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	New Year.	00:00:00
	Hey with your dad.	00:00:04
	What are you doing?	00:00:08
	Mike, all right, So Paulo, you want to get the swearing in out of the way so that we have?	00:00:10
	Official city councilors and.	00:00:17
	We have a municipal judge that needs to be sworn in and.	00:00:20
	Yes. So if the judges would come in.	00:00:23
	And we shall start the process of judge.	00:00:26
	We swear the judge in first, and the judge will swear the other people in.	00:00:31
	Yes, Sir, yes.	00:00:35
	Yep, right up there and then I'll need you guys.	00:00:39
	To sign after you just want it.	00:00:42
	So over yours.	00:00:44
	I just.	00:00:48
	Have you been elected to the office of municipal Judge? Haven't been elected to the office of Municipal Judge.	00:00:51
	Of the city of Socorro. Of the city of Sapporo.	00:00:58
	New Mexico.	00:01:00
	Socorro, NM.	00:01:01
	Do solemnly swear.	00:01:04
	I will help uphold the Constitution of the United States that will uphold the Constitution of the United States.	00:01:06
	And the constitutional laws of the state of New Mexico. And the constitutional laws of the state of New Mexico.	00:01:12
	And ordinances of the city of Socorro. And the ordinances of cities of the city of Socorro.	00:01:17
	And faithfully and impartially.	00:01:22
	And will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of said office.	00:01:24
	It's this Target said Duties. I said office.	00:01:28
	To the best of my ability. To the best of my ability.	00:01:31
	OK.	00:01:36
	Judge Murphy, thank you for coming. Doing that I should have introduced you to. Thank you.	00:01:43
	Thank you very much.	00:01:47
	Congratulations.	00:01:48
	Yeah, yeah, let's just wait.	00:01:56
	OK, next.	00:02:14
	Mary Ann.	00:02:16
	And Joe on deck.	00:02:23
	I thought you were going to say Grandpa Joe.	00:02:27
	Marianne, what do you have with you?	00:02:35
	This is my granddaughter coming up and my daughter mentioned.	00:02:36
	I state your name. I'm Marianne Chavez Lopez.	00:02:47
	Having been elected.	00:02:51
	To the office of City Council.	00:02:52
	Having been elected to the office of City Council.	00:02:54
	Of the city of Socorro.	00:02:56
	Sequoia, New Mexico.	00:02:59
	Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear.	00:03:02
	That I will uphold the Constitution of the United States.	00:03:04
	That are uphold the Constitution of the United States.	00:03:07
	The constitutional laws of the state of New Mexico.	00:03:10
	The Constitution and the laws of this.	00:03:13
	State of New Mexico.	00:03:15
	And the laws and ordinances of the city of.	00:03:17
	And the laws and ordinances of the cities to call.	00:03:19
	And will faithfully and partially discharge the duties of set off.	00:03:22
	And will faithfully and impartially.	00:03:25
	Discharge.	00:03:30
	To the best of my ability. To the best of my ability, so.	00:03:34
	So.	00:03:37
	Lisa, here we go.	00:04:13
	I state your name.	00:04:16
	Having been elected to the office of City Council.	00:04:19
	Being elected to the office of City Council.	00:04:21
	Of the city of Sukhoi.	00:04:24
	Of the city of Sakura, New Mexico.	00:04:26
	Do solemnly swear that I will uphold the Constitution of the United States.	00:04:29
	You're telling me swear that will oppose the Constitution of the United States?	00:04:33
	The Constitution and laws of the state of New Mexico.	00:04:36
	The Constitution allows of the state of New Mexico.	00:04:39
	The laws and ordinances of the City of Socorro.	00:04:42
	The city of Socorro.	00:04:44
	And will faithfully and partially discharge.	00:04:47
	8 million partially.	00:04:50
	Discharge.	00:04:51
	The duties of said office.	00:04:52
	To the best of my ability.	00:04:54
	I want to take a picture of the job because we have a long history.	00:05:05
	The fire department.	00:05:09
	There you go.	00:05:16
	Oh, sorry.	00:05:26
	Good. All right.	00:05:32
	OK, Gilbert, you're up.	00:05:34
	And Damien?	00:05:36
	Thank you, Judge Peralta for coming and doing.	00:05:40
	Thank you.	00:05:43
	Hi, Damien Oko.	00:06:05
	Having been elected to the office of City Council.	00:06:08
	Having been elected to the office of City Council.	00:06:11
	Of the city of Socorro.	00:06:13
	Of the city of Socorro of Socorro, NM.	00:06:14
	The Coral, New Mexico.	00:06:17
	Do solemnly swear.	00:06:18
	Do solemnly swear that I will uphold the Constitution of the United States, that I will uphold the Constitution of the United	00:06:20
	States, the constitutions and laws of the state of New Mexico.	00:06:24
	The Constitution and laws of the state of New Mexico.	00:06:29
	And the laws and ordinances of the city of Socorro.	00:06:31
	And the laws and ordinances of the city of Socorro.	00:06:34
	And will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties.	00:06:36
	And will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties.	00:06:40
	Of said office to the best of my ability.	00:06:42
	Of set office to the best of my ability so help you God.	00:06:45
	So help me again.	00:06:47
	Mr. Romero.	00:07:04
	I Peter Romero.	00:07:28
	I Peter Romero.	00:07:30
	Having been elected to the office of City Council. Having been elected to the office of City Council.	00:07:32
	Of the city of Socorro. Of the city of Socorro.	00:07:37
	Of Socorro, NM Socorro, NM Do solemnly swear, Do solemnly swear that I will uphold the Constitution of the United States.	00:07:39
	And I will uphold the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution and laws of the state of New Mexico, the Constitution	00:07:47
	and laws of the state of New Mexico.	00:07:51
	And the laws and ordinances of the city of Socorro. And the laws and ordinances of the city of Socorro.	00:07:55
	And will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties.	00:08:00
	And will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties.	00:08:04
	Upset office to the best of my ability.	00:08:07
	Set office to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God.	00:08:09
	Anything.	00:08:34
	I have them signed later I had.	00:08:35
	I had a little.	00:08:37
	Everybody is constituted properly.	00:08:39
	Yes.	00:08:42
	Want to see how sausage is made? You can stay.	00:08:44
	If you don't.	00:08:47
	Certainly can go.	00:08:50
	The water would sit through a City Council.	00:08:53
	Thank you, judges.	00:09:06
	Thank you very much.	00:09:07
	Congestion.	00:09:09
	We will.	00:09:17
	Sikora City Council meeting Tuesday, January 6th, 2026.	00:09:21
	Roll call please.	00:09:24
	Mayor Basker.	00:09:27
	Here, Councillor Tavis Lopez.	00:09:28
	Councillor Dean.	00:09:31
	Councillor Fleming.	00:09:32
	Yeah, Councillor Gonzalez. Yeah.	00:09:34
	Councillor Ocampo.	00:09:36
	Here, Councillor Partridge.	00:09:37
	Here. Councillor Romero here.	00:09:39
	Counselor Salome.	00:09:42
	Here we have a quantum.	00:09:43
	I'll rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.	00:09:44
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.	00:09:48
	And to the Republic for which it stands.	00:09:52
	Obligation underground.	00:09:55
	Individual with liberty and justice for all.	00:09:57
	Mr. Romero.	00:10:03
	Will we approve the?	00:10:06
	Consent agenda as presented.	00:10:08
	2nd.	00:10:10
	2nd a discussion.	00:10:11
	All in favor.	00:10:13
	OK, we've got public forum.	00:10:14
	I believe we have.	00:10:19
	Oh, come on up, Carrie.	00:10:21
	Since I had you on the agenda.	00:10:24
	She had been doing the.	00:10:27
	Community Party so.	00:10:30
	Good evening and thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is Carrie. I want to thank the city and.	00:10:32
	At Council and the city for their support in last year's community BBQ.	00:10:38
	And helping up the event.	00:10:42
	I'm here to.	00:10:43
	Another community focused sponsorship with the city.	00:10:44
	Our goal is to boost.	00:10:47
	Engagement, promote local resources and strengthen the connection between the City Council and the people we serve.	00:10:49
	We're asking for your support again in promoting the 5th Annual Community BBQ.	00:10:54
	Our goal is to showcase the assistance available to our community and highlight how the city is actively involved in supporting	00:10:59
	its residents.	00:11:02
	By partnering with us, you'll help.	00:11:06
	Bring attention to valuable resources and foster greater community participation.	00:11:08
	We also invite the City Council to attend, show support in continuing to lead by example and strengthening our community bonds.	00:11:13
	Together we can create a more connected and thriving city.	00:11:21
	Thank you for your time and consideration and I look forward to working with you again to make this event a continued to ask for	00:11:24
	our community.	00:11:27
	You're going to have it where you have a city apt, a Plaza.	00:11:30
	Video Park.	00:11:33
	You've had this, you've had it before.	00:11:35
	Yes, this will be our fifth annual.	00:11:38
	As can be as Vio Park May 31st.	00:11:40
	The time is still.	00:11:43
	Being negotiated, but I believe it's going to be.	00:11:45
	11:00 to 3:00 again.	00:11:47
	Well, when I've always helped you, I think for having volunteers do this.	00:11:49
	It's fantastic.	00:11:52
	But I think the captain, mayor.	00:11:54
	So everybody support the.	00:11:57
	The Seven was supported.	00:11:59
	You know, just let us know what kind of.	00:12:01
	Budget you'll have and what kind of.	00:12:03
	Support. You need a park.	00:12:06
	We will be renting.	00:12:09
	The location again.	00:12:11
	We are asking for help in creating Flyers again.	00:12:13
	And helping to announce it to the city on the website and on Facebook pages.	00:12:17
	On the event calendar and things like that, if that's possible.	00:12:22
	Sure. And I would like to see all of you guys come and shake hands with people and.	00:12:25
	Come and experience it for yourselves as well.	00:12:29
	Well, get with Lena and.	00:12:31
	She can. We can get a.	00:12:33
	That's just set up.	00:12:35
	2 wasn't that bad.	00:12:37
	I'm so glad have anxiety.	00:12:41
	No, you're fine. You did good. Thank you. Good. Thank you for doing this. Thank you.	00:12:42
	Mrs. Ocampo.	00:12:46
	Mayor Bhaskar, City Councilors, thank you for for allowing me to be here.	00:12:56
	I'm here representing the.	00:13:00
	Of Crumple Family Food Drive that occurred on December the 20th.	00:13:01
	Thanks to your advisors, generosity and your support, we were able to hand out.	00:13:05
	Our support over 250 families in our county.	00:13:12
	We had.	00:13:17
	Several different agencies and.	00:13:19
	People collaborate with us and we were able this time we were able to cover the whole county, so we had.	00:13:22
	About uh.	00:13:30
	40 to 50 deliveries.	00:13:31
	In Alamo, Magdalena and.	00:13:34
	Nikita and about 12 in the in the city.	00:13:36
	For for those who are not able to access transportation and so we were able to kind of.	00:13:39
	Get a whole gamut of families that needed it.	00:13:45
	We appreciate all, you know, again all the the support we had.	00:13:49
	So many people and agencies.	00:13:53
	Come together I I could.	00:13:55
	You know, not name them all, but I would like to to name a few of them, of course, like you guys, the city of Socorro, the Police	00:13:58
	Department and the Sheriff's Department. They were a huge.	00:14:03
	Part of this.	00:14:08
	And so I'd like to.	00:14:09
	Personally think you guys and those agencies, Socorro Consolidated Schools, we did.	00:14:10
	Family or food drives with.	00:14:16
	Families and students.	00:14:18
	And they had like.	00:14:20
	A competition and they had got a pizza party and it was really cool to see everybody kind of collaborate. So Coral Storehouse was	00:14:22
