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| Good evening and welcome to the City Council. Meeting today is July 23rd, 2024. Roll call counselor Chavez Lopez, Mayor present. | 00:00:00 | |
| Councillor Deborah Dean. | 00:00:13 | |
| Councillor Fleming. Councillor Ocampo. | 00:00:16 | |
| Councillor Ogi, Councillor Partridge here, Councillor Romero, Councillor Salome, you do have a quorum. | 00:00:19 | |
| Of the United States, of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and | 00:00:34 | |
| justice for all. | 00:00:39 | |
| Madam Mayor. | 00:00:49 | |
| Yes, Councillor, I would like to on the consent agenda I would like to remove items Ms. and U. | 00:00:51 | |
| And move that to the top of #6. | 00:01:02 | |
| So make that the first three items and item 6 and adjust. | 00:01:09 | |
| The letter items accordingly. | 00:01:14 | |
| I need a motion to approve. | 00:01:19 | |
| I just have some questions on it, Madam Mayor, I'll make a motion. | 00:01:22 | |
| The next item after the consent agenda is items removed from the consent agenda. If you want to move them to #4 item four, yeah, | 00:01:27 | |
| we'll move them to #4 then. OK, let me make a motion. | 00:01:32 | |
| Thank you all in favor, aye. | 00:01:37 | |
| OK, Madam Mayor. | 00:01:44 | |
| OK, so just a quick question on budget resolution #48 the rodeo arena Sports Complex. | 00:01:48 | |
| There's an item on there. I just would like to know what that quality of life amount, what that quality of life is. | 00:01:56 | |
| Mayor pro town council. So that's a grant. It's a quality of life grant. It's 923,000. We did spend some money out of that. So I | 00:02:07 | |
| won't get the reimbursement till this fiscal year. So I had to budget that. So I had to move some money from general fund to cover | 00:02:12 | |
| that expense, but we'll get the reimbursement this year. | 00:02:18 | |
| Actually, I think we didn't. Did we approve the consent agenda? No. No, we did not. | 00:02:24 | |
| I need a motion to approve the consent agenda. | 00:02:30 | |
| Second, all in favor? | 00:02:34 | |
| All opposed. | 00:02:38 | |
| On item and councillor the that grant is to wrap the facility, try to keep the wind out and hopefully also we'll have enough | 00:02:40 | |
| funding to install a heating system. | 00:02:46 | |
| OK, so I'll make a motion. We approve. Approve budget resolution #48. | 00:02:55 | |
| All in favor, aye? | 00:03:05 | |
| OK. And then, Madam? | 00:03:09 | |
| Is that 105 budget resolution in House resolution #105? | 00:03:12 | |
| The economic development, I don't know what item was out. | 00:03:17 | |
| The 252. | 00:03:26 | |
| Is. | 00:03:30 | |
| Hang. | 00:03:34 | |
| Yup. | 00:03:41 | |
| That was the, So what I did is I just moved from economic development to contractual services because we have the contractual | 00:03:44 | |
| services and I didn't budget enough. So I just moved it from one line item to another. So what's, what's the contract? | 00:03:55 | |
| From the dot, he's the one that's. | 00:04:09 | |
| This went through City Council, the contract went through City Council. So and then it's it's for also for Jason pianist. So those | 00:04:13 | |
| two come out of economic development. | 00:04:18 | |
| Helping us get money in sanity. He's a former assistant secretary of the Department of Transportation. Has got a lot of good | 00:04:25 | |
| connections in South Bay. So I just am budgeting up in that contract right now. | 00:04:32 | |
| I just moved it from development into that line item. So we still have my take and Jay as their lobbyists as well too. Yes, Sir. | 00:04:39 | |
| And the flood control, right? He does flood control. | 00:04:44 | |
| And then? | 00:04:51 | |
| Did you have? | 00:04:53 | |
| That was 33 login Simpson that we're we had three. | 00:04:57 | |
| Justin Reese is kind of like our consultant. So we we use them a lot for our grants that we're working on. | 00:05:03 | |
| Any answers? What do you help him with? What did he help us with? With him today? He helped us get some extra funding for Cuba | 00:05:10 | |
| Road and for Bullock directly. Appropriation, direct appropriation from the dot. | 00:05:16 | |
| And that that economic development money, is that from the Leader Fund? | 00:05:22 | |
| It's Lita. Well, it's the GRT money that remember we raised the GRT and we, I moved that money and I moved to $100,000 a year in | 00:05:27 | |
| there. And that's what we use it for economic development. And I know you guys were supposed to you have a committee or a kind of | 00:05:34 | |
| sort of, so I know that's kind of the money that we use for economic development. | 00:05:41 | |
| I'll make a motion. We pass budget resident in-house budget resolution #105. | 00:05:52 | |
| Next is in house. | 00:06:02 | |
| All in favor opposed. | 00:06:06 | |
| And then I guess the in-house 107, Madam Mayor. | 00:06:10 | |
| I guess the in-house budget resolution 107 can answer it because it dealt with my quality of life grand and I just was going to | 00:06:18 | |
| ask what what it does. So in house resolutions, it's just they're like my budget items like if I go over I can move just line | 00:06:24 | |
| items from one to another. And it's not required approved by the state. But I do like to show it to council just to show that I do | 00:06:30 | |
| move line items around. And this year I moved a lot because there was a lot of activity this year. We had a lot going on this | 00:06:36 | |
| year. | 00:06:42 | |
| So I do have a lot of US regulations on that in house anyways. | 00:06:48 | |
| I guess I was going to be used for. | 00:06:58 | |
| Phone systems and other admin yeah. So if I go over so we had yeah I went over on a few things I didn't budget. | 00:07:01 | |
| Like our phone systems, our liability insurance PRAA, couple of them were because we gave those reasons. So I did go over on those | 00:07:12 | |
| line items and when I budgeted at the beginning of the year, I kind of estimate. So sometimes I don't estimate accurately on some | 00:07:18 | |
| line items, but we did have a lot of activity. | 00:07:24 | |
| This year, so and Madam Mayor and what you'll see this every July because it's closing out the final budget and getting the | 00:07:31 | |
| question and the fund actually isn't in the red. It's just that line item. I just don't want to have line item in the negative. | 00:07:40 | |
| When I report to the state the whole fund can't be in the red and usually if the funds in the red that's why I do an actual bar an | 00:07:51 | |
| in house resolution. The fund isn't in the red, I'm just moving line items. | 00:07:56 | |
| This might be a good time to mention that Ruby's department was awarded an award from the Mexican Municipal League for our audits. | 00:08:01 | |
| On that note, I'll make a motion to pass in house resolution #107. | 00:08:10 | |
| All in favor? Aye. All opposed. Thank you. | 00:08:19 | |
| OK, public forum, we'd like to welcome Socorro County Manager Andy Lockridge. | 00:08:27 | |
| Thank you for coming. You're welcome. Thank you all members of City Council. | 00:08:36 | |
| Everybody else in the audience, my name is Andy Logic. Some of you know me. | 00:08:42 | |
| Mr. Fleming may know me too well from all those days working CS when we still had the rooms back there at the old junior high. Mr. | 00:08:48 | |
| Salome, good to see you again. Everybody else here, it's a pleasure. I just want to take this time to let you all know that in the | 00:08:54 | |
| brief tenure that I've been here in the last three weeks, a lot has happened to be able to bring back cooperation between the city | 00:09:01 | |
| and the county. | 00:09:08 | |
| Not only are we working together, but we now have a new partnership with the new president over at New Mexico Tech. | 00:09:16 | |
| As well as all of our work with the school district as well. In fact, I just wanted to bring to your attention now that tomorrow | 00:09:22 | |
| morning, Kenny Gonzalez and I are going to be finalizing the deal to where we're going to be able to have four students from the | 00:09:29 | |
| high school coming to our equipment shop and start working with the county. So that we can get these kids needed exposure to | 00:09:37 | |
| what's out there as well as build up their resumes and let them know that there's more to life after high school and. | 00:09:44 | |
| For that, whether it be college or whether or not the college, there's definitely roles for every student to play here, not only | 00:09:52 | |
| in the city, but in the county of Socorro as well. Hopefully what we'll be able to do is articulate to everybody that just like | 00:09:59 | |
| myself, we might leave, we might leave for 30 years, but Socorro is Socorro is in our hearts it we're always going to bleed | 00:10:07 | |
| warrior blue. And so we just want to make sure that we keep that commitment growing, that we make sure. | 00:10:14 | |
| That we keep the lines of communication growing strong. So it's been nice working with Mr. Monet that we've been able to do all | 00:10:22 | |
| kinds of different lines of communication so far. That when it comes to how we're going to be sharing not only some of our funds, | 00:10:29 | |
| but making sure that the ambulance service is up and running the way it needs to and we can work on getting you guys those funds | 00:10:37 | |
| just a little bit quicker. And so it's those types of steps and everything that's coming on. | 00:10:44 | |
| The wrestling program, I cannot tell you how nice it's been living over there in southeastern Colorado and seeing the wrestling | 00:10:52 | |
| program going as strong as it is. And if we need to start doing some type of different grants between the city and the county to | 00:10:59 | |
| create opportunities for our youth, I'm all for it. And so that's going to be one of those commitments that we have going on as | 00:11:05 | |
| well. So with that being said. | 00:11:11 | |
| If you all have any questions, always always feel free. My door is open. | 00:11:18 | |
| And we're going to continue that line of communication. I don't want to take up too much of your time tonight because I know you | 00:11:24 | |
| have a large agenda, luckily. | 00:11:28 | |
| Our agenda got really short tonight, so I was able to get here a little bit quicker, but if there's anything you ever need, please | 00:11:33 | |
| do not hesitate to ask. And we're going to make sure that we continue to get moving in the future. So with that, thank you, thank | 00:11:38 | |
| you, thank you, good luck. Thank you. | 00:11:44 | |
| Thank you and welcome. | 00:11:49 | |
| OK. Anybody else? | 00:11:52 | |
| Public forum. | 00:11:55 | |
| Hello, my name is Mary Baca and I come before you one time a couple years back. | 00:12:06 | |
| OK. | 00:12:19 | |
| First off, I want to say thank you for putting the speed bump all the way across Fisher St. | 00:12:21 | |
| Because people were swerving and I was almost getting hit on a couple of times because they didn't want to. So I remember posting | 00:12:31 | |
| it on the soccer safety watch if you guys could put it all the way across, and I don't know who did, but thank you very much. | 00:12:38 | |
| The second time I came before you guys, I. | 00:12:47 | |
| Was in a panic. Umm I couldn't locate my. | 00:12:52 | |
| 5 1/2 year old granddaughter at the time. | 00:12:58 | |
| And this was a few years back and I remember coming in front of you guys and asking you guys for your help. | 00:13:03 | |
