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Okay, we're going to call this meeting to order. Good morning, everybody, and thank you for joining us today.

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We are going to have an indication, and we have a special guest for that, and then we're going to have a pledge from some special young ladies.

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So if you don't mind, would you step up to the podium and tell us who you are, and if you don't mind, would you please bless us with credit this morning?

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Yes. Good morning. I'm Deacon Steve Garcia from our Lady of God loop a church. With this morning,

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my wife and I, friends, we're here as sponsors with the students from the Arts Academy of

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Velvista who are going to do the pledge. So let us pray.

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Good, gracious Father. Heavenly Father,

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We thank you for this day, Heavenly Father, we thank you for our community, for our

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county. On this morning Lord God, we ask you to bless this commission meeting. We ask

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you to guide us. We ask you for your wisdom and your guidance in all the decisions that

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to be made. We ask all of this in the name of your son or Lord Jesus. Amen.

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Amen. Thank you so much. Thank you. You're safe. Appreciate that. All right. Now I have some students

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with us that are going to come help us with the pledge, right? All right. If y'all don't mind

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come up here to the fair front. There's two microphones right up here.

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What an awesome bunch. Are y'all

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so are y'all supposed to be in school right now? Yes. Okay. So if you want this to go really slow and

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You ready to get back to school?

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Okay.

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Well, just so you know, we have an awesome commissioner

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Martin here, and he buys y'all back at Donuts every time.

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So when you leave, makes sure you get a back at Donuts

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with Commissioner Martin.

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He does that every week, every week.

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So if you don't mind, I'm going to start with you.

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If you would tell us who you are and what grade you're in and who your teacher is.

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My name's Grace, and I am in fifth grade,

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And my teacher's name is Ms. Greenley.

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I'm Rowan Kathy.

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I'm in fifth grade and my teacher is Ms. Greenley.

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My name is Eisen Gallagos and I'm in fifth grade.

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My teacher's name is Mr. Gentile.

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My name is my name is Titus Hedissey.

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I'm in fifth grade and my teacher's name is Ms. Greenley.

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My name is Andrew Bjorkland and I'm in fifth grade

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in my teacher's name is Mr. Gentile.

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Awesome, thank y'all so much for being with us.

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So whenever you're ready,

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well, I mean, before we do the pledges,

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there's something else y'all want to perform

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any kind of skit, dance, song,

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or y'all just want to do the play.

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You're thinking about it.

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Okay, let y'all go to the pledge.

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So what we're gonna do is we're gonna turn around

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and whenever you're ready to start pledge,

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we're all gonna join in with you, okay?

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So whenever you're ready,

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I pledge allegiance to the flag

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of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation

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with liberty and justice for all.

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I salute the flag of the state of New Mexico, the Zia symbol of perfect friendship among United cultures.

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Y'all did awesome.

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I'm gonna come down there with you only and take a picture, okay?

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Okay. If y'all are expecting something cooler than that for this meeting, you're going to be sadly disappointed, but we are going to start with the roll call, please. Chairman Binder here. Vice Chairman Leatherwood. Commissioner Madrid. Commissioner Martin. Commissioner King.

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Okay. At this time, approval of agenda, any changes to the agenda? Chairman Binder and commission under,

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of board meeting item number four, we need to change the dollar amount, $294.45.

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The information, your packets correct, but the agenda did not get updated.

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So $2.94.45.

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Move to approve as a minute.

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So we got a motion, like Mr. Martin, second, like Commissioner Kane, all those

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of favor citizens have a saying aye.

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Those pose, say nay.

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Minutes approval.

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Any changes to the minutes?

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Chairman and Commission, no changes to minutes, uh, July 18 or regular order.

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For an emotion by Commissioner Martin, second by Commissioner Cain, all those in favour of

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saying aye.

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Those opposed to say nay.

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Minutes are adopted.

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At this time, we'll have recognition of visitors and public input, which no action will

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Is there anybody here that would like to address the commission this morning?

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Seeing none, we will move in.

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to our first proclamation.

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This was a proclamation to clearing August 31,

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2026, international overdose awareness day.

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And we have Curry County Youth Committee here with us today.

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So if y'all don't mind,

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if you please come up here to the microphone and we'll allow you

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to, are y'all playing to read this proclamation?

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All right, y'all come up to the microphone.

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We had an opportunity to meet several these young ladies

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a few weeks ago and they're working very hard

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to put a lot of, adopt a lot of policies and things within the local schools and trying to find

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things for young adults to do, keeping people occupied and out of trouble, right?

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And y'all have been really strong in it. I saw y'all at the fair booth and you've remained

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dedicated to the committed. So thank you for doing that and holding up to that. So I urge you

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continue to fight. Is there anything you'd like to say or would you want my

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introduce us? Introduce yourself to us.

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Good morning Chairman Vinder and members of the Commission. We are

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Curry County Youth Committee. My name is Abigail Williams and I go to the Early

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College High School. I'm really on a real real and I go to Texas High School.

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My name is Destiny Madrid Silva and I go to Clovis High School. All right, well thank

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also much and again, appreciate all you're doing.

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Whenever you're ready, if you want to however you've broken this out, y'all are welcome

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to start reading however you want to.

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Today, we're going to read the Proclamation for the International Ovidos Awareness Day, where

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as August 31st, 2020-6, marks the annual March the 25th Annual International Ovidos Awareness

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Day, a global campaign to remember those whose lives have been lost to overdose, support

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For grieving families and friends and reduce the stigma surrounding substance use and

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misuse and overdose, and whereas overdose can affect individuals and families in every

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community, including Kari County, we're going to...

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Our list of age, background, or circumstances, making prevention and education is central to protecting the health and well-being of our community.

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Whereas evidence-based prevention efforts, harm reduction strategies and life-saving tools, such as an aloxone, can reduce overdose deaths and connect individuals to hope and support.

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and, whereas the color purples represents remembrance, compassion, hope, and support for our

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individuals, families, and communities affected by overdose. The substance use in behavior

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health program in the Korean County Youth Committee and by all residents to wear purple on

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August 31st to honor those who we have lost. Support those seeking help and join a conversation

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by sharing messages of hope using hashtag and overdose on social media and...

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And whereas the Curry County Substance Use and Behavioral Health Program and the Curry

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County Youth Committee remain committed to strengthening prevention efforts, increasing

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awareness, expanding education, and supporting those affected by substance use, misuse,

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and overdose.

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With the continued support of Curry County elected officials,

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Curry County organizations,

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schools, health care providers, first responders, law enforcement, local leaders, and all residents of

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Cury County.

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Now, therefore, be it resolved on behalf of the Board of Cury County Commissioners,

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I, Brad Bender, Chairman, and do hereby proclaim August 31, 2026 as international overdose

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awareness day in Cury County, New Mexico, and encourage all residents to learn how to recognize

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and respond to an overdose.

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carry and know how to use the locks on when appropriate support prevention efforts where

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purple and remembrance and solidarity and help build a community where every person knows

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they are not alone. Done this day 18. I'm sorry, done this 18th day. August, 2021. Thank you all

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very much for doing this. Y'all's courage is great. You do a phenomenal job speaking and addressing.

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I know it's not easy. I think I told y'all that the last time, but you did a great job. So I'm

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come down there. We're going to do a picture. Okay. Thank you.

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Thank you all again. That was that was great.

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Our second proclamation declaring September 8th, 2022 as 988. We have Macalli Gonzalez here to help us

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read that.

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Good morning, Chairman Bender and members of the Commission. I'm Melissa Gomez Williams.

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This substance he's behavioral health program manager. Macalli was our summer intern and unfortunately

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she had a family emergency, but she wrote this proclamation and I would like to read it to you guys.

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That's the thing.

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All right.

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So the Proclamation for 98 day September 8th of 2026, whereas the National Suicide and Crisis

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Lifeline was initially created in 2005 as a toll-free 10-digit number on July 16th, 2022.

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The Suicide and Crisis Lifeline transitioned from the 10-digit number to a new, memorable,

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and simplified a 3-digit number known as 98.

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And whereas this free and confidential resource connects callers seeking emotional mental

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or substance use support with one-on-one help from skilled professionals.

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988 is available 24-7, offering quality support to an English and Spanish with three different

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ways to connect via call, text, or online chat.

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And whereas on February 6, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services approved

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the state of New Mexico's request to expand access to critical behavioral health services

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for those in mental health distress through community-based mobile crisis intervention teams.

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And whereas mental health affects every member of our community,

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908 is reliable and easily accessible resource for individual struggling with your passion,

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anxiety, or any challenges that life presents.

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908 allows individuals to have a confidential and understanding conversation with a non-judgmental trained professional.

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Because no one is meant to face mental health challenges or crisis is alone. And whereas from its launch four years ago, 98 in m.org states over 262,398.

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And in the calendar year of 2025, do New Mexico crisis line reports 98 answer 409 calls from Curry County residents seeking support.

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And, whereas with this in mind, the Curry County Substance Use and Behavioral Health program is committed to increasing awareness and utilization of New Mexico's 1980 suicide and crisis lifeline.

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And its capacity building resources with the continued support of Curry County elected officials, Curry County Behavioral Health and grants departments and vital community partners.

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Now, therefore, be resolved on behalf of the Board of Courage County Commissioners, I, Brad Bender, Chairman,

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do hereby proclaim September 8, 2021, as 988 date. In recognition of National Suicide Prevention Awareness Month,

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in Courage County, and encourage all citizens to seek support by connecting with 988.

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If you have, or if you were a loved one, is experiencing mental health distress. Hope is only three numbers away.

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Call, text or chat 988.

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Thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate that.

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I'm going to come down there for one more picture with you.

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I'm just trying to get my steps in.

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All right.

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Moving into a consent agenda.

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Item is listed below.

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I recommend about the county manager for placement on the consent agenda.

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These items are placed on the agenda so that the commission by an in-miss consent

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can designate those routine agenda items that they wish to be approved or acknowledged by one motion.

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If any proposed proposal does not meet with the approval of all the commission members or if a dissidents and so request that that item will be heard when reached under the regular agenda.

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Any changes to the expenditure.

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Mr. Chairman, I moved to place items one through six.

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I'd really wanted to pull six until I read it and you know, just get it says Biden, it's not a bad thing.

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I will second that so with that we'll have a roll call please commissioner Madrid

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Yes commissioner Martin. Yes commissioner Kane. Yes. Chairman Minder. Yes

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Second motion Mike commissioner Martin. Second motion again roll call please

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Commissioner Martin. Yes commissioner Madrid

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Commissioner Kane. Yes. Chairman Minder. Yes. All right

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We'll be on to presentations, we have an annual presentation of the substance use and behavioral health program and again we have Melissa Gomez Williams and Shannon Morrison here with us to help that present that.

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Hello again, Melissa Gomez Williams, I am the program manager for the substance use and behavioral health program.

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And with me today, I have Shannon Morrison, she is our program evaluator.

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today we're going to talk a little bit about our program and what we're doing in the community

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every day. We're out there a lot. All right, so we are the substance use in behavioral health

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program. We are currently in our third year of a five year grant that was provided by SAMHSA.

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We did receive our notice of award for year four and we will be entering that in on September 30th of

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So prevention is acting early before substance use or any other challenges become larger problems.

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Our goal is to give young people families in the community the information and skills

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that they need to make healthier choices for themselves.

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But we don't want to assume what Curry County means.

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We use this local data and thoughtful input from our stakeholders to help us determine where to focus our efforts

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and what messages are needed and where we may need to address our strategies.

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And so we have here on the the board here some of the ways that we we do that and so with that I will pass this to Shannon so that she can discuss the data itself

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Good morning, Mr. Chairman and commissioners. Thanks for having me here. I've been here before, and you'll be happy to know that I don't have 20 pages of graphs for you to look at today.

