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	Hi. Hello.	00:00:05
	123.	00:00:07
	Council meeting today, April 2nd, 324 I will call please.	00:00:10
	Mayor *******.	00:00:14
	Councillor Travis Lopez.	00:00:16
	Councillor Deborah Dean, Councillor Fleming, Councillor Partridge, Councillor Romero, Councillor Salomi.	00:00:18
	We do have a quorum all right for the Pledge of Allegiance.	00:00:32
	Of it for which it stand.	00:00:42
	One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.	00:00:44
	Mr. Mayor, Mr. Romero, will we approve the consent agenda for tonight?	00:00:54
	So moved and seconded any discussion.	00:00:59
	All in favor, aye.	00:01:02
	And we shall go to the public forum right away.	00:01:04
	As Louisa. Did she make it? Yes. Oh, come on up.	00:01:08
	You know Luisa Lopez, one of the people in the forefront of the downwinders.	00:01:14
	And the Trinity bomb explos.	00:01:19
	And her attempt to get compensation, along with Tina Cordova from Alamogordo has been working on this for years now.	00:01:23
	Senator Lujan has been helping them.	00:01:33
	And that's moving along.	00:01:35
	But the other thing that I really wanted to highlight is the.	00:01:38
	Relationship between New Mexico Tech.	00:01:42
	And what happened at Trinity site in Oppenheimer and we've also been trying to get some.	00:01:44
	Distinct recognition for that area instead of down in Alamogordo with our with our congressional legislators.	00:01:50
	To see if they would have something iconic down in San Antonio area.	00:01:59
	And on top of that, the white sand muscle range.	00:02:04
	General staff.	00:02:07
	Canceled one of the biggest days we used to have in our city.	00:02:09
	In April, that's been canceled now I guess the one in October will continue.	00:02:13
	But they quoted that there was some sort of staff and budget problems. So we're encouraging our congressional delegation to look	00:02:18
	into that. But anyway, Louisa, thank you for coming and explaining some of the things that you're in love with.	00:02:25
	OK. First of all, I'm a member of an organization called the TBDC, and that stands for the Tua Rosa Basin Down Winners consortium.	00:02:32
	I joined this group about a little over 10 years ago because I wanted to help New Mexico and especially the people in Socorro.	00:02:42
	That had been affected by the Trinity.	00:02:53
	So my our goal.	00:02:58
	Is to include New Mexico in the Rica Act, which is a radiation exposure compensation act.	00:03:01
	New Mexico was the 1st.	00:03:09
	Ever in the world to be, to be. Um.	00:03:11
	Affected by this?	00:03:15
	And yet we were never included. New Mexico was left out.	00:03:17
	First of all I want to let you guys all know.	00:03:23
	That you're.	00:03:27
	Are you Mexican? You're a down waiter?	00:03:29
	All of you are down, waiters. All of you were affected.	00:03:32
	And Mexico got a AA double whammy.	00:03:35
	Because when they started doing the above ground tests in Nevada.	00:03:39
	The radiation came down this way, the fallout and it affected us also.	00:03:44
	OK, what I'm going to talk to you about first is it's a it's a documentary that was made by a friend of mine. Her name is Lois	00:03:50
	Lippman.	00:03:55
	And she titled this first Goodbye, New Mexico.	00:04:02
	I don't know if you've heard of this has been showing you several of the film festivals.	00:04:05
	They showed it in.	00:04:10
	And now I'm going to show it in Las Cruces.	00:04:12
	And we're hoping that eventually this will come closer to us, to to cities of New Mexico. And we're really, really.	00:04:14
	Fighting to get this terror here at Socorro because.	00:04:23
	Here in our in our county, because this is where it actually happened. And I think that the people should all have a chance to see	00:04:28
	the other side of the story. I don't know how many of you saw the Oppenheimer movie. Well, that's their version.	00:04:35
	In this documentary you'll see.	00:04:42
	The devastation that happened afterwards, radiation sickness.	00:04:46
	You know the title of the movie.	00:04:52
	The bomb of New Mexico first. First we bomb New Mexico.	00:04:55
	OK, Miss Lippmann has followed us for many years.	00:04:59
	I know I've been with an organization, like I said, for over 11 years, and she's been there all the time, but I've been here.	00:05:03
	And of course, he has been doing this since about 2009, so she's really.	00:05:10
	Uh, this is something that she's not gonna let go. And I just right now, I want to thank Doctor Bhaskar and all of the counselors.	00:05:16
	That here.	00:05:25
	Putting TNI and I finished approached.	00:05:27
	And you guys are very supportive and we really appreciate it.	00:05:29
	And right now, we're in a real good place. The Senate already passed the RECUR Act for New Mexico. And not only New Mexico, I	00:05:34
	mean, we're fighting for New Mexico, but there's other states like we have, like Senator Crapo, we have Senator Holly and we have	00:05:40
	all these, all these other senators.	00:05:46
	That are fighting for their States and their communities.	00:05:52
	But they're also helping us.	00:05:56
	So I mean, this isn't just injectable. I mean Argue is just New Mexico.	00:05:58
	So I'd like to thank all the councillors here that that have really helped us in the past, counselors that aren't here, everybody	00:06:05
	has been very supportive and doctor.	00:06:09
	I still call you Doctor. Doctor. Doctor has been very, very supportive. Now there was an article in the paper and The Chieftain	00:06:16
	and thank You Wanda, but it was an error there now.	00:06:22
	April the 7th, which is Sunday.	00:06:30
	There's going to be showing in Las Cruces.	00:06:32
	And.	00:06:36
	The showing is going to be at 1:30.	00:06:37
	And and we our organization has chartered a bus.	00:06:40
	To take people because they want to go free of charge.	00:06:46
	You just have to buy your ticket to get into the festival. The tickets are $10 and you can buy them online. And if anybody wants	00:06:49
	to go and you want to go on the bus, or even if you don't want to go on the bus and leave the ticket, I have two available tickets	00:06:55
	that I can that I can give you.	00:07:00
	So that I I would love, love to give them to somebody that can use them because I would love for you guys to talk. I'll see this.	00:07:06
	Documentary and see how it affected New Mexico's.	00:07:15
	Throughout he not only not.	00:07:19
	Not only here in Sapporo, but in other communities.	00:07:22
	The Navajos, the mascara rolls, all these people suffered greatly from all of this radiation poisoning and I would like to.	00:07:26
	For all of you to see it, we interview people from all over New Mexico. Now if you want to get on the bus, you have 52 seats.	00:07:34
	Counselor, is there a way to watch that outside of the theater, streaming it or the documentary that you're speaking? No, we	00:07:44
	haven't been able to do that yet. We were trying. We're trying.	00:07:50
	To get the governor, she, I know you know she has contacts.	00:07:56
	So that we could get this going also. What we're also trying to do is get it on Netflix.	00:08:01
	We did. We didn't. I reached out to Loma and miss her. Chin looked into it. There's a copyright and there's a question of whether	00:08:07
	we can bring it here or not. I wanted to have the festival here but and working with a Loma in the city would sponsor that along	00:08:14
	with tech. But it was part of the problem was there's a copyright and and where you can show it is restricted. Especially now I	00:08:21
	think when you when you when you want to show your your documentaries at a Film Festival, you know and you're kind of like.	00:08:29
	Agree to just do it there until you can release it. You know and.	00:08:37
	I know that Miss Lippmann is waiting to see.	00:08:41
	And she can do this because we want everybody to see it. You don't.	00:08:44
	So another thing. So if you want to go on the bus, like I said, we have a few seats left.	00:08:48
	And if you want to go on the bus, you can call me. And I also have a phone number here for a gentleman by the name of Paul Pino.	00:08:54
	And I'll get this to Doctor. Can you put that on the rubble?	00:08:59
	If you give all that information to Paula, we'll put it on our local, you know, you can call him at 5:05.	00:09:05
	4594112.	00:09:12
	And he didn't. He's the one that's in charge of putting the people on the bus, and the tickets have to be bought online. But if	00:09:17
	you call Paul, he can help you get the tickets.	00:09:23
	And what they do is, you know, you buy them online, they just come onto your phone in an e-mail and then you print it out.	00:09:28
	Or you don't have to. You can take it on your phone and you show it there when you get there.	00:09:35
	Also if you have any questions.	00:09:39
	You can visit our website which is www.trinity.windows.com.	00:09:43
	And there's everything you need there. And if any of you here would like to sign up for our newsletter, let me know and.	00:09:50
	Tell Holly Walmart she's in charge of that. If anybody wants to contact me, my number is 575835.	00:09:57
	8146 Now the screening that's going to be first is going to be Friday, April 5th.	00:10:06
	But if we're not offering the bus, then we're offering the bus for Sunday, April 7th.	00:10:12
	And it's at the Cineport 10 LM theaters in Las Cruces.	00:10:18
	Friday, April 5th will be 4 to 5:00 PM and Sunday will be at 1:30 PM.	00:10:24
	So if any of you want to come and utilize the bus, you're more than welcome and I have to take a call. Let anybody have. If you	00:10:30
	want to go, just meet me there at the at the bus.	00:10:36
	And I'll give you a ticket and go watch this. You can sit on the bus and relax and have somebody take.	00:10:42
	So thank you very much, Doctor Vasco, just wanted to add. Thank you. I just have a really, really good news for you.	00:10:49
	I just talked to Tina Cordova.	00:10:55
	Yesterday.	00:10:57
	She's been in contact with Senator Kate Vasquez.	00:11:00
	Consider represented the Hospice.	00:11:04
	And he is worthy.	00:11:06
	On erecting monument.	00:11:09
	Yeah, well, you know, we've sent him a representative, Vasquez, but he's, we've sent him all the information and you know.	00:11:12
	The irony or the sadness is that.	00:11:21
