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	Microphone, here we go.	00:00:00
	City Council Meeting Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 Roll call please.	00:00:03
	Mayor Basker here.	00:00:09
	Councillor Travis Lopez here.	00:00:11
	Councillor Dean.	00:00:13
	Councillor Fleming here, Councillor Ocampo.	00:00:15
	Councillor Ogana.	00:00:20
	Councillor Partridge here.	00:00:22
	Councillor Romero.	00:00:25
	Councillor Salomy.	00:00:28
	Here by phone.	00:00:30
	We do have a quorum.	00:00:32
	Is everybody here?	00:00:38
	Oh, my pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and the Republic for which it stands.	00:00:42
	Nation indivisible with liberty and trust.	00:00:53
	Councillor Saloni, did you?	00:00:59
	Sure. Did I give you that? OK. Thank you.	00:01:02
	All righty, Consent agenda.	00:01:09
	Mr. Mayor, Mr. Fleming.	00:01:14
	Of the percentage agenda as presented.	00:01:17
	Move the seconded discussion and a discussion all in favor.	00:01:20
	On a public forum.	00:01:25
	Anybody got anything?	00:01:28
	Exciting to say.	00:01:30
	Nope. Ready then.	00:01:33
	H Bank system for City of Sakura Youth Center bid award. Who's going to do that?	00:01:35
	Hello.	00:01:41
	Yes, we had. We went out forbid.	00:01:44
	And bids were opened March 1st and we had four bids.	00:01:47
	Western mechanical.	00:01:51
	MGSEZI construction and how to meals, plumbing.	00:01:53
	And the lowest bid was 75 thousand 4/07/07.	00:01:59
	And I recommend that we'd go to Western Mechanical.	00:02:03
	This is this, You know, the youth center. This is a heating and cooling, heating and cooling. Miss Chavez Lopez.	00:02:12
	That's really a little bit. They're not going to come back and ask for a change order or anything, are they? No, ma'am.	00:02:18
	You don't let him.	00:02:31
	That's why I pull on everybody's getting a raise. These guys watch our money.	00:02:35
	So anyway, anybody.	00:02:40
	Anybody interested in?	00:02:42
	I mean, we have approved the bid.	00:02:45
	Move to second hand with a caveat that make sure that that bid is adequate for what they are bidding on.	00:02:47
	All in favor.	00:02:55
	I love you.	00:02:57
	OK, Resolution #24-03-19 participation in the 2024 State Road Fund.	00:02:59
	Mr. Monet. Mr. Mayor, thanks to your hard work up in Santa Fe, we were awarded some additional funds from the New Mexico	00:03:07
	Department of Transportation to keep working on Manzanera St. We'll be applying the end of next. Actually, it's the beginning of	00:03:13
	the cycle. It's called the PF, a project feasibility form to apply for even more funding.	00:03:20
	Because we were over 400,000 short in the original.	00:03:27
	Scope of work, so we couldn't.	00:03:32
	Build as big of a project as we wanted to.	00:03:35
	But again, thanks to you and your hard work in Santa Fe, we have at least 125,000 more of additional funds and they require a	00:03:37
	resolution.	00:03:41
	And I gotta say, it's also our our lobbyist and.	00:03:46
	People asking me, you know, we did spend a little bit of money on lobbyists, but.	00:03:50
	It really this is the biggest amount of money we've ever gotten on anything.	00:03:55
	So anyway the and Donald, Donald's very nice to say it was me but these guys Donald's always doing all the paperwork and getting	00:03:59
	it right so so that we we get that money because you know what happened was.	00:04:05
	We got a lot of money from Mountaineers, but it wouldn't go past 6th St.	00:04:12
	That's that's how much things have changed.	00:04:17
	As to the bidding.	00:04:20
	So we could get that participation.	00:04:23
	A 2nd.	00:04:28
	Moved and seconded discussion.	00:04:32
	All in favor, aye.	00:04:34
	New business.	00:04:38
	Just to let you know, we met with the EPA today.	00:04:40
	They're moving ahead with the.	00:04:44
	Superfund site cleanup.	00:04:46
	The city has been asked.	00:04:49
	They call it Access.	00:04:52
	But basically they want to use our.	00:04:54
	Land that is at the corner of Newberry.	00:04:57
	And.	00:05:01
	Lopezville.	00:05:04
	That corner there, they're going to put the facility.	00:05:06
	To pump the water, probably for 15 to 20 years.	00:05:09
	Into the.	00:05:15
	Borrow pit in the pond that's out there.	00:05:19
	They are pretty well on track to get that done.	00:05:23
	They're also on track to clean up the old Eagle Pitcher building that has asbestos in it.	00:05:28
	But they may fall short as to the funding for that. They will probably clean up all the dirt.	00:05:34
	Around that area.	00:05:41
	And as you know, we have $700,000 for a spec building that we can build out there and so we may have that.	00:05:43
	Released to us by the end of the year or summer or next year.	00:05:50
	But we have four years to spend it.	00:05:55
	And they are.	00:05:57
	Donald, were they sure that they were going to be able to demolish, I mean?	00:06:00
	Clean that building out so we could demolish it, but they didn't have enough funds to finish SLAB.	00:06:05
	That's a good question. From what I heard today, they.	00:06:13
	They have the funding to take care of to remediate the building, then we're responsible for removing it right, for the mall,	00:06:17
	right. So anything that's hazardous they have the the then they're going to clean that.	00:06:23
	And and so and they're also going to drill three more wells.	00:06:30
	To define the plume and they they.	00:06:34
	Committed to having a public hearing about that.	00:06:38
	One of the wells is going to go.	00:06:41
	Actually by the.	00:06:44
	Lopez will.	00:06:47
	And and whether it takes that, where it takes that?	00:06:49
	Acute left hand turn just before that in that area back towards the golf course.	00:06:53
	And two more other wells too.	00:06:58
	Continue to characterize where the plume is.	00:07:01
	So that's going to get done and then they want to put the facility.	00:07:05
	On that area where the Newberry and and Lopez will come.	00:07:09
	At a 90, they're going to put in that city property, so they're going to plan to do that.	00:07:14
	Hopefully by.	00:07:19
	The West side of.	00:07:21
	On the West side where it meets Newberry.	00:07:24
	That city property? Yes, ma'am.	00:07:29
	Pond is not city property and that's that's where the catches it belongs to a family.	00:07:32
	They're getting it appraised.	00:07:40
	We're finding a way to to.	00:07:43
	Make that city property.	00:07:48
	Or if they don't make it, it's already determined that they want to put the water in there.	00:07:50
	But the way.	00:07:56
	I think the owner wants to.	00:07:58
	Salad so you don't have the responsibility anymore, but if we own it.	00:08:01
	I'm trying to find what the lease is, what the EPA will pay us so I can amortize the amount of money we come up with to buy it.	00:08:06
	Over 15 years.	00:08:15
	So that we get it back over a period of time with interest, so, so.	00:08:17
	The other, the other thing would be to try to go back to the state. Unfortunately the legislative session is over, but it really.	00:08:23
	There's two things that will happen with that pawn.	00:08:30
	One of them is being used to clean up the.	00:08:34
	Contamination of the TCe or whatever that's called.	00:08:39
	So it's a super fun sight. The other thing is.	00:08:43
	The EPA has given us a consultant.	00:08:46
