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Like I barely owe. | 00:00:00 | |
Yes, Peter. | 00:00:04 | |
OK. | 00:00:10 | |
Really. All right, this City of Scotland City Council meeting Tuesday, February 20th. | 00:00:12 | |
2024 will call please air basket here. Councillor Travis Lopez. | 00:00:18 | |
Councillor. | 00:00:23 | |
Councillor Fleming. | 00:00:24 | |
Councillor Ocampo here. Councillor Ogain here. | 00:00:27 | |
Councillor Partridge. | 00:00:30 | |
Councillor Romero here, Councillor Salome here, we have a quorum. | 00:00:33 | |
All right. | 00:00:38 | |
Mr. Mayor. | 00:01:00 | |
Parents who approve the consent agenda. | 00:01:01 | |
Moved and seconded. | 00:01:06 | |
Any discussion on any of that? | 00:01:09 | |
All in favor. | 00:01:13 | |
Opposed. | 00:01:15 | |
OK, we have. | 00:01:17 | |
On the public forum we talked about 100% Socorro, so, Senator Martinez and. | 00:01:21 | |
That's Mr. Shalom. So the approval of the February minutes, the consideration, the minutes and the C, the voucher run, those are | 00:01:27 | |
all part of the consent agenda. | 00:01:32 | |
I had a comment on the on the voucher run. | 00:01:38 | |
But I was thinking, yeah, I just, I just like to say that I didn't know what is a significant amount for engineering work going up | 00:01:41 | |
at Evergreen. | 00:01:45 | |
And I know that the administration had been working on that for quite some time. And so I was glad to see that that project is | 00:01:50 | |
moving forward and that is really going to be a benefit to our community in that amount And so all the the, the development and | 00:01:55 | |
all the. | 00:02:01 | |
The infrastructure that's going on up there is. | 00:02:08 | |
For acknowledging. | 00:02:16 | |
OK, Sandra. | 00:02:19 | |
For. | 00:02:22 | |
Sure. No, I only have two minutes. | 00:02:24 | |
I'm going to get started, Mayor Basker, Honorable counselors. | 00:02:29 | |
Just one. | 00:02:34 | |
My name is Sandra Martinez, a resident of Socorro. | 00:02:36 | |
I thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you on behalf of 100% Socorro County. If you haven't heard about it, Socorro | 00:02:40 | |
100% Socorro was about transforming our community to a place where every child thrives. | 00:02:47 | |
It's a statewide commitment established in 2019 with bipartisan sponsorship and funding from the state legislature. | 00:02:53 | |
The idea was to try something new to ensure that 100% of New Mexico residents can access the 10 services required to survive and | 00:03:01 | |
thrive. This work is carried out on a county level within a framework tailored to the unique needs of rural communities. | 00:03:09 | |
The book David, Age 14, explains all of this in the less than 150 pages. It may be the most useful book you'll read as a city | 00:03:18 | |
Councilor, because it explains how the system, especially in rural communities, fails our children. The question then, is despite | 00:03:25 | |
our best efforts, are these our best efforts? | 00:03:31 | |
So we asked our community and the answers are in the graphic survey from data collected. | 00:03:38 | |
From our community showing the difficulty residents encounter in attempting to access vital services. | 00:03:44 | |
As a group we were beginning to see the picture and as a community we began to work on solutions. | 00:03:52 | |
Through collaborative efforts, we were able to complete the asset mapping that helped secure PED funding for the Socorro Community | 00:03:59 | |
Schools. | 00:04:03 | |
He's been given a copy of that as well. | 00:04:07 | |
Since then, we have built collaborative relationships with individuals and organizations. | 00:04:11 | |
From the 10 service sectors, which I'd love to name now. | 00:04:16 | |
But I think in the interest of time, I will have to skip that and are currently in the final phases of vetting an online directory | 00:04:22 | |
of services which will go live by April 1st. | 00:04:26 | |
Currently, we're endeavoring to move forward with a 100% Family Center, a one stop service hub that will assist families in | 00:04:33 | |
navigating obstacles and connecting to needed services. A brief overview of the 100% Family Center concept can be found in this | 00:04:38 | |
small booklet. | 00:04:44 | |
So thank you for giving me this time. I have some colleagues with me in case you have any questions about the project or what | 00:04:51 | |
we're doing. We are interested in some assistance in identifying A suitable building to house the Family Center. | 00:04:58 | |
And also, I'd like to invite you to our summit, which will occur on June 14th. | 00:05:05 | |
And we'll send you a save the date. | 00:05:12 | |
To each of you, but if anyone would like to read this book, I highly recommend it. | 00:05:14 | |
We can. Pete can hand it to you if you just let him know you'd like a coffee. | 00:05:20 | |
Thank you. | 00:05:25 | |
I have a question. Yeah, on your on this thing. I'm seeing housing, but I don't see the Housing Authority listed anywhere. | 00:05:28 | |
Then that was just because if remember, at the summit we had the little cards up there. | 00:05:38 | |
So I'd like to come back at another date if that is possible, if you would like to discuss any of this further if you have more | 00:05:52 | |
questions, but how can the city help? | 00:05:56 | |
Well, I think the city could help us by. Well, first of all, if you look at the, if you look at the map, this is mainly city of | 00:06:02 | |
the court. You know these are mainly most of the people are in the city. So what we're looking for is a. | 00:06:08 | |
Home for the family. | 00:06:16 | |
So a building that we can, we're going to have navigators who are full time employees. | 00:06:18 | |
How big? How big a place? | 00:06:25 | |
Maybe Sharon Sessions. Is that OK? If she? So we're working on an actual, full proposal that describes all the needs. And one of | 00:06:29 | |
the things that we're hoping to get out of the summit actually is feedback from the community of what of what the community needs. | 00:06:37 | |
Ideally something that can hold office space, potentially one-on-one counseling places where people can can use computers to get | 00:06:46 | |
job applications. So it could be a pretty big space. We can start small too, but something to be able to start with would be | 00:06:52 | |
great. | 00:06:57 | |
You already got it funded for you talking about renting it, Are you talking about is there any operating and maintenance that the | 00:07:03 | |
city would have to put in? | 00:07:08 | |
We don't know what the answer to that it yet is. So the the proposal that we're working for is one of many proposals prepared by | 00:07:13 | |
counties across New Mexico that will be given to the state legislatures potentially being used for for. | 00:07:20 | |
Nonprofit basically getting donors to do these kinds of things. There is one that I believe might be getting funded and Onion | 00:07:30 | |
County that will serve as a really good model for that. That is being funded by the state legislature. So we are putting together | 00:07:38 | |
the concept, the, the huge dream that we have to get together. I have talked with Vice President Richard Cervantes at New Mexico | 00:07:45 | |
Tech, who's talked to the president and New Mexico Tech is willing to help with like the fiscal responsibilities of that. | 00:07:52 | |
There's a lot of details that we don't know yet, but. | 00:08:00 | |
Or two away or. | 00:08:03 | |
Probably, yeah. I mean, you know, we're going to be inheriting some, some buildings. | 00:08:05 | |
Keep us in mind that is all you know about it. I mean, I think that's something that you know. | 00:08:11 | |
Building that new junior high was number there's there's going to be some buildings available. I think that this would be a very | 00:08:18 | |
and if you have to have a when you do put the grant in you if you have to have a say you have a space. | 00:08:24 | |
I mean, we want to get the specifics, we want to get involved with it absolutely and we are working on that. So we're trying to | 00:08:30 | |
get as much, many of the details as possible. | 00:08:35 | |
No, no, I just just a question if if they were to come and present to the budget committee and ask for some funding in that way | 00:08:41 | |
from the council and the administration can do that way, we start our meeting soon. | 00:08:47 | |
We invite organizations to come and and and ask for funding that would support things that would help the community. | 00:08:56 | |
Some fantastic. There is another question we had. I'm sorry, it's we have the money now until the end of the fiscal year for a | 00:09:03 | |
community building and your old project, but we do not have a wall. | 00:09:10 | |
So that might be something you may if you have a world around this mural we have money to buy designated a couple of walls that | 00:09:17 | |
never got done. | 00:09:22 | |
You know, we were talking about that. | 00:09:28 | |
Mrs. Wells, One time with a diamond. | 00:09:32 | |
Can't think of the name of. | 00:09:36 | |
But yeah, if you have money for minerals, we can. We can. | 00:09:38 | |
We could even go tomorrow if we had somebody. | 00:09:43 | |
And do you have the what, what topic would you put on the wall? It would be working with the artist, but it would be around the | 00:09:47 | |
100% Sakura Initiative. So I think it would be great to say 100% Socorro, but anything that represents. | 00:09:54 | |
Community, Our community. | 00:10:02 | |
We don't. Well, we actually have talked to somebody, but. | 00:10:05 | |
Don't have a space away. | 00:10:10 | |
Working real close with the the murals. | 00:10:14 | |
Also, we're also not just murals, but we're also talking about all these Transformers and things that are around town. | 00:10:18 | |
And even fire fire Hyd. | 00:10:25 | |
That's what Chelsea was. So there. That project is already going, we just haven't gotten the weather to get it started. | 00:10:28 | |
OK, the one right there. | 00:10:35 | |
So let's we'll get that if we can get your information. | 00:10:40 | |
To Chelsea together with them. I mean, it doesn't have to be a huge, big mural if you can do other things than just. | 00:10:45 | |
You know that would be. | 00:10:51 | |
Thank you. Thank you. | 00:10:55 | |
Mr. Parker, did you have a question? | 00:10:58 | |
Sounds like a great initiative though. | 00:11:01 | |
Thank you for coming. | 00:11:03 | |
Anyone else that would like to answer? | 00:11:10 | |
Thank you. | 00:11:15 | |
Thank you, Mr. Mayor and members of the City Council. What I'm saying may actually in some ways be pertinent to the previous | 00:11:19 | |
presentation in their discussion of available property in Socorro. | 00:11:23 | |
Could you Could you just wish yourself? Of course. My name is Will Carter and I live here in Scoro. I work remotely, but I'm lucky | 00:11:29 | |
to have family and a good community here and want to build my life here. | 00:11:35 | |
I wanted to raise the Council an issue that I'm sure you are all familiar with and that I'm sure has come before the Council | 00:11:42 | |
