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Councillor Ocampo. | 00:00:01 | |
Councillor Ogin. | 00:00:03 | |
Councillor Partridge here. | 00:00:05 | |
Councillor Romero here. | 00:00:08 | |
Councillor Salomi. | 00:00:10 | |
We do have a. | 00:00:12 | |
In honor of President Trump will all rise into the Pledge of Allegiance. | 00:00:13 | |
Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. | 00:00:19 | |
One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:00:25 | |
I invited Bezos and. | 00:00:32 | |
Musk and those they won't come. They won't come to our meeting. | 00:00:35 | |
This They were at the White House, I guess. | 00:00:38 | |
OK, Mr. Romero. | 00:00:42 | |
We approve the consent agenda as presented. Discussion. | 00:00:46 | |
All in favor, aye? | 00:00:52 | |
All right with this. | 00:00:55 | |
Move straight ahead to public forum. | 00:00:58 | |
We've got. | 00:01:01 | |
An honorable representative from the Co-op. | 00:01:03 | |
Come on up. | 00:01:07 | |
He's making the round, so you're very impressed and. | 00:01:09 | |
Happy to have a new. | 00:01:13 | |
Co-op manager come up to the dais and tell us about yourself and. | 00:01:14 | |
How much you're going to help the city of Socorro? | 00:01:19 | |
All right. Well, thank you all for inviting me, first of all. | 00:01:22 | |
Very excited to be here. The welcoming since day one has just been overwhelming. | 00:01:26 | |
The second day. | 00:01:31 | |
On the job, I met with the mayor and his team. | 00:01:33 | |
And there had legitimate questions that should have been asked or should have been answered. | 00:01:36 | |
So this week Thursday I'm meeting with tri-state and then I'll be following up. | 00:01:40 | |
Probably next week when I have more information, but things are looking pretty promising. I have to tell you, I was. | 00:01:44 | |
Very happy to meet you, we had a great discussion. | 00:01:50 | |
And you know you can answer them one way or the other. That's great. | 00:01:53 | |
Thank you for trying to answer them. | 00:01:57 | |
The first question I had from you. | 00:02:00 | |
Was how much was your electric Co-op in Wilcox? | 00:02:02 | |
Sulphur Springs electric charging. | 00:02:05 | |
The last. | 00:02:08 | |
Guy that heads your job. | 00:02:09 | |
I don't know, I just. | 00:02:12 | |
You answered it right away. | 00:02:13 | |
You know, so I'm impressed. I really. | 00:02:16 | |
I hope we continue our relationship. | 00:02:19 | |
And have it grown and we can kind of cancel all the conflicts we've had. But tell us about yourself. And well, I was born and | 00:02:21 | |
raised in Wilcox, Arizona so I'll always call us a non politically correct name. We're weirdos because small town is what we enjoy | 00:02:26 | |
and what we love. | 00:02:31 | |
So when I looked around here, I don't see these big glamorous buildings you see. | 00:02:37 | |
People that know each other, families, homesteading and just small town rural America that we just, you know, you gotta love these | 00:02:41 | |
areas. | 00:02:46 | |
Wilcox is half the size of Socorro. | 00:02:52 | |
But the welcoming of God. | 00:02:56 | |
I didn't even want to go back to Wilcox this past weekend, but I had to get a Social Security card because from the community we | 00:02:58 | |
just did a Toys for Tots. | 00:03:02 | |
With Chief Garcia and two hours and 40 minutes we had the trucks so filled up with toys. | 00:03:07 | |
We had to leave because we didn't have other vehicles to bring because they were out. Toys would have been falling over. | 00:03:12 | |
And then we were able to deliver those, but. | 00:03:18 | |
Anyways, I was born and raised in Wilcox. I spent 30 years. | 00:03:20 | |
At the electric cooperative there in about 20-4 years. | 00:03:24 | |
Ten months in Marine Corps, both reserve and active duty deployed in support of combat operations. Three times Iraq. | 00:03:28 | |
Djibouti, Africa security operations and then. | 00:03:36 | |
The most recent deployment was in Afghanistan 2011 to 2012 for the war in Afghanistan. | 00:03:39 | |
So I'm totally, totally small town. | 00:03:46 | |
And it's just been overwhelming talking to the community. | 00:03:48 | |
Meeting with the BLM. | 00:03:52 | |
Got a meeting scheduled with the. | 00:03:54 | |
New Mexico tech president. | 00:03:57 | |
I believe next week tri-state to talk about the bring your own resources which. | 00:03:59 | |
Again, that should have been answered. That's not. | 00:04:03 | |
That difficult to answer. It's just going to get, you know, get to work on it. | 00:04:06 | |
As far as the relationship. | 00:04:10 | |
Our seven cooperative principle is concerned for the community and as being a trusted partner. | 00:04:12 | |
With entities like the City of the Coral, the mayor and anybody else who needs our assistance. | 00:04:18 | |
So that's what you're going to deliver, so. | 00:04:24 | |
I know the mayor said I didn't make any promises, but I do promise. | 00:04:26 | |
A relationship dialogue and anything we can assist with, we're going to start with yes. | 00:04:30 | |
So please don't hesitate to call us because we want to be involved. | 00:04:35 | |
So we're looking very well, very much forward. | 00:04:38 | |
But I see it's a core electric cooperative that is 34 highly committed. | 00:04:41 | |
Team members there. | 00:04:46 | |
They love their job and they want to be great. | 00:04:48 | |
I'll just tell you they didn't have the best environment. So that is my job to bring that environment and. | 00:04:50 | |
I'm not gonna take no for an answer. You must be happy when you come to work as a core electric call. That happiness should extend | 00:04:56 | |
to the community and when you want to be happy. | 00:05:01 | |
And respect. | 00:05:06 | |
Just love the small communities, it makes it very easy to do. | 00:05:08 | |
Does anybody have any questions that I can answer? | 00:05:12 | |
Let's go again. | 00:05:15 | |
Why do you choose Sakura? | 00:05:18 | |
So I wanted. | 00:05:20 | |
There was 2 choices that I wanted. | 00:05:21 | |
And that was either New Mexico or Texas. | 00:05:23 | |
There was two cooperatives that came open and I interviewed for both of them and both boards. | 00:05:26 | |
Reverting a pianist and wanted me to wait. | 00:05:30 | |
I wanted to keep kind of close to Wilcox and I wanted more of a challenge. | 00:05:33 | |
I was the vice president of Technical services. | 00:05:37 | |
And. | 00:05:40 | |
For my nature, for what I like, I like to be busy. I like challenges. | 00:05:42 | |
Especially when it comes to leadership and serving employees. | 00:05:46 | |
And then that return is great service to the community. | 00:05:50 | |
So my last 10 to 13 years of my career goal which? | 00:05:54 | |
Having deployed and made it back while I lost friends was the epitome of the climax of my life and careers. I thought, I'm done. | 00:05:58 | |
But I said well. | 00:06:06 | |
This is too easy now. | 00:06:08 | |
Who worked? We created great leaders, did a great turnover at the old Co-op. | 00:06:10 | |
I wanted to find a community. | 00:06:14 | |
That I could give the last 10 to 13 years of serving them with all the experience I had and then working with the tight knit team. | 00:06:17 | |
So that's why I selected super and have questions. You're like, hey. | 00:06:23 | |
I don't know if it's you're too ugly or too flashy to stay here and support. You're worried about me leaving, I said. Listen. | 00:06:28 | |
I'm going nowhere. | 00:06:33 | |
You know, there's the board does have a say on it. | 00:06:35 | |
They can tell me, hey, you're out of here or in one year I'm going to approach the employees and ask them. | 00:06:38 | |
Did we accomplish what we said we would in one year? | 00:06:43 | |
And if they say yes we did, then I'm going to say if not, that's that's the only two reasons I would resign. | 00:06:47 | |
Welcome. That's why I chose the call. | 00:06:52 | |
Just the community, First of all, thank you for your service. | 00:06:55 | |
What I just want to know what your. | 00:07:01 | |
Philosophy is on. | 00:07:04 | |
Industrial rates. | 00:07:06 | |
Or attracting maybe some manufacturing companies to come into Socorro? What are your thoughts on on doing something like that? | 00:07:07 | |
Think we got? | 00:07:16 | |
Kind of caught up in that we have a lot of service industry here in Socorro. | 00:07:17 | |
And we know that those service industries can pass the electric rate to their customer. | 00:07:21 | |
But we are looking for a sustainable manufacturing small little business to start. We had one at Solero. They were doing pretty | 00:07:27 | |
good. | 00:07:32 | |
That one kind of went sideways, but what's your what's your thoughts on that so. | 00:07:36 | |
The way that cooperatives are set up, all our tariffs, our rates are filed with the PRC, so it's approved by them. | 00:07:41 | |
So once that's followed on there, it's hard to change those things. It's not impossible. | 00:07:48 | |
So I believe in. | 00:07:53 | |
Economic development on given whatever the coop can assist in, whether it's deposits, whether it's looking at certain models | 00:07:55 | |
aligned or underground free. | 00:07:59 | |
Because if you think about it. | 00:08:05 | |
Although it looks like you're losing money, that's. | 00:08:07 | |
One, you're offsetting some of their initial cost, but also that's going to be members. | 00:08:10 | |
That are hiring people. | 00:08:15 | |
They're going to employ, you know, industrial, you're employing more than one person, so that's great for the economy. | 00:08:18 | |
The PRC and the race we have filed does require us to look at it and if you violate it, you could be in violation of. | 00:08:23 | |
What you actually found, however. | 00:08:30 | |
You don't stay locked to those things. You look and you assess what's going on and if you can make those adjustments to support | 00:08:32 | |
economic growth and you do it. | 00:08:36 | |
It's just the ideas and to know, hey, what's coming in. | 00:08:40 | |
For example. | 00:08:43 | |
There's been a change in the administration, so it looks favorable for natural gas and different things like that. | 00:08:45 | |
You can invest a lot of money or say you you. | 00:08:51 | |
Make some exceptions. | 00:08:54 | |
And it costs a lot of money. And then things change if the administration change in four years, where now they dial it back. | 00:08:56 | |
The coop loses a lot of money when I say Co-op its members. | 00:09:03 | |
So everybody in here most likely lives on Co-op lines. So it's a member. | 00:09:06 | |
Your accounting on the board and us to make those good financial decisions. | 00:09:10 | |
It's no different than a board or something you're doing for the city. | 00:09:15 | |
But we don't want to. I always try to start with yes. | 00:09:18 | |
Take it back and look at it with your tariffs and there's something we need to file and change then. | 00:09:21 | |
You know, we'll take those steps. | 00:09:26 | |
But instead of just saying no or just completely. | 00:09:28 | |
Isolate yourself or. | 00:09:30 | |
Given the appearance that you're not business friendly or economic growth friendly, that's just not the way to be. | 00:09:32 | |
Does that answer your questions? Yes, Mr. Salome, Mr. Gonzalez. | 00:09:38 | |
If you look. | 00:09:42 | |
At the settlement that PRC did. | 00:09:44 | |
I don't know if you looked at last week, the $948,000 yes, no and we don't agree, we don't want. | 00:09:48 | |
Unless it comes out of your pocket, we don't want the, we don't want the users to pay for it. But the but the specifics of that. | 00:09:55 | |
Of that suit. | 00:10:04 | |
But the PRC said, and correct me if I'm wrong, polo or don't. | 00:10:06 | |
They said you need to develop economic rates. | 00:10:10 | |
I don't know if you read it, I read the whole thing, but it said you were supposed to. | 00:10:13 | |
Develop economic rates. So what Mr. Salome is saying, and you said you look into it says you have to do that. Yeah, the PRC is the | 00:10:17 | |
regulators and they said. | 00:10:22 | |
The other thing they said is do you need to give US-led lighting rates? So there are some. Those are the two specific things I | 00:10:26 | |
know they said. | 00:10:30 | |
And that's the suit that they took, the Supreme Court. | 00:10:33 | |
That that said, PRC had no right to tell her what to do. | 00:10:36 | |
Supreme Court said no, that's not true. | 00:10:40 | |
Here PRC sets the rules. | 00:10:43 | |
And they on top of that, they find them over 900. | 00:10:46 | |
Maybe a million to whatever is going to be. | 00:10:50 | |
For not listening to what the PRC said. | 00:10:53 | |
But in that suit, that does say. | 00:10:56 | |
That the club needs to develop economic rates and so I hope you look at that and and. | 00:10:59 | |
Maybe try to develop those. I mean, not that we've got somebody knocking on the door trying to come in and start a manufacturing, | 00:11:05 | |
but. | 00:11:07 | |
But that's one of the things. The LED lighting is another thing, and I have to tell you have been very helpful. | 00:11:10 | |
And I have to thank Mr. Anaya, the Chairman and I, who actually. | 00:11:16 | |
Started that ball rolling by asking for a meeting when I appreciate that. | 00:11:19 | |
I just want to say that that's in the ruling. | 00:11:24 | |
Yeah, I'm currently waiting for the actual hearing, but I received 2 updated documents. | 00:11:26 | |
I read both of them, but tell your lawyers that is gratis from now on. Don't have them make don't have them charge you. | 00:11:31 | |
Because they've done a terrible job, by the way. | 00:11:37 | |
Just to accomplish, first of all, welcome and thank you for your service. How much experience do you have with renewable energy | 00:11:41 | |
and. | 00:11:45 | |
And what are your thoughts on that? We set records in Arizona for renewables that I happen to be the department I have. | 00:11:49 | |
Which was we took over. | 00:11:57 | |
