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	Still going?	00:00:00
	You know how to do that?	00:00:02
	Good.	00:00:04
	Much better than last night.	00:00:05
	Anyway, this is the City of Solar City Council meeting.	00:00:07
	Tuesday, October 17 to 2023 Roll call please. Mayor Basker here.	00:00:10
	Councillor Travis Lopez. Yeah, Councillor Dean.	00:00:16
	Thank you, Councillor Fleming.	00:00:19
	Councillor Hicks, Councillor Ocampo.	00:00:22
	Councillor, Councillor Romero here, Councillor Salome, we have a quorum. Alright, Pleasure, Allegiance.	00:00:26
	I pledge allegiance to.	00:00:37
	Of the United States of America.	00:00:39
	And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God.	00:00:41
	Into this world.	00:00:45
	And just small.	00:00:47
	Mr. Romero.	00:00:53
	We approve the.	00:00:54
	Consent agenda.	00:00:56
	I second it seconded the special.	00:00:58
	All in favor, aye.	00:01:00
	Mr. Ogin.	00:01:05
	Ohh, through the agenda.	00:01:06
	Ohh, that's part of it already, OK.	00:01:10
	Public forum when you guys turn this around, what's going on here?	00:01:14
	There's no public hearing public comment.	00:01:18
	Public forum.	00:01:21
	Oh, oh, sorry. We're down there.	00:01:23
	Mr. Mayor, Well, here I'm going to let me get myself situated.	00:01:26
	I just want to say that all these resolutions are part of the consent agenda, right? And the voucher run. But.	00:01:31
	They're pretty interesting. I mean, you got the trails grant, you've got the wastewater, you got law enforcement, landfill	00:01:36
	compactor.	00:01:39
	CNG, VW reimbursement.	00:01:43
	Airport, there's a lot of resolutions that hopefully the council realizes what what that's all about because.	00:01:46
	We're talking about millions of dollars here.	00:01:52
	Anyhow.	00:01:55
	Mr. Mayor, Mr. About that short lived asset.	00:01:57
	Is that short lived assets?	00:02:01
	I don't know. Ruby knows all about that short lived asset.	00:02:04
	I mean.	00:02:07
	I mean, there was an expiration date on the check.	00:02:08
	Council, mayor, So the short of gas is it's for the USDA loan for the wastewater collection and the wastewater facility. So I have	00:02:11
	to put 76,000.	00:02:16
	A year or two for maintenance on the wastewater collection and the wastewater facility. So it's 150.	00:02:20
	3000 that's what we put away.	00:02:28
	Have to transfer it.	00:02:30
	Yearly, and I'll have to do that for the life of the loan for 40 years.	00:02:31
	OK.	00:02:36
	Any other questions? No, no, just it's hasn't had any questions. I'm just saying there are a lot of.	00:02:39
	There's a lot of.	00:02:44
	Lot of stuff there just to let you know.	00:02:45
	What we've got, I mean a lot of it is bridge loans and a lot of his payoffs and.	00:02:48
	And it's good to explain to you that publicly like that compact alone.	00:02:52
	The the landfill wanna say a little bit so I can go. You want me to go over each one of them? Yeah, touch on them. I think it's. I	00:02:56
	think it's a good budget. Resolution #1, which is the trails grant. So the city got 50,000 dollars 5000 remote administration.	00:03:02
	45,000 will go for the contract for the trails. They're going to be developing a trail and that's the trail that Donald we're	00:03:09
	talking about with Mr. Salina. Yes Sir.	00:03:14
	And then as soon as we get, that's a planning grant which we're working with.	00:03:19
	The jet, the same company that we talked about, the landscaping.	00:03:25
	And I'm at Finley.	00:03:30
	Ohh, OK, so as soon as that planning gets done, we're gonna apply for another one of the Quality of Life Recreation grants to	00:03:32
	actually build the trails.	00:03:36
	Grant writer Resolution Shoes. So we received 40,000 last fiscal year and 30,000 this fiscal year.	00:03:42
	We did receive the revenue this year.	00:03:48
	And so that's just for we use uh, Gwen Valentino for that, since she's done very, very well.	00:03:50
	Done very well.	00:03:56
	Collection payment. This is just the loan on the wastewater collection lines. It's actually coming out of our USDA loan and I'm	00:03:58
	trying to transfer it.	00:04:02
	To wastewater, but I haven't, they've been taking it out of our USDA account, which is a different account. So I just had to have	00:04:06
	a resolution for that.	00:04:10
	Uh, this is #4 is the law enforcement ground, so we're receiving 393,000 for supported positions. I'm going to be meeting with	00:04:15
	Angel and Donald on Thursday to develop some positions for.	00:04:22
	That that's a total of 1,000,000 that we've received so far.	00:04:30
	Yeah, so.	00:04:34
	Angel just want to.	00:04:36
	Hire a new officer. We're able to use officers that we already hired. We hired one guy, so we're gonna go ahead and take it out of	00:04:37
	this grant.	00:04:40
	And possibly maybe security. So we're working on that and I'll update you guys on next meeting.	00:04:43
	Uh, but the resolution is #5 is the.	00:04:50
	Landfill loan that we received for the two cells, we did receive it this fiscal year, but we paid it last fiscal year. So I do	00:04:53
	need the revenue for that. So we're just putting that back into joint enterprise.	00:04:59
	I do need to set up a reserve loan, so out of that.	00:05:05
	Bond they did give us 140,177 to put into a reserve loan for the landfill.	00:05:10
	Number six is also a reserve account for the compactor loan we received. We will not be purchasing that.	00:05:17
	Compact for another year. So that's how long it's going to take to build, but we do have the loan ready to pay for it.	00:05:25
	#7 is our actually our CNG. I left out the reimbursement for the wastewater, so.	00:05:31
	This will be the dump truck. We did receive the three dump trucks.	00:05:38
	I did receive the loan for that, so I'm just setting up.	00:05:41
	The payments for it. As soon as we get the garbage trucks, we plan to pay off the loan completely.	00:05:45
	#8	00:05:51
	this is grant revenue.	00:05:52
	Umm.	00:05:56
	For the airport, we received COVID money.	00:05:57
	And we received it this fiscal year. So we're using that to purchase a truck.	00:06:01
	We're gonna do half gas requirement and half.	00:06:06
	Airport, but that was revenue money that we received from.	00:06:10
	COVID.	00:06:13
	#9 is the shortened down since I went over that. That's just putting money aside to do maintenance on the wastewater facility	00:06:14
	wastewater collection.	00:06:19
	#10 is wastewater facility. So we completed the wastewater facility, but we still had a little bit of.	00:06:25
	Umm.	00:06:31
	Invoices due to dentist engineering which was 7000 so I transferred that.	00:06:33
	At the beginning, catch glance.	00:06:37
	Um, budget resolution #11 was just the Convention Center.	00:06:40
	There's some electric being done out there for the signs and the storage building, so that's gonna just come out of beginning cash	00:06:44
	balance from Convention Center.	00:06:48
	That wasn't budgeted.	00:06:52
	And then all the rest of the 101 in house resolution. I'm just moving budget items around to cover.	00:06:53
	You know, maybe I maybe made some errors, maybe.	00:06:59
	So I'm just moving stuff around that's not going to affect the budget. It's just moving line items.	00:07:01
	And that's it for.	00:07:06
	Thank you. Yeah. That's a lot. Thank you. OK. Thank you, honey.	00:07:08
	Thank.	00:07:12
	OK.	00:07:12
	And so now we have the public forum. I see cross country out there.	00:07:13
	And just in time.	00:07:21
	And here.	00:07:23
	City Thank you to Steve and his crew. Out of the Rodeo grounds we hosted Screw High School cross country hosted a home week on	00:07:26
	Friday, October 6th. We hosted 12 teams from around the state.	00:07:32
	And 216 runners out of the rodeo grounds and it was just a fantastic day and Steve and his and Raul and his crew did a great job	00:07:38
	getting the course.	00:07:42
	In tip top shape and he was really responsive to all my messages. Ohh I'd porta potties and you just wonder moved ohh I need this	00:07:46
	and and he was so kind so thank you. Steve and Raul did a bunch of work on the course making sure that the Royals were unable.	00:07:54
	Because every time it rains.	00:08:02
	To take her work, but it was in great shape.	00:08:04
	I don't think we had any injuries and Socorro ran really well and it was fun to be able to host.	00:08:08
	Teams who don't typically come to the world. Last year we hosted, I think 5 or 16 minutes. You were up to 12.	00:08:14
	And we have to create centralized location. We had teams from Santa Fe and Ruidoso and Capitan and Deming and Silver City and	00:08:20
	Berlin, and they just really came and Canada and Cuba.	00:08:26
	So it was really kind of from all over and we had varsity races, JV and middle school. So it was a great day and we will also be	00:08:32
	hosting our district meet on Friday, November 3rd. So we've got.	00:08:38
	More around Steve.	00:08:44
	Umm.	00:08:46
	And I anticipate that to be a great day too. This is the district meetings where our runners have the chance to qualify for state.	00:08:47
	And and where like it's really the only meat of the season that truly matters in terms of performance. But we've been improving by	00:08:53
	leaps and bounds and it was really fun to be able to run in front of our home crowds, so.	00:08:59
	Thank you for that facility.	00:09:05
	The coaches were very complimentary about the condition of the of the course and the facility in general. They were all very	00:09:07
	surprised at this defined this Gen.	00:09:11
	Around like 25. So I think that it's just my girl from here.	00:09:17
	So thank you.	00:09:21
	Yeah. Thank you. And thank you for getting that program on the.	00:09:23
	Under the radar for everybody. That's terrific, right. Did you have much to do with the bicyclic one that they had the week before	00:09:26
	so the day the week before. No. I'm friends with the organizer but I don't know anything about thank you that's, you know all	00:09:33
	these events are just terrific event especially all done by volunteers and Steve and his crew. I'm not saying that they're not	00:09:39
	volunteering but they do a great job and and with the rains I know I've been through those arroyos and after the rains.	00:09:46
	That's a lot of work. It's a lot of work.	00:09:53
	And we just appreciate being allowed out there and and welcomed and encouraged to use the facility. So thank you. Great. Thank	00:09:56
	you. Thank you for giving us the report. Mr. Olgin was gonna say, just make sure Abby wins next year.	00:10:02
	She's going for it. Gotta win the whole tournament, yeah?	00:10:11
	Well, she's she's going for the district.	00:10:14
	Account. So don't put that in the minute. I don't want any pressure, but sure.	00:10:17
	Good job. Thank you. I retract that statement then.	00:10:23
	Thank you for coming and giving us the.	00:10:26
	Update anyone else out in the public forum.	00:10:29
	Alright, you don't have to stay with you.	00:10:32
	OK, so we've got the transfer of the ownership of canopy liquor license, Mr. Mayor, just Mr.	00:10:35
	Make motion with the public hearing for the liquor license transfer second.	00:10:42
	Moved and seconded all in favor.	00:10:46
	Not hearing anything from the audience.	00:10:49
	Let's go back into regular session.	00:10:53
	There, that's better.	00:10:55
	Not seeing anybody from the public, I move we go back to the regular session.	00:10:56
	All in favor, aye.	00:11:02
	Mr. Hicks.	00:11:05
	Shall we transfer it?	00:11:08
	That was coming out of Yes Sir, I made the motion transfer.	00:11:10