before around vacant and abandoned buildings in Socorro, particularly in our main commercial areas and. | 00:11:49 | |
This is not a new problem or one that we haven't seen experiments around the country and around the state before. And in fact, | 00:11:57 | |
there's actually a 2019 study by the state of how we can actually do more to address the issue of vacant buildings. And so I | 00:12:04 | |
wanted to raise to this council that in reading this study and a number of others, including case studies from other cities, | 00:12:10 | |
including similar cities within the state of New Mexico. | 00:12:17 | |
There are a number of things that I think that we could do. This report itself lays out nine recommendations for smaller | 00:12:24 | |
communities in New Mexico for how they can deal with this issue, including cost offsets, because I know that is a legitimate issue | 00:12:28 | |
for the city. | 00:12:32 | |
But I would love to to either share this report and other reports that I have been reading on this topic and also would love to | 00:12:38 | |
discuss with the Mayor, members of the Council who are interested in this topic, how we can do more as a City, including | 00:12:45 | |
establishing vacant and abandoned building ordinances and some minimum standards to hold property owners accountable and also to | 00:12:52 | |
give the city the opportunity to accelerate reinvestment in some of these areas and redevelopment of some of these areas. | 00:13:00 | |
Great. If you'll share the reference with us to begin with and perhaps later on this month because I'm going to be out for a | 00:13:08 | |
couple of weeks. | 00:13:12 | |
We'd like to talk to you about that and I would invite my code enforcement people. | 00:13:18 | |
We have we have a problem with abandoned and vacant building. Matter of fact, I had a call from the guy who owns the. | 00:13:24 | |
Smiths Now, I didn't return his call yet, but as Duke Rodriguez, he's the chairman of. | 00:13:30 | |
Biggest group of marijuana company in the city, in the state and. | 00:13:36 | |
Our problem is due process. | 00:13:42 | |
And that's something that. | 00:13:45 | |
If they attend to that in those articles, those nine things you're talking about, we certainly we certainly need to move on with | 00:13:48 | |
with what we need to do with the vacant buildings. Absolutely. They they cover in this the state and national level requirements | 00:13:54 | |
and also some of the legal mechanisms that other cities use to address the problem. So can you read us your contact information, | 00:14:00 | |
Perhaps we can put together a meeting. | 00:14:05 | |
Absolutely. So appreciate you coming. That's really important for us. | 00:14:12 | |
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. About a month ago or a month and a half ago, Albuquerque, actually. | 00:14:16 | |
Broached this topic too on how to streamline their. | 00:14:23 | |
The ordinance is to be able to not have to wait six months to get something done. You know, like you say due process, but we have | 00:14:26 | |
that in our ordinances, so we have to follow that. But just just to let you know, Sands Motel took us almost three years and | 00:14:31 | |
$180,000. | 00:14:36 | |
So and we now we own the property that that's a problem so that that's our biggest problem is is the due process. | 00:14:42 | |
Demolition. Now we have about 5 burned buildings in town. | 00:14:53 | |
And we're now working step by step on each one of those to try to get those and a lot of them. | 00:14:56 | |
Non resident owners, they live in California or somewhere else, so that's the other problem. | 00:15:02 | |
I know, Chris, you have any comments on that? I mean how? | 00:15:08 | |
Make sure that we invite you to that meeting. | 00:15:11 | |
Christian. | 00:15:19 | |
Code enforcement officer. It would be nice to like find a way to streamline that because it is a bunch of waiting and. | 00:15:21 | |
Putting plans together. | 00:15:30 | |
Like the Park Street took about a year and we were pretty close and someone came in and cleaned it up for us, but well, maybe you | 00:15:32 | |
can get Mr. Clark, do you have a copy of that or is there a copy of that? | 00:15:37 | |
That reference, will you share that with us and Chris maybe make me a copy? | 00:15:44 | |
Whenever for tomorrow, but thank you. Thanks for bringing. | 00:15:50 | |
Anyone else that's not on the agenda? | 00:15:55 | |
I'd like to make. | 00:15:59 | |
If not, I have a. | 00:16:03 | |
Proclamation. | 00:16:06 | |
X. | 00:16:10 | |
So the. | 00:16:19 | |
First of all, thank you for being a friend. | 00:16:22 | |
Yes, Sir. It's a fun ride. Quite a ride, quite a ride. So here's, here's I'm going to read. | 00:16:25 | |
And probably it's not a. | 00:16:33 | |
But as a partial list of the things that Councillor Hicks has accomplished since 1986. | 00:16:35 | |
Obviously, he's been on numerous. | 00:16:42 | |
He's been a mayor Pro Tem for 10 years. | 00:16:44 | |
He's been a member of the Regional Transit District, South Central Regional Transportation Planning Organization president for | 00:16:47 | |
five years, South Central Council of Governments president for seven years. | 00:16:52 | |
South Central Council of Governments. Vice president for five years. South Central Council of Governments, interim executive | 00:16:58 | |
directors, just three months for that one. So airport committee chairman for 17 years. And he's still on the airport committee on | 00:17:04 | |
New Mexico State Airport committee for 12 years. New Mexico Municipal League director at large, 12 years. New Mexico Municipal | 00:17:11 | |
League Human Relations committee, nine years. New Mexico Municipal League budget committee, two years. | 00:17:17 | |
You miss School Municipal League treasurer. | 00:17:24 | |
New Mexico Municipal League, Transportation and Public works 10 years. | 00:17:27 | |
New Mexico Municipal League resolution Committee, 17 years. New Mexico Municipal League strategic planning steering committee two | 00:17:32 | |
years. New Mexico Municipal League General Legislative committee nine years. New Mexico Municipal League Safety committee five | 00:17:37 | |
years. | 00:17:42 | |
Municipal Official Leadership Institute Graduate Municipal Official Leadership Institute Graduate, 2008, 2012 Leadership, New | 00:17:47 | |
Mexico. | 00:17:52 | |
Voting delegate at National League of Cities. | 00:17:57 | |
And chief elected official for Southwest, worked for connections. | 00:18:00 | |
For 10 years. | 00:18:04 | |
I have a plaque for your Gordie. After all this, we couldn't put this all on the plaque. | 00:18:05 | |
But this is presented to Gordon Gordon Hicks in recognition and appreciation of 33 years. | 00:18:23 | |
1986 to 1990 four 1998 to 2023 of dedicated public service to the City of Socorro, City Councilor, Mayor Pro Tem, and the City's | 00:18:30 | |
representatives on multiple committees throughout the state of New Mexico, from the Mayor Randy Basket, City Council past and | 00:18:37 | |
present, and all residents of the City of Sagora. We're proud of you, Gordon, with all the work that you put in for the City's. | 00:18:45 | |
Has always been at your side and your. | 00:18:58 | |
Oh, here, but give. | 00:19:00 | |
Give us a little bit of your wisdom. | 00:19:03 | |
Your search over. | 00:19:06 | |
Wow. I didn't realize we were on that many committees. | 00:19:08 | |
Guys, I couldn't have done it without you here. | 00:19:13 | |
There's a team effort. | 00:19:17 | |
And it was lots of fun. | 00:19:19 | |
I still try to. | 00:19:21 | |
Mr. Mona, Councillor Monet. | 00:19:24 | |
It's just been very fun. | 00:19:28 | |
Then a good ride. City supporters treated me. | 00:19:31 | |
And you guys? | 00:19:35 | |
Have just made it. | 00:19:37 | |
Possible that we got all these things done for the city SA. | 00:19:39 | |
And that's where I'm so proud of being a small part that. | 00:19:44 | |
And Mr. Mayor, you took it from. | 00:19:48 | |
You've done a good job on it to the counselors, and I'd like to thank the public too. | 00:19:53 | |
If we could have done it without the public. | 00:19:59 | |
They're the ones in our workers. | 00:20:02 | |
They're the ones that do all the work. | 00:20:04 | |
They're out there hustling day-to-day. | 00:20:07 | |
They're the ones that make the administration and the council look good. | 00:20:09 | |
They have to put up with the. | 00:20:14 | |
Roads I Hate Vita on the. | 00:20:16 | |
County seat right now. The little speed bumps down there by Limiter and Paradera and stuff. But. | 00:20:21 | |
Once again. | 00:20:29 | |
Where's the camera there? | 00:20:31 | |
Thanks again citizens for. | 00:20:33 | |
Being behind me all these years and supporting us, I think we. | 00:20:36 | |
Do a good job, but I know that it will continue going into guys hands. | 00:20:43 | |
So thank you so very very much. | 00:20:51 | |
Family will take a picture. | 00:21:02 | |
Yeah, it's great. | 00:21:05 | |
Thank you. | 00:21:10 | |
And we still want to have you continue to be. | 00:21:49 | |
Involved with the. | 00:21:53 | |
There's a few committees that we still want you to serve on, the airport committee, the RPO and then the ones that you know you | 00:21:55 | |
don't have to be an elected official for, so we certainly invite you. | 00:22:00 | |
Continue, hopefully to you. Leave us your wisdom on some of these. | 00:22:06 | |
Thank you. | 00:22:12 | |
Mr. Romero. | 00:22:14 | |
I just want to Gordie. I just want to thank you for being such a good friend. | 00:22:16 | |
A good citizen. | 00:22:21 | |
Good, honored veteran and I want to thank. | 00:22:24 | |
Gordy's family back there for? | 00:22:27 | |
Sharing them with. | 00:22:29 | |
Being so patient. | 00:22:31 | |
What we had in the. | 00:22:33 | |
Let's go again, Mr. Mayor. I I almost want to rethink my my nomination to be the Municipal League representative for the city, to | 00:22:39 | |
know where I could be with that. | 00:22:43 | |
I will say though that attending something municipalities already did represent the city well. He was well liked and everybody | 00:22:48 | |
knows Gordy up there and I'm sure everybody with the municipal is going to going to miss you as well too. And I just want to say | 00:22:53 | |
it's been an honor working with you and. | 00:22:57 | |
Serving with you over the years as well too, so thank you, Gordy. | 00:23:01 | |
Again, I'd like to echo that, thank you so much, Gordy. And and I mean your family is a testament to how good of a person you are. | 00:23:09 | |
And I appreciate everything you've done for for this, for the town and the city of Socorro and and and your family continues doing | 00:23:16 | |
it. So you guys done right. | 00:23:22 | |
Appreciate you. | 00:23:29 | |
Mr. Partridge and mistakes whenever my first time running and he was so gracious, even through the process he he he was | 00:23:31 | |
encouraging. | 00:23:36 | |
And just a really good person. He wanted, he wants well, you know he wants well even change. | 00:23:42 | |