| To get her and moved to my daughter's house and. | 00:13:11 | |
| Which did not workout very well, but. | 00:13:17 | |
| Then she went to an aunt's house and didn't workout very well. Then my stepson. | 00:13:20 | |
| Called me at work one day and told me to go to Las Cruces and help me get my granddaughter moved to his house because she was | 00:13:29 | |
| crying. | 00:13:35 | |
| And stuff. And he wanted her, but his wife didn't want her. | 00:13:41 | |
| So, umm. | 00:13:46 | |
| Things didn't workout. | 00:13:49 | |
| Well, again. | 00:13:51 | |
| For the last three years. | 00:13:54 | |
| OK, I'm gonna. My emotions have been. | 00:13:57 | |
| Up and down. | 00:14:01 | |
| For the last three years because I have to been going to my parents house, taking care of my mom, my dad and my son. | 00:14:04 | |
| With the help of my siblings as well, but me has the majority. | 00:14:12 | |
| Was because I'm the one that is responsible for giving them their medication, whatever. | 00:14:19 | |
| So I'm kind of up in the air with my emotions, so I'm going to try to fumble it a little bit here and. | 00:14:27 | |
| Try not to get too emotional, but try to get straight to the point. But. | 00:14:35 | |
| OK. | 00:14:41 | |
| No, my granddaughter is now 15 1/2. She's living with another foster family and she's doing OK. I. | 00:14:44 | |
| But now, today I present in front of you. My father passed away in January. | 00:14:55 | |
| I've been the whole them. | 00:15:04 | |
| And the main person to give my mother and my son their medication. | 00:15:08 | |
| And being responsible for the majority of the stuff that I'm in control of everything how you say, power of attorney, OK. | 00:15:14 | |
| So. | 00:15:24 | |
| When my dad passed away in January, I got blamed for a lot of stuff. | 00:15:26 | |
| That I wasn't aware of. | 00:15:31 | |
| From my son's wife, my stepson's wife. | 00:15:34 | |
| She had told my granddaughter, my 15 year old granddaughter lies about me, the mother, my granddaughter's mother, lies about me | 00:15:43 | |
| and this was all supposedly said at my dad's burial when we were all at the cemetery. | 00:15:51 | |
| Umm, I vaguely remember who was at my dad's funeral. | 00:16:00 | |
| I just remember looking behind me to see if my husband was there. | 00:16:06 | |
| And my eldest stepson was there. | 00:16:12 | |
| Because I knew that my granddaughter and my other grandchildren were with their parents. | 00:16:18 | |
| So I didn't wasn't concerned with my grandchildren at the time. | 00:16:26 | |
| But I kind of entered this out to Mr. Salome that day when I saw Mr. Romero as well. | 00:16:33 | |
| Couple months back. | 00:16:42 | |
| But today? | 00:16:44 | |
| I'm trying to. | 00:16:48 | |
| Yeah, my stepson's wife obstacle YFD program because she. | 00:16:51 | |
| Basically used my granddaughter to get into the system so she wouldn't have to go out into the world and look for a job. | 00:16:59 | |
| So this is where I was at when I got vaguely interrupted. | 00:17:09 | |
| By one of your city police officers. | 00:17:17 | |
| OK. | 00:17:21 | |
| I never have a moment's rest. It's like. | 00:17:25 | |
| Something always happens within the day. I can never accomplish something. A man start a new task because like I said, I was | 00:17:30 | |
| trying to get my stepson's wife off the CYFD program and then I got assaulted by one of your city police officers. | 00:17:39 | |
| And I did file Oversight Commission complaint form with. | 00:17:50 | |
| Mr. Panetta. | 00:17:57 | |
| OK, umm. | 00:18:01 | |
| The last time I filed one of these. | 00:18:03 | |
| I think it was about 20 some years ago. | 00:18:08 | |
| Against the Richard Lopez and it didn't workout very well. | 00:18:12 | |
| OK. | 00:18:16 | |
| So I'm not sure. | 00:18:18 | |
| How to go about this? | 00:18:22 | |
| So if you get together with Donald, he knows the process, he can help you with the process. As far as the police oversight | 00:18:25 | |
| Commission, right? Yes, ma'am. The the complaints with our attorney that overseas the police oversight Commission, We're waiting | 00:18:30 | |
| to hear back from her so we can schedule the meeting. | 00:18:36 | |
| I was told not to tell you very much about the case, but. | 00:18:44 | |
| You know. | 00:18:49 | |
| I was just kind of. | 00:18:51 | |
| I even when we were in the courtroom and I did ask the judge. | 00:18:53 | |
| When you're eating because there was somebody in front of Maine. | 00:19:01 | |
| And officer was coming. | 00:19:08 | |
| North. I was going South. He turned his lights on. | 00:19:11 | |
| And then when he turned around, he turned them off. | 00:19:16 | |
| But here's the thing, when we got to the stop light, his lights were still not on and he was running my license plate. | 00:19:21 | |
| He was, you know. | 00:19:32 | |
| So I said fine, OK, he's running my plate. | 00:19:36 | |
| And then when we took off, he pulled me over, so I pulled over. | 00:19:40 | |
| This is for the hearing, I think. I think this would be better offset at the Oversight Commission than here. | 00:19:44 | |
| Because we only give like 5 minutes. So it's better that when you present your case, you do present it to the police oversight | 00:19:54 | |
| Commission. Okay. The thing is that I was told is that. | 00:20:00 | |
| This officer is the. | 00:20:10 | |
| Well, he was arguing with my husband two weeks prior to he pulled me over. | 00:20:14 | |
| Because he did run my husband's license plate on his car. | 00:20:21 | |
| So, so now they're telling, I heard, I'm hearing a lot of stories about this officer, right? But there's nothing that we can do | 00:20:26 | |
| because it's just public forum. So I think if you follow through with the police oversight commissioner, it's in your best | 00:20:33 | |
| interest. OK, thank you. Thank you. | 00:20:41 | |
| Anyone else for public funds? | 00:20:50 | |
| Good evening all. My name is Dennis Vicente. I live at 605 Colton Drive. You guys hear me? All right then. I have. I've had this | 00:21:01 | |
| issue for about, I guess 12 years now about my. | 00:21:09 | |
| Garage, you know, getting flooded saturated with water, you know so and what the colors that I can see is two or three different | 00:21:19 | |
| factors I guess one is the pipe that goes underneath communal real. | 00:21:28 | |
| Is not big enough to supplies all the areas. Probably my calculation I see maybe 40 to 50 acres. | 00:21:39 | |
| Property to the West and I'm sure everybody's familiar with the area. And anyway, I don't think that pipe is big enough to drain | 00:21:50 | |
| all that water that's coming down and with all the new housing that's going in and the new driveways and more pavement that's | 00:21:59 | |
| causing more and more water to come down that area. | 00:22:08 | |
| But and so. | 00:22:17 | |
| I've had about five times that water went into my garage. | 00:22:20 | |
| And Sunday night with the rain we had, I'm not sure how much rain we got, but we the water literally almost went into my garage | 00:22:28 | |
| again. And two years ago, there was water that almost went in my living room. It was within an inch of coming into my living room. | 00:22:39 | |
| So. | 00:22:50 | |
| I'm just here to say, you know one option. | 00:22:52 | |
| The main option is to me would be to replace that pipe. I know it's costly and whatnot. I work for doing this type of work for 35 | 00:22:58 | |
| years. So I know what the costs are cost on those things. So then that would be the main solution. But another thing is. | 00:23:09 | |
| You know, keeping the vegetation clean in that Slough where the water collects the little dam and trying to keep that so that the | 00:23:20 | |
| water flows freely all the way to the pipe. And, you know, I've had this issue. I've gone to my insurance company. Well, it's not | 00:23:29 | |
| a dwelling. That's what I get. | 00:23:37 | |
| On there so. | 00:23:46 | |
| I I'd like to just bring it up and see if we can, you know, have this rectified. Mr. O'Malley, has the city ever? | 00:23:48 | |
| Heard of this happening before at the same area. Yes, Sir. I met with Mr. Vincent they two years ago and he said his house almost | 00:24:04 | |
| flooded and then the next day I took Lloyd over to look at it. I can't remember exactly what Lloyd told me, but we'll I'll let him | 00:24:12 | |
| know again tomorrow if we can look into that. The location it's on Coulson and El Camino. Real. Yeah, that's the exact address. | 00:24:20 | |
| I live at 605605 which is 2 houses off of El Camino Real. | 00:24:29 | |
| Another problem with that area is as you're approaching El Camino, the roads at an upgrade so access the dam and pushes the water | 00:24:35 | |
| back. | 00:24:39 | |
| OK. | 00:24:44 | |
| Thank you, Sir. OK, you're welcome. | 00:24:47 | |
| Anyone else for public forum? | 00:24:50 | |
| If not, we'll move on. | 00:24:56 | |
| Make a motion to approve the RFP award RFP 062424 to Magdalena. | 00:24:59 | |
| Or for the Magdalena Mons trail plant. | 00:25:08 | |
| All in favor, all opposed. Motion passes discussion, Paul. | 00:25:12 | |
| Well, that am I going to mountain trail there there was three people that that did on that project and. | 00:25:23 | |
| And a committee recommended Applied Trails Research, so that's that's who we recommended giving the bid to. | 00:25:31 | |
| Madam Mayor, if you'll remember, Mr. Rob Selena approached us a while back. We're actually working on a second grant with Mr. | 00:25:41 | |
| Sonia, but this is to design A trail plan from the top of Baldy all the way to Fox Canyon. | 00:25:48 | |
| Thank you. | 00:25:57 | |
| Maybe, um. | 00:26:00 | |
| The municipal league delegate, voting delegate and alternative alternate. | 00:26:04 | |
| I make a We need a motion to approve. Are we going to approve, Michael? | 00:26:15 | |
| Madam Mayor, so the municipal, you sent this out a couple weeks ago, the. | 00:26:24 | |
| Convention is, I believe the first week in August in Clovis, the 15th, okay. And they want to make sure that our delegate and the | 00:26:31 | |
| alternate are both present to vote. And I believe in January Council Guine was voted as our representative to the Municipal | 00:26:37 | |
| League. So if someone wants to make a motion, if he's going to be attending to, to be our voting delegate and then anybody else | 00:26:44 | |
| that might be attending if they'll be the alternate. | 00:26:50 | |
| August the 15th. | 00:26:58 | |
| And we need to send all this by the 9th. | 00:27:00 | |
| And it's in Clovis. | 00:27:06 | |
| Anybody. | 00:27:10 | |
| Motion to approve. We need that. We need an alternate too. We need an alternate. Somebody wants to go hang out. I think I can make | 00:27:12 | |
| some changes, so I'll volunteer to be the ultimate. | 00:27:17 | |
| 2nd. | 00:27:27 | |
| The discussion. | 00:27:28 | |
| All in favor, aye? | 00:27:32 | |
| All opposed motion passes. I'll make a motion where you pass resolution #001A with our final budget 2nd. | 00:27:34 | |
| Discussion. | 00:27:47 | |
| All in favor. | 00:27:50 | |
| Madam Mayor, I will make a motion to pass resolution #24-07-23A, the DFA fourth quarter report. | 00:27:54 | |
| No second. | 00:28:06 | |
| Discussion. | 00:28:07 | |
| All in favor, aye? | 00:28:11 | |
| Yes, Sir, I would like to make a motion to pass resolution #24-07-23B. The South Central Council of Governments, 24-25. | 00:28:20 | |
