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	Alright, so I guess we can start.	00:02:33
	This is the City of Square City Council meeting Tuesday, May 16th, 2023. Will call please.	00:02:36
	Councillor Chavez Lopez.	00:02:42
	Councillor Dean, Councillor Fleming.	00:02:44
	Councillor hits Councillor Ocampo here, Councillor Olguin.	00:02:47
	Councillor Romero.	00:02:52
	Hereby.	00:02:54
	Councillor Salome.	00:02:55
	We have a quorum.	00:02:59
	The new chat chat bot All right, so the Pledge of Allegiance.	00:03:00
	I felt like.	00:03:06
	And.	00:03:08
	For which it stands.	00:03:11
	1/8.	00:03:13
	Thanks.	00:03:14
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	Mr. Mayor, Mr. Wyatt, could we add an item to the agenda? Could be item 6F, a resolution authorizing the assignment of authorized	00:03:22
	officers and agents. And it's.	00:03:27
	Exactly the same as the one we signed for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.	00:03:34
	But as we switched and added a new project to this for the belt press.	00:03:38
	They now have two separate.	00:03:43
	Ohh.	00:03:47
	Excuse me, Project number. So they would they requested a separate resolution.	00:03:48
	Mr. Mayor.	00:03:53
	Mr. Fleming.	00:03:54
	EMOTION currently approve the agenda as presented with the correction for 6F.	00:03:55
	I second moved and seconded. All in favor opposed.	00:04:02
	Thank you, Mayor. Mr.	00:04:07
	Again, I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda.	00:04:09
	And 2nd.	00:04:12
	Moved in seconded discussion.	00:04:13
	On favor.	00:04:16
	We have Connor out there in the audience for Connor.	00:04:18
	5K results.	00:04:23
	Honor.	00:04:25
	Yeah.	00:04:34
	Uh.	00:04:37
	Gosh, that's hard.	00:04:39
	Umm.	00:04:41
	I was. I was just.	00:04:42
	I was thinking you for you guys, the city for sponsoring my 5K.	00:04:46
	Ohh, your money went towards.	00:04:53
	Footballs and soccer balls to help.	00:04:55
	I don't know.	00:04:59
	Encourage kids to stay active and some extra snacks for.	00:05:01
	Healthy snacks throughout English.	00:05:06
	That's great. Tell us what that is for What? What is Connors 5K all about? The 5K was to raise money for stick fibrosis.	00:05:10
	We had about 200 people show up, so it was a good turn up.	00:05:19
	Well, you've done a good job. How are you feeling? Good. Good. Great. Great. Well, it's good to have you here giving us a report	00:05:24
	on this.	00:05:28
	And you're going to continue this now, hopefully?	00:05:31
	For a long time, 200 is a lot of people in support to get anything done. So that's that's just terrific.	00:05:35
	And they do. You got something in that bag?	00:05:42
	Yeah, I have friends for years.	00:05:46
	From there, let's just pan them out.	00:05:48
	Yeah.	00:05:51
	Well done.	00:05:54
	Hospital thank you much every year.	00:05:55
	General Hospital at least two or three weeks you get.	00:05:58
	React and get born again. They run blood tests and they do all sorts of stuff to them and.	00:06:02
	He doesn't let now that's slowing down. I mean he just going strong and.	00:06:08
	Thanks.	00:06:13
	Thank you.	00:06:14
	Going forward?	00:06:15
	Resume.	00:06:19
	That's great. You better have one for everybody, Connor.	00:06:22
	It's still here.	00:06:28
	Anthony's in mind. We received ours at the event, so ohh, I'm well proud of that, yeah.	00:06:30
	There you go.	00:06:40
	Thank you.	00:06:47
	For the city of Thank you.	00:06:50
	You got your dad up.	00:06:53
	Recognize that also out there has really been.	00:06:58
	You guys are really great parents. Done well with him.	00:07:01
	And thank you for coming.	00:07:05
	Two questions.	00:07:12
	Instant school system moving.	00:07:15
	Good job.	00:07:19
	Anyone else on the That's Not an agenda would like to move comment for public forum.	00:07:20
	Yes, ma'am.	00:07:26
	If you are dentify yourself and.	00:07:29
	Tell us what your comment is.	00:07:31
	Alright, my name is Marianne Keller. Some of you know who I am, but.	00:07:36
	Um.	00:07:40
	I have been volunteering to attend the Socorro Superfund.	00:07:41
	Um.	00:07:46
	Site meetings that they have every month.	00:07:47
	And we would like to encourage City Council to please come to our meetings.	00:07:50
	It's only usually myself and another lady.	00:07:56
	That attend, but we have ETA there we have the state there we have.	00:07:59
	All kinds of people that come that are on virtual.	00:08:04
	And so we would like to really encourage City Council to please come and get involved.	00:08:07
	In this so that you guys can come back and report to.	00:08:13
	The community as to what's happening within our community.	00:08:16
	So Super Fun has been going on since 2000 and.	00:08:20
	19 or something like that. So it's been ongoing for a little while.	00:08:24
	And there just is no.	00:08:28
	Community attendance.	00:08:31
	When is your next meeting? It's going to be next in June, 2nd week of the month? Second Thursday of the month.	00:08:32
	From 6:30 until 8:00 at the Socorro Public Library.	00:08:41
	And just to let you know, you may already know is that we're meeting with them on the 25th.	00:08:45
	Of this month to look at solutions.	00:08:51
	4.	00:08:54
	Resolving the contamination. Ohh, OK, good. So that's on the 25th.	00:08:55
	That's in real life, another is it?	00:09:01
	On zoom.	00:09:04
	I believe it's some real in person, Sir. Yeah. So, so we are going to be meeting with them just to give you an update. OK, we are,	00:09:06
	we have been following it in the administration, but.	00:09:11
	I think.	00:09:17
	What happened was that they had these different solutions to the problem.	00:09:18
	And now they're trying to decide which one will be the one that they're going to use, right, to start doing the work. So that's on	00:09:23
	the 25th that we're going to be having that, OK, is that going to be here at City Council or it will be probably be a closed	00:09:29
	meeting to begin with, but we will report out of it.	00:09:35
	OK, definitely report out of it. OK, I will report that back to them, please. Yeah, I get home tonight, so and and this is a that	00:09:42
	a Wednesday the 25th is a.	00:09:47
	Thursday So.	00:09:52
	I'll have information at the next City Council meeting.	00:09:54
	OK, after we meet with them.	00:09:57
	OK.	00:09:59
	Alright, well, thank you for coming. Thank you reminding us. Yes, the work that you've done. Thank you.	00:10:00
	Anyone else?	00:10:06
	Great, we have a representative Potter meal.	00:10:09
	Who is here to give us a report just for her maiden voice as a representative and?	00:10:13
	We're certainly happy with the work she did for the city of Socorro, so she's going to give us more explanation about what's	00:10:18
	happened at the legislature and.	00:10:21
	What are the things you're going on?	00:10:25
	Thank you for having me and and inviting me to this today I think.	00:10:28
	You know, we should probably start with the committees I'm on, so I'm on Appropriations.	00:10:32
	Interim. I'm on LFC.	00:10:38
	And then I'm on Health and Human Services.	00:10:40
	So through our work with appropriations HB2.	00:10:43
	We were able to pass many meaningful bills we that will affect the community at large.	00:10:47
	So it was a $9.7 billion budget with a little less than half going to school.	00:10:55
	Uh.	00:11:02
	To address community safety, we looked at crime prevention reduction in HB2.	00:11:03
	With the General Appropriations act.	00:11:08
	HB234 robbery and organized retail crime, which was Marian Matthews.	00:11:10
	The bill that passed?	00:11:16
	As well as the law enforcement workforce funding.	00:11:18
	Um, that that came through and that was sponsored by GAIL Armstrong.	00:11:22
	When we look at education and and the foundation for how we provide services to children, but also our future.	00:11:27
	Um, workers in education? We did appropriate $4.8 billion.	00:11:33
	In education.	00:11:39
	Um, that also we increased teacher aides to 25,000 a year. We gave a 6% increase in all teachers in the state of New Mexico will	00:11:40
	be making 5060 or $70,000 per year.	00:11:47
	There was a huge.	00:11:55
	Push to fund early education, which is early early pre-K which is 2 through the age of 5.	00:11:58
	And that appropriation was 135 million.	00:12:07
	Increase to the early childhood welfare system.	00:12:12
	Higher education also had, so New Mexico now is any any student can attend.	00:12:16
	A university at no cost. We also did free meals for all children within the school districts.	00:12:21
	Healthcare was a little bit more concerning. We wanted to look at increasing Medicaid, which we did, but we also know that doctors	00:12:29
	are leaving our community because they are not reimbursed at the rate that.	00:12:34
	That they should be.	00:12:39
	That bill did not pass, but it's a bill that we are going to continue to push forward so that we can receive.	00:12:41
	Where we can support doctors within our community, I think it's rare that you have somebody like Doctor Bassler who comes to a	00:12:47
	small community and decides to.	00:12:50
	To stay here.	00:12:54
	And our goal is to support physicians so they can come to our small communities and become a part of that community.	00:12:56
	Of course, we all know that behavioral health is a huge issue within New Mexico. And how do we support that?	00:13:06
	So there have been appropriations and funding to do that.	00:13:11
	What I would like to see Sephora do is also request the funding similar to what?	00:13:15
	Espanola did. The Espanola Valley actually is building a 35 bed facility for individuals with addiction or mental health issues.	00:13:20
	So that may be something that's a Coral wants to consider.	00:13:29
	Umm.	00:13:34
	Now the tax bill. So we looked at the tax bill we felt like we sent.	00:13:35
	A viable tax bill to.	00:13:39
	The governor and we know that that that many items in that tax bill were vetoed.	00:13:41
	So we were able to have the income tax credit for.	00:13:46
	For all households.	00:13:53
	And we were also able to give.	00:13:54
	A child income tax credit which increased.	00:13:57
	And what we were not able to get done.	00:14:01
	Is um.	00:14:03
	And I'll just read a list of them.	00:14:05
	We have proposed high school graduation requirements, a difference in high school graduation requirements, and that was vetoed by	00:14:07
	the governor.	00:14:10
	And.	00:14:14
	We wanted a public education study.	00:14:15
	To see if all this money that we're coming into the schools, if we're having a return for that money that was vetoed.	00:14:18
	Umm.	00:14:24
	An office of entrepreneurship.	00:14:25
	And what that was is to stimulate the economies in rural areas.	00:14:28