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We've narrowed it down a little bit just to make it more palatable.

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So I'm going to present on the community survey findings for this year.

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Um, probably most of you know what the community survey is, is a statewide sponsored survey that is done in all of the counties, and it's done every year. And this year, we had 547 respondents. So, the Cree County for Cree County, this really helps us track the outcomes related to substance use.

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to use access to substances, to mental health indicators, community perceptions around substances

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in the community, and also drinking or using other substances while driving.

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Can you tell me real quick, I'm sorry. How many responses did you say?

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547. 547. 547. Which is a lot just by the way. We collected too many.

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But that's where overshivers, so that's a good thing.

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Okay, so this is just a snapshot of some of the findings that are very related to the work that is done on the sub project program as well as a DWI prevention program.

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So the percentage of respondents reporting drinking and driving was 2%, which was the same in 2024 and 2025, so that didn't go up or down.

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The percentage of people reporting underage drinking, this is people aged 18 to 20, was 17% which was a drastic reduction or significant reduction from last year, which was 30% so that's a really promising finding.

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The percentage of people reporting binge drinking was 12% and this was the same in 2025.

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And then both marijuana use and marijuana use while driving slightly increased by 1% from last year,

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but it still remains lower than 2024.

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So in 2024, 25% reported using marijuana and 8% reported driving after using marijuana.

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So it has gone down in the last two years.

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We also asked a few mental health questions.

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These were added a couple of years ago.

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And so 16% of the respondents that they had experienced anxiety in the past 30 days.

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And this was just down by 1 percentage point from 2025.

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And then we also asked the question in the past year,

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Have you felt so low at times that you thought about committing suicide?

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9% of respondents said that they had thought about suicide and this was up from 7%

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last year but it's down from 14% in 2024. And we also asked about suicide attempts in the past

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year as well and 2% said that they had attempted and this is down from 7% last year.

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All right, so we do ask questions about opioid use. These are new questions again. We added a couple

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years ago, these data really help guide the sub priorities and programming.

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So Naloxone, and also known as Narcan, and as most of you know, it's a medication used to reverse opioid overdoses.

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So the community survey asks respondents about their familiarity with it.

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For familiarity with Naloxone has gone up since 2025.

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only 58% were not familiar with it this year compared to 61% in 2025.

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The biggest jump however was in knowing how to get it in 2025 it was only 9% and this year

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it's 19% and that is something that we like to see and then 24% new how to use it compared to

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1% last year. And 40% said they had store, they store their prescription medications and

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lockbox compared to 38% and 2025. So that just went up a couple of percentage points.

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And then 5% of respondents reported past 30 day prescription pain killer misuse compared to

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3% in 2025 so it did go up a couple of percentage points and about 30% of people so that they

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had access to the lock zone when having used pain medication in the past 30 days.

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Thank you. So we are taking all this data that we get, and we are using it locally. And if you follow the current County Grant's Facebook page and Instagram this past week, we've really highlighted why we're using data.

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And so we take this data, and this is where we start putting it into action. So when the service show us that medication in cannabis, we're not being stored securely. We started distributing safe storage tools.

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And so from April 2025 to July 2026, we had 265 safe storage lock box surveys completed with at least that many either lock box or fingerprint lock cabinet locks distributed.

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And then when we saw the gaps in safe medication disposal, we started providing our extra striers and so from June 2025 to July 2026, we had 208 RX destroyers that were distributed to promote safe disposal of unused medication and reduce youth acts.

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access to any leftover prescription drugs and some of that was in partnership with local pharmacies

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as well as different events we worked.

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And when we see the limited awareness of access to the lock zone or Narcan, we provide

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overdose prevention training and Narcan directly into our community.

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From July 2025 to June of 2026, 53 Curry County residents were trained in overdose prevention

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and they learned how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose and learn how to administer

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in the lock zone, which is the medication that will temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid overdose,

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which means that we're buying some precious time to save someone's life until medical services can arrive.

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With that said, we gave out 180 doses of the lock zone that were given to community members and community partners

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to include the military members who came to our trainings, local schools, hotels that requested trainings for their staff,

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government agencies and local organizations.

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So these are not standalone activities that we do, but rather prevention strategies tied directly to the needs that we're seeing here in Curry County.

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So on the screen here, this slide highlights some of the things that we're doing.

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And we're showing up here in the community.

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So whether that's through prevention education and harm reduction,

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our works that include mental health first aid training for adult, adult supporting adult and adult supporting youth.

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The hidden and plain sight trailer that we have now brought into the Commission Chambers as well,

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the experience has been brought into the Chambers and will be brought back again this week,

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so that people can come in and learn those warning signs of risky behavior when it comes to substances.

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Safe storage and RX destroyer initiatives to safely walk away and destroy unused medication from youth hands,

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and then that overdose prevention training.

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We also work with our team court to provide safety first classes, which is substance use and mental health classes for our youth and any youth in the community can participate.

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They do not have to be part of the team court program to participate in that class.

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But each of these efforts help us meet people where they are and provide practical tools and support.

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Stay for choices for the youth family and the community members that we have here in Card County.

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Um, we often work with partnerships and our biggest partner is our DWI program, which

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Miss Sandy is here with us today supporting, again, as always.

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Um, their biggest, our biggest partners that we have with them, um, and with them, they,

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we collect a lot of that data.

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So, as Shannon said, that NMCS survey isn't just the substance use in behavioral health program,

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but also the DWI program.

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Um, we collect this data so that we can, um, help drive our grant programming and a

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to build programs and education that support and help make our communities safer and stronger.

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We also work together and we host the communities talk event during the summer,

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which we saw 1,314 people visit Hillcrest Zoo to learn more about prevention and how to start

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those safe conversations at home. When it comes to substances, mental health and alcohol use,

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we do offer a safe senior send-off for graduating high school seniors to allow space for open

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prevention focus conversations at a very pivotal moment as they're getting ready to leave home

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go off into college or into the workforce or even into the military. This is a very big pivotal

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transition into adulthood and so we want to answer those questions as frankly as possible

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so that they have all the education to make safer choices for themselves. We create prevention

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focus education to support messages of healthy choices, awareness and support for our communities

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to bring to their organization, schools, or workplaces and can a near-force base has been

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a great partner in bringing these to the base. They support, we support their prevention

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messaging and then we provide them with education for their airmen, as well as their

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key support liaison, which means that they can then turn around and support the families

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at Canon Air Force Base, especially when most of these families coming in may not.

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So we are currently in the rules schools with the DWI program, offering driver's education and health class support by visiting the campus three times as a semester to bring the fun and interactive education surrounding

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alcohol and substance use awareness. We talk about how to make healthier choices for themselves and also talk to them about another pivotal life change as they are becoming licensed drivers. So what does that mean for them?

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We do hope to expand this into Clovis schools in the near future, but right now we do have a really great relationship with all of our rules schools.

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These endeavors are joint effort and make both of our programs, substance use in behavioral health and the DWI program, successful in reducing use substance alcohol use by giving evidence based prevention education and supporting our youth by meeting them where they're at in the schools and in the community.

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And this is in a way to lecture them or to scare them or use fear tactics.

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It is a way to educate them so that they're making choices that are relevant to them.

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However, we have tons of partners across the community.

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This slide highlights just a few of our Curry County partners.

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However, none of this work happens in isolation.

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Prevention is strongest when the entire community has a role in it.

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And our prevention continues to grow across the schools, health care, pharmacy, local businesses,

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businesses, can and air force-based community organizations and other community programs.

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These relationships also help make our work sustainable and it becomes prevention

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then just becomes a part of the community and what the community is doing together.

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And it's not something that belongs to just one program.

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As we've seen with the Curry County Youth Committee, it impacts more than just the Curry

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County offices.

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It hits everyone in the community.

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So, as we close, I want to leave you guys with a very simple message.

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Prevention is something all of us can do and be a part of, whether that means helping

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us connect with the schools and organizations, sharing prevention resources, supporting

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community events, or simply continuing to have conversations about healthy choices and even

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making connections with other people.

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This really helps drive home that prevention messaging and our goal is going to continue to

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building a prevention network across the county so that youth and families know where to find

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education and support and resources when they need them. So I thank you for your time and with

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that we will stand for any questions you may have. Thank you very much for the presentation. I want to

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go back and it was a lot to take in and obviously there's a lot to this but I want to go back to the

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you have to feel the need, like that this is working in all the hard work that you're putting in.

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I obviously want that number low, but at the same time, you're there to answer that call.

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So just curious if anything did you have any stories out of that?

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Not saying you have to go into detail, but did you have some really good moments out of some of those response?

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You mean the responses to the surveys?

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So the number is for us good statewide, we're making the other counties look bad, so we, you know, it's like it's they have to kind of wait the other numbers because we, we collected a lot of surveys because they're really good at it.

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So, and we got great data and for us to have a bigger sample size is great because then we also like to look at, well, what did it, what did the findings look by age group or by gender or by ethnicity and so we can see if there are differences and if we need to target programming in such a way, so for us we like having that that large sample size.

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As far as stories and stuff, when we're on the community, we hear stories of people's personal

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lives, their struggles, their own experiences, their perception and their perception really

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is their reality.

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And so when we're out there and we're talking about the importance of the surveys and the data

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that we're collecting, people naturally just share that with us and they share us with us

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their stories.

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And we take those stories back and it really drives the work that we're doing and it really

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that motivation to say, okay, you know, we may have got ten knows this week, but we got a really great story from someone and it really gives us that motivation to keep going.

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Awesome. Thank you for that. The all commission.

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You all have any questions.

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All right. Thank you so much.

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Thank you.

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We're moving to reports.

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And for committee departments and presentations, our first one is detention center report for July 2006.

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26 and we have Mr. Allen news here with us.

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Good morning, Chairman, metric commissioners.

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July report for 26 on staffing. We had zero hires, zero promotions, and we have seven vacancies for detention officers. The population data, our average data population was 142 total booking is 157, new bookings, 47, previous bookings 110, mills booked 109.

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released males 106 total females book 48 released females 55 total male felonies

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378 female felonies 181 male estimators 384 female estimators 281 sentence detainees

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to the facility 18 out of state fugitives who had six for the month of July operational

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Highlights in July, the Curry County Reach Intervenient Support and Engage, known as the

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Rise Program, served eight active participants and celebrated two successful community

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releases following a completion of 13-week House of Healing Curriculum.

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Participants also completed the overdose prevention of Naloxone training led by the Curry

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program manager. Additionally, clients also finished their first patchwork teddy bears,

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buildings, soy skills, false strengthening teamwork, patients, active listening and community

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service. Special thanks to the entire program's team for their dedication, leadership,

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and continued support of the RISE program. Their commitment to provide meaningful opportunity

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and growth has a long-lasting impact on their participants and play a vital role in programming

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and ongoing success. July 26 events in the facility, the Kerry County Adult Detention Center

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continues to coordinate and manage approved a scheduled attorney access with their clients.

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in July, we had 84 attorney phone calls, 23 on-site attorney visits.

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We had three rehabilitation calls, one detainee was transported to a rehabilitation program.

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The volunteer program continues to offer a wide range of faith-based personal growth opportunities

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these to support individuals in their spiritual journey, including baptisms, baptism services.

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In July we had four baptisms that were performed at the facility.

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Facility staff also remained committed in managing and distributing religious materials

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and other resources to enable detainees to practice the respective phase and we do have

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volunteer training coming up. Roadrunner health services and ministers, the

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detainee medication assisted treatment, known as mat, Career County Adult

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Detention Center in July. We had 13 participants that were approved to

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receive substance use disorder medication. Are you dovo learning program for

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2026? You can see that pie chart, the key highlights. We had 84 learners

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completing 481 hours of education averaging six hours per learner. The strongest areas of engagement

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were health and recovery, recovery, spirituality, reentry and community. Which together accounts

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for 72 percent of the course is completed. Learners completed 24 courses across multiple

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personal developmental development, wellness and re-engaging focus and categories, employee development

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in the facility, online training with the New Mexico County's Insurance Authority Health

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and Safety Institute, HSI platform that continues on a regular basis, our long-range training

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for facility staff inside for in service training.