Was the outcome. Maybe wasn't what he wanted, but he never had a sour attitude towards that. He never was. | 00:23:48 | |
He was nothing but kind to me, his family's kind. | 00:23:53 | |
That's kind of the people around. He was kind. It was soon as it happened, he was all about getting the transition peacefully and | 00:23:56 | |
getting the getting this council put together and being a part of it, not being destructive about it in any way, shape or form. | 00:24:02 | |
It's phenomenal. So thank you for helping too, Mr. Mr. Hicks. | 00:24:08 | |
Mr. Tsunami. | 00:24:15 | |
Already you've not only been an example of how to be a an effective. | 00:24:17 | |
Kind, generous, public servant. But you've been an example to me on how to treat people. That's more important. I I appreciate the | 00:24:24 | |
lessons that I've learned from you and and the stories that we've shared and and your Mark Carmel experiences. And I can relate | 00:24:32 | |
and I and I can relate with them and I just want to tell you thank you and I appreciate, appreciate you very much. | 00:24:39 | |
Mr. *****. | 00:24:48 | |
If you do live for guys team. | 00:24:52 | |
And the family And Gordie, you don't have to sit through another council meeting if you don't want to. | 00:24:55 | |
That's OK. | 00:25:02 | |
Thank you, gorgeous. | 00:25:07 | |
OK, I had two other ones. | 00:25:25 | |
We'll skip those again. | 00:25:28 | |
No, they won't be coming, but they'll be getting. | 00:25:30 | |
And then Mr. Miller said he was not going to show up for the agenda item. But we've been doing some research and there are gun | 00:25:33 | |
ranges everywhere, including on state lands, and there's never been any comment about that. I don't know about the noise | 00:25:39 | |
pollution, but we'll give another chance to come and another time. | 00:25:45 | |
So that's something that. | 00:25:52 | |
We can talk about what we're doing. We have been doing some investigation about any kind of problems that other gun Rangers might. | 00:25:53 | |
So including we've talked to New Mexico Tech to be able to maybe utilize their gun range and so we're we're kind of working on his | 00:26:02 | |
problem. | 00:26:06 | |
And new. | 00:26:12 | |
We had a No, it's not signed by the governor. | 00:26:14 | |
But we had a fairly good legislative session. The city got about two and a half million. | 00:26:17 | |
On our on. | 00:26:25 | |
Needs The biggest one was Finley. | 00:26:27 | |
We also got the sound system at the rodeo. We also got money to landscape and move the monument. | 00:26:31 | |
From El Camino Real, we also received. | 00:26:39 | |
Funds to do. | 00:26:43 | |
A spec building. | 00:26:44 | |
We got about 700,000. | 00:26:46 | |
To do a spec building at the Eagle pitcher cleanup, which will try to invite. | 00:26:48 | |
You know, just like this is a small scale Las lunas. | 00:26:54 | |
Like Los Lunas has the warehouses up there, you know with the different Amazons coming and Facebook and Walmart is there. So we | 00:26:58 | |
have money to start a building that we can then invite some company to come in especially since the. | 00:27:06 | |
The interchange at Escondido is going to be redone and it'll it'll be able to be more inviting to semis and things like that. So | 00:27:14 | |
that's why we also receive, Did I miss any other? | 00:27:21 | |
To the museum, The planning of the museum the museum grant we brought a Gwen Valentino has been doing a great job and putting | 00:27:29 | |
together some grants, so we replied to the State Historical Preservation Office for a $250,000 grant to do an interpretive part | 00:27:35 | |
of. | 00:27:41 | |
El Camino Real Heritage Center to design it and then we can apply it also for bricks and mortar after we get the design done. | 00:27:49 | |
We've gotten authorization from the. | 00:27:57 | |
State Highway Department to turn into. | 00:28:02 | |
The Convention Center and the R. | 00:28:06 | |
Park we have to put a cattle guard there and we've done that, so now we can actually get people coming off of Hwy. 60. | 00:28:08 | |
We're looking at a name, a named celebrity. I don't know. I shouldn't say anything until we get them, but my name is Neil McCoy. | 00:28:16 | |
We're trying to get him to headline our July 3rd. | 00:28:27 | |
But that's going to be something that people have asked about these modular buildings we got from the from the school system. We | 00:28:31 | |
had a caretaker at one time, Michael Director that lived there. He is gone. That was his trailer, although we hate to have it | 00:28:36 | |
moved. | 00:28:42 | |
So we've got one of the modulators is going to be set. | 00:28:47 | |
As a housing, and I'm hoping housing. | 00:28:51 | |
Region 7 will help us with that if we if if the person qualifies to. | 00:28:55 | |
For rent, we're going to get that and then also there's going to be another modular, that'll be showers. | 00:29:02 | |
Bathroom, kitchen and a meeting facility for the RV park and the other modulars being moved over there to Zimmerly and we're going | 00:29:07 | |
to show that to the Friends of the Library so we can try to make that. | 00:29:13 | |
Presumably into a into a. | 00:29:19 | |
Judicial complex. | 00:29:23 | |
And so we're working with the schools. | 00:29:24 | |
Our natural gas trucks are. | 00:29:27 | |
They'll be here hopefully next week. | 00:29:30 | |
Finally, and we've gotten 3 dump trucks. | 00:29:32 | |
We did not get the gas farm that we were natural gas farm that we're going to build money for that, but we're looking for that we. | 00:29:35 | |
Still the the Senior Center is still working with the Gita. I don't know if the county, I don't know if the county Commission. | 00:29:44 | |
But the County Commission give us a building. | 00:29:55 | |
But they want to see a budget. | 00:30:00 | |
But so we're going to be asking the county Commission to give us the Vegeta building so we can. | 00:30:03 | |
Make sure that all the seniors up there and that's a huge number that that it's going to get served for and and Linda Maurice is | 00:30:10 | |
doing a great job with the with the Senior Center. | 00:30:15 | |
As you know. | 00:30:20 | |
We got 875, almost 900,000 for the for the gym and thanks to Representative Latimer and Senator. | 00:30:22 | |
So we got money for that. | 00:30:31 | |
But as is now, we have a million. | 00:30:35 | |
And I think Council Dina's had meetings already is that we're planning on what we're planning to do with that area with a million | 00:30:37 | |
that we have now. | 00:30:40 | |
We've got a new. | 00:30:45 | |
Activities Director, Mr. Padilla. | 00:30:47 | |
Who is looking into upgrading our? | 00:30:49 | |
Working physically. | 00:30:53 | |
But. | 00:30:55 | |
But, but see, Ruby didn't stand up. I didn't. | 00:30:58 | |
But but he's working on trying to upgrade the equipment so that it's more attractive down there and and that's something that he's | 00:31:05 | |
worked on a corn hole tournament and I hate that would but he's working on that. You got how many teams. | 00:31:13 | |
So that's that's that's going. | 00:31:24 | |
Pretty strong so and I know Steve has done a great job out there at the soccer field in the rodeo and I think coach accomplished | 00:31:26 | |
bringing a flag football or you bringing some teams like you did last year. | 00:31:32 | |
This number we've got, yeah, we've got a really big I think we had almost 1000 kids. | 00:31:39 | |
We, in fact, you know this, I mean, for all you football fans we just had. | 00:31:44 | |
Our first kid that was offered by, I mean not we, but in Mexico had their first kid who was offered by Alabama first time. Like | 00:31:49 | |
we've got a top, like two or three. | 00:31:53 | |
Offer from Makita, one of the kids that was at the camp this last year. | 00:31:58 | |
But anyway, yeah, we had all the best talent in the state here. | 00:32:02 | |
So that's going to be, I think that will be a big project, but the roadie arenas doing doing well, the Convention Center Des and | 00:32:06 | |
Shannon are doing great out there. | 00:32:11 | |
So all that all that stuff is going on. I want to try to get you at May not once a month goes to all the different directors. | 00:32:16 | |
Department directors and I'll send you her report for each of the departments and I think that'll help you with the stuff that's | 00:32:24 | |
that's going on. | 00:32:29 | |
I think that's Mr. | 00:32:35 | |
We also receive funding for matching a federal grant for. | 00:32:38 | |
So, so those lights that are that we almost have 700,000. | 00:32:45 | |
For lighting at studio park so we need to work with Southwest side Southwest. | 00:32:50 | |
On your project about reconfiguring. | 00:32:55 | |
The fields and everything. So we don't put the lights in the wrong place, but we've got, we've got matching. We have 380,000 from | 00:32:57 | |
the feds and we've got. | 00:33:02 | |
A mistake. So, so you know that ended up giving about 2.5 million, which is probably the most that we've. | 00:33:09 | |
You know the old story about if you don't ask, you don't get. And believe me they were. If you looked, you look through the list | 00:33:16 | |
of if you just go to the, I'm not sure which bill it was. But if you look and you can see every town and what they got starting | 00:33:21 | |
from Albuquerque down to. | 00:33:25 | |
Las Cruces and IS they gave out a billion dollars worth of projects. | 00:33:31 | |
Billion. Dollars. | 00:33:37 | |
We have, we received money for, you already know we received about a million to cover the, the, the. | 00:33:40 | |
Arena and for heating so we can have will have in the winter, we'll have a heated arena, indoor, basically indoor arena. We did | 00:33:46 | |
get money for CDBG project on Cuba Rd. | 00:33:52 | |
However, the estimates, the amount that it's going to cost to do it, it came up really, really high. So Donald has put in to do a | 00:33:59 | |
contingency. I think they have a where you can get money, extra money to do a project. We got about 800,000, we need a million | 00:34:04 | |
too. | 00:34:10 | |
Hello, yes Sir, due to inflation a lot of the. | 00:34:16 | |
Amount of the cost overruns of the CDBG projects. A lot of communities didn't apply because they knew that. | 00:34:20 | |
The match was going to be in a half $1,000,000. | 00:34:25 | |
So that left extra CDBG funding and that application should come out on the 29th. | 00:34:28 | |
And just to tell you about revenue, I mean it. | 00:34:35 | |
States getting money. | 00:34:38 | |
And I'm not sure where this came from. | 00:34:40 | |
But our grocery seats for the very first time. | 00:34:43 | |
Were 720,000. | 00:34:47 | |
We've never had. She's over 500. | 00:34:50 | |
And then we then we also get small cities. | 00:34:54 | |
And it was supposed to be, I think the Budget Committee had it for 230 and we got something like 530. | 00:34:58 | |
So financially we're in good shape and that's why I offered you guys some money or Councillor Salomi offered you some money, but | 00:35:06 | |
