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	Hello. How's it going? How are you? Hello. Here today.	00:00:02
	Barely. How many vacations have you taken in the last six weeks?	00:00:06
	Las Vegas, Where else?	00:00:13
	I'm watching you, huh? Phoenix, California. Phoenix, you go to the real nice cold places.	00:00:16
	I would get to go to those ones.	00:00:24
	All right, here we go.	00:00:28
	This is the City of Socorro City Council meeting Tuesday, October 15th. Roll call please, Mayor Bhaskar.	00:00:31
	Yeah.	00:00:43
	Barnum is kind of getting a lot of.	00:00:47
	OK Mayor Bhaskar here concert Tapas Lopez here, Councillor Dean, Councillor Fleming, Councillor Ocampo, Councillor Olgin.	00:00:49
	Councillor Partridge. Councillor Romero.	00:01:02
	Councillor Salome, we do have a quorum. Another forum counselor.	00:01:07
	All right for the Pledge of Allegiance.	00:01:15
	But the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which that one they should under God indivisible, with liberty and	00:01:20
	justice for all.	00:01:25
	And God help us, we have another election coming up here pretty soon, so I hope you'll still have liberty and freedom for all.	00:01:35
	Yes, but anyway.	00:01:44
	Consent agenda.	00:01:46
	Mr. Mayor. Mr. Fleming. A motion to approve the Senate agenda as presented.	00:01:50
	There's a whole lot of budget resolutions if you anybody have any questions about them. It's just housekeeping. Is that what they	00:01:58
	call it, Ruby?	00:02:02
	OK, you sure it's nothing?	00:02:10
	They're stuck in there for us to just overlook.	00:02:13
	OK.	00:02:16
	All in favor, aye?	00:02:19
	Right away we have public forum.	00:02:22
	Oh, there you go.	00:02:26
	Are you a runner? Yeah.	00:02:28
	Ahead, you got a few ambulance calls over there. Yes, so I'm here to give a report.	00:02:34
	On the Soccer Stampede that we hosted out at the Rodeo Grounds Cross Country course on Friday, October 4th. It was a busy day, but	00:02:39
	the course itself was in the best shape I've ever seen. So huge thank you to Steve and Raul out there. They were working on it for	00:02:47
	weeks up until leading up to the race. All the kids said, and I agree like it was, it was phenomenal. Like the course itself.	00:02:56
	We had 11 teams come to join us for the soccer Stampede to be reimbursed City, JV and middle school races.	00:03:06
	198 runners ended up competing which is fantastic. We had several Socorro runners in the top ten including Abby Kudal in 6th place	00:03:14
	and the girls guard series, Mackenzie Smith placing 4th in girls middle school, and Sasha is the guy placing 10th in girls middle	00:03:20
	school as well.	00:03:25
	The thing that will stand out about the day or the three EMS recalls that we had to make for heat related illnesses out on the	00:03:32
	course. Everybody ended up going home with their team. They were treated on scene. There were no major complications. But if the	00:03:39
	course hadn't been in such good shape that ambulance would not have been able to drive out to mile two of three. And even in the	00:03:47
	middle of the emergency, I was calling Steve and asking somebody to move the boulder to allow.	00:03:54
	To get off of course and a better point and it was done right away and for the cooperation and the responsiveness is phenomenal.	00:04:02
	Thank you to the fire department for responding right away and getting ambulances out on the cross country course. It's definitely	00:04:09
	not ideal. I would like to avoid that in the future. But whether this year has been hotter than ever.	00:04:17
	I sort of seen it coming and let them know that it was a possibility and hope for the best, that everybody was treated, taken care	00:04:25
	of and ultimately with a little bit of sleep in perspective, I was able to look back and see it really embodied the best of the	00:04:30
	country.	00:04:35
	If you've ever been in a part of the country, what I love is that everybody takes care of one another. So the kids have been	00:04:41
	treated like parents, like on the scene from other teams, and everybody kind of came together to keep the meat running, take care	00:04:47
	of the emergencies and make it successful for everyone, so.	00:04:54
	Again, my favorite way to get to that outcome that it it ultimately was a great experience and thank you to the city for the for	00:05:03
	that course.	00:05:07
	The ground, all the coaches coming from out of town, especially ones who hadn't been there before, commented on what a great	00:05:13
	course it was and the beautiful setting it was for a cross country. So All in all, it was a good day. Thank you so much for doing	00:05:18
	this. I mean, you're, I know you volunteered to take the cross country people on, but to have this many people see our facilities,	00:05:24
	that's just just terrific. Thank you so much for doing this. So thank you again for just maintaining it. Thank you to Steve and	00:05:30
	his crew.	00:05:36
	They do all the work you do a lot too. Thank you. Anything very good.	00:05:43
	And Abby's out there. She didn't want to come in, I guess.	00:05:52
	Well, that's fantastic though. What a good job she did. OK.	00:05:57
	Anyone else that's not on the agenda would like to make a phone call up here?	00:06:01
	Here's the number to call. No, I just want to say thank you to the city and the staff at the Convention Center. They were great	00:06:07
	for a senior Expo. We had almost 250 people there. We vaccinated over 150 people that day. So constant turn. People have raved	00:06:13
	about it, called and want to participate next year. But thank you to the city. We have lots of compliments from the folks in	00:06:19
	Valencia County who came down.	00:06:25
	Was a great event and they said we should have it up there and I said no happening. But anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for	00:06:32
	the counselors who were there that day. We really appreciate it. But again, thank you to the city for hosting that for us. It was	00:06:38
	great. So thank you. Linda just has to start the line dancing.	00:06:44
	That was pretty neat. Well, thank you for putting it on. That was to bring together everybody in Sapporo County from Valencia and	00:06:51
	Albuquerque, and the Journal is great to have it here.	00:06:56
	Anyone else?	00:07:02
	There's Des. She's gonna make you cry.	00:07:03
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait till you get to the mic. Still there? Well, I'd like to read a letter that I wrote. I played in my	00:07:12
	resignation October 1st, so.	00:07:18
	But deep gratitude and emotion, I'm submitting my notice of resignation from the position from my position within the city of	00:07:25
	Socorro. My final day of employment will be on October 30th.	00:07:31
	I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to you, Mayor Bhaskar.	00:07:37
	You've provided me with the confidence and wisdom to run a department, and I hope my time with the city has made you and the	00:07:43
	community members of Socorro proud. I will forever be grateful for your support.	00:07:48
	To the City Council, thank you for your trust that you placed in me.	00:07:55
	For your dedication to making Sakura a better place.	00:08:00
	Collaborative work we've all done together, it's been some of the most fulfilling and.	00:08:04
	Just it's helped me learn so much in my career thus far.	00:08:11
	I deeply appreciate all the opportunities you guys have all given me and have been just so helpful throughout this whole process	00:08:17
	of me learning how to be a director of a department. So thank you so much, you guys.	00:08:23
	To I'm just going to start reading off a whole bunch of names here because everyone's helped me the past three years. So to	00:08:31
	Donald, Lena, Ruby, Polo, Val, Mariah, Mars, Cara, Chris Christie, the rest of the City Hall staff, I'm so grateful for your	00:08:37
