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	Sneezing. That's all I do. All right, here we go.	00:00:00
	You guys turned on?	00:00:03
	City, of course. City Council, Am I on?	00:00:09
	I can't hear myself now. I can't see this course. Any Council meeting Tuesday, March 5th, 2024. Roll call please. Mayor Basker	00:00:11
	here.	00:00:15
	Councillor Tavis Lopez here.	00:00:20
	Councillor.	00:00:22
	Councillor Fleming.	00:00:24
	Councillor Ocampo.	00:00:26
	Counselor Ogene.	00:00:28
	Councillor Partridge Prison.	00:00:30
	Councillor Romero.	00:00:33
	Councillor Salome, we have a quorum.	00:00:35
	I'll rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.	00:00:39
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation.	00:00:43
	Indivisible with liberty and justice for all.	00:00:53
	Approval of the consent agenda.	00:01:03
	Approve agenda moved and seconded discussion.	00:01:07
	All in favor.	00:01:12
	And we have the public forum. People that are not on the agenda would like to make a comment.	00:01:16
	Yes, Sir.	00:01:22
	Forget me, not.	00:01:25
	Thank you. We're not strangers here now, huh? My name is Don Medeiros. For those of you who don't know me, I'm along with Roxanne	00:01:27
	Scott and my wife, Darlene. We're the founders of the Forget me not.	00:01:33
	Thrift Store, Veterans Park and the Veterans Center now in town.	00:01:40
	I'd like to keep the City Council because they've been really helpful in a lot of the things that we're working at. I know this is	00:01:46
	a huge and lofty project. We've recently had a grant denied.	00:01:51
	Which may have been a little set back. However we do continue to go on working. We got House number 789 already slotted with no	00:01:57
	government funding our grant recently though that was denied.	00:02:02
	Was actually funding.	00:02:09
	To fund young adults to train in.	00:02:12
	A vocation like framing and electrical and plumbing to help build these tiny homes, and the grant was going to cover labor.	00:02:16
	And materials.	00:02:24
	To supply tiny homes to our Veterans Park. But it was also going to train up to a dozen workers in a vocational skill.	00:02:26
	That would help this community not just not just to train these young people.	00:02:34
	But then also to help the community fix the problem of homelessness.	00:02:39
	And vocational training.	00:02:45
	But the community can take that on with the help of the city, instead of relying on the city to fix all their problems.	00:02:47
	You know, I appreciate all you guys do. I really do.	00:02:55
	But I think it's so important for the community to get involved.	00:02:59
	And this was a chance for us to do that. So it's a little set back. I don't think we're going to appeal it. We're going to	00:03:02
	continue to work with houses 7-8 and nine. We've got a couple more on the way and we're going to continue to work our funding	00:03:05
	opportunities.	00:03:09
	And any way that the city can can find a way to maybe give us a hand?	00:03:13
	I would really appreciate it. Do plan on me at the budget meeting because we're continuing to work. We've helped so far at the	00:03:19
	Veterans Center, which was just going to be the Triad.	00:03:24
	Or the hub of our triad of services. As I explained before, a veteran could come in and if they need clothing.	00:03:29
	Or some vocational studies. We have people for that. They can go over to the thrift store and get nice clothes and be able to go	00:03:36
	there. They need a place to live. We've got the Veterans Park, so this was a center. We were hoping to be the hub of our triad.	00:03:42
	Well, it just so happened I got a call from the head of the veteran services, Robin Wilson, and she said, you know, you sent me.	00:03:48
	26 Veteran Referrals in a Month and 1/2.	00:03:55
	She says our VA office in Berlin helps eight a month.	00:03:58
	You sent me 26 already. You've taken 9 veterans in the van that the city provided.	00:04:03
	Taking 9 veterans up to the VA already.	00:04:09
	You don't have vouchers, you guys are just doing it.	00:04:12
	We made a deal today with the AA Council also that has been meeting over at the church, but they have new administration.	00:04:16
	And she said I don't.	00:04:24
	Yeah.	00:04:26
	Do you have any ideas? We know the DA VS closed. I sure do. I'll meet you at 9:00 AM.	00:04:31
	So there will be meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays now at our office in Midtown, so we're already making huge strides.	00:04:37
	You know the baby is closed. The veteran center has already picked up all the shipping opportunities. We did it last year as well	00:04:46
	and all the surrounding schools. We provide those power that forgetting.	00:04:50
	We've also picked up.	00:04:55
	The Fishing Derby, we picked that up last year also when the DAV dropped. Oh, we picked that up. We plan on doing that. We've	00:04:58
	already talked with Peter and a couple of the other. We'll be handling that.	00:05:03
	On the 12th, which is just next Tuesday, we have a VA property tax event where the Veterans Administration is actually coming down	00:05:09
	with their own veteran service officers are going to help any veteran with the taxes along with my niece just lines who in front	00:05:15
	of the library sending over some tax people. So we're going to have a full event help invest with their taxes and their	00:05:22
	deductions. We also have Victoria coming over from the NBD.	00:05:28
	To just be part of that, to show them how they can save, you know, certain veterans and certain disabilities will get that for	00:05:35
	free.	00:05:39
	So it's going to be a full event. We'll be barbecuing Outback because the other Camino is closed. So next Tuesday from 9:00 to	00:05:42
	3:00 and I'm buying CS, we're not slowing down.	00:05:46
	I would have been nicer to you if I forgot Chelsea was your niece.	00:05:53
	I know so so their their program of tiny houses.	00:06:01
	Although they're out of city limits.	00:06:08
	I'm going to try to work with them to try to.	00:06:11
	Legally work on trying to get the city to help and if we do, and you know we're going to work our way to having to control	00:06:14
	Saraceno is to.	00:06:19
	Make that kind of the start of a VO Tech school.	00:06:25
	That would help train not just high school, but people who don't go to college, are still looking for a job and want to trade. We	00:06:30
	can start thinking about maybe.	00:06:35
	A city.	00:06:41
	VO tech type school.	00:06:43
	Working with the school board.	00:06:45
	And and the first thing would be to because those houses need plumbing and electrical and carpentry and and other things so it's	00:06:47
	not something that will happen tomorrow but and they had a time to to to to.	00:06:54
	Appeal that but.	00:07:02
	In the next year if we can work on trying to do a get a vehicle to be able to get those houses made.	00:07:04
	Under our auspices, training auspices.	00:07:11
	And then the product of those houses is used out there at your park. Would have to figure out ownership and legal issues.	00:07:14
	But I think that's one of the things that we would like to try to work towards.	00:07:22
	I thought that was AI, thought it was a secret meeting that it was not.	00:07:29
	Yeah.	00:07:47
	You know it's the word. The word donate is anathema in centipede because anti donation clause. So we have to figure out a legal	00:07:49
	way.	00:07:54
	That is benefiting.	00:08:00
	And that we can then have the ownership.	00:08:02
	With us there have to be a legal mechanism for that and so that you can lease it from the city.	00:08:05
	For an X number of years.	00:08:13
	At no dollars and then after that lease or depreciation of it, it turns out to be yours. So I mean something, some sort of a	00:08:16
	vehicle that we can do, but the concept the.	00:08:21
	No, but the concept, the concept would be to continue building them.	00:08:29
	But then.	00:08:34
	That then the city just gets out of the way once you have them for habitation. That's that's that's the part I don't want to deal	00:08:35
	with.	00:08:38
	Building them training is the best way to do it.	00:08:42
	Yeah, well, that would be great. You know, I drove down from Flagstaff to a little place called Mounds.	00:08:49
	Mountains Arizona have look they have, must have.	00:08:55
	200 little houses sitting there. Beautiful little community. So, yeah. All right. Thank you. Come again.	00:08:58
	Anyone else?	00:09:08
	Yes, come on up.	00:09:09
	My name is.	00:09:18
	And.	00:09:20
	And I am the new festival of the praise manager for this year.	00:09:23
	My supervisor, Devin, I met with Robbie Perfect the other day and he's got to stop on by and introduce themselves. Say hi to you	00:09:29
	all. Or do I do?	00:09:34
	Lots of planning right now we.	00:09:42
	Probably added to you, Peter. Peter.	00:09:50
	Peter Councillor Romero, could you close the door?	00:09:53
	I feel so official.	00:10:04
	All right. I think that's Peter Sheila. Is that OK? Oh, that's loud. All right, so let me start over again. My name is Carrie	00:10:09
	Powell. I work for Friends of Bosco Dell Apache, and I am the new festival, the Cranes Manager this year. I've worked for friends	00:10:16
	for about two years. I manage, in addition to the festival, I manage the Desert Arboretum, the Cactus Garden down at the Refuge.	00:10:23
	And right now, I'm currently also managing A pollinator habitat enhancement project down there as well, so.	00:10:30
	I am a busy gal.	00:10:37
	But I'm really excited to be to be taking over this position this year. We're excited. We've got a lot of big changes coming up we	00:10:38
	are going to use.	00:10:43
	I don't know if Desiree has let you know yet. We are planning to use the City Convention Center this year. My supervisor, Deb and	00:10:49
	I toured that a couple times and we really think it's it's a beautiful location, it's really going to fit our needs. So we're	00:10:54
	really excited about that change.	00:11:00
	We're working on some early advertising, getting the word out or looking at doing some different sorts of.	00:11:06
	Classes and stuff. Getting people out to our partner. Partner references like Bernardo up north.	00:11:16