	Who is going to give us a diagram of making that into a park?	00:08:50
	And so for outdoor recreation. So I'm going to try to go to the governor's office.	00:08:56
	To see if we can.	00:09:03
	Get that pond for those two things, which is.	00:09:05
	EPA and in the future having a recreation outdoor facility that could be used for day camping.	00:09:10
	I envision it like I don't know if I kind of maybe I said that in my campaign, but Deming has a water park and Santa Rosa has a	00:09:18
	water park. You know, you can put these.	00:09:23
	Floating boats on it and kids, people can kayak on it, they can tent and then also have areas where they can camp over the	00:09:28
	weekend, things like that, so.	00:09:34
	They're they're committed today to give me a design for that.	00:09:40
	So once we put both of those together, maybe we can get the money for it.	00:09:45
	But the other alternative would be to use city funds.	00:09:49
	Or borrow.	00:09:53
	They'll be paid off by a lease that EPA makes.	00:09:54
	For 15 years with us. The other thing is they want city water rights and we'll be able to give them that. Then they they have to,	00:09:58
	they're going to put the water into the aquifer.	00:10:03
	And get credit for that. But there's an X amount of evaporation that the state engineer wants to have water rights for, and that's	00:10:09
	about 25 acre feet.	00:10:14
	And so we have that and then we're going to be working with them to get give that to them.	00:10:19
	So that was one big thing.	00:10:25
	We are. We are still, as we said, we're working on the CDBG project at Cuba Rd.	00:10:29
	We're trying to get it was $400,000 short.	00:10:34
	We thought 800,000 would be enough, but it's a million two.	00:10:39
	So we're asking hopefully by April we'll know what's going on with that. We have received the two natural gas.	00:10:42
	Garbage Trucks but.	00:10:53
	They drove all the way out from California.	00:10:57
	We put them to use and they died. They went into, they went into limp mode. So then the other ones, we have three dump trucks	00:11:00
	also.	00:11:04
	So that's that we have those working I think.	00:11:09
	The the two projects that are going on.	00:11:13
	The junior high school.	00:11:16
	And Marianne?	00:11:18
	This building, we're working with the contractors to get the rock. There's a lot of rock out there. And so they're putting that	00:11:21
	rock in our facility and we're going to be working with a vendor to be able to trade that rock.	00:11:28
	For a base course.	00:11:36
	So we're working on that. What else can I tell you? Um.	00:11:41
	The road projects, I don't know if Donald kind of laid those out for you, but we've got lots of Rd. projects. It's just a matter	00:11:48
	of getting the weather and together and get it, get it done.	00:11:53
	The monument again, we got money for that. We're going to put it out there by the by the Convention Center.	00:12:00
	So that's going the the the skin for that rodeo is coming along.	00:12:07
	I think.	00:12:11
	Dez and Cheyenne.	00:12:15
	Finally got this thing signed with our.	00:12:16
	Artist is that done deal?	00:12:19
	So we're going to have a major artist on July 3rd.	00:12:24
	We need to just advertise the heck out of it so we can rent the RV area. Donald, can we wait till the next meeting to discuss this	00:12:28
	part of the contract He's playing in Santa Fe on the.	00:12:33
	I didn't. I didn't say Garth Brooks.	00:12:42
	I just said artist now. You already gave it away then?	00:12:49
	I know the one going to say his name.	00:12:53
	But anyway, just.	00:12:55
	Now they don't listen to this show here.	00:12:57
	Don't. Don't put that in the newspaper. Please, the reality show.	00:13:01
	Anyway, so that's exciting.	00:13:07
	This will be our first if we pull it off.	00:13:09
	I'm hoping that we continue this activity maybe even for like the big wrestling tournament, you know, regional wrestling	00:13:11
	tournament where you have all these people here and they have a show for them afterwards. You know, we're working on trying to get	00:13:18
	the stage, we're trying Mr. Fleming is working on the on the sound because that's that's really, really important.	00:13:24
	So we have an and for the Convention Center as well. We're bringing in housing authorities from the from all over the state to	00:13:32
	come for training now in March and in April, but I'm hoping to get like SW Narrow which is 6 states.	00:13:40
	To come in and do a whole week of training and stuff for and we'll have a lot coming in from. I think people are realizing we have	00:13:48
	a facility that.	00:13:52
	The neon sign is coming up.	00:13:58
	The heck is going to.	00:14:02
	And I think A1.	00:14:05
	Concrete SMA is going to help us. So that's been it's all working well. We eventually, hopefully we're going to get Hwy. 60 fixed	00:14:08
	up too.	00:14:12
	The other thing we're bringing in is we're getting the surveyor, you know, I talked about this earlier, is trying to do a	00:14:16
	subdivision out there. We're getting a surveyor who is going to get information for the realtor that we're going to need to make a	00:14:22
	relationship with. And I think the council is going to have to approve that, but we'll bring that to you.	00:14:27
	Yes, Sir. I'm meeting with him next week because as we mentioned before, a part of the land grant.	00:14:34
	Back when we became a city, none of it had legal descriptions. And then the late 1800s and early 1900s.	00:14:40
	People would come in and request to see the city deed it to them. They said, you know, we've been forming it for 20 years or	00:14:46
	something. So then those legal descriptions were created, but everything else that was leftover doesn't have legal description. So	00:14:52
	it's kind of hard to tell this guy exactly where we're thinking without him being here.	00:14:57
	So we'll be out there next week.	00:15:03
	So, so you know all that's all coming together and I think our.	00:15:07
	They made anywhere from 40 to $50 million available for housing.	00:15:12
	But it was all low income housing.	00:15:18
	And we're talking about middle income teachers, nurses.	00:15:21
	Doctors, you know, people who are.	00:15:26
	You needing housing but they don't have it.	00:15:30
	And that that's what we want to do here in the city is to try to get.	00:15:34
	You know, I mean, you got money from your thing, but that was meant for, you know, a different group of people. But I think our	00:15:38
	biggest problem in attracting people to Sakura is teachers or nurses or not. I mean, the housing is really very, very.	00:15:45
	Horror and they do have grants like moving to work grants and stuff like that that we can apply for as well if we're going to work	00:15:53
	with your office. Hopefully once we get once we get the land straightened out, is to then try to bring in developers who will then	00:16:00
	work with you with incentives and stuff and and get this middle income housing thing going.	00:16:06
	You know we need to, we need to put together and I think it's a beautiful place to do up there. If we can, you know we can we can	00:16:14
	have walking paths and and recreation areas and people are running horses, they could use the stables over there. So there's a lot	00:16:20
