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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
	You.	00:55:49

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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
	You.	00:55:49