	Out to the VLA, maybe up to about or so.	00:11:23
	Still still still working on all of those plants, but yeah, Mayor Basker just wanted me to stop by and introduce myself. We	00:11:28
	appreciate you coming, Deborah Dean. Oh, thank you. Good question. It's going to start Wednesday, December 11th and it will run	00:11:36
	through Sunday, December 15th. We decided to include both days of the weekend this year. We are really interested in attracting	00:11:43
	young professional folks and we know that they can't come on Wednesday through Friday during the day during the work day.	00:11:51
	We also wanted you know families to be able to come and enjoy that too. Although our traditional wildlife zone, we separated it	00:12:00
	out from festival, it's in October now, we'll still have a couple of kid friendly activities at at festival, so we really want to	00:12:08
	get back into making this a big community event. I know COVID happened and the world kind of got shook up so we're we're.	00:12:16
	Buffet on the ground, getting going on the atmosphere.	00:12:26
	You know they had to push it back.	00:12:30
	Mainly for the change in the weather.	00:12:33
	Exactly what the temperature staying warmer and longer? The cranes are staying N longer, I mean.	00:12:37
	I wouldn't get out of my home and go anywhere until it got cold if I didn't have to either.	00:12:43
	And then the next two years Thanksgiving is.	00:12:49
	Very, very late in the month. And so, umm.	00:12:53
	We really had to push it back a little bit to make sure that we had time the week before to get everything we needed and.	00:12:58
	Yeah. Thank you for coming. Any other questions or?	00:13:04
	And then I also would like to invite you all to our Spring Migration celebration, which is the first Friday and Saturday. I	00:13:08
	believe it's the 3rd and 4th of May. The 1st Friday and Saturday we'll have birding classes. There's two dedicated kiddo birding	00:13:14
	classes. Of course, my favorite part is the Arboretum stroll and come look at all the flowers. Our Friends annual meeting will	00:13:20
	occur that weekend as well.	00:13:27
	Could you send us a link to that puller? We can put it on our.	00:13:35
	I will. Well, certainly, I will certainly do that.	00:13:38
	Let me write that down.	00:13:44
	All right. OK. Thank you for coming.	00:13:48
	No T-shirts or glasses, anything for us.	00:13:52
	We'll see. We'll see how you do with helping us out with the festival.	00:13:56
	Thank you. Thank you. Give me a check for 15,000 this year. Buy a few T-shirts.	00:14:02
	And I know like there's tax just opened last Friday, right? So.	00:14:10
	Yeah. If we if we get a committee together, that's the biggest problem. Thank you.	00:14:19
	Thank you.	00:14:25
	Anyone else?	00:14:26
	Council Romero is.	00:14:31
	The Now we have, I'm going to let Councillor Partridge introduce them. We can open the door and let them in.	00:14:33
	This is a Socorro High School wrestling team and Tasha McNeil is also here, but maybe you can give us an introduction as to what's	00:14:42
	going on and then we can introduce Tasha and the coaches.	00:14:47
	Come on in.	00:14:54
	Come in, come in, come in.	00:14:56
	Get the French chairs and get come and sit down.	00:14:58
	No, no, that's right. Yeah.	00:15:06
	I'm good and you?	00:15:08
	Alright.	00:15:13
	I let Councillor Partridge kick off the.	00:15:22
	Introduction about the high school wrestling and and how far you've gotten with that and then then we can introduce some of the	00:15:25
	coaches and Tasha and.	00:15:29
	Everybody.	00:15:33
	All in here, but he gets on.	00:15:35
	Well, and I've never been on this side of it.	00:15:39
	They the city has always done a real nice job of honoring the wrestling team and supporting.	00:15:44
	The wrestling team.	00:15:48
	Matter of fact, Councillor Salomi, 7 years ago, I believe you were the interim Superintendent at the time.	00:15:50
	And we were looking to.	00:15:57
	Take the kids that we.	00:16:00
	A group of kids.	00:16:02
	Coach McNeil, oldest boy and my son and get into the high school and compete.	00:16:04
	And we called the enemy and said, hey, can we compete? And I said we'll let you guys be a club. And I said no, you know, we want	00:16:09
	to compete. We have kids that will do well now.	00:16:13
	So we're going to have to get your Superintendent, and I didn't. You know, you must have. Slowly.	00:16:18
	I went and had a meeting with him. He's very supportive at the NBC. Yeah, absolutely. What I got to do so from there was seven	00:16:23
	years ago and.	00:16:26
	I coach John in the back. He did some numbers from me the other day because we were curious on it. Seven years ago we started and	00:16:30
	and.	00:16:33
	And those years we've had 20 state placers for the boys, that's top three finish at State.	00:16:39
	11 champions that were boys or state champions.	00:16:45
	And the girls with.	00:16:49
	They didn't get sanctioned like the boys until five years ago.	00:16:51
	And we've had 11 state placers with the girls and then we had our first girls state champion.	00:16:56
	This year was our first goal.	00:17:01
	And so.	00:17:05
	Joshua Garrison the you know she put us on the agenda today so.	00:17:06
	This year we had five state placers, so we had Jada Castillo. She's.	00:17:11
	She's not here, but she's was a senior and she took fourth in the girls division. Was pretty special too about the girls division	00:17:17
	is it's it's all one class so there's no 1A or.	00:17:22
	To a You know that they have to wrestle all schools. Volcano Vista, you know Cleveland. So if you're top six in that division,	00:17:27
	there are truly top six in the state amongst all.	00:17:32
	So it's pretty impressive, you know, to be top four stuff, and she's consistently getting top three or four for a long time. She's	00:17:38
	done a really good job for us.	00:17:41
	As she's graduating this year.	00:17:45
	Katie McNeill is an eighth grader.	00:17:48
	A stand up case, maybe everybody can see like attention, it doesn't mind it.	00:17:50
	He doesn't mind attention. I say nothing but Kaden's 8th grader this year, and he's in a pretty tough weight class. One of the	00:17:55
	deeper weight classes, 139 lbs, and he took third.	00:17:59
	And the four a division which is.	00:18:03
	It's separated into two divisions for Blazes 4A and 5A, and there's 38 teams in 4A and there's 28 teams in five.	00:18:06
	So he was third amongst the 30. Eighteenth did a great job for us so.	00:18:16
	Isaiah Estrada, He's a 9th grader for us and he's a state champion this year, so he won first place.	00:18:25
	And David Gutierrez, junior.	00:18:36
	He's a two time state champion so he defended his title this year.	00:18:39
	I don't see Sasha.	00:18:47
	Sasha. No Sasha. Sasha is not here tonight, I guess, but she was.	00:18:50
	35 and oh, she was undefeated.	00:18:57
	She's like 105 and seven in her career, so you have like a 6% chance of beating Sasha and wrestling nuts. You're not. Not very	00:19:01
	often did she lose. She did a really good job. She's been in the state finals a couple of times and come up short. So she is a	00:19:06
	state champion this year and she did a great job.	00:19:11
	A couple of other kids here that qualified out of selling Modino right here. She qualified for us and went to the state	00:19:16
	tournament. Jayden Kaiser qualified, went to the state tournament for us. She's a senior. She's getting some offers from colleges.	00:19:21
	Let's see what she decides to do.	00:19:26
	Kalina Van Landingham. She's an eighth grader. She's over fighting with the state. Marius Lucero qualified and went to the state	00:19:31
	tournament.	00:19:34
	Angel Perez Hey, why don't you see over there? Smile is infectious. I love that kid.	00:19:38
	He did a great job. He qualified and went to state. Had a brutal side of the bracket but wrestled his tail off. Did a good job.	00:19:46
	So I thank you guys for having them here. Our coaches, I'd like to recognize Coach David.	00:19:51
	To go to Terrace House, so you know obviously works for the city, is great. He gives up a lot of his time.	00:19:57
	Coach McNeil, you know our right hand over, my right hand over there took the Neil.	00:20:04
	One puts the armrest gutter in the back. He's big. He helps us with a ton of things.	00:20:09
	Coach.	00:20:18
	Well, Coach Sammy is not here, but I mean, Coach Sammy started wrestling in Socorro. You know, we named the tournament after him.	00:20:20
	He's there every day at practice with us. No matter what he shows up.	00:20:24
	You know, can't go without saying thank you to Coach Sammy, too. He's phenomenal.	00:20:29
	Jason, our bus driver who drove us all year long. He's not here, but he drove us. He, he picked up, gave up shifts to go take his	00:20:34
	places that you know, we didn't have a driver when he first went and he gave a.	00:20:39
	Just to drive us. And he solely drove us all year long, so we were hungry.	00:20:45
	And of course our Mamas that take care of everything, Tasha, that takes care of a lot of stuff for us. I thank you Tasha and all	00:20:49
	of our wives for putting up with us to this dresses.	00:20:54
	We got our room back, so we're going to start rebuilding that. Then we got the keys, so we should be in there soon, so.	00:21:02
	A couple of big tournaments in the summer coming up at the Rodeo Arena, Rocky Mountain Nationals will be here and then Under the	00:21:09
	lights Tournament. So.	00:21:12
	Lot of wrestling taking place and a lot of events coming to Socorro. So from as a coach removing the Councilman hat, thank you all	00:21:16
	for continued support of the program. You have been supporting it. So we'll be very grateful for that and I thank you all for that	00:21:22
	too. Why don't we get everybody to come up, We'll take a picture.	00:21:27
	Let's get all the wrestlers and the coaches and.	00:21:34
	We'll get a picture.	00:21:38
	Ketan Keter.	00:21:45
	What's going on? Ladies too? I wanna think they do.	00:21:47
	There you go.	00:22:06
	Squeeze in a little. Squeeze in a little. Squeeze in a little, guys.	00:22:21
	Great job.	00:22:47
	I forgot it, I know no.	00:22:49