	of things to attract people to be up there. So that that's kind of what we're working on.	00:16:25
	I know it's going to come up and I know maybe they've talked to the council there, but really said anything to me except for a	00:16:32
	letter they sent me and I think they sent it to you also the electric Co-op.	00:16:37
	Did not really in good faith answer the question that I asked?	00:16:43
	And and I know they have the answers, they just didn't want to share it with us.	00:16:48
	So the other thing, and you're going to be getting some information from our financial people.	00:16:53
	That.	00:16:58
	The corporate, the coop is going to be.	00:17:00
	Beneficiary.	00:17:03
	Of an extra 2 to $3 billion.	00:17:04
	The tri-state is going to borrow.	00:17:08
	To stay afloat because they're losing. They're losing.	00:17:10
	They're losing.	00:17:15
	Users by the droves. And so what's happening is that they're going to have to borrow money to stay afloat, and that money that	00:17:18
	they borrow will be hooked on to Sakura electric co-ops bill.	00:17:25
	And I can give you more information and the polar we're trying to get that put together with Ed Ras the information that we've	00:17:33
	gotten and this is this is again it's it's.	00:17:38
	It's real numbers that we're going to tell you.	00:17:44
	And I would like to tell that to the Co-op trustees to start really seriously thinking about what the next five years is going to	00:17:47
	bring to the electrical rates.	00:17:51
	Yeah, they'll be losing about 7:00.	00:17:57
	They'll be losing at least 7 some.	00:17:59
	Yeah, So, and of course the big ones, they're losing the big ones in Denver. And the other one is what's it called power.	00:18:02
	Books that I can't remember the name of that, but but the bottom line is.	00:18:09
	In order for tri-state to continue working.	00:18:13
	And losing all these users.	00:18:18
	That's that those.	00:18:21
	Are going to be part of the Coops responsibility.	00:18:23
	Because that's a that's a contract that I made and and.	00:18:28
	Just to give you some numbers, it's going to be this coop will be responsible for 1% of that loan.	00:18:32
	And I think we're getting that letter ready for you so you can hopefully by the next meeting you'll have it.	00:18:38
	I think.	00:18:45
	Look who's wrong.	00:18:48
	Who's willing to lend somebody that kind of money if they're losing that kind of business?	00:18:50
	I'm just curious.	00:18:57
	You're absolutely right. I think you know, before it was tri-state.	00:19:00
	It was what?	00:19:05
	It wasn't Touchstone, but they were part of touchstone energy. So what happened is.	00:19:08
	What happens is they get swallowed up by a bigger company.	00:19:13
	And so the company that and again I'm maybe speaking out of turn, but their their companies stay in Utah.	00:19:17
	That want to swallow these energy producers and so.	00:19:25
	That's, you know that that's that's where the money's coming from. It's from a company that wants to.	00:19:32
	Take advantage of the situation and be the.	00:19:39
	White Knights, what they call white knight in the in the acquisition business is that's what's in my opinion that's what's going	00:19:42
	to happen and those those loans are going to come home to roost with all the different co-ops that are still in the business. And	00:19:47
	then rumor, rumor has it that they're going to come to the club and ask them to extend that.	00:19:53
	Their their contract with tri-state at least another 10 years. So 2050 or 202065, yeah, because they will have to do that to have	00:19:59
	to make the loan and I hope and I hope that the Coop put some sunshine on it. I don't see Mr. Williams here today but I hope, I	00:20:06
	hope the Coop with some sunshine on this and and.	00:20:13
	We have some information now. They did. They did share with us what they pay in gross receipts.	00:20:22
	And all you have to do is do some math and work it backwards.	00:20:28
	If you work it backwards that the X amount of money that they pay in gross receipts.	00:20:33
	You can work it backwards to see how much the billing in the city.	00:20:40
	And surprising how much it is and that those CRS or gross receipts.	00:20:45
	They don't include the city, the schools.	00:20:52
	Anybody who pays our tech.	00:20:56
	That they don't pick gross receipts and so if you take that 1.25 million.	00:20:59
	And you work it backwards.	00:21:04
	Comes to about 15,000,000.	00:21:06
	That's that's just the Billings if you work at, if you work it out so.	00:21:08
	The possibility and I you know, so and then I asked him about where they spent the $44,000,000 and they weren't. They weren't able	00:21:14
	to tell me that. If you ask me where we spent the 20 million for sewers, I can tell you I spent on Herald, we spent it on	00:21:20
	chaparral. We spent it on all these areas because when we go to borrow money from USDA.	00:21:27
	We have to put together a packet that says exactly where we're going to spend the money.	00:21:34
	And I know they have it.	00:21:39
	That's when I wanted to see what they did for Sakura. I don't. I don't see that.	00:21:40
	The other thing.	00:21:45
	The the the 44 million that they're in debt for.	00:21:47
	Where's the city of Sakura is paying for a lot of it, and so we would need to know where they, where they did the improvements, or	00:21:52
	if they did any.	00:21:56
	Would it be safe to say what you're alluding to as?	00:22:02
	That the coop.	00:22:04
	You would hope that they would look outside of tri-state like you've been asking them to. Is that what?	00:22:09
	You're alluding to the Simpson exactly, and knowing this information?	00:22:14
	That you that's being said, you would hope that they would look for other options.	00:22:19
	Yeah. And and the buyout?	00:22:24
	They haven't even explored that and in my opinion and that I'm getting this from our consultants is going to be about 12:15	00:22:28
	million.	00:22:32
	And because for Kit Carson, which is about.	00:22:37
	Twice as big was 36 million.	00:22:40
	And so this buyout can be.	00:22:43
	Actually managed.	00:22:46
	By the change in the rates, like Kit Carson did. But so you know, and the other thing is I just the city, oh, rabbi, where we're	00:22:48
	going to get this money to do this, you know.	00:22:53
	We have just to try to fix part of our source.	00:22:59
	Borrowed $20 million.	00:23:03
	We're going to borrow another 8 to 10 million to do the rest of Evergreen and Pinon. So we're you know, we're in the business of	00:23:06
	borrowing money and and getting user rates and and getting getting it paid. So it's not as if.	00:23:13
	Borrowing $20 million to do a new electrical grid is anything.	00:23:21
	Beyond our abilities because we have, we have borrowed money.	00:23:26
	And we have used it for utilities.	00:23:30
	And we and and you know you have to satisfy the people who loan money to you as to how you're going to pay it back and I think	00:23:32
	we're going to do that.	00:23:36
	So I mean that's that's.	00:23:41
	Mr. Anaya, who is the chairman, sent a letter back to me and I think you guys all got a copy of that, but those those answers were	00:23:44
	partial.	00:23:48
	And then his comment was well.	00:23:53
	We'll share with you what the four year plan is. Just attach it to the letter so I can see it.	00:23:56