	The explosion was here. And not that we want all this publicity, that Oppenheimer and all this, but.	00:11:24
	They have. They have museums in Los Alamos and they have them in Virginia too. I think. Yes, national stuff. But nothing was ever	00:11:31
	done or placed here. And then on top of that, they cut.	00:11:35
	One of the two visits and we had people come from all over the world. Yes, even though it's just an obelisk and just.	00:11:41
	People come, it's a it's a very important.	00:11:49
	Place in history and in the world's history and we're always there. Our group is always there. We always have a was called a	00:11:53
	future. So we always have a lot of information to give the people and sometimes for some of these people drive up.	00:12:01
	And they read some of this information. They don't want to go in. They're afraid they're still radiation and there still is. I	00:12:09
	mean, it's not, might not be a lot, but.	00:12:13
	But I think San Antonio would be a place where you could have. Yes. You know I mean they got a smoky the Bear thing in Capitan.	00:12:17
	You know with the museum. They can't do anything like that here. I mean it's just ridiculous. I just we're and and we're producing	00:12:23
	500 of those pamphlets that actually Gary Jaromeo and his uncle Joe Wells who used to run the Loma has pictures are unbelievable	00:12:30
	of Oppenheimer and and and then the tech has produced a pamphlet that talks about the interaction with Doctor Wilkinning who used	00:12:36
	to be a professor here.	00:12:42
	From Los Alamos worked in the Manhattan Project. And so we're going to reproduce 500 of those pamphlets to kind of spread around	00:12:49
	the state and all over the United States. Really. I'm trying to get some get some influence with the congressional delegation	00:12:54
	because they're the ones that make all the.	00:13:00
	Tina told me she had contacted me.	00:13:08
	Vasquez, she also talked to Van Ray, and then we told her that probably gave Vasquez would be the best. Well, that's great. It's	00:13:10
	just that I don't want to have it in Alamogordo. Well, they're going to have, they're going to have one in Alamogordo and they're	00:13:16
	gonna have one in Carazoso. But as long as we have one here, they can. I want one here. And when I practice in Carrizozo, it's	00:13:21
	been 50 years.	00:13:27
	I have patients who would tell me that they woke up and you tell morning at three it was bright sunlight or or light and six	00:13:33
	months later their cows turned whitish. Then the cancer started appearing in their area because the Oscar, the Oscar range over	00:13:40
	there by Carrizozo is in that area. That said, all that explosion was it's unbelievable and it's just never been recognized. I	00:13:47
	know. Well another thing that you and I talked about and I wanted to ask you since I was here.	00:13:54
	We talked about the Armory whenever you're. Yeah, you know, I have I have a friend of mine and she's also been with us. She's a	00:14:01
	journalist and she's had one display up in New York that she did on the downwinders and she's willing to.	00:14:09
	You know.	00:14:18
	Like you said, if we can put a display in the Armory and we'll have a lot of histories. There's a lot of histories from the	00:14:21
	people.	00:14:24
	Right here in Socorro that have that their families have I mean they're it's devastating they all every member of the family has	00:14:27
	had cancer.	00:14:31
	Mr. Mary had a comment or?	00:14:35
	Well, thank you for coming and giving us an explanation of that and we need to just keep working on it. And because she said she	00:14:39
	made an appointment for us, that was Vasquez or.	00:14:43
	I think then then we're going to, he's setting everything up and we're also trying to get, we're also trying to get the governor	00:14:49
	on board, but it's really hard to get her.	00:14:55
	Thank you very much.	00:15:02
	So is your group.	00:15:05
	Be out there near the highway now in April, or being that the events been cancelled, is your group still going to?	00:15:07
	They're not going in there either.	00:15:17
	The only place that's going to be available to visit is is us, you know, I mean our.	00:15:25
	Area going to take the congressional delegation to help us push that through because the colonels on their staff did not want	00:15:32
	public on that property. There's something we're going on there. We went to go do a.	00:15:38
	An interview with some journalists that came in from France and Tina and I went down there and.	00:15:45
	We drove all the way to the shack, you know.	00:15:51
	And there must have been like 20.	00:15:53
	Belly dump trucks coming in with dirt, not on what they're doing. You know how much money the how much money they spend on the	00:15:57
	McDonald Ranch remodeling And if nobody can see it, I don't know how that's.	00:16:03
	Well, thank you very much for listening.	00:16:11
	Anyone else on the?	00:16:14
	Public OK, we'll give her a hand.	00:16:17
	One else that would like that's not on the agenda would like to make a comment.	00:16:24
	What are you guys doing here then?	00:16:29
	No, just joking, I know. All right, here we go. We have an exciting, innovative new program, and Damian Banks is the leader of	00:16:31
	that. This is the inaugural city of Socorro esports scholarship recipients.	00:16:40
	And I'm happy to see a lot of them here. And Damian is going to talk about his program and the city is on board. I know New Mexico	00:16:50
	Tech is starting a a degree program, but we really want to be on the cutting edge of this. Thank you for coming, Damien.	00:16:56
	Absolutely thank you for having me.	00:17:01
	Yeah. So just a little bit of background as to what this program is and what my company is. So the company is called Ecliptics	00:17:08
	Gaming. We are basically an educational esports program that we provide across the state. We have partnerships with Bernalillo	00:17:14
	County, City of Socorro, NM Tech. We're continuing to grow and evolve. We've been working on a program with the UNMCED as well as	00:17:19
	MNTED.	00:17:25
	And through a lot of those camps, we started to realize, OK, we have so much, there's so many resources that we can provide and so	00:18:03
	much information that we can provide and it takes an extreme amount of manpower. And the problem is that we have no way to bring	00:18:09
	this to the kids for free, which is really what we wanted to do. So what I was really excited about is the city of Socorro being	00:18:14
	on board as a partner to fund some scholarships for.	00:18:20
	For residents. For students within Socorro.	00:18:28
	To be able to come to the Academy for free. So really, really excited for that. This is going to be the first time that we've done	00:18:32
	this here in the city. So extremely excited as we can use this as the foundation to try and build the program for not only all of.	00:18:41
	And how long it's going to be and what they'll get at the end of it, Absolutely. So basically throughout the entire course it's	00:19:22
	asynchronous. So it works at their pace. They have tasks that they need to complete.	00:19:26
	We continue to work with them over a three month period and that's a single cohort is a three month period.	00:19:31
	We are in the partnership with the City School. We're doing a discount rate for $1500 per student. So it's top tier quality in	00:19:37
	which they're actually going to be getting not only full portfolios, but we build video resumes, highlight montages and we're	00:19:42
	actually able to compile all that information and ship it off to universities or private companies who could be looking for	00:19:48
	internships or professionals in the future. And now with a lot of the E sports organizations actually dropping some of their	00:19:54
	degree requirements for positions.	00:20:00
	We don't want it to feel like we're we want it to feel exciting. We want it to feel fulfilling, or at the same time, still being	00:21:11
	educational and making sure that they get as much as they can out of it. Did you get more than 8 applicants?	00:21:17
	We cut it off right at 8:00 as soon as we got it, so we're going to reopen the applications in the second month.	00:21:23
	OK. Deliverable basically, yeah, it'll be the, the what he just mentioned is that the at the end of the program he'll have a	00:21:28
	portfolio for the, for the, for the people that are participating and and you know it's a, it's a.	00:21:36
	Kind of our entrance into trying to get more.	00:21:44
	Kids involved with this kind of a.	00:21:49
	Thing and I think it's kind of exciting for that even if they don't go into it is exciting to be able to get some background in	00:21:52
	this because you know, I think it's something that.	00:21:56
	Is going to explode. I think the E Gaming has already exploded. But I think in in the technical and the and the scientific field,	00:22:02
	it's really going to explode. And they're actually a lot of this. You know, we have the Homeland Security first responders here	00:22:08
	and they're putting a big.	00:22:13
	Building was building's already there for virtual training.	00:22:21
	Out there on New Mexico Tech, they'll have 300 people.	00:22:25
	You know, for four days out there and so all this is all.	00:22:29
	Kind of, hopefully gonna.	00:22:33
	Evolve into something that the participants can get into future in their life or at least they've been exposed to it and they have	00:22:35
	a chance rather than saying, well you and Sakura, we can't do anything we got, we don't have any capability of certain things and	00:22:40
	Damien's providing that. I guess my question is more.	00:22:45
	We funded on the front end. They hand out the scholarships and then you know the kids get their certificates and and then and	00:22:51
	coach banks here is going to.	00:22:56
	They're going to try to get them into.	00:23:02
	Universities or jobs or placement, that's kind of the way the deliverable works. That and the underlying motive also is that we	00:23:05
	want to have any gaming arena here that we can have.	00:23:10
	Gaming events, and that's kind of also another thing.	00:23:17
	No, it's a great thing for sure.	00:23:22
	Amen. Do you have any of your participants in the audience tonight? I have AI have a couple. We're going to just follow them. I	00:23:25
	think that's what the crowd is here.	00:23:30
