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	Uh.	00:00:00
	Love is the 15th.	00:00:03
	Mayor Baskin.	00:00:05
	Councillor Travis Lopez, yeah.	00:00:07
	Councillor Dean.	00:00:09
	Councillor Fleming.	00:00:11
	Sure.	00:00:13
	Councillor Ocampo here.	00:00:14
	Councillor Logan.	00:00:16
	Councillor Romero.	00:00:19
	You're on the phone.	00:00:24
	Go ahead.	00:00:26
	Councillor Salomi here, we have a quorum.	00:00:28
	The police leaders and police police.	00:00:32
	Good.	00:00:35
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the.	00:00:38
	States of America.	00:00:41
	Which is next?	00:00:44
	Nation.	00:00:45
	And it.	00:00:47
	Yeah.	00:00:49
	OK, we have.	00:00:55
	Mr. Mayor, Gender Yes, Sir, and a motion to approve.	00:00:57
	The consent agenda for tonight's meeting, the motion and 2nd to approve.	00:01:02
	Mr. Mayor.	00:01:07
	There's the vouchers fall under the consent agenda, yes.	00:01:08
	So if we if we were just wanting more information on our voucher to produce sport.	00:01:12
	That's the third item.	00:01:17
	So, so I don't do that now. Yes, before the second. OK, let's just finish getting the motion in a second.	00:01:19
	You second it right.	00:01:25
	I I was asking about where there's no second second yet.	00:01:27
	No, Sir. Anybody going to say with that?	00:01:34
	I second.	00:01:36
	But a second.	00:01:37
	And there is fusion.	00:01:39
	Yep.	00:01:41
	I just had a quick question on. There was 2 consulting vouchers, 1 to MJS consulting and I.	00:01:42
	We need to pull that and bring it back up on the.	00:01:49
	Ohh.	00:01:52
	Right. It would go into item number four. We're gonna pull that one item.	00:01:53
	Got it. OK. We pulled one item on the voucher.	00:01:57
	On the voucher run all in favor all the other stuff on under consent agenda.	00:02:03
	Yes.	00:02:09
	Right passes. Now we have the Vacheron has Mr. Swan has some answers on the voucher run.	00:02:11
	I just had a quick question on, you know, just a little more information on on the MJS consulting.	00:02:18
	Voucher and the SJR Consulting voucher.	00:02:26
	MGS is the Santianes lobbyists. All couple OK and they also still control it are not controlling but managing our floodplain	00:02:30
	certifications. And the other one is another consultant that used to be the Under Secretary. Justin Reese out of Silver City used	00:02:35
	to be Under Secretary for the dot and he's working with us to kind of get some of our projects move forward and kind of help us	00:02:41
	find funding for.	00:02:47
	Thank you very much. Yes, Sir. Any other questions all about to run.	00:02:53
	Item that report done and we had that one brought up and it got answered. Item five of public.	00:02:57
	We need a motion, a second and vote on.	00:03:04
	I'll make a motion to accept the motion and the 2nd to approve the voucher run.	00:03:08
	Any discussion? Not hearing all in favor, aye, all opposed. The vouchers are OK to pay 2.	00:03:13
	First time we had one full time.	00:03:20
	OK, Now public forum. Thank you, Mr. Monette.	00:03:23
	Good evening. How's everybody doing today?	00:03:29
	My name is Chris Rottman and I have Joel Partridge here. We are with Support County Prevention Coalition.	00:03:33
	We're one of the entities that advocate for absence on drugs and alcohol and we also facilitate the New Mexico Community Survey as	00:03:38
	well as the Strategies for Success surveys.	00:03:44
	I was here, I believe in April and I presented the 22 data for the strategies for success and the.	00:03:50
	And New Mexico Community Survey.	00:03:56
	I didn't want to wait so long now that we have the 23 data that we just collected, so I wanted to go ahead and present that data	00:03:59
	to you and.	00:04:02
	Answer any questions that you might have as we go through the data.	00:04:05
	Because everybody have a packet.	00:04:10
	OK.	00:04:11
	I also provided you a full report for each UM survey that we did, but the the PowerPoint is just kind of a.	00:04:12
	A summary of some of the data that's in there. The key points.	00:04:19
	Any questions?	00:04:25
	OK, so some of the highlights are parents are reporting a large decrease in providing alcohol to minors.	00:04:30
	When we go in and look at our data and our grass here in a few minutes are going to see it was kind of a little bit higher and	00:04:38
	it's kind of dipped down a little bit and support parents are reporting that there is not as much.	00:04:42
	Um.	00:04:47
	Giving alcohol to students that was previously reported.	00:04:49
	Perceptions that alcohol hurt use hurts the community.	00:04:53
	Financially has increased so more people are becoming aware that.	00:04:57
	The alcohol that is being unused in the community is starting to impact the the community financially and so the community is	00:05:00
	becoming aware of that and all this data that I'm going over right now is from the community survey and then I'll go over the	00:05:06
	student survey, which is the strategies for success.	00:05:12
	Working surveys come from they come from the Office of Substance Abuse and Prevention.	00:05:18
	From the state the.	00:05:23
	The primary office that.	00:05:26
	Funds our our provides our grant funding and then also does other funding for like scope and a few other places like the DFC and	00:05:29
	other entities that are in town.	00:05:34
	And and these graphs are only for Socorro County.	00:05:40
	These graphs are for the county, yes.	00:05:44
	Current use of prescription painkillers use decreased from 17.6% to 10.9%.	00:05:49
	And misuse decreased from 6.9% to 4%.	00:05:55
	Among all respondents and from 39% to 36% among current users.	00:05:59
	UH, perceived risk of harm associated with misusing prescription drugs increase. So again, more people becoming aware that	00:06:05
	utilizing prescription drugs outside of their being prescribed to them for a specific reason. They're becoming aware that it's not	00:06:12
	in their best interest to utilize prescription drugs when it's not prescribed to them.	00:06:19
	Reported shares of prescription painkillers.	00:06:26
	Decreased among parents to 5%.	00:06:29
	Our lowest prevalence ever and among all adults as well, returning to COVID era levels from 6.1.	00:06:33
	So you were gonna we see a drop from?	00:06:40
	Prior to COVID and then COVID kind of came up a little bit and now it's it's starting to drop again.	00:06:44
	And then reported locking of painkiller increased among parents.	00:06:49
	From 52% to 61%.	00:06:53
	I I hope to say that that's partly in.	00:06:56
	Help with from us SPC and scope.	00:07:00
	We and also the juvenile probation justice team, they provide lock boxes and we provide lock boxes for prescriptions.	00:07:03
	Uh, free of charge to people who are requesting them. So we give them the lock box so that they can lock up their prescriptions.	00:07:11
	Any other substances that you know are aren't of best interest for kids or anybody else. That's really the holder to get these	00:07:17
	balls. They can contact scope I I.	00:07:22
	I give mine to scope and they scope gives them out and also the Socorro juvenile Justice program will issue them as well.	00:07:27
	How do they get that phone number? They can contact us scope and or I can they can go to our website or then go to scopes website?	00:07:35
	Our website located at Socorro Prevention Coalition.	00:07:43
	Dot com or they can go to our Facebook which is Umm Socorro County Prevention Coalition at Facebook and they can get our our	00:07:47
	number from there and then they can also find scopes number on there as well. Thank you.	00:07:53
	Yes.	00:07:59
	And then the and it's not mentioned in here, but the project aware from the high school.	00:08:01
	They umm.	00:08:07
	Jackie Muncie is running the project to wear, and so at the health the Socorro Health Coalition has put together a.	00:08:08
	Resource guide with entities in town.	00:08:17
	That people can access for various reasons such as mental health, drug abuse.	00:08:21
	And other needs such as food and and financial assistance and stuff like that, so that we could provide that. There's around like	00:08:27
	500 total entries into that.	00:08:32
	Document.	00:08:39
	It includes medical as well as health and dental and other necessities that the community may need access to.	00:08:39
	To be able to contact.	00:08:46
	And they should share it pretty soon. I think they're completing it.	00:08:49
	Relatively new. You may have not seen it.	00:08:53
	Thank you.	00:08:55
	Remember sound good?	00:08:59
	Yeah.	00:09:00
	Yes, Mr.	00:09:02
	I'll, I'll let him finish then I've got a question.	00:09:04
	OK, troubling findings from the 2023 Community Survey.	00:09:10
	Current drinking increased for the second year from 53.4% to 58.4%.	00:09:15
	And again, this is people who answer the survey anonymously.	00:09:21
	And submit their answers.	00:09:25
	UH perception of ease of teen access to alcohol in the community increased from 72% to 87%.	00:09:27
	So parents and other community members feel like kids have easier access to alcohol and.	00:09:34
	And whether they're getting it from family members or they're getting it from stores just selling alcohol, they they have the	00:09:39
	perception that it.	00:09:43
	They do have easier access than what they've had in the past.	00:09:49
	Prevalence of receiving painkillers to in 2023 is 21.8%, which is similar to 2022.	00:09:53
	Which was the highest ever at 22.8, so it has dropped.	00:10:00
	A percentage.	00:10:04
	But you know, percentage isn't a lot, so we we hope to continue to work towards prevention of using painkillers and and abstaining	00:10:05
	from painkillers to see that drop more.	00:10:11
	And people aged 26 to 30 were more most likely to have received a painkiller and were also the most likely to misuse them.	00:10:17
	And a lot of that misuse is also perceived as.	00:10:26
	I was prescribed A painkiller and then but I didn't use it all.	00:10:29
	And now I I don't need it anymore. But then I take it every once in a while if I get a headache or something like that, that would	00:10:33
	still be considered misuse.	00:10:36
	And then fewer respondents report that health care staff talks to them and about.	00:10:40
	The risk of using painkillers 55 that went from 55.8 to 40.9.	00:10:45
	You know, somebody had a question.	00:10:52
	Any questions? I had a question.	00:10:54
	You said these numbers come from the.	00:10:57
	Forms that were turned.	00:11:01
	Back in my parents or by the students?	00:11:03
	What percentage of students return the forms? So this form, this data that I'm presenting right now is the Community Health	00:11:07
	Survey. This is for anybody that's 18 and older.	00:11:12
	And the this percentages here was about the same as last year, it was a small percentage.	00:11:17
	Last year we had like 194, this year we had like 135 people in the in the county participate in the survey.	00:11:21
	So it's not a great representative of our county, but.	00:11:29
	Like I said last year, I'm going to say it again this year. The survey is extensively long.	00:11:33
	We don't add anything to the survey.	00:11:38
	But we have to give the survey that OSEP has. We could add more if we wanted to.	00:11:40
	But we we have to minimally give what this, what OSA.	00:11:45
	Requires it, which is the the minimal questions that we have.	00:11:49
	And we don't issue any other questions just because we know it's a long survey and to give people the complete it makes it kind of	00:11:52
	hard in itself.	00:11:56
	28 minute short shortened survey and we thought we'd get better short by turning our funding. Would like to fund survey so they	00:12:01
