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	Today February 6, 2024 roll call please. Mayor Basker here counter Travis Lopez.	00:00:00
	Councillor Dean.	00:00:06
	Councillor Fleming.	00:00:09
	We do have a quorum.	00:00:19
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.	00:00:25
	And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.	00:00:29
	Mr. Mayor.	00:00:41
	Mr. Romero will approve the consent agenda.	00:00:43
	Moved and seconded. I just want to say that we have a couple of sick people.	00:00:48
	That didn't make it to the meeting.	00:00:52
	And.	00:00:54
	Although you have a point. Yes, Sir, we're gonna, we're gonna remove that.	00:00:55
	Vacation of the portion of South California St. 7B. I'm going to remove that from the agenda.	00:01:01
	That's it 6.	00:01:08
	06.	00:01:11
	70.	00:01:12
	If you could make it, if you somebody make a move motion to make that amendment.	00:01:15
	Seconded with the amendment, all in favor.	00:01:21
	Aye, aye.	00:01:24
	Can I just ask?	00:01:27
	Why I just?	00:01:28
	Where are they making a motion to remove it? I just don't know. The administration is asking for it to be removed, and Miss Travis	00:01:30
	Lopez is kind enough to allow that amendment.	00:01:35
	OK.	00:01:40
	The rest of the story is, is that the person who?	00:01:45
	We're vacating to.	00:01:48
	We had worked with them to try to get some exchange.	00:01:50
	Didn't workout and at this point I don't think city property could.	00:01:54
	Vacated just for free.	00:01:58
	So that's I think, I think probably the City Council would agree with that, but that's why I didn't want to start into a big.	00:02:00
	Just to answer your question. Thank you.	00:02:07
	The OK, we have public forum.	00:02:10
	We would have, we have everybody. How about starting from the front? But I remember I gave you 2 minutes.	00:02:14
	So I know you've got a prepared statement. My name is John Walker. I was here too.	00:02:21
	16th of last month.	00:02:29
	For the meeting where I discuss.	00:02:33
	Alternative of using the Smith Superstore site for Community Center and EMS and emergency shelter at this point in time.	00:02:36
	Well, I expanded on that sense in.	00:02:47
	Polar Linear Photo Cell.	00:02:52
	Solar collection.	00:02:57
	And and and came up with some numbers of how much power the facility.	00:02:59
	Produce during winter, summer, and you know it's three 365 days.	00:03:06
	And.	00:03:18
	The whole point of this exercise is to show that this city has a whole has a big resource of solar power that can be expanded on	00:03:20
	existing rooftops. You know, you look at Walmart, you look at other facilities where.	00:03:27
	You know, solar power could be.	00:03:38
	Spread into the grid could be.	00:03:42
	You know, supplemental.	00:03:46
	Local grid.	00:03:48
	And I'm also talking about.	00:03:51
	Items such as.	00:03:58
	They're based on my original path where I use. Organic ranking cycle I use.	00:04:01
	Water heating systems.	00:04:08
	All based on this one hat and I I wrote.	00:04:10
	April of 2021 that New York's patent that I have. I guess I'm out of time already. Well, not Mr. Walker. What I've recommended	00:04:15
	earlier before the meeting was why don't you come?	00:04:21
	If you can go to Wednesday at 11, I'll be here tomorrow. Yes, Sir. I'll be here tomorrow morning at 11:00. Let's meet and we can	00:04:27
	discuss this. And I will tell you we did get a hold of the person who owns the Smith's building.	00:04:32
	It's a cannabis company, Ultra and Mr. Duke Rodriguez and we've talked to him so I can give you more information and that way we	00:04:38
	can bring a better.	00:04:42
	More cohesive.	00:04:47
	Explanation of your.	00:04:50
	Projects. Now the main thing is to generate.	00:04:53
	Resources is just computer, this community can be.	00:04:58
	I'm with you also. So let's talk about it tomorrow. Yes, Sir. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you for coming again. Did you ride	00:05:03
	your bicycle?	00:05:06
	OK, good. Good. Good. I'm glad you didn't.	00:05:10
	Who's next? Yes, Sir. Come on.	00:05:15
	We got the forget me not.	00:05:17
	Mayor Raster, Thanks for having me, esteemed council. My name is Don Medeiros along with Roxanne Scott. We've founded the Forget	00:05:21
	Me Not Try Out of services, which is.	00:05:26
	The Forgive Me Not Thrift Store, as well as the Forgive Me Not Veterans Park, where we now have six homes.	00:05:31
	Church.	00:05:38
	Child hall, laundry facility and so on. We propose to have 12 by the end of the year and be out of debt.	00:05:39
	That's with no government funding. However, we also just recently opened the Forgive Me Not Veterans Center, which is here in the	00:05:46
	middle of town. We have two recently have two employees that are veteran service officers.	00:05:52
	Trained already. We have doctor Charlene Montoya. Anyways, where I'm going with this is not just what we're doing, but I came here	00:05:58
	to thank Mayor Basker for this continued support, even though we don't see eye to eye on a lot of things.	00:06:05
	He's been like I like Toby.	00:06:13
	There you go. There you go. That's a good thing. But you know what? You haven't lied to me.	00:06:16
	Event up front and you've been there to be supportive. Couple things fell out, but you know what the van that the City Council and	00:06:22
	the mayor have given us?	00:06:26
	Has enabled us now because the VA no longer has transportation going through the VA. So with our van we actually can take, we're	00:06:32
	going to be making two trips a week. It's a 10 passenger van. It runs beautifully.	00:06:38
	And we couldn't do that. We couldn't transport these vets. We couldn't provide a service that so desperately needed.	00:06:45
	That's just one part. That's why I started with our triad, but the donation of the van?	00:06:51
	Is so tremendously appreciated that I wanted to come here in person and say.	00:06:57
	Thank you for your support. Now with that, I did bring a couple of Willie. Oh my goodness.	00:07:03
	So I just wanted to say thank you.	00:07:10
	Thank you for those comments and you know I would recommend to.	00:07:14
	That when the Budget Committee meets.	00:07:17
	Yes Sir, I think you should.	00:07:19
	The Thank you.	00:07:22
	If you can, the Budget Committee meets, if you would put together some sort of a budget. We would like to support that financially	00:07:26
	outstanding outreach social program, right. And I think Mr. Fleming is still the chairman of the Budget Committee, so and Ruby, I	00:07:31
	think.	00:07:36
	We should entertain. I mean within reason if you and you know you're not going to get 100%. But if we can start a program where we	00:07:42
	continue to fund you and you've already shown that you can do this. I was always because of that, but you didn't back up. But you	00:07:49
	should listen. You're ensuring you're doing it and I think we would be more than happy to try to do a routine financial infusion	00:07:56
	through our city budget. Outstanding. I'd. I'd look forward to that. However, do you remember the first thing you said to me?	00:08:03
	What it has to do if it has to Am I out of time? No, no, I'm just saying the office this when you.	00:08:11
	I would prefer if it dealt with our entire homeless problem.	00:08:18
	You know, I listen to that because you listen to me.	00:08:25
	We actually had someone come forward and they're looking at donated another 160 acres. This veteran thing has not been working and	00:08:28
	there's a chance we can expound, you know, in the near future.	00:08:33
	To help with what you were talking about.	00:08:39