	kindness and willingness to always help me with whatever the tourism and Convention Center department needs, I'm also grateful	00:08:43
	for.	00:08:49
	Every department that I have the opportunity to collaborate with on all the events that we've planned together.	00:08:56
	Just some to mention, Steve and his crew, Darrell, have helped us so much the past three years.	00:09:03
	Lloyd Police Department, fire department, everyone, we've all just kind of, it seems like everyone's always willing to lend a	00:09:11
	helping hand and it was just really easy in the midst of all the event planning chaos.	00:09:19
	Just Upshot and I learning together and.	00:09:28
	Anything that we, you know, needed help with and asked about, asked for we, it was really easy. It was hard, but easy because	00:09:31
	everyone was really willing to help us. So thank you guys.	00:09:37
	I also want to give a, a shout out to Deacon Jose cause we've been, you know, renting that Convention Center out very consistently	00:09:45
	this past year and taken us and helped us with that entire space matter for hours. Sometimes it's not. And so they do a lot of	00:09:52
	work to help us.	00:09:59
	So the shadows that make a lot of work, the computer center, so.	00:10:08
	Offer a huge to my assistant director Shane Cortez who has been more like a Co director in this department.	00:10:18
	Sam has been a partner.	00:10:25
	I've been so much slow. It's about a couple weeks, sorry guys. And I believe she deserves the opportunity to step into the	00:10:29
	director role. She is so an exceptional leadership and dedication and I trust she will continue to help guide the girl to even	00:10:34
	greater heights.	00:10:38
	It has been an absolute privilege to serve the people of Socorro and I also ever carry the experiences, skills and relationships	00:10:44
	I've been with me.	00:10:48
	I'm committed to making this transition as smooth as possible and although all I can to support the team over the coming weeks,	00:10:53
	like I said, my last day will be October 30th, so thank you guys for letting me read this.	00:10:59
	City Council, Mr. O'Connell Yeah. How much I love all the Army owes and.	00:11:12
	Hope you're not going to go too far away. And you're always welcome. All the time. Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah. Don't be a	00:11:17
	stranger. This. Never. Never.	00:11:21
	Great job. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And you know YouTube girls when I was out there working the sound for a lot of the events.	00:11:27
	I saw these nails that had a show coming in.	00:11:38
	They saw two young ladies whom they thought they could push over and make their own things happen.	00:11:44
	And I am so proud of these two young ladies who are standing and seated here at the meeting tonight because you held up the	00:11:55
	Socorro tradition, you know, literally don't know where to go. Thank you.	00:12:03
	That's portrait. May I have the pleasure of working with Cheyenne and Dez for a few events. So good luck to you. I thought you did	00:12:12
	a fantastic job. You have a good legacy as Mayor said last time, you know, and that's cultural composite. I got a soft spot for	00:12:18
	the RBL. So you guys good, hard working, solid people. Good luck in your endeavors.	00:12:24
	Don't be stranger. Thank you. No Florida.	00:12:30
	Yes, thank you for everything you've done. You're an amazing person and I know Cheyenne will follow in your footsteps so, but	00:12:34
	thank you for everything. Thank you.	00:12:39
	Appreciate it. I'm not done.	00:12:46
	You know, I mean, the programs that we've had, a lot of them in the city has just been a shot in the dark.	00:12:50
	Chain of the Armory into a Convention Center, putting in a rodeo complex, you know, gas department, street department. I mean, if	00:12:58
	it wasn't for the people that really took charge of getting their programs out and doing them and succeeding past any kind of	00:13:04
	expectation that administration ever had, you and Cheyenne have done that and, and I'm really proud of that, that you did that and	00:13:10
	you got to go on, you know, you got to move on to.	00:13:16
	You to get everybody involved in the program and I think that's that's really important that you've done a good job with that. So	00:13:53
	you get a good reference, but you already got a job. So I you know, that's great. But hopefully, you know, again, we'll continue	00:13:59
	to communicate and if there's anything in your job that you are going to do with tech, I guess and hopefully we can maybe get some	00:14:06
	benefit and you can get some benefit of what we're doing over here. So I think that would be great too. So we appreciate that.	00:14:12
	Thank you, Thank you, thank you. You very good.	00:14:19
	And we're going to reorganize it and share obviously is the next person in line to be director and we're going to try to get that	00:14:26
	done. But the the amount of work that they've been doing with the work that they have in the future to do out there, it's really	00:14:32
	taken off. I mean, the Convention Center on the rodeo and the soccer fields and you just the five, the 5K track. And we never even	00:14:38
	thought of, I mean, we just thought about putting that out there. And when you got people like Beth Cuddle and you know, people	00:14:44
	that are just.	00:14:49
	In the events that they're bringing here just been fantastic. I think that Steve is going to grow the high school rodeo for	00:14:55
	another time too. So the twice a year instead of once a year and and you know we've got lots of other projects and that the rodeo	00:15:03
	arena has been enclosed. Now we just need to make sure ventilator properly, but all that's.	00:15:10
	Again, it was kind of a shot in the dark whether something that we thought, you know, would get accomplished what we did with	00:15:18
	people like that.	00:15:21
	All righty, we're going to ordinance.	00:15:26
	Who's going to do that? Donald Ruby?	00:15:31
	Well, I mean, you had a, you had a public hearings and all that, but nobody showed up. I know Anton Salome, the counselor showed	00:15:36
	up, but there wasn't really.	00:15:40
	Any public there? Yes, Mayor, council. So we had a public hearing on September 26 to 6:00 and it was me, Marcella, Lloyd, Isaac	00:15:44
	and Antonin and we showed up, we had a presentation ready to go. We had, we still have all the paperwork. If somebody wants some	00:15:52
	information on it, they're welcome to come in and we can give it to them. You know, we, Marcelo worked really hard and did	00:15:59
	research all around, you know, New Mexico to compare prices. We have how much your bill will be from today until.	00:16:06
	Years from now the ordinance does say we'll look at our financials every year to determine if we'll we need to raise them or if we	00:16:14
	could just you know, hold off on it for that year. But the ordinance is ready to go and we didn't have anybody questions. So this	00:16:22
	is an ordinance 24-10-15 amending the rate schedule for solid waste water, sewer, gas, gas meter, other utility related charges.	00:16:31
	Mr. Swamy, I think it goes, should be said that.	00:16:41
	The ingredients that are used to provide these services over the last four years have gone up tremendously. Yes, they have. So an	00:16:46
	example, we are water department. So the water department cannot fund itself. Our expenses are more than our revenue. So we do	00:16:53
	have to raise water and you know comparing around the state, our water rates are actually low and we are raising the rates and the	00:16:59
	base charge for water.	00:17:05
	And for the wastewater too, we haven't. We raised the base charge.	00:17:12
	Cover the loans for the expansion on the wastewater. But now we're raising rates for operational and operational is you know, the	00:17:17
