[Applause]
on behalf of the town of Silver City I'd
like to welcome all of you here this
evening and I'm calling this uh meeting
of the Town Council to order and I'd
like to invite you to join us in the
Pledge of Allegiance and following out
the salute to the New Mexico state
flag I pledge Al to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one
under God indivisible with liberty and
justice for
all I salute the flag of the state of
New Mexico to he a symbol of perfect
friendship among the United
cultures I would like to acknowledge uh
some of our town is administrators that
we have here tonight we have uh our
manager Alex Brown our assistant Town
manager Jackie O Our Town attorney Jim
Reynolds we have uh police chief
Portillo uh fire chief Lambert our code
enforcement offices uh Vicky Tony uh
Thomas
Hernandez um we also have our fire
marshal uh Chief Marshall we I mean uh
vasus and uh substituting for our clerk
tonight will be uh uh Thomas uh
Hernandez I'd also like to welcome
members of the press and all of the
community members here tonight we're
glad you could come and be part of your
city
government uh I would also like to
introduce our new district attorney nor
wheeler welcome
[Applause]
Norm are there any changes to the
agenda no changes next on the agenda is
ceremonies and we have none tonight next
on the agenda is proclamations and there
are
none next on the agenda is Council
comments first on the list tonight is
councilor
Snider good evening um I've received
over two dozen emails supporting the
citizen Advisory Board ordinance plus
numerous phone calls and texts hear you
turn on your
mic and plus numerous phone calls and
texts I would like to thank all the
people who reached out and all those in
attendance
tonight the other thing I wanted to
mention there was a headline today in
today's Silver City Daily Press was
police over oversight on the Silver City
agenda this is wrong tonight the the
council is looking at an Advisory Board
oversight indicates that the board will
be involved in day-to-day operations and
according to the ordinance if a board
member were to be involved into
day-to-day operations they would be
removed from the
board so the correct term is
advisory thank you Council
Prince thank you mayor Ladner and we you
the whole Council and town happy New
Year tonight I must first thank our
public for so much Outreach entering
into my now fourth year as an elected
official this continues important growth
I've seen each and every year democracy
is fraught with conflict but so can be
said of life I do truly believe that
regular engagement in our public
institutions especially the ones that
enshrine and protect our individual and
public rights is how we will make it
through these next years with the least
suffering towards that end I would like
to use these comments to boost the
efforts of our public departments
concerning wildfires not only is the
collective horror of witnessing the LA
county fires on the lips of everyone
I've talked to but the December 18th New
York Times piece ensures our dropping
homeowners as climate shocks worsen has
featured many distressing parallels in
our own Community a not insignificant
part of my work as an elected official
has been to help the public Navigator
hierarchies and bureaucracies to
accomplish more than what they can on
their own marshalling that power is
incredibly tricky and quite frankly
traumatic from our own city government
having to negotiate the dollar value of
human life to documenting whole
watersheds turned black with tar so we
can get corporate and federal assistance
to remediate and pull our people some of
whom were pregnant out of a toxic
situation will stay with me for the rest
of my life in the spring of 20123 upon
receiving a multitude of calls from
Neighbors and agency contacts I was able
to make it up PA Road and assist with
the Ben Lily evacuation for the RICO
fire I can still remember the feeling of
water spray from the bucket helicopter
doing last checks before caravaning
behind the power stroke cattle hauler I
could convince State Police to get
through our cordons it's great to share
stories especially during these
legislative sessions and meet the
lobbyists and representatives that
fought for improvements at the County
Airport that enabled the US Forest
surface ammonium phosphate air tanker
drops that saved penos alos to cycle so
rapidly it was great to be able to help
because Robert esca was already at the
volunteer fire department ensuring our
City's pumps were keeping their tanks
stock with water it was great to be able
to help because our own fire chief Milo
Lambo was already up on Bear Creek Road
saving homes and lives with a coalition
of teams that make up our public fire
safety I say this because at every turn
I've been so impressed by the welcome
reception given by our multi-layered
emergency response teams resources and
officials from federal state county
municipal offices and Naval Community
efforts and have all played critical
roles when emergencies push our daily
routines to the side for individuals in
tonight's audience I would encourage
first first reviewing Wildfire risk. org
and assess your home and Business reach
out to your neighbors to do the same we
have prevention resources at every level
of government and while much has been
dedicated to the efforts of evacuation
you know your home better than anyone
else and a major personal local and
daily effort will be required to improve
odds and reduce ignitions secondly
training. fema.gov
Nims for National Incident Management
System and incident command system
materials exists learn effective
communication strategies my last meeting
with our County Emergency manager
hammered home how much support we have
to handle complex Regional incidents and
the presentation at this year's
Municipal leag conference by RI Doo's
mayor Lynn Crawford demonstrated how
critical that support is to saving lives
and communities IC training is essential
and if neighborhood groups are
interested in going through full
certification I have commitments from
local officials in the amateur radio
Society to Proctor exams the difference
between being a Helper and needing help
is training and preparation I ask our
public to carve out time to do so and
connect neighbors and local officials
while I remain confident in the outside
teams and resources we presently rely on
we may be called upon to step up more
than we're used to for all the
challenges I've been able to heed the
call on I have more friends and Trust
because of it especially for those
who've moved here showing up for those
in need really helps to build the trust
and peace that our community is known
for I will Echo gratitude for the
efforts of the Behavioral Health task
force and City leadership and opening
the old rec center for warmth this year
we have people freeze to death every
year and this year has been no different
I hope to see more step up so we can
share different stories next year thank
you thank you next councelor benom thank
you mayor I too have received a number
of uh uh requests to approve the notice
of intent for The Advisory board but
also have received a number also of
people against it they have questions
about it have some concerns so that I I
and one thing I want to mention is I
received an email from uh and I believe
the rest of the council members and
mayor received an email from a gentleman
that suggested have had this Advisory
Board been in place the incident where
we had a woman killed by a police
officer would have been prevented you
don't know that I don't know that and
the visory board would have known that
it was a very unfortunate incident and
uh I I take issue with that
uh one last thing I want to say is I
want to thank the city manager and those
that uh uh restrip the uh the center
lines and the Lanes on Silver Heights
Boulevard from Swan Street to 14th
Street I know that was a long time
coming there was elderly people that
drive at night that were complaining
that they had issues with you know just
uh wondering where the lanes were I
would imagine that with the recent uh
snow that we have and salt that was
applied that they will fade so I I would
ask that uh when it's necessary that
they get repay it thank you thank you
councilor cono thank you mayor I have
any comments this evening so I'll be
reading mine as well um first I like to wish everyone a Happy New Year I'm
hopeful that 2025 will be a great year
for the town bringing completion of
several projects and many positive
changes for all of us um first I want to
mention that clerk CIO isn't with us
tonight but I would also I would like to
acknowledge um the reason he's not which
is the passing of his mother-in-law
Margaret Chavez most locals will
remember Mrs Chavez from her career in
retail at various stores across the
county or also for her beautiful hats
which she wore for nearly every occasion
she was an incredibly special woman to
anyone who is lucky enough to know her
and she will be very
missed um congratulations to miss OA on
her appointment as acting assistant Town
manager I'm absolutely thrilled to see
her in this new position as she has
already proven herself to be an
extremely knowledgeable and valuable
employee who is adept at handling the
many personalities she comes into
contact with on a daily basis I know she
will continue to be a great asset to our
community in this position and on a
personal note it's just nice to have
another woman at the table so
welcome as many of you know um the town
opened an emergency warming Center last
week located in the old Rec Center at
1016 North silver it will run from 5:00
p.m. to 8:00 p.m. um when temperatures
are quite low until the 21st of January
and then it will be
re-evaluated um I would like to
personally thank Mr Brown and Miss OA
for the tremendous amount of work that
they along with patrio chair of the
housing and Behavioral Health task force
did over the past few weeks to make sure