	I think the city.	00:08:42
	When we got people like yourself, they're actually doing.	00:08:43
	We'd be more than happy, I think that.	00:08:47
	Jump in and financially help? Absolutely.	00:08:49
	Thank you and I appreciate. Thank you. Thank you.	00:08:53
	Thank you.	00:08:57
	Mr. Williams.	00:08:59
	Prepared statements. So first I would like to take this time.	00:09:08
	For two separate announcements.	00:09:14
	Personally, I would like to apologize to the mayor and the City Council.	00:09:17
	For my post on social media.	00:09:20
	I'm passionate and committed to my work.	00:09:23
	Socorro Electric Cooperative and the Clock members I was hired.	00:09:26
	Serve I have let my emotions.	00:09:30
	Get the best of me while online.	00:09:34
	And I look forward to the communications.	00:09:37
	Or communicating Sec's perspective on the issues at hand in a professional manner moving forward. So I do apologize. Thank you,	00:09:40
	Mayor, City Council.	00:09:45
	2nd.	00:09:53
	I'm here to announce that Sakura Electric Cooperative will be having a special board meeting with Guzman Energy and Socorro	00:09:55
	Electric Cooperatives Board of Trustees on January 16th.	00:10:00
	At 2:00 PM.	00:10:06
	Outside Everywhere. Yes, February 16.	00:10:09
	20/24 at 2:00 PM in our board, board.	00:10:13
	At 310 Abeda Ave. All members, all Co-op members are welcome to attend.	00:10:17
	Our board meetings period.	00:10:24
	Doesn't matter when we hold them is if you want to come, you can and everybody's welcome to and invited.	00:10:26
	And that that definitely means that each and everyone of you. Since you're all a member of Socorro Electric Cooperative, you're	00:10:35
	more than welcome to attend and join this meeting also.	00:10:40
	Thank you, thank you for coming and we want to invite all the councillors. We do want to know that if there's a quorum.	00:10:47
	That we ad.	00:10:56
	Just so that.	00:10:58
	That's just the that's the rule, Right, Paul? Yes, Sir. Yeah. If you'd let us know and then we could we could advertise it. So the	00:11:00
	so the 16th will be.	00:11:04
	What is that? That's the Thursday.	00:11:09
	Thursday, Friday, Friday, Friday. OK, so Friday. A week from this Friday.	00:11:13
	At 2:00.	00:11:18
	So if.	00:11:20
	If they do or they don't come, you might just put that in the paper. Follow saying that.	00:11:22
	City Council members will be.	00:11:27
	At a meeting of the Saguaro Electric.	00:11:30
	And there may or may not be a quorum, but we might as well just announce that there.	00:11:32
	It might just be.	00:11:36
	Mr. Fleming.	00:11:38
	Do you have enough room in your boardroom?	00:11:41
	If you have more.	00:11:44
	40 people show up.	00:11:47
	We have the necessary accommodation. If not we can we can set something up where we can stream or do something to The more the	00:11:51
	merrier if we can't accommodate, is it was it gonna be on zoom?	00:11:59
	No, because I won't be able to attend. I'm going to be in Santa Fe, but anyway.	00:12:09
	No, I was just wondering if they didn't have the space, is there a space that then would be a little, I think we've got other	00:12:17
	places.	00:12:20
	OK.	00:12:25
	But you do film it. I can probably watch it later on.	00:12:29
	Yeah, you have it on your link.	00:12:33
	Yeah, yeah, I'm going to tell you, I'm not going to be able to make it.	00:12:37
	Because I've got.	00:12:43
	The last day of the session is on the 16th actually.	00:12:45
	Have to be up there.	00:12:48
	Mr. Miller.	00:12:51
	Mr. Mayor, Councillors, I'll cut to the chase. Obviously very busy tonight so I would like the city to consider stop using the use	00:12:58
	of the firing range.	00:13:04
	That the city operates north of the Florida.	00:13:10
	It's located on county land and granted it's only subject to county ordinances then.	00:13:15
	But for about a decade, I've been trying to figure out where the sound of gunfire has been coming from from around my house, and	00:13:21
	I've been giving Dan Romero and Ek Crossbow and other people a pretty hard time thinking it was them only recently after.	00:13:29
	An event I'll describe in a moment.	00:13:37
	Did I find out that it was a city operated range? So I'd like the city not only to consider stop using the range outside, but I	00:13:40
	think that we should consider a resolution to prohibit the use of city property for a gun range.	00:13:47
	Due to environmental reasons and other liability reasons.	00:13:54
	Now to expand on what's been going on.	00:13:58
	Nowhere within our zoning regulations would it be possible to establish a gun range within the city limits without very special	00:14:03
	review zoning, public notice. It's just not even mentioned or considered in any of our zoning.	00:14:10
	Yeah, we operate when it's.	00:14:18
	Outside of Scrooge city limits and my house is the closest house in all of Socorro through that gun range.	00:14:21
	So it's.	00:14:28
	It kind of doesn't make sense. It's kind of a sad irony that we're trying to enforce our own zoning regs, yet we operate something	00:14:30
	that, within our city limits, would be way outside of our zoning rates.	00:14:35
	So what happened was on the 26th of January a few Fridays ago I was working in in my office Friday morning at 6:30 AM.	00:14:41
	Went absolutely pitch black outside and then there's a barrage of gunfire again it obviously.	00:14:52
	Card practice. You know, I know the sounds of target practice. I've used the gun range South of Socorro for 39 years now.	00:14:59
	So and then I couldn't figure it out. So again I got in touch with Van Romero at that point in time 'cause I was irate and he said	00:15:06
	no, I got to figure out who this is because none of our guys. Then at 7:00, seven AM, it continued again.	00:15:13
	Last year in the summertime after 10:00 at night, there was also an event where after dark there was there was fire going on at	00:15:23
	the gun range. Doctor Romero since informed me that police training standards now require live fire training at dark periods and	00:15:29
	light periods and so and with our expansion of the police force in Socorro due to grants and other activities, all positive	00:15:36
	activities.	00:15:42
	I've noticed in the past few years a market increase in the amount of gunfire that I hear. I can hear it everywhere in my house.	00:15:49
	And so on the liability?	00:15:56
	Every gun range generates fugitive lead dust.	00:16:00
	Lead contaminated Soil and lead contaminated SED.	00:16:04
	I made an inquiry to see if we.	00:16:09
	Storm water pollution prevention plan for the firing range. It didn't find one, but it's over an acre and it does have the	00:16:12
	potential to.	00:16:16
	Cause some oxide contamination. I also think it's unwise for us to be generating lead fugitive, anything.	00:16:22
	Directly next to a Superfund site that is being cleaned up for.	00:16:31
	Such things it is possible for us to bias what's going on over there. It is possible for us to taint clean up sampling that may	00:16:36
	take place in the future and we don't know if we're doing it. So hence the the liability issues. So again to summarize.	00:16:44
	Totally supporting the police, totally supportive of police training. This is kind of a big issue. Maybe we I can come back at	00:16:53
	another time and speak more on the topic or meet on the topic. But I really think that we need to stop using the gun range in	00:17:00
	Florida because it has the same impacts on noise. There's no invisible wall there at the city line as if it was in the city	00:17:08