	cost of other parts they purchase the salaries for the employees. And then like, you know, well, like insurance is going up, PRA,	00:17:24
	even liability insurance is going up. We're seeing at least 4% interest, so that the rate increase is about a 4% interest a year	00:17:32
	for the next 5 years. And that's the, the prime right now is anywhere from three.	00:17:39
	4% in the national average for inflation. So we're kind of trying to follow that.	00:17:47
	No, Mr. Marilyn, when the federal government injects $7 trillion into an economy, that the definition of inflation is too.	00:17:53
	Who not enough, too much money chasing too few goods, right. So that just raises the, the, the prices and the rates of everything.	00:18:03
	And in fact, the, the injection of about $7 trillion into the economy. Well, what that means is that to put it in perspective, if,	00:18:12
	if you had, if you spent $40 every second, it would take you 298.	00:18:21
	Days to spend a billion dollars.	00:18:31
	OK, if you spent $40 every second 298 days, you'd be broke.	00:18:33
	If you spend that at that same rate, $40 a second, it would take you 798 years to go through $1 trillion. And the federal	00:18:39
	government thought it would be a good idea to inject seven of these into our economy. So right now we're we're we're working with	00:18:49
	the Co-op. The Co-op rates are too high. It's very difficult for for us as a utility committee and as a council and as.	00:18:59
	Say, yeah, well, we're going to raise the rates and I'm surprised that I don't see Co-op folks here saying, hey, look, you guys	00:19:09
	are raising the rates. But but based on the audit, based on the inflation, based on what the work that that that Marcella and Ruby	00:19:16
	have done, they've we've left no choice but to raise the rate. We didn't raise them for five years. We've raised them on a year to	00:19:24
	year basis with this council and the administration looking at the rates as we.	00:19:31
	Progress, maybe we don't have to raise them, maybe things will change, maybe maybe we won't have to. But the work has been done to	00:19:39
	to minimize the effect and minimize the hardship on our on the residents. And so I think as a committee, our utility committee can	00:19:47
	vouch for that and the administration can vouch for that. And so we're left here to approve this ordinance to do that.	00:19:55
	Motion. Make a motion.	00:20:05
	Motion made and seconded. Roll Cup a discussion.	00:20:08
	Real cooperation.	00:20:13
	Ordinances take a roll call. Councillor Travis Lopez, Councillor Dean, Councillor Fleming, Councillor Ocampo, Councillor	00:20:16
	Partridge, Councillor Romero.	00:20:22
	Peter, Councillor Salome, yes.	00:20:31
	Motion passes.	00:20:36
	Thank you, counsel, very good. Thank you, Ruby and and everybody, Isaac, Donald.	00:20:38
	Councillor Shalomi, okay, the disposition of an ambulance resolution #24-10-15, That ambulance has been sitting at the county for	00:20:46
	10 years. Maybe it just sits there. I see it every day when I go to the office. But we can, I think, be made useful in Mexico.	00:20:54
	We're trying to try to get this done. We've done it before with our ambulance, but that ambulance has just been sitting there.	00:21:02
	And there was a there was a request to try to get it so that we could dispose of it to another user because not not being used at	00:21:11
	all by anybody.	00:21:16
	Resolution #24-10-15. I'll make a motion for approval. Seconded. All in favor, aye?	00:21:22
	Mr. Harris, did you have, Were you going to say something?	00:21:32
	Are you going to run for City Council? What's going on here?	00:21:36
	OK. So we got the new business business. I just just somebody made a comment that there might be a solar field coming up South of	00:21:39
	town. I hope there is, there's a company, but that's all up to tri-state to accept the electricity produced by that solar. And if	00:21:47
	that's the case, then that's what we've been been hoping to get done. And if that gets done, that'll be great, especially if they	00:21:54
	have if they decrease the rates. But that's again a rumor and I wanted to put it out there.	00:22:01
	I'm still waiting for my legal to make a presentation as to acquire the court. So I don't know. Polo, have you heard lately from	00:22:09
	our illegal? Have not heard. So you're going to call him tomorrow, right? I've been calling daily. OK, so, but I am, I'm going to	00:22:15
	I'm going to make an offer to them because they've already said we were taking it and they were going to take us to court because	00:22:22
	we were taking it. Well, we're not taking it. We're going to pay them for what we take.	00:22:28
	So we're still moving along that that way.	00:22:36
	Mr. O'Connell, I'm not sure. I know we've done a lot more than in the last like couple weeks, but I did get a couple phone calls	00:22:40
	over the weekend just about dogs. I thought I got the Husky situation taken care of. I personally went to their house.	00:22:48
	Three Huskies, the other dog, I don't know about that dog that killed another dog. I haven't, I don't have any specifics on that	00:22:57
	at all. But I made a personal effort. Anytime I see it, I'll support safety watch, which I look at every day, every hour, every	00:23:04
	minute. And if something comes up, I went out there on Granada and talked to the people who have the Huskies and they said, and	00:23:11
	they're going to move. Actually, they're going to move somewhere else in Socorro, but.	00:23:18
	Told them that we would take their dog if we heard another episode. So I don't know if that's the one you're thinking about or if	00:23:28
	there's another one. I know it was by tech. I did tell them to call Lupe and.	00:23:34
	I think it was on it wasn't on legal. I believe it was one St. to the east and I know there's a couple different ones that there	00:23:41
	was like AI don't believe that. If you haven't, I'll go out to go talk to him personally. I'll get a hold of him again tonight.	00:23:48
	The problem and we went and talked to them, but it's it's like whack a mole. I mean, you know, you take care of this one, it comes	00:23:59
	up over there and you see this one, it comes up over here. We just, we just keep doing it and the shelter is full.	00:24:06
	And unfortunately, and that's so the public we're having to euthanize even though we've been taking animals to Utah.	00:24:14
	We're full and so because we're taking the county animals too now.	00:24:23
	So we're full and we may need to expand or we need to continue to cite people. But then again, then Chris knows about this, it	00:24:28
	goes to Municipal Court. I think that you spend this morning at Municipal Court working on a ordinance problem. You know, it's	00:24:34
	very slow process.	00:24:41
	You know, so, but we are working on it and I think it's important that we bring it up again and again. But please if you have a	00:24:48
	specific address, specific dogs, I will go personally and go to that place.	00:24:54
	Thank you.	00:25:02
	I had an Underoath business. I ran into Bruce and Delphine Burnett and they're asking where we're at with the sewer project out	00:25:04
	there.	00:25:09
	We are well down.	00:25:15
	Mr. Mayor, Councillors, we received 2 bids towards the end of September and both of them were over.	00:25:19
	Who finished the project in its entirety and to do the first additive bid schedule, we're about $750,000 short. We met with our	00:25:27
	legislators on Friday and told them we're going to be asking for some money from them to help complete the project because it puts	00:25:33
	us in a tough spot because if we go to negotiate with the contractor and the contractor says, well, you got to lower your scope of	00:25:39
	work, well, which people do we tell?	00:25:45
