Meeting: City Council Meeting

Live stream not working in Chrome or Edge?

Bookmarks
Transcript
Share
Favorites

Bookmark list

Bookmark1

Transcript search

Transcript

Event transcript
	Right here we go. Let me put my glasses on. City Council meeting Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026. Roll call.	00:00:00
	Taking a day off.	00:00:06
	Mirabescu here.	00:00:09
	Councillor Marian Chavez Lopez.	00:00:10
	Yeah, Councillor.	00:00:12
	Here, Councillor Fleming.	00:00:14
	Yeah, Councillor Gonzalez.	00:00:15
	Councillor Oconfo.	00:00:18
	Here, Councillor Partridge.	00:00:19
	Councillor Romero.	00:00:22
	Here, Councillor Shalom.	00:00:23
	We have a quorum.	00:00:25
	All right for the Pledge of Allegiance.	00:00:27
	One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.	00:00:36
	Mr. Romero.	00:00:51
	Approved to approve the consent agenda.	00:00:54
	2nd so moved and seconded discussion.	00:00:57
	All in favor.	00:01:00
	Time. Alrighty, we're ready to go. Brianna Lucero.	00:01:01
	Breaking Bad.	00:01:06
	Habits, New Mexico Ambassador.	00:01:09
	All righty. Good evening Mayor Bhaskar and members of the council.	00:01:14
	My name is Brianna Lucero and I currently go to Socorro High School.	00:01:18
	This year, I'm Socorro County's Land of Enchantment young ambassador.	00:01:23
	Which is a part of the statewide Youth Leadership Program supported by the NMDOT.	00:01:26
	And the governor's office.	00:01:31
	That focuses on preventing litter.	00:01:33
	Promoting community pride and encouraging youth involvement in service.	00:01:35
	I recently attended my first meeting in Santa Fe and look forward to working with all of you to support cleanup and beautification	00:01:40
	efforts throughout our beautiful county.	00:01:44
	Right now I'm in the planning stage and would really appreciate any guidance from the council on areas that could benefit.	00:01:49
	From cleanups or ways that I can best support ongoing efforts?	00:01:54
	With your direction, I hope to organize community and Roadside Clean.	00:01:57
	Youth Outreach.	00:02:01
	Literature, education, and partnerships with local schools and organizations.	00:02:02
	Thank you so much for your time and for supporting youth leadership.	00:02:07
	I'm proud to serve so Coral County.	00:02:10
	Well, congratulations. Yeah, that's great. How do you get that position?	00:02:12
	Thank you.	00:02:16
	Well, I had to do um.	00:02:18
	It was a big what's the enrollment process? So I had to submit an application, I had to submit a resume and just a cover letter	00:02:20
	and resume.	00:02:23
	Pretty much just what my qualifications are, past leadership roles I've had and.	00:02:28
	It there was it was a big competition.	00:02:33
	So.	00:02:35
	13 other ambassadors were selected.	00:02:37
	And I think.	00:02:40
	120.	00:02:41
	Candidates ran and so I was chosen out of.	00:02:43
	The 13 Congratulations Well, we want to make your.	00:02:46
	Ambassadorship.	00:02:51
	Successful we have. The city has.	00:02:53
	A state grant.	00:02:55
	Which is the calendar grant.	00:02:57
	And I think.	00:02:59
	We should.	00:03:00
	Get her with them.	00:03:01
	And you can help.	00:03:02
	Coordinate some of those activities like you said.	00:03:03
	Is a cleanup grant.	00:03:06
	And oh, speaking OK, Linda.	00:03:08
	Lindo so.	00:03:12
	This gentleman.	00:03:14
	Do you know him?	00:03:15
	Yes, yes. How do you know him?	00:03:16
	So do you know this is?	00:03:19
	Huggies granddaughter, right?	00:03:20
	Oh, OK, yeah.	00:03:23
	Microphone up a little bit.	00:03:26
	So we met her through the dot.	00:03:28
	That's doing the grant.	00:03:31
	The beautiful case, they kind of go together. That's wonderful. Yeah. So she told us we had an ambassador in Squirrel County and	00:03:32
	we asked Target to get us in contact and we met and we talked some things over and.	00:03:38
	I think we're going to work together and yeah, Brienne, so.	00:03:44
	Maybe you can.	00:03:47
	You know if you can.	00:03:48
	Kind of put your activities together with them. I think you can.	00:03:49
	Kind of build on that.	00:03:52
	Yeah. And if you can get some of the students involved and we even, there's even money involved that they can.	00:03:54
	Get paid for cleanup.	00:03:59
	Find some spots, even if they live around their houses.	00:04:01
	You can maybe ask for.	00:04:04
	Suggestions from areas that they perhaps live in that need to be cleaned up.	00:04:06
	That's that's wonderful that you got that.	00:04:10
	That's great.	00:04:12
	So congratulations. Thank you. Will you have time to do that?	00:04:14
	Yeah, well, you're, you're a senior or.	00:04:19
	I'm a I'm a junior junior, have another year my.	00:04:21
	My leadership with the ambassador.	00:04:26
	It ends in May or June. It ends in June, so I have a couple months to.	00:04:30
	You know, do some projects and cleanups and so, well, yeah, I think and you can get the word out and if you're going to pass the	00:04:35
	baton to somebody else.	00:04:38
	We want to make sure that we continue this.	00:04:42
	Yes, yes, definitely.	00:04:44
	And she's also your 202526, so coral.	00:04:46
	Bear Queen. Great. Wow, congratulations for that.	00:04:50
	Thank you.	00:04:54
	Also unbelievable. Paul Bolter.	00:04:58
	Yeah.	00:05:01
	Get that from her resume.	00:05:04
	Huggy huggy, talk about the bubble.	00:05:06
	Oh wait. Oh my God.	00:05:08
	I shouldn't have even opened my mouth.	00:05:12
	So congratulations, Huggy. I mean, that's great.	00:05:16
	That's great.	00:05:19
	That you're doing that anyone else who is not on the just ma'am.	00:05:20
	This is so related. I am Christy Smith and the Vice President of the Save Our Boski Task Force.	00:05:28
	Which cleans up.	00:05:35
	And helps manage the five Socorro parks.	00:05:36
	Otero up the confluence.	00:05:40
	And we?	00:05:42
	Arrange for eradication of invasive species.	00:05:43
	Planting of.	00:05:46
	Native species. And then I organized the park.	00:05:48
	Pickups. So every the first the second Saturday of every month.	00:05:51
	We go, we pick up.	00:05:54
	Trash of tarot and then the other parts there.	00:05:56
	And people just volunteer, and I have.	00:05:59
	But I was.	00:06:01
	Coming tonight.	00:06:02
	Now I come once in a while anyway, but.	00:06:03
	To find out who's running the K Linda so.	00:06:05
	I could.	00:06:07
	Program so we could maybe get together go.	00:06:08
	And so try to get more people because we get.	00:06:10
	You know between 5 to 10 people a month to come to Otera, depending on the weather.	00:06:13
	And then we move up and sometimes there's large pieces of trash and.	00:06:17
	Washers and sofas and then the mid rear Grand Conservation District will come.	00:06:20
	And they will actually haul the big stuff for us, but we have to haul away the regular trash.	00:06:24
	And how long is this grant for this Kay, Linda?	00:06:29
	100 and huh?	00:06:32
	So like once a month they'll have dumpsters and places is that?	00:06:34
	But they're, yeah, they've got it done by the.	00:06:37
	By the Borrow pit over there on Lopezville right now.	00:06:39
	And then February is going to be different and it's getting cleaned up.	00:06:42
	There's a lot of cleanup going on. If you want to contact me, I usually put in the paper. It's there the second Saturday of the	00:06:46
	month. We made Otero at about 10:00 PM.	00:06:50
	Thank you.	00:06:55
	Thanks for your.	00:06:55
	Thanks for your work at the bus key.	00:06:57
	Mr. Salih.	00:07:01
	Have a quick question with regard to you.	00:07:02
	The landfill and cleanups.	00:07:04
	We're not taking.	00:07:06
	Tires at the landfill at this point, are we?	00:07:08
	So, So what?	00:07:11
	What kind of effect does that have on the community?	00:07:13
	Are we going to see?	00:07:16
	A lot of tires there on the.	00:07:17
	On the I know tarot outside.	00:07:19
	By the river, we're going to see tires and vacant properties and.	00:07:23
	They're going to cost C.	00:07:27
	Money to pick up those tires.	00:07:29
	Have we investigated the fact that?	00:07:33
	We might need to take tires now.	00:07:35
	Storm or we'll pick them up later because.	00:07:38
	They're coming.	00:07:42
	And they're, they're young.	00:07:44
	Yeah, they're signs saying that there's no What do you have on there that you can?	00:07:45
	Put in there.	00:07:50
	Darrell Come.	00:07:51
	Sorry about that. There are signs that would be placed on the dumpsters that will say no metal.	00:08:03
	No tires, no electronic equipment.	00:08:08
	Of course people can't read.	00:08:11
	So that's why I think.	00:08:13
	Councillor Salome is thinking.	00:08:15
	That might just come and start dumping stuff. Yeah, well, I mean.	00:08:17
	It's it's it's.	00:08:20
	Fair to say that that's probably what's going to happen.	00:08:22
	I think there was a study done that there was there's one tire for every.	00:08:24
	Is that what it is? Doctor Vessel? What is the the ratio for people that live in the community or in the county?	00:08:31
	The year 1 tire per person.	00:08:37
	Almost I heard it.	00:08:39
	What are we charging for tires, Mike?	00:08:41
	Yeah, no, I mean it's a big problem and.	00:08:45
	I think there's tires like I've seen stockpiles.	00:08:48
	I won't say exactly where, but there's one on the front of the road. There's a bunch of stuff about the stockpile.	00:08:51
	There's one, of course, at the county.	00:08:57
	There's people stockpiling cars waiting for it to.	00:08:59
	Get rid of them somehow.	00:09:02
	Right now we're.	00:09:04
	We're charging the dollar of passenger tire.	00:09:05
	$5 for a semi tire.	00:09:07
	We're in the process of getting my machine, my baler fixed.	00:09:11
	Of course, we can only build so many tires.	00:09:14
	We're building the entire Burma once we get to the end of that.	00:09:17
	To the end of the row.	00:09:20
	Then we're stuck with.	00:09:22
	Thousands, I mean thousands of players.	00:09:23
	So we're in the process around looking to try to find a tire shredder.	00:09:25
	Like I mentioned in.	00:09:29
	The future. The past meetings.	00:09:30
	Yeah. So we can do to.	00:09:33
	We can shred them, then we can use them. It'll benefit the city.	00:09:35
	In the landfill to.	00:09:38
	Use it as cover material. We can cover our garbage with it.	00:09:39
	So that's the.	00:09:42
	Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, the grant for the tire store, I believe either opens in March or April, but we're trying to find it. It's	00:09:45
	about what, 900,000?	00:09:49
	To buy one.	00:09:54
	About 800,000 / 1, yes.	00:09:55
	Not a used one. No. Better be Brandon.	00:09:58
	I I would the other thing I would recommend and you can.	00:10:01
	Take or leave it, but.	00:10:05
	I put a game camera out there.	00:10:07
	Where you have your.	00:10:09
	Your stuff with a dump.	00:10:11
	And just put it somewhere.	00:10:14
	And then you can always move it wherever you move it to.	00:10:16
	And at least and put a sign saying this is being videoed.	00:10:19
	You have to do that.	00:10:22
	I think it might.	00:10:24
	Deter some people from come, there will be people dumping.	00:10:25
	And in a way, that was the idea is people.	00:10:28
	From dumping it.	00:10:31
	Where there shouldn't be.	00:10:32
	If we start collecting tires, that's going to be a big problem.	00:10:34
	Well, when they you and you're right, people don't know how to read.	00:10:37
	As we get the dumpsters at the left field and that's slowed with everything and there we are separating everything.	00:10:40
	But they're not that expensive. I would I'd suggest you get one of those game cameras and.	00:10:45
	Put it in a.	00:10:50
	Place and also make sure you write on there that this is being videoed.	00:10:52
	But I think it might deter, it may deter some people.	00:10:56
	Yes ma'am, and there are some shredders that.	00:11:01
	That will grind everything. I mean furniture.	00:11:04
	Mattresses.	00:11:07
	Even.	00:11:08
	All kinds of stuff. Oh yeah, except for the metals. Evidence. We bought the Sambar Boski Task force bought a bunch of tires.	00:11:10
