[8:59] here we go
[11:31] testing
can you
[11:38] can hear you find harold
perfect thank you commissioner
[11:43] thank you
melinda melinda can you hear me
[11:48] okay
can you hear me martin plus
[11:55] okay
uh good afternoon everyone
[11:59] i'd like to call this meeting to order
thank you everyone for being here today
[12:04] um
it is now
[12:08] 203 pm
the san miguel county border
[12:12] commissioners will hold a regular
monthly meeting on tuesday february the
[12:16] 9th 2021 beginning at 2pm
this meeting will be held virtually
[12:21] the meeting will be streamed through
from 500 west national avenue las vegas
[12:26] new mexico
87701
[12:29] in the commission chambers
due to limited seating capacity the
[12:33] meeting can be viewed online at
www.co.gov
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[12:45] address phone number
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[12:49] smcpi
at ceo.semigal.nm.us
[12:55] no later than 1 15 the day of the
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of the san miguel county manager
[14:03] the agenda is as follows
call to order
[14:18] [Music]
[14:26] presented
[14:40] medina
[14:44] have a quorum
can we please join each other in the
[14:48] pledge of allegiance
commissioner senator can you lead us
[14:54] suggest to the fact
because
[15:01] one nation
under god indivisible with liberty and
[15:05] justice for all
i salute the fact of the state of new
[15:09] mexico
the zia symbol
[15:12] among united cultures
[15:16] thank you commissioners
[15:19] at this time i'd like to
request approval of the agenda
[15:24] are there any questions pertaining to
the agenda
[15:30] i would like to
to table
[15:33] um
in order to table item
[15:39] seven
seven yes
[15:43] if if we uh if we're okay with that
i'd like that change
[15:47] to the agenda are there any other
changes to the agenda at this time
[15:56] [Music]
[16:02] to a further time
[16:08] okay
sounds good
[16:12] okay
uh so so uh
[16:15] did the commission here what that what
our inner manager just mentioned
[16:20] no i couldn't hear could you please
repeat it
[16:23] yes what we're going to do is we're
going to move
[16:26] the item that our county attorney is
going to be helping us with
[16:30] we're going to be acting on that one
after he returns from a court hearing
[16:36] that he has to attend so we'll be
we'll be going over that item as soon as
[16:40] he returns
[16:46] are you okay with that commissioner
that's fine with me mr chair thank you
[16:53] thank you
um
[16:56] with those changes mentioned
do we have and
[17:06] we have a motion by commissioner medina
do we have a second to approve the
[17:09] agenda
second
[17:11] we have a second by commissioner sena
all those in favor signify by saying hi
[17:20] motion carries we have an approved
agenda
[17:23] okay uh
the approval of the minute
[17:26] uh do we have a motion to approve
the minutes for november the 9th 2020.
[17:34] i think there's an error for no mistake
and
[17:40] let me see if i find the minutes
[17:47] yeah um
it mentions
[17:51] that madam chair maria martinez was
absent at that meeting
[17:55] but then the salutation of the flag
it says that commissioner martinez led
[18:01] the pledge of allegiance and so we need
to make that correction if she wasn't
[18:05] there there was no way that she could
have
[18:07] led the pledge of allegiance so we need
to make that correction
[18:14] yes
[18:20] sounds good
uh any other questions or concerns on
[18:24] the minutes of november the 9th 2020
[18:29] hearing none will have a motion to
approve the minute
[18:33] mr chairman i'd like to abstain from
this that uh due to the fact that we
[18:37] weren't sweating in yet or okay on board
all right
[18:41] so uh commissioner medina has selected
to abstain
[18:45] voting on this item because he had not
taken office yet
[18:50] um
[18:54] that's correct all right
uh so hearing that
[18:59] you have a motion to approve the minutes
of november the 9th
[19:03] don't move mr chair with a correction
we have a motion by commissioner varela
[19:08] do we have a
[19:20] so we have an approved
minutes for the november the 9th
[19:25] uh the next one is the minute or
december the 8th 2020.
[19:30] are there any comments for questions on
the minutes of december the 8th
[19:38] i'm i'm guessing that
commissioner medina and commissioners
[19:41] and i'll probably abstain on this one as
well
[19:44] thank you mr chairman
okay
[19:47] uh do we have a motion to approve the
minutes for december the 8th 2020.
[19:53] we have a motion by commissioner
do we have a second second mr chairman
[19:59] we have a second but commissioner
only favorite certified by saying aye
[20:03] aye
[20:07] motion carries we have approved minutes
for december the 8th 2020.
[20:11] okay the next one is approval of the
minutes for
[20:17] this january the 1st 2021 the special
meeting
[20:21] are there any questions on that
particular
[20:25] set of minutes
[20:31] no questions
do we have a motion to approve the
[20:34] minutes of january the first 2021.
[20:39] we have a most similar commission
trujillo do we have a second
[20:43] second
we have a commissioner by commissioner
[20:46] medina all in favor signify by saying
aye
[20:49] aye
[20:51] opposed same sign
motion carries we have an approved set
[20:55] of minutes for january the first 2021.
next item is item
[21:01] the minutes for january the 14th 2021.
are there any questions or comments on
[21:08] those minutes
[21:11] hearing none we have a motion to approve
the minutes for january the 14th 2021.
[21:20] we have a motion by commissioner
trujillo do we have a second
[21:25] second
we have a second but commissioner senna
[21:28] all in favor signify by saying aye
aye
[21:33] allah
motion carries
[21:36] we have approvements for january the
14th the next item is item
[21:41] the minutes for january the 26th
2021 do we have any questions or
[21:46] comments on those minutes
[21:51] hearing none we have a motion to approve
the minutes
[21:54] of january the 26 2021.
[21:59] we have a
motion by commissioner melina do we have
[22:02] a second
[22:05] we have a second commissioner to hear
all in favor of saying aye
[22:14] so we have approved minutes for
january the 26 2021.
[22:20] thank you very much
uh next order of business do we have
[22:24] anybody for public input
did anybody sign up
[22:29] madam manager um
mr chair the last i heard we have not
[22:34] had anybody sign up um
at the time that was specified
[22:39] thank you
okay the next quarter of business under
[22:42] new business
um
[22:45] is is victor reyes logged in
yeah he's here i'm on mr chair
[22:52] okay
uh
[22:55] mr reyes
[22:59] uh on behalf i'd like to recognize you
on behalf of san miguel county
[23:04] uh
and and i'm gonna present you with a
[23:07] plaque
before i present you with a plaque
[23:10] there's a few things i'd like to say
um mr reyes
[23:14] has been very instrumental
[23:18] to us
this is like an echo
[23:22] it's been very instrumental
to us uh san miguel coming
[23:27] with legislative issues that we've had
these past two years
[23:30] uh one one perfect example was
last year
[23:36] i received a call
from victor
[23:38] on a saturday morning asking me
what
[23:42] miguel county's priorities were
and you know we were able to
[23:47] identify those priorities
and when it was all said and done the
[23:51] priorities that we identified to victor
were in fact appropriated by the by the
[23:57] legislature
we came out with almost a million
[24:01] dollars
from that
[24:03] uh most recently we had
a cdbg hearing
[24:07] and victor
was the chairman of the cdc council
[24:12] and you know we were soliciting money
for
[24:15] a community development block grant in
my in my district which is country acres
[24:20] and we were able to secure
750 000 through
[24:25] the assistance of victor
and so those are two examples of
[24:30] of how san miguel county has been able
to benefit
[24:34] uh with funds for capital improvements
for san miguel county
[24:38] in addition to that
victor has
[24:42] become very involved with us with the
cobed situation that we've had
[24:48] our
our city mayor uh louis trujillo has had
[24:52] quite a few virtual meetings
and uh
[24:55] mr uh
reyes has been at those meetings and
[25:00] there's been a lot of involvement from
from him with assistance to us
[25:06] uh
and so i'd like to read this back
[25:09] and then i'm gonna ask for a picture to
say a few words
[25:12] um victor can you hear me
i can mr chair
[25:17] okay
uh victor uh i'd like to
[25:22] present this back to you that says the
following
[25:25] san miguel county board of commissioners
recognizes victor reyes
[25:31] this ninth day of february 2021
for your hard work and dedication given
[25:37] to san miguel county
these past few years
[25:40] and it's got the semi-gal money
commission listed on there
[25:44] so um i'd like to thank you victor on
behalf of the county
[25:49] for everything that we've done i know
that you're not at the
[25:52] at the governor's office anymore more
so at this time i'd like to turn it over
[25:57] to you to say a few words
thank you mr chair members of the
[26:02] commission for this honor
it's something that touches me to the
[26:05] deepest parts of my heart the work that
i've been able that we've been able to
[26:09] accomplish together throughout the past
two years is something that's remarkable
[26:13] you know each and every one of you stand
up to to make sure that your
[26:16] constituents have what they need that
they're not over that they're not
[26:20] overlooked making sure that the
infrastructure needs that our
[26:23] communities depend on are met and during
this pandemic this community rose up in
[26:29] a way that needs to be commended and
recognized throughout the entire state
[26:33] you were proactive you were aggressive
and with the work that you did
[26:37] undoubtedly saved lives i'm so proud to
have had the opportunity to work with
[26:41] san migo county and communities across
the state throughout the last two years
[26:45] of my service with governor michelle
lujan grisham i'm very honored to be
[26:49] able to be here today you know i've said
it before but
[26:53] i don't i believe that
that that family isn't just the people
[26:58] that you share that you share blood with
it's truly the people that you build a
[27:02] community with so people who open their
table and open their arms and i consider
[27:08] i consider this group to be like family
i consider this community
[27:12] and communities across the state to be
family for me and so being able to
[27:16] advocate for communities across the
state throughout this pandemic making
[27:20] sure that nobody
lacks the resources they need and to be
[27:24] able to um to provide that voice for you
whenever i can is something that has
[27:30] been an honor for me
i thank you for the work for the public
[27:33] service that you do you know public
service is an honor given and trust and
[27:37] you earn that single that trust each and
every day thank you for doing that for
[27:42] for demonstrating what remarkable public
service and leadership is i'm truly
[27:46] honored and humbled to receive this
plaque in this award um it means the
[27:50] world to me thank you so much mr chair
thank you victor thank you and i don't
[27:54] know if you could see it but
this is the plaque that we're presenting
[27:58] to
us um good luck good luck to you victor
[28:02] and i hope that we get to visit with you
in washington soon
[28:06] thank you mr chair i appreciate it thank
you commissioners for your time it means
[28:09] a lot to me and thank you for this
incredible honor thank you very much
[28:14] gracias when i started this we'll see
you guys soon thank you thank you victor
[28:22] okay uh next item is presentation
of a plaque
[28:29] or of retirement uh and we have
our
[28:35] hold on let me get this
i'm sorry
[28:39] we have mr matt well to present
uh
[28:47] deputy warden
no okay so we're gonna have uh warren
[28:52] alwa present uh to mr linda romero
mr owl
[28:59] chairman commissioners uh it is my great
honor
[29:03] uh to present a retirement plaque to mr
linda
[29:08] romero she spent 14 years her 14-year
career in the san miguel county
[29:13] detention center
uh serving the public keeping the public
[29:17] safe keeping individuals who were in our
custody safe
[29:21] most of her career was spent in the
customer service area where she not only
[29:26] dealt with the detainees but she dealt
with the public attorneys families
[29:31] friends
she's gained
[29:34] massive respect from everyone that she's
met
[29:39] and everyone she's dealt with uh in the
community i wish her well along with her
[29:44] retirement we will be retiring her badge
that's number 220 is officially retired
[29:51] along with mr linda romero and
congratulations
[30:01] i just want to say thank you for
me being here
[30:06] it was a good experience for me i
learned a lot
[30:09] and i got to know a lot of people
and i just want to say thank you to
[30:14] everybody
[30:28] thank you very much mr romero i i'm one
that
[30:32] every time that i
that i'd go to the county jail i'd have
[30:36] to go through minister linda and
you know every time that we
[30:40] that i was there she was always very
cordial
[30:43] and very
i was busy dealing with mail or dealing
[30:46] with
with issues there but always greeting us
[30:50] as well
and i'd like to say thank you on behalf
[30:52] of of san miguel county orlinda and
we're going to miss you
[30:57] thank you
[Applause]
[31:02] anyone else would like to say anything
[31:06] nope i would like to say something mr
chairman
[31:10] okay
[31:13] as
as a an attorney not a client
[31:18] when i'd go by and and visited she was
always very professional
[31:24] responsive
uh
[31:26] understanding who was there
what the parameters were the degree of
[31:33] security needed
uh
[31:35] and
just because i was an attorney she
[31:38] wouldn't let me do anything that i
wasn't supposed to do she was the boss
[31:43] she knew it and people respected her
because
[31:47] it's a
area where the security is so critical
[31:53] and making sure you know who you're
dealing with
[31:57] and what the person is there for and she
was the first person
[32:01] that we as citizens and professionals
when we walk into the jail we see her
[32:07] she smiles she makes us welcome she
explains for those of us that don't
[32:12] understand what the procedure is what
the process is why it is so important uh
[32:19] and and being a local
she has that understanding of
[32:24] how families come in very emotional to
jails maybe to visit
[32:29] friends relatives children and how
[Music]
[32:33] some behavior should not be allowed what
other behavior is allowed and trying to
[32:39] make it as comfortable
place for the both the innocent and
[32:44] guilty as they go through the process uh
the legal system the law enforcement
[32:48] system uh a real professional
thank you mr romero
[32:55] yes ma'am
[33:20] thank you madam manager
thank you miss romero for your service
[33:24] and good luck
enjoy retirement
[33:31] okay uh moving on to regular business
item one is resolution in support of
[33:36] establishing a state public bank
and we have
[33:42] uh madam vice chair
uh janice varela and commissioner to
[33:46] here trujillo who are co-hosting
sponsoring this particular item so i'll
[33:52] go ahead and turn it over to
um
[33:58] commissioner varela can you hear us
yes i can thank you mr chairman and uh i
[34:03] could defer to mr trujillo is in the
chambers and i'm expecting the gambles d
[34:08] and george campbell to present they did
present this idea to the commission
[34:14] last year
about five six months ago
[34:17] and i thought it was very interesting
i've been a mem i was a on the board of
[34:21] the new mexico community loan
development fund
[34:24] that provided loans and opportunities
for individuals and non-profit
[34:29] organizations who banks would not touch
and help so this is a wonderful
[34:34] opportunity i think we need to look at
this to see how we can provide
[34:38] opportunities for our people in our
community who will need to serve banking
[34:42] services so um
commissioner trujillo do you have
[34:45] anything to add before we go to our
presenters
[34:51] thank you the vice chair
um yes
[34:55] [Music]
[35:11] you're there
[35:20] okay can you hear me now
yes okay
[35:24] yes um so during that last presentation
when the when the gambles came
[35:28] came by and gave us this presentation i
was very intrigued and
[35:34] actually relieved that there's another
option for residents and small
[35:38] businesses in new mexico to have another
avenue to
[35:43] obtain capital to sustain their
businesses and and their and their
[35:47] livelihoods
um
[35:49] and i
and i see that this um
[35:52] this movement if you will has has taken
hold and and there's actually a couple
[35:58] of bills
um or or a bill at the legislature right
[36:02] now recognizing this effort
um i believe it's sponsored by senator
[36:07] steinborn
and i i applaud him for for taking that
[36:12] on and i think um
you know in his wisdom he can see also
[36:17] that
um there's a there's a big need
[36:20] um for this kind of banking in in small
communities and across the state
[36:26] there's a lot of people in need that
sometimes banks won't uh
[36:31] you know won't touch as as you said
madam meister
[36:34] and and some of these people are are
credit worthy they're as worthy as
[36:39] anybody else they have vision they have
potential in some of these community uh
[36:45] banks state banks um they see that
potential and they're not uh as a
[36:50] as
reluctant to loan money to somebody in
[36:53] need and and that's that's why it
intrigued me enough to support this idea
[36:59] and
and um you know i if if anybody i'm sure
[37:03] the gamblers are here to answer
questions and as well as
[37:07] miss lehan
so i will turn it over to you folks
[37:11] thank you
[37:13] [Music]
thank you
[37:17] thank you very much we appreciate it
and hello again we're we're glad to see
[37:23] you and to see
several new members as well
[37:29] [Music]
i um
[37:32] uh i just
i'm dee gamble and this is my husband
[37:35] george
and
[37:37] we're uh we're outreach volunteers with
the alliance for economic prosperity
[37:43] which is a statewide
nonprofit that is uh
[37:47] supporting this campaign for a state
public bank in new mexico
[37:54] as mentioned the bills to establish the
new mexico public bank have been
[37:58] introduced in the current legislative
session
[38:01] sb 313 sponsored by jeff steinborn
and hb 236 it's the identical bill is
[38:09] sponsored by representatives patricia
roybel caballero and elizabeth thompson
[38:16] we have endorsements from the cities of
las cruces albuquerque and santa fe
[38:22] and the county of santa bay
also the new mexico credit union
[38:26] association
and the new mexico food and agriculture
[38:30] policy council and numerous other
organizations have
[38:34] endorsed this idea
our leadership has worked for nearly 10
[38:39] years to study the value of such
legislation and engaged in discussions
[38:44] with state treasurer the state economic
development department and others to
[38:49] determine the pros and cons of a state
bank for new mexico
[38:53] with the anderson school at unm we have
developed a plan for how the bank might
[38:59] be structured
how it would be capitalized and how it
[39:02] would operate in partnership with
community banks credit unions
[39:07] municipalities
tribal entities
[39:10] cdfs and across the state with numerous
organizations
[39:16] we're motivated to promote a public bank
in part by our visits across the
[39:21] counties
in our volunteer area where we see the
[39:24] need
for boosting the vitality of every town
[39:28] and village
also we
[39:31] like you
are determined to raise new mexico up
[39:35] from low measures
it constantly receives from every
[39:40] indicator of family well-being
new mexico is not a poor state and we
[39:46] all have to work to change that
perspective
[39:49] by finding ways to invest in resources
in culturally appropriate social and
[39:55] economic development
your chairperson
[39:59] has given us several questions
to respond to and maybe if that's all
[40:04] right with all of you we'll start with
responding to those
[40:08] questions yes please do
okay
[40:14] and then after we respond to those
questions
[40:17] we'd be happy to respond to any other
questions
[40:22] first
how will the locally owned banks be
[40:27] affected by this proposed state bank
you're requesting us to support
[40:35] currently
las vegas
[40:37] sun mcgill county currently has two
locally owned banks
[40:42] well a public bank is not a retail bank
a public bank is a banker
[40:50] it is it is not a bank in which you or i
could open up an account
[40:56] it is a bank that works in cooperation
with