the warming Center became a reality the
center was the idea of the housing
Behavioral Health task force but would
not have happened without these three
individuals working extremely hard
together to get it together it's Al I'd
also like to thank Chief lamber and Fire
Marshall Vasquez for their work making
sure that we had all the permits and
necessary inspections Etc done so the
building would be acceptable to shelter
folks and to Peter Pena and his staff um
in public works for getting the building
ready to open thank you to Tiffany
throck Morton and kathern mccarrol and
patrio for being the ones to staff the
center every night and um for coordin
coordinating other volunteers and to
Laura Aubrey for using her business the
mint chip crey as a headquarters to
accept donations special thanks to
Harvest Church for providing a van to
pick people up who um who could benefit
from the center and to everyone in town
who has made donations of food blankets
and clothing over the last few days each
evening
um as word makes it through town the
amount of people coming to seek shelter
is growing and is because these ladies
are doing a fantastic job of making
people feel welcome safe and cared for
the warming Center is just that a place
for people to come and be warm it's not
um to be an overnight shelter or a place
for people to live temporarily but
rather a place to come have a hot meal
and be be away from the elments for a
short amount of time I'm very proud of
the community for the way they have
responded so far thank you um for the
past year Mr Reynolds has been working
really hard on a code of conduct for the
council and mayor and I believe it
remains necessary and I would like to
propose that we have a special work
session um potentially one hour before
our second meeting in February to
discuss the proposed codes um that we so
that we can consider passing it and
implementing it as soon as possible Mr
CS returns he I'll make the formal
request for that to occur so expect for
him to be reaching out to you to for
scheduling um last I normally try not to
Give opinions on things that seem
unrelated to town business but I do
believe all the turmoil at Western New
Mexico University does affect the town
also several members of the faculty and
staff have requested that I make a
personal statement so I'm going to do so
for those that may not have known me my
entire life I was raised on campus my
father was the director of a now defunct
trio program and was also a mental
health professional on the campus for
many years my mother began as a director
of another Student Success program
focused on helping helping non-
traditional students reach their
educational goals she later became a
member of The Faculty where she taught
Spanish and Cho studies for 25 years and
was involved in the faculty Senate she
didn't just teach her classes and go
home she served the university in
countless ways on search committees
sponsoring student organizations and
helping a connection helping Foster a
connection between the community in the
University their
example led me to choose to be a student
at Western I studied English and
movement science and was actively
involved in many student organizations
including being this a senator and a
vice president and the vice president of
student government when I finished my
studies at Western I became very
involved with other M with the office of
Multicultural Affairs and Student
Activities over the next few years I did
over 5,000 hours of volunteer unpaid
service to the university because of
that I was inducted into the Alumni Hall
of Fame as an out outstanding alumni
Ambassador in 2007 I went on to serve
the Alum on the Alumni Association Board
of Directors for 12 years including two
terms as president I was also one of the
organizers who helped establish the
University's abme Union and can
literally say that my Blood Sweat and
Tears have gone into making sure that University is successful and that
being an alumni is something that I am
proud of because of my parents employee
at Western I have seen firsthand both
the good and bad times at the University
over the course of my lifetime I also
distinctly remember my family living
paycheck to paycheck and sometimes even
less than that as employees of the
University my mother retired after 25
years of faithful Service as a full
tenur Professor teaching at least six
face-to-face classes a semester making
nowhere near even a third of the
$200,000 a year being offered to the
former president to teach two classes
online without having to set foot on
campus this decision by the board former
Board of regions to offer him not only
that but a $1.9 million golden parachute
is a slap in the face to all members of
faculty and staff of the University past
and present as well as to the
community several of them have expressed
grief over the total loss of morale and
because they know that they are not
valued by the system that they have
given much of their lives to will be
incredibly hard for the University to
bounce back from that this turmoil I am
thankful that sen Senator gorea Hemphill
and her husband started the ball rolling
by asking questions I know that they
have had a terrible time during this
process because people can be extremely
cruel
to to the squeaky
will
but what they did was necessary every
public entity is required to follow
policies for good
reason and if they don't it is in the
Public's best interest for someone to
ask questions and for that to be exposed
in this case it also reminded other
entities about the need for transparency
and the to ensure the checks and
balances are always in place while it
would be up to attorney general R GES to
attempt to sort out the mess and
hopefully try to rectify the situation I
have many concerns about the Ripple
effects this will have on our community
wmu's reputation
has been destroyed in Santa Fe that
won't just have an effect on their
capital outlay and other requests but
potentially on all the other requests
coming out of Grant County our
legislators will be will remember that
Western is located here and wonder if
the other entities are running as are
run as poorly when each of us is in
Santa Fe this session we are going to
have to be on the defensive doing damage
control I am also concerned about what
the situation has taught us all about
oversight while there are a few key
differences between a board of regions
and a Town Council I think that there
are also so we have similarities that we
need to be aware and use them as our
cautionary tale as the town reaches AC
Crossroads in many ways over the next
couple of years I think it's imperative
that we start to put more safeguards
into place to ensure that Silver City
continues to be the strong resilient
community that we all love and care
about thank
you thank
you in the interest of time I will save
my comments for later I'd also like to
remind community members that Council
comments only represent their personal
opinion and does not reflect any Town
opinion next on the agenda is approval
of
minutes of December of the regular
meeting on December 10
2024 do I hear a motion councilor Boma
mayor I move to approve the regular
meetings on December 10th 2024 thank you
we have a motion is there a second
Council Prince I second the motion to
approve the minutes of our regular
meeting on December 10th 2024 we have a
motion and a second any discussion all
in favor say I I oppose nay motion
carries
unanimously next is a public
input and I see that we have quite a few
people signed up so I'll call your name
as you uh put it on the uh signup sheet
and if you would come to the Podium and
speak directly into the microphone so we
can all hear you I would really
appreciate it first on the uh list
tonight was Victoria
Reese hello this is my first time here
ever attending one of these so it's kind
of exciting I'm here speaking for the
advis citizens advisory Council board
and I'm speaking for several boards I am
the member of three different boards in
town two of them are extremely anxious
extremely nervous and extremely fearful
about what is coming uh P flag and
lgbtq many of our citizens have been
poorly treated by the police in the past
they have been harassed they've been
discriminated against they have been
disrespected and they are fearful and
they would be very very happy to be able
to have someone to come to someone to
talk to to help them resolve issues they
are afraid to come to the police
themselves because they don't really
know the police department I want to
make a comment on that the sheriff's
department has gone out of their way to
reach out to the gay community they have
attended multiple meetings they have
done everything they can to let us know
who they are to let us know that they
want to treat everyone the same the
police department here in Silver City
has not reached out to us at all I also
would like to say that he may have
improved things greatly I don't know
because I have never really met him uh
things may be different but there are
still some of the same police officers
who were causing the problems before who
are still here and if you talk about an
open door policy that you can come you
can talk to me well how many of you have
ever had a job with a boss how well does
it work when you go into the boss and
you tell them you're not happy with what
they're doing you don't like the way
they did it it usually doesn't work well
people are afraid to come to the police
department because not only does he have
a gun he has officers who can write
tickets and harass you which are things
I have heard has happened in the past
there is almost no one in the gay
community I have spoken to who has any
faith whatsoever in the police
department and I for one think that this
Council this group of citizens who wants
to work with the police who wants to
help the police who wants to help the
citizens communicate with the police and
help the police to communicate back to
