[0:09] foreign
call to order Board of Trustees regular
[0:14] meeting Thursday February 16th
2023 at 5 30 PM roll call Mayor Pro
[0:21] Denver president trustee Lopez president
trustee Mercer present
[0:26] trust here Chile president thank you
[0:31] open in prayer I will do the opening
prayer and I may approach him would you
[0:35] meet us in the pledge please
[0:40] Lord
we ask that you guide us in making the
[0:45] correct decisions for the village of
Milan we asked we asked that uh
[0:51] with this cold weather you watch and
protect the homeless
[0:55] we ask that you protect our First
Responders we ask that you protect those
[1:00] that have to work in this weather
finally we ask that you protect our
[1:05] troops amen
[1:09] ities
[1:23] thank you
[1:36] approval of the agenda any changes to
the agenda
[1:41] not I need a motion to approve the
agenda please
[1:45] promotion to approve the agenda as
presented
[1:50] I second it motion by trust here to let
the second by trustee Lopez remember
[1:57] trustee Mercer yes Justin Archuleta yes
trustee Lopez
[2:02] thank you public comments do we have
anybody
[2:06] okay
yes my name is Matt Allen and uh
[2:14] you've given three minutes for public
comments I actually requested to be put
[2:18] on the agenda but it didn't happen so my
wife tells me I've never said anything
[2:22] in three minutes so just a little extra
time
[2:26] um we purchased the CJ feed building
sometime ago a couple of years ago and
[2:31] after debating on what to do with it etc
etc we've decided to put in a dispensary
[2:36] and uh it's kind of an odd thing because
we don't we're not users but we're
[2:42] business people and we need something
easier to do for the future than the
[2:46] Sawmill which is a difficult business
so there's a couple of things that that
[2:51] I want to discuss and one is
I was told by J.E Strickland that he
[2:56] talked to somebody with the village
about putting a grow house in a tent
[3:02] structure inside the building and he was
told that they wouldn't sell him water
[3:06] and I don't know if that's accurate if
he misunderstood but it's kind of an odd
[3:11] thing because I think the village you
know we need income for whatever and and
[3:16] so I wanted to just bring it to your
attention on the off chance that we
[3:19] could get a different answer or find out
why or whatever because it's not going
[3:24] to stop what they're going to do they're
going to have to truck water in and just
[3:27] make make it more expensive and more
expensive that comes off of your overall
[3:32] profit and that lowers taxes and
that affects the village so that was one
[3:37] item that I wanted to discuss the other
one
[3:40] is I've got the ordinances here and they
state that a drive-through window will
[3:45] not be allowed and we had planned to put
one in and I'll explain why
[3:49] the uh you know historically before
cannabis was legalized people go to
[3:55] their doctor and virtually any doctor go
oh sure you you want cannabis here's
[3:59] here's your medical card and they'd go
by their cannabis and a whole lot of
[4:03] people were faking illnesses or whatever
to get their medical card but now they
[4:07] don't need to so the people that have
medical cards are truly sick and the
[4:13] problem that I have with not we we want
to put a bank style bulletproof glass
[4:17] window in and
um and be able to service people that
[4:22] are ill and they can drive up and we're
planning to put a sign that says you
[4:26] know Medical Only or handicapped only
sales and
[4:31] so I'm requesting a variance to that
there's only one
[4:35] uh dispensary in the state of New Mexico
that has a window where people can get
[4:40] to it and
so if we narrow it down and we say the
[4:44] people that are that are uh
no longer using a medicinal card ticket
[4:51] cannabis they can walk in the front door
they don't need that card etc etc the
[4:56] remaining people as I said they've
actually got health problems and we're
[5:00] forcing them to pull up get out of their
car go inside it could be somebody with
[5:04] cancer whatever
and it bothers me because I actually try
[5:10] to put myself in the shoes of somebody
else that you know it's it's an issue
[5:14] and the other thing is I suspect it's a
violation of the Americans with
[5:18] Disabilities Act uh I I not that I'm
gonna go after anybody not my style at
[5:24] all but I suspect that that might be
true and consequently I would request a
[5:30] variance we think it would be a good
addition
[5:33] to give the village an idea of what we
think we can do with this shop there is
[5:39] a a dispensary at the intersection of I
believe it's San Antonio and I-25 so
[5:44] it's pretty close to to El Paso and
granted there are more Vehicles going by
[5:49] than what we have on I-40 but the
average on I-40 is about 15 800 vehicles
[5:55] per day going by
that little dispensary in August of uh
[6:00] last year did 502 thousand dollars in
business
[6:04] uh so we're talking a considerable
amount of gross receipts taxed to come
[6:10] to the Village Etc and so
um I know there's a lot of people that
[6:15] look at and go cannabis it's dope
smokers and all this and we're going to
[6:18] have the scumbags around and blah blah
blah blah but frankly Renee and I and
[6:22] and trying to get ideas for our shop
we've been to multiple multiple
[6:28] dispensaries and I've yet to see anybody
that just didn't look like an average
[6:33] American no no scumbags no troublemakers
no gangers I haven't seen any of that so
[6:40] and then the last subject if you'll
entertain this thought
[6:45] as you go past the Sawmill you've got
that little house out there and I've
[6:49] made it a practice although they closed
the gates recently but then somebody
[6:53] opened them again I guess but anyway
I've gone by that house I I can go that
[6:59] way and go around to my house because I
live in Ralph card's old house and and
[7:03] it's a little quicker than the freeway
and I don't have to wait on trains if
[7:06] there is one
and I've called The Village a number of
[7:09] times three four maybe where somebody is
kicked in the front door and and entered
[7:16] the house and you know you the workers
here go out repair et cetera Etc and and
[7:22] that's great but I have a guy who is
from Seattle Washington he came down to
[7:29] load logs and also drive a log truck for
us so we can get more material and we've
[7:34] been suffering
since the Mexican spotted our lawsuit in
[7:39] 2020 along with covet Etc uh weather
stoppages all this and we're really
[7:44] struggling with the Sawmill and I'm I'm
curing that
[7:48] um but he's very interested in living in
that little house and uh he's he's a
[7:53] he's a nice guy he's one of those guys
that hits retirement age and doesn't
[7:58] want to quit he's 73 years old but he he
moved here from Seattle so he could
[8:03] you know do logging and um I know the
house has trashed it has to be because
[8:08] the door opened in the sand inside Etc
but he said that if the village would
[8:12] consider letting him stay there he'll
clean it up and take care of it and and
[8:17] he's I've seen his house in
in the Seattle area and it's a nice home
[8:23] it looks well cared for ETC I did a
background check on him and Googled his
[8:28] his address so I would know a little bit
before I brought him down here so that's
[8:32] the the other one I had for you that
