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	Testing.	00:00:03
	Testing Testing 112.	00:00:05
	You're right.	00:00:10
	This is the City of Socorro City Council Meeting October 3rd, 2023. Roll call please. Mayor Basket here. Councillor Tavis Lopez	00:00:11
	here.	00:00:15
	Councillor Dean, Councillor Fleming? Councillor Hicks? Yeah, Councillor Ocampo.	00:00:20
	Councillor Ogeen.	00:00:26
	Councillor Romero here, Councillor Solomon, we have a quorum alright for the Pledge of Allegiance.	00:00:28
	Of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands.	00:00:40
	One nation under God, indivisible and justice for all.	00:00:45
	The mayor.	00:00:51
	Make a motion. We do the consent agenda.	00:00:54
	Second moved and seconded discussion.	00:00:58
	All in favor, aye.	00:01:01
	Public forum.	00:01:04
	Who is here?	00:01:06
	I had I had a request from the farmers market that I just met with before the meeting.	00:01:08
	And they wanted a porta potty.	00:01:13
	Which we're going to try to work on, but it can't be a permanent one.	00:01:16
	And they also wanted signage and a perhaps a speed bump.	00:01:19
	And I'm going to have them meet with Lefty.	00:01:23
	And make sure that the.	00:01:25
	Pam.	00:01:27
	I don't know her last name, but.	00:01:28
	We'll get in touch with him by doing something about the.	00:01:30
	The.	00:01:33
	Circulation of traffic is what their biggest worry is.	00:01:34
	And so I just let you know they wanted to be on the public forum if they were kind enough to meet with me before that, so.	00:01:38
	And we took care of that.	00:01:44
	Anybody else at the public forum?	00:01:45
	I have one of my relatives from Iceland here who's taking pictures, so don't mind if he does.	00:01:50
	He's married to my niece. He's a doctor in Iceland.	00:01:55
	Ohh, wonderful. And he's a cinematographer. They wanna.	00:01:58
	Prize for the best.	00:02:02
	Horror movie.	00:02:04
	And they accepted the prize in Vegas just last weekend and they're visiting with us for the week.	00:02:07
	And I'm showing them how to put up political signs. Congratulations.	00:02:12
	Actually, he's he's doing it. He's pounding. I'm sorry. And I'm not letting you know anyway.	00:02:18
	Welcome.	00:02:24
	The.	00:02:25
	Resolution for.	00:02:27
	TPF Fowler St. Donald. Did I get that sign?	00:02:28
	Yes, Mr. Mayor, we actually.	00:02:32
	Approved this at the last meeting, but I jumped the gun and didn't have the control number on it from the highway department, so	00:02:35
	we need to get it reapproved.	00:02:38
	Did I DocuSign it?	00:02:44
	Oh, that was for our actual transportation department. OK. And I emailed the director and I've not heard back. OK, Mr. Oldham,	00:02:45
	I'll follow up on that.	00:02:49
	And Motion to Approve Resolution #23-10-038.	00:02:54
	2nd.	00:02:58
	Moved and seconded discussion.	00:02:59
	All in favor, aye.	00:03:01
	We're also doing another St.	00:03:03
	Now that was Fowler St. That's up there by Spanish Hills.	00:03:05
	This one is capital Outlay for Leroy.	00:03:08
	Walkway Cassidy and Mary Place No.	00:03:10
	Yes, Sir. We've been waiting on the grant agreements to come in for capital outlay. It was approved back in.	00:03:13
	February, and it takes this long. We're still waiting on the grant agreement for Finley Gym.	00:03:19
	We have the grant agreement for the police cars and.	00:03:24
	Like I said, now we have this one. So I believe Lloyd's planning on them starting the work, you know, this month once it cools	00:03:30
	down a little more.	00:03:33
	And once the company gets into Core, we're going to work on some speed hump requests along with these streets.	00:03:37
	Mr.	00:03:43
	Remember.	00:03:45
	When we approve resolution #23-10-03B for 2nd that.	00:03:45
	Moved and seconded discussion.	00:03:52
	All in favor? Aye. So we got another DFA, Law enforcement fund Grant. Ruby, you want to tell us a little bit about that? You know,	00:03:53
	we initially had one for.	00:03:57
	750,000 and.	00:04:02
	Chief has filled out his.	00:04:04
	Staff already?	00:04:06
	But this one is also for police and ancillary.	00:04:08
	Yeah, Mayor Council. So we applied for extra position, so we got 393. So I'm working with.	00:04:12
	Intel and we're looking at some different positions. We're probably going to add an officer. I know the schools are wanting an	00:04:18
	SRO, so we're seeing what we could do with that money, but it's 100%.	00:04:24
	Second year 50% and then 25. So we have to have positions that are sustained.	00:04:30
