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| Order add. | 00:00:00 | |
| OK, let's do that again. | 00:00:03 | |
| I want to call this meeting to order. | 00:00:07 | |
| At 6:00, roll call please. | 00:00:09 | |
| Mayor Baker. | 00:00:13 | |
| Councillor Chavez Lopez. | 00:00:15 | |
| Present Councillor Dean. | 00:00:17 | |
| Councillor Fleming. | 00:00:19 | |
| Councillor Ocampo. | 00:00:21 | |
| Here, Councillor Olgin. | 00:00:23 | |
| Councillor Partridge. | 00:00:26 | |
| Here, Councillor Romero. | 00:00:27 | |
| Air Councillor Salome. | 00:00:30 | |
| We do have a. | 00:00:33 | |
| Quorum stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. | 00:00:34 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag. | 00:00:40 | |
| Of the United States of America. | 00:00:41 | |
| And she will cover previous task. | 00:00:43 | |
| One Nation. | 00:00:46 | |
| Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. | 00:00:47 | |
| Madam Mayor. | 00:00:55 | |
| I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. | 00:00:58 | |
| 2nd. | 00:01:00 | |
| All in favor. | 00:01:01 | |
| Aye. | 00:01:02 | |
| And now we move to Pope. | 00:01:09 | |
| Public forum, Mr. Torres. | 00:01:10 | |
| Would you like to say anything? | 00:01:12 | |
| Yeah, I'm, I'm just here today to. | 00:01:21 | |
| After my street can be condemned. | 00:01:24 | |
| And that's all. | 00:01:28 | |
| That's that's a Torres St. | 00:01:30 | |
| Where is that? | 00:01:37 | |
| Of Fatima and. | 00:01:38 | |
| North into town, right? | 00:01:40 | |
| Yes. | 00:01:43 | |
| Be condemned, yes. | 00:01:45 | |
| Paula, do you know the process to do that? | 00:01:53 | |
| I know we'd have to give it with. | 00:01:55 | |
| Administrator. | 00:01:58 | |
| On that and see what the process would be. | 00:01:59 | |
| OK, so but there is a process. | 00:02:02 | |
| OK, so we'll get together with, I'll have you get together with Donald. | 00:02:06 | |
| And you guys can go through that process? | 00:02:11 | |
| Council. I just have a quick question. I'm not real familiar with that street. Is it? Is it a dead end St. | 00:02:14 | |
| No, I joined the the frontage road and Fatima. | 00:02:20 | |
| We're the only house on it. | 00:02:24 | |
| Gotcha. | 00:02:26 | |
| You currently have therapies on? | 00:02:27 | |
| Yeah, for the past seven years you've been there. | 00:02:29 | |
| Yeah, I took a drive out to yesterday and I was on the phone with Mayor Baker. | 00:02:35 | |
| The issue came up. | 00:02:39 | |
| Because I. | 00:02:40 | |
| Mr. Torres had picked some gates up. They were asked to be removed. You remove the gates. | 00:02:41 | |
| But the barricades, the concrete barricades. | 00:02:45 | |
| Barricade the frontage roadside. | 00:02:47 | |
| Of the street. So it's kind of an odd St. It's kind of a. | 00:02:49 | |
| Like a triangle? | 00:02:53 | |
| And then the street cuts through that tip of that triangle to. | 00:02:54 | |
| Put you on one side or the other. | 00:02:57 | |
| And that site has been barricaded. | 00:02:58 | |
| So I think Mr. Torchwood wanted to be condemned for the purpose of. | 00:03:01 | |
| Being able to. | 00:03:05 | |
| But I would imagine it you wouldn't be. | 00:03:06 | |
| No longer be taken care of by the city if that was the case. | 00:03:08 | |
| If it was condemned. | 00:03:11 | |
| But. | 00:03:13 | |
| To for safety purposes. | 00:03:14 | |
| From what I understand, drive fast there and the kids play there and going to. | 00:03:16 | |
| Going up to the permanent Rd. | 00:03:20 | |
| The mayor's agreement. | 00:03:23 | |
| Because he almost got ran over twice and. | 00:03:25 | |
| So they. | 00:03:28 | |
| Locked the street off. | 00:03:28 | |
| That's why it was popped on. | 00:03:30 | |
| Because their house sits right on the road. Almost. | 00:03:32 | |
| So it is for safety issues. | 00:03:35 | |
| I'm guessing your property also borders Fatima. | 00:03:40 | |
| Or is it OK? | 00:03:43 | |
| OK. Thank you, Mr. Victoria, and we'll get back to you. | 00:03:49 | |
| Our administration one. | 00:03:52 | |