We had a one MW solar on the South end of our service and then a month one MW on the North End. | 00:11:59 | |
And then we just. | 00:12:08 | |
Installed a 20 MW solar and then a twenty MW battery with a brand new substation. | 00:12:09 | |
So we're very familiar with. | 00:12:15 | |
Renewable. So we take the all, all and above approach of renewables. | 00:12:16 | |
Or you have to be careful is. | 00:12:21 | |
They don't fast ramp. | 00:12:23 | |
So for example, the battery stores, it looked just tremendous. | 00:12:24 | |
The technology is not 100% yet. | 00:12:28 | |
For solar you got to have sun. | 00:12:31 | |
And when that sun disappears, you have to have the type of Elmar 6000 units or something equivalent to that that can ramp up | 00:12:33 | |
quickly so you don't lose power. | 00:12:38 | |
You gotta be careful rendering people vulnerable when you're. | 00:12:44 | |
You know, you're maybe going too aggressive on renewables. We know they work. We know they need the sun or wind in that case, so. | 00:12:48 | |
You got to put the perfect studies into them. | 00:12:57 | |
You've got to use the team and it is possible for renewals, renewables. | 00:12:59 | |
And Mr. Let me add something to that. | 00:13:04 | |
You know Chris Martinez. | 00:13:08 | |
Remember Chris? | 00:13:09 | |
Columbus, you know, Chris is. | 00:13:12 | |
From here, his dad used to work for the city. He works for Columbus. Yeah, but he's a he's a manager. No, I'm going to get to | 00:13:16 | |
that. I'm just trying to remind people who he is. | 00:13:21 | |
And did it work for the? | 00:13:26 | |
Here, I'm not sure you remember John Martinez is his brother who does security cameras. | 00:13:28 | |
But Chris is the manager at Columbus Electric. | 00:13:35 | |
Columbus Electric. | 00:13:38 | |
Doesn't supply Deming, it supplies its supplies. | 00:13:39 | |
The pecan orchards and and the and the farming and when he mentioned. | 00:13:43 | |
Bring you on. | 00:13:50 | |
There was a. There was a. | 00:13:51 | |
A program. | 00:13:53 | |
And it's actually sunsetted, I think, so to speak, I have to use that it's sunsetted. | 00:13:57 | |
That you could bring your own. | 00:14:02 | |
Solar. | 00:14:04 | |
Up to 40%. | 00:14:06 | |
To your electric grid. | 00:14:09 | |
So I was talking to Chris about this and what the Columbus Electric did at the time when we actually mentioned it to the on the | 00:14:11 | |
previous manager. | 00:14:15 | |
That perhaps they should look into electric is that he bought 2%. | 00:14:19 | |
Of solar electricity. | 00:14:23 | |
Not that they've built their own solar array. | 00:14:25 | |
But in Tucson, I thought, maybe it's around Tucson, there's a grid. | 00:14:28 | |
That put together 250 megawatts of solar. | 00:14:32 | |
And so he bought 2% of that. | 00:14:36 | |
Through Columbus Electric. | 00:14:38 | |
So that they would supply and what you have to do is you have to bid on how much you'll pick them for the solar. | 00:14:40 | |
And it was a bidding process. | 00:14:46 | |
I can't remember the amount that he paid. | 00:14:48 | |
But that then got integrated. | 00:14:51 | |
Into the electric that he buys and I guess he buys from tri-state also. | 00:14:53 | |
But there was a window. | 00:14:58 | |
That this. | 00:14:59 | |
Passed up and we talked about this to him. | 00:15:01 | |
And the word is bring your own. | 00:15:03 | |
Which means you can bring your own. You can either build a solar plant yourself. | 00:15:06 | |
Or you can buy into a solar. | 00:15:09 | |
That just put it in the grid. Everything goes around in the same grid. | 00:15:12 | |
But he actually bought 2% of them. | 00:15:16 | |
And so that then it got integrated with the rates of tri-state. | 00:15:18 | |
And we had been trying and trying and trying to talk to the. | 00:15:23 | |
The court and the. | 00:15:26 | |
You know, I'm really glad we're talking and you know, his Co-op is like a was it 400 million? | 00:15:28 | |
Yes, the coop that it came from is a $400 million golf. | 00:15:33 | |
And he was the vice president of technology. | 00:15:37 | |
So, you know, I think he comes from a. | 00:15:40 | |
I think and I hope that he comes from a. | 00:15:42 | |
A place where we are looking into innovation. | 00:15:45 | |
Yeah, we actually partnered with schools. This was. | 00:15:49 | |
At that time I was a journal and technician wiring. | 00:15:52 | |
The major services for the solar. | 00:15:56 | |
At the parking lots and multiple schools in southeastern Arizona. | 00:15:59 | |
There's a social economic justice tool that you bring up, Socorro. | 00:16:03 | |
And you can see all the metrics where we meet. | 00:16:07 | |
All these different. | 00:16:10 | |
And I was surprised to come here and not see any of that. | 00:16:12 | |
Because that's free money. I mean, you got to get to work and do it, but. | 00:16:15 | |
It's doable. Other other places are doing it and. | 00:16:18 | |
That's one thing that was disappointed that I didn't see that here, that partnership opportunity. | 00:16:22 | |
So. | 00:16:27 | |
That's what we're going to meet about on Thursday, so I'm hoping I'm keeping my fingers crossed it. | 00:16:30 | |
It's not too late because this morning. | 00:16:34 | |
I haven't validated myself but I heard they were dialing back. | 00:16:36 | |
Some of the. | 00:16:40 | |
Money for. | 00:16:42 | |
You know, renewable. | 00:16:44 | |
And I think it. | 00:16:46 | |
Well, the the you know, on a smaller scale for sure, not businesses or coops purchasing renewable energy. | 00:16:49 | |
You know you if you look around town. We live in a desert and. | 00:16:54 | |
This is one of the few towns you look around in residential you don't see as many solar panels up on roofs that you see in other | 00:16:58 | |
towns that are within 30 to 45 minutes from here. | 00:17:03 | |
And um. | 00:17:08 | |
You know, I've, I've dealt with them quite a bit and I've talked to. | 00:17:09 | |
And I'm in the business of, you know, dealing with homeowners all the time. And when you do your math, and I'm one that did my | 00:17:13 | |
math, but you know, we just, we decided to try to do what we could do to put solar on our home. | 00:17:19 | |
And golly like the amount that we get paid per kilowatt. I don't even, I don't want to quote it, but I did the math a couple years | 00:17:26 | |
back. | 00:17:30 | |
And if it was in it, if it was in Los Lunas or Albuquerque or anywhere S, the amount of credit were actually being paid per kWh, | 00:17:34 | |
whatever that is. | 00:17:38 | |
It's like a. It's like. | 00:17:43 | |
It's like you're penalizing yourself for doing it here. I mean, really? And then to have different rules for commercial buildings | 00:17:45 | |
where there's commercial property owners that want to have solar on their buildings. | 00:17:51 | |
But uh. | 00:17:56 | |
They don't even get a buyback or there's just certain things that I brought up questions and we've just never gotten answers other | 00:17:57 | |
than no. That's how everybody does it and it's absolutely not. | 00:18:02 | |
How everybody does it and I've got homeowners that want it now in town and there's there's contractors that have shown up in | 00:18:08 | |
Sephora. They want to open up businesses. | 00:18:12 | |
That want to do this and then they find out. | 00:18:16 | |
They're not going to lie to the customer when they do their evaluation and they get their bill and they say. | 00:18:19 | |
Yeah. I mean, it's not going to benefit you. | 00:18:25 | |
Like long term, it'll take you 50 years having these these panels up here to break even. | 00:18:28 | |
Whereas if you move 30 miles up north. | 00:18:33 | |
And then for the business owners, you never break even. | 00:18:36 | |
You're just, you're just doing a favor for the. | 00:18:39 | |
For the Co-op and those are a lot of the complaints I had were around renewable energies and I think it was really exciting to | 00:18:41 | |
find out that maybe this is something we can do as a municipality. | 00:18:45 | |
Even if we don't. | 00:18:50 | |
Engage in the business of so of a. | 00:18:52 | |
Electricity if we were to create some sort of like solar pad or something to put in the grid. | 00:18:55 | |
And I know we're still waiting on some of those numbers, but. | 00:18:59 | |
Man, it will be a breath of fresh air to see the Coop us work together the numbers you're talking about. | 00:19:03 | |
And this is just a. | 00:19:08 | |
Round figure Maybe Paula knows better, but they started out at six to seven cents a kilowatt. | 00:19:09 | |
Reimbursement, they kept dropping it, dropping it dropping. I think it's less than half a cent now. | 00:19:14 | |
That they would, you know, pay so. | 00:19:19 | |
That's that's what happened is that although there's some people like I think are. | 00:19:21 | |
Ex representative. She has a. | 00:19:26 | |
Solar on her positive outcomes building and she zeroes out. | 00:19:28 | |
So that which is great. So she's not getting any money, but she zeros out on her electric bill. | 00:19:32 | |
But then she still is paying for the panels that were up there. | 00:19:37 | |
I think what's council accomplished saying is that. | 00:19:41 | |
That dialogue. | 00:19:44 | |
Was just brushed off. | 00:19:45 | |
It just never happened. And so that's we're just giving you that. Thank you for being here. We definitely want to hear. I mean, | 00:19:47 | |
I've been through. | 00:19:50 | |
A number of situations from when it was heavily subsidized. | 00:19:54 | |
And then people put solar. | 00:19:58 | |
And they were told things like, hey, instead of renting your electricity, why don't you own it? And then they were blown away when | 00:20:00 | |
it came time to maintenance on them and. | 00:20:04 | |
That electric. | 00:20:09 | |
Or that solar supplier had, you know, taken off on them. | 00:20:11 | |
Or when they installed their equipment, their inverter burned down, their warranties weren't, so we would get these calls. | 00:20:14 | |
Recreated at the old coop where you can punch in the data and they'll give you an idea. | 00:20:20 | |
For what your return is because remember when solar when it comes on. | 00:20:24 | |
You don't store it, it doesn't store, so it goes back and you'll use at your house as well. | 00:20:28 | |
So the coop doesn't always get everything that it looks like, that's why you have the. | 00:20:33 | |
Delivered and received. | 00:20:38 | |
You know so and the other thing is that. | 00:20:40 | |
Soldier has got to still go on the line, so there is a maintenance. We're using the same lines to return that power on. | 00:20:42 | |
So calls figure that out and go, wait a minute, we're not charging the maintenance the same maintenance that we pay. | 00:20:49 | |
That cost of service that it costs to get from the GNT. | 00:20:54 | |
To the sub transmission to the distribution substation. | 00:20:57 | |
Through the secondary service to either your home or your business. | 00:21:01 | |
So we pay that maintenance fee we discovered in Arizona. So people weren't paying that, so they wanted to go, wait a minute, we | 00:21:05 | |
can't be subsidizing. | 00:21:09 | |
So there's just some, there's a number of situations. The main thing is. | 00:21:13 | |
We'll definitely look at it. | 00:21:17 | |
Mr. Parkinson, just does that answer your? | 00:21:18 | |
Yes, yeah, that's, I mean just having an open dialogue about it. I mean, it works. It works. Why not try to figure out how we can | 00:21:23 | |
make it work for the benefit of the community and those who want it in the environment? I mean, in the environment, absolutely. | 00:21:29 | |
Thank you that good segue from Go to accomplish. | 00:21:36 | |
We talked earlier before the. | 00:21:40 | |
Before the meeting and it's just good to have somebody and all the great questions that they asked. I don't have a question. | 00:21:42 | |
Thanks for your service. I'm glad that we can have dialogue now and hopefully we can. | 00:21:47 | |
Find, get creative and. | 00:21:53 | |
Find ways to potentially bring rates down for customers, or at least. | 00:21:55 | |
Looking at and working within the community, I think a big complaint too. | 00:21:59 | |
That was that the Co-op really wasn't involved in the community. Just even simple things like putting up the Christmas lights or | 00:22:03 | |
helping out with things like that. That was always seemed like a customer was a norm, right. Yeah. I mean that's very poor to me | 00:22:08 | |
that the cough is not involved. I mean that's business as usual. That's it's just good to hear that you know that there's dialogue | 00:22:14 | |
you know you want your. | 00:22:19 | |
You want to be involved with things. I heard earlier that you're involved in your community, so. | 00:22:25 | |
Thanks for being here. We look forward to continued dialogue. Mr. Romero. I'm basically saying the same thing that the two | 00:22:30 | |
councillors before me were saying. It's like. | 00:22:34 | |
We think we're just happy. | 00:22:39 | |
For the open dialogue and. | 00:22:41 | |
Having you be here tonight and. | 00:22:43 | |
Presented the way you presented positiveness. | 00:22:46 | |
And I appreciate that. | 00:22:50 | |
I just want to say thank you for coming and thank you for your service. | 00:22:53 | |
And you and I talked a little bit about deposits and stuff like that. So thank you for having a. | 00:22:57 | |
An open door and stuff for us. Yeah, definitely. | 00:23:03 | |
Have you met all our directors? | 00:23:07 | |
No. Has everybody, has everybody met? Mr. Martinez? Mr. Luceros are. | 00:23:09 | |
Landfill and solid waste and this guy you need to meet because you're going to start a you're going to start a was it not | 00:23:16 | |
Taekwondo? What was it that you're going to? | 00:23:20 | |
You met Mr. Padilla already? There you go. | 00:23:25 | |
And he, yeah. So he, he's, you know, he's a. | 00:23:29 | |
Fitness guy too. | 00:23:32 | |