| Participation second. | 00:28:27 | |
| Christmas. Yeah, we need members. Last year's members were Marianne, and the ultimate was Michael. | 00:28:36 | |
| The court years ago. | 00:28:44 | |
| And we could keep it the same. | 00:28:48 | |
| Are we in discussion? Yes. | 00:28:50 | |
| So this isn't the contract, right with South Central Council of Government? | 00:28:54 | |
| It's the contract and the voting members. | 00:28:59 | |
| Did the contract amount is still the same? | 00:29:04 | |
| And Madam Mayor, I believe also in January, Councillor Dean was elected to represent us at the Council of Governments and I, I | 00:29:08 | |
| don't remember who the alternate was. I think that we might have kept it with Gordy. | 00:29:14 | |
| If you want to keep them the same, but that was just back in January, Yeah, we can. | 00:29:22 | |
| Yeah. | 00:29:29 | |
| And also this, the South Central, that's where Gwen Valentino is helping with the grants as well, right? | 00:29:34 | |
| All right, come on. | 00:29:44 | |
| All in favor. | 00:29:49 | |
| MMM. | 00:29:53 | |
| Madam Mayor, I'll make a motion. We passed resolution #24-07-23C, the LGRF Park Street, Church Street, and Center St. discussion | 00:29:57 | |
| question. | 00:30:04 | |
| Madam Mayor, sorry, so this about the completion. | 00:30:11 | |
| While at work, Madam Mayor. Yes, we've Mccutchen in April. | 00:30:16 | |
| And we actually, the council adopted the resolutions for these grants in June, but the state dot changed the resolution the way | 00:30:22 | |
| they wanted it after we'd already adopted it. | 00:30:27 | |
| That goes for the next resolution as well. | 00:30:36 | |
| OK, all in favor, all opposed. Motion passes. Madam Mayor, I'll make a motion to pass resolution #24-07-24D the map. Otero Ave. | 00:30:40 | |
| Discussion. | 00:30:54 | |
| Yes, Sir. So is this on the completion, Mr. Monet of the Otero, we did a little strip. This is actually just for design there. So | 00:30:56 | |
| we need to be a 1.2 to $1.7 million project. But yes, that is to carry the payment forward, Eric. | 00:31:04 | |
| Thank you. | 00:31:15 | |
| That was looking at the next one. | 00:31:17 | |
| OK, make a motion. | 00:31:20 | |
| All in favor. | 00:31:27 | |
| All opposed. | 00:31:31 | |
| Madam Mayor, I'll make a motion. We pass resolution #24-07-23E, the condemning of 104 Pinon St. | 00:31:33 | |
| Donald. Madam Mayor, this resolution and the following or the resolutions are following our condemnation process in the ordinance. | 00:31:43 | |
| We need to make a motion first. | 00:31:47 | |
| OK, discussion. | 00:31:55 | |
| And Antigone is this those old apartments that were trucked in there years and years ago that and I'm not sure it was Pinion, but. | 00:31:59 | |
| You've probably been dealing with for about two years. It's on their on the drive entry to the fire Academy on the left hand side. | 00:32:11 | |
| Thank you. | 00:32:15 | |
| I, I go through Kenyon St. It's a, it's a dirt Rd. isn't it? And it's kind of a little royal at this point. And so I. | 00:32:25 | |
| By driving through there, I expected to see something that would justify the vote to move the condemnation forward, but. | 00:32:36 | |
| I didn't see anything that. | 00:32:47 | |
| That was any different was this. | 00:32:49 | |
| Pinion goes all the way down to the fire Academy. This was West of. | 00:32:52 | |
| The road that you turn off to get to the fire Academy right before you get to the sign, and then you go West up toward the | 00:32:59 | |
| mountain. There's a couple of trailers there. There's a few tires in there. | 00:33:04 | |
| But. | 00:33:11 | |
| And then you can catch the other Rd. going back around. | 00:33:13 | |
| Yeah. I, I didn't see anything and I'm wondering what, what would be the, what's the purpose of the condemnation? So what this | 00:33:17 | |
| does, again, following our ordinance, this allows us to help them clean up their house, give them a bill and put a lien on their | 00:33:23 | |
| house for the work that we do. We're not trying to take their property. We're just trying to put a lien on that for the help that | 00:33:28 | |
| we're giving them. Yeah. | 00:33:34 | |
| If it's West of the the road that enters the fire Academy. | 00:33:41 | |
| And it's a dirt Rd. that's kind of a little Arroyo, and it catches the other Rd. that's up there about maybe 1/4 of a mile long. | 00:33:48 | |
| There's two trailers. Guys were doing some things out there. But, you know, it's actually on estimate. Yeah. You come off of Aspen | 00:33:55 | |
| and go West. Yeah. Yeah, Aspen, Exactly. And then go West. I didn't see anything that would justify me to say that the city should | 00:34:02 | |
| condemn anything unless there's something there that I don't know. | 00:34:09 | |
| That we don't know is there. | 00:34:17 | |
| You know, what might be helpful to us is if we had a current photo of where the property is now and the history of what the | 00:34:20 | |
| property owner has done or hasn't done to get us to this point. So Madam, Madam Mayor. | 00:34:29 | |
| Mr. Monday, if I'm not mistaken though, this just starts the process, right? And then after there's still there's still more to be | 00:34:40 | |
| done in order to just make some aware and then from we still have another. | 00:34:45 | |
| Final vote to go with it, right? If we plan to condemn it, we will. This is again, just to put the lien on the property. Like I | 00:34:50 | |
| said, we've been working with the property owner for about two years, moving old vehicles, hauling off old trees and weeds and | 00:34:56 | |
| trash that the city's accomplished. Yes, Sir. But unfortunately, unfortunately, fortunately, Choncho was not here tonight because | 00:35:02 | |
| he's a father again, so. | 00:35:08 | |
| As of today, oh, is he yesterday? So are we looking for this? Are we looking for the property owner to reimburse the city for the | 00:35:14 | |
| expenses that they've already incurred of taking out the cars and taking out the significant amount of money that's been spent on | 00:35:22 | |
| that property? That's why it looks clean because the city cleaned it. And it's also keeps us out of some violating the anti | 00:35:29 | |
| donation clause because if we do it for one person and don't charge them, we have to. | 00:35:37 | |
| For everybody. | 00:35:44 | |
| Do we have a total? | 00:35:48 | |
| I don't know right off the top of my head. | 00:35:51 | |
| I'm sure it's less than $5000, maybe 5000 at 9000, but I'm pretty sure it's less because we did the labor ourselves. So whatever | 00:35:55 | |
| we get paid from the city, we asked them to reimburse us. Kind of similar to the Sands Motel. Yes, Sir, identical. And how's that | 00:36:01 | |
| working out? We have the title, we have the deed. | 00:36:07 | |
| All in favor. | 00:36:16 | |
| Aye, opposed. | 00:36:19 | |
| And passes. OK, Madam Mayor. | 00:36:21 | |
| I'll make a motion to pass resolution #24-07-23F. The condemning of one or 1100 Sean St. | 00:36:26 | |
| That other green property because of the city cleaned it up. Yes, Sir. We don't pursue this then people then the residents will | 00:36:38 | |
| have to clean up everybody's property at the expense of the city, which isn't something that probably. | 00:36:45 | |
| You know, this is a vacant lot that was overrun with small trees, trees sold regularly and we paid a subcontractor to go in and | 00:36:52 | |
| clean them all up. It was becoming a fire hazard. | 00:36:59 | |
| We need a second, second, second. | 00:37:09 | |
| And there's another problem property right next or two houses down from it that we're working with also. | 00:37:16 | |
| Lena, OK, so I just want to let you know that Chris does attempt to contact these property owners and he does, they do get some | 00:37:24 | |
| into court and we are at the point where there's no response. So now this is where we take it. We will either get the property | 00:37:31 | |
| cleaned and now we're going to try to recoup our funds. But there has been, he has attempted to contact the owners. So there's | 00:37:37 | |
| been a lot of documentation. | 00:37:44 | |
| There's certified letters. | 00:37:50 | |
| Yes. And then if they did get a court summons, the court will say whether they appear. They did not appear. | 00:37:54 | |
| So yes, it is documented, Mr. Lamette. | 00:38:00 | |
| Posted on the property and advertised it in the newspaper at least once. | 00:38:05 | |
| Saying that that property is condemned and there's a lien on that property and X amount of dollars to be paid to the city. And | 00:38:11 | |
| then and, and if the owner comes up with that, then they can buy. What if somebody else comes up with it says I want, I'd like | 00:38:17 | |
| that property for $5000. But if they say I'll pay it, I don't think that's legal. I don't think that's legal. It has to be, it has | 00:38:23 | |
| to be the owner. | 00:38:29 | |
| Oh, OK, so the owner is the only one that can reimburse the city at this point in time. We don't, we don't care how we get | 00:38:36 | |
| reimbursed, but who reimburses us? But in order for us to remove the lien, we do want our reimbursement. And once the liens in | 00:38:42 | |
| place then the title goes is the cities the title does the title go to the city? We don't re title it, but if they ever sell it, | 00:38:48 | |
| we'll be if they don't, there's not a mortgage on it will be first in line to get paid. | 00:38:55 | |
| Thank you all in favor. | 00:39:02 | |
| So can we, can I, can I just request that the feature when we do these if we can get in our packet just kind of yeah, just the | 00:39:06 | |
| whole timeline of On this date the letter was sent and this and this and this is the affidavit in your packet. | 00:39:13 | |
| Well, we got the, we got the contact where where they were being contacted On this date and this date and this date we haven't | 00:39:21 | |
| seen, I didn't see anything for as far as like correspondence. | 00:39:27 | |
| Letters, but it does have a timeline of them being. Maybe the total in the future would be helpful too just to understand what I | 00:39:35 | |
| think. Photos. | 00:39:40 | |
| You know, in public and they're not blind side, right? I mean, they shouldn't be. I mean if you're contacted, you know, but. | 00:39:49 | |
| Thank you. Thank you all in favor opposed motion passes make the motion. We pass the special use permit for Hannah Cooper 2nd. | 00:39:56 | |
| Question. | 00:40:08 | |
| And I can talk to you if you want to talk, Hannah. | 00:40:23 | |
| Special special use permit so I can have food trucks over on the corner of California and spring at the property there. | 00:40:28 | |
| So you got a big parking lot All in favor, aye. Opposed. | 00:40:36 | |
| Madam Mayor, I'll make a motion pass. Resolution #24-07-23G. The Mexico Department Transportation landscaping, I-25 Exit 147 and | 00:40:46 | |
| 152nd. | 00:40:52 | |
| Question, Donald. | 00:41:00 | |
| Madam Mayor, that's the final capital outlay agreement from the state and as Councillor Green said, it's to landscape our exits. | 00:41:03 | |
| Oh, OK. That was on our counselor. Dean's been asking for that for years. | 00:41:13 | |
| Yeah, all in favor, aye. Opposed. | 00:41:20 | |
| OK, author of Animal Control Officer Jason Padilla. | 00:41:25 | |
| Jason's got his hands full. | 00:41:37 | |
| Being an animal control officer for the City of Socorro. Being an animal control officer for the City of Support. | 00:42:01 | |