that I'm requesting some help on and
[8:36] then the last one
is that due to the truck drivers
[8:42] loves charcoal and prevailing winds that
fence in front of the CJ building is
[8:48] constantly inundated with your you know
urine-filled bottles from the truckers
[8:53] and garbage out the window and etc etc
and today as I headed home I saw a
[8:59] pickup truck out there
and they were parked parallel and I had
[9:04] already committed to go over the
railroad tracks so once I did I flip
[9:07] flop and went back and I drove up there
and it was a village truck
[9:10] and there was two young men out there
and they were raking and cleaning and so
[9:15] the last subject is I stopped and
thanked them and I want to thank you all
[9:18] because
it's it was bad and it and it'll get bad
[9:23] again but I was really thrilled to see
positive step taken to to clean it up a
[9:29] little bit I've had my guys clean it up
but it it gets trashed again
[9:33] so
um last thing so you know about the
[9:36] dispensary we're looking to put in
something it's an it's not a classy
[9:41] building per se but when you go inside
we're going to shoot for a nice
[9:47] nice place to go in and and uh and shop
and etc etc so that's it
[9:57] you know
probably well on our side we're not
[10:01] going to grow and and by the way that
was the missing one
[10:05] um
I I know some of you know the
[10:08] stricklands Jim Ed Strickland and Kathy
Strickland
[10:12] um they want to grow and they're like us
they're they're about the same age as we
[10:15] are and they're not users or whatever
but they're they're intrigued by it and
[10:18] their son is a horticulturist and he is
growing j e is that's the one that said
[10:23] that the village wouldn't sell water
and um and he's involved with another
[10:29] company anyway growing for them and he's
going to guide his mom and dad but he
[10:33] can't really step in and help him we
like them they're really good people
[10:36] they're decent people and uh we're gonna
if that building is six thousand square
[10:40] feet we're going to use about 1600 and
they can and they want to put grow tents
[10:45] on the inside
and uh and so I don't know how many jobs
[10:50] they'll create worse thinking probably
five on our side which I understand it's
[10:54] not a whole lot
but they're going to be high paying jobs
[10:56] also
exactly exactly so and uh I also at the
[11:03] Mill were putting we've got a new head
rig which is the main component that
[11:07] that breaks logs down into Lumber and uh
we get that running we're working on it
[11:11] real hard right now I'm hoping in a
month or so it'll be running and that's
[11:15] gonna require us to hire some people as
well so we'll replace some of them that
[11:20] we've lost over the last few years so
[11:25] think
we should get our heads together down
[11:29] here and discuss it and then we will get
I appreciate it Renee and I have a
[11:34] meeting in Albuquerque tomorrow morning
so we're headed that way to but yeah
[11:38] thank you okay
the um we'll we'll get together and then
[11:45] we'll
thank you I appreciate it very much have
[11:48] a good evening
[11:53] do you have anybody else
so um the cop was supposed to
[11:59] do their six-month update um I don't see
them here but if they come in later you
[12:04] can allow them to speak okay
[12:11] he didn't he didn't he didn't want to
show up anymore
[12:15] okay
now we move to approval of minutes
[12:21] Board of Trustees regular meeting
January 19
[12:24] 2023 Board of Trustees hearing January
26th
[12:29] 2023 and Board of Trustees special
meeting in January 26 2023.
[12:38] I'll make a motion to approve the
minutes of the regular meeting January
[12:43] 19 2023
hearing on January 26 2023 in a special
[12:50] meeting on January 26 2023.
I'll second it motion by mayor protein
[12:56] bremelo second by trustee Lopez trustee
Mercer yes trustee Archuleta yes trustee
[13:01] Lopez yes mayor Pro temblow yes thank
you
[13:06] action discussion acceptance of
Municipal Court chess journal for
[13:11] January 2023.
questions
[13:18] if not I need a motion to accept this
I'll make a motion to accept the
[13:22] Municipal Court cash journal for January
2020. I'll second it motion by May
[13:27] protein Brown below second by trustee
Mercer trustee Lopez yes trustee Mercer
[13:32] yes trust your chuleta yes mayor protein
bremelo yes thank you
[13:37] approval of Finance report January 2023.
[13:43] um this covers the month
way from January 1st to January 31st uh
[13:49] received we received uh 273
929.21 in grt's that was an increase I
[13:56] don't know if you remember but last
month we were down about twenty thousand
[14:01] um so it's going back up still have not
figured out why we went down but we're
[14:05] still looking into it uh it could have
just been the month that was reporting
[14:09] around Thanksgiving
uh
[14:13] all accounts are in Balance all
departments are within their budget
[14:16] Authority and there are no negative cash
balances uh we paid 149 payables last
[14:22] month with a total of 81 payments uh we
paid 232
[14:27] 000 21.08 we had 79 regular checks one
voided check and One Bank draft
[14:35] um foreign
we're working on starting to wind down
[14:40] the purchasing
um as we're approaching the end of the
[14:43] fiscal year I know that sounds crazy in
February but it's coming quicker than
[14:46] we'd like so we'll do a soft close in
April which means that they can't order
[14:52] anything that's going to take longer
than two weeks to ship in and then as of
[14:56] May 1st we'll shut the budget down
completely that gives us a chance to
[15:00] receive all the goods and get them all
paid for before we have to close out the
[15:04] fiscal year
so we're working on that
[15:08] um finance department is busy working on
checks and balances water deposits and
[15:13] processes setting us up for the end of
fiscal year and for the audit
[15:18] um we did such a great job on our audit
we want to keep in there so we're taking
[15:22] the same steps we took last year we're
following the same schedule making sure
[15:26] that we do three or four internal audits
before the big Auditors come so we're
[15:31] working on that
um we're also
[15:34] um taking the guidance given to us last
month and working on the salaries and
[15:39] preliminary budget numbers
um legislation right now kind of has us
[15:45] on hold trying to figure out what
they're going to do but once that
[15:49] decision is made then then we'll have
concrete numbers for you guys to look at
[15:54] and that's pretty much all that I have
any questions
[15:59] I had a question on your check to see
what general hospital for 27.50 is that
[16:12] so it would be for physicals 2750 sounds
like huh
[16:18] yeah physicals and drug tests if that is
and I think that that was a combination
[16:23] of multiple
um physicals and drug tests
[16:28] and I can always pull that and look at
exactly what who it was paid for
[16:33] um which payables were included in that
check in my office if you need
[16:38] one of the problems is we're working
with the hospital because they've gotten
[16:42] behind on their billing so that's why
you've seen such a large number
[16:47] okay
[17:04] yes
[17:12] level
[17:15] any more questions anybody else
if not
[17:19] I need a motion to approve
[17:23] make a motion to approve the finance
report for January 2023.
