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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 |