	This has tried to be. He's trying to be.	00:23:08
	See you guys.	00:23:14
	Breakfast at 7:00.	00:23:15
	7 to 8 practice at 7:00.	00:23:17
	Bye.	00:23:22
	Council Partridge, how many do you have participating in your in the whole program 117?	00:23:25
	117 congratulations. That's a.	00:23:31
	Little and I.	00:23:40
	We continue to help as much as we can.	00:23:41
	Great. Thank you.	00:23:44
	Mr. Saloni, I'd like to. I'd like to thank the Chieftain for those wonderful pictures in the Chieftain, their articles. Those are	00:23:46
	great photos, really nice.	00:23:50
	Yeah, he really did a really nice job. And state champions. I mean, my goodness.	00:23:56
	That's that's a big success for him.	00:24:00
	OK, now there's another one. Lego League Savannah Morris.	00:24:04
	Thank you guys.	00:24:08
	And they got the Red Hot Chili Peppers hat.	00:24:12
	Everybody got a Mayor Bhaskar, City Council, men and women, I'm going to actually turn it over.	00:24:17
	Oh, hi, I'm Sebastian. This is Miles Riley, Jacob NLT. We are the Rock and Red Hot Chili Peppers from Sakura, New Mexico.	00:24:24
	You may remember us from last year.	00:24:35
	We participated in the FLL First Lego League where last year we got to go to an Invitational for internationals.	00:24:38
	And this year we also made it to internationals.	00:24:48
	FIRST Robotics or FIRST Lego League gives students ages 9 to 14 the opportunity to research and solve real world problems, present	00:24:51
	their work and potential solutions to their peers.	00:24:58
	And learn and teach coaches and mentors. We are the only team in Sakura, New Mexico.	00:25:06
	You're the only say that again, you're the only team in New Mexico.	00:25:12
	And also New Mexico.	00:25:18
	You got the only Lego team in New Mexico.	00:25:21
	So now they're the only Lego team in Sapporo and.	00:25:25
	In New Mexico, that is going this competition.	00:25:31
	Hi. Like he said I'm Miles was there there's my mom. But so this is our second year doing this first leg again it's been amazing	00:25:38
	so far our so we're going to an international competition so there's going to be teams from.	00:25:47
	A whole bunch of different countries and also United States and we're the only ones from Mexico that get to go to this	00:25:57
	competition.	00:26:02
	And we've been invited and you can only go by invite, so luckily we have competed in other competitions.	00:26:07
	Such as a Alamogordo qualifier where we were to receive a robot design award. So this is our robot that we've built a lot of Legos	00:26:16
	goes to.	00:26:23
	To complete tasks around a pre built map app that we program to do ourselves. Then we also had a statement that one is motorized.	00:26:31
	Lego Motor, Lego Brand Motors.	00:26:41
	And then we also competed in another in the state competition.	00:26:44
	In Albuquerque and we've got this trophy for having an innovation project in our innovation project is something that we do to	00:26:49
	benefit.	00:26:53
	Our community and with a kind of set.	00:27:00
	Topic or.	00:27:04
	And we get to decide.	00:27:06
	What in that range of topics that we can do?	00:27:08
	Oh, but yeah, this year we received an invite and we're going to an international.	00:27:11
	Competition.	00:27:18
	What was your theme?	00:27:18
	What was the topic we've built? We've designed a whole bunch of prototypes, hips and stuff to make drawing easier for people that	00:27:20
	have disabilities such as arthritis or or other movement disabilities that create make it hard for people to draw.	00:27:27
	We're going to Daytona Beach in Florida.	00:27:36
	Can we talk before the meeting? I'm going.	00:27:45
	At this first Lego League Florida Sunshine Invitational event that we are going to, these teams will.	00:27:49
	These teams will experience 3 days of competition.	00:27:59
	2 ceremonies.	00:28:03
	As in several professional and social interaction opportunities with other teams.	00:28:06
	This event includes 8017 from around the United States and 20 teams from around the world who have also received top recognition	00:28:13
	in their region.	00:28:18
	We will attend the Florida Sunshine Invitational in Daytona Beach from June 19th through 22nd, 2024.	00:28:24
	This is far away from New Mexico and we need all your support to get there.	00:28:39
	Our goal is $18,000.	00:28:45
	We provided you a cost.	00:28:48
	Breakdown.	00:28:50
	We will put your name on our banner for your sponsorship. As one of our team supporters. This will help a lot and we feel like	00:28:54
	this opportunity is an amazing experience for us and we look forward to being our hometown representatives in such a diverse	00:28:59
	competition.	00:29:05
	Yeah. Well, let's see if we can help. It has to be for advertising, of course. And what we'll do is we'll look at our budget and	00:29:14
	see what we didn't. We provide you with something last year.	00:29:18
	Yes. You guys graciously covered our registration fee. Yeah. So we look at that and then it's not like Battle Bots. Is it where	00:29:24
	you get to kill other people's? No. Because I remember last year you showed us stuff that was on the ground that was moving	00:29:30
	around. So does that thing move around? Let's see.	00:29:36
	Does it have a pre programmed?	00:29:43
	A strip that it follows, let me tell you.	00:29:46
	Everything has to be Lego brand.	00:29:50
	Including the rubber bands and the string.	00:29:52
	It is very expensive, yeah.	00:29:58
	Don't knock it off the table though. Oh wow.	00:30:02
	And it's and what's the? What's the purpose?	00:30:10
	May feel that we get to practice for months to program.	00:30:19
	And get ready to set up like obstacles.	00:30:26
	OK.	00:30:33
	So we practice on Tuesdays at Zimmerly School.	00:30:35
	Anybody were from after school till 5:00. We have it all set up and you guys are more than welcome to come and look at it.	00:30:40
	And and then from scratch.	00:30:48
	With motors and stuff like.	00:30:52
	How many hours do you guys spend making that?	00:30:55
	Hours and hours.	00:30:58
	Started practice probably in September and then January was the first competition and then February was state competition and so	00:31:03
	now we.	00:31:08
	Go to Florida and.	00:31:13
	June so that sanction like the schools, right, you guys are or is it like a club? So yeah, we're not actually affiliated with any	00:31:15
	school, so we're just a private team.	00:31:20
	Yeah, there used to be. It used to be huge in Saguaro and then covet happened and so.	00:31:26
	Well and.	00:31:33
	One of the ladies that started it kind of has passed away.	00:31:34
	Mr. Klinger Smith, yes. Yeah, she was kind of a the.	00:31:38
	That's cool. That's really cool. How much? I'm sorry.	00:31:42
	No, no. Why are you called 1056827? So that's. So you have to register with the first Lego league and so that's the, the number	00:31:46
	they gave us, yeah.	00:31:51
	Yeah, that's good. You guys speak well too, because kids speak really well. Part of it is they have to have a presentation and so	00:31:58
	they go into a room of judges. The coaches are allowed to go, but I don't like going because I think I get more nervous when	00:32:03
	they're speaking and.	00:32:07
	This is Lt. So he is really nervous and he has grown so much in public speaking.	00:32:13
	Sebastian as well, Riley is shy too and they've all done such a good job and like their presentation, we have to do data. And so,	00:32:20
	Jacob, those are data collection and makes graphs and stuff. And I'm just so proud of these boys. They've done good and we have.	00:32:26
	You can't forget our parents out back there, Jenna, Lynn and Wendy, they're.	00:32:33
	Great support. I mean, just like wrestling, have the coat, the the wrestling moms, we have our homes too. Yeah, we just have a	00:32:41
	good, a good system.	00:32:45
	He's done a good job with him, Savannah. That's really cool, guys.	00:32:52
	Thank you for coming. Hey, wait, wait. We're going to take a picture too.	00:32:58
	Come on, they. Over here, even with those chilly heads.	00:33:05
	Show me your clothes.	00:33:12
	Head.	00:33:15
	Thought you on your parted.	00:33:17
	Wonderful. Thank you.	00:33:28
	Kids are doing great in Socorro. I'm really proud of them.	00:33:38
	It's really good to see.	00:33:43
	We have the resolution for local Rd. fund program for street and dim dam drainage.	00:33:46
	Yeah, Mr. Money, Mr. Mayor, this application is due on Friday and though the resolution is not a requirement of adds to our our	00:33:52
	application package so.	00:33:58
	Or requesting the city approve this resolution showing their support of applying for the funds and the streets were trying to.	00:34:04
	The qualified.	00:34:14
	Are between Neil.	00:34:16
	And School of Mines on the eastern side towards Tech.	00:34:18
	I can't remember the names of them, Gordon.	00:34:22
	I remember all the streets.	00:34:24
	Anyhow, you want me to, Sam? Sure.	00:34:27
	Yeah, the.	00:34:31
	On those but not limited to a Fitch, Hayden Place, Douglas Place, Gordon Place, Houghton.	00:34:34
	Place and Nelson Place. Yes, Sir.	00:34:40
	Mr. Sholomi and seconded by Mr. Romero.	00:34:44
	Discussion on favor.	00:34:49
	Aye, you'll you'll also notice that you know we're finishing up.	00:34:52
	Walkway and those streets there finally got the weather nice enough to do that.	00:34:57
	We'll be trying to start on manzanaris.	00:35:05
	And what's the other one, Fowler, Fowler, so that those are next, those are already paid for and we'll be doing it and McCutcheon	00:35:09
	and around that area.	00:35:14
	Was there, I mean, around the courthouse? Yes, Sir. That's, I believe the the gas departments.	00:35:20
	Done replacing the gas line, so that should be by the end of March also.	00:35:26
	And we're getting ready for speed bumps.	00:35:32
	So we have limited amount of money.	00:35:37
	But we're going to be putting out speed bumps.	00:35:40
	Real interesting.	00:35:43
	Comment period for speed bump, but we're going to, we're going to start doing that. We've got a list of over 20 right now and we	00:35:45
	probably can afford.	00:35:49
	Maybe 5. So you kind of need the.	00:35:54