	really instrumental in that.	00:14:27
	The Haramiel family, Toby and Ermey's.	00:14:33
	Family who had.	00:14:36
	Who did this food drive for 50 years, literally 50 years before we took it over? They were really generous and they always show	00:14:38
	their support and.	00:14:43
	They like kind of rally behind us and, and get.	00:14:48
	You know people to to support us as well, so I'd like to thank them.	00:14:51
	The Shoal family.	00:14:54
	Scope and 100% community or Socorro community.	00:14:55
	Committee they were.	00:14:59
	They provided.	00:15:01
	Resources in the food basket. So I thought that was a really cool thing. Not only do these families.	00:15:03
	Get food.	00:15:08
	In their baskets, but they also get community resources and we'd like next year we'd like to even expand that a little bit more.	00:15:09
	Get you know our agencies to put their information.	00:15:16
	In in the basket so that.	00:15:19
	Families can be able to access resources. I think we have a lot of resources in So Coral.	00:15:21
	And and they just need, you know, to access them And so the scope committee and 100% community.	00:15:26
	Committee contributed to that. John Brooks has always really.	00:15:33
	Supportive of us.	00:15:38
	Our delivery elves.	00:15:39
	Just like family members and community members, there are elves and they they go out and they.	00:15:42
	Deliver the food and it's it's like that is a really helpful thing, especially, you know, we kind of on an over overlooking thing,	00:15:48
	but.	00:15:52
	To those families who don't have access to transportation, it's everything, right? And so we had a few families who called us at	00:15:56
	the last minute and they said I have no way to get there. And our delivery elves.	00:16:01
	Spring into action and they made it happen. So that's always really, really awesome.	00:16:07
	Our on site volunteers, the San Miguel Youth Group.	00:16:11
	They these are high school kids.	00:16:15
	You know, freshman all the way to seniors and they.	00:16:18
	Again, spring into action and they like kind of took over my job. I had to go.	00:16:23
	You know, I was. I was, you know.	00:16:28
	Doing my thing and I had to leave to go do something else and they just.	00:16:30
	Like just got right in and they they did it so.	00:16:34
	Our on site volunteers are really instrumental as well.	00:16:37
	And and again, just you guys, we're so appreciative to like sending out the the.	00:16:41
	Notifications beforehand to.	00:16:47
	Obviously the turkeys and and all of that, it's we really couldn't do it without you. So thank you so much.	00:16:49
	Well, we want to thank the Ocampo family for taking over.	00:16:55
	The Haramir drive.	00:16:58
	The work that you guys did.	00:17:00
	I mean, that's that's a big task.	00:17:01
	And I want to point out that you had Turkey Bingo, I think it was Michael Padilla. That was a good one.	00:17:03
	Yeah, that was a good addition. It's a labor of love, but it's but you while you guys, that's fantastic.	00:17:08
	Fantastic that you're doing it.	00:17:14
	I'll just say Mr. Mayor, Kathleen does.	00:17:20
	You got a lion's share of all the work so.	00:17:22
	We're thankful for her and and one one family. And I know it's hard to because once you name a family, it's just because you want	00:17:24
	to leave anybody out.	00:17:28
	But.	00:17:32
	I wanted to one of the.	00:17:33
	Families that kind of goes under the radar and just helps.	00:17:35
	And the reason I'm bringing them up is I.	00:17:38
	I heard Coach Baca.	00:17:40
	Lawrence Baca talked about the.	00:17:44
	The the the BBQ for the fire department and the gums were instant instrumental there.	00:17:46
	They're also instrumental with us too. It's like.	00:17:52
	They just show up and help and I think they're representative.	00:17:55
	All these other families, family members in town that are just willing to get up and do it.	00:17:57
	I mean my in laws and.	00:18:02
	My folks and everybody there say hey, tell us what to do.	00:18:04
	And so you know, we're.	00:18:06
	We're pretty fortunate to be in a community like this that steps up with Toby and what you guys took over.	00:18:08
	It's one of the events in Sakura.	00:18:14
	I mean, is one of the events, I think that's.	00:18:16
	Fantastic, it's carried on.	00:18:19
	So thank you very much for doing that.	00:18:22
	Thank you guys.	00:18:25
	So anyone else would like to make?	00:18:32
	A comment.	00:18:34
	You know, these boys didn't want to say something. Yeah.	00:18:37
	And Polo left before he could see anything. What's going on?	00:18:44
	OK, Grandma.	00:18:49
	Bye bye.	00:18:50
	Alrighty, we shall go to the resolutions that you have to do every year.	00:18:54
	And these are 26-01-06A.	00:19:00
	BC and D.	00:19:05
	And if you want to take them all at one time, they're basically standard open meetings.	00:19:07
	Governing body rules of procedure so we're not nasty to each other.	00:19:11
	Purchasing policy resolution. So Polo keeps us.	00:19:15
	Legal and the CDMG certifications of commitment.	00:19:18
	Commitments.	00:19:21
	And we have to have for HUD.	00:19:22
	When we apply for grants.	00:19:24
	Mr. Mayor Romel.	00:19:27
	I move we approve a resolution #26-01-068.	00:19:28
	Resolution #26-01.	00:19:35
	That's 06.	00:19:38
	Resolution number Dash 26-01-0.	00:19:40
	60 and resolution #26 Dash.	00:19:44
	0106, D.	00:19:48
	Second, I second.	00:19:51
	Moved and seconded discussion.	00:19:52
	All in favor.	00:19:54
	We're all the way down to new business.	00:19:57
	We are going to go to the.	00:20:00
	Legislature.	00:20:02
	And City Day will be on the 29th.	00:20:04
	Tech days on the same day at the Roundhouse.	00:20:09
	And so I don't know if we want to be there, but if they allow us to come.	00:20:12
	Will go, but then.	00:20:16
	At the La Posada.	00:20:17
	At 6:00.	00:20:19
	On the 29th.	00:20:21
	There will be a.	00:20:24
	Is it going to be a tri-county again?	00:20:25
	It'll be tri-county with.	00:20:27
	Sierra, Socorro and Kettering County.	00:20:30
	And that's the 29th of January 29th.	00:20:33
	That was the January 29th, 29th.	00:20:38
	A confusing old man. Don't be doing that.	00:20:41
	But anyway, it is the 29th and.	00:20:45
	So we are going to.	00:20:47
	Present our legislators.	00:20:49
	For the legislative session is a 30 day session.	00:20:51
	So at the money session and.	00:20:55
	We're asking for the police station.	00:20:57
	Continued phasing it in.	00:20:59
	And the last phase of Finley?	00:21:01
	So those are the two things that we're.	00:21:04
	We're going to be asking for and so.	00:21:06
	If uh.	00:21:08
	If you have.	00:21:10
	Contacts and the legisl.	00:21:11
	Legislature.	00:21:15
	We appreciate you going there.	00:21:16
	We will have some lobbyists that we've had last time.	00:21:18
	We'll still do that.	00:21:21
	We have a lot of other projects going on in the city and for your benefit.	00:21:24
	I can name a few and if you have any questions about any of those.	00:21:28
	We just finished Manzanaras.	00:21:32
	They did also streets around the courthouse.	00:21:34
	At the rodeo.	00:21:38
	We just finished the clubhouse, which will have.	00:21:40
	Showers and.	00:21:42
	Laundry and.	00:21:44
	And.	00:21:45
	We're finishing a house there for a caretaker.	00:21:46
	We also finished.	00:21:50
	The system, the sound system in there.	00:21:52
	We also just put in an air conditioning.	00:21:55
	In the in the rodeo arena.	00:21:58
	It's it's evaporative.	00:22:00
	But we'll see how it works out.	00:22:02
	Have you got a chance to go there? It's pretty.	00:22:04
	Pretty big. I'm Mariana, just seen.	00:22:07
	You see the big yeah?	00:22:09
	Yeah. So that's that's getting done.	00:22:10
	We are just.	00:22:14
	Changing out the.	00:22:15
	Filter press at the plant.	00:22:17
	The airport is getting a.	00:22:19
	As snow removal if we ever get any snow equipment.	00:22:21
	Garage We're still working on trying to get the.	00:22:26
	Money spent for Finley right now, you've seen the.	00:22:30
	Sitting area and all that coming up.	00:22:33
	We'll be getting a.	00:22:36
	Parking lot put in.	00:22:37
	What did I miss? What?	00:22:40
	The natural gas field.	00:22:42
	Will be done. That's a $2 million project.	00:22:45
	Cuba Rd.	00:22:49
	Cuba Rd. Cuba Rd. We're just waiting for the highway department.	00:22:51
	That's a $2 million project to finish it out.	00:22:54
	What else the.	00:22:58
	The other thing that we have, and I've got Linda here.	00:23:00
	Kind of giving us a.	00:23:03
	A report on the Senior Center.	00:23:05
	And kind of tell us about the problems we've been having at Vegeta.	00:23:07
	And and some of the things that.	00:23:11
	Since we have our eminent new City Council is also a county commissioner.	00:23:13
	Want to want to just give us a little?	00:23:17
	Review of the problem? Well, just about your.	00:23:20
	First of all, but.	00:23:23
	How great your?	00:23:24
	Senior Center has been, it's been great. We had a good.	00:23:26
	Christmas, you know, we had.	00:23:30
	Events like a.	00:23:32
	Let's see, with some donations from the Socorro Catholic Church, they gave out some presents to our seniors.	00:23:34
	We have some goodies made by D Russell with Your Mama's cakes and more. She baked a lot of goodies for fajita so they had some	00:23:40
	good stuff to eat.	00:23:44
	We'll start off with the electrical box in the ether which was coming off the wall. That's been taken care of by Lloyd's crew, so	00:23:49
	that's taken care of.	00:23:53
	We did have to move a gas line over, which has been done as well.	00:23:57
	But when they move that line.	00:24:02
	It did something to the heater and so we're having problems with the heating now.	00:24:04
	So, umm.	00:24:07
	Who are hopefully getting parts in to get that fixed.	00:24:08
	By the end of the week.	00:24:11
	Um, let's see.	00:24:13
	Septic system. I did talk to Lloyd on Monday and he's working on the plan for that.	00:24:17
	So as soon as we get that going, then we'll give it to the environmental department to approve and then we can start doing our	00:24:22
	phases and get that taken care of. We don't know the cost of the project yet, so.	00:24:28
	We will definitely be using.	00:24:35
	Non-metro AAA for the emergency capital outlay to kind of help out with that project.	00:24:38
	And as well as the county to ask for their assistance as well.	00:24:43
	When you say help out, does that mean to cover the 100%?	00:24:47
	Of some of the.	00:24:51
	I'm not sure how much they will give us, we would have to apply and see.	00:24:52
	You know how much?	00:24:56
	But do we own that building?	00:24:58
	We don't own that building, no.	00:24:59
	At least.	00:25:02
	It's leased for four years, I believe, from the county.	00:25:03
	Yes, but they don't have any.	00:25:06
	They don't have any responsibility about making that.	00:25:09
	They gave all the responsibility to us when we signed the lease.	00:25:12
	OK, yes. So how many people are you serving out there?	00:25:15
	We have, I want to say, at least 60 people.	00:25:19
	Most of them are home delivered and we have about 20 of them.	00:25:22
	That are eating inside.	00:25:26
	Center.	00:25:27
	Dollars. When's the funding cycle for the capital outlay influence?	00:25:31
	We're working on that now.	00:25:35
	You know when it runs though.	00:25:36
	I'm not sure.	00:25:38
	I'll give it with you.	00:25:40
	OK. Does it, does it make any difference to AAA whether we own it or not, where we asked to improve it?	00:25:41
	They haven't asked for anything.	00:25:47
	Do we have to ask the counties?	00:25:49