	don't just yeah.	00:12:05
	So there's 135 students. This is a, this is a community members.	00:12:10
	Humanity members, these are 18 to.	00:12:17
	18 year olds, old and and above.	00:12:20
	That's who completes this survey.	00:12:22
	And it's an online survey that's completed advertisement was put in the newspaper, advertisement was put with a water bills.	00:12:25
	We even were able to advertise with the Roadrunner Food Bank as well as the Food Bank in.	00:12:32
	Magdalena, so we could kind of get that out more. It was even extended because the state was seeing not a great completion rate.	00:12:39
	So they it normally stops at the end of April. They actually pushed it to the second week of May.	00:12:45
	And the numbers across the state were kind of low.	00:12:51
	As far as number of people that actually answered.	00:12:54
	Do anything in the Gita.	00:12:58
	Umm.	00:13:00
	I wasn't aware that Vegeta had its own watering water like.	00:13:02
	Company So next year I will go to the water company and ask if we can put the put it with the water bill.	00:13:07
	So that way we can make sure we get together and we can also again I didn't wasn't realized, didn't realize that Sonic San Antonio	00:13:12
	had their own watering system too. So we plan to do the same thing there so we can get that out with them after them more. We did	00:13:17
	it, like I said, we had it in the newspaper we had at the movie theater.	00:13:22
	Umm.	00:13:27
	I'm probably leaning away from most newspaper because most people don't use the newspaper nowadays. I want to try and get it out	00:13:28
	in other ways.	00:13:32
	So in using the water bills and using various other entities like the Roadrunner, Food Bank and some of the other food banks.	00:13:35
	Hopefully we'll be able to get more participants next year.	00:13:44
	People start serving up, finish it, yeah.	00:13:48
	It's a lot of things, but he kind of gets it.	00:13:52
	You have the.	00:13:56
	14 minutes in the comment, but we did see people started.	00:13:57
	Not completed. So again that's our suppliers and we shorten it, but we don't give me.	00:14:01
	And the other.	00:14:07
	The other thing we asked was could we split it up, not do it all at one time.	00:14:09
	And they never really answered this and they still haven't answered this. So we we have a meeting next week that.	00:14:12
	Hopefully the survey will come up and they'll and the small percentage of participants in the survey across the state.	00:14:17
	Hopefully we can bring that up again and kind of.	00:14:23
	Split it up and maybe do half and half. That way we have more participation and not such a long story because like Joel said it	00:14:25
	takes about 30 minutes to complete if you're really putting some diligent effort and and reading all the questions and answering	00:14:29
	it.	00:14:34
	Diligently diligently.	00:14:38
	The other questions.	00:14:41
	Mr. Mayor, I actually have a couple.	00:14:43
	Ohh, the bottom of page two says fewer respondents report the healthcare staff talked to them and about.	00:14:47
	To them. And about the risk of using painkillers. So if the healthcare providers aren't doing it, who is? Does your group talk to	00:14:52
	him? So we don't talk, We don't. Our system, our program is not a direct.	00:14:58
	Service. It's an indirect service. So we do a lot of advertising on social media and we do. We recently added this past year we	00:15:04
	added Catch My Breath to the to the school, the high school where we provide a a presentation at the health in the health class.	00:15:11
	But we don't do direct service like scope does direct service. They do a lot of events and activities.	00:15:19
	We'll do a lot of indirect where we put Baggies together, we hand out bags at like local football games or the basketball games.	00:15:24
	And then we also do advertising in our social media.	00:15:31
	Entities like these Facebook and Instagram.	00:15:36
	You see the expression?	00:15:41
	Equalizer.	00:15:42
	There's a lot of people out there, but there's a need.	00:15:43
	So.	00:15:46
	And.	00:15:47
	They would in turn do that for them.	00:15:48
	The patients.	00:15:51
	And the council was addressed, I think, at the last meeting about the Southern New Mexico Youth Advisory Board and they were.	00:15:52
	Not happy that the youth center just shut down right now and they want and I received an e-mail over the weekend from their local.	00:15:59
	President, I guess.	00:16:06
	And they still want to provide some of the services that I know miss Muncie's compiling that list for. How do we get them access	00:16:07
	to that?	00:16:11
	Do they contact the health office or so that the for the the the document that Jackie Muncie put together?	00:16:14
	It's going to be on a QR code and she's supposed to have it to me.	00:16:22
	Hopefully by.	00:16:26
	The end of this week and I can actually send that QR code to polo and we can get it out.	00:16:27
	And then I was going to ask once it came out, if we could add the QR code to the city website.	00:16:31
	Any other, umm, we're going to add it to our website, we're going to put it on our Facebook and.	00:16:36
	Umm.	00:16:41
	Instagram pages.	00:16:42
	And if any other entities that we could possibly, you know get it to, the thoughts were also some people don't have access to	00:16:43
	technology or don't have the means to use the technology using QR codes as we talked about, possibly making printed copies and	00:16:48
	giving printed copies to certain areas.	00:16:54
	But with it being like 55 pages and that's a double sided, we just gotta look to see what the cost is gonna be and then see how	00:17:00
	many we could print and then who would be willing to kind of.	00:17:05
	Hold on to those and hand them out as they.	00:17:10
	As they were requested for.	00:17:12
	Thank you, because I know that was part of Doctor Sharon Sessions 100% Community initiative also was to get those resources out to	00:17:14
	people.	00:17:17
	Yeah, they have a good job putting documents together for sure.	00:17:22
	And the the one thing with the prescription drugs is we also.	00:17:26
	Core like worked with Kelly Pharmacy.	00:17:32
	And so we would give them documentation that they could put in the bags and and and send out.	00:17:35
	We also provided some of the prescription medication where you can put the medication in a little like a bag and it'll harden up	00:17:40
	and so you can dispose it properly and stuff like that with them closing down and not having a a pharmacy that will, you know,	00:17:46
	engage with us and allow us to put out our, our, our information.	00:17:52
	It's kind of hard.	00:17:58
	Working with pharmacies.	00:18:00
	So I think it comes back to social media just.	00:18:01
	Talking to people and providing the bags that we do like it gains and various other events that we do.	00:18:04
	Thank you.	00:18:11
	Other questions?	00:18:12
	Thank you for the presentation. You started Curiosity, who fund you the Office of Social Abuse and Prevention.	00:18:13
	And that our money comes through the city and so we in turn our invoices any, any.	00:18:21
	Invoices or reimbursements that we need, we turn it into Polo, Polo, process it and then we in turn process it with the state and	00:18:27
	then they refund the the city.	00:18:32
	Fiscal.	00:18:38
	Yes.	00:18:39
	OK. Just curious. Thank you so very much. I have all the other data, y'all may go over it. Y'all wanna.	00:18:41
	I have some in the next couple of slides or some data and it's kind of broken down and just.	00:18:48
	Data that you can look at. It's pretty much the same data we had last year or in April, but with the updated information for the	00:18:54
	new survey that was just completed.	00:18:58
	So the first graph is the alcohol related measures.	00:19:03
	And you're going to see that that's where the the current drinking has gone up just a little bit.	00:19:07
	It was 53.4% from the 2022 survey and now it's at 55.2%.	00:19:12
	Binge drinking also went up from 26% to 28.4%.	00:19:20
	And then binge drinking all respondents.	00:19:25
	Went from 15.5% to 15.7%, so you did see alcohol kind of increase.	00:19:30
	And it's still lower than what it was during the COVID time, but it it's slightly going up again.	00:19:37
	Providing alcohol to minors.	00:19:46
	You are going to see slight decreases.	00:19:48
	Adults providing alcohol to minors in the past year.	00:19:51
	Uh, the first graph is for adults.	00:19:54
	And you see a slight decrease from 4.7% to 4.5%.	00:19:57
	And then and the blue is last year 22, the red is this year's, this past year, the 23 survey that just occurred and then what you	00:20:03
	really see a decrease in is that's where the parents becoming aware of.	00:20:09
	Alcohol not being good for the kids.	00:20:16
	Is that from 7.4% down to 4.1%?	00:20:18
	So there was a a drastic decrease in apparents providing alcohol and those who report parents that they were provide alcohol to	00:20:23
	their children.	00:20:27
	OK.	00:20:33
	He's of access to community consequences for alcohol use.	00:20:35
	And these are.	00:20:39
	Is it very easy or somewhat easy for teens to access alcohol in the community? And this is where that perception comes back in	00:20:40
	from the community?	00:20:44
	You're going to see the pink line is the 2023 data and you're going to see that it did increase.	00:20:47
	From 72.7% to 86.4%.	00:20:53
	Now when you compare it to the 2021 data it is still lower but.	00:20:58
	We did have a large increase.	00:21:02
	From last year to this year's data.	00:21:05
	And then the other portion of the graph, drinking hurts my community.	00:21:07
	This is the perceived understanding that the city starts to understand that.	00:21:11
	Drinking is hurting our community and so we did see an increase and that is a positive increase of 75.9. It went from 70.7. The	00:21:16
	community community identified that.	00:21:20
	Drinking does have a negative impact on the community, especially financially, and so 75.9% of the community is now seeing that	00:21:25
	they feel like there is a financial impact.	00:21:30
	To the community.	00:21:36
	Question mark.	00:21:40
	Perception of enforcement of alcohol related laws.	00:21:42
	Umm.	00:21:46
	20/21 was a very large.	00:21:47
	Uh, perception of?	00:21:50
	Lack of police.	00:21:52
	The community feeling like the police are gonna do something about alcohol, especially when it came to minors drinking alcohol. It	00:21:54
	was at 55.8% then last year, the community reported.	00:21:59
	At 28.9 has slightly come back up to 30.3 so.	00:22:05
	As of 2023 data.	00:22:10
	The community 30.3% of the community feels like the police will arrest an adult for providing alcohol to minors.	00:22:12
	Umm.	00:22:20
	The police will break up underage parties.	00:22:21
	That's at 37.9%. It did drop a little bit.	00:22:24
	Last year they the community felt like 38.2% felt like they would break up parties.	00:22:29
	It dropped slightly to 37.9.	00:22:35
	And then the last one, being stuck stopped for driving after drinking too much.	00:22:38
	The perception did increase from compared to last year. Last year the community felt like.	00:22:44
	53.9% for like the police would stop you and and arrest you for drinking under the influence. Now they report at 58.4% So that's a	00:22:49
	positive community seeing that they feel like they.	00:22:56
	That the police will arrest people for drinking and driving.	00:23:02
	I can't believe that there's people out there that think that they won't get arrested for drinking and driving.	00:23:07