	You know, going forward. So that's what we're working on.	00:04:34
	This is what this grant is for. How much is it 393?	00:04:37
	Mr. Romero, will we approve resolution #23-10-03C second that moved and seconded and just to clear as 393,000 on top of the 750	00:04:42
	that we got? Yeah. So all in favor, aye.	00:04:49
	And then the fire department automatic aid agreement chief.	00:04:57
	Tell us a little bit about that.	00:05:02
	All that, all that that is, is we're just updating our old automatic agreement with San Antonio Midway Fire Department.	00:05:08
	How that works is if we get our structure fired in the city.	00:05:15
	Or in the county, dispatch is automatically dispatching all departments to respond.	00:05:18
	And what that does, it helps us with our ISO rating when it comes when the fire, the state fire Marshall comes down to.	00:05:25
	Inspect us.	00:05:31
	And it gives us points and in order for it to in order for us to qualify for those points, we have to. We had to update that	00:05:32
	because the last time that was up there was back in 2014 I believe.	00:05:36
	So all we're doing is just updating it.	00:05:41
	So that's what that's about and that just means more funding for us, so we can get that. Isolating from A4 to a three, you're	00:05:44
	talking like $60,000 more. Do you know what I saw rating we have now or 4.	00:05:49
	And then he hired the Can we get the lower or higher?	00:05:55
	When you what's better, the lower, the lower the rate and the better. We're trying to get to a three right now. We were 10 points	00:05:59
	short of a three from the last time.	00:06:03
	And this is one of the ways that the state fire Marshall came and did a pre inspection.	00:06:08
	And he kind of helped us and told us which ways we can get.	00:06:13
	Points to help us get to that and that directly affects our insurance rates, insurance potential.	00:06:16
	And Mr. Mr. Mr. again motion we approve the fire department automatic agreement 2nd and Mr. Mayor moved and seconded discussion	00:06:21
	Mr. Bucca.	00:06:25
	Just manage, Donald.	00:06:30
	We're over here. One thing, one change we did make was.	00:06:32
	The snow is in perpetuity, so it won't expire like it was doing before. So we with 30 days notice we can terminate, but at least	00:06:37
	we don't have to renew it every two years and also.	00:06:42
	Under the job descriptions by ISO rating.	00:06:47
	They're adding to the fire recruit job descriptions, adding a couple items and that will also.	00:06:52
	Help us going with 10 points out of how many?	00:06:59
	There's just a bunch of points for OK, yeah, you know that that's that's.	00:07:03
	Money directly in people's pockets, just like the once we get the floodplain done, it'll be decreasing the insurance for that,	00:07:07
	right? So that's important to do. And the other thing Donald had mentioned was the.	00:07:12
	That's something we're already doing with our recruits as far as the the state requiring them so many hours for driver training.	00:07:18
	We're already doing that, but we didn't have it in our job descriptions.	00:07:23
	So we just wanted to add that to that so we can get those that you're doing. OK. OK.	00:07:26
	All in favor. Thank you. Thank you.	00:07:30
	The next item is a kind of an exciting item. I don't know if you read all those stories in the journal.	00:07:33
	About and we've already known about this, but they never spoke to us about it. 200 people moving.	00:07:39
	Into Albuquerque because the VA is doing a $2 billion expansion over the next 10 years. And and I looked at it and go, Huh?	00:07:45
	There are, and they wanna move to Albuquerque well.	00:07:54
	Our biggest problem in my opinion here, is that we don't have housing.	00:07:57
	And we should have been working on trying to get somebody to.	00:08:02
	Come and help us.	00:08:05
	Do a planned community.	00:08:07
	When a public private.	00:08:10
	Way of doing it.	00:08:12
	Cheryl Marlow is a real estate agent and I'm going to induce her.	00:08:13
	To the City Council and we're working towards getting a relationship.	00:08:17
	Between someone like her and I could have to say this is not an exclusive, but this is first of.	00:08:21
	Our first introduction to trying to get.	00:08:27
	Housing.	00:08:30
	A metal income upper income type housing built and I'm recommending by the Rodeo grounds.	00:08:31
	And because Hwy. 60 is going to get built.	00:08:37
	It's gonna have an entrance exit. They'll have good approach.	00:08:40