[41:00] local community banks credit unions
municipalities tribal entities
[41:07] cdfis regional economic development
districts
[41:12] it could provide
school district
[41:16] school districts or municipalities
[41:22] financing opportunities rather than them
requiring
[41:28] a bond issue
the conditions of the relationship
[41:32] between the state public bank and
community banks
[41:36] is one of partnership that is spelled
out in the bills that are submitted
[41:47] the next question uh shall i i'll go on
from there unless you yes want to
[41:51] interrupt now go ahead and go ahead and
proceed okay uh the next question was
[41:56] how many states in the u.s actually have
state-owned banks and how have the
[42:02] states having the state bank benefited
from having a state bank
[42:06] well as a matter of fact the only state
that has a state-owned bank is in north
[42:13] is north dakota
and it's just over 100 years old
[42:18] in recent months the states of
washington oregon and new york have
[42:22] introduced legislation to establish a
public bank as well as the cities of
[42:27] philadelphia and san francisco other
states and cities have groups
[42:32] that are moving toward this idea
and it's been it's been a rather strong
[42:38] movement since 2008
and there are all kinds of studies propo
[42:43] and proposals for legislation
you can google the bank of north dakota
[42:48] to explore their reports from recent
years here's what we know from their
[42:52] reports and research from other
financial institutions
[42:57] in 2020 the bank of north dakota was
able to extend
[43:02] 1.7 billion
in ppp loans
[43:06] through community banks to small
businesses
[43:10] that is roughly 2
200
[43:14] per resident of north dakota
in the same period community banks and
[43:19] credit unions in new mexico
did lend 1.2 billion in ppp loans to
[43:27] small businesses
coming to about
[43:31] 570 dollars per resident
in in new mexico community banks did
[43:38] help 9500 small businesses
but in north dakota 20 000 small
[43:45] businesses were able to get help
thanks to early efforts of the bank of
[43:50] north dakota and those relationships
that community banks and credit unions
[43:55] already had established
with the residents of their counties
[44:00] community banks and credit unions are in
fact
[44:04] invested in their communities they know
their communities and want to see their
[44:09] communities prosper and that is exactly
why the public bank partners with them
[44:18] go ahead
how do municipalities and counties
[44:23] benefit
from a state bank
[44:26] municipalities and counties always have
needs for infrastructure for buildings
[44:32] to house health centers schools child
care centers farmers markets etc
[44:39] rather than taking out a loan
i'm sorry taking out a bond that costs
[44:46] much more because of the many service
fees why not borrow money from a state
[44:52] public bank
the best part is when that loan
[44:56] at a very low interest rate is repaid
the return on on investment comes back
[45:03] to the public bank
which then provides more money to be
[45:08] invested in your community or another
new mexican community
[45:13] new mexico grows resources
for investments rather than allowing
[45:19] them to leak out of the state to
corporate bank shareholders
[45:27] also
when community banks can expand their
[45:31] customer base by providing access to
more loans the whole community gains
[45:36] more money is circulated locally and
pretty soon
[45:40] main street starts looking brighter
well the next question was how will a
[45:46] state-owned bank be started
and how will it be able to sustain
[45:52] itself
the plan
[45:54] uh from both the bill and and the
earlier earlier
[45:59] business
business plan
[46:02] uh is that the public bank would be
capitalized with 50 million
[46:07] from the state severance fund
then a second to 50 million would be
[46:12] deposited by the state from funds it
currently has deposited in global banks
[46:19] the original the original deposit would
be used to leverage as much as 10 times
[46:25] the amount to offer the first loans
the interest paid from those loans is
[46:32] what sustains the bank and builds a
foundation of funds to be reinvested in
[46:38] thousands of projects all across the
state of new mexico
[46:45] last question
how strong do you feel about being
[46:50] endorsed by the locally owned banks
with your efforts
[46:55] have you requested their support if so
what are the results regarding
[47:00] support or lack thereof
[47:04] we would very much like to have the
support and endorsement of community
[47:09] banks just as we have the endorsement of
the new mexico state credit union
[47:14] association
we have requested their support and our
[47:18] leadership has tried to gain the support
of the new mexico independent community
[47:24] bankers association
however that organization is currently
[47:29] rejecting the idea of a public bank
because they believe erroneously that a
[47:36] state bank would be their competition
we are not certain how many new mexico
[47:43] community banks
are actually members
[47:46] of the new mexico independent community
bankers association
[47:51] only five are listed on their website as
affiliate members
[47:56] we believe
that that means
[48:00] that they mean well
but just do not understand the way this
[48:05] legislation could actually help them
grow
[48:09] just as has happened in north dakota
north dakota now has
[48:15] more community banks
per capita than any other state in the
[48:21] union
new mexico like many other states has
[48:25] been losing community banks to big
corporate banks
[48:32] and that's the end of us addressing
those five questions we would
[48:38] welcome the opportunity to elaborate on
those questions or answers and anything
[48:44] else that you have and also perhaps pat
would like to speak with regard to local
[48:50] interest
[48:55] yes thank you um just briefly um
harold those are great questions that
[49:00] actually covered the ground that i was
going to cover so that makes my job
[49:03] easier so what i'll do is just briefly
tell you that our 12 year old intern
[49:08] aydah at the peace and justice center um
wanted to present to you today but i
[49:13] couldn't work out the logistics so i'll
just convey to you what she had to say
[49:18] she has studied this for months the
public banking
[49:21] act and the north dakota model and she
really wants to see it for new mexico
[49:27] and there are some really specific
reasons why she's amazing she says she
[49:32] wants you all to take the circle or loop
approach
[49:36] rather than the straight line because
the straight line model
[49:40] is
our money
[49:43] immediately leaving the state
potentially up to half
[49:47] of what a project could cost leaving the
state and going into the pockets of wall
[49:52] street investors she wants you instead
to take
[49:55] the circle model as the one you support
where the money stays right here there
[50:00] aren't fees
and
[50:02] interest that go off out of state to
other people it all stays here and we
[50:07] can save a lot of money and make
projects up to 40 percent more
[50:12] affordable
so ada asks what's a project in san
[50:16] miguel county
that
[50:18] we're really committed to that we need
money for and right away i mentioned the
[50:23] the treatment and recovery center that
you all have recently voted to be the
[50:27] fiscal agent for thank you for that this
is something since 2003 the peace and
[50:33] justice center has been
asking for and working towards along
[50:37] with a lot of others so
that's an example of a project so how
[50:41] would that work through our banks ada
and her friends would come to you the
[50:45] county would say yep we're going to fund
a portion of that let's look into that
[50:48] let then you will go to our local bank
then they will go on our behalf to the
[50:53] public bank
come back with money that would be
[50:56] channeled through our local bank and
support this um
[51:00] treatment and recovery center and the
fact that we could make our money that
[51:04] much more efficient melinda would know
this if we can say we're going to save
[51:08] up to 40 on a project that's remarkable
so um we we do hope that um you will
[51:14] support this resolution uh the peace and
justice center has three areas of focus
[51:19] social justice economic justice and
environmental justice this project is a
[51:24] perfect example of how we can bring more
and
[51:28] economic justice to new mexico so we
hope that you'll support senate bill 313
[51:33] and house bill 236 the public banking
act thank you
[51:38] thank you pat
are there any comments or questions from
[51:42] the commission
[51:46] yes sir mr medina commissioner
[52:17] as i was saying being a newcomer
to the commission again and uh and
[52:22] talking with miss d on the phone she
explained it real well but i think it's
[52:26] uh
i don't know if she had been a car sales
[52:29] person at one time but she sold me the
first day so i just want to thank you
[52:33] for your efforts you and your husband
thank you very much
[52:37] thank you commissioner medina
any further comments or questions
[52:44] uh hearing none
um i guess we could read the resolution
[52:48] or not
i think it's been explained to us what
[52:51] the intent
of the
[52:54] of the
item is and so at this point i'm going
[52:58] to
request for a motion to adopt the
[53:02] resolution
number 02-09-2021
[53:08] cm02
do we have a motion
[53:12] motion to adopt matter mr chair
we have a motion by commissioner
[53:17] trujillo to adopt do we have a second
second mr chair
[53:22] we have a second by commissioner varela
all in favor signify by saying aye
[53:29] all opposed same time
uh at this time i'd like to take a roll
[53:33] call vote please
[53:38] chairman
harold garcia
[53:42] yes
madame
[53:45] vice chair
janice
[53:49] yes
commissioner max trujillo
[53:52] yes
commission
[54:06] motion carries we have an adopted
resolution thank you very much
[54:10] uh thank you much for hearing me
you bet thank you thank you next
[54:16] next item is
resolution
[54:20] two two two zero two one zero two
cm a resolution
[54:28] in house bill 4 of the first session of
the 55th legislature urging the new
[54:32] mexico legislature to provide
more resources for behavioral health
[54:37] prevention and treatment since
behavioral health issues are at the root
[54:41] of root cause of many civil rights
claims against local governments and
[54:45] recommending damage
on any new civil rights cause and
[54:49] actions as funding for any increased
costs associated with this and so we
[54:55] have miss our manager melinda gonzalez
to present
[55:00] ms gonzalez
[55:17] melinda
[55:26] house bill 4 has been introduced to the
legislature that would allow
[55:32] caps to be removed for lawsuits against
law enforcement and would allow people
[55:37] to
sue individuals in actions that they do
[55:41] on behalf of the counties or local
governments that they
[55:45] um
that they served
[55:48] um
and what this bill is going to do is
[55:51] because that there's open-ended amounts
of monies that could be claimed
[55:56] on these axes it's going to make the
counties uninsurable
[56:00] and so in association with the
association of counties
[56:04] and with other counties we're sub we're
asking for this
[56:08] resolution to be passed opposing house
bill 44.
[56:13] house bill four sorry
and i could read the resolution if you
[56:19] would like me to
i'm sure please
[56:23] whereas in law's 2020 first special
session chapter one
[56:28] in house bill 5 in response to certain
high-profile
[56:31] civil rights violations
by law enforcement officers in other
[56:35] states the new mexico legislature
created the new mexico civil rights
[56:39] commission to develop policy proposals
for law
[56:43] for the creation of a civil right of
action for the deprivation by public
[56:47] body or person acting on behalf of or
under the authority of a public body of
[56:53] any right privilege or immunity secured
by the constitution of new mexico and
[56:58] whereas the divided commission voted by
board to recommend that the legislature
[57:02] create a new state law cause of action
for violations of the new mexico
[57:06] constitution
that would not include a cap of
[57:09] compensatory damages which is a break
from a lost long-standing balance struck
[57:14] in the new mexico towards claim act
between compensating those harmed by
[57:18] government action and the public good
and it would mandate reward of
[57:22] litigation expenses and attorneys fees
for prevailing plaintiffs which can
[57:26] exceed the damage awards to plaintiffs
and are based upon hourly rates over 450
[57:31] an hour and whereas the commission's
recommendation
[57:35] legislation was largely introduced into
the first session of the 55th
[57:39] legislature of the state new mexico as
house bill 4
[57:42] and whereas a new cause of action is
unnecessary to address new mexico's
[57:47] constitutional deprivations by law
enforcement officers including detention
[57:52] officers at county jails since the tort
killing act already waived sovereign
[57:57] immunity for such claims in qualified
immunity is not a defense to such claims
[58:03] and whereas the parts claim act allows
plaintiffs to recover damages awards up
[58:08] to one million fifty thousand and does
not allow for the recovery of litigation
[58:13] expenses and attorney fees
and whereas the new mexico towards claim
[58:17] act
balances compensating those damages by
[58:21] government action and the public good
since the insurance premiums and
[58:25] uninsured claim costs take money that
would otherwise be available for
[58:29] essential government services and
whereas research by the new mexico
[58:33] counties presented to the commission
demonstrated that new mexico one of the
[58:38] poorest union already allows for some of
the highest damage awards in the county
[58:43] for state law claims against law
enforcement officers and whereas
[58:47] eliminating caps and mandating the award
of litigation expenses and attorney fees
[58:51] will increase the cost of claims and
will likely encourage more claims to be
[58:55] filed and whereas new mexico counties
and other governmental entities also
[59:00] demonstrated that a new cause of action
would cause reinsurance and other
[59:04] insurance coverage to no longer be
available to the new mexico county
[59:09] insurance authority and whereas the
inability unavailability of reasonably
[59:14] priced insurance will cause local
governments to self-insure significant
[59:18] risk
which will divert scarce resources from
[59:21] the very services that proponents of the
new cause of action are trying to
[59:25] improve
to individual claimants and their
[59:28] attorneys
and whereas the new cause of action
[59:31] carries the risks of unintended negative
consequences including the elimination
[59:36] of services or the privatization of
services
[59:39] whereas uninsured judgments that cannot
be satisfied through existing resources
[59:43] will be paid by our citizens through
property taxes levied to meet the
[59:48] judgment
whereas many challenges faced by local
[59:51] law enforcement
and county jails stand for concurring
[59:55] substance abuse and mental
health disorders in the population with
[59:59] which they interact and whereas instead
of diverting resources to individual
[1:00:04] claims the legislature should be
providing more resources to serve this
[1:00:08] population which would minimize their
interaction with law enforcement and
[1:00:12] keep them out of county jails and
whereas information presented to the
[1:00:16] commission
demonstrated that the new mexico law
[1:00:19] enforcement academy needs additional
resources to better train law
[1:00:23] enforcement officers and timely
discharge its goal of investigating law
[1:00:27] enforcement officers accused of
misconduct
[1:00:30] and whereas timely removing the
certification of so-called bad cops
[1:00:35] would more effectively and quickly meet
the goal of improving law enforcement by
[1:00:39] avoiding the recycling of such bad
actors among law enforcement departments
[1:00:44] and whereas a new cause of action would
apply to any public body defined as
[1:00:48] state or local governments an advisory
board a commission an agency or an
[1:00:53] entity created by the constitution of
the new mexico
[1:00:57] of new mexico or any branch of
government that receives public funding
[1:01:00] including political subdivisions special
tax districts school districts and
[1:01:04] institutions of higher education or a
person acting on its behalf
[1:01:09] where such a broadly drawn cause of
action could have far-reaching
[1:01:12] ramifications in areas not
duly considered by the commission
[1:01:16] including actions by former students
against
[1:01:19] school districts for failing to provide
adequate education as recorded as
[1:01:23] required by article
7 section 1.
[1:01:27] now therefore be resolved by the board
of county commissioners
[1:01:30] of san miguel county it opposes house
bill 4 in its current form since it is
[1:01:35] unnecessary because victims of state
constitutional violations by law
[1:01:39] enforcement officers
including detention officers can already
[1:01:43] bring lawsuits for money damages for
violations of the new mexico
[1:01:47] constitutional rights under existing law
it will not address the root cause of
[1:01:52] any claims against local governments
namely the lack of adequate state
[1:01:56] resources to treat
substance abuse and mental health
[1:01:59] disorders in our community it will
further harden the public liability
[1:02:03] insurance market requiring local
governments to self-insure more risk in
[1:02:07] creating the real possibility that
property taxes will need to be imposed
[1:02:11] to meet uninsured judgments
it will likely be ineffective at driving
[1:02:15] reform or otherwise improving law
enforcement or other services
[1:02:19] because it will divert resources from
law enforcement and detention officer
[1:02:23] recruitment retention and training and
other critical services to claims and it
[1:02:29] may be unintended negative consequences
such as limit eliminating critically
[1:02:34] high risk services
reduction of resources to educate
[1:02:37] students in a return to privatization of
detention facilities to transfer risk to
[1:02:42] private companies
if a new state law cause of action for
[1:02:46] the deprivation of the new mexico
constitution right is enacted it urges
[1:02:51] the legislature to enact caps on
compensatory damages comparable to those
[1:02:56] in the tort claims act
and not allow the award of litigation
[1:03:00] expense and attorney fees to prevailing
plaintiffs which will increase the cost
[1:03:04] of all claims and will likely encourage
more claims to be filed including those
[1:03:08] with minimal damages
it urges the legislature to invest in
[1:03:12] behavioral health prevention and
treatment to address the root cause of
[1:03:16] many law enforcement claims against
local governments
[1:03:19] and revamping and improving the
operations of the new mexico law
[1:03:22] enforcement academy
thank you madam manager
[1:03:28] do we have any comments or questions
from
[1:03:32] the commission
anyone else that would like to speak
[1:03:36] uh
with regards to this issue
[1:03:41] yes sir commissioner trujillo
[1:03:47] i agree with this uh resolution
wholeheartedly
[1:03:51] um i i think that um you know our
self-insurance fund with the new mexico
[1:03:57] uh counties association the county
is in a good place right now and
[1:04:02] and we have uh where
you know we're growing every year
[1:04:07] and with legislation like this it could
deplete the funds in that self-insurance
[1:04:12] fund to a place where
we would not only
[1:04:18] jeopardize our being able to go out into
open insurance markets but it would
[1:04:22] deplete the self-insurance fund to a
point where
[1:04:26] we won't be able to recover from from
you know many lawsuits without any caps
[1:04:32] and and uh
and it would i think it would cause
[1:04:36] uh
i think it would cause a huge deficit in
[1:04:40] the state's budget uh including the
association of the county self-insurance
[1:04:44] fund and for that reason i i support
this resolution opposing house bill 4 or
[1:04:50] senate bill 4. thank you
thank you commissioner trujillo i i also
[1:04:56] agree with commissioner trujillo and our
manager
[1:04:59] this is a
very creative way
[1:05:02] to defund our law enforcement in new
mexico and i
[1:05:09] you know this has been talked about
quite a bit
[1:05:12] and it it is
coming to us to the legislature and i
[1:05:16] also support
uh the resolution that we have before us
[1:05:20] uh any further discussion
[1:05:24] no hearing on
do we have a motion to adopt
[1:05:28] the resolution
yes
[1:05:31] resolution 2021 0209.