	You know, that would be simple. And again, I would still like to see where they spent that money, the 44. And you know that that's	00:24:02
	just simple to me because when you go to borrow money, you have to designate where you spend, where you're going to spend it.	00:24:07
	That's the only way to loan you the money.	00:24:12
	And those documents never made it to us.	00:24:18
	So why?	00:24:22
	Whole business.	00:24:23
	Executive session.	00:24:29
	The personnel changes.	00:24:34
	I got it here, you know, you see that these are.	00:24:37
	All administrative people that are getting these increases.	00:24:41
	I am afraid that I, you know, is that I don't want to lose any of our.	00:24:44
	Brain trust. If you want to. If you want to.	00:24:48
	Coin us praise Donald has done a great job and I think we and you know I.	00:24:51
	We have had some great continuity in our city administration and we have had people that really work very, very hard and this is	00:24:57
	what we're this is what I proposed is these, these increases for Donald.	00:25:04
	Polo. Ruby Lloyd.	00:25:12
	Cheyenne and Christy.	00:25:16
	On this is all administrative.	00:25:19
	The ones that are that are not, as Jacob Gonzalez to the dispatchers, a new hire and Caitlin Garza dispatches the new hire. So I	00:25:22
	would hope you would endorse the.	00:25:27
	Increases for them because I really think.	00:25:34
	We're we're continuing to keep.	00:25:37
	Keep the city financially sound and really.	00:25:40
	Trying to replace anybody on this list would be impossible.	00:25:44
	We're also working with our utility crew to make sure that.	00:25:50
	They're getting their salaries increased enough so we keep them and not have them. You know, people that are going out to the	00:25:54
	range to work with the contractors, the Bureau of Reclamation has also taken our people, the conservancies have taken our people,	00:26:00
	and they're those we have to be as long as we're.	00:26:06
	Solvent I think we just have to be compared to be competitive.	00:26:13
	I don't want Donald to apply for the county manager job.	00:26:19
	So that's what we're trying to do that so.	00:26:26
	I would hope that you guys would endorse that.	00:26:29
	Come here, Mr. Farming, pushing to approve personnel changes as presented.	00:26:33
	Moved a second a discussion. I'm open for discussion on this side. Is it a, is it straight across the board there or?	00:26:42
	It was straight across the board already, but this is really specifically for administrative staff.	00:26:50
	It's then I and and and I.	00:26:55
	I justified in that.	00:26:59
	We're trying to keep our continuity of our administration and the work they're doing and I believe, believe me, I'm very critical	00:27:02
	about them doing something and they're not doing something and and they kind of put up with that. But I mean I expect them to	00:27:07
	perform as to what, you know what is being done.	00:27:13
	And I don't have a problem with approving, I just want to make sure that the other employees get.	00:27:19
	A good raise as well.	00:27:26
	My my my.	00:27:28
	Future for July new fiscal year is that everybody is making a minimum of $20.00 an hour.	00:27:32
	That's that's what I'm shooting for.	00:27:39
	The lowest employee.	00:27:41
	Salary. It should be at $20.00 an hour. I think right now it's in about 15 or 16.	00:27:44
	But but but I would like to see that.	00:27:49
	At 20 and I think we continue to stay solvent, we haven't raised groceries taxed, we're continuing to get money from outside.	00:27:52
	Grants and so I think.	00:28:02
	That's where we're headed.	00:28:03
	Is that we keep them. I agree with you and I think.	00:28:05
	You know, a lot of it has to do with if we continue to function.	00:28:11
	And that we're not dysfunctional.	00:28:15
	And I think the people in the lower echelons are going to see this and say, what the hell, well, you know, part of the way that	00:28:17
	they're.	00:28:22
	Salaries raising is partly due to the people here that are keeping it.	00:28:26
	You know, keeping a track on all the money because I seen all the other regular employees, like they're everywhere helping with	00:28:31
	everybody. They help. They they team tag and stuff. That was my only concern too, is just that if it was.	00:28:38
	If there was some look to make sure that the the people at the ground level 2 are being compensated as well. That's good to hear	00:28:44
	that in July. Your hope is to.	00:28:49
	Employees, if they take on additional job duties or get an additional certification. Those raises are immediate as well, Sir,	00:29:07
	aren't they?	00:29:11
	Certain pictures are automatic.	00:29:17
	That they're getting increases but but but the bottom line is is that.	00:29:19
	Everybody will be coming up and we did and I think Ruby didn't we do an increase of.	00:29:25
	Was already done across the board and in July we will look at.	00:29:32
	We'll try to bring all the people up from the bottom and we'll look across the board again and I think and we've been pretty	00:29:41
	solvent, I mean, you know, and I think those raises can come again in July.	00:29:46
	And I may hold these people's raises.	00:29:53
	Not getting them.	00:29:56
	In July. So we'll have to we'll have to see how we do that and it should be it'll be done in the budget Committee and you know	00:29:58
	then we have and I I always talk about it in public. I don't want to do this behind anybody's back because we need we need to	00:30:04
	discuss it in public. Yeah. Not supported and I'd like to see that too. That's great. Yeah.	00:30:10
	OK. All in favor.	00:30:18
	Thank you. Thank you. And I'm sure these guys thank you for their your confidence in them. The the next one business registration	00:30:21
	is wake up with makeup. This is Deja Molina permanent cosmetic tattooing. Is that like eyebrows and things?	00:30:29
	On 1261 frontage Rd. Northwest.	00:30:40
	I second it all in favor.	00:30:47
	All right. Thank you and.	00:30:51
	You know, I'm just, I'm hoping if we get the electrical grid, it really will spill out for everybody as far as.	00:30:54
	Benefits, do we have any numbers yet from the they're working on it, they're working on it, They they we did get a number as to	00:31:03
	the cost of the equipment and all that, but then we have to get the rate number and that's what we look like for the consumer,	00:31:08
	right. Yeah they know they got to see that but but again.	00:31:14
	Hi, well.	00:31:21
	I want to say well what the Public Library is having an eclipse.	00:31:24
	Harding and near and dear to my heart and Chelsea always, Chelsea always comes through with my native.	00:31:28
	Celebration of what we call holy. This is where everybody gets to.	00:31:37
	Revelin some.	00:31:43
	Color that you get powder and stuff like that thrown on you. There's different colors it's got holy and this is going to be on	00:31:45
	March 25th. That'll be.	00:31:50
	That's today is the 19th, so it's a week from yesterday.	00:31:55
	At 3:35.	00:32:00
	And traditional Indian snacks and throw authentic holy powders.	00:32:02
	And you can get henna tattoos that are temporary.	00:32:08
	Not permanent makeup.	00:32:12
	OK. Next meeting.	00:32:16
	Is coming up on the 2nd of April.	00:32:18