	And so Cheryl has a lot of collection of connections, and she'll tell us about it.	00:08:43
	And there's a start in trying to find someone.	00:08:48
	To to.	00:08:52
	Planet.	00:08:53
	To to develop it as a developer. Contractors to build houses.	00:08:54
	And then real estate agents just market it.	00:08:59
	And we're trying to get in front of the NRL. I've talked to President Lopez, I've talked to.	00:09:02
	Region president Jerry Armijo.	00:09:08
	And we're trying to get a private meeting with the NRO.	00:09:11
	Has to.	00:09:14
	What happened?	00:09:16
	The villas at the plains of Saint Augustine is not in Rio Rancho.	00:09:17
	And we would hope that some of these people that are going to be working at high paying jobs at the newspaper quote.	00:09:22
	Would be living here in Sakura.	00:09:29
	And so we're trying to fulfill what I think is probably the number one thing.	00:09:31
	And I can't bring a target here.	00:09:36
	You know, and I can't bring up.	00:09:38
	Costco.	00:09:40
	Or whatever they want to do in Albuquerque. But then again, I'm not.	00:09:41
	Getting people.	00:09:45
	Stabbed and shot here every night either.	00:09:46
	So I think that's something that we want to propose to them, but we're trying to get a meeting with NRO. But right now surely you	00:09:49
	want to tell us a little bit about what we've been talking about.	00:09:53
	The microphone I haven't.	00:09:59
	No, you gotta use the mic. What? You're in, You're in Sakura.	00:10:00
	With that, Mister Salomi.	00:10:05
	Uh.	00:10:06
	There was a There's a company in town that writes software for government agencies.	00:10:07
	And they hire probably 7 folks from tech and software programmers. They've.	00:10:12
	Over the past 2530 years, they've probably added about $40 million to Sephora. They just received another grant.	00:10:19
	That would allow them to write software for the Air Force.	00:10:29
	Which would which would increase their staff by 16 people.	00:10:32
	And so he's a local.	00:10:37
	Our local programmer.	00:10:39
	And he wanted those folks to live here.	00:10:41
	And write programs here.	00:10:46
	But they cited 2.	00:10:48
	Two things. The housing issue.	00:10:50
	As well as the school issue.	00:10:53
	And I know the housing issues that we're gonna address that right now, but as far as the school issue goes.	00:10:55
	We we have very good schools.	00:11:01
	But I don't think we're doing enough.	00:11:04
	To promote our schools.	00:11:07
	Because there are a lot of very highly successful graduates.	00:11:09
	From our school system that went from pre-K all the way through 12 through.	00:11:14
	Higher Ed.	00:11:19
	I don't think we're letting folks know.	00:11:21
	What's available to them? They see some test scores, they see some.	00:11:24
	Some grades that the state throws out there, and they're they're, they're they kind of shy away from here. But you know what? We	00:11:29
	have a whole bunch of very highly successful kids and men and grown-ups and adults.	00:11:35
	That they went to school here and and did just fine. So I think we as a council need to work with the schools and promoting.	00:11:43
	How good our schools are not how bad they are or how, how, how they're not meeting the grade at the the New Mexico Public	00:11:51
	Department has established.	00:11:57
	So I think that we should maybe put some because education is economic development.	00:12:03
	And so if we put some money into that, have somebody a professional person.	00:12:08
	Really promote it with the schools.	00:12:12
	And say, you know what, come on down, we have good schools here, you know, and we get the housing going. I think it can really	00:12:14
	maybe change the game for us. That's and I think Cheryl.	00:12:19
	Is that market or two And I I think that'll that'll help us, but anyway go ahead just.	00:12:24
	So.	00:12:28
	City Council members and the public thank you for allowing me just a couple of minutes. And if I.	00:12:29
	Go too long. We have a plan over here, right? So let me introduce myself. Some of you might know my voice or my name from I'm the	00:12:34
	KB real estate expert.	00:12:38
	I was on with TJ last week for an hour. I'm on with Bob Clark every week, so I definitely am not the average realtor and I and I	00:12:42
	say that with all due respect, I have a lot of great.	00:12:46
	Coworkers and people in the industry, tremendous respect for what they lack is they don't have the development background. And so	00:12:52
