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Councillor Dean. | 00:00:01 | |
Councillor Fleming. | 00:00:03 | |
Answer Hicks. | 00:00:05 | |
Councillor Ocampo. | 00:00:07 | |
Councillor Olguin. | 00:00:10 | |
Councillor Romero here. | 00:00:11 | |
Councillor Solomon, we have a quorum. I have to say that Councillor Chavez Lopez is at the rodeo arena. | 00:00:13 | |
Practicing with the Queen candidates on their horses. | 00:00:20 | |
That's what she's doing. | 00:00:24 | |
The fact that he had States of America. | 00:00:29 | |
We should ask one person. | 00:00:34 | |
In the response choices. | 00:00:37 | |
Mayor. | 00:00:43 | |
Mr. Ryan, will we approve the? | 00:00:44 | |
Consent agenda. | 00:00:47 | |
Mr. Mayor. | 00:00:48 | |
I need to change something on the agenda. | 00:00:50 | |
To remove a. | 00:00:52 | |
Item. | 00:00:55 | |
6C. | 00:01:00 | |
The RFP award. | 00:01:02 | |
We need to do some interviews before before I can award that so. | 00:01:04 | |
That we can strike that off. | 00:01:09 | |
Thanks man. | 00:01:13 | |
Mr. Romero, I move we approve the consent agenda with that change. | 00:01:14 | |
2nd. | 00:01:19 | |
Seconded discussion on favor. | 00:01:21 | |
Pushed. | 00:01:24 | |
OK. | 00:01:26 | |
Mr. Romero, No, that's fine. | 00:01:27 | |
Don't confuse me already. I already told you, you confused me there, OK? | 00:01:31 | |
We're at the public forums show their Youth Advisory Board of New AO Mexico. Who is that? | 00:01:38 | |
Well, come on up. | 00:01:45 | |
Hello, my name is Maya Fern. I'm a representative of the Southern New Mexico Youth Advisory Board. | 00:01:49 | |
Our mission is to advocate for unhoused young people by educating the community, dismantling stigma and providing insight to youth | 00:01:55 | |
serving agencies. | 00:01:59 | |
As a part of our advocacy efforts, we request your support and reopening the Sapporo Team Center located at 1002. | 00:02:04 | |
8th Ave. | 00:02:11 | |
Since its closure, local young people have been displaced and they're wandering around town getting into trouble. | 00:02:13 | |
The team center provided a safe space for kids to do Sorry. | 00:02:18 | |
The teams that are provided a safe space for kids that don't want to go home to make new friends, work on school assignments and | 00:02:23 | |
view themselves. | 00:02:26 | |
Teams also really appreciated the guidance from the staff. | 00:02:29 | |
And having adults care about them and support them. If the teen center reopens, the Youth Advocacy Board would be willing to | 00:02:33 | |
facilitate field days, cookouts, sports. | 00:02:37 | |
Board game nights and video game tournaments and most importantly life skills classes. | 00:02:42 | |
We are happy to support the reopening. | 00:02:47 | |
And any and all capacity necessary, we firmly believe that teens need somewhere to go, a safe space and an alternative to hanging | 00:02:50 | |
out with the wrong people and getting into trouble. | 00:02:53 | |
We understand that funding can be a barrier to this goal. However, the southern part of the state is taking steps to invest in the | 00:02:58 | |
young people. | 00:03:01 | |
Unfortunately, youth homelessness rates are rising at an alarming rate. | 00:03:04 | |
These are our sons and our daughters. | 00:03:09 | |
Our future leaders, and they deserve our commitment to empowering them. | 00:03:11 | |
We recently applied for a grant from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development that the sorry. | 00:03:15 | |
That prioritizing prioritizes setting young people up for success to end and prevent youth homelessness. | 00:03:21 | |
We would be immensely grateful if you align yourselves with our goal and invested your time and funding into the young people's | 00:03:27 | |
Poro. | 00:03:30 | |
By supporting this reopening. | 00:03:33 | |
Are you from Socorro? I'm not, but I represent all housing agencies in the southwest. | 00:03:36 | |
And I understand the housing, but you're specifically talking about our youth center? | 00:03:44 | |
Do you know what the use has been as far as the youth center is concerned when it was open? | 00:03:48 | |
And from what I hear, it was a place for kids to go and hang out, hang out with their friends, do homework and get support from | 00:03:52 | |
the staff. | 00:03:55 | |
Us a place when you don't want to go home but you can feel safe. | 00:03:59 | |
And what hours were they being used? | 00:04:03 | |
That I'm not sure of. | 00:04:06 | |
We have a brand new facility we just opened. | 00:04:08 | |
Is she here? | 00:04:11 | |
Shelley. | 00:04:14 | |
And and you say also that's good. | 00:04:18 | |
I don't see her here, but I I would. Who's your local contact here in the city? | 00:04:20 | |
Fisher you are. And have you spoken with Shailene? | 00:04:26 | |
Just. | 00:04:32 | |
Yes. | 00:04:36 | |
Speak. | 00:04:38 | |
Working. | 00:04:41 | |
The. | 00:04:42 | |
Or four or five local teenagers here in Decoro talking about what different things are needed. | 00:04:42 | |
In this particular community. | 00:04:48 | |
What? What is your What is your standing? I mean, you are what? | 00:04:52 | |
Well, so I'm a part of the Youth Advisory Board that lets you live in Sikora. | 00:04:55 | |
I live in Poland area. | 00:05:00 | |
But as you know, Iran. | 00:05:02 | |
Forever. So I've been taking years before in my capacity as the the Board chair at Portland State harbors the day shelter for | 00:05:05 | |
homeless adults in Sequiro, hence the day shelter for homeless adults. | 00:05:11 | |
We don't really serve the teenage population because. | 00:05:18 | |
Teenagers don't really want to go to a homeless shelter where there are a lot of adults, right? If that makes sense. | 00:05:21 | |
I could go into that further, but they there are homeless teenagers in Socorro of 4040% of the youth in Socorro live below the | 00:05:28 | |
poverty line, which astronomical actually, if you have a map of New Mexico, Socorro County has the highest rates of child poverty. | 00:05:35 | |
So even if they're not outright homeless and sleeping at the Bio park, which some of them are, they are very poor and have nowhere | 00:05:43 | |
to go to to do things. So I did just learn about family gym and see what that's going to be. | 00:05:51 | |
Immune to seven I guess, right? And that was a $2.2 million allocation for family gamified, if I understand that correctly, 1.2 | 00:05:58 | |
million. | 00:06:02 | |
1.3 OK has already been allocated and there's another $1,000,000 on debt and we're gonna go check that out for sure. Like all of | 00:06:08 | |
you that are on the Youth Advisory Board are gonna go check out from within and see what's going on there for sure. | 00:06:14 | |
So if there's a way that somebody could be at the team center of providing those those classes basically like life skills 101 or | 00:06:47 | |
something like that. | 00:06:52 | |
Their kids would, and the abuse Advisory Board and Maya have definitely stepped up to like help facilitate that and facilitate | 00:06:57 | |
events there to kind of draw teenagers into it. There's definitely a need and a desire within the team community in Socorro for | 00:07:02 | |
those types of services. | 00:07:07 | |
But I'm not sure if you know what we do for that youth we we hire 120 youths through the summer. | 00:07:13 | |
And they're on their team to make those budget, about $150,000 for that. | 00:07:19 | |
And they work with different. | 00:07:24 | |
People in the community. | 00:07:27 | |
Such as the VLA, such as Tech, such as the county. | 00:07:28 | |
They learn life skills there. We have also. | 00:07:32 | |
Family gym and and we had a youth center but we moved everything over there plenty of space. Do you have some youth here that from | 00:07:36 | |
Sequoia that feel that they haven't been getting the right access to activities They might be able to if they would kind of tell | 00:07:41 | |
us a little bit about what they might need. | 00:07:47 | |
Can they come up to the mic? | 00:07:56 | |
Can you come up to the mic? Yeah. | 00:07:58 | |
Hi, my name is Jess. I live over in Polvadera, but I. | 00:08:02 | |
Used to come over here to Socorro to go to school. Unfortunately, the Socorro schools were not able to accommodate to my needs. I | 00:08:06 | |
was on a lot of medications so I had a hard time staying awake during school. So I stopped taking the bus and I had dropped out. | 00:08:14 | |
And shortly after that, they closed the Teen Center. | 00:08:22 | |
Um, which was my only. | 00:08:25 | |
Source of like interaction with kids my age in town. | 00:08:28 | |
Because I just live 15 minutes away and this is like the closest place that I could go to hang out with somebody or spend time | 00:08:32 | |
with someone that I care about. | 00:08:35 | |
Um. However, the streets are just not very safe and. | 00:08:39 | |
I'm sorry, I'm a little nervous. Is this not very safe out there to be out, Especially the past couple weeks it's hit like 104, | 00:08:45 | |
very steady 108. It's been very hot, so it's it would be very nice. I just found out that this place opened and I would love to | 00:08:53 | |
check it out and see what it has to offer. But I would love if you could come and advocate for this center maybe as well and bring | 00:09:00 | |
life skills to those kids because like you said, you are helping 120. | 00:09:08 | |
Kids, but I was not a part of that. But these kids in the in the Pew, we all need your help. | 00:09:16 | |
I've never spoken in a group of people this big before. | 00:09:22 | |
I've never thought many people, no, you're explaining that very well. Had you talked to the county at all as far as their ARPA | 00:09:25 | |
money? That could have used that for some of the some of that. | 00:09:30 | |
Stuff that is for the youth. | 00:09:36 | |
The county Commission itself. | 00:09:38 | |
No, I don't believe we have talked to the County Commission. That's not. | 00:09:40 | |
Yeah, well you know, we're certainly gonna relate this to Shaylee and who is our recreation director and we will take your input. | 00:09:44 | |
But it's a nice 70 degrees in that family gym now, so the hatchbacks are working very well. | 00:09:50 | |
I encourage you to go there. I was there yesterday. | 00:09:57 | |
And must have had about 20 kids in there. | 00:10:02 | |
Playing volleyball and basketball and. | 00:10:05 | |
So. | 00:10:08 | |
Provide sardine, but do you provide transportation options? | 00:10:08 | |
We don't in the county. We do have city transportation. | 00:10:12 | |
I'm not sure if. | 00:10:17 | |
How did you come to the youth center when you were using it with my grandmother and friend Rides from friends and family? | 00:10:19 | |
It may be that way. I mean, I we don't have see. | 00:10:26 | |
Since it's a city function. | 00:10:31 | |
It's difficult to have services out in the county that. | 00:10:33 | |
Because we have to spend that. | 00:10:36 | |
In the city. | 00:10:38 | |
We can look into transportation for certain routes. We do go to Berlin. | 00:10:39 | |
And when they go to Berlin, when they're coming back, they could stop and pull over there and pick people up at a certain spot. We | 00:10:44 | |
can maybe think about coordinating that. We can work on some of that. Amazing. That would be a great first step. Sure, sure. But | 00:10:49 | |
but I would like for your. | 00:10:54 | |
And I'm not really wanting to know. What I really want to know is who is the spokesman. | 00:11:00 | |
That could bring this stuff together so that. | 00:11:05 | |
We hear. | 00:11:08 | |
You know, kind of a cohesive outline of what you really need. | 00:11:10 | |
That would be me. | 00:11:14 | |
Kind of what I want to advocate for as well. It's fantastic that you do have a space and that it's 70 degrees and there's kids | 00:11:16 | |
playing ball. That's fantastic. | 00:11:19 | |
But what's really going to help is these life skills is providing counseling and mentorship to young people. | 00:11:23 | |
These are the ways that we prevent those numbers, that 38.1% from growing and rising. If we're not educating our young people, | 00:11:28 | |
we're setting them up for failure. | 00:11:32 | |
Well, I I agree that you're making that speech, but you know. | 00:11:37 | |
The city city government has certain goals that we need to meet, but we have a great Chelsea Jones, our library director, who's | 00:11:40 | |
really into that and she does that with seniors. | 00:11:46 | |
And she made Chelsea come on up if you've got some ideas. | 00:11:52 | |
Maya. | 00:11:58 | |
Check. | 00:11:58 | |
Actually just received literacy funding to do exactly what you're talking about, GD life skills training. I have volunteers. We | 00:11:59 | |
just met. They're trained, they're educators and. | 00:12:04 | |
I want to come over. Yeah, we'd love to collaborate. All of these already available in our community? That'd be fantastic. Or any | 00:12:10 | |
of you familiar with the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Project grant? | 00:12:14 | |
So that's the grant that was recently applied for from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. And what that | 00:12:20 | |
project is for is to eliminate youth homelessness. | 00:12:24 | |
We just applied for that grant and it looks really good that we're going to get it if we get this money. We want to know that the | 00:12:28 | |
city is on board to help us with these goals. | 00:12:32 | |
Well, we we had a, I'm sorry, Mr. I just wanted to inform you that last year. | 00:12:36 | |
We did. We did ask for that grant and then evidently it went to the northern part of the state. Most of that money went to the | 00:12:41 | |
northern part of the state, didn't come to the southern part. So I'm I'm sure the Council would be more than happy to sponsor | 00:12:47 | |
that. As a matter of fact, I can't remember that the people that came to us about that. | 00:12:52 | |
But we went through this last year, Mr. Romero, sorry. | 00:12:58 | |
Well, the same thing today, we. | 00:13:02 | |
Councillor Dean, Councillor Ogan and myself has the one of our first meetings as to. | 00:13:05 | |
The possibilities of what might be done. | 00:13:12 | |
Ohh. | 00:13:15 | |
To further better, use the portions of the old. | 00:13:16 | |