| Do hereby formally swear that I accept the foregoing appointment. Do you buy here for me? For I accept the. | 00:42:08 | |
| That I will support and enforce the ordinances of the City of Socorro, that I will enforce the city ordinances of school. And that | 00:42:16 | |
| I will faithfully and that I will faithfully and impartially distract, partially discharge the duties of appointment, the duties | 00:42:23 | |
| of appointment to the best of my ability, to the best of my ability. So help me God. | 00:42:29 | |
| New business. | 00:42:53 | |
| One thing I've got a numerous calls on on Cuba Rd. | 00:42:55 | |
| I, I didn't have a chance to drive by after the rain, but Donald, were you guys were to go and look at that and the situation out | 00:43:01 | |
| there, if it was worse than before, I myself didn't drive out there either. But if we get another rain like that, I will. I | 00:43:07 | |
| usually do because I take pictures to the next CDG application to include them. | 00:43:14 | |
| But I didn't make it this time, so the. | 00:43:21 | |
| I always thought that the whole curbing and everything that was being done already would make it, I mean wouldn't reduce it, but | 00:43:25 | |
| would cleared out quicker and it actually does. But that rain was for so long and so steady, I don't I don't think you could do | 00:43:31 | |
| it. But this is a little bit of a side note we reapplied for. | 00:43:37 | |
| Additional funding to do the rest of Cuba Rd. So if there's any issues, maybe we can address them when we get the next grant. | 00:43:45 | |
| We don't know at all right now at this point if it actually did drain faster than it had been before. The last time I checked it | 00:43:53 | |
| took it about and this was probably last summer. I probably took 20 minutes for the drain at the longest because the ground was | 00:43:59 | |
| still wet when I drove out there, but it there was no water on the road. | 00:44:05 | |
| And we maintain that that ditch or whatever you call it. | 00:44:13 | |
| A long mix St. and back street and stuff. Yes ma'am, that's ours. As well as what used to be Markling Road off of Cuba Rd. which | 00:44:18 | |
| we turn into a whole new pond. | 00:44:24 | |
| OK. But yes, it's our responsibility to maintain them all throughout the city. | 00:44:30 | |
| All business and still no business, Madam Mayor, I'm going to reach out at a constituent, reach out about prior to all this rain | 00:44:37 | |
| and there's an area right behind Cottonwood School. | 00:44:43 | |
| There's like a little bit the little valley in the road there and it's supposed to be run off and it looks like the concrete | 00:44:50 | |
| trucks are washing out concrete there. | 00:44:55 | |
| And it's blocking water and it's pulling there's going back out. It's creating a pool in the road. So and it's get with the basket | 00:45:01 | |
| when he was in town. I I forgot to. So I just like to mention to the council maybe can get ahold of he got some Lloyds department | 00:45:09 | |
| potentially. Yes, I did get a complaint on that also on and Lloyd went out there and and they were going to clean that. | 00:45:16 | |
| Maybe make contact with whoever was doing. I think there's some yeah. I don't, I I never found out from Lloyd who was actually | 00:45:24 | |
| dumping the concrete, but. | 00:45:28 | |
| It was a lot of contracts in council. | 00:45:32 | |
| Blame anybody, but thank you. Any other new business? No, I just wanted to say how nice things went for the wrestling event. I | 00:45:36 | |
| guess it was really nice. | 00:45:41 | |
| Yeah, sure. That was does our 5th, 5th annual tournament. It's rodeo theme that's all themed around the city of Socorro. The logo | 00:45:51 | |
| was done for us years ago with a wrestling mat underneath the city truck Campos Socorro logos. And if you'll notice when we use | 00:45:57 | |
| it, it has like, I don't know if anybody notices it, but it's a wrestling mat. It's actually underneath that starting lines and | 00:46:04 | |
| they got great big banners up there and table covers and all. | 00:46:11 | |
| Are geared towards. | 00:46:18 | |
| And they're geared towards the rodeo theme there belt buckles. We can weigh belt buckles and cowboy hats and. | 00:46:22 | |
| Pins and Cowboys roping animals if you get a pin in a match and that's a pretty unique tournament. We had a nice turn out. We had | 00:46:29 | |
| over 800 wrestlers between the two days. | 00:46:34 | |
| The Steve and Darrell and the staff up there were great. They're phenomenal. They they helped with everything. Anything we asked | 00:46:42 | |
| them to do, it's late. It's a weird tournament because really hot this time of year. So we do it late. We start like away in at | 00:46:48 | |
| 4:30 in the afternoon, which is typically at 7:00 in the morning. | 00:46:54 | |
| Start at 4:30 and we start wrestling at 7. Sun starts to go down and it was raining like crazy up there, but the the facility held | 00:47:00 | |
| up the winds. The hardest game for us up there. It's not really the rain. The rain was. It was nice, people liked it, a lot of | 00:47:06 | |
| compliments, no complaints. I'm looking forward to the new sound system up there because that was a little a little spotty, but we | 00:47:11 | |
| worked with it. | 00:47:16 | |
| Overall, I think we've seen a lot of influx of a lot of people in town and upcoming score for us and RV park was busy. | 00:47:22 | |
| I don't know exactly the numbers are imagine Steven. No, but it was good that the Mississippi was great. They were busy, really | 00:47:29 | |
| busy on the second night. So thank you to them too. They showed up. They did a great job taking care of the kids there. So that's | 00:47:35 | |
| a great event. Thanks for the council. That was the first time you'll see on the voucher and we asked for some lodgers tax. We had | 00:47:42 | |
| never asked for that before to try to help really bolster the. | 00:47:48 | |
| We spent quite a bit of money on awards to really bolster the awards that we met with the mayor so we can really keep the soccer | 00:47:54 | |
| logo and everything on it and. | 00:47:59 | |
| Oh, man, in my third match, I wrestled a kid from, I think, I think one of them said New Jersey or something. A kid from New | 00:48:33 | |
| Jersey came down, whole family came down South. I think the bigger it gets, Florida, quite a bit wrestling people are. They're not | 00:48:39 | |
| saying no. They'll come and they'll go anywhere. If there's a good tournament, good competition, they'll go. Yeah, sorry. One | 00:48:46 | |
| more. This is a question when, when is the rest of the medal going to be going up there? | 00:48:52 | |
| At the arena, at the arena, they're working on it right now. | 00:49:00 | |
| Working on it as we're speaking online at night, but but they started about two weeks ago and then they stopped for three weeks | 00:49:04 | |
| ago and they stopped for the 4th of July this and they should be going again. I'll drive out there tomorrow too. They're welding | 00:49:10 | |
| purlings on the West side of it right now, so they should help with the wind quite a bit. Yeah, I think so. I don't know. We'll | 00:49:16 | |
| see. It'll be interesting. We're hoping that it does. | 00:49:22 | |
| But what we're worried about is Mr. Fleming kidney test. Mr. Fleming can attest this is that it's going to force the wind to the | 00:49:29 | |
| now the smaller open part of the arena and as he said, creative vortex. It could, but. | 00:49:35 | |
| If it does, well, make another adjustment. | 00:49:43 | |
| I have first was I was like all in for the completing of the arena completely in. But when you sit in the stands and you look up | 00:49:47 | |
| there, the site that you get to see is really pretty. So it's unique. It's very different for, you know, we sit in gyms all day | 00:49:53 | |
| long, buildings all day long. So it's unique. I'm not saying that's the only thing that goes on a thing, but for just for my event | 00:49:58 | |
| from our perspective, it's really cool. I mean, even when we battle a little bit of wind, we made some adjustments. We got first | 00:50:04 | |
| tape and we put it on the mat. | 00:50:10 | |
| Because we've had where the maps flip up because the wind gets under, we don't have that at all this year. We completely Turkey | 00:50:16 | |
| rain. And so it's good, you know, hopefully it does cut down on it, but if you maybe could do a winter event if there's heaters. | 00:50:22 | |
| We didn't want to block that view, that's why we didn't do the east side. | 00:50:29 | |
| Makes sense? | 00:50:35 | |
| Or business. | 00:50:36 | |
| Executive session. | 00:50:39 | |
| OK. | 00:50:42 | |
| Mayor's report Personal changes. I need a motion. | 00:50:45 | |
| OK. | 00:50:52 | |
| Christian attorney of Fire FMT from a 58 to a 62 Donald Warland fire recruit salary adjustment. A50 to a 52 Justin Pacheco fire | 00:50:55 | |
| recruit. Sorry I just sent A50 to a 52. Ashland Aguilar fire recruit salary adjustment. | 00:51:07 | |
| 8:50 to a 52 Randall Montoya, gas crewman, A completed probation, 837 to 839. | 00:51:20 | |
| James Beasley, St. Crewman, completed probation, temporary 835. Jason Romero, police officer, transfer from facility, security | 00:51:27 | |
| Officer A 62, A 44, Antonio Gonzalez, Police, facility security officer, promotion to a police officer, a 44 to a 59, and Jacob | 00:51:36 | |
| Riley, fire resignation. | 00:51:44 | |
| Make a motion. We approve the personnel changes as presented. | 00:51:55 | |
| I have a question. | 00:51:58 | |
| On the. | 00:52:02 | |
| The facility security officer going to police officer. So we're now looking for another facility security officer for that's going | 00:52:04 | |
| to. | 00:52:09 | |
| Jason Romero is moving to the security officer. He is a police. He's currently a police officer. He'll be the security and then | 00:52:17 | |
| Antonio will go from. | 00:52:21 | |
| OK. | 00:52:30 | |
| Business resignations. | 00:52:37 | |
| CB Power LLC 88 Team of several Clarence Cal Gorales. | 00:52:41 | |
| Residential and commercial electrical contractor, New Mexico Gold LLC, 110 Willow St. Ernesto Manufacturing AJ Provisional | 00:52:47 | |
| Contracting, out of Town of Agita Anna Gutierrez Roofing, US LBM Operating Company, 501 Otero Ave. Denise Ocho. I don't want to | 00:52:56 | |
| see them. | 00:53:04 | |
| Albert, Julie. | 00:53:13 | |
| Retail lumber and building material supply. | 00:53:15 | |
| Beauty Boutique Romeo, New Mexico. Alicia Romero clothing and accessories. | 00:53:19 | |
| Avon LLC, 700 Franklin St. Maximilian Pedigree Contract Food Service. | 00:53:25 | |
| Prohibition, 37101 W Mountains, Charles Bay Capitol The second retail cannabis dispensary Denny's Fireworks, 401 Spring St. | 00:53:36 | |
| Patrick Miller Fireworks Lupita Fashion, 614 Honeysuckle Ave. Guadalupe Flores. | 00:53:46 | |
| Or the New Mexico landscaping company AO3 Lyles Ericsson Sandoval Sale of landscaping and art. Art and materials. The Coal Trail | 00:53:58 | |
| Running Series, LLC 629 Nicholas Greece Vidal sports event organizer. | 00:54:07 | |
| That's a lot of businesses. | 00:54:18 | |
| All in favor, aye? | 00:54:21 | |
| OK, the next City Council meeting will be Tuesday, August 20th at 6:00 PM. | 00:54:29 | |
| And I need an adjournment motion to adjourn. | 00:54:35 | |
| OK. Thank you. Thank you. Good job, Chair, for putting up with me. | 00:54:40 |