	after Joshua Kearns introduced me to the pro, to the potential of what you all needed in seeking someone that could help.	00:12:59
	And by the way, a good friend of his is a really rock star realtor, doesn't know anything about development. OK, So what we bring	00:13:07
	to the table is a big background in development. I've been a realtor for 37 years, 31 years. Of that, I've been involved in	00:13:12
	significant subdivisions, starting from Roger.	00:13:18
	Helping create the master plan, open space, roads, et cetera. Bringing in developers and builders. I know all of them. They know	00:13:23
	me and they respect me. Doesn't mean I don't trust them. That's another story.	00:13:29
	So we've talked about some sort of a loose agreement that I could comfortably promote a possibility of bringing money into your	00:13:36
	city by getting a developer builder because you need housing.	00:13:43
	And do I say the same name correctly? Mr. Solomon, did I say it correct? He talked about the schools. Now that's something I	00:13:50
	haven't yet researched, that they can't be any worse than Albuquerque. I'm just telling you right. So quality of life, we were	00:13:57
	talking about Albuquerque and even Los Lunas land where you've got a lot of growth there. People would prefer to live in Socorro.	00:14:04
	Right. I drove in today and they have the little farmers market and it's very that's friendly.	00:14:12
	You don't have the crime issues. So one of the things that we bring to the table, one of the things we see is you need housing,	00:14:18
	you're losing money for the city.	00:14:22
	You're losing quality members of the community.	00:14:27
	You have a hospital to draw from.	00:14:30
	You have New Mexico Tech, one of the most successful people I know. Commercial development, by the way.	00:14:33
	Went to New Mexico Step Tech. He's worth $100 million and started with 0.	00:14:38
	OK, we just came from Sequoia. He's not Sacro brand bread. He's a graduate.	00:14:43
	One of the most successful people I know. You guys have a great story.	00:14:48
	If we become, if we come to an agreement that I can become involved, I'm going to ask you to help me create the story about why	00:14:51
	Sapporo and we're going to.	00:14:55

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	Testing.	00:00:03
	Testing Testing 112.	00:00:05
	You're right.	00:00:10
	This is the City of Socorro City Council Meeting October 3rd, 2023. Roll call please. Mayor Basket here. Councillor Tavis Lopez	00:00:11
	here.	00:00:15
	Councillor Dean, Councillor Fleming? Councillor Hicks? Yeah, Councillor Ocampo.	00:00:20
	Councillor Ogeen.	00:00:26
	Councillor Romero here, Councillor Solomon, we have a quorum alright for the Pledge of Allegiance.	00:00:28
	Of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands.	00:00:40
	One nation under God, indivisible and justice for all.	00:00:45
	The mayor.	00:00:51
	Make a motion. We do the consent agenda.	00:00:54
	Second moved and seconded discussion.	00:00:58
	All in favor, aye.	00:01:01
	Public forum.	00:01:04
	Who is here?	00:01:06
	I had I had a request from the farmers market that I just met with before the meeting.	00:01:08
	And they wanted a porta potty.	00:01:13
	Which we're going to try to work on, but it can't be a permanent one.	00:01:16
	And they also wanted signage and a perhaps a speed bump.	00:01:19
	And I'm going to have them meet with Lefty.	00:01:23
	And make sure that the.	00:01:25
	Pam.	00:01:27
	I don't know her last name, but.	00:01:28
	We'll get in touch with him by doing something about the.	00:01:30
	The.	00:01:33
	Circulation of traffic is what their biggest worry is.	00:01:34
	And so I just let you know they wanted to be on the public forum if they were kind enough to meet with me before that, so.	00:01:38
	And we took care of that.	00:01:44
	Anybody else at the public forum?	00:01:45
	I have one of my relatives from Iceland here who's taking pictures, so don't mind if he does.	00:01:50
	He's married to my niece. He's a doctor in Iceland.	00:01:55
	Ohh, wonderful. And he's a cinematographer. They wanna.	00:01:58
	Prize for the best.	00:02:02
	Horror movie.	00:02:04
	And they accepted the prize in Vegas just last weekend and they're visiting with us for the week.	00:02:07
	And I'm showing them how to put up political signs. Congratulations.	00:02:12
	Actually, he's he's doing it. He's pounding. I'm sorry. And I'm not letting you know anyway.	00:02:18
	Welcome.	00:02:24
	The.	00:02:25