[17:29] motion by mayor Pro tem Bramble or
second by trustee Lopez Mercer yes Mr
[17:34] chuleta yes mayor Pro tembrambler yes
trustee Lopez thank you
[17:40] resolution
2023-006 participation in her ship sale
[17:46] Mr Mayor members of the board this
resolution is to allow us to purchase
[17:52] um
auction equipment from the state
[17:57] and I guess the federal government
[18:02] so every uh I believe it is every year
that they require us to do a resolution
[18:08] stating that um we are interested in
that we will be able to purchase those
[18:16] those items if we so desire
[18:21] and I I think if I'm correct those items
are used here to at the offices and you
[18:26] get them in a pretty good Discounter I
believe they're in Santa Fe yeah they
[18:30] have to go to Santa Fe to look them over
and then um
[18:34] I believe that they have to bid on them
some of them I think may have a stand
[18:40] below the price but I think most of it
yeah okay sometimes you get equipment
[18:45] that really reasonable reasons that's a
good thing
[18:50] uh the number is different
okay
[19:06] good job
[19:11] okay with that correction um I need a
motion to approve this
[19:15] motion to approve resolution 2023-009
[19:21] hardship sales
[19:25] motion by trustee Mercer second by
trustee Lopez yes Justin Lopez yes mayor
[19:31] project yes trustee Mercer yes thank you
[19:37] annual payroll report for fire
volunteers
[19:47] individuals that have participated in a
certain number of fires or meetings a
[19:54] credit for their retirement and Daniel
shared to answer any questions you might
[20:00] have about it
[20:04] do we have any questions anybody has
have questions for the chief
[20:10] no
well you don't need to get up then sir
[20:17] not I need a motion to approve please
I'll make a motion to approve the annual
[20:22] parent report for fire fire uh fire
bouncers
[20:27] motion put just here to let us
just immersion yes Jesse Lopez yeah
[20:33] mayor Pro temblood yes just here Chile
yes thank you
[20:38] resolution
[20:41] 2023-001 open meeting resolution
[20:49] packets list
meeting however there was an item that
[20:54] needed to be in included and that was
for the videotaping so we got the proper
[21:02] wording it was inserted and now we are
sending it back to you for approval
[21:10] any questions
[21:15] any any other questions
if not um I need a motion to approve
[21:21] this make a motion to approve resolution
2023-001 open medium's resolution
[21:45] on this one
sorry guys
[21:52] should get a chance real quick and get
you decide yeah
[21:57] okay
building facility use agreement
[22:02] Mr Mayor members of the board this is
something that we've worked very
[22:07] diligently at for the last year
to get the the proper I think uh the
[22:13] proper agreement for the facility use
that you all were comfortable with
[22:18] and so um we gave you this uh to review
and the only thing we've added was the
[22:28] fact that uh that this is a zone free
and alcohol zone free
[22:35] uh facility as well as the village
property
[22:41] and we're asking that uh you would have
prediction right
[22:46] yeah I I have one question
um the consistent stand at the soccer
[22:51] field that
of course we launched to the Village but
[22:56] uh AYSO uses soccer field are they going
to be charged to use the concession
[23:03] stand
that's something we haven't discussed at
[23:07] this point
um partly because it's not actually up
[23:11] running but we haven't we haven't made a
decision here okay but
[23:19] um the same thing with uh with uh with
the Kearns that was that's why I brought
[23:25] it up because
we don't want to go through an expensive
[23:29] getting a consistent zone for currency
because there they have the flag
[23:34] football and it's not through the
village so
[23:38] um
[23:41] and that's something that we need to get
together and discuss
[23:45] so we have to have the guidelines that
will allow us to do what we need to do
[23:51] there soccer is opening weekend is
um I believe the first or second weekend
[23:56] in March so those buildings should be
ready by then so they're probably going
[24:00] to want to know right away perfect yeah
my opinion is we should not at church
[24:06] them you know
they should use it and clean it but
[24:10] that's up to everybody else
um okay
[24:15] so
do we do we vote on that now as it is as
[24:20] or do we wait and vote on it after
we figure out if you're going to charge
[24:25] those people or not that would be a
different one this is for the buildings
[24:29] correct yeah to rent the building
facility use yeah for the consistency
[24:34] and yeah
I don't think so either but
[24:42] as far as the building agreement
everything's pretty much the same
[24:47] um we're still doing the same
process for the applications and
[24:51] everything else
nothing was changed on this from the
[24:54] last time we discussed it that is
correct the only thing that was changed
[24:58] was that that it does state that it's an
alcohol uh free so
[25:05] we never came up with anything as far as
a shorter application for certain people
[25:09] instead of well that was the two because
it's a two-page okay so that's what I
[25:14] mean it's a short one
[25:19] anybody else
[25:25] okay do we do it here and wasn't to
approve with the stipulation to go get
[25:29] together and figure out the
the concession
[25:34] that we approve
approved use agreement and at the later
[25:39] date we will discuss the session stand
and curtains and
[25:44] the soccer field
motion by may put Tim bremelo second by
[25:49] tristanetta Jesse Lopez yeah Justin
Mercer yes just here yes
[25:54] yes thank you
status report on Congressional
[26:00] authorization and State funding for Rio
San Jose local settlement agreement
[26:27] Mr Mayor members of the board it's good
to see everyone again
[26:32] um
thanks for having me here I'm I'm gonna
[26:38] present make part of my presentation in
the open session
[26:43] regarding the status of the Rio San Jose
water rights settlement process
[26:50] and the second part of my presentation
concerns ongoing settlement negotiations
[26:56] that are covered by a confidentiality
agreement between the settlement parties
[27:01] and so we'll we'll talk about that in
the executive session
[27:05] um
[27:08] before I
bring you up to speed on where we are
[27:12] now with the water rights settlement
agreement and this is the settlement
[27:17] agreement to resolve the water rights
claims of Acoma and Laguna Pueblo in the
[27:24] Rio San Jose stream system let me just
briefly kind of recap how we got here
[27:31] um
as you know the the local settlement
[27:35] parties
which are Village of Milan city of
[27:39] Grants uh the asakias
the pueblas of Laguna and Akama and the
[27:44] state of New Mexico
entered into a settlement agreement
[27:49] last summer I believe it was finally
signed by all the local parties in June
[27:56] and that settlement agreement is
intended to fully resolve
[28:02] the two Pueblos water rights claims in
the riozan San Jose stream system which
[28:09] also includes the the Blue Water
groundwater Basin and and those claims
[28:14] were part of the litigation
that has gone on for decades in the
[28:21] state v v Cur McGee case that case was
filed in 1982.