cm
[1:05:38] mr chairman
we have a motion by commissioner varela
[1:05:42] do we have a second
second
[1:05:45] we have a
second but
[1:05:48] to
[1:06:15] [Music]
[1:06:29] thank you very much
next item is resolution to submit
[1:06:33] application to the department of finance
for fy
[1:06:37] 22
dwi grant
[1:06:40] and we have
uh mr sustainment or
[1:06:50] point of order did we skip number three
colbert update
[1:06:54] okay i'm sorry
yes we did thank you congress
[1:06:58] okay sorry about that
next item is item three convert 19
[1:07:05] update and we have mr leo maestas to
present
[1:07:09] sorry about that
[1:07:24] yes we can
very thin
[1:07:28] hello closer
good good afternoon uh first i'd like to
[1:07:32] start off by uh thanking all our
agencies uh that have assisted us in
[1:07:36] step
uh to get our county one day closer to
[1:07:40] the end of this pandemic uh it's been a
long road we've been doing this for
[1:07:43] about a year we're all aware of that
wearing our masks and washing our hands
[1:07:47] and seeing socially gifts from our
families and friends
[1:07:50] but again i wanted to thank our summing
guild fire department our sheriff's
[1:07:55] office the city of las vegas fire
department
[1:07:58] the city of vegas police department
[1:08:02] our nmdot las vegas senior center
uh
[1:08:10] i can't remember the other group name
uh rotary club i'm sorry rotary club
[1:08:15] um also uh we'd like to also thank our
east and west school districts for
[1:08:19] allowing us to use some of their
facilities during our testing and
[1:08:22] vaccination sites
uh also i wanted to to thank our hardest
[1:08:27] workers during the pandemic which is
miss dominique martinez and her staff at
[1:08:31] the public health office also miss
melinda uh carson bailey
[1:08:36] and all her life at home is the hospital
mr matt probst uh at uh centro now
[1:08:43] they've all been working tirelessly uh
almost seven days a week at all hours
[1:08:47] trying to get tests done and now moving
into vaccinations for all our our
[1:08:52] community uh now we can move into some
of the data i think uh uh
[1:08:57] mr trujillo uh
uh supplying us with some gender that i
[1:09:00] sent him uh globally we're looking at
just over 106 million
[1:09:06] cases of coronavirus right now globally
as you can see further down here in the
[1:09:12] united states we're sitting just over 27
million cases which is more than double
[1:09:17] the next country yeah 10 million cases
also we wanted to move into our our next
[1:09:24] page there if you would mr uh trujillo
this is our local
[1:09:29] this is our local numbers for new mexico
uh we're sitting at 177 uh um
[1:09:36] uh
cases i'm sorry uh if you slide down on
[1:09:40] the screen uh obviously everybody knows
that we are one of the few counties
[1:09:44] that are in the yellow one of six
counties uh there's two criteria to get
[1:09:49] us into either yellow or green we in the
last two weeks or the two weeks prior to
[1:09:55] this two weeks we did meet one of the
criteria was uh having a positive case
[1:10:00] rate of less than five percent
uh the new update for this will come out
[1:10:05] tomorrow and we're hoping that we'll
still stay in the yellow
[1:10:09] i don't believe that we'll meet the
green just yet but things are looking
[1:10:12] good if you look at all our cases
throughout the state statewide there's
[1:10:16] been a few days that we had any cases
here in new mexico
[1:10:22] part of the part of what makes up the
the case count is how many tests are we
[1:10:27] doing here locally uh department of
health and alta vista we're doing tests
[1:10:33] up to this past week
so now we're moving into doing a
[1:10:37] curative test
uh if you click on one of those uh next
[1:10:41] testing sites up on the top if you would
so we've moved into curative oral saliva
[1:10:47] testing we're doing that four day week
at our las vegas recreation center
[1:10:53] it's a very less invasive system that we
do you
[1:10:57] schedule prior to going to the the site
on thecurative.com website they ask you
[1:11:02] some general questions insurance
information or if you don't have
[1:11:05] insurance they also ask you that
um again it's an oral swab it's we ask
[1:11:11] the actual patient themselves to do the
swabbing
[1:11:16] it comes in a little uh case like this
it comes with the
[1:11:20] swab and a vial
we then ask the patient to take the swab
[1:11:26] out of the out of the casing
swab inside the right cheek for five
[1:11:30] seconds the left cheek for five seconds
under the tongue for five seconds and
[1:11:34] the roof of the mouth for five seconds
[1:11:39] then we send it we put it in the uh
enclosed um
[1:11:43] vial and we overnight them to a lab and
the patient would receive the results
[1:11:48] within 48 hours of the day that they
tested we took this over from the
[1:11:54] department of health so that they could
primarily also off the vista hospital so
[1:11:59] that they could primarily focus on
vaccination sites
[1:12:04] so like i said alta vista hospital and
the department of health has ceased to
[1:12:09] do tests and that is taken on now with
our departments and with the
[1:12:15] partnership of city of las vegas we're
doing that at the recreation center
[1:12:18] again
monday through thursday nine o'clock to
[1:12:21] 12.
if you click on one of the other uh
[1:12:30] i believe that's
one of the others so
[1:12:34] this is the site that i want to talk
about
[1:12:37] on screening and testing
if you click if you close into san
[1:12:42] miguel county or the city of las vegas
it will show you the two testing sites
[1:12:49] if you pull down on the search bar there
and you search by city location if you
[1:12:54] slide down
further down if you would
[1:13:00] search by city
[1:13:05] and you scroll down further it's going
to give you the two sites that are
[1:13:08] showing for testing availability in the
city which is the city of las vegas
[1:13:13] recreation center which is a site that
we are taking on
[1:13:16] and the other would be centro family
health which is primarily focused
[1:13:21] towards their patients
again there is testing available at the
[1:13:27] echoes valley medical center
i'm not too familiar exactly how many
[1:13:31] days a week that they are doing it but
it is available in that region
[1:13:35] obviously a lot of our constituents that
live in the western part of the county
[1:13:39] frequent to santa fe to get tested
[1:13:44] so that's pretty much uh the testing
part and challenge if we can move into
[1:13:49] vaccination now on one of the other
so this first screen is the department
[1:13:55] of house registration screen uh we asked
all the individuals if you would click
[1:13:59] there on the first uh tab create a new
profile
[1:14:03] you fill out general information if you
slide further down on
[1:14:08] just go ahead and slide down
if you would
[1:14:12] general information contact information
if you further down it's going to ask
[1:14:17] you for medical
medical information this is the portion
[1:14:21] that is critical for individuals and
constituents to to fill out if they're
[1:14:25] not honest with the system and
have one of these qualifying underlying
[1:14:30] health conditions
then it's going to be a little longer
[1:14:34] for them to get the event code for one
of our vaccinations
[1:14:38] we have a lot of individuals that come
to our sites and say i filled it out
[1:14:42] i haven't received a site i haven't
received an event code
[1:14:46] then i ask them if i can help them with
it come to find out that they still have
[1:14:50] some boxes that are read in their
profile so it's it's crucial that if you
[1:14:55] if you have any trouble filling out this
digitally
[1:14:59] somebody help you
so that they can we can confirm that
[1:15:02] your profile is completed so that you do
get the uh event code when we do have
[1:15:08] one of our qualifying vaccination sites
our vaccination sites again are by
[1:15:15] appointment only
we're doing vaccination sites at
[1:15:19] memorial middle school on on tuesdays
and thursdays
[1:15:23] and we have different dates for the
vaccination sites that we do at alta
[1:15:28] vista hospital
also el centro is doing vaccination
[1:15:32] sites as well but they're trying to
target their
[1:15:35] 75 and over audience which they have
quite a bit of
[1:15:39] or or patience that fall into that
criteria again when we do our our sites
[1:15:44] they are
uh
[1:15:47] by appointment only so let's say we have
an appointment like today we had an
[1:15:51] appointment i'm actually sitting here at
our vaccination site at memorial middle
[1:15:55] school you would have received if you're
in the qualifying
[1:15:59] you would have received that event code
the week prior
[1:16:03] so on a vaccination site like this at
memorial middle school we vaccinate
[1:16:07] 300 individuals on a given day so that
event code gets broadcasted to six seven
[1:16:14] eight hundred individuals the first 300
individuals that get in there and
[1:16:18] schedule their appointment
are the individuals that we get the list
[1:16:22] for to give vaccines to again
department of house vetted vets those
[1:16:27] individuals to make sure that they're in
the qualifying groups the qualifying
[1:16:31] groups right now we're finishing off
anybody else that's left in 1a which is
[1:16:35] direct patient care direct medical care
first responders
[1:16:39] and then we've moved into the first
portion of 1b
[1:16:43] 1b is
75 and over
[1:16:46] and 16 and over with
qualifying
[1:16:50] underlining health conditions
it's going to be some time before we
[1:16:54] move into the
the second part of 1b
[1:16:58] and then obviously moving into further
down down the road 1c which would be
[1:17:02] probably not until the supreme portion
it's hard for us to move into new
[1:17:06] populations because not only are we
trying to to do first doses we still
[1:17:11] have to to vaccinate for the second dose
or booster shot how they say
[1:17:16] uh for all these individuals
so it takes some time to get through and
[1:17:20] get into new populations
does anybody have any questions
[1:17:24] from you
[1:17:30] um i i i do mr chair
go ahead mr trujillo
[1:17:39] uh mr maestas uh what's the
what's the outlook for
[1:17:44] um
for future
[1:17:47] dose
allocation for san miguel county um i
[1:17:51] know we're doing really well and i know
you guys are using
[1:17:55] virtually every dose you can get your
hands on and i commend you for that i
[1:17:59] think you guys are doing an amazing job
with that
[1:18:02] uh but is there any
you know any indication that we are
[1:18:06] going to get more because i i know the
people in san miguel county are doing
[1:18:10] really good and
they're they're ready for this vaccine
[1:18:15] and ready for this nightmare to be over
so uh any any indication from from doh
[1:18:21] or from from the fed or anybody
so if if uh mr trujillo populate that
[1:18:28] last screen the vaccination screen
[1:18:32] that we had there i apologize
[1:18:40] so one more thing this should be one
more page with our vaccination uh
[1:18:47] or
[1:18:50] there should be one more link
[1:18:54] so that last link that i sent is
actually the dashboard for vaccination
[1:19:00] and department of health
we are actually sitting at number four
[1:19:04] in the state with vaccine administration
per capita um
[1:19:10] let's see if we get it here nope
if you would just type in vaccine
[1:19:14] dashboard
nmdoh vaccine dashboard
[1:19:20] bear with us folks one second
[1:19:30] there you go
okay so this gives you an idea of how
[1:19:35] many vaccines we've given out how many
we've received and how many have
[1:19:39] received their step
uh no this is this is uh i'm sorry go
[1:19:44] back a screen
[1:19:47] back one uh back back out
[1:19:52] let's eat that
[1:20:02] okay here we go
so right now we're just over 342 000
[1:20:07] vaccine vaccines in minnesota in the
state of new mexico if you scroll down
[1:20:12] on the screen it shows that we are
number four
[1:20:40] as far as vaccine administration or
vaccine allocation per
[1:20:44] county um they have they have determined
that to be based off of population
[1:20:50] obviously the metro and bernalillo
county has a higher population donald
[1:20:54] county has a higher population
so we're getting those vaccines to our
[1:20:59] constituents into our sites
[1:21:03] and no vaccine has gone wasted uh
there's sites where
[1:21:08] we have a few things left over and we
ask
[1:21:23] yes sir
and
[1:21:25] anybody else have any questions
yes thank you mr maestas for this update
[1:21:31] it's always
informative and uh and um always learn a
[1:21:36] lot about what's going on but sometimes
the more we learn this more we're
[1:21:39] confused so
i was hearing conflicting information
[1:21:43] about when a member
an individual who's tested positive
[1:21:47] can uh go out in public if they've been
in isolation for 10 to 14 days if they
[1:21:53] could go out and not necessarily have to
wait to get a negative test back is that
[1:21:58] the case of what the protocol is for
behavior
[1:22:03] yes so
the isolation period after a known
[1:22:07] positive
is is 10 days after you test positive or
[1:22:12] 10 days after your last symptom
[1:22:16] i'm sorry 10 days after your first
showed symptoms
[1:22:20] so 10 days of your positive test taken
or 10 days from the first time you
[1:22:25] showed uh
symptoms
[1:22:28] and you do not so
[1:22:32] you do not need to get a negative test
to return to work
[1:22:36] because what we're seeing is that some
individuals will will continue to test
[1:22:40] positive for two and three months after
they've after they've uh
[1:22:44] acquired a positive test
so it seems like that is new information
[1:22:49] or
that we don't need to be worried that
[1:22:52] those people are going to be contagious
or carrying
[1:22:55] the virus to others is that right
yes that that's where the 10-day
[1:23:01] shedding period comes into effect
okay not for okay thank you and i have
[1:23:05] one more question and that is about the
um
[1:23:09] schools we know that uh it's up to the
school districts whether or not they'll
[1:23:13] return in person and i'm asking about
the pecos schools and i guess for all of
[1:23:18] our schools in our county uh what about
the teachers and the school staff um
[1:23:23] are they in group 1b or would they be uh
1c
[1:23:28] unless they have underlying healthcare
[1:23:31] right so again one one a
is uh direct patient care
[1:23:37] so that any type of uh
physician dentist
[1:23:41] physical therapy anybody direct patient
care one b
[1:23:45] is uh again cater is we have a chart or
a ladder then one b
[1:23:51] and doc um i'm sorry uh um
[1:23:56] teachers and uh students
well i mean not teachers uh teachers and
[1:24:02] uh child care i'm sorry
teachers in child care fall under 1b
[1:24:07] we are we are targeting the first part
of 1b uh on the direction of department
[1:24:12] of health and the state government
to target those those groups primarily
[1:24:16] first
uh when we first started
[1:24:20] um our 1b category
not all our sites had uh
[1:24:25] access to the department of house
website to send us a list of who's
[1:24:29] qualifying
the first day we did a large site at
[1:24:32] alta vista hospital we did target all
the groups in 1b which is essential
[1:24:37] workers
which was
[1:24:40] teachers
direct
[1:24:42] child care 75 and over and 16 and over
after we did that site department asked
[1:24:48] the whole state to not do that to only
go off of the 75 and over in 16 and over
[1:24:54] that's how a few of our
teachers were able to get their vaccine
[1:24:59] on that first go-around
okay thank you for that
[1:25:04] it's been a continuing evolving
situation every week things change from
[1:25:08] department of health direction where we
go with things so um stay tuned every
[1:25:13] week like i said can things can change
thank you i have one more follow-up
[1:25:17] question thank you for this information
and that is uh because we're in pecos
[1:25:21] and like you said some of our people go
to santa fe for the covid test what
[1:25:26] about for vaccines will the department
of health just go with um
[1:25:31] you know based on what they have in our
registration whether they could send us
[1:25:36] to vegas or santa fe or wherever or i
don't think we're doing them in pecos as
[1:25:40] yet as a as i know of would they just
send people in this area wherever they
[1:25:44] can come up first on the uh sites
so the the individuals that receive a
[1:25:52] site code for a vaccine site are based
off of primary residents
[1:25:57] so if you're a resident of pecos which
we see tons of people coming in from
[1:26:01] pecos and they have a hard time finding
our vaccine sites because they're not
[1:26:04] familiar with our area as well
you would get it from from
[1:26:09] our only county
so if you're registered in from santa fe
[1:26:13] county you shouldn't be receiving a
vaccine code for a vaccine site in san
[1:26:18] miguel county
thank you so we'll be getting it for
[1:26:22] some first uh san miguel which will be
to vegas that answers my question thanks
[1:26:26] leo
thank you so much and and they are
[1:26:30] they are doing vaccines out of the pecos
valley medical center it's a small
[1:26:34] portion of vaccines every day but it's
all by appointment only yes
[1:26:38] and are they deciding who gets them is
it uh
[1:26:42] or is that from department of health do
they have to be on that
[1:26:45] 1a list
every vaccine site is given a list by
[1:26:50] department of health of who receives it
for that day
[1:26:53] okay thank you
yes ma'am
[1:26:58] any other questions or comments
i do try
[1:27:05] did i hear somebody
chairman garcia for sure yes sir
[1:27:11] thank you mr maestas for all your hard
work everything that you your staff
[1:27:15] everyone involved in this endeavor what
you guys are doing
[1:27:19] it is a very serious issue
and i think you guys are tackling it
[1:27:22] appropriately
i wanted to ask what would possibility
[1:27:27] of getting
some vaccines or see if it's possible at
[1:27:31] the same again
clinic
[1:27:34] in elvia
able to also provide vaccines to the
[1:27:38] residents in that area
[1:27:42] so the the
clinic in san miguel is part of the el
[1:27:46] centro
uh systems all their patients are
[1:27:50] directed to go to el centro and i don't
know if they actually go to some miguel
[1:27:55] to give them
but i know that they are targeting all
[1:27:58] their audience
all of their patients from incentive
[1:28:03] thank you i think we want to
convene it
[1:28:07] to everyone
to be able to get these vaccines and i
[1:28:10] think it'd be important
if we could get
[1:28:13] those uh vaccines administered
at the same age as well
[1:28:20] i will communicate that uh that uh with
mr probst at el centro to see make sure
[1:28:25] that they are getting enough to the area
targeting that area
[1:28:30] thank you
[1:28:33] any other questions or comments
no sir
[1:28:37] thank you mr maestas for
your continued hard work and your
[1:28:41] dedication
uh it is truly appreciated
[1:28:46] next item
i'm sorry
[1:28:49] real quick if i may um our vaccines i
mean our our swapping site that we're
[1:28:54] doing at the recreation center we're
having some difficulty with with getting
[1:28:58] uh people to volunteer help out you
don't have to have a medical background
[1:29:03] again the test is administered by the
patient by the person that's driving up
[1:29:07] in their vehicle you everybody again
rotary has stepped up and given us some
[1:29:12] some individuals that are willing to do
that
[1:29:14] if you have anybody that would like to
volunteer again it's 9 to 12 months
[1:29:20] thursday it's very simple i can run
through the just in time training uh
[1:29:25] please contact us and let us know
thank you very much thank you leo
[1:29:34] next item item number four
resolution to submit application to
[1:29:38] department of finance for fy 22 dwi
grant and we have mr jesus romero to
[1:29:45] present
[1:29:48] thank you good afternoon chairman garcia
madam chair uh vice chair uh varela
[1:29:52] members of the commission
i come here before you today with a
[1:29:56] resolution seeking your approval to
submit our yearly
[1:30:00] fy 22
grant application to the department of
[1:30:03] finance in order to participate with the
uh in the ldw grant and distribution
[1:30:08] program
um
[1:30:10] looking to
[1:30:13] to go with the same distribution and
grant amount that we have in the last
[1:30:17] year it seemed pretty substantial um
there is
[1:30:22] there is we are we are allocated for
more money um but
[1:30:26] you know
in the situation that we're at it it's a
[1:30:29] suitable amount of money for the
department to thrive and uh with that i
[1:30:33] stand for any questions
[1:30:37] just one question
to melinda have you reviewed this
[1:30:40] belinda and are you okay with
[1:30:47] she's that
[1:30:49] you're muted
i'm sorry chair and commissioners yes
[1:30:54] i'm
i have read this resolution and i am
[1:30:57] comfortable with the amount of monies
that they're requesting um
[1:31:01] it does provide for the employment that
we have right now and the services that
[1:31:05] are being rendered through that office
so i'm i'm happy with this
[1:31:09] sounds good thank you
are there any questions from the
[1:31:11] commission any comments
[1:31:38] motion carries uh next item we have this
id
[1:31:43] we have miss eileen sedillo to present
a recommendation to approve the job
[1:31:47] description for the san miguel county