	Moved and seconded.	00:11:13
	All in favor, aye.	00:11:15
	Resolution for the Law Enforcement Fund Grant.	00:11:17
	Mr. Mayor, that's that's me again. We approved that at the last meeting.	00:11:20
	But lo and behold, I forgot to change the new grant agreement number, so they would like to a new resolution with the correct.	00:11:24
	Number on it.	00:11:32
	Here.	00:11:34
	Looks that case I moved them. We passed resolution 23-10-17A.	00:11:35
	Moved and seconded. All in favor, aye?	00:11:42
	Funding for public transportation.	00:11:45
	Mayor Mr. Next Motion to pass Resolution #23 Task Dash 10-17, Three Public Transport System.	00:11:48
	2nd.	00:11:56
	Moved and seconded.	00:11:57
	Mr.	00:11:58
	Carlos.	00:11:59
	How's it going with transportation?	00:12:00
	How's your trips between Berlin and the Roadrunner, I mean, and here?	00:12:04
	I didn't get a phone call though. Thank you.	00:12:16
	But you are how many do you get? A lot of customers or?	00:12:20
	Yeah.	00:12:22
	Really.	00:12:28
	Good. Good.	00:12:29
	But.	00:12:30
	Great.	00:12:31
	All in favor, aye.	00:12:32
	And new business.	00:12:34
	Mayor, there have a couple little things on that.	00:12:37
	What does that campaigning that someone on Main Street behind the ditch of me?	00:12:42
	They're asking for a speed bump down that.	00:12:46
	And I said up, there you go.	00:12:49
	What can you do?	00:12:51
	If that's.	00:12:52
	On Main Street, it's.	00:12:54
	It's the middle Rd. It's the long when it goes all the way across to the time used to be by the church.	00:12:57
	Which?	00:13:04
	No.	00:13:05
	Across the ditch for me.	00:13:06
	It's the railroad tracks one Rd. Then Main Street than the other Rd.	00:13:08
	OK.	00:13:12
	I think that'll make you sound, and I believe we have installed a couple.	00:13:13
	Speed humps over there, but then I also believe that road is still on the list.	00:13:17
	Yes on on the limiter languages, but nothing.	00:13:21
	Anyway, I don't not bring it up. We'll take also on.	00:13:25
	What is responsible for the lighting on the off and on graphs?	00:13:29
	We are, We are and and.	00:13:33
	We have worked it.	00:13:37
	We had a big glitch here.	00:13:38
	Week and a half ago.	00:13:41
	They shorted it out, the people who are actually working on that ramp.	00:13:43
	150.	00:13:47
	And then Darrell Ross had to go through the whole city.	00:13:49
	Fixing some of the problems, but I think they're all fixed the one at the north exit.	00:13:53
	Heading South?	00:14:00
	Ohh. When you move around, Yeah, when you roll around. Just as you get to the freeway right beside the bridge. I'll go ahead. I'll	00:14:02
	get one. Flicks all night long. I've got to talk to Lord about that, you see?	00:14:08
	The one that you come around then you're going South. It's not coming in north for sure. OK. That's the one that we're working on,	00:14:15
	but we'll let's work on that. But we are responsible now for that. OK. Thank you. Yeah.	00:14:20
	Any other new business?	00:14:26
	Old business, right? It's still again.	00:14:28
	Just wanted to.	00:14:31
	And note that when, when we had that, I think it was at the July 5th meeting when we had the coop.	00:14:33
	Here and then the attorneys, yeah.	00:14:40
	Umm, there was talk that and I was trying to find in the Minutes, but.	00:14:42
	We requested to see if the the our attorneys can give us at least to start with the sample.	00:14:45
	Franchise agreement of what? A real.	00:14:50
	Agreement would look like.	00:14:53
	OK.	00:14:56
	Sure.	00:14:59
	And I think I shouldn't. I thought we had a. Didn't we have a boilerplate that was like 30 pages long?	00:15:00
	That Nan gave us.	00:15:07
	Number.	00:15:10
	No.	00:15:13
	OK, let me let me remind her. Let me remind her. Sure, she has it. So let me remind her because she did. She did have one that was	00:15:13
	a.	00:15:17
	Kind of a.	00:15:21
	Boilerplate of the franchise agreement of a new one. I'll give her a call tomorrow. There's a lot that was going on. We talked	00:15:22
	about that could go into that that.	00:15:26
	Right.	00:15:31
	OK.	00:15:33
	I'm not sure what's the purpose of that.	00:15:36
	I'm just going to see what it fits for the progress on and see if we're going to get a copy of 1 to see what it looks like. That's	00:15:38
	a new one of a new one.	00:15:41
	That the city, if the city were to propose a franchise, we were the proposal.	00:15:45
	OK. The nuts and bolts that would go inside that franchise agreement to satisfy?	00:15:49
	The.	00:15:55
	Is content or whatever.	00:15:56
	OK.	00:15:58
	OK, we're going to do that.	00:16:00
	I I just, I just thought that at this point the franchise agreements.	00:16:02
	The councillor said that we were not going to renew the franchise.	00:16:06
	And that was going to terminate, as a judge said in May 2024.	00:16:09
	But we can produce one.	00:16:13
	If if there's a.	00:16:16
	Boilerplate. I don't think that there's any intention of trying to get it signed.	00:16:17
	We can produce one.	00:16:22
	I think, I think we did have some. I remember that she had.	00:16:24
	Said well, this five or four page one is like very flimsy.	00:16:27
	That's what I was going to try to find something. It's gonna be requested.	00:16:31
	Producing that has all the stuff in there that I'll deal with her tomorrow. Communities have been there, we'll get that done.	00:16:35
	We'll get it done.	00:16:42
	The I've got all the directors here. Any.	00:16:43
	Questions.	00:16:47
	Mike is a new landfill.	00:16:50
	Sell open yet or is it?	00:16:52
	Is it almost there?	00:16:55
	Open.	00:16:58
	And the council, we've been approved.	00:17:01
	To start dumping in there.	00:17:03
	We haven't started yet because.	00:17:06
	Had a contractor come in as we discussed at one of the meetings too.	00:17:08
	Grind all the trillions has been done.	00:17:12
	So now I have.	00:17:14
	A few piles of mulch that we need to move.	00:17:16
	Did they come through and do it? They came through and did awesome.	00:17:19
	Took two days.	00:17:23
	Wow. You know they had.	00:17:24
	And if you've been out there, unbelievable mountains of.	00:17:26
	Limbs, yes, And he did.	00:17:30
	All of them did all of it in two days. Wow.	00:17:32
	Two days or two days ago I had a had a tub grinder their their machine looks makes ours look like a baby. So Ohh, yeah Ohh yeah	00:17:35
	yeah so. So now this is going to be used for cover. They'll be used for the.	00:17:41
	Number of the.	00:17:48
	Yeah.	00:17:49
	Of the cell one and two.	00:17:50
	You know, you know, and I don't know if the public understands the accomplishment of that landfill.	00:17:51
	As to what has been done out there.	00:17:57
	I mean, that's a ninth wonder of the world that we have a landfill for city like this.	00:18:00
	And for you to manage it and get it going, you got your methane clearance and all that too.	00:18:05
	But it's it's really something.	00:18:10
	That's a.	00:18:12
	Very exceptional.	00:18:13
	The public needs to realize that there's no longer a dump, it's an actual landfill.	00:18:15
	Yeah, that's so true. And it costs twice as much to run.	00:18:20
	That's the other part of it. Well, people say, you know, why can't we just dump here? Because it's just a dump. It's not just a	00:18:24
	dump. There's no rules and regulations that we have to follow through. I I'd like to know a small town or any town that far size	00:18:29
	that has a landfill. There's no town that has a landfill.	00:18:35
	And that makes it more convenient for people to come in from the county and from everywhere else to.	00:18:40
	You know, I set up some transfer station. We try our best to stay open. Wins. Sometimes they make us close. Ohh yeah, you guys	00:18:45
	never open. I forgot about that. It's that wind.	00:18:50
	No, I get written up again on litter. That's fine to being we got last time. No, that's pretty good, very good.	00:18:55
	Michael, you have a recycling program. You have a vendor come in and take take some of the metal out. That's good.	00:19:01
	Because I had a vendor comes from from Las Cruces and another one from Albuquerque. They kind of take turns, you know, everybody's	00:19:07
	gonna.	00:19:10
	I tried to share the wealth. Yeah, that's a good idea.	00:19:14
	All right. Thank you, Felipe. Anything new?	00:19:18
	How's that? I mean everybody could always concerned about the animal shelter.	00:19:20
	How's that working out? You know that's in the game.	00:19:24
	You know something I never hear about, which is great.	00:19:27
	Look, I mean he takes care of the animal shelter in the dispatch also, but.	00:19:30
	Believe me, before I took over a little get a phone call almost every week about something that's been really good.	00:19:34
	Animal shelter is where that capacity, we're over capacity, but we do have.	00:19:40
	I think they're called Pause and friends. They're an agency out of Utah. They're coming down tomorrow at 1:00 to see the shelter.	00:19:47
	And they're possibly gonna have us sign a contract with them where they're going to possibly do four to five transports a year.	00:19:53
	So that's that's always a good thing, especially with all of the shelters being full and all of the rescues being full. And that's	00:20:01
	nationwide, not just in the state.	00:20:06
	I know last week we had an adoption event for one of the private businesses.	00:20:11
	I didn't find out about that event until Wednesday night, and it was just by sheer coincidence that I found out. Was that the	00:20:17
	marijuana business, correct?	00:20:21
	I did speak with both parties, both Valencia County and the owner of the facility.	00:20:26
	According to them, they attempted to reach out to us. I've never spoken to either one of the agencies administration.	00:20:32
	So.	00:20:40
	I did inform them of how we felt about it. It was kind of kicking the pants for us.	00:20:42
	But there's really nothing I can do. I went through the ordinance looking to see if there was anything in there that we could	00:20:48
	prohibit them from doing.	00:20:51
	All the dogs were spayed and neutered. They did have their vaccinations and their rabies vaccinated. They come from Valencia	00:20:54
	County.	00:20:58
	Bringing them here to be adopted in Socorro? Correct. The private business paid for all the adoptions.	00:21:03
	So they were free.	00:21:10
	To the public or whoever wanted them, so I'm sure in a few months I'll be picking them.	00:21:11
	Well, good for Valencia County. Yeah. So, Mr. Fleming, how many did they bring down? My understanding, I think it was 30.	00:21:19
	Well, let's do one up there. That's what Robert.	00:21:30
	Just the place to take them.	00:21:36
	The owner of the business did say they do four to five adoption events a year also.	00:21:38
	And I did tell them that.	00:21:45
	I would hope that for the next one that they have, we come into consideration.	00:21:47
	And that Valencia County is no longer.	00:21:52
	Brought here so.	00:21:54
	Yeah.	00:21:57
	And your dispatch, How are you doing with that? Dispatch is good. We have one position open. I believe it closes soon.	00:21:59
	Thursday, so we're hoping to fill that position.	00:22:06
	And everybody's certified.	00:22:10
	Everybody's trained awesome, so.	00:22:13
	So we're, as you heard conditionings working in all things up today. We did have one issue in the video room which.	00:22:15
	TLC came down and replaced the head unit. Other than that everything is working just fine.	00:22:22
	Great. Thank you.	00:22:29
	Chief Garcia.	00:22:30
	Tell us about the move and what's going on over there at the.	00:22:32