	And this would fund and support individuals who are looking at entrepreneurship within their communities.	00:14:32
	And I I have been told that that one will be presented in the 30 day session.	00:14:39
	Umm.	00:14:44
	Part of the tax bill that was cut was the geothermal center.	00:14:46
	And funding. So there was a portion in there that would support individuals who had bought.	00:14:49
	Electric cars and such, but that was that was vetoed.	00:14:54
	Umm.	00:14:57
	Another thing that would be toasty. I think many of you know that I worked with CYFD.	00:14:59
	In children's welfare.	00:15:04
	So those two bills were were.	00:15:05
	It made it through the House, it made it through the Senate and and it didn't move forward.	00:15:09
	So that is HP 11.	00:15:13
	Which is the Office of Children's Advocacy through the Attorney General's Office.	00:15:15
	So, Ronald Morris.	00:15:19
	Also had a similar bill.	00:15:21
	And that was vetoed. So he and I are going to continue to present that bill next.	00:15:24
	Next session.	00:15:28
	And there was also a bill, HP 173, that oftentimes children who are ranked and molested.	00:15:30
	Have to testify many times.	00:15:38
	This one would decrease the amount of time that they were had to do that and they would rely on a forensic interview.	00:15:40
	So we are going to move forward with that as well.	00:15:47
	When you look at capital outlay.	00:15:52
	So for Socorro, each representative was given $2.8 million. I think everybody.	00:15:54
	Knows that I guess, which is massive.	00:15:59
	It is from Sephora all the way to Las Cruces are Donian economy and every area in between.	00:16:02
	So what we were able, what I was able to get to the coral was.	00:16:08
	1,095,000.	00:16:12
	And I hope that that really supports your endeavour to.	00:16:14
	Umm.	00:16:17
	To finish family gym.	00:16:18
	Umm.	00:16:20
	There was a $100,000.	00:16:21
	Capital outlay?	00:16:24
	That was given to the deal part. She work on your baseball field.	00:16:25
	I also gave.	00:16:29
	One can't.	00:16:31
	Was it 150,000 or 200,000?	00:16:33
	It was. It's your money.	00:16:36
	I didn't find that bill until this morning. So one thing that's not I I did.	00:16:39
	Give them a summary of who gave what and what other entities into Coral County receive.	00:16:44
	One thing that's not in on here is the junior bill money. So there was junior bill money that was given to us a $500,000.	00:16:48
	So my goal was to finish funding the city or to give a large bulk to this ideal park bill that you have.	00:16:56
	That was vetoed by the governor.	00:17:03
	But I believe that the 75,000 requests for for vehicles for police officers.	00:17:05
	Remained in that bill. Yes, that was great.	00:17:12
	Yeah, yeah, preciated that.	00:17:15
	San Antonio also received 130,000 for their water infrastructure.	00:17:17
	And New Mexico Tech, we see $350,000 for some of their endeavors.	00:17:21
	Does anybody have any questions?	00:17:27
	Thank you, thank you, thank you and clearly the money for friendly gym is needed and.	00:17:30
	Bigots in. And then your work, your work with the other representatives and the senator was also helpful in getting us monies.	00:17:36
	For for roads, we got 600,000 for roads.	00:17:44
	That we're gonna use and then of course the police cars at the $1,000,000 and.	00:17:48
	The infrastructure money for the the water was fantastic. That just, you know, like I said, it was great to have that. It's	00:17:52
	probably the most we've ever received.	00:17:56
	Yeah, well, I think part of it was, you know, we've redistricted, so Sikora has lots of representatives and and a senator.	00:18:00
	I think we have.	00:18:08
	4.	00:18:10
	For representatives and a senator. So at the time when they redistricted, of course we were concerned, you know, would we be	00:18:11
	losing Gale? So Gale is not part of the city limits, but we did gain more representatives, so.	00:18:18
	Part of that, many of those representatives are on the capital outlay or the LFC. So we're able to talk during committees and we	00:18:25
	were able to negotiate everybody.	00:18:30
	Basically did this large spreadsheet of what your needs are and then we filled in the blanks.	00:18:36
	And I think you have some wonderful representation with with Greg Baca. Greg is a principal from Los Lunas High School. So he	00:18:41
	really understands the education and I think that that's an asset to our community. Crystal Diamond is now going to be your	00:18:48
	Senator in this area. She is running and I think that her and SaaS swapped before the election happened, but she also gave money	00:18:55
	to your community of course GAIL Armstrong and Celia representative and.	00:19:02
	Is there another one?	00:19:10
	Yourself.	00:19:14
	Therefore Harry Harry Garcia. So Harry Garcia primarily grants he does Alamo Navajo community.	00:19:16
	But we got great help and you know, being on the State Appropriation Committee.	00:19:24
	That's kind of a plum could be on that committee. That's great. It was a.	00:19:28
	I know my I was the first freshman in a really long time to take that, but it was a lot of work and so I'm looking forward to the	00:19:33
	LFC in the interim. So I will totally understand that budget when when we start in the 30 day session.	00:19:39
	So I I want to thank all of you for your support. There were lots of text messages lots of look into this Bill help me with that	00:19:45
	and that helps me keep centered and to be able to to really focus on the needs of our community and that's what I'm there for is	00:19:49
	to.	00:19:54
	Is to support this community.	00:19:59
	So please keep those text messages going, Those emails, they're incredibly helpful, Mr. Fleming.	00:20:02
	That's thank you, Mr. and.	00:20:07
	Turn, we appreciate you.	00:20:09
	It was a very steep learning curve.	00:20:12
	And you learn how to tread water.	00:20:15
	And we're very proud of you. Thank you.	00:20:19
	Well, that's always wonderful coming from my teacher, so I thank you so much for that.	00:20:22
	Still come?	00:20:27
	Yeah, I just wanted to say thank you and thanks for the explanations. That was awesome.	00:20:29
	No one understand that. Thank you.	00:20:33
	Absolutely.	00:20:35
	Thank you for everything you've done. You've done a wonderful job your first year, so it's.	00:20:37
	Just keep going.	00:20:41
	Thank you so much. Thank you.	00:20:43
	You cannot make a comment, Mr. Hicks.	00:20:45
	Thank you so much.	00:20:51
	Do you talk to your head with the?	00:20:56
	Chances are marijuana is city gets back. I do not.	00:20:59
	I can find that for you, but I do not.	00:21:04
	Maybe do you know?	00:21:06
	Stage.	00:21:10
	Thank you.	00:21:15
	Just a minute, Mr. Mayor. I believe it started out at 12% and it has an escalation clause every year up to 18%.	00:21:18
	And I believe, but I'm not absolutely sure, we get half of that.	00:21:24
	I believe.	00:21:28
	Very much.	00:21:33
	The two things you brought up in medicine.	00:21:36
	I think if you're going to keep doctors and keep them in the rural area.	00:21:39
	There has to be something done with the reimbursement then?	00:21:44
	You know, they're not only just not going to the rural area, they're not staying in New Mexico and.	00:21:47
	I think that would be obvious and and as you know you saw the graph that said in 2017.	00:21:52
	There were more physicians than they are now, so over six years.	00:21:57
	It's been a total drain and you know the they're building a huge medical school over there, but it's just the question about	00:22:02
	keeping them.	00:22:06
	And I wonder if there would be a way to get A at least do a bill.	00:22:10
	Says you have to serve two years in the rural area if you're going to get.	00:22:14
	Education at our medical school. I think that's one of the things that.	00:22:19
	At least we'll get them to come out and leave because I came out in the National Health Service and.	00:22:22
	And you know and and they also have a big loan that they have to pay off so.	00:22:26
	If they could think about doing that, I think it would be important.	00:22:30
	And then you know that opiate money that came out.	00:22:33
	And I think.	00:22:36
	The hospitals I think looking into an addiction program and and it would be great to get an inpatient program here which.	00:22:37
	Absolutely. And I think that you know, the educational reimbursement.	00:22:44
	For physicians was vetoed and I think we were really surprised by that. We don't understand why that would happen and.	00:22:48
	You know and I think you know the studies you showed from 2017 and then we've been screaming we're losing positions where you and	00:22:55
	it's not just physicians, it's medical practitioners all over the place. And the hope was to increase Medicaid coverage so that we	00:23:02
	could reimburse physicians, but it wasn't increased like we had anticipated it, it being increased.	00:23:09
	And I know that there's a coalition that's meeting next week that I'm meeting with them to look at reimbursement costs and and how	00:23:16
	to increase those reimbursements. But that's going to have to be another bill that moves through and hopefully that can move	00:23:21
	through Health and Human Services. It needs to be vetted and and then through that it can receive more support on the on the	00:23:27
	floor.	00:23:32
	Thank you. Thank you again. Thank you for coming. Thank you.	00:23:39
	Mr. Mr. Mr. Ocean, Thank you motion. We passed resolution number 0018 at preliminary preliminary budget for 2023-2024.	00:23:47
	I second.	00:23:57
	The moon.	00:23:59
	The second on favor?	00:24:00
	Mr. Mayor.	00:24:04
	Here again.	00:24:05
	I'll make a motion. We approve resolution #01C-001, the ambulance ride off for fiscal year 23.	00:24:06
	2nd.	00:24:14
	Moved and seconded discussion, all in favor.	00:24:15
	Aye.	00:24:18
	Mr. Hicks.	00:24:20
	2305.	00:24:22
	I.	00:24:26
	2nd.	00:24:27
	Move the second discussion.	00:24:28
	On the movie, how? What percentage was that?	00:24:31
	Just put the record on.	00:24:34
	The bill.	00:24:37
	Hmm.	00:24:39
	How much?	00:24:40
	I said 1%.	00:24:41
	Answer.	00:24:44
	And then resolution 23/05/16 B?	00:24:45
	Mr. Hicks.	00:24:51
	30563.	00:24:53
	Every program.	00:24:57
	Second moved and seconded just to give a comment that Lena Donald Ruby.	00:25:00
	They've all been working and Miss Mattis at the Senior Center.	00:25:05
	Getting the senior program put together, making sure the budget is good.	00:25:09
	Our policies are good and.	00:25:13
	Then once July comes about, then we'll have a full year.	00:25:15
	But this is we're just getting this started and getting it done now.	00:25:19
	And Mr. Mayor, we spoke with the aging and long term services today.	00:25:22
	To try to find some emergency capital outlay to fix the carpet in some of the electrical items that the.	00:25:26