	Some tires on some cameras some years ago.	00:11:16
	And that it's got torn down, the batteries got taken.	00:11:20
	Like they didn't always get.	00:11:23
	That get broken but the batteries would get taken.	00:11:24
	And then the.	00:11:26
	Cameras will disappear. And it was.	00:11:28
	I don't know. I forget somebody actually paid for them. It wasn't even our budget.	00:11:30
	One of the board members, so I'm not sure about.	00:11:33
	Humans, but good luck with that.	00:11:35
	I said take it or leave it.	00:11:38
	Anyway, thank you gentlemen.	00:11:43
	But thank you, you guys are doing I mean.	00:11:45
	You got to start somewhere.	00:11:47
	And you're going to have some problems along the way, there's no question about it.	00:11:48
	Another reason we have to stop taking tires at times is because we have too many out there.	00:11:53
	And it's a violation of our.	00:11:57
	License to run the landfill.	00:11:59
	Sophie So if the EPA stops by and we have say 200 tires and one pile.	00:12:02
	Sir.	00:12:08
	If anybody remembers the tire fire.	00:12:13
	Yeah, OK. Anyone else?	00:12:15
	Make a comment.	00:12:18
	That's not on the agenda.	00:12:20
	All righty, then we'll move right along. We have a Little League baseball agreement.	00:12:23
	Who wants to tackle that one?	00:12:28
	I see somebody here from Little League.	00:12:31
	There's a step there if you want to step up. You know I might need that.	00:12:38
	So I want to thank you guys for having us.	00:12:43
	I want to introduce myself. My name is Tracy Romero, so I'm the Vice President of.	00:12:46
	Our new upcoming Little League of Socorro. I'm also the head coach of the softball at the high school.	00:12:51
	We are bringing Little League back to Socorro.	00:12:58
	We're going to start.	00:13:01
	Up in March.	00:13:03
	Already. Umm.	00:13:04
	So it's a big thing that we're bringing and we wanted to bring back and we're getting that done.	00:13:05
	I do want to say a huge thank you, Mayor.	00:13:10
	And to the city of Socorro, Michael, for the help that the city brings, has already brought to us.	00:13:13
	And is helping us with. So I want to say a huge thank you because.	00:13:18
	Sometimes people don't realize that the city helps.	00:13:22
	So much in these sports.	00:13:25
	But we are bringing that back.	00:13:27
	And like I said.	00:13:29
	Registration is open.	00:13:30
	Are ready and we're taking registrations until February 27th.	00:13:32
	We're having our beginning practices.	00:13:37
	March 7th.	00:13:40
	With our open opening day on April 11.	00:13:41
	Opening day will be April 11th. We're going to do a parade like we used to for Little League and have the kids out there in their	00:13:45
	uniforms and.	00:13:49
	So I think will be our second week into games.	00:13:52
	But we just ask and we thank you for using the fields.	00:13:56
	We've had our directors come out and they say how nice our fields are and we're lucky to have the fields that we do have.	00:13:59
	So we do appreciate it.	00:14:06
	But we're bringing that back with addition.	00:14:08
	To bringing Little League back.	00:14:10
	We have our major, our regular baseball divisions.	00:14:13
	As well as we are bringing softball.	00:14:16
	Literally comes with softball.	00:14:19
	So we have our softball divisions.	00:14:20
	And as well as baseball and.	00:14:23
	Softball, We are also adding the Challenger division.	00:14:24
	And so our goal is to bring a safe and positive.	00:14:28
	Program that's also a feeder program, but a program just to get kids out there.	00:14:32
	And get it running and get them nice and healthy and give them something good to do.	00:14:38
	Our Challenger division is new to Little League.	00:14:41
	What that is, is that is it's adaptive baseball.	00:14:45
	So if you have a physical.	00:14:48
	Or intellectual disability.	00:14:50
	That's where Challenger.	00:14:52
	We're ready and we have people that are willing to come and.	00:14:54
	And play us and and we travel and play them as well.	00:14:57
	So it really we're just looking to bring a program that fits all our.	00:15:00
	All our kids and our community and do something positive with the.	00:15:03
	With the kiddos in our community. So again, but.	00:15:06
	I really want to.	00:15:09
	Push that. We thank you guys for letting us use the facilities.	00:15:11
	And thank you for everything that that you guys let us do for the.	00:15:14
	Tracy, what does it cost for?	00:15:19
	Kids to join.	00:15:21
	So our registration fee is $65 per child.	00:15:23
	It's $65 per child.	00:15:26
	Now for the Challenger division, it does not cost anything.	00:15:29
	So for Challenger division, it's.	00:15:32
	0 cost for registration, but for any other division it is $65.	00:15:34
	And how do people register?	00:15:39
	So you can jump on Little League.	00:15:41
	Org umm.	00:15:43
	There's the corallittleleague.org.	00:15:45
	We do have a Facebook post we're trying to.	00:15:47
	To go on social media and put that there.	00:15:49
	We are pushing the Flyers in the backpacks.	00:15:52
	So that they can take them home as well.	00:15:55
	And I know we are going to set up a date.	00:15:57
	Coming soon.	00:16:00
	Maybe this weekend and another one.	00:16:01
	For people that can't register online.	00:16:03
	That we can help register them.	00:16:05
	For them.	00:16:07
	And get them registered.	00:16:08
	Like together, you know?	00:16:10
	Because not everybody has a computer.	00:16:11
	What ages are they?	00:16:14
	So I believe we're taking 3 and up.	00:16:16
	3 to 16.	00:16:20
	Typically is what's in the programs.	00:16:22
	Could you? Mm-hmm.	00:16:24
	Thank you, Mr. Mayor.	00:16:26
	Question. Thanks for.	00:16:28
	Thanks for doing this, Tracy. I know.	00:16:31
	How much work it is so?	00:16:34
	What is the?	00:16:35
	So your your start date's March. What is your end date?	00:16:36
	Typically.	00:16:39
	So I believe.	00:16:41
	I believe we're ending the end of May.	00:16:43
	I believe.	00:16:45
	Because what we do also is what brings that interleague play.	00:16:48
	So again, the baseball and softball depending on our registration of course.	00:16:52
	We really don't know what we're looking at as far as how many we get.	00:16:58
	Registered UMM.	00:17:01
	But umm.	00:17:02
	They get they get a chance to go to the All Stars.	00:17:03
	So All Stars is where they get to. We get to play Belen, Las Lunas and we get to play those other teams and get some different.	00:17:06
	Different play in there with other.	00:17:12
	With other teams.	00:17:14
	And what is the?	00:17:16
	Typical.	00:17:18
	Schedule look like.	00:17:19
	For with the inner like in Socorro, similar to the way the City League was where we.	00:17:21
	Similar form teams and play here and then.	00:17:26
	So it depends. So again, it depends on registration.	00:17:29
	So like for instance, a softball.	00:17:32
	Softball we have low in numbers just in general with girls coming out to play.	00:17:35
	So if we don't have enough.	00:17:40
	For softball.	00:17:42
	They either have the opportunity to join another team, stay in Berlin. Berlin is our closest friend.	00:17:43
	In Little League.	00:17:48
	So if we don't have enough numbers, then they have the option to play on one other teams.	00:17:49
	And then if we only have say enough like we have 9 for a.	00:17:54
	A softball team here.	00:17:58
	Then we will interleague and we will play Berlin, we will play Los Lunas.	00:17:59
	So maybe.	00:18:03
	One weekend we will play here.	00:18:04
	The next weekend we will play in Berlin.	00:18:06
	We'll then play here.	00:18:09
	When we can go out to Las Munas.	00:18:10
	So it just again it depends on the numbers that we get from registrations.	00:18:12
	I'm gonna. That makes sense.	00:18:16
	And lastly the I think it's.	00:18:19
	Really good that you're doing this and you enable it looks like you're.	00:18:21
	Are hitting this thing up in your.	00:18:24
	The business, yeah, of a group of.	00:18:26
	People who care about baseball, we've talked about that in the past and in order for the.	00:18:29
	I think that you coach high school, so in order to.	00:18:33
	Have success at the next level. You got to have a good theater program. It's not that the city didn't have a good theater program.	00:18:36
	I think they're they're placed in this.	00:18:40
	Our place and that was just to give kids opportunity, right? Not absolutely, necessarily baseball.	00:18:44
	Whereas Little League's more baseball focused and I think especially critical for the girls to have an opportunity to learn.	00:18:48
	Softball at a young age, it's much different than baseball for them.	00:18:55
	I wish you the best of luck and thank you. Appreciate it.	00:18:59
	Yeah.	00:19:03
	So yeah, there is a T-Mobile grant.	00:19:07
	It's ran every day I believe.	00:19:11
	And so there are options for people that can't afford.	00:19:13
	The Registration class.	00:19:17
	The Little League itself.	00:19:18
	Regionally.	00:19:20
	They have a T-Mobile grant.	00:19:21
	And so they will take cover or they'll take care of the registration. I think it's up to 600 or 800 per day.	00:19:23
	But what people can do is go through that grant and see if they get selected to take care of the registration.	00:19:30
	As well.	00:19:36
	As that I mean.	00:19:37
	There are ways there's people that are donating.	00:19:38
	For people that can't afford registration as well. So there are options if people cannot afford it.	00:19:42
	So there's the grant, and again there's also.	00:19:46
	Sponsors and donators.	00:19:49
	Mr. Accomplishment, I guess this question is for Mike so.	00:19:51
	Is there then the city Little League as well or this is going to be 1 league?	00:19:54
	OK, Yeah.	00:19:59
	You know, because of.	00:20:01
	Volunteers like yourself.	00:20:02
	We've had.	00:20:04
	Wrestling. Soccer.	00:20:05
	Baseball and the city will help.	00:20:07
	The first thing we're going to do is to.	00:20:11
	Pay for their insurance.	00:20:13
	Which is about $4200.	00:20:14
	So hopefully that will defray some of the.	00:20:17
	What's gonna be maybe $90.00 A?	00:20:20
	A child maybe. It was dropped, hopefully down to 65.	00:20:22
	It's going to take, it's going to take stress off of our budget.	00:20:27
	For the time we spent and the things we do.	00:20:30
	And if it wasn't for volunteers?	00:20:33
	That's great. And so we want to do.	00:20:35
	Then give them a.	00:20:37
	Of finances to help them.	00:20:41
	And so.	00:20:43
	As they get more.	00:20:45
	Kids involved.	00:20:46
	We will help with that. We might even try to do some scholarships as.	00:20:48
	Councillor Dean is asking about.	00:20:52
	What about because people have 3 or 4 kids and their family and they got to pay?	00:20:54
	$200, that's a lot.	00:20:58
	And so.	00:21:00
	That's something that we've talked about with.	00:21:01
	Also, let's say Mr. Morales.	00:21:03
	And so we're that's what we're asking the council to sign on with.	00:21:06
	Is to get.	00:21:10
	Program going and like we said.	00:21:11
	Just as we've had. Great.	00:21:14
	Volunteers for all these other sports that.	00:21:16
	Basically takes the heat off of us as city.	00:21:19
	That's great, Mr. Combo.	00:21:22
	Yeah, I think, I think it's great to look into it, to look into this anything.	00:21:24
	More for our.	00:21:28
	Is awesome. I guess I have a.	00:21:31
	Another question for Mike.	00:21:33
	Because I know it's big in the summertime.	00:21:34
	I know softball will still be there.	00:21:36
	But uh.	00:21:38
	Do we have like something else that we're going to offer kids in the summer?	00:21:39
	When we were doing the.	00:21:43
	The Little League.	00:21:44
	Wrestling.	00:21:46
	So we already have other sports that are going to ramp up in the summer for the kids that.	00:21:50
	Swimming is swimming is big.	00:21:54
	We support swimming a lot that they get.	00:21:56
	I don't know what do we got?	00:21:59
	There. But this is an I think. Thank you for doing this. I know it's hard. I know. I remember Lily a long time ago.	00:22:02