	OK to do that.	00:25:51
	Any of it.	00:25:53
	I think the county manager at the time had said he left all that up to us to do.	00:25:55
	But we are keeping them posted on changes that we were making in the center or whatever needed to be done.	00:26:01
	So to answer that question directly.	00:26:07
	When we're dealing with the environment department in some contractors like electricians and things that they will not work on the	00:26:10
	building.	00:26:13
	Or the property unless.	00:26:17
	They have the permission of the owner.	00:26:19
	So then we have to get the.	00:26:22
	Permission of the county to make these improvements.	00:26:23
	I guess my question to the county is going to be whether we.	00:26:26
	Continue giving that service outside the city limits.	00:26:29
	And using our.	00:26:32
	Our people and also have to maintain that building.	00:26:34
	If we would then ask them to.	00:26:39
	Turn the building over to us as owners.	00:26:41
	That's what I was going to say. You know, can we approach the county?	00:26:43
	So they can donate.	00:26:47
	The property and the building.	00:26:49
	We're lucky to have Mr. Gonzalez here.	00:26:50
	This is the first I hear of this, no?	00:26:53
	I already looked into the little bit.	00:26:57
	The ownership of that.	00:27:01
	Building from my recollection has to do with.	00:27:02
	The property belongs to.	00:27:06
	Whoever owns Boys Ranch out there. Oh really?	00:27:08
	And for?	00:27:10
	The county continued.	00:27:12
	Having the facility that it would have to be a.	00:27:14
	Benefit to the community.	00:27:17
	Which in that case was a senior citizen.	00:27:18
	So I think under all of that we can probably just.	00:27:20
	Work on translating it.	00:27:23
	Transferring it over to the city under the same.	00:27:25
	I'm I'm thinking on niche land.	00:27:27
	Yeah, in perpetuity. I mean, I don't know what perpetuity you're giving.	00:27:29
	Yeah. So I'm thinking.	00:27:39
	That's gonna be.	00:27:40
	My approach to the.	00:27:42
	As a manager.	00:27:44
	To see.	00:27:45
	The transfer of the.	00:27:47
	Land can go to the city.	00:27:48
	Therefore.	00:27:50
	Nobody's hands are tightest through ownership and that type of thing to get the funding them.	00:27:51
	That would not be the same as if the county was delivering.	00:27:56
	That program to the.	00:28:00
	It would be the same.	00:28:02
	Yeah. So we basically.	00:28:03
	If we hadn't given that would have had to revert back to the Boys Ranch.	00:28:05
	Yes, that started.	00:28:09
	If you had started doing that, I.	00:28:12
	If I remember correctly.	00:28:15
	When the city is going to take over the.	00:28:17
	Senior program.	00:28:20
	That was a question that we asked.	00:28:21
	The boy's ranch.	00:28:23
	As long as that's going on.	00:28:25
	But it never.	00:28:26
	Gave ownership.	00:28:27
	To the city of the building.	00:28:29
	So you're operating?	00:28:31
	Under the same.	00:28:33
	Requirements that the county was.	00:28:35
	But the ownership is still.	00:28:38
	For the county, so that's.	00:28:40
	Since that's who the.	00:28:41
	Title arrangement was made with is with the county and not not the city.	00:28:43
	So as far as.	00:28:48
	The actual ownership of it.	00:28:49
	It would have to be.	00:28:51
	I think and as Mary Ann suggested.	00:28:52
	We need to change that.	00:28:55
	Relationship. Umm.	00:28:56
	Right in the city instead of the county.	00:28:58
	So we can do that, I think.	00:29:01
	I think we need to that way we can take ownership of it and.	00:29:03
	Really expend city funds.	00:29:06
	Buying a heater or a?	00:29:10
	Are getting a septic tank paid for?	00:29:12
	It's our labor and a.	00:29:16
	Our time from city employees going out.	00:29:18
	To work on it.	00:29:20
	Correct.	00:29:22
	So and Linda, who's?	00:29:23
	Basically city employee.	00:29:25
	Great. Thank you. Thanks, President.	00:29:28
	Continue good work.	00:29:30
	Mr. You guys, Mr.	00:29:32
	He listed all the things that are going. Is there any way we could?	00:29:34
	Get a list of that.	00:29:38
	Just of all of the.	00:29:38
	Projects that are going on, I mean, I'm sure.	00:29:41
	Yeah, Yeah. That would be helpful. That's a lot going on. Just when people ask us, we can.	00:29:44
	To give you and give you an explanation of each.	00:29:50
	Each project. Thank you, Mr. We'll get that.	00:29:53
	Thank you. Just for the benefit of the new city councillors or.	00:29:55
	Is there anything you guys want to add, Mike?	00:29:59
	Mr. Mayor, before we move on.	00:30:03
	I'd just like to inform the councillors that we're meeting with the engineers tomorrow at 11 to get updated on the projects	00:30:06
	they're helping us with. Not the in-house projects, but the stuff that requires engineering.	00:30:11
	Thank you.	00:30:17
	Engine.	00:30:18
	Just wanted to give an update.	00:30:22
	Still cleaning houses, burnt houses.	00:30:26
	And in what dumb side?	00:30:28
	Stuff like that.	00:30:30
	I do want to say.	00:30:32
	Huggy, his crew, I wanted to thank them. They've helped me out a lot.	00:30:34
	Cleaning up the.	00:30:38
	The house is the landfill and and Chief Barker.	00:30:39
	I'll come in with the list. We got a list of houses, trouble houses, A.	00:30:43
	Yeah, Can we do with that trailer that burned out there?	00:30:48
	In which they're working on it, yeah.	00:30:51
	It's getting an owner.	00:30:52
	Yeah, yeah.	00:30:54
	Well, it's a long story, but yes, so.	00:30:55
	I know the long story. Why don't you tell everybody else a long story? Yeah.	00:31:00
	They didn't belong to the people that live there.	00:31:06
	We figured that out.	00:31:08
	The owner.	00:31:09
	Was contacted.	00:31:11
	And I brought to Mr. Willis, or is it belong to my son?	00:31:12
	No one now.	00:31:17
	It's it's it's really knowing now it's getting destroyed so.	00:31:19
	But nobody.	00:31:23
	Says they own that property.	00:31:24
	The property, yeah, now, now it's owned by the person next door.	00:31:26
	Who? Umm.	00:31:31
	You know, it's kind of been helping me out, kind of like my eyes, but.	00:31:32
	She she ended up buying it so now.	00:31:36
	She asked for a chance to clean it up and she's made some pretty good progress.	00:31:39
	So I hadn't had to.	00:31:42
	And use city money I guess, to clean it up.	00:31:46
	She's just been cleaning it up herself. She's had vehicles.	00:31:48
	And she's demoing that trailer and stuff, so.	00:31:52
	Yeah, she's cleaning it up.	00:31:55
	And she lives there.	00:31:57
	She was right next door.	00:31:58
	So she was pretty happy to to get the property and start cleaning it up. Well, sure, but then we're going to clean it up for that.	00:31:59
	Yeah, huh.	00:32:06
	Or not. She she, she is. I know.	00:32:08
	How's she going to get those I beams out of there?	00:32:10
	She she's.	00:32:13
	Maybe if you do deals with some people. So she's quite savvy. She's a.	00:32:14
	So clean it up and it seems like she's not really spending any money doing it so.	00:32:19
	That works out and then.	00:32:23
	Then we're going to move on to the.	00:32:25
	Burnt house across street from the cemetery that should be coming up.	00:32:28
	And of course, Huggy and his cruising helped me out with that.	00:32:31
	How's the calendar grant?	00:32:34
	Great, we got dumpsters now we moved them from.	00:32:36
	Where they were by Shady Nook and Blue Canyon, now they're at.	00:32:41
	Gravel pits and on the corner of Manzaness and Main.	00:32:45
	So.	00:32:48
	Anyone that needs to throw some trash I mean.	00:32:50
	Are they getting full?	00:32:52
	Yes, they are.	00:32:53
	But please don't throw tires in there.	00:32:55
	Please. But yeah, anything else?	00:32:58
	I hope you yell at me, you won't even notice.	00:33:02
	So on those dumpsters, are they clearly?	00:33:07
	The purpose of them and what to take and what we won't take.	00:33:10
	Yeah, yeah, there's signs.	00:33:14
	There's there's not supposed to be a.	00:33:16
	You know, construction, demolition and metals tires.	00:33:18
	But we do have some signs up.	00:33:22
	They are Valley sanitation dumpsters.	00:33:25
	We're just, I guess, renting them.	00:33:28
	But yeah.	00:33:30
	Their future over at Sands.	00:33:32
	Is there something going to eventually happen there as far as I think Marshall is saying that?	00:33:34
	They're gonna have.	00:33:39
	They've already started I think this year actually. So they're.	00:33:40
	Taking the recycling there.	00:33:44
	Coonies out there.	00:33:45
	He'll get all that and he'll haul it off to the.	00:33:47
	Albuquerque can have it recycled and again, can we have some signage there?	00:33:50
	Sure. Reminding people when we're there, picking up.	00:33:54
	Yeah, I'm sure we can do that.	00:33:56
	Father, I was heading up towards the cemeteries with somebody who needed to show me something.	00:33:58
	You had people that were climbing all over and through that dumpster.	00:34:06
	That's on the way up.	00:34:12
	Yeah, during the daytime, yeah.	00:34:14
	Yeah. No, it's, it's been.	00:34:16
	We just got to keep an eye on it and we've had actually, that's another person. I need to thank you, Angel, because he's been	00:34:18
	helping us out with law enforcement.	00:34:22
	You know, patrolling them.	00:34:25
	We did have some people throwing some stuff out.	00:34:27
	But.	00:34:29
	We caught him in the act and we asked him to put it back.	00:34:30
	They did.	00:34:34
	So.	00:34:35
	Yeah.	00:34:37
	Thank you, Chris. Thank you for all your good work.	00:34:42
	Mike, is that your?	00:34:45
	Speech. Good job.	00:34:47
	You know, we want to thank your crew for working Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's.	00:34:51
	And they come and pick up the garbage. They really should be congratulated. Yes, very much so.	00:34:57
	Thank you. We're just going to mention that.	00:35:02
	I'm very proud of my guys for doing what they do.	00:35:07
	So we continue to.	00:35:09
	Work the landfill, pick up garbage, pick up recycling, do.	00:35:13
	It's like there.	00:35:17
	We asked the people not to throw medals and tires and stuff because.	00:35:21
	We're gonna end up with it at the landfill, and then we have to separate it and we have to.	00:35:24
	Because if you've been to the landfill, there's separation.	00:35:28
	There's a pile of floor battles. There's a pile for tires. There's a pile.	00:35:32
	Different things.	00:35:35
	So it just makes my guys work double.	00:35:36
	So thank you for.	00:35:40
	Thank you, Mike. Michael.	00:35:44
	How's your closure? Are you are you doing?	00:35:46
	Are you doing a closure? Is it done?	00:35:48
	We're we're still trying to finish the closure.	00:35:50
	It's just that.	00:35:54
	I know it's an operation out there.	00:35:55
	You go visit operation.	00:35:58
	Welcome anybody who wants to go for a tour.	00:36:01
	No, I've said it before. I.	00:36:05
	Done. Construction alarms up.	00:36:07
	Joe's done construction. We have a nice landfill.	00:36:09
	I mean, Rio Rancho was awful. You got to drive over trash to throw trash. It's a disaster.	00:36:11
	The trucks destroyed small towns that have their own landfill that you can go to.	00:36:16
	No, it's clean, it's organized. I don't know if you've been to other landfills, but.	00:36:20
	We're pretty blessed here. You guys do a great job. It's terrible. We've been to some pretty bad ones.	00:36:24
	I carry the truck up and.	00:36:29
	It's still one question that I ignorance.	00:36:31
	Are those actual seagulls out there in the winter? They are.	00:36:33
	Yeah, yeah. It's like.	00:36:36
	The last OK.	00:36:39
	Yeah, we get them every year, but I don't know where.	00:36:42
	Yeah, they they, they lost.	00:36:44
	The blind, I guess.	00:36:46