	Inspector found so.	00:25:32
	I will be working on that tomorrow and this modest is going to a summit in Bland Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.	00:25:34
	And Mistress who will be going on Thursday so.	00:25:40
	We are working together to try to figure all this out.	00:25:43
	You'll be seniors.	00:25:45
	Yourself by the time I'm getting there quicker with this.	00:25:47
	On favor, aye.	00:25:52
	Mr. Mayor, Mr. Ogan, make a motion. We pass the new item added to the agenda Resolution #23-05-16.	00:25:53
	Then seconded discussion.	00:26:03
	On favor, alright.	00:26:05
	New business.	00:26:10
	I will just tell you from although the mayors report is coming up, we've been meeting with the Co-op.	00:26:13
	And we met yesterday with a Co-op, Mr. Anaya, Mr. Burnett, who took over from Miss Dara, who was the chairman of before, and we	00:26:20
	also had Joseph Herrera.	00:26:26
	So we are in discussions with them.	00:26:33
	And on top of that, we're gonna be meeting with Guzman tomorrow. That's the.	00:26:36
	Electric provider the electric.	00:26:40
	Also OHH seller.	00:26:45
	Full sailor.	00:26:47
	Who actually provides electricity for Kit Carson and Taos?	00:26:48
	So we're moving ahead.	00:26:52
	With on a parallel course and trying to come to terms with the coop.	00:26:54
	But also trying to come to terms with.	00:26:59
	What the Co-op, in our opinion over the past seven years with multiple.	00:27:01
	Letters to them.	00:27:07
	Need to come to terms with the public and the city of Socorro, so and that includes rates, it includes.	00:27:10
	You know the the service part of it.	00:27:17
	And economic development type.	00:27:20
	Issues. So just to let you know, we're doing that, just so that you're on.	00:27:24
	Speed with what we're trying to do, Mr. Ocampo. Yeah, Mr. Mayor.	00:27:29
	It was the like a solar field brought up at all. I know we had talked to Samsung a little bit.	00:27:33
	Alternative energy sources was brought up.	00:27:38
	And.	00:27:42
	We are.	00:27:43
	When we're dealing with an entity such as tri-state.	00:27:44
	Who is really the?	00:27:48
	Person who dictates policy to 12 co-ops.	00:27:50
	In the state that they sell energy to.	00:27:53
	So they're duty bound here to accept what tri-state sends.	00:27:57
	And tri-state had just in the last year and a half because of the governor and the energy policy have started talking about	00:28:01
	alternative energy but.	00:28:04
	There's also has a solar field, you know, I used to live in Gaza 50 years ago, but and they're building a huge one here between	00:28:09
	Belen and Los Lunas.	00:28:13
	And so we thought we talked about that with a, with a, with a.	00:28:18
	It's kind of a new Commission for the coop.	00:28:22
	Has it been a big turnaround?	00:28:25
	And so the we brought that up.	00:28:27
	Their hands are kind of tied as to what.	00:28:31
	They can do it because tri-state kind of tells them what kind of energy they're going to sell them.	00:28:34
	And tries Mr. Panetta with their with their contract through tri-state there they can only produce 5% of their energy.	00:28:39
	Through renewables so that their hands are pretty much tied with the tri-state contract. That's what that was the biggest reason.	00:28:49
	Take Carson left tri-state.	00:28:53
	And and if.	00:28:59
	We have. I can probably send them to you, but their manager, Luis Reyes, why don't you do that? They're going to be 100% renewable	00:29:00
	soon.	00:29:04
	And.	00:29:09
	They blocked their rates.	00:29:11
	And.	00:29:13
	They're about the same. They're lower than Socorro, but.	00:29:15
	A lot of their savings.	00:29:18
	They're putting into.	00:29:20
	New development of solar that's that's getting them to that level of 100%, Kit Carson is a model of.	00:29:23
	How we feel in the state the energy solution has.	00:29:31
	And we got just recently we spoke with Mr. Reyes, who is the manager out there and he sent us.	00:29:34
	All the information that they're doing and we'll share that with you on the e-mail, we'll send that to you, but.	00:29:40
	And we shared that with the coop.	00:29:46
	And we told them.	00:29:48
	They said, well, why can't you just sign up new franchise until everything is?	00:29:50
	Clear, I said. I can't do that. That's my only leverage.	00:29:53
	But.	00:29:57
	We can do a franchise.	00:29:58
	That puts all these things in about alternative energy and all that.	00:30:00
	And and.	00:30:04
	Consumer protection and things of that nature and we put a franchise agreement together and get them to get for another 25 years.	00:30:05
	But we don't want to be again in the behind the 8 ball again like we have been for the past 10 years. And so that's where we're	00:30:13
	working. But we want solar, we want wind. You know, natural gas prices went up because they're using natural gas to deliver	00:30:20
	electricity since the coal generated plants are going down. So all that is that we should discuss that yesterday.	00:30:28
	It was a very good meeting, open meeting about, you know, how we can come to terms with the community also for the ranches that	00:30:35
	Mister Burnett represents.	00:30:40
	So.	00:30:45
	Just to let the council know we're working on it. I know we haven't spoken about it for many, many years, but we're working on it.	00:30:46
	Yeah, I did have.	00:30:53
	I spoke to a lot of business owners personally in town.	00:30:55
	And um, and also.	00:30:59
	You know our residents who decide to put us over on their buildings.	00:31:01
	And the the lack of of.	00:31:05
	Of money that we actually get reimbursed that that where the the citizens in town it's it's really a joke and then the.	00:31:09
	The the business owners who choose to do that to put solar up.	00:31:17
	I believe.	00:31:22
	Maybe Terry, you might be able to speak of Representative, I don't even think.	00:31:25
	They reimburse for extra energy going into the grid, which is absolutely.	00:31:29
	I mean energy, yeah. And and, and if there's an overage that's being made, they're not being compensated for that, which to me is	00:31:34
	pretty much robbing energy and little.	00:31:39
	They don't reimburse at what they charge, yeah, but that's less than one.	00:31:47
	They used to. They used to reimburse.	00:31:52
	At almost 8 to 9 cents a kilowatt.	00:31:55
	And that it kept going down, down, down to now maybe a penny maybe.	00:31:58
	Is reimbursement and you know when you when you spend and then it actually.	00:32:02
	You know, I don't even know if you pay bills anymore. It does help the public when they go solar.	00:32:07
	So you know but but the.	00:32:16
	And now?	00:32:20
	And then you have.	00:32:21
	It's not even worth.	00:32:22
	The ones that.	00:32:23
	But for business owners, I believe they're not even reimbursing they're there's nothing is, is what I understand.	00:32:27
	And the reason I bring that up is.	00:32:32
	Maybe.	00:32:34
	Get that from new franchises, you know, comes available allowing the public to kind of voice their opinion. I mean, I'm still on	00:32:35
	two parallel tracks. One of them is to get the coop to get a franchise that we can all agree on. But the other one is that we go	00:32:40
	ahead and do this ourselves.	00:32:46
	And you know that that's important to the businesses, is important to people who live on Bagley and live on the Tech Hill.	00:32:51
	To get their rates down there you know we could we could go out for a bond issue and just like we give water just put solar on	00:32:59
	everybody's house and every business and and you know and and and just bill them for the amortization of the the solar panels but	00:33:04
	there's a lot of.	00:33:10
	Inventive things you can do, but we're stuck in this.	00:33:16
	This paradigm that the Co-op has from 1950.	00:33:19
	And so.	00:33:24
	You're absolutely right. I mean they we gotta have tech. Tech is dying when New Mexico tech is dying to have solar.	00:33:25
	You know and, and so is.	00:33:31
	For all of us, we're paying and we're also trying to clarify.	00:33:34
	Apples to apples as to what one kilowatt of energy costs.	00:33:38
	And.	00:33:43
	Trying to get that information out.	00:33:44
	They'll tell you, well, what's the energy cost?	00:33:47
	Or they'll tell you.	00:33:50
	Whether it's.	00:33:51
	Uh.	00:33:53
	And it was that out there.	00:33:54
	I'm a little, I'm a little paranoid about stuff. I'm sorry, but we're we're trying to we're trying to get.	00:33:57
	Trying to get that.	00:34:03
	Together, but I just want to get the council and the council may eventually we'll have to get involved with it, but we want to get	00:34:05
	just and and I think the the commissioners agreed. We want to try to understand that we're on the same page.	00:34:11
	And that we made very clear to them.	00:34:19
	As to what we thought was the same page the cost of electricity.	00:34:21
	Alternative energy and consumer.	00:34:25
	Protection for the public. When they go and say, you know, I want to put up a new service, well that poll is going to charge you	00:34:28
	7000 bucks to put that poll up and everything back in place.	00:34:33
	Then everything would should be fact based, yes.	00:34:38
	Yeah, so, so, but anyway, so that's that's where we're at. It's A and as we've said, you know now that the colloquial motive is	00:34:43
	coming down the track for the coop.	00:34:46
	They're becoming more because it's made to 2024 is when this thing is franchised over.	00:34:51
	So but anyway that that's a long winded what what's up, what the discussions have been kind of like that?	00:34:57
	And Mr. Fleming's mayor, is there any more information on the Internet problem for Sakura?	00:35:06
	Over there I had a cut line and that was a nightmare. That was a medical nightmare.	00:35:15
	It was emergency services nightmare and it was just a personal and public nightmare because you couldn't get on Facebook.	00:35:20
	Tick tock I guess with the kids were but it was a pet line that Verizon had but they serve.	00:35:28
	Not it's. It's Lumen. Now it's called Lumen.	00:35:34
	And so.	00:35:37
	That that was cut line and then I think another line got cut, but they fixed that one quicker.	00:35:39
	But it was it was a bad situation.	00:35:44
	I had calls from patients who said, you know, I'm trying to call 911, I can't get in.	00:35:46
	And that was a problem we had a police chief and Fire Chief were all on.	00:35:51
	Alert as far as that's concerned. We talked to dispatch about it, but it was a line that was cut. It was not the people working	00:35:58
	here.	00:36:01
	You know, what I found out today was the first line that was cut was Wednesday I believe.	00:36:05
	Was cut by Kelly Cable and that they were doing work for central banks, so they cut their own line.	00:36:10