High school. | 00:13:20 | |
That aren't being utilized and Councillor Dean has you know specific ideas like that, that. | 00:13:22 | |
She would like to see done too, but there's all kinds of things that we're going through. | 00:13:27 | |
You know meeting rooms and and different things. So we are looking at some kind of development and. | 00:13:32 | |
You might want to tell them what you were thinking. I'm just trying to create a Community Center where there's different rooms for | 00:13:39 | |
different purposes. One might be for teams design more for teens, one might be for. | 00:13:44 | |
Kids who are interested in, I don't know, music. | 00:13:50 | |
Climbing wall, I mean those are some things that you know, just been talking about. But you know, we're quite a ways away because | 00:13:54 | |
we've got to do some. | 00:13:58 | |
Demolition work first, but but we are thinking about the kids. | 00:14:02 | |
And we're rolling out a music program right now at Family. | 00:14:06 | |
So there's there's lots of space that family right now that's usable. | 00:14:10 | |
And Chelsea made a great suggestion. | 00:14:14 | |
For the life skill and the and the literacy program to be put together for the youth, I think somebody was dropped out of school, | 00:14:16 | |
could get a GED and also learn other things. | 00:14:21 | |
That's available at our City library. | 00:14:26 | |
And Chelsea is in charge of that, so there are things available and perhaps it would be best if. | 00:14:29 | |
We could maybe. | 00:14:35 | |
Get that information out a little better than we're doing So it sounds like there's two things here though. You're representing A | 00:14:37 | |
homelessness and and and for for basically lost children that went. | 00:14:42 | |
And the pandemic we had, the the numbers were horrendous in Socorro. | 00:14:48 | |
That there there were I think in the 100. | 00:14:52 | |
As far as and then. | 00:14:55 | |
Kids who were homeless and didn't have anywhere to go. So those are the things that we're certainly will support. | 00:14:57 | |
The other part of your question as far as giving. | 00:15:03 | |
Activities for youth. | 00:15:07 | |
I must say you need to kind of. | 00:15:09 | |
Get acquainted to the stuff we are already doing. We're doing a lot of stuff. | 00:15:12 | |
Now, as far as educational is concerned, Chelsea is taking care of that, Shelley takes care of the recreations. | 00:15:16 | |
You know, we have many, many events that the kids are involved with that we allow them to. | 00:15:22 | |
Use our facility so we're more than happy to accommodate them. | 00:15:27 | |
That's fantastic. How do these young people find these events? Because when I look it up or when I try and find things that are | 00:15:31 | |
going on in Socorro, I can't find anything. | 00:15:34 | |
And so I imagine that the young people also have that struggle. | 00:15:37 | |
Apollo, we've got a website that. | 00:15:41 | |
Has talked about youth employment. Talk about. | 00:15:45 | |
Recreation and things of that nature. Sure. If I, if I, If I'm. | 00:15:49 | |
If I get the. | 00:15:53 | |
Material to advertise all advertising? Yeah, sure. | 00:15:55 | |
So, so we'll do a better job than what we're doing now and to maybe get a resource book. | 00:15:58 | |
That everybody can access on the net. | 00:16:04 | |
That'd be fantastic. And my last request is just as these plans continue growing, I would love if you could involve the Youth | 00:16:06 | |
Advisory Board. That's our purpose, is to advise, because nobody knows what young people need better than these young people who | 00:16:10 | |
live here. | 00:16:13 | |
So I guess my last request is just to reach out to us and utilize our advice and our guidance. What is your contact for the Youth | 00:16:17 | |
Advisory Board? So we have a website, it's NM Youth advocacy.org. | 00:16:23 | |
And who are the people that are from Sikora on that? | 00:16:30 | |
City of Shakur, yeah, so FYI, wasn't in Sequoia, but they're in southern New Mexico and they were part of that. Shay is a huge | 00:16:33 | |
part of that, as well as Brit over here. | 00:16:37 | |
And mostly young people. I mean, the Advisory Board is really just made-up of young people, 16 to 25, with lived experience of | 00:16:42 | |
homelessness. | 00:16:46 | |
Mr. Fleming. | 00:16:50 | |
One other questions Mayor just stated. | 00:16:52 | |
Who from the studios of Coral is on this board right now? It's all young people and Shay and grit. | 00:16:55 | |
It's all young people, you're saying. | 00:17:03 | |
Umm. | 00:17:05 | |
Here's two people who had. | 00:17:06 | |
70 years of teaching. | 00:17:10 | |
Young people in Socorro. | 00:17:13 | |
And I haven't heard a single name. | 00:17:15 | |
From you. | 00:17:19 | |
Answer right now. | 00:17:20 | |
Of. | 00:17:22 | |
A young adult from the city of Socorro that's on this board. | 00:17:23 | |
Right. I mean, well, I have. | 00:17:27 | |
Four sitting right here in the 2nd row and not from the city of Socorro. | 00:17:29 | |
When they go into tomorrow. | 00:17:38 | |
So. | 00:17:41 | |
That. | 00:17:42 | |
Yeah. | 00:17:44 | |
Anastasia and Trinity through field. | 00:17:47 | |
And it's also Trinity Trujillo. | 00:17:51 | |
James Whalen. | 00:17:53 | |
The city they go to, the Coral High School. | 00:17:56 | |
Well, you're not answering my question. I'm not trying to put shade on this, but. | 00:17:59 | |
Thank you. | 00:18:07 | |
I'm talking about budgets and you brought that up. | 00:18:09 | |
Money and and the amount of money that the city spends. | 00:18:12 | |
On youth, I I think it's tremendous. | 00:18:16 | |
And we're more than happy. | 00:18:19 | |
To. | 00:18:20 | |
Work with you on specific things. | 00:18:22 | |
It's the first time I've heard you here. It's first time I've seen anybody from the youth. | 00:18:25 | |
I hear about this. | 00:18:30 | |
But we're, as we've explained, we're willing to. | 00:18:31 | |
Talk about activities. | 00:18:34 | |
And talk about new activities that we can in place. | 00:18:36 | |
But I want you to go to the county to help us also and they they go to the city of they go to the high school in Socorro but. | 00:18:39 | |
That's. | 00:18:46 | |
That's funded by another source. It's not funded by taxes that the city gets. | 00:18:47 | |
And so we need a lot of help. | 00:18:52 | |
And making our budgets, because the cost of giving some of this sometimes is beyond our budgets. | 00:18:55 | |
When, when we're working with people who are right now, we have to put in a million dollars. | 00:19:02 | |
For people's natural gas rates that went three times normal, the city put in $1,000,000 to bail some of the people you're talking | 00:19:06 | |
about, which is the poorest community, poorest. | 00:19:12 | |
Poorest county in the state. | 00:19:18 | |
And so those things that we've been spending money on also so. | 00:19:21 | |
Hello. | 00:19:24 | |
Trying to get money from the budget. | 00:19:25 | |
To pay for some of the things which we I think we'd love to do, if you can help us with grants and we'll help us with your | 00:19:28 | |
committee to come together and and advocate for us with the legislature. | 00:19:33 | |
That'd be a big help. | 00:19:39 | |
Absolutely, yeah. It's actively working on applying for grants. We applied for the HP grant. We're also in the process of writing | 00:19:41 | |
out for the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act grant. | 00:19:45 | |
Yeah, I can absolutely help the fiscal agent for those grants. That would be the next Coalition to End Homelessness. Who I'm | 00:19:50 | |
employed. That's the city. | 00:19:53 | |
No, but we would like the city to align themselves with our goals and be a part of this mission. | 00:19:57 | |
Funds from that grant. | 00:20:02 | |
Well, we don't know until we get the grant. But you know, if we do get the grant, we would love to have meetings. We'd love to be | 00:20:04 | |
in this space more. We'd love to have one on ones with each of you and figure out what we can do. Like I said, I think it's | 00:20:08 | |
amazing that you helped bail out families, but those aren't. | 00:20:13 | |
My kids here, that's that helps their families maybe and that maybe help some people they're involved with. | 00:20:17 | |
But that's a whole different matter. | 00:20:22 | |
That's great that we bailed those people out, but. | 00:20:24 | |
There's still a population of young people who needs your help. | 00:20:27 | |
Sure. | 00:20:30 | |
Mr. Smith, Mr. Mayor. | 00:20:31 | |
I'm a part of the Socorro County Juvenile Justice Board. Kristen Keller is Kirsten Keller. She's the coordinator for it. It's a | 00:20:34 | |
it's a programmer Polo runs it from the city standpoint. It's it's the administrative entity for that program is the is the city. | 00:20:43 | |
They do teen diversion programs. They do counseling boys circle girls. | 00:20:51 | |
Circle counseling. They put on a free movie for all Socorro ones on, I think the first Wednesday of every month. | 00:21:01 | |
We're always looking for youth representation on our committee that in fact it's required to have a youth on there. So I can give | 00:21:12 | |
you the contact number to to Kirsten and that way maybe you can have somebody from. | 00:21:18 | |
Your group. | 00:21:25 | |
Be a member of that committee and we can start with that. | 00:21:26 | |
Yeah, that would be fantastic. Be a great first step. | 00:21:31 | |
And this is your first meeting with us and you're you're welcome to reach out to. | 00:21:35 | |
Any of us and and you know talk more about it. Definitely, definitely there's all kinds of. | 00:21:39 | |
Of possibilities, you know, you know, we possibly would want to buy in and you'd want to buy in too, and contribute. | 00:21:45 | |
You know. | 00:21:53 | |
But like I said, it's. | 00:21:54 | |
It's it's a progression of doing a lot of things before we get to that. | 00:21:56 | |
Mr. Logan, I was gonna say, just making that connection with Chelsea tonight. I mean, once you start working with her and you get | 00:22:00 | |
more feeling, you get familiar with other connections with that within the city. | 00:22:04 | |
I mean, the city of Allison provide that facility, but they also have access to tech students or whatever else you need once you | 00:22:09 | |
start making those connections. | 00:22:12 | |
Right. I mean, I guess where my concern lies is that I planned for this grant two years in advance and sent out large calls to | 00:22:16 | |
action to get people in support of to care about the disadvantage of homeless youth. | 00:22:22 | |
And these meetings happened for a really long time and the only people who really got on board were my young people, Jay and | 00:22:28 | |
Britt. | 00:22:30 | |
So I see a lack of concern. I see a lack of empathy and a lack of compassion, honestly. | 00:22:34 | |
Did you say you sent one to the mayor and the City Council? I sent one everywhere. Me and my coworkers are collection position. I | 00:22:39 | |
wasn't directly in charge of sending them out. | 00:22:43 | |
I don't know who exactly got them, but I know that large mass emails and letters were sent to. | 00:22:48 | |
City Council members. | 00:22:52 | |
And to stakeholders in the community, well, you've been here now. | 00:22:54 | |
I I I'm, I'm sorry to tell you that. | 00:22:58 | |
And I look at all my emails every day and respond to them. I have yet to see one. This is the first time I've even heard of you | 00:23:00 | |
committee. | 00:23:04 | |
Mr. Mr. Mayor the the schools have a fund and. | 00:23:08 | |
That supports students who are temporarily experiencing homelessness. | 00:23:13 | |
And. | 00:23:18 | |
Polar Miss Puller is the coordinator of that program. Are you referring to the Convento? Yeah, McKinney Vento program? | 00:23:21 | |
So there's funds specifically for that. | 00:23:28 | |
And but but I don't know you know the the extent to which they need to be enrolled. | 00:23:30 | |
In school or an atheist now? | 00:23:37 | |
So our high school does not have a navigator. | 00:23:46 | |
They're experiencing onset to resources. | 00:23:50 | |
And I just wanted to submit as well. There is a principle in social work. | 00:23:53 | |
And it's very simple. Nothing for us without us. | 00:23:58 | |
It's very important whenever you have any initiatives that is serving you, that you have youth on your board and I was happy to | 00:24:01 | |
hear you talking about that, Mister Zimmerman. | 00:24:06 | |
It's very important because you're not going to have true engagement from youth if they're not involved process. You'll have | 00:24:11 | |
beautiful programs and people may have people. | 00:24:17 | |
Hey, you had a comment Yeah program and the support to the high school has. | 00:24:26 | |
For homeless youth, I worked closely with Francis Fuller last year, and Portless Brocade Harbor has an A Memorandum of | 00:24:32 | |
understanding with the high school, so we actually take care of. | 00:24:37 | |
The hotel rooms and stuff like that or homeless youth who are in moments of crisis because we have, we already have contracts. | 00:24:43 | |
With a hotel in town to provide emergency housing. | 00:24:51 | |
But it is. It is not. It is. | 00:24:55 | |
In grossly inadequate in terms of actually getting teenagers. | 00:24:58 | |
Who suddenly find themselves out on the street just to speak to the homeless. | 00:25:03 | |
Youth a little bit. I've I have 10 years of experience. I've participated Estate Harbor and five years prior to that I've worked | 00:25:07 | |
with. | 00:25:11 | |
Find. | 00:25:14 | |
I would say that we always say that anybody could be two paychecks away from homelessness, right? Like the last two paychecks. And | 00:25:17 | |
a lot of people will be out in the street because of something like 80% of Americans don't have much more than $500 in the savings | 00:25:23 | |
account at any given moment. But with a teenager, it's even more volatile because all it takes is the guardian or the person that | 00:25:28 | |
they're living with saying get out. | 00:25:34 | |
Is 1 sentence, you know, one sentence away from the street and we I worked I think with like. | 00:25:40 | |