	But as far as the equipment, everything's up and running.	00:36:50
	What's up with the tires?	00:36:52
	I put a hold on them for now because we don't want to get in trouble with.	00:36:55
	We're getting a.	00:36:58
	Are we getting a?	00:36:59
	Tire shredder, uh.	00:37:01
	Hopefully, uh.	00:37:02
	Hopefully someday, yes.	00:37:03
	I'm looking into it, yes.	00:37:05
	OK for renting one? I'm not renting 1 yet but.	00:37:06
	I still got my guys building tires.	00:37:10
	We still need to finish that tire boom that we're building.	00:37:12
	But once we finish that, then we're going to be stuck with a lot of tires.	00:37:15
	And yeah, it'd be nice to get a shredder so we can actually use the shreds.	00:37:19
	On the garbage to cover.	00:37:22
	OK. Thank you.	00:37:25
	Thank you, Baka.	00:37:26
	You want to introduce your.	00:37:29
	Mayor Council, thank you guys for having us.	00:37:42
	I'd like to introduce what you guys know.	00:37:45
	Daniel Pacheco. He's now the.	00:37:47
	The new assistant chief.	00:37:49
	We brought that position back.	00:37:52
	Because we went.	00:37:56
	To six man crews now and that that was part of a.	00:37:57
	The policy is we went to the six man crews, we would be able to bring that position back so.	00:38:00
	That was thanks to the county.	00:38:05
	Thanks to the county as well. Exactly. So, yeah. So that's working out really well. Our overtimes cut down a lot.	00:38:06
	You know, having them here, having them in the office.	00:38:13
	Monday through Friday, 8:00 to 5:00, eight to four.	00:38:16
	There's going to be a lot of help.	00:38:18
	You know, with the everyday.	00:38:20
	Stuff that goes on inspections, you know, just.	00:38:22
	Although there's so many annual inspections that we have to do every year, whether it's pump tests.	00:38:25
	Matter tests just every ISO, you know, just everything. So he's going to be a lot of help.	00:38:31
	In the office with all that stuff, so.	00:38:36
	You got a lot of experience he's been there for.	00:38:38
	Almost 19 years now, so he's been there for a while.	00:38:41
	And we talk about transition and that's what I'm looking to do.	00:38:44
	It's not set in stone yet, but.	00:38:47
	You're crying today, not today.	00:38:49
	Well, I'm hoping to do it in December.	00:38:52
	So that's part of why we're trying to get him going and.	00:38:54
	This.	00:38:57
	I want to thank.	00:38:58
	Lawrence's crew and stuff. We had a fire at our farm.	00:39:00
	Over the weekend or on Friday, right?	00:39:03
	And they were right there helping out, doing everything. So thank you guys for everything.	00:39:06
	Thank you Assistant for great help.	00:39:11
	So it might be a little bias.	00:39:14
	But it's when you said.	00:39:17
	Down here I was 19 years. He's one of the.	00:39:20
	Guys, I heard a long time ago.	00:39:23
	You know, and then Lawrence.	00:39:24
	Handiwork for us, and I was.	00:39:27
	He was on my ship just.	00:39:29
	And this first day was very interesting. Outlines, yeah.	00:39:30
	Yeah. But and then I did see the personnel changes, the other guy that's stepping up and.	00:39:34
	Getting promoted because of the structure that.	00:39:39
	It's at the fire department is good to see it's a.	00:39:41
	Just a minute compliment to the city that they're.	00:39:44
	Have that insight and they know that there are.	00:39:47
	Very important resource for the.	00:39:49
	Citizen Citizens.	00:39:51
	How's your remodeling?	00:39:53
	And we're, we're, we're, we're finishing that up. We're doing some painting right now. And that's then.	00:39:54
	We're waiting for for some.	00:39:59
	Station furniture to come in and that should be the last of it.	00:40:00
	We got a $500,000 grant for upgrades in that building.	00:40:03
	For for those of you guys that.	00:40:06
	Don't know. You probably do know, but.	00:40:08
	That building very old have buildings over.	00:40:10
	107 years old so.	00:40:13
	We had to. We roofed it, we put windows, we stuck with it. We remodeled the bathroom, bathrooms, kitchen.	00:40:14
	Stuff like that. So it's just looks really nice.	00:40:22
	That buildings that old but it.	00:40:25
	If you if you go in, it really doesn't look that old.	00:40:27
	And ambulances? How about the ambulance?	00:40:30
	Ambulances should be here in a week or two.	00:40:32
	So that's still on.	00:40:34
	They still say it's on time, so we should be seeing that in a couple years. We still have that one ambulance down so.	00:40:36
	It's going to be healthy in that that nine months.	00:40:42
	And I'd like to end it with just thanking my crew.	00:40:46
	Because again, they don't, they don't have any days off either through the holidays and all that stuff. They're working 24/7 and.	00:40:48
	And they do a wonderful job. So thank my crew for that and.	00:40:53
	Any questions are great.	00:40:57
	Great to have you. Thank you. Thank you.	00:41:01
	You got your God.	00:41:08
	Any news from HR and insurance is the.	00:41:10
	The new deal.	00:41:15
	So, umm.	00:41:18
	Vision insurance did change from Imed to David Vision.	00:41:22
	So everybody who has that should have received new cards. If not, I have the contact information and I can pass it along.	00:41:26
	So they did assure us that the benefits are very, very similar. There wasn't a drop in in benefits.	00:41:33
	Umm, and July 1, I think there's going to be an increase.	00:41:42
	I think they talked about.	00:41:46
	A 10%.	00:41:47
	So that one's going to be a little rough since we're coming off of a 24% increase last year.	00:41:49
	And that's pretty much it.	00:41:55
	Doing the end of quarter, I told Mr. Solomon the end of quarter, end of year and before the 1st payroll processes. So I've been in	00:41:58
	my office drilling away.	00:42:02
	Good times.	00:42:07
	Get W2's out before the end of January, probably between the two payrolls so.	00:42:08
	I'll send out a robocall.	00:42:13
	Saying that they're ready to the employees.	00:42:15
	Very good. Thank you. Thank you.	00:42:17
	We are about.	00:42:20
	$600,000 less.	00:42:22
	For the first six months.	00:42:25
	Compared to last year's gross receipts.	00:42:27
	Which were robust. I mean, we had great groceries.	00:42:29
	So just to let you know that we're.	00:42:32
	It's not getting.	00:42:34
	Mr. Partridge.	00:42:37
	Without, I mean, a little ignorant to it still.	00:42:39
	What does that compare to? Maybe like on a?	00:42:42
	Not so robust year.	00:42:44
	If last year was a robust year.	00:42:46
	It's a previous thing how?	00:42:48
	How far are we up? Yes, you.	00:42:50
	It probably gets you even with two years ago.	00:42:53
	Unless you were just doing this.	00:42:57
	Last 2-3 years has been.	00:42:59
	Hadn't been bad.	00:43:01
	Yeah, before COVID is when.	00:43:02
	You would say we're even.	00:43:04
	What about border specs?	00:43:06
	The largest tax actually is stable.	00:43:08
	It's actually.	00:43:11
	When I looked at the number, it's it's.	00:43:13
	Actually, even.	00:43:16
	Distinction even we get about 500,000 almost.	00:43:18
	And it's about even.	00:43:23
	But we don't know what's going on with first responders.	00:43:26
	And I'm not sure exactly.	00:43:30
	And then we had a bad.	00:43:33
	Festival of the Cranes and we lost the Trinity site.	00:43:35
	So those were things that.	00:43:39
	But they're.	00:43:40
	It's it. Let's see if it'll.	00:43:41
	Pick up again.	00:43:43
	Old business.	00:43:46
	Got the water issue resolved. I mean, I spoke to you about it, but.	00:43:49
	Did they seem to figure?	00:43:54
	So.	00:43:56
	I can't point any fingers right now.	00:43:59
	But it appears that we had foreign water.	00:44:02
	Get put into our water system.	00:44:05
	We sent the samples of water.	00:44:08
	From this one source.	00:44:10
	And the source coming out of the.	00:44:12
	Our water lines and it was almost similar.	00:44:15
	But there was no toxins.	00:44:18
	There is no bacteria or path.	00:44:20
	Pathogenic stuff.	00:44:22
	In the water.	00:44:24
	And so that is getting resolved at this time.	00:44:25
	The people who have.	00:44:29
	We thought caused the problem or looking into it right now.	00:44:32
	But that was resolved.	00:44:36
	Then we had a big leap here on California St.	00:44:37
	10 inch.	00:44:41
	Was it iron pipe that broke?	00:44:43
	So it left us a single luckily.	00:44:46
	I don't know.	00:44:49
	How did they find the?	00:44:50
	Because there was a hole was only about this big, but underneath there was a lot of bigger this.	00:44:52
	So luckily we didn't have a cargo in there.	00:44:56
	But they they fix that.	00:45:00
	But you know, I mean, it happens all over Albuquerque. It just, it just happens.	00:45:02
	But that's.	00:45:07
	Thank you man.	00:45:09
	That was that. And you know.	00:45:10
	I I got sworn in in 1984.	00:45:13
	When this thing, it just makes you wonder what the heck happened to the time.	00:45:17
	I know.	00:45:21
	But it's it's definitely changed. It was in the old.	00:45:22
	Here's the old City Hall.	00:45:26
	Over there by the where the transportation was.	00:45:28
	And the safe the safest when we had a.	00:45:31
	We had executive session.	00:45:34
	We got in there one time with one of the contractors.	00:45:36
	And who was their engineer actually and.	00:45:38
	The fire done so I remember those days when.	00:45:40
	That was a. There's a.	00:45:45
	That's 51 years.	00:45:46
	So anyway, executive session, Anybody wants to air their dirty laundry?	00:45:50
	Private.	00:45:57
	No, we don't have any dirty laundry.	00:45:58
	OK, so we're.	00:46:00
	Almost finished with this meeting.	00:46:01
	It's kind of exciting to come back to.	00:46:03
	A new deal here. Let me see, Mr. Fleming. I'm kind of.	00:46:06
	Haphazard here.	00:46:10
	This is the.	00:46:11
	Then Bert, Bert, Bert.	00:46:13
	Albert Personnel.	00:46:16
	This is Bert Guerrero.	00:46:19
	At the landfill, he has retired.	00:46:21
	Mr. Mayor.	00:46:24
	Mr. Romero, Mr. Partridge, I'll make a motion to.	00:46:25
	Accept the personnel changes as read.	00:46:28
	The second of discussion, all in favor.	00:46:32
	Aye, and here we are with businesses, as you noticed.	00:46:34
	I don't think Gazelle is a chain. I don't know if it's going to keep the same name.	00:46:39
	But it got sold.	00:46:43
	The old Motel 6.	00:46:45
	And 807 US 85 Chintan Patel.	00:46:47
	As we call it.	00:46:52
	Hotel by Patel. That's the.	00:46:53
	That's so we're great. We've got a building that's empty.	00:46:56
	And Victoria had that on RadioShack lot.	00:46:59
	They want to make a location prepped at Community Kitchen.	00:47:03
	What?	00:47:07
	They take their.	00:47:09
	From the Community Kitchen and sell it at the RadioShack.	00:47:10
	That's pretty good.	00:47:13
	But she does her prep at the community kitchen.	00:47:16
	Because I told her she had to go out of the ground.	00:47:20
	He tore.	00:47:23
	Yeah.	00:47:29
	Does the environmental department come around anymore and stick the thermometers in the food?	00:47:30
	And so I recommended the hell.	00:47:36
	That's cool. No, that's cool. So she's cooking over.	00:47:44
	Oh great.	00:47:47
	Michael and find out exactly. Wow, great.	00:47:49
	That's the two we got.	00:47:54
	Mr. Mayor. Mr. Partners.	00:47:55
	Make a motion. We approve the business registrations as read.	00:47:57
	And 2nd that discussion all in favor.	00:48:00
	Aye.	00:48:04
	And we got another meeting on the 20th of January.	00:48:05
	That is what is Monday the 19th is when legislature starts.	00:48:09
	It's the next Easter that's a holiday.	00:48:15
	Oh, that's right.	00:48:17
	Is it Juneteenth?	00:48:18
	Thank you.	00:48:26
	Councillor Gonzalez.	00:48:28

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	d. Resolution No. 26-01-06d – CDBG Certifications and Commitments	General Document