	And then the the second one that lasted a long time was.	00:36:17
	In Berlin where the fiber, I guess they had to dig up a whole intersection where the fiber.	00:36:21
	Was so brittle it just tore up. So that's what that was the wrong one and then the the Hour 1 yesterday.	00:36:28
	Was a.	00:36:34
	In most crises it was cards in.	00:36:36
	So.	00:36:39
	Computer.	00:36:41
	Cards. Yeah, let's just be honest. So make sure you think how much we depend.	00:36:42
	Yes, and how ham radio. I just had a thing with the charter school with ham radio kids, but I mean that.	00:36:46
	Miss Chambers Lopez, did you have a comment?	00:36:52
	So that and the CC, they've got a contract.	00:36:57
	With the person who's done work here in the city before on utility cuts.	00:37:01
	To fix all the.	00:37:06
	Negative speed bumps that they have.	00:37:08
	You know, and I've got three of them in my street.	00:37:11
	So that's getting fixed. Sidewalks that they're ripped up need to get fixed.	00:37:13
	But that's kind of the price you're paying to get fiber in town and that's that's a big, big project.	00:37:18
	But it's it's.	00:37:23
	Happening. Uh, I think.	00:37:24
	Follow Have you been the middle manager for some of that?	00:37:27
	So people have problems to get ahold of Paul.	00:37:29
	How much longer are they going to be? September, October.	00:37:32
	They're doing splicing. I mean, they're doing, I guess, going to have a big thing on the Plaza.	00:37:36
	For sign up.	00:37:40
	Right. The the, the, the person that's doing commercial hookups, she'll be in town on the 30th.	00:37:41
	And she told me that. Um.	00:37:48
	They will start connecting people.	00:37:50
	Probably the end of June, early July, and then there's going to be a an event. They want to hold three events in the Plaza to to	00:37:53
	try to get people signed up and questions and answers as so.	00:37:58
	I'll, I'll let you know the dates once I get signed up. Yeah, because everybody reached out to us. Ohh, that's great. That's	00:38:04
	great. Mr. Fleming. Yeah. Mr. Mayor.	00:38:09
	And talking to the people that were going door to door.	00:38:15
	He is close to 200 customers in Socorro that are still.	00:38:19
	TBS.	00:38:25
	But the new TBS that's coming in does not own.	00:38:27
	That company and that TV provider.	00:38:32
	So if they want to the door to door salesman for the new TS availability.	00:38:36
	Hannah. Steve.	00:38:43
	To the ones who have the TDs.	00:38:46
	ServiceNow here in Sakura.	00:38:50
	It's a real strange hookup.	00:38:52
	I wonder if he asked if they're not present TDs coming in.	00:38:55
	Mr. Holland, Mr. Manon Polo and I have a contact phone number for a young lady in Alamogordo that works off Commission, so she's	00:39:01
	happy to get phone calls.	00:39:05
	So if you need anybody that needs a contact person to sign up, just let us know and we'll send them a phone number.	00:39:09
	I also have one for businesses too.	00:39:17
	Uh.	00:39:22
	All business.	00:39:23
	Desiree, can you give us a little bit of a report on the?	00:39:26
	The use of the rodeo and the Convention Center, just what the events have been, just so the public and the City Council knows	00:39:30
	about some of the uses that it's been and.	00:39:35
	Hi everyone how are you so?	00:39:41
	Just recently in the Convention Center, we had the high school prom.	00:39:45
	Umm.	00:39:48
	That was a big success. I heard from a lot of the students that they liked the space.	00:39:49
	Um, we've tomorrow. We're actually holding the Head Start graduation.	00:39:54
	And the Convention Center.	00:39:58
	So far we have about 3 graduation parties.	00:40:00
	Um, booked for that space.	00:40:03
	Off the top of my head, New Mexico Tech, you know, have their graduation and you can see it on YouTube. Yeah, it's up for the	00:40:08
	rodeo in New Mexico Tech had their graduation.	00:40:12
	The high schools having their graduation there on Friday.	00:40:16
	Saving the big wrestling tournament, the ramen.	00:40:19
	Wrestling tournament at brought in.	00:40:23
	Couple 1000 people last year.	00:40:25
	And so that's going to be happening the week after high school graduation.	00:40:27
	Disney.	00:40:32
	Thank you. Thursday was in there.	00:40:34
	*	00:40:37
	about a week and.	00:40:39
	It was jam packed in there. They used it for catering and for.	00:40:40
	And the school for the extras.	00:40:45
	Um, and basically home base. So they really like the space. I hope they come back.	00:40:47
	Did you meet each mayor? I I was standing really close to him, but I didn't meet him. And I was standing really close to Eva, too.	00:40:52
	Ohh. You see Ohh. But I I couldn't walk up to them, obviously. That's exciting. Yeah.	00:40:59
	Yeah, so that's about it for.	00:41:05
	That only I can think of right now, but there's a couple more radios I know happening.	00:41:08
	Um, this summer. And then obviously we're kicking off the busy.	00:41:13
	Rodeo season with Tommy Fair and then back-to-back to back after that.	00:41:17
	I know, I know, soccer is over. But those fields?	00:41:22
	Just look fabulous. They just really look great.	00:41:26
	And Steve?	00:41:30
	Matthews.	00:41:31
	His crew has been.	00:41:32
	The ones who are doing this first really tripping.	00:41:33
	Thank you for holding everything together, Mr. Mitchell.	00:41:36
	That's where the where the extras paid.	00:41:39
	I believe they were, but I don't know how much.	00:41:42
	Were you, were you in? Were you in there? Can you check it? What are you talking about, more economic development?	00:41:45
	Yeah.	00:41:51
	Miss Dean.	00:41:52
	I just went fast. Are we selling?	00:41:54
	Are we selling alcohol at most of these events or?	00:41:56
	So upon request, how we doing that? Yeah, it's upon request.	00:42:00
	Her event manager. So.	00:42:03
	We're hosting the space, but if we if they want us to use our liquor license, then we will.	00:42:06
	Well suggest it.	00:42:11
	And the liquor license covers the Convention Center as well, so.	00:42:14
	Except for the high school problem.	00:42:17
	Do it even if they're requesting.	00:42:22
	Can I add to that? But we won't allow a picnic license to come in and use ours our facility. No, we can't because that means that	00:42:24
	we have to have to.	00:42:29
	Put a timeout on our license, basically so.	00:42:33
	Yeah.	00:42:37
	Thank you. Any questions from the directors? No, Thank you.	00:42:38
	Any questions you have about code enforcement or we have a new website at not sure if it's being hosted yet.	00:42:43
	They're supposed to be community.	00:42:51
	They get.	00:42:54
	So currently we have the symptoms.	00:42:56
	Thank you.	00:43:00
	Yeah.	00:43:02
	It's now what do we need to get Mr. We're sending the letter.	00:43:07
	The.	00:43:12
	We will have an app that the community can have as an icon.	00:43:13
	That can report.	00:43:17
	Are holes or junk in the neighbors yard or?	00:43:19
	Yeah, that'll that'll that's coming. So that people know that.	00:43:25
	That will have that.	00:43:28
	OK.	00:43:32
	We have.	00:43:34
	Personnel matters. Legal matters. Executive session.	00:43:35
	There's no changes. Russell Raki Police Officer change through evidence Custodian 1 Vegeta.	00:43:39
	Completed.	00:43:46
	Probation. We're getting a lot of police officers on board.	00:43:47
	Simone Ramirez completed probation and Juan Johnson completed probation.	00:43:50
	At the Police Department, Jeanette Archibeque dispatch the probation seraphine, Ortiz dispatcher, new hire.	00:43:56
	And Cameron Seger completed the.	00:44:05
	State 911 Academy.	00:44:08
	Smith.	00:44:12
	To approve the personnel list as presented, OK.	00:44:14
	Seconded all in favor, aye?	00:44:18
	And Chelsea's nomination.	00:44:21
	Do we have to have the Council approve that number?	00:44:25
	Believe right now it's just that it's just that the nomination stage. But she gets past that, you know she would be appointed.	00:44:28
	So then maybe at that point we could accept the appointment.	00:44:35
	OK, so.	00:44:39
	So cool.	00:44:41
	That worked for you, Chelsea?	00:44:42
	Healthcare, right?	00:44:44
	Tell us you don't see what it is for.	00:44:45
	Chelsea's got all kinds of different hats. I swear she's doing everything.	00:44:52
	So I was nominated to be on the New Mexico Humanities Council and so it would be at the Governor's office. It would be a	00:44:56
	three-year term.	00:45:00
	And and it's just a volunteer position. We approve grants and accept policy changes for humanity programs in the state.	00:45:04
	So that's.	00:45:13
	It would be, you know.	00:45:15
	Just a regular meeting. I'm guessing you know, once a month.	00:45:17
	So.	00:45:21
	That's all right. If I accept the nomination, I'm not sure I'll be appointed. I this is a second time, so we'll see.	00:45:23
	Congratulations. And just an FYI, the libraries Internet was up all through the outage. So we were, yeah.	00:45:29
	Because ours is through the E rate funding, so all of our Internet comes through Silver City Line.	00:45:37
	And so we, I worked on Saturday and we had over like 200 people coming in just to stay, you know, with their, their personal	00:45:42
	businesses or schools.	00:45:46
	It is hooked to the test Internet.	00:45:51
	With.	00:45:54
	Yeah. So that was nice. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.	00:45:55
	The and just an update on Finley. Hopefully it'll be open in June.	00:46:00
	With the representatives of money we're going to do other things and we'll bring that to the council as to what the new stuff will	00:46:06
	be.	00:46:08
	Dan will hopefully have it finished.	00:46:12
	We're also going to talk to the neighbors as to what is going to get done, and I know the representative is one of the neighbors.	00:46:14
	But we're going to end the your neighbor and we'll let them know and have their input as to what we're going to do.	00:46:20
	So all that is in the works with with that money we've received.	00:46:26
	OK man, we shall be meeting again on Tuesday the.	00:46:31
	6th of June.	00:46:35
	I need all the councillors to sign before they do.	00:46:39
	What polo? I need all the counselor to sign for the resignation.	00:46:42
	I think they did sign a lot of stuff.	00:46:47
	Again, it's for the budget.	00:46:50
	For the budget.	00:46:52

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	Getting ready. We don't know if it's time, you know?	00:00:13
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	Both all the way over, all by myself.	00:01:02
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	Resolution of arthritis.	00:01:27
	Thanks. Yes, arranging the phone.	00:01:30
	And your microphone so you can hear Earth.	00:01:34