| Thank you. Thank you. | 00:03:54 | |
| New business. | 00:03:58 | |
| Or business. | 00:04:01 | |
| Executive session, Madam Mayor, a couple of things. | 00:04:03 | |
| I have a couple things. | 00:04:06 | |
| First of all, I wanted to give a shout out to the guys that are working on Family Gym that's coming along. | 00:04:08 | |
| There's landscaping, they put some shade clothes and it's looking really good. | 00:04:13 | |
| But the other thing, our zoning committee. | 00:04:17 | |
| Meeting group committee met last week and. | 00:04:19 | |
| And Gary from Dennis Engineering attended the meeting. | 00:04:23 | |
| We started looking at all our paper maps. There's one for this, there's one for that. | 00:04:27 | |
| Some of them. | 00:04:30 | |
| You can't even read some of the streets. | 00:04:31 | |
| And then we started talking with Gary and he was talking about how a lot of municipalities are using the Esri. | 00:04:33 | |
| Software. | 00:04:40 | |
| And that's what the county uses. And if you go online, you can see. | 00:04:41 | |
| You know the county maps? | 00:04:44 | |
| So we're looking into that. I don't know if that's something that we can afford to do, what we want to do. | 00:04:46 | |
| But we should really consider it. | 00:04:52 | |
| We would have to have a. | 00:04:55 | |
| A dedicated person. | 00:04:56 | |
| To be able to. | 00:04:57 | |
| Make the changes. Well, first of all to sit down and put everything in the computer. But. | 00:04:59 | |
| It seems like the county has done. | 00:05:03 | |
| Somewhat for us already. | 00:05:05 | |
| Just because they. | 00:05:08 | |
| They were trying to be helpful and and they were already in the program. | 00:05:09 | |
| Or the other thing is, you know, we might want to consider an MOU with the county if. | 00:05:14 | |
| If that's something we want to do, just to. | 00:05:18 | |
| Can we get on board and and really get our? | 00:05:20 | |
| Feet or just on board with the whole program and know what we're doing. I bet they could help us out a lot because they've been | 00:05:24 | |
| using it for quite some time. | 00:05:28 | |
| And that's it. Thank you. | 00:05:32 | |
| Madam Mayor, just to. | 00:05:33 | |
| Deborah Lane met on that along with. | 00:05:35 | |
| A couple of people. | 00:05:38 | |
| Like the big thing for us in the meeting was. | 00:05:39 | |
| To give clear boundaries and. | 00:05:42 | |
| Property like. | 00:05:44 | |
| Areas where properties and zoning so that. | 00:05:46 | |
| In some sort of hyperlink. | 00:05:48 | |
| Potentially where people potentially want to come to grow business wise with no. | 00:05:51 | |
| What zone is where and? | 00:05:55 | |
| What's allowable in certain zones so that? | 00:05:57 | |
| There should be some interaction so. | 00:06:01 | |
| I don't it's a productive meeting in. | 00:06:03 | |
| It has been going well. We've been. | 00:06:05 | |
| Meeting every month. | 00:06:07 | |
| Once and one through teammate. | 00:06:08 | |
| So it has the committee has a net. | 00:06:10 | |
| There is a map on the on the. | 00:06:13 | |
| Website but. | 00:06:15 | |
| That map was probably made. | 00:06:17 | |
| Probably 30-40 years ago. Probably read it, yes. | 00:06:19 | |
| You can't. No, there's no clear lines. | 00:06:24 | |
| And missing a lot of. | 00:06:27 | |
| Streets and things are probably a lot of new streets. It's not on it. | 00:06:29 | |
| Thank you, Mayor. | 00:06:35 | |
| Thank you and the animal. | 00:06:36 | |
| Community also. | 00:06:38 | |
| Net and we are. | 00:06:40 | |
| Starting to work with Lupe to make sure that we. | 00:06:43 | |
| You know he has a volunteer list. | 00:06:47 | |
| We're trying to do a lot of things, so we'll have a. | 00:06:49 | |
| Larger report next time that we meet. | 00:06:53 | |
| Any other committees? | 00:06:58 | |
| Angel. | 00:06:59 | |
| I just wanted to. | 00:07:04 | |
| Guys, they went through Academy and they want to let you guys know that they. | 00:07:05 | |
| Finish the Academy Academy. They are all certified. | 00:07:09 | |
| And Harrison, Richard. | 00:07:16 | |