manager mr dio
[1:31:53] good afternoon chairman garcia and
commissioners and um
[1:31:58] [Music]
in your packets you have the
[1:32:01] job description for
um
[1:32:05] the samuel county manager
this position works under the directives
[1:32:09] of the board of county commissioners its
general purpose is to perform a variety
[1:32:13] of professional executive
and managerial duties relating to
[1:32:18] planning directing organizing and
controlling
[1:32:21] the administrative processes necessary
to carry out the efficient and economic
[1:32:26] operation of the county
at this time i stand for any questions
[1:32:32] or i request the approval of this job
description
[1:32:36] do we have any questions from the
commission or comment
[1:32:42] madam manager
i i
[1:32:45] understand you've reviewed the
proposed job description and you're
[1:32:50] approving submitting
[1:32:57] yes i have reviewed the job application
or the job description and i'm
[1:33:01] comfortable with um seeking approval for
of your of you
[1:33:07] thank you very much
i i also
[1:33:10] i also have reviewed the job description
it's it's very detailed i want to thank
[1:33:14] you mr leo for
for doing an amazing job with it
[1:33:19] and i think that if we
live up to what's on the job description
[1:33:24] we should be able to
fulfill the duties that are required of
[1:33:28] the county manager once we hire a
manager
[1:33:31] do we have any questions or comments
from the commission
[1:33:37] hearing none
do we have a motion to approve the job
[1:33:42] description submitted for the county
manager
[1:33:46] we have a motion by commissioner sena do
we have a second second
[1:33:51] we have a second but commissioner medina
all those in favor signify by saying aye
[1:33:55] aye aye aye
all those appalled same sign
[1:33:59] motion carries we have an approved job
description thank you mr deal uh
[1:34:05] next item is again misa dio and it is
recommendation to approve the job
[1:34:10] description
for the tax processor one in the
[1:34:13] treasurer's office go ahead mr deal
so um another job description and i want
[1:34:21] to say thank you to
um incoming treasurer uh jennifer lavier
[1:34:26] she has taken the initiative to
look at her job descriptions and submit
[1:34:32] them
so we can get them approved
[1:34:36] this particular one was there was an
opening for the tax processor one so
[1:34:42] this is always a perfect opportunity to
revise these job descriptions re-look at
[1:34:47] the
at the responsibilities and duties of
[1:34:50] these positions so
um this one is
[1:34:54] under the general direction of the
county treasurer and the chief deputy
[1:34:58] treasurer the tax processor one performs
routine functions involving research
[1:35:02] review and processing of property tax
accounts and related documents while
[1:35:06] performing tax collection procedures
this individual may perform other duties
[1:35:11] that may be assigned by the supervisor
and so i stand for questions
[1:35:16] or um or i request the approval of this
job description
[1:35:21] do we have any questions or comments
from the commission
[1:35:26] our manager do you have are you okay
with the proposed job description
[1:35:31] mr chairman commissioners yes i'm okay
with the job description as presented
[1:35:35] and i'd also like to thank mr dio and mr
febre for working on this job
[1:35:39] description i think that that's a task
that we need to do across the board and
[1:35:43] across the county is to work on job
descriptions make sure that what's
[1:35:48] defined is actually what's taking place
see if they need to be changed so i do
[1:35:52] appreciate your efforts ms eileen thank
you thank you
[1:35:58] you know
i noticed that it's got a salary range
[1:36:02] on
do we have those classifications still
[1:36:05] active as far as the salary range i know
that back in
[1:36:08] some we have tactifications
and are those still active and if go
[1:36:14] is every department following the
classifications
[1:36:19] um mr chair and commissioners i may have
to defer part of this question to mr
[1:36:23] theo but yes they're still indicated in
there although they've changed from the
[1:36:27] last adopted
salary schedule that
[1:36:31] has been approved by the commission just
based on like the cost of living
[1:36:35] increases that have been provided over
the number of years
[1:36:38] um
and that is something that i really feel
[1:36:41] strongly and so does meeting with ms
cedillo that we need to really work on
[1:36:46] and that goes hand in hand with really
looking at the job descriptions making
[1:36:50] sure again we know what people are doing
and what their expectations are and then
[1:36:56] at some point in time we would like to
do a study to
[1:37:01] make sure that
the
[1:37:04] pay scale is accurate
and commence it
[1:37:08] and i guess
if we compare it with other counties or
[1:37:12] with other jobs within the county that
we make sure that we're on par with pay
[1:37:18] across the board all right yeah that's
that that's one concern that i share uh
[1:37:23] i know that
you know classifications are
[1:37:26] are identified based on the job duties
of individuals and the ranges are
[1:37:31] classified by the duties of individuals
and i know that that's become an issue
[1:37:36] most recently
uh where
[1:37:39] where um
classification is not really used
[1:37:44] or maybe not maybe i'm not using the
right words but
[1:37:49] we really need to look at that and and
try to update that because so that
[1:37:54] there's consistent pay range
based on on duties
[1:37:59] by each division
so thank you thank you for including on
[1:38:04] here
and i look forward to
[1:38:07] revisiting this soon
any other any other comments or
[1:38:12] questions from the commission or from
staff
[1:38:14] mr chairman i do have some
questions and comments uh following up
[1:38:19] on the discussion that was just had
right here on
[1:38:23] the job description and qualifications
and also salaries and fairness and
[1:38:29] parody i'd like to see that you know
when we talk about the
[1:38:33] budget and approve the budget we just go
through it really quickly and we get it
[1:38:36] in advance but still i don't know if we
need a meeting to look at this but i
[1:38:40] appreciate
what um our
[1:38:43] interim manager ms gonzalez said and
then the efforts of missile because uh
[1:38:48] it would really it's a problem if we
have
[1:38:50] if there's not parity and fairness
across the board and we could lose
[1:38:53] employees not only from our county but
from one department to another
[1:38:58] because the pay isn't fair or scaled
appropriately and accordingly so i think
[1:39:03] we need to look at that and see how we
could address that thank you for
[1:39:06] bringing this thank you thank you madam
voice chair any other computer questions
[1:39:11] yes the comment mr chairman is my name
go ahead mr medina i'd like to thank
[1:39:17] janet for for that comment that's very
good because the morale will also be a
[1:39:22] boost to people with charity and bring
up everybody to scale yeah thank you
[1:39:28] thank you commissioner medina any other
further questions or comments
[1:39:33] hearing not do i have a motion to
approve the proposed job description
[1:39:37] presented by mr dio move to approve mr
chair
[1:39:42] we have a motion by commissioner
trujillo do we have a second
[1:39:45] exactly
second but medina all those in favor
[1:39:49] signify by saying aye hi hi
[1:39:55] motion carries we have an approved job
description for the
[1:39:59] tax processor one
next item is items
[1:40:04] seven we table that right
a table
[1:40:09] so we're going to be going to item eight
san miguel county
[1:40:13] manager recommendation to approve the
professional service agreement between
[1:40:18] san miguel county and hokum la after
[1:40:24] through february 29th 2023
and we have miss eileen sedillo to
[1:40:30] present
you you have the floor
[1:40:33] thank you chairman
um so in your packet again is the um
[1:40:38] holcomb law office a professional
service agreement
[1:40:42] background information regarding this
holcomb law office will provide
[1:40:47] advice and assistance to san miguel
county in the following areas to one to
[1:40:52] represent san miguel county unemployment
and labor issues as needed
[1:40:56] two to provide legal advice and
consultation as needed and three as
[1:41:01] otherwise directed by san miguel county
um the term of this professional service
[1:41:06] agreement between san miguel county and
holcomb law office is march 1st 2021
[1:41:11] through this this actually is a typo it
should be february 28th
[1:41:15] uh 2023.
so i stand for questions or i seek the
[1:41:22] approval of this professional service
agreement
[1:41:25] once again i'd like to ask our manager
have you reviewed this and is
[1:41:30] are you okay with that
mr chairman and commissioners yes i have
[1:41:35] reviewed this and the work that miss
eileen has put together in
[1:41:39] recommending miss bookham i'm also very
happy with the services that mrs holcomb
[1:41:43] has provided to us over the course of
years and i think she's well suited to
[1:41:47] can you continue providing us the
services
[1:41:51] thank you very much miss manager do you
have any questions or comments from the
[1:41:54] commission
[1:41:58] hearing now uh do we have a motion to
approve
[1:42:02] the professional service agreement with
ms dina hokum
[1:42:11] we have a motion about commissioner
trujillo do we have a second
[1:42:15] second
we have a second by commissioner medina
[1:42:18] all in favor signify by saying aye
aye aye
[1:42:22] aye all opposed same sign
motion carries thank you mr theo uh for
[1:42:28] presenting these items thank you
next item is item nine
[1:42:34] ambulance service update
and we have
[1:42:38] um
dave romero to present mr chair this is
[1:42:42] the item that will need addition for him
to return from his um court okay
[1:42:48] all right well we're gonna we're gonna
hold this one then until
[1:42:52] mr
romero returns next item is item 14
[1:42:57] tecolotito solar waste mou
and we have mr arnold lopez our public
[1:43:03] works
foreman
[1:43:05] to present
[1:43:08] mr chairman axe actually item number 10
is the communication project
[1:43:14] yeah i'm sorry
okay
[1:43:18] this these papers are double-sided
[1:43:24] i'm just testing to make sure
everybody's paying attention
[1:43:28] okay
and then our and our manager is keeping
[1:43:32] very good attention so thank you
item 10
[1:43:36] communication project update and we have
mr andrew duran to present mr duran
[1:43:43] good afternoon chairman garcia members
of the commission
[1:43:47] good afternoon
um our communication project is is off
[1:43:52] the ground uh we made an award to code
three incorporated out of albuquerque to
[1:43:59] uh
update if you will our communication
[1:44:02] system throughout san miguel county
through code 3 uh incorporated out of
[1:44:08] albuquerque we're using a company called
uh codan who is a supplier who is a
[1:44:14] manufacturer and and engineers that
design systems for such
[1:44:19] agencies such as the military and the
fbi or some other big customers so uh we
[1:44:25] have uh we have confidence with this
company that they're going to do as
[1:44:30] good a job as possible for for us rural
new mexico and san miguel county
[1:44:35] up on the screen if you see the
the tower sites that we use
[1:44:41] those in yellow
turkey mountain pacheco tower
[1:44:46] apache
trujillo and quintus sites those are the
[1:44:49] sites that are going to be upgraded at
this time uh we are repeat replacing our
[1:44:54] existing simulcast system
uh which is an
[1:44:58] analog system that's at least 20 years
old we're gonna replace that system with
[1:45:03] a digital
and analog system so the system will
[1:45:08] have the capability uh here uh with san
miguel county fire and the sheriff's
[1:45:13] office we have the capability of of
talking on a digital level so we'll be
[1:45:18] using that system but we wanted to also
have
[1:45:21] the the ability to talk in analog with
our partners such as the city fire
[1:45:26] department which are using analog radios
we didn't want to have we didn't want to
[1:45:31] lose that capability so we're going to
upgrade this system
[1:45:36] not only are we upgrading the system
it's going to upgrade our coverage area
[1:45:41] and so we should have
almost the entire company covered with
[1:45:45] this upgrade
we are looking at the future for
[1:45:49] for the western part of the county
there's a because of the mountainous
[1:45:53] areas in that area we do have some
difficulties at times getting
[1:45:57] communications in some of those areas
but we have uh
[1:46:01] identified a couple of possibilities
but that is uh the
[1:46:06] one of the features of the new system is
that we can expand uh in the future
[1:46:12] without uh having to go back and
redesign the system so we've identified
[1:46:17] you know right now we have one of our
frequencies one of our towers up on elk
[1:46:21] mountain that seems like that would be a
very
[1:46:24] uh suitable site to add to this
simulcast system
[1:46:30] we've started some talks with the
us forest service that's their tower
[1:46:36] we do have
one of our repeaters on there um we want
[1:46:40] to uh
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[1:46:42] change that repeater site and and bring
it into the simulcast system
[1:46:47] um
so
[1:46:49] and to explain a little bit what the
simulcast system does is is as you're
[1:46:53] driving throughout the county
uh
[1:46:56] in in our radio system uh say um you
know from here from the office if i talk
[1:47:00] on my radio it's probably gonna hit the
pacheco's
[1:47:04] site because it's closest but as i'm
driving through the county it
[1:47:08] automatically detects which site is
stronger for me to use so it gives its
[1:47:13] it simul it'll simulcast it'll
simultaneously transmit to another site
[1:47:19] that's stronger closer without me having
to do anything on my end which is a is
[1:47:24] is great for us uh you know there's
there's other systems that you have you
[1:47:28] manually have to change channels as you
travel throughout large areas with this
[1:47:33] system we don't need to do that it does
it automatically
[1:47:37] so you know we're very excited to see
this project uh off and running right
[1:47:42] now they're in the engineering
uh engineering and purchasing of
[1:47:46] equipment phase
hopefully within the next three months
[1:47:50] or so they'll start putting together
that system so this company will do
[1:47:54] they'll they'll
build our system
[1:47:57] at an off site location at their at
their location they'll build our entire
[1:48:01] system
test that take it all apart bring it
[1:48:05] down here and put it up in our top in
the towers that we use
[1:48:09] um
the towers that we're using none of uh
[1:48:12] the trujillo site tower is the only
tower that we own uh all the other sites
[1:48:17] and i'm sorry about that concha site is
well owned that tower as well but turkey
[1:48:22] mountain uh pacheco apache
uh and elk mountain we we rent space on
[1:48:28] those towers uh from from the uh tower
owners uh most towers now are owned by
[1:48:33] american tower company uh so we all we
rent space on those towers the trujillo
[1:48:38] site we rent the land but the tower
itself is ours uh same with conchas will
[1:48:43] own the tower site um and and that one's
going to be a new site that'll tie into
[1:48:48] this existing system
the total project hopefully
[1:48:53] hopefully in the next eight months will
be completed
[1:48:57] um so we're you know we're really
excited to move into
[1:49:00] some new digital age technology
i have a question mr duran
[1:49:07] this particular project is
one of my pet projects that i
[1:49:12] gave to the manager two years ago
when i took office um my district is up
[1:49:18] in gaines cover is a good part of gaines
how how can we be assured uh to the
[1:49:25] to the people in gaines in pecos in
gonzalez
[1:49:31] and up in the area near laba and
and tapia how can we assure them
[1:49:37] that this service is going to be
something that they can depend on uh
[1:49:42] particularly our emergency response
uh providers for example our sheriff's
[1:49:48] office the fire departments the
ambulances how can we be assured that
[1:49:52] this is going to be the best possible
[1:49:57] project that we're working on to address
the safety issue regarding
[1:50:02] the entire county
[1:50:07] uh chairman greece yeah we
they've provided us coverage maps
[1:50:12] showing us the improvement that we'll
see
[1:50:14] uh when this project is completed
um we've uh if we uh me along with the
[1:50:20] emergency manager the sheriff's office
have been in contact with the vendor and
[1:50:24] he provides us these coverage maps that
shows us where we are to where we were
[1:50:28] today and where we will be uh once this
project is completed and we will have a
[1:50:34] large portion of the county cover you
know the western part of the county is
[1:50:39] is a little more difficult just based on
the terrain
[1:50:43] because of the radio waves as they
travel across the air um it is a little
[1:50:48] more difficult but right now that that
area of the county
[1:50:52] has good coverage from the santa fe site
that part of the county is dispatched
[1:50:57] out of santa fe regional dispatch center
so there is good coverage in that area
[1:51:02] from the santa fe side but eventually we
want to tie that into
[1:51:06] our our central location here in las
vegas uh uh conscious side the eastern
[1:51:11] part of the county was another part of
the county that the sheriff's office
[1:51:15] especially you know they once they
traveled so far from las vegas they lose
[1:51:20] all communication with the guests with
artist 5 center um
[1:51:24] once we get this conscious site up and
running over the entire project we'll
[1:51:28] have coverage all the way down into the
eastern part of the county as well of
[1:51:32] course a little more flat in that area
but um
[1:51:35] this this this project will improve
communications uh
[1:51:40] quite a bit
okay and then one more question there's
[1:51:45] there's a tower that was installed at
the pueblo fire station uh is that tower
[1:51:51] already being used and is that tower and
other potential for the communication
[1:51:56] that we're we're talking about now
i
[1:52:00] uh chairman garcia correct there is a an
atm t tower that was built
[1:52:04] on us on one of our fire station sites
out there
[1:52:08] right now we are not using that um
we
[1:52:12] the
pueblo fire department um wanted to use
[1:52:16] that for their own channel out in that
area
[1:52:19] i think the best the best interest
overall is is to wait and see how we
[1:52:25] can either tie in that that site or the
elk mountain site or both into our
[1:52:31] existing simulcast system rather than it
rather than being rather than using that
[1:52:36] tower for a one channel site for a
specific department if it's if it'll
[1:52:41] work to tie it into our simulcast system
it would not only benefit that
[1:52:46] department but it would benefit all our
departments including the sheriff's
[1:52:50] office
the vendor is aware of that site
[1:52:54] they will they will be running some
coverage maps from that location and as
[1:52:58] well as elk mountain and uh and also
there's also a power up on romesa that's
[1:53:04] owned by the uh uh
faa i believe so that they'll run
[1:53:08] coverage maps and from there we'll we
can decide which will be the best option
[1:53:13] on those three sites
to tie into the system
[1:53:17] okay thank you any any comments or
questions from the commission mr chair
[1:53:23] commissioner trujillo
chief duran um
[1:53:28] what are your expectations of the vendor
to provide service after installation of
[1:53:34] these towers
is there a warranty or do they guarantee
[1:53:39] that they can
maintain or
[1:53:43] or be
available to help if one of these sites
[1:53:47] goes down due to weather or due to some
other cause um
[1:53:51] can can we expect this this vendor to be
to be there uh for us and and to get you
[1:53:58] guys up and running quickly
[1:54:02] commissioner uh chairman garcia
commissioner trujillo uh yes we've been
[1:54:06] using this vendor for several years
we have a a maintenance contract with
[1:54:10] them they may they currently maintain
our system now um one of the
[1:54:16] advantages of the new system is is so at
each site there's
[1:54:20] what's called a rack and that rack
has if you will the brains of the system
[1:54:25] well when we now that we're doing our
new system they will actually house a
[1:54:30] spare rack at their shop
and if one of our racks goes down it'll
[1:54:34] be a matter of them driving that rack to
the site and replacing that and we'll be
[1:54:39] we'd be back up and running uh
in a matter of
[1:54:43] the time it takes them to replace that
rack
[1:54:48] thank you thank you any other questions
or comments i have a question mr
[1:54:53] chairman commissioner medina
mr dudan how are you doing this
[1:54:57] afternoon uh i just wanted to ask you
on the
[1:55:01] services that are owned by the company
is there any
[1:55:07] other
lease
[1:55:09] off of us however logistically
for somebody else
[1:55:18] sure chairman garcia commissioner
if i understand your question correctly
[1:55:22] um you're asking if other agencies lease
off of our our space
[1:55:27] yeah
the only site that that is occurring at
[1:55:30] is the trudeau site um