	So you have to be careful with your finances and you have to always be.	00:22:10
	Transparent and all that stuff because.	00:22:14
	Parents and other people Speaking of transparent.	00:22:17
	The parents can be pretty.	00:22:19
	Pretty mean they've got a code of conduct they've got.	00:22:21
	You know they've got it all. Little League is a.	00:22:24
	A format.	00:22:27
	And they're having to follow it because they have a district manager and a district.	00:22:29
	Administrator and.	00:22:32
	They even came and wanted to know.	00:22:33
	Evacuation zones.	00:22:35
	So we have evacuation zones in case something happens.	00:22:37
	So they're they're they're.	00:22:40
	Professional.	00:22:43
	And that's super important. We just, again, we want it to be safe. I know we are even for our head coaches.	00:22:44
	We are requiring CPR.	00:22:50
	For our head coaches, and it's super important that we.	00:22:53
	That it's safe for these kids, you know, we want them to be somewhere safe and have fun and have a positive.	00:22:56
	I see does literally require background checks for delta?	00:23:01
	Absolutely every single volunteer from your concession person running concession.	00:23:06
	Anybody that's working with the kids has to have a background check.	00:23:10
	And literally we we pay for that.	00:23:14
	So we pay for those background checks for every volunteer.	00:23:16
	But it's we do have to have background checks for every volunteer.	00:23:19
	Again, it's to be the safest that we can. Our kids are everything.	00:23:22
	And we're trying to, again, like he said, we have the code of conduct and we have all these rules that we are following, so.	00:23:25
	You know, we have all these questions.	00:23:32
	You know, for example, can this kid move from T-ball to?	00:23:34
	Coach *****. Well, we have to evaluate that player and we have to.	00:23:38
	We have to see.	00:23:41
	And evaluate them and see if they're ready to move up, because it could be.	00:23:42
	You know, I use my child as an example.	00:23:46
	I'm with the board.	00:23:48
	You know he's 7.	00:23:49
	He can hit the ball.	00:23:51
	Into the outfield.	00:23:52
	But can you pay attention to a line drive coming at him at third base or second base?	00:23:53
	Probably not, so I've left them in T-ball.	00:23:58
	And so there's different things that we look at, but it's mainly just to keep everybody safe.	00:24:00
	But like the mayor said.	00:24:04
	What you guys are already doing with the insurance plan?	00:24:05
	Cover is huge because that allowed us to drop our registration fee even more to 65.	00:24:08
	So other leagues charged from 90 all the way up TO120550.	00:24:13
	So it was. It was.	00:24:18
	Crucial. Umm.	00:24:19
	That we are allowed to do 65 and make it a little bit more possible and helpful for people.	00:24:20
	So it makes a huge difference.	00:24:25
	Tracy.	00:24:28
	I was going to speak to that too. I don't think so has really ever felt the effects of like club sports. My kids did them and.	00:24:30
	So I mean, I think there's been a few that have traveled outside of here, but Socorro itself, $65 although.	00:24:38
	It's inexpensive what the city is to charge $20.	00:24:44
	$65 for an entire season as per.	00:24:47
	Yeah, it's that's.	00:24:51
	Pretty minimal. I get it, it's a large increase, but I'm sure there's lots of.	00:24:53
	People in the community.	00:24:56
	Including people that sit here that would help.	00:24:57
	The kids to make sure they're registered so.	00:24:59
	Just communicate with us and see what we can do to help.	00:25:02
	We appreciate you guys very much.	00:25:04
	Mr. Ocampo.	00:25:06
	I really think this springboards us into.	00:25:08
	Getting our.	00:25:11
	Recreation committee meeting again.	00:25:12
	And so I think, Mary Ann, if we can get something together, I've got numerous community members that want to be on it.	00:25:13
	OK. That would be a great time with all this going on.	00:25:18
	And I have some as well.	00:25:21
	And yeah.	00:25:23
	This is an action item, so if you make a motion to accept.	00:25:24
	One more question, I'm sorry.	00:25:28
	Not to be long winded, Tracy. What is like?	00:25:30
	What does it look like for like 6?	00:25:33
	Security around there, like you got a game going on.	00:25:34
	And I think the city employees kind of took care of that before to keep an eye on things and make sure things didn't get.	00:25:37
	The college recruiters aren't recruiting the six year old and the dads aren't fighting each other. And what does that look like in	00:25:43
	a little?	00:25:46
	Scenario, yeah.	00:25:49
	So there are rules that we follow. So we do have a safety officer. So Augusta Motto is our safety officer.	00:25:50
	And as we speak, she's already come.	00:25:56
	Coming up with a safety plan.	00:25:58
	We do have to have a safety plan for.	00:26:00
	For everything, I mean, you're talking.	00:26:02
	About the A defibrillators, we're talking about first aid kits for every coach.	00:26:04
	As far as people covering work, she's working that out as we speak, but as soon as she finalizes.	00:26:09
	We can get that to you as you guys can look it over and check it out.	00:26:14
	Thank you.	00:26:18
	Of course.	00:26:19
	Thank you to accept the.	00:26:20
	I still move to the.	00:26:22
	Seconded discussion.	00:26:24
	All in favor.	00:26:26
	Thank you guys.	00:26:28
	All righty, we got a new business. New business.	00:26:33
	I have, I don't know if it's new business, but.	00:26:36
	We do have.	00:26:39
	For livestock school.	00:26:41
	Will be here in Socorro.	00:26:43
	So there is going to be.	00:26:44
	It'll be the Southern.	00:26:46
	Half of a state that will come to the coral.	00:26:48
	And we're working.	00:26:51
	On that.	00:26:53
	And then there is also a.	00:26:54
	Huh. Where they?	00:26:57
	We're we're discussing that.	00:26:59
	Probably.	00:27:01
	And over there in our area.	00:27:02
	And and then there is going to be an Invitational archery shoot and that we're still working on that as well.	00:27:04
	So all those sports.	00:27:11
	That you know it's.	00:27:13
	Baseball, basketball. But there is also.	00:27:14
	Other kind of sporting.	00:27:18
	Yeah, Richard Lopez, I think I mean those those are the things that the city wants to support is.	00:27:20
	People do all the work, we want to support them.	00:27:26
	And the and the lifestyle school is handled by the 4H office at the extension office. So I know they asked us for if we could.	00:27:28
	Lend them tents and stuff so I don't know if we have.	00:27:36
	The 10th.	00:27:39
	You know that tents.	00:27:41
	We're going to have to get a Donald with that, get a request exactly where they want.	00:27:42
	Because it takes a little bit to we were just going to ask to see, but I'm going to schedule.	00:27:48
	We're not there yet.	00:27:55
	Oh, OK, Let's see if we can get some more information about that.	00:27:56
	I think it's like in May or June around there.	00:28:01
	OK. Because we have to talk to Steve if they're going to have it out there.	00:28:03
	Because they could do it in the arena.	00:28:09
	Yeah, this.	00:28:11
	We need to probably look at that.	00:28:13
	Because there's like different stations because we've had it in.	00:28:15
	We've had it in 2C and then we've had it in Deming.	00:28:18
	And now I'm happy to say that we're going to have it here. Just contact us, we'll help.	00:28:21
	See if we can help with that.	00:28:26
	How many people you think that we're talking about?	00:28:27
	Quite a few, about 200.	00:28:30
	300.	00:28:32
	Yes.	00:28:35
	I know that's a little bit more, but like when we have big events like that because they're way too.	00:28:38
	Get to our restaurant and stuff like that. Be open.	00:28:43
	Talk to the restaurant.	00:28:48
	I think if we go and talk to the restaurants and let them know.	00:28:52
	You know, maybe create fires and stuff and let them know if.	00:28:56
	That they're open because I know.	00:28:59
	For high school rodeo.	00:29:00
	Because my daughter rodeo so when we go.	00:29:02
	To other towns like.	00:29:05
	Chloe, we've gone to. Clovis, we've gone to.	00:29:06
	And they you have to like they have the kids have to wear their.	00:29:09
	Outfit with her number.	00:29:13
	Anywhere they go, so they so.	00:29:15
	People know that they come from there.	00:29:17
	And they're always open.	00:29:19
	Well, maybe.	00:29:22
	Cheyenne can, yeah, that's important.	00:29:24
	Yeah, it is.	00:29:27
	That's a the the restaurants tend to open and close on there.	00:29:28
	Kind of. So we need to make sure they know.	00:29:33
	They know the schedule.	00:29:35
	We can't force them to stay open, but.	00:29:37
	I think we should, maybe.	00:29:39
	Give them a schedule.	00:29:41
	That Cheyenne makes and.	00:29:42
	Daryl and Steve make.	00:29:45
	So they can have that the owner should have those schedules.	00:29:47
	So if they want to be.	00:29:51
	OK. Yes, Sir.	00:29:55
	Umm, just quickly I'll give you an update on wrestling. I don't.	00:29:57
	But we just had our district tournament and.	00:30:02
	There were five time.	00:30:05
	Undefeated district championship.	00:30:07
	Coaching stuff and the kids for the boys.	00:30:09
	The girls don't have districts yet, so.	00:30:11
	Their regional tournament coming up.	00:30:14
	This weekend in Roswell.	00:30:16
	The boys next weekend and.	00:30:18
	Santa Teresa for the regional and then the state tournament after that, so.	00:30:20
	We have our raffle going on for our side by side. We give away side by side last year.	00:30:25
	Anybody's interested in that? Let's get a hold of me. We have some tickets left.	00:30:29
	We're not drawing until April.	00:30:33
	Some rules by the school that we have to follow in order.	00:30:35
	Some gambling stuff, I guess, whenever you.	00:30:38
	Do a raffle. I don't know.	00:30:41
	Linda knows all about that.	00:30:43
	But her daughter?	00:30:46
	Grandson Joe is.	00:30:50
	Yeah, and some good events coming up this summer, but.	00:30:51
	Just wanted to recognize the kids and the coaches for that day.	00:30:55
	28 and.	00:30:58
	Oh, and one or something over the last five years, so.	00:30:59
	The coaches and the kids so.	00:31:02
	That's it for us. Speaking of Linda.	00:31:05
	We're having to fix the septic tank out at the Vegito.	00:31:09
	And it's probably $11,000 or something like that.	00:31:13
	I know Ruby if you're looking for money up there at.	00:31:17
	Yeah, yeah. But is the city money that we're spending?	00:31:28
	No, not right now.	00:31:31
	For the septic tank.	00:31:33
	You know I'm going to go out for emergency funding.	00:31:34
	You are OK.	00:31:37
	But you've already got it designed and everything, are you?	00:31:38
	Yeah, that's just with the design. That's the design.	00:31:41
	But I'm just saying that we need.	00:31:59
	You know, we need to make sure that we're on top of this and the county needs to.	00:32:01
	I've given the county.	00:32:06
	The end of the month in February.	00:32:08
	And we're going to close the Vegita.	00:32:10
	If we don't get money because I'm down $75,000.	00:32:12
	On that and I and I and we've applied for the money.	00:32:16
	But we can't continue giving services outside the city and having that come from the city coffers.	00:32:19
	And the county can't help.	00:32:24
	I don't know. I've met with Mr. Gonzalez.	00:32:26
	Who's the chairman?	00:32:29
	And the and I'm at the new county manager.	00:32:30
	And we had a good.	00:32:33
	We had a good conversation.	00:32:35
	But we basically have got to make a decision. I made that decision, so.	00:32:37
	I don't know, Mr. Gonzalez has commented. But I was on a designer.	00:32:42
	I mean, there's plenty of septic tanks out there that we probably could just.	00:32:47
	Not have to get a design.	00:32:50
	If there was another Ave. to.	00:32:52
	I know, yeah.	00:32:55
	Oh, we got the guy right there.	00:32:56
	I have any media.	00:32:58
	They're requiring us doing analysis first.	00:32:59