	You know this is?	00:23:14
	They're willing to. It's like gambling. They're willing to gamble until they finally get caught.	00:23:15
	So unfortunately.	00:23:19
	Question What?	00:23:23
	Like have you guys talked about like the numbers and everything and how much do you think these are like skewed or big number	00:23:26
	changes or because of like you know COVID and people getting out again and stuff like that or maybe more money from?	00:23:31
	Stimulus, I see a lot about this and there's all these different thoughts out there. Have you guys talked about that? So there's	00:23:38
	no data that asks about like what are you using to buy your alcohol like that for? There is that data that shows if you look at	00:23:43
	the 2020 and 2021 data, you're going to see where that's the COVID years.	00:23:48
	In the COVID time, you're going to see where that kind of increased.	00:23:54
	And then they're going to see where it starts to decrease and then increase again. Some of it has to do with, I really think some	00:23:58
	of it has to do with.	00:24:01
	Prior to COVID, we had a larger number of people participating in the survey and then COVID was a small amount. So that's why	00:24:04
	those numbers were bigger. So the people that did respond kind of had.	00:24:09
	The the numbers that increased.	00:24:14
	The negative responses to for the 2020 and 2021 year.	00:24:17
	And then last year we only had 194 and then this year we had 135 or 34. So that's a big factor also is the.	00:24:23
	The small number of people responding to the survey, that's gonna that's gonna be a huge factor. You're going to see in a minute.	00:24:31
	We go through the data for the kids, which is the strategies for success. We had more kids participate in the surveys than we did	00:24:36
	adults participate in the community survey.	00:24:40
	And so if we could increase the number of people participating in the survey?	00:24:46
	Again, whether they take the survey, the full survey and spend 25 to 30 minutes or we hopefully get a split in in two.	00:24:51
	That would help our numbers, but.	00:24:58
	The ultimately getting a better idea is gonna be getting a better poll of the the population.	00:25:01
	And that population includes.	00:25:06
	Socorro Vegeta, San Antonio Limitar and then also Magdalena and Navajo Alamo So.	00:25:08
	That those numbers are significantly missing now. Last year during the 2022, we did not get anybody from Magdalena to participate.	00:25:18
	If they did, they saw it like in the newspaper or something like that.	00:25:25
	This year we were able to reach out and get a lot of.	00:25:32
	Of little Flyers since through the.	00:25:37
	Food bank and then also sent through the city and stuff like that like we did here. So and we hope to continue to do that and and	00:25:40
	again increase our numbers hopefully.	00:25:45
	The next part of data is the student data. This was given to.	00:25:52
	All the students that parents were willing to allow participate at that were at the high school.	00:25:56
	At the middle school at Cottonwood.	00:26:01
	And also Magdalena.	00:26:04
	High school and middle school.	00:26:07
	And so, and at the very end I have the breakdown of numbers from each school.	00:26:08
	This focused on E cigarettes, drinking alcohol and also mental health. Some of the highlights were e-cigarrete use decreased for	00:26:14
	high school youth.	00:26:18
	From 26.5% to 21.9%.	00:26:23
	Marijuana use decreased slightly for middle school youth from 2012.9% to 1220.2.	00:26:27
	To 11.4%.	00:26:34
	So.	00:26:37
	And then students offer resiliency factors, such as wanting to take care of their health and to protect their future plans as	00:26:38
	reasons for not drinking or using other substances.	00:26:42
	More than 80% of the students have an adult who believes they will be successful and at least one.	00:26:47
	Friend their own age? Who cares about them? Both powerful protective factors, students generally believe.	00:26:53
	With that 90%, their parents think it is wrong for them to use alcohol, marijuana, E cigarettes.	00:26:59
	Which is a strong protective factor.	00:27:04
	Perception of harm for using most substances increased among middle school youth.	00:27:07
	And past years sadness and hopelessness.	00:27:12
	And suicidal ideation decreased slightly from 20 in 2023 after several years of increase.	00:27:15
	And then I have a couple graphs for you to look at.	00:27:24
	Thank you.	00:27:28
	Ohh, I'm sorry.	00:27:30
	I I was just thinking about what you said earlier about me, like y'all can add to the survey.	00:27:31
	I don't know how much this would be. I know for the mental health aspect.	00:27:37
	Because I see that a lot.	00:27:41
	But.	00:27:42
	Is there a way to ask questions like maybe? I mean, it's hard for some of our young people like at least to take a step back and	00:27:44
	think about how they are, but.	00:27:48
	I don't know like like cell phone or smartphone usage like.	00:27:53
	Like a question like how?	00:27:57
	How would you feel if your if your phone was removed from you for a day or some question that would like where they could respond	00:28:00
	to that?	00:28:03
	And then maybe tie that to like some mental health stuff because.	00:28:06
	Honestly, like some of the stuff that like the issues that we see, I mean, we've got a lot of coaches here and we've got a lot of	00:28:09
	like educators and so many of the issues that we see stem from something on social media.	00:28:15
	Stems from like somebody thinking they've got to be somebody they're not.	00:28:21
	And like that can steer like some of this mental health stuff.	00:28:25
	Like.	00:28:29
	Man, they, I mean, I don't want to say way worse than the things are on that list. Those are serious. But yeah, we might have like	00:28:30
	have something a lot more serious than that. Just what I see. Is there a way to throw it in questions like that that?	00:28:35
	That can get down to the root of that and see if that guys with some of these issues too. So there are mental health so.	00:28:41
	The SFS, which is the strategy for success, and that's what we're talking about now for the kids, there are mental health	00:28:46
	questions.	00:28:49
	That not specifically asked about like if I take your cell phone away, but they do ask mental health questions about how often do	00:28:52
	you feel depressed, how often do you feel like you have anxiety, do you feel like you know you feel like you would commit suicide	00:28:57
	or or various questions like that. And so in the the full report that I gave you, you'll be able to see the breakdown of the	00:29:02
	different types of questions.	00:29:08
	And you'll be able to see the percentage of responses for all those questions. But it does ask. It asks more mental health	00:29:14
	questions than the Community Health Survey does.	00:29:18
	You're you're you're getting the correlation of.	00:29:23
	Depression leading to substance abuse. Like I would say if, if, if we could find out if kids are on their phone more than five	00:29:26
	hours a day, what's the percentage?	00:29:31
	Godly. I bet you that being 90% or what?	00:29:36
	Like, you know.	00:29:40
	And and a lot of the stuff they're seeing and doing. I mean, yeah, I see it as a big issue. I see a lot of problems arising	00:29:41
	because of that.	00:29:45
	Please bring up two with.	00:29:48
	Jackie knows 13 because they're really they're they're funding is 4 into one stuff.	00:29:50
	Not that.	00:29:57
	Trying to help those things, but jacking them really put them both in person.	00:29:59
	About those things and what they're doing in high school, trying to.	00:30:05
	Make kids aware of their mental health and advocating to talk to people.	00:30:09
	And so I think that's what we can bring up. We're always gonna be together with Jackie. We'll definitely offer the sentiment	00:30:14
	material.	00:30:17
	You're.	00:30:21
	There's a lot of asking those questions. We can pass that along to you because she that that's me and good for her for sure, but	00:30:22
	it's not to us. But I think they can tighten up the work very easily.	00:30:26
	Within the group.	00:30:30
	Thank you.	00:30:33
	In your opening statement you said these results.	00:30:35
	Hanging from the surveys that were returned to you.	00:30:39
	That the students were allowed to return them by their parents.	00:30:44
	So how many students actually returned the survey? If you go to and we can jump to that if you like. If you go to the very last	00:30:51
	page.	00:30:54
	You're going to see that.	00:31:00
	We had over 500.	00:31:02
	Umm.	00:31:04
	Students participate in the survey between.	00:31:05
	So, Coral High Saracino.	00:31:08
	Cottonwood and Magdalena Middle School High School. We had over 500 kids participate.	00:31:11
	Much better than the adults, Yes, Very much, very.	00:31:16
	Much better. It's actually it's 570 so you can see the breakdown. The first table tells you that.	00:31:19
	Uh.	00:31:24
	Every student that was in six through 8th grade at Cottonwood participated. I think there was one student that was absent.	00:31:25
	When they did it.	00:31:31
	But 49 kids participated at Saracino, 167 kids participated.	00:31:32
	At the high school, 229 kids participated, at Magdalena High, 61 participated, and at Magdalena, I'm sorry, Middle school and	00:31:39
	Magdalena High, 64 kids participated.	00:31:44
	And so.	00:31:49
	Every kid at Magdalena also participated. I think he Chris Backstrom and told me that maybe one or two kids.	00:31:52
	Weren't there the whole week that when they were doing that but?	00:31:59
	Majority, like more than 90% of their kids participated at the at Magdalena between middle school and high school.	00:32:02
	Mostly teachers allowed us to.	00:32:08
	Go to class and interact with the kid.	00:32:11
	And help with the.	00:32:15
	We don't use some of our stuff as a grade, right?	00:32:17
	And this The girl loves to do the presentation there, so it helped engage the kids to where it was worth something for them to do	00:32:20
	it.	00:32:24
	Because we asked to do but they got rid of.	00:32:29
	Go ahead.	00:32:33
	Good to learn that's not the aggregated data.	00:32:34
	And they have the report, yeah, I sent.	00:32:37
	The report and public and get those two. You have the you have the full report for the support, the the community survey as well	00:32:41
	as the strategies for success. So there.	00:32:46
	And then I know I'm going. I'm rambling. I'm going to go ahead and jump to my last.	00:32:51
	Bing.	00:32:57
	And get to it. Just catch my breath. It's something new. This is our direct service.	00:32:58
	Everything else is indirect with pamphlets and Flyers and posting stuff on social media and.	00:33:02
	The catch? My breath is our direct service and this is where we go into the high school and we provide.	00:33:09
	Anti vaping presentations to the health classes at the high school. It usually takes about three classes to get it done.	00:33:16
	And so we picked three days to do it, and we.	00:33:23
	We had in the fall we.	00:33:29
	Met with 65 students who participated in the health class.	00:33:31
	There were 3-4 health classes in the fall and three health classes in the spring.	00:33:35
	And then we had 54 kids who participated in the spring.	00:33:39
	And so we're we're.	00:33:42
	Primary trying to hit all those freshmen coming in.	00:33:44
	And then we do have a mix of sophomores, juniors, seniors who maybe didn't have health before they.	00:33:47
	You know when they were freshmen that they have to take it back and so we're hitting those kids. Our hopes are that we can we will	00:33:53