[28:26] and these claims were litigated
um and the parties
[28:32] decided to try to settle them about 10
15 years ago we reached a local
[28:37] agreement
I presented that agreement to you I
[28:41] believe in May of last year for your
consideration and that that agreement
[28:47] was approved and executed by the Board
of Trustees at that time
[28:54] so that agreement
that's now been signed by all the local
[28:58] parties we refer to that as the local
settlement agreement and for the local
[29:02] settlement agreement to become final
and enforceable
[29:07] a handful of conditions have to be met
and there's really two main conditions
[29:15] and the first is uh is a federal process
and
[29:20] it because the United States has a trust
responsibility to the pueblos
[29:27] um
Congress has to enact legislation that
[29:33] approves
settlement of the Pueblos water rights
[29:36] claims on the terms laid out in the
settlement agreement
[29:40] so Congress has to approve that and then
also because the settlement agreement
[29:44] provides
for federal money for wet water projects
[29:50] so the Pueblos can use those water
rights Congress has to appropriate those
[29:54] funds
so that's really the first step toward
[29:58] finalizing the settlement agreement once
that happens once Congress enacts
[30:03] legislation then the focus shifts back
to New Mexico and at that point the New
[30:08] Mexico legislature has to pass
legislation to fund the settlement
[30:13] projects for the non-pueblo parties that
includes Milan grants and the esekias so
[30:21] the settlement agreement you may recall
provides for approximately 11 million
[30:25] dollars in water infrastructure and
Sewer infrastructure projects for the
[30:32] village
those monies are appropriated by the New
[30:39] Mexico legislature
when
[30:42] after Congress approves the settlement
agreement
[30:47] so those are the two major steps to
completing the settlement agreement once
[30:51] those conditions are met the karma Greek
Court will enter a final order and
[30:56] decree and it'll incorporate the terms
of the settlement agreement and all the
[31:01] parties will then be bound by its terms
and at that point
[31:05] the settlement funds including Milan's
money
[31:09] um
can be dispersed for those projects so
[31:12] where are we now
um I'll start with the settlement
[31:17] party's efforts in Congress since you
executed the local settlement agreement
[31:23] last summer so after all the local
parties signed the settlement agreement
[31:28] uh the we began drafting Federal
legislation a federal a bill
[31:35] for Congress to pass that would approve
the settlement
[31:40] um
we finished that drafting early in the
[31:44] fall it was sent to New Mexico's
Congressional Delegation and I will say
[31:49] that most of the delegation was very
enthusiastic about the legislation and
[31:55] um Senator Heinrich agreed to sponsor
the bill on the Senate side
[32:00] and it was sponsored in the house by
Representatives Leisure Fernandez in
[32:06] Stansberry
the bill went to the Senate Indian
[32:11] Affairs Committee in November of last
year and it passed out a hearing with
[32:19] support from the committee and we were
on a good trajectory but you know we
[32:24] were getting down to the wire at the end
of the of of the year in the end of that
[32:29] Congressional term
um and unfortunately we just ran out of
[32:34] time uh the timing of the legislation
just being at the at the end of of the I
[32:41] think it's the 2021 Congress which is a
two-year Congress
[32:45] um and also the fact that our
legislation coincided with that massive
[32:50] Omnibus spending bill that hit at the
end of 2022 that bill just
[32:56] sucked all the oxygen out of everything
and
[33:00] um the Pueblos and their lobbyists who
are really the ones on the ground in DC
[33:06] um they attempted to or tried to get our
bill bootstrapped onto that big Omnibus
[33:11] Bill but that was unsuccessful and the
term ended without a vote on our bill
[33:18] so
what that means for us now is that we
[33:21] have to reintroduce the federal
legislation we're in a different
[33:24] Congress so a new bill is being
finalized at this time this new bill
[33:30] will be a combined settlement bill for
our settlement the Rio San Jose
[33:36] settlement agreement it will also
include the Jemez settlement agreement
[33:40] which settles the water rights claims of
of Jemez and Zia pueblos
[33:46] and that bill is going to be sponsored
This Time by Senator Heinrich again but
[33:51] also Senator Lujan has agreed as to be a
co-sponsor which is which is good um
[33:57] that's going to be introduced in the
senate in the next week or two
[34:02] um now different story on the house side
as you know uh the Republicans took
[34:08] control of the house so we now have new
house leadership and that is going to
[34:13] affect the strategy for moving the bill
forward on that side of Congress
[34:19] um the Pueblos lobbyists
some of whom are Republicans have a
[34:23] really good relationship with a number
of the more prominent uh Republican
[34:29] house members
their sense is that we probably have a
[34:33] better shot of getting the bill through
the house during the second year of this
[34:39] Congress which is 2024 it's an election
year people are
[34:44] more amenable to the idea of spending
money
[34:49] um so for now the plan is to move the
bill through the Senate and we'll see
[34:56] what happens on the house side I will
keep the village apprised of the status
[35:01] of that legislation once it's introduced
in the next few weeks and again based on
[35:06] what I'm hearing from the Pueblos in
their lobbyists I think our best chance
[35:09] of getting
uh the Settlement Act signed into law is
[35:13] probably calendar year 2024.