	So they got to do a study that she's requiring that.	00:33:02
	We have to have it designed.	00:33:05
	To that property because you can't go off somebody else's accepting.	00:33:07
	For that property.	00:33:10
	For that, that's why it's 11,000 bucks.	00:33:11
	I want to do that, then we'll find out.	00:33:14
	I'll price out what it's going to cost to do the second thing.	00:33:16
	And get it done in the room. You'll look for money at that time.	00:33:19
	That they're willing to hold off on the city paying any money.	00:33:22
	You know, Ruby comes up with some money so we don't have to pay the architect nothing.	00:33:25
	Up front and they're they're willing to wait until.	00:33:29
	Till the end.	00:33:31
	And then we're going to look for the money and then, then we'll look tonight.	00:33:32
	Our problem with money is.	00:33:36
	If we spend it, we can't get it recouped.	00:33:38
	Even if we get a grant.	00:33:41
	They won't pass backwards.	00:33:43
	And that's the problem, isn't it?	00:33:46
	They're a septic tank out there now.	00:33:47
	Yes, OK.	00:33:50
	Oh.	00:34:01
	A new one you have to remarkable, that's why.	00:34:04
	I don't know how old I thank you.	00:34:08
	But they have a porta potty out there now.	00:34:12
	Oh, they are using.	00:34:14
	Yeah, well, I mean this this, I'm just trying to bring this up to date.	00:34:18
	To let you guys know what but I've sent a letter.	00:34:22
	Then I will be, I'll be closing it and then.	00:34:24
	The end of February if we can't get funds to.	00:34:27
	Continue operating it.	00:34:29
	There's about 66 people.	00:34:31
	Our family 60 families that you give.	00:34:34
	Hotels too.	00:34:37
	Yeah.	00:34:40
	So.	00:34:41
	It's it's being used, but it's not being used by.	00:34:42
	People who live in the city.	00:34:45
	And we were getting money for it and we were more than happy to run it.	00:34:48
	But we've got to have that money in our budget to do it.	00:34:51
	So and you spoke with the county manager?	00:34:56
	We did.	00:34:58
	Had a great meeting, nice guy.	00:34:59
	I think we're going to be very good.	00:35:01
	It's nicer than the old county manager. The second, the second.	00:35:03
	And his name is Joseph on top of that.	00:35:07
	As though we victim.	00:35:09
	No, no, we're, we're.	00:35:11
	For negotiation, yeah.	00:35:14
	I think it worked out, you know, at the end of the day.	00:35:16
	Even like when the county ran it.	00:35:19
	It's a.	00:35:22
	Mandated thing by the state that they don't fund.	00:35:22
	At one point they actually.	00:35:25
	I'm just saying this out loud.	00:35:27
	Funded program.	00:35:29
	Supposedly the senior program.	00:35:31
	But it didn't get to the seniors.	00:35:33
	The money went somewhere else.	00:35:36
	So that's what happened. But anyway.	00:35:38
	And I wouldn't characterize this as a negotiation.	00:35:41
	Negotiation. It's one way or the other reason.	00:35:45
	And they don't keep something one of the kind work to use is negotiation.	00:35:48
	Good words. He's in the City Council right now.	00:35:53
	So I just.	00:35:57
	I'm sorry, but that you know it's going to get $75,000 out of our budget.	00:35:58
	I'd rather spend it on my senior citizen.	00:36:03
	Center here rather than out in the county.	00:36:05
	And that that's.	00:36:07
	You know that's.	00:36:09
	Just the way it should be.	00:36:10
	I'll negotiate faithfully for the city and for the county.	00:36:12
	In the best interest of this.	00:36:15
	Even though I'm.	00:36:17
	So anyway, any other old news?	00:36:19
	Anybody out there?	00:36:22
	Over here.	00:36:25
	We had a great meeting with the.	00:36:26
	Legislature on Thursday.	00:36:28
	And we're moving ahead with some few things that are kind of.	00:36:30
	They're just in the air. They're not anything that's.	00:36:34
	Permanent until March.	00:36:38
	I have some pretty good news on the way, but.	00:36:40
	If it doesn't turn out, then there won't be.	00:36:43
	Would be great. So we're trying to.	00:36:45
	Work around that.	00:36:48
	And.	00:36:53
	That's about all I can say.	00:36:53
	We're still asking for the police station, we're asking to get some help, help in Finley.	00:36:56
	Ruby went out and got $900,000 on top of all that.	00:37:00
	For Finley. So we're still progressing them if you've seen the work we've done over there.	00:37:04
	Is still going on.	00:37:08
	And so.	00:37:10
	Where we've finished the.	00:37:11
	Welcome center at the RV park. You should might want to go see that it's got.	00:37:14
	Television.	00:37:19
	Washer dryers.	00:37:20
	Little Lounge has showers.	00:37:22
	So that should help people that come to the big events.	00:37:25
	Use a RV park.	00:37:28
	How we're gonna be working on a?	00:37:30
	A house out there.	00:37:32
	So we can have a custodian out there.	00:37:33
	That's important, I think eventually with all the stuff we've got out there.	00:37:36
	Gotta have somebody there.	00:37:39
	The project for the short.	00:37:42
	It's all it was all done. The roads have been.	00:37:44
	Chip, shield and and striped.	00:37:47
	Out at Evergreen and Spring.	00:37:49
	So the.	00:37:52
	There's a couple of.	00:37:53
	Chris, there's a couple of.	00:37:55
	Terrible trailers out there that I.	00:37:56
	That I see there's some getting cleaned up, but some are just a disaster. Unbelievable.	00:37:59
	Unbelievable.	00:38:03
	One of the houses that we had fixed up eventually got fixed up.	00:38:05
	As you get into the fire Academy, that finally is.	00:38:08
	Gotten cleared up but.	00:38:11
	I hope these trailers Chris get.	00:38:13
	Get cleaned up.	00:38:14
	We're taking down houses, if you notice, on Peralta and Blue Canyon area.	00:38:16
	There's a house down, big old pile of.	00:38:21
	Adobe and stuff. So we're continuing to try to get that done. The road projects around the.	00:38:24
	Around the.	00:38:29
	Courthouse has done.	00:38:31
	So that's the Ortera will be the next thing that we're going to try to do.	00:38:33
	And that's that's something that.	00:38:37
	The short. The short.	00:38:39
	Lord correct me if I'm wrong, but we have shores throughout the whole city now.	00:38:41
	Right. There's no, no area in the city does not have shore access.	00:38:47
	In the city limits, so which was not the case 20 years ago or 15 years ago, so we have.	00:38:52
	Sewer access in every part of the.	00:38:57
	Every part of the city.	00:38:59
	I don't know if there's any other projects.	00:39:01
	Going on the.	00:39:08
	Police Department, I think the fire department are competent. They're all.	00:39:10
	Somebody.	00:39:13
	Break into the Nasenda ATM the other day.	00:39:14
	And they?	00:39:18
	It's evidently a national ring that's going around doing that and they.	00:39:18
	They stopped them there.	00:39:22
	The guys took off.	00:39:24
	So that's that's a.	00:39:26
	They're doing a good job with that narcotic arrest also.	00:39:28
	I spoke to the Superintendent today.	00:39:33
	About their plans for baseball.	00:39:36
	We're trying to get that but.	00:39:39
	Again our.	00:39:41
	People who write the grass got money for sod.	00:39:42
	For the softball.	00:39:46
	For the women's softball, the.	00:39:47
	It'll be the West.	00:39:49
	The West facing.	00:39:51
	Field. Now we'll get.	00:39:53
	New fencing and softball and and sod.	00:39:56
	The east facing field, That's going to be hardball.	00:40:01
	If we can get the high school to come.	00:40:05
	Along with us.	00:40:07
	And if we get?	00:40:08
	$1,000,000 Grant to put an astroturf.	00:40:10
	We won't know until the end of March or the middle of March.	00:40:14
	So we're working on.	00:40:17
	Trying to get those fields ready for.	00:40:18
	For baseball and softball.	00:40:20
	For for the.	00:40:22
	High school teams.	00:40:24
	And hopefully this.	00:40:26
	High school would participate in some.	00:40:27
	Then they'll have to.	00:40:29
	Participate with us on that.	00:40:30
	I'm going to talk to the.	00:40:33
	New Mexico Tech.	00:40:34
	How about the pool?	00:40:36
	On the 12th.	00:40:38
	And I mentioned that to the Superintendent also, so.	00:40:40
	We'll see what tech has to offer because they're evidently closing the pool.	00:40:43
	Or it's already closed.	00:40:47
	And we have certainly will work with.	00:40:48
	Try to get our pool.	00:40:51
	To be a year round pool and see what they can offer.	00:40:52
	So I'm meeting with them on the.	00:40:55
	On the 12th at 10:30. If you want anybody want to drop by, that's fine.	00:40:57
	They're more than happy to do that.	00:41:01
	To close the pool permanently. It appears that way.	00:41:03
	March.	00:41:08
	March 1st.	00:41:12
	Welcome, Senator Lloyd houses staff. We're just.	00:41:15
	Open for people.	00:41:18
	Statement we're going to.	00:41:19
	We're going to have a code on the door.	00:41:23
	OK.	00:41:26
	Yeah.	00:41:30
	Because the rodeos and if we have everybody over there, they'll tear it up like it.	00:41:40
	But it's for this, that's where the people in that department, he's been getting a lot more.	00:41:44
	RV then he's been having quite a few people.	00:41:50
	Want to go take a shower there though? You can like.	00:41:54
	But it's the one that's to the South and to the.	00:41:56
	It's locked, but it will face the.	00:42:01
	OK.	00:42:04
	And yeah, I mean it's.	00:42:05
	It's been, it's really nice.	00:42:09
	Really nice.	00:42:10
	What else did I?	00:42:13
	No lawsuits other than the ones we already have.	00:42:15
	Donald, anything.	00:42:20
	More to add.	00:42:21
	Still waiting to start the CDBG project on Cuba Rd. but I think that's in the next month or two.	00:42:23
	What's the weather?	00:42:28
	But I think that's it.	00:42:32
	You guys have the list of.	00:42:33
	Projects. If you have any questions about that, let us know.	00:42:35
	We're still working on them.	00:42:37
	I have to congratulate the staff for.	00:42:39
	For the monies that they've been able to.	00:42:42
	Accumulate over and above grocery seats.	00:42:44
	And literally millions.	00:42:47
	Literally millions.	00:42:48
	If we were to add them up for the fiscal year, so that's been great. There's lots of stuff out there.	00:42:50
	Just have to go try to get it.	00:42:55
	You know, so we're going to, we're going to, they're still working on more. So we're still getting there.	00:42:58
	OK, that's it.	00:43:04
	No, no executive session.	00:43:05
	Talk about a secret.	00:43:09
	OK. So the personnel changes, we got Darius Silva from gas to landfill.	00:43:13
	Michael Alfonso, wastewater crewman, new hire.	00:43:19
	Deanna are gone, getting a little raised for additional job duties.	00:43:22
	Omar Quinones is a new police officer. Completely not.	00:43:26
	Not new, I completed probation and Adrian Young.	00:43:29
	Is a new police officer.	00:43:32
	Mr. Mayor, Mr. Partridge.	00:43:34
	Make a motion to approve the personnel changes is read.	00:43:37
	Seconded discussion.	00:43:40
	All in favor, aye?	00:43:42
	Well, this is a.	00:43:45
	Old name coming back to life.	00:43:46
	Dehart Motor Company.	00:43:48
	This will be at 1231 NW Frontage Rd. This is Casey Spurgeon.	00:43:50
	Towing service.	00:43:55
	Mr. Mayor Partridge, I'll make a motion to approve the business registrations, as read.	00:43:57
	Mr. Mayor.	00:44:01
	Didn't we already approve a business license at that location?	00:44:03
	We did. Cannabis is cannabis.	00:44:06
	I think it's.	00:44:08
	I think it was closed. She don't have nothing to do with it.	00:44:11
	He's going in. He's going in the cannabis, yeah.	00:44:14
	Yeah, you know, he did fix it up, and so he'd done a nice job with it.	00:44:18
	Yeah, I guess he's going to the towing business. I'm not sure if he's.	00:44:22
	Aye. OK, All in favor.	00:44:29
	In the meeting February 17th after.	00:44:32
	Valentine's Day.	00:44:36
	Tuesday the February 17th.	00:44:37
	And don't forget to bring your Valentine something to.	00:44:39
	Nebulon.	00:44:42
	OK. Thank you.	00:44:44
	Thank you.	00:44:45
	I see Lucero.	00:44:46
	Tracy.	00:44:48
	Ruby.	00:44:50
	Ariana, is there a time?	00:44:53