	Yeah, yeah. I had a couple questions. You said, are these are these?	00:23:36
	These students all involved with the E Sports team at the school, they should be not all of them, not all of them. There's a	00:23:40
	little bit of overlap, a little bit of overlap. And what does that look like? Like an event here in Socorro, like, what would you	00:23:44
	need?	00:23:48
	As far as like a number of kids coming to start like size, what does that look like? Yeah, so it depends on what we're looking at.	00:23:52
	So if we're looking at something in terms of the middle school to high school level, say we're say we're talking the state	00:23:58
	championships, state championships this year, we're looking at about 1200 students total. So that's across multiple games,	00:24:03
	multiple schools from 1/8 to 5A more than anything. It takes a lot of, it takes a lot of space. We're talking multiple games over	00:24:08
	about a three day period.	00:24:14
	So if we're talking about 12 hour days.	00:24:20
	It's it's more about having enough hands because you have to require all of the equipment itself, being able to have your referees	00:24:23
	or your to German organizations call them, as well as being able to have places for them to stay.	00:24:30
	Umm, it's it's a little bit difficult, more so on the logistic side. If I was going to use any comparisons to what we have	00:24:38
	already, Macy's Center could handle something like that. It's just it would be really slow because we would only have capability	00:24:43
	to run about two or three games at the same time.	00:24:47
	You ideally want to be running about 6 to 8 games at the same time, and the standard game has ten players total, so that's about	00:24:53
	the speed and the rate that the state championships are going to take this year, which is actually in a couple weeks.	00:24:59
	So we need.	00:25:06
	It would need something on the scale of Macy center.	00:25:07
	That's that's about the spacing that would be required. He's given us an estimate of.	00:25:10
	A place to put together for about 100,000.	00:25:16
	And an arena. He's already worked that up. We didn't have the 100 times right now, but you know, the youth center, if we ever work	00:25:19
	with the schools, we're going to do that with Saracino.	00:25:24
	The Rodeo arena, I want to see drone, drone races. That's what I'd like to see. We're going to enclose the rodeo Center and we	00:25:30
	could have some of the large things there. But I think, and we don't want to be beaten up by Albuquerque because I think New	00:25:36
	Mexico Tech hopefully can be the center of all this, Mr. Fleming.	00:25:42
	Yeah, I was going to say.	00:25:48
	Using some of the facilities at Zimmerling.	00:25:51
	Parkview ServiceNow.	00:25:55
	Macy and Fidel.	00:25:58
	Would that be enough for your?	00:26:01
	Participants it absolutely could be.	00:26:04
	The great thing about E sports is the the remote capabilities. The only thing is would be more the technical side of it, making	00:26:07
	sure that the equipment is identical to whatever equipment is being used. The Internet speeds are identical, that would be more	00:26:14
	the difficulty in that, but using multiple spaces is is more than more than possible. The city being smack dab in the middle of	00:26:21
	the state is actually ideal because it's it's the simplest place to be at.	00:26:28
	Combining all of the facilities in which we do have across the middle schools, high schools, university and that the city owned	00:26:35
	properties as well, something like that could definitely be, could definitely happen. It would take some work, but it could	00:26:40
	definitely happen.	00:26:44
	Not how are we?	00:26:50
	With Tech students or a bunch of them involved in this either volunteering or.	00:26:53
	Involved in the program where they're working with these kids. Absolutely. A couple of them, yes. So our lives, our kids beaten	00:26:57
	them.	00:26:59
	Can they beat them? Not yet. After asking in three in three months, they should be able to.	00:27:02
	All right. We want to get there. I mean, you know, it's the same thing with your football program that you have on the summer. I	00:27:08
	think you had something like, what, 507 hundred people show up.	00:27:13
	And and the wrestling program that we have that you know people use Socorro as a central place rodeo program. I think this is just	00:27:19
	the beginning of something that can be, you know, that'd be huge and hopefully we'll get the inaugural team to maybe highlight	00:27:26
	this and keep it going on. Can you you want to introduce some of the participants there? Absolutely. And I'll leave a fun fact	00:27:33
	before I introduce them all if we want to think about a great way to think about esports in comparison to other sports right now.	00:27:41
	Same exact metaphoric comparison between the two. So when we talk about size, the expansion of E sports and how rapid it's	00:28:23
	continuing to grow is going to be significantly more than what a traditional sports can on an individual basis. It's just a matter	00:28:30
	of time now, but very exciting, very, very exciting. So thank you all for this opportunity. So one by one I'll go ahead and	00:28:37
	introduce these folks and award them their scholarships. Is there a good place that we can line them up to try? And?	00:28:45
	Up here? Perfect. OK, so we'll start off with the Saxon Sturgis.	00:28:52
	Yep. Right up here. Come and stand here and then we'll get everybody together. Stand right in front of our table. Yeah, but Damian	00:29:02
	Phillips.	00:29:05
	We have Nate Phillips.	00:29:18
	Aaron Pius.	00:29:32
	Derek Green.	00:29:39
	Is he in high school?	00:29:47
	He's not. We have middle and high school.	00:29:50
	So he's not here and we have Eduardo Mijares.	00:29:52
	And Benjamin Baca.	00:30:04
	Guys, a little bit. And the other awardee who is not able to attend is Kyle Seifert.	00:30:12
	Right. Come back up a little bit to the podium here so we can.	00:30:17
	You want to take a quick picture.	00:30:20
	I don't forget my phone, so well, you can use mine.	00:30:23
	Yeah, interesting. Got it.	00:30:30
	Yes, we can.	00:30:33
	Don't be shy there.	00:30:35
	123.	00:30:44
	And one more.	00:30:49
	Damian.	00:30:55
	And we hope to see, we hope to see them in about 3 months to give them the graduations and see what we're going to end up doing.	00:30:59
	So thank you again for letting us be part of your program. Awesome. Thank you for having me. Thank you for the support. Thank you.	00:31:05
	And if people have to leave now, it's OK you guys, everybody, welcome to to take off.	00:31:12
	Why didn't see Evan back there? You.	00:31:20
	You got a scholarship for this too?	00:31:23
	Hey, everybody. I know, that's great. Terrific. Good luck guys.	00:31:27
	Already new business?	00:31:39
	I will give you some new business you have.	00:31:42
	Information about what's happening at the electrical.	00:31:48
	Level and I and I'm.	00:31:52
	This uh.	00:31:55
	Business with the coop and tri-state is headed straight.	00:31:59
	Down river.	00:32:02
	I was in Durango the other day and spoke with people at La Plata Electric Coop. They're leaving. They're big, big coop.	00:32:04
	You've seen. You also see that the.	00:32:14
	The bond rating for.	00:32:17
	Tri-state is going down.	00:32:19
	All this is going to be sent over.	00:32:21
	Well, the coops that they're serving at the present time.	00:32:23
	And it's common knowledge now in the in the financial field that tri-state is having a problem. We're still moving ahead with the.	00:32:26
	Project up at the industrial park, We're pretty close to giving you a.	00:32:37
	You want a number, how much is the kilowatt going to cost and how much is going to be, you know, need to be borrowed and all that.	00:32:42
	So we're going to give you that. I'm still waiting to know where they spent the $44 million that they borrowed over the past 25	00:32:48
	years, whether they sent it, spent here at all. We have to borrow money. We're going to be able to borrow it at a very low	00:32:54
	interest rate. So that's where that's going as far as I guess that's part of old business also.	00:33:00
	Under new business.	00:33:07
	A little bit of a thing that's happened with animal and animal control in the Police Department and I really am saddened to see	00:33:10
	some of the damages that have occurred with some dogs, a couple of dogs in town.	00:33:16
	I can only tell you that.	00:33:23
	Our Police Department and the animal control were on top of this.	00:33:26
	They had a dog and that dog is still impounded. The one that was the one that supposedly was part of the.	00:33:32
	Dog that did the damage at the Plaza, but now there's some.	00:33:40
	Retreating of who? Which dog it was. But that dog was taken was impounded. It's taken to the court.	00:33:46
	And has been impounded. There was one before that.	00:33:52
	That also was a case where another dog was.	00:33:57
	That dog was also impounded.	00:34:01
	But it's up to the.	00:34:04
	As to when they released the dogs?	00:34:07
	Or the animal. And it's not up to the city, Oregon, the enforcement. We do the enforcement.	00:34:10
	We do have a We do have an ordinance for leash.	00:34:15
	We do have an ordinance for animals and according to I don't know if Assistant Chief Green was going to say anything more about	00:34:18
	it, but we do enforce that and we have enforced it.	00:34:24
	We do get a lot of calls that are in force.	00:34:31
	And so, you know, I just think, and I maybe I'm reacting too much on Facebook postings, I'm trying to make it very clear.	00:34:34
	Unfortunate, terrible, terrible thing that happened with the animals.	00:34:44
	But those animals were cut.	00:34:48
	Were taken to court the owners.	00:34:52
	Then the court decides when to release them. Miss Chavez Lopez.	00:34:57
	And that's true. But I got a complaint sometime today about somebody walking on the ditch on Mariposa and there was 2 little girls	00:35:01
	and the dog went to attack the little girls.	00:35:08
	And thank God there was an adult there that prevented them from mauling one of the little girls. But that's very dangerous and the	00:35:15
	owner has like 7 guns on Mariposa.	00:35:21
	We had run around there. Well, there's. I don't want to name any names.	00:35:28