the citizens would be a wonderful first
step in regaining that trust and I for
one would like to reach out to the
Police Department and ask them to reach
back out to us to come to our meetings
to ask to get in touch to allow us to
get to know you as the sheriff has done
because I believe that would go a long
way towards restoring things thank you next on the list is Patricia
cono
Mr Mayor members of the
council Town
Administration people in the audience
and those who will see this on on cats I
am Patria Cano the chair of the housing
and Behavioral Health uh task force and
I too would like to thank everyone
involved I won't go into to all the
names because my uh councelor cono has
already mentioned them but if it were
not for all the people in the the town
Administration the warming Center Center
would not have happened um the center is
a zero barrier uh center with the
express purpose of preventing death from
hypothermia and anyone who is unhoused
or does not have heat in their home is welcome to to come
um volunteers are needed though to staff
the center during two shifts one from
5:00 p.m. to midnight and then from
Midnight to 8:00 a.m. um volunteers may
also assist by washing bedding and
clothing shopping for uh dinner
ingredients froods and snacks and they
can also help clean the rec center
because we have to get it ready for its use during the day uh to volunteer
the public may call the emergency
warming Center number which is 575 519
5940 and if you call please be patient
because your call will be returned by
the coordinator as soon as she's had a
chance to sleep because she stays up all
night to uh welcome and serve the guests
who who go there um I would like to
invite the mayor and the council to stop
by anytime after 5:00 p.m. and see just
exactly what what is going on each night
we do get an increas in number of of
people who take advantage and they they
come and go and uh it's a wonderful
experience it's it's a good time for you
to see how it's how it's running and to
interact with a very vulnerable
population um I would like to thank the
community for their support it has been
overwhelming and
um uh donations can are being accepted
and they can be taken directly to the
rec center or dropped off at mintchip
primary um the rec center for those of
you who don't know is located off of
golden T Street the driveway is actually
uh you take a left uh off of gold to
10th Street and that's how you get to it
um finally I would like to thank the
county for partnering with the town to
uh provide a small budget for for the
warming Center it it is being successful
and it is something that that is is
greatly needed to take care of of our
citizens so thank you thank
you next is Sharon bookwalter
thank you for this opportunity to speak
about the citizens Advisory Board I am a
member of the ad hoc committee citizens
for safety and Community which has
proposed the ordinance for a Citizens
Advisory board that is before you
tonight one of the functions of this
board would be to um hear complaints
from citizens who for whatever reason
are reluctant to go to the police
directly and then pass these complaints
onto the the chief of police to handle
according to
protocol nowhere in this ordinance does
it give the proposed board any power to
make decisions on complaints to
influence disciplinary action or to
review or oversee any aspect of law
enforcement the board would be composed
of members of the community from the
areas of Mental Health Care Social Work
public education and formerly of law
enforcement these board members would be
appointed by the Town Council and mayor
members of the board would lose their
position were they to interfere in the
day-to-day duties of Law Enforcement
Officers or to communicate any
information learned through their
position on the board that is not part
of public record the board would
discreetly receive and convey issues or
complaints to the chief of police who
would handle them according to
protocol the board's role would be
largely to Bear witness and doent the
process more often most often a third
party witness isn't needed but when
citizens feel that their rights have
been violated or their needs ignored it
protects them it protects the police and
the city to have a third party able to
assure that the complainants rights were
respected and that the issue was given
Fair
consideration at no point would the
board be involved in settling the
complaint itself this is the job of of
the chief of police the city manager and
the City
attorney we have worked on this proposed
ordinance with input from the chief of
police a police union representative the
city manager the City attorney the mayor
and members of various Community
organizations we feel we have a very
good chief of police and we have found
his input
invaluable he has made it clear to us
that he does not Embrace this concept
but he is willing to give it fair
consider
itation this is not something we have
taken lightly or entered into without
the understanding that it is complicated
and difficult to craft an ordinance that
is effectively written we have written
and revised this ordinance many times
over the past four years we think we
have a good police department and we
want it to be able to grow and develop
in a way that benefits the total health
and well-being of the officers doing the
work and the community that they Serve
and Protect thank you thank
[Applause]
you next is uh Ray
Kesler uh hello uh I'm Raymond kler I've
lived in Silver City for 10 years um and
for six of those I had a coffee shop on
Bard Street currently I work as a
language arts teacher at Al of leopa
charter school um and I'm also a member
of the um citizens for safety and
community that Sharon mentioned I'm here
tonight to voice my support for the
ordinance that will establish a Citizens
Advisory board or cab to assist the scpd
in its role of ensuring Public Safety
the cab will be valuable in several ways
first and most importantly it will
Foster dialogue aimed at addressing
CommunityWide issues the composition of
the cab brings together people from
various relevant professions and diverse
walks of life anytime the town considers
law enforcement policies it will be
doing so in a way that is broadly
informed leading to more holistic and
innovative solutions and
approaches in an Ideal World um second
sorry it will build trust by creating a
cab the town is sending a message to all
of its citizens that the scpd values
their input in an Ideal World when a
police officer interacts with another
citizen that citizen sees the officer as
looking out for their interests this
sort of interaction requires the kind of
trust that is built through the
acknowledgement of concerns and the
shared ownership of goals third it will
increase transparency and input without
sacrificing the need to keep certain
information within the department there
are important practical and legal
considerations when it comes to
transparency and law enforcement and for
that reason while the cab strives to
establish much needed transparency it
also strikes a careful balance and keeps
the nature of what information can be
shared in the exist in legal framework
some one might worry before reading this
ordinance whether the cab will have any
immediate impact um on the efficacy of
our police department and this is
understandable the success of our police
officers equals the safety of our
community so I feel it's essential to
emphasize that this board does not
supplant or interfere with the existing
chain of command and cannot set or
change existing scpd policies or
procedures the cab has two roles to be
an outlet for grievances as Sharon has
just discussed and to advise its value
is in the research and varied expertise
it brings to the table as well as the
link of transparency and communication
that it creates between the scpd and our
Town's elected officials in a
functioning democracy it's imperative
that a balance be found between the
guiding voice of the people and the
knowledge of trains experts under the
leadership of Chief Portillo we have a
department full of skilled professionals
who know how to do their jobs at the
same time no single police interaction
be it Criminal Trespass a welfare check
or a dispute between neighbors happens
in a vacuum there is a context in which
these things happen input from experts
in other fields Social Work mental
health education as well as input about
the values and concerns of Silver City
residents will provide a clearer picture
of this context and a shared voice to
Define it thank you thank you
next is David
stap mayor I'm here to support could you
please come up to the podium and speak
into the
microphone mayor I'm here to support the
cab but I believe my points are better
spoken by others so I'm going to pass my
time along thank you thank
you next is an low
hi I'm Ann L and I just want to say that
this seems like a win-win situation for
everyone and I really really hope that
you will agree to have the citizens
Advisory
board thank
you next is uh Delina h menz
[Applause]
Mr mayor council people or council
members a citizen Advisory Board should
not be a policy making body otherwise
the ability of the police officer's job
will be compromised and that is what I
see if a board like this comes about to
meet it's the people with an agenda
against the police who wants this board
it's people who are against law
enforcement and they want to control and
become the police department citizens
Advisory Board cannot understand what
law enforcement go through unless you
have been a law enforcement officer
don't try to tell them how to do their
job I see transplants people from other
states who move to Silver City from
Chicago California Colorado and Etc and
who want to change their Town into what
they have left I see citizens Advisory
Board as puppeteers and they want to
make our Law Enforcement Officers
puppets the citizen Advisory Board
becomes the police sorry that doesn't