that one we you know we lease the land
[1:55:35] we own the tower
and we have a las vegas city schools
[1:55:38] leasing space on that tower
for i believe they use a communication
[1:55:43] uh
system for their uh
[1:55:45] out in that area
okay
[1:55:50] but there's not like anything else like
such of the cell phone services or
[1:55:54] anything that could be on there
[1:55:58] right now no one has approached us of uh
of that need um the other towers that we
[1:56:03] have that
sure not that we have that we have our
[1:56:07] equipment on such as pacheco and and
turkey mountain those sites are being
[1:56:12] used by multiple companies from cell
phone to gp
[1:56:15] but it's not from
they're not leasing from us they're just
[1:56:19] on the same tower
[1:56:23] just looking for more revenue
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[1:56:28] thank you thank you commissioner
uh any other questions or comments from
[1:56:32] the board
just a follow-up question on what um
[1:56:37] mr medina commissioner medina would just
ask chief duran so with el pueblo so
[1:56:42] they do not have um
improved cell phone coverage because of
[1:56:46] this tower
uh and is that a possibility that a
[1:56:50] company like verizon
or um what's that other one that's
[1:56:54] commonly used a plateau that they would
um
[1:56:57] lease or use this tower to improve cell
phone reception for people there
[1:57:04] chairman garcia
vice chair varela the site out in pueblo
[1:57:08] is it is a atm t tower
they built the tower for their service
[1:57:14] so that that area should have seen a
huge improvement from atm t
[1:57:20] coverage area
[1:57:23] so just that one company that's their
tower okay thank you all right
[1:57:29] okay uh any other questions or comments
i just have one more question andrew mr
[1:57:36] duran uh we're using half a million
dollars
[1:57:40] appropriation from capital outlay last
year
[1:57:43] if i'm correct and we're using
400 000 from the fire fund or how is
[1:57:48] that being funded
[1:57:52] garcia uh several several budgets were
used to
[1:57:56] uh
cover the additional cost we we did
[1:58:00] receive a 500 000 capital outlay and the
remaining
[1:58:05] and thirty thousand dollars
uh
[1:58:08] some persons came from
uh some of the fire districts that are
[1:58:13] being covered by this expanse by this
upgrade i believe has about eight
[1:58:17] thousand dollars from each of their fire
districts
[1:58:20] and then we also had um funds from
my budget and then there was an
[1:58:25] emergency fund that we have for for fire
services that was also used to cover
[1:58:30] this cost
sounds good thank
[1:58:40] mr chair also for the record part of the
monies that were transferred to the
[1:58:43] emergency funds
for this tower came from
[1:58:47] general sources from the general county
from the i don't know if it was from the
[1:58:51] general fund or from one of our grocery
seat taxes that are outside of the fire
[1:58:54] departments so 150 000 was transferred
to those
[1:58:59] um
to allow for um
[1:59:02] this project to take off also
and thank you chief duran for all your
[1:59:06] expertise in this area
thank you madam manager and thank you
[1:59:11] fire chief duran for the exceptional
presentation today any any other
[1:59:17] discussion
i have a question
[1:59:21] uh
chief duran i'm uh interested to find
[1:59:24] out if you have any information
as to the status of the money
[1:59:29] being allocated from uh the blame her
ranch
[1:59:32] uh what has been used from uh from that
fund
[1:59:38] chairman garcia commissioner senna i
couldn't really answer that i'm not
[1:59:43] really aware
of what where that money was used
[1:59:50] um
mr chair um commissioner cena are you
[1:59:53] speaking about the lawsuit that had
happened with the flamer ranch or what
[1:59:57] funds are you speaking of
yes those are the funds i know that we
[2:00:01] were awarded uh some bank taxes
okay mr chair and commissioners um the
[2:00:06] county did receive 35 000 from blamer
ranch and the stipulation for those
[2:00:11] funds it was supposed to be used on
law enforcement or protection ppe kind
[2:00:17] of thing so what we ended up doing um
with approval
[2:00:21] is providing a stipend to our law
enforcement and our detention center
[2:00:26] personnel
since they're out in the community and
[2:00:30] are
around people or have the possibility of
[2:00:34] being around people who might be
positive with covid so it was provided
[2:00:39] as a stipend
and given to a number of employees in
[2:00:43] those fields
thank you
[2:00:46] you're welcome any any further questions
or comments
[2:00:51] thank you fire truth iran for the
excellent presentation
[2:00:55] thank you
thank you
[2:00:58] next item is
bridge project update and we have mr
[2:01:04] gerald garcia our public works
supervisors to present on this item
[2:01:10] mr chair
[2:01:12] mr chairman
i'm sorry matter of chairman
[2:01:17] wait i'm sorry what about uh i'm sorry
matt uh point of order mr chair
[2:01:22] number eleven is pequos canyon fire
station consumption oh okay i'm sorry
[2:01:26] i'm sorry i'm jumping
[2:01:33] i'm paying attention
[2:01:37] you're paying very good attention madam
vice chair thank you very much
[2:01:41] melinda
[2:01:44] thank you
uh item 11 pecos canyon fire station
[2:01:48] construction data award i'm sorry it's
andrew again i'm sorry about that
[2:01:56] fire chief to run
[2:02:00] chairman garcia member of the commission
we we did solicit for uh bids for the
[2:02:07] construction
of a new fire station in the pecos
[2:02:10] canyon fire district
the
[2:02:12] site is going to be at the marbusa
springs hatchery uh we did receive
[2:02:18] i believe there was a total of six bids
uh surprisingly you know we you know we
[2:02:24] sometimes we don't receive
a lot of bids or a lot of interest in
[2:02:27] these projects but we did receive six
bids for this project
[2:02:31] all the bidders
met the the requirements during the bid
[2:02:35] opening the lowest bid was submitted by
new image construction
[2:02:41] we did receive one additional bid that
was uh emailed to the architect
[2:02:46] but that was uh excluded based on the
definitions outlined in the bid packets
[2:02:52] that
uh identified that bids had to be
[2:02:55] delivered to
our administration office building and
[2:02:58] could not be emailed to the
uh
[2:03:01] architect
um i
[2:03:04] the
the total uh the base bid project uh the
[2:03:08] bid from new image construction is
774
[2:03:13] 904 dollars
um
[2:03:17] we have we ask for your approval and
awarding this bid to new image
[2:03:20] construction uh we are hoping that once
this award is made and
[2:03:26] and permits are obtained
the construction will start uh shortly
[2:03:30] thereafter i believe the the
uh architect included a 160 day build
[2:03:37] time for this project so hopefully we
can have a new fire station uh in a few
[2:03:41] in a couple of short months
thank you mr duran
[2:03:46] madam manager
um have you reviewed this and are you
[2:03:50] good with the budget
uh how does it reflect
[2:04:06] this project will be funded through
several different funding options we did
[2:04:11] have uh the department did receive a
state fire grant
[2:04:17] and they they also have a 501c3
which has also
[2:04:22] contributed a significant amount of
money to this project and with savings
[2:04:27] that they
had over the years within their own
[2:04:30] budget planning for this project
so we are within budget for the project
[2:04:36] as far as far as our finances matter
manager
[2:04:41] um mr chair and commissioners um yes we
are later on during the meeting we're
[2:04:45] going to be as part of our mid-year
budget request we're going to be
[2:04:49] asking for approval of an additional
seventy five thousand dollars 501c3
[2:04:54] probably two months ago they had
committed to give a hundred thousand
[2:04:57] they kicked in an additional seventy
five thousand plus our fire chief has
[2:05:01] allowed a
internal loan from some of the grocery
[2:05:05] seat tax resources that they have tied
to fire excise tax
[2:05:09] which will be backed by the pecos
volunteer fire department over a seven
[2:05:13] year period um this pretty much does
um
[2:05:17] will wipe out their operating budget but
again they'll begin next year with that
[2:05:21] and they'll be able to provide funds
back to the fire chief for that portion
[2:05:25] but yes once that budget adjustment is
approved yes and we shall have
[2:05:31] sufficient funds
sounds good thank you very much thank
[2:05:34] you uh fire chief duran
are there any options or comments from
[2:05:38] the commission
yes just thank you for mr chairman thank
[2:05:42] you chief duran thank you
madam mom manager
[2:05:47] i do have a question and i think is this
the supplemental to the station that's
[2:05:51] already
the one that's up by brush ranch will
[2:05:54] they both be in use
or will uh this new station
[2:05:59] at the hatchery
chairman garcia um vice chair varela
[2:06:04] both stations will be used this will be
on uh an addition additional station so
[2:06:10] uh
you know once once they build an
[2:06:12] additional station they'll be receiving
funding for two stations so that'll
[2:06:17] increase their funding that they receive
from the state fire marshal's office
[2:06:23] thank you
thank you any any other questions or
[2:06:27] comments
thank you fire chief iran
[2:06:31] thank you uh
and so at this time we are requesting
[2:06:36] award of bid to the lowest bidder new
image construction
[2:06:40] to have a motion to award the bid
[2:06:49] second by commissioner trujillo all in
favor signify by saying aye
[2:06:52] aye
i'll oppose same sign
[2:06:56] motion carries thank you fire chief
duran
[2:07:00] uh item 12 and i hope i'm right this
time
[2:07:03] echoloca bridge project update and we
have
[2:07:07] uh gerald garcia our public works
division supervisor to present on this
[2:07:11] item
mr garcia
[2:07:14] good afternoon can you hear me
yes we can
[2:07:17] okay uh good afternoon chairman uh
garcia and commissioners um just gonna
[2:07:23] give you an update and i know leo and
possibly arnold will give you probably a
[2:07:27] little bit more information but i want
to give you an update on just the
[2:07:30] technology bridge um just as of today i
talked to leo maestas in regards to the
[2:07:36] bridge and we got state and fema
approval to move forward on the bridge
[2:07:41] um i talked to miller engineering who is
the engineering firm on site for this
[2:07:46] project and they sent uh an
advertisement form to melinda today
[2:07:52] so we can move forward in the
advertisement uh probably the
[2:07:56] albuquerque journal and the
in the optic uh we're looking at the
[2:08:00] advertisement going out february 17th
and then and then we have to because
[2:08:06] it's a federal project we have to
advertise for three weeks
[2:08:09] so we're looking at opening up packages
bid packages march 11th
[2:08:14] um
and then um then we come back to
[2:08:18] commission uh to award
uh the the contractor based on our bids
[2:08:24] uh april 13th at the commissioners
uh meeting april 13th for the contractor
[2:08:30] um as you remember this bit this bridge
did go out to um
[2:08:34] to bid once before but it was a full
construction
[2:08:38] uh presentation and we were well over
budget of what was allowed this round
[2:08:43] we're going with the original scope of
work
[2:08:45] uh to stay into budget uh
which is about 750 000
[2:08:50] and um
and so we're keeping uh our concrete
[2:08:54] abutments and and so the scope of work
has changed but we have rece received
[2:08:59] approval uh as
as the design for the engineer so we got
[2:09:04] approval that from and that was
confirmed by leo
[2:09:08] so
that that's pretty much i want to give
[2:09:10] you some dates uh for a timeline for
that bridge i know uh this is this has
[2:09:16] been in the works for a few years to try
to get that bridge repaired
[2:09:21] and uh honestly with federal money it
takes a little bit longer and the
[2:09:24] process is longer so um
i'll have any questions and if need be
[2:09:29] leo or
the road forming arnold lopez can and
[2:09:33] touch baseball anything that about the
project
[2:09:37] i i'd like to make a few comments
mr garcia and i'd like to maybe
[2:09:43] ask questions of you
you know this project
[2:09:48] as far as i'm concerned is a very
important project it's
[2:09:51] it's it's a bridge that was declared a
disaster back in 2014
[2:09:57] almost seven years ago
you know we declared a fema
[2:10:02] declaration a federal emergency
management declaration
[2:10:06] and i'm a bit concerned that
it's taken almost seven years to get it
[2:10:11] done
can you go over the timeline
[2:10:15] and then also
being that this is such a
[2:10:20] crucial
piece of public works uh in san geronimo
[2:10:26] area
you're providing that i'm not an update
[2:10:29] but it it's not a written update
and so it's hard for us to digest
[2:10:36] this update because it's already
followed by
[2:10:39] three or four previous updates that have
not been
[2:10:43] uh
fulfilled
[2:10:45] and so how can we be assured
uh with it being as long as it's been
[2:10:50] how can we be assured that this is going
to be the final
[2:10:53] uh time
this that this comes before us
[2:10:58] and that it goes into construction
so that we can finally have this bridge
[2:11:03] addressed seven years later
and i'm asking that question of you mr
[2:11:07] garcia
[2:11:10] so
so i
[2:11:13] i certainly
uh
[2:11:17] share your concern chairman garcia 2014
when there was this disaster that there
[2:11:23] was some serious
damage
[2:11:26] uh to the bridge
and uh and with with care miller
[2:11:30] engineering has looked over it and uh
tried to see the process of
[2:11:36] some of the recommendations that
honestly were prior done to me you know
[2:11:40] and i think the processes that
mr maestas has taken through fema to
[2:11:45] secure funding uh federally to try to
help that because
[2:11:51] some of these bridges are expensive to
repair and uh and i have
[2:11:55] been given an insurance from uh mili
engineering that there are no costs on
[2:12:00] his
end
[2:12:02] uh to move forward
for
[2:12:05] for the engineering services and and the
state and the and according to mr maya's
[2:12:10] the state and fema are going with the
recommendation of our of our engineer
[2:12:14] and we are moving forward uh with it and
um and so
[2:12:19] i don't know if we could call that the
scope of work has been uh reduced but we
[2:12:23] are keeping the concrete abutments now
that would we that would give us
[2:12:28] move the project into budget
um this last presentation that we had
[2:12:32] back in november where it didn't meet
budget because it was like
[2:12:38] 250
000 over budget
[2:12:42] um at least that
i'm sorry we must have an emergency uh
[2:12:45] thing on our phones um uh so we the
scope of work is supposed to be within
[2:12:51] budget and move the project forward
[2:12:57] okay well uh
what i would like to do is have money
[2:13:04] can add to inside of the budget and the
of the approvals that were given from
[2:13:09] state and fema and fema
[2:13:23] [Music]
[2:13:28] mr chair and commissioners um regarding
this particular project at the time that
[2:13:32] the agenda was put together we had not
received any notification from the state
[2:13:36] of new mexico whether they had approved
this change of services or
[2:13:41] whether they had
authorized us to continue with going out
[2:13:45] for bid
this is just something that was just
[2:13:48] very recent a matter of fact leo
called me during the lunch hour
[2:13:52] indicated that he'll be forwarding that
information to me i'll be looking at it
[2:13:56] to make sure that i fully understand
what's going on with the project and
[2:14:00] that we
address anything right away that needs
[2:14:03] to be addressed there's been several
extensions for this particular project
[2:14:07] and just to kind of give you some brief
um
[2:14:10] background on it and i might error in
some of this but when the bridge was
[2:14:15] actually declared as disaster most of
the time that fema provides you with
[2:14:19] funding they'll provide you funding to
get something restored to its original
[2:14:23] um situation too where it's original um
building verb
[2:14:29] thank you there's the word and at the
point in time the engineers that we were
[2:14:33] working with um
had indicated that it would probably be
[2:14:37] in the best interest of the county to
actually build a new bridge so at that
[2:14:41] point in time our
office of emergency manager was working
[2:14:45] with fema
and our county manager at the time
[2:14:49] and they had approved a bridge could be
built and that's really something that's
[2:14:53] out of the norm
but then there was a lot of turnover
[2:14:56] with fema and we had turnover internally
as well and when the project got
[2:15:00] readdressed it was determined that
that's no longer going to be the case
[2:15:04] that the county would have to go with
the existing structure and bring it back
[2:15:08] to its current condition
since then several extensions have been
[2:15:13] requested of the state i believe in leo
correct me if i'm wrong i believe the
[2:15:17] current extension is through april no an
extension cannot be requested until we
[2:15:22] get closer to like a 30-day period
within that particular point in time at
[2:15:26] that time leo will reach out to the
state and request another extension of
[2:15:30] course the state knows where we're at
because they had to
[2:15:33] provide the approval
to proceed with
[2:15:36] going out for bid again and again i'll
be looking at that documentation and
[2:15:41] we'll make sure that we're meeting
collectively
[2:15:44] the office of emergency management the
road department and myself to make sure
[2:15:47] that we're on top of what's going on and
to make sure that we report to you and
[2:15:51] let you guys know if there's any
concerns or just to kind of let you know
[2:15:54] what the status is
thank you thank you madam manager
[2:15:59] the concern that i have is the
the safety of the bridge you know i know
[2:16:04] uh i was here when we declared that
bridge of disaster
[2:16:08] uh i was here almost a year after the
disaster
[2:16:13] and we had to do some temporary repairs
to the bridge
[2:16:17] which which we did
and i understand those temporary repairs
[2:16:22] are still on it in the meantime
you know here we are seven years later
[2:16:26] and it still hasn't been done so i i
must say that i do share that concern
[2:16:30] and
it without without
[2:16:34] me sharing the concern it would not be
me doing my job and so
[2:16:38] um i appreciate that this is getting
done i appreciate that you're
[2:16:42] keeping us updated melinda uh this is
something that we've been wanting for a
[2:16:46] while and i appreciate that it's finally
getting done and let's hope that the
[2:16:50] state
uh gives us the extension after april
[2:16:53] because if they don't then we're going
to be in in worse in a worse situation
[2:16:57] so uh thank you and thank you gerald
also for presenting
[2:17:00] uh are there any questions comments i do
from the center center
[2:17:06] um i understand that the county is going
to be uh
[2:17:09] taking up a scope of this work
can you elaborate on that and see uh
[2:17:14] what part of the county
the uh
[2:17:17] will be responsible for as far as
this development
[2:17:24] um
i kind of cut out there then but i'm not
[2:17:28] aware of any part of the work
um is going to be uh part of the
[2:17:32] county's responsibility everything
um
[2:17:36] uh and you can correct me if i'm wrong
arnold on this but as far as i know all
[2:17:41] the work is gonna be part of the bid
process
[2:17:44] uh in construction
um the design is done and so
[2:17:49] the it'll be bidded out and that would
be part of the contractor's
[2:17:52] responsibility for this project
san miguel county uh public works will
[2:17:58] bear no responsibility in any of the
of the work
[2:18:03] sounds good any other questions to
comment
[2:18:07] thank you just wanna again thank you for
uh for your concerns
[2:18:11] and uh i'm anxious to see this project
move forward and i'm very excited
[2:18:18] thank you gerald
yes any other comments from the
[2:18:21] commissioner questions
let's move on to next item item 13
[2:18:28] proposed 2021 2022 local government
wrote on program participation and we
[2:18:34] have once again mr gerald garcia to
present
[2:18:39] thank you chairman garcia and
commissioners
[2:18:42] um i've been uh sent some information
from the new mexico department of
[2:18:46] transportation district 4 for san miguel
county public works division to
[2:18:51] participate in the
in the lg rf which is our local road
[2:18:55] form uh
road uh fund for 20 21 22 which is even
[2:19:01] next year's
um
[2:19:03] i'm asking you to discuss and decide on
three road projects which is the cap the
[2:19:08] school bus and the sp projects
i need to submit by march 15th a scope
[2:19:13] of work unnecessary cost and quantities
a match waiver
[2:19:18] and uh before the deadline of march 15th
they
[2:19:22] i was on a zoo meeting last week with
them and they would prefer if i could
[2:19:25] get that sooner to them than march 15th
um i know last year we had a discussion
[2:19:30] uh with the commission uh about
road projects for the lgrf and i'd like
[2:19:36] for you to have a discussion and talk
about what your
[2:19:40] priorities are for the lgrf 2021 to all
the way to 22.