Nine or ten teenagers with Francis Fuller just in the last four year the suddenly found themselves in need of a hotel room or an | 00:25:46 | |
emergency situation. We also open up the shelter, you know, in in certain circumstances to let kids stay there. But it is grossly | 00:25:52 | |
inadequate. We can only afford to pay for those hotel rooms. We can only afford a couple nights. It's not enough time to like | 00:25:58 | |
solve any real crazies or or solving real issues. | 00:26:04 | |
And we've also, we've run into problems with some of the the state and government programs that are designed to help you sometimes | 00:26:11 | |
and often you're far more damage than good. So there needs to be a place in the community. I think what you were speaking to | 00:26:17 | |
earlier was really powerful in terms of there used to be a simple and easy place for teenagers that's very proficient with | 00:26:23 | |
Instagram, Snapchat, whatever to be able to get online and go to a website and see exactly what services are available for them in | 00:26:29 | |
this community. | 00:26:35 | |
I think the fact that we didn't know about a lot of this stuff. | 00:26:41 | |
But getting that out to people so that they can see what's going on would be very helpful. | 00:27:10 | |
So first time for some of these students who are in the high school, there is a program called Gear Up and that's with Kathleen | 00:27:16 | |
O'Connell and Real Madrid. | 00:27:21 | |
And this last year, we actually were actually participated. Christian helped give some mock interviews. | 00:27:26 | |
For these kids, they did do checkbook balancing. They did do the importance of credit. They did. | 00:27:32 | |
They have all of that there too. | 00:27:37 | |
So that's just another resource that is available and it's asked to. | 00:27:40 | |
Stay and I actually sat at the same table for the 100% so coral. | 00:27:48 | |
Tell me. | 00:27:52 | |
Project with Doctor Sharon Sessions. I think they're trying to do a lot of the same things. You are healthcare homeless. | 00:27:54 | |
You name it, they. | 00:28:01 | |
That eight or nine different goals, so I think Sharon would be an awesome resource. | 00:28:02 | |
Um, we've signed up for a new app called My Civic. It'll be hosted with a link on our website. You can see where our parks are, | 00:28:06 | |
what it costs to rent them, all kinds of information. | 00:28:11 | |
And the third thing is to get a message out. We have a messaging system where poll sends out text messages about different events | 00:28:16 | |
and different things going on. | 00:28:20 | |
And you can sign up for that on our website as well or. | 00:28:24 | |
Column or come in, but I think that's three tools that you can add to your toolbox. | 00:28:26 | |
And recreation has a Facebook page. | 00:28:32 | |
This is, Mr. Mayor, the Southwestern Area Workforce Development Board. | 00:28:35 | |
Which encompasses 7 counties in the southern part, State, Donana, Socorro, Hidalgo. | 00:28:39 | |
They have a youth program which. | 00:28:45 | |
Hires youth between the ages of 16 and 21. | 00:28:48 | |
Who have a barrier. | 00:28:52 | |
Homelessness is definitely a barrier, so if any of our young folks. | 00:28:55 | |
Wanna go to the Department of Labor as it was once known? | 00:29:00 | |
And talk to the representative there. | 00:29:05 | |
There's a tremendous amount of funding to support their employment journey. | 00:29:08 | |
In. | 00:29:15 | |
In in Socorro County and Socorro, the funds are used to support paying the the, the, the, the student. They can they can find work | 00:29:16 | |
and plumbing and electrical and restaurant and hotel, all of those things. | 00:29:24 | |
So I am hopeful that and some of us here on this Council sit on that board. | 00:29:32 | |
And we would like to know and hear how the experience was for a young person. | 00:29:38 | |
And it's supposed to serve 25% of youth in school and 75% of youth out of school. | 00:29:45 | |
So. | 00:29:53 | |
That's what there's a lot of opportunity for young people to get a job on top of the the The Cities program in the summer. | 00:29:54 | |
So yes, ma'am. | 00:30:02 | |
One of my tasks this summer was. | 00:30:04 | |
Completing the resource crisis across county. | 00:30:06 | |
The last time I talked to them, this bill wasn't open the youth program. Have you heard other one? No, I'm. I'm under the | 00:30:09 | |
impression that they were hiring a coordinator for it. | 00:30:14 | |
And and if that isn't coming, if there's nobody there, like I said, there's seven counties. | 00:30:19 | |
We can tap into another county. You you can. I'll give you the the contact information for the. | 00:30:26 | |
For the center, which is in Guyana and you know what those funds are, are here to support the seven counties, whether there's | 00:30:33 | |
somebody sitting behind the desk or not. So we need to figure out a way. | 00:30:39 | |
To. | 00:30:45 | |
Connect these students and young people to jobs, and that's exactly the focus of. | 00:30:46 | |
Of those millions of dollars that are supported by Title One Federal federally. | 00:30:53 | |
So I do know about some of those jobs, especially the plumbing. | 00:31:00 | |
Those jobs are only available to kids who are, fortunately, drug free. | 00:31:07 | |
Majority of homeless youth in Socorro are unfortunately not drug free and don't have the resources. | 00:31:11 | |
To. | 00:31:18 | |
Obtain that. So that's another issue. And another thing is, I'm not a high school student. Like I said, I had dropped out, but I | 00:31:20 | |
have never heard of a single. | 00:31:25 | |
Things you guys have offered today. | 00:31:31 | |
Like I said. | 00:31:33 | |
I'm a teenager. | 00:31:34 | |
Teenagers rely very heavily on the Internet, on social media. It would be extremely beneficial. | 00:31:36 | |
To. | 00:31:41 | |
Establish a social media president presence and I would be happy to do that and I'm certainly of us would be happy to establish a | 00:31:42 | |
work with someone, with you guys and establish the social media presence, but. | 00:31:48 | |
I would love it. Sounds very quite lovely what you guys are doing for Socorro and I would love to be a part of it. | 00:31:55 | |
And I would love to take advantage of these resources and so would all the kids sitting here in this room. | 00:32:01 | |
But we have never heard of it. | 00:32:06 | |
And that is an issue. | 00:32:09 | |
Well, I hope you take a chance to talk to Chelsea because it gets started on your GED. | 00:32:11 | |
And she's offered. And then. So go by the library and sign up there. We'll do a better job of getting. | 00:32:16 | |
Youth involved with what our programs are, but I'll tell you. | 00:32:22 | |
We had 120 kids this summer. | 00:32:26 | |
Who took advantage of our program and they heard about it. | 00:32:28 | |
So but. | 00:32:31 | |
Please. | 00:32:32 | |
Allow us to make a better effort in getting information out. | 00:32:33 | |
But today you could. | 00:32:37 | |
Get with Chelsea tomorrow and and perhaps. | 00:32:39 | |
Get involved with her program, and that's a good start right away. | 00:32:42 | |
To get this done. | 00:32:45 | |
And if there's others who have? | 00:32:47 | |
That they have need for getting a GED and are not going to school and can do it at their own pace. | 00:32:49 | |
I'll get with Chelsea and and I think she'll certainly get you on. | 00:32:55 | |
Start with that. | 00:32:58 | |
OK. | 00:33:00 | |
That sounds amazing. | 00:33:00 | |
Mr. Mayor, I just added two more things, Shane, that kickoff meeting. | 00:33:04 | |
We brought this up specifically that there's not one place where you can find all the resources available and I can't remember for | 00:33:08 | |
his missed months here, Charlene Montoya that said they were going to. | 00:33:12 | |
OK. So that would be another great place to start. We can host that on our website. | 00:33:18 | |
Jack. | 00:33:23 | |
And so she had to put in. | 00:33:28 | |
For the Mental Health Collaborative, we want this one to one, but you guys haven't been to that. It's amazing. There's over 40 | 00:33:30 | |
organizations involved in town that all work in behavioral health or just various aspects of the community. But she is working on | 00:33:36 | |
that website. It's just, it's positive but very long process. | 00:33:42 | |
To get all of these listing community in the community in one place and get them all online, but it is going to be basically like | 00:33:48 | |
a website. | 00:33:52 | |
Or a link that would be shareable to other social media platforms. | 00:33:58 | |
People are only going to be able to find that resource, and so much of it is shared and put in places where teenagers will find | 00:34:03 | |
it, right? So that's in the context of that it's done except for a couple of things, but for today I didn't have anything but was | 00:34:07 | |
not aware of them. | 00:34:12 | |
But you have let let Jackie know. That was one of my past when he was supposed to work intern. We completed it. We sent it to 100% | 00:34:17 | |
New Mexico. It's gonna be put online. My greater concern because I know you've mentioned social media. | 00:34:24 | |
Young kids don't look at Facebook. I'm sorry all they've done. And so you you've gotta think a little bit outside of the bottom | 00:34:31 | |
things like Instagram. Other sources. I submit mayor, that it's possible that some of the young people that did the program, they | 00:34:37 | |
found out about it through other channels, maybe parents. | 00:34:44 | |
Family members, things like that. | 00:34:50 | |
Because listen, if they can't find it, these. | 00:34:53 | |
Like most kids are really savvy with the Internet, then it's a problem with where it's being. | 00:34:56 | |
Featured. | 00:35:01 | |
But I hope the ones that are here take advantage of the stuff that we're talking about, family gem. | 00:35:03 | |
Or at the library. | 00:35:07 | |
At least do that and then again, we'll try to get more information. | 00:35:09 | |
That's friendly to. | 00:35:13 | |
So you'll send and put it on different. | 00:35:15 | |
Platforms rather than just the Standard Oil. | 00:35:18 | |
Facebook type of stuff. | 00:35:22 | |
Will work on TikTok and. | 00:35:24 | |
What's the new one that's coming out is? | 00:35:26 | |
Great. | 00:35:30 | |
I think it's called threads, OK, yeah. So we'll we'll we'll certainly try to collate all that information and try to put it out so | 00:35:32 | |
that. | 00:35:36 | |
It's available to them. | 00:35:40 | |
And the transportation part, we certainly should work on that to try to get. | 00:35:41 | |
Transportation out to Cloudera and Lemitar and. | 00:35:47 | |
Grab San Antonio and see if we can have. | 00:35:50 | |
The youth at least be able to access our facilities. | 00:35:53 | |
By that kind of transportation. So we'll work with that. | 00:35:57 | |
But I think it's important for you to make a presentation to the county also because. | 00:36:00 | |
They they did have a they had $3 million of ARPA money. | 00:36:04 | |
And I think you would certainly would want to get some of that to. | 00:36:08 | |
Help with the homeless and the the motel bills. | 00:36:12 | |
And also to try to get. | 00:36:15 | |
Some. | 00:36:17 | |
Involvement with the City County Coalition. | 00:36:18 | |
That we could work together on the budgets because that's that's really very important these days. | 00:36:21 | |
As to the amount of money that is available and what the cost of things are. | 00:36:26 | |
But we have those. | 00:36:31 | |
Plans right now with Finley. | 00:36:33 | |
For youth programs. | 00:36:35 | |
Councillor Dean and Olguin are working on trying to do more as far as. | 00:36:37 | |
Space is concerned where it's literally can hang out. | 00:36:42 | |
And Chelsea's got the program for the literacy, so hopefully they'll take advantage of that. | 00:36:46 | |
Absolutely. Trust me, nobody knows more about budgeting and lack of funding than homeless youth. It doesn't take much to make a | 00:36:52 | |
homeless youth really happy. It doesn't take much to implement these programs. It doesn't take much to do the social media, sure. | 00:36:57 | |
Yeah. | 00:37:04 | |
I'm going to jump in at Amy Kimball. While you were we were talking about this, I went to the Socorro City of Socorro web page and | 00:37:06 | |
looked at the recreation department page. | 00:37:11 | |
And it still says that the Socorro Finley gym is closed due to construction. | 00:37:17 | |
So it sounds like it's not closed. | 00:37:23 | |
So just sort of wanted to 2nd that that there definitely is an issue with getting information out there even if the youth had gone | 00:37:26 | |
to the web page here. | 00:37:29 | |
It would have said that the gym was was closed. | 00:37:33 | |
Um. | 00:37:36 | |
So I, I, and and just on personal, I thought it was great that Jace was. | 00:37:37 | |
Teen offered to help with with social media. | 00:37:42 | |
If people are are are volunteering to help in ways that they know will get the message out to their their peers, I hope that. | 00:37:46 | |
That. | 00:37:53 | |
So someone from the City Council or from the city would be would be willing to work with them. | 00:37:55 | |
I don't know what that would look like though. | 00:38:00 | |
Thank you. | 00:38:02 | |
Anyone else? | 00:38:04 | |
Great. Well, thank you for coming. Yes, ma'am. | 00:38:07 | |
And a different. | 00:38:11 | |
And she got. | 00:38:12 | |
Ohh sure. Come on up. I just. I wanted to just say if anybody had. | 00:38:13 | |
Anymore comments, but come on up with second, the second topic for public. | 00:38:17 | |
Sure. | 00:38:24 | |
Thank you for coming in. | 00:38:27 | |
Hi. | 00:38:33 | |
My name is Bridget O'Neill. I live here in town over on on. | 00:38:35 | |
Shawn Ave. | 00:38:41 | |
And I I I'm sorry, this is the first City Council meeting I've come to. | 00:38:43 | |
So I don't know if this has been talked about in the past. | 00:38:49 | |
But I was talking with Marcella, with the city. | 00:38:53 | |
This afternoon on the phone and she encouraged me to. | 00:38:58 | |
You know said. | 00:39:02 | |
I mean, I was asking her about. | 00:39:04 | |
The. | 00:39:07 | |
That the topic is water meters. | 00:39:07 | |
They didn't know if that's something the City Council had already. | 00:39:10 | |