well, don't get the budget committees. But we are, but we are, you know, and again, I, I, I kind of alluded to the fact about | 00:35:13 | |
Zimmerly and Seracino. | 00:35:19 | |
And we haven't signed the agreement with my agreement with a, with a, with a Superintendent and the chairman of. | 00:35:26 | |
School board was that the city would inherit. | 00:35:34 | |
And so that we would then start thinking about programs in Saracen or whether they were vocational or 100% Socorro or other | 00:35:38 | |
programs. | 00:35:44 | |
Permanent, permanent place where the, you know we were talking about the. | 00:35:51 | |
Esports, maybe to have an arena like that at Saraceno, so there are things that we can do, We just have to be financially prudent | 00:35:58 | |
as to how we spend it. | 00:36:03 | |
So all that has been going on. And in the meantime, you know, we have a Police Department, we've got a fire department, we've got | 00:36:08 | |
an ambulance that just broke down after, I don't know, 300,000 miles or something like that. We've got animal control, dispatch. I | 00:36:14 | |
mean, there's we have what, 20, there's something like 20 departments. | 00:36:21 | |
And so all that. | 00:36:27 | |
Is the constant wheels going around? You know, they always tell people, when I used to watch the Ed Sullivan Show, this guy would | 00:36:29 | |
come up with these plates that he would want 10 plates. And he was always by the time you got to that plate, the last plate would | 00:36:34 | |
be going, had to run back there. | 00:36:40 | |
It's just not places, department heads. | 00:36:49 | |
So that's what we we try to keep putting energy into each. | 00:36:52 | |
Because, I mean, these guys just get worn out. I mean, that's. | 00:36:56 | |
GRT e-mail Do you think little? | 00:37:00 | |
I I hope. I hope so. But I don't. I'm not counting on it to go. I mean to to we've never, ever, ever, ever had $700,000 in | 00:37:04 | |
groceries. And I don't know if it's a highway project. | 00:37:09 | |
Do you think that's always in the back of my head is they made a mistake, They made a mistake in Santa Rosa about seven years ago | 00:37:15 | |
to the platoon of about a million two and they wanted their money back. | 00:37:20 | |
And of course politics that got out of it. But but that's the only thing, you know, we used to when we used to get a check like | 00:37:26 | |
that, we'd put it under our our blotter for about 3. | 00:37:31 | |
We wouldn't put it in the bank. I got a check from Enron once. | 00:37:37 | |
For $170,000 and Pat and I we just, we hit it underneath the bottom for three months thinking it was a mistake, but it wasn't a | 00:37:41 | |
mistake that Enron had to settle with because we buy national gas from at one time. But it's. | 00:37:48 | |
It's a little scary, really. | 00:37:56 | |
Because you don't know if it was a mistake or what, because there's no big project to tech. | 00:37:58 | |
You know you've got a big project coming up. The school's coming up. | 00:38:04 | |
The roads, the roads got that was a pretty good project, but I have no idea where that came from. | 00:38:08 | |
I don't know. I mean, you never can find out really, 'cause if you pay $1.00, they'll tell you that person pay, they won't give | 00:38:19 | |
you. | 00:38:23 | |
Well, which is proprietary, I mean. | 00:38:27 | |
But anyway, but just so that's kind of a little update on the. | 00:38:29 | |
Any largest tax up also that? | 00:38:33 | |
It's pretty steady and larger tax is pretty. | 00:38:37 | |
Even that month. | 00:38:41 | |
You know, larger tax usually. | 00:38:43 | |
Is 30,000. | 00:38:46 | |
35,000. | 00:38:49 | |
We get about 400,000. | 00:38:51 | |
And that that's not fluctuated much, it's and 1st responders are solid. | 00:38:54 | |
They're solid for the next 2-3 years. | 00:39:00 | |
They actually added a couple of and they're going into virtual which is being put into. | 00:39:02 | |
Thing up there, So that's. | 00:39:08 | |
But I don't know. | 00:39:11 | |
It is. | 00:39:13 | |
Did you find anything about? | 00:39:16 | |
Tech graduation. | 00:39:18 | |
It's May. | 00:39:23 | |
And that's already been reserved for the rodeo linen or it is going to be at the rodeo. So there's, you know, again, I think high | 00:39:24 | |
school wanted palm at the Convention Center. We're going to work with them. I think high school graduation, was it at that rodeo | 00:39:28 | |
or no? | 00:39:33 | |
I think it was, yeah. So, so those, I mean those. | 00:39:38 | |
Those facilities are getting used. | 00:39:42 | |
We're not getting a lot of money from the people who use them. | 00:39:45 | |
Marianne project going good. | 00:39:49 | |
We have the groundbreaking on Tuesday, February 27th at 11:00, so we'd like to invite the public. | 00:39:52 | |
To the groundbreaking. Oh, you're there. You're the Mayor Hotel. | 00:39:59 | |
But the but the same people that are demoing that did the dirt work at the junior high it's in Guzman construction is the same | 00:40:04 | |
people that did. | 00:40:08 | |
That One South just make a point. I'm sure everybody's aware of the fact that that rodeo arena went where it went. | 00:40:12 | |
Allowed the growth of Socorro to move out that way, to allow Marianne to put her her facility, to allow for a lot of things that | 00:40:21 | |
are the benefits that are they keep coming from the city building that rodeo arena. | 00:40:29 | |
And Hwy. 60, Project WE. | 00:40:37 | |
We're still waiting for the engineer to do the final scop. | 00:40:39 | |
Because that's going to be, I keep dreading the. | 00:40:43 | |
That. That junior high. | 00:40:47 | |
Because I'm hoping that the Highway 60 will be adequate along with Michigan. | 00:40:50 | |
To have the in and out. | 00:40:55 | |
200 people, they're going to be dropping people. | 00:40:56 | |
That's and then high school kids too, on top of. | 00:41:00 | |
That's that's my biggest concern of that area being congested. | 00:41:03 | |
So. | 00:41:10 | |
Street Projects The Fowler St. project is on the way. | 00:41:13 | |
The walkway. | 00:41:17 | |
That's going to get started in March, Lloyd. | 00:41:18 | |
And which And Manzanera. | 00:41:21 | |
Is going to get started. So we have about four projects in Cuba. Rd. will get started. Depending on that we can put the money | 00:41:25 | |
together. | 00:41:28 | |
So that's that's where we're at on that. And Mr. Mayor Center St. in Mccutchen will also be in March. McCutcheon. Yeah, so. | 00:41:32 | |
We're doing those. | 00:41:39 | |
Any old, old business that anybody wants to bring up? | 00:41:42 | |
I want to tell you that I do have the number. | 00:41:46 | |
For the substation. | 00:41:50 | |
And we're giving it to our financial people. | 00:41:52 | |
To do the pro forma as to what the cost will be per kilowatt? | 00:41:57 | |
Not letting the cat out of the bag. If I give you a number, it's 12 million. | 00:42:03 | |
That includes that includes a subst. | 00:42:09 | |
It includes the distribution. | 00:42:12 | |
And then includes about 5 things I can't remember. | 00:42:15 | |
Capacity is one thing, Capacity. | 00:42:19 | |
Yeah. So, and that that means new distribution lines to all the different businesses. | 00:42:22 | |
One of the five things is a backup transformer as well. In case anything happens with one or for maintenance it has to go offline, | 00:42:27 | |
we'll have a backup. | 00:42:31 | |
So just just to inform you on. | 00:42:35 | |
And then what we'll do is to take. | 00:42:39 | |
Number. | 00:42:42 | |
But as to what the revenue would? | 00:42:45 | |
But the good news? | 00:42:48 | |
There's grants out there that we have people. | 00:42:50 | |
Actually, I. | 00:42:54 | |
The gentleman that that Mary Ann's working with. | 00:42:57 | |
He also. | 00:43:02 | |
Grants for solar. | 00:43:03 | |
And substations. | 00:43:05 | |
And so he he figures he could probably get half of that in grants. | 00:43:06 | |
And from the money that people are putting into electric? | 00:43:11 | |
Right now. So so we have to work that number down and I know everybody's waiting for that one number which how much is it per | 00:43:15 | |
kilowatt, but that's, that's the number. | 00:43:20 | |
That we're looking at and I want to I will send you an article that I was in Durango the other day. The La Plata Electric has also | 00:43:25 | |
been fighting with tri-state and for three. | 00:43:30 | |
And so they have some. | 00:43:36 | |
Don't get take it from me, it's in the newspaper from Durango. About what? | 00:43:39 | |
Kind of trouble they've been having with tri-state. They're trying to leave trash state also. | 00:43:44 | |
And that's La Plata is a big, big and. | 00:43:48 | |
Again, like kit cars. | 00:43:52 | |
The Plata? That's that Durango. | 00:43:55 | |
They're 100% solar during the day. | 00:43:57 | |
They don't. They. They everybody that's 100%. | 00:44:01 | |
So that that's where everything's going and that's put a lot of pressure on the electric utilities because they actually. | 00:44:05 | |
Pushing solar. | 00:44:13 | |
The amount of capacity that these people were putting back into the grid was too much for the grid. | 00:44:15 | |
So they stop. They. | 00:44:20 | |
And that's in the article. But they stopped. | 00:44:23 | |
Pushing So. | 00:44:28 | |
So anyway, so that's that's the situation there. | 00:44:30 | |
Executive session. | 00:44:36 | |
I gave everything about the executive decision and. | 00:44:37 | |
There's intercession. | 00:44:40 | |
OK, So what do we got? Personnel matters. | 00:44:44 | |
You put that first before the marriage report. | 00:44:49 | |
OK. Well, we'll just do it then. | 00:44:54 | |
I believe there's more. | 00:44:56 | |
Well, that was an executive session. OK, job, job description. That's a job description, Donald, what is that? | 00:44:59 | |
Ruby is adjusting one of her. | 00:45:08 | |
But you adjusted her job description or that job gathered salary range in the job description. | 00:45:19 | |
Well, then it went from 40 to 50. Yes, Sir, yes. | 00:45:28 | |
Moved and seconded. | 00:45:33 | |
All in favor. | 00:45:35 | |
OK, so there she is there on the Clara Reyes on the personnel changes. | 00:45:37 | |
And that's an administrative delinquency and collection clerk, a 43. | 00:45:42 | |
At 7:27. | 00:45:47 | |
That's all I got. | 00:45:50 | |
I'll make a motion to approve the personnel changes. | 00:45:52 | |
Seconded discussion. | 00:45:57 | |
All in favor. | 00:45:59 | |
Business Registration, Eminem, Latin Plaster Manual, Gutierrez, Los Lunas. | 00:46:01 | |
Romero roofing Ponderosa, NM to you tob. | 00:46:06 | |
Endless Vials, Retail Tobacco, 401 Grant. | 00:46:11 | |
What is that? Is that the old triangle? | 00:46:16 | |
Yeah. | 00:46:20 | |
And then floor. | 00:46:23 | |
Paul Abraham, Epoxy. | 00:46:25 | |
Mr. Mayor. | 00:46:28 | |
Move, We approve the business. Registration is read. | 00:46:30 | |
With the secondary discussion all in favor. | 00:46:34 | |
A shift. | 00:46:37 | |
Very good. Thank you. | 00:46:40 | |
Good. | 00:46:46 |