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	Microphone, here we go.	00:00:00
	City Council Meeting Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 Roll call please.	00:00:03
	Mayor Basker here.	00:00:09
	Councillor Travis Lopez here.	00:00:11
	Councillor Dean.	00:00:13
	Councillor Fleming here, Councillor Ocampo.	00:00:15
	Councillor Ogana.	00:00:20
	Councillor Partridge here.	00:00:22
	Councillor Romero.	00:00:25
	Councillor Salomy.	00:00:28
	Here by phone.	00:00:30
	We do have a quorum.	00:00:32
	Is everybody here?	00:00:38
	Oh, my pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and the Republic for which it stands.	00:00:42
	Nation indivisible with liberty and trust.	00:00:53
	Councillor Saloni, did you?	00:00:59
	Sure. Did I give you that? OK. Thank you.	00:01:02
	All righty, Consent agenda.	00:01:09
	Mr. Mayor, Mr. Fleming.	00:01:14
	Of the percentage agenda as presented.	00:01:17
	Move the seconded discussion and a discussion all in favor.	00:01:20
	On a public forum.	00:01:25
	Anybody got anything?	00:01:28
	Exciting to say.	00:01:30
	Nope. Ready then.	00:01:33
	H Bank system for City of Sakura Youth Center bid award. Who's going to do that?	00:01:35
	Hello.	00:01:41
	Yes, we had. We went out forbid.	00:01:44
	And bids were opened March 1st and we had four bids.	00:01:47
	Western mechanical.	00:01:51
	MGSEZI construction and how to meals, plumbing.	00:01:53
	And the lowest bid was 75 thousand 4/07/07.	00:01:59
	And I recommend that we'd go to Western Mechanical.	00:02:03
	This is this, You know, the youth center. This is a heating and cooling, heating and cooling. Miss Chavez Lopez.	00:02:12
	That's really a little bit. They're not going to come back and ask for a change order or anything, are they? No, ma'am.	00:02:18
	You don't let him.	00:02:31
	That's why I pull on everybody's getting a raise. These guys watch our money.	00:02:35
	So anyway, anybody.	00:02:40
	Anybody interested in?	00:02:42
	I mean, we have approved the bid.	00:02:45
	Move to second hand with a caveat that make sure that that bid is adequate for what they are bidding on.	00:02:47
	All in favor.	00:02:55
	I love you.	00:02:57
	OK, Resolution #24-03-19 participation in the 2024 State Road Fund.	00:02:59
	Mr. Monet. Mr. Mayor, thanks to your hard work up in Santa Fe, we were awarded some additional funds from the New Mexico	00:03:07
	Department of Transportation to keep working on Manzanera St. We'll be applying the end of next. Actually, it's the beginning of	00:03:13
	the cycle. It's called the PF, a project feasibility form to apply for even more funding.	00:03:20
	Because we were over 400,000 short in the original.	00:03:27
	Scope of work, so we couldn't.	00:03:32
	Build as big of a project as we wanted to.	00:03:35
	But again, thanks to you and your hard work in Santa Fe, we have at least 125,000 more of additional funds and they require a	00:03:37
	resolution.	00:03:41
	And I gotta say, it's also our our lobbyist and.	00:03:46
	People asking me, you know, we did spend a little bit of money on lobbyists, but.	00:03:50
	It really this is the biggest amount of money we've ever gotten on anything.	00:03:55
	So anyway the and Donald, Donald's very nice to say it was me but these guys Donald's always doing all the paperwork and getting	00:03:59
	it right so so that we we get that money because you know what happened was.	00:04:05
	We got a lot of money from Mountaineers, but it wouldn't go past 6th St.	00:04:12
	That's that's how much things have changed.	00:04:17
	As to the bidding.	00:04:20
	So we could get that participation.	00:04:23
	A 2nd.	00:04:28
	Moved and seconded discussion.	00:04:32
	All in favor, aye.	00:04:34
	New business.	00:04:38
	Just to let you know, we met with the EPA today.	00:04:40
	They're moving ahead with the.	00:04:44
	Superfund site cleanup.	00:04:46
	The city has been asked.	00:04:49
	They call it Access.	00:04:52
	But basically they want to use our.	00:04:54
	Land that is at the corner of Newberry.	00:04:57
	And.	00:05:01
	Lopezville.	00:05:04
	That corner there, they're going to put the facility.	00:05:06
	To pump the water, probably for 15 to 20 years.	00:05:09
	Into the.	00:05:15
	Borrow pit in the pond that's out there.	00:05:19
	They are pretty well on track to get that done.	00:05:23
	They're also on track to clean up the old Eagle Pitcher building that has asbestos in it.	00:05:28
	But they may fall short as to the funding for that. They will probably clean up all the dirt.	00:05:34
	Around that area.	00:05:41
	And as you know, we have $700,000 for a spec building that we can build out there and so we may have that.	00:05:43
	Released to us by the end of the year or summer or next year.	00:05:50
	But we have four years to spend it.	00:05:55
	And they are.	00:05:57
	Donald, were they sure that they were going to be able to demolish, I mean?	00:06:00
	Clean that building out so we could demolish it, but they didn't have enough funds to finish SLAB.	00:06:05
	That's a good question. From what I heard today, they.	00:06:13
	They have the funding to take care of to remediate the building, then we're responsible for removing it right, for the mall,	00:06:17
	right. So anything that's hazardous they have the the then they're going to clean that.	00:06:23
	And and so and they're also going to drill three more wells.	00:06:30
	To define the plume and they they.	00:06:34
	Committed to having a public hearing about that.	00:06:38
	One of the wells is going to go.	00:06:41
	Actually by the.	00:06:44
	Lopez will.	00:06:47
	And and whether it takes that, where it takes that?	00:06:49
	Acute left hand turn just before that in that area back towards the golf course.	00:06:53
	And two more other wells too.	00:06:58
	Continue to characterize where the plume is.	00:07:01
	So that's going to get done and then they want to put the facility.	00:07:05
	On that area where the Newberry and and Lopez will come.	00:07:09
	At a 90, they're going to put in that city property, so they're going to plan to do that.	00:07:14
	Hopefully by.	00:07:19
	The West side of.	00:07:21
	On the West side where it meets Newberry.	00:07:24
	That city property? Yes, ma'am.	00:07:29
	Pond is not city property and that's that's where the catches it belongs to a family.	00:07:32
	They're getting it appraised.	00:07:40
	We're finding a way to to.	00:07:43
	Make that city property.	00:07:48
	Or if they don't make it, it's already determined that they want to put the water in there.	00:07:50
	But the way.	00:07:56
	I think the owner wants to.	00:07:58
	Salad so you don't have the responsibility anymore, but if we own it.	00:08:01
	I'm trying to find what the lease is, what the EPA will pay us so I can amortize the amount of money we come up with to buy it.	00:08:06
	Over 15 years.	00:08:15
	So that we get it back over a period of time with interest, so, so.	00:08:17
	The other, the other thing would be to try to go back to the state. Unfortunately the legislative session is over, but it really.	00:08:23
	There's two things that will happen with that pawn.	00:08:30
	One of them is being used to clean up the.	00:08:34
	Contamination of the TCe or whatever that's called.	00:08:39
	So it's a super fun sight. The other thing is.	00:08:43
	The EPA has given us a consultant.	00:08:46