Knows about address. | 00:39:14 | |
Or not. But that's really the administration's fault. It's not the City Council. | 00:39:16 | |
And I kind of know about your situation where you you've been asking for a new water meter for nine months or 10 months has not | 00:39:21 | |
been, has people haven't shown up to put a new one in they didn't even. | 00:39:26 | |
Say anything about it? So yeah, so this, this administrative, not City Council and. | 00:39:33 | |
Ohh, but that that's that's our fault. It's our fault that we didn't bring you a new. | 00:39:38 | |
City Water Meter Well, my my. | 00:39:42 | |
My main concern now is you know in talking with her just about the the numbers. | 00:39:45 | |
Of it, you know, it's like. | 00:39:52 | |
You know, of course, she's just talking off the top of her head, so it's no, but she she directed you to the right place. So you | 00:39:55 | |
know she stood there. City has like 4000 water meters. | 00:40:01 | |
And and they're all dying, yeah. | 00:40:08 | |
And uh. | 00:40:11 | |
And that again is a budget problem and I know they've been estimating your water. | 00:40:14 | |
Of consumption and. | 00:40:18 | |
We're we're trying to free up some money to buy those water meters right and but this problem is so at the at the current rate. | 00:40:19 | |
You know, it's not keeping up with the rate that they're failing at. | 00:40:29 | |
And you know, she was saying she gets like. | 00:40:33 | |
10 calls a day about water meters that are failing. | 00:40:37 | |
And you know, I was on the phone with her for between. | 00:40:41 | |
5 to 10 minutes or maybe 15 minutes because she went to talk with the. | 00:40:46 | |
Guide to see if they had a water meter for me. | 00:40:51 | |
You know, so that's like over an hour of her time every day, you know? She says. It's a real mess. | 00:40:55 | |
And you know, they weren't able to buy any new water meters for like the last. | 00:41:02 | |
Four months and. | 00:41:08 | |
They're only able to buy. | 00:41:10 | |
Like 100 water meters a month. | 00:41:13 | |
So it's going to take. | 00:41:15 | |
You know, I mean, I already been waiting for a water meter for 10 months. | 00:41:18 | |
And and I'm not alone, you know so. | 00:41:22 | |
And at the current rate, you know it would take. | 00:41:26 | |
You know more than three years and 100 water meters a month to. | 00:41:29 | |
Replace people's water meters. You know, people gonna have to wait that long. | 00:41:35 | |
For a new. | 00:41:40 | |
And Ruby, you want to give me an answer for that? | 00:41:43 | |
So. | 00:41:46 | |
It's. | 00:41:47 | |
15. | 00:41:48 | |
3000. | 00:41:51 | |
OK, so right now we're starting to die since 10 years. | 00:41:52 | |
So they're starting to die, So we're actually going to order. | 00:41:56 | |
We've been ordering 100. I talked to Marcie today and she said she needs like 300, so we're gonna get it done and probably put her | 00:41:59 | |
on the top of the list. | 00:42:04 | |
They said they're going to bring one tonight. I apologize for all that. I mean, I again, it's a matter of budgets, but I apologize | 00:42:10 | |
for this. | 00:42:14 | |
And it came here today was so that. | 00:42:18 | |
You might think about. | 00:42:21 | |
This not happening again in another 10 years, You know, like maybe they're. | 00:42:23 | |
Set up some fund to pay into annually or whatever so that when they start dying. | 00:42:27 | |
You've got enough money to buy. | 00:42:33 | |
All the meters then and not have people wait for a year to get their water meter replaced, I mean. | 00:42:36 | |
Social. | 00:42:43 | |
So a citizen. | 00:42:44 | |
But like I said, they're dying. They're not all dying at once, but they're just dying. | 00:42:47 | |
Change it as good, but it just happened all at once. | 00:42:51 | |
It's it's 10 years and they just, yeah. So with another 10 years, yeah, gonna happen all at once again. | 00:42:54 | |
And so, but but you weren't prepared for it this time. | 00:42:59 | |
And and I'm hoping that you know you're you actually asked me right now the the planning was not there and we are gonna you know | 00:43:03 | |
we we tried you know I'm trying to wake up to that with my with my water. | 00:43:10 | |
I don't know. You're right and and I think it woke us up to some of the things that you're talking about. | 00:43:19 | |
Again when I was talking to the other group. | 00:43:24 | |
It's all about budgets. Water meters have increased in cost by about. | 00:43:27 | |
40 to 50%. | 00:43:31 | |
Same thing with gas meters, same thing with the everything, so, so our budget for replacements. | 00:43:34 | |
Are dwindling and and so but but your your comment is appropriate I mean we're certainly going to work on. | 00:43:42 | |
Trying to be more responsive and and also you know when it does happen again or for you know the people. | 00:43:48 | |
You know, while you get this problem fixed? | 00:43:54 | |
You know, charging people some flat rate, that's an average for all of the. | 00:43:56 | |
People's usage across the city is not at all. It's not a fair way to do it, you know, ask for word, I'm I'm getting charged. | 00:44:02 | |
For 60 units of water a month. | 00:44:11 | |
I live alone. I'm trying to be conservative. I'm retired, you know, So I'm just at my house. I don't have to. I don't have to | 00:44:14 | |
shower everyday, you know. Sorry. | 00:44:20 | |
You know, I don't have very much laundry. I don't run my dishwasher, you know, and and I'm getting charged. | 00:44:27 | |
You know an average. Well, there's a basically my my average usage for 2022 or 2021 when I had a full. | 00:44:34 | |
You're working? | 00:44:43 | |
For that, and we can't just estimate according to average, use. | 00:44:47 | |
Just. | 00:44:53 | |
It's not. | 00:44:55 | |
That would be fine. | 00:44:56 | |
Costco, we need to look. We need to look at that. She shouldn't be charged for. | 00:44:58 | |
Being frugal, I mean, if she's not using the water. | 00:45:03 | |
Thanks. | 00:45:07 | |
Because the. | 00:45:10 | |
Calling every month saying I got you know it says 0 usage on my water bill and that's not true either. | 00:45:13 | |
I I wasn't charged anything. And then for the last. | 00:45:20 | |
Normally I've been getting charged for 60 minutes on. | 00:45:24 | |
My peak usage in any year is 60 units a month. | 00:45:28 | |
But you know, we need to, we need to adjust that. | 00:45:33 | |
There may be a way that it can give her that. | 00:45:44 | |
People individual out there, you just go and use that. | 00:45:49 | |
And then that will translate this for us, not it's not what's been happening. | 00:45:53 | |
But that's the way it should be done. | 00:45:57 | |
I think please let us know if that's not adjusted. | 00:45:59 | |
Well, hopefully it will be fixed well, but if it's not, I think this is your place to be able to come and tell us. | 00:46:03 | |
Appreciate that. | 00:46:09 | |
Yeah. | 00:46:11 | |
Anyone else that's not on the agenda would like to make a comment. | 00:46:14 | |
Hey. | 00:46:20 | |
We have public hearing for the I CIP #4. | 00:46:23 | |
That's true. Again, it wasn't in the public hearing for the I CIP. | 00:46:28 | |
2nd. | 00:46:32 | |
Moved and seconded all in favor. | 00:46:32 | |
Aye. | 00:46:35 | |
Chief Greenwood, you wanna put something on the I CIP? | 00:46:38 | |
Come on, come on up. | 00:46:43 | |
Put him on the spot. | 00:46:45 | |
You know our police and I've known about it for a while. | 00:46:48 | |
But our police? | 00:46:52 | |
Have us. | 00:46:54 | |
Problem with the quarters. | 00:46:55 | |
That are really becoming more and more decrepit. | 00:46:57 | |
On the old junior high side. | 00:47:00 | |
And I would hope you guys would. | 00:47:03 | |
Support us in trying to put this perhaps as a priority for new. | 00:47:06 | |
Facilities for the rest of evidence, room and. | 00:47:11 | |
Holding cell and some of the work desks that you have to have. | 00:47:14 | |
Is to put it in a place that's at least suitable. I was thinking about a second. | 00:47:19 | |
A police substation but. | 00:47:23 | |
I don't know what you think of that. | 00:47:25 | |
Yes, Angel and I, we both went and looked at the the Youth Center on 8th St. | 00:47:27 | |
Which we think is more than efficient for. | 00:47:33 | |
For the new version, So I'm I'm gonna try to find funds, emergency funds. | 00:47:36 | |
To be able to get something done for them. | 00:47:41 | |
Pretty quick and they don't really have air conditioning, really. They're using fans. | 00:47:44 | |
So that's something that I would recommend. | 00:47:48 | |
And a public I'm I'm, I'm having one of the public say I would like to. | 00:47:51 | |
I like to think about moving that to number one for now. | 00:47:55 | |
Hello. | 00:47:59 | |
Mr. Romero, in fact, that was going to be my suggestion. I was gonna move my priority to the. | 00:48:00 | |
Relocation. | 00:48:06 | |
I just encourage the City Council to please look at that or go visit it if you have a chance because. | 00:48:09 | |
They're they're really under some hazardous condition. They haven't said anything. | 00:48:14 | |
I'm not saying that, they said. It's just that they're not complaining. We we we we've seen it and it's really. | 00:48:19 | |
Pretty nasty and. | 00:48:25 | |
There's a, There's a. | 00:48:26 | |
Black mold problem in the bathrooms that's spreading. | 00:48:28 | |
And and the insurance company denied our claim. | 00:48:31 | |
So and it's really not recoverable. | 00:48:34 | |
At this point, it really needs to be demoed. | 00:48:36 | |
But anyway, I just put you on this. Sorry, but I wanted to. I wanted to let the council know that that's one of the things that. | 00:48:39 | |
Really needs to be looked at. | 00:48:46 | |
Anyone else, Mr. Manchester? | 00:48:48 | |
I've left the ranking sheets on the desks again if I could get those. | 00:48:51 | |
She's by the end of. | 00:48:55 | |
Tonight. | 00:48:57 | |
And there's also an e-mail attached to that list from Francis Teeters where she made two requests. | 00:49:00 | |
That should be taken care of with the Highway 60 project and two other kind of suggestions. | 00:49:06 | |
Speaking of the Highway 60 project, well, that we're still in public hearing anyone else? | 00:49:13 | |
Alright, let's do again Motion. We go back into regular session, moved and seconded. All in favor, aye? | 00:49:18 | |
There's a. | 00:49:26 | |
Zoom Call tomorrow. | 00:49:28 | |
At 9:00 o'clock if anybody wants to get on it. | 00:49:31 | |
About the Highway 60 project. | 00:49:34 | |
It'll be a. | 00:49:37 | |
It's with the. | 00:49:39 | |
Engineers Molten Corbin from Las Cruces. | 00:49:41 | |
Of course dot NM dot will be on there. | 00:49:45 | |
And. | 00:49:48 | |
We're going to speak about. | 00:49:49 | |
Hwy. 60? From California to the bridge where? Unto Maglena. | 00:49:52 | |
It's a. It's a very. | 00:49:56 | |
Again, a generational changing project. | 00:49:58 | |
So if any of the Council want to. | 00:50:01 | |
Please listen in and chime in if you have any questions. Can you guys send us the information? Yeah, it's a. It's a. | 00:50:04 | |
Is it a Microsoft team? | 00:50:12 | |
Yeah. So send that, send that to all the counselors so they can get involved with that. | 00:50:15 | |
I think. | 00:50:20 | |
That's like I said, that's going to be especially hopefully the schools. | 00:50:21 | |
We'll get involved because they're gonna put a junior high up there. | 00:50:25 | |
There's got to be a there. They've got to get involved with it. | 00:50:28 | |
I saw the Superintendent was invited, yeah. | 00:50:32 | |
So. | 00:50:35 | |
Just to let you know, so the New Mexico. | 00:50:37 | |
League voting delegate and alternate. | 00:50:40 | |
How is the placed Councillor Hicks on that? | 00:50:44 | |
And if there's some other suggestions, I will change it. | 00:50:48 | |
And everybody wants to be an alternate who can certainly point them, but that's my. | 00:50:52 | |
My. | 00:50:57 | |
Recommendation. | 00:50:58 | |
Mr. Mayor and the Municipal League request that the alternate also attend. | 00:51:00 | |
The the meeting, annual meeting, yes Sir, To anybody who's interested in attending the meetings. | 00:51:04 | |
I still again. | 00:51:09 | |
Mr. Logan has alternate. | 00:51:10 | |
If you could confirm that for me. | 00:51:12 | |
If anybody. | 00:51:18 | |
Yes, this is an action item. | 00:51:20 | |
2nd. | 00:51:23 | |
OK, what's that? Who's that second? | 00:51:29 | |
OK, Arthur. Thank you. | 00:51:31 | |
Yeah. | 00:51:34 | |
Although the press has been not gonna talk about it today. | 00:51:39 | |
Resolution 23-07-18A, The DFA. | 00:51:44 | |
Fourth quarter report, What's that really? | 00:51:49 | |
Mayor Council, this is the fourth quarter report that I have to report to DFA. | 00:51:59 | |
Uh, so I'm reporting beginning cash balance was 10 million. | 00:52:05 | |
Um 335,000. | 00:52:10 | |
Our revenue for 20/23 was 31 million 904. | 00:52:13 | |
Our expenditures were 31 million, 989. | 00:52:18 | |
And our ending cash is 10 million, one 91185. | 00:52:21 | |
So that balance has to match my beginning cash balance on the balance on the budget, and it does. | 00:52:25 | |
So I just have to report all our revenue and expenditures for the year. | 00:52:31 | |
What say you multiplying? | 00:52:36 | |
Shall we accept that? | 00:52:41 | |
Mr. Again, make a motion. We approve resolution #23-07-18A. | 00:52:43 | |
2nd. | 00:52:48 | |
Moved and seconded discussion. | 00:52:49 | |
Answer. | 00:52:51 | |
Then the final budget. | 00:52:53 | |
Mr. Again, thank the motion. We approve Resolution number 001 a second. | 00:52:54 | |
Moved and seconded discussion. | 00:53:00 | |
Ohh favor. | 00:53:02 | |
If the South Central Council of Governments. | 00:53:05 | |
We do have a grant writer from them that's doing really a good job, Gwen Valentino. | 00:53:08 | |
So I would recommend that we go ahead and. | 00:53:14 | |
Continue participation. | 00:53:17 | |
Mr. Salomi. | 00:53:21 | |
Second moved and seconded Mr. Romero discussion. | 00:53:23 | |
So, so she has we do we do have a lot of support from them from. | 00:53:27 | |
Running the grants and when she's doing great jobs, she got us 2,000,000 for the natural gas trucks. | 00:53:30 | |