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We consisted of radio and telephone use.

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July, 2026, juvenile billing, a total of $60,000, $50,000.

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We had at least county six juveniles for a total of 178 days,

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totaling 53,400, Bernoulli, or county.

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We had one juvenile for 11 days at 5,225.

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Dirty Anna we had three juveniles

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For $1,425, our overtime report for pay period July 5th through July 18th, 206, time and a half, or above 86 hours.

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We had 73 hours, 73.88 hours. July adult detention billing, we built 34,596 dollars.

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New Mexico Department of Corrections, $522, adult probation and parole, $21,924,

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rather loop at county, $7,050, Quake County, $5,100,

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and that is the report for July 26th.

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Thank you very much, Mr. Bell, any questions?

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much, sir.

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Okay. Next we have a road department for July 26th.

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as well in Jones.

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Morning Chairman, Bender and Commission.

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Update for July.

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Crew is process and lengthy on 14 from June of Mexico 3-11.

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The T3 mile project TPS-2024 will be completed this week.

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We also started building on CR-19 from B to E in preparation for the bleaching bill which

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is commission allocation.

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Special project crew is currently working on clean roadway carbon gutter on CR-9, which

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It's West Brady.

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Our LGRF, CAP and Co-op agreements have been received.

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We're currently working on environmental clearances.

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We're still waiting school bus agreements for those projects.

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Still waiting on TPS, ratings, rankings, NMVOT to release that information on TPS.

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CAP will out a still know-up bait, so open and we see those funds in September.

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maintenance-plated 196 miles of road,

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patch four miles of road edges, and we shredded 63 miles.

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Maintenance is currently working on the Bony Cap, which is CRI,

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and we completed working on the RUSCAP CRH.5 after receiving heavy rainfall.

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So we received about four and a half inches of rain

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about 45 minutes on those two caps about a week ago.

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When I talk wash as it's not, we're talking big giant holes,

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You know, three and four foot washes on that cow frock. So currently working on that, it's currently

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passable and open to the public. Have one employee starting CDL training at the close community

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college on August 30th, and then lastly, I attended the Western Gateway Meeting

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Introduction last week with Commissioner King. That'll stand for any questions.

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Thank you very much,

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Jones. I want to point out a couple things. First and foremost, I had somebody come and speak

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to me the other day and they appreciated your explanation on the bus route, the bus route

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road fund and how difficult that is and just make sure that everybody knows it's not for

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a lack of trying. It's just a lack of funding that goes into that. And so somebody had been

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persistent and they said, hey, you know, you took the time to speak to them and give a full

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detail of how that process works, and so I do appreciate you doing that.

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Yes, sir.

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The result is good to hear that side of it.

424
00:43:20,930 --> 00:43:29,270
And one other question, CR6, is there anything scheduled I had received a call on that yesterday

425
00:43:29,270 --> 00:43:33,670
in back this morning and asking about CR6, is there anything that you know like coming up

426
00:43:33,670 --> 00:43:36,570
on that or anything as far as project money?

427
00:43:36,990 --> 00:43:37,010
Yeah.

428
00:43:37,150 --> 00:43:37,530
No, sir.

429
00:43:37,990 --> 00:43:41,190
It's on five year, but there's no project money for that currently.

430
00:43:41,710 --> 00:43:43,870
Part of any other questions from commission?

431
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,360
348 south of Texas.

432
00:43:50,780 --> 00:43:51,860
State line yes.

433
00:43:53,060 --> 00:43:55,330
If somebody's wanting to get a

434
00:43:57,180 --> 00:43:59,680
Turning into a piece of property, is that you

435
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,940
They contact the state or

436
00:44:01,940 --> 00:44:02,340
Texas.

437
00:44:02,460 --> 00:44:04,680
If it's on the Mexico sign and be

438
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:05,300
DOT.

439
00:44:05,460 --> 00:44:07,280
Texas, I will be Texas.

440
00:44:07,700 --> 00:44:08,640
Thank you.

441
00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:09,600
Yes sir.

442
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:12,740
Okay.

443
00:44:13,260 --> 00:44:14,320
Thank you very much.

444
00:44:19,140 --> 00:44:19,480
Okay.

445
00:44:19,480 --> 00:44:22,480
Our third report is Department of Finance Administration,

446
00:44:22,900 --> 00:44:27,000
the MIMITARUAL 3.6.50, Mr. Kelley.

447
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:32,640
Chairman Binder, commissioners, on July 28th,

448
00:44:32,700 --> 00:44:36,840
the Department of Finance Administration passed an amendment

449
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:43,760
to rule 3.6.50, the effect of which would have been

450
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:53,560
To force county assessors to set the tax rates,

451
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:59,360
verify the tax rates and to certify the tax rates.

452
00:45:00,340 --> 00:45:05,200
This set off a firestorm across the state.

453
00:45:08,860 --> 00:45:13,460
Beginning on page 135 of your packet, I've included

454
00:45:13,460 --> 00:45:28,220
correspondence between various agencies with DFA. Suffices to say the more people to O. DFA, they were wrong. The harder they

455
00:45:28,220 --> 00:45:35,560
up their heels in. And though it's only been three weeks we've even gotten to the point

456
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:46,360
where some county attorneys were threatening legal action. And then last Wednesday, August

457
00:45:46,360 --> 00:46:00,600
the 12th Dan Slago, the governor's chief of staff, sent out an email stating that DFA did not

458
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:08,580
have the authorization to enforce their new provision and stating he wanted all stakeholders

459
00:46:08,580 --> 00:46:11,220
to get together and find a solution.

460
00:46:12,700 --> 00:46:16,500
And since that time things seem to have been frozen,

461
00:46:17,620 --> 00:46:20,860
I haven't heard anything else good or bad.

462
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:26,020
And so the whole pride now is things will be solved

463
00:46:26,580 --> 00:46:29,340
amitably between the stakeholders.

464
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:36,200
But you needed to be informed of where we were at

465
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:44,620
kept in the loop in case bad goes to worse. And so with that, I'll stand for any questions you

466
00:46:44,620 --> 00:46:51,600
have for me and I'll allow Mr. Pile and Mr. Mackie to cover anything I might have missed or glossed.

467
00:46:53,020 --> 00:46:58,120
Okay, and I know Mr. Mackie's kind of been involved on some of the emails that I've seen.

468
00:46:58,940 --> 00:47:04,320
So, at this time, do we know if there's any lawsuits that have been filed or just threatened?

469
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:08,680
Just threatened right now, as far as I know, Mr. Mackie can probably answer that.

470
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:10,940
Back, do you know anything more about it?

471
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:12,960
Chair and Bender, members of the Commission.

472
00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:17,400
The last I knew, Sandevol County was preparing a lawsuit.

473
00:47:17,580 --> 00:47:24,200
It had one drafted was requesting input from the affiliate and requesting whether anybody wanted

474
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:25,180
to join in the lawsuit.

475
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:30,080
I think since getting communication from the governor's office that the rule had been suspended,

476
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:36,900
they've backed off of that. From our perspective, I was contemplating whether or not to join it,

477
00:47:38,140 --> 00:47:41,360
provided a sandable county took the lead, but I think that's moved at this point.

478
00:47:43,060 --> 00:47:44,840
All right, thank you. Any questions?

479
00:47:45,820 --> 00:47:51,440
And I know New Mexico was so huge and counties have been very involved. And I saw it going

480
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:56,380
I think the last Wednesday had to be on Roscoe, and they were pretty,

481
00:47:57,340 --> 00:48:03,940
to use pretty sure this is halted and there would be a announcement that I think from the

482
00:48:03,940 --> 00:48:09,720
governor's office to address this issue. So I do like you believe we've got out of hand

483
00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:16,520
real quick and they overstep and it's been corrected but there was like Travis County he was

484
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:21,560
asking about whether to join the law student they said not at this time just kind of wait to see

485
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:25,580
what happens. So everyone wants more things to work out.

486
00:48:25,860 --> 00:48:26,560
Yes, sir.

487
00:48:28,140 --> 00:48:29,020
Thank you.

488
00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:29,820
Any other questions?

489
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:31,360
All right.

490
00:48:31,580 --> 00:48:32,980
First, Kelly, thank you for so much for that big.

491
00:48:33,260 --> 00:48:33,900
Thank you, sir.

492
00:48:34,460 --> 00:48:34,520
Thank you.

493
00:48:37,670 --> 00:48:37,950
Thank you.

494
00:48:38,090 --> 00:48:42,610
Number four, it's a presentation and update on status of energy conservation,

495
00:48:42,730 --> 00:48:48,750
and efficiency block grant for the energy efficiency and conservation plan,

496
00:48:48,750 --> 00:48:49,690
Christian Price.

497
00:48:50,430 --> 00:48:56,810
Chair and Bender and Commission. I just wanted to give you a brief update on the energy

498
00:48:56,810 --> 00:49:02,370
efficiency, energy conservation efficiency block grant that the county received earlier

499
00:49:02,370 --> 00:49:08,550
this year. And I also wanted to give you guys one of these really quickly.

500
00:49:23,150 --> 00:49:28,310
What I've just given you, this is a energy saving practices. This is one of the deliverables

501
00:49:28,310 --> 00:49:36,390
that we're required to complete through the block grant that we've received and we did provide

502
00:49:36,390 --> 00:49:41,630
these pasties out at the fair last week to sharing this with some residents and I actually received

503
00:49:41,630 --> 00:49:45,550
a phone call from one resident asking how they can participate in the program so I gave them a

504
00:49:45,550 --> 00:49:50,290
little bit of an update of where we're at that we're working on the plan and what the next steps

505
00:49:50,290 --> 00:49:56,170
would be to if we choose to move forward applying for the seed grant funding. So I just wanted to

506
00:49:56,170 --> 00:49:59,950
share this with you to let you know where that is, the draft plan.

507
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:29,920
And then was submitted prior to the June 30th deadline. And so, so was invoice number two. The final plan is still in process. We're working on making those updates to the final plan. And then it will be brought back before you on the September 15th commission agenda for final of review and approval before final submission back to the emnard and ecam team for their approval. And then we will also submit invoice number three.

508
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:31,300
which will close out that grant.

509
00:50:32,060 --> 00:50:36,160
So the next step is applying for the seed grant opportunity

510
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:38,120
and the seed grant opportunity is community

511
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,440
efficient energy efficiency development.

512
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:47,060
And so it is a block grant for eligible applicants,

513
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,760
which would be as a local government to fund energy,

514
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:51,620
efficiency upgrades and residential buildings

515
00:50:51,620 --> 00:50:53,060
and underserved communities.

516
00:50:53,780 --> 00:50:57,080
The outcomes include to reduce low income household energy

517
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:05,040
and energy usage and improve health and safety and low income households and to lower greenhouse emissions.

518
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:11,460
What we plan to do is we plan to partner with a third party contractor to handle the energy audits

519
00:51:11,460 --> 00:51:22,140
and to handle the rollout of the seed program because it would have to involve someone who knows how to do the energy audits,

520
00:51:22,140 --> 00:51:25,820
how to make those specific type of retrofits in the home,

521
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:28,860
whereas I just don't know that we're suited to do that.