As you can tell. | 00:23:33 | |
But you got Ruby Lopez, our finance. | 00:23:35 | |
Who's back there? | 00:23:37 | |
And Chris Carrillo, he's our enforcement. | 00:23:40 | |
Christopher Diaz. | 00:23:44 | |
Chelsea Grammar. No Chelsea. | 00:23:47 | |
Chelsea Jones, our librarian. The best library in the state. | 00:23:50 | |
Isaac Angel is our natural gas. | 00:23:55 | |
Steve Madden. Steve Madden. | 00:23:58 | |
Steve, Matthew. | 00:24:02 | |
Is our rodeo and the recreation out there? | 00:24:04 | |
At the. | 00:24:08 | |
Soccer field and working on a transformer with Lloyd on our new stables. | 00:24:09 | |
So let the. | 00:24:15 | |
You know and and. | 00:24:16 | |
Feel free. And you met Paul, he had your job, but I think he's getting a lot less than you're making people, I think. | 00:24:18 | |
And you met Donald. | 00:24:26 | |
Lena. | 00:24:28 | |
So that's, uh. | 00:24:29 | |
That's our crew. | 00:24:31 | |
And we've got another 130 employees. | 00:24:32 | |
And and you know, we always. | 00:24:36 | |
When Mr. and I was around, even. | 00:24:39 | |
Is that we always had a great relationship with the. | 00:24:41 | |
You know, whether it was Christmas lights or whether you needed a backhoe to dig out something and you guys didn't have the | 00:24:44 | |
equipment and. | 00:24:47 | |
With help and and you guys would help us. I mean that's the way it was. | 00:24:50 | |
And then you know the other thing they're talking about, Miss Charles Lopez said. | 00:24:54 | |
You know about about deposits? | 00:24:58 | |
Having to bring your. | 00:25:01 | |
Your warranty deed for the Silda. | 00:25:03 | |
House you know, and whether you own the house and when you're leasing it. | 00:25:06 | |
I mean, PNM, if you're an Albuquerque, just put it on the computer and you got the service. | 00:25:10 | |
Those are the things that were difficult. | 00:25:15 | |
That the public used to come and complain to us about. | 00:25:17 | |
Over and above the rates and stuff. It wasn't just the rates. | 00:25:20 | |
It was more subjective stuff. | 00:25:23 | |
You know, but with your outgoing personality, I know it'll be a big help. | 00:25:26 | |
Just to have. | 00:25:29 | |
You know people many times you're not going to get what they want, but at least they want to. | 00:25:30 | |
Feel that they got listened to. | 00:25:34 | |
I think that's the most important thing. Well, it's about relationships, in my opinion. You know, we're going to. | 00:25:36 | |
And if I'm there 10 to 13 years and maybe longer? | 00:25:42 | |
We have a say on how our relationship is going to be. | 00:25:45 | |
You know you can close your door and not want to talk to anybody in office but. | 00:25:48 | |
I don't believe in leadership from behind a desk. | 00:25:52 | |
And the community is important. | 00:25:56 | |
It's very foreign to hear the things that. | 00:25:58 | |
From the past, because it's something I don't subscribe to, you know, we are. | 00:26:01 | |
We want to be partners with everybody here and we believe in relationships and. | 00:26:05 | |
The 34 employees that are currently there, they feel the same way and they told me these stories of how it felt to be involved in | 00:26:09 | |
the community. | 00:26:13 | |
Most of them are born and raised here. | 00:26:16 | |
I didn't like to do these things about 28 those employees when the previous manager started. | 00:26:19 | |
No longer work there. I've seen a that's one of the first things I asked for when you're trying to give me fluff. I just say let | 00:26:24 | |
me see an HR will notice what's your turnover rate? Let me see the employment turnover rate. That's that's great that you're, you | 00:26:28 | |
know, attacking and. | 00:26:33 | |
We'll hopefully we can talk again after your Thursday meeting and. | 00:26:38 | |
And see what happened but. | 00:26:41 | |
You know, just from the administrative point of view. | 00:26:43 | |
We're still moving ahead with some financing as to what this is going to cost us. | 00:26:47 | |
And whether it's solar is still going to be around when Trump is there. | 00:26:51 | |
The other thing is. | 00:26:54 | |
We are also asking our lawyers, I want to say that in public. | 00:26:56 | |
To continue the process of. | 00:27:00 | |
Upholding the previous manager and the coop trustees accountable for what happened with a large fine that so we're still moving | 00:27:03 | |
ahead. | 00:27:08 | |
As far as the city is concerned on that. | 00:27:14 | |
Forefront shouldn't be any hard feelings, but we feel. | 00:27:16 | |
The way it was done was wrong and that needs to be documented. | 00:27:21 | |
Yeah, I got 2 recent documents that are. | 00:27:24 | |
I got him. | 00:27:27 | |
Was that last Thursday? | 00:27:30 | |
So so PRC is moving ahead. | 00:27:33 | |
And like I said, they wanted us to. | 00:27:36 | |
Our lawyers to go and. | 00:27:38 | |
I don't know what tech is doing, but our lawyer is going to continue. | 00:27:40 | |
The process because we haven't backed off on that. | 00:27:43 | |
But hopefully we have a bright future and that we're in. | 00:27:45 | |
Get along and City is not going to be in the electric business. So hopefully this will come to fruition, but. | 00:27:48 | |
We still have that pressure that we want to try to make the coop. | 00:27:54 | |
Feel that they or we feel that the coop is doing. | 00:27:58 | |
The community service that they should be doing and we got a lot of work to do over there, We're operating off 2011 rates. | 00:28:02 | |
And you know, we're hurting at the coop, but we're going to. | 00:28:09 | |
Stay focused now or down before. | 00:28:12 | |
What's that? | 00:28:15 | |
Yeah. We have not had a rate case since 2011, so you know. | 00:28:16 | |
Just got there too so. | 00:28:22 | |
You guys can get the $0.10? Yeah, they were encouraging about you know, they sent me that from but you know the. | 00:28:23 | |
Sorry to digress, but the bottom line is if the coop would be more efficient. | 00:28:31 | |
And not spend 1,000,000 bucks on legal affairs and spend their time on doing community stuff. | 00:28:37 | |
I mean, you can be saving money. | 00:28:44 | |
And that's my opinion, but. | 00:28:47 | |
I just don't think the coop has been run very efficiently. | 00:28:49 | |
But you know you got. | 00:28:52 | |
I mean, they can say the same thing about the city, but. | 00:28:53 | |
You know, at least we talk about it, but well, my assessment says the same thing and I'm looking forward to. | 00:28:56 | |
Not repeating what has been done. You started the great you started on. Thank you again. | 00:29:01 | |
Can talk to you about Richard Richard Lopez. | 00:29:10 | |
When he was there, when you'll hear little stories about him and. | 00:29:13 | |
And he was, he was a big part of. | 00:29:18 | |
Getting the connection was his position. | 00:29:20 | |
He was an engineer, he was a city councillor. | 00:29:23 | |
Haven't heard that name. They passed away. Oh no, he's passed away and that was tragic. But he was a big member of the community. | 00:29:26 | |
And always looked out for us and he was the engineer. | 00:29:35 | |
OK, Richard Lopez, I'll ask. | 00:29:39 | |
But yeah, yeah. | 00:29:42 | |
Oh oh. | 00:29:44 | |
But anyway, thank you again for coming back. Thank you anyone else. We took up a lot of the public. | 00:29:48 | |
Time, but that was well worth it. | 00:29:56 | |
Anybody else here that's behind the days? | 00:29:58 | |
Someone up if you're not on. | 00:30:01 | |
And he is your business, your business license again and you're still working at it. | 00:30:04 | |
You got any customers? Yes, I. | 00:30:09 | |
I've been doing a lot of door knocking. I had a few. | 00:30:12 | |
Driveways and a few bites on my express the car detailing that I'll. | 00:30:16 | |
That I'm providing, yeah, but. | 00:30:21 | |
My biggest hit is up and coming as soon as this license. If I get there OK, my biggest contract I'll be landing is Walmart. | 00:30:23 | |
And what is? | 00:30:30 | |
There will be Walmart Super Center. | 00:30:32 | |
And. | 00:30:35 | |
The I do the graveyard shift as right now because I gotta get ready for my shift after I'm done here. | 00:30:36 | |
Because of that I've been going back and forth with my HR about. | 00:30:42 | |
The the facilities trash compactor because in hot summer days working. | 00:30:49 | |
Over there in the overnight. | 00:30:54 | |
It reeks. It's pretty much kind of hazardous to be back there breathing that in. | 00:30:56 | |
And. | 00:31:01 | |
I've been struggling across pressure washing as a business. | 00:31:02 | |
And, and it's something that I enjoy doing because I did a lot of. | 00:31:06 | |
Yard work. I've worked for the city, I worked for Emer Tech, I've worked for Solaro Thai. I'm happy that that was brought up. | 00:31:10 | |
And I just been around multiple businesses around here. | 00:31:17 | |
So and. | 00:31:21 | |
Do that for Walmart. | 00:31:23 | |
Yes, I'm a plan to do it for Walmart and it's and being this Walmart is contracted through the law soon as Walmart so I will have | 00:31:25 | |
support and loss in this. | 00:31:29 | |
And I have. | 00:31:34 | |
Further had a discussion with AutoZone and they're up and coming to see if they won't take me on. | 00:31:36 | |
And if I do a good enough job with them, I'll be from Sapporo. | 00:31:42 | |
Student charge to do a microphone. We did that once, didn't we? For the whole city? | 00:31:47 | |
Where we pressure washed all the garbage cans and stuff. It's just a. | 00:31:53 | |
It depended on various like. | 00:31:57 | |
What materials was in the trash cans at the beans if? | 00:32:00 | |
Like if someone has the city dumped, like if they change their oil and they dumped in the blue bands or something. | 00:32:03 | |
It's going to take more consideration so for the environment wise. | 00:32:10 | |
For my chemical saturation for cyber. | 00:32:13 | |
Sodium hypochlorite or. | 00:32:16 | |
Of my other my degrees or something like that, because I got to take mine where agriculture stay. | 00:32:18 | |
Stretch it up. I'm not at the moment for the suction. | 00:32:25 | |
But right now I do a very heavy dilution process, so. | 00:32:29 | |
When I had to flow into the city's gutters. | 00:32:34 | |
It's very dilute, so it's not opposed any. | 00:32:37 | |
Any environmental like risk? | 00:32:41 | |
And my chemical columns that I mainly use is PITA approved because in agriculture because I also. | 00:32:43 | |
Express the detailing I expressed into the city might be interested in. | 00:32:51 | |
Working with them twice a year or so to do the whole. | 00:32:56 | |
City and the dumpsters and stuff, and that's one reason I was happy with Cheryl back there. | 00:32:59 | |
See their sanitation manager. | 00:33:05 | |
It's actually my brother and Rick is boss. | 00:33:07 | |
All right, Yeah. | 00:33:10 | |
Say he's OK or what? | 00:33:12 | |
To him about doing something for the city, if you want to try to get something, I'm happy to bring that forth to the city and | 00:33:15 | |
happy to come here again because I want to express. | 00:33:19 | |
Even the further of my ambition is to. | 00:33:23 | |
For the city, local parks. | 00:33:26 | |
Well we have very little sanitation and COVID and RSV and other as being a father RV is a heavy. | 00:33:27 | |
Issue for young infants and children. | 00:33:34 | |
So I have one of my mobile detail unit is up and going. I would like to request for permission. | 00:33:36 | |
To come to a drive on local parks and. | 00:33:43 | |
Either shut it down for a day, or there's Lloyd Martinez there. | 00:33:46 | |
He's the head of Let's see what you can do. | 00:33:51 | |
But I want to. | 00:33:53 | |
I know you're naming all these. | 00:33:56 | |
Pandemic type stuff. | 00:33:58 | |
Let's not rile the public up here. | 00:34:01 | |
If you want, let me let's do some cultures first and see what you can grow out of. | 00:34:04 | |
Slides and stuff. I mean, I'm not going to promise you anything on that one. | 00:34:10 | |
I think the garbage stuff you can really help us with. | 00:34:14 | |
But talk to Lloyd about our parks and our. | 00:34:17 | |
Our equipment up there and see if there is some. | 00:34:20 | |
Residue of any kind of contaminants of viruses and things. | 00:34:22 | |
But we can, we can maybe do some swabbing and check and see what we got before you say. | 00:34:26 | |
All this stuff is scrolling out there because. | 00:34:31 | |
Oxidation and air actually in the outdoors. | 00:34:34 | |
Helps basically to contaminate a lot of that. | 00:34:37 | |
And I actually understand that, but with also the ongoing. | 00:34:41 | |
Issue that I know with loose animals and. | 00:34:44 | |
With a lot of going on I've been noticing. | 00:34:48 | |
I came very prepared about this. I did nine months of research. So let's let's try a little, let's start small. | 00:34:56 | |
That we can grow the. | 00:35:02 | |
Business, but let's start small and see what Mike about your also would like to also talk to Mr. Salami because I want to also | 00:35:04 | |
extend it to the schools because. | 00:35:08 | |
Well, he's not in this reason. | 00:35:13 | |
Oh, is that one up? | 00:35:15 | |
It's been so many years since then. | 00:35:17 | |
Look back again. But anyway, thank you for your comments. If I could extend it to this evening. | 00:35:22 | |
W9 have you done AW 9 here with the office? Is that what he needs to be a vendor? | 00:35:30 | |
But you only get a WI when you make. | 00:35:36 | |
When you spend money with you, right? Or do we just give them one what we want them to do? We're going to pass at 1099. | 00:35:39 | |
OK, Mr. Mayor, Mr. | 00:35:46 | |
Don't get any more work with. I just wanna say good job. Work hard Jordan, keep you up. | 00:35:52 | |
George, George is on the business registration. So we're gonna, yeah, this is what I was looking for. I was gonna approve it | 00:35:56 | |
though. And just one thing I could also extend to the community for anybody. | 00:36:02 | |