	Who is going to give us a diagram of making that into a park?	00:08:50
	And so for outdoor recreation. So I'm going to try to go to the governor's office.	00:08:56
	To see if we can.	00:09:03
	Get that pond for those two things, which is.	00:09:05
	EPA and in the future having a recreation outdoor facility that could be used for day camping.	00:09:10
	I envision it like I don't know if I kind of maybe I said that in my campaign, but Deming has a water park and Santa Rosa has a	00:09:18
	water park. You know, you can put these.	00:09:23
	Floating boats on it and kids, people can kayak on it, they can tent and then also have areas where they can camp over the	00:09:28
	weekend, things like that, so.	00:09:34
	They're they're committed today to give me a design for that.	00:09:40
	So once we put both of those together, maybe we can get the money for it.	00:09:45
	But the other alternative would be to use city funds.	00:09:49
	Or borrow.	00:09:53
	They'll be paid off by a lease that EPA makes.	00:09:54
	For 15 years with us. The other thing is they want city water rights and we'll be able to give them that. Then they they have to,	00:09:58
	they're going to put the water into the aquifer.	00:10:03
	And get credit for that. But there's an X amount of evaporation that the state engineer wants to have water rights for, and that's	00:10:09
	about 25 acre feet.	00:10:14
	And so we have that and then we're going to be working with them to get give that to them.	00:10:19
	So that was one big thing.	00:10:25
	We are. We are still, as we said, we're working on the CDBG project at Cuba Rd.	00:10:29
	We're trying to get it was $400,000 short.	00:10:34
	We thought 800,000 would be enough, but it's a million two.	00:10:39
	So we're asking hopefully by April we'll know what's going on with that. We have received the two natural gas.	00:10:42
	Garbage Trucks but.	00:10:53
	They drove all the way out from California.	00:10:57
	We put them to use and they died. They went into, they went into limp mode. So then the other ones, we have three dump trucks	00:11:00
	also.	00:11:04
	So that's that we have those working I think.	00:11:09
	The the two projects that are going on.	00:11:13
	The junior high school.	00:11:16
	And Marianne?	00:11:18
	This building, we're working with the contractors to get the rock. There's a lot of rock out there. And so they're putting that	00:11:21
	rock in our facility and we're going to be working with a vendor to be able to trade that rock.	00:11:28
	For a base course.	00:11:36
	So we're working on that. What else can I tell you? Um.	00:11:41
	The road projects, I don't know if Donald kind of laid those out for you, but we've got lots of Rd. projects. It's just a matter	00:11:48
	of getting the weather and together and get it, get it done.	00:11:53
	The monument again, we got money for that. We're going to put it out there by the by the Convention Center.	00:12:00
	So that's going the the the skin for that rodeo is coming along.	00:12:07
	I think.	00:12:11
	Dez and Cheyenne.	00:12:15
	Finally got this thing signed with our.	00:12:16
	Artist is that done deal?	00:12:19
	So we're going to have a major artist on July 3rd.	00:12:24
	We need to just advertise the heck out of it so we can rent the RV area. Donald, can we wait till the next meeting to discuss this	00:12:28
	part of the contract He's playing in Santa Fe on the.	00:12:33
	I didn't. I didn't say Garth Brooks.	00:12:42
	I just said artist now. You already gave it away then?	00:12:49
	I know the one going to say his name.	00:12:53
	But anyway, just.	00:12:55
	Now they don't listen to this show here.	00:12:57
	Don't. Don't put that in the newspaper. Please, the reality show.	00:13:01
	Anyway, so that's exciting.	00:13:07
	This will be our first if we pull it off.	00:13:09
	I'm hoping that we continue this activity maybe even for like the big wrestling tournament, you know, regional wrestling	00:13:11
	tournament where you have all these people here and they have a show for them afterwards. You know, we're working on trying to get	00:13:18
	the stage, we're trying Mr. Fleming is working on the on the sound because that's that's really, really important.	00:13:24
	So we have an and for the Convention Center as well. We're bringing in housing authorities from the from all over the state to	00:13:32
	come for training now in March and in April, but I'm hoping to get like SW Narrow which is 6 states.	00:13:40
	To come in and do a whole week of training and stuff for and we'll have a lot coming in from. I think people are realizing we have	00:13:48
	a facility that.	00:13:52
	The neon sign is coming up.	00:13:58
	The heck is going to.	00:14:02
	And I think A1.	00:14:05
	Concrete SMA is going to help us. So that's been it's all working well. We eventually, hopefully we're going to get Hwy. 60 fixed	00:14:08
	up too.	00:14:12
	The other thing we're bringing in is we're getting the surveyor, you know, I talked about this earlier, is trying to do a	00:14:16
	subdivision out there. We're getting a surveyor who is going to get information for the realtor that we're going to need to make a	00:14:22
	relationship with. And I think the council is going to have to approve that, but we'll bring that to you.	00:14:27
	Yes, Sir. I'm meeting with him next week because as we mentioned before, a part of the land grant.	00:14:34
	Back when we became a city, none of it had legal descriptions. And then the late 1800s and early 1900s.	00:14:40
	People would come in and request to see the city deed it to them. They said, you know, we've been forming it for 20 years or	00:14:46
	something. So then those legal descriptions were created, but everything else that was leftover doesn't have legal description. So	00:14:52
	it's kind of hard to tell this guy exactly where we're thinking without him being here.	00:14:57
	So we'll be out there next week.	00:15:03
	So, so you know all that's all coming together and I think our.	00:15:07
	They made anywhere from 40 to $50 million available for housing.	00:15:12
	But it was all low income housing.	00:15:18
	And we're talking about middle income teachers, nurses.	00:15:21
	Doctors, you know, people who are.	00:15:26
	You needing housing but they don't have it.	00:15:30
	And that that's what we want to do here in the city is to try to get.	00:15:34
	You know, I mean, you got money from your thing, but that was meant for, you know, a different group of people. But I think our	00:15:38
	biggest problem in attracting people to Sakura is teachers or nurses or not. I mean, the housing is really very, very.	00:15:45
	Horror and they do have grants like moving to work grants and stuff like that that we can apply for as well if we're going to work	00:15:53
	with your office. Hopefully once we get once we get the land straightened out, is to then try to bring in developers who will then	00:16:00
	work with you with incentives and stuff and and get this middle income housing thing going.	00:16:06
	You know we need to, we need to put together and I think it's a beautiful place to do up there. If we can, you know we can we can	00:16:14
	have walking paths and and recreation areas and people are running horses, they could use the stables over there. So there's a lot	00:16:20
