[0:00] All right, so welcome everyone. Thank you for being here this evening. We'll have our call to order. And all right, our roll call, city clerk.

[0:10] Mayor Santa. Here, commissioner Smith, commissioner mail.

[0:14] Mayor, commissioner feels.

[0:16] Commissioner Caldotton, commissioner panic, commissioner. Here.

[0:21] All right, so I would ask commissioner fields, if you would pray for tonight and Mayor of Procham, would you lead the pledge for us?

[0:27] Yes, sir, all right.

[0:28] Thank you.

[0:30] Let us go.

[0:32] We're trying to go out our father.

[0:33] We've come before you this evening.

[0:34] Thank you.

[0:35] Once again, Paul, that eyes have looked upon.

[0:38] And even that our ears have heard.

[0:40] But as we come here at the eve of the day to take care of the business of the city of Hobbes,

[0:45] we pray now God that you have got our thoughts, allow us to come together and make the best decision for this great city of Hobbes.

[0:53] Once again, thank you for this great commission and the staff and the great citizens of

[0:58] Hobbes.

[0:59] And most of all, Fatherly, thank you for your son, Jesus, who will allow the Dow and the

[1:03] Crowd for our sins.

[1:05] We ask that you continue to bless every family that is represented here.

[1:09] And those who may be listening, bless them in a special way, reveal yourself to them in

[1:13] a mighty way.

[1:14] And Fatherly, forever will give you all praise, honor, and most definitely all the glory.

[1:19] It's in the most beautiful, most wonderful, most glorious name of your son, Jesus Christ, we do pray. Amen.

[1:27] Amen, Amen.

[1:28] He's joining me in the pledge. I pledge a root of Jesus Christ.

[1:31] Amen.

[1:36] Amen.

[1:37] Amen.

[1:43] Amen.

[1:47] Amen.

[1:47] minutes minutes of the September 21st, 2026 regular commission meeting. If you've had a chance to look over, we'll entertain a motion.

[1:54] Move by Mayor Pro Jim Joka Lidon. Seconded by Commissioner Chris Mills.

[2:01] And let's vote.

[2:11] It has passed 7 to 0.

[2:13] Now is the time for our public comments.

[2:15] Public comments are involved.

[2:18] Oh, forgive me. I'm marking stuff off the list.

[2:21] we're getting excited here. Proclamations and awards of merit tonight we're going to have our

[2:26] proclamation proclaiming the week of October, October 4 through 10th, 2026 as Fire Prevention

[2:32] Week. And we'll ask Chief DePorta, you want to come up Deputy Chief Rare, you're welcome to come up,

[2:40] Fire Chief Marshall, and even Investigator Inspector Onthie Vettos, you're welcome to join us.

[3:09] All right, and we appreciate you, gentlemen, and I know we're all going to be making comments

[3:13] tonight as the meeting and the night progresses thanking law enforcement, thanking our police

[3:19] officers and thanking all the all the incredible heroes there at the police department and

[3:24] thanking our firefighters, EMS staff and all that they do, what a blessing they are and we've seen

[3:30] that firsthand especially the last week and a half. So we're as the city of Hobb's fire department

[3:36] is committed to ensuring the safety and security of all those living in and visiting the city of Hobb's

[3:42] And whereas this year's theme is charge and defyersafety, safe charging is a super power.

[3:49] Always use the charger supplied or approved specifically by the device manufacturer.

[3:55] This is an important one tonight.

[3:57] Charge devices on flat, hard services, never under pillows on beds or on couches and whereas

[4:03] fire is a serious public safety, a public safety concern, both locally and nationally.

[4:09] And homes are the locations where people are at greatest risk from fire.

[4:13] And we're as roughly three out of five fire deaths happen in homes with either no

[4:19] smoke alarms or with no working smoke alarms.

[4:22] And we're as residents who have planned and practiced a home firescape plan are more prepared

[4:28] and will therefore be more likely to survive a fire.

[4:31] And we're as City of Hops first responders are dedicated to reducing the occurrence of

[4:37] fires and home firing injuries through prevention and protection education.

[4:42] Therefore, I, Jonathan, sent a mayor of the city of Hobbes, New Mexico, do here by proclaim

[4:46] October 4th, throughout October 10th, 2026 as fire protection week.

[4:53] We urge all our citizens to support the many public safety activities and efforts of the city

[5:00] of Hobbes fire department.

[5:02] Could you give these guys a hand clap?

[5:03] Good evening

[5:12] everyone. My name is Mark DePorto. I serve as the fire chief for the Hobbs

[5:15] Fire Department. I'd like to thank the Hobbs Municipal Schools for the longstanding relationship

[5:21] partnership collaboration that we've had with them in getting into the schools and teaching

[5:25] about public safety and public education. I'd also like to thank the fire marshals office for

[5:31] continuing this tradition. I can tell you that fire marshal limbs and inspector on the

[5:35] vettos have been in the schools already this week. They'll continue to be there throughout

[5:38] the week and we think the parents as well for sending their kids to this school and we ask

[5:43] that they turn on the years just a little bit when they come home with the fire safety

[5:46] material and they listen to what fire martial whims and all the metals have instilled

[5:50] into them.

[5:51] Would also like to thank the City of Hobbs Mayor Commission.

[5:54] Thank you for allowing us to participate in the fire prevention week.

[5:57] Thank you.

[5:59] Thank you.

[6:02] Thank you.

[6:03] Thank you again.

[6:05] We appreciate your leadership.

[6:06] Thank you.

[6:06] Thank you so much.

[6:07] It doesn't have good hair.

[6:10] Like that.

[6:12] Like up and it's a little commercial.

[6:16] All right.

[6:23] Very good.

[6:24] Now we'll come to our public comments.

[6:26] Citizens who wish to speak,

[6:27] assign the public comment,

[6:29] registration form,

[6:30] located in the commission chamber prior

[6:31] to the beginning of the meeting.

