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Somebody all right? This is a City of Socorro City Council meeting Tuesday, January 7th, 2025. Roll call, please. 00:00:03
Councillor Tavis Lopez, Counselor Dean. 00:00:13
Councillor Fleming here, Councillor Ocampo here, Councillor Olguin, Councillor Partridge here, Councillor Romero, Councillor 00:00:17
Salome. We do have a quorum on rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:24
Say it now, ya? 00:00:50
Mr. Mayor. 00:00:52
Mr. Mayor, Mr. 00:00:54
Holo. 00:00:58
We need to remove off the agenda. 00:00:59
6F confined space program. 00:01:06
It's not quite ready to approve. 00:01:11
OK. So moved if we could get the motion to make a motion, we approve the consent agenda minus item 6F. 00:01:14
Move and 2nd and all in favor aye vote. 00:01:27
OK, Danny, you are up. 00:01:31
Tell us all about your great artist and some of your successes you've had with the bus program. So awesome. So thank you, Mayor 00:01:34
Council Lena, thank you guys for getting this all together. So we came last year at the end of the school year and we had a poster 00:01:41
contest and last year we had 56 red light or stop arm runners. And so far this last semester that was 14. So that was a huge 00:01:49
improvement. So thank you. 00:01:56
For for putting it out there and thank Chief Garcia for doing your stuff. That was it is it is really helping. 00:02:04
So this is pretty cool. So we did another one in October during School Bus Safety Week and this time we have one from Charter, 00:02:16
from Parkview, from Midway, San Antonio and Middle School. So we took our first place winners and these are our first place 00:02:22
winners from those schools and we have everybody here. 00:02:29
But Serena from the middle school, she's out of town. But if Miss Emory Montoya can come up. 00:02:35
Grab your art, let's see which one you did. 00:02:46
Miss Emery, she was first place. 00:02:50
So and thank you guys for the gifts. Oh, you're welcome. 00:02:56
Ash right? I didn't know people still had that. I do not. 00:03:03
What? 00:03:10
This is from San Antonio schools. Great. 00:03:15
And then we have Samuel. 00:03:24
Come on up towards us so you can be seen on TV. Come on around here. Just line up right in front of us, right? Don't worry, just 00:03:31
looking. Look at yourself on the camera, at the camera. 00:03:37
He's from. 00:03:53
Congratulations. 00:03:57
Awesome. 00:04:02
Hey. 00:04:05
Well, congratulations for doing this project, Polo. Get a picture for us there. 00:04:08
Can you turn the camera to them or no? 00:04:13
It's on him. Was it there now? OK, it's got a little delay. 00:04:16
And again, thank you, Mayor. We'll get those put up around the city and hopefully we can cut it down to 0, right? That is this is 00:04:34
working great. So thank you guys very much for your support. Congratulations. 00:04:40
Thank you, Dan. 00:04:46
Thank you parents for coming to support your kids. 00:04:47
Thank you, Daniel. And you can adjourn if you'd like. You're welcome to. You're welcome to follow them outside if you'd like to 00:04:52
go. 00:04:56
Your job. 00:05:11
You're welcome. Thank you for coming. 00:05:16
All right, So we've got some housekeeping to do at the beginning of the year. The first one is just going to public hearing for 00:05:20
CW. 00:05:25
Don't worry that Mister Mayor, that's the Clean Water State Revolving Fund we discussed at the last meeting and I made an 00:05:31
administrative mistake and I advertised it to be at this meeting. So rather than re advertise, I decided to have the public 00:05:37
meeting tonight still and then wait till the next meeting to meet the advertisement requirement. So we'll be an action item on the 00:05:43
next agenda. 00:05:48
Going to public hearing. 00:05:55
Make a motion to run the public hearing for ordinance #24-12-17 second moved and seconded discussion. Well all in favor aye and 00:05:58
public hearing for say about what it is for again this is the clean water state revolving fund. Will you applied because we needed 00:06:06
some more funding to expand the Evergreen area and we received 500,000 in a grant in 250 in a loan. 00:06:15
And I understand, Lloyd, when is that ground going to be broken for that? 00:06:25
On the 26th January there on Evergreen and Granada and that goes all the way to. 00:06:32
Super. 00:06:49
When they do peel for that whole area, then I'm not sure. 00:06:51
Have a. 00:06:56
So this will take care of everybody in that area. 00:06:57
Any comments make a motion go back in a regular session. 00:07:00
OK, We have a bunch of resolutions. Mr. Who's Mr. Romero? 00:07:09
That was well. Is there other people that are? I'm sorry, I did. I thought he was. Mr. Hicks was the only one. Is anyone else on 00:07:16
public forum that would like to make a comment that's not on the agenda? 00:07:21
You did. 00:07:28
And he was saying any from anything from the new faces. 00:07:30
Now come on up and tell us who you are and what your question or my name is. Jordan Robles, born and raised here. Some of you 00:07:34
might know my face, some of you might don't. A lot of you have known me because throughout my high school years that I worked at 00:07:41
Rocks Building Supply and I supplied the customer service both the inside and the lumberyard. And I was always treated fairly 00:07:49
because I knew what the material lumber, everything that I ever. 00:07:56
So our local businesses was the key foundation to our city and so that being said to I don't grow to the city, I have applied for 00:08:04
a license for my detailing services and power washing. 00:08:10
I want to provide to community and all your business for myself, well, for our city and what my plans are for this is. 00:08:19
Eventually that I want to give more time to what the community and with my power washing them as my revenue and my growth will 00:08:28
proceed out in the future if I get this approval today. 00:08:33
I want to be able when our teams or whether it's football, wrestling, volleyball, whatever teams need assistance in the car 00:08:39
washes, I'll be more than happy to lend my assistance with my equipment for any power washing and sponsoring any things like that. 00:08:48
Because I want to get back to the community and I'm giving a, a new form of, of service to this community because. 00:08:57
Nobody gives the power washing that I do the the competition I have. 00:09:06
Is in northern Albuquerque, Rio Rancho and Las Cruces and where's your business going to be. I wanted everything here. And did you 00:09:13
did you apply for a business license Yes because I don't see that on Friday and I was told that it was going to be talked about 00:09:21
here and I just wanted to bring up my face and my name to oh good. Well I'm glad you came probably this meeting. 00:09:29
You're, I mean, you're not going to have any trouble getting your business license, but it's not on the agenda. 00:09:38
For this, for this meeting, but we'll probably have it at the next meeting. But your, your comments are well taken and we'll make 00:09:43
sure that we let everybody know about your business you do houses or cars or how do you do it since I'm going to start out single, 00:09:50
single owner, single co-founder, single founder, everything that's all on me. So I'm going to do express card detailing and I'm 00:09:58
also extended it to horse trailers because we live in our agricultural state so. 00:10:05
To provide to our agriculture that I use PITA approved. 00:10:13
Oh, chemicals because I have to take in consideration we are agriculture, we have crops, we have animals, we have children. As a 00:10:17
father, I am not only that I want to extend that to the horse shutters. But if I could kind of after so much revenue and so much 00:10:24
marketing that I want to be able to land a contract with our city and since I am mobile with my trailer or on my own vehicle that 00:10:32
that have permission and the contract to go to our local parks and spray down. 00:10:39
The equipment of all the slides, all the equipment because as a father that I understand RSV and COVID is still an outgoing issue. 00:10:47
And being a local born and raised here of 27 years, I understand the homeless and other drug influences in this community. Like 00:10:55
sometimes as a parent, you're scared to have a child going on those slides or use certain equipment and. 00:11:04
How often do we have that sanitized? 00:11:13
Thank you for letting us know about your business. And so I want to make sure we pass and get in touch with you. 00:11:16
I'm not looking for to make my pocket go. I'm looking to have a community go because born and raised here, I want to see it go. 00:11:21
But leave us the contact information on you and we'll make sure we talk to you about the project, all right? 00:11:28
Thank you. Thank you, Thank you. Thank you for coming. Congratulations on starting the business. 00:11:36
Right. Yes, Yes, ma'am. Corner. 00:11:42
Who may I leave in polo? 00:11:47
Hi, I'm Christy Smith. I live here. I was here a month ago and I heard something about a housing development. I don't know if this 00:11:52
is the right forum to ask about that, but I heard maybe you Robbie mentioned it gets a little early. We haven't really made any 00:11:57
headway with that. And I know you wanted me to move the podium over there and I will next time, but I just curious what so there's 00:12:03
a possibility that he might be part of that or something. We're not sure. We have not had any any movement on that yet, although 00:12:09
we have a realtor we have. 00:12:15
And it's a matter of financing and the interest rates are so high right now. That's where the problem is. Thank you for bringing 00:12:22
it up. Yes, ma'am. 00:12:27
Hi, I'm Rhiannon Viselli. I was here on November 19th when a bunch of people came to discuss the animal welfare and community 00:12:38
safety issues in Socorro, and we were just wondering if there was any update on the committee being formed between the city and 00:12:44
public. The council, Travis Lopez is putting together the committee and I think she's going to appoint two people from the 00:12:49
community to be on it. Only two. 00:12:55
Just two from the community, yeah. 00:13:02
OK. 00:13:05
Yeah, and but we're moving ahead with it. But I, I wasn't here at that meeting, but my recommendation is for you guys to get 00:13:06
involved with the animal shelter personally and see if you can foster some animals and, and keep them at home. And personally, I 00:13:12
am fostering an animal. I do dog training. 00:13:17
I took one from the reservation out in Alamo because that doesn't help the city shelter. It helps the county, right? And the 00:13:25
shelter is the only one in the county. 00:13:29
I can't speak for the county, but that's where the where the important part is for people that live in the city, get involved with 00:13:35
our city shelter and do some of the volunteer work that used to be done a long time ago with Miss Brooke and, and they were very, 00:13:43
very active specifically being involved in that and not really asking for anything except that go to work and take care of the 00:13:50
animals. That's where I am as mayor that I would like to see the people that are involved in. 00:13:58
Animal care and animal welfare, that they personally get involved rather than, you know, being at the Alamo. I think it'd be 00:14:06
better if they were in the city. OK, I did e-mail and I didn't get anything back. I personally went to the shelter. I went 00:14:12
directly to the shelter and I wasn't even allowed in the building. So we have our animal control guy here, Lupe, was there a 00:14:18
problem? And people getting into the shelter and volunteering? 00:14:24
Huh. Yeah, When was that? 00:14:32
You're welcome to come up and make a comment. Identify yourself. 00:14:35
OK, Leah Tevis and I am the one who spoke on the 19th meeting that Ran is speaking about. We have tried every Ave. to work with 00:14:39
the shelter and that's why we presented it. You haven't come to City Hall and complained to the mayor that you couldn't get into 00:14:46