	MM.	00:44:55

* you need to log in to manage your favorites

Agenda
Transcript

* use Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on Mac) to search in document

Transcript search

Transcript

Event transcript
	Right here we go. Let me put my glasses on. City Council meeting Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026. Roll call.	00:00:00
	Taking a day off.	00:00:06
	Mirabescu here.	00:00:09
	Councillor Marian Chavez Lopez.	00:00:10
	Yeah, Councillor.	00:00:12
	Here, Councillor Fleming.	00:00:14
	Yeah, Councillor Gonzalez.	00:00:15
	Councillor Oconfo.	00:00:18
	Here, Councillor Partridge.	00:00:19
	Councillor Romero.	00:00:22
	Here, Councillor Shalom.	00:00:23
	We have a quorum.	00:00:25
	All right for the Pledge of Allegiance.	00:00:27
	One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.	00:00:36
	Mr. Romero.	00:00:51
	Approved to approve the consent agenda.	00:00:54
	2nd so moved and seconded discussion.	00:00:57
	All in favor.	00:01:00
	Time. Alrighty, we're ready to go. Brianna Lucero.	00:01:01
	Breaking Bad.	00:01:06
	Habits, New Mexico Ambassador.	00:01:09
	All righty. Good evening Mayor Bhaskar and members of the council.	00:01:14
	My name is Brianna Lucero and I currently go to Socorro High School.	00:01:18
	This year, I'm Socorro County's Land of Enchantment young ambassador.	00:01:23
	Which is a part of the statewide Youth Leadership Program supported by the NMDOT.	00:01:26
	And the governor's office.	00:01:31
	That focuses on preventing litter.	00:01:33
	Promoting community pride and encouraging youth involvement in service.	00:01:35
	I recently attended my first meeting in Santa Fe and look forward to working with all of you to support cleanup and beautification	00:01:40
	efforts throughout our beautiful county.	00:01:44
	Right now I'm in the planning stage and would really appreciate any guidance from the council on areas that could benefit.	00:01:49
	From cleanups or ways that I can best support ongoing efforts?	00:01:54
	With your direction, I hope to organize community and Roadside Clean.	00:01:57
	Youth Outreach.	00:02:01
	Literature, education, and partnerships with local schools and organizations.	00:02:02
	Thank you so much for your time and for supporting youth leadership.	00:02:07
	I'm proud to serve so Coral County.	00:02:10
	Well, congratulations. Yeah, that's great. How do you get that position?	00:02:12
	Thank you.	00:02:16
	Well, I had to do um.	00:02:18
	It was a big what's the enrollment process? So I had to submit an application, I had to submit a resume and just a cover letter	00:02:20
	and resume.	00:02:23
	Pretty much just what my qualifications are, past leadership roles I've had and.	00:02:28
	It there was it was a big competition.	00:02:33
	So.	00:02:35
	13 other ambassadors were selected.	00:02:37
	And I think.	00:02:40
	120.	00:02:41
	Candidates ran and so I was chosen out of.	00:02:43
	The 13 Congratulations Well, we want to make your.	00:02:46
	Ambassadorship.	00:02:51
	Successful we have. The city has.	00:02:53
	A state grant.	00:02:55
	Which is the calendar grant.	00:02:57
	And I think.	00:02:59
	We should.	00:03:00
	Get her with them.	00:03:01
	And you can help.	00:03:02
	Coordinate some of those activities like you said.	00:03:03
	Is a cleanup grant.	00:03:06
	And oh, speaking OK, Linda.	00:03:08
	Lindo so.	00:03:12
	This gentleman.	00:03:14
	Do you know him?	00:03:15
	Yes, yes. How do you know him?	00:03:16
	So do you know this is?	00:03:19
	Huggies granddaughter, right?	00:03:20
	Oh, OK, yeah.	00:03:23
	Microphone up a little bit.	00:03:26
	So we met her through the dot.	00:03:28
	That's doing the grant.	00:03:31
	The beautiful case, they kind of go together. That's wonderful. Yeah. So she told us we had an ambassador in Squirrel County and	00:03:32
	we asked Target to get us in contact and we met and we talked some things over and.	00:03:38
	I think we're going to work together and yeah, Brienne, so.	00:03:44
	Maybe you can.	00:03:47
	You know if you can.	00:03:48
	Kind of put your activities together with them. I think you can.	00:03:49
	Kind of build on that.	00:03:52
	Yeah. And if you can get some of the students involved and we even, there's even money involved that they can.	00:03:54
	Get paid for cleanup.	00:03:59
	Find some spots, even if they live around their houses.	00:04:01
	You can maybe ask for.	00:04:04
	Suggestions from areas that they perhaps live in that need to be cleaned up.	00:04:06
	That's that's wonderful that you got that.	00:04:10
	That's great.	00:04:12
	So congratulations. Thank you. Will you have time to do that?	00:04:14
	Yeah, well, you're, you're a senior or.	00:04:19
	I'm a I'm a junior junior, have another year my.	00:04:21
	My leadership with the ambassador.	00:04:26
	It ends in May or June. It ends in June, so I have a couple months to.	00:04:30
	You know, do some projects and cleanups and so, well, yeah, I think and you can get the word out and if you're going to pass the	00:04:35
	baton to somebody else.	00:04:38
	We want to make sure that we continue this.	00:04:42
	Yes, yes, definitely.	00:04:44
	And she's also your 202526, so coral.	00:04:46
	Bear Queen. Great. Wow, congratulations for that.	00:04:50
	Thank you.	00:04:54
	Also unbelievable. Paul Bolter.	00:04:58
	Yeah.	00:05:01
	Get that from her resume.	00:05:04
	Huggy huggy, talk about the bubble.	00:05:06
	Oh wait. Oh my God.	00:05:08
	I shouldn't have even opened my mouth.	00:05:12
	So congratulations, Huggy. I mean, that's great.	00:05:16
	That's great.	00:05:19
	That you're doing that anyone else who is not on the just ma'am.	00:05:20
	This is so related. I am Christy Smith and the Vice President of the Save Our Boski Task Force.	00:05:28
	Which cleans up.	00:05:35
	And helps manage the five Socorro parks.	00:05:36
	Otero up the confluence.	00:05:40
	And we?	00:05:42
	Arrange for eradication of invasive species.	00:05:43
	Planting of.	00:05:46
	Native species. And then I organized the park.	00:05:48
	Pickups. So every the first the second Saturday of every month.	00:05:51
	We go, we pick up.	00:05:54
	Trash of tarot and then the other parts there.	00:05:56
	And people just volunteer, and I have.	00:05:59
	But I was.	00:06:01
	Coming tonight.	00:06:02
	Now I come once in a while anyway, but.	00:06:03
	To find out who's running the K Linda so.	00:06:05
	I could.	00:06:07
	Program so we could maybe get together go.	00:06:08
	And so try to get more people because we get.	00:06:10
	You know between 5 to 10 people a month to come to Otera, depending on the weather.	00:06:13
	And then we move up and sometimes there's large pieces of trash and.	00:06:17
	Washers and sofas and then the mid rear Grand Conservation District will come.	00:06:20
	And they will actually haul the big stuff for us, but we have to haul away the regular trash.	00:06:24
	And how long is this grant for this Kay, Linda?	00:06:29
	100 and huh?	00:06:32
	So like once a month they'll have dumpsters and places is that?	00:06:34
	But they're, yeah, they've got it done by the.	00:06:37
	By the Borrow pit over there on Lopezville right now.	00:06:39
	And then February is going to be different and it's getting cleaned up.	00:06:42
	There's a lot of cleanup going on. If you want to contact me, I usually put in the paper. It's there the second Saturday of the	00:06:46
	month. We made Otero at about 10:00 PM.	00:06:50
	Thank you.	00:06:55
	Thanks for your.	00:06:55
	Thanks for your work at the bus key.	00:06:57
	Mr. Salih.	00:07:01
	Have a quick question with regard to you.	00:07:02
	The landfill and cleanups.	00:07:04
	We're not taking.	00:07:06
	Tires at the landfill at this point, are we?	00:07:08
	So, So what?	00:07:11
	What kind of effect does that have on the community?	00:07:13
	Are we going to see?	00:07:16
	A lot of tires there on the.	00:07:17
	On the I know tarot outside.	00:07:19
	By the river, we're going to see tires and vacant properties and.	00:07:23
	They're going to cost C.	00:07:27
	Money to pick up those tires.	00:07:29
	Have we investigated the fact that?	00:07:33
	We might need to take tires now.	00:07:35
	Storm or we'll pick them up later because.	00:07:38
	They're coming.	00:07:42
	And they're, they're young.	00:07:44
	Yeah, they're signs saying that there's no What do you have on there that you can?	00:07:45
	Put in there.	00:07:50
	Darrell Come.	00:07:51
	Sorry about that. There are signs that would be placed on the dumpsters that will say no metal.	00:08:03
	No tires, no electronic equipment.	00:08:08
	Of course people can't read.	00:08:11
	So that's why I think.	00:08:13
	Councillor Salome is thinking.	00:08:15
	That might just come and start dumping stuff. Yeah, well, I mean.	00:08:17
	It's it's it's.	00:08:20
	Fair to say that that's probably what's going to happen.	00:08:22
	I think there was a study done that there was there's one tire for every.	00:08:24
	Is that what it is? Doctor Vessel? What is the the ratio for people that live in the community or in the county?	00:08:31
	The year 1 tire per person.	00:08:37
	Almost I heard it.	00:08:39
	What are we charging for tires, Mike?	00:08:41
	Yeah, no, I mean it's a big problem and.	00:08:45
	I think there's tires like I've seen stockpiles.	00:08:48
	I won't say exactly where, but there's one on the front of the road. There's a bunch of stuff about the stockpile.	00:08:51
	There's one, of course, at the county.	00:08:57
	There's people stockpiling cars waiting for it to.	00:08:59
	Get rid of them somehow.	00:09:02
	Right now we're.	00:09:04
	We're charging the dollar of passenger tire.	00:09:05
	$5 for a semi tire.	00:09:07
	We're in the process of getting my machine, my baler fixed.	00:09:11
	Of course, we can only build so many tires.	00:09:14
	We're building the entire Burma once we get to the end of that.	00:09:17
	To the end of the row.	00:09:20
	Then we're stuck with.	00:09:22
	Thousands, I mean thousands of players.	00:09:23
	So we're in the process around looking to try to find a tire shredder.	00:09:25
	Like I mentioned in.	00:09:29
	The future. The past meetings.	00:09:30
	Yeah. So we can do to.	00:09:33
	We can shred them, then we can use them. It'll benefit the city.	00:09:35
	In the landfill to.	00:09:38
	Use it as cover material. We can cover our garbage with it.	00:09:39
	So that's the.	00:09:42
	Excuse me, Mr. Mayor, the grant for the tire store, I believe either opens in March or April, but we're trying to find it. It's	00:09:45
	about what, 900,000?	00:09:49
	To buy one.	00:09:54
	About 800,000 / 1, yes.	00:09:55
	Not a used one. No. Better be Brandon.	00:09:58
	I I would the other thing I would recommend and you can.	00:10:01
	Take or leave it, but.	00:10:05
	I put a game camera out there.	00:10:07
	Where you have your.	00:10:09
	Your stuff with a dump.	00:10:11
	And just put it somewhere.	00:10:14
	And then you can always move it wherever you move it to.	00:10:16
	And at least and put a sign saying this is being videoed.	00:10:19
	You have to do that.	00:10:22
	I think it might.	00:10:24
	Deter some people from come, there will be people dumping.	00:10:25
	And in a way, that was the idea is people.	00:10:28
	From dumping it.	00:10:31
	Where there shouldn't be.	00:10:32
	If we start collecting tires, that's going to be a big problem.	00:10:34
	Well, when they you and you're right, people don't know how to read.	00:10:37
	As we get the dumpsters at the left field and that's slowed with everything and there we are separating everything.	00:10:40
	But they're not that expensive. I would I'd suggest you get one of those game cameras and.	00:10:45
	Put it in a.	00:10:50
	Place and also make sure you write on there that this is being videoed.	00:10:52
	But I think it might deter, it may deter some people.	00:10:56
	Yes ma'am, and there are some shredders that.	00:11:01
	That will grind everything. I mean furniture.	00:11:04
	Mattresses.	00:11:07
	Even.	00:11:08
	All kinds of stuff. Oh yeah, except for the metals. Evidence. We bought the Sambar Boski Task force bought a bunch of tires.	00:11:10
