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Both all the way over, all by myself. | 00:01:02 | |
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Asking 20 different things. | 00:02:27 | |
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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 | |
Yeah. | 00:03:15 | |
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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Both all the way over, all by myself. | 00:01:02 | |
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And then? | 00:01:23 | |
Resolution of arthritis. | 00:01:27 | |
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And your microphone so you can hear Earth. | 00:01:34 | |
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Barely hear you. | 00:01:56 | |
You sang one individually. | 00:02:04 | |
Science. | 00:02:08 | |
Is representative here. | 00:02:10 | |
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We're finished. | 00:02:16 | |
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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 | |
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 | |
Yeah. | 00:03:15 | |
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 |