Would like any mobile detailing or their homes, fences, businesses. | 00:36:08 | |
Or it might be I'm the one and the only. | 00:36:13 | |
Person in our county that was doing this business. | 00:36:16 | |
Competition wise. | 00:36:21 | |
The nearest person is in Las Cruces. | 00:36:22 | |
And up north of Rio Rancho and Albuquerque. | 00:36:25 | |
Is there certification for use of your chemicals? | 00:36:29 | |
Because since I'm using the basic computer approved off the shelf of Walmart party. | 00:36:32 | |
Party usage of chemical. | 00:36:38 | |
Nothing commercial grade. | 00:36:40 | |
There's no licenses or permits that is required to me. | 00:36:41 | |
Well, thank you. Thanks for calling. | 00:36:45 | |
I don't mean to underneath like I said, I got a my data or my overnight job with Walmart and the voting father. | 00:36:49 | |
So I gotta cut and go. Thank you. | 00:36:56 | |
Good man, good luck with your. | 00:36:59 | |
Responsibilities. | 00:37:01 | |
Of energy. What is that? What did I promise? | 00:37:03 | |
I think the public really liked the. | 00:37:12 | |
At one time that we went and cleaned up all the garbage cans. | 00:37:15 | |
With my. | 00:37:19 | |
Remember that, Mike? Yeah, I think they like that and even the dumpsters at the commercial is maybe give them a service like that. | 00:37:23 | |
I think that would be a good thing. | 00:37:27 | |
Yeah, Yeah. Enrique, see how he's doing over there. | 00:37:34 | |
So. | 00:37:37 | |
We did that in the summertime when all the flies. | 00:37:41 | |
I think the people like that. | 00:37:44 | |
Anyway, anybody else? | 00:37:46 | |
Nobody. | 00:37:49 | |
We are going to go to the ordinance for the. I don't know what CWSRF stands for, but. | 00:37:51 | |
Donald does. What does that stand for? | 00:37:56 | |
Clean Water State revolving funds, that's what it is. How much money are we talking about? It's an additional 750,500 thousand to | 00:37:59 | |
grants two 50s alone. | 00:38:03 | |
So we'd like to action on that. | 00:38:08 | |
Mr. Make a motion when you pass ordinance #24-12-17 Second. | 00:38:11 | |
So moved and seconded and Lloyd, that gets us to the end of Spring Street. | 00:38:17 | |
Up into the hill. | 00:38:23 | |
OK, so that that really? | 00:38:25 | |
That's the. | 00:38:29 | |
Last area does not have sores in our city. | 00:38:30 | |
We started this project maybe 15 years ago then. | 00:38:33 | |
Starting off. | 00:38:37 | |
Harold Drive. But this is the end of that. | 00:38:38 | |
Roll call please. | 00:38:41 | |
Councillor Chavis Lopez. | 00:38:43 | |
Concert game. | 00:38:46 | |
Councillor Ocampo, Yes. | 00:38:48 | |
Counsel again. Yes. Councillor Partridge. Yes. Councillor Romero. Yes. Councillor Salami, Yes. | 00:38:50 | |
Passes. | 00:38:57 | |
OK, now the LGRF terminate change. | 00:38:59 | |
We're asking This is the local government's road fund, Donald. | 00:39:04 | |
Yes Sir, initially we were awarded 200,000 I believe for the streets over by Tech. | 00:39:08 | |
Will you work with the contractor and got a quote and? | 00:39:16 | |
Was actually under what we were funded. | 00:39:19 | |
So as we. | 00:39:22 | |
Working around the courthouse. | 00:39:24 | |
Lloyd requested that we move this money to include some other streets over there. So that's what we're asking the dot to do is. | 00:39:26 | |
Mean the additional streets in this grant. | 00:39:33 | |
Make a motion to pass resolution #25-01-21A. | 00:39:37 | |
Second moved and seconded discussion. | 00:39:42 | |
All in favor, aye. Now we're going to adopt the City of Sakura Aging Services Program Policy Manual. | 00:39:45 | |
Why is that Linda not here? | 00:39:52 | |
Anyway, Lina. | 00:39:54 | |
Adding a code of conduct. | 00:39:58 | |
For the senior centers, we have issues with some of the seniors when they get a little riled up. We need to be able to. | 00:40:01 | |
Not allow them to attend for a while. | 00:40:10 | |
So all we're doing is adding a code of conduct. | 00:40:12 | |
Motion passed. Resolution #25-01-21B. | 00:40:16 | |
2nd so moved and seconded discussion for you guys left. | 00:40:22 | |
As a code of conduct. | 00:40:26 | |
We'll get that for the we'll get that for the City Council, too. | 00:40:29 | |
The man. | 00:40:33 | |
So we. | 00:40:37 | |
You know, with the senior programs going great, Vegeta is going great. | 00:40:38 | |
But we have occasionally. | 00:40:42 | |
Some disturbances from the employees. | 00:40:44 | |
Which is I guess when you have employees that happens. | 00:40:47 | |
And we want to, we want to make that, you know, especially when you're dealing with seniors. | 00:40:51 | |
So we're. | 00:40:55 | |
Want to make sure that we. | 00:40:56 | |
We have that in place. | 00:40:57 | |
All in favor. | 00:40:59 | |
I want to present the Council with a proposal. | 00:41:02 | |
To acquire the Hefner gravel pit on Lopezville Road. | 00:41:06 | |
Reason being and I won't disclose the amount, but it's. | 00:41:09 | |
Within the appraisal. | 00:41:13 | |
Of 137,000 or so I think. | 00:41:15 | |
That's the appraisal. | 00:41:18 | |
Two things. One of them, I've always wanted to develop a water park. | 00:41:20 | |
Ruidoso has it, Deming has 1 Santa. | 00:41:26 | |
Santa Rosa has a nice. | 00:41:29 | |
But #2 that came to mind was. | 00:41:32 | |
The Conservancy needs a overflow. | 00:41:35 | |
Area, uh. | 00:41:39 | |
For their ditches. | 00:41:40 | |
They say when they get flash floods. | 00:41:42 | |
They have so much water coming in from the arroyos. | 00:41:45 | |
Into the ditches. | 00:41:48 | |
That they need to. | 00:41:49 | |
Remove some of that water and that would be a perfect spot. Look, can you tell us a little bit about what they said? | 00:41:51 | |
Come on up. | 00:41:57 | |
Well, that all that water there comes to that. | 00:42:04 | |
To the ditch there, right above. | 00:42:07 | |
From middle school and. | 00:42:09 | |
They would help to relieve water that comes to Sakura and just backs up so when it gets to Sakura it comes into the ditches into | 00:42:12 | |
Socorro. | 00:42:16 | |
And then you have the outlet over there on Hope Farms Rd. crossing. The railroad tax is too small of an outlet. | 00:42:19 | |
So everything backs up into Socorro. | 00:42:24 | |
They're saying if we. | 00:42:27 | |
Require that the gravel pit and drop. | 00:42:29 | |
Some water there, it would help out with the flooding in the coral because and the median that we had with the Conservancy. | 00:42:31 | |
They want Sakura to have to be able to hold water for the 100 year flood. | 00:42:38 | |
And which we really can't, so this would be a big value for that. | 00:42:43 | |
Because. | 00:42:47 | |
They actually want us to pump water that plants, it's a coral to the river. | 00:42:49 | |
Because the Conservancy can't. Their facilities can't handle 100 year flood either. | 00:42:53 | |
So this would really help out. | 00:42:59 | |
And showing that we're gonna, we're helping out to stop some of that water, I mean, because otherwise. | 00:43:00 | |
I mean, where are we going to plant water and you know, in the last 1520 years? | 00:43:07 | |
We've developed a lot of ponds. | 00:43:11 | |
That we don't have the flooding like we used to. | 00:43:13 | |
But those ponds are emptied into irrigation ditches by active pump. | 00:43:15 | |
Now, if there's already water coming through those ditches, they're not going to let us pump that into that into those ditches. | 00:43:20 | |
So it's kind of a twofold thing is to have a. | 00:43:25 | |
Trying to develop a recreation area. | 00:43:28 | |
And also have something so that. So I'm putting that on as a discussion and. | 00:43:31 | |
If the Council would allow me to go ahead and try to go. | 00:43:37 | |
Negotiate the price with Mr. Hefner. | 00:43:40 | |
I would appreciate that. I mean there's any. | 00:43:43 | |
And we had the money. We've done fairly well with our gross receipts. | 00:43:46 | |
So I just think if we could go ahead and do that, I think it would be good. | 00:43:50 | |
No deal. What happened? | 00:43:54 | |
We're still talking about economic development money. I'm going to give you that. It's going to come out of reserves. | 00:43:58 | |
You know, and I'm not gonna. | 00:44:06 | |
Tell everybody about this but. | 00:44:08 | |
Keep it to yourself. We're about a million. We're about a million to over what our projections were. | 00:44:09 | |
A million, too. | 00:44:15 | |
This is 6 months. | 00:44:17 | |
Told Mr. Hello. | 00:44:19 | |
Slowly conservative will help. | 00:44:22 | |
They help with the channeling of the water and then the pumping station. | 00:44:24 | |
Right. Or how was it OK? | 00:44:29 | |
Gravity, OK, you know how the ditches so there's no compensation and you wouldn't pump it out, it stay there, but that would help | 00:44:32 | |
us to channel it. | 00:44:36 | |
We're not. I mean, they're going to develop a conduit and all that stuff like that together with them. They put a turn out. Of | 00:44:41 | |
course they would build a turn out. They could turn out and. | 00:44:45 | |
Put a gate to stop it and they were diverted in there and it would either be an open channel or it would be a covert to the | 00:44:50 | |
bottom. | 00:44:53 | |
But that plan, there was number there. It couldn't have enough water to fill that pond up. | 00:44:57 | |
Mr. Mr. Earlier Well wasn't there talks of that that that area being for the for the Eagle pitcher cleanup pump the water from | 00:45:03 | |
that. | 00:45:07 | |
That's, that's the secret #3 that's, that's we get our money back. | 00:45:11 | |
You know, since you brought it up. | 00:45:18 | |
We've been working with the environmental department for, God knows, 15 years on this project. | 00:45:21 | |
And they finally designed where they're going to pump all that water out of the ground into. | 00:45:26 | |
And that was a pond. | 00:45:31 | |
And so then we will workout. And what they offered was that if we owned a pond. | 00:45:33 | |
They would help us for gratis. | 00:45:39 | |
To develop a landscaping scheme. | 00:45:41 | |
And and maybe a camping ground type of thing. Not that they would do it, but they would develop the plans for it. | 00:45:44 | |
And that's what I would hope. And then we would have. | 00:45:50 | |
You know, kayaks or you know, I don't know if you've been out to Santa Rosa, but they have this fantastic how they have. | 00:45:52 | |
They have stuff really, a lot of water toys and. | 00:45:57 | |
People you know, it's a good recreation area. | 00:46:00 | |
Because they wanted to put into our city sewers and there's no way we can handle it at the plant, you know, for 20 years. There's | 00:46:03 | |
no way. | 00:46:06 | |
And then they didn't want to pay us for what it would be worth. | 00:46:09 | |
And then when they put into our water system, who wants water that? | 00:46:12 | |
That's contaminated and cleaned up and then put into our system. We don't want that either. That is, yes. | 00:46:15 | |
And we're working with them. | 00:46:21 | |
But that's whether they do that or, you know, I don't know what their timetables tell you, frankly. | 00:46:22 | |
But this other thing came up. | 00:46:28 | |
As far as because we are. | 00:46:30 | |
We are duty bound to the Conservancy. | 00:46:33 | |
About the overflow of water. | 00:46:38 | |
And when we did Bullock. | 00:46:40 | |
They asked us to hold bullets, water. | 00:46:42 | |
So then we run that on the street right now. | 00:46:45 | |
So you know that that's this is kind of a. | 00:46:48 | |
Trying to get a working relationship with a Conservancy. | 00:46:52 | |
On this, they do have a they have they have a terrible time when they got a flash flood. Sometimes they even wash out the ditches. | 00:46:55 | |
And so they want to take that pressure off. | 00:47:02 | |
Mr. Portage. | 00:47:04 | |
Similar to the the area by the scroll Gonzalez schools that holding on there. How's the city like protect itself or something like | 00:47:06 | |
that's going on? Just just out of curiosity from my end, like if if we pumped a bunch of water into there and we own that land. | 00:47:13 | |
God forbid something say that again, I'm not sure. | 00:47:20 | |
Like as far as if we're going to divert water into that area, and that's a privately owned area right now, somebody's liable for | 00:47:23 | |
that, that that drains into the ground. | 00:47:27 | |
You're talking about that. You're talking about the, the this, if there's like a large amount of water in there, do we? | 00:47:32 | |
At that point, we're going to assume the liability for that. | 00:47:40 | |
I don't think we can ever fill that that sure. Or I mean, even if it's a large amount and there's something though, because people | 00:47:42 | |
are using that, I'm not opposed to it. I think it's a good idea. And at the at the at the gravel, at the gravel pit. Yes, Sir. | 00:47:48 | |
I don't think you can almost throw that whole area that no, no, not overflow it, just if they're standing water in that area or | 00:47:55 | |
something having water now. | 00:47:58 | |
Water table but we don't own it. | 00:48:02 | |
No, no, no. But in the future we want to do is clean it up is put up a fountain. | 00:48:04 | |
And have that water cleaned up that way. Yeah, Yeah. No, no, you're right. It's not going to be standing. | 00:48:09 | |
It's not going to be standing that brackish water. First of all, if you want to look at the five year plan for this. | 00:48:15 | |
Won't be around for that. | 00:48:21 | |
Maybe so. Maybe I like, but that needs to be dredged. That whole grout, that whole pit needs to be dredged. Sorry, Marianne, You | 00:48:23 | |
could. I'm sorry. | 00:48:27 | |
No, but the five year plan would be initially dredged. | 00:48:34 | |
There needs to be a fountain to aerate the water. | 00:48:38 | |
And then we start working on like, yeah. | 00:48:40 | |
Yeah, should not be standing water anymore. Just to say when they we had the meetings and have you pumped into that thing for 20 | 00:48:43 | |