	Zimmerly And What's the predicted timeline and how is that working?	00:22:35
	We got contacted by the cameras.	00:22:39
	The specialist is coming down to install the cameras.	00:22:42
	They're anticipating about the 30th of this month to get the cameras in there.	00:22:45
	I spoke to Scott and Ryan today. They're working on.	00:22:49
	Fixing the fiber for phones.	00:22:54
	Without that, we can't go there.	00:22:56
	Um, so we're we're hoping within a month that would be able to be in there.	00:22:58
	In a month, hopefully.	00:23:02
	And your offices are all segregated away from another area or.	00:23:05
	Pretty much the only thing that's in there right now is friends of the library, I believe.	00:23:09
	Uh, so we're we're not sure how that's gonna work because they both use the main entrance and you don't have an alternative school	00:23:14
	in there too. Or no, no.	00:23:17
	Northern School just MU that we.	00:23:21
	Have.	00:23:24
	Yeah, no, but I was, I was under the impression they might put in a.	00:23:26
	Not to our not to. The last time we talked there, they were not considering that anymore. They're going to move it up to the high	00:23:30
	school, I believe.	00:23:33
	Every Sunday, MU Yes, Sir. Yes Sir.	00:23:37
	So and the budget for that.	00:23:40
	Your budget for that?	00:23:43
	For the move.	00:23:45
	That's probably going to come out of building maintenance or?	00:23:46
	Something similar.	00:23:49
	And we're going to abandon the existing police station.	00:23:51
	We're going to try to because we still have evidence that's in there that has three rooms that are jam packed, so.	00:23:55
	Uh.	00:24:00
	Russell's been working with the an evidence custodian from out of Socorro.	00:24:01
	To see how they're getting their their destruction orders.	00:24:07
	And in bulk to get removed because we have a lot of stuff there from many years ago that need to be.	00:24:11
	So they have the DA cleared that. I mean, there's things that DA has to clear. Yes, there is. And that's what they're working with	00:24:17
	that that evidence tech is helping him.	00:24:21
	Compile the paperwork to do that, and for the day's office, sign off on.	00:24:26
	Mr. Fleming.	00:24:31
	Chief.	00:24:34
	If we're abandoning the whole building, what are we going to do with Lupe and dispatch?	00:24:35
	It's not to hold. No, we're we're abandoning, basically, the old school.	00:24:40
	Not the music, the old music room that we're in now.	00:24:46
	So it's basically the old part where Municipal Court is.	00:24:49
	Um.	00:24:54
	I don't know, I I don't know if you guys are planning on making.	00:24:55
	Making it bigger, Lot or no, that's going to be demoed.	00:24:59
	Letter is going to be downloaded.	00:25:02
	And adjust the middle well on the South end also from the Municipal Court South.	00:25:04
	But that again, we're still trying to form all that together, but that's probably going to be demo.	00:25:14
	We recently purchased 4 vehicles from New Mexico State Police. I showed them to Donald and there the other day.	00:25:18
	Got 2 tahoes and two explorers.	00:25:25
	Uh, they just three of them just got done. Uh, we're lacking one more.	00:25:27
	Um.	00:25:32
	We got four for price of 1 brand new one and they're very good price and they come fully equipped.	00:25:33
	New ones crossing the spot 38,000.	00:25:38
	And then another 13 to 14,000 to equip them so.	00:25:41
	For one vehicle we got four that are, you know, exceptional. Exceptional by yeah.	00:25:46
	Right. And we're looking forward to the grant and talking on Thursday about hiring and.	00:25:52
	Putting people in places that need to be.	00:25:57
	Any questions? Ohh. I also talked to Mr. Patterson.	00:26:01
	I stopped him yesterday on a traffic stop on AU TV.	00:26:06
	I assured him that we're still working on that proposal.	00:26:10
	There's an ordinance that the City Council are going to have to approve, which is been passed in other cities.	00:26:13
	And so we'll basically just take a boilerplate from Tier C or you know, the Angelina also just passed theirs. We'll bring it. The	00:26:19
	only thing with Madeline Kent, we'll get operate on state highways. So get it done. Back roads, yes, not state highway. Thank you.	00:26:25
	Thank you for getting that done.	00:26:31
	Alright.	00:26:37
	Any questions?	00:26:39
	Okay Fornia is our street right now.	00:26:41
	California found out yesterday. California is ours Hwy. 85 and I don't is Hwy. 85 hours. I don't think it's Hwy. 85 and Hwy. 60 is	00:26:45
	not. No, no Hwy. 85 from a stoplight that way. Yeah, OK.	00:26:51
	So and then.	00:26:58
	Spring Street and Hwy. 60 up to the hospitals also not.	00:27:00
	Mr. Clement, Chief, the frontage roads are still state highways. Also, yes, OHH frontage rules right The front row that leads to	00:27:04
	Florida in the front row that leads out on the other side to Mr. Garcia is also state highway.	00:27:10
	Thank you. Yes, questions Chief Baker, anything?	00:27:19
	No.	00:27:24
	What?	00:27:26
	Well, a couple of things. We're getting ready to hire four people today. Hopefully we get approved.	00:27:30
	That'll give us a full staff.	00:27:35
	Not certified, but a full staff with a.	00:27:37
	One we have retiring at the end of the year and then we're losing one in March. He's moving away, so.	00:27:40
	Hopefully we'll get those guys hired and get them in classes so we can get kind of.	00:27:45
	Offset some of that loss that we take when those guys do leave.	00:27:49
	Another thing is we did apply for a grant for some bunker gear that we really need and we got denied the grant, so we're going to	00:27:53
	have to look to see what we could do on that.	00:27:57
	How much is that?	00:28:02
	It's roughly around 8090 thousand.	00:28:03
	For for a set for all 16 people.	00:28:06
	So.	00:28:09
	And then currently we're we're waiting, we're finishing up a grant for our new ambulance as well. So, so we'll see what happens.	00:28:11
	Any questions?	00:28:19
	Mr. Was the grant that was turned down the state grant or the federal grant? No, it's the fire grant, the state of the state.	00:28:20
	Well, I mean what there any reason or?	00:28:28
	No, he just said that. He just unfortunately we.	00:28:30
	There's other departments that.	00:28:33
	Needed.	00:28:35
	In itself more than we did so.	00:28:36
	And the hard thing about that is, is the state they just came down and inspected us for. We talked about our ISO.	00:28:39
	And there's a lot of things that they require, and one of them is a bunker gear.	00:28:44
	You know, for us to.	00:28:48
	When we fight fire, we're supposed to have a second set for each individual.	00:28:49
	That way when we clean them and wash them and the cat decontaminate them.	00:28:53
	We have other set to be able to and and we don't have that right now, so.	00:28:56
	And even when we hire new people, we're just kind of piercing.	00:29:00
	Parts together behind them, over to people that that lead at the next budget committee meeting, you can try to put that in.	00:29:03
	Mr. Chief, you said they came down to check our ISO rating. Well, they they did a pre inspection for the ISO rating that that that	00:29:11
	actual inspections by not going to be for another few months, but they come down and do a pre inspection.	00:29:18
	And kind of.	00:29:25
	Give us a heads up as to what we need to work on.	00:29:26
	And like I told you guys, we're only 9 1/2 points away for months. I sold three. We're out of four right now. So he basically gave	00:29:29
	us some ways that he thinks that maybe we can get down to a three.	00:29:33
	And we're working on that right now, so.	00:29:38
	Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Chief, Steve, anything.	00:29:42
	New, but you know, I gotta congratulate you on all the events that you continue having. I and I see it when when Darrell Ross.	00:29:46
	Puts up the pictures at the other rodeo events and.	00:29:54
	And of course, all the cross country and soccer. It was so still going.	00:29:57
	Yeah so Ohh.	00:30:02
	Ohh, no, that's OK. I have Steve.	00:30:05
	He he's he's he's what? He's worn out. He's doing it. He's done a good job. There's a lot of work out there and.	00:30:08
	And your equipment is in good shape.	00:30:14
	OK, go ahead.	00:30:16
	Does he?	00:30:17
	Any change? Anything new?	00:30:19
	Yeah, so there's quite a few things happening on Saturday or this weekend, I should say.	00:30:24
	The LA Open House is happening this weekend.	00:30:28
	That'll be from 9:00 to 4:00.	00:30:32
	We'll have the Trinity site opening.	00:30:34
	That's eight to two and I believe Carlos is given rides on Saturday.	00:30:37
	UM and also basketball patches having a.	00:30:43
	Ted's slash adult event they'll have.	00:30:46
	Believe face painting and.	00:30:49
	This kids activities out there.	00:30:51
	And in conjunction with that, we're also doing a tour.	00:30:53
	Yeah. So we are setting up a tour of Fort Craig to where individuals will be able to go out to Fort Craig. They'll stay in the	00:30:57
	parking lot and then Carlos as well. We'll take them from the Fort to the battlefield that is adjacent to the Fort. It's about 8	00:31:03
	miles away. So he'll transport them from the parking lot over to the battlefield. They'll have a nice little presentation there	00:31:10
	for them and just make a presentation so the staff at Fort Craig and us.	00:31:16
	Because that really needs to be highlighted in that area. Yeah. Battle of the Valverde or whatever. Yeah. Yes, Sir. And so that	00:31:25
	would be on this Friday. Yeah, Awesome. So you're busy. You're book.	00:31:30
	And you?	00:31:36
	You have a gun show coming up.	00:31:38
	That's on Saturday. That's the Lifeline Club, I believe with us and Ted Kelly Kelly. It's all over Albuquerque.	00:31:41
	The sponsor they have is doing a very good job of getting it out.	00:31:52
	Yeah, how are the crazy 49ers?	00:31:57
	Was it?	00:32:02
	I mean worked. Everything worked well.	00:32:03
	Yeah, the tent worked well. They got it down on Saturday. Floyd's crew.	00:32:06
	But they, they used it on Friday. So the Light parade and the Light parade, Yeah, thank you.	00:32:11
	I just wanted to say if any of you guys are interested in joining the tour there's a pre registration. I could get you guys the	00:32:18
	link.	00:32:20
	It's something really interesting.	00:32:24
	I would love to have you so.	00:32:27
	There's only 18 seats. I believe so. And we also announced this year's Electric Light Parade theme, So we're gonna go with a	00:32:28
	gingerbread holiday this year. So keep an eye out for your parade applications. Let people know that that's what we're doing.	00:32:34
	And so what's how are you working with the Festival of the Cranes? Do you do anything with them at all? So they're.	00:32:42
	Basically what we're doing is we're hosting the light parade December 9th.	00:32:49
	So it ends.	00:32:53
	Just as the festival of the Cranes.	00:32:55
	Or it starts just as the festival of the cranes ends so.	00:32:58
	Hopefully we'll get some of those birders we can.	00:33:01
	Um.	00:33:03
	Basketball Apache friends of the Boskey said that we could advertise our stuff that's happened on the puzzle with them so.	00:33:05
	And that's kind of what we tried to do last year we'll try to do.	00:33:10
	A little bit better job this year.	00:33:13
	Yes, I'm sorry, yes. And Transportation will be providing rides for the birders too, so.	00:33:17
	Yeah, we're gonna use the Opera House. Or are they gonna do, you know? Yeah, yeah, they're doing arts. Yeah. The Socorro County	00:33:24