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	He's snacking.	00:01:45
	Just leave me alone.	00:01:52
	Barely hear you.	00:01:56
	You sang one individually.	00:02:04
	Science.	00:02:08
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	We're finished.	00:02:16
	Ohh ****. I'm sorry so.	00:02:18
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	You went out there?	00:02:24
	I know.	00:02:26
	Asking 20 different things.	00:02:27
	Give me an and you're here.	00:02:29
	Alright, so I guess we can start.	00:02:33
	This is the City of Square City Council meeting Tuesday, May 16th, 2023. Will call please.	00:02:36
	Councillor Chavez Lopez.	00:02:42
	Councillor Dean, Councillor Fleming.	00:02:44
	Councillor hits Councillor Ocampo here, Councillor Olguin.	00:02:47
	Councillor Romero.	00:02:52
	Hereby.	00:02:54
	Councillor Salome.	00:02:55
	We have a quorum.	00:02:59
	The new chat chat bot All right, so the Pledge of Allegiance.	00:03:00
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	Mr. Mayor, Mr. Wyatt, could we add an item to the agenda? Could be item 6F, a resolution authorizing the assignment of authorized	00:03:22
	officers and agents. And it's.	00:03:27
	Exactly the same as the one we signed for the Clean Water State Revolving Fund.	00:03:34
	But as we switched and added a new project to this for the belt press.	00:03:38
	They now have two separate.	00:03:43
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	Excuse me, Project number. So they would they requested a separate resolution.	00:03:48
	Mr. Mayor.	00:03:53
	Mr. Fleming.	00:03:54
	EMOTION currently approve the agenda as presented with the correction for 6F.	00:03:55
	I second moved and seconded. All in favor opposed.	00:04:02
	Thank you, Mayor. Mr.	00:04:07
	Again, I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda.	00:04:09
	And 2nd.	00:04:12
	Moved in seconded discussion.	00:04:13
	On favor.	00:04:16
	We have Connor out there in the audience for Connor.	00:04:18
	5K results.	00:04:23
	Honor.	00:04:25
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	Gosh, that's hard.	00:04:39
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	I was. I was just.	00:04:42
	I was thinking you for you guys, the city for sponsoring my 5K.	00:04:46
	Ohh, your money went towards.	00:04:53
	Footballs and soccer balls to help.	00:04:55
	I don't know.	00:04:59
	Encourage kids to stay active and some extra snacks for.	00:05:01
	Healthy snacks throughout English.	00:05:06
	That's great. Tell us what that is for What? What is Connors 5K all about? The 5K was to raise money for stick fibrosis.	00:05:10
	We had about 200 people show up, so it was a good turn up.	00:05:19
	Well, you've done a good job. How are you feeling? Good. Good. Great. Great. Well, it's good to have you here giving us a report	00:05:24
	on this.	00:05:28
	And you're going to continue this now, hopefully?	00:05:31
	For a long time, 200 is a lot of people in support to get anything done. So that's that's just terrific.	00:05:35
	And they do. You got something in that bag?	00:05:42
	Yeah, I have friends for years.	00:05:46
	From there, let's just pan them out.	00:05:48
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	Well done.	00:05:54
	Hospital thank you much every year.	00:05:55
	General Hospital at least two or three weeks you get.	00:05:58
	React and get born again. They run blood tests and they do all sorts of stuff to them and.	00:06:02
	He doesn't let now that's slowing down. I mean he just going strong and.	00:06:08
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	Going forward?	00:06:15
	Resume.	00:06:19
	That's great. You better have one for everybody, Connor.	00:06:22
	It's still here.	00:06:28
	Anthony's in mind. We received ours at the event, so ohh, I'm well proud of that, yeah.	00:06:30
	There you go.	00:06:40
	Thank you.	00:06:47
	For the city of Thank you.	00:06:50
	You got your dad up.	00:06:53
	Recognize that also out there has really been.	00:06:58
	You guys are really great parents. Done well with him.	00:07:01
	And thank you for coming.	00:07:05
	Two questions.	00:07:12
	Instant school system moving.	00:07:15
	Good job.	00:07:19
	Anyone else on the That's Not an agenda would like to move comment for public forum.	00:07:20
	Yes, ma'am.	00:07:26
	If you are dentify yourself and.	00:07:29
	Tell us what your comment is.	00:07:31
	Alright, my name is Marianne Keller. Some of you know who I am, but.	00:07:36
	Um.	00:07:40
	I have been volunteering to attend the Socorro Superfund.	00:07:41
	Um.	00:07:46
	Site meetings that they have every month.	00:07:47
	And we would like to encourage City Council to please come to our meetings.	00:07:50
	It's only usually myself and another lady.	00:07:56
	That attend, but we have ETA there we have the state there we have.	00:07:59
	All kinds of people that come that are on virtual.	00:08:04
	And so we would like to really encourage City Council to please come and get involved.	00:08:07
	In this so that you guys can come back and report to.	00:08:13
	The community as to what's happening within our community.	00:08:16
	So Super Fun has been going on since 2000 and.	00:08:20
	19 or something like that. So it's been ongoing for a little while.	00:08:24
	And there just is no.	00:08:28
	Community attendance.	00:08:31
	When is your next meeting? It's going to be next in June, 2nd week of the month? Second Thursday of the month.	00:08:32
	From 6:30 until 8:00 at the Socorro Public Library.	00:08:41
	And just to let you know, you may already know is that we're meeting with them on the 25th.	00:08:45
	Of this month to look at solutions.	00:08:51
	4.	00:08:54
	Resolving the contamination. Ohh, OK, good. So that's on the 25th.	00:08:55
	That's in real life, another is it?	00:09:01
	On zoom.	00:09:04
	I believe it's some real in person, Sir. Yeah. So, so we are going to be meeting with them just to give you an update. OK, we are,	00:09:06
	we have been following it in the administration, but.	00:09:11
	I think.	00:09:17
	What happened was that they had these different solutions to the problem.	00:09:18
	And now they're trying to decide which one will be the one that they're going to use, right, to start doing the work. So that's on	00:09:23
	the 25th that we're going to be having that, OK, is that going to be here at City Council or it will be probably be a closed	00:09:29
	meeting to begin with, but we will report out of it.	00:09:35
	OK, definitely report out of it. OK, I will report that back to them, please. Yeah, I get home tonight, so and and this is a that	00:09:42
	a Wednesday the 25th is a.	00:09:47
	Thursday So.	00:09:52
	I'll have information at the next City Council meeting.	00:09:54
	OK, after we meet with them.	00:09:57
	OK.	00:09:59
	Alright, well, thank you for coming. Thank you reminding us. Yes, the work that you've done. Thank you.	00:10:00
	Anyone else?	00:10:06
	Great, we have a representative Potter meal.	00:10:09
	Who is here to give us a report just for her maiden voice as a representative and?	00:10:13
	We're certainly happy with the work she did for the city of Socorro, so she's going to give us more explanation about what's	00:10:18
	happened at the legislature and.	00:10:21
	What are the things you're going on?	00:10:25
	Thank you for having me and and inviting me to this today I think.	00:10:28
	You know, we should probably start with the committees I'm on, so I'm on Appropriations.	00:10:32
	Interim. I'm on LFC.	00:10:38
	And then I'm on Health and Human Services.	00:10:40
	So through our work with appropriations HB2.	00:10:43
	We were able to pass many meaningful bills we that will affect the community at large.	00:10:47
	So it was a $9.7 billion budget with a little less than half going to school.	00:10:55
	Uh.	00:11:02
	To address community safety, we looked at crime prevention reduction in HB2.	00:11:03
	With the General Appropriations act.	00:11:08
	HB234 robbery and organized retail crime, which was Marian Matthews.	00:11:10
	The bill that passed?	00:11:16
	As well as the law enforcement workforce funding.	00:11:18
	Um, that that came through and that was sponsored by GAIL Armstrong.	00:11:22
	When we look at education and and the foundation for how we provide services to children, but also our future.	00:11:27
	Um, workers in education? We did appropriate $4.8 billion.	00:11:33
	In education.	00:11:39
	Um, that also we increased teacher aides to 25,000 a year. We gave a 6% increase in all teachers in the state of New Mexico will	00:11:40
	be making 5060 or $70,000 per year.	00:11:47
	There was a huge.	00:11:55
	Push to fund early education, which is early early pre-K which is 2 through the age of 5.	00:11:58
	And that appropriation was 135 million.	00:12:07
	Increase to the early childhood welfare system.	00:12:12
	Higher education also had, so New Mexico now is any any student can attend.	00:12:16
	A university at no cost. We also did free meals for all children within the school districts.	00:12:21
	Healthcare was a little bit more concerning. We wanted to look at increasing Medicaid, which we did, but we also know that doctors	00:12:29
	are leaving our community because they are not reimbursed at the rate that.	00:12:34
	That they should be.	00:12:39
	That bill did not pass, but it's a bill that we are going to continue to push forward so that we can receive.	00:12:41
	Where we can support doctors within our community, I think it's rare that you have somebody like Doctor Bassler who comes to a	00:12:47
	small community and decides to.	00:12:50
	To stay here.	00:12:54
	And our goal is to support physicians so they can come to our small communities and become a part of that community.	00:12:56
	Of course, we all know that behavioral health is a huge issue within New Mexico. And how do we support that?	00:13:06
	So there have been appropriations and funding to do that.	00:13:11
	What I would like to see Sephora do is also request the funding similar to what?	00:13:15
	Espanola did. The Espanola Valley actually is building a 35 bed facility for individuals with addiction or mental health issues.	00:13:20
	So that may be something that's a Coral wants to consider.	00:13:29
	Umm.	00:13:34
	Now the tax bill. So we looked at the tax bill we felt like we sent.	00:13:35
	A viable tax bill to.	00:13:39
	The governor and we know that that that many items in that tax bill were vetoed.	00:13:41
	So we were able to have the income tax credit for.	00:13:46
	For all households.	00:13:53
	And we were also able to give.	00:13:54
	A child income tax credit which increased.	00:13:57
	And what we were not able to get done.	00:14:01
	Is um.	00:14:03
	And I'll just read a list of them.	00:14:05
	We have proposed high school graduation requirements, a difference in high school graduation requirements, and that was vetoed by	00:14:07