[6:33] We have two speakers tonight.

[6:35] Mr. Joe in Rialey in regard to the GrT tax.

[6:39] Mr. Rialey and we'll keep it two three minutes.

[6:41] We'll keep it.

[6:42] And I, there, thank you, sir.

[6:45] Well, my name is Joan Grailly.

[6:46] I'm the owner of Regal Fetters and Homestaur.

[6:49] I'm here tonight because I have a serious concerns about the proposed gross receipt tax increase.

[6:55] I understand that the city has financial challenges.

[6:58] I understand expenses have begun up.

[7:00] I understand that nobody wants to see essential services like police, fire,

[7:05] streets and infrastructure suffered.

[7:07] But before we ask the citizens of Hobbes that pay more,

[7:11] I believe we need to answer a very simple question.

[7:15] How much do we actually need?

[7:17] The city has discussed a recurrent budget gap of approximately $6.87 million.

[7:23] Yet the GRT increase discussed generate approximately $14.7 million.

[7:30] In every year, that's more than twice the amount of that gap. So my question is tonight, why 14.7 million? If the problem is roughly 6.87 million, why are we considering collecting more than twice that amount for our business and citizens?

[7:46] According to the City's own numbers, smaller increase could generate and amount much closer to the project shortfall.

[7:54] I'm a business man. If my business has a $100,000 problem, my first response isn't to go fine $200,000 from my customers.

[8:02] First I look at expense. I look for waste. I look at what I can postpone. I look what I can do more efficiently.

[8:10] And after I've done that I consider asking my customers to pay more.

[8:16] I believe the citizens deserve the same approach from their city government.

[8:20] And remember where this money ultimately comes from.

[8:24] It comes from the people buying groceries, clothing, furniture, meals and services.

[8:29] It comes from our working families.

[8:30] It comes from small businesses.

[8:32] is 61 cents on a hundred dollar purchase may not sound, may not sound like much, when you

[8:39] say in that way. But multiply it across millions of dollars transactions year after year

[8:45] and we're talking about taking approximately 14.7 million dollars more out of the economy

[8:50] every year. And once that tax is in place, how often does it go away? I'm not standing here

[8:56] saying the city doesn't need additional revenue. I'm asking you to prove how much additional

[9:01] revenue is actually necessary.

[9:04] Show us the cuts that have already been considered.

[9:06] Show us the efficiencies that have been found.

[9:10] Show us exactly where that additional money will go.

[9:13] And if approximately $7 million solves the problem, then explain to the citizens of Hobbes

[9:19] why this should be asked for an approximately $14.7 million.

[9:24] Before you vote for money from the people of Hobbes, I ask each of you to remember.

[9:29] This isn't the city's money. It's the people's money and government should take only what is what it can demonstrate that it actually needs.

[9:38] Thank you.

[9:39] Mr. Nick Maxwell for

[9:43] Mobile tracks.

[9:47] Hello, thank you.

[9:48] Mayor and commissioners.

[9:49] My name is Nick Maxwell, Lee County citizen.

[9:52] Thank you, Joe, for your comments.

[9:54] I'm going to somewhat follow up on that to a degree before item number six on the agenda tonight is approved.

[10:00] have questions. Why is the traffic system now a five-year purchase when it was funded in April

[10:07] and presented again an August as a 10-year project? Who made that change? Why was it made?

[10:14] And what will year 6 through 10 cost? Why were five intersections already implemented before the

[10:20] August presentation and under what agreement? Did Mobile Tricks, Iteris, Fiant, or anyone else?

[10:28] already have remote access to city controllers, cameras or traffic data, where additional traffic controllers

[10:35] purchase store and come bird before the commission approved 27 of them in September, and if so, when and under what authority.

[10:44] What is the complete financial history of Project 00159?

[10:49] What has been appropriated, committed, spent, and what actually remains?

[10:54] has said illegal, reviewed the online terms incorporated by mobile tracks in the invoice

[11:01] before you tonight, including violence provisions concerning unilateral changes, termination,

[11:08] arbitration, and demnification warranties, liability, and data, which terms control if

[11:15] those online terms conflict with the state price agreement, and can those terms change after

[11:20] tonight's vote. Who will actually store the city's traffic data? Who will have remote access

[11:26] to the system and what governs cybersecurity, retention, audit logs and deletion? And before

[11:32] increasing GRT, what spending has this commission actually reconsidered? Why was $1.5 million

[11:40] removed from the District 3 Grandstand Project without any public explanation I can find?

[11:50] White-half major recurring subsidies such as airline service, core, and rockwind, remained

[11:56] while capital projects have been delayed or defunded.

[12:01] White as Hobbs continue paying half of the subsidy for a county-owned airport, without

[12:06] any apparent reconsideration of that formula after HP6 changed the city's revenue structure.

[12:13] As the city calculated, how much it now spends each year on software subscriptions, cloud

[12:18] services, licensing, and activity, data services, and vendor support, and how quickly

[12:24] those costs are growing.

[12:26] How many purchases that were once-equipment costs now create permanent annual technology

[12:31] expenses before asking taxpayers for more revenue shouldn't this commission first publicly

[12:37] identify which recurring costs, subsidies, contracts, staffing expansions, and technology

[12:44] expenses. It is willing to reduce. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So now for our consent agenda. The consent agenda is approved by a single motion. Any member of the Commission may request an item to be transferred to the regular agenda from the consent agenda without discussion or vote.

[13:00] We'll entertain a motion.

[13:02] Move by Mayor.

[13:03] Tim Calediron. Seconded by Commissioner Guards. And let's vote.