	Prioritize them, but just to keep going with the street projects, there was some supplemental funding in the CDBG project because	00:35:58
	our.	00:36:02
	Where quoted cost was what?	00:36:09
	Over 400,000 more than what the CDBG application we are approved for.	00:36:12
	Could match.	00:36:18
	So that's supplemental funding applications due on March 21st I believe. So we applying for supplemental funding for that and then	00:36:20
	the the map project comes out.	00:36:27
	Sometimes the end of this month. So we are playing applying for Otero St. again by Supermarket or John Brooks and then.	00:36:34
	The TPF projects will be coming out and we are going to apply for additional funding for Manzanaris because again, the funding	00:36:45
	didn't match the scope of the project. There wasn't enough funding to do as much of the project as we wanted to.	00:36:51
	So we're going to ask for additional funding for.	00:36:58
	Continuing the men's project and the streets that have not been repaid around the courthouse.	00:37:02
	So it's spring season, so it's grant application season.	00:37:08
	I know that there's a road that's still a dirt road, and I think it's in city limits. It's right by in between.	00:37:12
	It's right down on Terrell St.	00:37:23
	Umm, on 6th St. and then there's like a Rd.	00:37:28
	That curves out in between.	00:37:31
	6th St.	00:37:34
	The apartments.	00:37:36
	It is.	00:37:38
	But there's a road there that's that's not paved or anything.	00:37:41
	It had been blocked at one time and then I think you asked them to remove some of the.	00:37:45
	The trucks make extra yeah, right next to Hammer Alleyway to the Alex, right next to the Hammer Museum.	00:37:51
	Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's towards towards your village, right. Yeah. And I think we can work on trying to get at least chips. You	00:38:07
	can't do something with that. Yeah, that's, that's Neil St.	00:38:12
	So another nail St. Yeah, yeah, that's right. OK. So we'll get, we'll start to work on that. Thank you.	00:38:17
	And new business.	00:38:25
	I I I would bring that up today to Donald and Marianne. I'm going to ask the Budget Committee to.	00:38:28
	Set up aside some money.	00:38:35
	To at least do the exterior of her cemeteries is to landscape them.	00:38:38
	And I'm going to try to get a landscape engineer to come and design at the Pythias, the Catholic and the the Masons cemetery. But	00:38:44
	I really, and perhaps just put some money for the roads there. I think it really deserved it. It's been long in coming, but I	00:38:52
	think when I see other cities have cemeteries that are really much more approachable than ours, it may take 100,000, it may take	00:39:00
	50,000. I'm not sure, but I think we really need to.	00:39:08
	Trying to spend some money there, Mr. Salami.	00:39:17
	Maybe having?	00:39:26
	City, Cemet.	00:39:29
	Partnership with some of the churches in town to set up a nice cemetery over there by the rodeo grounds up on that hill.	00:39:32
	There's infrastructure there, there's.	00:39:42
	Maybe there's a chance that we we can like start them off and charge charge the the churches and so they can have their section	00:39:45
	of.	00:39:50
	Of area for the folks that that that will be using it, but because there's not a lot of room in the Catholic cemetery.	00:39:56
	And we've been, we have looked at property out there, yeah. And but you know, we've been back and forth with the Pythias.	00:40:05
	That cemetery, in a way, has gotten abandoned.	00:40:13
	And so that's so let's look into that, although I just worry that that if we start a new cemetery, it's a city cemetery that those	00:40:17
	will become more in disrepair and feel abandoned. I just that would be that would be difficult for our love of dead love and that	00:40:23
	cemetery will be probably for us.	00:40:29
	But but that but that one. I just afraid if we start another one.	00:40:37
	I would like to do something I'd like if we can do a memorandum of understanding between the people who run those cemeteries to.	00:40:42
	Not to invade any of their space, but.	00:40:49
	To try to just have better aesthetically have it look better.	00:40:52
	Because it just, it just, I mean, I've looked at it for a year, 50 years since I've been here and it's like not the nicest. I	00:40:57
	mean, she could be improved on.	00:41:02
	So anyway, I just wanted to throw it up. Mr. There's just a little bit more information for Counselor Salome back in the mid 50s.	00:41:06
	I believe is when.	00:41:14
	The city deeded that land to the different organizations to build their cemetery, so they owned the land.	00:41:16
	That the cemetery said I'm not the city.	00:41:24
	Different ownership, kind of.	00:41:28
	Ideas. But I mean, I'm also working with a surveyor to come look at some city land for us because.	00:41:30
	When it comes to the land.	00:41:37
	Lands they were never needed. So I don't have. Don't have parcel ID numbers and they don't have legal descriptions. So if you want	00:41:39
	to go get them appraised to try to settle them, you don't know what you have. So I just got a gentleman's phone number today to	00:41:47
	start working on that. So I will do that, Mister Mayor, that that land across from the new San Miguel Cemetery.	00:41:54
	The Crown, as you're going up towards the City of Cemetery, that's San Miguel property, right?	00:42:03
	Those hills going up to the flood control.	00:42:08
	I do not know. I think it is.	00:42:13
	But we'll probably need to get in discussion with them as to what what it is that can be done. But we just, I think we just kind	00:42:16
	of need to. And you know, at one time we were thinking of trying to apply for the veterans cemetery because they were giving out	00:42:21
	money about 5-7 years ago to have it out there. We didn't, we didn't get the money, but we were thinking of making that into a	00:42:26
	veteran.	00:42:31
	A veteran cemetery. I know you remember that we would try to do that so but but again, the idea would be just the present	00:42:36
	cemeteries to have a approachable.	00:42:41
	You know entrance.	00:42:46
	Then we could then landscape and put water to and lighting perhaps even that just to make them.	00:42:48
	At least the entrances. And then as you get inside, you know I will leave that to the people who own the cemeteries.	00:42:54
	But at least the outside be more approachable, maybe signage and things like that, lighting and just. And what I do is get a	00:43:01
	landscape engineer to do that.	00:43:06
	So, Mr. I want to Councillor Romero, are you talking about if you pass the Catholic cemetery and if you would go straight?	00:43:12
	Instead of turning right.	00:43:20
	That is part of one of the.	00:43:22
	Current leases, but I can't remember which organization that leases with. I don't believe it's either the Masons or the Catholic	00:43:25
	Church.	00:43:28
	Any other new business that might be coming up, old business?	00:43:34
	All right, Executive session.	00:43:40
	We have job descriptions, Mr. Monet.	00:43:43
	I can serve people and didn't plan anything.	00:43:49
	You know, if you know anything about our area.	00:43:54
	Bosque Farms just had a spill.	00:43:59
	About 30,000 gallons in of their wastewater about.	00:44:02
	Six months ago, maybe. A lot of it had to do with their personnel. You know, they don't have personnel that.	00:44:06
	Have to be certified and all that we have every every little town is having trouble so we're trying to upgrade our laboratory	00:44:15
	technician and.	00:44:19
	The chief wastewater treatment plant operator just to try to keep.	00:44:23
	I'll keep them going. So this is what this is about.	00:44:28
	So if you guys if it's OK.	00:44:33
	And again, it's for the laboratory technician 3 and we're lucky enough to have one. And chief, our greater wastewater treatment	00:44:36
	plant, Mr. American understand that again.	00:44:42
	I believe the governor has until the end of tomorrow to sign the budget.	00:44:49
	And one of the bills that I'm not sure if she has signed yet or not, but it's a retention fund for.	00:44:54
	Police officers that have retired, what's not the retention fund? And I haven't read the bill, but it's something with PRA to	00:45:00
	allow our officers to come back to work as employees again rather than like they're doing what contractors and eventually we're	00:45:06
	going to need that for a wastewater treatment plan. That's every job in every city.	00:45:13
	And then you know this this always been a political thing and.	00:45:20
	The irony of it is, if you're a politician and getting a retirement like me, I could go back to work without losing my retirement.	00:45:24
	But if you're an employee.	00:45:29
	And retired and want to go back to work.	00:45:35
	You can't.	00:45:38
	Is unfortunate, and that's just always hit up.	00:45:41
	But they and and so that's one of the things I think firefighters are going to be involved in that retention also so.	00:45:45
	All right, let's do the personnel changes.	00:45:55
	We've got a lot of gas.	00:45:59
	Cumin.	00:46:01
	Aldo Ruiz Gomez again, we're trying to keep him, keep him on our utility crew. Alberto Dean, Michael Benavides and James Padilla.	00:46:03
	This is gas operators.	00:46:08
	Louise Chavez, his new hire, if you remember the name Luis Chalice.	00:46:14
	He retired. He's coming.	00:46:19
	Raul Contreras, he completed probation at the Rodeo. And Cody Polston, This is one of the gentlemen that we want to keep.	00:46:21
	We reclassified his job and gave him a raise.	00:46:29
	Fabian Silva? Resignation, Antonio Munoz Resignation. Andrew Garcia.	00:46:32
	V Hill resignation.	00:46:38
	Mr. Romero.	00:46:41
	For example, I second.	00:46:44
	Discussion all in favor, aye, And we have.	00:46:47
	This is Bustamante Farms Retail Produce Market.	00:46:52
	RJ Oh, it's not Chick-fil-A. RJ RJ Chicken.	00:46:56
	Check in 400 California St. Mark Martin Restaurant and here it is in Nails 2 Sammery Wilkinson here in Salon.	00:47:02
	Mr. Move to approve the business registration.	00:47:12
	Seconded All in favour, aye?	00:47:16
	And the next council meeting, March 19th.	00:47:19