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	New Year.	00:00:00
	Hey with your dad.	00:00:04
	What are you doing?	00:00:08
	Mike, all right, So Paulo, you want to get the swearing in out of the way so that we have?	00:00:10
	Official city councilors and.	00:00:17
	We have a municipal judge that needs to be sworn in and.	00:00:20
	Yes. So if the judges would come in.	00:00:23
	And we shall start the process of judge.	00:00:26
	We swear the judge in first, and the judge will swear the other people in.	00:00:31
	Yes, Sir, yes.	00:00:35
	Yep, right up there and then I'll need you guys.	00:00:39
	To sign after you just want it.	00:00:42
	So over yours.	00:00:44
	I just.	00:00:48
	Have you been elected to the office of municipal Judge? Haven't been elected to the office of Municipal Judge.	00:00:51
	Of the city of Socorro. Of the city of Sapporo.	00:00:58
	New Mexico.	00:01:00
	Socorro, NM.	00:01:01
	Do solemnly swear.	00:01:04
	I will help uphold the Constitution of the United States that will uphold the Constitution of the United States.	00:01:06
	And the constitutional laws of the state of New Mexico. And the constitutional laws of the state of New Mexico.	00:01:12
	And ordinances of the city of Socorro. And the ordinances of cities of the city of Socorro.	00:01:17
	And faithfully and impartially.	00:01:22
	And will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of said office.	00:01:24
	It's this Target said Duties. I said office.	00:01:28
	To the best of my ability. To the best of my ability.	00:01:31
	OK.	00:01:36
	Judge Murphy, thank you for coming. Doing that I should have introduced you to. Thank you.	00:01:43
	Thank you very much.	00:01:47
	Congratulations.	00:01:48
	Yeah, yeah, let's just wait.	00:01:56
	OK, next.	00:02:14
	Mary Ann.	00:02:16
	And Joe on deck.	00:02:23
	I thought you were going to say Grandpa Joe.	00:02:27
	Marianne, what do you have with you?	00:02:35
	This is my granddaughter coming up and my daughter mentioned.	00:02:36
	I state your name. I'm Marianne Chavez Lopez.	00:02:47
	Having been elected.	00:02:51
	To the office of City Council.	00:02:52
	Having been elected to the office of City Council.	00:02:54
	Of the city of Socorro.	00:02:56
	Sequoia, New Mexico.	00:02:59
	Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear.	00:03:02
	That I will uphold the Constitution of the United States.	00:03:04
	That are uphold the Constitution of the United States.	00:03:07
	The constitutional laws of the state of New Mexico.	00:03:10
	The Constitution and the laws of this.	00:03:13
	State of New Mexico.	00:03:15
	And the laws and ordinances of the city of.	00:03:17
	And the laws and ordinances of the cities to call.	00:03:19
	And will faithfully and partially discharge the duties of set off.	00:03:22
	And will faithfully and impartially.	00:03:25
	Discharge.	00:03:30
	To the best of my ability. To the best of my ability, so.	00:03:34
	So.	00:03:37
	Lisa, here we go.	00:04:13
	I state your name.	00:04:16
	Having been elected to the office of City Council.	00:04:19
	Being elected to the office of City Council.	00:04:21
	Of the city of Sukhoi.	00:04:24
	Of the city of Sakura, New Mexico.	00:04:26
	Do solemnly swear that I will uphold the Constitution of the United States.	00:04:29
	You're telling me swear that will oppose the Constitution of the United States?	00:04:33
	The Constitution and laws of the state of New Mexico.	00:04:36
	The Constitution allows of the state of New Mexico.	00:04:39
	The laws and ordinances of the City of Socorro.	00:04:42
	The city of Socorro.	00:04:44
	And will faithfully and partially discharge.	00:04:47
	8 million partially.	00:04:50
	Discharge.	00:04:51
	The duties of said office.	00:04:52
	To the best of my ability.	00:04:54
	I want to take a picture of the job because we have a long history.	00:05:05
	The fire department.	00:05:09
	There you go.	00:05:16
	Oh, sorry.	00:05:26
	Good. All right.	00:05:32
	OK, Gilbert, you're up.	00:05:34
	And Damien?	00:05:36
	Thank you, Judge Peralta for coming and doing.	00:05:40
	Thank you.	00:05:43
	Hi, Damien Oko.	00:06:05
	Having been elected to the office of City Council.	00:06:08
	Having been elected to the office of City Council.	00:06:11
	Of the city of Socorro.	00:06:13
	Of the city of Socorro of Socorro, NM.	00:06:14
	The Coral, New Mexico.	00:06:17
	Do solemnly swear.	00:06:18
	Do solemnly swear that I will uphold the Constitution of the United States, that I will uphold the Constitution of the United	00:06:20
	States, the constitutions and laws of the state of New Mexico.	00:06:24
	The Constitution and laws of the state of New Mexico.	00:06:29
	And the laws and ordinances of the city of Socorro.	00:06:31
	And the laws and ordinances of the city of Socorro.	00:06:34
	And will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties.	00:06:36
	And will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties.	00:06:40
	Of said office to the best of my ability.	00:06:42
	Of set office to the best of my ability so help you God.	00:06:45
	So help me again.	00:06:47
	Mr. Romero.	00:07:04
	I Peter Romero.	00:07:28
	I Peter Romero.	00:07:30
	Having been elected to the office of City Council. Having been elected to the office of City Council.	00:07:32
	Of the city of Socorro. Of the city of Socorro.	00:07:37
	Of Socorro, NM Socorro, NM Do solemnly swear, Do solemnly swear that I will uphold the Constitution of the United States.	00:07:39
	And I will uphold the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution and laws of the state of New Mexico, the Constitution	00:07:47
	and laws of the state of New Mexico.	00:07:51
	And the laws and ordinances of the city of Socorro. And the laws and ordinances of the city of Socorro.	00:07:55
	And will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties.	00:08:00
	And will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties.	00:08:04
	Upset office to the best of my ability.	00:08:07
	Set office to the best of my ability. So help me God. So help me God.	00:08:09
	Anything.	00:08:34
	I have them signed later I had.	00:08:35
	I had a little.	00:08:37
	Everybody is constituted properly.	00:08:39
	Yes.	00:08:42
	Want to see how sausage is made? You can stay.	00:08:44
	If you don't.	00:08:47
	Certainly can go.	00:08:50
	The water would sit through a City Council.	00:08:53
	Thank you, judges.	00:09:06
	Thank you very much.	00:09:07
	Congestion.	00:09:09
	We will.	00:09:17
	Sikora City Council meeting Tuesday, January 6th, 2026.	00:09:21
	Roll call please.	00:09:24
	Mayor Basker.	00:09:27
	Here, Councillor Tavis Lopez.	00:09:28
	Councillor Dean.	00:09:31
	Councillor Fleming.	00:09:32
	Yeah, Councillor Gonzalez. Yeah.	00:09:34
	Councillor Ocampo.	00:09:36
	Here, Councillor Partridge.	00:09:37
	Here. Councillor Romero here.	00:09:39
	Counselor Salome.	00:09:42
	Here we have a quantum.	00:09:43
	I'll rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.	00:09:44
	I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.	00:09:48
	And to the Republic for which it stands.	00:09:52
	Obligation underground.	00:09:55
	Individual with liberty and justice for all.	00:09:57
	Mr. Romero.	00:10:03
	Will we approve the?	00:10:06
	Consent agenda as presented.	00:10:08
	2nd.	00:10:10
	2nd a discussion.	00:10:11
	All in favor.	00:10:13
	OK, we've got public forum.	00:10:14
	I believe we have.	00:10:19
	Oh, come on up, Carrie.	00:10:21
	Since I had you on the agenda.	00:10:24
	She had been doing the.	00:10:27
	Community Party so.	00:10:30
	Good evening and thank you for the opportunity to speak with you today. My name is Carrie. I want to thank the city and.	00:10:32
	At Council and the city for their support in last year's community BBQ.	00:10:38
	And helping up the event.	00:10:42
	I'm here to.	00:10:43
	Another community focused sponsorship with the city.	00:10:44
	Our goal is to boost.	00:10:47
	Engagement, promote local resources and strengthen the connection between the City Council and the people we serve.	00:10:49
	We're asking for your support again in promoting the 5th Annual Community BBQ.	00:10:54
	Our goal is to showcase the assistance available to our community and highlight how the city is actively involved in supporting	00:10:59
	its residents.	00:11:02
	By partnering with us, you'll help.	00:11:06
	Bring attention to valuable resources and foster greater community participation.	00:11:08
	We also invite the City Council to attend, show support in continuing to lead by example and strengthening our community bonds.	00:11:13
	Together we can create a more connected and thriving city.	00:11:21
	Thank you for your time and consideration and I look forward to working with you again to make this event a continued to ask for	00:11:24
	our community.	00:11:27
	You're going to have it where you have a city apt, a Plaza.	00:11:30
	Video Park.	00:11:33
	You've had this, you've had it before.	00:11:35
	Yes, this will be our fifth annual.	00:11:38
	As can be as Vio Park May 31st.	00:11:40
	The time is still.	00:11:43
	Being negotiated, but I believe it's going to be.	00:11:45
	11:00 to 3:00 again.	00:11:47
	Well, when I've always helped you, I think for having volunteers do this.	00:11:49
	It's fantastic.	00:11:52
	But I think the captain, mayor.	00:11:54
	So everybody support the.	00:11:57
	The Seven was supported.	00:11:59
	You know, just let us know what kind of.	00:12:01
	Budget you'll have and what kind of.	00:12:03
	Support. You need a park.	00:12:06
	We will be renting.	00:12:09
	The location again.	00:12:11
	We are asking for help in creating Flyers again.	00:12:13
	And helping to announce it to the city on the website and on Facebook pages.	00:12:17
	On the event calendar and things like that, if that's possible.	00:12:22
	Sure. And I would like to see all of you guys come and shake hands with people and.	00:12:25
	Come and experience it for yourselves as well.	00:12:29
	Well, get with Lena and.	00:12:31
	She can. We can get a.	00:12:33
	That's just set up.	00:12:35
	2 wasn't that bad.	00:12:37
	I'm so glad have anxiety.	00:12:41
	No, you're fine. You did good. Thank you. Good. Thank you for doing this. Thank you.	00:12:42
	Mrs. Ocampo.	00:12:46
	Mayor Bhaskar, City Councilors, thank you for for allowing me to be here.	00:12:56
	I'm here representing the.	00:13:00
	Of Crumple Family Food Drive that occurred on December the 20th.	00:13:01
	Thanks to your advisors, generosity and your support, we were able to hand out.	00:13:05
	Our support over 250 families in our county.	00:13:12
	We had.	00:13:17
	Several different agencies and.	00:13:19
	People collaborate with us and we were able this time we were able to cover the whole county, so we had.	00:13:22
	About uh.	00:13:30
	40 to 50 deliveries.	00:13:31
	In Alamo, Magdalena and.	00:13:34
	Nikita and about 12 in the in the city.	00:13:36
	For for those who are not able to access transportation and so we were able to kind of.	00:13:39
	Get a whole gamut of families that needed it.	00:13:45
	We appreciate all, you know, again all the the support we had.	00:13:49
	So many people and agencies.	00:13:53
	Come together I I could.	00:13:55
	You know, not name them all, but I would like to to name a few of them, of course, like you guys, the city of Socorro, the Police	00:13:58
	Department and the Sheriff's Department. They were a huge.	00:14:03
	Part of this.	00:14:08
	And so I'd like to.	00:14:09
	Personally think you guys and those agencies, Socorro Consolidated Schools, we did.	00:14:10
	Family or food drives with.	00:14:16
	Families and students.	00:14:18
	And they had like.	00:14:20