	limits. And a gun range would never be permitted in the city limits in Sakura. So I thank you for your time.	00:17:15
	Happy to answer any questions.	00:17:23
	It's not a discussion topic. This is for public comment. Thank you. Thank you for.	00:17:25
	Anyone else that's not on the agenda would like to make a comment.	00:17:32
	Hey, I am going to do a happy job here.	00:17:38
	And present.	00:17:43
	Let me give you a welcome for appreciation.	00:17:47
	This is a plaque from the City of Socorro and the City Council.	00:17:53
	Presented to Mario Amato, Captain, City of Sakura Fire Department in recognition of 25 years and one month.	00:17:57
	Of dedicated service. Want to present that to you?	00:18:04
	Fire Chief, I really appreciate it if you make a few comments for us and we'll take some pictures up here.	00:18:16
	Here, Mayor, thank you City Councilman. Thank you. Appreciate it. It was a good.	00:18:22
	25 years with the fire department.	00:18:29
	All 25 minute N we're together. And he was. We came up together. He became chief. I was the captain, we got captain pretty close	00:18:32
	to.	00:18:36
	It was a good experience. I think I got to meet all these new guys coming in. It was it was great. I like it. Thank you guys for	00:18:41
	everything and especially thanks to my family, my older kids, they, you know, they put up a lot with me being at work a lot of the	00:18:47
	time and stuff, so.	00:18:53
	I appreciate it.	00:18:59
	Chief, congratulations. Thank you. I just wanted to say thank you on behalf of the fire department myself. Like you said we were.	00:19:01
	We worked here, you know, our whole careers together, 25 years and one month. That's a that's a heck of a.	00:19:08
	Your dedication and your hard work and your.	00:19:15
	Knowledge is definitely so we just want to wish you luck and whatever it is that you're doing.	00:19:18
	Good luck with your family. Get to spend time with your family now and enjoy it.	00:19:23
	Guys, you want to come up? Yes.	00:19:28
	Thank you.	00:19:41
	Very much.	00:20:07
	Well, congratulations. That's great. Thank you.	00:20:17
	I've got three other.	00:20:24
	Plaques, but everybody's I'll, so I'm going to wait for the next.	00:20:26
	Next meetings to do this.	00:20:30
	And if somebody still here?	00:20:34
	OK.	00:20:39
	We shall go on.	00:20:42
	I.	00:20:47
	To.	00:20:47
	After the last.	00:20:50
	Because we did say that we were going to think about doing an extension of the franchise. So the letter that you have here.	00:20:51
	I sent to chairman.	00:20:59
	Which outlined a few other questions that I asked so that we could have.	00:21:01
	Answer for them on the franchise as to how that affects Socorro and and what the.	00:21:06
	Good part of what the Co-op has been doing for the city of Socorro. So I'm hoping that they answer some of these questions then we	00:21:12
	can move on to the.	00:21:16
	Next step, which would be to produce a franchise that would be in compliance with something that is helpful to the city and to the	00:21:21
	Co-op, and the council agrees with it.	00:21:27
	In the meantime.	00:21:33
	Moving on. I'm glad they're meeting with Guzman. We're still moving on.	00:21:35
	With trying to get prices.	00:21:40
	And hopefully by the middle of the OR at the next meeting we'll have.	00:21:43
	Price that we we promised that will bring.	00:21:47
	Again, it's a problem with.	00:21:52
	How is about covad? There is a it?	00:21:54
	Supply issue, but there are two substations going up that I pointed out to Finley. There's one over there across.	00:21:58
	The airport that's a substation that P&M is putting up has a lot of equipment in it, and of course the solar one if you noticed.	00:22:07
	All the lines are already up and running and they've got a plant there. So hopefully they can get in touch with the people who	00:22:15
	bought equipment there and give us a ballpark on what the what the design that they've already put together is going to cost and	00:22:20
	hoping that the next City Council meeting on the 16th.	00:22:24
	No, on the 20th, on on February, on February 20th, I can bring you some information about those costs that we were talking about	00:22:30
	and what the cost of the kilowatts going to be.	00:22:35
	So if you have any questions about this letter, I hope. And it's pretty straightforward as to what we need to collect from them.	00:22:41
	To put together a franchise agreement, and I know Mr. Aldean asked for a franchise agreement. Now I'm going to work on that, but I	00:22:48
	need to get some information here to put that into the franchise agreement.	00:22:53
	As to how much A/C?	00:22:58
	What they've done with a $44 million loan, what their four year plan is for the city of Socorro.	00:23:00
	And.	00:23:06
	Some other technical stuff.	00:23:08
	OK. Any questions?	00:23:11
	OK, the Mr. again.	00:23:15
	Motion We passed a resolution number 240206806 B.	00:23:19
	This is a resolution to get the map project for Otero and we will do that all in favor.	00:23:26
	Of the discussion on this brief overview of what that is.	00:23:33
	So I'm sorry, I didn't hear you.	00:23:37
	Buttero Street is is.	00:23:40
	His break, his wizard Otero that we're doing.	00:23:43
	It has been done once before, but the tremendous amount of traffic it gets going to John Brooks.	00:23:46
	Towards the senior village.	00:23:53
	Has really been pretty bad. So we're trying to get another doing a map project again to kind of get that cleaned.	00:23:57
	But hopefully as you know.	00:24:05
	At the cost, we just, we just did a bid opening.	00:24:08
	Or man.	00:24:14
	And the.	00:24:16
	So if linear feet, we got.	00:24:20
	Was really not even past Valver.	00:24:23
	When we thought we could get into by the Interstate Bridge.	00:24:26
	Luckily went to S.	00:24:30
	We got an extra 400.	00:24:33
	But on a $700,000 project?	00:24:35
	It came in three of $386,000 short.	00:24:39
	So we're hoping that the map project that.	00:24:44
	Will take into account and will get more money and so.	00:24:47
	Trying to do streets now has been really tough as far as how much it's costing.	00:24:51
	That's kind of where.	00:24:58
	All in favor, aye.	00:25:01
	We've been speaking with Mr. Damien Banks.	00:25:04
	Who is a really Exc?	00:25:07
	He is a coach.	00:25:10
	Egaming he works at the High.	00:25:13
	He works with New Mexico.	00:25:16
	And we have put together an agreement with.	00:25:19
	It's not very very expensive, but.	00:25:23
	It is about 20,000.	00:25:27
	Is what we want to do is to support scholarships?	00:25:30
	At the high school student.	00:25:34
	To take his class.	00:25:36
	And get a certificate in.	00:25:39
	And New Mexico Tech is.	00:25:42
	Start a program where they get a degree in gaming.	00:25:45
	And so we're hoping that our high school students.	00:25:49
	Another high school students.	00:25:52
	And in law, he's a he's an award.	00:25:54
	He is 1 gaming PRI.	00:25:57
	He has really, and a very exciting and innovative guy, so we're wanting to.	00:26:00
	Get his proposal and fund it and I think administratively we can afford to fund that.	00:26:09
	Robot, what did I say?	00:26:15
	Will be 20,000.	00:26:18
	Or whether.	00:26:20
	So basically it's going to be $250,250 per month per student.	00:26:23
	And.	00:26:28
	If he does hate students is 2000 a month.	00:26:30
	And I'm hoping to get.	00:26:33
	20,000 to really get him involved with trying to get students involved in gaming. He's already doing it at the high school level.	00:26:35
	This will be like an extra.	00:26:43
	Class that he'll do at Tech.	00:26:45
	And hopefully we'll get them involved in that and these scholarships are going to be available to 6th through 12th grade.	00:26:49