	And we're done.	00:47:27

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	Sneezing. That's all I do. All right, here we go.	00:00:00
	You guys turned on?	00:00:03
	City, of course. City Council, Am I on?	00:00:09
	I can't hear myself now. I can't see this course. Any Council meeting Tuesday, March 5th, 2024. Roll call please. Mayor Basker	00:00:11
	here.	00:00:15
	Councillor Tavis Lopez here.	00:00:20
	Councillor.	00:00:22
	Councillor Fleming.	00:00:24
	Councillor Ocampo.	00:00:26
	Counselor Ogene.	00:00:28
	Councillor Partridge Prison.	00:00:30
	Councillor Romero.	00:00:33
	Councillor Salome, we have a quorum.	00:00:35
	I'll rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.	00:00:39
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation.	00:00:43
	Indivisible with liberty and justice for all.	00:00:53
	Approval of the consent agenda.	00:01:03
	Approve agenda moved and seconded discussion.	00:01:07
	All in favor.	00:01:12
	And we have the public forum. People that are not on the agenda would like to make a comment.	00:01:16
	Yes, Sir.	00:01:22
	Forget me, not.	00:01:25
	Thank you. We're not strangers here now, huh? My name is Don Medeiros. For those of you who don't know me, I'm along with Roxanne	00:01:27
	Scott and my wife, Darlene. We're the founders of the Forget me not.	00:01:33
	Thrift Store, Veterans Park and the Veterans Center now in town.	00:01:40
	I'd like to keep the City Council because they've been really helpful in a lot of the things that we're working at. I know this is	00:01:46
	a huge and lofty project. We've recently had a grant denied.	00:01:51
	Which may have been a little set back. However we do continue to go on working. We got House number 789 already slotted with no	00:01:57
	government funding our grant recently though that was denied.	00:02:02
	Was actually funding.	00:02:09
	To fund young adults to train in.	00:02:12
	A vocation like framing and electrical and plumbing to help build these tiny homes, and the grant was going to cover labor.	00:02:16
	And materials.	00:02:24
	To supply tiny homes to our Veterans Park. But it was also going to train up to a dozen workers in a vocational skill.	00:02:26
	That would help this community not just not just to train these young people.	00:02:34
	But then also to help the community fix the problem of homelessness.	00:02:39
	And vocational training.	00:02:45
	But the community can take that on with the help of the city, instead of relying on the city to fix all their problems.	00:02:47
	You know, I appreciate all you guys do. I really do.	00:02:55
	But I think it's so important for the community to get involved.	00:02:59
	And this was a chance for us to do that. So it's a little set back. I don't think we're going to appeal it. We're going to	00:03:02
	continue to work with houses 7-8 and nine. We've got a couple more on the way and we're going to continue to work our funding	00:03:05
	opportunities.	00:03:09
	And any way that the city can can find a way to maybe give us a hand?	00:03:13
	I would really appreciate it. Do plan on me at the budget meeting because we're continuing to work. We've helped so far at the	00:03:19
	Veterans Center, which was just going to be the Triad.	00:03:24
	Or the hub of our triad of services. As I explained before, a veteran could come in and if they need clothing.	00:03:29
	Or some vocational studies. We have people for that. They can go over to the thrift store and get nice clothes and be able to go	00:03:36
	there. They need a place to live. We've got the Veterans Park, so this was a center. We were hoping to be the hub of our triad.	00:03:42
	Well, it just so happened I got a call from the head of the veteran services, Robin Wilson, and she said, you know, you sent me.	00:03:48
	26 Veteran Referrals in a Month and 1/2.	00:03:55
	She says our VA office in Berlin helps eight a month.	00:03:58
	You sent me 26 already. You've taken 9 veterans in the van that the city provided.	00:04:03
	Taking 9 veterans up to the VA already.	00:04:09
	You don't have vouchers, you guys are just doing it.	00:04:12
	We made a deal today with the AA Council also that has been meeting over at the church, but they have new administration.	00:04:16
	And she said I don't.	00:04:24
	Yeah.	00:04:26
	Do you have any ideas? We know the DA VS closed. I sure do. I'll meet you at 9:00 AM.	00:04:31
	So there will be meeting on Tuesdays and Thursdays now at our office in Midtown, so we're already making huge strides.	00:04:37
	You know the baby is closed. The veteran center has already picked up all the shipping opportunities. We did it last year as well	00:04:46
	and all the surrounding schools. We provide those power that forgetting.	00:04:50
	We've also picked up.	00:04:55
	The Fishing Derby, we picked that up last year also when the DAV dropped. Oh, we picked that up. We plan on doing that. We've	00:04:58
	already talked with Peter and a couple of the other. We'll be handling that.	00:05:03
	On the 12th, which is just next Tuesday, we have a VA property tax event where the Veterans Administration is actually coming down	00:05:09
	with their own veteran service officers are going to help any veteran with the taxes along with my niece just lines who in front	00:05:15
	of the library sending over some tax people. So we're going to have a full event help invest with their taxes and their	00:05:22
	deductions. We also have Victoria coming over from the NBD.	00:05:28
	To just be part of that, to show them how they can save, you know, certain veterans and certain disabilities will get that for	00:05:35
	free.	00:05:39
	So it's going to be a full event. We'll be barbecuing Outback because the other Camino is closed. So next Tuesday from 9:00 to	00:05:42
	3:00 and I'm buying CS, we're not slowing down.	00:05:46
	I would have been nicer to you if I forgot Chelsea was your niece.	00:05:53
	I know so so their their program of tiny houses.	00:06:01
	Although they're out of city limits.	00:06:08
	I'm going to try to work with them to try to.	00:06:11
	Legally work on trying to get the city to help and if we do, and you know we're going to work our way to having to control	00:06:14
	Saraceno is to.	00:06:19
	Make that kind of the start of a VO Tech school.	00:06:25
	That would help train not just high school, but people who don't go to college, are still looking for a job and want to trade. We	00:06:30
	can start thinking about maybe.	00:06:35
	A city.	00:06:41
	VO tech type school.	00:06:43
	Working with the school board.	00:06:45
	And and the first thing would be to because those houses need plumbing and electrical and carpentry and and other things so it's	00:06:47
	not something that will happen tomorrow but and they had a time to to to to.	00:06:54
	Appeal that but.	00:07:02
	In the next year if we can work on trying to do a get a vehicle to be able to get those houses made.	00:07:04
	Under our auspices, training auspices.	00:07:11
	And then the product of those houses is used out there at your park. Would have to figure out ownership and legal issues.	00:07:14
	But I think that's one of the things that we would like to try to work towards.	00:07:22
	I thought that was AI, thought it was a secret meeting that it was not.	00:07:29
	Yeah.	00:07:47
	You know it's the word. The word donate is anathema in centipede because anti donation clause. So we have to figure out a legal	00:07:49
	way.	00:07:54
	That is benefiting.	00:08:00
	And that we can then have the ownership.	00:08:02
	With us there have to be a legal mechanism for that and so that you can lease it from the city.	00:08:05
	For an X number of years.	00:08:13
	At no dollars and then after that lease or depreciation of it, it turns out to be yours. So I mean something, some sort of a	00:08:16
	vehicle that we can do, but the concept the.	00:08:21
	No, but the concept, the concept would be to continue building them.	00:08:29
	But then.	00:08:34
	That then the city just gets out of the way once you have them for habitation. That's that's that's the part I don't want to deal	00:08:35
	with.	00:08:38
	Building them training is the best way to do it.	00:08:42
	Yeah, well, that would be great. You know, I drove down from Flagstaff to a little place called Mounds.	00:08:49
	Mountains Arizona have look they have, must have.	00:08:55
	200 little houses sitting there. Beautiful little community. So, yeah. All right. Thank you. Come again.	00:08:58
	Anyone else?	00:09:08
	Yes, come on up.	00:09:09
	My name is.	00:09:18
	And.	00:09:20
	And I am the new festival of the praise manager for this year.	00:09:23
	My supervisor, Devin, I met with Robbie Perfect the other day and he's got to stop on by and introduce themselves. Say hi to you	00:09:29
	all. Or do I do?	00:09:34
	Lots of planning right now we.	00:09:42
	Probably added to you, Peter. Peter.	00:09:50
	Peter Councillor Romero, could you close the door?	00:09:53
	I feel so official.	00:10:04
	All right. I think that's Peter Sheila. Is that OK? Oh, that's loud. All right, so let me start over again. My name is Carrie	00:10:09
	Powell. I work for Friends of Bosco Dell Apache, and I am the new festival, the Cranes Manager this year. I've worked for friends	00:10:16
	for about two years. I manage, in addition to the festival, I manage the Desert Arboretum, the Cactus Garden down at the Refuge.	00:10:23
	And right now, I'm currently also managing A pollinator habitat enhancement project down there as well, so.	00:10:30
	I am a busy gal.	00:10:37
	But I'm really excited to be to be taking over this position this year. We're excited. We've got a lot of big changes coming up we	00:10:38
	are going to use.	00:10:43
	I don't know if Desiree has let you know yet. We are planning to use the City Convention Center this year. My supervisor, Deb and	00:10:49
	I toured that a couple times and we really think it's it's a beautiful location, it's really going to fit our needs. So we're	00:10:54
	really excited about that change.	00:11:00
	We're working on some early advertising, getting the word out or looking at doing some different sorts of.	00:11:06
	Classes and stuff. Getting people out to our partner. Partner references like Bernardo up north.	00:11:16