	A competition and they had got a pizza party and it was really cool to see everybody kind of collaborate. So Coral Storehouse was	00:14:22
	really instrumental in that.	00:14:27
	The Haramiel family, Toby and Ermey's.	00:14:33
	Family who had.	00:14:36
	Who did this food drive for 50 years, literally 50 years before we took it over? They were really generous and they always show	00:14:38
	their support and.	00:14:43
	They like kind of rally behind us and, and get.	00:14:48
	You know people to to support us as well, so I'd like to thank them.	00:14:51
	The Shoal family.	00:14:54
	Scope and 100% community or Socorro community.	00:14:55
	Committee they were.	00:14:59
	They provided.	00:15:01
	Resources in the food basket. So I thought that was a really cool thing. Not only do these families.	00:15:03
	Get food.	00:15:08
	In their baskets, but they also get community resources and we'd like next year we'd like to even expand that a little bit more.	00:15:09
	Get you know our agencies to put their information.	00:15:16
	In in the basket so that.	00:15:19
	Families can be able to access resources. I think we have a lot of resources in So Coral.	00:15:21
	And and they just need, you know, to access them And so the scope committee and 100% community.	00:15:26
	Committee contributed to that. John Brooks has always really.	00:15:33
	Supportive of us.	00:15:38
	Our delivery elves.	00:15:39
	Just like family members and community members, there are elves and they they go out and they.	00:15:42
	Deliver the food and it's it's like that is a really helpful thing, especially, you know, we kind of on an over overlooking thing,	00:15:48
	but.	00:15:52
	To those families who don't have access to transportation, it's everything, right? And so we had a few families who called us at	00:15:56
	the last minute and they said I have no way to get there. And our delivery elves.	00:16:01
	Spring into action and they made it happen. So that's always really, really awesome.	00:16:07
	Our on site volunteers, the San Miguel Youth Group.	00:16:11
	They these are high school kids.	00:16:15
	You know, freshman all the way to seniors and they.	00:16:18
	Again, spring into action and they like kind of took over my job. I had to go.	00:16:23
	You know, I was. I was, you know.	00:16:28
	Doing my thing and I had to leave to go do something else and they just.	00:16:30
	Like just got right in and they they did it so.	00:16:34
	Our on site volunteers are really instrumental as well.	00:16:37
	And and again, just you guys, we're so appreciative to like sending out the the.	00:16:41
	Notifications beforehand to.	00:16:47
	Obviously the turkeys and and all of that, it's we really couldn't do it without you. So thank you so much.	00:16:49
	Well, we want to thank the Ocampo family for taking over.	00:16:55
	The Haramir drive.	00:16:58
	The work that you guys did.	00:17:00
	I mean, that's that's a big task.	00:17:01
	And I want to point out that you had Turkey Bingo, I think it was Michael Padilla. That was a good one.	00:17:03
	Yeah, that was a good addition. It's a labor of love, but it's but you while you guys, that's fantastic.	00:17:08
	Fantastic that you're doing it.	00:17:14
	I'll just say Mr. Mayor, Kathleen does.	00:17:20
	You got a lion's share of all the work so.	00:17:22
	We're thankful for her and and one one family. And I know it's hard to because once you name a family, it's just because you want	00:17:24
	to leave anybody out.	00:17:28
	But.	00:17:32
	I wanted to one of the.	00:17:33
	Families that kind of goes under the radar and just helps.	00:17:35
	And the reason I'm bringing them up is I.	00:17:38
	I heard Coach Baca.	00:17:40
	Lawrence Baca talked about the.	00:17:44
	The the the BBQ for the fire department and the gums were instant instrumental there.	00:17:46
	They're also instrumental with us too. It's like.	00:17:52
	They just show up and help and I think they're representative.	00:17:55
	All these other families, family members in town that are just willing to get up and do it.	00:17:57
	I mean my in laws and.	00:18:02
	My folks and everybody there say hey, tell us what to do.	00:18:04
	And so you know, we're.	00:18:06
	We're pretty fortunate to be in a community like this that steps up with Toby and what you guys took over.	00:18:08
	It's one of the events in Sakura.	00:18:14
	I mean, is one of the events, I think that's.	00:18:16
	Fantastic, it's carried on.	00:18:19
	So thank you very much for doing that.	00:18:22
	Thank you guys.	00:18:25
	So anyone else would like to make?	00:18:32
	A comment.	00:18:34
	You know, these boys didn't want to say something. Yeah.	00:18:37
	And Polo left before he could see anything. What's going on?	00:18:44
	OK, Grandma.	00:18:49
	Bye bye.	00:18:50
	Alrighty, we shall go to the resolutions that you have to do every year.	00:18:54
	And these are 26-01-06A.	00:19:00
	BC and D.	00:19:05
	And if you want to take them all at one time, they're basically standard open meetings.	00:19:07
	Governing body rules of procedure so we're not nasty to each other.	00:19:11
	Purchasing policy resolution. So Polo keeps us.	00:19:15
	Legal and the CDMG certifications of commitment.	00:19:18
	Commitments.	00:19:21
	And we have to have for HUD.	00:19:22
	When we apply for grants.	00:19:24
	Mr. Mayor Romel.	00:19:27
	I move we approve a resolution #26-01-068.	00:19:28
	Resolution #26-01.	00:19:35
	That's 06.	00:19:38
	Resolution number Dash 26-01-0.	00:19:40
	60 and resolution #26 Dash.	00:19:44
	0106, D.	00:19:48
	Second, I second.	00:19:51
	Moved and seconded discussion.	00:19:52
	All in favor.	00:19:54
	We're all the way down to new business.	00:19:57
	We are going to go to the.	00:20:00
	Legislature.	00:20:02
	And City Day will be on the 29th.	00:20:04
	Tech days on the same day at the Roundhouse.	00:20:09
	And so I don't know if we want to be there, but if they allow us to come.	00:20:12
	Will go, but then.	00:20:16
	At the La Posada.	00:20:17
	At 6:00.	00:20:19
	On the 29th.	00:20:21
	There will be a.	00:20:24
	Is it going to be a tri-county again?	00:20:25
	It'll be tri-county with.	00:20:27
	Sierra, Socorro and Kettering County.	00:20:30
	And that's the 29th of January 29th.	00:20:33
	That was the January 29th, 29th.	00:20:38
	A confusing old man. Don't be doing that.	00:20:41
	But anyway, it is the 29th and.	00:20:45
	So we are going to.	00:20:47
	Present our legislators.	00:20:49
	For the legislative session is a 30 day session.	00:20:51
	So at the money session and.	00:20:55
	We're asking for the police station.	00:20:57
	Continued phasing it in.	00:20:59
	And the last phase of Finley?	00:21:01
	So those are the two things that we're.	00:21:04
	We're going to be asking for and so.	00:21:06
	If uh.	00:21:08
	If you have.	00:21:10
	Contacts and the legisl.	00:21:11
	Legislature.	00:21:15
	We appreciate you going there.	00:21:16
	We will have some lobbyists that we've had last time.	00:21:18
	We'll still do that.	00:21:21
	We have a lot of other projects going on in the city and for your benefit.	00:21:24
	I can name a few and if you have any questions about any of those.	00:21:28
	We just finished Manzanaras.	00:21:32
	They did also streets around the courthouse.	00:21:34
	At the rodeo.	00:21:38
	We just finished the clubhouse, which will have.	00:21:40
	Showers and.	00:21:42
	Laundry and.	00:21:44
	And.	00:21:45
	We're finishing a house there for a caretaker.	00:21:46
	We also finished.	00:21:50
	The system, the sound system in there.	00:21:52
	We also just put in an air conditioning.	00:21:55
	In the in the rodeo arena.	00:21:58
	It's it's evaporative.	00:22:00
	But we'll see how it works out.	00:22:02
	Have you got a chance to go there? It's pretty.	00:22:04
	Pretty big. I'm Mariana, just seen.	00:22:07
	You see the big yeah?	00:22:09
	Yeah. So that's that's getting done.	00:22:10
	We are just.	00:22:14
	Changing out the.	00:22:15
	Filter press at the plant.	00:22:17
	The airport is getting a.	00:22:19
	As snow removal if we ever get any snow equipment.	00:22:21
	Garage We're still working on trying to get the.	00:22:26
	Money spent for Finley right now, you've seen the.	00:22:30
	Sitting area and all that coming up.	00:22:33
	We'll be getting a.	00:22:36
	Parking lot put in.	00:22:37
	What did I miss? What?	00:22:40
	The natural gas field.	00:22:42
	Will be done. That's a $2 million project.	00:22:45
	Cuba Rd.	00:22:49
	Cuba Rd. Cuba Rd. We're just waiting for the highway department.	00:22:51
	That's a $2 million project to finish it out.	00:22:54
	What else the.	00:22:58
	The other thing that we have, and I've got Linda here.	00:23:00
	Kind of giving us a.	00:23:03
	A report on the Senior Center.	00:23:05
	And kind of tell us about the problems we've been having at Vegeta.	00:23:07
	And and some of the things that.	00:23:11
	Since we have our eminent new City Council is also a county commissioner.	00:23:13
	Want to want to just give us a little?	00:23:17
	Review of the problem? Well, just about your.	00:23:20
	First of all, but.	00:23:23
	How great your?	00:23:24
	Senior Center has been, it's been great. We had a good.	00:23:26
	Christmas, you know, we had.	00:23:30
	Events like a.	00:23:32
	Let's see, with some donations from the Socorro Catholic Church, they gave out some presents to our seniors.	00:23:34
	We have some goodies made by D Russell with Your Mama's cakes and more. She baked a lot of goodies for fajita so they had some	00:23:40
	good stuff to eat.	00:23:44
	We'll start off with the electrical box in the ether which was coming off the wall. That's been taken care of by Lloyd's crew, so	00:23:49
	that's taken care of.	00:23:53
	We did have to move a gas line over, which has been done as well.	00:23:57
	But when they move that line.	00:24:02
	It did something to the heater and so we're having problems with the heating now.	00:24:04
	So, umm.	00:24:07
	Who are hopefully getting parts in to get that fixed.	00:24:08
	By the end of the week.	00:24:11
	Um, let's see.	00:24:13
	Septic system. I did talk to Lloyd on Monday and he's working on the plan for that.	00:24:17
	So as soon as we get that going, then we'll give it to the environmental department to approve and then we can start doing our	00:24:22
	phases and get that taken care of. We don't know the cost of the project yet, so.	00:24:28
	We will definitely be using.	00:24:35
	Non-metro AAA for the emergency capital outlay to kind of help out with that project.	00:24:38
	And as well as the county to ask for their assistance as well.	00:24:43
	When you say help out, does that mean to cover the 100%?	00:24:47
	Of some of the.	00:24:51
	I'm not sure how much they will give us, we would have to apply and see.	00:24:52
	You know how much?	00:24:56
	But do we own that building?	00:24:58
	We don't own that building, no.	00:24:59
	At least.	00:25:02
	It's leased for four years, I believe, from the county.	00:25:03
	Yes, but they don't have any.	00:25:06
	They don't have any responsibility about making that.	00:25:09
	They gave all the responsibility to us when we signed the lease.	00:25:12
	OK, yes. So how many people are you serving out there?	00:25:15
	We have, I want to say, at least 60 people.	00:25:19
	Most of them are home delivered and we have about 20 of them.	00:25:22
	That are eating inside.	00:25:26
	Center.	00:25:27
	Dollars. When's the funding cycle for the capital outlay influence?	00:25:31
	We're working on that now.	00:25:35
	You know when it runs though.	00:25:36
	I'm not sure.	00:25:38
	I'll give it with you.	00:25:40
	OK. Does it, does it make any difference to AAA whether we own it or not, where we asked to improve it?	00:25:41
