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According to the council meeting Tuesday, April the 1st 2025 Roll call please. Mayor Baskar here, Councillor Travis Lopez here. 00:00:00
Councillor Dean. 00:00:08
Councillor Fleming. 00:00:10
Councillor Ocampo. 00:00:12
Counselor o'geen here. 00:00:14
Councillor Partridge here. 00:00:16
Councillor Romero here. 00:00:18
Councillor Salome here we have a quorum. 00:00:20
And to the Republic, for which it stands on the. 00:00:30
I move, we approve the. 00:00:44
Consent agenda as presented, I second. 00:00:47
The second, any discussion on that? 00:00:50
All in favor. 00:00:53
All righty, we got Segura High School wrestling team. 00:00:55
Mr. Partridge. 00:00:58
You go on the podium. 00:01:01
Say it again. 00:01:06
So just to. 00:01:16
Recap of the 20. 00:01:17
Oh, you guys, come on, there's some. 00:01:20
Come on in, guys. Come on. Come on now they look like wrestlers. There you go. OK. 00:01:23
So just a recap of our season. We always like to keep the City Council and Mayor Baskar involved. It's something that. 00:01:32
Before I was a counselor. 00:01:41
The city's been supporting the wrestling program for a very long time. They've helped subsidized. 00:01:43
Are building uniforms in the back? I mean just all anything we've ever came up and asked whether it's a building usage or. 00:01:48
To have an event in a building. 00:01:55
So they've been incredibly supportive. I think we've been trying to reciprocate it by bringing events to town and. 00:01:57
And you know, bringing revenue to town and showing people our city of Socorro so. 00:02:04
Really successful season this year this is our eighth season as a high school program. Our. 00:02:10
It I'll bring the little kids in when we conclude their season at the end of the summer. 00:02:16
And that program is really big. 00:02:21
We've been 15 years now with the little kids. 00:02:23
Program, that's where it all started. Started with that and then grew it into the high school. 00:02:27
And this year we had three state champions. 00:02:31
And in eighth season, we've had 15 state champions, so just just under 2 state champions every year. 00:02:34
I think what's pretty remarkable about the. 00:02:42
The program is that most of the programs and then in. 00:02:44
I'm gonna highlight wrestling. I'm not gonna talk down about anything else, but these kids have to wrestle for a. 00:02:47
And 5A. 00:02:52
Opponents and the only other sport at the high school that does that, I believe. 00:02:54
Is swimming and. 00:02:59
So we have to be in order to be. We're top seven this year and we were hoping for a top five. We knew top three was going to be 00:03:01
top three trophy. 00:03:05
That have been tough, but the onset. 00:03:09
Us and the coaching staff that we could be top five. 00:03:11
A couple setbacks at the tournament, we ended up top 7 out of 44. 00:03:14
So and there's 65 teams that wrestle in the state. 00:03:18
Five days, only 22 I believe or something. 22 teams in Friday 2014. 00:03:22
So it's quite a bit smaller. 00:03:26
Umm top seven for the boys. Girls are still top ten with only. 00:03:28
7 qualifiers and they're still just are just outside the top ten part of me. 00:03:34
Umm, Sasha Gonzalez is here. Will you stand with Sasha? 00:03:39
She played. I want to. 00:03:43
And there's a couple other girls that placed in qualified for state. Natasha's pretty special in regards to. 00:03:45
She's a two time state champion of all classes, so she's. 00:03:51
1A through 6A, she's the best of the best. 00:03:55
It's been pretty remarkable, wrestler. 00:04:00
She's pretty beat up this year. It was a tough season for her, so to get to to end it in a 00. 00:04:05
State final match down to the wire. 00:04:11
Umm, one point given on the right, on the right out, I think at the very end of the at the very end of the. So it's pretty 00:04:14
exciting. James MacNeil, Sir. 00:04:18
Is the head coach of the girls. We have two coaches now. I'm the head coach of the boys, James the head coach of the girls. 00:04:22
And James has always been such as like main coach. 00:04:27
So credit to Coach James and Sasha, they put together good game plan, they got it done. 00:04:31
And I was there as the moral support in the corner for Sasha. So congratulations to her, she had a great job. 00:04:36
And a couple other young ladies in the. 00:04:42
Hilly and Mahdi Perez are part of the team. 00:04:45
They're still in the gym next I practice tonight. They're. 00:04:49
Their goal is to qualify and place at state. 00:04:52
Selling more Reno, who's not here? Chloe at City, who's not here? 00:04:55
A couple other kids, some of the boys. Highlights for the boys. 00:04:59
Isaiah. 00:05:04
Two time state champion, He's he won it this year back-to-back. 00:05:06
Against a rival Berlin kid that. 00:05:11
Was quite a. 00:05:14
Quite a culmination of things leading up to that match and Isaiah got it done, so we're proud of his efforts and. 00:05:16
He's only a sophomore, going to be a junior next year, so in search of four state championships, I think he'll. 00:05:22
I think you'll get there for sure. 00:05:29
Go down as one of our best. 00:05:31
Patrick Moyer, Cutter. He's a second year wrestler. 00:05:33
Came out last year. 00:05:36
Kind of. There's a couple of them. 00:05:38
Get an appointment. 00:05:40
Patrick didn't. He qualified last year, fell short, didn't didn't place this year, last year. 00:05:43
This year he I talked to him, I thought he could be top six and he only top six get a medal. 00:05:49
So I thought he was actually probably 6. 00:05:55
And he plays 4th. I mean he exceeded all of our expectations. He grew up 4th place, middle home only the second year wrestling. 00:05:58
Did a heck of a job. Katie Mcmill. 00:06:04
James is a young man as his son. 00:06:09
He's only a freshman. Two time qualifier, two time state placer. 00:06:11
I placed it this year, felt a little short of where he wanted to be, but he's still in the gym working hard. There's no doubt. I 00:06:17
think he'll. 00:06:20
A couple titles and Marius is. 00:06:23
And the gym working hard. State qualifier. 2 times state qualifier. 00:06:25
Just outside of placing almost. 00:06:29
Julian Aldridge in the back. 00:06:32
Really. I mean the first year. 00:06:35
Julian, raise your hand. 00:06:38
And Juliano's first year really like putting a full season together and staying with us, and he found some success, made it to 00:06:39
state. 00:06:42
Just outside of placing junior this year, be a senior next year. 00:06:45
Jeremiah, that's Patrick's little brother, got some work to do, but he's on that squad and he's showing up every day. I think 00:06:50
he'll be great. 00:06:54
Patrick McBride. 00:06:58
Tore his shoulder in the first tournament of the year, never made it back but was there with his team the whole year so hopefully 00:07:00
he gets that thing held up and he'll be back. 00:07:03
I think that's all my kids. I guess the bottom line is. 00:07:08
The programs thriving and doing well, our coaching staff coach John, coach David back there and we've been the same coaching staff 00:07:11
for. 00:07:14
I don't know. I guess since the inception of the program from the youth program. 00:07:18
And I think the consistency of the coaching and the parents support. 00:07:22
Has made all the difference in the world for the wrestling program. So thank you the Council for and and Nebraska for the 00:07:27
continued support with the wrestling program. 00:07:31
We we want to bring home a state championship trophy. That's the goal. 00:07:36
We're going to continue to work hard towards getting there. We got a couple of tournaments coming up in the offseason. 00:07:41
Rocky Mountain Nationals at the rodeo arena. 00:07:46
That's coming up in May and then Under the Lights tournament is coming up in July. 00:07:49
So a couple more events and then we have a couple of camps scheduled this summer, so. 00:07:54
Other than that, that's really the gist of it. So again, thank you all for everything. Maybe we can get a kid to get a picture 00:07:58
with the council and. 00:08:02
Want to congratulate you guys for. 00:08:07
Yeah, the volunteer, volunteer work that you do for a. 00:08:09
The kids. I think it's been a great program. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, come on up. We'll get a picture. 00:08:15