	Arts is gonna be hosting their Arts and Craft show in the Garcia Opera House again.	00:33:29
	So.	00:33:35
	All week. I think it's Thursday.	00:33:36
	Friday Saturday.	00:33:38
	So great. And of course as always we're having the look on to as well and Lawrence guys are putting together.	00:33:39
	Someone contact.	00:33:45
	Yeah, that'd be a lot happening.	00:33:46
	Mr. You guys having anything on the 28th?	00:33:49
	At the Plaza life for the Trunk and Treats. Ohh yeah, the Fall Fun Fest that's going to happen on Halloween night. Actually, she	00:33:52
	is the one kind of spearheading that.	00:33:56
	And so there will be.	00:34:01
	Tons of activity. She sent an e-mail out to all the department heads, and we're all just kind of.	00:34:04
	Joining in on.	00:34:08
	What we can umm, so there will be different activities. There would be, I believe the libraries hosting the costume contest.	00:34:10
	We'll be doing a Donuts on the string.	00:34:16
	Activity.	00:34:18
	There will be some trunk or treaters.	00:34:20
	Every many other activities on the Halloween night though I believe on the 28th is the.	00:34:22
	New Mexico Tech Monster Mash.	00:34:29
	And that's happening on Campus Drive, so.	00:34:31
	I'm I'm going to the public. I'm running the Don't think in the mirror.	00:34:35
	Already volunteered to be the first one to get done.	00:34:39
	That's like, you know, you guys have unbelievable stuff that you're doing and sharing and thank you for the Highway 60.	00:34:44
	Thing that was that was done very well. I mean, it's just a lot of stuff going on.	00:34:50
	Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.	00:34:54
	Also add that this weekend they're having a big race across the river. Motorcycle race. We're good as hell, yeah.	00:34:57
	This weekend.	00:35:04
	Youngsters.	00:35:06
	Start at 10 and they're true by 9.	00:35:07
	And then the hill climbs that tree.	00:35:10
	And then Sunday morning is the big race.	00:35:13
	And it's about a 25 mile loop in the beginners do it one the novice doesn't 2 laps and the experts do it 4.	00:35:16
	That's all said. He wants to come out and look at it. It's going to be fun. That'll be fun this weekend.	00:35:26
	Sounds good.	00:35:32
	The kids race Saturday at about 11:50. The hill climbs about 3 thereabouts.	00:35:37
	And the big race starts out Sunday at 8:00.	00:35:44
	Eight or nine, I think it's 9.	00:35:48
	And then whoever goes up my hill the fastest, I sponsored it for $200.	00:35:50
	Very nice, yes. A big race every year when they Yeah ohh, yeah, Ohh.	00:35:57
	They camp out there. How did they work?	00:36:02
	They camped many of the races stay out there, the grandparents and.	00:36:03
	The families usually come into town and stay at the hotels. Great, because they don't want to leave their bikes out there.	00:36:08
	Alright, alright, right.	00:36:11
	Chris, thanks a lot of that money in town. Ohh, they do. That's a big risk.	00:36:15
	How are you spending any time at the schools?	00:36:19
	Yeah.	00:36:23
	How's that going? It's going great. And which school? Tell us with the middle school?	00:36:24
	Were there?	00:36:29
	I do an hour. Scooby does an hour. He goes in the morning, I'm going the afternoon.	00:36:30
	And so far so good.	00:36:35
	Any specific things that happen or is just mostly this and that just isn't that smoking country crazy?	00:36:37
	And the code enforcement, how are we doing?	00:36:44
	So yeah, I'm working there.	00:36:47
	Side of town now so.	00:36:50
	Trying to get it cleaned up.	00:36:52
	You know, we're we're trying to pick together.	00:36:54
	Where the onus of cleaning up is not on the person.	00:36:57
	If we can get them to sign off.	00:37:01
	On things that are out there that we think are not shouldn't be out there and we can tag them.	00:37:03
	And they signed up the thing and I think he's gonna get with a lawyer.	00:37:08
	To make sure it was done right and then we'll just come in and help clean it all out.	00:37:12
	It may just end up being that way instead of taking them to court.	00:37:17
	It sounds just.	00:37:20
	Sign off and we'll go together and and pick the things that we need to clean up and we can tag them.	00:37:21
	And then they sign off on that list.	00:37:27
	And I'm hoping that that's a legal way to do it, but then the city just comes in and cleans it.	00:37:29
	I think we may end up having to do that because it's just it's been very difficult for these guys.	00:37:35
	To go through that process through the courts.	00:37:41
	So Mr. Mona and Mr. Mayor, a couple weeks ago when you first brought up, citing more often and more frequent and sooner.	00:37:43
	I reviewed all of our ordinances in our code and I think there's some conflicting information between the weeds.	00:37:51
	The debris and the cars, because they all have different.	00:37:57
	Terms you have to follow, so it's pretty inconsistent.	00:38:00
	But then one of the previous.	00:38:03
	Statements in the code says.	00:38:06
	That they find any violations in the code, they can cite them. So I think there's some contradictions. I need to get what they're	00:38:08
	turning on also.	00:38:12
	Would be better if we just didn't have to litigate it. We just.	00:38:16
	Got them to agree on what we can do and then we'll just have a day where we.	00:38:19
	Do a whole bunch of places at one time, might be easier.	00:38:24
	Yeah.	00:38:27
	Expecting that every time and then they just think the city will just come, well, well, but that's the way it is. People just, I	00:38:30
	mean.	00:38:33
	They're hoarders. I mean, there's people that did hoard stuff on there.	00:38:36
	On their yard and just gets out of hand and I don't know if they can even handle cleaning it up.	00:38:40
	And you're right about that, Mister Romero, are there any properties in litigation now or or just have 3?	00:38:45
	Mr. Mr. Hicks.	00:38:54
	Umm.	00:38:56
	The cars, I know it's going to be hard.	00:38:57
	To get them out of there. But if you contact most of the junk yards or anybody's got a wrecker and willing to pick them up.	00:39:00
	For the vehicle now I can't do that.	00:39:06
	But if you call some of the other because I'm going out of business.	00:39:10
	Sally Well, like Barca and Risberg.	00:39:14
	No, but as I'm gonna go out there and and and and probably taken 2, OK?	00:39:17
	Ohh, he's done. He's not. Yeah, that's what I heard. He's not a business.	00:39:21
	So Mr. There's some instances where some illegal dumping on property, right? So it's no fault of the owner, but it finds an	00:39:26
	opportunity to throw.	00:39:31
	6 or 8 tires there and.	00:39:37
	Over time, that the.	00:39:39
	No, I don't. I mean, it is.	00:39:41
	Ohh well we're trying to figure out some way to.	00:39:43
	To help, you know, clean up the city. Thank you.	00:39:45
	Did I miss anybody else? Everybody but Ruby, You have to say something.	00:39:50
	Here.	00:39:58
	Chassis here.	00:39:59
	The mayor signed a contract from October 1st to November to March 31st, so we're going to see all compare the bills and see what	00:40:00
	we're hedged at, like 5.72.	00:40:05
	And we'll see how the bills come. But hopefully, if you're gonna be a hedge fund, we're gonna make billions, no?	00:40:10
	Are those Williams? No. No, that's not true. Better not lose any straight you know, That way it doesn't.	00:40:16
	It doesn't happen what happened last year so.	00:40:22
	That's we're working on. We're still working on collections and.	00:40:24
	So after I think November 15th, we can't quote, we can't shut off gas. So we're kind of working on that right now.	00:40:26
	And just working on grounds and I don't know if Mayor, if you have anything to say about COVID or anything, you know it's back and	00:40:32
	you know we're testing and we have a little money to.	00:40:36
	Paying for testing, but we've been still honoring the.	00:40:41
	Holiday or vacation? Holiday. Vacation.	00:40:45
	Please.	00:40:48
	That people say, but you have to get a positive test that we have documented so.	00:40:49
	His back is not as severe.	00:40:54
	But it's back. I mean, it's COVID is back and it's not as bad.	00:40:56
	Not as bad, I mean, you know, but some people have, some people have it pretty bad.	00:41:00
	It's overall it's not as bad.	00:41:06
	And also we have open enrollment for health insurance, our health insurance premiums talking about 10%.	00:41:08
	But it is open. That's the bad news.	00:41:13
	I did budget 10%, so yeah.	00:41:16
	Well that's not the good. Don't don't even tell him that. It's just you know Christine gonna go to a meeting and you are think	00:41:19
	about 13th or whatever. But yeah I mean it's it's it's they say it was flat for a while and then they go up and that's surprise.	00:41:28
	OK.	00:41:38
	Thank you.	00:41:39
	Arnos had his speech, no problems. Nothing else.	00:41:41
	OK. And again, thank you for everybody for coming.	00:41:46
	We will do the What shall we do with the planning?	00:41:49
	Do the.	00:41:54
	Let's do the executive session. Probably not.	00:41:55
	Not yet.	00:41:59
	Next.	00:42:00
	There's no changes, Michaela to go on fire, recruit new hire Jacob Raleigh.	00:42:02
	By recruiting new hire Kyle Julian.	00:42:08
	New hire. This is at $20.00 an hour.	00:42:11
	Christine Tierney, fire recruit since 2125 because they have the basic EMT certified.	00:42:16
	And Valen, who's doing a great job, got her associate degree she's at.	00:42:23
	848.	00:42:27
	Yeah.	00:42:29
	They're Romero.	00:42:30
	Move to approve the personnel changes as read. I was looking at Mr. Mayor.	00:42:31
	Moved and seconded on to hi.	00:42:35
	Now we've got businesses. US Old Highway 85, Vance Duggar, DBA Cushy Retail Cannabis.	00:42:39
	There we go again.	00:42:46
	JKL Associates, Billing, Montana, Alan Hisana Utility contractor Carmen Medina Insurance.	00:42:48
	Carmen Medina 200 Manzanares Hydro Resources out of town, Las Cruces.	00:42:56
	Water well drilling contractor.	00:43:01
	Emotionally give the business ministrations as presented second.	00:43:06
	Move the seconded discussion all in favor, aye?	00:43:09
	Shall we cancel the next meeting? Yes, it's on the day of the election and I just think maybe would be nice. I don't know if we're	00:43:13
	gonna have.	00:43:17
	Any problems with the? Any vouchers or?	00:43:21
	Check.	00:43:25
	Huh.	00:43:29
	You can have a.	00:43:31
	For the CNG trucks.	00:43:33
	Sure I can send it through on the 2nd.	00:43:38
	Meeting in November followed.	00:43:41
	I'm sure it should be OK.	00:43:44
	But we have to kill those energy trucks and we have to kill those dump trucks. I don't wanna come upset to the meeting. I don't	00:43:46
	wanna have that meeting.	00:43:49
	Happening within.	00:43:54
	That was Lopez.	00:43:56
	Will be either way we'll be excited or depressed. OK, so let's so let's just we'll cancel that meeting that's excited either way.	00:43:57
	Ohh well you.	00:44:05
	OK, I remember that.	00:44:07
	But but we're gonna be testing. We'll cancel it, right?	00:44:09
	OK, so we'll have to get the 21st with the 10 days he's active in session, I mean, we have to meet within 10 days of election	00:44:13
	anyway. So isn't this stuff there? Yes, Sir. If anybody, if we have any new positions, they'll take office on January 1st. Yeah,	00:44:19
	this is a little different setup because the March 1 used to just turn over right away.	00:44:25
	This one you wait till January, OK?	00:44:32
	That's fine.	00:44:35
	So November 21st will be our next meeting.	00:44:37
	Unless you wanna have a emergency sometime I meeting.	00:44:40
	Hey.	00:44:45
	Thank you.	00:44:46
	Yep.	00:44:50
	Thank you, Goldie.	00:44:51