	the governor.	00:14:10
	And.	00:14:14
	We wanted a public education study.	00:14:15
	To see if all this money that we're coming into the schools, if we're having a return for that money that was vetoed.	00:14:18
	Umm.	00:14:24
	An office of entrepreneurship.	00:14:25
	And what that was is to stimulate the economies in rural areas.	00:14:28
	And this would fund and support individuals who are looking at entrepreneurship within their communities.	00:14:32
	And I I have been told that that one will be presented in the 30 day session.	00:14:39
	Umm.	00:14:44
	Part of the tax bill that was cut was the geothermal center.	00:14:46
	And funding. So there was a portion in there that would support individuals who had bought.	00:14:49
	Electric cars and such, but that was that was vetoed.	00:14:54
	Umm.	00:14:57
	Another thing that would be toasty. I think many of you know that I worked with CYFD.	00:14:59
	In children's welfare.	00:15:04
	So those two bills were were.	00:15:05
	It made it through the House, it made it through the Senate and and it didn't move forward.	00:15:09
	So that is HP 11.	00:15:13
	Which is the Office of Children's Advocacy through the Attorney General's Office.	00:15:15
	So, Ronald Morris.	00:15:19
	Also had a similar bill.	00:15:21
	And that was vetoed. So he and I are going to continue to present that bill next.	00:15:24
	Next session.	00:15:28
	And there was also a bill, HP 173, that oftentimes children who are ranked and molested.	00:15:30
	Have to testify many times.	00:15:38
	This one would decrease the amount of time that they were had to do that and they would rely on a forensic interview.	00:15:40
	So we are going to move forward with that as well.	00:15:47
	When you look at capital outlay.	00:15:52
	So for Socorro, each representative was given $2.8 million. I think everybody.	00:15:54
	Knows that I guess, which is massive.	00:15:59
	It is from Sephora all the way to Las Cruces are Donian economy and every area in between.	00:16:02
	So what we were able, what I was able to get to the coral was.	00:16:08
	1,095,000.	00:16:12
	And I hope that that really supports your endeavour to.	00:16:14
	Umm.	00:16:17
	To finish family gym.	00:16:18
	Umm.	00:16:20
	There was a $100,000.	00:16:21
	Capital outlay?	00:16:24
	That was given to the deal part. She work on your baseball field.	00:16:25
	I also gave.	00:16:29
	One can't.	00:16:31
	Was it 150,000 or 200,000?	00:16:33
	It was. It's your money.	00:16:36
	I didn't find that bill until this morning. So one thing that's not I I did.	00:16:39
	Give them a summary of who gave what and what other entities into Coral County receive.	00:16:44
	One thing that's not in on here is the junior bill money. So there was junior bill money that was given to us a $500,000.	00:16:48
	So my goal was to finish funding the city or to give a large bulk to this ideal park bill that you have.	00:16:56
	That was vetoed by the governor.	00:17:03
	But I believe that the 75,000 requests for for vehicles for police officers.	00:17:05
	Remained in that bill. Yes, that was great.	00:17:12
	Yeah, yeah, preciated that.	00:17:15
	San Antonio also received 130,000 for their water infrastructure.	00:17:17
	And New Mexico Tech, we see $350,000 for some of their endeavors.	00:17:21
	Does anybody have any questions?	00:17:27
	Thank you, thank you, thank you and clearly the money for friendly gym is needed and.	00:17:30
	Bigots in. And then your work, your work with the other representatives and the senator was also helpful in getting us monies.	00:17:36
	For for roads, we got 600,000 for roads.	00:17:44
	That we're gonna use and then of course the police cars at the $1,000,000 and.	00:17:48
	The infrastructure money for the the water was fantastic. That just, you know, like I said, it was great to have that. It's	00:17:52
	probably the most we've ever received.	00:17:56
	Yeah, well, I think part of it was, you know, we've redistricted, so Sikora has lots of representatives and and a senator.	00:18:00
	I think we have.	00:18:08
	4.	00:18:10
	For representatives and a senator. So at the time when they redistricted, of course we were concerned, you know, would we be	00:18:11
	losing Gale? So Gale is not part of the city limits, but we did gain more representatives, so.	00:18:18
	Part of that, many of those representatives are on the capital outlay or the LFC. So we're able to talk during committees and we	00:18:25
	were able to negotiate everybody.	00:18:30
	Basically did this large spreadsheet of what your needs are and then we filled in the blanks.	00:18:36
	And I think you have some wonderful representation with with Greg Baca. Greg is a principal from Los Lunas High School. So he	00:18:41
	really understands the education and I think that that's an asset to our community. Crystal Diamond is now going to be your	00:18:48
	Senator in this area. She is running and I think that her and SaaS swapped before the election happened, but she also gave money	00:18:55
	to your community of course GAIL Armstrong and Celia representative and.	00:19:02
	Is there another one?	00:19:10
	Yourself.	00:19:14
	Therefore Harry Harry Garcia. So Harry Garcia primarily grants he does Alamo Navajo community.	00:19:16
	But we got great help and you know, being on the State Appropriation Committee.	00:19:24
	That's kind of a plum could be on that committee. That's great. It was a.	00:19:28
	I know my I was the first freshman in a really long time to take that, but it was a lot of work and so I'm looking forward to the	00:19:33
	LFC in the interim. So I will totally understand that budget when when we start in the 30 day session.	00:19:39
	So I I want to thank all of you for your support. There were lots of text messages lots of look into this Bill help me with that	00:19:45
	and that helps me keep centered and to be able to to really focus on the needs of our community and that's what I'm there for is	00:19:49
	to.	00:19:54
	Is to support this community.	00:19:59
	So please keep those text messages going, Those emails, they're incredibly helpful, Mr. Fleming.	00:20:02
	That's thank you, Mr. and.	00:20:07
	Turn, we appreciate you.	00:20:09
	It was a very steep learning curve.	00:20:12
	And you learn how to tread water.	00:20:15
	And we're very proud of you. Thank you.	00:20:19
	Well, that's always wonderful coming from my teacher, so I thank you so much for that.	00:20:22
	Still come?	00:20:27
	Yeah, I just wanted to say thank you and thanks for the explanations. That was awesome.	00:20:29
	No one understand that. Thank you.	00:20:33
	Absolutely.	00:20:35
	Thank you for everything you've done. You've done a wonderful job your first year, so it's.	00:20:37
	Just keep going.	00:20:41
	Thank you so much. Thank you.	00:20:43
	You cannot make a comment, Mr. Hicks.	00:20:45
	Thank you so much.	00:20:51
	Do you talk to your head with the?	00:20:56
	Chances are marijuana is city gets back. I do not.	00:20:59
	I can find that for you, but I do not.	00:21:04
	Maybe do you know?	00:21:06
	Stage.	00:21:10
	Thank you.	00:21:15
	Just a minute, Mr. Mayor. I believe it started out at 12% and it has an escalation clause every year up to 18%.	00:21:18
	And I believe, but I'm not absolutely sure, we get half of that.	00:21:24
	I believe.	00:21:28
	Very much.	00:21:33
	The two things you brought up in medicine.	00:21:36
	I think if you're going to keep doctors and keep them in the rural area.	00:21:39
	There has to be something done with the reimbursement then?	00:21:44
	You know, they're not only just not going to the rural area, they're not staying in New Mexico and.	00:21:47
	I think that would be obvious and and as you know you saw the graph that said in 2017.	00:21:52
	There were more physicians than they are now, so over six years.	00:21:57
	It's been a total drain and you know the they're building a huge medical school over there, but it's just the question about	00:22:02
	keeping them.	00:22:06
	And I wonder if there would be a way to get A at least do a bill.	00:22:10
	Says you have to serve two years in the rural area if you're going to get.	00:22:14
	Education at our medical school. I think that's one of the things that.	00:22:19
	At least we'll get them to come out and leave because I came out in the National Health Service and.	00:22:22
	And you know and and they also have a big loan that they have to pay off so.	00:22:26
	If they could think about doing that, I think it would be important.	00:22:30
	And then you know that opiate money that came out.	00:22:33
	And I think.	00:22:36
	The hospitals I think looking into an addiction program and and it would be great to get an inpatient program here which.	00:22:37
	Absolutely. And I think that you know, the educational reimbursement.	00:22:44
	For physicians was vetoed and I think we were really surprised by that. We don't understand why that would happen and.	00:22:48
	You know and I think you know the studies you showed from 2017 and then we've been screaming we're losing positions where you and	00:22:55
	it's not just physicians, it's medical practitioners all over the place. And the hope was to increase Medicaid coverage so that we	00:23:02
	could reimburse physicians, but it wasn't increased like we had anticipated it, it being increased.	00:23:09
	And I know that there's a coalition that's meeting next week that I'm meeting with them to look at reimbursement costs and and how	00:23:16
	to increase those reimbursements. But that's going to have to be another bill that moves through and hopefully that can move	00:23:21
	through Health and Human Services. It needs to be vetted and and then through that it can receive more support on the on the	00:23:27
	floor.	00:23:32
	Thank you. Thank you again. Thank you for coming. Thank you.	00:23:39
	Mr. Mr. Mr. Ocean, Thank you motion. We passed resolution number 0018 at preliminary preliminary budget for 2023-2024.	00:23:47
	I second.	00:23:57
	The moon.	00:23:59
	The second on favor?	00:24:00
	Mr. Mayor.	00:24:04
	Here again.	00:24:05
	I'll make a motion. We approve resolution #01C-001, the ambulance ride off for fiscal year 23.	00:24:06
	2nd.	00:24:14
	Moved and seconded discussion, all in favor.	00:24:15
	Aye.	00:24:18
	Mr. Hicks.	00:24:20
	2305.	00:24:22
	I.	00:24:26
	2nd.	00:24:27
	Move the second discussion.	00:24:28
	On the movie, how? What percentage was that?	00:24:31
	Just put the record on.	00:24:34
	The bill.	00:24:37
	Hmm.	00:24:39
	How much?	00:24:40
	I said 1%.	00:24:41
	Answer.	00:24:44
	And then resolution 23/05/16 B?	00:24:45
	Mr. Hicks.	00:24:51
	30563.	00:24:53
	Every program.	00:24:57
	Second moved and seconded just to give a comment that Lena Donald Ruby.	00:25:00
	They've all been working and Miss Mattis at the Senior Center.	00:25:05