[13:18] All right, that has passed

[13:19] 7 to 0. Now for our discussion items, New Mexico Junior College, the general obligation

[13:25] bonds for higher education. And we appreciate you being here, our friend, the interim president,

[13:31] Kathy Mitchell, Mexico Junior College, and you are doing a great job. We appreciate you being here

[13:35] tonight. Thank you. Thank you so much, Mayor Sinna, commissioners. Thank you for the opportunity

[13:41] community to speak with you this evening. I'm here tonight to encourage support for higher education

[13:47] bond 3, which will appear on the November ballot. If approved by voters, bond 3 would provide

[13:54] $1 million to mix a co-genier college for needed renovations to the John Shepherd administration

[14:00] building. The first building constructed on our campus more than 60 years ago.

[14:06] Like many buildings of its era, the facility is showing its age and requires significant upgrades.

[14:14] These renovations would help address aging infrastructure, modernize the building, and strengthen its role as a welcoming front door to the college and the community.

[14:26] Most importantly, Bon 3 represents an opportunity to bring state resources back to Lee County.

[14:32] The measure does not increase property taxes, yet it provides funding for important higher education

[14:40] infrastructure projects across New Mexico.

[14:44] As a community that contributes significantly to the state's economy, we should take advantage

[14:49] of opportunities to bring money back that will benefit our students, community, and future

[14:55] generations.

[14:56] As early voting begins, an election day of protest.

[15:00] Which is I encourage all residents to participate in the process and make their voices heard.

[15:06] Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate you. I know a Commissioner Mills and I went to school out there together.

[15:12] And we all, we've all just benefited from the junior college. I'm going to appreciate what you guys are doing out there. You're doing a great job.

[15:18] We certainly appreciate the partnership that we have with the city. And we hope this will continue in this way for many years to come.

[15:27] Thank you. Thank you so much.

[15:29] Thank you very much.

[15:30] As the Aparticino Recognition and Appreciation to the City of Hobbes,

[15:35] for support of the Summer Concert Series.

[15:37] So we have a, is it Ramona?

[15:39] Hawthorne, the Director of Marketing is the Aparticino,

[15:41] and I think you have a team with you too.

[15:44] I do.

[15:44] If they want to come up, they're more than welcome.

[15:46] Let me tell you something.

[15:47] I want to come stand with me.

[15:48] You're welcome.

[15:50] It is nice for this commission for this group of leaders here

[15:54] here good news and here and for you guys to come back and talk about the good things where our investment

[15:59] partnership have landed. So thank you for being here. Thank you guys for supporting us as we

[16:05] try to bring more drive time traffic into hops and make this a travel destination. So to start off

[16:12] with the investment supported. So regional marketing that position hives as a drive market and

[16:17] entertainment destination. So our largest tech supported our extended marketing beyond Lee County

[16:22] and invited the regional audience into Hobbes for our three major concerts.

[16:26] So we were able to utilize radio, digital, social, outdoor placement, targeted beyond Hobbes,

[16:31] beyond Lubbock, beyond Midland.

[16:33] We were able to replace this like El Paso, Albuquerque, Coles, Bat, Roswell,

[16:38] and then the other way we were able to reach Dallas and even Austin.

[16:41] So we pulled from a little bit of everywhere.

[16:43] So our ticket data shows a strong activity from the Texas and a new Mexico Drive

[16:48] markets and then our hotel impact we were able to drive revenue to the competitive set in the

[16:54] hubs area especially on our concert nights and those weekends leading up to it. So on Saturday

[17:00] May 30th we had our first concert which was Drake White so Drake White was a country artist.

[17:06] So all of our allocated funds went towards the out of market buys and ensuring the zero local

[17:11] market overlap. So if you look at our heat map that we have out there so we had a very strong pool

[17:16] from the Albuquerque Market for Drake White.

[17:18] And we definitely were able to impact the tourism in the area.

[17:21] We were able to distribute 577 tickets.

[17:25] And we had about 48% coming from outside of Lee County.

[17:29] And based on our hotel data, we had 57% market availability

[17:33] was used during that concert weekend.

[17:36] So for Jesse McCartney on Saturday, July 18,

[17:41] Jesse McCartney is a pop singer.

[17:43] So he's more of the 90s era.

[17:45] So if you look at the heat map there,

[17:47] was able to drive from a little bit of everywhere. So we had people coming in from Albuquerque,

[17:51] Carl's, Ben, Roswell, especially in that Texas market. So we distributed 977 tickets for that

[17:57] concert. And we had about 77% of the hotel availability in Hobbs secured for that weekend.

[18:03] And about 79% of those people came from outside of Lee County.

[18:10] And then for skillet. So skillet was

[18:12] the biggest concert that we have had today. So we distributed over 2,000 tickets for that. 89.9

[18:17] percent of those people came from outside of the hops market, especially from Albuquerque,

[18:23] Lubbock, Austin, Amarillo, we have some people coming in from Los Angeles, New York.

[18:28] So they were traveling to come to Little Wolhoves.

[18:31] We had about 92 percent of the available market in rooms were booked for the skill and

[18:36] concert weekend.

[18:37] So we definitely drove a lot of tourism into hops for our three concerts.

[18:43] And so we just wanted to say thank you for investing in us.

[18:46] Well, the City of Hobbes, Wajers Tax Support,

[18:48] Health, Rzee of Park, Rzee of Park, Rzee of

[18:49] Bionne Lee, County, and Bionne, our local markets

[18:51] to strengthen the connection between entertainment

[18:53] and Hobbes to Mexico, and we hope to continue to grow

[18:56] this partnership and bring more people into

[18:58] Hobbes to Mexico as we continue to grow.

[19:02] Any questions?

[19:03] Any questions or comments?

[19:04] I think it's important that we let the public know

[19:06] that this is not something that you just

[19:09] out of the city farms.

[19:10] This is out of a larger tax, which is

[19:11] collector from hotel tax.

[19:13] And that's what it's airmarked for.

[19:15] So, and I know we appreciate what you're doing.

[19:18] Thank you.

[19:19] So, I have a question.

[19:21] So, I've often wondered for at least eight years.