	get funded so we can add catch my Breath to the middle school.	00:33:58
	At this moment in time we haven't been told whether we got the funding or not.	00:34:03
	But once we know, I'll let Polo know.	00:34:06
	And then we hope to be able to add Catch My Breath to the middle school.	00:34:10
	And we would like to.	00:34:14
	Present that to and every different presentation. Same concept, different presentation to the 6th graders so that way they saw it	00:34:16
	when they were 6th grade.	00:34:19
	And then by the time they got the 9th grade, they'd see it again. Three years later and hopefully we can deter students from	00:34:22
	utilizing vaping and other tobacco products.	00:34:27
	Other questions from the Council.	00:34:33
	Mr. Milner.	00:34:37
	Sorry.	00:34:38
	Thank you. Thank you for the time and we appreciate it.	00:34:40
	Have a great day before we go to the next item.	00:34:45
	From last the Council and.	00:34:49
	Mr. Monett on.	00:34:51
	Prophetic form is supposed to be for less than 5 minutes.	00:34:54
	Yes, if this ever comes up again, we need to move it to an item.	00:34:57
	Fair enough. Is that alright with everybody?	00:35:02
	Yeah.	00:35:05
	The next one that Chris is there, Mr. Mayor Kim.	00:35:07
	We have a couple in the audience still under public forum.	00:35:09
	Ohh, OK. I'm sorry.	00:35:13
	That's fine.	00:35:16
	Thank you.	00:35:26
	YouTube.	00:35:27
	Ready.	00:35:28
	Ready to go. It was 101 degrees.	00:35:32
	But all the kids finished.	00:35:35
	These are the head.	00:35:42
	Umm.	00:35:45
	Bring a couple of items to your attention. Obviously it's a huge community effort. I think the city of Socorro where their	00:35:47
	sponsorship in terms of city police presence, EMS.	00:35:52
	And they also provide larger stacks for short Switch are on order for all of you as well. Everybody signs up at the last second.	00:35:57
	So it's really hard to plan for T-shirts. And so we have a 2nd order coming and those I will bring later, but there are New Mexico	00:36:05
	Tech, NRO local businesses. And then most importantly to me, over 60 volunteers come out just before this event. That's more than	00:36:12
	the number of kids participating. But it takes a lot because there are a lot of driveways around Tech campus.	00:36:20
	That I want to make sure I'm monitored for the safety of the kids on the bike. So it's a swim bike run for youth 7 to 14 and this	00:36:27
	was the we say I say 13th annual ish.	00:36:34
	And since there was a break during COVID, but it was, it's great to be back the second year in a row. Last year we were not able	00:36:41
	to finish because of a freak thunderstorm. So this year all those younger kids finally got to actually cross the finish line and	00:36:45
	they were really happy about that.	00:36:50
	And so not only were there a lot of volunteers that included the high schools cross country team and the high school swim team.	00:36:55
	A bunch of the volunteers have been past participants of the youth triathlon, which is really exciting to see them come back and	00:37:02
	give back and give back to the community in that way.	00:37:06
	And you have 43 kids start and finish. What was super exciting to me, 25 or almost 60% were from Socorro County and that's always	00:37:11
	been my goal is to bump up that local participation rate. I mean, I love when families come down from Albuquerque, that's great	00:37:16
	for Socorro, but.	00:37:21
	I do this for the kids who are here and providing new opportunities that they will.	00:37:27
	Likely.	00:37:33
	Reach for other places. So that was very exciting to me. And then another new thing was that four of the kids who participated	00:37:34
	Friday night went to bed, woke up and then participated as part of a relay team with the next morning during the adult race. So	00:37:41
	they did it back-to-back and they most grown-ups didn't do that. So to see them kind of like expand their horizons and say Oh well	00:37:47
	like now I'll take it to the next level and and to do both in the same weekend was really fun.	00:37:54
	And the cross country team was there at the water station and we just had a ton of local participation. And Mike Harmon, future	00:38:02
	Louise.	00:38:05
	Excuse me, we'll report on the adult race. That was Saturday morning, but.	00:38:10
	I just want to thank the City of Squirrel for your continued support. I plan to be back next year. The planning will start in	00:38:14
	January and thank you.	00:38:19
	Thank you. I appreciate all that you do and your you're doing some good stuff. Everybody knows my grandson was in on it too. He	00:38:25
	was the head swimming.	00:38:30
	So thank you for all you do.	00:38:34
	Can you give us a name and?	00:38:37
	I'm there with Contractor, race director for the other triathlon. I also want to say thank you.	00:38:41
	Like the resources you provide the for the shirts.	00:38:47
	Attend the theater, workers. All that keeps our athletes safe and makes a.	00:38:50
	Provide several quality event and like professional event we had over 177 participants.	00:38:57
	One of 25 of them were from Socorro.	00:39:04
	140 were from New Mexico.	00:39:07
	So we have people coming all also from our state from Florida and Michigan.	00:39:10
	Just calling for a triathlon because this is a USAT sanction event.	00:39:15
	People from our state come here.	00:39:19
	And the goal for next year is as.	00:39:22
	Seem a little bit. Increased local participation, 25 external low numbers. Hopefully we can get more local.	00:39:24
	Participation, but on the other hand.	00:39:30
	It's amazing to see me like all the volunteers are locals, you know, faculty, local teams.	00:39:32
	Committee members, club look clubs from Tech, so we get a lot of support from the community and I think that makes.	00:39:39
	Even you being seen like all the community coming together to support.	00:39:48
	To support all these athletes.	00:39:52
	So thank you so much then.	00:39:53
	Yeah, next year we are gonna.	00:39:55
	Try to provide a better event for everybody. Thank you so very much. Thank you.	00:39:57
	Everybody helps Republic form.	00:40:02
	Not seeing any. Do we have Chris here to?	00:40:06
	Give a presentation.	00:40:09
	He did. So he just did it.	00:40:13
	That's that's the one that did it earlier.	00:40:16
	That will be done.	00:40:21
	Ohh, there it is, got buried.	00:40:26
	OK, RFP award.	00:40:32
	WWTP recreation builds on the filter. It's the sewer.	00:40:36
	Plant correct?	00:40:41
	Yes, at the wastewater plant, yes, OK. So we neither item I don't.	00:40:43
	Well, I guess all we need is the resolution number.	00:40:48
	That's just a bit award or it's an award, RFP award.	00:40:51
	And we we it was advertised and we received 22 proposals.	00:40:57
	One from Dennis Engineering and one from Solars.	00:41:03
	We had a committee go over it.	00:41:08
	Also interviewed the headlines real quick.	00:41:10
	So.	00:41:13
	I.	00:41:15
	I.	00:41:17
	After everything.	00:41:19
	After the committee met, I request that it be awarded to So Hope Sowers.	00:41:21
	Anybody have any?	00:41:28
	Questions.	00:41:30
	I'll make a motion to accept that motion. Do we have a second? Second. Second.	00:41:32
	Any discussion?	00:41:39
	I'm hearing on paper.	00:41:41
	Motion passes.	00:41:44
	OK. Any new business?	00:41:47
	Wow.	00:41:50
	And the whole business.	00:41:51
	Peter.	00:41:53
	Ohh Peter.	00:41:54
	Listener.	00:41:58
	Concerning the coral cast.	00:41:59
	I know that the city.	00:42:03
	Contributes dollars and.	00:42:05
	Services towards Socorro Fast.	00:42:08
	And I've had questions.	00:42:11
	From businesses and local musicians.	00:42:13
	Wanting to know if any of the monies.	00:42:17
	Um.	00:42:20
	That.	00:42:22
	Socorro Fast pass.	00:42:23
	Goes to.	00:42:25
	Is this?	00:42:28
	That might perform in in various.	00:42:30
	Businesses.	00:42:33
	Does that happen? Does anybody know?	00:42:34
	Or or who do we ask?	00:42:38
	Hi, Peter.	00:42:41
	Yes. So as the years have gone on and in doing so, Coral Fest.	00:42:43
	We have so many local musicians in Socorro that want to play.	00:42:49
	And um.	00:42:54
	We just don't have enough spots, so if we were just going to have one stage.	00:42:56
	Nobody would get to play. So what we have done over the years, we we added stages. For example, we had one in front of City Hall.	00:43:01
	We had extra tents at the time. We no longer have extra tents.	00:43:10
	To create another state. So what we've kind of done over the years.	00:43:14
	Is we have used the capital bar as one of the stages.	00:43:18
	So the capital bar.	00:43:23
	Basically pays for the expensive bans. Basically the the one that plays at the end of the night, the more expensive bands she pays	00:43:25
	for the.	00:43:30
	Sound system that happens at the cap.	00:43:36
	And then we do end up paying and I don't know if it's city, it's a coral pain, it's New Mexico Tech. We get money from New Mexico	00:43:39
	Tech. So we typically try to use New Mexico tax money.	00:43:44
	To pay for some of that entertainment that we use at the at the capital bar as our as our second stage.	00:43:50
	OK, so who's the contact person in case the business?	00:43:59
	Or a local band.	00:44:04
	Might want to get some information that they can probably contact Ronna who who generally does the contracts with all the local	00:44:07
	musicians because she you know, she knows all of them or they can call Desiree.	00:44:14
	OK.	00:44:22
	Who's our tourism director? Thank you very much.	00:44:23
	Questions on that.	00:44:27
	OK and.	00:44:30
	Old business.	00:44:33
	Anybody need one regular session?	00:44:36
	There's another report out. We don't have to measure, report.	00:44:40
	I don't like to, I guess. In fact I was out of town, but I found out later that Megalina lost their electricity.	00:44:47
	And Councillor Deborah Dean.	00:44:55
	Umm.	00:44:58
	Offered her ice machine truck to go up there and help him out. So councillors, thank you very much for that.	00:44:59
	That's what small communities are for When?	00:45:06
	People can pull together like that because they definitely needed something.	00:45:10
	For not only everything, but I mean cold. Everything needs to be frozen.	00:45:16
	That's very long, so thank you.	00:45:21
	OK, there's report personnel changes at your request.	00:45:25
	Tila Acosta from the Senior Center moving from a temporary to part time temporary.	00:45:33
	$15.00 an hour Joseph John Silva, police officer completed probation a 58 to a 60.	00:45:39
	Simon Gonzalez Junior also plays Officer completed probation a 48 aces.	00:45:46
	In 48585858 to 860.	00:45:53
	And one Manzano from the street.	00:45:59
	Department abandon his job?	00:46:01
	This is an action item.	00:46:05
	Yeah, yes.	00:46:08
	A man.	00:46:10
	The motion to approve personnel change. The second motion in a second any discussion.	00:46:11
	Not any, you know, favor, aye.	00:46:18
	Motion passes.	00:46:22
	Business registrations.	00:46:26
	Something that.	00:46:28
	We have Glencore Environmental LLC that's out of town from Albuquerque.	00:46:29
	Eddie Berto Ramos Asbestos abatement and demolition.	00:46:34
	And start Church St. a collective which is in C2 at 301 S, California.	00:46:38
	Owner is Jeannie Johnson and in the business of retail.	00:46:44
	Action items registrations.	00:46:49
	2nd.	00:46:53
	I want to favor motion passes.	00:46:55
	Thank you everybody. And next meeting will be September the 5th.	00:46:59
	At 6:00 here, City Hall. Thank you ladies and gentlemen.	00:47:04
	Thank you, Peter.	00:47:11

