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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 |