	Some tires on some cameras some years ago.	00:11:16
	And that it's got torn down, the batteries got taken.	00:11:20
	Like they didn't always get.	00:11:23
	That get broken but the batteries would get taken.	00:11:24
	And then the.	00:11:26
	Cameras will disappear. And it was.	00:11:28
	I don't know. I forget somebody actually paid for them. It wasn't even our budget.	00:11:30
	One of the board members, so I'm not sure about.	00:11:33
	Humans, but good luck with that.	00:11:35
	I said take it or leave it.	00:11:38
	Anyway, thank you gentlemen.	00:11:43
	But thank you, you guys are doing I mean.	00:11:45
	You got to start somewhere.	00:11:47
	And you're going to have some problems along the way, there's no question about it.	00:11:48
	Another reason we have to stop taking tires at times is because we have too many out there.	00:11:53
	And it's a violation of our.	00:11:57
	License to run the landfill.	00:11:59
	Sophie So if the EPA stops by and we have say 200 tires and one pile.	00:12:02
	Sir.	00:12:08
	If anybody remembers the tire fire.	00:12:13
	Yeah, OK. Anyone else?	00:12:15
	Make a comment.	00:12:18
	That's not on the agenda.	00:12:20
	All righty, then we'll move right along. We have a Little League baseball agreement.	00:12:23
	Who wants to tackle that one?	00:12:28
	I see somebody here from Little League.	00:12:31
	There's a step there if you want to step up. You know I might need that.	00:12:38
	So I want to thank you guys for having us.	00:12:43
	I want to introduce myself. My name is Tracy Romero, so I'm the Vice President of.	00:12:46
	Our new upcoming Little League of Socorro. I'm also the head coach of the softball at the high school.	00:12:51
	We are bringing Little League back to Socorro.	00:12:58
	We're going to start.	00:13:01
	Up in March.	00:13:03
	Already. Umm.	00:13:04
	So it's a big thing that we're bringing and we wanted to bring back and we're getting that done.	00:13:05
	I do want to say a huge thank you, Mayor.	00:13:10
	And to the city of Socorro, Michael, for the help that the city brings, has already brought to us.	00:13:13
	And is helping us with. So I want to say a huge thank you because.	00:13:18
	Sometimes people don't realize that the city helps.	00:13:22
	So much in these sports.	00:13:25
	But we are bringing that back.	00:13:27
	And like I said.	00:13:29
	Registration is open.	00:13:30
	Are ready and we're taking registrations until February 27th.	00:13:32
	We're having our beginning practices.	00:13:37
	March 7th.	00:13:40
	With our open opening day on April 11.	00:13:41
	Opening day will be April 11th. We're going to do a parade like we used to for Little League and have the kids out there in their	00:13:45
	uniforms and.	00:13:49
	So I think will be our second week into games.	00:13:52
	But we just ask and we thank you for using the fields.	00:13:56
	We've had our directors come out and they say how nice our fields are and we're lucky to have the fields that we do have.	00:13:59
	So we do appreciate it.	00:14:06
	But we're bringing that back with addition.	00:14:08
	To bringing Little League back.	00:14:10
	We have our major, our regular baseball divisions.	00:14:13
	As well as we are bringing softball.	00:14:16
	Literally comes with softball.	00:14:19
	So we have our softball divisions.	00:14:20
	And as well as baseball and.	00:14:23
	Softball, We are also adding the Challenger division.	00:14:24
	And so our goal is to bring a safe and positive.	00:14:28
	Program that's also a feeder program, but a program just to get kids out there.	00:14:32
	And get it running and get them nice and healthy and give them something good to do.	00:14:38
	Our Challenger division is new to Little League.	00:14:41
	What that is, is that is it's adaptive baseball.	00:14:45
	So if you have a physical.	00:14:48
	Or intellectual disability.	00:14:50
	That's where Challenger.	00:14:52
	We're ready and we have people that are willing to come and.	00:14:54
	And play us and and we travel and play them as well.	00:14:57
	So it really we're just looking to bring a program that fits all our.	00:15:00
	All our kids and our community and do something positive with the.	00:15:03
	With the kiddos in our community. So again, but.	00:15:06
	I really want to.	00:15:09
	Push that. We thank you guys for letting us use the facilities.	00:15:11
	And thank you for everything that that you guys let us do for the.	00:15:14
	Tracy, what does it cost for?	00:15:19
	Kids to join.	00:15:21
	So our registration fee is $65 per child.	00:15:23
	It's $65 per child.	00:15:26
	Now for the Challenger division, it does not cost anything.	00:15:29
	So for Challenger division, it's.	00:15:32
	0 cost for registration, but for any other division it is $65.	00:15:34
	And how do people register?	00:15:39
	So you can jump on Little League.	00:15:41
	Org umm.	00:15:43
	There's the corallittleleague.org.	00:15:45
	We do have a Facebook post we're trying to.	00:15:47
	To go on social media and put that there.	00:15:49
	We are pushing the Flyers in the backpacks.	00:15:52
	So that they can take them home as well.	00:15:55
	And I know we are going to set up a date.	00:15:57
	Coming soon.	00:16:00
	Maybe this weekend and another one.	00:16:01
	For people that can't register online.	00:16:03
	That we can help register them.	00:16:05
	For them.	00:16:07
	And get them registered.	00:16:08
	Like together, you know?	00:16:10
	Because not everybody has a computer.	00:16:11
	What ages are they?	00:16:14
	So I believe we're taking 3 and up.	00:16:16
	3 to 16.	00:16:20
	Typically is what's in the programs.	00:16:22
	Could you? Mm-hmm.	00:16:24
	Thank you, Mr. Mayor.	00:16:26
	Question. Thanks for.	00:16:28
	Thanks for doing this, Tracy. I know.	00:16:31
	How much work it is so?	00:16:34
	What is the?	00:16:35
	So your your start date's March. What is your end date?	00:16:36
	Typically.	00:16:39
	So I believe.	00:16:41
	I believe we're ending the end of May.	00:16:43
	I believe.	00:16:45
	Because what we do also is what brings that interleague play.	00:16:48
	So again, the baseball and softball depending on our registration of course.	00:16:52
	We really don't know what we're looking at as far as how many we get.	00:16:58
	Registered UMM.	00:17:01
	But umm.	00:17:02
	They get they get a chance to go to the All Stars.	00:17:03
	So All Stars is where they get to. We get to play Belen, Las Lunas and we get to play those other teams and get some different.	00:17:06
	Different play in there with other.	00:17:12
	With other teams.	00:17:14
	And what is the?	00:17:16
	Typical.	00:17:18
	Schedule look like.	00:17:19
	For with the inner like in Socorro, similar to the way the City League was where we.	00:17:21
	Similar form teams and play here and then.	00:17:26
	So it depends. So again, it depends on registration.	00:17:29
	So like for instance, a softball.	00:17:32
	Softball we have low in numbers just in general with girls coming out to play.	00:17:35
	So if we don't have enough.	00:17:40
	For softball.	00:17:42
	They either have the opportunity to join another team, stay in Berlin. Berlin is our closest friend.	00:17:43
	In Little League.	00:17:48
	So if we don't have enough numbers, then they have the option to play on one other teams.	00:17:49
	And then if we only have say enough like we have 9 for a.	00:17:54
	A softball team here.	00:17:58
	Then we will interleague and we will play Berlin, we will play Los Lunas.	00:17:59
	So maybe.	00:18:03
	One weekend we will play here.	00:18:04
	The next weekend we will play in Berlin.	00:18:06
	We'll then play here.	00:18:09
	When we can go out to Las Munas.	00:18:10
	So it just again it depends on the numbers that we get from registrations.	00:18:12
	I'm gonna. That makes sense.	00:18:16
	And lastly the I think it's.	00:18:19
	Really good that you're doing this and you enable it looks like you're.	00:18:21
	Are hitting this thing up in your.	00:18:24
	The business, yeah, of a group of.	00:18:26
	People who care about baseball, we've talked about that in the past and in order for the.	00:18:29
	I think that you coach high school, so in order to.	00:18:33
	Have success at the next level. You got to have a good theater program. It's not that the city didn't have a good theater program.	00:18:36
	I think they're they're placed in this.	00:18:40
	Our place and that was just to give kids opportunity, right? Not absolutely, necessarily baseball.	00:18:44
	Whereas Little League's more baseball focused and I think especially critical for the girls to have an opportunity to learn.	00:18:48
	Softball at a young age, it's much different than baseball for them.	00:18:55
	I wish you the best of luck and thank you. Appreciate it.	00:18:59
	Yeah.	00:19:03
	So yeah, there is a T-Mobile grant.	00:19:07
	It's ran every day I believe.	00:19:11
	And so there are options for people that can't afford.	00:19:13
	The Registration class.	00:19:17
	The Little League itself.	00:19:18
	Regionally.	00:19:20
	They have a T-Mobile grant.	00:19:21
	And so they will take cover or they'll take care of the registration. I think it's up to 600 or 800 per day.	00:19:23
	But what people can do is go through that grant and see if they get selected to take care of the registration.	00:19:30
	As well.	00:19:36
	As that I mean.	00:19:37
	There are ways there's people that are donating.	00:19:38
	For people that can't afford registration as well. So there are options if people cannot afford it.	00:19:42
	So there's the grant, and again there's also.	00:19:46
	Sponsors and donators.	00:19:49
	Mr. Accomplishment, I guess this question is for Mike so.	00:19:51
	Is there then the city Little League as well or this is going to be 1 league?	00:19:54
	OK, Yeah.	00:19:59
	You know, because of.	00:20:01
	Volunteers like yourself.	00:20:02
	We've had.	00:20:04
	Wrestling. Soccer.	00:20:05
	Baseball and the city will help.	00:20:07
	The first thing we're going to do is to.	00:20:11
	Pay for their insurance.	00:20:13
	Which is about $4200.	00:20:14
	So hopefully that will defray some of the.	00:20:17
	What's gonna be maybe $90.00 A?	00:20:20
	A child maybe. It was dropped, hopefully down to 65.	00:20:22
	It's going to take, it's going to take stress off of our budget.	00:20:27
	For the time we spent and the things we do.	00:20:30
	And if it wasn't for volunteers?	00:20:33
	That's great. And so we want to do.	00:20:35
	Then give them a.	00:20:37
	Of finances to help them.	00:20:41
	And so.	00:20:43
	As they get more.	00:20:45
	Kids involved.	00:20:46
	We will help with that. We might even try to do some scholarships as.	00:20:48
	Councillor Dean is asking about.	00:20:52
	What about because people have 3 or 4 kids and their family and they got to pay?	00:20:54
	$200, that's a lot.	00:20:58
	And so.	00:21:00
	That's something that we've talked about with.	00:21:01
	Also, let's say Mr. Morales.	00:21:03
	And so we're that's what we're asking the council to sign on with.	00:21:06
	Is to get.	00:21:10
	Program going and like we said.	00:21:11
	Just as we've had. Great.	00:21:14
	Volunteers for all these other sports that.	00:21:16
	Basically takes the heat off of us as city.	00:21:19
	That's great, Mr. Combo.	00:21:22
	Yeah, I think, I think it's great to look into it, to look into this anything.	00:21:24
	More for our.	00:21:28
	Is awesome. I guess I have a.	00:21:31
	Another question for Mike.	00:21:33
	Because I know it's big in the summertime.	00:21:34
	I know softball will still be there.	00:21:36
	But uh.	00:21:38
	Do we have like something else that we're going to offer kids in the summer?	00:21:39
	When we were doing the.	00:21:43
	The Little League.	00:21:44
	Wrestling.	00:21:46
	So we already have other sports that are going to ramp up in the summer for the kids that.	00:21:50
	Swimming is swimming is big.	00:21:54
	We support swimming a lot that they get.	00:21:56
	I don't know what do we got?	00:21:59
	There. But this is an I think. Thank you for doing this. I know it's hard. I know. I remember Lily a long time ago.	00:22:02