the shelter. I haven't spoken to you ever because we were trying to do things without getting the city involved. We were doing 00:14:54
everything we could in our power and that's why we did come to the city eventually to say hey, this is. 00:15:01
The committee is going to be active, but my my direction to the to the committee is. 00:15:09
Get the people in the committee, get active at the shelter, see what the conditions are like, see what they've seen and what can 00:15:15
be done. And I would welcome people to volunteer and get on the schedule. You may or may not be aware, but we did put together a 00:15:21
community survey to ask people about what their experience has been. We have 147 responses. How does that help the animals? It's 00:15:27
just it highlights the issue that people are having with the shelter. So many people have said that they've gone and are turned 00:15:33
away. 00:15:38
They've called, they're never called back. And I haven't heard one person come. OK, We have 147 responses saying otherwise. Let me 00:15:45
see them and I'll have a talk with each one of them if that's the case. But I haven't had one person come to my office and 00:15:52
complain about the shelter. I think that people don't know where to put their voice. And that's what we're doing for an hour at 00:16:00
11. Lena is here. They take. I meet with people every day on different subjects. I've never met with any of you people. 00:16:07
About the shelter, I would like to weigh in, Connie Robnett here to weigh in on the same subject and to say that we have been 00:16:15
encouraged by city employees not to go to escalate this. 00:16:22
I'm telling you first hand that which employee? 00:16:31
Told us that we should speak to him directly and we spoke to him directly. No better, yes. 00:16:37
And things and still all the animals at the shelter, all the dogs at the shelter got you guys without, without any outreach into 00:16:45
the community. 00:16:50
Well, I can tell you it's administratively. I'm responsible for the shelter. If you feel that you've had problems, and this goes 00:16:55
for every department in the city. People have problems with the people that are running the specific department. They come to me 00:17:01
personally. My door is always open. I've yet to hear from you before. And 147 people, I have not heard one person come to my 00:17:07
office and complain or write me a letter. And I have many, many times. Mrs. Brooke did. I've had many people, Misses White did. 00:17:13
Those people were involved. 00:17:19
Personally, in the care of the animals at the shelter, I've yet to see any people here that are on that committee that you have be 00:17:25
personally done. 00:17:31
On the Animal Shelter Advisory Board, you may not remember. 00:17:36
I'm talking about actually working at the shelter. We've all volunteered at the shelter. We all find our names on the volunteer 00:17:41
list. We've all been there. We have tried to do and turned away. That's what I would want you to do. I know there was a big 00:17:47
question about euthanasia at the shelter, but we have made many, many efforts. 00:17:53
To transport animals. But we've been so intuitive intonated from Alamo, from the county and our, our, we are overwhelmed with 00:18:00
animals and our budget cannot stand it. We, we acknowledge that and that it's a nationwide problem. We know this. But what we're 00:18:05
asking for is more transparency from the shelter and also for the shelter to work with the community. That is a big gap there. And 00:18:11
so that's a bridge that we've been trying to build with the different organizations that we have and we have been doing a lot of 00:18:17
work. 00:18:23
That should be on the city. You know, we are taking animals off the street. We are getting animals rehomed. We are vaccinating 00:18:29
animals. We are spaying. 00:18:33
With our own money. I heard you had an event here at this Plaza that was people from Berlin, from Valencia, County Lupe. What was 00:18:39
that? 00:18:44
And the reason they did that is because they said that they could not get in contact with our local shelter, so they chose to. 00:18:59
It's the truth though, because when you go to the shelter, often it is not open when it says they're going to going to be open. 00:19:09
They do not answer their phone when during business hours. So it's very hard for community members to get anything done at the 00:19:14
shelter. 00:19:18
I'll attend to that. I mean, what's the, what's the schedule with the shelter? 00:19:25
Use that. 00:19:30
Is there a live person at the desk at the shelter? 00:19:35
How do people, how do people approach the shelter to get in, at least have a conversation with somebody there? How would they do 00:19:43
that? 00:19:46
Do they have to go find somebody or? 00:19:54
Well, yeah, I can only tell you what schedules we have and that there are people there all the time at the shelter that she just 00:20:01
said from 8:00 to 4:00. And I I'm just surprised that you haven't been able to make contact with anybody there. 00:20:07
Well, we look forward to discussing this further at the committee meetings and making some changes because this community deserves 00:20:15
it and so do the animals. The community deserves the shelter that's been running here for 35 years that we've continually 00:20:21
expanded. So it's not like we haven't been doing anything. So I'm not sure what the term deserves. The community deserves the 00:20:27
shelter means because I think that we've been given a pretty good service with a limited budget we've had we can look at 00:20:33
communities that are our neighbors that have. 00:20:39
Sierra County, Sierra County, Sierra County has a private shelter that the city shelter actually had to close and they were given 00:20:47
the, the, the area that was going to be meant for a police station to be used as a shelter. But that was a, that's a, that's a 00:20:53
private shelter. I'm not sure if is that a municipal shelter you're talking about in Saratoga. 00:21:00
Who runs that shelter in Luke and Sierra County? 00:21:07
Because they at one time asked us to take some of their animals because they were disbanding now. This was so. 00:21:13
Yeah. So, you know, I talked to the director there weekly and they have said nothing of the sort. 00:21:22
Well, I can tell you is what we've, the experience we've had with that and I'll look into that. But I was under the impression 00:21:32
that was a private shelter as being they have one, but that's different. They have two. They have a rescue, Desert Haven Animal 00:21:38
Rescue, and then they have the Sierra County Shelter. Well, we can use that as a model and I'd be more than happy to copy that, 00:21:43
but we'll look into that. Perhaps the committee can look into the other shelter. I know the Valencia County Animal Shelter was 00:21:48
having all kinds of problems. 00:21:53
With the one in Los Lunas. 00:21:59
The Valencia County shelter has been incredibly helpful to us with letting us know how they operate. It's, it's an incredible 00:22:02
operation they have going there and it's running very smoothly. And instead of euthanizing all of their animals all at once, what 00:22:08
they do is they do a ton of outreach with the community to get animals into homes. And then they also do daily walkthroughs to see 00:22:14
if there are animals that are ill or maybe have behavioral issues that do need to be put down to make room for new animals, 00:22:20
because we all know that. 00:22:26
There is no lack of animals running around. And I'll send you some news articles that I have from the Valencia shelter and what 00:22:32
the problems were. I don't think that's true. I think what you're saying is not there may be trying to work at that, but I know 00:22:39
they've had all kinds of problems over there. Well, we've been visiting all these shelters and talking with the directors to 00:22:47
figure out how we can have a better shelter here in Sequoia. But I think Miss Chavez Lopez probably going to point you to the. 00:22:54
Also, so you'll be able to have your input there. That would be excellent. But I will tell you the administration is very, I'm a 00:23:02
little taken aback as as to the aggressiveness and the put down shelter that you're doing with the city. I really, and I wasn't at 00:23:09
that meeting, unfortunately, but I really thought that was really out of hand as to how the people that you have together are 00:23:17
trying to put a black mark on our animal shelter, which I think has been trying to do as well as you can, especially without any. 00:23:24
Help No one is trying to put a black mark on the shelter. 00:23:32
Comments that you had at that of the meeting on this meeting are really about, you know, what you think, what, what the community 00:23:38
deserves and so forth. 00:23:42
Can with what they have. 00:24:17
All right. Thank you, Mr. No, I'm just gonna say it sounds like, I mean, it sounds like an issue. We're just getting back from the 00:24:19
holidays and it sounds like they're addressing the issue and that we're gonna try to look at ways to make things better. But it is 00:24:25
just our first meeting back and they were meeting earlier seeing them. So I think they are making headway on it. It's just, that's 00:24:31
great to hear. Just gonna take a little time to get everything organized and done that you can see we're Rev and ready to go. 00:24:37
Yeah. Yeah. 00:24:43
I think they are too. They seem. 00:24:49
This is a symptom of the inflation that's, that's been brought upon our country. People can't afford to feed their dogs. So hence 00:24:56
we have overpopulation in all of our, our panels and all of our facilities. So it's hit us hard. It's hit everybody hard. And I 00:25:05
think we need to, you know, some patience and the work through this because, you know. 00:25:14
Can't afford to feed them. 00:25:25
Mr. Mill on adding to that, you know, I think our, our veterinary bills are, you know, like 25,000 + a month sometimes for. 00:25:27
Not a month. 00:25:38
No, but 25, I think we'd be broke for sure. But they're high. Yeah, they're high. No. 00:25:40
You know. 00:25:48
Anything else, Mr. Lopez, you're going to be the. 00:25:51
Recipient of some of this, I look forward to working with you all and any ideas. I know funding is a major part, so if you know of 00:25:54
any grant writers or if you know of any grants that we can apply for, you know, I more than willing to listen, but I look forward 00:26:00
to working with you all. Thank you. We look forward to working with you too, and we've got tons of ideas to throw your way. Thank 00:26:06
you, thanks, thank you, thank you. 00:26:12
Anyone else? 00:26:19
Yes, ma'am. 00:26:21
Christy Smith again, I live here. 00:26:29
I've never heard anybody say anything good about this children. 00:26:32
I've never heard anyone say anything good about the shelter here, I'm afraid. I'm sorry. I my boyfriend lived here for 23 years. 00:26:37
I've only lived here for 4. But it's really hard to get ahold of people. Their staff is not well trained, they're not friendly. 00:26:43
It's just not a nice place. OK. 00:26:48
It needs lots of work and help, and we talked to Gwen last month about grants, Gwen Valentino about possible grants to do other 00:26:56
kinds of honor projects that might improve the shelter. She said the city of Espanola got a grant to build a spay and neuter 00:27:04
clinic and they did that and it was pretty great. So she's aware that that's an issue that she might look for grants for. Thanks. 00:27:12
I'll make available to the committee. 00:27:22
Go back to Espanola and in my turn I've been long term in office. Espanola got half $1,000,000 about 20 years ago to build a brand 00:27:26
new shelter. 00:27:31
And again, the Valencia County shelter, the Sierra County shelter, I'll give you a anthology of of the comments and the evolution 00:27:36
of their shelters and how they had their ups and downs. And, and I know people pick points in history that are that are that are. 00:27:46
Compatible with their theory of what they're talking about. But I think historically, if you look at the shelter and the problems 00:27:57
that we've had in the state on animal shelters and animal welfare. 00:28:02