so
[35:18] Switching gears
um to what's going on in the New Mexico
[35:23] legislature right now during this
session
[35:27] so even though we don't have a
congressionally approved settlement
[35:31] agreement
there are some important things that we
[35:35] can try to accomplish uh right now
during this New Mexico legislative
[35:41] session and I think the most important
thing is getting the legislature to
[35:47] start setting aside money for the
settlement projects Milan settlement
[35:53] projects Grant settlement projects the
esekias while the state is flush with
[36:00] Revenue they have more money than they
know how to spend right now and we can
[36:05] certainly advise them to spend some of
that bank it really because it can't be
[36:10] spent now but they can appropriate it
and essentially escrow it
[36:14] for future use for these settlement
projects when our settlement agreement
[36:20] becomes final and and just to give you
an idea of the numbers that we're
[36:24] talking about the state's cost share
obligation under our settlement the Rio
[36:28] San Jose settlement is approximately 36
million dollars the Jemez settlement
[36:33] agreement which is on the same timeline
as as our settlement is the state's cost
[36:40] share obligation under that is
approximately 20 million uh and then
[36:44] I'll note that there are other Indian
water rights settlements in the works
[36:49] that could all potentially come back to
the legislature
[36:54] um
at the same time as as our settlement
[36:57] and what we don't want is to be in a
situation where the New Mexico
[37:03] legislature is being asked to
appropriate tens or potentially hundreds
[37:09] of millions of dollars for its cost
share obligation under these settlements
[37:15] if the state is in a severe recession or
an economic downturn we want the state
[37:21] to start setting aside some of those
funds now obviously they're not going to
[37:26] put aside that entire amount in this
session but I mean 10 million 15 million
[37:31] just
sort of banking it for the future
[37:34] so there are a few Avenues in which to
try and accomplish this Milan state
[37:42] Senator Senator Munoz is sponsoring a
spending bill
[37:47] Senate Bill 241
which could serve as a vehicle for
[37:52] banking some of these funds
um in the Indian water rights settlement
[37:57] fund which is a suspicious
excuse me specific fund set up uh to
[38:05] hold these settlement project funds that
that bill is introduced it's going to be
[38:11] going to the Judiciary Committee
probably tomorrow uh I've already met
[38:15] with mayor Gonzalez and Village manager
Linda cook
[38:19] to discuss this bill and
um reaching out to Senator Munoz to
[38:27] communicate Milan's support
for SB 241
[38:32] with certain amendments that need to
happen to that bill to allow for this
[38:37] money to be appropriated and set aside
for our settlement agreement I think the
[38:42] prospects for passage of SB 241 are good
the state engineer supports it
[38:49] um it's co-sponsored with Senator
Cervantes and I I think it will likely
[38:55] pass and and at this point I'm I'm
confident that it will pass with the
[38:59] amendment that we need in order to get
this money set aside I will keep the
[39:05] village updated on the status of that
bill and I will also confer
[39:11] um with uh with Miss Cook on efforts
that the village can make to reach out
[39:17] directly
to various legislators to
[39:23] um confirm The Village's support for
that legislation really briefly there
[39:28] may be another bill on the house side
that will accomplish the same thing it's
[39:33] very early in that process so I really
can't report anymore on that at this
[39:37] time but but I think we're we're on a
good trajectory with that one bill so
[39:42] that's all I have as far as reporting on
on the legislative process for the
[39:48] settlement I'm happy to answer any
questions that you may have at this time
[40:01] what I've been told is that
41 has a very good chance
[40:09] that's what I'm hearing Mr Mayor and I
mean I think it's it that we've got good
[40:13] sponsors
um and uh
[40:17] and and I I'm confident that that will
pass
[40:22] questions
thank you sir thank you
[40:31] [Music]
[40:38] oh now we will go into executive session
pursuanto session 10-15-1 H
[40:46] 1-8 the following matters may be
disgusting closed session
[40:51] I need a motion to go into closed
session please
[40:54] I'll make a motion to go into closed
session
[40:58] motion by trustee Lopez seconded by
trustee Archuleta
[41:02] yes trustee Mercer yes trustee Lopez yes
yes thank you
[41:09] we're now going to close this
[41:19] okay
we're going to reconvene our medium
[41:25] I'll make a motion to reconvene
after the closed session
[41:31] motion by trustee Mercer second by trust
you later
[41:35] Jesse Lopez yes
um Justin Mercer yes Mr Chile yes
[41:41] ocean regarding matters is closed in
executive says and limited to those
[41:45] specified in motion foreclosure and
though no final action was taken as per
[41:51] New Mexico statues
statutes section 10 there's 15 there's
[41:55] one h
p1-8
[42:03] okay updates
[42:06] fire chief
[42:16] good afternoon mayor Board of Trustees
I don't know
[42:21] you've got my packet so I'll just be
real quick
[42:26] in my report
[42:29] I got a correction on there for uh
about halfway down
[42:35] it says there was three firefighters
scheduled to take the fire one fire two
[42:39] at the fire academy I've got now got
four
[42:42] and which is great it's
costing us a little money in rooms and
[42:48] stuff which we did a requisition on this
week but don't you have a great but but
[42:54] the grant the 25 000 grant that I got it
pays for that because it's a retention
[43:01] and it's keep keeping our our guys uh
they're gonna go get their fire two
[43:06] certification actually so when I do
apply for more grants in the future
[43:12] Through the Fire Protection or the fire
Grant Council that makes a huge
[43:17] difference it's gonna gonna boost our
our probability of getting some good
[43:23] grants this next year which I hope
um
[43:28] we do got a new uh Fire Marshal support
slash inspector for our region it used
[43:34] to be uh Esky
now we've got uh Eloy Prada he's going
[43:41] to be our new uh support inspector for
for the region of the western side of
[43:46] New Mexico
um
[43:48] look forward to working with him he's a
pretty nice guy Esky went to fire
[43:53] prevention
for the State Fire Marshal's office and