[2:19:46] uh mr garcia do you or
mr lopez have any roads that you would
[2:19:51] like for us to consider
before i make a recommendation or before
[2:19:55] i make a request for
for a road in my district uh do you or
[2:19:59] mr lopez want to present
i'm going to have arnold lopez present
[2:20:04] on that because
he is our road foreman and would have a
[2:20:07] good idea what are some of what he would
like to see as a road project and then
[2:20:12] um whatever the commission decides uh
that's what i will
[2:20:16] gear the
the application
[2:20:19] for for the three
road projects mr lopez
[2:20:26] there arnold yeah chairman garcia
members of commission
[2:20:32] good afternoon
so um my recommendation for all
[2:20:36] districts would be for you all to
consider our paved roads you know we've
[2:20:41] been uh
stressing on the need for
[2:20:47] improvement in our paved roads so every
district has paved roads and um any
[2:20:53] three of the roads in any district would
be a great improvement um i could
[2:20:58] recommend one in every single district
but um you know
[2:21:03] there are many needs but if you would
consider pavement as priority i would
[2:21:07] appreciate that
well i i i have one road in my district
[2:21:13] gerald that i'd like to request
consideration of of course the county
[2:21:16] commission is going to be the final
decision on where we go but i'd ask for
[2:21:22] my peer commissioners to
consider
[2:21:25] uh funding for uh los fegiles in my
district as one of the local government
[2:21:31] uh road fund
uh considerations
[2:21:35] are there any other
uh considerations or recommendations by
[2:21:39] the commission
[2:21:42] yes sir mr medina
yeah i'd like to follow through with
[2:21:47] as a
chief seal i think it's my favorite
[2:21:49] planet uh former commissioner chris
nahan
[2:21:53] okay
and uh put that on his uh
[2:21:57] wish list
and i also will get together with uh
[2:22:01] district engineer james gallegos
and
[2:22:05] let him know
see what he feels about us doing that
[2:22:08] road too
okay uh do we have any other requests
[2:22:12] from the commission
yes mr chair
[2:22:16] yes sir mr trujillo
um
[2:22:19] i'd like to see that road in
in pandaria it's about a two mile
[2:22:23] stretch
be placed on on this lg rf
[2:22:28] uh it's a 34 i believe
and
[2:22:32] you know every year we get a little bit
from the legislature on this road and
[2:22:37] it's never enough to
just finish the project
[2:22:41] we're putting band-aids on on a
deteriorating road and and i think you
[2:22:46] know it's it's high time that we we
finish that road it's a
[2:22:51] very well used road people
hundreds of people use it every day yeah
[2:22:56] winter and summer and i think it it's a
worthy uh worthy project thank you
[2:23:01] thank you commissioner trujillo any
other
[2:23:05] any other
considerations chairman garcia
[2:23:08] mr senna
the bernal chapel area
[2:23:14] has been started and we're off to
and i would like to see that uh area
[2:23:19] completed
and as well as uh a26a uh la manga
[2:23:24] that uh that's also a paved word uh road
that could use some attention
[2:23:36] yes thank you mr chairman i know that um
we're all competing for this small
[2:23:40] amount of money and we all have
tremendous need i would like to see
[2:23:44] completion of the road in san ysidro i
appreciate that we got funding
[2:23:48] the last year and they've been waiting a
long time and then we could just finish
[2:23:52] that road for them and they could have a
finished project that would be ideal
[2:23:56] also crb
56 i believe it's across from the dairy
[2:24:00] queen it's a paved road and it's in
pretty bad shape but um those two would
[2:24:05] be my priority for um
for funding
[2:24:10] okay uh
daryl did you get those those
[2:24:15] roads that we've
mentioned to you
[2:24:18] yes yes sir i wrote them all down
okay
[2:24:22] uh so it looks like we have
two from commissioner senna one from
[2:24:26] commissioner one from myself
one from commissioner medina and two
[2:24:31] from
from commissioner varela
[2:24:34] um
where where do we stand what where does
[2:24:38] what are the wishes of the board
[2:24:53] one for co-op and one for school bus
correct there are three projects and
[2:24:58] then we get to apply for the match
waiver well typically historically we
[2:25:02] have always applied for the match waiver
for the highest
[2:25:06] highest contracted bids so so if
something comes up pretty high we try to
[2:25:11] go for our match whatever and and quite
honestly we've been pretty successful in
[2:25:15] getting those match waivers
yeah
[2:25:18] yeah if i hadn't just picked one i would
pick sonny sidrow for now
[2:25:22] okay and and so arnold can i can i uh
ask you to
[2:25:28] to
based on those names that you've been
[2:25:31] given on roads
uh can you tell us the status of each of
[2:25:35] these roads
sir
[2:25:39] so in los vegas for example i'll start
there
[2:25:43] that portion of of paved road is in dire
need it's a very good uh choice
[2:25:50] good candidate for this
funding
[2:25:54] um
before you know their small amount
[2:26:00] i've always
maybe stacking
[2:26:04] some of the
grf's together we've done that
[2:26:09] utilize two
one
[2:26:12] in order to really accomplish something
and not not just create a small
[2:26:17] band-aid as per say
but that is a a very good uh
[2:26:23] consideration there
on panda rays
[2:26:27] in commissioner trujillo's district also
is one that that we started
[2:26:33] san ysidro was started we have an lgrf
for um bernal area
[2:26:39] and uh so forth i mean it's it's hard
for me really just to
[2:26:44] um
designate you know an area
[2:26:48] in all fairness to commission um we
could always draw
[2:26:52] straws
[2:26:56] but any of those they're all good
selections it's very difficult to to
[2:27:00] prioritize one they all hold a high
priority
[2:27:04] in my opinion
[2:27:08] well i'm i'm i'm going to
i'm going to extend
[2:27:12] a request for consideration for my
district in las vegas
[2:27:17] and i hope that i can garner support for
one fund for that particular project
[2:27:22] and i'll go ahead and say why
you know that
[2:27:26] district one
is a highly traveled
[2:27:30] district
you know there there's there's traffic
[2:27:34] that goes through there
on a daily basis school buses that go to
[2:27:38] their
uh emergency units that go through there
[2:27:42] of course it happens uh at all the other
roads as well
[2:27:46] um but i would i would venture to say
that the traffic the amount of traffic
[2:27:51] that goes through my district there in
los vegas
[2:27:55] is amazing on a daily basis and you know
this project was
[2:28:00] was done way back probably 20 24 years
ago
[2:28:04] when we first started at the county
and if we don't continue with the upkeep
[2:28:09] of it
uh we're going to end up having to do
[2:28:13] prayers to it and so
i'm i'm going to solicit
[2:28:18] support from the commission on that and
i'm willing to to um
[2:28:23] consider
two other roads uh if
[2:28:27] if the commission is up to it
uh mr chairman
[2:28:32] yes sir mr medina
does that
[2:28:36] are you including that extension on
eighth street gets back there
[2:28:41] in the winter times or even summer rain
will that include that too
[2:28:47] is it the one north of
it's like almost by williams drive that
[2:28:51] so
that no that particular road uh
[2:28:55] there's been a debate
it would be in the las vegas area yes
[2:28:59] sir
i like i'm proud to be that i was part
[2:29:02] of that paving back in
2006 around there so i will give you my
[2:29:08] support on that thank you commissioner
[2:29:14] any other comment any other
consideration
[2:29:20] garcia
yes sir yes sir
[2:29:23] i i would also like to uh extend my
support to the
[2:29:27] los veges area
and as well
[2:29:30] the panda raising
okay
[2:29:34] thank you thank you uh any other remarks
from the commission
[2:29:40] mr chairman
yes sir
[2:29:43] yes i i realize that los vegeles is used
um by a lot of people as our our roads
[2:29:49] and i would support that one and ask for
support for san ysidro to complete that
[2:29:53] one
okay
[2:29:57] mr chair
yes sir mr trujillo
[2:30:00] so i i would support los vigiles
and ask for the support on the panda ray
[2:30:06] road
uh thank you very much and so we have
[2:30:11] we have narrowed it down to three roads
and let's see what the board decides
[2:30:15] lost
pandere and to be able to do some more
[2:30:21] work in san ysidro
how does the board feel about that mr
[2:30:25] chairman
yes sir mr medina
[2:30:30] when i was elected and i came in i said
i was going to be a team player
[2:30:34] and i'm in support of the roads and have
been chosen the only thing i ask is
[2:30:38] don't forget myself and commissioners
and i'm next years
[2:30:43] well taken commissioner medina
so we have three roads and we're going
[2:30:49] to have to act on that uh
one road is los vegiles
[2:30:53] one road is panda ray and the third road
is san diego
[2:30:58] do we have a motion by the commission to
support these three world projects he
[2:31:04] submitted
some move mr chair
[2:31:07] we have a motion commissioner do we have
a second
[2:31:10] second
we have a second by commissioner all
[2:31:14] those in favor signify by saying aye
aye
[2:31:19] all those are both
same sign
[2:31:22] motion carries thank you very much i i i
i really appreciate the support for
[2:31:27] those gilas and for the other two roads
and we will not forget commissioners and
[2:31:32] commissioner medina i give you my word
thank you
[2:31:36] thank you for your support
you know
[2:31:40] let's let's uh
do we have the office here can we take
[2:31:45] that to a vote
[2:31:52] yes
[2:32:06] yes
[2:32:10] yes
thank you commissioner and motion
[2:32:14] carries
it looks like we have our attorney back
[2:32:18] counselor romero are you here
um so uh sorry to interrupt uh
[2:32:25] i'll go ahead and start working on
on putting those uh scopes of work and
[2:32:30] uh for the three projects right away so
i can do a submittal for the lgrf
[2:32:35] thank you joe thank you geraldine thank
you arnold
[2:32:38] thank you mr garcia thank you
thank you uh
[2:32:44] dave uh we're we're waiting for you so
we could touch on the ambulance update
[2:32:49] are you ready to present
i'm ready to present
[2:32:54] thank you i will yield the floor to you
so you can present
[2:33:01] my discussion
mr chairman commissioners
[2:33:05] is really in two parts on the ambulance
service
[2:33:10] the first part
is a public discussion as as by the
[2:33:15] agenda to give the public
an indication of what's been going on
[2:33:20] and
and where we are going what some of the
[2:33:24] issues are
the second portion
[2:33:28] will be done in executive session
because it's a negotiation as provided
[2:33:33] for
by the open meetings act
[2:33:37] a negotiation as to
the the terms of the agreement the
[2:33:42] negotiation between the city and the
county the negotiation
[2:33:46] between the county and the
ambulance providers in this particular
[2:33:52] case at this point in time
there was an rfp
[2:33:58] a request for proposals
for ambulance service providers
[2:34:02] and there were two
uh responses
[2:34:07] by
superior ambulance
[2:34:11] and
amr
[2:34:14] the
rfp
[2:34:18] and the analysis and the interviews
have occurred
[2:34:23] uh and some of the
questions and considerations
[2:34:28] by
for example the criteria
[2:34:32] was
how much experience do each one of these
[2:34:36] companies have
in the field of emergency medical
[2:34:40] service
how well do each one of these companies
[2:34:44] have
in the knowledge of the city of las
[2:34:47] vegas and of san miguel county
uh technical implementation of the
[2:34:54] actual ambulance service
a past record of performance
[2:34:59] by the applicants
[2:35:03] those are some of the evaluation
issues
[2:35:07] uh that were provided
the um
[2:35:14] i think that that the
concerns that i have
[2:35:19] stem from
the
[2:35:24] rfp the initial request for proposals
intentionally
[2:35:31] eliminating
the village of pecos and the pecos
[2:35:35] canyon
and how are we going to use
[2:35:40] the ambulance
that is located in that area
[2:35:46] the
and i'm still very concerned because
[2:35:53] i real and it's hard to explain this but
much of what goes on through this rfp
[2:35:59] and this negotiation
some of it it can be publicly discussed
[2:36:03] and some of it all some of it has to be
privately discussed on an executive
[2:36:08] session
as the process goes so what i'm trying
[2:36:11] to do here is
is discuss as much as i can that can be
[2:36:15] publicly discussed
so
[2:36:18] what i see is
a negotiation
[2:36:25] between the
the city and the county
[2:36:28] as far as
how much is it going to cost
[2:36:34] how much is the city going to pay how
much is the county going to pay
[2:36:40] uh and how does that compare
with previous years
[2:36:45] uh sometimes in previous years we had
the city and the county each having
[2:36:50] their own separately negotiated contract
the proposal here is to have the city
[2:36:56] and the county join together
and select
[2:37:00] the
provider
[2:37:03] based on some of the factors i talked
about earlier
[2:37:06] and then try to decide
how are we going to
[2:37:12] balance out the cost
for example
[2:37:16] the city uh will have a majority of use
by the ambulance service because they
[2:37:24] have the majority of the population
the county
[2:37:29] stretches all the way to conchas
rociada
[2:37:35] pecos
the vianueva valley the pecos valley
[2:37:40] and so
service there
[2:37:44] is critical
um because everybody needs to be able to
[2:37:48] feel comfortable about being able to
call the ambulance
[2:37:52] and have somebody
and some professionals arrive
[2:37:57] even when
the location of the family
[2:38:02] might be
30 to 45 minutes away
[2:38:06] the question becomes
that we're
[2:38:09] dealing with is where the ambulance is
going to be stationed
[2:38:14] and
[2:38:17] should
the
[2:38:20] cost be born
as fairly as possible and what is fair
[2:38:25] it's it's it's it all depends uh from
what viewpoint you have if you're
[2:38:32] if you're on the county you don't want
to be
[2:38:34] paying uh
more for less service if you're in the
[2:38:38] city you don't want to be paying
more for the same thing less service
[2:38:45] my biggest issue is
[2:38:50] this process has gone on
basically without pecos and the pecos
[2:38:54] valley
and i'm concerned about how do we
[2:38:59] continue
service there
[2:39:03] and how much is it going to cost pecos
to get involved in this
[2:39:09] three-way arrangement
and where are those ambulances going to
[2:39:14] be stationed at
that
[2:39:17] is something that i think where we will
move now into or later on in this
[2:39:22] meeting to executive session
uh to talk about the
[2:39:26] the financial details and the
negotiation details
[2:39:34] nothing further at this point okay
all right uh
[2:39:38] madame manager medina
melinda do you have anything you'd like
[2:39:43] to add to this
[2:39:47] mr chair and commissioners i think
everything i have to add will have to be
[2:39:50] stated in executive session
okay thank you very much
[2:39:54] okay so uh
thank you dave
[2:39:58] and and you know before i
before we continue
[2:40:02] if i'm not mistaken the rfp
uh the only thing that it left out was
[2:40:07] the village of pecos not necessarily the
pecos canyon
[2:40:11] because the pecos canyon is part of san
miguel county
[2:40:14] and so i may be wrong
but if i'm not mistaken that's that's
[2:40:18] what the rfp stated and so
[2:40:22] you're correct mr chairman
all right
[2:40:26] thank you dave uh
so next item is item 14.