	So you have to be careful with your finances and you have to always be.	00:22:10
	Transparent and all that stuff because.	00:22:14
	Parents and other people Speaking of transparent.	00:22:17
	The parents can be pretty.	00:22:19
	Pretty mean they've got a code of conduct they've got.	00:22:21
	You know they've got it all. Little League is a.	00:22:24
	A format.	00:22:27
	And they're having to follow it because they have a district manager and a district.	00:22:29
	Administrator and.	00:22:32
	They even came and wanted to know.	00:22:33
	Evacuation zones.	00:22:35
	So we have evacuation zones in case something happens.	00:22:37
	So they're they're they're.	00:22:40
	Professional.	00:22:43
	And that's super important. We just, again, we want it to be safe. I know we are even for our head coaches.	00:22:44
	We are requiring CPR.	00:22:50
	For our head coaches, and it's super important that we.	00:22:53
	That it's safe for these kids, you know, we want them to be somewhere safe and have fun and have a positive.	00:22:56
	I see does literally require background checks for delta?	00:23:01
	Absolutely every single volunteer from your concession person running concession.	00:23:06
	Anybody that's working with the kids has to have a background check.	00:23:10
	And literally we we pay for that.	00:23:14
	So we pay for those background checks for every volunteer.	00:23:16
	But it's we do have to have background checks for every volunteer.	00:23:19
	Again, it's to be the safest that we can. Our kids are everything.	00:23:22
	And we're trying to, again, like he said, we have the code of conduct and we have all these rules that we are following, so.	00:23:25
	You know, we have all these questions.	00:23:32
	You know, for example, can this kid move from T-ball to?	00:23:34
	Coach *****. Well, we have to evaluate that player and we have to.	00:23:38
	We have to see.	00:23:41
	And evaluate them and see if they're ready to move up, because it could be.	00:23:42
	You know, I use my child as an example.	00:23:46
	I'm with the board.	00:23:48
	You know he's 7.	00:23:49
	He can hit the ball.	00:23:51
	Into the outfield.	00:23:52
	But can you pay attention to a line drive coming at him at third base or second base?	00:23:53
	Probably not, so I've left them in T-ball.	00:23:58
	And so there's different things that we look at, but it's mainly just to keep everybody safe.	00:24:00
	But like the mayor said.	00:24:04
	What you guys are already doing with the insurance plan?	00:24:05
	Cover is huge because that allowed us to drop our registration fee even more to 65.	00:24:08
	So other leagues charged from 90 all the way up TO120550.	00:24:13
	So it was. It was.	00:24:18
	Crucial. Umm.	00:24:19
	That we are allowed to do 65 and make it a little bit more possible and helpful for people.	00:24:20
	So it makes a huge difference.	00:24:25
	Tracy.	00:24:28
	I was going to speak to that too. I don't think so has really ever felt the effects of like club sports. My kids did them and.	00:24:30
	So I mean, I think there's been a few that have traveled outside of here, but Socorro itself, $65 although.	00:24:38
	It's inexpensive what the city is to charge $20.	00:24:44
	$65 for an entire season as per.	00:24:47
	Yeah, it's that's.	00:24:51
	Pretty minimal. I get it, it's a large increase, but I'm sure there's lots of.	00:24:53
	People in the community.	00:24:56
	Including people that sit here that would help.	00:24:57
	The kids to make sure they're registered so.	00:24:59
	Just communicate with us and see what we can do to help.	00:25:02
	We appreciate you guys very much.	00:25:04
	Mr. Ocampo.	00:25:06
	I really think this springboards us into.	00:25:08
	Getting our.	00:25:11
	Recreation committee meeting again.	00:25:12
	And so I think, Mary Ann, if we can get something together, I've got numerous community members that want to be on it.	00:25:13
	OK. That would be a great time with all this going on.	00:25:18
	And I have some as well.	00:25:21
	And yeah.	00:25:23
	This is an action item, so if you make a motion to accept.	00:25:24
	One more question, I'm sorry.	00:25:28
	Not to be long winded, Tracy. What is like?	00:25:30
	What does it look like for like 6?	00:25:33
	Security around there, like you got a game going on.	00:25:34
	And I think the city employees kind of took care of that before to keep an eye on things and make sure things didn't get.	00:25:37
	The college recruiters aren't recruiting the six year old and the dads aren't fighting each other. And what does that look like in	00:25:43
	a little?	00:25:46
	Scenario, yeah.	00:25:49
	So there are rules that we follow. So we do have a safety officer. So Augusta Motto is our safety officer.	00:25:50
	And as we speak, she's already come.	00:25:56
	Coming up with a safety plan.	00:25:58
	We do have to have a safety plan for.	00:26:00
	For everything, I mean, you're talking.	00:26:02
	About the A defibrillators, we're talking about first aid kits for every coach.	00:26:04
	As far as people covering work, she's working that out as we speak, but as soon as she finalizes.	00:26:09
	We can get that to you as you guys can look it over and check it out.	00:26:14
	Thank you.	00:26:18
	Of course.	00:26:19
	Thank you to accept the.	00:26:20
	I still move to the.	00:26:22
	Seconded discussion.	00:26:24
	All in favor.	00:26:26
	Thank you guys.	00:26:28
	All righty, we got a new business. New business.	00:26:33
	I have, I don't know if it's new business, but.	00:26:36
	We do have.	00:26:39
	For livestock school.	00:26:41
	Will be here in Socorro.	00:26:43
	So there is going to be.	00:26:44
	It'll be the Southern.	00:26:46
	Half of a state that will come to the coral.	00:26:48
	And we're working.	00:26:51
	On that.	00:26:53
	And then there is also a.	00:26:54
	Huh. Where they?	00:26:57
	We're we're discussing that.	00:26:59
	Probably.	00:27:01
	And over there in our area.	00:27:02
	And and then there is going to be an Invitational archery shoot and that we're still working on that as well.	00:27:04
	So all those sports.	00:27:11
	That you know it's.	00:27:13
	Baseball, basketball. But there is also.	00:27:14
	Other kind of sporting.	00:27:18
	Yeah, Richard Lopez, I think I mean those those are the things that the city wants to support is.	00:27:20
	People do all the work, we want to support them.	00:27:26
	And the and the lifestyle school is handled by the 4H office at the extension office. So I know they asked us for if we could.	00:27:28
	Lend them tents and stuff so I don't know if we have.	00:27:36
	The 10th.	00:27:39
	You know that tents.	00:27:41
	We're going to have to get a Donald with that, get a request exactly where they want.	00:27:42
	Because it takes a little bit to we were just going to ask to see, but I'm going to schedule.	00:27:48
	We're not there yet.	00:27:55
	Oh, OK, Let's see if we can get some more information about that.	00:27:56
	I think it's like in May or June around there.	00:28:01
	OK. Because we have to talk to Steve if they're going to have it out there.	00:28:03
	Because they could do it in the arena.	00:28:09
	Yeah, this.	00:28:11
	We need to probably look at that.	00:28:13
	Because there's like different stations because we've had it in.	00:28:15
	We've had it in 2C and then we've had it in Deming.	00:28:18
	And now I'm happy to say that we're going to have it here. Just contact us, we'll help.	00:28:21
	See if we can help with that.	00:28:26
	How many people you think that we're talking about?	00:28:27
	Quite a few, about 200.	00:28:30
	300.	00:28:32
	Yes.	00:28:35
	I know that's a little bit more, but like when we have big events like that because they're way too.	00:28:38
	Get to our restaurant and stuff like that. Be open.	00:28:43
	Talk to the restaurant.	00:28:48
	I think if we go and talk to the restaurants and let them know.	00:28:52
	You know, maybe create fires and stuff and let them know if.	00:28:56
	That they're open because I know.	00:28:59
	For high school rodeo.	00:29:00
	Because my daughter rodeo so when we go.	00:29:02
	To other towns like.	00:29:05
	Chloe, we've gone to. Clovis, we've gone to.	00:29:06
	And they you have to like they have the kids have to wear their.	00:29:09
	Outfit with her number.	00:29:13
	Anywhere they go, so they so.	00:29:15
	People know that they come from there.	00:29:17
	And they're always open.	00:29:19
	Well, maybe.	00:29:22
	Cheyenne can, yeah, that's important.	00:29:24
	Yeah, it is.	00:29:27
	That's a the the restaurants tend to open and close on there.	00:29:28
	Kind of. So we need to make sure they know.	00:29:33
	They know the schedule.	00:29:35
	We can't force them to stay open, but.	00:29:37
	I think we should, maybe.	00:29:39
	Give them a schedule.	00:29:41
	That Cheyenne makes and.	00:29:42
	Daryl and Steve make.	00:29:45
	So they can have that the owner should have those schedules.	00:29:47
	So if they want to be.	00:29:51
	OK. Yes, Sir.	00:29:55
	Umm, just quickly I'll give you an update on wrestling. I don't.	00:29:57
	But we just had our district tournament and.	00:30:02
	There were five time.	00:30:05
	Undefeated district championship.	00:30:07
	Coaching stuff and the kids for the boys.	00:30:09
	The girls don't have districts yet, so.	00:30:11
	Their regional tournament coming up.	00:30:14
	This weekend in Roswell.	00:30:16
	The boys next weekend and.	00:30:18
	Santa Teresa for the regional and then the state tournament after that, so.	00:30:20
	We have our raffle going on for our side by side. We give away side by side last year.	00:30:25
	Anybody's interested in that? Let's get a hold of me. We have some tickets left.	00:30:29
	We're not drawing until April.	00:30:33
	Some rules by the school that we have to follow in order.	00:30:35
	Some gambling stuff, I guess, whenever you.	00:30:38
	Do a raffle. I don't know.	00:30:41
	Linda knows all about that.	00:30:43
	But her daughter?	00:30:46
	Grandson Joe is.	00:30:50
	Yeah, and some good events coming up this summer, but.	00:30:51
	Just wanted to recognize the kids and the coaches for that day.	00:30:55
	28 and.	00:30:58
	Oh, and one or something over the last five years, so.	00:30:59
	The coaches and the kids so.	00:31:02
	That's it for us. Speaking of Linda.	00:31:05
	We're having to fix the septic tank out at the Vegito.	00:31:09
	And it's probably $11,000 or something like that.	00:31:13
	I know Ruby if you're looking for money up there at.	00:31:17
	Yeah, yeah. But is the city money that we're spending?	00:31:28
	No, not right now.	00:31:31
	For the septic tank.	00:31:33
	You know I'm going to go out for emergency funding.	00:31:34
	You are OK.	00:31:37
	But you've already got it designed and everything, are you?	00:31:38
	Yeah, that's just with the design. That's the design.	00:31:41
	But I'm just saying that we need.	00:31:59
	You know, we need to make sure that we're on top of this and the county needs to.	00:32:01
	I've given the county.	00:32:06
	The end of the month in February.	00:32:08
	And we're going to close the Vegita.	00:32:10
	If we don't get money because I'm down $75,000.	00:32:12
	On that and I and I and we've applied for the money.	00:32:16
	But we can't continue giving services outside the city and having that come from the city coffers.	00:32:19
	And the county can't help.	00:32:24
	I don't know. I've met with Mr. Gonzalez.	00:32:26
	Who's the chairman?	00:32:29
	And the and I'm at the new county manager.	00:32:30
	And we had a good.	00:32:33
	We had a good conversation.	00:32:35
	But we basically have got to make a decision. I made that decision, so.	00:32:37
	I don't know, Mr. Gonzalez has commented. But I was on a designer.	00:32:42
	I mean, there's plenty of septic tanks out there that we probably could just.	00:32:47
	Not have to get a design.	00:32:50
	If there was another Ave. to.	00:32:52
	I know, yeah.	00:32:55
	Oh, we got the guy right there.	00:32:56
	I have any media.	00:32:58
	They're requiring us doing analysis first.	00:32:59