[43:57] Department of Homeland Security so I'll
still work with him too
[44:00] uh talking about Esky
I partnered with red cross and with the
[44:07] Department of Homeland Security
and
[44:10] I'm gonna host a sound the alarm event
in March
[44:15] and what we're going to do there which
is going to help our ISO rating and give
[44:20] us some more points and more moola
um
[44:25] we're gonna go around our community and
those that need fire alarms in their
[44:30] houses we can provide up to three
firearms per household
[44:35] and the the fire department since we're
hosting it will be the ones to install
[44:40] and then at the same time we can do our
fire prevention and give them a
[44:45] little talk on exit strategies and what
to do when their house catches fire how
[44:51] to prevent fires of course and all that
is recognized through the ISO
[44:57] so we'll get some good points there
um this year we're really focusing on
[45:04] training
I got two two firefighters going to get
[45:09] their Hazmat starting next week they're
going to go down to Los Lunas all these
[45:15] classes are through the fire academy so
they're accredited
[45:18] certifications
[45:22] um also like I said to help with getting
some good points and getting them
[45:27] getting more money
with our grants
[45:31] March 4th I'll be hosting UNM Consortium
training uh it's pit crew CPR it's just
[45:38] kind of a CPR refresher so
anybody's welcome to come it'll be March
[45:44] 4th that'll be our first host at the new
little training room we've got
[45:51] downstairs so
that's going to be exciting
[45:55] um in April I'll be hosting uh a fire
academy class for fire one for those in
[46:02] the county it's it's actually open
Statewide but
[46:05] to help our local fire departments
around us
[46:09] if they want to send some students over
and get fire one certified through the
[46:13] fire academy as well
I think if we try dropping their ISO
[46:19] ratings along with ours it just all
looks really good within Cibola County
[46:25] I do have some hydrants scheduled to be
tested again this year another this year
[46:32] I'm going to do 60 more
they're scheduled March 22nd and 23rd I
[46:37] already got with jewelry looks like our
wells and water system is
[46:42] is okay so we're good to go on that
um
[46:47] hopefully we got some good hydrants if
not we'll we'll fix them or to Ray will
[46:55] uh you guys did the para I appreciate
that that's one I report every year the
[47:01] Fire Marshal's Office they go to
legislation they ask for a certain
[47:04] amount of money to give the volunteers
retirement
[47:09] um
if they show up and and do their
[47:12] meetings and trainings and and
show up to fire calls they're eligible
[47:18] which
they don't have to pay nothing into it
[47:21] which is great so I
think part of Marshall's office
[47:27] went up to like 39 million dollars in
that deal but that's Statewide
[47:34] don't call me on that I don't know for
sure
[47:37] a little update on the facility build
for the remodel on the upstairs
[47:43] they submitted for cids they're looking
for permits and everything
[47:48] next week
they'll be down with an environmentalist
[47:53] come and take some samples upstairs to
see if we don't have any asbestos
[47:57] upstairs as well
just uh so we don't have another
[48:01] surprise like like we did on the lower
portion of it
[48:05] I don't expect to but
we didn't expect that before either so
[48:10] and then after that uh like I said we
we're just kind of slowly moving back
[48:16] downstairs our office is downstairs and
stuff
[48:19] big thank you to Michael and rabbit they
came and got the internet
[48:23] uh rack and Patch panel and everything
set up so looks like we'll have the
[48:29] internet hooked back up downstairs again
probably this week
[48:35] which is great
[48:38] up and then he updated our speed as well
so that's it's going to help us with our
[48:43] training and videos and whatnot
[48:48] um otherwise I think that's it unless
you guys got any questions for me that I
[48:52] can't answer
[48:57] thank you sir thank you
[49:06] [Music]
good evening Mr Mayor members of the
[49:10] board
that was a little long so I'll try to
[49:14] make this quick
[49:18] uh I think you guys have uh my report in
um code enforcement Animal Control
[49:24] his reports as well
um just a touch on
[49:29] uh
Animal Control there was an issue with
[49:33] um a contractor an mou that's um
looks like we haven't updated since the
[49:40] early 80s so we're working on that to
um
[49:44] fix some things there but I did meet
with their new coordinator
[49:48] um I think Dell Dell something but um we
fixed that problem with um
[49:53] them taking our dogs they weren't
accepting them because Gabe is very
[49:57] proactive
um and and he's out there and
[50:01] I I think he's convinced that I give him
five percent uh increase in pay every
[50:07] time he catches a dog so
I I don't know where that came from but
[50:11] he's very proactive and he's doing a
fine job
[50:14] um statistic wise
pretty comparable
[50:19] um pretty consistent every month here
um again the ones I pay close attention
[50:24] to is the auto accidents or crashes and
the medical calls so those were up a
[50:27] little bit but not by too much
um
[50:32] just some
brief highlights we had a our second
[50:37] coffee with the cop uh meeting trustee
Lopez thank you for attending
[50:41] um it was great to have you there and
you had some some really good points and
[50:46] questions that we appreciate you you
showing up and uh participating
[50:52] um
there was a we had a Connie wide
[50:55] operation last week at our truck stops
just involved casinos motels throughout
[50:58] the county I was the first one with our
task force we're trying to create this
[51:03] is all the agencies in the area
if you got the paper Wednesday Sheriff
[51:07] Diaz mentioned it a little bit but uh we
we have a bunch of these planned in the
[51:11] future so it was a great start
uh
[51:15] I I was in the process of a 22-week um
leadership course finally completed that
[51:20] so a lot of good information that I
started using during the course and uh
[51:24] plans for afterwards
um we have a new hire Nick cannellaria
[51:30] um he started
last week he's in his field training
[51:33] process so he's he's doing well and
um
[51:37] we're gonna go off of how quick he picks
things up he's got four years of
[51:41] experience
so that uh basically be his filtering on