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| Good evening and welcome to the City Council. Meeting today is July 23rd, 2024. Roll call counselor Chavez Lopez, Mayor present. | 00:00:00 | |
| Councillor Deborah Dean. | 00:00:13 | |
| Councillor Fleming. Councillor Ocampo. | 00:00:16 | |
| Councillor Ogi, Councillor Partridge here, Councillor Romero, Councillor Salome, you do have a quorum. | 00:00:19 | |
| Of the United States, of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and | 00:00:34 | |
| justice for all. | 00:00:39 | |
| Madam Mayor. | 00:00:49 | |
| Yes, Councillor, I would like to on the consent agenda I would like to remove items Ms. and U. | 00:00:51 | |
| And move that to the top of #6. | 00:01:02 | |
| So make that the first three items and item 6 and adjust. | 00:01:09 | |
| The letter items accordingly. | 00:01:14 | |
| I need a motion to approve. | 00:01:19 | |
| I just have some questions on it, Madam Mayor, I'll make a motion. | 00:01:22 | |
| The next item after the consent agenda is items removed from the consent agenda. If you want to move them to #4 item four, yeah, | 00:01:27 | |
| we'll move them to #4 then. OK, let me make a motion. | 00:01:32 | |
| Thank you all in favor, aye. | 00:01:37 | |
| OK, Madam Mayor. | 00:01:44 | |
| OK, so just a quick question on budget resolution #48 the rodeo arena Sports Complex. | 00:01:48 | |
| There's an item on there. I just would like to know what that quality of life amount, what that quality of life is. | 00:01:56 | |
| Mayor pro town council. So that's a grant. It's a quality of life grant. It's 923,000. We did spend some money out of that. So I | 00:02:07 | |
| won't get the reimbursement till this fiscal year. So I had to budget that. So I had to move some money from general fund to cover | 00:02:12 | |
| that expense, but we'll get the reimbursement this year. | 00:02:18 | |
| Actually, I think we didn't. Did we approve the consent agenda? No. No, we did not. | 00:02:24 | |
| I need a motion to approve the consent agenda. | 00:02:30 | |
| Second, all in favor? | 00:02:34 | |
| All opposed. | 00:02:38 | |
| On item and councillor the that grant is to wrap the facility, try to keep the wind out and hopefully also we'll have enough | 00:02:40 | |
| funding to install a heating system. | 00:02:46 | |
| OK, so I'll make a motion. We approve. Approve budget resolution #48. | 00:02:55 | |
| All in favor, aye? | 00:03:05 | |
| OK. And then, Madam? | 00:03:09 | |
| Is that 105 budget resolution in House resolution #105? | 00:03:12 | |
| The economic development, I don't know what item was out. | 00:03:17 | |
| The 252. | 00:03:26 | |
| Is. | 00:03:30 | |
| Hang. | 00:03:34 | |
| Yup. | 00:03:41 | |
| That was the, So what I did is I just moved from economic development to contractual services because we have the contractual | 00:03:44 | |
| services and I didn't budget enough. So I just moved it from one line item to another. So what's, what's the contract? | 00:03:55 | |
| From the dot, he's the one that's. | 00:04:09 | |
| This went through City Council, the contract went through City Council. So and then it's it's for also for Jason pianist. So those | 00:04:13 | |
| two come out of economic development. | 00:04:18 | |
| Helping us get money in sanity. He's a former assistant secretary of the Department of Transportation. Has got a lot of good | 00:04:25 | |
| connections in South Bay. So I just am budgeting up in that contract right now. | 00:04:32 | |
| I just moved it from development into that line item. So we still have my take and Jay as their lobbyists as well too. Yes, Sir. | 00:04:39 | |
| And the flood control, right? He does flood control. | 00:04:44 | |
| And then? | 00:04:51 | |
| Did you have? | 00:04:53 | |
| That was 33 login Simpson that we're we had three. | 00:04:57 | |
| Justin Reese is kind of like our consultant. So we we use them a lot for our grants that we're working on. | 00:05:03 | |
| Any answers? What do you help him with? What did he help us with? With him today? He helped us get some extra funding for Cuba | 00:05:10 | |
| Road and for Bullock directly. Appropriation, direct appropriation from the dot. | 00:05:16 | |
| And that that economic development money, is that from the Leader Fund? | 00:05:22 | |
| It's Lita. Well, it's the GRT money that remember we raised the GRT and we, I moved that money and I moved to $100,000 a year in | 00:05:27 | |
| there. And that's what we use it for economic development. And I know you guys were supposed to you have a committee or a kind of | 00:05:34 | |
| sort of, so I know that's kind of the money that we use for economic development. | 00:05:41 | |
| I'll make a motion. We pass budget resident in-house budget resolution #105. | 00:05:52 | |
| Next is in house. | 00:06:02 | |
| All in favor opposed. | 00:06:06 | |
| And then I guess the in-house 107, Madam Mayor. | 00:06:10 | |
| I guess the in-house budget resolution 107 can answer it because it dealt with my quality of life grand and I just was going to | 00:06:18 | |
| ask what what it does. So in house resolutions, it's just they're like my budget items like if I go over I can move just line | 00:06:24 | |
| items from one to another. And it's not required approved by the state. But I do like to show it to council just to show that I do | 00:06:30 | |
| move line items around. And this year I moved a lot because there was a lot of activity this year. We had a lot going on this | 00:06:36 | |
| year. | 00:06:42 | |
| So I do have a lot of US regulations on that in house anyways. | 00:06:48 | |
| I guess I was going to be used for. | 00:06:58 | |
| Phone systems and other admin yeah. So if I go over so we had yeah I went over on a few things I didn't budget. | 00:07:01 | |
| Like our phone systems, our liability insurance PRAA, couple of them were because we gave those reasons. So I did go over on those | 00:07:12 | |
| line items and when I budgeted at the beginning of the year, I kind of estimate. So sometimes I don't estimate accurately on some | 00:07:18 | |
| line items, but we did have a lot of activity. | 00:07:24 | |
| This year, so and Madam Mayor and what you'll see this every July because it's closing out the final budget and getting the | 00:07:31 | |
| question and the fund actually isn't in the red. It's just that line item. I just don't want to have line item in the negative. | 00:07:40 | |
| When I report to the state the whole fund can't be in the red and usually if the funds in the red that's why I do an actual bar an | 00:07:51 | |
| in house resolution. The fund isn't in the red, I'm just moving line items. | 00:07:56 | |
| This might be a good time to mention that Ruby's department was awarded an award from the Mexican Municipal League for our audits. | 00:08:01 | |
| On that note, I'll make a motion to pass in house resolution #107. | 00:08:10 | |
| All in favor? Aye. All opposed. Thank you. | 00:08:19 | |
| OK, public forum, we'd like to welcome Socorro County Manager Andy Lockridge. | 00:08:27 | |
| Thank you for coming. You're welcome. Thank you all members of City Council. | 00:08:36 | |
| Everybody else in the audience, my name is Andy Logic. Some of you know me. | 00:08:42 | |
| Mr. Fleming may know me too well from all those days working CS when we still had the rooms back there at the old junior high. Mr. | 00:08:48 | |
| Salome, good to see you again. Everybody else here, it's a pleasure. I just want to take this time to let you all know that in the | 00:08:54 | |
| brief tenure that I've been here in the last three weeks, a lot has happened to be able to bring back cooperation between the city | 00:09:01 | |
| and the county. | 00:09:08 | |
| Not only are we working together, but we now have a new partnership with the new president over at New Mexico Tech. | 00:09:16 | |
| As well as all of our work with the school district as well. In fact, I just wanted to bring to your attention now that tomorrow | 00:09:22 | |
| morning, Kenny Gonzalez and I are going to be finalizing the deal to where we're going to be able to have four students from the | 00:09:29 | |
| high school coming to our equipment shop and start working with the county. So that we can get these kids needed exposure to | 00:09:37 | |
| what's out there as well as build up their resumes and let them know that there's more to life after high school and. | 00:09:44 | |
| For that, whether it be college or whether or not the college, there's definitely roles for every student to play here, not only | 00:09:52 | |
| in the city, but in the county of Socorro as well. Hopefully what we'll be able to do is articulate to everybody that just like | 00:09:59 | |
| myself, we might leave, we might leave for 30 years, but Socorro is Socorro is in our hearts it we're always going to bleed | 00:10:07 | |
| warrior blue. And so we just want to make sure that we keep that commitment growing, that we make sure. | 00:10:14 | |
| That we keep the lines of communication growing strong. So it's been nice working with Mr. Monet that we've been able to do all | 00:10:22 | |
| kinds of different lines of communication so far. That when it comes to how we're going to be sharing not only some of our funds, | 00:10:29 | |
| but making sure that the ambulance service is up and running the way it needs to and we can work on getting you guys those funds | 00:10:37 | |
| just a little bit quicker. And so it's those types of steps and everything that's coming on. | 00:10:44 | |
| The wrestling program, I cannot tell you how nice it's been living over there in southeastern Colorado and seeing the wrestling | 00:10:52 | |
| program going as strong as it is. And if we need to start doing some type of different grants between the city and the county to | 00:10:59 | |
| create opportunities for our youth, I'm all for it. And so that's going to be one of those commitments that we have going on as | 00:11:05 | |
| well. So with that being said. | 00:11:11 | |
| If you all have any questions, always always feel free. My door is open. | 00:11:18 | |
| And we're going to continue that line of communication. I don't want to take up too much of your time tonight because I know you | 00:11:24 | |
| have a large agenda, luckily. | 00:11:28 | |
| Our agenda got really short tonight, so I was able to get here a little bit quicker, but if there's anything you ever need, please | 00:11:33 | |
| do not hesitate to ask. And we're going to make sure that we continue to get moving in the future. So with that, thank you, thank | 00:11:38 | |
| you, thank you, good luck. Thank you. | 00:11:44 | |
| Thank you and welcome. | 00:11:49 | |
| OK. Anybody else? | 00:11:52 | |
| Public forum. | 00:11:55 | |
| Hello, my name is Mary Baca and I come before you one time a couple years back. | 00:12:06 | |
| OK. | 00:12:19 | |
| First off, I want to say thank you for putting the speed bump all the way across Fisher St. | 00:12:21 | |
| Because people were swerving and I was almost getting hit on a couple of times because they didn't want to. So I remember posting | 00:12:31 | |
| it on the soccer safety watch if you guys could put it all the way across, and I don't know who did, but thank you very much. | 00:12:38 | |
| The second time I came before you guys, I. | 00:12:47 | |
| Was in a panic. Umm I couldn't locate my. | 00:12:52 | |
| 5 1/2 year old granddaughter at the time. | 00:12:58 | |
| And this was a few years back and I remember coming in front of you guys and asking you guys for your help. | 00:13:03 | |