years. | 00:48:47 | |
You pumped water 24/7 for 20 years. You would only raise it 2 feet. | 00:48:51 | |
Because it goes into the Aquaphor. | 00:48:56 | |
Raise it up two feet. Yeah, in 20 years. But. But you're right about the standing water and the brackishness. Yeah, it's just | 00:48:59 | |
nasty. | 00:49:02 | |
Because there's mattress, there's people, people come by and dumped all kinds of stuff in there. | 00:49:07 | |
Mr. Sloane, well, you got the right guy on the job because Lloyd used to get stuck at the gravel pits every week back in back in | 00:49:11 | |
London. | 00:49:15 | |
Plays real well. | 00:49:19 | |
With A6 iron or. | 00:49:22 | |
No. OK, but anyways there's no. | 00:49:28 | |
Nothing that the Council would. I'd like to, I mean, I'll bring it to you, but. | 00:49:31 | |
I just brought that up. | 00:49:35 | |
OK. Thank you. | 00:49:37 | |
Very good. And then? | 00:49:39 | |
We have what? | 00:49:43 | |
Committee reports We've met committees. Mr. Chavez Lopez. | 00:49:45 | |
On the animal shelter we're going to meet. | 00:49:49 | |
The January 27th at 11:00 at the Council Chambers. | 00:49:52 | |
And who are the two people that you want to appoint from the public? | 00:49:58 | |
I was sitting in the audience, no noise. | 00:50:06 | |
Well, I got a chance to have an appointment and has it re ended Viceli Viceli. | 00:50:17 | |
Ben Vaselli. | 00:50:23 | |
And. | 00:50:26 | |
Miss Tevis. So the county of the county, if the county, if the City Council, would approve those two. | 00:50:27 | |
As an addition of the public members of that committee. | 00:50:34 | |
Make a motion. | 00:50:38 | |
2nd. | 00:50:40 | |
And all in favor, aye. | 00:50:42 | |
The Planning and Zoning Committee. | 00:50:44 | |
We're actually meeting tomorrow. | 00:50:46 | |
They're actually meeting tomorrow. | 00:50:47 | |
Did you guys form another committee? | 00:50:49 | |
When you're gone next time. | 00:50:55 | |
Gone on the 4th but. | 00:50:58 | |
If you want to, we can I can forward you the article from the Santa Fe, NM. | 00:51:01 | |
About the animal shelter. | 00:51:05 | |
Is a fairly fair. It was fair. | 00:51:07 | |
And then I have some updates. | 00:51:09 | |
On the. | 00:51:12 | |
Shelter also. | 00:51:13 | |
I don't see Lupe out there, but. | 00:51:15 | |
There's some updates as far as. | 00:51:17 | |
Us working with Albuquerque to help us adopt. | 00:51:19 | |
Animals. | 00:51:22 | |
And then, then whatever the committee comes up with. | 00:51:23 | |
We will then look and see if we can't implement that. | 00:51:27 | |
Mr. Abbas and then on the Police Oversight Commission. | 00:51:31 | |
I have one. | 00:51:35 | |
One committee member that I'd like to appoint. | 00:51:38 | |
Peggy Lopez. And that's on the northeast quadrant. | 00:51:41 | |
And I still need. | 00:51:45 | |
One for the SE quadrant. | 00:51:46 | |
Northwest quadrant and the southwest quadrant. So if anybody is interested. | 00:51:49 | |
4-3 more. I need three more because they all expired. So, Mr. Mayor. | 00:51:54 | |
Is she talking? The Police Oversight Commission is already full. | 00:52:00 | |
They all expired. | 00:52:05 | |
Huh. They're all expired. | 00:52:06 | |
From what I saw. | 00:52:09 | |
The last appointment, Lopez and then we can look and see who the other three are that we need to be reappointed. | 00:52:10 | |
From when I thought of them, they resigned. No, they didn't resign. They were just. | 00:52:17 | |
If we're asking if they want to be reassured if the council agrees to appoint Peggy Lopez. | 00:52:22 | |
So moving to secondary appointment, Mr. Peggy Lopez from the North. | 00:52:33 | |
East Corner Hall of Fame, all right. | 00:52:37 | |
Police oversight committee is important because that's where. | 00:52:41 | |
It's a third party committee that looks at any kind of police. | 00:52:43 | |
Overreach. | 00:52:48 | |
And what else? | 00:52:50 | |
OK, I got all the department directors that wanted to come came. | 00:52:52 | |
So whether we give them a chance to say their piece, Steve, come on. | 00:52:55 | |
You haven't spoken for a long time. | 00:52:59 | |
Let us know what's going on if it's kind of dormant out there, but. | 00:53:01 | |
You know, how's the grass and all that good stuff. | 00:53:04 | |
The new state? How about the new the new stables that are coming up? | 00:53:09 | |
Yeah, the 30 new stables are coming along real nice. | 00:53:13 | |
That'll be a big help of these larger rodeos coming up. | 00:53:17 | |
In April. So when is that happening? | 00:53:20 | |
April, it will be April 16th and 17th. The high school will be back early. Wonderful. Mr. Partridge, we haven't been in there for | 00:53:23 | |
an event to see what the sense of society would have been like. Did you see a difference in there? Do you know? The same big | 00:53:28 | |
difference? Yeah. You know, we have some really windy days out there as you get closer towards the metal. Just really just calm. | 00:53:33 | |
Huge difference. Great. And we're getting a. | 00:53:38 | |
Price for the sound. | 00:53:44 | |
Which is going to get done. | 00:53:46 | |
That's that's the next step. | 00:53:48 | |
And we're not using them for the graduations again this year. | 00:53:50 | |
That's up to the high school in tech. I don't know what's going on. | 00:53:53 | |
It's on the senior week calendar that came out today that they are using the yeah, I didn't know if they were there anymore. | 00:53:58 | |
Lloyd is working on doing the. | 00:54:05 | |
RV Park. | 00:54:08 | |
Showers and. | 00:54:15 | |
Concession areas getting built also is getting done. | 00:54:16 | |
There will be done. | 00:54:20 | |
Anything else extra maintenance, A lot of painting inside and around the arena, doing a lot of extra. | 00:54:22 | |
And is your equipment? | 00:54:27 | |
Trying to stay warm today. | 00:54:30 | |
Of both tractors and Justice One. | 00:54:32 | |
All tractors are working great and I've been used currently, but they're both working great. | 00:54:34 | |
Sounds good, Chelsea, you got all kinds of stuff up here. | 00:54:39 | |
What's going on? | 00:54:42 | |
This for me and everybody else AT Shirt. | 00:54:47 | |
Oh my goodness, I only had a couple left so they sold out three. | 00:54:49 | |
But I brought you bags. Constellation price. | 00:54:55 | |
Yes, we've been really busy. We had our 100th year celebration. Unfortunately, like I said, we ran out of shirts, but. | 00:54:59 | |
Take a look, they're pretty neat. | 00:55:05 | |
So some updates are building. We're waiting on a quote to replace the encounter. It hasn't been. | 00:55:08 | |
Replaced since it was put in so it's pretty worn out. We check out a lot of books, which is a good thing. | 00:55:13 | |
The Friends of the Library is going to provide the funds for that project. | 00:55:19 | |
City administration's been working with me to secure funds to update the elevator. The equipment obsolete, so it's definitely | 00:55:23 | |
something we need to update. | 00:55:27 | |
We're looking at repairing some stucco damage and water leaks to the porches. | 00:55:32 | |
And received 2 quotes so far through Firebirds. Quote was 40,000 but they're only doing the stucco. | 00:55:38 | |
Robert Rinconis, who's a local contractor. He quoted 42,000. | 00:55:45 | |
But he'll also repair the porches that. | 00:55:50 | |
And then I'm waiting for my brothers. That was recommended by Marianne, I believe. | 00:55:53 | |
They're working with you. | 00:55:57 | |
Staff changes personnel. We have Nelda Silva, she's going to start as a library assistant through the WILD program. So that's a | 00:55:59 | |
program to help. | 00:56:03 | |
People train and come back into the workforce, so we're excited about that. | 00:56:07 | |
We have two openings in addition to that. We'll be interviewing tomorrow. | 00:56:11 | |
Circulation assistant and youth service assistant, We had 14 applicants, so. | 00:56:15 | |
We're excited about that. | 00:56:19 | |
Programming I've attached our calendar for the kids room. The Winter Reading program ends this month, the 31st of this month. | 00:56:21 | |
So get get into, finish those challenges. We have some kids really reading a lot of books, so they're getting prizes and they're | 00:56:30 | |
also getting prizes for finding a golden ticket in a book. | 00:56:35 | |
I also attached the adult calendar. I won't go through all of the programs, but we're still doing meditation yoga. | 00:56:42 | |
Literacy is going really well, I'm doing GD tests every week. | 00:56:48 | |
We have an ESL beginner and intermediate classes twice a week. | 00:56:52 | |
We also do ESL, GED and reading. | 00:56:56 | |
We're also working in the detention center twice a week. | 00:57:00 | |
And I do want to bring up that we lost an advocate to that program, Vanessa Garcia. | 00:57:04 | |
Was a huge supporter of the literacy program we've been in there. | 00:57:09 | |
About two years and so I do want to give condolences to her family. | 00:57:13 | |
She'll be greatly missed. | 00:57:17 | |
Love your library, Kendall. | 00:57:20 | |
Ask Cheyenne to call the hospital. | 00:57:25 | |
Because they wanted to use the Convention Center for services and reception. | 00:57:27 | |
Stefani Sartre. | 00:57:31 | |
Thanks for reminding me and I have a lot of volunteers who will be willing to donate to cover the cost of the rental. Like I said, | 00:57:34 | |
she from day one, she supported our outreach in there and we have people that are coming. | 00:57:40 | |
Out of detention and finishing their GD and she's part of that, so she's gonna be great news. | 00:57:46 | |
Tax help starting Wednesdays. | 00:57:53 | |
February 5th through April 9th. | 00:57:56 | |
Again, we do that every year, free tax preparation. We bring a lot of money back into the community and it's a free program. It's | 00:57:57 | |
a lot of fun. If you ever get a chance to come by the library on a Wednesday, it's busy. | 00:58:02 | |
Love your library campaign? In February, we're gonna accept admissions. | 00:58:07 | |
We do that every year and then I've also provided some. | 00:58:11 | |
Just financial information, we're getting some money back from the workforce 6728 from that program, GED testing, I get $10.00 for | 00:58:16 | |
every test I administer. So if it adds up. | 00:58:22 | |
What happened? | 00:58:29 | |
It's going really well. Yeah, we've. | 00:58:37 | |
Exceeded expectations for this fiscal year. | 00:58:39 | |
Within the first few months, so it's quite a need. | 00:58:43 | |
In the community. | 00:58:46 | |
Umm, who has a friend's, a library say anything to you about their new digs? They're very excited, yeah. | 00:58:48 | |
He don't think they're too excited. | 00:58:57 | |
Be more excited with Lloyd. | 00:58:58 | |
Really. Well, that work. I mean, they've done a nice job putting that together. No. Yeah, it looks really good. So thank you, | 00:59:00 | |
guys. They're they're happy. Yeah. It's gonna be it's gonna be a move. Actually, some of the Rice participants through the | 00:59:06 | |
detention center are gonna help move the books. So it's a good collaboration. | 00:59:11 | |
But yeah, they did. They were happy with it. | 00:59:16 | |
And then, yeah, we have some Joe Bond funds coming. Like I said, literacy, we were increased to 41,000, which is a huge increase. | 00:59:20 | |
So that was based off of the participation in the community so. | 00:59:26 | |
Any questions? | 00:59:32 | |
I just want to say, Chelsea, thank you for everything you do. You've done a tremendous. | 00:59:34 | |
Job in your position so I want to say thank you thank you it's a great community I mean it can be a better place to work so. | 00:59:41 | |
That's the kind of library. | 00:59:48 | |
Do you want to fill us in on anything except the drainage? | 00:59:51 | |
When they're going to break ground, what's going to happen in Montana? What's going to happen? | 00:59:59 | |
It's already started. | 01:00:05 | |
So I don't know you guys passed by there, they have all the. | 01:00:06 | |
Barricades up and. | 01:00:10 | |
For the most part, most of the businesses are fine. | 01:00:12 | |
And we had one little trouble with one, but I mean the fact is going good. Just been so cold so they can. | 01:00:15 | |
They can't pour any concrete so. | 01:00:21 | |
We're still doing work. We're going to redo some lighting there, some conduits for lighting in there. We locate some fire hydrants | 01:00:23 | |
and. | 01:00:27 | |
We took down all the trees at the coop and we're going to put up a. | 01:00:31 | |
I'm thinking 4 new ones. | 01:00:34 | |
Four or five, we're not going to put too many trees back. | 01:00:36 | |
And then we have, like the mayor said, the welcome center up there. We're going to, I need a few more quotes. We'll be starting | 01:00:39 | |
the bathrooms and the showers and. | 01:00:43 | |
That area there. So we'll have that done before by the spring, easy. | 01:00:46 | |
By the spring we have the studio park the lighting project. | 01:00:50 | |
All the all the tensions done, they're putting conduits, we'll have the lights up and working by. | 01:00:54 | |
The middle to the end of March. | 01:00:59 | |
So then before the first game, the high school game will have the lights should be will be running. | 01:01:03 | |
They're mobilizing this week for the sewer project, so they'll be. | 01:01:10 | |
Doing working on the sewer on Evergreen starting on Evergreen going West. | 01:01:14 | |
Next week, so they'll be the sewer projects going to start. | 01:01:18 | |
We haven't found nobody for the sewer plan yet. | 01:01:22 | |
So we had some bids in. There was almost two million, $2,000,000 more than we had. | 01:01:25 | |
So we're trying to get some more bids working with people trying to. | 01:01:30 | |
Get that project going. We move money over there over a million and a half and we still don't have enough. | 01:01:34 | |
They were at 2.8 million and still not enough. | 01:01:39 | |