[2:40:34] mou
and we have mr arno lopez to present
[2:40:42] chairman garcia members of commission
so this item is the teco loquitos
[2:40:48] miguel county public
is operating a solid waste transfers
[2:40:53] within the anton chico land grant
[2:40:58] we are
trying to enter into an agreement
[2:41:02] between san miguel county solid
and dimensions of guadalupe county solid
[2:41:09] waste department and the anton chico
land grant
[2:41:13] so the purpose of this mou is we were
approached by the members of
[2:41:19] um the land grant there in te colotito
the anton chico land grant board
[2:41:25] so we've been operating there for for
numerous years and i don't know how many
[2:41:29] exactly but it's been uh
the operation there has been just a
[2:41:34] portion of the land grant
it's not uh improved it's not fenced
[2:41:39] it's just a piece of property
that is being utilized as a as a
[2:41:44] transfer
location
[2:41:47] and uh we we have another mou
established with guadalupe county and
[2:41:52] they're the ones that manage the solid
waste collection you know within that
[2:41:56] area but uh when they approached us uh
they're wanting improvements made to
[2:42:02] this area and what they're requesting of
course is going to require some
[2:42:07] some dirt work
some subgrade prep and then also some
[2:42:11] surfacing which will surface with our
base cores we'll we'll utilize our
[2:42:15] equipment to do
the dirt work within the arion
[2:42:19] and in their request they're requesting
a fence a three-sided fence structure
[2:42:25] to contain trash and debris um they're
kind of fed up with with the trash being
[2:42:30] blown all over that that area of the
land grant and into neighboring
[2:42:35] properties
so it's come to the point that we do
[2:42:38] need to do something
for that area to contain the the trash
[2:42:43] so um when they approached about these
improvements being that we do not have
[2:42:47] an mou established there
and there was no time frame that we
[2:42:51] could utilize the property for
i requested from them an agreement an
[2:42:57] mou
that secures the property for so many
[2:43:01] years that way when we do the
improvement
[2:43:05] we don't get pushed out of the property
within a year or two
[2:43:10] the most that they would go on this mou
is seven years they will let us utilize
[2:43:14] this property at no cost
and um within the seven years um they
[2:43:20] can make some changes but it secures the
property for seven years and then after
[2:43:26] that we'll have the option into entering
into another agreement
[2:43:32] okay
is there any
[2:43:34] are there any questions from the
commission
[2:43:38] madame
uh manager
[2:43:41] melinda
do you have anything that you'd like to
[2:43:44] add to this
um mr chair and commissioners um this
[2:43:49] mou was in process um several months ago
and um the last
[2:43:54] as
mr lopez mentioned it went back to the
[2:43:58] antuchiko land grant to ex to
increase the amount of time i guess at
[2:44:03] first they said it was going to be four
years and the county was really pushing
[2:44:07] for a longer period of time they were
hoping for 10 so they got the 7.
[2:44:11] so we're and this has already been
improved also by our attorney so i think
[2:44:15] we're set to go with the mou it is going
to come at a cost of
[2:44:21] erecting that chain fence chain fence
that he mentioned and that's been
[2:44:24] included in our mid-year budget
also public works will be able to
[2:44:28] enhance the crew and the equipment to be
able to do the movement of the land to
[2:44:33] build the berms that are required for
the mou so we're good to go
[2:44:38] thank you
thank you melinda are there any comments
[2:44:42] or questions from the commission
i have a comment mr chairman if i may
[2:44:46] commissioner medina
uh
[2:44:49] i agree with arnold if it's that we are
going to
[2:44:52] have a mou made that
it's only right that the county has
[2:44:55] advanced for the debris that goes all
over the place you know trash is a real
[2:44:59] problem everywhere
and i think that it looked better in san
[2:45:03] miguel county if it was sort of closed
up and look decent thank you thank you
[2:45:07] commissioner
[2:45:11] okay so we have before we okay we have a
motion to approve the mlu do we have the
[2:45:16] commissioner medina do we have a second
second
[2:45:20] second by commissioner trujillo
all those in favor signify by saying aye
[2:45:25] aye aye
all those hello same sign
[2:45:28] motion carries we have an approved mou
with
[2:45:32] the tecolotito land grant and the
guadalupe county
[2:45:37] federal waste department
next item is the public works division
[2:45:42] report for the month of january
2021 and we have arnold lopez to present
[2:45:49] mr lopez
yes sir chairman garcia and members of
[2:45:52] commission
um
[2:45:54] we have our public works division report
for the month of january
[2:45:59] um as you can see um we we've done
quite a few different
[2:46:04] operations throughout
all districts of the county um we had
[2:46:09] snow removals we've been in in cow creek
applying quite a bit of base course
[2:46:14] material
um our concentration has been a lot this
[2:46:18] month on
roadside safety which included uh deep
[2:46:22] bar ditches um within uh certain areas
of the county
[2:46:27] and uh for example um we had some some
concerns over on
[2:46:33] br b-27
in the myers uh
[2:46:37] montoya los montoya's area so we went in
there and
[2:46:41] we filled in some deep bar ditches and
did a bunch of improvement there held a
[2:46:45] bunch of material borrow material
and have addressed those issues
[2:46:50] currently we're over on a um
26 a which is in la manga
[2:46:56] one of the roads there in
commissioner senna's district
[2:47:01] also d bar ditches we went and did some
roadside thinning of the trees first of
[2:47:06] all today we started applying materials
and addressing those deep bar ditches um
[2:47:12] we're building check dams out of rock to
to prevent further erosion in the hopes
[2:47:17] of once we we install this new material
and and make those uh roadsides safe um
[2:47:22] they will stay in place for for a long
period of time
[2:47:27] so um
so currently i have uh johnny trujillo
[2:47:32] one of our blade men in that area
addressing that
[2:47:36] um peter vege is over in in the pecos
area still on
[2:47:40] on the road over to lower colonias we
we've been applying base course there
[2:47:44] juan macias he's on the other motor
grader he's over on the eastern part of
[2:47:48] the county he's addressing some roads in
in trujillo and uh if this storm misses
[2:47:54] us i'll then i'll move him into conchas
and he'll be there next weekend
[2:47:58] conscious um doing a routine maintenance
out there
[2:48:02] i'll stand for questions or
requests
[2:48:06] are there any questions or comments from
the commission
[2:48:09] just a comment mr chairman mayor
commissioner medina
[2:48:13] i'd like to thank arnold and his crew
for being out early on removal and
[2:48:17] spreading cinders
um i hope the d.o.t don't hear me say
[2:48:22] this but i think the county was out
before they were
[2:48:26] so thank you guys
[2:48:29] yeah you know
you know arnold i'd like to say the same
[2:48:33] thing you know that i received uh quite
a few texts uh the morning of the
[2:48:38] snowstorm
telling us that they were very grateful
[2:48:41] that the crew was out there
and i wanna i wanna thank you and the
[2:48:45] staff for getting that done
a lot of times uh things like that go
[2:48:50] unnoticed but
they are very important uh
[2:48:55] for us as commissioners and for us staff
to make sure that it's getting done and
[2:49:00] so thank you for all that as well and be
sure to thank the staff for us
[2:49:09] any other
[2:49:13] thank you mr chair and thank you mr
lopez and
[2:49:16] your crew for the great work that you're
doing all over the county and in my
[2:49:20] district and people have been very
grateful for the work the work that's
[2:49:25] going on in colonias and cow creek and
all over the district and we really
[2:49:29] appreciate your your attention to our to
this part of the world so thank you so
[2:49:34] much
[2:49:37] and the other questions
[Music]
[2:49:42] i also would like to extend my gratitude
to arnold and his crew
[2:49:48] for being prompt and diligent
with the work that they're doing i
[2:49:52] really appreciate it i've gotten a lot
of feedback and comments
[2:49:55] from people that have called and that
you responded to
[2:49:59] and are very happy with the type of work
you guys are doing i appreciate it i
[2:50:03] also want to extend my gratitude for the
work
[2:50:06] that uh you did with uh making sure that
the coyotes on the eastern side of the
[2:50:12] of the county are not messing around
with the cows again anymore
[2:50:24] uh yes and one more thing um
and i did hear some comments about um
[2:50:30] some digging that the fiber optic crew
had done up in um
[2:50:34] in the valley uh and they previously
have been gonzalez and in the valley and
[2:50:39] not restoring the road to the condition
that it was in before so i had talked to
[2:50:44] you about that before but just to remind
you that keep uh your eye on that
[2:50:48] because i got another comment about um
and they didn't fix the road in senna
[2:50:53] where they were supposed to where they
dug it up so you could just keep your
[2:50:56] eye on that thank you
[2:50:59] chairman garcia on commissioner varela
with our approval of um permits for
[2:51:08] being able to utilize our right-of-ways
they are required in the permit to
[2:51:13] return
every road into
[2:51:16] as good as or better condition as to you
know when they previously started
[2:51:22] and what i do um upon
final approval on them i will go out and
[2:51:27] inspect these roads and make sure that
they are
[2:51:30] restored to that original or better
condition
[2:51:34] thank you
[2:51:36] thank you all also thank you very much
comments we appreciate this question
[2:51:43] one more
[2:51:48] chairman
commissioner cena
[2:51:51] uh one more and i guess this uh this
question or
[2:51:54] statement would be out to uh arnold
lopez as well uh in the sun geronimo
[2:51:59] area
we're having a little bit of a problem
[2:52:02] with the cattle transpassing
and um
[2:52:06] also
they're
[2:52:09] gathering
in county roads
[2:52:12] and uh it's um making it a safety issue
and i would like to get with you to see
[2:52:18] how we could take care of that problem
[2:52:24] chairman garcia and commissioner senna
yes i have spoken to to some other
[2:52:29] residents and familiar with their
concerns i have forwarded them also to
[2:52:35] um
cattle inspector and also law
[2:52:38] enforcement
i requested or recommended that um that
[2:52:42] we get them involved as well but yes
let's um if you can uh at your
[2:52:46] convenience and your schedule please
call me and we'll get together and we'll
[2:52:50] come up with a plan to address that
yes thank you i'll select
[2:52:57] some
community members as well
[2:53:02] sounds good
thank you thank you thank you thank you
[2:53:06] any anything else before we move on to
the next item
[2:53:10] okay the next item is item 16
establishment of a county road camino de
[2:53:16] leon
petitioned by miss samantha thunderball
[2:53:20] and we have
mr robert archuleta to present on this
[2:53:24] eye
[2:53:26] good afternoon mr chair members of the
commission can everybody hear me
[2:53:33] good afternoon um
so in early september um
[2:53:38] we received a petition from
samantha sandoval
[2:53:43] and company which which would be the
the adjacent residents
[2:53:49] for a petition of adopting a stretch of
county road
[2:53:54] at about 0.5
miles
[2:53:59] and
our ordinance 67-5-5
[2:54:04] calls for any alteration establishment
of a county road to have a petition of
[2:54:11] 10 freeholders
we received a petition of 16.
[2:54:16] they provided their deposit to the
planning and zoning
[2:54:22] so this request is basically to
request approval from the commission or
[2:54:27] disapprove
to
[2:54:30] conduct a road viewing
so that we could come back and provide a
[2:54:34] recommendation to
the county commission uh regarding this
[2:54:38] road
so this road begins um
[2:54:42] if you take uh southbound i-25 and you
get off and take a lot
[2:54:46] and you go under the underpass
and then once you cross the underpass
[2:54:51] you head east
it starts uh probably about 200 yards
[2:54:56] from from that intersection
where mr kunisovich lives and then ends
[2:55:02] at the end where samantha sandoval lives
so it's approximately half a mile
[2:55:08] uh it's a well
maintained road
[2:55:12] so
the action requested by the commission
[2:55:14] today is to
approve and authorize the road viewing
[2:55:19] and direct the county commission to
allow the county road viewers
[2:55:23] to conduct a road viewing
so at this time i'll stand for questions
[2:55:28] thank you mr chair
thank you do you have any questions or
[2:55:32] comments from the commission
chairman
[2:55:37] this is
pretty busy or
[2:55:42] well established
and i think
[2:55:45] the buses pass through there
uh
[2:55:48] i like to uh go ahead and make them
okay so what we're doing is we're going
[2:55:55] to be
approving a road viewing of this
[2:55:59] uh we do have
an established uh road viewing
[2:56:03] group of people that have been approved
by the county commission previously and
[2:56:08] so um
with uh
[2:56:12] it looks like we're asking for
authorization approve and authorize the
[2:56:16] rural viewing and direct county staff
viewers to submit a recommendation to
[2:56:21] the board of commissioners and so uh
before we proceed with this are there
[2:56:26] any other
uh questions or comments
[2:56:30] uh commissioners
uh anything else
[2:56:36] uh
gonzalez do you have anything you'd like
[2:56:38] to add to this
um mr chair and commissioners the only
[2:56:42] thing i would like to add is it has come
to the attention that this road was a
[2:56:47] public road or a county road at one
point in time
[2:56:50] and that it was abandoned at the request
of the land grant
[2:56:54] so um if this road viewing is to take
place um we'll ask the
[2:56:58] the group to make sure to include the
land grant in there
[2:57:02] and prior to making any kind of
recommendation to the commission will
[2:57:06] ensure that the land grant is well
informed of what's taking place and give
[2:57:10] their blessings if it's the
recommendation is to adopt it
[2:57:14] all right thank you
mr chairman
[2:57:18] yes sir mr archuleta mr chair and
members of the commission
[2:57:22] um if in fact the
county commission
[2:57:26] does approve a rude road viewing today
uh we would have two dates of public
[2:57:31] posting
and then we would also include uh
[2:57:35] inviting the land grant
to the road viewing as well and any
[2:57:39] members of that area residents who wish
to participate
[2:57:44] good job
thank you very much you know um
[2:57:48] i don't know if i'm in order or not but
i i understand
[2:57:52] that our public works director
uh lives off of this road and so
[2:57:58] how would we proceed with that because
there's going to be some
[2:58:02] some
a possibility of action taken
[2:58:06] and so how can we
refrain from any participation
[2:58:11] that may
infringe on the county uh when it comes
[2:58:15] to this
and maybe that's an answer that our
[2:58:19] county attorney can answer
mr
[2:58:24] chairman
can you hear me
[2:58:27] yes we can
and before before we proceed i i want to
[2:58:32] find out if that's in fact
uh
[2:58:35] some
is gerald there kell garcia
[2:58:43] i am not as concerned about
the potential conflict of interest or
[2:58:50] maybe even appearance of impropriety
when you have
[2:58:55] someone who is benefiting
directly or indirectly from the
[2:59:00] work that is being done by the county
for all of us the
[2:59:05] basic rule is
if i have a conflict of interest if you
[2:59:09] have a conflict of interest if you're
going to benefit from
[2:59:13] county action
directly or indirectly then what we do
[2:59:17] is we just
raise our hand we tell the rest of the
[2:59:20] commissioners that as far as this agenda
item is concerned
[2:59:25] i may have a conflict of interest
because
[2:59:28] uh maybe i have a business concern i'll
be benefiting financially or maybe
[2:59:33] because it's my primo who has is getting
the contract or
[2:59:38] or because maybe i live in
in
[2:59:41] tekkorote and so
this road is really going to help me
[2:59:46] uh and the neighbors get in and out
but that doesn't as long as it's been
[2:59:51] disclosed
and everybody knows about it then
[2:59:56] u.s commissioners can go ahead and vote
[3:00:02] on the matter and
[3:00:06] with the knowledge of the potential
conflict we can always through our
[3:00:10] manager
uh
[3:00:13] supervise a little bit closer
uh that
[3:00:17] that advantage or that benefit isn't
being taken advantage of so
[3:00:21] my concern is not high
with regard to
[3:00:26] [Music]
employees
[3:00:29] benefiting
directly or indirectly
[3:00:32] or even commissioners benefiting
directly or indirectly as long as it is
[3:00:38] disclosed
and as commissioners
[3:00:41] once it's disclosed you can vote on a
matter that benefits you as long as you
[3:00:45] disclose it but probably the
the safest way to go
[3:00:50] is disclose the conflict of interest and
then abstain and let the rest of the
[3:00:54] commissioners decide whether it's in the
best interest of the county
[3:00:58] that would be my answer mr chairman
thank you thank you uh okay
[3:01:03] are there any other further comment or
concerns questions mr chair
[3:01:08] commissioner trujillo
so the only other question i would have
[3:01:12] mr archuleta is
each of the
[3:01:18] signatories that signed this petition or
this request
[3:01:22] um
have we
[3:01:25] verified that they all live
on or
[3:01:28] immediately uh
by service of this road
[3:01:32] um just want to
just want to make sure that
[3:01:38] um mr chair commissioner trujillo yes
they have to reside within uh i believe
[3:01:42] it's a two mile radius
[3:01:46] thank
[3:01:49] are there any other
comments or questions
[3:01:54] hearing none do we have a
motion to authorize a road viewing and
[3:02:00] direct the county road viewers to submit
a recommendation recommendation to the
[3:02:05] border county commissioners
we have a motion by commissioner senna
[3:02:10] do we have a second
second
[3:02:14] second by commissioner all in favor
signify by saying aye
[3:02:18] hi hi
all opposed same sign
[3:02:22] motion carries
okay we are now into the board of
[3:02:26] finance meetings
thank you mr chair um
[3:02:32] we will set up a road viewing as soon as
possible and we will invite the land
[3:02:36] grant
and any other interested in parties and
[3:02:39] we will post
the viewing in two different locations
[3:02:43] thank you
thank you very much
[3:02:46] uh we are now uh going into the board of
finance meeting
[3:02:50] uh item 17 bank transfers for the month
of december 2020 and january 2021
[3:02:57] we have our treasurer is jennifer
lefebvre to present
[3:03:02] good afternoon mr chair and members of