	Resolution for.	00:02:27
	TPF Fowler St. Donald. Did I get that sign?	00:02:28
	Yes, Mr. Mayor, we actually.	00:02:32
	Approved this at the last meeting, but I jumped the gun and didn't have the control number on it from the highway department, so	00:02:35
	we need to get it reapproved.	00:02:38
	Did I DocuSign it?	00:02:44
	Oh, that was for our actual transportation department. OK. And I emailed the director and I've not heard back. OK, Mr. Oldham,	00:02:45
	I'll follow up on that.	00:02:49
	And Motion to Approve Resolution #23-10-038.	00:02:54
	2nd.	00:02:58
	Moved and seconded discussion.	00:02:59
	All in favor, aye.	00:03:01
	We're also doing another St.	00:03:03
	Now that was Fowler St. That's up there by Spanish Hills.	00:03:05
	This one is capital Outlay for Leroy.	00:03:08
	Walkway Cassidy and Mary Place No.	00:03:10
	Yes, Sir. We've been waiting on the grant agreements to come in for capital outlay. It was approved back in.	00:03:13
	February, and it takes this long. We're still waiting on the grant agreement for Finley Gym.	00:03:19
	We have the grant agreement for the police cars and.	00:03:24
	Like I said, now we have this one. So I believe Lloyd's planning on them starting the work, you know, this month once it cools	00:03:30
	down a little more.	00:03:33
	And once the company gets into Core, we're going to work on some speed hump requests along with these streets.	00:03:37
	Mr.	00:03:43
	Remember.	00:03:45
	When we approve resolution #23-10-03B for 2nd that.	00:03:45
	Moved and seconded discussion.	00:03:52
	All in favor? Aye. So we got another DFA, Law enforcement fund Grant. Ruby, you want to tell us a little bit about that? You know,	00:03:53
	we initially had one for.	00:03:57
	750,000 and.	00:04:02
	Chief has filled out his.	00:04:04
	Staff already?	00:04:06
	But this one is also for police and ancillary.	00:04:08
	Yeah, Mayor Council. So we applied for extra position, so we got 393. So I'm working with.	00:04:12
	Intel and we're looking at some different positions. We're probably going to add an officer. I know the schools are wanting an	00:04:18
	SRO, so we're seeing what we could do with that money, but it's 100%.	00:04:24
	Second year 50% and then 25. So we have to have positions that are sustained.	00:04:30
	You know, going forward. So that's what we're working on.	00:04:34
	This is what this grant is for. How much is it 393?	00:04:37
	Mr. Romero, will we approve resolution #23-10-03C second that moved and seconded and just to clear as 393,000 on top of the 750	00:04:42
	that we got? Yeah. So all in favor, aye.	00:04:49
	And then the fire department automatic aid agreement chief.	00:04:57
	Tell us a little bit about that.	00:05:02
	All that, all that that is, is we're just updating our old automatic agreement with San Antonio Midway Fire Department.	00:05:08
	How that works is if we get our structure fired in the city.	00:05:15
	Or in the county, dispatch is automatically dispatching all departments to respond.	00:05:18
	And what that does, it helps us with our ISO rating when it comes when the fire, the state fire Marshall comes down to.	00:05:25
	Inspect us.	00:05:31
	And it gives us points and in order for it to in order for us to qualify for those points, we have to. We had to update that	00:05:32
	because the last time that was up there was back in 2014 I believe.	00:05:36
	So all we're doing is just updating it.	00:05:41
	So that's what that's about and that just means more funding for us, so we can get that. Isolating from A4 to a three, you're	00:05:44
	talking like $60,000 more. Do you know what I saw rating we have now or 4.	00:05:49
	And then he hired the Can we get the lower or higher?	00:05:55
	When you what's better, the lower, the lower the rate and the better. We're trying to get to a three right now. We were 10 points	00:05:59
	short of a three from the last time.	00:06:03
	And this is one of the ways that the state fire Marshall came and did a pre inspection.	00:06:08
	And he kind of helped us and told us which ways we can get.	00:06:13
	Points to help us get to that and that directly affects our insurance rates, insurance potential.	00:06:16
	And Mr. Mr. Mr. again motion we approve the fire department automatic agreement 2nd and Mr. Mayor moved and seconded discussion	00:06:21
	Mr. Bucca.	00:06:25
	Just manage, Donald.	00:06:30
	We're over here. One thing, one change we did make was.	00:06:32
	The snow is in perpetuity, so it won't expire like it was doing before. So we with 30 days notice we can terminate, but at least	00:06:37