[51:46] how fast he picks things up and learns
and um
[51:49] gets acquainted to our area and uh how
Milan PD operates it comes with
[51:55] experience for Mac PD
um fed a lot of discussions about
[52:01] um housing mental health food counseling
for our our community
[52:07] um we've had a few different meetings
with um three different entities in the
[52:12] area so
I don't think all three groups knew that
[52:16] until I mentioned it so hopefully we can
combine all these resources and today I
[52:22] learned of possible grants grants that
are available that I'll have to check
[52:26] into that could provide housing could
provide some counseling some mental
[52:30] stuff so
um hopefully that'll help
[52:34] uh big um big push for updating active
shooter training which
[52:41] something that I've been big on since I
got here uh we've been meeting with um
[52:45] safety teams throughout all the schools
in the county and with the uh a couple
[52:49] of staff at our Milana Elementary to
update some of our plans
[52:53] and we are continuing our relationship
of course Civic we had a county-wide
[53:00] another county-wide meeting with the new
Warden nurse staff and they're making a
[53:05] lot of a lot of a lot of positive
progress over there that's
[53:09] since I've been here I haven't seen so
the new warden's doing a great job over
[53:13] there with uh getting the place cleaned
up
[53:18] I think that was pretty quick not like
others but uh if anyone has any
[53:22] questions and Mr Mayor look you look
great today did you have a photo shoot
[53:26] or what's going on I got official to
interactive oh okay okay
[53:32] um any questions any questions
thank you guys thank you
[53:41] project
[53:45] you guys have my report in front of you
I am not going to read it because I am
[53:51] still seeing double
um if you get a chance to go buy the
[53:54] soccer complex check it out it's going
really well
[53:57] um we're looking at hopefully being done
with the building aspect of it by Mark
[54:02] bit
um the drive access will be shortly
[54:07] after if not prior to that
Airport Road is going good
[54:13] [Music]
um
[54:14] our end date is around April mid April
but the lights that we ordered are not
[54:20] going to be in until the beginning of
May so locked onto project suspension
[54:23] they'll open the road and everything
before but then when they'll come back
[54:26] and have to do the lights I'll have to
shut one lane on each side
[54:31] um
base two and three hopefully we'll have
[54:34] a
task order in front of you next meeting
[54:38] to get that one rolling you'll go out
for a bit on that um combining those
[54:43] projects together
we have a meeting next week to go over
[54:47] Cottonwood once we have the design in
place we can go out for funding we don't
[54:53] have funding at this time for
construction
[54:56] swimming pools are supposed to start
um March 4th that'll include the center
[55:01] section of the roof and all the hvacs
there's a pre-con meeting next week for
[55:06] that one as well
fire department phase one as you all
[55:10] know is complete I'm just waiting for
final reimbursement
[55:14] uh phase two we've gotten all for the
noticeable Awards and everything in
[55:18] place so they're ready to go
they've already started pulling through
[55:22] a mix of jungle stuff
[55:25] Public Works equipment we were waiting
for DFA approval to place the order DFA
[55:30] gave us the approval this afternoon so
I'll be calling tomorrow to place order
[55:33] for the truck trucks in Albuquerque
needs to be outputed that's going to
[55:37] take a couple weeks at least
[55:40] Stanley lift station is 99 complete in
design that should go out to bid
[55:47] hopefully in the next three weeks
[55:52] um water system improvements we have an
on-paul contract with Wilson and company
[55:57] that we're going to use to do the design
on that
[56:00] do you guys have any questions
no
[56:05] thank you
okay
[56:09] good job and everything you all the
projects
[56:14] Village manager
Mr Mayor members of the board thank you
[56:19] for your time
um
[56:22] Denise mentioned uh the Stanley news
station
[56:26] we're looking forward to getting back
going even though it's going to be a
[56:30] smaller project than we originally
planned
[56:34] the office team is continuing to meet in
the mornings to discuss what's what's
[56:40] being done any issues that may come up
[56:46] the the
guidelines we can take or the the air
[56:51] the steps we can take to make everything
better and more efficient here at the
[56:56] village and it seems to have increased
our productivity and it's continuing to
[57:04] increase our morale
The Villages uh following the uh Cibola
[57:11] Grant County
of the French Cibola County school
[57:16] districts
delay schedule even though we're going
[57:21] to look at that a little bit a bit
better after this week to make a little
[57:27] bit
more defined
[57:30] decision I am receiving texts phone
calls and emails from the school on
[57:36] their scheduled delays
this this allows us to allow our
[57:42] employees to travel
as safer time to work because that
[57:49] two-hour delay usually clears the
streets where they're not quite as
[57:54] dangerous and we do have some that are
coming from from
[57:59] rural areas
[58:02] of course the utilities work as as
necessary they may be out at two o'clock
[58:10] in the morning clearing the streets
fixing leaks
[58:13] so their uh practically on their own
schedule the team has also put together
[58:19] a list of the bills that we are asking
you to contact our legislators and speak
[58:24] to them concerning some of the damages
they will do to not only Milan but the
[58:30] communities as well
it is our understanding that one of the
[58:34] bills that is going to decrease the grts
will impact Bernalillo County by 30
[58:41] million dollars they haven't gotten us
the figures for for us yet
[58:46] a recreation is hosting a Easter
Carnival it'll be on April the 1st and
[58:53] it'll be from 10 from 11 A.M to 2 p.m at
Kearns Park
[59:00] the water
um one of our wells has gone down it
[59:04] should be repaired and I've been working
uh next week uh so far it hasn't caused
[59:10] any issues at this time we've had divers
this week inspecting the tanks
[59:17] we'll get a report later in regard to uh
those those reports uh the crews are
[59:25] filling out their daily mileage
inspections for all units and equipment
[59:33] streets installed