We're working on an electric garbage truck. | 00:53:37 | |
She's done. | 00:53:40 | |
Police cars. | 00:53:41 | |
So it's it's been worth it in the past I've been kind of hesitant but. | 00:53:43 | |
It's been worth it. | 00:53:47 | |
All in favor, aye. | 00:53:50 | |
New business. | 00:53:52 | |
Any new business from the directors? | 00:53:56 | |
Nope. Nope. Nope. | 00:54:00 | |
How's this any new business from the? | 00:54:02 | |
Senior Center. | 00:54:05 | |
Other than that, there should be. | 00:54:10 | |
I think. | 00:54:13 | |
It is. | 00:54:15 | |
You should feel. | 00:54:16 | |
Did the gentleman for the air conditioning come by? | 00:54:18 | |
Ohh, I'm not gonna. | 00:54:23 | |
But then we can't get another project going with him until he fixes that one. | 00:54:25 | |
I talked to him yesterday. OK, well. | 00:54:31 | |
Uh. | 00:54:34 | |
Anyone else knew you? No. No, no. | 00:54:35 | |
Mr. Shiloni. | 00:54:39 | |
Was in the center. | 00:54:40 | |
And they said that the food has drastically improved. | 00:54:42 | |
Yeah. | 00:54:46 | |
This person, thank you. | 00:54:47 | |
And actually you're doing more. | 00:54:51 | |
Home deliveries too? | 00:54:54 | |
If we get ours exploded. | 00:54:57 | |
Some pretty big, So we're gonna start doing just some my neighbor. | 00:54:59 | |
Oh, oh. | 00:55:05 | |
The boxes. | 00:55:07 | |
So that's. | 00:55:08 | |
You have a senior with you. | 00:55:11 | |
Ohh no, I thought there was somebody there. | 00:55:14 | |
OK, great hold, Mr. Romero. | 00:55:18 | |
On that they get the route. Do you do the the drop off for the meals for a week? Is that how it works out? | 00:55:22 | |
And then there are going to be those. | 00:55:29 | |
Did you get a chance to go to the Magdalena Senior Center opening? | 00:55:32 | |
OK, well, good. You're doing a good job. It's a great job. | 00:55:39 | |
Old news. Anybody on this man? | 00:55:43 | |
Mr. Logan, I see we got the information on the Open Meetings Act and our governing rules. | 00:55:46 | |
Party rules and procedures. | 00:55:52 | |
So if we wanted to make a change and it basically under the highlighted on attendance. If I were to propose a something Adobe | 00:55:53 | |
under item B saying. | 00:55:57 | |
Our tenants by telephone is not permitted or something like that, right? | 00:56:02 | |
Yes, Sir. | 00:56:05 | |
Because of that and the Rules of Procedure, obviously we can't change the Open Meetings Act, but we can't change the rules and it | 00:56:07 | |
says up to the governing body on the from the Open Meeting Act, yes to us decide on that. | 00:56:12 | |
OK. | 00:56:18 | |
Just to let you know, Finley is moving ahead with the contract for the. | 00:56:19 | |
Substation. | 00:56:23 | |
Her. | 00:56:25 | |
Uh. | 00:56:26 | |
Luminary Engineering. | 00:56:28 | |
Plan. | 00:56:30 | |
And the. | 00:56:31 | |
We're planning a. | 00:56:33 | |
Presentation to the school board and hopefully the hospital in September. | 00:56:34 | |
And having all the people that came here, plus hopefully somebody from Kit Carson. | 00:56:39 | |
Come down and and speak. | 00:56:44 | |
And hopefully we can get together a large group of people so they understand where we're headed. | 00:56:46 | |
So there's no confusion as to what we're doing. | 00:56:51 | |
Hello. Louise Reyes said he would come down. So Luis Reyes is the manager of Kit Carson Co-op. | 00:56:55 | |
That converted away from. | 00:57:01 | |
From. | 00:57:04 | |
I state. | 00:57:06 | |
And have paid off the buyout and so he very hands on. | 00:57:07 | |
And they're also doing broadband on their own. They're doing solar on their own. | 00:57:13 | |
And it's about. | 00:57:17 | |
Going to half times bigger than us. | 00:57:19 | |
But that's that's a. | 00:57:21 | |
A person that would be. | 00:57:23 | |
Really would answer a lot of the questions about what's the future is with what's wrong. | 00:57:24 | |
Uh, so that that's going to happen? | 00:57:29 | |
The. | 00:57:32 | |
As we said, Friendly Gym is. | 00:57:33 | |
Opened and and sharing is putting together a lot of different programs. | 00:57:37 | |
And. | 00:57:42 | |
The the committee to look at the. | 00:57:44 | |
Rest of The thing is meeting met today and. | 00:57:47 | |
Hopefully have another meeting coming up and decide exactly which way we're headed. | 00:57:50 | |
Can I make a comment? | 00:57:56 | |
I want to. | 00:57:59 | |
Apologize to your administration. | 00:58:01 | |
For excluding them from the meeting meeting we had today, I think there was some miscommunication. | 00:58:03 | |
I was really just looking to see like what the role of the committee was. | 00:58:08 | |
And if it was going to be an open meeting, I I really had a couple of people that wanted to come. So I wanted to apologize to you | 00:58:13 | |
guys. I didn't mean anything by it and I didn't mean to exclude you from the meeting. Thank you. | 00:58:18 | |
And. | 00:58:26 | |
Would you conclude by the way? So I don't know I can look out for the. | 00:58:29 | |
I am not going to be there because you didn't invite us. | 00:58:34 | |
OK. And Steve, how's the soccer fields taking this heat? | 00:58:38 | |
Struggling, yeah. | 00:58:46 | |
Yeah. | 00:58:47 | |
And the Convention Center is going well. They've got a lot of. | 00:58:48 | |
Stuff going on and having. | 00:58:55 | |
The use of the Convention Center, So that's going well. I don't know if you have any other old business that you guys. | 00:58:57 | |
How was the wrestling under the lights? | 00:59:03 | |
Wrestling under the lights it was that. Did anybody write the electric bull? | 00:59:06 | |
Or the the. | 00:59:10 | |
The mechanical bull. | 00:59:13 | |
And the buckles, the buckles that they had for the winners look like. | 00:59:15 | |
So, so, Mr. Partridge, and and. | 00:59:18 | |
I know. | 00:59:21 | |
James. | 00:59:23 | |
The material, they're all they're. I mean, they gotta they grew a program out of nothing. | 00:59:25 | |
And they're gone with it and we're supporting it and hopefully they'll continue to get bigger. I know the wind was a factor and. | 00:59:30 | |
Again, we're trying to erase some money to do a skin around the place where the wind comes in. | 00:59:37 | |
But that place is going to get more and more use. I mean as as time goes by you've had rodeos. | 00:59:44 | |
And then recently or any barrel racing? | 00:59:49 | |
And roping. | 00:59:55 | |
So that's it. | 00:59:57 | |
Lot of stuff coming up and you're going to see Steves change of. | 00:59:58 | |
Job description, but he really deserves it. He's done a real good job in getting everything under control out there. | 01:00:03 | |
Mr. Mayor. | 01:00:08 | |
Mr. McDonald, Speaking of the Convention Center and tourism, I just like the council to know that the tourism staff has moved to | 01:00:09 | |
the Convention Center because they're. | 01:00:14 | |
Air conditioner has gone out. | 01:00:19 | |
Like a lot of places. OK, couple of fans over there and move, move them back Speaking of fans. | 01:00:22 | |
It's nice. And Speaking of fans, do you want to tell the council what? Yes, we we made available $400.00 worth of fans. | 01:00:29 | |
And it was like a fire sale so to speak that they were out within. I don't know how quick follow. | 01:00:37 | |
Help. | 01:00:43 | |
So, and I'm asking probably for another $600.00 worth of fans that we're going to get. | 01:00:45 | |
And perhaps Walmart or somebody will work with us on it, but we're gonna get some more fans out there and I invite the public to | 01:00:51 | |
go to Finley if they just wanna chill out. | 01:00:56 | |
And justice sit there. | 01:01:01 | |
And and and go to the library. Chelsea, I know is your is your air conditioner working? | 01:01:04 | |
I. | 01:01:10 | |
In the beginning. | 01:01:11 | |
And it. | 01:01:13 | |
It's close to the public. | 01:01:16 | |
Huh. | 01:01:18 | |
Because the kids. | 01:01:19 | |
Ohh OK well. | 01:01:24 | |
Ohh gosh saving agreed to having him come over. | 01:01:25 | |
Well, you should think about it. | 01:01:30 | |
Ask her again. | 01:01:32 | |
Yeah, I think, you know, the kids are there too, but they adults can sit in the stands and watch them or whatever, but it's. | 01:01:35 | |
If somebody is so hot. | 01:01:41 | |
And to be able to get out of your house and go cool down a little bit, I think might be helpful because it's it's horrible. | 01:01:44 | |
It's horrible. So, so we're trying to help with that something. | 01:01:50 | |
Can be done. | 01:01:53 | |
But the fans are. | 01:01:54 | |
That will be made available. | 01:01:56 | |
Executive session. | 01:01:59 | |
No. | 01:02:01 | |
So there's a new job description for the Rodeo and Sports Complex facility director, and that's. | 01:02:03 | |
Uh. | 01:02:08 | |
Steve there. And then we would like to ask the council to approve that. | 01:02:09 | |
Mr. Again, make a motion We approve the rolling on Sports Complex Facilities director second. | 01:02:13 | |
Moved and seconded discussion Mr. What's the main difference on this one compared to the last JavaScript? | 01:02:19 | |
The only difference on. | 01:02:28 | |
Speaking. | 01:02:32 | |
It. | 01:02:35 | |
It's OK. | 01:02:37 | |
Yeah. | 01:02:38 | |
All in favor, aye. | 01:02:43 | |
So I have the personal matter, so one Vegeta. | 01:02:44 | |
He is a certified police. Peter Jim Gonzalez certified police. | 01:02:48 | |
And then the maras temporary to permanent. | 01:02:53 | |
**** Hargus Temporary to permanent Danny Hill. | 01:02:55 | |
Is that Danny or Danny? | 01:02:59 | |
Danny. | 01:03:02 | |
Hill temperature permanent. | 01:03:03 | |
Donald Wood he resigned Taylor Salvador resignation. | 01:03:05 | |
That's not the one we got in our packet. | 01:03:10 | |
Oh. | 01:03:12 | |
What did I do? | 01:03:14 | |
Christy said That was the last meeting. I thought those names sounded familiar. | 01:03:18 | |
Just the last meeting one. | 01:03:21 | |
OK. | 01:03:25 | |
You got the recent one? | 01:03:27 | |
Or maybe there is there one there? | 01:03:30 | |
Huh. | 01:03:34 | |
Ohh, sorry. Thank you. I got it. | 01:03:34 | |
Felix Savedra, Production Foreman. | 01:03:41 | |
Steve Matthew, Rodeo Complex Director. | 01:03:43 | |
Uh. | 01:03:46 | |
Abandonado. How do you pronounce that? | 01:03:48 | |
But. | 01:03:51 | |
Evan Nago. | 01:03:55 | |
The Seattle Parks new hire Carlos Benevides Rodeo Complex resignation. | 01:03:57 | |
Thank you. | 01:04:02 | |
Mr. Hammer moved to approve the personnel changes as read. | 01:04:03 | |
OK. | 01:04:08 | |
Move the second on favor. | 01:04:09 | |
And for business, we have a peaceful tree man out of town. Bosky, New Mexico, Joshua. | 01:04:12 | |
Struck Nikki. | 01:04:17 | |
About Cultural Services with Mayor Mr. Romero approved business registration. | 01:04:18 | |
Ohh. | 01:04:25 | |
2nd 2nd. | 01:04:26 | |
Second all in favor, Aye, opposed. | 01:04:27 | |
Next meeting August 1st Tuesday. | 01:04:31 | |
Thank you very much everybody. | 01:04:36 | |
Thank you. | 01:04:41 |
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Councillor Dean. | 00:00:01 | |
Councillor Fleming. | 00:00:03 | |
Answer Hicks. | 00:00:05 | |
Councillor Ocampo. | 00:00:07 | |
Councillor Olguin. | 00:00:10 | |
Councillor Romero here. | 00:00:11 | |
Councillor Solomon, we have a quorum. I have to say that Councillor Chavez Lopez is at the rodeo arena. | 00:00:13 | |
Practicing with the Queen candidates on their horses. | 00:00:20 | |
That's what she's doing. | 00:00:24 | |
The fact that he had States of America. | 00:00:29 | |
We should ask one person. | 00:00:34 | |
In the response choices. | 00:00:37 | |
Mayor. | 00:00:43 | |
Mr. Ryan, will we approve the? | 00:00:44 | |
Consent agenda. | 00:00:47 | |
Mr. Mayor. | 00:00:48 | |
I need to change something on the agenda. | 00:00:50 | |
To remove a. | 00:00:52 | |
Item. | 00:00:55 | |
6C. | 00:01:00 | |
The RFP award. | 00:01:02 | |
We need to do some interviews before before I can award that so. | 00:01:04 | |
That we can strike that off. | 00:01:09 | |
Thanks man. | 00:01:13 | |
Mr. Romero, I move we approve the consent agenda with that change. | 00:01:14 | |
2nd. | 00:01:19 | |
Seconded discussion on favor. | 00:01:21 | |
Pushed. | 00:01:24 | |
OK. | 00:01:26 | |
Mr. Romero, No, that's fine. | 00:01:27 | |
Don't confuse me already. I already told you, you confused me there, OK? | 00:01:31 | |
We're at the public forums show their Youth Advisory Board of New AO Mexico. Who is that? | 00:01:38 | |
Well, come on up. | 00:01:45 | |
Hello, my name is Maya Fern. I'm a representative of the Southern New Mexico Youth Advisory Board. | 00:01:49 | |
Our mission is to advocate for unhoused young people by educating the community, dismantling stigma and providing insight to youth | 00:01:55 | |
serving agencies. | 00:01:59 | |
As a part of our advocacy efforts, we request your support and reopening the Sapporo Team Center located at 1002. | 00:02:04 | |
8th Ave. | 00:02:11 | |
Since its closure, local young people have been displaced and they're wandering around town getting into trouble. | 00:02:13 | |
The team center provided a safe space for kids to do Sorry. | 00:02:18 | |
The teams that are provided a safe space for kids that don't want to go home to make new friends, work on school assignments and | 00:02:23 | |
view themselves. | 00:02:26 | |
Teams also really appreciated the guidance from the staff. | 00:02:29 | |
And having adults care about them and support them. If the teen center reopens, the Youth Advocacy Board would be willing to | 00:02:33 | |
facilitate field days, cookouts, sports. | 00:02:37 | |
Board game nights and video game tournaments and most importantly life skills classes. | 00:02:42 | |
We are happy to support the reopening. | 00:02:47 | |
And any and all capacity necessary, we firmly believe that teens need somewhere to go, a safe space and an alternative to hanging | 00:02:50 | |
out with the wrong people and getting into trouble. | 00:02:53 | |
We understand that funding can be a barrier to this goal. However, the southern part of the state is taking steps to invest in the | 00:02:58 | |
young people. | 00:03:01 | |
Unfortunately, youth homelessness rates are rising at an alarming rate. | 00:03:04 | |
These are our sons and our daughters. | 00:03:09 | |