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	Uh.	00:00:00
	Love is the 15th.	00:00:03
	Mayor Baskin.	00:00:05
	Councillor Travis Lopez, yeah.	00:00:07
	Councillor Dean.	00:00:09
	Councillor Fleming.	00:00:11
	Sure.	00:00:13
	Councillor Ocampo here.	00:00:14
	Councillor Logan.	00:00:16
	Councillor Romero.	00:00:19
	You're on the phone.	00:00:24
	Go ahead.	00:00:26
	Councillor Salomi here, we have a quorum.	00:00:28
	The police leaders and police police.	00:00:32
	Good.	00:00:35
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the.	00:00:38
	States of America.	00:00:41
	Which is next?	00:00:44
	Nation.	00:00:45
	And it.	00:00:47
	Yeah.	00:00:49
	OK, we have.	00:00:55
	Mr. Mayor, Gender Yes, Sir, and a motion to approve.	00:00:57
	The consent agenda for tonight's meeting, the motion and 2nd to approve.	00:01:02
	Mr. Mayor.	00:01:07
	There's the vouchers fall under the consent agenda, yes.	00:01:08
	So if we if we were just wanting more information on our voucher to produce sport.	00:01:12
	That's the third item.	00:01:17
	So, so I don't do that now. Yes, before the second. OK, let's just finish getting the motion in a second.	00:01:19
	You second it right.	00:01:25
	I I was asking about where there's no second second yet.	00:01:27
	No, Sir. Anybody going to say with that?	00:01:34
	I second.	00:01:36
	But a second.	00:01:37
	And there is fusion.	00:01:39
	Yep.	00:01:41
	I just had a quick question on. There was 2 consulting vouchers, 1 to MJS consulting and I.	00:01:42
	We need to pull that and bring it back up on the.	00:01:49
	Ohh.	00:01:52
	Right. It would go into item number four. We're gonna pull that one item.	00:01:53
	Got it. OK. We pulled one item on the voucher.	00:01:57
	On the voucher run all in favor all the other stuff on under consent agenda.	00:02:03
	Yes.	00:02:09
	Right passes. Now we have the Vacheron has Mr. Swan has some answers on the voucher run.	00:02:11
	I just had a quick question on, you know, just a little more information on on the MJS consulting.	00:02:18
	Voucher and the SJR Consulting voucher.	00:02:26
	MGS is the Santianes lobbyists. All couple OK and they also still control it are not controlling but managing our floodplain	00:02:30
	certifications. And the other one is another consultant that used to be the Under Secretary. Justin Reese out of Silver City used	00:02:35
	to be Under Secretary for the dot and he's working with us to kind of get some of our projects move forward and kind of help us	00:02:41
	find funding for.	00:02:47
	Thank you very much. Yes, Sir. Any other questions all about to run.	00:02:53
	Item that report done and we had that one brought up and it got answered. Item five of public.	00:02:57
	We need a motion, a second and vote on.	00:03:04
	I'll make a motion to accept the motion and the 2nd to approve the voucher run.	00:03:08
	Any discussion? Not hearing all in favor, aye, all opposed. The vouchers are OK to pay 2.	00:03:13
	First time we had one full time.	00:03:20
	OK, Now public forum. Thank you, Mr. Monette.	00:03:23
	Good evening. How's everybody doing today?	00:03:29
	My name is Chris Rottman and I have Joel Partridge here. We are with Support County Prevention Coalition.	00:03:33
	We're one of the entities that advocate for absence on drugs and alcohol and we also facilitate the New Mexico Community Survey as	00:03:38
	well as the Strategies for Success surveys.	00:03:44
	I was here, I believe in April and I presented the 22 data for the strategies for success and the.	00:03:50
	And New Mexico Community Survey.	00:03:56
	I didn't want to wait so long now that we have the 23 data that we just collected, so I wanted to go ahead and present that data	00:03:59
	to you and.	00:04:02
	Answer any questions that you might have as we go through the data.	00:04:05
	Because everybody have a packet.	00:04:10
	OK.	00:04:11
	I also provided you a full report for each UM survey that we did, but the the PowerPoint is just kind of a.	00:04:12
	A summary of some of the data that's in there. The key points.	00:04:19
	Any questions?	00:04:25
	OK, so some of the highlights are parents are reporting a large decrease in providing alcohol to minors.	00:04:30
	When we go in and look at our data and our grass here in a few minutes are going to see it was kind of a little bit higher and	00:04:38
	it's kind of dipped down a little bit and support parents are reporting that there is not as much.	00:04:42
	Um.	00:04:47
	Giving alcohol to students that was previously reported.	00:04:49
	Perceptions that alcohol hurt use hurts the community.	00:04:53
	Financially has increased so more people are becoming aware that.	00:04:57
	The alcohol that is being unused in the community is starting to impact the the community financially and so the community is	00:05:00
	becoming aware of that and all this data that I'm going over right now is from the community survey and then I'll go over the	00:05:06
	student survey, which is the strategies for success.	00:05:12
	Working surveys come from they come from the Office of Substance Abuse and Prevention.	00:05:18
	From the state the.	00:05:23
	The primary office that.	00:05:26
	Funds our our provides our grant funding and then also does other funding for like scope and a few other places like the DFC and	00:05:29
	other entities that are in town.	00:05:34
	And and these graphs are only for Socorro County.	00:05:40
	These graphs are for the county, yes.	00:05:44
	Current use of prescription painkillers use decreased from 17.6% to 10.9%.	00:05:49
	And misuse decreased from 6.9% to 4%.	00:05:55
	Among all respondents and from 39% to 36% among current users.	00:05:59
	UH, perceived risk of harm associated with misusing prescription drugs increase. So again, more people becoming aware that	00:06:05
	utilizing prescription drugs outside of their being prescribed to them for a specific reason. They're becoming aware that it's not	00:06:12
	in their best interest to utilize prescription drugs when it's not prescribed to them.	00:06:19
	Reported shares of prescription painkillers.	00:06:26
	Decreased among parents to 5%.	00:06:29
	Our lowest prevalence ever and among all adults as well, returning to COVID era levels from 6.1.	00:06:33
	So you were gonna we see a drop from?	00:06:40
	Prior to COVID and then COVID kind of came up a little bit and now it's it's starting to drop again.	00:06:44
	And then reported locking of painkiller increased among parents.	00:06:49
	From 52% to 61%.	00:06:53
	I I hope to say that that's partly in.	00:06:56
	Help with from us SPC and scope.	00:07:00
	We and also the juvenile probation justice team, they provide lock boxes and we provide lock boxes for prescriptions.	00:07:03
	Uh, free of charge to people who are requesting them. So we give them the lock box so that they can lock up their prescriptions.	00:07:11
	Any other substances that you know are aren't of best interest for kids or anybody else. That's really the holder to get these	00:07:17
	balls. They can contact scope I I.	00:07:22
	I give mine to scope and they scope gives them out and also the Socorro juvenile Justice program will issue them as well.	00:07:27
	How do they get that phone number? They can contact us scope and or I can they can go to our website or then go to scopes website?	00:07:35
	Our website located at Socorro Prevention Coalition.	00:07:43
	Dot com or they can go to our Facebook which is Umm Socorro County Prevention Coalition at Facebook and they can get our our	00:07:47
	number from there and then they can also find scopes number on there as well. Thank you.	00:07:53
	Yes.	00:07:59
	And then the and it's not mentioned in here, but the project aware from the high school.	00:08:01
	They umm.	00:08:07
	Jackie Muncie is running the project to wear, and so at the health the Socorro Health Coalition has put together a.	00:08:08
	Resource guide with entities in town.	00:08:17
	That people can access for various reasons such as mental health, drug abuse.	00:08:21
	And other needs such as food and and financial assistance and stuff like that, so that we could provide that. There's around like	00:08:27
	500 total entries into that.	00:08:32
	Document.	00:08:39
	It includes medical as well as health and dental and other necessities that the community may need access to.	00:08:39
	To be able to contact.	00:08:46
	And they should share it pretty soon. I think they're completing it.	00:08:49
	Relatively new. You may have not seen it.	00:08:53
	Thank you.	00:08:55
	Remember sound good?	00:08:59
	Yeah.	00:09:00
	Yes, Mr.	00:09:02
	I'll, I'll let him finish then I've got a question.	00:09:04
	OK, troubling findings from the 2023 Community Survey.	00:09:10
	Current drinking increased for the second year from 53.4% to 58.4%.	00:09:15
	And again, this is people who answer the survey anonymously.	00:09:21
	And submit their answers.	00:09:25
	UH perception of ease of teen access to alcohol in the community increased from 72% to 87%.	00:09:27
	So parents and other community members feel like kids have easier access to alcohol and.	00:09:34
	And whether they're getting it from family members or they're getting it from stores just selling alcohol, they they have the	00:09:39
	perception that it.	00:09:43
	They do have easier access than what they've had in the past.	00:09:49
	Prevalence of receiving painkillers to in 2023 is 21.8%, which is similar to 2022.	00:09:53
	Which was the highest ever at 22.8, so it has dropped.	00:10:00
	A percentage.	00:10:04
	But you know, percentage isn't a lot, so we we hope to continue to work towards prevention of using painkillers and and abstaining	00:10:05
	from painkillers to see that drop more.	00:10:11
	And people aged 26 to 30 were more most likely to have received a painkiller and were also the most likely to misuse them.	00:10:17
	And a lot of that misuse is also perceived as.	00:10:26
	I was prescribed A painkiller and then but I didn't use it all.	00:10:29
	And now I I don't need it anymore. But then I take it every once in a while if I get a headache or something like that, that would	00:10:33
	still be considered misuse.	00:10:36
	And then fewer respondents report that health care staff talks to them and about.	00:10:40
	The risk of using painkillers 55 that went from 55.8 to 40.9.	00:10:45
	You know, somebody had a question.	00:10:52
	Any questions? I had a question.	00:10:54
	You said these numbers come from the.	00:10:57
	Forms that were turned.	00:11:01
	Back in my parents or by the students?	00:11:03
	What percentage of students return the forms? So this form, this data that I'm presenting right now is the Community Health	00:11:07
	Survey. This is for anybody that's 18 and older.	00:11:12
	And the this percentages here was about the same as last year, it was a small percentage.	00:11:17
	Last year we had like 194, this year we had like 135 people in the in the county participate in the survey.	00:11:21
	So it's not a great representative of our county, but.	00:11:29
	Like I said last year, I'm going to say it again this year. The survey is extensively long.	00:11:33
	We don't add anything to the survey.	00:11:38
	But we have to give the survey that OSEP has. We could add more if we wanted to.	00:11:40
	But we we have to minimally give what this, what OSA.	00:11:45
	Requires it, which is the the minimal questions that we have.	00:11:49
	And we don't issue any other questions just because we know it's a long survey and to give people the complete it makes it kind of	00:11:52
	hard in itself.	00:11:56
	28 minute short shortened survey and we thought we'd get better short by turning our funding. Would like to fund survey so they	00:12:01