They're they're tremendous, even to that point where the governor at one time got involved with it. So I'd be more than happy to 00:28:08
provide the committee at the ontology of of. 00:28:13
Horizontal history of. 00:28:19
Animal shelters in small towns in New Mexico. And I think whether we have had good or bad remarks about it, I really think we've 00:28:21
done a reasonably good job. And this is from the days of Dorothy Brooke, Missus White and Misses. 00:28:29
Is this Parson? So yes, you know, those people were kind of the just like the library there was. Those are people that were the 00:28:38
foundation of how the shelters really started going and then how it's expanded and is doing as much as it can. So whether people 00:28:44
say good or bad about it, I would like for them to really realize what the history of animal shelter is in Socorro County and the 00:28:50
city of Socorro and some of the other counties that you spoke about. 00:28:57
I came to New Mexico on 44 1/2 years ago to Santa Fe. 00:29:03
And there was hardly anything in Santa Fe for animals I fostered, took care of that, fixed with my own money, dogs and cats and 00:29:09
puppies, and gave them away. So you're right, historically, New Mexico has been pretty bad about animal care and animal welfare. 00:29:15
But that's because we were starting from a Third World perspective. OK. So we need to really up our game. Well, we've got a lot of 00:29:22
Third World stuff, children welfare, medical care. 00:29:28
There's a lot of third world stuff going on here. 00:29:35
But I'm specifically talking about animal shelters. So and again, we can put it in perspective as to what's happened and the 00:29:39
evolution of the, the shelter here in the the city and the other cities. Anyway, OK, we've got resolutions that we have to have at 00:29:47
the beginning of the year, opening meetings, governing body rules, purchasing policy. If we would like to, I'll make a motion. 00:29:55
On the way to approve resolution #25-01-07AB and C. 00:30:04
Second moved and seconded discussion. All in favor, aye? 00:30:13
And resolution for CDBG certification and commitments exhibit one dash. Why? What is that polo? 00:30:18
That's just our our yearly resolution for our CDBG projects. 00:30:30
Past resolution #25-01-07D. 00:30:36
So moved and seconded discussion and all in favor, Aye, we're doing the CWG project. When's the bid? When's that going to get 00:30:43
started? 00:30:47
We're still waiting on the agreement. The DFA asked me for some different information just this afternoon. I sent it to him back 00:30:54
in December 19th and they should be giving me the no agreement any day. And once we receive that, we'll schedule it. 00:31:02
Very good. We have new business. 00:31:12
Cartridge we have our wrestling event this weekend. Friday will be the girls will wrestle and then we'll the boys will duel Aztec 00:31:17
that evening and Saturday the boys will wrestle a tournament and then Sunday the little kids will wrestle through the MOU facility 00:31:26
usage through the the school that you guys have worked out prior to me being here. So it should be a busy weekend of wrestling. 00:31:35
At the high school, big influx of people and we look forward to that and just. I wish they would have stayed the folks that were 00:31:45
there because I wanted to say that my passion is wrestling and. And I've given up a lot of my time and we don't make money from 00:31:52
wrestling and we we love doing it and we help kids in the community and it's really. I don't think I'd be a Councilman if I didn't 00:31:59
wrestle. I really think that was the backbone of my people that. 00:32:06
To be here, and what I'm saying is I think early on, to credit to the council at the time and Mayor Rusker is it was just simply 00:32:14
like we'll help you, but if you're willing to do the work, we'll definitely help with it because you're passionate about it. 00:32:22
But I'm just saying, I think that's what it takes. Hopefully there'll be some good involvement and we can fix it. You know, I wear 00:33:02
my feelings on my sleeve and. 00:33:06
Public meeting is where I say what I'm going to say. I'm not going to do it behind anybodies back and I'm going to tell them 00:33:11
upfront how I feel about with this. There will be some commitment though to help them. So you know, it sounds like it's going to 00:33:15
be good. 00:33:20
**** are you going to tell us about the Matanza? 00:33:27
And did you bring some food with you? We ran out. 00:33:32
Thank you Mayor Council for having me. I just wanted to give you guys an update as to how we did on our, our 8th annual Mcconso 00:33:36
fundraiser for the community, the children of our community. We, we raised $8500. So with that, we took 85 kids at $100 a kid 00:33:43
shopping at Walmart. So it was a good, it was a good, it's only gotten better every year. So it's a good thing for the community. 00:33:51
So with that being said, I'd like to thank some people, of course, Mayor Bhaskar and the city for, for supporting this event. 00:33:58
Without you guys, this event wouldn't happen and those two are good 'cause So thank you guys. Thank Anton Salome and his family 00:34:06
for allowing us to use that property. You know, Stephen Ross and Sophia's Walmart, John Brooks. 00:34:13
Cheyenne and Darryl at at the tourism cities, all the city employees, Lloyd and his crew for putting up the the tents and all that 00:34:22
stuff. Everything that goes into, there's a lot of work. So and I wanted to give a special thanks out to a couple of people. 00:34:29
For the generous donations, Jerry and Dana gum and Mrs. Wolf from Magdalena, they donated some money to that cause. So thank you 00:34:37
guys. And last but not least, I'd like to thank my firefighters for all the hard work they did. That's those, those, those days 00:34:44
turn to be long days and hard work. And they, they do it for a good reason, you know, so, and they, they enjoy doing it. So thank 00:34:51
them. They, they do a wonderful job. Mr. Parker, I know you guys said last time how the children were selected. 00:34:58
I don't, I all I do is call the superintendent's office when I ask him to give me a list of kids that he does. This year was 85, 00:35:07
so I asked him to give me a list of 85 kids. They gave me a list, You know, so we have nothing to do with you. Congratulations. 00:35:13
Congratulations. We're keeping that going. 00:35:18
Yeah. Angela, have you got a little rundown on what you guys did with the Marines and some of the stuff you guys did? 00:35:27
This is the first approx like 30 second year going on. That's the 5th year with Marines Core Toys for Tots. This year we were able 00:35:37
to get in contact with one of the. 00:35:43
Sergeant majors in the Marine Corps and they were able to bring some guys down here. I got a little rundown as well. 00:35:50
We're able to give get you in a minute. 00:35:57
We collected 2888 toys. We serve 698 kids in our community. 00:36:04
We collected a total amount. 00:36:14
Of $6773. 00:36:18
Through the Toys for Tots, that's with my wife, thanks to her, thanks to the city and the council are allowing us to do this as 00:36:24
well. 00:36:27
Even as the storage for the toys while we are taking them out there. 00:36:32
Damon, thanks for letting us help you and your part, what you do here and your commitment in the community. And we also get our 00:36:36
our list through the schools and, and throughout the whole county of Socorro. So we serve Alamo, Magdalena, Vegeta, Socorro, San 00:36:44
Antonio Limited, all those areas. And ours is a little different. A lot of our kids sign up for the program. 00:36:53
Through Toys for Tots, it's a national base through the Marine Koi, Toys for Tots. So we get a lot of that and then we get people 00:37:01
who sign up at. 00:37:05
Walmart to receive these toys so we're blessed to give 698 kids toys for kit for toys apiece to do that 600 ninety 98 kids and it 00:37:10
was a great program. Thanks. 00:37:17
Excellent. About your Turkey drive and yeah, absolutely. I was going to jump on next in the house, so thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'd 00:37:27
like to thank the city of Sequoia. There's too many people to think individually. It's funny that the one one of them that I did 00:37:34
want to point out was the gums also. They helped us out quite a bit. But the CDs, Sequoia, the storehouse. 00:37:42
John Brooks, the major sponsors for the for you know, the hot Emil food drive that we took over from Toby all those years, 5050 00:37:50
fifty year this year. 00:37:55
We served 250 meals, had tons of help from tons of people. It's turned into a whole day, a deal on a Saturday, the 1st, the last 00:38:02
Saturday before Christmas and we have deliveries going out and we're like a machine now. And it really is so much more than the 00:38:09
first day I took it over. The first year we took it over. I thought I don't know how Toby did it and honestly, we wouldn't able 00:38:16
to. We wouldn't have been able to do it on that first year without Toby's family coming down to helping. 00:38:23
And so we still get some of them coming down to hell. And now it's it's going smooth. And the only reason why it goes smooth is 00:38:30
because every year we have so many volunteers, so many kids helping. 00:38:37
We had the schools, couple canned food drives and, you know, I know I bug Ruby every year and she's always there ready to help. 00:38:45
And an Angel coming through this. Yeah. They just, you guys know, fidget spinners, little deals are old and they the kids spin 00:38:50
them. Yeah, yeah. Fidget spinners with speakers on them. I don't know how the heck you do that. 00:38:56
But I was sitting there and I'm just like, amazed by it. And I don't know, I, I just thought it was like the coolest thing ever 00:39:02
and such a great event, so smooth. And yeah, it was awesome. 250 families and it was a good deal. So thank. Thank you. 00:39:10
I mentioned it before, but Toby, yeah. 00:39:19
You know, Tobye daughter now is the chief operating officer of Lovelace, including the Heart Hospital, which is a big success. 00:39:25
That's really Mary Honey Armijo since she's helped her whole family comes down every year. This year they couldn't because they 00:39:31
were moving. She called us and she said, hey, I got good news and bad news though. But it's awesome that that's great that she's 00:39:37
done that. 00:39:42
And when do you have something to tell us about your city Town hall from last meeting? 00:39:49
So last time was my first little town hall meeting, and we're planning to meet once a month, like from 5:00 to 5:45 before this 00:40:01
meeting the first Tuesday of the month. And we had a good turn out. We had seven people. 00:40:08
Christy did speak to me and I told her I didn't know anything about the animal shelter. I didn't know anything about anything. So 00:40:16
I just tried to clear that up. But I did a lot of research. I followed up with everybody with animal shelter. 00:40:21
With cards for about, about zoning, we we talked a lot. We figured out a few grants and then I spoke with Ruby today. 00:40:27
To see what we wanted to pursue, what is going to be priorities for the city, to make sure that we're that I'm looking for the 00:40:35
right things at the right time. Well, no, thank you for starting that, though. Yeah, because I do think there's going to be things 00:40:42
we can help with. And there's there's always many. It just depends when and how you ask and how much data you have. So it'd be 00:40:49
great to have that data from those ladies about what the complaints are because that just helps. 00:40:56
You know so. 00:41:05
But just anything. 00:41:07
And personnel. 00:41:19
But but Lupe has taken it upon himself to really spend a lot of time. 00:41:21
Working there as far as animals are concerned, expanding the facility, expanding the services, having drop off going to the vets 00:41:28
and. 00:41:34
It's 100%. 00:41:42
Almost full as far as what we're capable of doing. And if we're not getting good reviews, I apologize for that. But the bottom 00:41:43
