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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
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