522
00:51:29,740 --> 00:51:31,040
So we'll partner with the third party,

523
00:51:31,060 --> 00:51:32,800
and in that contract with them,

524
00:51:32,900 --> 00:51:37,500
we will also develop a application for people to apply through,

525
00:51:37,980 --> 00:51:43,540
and we will also provide qualification elements

526
00:51:43,540 --> 00:51:46,700
to the application similar to how the county handles

527
00:51:46,700 --> 00:51:47,880
in its indigent funds.

528
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:54,540
There is a ordinance that is required to apply for these seed grant opportunity.

529
00:51:55,340 --> 00:52:00,920
The ordinance is just formal approval of grant acceptance and understanding the energy

530
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:06,660
efficiency improvements that we will be making quality of life enhancements and then

531
00:52:06,660 --> 00:52:08,200
just the legal compliance and administration.

532
00:52:09,480 --> 00:52:15,480
There are some concerns that I have with it, which I will address with attorney Mackie

533
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:17,700
when the time comes should we choose to move forward

534
00:52:17,700 --> 00:52:18,840
with the seed grant opportunity

535
00:52:19,350 --> 00:52:20,680
to ensure that there's no restrictions

536
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,980
on any of our residents in the outer line communities,

537
00:52:24,920 --> 00:52:26,740
as well as ensuring that it is in alignment

538
00:52:26,740 --> 00:52:28,340
with the anti-donation clause

539
00:52:28,340 --> 00:52:29,420
and I'll stay in for any questions.

540
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:31,840
All right, thank you very much.

541
00:52:32,020 --> 00:52:33,460
Mr. Price, any questions for the commission?

542
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:35,080
Mr. Schmart.

543
00:52:35,620 --> 00:52:37,760
And just to be clear, this is voluntary,

544
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:39,640
this is nothing that counties could know.

545
00:52:40,100 --> 00:52:40,520
Absolutely.

546
00:52:40,980 --> 00:52:41,840
Thank you.

547
00:52:44,770 --> 00:52:45,810
Mr. Price, thank you so much.

548
00:52:45,810 --> 00:52:46,790
Thank you.

549
00:52:49,760 --> 00:52:53,060
Okay, number five, presentation of the Vincent Center and Fairgrounds Financial Statements,

550
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:58,040
and in June 30th, is in 26th, and I believe we have Jorge Masari with us.

551
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:06,240
Good morning, Chairman Bender, commissioners, and everyone in the room.

552
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:09,820
June performance, I'm here to present to you, June financials.

553
00:53:09,820 --> 00:53:13,940
June performance was below event volume expectations with revenue being well below budget

554
00:53:13,940 --> 00:53:14,880
as expectations.

555
00:53:15,400 --> 00:53:19,000
This was due to a combination of high labor costs and low build expenses.

556
00:53:19,620 --> 00:53:25,320
In direct expenses came in better than budget, thanks to salary savings from the vacant GM position,

557
00:53:25,860 --> 00:53:33,900
and refund for finance salaries built from FY25 and the amount of $33,238.9 credit it to the county.

558
00:53:34,800 --> 00:53:41,240
These savings were partially offset by a large bill for dirt for the Kevin Roberts ring and the amount of $40,500 and $94.

559
00:53:41,240 --> 00:53:49,280
cents. We held six of the month of June with seven budgeted monthly growth profit,

560
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:58,860
$16,277, which is a budget of $26,032 on favorable variants of $9,755. Monthly

561
00:53:58,860 --> 00:54:06,060
direct expenses, indirect expenses were $91,838, versus a budget of $95,269,

562
00:54:06,060 --> 00:54:17,200
available variants of 3430. Monthly net income loss, 75,561 versus a budget of 69,237

563
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:27,900
on favorable variants of 6,324. Year-to-date events, 59 events held versus 59 events budgeted.

564
00:54:31,460 --> 00:54:36,040
Year-to-date

565
00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:39,740
on favorable variance of 85,738.

566
00:54:40,660 --> 00:54:49,200
The year-to-date indirect expenses of 938,033,383 versus a budget of 1,142,344,

567
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:53,440
favorable with variance of 203,062.

568
00:54:54,200 --> 00:54:59,960
The year-to-date net income loss of 650,154 versus the budget of...

569
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:06,820
768, 378, favorable variants of 118, 2020, 24.

570
00:55:07,900 --> 00:55:15,760
A total of events, again, hosted for the month, where six, we had the pig jackpot PRMC cardiac

571
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:23,280
rodeo, clove strike and main, Montoya, Gensignan, true roping, 206 in the dairy consortium.

572
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:31,540
Other payroll costs contracted services supplies non labor and direct costs were 46,000

573
00:55:31,540 --> 00:55:36,580
higher than budget for the month in our 89,000 higher than budget year-to-date.

574
00:55:37,060 --> 00:55:41,440
Utilities finance systems upgrades are in our supplies and the large dirt purchase listed

575
00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:46,020
under landscaping servers are the main driving factors for this old-rich year-to-date

576
00:55:46,020 --> 00:55:49,360
in a slightly offset by savings in other categories.

577
00:55:49,360 --> 00:55:56,140
operating expenses and that income, overall operating expenses remained in line with budget

578
00:55:56,140 --> 00:56:00,920
for the month, the larger purchase and underperforming events were slightly offset by

579
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:04,720
staffing savings, which led to an overall monthly net loss higher than budget.

580
00:56:05,420 --> 00:56:07,720
And that is it that I have right now.

581
00:56:08,540 --> 00:56:10,140
Thank you, Mr. Missouri.

582
00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:11,980
Any questions from the commission?

583
00:56:14,420 --> 00:56:14,740
Yes,

584
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:19,160
sir.

585
00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:26,160
to you. I guess what I was going to say has nothing to do with this, but I see you're not on

586
00:56:26,160 --> 00:56:31,280
the agenda anywhere else. I thought I'd just say it right now. I appreciate all your help

587
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:38,240
at the fair this last week. In my opinion, from when I was around, you were very helpful. So I

588
00:56:38,240 --> 00:56:45,200
appreciate that there's a lot of stuff that you get thrown into the mix being early and got to

589
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:51,340
some things, maybe not the way you wanted to learn them, but I appreciate it from my perspective.

590
00:56:52,300 --> 00:56:57,480
You were awesome when I called you you were there, so I just wanted to tell you I appreciate it.

591
00:56:57,500 --> 00:57:04,240
Thank you, and I also want to credit the operations tab too that was involved, so they were on it.

592
00:57:06,940 --> 00:57:08,100
All right, thank you Mr. Sorry.

593
00:57:08,660 --> 00:57:08,660
All

594
00:57:12,850 --> 00:57:18,570
right, action item number one, request action authorizing the United States Air Force to drill

595
00:57:18,570 --> 00:57:21,770
of the exploratory well, on the property currently least,

596
00:57:21,850 --> 00:57:25,010
Kerr Road R to the government as part of the alternative water

597
00:57:25,010 --> 00:57:26,450
supply project.

598
00:57:27,710 --> 00:57:29,850
We have a great shuler with us.

599
00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:53,320
Good morning, Chairman Binder.

600
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:55,720
And members of the Commission, I appreciate you

601
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:56,980
allowing us to be here.

602
00:57:57,200 --> 00:57:58,200
My name is Greg Shuler.

603
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:02,160
I am the energy manager at the Kennedy Air Force Base.

604
00:58:02,660 --> 00:58:05,180
And so I am here today on behalf of Canon

605
00:58:05,180 --> 00:58:09,820
to request the approval to drill a single exploratory well

606
00:58:09,820 --> 00:58:15,880
on the Reeves property, which is Curry Road R, the west side adjacent to Ken and Air Force

607
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:21,920
Base, which we lease from Curry County. So if you're tracking there's a project right now

608
00:58:21,920 --> 00:58:28,660
in alternate water source project, from headquarters Air Force, it's a funded project to address

609
00:58:28,660 --> 00:58:34,080
the challenge that affects all of us here in eastern New Mexico with our water and the water supply

610
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:39,120
that we have with the Ogawa Aquifer. As we're all tracking this precious, it's in its depleting

611
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:43,940
resource. And so to ensure the resilience of our community and the longevity of our mission

612
00:58:43,940 --> 00:58:49,460
I can in Air Force Base and Eastern New Mexico region, we're proactively seeking sustainable

613
00:58:49,460 --> 00:58:57,840
alternative water sources. So to be clear, just a caveat, this project will not draw

614
00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:03,440
any water from the Ovalala Aquifer and our exploratory well. This actually drill much deeper,

615
00:59:03,620 --> 00:59:08,500
which is actually what I provided to you in those packets. There is a draft of our well

616
00:59:08,500 --> 00:59:11,900
casing and kind of shows the feed below the surface.

617
00:59:12,140 --> 00:59:18,680
It shows the Ogilala on the top, roughly three, 75 feet, and the down to the redonda,

618
00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:23,740
the upper shell, trihio, and then the lower shell, and so our goal is actually to drill down

619
00:59:23,740 --> 00:59:31,460
into the docking group, which is roughly 1100 feet, 1,300 feet, and so to tap into specifically

620
00:59:31,460 --> 00:59:35,480
brackish water as an alternative water sources, what the goal is.

621
00:59:36,580 --> 00:59:40,560
And so, this is more than just project, just for the Air Force.

622
00:59:40,800 --> 00:59:44,720
This is a scientific study for the benefit of the entire region as a whole.

623
00:59:45,100 --> 00:59:51,900
So, Curie County, Roosevelt County City of Clovis, and Partialis in the areas being a stakeholder in this project as well.

624
00:59:53,180 --> 00:59:59,940
And so, by exploring this alternate water source, such as brackish water in this area, we can reduce our collection.

625
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:05,880
Dr. DeValiance on the O'Galala helping to preserve the water, you know, that we need for this area.

626
01:00:06,740 --> 01:00:08,420
And so I'm seeking approval today.

627
01:00:08,980 --> 01:00:22,300
It was the next administrative step in this process to allow the New Mexico office of state engineer to process our drilling permits for this expulatory well to enable this initiative to move forward.

628
01:00:22,980 --> 01:00:28,400
And so that is why I'm here today is just to seek approval to drill on this lease property.

629
01:00:29,060 --> 01:00:30,600
pending any questions.

630
01:00:33,850 --> 01:00:38,050
Okay, thank you very much for the presentation and the information on this.

631
01:00:38,310 --> 01:00:43,770
Had a chance to read that in the back there. Any questions from Commissioner this time?

632
01:00:44,670 --> 01:00:45,290
Pushmark.

633
01:00:49,350 --> 01:00:50,370
I'm so much familiar.

634
01:00:50,970 --> 01:00:55,920
And I talked to another individual this morning and he grilled down a thousand foot.

635
01:00:56,660 --> 01:01:03,360
you're north of town about 10 years ago. I discussed with him, you know, the flow and everything,

636
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:08,700
and his first well he did the artisan, which is an expensive process, and what you have to do

637
01:01:08,700 --> 01:01:10,120
to secure the Ogun law.

638
01:01:12,180 --> 01:01:19,700
His production is minimal. Right now it's falling off to about 30

639
01:01:19,700 --> 01:01:29,280
get the men and cost of production, you know, it's based on that and I understand that we need to explore all these options.

640
01:01:30,660 --> 01:01:37,200
At that level, you're kind of in that chenly. I think it's what they know it before you get down to the Santa Rose.

641
01:01:38,740 --> 01:01:47,820
He did say that he wished he had a gone deeper, you know, 1250 to 1500 to get into the actual Santa Rose.

642
01:01:49,840 --> 01:02:04,220
And that water down there, the brackish basically means it's metallic, not really suitable for drinking, but they mix it with clean water there again, up there production.

643
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:12,120
I think it's good to explore often. I like that you're going through the proper procedure to do so.

644
01:02:13,700 --> 01:02:23,810
And just go all the way, so don't stop too soon, make sure you get in the deep enough that you can really fill around and find out what's going on.