Come on, coaches. 00:08:20
I forgot malou I malou. 00:08:27
Congratulations Guy. 00:08:57
Thank you. 00:09:09
How you doing? 00:09:11
Thank you man. 00:09:12
Thank you. Thank you again. Thank you. 00:09:13
To your coaches and your volunteers and of course the kids. But. 00:09:16
You know, if it hadn't been for you, I don't think we would have had a program. And I got to always remember Sammy Vivian. It 00:09:19
wasn't for Coach Sammy. Great job that he did also. 00:09:25
OK, there's an effort. 00:09:31
Little program he's gonna share with us. 00:09:33
Just a follow up from my last presentation. 00:09:36
I wasn't aware I was going to have to follow that. 00:09:39
So thank you for having me again. 00:09:45
Quickly again, my name is Jason Everett. I'm the Fire Chief at the Very Large Array. I'm the chair of the local emergency planning 00:09:49
committee. 00:09:53
Which is through Socorro County Emergency Management. 00:09:57
First off, I want to thank you, Mr. Mayor, for donating the facility for our active shooter. 00:10:01
Present our tabletop exercise on Thursday. 00:10:08
We had 84 participants. 00:10:12
And I've seen some of the preliminary responses and they've been very, very positive. 00:10:15
And enthusiastic. So thank you again for your support. Thank you for putting it on. I think that was a big, it was a team effort. 00:10:21
Thank you. I appreciate that. 00:10:25
So real quickly, my disclaimer. 00:10:30
You know, we can go to the next slide. 00:10:32
And this again is a follow up. 00:10:34
Just to be clear, the views that I'm about to express or my observations. 00:10:37
Based on 25 years in the fire and EMS service. 00:10:42
I'm not choosing sides. 00:10:46
Except for those of the people. 00:10:48
I'd like to see the city and county, as mentioned two months ago, working together. 00:10:51
And we'll talk about that. 00:10:56
And obviously not the views of the LEPC or my employer, NRA. Oh. 00:10:58
Well, you're real politically correct. The way to go, Jason. Thank you, Sir. 00:11:05
I learned it from you. 00:11:09
All right, so. 00:11:11
A couple of changes to the financial analysis that I've provided two months ago. I've received some additional information. 00:11:13
So I've tweaked the numbers. 00:11:20
Which I'll share with you. 00:11:22
But before I do. 00:11:24
I need to bring a somber. 00:11:27
Piece of news to your attention. 00:11:29
When I said two months ago. 00:11:32
That ALS services are our lack of having them. 00:11:34
In the city and county. 00:11:38
We're literally seeing our citizens die. 00:11:40
And I want to assure you that that is not hyperbole. 00:11:43
Next. 00:11:48
Two weeks after I was last here. 00:11:49
An 18 month old child died just north of Lemmatore. 00:11:52
Baby in my eyes. 00:11:59
He was choking. 00:12:04
Now on an EMT basic and an EMT intermediate. 00:12:07
Can only provide back blows. 00:12:11
And chest compressions hoping to. 00:12:13
Increase in her thoracic pressure. 00:12:16
In order to force that obstruction out. 00:12:19
Paramedics, on the other hand, carry a laryngoscope. 00:12:23
So they can literally see. 00:12:26
Through the vocal cords. 00:12:28
They can get their tongues in there if they can. 00:12:30
If they can't, they can push that obstruction down deeper into one of the lungs. 00:12:33
Which would open the airway. 00:12:39
In the last case scenario is they can cut an airway through a thyroid. 00:12:40
Had this young man had a paramedic there? 00:12:45
Likely would have had a different outcome. 00:12:49
So the states here in this conversation are. 00:12:52
And this is not hyperbole. 00:12:55
Paramedics and ALS providers have skills and tools. 00:12:58
That we simply don't have as EMT's in the field. 00:13:02
So with that said, we'll move forward. 00:13:07
My modified financial analysis. 00:13:12
I've included fees for service in the budget analysis. 00:13:15
So I'll show you the slide from last presentation. 00:13:21
And then the augmented slide here in a moment. 00:13:25
I've been told that there's some type of agreement between the city and the county. 00:13:29
I don't know if it's formal, I don't know if it's codified, I don't know if it's. 00:13:34
Spoken or known? 00:13:37
But what I understand is the city. 00:13:40
Is responsible for providing fire and EMS services. 00:13:43
And the county is responsible for providing detention services, and it's kind of an exchange. 00:13:48
That's what I understand. 00:13:53
What do you would you get that information from? 00:13:54
I've I've I've heard it from the county because it's not true. 00:13:57
OK, well. 00:14:01
When you get your information, check both sides before you put it on the screen. OK, well I'm I'm clearly saying I don't know, but 00:14:04
because I was told her I don't know for sure because I only talked to the county because they have no agreement and I'm going to 00:14:09
go point by point every time you put something on the screen. 00:14:15
That is not true. OK, Mr. Mayor. 00:14:21
I said that I'm not sure. 00:14:24
But what it did lead to, excuse me, what it did lead to is my doing it. Excuse me? This is a public comment section. You get 2 00:14:27
minutes. 00:14:32
But you're trying to make a big. 00:14:36
Thing here on the screen that looks as if it's real. 00:14:38
An official it is not. 00:14:42
It's just my I'm, I'm here as a concerned citizen. You haven't talked to me once about this. You want to talk to the county? You 00:14:44
may have talked to Mr. Berger, but these things that you're saying, you have not talked to me once about it. OK, Well, you did 00:14:50
talk about some of these things in the paper. 00:14:56
Right, if you get your news from the paper, good luck. 00:15:03
Yes, Sir. OK. May I continue real briefly? Absolutely. You've got 2 minutes. I'm going to cut you off because I think a lot of 00:15:06
this stuff is not. 00:15:09
Not defensible. OK. Thank you, Sir. 00:15:13
Next is the original slide I showed you. 00:15:15
Two months ago. 00:15:19
Next slide, please, Lena. 00:15:21
This includes future service income. 00:15:24
Change so the city received almost $900,000 a year billing insurance for transport. 00:15:28
So if you look at the county's portion of that, about 30%, thirty, 1%. 00:15:36
That $600,000 number drops to about 340. 00:15:43
OK, next. 00:15:48
So I did a similar analysis. 00:15:51
With the detention center. 00:15:54
And if you look here, the average percentage of city detainees is between 40 and 45%. 00:15:56
Next slide. 00:16:04
But the city is only contributing 2020 four $11,000 towards that. 00:16:07
And I ran the same kind of numbers that I did in that previous presentation. 00:16:15
The percentage of your people or their people. 00:16:21
Towards the total budget. 00:16:25
So if you look at that bottom line. 00:16:26
That's over $1,000,000. 00:16:28
That that the city detainees are a portion of the total expense budget for the. 00:16:32
The temperature. 00:16:40
So the bottom line we can skip to. 00:16:43
Is the funding shouldn't be the? 00:16:46
Issue if there are agreements. 00:16:49
Between the city and the county. 00:16:52
I think the city and the county need to work. 00:16:55
To make those clear again. 00:16:57
The mayor says it's not true. I'll take him at his word. 00:17:00
However. 00:17:04
Well, I mean, what do you mean is that? 00:17:06
You can only check for the county on all this. 00:17:08
You didn't check on the state. Let me finish. You don't check on state statute. Who's responsible for prisons? You didn't check to 00:17:11
see if the city and the county are one. 00:17:16
These are county residents that you're separating between the city and the county. 00:17:21
Those are county residents. The city is in the county. The state statutes specifically states. I know this because I've been 00:17:25
through this for the last 20 years. You just came upon it now. 00:17:31
The prison is the argument from the county side, and that's what you're presenting. 00:17:36
The county is state statute bound to take care of prisoners. 00:17:41
That is not. 00:17:47
A city funded thing. 00:17:48
It is not mandated by any state statutes. 00:17:51
The prison. The local county prison. 00:17:55
Is a state statute staying the counties are responsible for that? Excellent, thank you. I appreciate your that budget. 00:17:57
That you're presenting. 00:18:05