	They haven't asked for anything.	00:25:47
	Do we have to ask the counties?	00:25:49
	OK to do that.	00:25:51
	Any of it.	00:25:53
	I think the county manager at the time had said he left all that up to us to do.	00:25:55
	But we are keeping them posted on changes that we were making in the center or whatever needed to be done.	00:26:01
	So to answer that question directly.	00:26:07
	When we're dealing with the environment department in some contractors like electricians and things that they will not work on the	00:26:10
	building.	00:26:13
	Or the property unless.	00:26:17
	They have the permission of the owner.	00:26:19
	So then we have to get the.	00:26:22
	Permission of the county to make these improvements.	00:26:23
	I guess my question to the county is going to be whether we.	00:26:26
	Continue giving that service outside the city limits.	00:26:29
	And using our.	00:26:32
	Our people and also have to maintain that building.	00:26:34
	If we would then ask them to.	00:26:39
	Turn the building over to us as owners.	00:26:41
	That's what I was going to say. You know, can we approach the county?	00:26:43
	So they can donate.	00:26:47
	The property and the building.	00:26:49
	We're lucky to have Mr. Gonzalez here.	00:26:50
	This is the first I hear of this, no?	00:26:53
	I already looked into the little bit.	00:26:57
	The ownership of that.	00:27:01
	Building from my recollection has to do with.	00:27:02
	The property belongs to.	00:27:06
	Whoever owns Boys Ranch out there. Oh really?	00:27:08
	And for?	00:27:10
	The county continued.	00:27:12
	Having the facility that it would have to be a.	00:27:14
	Benefit to the community.	00:27:17
	Which in that case was a senior citizen.	00:27:18
	So I think under all of that we can probably just.	00:27:20
	Work on translating it.	00:27:23
	Transferring it over to the city under the same.	00:27:25
	I'm I'm thinking on niche land.	00:27:27
	Yeah, in perpetuity. I mean, I don't know what perpetuity you're giving.	00:27:29
	Yeah. So I'm thinking.	00:27:39
	That's gonna be.	00:27:40
	My approach to the.	00:27:42
	As a manager.	00:27:44
	To see.	00:27:45
	The transfer of the.	00:27:47
	Land can go to the city.	00:27:48
	Therefore.	00:27:50
	Nobody's hands are tightest through ownership and that type of thing to get the funding them.	00:27:51
	That would not be the same as if the county was delivering.	00:27:56
	That program to the.	00:28:00
	It would be the same.	00:28:02
	Yeah. So we basically.	00:28:03
	If we hadn't given that would have had to revert back to the Boys Ranch.	00:28:05
	Yes, that started.	00:28:09
	If you had started doing that, I.	00:28:12
	If I remember correctly.	00:28:15
	When the city is going to take over the.	00:28:17
	Senior program.	00:28:20
	That was a question that we asked.	00:28:21
	The boy's ranch.	00:28:23
	As long as that's going on.	00:28:25
	But it never.	00:28:26
	Gave ownership.	00:28:27
	To the city of the building.	00:28:29
	So you're operating?	00:28:31
	Under the same.	00:28:33
	Requirements that the county was.	00:28:35
	But the ownership is still.	00:28:38
	For the county, so that's.	00:28:40
	Since that's who the.	00:28:41
	Title arrangement was made with is with the county and not not the city.	00:28:43
	So as far as.	00:28:48
	The actual ownership of it.	00:28:49
	It would have to be.	00:28:51
	I think and as Mary Ann suggested.	00:28:52
	We need to change that.	00:28:55
	Relationship. Umm.	00:28:56
	Right in the city instead of the county.	00:28:58
	So we can do that, I think.	00:29:01
	I think we need to that way we can take ownership of it and.	00:29:03
	Really expend city funds.	00:29:06
	Buying a heater or a?	00:29:10
	Are getting a septic tank paid for?	00:29:12
	It's our labor and a.	00:29:16
	Our time from city employees going out.	00:29:18
	To work on it.	00:29:20
	Correct.	00:29:22
	So and Linda, who's?	00:29:23
	Basically city employee.	00:29:25
	Great. Thank you. Thanks, President.	00:29:28
	Continue good work.	00:29:30
	Mr. You guys, Mr.	00:29:32
	He listed all the things that are going. Is there any way we could?	00:29:34
	Get a list of that.	00:29:38
	Just of all of the.	00:29:38
	Projects that are going on, I mean, I'm sure.	00:29:41
	Yeah, Yeah. That would be helpful. That's a lot going on. Just when people ask us, we can.	00:29:44
	To give you and give you an explanation of each.	00:29:50
	Each project. Thank you, Mr. We'll get that.	00:29:53
	Thank you. Just for the benefit of the new city councillors or.	00:29:55
	Is there anything you guys want to add, Mike?	00:29:59
	Mr. Mayor, before we move on.	00:30:03
	I'd just like to inform the councillors that we're meeting with the engineers tomorrow at 11 to get updated on the projects	00:30:06
	they're helping us with. Not the in-house projects, but the stuff that requires engineering.	00:30:11
	Thank you.	00:30:17
	Engine.	00:30:18
	Just wanted to give an update.	00:30:22
	Still cleaning houses, burnt houses.	00:30:26
	And in what dumb side?	00:30:28
	Stuff like that.	00:30:30
	I do want to say.	00:30:32
	Huggy, his crew, I wanted to thank them. They've helped me out a lot.	00:30:34
	Cleaning up the.	00:30:38
	The house is the landfill and and Chief Barker.	00:30:39
	I'll come in with the list. We got a list of houses, trouble houses, A.	00:30:43
	Yeah, Can we do with that trailer that burned out there?	00:30:48
	In which they're working on it, yeah.	00:30:51
	It's getting an owner.	00:30:52
	Yeah, yeah.	00:30:54
	Well, it's a long story, but yes, so.	00:30:55
	I know the long story. Why don't you tell everybody else a long story? Yeah.	00:31:00
	They didn't belong to the people that live there.	00:31:06
	We figured that out.	00:31:08
	The owner.	00:31:09
	Was contacted.	00:31:11
	And I brought to Mr. Willis, or is it belong to my son?	00:31:12
	No one now.	00:31:17
	It's it's it's really knowing now it's getting destroyed so.	00:31:19
	But nobody.	00:31:23
	Says they own that property.	00:31:24
	The property, yeah, now, now it's owned by the person next door.	00:31:26
	Who? Umm.	00:31:31
	You know, it's kind of been helping me out, kind of like my eyes, but.	00:31:32
	She she ended up buying it so now.	00:31:36
	She asked for a chance to clean it up and she's made some pretty good progress.	00:31:39
	So I hadn't had to.	00:31:42
	And use city money I guess, to clean it up.	00:31:46
	She's just been cleaning it up herself. She's had vehicles.	00:31:48
	And she's demoing that trailer and stuff, so.	00:31:52
	Yeah, she's cleaning it up.	00:31:55
	And she lives there.	00:31:57
	She was right next door.	00:31:58
	So she was pretty happy to to get the property and start cleaning it up. Well, sure, but then we're going to clean it up for that.	00:31:59
	Yeah, huh.	00:32:06
	Or not. She she, she is. I know.	00:32:08
	How's she going to get those I beams out of there?	00:32:10
	She she's.	00:32:13
	Maybe if you do deals with some people. So she's quite savvy. She's a.	00:32:14
	So clean it up and it seems like she's not really spending any money doing it so.	00:32:19
	That works out and then.	00:32:23
	Then we're going to move on to the.	00:32:25
	Burnt house across street from the cemetery that should be coming up.	00:32:28
	And of course, Huggy and his cruising helped me out with that.	00:32:31
	How's the calendar grant?	00:32:34
	Great, we got dumpsters now we moved them from.	00:32:36
	Where they were by Shady Nook and Blue Canyon, now they're at.	00:32:41
	Gravel pits and on the corner of Manzaness and Main.	00:32:45
	So.	00:32:48
	Anyone that needs to throw some trash I mean.	00:32:50
	Are they getting full?	00:32:52
	Yes, they are.	00:32:53
	But please don't throw tires in there.	00:32:55
	Please. But yeah, anything else?	00:32:58
	I hope you yell at me, you won't even notice.	00:33:02
	So on those dumpsters, are they clearly?	00:33:07
	The purpose of them and what to take and what we won't take.	00:33:10
	Yeah, yeah, there's signs.	00:33:14
	There's there's not supposed to be a.	00:33:16
	You know, construction, demolition and metals tires.	00:33:18
	But we do have some signs up.	00:33:22
	They are Valley sanitation dumpsters.	00:33:25
	We're just, I guess, renting them.	00:33:28
	But yeah.	00:33:30
	Their future over at Sands.	00:33:32
	Is there something going to eventually happen there as far as I think Marshall is saying that?	00:33:34
	They're gonna have.	00:33:39
	They've already started I think this year actually. So they're.	00:33:40
	Taking the recycling there.	00:33:44
	Coonies out there.	00:33:45
	He'll get all that and he'll haul it off to the.	00:33:47
	Albuquerque can have it recycled and again, can we have some signage there?	00:33:50
	Sure. Reminding people when we're there, picking up.	00:33:54
	Yeah, I'm sure we can do that.	00:33:56
	Father, I was heading up towards the cemeteries with somebody who needed to show me something.	00:33:58
	You had people that were climbing all over and through that dumpster.	00:34:06
	That's on the way up.	00:34:12
	Yeah, during the daytime, yeah.	00:34:14
	Yeah. No, it's, it's been.	00:34:16
	We just got to keep an eye on it and we've had actually, that's another person. I need to thank you, Angel, because he's been	00:34:18
	helping us out with law enforcement.	00:34:22
	You know, patrolling them.	00:34:25
	We did have some people throwing some stuff out.	00:34:27
	But.	00:34:29
	We caught him in the act and we asked him to put it back.	00:34:30
	They did.	00:34:34
	So.	00:34:35
	Yeah.	00:34:37
	Thank you, Chris. Thank you for all your good work.	00:34:42
	Mike, is that your?	00:34:45
	Speech. Good job.	00:34:47
	You know, we want to thank your crew for working Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's.	00:34:51
	And they come and pick up the garbage. They really should be congratulated. Yes, very much so.	00:34:57
	Thank you. We're just going to mention that.	00:35:02
	I'm very proud of my guys for doing what they do.	00:35:07
	So we continue to.	00:35:09
	Work the landfill, pick up garbage, pick up recycling, do.	00:35:13
	It's like there.	00:35:17
	We asked the people not to throw medals and tires and stuff because.	00:35:21
	We're gonna end up with it at the landfill, and then we have to separate it and we have to.	00:35:24
	Because if you've been to the landfill, there's separation.	00:35:28
	There's a pile of floor battles. There's a pile for tires. There's a pile.	00:35:32
	Different things.	00:35:35
	So it just makes my guys work double.	00:35:36
	So thank you for.	00:35:40
	Thank you, Mike. Michael.	00:35:44
	How's your closure? Are you are you doing?	00:35:46
	Are you doing a closure? Is it done?	00:35:48
	We're we're still trying to finish the closure.	00:35:50
	It's just that.	00:35:54
	I know it's an operation out there.	00:35:55
	You go visit operation.	00:35:58
	Welcome anybody who wants to go for a tour.	00:36:01
	No, I've said it before. I.	00:36:05
	Done. Construction alarms up.	00:36:07
	Joe's done construction. We have a nice landfill.	00:36:09
	I mean, Rio Rancho was awful. You got to drive over trash to throw trash. It's a disaster.	00:36:11
	The trucks destroyed small towns that have their own landfill that you can go to.	00:36:16
	No, it's clean, it's organized. I don't know if you've been to other landfills, but.	00:36:20
	We're pretty blessed here. You guys do a great job. It's terrible. We've been to some pretty bad ones.	00:36:24
	I carry the truck up and.	00:36:29
	It's still one question that I ignorance.	00:36:31
	Are those actual seagulls out there in the winter? They are.	00:36:33
	Yeah, yeah. It's like.	00:36:36
	The last OK.	00:36:39
	Yeah, we get them every year, but I don't know where.	00:36:42