Our future leaders, and they deserve our commitment to empowering them. | 00:03:11 | |
We recently applied for a grant from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development that the sorry. | 00:03:15 | |
That prioritizing prioritizes setting young people up for success to end and prevent youth homelessness. | 00:03:21 | |
We would be immensely grateful if you align yourselves with our goal and invested your time and funding into the young people's | 00:03:27 | |
Poro. | 00:03:30 | |
By supporting this reopening. | 00:03:33 | |
Are you from Socorro? I'm not, but I represent all housing agencies in the southwest. | 00:03:36 | |
And I understand the housing, but you're specifically talking about our youth center? | 00:03:44 | |
Do you know what the use has been as far as the youth center is concerned when it was open? | 00:03:48 | |
And from what I hear, it was a place for kids to go and hang out, hang out with their friends, do homework and get support from | 00:03:52 | |
the staff. | 00:03:55 | |
Us a place when you don't want to go home but you can feel safe. | 00:03:59 | |
And what hours were they being used? | 00:04:03 | |
That I'm not sure of. | 00:04:06 | |
We have a brand new facility we just opened. | 00:04:08 | |
Is she here? | 00:04:11 | |
Shelley. | 00:04:14 | |
And and you say also that's good. | 00:04:18 | |
I don't see her here, but I I would. Who's your local contact here in the city? | 00:04:20 | |
Fisher you are. And have you spoken with Shailene? | 00:04:26 | |
Just. | 00:04:32 | |
Yes. | 00:04:36 | |
Speak. | 00:04:38 | |
Working. | 00:04:41 | |
The. | 00:04:42 | |
Or four or five local teenagers here in Decoro talking about what different things are needed. | 00:04:42 | |
In this particular community. | 00:04:48 | |
What? What is your What is your standing? I mean, you are what? | 00:04:52 | |
Well, so I'm a part of the Youth Advisory Board that lets you live in Sikora. | 00:04:55 | |
I live in Poland area. | 00:05:00 | |
But as you know, Iran. | 00:05:02 | |
Forever. So I've been taking years before in my capacity as the the Board chair at Portland State harbors the day shelter for | 00:05:05 | |
homeless adults in Sequiro, hence the day shelter for homeless adults. | 00:05:11 | |
We don't really serve the teenage population because. | 00:05:18 | |
Teenagers don't really want to go to a homeless shelter where there are a lot of adults, right? If that makes sense. | 00:05:21 | |
I could go into that further, but they there are homeless teenagers in Socorro of 4040% of the youth in Socorro live below the | 00:05:28 | |
poverty line, which astronomical actually, if you have a map of New Mexico, Socorro County has the highest rates of child poverty. | 00:05:35 | |
So even if they're not outright homeless and sleeping at the Bio park, which some of them are, they are very poor and have nowhere | 00:05:43 | |
to go to to do things. So I did just learn about family gym and see what that's going to be. | 00:05:51 | |
Immune to seven I guess, right? And that was a $2.2 million allocation for family gamified, if I understand that correctly, 1.2 | 00:05:58 | |
million. | 00:06:02 | |
1.3 OK has already been allocated and there's another $1,000,000 on debt and we're gonna go check that out for sure. Like all of | 00:06:08 | |
you that are on the Youth Advisory Board are gonna go check out from within and see what's going on there for sure. | 00:06:14 | |
So if there's a way that somebody could be at the team center of providing those those classes basically like life skills 101 or | 00:06:47 | |
something like that. | 00:06:52 | |
Their kids would, and the abuse Advisory Board and Maya have definitely stepped up to like help facilitate that and facilitate | 00:06:57 | |
events there to kind of draw teenagers into it. There's definitely a need and a desire within the team community in Socorro for | 00:07:02 | |
those types of services. | 00:07:07 | |
But I'm not sure if you know what we do for that youth we we hire 120 youths through the summer. | 00:07:13 | |
And they're on their team to make those budget, about $150,000 for that. | 00:07:19 | |
And they work with different. | 00:07:24 | |
People in the community. | 00:07:27 | |
Such as the VLA, such as Tech, such as the county. | 00:07:28 | |
They learn life skills there. We have also. | 00:07:32 | |
Family gym and and we had a youth center but we moved everything over there plenty of space. Do you have some youth here that from | 00:07:36 | |
Sequoia that feel that they haven't been getting the right access to activities They might be able to if they would kind of tell | 00:07:41 | |
us a little bit about what they might need. | 00:07:47 | |
Can they come up to the mic? | 00:07:56 | |
Can you come up to the mic? Yeah. | 00:07:58 | |
Hi, my name is Jess. I live over in Polvadera, but I. | 00:08:02 | |
Used to come over here to Socorro to go to school. Unfortunately, the Socorro schools were not able to accommodate to my needs. I | 00:08:06 | |
was on a lot of medications so I had a hard time staying awake during school. So I stopped taking the bus and I had dropped out. | 00:08:14 | |
And shortly after that, they closed the Teen Center. | 00:08:22 | |
Um, which was my only. | 00:08:25 | |
Source of like interaction with kids my age in town. | 00:08:28 | |
Because I just live 15 minutes away and this is like the closest place that I could go to hang out with somebody or spend time | 00:08:32 | |
with someone that I care about. | 00:08:35 | |
Um. However, the streets are just not very safe and. | 00:08:39 | |
I'm sorry, I'm a little nervous. Is this not very safe out there to be out, Especially the past couple weeks it's hit like 104, | 00:08:45 | |
very steady 108. It's been very hot, so it's it would be very nice. I just found out that this place opened and I would love to | 00:08:53 | |
check it out and see what it has to offer. But I would love if you could come and advocate for this center maybe as well and bring | 00:09:00 | |
life skills to those kids because like you said, you are helping 120. | 00:09:08 | |
Kids, but I was not a part of that. But these kids in the in the Pew, we all need your help. | 00:09:16 | |
I've never spoken in a group of people this big before. | 00:09:22 | |
I've never thought many people, no, you're explaining that very well. Had you talked to the county at all as far as their ARPA | 00:09:25 | |
money? That could have used that for some of the some of that. | 00:09:30 | |
Stuff that is for the youth. | 00:09:36 | |
The county Commission itself. | 00:09:38 | |
No, I don't believe we have talked to the County Commission. That's not. | 00:09:40 | |
Yeah, well you know, we're certainly gonna relate this to Shaylee and who is our recreation director and we will take your input. | 00:09:44 | |
But it's a nice 70 degrees in that family gym now, so the hatchbacks are working very well. | 00:09:50 | |
I encourage you to go there. I was there yesterday. | 00:09:57 | |
And must have had about 20 kids in there. | 00:10:02 | |
Playing volleyball and basketball and. | 00:10:05 | |
So. | 00:10:08 | |
Provide sardine, but do you provide transportation options? | 00:10:08 | |
We don't in the county. We do have city transportation. | 00:10:12 | |
I'm not sure if. | 00:10:17 | |
How did you come to the youth center when you were using it with my grandmother and friend Rides from friends and family? | 00:10:19 | |
It may be that way. I mean, I we don't have see. | 00:10:26 | |
Since it's a city function. | 00:10:31 | |
It's difficult to have services out in the county that. | 00:10:33 | |
Because we have to spend that. | 00:10:36 | |
In the city. | 00:10:38 | |
We can look into transportation for certain routes. We do go to Berlin. | 00:10:39 | |
And when they go to Berlin, when they're coming back, they could stop and pull over there and pick people up at a certain spot. We | 00:10:44 | |
can maybe think about coordinating that. We can work on some of that. Amazing. That would be a great first step. Sure, sure. But | 00:10:49 | |
but I would like for your. | 00:10:54 | |
And I'm not really wanting to know. What I really want to know is who is the spokesman. | 00:11:00 | |
That could bring this stuff together so that. | 00:11:05 | |
We hear. | 00:11:08 | |
You know, kind of a cohesive outline of what you really need. | 00:11:10 | |
That would be me. | 00:11:14 | |
Kind of what I want to advocate for as well. It's fantastic that you do have a space and that it's 70 degrees and there's kids | 00:11:16 | |
playing ball. That's fantastic. | 00:11:19 | |
But what's really going to help is these life skills is providing counseling and mentorship to young people. | 00:11:23 | |
These are the ways that we prevent those numbers, that 38.1% from growing and rising. If we're not educating our young people, | 00:11:28 | |
we're setting them up for failure. | 00:11:32 | |
Well, I I agree that you're making that speech, but you know. | 00:11:37 | |
The city city government has certain goals that we need to meet, but we have a great Chelsea Jones, our library director, who's | 00:11:40 | |
really into that and she does that with seniors. | 00:11:46 | |
And she made Chelsea come on up if you've got some ideas. | 00:11:52 | |
Maya. | 00:11:58 | |
Check. | 00:11:58 | |
Actually just received literacy funding to do exactly what you're talking about, GD life skills training. I have volunteers. We | 00:11:59 | |
just met. They're trained, they're educators and. | 00:12:04 | |
I want to come over. Yeah, we'd love to collaborate. All of these already available in our community? That'd be fantastic. Or any | 00:12:10 | |
of you familiar with the Youth Homelessness Demonstration Project grant? | 00:12:14 | |
So that's the grant that was recently applied for from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. And what that | 00:12:20 | |
project is for is to eliminate youth homelessness. | 00:12:24 | |
We just applied for that grant and it looks really good that we're going to get it if we get this money. We want to know that the | 00:12:28 | |
city is on board to help us with these goals. | 00:12:32 | |
Well, we we had a, I'm sorry, Mr. I just wanted to inform you that last year. | 00:12:36 | |
We did. We did ask for that grant and then evidently it went to the northern part of the state. Most of that money went to the | 00:12:41 | |
northern part of the state, didn't come to the southern part. So I'm I'm sure the Council would be more than happy to sponsor | 00:12:47 | |
that. As a matter of fact, I can't remember that the people that came to us about that. | 00:12:52 | |
But we went through this last year, Mr. Romero, sorry. | 00:12:58 | |
Well, the same thing today, we. | 00:13:02 | |
Councillor Dean, Councillor Ogan and myself has the one of our first meetings as to. | 00:13:05 | |
The possibilities of what might be done. | 00:13:12 | |
Ohh. | 00:13:15 | |
To further better, use the portions of the old. | 00:13:16 | |
High school. | 00:13:20 | |
That aren't being utilized and Councillor Dean has you know specific ideas like that, that. | 00:13:22 | |
She would like to see done too, but there's all kinds of things that we're going through. | 00:13:27 | |
You know meeting rooms and and different things. So we are looking at some kind of development and. | 00:13:32 | |
You might want to tell them what you were thinking. I'm just trying to create a Community Center where there's different rooms for | 00:13:39 | |
different purposes. One might be for teams design more for teens, one might be for. | 00:13:44 | |
Kids who are interested in, I don't know, music. | 00:13:50 | |
Climbing wall, I mean those are some things that you know, just been talking about. But you know, we're quite a ways away because | 00:13:54 | |
we've got to do some. | 00:13:58 | |
Demolition work first, but but we are thinking about the kids. | 00:14:02 | |
And we're rolling out a music program right now at Family. | 00:14:06 | |
So there's there's lots of space that family right now that's usable. | 00:14:10 | |
And Chelsea made a great suggestion. | 00:14:14 | |
For the life skill and the and the literacy program to be put together for the youth, I think somebody was dropped out of school, | 00:14:16 | |
could get a GED and also learn other things. | 00:14:21 | |
That's available at our City library. | 00:14:26 | |
And Chelsea is in charge of that, so there are things available and perhaps it would be best if. | 00:14:29 | |
We could maybe. | 00:14:35 | |
Get that information out a little better than we're doing So it sounds like there's two things here though. You're representing A | 00:14:37 | |
homelessness and and and for for basically lost children that went. | 00:14:42 | |
And the pandemic we had, the the numbers were horrendous in Socorro. | 00:14:48 | |
That there there were I think in the 100. | 00:14:52 | |
As far as and then. | 00:14:55 | |
Kids who were homeless and didn't have anywhere to go. So those are the things that we're certainly will support. | 00:14:57 | |
The other part of your question as far as giving. | 00:15:03 | |
Activities for youth. | 00:15:07 | |
I must say you need to kind of. | 00:15:09 | |
Get acquainted to the stuff we are already doing. We're doing a lot of stuff. | 00:15:12 | |
Now, as far as educational is concerned, Chelsea is taking care of that, Shelley takes care of the recreations. | 00:15:16 | |
You know, we have many, many events that the kids are involved with that we allow them to. | 00:15:22 | |
Use our facility so we're more than happy to accommodate them. | 00:15:27 | |
That's fantastic. How do these young people find these events? Because when I look it up or when I try and find things that are | 00:15:31 | |
going on in Socorro, I can't find anything. | 00:15:34 | |
And so I imagine that the young people also have that struggle. | 00:15:37 | |
Apollo, we've got a website that. | 00:15:41 | |
Has talked about youth employment. Talk about. | 00:15:45 | |
Recreation and things of that nature. Sure. If I, if I, If I'm. | 00:15:49 | |
If I get the. | 00:15:53 | |
Material to advertise all advertising? Yeah, sure. | 00:15:55 | |
So, so we'll do a better job than what we're doing now and to maybe get a resource book. | 00:15:58 | |
That everybody can access on the net. | 00:16:04 | |