	Mr. Ocampo, I was reading through it earlier and.	00:26:58
	I know it's open to.	00:27:03
	To the it's open county wide. Are we are we like specifically sponsoring like kids in Socorro and the city of Socorro to do it?	00:27:05
	And I still had our high school.	00:27:14
	I think it was. It's countrywide. So you know, I think two things we can do with this.	00:27:18
	One of them, again, as you know, the enrollment at Tech had been down and we're hoping to supplement that with our local students.	00:27:23
	Hopefully, they'll get excited about this and go. And the other thing is to give them an opportunity to see what the New Horizons	00:27:28
	are.	00:27:32
	I see. Gaming stuff is crazy. It's still comfortable. That was my next question was, I know before COVID, he was really excited	00:27:37
	and we had a bunch of.	00:27:42
	E Gaming events planned here in the city to bring people from out of town to the city for these and they're all days multiple day	00:27:48
	deals. A lot like wrestling, like bringing where people are staying the night.	00:27:54
	And he was excited about it. We actually helped him on a couple and then covet hit and I haven't really heard much since then. Has	00:28:01
	he talked about that. It kind of started up again and and we're hoping to.	00:28:06
	To try to get an arena put together.	00:28:12
	And if I can get it at the rodeo.	00:28:15
	I mean, I'm excited about doing these drone.	00:28:18
	Where they have these drone races, where they go through obstacles. So and we're going to conclude the arena and put some heat in	00:28:21
	it. So this all kind of this is a very, very early stage.	00:28:26
	But it's getting our feet wet with him. I think he's going to be kind of our leader on this and I think at Tech also I think	00:28:31
	they're and asked him if you're going to stick around, he said he's got he's pretty popular throughout the the nation and I don't	00:28:37
	know if you saw the article in the newspaper about you and him winning.	00:28:43
	Award on some gaming tournament, but he's won some also. So I think we've got a good guy that that's going to be able to push	00:28:49
	this.	00:28:53
	So this is I mean I.	00:28:59
	Would like your blessing with it. It's kind of an administrative decision out of our own budget that that we're going to spend	00:29:01
	this money and it's going to be a scholarship, it's going to be specifically goal oriented.	00:29:06
	And it'll be a deliverable that he'll have to give us that this kids actually getting the certificate in E gaming.	00:29:12
	Do you want a motion? If you would.	00:29:21
	Second moved and seconded to support the.	00:29:25
	Eclipse.	00:29:27
	Discussion.	00:29:29
	All in favor, aye.	00:29:31
	Very good new business.	00:29:34
	Again, the weather is coming in. We don't have a snow plot where hopefully we'll get the the, the state Highway department to help	00:29:39
	us.	00:29:42
	We needed this year. We're in the process of trying to buy a snow plow.	00:29:46
	I don't know how bad the snow is going to be here, but I understand this weekend things are going to get kind of worse, so.	00:29:51
	That and then.	00:29:58
	The road projects have been halted since till March.	00:29:59
	I've been I hate to Jinx.	00:30:03
	I've been to the legislature.	00:30:05
	It looks like we're going to get some help with Finley quite a lot. We've got some help in trying to get that monument moved and	00:30:07
	landscaping the.	00:30:11
	Interstate.	00:30:17
	Lieutenant Governor, we're hoping to get an ambulance. Hopefully that's going to be funded by the governor also and then we're	00:30:19
	trying to get.	00:30:24
	A grant that.	00:30:31
	That the State Historical Preservation Officer Office.	00:30:33
	Has put together to do the interpretive plan and it's a $250,000 grant to try to.	00:30:39
	Put that museum together over there at the Convention Center so it looks looks good. I think we've got a good chance to get a lot	00:30:45
	of this stuff.	00:30:49
	We did not get.	00:30:54
	To do the natural.	00:30:56
	Feel that?	00:30:58
	Division, we're still working on that.	00:31:00
	We've gotten our three dump trucks that are natural gas still waiting for.	00:31:04
	Garbage trucks that are natural gas, we're looking into an electric rear loader.	00:31:09
	Garbage truck. Those are the things that we're doing right now in the city.	00:31:14
	Any old?	00:31:20
	OK. Executive.	00:31:23
	We've got personnel matters, We've got anything else?	00:31:27
	Job descriptions Whether there is a job? Where's the job description?	00:31:33
	You want to read it? There's two job descriptions.	00:31:37
	The evidence custodian?	00:31:42
	And assistant director at the Water Parks and Streets.	00:31:44
	Mr. Mayor, Mr. Again make a motion to approve the job descriptions.	00:31:53
	Second discussion.	00:31:59
	All in favor.	00:32:01
	OK. Thank you.	00:32:04
	The personnel matters. Alina Chave.	00:32:07
	She has received her associate's degree, going to move to G61. Dustin Moreland.	00:32:10
	Ashland AG.	00:32:16
	And just in Pacheco and Thomas Padilla are the new.	00:32:18
	EMT Firefighter.	00:32:24
	And they all start at A50, except for Thomas Padilla, who goes to a 56.	00:32:27
	He has basic certification.	00:32:34
	Russell Recky. He is evidence custodian. Additional job duty is going to have 59 and Tonio Gonzalez.	00:32:37
	This is a new concept that we've not had. He is not a police officer.	00:32:46
	He is an ex police officer.	00:32:51
	But he'll be working.	00:32:53
	8:00.	00:32:55
	Is Garcia is 8:00.	00:32:58
	8:00 to 4:00 in the morning and his mission.	00:33:00
	Is to check in.	00:33:07
	Business on California.	00:33:10
	And and.	00:33:14
	The ones that are off California St. a little bit.	00:33:16
	And make.	00:33:19
	The problems that they're getting breaking.	00:33:21
	Vending.	00:33:27
	Harassing hotel and motel.	00:33:29
	Holding them up.	00:33:32
	Same thing with the McDonald's and.	00:33:34
	So, his job?	00:33:38
	Will be as a security officer to alert police officers, so he will be going literally.	00:33:39
	Just back and forth from California St.	00:33:44
	From the north to the South, little bit on Bullock.	00:33:48
	And he That's just like I said.	00:33:51
	Position and it's a police position.	00:33:55
	And he's to check in to make sure that.	00:33:58
	At least there's some, you know, the patrol officers got so much more to do during the night, so this is hopefully going to help	00:34:02
	us.	00:34:05
	That James Beasley St. New hire.	00:34:10
	That's it.	00:34:14
	Mr.	00:34:18
	1st.	00:34:22
	We've been seconded discussion.	00:34:23
	Onto.	00:34:26
	Then we have businesses.	00:34:28
	We've got Daylight Electric of Las Lun.	00:34:31
	Aaron Sol.	00:34:35
	Michelle Heron, very behavioral health, Los Victor Mexican food. They're going into the.	00:34:37
	Little Caesars.	00:34:44
	Restaurant Guzman Construction.	00:34:46
	That's they're the ones that are getting ready to, if you look over there at the high school.	00:34:49
	There's dirt work being done now Where?	00:34:55
	Softball Field.	00:34:58
	And the mod.	00:35:00
	They're clearing that already starting to build a new junior high school.	00:35:01
	Extreme Control Magdalena, Miguel Castillo Pest Control.	00:35:06
	Rosie's Burgers in Magdalena Food truck, An Advanced Tower Systems Cliff Arbian.	00:35:10
	Mr. Romero approved the business, registration was read.	00:35:17
	Moved and seconded discussion.	00:35:23
	All in favour.	00:35:25
	So the 20th of February will be another.	00:35:27
	Not bad 632.	00:35:32