	That we're not going to serve. So we're trying to find the funding to not decrease the scope of work. The mayor and I, again on	00:25:51
	Friday met with the legislators and they mentioned a new fund we had not heard of before. So we're looking into requesting funding	00:25:58
	from there also. But we aren't moving forward. And that means next year to get there. But we're going to get the 700 and that's	00:26:06
	the last piece in the city that we've been working on for 10 years.	00:26:13
	Finally, we'll have sewers every part of the city. And so to be $700,000 short is not is not enough to stop us. We, we got to	00:26:21
	finish that project, Mr. Dean. The other item is have we made any progress on the request made by Tom Dejente?	00:26:30
	We have not. I am frankly, I'm not in favor of it, but I don't know, Christy, you want to bring it back up again next meeting? We	00:26:41
	can and make people finally decide. I haven't heard anything from the other cities. I did talk to the mayor of Belen the other day	00:26:47
	when he was here for the Senior Expo and he felt that, you know, they put a, they put a moratorium. Berlin has a moratorium on,	00:26:54
	on, on.	00:27:00
	Extra shops. So that was his suggestion that he.	00:27:08
	They're not giving out anymore.	00:27:12
	The shops but administratively I'm against it, I'll just say that. But we can bring it back up for a vote. Let's put it on the	00:27:15
	next agenda. Put it and I don't want to have him wait, although he said it was until next year, so.	00:27:22
	Miss Travis Lopez.	00:27:30
	Yeah. And you, we're going to have a representative from Ben Lohan's office tomorrow. Tomorrow, Yes, tomorrow at 11. But if	00:27:32
	anybody wants to come and talk to him about it, we want to talk to him about the.	00:27:38
	Superfund site and also some of the things that are going on and also thank him for what they've done for Councillor Charles	00:27:46
	Lopez's project and they they helped in that. But because the elections coming up, everybody's coming out of the woodwork to come	00:27:52
	and tell us how well they've done for us.	00:27:57
	Ruby just got a e-mail wanting to know where we spent the $2.3 million from, from ARPA. And she said, well, it's online. You can,	00:28:03
	you can, you can see it. But they wanted to point out that we got that. I didn't say that county got more than we did, but I	00:28:09
	didn't complain.	00:28:14
	But so, but if you have anything that you want to talk about and we will talk to him about the shore also, because we're just it's	00:28:21
	just just that much short. But if you have any questions or anything that you want to bring up to Mr. Lopez, who Representative	00:28:29
	Ben, Senator Luhans representative will be here 1111.	00:28:36
	After that, we're going to go see the apartments.	00:28:44
	And it's coming. I mean, the junior high is coming along with the apartments are coming along. You can see PRC projects coming	00:28:51
	along at tech. It's great. I mean, there's a lot of lot of stuff happening in in the city, so.	00:28:58
	Any other old business?	00:29:06
	Mr. Mayor, under New Business, do you want to mention the thank you note you received this morning? You said you were going to	00:29:10
	bring it up at the meeting tonight.	00:29:13
	The thank you note you received from the Hammer Museum people, well, I'm sorry the the city workers, Lloyd and the city crew did a	00:29:19
	great job to put in a sidewalk to put in a parking lot. And the October Fest, I think was a pretty good success. And Mr. Spargo	00:29:26
	specifically thanked the city for all the work that they did over there.	00:29:33
	And you know, we think that handle is kind of part of our tourism, although they have their own board and everything, but we're	00:29:41
	very helpful to them about that.	00:29:44
	Let the city know that the work they did over there is really appreciated.	00:29:50
	And what else did we do? Well, we're going to be advertising us coming to the mayor report or we talk about the water rights	00:29:56
	advertising.	00:30:01
	Just as new businesses that we're just going to be.	00:30:06
	I figured that's what Mr. Harris is here. He was going to ask about that, but I sent our attorney my final version.	00:30:10
	But I said our attorney this afternoon, the final version of the advertisement and once we get his blessing on it, we're going to	00:30:18
	advertise, open it up to the public except sealed bids and it'll be an auction kind of thing.	00:30:24
	And I think we have did you say 200 acre feet if we reserve 10%, we'll have just over 180. Yeah. Because the the Superfund site	00:30:31
	may or may not need water rights, but they're going to be small amount because that I still instead of operation that they needed	00:30:39
	to cover because they're going to they're going to put it back into the the aquifer, but it's going to.	00:30:47
	You know, the, the, the way that they detoxify it is they have to expose it to air. So that that may take somewhat not, not very	00:30:55
	much so.	00:30:58
	We're just leasing the water rights, correct, Leasing them for five years at a time.	00:31:03
	And and yeah, with the.	00:31:09
	With the city remain continuing to have the ability to call the lease at any time if we run into something where we need to use	00:31:12
	them ourselves. OK, yeah.	00:31:16
	And.	00:31:24
	OK, we've got another job description. What are you really describing, Donald?	00:31:27
	I believe this one is.	00:31:36
	It's an addendum to a current.	00:31:39
	Job description and it's for the safety coordinator. Since Mr. Chosnik retired, we have not had a safety committee. So we're	00:31:42
	trying to get that going again. And I think with the OSHA inspection we had a couple months ago, timing's perfect. So we need to	00:31:50
	do that position and manage the meetings, follow up on the OSHA findings, that type of thing.	00:31:59
	You'll be doing a lot of overtime.	00:32:08
	So he's got a lot of hats he wears so and I'm one of the hats I keep, I keep after him so that make his life more miserable. But	00:32:10
	anyway, it'd be good to get the job authorized by the council.	00:32:17
	I shall move and seconded that we accept the new job description for the safety coordinator all in favor. Okay, we have personnel	00:32:26
	changes. We have Mr. Carrillo, he actually is certified as code enforcement. David Monet, he's a new hire for the library	00:32:33
	technical services. And Chelsea, although she's not here, said she's doing a good job. John Gonzalez, St. crewman, new hire. Jorge	00:32:40
	Sostia, St. crewman, new hire, Mark Mercer.	00:32:48
	Dispatch 911 new hire and Desiree Armijo, She said she's going to resign.	00:32:55
	There you go.	00:33:03
	Moved and seconded on to and then we've got one business. This is Thunder Ridge Diesel 209 S California. Corey Britton, diesel	00:33:06
	mechanic, welding and tires.	00:33:14
	That's all we got. Make a motion, Mr. Murders move and seconded all in favor, Aye. Next meeting is on Election Day.	00:33:24
	Wait, November the 5th?	00:33:35
	So we'll have it right.	00:33:39
	OK, so it's November the 5th. We have a short meeting. We won't, we won't. We'll announce the winners.	00:33:49
	When was closing at 7, right? Forget it. We won't announce the winnership anyway. Thank you. Thanks for everybody. We are out of	00:33:56
	here. We got 2.	00:33:59

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	Resolution No. 24-10-15 - Disposition of Ambulance	General Document
	Ordinance No. 24-10-15 - Amending the Rate Schedule for Solid Waste Refuse Collection-Water-Sewer-Gas-Gas Meter and Other Utility Related Charges	General Document
	In-House Budget Resolution No. 101	General Document
	Budget Resolution No. 13 - Law Enforcement Fund Grant	General Document
	Budget Resolution No. 12 - Joint Enterprise - Landfill	General Document
	Budget Resolution No. 11 - Recreation - Healthy Kids	General Document