Is not a deduction or an addition. 00:18:07
To the EMS fund, which we are not. 00:18:09
So you're comparing apples and oranges when you're talking about monies that are being spent at a. 00:18:13
Entity compared to the monies that are being spent at the ambulance. Excellent. You just made my next point, which is it is apples 00:18:19
and oranges and I don't want to be involved in discussing the funding. I want to be involved in improving service. The service is 00:18:26
already there. What are you talking about? We're talking about paying for the service. 00:18:33
And then I think we're going to have the next agenda item that. 00:18:40
That we can kind of segue into. 00:18:44
Is that we've already talked to the state. The Department of Transportation controls the ambulance services. 00:18:46
And we're requesting a decrease in our service area. 00:18:51
This and we do have. 00:18:55
A mandate from the state. 00:18:58
That we are the ones who serve this area, that is by law, so we can't just abandoned that. 00:19:00
There will probably be a we'll probably have a hearing. 00:19:05
And uh. 00:19:09
At the hearing then. 00:19:10
You're welcome to show your one sided argument. 00:19:12
You know, and we will show our argument. We are however. 00:19:14
Still providing service for the county. 00:19:19
We're not talking about improving, Sir. We're still providing service to all the county, including Magdalena. 00:19:22
That's not stopped. I did read that and I thank you Sir and. 00:19:28
I do think that we need to focus on improving service. 00:19:33
Not just maintaining service. Well, yeah, that's certainly. 00:19:37
Your opinion at this point I think. 00:19:41
I'd like to have, I'd like, I'd like to have orthopedic surgeons here. I'd like to have cardiothoracic surgeons. 00:19:45
I would like to have. 00:19:50
Paramedics on every ambulance. 00:19:52
Times 3 or 4 then all that. 00:19:54
That's a budgetary question and again, that's that's for another time. We're talking about the. 00:19:56
The the services that are at present. 00:20:02
Given by the city to the county, that's what we're talking about. I agree. So them I think is another topic. 00:20:05
OK, so the county manager made an offer. 00:20:11
To provide 2 firefighters or funding for two firefighters. 00:20:16
And to create an EMS committee. 00:20:20
In order to talk about these issues collectively so. 00:20:23
We told you that that was at your previous meeting and at the previous meeting we also talked about the 300,000. 00:20:27
That that's coming from the county services, by the way, It's not a secret. 00:20:34
Actually just showed 325. I'm just here saying that I support the creation of an EMS committee. 00:20:38
That is representative of the City Council and the county. 00:20:45
In order to talk about how to improve services. 00:20:49
We have an 18 month old child. I know you. I know you're about the money. 00:20:53
Mr. Mayor. 00:20:57
That's more than that. We had an 18 month old child died six weeks ago. 00:20:59
And if we had a paramedic respond? 00:21:03
That child might still be a lot. 00:21:05
You want me to look up all the people that might have been hurt by lack of services here because we were in Vegita? Is that the 00:21:07
tragic stories you want to hear? I don't want to hear tragic stories. 00:21:12
I want to say you and I both have been trying to save lives for 50 years. Don't be telling me about saving lives. I'm telling you. 00:21:18
That the brinks a point like you just came up with about limiter and I don't know the specifics and I don't know the time. 00:21:26
Span it took to get out there and all that. I can tell you stories about here, my patients. 00:21:33
Who sometimes have. 00:21:38
Not been able to get service because our ambulances were in Socorro. 00:21:39
In Sapporo County. 00:21:43
So, you know, we're not going to go *** for tat, but I'm not trying to. Heartbreaking stories, Those are heartbreaking. 00:21:45
But that that's not going to serve us any purpose. 00:21:50
When we're talking about this kind of service, do you think that the service we provide now is adequate? 00:21:54
With our monies, it is adequate, is more than adequate actually, because there's a lot of counties who don't even have the service 00:22:00
and a lot of cities who don't supply that service. There are communities around the country, almost all of them who have an 00:22:05
expectation. 00:22:09
That they're going to be paramedics as part of the EMS response. 00:22:14
Well, I I think this Albuquerque is just going through that right now. 00:22:18
I think Bernal County had it but. 00:22:22
I think Albuquerque is talking about paramedics on ambulance services also. 00:22:24
And who goes out at the time? That is, there's a call. 00:22:29
That's that's another topic. 00:22:32
Right now if you want to specifically talk about. 00:22:34
County share of paying for ambulance. 00:22:37
That is a topic we're on right now. OK, We can always improve service. OK. So let me let me give you another example of why an EMS 00:22:40
committee might be beneficial. 00:22:44
I sent an e-mail to 62 of my EMT students last night. 00:22:49
Asking that if there were a part-time EMS only position, it's a coral fire. 00:22:53
Would they be willing to work a 12 hour shift a week? 00:22:58
And Seven came back instantly and said yes. 00:23:01
Now that position doesn't exist. 00:23:04
Some were willing to do that as volunteers. 00:23:06
But everyone of those who is on a truck. 00:23:09
Is going to keep a career firefighter here in Sakura? 00:23:12
That is a short term having such an application and we'll take a look and see what's possible. Well, those positions, they 00:23:15
certainly haven't approached me, but I'm happy to look at that. I just, it was an idea. I just pulled some of my people, they 00:23:21
would be willing to step up and help with the staffing issue in the short term. That's great. 00:23:28
So an EMS committee could talk about those kind of ideas and come up with short term, medium term and long term solutions and 00:23:35
proposals. 00:23:39
In order to. 00:23:44
I dare say. 00:23:46
Improve the service. 00:23:47
Of EMS providers or EMS services in the city and the county. 00:23:49
And that's all I'm asking for. It's not acceptable. 00:23:55
That's not acceptable to create an EMS committee, no. So you don't want to work with the county? 00:23:57
You don't want to work with the public. Good times up. Thank you, Sir. I'm not gonna sit here and argue. 00:24:02
Seem to argue with pretty much everybody, Sir. 00:24:08
You personally, you, especially when you bring up documents that are really untested and uncorroborated. 00:24:11
You know, and put him on the screen. 00:24:19
I don't mind arguing with anybody who's not, you know, really helping the city out. 00:24:21
Mr. Baca, Mr. Mayor, I just want to, I just want to say something about my department, you know. 00:24:25
As far as the call that he's talking about, you know, my guys did a wonderful job. 00:24:31
It is an absolutely wonderful job. 00:24:36
We did what we could do, OK? 00:24:38
So I just want to clarify that that that my department. 00:24:41
Is doing a wonderful job. 00:24:44
OK. We talk about hiring positions. 00:24:46
Again, we're talking about part time positions. 00:24:48
Where's the money gonna come from? We need help. 00:24:51
To pay these people. 00:24:53
I came to when this all started again. I came. I don't care. 00:24:56
Personally, I don't care where the money comes from. 00:25:01
We just need help. 00:25:03
To avoid. 00:25:04
A situation that's bound to happen and it's going to cost a lot more money than it is. 00:25:07
To hire three more people. 00:25:11
That's all I want to say so. 00:25:13
My guys are doing a wonderful job. 00:25:16
Around that call, they did a great job. 00:25:18
They did what they could. 00:25:20
That's only thank you, Chief. 00:25:22
All right. Thank you, Sir. You have a good evening. Mary, are you want to say anything? 00:25:24
I would like to comment on the EMT on the EMT's UMM. 00:25:39
I think that they've improved a lot in the last 12 years. 00:25:44
When I had called an ambulance for my mom 12 years ago. 00:25:49
My mom. 00:25:55
Was probably. 00:25:57
Having a stroke at the time and the EMT's were just asking her questions and asking her questions. 00:25:59