645
01:02:27,290 --> 01:02:32,010
With that, I do know that Canon has four deep wells already.

646
01:02:33,250 --> 01:02:36,970
I believe they're set at about 750 gallons or 700 feet.

647
01:02:38,050 --> 01:02:42,290
Do you know if those are still in production or if they still use those at all?

648
01:02:42,290 --> 01:02:47,150
I am not tracking the exact depth of our wells right now.

649
01:02:47,890 --> 01:02:50,510
Definitely something I can look back and get an answer for you.

650
01:02:50,710 --> 01:02:51,550
Yes, sir.

651
01:02:51,610 --> 01:02:56,550
And since you will be whereabouts to the home itself, we all be drilling.

652
01:02:57,490 --> 01:03:01,230
So it is on the western side of Canada for space where it's at.

653
01:03:01,670 --> 01:03:03,750
I am here to tell you what I do have.

654
01:03:04,070 --> 01:03:04,990
Let me provide this to you right here,

655
01:03:07,350 --> 01:03:07,350
sir.

656
01:03:07,610 --> 01:03:11,010
The drilling gives you the actual location, but that's hard.

657
01:03:11,010 --> 01:03:13,630
So you will be drilling at that property.

658
01:03:14,150 --> 01:03:15,050
Yes, sir.

659
01:03:15,410 --> 01:03:22,330
So the plan is to drill in the northwestern portion of that property in the back area, sir.

660
01:03:22,810 --> 01:03:26,550
And could I request something it may be doable, it may not.

661
01:03:27,150 --> 01:03:31,430
When you do, as you go to the Ovalala,

662
01:03:31,470 --> 01:03:35,910
I have a sample of the water brought in tested for PFAS.

663
01:03:35,910 --> 01:03:43,990
So, absolutely so, so PFAS was obviously a heavy concern for us in conversation with this

664
01:03:43,990 --> 01:03:50,930
contractor, and so if you actually look at that draft that I provided you of the well diagram,

665
01:03:51,710 --> 01:03:58,010
there is a cement, bints nice seal, right there at the Ogula loggerfer, and then the

666
01:03:58,010 --> 01:04:03,270
preferated casing is right below that, just to ensure that nothing is affecting the

667
01:04:03,270 --> 01:04:06,590
a law confer and going all the way down.

668
01:04:06,830 --> 01:04:09,430
And so that has been a heavy concern of mine.

669
01:04:09,650 --> 01:04:16,390
And so for the whole drilling process included in this, they have actually been talks

670
01:04:16,390 --> 01:04:22,730
with EPCOR and EPCOR has a couple wells out there that have historically tested non-detect

671
01:04:22,730 --> 01:04:28,610
for PFAS that they're actually going to be utilizing that for drilling to avoid any type

672
01:04:28,610 --> 01:04:35,130
of PFAS concerns as well as the liquids included in drilling is been in conversation as well

673
01:04:35,130 --> 01:04:41,750
to ensure that there's no PFAS detect in those as well. Any drilling facing that comes

674
01:04:41,750 --> 01:04:48,110
up for there to the contractors require to sample that waste determination and dispose of that

675
01:04:48,110 --> 01:04:55,550
accordingly. So that is, I understand that's a heavy topic that we're addressing. As far as

676
01:04:55,550 --> 01:04:59,950
question. I just want to be clear on your request. Do you want to

677
01:05:00,900 --> 01:05:05,300
And a sample from whenever they get down to the overall aquifer.

678
01:05:05,500 --> 01:05:10,020
The drillers usually take samples as they go down, because they have to report the formation

679
01:05:10,020 --> 01:05:18,740
as the new deeper. But I'm not sure that we've actually tested PFAS in this area. The flow

680
01:05:18,740 --> 01:05:24,300
of water, it should not be there. But since you are drilling in there, if it would be possible,

681
01:05:24,300 --> 01:05:31,360
just the test in the Ovalala before you break through just to see if there is any type of contamination.

682
01:05:32,120 --> 01:05:36,340
Yes sir. Not saying that y'all will contaminate from the drilling just if there's pre-existed.

683
01:05:36,380 --> 01:05:40,420
Okay, yes, absolutely. I'll touch base of the contract and we'll request that.

684
01:05:40,500 --> 01:05:44,160
See what they might say. Yes sir. But overall, everybody thought I was going through a

685
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:50,260
little big fit of this and not the case. I do think the water is valuable and I think

686
01:05:50,260 --> 01:05:57,840
see in there for us to take this direction. It shows us just how dire the need is.

687
01:05:57,840 --> 01:06:02,380
Yes, sir. And look forward to finding out what you can bring to us.

688
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:06,380
Absolutely. We're very excited about it. So looking forward to the future for this. Thank you.

689
01:06:07,480 --> 01:06:09,440
All right. Take any other questions.

690
01:06:10,820 --> 01:06:14,700
All right. With that, I'm going to make a motion that we approve.

691
01:06:15,740 --> 01:06:20,220
the action to drill, the laboratory well on the property least for a

692
01:06:20,220 --> 01:06:25,880
query road R. Thank you very much. Motion, second-by-commissioner

693
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:30,060
Cain, all those in favor, so if I'm saying aye, aye, those opposed,

694
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:32,740
they need. All right, thank you. Thank you, thank you.

695
01:06:37,200 --> 01:06:38,080
All right, number two,

696
01:06:38,240 --> 01:06:42,120
request action on the pose closure of the query road five, BNSF,

697
01:06:42,140 --> 01:06:46,900
railroad crossing, and Associated Sinners offered by BNSF, Railway in Mexico

698
01:06:46,900 --> 01:06:51,180
Department of Transportation Rail Division, including a $100,000 being a 7-centive.

699
01:06:52,060 --> 01:06:56,140
We have Mr. White and Jones here with us to go over that.

700
01:06:56,700 --> 01:07:03,660
Chairman Minner and Commission, it's been several months back. I was contacted by BNSF Rail

701
01:07:03,660 --> 01:07:12,320
and BNSF in the NAMDOT rail about the Carl's Bad Rail. They were doing a study on that,

702
01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:16,880
on different

703
01:07:16,880 --> 01:07:20,300
back, Mr. Roberts, and I had a meeting with them.

704
01:07:20,620 --> 01:07:24,420
And in your packet, you should see their proposal

705
01:07:24,420 --> 01:07:26,860
that they presented to us at that meeting.

706
01:07:27,820 --> 01:07:30,740
We then there had a follow-up meeting with the road committee

707
01:07:30,740 --> 01:07:33,740
and those folks and went a little more into detail,

708
01:07:34,300 --> 01:07:39,020
them explaining what they're finding so forth and so on.

709
01:07:39,460 --> 01:07:41,280
Also, I believe in your packet is a memo

710
01:07:41,980 --> 01:07:46,100
that I attached that I wrote back to them after we had that meeting.

711
01:07:46,100 --> 01:07:51,740
And I have not had anything back on that with that information.

712
01:07:51,740 --> 01:07:59,300
I can go more into detail on what they're, they're wanting us to look at closing CR5

713
01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:07,380
and turn, they will put gates at 6 and 7, CR6 and 6 and 7.

714
01:08:07,500 --> 01:08:14,680
They also will give us a BNSF, we'll give us a cash in to 100,000, and DOT will give us 100,000

715
01:08:14,680 --> 01:08:18,520
in a match to utilize on road projects throughout the county.

716
01:08:19,340 --> 01:08:25,320
That is, that's what they're offering for the closure of CR-5 attached in this.

717
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:30,680
There's also the data, the traffic stuff, traffic counts, things like that.

718
01:08:31,060 --> 01:08:36,860
It was pointed out in our meeting that we had with them that the ADT's that were brought

719
01:08:36,860 --> 01:08:42,900
to us were, I believe, a couple years back on the ADT traffic counts.

720
01:08:42,900 --> 01:08:51,200
I believe in my memo. I can read through that memo again. I believe I pointed that out and I believe it was asked that if they did the skin

721
01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:52,520
They would actually get

722
01:08:52,520 --> 01:08:59,100
Try to count that were more recent on that without all stand for any questions. So you stated

723
01:08:59,980 --> 01:09:01,360
They would give us

724
01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:07,280
Crossing our gates at six and seven so they don't want to just do that anyways like this so if we close five

725
01:09:07,280 --> 01:09:11,920
They'll give us six and seven why don't they just do six and seven to begin with or do you know the answer on that?

726
01:09:14,000 --> 01:09:24,940
To a point we do it's all versus safety that's that's what you were told at this meeting that these the reason was for safety the reason a closure five was due to safety

727
01:09:24,940 --> 01:09:33,800
I did bring that up. I think several of us brought that up on that that meeting that you know six and seven. So they have a list. They did share that list with us

728
01:09:34,760 --> 01:09:36,920
six and seven all these are

729
01:09:36,920 --> 01:09:42,120
way down the list on it. If I remember and whoever was there correct me if I'm wrong, I think

730
01:09:42,120 --> 01:09:46,340
there was only a certain amount of money they were allocated a year. I can't remember that.

731
01:09:46,340 --> 01:09:51,540
I know it was around a million dollars I believe that was allocated a year for increasing safety

732
01:09:51,540 --> 01:09:59,680
at crossings. But that these two crossings don't rate or rank high enough right now to get that.

733
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:14,760
Done at them crossings. Because I believe it was being in a manager pile that had asked that question, you know, how if these are, these are needing it now, these gates, why are we not getting it? And that was the information they provided.

734
01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:26,680
And for I turn this over, some of the, I know, public commissioners probably sat on those meetings, but from my perspective, I'm going to give my personal perspective on this because.

735
01:10:27,300 --> 01:10:36,840
Where this brings a little frustration to me is I've asked multiple questions many times and I've got no response from being SF and I take I still pay field complaints constantly

736
01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:40,480
About crossing it at nowhere. So I mean there's a time

737
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:46,300
There's a time limit that they're supposed to and they break that daily and I hear about it all the time and so

738
01:10:47,060 --> 01:10:53,900
I just I this is way that was way down those are way down the list. I find this way down on my list and that's just my personal opinion

739
01:10:53,900 --> 01:11:01,900
I think there's other bigger fish to fry for the lack of better terminology, so that I'll turn that over to any other commissioners that have questions.

740
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:27,000
I'll let go of that and when you set in that meeting, it was pretty evident that the safety concerns are only a safety concern if it benefits them.

741
01:11:29,760 --> 01:11:37,000
to a large degree anyway, I don't see no sense in moving forward with this.

742
01:11:38,080 --> 01:11:39,200
I'm just voiced by the opinion.

743
01:11:39,480 --> 01:11:42,360
I didn't think that they were very well prepared.

744
01:11:43,460 --> 01:11:47,080
This is kind of a buy out to get what they want.

745
01:11:48,540 --> 01:11:54,000
But if we don't go this direction that those safety concerns for those other two crossings are not

746
01:11:57,800 --> 01:12:01,320
So I'll just be quite, for a reason, I don't need to say.

747
01:12:03,450 --> 01:12:10,270
And there's a resident that is just less than probably a quarter mile just to the west

748
01:12:10,270 --> 01:12:16,350
of this crossing and they explain to us that a lot of people enjoy their crossing flows

749
01:12:16,350 --> 01:12:16,730
that way.

750
01:12:16,890 --> 01:12:25,230
They can make a three mile track to get back up, but I think we came to a conclusion in the

751
01:12:25,230 --> 01:12:31,310
department very quickly. And I think we should proceed that way. But I would

752
01:12:31,310 --> 01:12:32,530
like to speak.

753
01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:42,900
You know, I think I'd go with a recommendation for that committee.