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	You know how to do that?	00:00:02
	Good.	00:00:04
	Much better than last night.	00:00:05
	Anyway, this is the City of Solar City Council meeting.	00:00:07
	Tuesday, October 17 to 2023 Roll call please. Mayor Basker here.	00:00:10
	Councillor Travis Lopez. Yeah, Councillor Dean.	00:00:16
	Thank you, Councillor Fleming.	00:00:19
	Councillor Hicks, Councillor Ocampo.	00:00:22
	Councillor, Councillor Romero here, Councillor Salome, we have a quorum. Alright, Pleasure, Allegiance.	00:00:26
	I pledge allegiance to.	00:00:37
	Of the United States of America.	00:00:39
	And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God.	00:00:41
	Into this world.	00:00:45
	And just small.	00:00:47
	Mr. Romero.	00:00:53
	We approve the.	00:00:54
	Consent agenda.	00:00:56
	I second it seconded the special.	00:00:58
	All in favor, aye.	00:01:00
	Mr. Ogin.	00:01:05
	Ohh, through the agenda.	00:01:06
	Ohh, that's part of it already, OK.	00:01:10
	Public forum when you guys turn this around, what's going on here?	00:01:14
	There's no public hearing public comment.	00:01:18
	Public forum.	00:01:21
	Oh, oh, sorry. We're down there.	00:01:23
	Mr. Mayor, Well, here I'm going to let me get myself situated.	00:01:26
	I just want to say that all these resolutions are part of the consent agenda, right? And the voucher run. But.	00:01:31
	They're pretty interesting. I mean, you got the trails grant, you've got the wastewater, you got law enforcement, landfill	00:01:36
	compactor.	00:01:39
	CNG, VW reimbursement.	00:01:43
	Airport, there's a lot of resolutions that hopefully the council realizes what what that's all about because.	00:01:46
	We're talking about millions of dollars here.	00:01:52
	Anyhow.	00:01:55
	Mr. Mayor, Mr. About that short lived asset.	00:01:57
	Is that short lived assets?	00:02:01
	I don't know. Ruby knows all about that short lived asset.	00:02:04
	I mean.	00:02:07
	I mean, there was an expiration date on the check.	00:02:08
	Council, mayor, So the short of gas is it's for the USDA loan for the wastewater collection and the wastewater facility. So I have	00:02:11
	to put 76,000.	00:02:16
	A year or two for maintenance on the wastewater collection and the wastewater facility. So it's 150.	00:02:20
	3000 that's what we put away.	00:02:28
	Have to transfer it.	00:02:30
	Yearly, and I'll have to do that for the life of the loan for 40 years.	00:02:31
	OK.	00:02:36
	Any other questions? No, no, just it's hasn't had any questions. I'm just saying there are a lot of.	00:02:39
	There's a lot of.	00:02:44
	Lot of stuff there just to let you know.	00:02:45
	What we've got, I mean a lot of it is bridge loans and a lot of his payoffs and.	00:02:48
	And it's good to explain to you that publicly like that compact alone.	00:02:52
	The the landfill wanna say a little bit so I can go. You want me to go over each one of them? Yeah, touch on them. I think it's. I	00:02:56
	think it's a good budget. Resolution #1, which is the trails grant. So the city got 50,000 dollars 5000 remote administration.	00:03:02
	45,000 will go for the contract for the trails. They're going to be developing a trail and that's the trail that Donald we're	00:03:09
	talking about with Mr. Salina. Yes Sir.	00:03:14
	And then as soon as we get, that's a planning grant which we're working with.	00:03:19
	The jet, the same company that we talked about, the landscaping.	00:03:25
	And I'm at Finley.	00:03:30
	Ohh, OK, so as soon as that planning gets done, we're gonna apply for another one of the Quality of Life Recreation grants to	00:03:32
	actually build the trails.	00:03:36
	Grant writer Resolution Shoes. So we received 40,000 last fiscal year and 30,000 this fiscal year.	00:03:42
	We did receive the revenue this year.	00:03:48
	And so that's just for we use uh, Gwen Valentino for that, since she's done very, very well.	00:03:50
	Done very well.	00:03:56
	Collection payment. This is just the loan on the wastewater collection lines. It's actually coming out of our USDA loan and I'm	00:03:58
	trying to transfer it.	00:04:02
	To wastewater, but I haven't, they've been taking it out of our USDA account, which is a different account. So I just had to have	00:04:06
	a resolution for that.	00:04:10
	Uh, this is #4 is the law enforcement ground, so we're receiving 393,000 for supported positions. I'm going to be meeting with	00:04:15
	Angel and Donald on Thursday to develop some positions for.	00:04:22
	That that's a total of 1,000,000 that we've received so far.	00:04:30
	Yeah, so.	00:04:34
	Angel just want to.	00:04:36
	Hire a new officer. We're able to use officers that we already hired. We hired one guy, so we're gonna go ahead and take it out of	00:04:37
	this grant.	00:04:40
	And possibly maybe security. So we're working on that and I'll update you guys on next meeting.	00:04:43
	Uh, but the resolution is #5 is the.	00:04:50
	Landfill loan that we received for the two cells, we did receive it this fiscal year, but we paid it last fiscal year. So I do	00:04:53
	need the revenue for that. So we're just putting that back into joint enterprise.	00:04:59
	I do need to set up a reserve loan, so out of that.	00:05:05
	Bond they did give us 140,177 to put into a reserve loan for the landfill.	00:05:10
	Number six is also a reserve account for the compactor loan we received. We will not be purchasing that.	00:05:17
	Compact for another year. So that's how long it's going to take to build, but we do have the loan ready to pay for it.	00:05:25
	#7 is our actually our CNG. I left out the reimbursement for the wastewater, so.	00:05:31
	This will be the dump truck. We did receive the three dump trucks.	00:05:38
	I did receive the loan for that, so I'm just setting up.	00:05:41
	The payments for it. As soon as we get the garbage trucks, we plan to pay off the loan completely.	00:05:45
	#8	00:05:51
	this is grant revenue.	00:05:52
	Umm.	00:05:56
	For the airport, we received COVID money.	00:05:57
	And we received it this fiscal year. So we're using that to purchase a truck.	00:06:01
	We're gonna do half gas requirement and half.	00:06:06
	Airport, but that was revenue money that we received from.	00:06:10
	COVID.	00:06:13
	#9 is the shortened down since I went over that. That's just putting money aside to do maintenance on the wastewater facility	00:06:14
	wastewater collection.	00:06:19
	#10 is wastewater facility. So we completed the wastewater facility, but we still had a little bit of.	00:06:25
	Umm.	00:06:31
	Invoices due to dentist engineering which was 7000 so I transferred that.	00:06:33
	At the beginning, catch glance.	00:06:37
	Um, budget resolution #11 was just the Convention Center.	00:06:40
	There's some electric being done out there for the signs and the storage building, so that's gonna just come out of beginning cash	00:06:44
	balance from Convention Center.	00:06:48
	That wasn't budgeted.	00:06:52
	And then all the rest of the 101 in house resolution. I'm just moving budget items around to cover.	00:06:53
	You know, maybe I maybe made some errors, maybe.	00:06:59
	So I'm just moving stuff around that's not going to affect the budget. It's just moving line items.	00:07:01
	And that's it for.	00:07:06
	Thank you. Yeah. That's a lot. Thank you. OK. Thank you, honey.	00:07:08
	Thank.	00:07:12
	OK.	00:07:12
	And so now we have the public forum. I see cross country out there.	00:07:13
	And just in time.	00:07:21
	And here.	00:07:23
	City Thank you to Steve and his crew. Out of the Rodeo grounds we hosted Screw High School cross country hosted a home week on	00:07:26
	Friday, October 6th. We hosted 12 teams from around the state.	00:07:32
	And 216 runners out of the rodeo grounds and it was just a fantastic day and Steve and his and Raul and his crew did a great job	00:07:38
	getting the course.	00:07:42
	In tip top shape and he was really responsive to all my messages. Ohh I'd porta potties and you just wonder moved ohh I need this	00:07:46
	and and he was so kind so thank you. Steve and Raul did a bunch of work on the course making sure that the Royals were unable.	00:07:54
	Because every time it rains.	00:08:02
	To take her work, but it was in great shape.	00:08:04
	I don't think we had any injuries and Socorro ran really well and it was fun to be able to host.	00:08:08
	Teams who don't typically come to the world. Last year we hosted, I think 5 or 16 minutes. You were up to 12.	00:08:14
	And we have to create centralized location. We had teams from Santa Fe and Ruidoso and Capitan and Deming and Silver City and	00:08:20
	Berlin, and they just really came and Canada and Cuba.	00:08:26
	So it was really kind of from all over and we had varsity races, JV and middle school. So it was a great day and we will also be	00:08:32
	hosting our district meet on Friday, November 3rd. So we've got.	00:08:38
	More around Steve.	00:08:44
	Umm.	00:08:46
	And I anticipate that to be a great day too. This is the district meetings where our runners have the chance to qualify for state.	00:08:47
	And and where like it's really the only meat of the season that truly matters in terms of performance. But we've been improving by	00:08:53
	leaps and bounds and it was really fun to be able to run in front of our home crowds, so.	00:08:59
	Thank you for that facility.	00:09:05
	The coaches were very complimentary about the condition of the of the course and the facility in general. They were all very	00:09:07
	surprised at this defined this Gen.	00:09:11
	Around like 25. So I think that it's just my girl from here.	00:09:17
	So thank you.	00:09:21
	Yeah. Thank you. And thank you for getting that program on the.	00:09:23
	Under the radar for everybody. That's terrific, right. Did you have much to do with the bicyclic one that they had the week before	00:09:26
	so the day the week before. No. I'm friends with the organizer but I don't know anything about thank you that's, you know all	00:09:33
	these events are just terrific event especially all done by volunteers and Steve and his crew. I'm not saying that they're not	00:09:39
	volunteering but they do a great job and and with the rains I know I've been through those arroyos and after the rains.	00:09:46
	That's a lot of work. It's a lot of work.	00:09:53
	And we just appreciate being allowed out there and and welcomed and encouraged to use the facility. So thank you. Great. Thank	00:09:56
	you. Thank you for giving us the report. Mr. Olgin was gonna say, just make sure Abby wins next year.	00:10:02
	She's going for it. Gotta win the whole tournament, yeah?	00:10:11
	Well, she's she's going for the district.	00:10:14
	Account. So don't put that in the minute. I don't want any pressure, but sure.	00:10:17
	Good job. Thank you. I retract that statement then.	00:10:23
	Thank you for coming and giving us the.	00:10:26
	Update anyone else out in the public forum.	00:10:29
	Alright, you don't have to stay with you.	00:10:32
	OK, so we've got the transfer of the ownership of canopy liquor license, Mr. Mayor, just Mr.	00:10:35
	Make motion with the public hearing for the liquor license transfer second.	00:10:42
	Moved and seconded all in favor.	00:10:46
	Not hearing anything from the audience.	00:10:49
	Let's go back into regular session.	00:10:53
	There, that's better.	00:10:55
	Not seeing anybody from the public, I move we go back to the regular session.	00:10:56
	All in favor, aye.	00:11:02
	Mr. Hicks.	00:11:05
	Shall we transfer it?	00:11:08
	That was coming out of Yes Sir, I made the motion transfer.	00:11:10
	Moved and seconded.	00:11:13