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	Today February 6, 2024 roll call please. Mayor Basker here counter Travis Lopez.	00:00:00
	Councillor Dean.	00:00:06
	Councillor Fleming.	00:00:09
	We do have a quorum.	00:00:19
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.	00:00:25
	And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.	00:00:29
	Mr. Mayor.	00:00:41
	Mr. Romero will approve the consent agenda.	00:00:43
	Moved and seconded. I just want to say that we have a couple of sick people.	00:00:48
	That didn't make it to the meeting.	00:00:52
	And.	00:00:54
	Although you have a point. Yes, Sir, we're gonna, we're gonna remove that.	00:00:55
	Vacation of the portion of South California St. 7B. I'm going to remove that from the agenda.	00:01:01
	That's it 6.	00:01:08
	06.	00:01:11
	70.	00:01:12
	If you could make it, if you somebody make a move motion to make that amendment.	00:01:15
	Seconded with the amendment, all in favor.	00:01:21
	Aye, aye.	00:01:24
	Can I just ask?	00:01:27
	Why I just?	00:01:28
	Where are they making a motion to remove it? I just don't know. The administration is asking for it to be removed, and Miss Travis	00:01:30
	Lopez is kind enough to allow that amendment.	00:01:35
	OK.	00:01:40
	The rest of the story is, is that the person who?	00:01:45
	We're vacating to.	00:01:48
	We had worked with them to try to get some exchange.	00:01:50
	Didn't workout and at this point I don't think city property could.	00:01:54
	Vacated just for free.	00:01:58
	So that's I think, I think probably the City Council would agree with that, but that's why I didn't want to start into a big.	00:02:00
	Just to answer your question. Thank you.	00:02:07
	The OK, we have public forum.	00:02:10
	We would have, we have everybody. How about starting from the front? But I remember I gave you 2 minutes.	00:02:14
	So I know you've got a prepared statement. My name is John Walker. I was here too.	00:02:21
	16th of last month.	00:02:29
	For the meeting where I discuss.	00:02:33
	Alternative of using the Smith Superstore site for Community Center and EMS and emergency shelter at this point in time.	00:02:36
	Well, I expanded on that sense in.	00:02:47
	Polar Linear Photo Cell.	00:02:52
	Solar collection.	00:02:57
	And and and came up with some numbers of how much power the facility.	00:02:59
	Produce during winter, summer, and you know it's three 365 days.	00:03:06
	And.	00:03:18
	The whole point of this exercise is to show that this city has a whole has a big resource of solar power that can be expanded on	00:03:20
	existing rooftops. You know, you look at Walmart, you look at other facilities where.	00:03:27
	You know, solar power could be.	00:03:38
	Spread into the grid could be.	00:03:42
	You know, supplemental.	00:03:46
	Local grid.	00:03:48
	And I'm also talking about.	00:03:51
	Items such as.	00:03:58
	They're based on my original path where I use. Organic ranking cycle I use.	00:04:01
	Water heating systems.	00:04:08
	All based on this one hat and I I wrote.	00:04:10
	April of 2021 that New York's patent that I have. I guess I'm out of time already. Well, not Mr. Walker. What I've recommended	00:04:15
	earlier before the meeting was why don't you come?	00:04:21
	If you can go to Wednesday at 11, I'll be here tomorrow. Yes, Sir. I'll be here tomorrow morning at 11:00. Let's meet and we can	00:04:27
	discuss this. And I will tell you we did get a hold of the person who owns the Smith's building.	00:04:32
	It's a cannabis company, Ultra and Mr. Duke Rodriguez and we've talked to him so I can give you more information and that way we	00:04:38
	can bring a better.	00:04:42
	More cohesive.	00:04:47
	Explanation of your.	00:04:50
	Projects. Now the main thing is to generate.	00:04:53
	Resources is just computer, this community can be.	00:04:58
	I'm with you also. So let's talk about it tomorrow. Yes, Sir. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you for coming again. Did you ride	00:05:03
	your bicycle?	00:05:06
	OK, good. Good. Good. I'm glad you didn't.	00:05:10
	Who's next? Yes, Sir. Come on.	00:05:15
	We got the forget me not.	00:05:17
	Mayor Raster, Thanks for having me, esteemed council. My name is Don Medeiros along with Roxanne Scott. We've founded the Forget	00:05:21
	Me Not Try Out of services, which is.	00:05:26
	The Forgive Me Not Thrift Store, as well as the Forgive Me Not Veterans Park, where we now have six homes.	00:05:31
	Church.	00:05:38
	Child hall, laundry facility and so on. We propose to have 12 by the end of the year and be out of debt.	00:05:39
	That's with no government funding. However, we also just recently opened the Forgive Me Not Veterans Center, which is here in the	00:05:46
	middle of town. We have two recently have two employees that are veteran service officers.	00:05:52
	Trained already. We have doctor Charlene Montoya. Anyways, where I'm going with this is not just what we're doing, but I came here	00:05:58
	to thank Mayor Basker for this continued support, even though we don't see eye to eye on a lot of things.	00:06:05
	He's been like I like Toby.	00:06:13
	There you go. There you go. That's a good thing. But you know what? You haven't lied to me.	00:06:16
	Event up front and you've been there to be supportive. Couple things fell out, but you know what the van that the City Council and	00:06:22
	the mayor have given us?	00:06:26
	Has enabled us now because the VA no longer has transportation going through the VA. So with our van we actually can take, we're	00:06:32
	going to be making two trips a week. It's a 10 passenger van. It runs beautifully.	00:06:38
	And we couldn't do that. We couldn't transport these vets. We couldn't provide a service that so desperately needed.	00:06:45
	That's just one part. That's why I started with our triad, but the donation of the van?	00:06:51
	Is so tremendously appreciated that I wanted to come here in person and say.	00:06:57
	Thank you for your support. Now with that, I did bring a couple of Willie. Oh my goodness.	00:07:03
	So I just wanted to say thank you.	00:07:10
	Thank you for those comments and you know I would recommend to.	00:07:14
	That when the Budget Committee meets.	00:07:17
	Yes Sir, I think you should.	00:07:19
	The Thank you.	00:07:22
	If you can, the Budget Committee meets, if you would put together some sort of a budget. We would like to support that financially	00:07:26
	outstanding outreach social program, right. And I think Mr. Fleming is still the chairman of the Budget Committee, so and Ruby, I	00:07:31
	think.	00:07:36
	We should entertain. I mean within reason if you and you know you're not going to get 100%. But if we can start a program where we	00:07:42
	continue to fund you and you've already shown that you can do this. I was always because of that, but you didn't back up. But you	00:07:49
	should listen. You're ensuring you're doing it and I think we would be more than happy to try to do a routine financial infusion	00:07:56
	through our city budget. Outstanding. I'd. I'd look forward to that. However, do you remember the first thing you said to me?	00:08:03
	What it has to do if it has to Am I out of time? No, no, I'm just saying the office this when you.	00:08:11
	I would prefer if it dealt with our entire homeless problem.	00:08:18
	You know, I listen to that because you listen to me.	00:08:25
	We actually had someone come forward and they're looking at donated another 160 acres. This veteran thing has not been working and	00:08:28
	there's a chance we can expound, you know, in the near future.	00:08:33
	To help with what you were talking about.	00:08:39