[19:25] How do you determine where the people come from?

[19:27] Because a lot of times when we have advanced people tell us that,

[19:31] I don't know, so I've kind of curious.

[19:34] He met that we have.

[19:35] I actually pulled directly from Ticketmaster.

[19:38] So, the Ticket sales by location.

[19:39] I pulled from Ticketmaster directly.

[19:41] And then I dropped those locations into AI

[19:44] to give me a little heat map to make it prettier.

[19:47] Oh, yeah.

[19:49] That's a great idea.

[19:50] You're awesome.

[19:50] Thank you.

[19:51] Sorry.

[19:52] And we appreciate it.

[19:53] What a diverse group of concerts.

[19:56] Drawing so many different people, bringing them in the Hobbes and our hotels.

[20:00] This is great.

[20:01] I appreciate y'all doing this.

[20:02] This is fantastic.

[20:03] Thank you.

[20:04] Thank you so much.

[20:05] We do.

[20:06] Thank you.

[20:08] And let us know when you have the concert line up for next year.

[20:11] Is this going to be the first enough?

[20:13] Thank you so much.

[20:14] All right, item 10, the Texas Tech and Permium Strategic Partnership,

[20:19] Proposal for Healthy Community's Program and Hobbes,

[20:23] item, site, site, site, you're perfect.

[20:25] All right, program, executive director, thank you for being here.

[20:28] We appreciate the partnerships and investment.

[20:30] Well, thank you all for having us tonight.

[20:32] Good evening, Mayor, and commissioners.

[20:34] My name is Eram Zadee, and I'm here with my colleague Heather Pumphrey,

[20:37] who are both from Texas Tech Health Sciences,

[20:40] and I have some slides.

[20:42] and I'm going to go through some data, hopefully all like data, and we'll follow along.

[20:46] So we're a community-based organization working with Texas Tech, the Permian Strategic Partnership

[20:52] of Marie Hall, and we are out here in rural communities to empower individuals where we know

[20:59] we'll never have enough quality health care. We're not the East Coast, we're not the West Coast,

[21:05] or they've got fantastic health care, but we want to arm individuals in our rural communities so

[21:11] we can live and thrive, just as well as anybody else.

[21:15] And a other component of our program is

[21:16] mentoring the next generation of health professionals.

[21:19] So I have a few slides.

[21:22] Obviously, this is a map of the United States.

[21:25] And here in the red is the Permian Basin.

[21:29] And the federal government describes and put counties into buckets.

[21:36] And our counties in the Permian Basin fall into this non-core

[21:40] and MicroPolitan County.

[21:43] Now they'll analyze a lot of data based on where

[21:48] counties fall.

[21:49] One of these pieces of data are premature deaths.

[21:55] So these are not the slides that we want to be at the top of,

[21:58] but we are unfortunately.

[22:00] In each of these slides, you can see our counties and rural

[22:04] communities are having premature deaths from COPD

[22:08] from heart disease, I should have worn my glasses from stroke and from cancer and cancer.

[22:19] So, and what you see is across all the other counties in the United States, these slopes are decreasing.

[22:26] However, our rural counties slopes from premature deaths are not...

[22:30] Decreasing in the same rate. So we have a problem. We have this problem for decades and we need to do something different about it.

[22:42] So here is a map of your state and New Mexico and you guys do actually a very good job in this state to put data out by county.

[22:50] And what we can see here is, unfortunately, Hobbes fares worse, second to the tribal nations

[22:59] unfortunately for premature deaths in life expectancy as well.

[23:03] But we have solutions, and that's why we're here.

[23:06] So we're the Healthy Communities Program, and I think this is a buzzword right now and everybody

[23:11] is a Healthy Communities Program.

[23:13] But what we're doing is we're providing free and anonymous screening to individuals for

[23:17] hypertension, diabetes and measure obesity. We provide all of this data back to the individual

[23:25] immediately and if they have anything elevated, we're providing tools to them for the next

[23:30] almost two years. Continuous glucose monitors, which are here over here, you get an app, you get to

[23:38] find out what raises your blood sugar and what does not raise your blood sugar, which are both

[23:43] important. We do free A1C tests and we provide those tools, a Bluetooth, enable scale, and blood

[23:51] pressure cuff, and they can see those trends over time on their phone and take that data to their

[23:56] doctor and say, the medicine you prescribe me is not working. We started this program in

[24:02] crane Texas last September and we had done a survey. We had gone door to door and crane the year

[24:10] before that. We knocked on people's door. We did their A1C test, measure their blood pressure,

[24:17] and we found that 22% of individuals in Creme were diabetic, while the federal data

[24:23] showed only 8%. So our rural communities are not getting the resources that they need to

[24:30] take charge of these chronic diseases. So one is fully understanding what the issues are

[24:35] and then providing solutions appropriately. So we've been in Creme for a year now.

[24:40] We have a 500 people enrolled in the Crain Program, and I'll show you some data from there.

[24:46] We started at Reeves County in Balmeray.

[24:50] Sarah goes in Pakeys and July, and we have already over 800 people in the program there.

[24:57] And many people, unfortunately, vary advanced diabetes.

[25:00] They want to have this data so they can make these changes either through their doctor or through their own personal changes

[25:07] and what they eat and exercise, et cetera.

[25:10] So I'm just going to go through some of the data.

[25:12] And I think this is really the most concerning part

[25:14] and what we found in Crane.

[25:17] What is concerning to us?

[25:19] So this is hemoglobin A1C, a 5.7, so pre-diabetes

[25:23] and diabetes.

[25:24] What is very concerning is that in Crane 20% of 34-year-olds

[25:31] in younger are already pre-diabetic or diabetic.

[25:35] So if you take this out into the next 10, 20, 30 years, we're going to have higher rates of diabetes and we are already seeing in our 65 and older.

[25:46] So we have to make a change now for our youth and for ourselves.