So I'm still working on that. The plan kind of is in bad shape. | 01:01:42 | |
So I mean that project has to get moving forward. | 01:01:46 | |
And what else do we have? What is going on in Finley? How do you don't Finley still we're we had some help from the county. We're | 01:01:50 | |
working on all the grading. So we're going what's going to happen, if any, is we're going to finish the whole outside. | 01:01:55 | |
So we're going to finish the whole, we're going to finish the parking lot, we're going to finish the playground, we're going to | 01:02:01 | |
stuck with the building, put the storefront doors in, put the curb and gutter. | 01:02:05 | |
Sidewalks, we're going to get all that done. | 01:02:09 | |
And then we get more money, then we're going to work on the inside, but we're going to get that outside finished and then Donald | 01:02:11 | |
will look for money to. | 01:02:14 | |
Get the Park St. paved from. | 01:02:17 | |
McCutcheon to Spring Street. | 01:02:20 | |
So we're going to move on that and then since, uh. | 01:02:23 | |
Albuquerque asphalt the town. I want to get a price for the sidewalks in Sherman Gutter while they're here. | 01:02:26 | |
So that project's moving along and we're going to start the storm drain. | 01:02:31 | |
This week probably start the storm won't because we got to do some work at the flood control. | 01:02:35 | |
So the guys that are working there and. | 01:02:39 | |
We got to do some work at the bridge. | 01:02:42 | |
They're coming in by an Eagle pitcher. | 01:02:44 | |
So and then when we get a chance, we'll get into the. | 01:02:46 | |
The flood control, the street department, we need to clean that foot flood control again. | 01:02:49 | |
So I mean, we got a lot of stuff to get done this winter before the weeds start, so. | 01:02:53 | |
Well, since we got a new police chief. | 01:02:57 | |
What's going on at the Police Department? | 01:03:01 | |
No, I mean Lloyd, tell us what you did with the architects and stuff. You guys are using the new. | 01:03:03 | |
Yeah, also. | 01:03:09 | |
We're going to close in, I think they wanted to close in one of the offices there, right. So we all that we have one meeting and | 01:03:11 | |
I'm scheduling another one. So they have a basic plan of what they want. | 01:03:16 | |
What Angel wants there, and they have. They're gonna close in that Sally port. I don't know what it is, but. | 01:03:21 | |
It's like where they you know what that is? | 01:03:26 | |
Just yeah, to accept prison. | 01:03:30 | |
But then did they also want to? | 01:03:36 | |
Office that was, that was. | 01:03:38 | |
What was they were going to? Did you talk to them about getting a Carpenter or a Rinconus or somebody to close it in so you have | 01:03:41 | |
some? | 01:03:44 | |
Security there now. You'll be closed in Sally. You'll drive your car in there. That's not the Sally port I'm talking about. | 01:03:48 | |
Oh yeah. | 01:03:58 | |
Yeah. Well, that's I think that's what we're. | 01:04:01 | |
So the judge typing, we're gonna have another meeting and the judge is gonna be there in Angel. | 01:04:05 | |
Did your wrestling move out of there now? | 01:04:09 | |
We got a couple things left. You guys use that at all for physical activity? | 01:04:12 | |
Oh, good. OK. | 01:04:18 | |
That's what's happening. No, I just wanted to. | 01:04:20 | |
Did we decide on a meeting for Finley? | 01:04:24 | |
I gotta get Dave has some dates and so I'll get that out tomorrow. | 01:04:28 | |
So if you talk to our delegation. | 01:04:32 | |
Those are our priorities. | 01:04:34 | |
Police station. | 01:04:38 | |
And Finley. | 01:04:39 | |
To finish filming. | 01:04:41 | |
But I asked. | 01:04:42 | |
Since you're the drive by there and it looks so bad. | 01:04:44 | |
I asked him to spend the money. | 01:04:47 | |
Making it look nice. Put it in the park. Put in the park. | 01:04:49 | |
Parking, landscaping, and then we can work on the inside. | 01:04:52 | |
So that that that's. | 01:04:56 | |
The reason why? I just wanted to bring that up. | 01:04:57 | |
And we're trying to fix the street so library and all that area is all fixed up. | 01:05:00 | |
Because if we wait, it's going to, you know, it's better to get that street done and just. | 01:05:04 | |
We've done some work here in this habit. All nice. | 01:05:08 | |
Thank you. | 01:05:12 | |
Mike Lucero. | 01:05:13 | |
You're coming up next. | 01:05:16 | |
Council report from the landfill is. | 01:05:25 | |
As is as usual. | 01:05:29 | |
How many times are you getting in? Do you know we're getting close to 100 tons of. | 01:05:32 | |
100 tons of you. | 01:05:37 | |
And they're recycling as everybody wants to know about recycling. What's the, what's the story? What are you accepting? | 01:05:40 | |
Except cardboard used oil. | 01:05:47 | |
Appliances. Tires. | 01:05:51 | |
Please and do you pick up any? | 01:05:53 | |
Look up cardboard on Tuesdays and Thursdays from some of the businesses for the public know we are doing that. | 01:05:57 | |
We are doing it, yes. | 01:06:03 | |
Can we talk about what we're doing with the old? | 01:06:04 | |
Motel. Is that for recycling? | 01:06:09 | |
That was a, that was a It is for recycling, but right now they're using as a staging for men's and arms, however. | 01:06:14 | |
They they had a grant. | 01:06:25 | |
What is it $5000? | 01:06:27 | |
And I thought. | 01:06:29 | |
For $5000, they're going to get these nice recycling bins. I mean, I'm talking. | 01:06:31 | |
Big recycling for paper and cardboard and. | 01:06:36 | |
And aluminum. | 01:06:40 | |
And they get this little bitty miniature. | 01:06:41 | |
Recycling canisters for $5000. | 01:06:43 | |
I couldn't believe it. | 01:06:49 | |
You know, I don't even see I barely do things. | 01:06:51 | |
It's embarrassing about. | 01:06:56 | |
Bear something. I mean, I wanted to what I wanted to do. | 01:07:00 | |
Was to have a drop off where you could drive in. Just drive out. | 01:07:04 | |
And the other thing we talked about was food trucks. | 01:07:08 | |
But I thought we were going to get this grant for $5000. We're going to get these. | 01:07:12 | |
Big itty bitty miniature. | 01:07:17 | |
I mean, it is embarrassing. | 01:07:21 | |
So, but that's what it's, that's what's going on there, but in that nook. | 01:07:23 | |
I wanted to build a recycling drop off. | 01:07:26 | |
But take that and put some dollhouse. I mean, it's like. | 01:07:30 | |
It's big of us being here. Maybe she is really embarrassed. | 01:07:37 | |
But but maybe they're going to be 50,000, I don't know because that was $5000 worth. | 01:07:40 | |
But that that's what wanted to do is there is to build that. | 01:07:45 | |
And uh. | 01:07:48 | |
But right now they're using a staging for the. | 01:07:50 | |
For the street project. | 01:07:53 | |
But I would I would like for you to talk to that gentleman to. | 01:07:57 | |
To see if we can't at least get twice a year. | 01:08:00 | |
If he's got a service, but I think you got to be able to suck that water out. You can't just dump it on the road. I don't think | 01:08:03 | |
you can dump it on the road. That's why it didn't work for us because. | 01:08:07 | |
When you clean something like that, you got to suck it out and put it in another. | 01:08:12 | |
You can't just at the wastewater plant, Yeah, so. | 01:08:16 | |
Well, no, but I mean. | 01:08:20 | |
Don't put in the storm sewer. | 01:08:22 | |
Hello, Mr. | 01:08:25 | |
All right, tell us about your new equipment and see if anybody's working out. And then I heard tech was going to charge their | 01:08:27 | |
employees. | 01:08:30 | |
For the gym facility so. | 01:08:34 | |
We're offering them our facilities, $10 a month they offered them. | 01:08:37 | |
A lady called me and she said she was pretty upset the thing will start charging so we got like 5 new faces that showed up today. | 01:08:42 | |
Umm, city employees have been quite a bit. Fire departments been going, yes. | 01:08:50 | |
Julio's been going on his break to go workout, so it's been going. Who does? | 01:08:57 | |
Julio Miguel. | 01:09:02 | |
From the landfill you've been going to workout too. | 01:09:04 | |
So it's been going good, basketball's been going smooth, no issues. | 01:09:07 | |
Around 2:10 or 2:12. | 01:09:12 | |
And then just met with Dana for the Arts Party on February 8th. | 01:09:15 | |
So that'll be going on too. | 01:09:21 | |
Good. And then for coming to season? | 01:09:24 | |
Are you going to do baseball? | 01:09:28 | |
Yeah, I'm shooting to start that in May, beginning of May, just that we were not in the summer heat in June, in July, so. | 01:09:30 | |
Superman, April and given those two months and if we have to go into July, we're all into July. | 01:09:37 | |
What is better? | 01:09:45 | |
Chris, come on up. | 01:09:51 | |
He you know, he also is a resource officer at the junior high. | 01:09:53 | |
And I guess there's a little bit of commotion over there. | 01:09:58 | |
What's? What's going on? | 01:10:02 | |
What is it exactly that you do at Seracino? | 01:10:04 | |
So usually I'll go and. | 01:10:06 | |
I'll take some work from here and work there, but. | 01:10:09 | |
Usually I'll go take some work from from here and do some work over there, but for the most part just kind of keep an eye on the | 01:10:13 | |
kids and make sure there's no. | 01:10:17 | |
Fights, or even we've had a couple. | 01:10:22 | |
Agitated parents come in and I. | 01:10:25 | |
Was kind of like, well, you know, chill out. | 01:10:27 | |
Who do you work with? The principal? | 01:10:31 | |
Usually the principal or the vice principal, I let him know, you know, that you guys have me there and let me know if they need | 01:10:34 | |
anything. And for the most part they're, they're really grateful for it too. So they tell me every day that they appreciate it. | 01:10:40 | |
But yeah. | 01:10:46 | |
Whoever is a. | 01:10:48 | |
Got some power there. I mean, whatever teachers, whatever, even students, they need something, you know, usually I'll I'll hop out | 01:10:50 | |
too, so. | 01:10:54 | |
I enjoy it. | 01:10:58 | |
Lately, just for code enforcement been working on. | 01:11:00 | |
Some of these burnt houses that keep. | 01:11:04 | |
Going up. | 01:11:07 | |
So that's kind of been my. | 01:11:08 | |
The one on Blue Canyon and Prata. | 01:11:12 | |
That one, yeah. | 01:11:15 | |
Talking to the owner and we're going to. | 01:11:17 | |
Hopefully we can. | 01:11:20 | |
Otherwise you're gonna have to bring it to council to condemn it. Yeah. Otherwise we'd have to put a lien on it and clean it up | 01:11:21 | |
ourselves. And. | 01:11:25 | |
Yeah, talking with the mayor, you know, we our community is not the most. | 01:11:30 | |
They don't have a lot of money, so. | 01:11:38 | |
Whenever the mayor lets me help out. | 01:11:39 | |
You know, everyone really appreciates that as well too. | 01:11:42 | |
Do a gratis, but we got to clean that up. We've got to do something with that, right, Right. Yeah, I got about three of them right | 01:11:45 | |
now that I'm working on so. | 01:11:48 | |
Yes, Christina, someone in our committee too. We met the other day and we had some pretty good ideas that we were bouncing off | 01:11:54 | |
each other and. | 01:11:57 | |
Working together to see if we can get an ordinance to. | 01:12:01 | |
Keep these businesses, you know their upkeep. | 01:12:06 | |
You know, keep maintained so we don't. | 01:12:08 | |
Who's out, you know, or someone else? If someone wants to come and buy a property or whatever, it's not a pain to get up and | 01:12:11 | |
running again and. | 01:12:14 | |
That just. | 01:12:18 | |
Keep in contact with some some of these people that own businesses outside of Socorro too so. | 01:12:20 | |
That was really good. | 01:12:26 | |
Yeah, we did. Me and Chris is doing a lot of work we appreciate. | 01:12:28 | |
Give us some examples or some ordinances. | 01:12:33 | |
Let's see that keep Feel free Daniels on the on the committee. | 01:12:36 | |
And my Lord is on the commandment so. | 01:12:40 | |
Feel free to jump in. | 01:12:43 | |
Our discussion, kind of. | 01:12:45 | |
We go back from. | 01:12:47 | |
Ordinance on gravitated structures. | 01:12:50 | |
To an economic development. | 01:12:54 | |
So we really were trying to. | 01:12:56 | |
Corral the idea of what the purpose of the committee was for. | 01:13:00 | |
We we know that. | 01:13:06 | |
These buildings need something. We know that the buildings. | 01:13:08 | |
Were a vibrant business at one point in time. | 01:13:13 | |
And from that point in time to the to the next. | 01:13:17 | |
Step. Well, there's no, there's no business there anymore. And then they slowly be slowly deteriorating. | 01:13:21 | |
And so we. | 01:13:28 | |
And the way I thought of it, and please feel free to jump in, was that, you know, our attempt to work with the electric Co-op to | 01:13:30 | |
provide rates that were. | 01:13:35 | |
Friendly for businesses. | 01:13:40 | |
Would help to alleviate that and so that. | 01:13:42 | |
The coop, The electric utility. | 01:13:46 | |
Was going to be in my view of. | 01:13:51 | |
Big part of the economic development. | 01:13:53 | |
Plan So we're trying to grasp on what we what we want to do We have 3 examples here. One of them focuses on. | 01:13:57 | |
On. | 01:14:06 | |
Those those people and those businesses that own these buildings that don't live in Socorro. | 01:14:07 | |
And so we want to know. | 01:14:14 | |
The. | 01:14:17 | |
You know, the legality behind focusing on, you know, if you're you're sending, give us a little example, say, for example, The | 01:14:18 | |
Smiths building. Yeah, that's a tough one. Just to get ahold of one person to tell them, hey, you know, that we deserve your feet | 01:14:25 | |
or whatever. It's kind of, we're going through a bunch of different people to try and get it cleaned up. | 01:14:31 | |
So. | 01:14:38 | |