um I believe in the streets it may have
[59:37] been been Parks but the handicap signs
at Kearns has been installed
[59:43] and I believe there's six in total
[59:48] property was cleaned and weeds cleaned
and the property fenced on uranium and
[59:56] we were still storing our um
some of our uh materials there
[1:00:04] um said remove snow
they've been trimming trees and removing
[1:00:09] them as well our mechanic is very busy
he's fixing equipment that has been down
[1:00:14] for some time
he's even managed to identify issues
[1:00:20] with some of the equipment that no one
else has been able to
[1:00:27] identify and with that I stand for
questions
[1:00:31] any questions
[1:00:34] sir before you move on can I add to that
we need to set a date for our spring
[1:00:39] cleanup
forgot to mention that
[1:00:45] um end of March early April is when you
guys usually do it I don't know if we
[1:00:49] want to do it first weekend in April or
right
[1:00:58] so
you guys want to give me
[1:01:03] second recommendation and then I can see
first of April sign I think the spring
[1:01:08] event is on the first weekend
since we have the Easter thing coming in
[1:01:15] the first
[1:01:24] last week of March
okay uh last week we have the Easter egg
[1:01:30] Easter Carnival the first
[1:01:36] April mid April mid April okay
[1:01:41] last of March
wouldn't interfere with that because the
[1:01:45] first of April is uh
spring spring event and then the middle
[1:01:50] of April is the
right
[1:02:04] so April 1st is the spring events
foreign
[1:02:22] okay
[1:02:28] we'll go that way
and I will double check with grants
[1:02:31] because
yeah
[1:02:35] okay
board comments
[1:02:39] busty Lopez
just uh um
[1:02:44] thanks to our First Responders
employees were doing a good job
[1:02:50] you guys have been really busy and
especially
[1:02:57] encourage anybody to have any concerns
um it was really informative and just
[1:03:03] stay warm
thank you Steve yes
[1:03:08] uh Justin Mercer I'm not at this time
[1:03:17] thank you all for everything you guys do
um
[1:03:21] again if we would like to encourage the
community to come out what's your
[1:03:26] opinions what's your concerns
[Music]
[1:03:29] we're here to serve the people of Milan
um
[1:03:34] I do want to give a special kudos to Dre
and his crew I did get the opportunity
[1:03:39] to come a couple weeks ago
and uh tour the wells and the
[1:03:44] housekeeping is great uh that's
something that the state comes in and
[1:03:49] looks at it's one of the main things
they look at is your your housekeeping
[1:03:53] uh groundskeeping
everything was pretty much up too far
[1:03:58] um it was nice to go and see what
how we treat the water here in Milan and
[1:04:03] see that it's being treated
with all the due diligence that's put
[1:04:08] into it with these guys from the
cleanliness of the building and the
[1:04:13] the stuff they do to
all the time they put into
[1:04:20] caring for the water and actually
treating it
[1:04:23] it uh it shows a lot
um
[1:04:27] other than that until I got it this time
[Music]
[1:04:31] thank you
I don't have anything okay that leaves
[1:04:36] enough time for me then
um
[1:04:42] I was going to say not the same thing
that trust you to let's say but I call
[1:04:47] them the unsung heroes from the street
Department of Water Department uh nobody
[1:04:51] ever says
you guys do a good job of doing it so uh
[1:04:57] with the snow that we have had and uh
yeah they've taken care of that in the
[1:05:02] in a professional way and they still
have time to clean up
[1:05:06] um
[1:05:09] I want to uh um thank um Mr Les Gaines
from Stuart Brothers I had a good
[1:05:16] conversation with him last last week and
uh so I went over there to ask for some
[1:05:24] some pipe some some freebies and uh
that we will use at the entrance of the
[1:05:32] soccer field and he was kind enough to
he kept me there for quite a while but
[1:05:36] he was kind enough to give us four
uh four pipes and um after this week I'm
[1:05:44] sure he's going to call me because he's
too involved with the quad right now and
[1:05:49] and um he said I'll call you next week
but I figure he's not going to call me
[1:05:53] this week so it'll be next weekend but
um you know thank them for
[1:05:59] for stepping up and all I have to do is
ask I guess that's good and
[1:06:04] congratulations to the Los Alamitos 7th
and eighth grade girls
[1:06:10] basketball teams
um last year last year the eighth grade
[1:06:15] team went undefeated this year and the
seventh grade team went undefeated and
[1:06:20] they took first place at the Rio Rancho
tournament
[1:06:24] um actually during and after the
tournament you know you listen to people
[1:06:27] talking and stuff
there were some great comments about
[1:06:30] about our girls and you know how they
were pretty they were disciplined they
[1:06:36] were good sports and they were very
talented and they are coached by uh
[1:06:41] by Vivian Carlson
ah spring sports are now
[1:06:46] starting if you can attend any uh
baseball uh the baseball team has a
[1:06:52] brand new baseball field turfed the
girls softball
[1:06:59] um I believe will will
the second week or third week of March
[1:07:05] is when they're supposed to uh finish
that and that also would be turfed so
[1:07:11] that is a great thing for the for the
for grandson Milan to have them play on
[1:07:17] Church field so if you can go
which one of the one or two other games
[1:07:22] at least
um
[1:07:25] and now I want to it's a little it's a a
day late but uh I wanted to wish
[1:07:31] our manager Linda cook
uh Happy Birthday
[1:07:35] um a very happy birthday and I I
personally don't think you you look a
[1:07:41] day over 50. I might be wrong I might be
wrong but anyway I'll take it
[1:07:46] anyways she she had a birthday yesterday
um if you can't donate to St Jude's
[1:07:51] Children's Hospital please do so when
you see a veteran thank her or him for
[1:07:56] their services and sacrifices and may
God bless America and may God continue
[1:08:01] to bless the village of Milan
thank you
[1:08:04] uh announcements
Planning and Zoning meeting March 2nd
[1:08:09] 2023 at 4 30 pm
border trustees regular meeting March
[1:08:14] 16th 2023 at 5 30 pm and with that I
entertain a motion to adjourn no
[1:08:21] children
motion first year to let the second by
[1:08:26] mayor protection
Mercer yes
[1:08:30] first year chiletta yes mayor Timbre yes
thank you nice being adjourned