	Out to the VLA, maybe up to about or so.	00:11:23
	Still still still working on all of those plants, but yeah, Mayor Basker just wanted me to stop by and introduce myself. We	00:11:28
	appreciate you coming, Deborah Dean. Oh, thank you. Good question. It's going to start Wednesday, December 11th and it will run	00:11:36
	through Sunday, December 15th. We decided to include both days of the weekend this year. We are really interested in attracting	00:11:43
	young professional folks and we know that they can't come on Wednesday through Friday during the day during the work day.	00:11:51
	We also wanted you know families to be able to come and enjoy that too. Although our traditional wildlife zone, we separated it	00:12:00
	out from festival, it's in October now, we'll still have a couple of kid friendly activities at at festival, so we really want to	00:12:08
	get back into making this a big community event. I know COVID happened and the world kind of got shook up so we're we're.	00:12:16
	Buffet on the ground, getting going on the atmosphere.	00:12:26
	You know they had to push it back.	00:12:30
	Mainly for the change in the weather.	00:12:33
	Exactly what the temperature staying warmer and longer? The cranes are staying N longer, I mean.	00:12:37
	I wouldn't get out of my home and go anywhere until it got cold if I didn't have to either.	00:12:43
	And then the next two years Thanksgiving is.	00:12:49
	Very, very late in the month. And so, umm.	00:12:53
	We really had to push it back a little bit to make sure that we had time the week before to get everything we needed and.	00:12:58
	Yeah. Thank you for coming. Any other questions or?	00:13:04
	And then I also would like to invite you all to our Spring Migration celebration, which is the first Friday and Saturday. I	00:13:08
	believe it's the 3rd and 4th of May. The 1st Friday and Saturday we'll have birding classes. There's two dedicated kiddo birding	00:13:14
	classes. Of course, my favorite part is the Arboretum stroll and come look at all the flowers. Our Friends annual meeting will	00:13:20
	occur that weekend as well.	00:13:27
	Could you send us a link to that puller? We can put it on our.	00:13:35
	I will. Well, certainly, I will certainly do that.	00:13:38
	Let me write that down.	00:13:44
	All right. OK. Thank you for coming.	00:13:48
	No T-shirts or glasses, anything for us.	00:13:52
	We'll see. We'll see how you do with helping us out with the festival.	00:13:56
	Thank you. Thank you. Give me a check for 15,000 this year. Buy a few T-shirts.	00:14:02
	And I know like there's tax just opened last Friday, right? So.	00:14:10
	Yeah. If we if we get a committee together, that's the biggest problem. Thank you.	00:14:19
	Thank you.	00:14:25
	Anyone else?	00:14:26
	Council Romero is.	00:14:31
	The Now we have, I'm going to let Councillor Partridge introduce them. We can open the door and let them in.	00:14:33
	This is a Socorro High School wrestling team and Tasha McNeil is also here, but maybe you can give us an introduction as to what's	00:14:42
	going on and then we can introduce Tasha and the coaches.	00:14:47
	Come on in.	00:14:54
	Come in, come in, come in.	00:14:56
	Get the French chairs and get come and sit down.	00:14:58
	No, no, that's right. Yeah.	00:15:06
	I'm good and you?	00:15:08
	Alright.	00:15:13
	I let Councillor Partridge kick off the.	00:15:22
	Introduction about the high school wrestling and and how far you've gotten with that and then then we can introduce some of the	00:15:25
	coaches and Tasha and.	00:15:29
	Everybody.	00:15:33
	All in here, but he gets on.	00:15:35
	Well, and I've never been on this side of it.	00:15:39
	They the city has always done a real nice job of honoring the wrestling team and supporting.	00:15:44
	The wrestling team.	00:15:48
	Matter of fact, Councillor Salomi, 7 years ago, I believe you were the interim Superintendent at the time.	00:15:50
	And we were looking to.	00:15:57
	Take the kids that we.	00:16:00
	A group of kids.	00:16:02
	Coach McNeil, oldest boy and my son and get into the high school and compete.	00:16:04
	And we called the enemy and said, hey, can we compete? And I said we'll let you guys be a club. And I said no, you know, we want	00:16:09
	to compete. We have kids that will do well now.	00:16:13
	So we're going to have to get your Superintendent, and I didn't. You know, you must have. Slowly.	00:16:18
	I went and had a meeting with him. He's very supportive at the NBC. Yeah, absolutely. What I got to do so from there was seven	00:16:23
	years ago and.	00:16:26
	I coach John in the back. He did some numbers from me the other day because we were curious on it. Seven years ago we started and	00:16:30
	and.	00:16:33
	And those years we've had 20 state placers for the boys, that's top three finish at State.	00:16:39
	11 champions that were boys or state champions.	00:16:45
	And the girls with.	00:16:49
	They didn't get sanctioned like the boys until five years ago.	00:16:51
	And we've had 11 state placers with the girls and then we had our first girls state champion.	00:16:56
	This year was our first goal.	00:17:01
	And so.	00:17:05
	Joshua Garrison the you know she put us on the agenda today so.	00:17:06
	This year we had five state placers, so we had Jada Castillo. She's.	00:17:11
	She's not here, but she's was a senior and she took fourth in the girls division. Was pretty special too about the girls division	00:17:17
	is it's it's all one class so there's no 1A or.	00:17:22
	To a You know that they have to wrestle all schools. Volcano Vista, you know Cleveland. So if you're top six in that division,	00:17:27
	there are truly top six in the state amongst all.	00:17:32
	So it's pretty impressive, you know, to be top four stuff, and she's consistently getting top three or four for a long time. She's	00:17:38
	done a really good job for us.	00:17:41
	As she's graduating this year.	00:17:45
	Katie McNeill is an eighth grader.	00:17:48
	A stand up case, maybe everybody can see like attention, it doesn't mind it.	00:17:50
	He doesn't mind attention. I say nothing but Kaden's 8th grader this year, and he's in a pretty tough weight class. One of the	00:17:55
	deeper weight classes, 139 lbs, and he took third.	00:17:59
	And the four a division which is.	00:18:03
	It's separated into two divisions for Blazes 4A and 5A, and there's 38 teams in 4A and there's 28 teams in five.	00:18:06
	So he was third amongst the 30. Eighteenth did a great job for us so.	00:18:16
	Isaiah Estrada, He's a 9th grader for us and he's a state champion this year, so he won first place.	00:18:25
	And David Gutierrez, junior.	00:18:36
	He's a two time state champion so he defended his title this year.	00:18:39
	I don't see Sasha.	00:18:47
	Sasha. No Sasha. Sasha is not here tonight, I guess, but she was.	00:18:50
	35 and oh, she was undefeated.	00:18:57
	She's like 105 and seven in her career, so you have like a 6% chance of beating Sasha and wrestling nuts. You're not. Not very	00:19:01
	often did she lose. She did a really good job. She's been in the state finals a couple of times and come up short. So she is a	00:19:06
	state champion this year and she did a great job.	00:19:11
	A couple of other kids here that qualified out of selling Modino right here. She qualified for us and went to the state	00:19:16
	tournament. Jayden Kaiser qualified, went to the state tournament for us. She's a senior. She's getting some offers from colleges.	00:19:21
	Let's see what she decides to do.	00:19:26
	Kalina Van Landingham. She's an eighth grader. She's over fighting with the state. Marius Lucero qualified and went to the state	00:19:31
	tournament.	00:19:34
	Angel Perez Hey, why don't you see over there? Smile is infectious. I love that kid.	00:19:38
	He did a great job. He qualified and went to state. Had a brutal side of the bracket but wrestled his tail off. Did a good job.	00:19:46
	So I thank you guys for having them here. Our coaches, I'd like to recognize Coach David.	00:19:51
	To go to Terrace House, so you know obviously works for the city, is great. He gives up a lot of his time.	00:19:57
	Coach McNeil, you know our right hand over, my right hand over there took the Neil.	00:20:04
	One puts the armrest gutter in the back. He's big. He helps us with a ton of things.	00:20:09
	Coach.	00:20:18
	Well, Coach Sammy is not here, but I mean, Coach Sammy started wrestling in Socorro. You know, we named the tournament after him.	00:20:20
	He's there every day at practice with us. No matter what he shows up.	00:20:24
	You know, can't go without saying thank you to Coach Sammy, too. He's phenomenal.	00:20:29
	Jason, our bus driver who drove us all year long. He's not here, but he drove us. He, he picked up, gave up shifts to go take his	00:20:34
	places that you know, we didn't have a driver when he first went and he gave a.	00:20:39
	Just to drive us. And he solely drove us all year long, so we were hungry.	00:20:45
	And of course our Mamas that take care of everything, Tasha, that takes care of a lot of stuff for us. I thank you Tasha and all	00:20:49
	of our wives for putting up with us to this dresses.	00:20:54
	We got our room back, so we're going to start rebuilding that. Then we got the keys, so we should be in there soon, so.	00:21:02
	A couple of big tournaments in the summer coming up at the Rodeo Arena, Rocky Mountain Nationals will be here and then Under the	00:21:09
	lights Tournament. So.	00:21:12
	Lot of wrestling taking place and a lot of events coming to Socorro. So from as a coach removing the Councilman hat, thank you all	00:21:16
	for continued support of the program. You have been supporting it. So we'll be very grateful for that and I thank you all for that	00:21:22
	too. Why don't we get everybody to come up, We'll take a picture.	00:21:27
	Let's get all the wrestlers and the coaches and.	00:21:34
	We'll get a picture.	00:21:38
	Ketan Keter.	00:21:45
	What's going on? Ladies too? I wanna think they do.	00:21:47
	There you go.	00:22:06
	Squeeze in a little. Squeeze in a little. Squeeze in a little, guys.	00:22:21
	Great job.	00:22:47
	I forgot it, I know no.	00:22:49