Yeah, right now I couldn't even tell you where I would send a letter to have it cleaned up. I can tell you that we already know. | 01:14:39 | |
I don't know who that is. Yeah, the Duke Rodriguez. Duke. | 01:14:50 | |
Yeah, that's not true. | 01:14:54 | |
We have those that information, don't we? Don't. Yes, Sir. We've spoken to him on the phone. Oh, OK. Well, I mean, you know, | 01:14:55 | |
you're an example. You got that building you got. | 01:14:59 | |
No, you got the rental and they know that the rental building is a nice building where they're just sitting there empty. | 01:15:04 | |
And but you know. | 01:15:10 | |
The the. | 01:15:13 | |
They're, they're young, I think people, especially people from out of town. | 01:15:15 | |
You need to make an effort to try to rent those buildings for productive use. | 01:15:19 | |
And that's, you know, and that's. | 01:15:24 | |
Something that but. | 01:15:28 | |
If you do put it in the ordinance, there has to be some teeth in it as to what, and I think Albuquerque has something they did. | 01:15:29 | |
Yeah. | 01:15:35 | |
On Central, yeah, right now it's from Central and I can't. Maybe Donald might. | 01:15:37 | |
The other street, someone. | 01:15:42 | |
Yeah, it it's not. What direction are they headed for increasing their taxes, increasing their. | 01:15:46 | |
Well, what signs are they talking about? You haven't seen the fines? Um. | 01:15:51 | |
I just know that there's something in place for those buildings to. | 01:15:56 | |
Keep, like the owners, their feet to the fire, just to keep them. | 01:16:00 | |
Yeah. | 01:16:07 | |
We mentioned this before, I mentioned it before a couple of meetings ago. | 01:16:08 | |
Was that what can the city do? | 01:16:12 | |
To support. | 01:16:15 | |
Putting businesses back into those buildings. | 01:16:17 | |
Or for example, a person calls and says, hey, I might want to start this up. Or we can so little have somebody solicit. | 01:16:20 | |
Business to come to Socorro. | 01:16:30 | |
And and connect. | 01:16:33 | |
Potential businesses with buildings. | 01:16:36 | |
Supporting the. | 01:16:39 | |
Getting them up to code. | 01:16:42 | |
Just information that would kind of. | 01:16:45 | |
To facilitate them to come in. So like right now if somebody was looking to do something here in Socorro and they called, what I | 01:16:49 | |
would do is if I was going somewhere else and looking for something I like the area, I would call the city and. | 01:16:56 | |
And, and I would hear their story. What are the water rates? What are the electric rates? What's kind of a regulations and rules? | 01:17:03 | |
Do you have, you know, we have a landfill, We have, we have an airport, we have New Mexico tech, We have a whole bunch of things | 01:17:09 | |
working for this community. | 01:17:14 | |
And we and if we had somebody that could. | 01:17:20 | |
Could kind of focus on and maybe maybe that's Chris, you know, he could. | 01:17:25 | |
Have a tool. | 01:17:31 | |
That would allow him to incentivize somebody to come in to go to the to the tasty freeze and but you know, we pay. | 01:17:33 | |
MRGDA Money. | 01:17:42 | |
That's an equal. That's what I was under the impression that was the economic development arm. | 01:17:45 | |
For this region. | 01:17:49 | |
And they would be the ones that would send. | 01:17:52 | |
Some people that want to do business in the city. | 01:17:55 | |
I think, you know, we bring that up all the time, but I don't think we've cast them with doing that. We just give them money. But | 01:17:59 | |
I I think. | 01:18:03 | |
Well, I think I thought once we had her here last year. | 01:18:07 | |
I was that's, you know, that's my opinion of economic development is they already have a arm. | 01:18:11 | |
Why develop another one? And we can, we can certainly send them a letter saying that that's. | 01:18:17 | |
But we expected them for that money. | 01:18:22 | |
You know, and I think finding and the way it was brought. | 01:18:26 | |
Are we an ordinance that's going to find? | 01:18:31 | |
Because they're not in business, I mean. | 01:18:34 | |
When COVID hit, it put a lot of businesses out and people aren't coming back to those businesses. | 01:18:37 | |
And so I'm thinking that, you know, it's kind of government. | 01:18:43 | |
Obligation to to bring businesses back into their community and I think we. | 01:18:48 | |
I think we SH. | 01:18:54 | |
With with merged, I think that's a good way to do it however it, but I think we need to have some funds that would support. | 01:18:55 | |
Chris or support that person in soliciting businesses back because. | 01:19:03 | |
I think, I think it would pay off. I mean, I want to put that on Chris, but we do have Economic Development Fund. Miss Dean | 01:19:09 | |
pointed it out. | 01:19:12 | |
That we would have money. | 01:19:16 | |
And uh. | 01:19:18 | |
Well, if we needed to put money, also incorporate some beautification project like you know. | 01:19:19 | |
Providing them with. | 01:19:26 | |
Film for the windows so they don't look dilapidated. | 01:19:28 | |
So we can help make that work on that. I remember Mr. Dean wanted us to get an economic development person. | 01:19:32 | |
We can advertise for one and we do have money to pay for that salary and we did approve a job description. We got 1 so. | 01:19:39 | |
I like that. | 01:19:48 | |
You know, when our committee sat down talking, we're like, man, we've got. | 01:19:51 | |
We really want to beef it up like we don't. I mean it. | 01:19:54 | |
The negativity of like trying to, we talked to Chris about it just like the ordinances and having to be the bad guy. | 01:19:57 | |
Doing this and doing that and. | 01:20:03 | |
You know, that should be an arm of this for sure, but but we really feel like some concerted effort. Let's get. | 01:20:05 | |
You got the job description, we can just advertise it. | 01:20:13 | |
You know, I'm not sure what the salary range is going to be, but we'll just advertise and make sure that. | 01:20:17 | |
But then we'll have to take the funds away from MRDA just because. | 01:20:21 | |
That's not. | 01:20:25 | |
That's not the direction that we're going to go then. | 01:20:26 | |
Unless we'll do it, Mr. Mayor. Speaking on behalf of Mersdah, I guess. | 01:20:29 | |
I don't think the impression is that it's necessary. | 01:20:35 | |
Strictly economic development and recruitment. I think it's more of a promotional. | 01:20:39 | |
Umm, entity or organization that helps promote the area? That would be a. | 01:20:45 | |
Almost like a Chamber of Commerce in a way. | 01:20:50 | |
But not essentially the city's economic brand Economic Association. | 01:20:52 | |
They better they better change their name. | 01:21:00 | |
To well, no, I'm just saying that. | 01:21:03 | |
That if they had well. | 01:21:07 | |
Yeah, but let's just we'll try and look for economic development first. | 01:21:09 | |
Do that I know Las Lunas pattern, You know Las Lunas is a different setup. | 01:21:13 | |
There we are. I'll tell you about The Smiths building. It's a gentleman who owns it. | 01:21:17 | |
He was going to put in a marijuana. | 01:21:22 | |
Cultivation, but. | 01:21:23 | |
The marijuana boom. | 01:21:25 | |
Got so deluded. | 01:21:27 | |
That then is, stop investing in it. | 01:21:29 | |
You know, it just got too many of these little mom and pops everywhere. | 01:21:33 | |
And so he and that's, that was his comment when we talked to him. | 01:21:36 | |
And he's a big, I mean, he's a big entrepreneur with Ultra. | 01:21:40 | |
But that's that's the reason he quit. | 01:21:44 | |
Then I heard Harbor Freight might come in with. What's H hardware gonna say about that? | 01:21:46 | |
You know, I mean, there's, there's a lot of conflicts about this kind of stuff. | 01:21:50 | |
People say, well, we don't need another grocery store. | 01:21:55 | |
I've been here 50 years, we've only always had two. | 01:21:57 | |
It was either Smith's. | 01:22:01 | |
Or John Brooks or what they call the stop and Shop or whatever. | 01:22:02 | |
But now we've got a Walmart and John book, so. | 01:22:06 | |
The question is, is there enough? | 01:22:09 | |
Commerce. | 01:22:11 | |
To be able to support. | 01:22:13 | |
That kind of stuff that Las Lunas has, but we don't. They have 120,000 people. We have 20,000 people. | 01:22:15 | |
That's, I think, the reality of business. | 01:22:22 | |
Getting good rates? | 01:22:25 | |
Good natural gas, water and sewer. We can help them with red tape and that's what we did with the others, the gas station. | 01:22:26 | |
They put in a lot of money to develop them. | 01:22:34 | |
That's what we did, Rancher. | 01:22:36 | |
Grant's your supply. What do you call it? Tractor Supply. | 01:22:38 | |
That's what we did with Tractor Supply. | 01:22:41 | |
And well, she tried Solero. | 01:22:43 | |
But Tractor Supply and. | 01:22:46 | |
And this new gas station? That's 2. | 01:22:48 | |
Big companies that actually came into town. | 01:22:51 | |
So, and I think controversial does a good job in trying to. | 01:22:54 | |
Get get companies to come in on their own. | 01:22:58 | |
Hasn't had much success with the drugstore but. | 01:23:02 | |
Drugs. All the drugstores are having a problem right now. | 01:23:05 | |
I mean, the CVS and Walgreens are under big pressure. | 01:23:08 | |
As far as expanding, they're actually closing. | 01:23:12 | |
So, but you got your business, you got your business. I mean it's your job cut off for you. It's not easy. | 01:23:15 | |
Maybe we need help with an economic development person and. | 01:23:21 | |
We can think of a salary range and we've got the economic Development Fund. I put some money back into it. | 01:23:25 | |
Well, that's, you know, let's try to get somebody that will do it. | 01:23:32 | |
But then in specific direction as to what they're going to do. | 01:23:36 | |
That's going to be the biggest thing. | 01:23:39 | |
Thanks, Chris. Thanks for starting the conversation. | 01:23:42 | |
Christine, what do you got? Anything. | 01:23:49 | |
No. | 01:23:52 | |
There is no insurance rates going up. | 01:23:55 | |
What about our liability and all that? What about, I know you had a little to do with OSHA, but what's going on with OSHA? Number | 01:23:58 | |
one, I want to tell everybody, although people knew that we were being fine, the city is not going to pay a monetary fine. | 01:24:04 | |
It is 0 and we will come to terms with OJA and God development. | 01:24:11 | |
And arbitration to to satisfy what their. | 01:24:15 | |
The complaints? | 01:24:19 | |
So Lenas work on Donald, Jerry, Armijo, Christy, we're all working on that. | 01:24:20 | |
So what about your? | 01:24:25 | |
Workman's comp and safety committee and all that stuff. Are we doing anything with that? | 01:24:27 | |
Uh, chances doing. He's doing safety. | 01:24:32 | |
Seeing the safety. | 01:24:35 | |
You got your hands full. | 01:24:38 | |
Yeah. | 01:24:40 | |
I'm just wrapping up quarterly, end of year and then W twos will be ready tomorrow. Who's your contact for health insurance? | 01:24:42 | |
Help. No. | 01:24:50 | |
Arissa, I believe they tell you, do they tell you what's upcoming? Are we going to get increases? | 01:24:53 | |
They haven't reached out like Tory Bloomquist, I think is his name. He's the one who's reached out the last two times. | 01:24:59 | |
Don't be surprised. | 01:25:08 | |
That's what's going to happen. Yeah, I think that what did they say when we went to a meeting in Santa Fe, they were switching | 01:25:10 | |
from because they did switch from GSD to. | 01:25:16 | |
Like HP ****. Yeah, health support My my question is whether the legislature, they were going to supposed to bail out the health | 01:25:23 | |
authority, but $280 million. | 01:25:29 | |
I don't know if they ever did that. | 01:25:35 | |
Yeah, I don't and so. | 01:25:36 | |
But just check with them to see what. | 01:25:39 | |
Are they going to give it? Are they going to surprise us or they're going to go in July? Are they going to go on a regular basis? | 01:25:41 | |
Right. I'll ask them and see if there's anything in the works. | 01:25:46 | |
Isaac. | 01:25:52 | |
I just asked you about the guys. I mean, it got cold. | 01:25:55 | |
It was like 7° five degrees. | 01:25:59 | |
Three on my truck this morning. | 01:26:02 | |
30° yeah, but no, it did good. We're coming at £500. It dropped down to about 3. | 01:26:04 | |
20 flags somewhere around in there. | 01:26:11 | |
And do you guys like, have you been lighting any pilots or do you need to, do you have any calls for that this year 'cause usually | 01:26:13 | |
you do. I mean, yeah, before, before they found those. | 01:26:18 | |
Pigs that were stuck in their wine. | 01:26:24 | |
Now that pressure statement is pretty good, yeah. | 01:26:28 | |
I haven't been too bad, but like I said. | 01:26:31 | |
We're just trying to get all those lines in place before they pave. They don't park. | 01:26:35 | |
Church and center. | 01:26:39 | |
And then I guess I'll. | 01:26:42 | |
Look forward to doing. | 01:26:44 | |
The South and department from the front of the. | 01:26:45 | |
Library. | 01:26:48 | |
Are you putting any new services? | 01:26:51 | |
Ever since I haven't gotten any. | 01:26:54 | |
But no, just trying to know. | 01:26:57 | |
Replace domains. | 01:27:00 | |
They're all mostly inch and 1/4. | 01:27:01 | |
To them. So I'll put it in that forest. So it's kind of helping everybody else too. | 01:27:03 | |
You're not dropping question. | 01:27:09 | |
Mr. Poland. | 01:27:11 | |
I know we advertised on my card. | 01:27:13 | |
Something with their services and things they could ever get that going through here. | 01:27:17 | |
I don't know. A while back they had presented. | 01:27:22 | |
That they needed to. | 01:27:25 | |
Like pay for their parts and that we're just way under in that department. Did that ever go through? | 01:27:27 | |
We already got it. Yeah, OK. No, just like the. | 01:27:34 | |
They gave us the great donations and foster connection and stuff that was way low and. | 01:27:38 | |