	I think the city.	00:08:42
	When we got people like yourself, they're actually doing.	00:08:43
	We'd be more than happy, I think that.	00:08:47
	Jump in and financially help? Absolutely.	00:08:49
	Thank you and I appreciate. Thank you. Thank you.	00:08:53
	Thank you.	00:08:57
	Mr. Williams.	00:08:59
	Prepared statements. So first I would like to take this time.	00:09:08
	For two separate announcements.	00:09:14
	Personally, I would like to apologize to the mayor and the City Council.	00:09:17
	For my post on social media.	00:09:20
	I'm passionate and committed to my work.	00:09:23
	Socorro Electric Cooperative and the Clock members I was hired.	00:09:26
	Serve I have let my emotions.	00:09:30
	Get the best of me while online.	00:09:34
	And I look forward to the communications.	00:09:37
	Or communicating Sec's perspective on the issues at hand in a professional manner moving forward. So I do apologize. Thank you,	00:09:40
	Mayor, City Council.	00:09:45
	2nd.	00:09:53
	I'm here to announce that Sakura Electric Cooperative will be having a special board meeting with Guzman Energy and Socorro	00:09:55
	Electric Cooperatives Board of Trustees on January 16th.	00:10:00
	At 2:00 PM.	00:10:06
	Outside Everywhere. Yes, February 16.	00:10:09
	20/24 at 2:00 PM in our board, board.	00:10:13
	At 310 Abeda Ave. All members, all Co-op members are welcome to attend.	00:10:17
	Our board meetings period.	00:10:24
	Doesn't matter when we hold them is if you want to come, you can and everybody's welcome to and invited.	00:10:26
	And that that definitely means that each and everyone of you. Since you're all a member of Socorro Electric Cooperative, you're	00:10:35
	more than welcome to attend and join this meeting also.	00:10:40
	Thank you, thank you for coming and we want to invite all the councillors. We do want to know that if there's a quorum.	00:10:47
	That we ad.	00:10:56
	Just so that.	00:10:58
	That's just the that's the rule, Right, Paul? Yes, Sir. Yeah. If you'd let us know and then we could we could advertise it. So the	00:11:00
	so the 16th will be.	00:11:04
	What is that? That's the Thursday.	00:11:09
	Thursday, Friday, Friday, Friday. OK, so Friday. A week from this Friday.	00:11:13
	At 2:00.	00:11:18
	So if.	00:11:20
	If they do or they don't come, you might just put that in the paper. Follow saying that.	00:11:22
	City Council members will be.	00:11:27
	At a meeting of the Saguaro Electric.	00:11:30
	And there may or may not be a quorum, but we might as well just announce that there.	00:11:32
	It might just be.	00:11:36
	Mr. Fleming.	00:11:38
	Do you have enough room in your boardroom?	00:11:41
	If you have more.	00:11:44
	40 people show up.	00:11:47
	We have the necessary accommodation. If not we can we can set something up where we can stream or do something to The more the	00:11:51
	merrier if we can't accommodate, is it was it gonna be on zoom?	00:11:59
	No, because I won't be able to attend. I'm going to be in Santa Fe, but anyway.	00:12:09
	No, I was just wondering if they didn't have the space, is there a space that then would be a little, I think we've got other	00:12:17
	places.	00:12:20
	OK.	00:12:25
	But you do film it. I can probably watch it later on.	00:12:29
	Yeah, you have it on your link.	00:12:33
	Yeah, yeah, I'm going to tell you, I'm not going to be able to make it.	00:12:37
	Because I've got.	00:12:43
	The last day of the session is on the 16th actually.	00:12:45
	Have to be up there.	00:12:48
	Mr. Miller.	00:12:51
	Mr. Mayor, Councillors, I'll cut to the chase. Obviously very busy tonight so I would like the city to consider stop using the use	00:12:58
	of the firing range.	00:13:04
	That the city operates north of the Florida.	00:13:10
	It's located on county land and granted it's only subject to county ordinances then.	00:13:15
	But for about a decade, I've been trying to figure out where the sound of gunfire has been coming from from around my house, and	00:13:21
	I've been giving Dan Romero and Ek Crossbow and other people a pretty hard time thinking it was them only recently after.	00:13:29
	An event I'll describe in a moment.	00:13:37
	Did I find out that it was a city operated range? So I'd like the city not only to consider stop using the range outside, but I	00:13:40
	think that we should consider a resolution to prohibit the use of city property for a gun range.	00:13:47
	Due to environmental reasons and other liability reasons.	00:13:54
	Now to expand on what's been going on.	00:13:58
	Nowhere within our zoning regulations would it be possible to establish a gun range within the city limits without very special	00:14:03
	review zoning, public notice. It's just not even mentioned or considered in any of our zoning.	00:14:10
	Yeah, we operate when it's.	00:14:18
	Outside of Scrooge city limits and my house is the closest house in all of Socorro through that gun range.	00:14:21
	So it's.	00:14:28
	It kind of doesn't make sense. It's kind of a sad irony that we're trying to enforce our own zoning regs, yet we operate something	00:14:30
	that, within our city limits, would be way outside of our zoning rates.	00:14:35
	So what happened was on the 26th of January a few Fridays ago I was working in in my office Friday morning at 6:30 AM.	00:14:41
	Went absolutely pitch black outside and then there's a barrage of gunfire again it obviously.	00:14:52
	Card practice. You know, I know the sounds of target practice. I've used the gun range South of Socorro for 39 years now.	00:14:59
	So and then I couldn't figure it out. So again I got in touch with Van Romero at that point in time 'cause I was irate and he said	00:15:06
	no, I got to figure out who this is because none of our guys. Then at 7:00, seven AM, it continued again.	00:15:13
	Last year in the summertime after 10:00 at night, there was also an event where after dark there was there was fire going on at	00:15:23
	the gun range. Doctor Romero since informed me that police training standards now require live fire training at dark periods and	00:15:29
	light periods and so and with our expansion of the police force in Socorro due to grants and other activities, all positive	00:15:36
	activities.	00:15:42
	I've noticed in the past few years a market increase in the amount of gunfire that I hear. I can hear it everywhere in my house.	00:15:49
	And so on the liability?	00:15:56
	Every gun range generates fugitive lead dust.	00:16:00
	Lead contaminated Soil and lead contaminated SED.	00:16:04
	I made an inquiry to see if we.	00:16:09
	Storm water pollution prevention plan for the firing range. It didn't find one, but it's over an acre and it does have the	00:16:12
	potential to.	00:16:16
	Cause some oxide contamination. I also think it's unwise for us to be generating lead fugitive, anything.	00:16:22
	Directly next to a Superfund site that is being cleaned up for.	00:16:31
	Such things it is possible for us to bias what's going on over there. It is possible for us to taint clean up sampling that may	00:16:36
	take place in the future and we don't know if we're doing it. So hence the the liability issues. So again to summarize.	00:16:44
	Totally supporting the police, totally supportive of police training. This is kind of a big issue. Maybe we I can come back at	00:16:53
	another time and speak more on the topic or meet on the topic. But I really think that we need to stop using the gun range in	00:17:00
	Florida because it has the same impacts on noise. There's no invisible wall there at the city line as if it was in the city	00:17:08