And I was answering the questions and answering the questions and telling them get her to the hospital, get her to the hospital 00:26:05
because they wasn't doing anything. 00:26:09
My mom was vomiting. 00:26:13
Unresponsive and. 00:26:17
They just kept asking questions, so I think. 00:26:19
That, uh. 00:26:22
Nothing has really improved in the last 12 years. 00:26:24
So thank you. 00:26:30
But letting me say that. 00:26:32
But anyways. 00:26:35
Today my reason for being here is. 00:26:37
I had went to. 00:26:42
One a year. 00:26:44
Police Commission boards not that long ago. 00:26:47
And I was having the. 00:26:50
Problem with one of your officers. 00:26:52
Because one time he had pulled me over and kept instigating me. 00:26:57
After he gave me my citations, he wouldn't let me go. He would instigate me. I was on the clock. 00:27:02
Umm, I was taking care of my mom and my son at the time. 00:27:11
So I kept telling them, you know, I gotta go, I gotta go. I gotta go get their prescription. 00:27:15
The second time, he. 00:27:20
Well, the first time he pulled me over for speeding. 00:27:22
How he did that I have no clue because there was like three or four other people around me, but he picked me out instead. 00:27:24
The second time I admit it was my fault. 00:27:32
Because we were at a three-way stop and. 00:27:36
This was the same officer. 00:27:41
I was coming up Fisher and there was. 00:27:43
An officer on this item and another car on the side. 00:27:46
And we all sat there for 5 minutes. 00:27:50
OK, umm. 00:27:53
I was tired that night. 00:27:56
We were just sitting there. Everybody was playing a guessing game, I guess. I don't know. 00:28:00
I didn't feel like playing a guessing game, so I took off. 00:28:05
So I got pulled over. I admit that one was my fault. OK, so I paid the fine. 00:28:10
Got the points on my record. 00:28:18
The first time was not my fault. 00:28:20
The third time, here we go again. 00:28:23
OK, on January 25th. 00:28:26
I was coming back from Las Cruces. 00:28:29
My daughter had a baby on the 18th. 00:28:32
And we thought we were going to lose her so. 00:28:37
We were back and forth between. 00:28:41
I was back and forth between here and there. 00:28:45
Trying to keep my jobs, trying to take care of my daughter. 00:28:48
Her other four kids were screaming, crying. 00:28:54
I had no idea what to do as a grandmother. I thought I failed. 00:28:58
OK. 00:29:04
When you can't get your. 00:29:05
When you're old and your 3 year old grandchildren to stop screaming and crying. 00:29:08
You're you're a failure. 00:29:14
They screamed and cried for three days. 00:29:17
My daughter and her husband were. 00:29:20
In a panic. 00:29:25
We were all traumatized. 00:29:28
For two or three weeks. 00:29:31
Then I come back. 00:29:33
That night on the 25th. 00:29:35
Umm, you know I. 00:29:37
No, I was coming into town. 00:29:43
I was not in my right friend of mine, I can admit it. 00:29:48
I admit my mistakes. 00:29:52
I don't do anything illegal. I don't do anything wrong. I try not to do anything wrong. I just try to, you know, be the best 00:29:56
person I can. But. 00:29:59
I thought I was a failure for three weeks. 00:30:03
So here I am, coming home. 00:30:07
Leaving my daughter with her five kids. 00:30:10
Umm, I get pulled over by the same officer. 00:30:13
But yet I still know my surroundings and I was on the inside lane. 00:30:19
And he got behind me. I don't know where he came from. 00:30:28
But there was a car on the right side of me. 00:30:31
So when he turned his lights on, I couldn't pull over. 00:30:35
So I had to go into the turning lane to where I had to make a U-turn because I didn't want to hit the car that was on the side of 00:30:41
me. 00:30:44
It was a little bit of ways ahead of me. 00:30:48
But yet he picked me out. 00:30:51
Again. 00:30:53
OK. 00:30:55
But Miss Cole, did you go to the police oversight committee with this? Yes, I did. You get a resolution. 00:30:58
They favored the officer. 00:31:05
The officer did no wrongdoing. 00:31:08
But I I guess I mean I I. 00:31:12
Appreciate your situation, we've all been. 00:31:15
With grandchildren that have just. 00:31:17
Totally freaking out, you know, having problems but. 00:31:19
I guess my question is going to be whether? 00:31:23
What it is that we can prove as a city? The thing The thing is today is. 00:31:25
You know. 00:31:30
When I go. 00:31:32
OK. 00:31:34
What I'm not understanding here is. 00:31:36
I'm surrounded the first time he pulled me off. 00:31:39
The first time this happened. 00:31:42
He assaulted my husband in the Walmart parking lot. 00:31:45
But you did tell everybody, the police oversight committee, yes, all that information. 00:31:48
Who said it on it? Paul. 00:31:54
Did they, did they have any further things that they needed to say? No the the attorney. 00:31:56
Said that the police followed procedure. 00:32:02
What about the complaint about the husband? 00:32:05
Being an altercation at all that was brought up on that one when brought up. 00:32:08
Mary, I just, I think we're kind of stuck. 00:32:14
Kind of OK. See, The thing is what's happening now is when I went to court this morning. 00:32:16
I was found guilty again of speeding, but yet. 00:32:25
These people around me. 00:32:29
You know, how does he know I was speeding? 00:32:31
When there was a car on the side of me. 00:32:35
Ahead of me. 00:32:37
When I couldn't pull over when he was behind me. 00:32:39
I just, you know, I don't understand. I just think, I just think now that now that he's found me guilty three times in front of 00:32:43
this officer, I think he's going to continue to harass me. Well, I'll talk with the police chief. 00:32:49
And I will speak to the police chief about that. 00:32:57
They're probably going to pull my license because this is the third time that he's doing this to me and I've heard he's. 00:33:04
You know, I sympathize with you. I just can't go over whatever the judge did I. 00:33:15
You know, as exclaimed council and mayor, I just. 00:33:19
OK, see this is what? 00:33:21
What I want happen? 00:33:24
OK, I paid. 00:33:27
The $115.00 fine to be. 00:33:29
Which I should not have paid because I would rather go spend the night in one of your jail cells. 00:33:33
Make do for what that. 00:33:39
To pay $150.00 instead so I can go buy me groceries and my mom and my son groceries. 00:33:42
But how do I get my $115.00 back and spend the night in your jail? 00:33:49
I don't care if I'm sick, I don't care if I'm on blood thinners. I want to spend the night in your jail. Let me talk to the judge 00:33:53
and let's see if there's some way we can help you with that. 00:33:58
We certainly don't want to because of the fact is I want to appeal because he's going to continue to harass me. 00:34:02
Because he knows that I've been guilty three times already and he's probably laughing his head off. 00:34:09
I will make sure the police chief make sure that's treated properly. 00:34:14
And hopefully. 00:34:18
Well, not hopefully I will have a talk with a police chief because I went back to work today with. 00:34:20
I was sitting there. 00:34:25
I had called. 00:34:27
I had called the Sheriff's Office. 00:34:29
Yesterday. 00:34:32
And I had asked them. 00:34:34
To umm. 00:34:36
To have a sheriff go in with me. 00:34:38
Because I've been having problems with 35 or 30 boys in their 30 years old. 00:34:41
Because let me let me talk to the picture was that the municipal judge or the magistrate? The municipal judge, I will have a talk 00:34:47
with Judge Gutierrez and. 00:34:51
And also I was also assaulted at the urgent care on the 21st when you wasn't at work. 00:34:56
Well, I still have contrast in my arm, but I was assaulted by the security guard and he was in his 30s also. So I'm getting kind 00:35:05
of. 00:35:09
Up to here with these boys in their 30s that were not disciplined. 00:35:14
I understand what you're going through, it's just. 00:35:18
It's difficult for us to resolve this here at this kind of a setting, so I wanted I want to know how. 00:35:20
I can go about soon as police officer, that's something separate, but I will talk to the judge and I will see what we can help you 00:35:26
with. 00:35:30
But as far as lawsuit legal, I think that's your right. 00:35:34
That you'd have to go to a civil lawyer to do that. I can't. I can't tell you anything. Go to. 00:35:38