That'd be fantastic. And my last request is just as these plans continue growing, I would love if you could involve the Youth | 00:16:06 | |
Advisory Board. That's our purpose, is to advise, because nobody knows what young people need better than these young people who | 00:16:10 | |
live here. | 00:16:13 | |
So I guess my last request is just to reach out to us and utilize our advice and our guidance. What is your contact for the Youth | 00:16:17 | |
Advisory Board? So we have a website, it's NM Youth advocacy.org. | 00:16:23 | |
And who are the people that are from Sikora on that? | 00:16:30 | |
City of Shakur, yeah, so FYI, wasn't in Sequoia, but they're in southern New Mexico and they were part of that. Shay is a huge | 00:16:33 | |
part of that, as well as Brit over here. | 00:16:37 | |
And mostly young people. I mean, the Advisory Board is really just made-up of young people, 16 to 25, with lived experience of | 00:16:42 | |
homelessness. | 00:16:46 | |
Mr. Fleming. | 00:16:50 | |
One other questions Mayor just stated. | 00:16:52 | |
Who from the studios of Coral is on this board right now? It's all young people and Shay and grit. | 00:16:55 | |
It's all young people, you're saying. | 00:17:03 | |
Umm. | 00:17:05 | |
Here's two people who had. | 00:17:06 | |
70 years of teaching. | 00:17:10 | |
Young people in Socorro. | 00:17:13 | |
And I haven't heard a single name. | 00:17:15 | |
From you. | 00:17:19 | |
Answer right now. | 00:17:20 | |
Of. | 00:17:22 | |
A young adult from the city of Socorro that's on this board. | 00:17:23 | |
Right. I mean, well, I have. | 00:17:27 | |
Four sitting right here in the 2nd row and not from the city of Socorro. | 00:17:29 | |
When they go into tomorrow. | 00:17:38 | |
So. | 00:17:41 | |
That. | 00:17:42 | |
Yeah. | 00:17:44 | |
Anastasia and Trinity through field. | 00:17:47 | |
And it's also Trinity Trujillo. | 00:17:51 | |
James Whalen. | 00:17:53 | |
The city they go to, the Coral High School. | 00:17:56 | |
Well, you're not answering my question. I'm not trying to put shade on this, but. | 00:17:59 | |
Thank you. | 00:18:07 | |
I'm talking about budgets and you brought that up. | 00:18:09 | |
Money and and the amount of money that the city spends. | 00:18:12 | |
On youth, I I think it's tremendous. | 00:18:16 | |
And we're more than happy. | 00:18:19 | |
To. | 00:18:20 | |
Work with you on specific things. | 00:18:22 | |
It's the first time I've heard you here. It's first time I've seen anybody from the youth. | 00:18:25 | |
I hear about this. | 00:18:30 | |
But we're, as we've explained, we're willing to. | 00:18:31 | |
Talk about activities. | 00:18:34 | |
And talk about new activities that we can in place. | 00:18:36 | |
But I want you to go to the county to help us also and they they go to the city of they go to the high school in Socorro but. | 00:18:39 | |
That's. | 00:18:46 | |
That's funded by another source. It's not funded by taxes that the city gets. | 00:18:47 | |
And so we need a lot of help. | 00:18:52 | |
And making our budgets, because the cost of giving some of this sometimes is beyond our budgets. | 00:18:55 | |
When, when we're working with people who are right now, we have to put in a million dollars. | 00:19:02 | |
For people's natural gas rates that went three times normal, the city put in $1,000,000 to bail some of the people you're talking | 00:19:06 | |
about, which is the poorest community, poorest. | 00:19:12 | |
Poorest county in the state. | 00:19:18 | |
And so those things that we've been spending money on also so. | 00:19:21 | |
Hello. | 00:19:24 | |
Trying to get money from the budget. | 00:19:25 | |
To pay for some of the things which we I think we'd love to do, if you can help us with grants and we'll help us with your | 00:19:28 | |
committee to come together and and advocate for us with the legislature. | 00:19:33 | |
That'd be a big help. | 00:19:39 | |
Absolutely, yeah. It's actively working on applying for grants. We applied for the HP grant. We're also in the process of writing | 00:19:41 | |
out for the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act grant. | 00:19:45 | |
Yeah, I can absolutely help the fiscal agent for those grants. That would be the next Coalition to End Homelessness. Who I'm | 00:19:50 | |
employed. That's the city. | 00:19:53 | |
No, but we would like the city to align themselves with our goals and be a part of this mission. | 00:19:57 | |
Funds from that grant. | 00:20:02 | |
Well, we don't know until we get the grant. But you know, if we do get the grant, we would love to have meetings. We'd love to be | 00:20:04 | |
in this space more. We'd love to have one on ones with each of you and figure out what we can do. Like I said, I think it's | 00:20:08 | |
amazing that you helped bail out families, but those aren't. | 00:20:13 | |
My kids here, that's that helps their families maybe and that maybe help some people they're involved with. | 00:20:17 | |
But that's a whole different matter. | 00:20:22 | |
That's great that we bailed those people out, but. | 00:20:24 | |
There's still a population of young people who needs your help. | 00:20:27 | |
Sure. | 00:20:30 | |
Mr. Smith, Mr. Mayor. | 00:20:31 | |
I'm a part of the Socorro County Juvenile Justice Board. Kristen Keller is Kirsten Keller. She's the coordinator for it. It's a | 00:20:34 | |
it's a programmer Polo runs it from the city standpoint. It's it's the administrative entity for that program is the is the city. | 00:20:43 | |
They do teen diversion programs. They do counseling boys circle girls. | 00:20:51 | |
Circle counseling. They put on a free movie for all Socorro ones on, I think the first Wednesday of every month. | 00:21:01 | |
We're always looking for youth representation on our committee that in fact it's required to have a youth on there. So I can give | 00:21:12 | |
you the contact number to to Kirsten and that way maybe you can have somebody from. | 00:21:18 | |
Your group. | 00:21:25 | |
Be a member of that committee and we can start with that. | 00:21:26 | |
Yeah, that would be fantastic. Be a great first step. | 00:21:31 | |
And this is your first meeting with us and you're you're welcome to reach out to. | 00:21:35 | |
Any of us and and you know talk more about it. Definitely, definitely there's all kinds of. | 00:21:39 | |
Of possibilities, you know, you know, we possibly would want to buy in and you'd want to buy in too, and contribute. | 00:21:45 | |
You know. | 00:21:53 | |
But like I said, it's. | 00:21:54 | |
It's it's a progression of doing a lot of things before we get to that. | 00:21:56 | |
Mr. Logan, I was gonna say, just making that connection with Chelsea tonight. I mean, once you start working with her and you get | 00:22:00 | |
more feeling, you get familiar with other connections with that within the city. | 00:22:04 | |
I mean, the city of Allison provide that facility, but they also have access to tech students or whatever else you need once you | 00:22:09 | |
start making those connections. | 00:22:12 | |
Right. I mean, I guess where my concern lies is that I planned for this grant two years in advance and sent out large calls to | 00:22:16 | |
action to get people in support of to care about the disadvantage of homeless youth. | 00:22:22 | |
And these meetings happened for a really long time and the only people who really got on board were my young people, Jay and | 00:22:28 | |
Britt. | 00:22:30 | |
So I see a lack of concern. I see a lack of empathy and a lack of compassion, honestly. | 00:22:34 | |
Did you say you sent one to the mayor and the City Council? I sent one everywhere. Me and my coworkers are collection position. I | 00:22:39 | |
wasn't directly in charge of sending them out. | 00:22:43 | |
I don't know who exactly got them, but I know that large mass emails and letters were sent to. | 00:22:48 | |
City Council members. | 00:22:52 | |
And to stakeholders in the community, well, you've been here now. | 00:22:54 | |
I I I'm, I'm sorry to tell you that. | 00:22:58 | |
And I look at all my emails every day and respond to them. I have yet to see one. This is the first time I've even heard of you | 00:23:00 | |
committee. | 00:23:04 | |
Mr. Mr. Mayor the the schools have a fund and. | 00:23:08 | |
That supports students who are temporarily experiencing homelessness. | 00:23:13 | |
And. | 00:23:18 | |
Polar Miss Puller is the coordinator of that program. Are you referring to the Convento? Yeah, McKinney Vento program? | 00:23:21 | |
So there's funds specifically for that. | 00:23:28 | |
And but but I don't know you know the the extent to which they need to be enrolled. | 00:23:30 | |
In school or an atheist now? | 00:23:37 | |
So our high school does not have a navigator. | 00:23:46 | |
They're experiencing onset to resources. | 00:23:50 | |
And I just wanted to submit as well. There is a principle in social work. | 00:23:53 | |
And it's very simple. Nothing for us without us. | 00:23:58 | |
It's very important whenever you have any initiatives that is serving you, that you have youth on your board and I was happy to | 00:24:01 | |
hear you talking about that, Mister Zimmerman. | 00:24:06 | |
It's very important because you're not going to have true engagement from youth if they're not involved process. You'll have | 00:24:11 | |
beautiful programs and people may have people. | 00:24:17 | |
Hey, you had a comment Yeah program and the support to the high school has. | 00:24:26 | |
For homeless youth, I worked closely with Francis Fuller last year, and Portless Brocade Harbor has an A Memorandum of | 00:24:32 | |
understanding with the high school, so we actually take care of. | 00:24:37 | |
The hotel rooms and stuff like that or homeless youth who are in moments of crisis because we have, we already have contracts. | 00:24:43 | |
With a hotel in town to provide emergency housing. | 00:24:51 | |
But it is. It is not. It is. | 00:24:55 | |
In grossly inadequate in terms of actually getting teenagers. | 00:24:58 | |
Who suddenly find themselves out on the street just to speak to the homeless. | 00:25:03 | |
Youth a little bit. I've I have 10 years of experience. I've participated Estate Harbor and five years prior to that I've worked | 00:25:07 | |
with. | 00:25:11 | |
Find. | 00:25:14 | |
I would say that we always say that anybody could be two paychecks away from homelessness, right? Like the last two paychecks. And | 00:25:17 | |
a lot of people will be out in the street because of something like 80% of Americans don't have much more than $500 in the savings | 00:25:23 | |
account at any given moment. But with a teenager, it's even more volatile because all it takes is the guardian or the person that | 00:25:28 | |
they're living with saying get out. | 00:25:34 | |
Is 1 sentence, you know, one sentence away from the street and we I worked I think with like. | 00:25:40 | |
Nine or ten teenagers with Francis Fuller just in the last four year the suddenly found themselves in need of a hotel room or an | 00:25:46 | |
emergency situation. We also open up the shelter, you know, in in certain circumstances to let kids stay there. But it is grossly | 00:25:52 | |
inadequate. We can only afford to pay for those hotel rooms. We can only afford a couple nights. It's not enough time to like | 00:25:58 | |
solve any real crazies or or solving real issues. | 00:26:04 | |
And we've also, we've run into problems with some of the the state and government programs that are designed to help you sometimes | 00:26:11 | |
and often you're far more damage than good. So there needs to be a place in the community. I think what you were speaking to | 00:26:17 | |
earlier was really powerful in terms of there used to be a simple and easy place for teenagers that's very proficient with | 00:26:23 | |
Instagram, Snapchat, whatever to be able to get online and go to a website and see exactly what services are available for them in | 00:26:29 | |
this community. | 00:26:35 | |
I think the fact that we didn't know about a lot of this stuff. | 00:26:41 | |
But getting that out to people so that they can see what's going on would be very helpful. | 00:27:10 | |
So first time for some of these students who are in the high school, there is a program called Gear Up and that's with Kathleen | 00:27:16 | |
O'Connell and Real Madrid. | 00:27:21 | |
And this last year, we actually were actually participated. Christian helped give some mock interviews. | 00:27:26 | |
For these kids, they did do checkbook balancing. They did do the importance of credit. They did. | 00:27:32 | |
They have all of that there too. | 00:27:37 | |
So that's just another resource that is available and it's asked to. | 00:27:40 | |
Stay and I actually sat at the same table for the 100% so coral. | 00:27:48 | |
Tell me. | 00:27:52 | |
Project with Doctor Sharon Sessions. I think they're trying to do a lot of the same things. You are healthcare homeless. | 00:27:54 | |
You name it, they. | 00:28:01 | |
That eight or nine different goals, so I think Sharon would be an awesome resource. | 00:28:02 | |
Um, we've signed up for a new app called My Civic. It'll be hosted with a link on our website. You can see where our parks are, | 00:28:06 | |
what it costs to rent them, all kinds of information. | 00:28:11 | |
And the third thing is to get a message out. We have a messaging system where poll sends out text messages about different events | 00:28:16 | |
and different things going on. | 00:28:20 | |
And you can sign up for that on our website as well or. | 00:28:24 | |
Column or come in, but I think that's three tools that you can add to your toolbox. | 00:28:26 | |
And recreation has a Facebook page. | 00:28:32 | |
This is, Mr. Mayor, the Southwestern Area Workforce Development Board. | 00:28:35 | |
Which encompasses 7 counties in the southern part, State, Donana, Socorro, Hidalgo. | 00:28:39 | |
They have a youth program which. | 00:28:45 | |
Hires youth between the ages of 16 and 21. | 00:28:48 | |
Who have a barrier. | 00:28:52 | |
Homelessness is definitely a barrier, so if any of our young folks. | 00:28:55 | |
Wanna go to the Department of Labor as it was once known? | 00:29:00 | |
And talk to the representative there. | 00:29:05 | |