	All in favor, aye.	00:11:15
	Resolution for the Law Enforcement Fund Grant.	00:11:17
	Mr. Mayor, that's that's me again. We approved that at the last meeting.	00:11:20
	But lo and behold, I forgot to change the new grant agreement number, so they would like to a new resolution with the correct.	00:11:24
	Number on it.	00:11:32
	Here.	00:11:34
	Looks that case I moved them. We passed resolution 23-10-17A.	00:11:35
	Moved and seconded. All in favor, aye?	00:11:42
	Funding for public transportation.	00:11:45
	Mayor Mr. Next Motion to pass Resolution #23 Task Dash 10-17, Three Public Transport System.	00:11:48
	2nd.	00:11:56
	Moved and seconded.	00:11:57
	Mr.	00:11:58
	Carlos.	00:11:59
	How's it going with transportation?	00:12:00
	How's your trips between Berlin and the Roadrunner, I mean, and here?	00:12:04
	I didn't get a phone call though. Thank you.	00:12:16
	But you are how many do you get? A lot of customers or?	00:12:20
	Yeah.	00:12:22
	Really.	00:12:28
	Good. Good.	00:12:29
	But.	00:12:30
	Great.	00:12:31
	All in favor, aye.	00:12:32
	And new business.	00:12:34
	Mayor, there have a couple little things on that.	00:12:37
	What does that campaigning that someone on Main Street behind the ditch of me?	00:12:42
	They're asking for a speed bump down that.	00:12:46
	And I said up, there you go.	00:12:49
	What can you do?	00:12:51
	If that's.	00:12:52
	On Main Street, it's.	00:12:54
	It's the middle Rd. It's the long when it goes all the way across to the time used to be by the church.	00:12:57
	Which?	00:13:04
	No.	00:13:05
	Across the ditch for me.	00:13:06
	It's the railroad tracks one Rd. Then Main Street than the other Rd.	00:13:08
	OK.	00:13:12
	I think that'll make you sound, and I believe we have installed a couple.	00:13:13
	Speed humps over there, but then I also believe that road is still on the list.	00:13:17
	Yes on on the limiter languages, but nothing.	00:13:21
	Anyway, I don't not bring it up. We'll take also on.	00:13:25
	What is responsible for the lighting on the off and on graphs?	00:13:29
	We are, We are and and.	00:13:33
	We have worked it.	00:13:37
	We had a big glitch here.	00:13:38
	Week and a half ago.	00:13:41
	They shorted it out, the people who are actually working on that ramp.	00:13:43
	150.	00:13:47
	And then Darrell Ross had to go through the whole city.	00:13:49
	Fixing some of the problems, but I think they're all fixed the one at the north exit.	00:13:53
	Heading South?	00:14:00
	Ohh. When you move around, Yeah, when you roll around. Just as you get to the freeway right beside the bridge. I'll go ahead. I'll	00:14:02
	get one. Flicks all night long. I've got to talk to Lord about that, you see?	00:14:08
	The one that you come around then you're going South. It's not coming in north for sure. OK. That's the one that we're working on,	00:14:15
	but we'll let's work on that. But we are responsible now for that. OK. Thank you. Yeah.	00:14:20
	Any other new business?	00:14:26
	Old business, right? It's still again.	00:14:28
	Just wanted to.	00:14:31
	And note that when, when we had that, I think it was at the July 5th meeting when we had the coop.	00:14:33
	Here and then the attorneys, yeah.	00:14:40
	Umm, there was talk that and I was trying to find in the Minutes, but.	00:14:42
	We requested to see if the the our attorneys can give us at least to start with the sample.	00:14:45
	Franchise agreement of what? A real.	00:14:50
	Agreement would look like.	00:14:53
	OK.	00:14:56
	Sure.	00:14:59
	And I think I shouldn't. I thought we had a. Didn't we have a boilerplate that was like 30 pages long?	00:15:00
	That Nan gave us.	00:15:07
	Number.	00:15:10
	No.	00:15:13
	OK, let me let me remind her. Let me remind her. Sure, she has it. So let me remind her because she did. She did have one that was	00:15:13
	a.	00:15:17
	Kind of a.	00:15:21
	Boilerplate of the franchise agreement of a new one. I'll give her a call tomorrow. There's a lot that was going on. We talked	00:15:22
	about that could go into that that.	00:15:26
	Right.	00:15:31
	OK.	00:15:33
	I'm not sure what's the purpose of that.	00:15:36
	I'm just going to see what it fits for the progress on and see if we're going to get a copy of 1 to see what it looks like. That's	00:15:38
	a new one of a new one.	00:15:41
	That the city, if the city were to propose a franchise, we were the proposal.	00:15:45
	OK. The nuts and bolts that would go inside that franchise agreement to satisfy?	00:15:49
	The.	00:15:55
	Is content or whatever.	00:15:56
	OK.	00:15:58
	OK, we're going to do that.	00:16:00
	I I just, I just thought that at this point the franchise agreements.	00:16:02
	The councillor said that we were not going to renew the franchise.	00:16:06
	And that was going to terminate, as a judge said in May 2024.	00:16:09
	But we can produce one.	00:16:13
	If if there's a.	00:16:16
	Boilerplate. I don't think that there's any intention of trying to get it signed.	00:16:17
	We can produce one.	00:16:22
	I think, I think we did have some. I remember that she had.	00:16:24
	Said well, this five or four page one is like very flimsy.	00:16:27
	That's what I was going to try to find something. It's gonna be requested.	00:16:31
	Producing that has all the stuff in there that I'll deal with her tomorrow. Communities have been there, we'll get that done.	00:16:35
	We'll get it done.	00:16:42
	The I've got all the directors here. Any.	00:16:43
	Questions.	00:16:47
	Mike is a new landfill.	00:16:50
	Sell open yet or is it?	00:16:52
	Is it almost there?	00:16:55
	Open.	00:16:58
	And the council, we've been approved.	00:17:01
	To start dumping in there.	00:17:03
	We haven't started yet because.	00:17:06
	Had a contractor come in as we discussed at one of the meetings too.	00:17:08
	Grind all the trillions has been done.	00:17:12
	So now I have.	00:17:14
	A few piles of mulch that we need to move.	00:17:16
	Did they come through and do it? They came through and did awesome.	00:17:19
	Took two days.	00:17:23
	Wow. You know they had.	00:17:24
	And if you've been out there, unbelievable mountains of.	00:17:26
	Limbs, yes, And he did.	00:17:30
	All of them did all of it in two days. Wow.	00:17:32
	Two days or two days ago I had a had a tub grinder their their machine looks makes ours look like a baby. So Ohh, yeah Ohh yeah	00:17:35
	yeah so. So now this is going to be used for cover. They'll be used for the.	00:17:41
	Number of the.	00:17:48
	Yeah.	00:17:49
	Of the cell one and two.	00:17:50
	You know, you know, and I don't know if the public understands the accomplishment of that landfill.	00:17:51
	As to what has been done out there.	00:17:57
	I mean, that's a ninth wonder of the world that we have a landfill for city like this.	00:18:00
	And for you to manage it and get it going, you got your methane clearance and all that too.	00:18:05
	But it's it's really something.	00:18:10
	That's a.	00:18:12
	Very exceptional.	00:18:13
	The public needs to realize that there's no longer a dump, it's an actual landfill.	00:18:15
	Yeah, that's so true. And it costs twice as much to run.	00:18:20
	That's the other part of it. Well, people say, you know, why can't we just dump here? Because it's just a dump. It's not just a	00:18:24
	dump. There's no rules and regulations that we have to follow through. I I'd like to know a small town or any town that far size	00:18:29
	that has a landfill. There's no town that has a landfill.	00:18:35
	And that makes it more convenient for people to come in from the county and from everywhere else to.	00:18:40
	You know, I set up some transfer station. We try our best to stay open. Wins. Sometimes they make us close. Ohh yeah, you guys	00:18:45
	never open. I forgot about that. It's that wind.	00:18:50
	No, I get written up again on litter. That's fine to being we got last time. No, that's pretty good, very good.	00:18:55
	Michael, you have a recycling program. You have a vendor come in and take take some of the metal out. That's good.	00:19:01
	Because I had a vendor comes from from Las Cruces and another one from Albuquerque. They kind of take turns, you know, everybody's	00:19:07
	gonna.	00:19:10
	I tried to share the wealth. Yeah, that's a good idea.	00:19:14
	All right. Thank you, Felipe. Anything new?	00:19:18
	How's that? I mean everybody could always concerned about the animal shelter.	00:19:20
	How's that working out? You know that's in the game.	00:19:24
	You know something I never hear about, which is great.	00:19:27
	Look, I mean he takes care of the animal shelter in the dispatch also, but.	00:19:30
	Believe me, before I took over a little get a phone call almost every week about something that's been really good.	00:19:34
	Animal shelter is where that capacity, we're over capacity, but we do have.	00:19:40
	I think they're called Pause and friends. They're an agency out of Utah. They're coming down tomorrow at 1:00 to see the shelter.	00:19:47
	And they're possibly gonna have us sign a contract with them where they're going to possibly do four to five transports a year.	00:19:53
	So that's that's always a good thing, especially with all of the shelters being full and all of the rescues being full. And that's	00:20:01
	nationwide, not just in the state.	00:20:06
	I know last week we had an adoption event for one of the private businesses.	00:20:11
	I didn't find out about that event until Wednesday night, and it was just by sheer coincidence that I found out. Was that the	00:20:17
	marijuana business, correct?	00:20:21
	I did speak with both parties, both Valencia County and the owner of the facility.	00:20:26
	According to them, they attempted to reach out to us. I've never spoken to either one of the agencies administration.	00:20:32
	So.	00:20:40
	I did inform them of how we felt about it. It was kind of kicking the pants for us.	00:20:42
	But there's really nothing I can do. I went through the ordinance looking to see if there was anything in there that we could	00:20:48
	prohibit them from doing.	00:20:51
	All the dogs were spayed and neutered. They did have their vaccinations and their rabies vaccinated. They come from Valencia	00:20:54
	County.	00:20:58
	Bringing them here to be adopted in Socorro? Correct. The private business paid for all the adoptions.	00:21:03
	So they were free.	00:21:10
	To the public or whoever wanted them, so I'm sure in a few months I'll be picking them.	00:21:11
	Well, good for Valencia County. Yeah. So, Mr. Fleming, how many did they bring down? My understanding, I think it was 30.	00:21:19
	Well, let's do one up there. That's what Robert.	00:21:30
	Just the place to take them.	00:21:36
	The owner of the business did say they do four to five adoption events a year also.	00:21:38
	And I did tell them that.	00:21:45
	I would hope that for the next one that they have, we come into consideration.	00:21:47
	And that Valencia County is no longer.	00:21:52
	Brought here so.	00:21:54
	Yeah.	00:21:57
	And your dispatch, How are you doing with that? Dispatch is good. We have one position open. I believe it closes soon.	00:21:59
	Thursday, so we're hoping to fill that position.	00:22:06
	And everybody's certified.	00:22:10
	Everybody's trained awesome, so.	00:22:13
	So we're, as you heard conditionings working in all things up today. We did have one issue in the video room which.	00:22:15
	TLC came down and replaced the head unit. Other than that everything is working just fine.	00:22:22
	Great. Thank you.	00:22:29
	Chief Garcia.	00:22:30
	Tell us about the move and what's going on over there at the.	00:22:32