File a complaint. 00:35:45
I think. 00:35:49
Venue that the city has is the police oversight committee. 00:35:50
With a third party lawyer that has nothing to do with the city. 00:35:54
And they're the ones that are given the task. 00:35:58
Making sure that whatever happened with the police. 00:36:01
And a citizen. 00:36:05
Was justified. 00:36:06
And I have to live with their decision as. 00:36:07
Both parties have to do that. 00:36:11
As far as what the judge finds you, if there's some way we can help with that, I will try to do that, but I. 00:36:13
Like I said, there was a car on the side of me going faster than me and he picked me just like the first time. 00:36:19
But Mary, I can't adjudicate that. I mean, that's I don't have the question. Then when he, the second time he pulled me over, he 00:36:25
was yelling at me. That's assault. 00:36:30
I'm gonna make sure that this is no kind of retaliation. 00:36:35
Against you by this police. I will look into Amman. 00:36:38
Promise to look into what is going on. 00:36:42
Promised to look into that. 00:36:45
You know I mean. 00:36:46
I can see, you know. 00:36:48
My son is in his 30s. 00:36:51
And but let me let me just because his problems, but that was because he was in a car accident. 00:36:55
So I don't. 00:37:03
But I disciplined him and I spanked the **** out of him when he did something wrong. If you have time on Thursday. 00:37:05
Come to City Hall. I will look into it tomorrow for sure. 00:37:11
But this officer like OK, when? 00:37:15
When I was in registry court on the 13th. 00:37:21
Because my son-in-law was having issues. 00:37:26
Let me look into your problem. 00:37:30
OK. So I'll look into that. I'm sure absolutely promised that I will do that. OK, but look. 00:37:32
I. 00:37:38
I went back to work with my hands all red and my beans popped out and I can even do my job right. 00:37:40
Because I was so scared to be mistaken. 00:37:47
Look into the police officer with the Chief of Police and I will look into your fine of $115.00 to see if we can help you with 00:37:50
that. 00:37:54
I'm not going to spend the night in your jail cell. Well, I don't want you to spend them that we've already gone through. You 00:37:58
don't want you to be. 00:38:01
On the job. 00:38:04
Because they're going to make me lose my license, and if I lose my license, I can't do my job. 00:38:07
Thanks again. Thanks for coming. 00:38:17
Anyone else that's not on the agenda would like to make a comment? Yes Sir. 00:38:20
You didn't have to get dressed up for us. 00:38:31
I know most of you, and some of you I don't. Hello. 00:38:36
I'm with the New Mexico Socorro Compiro Humanos. 00:38:40
And we're a big part of our history and our culture here in Sapporo, in the central part of New Mexico. 00:38:43
Where we tribalizing? 00:38:51
And we want to come home, a lot of us, and we wanted our culture to be recognized and our heritage be brought back on. 00:38:53
We're listed as extinct people and an extinct tribe and culture. 00:39:01
Right now, a lot of us are tribalized with the cabination Cherokee. 00:39:06
Apaches. 00:39:12
That we tribalize with. 00:39:13
We want to, we want to come back and be our own entity under our humanocompetals that we work. 00:39:16
Or here in our place. 00:39:21
We have a lot of years in this place though. 00:39:24
We don't. We want to preserve our culture and stop seeing it being lost, our sacred sites, things that are around here. 00:39:27
That ain't being protected and we lose. 00:39:34
We use a lot of history when we lose that, so we're just we want to look for some actions. 00:39:37
On seeing if we can be recognized in our own city and our own habitat where we're from. 00:39:43
And you know right now, not asking for actions, just asking. 00:39:49
See what help we can get to proceed forward for our tribe and for our people and our culture and heritage. 00:39:53
Victor, do you have a? 00:39:59
Are there people here that you know of that are in your tribe? Yeah. There's several people around the town that are in our truck. 00:40:01
You know, we've actually been approached by two other tribes. The heroes. Yeah. And. 00:40:07
Don't think of the other trilogy got three names. 00:40:15
And I was proposing some sort of a. 00:40:19
Although 23 Andme is defunct. 00:40:23
Is to check people's history, so you could define how many people are here. 00:40:25
With that heritage, yeah, we and I might work with Chelsea on that. 00:40:30
To try to get some sort of. 00:40:35
You know, because we want to have some documentation of what the heritage is. Yeah, we got most of that. Most of our tribal 00:40:37
people. We can go back in all the way to Tahiti. 00:40:41
Where we were in novel in through there. 00:40:46
And the manzanas. And then we came back in and we, you know, most of that's done. 00:40:49
The chair Taiwan has the blood quantum. 00:40:54
That you got to have a blood of, you know, some paper history on that at all. Yeah, we've got a lot of paper history. And, you 00:40:57
know, our big Pueblo was the grand Cueva that was called Los Fumanos. 00:41:02
If you and Selena Sonic if you have. 00:41:09
Can you drop it by sometime? We can copy it or take it by the library so we can copy it. Yeah. I think we should document some of 00:41:11
that history. Yes. Thank you. That's all I'm asking for. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for coming with you. 00:41:18
Anyone else? 00:41:25
OK, now we get something that we've got little heat. I got a little heated, Mr. Mayor. 00:41:27
Who me? You. 00:41:32
I just, I just wanted to let you know that the. 00:41:36
Basketball team left you, I think you know, they're pretty good. 00:41:39
What's next, NBA? 00:41:42
Hopefully you can help me retire. 00:41:45
Congratulations. That's great. 00:41:48
OK, now back to Segura County AMT firefighter discussion. 00:41:51
I will do whatever the Council would like. 00:41:56
But at this point. 00:41:59
We will have a hearing. 00:42:00
And we will. 00:42:03
Present the City side and the county is welcome to present the county side. 00:42:05
But the Department of Transportation will want to hear it. 00:42:09
I still maintain. 00:42:14
That the compensation from the county is. 00:42:16
Not enough. 00:42:19
For us to continue doing this for any length of time. 00:42:20
And if the. 00:42:24
County if the council. 00:42:25
Would like to put Commission together another committee and work with the county on. 00:42:28
What we can do is just. The bottom line is. 00:42:33
I didn't have that kind of an overture when they just dropped the Senior Center. 00:42:36
I didn't have any overtures like that when they used our recreation. I can go and itemize a whole bunch of stuff too. 00:42:42
But the bottom line is that we are overextended. 00:42:48
And if the Council wants to, at the next meeting, present some sort of a. 00:42:52
A committee to talk to the county, That's fine. 00:42:59
But I am unbending. 00:43:02
The desire to have the county. 00:43:04
Participate. 00:43:07
For what their services they're getting. 00:43:08
And they could put up the numbers. 00:43:12
But in order to have a standing ambulance service. 00:43:16
Whether even if you don't do even one? 00:43:21
You still have to expend a tremendous amount of money to have it established. 00:43:25
So again. 00:43:30
If they said I'm not really. 00:43:32
I'm not in favor of having. 00:43:35
Meeting, I think. I think the meeting should be. 00:43:38
At the. 00:43:40
Hearing when we have the hearing with the Department of Transportation. 00:43:44
And let the chips fall where they and have a third party come. 00:43:47
And look at our situation. 00:43:51
I really think a lot of the. 00:43:53
The rhetoric has gotten out of hand. 00:43:55
But again, I'm amending an. 00:43:58
And what kind of a budget we need? And Chief has already said 3 is minimum. 00:44:01
But. 00:44:06
At the. 00:44:08
Behest of the counselors for whatever they'd like to do. 00:44:10
And start some conversation with the county. I'd be more than happy to do that. It's just that. 00:44:13
We've been talking to the county manager. County manager has circumvented. 00:44:18
Myself and has been talking to other people has never come to me. 00:44:22
Other than one specific. 00:44:25
Response which is but that was not even. 00:44:27
It was a it was a offer for two. 00:44:31