[25:51] For blood pressure, systolic and diastolic, everybody's got high blood pressure.

[25:57] I think it's being out in the oil field all the time.

[26:00] I don't know how everybody does it, and they're surviving, but you can see, again, in our

[26:05] younger, less than 35-year-olds, less than even 50-year-olds already high blood pressure.

[26:11] And then obesity, what we found is almost 50% of the youth were also obese.

[26:20] So change is possible.

[26:22] We don't just deliver bad news, we want to fix it, and we want to fix it with the community.

[26:28] So, in Crane, so, of those who've been in the program for more than three months, like

[26:33] at this, by age group, we see, it's a little hard to do the pointer, but if you see

[26:40] that pink line, well, let's go with the dotted line. All ages, you see people are bringing

[26:46] down their own A1C, almost by one point. So, when they can see their CGM data, and I don't

[26:56] opening. You're like, oh, okay, shouldn't start with the brownie. I should have the brownie

[27:01] after the meat. And I can still enjoy a little bit of both. But all of our age groups are able

[27:08] to see their data and are bringing down their blood sugar on their own. And they're taking

[27:13] this data back to their doctor. We've heard so many stories in Crane about the doctor just saying

[27:17] just watch it. Just watch it until when. We want to prevent the stroke. We want to prevent the

[27:26] live better and healthier and can thrive and before the heart attack.

[27:32] With our blood pressure, you can see similar rates of decline.

[27:37] The starting systolic, the current recommendations is to have your blood pressure

[27:43] less than 120 and you can see our 65 to 75 rolls have really found to get and are

[27:50] driving that down.

[27:52] And then similarly across all of our age groups, except these, this number is a little small in our blue line for our 35 to 44 year olds.

[28:01] Sorry, our 55 to 64 year olds, so we're digging into that data.

[28:05] But good, you know, good trends when people can see what has happened, how do I change it?

[28:12] And it doesn't happen on day one.

[28:13] It takes a few days.

[28:14] It may take a few weeks or months.

[28:16] We've had people who started a year ago and then they came back and they're like, is it too late?

[28:21] I'm like, it's never too late. Come on back.

[28:24] And then finally on our BMI, this is taking a while.

[28:28] But what was also interesting was two years ago when we did the household survey,

[28:33] people like, no, no, I would never take a GLP.

[28:36] The number of people now taking GLPs is actually quite amazing.

[28:39] I'm not sure where they're getting their GLPs from.

[28:41] That's a different story.

[28:43] What's GLP?

[28:45] Like the OZEMPIC, the ZEPBound, so these are the weight loss, but usually they're prescribed

[28:53] for diabetes.

[28:54] I mean, obviously if somebody is obese, their doctors may consider it for obesity as well.

[29:00] Thank you.

[29:01] So, I just want to end of this last slide.

[29:03] As we start the program here in Hobbes, we want to hire locally for our field staff and our

[29:08] like manager. Chief DePorto has been an amazing host. I really can't thank him enough.

[29:15] His hair and his eyelashes are actually quite nice. I can go that far, but I'll take

[29:21] your words for it. And so we're hoping to start maybe at the end of this year or early next

[29:29] year depending on where we find a location. We're talking to a couple of places and we know

[29:34] the fire station is also welcoming us.

[29:37] In our other cities, we're at the fire station,

[29:40] we're at the library, and we're at a community site

[29:43] that the city has offered to us.

[29:45] We want to be at a place that is trusted by the community

[29:47] because if that trust is already there,

[29:50] then they know to come and talk and just hang out with us.

[29:54] So here are staff from Texas.

[29:57] Um, we've hired from the local...

[30:00] Will colleges there in UTPB, Midland and Odessa? They're bilingual. We want to make sure that we have staff that can not only speak the language, but share the culture as well.

[30:13] And changes and happen overnight.

[30:15] But that's my life side and happy to answer any questions. Any questions?

[30:19] Great.

[30:21] Thank you.

[30:23] Thank you.

[30:24] Will they be knocking on doors also?

[30:25] I think we need to hear, but we will see.

[30:29] Okay. We'd like to start off at a site and have people come to us. We generally talk at the local churches, so we can describe the program.

[30:41] People can ask questions. The community can understand that we're not selling soldo panels. We're not taking their data.

[30:48] We're not selling, you know, all those questions and build that trust over time.

[30:52] Absolutely, and we'll continue those conversations just up here. There's a lot of different

[30:56] churches representing our effectiveness room and we want to connect you to folks in the community.

[31:00] Thank you all so much for your time today.

[31:02] Thank you.

[31:03] All right, item 11, recreation fee discussion of a pose new recreation fee for use of Hobbs Industrial

[31:09] Air Park High App for non-concert events, Doug McDaniel recreation director.

[31:18] Thank you, Mayor.

[31:19] If there's any commissioners seeing manager Gomez, on June 15th, I think the commission

[31:24] approved a fee for a large concert events to be held.

[31:29] We're back before you tonight as ordnance mandates for a discussion item before any new non-seasonal

[31:35] recreation fee can be considered for implementation.

[31:39] Need to come about for the use of high app, not only for a large concert type events,

[31:45] But also, for a while, say maybe single day, multi-day or weekend type events, much

[31:52] shorter that they don't require a load in time or the set of time as approved in the

[31:58] previous agreement for use of high-app.

[32:01] And so we just wanted to make sure we're covering all of our bases.

[32:04] We've had some of these events out at high-app previously, but our special permit process

[32:11] really did not cover the high-app facility, and with it being such a large facility, I think

[32:18] it needs to be covered by a document and of itself much like what we did for the large-type

[32:23] concert events. All right, so I say these events would be smaller events single day,

[32:29] maybe over the course of the weekend, maybe even a long weekend. We're not going to limit as to

[32:34] what the event may consist of, but just those smaller non-concert events were the only

[32:44] that 45 days of load in time is allowed by the previous agreement.