	Zimmerly And What's the predicted timeline and how is that working?	00:22:35
	We got contacted by the cameras.	00:22:39
	The specialist is coming down to install the cameras.	00:22:42
	They're anticipating about the 30th of this month to get the cameras in there.	00:22:45
	I spoke to Scott and Ryan today. They're working on.	00:22:49
	Fixing the fiber for phones.	00:22:54
	Without that, we can't go there.	00:22:56
	Um, so we're we're hoping within a month that would be able to be in there.	00:22:58
	In a month, hopefully.	00:23:02
	And your offices are all segregated away from another area or.	00:23:05
	Pretty much the only thing that's in there right now is friends of the library, I believe.	00:23:09
	Uh, so we're we're not sure how that's gonna work because they both use the main entrance and you don't have an alternative school	00:23:14
	in there too. Or no, no.	00:23:17
	Northern School just MU that we.	00:23:21
	Have.	00:23:24
	Yeah, no, but I was, I was under the impression they might put in a.	00:23:26
	Not to our not to. The last time we talked there, they were not considering that anymore. They're going to move it up to the high	00:23:30
	school, I believe.	00:23:33
	Every Sunday, MU Yes, Sir. Yes Sir.	00:23:37
	So and the budget for that.	00:23:40
	Your budget for that?	00:23:43
	For the move.	00:23:45
	That's probably going to come out of building maintenance or?	00:23:46
	Something similar.	00:23:49
	And we're going to abandon the existing police station.	00:23:51
	We're going to try to because we still have evidence that's in there that has three rooms that are jam packed, so.	00:23:55
	Uh.	00:24:00
	Russell's been working with the an evidence custodian from out of Socorro.	00:24:01
	To see how they're getting their their destruction orders.	00:24:07
	And in bulk to get removed because we have a lot of stuff there from many years ago that need to be.	00:24:11
	So they have the DA cleared that. I mean, there's things that DA has to clear. Yes, there is. And that's what they're working with	00:24:17
	that that evidence tech is helping him.	00:24:21
	Compile the paperwork to do that, and for the day's office, sign off on.	00:24:26
	Mr. Fleming.	00:24:31
	Chief.	00:24:34
	If we're abandoning the whole building, what are we going to do with Lupe and dispatch?	00:24:35
	It's not to hold. No, we're we're abandoning, basically, the old school.	00:24:40
	Not the music, the old music room that we're in now.	00:24:46
	So it's basically the old part where Municipal Court is.	00:24:49
	Um.	00:24:54
	I don't know, I I don't know if you guys are planning on making.	00:24:55
	Making it bigger, Lot or no, that's going to be demoed.	00:24:59
	Letter is going to be downloaded.	00:25:02
	And adjust the middle well on the South end also from the Municipal Court South.	00:25:04
	But that again, we're still trying to form all that together, but that's probably going to be demo.	00:25:14
	We recently purchased 4 vehicles from New Mexico State Police. I showed them to Donald and there the other day.	00:25:18
	Got 2 tahoes and two explorers.	00:25:25
	Uh, they just three of them just got done. Uh, we're lacking one more.	00:25:27
	Um.	00:25:32
	We got four for price of 1 brand new one and they're very good price and they come fully equipped.	00:25:33
	New ones crossing the spot 38,000.	00:25:38
	And then another 13 to 14,000 to equip them so.	00:25:41
	For one vehicle we got four that are, you know, exceptional. Exceptional by yeah.	00:25:46
	Right. And we're looking forward to the grant and talking on Thursday about hiring and.	00:25:52
	Putting people in places that need to be.	00:25:57
	Any questions? Ohh. I also talked to Mr. Patterson.	00:26:01
	I stopped him yesterday on a traffic stop on AU TV.	00:26:06
	I assured him that we're still working on that proposal.	00:26:10
	There's an ordinance that the City Council are going to have to approve, which is been passed in other cities.	00:26:13
	And so we'll basically just take a boilerplate from Tier C or you know, the Angelina also just passed theirs. We'll bring it. The	00:26:19
	only thing with Madeline Kent, we'll get operate on state highways. So get it done. Back roads, yes, not state highway. Thank you.	00:26:25
	Thank you for getting that done.	00:26:31
	Alright.	00:26:37
	Any questions?	00:26:39
	Okay Fornia is our street right now.	00:26:41
	California found out yesterday. California is ours Hwy. 85 and I don't is Hwy. 85 hours. I don't think it's Hwy. 85 and Hwy. 60 is	00:26:45
	not. No, no Hwy. 85 from a stoplight that way. Yeah, OK.	00:26:51
	So and then.	00:26:58
	Spring Street and Hwy. 60 up to the hospitals also not.	00:27:00
	Mr. Clement, Chief, the frontage roads are still state highways. Also, yes, OHH frontage rules right The front row that leads to	00:27:04
	Florida in the front row that leads out on the other side to Mr. Garcia is also state highway.	00:27:10
	Thank you. Yes, questions Chief Baker, anything?	00:27:19
	No.	00:27:24
	What?	00:27:26
	Well, a couple of things. We're getting ready to hire four people today. Hopefully we get approved.	00:27:30
	That'll give us a full staff.	00:27:35
	Not certified, but a full staff with a.	00:27:37
	One we have retiring at the end of the year and then we're losing one in March. He's moving away, so.	00:27:40
	Hopefully we'll get those guys hired and get them in classes so we can get kind of.	00:27:45
	Offset some of that loss that we take when those guys do leave.	00:27:49
	Another thing is we did apply for a grant for some bunker gear that we really need and we got denied the grant, so we're going to	00:27:53
	have to look to see what we could do on that.	00:27:57
	How much is that?	00:28:02
	It's roughly around 8090 thousand.	00:28:03
	For for a set for all 16 people.	00:28:06
	So.	00:28:09
	And then currently we're we're waiting, we're finishing up a grant for our new ambulance as well. So, so we'll see what happens.	00:28:11
	Any questions?	00:28:19
	Mr. Was the grant that was turned down the state grant or the federal grant? No, it's the fire grant, the state of the state.	00:28:20
	Well, I mean what there any reason or?	00:28:28
	No, he just said that. He just unfortunately we.	00:28:30
	There's other departments that.	00:28:33
	Needed.	00:28:35
	In itself more than we did so.	00:28:36
	And the hard thing about that is, is the state they just came down and inspected us for. We talked about our ISO.	00:28:39
	And there's a lot of things that they require, and one of them is a bunker gear.	00:28:44
	You know, for us to.	00:28:48
	When we fight fire, we're supposed to have a second set for each individual.	00:28:49
	That way when we clean them and wash them and the cat decontaminate them.	00:28:53
	We have other set to be able to and and we don't have that right now, so.	00:28:56
	And even when we hire new people, we're just kind of piercing.	00:29:00
	Parts together behind them, over to people that that lead at the next budget committee meeting, you can try to put that in.	00:29:03
	Mr. Chief, you said they came down to check our ISO rating. Well, they they did a pre inspection for the ISO rating that that that	00:29:11
	actual inspections by not going to be for another few months, but they come down and do a pre inspection.	00:29:18
	And kind of.	00:29:25
	Give us a heads up as to what we need to work on.	00:29:26
	And like I told you guys, we're only 9 1/2 points away for months. I sold three. We're out of four right now. So he basically gave	00:29:29
	us some ways that he thinks that maybe we can get down to a three.	00:29:33
	And we're working on that right now, so.	00:29:38
	Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Chief, Steve, anything.	00:29:42
	New, but you know, I gotta congratulate you on all the events that you continue having. I and I see it when when Darrell Ross.	00:29:46
	Puts up the pictures at the other rodeo events and.	00:29:54
	And of course, all the cross country and soccer. It was so still going.	00:29:57
	Yeah so Ohh.	00:30:02
	Ohh, no, that's OK. I have Steve.	00:30:05
	He he's he's he's what? He's worn out. He's doing it. He's done a good job. There's a lot of work out there and.	00:30:08
	And your equipment is in good shape.	00:30:14
	OK, go ahead.	00:30:16
	Does he?	00:30:17
	Any change? Anything new?	00:30:19
	Yeah, so there's quite a few things happening on Saturday or this weekend, I should say.	00:30:24
	The LA Open House is happening this weekend.	00:30:28
	That'll be from 9:00 to 4:00.	00:30:32
	We'll have the Trinity site opening.	00:30:34
	That's eight to two and I believe Carlos is given rides on Saturday.	00:30:37
	UM and also basketball patches having a.	00:30:43
	Ted's slash adult event they'll have.	00:30:46
	Believe face painting and.	00:30:49
	This kids activities out there.	00:30:51
	And in conjunction with that, we're also doing a tour.	00:30:53
	Yeah. So we are setting up a tour of Fort Craig to where individuals will be able to go out to Fort Craig. They'll stay in the	00:30:57
	parking lot and then Carlos as well. We'll take them from the Fort to the battlefield that is adjacent to the Fort. It's about 8	00:31:03
	miles away. So he'll transport them from the parking lot over to the battlefield. They'll have a nice little presentation there	00:31:10
	for them and just make a presentation so the staff at Fort Craig and us.	00:31:16
	Because that really needs to be highlighted in that area. Yeah. Battle of the Valverde or whatever. Yeah. Yes, Sir. And so that	00:31:25
	would be on this Friday. Yeah, Awesome. So you're busy. You're book.	00:31:30
	And you?	00:31:36
	You have a gun show coming up.	00:31:38
	That's on Saturday. That's the Lifeline Club, I believe with us and Ted Kelly Kelly. It's all over Albuquerque.	00:31:41
	The sponsor they have is doing a very good job of getting it out.	00:31:52
	Yeah, how are the crazy 49ers?	00:31:57
	Was it?	00:32:02
	I mean worked. Everything worked well.	00:32:03
	Yeah, the tent worked well. They got it down on Saturday. Floyd's crew.	00:32:06
	But they, they used it on Friday. So the Light parade and the Light parade, Yeah, thank you.	00:32:11
	I just wanted to say if any of you guys are interested in joining the tour there's a pre registration. I could get you guys the	00:32:18
	link.	00:32:20
	It's something really interesting.	00:32:24
	I would love to have you so.	00:32:27
	There's only 18 seats. I believe so. And we also announced this year's Electric Light Parade theme, So we're gonna go with a	00:32:28
	gingerbread holiday this year. So keep an eye out for your parade applications. Let people know that that's what we're doing.	00:32:34
	And so what's how are you working with the Festival of the Cranes? Do you do anything with them at all? So they're.	00:32:42
	Basically what we're doing is we're hosting the light parade December 9th.	00:32:49
	So it ends.	00:32:53
	Just as the festival of the Cranes.	00:32:55
	Or it starts just as the festival of the cranes ends so.	00:32:58
	Hopefully we'll get some of those birders we can.	00:33:01
	Um.	00:33:03
	Basketball Apache friends of the Boskey said that we could advertise our stuff that's happened on the puzzle with them so.	00:33:05
	And that's kind of what we tried to do last year we'll try to do.	00:33:10
	A little bit better job this year.	00:33:13
	Yes, I'm sorry, yes. And Transportation will be providing rides for the birders too, so.	00:33:17
	Yeah, we're gonna use the Opera House. Or are they gonna do, you know? Yeah, yeah, they're doing arts. Yeah. The Socorro County	00:33:24