And the lawyer also told us we were not in a good spot there. Yeah, yeah. And what we did there pretty much just adjusted them to | 01:27:42 | |
where they're pretty much just paying for the parts, correct. Yeah. But before we were under the way. | 01:27:49 | |
I know it at least pays for itself. Yeah, at least. | 01:27:56 | |
Can you explain to me about this $9000? | 01:27:59 | |
That they were talking about that e-mail you got. Can you explain to the council what that's about? | 01:28:03 | |
I'm not too sure how that RNG works, like if we would have to. | 01:28:07 | |
Do anything on our part of the system, any upgrades, stuff like that. Like I don't even know how they'll get it in. | 01:28:13 | |
If they had gold to where we get it from there and. | 01:28:19 | |
From El Paso and Berlin and coming down. | 01:28:22 | |
I don't know if they have. | 01:28:24 | |
Their own separate lines that come in or they would have to. | 01:28:26 | |
So we never signed anything. No, no. I mean, I asked him for a meeting, but I guess he's not going to be back into that guy. I | 01:28:29 | |
don't know, though. | 01:28:33 | |
So I kind of told that already, but he's still kind of persistent. | 01:28:37 | |
But OK. | 01:28:43 | |
One last shot. | 01:28:48 | |
Mayor Council. So we're through our second quarter. So we started our third quarter. We still are working on collections with. | 01:28:54 | |
Turn offs we are. | 01:29:02 | |
Referring people to late than Midwest cap. | 01:29:03 | |
For assistance, but we are working with them and telling them come in, we'll do a plan with you, you know, to make a payment. | 01:29:06 | |
We do have new rates going in. | 01:29:12 | |
February 1st, which is you're asking Joel about the. | 01:29:15 | |
Umm part. So it is going to depending on. | 01:29:19 | |
What the parts cost, you know when it's going to go out to the customers. | 01:29:22 | |
This month is the coldest month of the year, so March bill would be the highest bill. | 01:29:26 | |
But the new rates do go in. | 01:29:32 | |
Now, um. | 01:29:34 | |
Mike got a new garbage truck, a commercial garbage truck, and it is running, so I think he has no backups now. | 01:29:36 | |
Yeah, so and I know these ones are very, it's not a rather. | 01:29:42 | |
Yeah. Oh, it's not. | 01:29:46 | |
And, umm. | 01:29:48 | |
We did hedge gas. | 01:29:49 | |
This year we tried it last year, so we did hedge it and we did compare. | 01:29:51 | |
The cost of. | 01:29:55 | |
The shell and it is lower and the rates are lower than last year. | 01:29:57 | |
What's that? What's the price of gas now? | 01:30:02 | |
We had **** at 384. | 01:30:05 | |
Whether we will be hesitant? | 01:30:07 | |
384 last year. | 01:30:09 | |
What is it at 37? | 01:30:13 | |
No, it is working out. We are comparing, we will look. | 01:30:17 | |
Next month, like I said, it's the coldest. | 01:30:20 | |
Under the year we are working on grants, I did apply for the New Mexico Match grant. I applied for six and I got one which was | 01:30:23 | |
38,000 for the transportation ban. | 01:30:28 | |
And Carlos is ordering that. But everything so behind. | 01:30:32 | |
So hopefully we get it by June 30th. | 01:30:37 | |
And we do still have the ambulances that we're still waiting for and hopefully we get those in July. | 01:30:39 | |
So working on those. | 01:30:45 | |
And that's about it. I do have. | 01:30:48 | |
I did change some positions around a little so we do have some training and accounts payable and in collections. | 01:30:50 | |
I just wanted to tell mayor and council thank you for the rate increases, you know, for across the board. You know, that was | 01:30:58 | |
really helpful and thanks for the committee for. | 01:31:01 | |
Meeting and going over everything with me and the rate increase. Don't you have any questions? You know, we went through a whole. | 01:31:05 | |
You know, we had, we had everything. | 01:31:11 | |
So if you need anything, Marcy did a great job on that, no? | 01:31:13 | |
Anything. Oh, and then I use Living through the Library. It's audiobooks if anybody's ever interested. I love it. You tell Chelsea | 01:31:19 | |
to order you a book and she ordered it. She's great. | 01:31:23 | |
But that's about it for me. | 01:31:28 | |
Real books, Yeah. Audiobooks. You know, if you're traveling. | 01:31:30 | |
If you're walking, it's great. | 01:31:35 | |
Which book do you like? | 01:31:37 | |
I'm reading right now. I'm listening to the Nightingale. | 01:31:39 | |
It's about the Holocaust. It's it's Christian Hannah. | 01:31:43 | |
Well, good. I'm glad you're a book reader listener. | 01:31:49 | |
Great. Thanks. Thanks to the directors for everybody. | 01:31:52 | |
Yeah, never got a chance to speak and we lengthen the meetings, but this time? | 01:31:55 | |
It was worth it to get all the. | 01:31:59 | |
Information from. | 01:32:01 | |
Everybody. | 01:32:02 | |
OK. Any new business? | 01:32:04 | |
Any old business, Miss Chavez? I just have an update on our the Housing Authority's apartments. | 01:32:07 | |
They are almost done. | 01:32:14 | |
We will start training on wait list and start taking applications hopefully. | 01:32:16 | |
The last of April. Oh, congratulations, we should be. | 01:32:22 | |
Furnished opening refresh. | 01:32:28 | |
They're not furnished. | 01:32:30 | |
Can I get him finished? | 01:32:32 | |
Awesome, what a fantastic job you did. | 01:32:33 | |
And just really great. | 01:32:36 | |
No, thank you everybody. | 01:32:38 | |
You know you guys, what are we going to do with our Rd. Lloyd? | 01:32:40 | |
We're in the process of coming up with something. Did you get those extra money? Yes, we did. We got $1,000,000 from. | 01:32:46 | |
Van Lohan, wonderful as you do so. Fantastic job. Great. | 01:32:53 | |
All right, anything. You. You. | 01:32:59 | |
No old old, let's go again. Just real quick. I know I didn't have the exact answer because I can't remember, but I know that the | 01:33:01 | |
Cuba Rd. project was through CBBG. | 01:33:05 | |
We've been working on that for a while. | 01:33:10 | |
And I kind of got an earful from some of the. | 01:33:13 | |
Residents out there. | 01:33:15 | |
As far as completion and then there was some work done over the ditch and some stuff that and I can't remember. I know there was | 01:33:17 | |
something that we were gonna it's done. We've got the money. | 01:33:22 | |
We don't have the money yet. We don't. Last week I sent in some documents they wanted changed because we were awarded supplemental | 01:33:27 | |
funding for that one. | 01:33:30 | |
Because we ran out of money. | 01:33:35 | |
And I sent it to him last week and I'm waiting for them to return it and then we're ready to go, but then they award us the 800. | 01:33:36 | |
Well, supplemental money, it's 1.067 the state shared, then it's 565, and then that's the 125 that you got yourself. | 01:33:44 | |
Yeah, we have the money to finish it. Yes, yeah, I know it's good. It's just trying to get contrary like Monsignor was supposed to | 01:33:54 | |
start. | 01:33:59 | |
Last year. | 01:34:05 | |
So we're just getting it done now. | 01:34:07 | |
We've got the money to finish it. Yes. So we do now. But they wanted all of the agreements in one document. Yeah. Yeah. Well, but | 01:34:08 | |
I mean, that's paperwork. Yes, Sir. Yeah. I knew there was some part, I just couldn't remember exactly where we were at. But it's | 01:34:13 | |
a done deal as far as. | 01:34:18 | |
You just have to get the paperwork done and then we'll. | 01:34:23 | |
Then we already put it out to Bitter is Albuquerque. | 01:34:26 | |
Yeah. | 01:34:34 | |
So tell us. I mean, I just like the same thing we told the story, people. | 01:34:40 | |
We're trying to put together money to finish the project. | 01:34:44 | |
Because everything's coming up 30% more than it normally does. I don't know what's going on with electrical, but every, all the | 01:34:46 | |
contracts are put out. | 01:34:50 | |
Are 30% more than what we have money for? | 01:34:54 | |
So that's the big problem. | 01:34:57 | |
So we're trying to accumulate that money and Donald did a. | 01:34:59 | |
Good job in getting the supplemental money. | 01:35:01 | |
So we're just trying to get that. | 01:35:03 | |
Mr. Puerto, on another topic, I had a. | 01:35:06 | |
That girl come up to me about the. | 01:35:09 | |
Issue of selling food there at Smith's and then. | 01:35:11 | |
She said, well, that a police officer. | 01:35:15 | |
Told her that they can sell there and I told her well you got to have a. | 01:35:18 | |
You know a permit and you gotta ask permission and things like that is it? | 01:35:22 | |
Is that across the board that Smith is not one of our? No, it's not. They show up at 10:00. I don't know. Were you responsible for | 01:35:25 | |
one of those? | 01:35:31 | |
Food vendors by any chance at night showed up at. | 01:35:36 | |
9:00 or 10:00. | 01:35:39 | |
No, but yeah, but there. | 01:35:44 | |
They showed up. I'm every underworld men. | 01:35:46 | |
They showed up and they're cooking, had a little Christmas lights and everything. | 01:35:49 | |
But that lot is not approved for vendors. There's a wood on it. They cook dinner on there. | 01:35:54 | |
Now the only one that's approved. | 01:36:00 | |
Is the uh uh. | 01:36:02 | |
Umm, Baymont. | 01:36:05 | |
But the amount is improved. It's not approved for any vendors though. Nothing, right? OK, the owner has to come to us. | 01:36:06 | |
And get it, it's not a big deal. They can get it approved, but they got to approve it. | 01:36:13 | |
Hope you got a company. | 01:36:17 | |
But uh. | 01:36:19 | |
With the summary report something. | 01:36:20 | |
But but you know these guys, I usually call Chief and he sends his patrol over there. | 01:36:26 | |
Christie. | 01:36:32 | |
RadioShack. | 01:36:41 | |
Automotive. | 01:36:44 | |
Amex Automotive. | 01:36:46 | |
Yeah, MX Automotive, the old quick and easy. | 01:36:48 | |
We have to. | 01:36:54 | |
Got to get it approved through planning and zoning. I guess my it wasn't that the question because I did explain that it's just | 01:36:58 | |
that. | 01:37:01 | |
And she made it sound like it was selected, like some people were allowed there, some people weren't allowed there. So I'm just. | 01:37:04 | |
Speeding pic and I was telling mom selected everybody else is being oven nobody that the answer is nobody right? Nobody's another | 01:37:10 | |
property and then I'd love to sell theirs. They're not going to prove in their site. | 01:37:17 | |
OK, then you know in a way. | 01:37:24 | |
It gets to be a snowball effect sometimes. | 01:37:27 | |
You get one person and then somebody else shows up and then. | 01:37:30 | |
You know, we try to keep, at least try to keep ahead of it. | 01:37:33 | |
Tell me anymore. She's not a restaurant, you know. The other approved site is our own Plaza. | 01:37:41 | |
Yeah, but no. But I mean when. | 01:37:46 | |
You know, again, it's just, I just hate to have random people show up all over town. | 01:37:49 | |
You know, with their little. | 01:37:54 | |
Wagons and drinking money number one. I don't know if they put in gross receipts. | 01:37:56 | |
And #2 if they have. | 01:38:00 | |
If something happens on that lot. | 01:38:02 | |
That God is responsible for it. Who owns the law? | 01:38:06 | |
So yeah, so this. | 01:38:10 | |
It's random. It's me usually who turns them in. | 01:38:13 | |
If you want to know, but it's when I see him, I just call they call our friendly patrolman and. | 01:38:17 | |
They go talk to him. | 01:38:23 | |
So that's that's. | 01:38:26 | |
Who were they from town? Yeah, they're from town. I don't know the girls names. | 01:38:28 | |
Yeah, she's selling food. | 01:38:33 | |
Yes, selling food and then they said they ran off. But then they said that other people are allowed. And I said no. I just don't | 01:38:35 | |
think anybody's allowed that. Maybe they just missed it, is what I said. You know, maybe the ones I talked about like they were | 01:38:39 | |
from like Texas or some places. | 01:38:43 | |
Or Arizona. They just had a little. | 01:38:47 | |
They had the whole 10 yards. I mean, they were cooking up a. | 01:38:49 | |
Hibachi. I mean, it's like. | 01:38:53 | |
And then, you know, then you got vendors selling oranges. | 01:38:56 | |
Then you got vendors selling flags, and you got vendors selling. | 01:39:00 | |
Who knows what? | 01:39:04 | |
You know, so I think that's. | 01:39:06 | |
That's part of the we're trying to just keep. | 01:39:07 | |
Keep a little later on as well. | 01:39:10 | |
Okie, Dokie. | 01:39:13 | |
Anyway, well, we had a long meeting. There's no football games or basketball games or forget everything. | 01:39:15 | |
Anyway, personnel matter. | 01:39:20 | |
Oh, executive session, Miss Charles. | 01:39:23 | |
Anyway and. | 01:39:27 | |
We've got personnel changes, we've got relent. | 01:39:28 | |
V Learner. Oh, we got a new lady police officer. | 01:39:32 | |
She's right. Now she works at the. | 01:39:37 | |
The prison? The county jail. | 01:39:41 | |
She's a new hire and we have Caitlin Garza as a dispatch. Resignation Stephen Silva. | 01:39:43 | |
Senior Center is a resignation. | 01:39:49 | |
Anybody. | 01:39:54 | |
Mr. Mayor, I'll make a motion to accept the personnel changes. | 01:39:56 | |
Discussion. | 01:40:00 | |
Unfair then for businesses we got a models rustic custom cocina. | 01:40:01 | |
Marcia Amaro. | 01:40:07 | |
At 1560 Hope Farms. | 01:40:10 | |
And wait right And detailing and pressure washing. | 01:40:13 | |
Jordan, Jordan Robus, he is a, he's a go getter, so. | 01:40:16 | |
All in favor. | 01:40:21 | |
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. The next meeting is February 4th. | 01:40:23 | |
S but I guess she learning moderate. | 01:40:28 | |
I didn't bore you. Did I fight against anybody? | 01:40:31 | |
This time, here's Ruth. | 01:40:35 | |
Oh. | 01:40:39 |
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