line is, you know, there's a, there's a limit to how much a small city can do when the county doesn't help us, Alamo doesn't help 00:41:50
us and we don't get the volunteers like we used to. And I, I'm just telling you the the ladies that used to really be after me and 00:41:57
they were in my office. 00:42:04
Every week, Mrs. White. 00:42:12
Dorothy Brooke. And who's the other one? She was always here and she would tell me personally what she saw and what was going on, 00:42:14
and then I would have to go attend to it. And so that's how I do business, whether it's the streets or sewer or water or social 00:42:23
services or a gym. 00:42:31
People come in here, they can't get to his office, Lupus. Or they come and tell me, hey, I can't get up. So then we call him in. 00:42:40
So that's what I was. 00:42:45
Kind of ranting about, but if there needs to be improvement, tell me what we need to do, tell me how much it's going to cost and 00:42:50
we'll try to see if it's in the budget and and that's all we can do and that's all that goes for all the services. But you've got 00:42:58
tremendous volunteerism from our Fire Chief, police chief, city councillors who are doing. 00:43:06
Community stuff, and I'm not a committee guy. I'm sorry, Marianne. 00:43:16
Not much of A committee guy. If something needs to be done, we'll okay the committee hopefully will come to us and ask us for what 00:43:23
and we can go to you for grants. But grants only lasts for so long. They're not recurring, recurring cost coverage. They're good 00:43:31
for buildings and trucks. Animal control truck is 100,000 bucks with a box on it. So those are the things that. 00:43:39
And I didn't know about your app. If you go to apps and get the city of Sapporo, New Mexico, New Mexico app Yeah, Robo. 00:43:47
Well, we've had maybe out of 10,000 people, we have 600 people on it. That's it. You know, I don't know how many we have on the 00:43:55
app Ruby, but you know, it's amazing what that app can do. And so I think that getting people educated to use that app would help 00:44:03
alleviate some of their pain points because if they don't feel heard, they're not going down the right path. 00:44:11
If if I felt that our employees were doing what they were supposed to be doing. 00:44:20
I'll be the first one to tell you, but I'm gonna support my employees. And if people want to point fingers at my employees when I 00:44:24
know they're doing 100 percent, 110% on weekend, you know, sometimes they're not there and the police have to call or things 00:44:30
happen. But I I can only tell you that we're trying and we're trying to do the best we can. Nobody's going out on purpose trying 00:44:37
to hurt animals. 00:44:43
You know, we're trying to give a service and maybe we're only hitting 40 percent, 50% like they hit 100%, but. 00:44:50
I'm going to stand up for the people that are there out there working their tails off because they're working, you know, 4050 00:44:57
sixty hours a week at the same one project. Yeah, so I think that and I and I like I said, I always like to do it in front of 00:45:03
people who have the complaint. I'm not saying this behind their back, but I'm just saying, but that's that's what this is. But I 00:45:10
think our grant wise we're moving forward. They'll work on it. We're getting some coming in tonight. 00:45:17
You know, I think we we do build the county. 00:45:24
But people from all over dump animals on us. You know, we had one house that had 22 hours, more than that, maybe more, Lupe. 00:45:28
56 So, you know, I mean, it's, it's a tremendous stress on the employees, a tremendous stress. 00:45:39
And to point fingers and say we deserve better or people are not complimenting us, well, you know. 00:45:49
Been doing our best. 00:45:55
I think you're doing a really good job. I'm impressed when I write the grants and I can say how long employees have been here, 00:45:57
what they've been doing to solve problems, I think. 00:46:02
Anyway, thanks for having the meeting. Thank you. Anyone else out there garbage pickup? How bad is that? 00:46:09
OK. And that Senior Center, how terrible is that? 00:46:16
Huh. Come up here and tell us all about your Senior Center on the dances you're having and all that stuff. 00:46:23
Yeah, we're taking on a lot in the city. I mean, if it's not easy, OK, everything. 00:46:31
Going good. We don't have any heat in the heat there right now. So we're working on that. We have to close the Center for a few 00:46:36
days. Hopefully it'll get warm up here soon. And you know what happened? It went out the buildings all the the HVAC is getting 00:46:43
better. I mean it getting fixed. It's getting fixed. We applied for emergency capital outlay money. So what's this? I have to go 00:46:49
talk to you employees. 00:46:55
That I snap them in line. Yeah, I think they're doing better now. They're telling them that we're coming. 00:47:03
Sounds good public over here if they watch it. 00:47:08
We have our good days. We have everything is going good. Everything is productive. We just had a recent audit, 0 findings. So 00:47:12
we're very happy with that. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. I'm glad you could make a meeting more. 00:47:21
The first meeting in about 10 months or what? 00:47:30
A year, so you got what you could do another thing. 00:47:33
It's a good part. So they they're running, they're doing the trenches to put the new electrical. So we'll have the new lights at 00:47:41
the studio park before the 1st Warrior baseball game. So that's what I'm going to bring up. And have you talked to the 00:47:48
Superintendent, The new Superintendent? She's not here yet. Just saying that, you know, we're giving the schools the field and so 00:47:55
we need some help from the schools. 00:48:02
As far as the field is concerned, and then you know, whether it's red clay or they did give me some money. 00:48:09
Except the dugouts and stuff, but it's a field that Title 9 has to have. 00:48:17
And the boys have feel, but they're using our city field. So I think I'm saying that in public because we do need some help from 00:48:23
them. 00:48:28
We're going to move the girls, we're going to move the fields around to get more parking. And then I don't know, Damien, if you 00:48:32
they want to do a splash pad and they have we've had a few meetings and we kind of have it finalized what what we're going to do. 00:48:37
We need some help with that. So, yeah, so I'll be meeting with the Superintendent and and, and I didn't say anything to the chief 00:48:42
about this, but. 00:48:48
Generally we've already got the double white for the Friends of the Library ready to go. Lloyd's been working on It's going to Go. 00:48:53
The architect's going to meet with the Police Department to try to finalize so that we can go and ask for the money properly. And, 00:49:04
and that's been, you know, appreciated that the Police Department has been working with us. I know they're under substandard 00:49:09
facilities, but hopefully it's going to get improved. We're going to put 30 more horse styles at the at the rodeo. That's going to 00:49:15
get started. 00:49:20
Right. And well, everything's moving forward. Thank you for coming. 00:49:56
I know that and I know the planning and zoning and ordinance committee met and full code enforcement and they're going to be 00:50:03
working on that. So that committees on on track to doing stuff. 00:50:07
Mr. Padilla, you got how's your workout, are you? Let me see your muscles. How's your equipment working? 00:50:14
How are you doing with? Come on up here, Get used to that. And what's going on with the? 00:50:22
Membership type of deal so that city employees are free to verify that the other day. How about the public? Have they used it? 00:50:30
Yes, we have about 15 to 20 that pay the $10 a month. So that's running smoothly. Basketball started last night for the little 00:50:37
kiddos. How did you get 212 total? So that's going good Monday, Wednesdays and Saturdays. 00:50:44
Are we going to use work with the schools as far as their gym? Yes, they are letting us use Parkview at this time, so for 00:50:51
practices and stuff like that. Alrighty. OK. Anybody else, Christy, anybody anything? 00:50:57
Isaac gas is flowing like it's getting cold, man. 00:51:09
Are you still on any gas? 00:51:14
Is it hopefully not picking up? It's getting cold but. 00:51:17
We've been, we got all our OSHA stuff done. I think everything turned in right. 00:51:23
We're getting ready to start on some line replacement where you guys are going to pave on park and church, I believe will cut you 00:51:29
or center. 00:51:34
And then hopefully hit Otero and 6th Street right there. I guess that's the next one. 00:51:40
Trying to get whatever we before they put the new roads down, you know, I mean, change out of them. That's nice first, yeah. 00:51:46
So from the mayor, we've got 2 new things and new things, and you just mentioned one of them. OSHA came down here about a month 00:51:54
ago, three months ago, three months ago and just. 00:52:00
Torah. So you know what? 00:52:07
And finds in the hundreds of thousands. 00:52:09
I'm glad a newspaper left but but anyway, all the departments are working on it. We've got a lawyer working on it. 00:52:14
We had a grinder with the fire department that that didn't have a plastic cover, you know, like a cover like that and hadn't been 00:52:23
used maybe once in every two years. They find us $11,000 for that ground grinder without a plastic cover. 00:52:31
And so we just threw the grinder away and we got to use it. So there are things like that. So you're going to hear this. And so 00:52:41
and we're going to have to I guess put a notice out, but I just want to let the council know that this we're dealing with. So you 00:52:46
heard it here. 00:52:51
I also met with the thanks to Chairman Anaya. We met with Mr. Gonzalez, the new coop director, and he's a super guy. He is a 00:52:56
really a super guy. Comes from Wilcox, Arizona, lived all his life in Wilcox. Wilcox is half the size of Socorro, but their 00:53:06
cooperative is like 20 times bigger than the Co-op Sulphur Springs Corporate Electric Cooperative. But the guy is fantastic. He's. 00:53:15
Military, 25 years as a Marine and worked as a vice president of technology for Sulphur Spring Electric. Very willing to have a 00:53:26
dialogue about solar and about the city. And the first thing I asked him if he was going to put up our Christmas lights and that's 00:53:33
so mean. Right away he said yes, we are. He said in Wilcox. They go out and do that all over town and all the different cities and 00:53:40
that they cover. 00:53:47
So. But he was. 00:53:54
Terrific. We had a couple of hours that we sat and talked and he really opened a lot of things. I think his door is going to be 00:53:56
open. He will look. He didn't didn't promise anything, but at least he promised a dialogue. So I want to tell you that that was a 00:54:03
real positive, positive step. And I have to thank Mr. and I are the chairman for setting up the meeting. And so that was great. So 00:54:09
we did that. So those are the two big things from the on the city. 00:54:16
Anyhow. 00:54:25
Old business. 00:54:26
Executive session. We could have had that I guess. 00:54:30
Anyway, personnel changes we have. 00:54:34
Michael Aragon, firefighter, he is Dustin Moreland as a firefighter. Leo Peterson is a firefighter and gentleman Gomez Senior 00:54:38
Center resignation and a citywide increase. You can see all of that somewhere. You have that somewhere or what? Oh, here 00:54:46
everybody's I think up 5%. 00:54:53
And that's it. Mr. McMullen had approved the personnel changes. Second, seconded. All in favor. And as we heard about the business 00:55:02
registrations, but he's not on it right now. This is the West of Rio, Wellington Woodard Healthcare and Beauty. And then we have 00:55:11
more marijuana. This is Sacred Soul, 68 Schwittle Rd. Joshua Walker integrated. 00:55:20
Micro Producer. 00:55:30
That's it. Make a motion. We approve the business registrations. I second. 00:55:33
Hi, next meeting January 21st. 00:55:40
Happy New Year, Yes. 00:55:45