But it was not an offer for continuity, it was just an offer for. 00:44:34
I think what did they say? 3 or 4 years and that's it. 00:44:37
But I think the decision has to be with the Commission to, not just the manager. That's my favorite. 00:44:40
You know, I mean, the manager can say all he wants, but. 00:44:46
Unless the unless the county Commission agrees. 00:44:49
And there are two kind of commissioners that have all their precinct. 00:44:52
In the city and so. 00:44:56
The city is the county. I mean, it's part of the county. 00:44:59
Services that the county provides. 00:45:03
Basically women. 00:45:08
We even think we're not taking care of. 00:45:10
Vegeta Senior Center. Right now we're looking at a septic tank problem. 00:45:12
Out there. 00:45:17
The city is working in the county so but. 00:45:18
You know again, Mr. Salami. 00:45:23
Maybe it would be a good. 00:45:26
Step to have a committee, a few counselors, meet with a few commissioners. 00:45:28
And an informal basis just to kick out, kick around some ideas and maybe we can. 00:45:35
What do you think would be? 00:45:41
Chances of opinion is that. 00:45:44
Because I know that. 00:45:48
That what, what what percentage is Magdalena not having these services? 00:45:49
Putting a. 00:45:55
Damper on this? 00:45:58
You know, I think in all fairness, and I've said that before. 00:46:00
Is that the county financially is in a much better situation to be able to. 00:46:04
Come up with that, especially since they unloaded the Senior Center. 00:46:08
For $350,000. 00:46:12
Magdalena, in my opinion, and I don't, I don't have an intimate knowledge of their budget. 00:46:14
I just have a feeling that they would have difficulty in coming up with $80,000 a year. 00:46:19
Financially, so I am more I'm inclined to be. 00:46:24
Be able to work with Magdalena a little bit. 00:46:29
Easier they have an ambulance, a brand new one that. 00:46:32
I think the city could use and we could trade them an older one. 00:46:34
And but I'd really I always said that those are two separate issues that. 00:46:37
The county and Magdalena would be on a separate track and negotiations. 00:46:42
Because I don't think the county wants to negotiate for Magdalena either. 00:46:46
Council decides that they want to. 00:46:52
Meet with some commissioners. I'm willing to sit on that well if I can have a Marianne and you guys you you know more about the 00:46:54
county too with your. 00:46:58
With your region 7, if you 2 want to meet with the commissioners I can. 00:47:02
Donald, if you make an offer to the. 00:47:07
County manager that Really. 00:47:10
There were there are two city councilors would like to meet with two county commissioners. 00:47:12
About the future of ambulance service in the county, I think that's not a bad. 00:47:17
Start and I think. 00:47:22
Not only the county manager, but. 00:47:24
Reach out to the count to them. So it'd be Commissioner. 00:47:27
Chair of the Commission as well. Yeah, I think Mr. Secretaro is the chair and. 00:47:36
I think, Huh. 00:47:41
It's connected. Joe is the chair and. 00:47:42
Maybe their vice chair? 00:47:47
Maybe 2:00 and 2:00. 00:47:49
I think that would be good, but. 00:47:50
And you know if you guys can bring some sort of a. 00:47:52
Think back, but again, I am. 00:47:57
I'm telling you that the. 00:47:59
The offer that they have is not adequate and I feel it's not either. But I mean we, we can negotiate more. 00:48:02
Right. But you know, I mean we're negotiating from a. 00:48:08
A point of zero to 100% is what we're doing. But anyway. 00:48:11
Mr. Mayor, OK, let's do that. Just for some clarification, you've already requested to do the state that to decrease the service 00:48:15
area. 00:48:19
We have had a preliminary request as to what. 00:48:24
They want from us and they want a whole bunch of statistics and. 00:48:27
And information and that's what we're providing now. 00:48:30
And then from there, that that's where the hearing comes. 00:48:33
We have not met an official. 00:48:36
The what? The chief could tell me what they specifically wanted. 00:48:39
And that includes Ketron County, too, by the way. 00:48:43
Because we also go out to Kevin County. 00:48:46
And touching. We're not bringing catching county to the table. 00:48:48
Well, so, so right now we've already filled out the paperwork to amend. 00:48:51
Ketchikan County out of our service area. 00:48:56
That's already been sent off. 00:48:59
We had to pay a fine, all that stuff. 00:49:01
Now we have to. There's another a bunch of people we have to fill out now. Lena and I are working on that now. 00:49:03
They're asking for a bunch of information. 00:49:08
Though we see the paperwork once we're done collecting all that information and though they might want to have a hearing. 00:49:11
And I've been speaking with Nicholas Harmel, who was the guy that's in charge of At the dot. 00:49:16
The Department of Transportation and. 00:49:21
He's, he's working with us on all this. So as soon as we get all this paperwork filled out, all the information together, we'll 00:49:23
send it off. And if they want to have a hearing at that point. 00:49:27
Then they'll request our side and the county side to. 00:49:31
To do that, Mister Mayor, but Coral County specifically. 00:49:35
Socorro County, Yeah, we're looking to cut out the county area. 00:49:41
From uh. 00:49:44
Every which way from that request has already been sent. 00:49:45
Oh, print them there. No, we have. We have. We're putting together some paperwork for it in this folder that we're hearing well if 00:49:49
we request it. 00:49:53
Will happen. 00:49:58
And, and, but I don't think they're going to make a decision without a hearing. 00:50:00
That's my my answer. 00:50:05
So if it's their decision, so if we request to take away or to to remove the. 00:50:07
Service area for the entire county. 00:50:14
The Department of Transportation will make that decision or is that still a council decision or is that administration? It's a 00:50:17
Department of Transportation. So so they're they're not going to just. 00:50:21
Drop the the county area they're going to. We have to justify why we're wanting to drop it. 00:50:27
And by the talks that I've had with him. 00:50:32
We have justification as to why we want to drop it, so there's there's really no council decision on it as it sits. 00:50:35
The council cannot decide, or the mayor cannot decide to drop Conservative as it sits. 00:50:42
We are bound by a document that says we're giving services and we can't drop that document without this hearing. 00:50:48
But that's why, that's why, that's why I think. 00:50:56
That meeting with the county and the city together, because, I mean. 00:50:59
I want to see it dropped, but I know that we need, we need more money from the. I don't want to see it dropped. 00:51:04
But at the same, because those are our neighbors, those we have relatives there that live within the county, I want to see that 00:51:11
done. 00:51:15
You know, but we need, that's why we need to have the meeting. 00:51:19
To try and negotiate with accounting, but I guess my question is, is it going to be the council? Is it is well ultimately be the 00:51:22
Council's decision to decide whether or not we relinquish? 00:51:27
To decide to have the hearing, if you say to me. 00:51:34
We don't want the Department of Transportation stepping in to make a decision, then we'll just drop. 00:51:39
Mr. Mayor, a question for that question. So what are we going to vote on whether or not we want the hearing or is it eventually, 00:51:46
once we get out of the paperwork and the council councillors meet? And yeah, this is going to take months, it's not going to 00:51:52
happen overnight and I was wondering the time. 00:51:57
Looking at the fiscal year July. 00:52:04
It's a it's a process we're not going to. We'll submit the paperwork. 00:52:07
If they request a hearing. 00:52:10
Then it'll be up to you guys if you guys want to pursue it from there on and we'll go from there. So be their way. There's going 00:52:12
to be a hearing. 00:52:15
If they don't like, if they think that it's going to be just the father, just the Powerball, they're going to have a hearing to 00:52:18
make it official through the Department of Transportation, whether or not we remove service to the entire county, correct. 00:52:24