	Budget Resolution No. 10 - Reserve Funds	General Document
	Budget Resolution No. 9 - General Fund	General Document
	Budget Resolution No. 8 - Lodgers Tax Fund - Trails Plus	General Document
	Budget Resolution No. 7 - Senior Center Capital Outlay	General Document
	Budget Resolution No. 6 - Airport Construction Fund	General Document
	Budget Resolution No. 5 - State Appropriation Reimbursement	General Document
	Budget Resolution No. 4 - Rodeo Arena Sports Complex Grant	General Document
	Budget Resolution No. 3 - USDA Wastewater	General Document
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Event transcript
	Hello. How's it going? How are you? Hello. Here today.	00:00:02
	Barely. How many vacations have you taken in the last six weeks?	00:00:06
	Las Vegas, Where else?	00:00:13
	I'm watching you, huh? Phoenix, California. Phoenix, you go to the real nice cold places.	00:00:16
	I would get to go to those ones.	00:00:24
	All right, here we go.	00:00:28
	This is the City of Socorro City Council meeting Tuesday, October 15th. Roll call please, Mayor Bhaskar.	00:00:31
	Yeah.	00:00:43
	Barnum is kind of getting a lot of.	00:00:47
	OK Mayor Bhaskar here concert Tapas Lopez here, Councillor Dean, Councillor Fleming, Councillor Ocampo, Councillor Olgin.	00:00:49
	Councillor Partridge. Councillor Romero.	00:01:02
	Councillor Salome, we do have a quorum. Another forum counselor.	00:01:07
	All right for the Pledge of Allegiance.	00:01:15
	But the United States of America, and to the Republic, for which that one they should under God indivisible, with liberty and	00:01:20
	justice for all.	00:01:25
	And God help us, we have another election coming up here pretty soon, so I hope you'll still have liberty and freedom for all.	00:01:35
	Yes, but anyway.	00:01:44
	Consent agenda.	00:01:46
	Mr. Mayor. Mr. Fleming. A motion to approve the Senate agenda as presented.	00:01:50
	There's a whole lot of budget resolutions if you anybody have any questions about them. It's just housekeeping. Is that what they	00:01:58
	call it, Ruby?	00:02:02
	OK, you sure it's nothing?	00:02:10
	They're stuck in there for us to just overlook.	00:02:13
	OK.	00:02:16
	All in favor, aye?	00:02:19
	Right away we have public forum.	00:02:22
	Oh, there you go.	00:02:26
	Are you a runner? Yeah.	00:02:28
	Ahead, you got a few ambulance calls over there. Yes, so I'm here to give a report.	00:02:34
	On the Soccer Stampede that we hosted out at the Rodeo Grounds Cross Country course on Friday, October 4th. It was a busy day, but	00:02:39
	the course itself was in the best shape I've ever seen. So huge thank you to Steve and Raul out there. They were working on it for	00:02:47
	weeks up until leading up to the race. All the kids said, and I agree like it was, it was phenomenal. Like the course itself.	00:02:56
	We had 11 teams come to join us for the soccer Stampede to be reimbursed City, JV and middle school races.	00:03:06
	198 runners ended up competing which is fantastic. We had several Socorro runners in the top ten including Abby Kudal in 6th place	00:03:14
	and the girls guard series, Mackenzie Smith placing 4th in girls middle school, and Sasha is the guy placing 10th in girls middle	00:03:20
	school as well.	00:03:25
	The thing that will stand out about the day or the three EMS recalls that we had to make for heat related illnesses out on the	00:03:32
	course. Everybody ended up going home with their team. They were treated on scene. There were no major complications. But if the	00:03:39
	course hadn't been in such good shape that ambulance would not have been able to drive out to mile two of three. And even in the	00:03:47
	middle of the emergency, I was calling Steve and asking somebody to move the boulder to allow.	00:03:54
	To get off of course and a better point and it was done right away and for the cooperation and the responsiveness is phenomenal.	00:04:02
	Thank you to the fire department for responding right away and getting ambulances out on the cross country course. It's definitely	00:04:09
	not ideal. I would like to avoid that in the future. But whether this year has been hotter than ever.	00:04:17
	I sort of seen it coming and let them know that it was a possibility and hope for the best, that everybody was treated, taken care	00:04:25
	of and ultimately with a little bit of sleep in perspective, I was able to look back and see it really embodied the best of the	00:04:30
	country.	00:04:35
	If you've ever been in a part of the country, what I love is that everybody takes care of one another. So the kids have been	00:04:41
	treated like parents, like on the scene from other teams, and everybody kind of came together to keep the meat running, take care	00:04:47
	of the emergencies and make it successful for everyone, so.	00:04:54
	Again, my favorite way to get to that outcome that it it ultimately was a great experience and thank you to the city for the for	00:05:03
	that course.	00:05:07
	The ground, all the coaches coming from out of town, especially ones who hadn't been there before, commented on what a great	00:05:13
	course it was and the beautiful setting it was for a cross country. So All in all, it was a good day. Thank you so much for doing	00:05:18
	this. I mean, you're, I know you volunteered to take the cross country people on, but to have this many people see our facilities,	00:05:24
	that's just just terrific. Thank you so much for doing this. So thank you again for just maintaining it. Thank you to Steve and	00:05:30
	his crew.	00:05:36
	They do all the work you do a lot too. Thank you. Anything very good.	00:05:43
	And Abby's out there. She didn't want to come in, I guess.	00:05:52
	Well, that's fantastic though. What a good job she did. OK.	00:05:57
	Anyone else that's not on the agenda would like to make a phone call up here?	00:06:01
	Here's the number to call. No, I just want to say thank you to the city and the staff at the Convention Center. They were great	00:06:07
	for a senior Expo. We had almost 250 people there. We vaccinated over 150 people that day. So constant turn. People have raved	00:06:13
	about it, called and want to participate next year. But thank you to the city. We have lots of compliments from the folks in	00:06:19
	Valencia County who came down.	00:06:25
	Was a great event and they said we should have it up there and I said no happening. But anyway, I just wanted to say thank you for	00:06:32
	the counselors who were there that day. We really appreciate it. But again, thank you to the city for hosting that for us. It was	00:06:38
	great. So thank you. Linda just has to start the line dancing.	00:06:44
	That was pretty neat. Well, thank you for putting it on. That was to bring together everybody in Sapporo County from Valencia and	00:06:51
	Albuquerque, and the Journal is great to have it here.	00:06:56
	Anyone else?	00:07:02
	There's Des. She's gonna make you cry.	00:07:03
	Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait till you get to the mic. Still there? Well, I'd like to read a letter that I wrote. I played in my	00:07:12
	resignation October 1st, so.	00:07:18
	But deep gratitude and emotion, I'm submitting my notice of resignation from the position from my position within the city of	00:07:25
	Socorro. My final day of employment will be on October 30th.	00:07:31
	I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to you, Mayor Bhaskar.	00:07:37
	You've provided me with the confidence and wisdom to run a department, and I hope my time with the city has made you and the	00:07:43
	community members of Socorro proud. I will forever be grateful for your support.	00:07:48
	To the City Council, thank you for your trust that you placed in me.	00:07:55
	For your dedication to making Sakura a better place.	00:08:00
	Collaborative work we've all done together, it's been some of the most fulfilling and.	00:08:04