[32:50] So, I do have a draft of the document that I would like to put upon you all more if I could

[32:54] Please.

[33:04] As we have a special event for me application for the Homsensosular Park, Runway and Tarmac.

[33:10] This is a pilot program for non-concert events and there are really only two differences

[33:17] between the dot or the process.

[33:19] It was approved on June 15th by the Commission and this document is both before we tonight

[33:25] as is a good session.

[33:26] All right.

[33:27] So the first of those is down at the bottom of page two, all right, and the $500 per day site fee.

[33:37] Okay, with the previous agreement that was $3,250 which allowed for up to 45 days of load in time.

[33:45] And then in the previous agreement there was an additional $50 per day site fee for any time beyond that time frame.

[33:53] Okay, so in this document, we're only looking at $500 per day.

[33:58] All right, the other difference is with the discount, okay, in the previous agreement,

[34:05] all right, the discount was $5,000, or excuse me, that the deposit was $5,000 for the large

[34:12] concert events for these type of single day multi-day long weekend events.

[34:18] we're proposing the deposit of $2,500. All of the provisions remain the same.

[34:25] Most important one being that the process starts with the approval of the event by the city manager

[34:30] and also that our legal and our risk management department have the ability to set the

[34:38] liability coverage amounts that we are going to ask for various events that are held out of high up.

[34:45] Okay, with those few exceptions mentioned, everything else is the same process, we just wanted

[34:54] to bring other documents or other opportunities to our residents so they can hold other

[34:59] events out at high app and not be governed by the large concert process.

[35:06] I'll be glad to stand for any questions at this time.

[35:10] The questions in the comments, I'm going to mention.

[35:12] does this, will this amount change

[35:14] does at the 500 day if it gets up to say,

[35:18] 10 days or more, is there any kind of,

[35:21] I mean, or is that out for discussion at that time?

[35:24] I think, at that point in time,

[35:26] they might get the amount going

[35:27] using the other agreement,

[35:30] even though it's not a large event,

[35:33] because it would be more economical.

[35:36] But for, you know, I say for smaller events that are,

[35:41] And I think the name on this one needs some work rather than non-concert events, I think it probably

[35:46] needs to be single day, multi-day weekend type events, where if we know it's just going to be

[35:52] smaller to one, two, three-day events, four of it's over the course of a long weekend.

[35:59] I think for anything else longer than that, I think we need to look at the going to the other

[36:03] documents because of the use of the high app and the additional fees it would be involved.

[36:09] So, thank you.

[36:11] Good question.

[36:12] And, you know, it's one of those things.

[36:13] I know staff always does a great job of coordinating.

[36:16] We never want to have competing things going on with, you know, what's happening at the event center.

[36:23] It's something we've all pushed for.

[36:25] And they have an outdoor venue too.

[36:26] So I know we'll be able to coordinate well as we move forward.

[36:30] Our special of a special of a perm application.

[36:34] It's kind of the normal everyday application that we have in process now, for special events that take place in our parks,

[36:42] that facilities.

[36:44] I think when I give our annual report last year, we had almost 300 special events in our facilities last year, by and large,

[36:53] most at parks or facilities.

[36:54] The most expensive fee in that process is a $300 per day fee with a $150 deposit.

[37:05] So given that high app is a bigger facility, we require possibly more preparation and

[37:12] no more cleanup efforts if the organizer did not follow through on those.

[37:16] That was part of the reason why I went with the $500 today site fee and the $2,500 deposit fee.

[37:24] Okay.

[37:25] I'll take some.

[37:26] Thanks for so much.

[37:27] Thank you.

[37:28] Appreciate you.

[37:28] I always have good presentations.

[37:30] This isn't such a good mood. That's all we have for you, appreciate that. Thank you so much.

[37:33] For sure, it states your joy levels. That's great. Thank you.

[37:36] Action items, resolution number 7844, accepting an intergovernmental agreement with the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions, for an affordable housing grant.

[37:46] Angel Lopez Samota, city planner.

[37:52] Sir, thank you Mayor, State Commission, or City staff and members of the public.

[37:58] This item is for consideration of approval of a resolution accepting and intergovernmental

[38:03] agreement from the New Mexico Department of Work for Solutions in the amount of $285,000

[38:12] with zero cents for affordable housing constituent consistent with Chapter 3.14 of the

[38:20] The Resolution also requires that a subrecipient agreement be returned to the city, a commission for approval at a future meeting.

[38:32] The Department of Workforce Solutions is a strategic partner for affordable housing.

[38:36] We look forward to continuing our partnership for affordable housing development in the city of Hobbs.

[38:41] Stand for any questions.

[38:44] Any questions?

[38:44] No, sir.

[38:45] We'll entertain a motion.

[38:47] It's all moved through.

[38:48] We've moved by Commissioner Pinnick, seconded by Commissioner Smith, we'll entertain a vote.

[38:53] I mean, we will vote. We won't entertain it.

[38:56] All right.

[39:00] We're going to let our office go to sleep now.

[39:05] We appreciate your hard work, Commissioner Samoda.

[39:08] Take care, Mayor.

[39:09] Ask 7 to 0. All right.

[39:11] Thank you, Angel.

[39:12] Item 13 resolution, number 7845, authorizing a grant in the Mexico Department of Transportation

[39:18] for DFA Appropriation ID, K3205, NM DOT, Control Number, C-226-3205, to plan design, and construct

[39:30] and improve roads, including New Mexico Highway 132 and turner street in the amount of $2

[39:35] million.

[39:36] Sheila Baker, City Engineer, and you have been busy, railroads, and road development, we appreciate

[39:43] you.

[39:43] Thank you.

[39:45] Good evening, Mayor, commissioners, City Manager, Gomez, staff and members of the public.

[39:48] The City of Hobbs has received a capital appropriation project grant from the State of New Mexico Department of Transportation.