Unless we come up with a solution. 00:52:30
Two points, one for Thief. 00:52:34
I would imagine if we. 00:52:38
That they did approve that we went through this and they did approve dropping services for the county they would. 00:52:39
Have to have, they would have to have the county pick up and have their own service. I would imagine that was what I would think. 00:52:44
Well, that's, that's correct. That's where we're at right now. You have to either start the county department or they would have 00:52:49
to find some private ambulance service to come in and sure. 00:52:55
Support those areas. 00:53:00
And then Mr. Merritt's just to clarify that the request going back to the original request is? 00:53:01
Three additional EMS. 00:53:06
Paper by the county was the initial request in order to. 00:53:09
Help Chief Baca staff keep up with the calls. 00:53:13
And that would still be what you would. 00:53:17
Consider under just bare minimum to what you need to keep up with the calls that you're currently dealing with. Again guys, 3 the 00:53:19
minimum, right? 00:53:24
3/3 no, and that's not going to fix the problem, but it's going to help. That gives us 6 people on each shift. 00:53:28
Technically, you're supposed to. I mean, you're supposed to legally you're supposed to have two licensed personnel on each call. 00:53:34
So that's three calls that we can run that at one time if they all came on at the same time. 00:53:38
OK, so. 00:53:43
Bottom line is with the with the service we provide. 00:53:44
For the county, city. 00:53:48
Hospital transfers, all that. 00:53:50
With the amount of staff and we have, it's taken a toll. 00:53:51
One final question. 00:53:55
And not to put the cart before the horse. Obviously this needs to get taken care of first. 00:53:58
Would would anybody be if all this got clarified and we got the adequate staffing that we need? 00:54:02
And we found a way. 00:54:08
To get. 00:54:09
More crucial services on the ambulances, people are people opposed to that if we can get. 00:54:12
Again the clerk. 00:54:18
Don't put the cart before the horse, but if you got paramedics, sure. I mean, if this was got under control and you felt like you 00:54:19
had this burger has a good handle on that. 00:54:23
But depending on how you would staff it. 00:54:27
And when you're talking about. 00:54:31
For an 8 hour shift. 00:54:33
You're talking about four. 00:54:35
So they can have the shift and have some time off. 00:54:37
So but if we can put that to put 4 paramedics into the budget. 00:54:39
And I may be way off but a paramedic at this point. 00:54:44
I think it's demanding at least $40.00 an hour. I'm not sure what. 00:54:47
So. So you're talking about. 00:54:56
That and that's a significant. 00:54:58
And again, I'm not sure what the. 00:55:01
The uh, uh. 00:55:05
Standard of care. 00:55:07
When it comes to. 00:55:09
Having the number on each ambulance. 00:55:11
And whether we're at risk, somebody saying well. 00:55:14
How come I'm getting a paramedic on this ambulance and you got one on this one in the morning? 00:55:17
I mean, all those things are no good deal. 00:55:22
But yeah, I mean, I think great, I would love to have paramedics. 00:55:25
I'm sure Chief would too. It's just first issue taking right now we're not even adequately supplying enough services. 00:55:28
To the city, that's that's the major problem. That's that's the way I went through it just to clarify and I will tell you why I'm 00:55:36
so. 00:55:39
Heated discussion. 00:55:44
We didn't have this discussion when they dropped the Senior Center. 00:55:46
You know what happened there. 00:55:50
They just said here, we're leaving. 00:55:53
If you want to have seniors, have services. 00:55:55
And of course we said, yeah, we do that. That's that's what we do. 00:55:59
Give service to the public. 00:56:02
So that that's why I'm a little heated. 00:56:05
That prison. 00:56:07
Thing always comes up. 00:56:10
He does. It always does. 00:56:12
But prisons are supposed to be provided. 00:56:14
By the county. 00:56:18
That's in the state statute. 00:56:20
We've gone through that so many times, and I can get you the state statute. 00:56:22
So to say, this is what they're spending at the jail. 00:56:26
I can't, you know. 00:56:30
Yeah, yeah. So so we can, we can show you that. 00:56:33
You know, uh. 00:56:37
The county is supposed to supply the jail. That's just part of the. 00:56:38
The city is not supposed to supply the ambulance. 00:56:42
You know, it's that's not it. We did this. 00:56:45
Being, as you said, good neighbors. 00:56:49
Just like we. 00:56:51
Provide the. 00:56:52
Basketball the San Antonio Maglina kids to play basketball or go to our our. 00:56:54
Our pool or go to our library. 00:56:59
For the work that coming, you know, but so but that's why within a heated and I'm and the reason the other thing I'm saying is. 00:57:03
I personally and I have, I have looked at their finances. 00:57:11
And they're pretty good. 00:57:14
And they can't do it over our. 00:57:16
Services that we're providing. 00:57:18
So you know, and I would welcome you to go look at the. 00:57:21
County budget and. 00:57:24
And what the revenue is projected? 00:57:25
And how much money they saved when they. 00:57:28
Let go of the Senior Center. 00:57:30
And then also. 00:57:33
When I would get into all the raises and everything but anyway. 00:57:35
Mr. Mayor All right, Mr. Monett, one last point. I'm not sure if it was in Mr. Everett's calculations or not, but if we have 00:57:38
detainees that are built a city. 00:57:42
Detainees. 00:57:46
They bill us for each night in the jail, so I don't know if he included that in his analysis. 00:57:48
Well, he obviously got his information from when. 00:57:54
One person. 00:57:57
Mr. Latrice. 00:57:58
And to clarify something as well, Council is I know he brought up. 00:58:01
The percentage of a. 00:58:06
What we're collecting, we're only collecting about 30% of all the ambulance charges for the whole city and county, not just the 00:58:07
county. 00:58:11
Is that just what's that due to What? It doesn't even cover what? 00:58:17
No, no. I mean are we capable of collecting more or is it like I think that's just what or is that just what gets paid or? 00:58:21
Office because it's mostly Medicare, Medicaid. 00:58:29
You know, uh. 00:58:33
Auto insurance you got you got a pretty good. 00:58:34
Pretty good for auto insurance. 00:58:36
But a lot of times there's people that are uninsured. 00:58:38
Change 70%. 00:58:42
Mr. Berger. 00:58:47
You know, I would like to stay. 00:58:49
The ball and. 00:58:54
Because my job is to try and approve. 00:59:01
So I'm here to listen to you guys and I think doesn't. 00:59:06
That into account. 00:59:14
Ah, so OK. Thanks Shiv. 00:59:27
OK, I see, I see I've been hearing public hearing #1. 00:59:33
Mr. Mayor. 00:59:39
This is the first of four public hearings we'll have. 00:59:41
Till in April, 2 in May. 00:59:44
And I've requested that the Council return their surveys to me by May 20th. 00:59:46
Which will give me the month of June to make any alterations to the ICIP and input correct numbers. 00:59:51
As I said, he is to enjoy and. 00:59:57
We've advertised we've put this in the utility bills. 01:00:00
To try and get the public input, as this is their opportunity to request that the Council put infrastructure projects on the list. 01:00:04
It also helps us get funding for grants and capital outlay as it shows the council has thought these projects through and they are 01:00:11
priorities. 01:00:15
What? 01:00:21
And we're going to the public hearing right now, right? 01:00:23
I mean, we want to let the public know that there's a process. 01:00:26
Putting their. 01:00:29
Of putting their. 01:00:31
Items that they're interested in on the agenda also. 01:00:33
It's not just the City Council. Mr. Logan make a motion to go into public hearing for the IC IP Second. 01:00:36
Moved and seconded all in favor. 01:00:41
Anyone out there still left? 01:00:43
When I say anything. 01:00:46
Of our CIP, which means if you have a street project, if you have a housing project. 01:00:47
If you have a drainage project. 01:00:52
If you have any kind of playground project. 01:00:54
Come to the public hearing so you can voice that. Let the OR let the counselors know and they'll bring it to you. They'll bring it 01:00:58