	Just it's helped me learn so much in my career thus far.	00:08:11
	I deeply appreciate all the opportunities you guys have all given me and have been just so helpful throughout this whole process	00:08:17
	of me learning how to be a director of a department. So thank you so much, you guys.	00:08:23
	To I'm just going to start reading off a whole bunch of names here because everyone's helped me the past three years. So to	00:08:31
	Donald, Lena, Ruby, Polo, Val, Mariah, Mars, Cara, Chris Christie, the rest of the City Hall staff, I'm so grateful for your	00:08:37
	kindness and willingness to always help me with whatever the tourism and Convention Center department needs, I'm also grateful	00:08:43
	for.	00:08:49
	Every department that I have the opportunity to collaborate with on all the events that we've planned together.	00:08:56
	Just some to mention, Steve and his crew, Darrell, have helped us so much the past three years.	00:09:03
	Lloyd Police Department, fire department, everyone, we've all just kind of, it seems like everyone's always willing to lend a	00:09:11
	helping hand and it was just really easy in the midst of all the event planning chaos.	00:09:19
	Just Upshot and I learning together and.	00:09:28
	Anything that we, you know, needed help with and asked about, asked for we, it was really easy. It was hard, but easy because	00:09:31
	everyone was really willing to help us. So thank you guys.	00:09:37
	I also want to give a, a shout out to Deacon Jose cause we've been, you know, renting that Convention Center out very consistently	00:09:45
	this past year and taken us and helped us with that entire space matter for hours. Sometimes it's not. And so they do a lot of	00:09:52
	work to help us.	00:09:59
	So the shadows that make a lot of work, the computer center, so.	00:10:08
	Offer a huge to my assistant director Shane Cortez who has been more like a Co director in this department.	00:10:18
	Sam has been a partner.	00:10:25
	I've been so much slow. It's about a couple weeks, sorry guys. And I believe she deserves the opportunity to step into the	00:10:29
	director role. She is so an exceptional leadership and dedication and I trust she will continue to help guide the girl to even	00:10:34
	greater heights.	00:10:38
	It has been an absolute privilege to serve the people of Socorro and I also ever carry the experiences, skills and relationships	00:10:44
	I've been with me.	00:10:48
	I'm committed to making this transition as smooth as possible and although all I can to support the team over the coming weeks,	00:10:53
	like I said, my last day will be October 30th, so thank you guys for letting me read this.	00:10:59
	City Council, Mr. O'Connell Yeah. How much I love all the Army owes and.	00:11:12
	Hope you're not going to go too far away. And you're always welcome. All the time. Thank you. I appreciate it. Yeah. Don't be a	00:11:17
	stranger. This. Never. Never.	00:11:21
	Great job. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. And you know YouTube girls when I was out there working the sound for a lot of the events.	00:11:27
	I saw these nails that had a show coming in.	00:11:38
	They saw two young ladies whom they thought they could push over and make their own things happen.	00:11:44
	And I am so proud of these two young ladies who are standing and seated here at the meeting tonight because you held up the	00:11:55
	Socorro tradition, you know, literally don't know where to go. Thank you.	00:12:03
	That's portrait. May I have the pleasure of working with Cheyenne and Dez for a few events. So good luck to you. I thought you did	00:12:12
	a fantastic job. You have a good legacy as Mayor said last time, you know, and that's cultural composite. I got a soft spot for	00:12:18
	the RBL. So you guys good, hard working, solid people. Good luck in your endeavors.	00:12:24
	Don't be stranger. Thank you. No Florida.	00:12:30
	Yes, thank you for everything you've done. You're an amazing person and I know Cheyenne will follow in your footsteps so, but	00:12:34
	thank you for everything. Thank you.	00:12:39
	Appreciate it. I'm not done.	00:12:46
	You know, I mean, the programs that we've had, a lot of them in the city has just been a shot in the dark.	00:12:50
	Chain of the Armory into a Convention Center, putting in a rodeo complex, you know, gas department, street department. I mean, if	00:12:58
	it wasn't for the people that really took charge of getting their programs out and doing them and succeeding past any kind of	00:13:04
	expectation that administration ever had, you and Cheyenne have done that and, and I'm really proud of that, that you did that and	00:13:10
	you got to go on, you know, you got to move on to.	00:13:16
	You to get everybody involved in the program and I think that's that's really important that you've done a good job with that. So	00:13:53
	you get a good reference, but you already got a job. So I you know, that's great. But hopefully, you know, again, we'll continue	00:13:59
	to communicate and if there's anything in your job that you are going to do with tech, I guess and hopefully we can maybe get some	00:14:06
	benefit and you can get some benefit of what we're doing over here. So I think that would be great too. So we appreciate that.	00:14:12
	Thank you, Thank you, thank you. You very good.	00:14:19
	And we're going to reorganize it and share obviously is the next person in line to be director and we're going to try to get that	00:14:26
	done. But the the amount of work that they've been doing with the work that they have in the future to do out there, it's really	00:14:32
	taken off. I mean, the Convention Center on the rodeo and the soccer fields and you just the five, the 5K track. And we never even	00:14:38
	thought of, I mean, we just thought about putting that out there. And when you got people like Beth Cuddle and you know, people	00:14:44
	that are just.	00:14:49
	In the events that they're bringing here just been fantastic. I think that Steve is going to grow the high school rodeo for	00:14:55
	another time too. So the twice a year instead of once a year and and you know we've got lots of other projects and that the rodeo	00:15:03
	arena has been enclosed. Now we just need to make sure ventilator properly, but all that's.	00:15:10
	Again, it was kind of a shot in the dark whether something that we thought, you know, would get accomplished what we did with	00:15:18
	people like that.	00:15:21
	All righty, we're going to ordinance.	00:15:26
	Who's going to do that? Donald Ruby?	00:15:31
	Well, I mean, you had a, you had a public hearings and all that, but nobody showed up. I know Anton Salome, the counselor showed	00:15:36
	up, but there wasn't really.	00:15:40
	Any public there? Yes, Mayor, council. So we had a public hearing on September 26 to 6:00 and it was me, Marcella, Lloyd, Isaac	00:15:44
	and Antonin and we showed up, we had a presentation ready to go. We had, we still have all the paperwork. If somebody wants some	00:15:52
	information on it, they're welcome to come in and we can give it to them. You know, we, Marcelo worked really hard and did	00:15:59
	research all around, you know, New Mexico to compare prices. We have how much your bill will be from today until.	00:16:06
	Years from now the ordinance does say we'll look at our financials every year to determine if we'll we need to raise them or if we	00:16:14
	could just you know, hold off on it for that year. But the ordinance is ready to go and we didn't have anybody questions. So this	00:16:22
	is an ordinance 24-10-15 amending the rate schedule for solid waste water, sewer, gas, gas meter, other utility related charges.	00:16:31
	Mr. Swamy, I think it goes, should be said that.	00:16:41
	The ingredients that are used to provide these services over the last four years have gone up tremendously. Yes, they have. So an	00:16:46