	But our animal control has been out there.	00:35:33
	Half a dozen time.	00:35:37
	That person, if that's the person you're talking about, hid those animals.	00:35:40
	And we went to cite them and there were no animals there.	00:35:45
	This is 7 or 8 animals dogs.	00:35:49
	And they went out and I then I got a call or.	00:35:53
	Pictures from the person who kind of owns a lot of property there. And then I sent Luca back out there again.	00:35:57
	Dogs were gone.	00:36:04
	So I don't know where the dogs end up.	00:36:06
	The person who owns those dogs is that's the dog you're talking about, said. Oh, well, in a moment, Dilemmatar.	00:36:09
	But obviously they weren't moved and we decided that person.	00:36:15
	And we can only go as far as what siding is and what the judge does. I can't control that part. But it is. It is and and the	00:36:20
	animal control people are working on it. We obviously perhaps don't have enough animal control people. The police have a problem	00:36:26
	on the weekends at the animal shelter is closed.	00:36:32
	And that for them to take an animal on the weekend, where do they take it?	00:36:38
	So we're trying to work with animal control in the Police Department to put maybe a drop off. The only trouble with drop off is	00:36:43
	we'll get animals there that people just leave and and there won't be any room for the for the for the police to take an animal.	00:36:49
	So I think that's part of the problem too. On the weekends it's impossible. Come on up chief, Come on, give us.	00:36:56
	And we discussed it. So I I think is what we're going to do is we're going to put a lock on it.	00:37:06
	Where a key signed out from dispatch to the officers were about where we keep a track of the key and which officers and then	00:37:10
	there's also a report form that we're coming up with the.	00:37:16
	That way Lupus not confused about where the dog comes from and stuff like that so.	00:37:21
	So we're working on a program that you know, continues to try to track this, but again.	00:37:26
	These animals that are loose.	00:37:34
	We have tried to, you know, try to get them. The animals, control people, do try to get them. It's a logistical problem. It's just	00:37:36
	difficult to get everything that's been called.	00:37:41
	And again I want to say and I want to underline that the two animals that were modeled.	00:37:47
	Both those animals were.	00:37:55
	The ones that model were taken care of. Now it turns out that the person who said that this is the dog, that although that dog was	00:37:57
	loose and has been sighted because it was loose.	00:38:01
	But the question is whether that animal actually was the one that did the damage at the at the Plaza, and now somebody's backing	00:38:07
	off on that assertion.	00:38:11
	So we're still looking for another dog if we're going to do that.	00:38:16
	But it is a difficult it's not. It's not easy.	00:38:20
	Did get ahold of the officer that was in charge of its ahead of the case and he's positive that the dog we have is the one.	00:38:24
	And I and I have the I have the police report.	00:38:33
	If anybody interested, it's public information. I just wish that people who post things and and one of them should know better	00:38:36
	because they they they have legal background.	00:38:41
	That what they're saying is not is not factual.	00:38:46
	And then, and I agree with you, Councillor Chavez will present there are loose animals, they do, there are an imminent danger, but	00:38:51
	it's difficult for us to get them all.	00:38:56
	You know, and we can fund another animal control person and that's something that we can look into do that means we have to get	00:39:02
	another vehicle 100,000 all this.	00:39:07
	It's all about money, too.	00:39:13
	And thank you for thank you for coming, Chief Greenwood.	00:39:15
	Fair enough.	00:39:21
	The I guess an old business.	00:39:26
	Executive.	00:39:29
	Oh, Speaking of an executive session, we did get an April request.	00:39:31
	From the coop.	00:39:37
	They wanted everything from 2016 to now.	00:39:40
	So emails, text message and I said when I asked Polo was well, have them be more specific as to what it is that they want from the	00:39:44
	city and they want they want information between the city and Guzman. Some of it is privileged because of legal, but most of the	00:39:50
	times.	00:39:57
	I'm basically telling people what we're talking, what we're doing. I don't we don't go into executive session and talk about it	00:40:04
	and we do not want to underline we do not have a contract.	00:40:09
	With any electrical supplier.	00:40:14
	Guzman or anybody else?	00:40:18
	We did go out to bid about four or five years ago. We did get 4 bids, but we did never sign the contract for electrical.	00:40:20
	Supply so.	00:40:29
	Just to let you know they did ask for that information. We did award it to Guzman, we did award that RFP but we never, it never	00:40:31
	came negotiations and we're still kind of in a negotiation part of it and we've never signed a contract. So until that contract	00:40:37
	signed then that.	00:40:44
	Information comes public, yeah, but we know, yeah, Yeah. Mr. on old business and anything on the food truck or and stuff. I mean,	00:40:51
	it just sticks with me.	00:40:55
	Where where there is the food truck ordinance.	00:41:00
	We're still working.	00:41:04
	But I was talking to counselor Deborah Dean about doing a food truck Plaza.	00:41:06
	And we were looking at trying to perhaps work with a person who owns Smiths.	00:41:13
	And perhaps have it there because the one that we have it sends.	00:41:19
	I just don't know how improve, how much improvement and where you would do and how would you, you know, get parking for people who	00:41:23
	would come.	00:41:26
	And so we're going to be calling essentially Duke Rodriguez, who who owns it or the company, The cannabis company. But his comment	00:41:31
	was cannabis businesses.	00:41:36
	Is hit the floor it's it's history and I think we're losing about two or three of the cannabis people here in town but the so so	00:41:42
	if if I can get something done then I'll turn it back over to councillor Dean and I think Christie's helping her trying to get	00:41:47
	the.	00:41:52
	But that's that, I think once we get that.	00:41:59
	Designated area for food trucks, then I think we can then then put that ordinance together with that so.	00:42:03
	Fair enough.	00:42:12
	So when this came up the last time, I started looking into it.	00:42:17
	And our our current code says a transient vendor, one who sells retail good services for profit.	00:42:22
	On a transitory basis not associated with an existing permanent business, excluding fireworks vendors, carnivals, farmers markets,	00:42:29
	and public festivals or Fiesta vendors.	00:42:34
	So I was thinking we could add to that for all transient food and vendors and food service facilities.	00:42:40
	Minimum required requirements to be posted. Current business registration a filed CRS registration.	00:42:46
	Approved in current health inspection. Improved in current fire inspection.	00:42:53
	Written, written, and signed approval of the location property.	00:42:58
	Owner as applicable and proof of liability insurance.	00:43:03
	And then we can treat every food establishment the same, whether they're transient or not.	00:43:07
	But the owner of the property has against special use permit, then they can put them all there if they want.	00:43:13
	But the owner has to do that.	00:43:22
	First, Donald, is that is that an actual ordinance now?	00:43:25
	This is just what I came up with to see if we wanted to change it. That's just like the first thing when I was on council, the big	00:43:31
	deal. So it's just like I write it down every time just to see if we can resolve it and move on from it so that we can we have, I	00:43:38
	mean Donald just read the draft and you can make that available to you and at the next meeting. But I I I just think.	00:43:45
	I don't want to make any more controversial, but if we can have one place where we had all the food trucks, that would be a lot	00:43:54
	nicer rather than have them all over. But you know that's going to cause a lot of cities like that because people are going to	00:44:00
	say, well I want to be here and I don't want to be with the rest. So that's going to be another group of people show up but, but.	00:44:05
	We're working on trying to get AI mean lots of towns have a food truck Plaza.	00:44:12
	Where they, you know, have everybody and have picnic tables and lighting and things like that and a place where people just hang	00:44:16
	out and go and.	00:44:20
	If there's a way for him, the person who owns Smiths.	00:44:24
	To allow us use of that building for something innovative.	00:44:28
	So that's what we're trying to look at. OK, thank you. But but if you want to make that available as a draft, take a look at it.	00:44:33
	All righty. We've got just business registrations. We have no employee stuff. Oh, I just see Chris, Chris, Chris is here. Just to	00:44:44
	let you know. This is the report and I'll make that available to you on on code enforcement.	00:44:52
	This is the specific item that he put together, what he is, what he's been doing and as you know, we didn't lose one of the court	00:45:01
	enforcement people's.	00:45:05
	That was working with Chris, but Chris is doing a good job by himself, just to let you know.	00:45:12
	OK, this is a business. Registrations. I didn't skip anything. Ricks Munch Box. Speaking of of Food Trucks, Richard Otero at 1101	00:45:17
	Gwendolyn Court.	00:45:23
	What's that? What's that about?	00:45:29
	I've had a Gwen man, but that's where he lives is Gwendolyn Court.	00:45:36
	OK. And then high maintenance, Matthew Kennicott, cannabis production and wholesale look at that.	00:45:46
	That's it.	00:45:54
	Mr. Romero.	00:45:57
	2nd.	00:46:00
	Through the secondary discussion, all in favor, opposed. All right.	00:46:03
	Next City Council, April 16th.	00:46:08
	Oh, you have eclipse glasses.	00:46:13
	I don't know how close we're going to be to the eclipse, but.	00:46:16
	Chelsea from the library provided.	00:46:20
	Eclipse glasses.	00:46:23
	You can take them to Texas. That's where it's closest.	00:46:26
	Hey, how about Iowa?	00:46:32
	Hey.	00:46:34
	I wonder how many people?	00:46:36