| To get her and moved to my daughter's house and. | 00:13:11 | |
| Which did not workout very well, but. | 00:13:17 | |
| Then she went to an aunt's house and didn't workout very well. Then my stepson. | 00:13:20 | |
| Called me at work one day and told me to go to Las Cruces and help me get my granddaughter moved to his house because she was | 00:13:29 | |
| crying. | 00:13:35 | |
| And stuff. And he wanted her, but his wife didn't want her. | 00:13:41 | |
| So, umm. | 00:13:46 | |
| Things didn't workout. | 00:13:49 | |
| Well, again. | 00:13:51 | |
| For the last three years. | 00:13:54 | |
| OK, I'm gonna. My emotions have been. | 00:13:57 | |
| Up and down. | 00:14:01 | |
| For the last three years because I have to been going to my parents house, taking care of my mom, my dad and my son. | 00:14:04 | |
| With the help of my siblings as well, but me has the majority. | 00:14:12 | |
| Was because I'm the one that is responsible for giving them their medication, whatever. | 00:14:19 | |
| So I'm kind of up in the air with my emotions, so I'm going to try to fumble it a little bit here and. | 00:14:27 | |
| Try not to get too emotional, but try to get straight to the point. But. | 00:14:35 | |
| OK. | 00:14:41 | |
| No, my granddaughter is now 15 1/2. She's living with another foster family and she's doing OK. I. | 00:14:44 | |
| But now, today I present in front of you. My father passed away in January. | 00:14:55 | |
| I've been the whole them. | 00:15:04 | |
| And the main person to give my mother and my son their medication. | 00:15:08 | |
| And being responsible for the majority of the stuff that I'm in control of everything how you say, power of attorney, OK. | 00:15:14 | |
| So. | 00:15:24 | |
| When my dad passed away in January, I got blamed for a lot of stuff. | 00:15:26 | |
| That I wasn't aware of. | 00:15:31 | |
| From my son's wife, my stepson's wife. | 00:15:34 | |
| She had told my granddaughter, my 15 year old granddaughter lies about me, the mother, my granddaughter's mother, lies about me | 00:15:43 | |
| and this was all supposedly said at my dad's burial when we were all at the cemetery. | 00:15:51 | |
| Umm, I vaguely remember who was at my dad's funeral. | 00:16:00 | |
| I just remember looking behind me to see if my husband was there. | 00:16:06 | |
| And my eldest stepson was there. | 00:16:12 | |
| Because I knew that my granddaughter and my other grandchildren were with their parents. | 00:16:18 | |
| So I didn't wasn't concerned with my grandchildren at the time. | 00:16:26 | |
| But I kind of entered this out to Mr. Salome that day when I saw Mr. Romero as well. | 00:16:33 | |
| Couple months back. | 00:16:42 | |
| But today? | 00:16:44 | |
| I'm trying to. | 00:16:48 | |
| Yeah, my stepson's wife obstacle YFD program because she. | 00:16:51 | |
| Basically used my granddaughter to get into the system so she wouldn't have to go out into the world and look for a job. | 00:16:59 | |
| So this is where I was at when I got vaguely interrupted. | 00:17:09 | |
| By one of your city police officers. | 00:17:17 | |
| OK. | 00:17:21 | |
| I never have a moment's rest. It's like. | 00:17:25 | |
| Something always happens within the day. I can never accomplish something. A man start a new task because like I said, I was | 00:17:30 | |
| trying to get my stepson's wife off the CYFD program and then I got assaulted by one of your city police officers. | 00:17:39 | |
| And I did file Oversight Commission complaint form with. | 00:17:50 | |
| Mr. Panetta. | 00:17:57 | |
| OK, umm. | 00:18:01 | |
| The last time I filed one of these. | 00:18:03 | |
| I think it was about 20 some years ago. | 00:18:08 | |
| Against the Richard Lopez and it didn't workout very well. | 00:18:12 | |
| OK. | 00:18:16 | |
| So I'm not sure. | 00:18:18 | |
| How to go about this? | 00:18:22 | |
| So if you get together with Donald, he knows the process, he can help you with the process. As far as the police oversight | 00:18:25 | |
| Commission, right? Yes, ma'am. The the complaints with our attorney that overseas the police oversight Commission, We're waiting | 00:18:30 | |
| to hear back from her so we can schedule the meeting. | 00:18:36 | |
| I was told not to tell you very much about the case, but. | 00:18:44 | |
| You know. | 00:18:49 | |
| I was just kind of. | 00:18:51 | |
| I even when we were in the courtroom and I did ask the judge. | 00:18:53 | |
| When you're eating because there was somebody in front of Maine. | 00:19:01 | |
| And officer was coming. | 00:19:08 | |
| North. I was going South. He turned his lights on. | 00:19:11 | |
| And then when he turned around, he turned them off. | 00:19:16 | |
| But here's the thing, when we got to the stop light, his lights were still not on and he was running my license plate. | 00:19:21 | |
| He was, you know. | 00:19:32 | |
| So I said fine, OK, he's running my plate. | 00:19:36 | |
| And then when we took off, he pulled me over, so I pulled over. | 00:19:40 | |
| This is for the hearing, I think. I think this would be better offset at the Oversight Commission than here. | 00:19:44 | |
| Because we only give like 5 minutes. So it's better that when you present your case, you do present it to the police oversight | 00:19:54 | |
| Commission. Okay. The thing is that I was told is that. | 00:20:00 | |
| This officer is the. | 00:20:10 | |
| Well, he was arguing with my husband two weeks prior to he pulled me over. | 00:20:14 | |
| Because he did run my husband's license plate on his car. | 00:20:21 | |
| So, so now they're telling, I heard, I'm hearing a lot of stories about this officer, right? But there's nothing that we can do | 00:20:26 | |
| because it's just public forum. So I think if you follow through with the police oversight commissioner, it's in your best | 00:20:33 | |
| interest. OK, thank you. Thank you. | 00:20:41 | |
| Anyone else for public funds? | 00:20:50 | |
| Good evening all. My name is Dennis Vicente. I live at 605 Colton Drive. You guys hear me? All right then. I have. I've had this | 00:21:01 | |
| issue for about, I guess 12 years now about my. | 00:21:09 | |
| Garage, you know, getting flooded saturated with water, you know so and what the colors that I can see is two or three different | 00:21:19 | |
| factors I guess one is the pipe that goes underneath communal real. | 00:21:28 | |
| Is not big enough to supplies all the areas. Probably my calculation I see maybe 40 to 50 acres. | 00:21:39 | |
| Property to the West and I'm sure everybody's familiar with the area. And anyway, I don't think that pipe is big enough to drain | 00:21:50 | |
| all that water that's coming down and with all the new housing that's going in and the new driveways and more pavement that's | 00:21:59 | |
| causing more and more water to come down that area. | 00:22:08 | |
| But and so. | 00:22:17 | |
| I've had about five times that water went into my garage. | 00:22:20 | |
| And Sunday night with the rain we had, I'm not sure how much rain we got, but we the water literally almost went into my garage | 00:22:28 | |
| again. And two years ago, there was water that almost went in my living room. It was within an inch of coming into my living room. | 00:22:39 | |
| So. | 00:22:50 | |
| I'm just here to say, you know one option. | 00:22:52 | |
| The main option is to me would be to replace that pipe. I know it's costly and whatnot. I work for doing this type of work for 35 | 00:22:58 | |
| years. So I know what the costs are cost on those things. So then that would be the main solution. But another thing is. | 00:23:09 | |
| You know, keeping the vegetation clean in that Slough where the water collects the little dam and trying to keep that so that the | 00:23:20 | |
| water flows freely all the way to the pipe. And, you know, I've had this issue. I've gone to my insurance company. Well, it's not | 00:23:29 | |
| a dwelling. That's what I get. | 00:23:37 | |
| On there so. | 00:23:46 | |
| I I'd like to just bring it up and see if we can, you know, have this rectified. Mr. O'Malley, has the city ever? | 00:23:48 | |
| Heard of this happening before at the same area. Yes, Sir. I met with Mr. Vincent they two years ago and he said his house almost | 00:24:04 | |
| flooded and then the next day I took Lloyd over to look at it. I can't remember exactly what Lloyd told me, but we'll I'll let him | 00:24:12 | |
| know again tomorrow if we can look into that. The location it's on Coulson and El Camino. Real. Yeah, that's the exact address. | 00:24:20 | |
| I live at 605605 which is 2 houses off of El Camino Real. | 00:24:29 | |
| Another problem with that area is as you're approaching El Camino, the roads at an upgrade so access the dam and pushes the water | 00:24:35 | |
| back. | 00:24:39 | |
| OK. | 00:24:44 | |
| Thank you, Sir. OK, you're welcome. | 00:24:47 | |
| Anyone else for public forum? | 00:24:50 | |
| If not, we'll move on. | 00:24:56 | |
| Make a motion to approve the RFP award RFP 062424 to Magdalena. | 00:24:59 | |
| Or for the Magdalena Mons trail plant. | 00:25:08 | |
| All in favor, all opposed. Motion passes discussion, Paul. | 00:25:12 | |
| Well, that am I going to mountain trail there there was three people that that did on that project and. | 00:25:23 | |
| And a committee recommended Applied Trails Research, so that's that's who we recommended giving the bid to. | 00:25:31 | |
| Madam Mayor, if you'll remember, Mr. Rob Selena approached us a while back. We're actually working on a second grant with Mr. | 00:25:41 | |
| Sonia, but this is to design A trail plan from the top of Baldy all the way to Fox Canyon. | 00:25:48 | |
| Thank you. | 00:25:57 | |
| Maybe, um. | 00:26:00 | |
| The municipal league delegate, voting delegate and alternative alternate. | 00:26:04 | |
| I make a We need a motion to approve. Are we going to approve, Michael? | 00:26:15 | |
| Madam Mayor, so the municipal, you sent this out a couple weeks ago, the. | 00:26:24 | |
| Convention is, I believe the first week in August in Clovis, the 15th, okay. And they want to make sure that our delegate and the | 00:26:31 | |
| alternate are both present to vote. And I believe in January Council Guine was voted as our representative to the Municipal | 00:26:37 | |
| League. So if someone wants to make a motion, if he's going to be attending to, to be our voting delegate and then anybody else | 00:26:44 | |
| that might be attending if they'll be the alternate. | 00:26:50 | |
| August the 15th. | 00:26:58 | |
| And we need to send all this by the 9th. | 00:27:00 | |
| And it's in Clovis. | 00:27:06 | |
| Anybody. | 00:27:10 | |
| Motion to approve. We need that. We need an alternate too. We need an alternate. Somebody wants to go hang out. I think I can make | 00:27:12 | |
| some changes, so I'll volunteer to be the ultimate. | 00:27:17 | |
| 2nd. | 00:27:27 | |
| The discussion. | 00:27:28 | |
| All in favor, aye? | 00:27:32 | |
| All opposed motion passes. I'll make a motion where you pass resolution #001A with our final budget 2nd. | 00:27:34 | |
| Discussion. | 00:27:47 | |
| All in favor. | 00:27:50 | |
| Madam Mayor, I will make a motion to pass resolution #24-07-23A, the DFA fourth quarter report. | 00:27:54 | |
| No second. | 00:28:06 | |
| Discussion. | 00:28:07 | |
| All in favor, aye? | 00:28:11 | |
| Yes, Sir, I would like to make a motion to pass resolution #24-07-23B. The South Central Council of Governments, 24-25. | 00:28:20 | |