	example, we are water department. So the water department cannot fund itself. Our expenses are more than our revenue. So we do	00:16:53
	have to raise water and you know comparing around the state, our water rates are actually low and we are raising the rates and the	00:16:59
	base charge for water.	00:17:05
	And for the wastewater too, we haven't. We raised the base charge.	00:17:12
	Cover the loans for the expansion on the wastewater. But now we're raising rates for operational and operational is you know, the	00:17:17
	cost of other parts they purchase the salaries for the employees. And then like, you know, well, like insurance is going up, PRA,	00:17:24
	even liability insurance is going up. We're seeing at least 4% interest, so that the rate increase is about a 4% interest a year	00:17:32
	for the next 5 years. And that's the, the prime right now is anywhere from three.	00:17:39
	4% in the national average for inflation. So we're kind of trying to follow that.	00:17:47
	No, Mr. Marilyn, when the federal government injects $7 trillion into an economy, that the definition of inflation is too.	00:17:53
	Who not enough, too much money chasing too few goods, right. So that just raises the, the, the prices and the rates of everything.	00:18:03
	And in fact, the, the injection of about $7 trillion into the economy. Well, what that means is that to put it in perspective, if,	00:18:12
	if you had, if you spent $40 every second, it would take you 298.	00:18:21
	Days to spend a billion dollars.	00:18:31
	OK, if you spent $40 every second 298 days, you'd be broke.	00:18:33
	If you spend that at that same rate, $40 a second, it would take you 798 years to go through $1 trillion. And the federal	00:18:39
	government thought it would be a good idea to inject seven of these into our economy. So right now we're we're we're working with	00:18:49
	the Co-op. The Co-op rates are too high. It's very difficult for for us as a utility committee and as a council and as.	00:18:59
	Say, yeah, well, we're going to raise the rates and I'm surprised that I don't see Co-op folks here saying, hey, look, you guys	00:19:09
	are raising the rates. But but based on the audit, based on the inflation, based on what the work that that that Marcella and Ruby	00:19:16
	have done, they've we've left no choice but to raise the rate. We didn't raise them for five years. We've raised them on a year to	00:19:24
	year basis with this council and the administration looking at the rates as we.	00:19:31
	Progress, maybe we don't have to raise them, maybe things will change, maybe maybe we won't have to. But the work has been done to	00:19:39
	to minimize the effect and minimize the hardship on our on the residents. And so I think as a committee, our utility committee can	00:19:47
	vouch for that and the administration can vouch for that. And so we're left here to approve this ordinance to do that.	00:19:55
	Motion. Make a motion.	00:20:05
	Motion made and seconded. Roll Cup a discussion.	00:20:08
	Real cooperation.	00:20:13
	Ordinances take a roll call. Councillor Travis Lopez, Councillor Dean, Councillor Fleming, Councillor Ocampo, Councillor	00:20:16
	Partridge, Councillor Romero.	00:20:22
	Peter, Councillor Salome, yes.	00:20:31
	Motion passes.	00:20:36
	Thank you, counsel, very good. Thank you, Ruby and and everybody, Isaac, Donald.	00:20:38
	Councillor Shalomi, okay, the disposition of an ambulance resolution #24-10-15, That ambulance has been sitting at the county for	00:20:46
	10 years. Maybe it just sits there. I see it every day when I go to the office. But we can, I think, be made useful in Mexico.	00:20:54
	We're trying to try to get this done. We've done it before with our ambulance, but that ambulance has just been sitting there.	00:21:02
	And there was a there was a request to try to get it so that we could dispose of it to another user because not not being used at	00:21:11
	all by anybody.	00:21:16
	Resolution #24-10-15. I'll make a motion for approval. Seconded. All in favor, aye?	00:21:22
	Mr. Harris, did you have, Were you going to say something?	00:21:32
	Are you going to run for City Council? What's going on here?	00:21:36
	OK. So we got the new business business. I just just somebody made a comment that there might be a solar field coming up South of	00:21:39
	town. I hope there is, there's a company, but that's all up to tri-state to accept the electricity produced by that solar. And if	00:21:47
	that's the case, then that's what we've been been hoping to get done. And if that gets done, that'll be great, especially if they	00:21:54
	have if they decrease the rates. But that's again a rumor and I wanted to put it out there.	00:22:01
	I'm still waiting for my legal to make a presentation as to acquire the court. So I don't know. Polo, have you heard lately from	00:22:09
	our illegal? Have not heard. So you're going to call him tomorrow, right? I've been calling daily. OK, so, but I am, I'm going to	00:22:15
	I'm going to make an offer to them because they've already said we were taking it and they were going to take us to court because	00:22:22
	we were taking it. Well, we're not taking it. We're going to pay them for what we take.	00:22:28
	So we're still moving along that that way.	00:22:36
	Mr. O'Connell, I'm not sure. I know we've done a lot more than in the last like couple weeks, but I did get a couple phone calls	00:22:40
	over the weekend just about dogs. I thought I got the Husky situation taken care of. I personally went to their house.	00:22:48
	Three Huskies, the other dog, I don't know about that dog that killed another dog. I haven't, I don't have any specifics on that	00:22:57
	at all. But I made a personal effort. Anytime I see it, I'll support safety watch, which I look at every day, every hour, every	00:23:04
	minute. And if something comes up, I went out there on Granada and talked to the people who have the Huskies and they said, and	00:23:11
	they're going to move. Actually, they're going to move somewhere else in Socorro, but.	00:23:18
	Told them that we would take their dog if we heard another episode. So I don't know if that's the one you're thinking about or if	00:23:28
	there's another one. I know it was by tech. I did tell them to call Lupe and.	00:23:34
	I think it was on it wasn't on legal. I believe it was one St. to the east and I know there's a couple different ones that there	00:23:41
	was like AI don't believe that. If you haven't, I'll go out to go talk to him personally. I'll get a hold of him again tonight.	00:23:48
	The problem and we went and talked to them, but it's it's like whack a mole. I mean, you know, you take care of this one, it comes	00:23:59
	up over there and you see this one, it comes up over here. We just, we just keep doing it and the shelter is full.	00:24:06
	And unfortunately, and that's so the public we're having to euthanize even though we've been taking animals to Utah.	00:24:14
	We're full and so because we're taking the county animals too now.	00:24:23
	So we're full and we may need to expand or we need to continue to cite people. But then again, then Chris knows about this, it	00:24:28
	goes to Municipal Court. I think that you spend this morning at Municipal Court working on a ordinance problem. You know, it's	00:24:34
	very slow process.	00:24:41
	You know, so, but we are working on it and I think it's important that we bring it up again and again. But please if you have a	00:24:48
	specific address, specific dogs, I will go personally and go to that place.	00:24:54
	Thank you.	00:25:02
	I had an Underoath business. I ran into Bruce and Delphine Burnett and they're asking where we're at with the sewer project out	00:25:04
	there.	00:25:09
	We are well down.	00:25:15
	Mr. Mayor, Councillors, we received 2 bids towards the end of September and both of them were over.	00:25:19