	of things to attract people to be up there. So that that's kind of what we're working on.	00:16:25
	I know it's going to come up and I know maybe they've talked to the council there, but really said anything to me except for a	00:16:32
	letter they sent me and I think they sent it to you also the electric Co-op.	00:16:37
	Did not really in good faith answer the question that I asked?	00:16:43
	And and I know they have the answers, they just didn't want to share it with us.	00:16:48
	So the other thing, and you're going to be getting some information from our financial people.	00:16:53
	That.	00:16:58
	The corporate, the coop is going to be.	00:17:00
	Beneficiary.	00:17:03
	Of an extra 2 to $3 billion.	00:17:04
	The tri-state is going to borrow.	00:17:08
	To stay afloat because they're losing. They're losing.	00:17:10
	They're losing.	00:17:15
	Users by the droves. And so what's happening is that they're going to have to borrow money to stay afloat, and that money that	00:17:18
	they borrow will be hooked on to Sakura electric co-ops bill.	00:17:25
	And I can give you more information and the polar we're trying to get that put together with Ed Ras the information that we've	00:17:33
	gotten and this is this is again it's it's.	00:17:38
	It's real numbers that we're going to tell you.	00:17:44
	And I would like to tell that to the Co-op trustees to start really seriously thinking about what the next five years is going to	00:17:47
	bring to the electrical rates.	00:17:51
	Yeah, they'll be losing about 7:00.	00:17:57
	They'll be losing at least 7 some.	00:17:59
	Yeah, So, and of course the big ones, they're losing the big ones in Denver. And the other one is what's it called power.	00:18:02
	Books that I can't remember the name of that, but but the bottom line is.	00:18:09
	In order for tri-state to continue working.	00:18:13
	And losing all these users.	00:18:18
	That's that those.	00:18:21
	Are going to be part of the Coops responsibility.	00:18:23
	Because that's a that's a contract that I made and and.	00:18:28
	Just to give you some numbers, it's going to be this coop will be responsible for 1% of that loan.	00:18:32
	And I think we're getting that letter ready for you so you can hopefully by the next meeting you'll have it.	00:18:38
	I think.	00:18:45
	Look who's wrong.	00:18:48
	Who's willing to lend somebody that kind of money if they're losing that kind of business?	00:18:50
	I'm just curious.	00:18:57
	You're absolutely right. I think you know, before it was tri-state.	00:19:00
	It was what?	00:19:05
	It wasn't Touchstone, but they were part of touchstone energy. So what happened is.	00:19:08
	What happens is they get swallowed up by a bigger company.	00:19:13
	And so the company that and again I'm maybe speaking out of turn, but their their companies stay in Utah.	00:19:17
	That want to swallow these energy producers and so.	00:19:25
	That's, you know that that's that's where the money's coming from. It's from a company that wants to.	00:19:32
	Take advantage of the situation and be the.	00:19:39
	White Knights, what they call white knight in the in the acquisition business is that's what's in my opinion that's what's going	00:19:42
	to happen and those those loans are going to come home to roost with all the different co-ops that are still in the business. And	00:19:47
	then rumor, rumor has it that they're going to come to the club and ask them to extend that.	00:19:53
	Their their contract with tri-state at least another 10 years. So 2050 or 202065, yeah, because they will have to do that to have	00:19:59
	to make the loan and I hope and I hope that the Coop put some sunshine on it. I don't see Mr. Williams here today but I hope, I	00:20:06
	hope the Coop with some sunshine on this and and.	00:20:13
	We have some information now. They did. They did share with us what they pay in gross receipts.	00:20:22
	And all you have to do is do some math and work it backwards.	00:20:28
	If you work it backwards that the X amount of money that they pay in gross receipts.	00:20:33
	You can work it backwards to see how much the billing in the city.	00:20:40
	And surprising how much it is and that those CRS or gross receipts.	00:20:45
	They don't include the city, the schools.	00:20:52
	Anybody who pays our tech.	00:20:56
	That they don't pick gross receipts and so if you take that 1.25 million.	00:20:59
	And you work it backwards.	00:21:04
	Comes to about 15,000,000.	00:21:06
	That's that's just the Billings if you work at, if you work it out so.	00:21:08
	The possibility and I you know, so and then I asked him about where they spent the $44,000,000 and they weren't. They weren't able	00:21:14
	to tell me that. If you ask me where we spent the 20 million for sewers, I can tell you I spent on Herald, we spent it on	00:21:20
	chaparral. We spent it on all these areas because when we go to borrow money from USDA.	00:21:27
	We have to put together a packet that says exactly where we're going to spend the money.	00:21:34
	And I know they have it.	00:21:39
	That's when I wanted to see what they did for Sakura. I don't. I don't see that.	00:21:40
	The other thing.	00:21:45
	The the the 44 million that they're in debt for.	00:21:47
	Where's the city of Sakura is paying for a lot of it, and so we would need to know where they, where they did the improvements, or	00:21:52
	if they did any.	00:21:56
	Would it be safe to say what you're alluding to as?	00:22:02
	That the coop.	00:22:04
	You would hope that they would look outside of tri-state like you've been asking them to. Is that what?	00:22:09
	You're alluding to the Simpson exactly, and knowing this information?	00:22:14
	That you that's being said, you would hope that they would look for other options.	00:22:19
	Yeah. And and the buyout?	00:22:24
	They haven't even explored that and in my opinion and that I'm getting this from our consultants is going to be about 12:15	00:22:28
	million.	00:22:32
	And because for Kit Carson, which is about.	00:22:37
	Twice as big was 36 million.	00:22:40
	And so this buyout can be.	00:22:43
	Actually managed.	00:22:46
	By the change in the rates, like Kit Carson did. But so you know, and the other thing is I just the city, oh, rabbi, where we're	00:22:48
	going to get this money to do this, you know.	00:22:53
	We have just to try to fix part of our source.	00:22:59
	Borrowed $20 million.	00:23:03
	We're going to borrow another 8 to 10 million to do the rest of Evergreen and Pinon. So we're you know, we're in the business of	00:23:06
	borrowing money and and getting user rates and and getting getting it paid. So it's not as if.	00:23:13
	Borrowing $20 million to do a new electrical grid is anything.	00:23:21
	Beyond our abilities because we have, we have borrowed money.	00:23:26
	And we have used it for utilities.	00:23:30
	And we and and you know you have to satisfy the people who loan money to you as to how you're going to pay it back and I think	00:23:32
	we're going to do that.	00:23:36
	So I mean that's that's.	00:23:41
	Mr. Anaya, who is the chairman, sent a letter back to me and I think you guys all got a copy of that, but those those answers were	00:23:44
	partial.	00:23:48
	And then his comment was well.	00:23:53
	We'll share with you what the four year plan is. Just attach it to the letter so I can see it.	00:23:56