work leave it as it is if you have
concerns or issues with the law
enforcement make an appointment with the
police chief or the mayor the citizen
Advisory Board is just trying to control
our Law Enforcement Officers without
putting their life on the line I
apologize if I have offended anyone that
is not my intention is to support our Law
Enforcement Officers 100% whose service
to our community is
priceless and at one of our council
meeting councilman Nicholas Prince
attacked our city police officers due to
that fact he is biased against our city
police and as far as I'm concerned you
should have a vote thank
you thank you next is Al gambo
[Applause]
thank you Mr mayor council and of course
administrators my particular subject
matter uh is being taken under review
currently high level talks and hopefully
Corrections which is a Silver City
Museum to so to in order to avoid
possibly thrown a monkey r mention to
possibly be a great outcome I prefer to
hold back on it but I do want to take
the opportunity to thank you the elected
officials the administrators for doing
so much for our community keep up the
good job thank you very much thank you
next is uh Stephen
laramore good evening my name is Steven
lore I'm the president of the Silver
City Police Officers Association M Mr
lore here you go thank you good evening
my name is Steven lmore I'm the
president of the Silver City Police
Officers Association uh when it comes
down to this citizens Advisory Board um
the town
will lose a lot of police
officers um is an Advisory Board such a
bad thing necessarily no U but there's a
lot of writing in here that is trying to
give The Advisory Board way too much
control it's going to push officers away
uh or push officers away and I think a
lot of things in this need to be fixed uh before it's implemented uh
first of
all it says that each Town counselor
needs to nominate one board member
there's a specific Town counselor that
decided to conduct his own investigation
against a police officer uh going around
Silver City saying that that police
officer was corrupt and shortly after
that that police officer left the police
department we're one spot away from
being fully staffed and if this is
implemented we're going to lose plenty
of officers
um another part of this talks about
discipline um our Police Department
actually revised its policies through a
law firm which Toro spoken about before
and when it comes down to someone filing
a complaint this states that if the
complaintant is not happy with the
complaint then it needs to be
readdressed however we specifically have
a discipline Matrix in our policies to
help us with how discipline is handed
down so that this Advisory board with
them going against the discipline that
would violate our policy uh it
repeatedly speaks about how all they
wish to do is strengthen and improve our
current policies but that's doing the
exact opposite of that it speaks about
trying to tell us or it wants to help us
with the problems such as homelessness
addiction mental illness domestic
violence stuff like that um however we
are mandated to do yearly trainings on
all those issues from people that have
way more knowledge than what this
Advisory Board report is going to have
uh the state of New Mexico mandates us
to do those
trainings another issue we see here
would be seeking up the best continuing
education as I just mentioned we are
constantly going to um specialized
trainings getting additional education
to handle those issues we don't need
people that don't have law enforcement
experience to be telling us how to do
our
jobs lastly
I don't feel that they need to have
any information relevant to hiring a
police chief again they have no
knowledge as to what it would take to
know who's the best candidate as a
police chief and I'll just close by
saying once again that we're going to
lose a lot of officers we're not against
an Advisory board but there's many
things in here that are going to push
officers away they're going to affect
our ability to do our job and it also
violates our Union contract with the
town thank you thank
you next is paty
Madrid hello I'm paty Madrid pull the
mic down thank you how's that good
perfect okay thank you for having me
here I just want to say as being part of
the museum society and uh having enjoyed
working so much
volunteering that I want to promote our
territorial Charter ball coming
up February 15th in celebration of the
town of silver City's Charter we have
held this bowl now I guess what about
five years and people come out and
celebrate with us we have the illusion
band it's at the Murray we have Little
Toad and we all have such a good time so
I want to thank our
mayor for making sure this event happens
and the city council for the support and
this is our poster I think it is so
pretty so we're selling tickets $115 a
person 25 a couple you couldn't get a
better price so please welcome this big
celebration and join us at the Murray
thank you thank
you next on the agenda is reports Mr
Brown do you have any
reports thank
you once a
year did you sign up Mr Tori that is
correct and this uh wonderful lady and
this gentleman over here we all signed
up there's maybe there's another list
out there
okay the first meeting in January
is that a second l
you mark those who haven't had a chance
to talk
yeah it looks like we had two signin
sheets and some people signed in several
times so I think it's very important
that when you come early enough to sign
up for public input that you have a
chance to give that input and so I will
provide that opportunity now first on
the list is Lynn uh k pronounce the last
name that that's me um I'm here I'm not
here to your next come on up then no I I
thought I was signing um a sheet just
like an attendance sheet yeah
so thank you Kim
Pierce just attendance that's all you're
okay check in and the other one was the
actual input Janna Mintz I'm just an
attendee do you not want to give public
input no Jose
Ray good evening mayor and councel and
City
officials
I I'm going to EXP exp to my thoughts on
this
here I talked to Mr Schneider at my
house and he mentioned to me that there
wasn't no way that they were going to
interfere and do their job with the
police
department I mentioned to him that what
happens if you guys do this Advisory
Board may we do an Advisory Board to
oversee what you guys are
doing and I don't think that's only
Fair we have no idea we have
no we have no no no feelings to to help
the chief here or the police department
they are doing a good job we have so
much hatred in this County here so much
hatred here in Silver City we what we
are doing we're destroying ourselves
because we want to be a top dog we can't let them do their job they know
what they're doing that's what they get
paid
for advisers let's let's let's get rid
of it I'm all my life I have lived here
we don't need this stuff we don't need
it at
all don't fix what's not broken and I
understand that
people have some sort of issue with the
police department every Department in
America has a bad apple every department
whether it be the police department the
fire department the Town Council the
mayor every department has a bad apple
and that reflects down and just goes
back down the line This is unfair to the
chief it's unfair to to the cfy manager
it's unfair to the lawyer I believe that
they're going against what has been
brought up the contracts and all
that don't do it I am hoping that you
guys vote against it please vote against
it thank you thank you
next is Raul
toretta mayor council I hope I don't uh
get confused with the Mr chairman and
board members from the County Commission
because I'm so used to going in front of
the county but uh and uh uh rest of the
administration hey I I'm want to do a
halftime here okay and I'm going to talk
about uh py actually took uh my thunder
away from the territorial Charter ball
okay but I just want to say that uh I
have these beautiful human beings in
here that has worked with the museum
society and I just want to acknowledge
them right off the bat and we do have
Roger tree he's actually our vice chair
and the head of the investment we got Dr
Rick Johnson and paty you already blew
it for me uh paty Madrid she's not only
an Institute here in this community and
pretty much if you want to know anything
that goes on in Grant County just ask py
uh not only that um I just want to
acknowledge the rest of that there are
not present at this moment is um suie
inosa she's actually her treasur one of
the most amazing individual when it
comes down to numbers and budgets and so
on lady AAS with fight like a girl
Francis Vasquez actually part of the
Lula and uh Dr Den Woody let me tell you
my mentor and not only that he's
actually uh he's actually the good
Referee on our Bist baseball and uh Dr
Steven Fox I just want to say what a
powerful powerful board we have here for
the museum Society after 39 years we
have been an active partner with the
museum and we are doing everything
possible in this world to keep
everything together with the museum and
uh and I just wanted to acknowledge them
more than anything else and I got to
acknowledge my wife being here she
doesn't come out of the house for any of
these meetings but thank you Billy for
being here and uh and the past president
from the museum Society Al Gamboa uh I
would just like to State um that it
gives me great pleasure to be part of
the museum Society president and
anything that we can do to marriage our
wonderful Community together and stay
focused on the things that we need to do
to acknowledge the wonderful community
that we live in I am one of your biggest
cheerleaders when I go to Tucson when I
go to Phoenix to play ball when I go to
Santa Fe when I go to El Paso to play
ball
and I take a team called the territorial
Trotters not only softball but
basketball and I don't care how you look
at it anytime I go to these communities
I am so proud to be from Silver City I
would like to make this comment this is