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	Hi. Hello.	00:00:05
	123.	00:00:07
	Council meeting today, April 2nd, 324 I will call please.	00:00:10
	Mayor *******.	00:00:14
	Councillor Travis Lopez.	00:00:16
	Councillor Deborah Dean, Councillor Fleming, Councillor Partridge, Councillor Romero, Councillor Salomi.	00:00:18
	We do have a quorum all right for the Pledge of Allegiance.	00:00:32
	Of it for which it stand.	00:00:42
	One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.	00:00:44
	Mr. Mayor, Mr. Romero, will we approve the consent agenda for tonight?	00:00:54
	So moved and seconded any discussion.	00:00:59
	All in favor, aye.	00:01:02
	And we shall go to the public forum right away.	00:01:04
	As Louisa. Did she make it? Yes. Oh, come on up.	00:01:08
	You know Luisa Lopez, one of the people in the forefront of the downwinders.	00:01:14
	And the Trinity bomb explos.	00:01:19
	And her attempt to get compensation, along with Tina Cordova from Alamogordo has been working on this for years now.	00:01:23
	Senator Lujan has been helping them.	00:01:33
	And that's moving along.	00:01:35
	But the other thing that I really wanted to highlight is the.	00:01:38
	Relationship between New Mexico Tech.	00:01:42
	And what happened at Trinity site in Oppenheimer and we've also been trying to get some.	00:01:44
	Distinct recognition for that area instead of down in Alamogordo with our with our congressional legislators.	00:01:50
	To see if they would have something iconic down in San Antonio area.	00:01:59
	And on top of that, the white sand muscle range.	00:02:04
	General staff.	00:02:07
	Canceled one of the biggest days we used to have in our city.	00:02:09
	In April, that's been canceled now I guess the one in October will continue.	00:02:13
	But they quoted that there was some sort of staff and budget problems. So we're encouraging our congressional delegation to look	00:02:18
	into that. But anyway, Louisa, thank you for coming and explaining some of the things that you're in love with.	00:02:25
	OK. First of all, I'm a member of an organization called the TBDC, and that stands for the Tua Rosa Basin Down Winners consortium.	00:02:32
	I joined this group about a little over 10 years ago because I wanted to help New Mexico and especially the people in Socorro.	00:02:42
	That had been affected by the Trinity.	00:02:53
	So my our goal.	00:02:58
	Is to include New Mexico in the Rica Act, which is a radiation exposure compensation act.	00:03:01
	New Mexico was the 1st.	00:03:09
	Ever in the world to be, to be. Um.	00:03:11
	Affected by this?	00:03:15
	And yet we were never included. New Mexico was left out.	00:03:17
	First of all I want to let you guys all know.	00:03:23
	That you're.	00:03:27
	Are you Mexican? You're a down waiter?	00:03:29
	All of you are down, waiters. All of you were affected.	00:03:32
	And Mexico got a AA double whammy.	00:03:35
	Because when they started doing the above ground tests in Nevada.	00:03:39
	The radiation came down this way, the fallout and it affected us also.	00:03:44
	OK, what I'm going to talk to you about first is it's a it's a documentary that was made by a friend of mine. Her name is Lois	00:03:50
	Lippman.	00:03:55
	And she titled this first Goodbye, New Mexico.	00:04:02
	I don't know if you've heard of this has been showing you several of the film festivals.	00:04:05
	They showed it in.	00:04:10
	And now I'm going to show it in Las Cruces.	00:04:12
	And we're hoping that eventually this will come closer to us, to to cities of New Mexico. And we're really, really.	00:04:14
	Fighting to get this terror here at Socorro because.	00:04:23
	Here in our in our county, because this is where it actually happened. And I think that the people should all have a chance to see	00:04:28
	the other side of the story. I don't know how many of you saw the Oppenheimer movie. Well, that's their version.	00:04:35
	In this documentary you'll see.	00:04:42
	The devastation that happened afterwards, radiation sickness.	00:04:46
	You know the title of the movie.	00:04:52
	The bomb of New Mexico first. First we bomb New Mexico.	00:04:55
	OK, Miss Lippmann has followed us for many years.	00:04:59
	I know I've been with an organization, like I said, for over 11 years, and she's been there all the time, but I've been here.	00:05:03
	And of course, he has been doing this since about 2009, so she's really.	00:05:10
	Uh, this is something that she's not gonna let go. And I just right now, I want to thank Doctor Bhaskar and all of the counselors.	00:05:16
	That here.	00:05:25
	Putting TNI and I finished approached.	00:05:27
	And you guys are very supportive and we really appreciate it.	00:05:29
	And right now, we're in a real good place. The Senate already passed the RECUR Act for New Mexico. And not only New Mexico, I	00:05:34
	mean, we're fighting for New Mexico, but there's other states like we have, like Senator Crapo, we have Senator Holly and we have	00:05:40
	all these, all these other senators.	00:05:46
	That are fighting for their States and their communities.	00:05:52
	But they're also helping us.	00:05:56
	So I mean, this isn't just injectable. I mean Argue is just New Mexico.	00:05:58
	So I'd like to thank all the councillors here that that have really helped us in the past, counselors that aren't here, everybody	00:06:05
	has been very supportive and doctor.	00:06:09
	I still call you Doctor. Doctor. Doctor has been very, very supportive. Now there was an article in the paper and The Chieftain	00:06:16
	and thank You Wanda, but it was an error there now.	00:06:22
	April the 7th, which is Sunday.	00:06:30
	There's going to be showing in Las Cruces.	00:06:32
	And.	00:06:36
	The showing is going to be at 1:30.	00:06:37
	And and we our organization has chartered a bus.	00:06:40
	To take people because they want to go free of charge.	00:06:46
	You just have to buy your ticket to get into the festival. The tickets are $10 and you can buy them online. And if anybody wants	00:06:49
	to go and you want to go on the bus, or even if you don't want to go on the bus and leave the ticket, I have two available tickets	00:06:55
	that I can that I can give you.	00:07:00
	So that I I would love, love to give them to somebody that can use them because I would love for you guys to talk. I'll see this.	00:07:06
	Documentary and see how it affected New Mexico's.	00:07:15
	Throughout he not only not.	00:07:19
	Not only here in Sapporo, but in other communities.	00:07:22
	The Navajos, the mascara rolls, all these people suffered greatly from all of this radiation poisoning and I would like to.	00:07:26
	For all of you to see it, we interview people from all over New Mexico. Now if you want to get on the bus, you have 52 seats.	00:07:34
	Counselor, is there a way to watch that outside of the theater, streaming it or the documentary that you're speaking? No, we	00:07:44
	haven't been able to do that yet. We were trying. We're trying.	00:07:50
	To get the governor, she, I know you know she has contacts.	00:07:56
	So that we could get this going also. What we're also trying to do is get it on Netflix.	00:08:01
	We did. We didn't. I reached out to Loma and miss her. Chin looked into it. There's a copyright and there's a question of whether	00:08:07
	we can bring it here or not. I wanted to have the festival here but and working with a Loma in the city would sponsor that along	00:08:14
	with tech. But it was part of the problem was there's a copyright and and where you can show it is restricted. Especially now I	00:08:21
	think when you when you when you want to show your your documentaries at a Film Festival, you know and you're kind of like.	00:08:29
	Agree to just do it there until you can release it. You know and.	00:08:37
	I know that Miss Lippmann is waiting to see.	00:08:41
	And she can do this because we want everybody to see it. You don't.	00:08:44
	So another thing. So if you want to go on the bus, like I said, we have a few seats left.	00:08:48
	And if you want to go on the bus, you can call me. And I also have a phone number here for a gentleman by the name of Paul Pino.	00:08:54
	And I'll get this to Doctor. Can you put that on the rubble?	00:08:59
	If you give all that information to Paula, we'll put it on our local, you know, you can call him at 5:05.	00:09:05
	4594112.	00:09:12
	And he didn't. He's the one that's in charge of putting the people on the bus, and the tickets have to be bought online. But if	00:09:17
	you call Paul, he can help you get the tickets.	00:09:23
	And what they do is, you know, you buy them online, they just come onto your phone in an e-mail and then you print it out.	00:09:28
	Or you don't have to. You can take it on your phone and you show it there when you get there.	00:09:35
	Also if you have any questions.	00:09:39
	You can visit our website which is www.trinity.windows.com.	00:09:43
	And there's everything you need there. And if any of you here would like to sign up for our newsletter, let me know and.	00:09:50
	Tell Holly Walmart she's in charge of that. If anybody wants to contact me, my number is 575835.	00:09:57
	8146 Now the screening that's going to be first is going to be Friday, April 5th.	00:10:06
	But if we're not offering the bus, then we're offering the bus for Sunday, April 7th.	00:10:12
	And it's at the Cineport 10 LM theaters in Las Cruces.	00:10:18
	Friday, April 5th will be 4 to 5:00 PM and Sunday will be at 1:30 PM.	00:10:24
	So if any of you want to come and utilize the bus, you're more than welcome and I have to take a call. Let anybody have. If you	00:10:30
	want to go, just meet me there at the at the bus.	00:10:36
	And I'll give you a ticket and go watch this. You can sit on the bus and relax and have somebody take.	00:10:42
	So thank you very much, Doctor Vasco, just wanted to add. Thank you. I just have a really, really good news for you.	00:10:49
	I just talked to Tina Cordova.	00:10:55
	Yesterday.	00:10:57
	She's been in contact with Senator Kate Vasquez.	00:11:00
	Consider represented the Hospice.	00:11:04
	And he is worthy.	00:11:06
	On erecting monument.	00:11:09
	Yeah, well, you know, we've sent him a representative, Vasquez, but he's, we've sent him all the information and you know.	00:11:12
	The irony or the sadness is that.	00:11:21