	Getting the senior program put together, making sure the budget is good.	00:25:09
	Our policies are good and.	00:25:13
	Then once July comes about, then we'll have a full year.	00:25:15
	But this is we're just getting this started and getting it done now.	00:25:19
	And Mr. Mayor, we spoke with the aging and long term services today.	00:25:22
	To try to find some emergency capital outlay to fix the carpet in some of the electrical items that the.	00:25:26
	Inspector found so.	00:25:32
	I will be working on that tomorrow and this modest is going to a summit in Bland Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.	00:25:34
	And Mistress who will be going on Thursday so.	00:25:40
	We are working together to try to figure all this out.	00:25:43
	You'll be seniors.	00:25:45
	Yourself by the time I'm getting there quicker with this.	00:25:47
	On favor, aye.	00:25:52
	Mr. Mayor, Mr. Ogan, make a motion. We pass the new item added to the agenda Resolution #23-05-16.	00:25:53
	Then seconded discussion.	00:26:03
	On favor, alright.	00:26:05
	New business.	00:26:10
	I will just tell you from although the mayors report is coming up, we've been meeting with the Co-op.	00:26:13
	And we met yesterday with a Co-op, Mr. Anaya, Mr. Burnett, who took over from Miss Dara, who was the chairman of before, and we	00:26:20
	also had Joseph Herrera.	00:26:26
	So we are in discussions with them.	00:26:33
	And on top of that, we're gonna be meeting with Guzman tomorrow. That's the.	00:26:36
	Electric provider the electric.	00:26:40
	Also OHH seller.	00:26:45
	Full sailor.	00:26:47
	Who actually provides electricity for Kit Carson and Taos?	00:26:48
	So we're moving ahead.	00:26:52
	With on a parallel course and trying to come to terms with the coop.	00:26:54
	But also trying to come to terms with.	00:26:59
	What the Co-op, in our opinion over the past seven years with multiple.	00:27:01
	Letters to them.	00:27:07
	Need to come to terms with the public and the city of Socorro, so and that includes rates, it includes.	00:27:10
	You know the the service part of it.	00:27:17
	And economic development type.	00:27:20
	Issues. So just to let you know, we're doing that, just so that you're on.	00:27:24
	Speed with what we're trying to do, Mr. Ocampo. Yeah, Mr. Mayor.	00:27:29
	It was the like a solar field brought up at all. I know we had talked to Samsung a little bit.	00:27:33
	Alternative energy sources was brought up.	00:27:38
	And.	00:27:42
	We are.	00:27:43
	When we're dealing with an entity such as tri-state.	00:27:44
	Who is really the?	00:27:48
	Person who dictates policy to 12 co-ops.	00:27:50
	In the state that they sell energy to.	00:27:53
	So they're duty bound here to accept what tri-state sends.	00:27:57
	And tri-state had just in the last year and a half because of the governor and the energy policy have started talking about	00:28:01
	alternative energy but.	00:28:04
	There's also has a solar field, you know, I used to live in Gaza 50 years ago, but and they're building a huge one here between	00:28:09
	Belen and Los Lunas.	00:28:13
	And so we thought we talked about that with a, with a, with a.	00:28:18
	It's kind of a new Commission for the coop.	00:28:22
	Has it been a big turnaround?	00:28:25
	And so the we brought that up.	00:28:27
	Their hands are kind of tied as to what.	00:28:31
	They can do it because tri-state kind of tells them what kind of energy they're going to sell them.	00:28:34
	And tries Mr. Panetta with their with their contract through tri-state there they can only produce 5% of their energy.	00:28:39
	Through renewables so that their hands are pretty much tied with the tri-state contract. That's what that was the biggest reason.	00:28:49
	Take Carson left tri-state.	00:28:53
	And and if.	00:28:59
	We have. I can probably send them to you, but their manager, Luis Reyes, why don't you do that? They're going to be 100% renewable	00:29:00
	soon.	00:29:04
	And.	00:29:09
	They blocked their rates.	00:29:11
	And.	00:29:13
	They're about the same. They're lower than Socorro, but.	00:29:15
	A lot of their savings.	00:29:18
	They're putting into.	00:29:20
	New development of solar that's that's getting them to that level of 100%, Kit Carson is a model of.	00:29:23
	How we feel in the state the energy solution has.	00:29:31
	And we got just recently we spoke with Mr. Reyes, who is the manager out there and he sent us.	00:29:34
	All the information that they're doing and we'll share that with you on the e-mail, we'll send that to you, but.	00:29:40
	And we shared that with the coop.	00:29:46
	And we told them.	00:29:48
	They said, well, why can't you just sign up new franchise until everything is?	00:29:50
	Clear, I said. I can't do that. That's my only leverage.	00:29:53
	But.	00:29:57
	We can do a franchise.	00:29:58
	That puts all these things in about alternative energy and all that.	00:30:00
	And and.	00:30:04
	Consumer protection and things of that nature and we put a franchise agreement together and get them to get for another 25 years.	00:30:05
	But we don't want to be again in the behind the 8 ball again like we have been for the past 10 years. And so that's where we're	00:30:13
	working. But we want solar, we want wind. You know, natural gas prices went up because they're using natural gas to deliver	00:30:20
	electricity since the coal generated plants are going down. So all that is that we should discuss that yesterday.	00:30:28
	It was a very good meeting, open meeting about, you know, how we can come to terms with the community also for the ranches that	00:30:35
	Mister Burnett represents.	00:30:40
	So.	00:30:45
	Just to let the council know we're working on it. I know we haven't spoken about it for many, many years, but we're working on it.	00:30:46
	Yeah, I did have.	00:30:53
	I spoke to a lot of business owners personally in town.	00:30:55
	And um, and also.	00:30:59
	You know our residents who decide to put us over on their buildings.	00:31:01
	And the the lack of of.	00:31:05
	Of money that we actually get reimbursed that that where the the citizens in town it's it's really a joke and then the.	00:31:09
	The the business owners who choose to do that to put solar up.	00:31:17
	I believe.	00:31:22
	Maybe Terry, you might be able to speak of Representative, I don't even think.	00:31:25
	They reimburse for extra energy going into the grid, which is absolutely.	00:31:29
	I mean energy, yeah. And and, and if there's an overage that's being made, they're not being compensated for that, which to me is	00:31:34
	pretty much robbing energy and little.	00:31:39
	They don't reimburse at what they charge, yeah, but that's less than one.	00:31:47
	They used to. They used to reimburse.	00:31:52
	At almost 8 to 9 cents a kilowatt.	00:31:55
	And that it kept going down, down, down to now maybe a penny maybe.	00:31:58
	Is reimbursement and you know when you when you spend and then it actually.	00:32:02
	You know, I don't even know if you pay bills anymore. It does help the public when they go solar.	00:32:07
	So you know but but the.	00:32:16
	And now?	00:32:20
	And then you have.	00:32:21
	It's not even worth.	00:32:22
	The ones that.	00:32:23
	But for business owners, I believe they're not even reimbursing they're there's nothing is, is what I understand.	00:32:27
	And the reason I bring that up is.	00:32:32
	Maybe.	00:32:34
	Get that from new franchises, you know, comes available allowing the public to kind of voice their opinion. I mean, I'm still on	00:32:35
	two parallel tracks. One of them is to get the coop to get a franchise that we can all agree on. But the other one is that we go	00:32:40
	ahead and do this ourselves.	00:32:46
	And you know that that's important to the businesses, is important to people who live on Bagley and live on the Tech Hill.	00:32:51
	To get their rates down there you know we could we could go out for a bond issue and just like we give water just put solar on	00:32:59
	everybody's house and every business and and you know and and and just bill them for the amortization of the the solar panels but	00:33:04
	there's a lot of.	00:33:10
	Inventive things you can do, but we're stuck in this.	00:33:16
	This paradigm that the Co-op has from 1950.	00:33:19
	And so.	00:33:24
	You're absolutely right. I mean they we gotta have tech. Tech is dying when New Mexico tech is dying to have solar.	00:33:25
	You know and, and so is.	00:33:31
	For all of us, we're paying and we're also trying to clarify.	00:33:34
	Apples to apples as to what one kilowatt of energy costs.	00:33:38
	And.	00:33:43
	Trying to get that information out.	00:33:44
	They'll tell you, well, what's the energy cost?	00:33:47
	Or they'll tell you.	00:33:50
	Whether it's.	00:33:51
	Uh.	00:33:53
	And it was that out there.	00:33:54
	I'm a little, I'm a little paranoid about stuff. I'm sorry, but we're we're trying to we're trying to get.	00:33:57
	Trying to get that.	00:34:03
	Together, but I just want to get the council and the council may eventually we'll have to get involved with it, but we want to get	00:34:05
	just and and I think the the commissioners agreed. We want to try to understand that we're on the same page.	00:34:11
	And that we made very clear to them.	00:34:19
	As to what we thought was the same page the cost of electricity.	00:34:21
	Alternative energy and consumer.	00:34:25
	Protection for the public. When they go and say, you know, I want to put up a new service, well that poll is going to charge you	00:34:28
	7000 bucks to put that poll up and everything back in place.	00:34:33
	Then everything would should be fact based, yes.	00:34:38
	Yeah, so, so, but anyway, so that's that's where we're at. It's A and as we've said, you know now that the colloquial motive is	00:34:43
	coming down the track for the coop.	00:34:46
	They're becoming more because it's made to 2024 is when this thing is franchised over.	00:34:51
	So but anyway that that's a long winded what what's up, what the discussions have been kind of like that?	00:34:57
	And Mr. Fleming's mayor, is there any more information on the Internet problem for Sakura?	00:35:06
	Over there I had a cut line and that was a nightmare. That was a medical nightmare.	00:35:15
	It was emergency services nightmare and it was just a personal and public nightmare because you couldn't get on Facebook.	00:35:20
	Tick tock I guess with the kids were but it was a pet line that Verizon had but they serve.	00:35:28
	Not it's. It's Lumen. Now it's called Lumen.	00:35:34
	And so.	00:35:37
	That that was cut line and then I think another line got cut, but they fixed that one quicker.	00:35:39
	But it was it was a bad situation.	00:35:44
	I had calls from patients who said, you know, I'm trying to call 911, I can't get in.	00:35:46
