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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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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 |