. We have. You had mentioned that the Co-op | 00:24:34 | |
offered an olive branch, but what did they offer? We don't know that we we don't want up to speed on anything at this point. | 00:24:39 | |
That's what my feeling. | 00:24:45 | |
The coop. | 00:24:51 | |
I guess you don't want to take my word for it hasn't offered anything. | 00:24:52 | |
But this, this is what we're seeing is a lot of times we're not included. You might include us, but it'd be welcoming to us if you | 00:24:55 | |
would at least invite one of us to attend your meeting. | 00:25:00 | |
Why did you come to the meeting that we had? | 00:25:07 | |
I mean that in public. Nobody showed up. This Dean was here for a second, I think, and you have another thing going on on on my | 00:25:10 | |
way. And I invited all of you to come to that meeting. I if you want to see the minutes in my video. | 00:25:16 | |
About inviting you to that meeting. | 00:25:22 | |
Between us and Guzman and and we invited the coop and actually the coop was here and when they saw no city councillors here, they | 00:25:24 | |
left. Mr. Havana was sitting outside. | 00:25:29 | |
I did invite you. I mean, I'm not sure what the Council is doing here. | 00:25:35 | |
If you want to stop it, that's up to you. We're going to take a vote. We're going to postpone it till January. | 00:25:39 | |
The the Council gave me a mandate to proceed with the Socorro Municipal Electric Utility. | 00:25:44 | |
And I'm doing it. | 00:25:50 | |
And that's what I've been elected to do if you guys had killed the Socorro. | 00:25:51 | |
Municipal electric utility. | 00:25:57 | |
Well, I would have gone on to another project. | 00:25:59 | |
But this is a project I've been doing very slowly and trying to get to it. | 00:26:01 | |
If if you want to wait till January and I'm guarantee you, I'm going to win. | 00:26:05 | |
And so you know and and so just like who's the guy on the basketball team said he was gonna win but he lost five point but but you | 00:26:10 | |
know. | 00:26:14 | |
If that's what you're waiting for is through my defeat and and I've been after this for so long. | 00:26:18 | |
I'm in public saying I'm still going to be forward in January. | 00:26:24 | |
Mr. Showing. So what were you saying, Jayden? | 00:26:29 | |
We have one. | 00:26:32 | |
Hello. | 00:26:35 | |
Uh. | 00:26:36 | |
So this. | 00:26:37 | |
Bid award for the preliminary engineering design for an electric utility substation. | 00:26:40 | |
Is a an approval of companies that build? | 00:26:46 | |
Electric utility substations, 3 companies put in their proposal to the City of Socorro saying this is what we can do for you. They | 00:26:51 | |
didn't say how much it's going to cost. They say what did they say? Can you give us some? | 00:26:57 | |
This is less than $200. I think Polo has it. | 00:27:05 | |
It's 176,700 and 52150 for the design. Well, this will be a design. | 00:27:08 | |
For the leg of the industrial park, about 10 megawatts. | 00:27:16 | |
With solar. | 00:27:19 | |
With two megawatts of solar, 2 megawatts of storage. | 00:27:21 | |
And it will serve. | 00:27:26 | |
Tech. | 00:27:28 | |