	And that was a problem we had a police chief and Fire Chief were all on.	00:35:51
	Alert as far as that's concerned. We talked to dispatch about it, but it was a line that was cut. It was not the people working	00:35:58
	here.	00:36:01
	You know, what I found out today was the first line that was cut was Wednesday I believe.	00:36:05
	Was cut by Kelly Cable and that they were doing work for central banks, so they cut their own line.	00:36:10
	And then the the second one that lasted a long time was.	00:36:17
	In Berlin where the fiber, I guess they had to dig up a whole intersection where the fiber.	00:36:21
	Was so brittle it just tore up. So that's what that was the wrong one and then the the Hour 1 yesterday.	00:36:28
	Was a.	00:36:34
	In most crises it was cards in.	00:36:36
	So.	00:36:39
	Computer.	00:36:41
	Cards. Yeah, let's just be honest. So make sure you think how much we depend.	00:36:42
	Yes, and how ham radio. I just had a thing with the charter school with ham radio kids, but I mean that.	00:36:46
	Miss Chambers Lopez, did you have a comment?	00:36:52
	So that and the CC, they've got a contract.	00:36:57
	With the person who's done work here in the city before on utility cuts.	00:37:01
	To fix all the.	00:37:06
	Negative speed bumps that they have.	00:37:08
	You know, and I've got three of them in my street.	00:37:11
	So that's getting fixed. Sidewalks that they're ripped up need to get fixed.	00:37:13
	But that's kind of the price you're paying to get fiber in town and that's that's a big, big project.	00:37:18
	But it's it's.	00:37:23
	Happening. Uh, I think.	00:37:24
	Follow Have you been the middle manager for some of that?	00:37:27
	So people have problems to get ahold of Paul.	00:37:29
	How much longer are they going to be? September, October.	00:37:32
	They're doing splicing. I mean, they're doing, I guess, going to have a big thing on the Plaza.	00:37:36
	For sign up.	00:37:40
	Right. The the, the, the person that's doing commercial hookups, she'll be in town on the 30th.	00:37:41
	And she told me that. Um.	00:37:48
	They will start connecting people.	00:37:50
	Probably the end of June, early July, and then there's going to be a an event. They want to hold three events in the Plaza to to	00:37:53
	try to get people signed up and questions and answers as so.	00:37:58
	I'll, I'll let you know the dates once I get signed up. Yeah, because everybody reached out to us. Ohh, that's great. That's	00:38:04
	great. Mr. Fleming. Yeah. Mr. Mayor.	00:38:09
	And talking to the people that were going door to door.	00:38:15
	He is close to 200 customers in Socorro that are still.	00:38:19
	TBS.	00:38:25
	But the new TBS that's coming in does not own.	00:38:27
	That company and that TV provider.	00:38:32
	So if they want to the door to door salesman for the new TS availability.	00:38:36
	Hannah. Steve.	00:38:43
	To the ones who have the TDs.	00:38:46
	ServiceNow here in Sakura.	00:38:50
	It's a real strange hookup.	00:38:52
	I wonder if he asked if they're not present TDs coming in.	00:38:55
	Mr. Holland, Mr. Manon Polo and I have a contact phone number for a young lady in Alamogordo that works off Commission, so she's	00:39:01
	happy to get phone calls.	00:39:05
	So if you need anybody that needs a contact person to sign up, just let us know and we'll send them a phone number.	00:39:09
	I also have one for businesses too.	00:39:17
	Uh.	00:39:22
	All business.	00:39:23
	Desiree, can you give us a little bit of a report on the?	00:39:26
	The use of the rodeo and the Convention Center, just what the events have been, just so the public and the City Council knows	00:39:30
	about some of the uses that it's been and.	00:39:35
	Hi everyone how are you so?	00:39:41
	Just recently in the Convention Center, we had the high school prom.	00:39:45
	Umm.	00:39:48
	That was a big success. I heard from a lot of the students that they liked the space.	00:39:49
	Um, we've tomorrow. We're actually holding the Head Start graduation.	00:39:54
	And the Convention Center.	00:39:58
	So far we have about 3 graduation parties.	00:40:00
	Um, booked for that space.	00:40:03
	Off the top of my head, New Mexico Tech, you know, have their graduation and you can see it on YouTube. Yeah, it's up for the	00:40:08
	rodeo in New Mexico Tech had their graduation.	00:40:12
	The high schools having their graduation there on Friday.	00:40:16
	Saving the big wrestling tournament, the ramen.	00:40:19
	Wrestling tournament at brought in.	00:40:23
	Couple 1000 people last year.	00:40:25
	And so that's going to be happening the week after high school graduation.	00:40:27
	Disney.	00:40:32
	Thank you. Thursday was in there.	00:40:34
	*	00:40:37
	about a week and.	00:40:39
	It was jam packed in there. They used it for catering and for.	00:40:40
	And the school for the extras.	00:40:45
	Um, and basically home base. So they really like the space. I hope they come back.	00:40:47
	Did you meet each mayor? I I was standing really close to him, but I didn't meet him. And I was standing really close to Eva, too.	00:40:52
	Ohh. You see Ohh. But I I couldn't walk up to them, obviously. That's exciting. Yeah.	00:40:59
	Yeah, so that's about it for.	00:41:05
	That only I can think of right now, but there's a couple more radios I know happening.	00:41:08
	Um, this summer. And then obviously we're kicking off the busy.	00:41:13
	Rodeo season with Tommy Fair and then back-to-back to back after that.	00:41:17
	I know, I know, soccer is over. But those fields?	00:41:22
	Just look fabulous. They just really look great.	00:41:26
	And Steve?	00:41:30
	Matthews.	00:41:31
	His crew has been.	00:41:32
	The ones who are doing this first really tripping.	00:41:33
	Thank you for holding everything together, Mr. Mitchell.	00:41:36
	That's where the where the extras paid.	00:41:39
	I believe they were, but I don't know how much.	00:41:42
	Were you, were you in? Were you in there? Can you check it? What are you talking about, more economic development?	00:41:45
	Yeah.	00:41:51
	Miss Dean.	00:41:52
	I just went fast. Are we selling?	00:41:54
	Are we selling alcohol at most of these events or?	00:41:56
	So upon request, how we doing that? Yeah, it's upon request.	00:42:00
	Her event manager. So.	00:42:03
	We're hosting the space, but if we if they want us to use our liquor license, then we will.	00:42:06
	Well suggest it.	00:42:11
	And the liquor license covers the Convention Center as well, so.	00:42:14
	Except for the high school problem.	00:42:17
	Do it even if they're requesting.	00:42:22
	Can I add to that? But we won't allow a picnic license to come in and use ours our facility. No, we can't because that means that	00:42:24
	we have to have to.	00:42:29
	Put a timeout on our license, basically so.	00:42:33
	Yeah.	00:42:37
	Thank you. Any questions from the directors? No, Thank you.	00:42:38
	Any questions you have about code enforcement or we have a new website at not sure if it's being hosted yet.	00:42:43
	They're supposed to be community.	00:42:51
	They get.	00:42:54
	So currently we have the symptoms.	00:42:56
	Thank you.	00:43:00
	Yeah.	00:43:02
	It's now what do we need to get Mr. We're sending the letter.	00:43:07
	The.	00:43:12
	We will have an app that the community can have as an icon.	00:43:13
	That can report.	00:43:17
	Are holes or junk in the neighbors yard or?	00:43:19
	Yeah, that'll that'll that's coming. So that people know that.	00:43:25
	That will have that.	00:43:28
	OK.	00:43:32
	We have.	00:43:34
	Personnel matters. Legal matters. Executive session.	00:43:35
	There's no changes. Russell Raki Police Officer change through evidence Custodian 1 Vegeta.	00:43:39
	Completed.	00:43:46
	Probation. We're getting a lot of police officers on board.	00:43:47
	Simone Ramirez completed probation and Juan Johnson completed probation.	00:43:50
	At the Police Department, Jeanette Archibeque dispatch the probation seraphine, Ortiz dispatcher, new hire.	00:43:56
	And Cameron Seger completed the.	00:44:05
	State 911 Academy.	00:44:08
	Smith.	00:44:12
	To approve the personnel list as presented, OK.	00:44:14
	Seconded all in favor, aye?	00:44:18
	And Chelsea's nomination.	00:44:21
	Do we have to have the Council approve that number?	00:44:25
	Believe right now it's just that it's just that the nomination stage. But she gets past that, you know she would be appointed.	00:44:28
	So then maybe at that point we could accept the appointment.	00:44:35
	OK, so.	00:44:39
	So cool.	00:44:41
	That worked for you, Chelsea?	00:44:42
	Healthcare, right?	00:44:44
	Tell us you don't see what it is for.	00:44:45
	Chelsea's got all kinds of different hats. I swear she's doing everything.	00:44:52
	So I was nominated to be on the New Mexico Humanities Council and so it would be at the Governor's office. It would be a	00:44:56
	three-year term.	00:45:00
	And and it's just a volunteer position. We approve grants and accept policy changes for humanity programs in the state.	00:45:04
	So that's.	00:45:13
	It would be, you know.	00:45:15
	Just a regular meeting. I'm guessing you know, once a month.	00:45:17
	So.	00:45:21
	That's all right. If I accept the nomination, I'm not sure I'll be appointed. I this is a second time, so we'll see.	00:45:23
	Congratulations. And just an FYI, the libraries Internet was up all through the outage. So we were, yeah.	00:45:29
	Because ours is through the E rate funding, so all of our Internet comes through Silver City Line.	00:45:37
	And so we, I worked on Saturday and we had over like 200 people coming in just to stay, you know, with their, their personal	00:45:42
	businesses or schools.	00:45:46
	It is hooked to the test Internet.	00:45:51
	With.	00:45:54
	Yeah. So that was nice. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.	00:45:55
	The and just an update on Finley. Hopefully it'll be open in June.	00:46:00
	With the representatives of money we're going to do other things and we'll bring that to the council as to what the new stuff will	00:46:06
	be.	00:46:08
	Dan will hopefully have it finished.	00:46:12
	We're also going to talk to the neighbors as to what is going to get done, and I know the representative is one of the neighbors.	00:46:14
	But we're going to end the your neighbor and we'll let them know and have their input as to what we're going to do.	00:46:20
	So all that is in the works with with that money we've received.	00:46:26
	OK man, we shall be meeting again on Tuesday the.	00:46:31
	6th of June.	00:46:35
	I need all the councillors to sign before they do.	00:46:39
	What polo? I need all the counselor to sign for the resignation.	00:46:42
	I think they did sign a lot of stuff.	00:46:47
	Again, it's for the budget.	00:46:50
	For the budget.	00:46:52