Myra I look at Alex Brown this is our beautiful place uh M Mr Beno
lupano this is what it's all about and I
would just like to say that I just want
to thank everyone in this wonderful
Community to be part of this and this is
what government is all about this is
what community Gathering is all about
just look at what's going on right now
and that's all I just wanted to just say
paty thank you very much for the
territorial Charter ball we owe it to
you mayor Ladner thank
[Applause]
you next is Andy Payne
just uh hello Mr Mayor councilman uh my
name is Andy Payne I live in Silver City
and I'm here to urge support for this
notice of intent to vote on an ordinance
that would establish a Citizens advisory
uh
board I believe that the more
communication and transparency there is
between any government agency and the
public the better establishing a
Citizens Advisory board for the police
would be a step towards improving that
communication and transparency in our
town
any government
agency that includes the police if it's
truly trying to do its job should
welcome advice and suggestions from the
people that
serves so again please all do all you
can to establish a Citizens Advisory
Board to work with the
police it will improve our community
thank you thank you
[Applause]
next is Janet wallet
Otis good evening mayor and counselor
members thank you so much for the
opportunity to speak and thank you for
all the good that you do I want to speak
tonight to my full
support of the noi of ordinance 1335 for
a Citizens Advisory
Board emphasis on
advisory if anyone was listen in they do
not have any
capacity to set policy that's key Chief
Portillo has already stated according to
the press that he would work with the
board should the community want it and I
urge the counselors to vote
Yes and I would say with regard to
efforts at recruitment for police
positions as a taxpayer a Community
member someone who walks the streets
someone who drives my car around someone
who goes to the store to church I would
not approve of hiring anyone who would
not be willing to work with the citizens
Advisory Board and as far as police off
officers threatening to quit what are
they afraid of they're police
officers right why would they be afraid
of community members who are simply
there to advise and to help and to
support but not to control daytoday
activities that's none of their
business I especially like the fact that
this board would include a mental health
professional Two Social Work
professionals and a person with a
background in
education no they would not all be
graduates of the police academy but not
everything is about just the
police academy it's about what happened
on a day-to-day basis in the community
and people who have degrees in social
work not just random trainings on a
yearly basis have studied these kinds of
issues and can offer their
support a citizen Advisory board that
followed best practices and you can
Google that there's best practices for
citizen advisory boards across the
country should be a welcome addition to
those who care about com Community
safety
such a board would be explicitly helpful
to police officers and not at all about
controlling their day-to-day duties or
routine silver the Silver City Community
has suffered too much from Bad official
decisions that may have been avoided if
there had been an Advisory Board I take
issue with what my counselor said at the
opening statement
about Nikki
Bascom say her
name while we can't say for sure in
hindsight that a citizen's Advisory
Board would have prevented her death we
can say for sure that her pleas to the
police department at that time for help
and support for her own protection and
her children's protection were just
shined on quote unquote in the
press in other words her pleas were
ignored even though the police chief at
the time and the officers knew about the
allegations of domestic abuse and
threats by Captain
contas say his
name it was so clear that Nikki was
ignored that the city lost a $10 million
lawsuit excuse me
had Nikki been able to file a complaint
M with a community Advisory Board it
just may have made a difference M Ortiz
and that is why it is a giant step
forward I just want to remind you you
have one minute left oh well thank you I
have one sentence left sorry about
that got carried away that's why it is
time to take a giant step forward and further protect the community and
the police
officers and create a citizen's Advisory
board thank you for your time thank
you next is Peggy and I can't read the
last name starts with an H it was an
error I'm good okay
next is uh
Javier next is uh
Dennis Neen and I can't read the
rest uh that's nzo Mr Mayor thank you uh
mayor and council members uh I too made
a mistake I thought it was attendance
but here I find myself with an
opportunity I read the uh ordinance it's
well written I cannot see why a police
officer would think about quitting
because of a little bit of shall we say
oversight that doesn't have a
bite on another issue we've all watched
as Los Angeles has come under a terrible
fire
and all the things that are happening
out there many of us have friends I have
former family members out there and I've
seen the kind of Destruction that other
fires have provided uh that area and I
would like to get together with Chief
Lambert and discuss what our community
has done and can do in light of the
shortcomings of being able to fight such
a fire in LA it would have to do with
the water department Reserve water
tankers perhaps uh for the fire
department and other things that could
be done to further ensure that our
community might have success in fighting
a large fire we find a lot of uh
instructive uh things that happened in
LA and for our small community obviously
of limited resources we should be able
to at least do something to provide
ourselves a better method of fighting a
large fire because we're surrounded by
forests and it would not be an easy task
for just our fire department or even the
slurry bombers they get started late in
the game not always up front thank you
for your time thank
you next is uh
Shannon and again I can't read the last
name I'm going to are you
okay and next is Michael laramore
Mr May Mr
mayor council mayor city manager
Administration I'm a fourth
generation uh Silver City and Grant
County citizen
while the proposed Advisory board has
some good ideas Mr lore would you raise
the mic up to you yes sir thank you
while the proposed Advisory board has
some good ideas such as obtaining input
from teachers social workers mental
health workers as and
others um as well as tackling the
problem of our homelessness and
Behavioral Health need needs in our
community there are areas within the
proposal as written that are
problematic as a proposal is written
currently written I believe that the
community Advisory
Board would end up being
counterproductive I'm going to give you
some
examples example one is on page
three number
two it states that the board shall
receive quarterly data on
complaints and the Department's
disciplinary actions towards those
complaints example two page four number
nine you discussed disciplinary actions
of
officers um and and discussing those
disciplinary actions to members of the
community that have
complaints you also go on to explain if
the discipline is not deemed
adequate by The Advisory board that the
city manager and the attorney will be
contacted a community advisory board's
recommendations should be considered as
uh very meaningful
information uh for the police department
but should not be binding to what the
police department decides to
do the advisory board's responsibilities
as written appears to be an initiative
or Avenue to discipline police and
undermine the authority and
responsibility of the police
chief there is also a uh area in that
where
um it is mentioned that the Advisory
Board should have information on on uh
the Union's
negotiations the responsibility and
purpose of an Advisory Board should be
to enhance Community understanding
engagement and Foster proactive
communication
and cooperation between the police
department and the
citizens to operate an effective
Community Police Advisory board members
need to have a strong understanding of
the daily functions responsibilities and
challenges that our Law Enforcement
Officers face each
day you mentioned that the board would
provide Research into upand cominging
policies and education for law
enforcement it that's positive and I'm
sure the chief would love to hear more
ideas you know to uh make his Department
better or to better prepare his um
officers however the chief knows that
his Department what his Department can
and cannot do with the Manpower that he
has without The Advisory
Board the council mayor and city manager
can still recommend measurable and
objective goals for the police chief to
accomplish monthly quarterly and
yearly while continuing to
communicate all the community concerns
to the police chief fostering
communication with the public without
fueling the fire is a
recommendation the officer's body cam
videos are reviewed frequently by the
police Administration for performance
Improvement compliance opportunities
misconduct and police
adherence also the body cam footage is
reviewed by judges attorneys a 12 panel
jury as well as the Nightly
News according to the world population
review and in the USA Today New
Mexico has the second highest crime rate
in the
nation according to QR QR sorry krq news
just last
night New Mexico
is rated as the 50th worst state to live
and raise a
family the high crime rate was one of
the mentioned contributions to that
figure I am asking the
council to hold off on voting for The
ordinance Amendment for
now
instead continue and improve upon the
work your already doing with positive
communication between the community and
police
department also continue your work on
improving our community resource
deficits in Behavioral Health