| Participation second. | 00:28:27 | |
| Christmas. Yeah, we need members. Last year's members were Marianne, and the ultimate was Michael. | 00:28:36 | |
| The court years ago. | 00:28:44 | |
| And we could keep it the same. | 00:28:48 | |
| Are we in discussion? Yes. | 00:28:50 | |
| So this isn't the contract, right with South Central Council of Government? | 00:28:54 | |
| It's the contract and the voting members. | 00:28:59 | |
| Did the contract amount is still the same? | 00:29:04 | |
| And Madam Mayor, I believe also in January, Councillor Dean was elected to represent us at the Council of Governments and I, I | 00:29:08 | |
| don't remember who the alternate was. I think that we might have kept it with Gordy. | 00:29:14 | |
| If you want to keep them the same, but that was just back in January, Yeah, we can. | 00:29:22 | |
| Yeah. | 00:29:29 | |
| And also this, the South Central, that's where Gwen Valentino is helping with the grants as well, right? | 00:29:34 | |
| All right, come on. | 00:29:44 | |
| All in favor. | 00:29:49 | |
| MMM. | 00:29:53 | |
| Madam Mayor, I'll make a motion. We passed resolution #24-07-23C, the LGRF Park Street, Church Street, and Center St. discussion | 00:29:57 | |
| question. | 00:30:04 | |
| Madam Mayor, sorry, so this about the completion. | 00:30:11 | |
| While at work, Madam Mayor. Yes, we've Mccutchen in April. | 00:30:16 | |
| And we actually, the council adopted the resolutions for these grants in June, but the state dot changed the resolution the way | 00:30:22 | |
| they wanted it after we'd already adopted it. | 00:30:27 | |
| That goes for the next resolution as well. | 00:30:36 | |
| OK, all in favor, all opposed. Motion passes. Madam Mayor, I'll make a motion to pass resolution #24-07-24D the map. Otero Ave. | 00:30:40 | |
| Discussion. | 00:30:54 | |
| Yes, Sir. So is this on the completion, Mr. Monet of the Otero, we did a little strip. This is actually just for design there. So | 00:30:56 | |
| we need to be a 1.2 to $1.7 million project. But yes, that is to carry the payment forward, Eric. | 00:31:04 | |
| Thank you. | 00:31:15 | |
| That was looking at the next one. | 00:31:17 | |
| OK, make a motion. | 00:31:20 | |
| All in favor. | 00:31:27 | |
| All opposed. | 00:31:31 | |
| Madam Mayor, I'll make a motion. We pass resolution #24-07-23E, the condemning of 104 Pinon St. | 00:31:33 | |
| Donald. Madam Mayor, this resolution and the following or the resolutions are following our condemnation process in the ordinance. | 00:31:43 | |
| We need to make a motion first. | 00:31:47 | |
| OK, discussion. | 00:31:55 | |
| And Antigone is this those old apartments that were trucked in there years and years ago that and I'm not sure it was Pinion, but. | 00:31:59 | |
| You've probably been dealing with for about two years. It's on their on the drive entry to the fire Academy on the left hand side. | 00:32:11 | |
| Thank you. | 00:32:15 | |
| I, I go through Kenyon St. It's a, it's a dirt Rd. isn't it? And it's kind of a little royal at this point. And so I. | 00:32:25 | |
| By driving through there, I expected to see something that would justify the vote to move the condemnation forward, but. | 00:32:36 | |
| I didn't see anything that. | 00:32:47 | |
| That was any different was this. | 00:32:49 | |
| Pinion goes all the way down to the fire Academy. This was West of. | 00:32:52 | |
| The road that you turn off to get to the fire Academy right before you get to the sign, and then you go West up toward the | 00:32:59 | |
| mountain. There's a couple of trailers there. There's a few tires in there. | 00:33:04 | |
| But. | 00:33:11 | |
| And then you can catch the other Rd. going back around. | 00:33:13 | |
| Yeah. I, I didn't see anything and I'm wondering what, what would be the, what's the purpose of the condemnation? So what this | 00:33:17 | |
| does, again, following our ordinance, this allows us to help them clean up their house, give them a bill and put a lien on their | 00:33:23 | |
| house for the work that we do. We're not trying to take their property. We're just trying to put a lien on that for the help that | 00:33:28 | |
| we're giving them. Yeah. | 00:33:34 | |
| If it's West of the the road that enters the fire Academy. | 00:33:41 | |
| And it's a dirt Rd. that's kind of a little Arroyo, and it catches the other Rd. that's up there about maybe 1/4 of a mile long. | 00:33:48 | |
| There's two trailers. Guys were doing some things out there. But, you know, it's actually on estimate. Yeah. You come off of Aspen | 00:33:55 | |
| and go West. Yeah. Yeah, Aspen, Exactly. And then go West. I didn't see anything that would justify me to say that the city should | 00:34:02 | |
| condemn anything unless there's something there that I don't know. | 00:34:09 | |
| That we don't know is there. | 00:34:17 | |
| You know, what might be helpful to us is if we had a current photo of where the property is now and the history of what the | 00:34:20 | |
| property owner has done or hasn't done to get us to this point. So Madam, Madam Mayor. | 00:34:29 | |
| Mr. Monday, if I'm not mistaken though, this just starts the process, right? And then after there's still there's still more to be | 00:34:40 | |
| done in order to just make some aware and then from we still have another. | 00:34:45 | |
| Final vote to go with it, right? If we plan to condemn it, we will. This is again, just to put the lien on the property. Like I | 00:34:50 | |
| said, we've been working with the property owner for about two years, moving old vehicles, hauling off old trees and weeds and | 00:34:56 | |
| trash that the city's accomplished. Yes, Sir. But unfortunately, unfortunately, fortunately, Choncho was not here tonight because | 00:35:02 | |
| he's a father again, so. | 00:35:08 | |
| As of today, oh, is he yesterday? So are we looking for this? Are we looking for the property owner to reimburse the city for the | 00:35:14 | |
| expenses that they've already incurred of taking out the cars and taking out the significant amount of money that's been spent on | 00:35:22 | |
| that property? That's why it looks clean because the city cleaned it. And it's also keeps us out of some violating the anti | 00:35:29 | |
| donation clause because if we do it for one person and don't charge them, we have to. | 00:35:37 | |
| For everybody. | 00:35:44 | |
| Do we have a total? | 00:35:48 | |
| I don't know right off the top of my head. | 00:35:51 | |
| I'm sure it's less than $5000, maybe 5000 at 9000, but I'm pretty sure it's less because we did the labor ourselves. So whatever | 00:35:55 | |
| we get paid from the city, we asked them to reimburse us. Kind of similar to the Sands Motel. Yes, Sir, identical. And how's that | 00:36:01 | |
| working out? We have the title, we have the deed. | 00:36:07 | |
| All in favor. | 00:36:16 | |
| Aye, opposed. | 00:36:19 | |
| And passes. OK, Madam Mayor. | 00:36:21 | |
| I'll make a motion to pass resolution #24-07-23F. The condemning of one or 1100 Sean St. | 00:36:26 | |
| That other green property because of the city cleaned it up. Yes, Sir. We don't pursue this then people then the residents will | 00:36:38 | |
| have to clean up everybody's property at the expense of the city, which isn't something that probably. | 00:36:45 | |
| You know, this is a vacant lot that was overrun with small trees, trees sold regularly and we paid a subcontractor to go in and | 00:36:52 | |
| clean them all up. It was becoming a fire hazard. | 00:36:59 | |
| We need a second, second, second. | 00:37:09 | |
| And there's another problem property right next or two houses down from it that we're working with also. | 00:37:16 | |
| Lena, OK, so I just want to let you know that Chris does attempt to contact these property owners and he does, they do get some | 00:37:24 | |
| into court and we are at the point where there's no response. So now this is where we take it. We will either get the property | 00:37:31 | |
| cleaned and now we're going to try to recoup our funds. But there has been, he has attempted to contact the owners. So there's | 00:37:37 | |
| been a lot of documentation. | 00:37:44 | |
| There's certified letters. | 00:37:50 | |
| Yes. And then if they did get a court summons, the court will say whether they appear. They did not appear. | 00:37:54 | |
| So yes, it is documented, Mr. Lamette. | 00:38:00 | |
| Posted on the property and advertised it in the newspaper at least once. | 00:38:05 | |
| Saying that that property is condemned and there's a lien on that property and X amount of dollars to be paid to the city. And | 00:38:11 | |
| then and, and if the owner comes up with that, then they can buy. What if somebody else comes up with it says I want, I'd like | 00:38:17 | |
| that property for $5000. But if they say I'll pay it, I don't think that's legal. I don't think that's legal. It has to be, it has | 00:38:23 | |
| to be the owner. | 00:38:29 | |
| Oh, OK, so the owner is the only one that can reimburse the city at this point in time. We don't, we don't care how we get | 00:38:36 | |
| reimbursed, but who reimburses us? But in order for us to remove the lien, we do want our reimbursement. And once the liens in | 00:38:42 | |
| place then the title goes is the cities the title does the title go to the city? We don't re title it, but if they ever sell it, | 00:38:48 | |
| we'll be if they don't, there's not a mortgage on it will be first in line to get paid. | 00:38:55 | |
| Thank you all in favor. | 00:39:02 | |
| So can we, can I, can I just request that the feature when we do these if we can get in our packet just kind of yeah, just the | 00:39:06 | |
| whole timeline of On this date the letter was sent and this and this and this is the affidavit in your packet. | 00:39:13 | |
| Well, we got the, we got the contact where where they were being contacted On this date and this date and this date we haven't | 00:39:21 | |
| seen, I didn't see anything for as far as like correspondence. | 00:39:27 | |
| Letters, but it does have a timeline of them being. Maybe the total in the future would be helpful too just to understand what I | 00:39:35 | |
| think. Photos. | 00:39:40 | |
| You know, in public and they're not blind side, right? I mean, they shouldn't be. I mean if you're contacted, you know, but. | 00:39:49 | |
| Thank you. Thank you all in favor opposed motion passes make the motion. We pass the special use permit for Hannah Cooper 2nd. | 00:39:56 | |
| Question. | 00:40:08 | |
| And I can talk to you if you want to talk, Hannah. | 00:40:23 | |
| Special special use permit so I can have food trucks over on the corner of California and spring at the property there. | 00:40:28 | |
| So you got a big parking lot All in favor, aye. Opposed. | 00:40:36 | |
| Madam Mayor, I'll make a motion pass. Resolution #24-07-23G. The Mexico Department Transportation landscaping, I-25 Exit 147 and | 00:40:46 | |
| 152nd. | 00:40:52 | |
| Question, Donald. | 00:41:00 | |
| Madam Mayor, that's the final capital outlay agreement from the state and as Councillor Green said, it's to landscape our exits. | 00:41:03 | |
| Oh, OK. That was on our counselor. Dean's been asking for that for years. | 00:41:13 | |
| Yeah, all in favor, aye. Opposed. | 00:41:20 | |
| OK, author of Animal Control Officer Jason Padilla. | 00:41:25 | |
| Jason's got his hands full. | 00:41:37 | |
| Being an animal control officer for the City of Socorro. Being an animal control officer for the City of Support. | 00:42:01 | |