	Yeah, they they, they lost.	00:36:44
	The blind, I guess.	00:36:46
	But as far as the equipment, everything's up and running.	00:36:50
	What's up with the tires?	00:36:52
	I put a hold on them for now because we don't want to get in trouble with.	00:36:55
	We're getting a.	00:36:58
	Are we getting a?	00:36:59
	Tire shredder, uh.	00:37:01
	Hopefully, uh.	00:37:02
	Hopefully someday, yes.	00:37:03
	I'm looking into it, yes.	00:37:05
	OK for renting one? I'm not renting 1 yet but.	00:37:06
	I still got my guys building tires.	00:37:10
	We still need to finish that tire boom that we're building.	00:37:12
	But once we finish that, then we're going to be stuck with a lot of tires.	00:37:15
	And yeah, it'd be nice to get a shredder so we can actually use the shreds.	00:37:19
	On the garbage to cover.	00:37:22
	OK. Thank you.	00:37:25
	Thank you, Baka.	00:37:26
	You want to introduce your.	00:37:29
	Mayor Council, thank you guys for having us.	00:37:42
	I'd like to introduce what you guys know.	00:37:45
	Daniel Pacheco. He's now the.	00:37:47
	The new assistant chief.	00:37:49
	We brought that position back.	00:37:52
	Because we went.	00:37:56
	To six man crews now and that that was part of a.	00:37:57
	The policy is we went to the six man crews, we would be able to bring that position back so.	00:38:00
	That was thanks to the county.	00:38:05
	Thanks to the county as well. Exactly. So, yeah. So that's working out really well. Our overtimes cut down a lot.	00:38:06
	You know, having them here, having them in the office.	00:38:13
	Monday through Friday, 8:00 to 5:00, eight to four.	00:38:16
	There's going to be a lot of help.	00:38:18
	You know, with the everyday.	00:38:20
	Stuff that goes on inspections, you know, just.	00:38:22
	Although there's so many annual inspections that we have to do every year, whether it's pump tests.	00:38:25
	Matter tests just every ISO, you know, just everything. So he's going to be a lot of help.	00:38:31
	In the office with all that stuff, so.	00:38:36
	You got a lot of experience he's been there for.	00:38:38
	Almost 19 years now, so he's been there for a while.	00:38:41
	And we talk about transition and that's what I'm looking to do.	00:38:44
	It's not set in stone yet, but.	00:38:47
	You're crying today, not today.	00:38:49
	Well, I'm hoping to do it in December.	00:38:52
	So that's part of why we're trying to get him going and.	00:38:54
	This.	00:38:57
	I want to thank.	00:38:58
	Lawrence's crew and stuff. We had a fire at our farm.	00:39:00
	Over the weekend or on Friday, right?	00:39:03
	And they were right there helping out, doing everything. So thank you guys for everything.	00:39:06
	Thank you Assistant for great help.	00:39:11
	So it might be a little bias.	00:39:14
	But it's when you said.	00:39:17
	Down here I was 19 years. He's one of the.	00:39:20
	Guys, I heard a long time ago.	00:39:23
	You know, and then Lawrence.	00:39:24
	Handiwork for us, and I was.	00:39:27
	He was on my ship just.	00:39:29
	And this first day was very interesting. Outlines, yeah.	00:39:30
	Yeah. But and then I did see the personnel changes, the other guy that's stepping up and.	00:39:34
	Getting promoted because of the structure that.	00:39:39
	It's at the fire department is good to see it's a.	00:39:41
	Just a minute compliment to the city that they're.	00:39:44
	Have that insight and they know that there are.	00:39:47
	Very important resource for the.	00:39:49
	Citizen Citizens.	00:39:51
	How's your remodeling?	00:39:53
	And we're, we're, we're, we're finishing that up. We're doing some painting right now. And that's then.	00:39:54
	We're waiting for for some.	00:39:59
	Station furniture to come in and that should be the last of it.	00:40:00
	We got a $500,000 grant for upgrades in that building.	00:40:03
	For for those of you guys that.	00:40:06
	Don't know. You probably do know, but.	00:40:08
	That building very old have buildings over.	00:40:10
	107 years old so.	00:40:13
	We had to. We roofed it, we put windows, we stuck with it. We remodeled the bathroom, bathrooms, kitchen.	00:40:14
	Stuff like that. So it's just looks really nice.	00:40:22
	That buildings that old but it.	00:40:25
	If you if you go in, it really doesn't look that old.	00:40:27
	And ambulances? How about the ambulance?	00:40:30
	Ambulances should be here in a week or two.	00:40:32
	So that's still on.	00:40:34
	They still say it's on time, so we should be seeing that in a couple years. We still have that one ambulance down so.	00:40:36
	It's going to be healthy in that that nine months.	00:40:42
	And I'd like to end it with just thanking my crew.	00:40:46
	Because again, they don't, they don't have any days off either through the holidays and all that stuff. They're working 24/7 and.	00:40:48
	And they do a wonderful job. So thank my crew for that and.	00:40:53
	Any questions are great.	00:40:57
	Great to have you. Thank you. Thank you.	00:41:01
	You got your God.	00:41:08
	Any news from HR and insurance is the.	00:41:10
	The new deal.	00:41:15
	So, umm.	00:41:18
	Vision insurance did change from Imed to David Vision.	00:41:22
	So everybody who has that should have received new cards. If not, I have the contact information and I can pass it along.	00:41:26
	So they did assure us that the benefits are very, very similar. There wasn't a drop in in benefits.	00:41:33
	Umm, and July 1, I think there's going to be an increase.	00:41:42
	I think they talked about.	00:41:46
	A 10%.	00:41:47
	So that one's going to be a little rough since we're coming off of a 24% increase last year.	00:41:49
	And that's pretty much it.	00:41:55
	Doing the end of quarter, I told Mr. Solomon the end of quarter, end of year and before the 1st payroll processes. So I've been in	00:41:58
	my office drilling away.	00:42:02
	Good times.	00:42:07
	Get W2's out before the end of January, probably between the two payrolls so.	00:42:08
	I'll send out a robocall.	00:42:13
	Saying that they're ready to the employees.	00:42:15
	Very good. Thank you. Thank you.	00:42:17
	We are about.	00:42:20
	$600,000 less.	00:42:22
	For the first six months.	00:42:25
	Compared to last year's gross receipts.	00:42:27
	Which were robust. I mean, we had great groceries.	00:42:29
	So just to let you know that we're.	00:42:32
	It's not getting.	00:42:34
	Mr. Partridge.	00:42:37
	Without, I mean, a little ignorant to it still.	00:42:39
	What does that compare to? Maybe like on a?	00:42:42
	Not so robust year.	00:42:44
	If last year was a robust year.	00:42:46
	It's a previous thing how?	00:42:48
	How far are we up? Yes, you.	00:42:50
	It probably gets you even with two years ago.	00:42:53
	Unless you were just doing this.	00:42:57
	Last 2-3 years has been.	00:42:59
	Hadn't been bad.	00:43:01
	Yeah, before COVID is when.	00:43:02
	You would say we're even.	00:43:04
	What about border specs?	00:43:06
	The largest tax actually is stable.	00:43:08
	It's actually.	00:43:11
	When I looked at the number, it's it's.	00:43:13
	Actually, even.	00:43:16
	Distinction even we get about 500,000 almost.	00:43:18
	And it's about even.	00:43:23
	But we don't know what's going on with first responders.	00:43:26
	And I'm not sure exactly.	00:43:30
	And then we had a bad.	00:43:33
	Festival of the Cranes and we lost the Trinity site.	00:43:35
	So those were things that.	00:43:39
	But they're.	00:43:40
	It's it. Let's see if it'll.	00:43:41
	Pick up again.	00:43:43
	Old business.	00:43:46
	Got the water issue resolved. I mean, I spoke to you about it, but.	00:43:49
	Did they seem to figure?	00:43:54
	So.	00:43:56
	I can't point any fingers right now.	00:43:59
	But it appears that we had foreign water.	00:44:02
	Get put into our water system.	00:44:05
	We sent the samples of water.	00:44:08
	From this one source.	00:44:10
	And the source coming out of the.	00:44:12
	Our water lines and it was almost similar.	00:44:15
	But there was no toxins.	00:44:18
	There is no bacteria or path.	00:44:20
	Pathogenic stuff.	00:44:22
	In the water.	00:44:24
	And so that is getting resolved at this time.	00:44:25
	The people who have.	00:44:29
	We thought caused the problem or looking into it right now.	00:44:32
	But that was resolved.	00:44:36
	Then we had a big leap here on California St.	00:44:37
	10 inch.	00:44:41
	Was it iron pipe that broke?	00:44:43
	So it left us a single luckily.	00:44:46
	I don't know.	00:44:49
	How did they find the?	00:44:50
	Because there was a hole was only about this big, but underneath there was a lot of bigger this.	00:44:52
	So luckily we didn't have a cargo in there.	00:44:56
	But they they fix that.	00:45:00
	But you know, I mean, it happens all over Albuquerque. It just, it just happens.	00:45:02
	But that's.	00:45:07
	Thank you man.	00:45:09
	That was that. And you know.	00:45:10
	I I got sworn in in 1984.	00:45:13
	When this thing, it just makes you wonder what the heck happened to the time.	00:45:17
	I know.	00:45:21
	But it's it's definitely changed. It was in the old.	00:45:22
	Here's the old City Hall.	00:45:26
	Over there by the where the transportation was.	00:45:28
	And the safe the safest when we had a.	00:45:31
	We had executive session.	00:45:34
	We got in there one time with one of the contractors.	00:45:36
	And who was their engineer actually and.	00:45:38
	The fire done so I remember those days when.	00:45:40
	That was a. There's a.	00:45:45
	That's 51 years.	00:45:46
	So anyway, executive session, Anybody wants to air their dirty laundry?	00:45:50
	Private.	00:45:57
	No, we don't have any dirty laundry.	00:45:58
	OK, so we're.	00:46:00
	Almost finished with this meeting.	00:46:01
	It's kind of exciting to come back to.	00:46:03
	A new deal here. Let me see, Mr. Fleming. I'm kind of.	00:46:06
	Haphazard here.	00:46:10
	This is the.	00:46:11
	Then Bert, Bert, Bert.	00:46:13
	Albert Personnel.	00:46:16
	This is Bert Guerrero.	00:46:19
	At the landfill, he has retired.	00:46:21
	Mr. Mayor.	00:46:24
	Mr. Romero, Mr. Partridge, I'll make a motion to.	00:46:25
	Accept the personnel changes as read.	00:46:28
	The second of discussion, all in favor.	00:46:32
	Aye, and here we are with businesses, as you noticed.	00:46:34
	I don't think Gazelle is a chain. I don't know if it's going to keep the same name.	00:46:39
	But it got sold.	00:46:43
	The old Motel 6.	00:46:45
	And 807 US 85 Chintan Patel.	00:46:47
	As we call it.	00:46:52
	Hotel by Patel. That's the.	00:46:53
	That's so we're great. We've got a building that's empty.	00:46:56
	And Victoria had that on RadioShack lot.	00:46:59
	They want to make a location prepped at Community Kitchen.	00:47:03
	What?	00:47:07
	They take their.	00:47:09
	From the Community Kitchen and sell it at the RadioShack.	00:47:10
	That's pretty good.	00:47:13
	But she does her prep at the community kitchen.	00:47:16
	Because I told her she had to go out of the ground.	00:47:20
	He tore.	00:47:23
	Yeah.	00:47:29
	Does the environmental department come around anymore and stick the thermometers in the food?	00:47:30
	And so I recommended the hell.	00:47:36
	That's cool. No, that's cool. So she's cooking over.	00:47:44
	Oh great.	00:47:47
	Michael and find out exactly. Wow, great.	00:47:49
	That's the two we got.	00:47:54
	Mr. Mayor. Mr. Partners.	00:47:55
	Make a motion. We approve the business registrations as read.	00:47:57
	And 2nd that discussion all in favor.	00:48:00
	Aye.	00:48:04
	And we got another meeting on the 20th of January.	00:48:05
	That is what is Monday the 19th is when legislature starts.	00:48:09
	It's the next Easter that's a holiday.	00:48:15
	Oh, that's right.	00:48:17
	Is it Juneteenth?	00:48:18
	Thank you.	00:48:26
	Councillor Gonzalez.	00:48:28