754
01:12:43,780 --> 01:12:48,860
I'm not closing that road now for now. Because we want all the information

755
01:12:50,260 --> 01:13:00,840
and all those studies are two or three years old. And I think I just, I wouldn't

756
01:13:03,820 --> 01:13:09,000
All right, so if there's, if there's no motion, it'll, it'll fail on lack of motion.

757
01:13:09,180 --> 01:13:11,280
Does anybody want to make a motion to approve this?

758
01:13:13,120 --> 01:13:15,800
I believe Commissioner Madrid is.

759
01:13:16,180 --> 01:13:19,240
You know what I apologize, yeah, action on tonight.

760
01:13:20,480 --> 01:13:20,920
Okay.

761
01:13:21,160 --> 01:13:21,580
Okay.

762
01:13:22,140 --> 01:13:25,520
So we have a motion from Commissioner Madrid.

763
01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:28,340
And it's taken from Commissioner Martin to deny this proposal.

764
01:13:28,340 --> 01:13:33,340
All those are favoracy if I'm by saying aye, aye, those are both same sign.

765
01:13:34,480 --> 01:13:36,140
Okay, thank you Ms. Dunns.

766
01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:43,680
Number three, discussion and request direction on fiscal year 27,

767
01:13:44,300 --> 01:13:46,960
outdoor recreation trails and grant project, Mr. Christian Brites.

768
01:13:48,420 --> 01:13:49,280
Chairman Bender and Commission.

769
01:13:51,040 --> 01:13:57,640
So annually, the New Mexico outdoor recreation division opens up a grant program called the outdoor recreation trails plus.

770
01:13:57,640 --> 01:14:01,340
And we have applied multiple years.

771
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:03,400
We have been funded one time through the program.

772
01:14:03,480 --> 01:14:09,800
It is very, very heavily targeted towards trails and outdoor recreation.

773
01:14:10,100 --> 01:14:14,320
So we do struggle to come up with some projects that would be eligible for this funding.

774
01:14:14,800 --> 01:14:20,240
The one that we have actually gotten through though is for the recycled winter buying

775
01:14:20,240 --> 01:14:22,160
benches and tables over at the courtyard.

776
01:14:22,860 --> 01:14:26,660
So we did get that through back in 2024 in the amount of 25,000.

777
01:14:27,840 --> 01:14:36,100
So I am coming to you this morning to see if you have any thoughts, ideas for this grant opportunity, it closes on September 30th.

778
01:14:36,100 --> 01:14:42,800
And from what I understand, this is the only cycle that will be available or open for FY27. There should not typically, there's two.

779
01:14:42,800 --> 01:14:45,820
It appears that for FY27, there's just going to be the one cycle.

780
01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:51,560
And so if that changes, obviously I will come back and I will let you all know that.

781
01:14:51,560 --> 01:14:59,520
But for rural communities, we are required to provide a minimum of 1-2 match, so that's basically half of what our grant request is.

782
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:14,260
3 different funding tiers, so tier 1 is any amount between 25,99999999, tier 2 is 100,000 and between 100,000 and 499,9999.

783
01:15:14,920 --> 01:15:18,320
And then tier 3 is between 500,000 and a million dollars.

784
01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:25,220
Past project highlights do include multi mobility trails and ADA accessible visitor infrastructure.

785
01:15:25,220 --> 01:15:32,700
partnerships connecting local youth to paid restoration work trade pay to trail restoration work.

786
01:15:32,960 --> 01:15:41,040
A tribal destination recreation center with guided cultural experiences and just additional trails,

787
01:15:41,980 --> 01:15:47,860
active transportation paths to community schools and different projects like that.

788
01:15:48,840 --> 01:16:15,220
Some thoughts, ideas that would be eligible, that we may be able to do, would be it just depends on land acquisition is not an eligible activity under this grant funding, so that also really shrinks what we could do, because we cannot buy land to then create a walking path or create a walking trail, we have to either buy land and then use this funding to implement that walking trail.

789
01:16:15,220 --> 01:16:19,380
or we have to make do with what we already have.

790
01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:23,480
And so walking past trails, those are eligible,

791
01:16:23,820 --> 01:16:26,520
horse trails, bike trails, things like that.

792
01:16:26,700 --> 01:16:31,880
It's very, very heavily outdoor recreation and trails.

793
01:16:32,820 --> 01:16:35,440
I was looking a little bit more into it this morning.

794
01:16:35,820 --> 01:16:39,500
There may be some eligibility with the amount of patrol arena,

795
01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:40,400
with accessibility.

796
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:43,840
There might be a little bit of wiggle room there

797
01:16:43,840 --> 01:16:55,280
And I would like to investigate that a little bit further with the outdoor recreation division if that's a project that we wanted to move forward with before we put a stamp of approval on that one and actually move forward.

798
01:16:56,520 --> 01:17:11,720
Another thought that I had was looking into the Vision Zero Action Plan for 2025 that was created or developed by Petagro Associates for road departments, the safe streets and roads for all grant program we received.

799
01:17:12,880 --> 01:17:23,100
There was through a community survey, it was identified as a top priority and a travel challenges was limited routes for bike riders, other wheeled options and pedestrians in the county.

800
01:17:23,100 --> 01:17:52,100
And one of the main road that was identified for this was C.R.K. from Yano to Wilheight and speaking with Whalen, there would be, we would have to work with the city because the county owns a portion of that, and then the city owns a portion of that and manages that, so we own Yano to, and we maintain Yano to Wilheight and then from Wilheight to, I think, the end of,

801
01:17:52,100 --> 01:17:57,220
uh, gattest middle school's property. Um, that would be the city's responsibility. So we

802
01:17:57,220 --> 01:18:02,240
could if that's a project we want to look at. It may be eligible. I want to do some further

803
01:18:02,240 --> 01:18:08,460
investigation on that as well. Um, then we would want to invite the city of Clovis as a co-collaborator

804
01:18:08,460 --> 01:18:15,100
on that project. So I will stand for any questions. That's ideas that you may have. I do like the

805
01:18:15,100 --> 01:18:20,340
accessibility options that we know we have some issues with at the amount of patrol arena. There's

806
01:18:20,340 --> 01:18:23,680
also some more opportunity at the actual fairgrounds

807
01:18:23,680 --> 01:18:27,640
with ADA accessible concrete paths for a lot of people

808
01:18:27,640 --> 01:18:31,080
that cannot utilize the rocks for wheelchairs

809
01:18:31,080 --> 01:18:32,280
and whatever the case may be.

810
01:18:32,480 --> 01:18:34,740
We have two wide concrete paths out there,

811
01:18:35,180 --> 01:18:37,280
but you could actually create a walking trail

812
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:40,820
per se inside that area to a degree too,

813
01:18:40,840 --> 01:18:44,240
potentially gets more accessibility to that.

814
01:18:44,820 --> 01:18:46,620
And so that would be my only suggestions,

815
01:18:47,020 --> 01:18:49,320
but I do appreciate you taking lead on this any.

816
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:51,080
Any questions or comments from commission?

817
01:18:55,510 --> 01:18:56,070
The last.

818
01:18:57,350 --> 01:19:00,290
Does the county own any more property on Main Street?

819
01:19:00,630 --> 01:19:02,490
That north of the detention center?

820
01:19:02,590 --> 01:19:05,390
I know we got the printing business,

821
01:19:05,390 --> 01:19:09,310
but we don't own the one right on Main Street next to you.

822
01:19:09,730 --> 01:19:10,050
No, sir.

823
01:19:10,350 --> 01:19:12,610
We, I'm on the course of the Rubene Davis courtyard,

824
01:19:12,870 --> 01:19:14,630
and then we own that corner of seven.

825
01:19:15,390 --> 01:19:16,130
As I was going to say,

826
01:19:16,130 --> 01:19:22,930
is that the accessible playground at the fairground is highly used.

827
01:19:23,690 --> 01:19:28,230
And that would be a project to look at, if County had something,

828
01:19:30,670 --> 01:19:31,710
that we could put that.

829
01:19:32,870 --> 01:19:35,210
But I like the amount of control accessibility.

830
01:19:35,730 --> 01:19:39,670
We're trying to figure out a way to fix all that concrete work there anyway, and if we could

831
01:19:39,670 --> 01:19:42,650
do the two in conjunction, it'd be a great project.

832
01:19:46,480 --> 01:19:52,220
I'd like to confirm the mother would be so proud to hear us talk about improvements of

833
01:19:52,220 --> 01:19:59,360
the fairgrounds and his absence, and as I do like that you said the playground out there

834
01:19:59,360 --> 01:19:59,720
because

835
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:08,380
That thing all week was it never stopped. Y'all probably saw it and I don't remember if you were involved in something like what they did in that right.

836
01:20:08,840 --> 01:20:11,940
Just a little bit. Yeah. So kudos to you on that. Great.

837
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:14,240
All right. Any other questions or comments?

838
01:20:16,540 --> 01:20:17,380
All right.

839
01:20:22,150 --> 01:20:27,490
Which direction do you want to go with this? What is your suggestion as far as how do you want us to?

840
01:20:27,490 --> 01:20:33,650
I think I can't tell you the ADA playground will not be eligible through this funding, but that's something knowing that

841
01:20:33,650 --> 01:20:38,930
is something that we want to look into, you know, create building another one, another part of

842
01:20:38,930 --> 01:20:47,370
town. I can put that on my list. But for different concrete paths at the fairgrounds, and then also,

843
01:20:47,490 --> 01:20:54,390
I'll get with Ben on the Monitorhole Improvements and the ADA necessities over there. And we'll see what

844
01:20:54,390 --> 01:21:03,630
we can do. And what I'll do is I'll get with Ben on it, and then I'll contact ORD and make sure that it's

845
01:21:03,630 --> 01:21:06,550
back the match request on September 15th.

846
01:21:07,570 --> 01:21:09,970
I will formulate that into a motion.

847
01:21:10,490 --> 01:21:12,870
Are you going to do you have all that?

848
01:21:14,270 --> 01:21:15,190
I don't want to repeat.

849
01:21:16,670 --> 01:21:19,890
So I will formulate that into a motion that we approve that direction.

850
01:21:21,350 --> 01:21:21,970
Thank you.

851
01:21:24,470 --> 01:21:24,590
Okay.

852
01:21:24,750 --> 01:21:25,110
We're in motion.

853
01:21:25,270 --> 01:21:25,470
Second.

854
01:21:25,590 --> 01:21:27,230
All those in favor say goodbye by saying aye.

855
01:21:28,150 --> 01:21:28,510
Those are both.

856
01:21:28,670 --> 01:21:29,230
Same time.

857
01:21:30,910 --> 01:21:31,710
Thank you, Mrs. Price.

858
01:21:31,710 --> 01:21:49,690
Number four, request action to participate as a cooperating agency in the NEPA process with the Bureau of Land Management application from Philips 66 for a new 24 inch diameter liquid product pipeline across federal state and private land between border taxes and Phoenix Arizona.

859
01:21:51,190 --> 01:21:55,110
We have Commissioner Martin here to live with that.

860
01:21:55,110 --> 01:22:01,630
I forget what, which day was last week, but Kyle was on an award, was a third major

861
01:22:01,630 --> 01:22:02,430
pile was there.

862
01:22:02,650 --> 01:22:03,650
I've been was there.

863
01:22:03,750 --> 01:22:05,150
Wayland was there.

864
01:22:05,770 --> 01:22:10,410
There was a large crowd because they covered all the new Mexico that's going to be affected

865
01:22:10,410 --> 01:22:20,410
by this and by Chairman Leatherwood will be on the meeting tomorrow and I think that's

866
01:22:20,410 --> 01:22:25,070
great because hopefully we can announce that we are one of partner with them.

867
01:22:25,070 --> 01:22:28,650
If we do not join this, we have no voice.