	limits. And a gun range would never be permitted in the city limits in Sakura. So I thank you for your time.	00:17:15
	Happy to answer any questions.	00:17:23
	It's not a discussion topic. This is for public comment. Thank you. Thank you for.	00:17:25
	Anyone else that's not on the agenda would like to make a comment.	00:17:32
	Hey, I am going to do a happy job here.	00:17:38
	And present.	00:17:43
	Let me give you a welcome for appreciation.	00:17:47
	This is a plaque from the City of Socorro and the City Council.	00:17:53
	Presented to Mario Amato, Captain, City of Sakura Fire Department in recognition of 25 years and one month.	00:17:57
	Of dedicated service. Want to present that to you?	00:18:04
	Fire Chief, I really appreciate it if you make a few comments for us and we'll take some pictures up here.	00:18:16
	Here, Mayor, thank you City Councilman. Thank you. Appreciate it. It was a good.	00:18:22
	25 years with the fire department.	00:18:29
	All 25 minute N we're together. And he was. We came up together. He became chief. I was the captain, we got captain pretty close	00:18:32
	to.	00:18:36
	It was a good experience. I think I got to meet all these new guys coming in. It was it was great. I like it. Thank you guys for	00:18:41
	everything and especially thanks to my family, my older kids, they, you know, they put up a lot with me being at work a lot of the	00:18:47
	time and stuff, so.	00:18:53
	I appreciate it.	00:18:59
	Chief, congratulations. Thank you. I just wanted to say thank you on behalf of the fire department myself. Like you said we were.	00:19:01
	We worked here, you know, our whole careers together, 25 years and one month. That's a that's a heck of a.	00:19:08
	Your dedication and your hard work and your.	00:19:15
	Knowledge is definitely so we just want to wish you luck and whatever it is that you're doing.	00:19:18
	Good luck with your family. Get to spend time with your family now and enjoy it.	00:19:23
	Guys, you want to come up? Yes.	00:19:28
	Thank you.	00:19:41
	Very much.	00:20:07
	Well, congratulations. That's great. Thank you.	00:20:17
	I've got three other.	00:20:24
	Plaques, but everybody's I'll, so I'm going to wait for the next.	00:20:26
	Next meetings to do this.	00:20:30
	And if somebody still here?	00:20:34
	OK.	00:20:39
	We shall go on.	00:20:42
	I.	00:20:47
	To.	00:20:47
	After the last.	00:20:50
	Because we did say that we were going to think about doing an extension of the franchise. So the letter that you have here.	00:20:51
	I sent to chairman.	00:20:59
	Which outlined a few other questions that I asked so that we could have.	00:21:01
	Answer for them on the franchise as to how that affects Socorro and and what the.	00:21:06
	Good part of what the Co-op has been doing for the city of Socorro. So I'm hoping that they answer some of these questions then we	00:21:12
	can move on to the.	00:21:16
	Next step, which would be to produce a franchise that would be in compliance with something that is helpful to the city and to the	00:21:21
	Co-op, and the council agrees with it.	00:21:27
	In the meantime.	00:21:33
	Moving on. I'm glad they're meeting with Guzman. We're still moving on.	00:21:35
	With trying to get prices.	00:21:40
	And hopefully by the middle of the OR at the next meeting we'll have.	00:21:43
	Price that we we promised that will bring.	00:21:47
	Again, it's a problem with.	00:21:52
	How is about covad? There is a it?	00:21:54
	Supply issue, but there are two substations going up that I pointed out to Finley. There's one over there across.	00:21:58
	The airport that's a substation that P&M is putting up has a lot of equipment in it, and of course the solar one if you noticed.	00:22:07
	All the lines are already up and running and they've got a plant there. So hopefully they can get in touch with the people who	00:22:15
	bought equipment there and give us a ballpark on what the what the design that they've already put together is going to cost and	00:22:20
	hoping that the next City Council meeting on the 16th.	00:22:24
	No, on the 20th, on on February, on February 20th, I can bring you some information about those costs that we were talking about	00:22:30
	and what the cost of the kilowatts going to be.	00:22:35
	So if you have any questions about this letter, I hope. And it's pretty straightforward as to what we need to collect from them.	00:22:41
	To put together a franchise agreement, and I know Mr. Aldean asked for a franchise agreement. Now I'm going to work on that, but I	00:22:48
	need to get some information here to put that into the franchise agreement.	00:22:53
	As to how much A/C?	00:22:58
	What they've done with a $44 million loan, what their four year plan is for the city of Socorro.	00:23:00
	And.	00:23:06
	Some other technical stuff.	00:23:08
	OK. Any questions?	00:23:11
	OK, the Mr. again.	00:23:15
	Motion We passed a resolution number 240206806 B.	00:23:19
	This is a resolution to get the map project for Otero and we will do that all in favor.	00:23:26
	Of the discussion on this brief overview of what that is.	00:23:33
	So I'm sorry, I didn't hear you.	00:23:37
	Buttero Street is is.	00:23:40
	His break, his wizard Otero that we're doing.	00:23:43
	It has been done once before, but the tremendous amount of traffic it gets going to John Brooks.	00:23:46
	Towards the senior village.	00:23:53
	Has really been pretty bad. So we're trying to get another doing a map project again to kind of get that cleaned.	00:23:57
	But hopefully as you know.	00:24:05
	At the cost, we just, we just did a bid opening.	00:24:08
	Or man.	00:24:14
	And the.	00:24:16
	So if linear feet, we got.	00:24:20
	Was really not even past Valver.	00:24:23
	When we thought we could get into by the Interstate Bridge.	00:24:26
	Luckily went to S.	00:24:30
	We got an extra 400.	00:24:33
	But on a $700,000 project?	00:24:35
	It came in three of $386,000 short.	00:24:39
	So we're hoping that the map project that.	00:24:44
	Will take into account and will get more money and so.	00:24:47
	Trying to do streets now has been really tough as far as how much it's costing.	00:24:51
	That's kind of where.	00:24:58
	All in favor, aye.	00:25:01
	We've been speaking with Mr. Damien Banks.	00:25:04
	Who is a really Exc?	00:25:07
	He is a coach.	00:25:10
	Egaming he works at the High.	00:25:13
	He works with New Mexico.	00:25:16
	And we have put together an agreement with.	00:25:19
	It's not very very expensive, but.	00:25:23
	It is about 20,000.	00:25:27
	Is what we want to do is to support scholarships?	00:25:30
	At the high school student.	00:25:34
	To take his class.	00:25:36
	And get a certificate in.	00:25:39
	And New Mexico Tech is.	00:25:42
	Start a program where they get a degree in gaming.	00:25:45
	And so we're hoping that our high school students.	00:25:49
	Another high school students.	00:25:52
	And in law, he's a he's an award.	00:25:54
	He is 1 gaming PRI.	00:25:57
	He has really, and a very exciting and innovative guy, so we're wanting to.	00:26:00
	Get his proposal and fund it and I think administratively we can afford to fund that.	00:26:09
	Robot, what did I say?	00:26:15
	Will be 20,000.	00:26:18
	Or whether.	00:26:20
	So basically it's going to be $250,250 per month per student.	00:26:23
	And.	00:26:28
	If he does hate students is 2000 a month.	00:26:30
	And I'm hoping to get.	00:26:33
	20,000 to really get him involved with trying to get students involved in gaming. He's already doing it at the high school level.	00:26:35
	This will be like an extra.	00:26:43
	Class that he'll do at Tech.	00:26:45
	And hopefully we'll get them involved in that and these scholarships are going to be available to 6th through 12th grade.	00:26:49