	So they got to do a study that she's requiring that.	00:33:02
	We have to have it designed.	00:33:05
	To that property because you can't go off somebody else's accepting.	00:33:07
	For that property.	00:33:10
	For that, that's why it's 11,000 bucks.	00:33:11
	I want to do that, then we'll find out.	00:33:14
	I'll price out what it's going to cost to do the second thing.	00:33:16
	And get it done in the room. You'll look for money at that time.	00:33:19
	That they're willing to hold off on the city paying any money.	00:33:22
	You know, Ruby comes up with some money so we don't have to pay the architect nothing.	00:33:25
	Up front and they're they're willing to wait until.	00:33:29
	Till the end.	00:33:31
	And then we're going to look for the money and then, then we'll look tonight.	00:33:32
	Our problem with money is.	00:33:36
	If we spend it, we can't get it recouped.	00:33:38
	Even if we get a grant.	00:33:41
	They won't pass backwards.	00:33:43
	And that's the problem, isn't it?	00:33:46
	They're a septic tank out there now.	00:33:47
	Yes, OK.	00:33:50
	Oh.	00:34:01
	A new one you have to remarkable, that's why.	00:34:04
	I don't know how old I thank you.	00:34:08
	But they have a porta potty out there now.	00:34:12
	Oh, they are using.	00:34:14
	Yeah, well, I mean this this, I'm just trying to bring this up to date.	00:34:18
	To let you guys know what but I've sent a letter.	00:34:22
	Then I will be, I'll be closing it and then.	00:34:24
	The end of February if we can't get funds to.	00:34:27
	Continue operating it.	00:34:29
	There's about 66 people.	00:34:31
	Our family 60 families that you give.	00:34:34
	Hotels too.	00:34:37
	Yeah.	00:34:40
	So.	00:34:41
	It's it's being used, but it's not being used by.	00:34:42
	People who live in the city.	00:34:45
	And we were getting money for it and we were more than happy to run it.	00:34:48
	But we've got to have that money in our budget to do it.	00:34:51
	So and you spoke with the county manager?	00:34:56
	We did.	00:34:58
	Had a great meeting, nice guy.	00:34:59
	I think we're going to be very good.	00:35:01
	It's nicer than the old county manager. The second, the second.	00:35:03
	And his name is Joseph on top of that.	00:35:07
	As though we victim.	00:35:09
	No, no, we're, we're.	00:35:11
	For negotiation, yeah.	00:35:14
	I think it worked out, you know, at the end of the day.	00:35:16
	Even like when the county ran it.	00:35:19
	It's a.	00:35:22
	Mandated thing by the state that they don't fund.	00:35:22
	At one point they actually.	00:35:25
	I'm just saying this out loud.	00:35:27
	Funded program.	00:35:29
	Supposedly the senior program.	00:35:31
	But it didn't get to the seniors.	00:35:33
	The money went somewhere else.	00:35:36
	So that's what happened. But anyway.	00:35:38
	And I wouldn't characterize this as a negotiation.	00:35:41
	Negotiation. It's one way or the other reason.	00:35:45
	And they don't keep something one of the kind work to use is negotiation.	00:35:48
	Good words. He's in the City Council right now.	00:35:53
	So I just.	00:35:57
	I'm sorry, but that you know it's going to get $75,000 out of our budget.	00:35:58
	I'd rather spend it on my senior citizen.	00:36:03
	Center here rather than out in the county.	00:36:05
	And that that's.	00:36:07
	You know that's.	00:36:09
	Just the way it should be.	00:36:10
	I'll negotiate faithfully for the city and for the county.	00:36:12
	In the best interest of this.	00:36:15
	Even though I'm.	00:36:17
	So anyway, any other old news?	00:36:19
	Anybody out there?	00:36:22
	Over here.	00:36:25
	We had a great meeting with the.	00:36:26
	Legislature on Thursday.	00:36:28
	And we're moving ahead with some few things that are kind of.	00:36:30
	They're just in the air. They're not anything that's.	00:36:34
	Permanent until March.	00:36:38
	I have some pretty good news on the way, but.	00:36:40
	If it doesn't turn out, then there won't be.	00:36:43
	Would be great. So we're trying to.	00:36:45
	Work around that.	00:36:48
	And.	00:36:53
	That's about all I can say.	00:36:53
	We're still asking for the police station, we're asking to get some help, help in Finley.	00:36:56
	Ruby went out and got $900,000 on top of all that.	00:37:00
	For Finley. So we're still progressing them if you've seen the work we've done over there.	00:37:04
	Is still going on.	00:37:08
	And so.	00:37:10
	Where we've finished the.	00:37:11
	Welcome center at the RV park. You should might want to go see that it's got.	00:37:14
	Television.	00:37:19
	Washer dryers.	00:37:20
	Little Lounge has showers.	00:37:22
	So that should help people that come to the big events.	00:37:25
	Use a RV park.	00:37:28
	How we're gonna be working on a?	00:37:30
	A house out there.	00:37:32
	So we can have a custodian out there.	00:37:33
	That's important, I think eventually with all the stuff we've got out there.	00:37:36
	Gotta have somebody there.	00:37:39
	The project for the short.	00:37:42
	It's all it was all done. The roads have been.	00:37:44
	Chip, shield and and striped.	00:37:47
	Out at Evergreen and Spring.	00:37:49
	So the.	00:37:52
	There's a couple of.	00:37:53
	Chris, there's a couple of.	00:37:55
	Terrible trailers out there that I.	00:37:56
	That I see there's some getting cleaned up, but some are just a disaster. Unbelievable.	00:37:59
	Unbelievable.	00:38:03
	One of the houses that we had fixed up eventually got fixed up.	00:38:05
	As you get into the fire Academy, that finally is.	00:38:08
	Gotten cleared up but.	00:38:11
	I hope these trailers Chris get.	00:38:13
	Get cleaned up.	00:38:14
	We're taking down houses, if you notice, on Peralta and Blue Canyon area.	00:38:16
	There's a house down, big old pile of.	00:38:21
	Adobe and stuff. So we're continuing to try to get that done. The road projects around the.	00:38:24
	Around the.	00:38:29
	Courthouse has done.	00:38:31
	So that's the Ortera will be the next thing that we're going to try to do.	00:38:33
	And that's that's something that.	00:38:37
	The short. The short.	00:38:39
	Lord correct me if I'm wrong, but we have shores throughout the whole city now.	00:38:41
	Right. There's no, no area in the city does not have shore access.	00:38:47
	In the city limits, so which was not the case 20 years ago or 15 years ago, so we have.	00:38:52
	Sewer access in every part of the.	00:38:57
	Every part of the city.	00:38:59
	I don't know if there's any other projects.	00:39:01
	Going on the.	00:39:08
	Police Department, I think the fire department are competent. They're all.	00:39:10
	Somebody.	00:39:13
	Break into the Nasenda ATM the other day.	00:39:14
	And they?	00:39:18
	It's evidently a national ring that's going around doing that and they.	00:39:18
	They stopped them there.	00:39:22
	The guys took off.	00:39:24
	So that's that's a.	00:39:26
	They're doing a good job with that narcotic arrest also.	00:39:28
	I spoke to the Superintendent today.	00:39:33
	About their plans for baseball.	00:39:36
	We're trying to get that but.	00:39:39
	Again our.	00:39:41
	People who write the grass got money for sod.	00:39:42
	For the softball.	00:39:46
	For the women's softball, the.	00:39:47
	It'll be the West.	00:39:49
	The West facing.	00:39:51
	Field. Now we'll get.	00:39:53
	New fencing and softball and and sod.	00:39:56
	The east facing field, That's going to be hardball.	00:40:01
	If we can get the high school to come.	00:40:05
	Along with us.	00:40:07
	And if we get?	00:40:08
	$1,000,000 Grant to put an astroturf.	00:40:10
	We won't know until the end of March or the middle of March.	00:40:14
	So we're working on.	00:40:17
	Trying to get those fields ready for.	00:40:18
	For baseball and softball.	00:40:20
	For for the.	00:40:22
	High school teams.	00:40:24
	And hopefully this.	00:40:26
	High school would participate in some.	00:40:27
	Then they'll have to.	00:40:29
	Participate with us on that.	00:40:30
	I'm going to talk to the.	00:40:33
	New Mexico Tech.	00:40:34
	How about the pool?	00:40:36
	On the 12th.	00:40:38
	And I mentioned that to the Superintendent also, so.	00:40:40
	We'll see what tech has to offer because they're evidently closing the pool.	00:40:43
	Or it's already closed.	00:40:47
	And we have certainly will work with.	00:40:48
	Try to get our pool.	00:40:51
	To be a year round pool and see what they can offer.	00:40:52
	So I'm meeting with them on the.	00:40:55
	On the 12th at 10:30. If you want anybody want to drop by, that's fine.	00:40:57
	They're more than happy to do that.	00:41:01
	To close the pool permanently. It appears that way.	00:41:03
	March.	00:41:08
	March 1st.	00:41:12
	Welcome, Senator Lloyd houses staff. We're just.	00:41:15
	Open for people.	00:41:18
	Statement we're going to.	00:41:19
	We're going to have a code on the door.	00:41:23
	OK.	00:41:26
	Yeah.	00:41:30
	Because the rodeos and if we have everybody over there, they'll tear it up like it.	00:41:40
	But it's for this, that's where the people in that department, he's been getting a lot more.	00:41:44
	RV then he's been having quite a few people.	00:41:50
	Want to go take a shower there though? You can like.	00:41:54
	But it's the one that's to the South and to the.	00:41:56
	It's locked, but it will face the.	00:42:01
	OK.	00:42:04
	And yeah, I mean it's.	00:42:05
	It's been, it's really nice.	00:42:09
	Really nice.	00:42:10
	What else did I?	00:42:13
	No lawsuits other than the ones we already have.	00:42:15
	Donald, anything.	00:42:20
	More to add.	00:42:21
	Still waiting to start the CDBG project on Cuba Rd. but I think that's in the next month or two.	00:42:23
	What's the weather?	00:42:28
	But I think that's it.	00:42:32
	You guys have the list of.	00:42:33
	Projects. If you have any questions about that, let us know.	00:42:35
	We're still working on them.	00:42:37
	I have to congratulate the staff for.	00:42:39
	For the monies that they've been able to.	00:42:42
	Accumulate over and above grocery seats.	00:42:44
	And literally millions.	00:42:47
	Literally millions.	00:42:48
	If we were to add them up for the fiscal year, so that's been great. There's lots of stuff out there.	00:42:50
	Just have to go try to get it.	00:42:55
	You know, so we're going to, we're going to, they're still working on more. So we're still getting there.	00:42:58
	OK, that's it.	00:43:04
	No, no executive session.	00:43:05
	Talk about a secret.	00:43:09
	OK. So the personnel changes, we got Darius Silva from gas to landfill.	00:43:13
	Michael Alfonso, wastewater crewman, new hire.	00:43:19
	Deanna are gone, getting a little raised for additional job duties.	00:43:22
	Omar Quinones is a new police officer. Completely not.	00:43:26
	Not new, I completed probation and Adrian Young.	00:43:29
	Is a new police officer.	00:43:32
	Mr. Mayor, Mr. Partridge.	00:43:34
	Make a motion to approve the personnel changes is read.	00:43:37
	Seconded discussion.	00:43:40
	All in favor, aye?	00:43:42
	Well, this is a.	00:43:45
	Old name coming back to life.	00:43:46
	Dehart Motor Company.	00:43:48
	This will be at 1231 NW Frontage Rd. This is Casey Spurgeon.	00:43:50
	Towing service.	00:43:55
	Mr. Mayor Partridge, I'll make a motion to approve the business registrations, as read.	00:43:57
	Mr. Mayor.	00:44:01
	Didn't we already approve a business license at that location?	00:44:03
	We did. Cannabis is cannabis.	00:44:06
	I think it's.	00:44:08
	I think it was closed. She don't have nothing to do with it.	00:44:11
	He's going in. He's going in the cannabis, yeah.	00:44:14
	Yeah, you know, he did fix it up, and so he'd done a nice job with it.	00:44:18
	Yeah, I guess he's going to the towing business. I'm not sure if he's.	00:44:22
	Aye. OK, All in favor.	00:44:29
	In the meeting February 17th after.	00:44:32
	Valentine's Day.	00:44:36
	Tuesday the February 17th.	00:44:37
	And don't forget to bring your Valentine something to.	00:44:39
	Nebulon.	00:44:42
	OK. Thank you.	00:44:44
	Thank you.	00:44:45
	I see Lucero.	00:44:46
	Tracy.	00:44:48
	Ruby.	00:44:50
	Ariana, is there a time?	00:44:53
	MM.	00:44:55