	don't just yeah.	00:12:05
	So there's 135 students. This is a, this is a community members.	00:12:10
	Humanity members, these are 18 to.	00:12:17
	18 year olds, old and and above.	00:12:20
	That's who completes this survey.	00:12:22
	And it's an online survey that's completed advertisement was put in the newspaper, advertisement was put with a water bills.	00:12:25
	We even were able to advertise with the Roadrunner Food Bank as well as the Food Bank in.	00:12:32
	Magdalena, so we could kind of get that out more. It was even extended because the state was seeing not a great completion rate.	00:12:39
	So they it normally stops at the end of April. They actually pushed it to the second week of May.	00:12:45
	And the numbers across the state were kind of low.	00:12:51
	As far as number of people that actually answered.	00:12:54
	Do anything in the Gita.	00:12:58
	Umm.	00:13:00
	I wasn't aware that Vegeta had its own watering water like.	00:13:02
	Company So next year I will go to the water company and ask if we can put the put it with the water bill.	00:13:07
	So that way we can make sure we get together and we can also again I didn't wasn't realized, didn't realize that Sonic San Antonio	00:13:12
	had their own watering system too. So we plan to do the same thing there so we can get that out with them after them more. We did	00:13:17
	it, like I said, we had it in the newspaper we had at the movie theater.	00:13:22
	Umm.	00:13:27
	I'm probably leaning away from most newspaper because most people don't use the newspaper nowadays. I want to try and get it out	00:13:28
	in other ways.	00:13:32
	So in using the water bills and using various other entities like the Roadrunner, Food Bank and some of the other food banks.	00:13:35
	Hopefully we'll be able to get more participants next year.	00:13:44
	People start serving up, finish it, yeah.	00:13:48
	It's a lot of things, but he kind of gets it.	00:13:52
	You have the.	00:13:56
	14 minutes in the comment, but we did see people started.	00:13:57
	Not completed. So again that's our suppliers and we shorten it, but we don't give me.	00:14:01
	And the other.	00:14:07
	The other thing we asked was could we split it up, not do it all at one time.	00:14:09
	And they never really answered this and they still haven't answered this. So we we have a meeting next week that.	00:14:12
	Hopefully the survey will come up and they'll and the small percentage of participants in the survey across the state.	00:14:17
	Hopefully we can bring that up again and kind of.	00:14:23
	Split it up and maybe do half and half. That way we have more participation and not such a long story because like Joel said it	00:14:25
	takes about 30 minutes to complete if you're really putting some diligent effort and and reading all the questions and answering	00:14:29
	it.	00:14:34
	Diligently diligently.	00:14:38
	The other questions.	00:14:41
	Mr. Mayor, I actually have a couple.	00:14:43
	Ohh, the bottom of page two says fewer respondents report the healthcare staff talked to them and about.	00:14:47
	To them. And about the risk of using painkillers. So if the healthcare providers aren't doing it, who is? Does your group talk to	00:14:52
	him? So we don't talk, We don't. Our system, our program is not a direct.	00:14:58
	Service. It's an indirect service. So we do a lot of advertising on social media and we do. We recently added this past year we	00:15:04
	added Catch My Breath to the to the school, the high school where we provide a a presentation at the health in the health class.	00:15:11
	But we don't do direct service like scope does direct service. They do a lot of events and activities.	00:15:19
	We'll do a lot of indirect where we put Baggies together, we hand out bags at like local football games or the basketball games.	00:15:24
	And then we also do advertising in our social media.	00:15:31
	Entities like these Facebook and Instagram.	00:15:36
	You see the expression?	00:15:41
	Equalizer.	00:15:42
	There's a lot of people out there, but there's a need.	00:15:43
	So.	00:15:46
	And.	00:15:47
	They would in turn do that for them.	00:15:48
	The patients.	00:15:51
	And the council was addressed, I think, at the last meeting about the Southern New Mexico Youth Advisory Board and they were.	00:15:52
	Not happy that the youth center just shut down right now and they want and I received an e-mail over the weekend from their local.	00:15:59
	President, I guess.	00:16:06
	And they still want to provide some of the services that I know miss Muncie's compiling that list for. How do we get them access	00:16:07
	to that?	00:16:11
	Do they contact the health office or so that the for the the the document that Jackie Muncie put together?	00:16:14
	It's going to be on a QR code and she's supposed to have it to me.	00:16:22
	Hopefully by.	00:16:26
	The end of this week and I can actually send that QR code to polo and we can get it out.	00:16:27
	And then I was going to ask once it came out, if we could add the QR code to the city website.	00:16:31
	Any other, umm, we're going to add it to our website, we're going to put it on our Facebook and.	00:16:36
	Umm.	00:16:41
	Instagram pages.	00:16:42
	And if any other entities that we could possibly, you know get it to, the thoughts were also some people don't have access to	00:16:43
	technology or don't have the means to use the technology using QR codes as we talked about, possibly making printed copies and	00:16:48
	giving printed copies to certain areas.	00:16:54
	But with it being like 55 pages and that's a double sided, we just gotta look to see what the cost is gonna be and then see how	00:17:00
	many we could print and then who would be willing to kind of.	00:17:05
	Hold on to those and hand them out as they.	00:17:10
	As they were requested for.	00:17:12
	Thank you, because I know that was part of Doctor Sharon Sessions 100% Community initiative also was to get those resources out to	00:17:14
	people.	00:17:17
	Yeah, they have a good job putting documents together for sure.	00:17:22
	And the the one thing with the prescription drugs is we also.	00:17:26
	Core like worked with Kelly Pharmacy.	00:17:32
	And so we would give them documentation that they could put in the bags and and and send out.	00:17:35
	We also provided some of the prescription medication where you can put the medication in a little like a bag and it'll harden up	00:17:40
	and so you can dispose it properly and stuff like that with them closing down and not having a a pharmacy that will, you know,	00:17:46
	engage with us and allow us to put out our, our, our information.	00:17:52
	It's kind of hard.	00:17:58
	Working with pharmacies.	00:18:00
	So I think it comes back to social media just.	00:18:01
	Talking to people and providing the bags that we do like it gains and various other events that we do.	00:18:04
	Thank you.	00:18:11
	Other questions?	00:18:12
	Thank you for the presentation. You started Curiosity, who fund you the Office of Social Abuse and Prevention.	00:18:13
	And that our money comes through the city and so we in turn our invoices any, any.	00:18:21
	Invoices or reimbursements that we need, we turn it into Polo, Polo, process it and then we in turn process it with the state and	00:18:27
	then they refund the the city.	00:18:32
	Fiscal.	00:18:38
	Yes.	00:18:39
	OK. Just curious. Thank you so very much. I have all the other data, y'all may go over it. Y'all wanna.	00:18:41
	I have some in the next couple of slides or some data and it's kind of broken down and just.	00:18:48
	Data that you can look at. It's pretty much the same data we had last year or in April, but with the updated information for the	00:18:54
	new survey that was just completed.	00:18:58
	So the first graph is the alcohol related measures.	00:19:03
	And you're going to see that that's where the the current drinking has gone up just a little bit.	00:19:07
	It was 53.4% from the 2022 survey and now it's at 55.2%.	00:19:12
	Binge drinking also went up from 26% to 28.4%.	00:19:20
	And then binge drinking all respondents.	00:19:25
	Went from 15.5% to 15.7%, so you did see alcohol kind of increase.	00:19:30
	And it's still lower than what it was during the COVID time, but it it's slightly going up again.	00:19:37
	Providing alcohol to minors.	00:19:46
	You are going to see slight decreases.	00:19:48
	Adults providing alcohol to minors in the past year.	00:19:51
	Uh, the first graph is for adults.	00:19:54
	And you see a slight decrease from 4.7% to 4.5%.	00:19:57
	And then and the blue is last year 22, the red is this year's, this past year, the 23 survey that just occurred and then what you	00:20:03
	really see a decrease in is that's where the parents becoming aware of.	00:20:09
	Alcohol not being good for the kids.	00:20:16
	Is that from 7.4% down to 4.1%?	00:20:18
	So there was a a drastic decrease in apparents providing alcohol and those who report parents that they were provide alcohol to	00:20:23
	their children.	00:20:27
	OK.	00:20:33
	He's of access to community consequences for alcohol use.	00:20:35
	And these are.	00:20:39
	Is it very easy or somewhat easy for teens to access alcohol in the community? And this is where that perception comes back in	00:20:40
	from the community?	00:20:44
	You're going to see the pink line is the 2023 data and you're going to see that it did increase.	00:20:47
	From 72.7% to 86.4%.	00:20:53
	Now when you compare it to the 2021 data it is still lower but.	00:20:58
	We did have a large increase.	00:21:02
	From last year to this year's data.	00:21:05
	And then the other portion of the graph, drinking hurts my community.	00:21:07
	This is the perceived understanding that the city starts to understand that.	00:21:11
	Drinking is hurting our community and so we did see an increase and that is a positive increase of 75.9. It went from 70.7. The	00:21:16
	community community identified that.	00:21:20
	Drinking does have a negative impact on the community, especially financially, and so 75.9% of the community is now seeing that	00:21:25
	they feel like there is a financial impact.	00:21:30
	To the community.	00:21:36
	Question mark.	00:21:40
	Perception of enforcement of alcohol related laws.	00:21:42
	Umm.	00:21:46
	20/21 was a very large.	00:21:47
	Uh, perception of?	00:21:50
	Lack of police.	00:21:52
	The community feeling like the police are gonna do something about alcohol, especially when it came to minors drinking alcohol. It	00:21:54
	was at 55.8% then last year, the community reported.	00:21:59
	At 28.9 has slightly come back up to 30.3 so.	00:22:05
	As of 2023 data.	00:22:10
	The community 30.3% of the community feels like the police will arrest an adult for providing alcohol to minors.	00:22:12
	Umm.	00:22:20
	The police will break up underage parties.	00:22:21
	That's at 37.9%. It did drop a little bit.	00:22:24
	Last year they the community felt like 38.2% felt like they would break up parties.	00:22:29
	It dropped slightly to 37.9.	00:22:35
	And then the last one, being stuck stopped for driving after drinking too much.	00:22:38
	The perception did increase from compared to last year. Last year the community felt like.	00:22:44
	53.9% for like the police would stop you and and arrest you for drinking under the influence. Now they report at 58.4% So that's a	00:22:49
	positive community seeing that they feel like they.	00:22:56
	That the police will arrest people for drinking and driving.	00:23:02
	I can't believe that there's people out there that think that they won't get arrested for drinking and driving.	00:23:07
