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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
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