	The explosion was here. And not that we want all this publicity, that Oppenheimer and all this, but.	00:11:24
	They have. They have museums in Los Alamos and they have them in Virginia too. I think. Yes, national stuff. But nothing was ever	00:11:31
	done or placed here. And then on top of that, they cut.	00:11:35
	One of the two visits and we had people come from all over the world. Yes, even though it's just an obelisk and just.	00:11:41
	People come, it's a it's a very important.	00:11:49
	Place in history and in the world's history and we're always there. Our group is always there. We always have a was called a	00:11:53
	future. So we always have a lot of information to give the people and sometimes for some of these people drive up.	00:12:01
	And they read some of this information. They don't want to go in. They're afraid they're still radiation and there still is. I	00:12:09
	mean, it's not, might not be a lot, but.	00:12:13
	But I think San Antonio would be a place where you could have. Yes. You know I mean they got a smoky the Bear thing in Capitan.	00:12:17
	You know with the museum. They can't do anything like that here. I mean it's just ridiculous. I just we're and and we're producing	00:12:23
	500 of those pamphlets that actually Gary Jaromeo and his uncle Joe Wells who used to run the Loma has pictures are unbelievable	00:12:30
	of Oppenheimer and and and then the tech has produced a pamphlet that talks about the interaction with Doctor Wilkinning who used	00:12:36
	to be a professor here.	00:12:42
	From Los Alamos worked in the Manhattan Project. And so we're going to reproduce 500 of those pamphlets to kind of spread around	00:12:49
	the state and all over the United States. Really. I'm trying to get some get some influence with the congressional delegation	00:12:54
	because they're the ones that make all the.	00:13:00
	Tina told me she had contacted me.	00:13:08
	Vasquez, she also talked to Van Ray, and then we told her that probably gave Vasquez would be the best. Well, that's great. It's	00:13:10
	just that I don't want to have it in Alamogordo. Well, they're going to have, they're going to have one in Alamogordo and they're	00:13:16
	gonna have one in Carazoso. But as long as we have one here, they can. I want one here. And when I practice in Carrizozo, it's	00:13:21
	been 50 years.	00:13:27
	I have patients who would tell me that they woke up and you tell morning at three it was bright sunlight or or light and six	00:13:33
	months later their cows turned whitish. Then the cancer started appearing in their area because the Oscar, the Oscar range over	00:13:40
	there by Carrizozo is in that area. That said, all that explosion was it's unbelievable and it's just never been recognized. I	00:13:47
	know. Well another thing that you and I talked about and I wanted to ask you since I was here.	00:13:54
	We talked about the Armory whenever you're. Yeah, you know, I have I have a friend of mine and she's also been with us. She's a	00:14:01
	journalist and she's had one display up in New York that she did on the downwinders and she's willing to.	00:14:09
	You know.	00:14:18
	Like you said, if we can put a display in the Armory and we'll have a lot of histories. There's a lot of histories from the	00:14:21
	people.	00:14:24
	Right here in Socorro that have that their families have I mean they're it's devastating they all every member of the family has	00:14:27
	had cancer.	00:14:31
	Mr. Mary had a comment or?	00:14:35
	Well, thank you for coming and giving us an explanation of that and we need to just keep working on it. And because she said she	00:14:39
	made an appointment for us, that was Vasquez or.	00:14:43
	I think then then we're going to, he's setting everything up and we're also trying to get, we're also trying to get the governor	00:14:49
	on board, but it's really hard to get her.	00:14:55
	Thank you very much.	00:15:02
	So is your group.	00:15:05
	Be out there near the highway now in April, or being that the events been cancelled, is your group still going to?	00:15:07
	They're not going in there either.	00:15:17
	The only place that's going to be available to visit is is us, you know, I mean our.	00:15:25
	Area going to take the congressional delegation to help us push that through because the colonels on their staff did not want	00:15:32
	public on that property. There's something we're going on there. We went to go do a.	00:15:38
	An interview with some journalists that came in from France and Tina and I went down there and.	00:15:45
	We drove all the way to the shack, you know.	00:15:51
	And there must have been like 20.	00:15:53
	Belly dump trucks coming in with dirt, not on what they're doing. You know how much money the how much money they spend on the	00:15:57
	McDonald Ranch remodeling And if nobody can see it, I don't know how that's.	00:16:03
	Well, thank you very much for listening.	00:16:11
	Anyone else on the?	00:16:14
	Public OK, we'll give her a hand.	00:16:17
	One else that would like that's not on the agenda would like to make a comment.	00:16:24
	What are you guys doing here then?	00:16:29
	No, just joking, I know. All right, here we go. We have an exciting, innovative new program, and Damian Banks is the leader of	00:16:31
	that. This is the inaugural city of Socorro esports scholarship recipients.	00:16:40
	And I'm happy to see a lot of them here. And Damian is going to talk about his program and the city is on board. I know New Mexico	00:16:50
	Tech is starting a a degree program, but we really want to be on the cutting edge of this. Thank you for coming, Damien.	00:16:56
	Absolutely thank you for having me.	00:17:01
	Yeah. So just a little bit of background as to what this program is and what my company is. So the company is called Ecliptics	00:17:08
	Gaming. We are basically an educational esports program that we provide across the state. We have partnerships with Bernalillo	00:17:14
	County, City of Socorro, NM Tech. We're continuing to grow and evolve. We've been working on a program with the UNMCED as well as	00:17:19
	MNTED.	00:17:25
	And through a lot of those camps, we started to realize, OK, we have so much, there's so many resources that we can provide and so	00:18:03
	much information that we can provide and it takes an extreme amount of manpower. And the problem is that we have no way to bring	00:18:09
	this to the kids for free, which is really what we wanted to do. So what I was really excited about is the city of Socorro being	00:18:14
	on board as a partner to fund some scholarships for.	00:18:20
	For residents. For students within Socorro.	00:18:28
	To be able to come to the Academy for free. So really, really excited for that. This is going to be the first time that we've done	00:18:32
	this here in the city. So extremely excited as we can use this as the foundation to try and build the program for not only all of.	00:18:41
	And how long it's going to be and what they'll get at the end of it, Absolutely. So basically throughout the entire course it's	00:19:22
	asynchronous. So it works at their pace. They have tasks that they need to complete.	00:19:26
	We continue to work with them over a three month period and that's a single cohort is a three month period.	00:19:31
	We are in the partnership with the City School. We're doing a discount rate for $1500 per student. So it's top tier quality in	00:19:37
	which they're actually going to be getting not only full portfolios, but we build video resumes, highlight montages and we're	00:19:42
	actually able to compile all that information and ship it off to universities or private companies who could be looking for	00:19:48
	internships or professionals in the future. And now with a lot of the E sports organizations actually dropping some of their	00:19:54
	degree requirements for positions.	00:20:00
	We don't want it to feel like we're we want it to feel exciting. We want it to feel fulfilling, or at the same time, still being	00:21:11
	educational and making sure that they get as much as they can out of it. Did you get more than 8 applicants?	00:21:17
	We cut it off right at 8:00 as soon as we got it, so we're going to reopen the applications in the second month.	00:21:23
	OK. Deliverable basically, yeah, it'll be the, the what he just mentioned is that the at the end of the program he'll have a	00:21:28
	portfolio for the, for the, for the people that are participating and and you know it's a, it's a.	00:21:36
	Kind of our entrance into trying to get more.	00:21:44
	Kids involved with this kind of a.	00:21:49
	Thing and I think it's kind of exciting for that even if they don't go into it is exciting to be able to get some background in	00:21:52
	this because you know, I think it's something that.	00:21:56
	Is going to explode. I think the E Gaming has already exploded. But I think in in the technical and the and the scientific field,	00:22:02
	it's really going to explode. And they're actually a lot of this. You know, we have the Homeland Security first responders here	00:22:08
	and they're putting a big.	00:22:13
	Building was building's already there for virtual training.	00:22:21
	Out there on New Mexico Tech, they'll have 300 people.	00:22:25
	You know, for four days out there and so all this is all.	00:22:29
	Kind of, hopefully gonna.	00:22:33
	Evolve into something that the participants can get into future in their life or at least they've been exposed to it and they have	00:22:35
	a chance rather than saying, well you and Sakura, we can't do anything we got, we don't have any capability of certain things and	00:22:40
	Damien's providing that. I guess my question is more.	00:22:45
	We funded on the front end. They hand out the scholarships and then you know the kids get their certificates and and then and	00:22:51
	coach banks here is going to.	00:22:56
	They're going to try to get them into.	00:23:02
	Universities or jobs or placement, that's kind of the way the deliverable works. That and the underlying motive also is that we	00:23:05
	want to have any gaming arena here that we can have.	00:23:10
	Gaming events, and that's kind of also another thing.	00:23:17
	No, it's a great thing for sure.	00:23:22
	Amen. Do you have any of your participants in the audience tonight? I have AI have a couple. We're going to just follow them. I	00:23:25
	think that's what the crowd is here.	00:23:30