| Send. He was also given the. | 00:07:18 | |
| Driving award, So taxi or anything like that. | 00:07:21 | |
| Congratulations. | 00:07:25 | |
| Thanks. Thank you. | 00:07:28 | |
| Any other committees? | 00:07:30 | |
| OK. | 00:07:33 | |
| Thank you, Mayor Council. | 00:07:43 | |
| First of all, I just wanted to. | 00:07:45 | |
| Let you guys know. | 00:07:46 | |
| My my my my department teamed up with one of my buddies in. | 00:07:48 | |
| He doesn't want to make, he doesn't want me to mention his name because he doesn't want no credit. He just said they do good mode | 00:07:52 | |
| for. | 00:07:54 | |
| For allowing them to do this. | 00:07:57 | |
| They raised a little bit of money. | 00:07:58 | |
| Gave out 66 jackets to kids at Parkview Elementary. | 00:08:02 | |
| So he just, I just wanted to give him a shout out. | 00:08:06 | |
| You know, so yes, thank you for that and his group of guys that. | 00:08:09 | |
| Raise this money to give those coats to these kids that needed it. | 00:08:12 | |
| The second thing, Michael Padilla wanted me to mention that. | 00:08:15 | |
| Turkey Dingle is Friday at 6:00 PM. | 00:08:18 | |
| To go out and. | 00:08:23 | |
| Place of bingo and all proceeds go to Mr. Ocampo's food drive so. | 00:08:24 | |
| And then the last thing is we have our annual matanza coming up December 6th. | 00:08:29 | |
| So. | 00:08:34 | |
| You guys go out there and support that. All proceeds go to kids. | 00:08:35 | |
| For Christmas, for shopping, so. | 00:08:39 | |
| Last year we talked about. | 00:08:40 | |
| 100 kids at $100 a kid. Hopefully we could take more this year so. | 00:08:42 | |
| That's. | 00:08:45 | |
| And is it still at the same place? | 00:08:47 | |
| Same place right across the street, the Plaza. | 00:08:48 | |
| OK. And that's at 6:00. | 00:08:50 | |
| I know December 6 and it starts at 4:00. | 00:08:52 | |
| Thank you. | 00:08:58 | |
| No, thank you. And that's. | 00:08:59 | |
| Before the electric light parade, right? | 00:09:00 | |
| Correct. | 00:09:02 | |
| Thank you. | 00:09:05 | |
| Thank you. Thank you. | 00:09:06 | |
| Any other? | 00:09:07 | |
| Staff want to give a report. | 00:09:08 | |
| Steve, how was the barrel race this weekend? | 00:09:12 | |
| Not bigger, not bigger. | 00:09:17 | |
| The most important thing I have 4 guys that just. | 00:09:27 | |
| Got certified as well. | 00:09:29 | |
| Sarah Sandwich and Pastor, Intermediate. | 00:09:37 | |
| Thus the morning pass was intermediate. | 00:09:40 | |
| Yeah. | 00:09:44 | |
| So it's making a difference. | 00:09:47 | |
| I'll tell them on behalf of the mayor and the council, congratulations. | 00:09:53 | |
| Next on the agenda is the job description for. | 00:10:04 | |
| Beautification. | 00:10:07 | |
| Ruby, you want to give us a? | 00:10:09 | |
| The. | 00:10:12 | |
| Madam Mayor, Council, so this is a beautification coordinator. | 00:10:21 | |
| It's going to be an individual that's going to be overseeing. | 00:10:25 | |
| Program we had we got $125,000 to work with. | 00:10:28 | |
| So we need to utilize that money. | 00:10:32 | |
| Where Darrell Ross is going to be the coordinator. | 00:10:34 | |
| Marcela is going to be. | 00:10:37 | |
| She's going to be helping and. | 00:10:40 | |
| Chris Carrillo, Me. | 00:10:42 | |
| Donald and. | 00:10:44 | |
| I would like to wait until after December 8th because I'm going to have dot come out. She's going to meet with us, so we're going | 00:10:46 | |
| to kind of present everything we. | 00:10:49 | |
| Want to do? | 00:10:52 | |
| Marcel has already contacted a few people. You know, I know I've mentioned that they're going to do roll off dumpsters throughout | 00:10:54 | |
| the city that people can throw their trash. | 00:10:57 | |
| And we're going to have that for seven months at least and. | 00:11:01 | |
| She's working with the Middle Rio Grande and she's already got approval to be able to put them on certain areas in Middle Rio | 00:11:04 | |
| Grande, but. | 00:11:07 | |
| Marcelo will be here. | 00:11:10 | |
| Not on the second, but probably the second meeting. | 00:11:12 | |