[39:55] The grant appropriation in the amount of $2 million is to plan, design, construct, and improve roads including New Mexico 132, which is Del Paso and Turner Street.

[40:06] This project will improve approximately one mile of Del Paso from Navajo to Bender and one mile of Turner from Sanger to Marlind.

[40:13] The level of payment rehabilitation will be based on the existing payment condition and may

[40:19] range from milling overlay to full-depth reclamation.

[40:23] This allows us the appropriate treatment where it's needed and makes responsible use

[40:28] of the funding available.

[40:30] I would like to recognize and thank our state legislators for their continued support of

[40:34] homes and investing in the infrastructure our community depends on every day.

[40:38] Their investment helps us move projects forward that directly affect residents, businesses, and visitors who travel through Hobbes.

[40:47] At this time, I respectfully request approval of the $2 million NMDOT grant agreement for payment rehabilitation on Del Paso and Turner Street.

[40:56] We appreciate the legislators' partnership and continued investment in the Hobbes community.

[41:01] Thank you.

[41:01] Questions or comments?

[41:04] Great job.

[41:05] Fantastic.

[41:05] Just the other day somebody asked me if we were going to be able to tear up the past one for about six months, and I'll tell you a mile and just

[41:14] Thank you, Mr. Five. Yeah, do we do we know what's legislative? I don't want to put you on the spot. Do we know it's legislators?

[41:21] I did make a note. I'm so Senator date bid Geyagos 400,000 towards this project representative Scott 1.1 million and representative pedigrew 500,000.

[41:31] Excellent. Thank you. We appreciate them so much for partnering with us and so thank you for your work and we'll entertain a motion

[41:43] Move back commissioner

[41:45] The fields are right. Thank you. Thank you so much

[41:49] And we'll vote you're on a cross here there bro. I know I'm what's one do we do here and thank you guys. Thank you so much.

[41:57] I think you should.

[41:59] All right.

[42:01] I got it, yeah.

[42:03] I went to sleep.

[42:07] That is good news.

[42:09] We appreciate that.

[42:11] We can use all those.

[42:13] Absolutely.

[42:14] And I love staff.

[42:14] You've been working hard on grants and things.

[42:16] And that's what we've been asking for.

[42:18] But you've been doing it.

[42:20] You've been doing it.

[42:27] But yeah, there's been a lot of talk.

[42:29] Obviously, as the budget's tightened, and that's past 7 to 0.

[42:33] Oh, second time.

[42:34] So what about the grant staff is going above and beyond working on that?

[42:37] We're going to continue that.

[42:39] So comments by city commissioners and city manager, commissioner Smith.

[42:44] I just want to take all of the first responders for the work that was done.

[42:50] We could go Friday.

[42:52] That's one of the darkest days in the city.

[42:56] I had parents come up to me and just said how much they appreciated.

[43:01] response and professionalism and I just thank you. Really appreciate that.

[43:11] It's just a terrifying

[43:12] situation and I appreciate what everybody did. I agree with Commissioner Smith. That was

[43:21] a great day for the city of Hobbes and municipal schools, but I like to thank the staff and

[43:29] do for Hobbes and the engineering department, Sheila, thank you, you're an asset to this city.

[43:36] I appreciate all your hard work and taught as well, fire department and the police department as well.

[43:43] Thank you. Chief, as a board member, I want to thank you to for your people.

[43:48] And for the ladies, I'm a diabetic and I grab it food four days a week and kill the

[43:54] little Friday.

[43:56] And I don't think I don't take it.

[43:58] I just watched what I eat.

[44:01] First client.

[44:01] I don't need some of them.

[44:02] I just watched what I eat.

[44:05] Awesome.

[44:07] Just highlighting what's been said.

[44:09] We appreciate fired apartment, police department, all our partners in law enforcement.

[44:13] Thank you for your service.

[44:15] You've done a great job.

[44:17] And those students that suit resource officer program,

[44:19] That is money well spent and we appreciate the quick response within 40 something seconds police officers are there firefighters

[44:28] Man, you guys in EMS staff within 10 minutes. Just amazing and we'll continue working to make sure

[44:34] Hobbes is the safest place in New Mexico and I know I I believe we can all come or committed to that and we appreciate you guys so much

[44:41] And of course Kelly Matthews what a hero. What a great guy just doing his job

[44:45] Just doing this job as teachers do every day in principles and we appreciate our teachers and our principles and educators at every level.

[44:54] What a blessing they are.

[44:55] So also a superintendent Silva, I saw you speaking. It's part of a national.

[45:00] Board with code enforcement. We appreciate your leadership. You're working hard. We see it. Keep up the good work. So thank you.

[45:09] My apologies. I just jumped ahead. I just felt because I got excited. So Mr. Fields all would.

[45:14] Thank you, Mayor. Thank you for all the presenters who come all this evening to share the Mexico Junior College and we just thank you for the partnership.

[45:26] that we have with the New Mexico Junior College. Speaking towards the visit on last Friday,

[45:34] I had to prepare for the go to love on this weekend, visit Mr. Kelly Matthews, and great

[45:41] great guy in his wife Vera. They are just some just great loving people and a poor enough

[45:49] support that they have received from the City of Hobb. Is this overwhelming? Is this beautiful?

[45:54] is wonderful to be a part of a city there that reaches out and it's so concerned.

[46:01] Once again, to the first responders and to the police department,

[46:05] you guys did an excellent job at how to school staff handled that situation.

[46:10] So it was just a tragedy, what had happened, but how we respond as a citizen of ours.