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Like I barely owe. | 00:00:00 | |
Yes, Peter. | 00:00:04 | |
OK. | 00:00:10 | |
Really. All right, this City of Scotland City Council meeting Tuesday, February 20th. | 00:00:12 | |
2024 will call please air basket here. Councillor Travis Lopez. | 00:00:18 | |
Councillor. | 00:00:23 | |
Councillor Fleming. | 00:00:24 | |
Councillor Ocampo here. Councillor Ogain here. | 00:00:27 | |
Councillor Partridge. | 00:00:30 | |
Councillor Romero here, Councillor Salome here, we have a quorum. | 00:00:33 | |
All right. | 00:00:38 | |
Mr. Mayor. | 00:01:00 | |
Parents who approve the consent agenda. | 00:01:01 | |
Moved and seconded. | 00:01:06 | |
Any discussion on any of that? | 00:01:09 | |
All in favor. | 00:01:13 | |
Opposed. | 00:01:15 | |
OK, we have. | 00:01:17 | |
On the public forum we talked about 100% Socorro, so, Senator Martinez and. | 00:01:21 | |
That's Mr. Shalom. So the approval of the February minutes, the consideration, the minutes and the C, the voucher run, those are | 00:01:27 | |
all part of the consent agenda. | 00:01:32 | |
I had a comment on the on the voucher run. | 00:01:38 | |
But I was thinking, yeah, I just, I just like to say that I didn't know what is a significant amount for engineering work going up | 00:01:41 | |
at Evergreen. | 00:01:45 | |
And I know that the administration had been working on that for quite some time. And so I was glad to see that that project is | 00:01:50 | |
moving forward and that is really going to be a benefit to our community in that amount And so all the the, the development and | 00:01:55 | |
all the. | 00:02:01 | |
The infrastructure that's going on up there is. | 00:02:08 | |
For acknowledging. | 00:02:16 | |
OK, Sandra. | 00:02:19 | |
For. | 00:02:22 | |
Sure. No, I only have two minutes. | 00:02:24 | |
I'm going to get started, Mayor Basker, Honorable counselors. | 00:02:29 | |
Just one. | 00:02:34 | |
My name is Sandra Martinez, a resident of Socorro. | 00:02:36 | |
I thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak to you on behalf of 100% Socorro County. If you haven't heard about it, Socorro | 00:02:40 | |
100% Socorro was about transforming our community to a place where every child thrives. | 00:02:47 | |
It's a statewide commitment established in 2019 with bipartisan sponsorship and funding from the state legislature. | 00:02:53 | |
The idea was to try something new to ensure that 100% of New Mexico residents can access the 10 services required to survive and | 00:03:01 | |
thrive. This work is carried out on a county level within a framework tailored to the unique needs of rural communities. | 00:03:09 | |
The book David, Age 14, explains all of this in the less than 150 pages. It may be the most useful book you'll read as a city | 00:03:18 | |
Councilor, because it explains how the system, especially in rural communities, fails our children. The question then, is despite | 00:03:25 | |
our best efforts, are these our best efforts? | 00:03:31 | |
So we asked our community and the answers are in the graphic survey from data collected. | 00:03:38 | |
From our community showing the difficulty residents encounter in attempting to access vital services. | 00:03:44 | |
As a group we were beginning to see the picture and as a community we began to work on solutions. | 00:03:52 | |
Through collaborative efforts, we were able to complete the asset mapping that helped secure PED funding for the Socorro Community | 00:03:59 | |
Schools. | 00:04:03 | |
He's been given a copy of that as well. | 00:04:07 | |
Since then, we have built collaborative relationships with individuals and organizations. | 00:04:11 | |
From the 10 service sectors, which I'd love to name now. | 00:04:16 | |
But I think in the interest of time, I will have to skip that and are currently in the final phases of vetting an online directory | 00:04:22 | |
of services which will go live by April 1st. | 00:04:26 | |
Currently, we're endeavoring to move forward with a 100% Family Center, a one stop service hub that will assist families in | 00:04:33 | |
navigating obstacles and connecting to needed services. A brief overview of the 100% Family Center concept can be found in this | 00:04:38 | |
small booklet. | 00:04:44 | |
So thank you for giving me this time. I have some colleagues with me in case you have any questions about the project or what | 00:04:51 | |
we're doing. We are interested in some assistance in identifying A suitable building to house the Family Center. | 00:04:58 | |
And also, I'd like to invite you to our summit, which will occur on June 14th. | 00:05:05 | |
And we'll send you a save the date. | 00:05:12 | |
To each of you, but if anyone would like to read this book, I highly recommend it. | 00:05:14 | |
We can. Pete can hand it to you if you just let him know you'd like a coffee. | 00:05:20 | |
Thank you. | 00:05:25 | |
I have a question. Yeah, on your on this thing. I'm seeing housing, but I don't see the Housing Authority listed anywhere. | 00:05:28 | |
Then that was just because if remember, at the summit we had the little cards up there. | 00:05:38 | |
So I'd like to come back at another date if that is possible, if you would like to discuss any of this further if you have more | 00:05:52 | |
questions, but how can the city help? | 00:05:56 | |
Well, I think the city could help us by. Well, first of all, if you look at the, if you look at the map, this is mainly city of | 00:06:02 | |
the court. You know these are mainly most of the people are in the city. So what we're looking for is a. | 00:06:08 | |
Home for the family. | 00:06:16 | |
So a building that we can, we're going to have navigators who are full time employees. | 00:06:18 | |
How big? How big a place? | 00:06:25 | |
Maybe Sharon Sessions. Is that OK? If she? So we're working on an actual, full proposal that describes all the needs. And one of | 00:06:29 | |
the things that we're hoping to get out of the summit actually is feedback from the community of what of what the community needs. | 00:06:37 | |
Ideally something that can hold office space, potentially one-on-one counseling places where people can can use computers to get | 00:06:46 | |
job applications. So it could be a pretty big space. We can start small too, but something to be able to start with would be | 00:06:52 | |
great. | 00:06:57 | |
You already got it funded for you talking about renting it, Are you talking about is there any operating and maintenance that the | 00:07:03 | |
city would have to put in? | 00:07:08 | |
We don't know what the answer to that it yet is. So the the proposal that we're working for is one of many proposals prepared by | 00:07:13 | |
counties across New Mexico that will be given to the state legislatures potentially being used for for. | 00:07:20 | |
Nonprofit basically getting donors to do these kinds of things. There is one that I believe might be getting funded and Onion | 00:07:30 | |
County that will serve as a really good model for that. That is being funded by the state legislature. So we are putting together | 00:07:38 | |
the concept, the, the huge dream that we have to get together. I have talked with Vice President Richard Cervantes at New Mexico | 00:07:45 | |
Tech, who's talked to the president and New Mexico Tech is willing to help with like the fiscal responsibilities of that. | 00:07:52 | |
There's a lot of details that we don't know yet, but. | 00:08:00 | |
Or two away or. | 00:08:03 | |
Probably, yeah. I mean, you know, we're going to be inheriting some, some buildings. | 00:08:05 | |
Keep us in mind that is all you know about it. I mean, I think that's something that you know. | 00:08:11 | |
Building that new junior high was number there's there's going to be some buildings available. I think that this would be a very | 00:08:18 | |
and if you have to have a when you do put the grant in you if you have to have a say you have a space. | 00:08:24 | |
I mean, we want to get the specifics, we want to get involved with it absolutely and we are working on that. So we're trying to | 00:08:30 | |
get as much, many of the details as possible. | 00:08:35 | |
No, no, I just just a question if if they were to come and present to the budget committee and ask for some funding in that way | 00:08:41 | |
from the council and the administration can do that way, we start our meeting soon. | 00:08:47 | |
We invite organizations to come and and and ask for funding that would support things that would help the community. | 00:08:56 | |
Some fantastic. There is another question we had. I'm sorry, it's we have the money now until the end of the fiscal year for a | 00:09:03 | |
community building and your old project, but we do not have a wall. | 00:09:10 | |
So that might be something you may if you have a world around this mural we have money to buy designated a couple of walls that | 00:09:17 | |
never got done. | 00:09:22 | |
You know, we were talking about that. | 00:09:28 | |
Mrs. Wells, One time with a diamond. | 00:09:32 | |
Can't think of the name of. | 00:09:36 | |
But yeah, if you have money for minerals, we can. We can. | 00:09:38 | |
We could even go tomorrow if we had somebody. | 00:09:43 | |
And do you have the what, what topic would you put on the wall? It would be working with the artist, but it would be around the | 00:09:47 | |
100% Sakura Initiative. So I think it would be great to say 100% Socorro, but anything that represents. | 00:09:54 | |
Community, Our community. | 00:10:02 | |
We don't. Well, we actually have talked to somebody, but. | 00:10:05 | |
Don't have a space away. | 00:10:10 | |
Working real close with the the murals. | 00:10:14 | |
Also, we're also not just murals, but we're also talking about all these Transformers and things that are around town. | 00:10:18 | |
And even fire fire Hyd. | 00:10:25 | |
That's what Chelsea was. So there. That project is already going, we just haven't gotten the weather to get it started. | 00:10:28 | |
OK, the one right there. | 00:10:35 | |
So let's we'll get that if we can get your information. | 00:10:40 | |
To Chelsea together with them. I mean, it doesn't have to be a huge, big mural if you can do other things than just. | 00:10:45 | |
You know that would be. | 00:10:51 | |
Thank you. Thank you. | 00:10:55 | |
Mr. Parker, did you have a question? | 00:10:58 | |
Sounds like a great initiative though. | 00:11:01 | |
Thank you for coming. | 00:11:03 | |
Anyone else that would like to answer? | 00:11:10 | |
Thank you. | 00:11:15 | |
Thank you, Mr. Mayor and members of the City Council. What I'm saying may actually in some ways be pertinent to the previous | 00:11:19 | |
presentation in their discussion of available property in Socorro. | 00:11:23 | |
Could you Could you just wish yourself? Of course. My name is Will Carter and I live here in Scoro. I work remotely, but I'm lucky | 00:11:29 | |
to have family and a good community here and want to build my life here. | 00:11:35 | |
I wanted to raise the Council an issue that I'm sure you are all familiar with and that I'm sure has come before the Council | 00:11:42 | |