	Who finished the project in its entirety and to do the first additive bid schedule, we're about $750,000 short. We met with our	00:25:27
	legislators on Friday and told them we're going to be asking for some money from them to help complete the project because it puts	00:25:33
	us in a tough spot because if we go to negotiate with the contractor and the contractor says, well, you got to lower your scope of	00:25:39
	work, well, which people do we tell?	00:25:45
	That we're not going to serve. So we're trying to find the funding to not decrease the scope of work. The mayor and I, again on	00:25:51
	Friday met with the legislators and they mentioned a new fund we had not heard of before. So we're looking into requesting funding	00:25:58
	from there also. But we aren't moving forward. And that means next year to get there. But we're going to get the 700 and that's	00:26:06
	the last piece in the city that we've been working on for 10 years.	00:26:13
	Finally, we'll have sewers every part of the city. And so to be $700,000 short is not is not enough to stop us. We, we got to	00:26:21
	finish that project, Mr. Dean. The other item is have we made any progress on the request made by Tom Dejente?	00:26:30
	We have not. I am frankly, I'm not in favor of it, but I don't know, Christy, you want to bring it back up again next meeting? We	00:26:41
	can and make people finally decide. I haven't heard anything from the other cities. I did talk to the mayor of Belen the other day	00:26:47
	when he was here for the Senior Expo and he felt that, you know, they put a, they put a moratorium. Berlin has a moratorium on,	00:26:54
	on, on.	00:27:00
	Extra shops. So that was his suggestion that he.	00:27:08
	They're not giving out anymore.	00:27:12
	The shops but administratively I'm against it, I'll just say that. But we can bring it back up for a vote. Let's put it on the	00:27:15
	next agenda. Put it and I don't want to have him wait, although he said it was until next year, so.	00:27:22
	Miss Travis Lopez.	00:27:30
	Yeah. And you, we're going to have a representative from Ben Lohan's office tomorrow. Tomorrow, Yes, tomorrow at 11. But if	00:27:32
	anybody wants to come and talk to him about it, we want to talk to him about the.	00:27:38
	Superfund site and also some of the things that are going on and also thank him for what they've done for Councillor Charles	00:27:46
	Lopez's project and they they helped in that. But because the elections coming up, everybody's coming out of the woodwork to come	00:27:52
	and tell us how well they've done for us.	00:27:57
	Ruby just got a e-mail wanting to know where we spent the $2.3 million from, from ARPA. And she said, well, it's online. You can,	00:28:03
	you can, you can see it. But they wanted to point out that we got that. I didn't say that county got more than we did, but I	00:28:09
	didn't complain.	00:28:14
	But so, but if you have anything that you want to talk about and we will talk to him about the shore also, because we're just it's	00:28:21
	just just that much short. But if you have any questions or anything that you want to bring up to Mr. Lopez, who Representative	00:28:29
	Ben, Senator Luhans representative will be here 1111.	00:28:36
	After that, we're going to go see the apartments.	00:28:44
	And it's coming. I mean, the junior high is coming along with the apartments are coming along. You can see PRC projects coming	00:28:51
	along at tech. It's great. I mean, there's a lot of lot of stuff happening in in the city, so.	00:28:58
	Any other old business?	00:29:06
	Mr. Mayor, under New Business, do you want to mention the thank you note you received this morning? You said you were going to	00:29:10
	bring it up at the meeting tonight.	00:29:13
	The thank you note you received from the Hammer Museum people, well, I'm sorry the the city workers, Lloyd and the city crew did a	00:29:19
	great job to put in a sidewalk to put in a parking lot. And the October Fest, I think was a pretty good success. And Mr. Spargo	00:29:26
	specifically thanked the city for all the work that they did over there.	00:29:33
	And you know, we think that handle is kind of part of our tourism, although they have their own board and everything, but we're	00:29:41
	very helpful to them about that.	00:29:44
	Let the city know that the work they did over there is really appreciated.	00:29:50
	And what else did we do? Well, we're going to be advertising us coming to the mayor report or we talk about the water rights	00:29:56
	advertising.	00:30:01
	Just as new businesses that we're just going to be.	00:30:06
	I figured that's what Mr. Harris is here. He was going to ask about that, but I sent our attorney my final version.	00:30:10
	But I said our attorney this afternoon, the final version of the advertisement and once we get his blessing on it, we're going to	00:30:18
	advertise, open it up to the public except sealed bids and it'll be an auction kind of thing.	00:30:24
	And I think we have did you say 200 acre feet if we reserve 10%, we'll have just over 180. Yeah. Because the the Superfund site	00:30:31
	may or may not need water rights, but they're going to be small amount because that I still instead of operation that they needed	00:30:39
	to cover because they're going to they're going to put it back into the the aquifer, but it's going to.	00:30:47
	You know, the, the, the way that they detoxify it is they have to expose it to air. So that that may take somewhat not, not very	00:30:55
	much so.	00:30:58
	We're just leasing the water rights, correct, Leasing them for five years at a time.	00:31:03
	And and yeah, with the.	00:31:09
	With the city remain continuing to have the ability to call the lease at any time if we run into something where we need to use	00:31:12
	them ourselves. OK, yeah.	00:31:16
	And.	00:31:24
	OK, we've got another job description. What are you really describing, Donald?	00:31:27
	I believe this one is.	00:31:36
	It's an addendum to a current.	00:31:39
	Job description and it's for the safety coordinator. Since Mr. Chosnik retired, we have not had a safety committee. So we're	00:31:42
	trying to get that going again. And I think with the OSHA inspection we had a couple months ago, timing's perfect. So we need to	00:31:50
	do that position and manage the meetings, follow up on the OSHA findings, that type of thing.	00:31:59
	You'll be doing a lot of overtime.	00:32:08
	So he's got a lot of hats he wears so and I'm one of the hats I keep, I keep after him so that make his life more miserable. But	00:32:10
	anyway, it'd be good to get the job authorized by the council.	00:32:17
	I shall move and seconded that we accept the new job description for the safety coordinator all in favor. Okay, we have personnel	00:32:26
	changes. We have Mr. Carrillo, he actually is certified as code enforcement. David Monet, he's a new hire for the library	00:32:33
	technical services. And Chelsea, although she's not here, said she's doing a good job. John Gonzalez, St. crewman, new hire. Jorge	00:32:40
	Sostia, St. crewman, new hire, Mark Mercer.	00:32:48
	Dispatch 911 new hire and Desiree Armijo, She said she's going to resign.	00:32:55
	There you go.	00:33:03
	Moved and seconded on to and then we've got one business. This is Thunder Ridge Diesel 209 S California. Corey Britton, diesel	00:33:06
	mechanic, welding and tires.	00:33:14
	That's all we got. Make a motion, Mr. Murders move and seconded all in favor, Aye. Next meeting is on Election Day.	00:33:24
	Wait, November the 5th?	00:33:35
	So we'll have it right.	00:33:39
	OK, so it's November the 5th. We have a short meeting. We won't, we won't. We'll announce the winners.	00:33:49
	When was closing at 7, right? Forget it. We won't announce the winnership anyway. Thank you. Thanks for everybody. We are out of	00:33:56
	here. We got 2.	00:33:59