	Mr. Ocampo, I was reading through it earlier and.	00:26:58
	I know it's open to.	00:27:03
	To the it's open county wide. Are we are we like specifically sponsoring like kids in Socorro and the city of Socorro to do it?	00:27:05
	And I still had our high school.	00:27:14
	I think it was. It's countrywide. So you know, I think two things we can do with this.	00:27:18
	One of them, again, as you know, the enrollment at Tech had been down and we're hoping to supplement that with our local students.	00:27:23
	Hopefully, they'll get excited about this and go. And the other thing is to give them an opportunity to see what the New Horizons	00:27:28
	are.	00:27:32
	I see. Gaming stuff is crazy. It's still comfortable. That was my next question was, I know before COVID, he was really excited	00:27:37
	and we had a bunch of.	00:27:42
	E Gaming events planned here in the city to bring people from out of town to the city for these and they're all days multiple day	00:27:48
	deals. A lot like wrestling, like bringing where people are staying the night.	00:27:54
	And he was excited about it. We actually helped him on a couple and then covet hit and I haven't really heard much since then. Has	00:28:01
	he talked about that. It kind of started up again and and we're hoping to.	00:28:06
	To try to get an arena put together.	00:28:12
	And if I can get it at the rodeo.	00:28:15
	I mean, I'm excited about doing these drone.	00:28:18
	Where they have these drone races, where they go through obstacles. So and we're going to conclude the arena and put some heat in	00:28:21
	it. So this all kind of this is a very, very early stage.	00:28:26
	But it's getting our feet wet with him. I think he's going to be kind of our leader on this and I think at Tech also I think	00:28:31
	they're and asked him if you're going to stick around, he said he's got he's pretty popular throughout the the nation and I don't	00:28:37
	know if you saw the article in the newspaper about you and him winning.	00:28:43
	Award on some gaming tournament, but he's won some also. So I think we've got a good guy that that's going to be able to push	00:28:49
	this.	00:28:53
	So this is I mean I.	00:28:59
	Would like your blessing with it. It's kind of an administrative decision out of our own budget that that we're going to spend	00:29:01
	this money and it's going to be a scholarship, it's going to be specifically goal oriented.	00:29:06
	And it'll be a deliverable that he'll have to give us that this kids actually getting the certificate in E gaming.	00:29:12
	Do you want a motion? If you would.	00:29:21
	Second moved and seconded to support the.	00:29:25
	Eclipse.	00:29:27
	Discussion.	00:29:29
	All in favor, aye.	00:29:31
	Very good new business.	00:29:34
	Again, the weather is coming in. We don't have a snow plot where hopefully we'll get the the, the state Highway department to help	00:29:39
	us.	00:29:42
	We needed this year. We're in the process of trying to buy a snow plow.	00:29:46
	I don't know how bad the snow is going to be here, but I understand this weekend things are going to get kind of worse, so.	00:29:51
	That and then.	00:29:58
	The road projects have been halted since till March.	00:29:59
	I've been I hate to Jinx.	00:30:03
	I've been to the legislature.	00:30:05
	It looks like we're going to get some help with Finley quite a lot. We've got some help in trying to get that monument moved and	00:30:07
	landscaping the.	00:30:11
	Interstate.	00:30:17
	Lieutenant Governor, we're hoping to get an ambulance. Hopefully that's going to be funded by the governor also and then we're	00:30:19
	trying to get.	00:30:24
	A grant that.	00:30:31
	That the State Historical Preservation Officer Office.	00:30:33
	Has put together to do the interpretive plan and it's a $250,000 grant to try to.	00:30:39
	Put that museum together over there at the Convention Center so it looks looks good. I think we've got a good chance to get a lot	00:30:45
	of this stuff.	00:30:49
	We did not get.	00:30:54
	To do the natural.	00:30:56
	Feel that?	00:30:58
	Division, we're still working on that.	00:31:00
	We've gotten our three dump trucks that are natural gas still waiting for.	00:31:04
	Garbage trucks that are natural gas, we're looking into an electric rear loader.	00:31:09
	Garbage truck. Those are the things that we're doing right now in the city.	00:31:14
	Any old?	00:31:20
	OK. Executive.	00:31:23
	We've got personnel matters, We've got anything else?	00:31:27
	Job descriptions Whether there is a job? Where's the job description?	00:31:33
	You want to read it? There's two job descriptions.	00:31:37
	The evidence custodian?	00:31:42
	And assistant director at the Water Parks and Streets.	00:31:44
	Mr. Mayor, Mr. Again make a motion to approve the job descriptions.	00:31:53
	Second discussion.	00:31:59
	All in favor.	00:32:01
	OK. Thank you.	00:32:04
	The personnel matters. Alina Chave.	00:32:07
	She has received her associate's degree, going to move to G61. Dustin Moreland.	00:32:10
	Ashland AG.	00:32:16
	And just in Pacheco and Thomas Padilla are the new.	00:32:18
	EMT Firefighter.	00:32:24
	And they all start at A50, except for Thomas Padilla, who goes to a 56.	00:32:27
	He has basic certification.	00:32:34
	Russell Recky. He is evidence custodian. Additional job duty is going to have 59 and Tonio Gonzalez.	00:32:37
	This is a new concept that we've not had. He is not a police officer.	00:32:46
	He is an ex police officer.	00:32:51
	But he'll be working.	00:32:53
	8:00.	00:32:55
	Is Garcia is 8:00.	00:32:58
	8:00 to 4:00 in the morning and his mission.	00:33:00
	Is to check in.	00:33:07
	Business on California.	00:33:10
	And and.	00:33:14
	The ones that are off California St. a little bit.	00:33:16
	And make.	00:33:19
	The problems that they're getting breaking.	00:33:21
	Vending.	00:33:27
	Harassing hotel and motel.	00:33:29
	Holding them up.	00:33:32
	Same thing with the McDonald's and.	00:33:34
	So, his job?	00:33:38
	Will be as a security officer to alert police officers, so he will be going literally.	00:33:39
	Just back and forth from California St.	00:33:44
	From the north to the South, little bit on Bullock.	00:33:48
	And he That's just like I said.	00:33:51
	Position and it's a police position.	00:33:55
	And he's to check in to make sure that.	00:33:58
	At least there's some, you know, the patrol officers got so much more to do during the night, so this is hopefully going to help	00:34:02
	us.	00:34:05
	That James Beasley St. New hire.	00:34:10
	That's it.	00:34:14
	Mr.	00:34:18
	1st.	00:34:22
	We've been seconded discussion.	00:34:23
	Onto.	00:34:26
	Then we have businesses.	00:34:28
	We've got Daylight Electric of Las Lun.	00:34:31
	Aaron Sol.	00:34:35
	Michelle Heron, very behavioral health, Los Victor Mexican food. They're going into the.	00:34:37
	Little Caesars.	00:34:44
	Restaurant Guzman Construction.	00:34:46
	That's they're the ones that are getting ready to, if you look over there at the high school.	00:34:49
	There's dirt work being done now Where?	00:34:55
	Softball Field.	00:34:58
	And the mod.	00:35:00
	They're clearing that already starting to build a new junior high school.	00:35:01
	Extreme Control Magdalena, Miguel Castillo Pest Control.	00:35:06
	Rosie's Burgers in Magdalena Food truck, An Advanced Tower Systems Cliff Arbian.	00:35:10
	Mr. Romero approved the business, registration was read.	00:35:17
	Moved and seconded discussion.	00:35:23
	All in favour.	00:35:25
	So the 20th of February will be another.	00:35:27
	Not bad 632.	00:35:32