	Arts is gonna be hosting their Arts and Craft show in the Garcia Opera House again.	00:33:29
	So.	00:33:35
	All week. I think it's Thursday.	00:33:36
	Friday Saturday.	00:33:38
	So great. And of course as always we're having the look on to as well and Lawrence guys are putting together.	00:33:39
	Someone contact.	00:33:45
	Yeah, that'd be a lot happening.	00:33:46
	Mr. You guys having anything on the 28th?	00:33:49
	At the Plaza life for the Trunk and Treats. Ohh yeah, the Fall Fun Fest that's going to happen on Halloween night. Actually, she	00:33:52
	is the one kind of spearheading that.	00:33:56
	And so there will be.	00:34:01
	Tons of activity. She sent an e-mail out to all the department heads, and we're all just kind of.	00:34:04
	Joining in on.	00:34:08
	What we can umm, so there will be different activities. There would be, I believe the libraries hosting the costume contest.	00:34:10
	We'll be doing a Donuts on the string.	00:34:16
	Activity.	00:34:18
	There will be some trunk or treaters.	00:34:20
	Every many other activities on the Halloween night though I believe on the 28th is the.	00:34:22
	New Mexico Tech Monster Mash.	00:34:29
	And that's happening on Campus Drive, so.	00:34:31
	I'm I'm going to the public. I'm running the Don't think in the mirror.	00:34:35
	Already volunteered to be the first one to get done.	00:34:39
	That's like, you know, you guys have unbelievable stuff that you're doing and sharing and thank you for the Highway 60.	00:34:44
	Thing that was that was done very well. I mean, it's just a lot of stuff going on.	00:34:50
	Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.	00:34:54
	Also add that this weekend they're having a big race across the river. Motorcycle race. We're good as hell, yeah.	00:34:57
	This weekend.	00:35:04
	Youngsters.	00:35:06
	Start at 10 and they're true by 9.	00:35:07
	And then the hill climbs that tree.	00:35:10
	And then Sunday morning is the big race.	00:35:13
	And it's about a 25 mile loop in the beginners do it one the novice doesn't 2 laps and the experts do it 4.	00:35:16
	That's all said. He wants to come out and look at it. It's going to be fun. That'll be fun this weekend.	00:35:26
	Sounds good.	00:35:32
	The kids race Saturday at about 11:50. The hill climbs about 3 thereabouts.	00:35:37
	And the big race starts out Sunday at 8:00.	00:35:44
	Eight or nine, I think it's 9.	00:35:48
	And then whoever goes up my hill the fastest, I sponsored it for $200.	00:35:50
	Very nice, yes. A big race every year when they Yeah ohh, yeah, Ohh.	00:35:57
	They camp out there. How did they work?	00:36:02
	They camped many of the races stay out there, the grandparents and.	00:36:03
	The families usually come into town and stay at the hotels. Great, because they don't want to leave their bikes out there.	00:36:08
	Alright, alright, right.	00:36:11
	Chris, thanks a lot of that money in town. Ohh, they do. That's a big risk.	00:36:15
	How are you spending any time at the schools?	00:36:19
	Yeah.	00:36:23
	How's that going? It's going great. And which school? Tell us with the middle school?	00:36:24
	Were there?	00:36:29
	I do an hour. Scooby does an hour. He goes in the morning, I'm going the afternoon.	00:36:30
	And so far so good.	00:36:35
	Any specific things that happen or is just mostly this and that just isn't that smoking country crazy?	00:36:37
	And the code enforcement, how are we doing?	00:36:44
	So yeah, I'm working there.	00:36:47
	Side of town now so.	00:36:50
	Trying to get it cleaned up.	00:36:52
	You know, we're we're trying to pick together.	00:36:54
	Where the onus of cleaning up is not on the person.	00:36:57
	If we can get them to sign off.	00:37:01
	On things that are out there that we think are not shouldn't be out there and we can tag them.	00:37:03
	And they signed up the thing and I think he's gonna get with a lawyer.	00:37:08
	To make sure it was done right and then we'll just come in and help clean it all out.	00:37:12
	It may just end up being that way instead of taking them to court.	00:37:17
	It sounds just.	00:37:20
	Sign off and we'll go together and and pick the things that we need to clean up and we can tag them.	00:37:21
	And then they sign off on that list.	00:37:27
	And I'm hoping that that's a legal way to do it, but then the city just comes in and cleans it.	00:37:29
	I think we may end up having to do that because it's just it's been very difficult for these guys.	00:37:35
	To go through that process through the courts.	00:37:41
	So Mr. Mona and Mr. Mayor, a couple weeks ago when you first brought up, citing more often and more frequent and sooner.	00:37:43
	I reviewed all of our ordinances in our code and I think there's some conflicting information between the weeds.	00:37:51
	The debris and the cars, because they all have different.	00:37:57
	Terms you have to follow, so it's pretty inconsistent.	00:38:00
	But then one of the previous.	00:38:03
	Statements in the code says.	00:38:06
	That they find any violations in the code, they can cite them. So I think there's some contradictions. I need to get what they're	00:38:08
	turning on also.	00:38:12
	Would be better if we just didn't have to litigate it. We just.	00:38:16
	Got them to agree on what we can do and then we'll just have a day where we.	00:38:19
	Do a whole bunch of places at one time, might be easier.	00:38:24
	Yeah.	00:38:27
	Expecting that every time and then they just think the city will just come, well, well, but that's the way it is. People just, I	00:38:30
	mean.	00:38:33
	They're hoarders. I mean, there's people that did hoard stuff on there.	00:38:36
	On their yard and just gets out of hand and I don't know if they can even handle cleaning it up.	00:38:40
	And you're right about that, Mister Romero, are there any properties in litigation now or or just have 3?	00:38:45
	Mr. Mr. Hicks.	00:38:54
	Umm.	00:38:56
	The cars, I know it's going to be hard.	00:38:57
	To get them out of there. But if you contact most of the junk yards or anybody's got a wrecker and willing to pick them up.	00:39:00
	For the vehicle now I can't do that.	00:39:06
	But if you call some of the other because I'm going out of business.	00:39:10
	Sally Well, like Barca and Risberg.	00:39:14
	No, but as I'm gonna go out there and and and and probably taken 2, OK?	00:39:17
	Ohh, he's done. He's not. Yeah, that's what I heard. He's not a business.	00:39:21
	So Mr. There's some instances where some illegal dumping on property, right? So it's no fault of the owner, but it finds an	00:39:26
	opportunity to throw.	00:39:31
	6 or 8 tires there and.	00:39:37
	Over time, that the.	00:39:39
	No, I don't. I mean, it is.	00:39:41
	Ohh well we're trying to figure out some way to.	00:39:43
	To help, you know, clean up the city. Thank you.	00:39:45
	Did I miss anybody else? Everybody but Ruby, You have to say something.	00:39:50
	Here.	00:39:58
	Chassis here.	00:39:59
	The mayor signed a contract from October 1st to November to March 31st, so we're going to see all compare the bills and see what	00:40:00
	we're hedged at, like 5.72.	00:40:05
	And we'll see how the bills come. But hopefully, if you're gonna be a hedge fund, we're gonna make billions, no?	00:40:10
	Are those Williams? No. No, that's not true. Better not lose any straight you know, That way it doesn't.	00:40:16
	It doesn't happen what happened last year so.	00:40:22
	That's we're working on. We're still working on collections and.	00:40:24
	So after I think November 15th, we can't quote, we can't shut off gas. So we're kind of working on that right now.	00:40:26
	And just working on grounds and I don't know if Mayor, if you have anything to say about COVID or anything, you know it's back and	00:40:32
	you know we're testing and we have a little money to.	00:40:36
	Paying for testing, but we've been still honoring the.	00:40:41
	Holiday or vacation? Holiday. Vacation.	00:40:45
	Please.	00:40:48
	That people say, but you have to get a positive test that we have documented so.	00:40:49
	His back is not as severe.	00:40:54
	But it's back. I mean, it's COVID is back and it's not as bad.	00:40:56
	Not as bad, I mean, you know, but some people have, some people have it pretty bad.	00:41:00
	It's overall it's not as bad.	00:41:06
	And also we have open enrollment for health insurance, our health insurance premiums talking about 10%.	00:41:08
	But it is open. That's the bad news.	00:41:13
	I did budget 10%, so yeah.	00:41:16
	Well that's not the good. Don't don't even tell him that. It's just you know Christine gonna go to a meeting and you are think	00:41:19
	about 13th or whatever. But yeah I mean it's it's it's they say it was flat for a while and then they go up and that's surprise.	00:41:28
	OK.	00:41:38
	Thank you.	00:41:39
	Arnos had his speech, no problems. Nothing else.	00:41:41
	OK. And again, thank you for everybody for coming.	00:41:46
	We will do the What shall we do with the planning?	00:41:49
	Do the.	00:41:54
	Let's do the executive session. Probably not.	00:41:55
	Not yet.	00:41:59
	Next.	00:42:00
	There's no changes, Michaela to go on fire, recruit new hire Jacob Raleigh.	00:42:02
	By recruiting new hire Kyle Julian.	00:42:08
	New hire. This is at $20.00 an hour.	00:42:11
	Christine Tierney, fire recruit since 2125 because they have the basic EMT certified.	00:42:16
	And Valen, who's doing a great job, got her associate degree she's at.	00:42:23
	848.	00:42:27
	Yeah.	00:42:29
	They're Romero.	00:42:30
	Move to approve the personnel changes as read. I was looking at Mr. Mayor.	00:42:31
	Moved and seconded on to hi.	00:42:35
	Now we've got businesses. US Old Highway 85, Vance Duggar, DBA Cushy Retail Cannabis.	00:42:39
	There we go again.	00:42:46
	JKL Associates, Billing, Montana, Alan Hisana Utility contractor Carmen Medina Insurance.	00:42:48
	Carmen Medina 200 Manzanares Hydro Resources out of town, Las Cruces.	00:42:56
	Water well drilling contractor.	00:43:01
	Emotionally give the business ministrations as presented second.	00:43:06
	Move the seconded discussion all in favor, aye?	00:43:09
	Shall we cancel the next meeting? Yes, it's on the day of the election and I just think maybe would be nice. I don't know if we're	00:43:13
	gonna have.	00:43:17
	Any problems with the? Any vouchers or?	00:43:21
	Check.	00:43:25
	Huh.	00:43:29
	You can have a.	00:43:31
	For the CNG trucks.	00:43:33
	Sure I can send it through on the 2nd.	00:43:38
	Meeting in November followed.	00:43:41
	I'm sure it should be OK.	00:43:44
	But we have to kill those energy trucks and we have to kill those dump trucks. I don't wanna come upset to the meeting. I don't	00:43:46
	wanna have that meeting.	00:43:49
	Happening within.	00:43:54
	That was Lopez.	00:43:56
	Will be either way we'll be excited or depressed. OK, so let's so let's just we'll cancel that meeting that's excited either way.	00:43:57
	Ohh well you.	00:44:05
	OK, I remember that.	00:44:07
	But but we're gonna be testing. We'll cancel it, right?	00:44:09
	OK, so we'll have to get the 21st with the 10 days he's active in session, I mean, we have to meet within 10 days of election	00:44:13
	anyway. So isn't this stuff there? Yes, Sir. If anybody, if we have any new positions, they'll take office on January 1st. Yeah,	00:44:19
	this is a little different setup because the March 1 used to just turn over right away.	00:44:25
	This one you wait till January, OK?	00:44:32
	That's fine.	00:44:35
	So November 21st will be our next meeting.	00:44:37
	Unless you wanna have a emergency sometime I meeting.	00:44:40
	Hey.	00:44:45
	Thank you.	00:44:46
	Yep.	00:44:50
	Thank you, Goldie.	00:44:51