homelessness drug addiction and
safety you have great
ideas however there needs to be a change
in the way this community Advisory Board
amendment is written
Mr lore you have about a half a minute
left yes sir with the way that the
proposal is written I am afraid that
police officers retainment and
recruitment will be negatively
affected your job as city government is
to do the greatest good for the greatest
number micromanaging a small Police
Department when crime is at an all-time
high is not proactive Instead at this
time the greatest good is advocating
with the police department for crime
prevention strategies and engage the
community to help if you see something
say something if an officer is in need
ask him or her if they need help tell
your young men and women officers thank
you for putting their lives on the line
and choosing to be available to protect
us while we sleep thank you thank you
[Applause]
sir and the First Council m meeting of
each
year we have what's called an
organizational meeting and this is where
we make various uh committee and Council
assignments and I would like to uh go
through those
now uh first under the organizational
meeting is the election of the mayor
protm the role of the mayor protm as
given in our town Charter is in case of
the absence of the mayor the mayor
protm acts on behalf of the mayor and
conducts the duties of the mayor and is
the presiding officer of the Town
Council I will now open the floor for
nomination of the mayor
protown councelor Beno I'd like to
nominate uh councelor cono as the mayor
poent thank you is there a
second Council Snider thank you
is there another
nomination Mr mayor council Prince uh
due to the elections this year both of
the seat of Mayor my own seat as well as
for Council con seat I do not wish to
have any of the uh seats up for election
uh up for mayor Pro 10 to be able to not
kind of give any endorsement of the
council before we have a public election
towards that and then um due to time and
tenue here on the council I wish to
nominate uh councelor
Beno uh so that we may have an impartial
election we have a nomination for
councelor Ben
comoo
uh is there a
second councilor Snider we have a
second
uh councelor cono can I make a comment
um first of all that's never been our
policy if someone is qualified to be
mayor protm and the council decides that
they think that person can do it then
they're more than willing to vote for it
also um just as a point of um
parliamentary procedure if someone is
nominated and does not wish to take that
position they can decline the nomination
of course is anyone who was nominated
decline that nomination I would like to
decline thank you councilor Ben
Como
uh all in favor of closing nominations
uh please say
I mayor need a second huh you didn't get
a second on coun N okay is there a
second yeah we did coun
s
yeah before you interrupted me let's see
where were we oh all in favor of closing
the nomination say I we haven't made a
do we need a motion for that I made a
motion to nominate you yeah no to close
the nominations do we need a
motion yes Mr Mayor yes uh with the
decline of nomination then I do wish to
nominate councelor Snider then just to
remain to have an impartial
election you know what I had asked
for uh a motion to close nominations we
had gone on past the nomination
process and um is there a second to
closing the
nominations Mr Mayor I'll second that
motion we have a motion in a second all
in favor of closing the nominations
please say I and are you an
a not an i
nay
n okay it's a tie vote and so I break
the Tie by closing the
[Music]
nominations all in favor of electing
Council cono as mayor protim
please say I I I you nay I I Council Prince nay okay
we have three eyes and one nay so
congratulations Council Lano as the U
mayor protm for
2025 would you uh like to make any
comments um thank you I have appreciate
serving as mayor proam I have had to
fill in a couple of times when mayor
Ladner was out um earlier in the year
and I enjoyed doing that and I
appreciate the opportunity to continue
to learn from him so that potentially I
may run for mayor I haven't decided
thank you thank you Council cono has
done a great job acting as mayor pro0
during the past year and we want to
thank you for that
service next under
organization is appointments of the
counselors to committees and board
positions in the cemetery
board in the role of advisor is Rudy
Boma on the
library board in the role of
advisory is n Nick
frce under the central dispatch
board uh Alex Brown is the staff
representative on that and the alternate
is Jackie
oo on the air area Transportation
Authority
board is Stan Snider and as an alternate
is Mayor
lner on the museum Advisory
Group is gu Lupe
as an ex official
member on the Parks and
Recreation board as an
advisory position is Council
cono on the Southwest solid
wasteboard
is Stan Snider as an
alternate uh mayor Ladner as an alterate
and M manager
Brown as the
representative along with Peter Pinya as
an
alterate on the Grand County Water
Commission is Mayor Brown and mayor
Ladner on the Southwest Main Street
project is Mayor Brown and mayor Ladner
as ex officio
members on the Southwest Council of
governments
board is mayor Brown as manager
Brown as alternate one is Peter Pena and
as alternate two is Nicholas
Prince if the Press didn't get all these
I'll let you have a copy of what I
read next under the
organization I would I along with the
Town Council would like to welcome Town
manager Alex
town clerk Alfred sadio and town
Attorney James Reynold to the town
Administration I also thank them for
their impeccable style high level of
skill and professionalism that they
bring to the everyday Affairs of the
town thank
you I also confirm and welcome all
department heads and Chiefs and affirm
their employment in the
administration last but certainly not
least I confirm and welcome all current
employees for the town of Silver City in
all departments who will continue to
serve as the foundation of our town I
thank them for their crucial and
important services that they provide to
the residents of our community
I would also like to commend our city
councilors for all their hard work
during
2024 I appreciate each of them for their
personal interest they take in the
business and challenges for their
individual
districts the town is better off for
their service and involvement and I look
forward to another year of working with
them to help make Silver City better
than it already is I'd also like to
thank the council for their exemplary
etiquette and decorum during our Town
Council meetings their respect for one
another and the way they communicate
with one another in the public showing
courtesy and civility to all regardless
of their personal feelings is something
we can all be proud of this attitude of
mutual respect and decorum
reflects on the entire city government
and has an important impact on the way
community members View and interact with
their town and its leadership and staff
at city
homeall next on the agenda is item 10
public hearings and
ainon next is item 11 unfinished
business and there is none
I've had a request to take a short break
could I get a motion to that effect Mr
Mayor yes um I move for a 10-minute
recess we have a motion for a 10-minute
break is there a second Mr Mayor we have
a second councilor Prince any discussion
all in favor say I I so we will take a
10-minute break and meet you all back
here I'm calling us uh back to order
next on the agenda is new
business agenda item 12a under new
business is mayor's reappointment to the
historic review and design
committee uh since this involves uh my
wife who has been on that committee for
many years I've asked Council cono to
conduct this part of the agenda thank
you mayor um before you you have a a
application from Rebecca Smith Ladner to
be on the historic
um excuse me the historic review and
design committee um you've had a chance
to look at it do you have any questions
no okay um if there aren't any um I'd
like to make a comment okay yeah I had
the opportunity I I had a project going
on uh downtown in the historic district
and went through the review process with
the historic committee and Rebecca Smith
actually had some very good input that
improve the project and some good leads
on
some people that are knowledgeable on
buildings thank you um are there any
objections to this appointment no no
okay well then because of that uh
Rebecca Smith Ladner is reappointed to
the historic review and design
committee thank you next is item
12b mayor's appointment to the Planning
and Zoning commission we have received
an application from Susan Moody and you
should have received a copy of that
application the chair of the commission
has strongly supported her application
and I have placed a copy of his
endorsement at your desk she is here
tonight to answer any questions council
members may have I believe she would
bring a lot of desirable background to
the commission and I would like to
appoint her
does the council have any questions for
Ms
Moody Mr Mayor C Council Prince I just
would like to have Miss Moody uh uh
raise their hand
please thank you so much thank you so
much your
application Council
bom the only question I have is I I read
the application and I'm just curious
what does peo stand for
Miss Moody if you would come up by the
microphone we would appreciate
it I have a general idea what it is but
I just wanted clarification on it um
it's an educational Organization of
Women supporting women who need um
scholarships and educational
support and also they own a college in
um nadaa
Missouri cotti College thank you
are there any other
questions are there any
objections see you none I hereby point
you to the uh Planning and Zoning
commission thank you thank
you next is agenda item 12C the approval
disapproval
of public celebration permit application
for the Silver City territorial chart of
ball on February 15th
2025 with alcohol served from 700 p.m.