	You know this is?	00:23:14
	They're willing to. It's like gambling. They're willing to gamble until they finally get caught.	00:23:15
	So unfortunately.	00:23:19
	Question What?	00:23:23
	Like have you guys talked about like the numbers and everything and how much do you think these are like skewed or big number	00:23:26
	changes or because of like you know COVID and people getting out again and stuff like that or maybe more money from?	00:23:31
	Stimulus, I see a lot about this and there's all these different thoughts out there. Have you guys talked about that? So there's	00:23:38
	no data that asks about like what are you using to buy your alcohol like that for? There is that data that shows if you look at	00:23:43
	the 2020 and 2021 data, you're going to see where that's the COVID years.	00:23:48
	In the COVID time, you're going to see where that kind of increased.	00:23:54
	And then they're going to see where it starts to decrease and then increase again. Some of it has to do with, I really think some	00:23:58
	of it has to do with.	00:24:01
	Prior to COVID, we had a larger number of people participating in the survey and then COVID was a small amount. So that's why	00:24:04
	those numbers were bigger. So the people that did respond kind of had.	00:24:09
	The the numbers that increased.	00:24:14
	The negative responses to for the 2020 and 2021 year.	00:24:17
	And then last year we only had 194 and then this year we had 135 or 34. So that's a big factor also is the.	00:24:23
	The small number of people responding to the survey, that's gonna that's gonna be a huge factor. You're going to see in a minute.	00:24:31
	We go through the data for the kids, which is the strategies for success. We had more kids participate in the surveys than we did	00:24:36
	adults participate in the community survey.	00:24:40
	And so if we could increase the number of people participating in the survey?	00:24:46
	Again, whether they take the survey, the full survey and spend 25 to 30 minutes or we hopefully get a split in in two.	00:24:51
	That would help our numbers, but.	00:24:58
	The ultimately getting a better idea is gonna be getting a better poll of the the population.	00:25:01
	And that population includes.	00:25:06
	Socorro Vegeta, San Antonio Limitar and then also Magdalena and Navajo Alamo So.	00:25:08
	That those numbers are significantly missing now. Last year during the 2022, we did not get anybody from Magdalena to participate.	00:25:18
	If they did, they saw it like in the newspaper or something like that.	00:25:25
	This year we were able to reach out and get a lot of.	00:25:32
	Of little Flyers since through the.	00:25:37
	Food bank and then also sent through the city and stuff like that like we did here. So and we hope to continue to do that and and	00:25:40
	again increase our numbers hopefully.	00:25:45
	The next part of data is the student data. This was given to.	00:25:52
	All the students that parents were willing to allow participate at that were at the high school.	00:25:56
	At the middle school at Cottonwood.	00:26:01
	And also Magdalena.	00:26:04
	High school and middle school.	00:26:07
	And so, and at the very end I have the breakdown of numbers from each school.	00:26:08
	This focused on E cigarettes, drinking alcohol and also mental health. Some of the highlights were e-cigarrete use decreased for	00:26:14
	high school youth.	00:26:18
	From 26.5% to 21.9%.	00:26:23
	Marijuana use decreased slightly for middle school youth from 2012.9% to 1220.2.	00:26:27
	To 11.4%.	00:26:34
	So.	00:26:37
	And then students offer resiliency factors, such as wanting to take care of their health and to protect their future plans as	00:26:38
	reasons for not drinking or using other substances.	00:26:42
	More than 80% of the students have an adult who believes they will be successful and at least one.	00:26:47
	Friend their own age? Who cares about them? Both powerful protective factors, students generally believe.	00:26:53
	With that 90%, their parents think it is wrong for them to use alcohol, marijuana, E cigarettes.	00:26:59
	Which is a strong protective factor.	00:27:04
	Perception of harm for using most substances increased among middle school youth.	00:27:07
	And past years sadness and hopelessness.	00:27:12
	And suicidal ideation decreased slightly from 20 in 2023 after several years of increase.	00:27:15
	And then I have a couple graphs for you to look at.	00:27:24
	Thank you.	00:27:28
	Ohh, I'm sorry.	00:27:30
	I I was just thinking about what you said earlier about me, like y'all can add to the survey.	00:27:31
	I don't know how much this would be. I know for the mental health aspect.	00:27:37
	Because I see that a lot.	00:27:41
	But.	00:27:42
	Is there a way to ask questions like maybe? I mean, it's hard for some of our young people like at least to take a step back and	00:27:44
	think about how they are, but.	00:27:48
	I don't know like like cell phone or smartphone usage like.	00:27:53
	Like a question like how?	00:27:57
	How would you feel if your if your phone was removed from you for a day or some question that would like where they could respond	00:28:00
	to that?	00:28:03
	And then maybe tie that to like some mental health stuff because.	00:28:06
	Honestly, like some of the stuff that like the issues that we see, I mean, we've got a lot of coaches here and we've got a lot of	00:28:09
	like educators and so many of the issues that we see stem from something on social media.	00:28:15
	Stems from like somebody thinking they've got to be somebody they're not.	00:28:21
	And like that can steer like some of this mental health stuff.	00:28:25
	Like.	00:28:29
	Man, they, I mean, I don't want to say way worse than the things are on that list. Those are serious. But yeah, we might have like	00:28:30
	have something a lot more serious than that. Just what I see. Is there a way to throw it in questions like that that?	00:28:35
	That can get down to the root of that and see if that guys with some of these issues too. So there are mental health so.	00:28:41
	The SFS, which is the strategy for success, and that's what we're talking about now for the kids, there are mental health	00:28:46
	questions.	00:28:49
	That not specifically asked about like if I take your cell phone away, but they do ask mental health questions about how often do	00:28:52
	you feel depressed, how often do you feel like you have anxiety, do you feel like you know you feel like you would commit suicide	00:28:57
	or or various questions like that. And so in the the full report that I gave you, you'll be able to see the breakdown of the	00:29:02
	different types of questions.	00:29:08
	And you'll be able to see the percentage of responses for all those questions. But it does ask. It asks more mental health	00:29:14
	questions than the Community Health Survey does.	00:29:18
	You're you're you're getting the correlation of.	00:29:23
	Depression leading to substance abuse. Like I would say if, if, if we could find out if kids are on their phone more than five	00:29:26
	hours a day, what's the percentage?	00:29:31
	Godly. I bet you that being 90% or what?	00:29:36
	Like, you know.	00:29:40
	And and a lot of the stuff they're seeing and doing. I mean, yeah, I see it as a big issue. I see a lot of problems arising	00:29:41
	because of that.	00:29:45
	Please bring up two with.	00:29:48
	Jackie knows 13 because they're really they're they're funding is 4 into one stuff.	00:29:50
	Not that.	00:29:57
	Trying to help those things, but jacking them really put them both in person.	00:29:59
	About those things and what they're doing in high school, trying to.	00:30:05
	Make kids aware of their mental health and advocating to talk to people.	00:30:09
	And so I think that's what we can bring up. We're always gonna be together with Jackie. We'll definitely offer the sentiment	00:30:14
	material.	00:30:17
	You're.	00:30:21
	There's a lot of asking those questions. We can pass that along to you because she that that's me and good for her for sure, but	00:30:22
	it's not to us. But I think they can tighten up the work very easily.	00:30:26
	Within the group.	00:30:30
	Thank you.	00:30:33
	In your opening statement you said these results.	00:30:35
	Hanging from the surveys that were returned to you.	00:30:39
	That the students were allowed to return them by their parents.	00:30:44
	So how many students actually returned the survey? If you go to and we can jump to that if you like. If you go to the very last	00:30:51
	page.	00:30:54
	You're going to see that.	00:31:00
	We had over 500.	00:31:02
	Umm.	00:31:04
	Students participate in the survey between.	00:31:05
	So, Coral High Saracino.	00:31:08
	Cottonwood and Magdalena Middle School High School. We had over 500 kids participate.	00:31:11
	Much better than the adults, Yes, Very much, very.	00:31:16
	Much better. It's actually it's 570 so you can see the breakdown. The first table tells you that.	00:31:19
	Uh.	00:31:24
	Every student that was in six through 8th grade at Cottonwood participated. I think there was one student that was absent.	00:31:25
	When they did it.	00:31:31
	But 49 kids participated at Saracino, 167 kids participated.	00:31:32
	At the high school, 229 kids participated, at Magdalena High, 61 participated, and at Magdalena, I'm sorry, Middle school and	00:31:39
	Magdalena High, 64 kids participated.	00:31:44
	And so.	00:31:49
	Every kid at Magdalena also participated. I think he Chris Backstrom and told me that maybe one or two kids.	00:31:52
	Weren't there the whole week that when they were doing that but?	00:31:59
	Majority, like more than 90% of their kids participated at the at Magdalena between middle school and high school.	00:32:02
	Mostly teachers allowed us to.	00:32:08
	Go to class and interact with the kid.	00:32:11
	And help with the.	00:32:15
	We don't use some of our stuff as a grade, right?	00:32:17
	And this The girl loves to do the presentation there, so it helped engage the kids to where it was worth something for them to do	00:32:20
	it.	00:32:24
	Because we asked to do but they got rid of.	00:32:29
	Go ahead.	00:32:33
	Good to learn that's not the aggregated data.	00:32:34
	And they have the report, yeah, I sent.	00:32:37
	The report and public and get those two. You have the you have the full report for the support, the the community survey as well	00:32:41
	as the strategies for success. So there.	00:32:46
	And then I know I'm going. I'm rambling. I'm going to go ahead and jump to my last.	00:32:51
	Bing.	00:32:57
	And get to it. Just catch my breath. It's something new. This is our direct service.	00:32:58
	Everything else is indirect with pamphlets and Flyers and posting stuff on social media and.	00:33:02
	The catch? My breath is our direct service and this is where we go into the high school and we provide.	00:33:09
	Anti vaping presentations to the health classes at the high school. It usually takes about three classes to get it done.	00:33:16
	And so we picked three days to do it, and we.	00:33:23
	We had in the fall we.	00:33:29
	Met with 65 students who participated in the health class.	00:33:31
	There were 3-4 health classes in the fall and three health classes in the spring.	00:33:35
	And then we had 54 kids who participated in the spring.	00:33:39
	And so we're we're.	00:33:42
	Primary trying to hit all those freshmen coming in.	00:33:44
	And then we do have a mix of sophomores, juniors, seniors who maybe didn't have health before they.	00:33:47
	You know when they were freshmen that they have to take it back and so we're hitting those kids. Our hopes are that we can we will	00:33:53