	Yeah, yeah. I had a couple questions. You said, are these are these?	00:23:36
	These students all involved with the E Sports team at the school, they should be not all of them, not all of them. There's a	00:23:40
	little bit of overlap, a little bit of overlap. And what does that look like? Like an event here in Socorro, like, what would you	00:23:44
	need?	00:23:48
	As far as like a number of kids coming to start like size, what does that look like? Yeah, so it depends on what we're looking at.	00:23:52
	So if we're looking at something in terms of the middle school to high school level, say we're say we're talking the state	00:23:58
	championships, state championships this year, we're looking at about 1200 students total. So that's across multiple games,	00:24:03
	multiple schools from 1/8 to 5A more than anything. It takes a lot of, it takes a lot of space. We're talking multiple games over	00:24:08
	about a three day period.	00:24:14
	So if we're talking about 12 hour days.	00:24:20
	It's it's more about having enough hands because you have to require all of the equipment itself, being able to have your referees	00:24:23
	or your to German organizations call them, as well as being able to have places for them to stay.	00:24:30
	Umm, it's it's a little bit difficult, more so on the logistic side. If I was going to use any comparisons to what we have	00:24:38
	already, Macy's Center could handle something like that. It's just it would be really slow because we would only have capability	00:24:43
	to run about two or three games at the same time.	00:24:47
	You ideally want to be running about 6 to 8 games at the same time, and the standard game has ten players total, so that's about	00:24:53
	the speed and the rate that the state championships are going to take this year, which is actually in a couple weeks.	00:24:59
	So we need.	00:25:06
	It would need something on the scale of Macy center.	00:25:07
	That's that's about the spacing that would be required. He's given us an estimate of.	00:25:10
	A place to put together for about 100,000.	00:25:16
	And an arena. He's already worked that up. We didn't have the 100 times right now, but you know, the youth center, if we ever work	00:25:19
	with the schools, we're going to do that with Saracino.	00:25:24
	The Rodeo arena, I want to see drone, drone races. That's what I'd like to see. We're going to enclose the rodeo Center and we	00:25:30
	could have some of the large things there. But I think, and we don't want to be beaten up by Albuquerque because I think New	00:25:36
	Mexico Tech hopefully can be the center of all this, Mr. Fleming.	00:25:42
	Yeah, I was going to say.	00:25:48
	Using some of the facilities at Zimmerling.	00:25:51
	Parkview ServiceNow.	00:25:55
	Macy and Fidel.	00:25:58
	Would that be enough for your?	00:26:01
	Participants it absolutely could be.	00:26:04
	The great thing about E sports is the the remote capabilities. The only thing is would be more the technical side of it, making	00:26:07
	sure that the equipment is identical to whatever equipment is being used. The Internet speeds are identical, that would be more	00:26:14
	the difficulty in that, but using multiple spaces is is more than more than possible. The city being smack dab in the middle of	00:26:21
	the state is actually ideal because it's it's the simplest place to be at.	00:26:28
	Combining all of the facilities in which we do have across the middle schools, high schools, university and that the city owned	00:26:35
	properties as well, something like that could definitely be, could definitely happen. It would take some work, but it could	00:26:40
	definitely happen.	00:26:44
	Not how are we?	00:26:50
	With Tech students or a bunch of them involved in this either volunteering or.	00:26:53
	Involved in the program where they're working with these kids. Absolutely. A couple of them, yes. So our lives, our kids beaten	00:26:57
	them.	00:26:59
	Can they beat them? Not yet. After asking in three in three months, they should be able to.	00:27:02
	All right. We want to get there. I mean, you know, it's the same thing with your football program that you have on the summer. I	00:27:08
	think you had something like, what, 507 hundred people show up.	00:27:13
	And and the wrestling program that we have that you know people use Socorro as a central place rodeo program. I think this is just	00:27:19
	the beginning of something that can be, you know, that'd be huge and hopefully we'll get the inaugural team to maybe highlight	00:27:26
	this and keep it going on. Can you you want to introduce some of the participants there? Absolutely. And I'll leave a fun fact	00:27:33
	before I introduce them all if we want to think about a great way to think about esports in comparison to other sports right now.	00:27:41
	Same exact metaphoric comparison between the two. So when we talk about size, the expansion of E sports and how rapid it's	00:28:23
	continuing to grow is going to be significantly more than what a traditional sports can on an individual basis. It's just a matter	00:28:30
	of time now, but very exciting, very, very exciting. So thank you all for this opportunity. So one by one I'll go ahead and	00:28:37
	introduce these folks and award them their scholarships. Is there a good place that we can line them up to try? And?	00:28:45
	Up here? Perfect. OK, so we'll start off with the Saxon Sturgis.	00:28:52
	Yep. Right up here. Come and stand here and then we'll get everybody together. Stand right in front of our table. Yeah, but Damian	00:29:02
	Phillips.	00:29:05
	We have Nate Phillips.	00:29:18
	Aaron Pius.	00:29:32
	Derek Green.	00:29:39
	Is he in high school?	00:29:47
	He's not. We have middle and high school.	00:29:50
	So he's not here and we have Eduardo Mijares.	00:29:52
	And Benjamin Baca.	00:30:04
	Guys, a little bit. And the other awardee who is not able to attend is Kyle Seifert.	00:30:12
	Right. Come back up a little bit to the podium here so we can.	00:30:17
	You want to take a quick picture.	00:30:20
	I don't forget my phone, so well, you can use mine.	00:30:23
	Yeah, interesting. Got it.	00:30:30
	Yes, we can.	00:30:33
	Don't be shy there.	00:30:35
	123.	00:30:44
	And one more.	00:30:49
	Damian.	00:30:55
	And we hope to see, we hope to see them in about 3 months to give them the graduations and see what we're going to end up doing.	00:30:59
	So thank you again for letting us be part of your program. Awesome. Thank you for having me. Thank you for the support. Thank you.	00:31:05
	And if people have to leave now, it's OK you guys, everybody, welcome to to take off.	00:31:12
	Why didn't see Evan back there? You.	00:31:20
	You got a scholarship for this too?	00:31:23
	Hey, everybody. I know, that's great. Terrific. Good luck guys.	00:31:27
	Already new business?	00:31:39
	I will give you some new business you have.	00:31:42
	Information about what's happening at the electrical.	00:31:48
	Level and I and I'm.	00:31:52
	This uh.	00:31:55
	Business with the coop and tri-state is headed straight.	00:31:59
	Down river.	00:32:02
	I was in Durango the other day and spoke with people at La Plata Electric Coop. They're leaving. They're big, big coop.	00:32:04
	You've seen. You also see that the.	00:32:14
	The bond rating for.	00:32:17
	Tri-state is going down.	00:32:19
	All this is going to be sent over.	00:32:21
	Well, the coops that they're serving at the present time.	00:32:23
	And it's common knowledge now in the in the financial field that tri-state is having a problem. We're still moving ahead with the.	00:32:26
	Project up at the industrial park, We're pretty close to giving you a.	00:32:37
	You want a number, how much is the kilowatt going to cost and how much is going to be, you know, need to be borrowed and all that.	00:32:42
	So we're going to give you that. I'm still waiting to know where they spent the $44 million that they borrowed over the past 25	00:32:48
	years, whether they sent it, spent here at all. We have to borrow money. We're going to be able to borrow it at a very low	00:32:54
	interest rate. So that's where that's going as far as I guess that's part of old business also.	00:33:00
	Under new business.	00:33:07
	A little bit of a thing that's happened with animal and animal control in the Police Department and I really am saddened to see	00:33:10
	some of the damages that have occurred with some dogs, a couple of dogs in town.	00:33:16
	I can only tell you that.	00:33:23
	Our Police Department and the animal control were on top of this.	00:33:26
	They had a dog and that dog is still impounded. The one that was the one that supposedly was part of the.	00:33:32
	Dog that did the damage at the Plaza, but now there's some.	00:33:40
	Retreating of who? Which dog it was. But that dog was taken was impounded. It's taken to the court.	00:33:46
	And has been impounded. There was one before that.	00:33:52
	That also was a case where another dog was.	00:33:57
	That dog was also impounded.	00:34:01
	But it's up to the.	00:34:04
	As to when they released the dogs?	00:34:07
	Or the animal. And it's not up to the city, Oregon, the enforcement. We do the enforcement.	00:34:10
	We do have a We do have an ordinance for leash.	00:34:15
	We do have an ordinance for animals and according to I don't know if Assistant Chief Green was going to say anything more about	00:34:18
	it, but we do enforce that and we have enforced it.	00:34:24
	We do get a lot of calls that are in force.	00:34:31
	And so, you know, I just think, and I maybe I'm reacting too much on Facebook postings, I'm trying to make it very clear.	00:34:34
	Unfortunate, terrible, terrible thing that happened with the animals.	00:34:44
	But those animals were cut.	00:34:48
	Were taken to court the owners.	00:34:52
	Then the court decides when to release them. Miss Chavez Lopez.	00:34:57
	And that's true. But I got a complaint sometime today about somebody walking on the ditch on Mariposa and there was 2 little girls	00:35:01
	and the dog went to attack the little girls.	00:35:08
	And thank God there was an adult there that prevented them from mauling one of the little girls. But that's very dangerous and the	00:35:15
	owner has like 7 guns on Mariposa.	00:35:21
	We had run around there. Well, there's. I don't want to name any names.	00:35:28