	You know, that would be simple. And again, I would still like to see where they spent that money, the 44. And you know that that's	00:24:02
	just simple to me because when you go to borrow money, you have to designate where you spend, where you're going to spend it.	00:24:07
	That's the only way to loan you the money.	00:24:12
	And those documents never made it to us.	00:24:18
	So why?	00:24:22
	Whole business.	00:24:23
	Executive session.	00:24:29
	The personnel changes.	00:24:34
	I got it here, you know, you see that these are.	00:24:37
	All administrative people that are getting these increases.	00:24:41
	I am afraid that I, you know, is that I don't want to lose any of our.	00:24:44
	Brain trust. If you want to. If you want to.	00:24:48
	Coin us praise Donald has done a great job and I think we and you know I.	00:24:51
	We have had some great continuity in our city administration and we have had people that really work very, very hard and this is	00:24:57
	what we're this is what I proposed is these, these increases for Donald.	00:25:04
	Polo. Ruby Lloyd.	00:25:12
	Cheyenne and Christy.	00:25:16
	On this is all administrative.	00:25:19
	The ones that are that are not, as Jacob Gonzalez to the dispatchers, a new hire and Caitlin Garza dispatches the new hire. So I	00:25:22
	would hope you would endorse the.	00:25:27
	Increases for them because I really think.	00:25:34
	We're we're continuing to keep.	00:25:37
	Keep the city financially sound and really.	00:25:40
	Trying to replace anybody on this list would be impossible.	00:25:44
	We're also working with our utility crew to make sure that.	00:25:50
	They're getting their salaries increased enough so we keep them and not have them. You know, people that are going out to the	00:25:54
	range to work with the contractors, the Bureau of Reclamation has also taken our people, the conservancies have taken our people,	00:26:00
	and they're those we have to be as long as we're.	00:26:06
	Solvent I think we just have to be compared to be competitive.	00:26:13
	I don't want Donald to apply for the county manager job.	00:26:19
	So that's what we're trying to do that so.	00:26:26
	I would hope that you guys would endorse that.	00:26:29
	Come here, Mr. Farming, pushing to approve personnel changes as presented.	00:26:33
	Moved a second a discussion. I'm open for discussion on this side. Is it a, is it straight across the board there or?	00:26:42
	It was straight across the board already, but this is really specifically for administrative staff.	00:26:50
	It's then I and and and I.	00:26:55
	I justified in that.	00:26:59
	We're trying to keep our continuity of our administration and the work they're doing and I believe, believe me, I'm very critical	00:27:02
	about them doing something and they're not doing something and and they kind of put up with that. But I mean I expect them to	00:27:07
	perform as to what, you know what is being done.	00:27:13
	And I don't have a problem with approving, I just want to make sure that the other employees get.	00:27:19
	A good raise as well.	00:27:26
	My my my.	00:27:28
	Future for July new fiscal year is that everybody is making a minimum of $20.00 an hour.	00:27:32
	That's that's what I'm shooting for.	00:27:39
	The lowest employee.	00:27:41
	Salary. It should be at $20.00 an hour. I think right now it's in about 15 or 16.	00:27:44
	But but but I would like to see that.	00:27:49
	At 20 and I think we continue to stay solvent, we haven't raised groceries taxed, we're continuing to get money from outside.	00:27:52
	Grants and so I think.	00:28:02
	That's where we're headed.	00:28:03
	Is that we keep them. I agree with you and I think.	00:28:05
	You know, a lot of it has to do with if we continue to function.	00:28:11
	And that we're not dysfunctional.	00:28:15
	And I think the people in the lower echelons are going to see this and say, what the hell, well, you know, part of the way that	00:28:17
	they're.	00:28:22
	Salaries raising is partly due to the people here that are keeping it.	00:28:26
	You know, keeping a track on all the money because I seen all the other regular employees, like they're everywhere helping with	00:28:31
	everybody. They help. They they team tag and stuff. That was my only concern too, is just that if it was.	00:28:38
	If there was some look to make sure that the the people at the ground level 2 are being compensated as well. That's good to hear	00:28:44
	that in July. Your hope is to.	00:28:49
	Employees, if they take on additional job duties or get an additional certification. Those raises are immediate as well, Sir,	00:29:07
	aren't they?	00:29:11
	Certain pictures are automatic.	00:29:17
	That they're getting increases but but but the bottom line is is that.	00:29:19
	Everybody will be coming up and we did and I think Ruby didn't we do an increase of.	00:29:25
	Was already done across the board and in July we will look at.	00:29:32
	We'll try to bring all the people up from the bottom and we'll look across the board again and I think and we've been pretty	00:29:41
	solvent, I mean, you know, and I think those raises can come again in July.	00:29:46
	And I may hold these people's raises.	00:29:53
	Not getting them.	00:29:56
	In July. So we'll have to we'll have to see how we do that and it should be it'll be done in the budget Committee and you know	00:29:58
	then we have and I I always talk about it in public. I don't want to do this behind anybody's back because we need we need to	00:30:04
	discuss it in public. Yeah. Not supported and I'd like to see that too. That's great. Yeah.	00:30:10
	OK. All in favor.	00:30:18
	Thank you. Thank you. And I'm sure these guys thank you for their your confidence in them. The the next one business registration	00:30:21
	is wake up with makeup. This is Deja Molina permanent cosmetic tattooing. Is that like eyebrows and things?	00:30:29
	On 1261 frontage Rd. Northwest.	00:30:40
	I second it all in favor.	00:30:47
	All right. Thank you and.	00:30:51
	You know, I'm just, I'm hoping if we get the electrical grid, it really will spill out for everybody as far as.	00:30:54
	Benefits, do we have any numbers yet from the they're working on it, they're working on it, They they we did get a number as to	00:31:03
	the cost of the equipment and all that, but then we have to get the rate number and that's what we look like for the consumer,	00:31:08
	right. Yeah they know they got to see that but but again.	00:31:14
	Hi, well.	00:31:21
	I want to say well what the Public Library is having an eclipse.	00:31:24
	Harding and near and dear to my heart and Chelsea always, Chelsea always comes through with my native.	00:31:28
	Celebration of what we call holy. This is where everybody gets to.	00:31:37
	Revelin some.	00:31:43
	Color that you get powder and stuff like that thrown on you. There's different colors it's got holy and this is going to be on	00:31:45
	March 25th. That'll be.	00:31:50
	That's today is the 19th, so it's a week from yesterday.	00:31:55
	At 3:35.	00:32:00
	And traditional Indian snacks and throw authentic holy powders.	00:32:02
	And you can get henna tattoos that are temporary.	00:32:08
	Not permanent makeup.	00:32:12
	OK. Next meeting.	00:32:16
	Is coming up on the 2nd of April.	00:32:18