	we don't have to renew it every two years and also.	00:06:42
	Under the job descriptions by ISO rating.	00:06:47
	They're adding to the fire recruit job descriptions, adding a couple items and that will also.	00:06:52
	Help us going with 10 points out of how many?	00:06:59
	There's just a bunch of points for OK, yeah, you know that that's that's.	00:07:03
	Money directly in people's pockets, just like the once we get the floodplain done, it'll be decreasing the insurance for that,	00:07:07
	right? So that's important to do. And the other thing Donald had mentioned was the.	00:07:12
	That's something we're already doing with our recruits as far as the the state requiring them so many hours for driver training.	00:07:18
	We're already doing that, but we didn't have it in our job descriptions.	00:07:23
	So we just wanted to add that to that so we can get those that you're doing. OK. OK.	00:07:26
	All in favor. Thank you. Thank you.	00:07:30
	The next item is a kind of an exciting item. I don't know if you read all those stories in the journal.	00:07:33
	About and we've already known about this, but they never spoke to us about it. 200 people moving.	00:07:39
	Into Albuquerque because the VA is doing a $2 billion expansion over the next 10 years. And and I looked at it and go, Huh?	00:07:45
	There are, and they wanna move to Albuquerque well.	00:07:54
	Our biggest problem in my opinion here, is that we don't have housing.	00:07:57
	And we should have been working on trying to get somebody to.	00:08:02
	Come and help us.	00:08:05
	Do a planned community.	00:08:07
	When a public private.	00:08:10
	Way of doing it.	00:08:12
	Cheryl Marlow is a real estate agent and I'm going to induce her.	00:08:13
	To the City Council and we're working towards getting a relationship.	00:08:17
	Between someone like her and I could have to say this is not an exclusive, but this is first of.	00:08:21
	Our first introduction to trying to get.	00:08:27
	Housing.	00:08:30
	A metal income upper income type housing built and I'm recommending by the Rodeo grounds.	00:08:31
	And because Hwy. 60 is going to get built.	00:08:37
	It's gonna have an entrance exit. They'll have good approach.	00:08:40
	And so Cheryl has a lot of collection of connections, and she'll tell us about it.	00:08:43
	And there's a start in trying to find someone.	00:08:48
	To to.	00:08:52
	Planet.	00:08:53
	To to develop it as a developer. Contractors to build houses.	00:08:54
	And then real estate agents just market it.	00:08:59
	And we're trying to get in front of the NRL. I've talked to President Lopez, I've talked to.	00:09:02
	Region president Jerry Armijo.	00:09:08
	And we're trying to get a private meeting with the NRO.	00:09:11
	Has to.	00:09:14
	What happened?	00:09:16
	The villas at the plains of Saint Augustine is not in Rio Rancho.	00:09:17
	And we would hope that some of these people that are going to be working at high paying jobs at the newspaper quote.	00:09:22
	Would be living here in Sakura.	00:09:29
	And so we're trying to fulfill what I think is probably the number one thing.	00:09:31
	And I can't bring a target here.	00:09:36
	You know, and I can't bring up.	00:09:38
	Costco.	00:09:40
	Or whatever they want to do in Albuquerque. But then again, I'm not.	00:09:41
	Getting people.	00:09:45
	Stabbed and shot here every night either.	00:09:46
	So I think that's something that we want to propose to them, but we're trying to get a meeting with NRO. But right now surely you	00:09:49
	want to tell us a little bit about what we've been talking about.	00:09:53
	The microphone I haven't.	00:09:59
	No, you gotta use the mic. What? You're in, You're in Sakura.	00:10:00
	With that, Mister Salomi.	00:10:05
	Uh.	00:10:06
	There was a There's a company in town that writes software for government agencies.	00:10:07
	And they hire probably 7 folks from tech and software programmers. They've.	00:10:12
	Over the past 2530 years, they've probably added about $40 million to Sephora. They just received another grant.	00:10:19
	That would allow them to write software for the Air Force.	00:10:29
	Which would which would increase their staff by 16 people.	00:10:32
	And so he's a local.	00:10:37
	Our local programmer.	00:10:39
	And he wanted those folks to live here.	00:10:41
	And write programs here.	00:10:46
	But they cited 2.	00:10:48
	Two things. The housing issue.	00:10:50
	As well as the school issue.	00:10:53