before around vacant and abandoned buildings in Socorro, particularly in our main commercial areas and. | 00:11:49 | |
This is not a new problem or one that we haven't seen experiments around the country and around the state before. And in fact, | 00:11:57 | |
there's actually a 2019 study by the state of how we can actually do more to address the issue of vacant buildings. And so I | 00:12:04 | |
wanted to raise to this council that in reading this study and a number of others, including case studies from other cities, | 00:12:10 | |
including similar cities within the state of New Mexico. | 00:12:17 | |
There are a number of things that I think that we could do. This report itself lays out nine recommendations for smaller | 00:12:24 | |
communities in New Mexico for how they can deal with this issue, including cost offsets, because I know that is a legitimate issue | 00:12:28 | |
for the city. | 00:12:32 | |
But I would love to to either share this report and other reports that I have been reading on this topic and also would love to | 00:12:38 | |
discuss with the Mayor, members of the Council who are interested in this topic, how we can do more as a City, including | 00:12:45 | |
establishing vacant and abandoned building ordinances and some minimum standards to hold property owners accountable and also to | 00:12:52 | |
give the city the opportunity to accelerate reinvestment in some of these areas and redevelopment of some of these areas. | 00:13:00 | |
Great. If you'll share the reference with us to begin with and perhaps later on this month because I'm going to be out for a | 00:13:08 | |
couple of weeks. | 00:13:12 | |
We'd like to talk to you about that and I would invite my code enforcement people. | 00:13:18 | |
We have we have a problem with abandoned and vacant building. Matter of fact, I had a call from the guy who owns the. | 00:13:24 | |
Smiths Now, I didn't return his call yet, but as Duke Rodriguez, he's the chairman of. | 00:13:30 | |
Biggest group of marijuana company in the city, in the state and. | 00:13:36 | |
Our problem is due process. | 00:13:42 | |
And that's something that. | 00:13:45 | |
If they attend to that in those articles, those nine things you're talking about, we certainly we certainly need to move on with | 00:13:48 | |
with what we need to do with the vacant buildings. Absolutely. They they cover in this the state and national level requirements | 00:13:54 | |
and also some of the legal mechanisms that other cities use to address the problem. So can you read us your contact information, | 00:14:00 | |
Perhaps we can put together a meeting. | 00:14:05 | |
Absolutely. So appreciate you coming. That's really important for us. | 00:14:12 | |
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. About a month ago or a month and a half ago, Albuquerque, actually. | 00:14:16 | |
Broached this topic too on how to streamline their. | 00:14:23 | |
The ordinance is to be able to not have to wait six months to get something done. You know, like you say due process, but we have | 00:14:26 | |
that in our ordinances, so we have to follow that. But just just to let you know, Sands Motel took us almost three years and | 00:14:31 | |
$180,000. | 00:14:36 | |
So and we now we own the property that that's a problem so that that's our biggest problem is is the due process. | 00:14:42 | |
Demolition. Now we have about 5 burned buildings in town. | 00:14:53 | |
And we're now working step by step on each one of those to try to get those and a lot of them. | 00:14:56 | |
Non resident owners, they live in California or somewhere else, so that's the other problem. | 00:15:02 | |
I know, Chris, you have any comments on that? I mean how? | 00:15:08 | |
Make sure that we invite you to that meeting. | 00:15:11 | |
Christian. | 00:15:19 | |
Code enforcement officer. It would be nice to like find a way to streamline that because it is a bunch of waiting and. | 00:15:21 | |
Putting plans together. | 00:15:30 | |
Like the Park Street took about a year and we were pretty close and someone came in and cleaned it up for us, but well, maybe you | 00:15:32 | |
can get Mr. Clark, do you have a copy of that or is there a copy of that? | 00:15:37 | |
That reference, will you share that with us and Chris maybe make me a copy? | 00:15:44 | |
Whenever for tomorrow, but thank you. Thanks for bringing. | 00:15:50 | |
Anyone else that's not on the agenda? | 00:15:55 | |
I'd like to make. | 00:15:59 | |
If not, I have a. | 00:16:03 | |
Proclamation. | 00:16:06 | |
X. | 00:16:10 | |
So the. | 00:16:19 | |
First of all, thank you for being a friend. | 00:16:22 | |
Yes, Sir. It's a fun ride. Quite a ride, quite a ride. So here's, here's I'm going to read. | 00:16:25 | |
And probably it's not a. | 00:16:33 | |
But as a partial list of the things that Councillor Hicks has accomplished since 1986. | 00:16:35 | |
Obviously, he's been on numerous. | 00:16:42 | |
He's been a mayor Pro Tem for 10 years. | 00:16:44 | |
He's been a member of the Regional Transit District, South Central Regional Transportation Planning Organization president for | 00:16:47 | |
five years, South Central Council of Governments president for seven years. | 00:16:52 | |
South Central Council of Governments. Vice president for five years. South Central Council of Governments, interim executive | 00:16:58 | |
directors, just three months for that one. So airport committee chairman for 17 years. And he's still on the airport committee on | 00:17:04 | |
New Mexico State Airport committee for 12 years. New Mexico Municipal League director at large, 12 years. New Mexico Municipal | 00:17:11 | |
League Human Relations committee, nine years. New Mexico Municipal League budget committee, two years. | 00:17:17 | |
You miss School Municipal League treasurer. | 00:17:24 | |
New Mexico Municipal League, Transportation and Public works 10 years. | 00:17:27 | |
New Mexico Municipal League resolution Committee, 17 years. New Mexico Municipal League strategic planning steering committee two | 00:17:32 | |
years. New Mexico Municipal League General Legislative committee nine years. New Mexico Municipal League Safety committee five | 00:17:37 | |
years. | 00:17:42 | |
Municipal Official Leadership Institute Graduate Municipal Official Leadership Institute Graduate, 2008, 2012 Leadership, New | 00:17:47 | |
Mexico. | 00:17:52 | |
Voting delegate at National League of Cities. | 00:17:57 | |
And chief elected official for Southwest, worked for connections. | 00:18:00 | |
For 10 years. | 00:18:04 | |
I have a plaque for your Gordie. After all this, we couldn't put this all on the plaque. | 00:18:05 | |
But this is presented to Gordon Gordon Hicks in recognition and appreciation of 33 years. | 00:18:23 | |
1986 to 1990 four 1998 to 2023 of dedicated public service to the City of Socorro, City Councilor, Mayor Pro Tem, and the City's | 00:18:30 | |
representatives on multiple committees throughout the state of New Mexico, from the Mayor Randy Basket, City Council past and | 00:18:37 | |
present, and all residents of the City of Sagora. We're proud of you, Gordon, with all the work that you put in for the City's. | 00:18:45 | |
Has always been at your side and your. | 00:18:58 | |
Oh, here, but give. | 00:19:00 | |
Give us a little bit of your wisdom. | 00:19:03 | |
Your search over. | 00:19:06 | |
Wow. I didn't realize we were on that many committees. | 00:19:08 | |
Guys, I couldn't have done it without you here. | 00:19:13 | |
There's a team effort. | 00:19:17 | |
And it was lots of fun. | 00:19:19 | |
I still try to. | 00:19:21 | |
Mr. Mona, Councillor Monet. | 00:19:24 | |
It's just been very fun. | 00:19:28 | |
Then a good ride. City supporters treated me. | 00:19:31 | |
And you guys? | 00:19:35 | |
Have just made it. | 00:19:37 | |
Possible that we got all these things done for the city SA. | 00:19:39 | |
And that's where I'm so proud of being a small part that. | 00:19:44 | |
And Mr. Mayor, you took it from. | 00:19:48 | |
You've done a good job on it to the counselors, and I'd like to thank the public too. | 00:19:53 | |
If we could have done it without the public. | 00:19:59 | |
They're the ones in our workers. | 00:20:02 | |
They're the ones that do all the work. | 00:20:04 | |
They're out there hustling day-to-day. | 00:20:07 | |
They're the ones that make the administration and the council look good. | 00:20:09 | |
They have to put up with the. | 00:20:14 | |
Roads I Hate Vita on the. | 00:20:16 | |
County seat right now. The little speed bumps down there by Limiter and Paradera and stuff. But. | 00:20:21 | |
Once again. | 00:20:29 | |
Where's the camera there? | 00:20:31 | |
Thanks again citizens for. | 00:20:33 | |
Being behind me all these years and supporting us, I think we. | 00:20:36 | |
Do a good job, but I know that it will continue going into guys hands. | 00:20:43 | |
So thank you so very very much. | 00:20:51 | |
Family will take a picture. | 00:21:02 | |
Yeah, it's great. | 00:21:05 | |
Thank you. | 00:21:10 | |
And we still want to have you continue to be. | 00:21:49 | |
Involved with the. | 00:21:53 | |
There's a few committees that we still want you to serve on, the airport committee, the RPO and then the ones that you know you | 00:21:55 | |
don't have to be an elected official for, so we certainly invite you. | 00:22:00 | |
Continue, hopefully to you. Leave us your wisdom on some of these. | 00:22:06 | |
Thank you. | 00:22:12 | |
Mr. Romero. | 00:22:14 | |
I just want to Gordie. I just want to thank you for being such a good friend. | 00:22:16 | |
A good citizen. | 00:22:21 | |
Good, honored veteran and I want to thank. | 00:22:24 | |
Gordy's family back there for? | 00:22:27 | |
Sharing them with. | 00:22:29 | |
Being so patient. | 00:22:31 | |
What we had in the. | 00:22:33 | |
Let's go again, Mr. Mayor. I I almost want to rethink my my nomination to be the Municipal League representative for the city, to | 00:22:39 | |
know where I could be with that. | 00:22:43 | |
I will say though that attending something municipalities already did represent the city well. He was well liked and everybody | 00:22:48 | |
knows Gordy up there and I'm sure everybody with the municipal is going to going to miss you as well too. And I just want to say | 00:22:53 | |
it's been an honor working with you and. | 00:22:57 | |
Serving with you over the years as well too, so thank you, Gordy. | 00:23:01 | |
Again, I'd like to echo that, thank you so much, Gordy. And and I mean your family is a testament to how good of a person you are. | 00:23:09 | |
And I appreciate everything you've done for for this, for the town and the city of Socorro and and and your family continues doing | 00:23:16 | |
it. So you guys done right. | 00:23:22 | |
Appreciate you. | 00:23:29 | |
Mr. Partridge and mistakes whenever my first time running and he was so gracious, even through the process he he he was | 00:23:31 | |
encouraging. | 00:23:36 | |
And just a really good person. He wanted, he wants well, you know he wants well even change. | 00:23:42 | |