to 10:30 p.m. at the Murray Hotel B
Ballroom 200 West Broadway Silver City
New
Mexico liquor license holder one Little
Toad Creek LLC license number sbl
000000 32
203 South Mill Road Silver City New
Mexico
Brandy hi guys um yeah we're just
putting on the territorial Charter ball
as py said we're going on our fifth year
we've been it with it for at least two
maybe three of those years um so um
we're just putting on the alcohol to
help support the dance moves so if you
guys have any questions please ask
me thank you any questions Council cono
um my question question is actually I
think probably for either Chief Lambert
or um Fire Marshall Vasquez the map that
we got in our our um packet still has
the ramp entrance in the same place it
was is there a new ramp or is it still
in the same place it was there is a new
ramp ramp has been completed code
compant been approved by C and the fire
department it was not indicated on this
map I wrote a message to Alfred he was
unfortunately
absent this week due to circumstances
and did not get the updated map to you
it is there it is it is covered in the
security plan and uh yeah we're ready to
go thank
you any other questions
comments do I hear a
motion coun Council Prince Mr Mayor I
move to approve public celebration
permit application for the service at
Silver City territorial Charter call on
February 15th 2025 with alcohol serve
from 7:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. at the
Murray Hotel Ballroom 200 West Broadway
Silver City New Mexico liquor license
holder number one Little Toad Creek LLC
license number sbl
000000
32203 southmill Road Silver City New
Mexico
88061 thank you there there a second
Council bomo I'll second we have a
motion in a second any discussion or
comments All In favor say I I oppose nay
motion carries
unanimously next on the agenda is
12d sunny 505 markeet and services
presentation and this will be given by
Joanie Griffin and I have my two of my
Compadres here Julie Enos who is a
Silver City resident and handles our
social media and taking care of visiting
media and Dave hayu who is a senior
strategist with sun 505 do we have the
PowerPoint presentation awesome so thank
you mayor mayor proem again and
counselors we are very happy to be here
I will tap dance while we're finding the
presentation we were awarded the tourism
marketing contract on November 1st and
so what we wanted to present to you is
our plan for this coming year so we're
in a weird fiscal year for the tourism
marketing it goes November 1st through
October 31st
and while we're doing that I'll just get
a couple of updates so you've heard from
me from many years so we are very
strongly working with the New Mexico
tourism department and the New Mexico
true campaign for decades the way the
tourism Department worked was it was a
onetoone match you spent a dollar they
matched a dollar during covid they
changed that to a two to one match I
keep saying it's going away and they
keep renewing it which is awesome so
fiscal year 25 We are continuing with
the two for one
match and a good not is they just uh and
the good note is they just opened up FY
26 so we will see they have not
announced if they're going to continue
the two for one match but I do know that
the tourism department is going to the
legislature asking for more money it's
working so I'm sure has everybody seen
the New Mexico true campaign it just
makes my heart sing when I'm in Denver
and I see us someone them in Dallas and
so this last year with the extra money
they expanded into Seattle and San
Francisco so their their focus has
largly been on the Flyin markets so the
direct flight Market um and really
getting the word out nationally we focus
our efforts on the drive Market here so
we can go to the next slide so a little
just about Sunny 505 the first time you
met me we were Griffin and Associates we
rebranded as Sunny 505 in 2019 we are
the largest full service Communications
firm in New Mexico we have 23 people I
didn't bring everybody there's just
three of us here tonight um we are a New
Mexico true certified agency uh Dave and
I have been working with the New Mexico
true campaign since it was rolled out in
2012 which seems like it was yesterday
it's kind of hard to believe we're going
into year 14 with it um and our
specialty is tourism
marketing so a little bit our L Lodgers
tax has continued to increase which is
great that gives us money to spend more
on Advertising also tourists generate
first receipts tax which we always love
our primary markets have been and this
is based on the data that we get of
where the tourists are coming from
Tucson El Paso Las cruus I really think
El Paso should become part of New Mexico
but El Paso Las cruus um and then
Albuquerque and then we do reach
nationally through our social media
efforts through our public relations
efforts and through our targeted digital
campaigns um our focus with all our ads
is on the historic downtown the Arts and
then the Outdoor Adventure travel we are
in partnership with Grant County and I
think this is really important because
Grant County also has a budget and we
work together so that we're not
duplicating efforts so with our New
Mexico true grants which Dave will talk
about in a minute um I work closely with
the Grant County Lodgers Tax Advisor re
board so that we are applying for
different things in different months so
we get a full year of exposure but we're
not paying for all of it gr Count's
paying for part of it we're paying for
part of it so we make sure it's
complimentary New Mexico true as joanny
said has been uh working BR brilliantly
for us here in New Mexico it's very
inspirational campaign it's about sight
doing not sightseeing so when people um
are searching to travel they they look
at New Mexico and they look at so City
and they go well what can I do and we
Inspire them to to take a look at New
Mexico but to book a trip uh to Silver
City so they can love what we love here
in Silver City so the great thing um
about the true campaign is that works it
inspires Travelers other great thing is we're using the Department's money
when uh we spend one they give us two
more dollars to uh throw in the kitty to
advertise more uh for our dollars uh as
we encourage people to book a trip here
to Silver City um these are some of the
deliverables that the New Mexico true
Co-op program provides us for Silver
City as you can see there's a lot of
variable different things that they
provide for us and these are all part of
the tools and the toolbox that we use as
we go out and we search for people to
book a trip here to Silver City and so
using their dollars is awesome their
bigger dollars go out there and inspire
people to love New Mexican
we Inspire them to love Silver City so
let me just say a couple things if the
technology Works we're going to show you
the latest from the video shoot I'm
gonna make Julie talk she doesn't want
to um but come on up here so Julie um
was our boots on the ground during the
video shoot the other one that's really
exciting for this year um we started it
last year with New Mexico true is the
annual Instagram micro influencer
campaign so who's on Instagram
MH okay mayor protim and one counselor
Instagram is definitely the fastest
growing of the social media and it
targets I would say people under the age
of 50 and so this was a new initiative
the tourism Department rolled out last
year and it was looking at who are those
influencers that have at least 50,000
followers that match or 100 I mean at
least 50 but more that match the types
of of people that we are we are
attracting and so we bring them in and
I'll let Julie talk about it because
she's been doing it um and we plan an
itinerary itinerary for them and then
they post about their experience on
their Instagram feed which is followed
by tens of thousands if not hundreds of
thousands of people and it come it's
what's so great about is it's very
authentic so it's them sharing their