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Somebody all right? This is a City of Socorro City Council meeting Tuesday, January 7th, 2025. Roll call, please. 00:00:03
Councillor Tavis Lopez, Counselor Dean. 00:00:13
Councillor Fleming here, Councillor Ocampo here, Councillor Olguin, Councillor Partridge here, Councillor Romero, Councillor 00:00:17
Salome. We do have a quorum on rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:24
Say it now, ya? 00:00:50
Mr. Mayor. 00:00:52
Mr. Mayor, Mr. 00:00:54
Holo. 00:00:58
We need to remove off the agenda. 00:00:59
6F confined space program. 00:01:06
It's not quite ready to approve. 00:01:11
OK. So moved if we could get the motion to make a motion, we approve the consent agenda minus item 6F. 00:01:14
Move and 2nd and all in favor aye vote. 00:01:27
OK, Danny, you are up. 00:01:31
Tell us all about your great artist and some of your successes you've had with the bus program. So awesome. So thank you, Mayor 00:01:34
Council Lena, thank you guys for getting this all together. So we came last year at the end of the school year and we had a poster 00:01:41
contest and last year we had 56 red light or stop arm runners. And so far this last semester that was 14. So that was a huge 00:01:49
improvement. So thank you. 00:01:56
For for putting it out there and thank Chief Garcia for doing your stuff. That was it is it is really helping. 00:02:04
So this is pretty cool. So we did another one in October during School Bus Safety Week and this time we have one from Charter, 00:02:16
from Parkview, from Midway, San Antonio and Middle School. So we took our first place winners and these are our first place 00:02:22
winners from those schools and we have everybody here. 00:02:29
But Serena from the middle school, she's out of town. But if Miss Emory Montoya can come up. 00:02:35
Grab your art, let's see which one you did. 00:02:46
Miss Emery, she was first place. 00:02:50
So and thank you guys for the gifts. Oh, you're welcome. 00:02:56
Ash right? I didn't know people still had that. I do not. 00:03:03
What? 00:03:10
This is from San Antonio schools. Great. 00:03:15
And then we have Samuel. 00:03:24
Come on up towards us so you can be seen on TV. Come on around here. Just line up right in front of us, right? Don't worry, just 00:03:31
looking. Look at yourself on the camera, at the camera. 00:03:37
He's from. 00:03:53
Congratulations. 00:03:57
Awesome. 00:04:02
Hey. 00:04:05
Well, congratulations for doing this project, Polo. Get a picture for us there. 00:04:08
Can you turn the camera to them or no? 00:04:13
It's on him. Was it there now? OK, it's got a little delay. 00:04:16
And again, thank you, Mayor. We'll get those put up around the city and hopefully we can cut it down to 0, right? That is this is 00:04:34
working great. So thank you guys very much for your support. Congratulations. 00:04:40
Thank you, Dan. 00:04:46
Thank you parents for coming to support your kids. 00:04:47
Thank you, Daniel. And you can adjourn if you'd like. You're welcome to. You're welcome to follow them outside if you'd like to 00:04:52
go. 00:04:56
Your job. 00:05:11
You're welcome. Thank you for coming. 00:05:16
All right, So we've got some housekeeping to do at the beginning of the year. The first one is just going to public hearing for 00:05:20
CW. 00:05:25
Don't worry that Mister Mayor, that's the Clean Water State Revolving Fund we discussed at the last meeting and I made an 00:05:31
administrative mistake and I advertised it to be at this meeting. So rather than re advertise, I decided to have the public 00:05:37
meeting tonight still and then wait till the next meeting to meet the advertisement requirement. So we'll be an action item on the 00:05:43
next agenda. 00:05:48
Going to public hearing. 00:05:55
Make a motion to run the public hearing for ordinance #24-12-17 second moved and seconded discussion. Well all in favor aye and 00:05:58
public hearing for say about what it is for again this is the clean water state revolving fund. Will you applied because we needed 00:06:06
some more funding to expand the Evergreen area and we received 500,000 in a grant in 250 in a loan. 00:06:15
And I understand, Lloyd, when is that ground going to be broken for that? 00:06:25
On the 26th January there on Evergreen and Granada and that goes all the way to. 00:06:32
Super. 00:06:49
When they do peel for that whole area, then I'm not sure. 00:06:51
Have a. 00:06:56
So this will take care of everybody in that area. 00:06:57
Any comments make a motion go back in a regular session. 00:07:00
OK, We have a bunch of resolutions. Mr. Who's Mr. Romero? 00:07:09
That was well. Is there other people that are? I'm sorry, I did. I thought he was. Mr. Hicks was the only one. Is anyone else on 00:07:16
public forum that would like to make a comment that's not on the agenda? 00:07:21
You did. 00:07:28
And he was saying any from anything from the new faces. 00:07:30
Now come on up and tell us who you are and what your question or my name is. Jordan Robles, born and raised here. Some of you 00:07:34
might know my face, some of you might don't. A lot of you have known me because throughout my high school years that I worked at 00:07:41
Rocks Building Supply and I supplied the customer service both the inside and the lumberyard. And I was always treated fairly 00:07:49
because I knew what the material lumber, everything that I ever. 00:07:56
So our local businesses was the key foundation to our city and so that being said to I don't grow to the city, I have applied for 00:08:04
a license for my detailing services and power washing. 00:08:10
I want to provide to community and all your business for myself, well, for our city and what my plans are for this is. 00:08:19
Eventually that I want to give more time to what the community and with my power washing them as my revenue and my growth will 00:08:28
proceed out in the future if I get this approval today. 00:08:33
I want to be able when our teams or whether it's football, wrestling, volleyball, whatever teams need assistance in the car 00:08:39
washes, I'll be more than happy to lend my assistance with my equipment for any power washing and sponsoring any things like that. 00:08:48
Because I want to get back to the community and I'm giving a, a new form of, of service to this community because. 00:08:57
Nobody gives the power washing that I do the the competition I have. 00:09:06
Is in northern Albuquerque, Rio Rancho and Las Cruces and where's your business going to be. I wanted everything here. And did you 00:09:13
did you apply for a business license Yes because I don't see that on Friday and I was told that it was going to be talked about 00:09:21
here and I just wanted to bring up my face and my name to oh good. Well I'm glad you came probably this meeting. 00:09:29
You're, I mean, you're not going to have any trouble getting your business license, but it's not on the agenda. 00:09:38
For this, for this meeting, but we'll probably have it at the next meeting. But your, your comments are well taken and we'll make 00:09:43
sure that we let everybody know about your business you do houses or cars or how do you do it since I'm going to start out single, 00:09:50
single owner, single co-founder, single founder, everything that's all on me. So I'm going to do express card detailing and I'm 00:09:58
also extended it to horse trailers because we live in our agricultural state so. 00:10:05
To provide to our agriculture that I use PITA approved. 00:10:13
Oh, chemicals because I have to take in consideration we are agriculture, we have crops, we have animals, we have children. As a 00:10:17
father, I am not only that I want to extend that to the horse shutters. But if I could kind of after so much revenue and so much 00:10:24
marketing that I want to be able to land a contract with our city and since I am mobile with my trailer or on my own vehicle that 00:10:32
that have permission and the contract to go to our local parks and spray down. 00:10:39
The equipment of all the slides, all the equipment because as a father that I understand RSV and COVID is still an outgoing issue. 00:10:47
And being a local born and raised here of 27 years, I understand the homeless and other drug influences in this community. Like 00:10:55
sometimes as a parent, you're scared to have a child going on those slides or use certain equipment and. 00:11:04
How often do we have that sanitized? 00:11:13
Thank you for letting us know about your business. And so I want to make sure we pass and get in touch with you. 00:11:16
I'm not looking for to make my pocket go. I'm looking to have a community go because born and raised here, I want to see it go. 00:11:21
But leave us the contact information on you and we'll make sure we talk to you about the project, all right? 00:11:28
Thank you. Thank you, Thank you. Thank you for coming. Congratulations on starting the business. 00:11:36
Right. Yes, Yes, ma'am. Corner. 00:11:42
Who may I leave in polo? 00:11:47
Hi, I'm Christy Smith. I live here. I was here a month ago and I heard something about a housing development. I don't know if this 00:11:52
is the right forum to ask about that, but I heard maybe you Robbie mentioned it gets a little early. We haven't really made any 00:11:57
headway with that. And I know you wanted me to move the podium over there and I will next time, but I just curious what so there's 00:12:03
a possibility that he might be part of that or something. We're not sure. We have not had any any movement on that yet, although 00:12:09
we have a realtor we have. 00:12:15
And it's a matter of financing and the interest rates are so high right now. That's where the problem is. Thank you for bringing 00:12:22
it up. Yes, ma'am. 00:12:27
Hi, I'm Rhiannon Viselli. I was here on November 19th when a bunch of people came to discuss the animal welfare and community 00:12:38
safety issues in Socorro, and we were just wondering if there was any update on the committee being formed between the city and 00:12:44
public. The council, Travis Lopez is putting together the committee and I think she's going to appoint two people from the 00:12:49
community to be on it. Only two. 00:12:55
Just two from the community, yeah. 00:13:02
OK. 00:13:05
Yeah, and but we're moving ahead with it. But I, I wasn't here at that meeting, but my recommendation is for you guys to get 00:13:06
involved with the animal shelter personally and see if you can foster some animals and, and keep them at home. And personally, I 00:13:12
am fostering an animal. I do dog training. 00:13:17
I took one from the reservation out in Alamo because that doesn't help the city shelter. It helps the county, right? And the 00:13:25
shelter is the only one in the county. 00:13:29
I can't speak for the county, but that's where the where the important part is for people that live in the city, get involved with 00:13:35
our city shelter and do some of the volunteer work that used to be done a long time ago with Miss Brooke and, and they were very, 00:13:43
very active specifically being involved in that and not really asking for anything except that go to work and take care of the 00:13:50
animals. That's where I am as mayor that I would like to see the people that are involved in. 00:13:58
Animal care and animal welfare, that they personally get involved rather than, you know, being at the Alamo. I think it'd be 00:14:06
better if they were in the city. OK, I did e-mail and I didn't get anything back. I personally went to the shelter. I went 00:14:12
directly to the shelter and I wasn't even allowed in the building. So we have our animal control guy here, Lupe, was there a 00:14:18
problem? And people getting into the shelter and volunteering? 00:14:24
Huh. Yeah, When was that? 00:14:32
You're welcome to come up and make a comment. Identify yourself. 00:14:35
OK, Leah Tevis and I am the one who spoke on the 19th meeting that Ran is speaking about. We have tried every Ave. to work with 00:14:39
the shelter and that's why we presented it. You haven't come to City Hall and complained to the mayor that you couldn't get into 00:14:46