There's a tremendous amount of funding to support their employment journey. | 00:29:08 | |
In. | 00:29:15 | |
In in Socorro County and Socorro, the funds are used to support paying the the, the, the, the student. They can they can find work | 00:29:16 | |
and plumbing and electrical and restaurant and hotel, all of those things. | 00:29:24 | |
So I am hopeful that and some of us here on this Council sit on that board. | 00:29:32 | |
And we would like to know and hear how the experience was for a young person. | 00:29:38 | |
And it's supposed to serve 25% of youth in school and 75% of youth out of school. | 00:29:45 | |
So. | 00:29:53 | |
That's what there's a lot of opportunity for young people to get a job on top of the the The Cities program in the summer. | 00:29:54 | |
So yes, ma'am. | 00:30:02 | |
One of my tasks this summer was. | 00:30:04 | |
Completing the resource crisis across county. | 00:30:06 | |
The last time I talked to them, this bill wasn't open the youth program. Have you heard other one? No, I'm. I'm under the | 00:30:09 | |
impression that they were hiring a coordinator for it. | 00:30:14 | |
And and if that isn't coming, if there's nobody there, like I said, there's seven counties. | 00:30:19 | |
We can tap into another county. You you can. I'll give you the the contact information for the. | 00:30:26 | |
For the center, which is in Guyana and you know what those funds are, are here to support the seven counties, whether there's | 00:30:33 | |
somebody sitting behind the desk or not. So we need to figure out a way. | 00:30:39 | |
To. | 00:30:45 | |
Connect these students and young people to jobs, and that's exactly the focus of. | 00:30:46 | |
Of those millions of dollars that are supported by Title One Federal federally. | 00:30:53 | |
So I do know about some of those jobs, especially the plumbing. | 00:31:00 | |
Those jobs are only available to kids who are, fortunately, drug free. | 00:31:07 | |
Majority of homeless youth in Socorro are unfortunately not drug free and don't have the resources. | 00:31:11 | |
To. | 00:31:18 | |
Obtain that. So that's another issue. And another thing is, I'm not a high school student. Like I said, I had dropped out, but I | 00:31:20 | |
have never heard of a single. | 00:31:25 | |
Things you guys have offered today. | 00:31:31 | |
Like I said. | 00:31:33 | |
I'm a teenager. | 00:31:34 | |
Teenagers rely very heavily on the Internet, on social media. It would be extremely beneficial. | 00:31:36 | |
To. | 00:31:41 | |
Establish a social media president presence and I would be happy to do that and I'm certainly of us would be happy to establish a | 00:31:42 | |
work with someone, with you guys and establish the social media presence, but. | 00:31:48 | |
I would love it. Sounds very quite lovely what you guys are doing for Socorro and I would love to be a part of it. | 00:31:55 | |
And I would love to take advantage of these resources and so would all the kids sitting here in this room. | 00:32:01 | |
But we have never heard of it. | 00:32:06 | |
And that is an issue. | 00:32:09 | |
Well, I hope you take a chance to talk to Chelsea because it gets started on your GED. | 00:32:11 | |
And she's offered. And then. So go by the library and sign up there. We'll do a better job of getting. | 00:32:16 | |
Youth involved with what our programs are, but I'll tell you. | 00:32:22 | |
We had 120 kids this summer. | 00:32:26 | |
Who took advantage of our program and they heard about it. | 00:32:28 | |
So but. | 00:32:31 | |
Please. | 00:32:32 | |
Allow us to make a better effort in getting information out. | 00:32:33 | |
But today you could. | 00:32:37 | |
Get with Chelsea tomorrow and and perhaps. | 00:32:39 | |
Get involved with her program, and that's a good start right away. | 00:32:42 | |
To get this done. | 00:32:45 | |
And if there's others who have? | 00:32:47 | |
That they have need for getting a GED and are not going to school and can do it at their own pace. | 00:32:49 | |
I'll get with Chelsea and and I think she'll certainly get you on. | 00:32:55 | |
Start with that. | 00:32:58 | |
OK. | 00:33:00 | |
That sounds amazing. | 00:33:00 | |
Mr. Mayor, I just added two more things, Shane, that kickoff meeting. | 00:33:04 | |
We brought this up specifically that there's not one place where you can find all the resources available and I can't remember for | 00:33:08 | |
his missed months here, Charlene Montoya that said they were going to. | 00:33:12 | |
OK. So that would be another great place to start. We can host that on our website. | 00:33:18 | |
Jack. | 00:33:23 | |
And so she had to put in. | 00:33:28 | |
For the Mental Health Collaborative, we want this one to one, but you guys haven't been to that. It's amazing. There's over 40 | 00:33:30 | |
organizations involved in town that all work in behavioral health or just various aspects of the community. But she is working on | 00:33:36 | |
that website. It's just, it's positive but very long process. | 00:33:42 | |
To get all of these listing community in the community in one place and get them all online, but it is going to be basically like | 00:33:48 | |
a website. | 00:33:52 | |
Or a link that would be shareable to other social media platforms. | 00:33:58 | |
People are only going to be able to find that resource, and so much of it is shared and put in places where teenagers will find | 00:34:03 | |
it, right? So that's in the context of that it's done except for a couple of things, but for today I didn't have anything but was | 00:34:07 | |
not aware of them. | 00:34:12 | |
But you have let let Jackie know. That was one of my past when he was supposed to work intern. We completed it. We sent it to 100% | 00:34:17 | |
New Mexico. It's gonna be put online. My greater concern because I know you've mentioned social media. | 00:34:24 | |
Young kids don't look at Facebook. I'm sorry all they've done. And so you you've gotta think a little bit outside of the bottom | 00:34:31 | |
things like Instagram. Other sources. I submit mayor, that it's possible that some of the young people that did the program, they | 00:34:37 | |
found out about it through other channels, maybe parents. | 00:34:44 | |
Family members, things like that. | 00:34:50 | |
Because listen, if they can't find it, these. | 00:34:53 | |
Like most kids are really savvy with the Internet, then it's a problem with where it's being. | 00:34:56 | |
Featured. | 00:35:01 | |
But I hope the ones that are here take advantage of the stuff that we're talking about, family gem. | 00:35:03 | |
Or at the library. | 00:35:07 | |
At least do that and then again, we'll try to get more information. | 00:35:09 | |
That's friendly to. | 00:35:13 | |
So you'll send and put it on different. | 00:35:15 | |
Platforms rather than just the Standard Oil. | 00:35:18 | |
Facebook type of stuff. | 00:35:22 | |
Will work on TikTok and. | 00:35:24 | |
What's the new one that's coming out is? | 00:35:26 | |
Great. | 00:35:30 | |
I think it's called threads, OK, yeah. So we'll we'll we'll certainly try to collate all that information and try to put it out so | 00:35:32 | |
that. | 00:35:36 | |
It's available to them. | 00:35:40 | |
And the transportation part, we certainly should work on that to try to get. | 00:35:41 | |
Transportation out to Cloudera and Lemitar and. | 00:35:47 | |
Grab San Antonio and see if we can have. | 00:35:50 | |
The youth at least be able to access our facilities. | 00:35:53 | |
By that kind of transportation. So we'll work with that. | 00:35:57 | |
But I think it's important for you to make a presentation to the county also because. | 00:36:00 | |
They they did have a they had $3 million of ARPA money. | 00:36:04 | |
And I think you would certainly would want to get some of that to. | 00:36:08 | |
Help with the homeless and the the motel bills. | 00:36:12 | |
And also to try to get. | 00:36:15 | |
Some. | 00:36:17 | |
Involvement with the City County Coalition. | 00:36:18 | |
That we could work together on the budgets because that's that's really very important these days. | 00:36:21 | |
As to the amount of money that is available and what the cost of things are. | 00:36:26 | |
But we have those. | 00:36:31 | |
Plans right now with Finley. | 00:36:33 | |
For youth programs. | 00:36:35 | |
Councillor Dean and Olguin are working on trying to do more as far as. | 00:36:37 | |
Space is concerned where it's literally can hang out. | 00:36:42 | |
And Chelsea's got the program for the literacy, so hopefully they'll take advantage of that. | 00:36:46 | |
Absolutely. Trust me, nobody knows more about budgeting and lack of funding than homeless youth. It doesn't take much to make a | 00:36:52 | |
homeless youth really happy. It doesn't take much to implement these programs. It doesn't take much to do the social media, sure. | 00:36:57 | |
Yeah. | 00:37:04 | |
I'm going to jump in at Amy Kimball. While you were we were talking about this, I went to the Socorro City of Socorro web page and | 00:37:06 | |
looked at the recreation department page. | 00:37:11 | |
And it still says that the Socorro Finley gym is closed due to construction. | 00:37:17 | |
So it sounds like it's not closed. | 00:37:23 | |
So just sort of wanted to 2nd that that there definitely is an issue with getting information out there even if the youth had gone | 00:37:26 | |
to the web page here. | 00:37:29 | |
It would have said that the gym was was closed. | 00:37:33 | |
Um. | 00:37:36 | |
So I, I, and and just on personal, I thought it was great that Jace was. | 00:37:37 | |
Teen offered to help with with social media. | 00:37:42 | |
If people are are are volunteering to help in ways that they know will get the message out to their their peers, I hope that. | 00:37:46 | |
That. | 00:37:53 | |
So someone from the City Council or from the city would be would be willing to work with them. | 00:37:55 | |
I don't know what that would look like though. | 00:38:00 | |
Thank you. | 00:38:02 | |
Anyone else? | 00:38:04 | |
Great. Well, thank you for coming. Yes, ma'am. | 00:38:07 | |
And a different. | 00:38:11 | |
And she got. | 00:38:12 | |
Ohh sure. Come on up. I just. I wanted to just say if anybody had. | 00:38:13 | |
Anymore comments, but come on up with second, the second topic for public. | 00:38:17 | |
Sure. | 00:38:24 | |
Thank you for coming in. | 00:38:27 | |
Hi. | 00:38:33 | |
My name is Bridget O'Neill. I live here in town over on on. | 00:38:35 | |
Shawn Ave. | 00:38:41 | |
And I I I'm sorry, this is the first City Council meeting I've come to. | 00:38:43 | |
So I don't know if this has been talked about in the past. | 00:38:49 | |
But I was talking with Marcella, with the city. | 00:38:53 | |
This afternoon on the phone and she encouraged me to. | 00:38:58 | |
You know said. | 00:39:02 | |
I mean, I was asking her about. | 00:39:04 | |
The. | 00:39:07 | |
That the topic is water meters. | 00:39:07 | |
They didn't know if that's something the City Council had already. | 00:39:10 | |
Knows about address. | 00:39:14 | |
Or not. But that's really the administration's fault. It's not the City Council. | 00:39:16 | |
And I kind of know about your situation where you you've been asking for a new water meter for nine months or 10 months has not | 00:39:21 | |
been, has people haven't shown up to put a new one in they didn't even. | 00:39:26 | |
Say anything about it? So yeah, so this, this administrative, not City Council and. | 00:39:33 | |
Ohh, but that that's that's our fault. It's our fault that we didn't bring you a new. | 00:39:38 | |
City Water Meter Well, my my. | 00:39:42 | |
My main concern now is you know in talking with her just about the the numbers. | 00:39:45 | |
Of it, you know, it's like. | 00:39:52 | |
You know, of course, she's just talking off the top of her head, so it's no, but she she directed you to the right place. So you | 00:39:55 | |
know she stood there. City has like 4000 water meters. | 00:40:01 | |
And and they're all dying, yeah. | 00:40:08 | |
And uh. | 00:40:11 | |
And that again is a budget problem and I know they've been estimating your water. | 00:40:14 | |
Of consumption and. | 00:40:18 | |
We're we're trying to free up some money to buy those water meters right and but this problem is so at the at the current rate. | 00:40:19 | |
You know, it's not keeping up with the rate that they're failing at. | 00:40:29 | |
And you know, she was saying she gets like. | 00:40:33 | |
10 calls a day about water meters that are failing. | 00:40:37 | |
And you know, I was on the phone with her for between. | 00:40:41 | |
5 to 10 minutes or maybe 15 minutes because she went to talk with the. | 00:40:46 | |
Guide to see if they had a water meter for me. | 00:40:51 | |
You know, so that's like over an hour of her time every day, you know? She says. It's a real mess. | 00:40:55 | |
And you know, they weren't able to buy any new water meters for like the last. | 00:41:02 | |
Four months and. | 00:41:08 | |
They're only able to buy. | 00:41:10 | |
Like 100 water meters a month. | 00:41:13 | |
So it's going to take. | 00:41:15 | |
You know, I mean, I already been waiting for a water meter for 10 months. | 00:41:18 | |
And and I'm not alone, you know so. | 00:41:22 | |
And at the current rate, you know it would take. | 00:41:26 | |
You know more than three years and 100 water meters a month to. | 00:41:29 | |
Replace people's water meters. You know, people gonna have to wait that long. | 00:41:35 | |
For a new. | 00:41:40 | |
And Ruby, you want to give me an answer for that? | 00:41:43 | |
So. | 00:41:46 | |
It's. | 00:41:47 | |
15. | 00:41:48 | |
3000. | 00:41:51 | |
OK, so right now we're starting to die since 10 years. | 00:41:52 | |
So they're starting to die, So we're actually going to order. | 00:41:56 | |
We've been ordering 100. I talked to Marcie today and she said she needs like 300, so we're gonna get it done and probably put her | 00:41:59 | |
on the top of the list. | 00:42:04 | |
They said they're going to bring one tonight. I apologize for all that. I mean, I again, it's a matter of budgets, but I apologize | 00:42:10 | |
for this. | 00:42:14 | |
And it came here today was so that. | 00:42:18 | |
You might think about. | 00:42:21 | |
This not happening again in another 10 years, You know, like maybe they're. | 00:42:23 |