| And we'll go ahead and. | 00:11:14 | |
| Give a whole summary of what our plans are to do, but we need to spend the 125,000 before June. | 00:11:16 | |
| 30th. | 00:11:21 | |
| OK, that's all. Any questions? | 00:11:24 | |
| Thank you. | 00:11:27 | |
| The motion to approve. | 00:11:30 | |
| I'll make a motion. | 00:11:32 | |
| Second, all in favor? | 00:11:32 | |
| I discussion. | 00:11:34 | |
| No. | 00:11:42 | |
| Next is personnel changes. | 00:11:45 | |
| Juan Padilla. | 00:11:50 | |
| Groundskeeper completed probation 837 to 839. | 00:11:51 | |
| Harry Richardson, Policemen Control. | 00:11:55 | |
| LED LE A. | 00:11:58 | |
| Certification completed. Probation a 61. | 00:12:00 | |
| To a 65. | 00:12:03 | |
| Jeremy Diplo. | 00:12:05 | |
| Police left for Tonin Lea certification. | 00:12:08 | |
| B63 to B65 Stephen Chavez. | 00:12:12 | |
| Production crewing. | 00:12:16 | |
| Completed probation a 44 to a 46. | 00:12:17 | |
| Darrell Ross, Recreation slash administrative. | 00:12:21 | |
| Assistance transfer to program coordinator. | 00:12:24 | |
| 43. | 00:12:27 | |
| To D43. | 00:12:28 | |
| Shannon Orell. | 00:12:30 | |
| Adverse animal shelter kennel assistant. | 00:12:32 | |
| A-40 Sarah Stanley. | 00:12:36 | |
| Fire MTMT intermediate certification. | 00:12:38 | |
| A60 to a 62. | 00:12:43 | |
| Jason Padilla. | 00:12:45 | |
| Fire and TF. | 00:12:46 | |
| F1 and two certification. | 00:12:49 | |
| B62 to B66. | 00:12:51 | |
| Christian Tierney. | 00:12:54 | |
| Fire EMT Firefighter EMT fully certified. | 00:12:56 | |
| Calculator error. | 00:13:00 | |
| C72 to C70. | 00:13:01 | |
| Dustin Mornin. | 00:13:04 | |
| Fire Empty Mt Intermediate certification B66. | 00:13:05 | |
| To be 68. | 00:13:10 | |
| Aldor Reese Gomez gas resignation. | 00:13:12 | |
| Saldana Senior Center resignation. | 00:13:16 | |
| Question on Darrell what? | 00:13:22 | |
| If it's D43, the D43. | 00:13:23 | |
| Is. What does that mean? | 00:13:26 | |
| OK. | 00:13:28 | |
| Didn't change. | 00:13:34 | |
| Getting a certification for recycling. | 00:13:36 | |
| In December. | 00:13:39 | |
| OK, Madam Mayor. | 00:13:41 | |
| I'll make a motion to approve the personnel changes, as read. | 00:13:43 | |
| OK, all in favor. | 00:13:46 | |
| Aye, question. | 00:13:49 | |
| OK. Business registration, we have none. | 00:13:53 | |
| Announcement The next City Council meeting will be. | 00:13:59 | |
| Tuesday, December 2nd at 6:00. | 00:14:02 | |
| Yes, Sir, I'm sorry. I should have brought this. I should have asked this question earlier. Does anybody know what Thanksgiving | 00:14:04 | |
| coming up? | 00:14:07 | |
| When Portico does their Thanksgiving meal. | 00:14:11 | |
| Does anybody have the date in case we know of anybody in need? | 00:14:14 | |
| Send them over. | 00:14:17 | |
| Don't know. I know we have a Senior Center. | 00:14:20 | |
| Thanksgiving meal on November 25th. | 00:14:24 | |
| At 11 AM. | 00:14:26 | |
| But does anybody know? | 00:14:28 | |
| I don't I can ask. | 00:14:32 | |
| Add the date and I'm trying to find it and I can. | 00:14:34 | |
| Oh well. | 00:14:37 | |
| I could call in Ashay and get the information. | 00:14:42 | |
| That's on the polo. So he can send out a We can send out a robo, Yeah. | 00:14:44 | |
| Yeah, that'd be great. | 00:14:48 | |
| Yeah. | 00:14:49 | |
| I would like to congratulate the chief then on all those awards that. | 00:14:52 | |
| Where did you put all those awards? | 00:14:55 | |
| That that was that was tremendous. | 00:15:01 | |
| And then reporting on the city that did it. | 00:15:08 | |
| I see. How are you there? | 00:15:13 | |
| And another Congrats to the next Councilman, Coach Charles Kimberly is going to be inducted into the track and cross country. | 00:15:16 | |
| Hall of Fame. | 00:15:23 | |
| Next in January. So that's a pretty big deal. | 00:15:25 | |
| Oh, that's the coach association. | 00:15:28 | |
| Motion to adjourn. | 00:15:34 | |
| So moved. | 00:15:35 | |
| 2nd. | 00:15:37 | |
| Thank you, everybody. Thank you. | 00:15:40 | |
| Thank you. Thank you, Peter. | 00:15:43 |