the shelter. I haven't spoken to you ever because we were trying to do things without getting the city involved. We were doing 00:14:54
everything we could in our power and that's why we did come to the city eventually to say hey, this is. 00:15:01
The committee is going to be active, but my my direction to the to the committee is. 00:15:09
Get the people in the committee, get active at the shelter, see what the conditions are like, see what they've seen and what can 00:15:15
be done. And I would welcome people to volunteer and get on the schedule. You may or may not be aware, but we did put together a 00:15:21
community survey to ask people about what their experience has been. We have 147 responses. How does that help the animals? It's 00:15:27
just it highlights the issue that people are having with the shelter. So many people have said that they've gone and are turned 00:15:33
away. 00:15:38
They've called, they're never called back. And I haven't heard one person come. OK, We have 147 responses saying otherwise. Let me 00:15:45
see them and I'll have a talk with each one of them if that's the case. But I haven't had one person come to my office and 00:15:52
complain about the shelter. I think that people don't know where to put their voice. And that's what we're doing for an hour at 00:16:00
11. Lena is here. They take. I meet with people every day on different subjects. I've never met with any of you people. 00:16:07
About the shelter, I would like to weigh in, Connie Robnett here to weigh in on the same subject and to say that we have been 00:16:15
encouraged by city employees not to go to escalate this. 00:16:22
I'm telling you first hand that which employee? 00:16:31
Told us that we should speak to him directly and we spoke to him directly. No better, yes. 00:16:37
And things and still all the animals at the shelter, all the dogs at the shelter got you guys without, without any outreach into 00:16:45
the community. 00:16:50
Well, I can tell you it's administratively. I'm responsible for the shelter. If you feel that you've had problems, and this goes 00:16:55
for every department in the city. People have problems with the people that are running the specific department. They come to me 00:17:01
personally. My door is always open. I've yet to hear from you before. And 147 people, I have not heard one person come to my 00:17:07
office and complain or write me a letter. And I have many, many times. Mrs. Brooke did. I've had many people, Misses White did. 00:17:13
Those people were involved. 00:17:19
Personally, in the care of the animals at the shelter, I've yet to see any people here that are on that committee that you have be 00:17:25
personally done. 00:17:31
On the Animal Shelter Advisory Board, you may not remember. 00:17:36
I'm talking about actually working at the shelter. We've all volunteered at the shelter. We all find our names on the volunteer 00:17:41
list. We've all been there. We have tried to do and turned away. That's what I would want you to do. I know there was a big 00:17:47
question about euthanasia at the shelter, but we have made many, many efforts. 00:17:53
To transport animals. But we've been so intuitive intonated from Alamo, from the county and our, our, we are overwhelmed with 00:18:00
animals and our budget cannot stand it. We, we acknowledge that and that it's a nationwide problem. We know this. But what we're 00:18:05
asking for is more transparency from the shelter and also for the shelter to work with the community. That is a big gap there. And 00:18:11
so that's a bridge that we've been trying to build with the different organizations that we have and we have been doing a lot of 00:18:17
work. 00:18:23
That should be on the city. You know, we are taking animals off the street. We are getting animals rehomed. We are vaccinating 00:18:29
animals. We are spaying. 00:18:33
With our own money. I heard you had an event here at this Plaza that was people from Berlin, from Valencia, County Lupe. What was 00:18:39
that? 00:18:44
And the reason they did that is because they said that they could not get in contact with our local shelter, so they chose to. 00:18:59
It's the truth though, because when you go to the shelter, often it is not open when it says they're going to going to be open. 00:19:09
They do not answer their phone when during business hours. So it's very hard for community members to get anything done at the 00:19:14
shelter. 00:19:18
I'll attend to that. I mean, what's the, what's the schedule with the shelter? 00:19:25
Use that. 00:19:30
Is there a live person at the desk at the shelter? 00:19:35
How do people, how do people approach the shelter to get in, at least have a conversation with somebody there? How would they do 00:19:43
that? 00:19:46
Do they have to go find somebody or? 00:19:54
Well, yeah, I can only tell you what schedules we have and that there are people there all the time at the shelter that she just 00:20:01
said from 8:00 to 4:00. And I I'm just surprised that you haven't been able to make contact with anybody there. 00:20:07
Well, we look forward to discussing this further at the committee meetings and making some changes because this community deserves 00:20:15
it and so do the animals. The community deserves the shelter that's been running here for 35 years that we've continually 00:20:21
expanded. So it's not like we haven't been doing anything. So I'm not sure what the term deserves. The community deserves the 00:20:27
shelter means because I think that we've been given a pretty good service with a limited budget we've had we can look at 00:20:33
communities that are our neighbors that have. 00:20:39
Sierra County, Sierra County, Sierra County has a private shelter that the city shelter actually had to close and they were given 00:20:47
the, the, the area that was going to be meant for a police station to be used as a shelter. But that was a, that's a, that's a 00:20:53
private shelter. I'm not sure if is that a municipal shelter you're talking about in Saratoga. 00:21:00
Who runs that shelter in Luke and Sierra County? 00:21:07
Because they at one time asked us to take some of their animals because they were disbanding now. This was so. 00:21:13
Yeah. So, you know, I talked to the director there weekly and they have said nothing of the sort. 00:21:22
Well, I can tell you is what we've, the experience we've had with that and I'll look into that. But I was under the impression 00:21:32
that was a private shelter as being they have one, but that's different. They have two. They have a rescue, Desert Haven Animal 00:21:38
Rescue, and then they have the Sierra County Shelter. Well, we can use that as a model and I'd be more than happy to copy that, 00:21:43
but we'll look into that. Perhaps the committee can look into the other shelter. I know the Valencia County Animal Shelter was 00:21:48
having all kinds of problems. 00:21:53
With the one in Los Lunas. 00:21:59
The Valencia County shelter has been incredibly helpful to us with letting us know how they operate. It's, it's an incredible 00:22:02
operation they have going there and it's running very smoothly. And instead of euthanizing all of their animals all at once, what 00:22:08
they do is they do a ton of outreach with the community to get animals into homes. And then they also do daily walkthroughs to see 00:22:14
if there are animals that are ill or maybe have behavioral issues that do need to be put down to make room for new animals, 00:22:20
because we all know that. 00:22:26
There is no lack of animals running around. And I'll send you some news articles that I have from the Valencia shelter and what 00:22:32
the problems were. I don't think that's true. I think what you're saying is not there may be trying to work at that, but I know 00:22:39
they've had all kinds of problems over there. Well, we've been visiting all these shelters and talking with the directors to 00:22:47
figure out how we can have a better shelter here in Sequoia. But I think Miss Chavez Lopez probably going to point you to the. 00:22:54
Also, so you'll be able to have your input there. That would be excellent. But I will tell you the administration is very, I'm a 00:23:02
little taken aback as as to the aggressiveness and the put down shelter that you're doing with the city. I really, and I wasn't at 00:23:09
that meeting, unfortunately, but I really thought that was really out of hand as to how the people that you have together are 00:23:17
trying to put a black mark on our animal shelter, which I think has been trying to do as well as you can, especially without any. 00:23:24
Help No one is trying to put a black mark on the shelter. 00:23:32
Comments that you had at that of the meeting on this meeting are really about, you know, what you think, what, what the community 00:23:38
deserves and so forth. 00:23:42
Can with what they have. 00:24:17
All right. Thank you, Mr. No, I'm just gonna say it sounds like, I mean, it sounds like an issue. We're just getting back from the 00:24:19
holidays and it sounds like they're addressing the issue and that we're gonna try to look at ways to make things better. But it is 00:24:25
just our first meeting back and they were meeting earlier seeing them. So I think they are making headway on it. It's just, that's 00:24:31
great to hear. Just gonna take a little time to get everything organized and done that you can see we're Rev and ready to go. 00:24:37
Yeah. Yeah. 00:24:43
I think they are too. They seem. 00:24:49
This is a symptom of the inflation that's, that's been brought upon our country. People can't afford to feed their dogs. So hence 00:24:56
we have overpopulation in all of our, our panels and all of our facilities. So it's hit us hard. It's hit everybody hard. And I 00:25:05
think we need to, you know, some patience and the work through this because, you know. 00:25:14
Can't afford to feed them. 00:25:25
Mr. Mill on adding to that, you know, I think our, our veterinary bills are, you know, like 25,000 + a month sometimes for. 00:25:27
Not a month. 00:25:38
No, but 25, I think we'd be broke for sure. But they're high. Yeah, they're high. No. 00:25:40
You know. 00:25:48
Anything else, Mr. Lopez, you're going to be the. 00:25:51
Recipient of some of this, I look forward to working with you all and any ideas. I know funding is a major part, so if you know of 00:25:54
any grant writers or if you know of any grants that we can apply for, you know, I more than willing to listen, but I look forward 00:26:00
to working with you all. Thank you. We look forward to working with you too, and we've got tons of ideas to throw your way. Thank 00:26:06
you, thanks, thank you, thank you. 00:26:12
Anyone else? 00:26:19
Yes, ma'am. 00:26:21
Christy Smith again, I live here. 00:26:29
I've never heard anybody say anything good about this children. 00:26:32
I've never heard anyone say anything good about the shelter here, I'm afraid. I'm sorry. I my boyfriend lived here for 23 years. 00:26:37
I've only lived here for 4. But it's really hard to get ahold of people. Their staff is not well trained, they're not friendly. 00:26:43
It's just not a nice place. OK. 00:26:48
It needs lots of work and help, and we talked to Gwen last month about grants, Gwen Valentino about possible grants to do other 00:26:56
kinds of honor projects that might improve the shelter. She said the city of Espanola got a grant to build a spay and neuter 00:27:04
clinic and they did that and it was pretty great. So she's aware that that's an issue that she might look for grants for. Thanks. 00:27:12
I'll make available to the committee. 00:27:22
Go back to Espanola and in my turn I've been long term in office. Espanola got half $1,000,000 about 20 years ago to build a brand 00:27:26
new shelter. 00:27:31
And again, the Valencia County shelter, the Sierra County shelter, I'll give you a anthology of of the comments and the evolution 00:27:36
of their shelters and how they had their ups and downs. And, and I know people pick points in history that are that are that are. 00:27:46
Compatible with their theory of what they're talking about. But I think historically, if you look at the shelter and the problems 00:27:57
that we've had in the state on animal shelters and animal welfare. 00:28:02