	get funded so we can add catch my Breath to the middle school.	00:33:58
	At this moment in time we haven't been told whether we got the funding or not.	00:34:03
	But once we know, I'll let Polo know.	00:34:06
	And then we hope to be able to add Catch My Breath to the middle school.	00:34:10
	And we would like to.	00:34:14
	Present that to and every different presentation. Same concept, different presentation to the 6th graders so that way they saw it	00:34:16
	when they were 6th grade.	00:34:19
	And then by the time they got the 9th grade, they'd see it again. Three years later and hopefully we can deter students from	00:34:22
	utilizing vaping and other tobacco products.	00:34:27
	Other questions from the Council.	00:34:33
	Mr. Milner.	00:34:37
	Sorry.	00:34:38
	Thank you. Thank you for the time and we appreciate it.	00:34:40
	Have a great day before we go to the next item.	00:34:45
	From last the Council and.	00:34:49
	Mr. Monett on.	00:34:51
	Prophetic form is supposed to be for less than 5 minutes.	00:34:54
	Yes, if this ever comes up again, we need to move it to an item.	00:34:57
	Fair enough. Is that alright with everybody?	00:35:02
	Yeah.	00:35:05
	The next one that Chris is there, Mr. Mayor Kim.	00:35:07
	We have a couple in the audience still under public forum.	00:35:09
	Ohh, OK. I'm sorry.	00:35:13
	That's fine.	00:35:16
	Thank you.	00:35:26
	YouTube.	00:35:27
	Ready.	00:35:28
	Ready to go. It was 101 degrees.	00:35:32
	But all the kids finished.	00:35:35
	These are the head.	00:35:42
	Umm.	00:35:45
	Bring a couple of items to your attention. Obviously it's a huge community effort. I think the city of Socorro where their	00:35:47
	sponsorship in terms of city police presence, EMS.	00:35:52
	And they also provide larger stacks for short Switch are on order for all of you as well. Everybody signs up at the last second.	00:35:57
	So it's really hard to plan for T-shirts. And so we have a 2nd order coming and those I will bring later, but there are New Mexico	00:36:05
	Tech, NRO local businesses. And then most importantly to me, over 60 volunteers come out just before this event. That's more than	00:36:12
	the number of kids participating. But it takes a lot because there are a lot of driveways around Tech campus.	00:36:20
	That I want to make sure I'm monitored for the safety of the kids on the bike. So it's a swim bike run for youth 7 to 14 and this	00:36:27
	was the we say I say 13th annual ish.	00:36:34
	And since there was a break during COVID, but it was, it's great to be back the second year in a row. Last year we were not able	00:36:41
	to finish because of a freak thunderstorm. So this year all those younger kids finally got to actually cross the finish line and	00:36:45
	they were really happy about that.	00:36:50
	And so not only were there a lot of volunteers that included the high schools cross country team and the high school swim team.	00:36:55
	A bunch of the volunteers have been past participants of the youth triathlon, which is really exciting to see them come back and	00:37:02
	give back and give back to the community in that way.	00:37:06
	And you have 43 kids start and finish. What was super exciting to me, 25 or almost 60% were from Socorro County and that's always	00:37:11
	been my goal is to bump up that local participation rate. I mean, I love when families come down from Albuquerque, that's great	00:37:16
	for Socorro, but.	00:37:21
	I do this for the kids who are here and providing new opportunities that they will.	00:37:27
	Likely.	00:37:33
	Reach for other places. So that was very exciting to me. And then another new thing was that four of the kids who participated	00:37:34
	Friday night went to bed, woke up and then participated as part of a relay team with the next morning during the adult race. So	00:37:41
	they did it back-to-back and they most grown-ups didn't do that. So to see them kind of like expand their horizons and say Oh well	00:37:47
	like now I'll take it to the next level and and to do both in the same weekend was really fun.	00:37:54
	And the cross country team was there at the water station and we just had a ton of local participation. And Mike Harmon, future	00:38:02
	Louise.	00:38:05
	Excuse me, we'll report on the adult race. That was Saturday morning, but.	00:38:10
	I just want to thank the City of Squirrel for your continued support. I plan to be back next year. The planning will start in	00:38:14
	January and thank you.	00:38:19
	Thank you. I appreciate all that you do and your you're doing some good stuff. Everybody knows my grandson was in on it too. He	00:38:25
	was the head swimming.	00:38:30
	So thank you for all you do.	00:38:34
	Can you give us a name and?	00:38:37
	I'm there with Contractor, race director for the other triathlon. I also want to say thank you.	00:38:41
	Like the resources you provide the for the shirts.	00:38:47
	Attend the theater, workers. All that keeps our athletes safe and makes a.	00:38:50
	Provide several quality event and like professional event we had over 177 participants.	00:38:57
	One of 25 of them were from Socorro.	00:39:04
	140 were from New Mexico.	00:39:07
	So we have people coming all also from our state from Florida and Michigan.	00:39:10
	Just calling for a triathlon because this is a USAT sanction event.	00:39:15
	People from our state come here.	00:39:19
	And the goal for next year is as.	00:39:22
	Seem a little bit. Increased local participation, 25 external low numbers. Hopefully we can get more local.	00:39:24
	Participation, but on the other hand.	00:39:30
	It's amazing to see me like all the volunteers are locals, you know, faculty, local teams.	00:39:32
	Committee members, club look clubs from Tech, so we get a lot of support from the community and I think that makes.	00:39:39
	Even you being seen like all the community coming together to support.	00:39:48
	To support all these athletes.	00:39:52
	So thank you so much then.	00:39:53
	Yeah, next year we are gonna.	00:39:55
	Try to provide a better event for everybody. Thank you so very much. Thank you.	00:39:57
	Everybody helps Republic form.	00:40:02
	Not seeing any. Do we have Chris here to?	00:40:06
	Give a presentation.	00:40:09
	He did. So he just did it.	00:40:13
	That's that's the one that did it earlier.	00:40:16
	That will be done.	00:40:21
	Ohh, there it is, got buried.	00:40:26
	OK, RFP award.	00:40:32
	WWTP recreation builds on the filter. It's the sewer.	00:40:36
	Plant correct?	00:40:41
	Yes, at the wastewater plant, yes, OK. So we neither item I don't.	00:40:43
	Well, I guess all we need is the resolution number.	00:40:48
	That's just a bit award or it's an award, RFP award.	00:40:51
	And we we it was advertised and we received 22 proposals.	00:40:57
	One from Dennis Engineering and one from Solars.	00:41:03
	We had a committee go over it.	00:41:08
	Also interviewed the headlines real quick.	00:41:10
	So.	00:41:13
	I.	00:41:15
	I.	00:41:17
	After everything.	00:41:19
	After the committee met, I request that it be awarded to So Hope Sowers.	00:41:21
	Anybody have any?	00:41:28
	Questions.	00:41:30
	I'll make a motion to accept that motion. Do we have a second? Second. Second.	00:41:32
	Any discussion?	00:41:39
	I'm hearing on paper.	00:41:41
	Motion passes.	00:41:44
	OK. Any new business?	00:41:47
	Wow.	00:41:50
	And the whole business.	00:41:51
	Peter.	00:41:53
	Ohh Peter.	00:41:54
	Listener.	00:41:58
	Concerning the coral cast.	00:41:59
	I know that the city.	00:42:03
	Contributes dollars and.	00:42:05
	Services towards Socorro Fast.	00:42:08
	And I've had questions.	00:42:11
	From businesses and local musicians.	00:42:13
	Wanting to know if any of the monies.	00:42:17
	Um.	00:42:20
	That.	00:42:22
	Socorro Fast pass.	00:42:23
	Goes to.	00:42:25
	Is this?	00:42:28
	That might perform in in various.	00:42:30
	Businesses.	00:42:33
	Does that happen? Does anybody know?	00:42:34
	Or or who do we ask?	00:42:38
	Hi, Peter.	00:42:41
	Yes. So as the years have gone on and in doing so, Coral Fest.	00:42:43
	We have so many local musicians in Socorro that want to play.	00:42:49
	And um.	00:42:54
	We just don't have enough spots, so if we were just going to have one stage.	00:42:56
	Nobody would get to play. So what we have done over the years, we we added stages. For example, we had one in front of City Hall.	00:43:01
	We had extra tents at the time. We no longer have extra tents.	00:43:10
	To create another state. So what we've kind of done over the years.	00:43:14
	Is we have used the capital bar as one of the stages.	00:43:18
	So the capital bar.	00:43:23
	Basically pays for the expensive bans. Basically the the one that plays at the end of the night, the more expensive bands she pays	00:43:25
	for the.	00:43:30
	Sound system that happens at the cap.	00:43:36
	And then we do end up paying and I don't know if it's city, it's a coral pain, it's New Mexico Tech. We get money from New Mexico	00:43:39
	Tech. So we typically try to use New Mexico tax money.	00:43:44
	To pay for some of that entertainment that we use at the at the capital bar as our as our second stage.	00:43:50
	OK, so who's the contact person in case the business?	00:43:59
	Or a local band.	00:44:04
	Might want to get some information that they can probably contact Ronna who who generally does the contracts with all the local	00:44:07
	musicians because she you know, she knows all of them or they can call Desiree.	00:44:14
	OK.	00:44:22
	Who's our tourism director? Thank you very much.	00:44:23
	Questions on that.	00:44:27
	OK and.	00:44:30
	Old business.	00:44:33
	Anybody need one regular session?	00:44:36
	There's another report out. We don't have to measure, report.	00:44:40
	I don't like to, I guess. In fact I was out of town, but I found out later that Megalina lost their electricity.	00:44:47
	And Councillor Deborah Dean.	00:44:55
	Umm.	00:44:58
	Offered her ice machine truck to go up there and help him out. So councillors, thank you very much for that.	00:44:59
	That's what small communities are for When?	00:45:06
	People can pull together like that because they definitely needed something.	00:45:10
	For not only everything, but I mean cold. Everything needs to be frozen.	00:45:16
	That's very long, so thank you.	00:45:21
	OK, there's report personnel changes at your request.	00:45:25
	Tila Acosta from the Senior Center moving from a temporary to part time temporary.	00:45:33
	$15.00 an hour Joseph John Silva, police officer completed probation a 58 to a 60.	00:45:39
	Simon Gonzalez Junior also plays Officer completed probation a 48 aces.	00:45:46
	In 48585858 to 860.	00:45:53
	And one Manzano from the street.	00:45:59
	Department abandon his job?	00:46:01
	This is an action item.	00:46:05
	Yeah, yes.	00:46:08
	A man.	00:46:10
	The motion to approve personnel change. The second motion in a second any discussion.	00:46:11
	Not any, you know, favor, aye.	00:46:18
	Motion passes.	00:46:22
	Business registrations.	00:46:26
	Something that.	00:46:28
	We have Glencore Environmental LLC that's out of town from Albuquerque.	00:46:29
	Eddie Berto Ramos Asbestos abatement and demolition.	00:46:34
	And start Church St. a collective which is in C2 at 301 S, California.	00:46:38
	Owner is Jeannie Johnson and in the business of retail.	00:46:44
	Action items registrations.	00:46:49
	2nd.	00:46:53
	I want to favor motion passes.	00:46:55
	Thank you everybody. And next meeting will be September the 5th.	00:46:59
	At 6:00 here, City Hall. Thank you ladies and gentlemen.	00:47:04
	Thank you, Peter.	00:47:11