to us. 01:01:01
OK, We'll go back out, make a motion. We'll go back in regular session. One second moved and seconded. All in favor, aye. 01:01:05
Better word we have the on call engineer which is. 01:01:12
Picked by the committee and as Dennis Engineering. 01:01:15
Mr. Salome. 01:01:21
CS one second. I'll second the discussion. 01:01:23
All in favor, aye? 01:01:29
The NMDOT transportation project. 01:01:31
Called the TPF. 01:01:34
On Carroll Ave. 01:01:36
OK, I second the discussion. 01:01:45
And that will be as far as you can go with it. It depends on how much money we get. 01:01:48
Try to get that done all in favor. 01:01:52
The Amatec bridge. 01:01:56
Resolution 25-04-01B Donald. That's for the. 01:01:58
It's for the replacement of the East Bridge or East Road slash Amortek Bridge. It's been downgraded from 40 tons to 10. 01:02:04
It is up to #3 on worst bridges in our district or in New Mexico. 01:02:12
We were. 01:02:18
We were funded for that project. 01:02:20
For the design through the TPF program in 2023 and the plans are now at 95% complete. 01:02:22
So we want to start asking the dot. 01:02:29
To fund the replacement of the bridge. 01:02:32
And that hearing is on April 11th. 01:02:35
Is my sister Romero. 01:02:38
And what we approve. Resolution #25-04-01B. 01:02:41
2nd so moved and seconded under discussion. 01:02:47
I want to ask the transportation department to put in a license reader. 01:02:51
So we can charge the people that come across. 01:02:54
Just like a tow bridge because there's 200 to 250 cars a day. 01:02:59
One way? Not at all. 01:03:07
But at all charges on a dollar. 01:03:10
No. 01:03:12
Just going back because it's kind of ties into the ICIP because it's on our list for ICIP projects and last year that was number 4 01:03:15
and so is funding the 350,000, does that affect? 01:03:19
And you should that effect any of our decisions when we're doing that or is it still going to is it just petition the Department 01:03:25
of Transportation? 01:03:28
It's kind of a loaded question because I'm not sure when they'll make the decisions on the TPF awards. 01:03:34
I believe the project is 2.3 million and our share would be 320. 01:03:39
5000 or 320,000. 01:03:44
So I'm not sure, but does it have a bearing on on on on what the ICIP? 01:03:48
Some of the scrolling criteria on the TPF is. 01:03:54
That it's included in regional. 01:03:58
Plans or for community plans. 01:04:01
And another thing that. 01:04:03
Government, it's also awarded our participation in the World Transportation Planning Organization and I believe. 01:04:06
Councillor Dean is on that committee now, so her participation is getting us points. 01:04:14
But but I think you probably from the design you want to probably put keep it on the ICIP to build it. 01:04:20
Yes, Sir. For the for the next, just kind of roll it through. 01:04:26
All in favor, aye business. 01:04:30
Opening business, Old business. 01:04:34
Mr. Mayor. 01:04:37
Co-op or any conversation with those guys? I have, I have. I'm trying to get a meeting with Paula. We're trying to get a meeting 01:04:41
with Mr. Martinez. 01:04:45
To talk about. 01:04:51
Remember that the word we use is bring your own. 01:04:55
Which means bring your own. 01:04:58
Shoulder or wind to the thing and he said he had a discussion with tri-state about it. 01:05:00
But I don't know where we're at on that. You know, he wasn't able to meet last time, so. 01:05:06
Next week and I'll bring that information to you at the next meeting. 01:05:11
I've been very sympathetic to what he's been doing. I think he's been trying to be like when we had the outage, it was an outage, 01:05:16
but it was a tri-state outage. 01:05:20
And he was very commutative and wanted to let us all know. So he's been, he's been very upfront. 01:05:24
He's using our gym, I think gym facilities and. 01:05:31
Seems like the cruise. 01:05:36
Yeah, are working with the city crews a lot much better. So it's been a it's been a change. Oh, good. 01:05:38
That's great to hear. 01:05:43
Easter Egg Roll. 01:05:47
I don't mean that like an egg roll, but. 01:05:49
Like the hunt? What day is that on? 01:05:53
September. September. 01:05:57
You don't have to call the priest on you. You don't know when he should. 01:05:59
April 19th, April 19th. So we'll still have another meeting, OK. I just just want to make sure we have it. Mr. 01:06:05
All business. I forgot to mention David Gutierrez, junior son, the three time state championship and he wasn't here today. He's 01:06:15
not here, but I do want to say. 01:06:20
I want to make sure to mention him. He's going to beat me up. He's a big guy. 01:06:28
Executive session. I guess we had our. 01:06:36
Laundry out in public, anyway. 01:06:39
OK, job description. Donald, what do you want me to do with this job description? 01:06:41
That, Mister Mayor, is just once again aligning the salary. 01:06:46
Range for that position. 01:06:50
I believe there's a personnel change. 01:06:52
Putting someone in that position also on the personnel changes. 01:06:55
And uh. 01:06:59
When we do the across the board. 01:07:00
Raises and things like that, if somebody's not in that position, we tend to forget to increase that salary schedule along with all 01:07:02
the others, and that's kind of what happened in this case. 01:07:07
OK. 01:07:14
Is that OK? 01:07:16
Next motion We approve the job description. 01:07:18
Putin is taking a discussion all in favor. 01:07:21
Personnel changes are. 01:07:24
David Monette completed probation. 01:07:26
Julie Herchen promoted to shelter supervisor. 01:07:29
José González at animal shelter. And just to point out, he used to be the county animal control. 01:07:33
Guys. So I guess. 01:07:38
That gross receipts increased the debt for animal control. I'm not sure where they're spending that money yet. 01:07:41
Simon Ramirez police resignation and James Beasley resignation. Hey, Chief. 01:07:47
I I see you out there. 01:07:54
What's going on with people resigning from the Police Department? 01:07:56
They have a county that's looking at a $40.00 an hour. 01:08:02
Pay right now. 01:08:06
They're moving from. 01:08:08
I think it's $31.00 an hour to $40.00 an hour here soon. 01:08:09
And a lot of guys are jumping on board to try to go there now, so. 01:08:13
Are we, are we making them sign the contract? We haven't signed the contract. We have one guy that's Jeremy that's on contract 01:08:18
right now and he's he's coming in. He'll be the first one to do the contract. 01:08:24
As we're making them sign a contract now for employment, yeah, for we do a one year probation and then three years that they 01:08:31
guarantee that they stay with us. So you have something out of that. 01:08:36
So I just want to let the Council know about the. 01:08:41
Atmosphere out there for. 01:08:43
Fire also and for police. 01:08:45
As to what what other people are offering, Another thing is that they're offering like I think it's 8020 PRA. 01:08:48
And they're also paying medical for them so it's they see it more on their checks. 01:08:55
We're paying, we're paying all our medical. So do they pass that on to the other city employees? Do you know? 01:09:00
I believe they do. 01:09:06
OK, so it's at 95 now, I think, I think the only thing that they do right now is law enforcement and rescue that they're they're 01:09:07
working with their PRA. 01:09:13
That they pay more into their PRA because we pay so much into it. 01:09:18
I don't know what Lawrence pays, but I mine's almost $1000 every paycheck. 01:09:22
PRA. 01:09:27
I'm just letting you guys know what the deal is there. 01:09:29
Mr. Mark, Mr. 01:09:34
Make a motion. We approve the personnel changes. Seconded. All in favour, aye. 01:09:38
We have Juma Construction and general contractors, Purple Cow transit vendor. 01:09:43
Ice cream truck Hilson Technology Barrel Ingram from Portland, ME. 01:09:48
He installs, maintains and decommissions wireless and fiber for utilities. 01:09:53
Mr. Mayor, Mr. Anybody? 01:09:58
I'll make a motion to approve the business registration as well. Seconded. All in favor. 01:10:01
Aye, opposed. 01:10:06
And as you call your friend. 01:10:09
I sent him an e-mail yesterday and he didn't reply. 01:10:14
OK, I won't say anything about it then. 01:10:17
Thank you very much. We'll meet again, again, again and 15th of faithful. 01:10:20