They're they're tremendous, even to that point where the governor at one time got involved with it. So I'd be more than happy to 00:28:08
provide the committee at the ontology of of. 00:28:13
Horizontal history of. 00:28:19
Animal shelters in small towns in New Mexico. And I think whether we have had good or bad remarks about it, I really think we've 00:28:21
done a reasonably good job. And this is from the days of Dorothy Brooke, Missus White and Misses. 00:28:29
Is this Parson? So yes, you know, those people were kind of the just like the library there was. Those are people that were the 00:28:38
foundation of how the shelters really started going and then how it's expanded and is doing as much as it can. So whether people 00:28:44
say good or bad about it, I would like for them to really realize what the history of animal shelter is in Socorro County and the 00:28:50
city of Socorro and some of the other counties that you spoke about. 00:28:57
I came to New Mexico on 44 1/2 years ago to Santa Fe. 00:29:03
And there was hardly anything in Santa Fe for animals I fostered, took care of that, fixed with my own money, dogs and cats and 00:29:09
puppies, and gave them away. So you're right, historically, New Mexico has been pretty bad about animal care and animal welfare. 00:29:15
But that's because we were starting from a Third World perspective. OK. So we need to really up our game. Well, we've got a lot of 00:29:22
Third World stuff, children welfare, medical care. 00:29:28
There's a lot of third world stuff going on here. 00:29:35
But I'm specifically talking about animal shelters. So and again, we can put it in perspective as to what's happened and the 00:29:39
evolution of the, the shelter here in the the city and the other cities. Anyway, OK, we've got resolutions that we have to have at 00:29:47
the beginning of the year, opening meetings, governing body rules, purchasing policy. If we would like to, I'll make a motion. 00:29:55
On the way to approve resolution #25-01-07AB and C. 00:30:04
Second moved and seconded discussion. All in favor, aye? 00:30:13
And resolution for CDBG certification and commitments exhibit one dash. Why? What is that polo? 00:30:18
That's just our our yearly resolution for our CDBG projects. 00:30:30
Past resolution #25-01-07D. 00:30:36
So moved and seconded discussion and all in favor, Aye, we're doing the CWG project. When's the bid? When's that going to get 00:30:43
started? 00:30:47
We're still waiting on the agreement. The DFA asked me for some different information just this afternoon. I sent it to him back 00:30:54
in December 19th and they should be giving me the no agreement any day. And once we receive that, we'll schedule it. 00:31:02
Very good. We have new business. 00:31:12
Cartridge we have our wrestling event this weekend. Friday will be the girls will wrestle and then we'll the boys will duel Aztec 00:31:17
that evening and Saturday the boys will wrestle a tournament and then Sunday the little kids will wrestle through the MOU facility 00:31:26
usage through the the school that you guys have worked out prior to me being here. So it should be a busy weekend of wrestling. 00:31:35
At the high school, big influx of people and we look forward to that and just. I wish they would have stayed the folks that were 00:31:45
there because I wanted to say that my passion is wrestling and. And I've given up a lot of my time and we don't make money from 00:31:52
wrestling and we we love doing it and we help kids in the community and it's really. I don't think I'd be a Councilman if I didn't 00:31:59
wrestle. I really think that was the backbone of my people that. 00:32:06
To be here, and what I'm saying is I think early on, to credit to the council at the time and Mayor Rusker is it was just simply 00:32:14
like we'll help you, but if you're willing to do the work, we'll definitely help with it because you're passionate about it. 00:32:22
But I'm just saying, I think that's what it takes. Hopefully there'll be some good involvement and we can fix it. You know, I wear 00:33:02
my feelings on my sleeve and. 00:33:06
Public meeting is where I say what I'm going to say. I'm not going to do it behind anybodies back and I'm going to tell them 00:33:11
upfront how I feel about with this. There will be some commitment though to help them. So you know, it sounds like it's going to 00:33:15
be good. 00:33:20
**** are you going to tell us about the Matanza? 00:33:27
And did you bring some food with you? We ran out. 00:33:32
Thank you Mayor Council for having me. I just wanted to give you guys an update as to how we did on our, our 8th annual Mcconso 00:33:36
fundraiser for the community, the children of our community. We, we raised $8500. So with that, we took 85 kids at $100 a kid 00:33:43
shopping at Walmart. So it was a good, it was a good, it's only gotten better every year. So it's a good thing for the community. 00:33:51
So with that being said, I'd like to thank some people, of course, Mayor Bhaskar and the city for, for supporting this event. 00:33:58
Without you guys, this event wouldn't happen and those two are good 'cause So thank you guys. Thank Anton Salome and his family 00:34:06
for allowing us to use that property. You know, Stephen Ross and Sophia's Walmart, John Brooks. 00:34:13
Cheyenne and Darryl at at the tourism cities, all the city employees, Lloyd and his crew for putting up the the tents and all that 00:34:22
stuff. Everything that goes into, there's a lot of work. So and I wanted to give a special thanks out to a couple of people. 00:34:29
For the generous donations, Jerry and Dana gum and Mrs. Wolf from Magdalena, they donated some money to that cause. So thank you 00:34:37
guys. And last but not least, I'd like to thank my firefighters for all the hard work they did. That's those, those, those days 00:34:44
turn to be long days and hard work. And they, they do it for a good reason, you know, so, and they, they enjoy doing it. So thank 00:34:51
them. They, they do a wonderful job. Mr. Parker, I know you guys said last time how the children were selected. 00:34:58
I don't, I all I do is call the superintendent's office when I ask him to give me a list of kids that he does. This year was 85, 00:35:07
so I asked him to give me a list of 85 kids. They gave me a list, You know, so we have nothing to do with you. Congratulations. 00:35:13
Congratulations. We're keeping that going. 00:35:18
Yeah. Angela, have you got a little rundown on what you guys did with the Marines and some of the stuff you guys did? 00:35:27
This is the first approx like 30 second year going on. That's the 5th year with Marines Core Toys for Tots. This year we were able 00:35:37
to get in contact with one of the. 00:35:43
Sergeant majors in the Marine Corps and they were able to bring some guys down here. I got a little rundown as well. 00:35:50
We're able to give get you in a minute. 00:35:57
We collected 2888 toys. We serve 698 kids in our community. 00:36:04
We collected a total amount. 00:36:14
Of $6773. 00:36:18
Through the Toys for Tots, that's with my wife, thanks to her, thanks to the city and the council are allowing us to do this as 00:36:24
well. 00:36:27
Even as the storage for the toys while we are taking them out there. 00:36:32
Damon, thanks for letting us help you and your part, what you do here and your commitment in the community. And we also get our 00:36:36
our list through the schools and, and throughout the whole county of Socorro. So we serve Alamo, Magdalena, Vegeta, Socorro, San 00:36:44
Antonio Limited, all those areas. And ours is a little different. A lot of our kids sign up for the program. 00:36:53
Through Toys for Tots, it's a national base through the Marine Koi, Toys for Tots. So we get a lot of that and then we get people 00:37:01
who sign up at. 00:37:05
Walmart to receive these toys so we're blessed to give 698 kids toys for kit for toys apiece to do that 600 ninety 98 kids and it 00:37:10
was a great program. Thanks. 00:37:17
Excellent. About your Turkey drive and yeah, absolutely. I was going to jump on next in the house, so thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'd 00:37:27
like to thank the city of Sequoia. There's too many people to think individually. It's funny that the one one of them that I did 00:37:34
want to point out was the gums also. They helped us out quite a bit. But the CDs, Sequoia, the storehouse. 00:37:42
John Brooks, the major sponsors for the for you know, the hot Emil food drive that we took over from Toby all those years, 5050 00:37:50
fifty year this year. 00:37:55
We served 250 meals, had tons of help from tons of people. It's turned into a whole day, a deal on a Saturday, the 1st, the last 00:38:02
Saturday before Christmas and we have deliveries going out and we're like a machine now. And it really is so much more than the 00:38:09
first day I took it over. The first year we took it over. I thought I don't know how Toby did it and honestly, we wouldn't able 00:38:16
to. We wouldn't have been able to do it on that first year without Toby's family coming down to helping. 00:38:23
And so we still get some of them coming down to hell. And now it's it's going smooth. And the only reason why it goes smooth is 00:38:30
because every year we have so many volunteers, so many kids helping. 00:38:37
We had the schools, couple canned food drives and, you know, I know I bug Ruby every year and she's always there ready to help. 00:38:45
And an Angel coming through this. Yeah. They just, you guys know, fidget spinners, little deals are old and they the kids spin 00:38:50
them. Yeah, yeah. Fidget spinners with speakers on them. I don't know how the heck you do that. 00:38:56
But I was sitting there and I'm just like, amazed by it. And I don't know, I, I just thought it was like the coolest thing ever 00:39:02
and such a great event, so smooth. And yeah, it was awesome. 250 families and it was a good deal. So thank. Thank you. 00:39:10
I mentioned it before, but Toby, yeah. 00:39:19
You know, Tobye daughter now is the chief operating officer of Lovelace, including the Heart Hospital, which is a big success. 00:39:25
That's really Mary Honey Armijo since she's helped her whole family comes down every year. This year they couldn't because they 00:39:31
were moving. She called us and she said, hey, I got good news and bad news though. But it's awesome that that's great that she's 00:39:37
done that. 00:39:42
And when do you have something to tell us about your city Town hall from last meeting? 00:39:49
So last time was my first little town hall meeting, and we're planning to meet once a month, like from 5:00 to 5:45 before this 00:40:01
meeting the first Tuesday of the month. And we had a good turn out. We had seven people. 00:40:08
Christy did speak to me and I told her I didn't know anything about the animal shelter. I didn't know anything about anything. So 00:40:16
I just tried to clear that up. But I did a lot of research. I followed up with everybody with animal shelter. 00:40:21
With cards for about, about zoning, we we talked a lot. We figured out a few grants and then I spoke with Ruby today. 00:40:27
To see what we wanted to pursue, what is going to be priorities for the city, to make sure that we're that I'm looking for the 00:40:35
right things at the right time. Well, no, thank you for starting that, though. Yeah, because I do think there's going to be things 00:40:42
we can help with. And there's there's always many. It just depends when and how you ask and how much data you have. So it'd be 00:40:49
great to have that data from those ladies about what the complaints are because that just helps. 00:40:56
You know so. 00:41:05
But just anything. 00:41:07
And personnel. 00:41:19
But but Lupe has taken it upon himself to really spend a lot of time. 00:41:21
Working there as far as animals are concerned, expanding the facility, expanding the services, having drop off going to the vets 00:41:28
and. 00:41:34
It's 100%. 00:41:42
Almost full as far as what we're capable of doing. And if we're not getting good reviews, I apologize for that. But the bottom 00:41:43