868
01:22:29,950 --> 01:22:31,590
You don't know what's going to come over.

869
01:22:31,770 --> 01:22:40,230
They may not need anything from us, but if we can't voice it concern, it leaves us completely out.

870
01:22:40,610 --> 01:22:47,490
So I think it is very vital that the Curry County participates in this process.

871
01:22:49,520 --> 01:22:51,200
Any questions from Commissioner?

872
01:22:52,260 --> 01:22:59,290
I'll just echo that and I think the difference in this and the other project that tried to come through not long ago is the fact that

873
01:23:00,360 --> 01:23:09,180
These seem to be very transparent. They're trying to communicate ahead of time. They're trying to have these meetings instead of just sneak something by and

874
01:23:10,180 --> 01:23:12,500
I'm sure you've been reached out to by

875
01:23:13,460 --> 01:23:13,920
Mr.

876
01:23:17,800 --> 01:23:28,420
That's a second or third time that he's called me over the last few months and so I agree with Seth, I think that we need to be cooperating with this deal.

877
01:23:29,200 --> 01:23:40,500
I think those are great points because I did. I received, I received communication multiple times and then obviously the first one that brought up there was no communication for anybody just not right in, but that's that's very admirable.

878
01:23:40,500 --> 01:23:47,660
So, um, we'll based on on recommended, did you have anything commissioner for this?

879
01:23:47,720 --> 01:23:58,260
Okay, based on what I heard from our, our other commissioners, I will make a motion that we proceed with participation in this process.

880
01:24:00,150 --> 01:24:03,550
Postion and second-by-commissioner came, all those of the favors in five by saying aye.

881
01:24:04,150 --> 01:24:05,830
Those both, same sign.

882
01:24:08,130 --> 01:24:16,970
It's my understanding we've got to put forward a name for a representative and alternate. Can y'all make that appointment as well. Okay. Thank you for that.

883
01:24:17,830 --> 01:24:23,410
I would like to nominate the Stixensee, not here now.

884
01:24:24,350 --> 01:24:27,090
Calcane is the point on this.

885
01:24:28,670 --> 01:24:31,090
I might have a conflict, and I already know do that,

886
01:24:31,190 --> 01:24:33,850
because this will go across a lot of my property,

887
01:24:34,610 --> 01:24:38,110
out westbound, and I think it'd be more shooting

888
01:24:38,110 --> 01:24:40,210
that somebody not in that position.

889
01:24:41,190 --> 01:24:44,430
I know I missed meeting once, and I was nominated for something.

890
01:24:44,430 --> 01:24:53,500
So it would be fit, but I will second since Michigan has been involved. I will second that best he is alternate. We'll put that's his opening

891
01:24:57,830 --> 01:24:59,950
Okay, do we need to vote on that?

892
01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:08,060
Okay, we have a motion and a second, all those of favorcent, if I'm by saying aye, aye, those opposed, same sign.

893
01:25:08,660 --> 01:25:11,120
Okay, congratulations, commissioner, can you much term another word?

894
01:25:15,680 --> 01:25:20,180
All right, I'll, I'll make a motion that we enter public hearing.

895
01:25:21,540 --> 01:25:24,940
Okay, we have a motion and second, roll call, please.

896
01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:27,800
Commissioner Martin. Commissioner King.

897
01:25:28,420 --> 01:25:30,640
Yes. Chairman Vinder? Yes. Commissioner Madrid.

898
01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:34,260
Okay, public, we're now public hearing.

899
01:25:34,480 --> 01:25:35,240
Mr. Hall?

900
01:25:36,320 --> 01:25:36,560
Good morning.

901
01:25:36,780 --> 01:25:37,680
Chairman Bender and Commissioner.

902
01:25:38,320 --> 01:25:39,580
That's your July 21 meeting.

903
01:25:40,100 --> 01:25:43,600
You approved the notice of intent to consider for adoption ordinance,

904
01:25:43,760 --> 01:25:49,080
2026-02, authorizing the execution and delivery of a loan agreement,

905
01:25:49,500 --> 01:25:52,640
and intercept agreement between the county and the New Mexico Finance Authority

906
01:25:52,640 --> 01:25:54,500
for the purchase of three motor graters.

907
01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:58,960
Since that time, we have published notice of this public hearing in the eastern

908
01:25:58,960 --> 01:26:03,660
to Mexico News and have received the final loan agreement in closing documents.

909
01:26:04,500 --> 01:26:11,820
To the term sheet, the loan principle amount is 1,323,663 dollars.

910
01:26:11,860 --> 01:26:15,960
Add a blended interest rate of 2.694481%.

911
01:26:16,500 --> 01:26:19,580
The closing is scheduled for September 25th, 2026.

912
01:26:20,140 --> 01:26:24,120
The first payment will be doing May of 2027 with the final payment

913
01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:29,880
do in May of 2023, as security for the loan, the county is pledged one-eighth of one percent

914
01:26:29,880 --> 01:26:35,520
of its maximum rate of gross receipts tax that is currently enacted, and I would also

915
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:40,580
like to clarify for the record that this financing does not involve the tax increase. Rather,

916
01:26:40,700 --> 01:26:45,580
it's an obligation of a portion of the gross receipts tax that is already currently enacted.

917
01:26:46,400 --> 01:26:50,200
And at this time, and unless you have any questions, I would like to request that the commission

918
01:26:50,200 --> 01:26:59,100
open the fourth public comment regarding ordinance 2026-022. Okay. Any questions or comments from

919
01:26:59,100 --> 01:26:59,540
public?

920
01:27:02,220 --> 01:27:06,500
Any questions or comments from commission? I think being as a dressinger right now,

921
01:27:06,580 --> 01:27:10,040
he said the final payment will be in 23 and

922
01:27:12,440 --> 01:27:16,680
enjoy what if I can reiterate the term. First payments

923
01:27:16,680 --> 01:27:22,820
do May of twenty twenty seven with final payment may of twenty thirty three. I was kind

924
01:27:22,820 --> 01:27:27,780
of bored with the twenty twenty three. Like we were who we were backwards. Much better

925
01:27:27,780 --> 01:27:33,280
shake. Are any other comments from commission?

926
01:27:35,860 --> 01:27:39,960
Okay. And with that, I will make a motion

927
01:27:39,960 --> 01:27:46,260
that we exit public hearing. A motion in a second, all those of the favors, if I'm

928
01:27:46,260 --> 01:27:54,000
saying aye. Aye. Those opposed. Same sign. Okay. Action on ordinance 2026.

929
01:27:54,420 --> 01:27:58,500
Statue or two. Authorizing the execution delivery of the loan agreement between

930
01:27:58,500 --> 01:28:05,240
Kerry County and the Mexico Finance Authority. What? Mojo approved. Motion by Commissioner.

931
01:28:06,060 --> 01:28:11,180
Motion by Commissioner. Sorry, Martin. Second by Commissioner Caine. All those

932
01:28:11,180 --> 01:28:14,630
favors than the five last thing I I those post same sign.

933
01:28:17,720 --> 01:28:22,120
County commissioner's report and I was an ordinance it's a roll call.

934
01:28:22,300 --> 01:28:26,350
It's a it is I apologize that's a I'm thank for that.

935
01:28:27,300 --> 01:28:30,580
Australia and a roll call please Commissioner King.

936
01:28:30,940 --> 01:28:35,460
Yes. Chairman vendor. Yes. Commissioner Madrid. Commissioner Mark. Yes.

937
01:28:36,740 --> 01:28:42,460
Okay. County commissioners report. Let's start with the commissioner and Martin.

938
01:28:45,180 --> 01:28:53,880
We did a lot. One of the best things I did that last week is attended the presentation

939
01:28:53,880 --> 01:29:02,540
from the Department of Energy, Dan and Ross. The assistant secretary of the energy was down there.

940
01:29:02,540 --> 01:29:08,940
the room was real quiet, wondering what was fixing to happen, and he quickly advised the group

941
01:29:08,940 --> 01:29:16,380
that the corridor is off, completely killed. And we don't have to worry about it. And there's no

942
01:29:16,380 --> 01:29:23,540
funding for it, so there's no way for this to move forward until possibly in three years when they

943
01:29:23,540 --> 01:29:29,120
re-evaluate the corridors again. But that's a sign of relief that we don't have to worry about that

944
01:29:29,120 --> 01:29:36,960
up till now it's always been a wondering game, whether or not they could utilize that cordial.

945
01:29:39,040 --> 01:29:40,860
I missed a meeting yesterday,

946
01:29:43,200 --> 01:29:46,880
the breakfast, how you could have came is actually good.

947
01:29:47,180 --> 01:29:47,820
Well done.

948
01:29:48,280 --> 01:29:55,740
I'll say that the OVD did a great job cooking the breakfast that day, I was well received

949
01:29:55,740 --> 01:29:59,960
and anytime you can spend time serving the older dinner right.

950
01:30:05,560 --> 01:30:13,820
It was a great time, and they were so appreciative, they bused in people from rest homes just for that event.

951
01:30:15,020 --> 01:30:21,480
Overall, I would spend a lot of time at the fair, but it was well pleased to see the George Soak.

952
01:30:21,480 --> 01:30:22,260
Yeah.

953
01:30:24,960 --> 01:30:26,280
That's side of that.

954
01:30:29,260 --> 01:30:33,680
I finished my art review for the courthouse. That was interesting.

955
01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:44,480
I had 83 applicants that applied their skills and artistic value to be featured in the entry there at the courthouse.

956
01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:49,480
And that I guess that'll be coming up soon when we make our final decision.

957
01:30:52,390 --> 01:30:53,390
It is a Zoom meeting.

958
01:30:56,820 --> 01:30:59,580
In person or in the admin conference room tomorrow.

959
01:31:01,020 --> 01:31:01,540
One third.

960
01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:03,520
Okay, so I didn't know about them.

961
01:31:03,880 --> 01:31:05,380
All right, that's all for me.

962
01:31:08,970 --> 01:31:14,570
The only thing I got is a, a 37 of meeting from a 19 that five o'clock.

963
01:31:14,710 --> 01:31:18,590
And it pertains to a November pass over MLK.

964
01:31:19,110 --> 01:31:20,110
And it's in my district.

965
01:31:20,850 --> 01:31:24,250
So I wanted to attend that meeting and see what's going on with that.

966
01:31:24,250 --> 01:31:25,390
And that's all I have.

967
01:31:31,090 --> 01:31:36,270
last week and we have already talked about it but attended the teams meeting with several of

968
01:31:36,270 --> 01:31:46,650
you, regarding the pipeline project coming through, which I'm now a part of. And at Ogil all

969
01:31:46,650 --> 01:31:51,330
the meeting, it's been a few weeks ago now, other net, all I can really remember is the fair

970
01:31:51,330 --> 01:31:54,210
for last week, so it's been a lot of time up there.

971
01:31:56,280 --> 01:31:59,240
Yes, you were very engaged in the fair. So,

972
01:31:59,240 --> 01:32:04,640
So I had last Friday, I mentioned Balon, I were at Clovis High School and at the close

973
01:32:04,640 --> 01:32:12,260
close communication, they did a phenomenal job with that IT committee last or two weeks

974
01:32:13,320 --> 01:32:13,760
go.

975
01:32:14,620 --> 01:32:18,100
Let's see, and then, of course, last week, obviously the fair, and I would echo what these

976
01:32:18,100 --> 01:32:18,780
are.

977
01:32:18,880 --> 01:32:23,700
The commissioner said, Jorge, thank you very much for all of your assistance.

978
01:32:23,840 --> 01:32:26,520
You've done a phenomenal job out there.

979
01:32:26,520 --> 01:32:33,640
The old time as breakfast was great enjoyed serving breakfast to everybody. It was a great time

980
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:35,600
and

981
01:32:35,600 --> 01:32:40,480
man how about the commercial barn though commercial barn was so nice.