the commission
[3:03:08] today i will be updating you on
transfers that have been made for the
[3:03:11] months of december and january
you'll notice on your copies that i've
[3:03:15] broken the amounts up into three
categories which are internal wire and
[3:03:20] payroll transfers
the overall total of internal transfers
[3:03:24] for both months came out to one million
one hundred thirty three thousand fifty
[3:03:29] eight dollars and fifty nine cents
our wire transfers came out to one
[3:03:35] hundred fifty five thousand twelve
dollars and one cent
[3:03:39] payroll transfers 1 million
259 000 880 253
[3:03:46] with an ending grand total of 2 million
547
[3:03:51] 953 13
with that being said do any of you have
[3:03:55] any questions in reference to the totals
i've presented to you
[3:03:59] no
any questions from the commission
[3:04:02] no
nothing
[3:04:05] thank you mr fever thank you very much
you're welcome thank you
[3:04:10] thank you next item is addendum to
contract with jcg plumbing
[3:04:15] and we have
miss melinda gonzalez to present madam
[3:04:21] manager
[3:04:24] mr chair and commissioners
we're requesting an extension for the
[3:04:29] last year
of a plumbing contract with jcg plumbing
[3:04:34] we've met with our maintenance
department and they are still satisfied
[3:04:38] with the work that they're doing and the
company has expressed an interest in
[3:04:42] extending the contract as well so we're
seeking approval for the final year
[3:04:47] extension
[3:05:02] oh yeah sir
thank you melinda
[3:05:06] you're welcome
any any other discussion before we ask
[3:05:11] for a motion
[3:05:14] hearing none do we have a motion to
approve the extension of the plumbing
[3:05:19] services contract
recommended by our county manager
[3:05:25] we have a motion contributor here do we
have a second
[3:05:29] exactly
[3:05:45] survey of local government finances to
the u.s
[3:05:48] and we have our
county manager
[3:05:54] mr chair and commissioners each year we
get a survey survey from the euros
[3:05:58] census bureau
to the department of commerce
[3:06:02] asking for some information regarding
our county
[3:06:06] and so we complete it it's voluntary but
it's helpful to the us government in
[3:06:11] order to get this information for i'm
sure decision making purposes
[3:06:16] and i thought that it would be something
that would be interesting for you guys
[3:06:19] to look at as it's probably formatted
differently than other reports that you
[3:06:24] may obtain
like through the dfa quarterly report or
[3:06:28] through our normal budgeting report the
information provided here is on a cash
[3:06:32] basis
so
[3:06:34] it may not directly tie into our
financials which is on a modified
[3:06:38] accrual basis
and it's for informational purposes and
[3:06:42] i stand for any questions
[3:06:47] do we have any questions from the
commission
[3:06:54] no questions
okay
[3:06:56] uh next item
item
[3:07:01] uh 20 resolution 2021 0209 f1
and we have our company manager to
[3:07:07] present
mr chair and commissioners um i met with
[3:07:12] all the departments regarding the
mid-year budget adjustments and it was
[3:07:16] just to get an idea of where we are if
we needed additional resources to
[3:07:19] continue through the year to look at the
revenues
[3:07:23] to see if we have any potential savings
various items like that as far as the
[3:07:28] general fund i'm not sure if you want me
to go through all these particular
[3:07:31] adjustments but in the general fund we
did increase the revenue by a hundred
[3:07:35] and five thousand dollars and it's
primarily tied to an increase in grocery
[3:07:40] taxes through a house bill that was
passed by the state number of years ago
[3:07:44] where we're in the second year of the
two-year funding and we're getting a
[3:07:47] double proportion
there's also some expenditures that we
[3:07:50] decreased in the general fund and again
we're just trying to see if there's any
[3:07:54] potential savings in the event that
there's something that we need
[3:07:57] some of the expenditures that were
reduced in the general fund um are tied
[3:08:01] to the sheriff's office
it's capital outlay monies that we're
[3:08:05] hoping to put in fund 222 which is their
capital outlay grow
[3:08:09] fund instead just to give them extra
time to spend in the event that they
[3:08:12] don't expend it by the end of the fiscal
year
[3:08:16] we have some changes in the road fund an
increase of 70 thousand dollars in
[3:08:21] gasoline tax and this is really just to
kind of give you some information when
[3:08:25] we worked on the
fiscal year
[3:08:28] budget initially
what the state knew because of this
[3:08:32] whole covid situation is that we're not
going to be able to get together and
[3:08:35] really do what we normally do so for
this year they allowed us to make a copy
[3:08:39] of what we did the prior year
and and submit that as the approved
[3:08:44] budget so we tweaked it a little bit and
some of the tweaks were just in case so
[3:08:49] we had decreased some of our gross
receipt tax revenue because we just were
[3:08:52] not sure whether we would
keep at the
[3:08:55] point that we were and we had reduced
our gasoline tax and the gasoline tax
[3:09:00] was
reduced based on what we received
[3:09:03] actually in may because we weren't sure
exactly what the covet impact would be
[3:09:08] so we reduced it trying to be
conservative but now that we look back
[3:09:12] back at it it's kind of gone back to its
normal numbers and so we're increasing
[3:09:16] that
some other changes is i know um gerald
[3:09:20] had mentioned about the match waivers
for the lgrf we received notification
[3:09:24] that we had two match waivers on rlgrfs
so we're reducing the transfer that's
[3:09:30] needed for to fund 202 by 70 000 um
let's see if i wrote it down here
[3:09:37] it's also i have two forms the one that
talks about the changes in words and and
[3:09:41] then this one
where you could see the actual numbers
[3:09:45] but we have a
additional
[3:09:48] revenue that will be coming in from the
state of 70444 which um
[3:09:53] which allowed us to decrease the
transfer that was needed for those algae
[3:09:57] rfs
there's some other changes i talked
[3:10:00] about the fun2282 we had some reduction
of cost in our crusher fund
[3:10:06] we had some adjustments with some of our
dwy grants
[3:10:12] let's see
our fire fund from 403 again is loaning
[3:10:18] the
pecos volunteer fire department 50 000
[3:10:22] so we
are
[3:10:23] adjusting for that transfer and reducing
their expenditures since we're going to
[3:10:27] be money out
we are
[3:10:30] also going to be receiving a waste
isolation um
[3:10:33] to amount to seven thousand dollars and
we've actually already received that
[3:10:37] we'll be reimbursing
the fire marshal for some costs that he
[3:10:41] incurred on behalf of that um
let me just go over some other items
[3:10:46] in our lodges tax again when we went and
we created the budget we weren't really
[3:10:52] sure exactly what was going to happen
with lodging so we had reduced the
[3:10:55] lodging to about 75 of what was normally
received um and looking at the budget
[3:11:00] we're actually going to increase our
request that the budget be increased by
[3:11:04] 20762
we're just going to leave that in cash
[3:11:08] right now
our indigent fund i did budget an
[3:11:12] additional 50 000
um
[3:11:14] in anticipation of a negotiation but
that 50 000 is for that and some other
[3:11:21] bills that we might have to be paying in
the near future
[3:11:24] um for our 703 fund that's our detention
center fund
[3:11:28] um we had a small reduction in
income of 15 000
[3:11:33] and that pretty much was tied to
a drop in correction fees and just
[3:11:39] shifts in housing revenues and then we
also had a decrease of expenditures of
[3:11:43] 61 842 which is which is tied to a lot
of
[3:11:48] different savings or projected savings
in different various line items
[3:11:52] um we also have our
703-125 which is our rise which is a
[3:11:58] department that was created to account
for a rise grant but we're not going to
[3:12:02] receive this fiscal year so we're
zeroing out that budget
[3:12:06] we also have in our 703 our detention
center budget a department number 130
[3:12:11] that accounts for
the intervention grant and there was an
[3:12:16] increase in revenues and
expenditures tied to additional services
[3:12:20] that were reimbursed for the county and
now we can utilize those funds for
[3:12:24] related activity
there was a change to one of our gross
[3:12:30] receipt tax debt service funds just to
shore it up to what's
[3:12:36] to the gross receipt taxes that we're
expecting
[3:12:39] there are some changes in our housing
budget and those are just based on we
[3:12:44] get on a monthly basis we get some kind
of projections as to how much we're
[3:12:47] going to be receiving in the next few
months so we
[3:12:50] adjusted the budget accordingly and i'll
continue to work with bernalillo county
[3:12:55] on those numbers to monitor them and
make sure that we're okay
[3:12:58] and then finally our
solid waste we're increasing revenues um
[3:13:03] tied to grocery seat taxes by
ten thousand dollars um we have
[3:13:07] increased expenditures of close to forty
five thousand dollars some of which are
[3:13:11] tied to the um
to the fence that i was talking to you
[3:13:16] about for the teculopita area as well as
increased costs and disposal fees or
[3:13:21] disposal fees that we have
which is going to require a 35 000
[3:13:26] transfer
in order to um not let the fund get into
[3:13:31] a deficit cash balance
and those are basically the changes that
[3:13:36] are summarized
can i stand for
[3:13:40] any questions
do you have any questions from the
[3:13:43] commission
[3:13:48] hearing none
um
[3:13:50] melinda before we take action on this i
just want to take a minute to to say
[3:13:56] thank you
for what you have done these past two
[3:13:59] months this past month and a half
you know
[3:14:03] doing the mid-year budget is not an easy
task
[3:14:06] uh much less
uh being in charge of the manager
[3:14:10] position as well and so i just want to
let you know that
[3:14:14] i i really appreciate pat i i've been
i've been coming to
[3:14:19] quite often i have been meeting
regularly and and i know that you've
[3:14:22] been busy and every time i've come to
you you have taken time to visit with me
[3:14:27] because the issues are important i know
that you and i have talked
[3:14:31] in the evenings uh to get caught up on
issues we've got talked on weekends and
[3:14:35] i want you to know that i i really
appreciate that you know you've
[3:14:39] you've you've taken
uh the task that we've given you very
[3:14:43] serious and
and i want you to know that it's
[3:14:46] appreciated so
um
[3:14:48] at this time i'd like to
open up door for approval of resolution
[3:14:55] 20210209 f1
uh do we have emotional approve
[3:15:00] no move mr chair
we have a motion by commissioner
[3:15:03] trujillo do i have a second
exactly we have a second but
[3:15:08] commissioner medina all in favor signify
saying aye
[3:15:11] aye
all in opposition
[3:15:14] same sign
motion carries thank you
[3:15:18] thank you
you're welcome sir um also you know
[3:15:22] um i just
know that it's gonna be a busy next
[3:15:26] couple of months until um we get the
position
[3:15:30] um filled
um but i know with the support of all
[3:15:33] the supervisors i've seen the support
that they've offered and and i know that
[3:15:38] with them and the support of my staff
who has kicked it up to try to
[3:15:42] balance the needs in my office as well
are very appreciative and i really thank
[3:15:48] you guys for your support
um if there's something that you see
[3:15:51] that you need or something that you need
to bring to my attention and i've also
[3:15:55] let the supervisors know the same thing
just let me know i'll try to do my best
[3:15:59] with the time that we have and um i'm
always open for suggestion and
[3:16:05] just let me know what you guys need
thank you thank you very much melinda
[3:16:09] thank you and be sure to be sure to
thank the staff on our behalf as well
[3:16:13] thank you
yes thank you
[3:16:17] next item is item
22
[3:16:21] budget report for the period of july 1st
2020 through november 30th 2020
[3:16:27] for
i'm uh you're missing number 21.
[3:16:32] okay i'm sorry
journal entry report for the month of
[3:16:35] november and december
um mr chairman and commissioners um
[3:16:40] these are reports that are generated off
of our system that are journal entries
[3:16:44] that are physically made within those
periods stated in the agenda november
[3:16:48] and december
are there any questions from the
[3:16:51] commission
comment
[3:16:55] thank you melinda
next item is item 22 budget report for
[3:17:00] the period of july 20 through november
30th
[3:17:04] and also july 1st 2020 through december
31st
[3:17:09] mr chair and commissioners this report
is also something generated of our
[3:17:13] system for the periods indicated and
reflect year-to-date activity
[3:17:19] um
for all the accounts therefore reported
[3:17:23] are there any questions or comments from
the commission
[3:17:29] next item melinda item 23 accounts
payable report for the months of
[3:17:34] november and december 2020.
mr chairman and commissioner these are
[3:17:39] um
payments that have been processed in my
[3:17:42] office as well as payments made by
bernalillo county on behalf of san
[3:17:46] miguel county for the months of november
and december
[3:17:50] are there any questions from the
commission
[3:17:53] comments
mr chairman
[3:17:57] for voting on this also
due to the fact that it was november and
[3:18:01] december of 2020.
okay okay we do have we do have
[3:18:06] commissioner medina who abstains to vote
on this
[3:18:12] okay
uh hearing are there any other is it any
[3:18:16] other discussion on this issue before we
request approval
[3:18:21] nothing
okay at this time i'd like to request
[3:18:25] uh a motion to approve
uh the accounts payable report for the
[3:18:29] month of november and december 2020. do
i have a money
[3:18:33] so move mr chairman
motioned by commissioner varela do we
[3:18:37] have a second second
thank you by commissioner trujillo all
[3:18:41] in favor signify by saying aye
aye
[3:18:45] motion carries
uh next item item 24 cash balance report
[3:18:51] for the month of november and december
2020.
[3:18:56] mr chairman and commissioners um this is
the cash balance per fund
[3:19:00] and some of the funds have multiple cash
balances in there based on maybe an nmfa
[3:19:05] program or cd or something but
they're for the months indicated
[3:19:12] are there any questions or comments from
the commission
[3:19:16] hearing none item item 25
receipt report for the month of november
[3:19:21] and december 2020.
uh melinda
[3:19:24] mr chair and commissioner these are all
receipts that have been received by our
[3:19:28] treasurer's office for the month
syndicated
[3:19:32] any questions or comments from the
commission
[3:19:36] nothing okay
thank you melinda
[3:19:40] um
at this time
[3:19:44] the
budget agenda is concluded
[3:19:49] uh
[3:19:52] the next item is the executive toe
session limited personnel matters as
[3:19:56] permitted by nmsa 1978
section 10.15-1
[3:20:02] parentheses eight parentheses two as
amended of the open meetings act more
[3:20:07] specifically personnel matters regarding
specific county departments information
[3:20:12] only resignation of mr malwell detention
center supervisor
[3:20:17] certain purchaser that's permitted by
nmsa 1978
[3:20:21] section 10
1 parentheses age 6 as amended of the
[3:20:26] open meetings act and section 13 1 116
of the procurement code ambulance
[3:20:32] services
attorney
[3:20:34] to trend or pending litigation as
permitted by nms 1878
[3:20:39] second 10 15 1 parenthesis h parenthesis
7 as amended
[3:20:45] of the open meeting more specifically
open meetings act
[3:20:51] adjourn from the regular meeting and
and
[3:21:00] we have a motion by commissioner
trujillo do we have a second
[3:21:03] second
taken by commissioner all in favor
[3:21:07] signify by saying aye
[3:21:12] yes sir mr attorney i'm sorry i i just
needed um a phone number to call into
[3:21:18] the executive session
uh since i understand from diego that i
[3:21:22] will not be able to participate by video
[3:21:26] we're going to be calling you
here shortly so um
[3:21:30] be prepared for a phone call okay sorry
to interrupt
[3:21:34] hey mr chair
[3:21:37] i'm sorry just one more change and it's
not really a change on the agenda it's
[3:21:40] just the wording that i used
it's actually a retirement of matt
[3:21:45] alwell and that's
also the language i should have used the
[3:21:48] last time too when i was quantitative
all right
[3:22:05] motion carries we are now an executive
session
[3:22:13] [Music]
[3:22:30] oh
[5:03:59] are we good to go can everybody hear me
[5:04:07] i hear you loud and clear mr chairman
[5:04:12] okay so we could turn that off now dave
are you on the
[5:04:15] uh
[5:04:40] can you hear us
[5:04:54] it shows that he's there but he's muted
hey buddy yourself
[5:05:04] dave can you hear us
[5:05:08] there he's connecting now
[5:05:13] counselor romero
[5:05:32] hello dave
[5:05:47] so
[5:05:59] he's not on yet huh
i'm just connecting
[5:06:13] mr chairman do we need him to close the
meeting or do you need to you can do it
[5:06:17] i believe
[5:06:20] okay if you're comfortable
[5:06:25] go ahead and give it a try
okay we are out of executive session
[5:06:31] we are now back in open session
can i have a motion to get back into
[5:06:36] open session
mr chairman
[5:06:42] i'd like to make a motion we go back
into regular expectations for no action
[5:06:46] was taken
we have a motion by commissioner medina
[5:06:51] to go back into open session do we have
a second
[5:06:55] second
we have a second with commissioner
[5:06:58] trujillo all those in favor signify by
saying aye
[5:07:01] aye
all those opposed names
[5:07:08] let the record reflect that we
adjourned from executive session no
[5:07:14] action was taken
all those items that were on the agenda
[5:07:18] were the only agenda items discussed
we are now
[5:07:23] back in open session
and so
[5:07:27] is there any further discussion by the
commission at this point before we
[5:07:30] adjourn
[5:07:34] well it's a late meeting thank you all
for your time tonight and for allowing
[5:07:38] me to join you virtually i'm glad it
worked glad i didn't get kicked out
[5:07:43] thank you as well
madam manager is there anything that
[5:07:47] you'd like to discuss before we
adjourn
[5:07:52] okay at this point uh
it is now
[5:07:57] 6 59 or let's call it 7 p.m
do we have a motion to adjourn
[5:08:03] uh the meeting
question to adjourn mr chair
[5:08:07] we have a motion like commissioner
trujillo do we have a second
[5:08:11] second
we have a second by commissioner senna
[5:08:14] all those in favor signify by saying aye
aye
[5:08:18] all those opposing sign
motion carries meeting return at 7 00 pm
[5:08:25] thank you everyone