Was the outcome. Maybe wasn't what he wanted, but he never had a sour attitude towards that. He never was. | 00:23:48 | |
He was nothing but kind to me, his family's kind. | 00:23:53 | |
That's kind of the people around. He was kind. It was soon as it happened, he was all about getting the transition peacefully and | 00:23:56 | |
getting the getting this council put together and being a part of it, not being destructive about it in any way, shape or form. | 00:24:02 | |
It's phenomenal. So thank you for helping too, Mr. Mr. Hicks. | 00:24:08 | |
Mr. Tsunami. | 00:24:15 | |
Already you've not only been an example of how to be a an effective. | 00:24:17 | |
Kind, generous, public servant. But you've been an example to me on how to treat people. That's more important. I I appreciate the | 00:24:24 | |
lessons that I've learned from you and and the stories that we've shared and and your Mark Carmel experiences. And I can relate | 00:24:32 | |
and I and I can relate with them and I just want to tell you thank you and I appreciate, appreciate you very much. | 00:24:39 | |
Mr. *****. | 00:24:48 | |
If you do live for guys team. | 00:24:52 | |
And the family And Gordie, you don't have to sit through another council meeting if you don't want to. | 00:24:55 | |
That's OK. | 00:25:02 | |
Thank you, gorgeous. | 00:25:07 | |
OK, I had two other ones. | 00:25:25 | |
We'll skip those again. | 00:25:28 | |
No, they won't be coming, but they'll be getting. | 00:25:30 | |
And then Mr. Miller said he was not going to show up for the agenda item. But we've been doing some research and there are gun | 00:25:33 | |
ranges everywhere, including on state lands, and there's never been any comment about that. I don't know about the noise | 00:25:39 | |
pollution, but we'll give another chance to come and another time. | 00:25:45 | |
So that's something that. | 00:25:52 | |
We can talk about what we're doing. We have been doing some investigation about any kind of problems that other gun Rangers might. | 00:25:53 | |
So including we've talked to New Mexico Tech to be able to maybe utilize their gun range and so we're we're kind of working on his | 00:26:02 | |
problem. | 00:26:06 | |
And new. | 00:26:12 | |
We had a No, it's not signed by the governor. | 00:26:14 | |
But we had a fairly good legislative session. The city got about two and a half million. | 00:26:17 | |
On our on. | 00:26:25 | |
Needs The biggest one was Finley. | 00:26:27 | |
We also got the sound system at the rodeo. We also got money to landscape and move the monument. | 00:26:31 | |
From El Camino Real, we also received. | 00:26:39 | |
Funds to do. | 00:26:43 | |
A spec building. | 00:26:44 | |
We got about 700,000. | 00:26:46 | |
To do a spec building at the Eagle pitcher cleanup, which will try to invite. | 00:26:48 | |
You know, just like this is a small scale Las lunas. | 00:26:54 | |
Like Los Lunas has the warehouses up there, you know with the different Amazons coming and Facebook and Walmart is there. So we | 00:26:58 | |
have money to start a building that we can then invite some company to come in especially since the. | 00:27:06 | |
The interchange at Escondido is going to be redone and it'll it'll be able to be more inviting to semis and things like that. So | 00:27:14 | |
that's why we also receive, Did I miss any other? | 00:27:21 | |
To the museum, The planning of the museum the museum grant we brought a Gwen Valentino has been doing a great job and putting | 00:27:29 | |
together some grants, so we replied to the State Historical Preservation Office for a $250,000 grant to do an interpretive part | 00:27:35 | |
of. | 00:27:41 | |
El Camino Real Heritage Center to design it and then we can apply it also for bricks and mortar after we get the design done. | 00:27:49 | |
We've gotten authorization from the. | 00:27:57 | |
State Highway Department to turn into. | 00:28:02 | |
The Convention Center and the R. | 00:28:06 | |
Park we have to put a cattle guard there and we've done that, so now we can actually get people coming off of Hwy. 60. | 00:28:08 | |
We're looking at a name, a named celebrity. I don't know. I shouldn't say anything until we get them, but my name is Neil McCoy. | 00:28:16 | |
We're trying to get him to headline our July 3rd. | 00:28:27 | |
But that's going to be something that people have asked about these modular buildings we got from the from the school system. We | 00:28:31 | |
had a caretaker at one time, Michael Director that lived there. He is gone. That was his trailer, although we hate to have it | 00:28:36 | |
moved. | 00:28:42 | |
So we've got one of the modulators is going to be set. | 00:28:47 | |
As a housing, and I'm hoping housing. | 00:28:51 | |
Region 7 will help us with that if we if if the person qualifies to. | 00:28:55 | |
For rent, we're going to get that and then also there's going to be another modular, that'll be showers. | 00:29:02 | |
Bathroom, kitchen and a meeting facility for the RV park and the other modulars being moved over there to Zimmerly and we're going | 00:29:07 | |
to show that to the Friends of the Library so we can try to make that. | 00:29:13 | |
Presumably into a into a. | 00:29:19 | |
Judicial complex. | 00:29:23 | |
And so we're working with the schools. | 00:29:24 | |
Our natural gas trucks are. | 00:29:27 | |
They'll be here hopefully next week. | 00:29:30 | |
Finally, and we've gotten 3 dump trucks. | 00:29:32 | |
We did not get the gas farm that we were natural gas farm that we're going to build money for that, but we're looking for that we. | 00:29:35 | |
Still the the Senior Center is still working with the Gita. I don't know if the county, I don't know if the county Commission. | 00:29:44 | |
But the County Commission give us a building. | 00:29:55 | |
But they want to see a budget. | 00:30:00 | |
But so we're going to be asking the county Commission to give us the Vegeta building so we can. | 00:30:03 | |
Make sure that all the seniors up there and that's a huge number that that it's going to get served for and and Linda Maurice is | 00:30:10 | |
doing a great job with the with the Senior Center. | 00:30:15 | |
As you know. | 00:30:20 | |
We got 875, almost 900,000 for the for the gym and thanks to Representative Latimer and Senator. | 00:30:22 | |
So we got money for that. | 00:30:31 | |
But as is now, we have a million. | 00:30:35 | |
And I think Council Dina's had meetings already is that we're planning on what we're planning to do with that area with a million | 00:30:37 | |
that we have now. | 00:30:40 | |
We've got a new. | 00:30:45 | |
Activities Director, Mr. Padilla. | 00:30:47 | |
Who is looking into upgrading our? | 00:30:49 | |
Working physically. | 00:30:53 | |
But. | 00:30:55 | |
But, but see, Ruby didn't stand up. I didn't. | 00:30:58 | |
But but he's working on trying to upgrade the equipment so that it's more attractive down there and and that's something that he's | 00:31:05 | |
worked on a corn hole tournament and I hate that would but he's working on that. You got how many teams. | 00:31:13 | |
So that's that's that's going. | 00:31:24 | |
Pretty strong so and I know Steve has done a great job out there at the soccer field in the rodeo and I think coach accomplished | 00:31:26 | |
bringing a flag football or you bringing some teams like you did last year. | 00:31:32 | |
This number we've got, yeah, we've got a really big I think we had almost 1000 kids. | 00:31:39 | |
We, in fact, you know this, I mean, for all you football fans we just had. | 00:31:44 | |
Our first kid that was offered by, I mean not we, but in Mexico had their first kid who was offered by Alabama first time. Like | 00:31:49 | |
we've got a top, like two or three. | 00:31:53 | |
Offer from Makita, one of the kids that was at the camp this last year. | 00:31:58 | |
But anyway, yeah, we had all the best talent in the state here. | 00:32:02 | |
So that's going to be, I think that will be a big project, but the roadie arenas doing doing well, the Convention Center Des and | 00:32:06 | |
Shannon are doing great out there. | 00:32:11 | |
So all that all that stuff is going on. I want to try to get you at May not once a month goes to all the different directors. | 00:32:16 | |
Department directors and I'll send you her report for each of the departments and I think that'll help you with the stuff that's | 00:32:24 | |
that's going on. | 00:32:29 | |
I think that's Mr. | 00:32:35 | |
We also receive funding for matching a federal grant for. | 00:32:38 | |
So, so those lights that are that we almost have 700,000. | 00:32:45 | |
For lighting at studio park so we need to work with Southwest side Southwest. | 00:32:50 | |
On your project about reconfiguring. | 00:32:55 | |
The fields and everything. So we don't put the lights in the wrong place, but we've got, we've got matching. We have 380,000 from | 00:32:57 | |
the feds and we've got. | 00:33:02 | |
A mistake. So, so you know that ended up giving about 2.5 million, which is probably the most that we've. | 00:33:09 | |
You know the old story about if you don't ask, you don't get. And believe me they were. If you looked, you look through the list | 00:33:16 | |
of if you just go to the, I'm not sure which bill it was. But if you look and you can see every town and what they got starting | 00:33:21 | |
from Albuquerque down to. | 00:33:25 | |
Las Cruces and IS they gave out a billion dollars worth of projects. | 00:33:31 | |
Billion. Dollars. | 00:33:37 | |
We have, we received money for, you already know we received about a million to cover the, the, the. | 00:33:40 | |
Arena and for heating so we can have will have in the winter, we'll have a heated arena, indoor, basically indoor arena. We did | 00:33:46 | |
get money for CDBG project on Cuba Rd. | 00:33:52 | |
However, the estimates, the amount that it's going to cost to do it, it came up really, really high. So Donald has put in to do a | 00:33:59 | |
contingency. I think they have a where you can get money, extra money to do a project. We got about 800,000, we need a million | 00:34:04 | |
too. | 00:34:10 | |
Hello, yes Sir, due to inflation a lot of the. | 00:34:16 | |
Amount of the cost overruns of the CDBG projects. A lot of communities didn't apply because they knew that. | 00:34:20 | |
The match was going to be in a half $1,000,000. | 00:34:25 | |
So that left extra CDBG funding and that application should come out on the 29th. | 00:34:28 | |
And just to tell you about revenue, I mean it. | 00:34:35 | |
States getting money. | 00:34:38 | |
And I'm not sure where this came from. | 00:34:40 | |
But our grocery seats for the very first time. | 00:34:43 | |
Were 720,000. | 00:34:47 | |
We've never had. She's over 500. | 00:34:50 | |
And then we then we also get small cities. | 00:34:54 | |
And it was supposed to be, I think the Budget Committee had it for 230 and we got something like 530. | 00:34:58 | |
So financially we're in good shape and that's why I offered you guys some money or Councillor Salomi offered you some money, but | 00:35:06 | |