982
01:32:41,080 --> 01:32:43,100
In fact, we had a complaint.

983
01:32:43,460 --> 01:32:44,520
We were Tuesday night,

984
01:32:45,640 --> 01:32:47,020
Mr. again on myself

985
01:32:47,680 --> 01:32:51,120
and we had a complaint from a lady that said it was too cold

986
01:32:51,120 --> 01:32:52,280
and she said

987
01:32:52,280 --> 01:32:54,840
and she said it's a complaint but it's not a complaint.

988
01:32:54,840 --> 01:32:56,180
and I don't want you to change the thing.

989
01:32:56,320 --> 01:32:58,160
She said, I just want to go out to my car and get my sweater.

990
01:32:58,740 --> 01:33:03,260
And I said, I would never had a situation like that ever before.

991
01:33:03,480 --> 01:33:05,540
So what a great opportunity we've had out there.

992
01:33:05,560 --> 01:33:08,880
So thank you for all your hard work and getting that piece together.

993
01:33:09,920 --> 01:33:12,720
So with that, I will turn that over to Manjipai.

994
01:33:13,420 --> 01:33:15,040
Can I say one more thing, real quick?

995
01:33:16,480 --> 01:33:21,800
I also want to tell Todd, thank you, because Todd got a phone call from me Monday morning at 6 AM.

996
01:33:21,800 --> 01:33:30,200
Also, it takes message on Sunday night at 11 p.m. because we're having internet issues out there and we need it for

997
01:33:30,200 --> 01:33:38,540
for unloading stuff animals Monday morning. So Todd showed up out there like 620 Monday morning and

998
01:33:38,540 --> 01:33:44,420
getting it to sleep in and also throughout the week.

999
01:33:44,980 --> 01:33:52,520
a few text messages and Mr. Roberts showed us that they're pretty often and I was actually

1000
01:33:52,520 --> 01:33:59,120
out there last Saturday, climbing a ladder up and down doing some stuff so there was

1001
01:33:59,120 --> 01:34:05,320
a lot of hands helping make this work and so I just want to tell y'all thank you.

1002
01:34:05,480 --> 01:34:06,760
Good bye.

1003
01:34:06,980 --> 01:34:11,200
Chairman Bender and Commission just a few things to mention for the record, I'm in your packet.

1004
01:34:11,200 --> 01:34:15,000
there are some letters. First one is a letter from the Department of Finance and Administration.

1005
01:34:15,200 --> 01:34:22,620
It's pertaining to our local driving while intoxicated grant project number 26DD06.

1006
01:34:23,300 --> 01:34:33,460
We received 249,719 dollars. We spent last fiscal year 243,26463. We're reverting back

1007
01:34:33,460 --> 01:34:40,980
6,454 dollars and 37 cents at your September meeting. We'll have approval to re-apply for those funds.

1008
01:34:41,880 --> 01:34:48,060
Next is another letter from DFA pertaining to the local driving law intoxicated.

1009
01:34:48,640 --> 01:34:49,820
This is the grant.

1010
01:34:50,180 --> 01:34:57,340
We received $125,214.91 and will be reverting back $3,178.

1011
01:34:58,280 --> 01:34:59,920
The last letter.

1012
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:11,980
From the FAA is pertaining to our juvenile education fund. We received $2,839.84 and reverted back $1,160 in 16 cents.

1013
01:35:13,040 --> 01:35:26,600
Few other things to mention. Last week, our regional behavioral health program manager, our administrator presented our behavioral health plan to the state executive committee.

1014
01:35:26,600 --> 01:35:33,000
Bethany did an outstanding job. They unanimously approved our plan. So now we are just waiting on

1015
01:35:33,580 --> 01:35:37,780
how they're going to distribute those funds down here, but the plan that y'all approved,

1016
01:35:38,440 --> 01:35:44,600
they approved it with no changes. I wanted to share that. Also at your next commission meeting,

1017
01:35:44,780 --> 01:35:51,980
we will have the holiday schedule for you to consider for 2027. We sent that out with three different

1018
01:35:51,980 --> 01:36:01,980
options, offered 181 county employees to vote on it, and we received, I believe we had 88

1019
01:36:03,380 --> 01:36:09,640
employees that actually took advantage and voted. The option is next year is to take

1020
01:36:09,640 --> 01:36:15,220
President's day off as a holiday, so that will be the recommendation that we bring forward.

1021
01:36:15,220 --> 01:36:20,660
President's day received 38.6% of the votes.

1022
01:36:21,160 --> 01:36:30,580
The next option was Juneteenth adding that or an extra Veterans Day holiday, and those are both tied at 30.7.

1023
01:36:30,920 --> 01:36:33,100
So we will bring that forward to you at the next meeting.

1024
01:36:35,000 --> 01:36:41,580
Also, at your next Commissioner meeting at September, we will be presenting some capital outlay items that we would like

1025
01:36:41,580 --> 01:36:45,820
to go ahead and add to the budget that we don't feel like we can get grants on.

1026
01:36:46,520 --> 01:36:50,840
So, I know I've sent information out, but if you have any ideas for anything, if you

1027
01:36:50,840 --> 01:36:55,500
can get with Mr. Roberts, myself, so we can make sure we have cost estimates, but we're

1028
01:36:55,500 --> 01:37:01,300
going to ask you to allocate those probably in a range of around 4 million at your September

1029
01:37:02,880 --> 01:37:03,360
commissioning.

1030
01:37:04,160 --> 01:37:10,640
Another thing I wanted to mention, we hired an employee back in the assessor's office.

1031
01:37:10,640 --> 01:37:15,880
used to work for the county. And he's here with us today. Tyler White, I think you've been back

1032
01:37:15,880 --> 01:37:22,320
about a month. Is that correct? Two months. And I want to brag on him for a second. I think you may

1033
01:37:22,320 --> 01:37:29,860
have seen it in the IT director's report that I sent out. But Mr. White caught an error that was

1034
01:37:29,860 --> 01:37:36,920
has been going on for 10 years. We had a piece of property valued at 325,000 for 102 dollars

1035
01:37:36,920 --> 01:37:38,240
that was not on the textural.

1036
01:37:38,820 --> 01:37:44,100
Individual has not paid taxes in 10 years and he caught it.

1037
01:37:44,220 --> 01:37:46,540
So I wanted to brag on him.

1038
01:37:46,560 --> 01:37:48,560
That's an employee going above and beyond.

1039
01:37:49,020 --> 01:37:51,060
So Tyler, thank you for that.

1040
01:37:51,320 --> 01:37:54,580
Don't know if a Sessor Kelly or Chief Deputy London

1041
01:37:54,580 --> 01:37:57,020
has anything to add, but Sir, you did a great job

1042
01:37:57,020 --> 01:37:58,220
and we appreciate you.

1043
01:38:00,120 --> 01:38:02,920
And that's all I have unless you have any questions for me.

1044
01:38:03,420 --> 01:38:04,040
I would echo that.

1045
01:38:04,040 --> 01:38:06,300
Thank you very much, Tyler, and it's great to have you

1046
01:38:06,300 --> 01:38:08,520
back on board. That's so.

1047
01:38:11,600 --> 01:38:16,160
Okay. If I could, is it property owner have been

1048
01:38:16,160 --> 01:38:16,820
content?

1049
01:38:21,530 --> 01:38:26,870
That'll be in conversation. And you send us recordings of this talking

1050
01:38:26,870 --> 01:38:29,810
about it a little over 25,000 property tax.

1051
01:38:35,190 --> 01:38:36,690
It's not, it's not

1052
01:38:36,690 --> 01:38:37,430
towel cane. Is

1053
01:38:42,550 --> 01:38:46,370
it? Okay. There you go. All right. Make motion. We enter

1054
01:38:46,370 --> 01:38:47,630
to get board.

1055
01:38:48,690 --> 01:38:49,210
Motion.

1056
01:38:49,750 --> 01:38:50,250
Second, Mike McMixrick.

1057
01:38:50,430 --> 01:38:50,910
Can you roll, please?

1058
01:38:51,850 --> 01:38:52,290
Chairman Bender.

1059
01:38:53,190 --> 01:38:53,910
Commissioner Madrid.

1060
01:38:54,890 --> 01:38:55,650
Commissioner Martin.

1061
01:38:56,370 --> 01:38:57,130
Commissioner King.

1062
01:38:59,110 --> 01:39:00,550
Members, Bob, how do you handle these?

1063
01:39:00,610 --> 01:39:02,570
Chairman Bender, we can do all these five items.

1064
01:39:02,970 --> 01:39:08,530
As one first is La Casa second partial for the month of November, 2025.

1065
01:39:09,330 --> 01:39:11,490
One claim at amount of $173.

1066
01:39:11,890 --> 01:39:13,650
Recommending approval at $112.

1067
01:39:13,650 --> 01:39:19,510
and 45 cents, the delay is due to a billing issue that we are having to get that corrected.

1068
01:39:20,670 --> 01:39:27,210
Next is LaCosta Medical Claim for the month of January, 2026, one claim at amount of $105

1069
01:39:27,210 --> 01:39:34,250
recommending approval at the amount of $68 and 25 cents. Next we have LaCosta Dental Claim

1070
01:39:34,250 --> 01:39:42,450
second partial for the month of January, 2026, $1 claim $199 recommending approval at $129 and 35 cents.

1071
01:39:43,650 --> 01:39:50,390
The next we have is the LaCosta dental claims for partial for the month of April 2026.

1072
01:39:51,190 --> 01:39:57,550
Two claims for two patients, $453, recommending approval at $2.245.

1073
01:39:58,130 --> 01:39:59,870
And the final ones, LaCosta medical claims.

1074
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:08,320
For the month of May 2026, four claims for three patients, $709 bill, recommending approval of $460.85.

1075
01:40:10,700 --> 01:40:13,960
Like move to approve items, one, two, five.

1076
01:40:14,560 --> 01:40:20,160
Second that, all those in favor, signify by saying aye, those both same sign.

1077
01:40:23,250 --> 01:40:31,460
Move to motion, and a second all those in favor, signify by saying aye, aye, those both same sign.

1078
01:40:31,460 --> 01:40:39,240
Okay. Future agenda items and anything that anybody would like to have added to our next commission meeting.

1079
01:40:44,620 --> 01:40:45,720
Hearing none. Seeing none.

1080
01:40:46,960 --> 01:40:48,500
Make a motion that we enter executive session.

1081
01:40:50,520 --> 01:40:53,760
Motion is like a by commissioner Madrid roll properly.

1082
01:40:54,380 --> 01:40:55,440
Commissioner Madrid.

1083
01:40:56,840 --> 01:40:59,440
Commissioner Martin Commissioner King.

1084
01:40:59,720 --> 01:41:01,340
Yes. Chairman Minder. Yes.

1085
01:41:01,840 --> 01:41:03,260
Right. We are an executive session.

1086
01:41:03,260 --> 01:41:03,980
Okay,

1087
01:41:13,790 --> 01:41:23,470
we are back from executive session to which we discussed limited personnel matters and which

1088
01:41:23,470 --> 01:41:26,010
no action was taken with that.

1089
01:41:26,110 --> 01:41:28,510
I will make the motion that we exit that executive session.

1090
01:41:29,010 --> 01:41:30,010
Let's begin.

1091
01:41:30,250 --> 01:41:30,870
Let's begin.

1092
01:41:30,870 --> 01:41:31,550
Motion in a second.

1093
01:41:31,690 --> 01:41:35,330
All the favors in the five by saying aye, those both seem sign.

1094
01:41:36,810 --> 01:41:37,070
Okay.

1095
01:41:37,670 --> 01:41:38,510
We are officially adjourned.