| Do hereby formally swear that I accept the foregoing appointment. Do you buy here for me? For I accept the. | 00:42:08 | |
| That I will support and enforce the ordinances of the City of Socorro, that I will enforce the city ordinances of school. And that | 00:42:16 | |
| I will faithfully and that I will faithfully and impartially distract, partially discharge the duties of appointment, the duties | 00:42:23 | |
| of appointment to the best of my ability, to the best of my ability. So help me God. | 00:42:29 | |
| New business. | 00:42:53 | |
| One thing I've got a numerous calls on on Cuba Rd. | 00:42:55 | |
| I, I didn't have a chance to drive by after the rain, but Donald, were you guys were to go and look at that and the situation out | 00:43:01 | |
| there, if it was worse than before, I myself didn't drive out there either. But if we get another rain like that, I will. I | 00:43:07 | |
| usually do because I take pictures to the next CDG application to include them. | 00:43:14 | |
| But I didn't make it this time, so the. | 00:43:21 | |
| I always thought that the whole curbing and everything that was being done already would make it, I mean wouldn't reduce it, but | 00:43:25 | |
| would cleared out quicker and it actually does. But that rain was for so long and so steady, I don't I don't think you could do | 00:43:31 | |
| it. But this is a little bit of a side note we reapplied for. | 00:43:37 | |
| Additional funding to do the rest of Cuba Rd. So if there's any issues, maybe we can address them when we get the next grant. | 00:43:45 | |
| We don't know at all right now at this point if it actually did drain faster than it had been before. The last time I checked it | 00:43:53 | |
| took it about and this was probably last summer. I probably took 20 minutes for the drain at the longest because the ground was | 00:43:59 | |
| still wet when I drove out there, but it there was no water on the road. | 00:44:05 | |
| And we maintain that that ditch or whatever you call it. | 00:44:13 | |
| A long mix St. and back street and stuff. Yes ma'am, that's ours. As well as what used to be Markling Road off of Cuba Rd. which | 00:44:18 | |
| we turn into a whole new pond. | 00:44:24 | |
| OK. But yes, it's our responsibility to maintain them all throughout the city. | 00:44:30 | |
| All business and still no business, Madam Mayor, I'm going to reach out at a constituent, reach out about prior to all this rain | 00:44:37 | |
| and there's an area right behind Cottonwood School. | 00:44:43 | |
| There's like a little bit the little valley in the road there and it's supposed to be run off and it looks like the concrete | 00:44:50 | |
| trucks are washing out concrete there. | 00:44:55 | |
| And it's blocking water and it's pulling there's going back out. It's creating a pool in the road. So and it's get with the basket | 00:45:01 | |
| when he was in town. I I forgot to. So I just like to mention to the council maybe can get ahold of he got some Lloyds department | 00:45:09 | |
| potentially. Yes, I did get a complaint on that also on and Lloyd went out there and and they were going to clean that. | 00:45:16 | |
| Maybe make contact with whoever was doing. I think there's some yeah. I don't, I I never found out from Lloyd who was actually | 00:45:24 | |
| dumping the concrete, but. | 00:45:28 | |
| It was a lot of contracts in council. | 00:45:32 | |
| Blame anybody, but thank you. Any other new business? No, I just wanted to say how nice things went for the wrestling event. I | 00:45:36 | |
| guess it was really nice. | 00:45:41 | |
| Yeah, sure. That was does our 5th, 5th annual tournament. It's rodeo theme that's all themed around the city of Socorro. The logo | 00:45:51 | |
| was done for us years ago with a wrestling mat underneath the city truck Campos Socorro logos. And if you'll notice when we use | 00:45:57 | |
| it, it has like, I don't know if anybody notices it, but it's a wrestling mat. It's actually underneath that starting lines and | 00:46:04 | |
| they got great big banners up there and table covers and all. | 00:46:11 | |
| Are geared towards. | 00:46:18 | |
| And they're geared towards the rodeo theme there belt buckles. We can weigh belt buckles and cowboy hats and. | 00:46:22 | |
| Pins and Cowboys roping animals if you get a pin in a match and that's a pretty unique tournament. We had a nice turn out. We had | 00:46:29 | |
| over 800 wrestlers between the two days. | 00:46:34 | |
| The Steve and Darrell and the staff up there were great. They're phenomenal. They they helped with everything. Anything we asked | 00:46:42 | |
| them to do, it's late. It's a weird tournament because really hot this time of year. So we do it late. We start like away in at | 00:46:48 | |
| 4:30 in the afternoon, which is typically at 7:00 in the morning. | 00:46:54 | |
| Start at 4:30 and we start wrestling at 7. Sun starts to go down and it was raining like crazy up there, but the the facility held | 00:47:00 | |
| up the winds. The hardest game for us up there. It's not really the rain. The rain was. It was nice, people liked it, a lot of | 00:47:06 | |
| compliments, no complaints. I'm looking forward to the new sound system up there because that was a little a little spotty, but we | 00:47:11 | |
| worked with it. | 00:47:16 | |
| Overall, I think we've seen a lot of influx of a lot of people in town and upcoming score for us and RV park was busy. | 00:47:22 | |
| I don't know exactly the numbers are imagine Steven. No, but it was good that the Mississippi was great. They were busy, really | 00:47:29 | |
| busy on the second night. So thank you to them too. They showed up. They did a great job taking care of the kids there. So that's | 00:47:35 | |
| a great event. Thanks for the council. That was the first time you'll see on the voucher and we asked for some lodgers tax. We had | 00:47:42 | |
| never asked for that before to try to help really bolster the. | 00:47:48 | |
| We spent quite a bit of money on awards to really bolster the awards that we met with the mayor so we can really keep the soccer | 00:47:54 | |
| logo and everything on it and. | 00:47:59 | |
| Oh, man, in my third match, I wrestled a kid from, I think, I think one of them said New Jersey or something. A kid from New | 00:48:33 | |
| Jersey came down, whole family came down South. I think the bigger it gets, Florida, quite a bit wrestling people are. They're not | 00:48:39 | |
| saying no. They'll come and they'll go anywhere. If there's a good tournament, good competition, they'll go. Yeah, sorry. One | 00:48:46 | |
| more. This is a question when, when is the rest of the medal going to be going up there? | 00:48:52 | |
| At the arena, at the arena, they're working on it right now. | 00:49:00 | |
| Working on it as we're speaking online at night, but but they started about two weeks ago and then they stopped for three weeks | 00:49:04 | |
| ago and they stopped for the 4th of July this and they should be going again. I'll drive out there tomorrow too. They're welding | 00:49:10 | |
| purlings on the West side of it right now, so they should help with the wind quite a bit. Yeah, I think so. I don't know. We'll | 00:49:16 | |
| see. It'll be interesting. We're hoping that it does. | 00:49:22 | |
| But what we're worried about is Mr. Fleming kidney test. Mr. Fleming can attest this is that it's going to force the wind to the | 00:49:29 | |
| now the smaller open part of the arena and as he said, creative vortex. It could, but. | 00:49:35 | |
| If it does, well, make another adjustment. | 00:49:43 | |
| I have first was I was like all in for the completing of the arena completely in. But when you sit in the stands and you look up | 00:49:47 | |
| there, the site that you get to see is really pretty. So it's unique. It's very different for, you know, we sit in gyms all day | 00:49:53 | |
| long, buildings all day long. So it's unique. I'm not saying that's the only thing that goes on a thing, but for just for my event | 00:49:58 | |
| from our perspective, it's really cool. I mean, even when we battle a little bit of wind, we made some adjustments. We got first | 00:50:04 | |
| tape and we put it on the mat. | 00:50:10 | |
| Because we've had where the maps flip up because the wind gets under, we don't have that at all this year. We completely Turkey | 00:50:16 | |
| rain. And so it's good, you know, hopefully it does cut down on it, but if you maybe could do a winter event if there's heaters. | 00:50:22 | |
| We didn't want to block that view, that's why we didn't do the east side. | 00:50:29 | |
| Makes sense? | 00:50:35 | |
| Or business. | 00:50:36 | |
| Executive session. | 00:50:39 | |
| OK. | 00:50:42 | |
| Mayor's report Personal changes. I need a motion. | 00:50:45 | |
| OK. | 00:50:52 | |
| Christian attorney of Fire FMT from a 58 to a 62 Donald Warland fire recruit salary adjustment. A50 to a 52 Justin Pacheco fire | 00:50:55 | |
| recruit. Sorry I just sent A50 to a 52. Ashland Aguilar fire recruit salary adjustment. | 00:51:07 | |
| 8:50 to a 52 Randall Montoya, gas crewman, A completed probation, 837 to 839. | 00:51:20 | |
| James Beasley, St. Crewman, completed probation, temporary 835. Jason Romero, police officer, transfer from facility, security | 00:51:27 | |
| Officer A 62, A 44, Antonio Gonzalez, Police, facility security officer, promotion to a police officer, a 44 to a 59, and Jacob | 00:51:36 | |
| Riley, fire resignation. | 00:51:44 | |
| Make a motion. We approve the personnel changes as presented. | 00:51:55 | |
| I have a question. | 00:51:58 | |
| On the. | 00:52:02 | |
| The facility security officer going to police officer. So we're now looking for another facility security officer for that's going | 00:52:04 | |
| to. | 00:52:09 | |
| Jason Romero is moving to the security officer. He is a police. He's currently a police officer. He'll be the security and then | 00:52:17 | |
| Antonio will go from. | 00:52:21 | |
| OK. | 00:52:30 | |
| Business resignations. | 00:52:37 | |
| CB Power LLC 88 Team of several Clarence Cal Gorales. | 00:52:41 | |
| Residential and commercial electrical contractor, New Mexico Gold LLC, 110 Willow St. Ernesto Manufacturing AJ Provisional | 00:52:47 | |
| Contracting, out of Town of Agita Anna Gutierrez Roofing, US LBM Operating Company, 501 Otero Ave. Denise Ocho. I don't want to | 00:52:56 | |
| see them. | 00:53:04 | |
| Albert, Julie. | 00:53:13 | |
| Retail lumber and building material supply. | 00:53:15 | |
| Beauty Boutique Romeo, New Mexico. Alicia Romero clothing and accessories. | 00:53:19 | |
| Avon LLC, 700 Franklin St. Maximilian Pedigree Contract Food Service. | 00:53:25 | |
| Prohibition, 37101 W Mountains, Charles Bay Capitol The second retail cannabis dispensary Denny's Fireworks, 401 Spring St. | 00:53:36 | |
| Patrick Miller Fireworks Lupita Fashion, 614 Honeysuckle Ave. Guadalupe Flores. | 00:53:46 | |
| Or the New Mexico landscaping company AO3 Lyles Ericsson Sandoval Sale of landscaping and art. Art and materials. The Coal Trail | 00:53:58 | |
| Running Series, LLC 629 Nicholas Greece Vidal sports event organizer. | 00:54:07 | |
| That's a lot of businesses. | 00:54:18 | |
| All in favor, aye? | 00:54:21 | |
| OK, the next City Council meeting will be Tuesday, August 20th at 6:00 PM. | 00:54:29 | |
| And I need an adjournment motion to adjourn. | 00:54:35 | |
| OK. Thank you. Thank you. Good job, Chair, for putting up with me. | 00:54:40 |