	But our animal control has been out there.	00:35:33
	Half a dozen time.	00:35:37
	That person, if that's the person you're talking about, hid those animals.	00:35:40
	And we went to cite them and there were no animals there.	00:35:45
	This is 7 or 8 animals dogs.	00:35:49
	And they went out and I then I got a call or.	00:35:53
	Pictures from the person who kind of owns a lot of property there. And then I sent Luca back out there again.	00:35:57
	Dogs were gone.	00:36:04
	So I don't know where the dogs end up.	00:36:06
	The person who owns those dogs is that's the dog you're talking about, said. Oh, well, in a moment, Dilemmatar.	00:36:09
	But obviously they weren't moved and we decided that person.	00:36:15
	And we can only go as far as what siding is and what the judge does. I can't control that part. But it is. It is and and the	00:36:20
	animal control people are working on it. We obviously perhaps don't have enough animal control people. The police have a problem	00:36:26
	on the weekends at the animal shelter is closed.	00:36:32
	And that for them to take an animal on the weekend, where do they take it?	00:36:38
	So we're trying to work with animal control in the Police Department to put maybe a drop off. The only trouble with drop off is	00:36:43
	we'll get animals there that people just leave and and there won't be any room for the for the for the police to take an animal.	00:36:49
	So I think that's part of the problem too. On the weekends it's impossible. Come on up chief, Come on, give us.	00:36:56
	And we discussed it. So I I think is what we're going to do is we're going to put a lock on it.	00:37:06
	Where a key signed out from dispatch to the officers were about where we keep a track of the key and which officers and then	00:37:10
	there's also a report form that we're coming up with the.	00:37:16
	That way Lupus not confused about where the dog comes from and stuff like that so.	00:37:21
	So we're working on a program that you know, continues to try to track this, but again.	00:37:26
	These animals that are loose.	00:37:34
	We have tried to, you know, try to get them. The animals, control people, do try to get them. It's a logistical problem. It's just	00:37:36
	difficult to get everything that's been called.	00:37:41
	And again I want to say and I want to underline that the two animals that were modeled.	00:37:47
	Both those animals were.	00:37:55
	The ones that model were taken care of. Now it turns out that the person who said that this is the dog, that although that dog was	00:37:57
	loose and has been sighted because it was loose.	00:38:01
	But the question is whether that animal actually was the one that did the damage at the at the Plaza, and now somebody's backing	00:38:07
	off on that assertion.	00:38:11
	So we're still looking for another dog if we're going to do that.	00:38:16
	But it is a difficult it's not. It's not easy.	00:38:20
	Did get ahold of the officer that was in charge of its ahead of the case and he's positive that the dog we have is the one.	00:38:24
	And I and I have the I have the police report.	00:38:33
	If anybody interested, it's public information. I just wish that people who post things and and one of them should know better	00:38:36
	because they they they have legal background.	00:38:41
	That what they're saying is not is not factual.	00:38:46
	And then, and I agree with you, Councillor Chavez will present there are loose animals, they do, there are an imminent danger, but	00:38:51
	it's difficult for us to get them all.	00:38:56
	You know, and we can fund another animal control person and that's something that we can look into do that means we have to get	00:39:02
	another vehicle 100,000 all this.	00:39:07
	It's all about money, too.	00:39:13
	And thank you for thank you for coming, Chief Greenwood.	00:39:15
	Fair enough.	00:39:21
	The I guess an old business.	00:39:26
	Executive.	00:39:29
	Oh, Speaking of an executive session, we did get an April request.	00:39:31
	From the coop.	00:39:37
	They wanted everything from 2016 to now.	00:39:40
	So emails, text message and I said when I asked Polo was well, have them be more specific as to what it is that they want from the	00:39:44
	city and they want they want information between the city and Guzman. Some of it is privileged because of legal, but most of the	00:39:50
	times.	00:39:57
	I'm basically telling people what we're talking, what we're doing. I don't we don't go into executive session and talk about it	00:40:04
	and we do not want to underline we do not have a contract.	00:40:09
	With any electrical supplier.	00:40:14
	Guzman or anybody else?	00:40:18
	We did go out to bid about four or five years ago. We did get 4 bids, but we did never sign the contract for electrical.	00:40:20
	Supply so.	00:40:29
	Just to let you know they did ask for that information. We did award it to Guzman, we did award that RFP but we never, it never	00:40:31
	came negotiations and we're still kind of in a negotiation part of it and we've never signed a contract. So until that contract	00:40:37
	signed then that.	00:40:44
	Information comes public, yeah, but we know, yeah, Yeah. Mr. on old business and anything on the food truck or and stuff. I mean,	00:40:51
	it just sticks with me.	00:40:55
	Where where there is the food truck ordinance.	00:41:00
	We're still working.	00:41:04
	But I was talking to counselor Deborah Dean about doing a food truck Plaza.	00:41:06
	And we were looking at trying to perhaps work with a person who owns Smiths.	00:41:13
	And perhaps have it there because the one that we have it sends.	00:41:19
	I just don't know how improve, how much improvement and where you would do and how would you, you know, get parking for people who	00:41:23
	would come.	00:41:26
	And so we're going to be calling essentially Duke Rodriguez, who who owns it or the company, The cannabis company. But his comment	00:41:31
	was cannabis businesses.	00:41:36
	Is hit the floor it's it's history and I think we're losing about two or three of the cannabis people here in town but the so so	00:41:42
	if if I can get something done then I'll turn it back over to councillor Dean and I think Christie's helping her trying to get	00:41:47
	the.	00:41:52
	But that's that, I think once we get that.	00:41:59
	Designated area for food trucks, then I think we can then then put that ordinance together with that so.	00:42:03
	Fair enough.	00:42:12
	So when this came up the last time, I started looking into it.	00:42:17
	And our our current code says a transient vendor, one who sells retail good services for profit.	00:42:22
	On a transitory basis not associated with an existing permanent business, excluding fireworks vendors, carnivals, farmers markets,	00:42:29
	and public festivals or Fiesta vendors.	00:42:34
	So I was thinking we could add to that for all transient food and vendors and food service facilities.	00:42:40
	Minimum required requirements to be posted. Current business registration a filed CRS registration.	00:42:46
	Approved in current health inspection. Improved in current fire inspection.	00:42:53
	Written, written, and signed approval of the location property.	00:42:58
	Owner as applicable and proof of liability insurance.	00:43:03
	And then we can treat every food establishment the same, whether they're transient or not.	00:43:07
	But the owner of the property has against special use permit, then they can put them all there if they want.	00:43:13
	But the owner has to do that.	00:43:22
	First, Donald, is that is that an actual ordinance now?	00:43:25
	This is just what I came up with to see if we wanted to change it. That's just like the first thing when I was on council, the big	00:43:31
	deal. So it's just like I write it down every time just to see if we can resolve it and move on from it so that we can we have, I	00:43:38
	mean Donald just read the draft and you can make that available to you and at the next meeting. But I I I just think.	00:43:45
	I don't want to make any more controversial, but if we can have one place where we had all the food trucks, that would be a lot	00:43:54
	nicer rather than have them all over. But you know that's going to cause a lot of cities like that because people are going to	00:44:00
	say, well I want to be here and I don't want to be with the rest. So that's going to be another group of people show up but, but.	00:44:05
	We're working on trying to get AI mean lots of towns have a food truck Plaza.	00:44:12
	Where they, you know, have everybody and have picnic tables and lighting and things like that and a place where people just hang	00:44:16
	out and go and.	00:44:20
	If there's a way for him, the person who owns Smiths.	00:44:24
	To allow us use of that building for something innovative.	00:44:28
	So that's what we're trying to look at. OK, thank you. But but if you want to make that available as a draft, take a look at it.	00:44:33
	All righty. We've got just business registrations. We have no employee stuff. Oh, I just see Chris, Chris, Chris is here. Just to	00:44:44
	let you know. This is the report and I'll make that available to you on on code enforcement.	00:44:52
	This is the specific item that he put together, what he is, what he's been doing and as you know, we didn't lose one of the court	00:45:01
	enforcement people's.	00:45:05
	That was working with Chris, but Chris is doing a good job by himself, just to let you know.	00:45:12
	OK, this is a business. Registrations. I didn't skip anything. Ricks Munch Box. Speaking of of Food Trucks, Richard Otero at 1101	00:45:17
	Gwendolyn Court.	00:45:23
	What's that? What's that about?	00:45:29
	I've had a Gwen man, but that's where he lives is Gwendolyn Court.	00:45:36
	OK. And then high maintenance, Matthew Kennicott, cannabis production and wholesale look at that.	00:45:46
	That's it.	00:45:54
	Mr. Romero.	00:45:57
	2nd.	00:46:00
	Through the secondary discussion, all in favor, opposed. All right.	00:46:03
	Next City Council, April 16th.	00:46:08
	Oh, you have eclipse glasses.	00:46:13
	I don't know how close we're going to be to the eclipse, but.	00:46:16
	Chelsea from the library provided.	00:46:20
	Eclipse glasses.	00:46:23
	You can take them to Texas. That's where it's closest.	00:46:26
	Hey, how about Iowa?	00:46:32
	Hey.	00:46:34
	I wonder how many people?	00:46:36