	And I know the housing issues that we're gonna address that right now, but as far as the school issue goes.	00:10:55
	We we have very good schools.	00:11:01
	But I don't think we're doing enough.	00:11:04
	To promote our schools.	00:11:07
	Because there are a lot of very highly successful graduates.	00:11:09
	From our school system that went from pre-K all the way through 12 through.	00:11:14
	Higher Ed.	00:11:19
	I don't think we're letting folks know.	00:11:21
	What's available to them? They see some test scores, they see some.	00:11:24
	Some grades that the state throws out there, and they're they're, they're they kind of shy away from here. But you know what? We	00:11:29
	have a whole bunch of very highly successful kids and men and grown-ups and adults.	00:11:35
	That they went to school here and and did just fine. So I think we as a council need to work with the schools and promoting.	00:11:43
	How good our schools are not how bad they are or how, how, how they're not meeting the grade at the the New Mexico Public	00:11:51
	Department has established.	00:11:57
	So I think that we should maybe put some because education is economic development.	00:12:03
	And so if we put some money into that, have somebody a professional person.	00:12:08
	Really promote it with the schools.	00:12:12
	And say, you know what, come on down, we have good schools here, you know, and we get the housing going. I think it can really	00:12:14
	maybe change the game for us. That's and I think Cheryl.	00:12:19
	Is that market or two And I I think that'll that'll help us, but anyway go ahead just.	00:12:24
	So.	00:12:28
	City Council members and the public thank you for allowing me just a couple of minutes. And if I.	00:12:29
	Go too long. We have a plan over here, right? So let me introduce myself. Some of you might know my voice or my name from I'm the	00:12:34
	KB real estate expert.	00:12:38
	I was on with TJ last week for an hour. I'm on with Bob Clark every week, so I definitely am not the average realtor and I and I	00:12:42
	say that with all due respect, I have a lot of great.	00:12:46
	Coworkers and people in the industry, tremendous respect for what they lack is they don't have the development background. And so	00:12:52
	after Joshua Kearns introduced me to the pro, to the potential of what you all needed in seeking someone that could help.	00:12:59
	And by the way, a good friend of his is a really rock star realtor, doesn't know anything about development. OK, So what we bring	00:13:07
	to the table is a big background in development. I've been a realtor for 37 years, 31 years. Of that, I've been involved in	00:13:12
	significant subdivisions, starting from Roger.	00:13:18
	Helping create the master plan, open space, roads, et cetera. Bringing in developers and builders. I know all of them. They know	00:13:23
	me and they respect me. Doesn't mean I don't trust them. That's another story.	00:13:29
	So we've talked about some sort of a loose agreement that I could comfortably promote a possibility of bringing money into your	00:13:36
	city by getting a developer builder because you need housing.	00:13:43
	And do I say the same name correctly? Mr. Solomon, did I say it correct? He talked about the schools. Now that's something I	00:13:50
	haven't yet researched, that they can't be any worse than Albuquerque. I'm just telling you right. So quality of life, we were	00:13:57
	talking about Albuquerque and even Los Lunas land where you've got a lot of growth there. People would prefer to live in Socorro.	00:14:04
	Right. I drove in today and they have the little farmers market and it's very that's friendly.	00:14:12
	You don't have the crime issues. So one of the things that we bring to the table, one of the things we see is you need housing,	00:14:18
	you're losing money for the city.	00:14:22
	You're losing quality members of the community.	00:14:27
	You have a hospital to draw from.	00:14:30
	You have New Mexico Tech, one of the most successful people I know. Commercial development, by the way.	00:14:33
	Went to New Mexico Step Tech. He's worth $100 million and started with 0.	00:14:38
	OK, we just came from Sequoia. He's not Sacro brand bread. He's a graduate.	00:14:43
	One of the most successful people I know. You guys have a great story.	00:14:48
	If we become, if we come to an agreement that I can become involved, I'm going to ask you to help me create the story about why	00:14:51
	Sapporo and we're going to.	00:14:55