	This has tried to be. He's trying to be.	00:23:08
	See you guys.	00:23:14
	Breakfast at 7:00.	00:23:15
	7 to 8 practice at 7:00.	00:23:17
	Bye.	00:23:22
	Council Partridge, how many do you have participating in your in the whole program 117?	00:23:25
	117 congratulations. That's a.	00:23:31
	Little and I.	00:23:40
	We continue to help as much as we can.	00:23:41
	Great. Thank you.	00:23:44
	Mr. Saloni, I'd like to. I'd like to thank the Chieftain for those wonderful pictures in the Chieftain, their articles. Those are	00:23:46
	great photos, really nice.	00:23:50
	Yeah, he really did a really nice job. And state champions. I mean, my goodness.	00:23:56
	That's that's a big success for him.	00:24:00
	OK, now there's another one. Lego League Savannah Morris.	00:24:04
	Thank you guys.	00:24:08
	And they got the Red Hot Chili Peppers hat.	00:24:12
	Everybody got a Mayor Bhaskar, City Council, men and women, I'm going to actually turn it over.	00:24:17
	Oh, hi, I'm Sebastian. This is Miles Riley, Jacob NLT. We are the Rock and Red Hot Chili Peppers from Sakura, New Mexico.	00:24:24
	You may remember us from last year.	00:24:35
	We participated in the FLL First Lego League where last year we got to go to an Invitational for internationals.	00:24:38
	And this year we also made it to internationals.	00:24:48
	FIRST Robotics or FIRST Lego League gives students ages 9 to 14 the opportunity to research and solve real world problems, present	00:24:51
	their work and potential solutions to their peers.	00:24:58
	And learn and teach coaches and mentors. We are the only team in Sakura, New Mexico.	00:25:06
	You're the only say that again, you're the only team in New Mexico.	00:25:12
	And also New Mexico.	00:25:18
	You got the only Lego team in New Mexico.	00:25:21
	So now they're the only Lego team in Sapporo and.	00:25:25
	In New Mexico, that is going this competition.	00:25:31
	Hi. Like he said I'm Miles was there there's my mom. But so this is our second year doing this first leg again it's been amazing	00:25:38
	so far our so we're going to an international competition so there's going to be teams from.	00:25:47
	A whole bunch of different countries and also United States and we're the only ones from Mexico that get to go to this	00:25:57
	competition.	00:26:02
	And we've been invited and you can only go by invite, so luckily we have competed in other competitions.	00:26:07
	Such as a Alamogordo qualifier where we were to receive a robot design award. So this is our robot that we've built a lot of Legos	00:26:16
	goes to.	00:26:23
	To complete tasks around a pre built map app that we program to do ourselves. Then we also had a statement that one is motorized.	00:26:31
	Lego Motor, Lego Brand Motors.	00:26:41
	And then we also competed in another in the state competition.	00:26:44
	In Albuquerque and we've got this trophy for having an innovation project in our innovation project is something that we do to	00:26:49
	benefit.	00:26:53
	Our community and with a kind of set.	00:27:00
	Topic or.	00:27:04
	And we get to decide.	00:27:06
	What in that range of topics that we can do?	00:27:08
	Oh, but yeah, this year we received an invite and we're going to an international.	00:27:11
	Competition.	00:27:18
	What was your theme?	00:27:18
	What was the topic we've built? We've designed a whole bunch of prototypes, hips and stuff to make drawing easier for people that	00:27:20
	have disabilities such as arthritis or or other movement disabilities that create make it hard for people to draw.	00:27:27
	We're going to Daytona Beach in Florida.	00:27:36
	Can we talk before the meeting? I'm going.	00:27:45
	At this first Lego League Florida Sunshine Invitational event that we are going to, these teams will.	00:27:49
	These teams will experience 3 days of competition.	00:27:59
	2 ceremonies.	00:28:03
	As in several professional and social interaction opportunities with other teams.	00:28:06
	This event includes 8017 from around the United States and 20 teams from around the world who have also received top recognition	00:28:13
	in their region.	00:28:18
	We will attend the Florida Sunshine Invitational in Daytona Beach from June 19th through 22nd, 2024.	00:28:24
	This is far away from New Mexico and we need all your support to get there.	00:28:39
	Our goal is $18,000.	00:28:45
	We provided you a cost.	00:28:48
	Breakdown.	00:28:50
	We will put your name on our banner for your sponsorship. As one of our team supporters. This will help a lot and we feel like	00:28:54
	this opportunity is an amazing experience for us and we look forward to being our hometown representatives in such a diverse	00:28:59
	competition.	00:29:05
	Yeah. Well, let's see if we can help. It has to be for advertising, of course. And what we'll do is we'll look at our budget and	00:29:14
	see what we didn't. We provide you with something last year.	00:29:18
	Yes. You guys graciously covered our registration fee. Yeah. So we look at that and then it's not like Battle Bots. Is it where	00:29:24
	you get to kill other people's? No. Because I remember last year you showed us stuff that was on the ground that was moving	00:29:30
	around. So does that thing move around? Let's see.	00:29:36
	Does it have a pre programmed?	00:29:43
	A strip that it follows, let me tell you.	00:29:46
	Everything has to be Lego brand.	00:29:50
	Including the rubber bands and the string.	00:29:52
	It is very expensive, yeah.	00:29:58
	Don't knock it off the table though. Oh wow.	00:30:02
	And it's and what's the? What's the purpose?	00:30:10
	May feel that we get to practice for months to program.	00:30:19
	And get ready to set up like obstacles.	00:30:26
	OK.	00:30:33
	So we practice on Tuesdays at Zimmerly School.	00:30:35
	Anybody were from after school till 5:00. We have it all set up and you guys are more than welcome to come and look at it.	00:30:40
	And and then from scratch.	00:30:48
	With motors and stuff like.	00:30:52
	How many hours do you guys spend making that?	00:30:55
	Hours and hours.	00:30:58
	Started practice probably in September and then January was the first competition and then February was state competition and so	00:31:03
	now we.	00:31:08
	Go to Florida and.	00:31:13
	June so that sanction like the schools, right, you guys are or is it like a club? So yeah, we're not actually affiliated with any	00:31:15
	school, so we're just a private team.	00:31:20
	Yeah, there used to be. It used to be huge in Saguaro and then covet happened and so.	00:31:26
	Well and.	00:31:33
	One of the ladies that started it kind of has passed away.	00:31:34
	Mr. Klinger Smith, yes. Yeah, she was kind of a the.	00:31:38
	That's cool. That's really cool. How much? I'm sorry.	00:31:42
	No, no. Why are you called 1056827? So that's. So you have to register with the first Lego league and so that's the, the number	00:31:46
	they gave us, yeah.	00:31:51
	Yeah, that's good. You guys speak well too, because kids speak really well. Part of it is they have to have a presentation and so	00:31:58
	they go into a room of judges. The coaches are allowed to go, but I don't like going because I think I get more nervous when	00:32:03
	they're speaking and.	00:32:07
	This is Lt. So he is really nervous and he has grown so much in public speaking.	00:32:13
	Sebastian as well, Riley is shy too and they've all done such a good job and like their presentation, we have to do data. And so,	00:32:20
	Jacob, those are data collection and makes graphs and stuff. And I'm just so proud of these boys. They've done good and we have.	00:32:26
	You can't forget our parents out back there, Jenna, Lynn and Wendy, they're.	00:32:33
	Great support. I mean, just like wrestling, have the coat, the the wrestling moms, we have our homes too. Yeah, we just have a	00:32:41
	good, a good system.	00:32:45
	He's done a good job with him, Savannah. That's really cool, guys.	00:32:52
	Thank you for coming. Hey, wait, wait. We're going to take a picture too.	00:32:58
	Come on, they. Over here, even with those chilly heads.	00:33:05
	Show me your clothes.	00:33:12
	Head.	00:33:15
	Thought you on your parted.	00:33:17
	Wonderful. Thank you.	00:33:28
	Kids are doing great in Socorro. I'm really proud of them.	00:33:38
	It's really good to see.	00:33:43
	We have the resolution for local Rd. fund program for street and dim dam drainage.	00:33:46
	Yeah, Mr. Money, Mr. Mayor, this application is due on Friday and though the resolution is not a requirement of adds to our our	00:33:52
	application package so.	00:33:58
	Or requesting the city approve this resolution showing their support of applying for the funds and the streets were trying to.	00:34:04
	The qualified.	00:34:14
	Are between Neil.	00:34:16
	And School of Mines on the eastern side towards Tech.	00:34:18
	I can't remember the names of them, Gordon.	00:34:22
	I remember all the streets.	00:34:24
	Anyhow, you want me to, Sam? Sure.	00:34:27
	Yeah, the.	00:34:31
	On those but not limited to a Fitch, Hayden Place, Douglas Place, Gordon Place, Houghton.	00:34:34
	Place and Nelson Place. Yes, Sir.	00:34:40
	Mr. Sholomi and seconded by Mr. Romero.	00:34:44
	Discussion on favor.	00:34:49
	Aye, you'll you'll also notice that you know we're finishing up.	00:34:52
	Walkway and those streets there finally got the weather nice enough to do that.	00:34:57
	We'll be trying to start on manzanaris.	00:35:05
	And what's the other one, Fowler, Fowler, so that those are next, those are already paid for and we'll be doing it and McCutcheon	00:35:09
	and around that area.	00:35:14
	Was there, I mean, around the courthouse? Yes, Sir. That's, I believe the the gas departments.	00:35:20
	Done replacing the gas line, so that should be by the end of March also.	00:35:26
	And we're getting ready for speed bumps.	00:35:32
	So we have limited amount of money.	00:35:37
	But we're going to be putting out speed bumps.	00:35:40
	Real interesting.	00:35:43
	Comment period for speed bump, but we're going to, we're going to start doing that. We've got a list of over 20 right now and we	00:35:45
	probably can afford.	00:35:49
	Maybe 5. So you kind of need the.	00:35:54