well, don't get the budget committees. But we are, but we are, you know, and again, I, I, I kind of alluded to the fact about | 00:35:13 | |
Zimmerly and Seracino. | 00:35:19 | |
And we haven't signed the agreement with my agreement with a, with a, with a Superintendent and the chairman of. | 00:35:26 | |
School board was that the city would inherit. | 00:35:34 | |
And so that we would then start thinking about programs in Saracen or whether they were vocational or 100% Socorro or other | 00:35:38 | |
programs. | 00:35:44 | |
Permanent, permanent place where the, you know we were talking about the. | 00:35:51 | |
Esports, maybe to have an arena like that at Saraceno, so there are things that we can do, We just have to be financially prudent | 00:35:58 | |
as to how we spend it. | 00:36:03 | |
So all that has been going on. And in the meantime, you know, we have a Police Department, we've got a fire department, we've got | 00:36:08 | |
an ambulance that just broke down after, I don't know, 300,000 miles or something like that. We've got animal control, dispatch. I | 00:36:14 | |
mean, there's we have what, 20, there's something like 20 departments. | 00:36:21 | |
And so all that. | 00:36:27 | |
Is the constant wheels going around? You know, they always tell people, when I used to watch the Ed Sullivan Show, this guy would | 00:36:29 | |
come up with these plates that he would want 10 plates. And he was always by the time you got to that plate, the last plate would | 00:36:34 | |
be going, had to run back there. | 00:36:40 | |
It's just not places, department heads. | 00:36:49 | |
So that's what we we try to keep putting energy into each. | 00:36:52 | |
Because, I mean, these guys just get worn out. I mean, that's. | 00:36:56 | |
GRT e-mail Do you think little? | 00:37:00 | |
I I hope. I hope so. But I don't. I'm not counting on it to go. I mean to to we've never, ever, ever, ever had $700,000 in | 00:37:04 | |
groceries. And I don't know if it's a highway project. | 00:37:09 | |
Do you think that's always in the back of my head is they made a mistake, They made a mistake in Santa Rosa about seven years ago | 00:37:15 | |
to the platoon of about a million two and they wanted their money back. | 00:37:20 | |
And of course politics that got out of it. But but that's the only thing, you know, we used to when we used to get a check like | 00:37:26 | |
that, we'd put it under our our blotter for about 3. | 00:37:31 | |
We wouldn't put it in the bank. I got a check from Enron once. | 00:37:37 | |
For $170,000 and Pat and I we just, we hit it underneath the bottom for three months thinking it was a mistake, but it wasn't a | 00:37:41 | |
mistake that Enron had to settle with because we buy national gas from at one time. But it's. | 00:37:48 | |
It's a little scary, really. | 00:37:56 | |
Because you don't know if it was a mistake or what, because there's no big project to tech. | 00:37:58 | |
You know you've got a big project coming up. The school's coming up. | 00:38:04 | |
The roads, the roads got that was a pretty good project, but I have no idea where that came from. | 00:38:08 | |
I don't know. I mean, you never can find out really, 'cause if you pay $1.00, they'll tell you that person pay, they won't give | 00:38:19 | |
you. | 00:38:23 | |
Well, which is proprietary, I mean. | 00:38:27 | |
But anyway, but just so that's kind of a little update on the. | 00:38:29 | |
Any largest tax up also that? | 00:38:33 | |
It's pretty steady and larger tax is pretty. | 00:38:37 | |
Even that month. | 00:38:41 | |
You know, larger tax usually. | 00:38:43 | |
Is 30,000. | 00:38:46 | |
35,000. | 00:38:49 | |
We get about 400,000. | 00:38:51 | |
And that that's not fluctuated much, it's and 1st responders are solid. | 00:38:54 | |
They're solid for the next 2-3 years. | 00:39:00 | |
They actually added a couple of and they're going into virtual which is being put into. | 00:39:02 | |
Thing up there, So that's. | 00:39:08 | |
But I don't know. | 00:39:11 | |
It is. | 00:39:13 | |
Did you find anything about? | 00:39:16 | |
Tech graduation. | 00:39:18 | |
It's May. | 00:39:23 | |
And that's already been reserved for the rodeo linen or it is going to be at the rodeo. So there's, you know, again, I think high | 00:39:24 | |
school wanted palm at the Convention Center. We're going to work with them. I think high school graduation, was it at that rodeo | 00:39:28 | |
or no? | 00:39:33 | |
I think it was, yeah. So, so those, I mean those. | 00:39:38 | |
Those facilities are getting used. | 00:39:42 | |
We're not getting a lot of money from the people who use them. | 00:39:45 | |
Marianne project going good. | 00:39:49 | |
We have the groundbreaking on Tuesday, February 27th at 11:00, so we'd like to invite the public. | 00:39:52 | |
To the groundbreaking. Oh, you're there. You're the Mayor Hotel. | 00:39:59 | |
But the but the same people that are demoing that did the dirt work at the junior high it's in Guzman construction is the same | 00:40:04 | |
people that did. | 00:40:08 | |
That One South just make a point. I'm sure everybody's aware of the fact that that rodeo arena went where it went. | 00:40:12 | |
Allowed the growth of Socorro to move out that way, to allow Marianne to put her her facility, to allow for a lot of things that | 00:40:21 | |
are the benefits that are they keep coming from the city building that rodeo arena. | 00:40:29 | |
And Hwy. 60, Project WE. | 00:40:37 | |
We're still waiting for the engineer to do the final scop. | 00:40:39 | |
Because that's going to be, I keep dreading the. | 00:40:43 | |
That. That junior high. | 00:40:47 | |
Because I'm hoping that the Highway 60 will be adequate along with Michigan. | 00:40:50 | |
To have the in and out. | 00:40:55 | |
200 people, they're going to be dropping people. | 00:40:56 | |
That's and then high school kids too, on top of. | 00:41:00 | |
That's that's my biggest concern of that area being congested. | 00:41:03 | |
So. | 00:41:10 | |
Street Projects The Fowler St. project is on the way. | 00:41:13 | |
The walkway. | 00:41:17 | |
That's going to get started in March, Lloyd. | 00:41:18 | |
And which And Manzanera. | 00:41:21 | |
Is going to get started. So we have about four projects in Cuba. Rd. will get started. Depending on that we can put the money | 00:41:25 | |
together. | 00:41:28 | |
So that's that's where we're at on that. And Mr. Mayor Center St. in Mccutchen will also be in March. McCutcheon. Yeah, so. | 00:41:32 | |
We're doing those. | 00:41:39 | |
Any old, old business that anybody wants to bring up? | 00:41:42 | |
I want to tell you that I do have the number. | 00:41:46 | |
For the substation. | 00:41:50 | |
And we're giving it to our financial people. | 00:41:52 | |
To do the pro forma as to what the cost will be per kilowatt? | 00:41:57 | |
Not letting the cat out of the bag. If I give you a number, it's 12 million. | 00:42:03 | |
That includes that includes a subst. | 00:42:09 | |
It includes the distribution. | 00:42:12 | |
And then includes about 5 things I can't remember. | 00:42:15 | |
Capacity is one thing, Capacity. | 00:42:19 | |
Yeah. So, and that that means new distribution lines to all the different businesses. | 00:42:22 | |
One of the five things is a backup transformer as well. In case anything happens with one or for maintenance it has to go offline, | 00:42:27 | |
we'll have a backup. | 00:42:31 | |
So just just to inform you on. | 00:42:35 | |
And then what we'll do is to take. | 00:42:39 | |
Number. | 00:42:42 | |
But as to what the revenue would? | 00:42:45 | |
But the good news? | 00:42:48 | |
There's grants out there that we have people. | 00:42:50 | |
Actually, I. | 00:42:54 | |
The gentleman that that Mary Ann's working with. | 00:42:57 | |
He also. | 00:43:02 | |
Grants for solar. | 00:43:03 | |
And substations. | 00:43:05 | |
And so he he figures he could probably get half of that in grants. | 00:43:06 | |
And from the money that people are putting into electric? | 00:43:11 | |
Right now. So so we have to work that number down and I know everybody's waiting for that one number which how much is it per | 00:43:15 | |
kilowatt, but that's, that's the number. | 00:43:20 | |
That we're looking at and I want to I will send you an article that I was in Durango the other day. The La Plata Electric has also | 00:43:25 | |
been fighting with tri-state and for three. | 00:43:30 | |
And so they have some. | 00:43:36 | |
Don't get take it from me, it's in the newspaper from Durango. About what? | 00:43:39 | |
Kind of trouble they've been having with tri-state. They're trying to leave trash state also. | 00:43:44 | |
And that's La Plata is a big, big and. | 00:43:48 | |
Again, like kit cars. | 00:43:52 | |
The Plata? That's that Durango. | 00:43:55 | |
They're 100% solar during the day. | 00:43:57 | |
They don't. They. They everybody that's 100%. | 00:44:01 | |
So that that's where everything's going and that's put a lot of pressure on the electric utilities because they actually. | 00:44:05 | |
Pushing solar. | 00:44:13 | |
The amount of capacity that these people were putting back into the grid was too much for the grid. | 00:44:15 | |
So they stop. They. | 00:44:20 | |
And that's in the article. But they stopped. | 00:44:23 | |
Pushing So. | 00:44:28 | |
So anyway, so that's that's the situation there. | 00:44:30 | |
Executive session. | 00:44:36 | |
I gave everything about the executive decision and. | 00:44:37 | |
There's intercession. | 00:44:40 | |
OK, So what do we got? Personnel matters. | 00:44:44 | |
You put that first before the marriage report. | 00:44:49 | |
OK. Well, we'll just do it then. | 00:44:54 | |
I believe there's more. | 00:44:56 | |
Well, that was an executive session. OK, job, job description. That's a job description, Donald, what is that? | 00:44:59 | |
Ruby is adjusting one of her. | 00:45:08 | |
But you adjusted her job description or that job gathered salary range in the job description. | 00:45:19 | |
Well, then it went from 40 to 50. Yes, Sir, yes. | 00:45:28 | |
Moved and seconded. | 00:45:33 | |
All in favor. | 00:45:35 | |
OK, so there she is there on the Clara Reyes on the personnel changes. | 00:45:37 | |
And that's an administrative delinquency and collection clerk, a 43. | 00:45:42 | |
At 7:27. | 00:45:47 | |
That's all I got. | 00:45:50 | |
I'll make a motion to approve the personnel changes. | 00:45:52 | |
Seconded discussion. | 00:45:57 | |
All in favor. | 00:45:59 | |
Business Registration, Eminem, Latin Plaster Manual, Gutierrez, Los Lunas. | 00:46:01 | |
Romero roofing Ponderosa, NM to you tob. | 00:46:06 | |
Endless Vials, Retail Tobacco, 401 Grant. | 00:46:11 | |
What is that? Is that the old triangle? | 00:46:16 | |
Yeah. | 00:46:20 | |
And then floor. | 00:46:23 | |
Paul Abraham, Epoxy. | 00:46:25 | |
Mr. Mayor. | 00:46:28 | |
Move, We approve the business. Registration is read. | 00:46:30 | |
With the secondary discussion all in favor. | 00:46:34 | |
A shift. | 00:46:37 | |
Very good. Thank you. | 00:46:40 | |
Good. | 00:46:46 |