line is, you know, there's a, there's a limit to how much a small city can do when the county doesn't help us, Alamo doesn't help 00:41:50
us and we don't get the volunteers like we used to. And I, I'm just telling you the the ladies that used to really be after me and 00:41:57
they were in my office. 00:42:04
Every week, Mrs. White. 00:42:12
Dorothy Brooke. And who's the other one? She was always here and she would tell me personally what she saw and what was going on, 00:42:14
and then I would have to go attend to it. And so that's how I do business, whether it's the streets or sewer or water or social 00:42:23
services or a gym. 00:42:31
People come in here, they can't get to his office, Lupus. Or they come and tell me, hey, I can't get up. So then we call him in. 00:42:40
So that's what I was. 00:42:45
Kind of ranting about, but if there needs to be improvement, tell me what we need to do, tell me how much it's going to cost and 00:42:50
we'll try to see if it's in the budget and and that's all we can do and that's all that goes for all the services. But you've got 00:42:58
tremendous volunteerism from our Fire Chief, police chief, city councillors who are doing. 00:43:06
Community stuff, and I'm not a committee guy. I'm sorry, Marianne. 00:43:16
Not much of A committee guy. If something needs to be done, we'll okay the committee hopefully will come to us and ask us for what 00:43:23
and we can go to you for grants. But grants only lasts for so long. They're not recurring, recurring cost coverage. They're good 00:43:31
for buildings and trucks. Animal control truck is 100,000 bucks with a box on it. So those are the things that. 00:43:39
And I didn't know about your app. If you go to apps and get the city of Sapporo, New Mexico, New Mexico app Yeah, Robo. 00:43:47
Well, we've had maybe out of 10,000 people, we have 600 people on it. That's it. You know, I don't know how many we have on the 00:43:55
app Ruby, but you know, it's amazing what that app can do. And so I think that getting people educated to use that app would help 00:44:03
alleviate some of their pain points because if they don't feel heard, they're not going down the right path. 00:44:11
If if I felt that our employees were doing what they were supposed to be doing. 00:44:20
I'll be the first one to tell you, but I'm gonna support my employees. And if people want to point fingers at my employees when I 00:44:24
know they're doing 100 percent, 110% on weekend, you know, sometimes they're not there and the police have to call or things 00:44:30
happen. But I I can only tell you that we're trying and we're trying to do the best we can. Nobody's going out on purpose trying 00:44:37
to hurt animals. 00:44:43
You know, we're trying to give a service and maybe we're only hitting 40 percent, 50% like they hit 100%, but. 00:44:50
I'm going to stand up for the people that are there out there working their tails off because they're working, you know, 4050 00:44:57
sixty hours a week at the same one project. Yeah, so I think that and I and I like I said, I always like to do it in front of 00:45:03
people who have the complaint. I'm not saying this behind their back, but I'm just saying, but that's that's what this is. But I 00:45:10
think our grant wise we're moving forward. They'll work on it. We're getting some coming in tonight. 00:45:17
You know, I think we we do build the county. 00:45:24
But people from all over dump animals on us. You know, we had one house that had 22 hours, more than that, maybe more, Lupe. 00:45:28
56 So, you know, I mean, it's, it's a tremendous stress on the employees, a tremendous stress. 00:45:39
And to point fingers and say we deserve better or people are not complimenting us, well, you know. 00:45:49
Been doing our best. 00:45:55
I think you're doing a really good job. I'm impressed when I write the grants and I can say how long employees have been here, 00:45:57
what they've been doing to solve problems, I think. 00:46:02
Anyway, thanks for having the meeting. Thank you. Anyone else out there garbage pickup? How bad is that? 00:46:09
OK. And that Senior Center, how terrible is that? 00:46:16
Huh. Come up here and tell us all about your Senior Center on the dances you're having and all that stuff. 00:46:23
Yeah, we're taking on a lot in the city. I mean, if it's not easy, OK, everything. 00:46:31
Going good. We don't have any heat in the heat there right now. So we're working on that. We have to close the Center for a few 00:46:36
days. Hopefully it'll get warm up here soon. And you know what happened? It went out the buildings all the the HVAC is getting 00:46:43
better. I mean it getting fixed. It's getting fixed. We applied for emergency capital outlay money. So what's this? I have to go 00:46:49
talk to you employees. 00:46:55
That I snap them in line. Yeah, I think they're doing better now. They're telling them that we're coming. 00:47:03
Sounds good public over here if they watch it. 00:47:08
We have our good days. We have everything is going good. Everything is productive. We just had a recent audit, 0 findings. So 00:47:12
we're very happy with that. Yeah, thank you. Thank you. I'm glad you could make a meeting more. 00:47:21
The first meeting in about 10 months or what? 00:47:30
A year, so you got what you could do another thing. 00:47:33
It's a good part. So they they're running, they're doing the trenches to put the new electrical. So we'll have the new lights at 00:47:41
the studio park before the 1st Warrior baseball game. So that's what I'm going to bring up. And have you talked to the 00:47:48
Superintendent, The new Superintendent? She's not here yet. Just saying that, you know, we're giving the schools the field and so 00:47:55
we need some help from the schools. 00:48:02
As far as the field is concerned, and then you know, whether it's red clay or they did give me some money. 00:48:09
Except the dugouts and stuff, but it's a field that Title 9 has to have. 00:48:17
And the boys have feel, but they're using our city field. So I think I'm saying that in public because we do need some help from 00:48:23
them. 00:48:28
We're going to move the girls, we're going to move the fields around to get more parking. And then I don't know, Damien, if you 00:48:32
they want to do a splash pad and they have we've had a few meetings and we kind of have it finalized what what we're going to do. 00:48:37
We need some help with that. So, yeah, so I'll be meeting with the Superintendent and and, and I didn't say anything to the chief 00:48:42
about this, but. 00:48:48
Generally we've already got the double white for the Friends of the Library ready to go. Lloyd's been working on It's going to Go. 00:48:53
The architect's going to meet with the Police Department to try to finalize so that we can go and ask for the money properly. And, 00:49:04
and that's been, you know, appreciated that the Police Department has been working with us. I know they're under substandard 00:49:09
facilities, but hopefully it's going to get improved. We're going to put 30 more horse styles at the at the rodeo. That's going to 00:49:15
get started. 00:49:20
Right. And well, everything's moving forward. Thank you for coming. 00:49:56
I know that and I know the planning and zoning and ordinance committee met and full code enforcement and they're going to be 00:50:03
working on that. So that committees on on track to doing stuff. 00:50:07
Mr. Padilla, you got how's your workout, are you? Let me see your muscles. How's your equipment working? 00:50:14
How are you doing with? Come on up here, Get used to that. And what's going on with the? 00:50:22
Membership type of deal so that city employees are free to verify that the other day. How about the public? Have they used it? 00:50:30
Yes, we have about 15 to 20 that pay the $10 a month. So that's running smoothly. Basketball started last night for the little 00:50:37
kiddos. How did you get 212 total? So that's going good Monday, Wednesdays and Saturdays. 00:50:44
Are we going to use work with the schools as far as their gym? Yes, they are letting us use Parkview at this time, so for 00:50:51
practices and stuff like that. Alrighty. OK. Anybody else, Christy, anybody anything? 00:50:57
Isaac gas is flowing like it's getting cold, man. 00:51:09
Are you still on any gas? 00:51:14
Is it hopefully not picking up? It's getting cold but. 00:51:17
We've been, we got all our OSHA stuff done. I think everything turned in right. 00:51:23
We're getting ready to start on some line replacement where you guys are going to pave on park and church, I believe will cut you 00:51:29
or center. 00:51:34
And then hopefully hit Otero and 6th Street right there. I guess that's the next one. 00:51:40
Trying to get whatever we before they put the new roads down, you know, I mean, change out of them. That's nice first, yeah. 00:51:46
So from the mayor, we've got 2 new things and new things, and you just mentioned one of them. OSHA came down here about a month 00:51:54
ago, three months ago, three months ago and just. 00:52:00
Torah. So you know what? 00:52:07
And finds in the hundreds of thousands. 00:52:09
I'm glad a newspaper left but but anyway, all the departments are working on it. We've got a lawyer working on it. 00:52:14
We had a grinder with the fire department that that didn't have a plastic cover, you know, like a cover like that and hadn't been 00:52:23
used maybe once in every two years. They find us $11,000 for that ground grinder without a plastic cover. 00:52:31
And so we just threw the grinder away and we got to use it. So there are things like that. So you're going to hear this. And so 00:52:41
and we're going to have to I guess put a notice out, but I just want to let the council know that this we're dealing with. So you 00:52:46
heard it here. 00:52:51
I also met with the thanks to Chairman Anaya. We met with Mr. Gonzalez, the new coop director, and he's a super guy. He is a 00:52:56
really a super guy. Comes from Wilcox, Arizona, lived all his life in Wilcox. Wilcox is half the size of Socorro, but their 00:53:06
cooperative is like 20 times bigger than the Co-op Sulphur Springs Corporate Electric Cooperative. But the guy is fantastic. He's. 00:53:15
Military, 25 years as a Marine and worked as a vice president of technology for Sulphur Spring Electric. Very willing to have a 00:53:26
dialogue about solar and about the city. And the first thing I asked him if he was going to put up our Christmas lights and that's 00:53:33
so mean. Right away he said yes, we are. He said in Wilcox. They go out and do that all over town and all the different cities and 00:53:40
that they cover. 00:53:47
So. But he was. 00:53:54
Terrific. We had a couple of hours that we sat and talked and he really opened a lot of things. I think his door is going to be 00:53:56
open. He will look. He didn't didn't promise anything, but at least he promised a dialogue. So I want to tell you that that was a 00:54:03
real positive, positive step. And I have to thank Mr. and I are the chairman for setting up the meeting. And so that was great. So 00:54:09
we did that. So those are the two big things from the on the city. 00:54:16
Anyhow. 00:54:25
Old business. 00:54:26
Executive session. We could have had that I guess. 00:54:30
Anyway, personnel changes we have. 00:54:34
Michael Aragon, firefighter, he is Dustin Moreland as a firefighter. Leo Peterson is a firefighter and gentleman Gomez Senior 00:54:38
Center resignation and a citywide increase. You can see all of that somewhere. You have that somewhere or what? Oh, here 00:54:46
everybody's I think up 5%. 00:54:53
And that's it. Mr. McMullen had approved the personnel changes. Second, seconded. All in favor. And as we heard about the business 00:55:02
registrations, but he's not on it right now. This is the West of Rio, Wellington Woodard Healthcare and Beauty. And then we have 00:55:11
more marijuana. This is Sacred Soul, 68 Schwittle Rd. Joshua Walker integrated. 00:55:20
Micro Producer. 00:55:30
That's it. Make a motion. We approve the business registrations. I second. 00:55:33
Hi, next meeting January 21st. 00:55:40
Happy New Year, Yes. 00:55:45
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