	Prioritize them, but just to keep going with the street projects, there was some supplemental funding in the CDBG project because	00:35:58
	our.	00:36:02
	Where quoted cost was what?	00:36:09
	Over 400,000 more than what the CDBG application we are approved for.	00:36:12
	Could match.	00:36:18
	So that's supplemental funding applications due on March 21st I believe. So we applying for supplemental funding for that and then	00:36:20
	the the map project comes out.	00:36:27
	Sometimes the end of this month. So we are playing applying for Otero St. again by Supermarket or John Brooks and then.	00:36:34
	The TPF projects will be coming out and we are going to apply for additional funding for Manzanaris because again, the funding	00:36:45
	didn't match the scope of the project. There wasn't enough funding to do as much of the project as we wanted to.	00:36:51
	So we're going to ask for additional funding for.	00:36:58
	Continuing the men's project and the streets that have not been repaid around the courthouse.	00:37:02
	So it's spring season, so it's grant application season.	00:37:08
	I know that there's a road that's still a dirt road, and I think it's in city limits. It's right by in between.	00:37:12
	It's right down on Terrell St.	00:37:23
	Umm, on 6th St. and then there's like a Rd.	00:37:28
	That curves out in between.	00:37:31
	6th St.	00:37:34
	The apartments.	00:37:36
	It is.	00:37:38
	But there's a road there that's that's not paved or anything.	00:37:41
	It had been blocked at one time and then I think you asked them to remove some of the.	00:37:45
	The trucks make extra yeah, right next to Hammer Alleyway to the Alex, right next to the Hammer Museum.	00:37:51
	Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's towards towards your village, right. Yeah. And I think we can work on trying to get at least chips. You	00:38:07
	can't do something with that. Yeah, that's, that's Neil St.	00:38:12
	So another nail St. Yeah, yeah, that's right. OK. So we'll get, we'll start to work on that. Thank you.	00:38:17
	And new business.	00:38:25
	I I I would bring that up today to Donald and Marianne. I'm going to ask the Budget Committee to.	00:38:28
	Set up aside some money.	00:38:35
	To at least do the exterior of her cemeteries is to landscape them.	00:38:38
	And I'm going to try to get a landscape engineer to come and design at the Pythias, the Catholic and the the Masons cemetery. But	00:38:44
	I really, and perhaps just put some money for the roads there. I think it really deserved it. It's been long in coming, but I	00:38:52
	think when I see other cities have cemeteries that are really much more approachable than ours, it may take 100,000, it may take	00:39:00
	50,000. I'm not sure, but I think we really need to.	00:39:08
	Trying to spend some money there, Mr. Salami.	00:39:17
	Maybe having?	00:39:26
	City, Cemet.	00:39:29
	Partnership with some of the churches in town to set up a nice cemetery over there by the rodeo grounds up on that hill.	00:39:32
	There's infrastructure there, there's.	00:39:42
	Maybe there's a chance that we we can like start them off and charge charge the the churches and so they can have their section	00:39:45
	of.	00:39:50
	Of area for the folks that that that will be using it, but because there's not a lot of room in the Catholic cemetery.	00:39:56
	And we've been, we have looked at property out there, yeah. And but you know, we've been back and forth with the Pythias.	00:40:05
	That cemetery, in a way, has gotten abandoned.	00:40:13
	And so that's so let's look into that, although I just worry that that if we start a new cemetery, it's a city cemetery that those	00:40:17
	will become more in disrepair and feel abandoned. I just that would be that would be difficult for our love of dead love and that	00:40:23
	cemetery will be probably for us.	00:40:29
	But but that but that one. I just afraid if we start another one.	00:40:37
	I would like to do something I'd like if we can do a memorandum of understanding between the people who run those cemeteries to.	00:40:42
	Not to invade any of their space, but.	00:40:49
	To try to just have better aesthetically have it look better.	00:40:52
	Because it just, it just, I mean, I've looked at it for a year, 50 years since I've been here and it's like not the nicest. I	00:40:57
	mean, she could be improved on.	00:41:02
	So anyway, I just wanted to throw it up. Mr. There's just a little bit more information for Counselor Salome back in the mid 50s.	00:41:06
	I believe is when.	00:41:14
	The city deeded that land to the different organizations to build their cemetery, so they owned the land.	00:41:16
	That the cemetery said I'm not the city.	00:41:24
	Different ownership, kind of.	00:41:28
	Ideas. But I mean, I'm also working with a surveyor to come look at some city land for us because.	00:41:30
	When it comes to the land.	00:41:37
	Lands they were never needed. So I don't have. Don't have parcel ID numbers and they don't have legal descriptions. So if you want	00:41:39
	to go get them appraised to try to settle them, you don't know what you have. So I just got a gentleman's phone number today to	00:41:47
	start working on that. So I will do that, Mister Mayor, that that land across from the new San Miguel Cemetery.	00:41:54
	The Crown, as you're going up towards the City of Cemetery, that's San Miguel property, right?	00:42:03
	Those hills going up to the flood control.	00:42:08
	I do not know. I think it is.	00:42:13
	But we'll probably need to get in discussion with them as to what what it is that can be done. But we just, I think we just kind	00:42:16
	of need to. And you know, at one time we were thinking of trying to apply for the veterans cemetery because they were giving out	00:42:21
	money about 5-7 years ago to have it out there. We didn't, we didn't get the money, but we were thinking of making that into a	00:42:26
	veteran.	00:42:31
	A veteran cemetery. I know you remember that we would try to do that so but but again, the idea would be just the present	00:42:36
	cemeteries to have a approachable.	00:42:41
	You know entrance.	00:42:46
	Then we could then landscape and put water to and lighting perhaps even that just to make them.	00:42:48
	At least the entrances. And then as you get inside, you know I will leave that to the people who own the cemeteries.	00:42:54
	But at least the outside be more approachable, maybe signage and things like that, lighting and just. And what I do is get a	00:43:01
	landscape engineer to do that.	00:43:06
	So, Mr. I want to Councillor Romero, are you talking about if you pass the Catholic cemetery and if you would go straight?	00:43:12
	Instead of turning right.	00:43:20
	That is part of one of the.	00:43:22
	Current leases, but I can't remember which organization that leases with. I don't believe it's either the Masons or the Catholic	00:43:25
	Church.	00:43:28
	Any other new business that might be coming up, old business?	00:43:34
	All right, Executive session.	00:43:40
	We have job descriptions, Mr. Monet.	00:43:43
	I can serve people and didn't plan anything.	00:43:49
	You know, if you know anything about our area.	00:43:54
	Bosque Farms just had a spill.	00:43:59
	About 30,000 gallons in of their wastewater about.	00:44:02
	Six months ago, maybe. A lot of it had to do with their personnel. You know, they don't have personnel that.	00:44:06
	Have to be certified and all that we have every every little town is having trouble so we're trying to upgrade our laboratory	00:44:15
	technician and.	00:44:19
	The chief wastewater treatment plant operator just to try to keep.	00:44:23
	I'll keep them going. So this is what this is about.	00:44:28
	So if you guys if it's OK.	00:44:33
	And again, it's for the laboratory technician 3 and we're lucky enough to have one. And chief, our greater wastewater treatment	00:44:36
	plant, Mr. American understand that again.	00:44:42
	I believe the governor has until the end of tomorrow to sign the budget.	00:44:49
	And one of the bills that I'm not sure if she has signed yet or not, but it's a retention fund for.	00:44:54
	Police officers that have retired, what's not the retention fund? And I haven't read the bill, but it's something with PRA to	00:45:00
	allow our officers to come back to work as employees again rather than like they're doing what contractors and eventually we're	00:45:06
	going to need that for a wastewater treatment plan. That's every job in every city.	00:45:13
	And then you know this this always been a political thing and.	00:45:20
	The irony of it is, if you're a politician and getting a retirement like me, I could go back to work without losing my retirement.	00:45:24
	But if you're an employee.	00:45:29
	And retired and want to go back to work.	00:45:35
	You can't.	00:45:38
	Is unfortunate, and that's just always hit up.	00:45:41
	But they and and so that's one of the things I think firefighters are going to be involved in that retention also so.	00:45:45
	All right, let's do the personnel changes.	00:45:55
	We've got a lot of gas.	00:45:59
	Cumin.	00:46:01
	Aldo Ruiz Gomez again, we're trying to keep him, keep him on our utility crew. Alberto Dean, Michael Benavides and James Padilla.	00:46:03
	This is gas operators.	00:46:08
	Louise Chavez, his new hire, if you remember the name Luis Chalice.	00:46:14
	He retired. He's coming.	00:46:19
	Raul Contreras, he completed probation at the Rodeo. And Cody Polston, This is one of the gentlemen that we want to keep.	00:46:21
	We reclassified his job and gave him a raise.	00:46:29
	Fabian Silva? Resignation, Antonio Munoz Resignation. Andrew Garcia.	00:46:32
	V Hill resignation.	00:46:38
	Mr. Romero.	00:46:41
	For example, I second.	00:46:44
	Discussion all in favor, aye, And we have.	00:46:47
	This is Bustamante Farms Retail Produce Market.	00:46:52
	RJ Oh, it's not Chick-fil-A. RJ RJ Chicken.	00:46:56
	Check in 400 California St. Mark Martin Restaurant and here it is in Nails 2 Sammery Wilkinson here in Salon.	00:47:02
	Mr. Move to approve the business registration.	00:47:12
	Seconded All in favour, aye?	00:47:16
	And the next council meeting, March 19th.	00:47:19
	And we're done.	00:47:27