[46:19] this phenomenon. Once again, I'm just proud to be a part of this city and the direction that we are

[46:28] heading, speaking towards the grocery seat tax. I just was kind of thinking on that. One thing

[46:37] I want to say is that when we make, when I'm personally, when I make decisions, I don't make decisions

[46:43] off my personal feelings. I make decisions that I feel that it's best for the city of

[46:49] Holland. I know that there are many people who oppose the increase, but when you sit back and

[46:57] look at the overall picture and the direction that we're going, we are growing, we're growing,

[47:03] city. We're growing. You know, in those of us, we see a growing in, as I've been

[47:13] mentioned there, we are act as a service to the surrounding communities. And I

[47:19] understand that, you know, we have to meet those needs. And so I just want to say

[47:25] that, so as we prepare to do that, let us put our feelings, personal feelings aside.

[47:32] You're going to let us meet the best decisions for the City of Times, all right?

[47:37] Thank you.

[47:38] Mr. Nelson.

[47:42] Obviously I too would echo everybody else's comments about the, you know, things that

[47:48] have went on and that I think the city did a great job.

[47:52] So obviously I'd thank everybody for that.

[47:55] I would caution, and I've been harping on this for 18 months.

[48:00] I'm dealt with dozens and dozens of dozens of bad people with committed unspeakable things

[48:08] where I sat and visited with them in depth and the reasoning and the wise and the house

[48:16] been known that I don't do it much anymore to be honest with you, but you know in my earlier

[48:22] legal career, I did a lot of dozens of serious murder cases and other things and we're only

[48:34] in year one of a very odd demographic bubble will call it of groups of individuals that were

[48:44] certain ages during the pandemic and we're just in year one of that and we've probably got a

[48:50] your bubble that we've got to deal with as a community and you know I said 18 months ago

[48:57] may have last year you know I'm sort of said that people in my business that sort of deal

[49:07] with these people we see a thing that we've never seen and and start an age groups of people

[49:17] and there's an angle a lot more out there.

[49:21] So we've got a lot of challenges, we've got a face,

[49:25] and we've got to, we've got to really step up,

[49:29] because honestly, we've probably got two to three more

[49:31] years of a real significant challenge

[49:35] for everybody not just the city of homes,

[49:38] but I think that certain communities with certain cultures

[49:43] or have a little higher demographic issue than others.

[49:50] I think we're one that has a very challenging next three years ahead with some of these young people.

[49:59] We've had a taste of what could have been the worst thing to ever happen

[50:06] and we're always from being out of it. I'll caution you on that.

[50:10] Thank you. Good points. Mr. Gers. Well, I mean, I don't want to.

[50:17] Good don't forever for what happened in Thailand.

[50:22] Thanks to PD.

[50:24] Everything that you all did, thanks to ambulance, fire department, all of that.

[50:30] The response was way out here was pretty quick and just thankful everything.

[50:42] Thank you, Commissioner.

[50:46] Mr. Gomez?

[50:47] Yes, Mayor.

[50:48] Commission on behalf of our first responders and in addition our state police agencies are

[50:56] Lee County Sheriff's Office, all the responded agencies.

[51:00] We thank you for your kind words and comments, but no doubt in my mind that our public safety is

[51:09] Second, they trained, they prepare, and they're passionate about what they do, and their

[51:21] group of individuals that, I mean, they have a high regards for the citizenry of homes, and

[51:29] that was displayed last Friday, and, you know, they, they're not only first responders,

[51:35] their fathers, their grandfathers, their uncles, their brothers, and their sisters, so very

[51:42] difficult. And I too want to thank them for their response. And again, we just continued

[51:51] as elected officials and executive, those that are not out in the field, as first responders

[51:58] is to continue to support their efforts with resources, with staffing, adequate staffing.

[52:05] Those type of things very important.

[52:07] So again, I do appreciate the comments that elected officials have provided this evening.

[52:14] But you also have an opportunity, if I may, Alex, if you put that, first slide is tomorrow night.

[52:21] You have an opportunity to shake hands with these first responders.

[52:24] our first ever Lee County, first responders national night out at City Park.

[52:30] From 5 to 8 p.m., I believe it's the first ever. I don't recall us ever engaging in this, and it's a national event. But again, you're opportunity, again, they're providing for you. There'd be free food, there'd be a live DJ, interactive activities, and it's for the whole family. So again, that's meet these individuals before those difficult times.

[52:57] before those times that on a traffic stop or a domestic violence of sort,

[53:03] really important.

[53:05] So again, I appreciate the police and the fire department and other agencies

[53:09] to engage in this event.

[53:12] So I hope to see you there.

[53:14] Second is just an important announcement.

[53:17] Some updated hours of operation.

[53:19] Again, we work diligently at the Obsanamo Adoption Center to find the right,

[53:26] ingredient, the right service for all of your constituents.

[53:32] But again, the updated hours are up here on the screen,

[53:37] but there also will be on Facebook.

[53:40] And you can call down the animal adoption

[53:43] sooner to find out those hours.

[53:45] But one thing that's happening now is each citizen

[53:51] that visits the animal adoption center

[53:54] is asked to fill out a survey.

[53:57] To talk about what we in well, what didn't go as well,

[54:00] and what can we do to improve?

[54:03] And I think we hear it off the very difficult duties

[54:08] that they have, so to speak, because a lot of times

[54:10] you're not encountering or dealing with the citizens

[54:15] in their best way.

[54:17] So anyway, with that, I just wanted to share that with you.

[54:21] And as you mentioned, I recognize Jessica

[54:24] until I really appreciate her leadership in the animal

[54:28] medicines.

[54:29] With that, Mayor, that's all I have.

[54:32] I know they've been working through an education plan.

[54:34] We'll be hearing about that in probably the next couple of months.

[54:38] Something that Commissioner Fields really brought up.

[54:41] We had to help spirit head the conversation with Commissioner

[54:43] Penic and others.

[54:45] And so good things happen.

[54:47] Good things happening.

[54:48] So we'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

[54:51] I'm going to move by Mayor Protein, seconded by Commissioner Garth,

[54:54] Solid Favor, have a great evening, everybody.

[54:57] Thank you.

[54:57] Are you going after all of them up or want to drink it?

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