experience which is a different
experience than seeing it in an ad so
you can talk a little bit since you've
been doing it I think Joanie just about
said it all
but so um four times a year we have
influencers that come here seasonally um
last year we did the print Fiesta and we
also coupled it with a mural tour
because the murals are a huge draw here
um and so every season we do something
that's you know pretty Dynamic um again
the tourism Department pays it's one so
it doesn't cost us that much money to
get that much publicity but I live in
Silver City and i' I've been doing this
for many years I'm a former tourism
director so I know my town really well
I've got a lot of connections here I'm
also a local photographer so a lot of
the assets that I curate on the social
media accounts are from people that live
here and we always we would love for you
guys to share with us so we could share
the pictures that you take you just
hashtag tag us that visit Silver City
we'll do our best to put you in the
rotation um but I love promoting my town
and especially this year when we've got
the influencers coming because it's just
increased our visibility just
exponentially it's great so another new
initiative that started last year is the
manag search so as Dave said typically
New Mexico true is at the top of the
funnel so somebody's you know
considering going on a vacation New
Mexico wants to land in their brain
cells and go oh that looks interesting
and then as they move down the funnel
the bottom of the funnel they're hitting
book now right so manage search are your
Google AdWords and the ads that show up
when somebody Googles and so we started
it last year we had great results with
it so we increased it again for this
year and the beauty of working so
closely with Grant County is we're
paying for six months and Grant County
pays for six months so we get a full
year of the exposure and so if
somebody's Googling um you know what's
happening in the heila wilderness an ad
will show up of ours or um great murals
in the southwest our ad will show up so
we have hundreds of different ad terms
and again this is a two for one so the
state is paying 67% we're paying
23% then we do year round social media
ads both on Facebook and Instagram
static as well as video and this is also
50/50 with grand County YouTube ads
YouTube is now the second largest search
engine behind Google so we have a
YouTube presence then we do sponsored
content ads with the department so these
appear like it's an article so um again
targeting our various people so let's
just use Tucson as an example so Tucson
you know is reading I don't know what
they read They're reading the Arizona
Daily Star and they're reading about how
hot it's going to be this summer and
then an article will show up about how
cool it is in Silver City and all the
cool things there are to do and it will
look like an article but it's actually
paid for by the New Mexico tourism
Department then the New Mexico true
adventure Guide comes out twice a year
they do a summer and a winter Edition
this is the official publication of the
New Mexico tourism department they print
600,000 copies which are distributed
around the state Colorado Texas Arizona
Southern California and lives on new
mexico. org so we have a full page in
that and then we have a 12we El Paso
billboard that
runs and then so that's what we do with
New Mexico true then with the rest of
the budget we have an i 10 Billboard
that runs in the summer when it's
miserably hot and Tucson and they need
to escape that's between Tucson and
Silver City we have yearr round digital
ads that run in the Tucson Airport
inside the airport we have a year-round
public relations campaign so every month
we're pitching news stories to the
National media and we've had some great
National exposure including being named
the best small town to retire and the
best small town in the US so those are
the things that get on people's radar we
have year round social media posting
that Julie does so I'm going to just
brag about her for a second because she
won't she has grown our followings I'm
trying to remember what it was when you
took over but it was five or six yeah I
think we had 5,000 on Facebook followers
now we have 23,000
Instagram we had maybe 500 she's grown
that to 6,300 so that's really amazing
so she's a rock star in case you didn't
know um so this year we are going to
finally redo the website and The Visitor
Center is behind me they can't be
happier so we're meeting with the
visitor center tomorrow um we inherited
the website that we have um from the
Arts and Cultural District it's
functional it's not fabulous since we
have enough budget and the tourism
Department continues to pay 2third of it
we're going to actually completely
revamp it and make it
spectacular we just printed guides by
chance did you bring any tonight no we
just redid the visitors guide um we'll
get them to you and they just were
delivered last week uh we have a
bimonthly newsletter that goes out to
our 6,000 person database everybody
who's on the datas has opted in they've
either gone to the website and opted in
or they've been to the visitor center
and given us their emails and then we
were print ad so in Tucson um we start
in May and we run ads May June July
August September October again in the
hot months and then going into the fall
in two of the most popular magazines in
the Tucson area that Target the higher
end um homes so one is called desert
Leaf one is called Catalina Foothills um
the paper is the entertainment
publication in Albuquerque used to be
the the weekly Alibi and they just did a
road triping issue and so it came out in
December about the best road trips for
people in Albuquerque to take so we did
a full page ad in that and got a nice
article as well uh we um participated
with the Albuquerque Journal summer
guide again looking for Albuquerque
people you know places to go this summer
Los cr's visitors magazine food and
travel magazine and Adventure Outdoors
magazines are big National Publications
both of those those we got four pages so
it was two-page a double truck ad
two-page ad and two-page editorial
content which has been awesome and then
we run TV and streaming TV ads has
anybody cut the cord and are are
streaming their
TV so if you if you cut the cord then
you're going to see our ads on your
streaming devices Hulu
um tubby there I mean there's a million
of them um and then our local contractor
is
Julie okay
um we keep going with other out which
you can see we do a
lot um so we promote local opportunities
every month and this is I'm not going to
read this to you you guys can read this
but you know every month we're looking
for all the great things that are
happening and it's pretty amazing for
such a small town how much is always
happening here tomorrow morning I will
be doing a presentation with the
community at the silco theater at 9: if
anybody wants to come I brought a stack
of business cards I'm always asking all
the locals keep me upd let me know
what's being planned we want to get it
on the website we want to get it on
social media we want to do a news
release we want to keep it in the
newsletters so um as much as is going on
we want to be reporting all of
it and then these are some samples so um
worked with uh mayor proam cono earlier
when was that mayor proam Springtime um
and we we added a section on the website
on accessibility
so this is a piece on obviously the
cliff
dwellings showing our Dynamic
downtown our art is always a big
push we really worked with the heila
quite a bit to promote the heila for the
100th year
anniversary same bracelet as mine that's
not me I think it's funny I just put it
in
there let's see if these links will
work so this is this is a video and I've
shown it before this was one we did in
2020 if it'll
work and if not we can get it to
everybody it's always hard sometimes
technology
through Maybe
and then the the second link is all of
our new ads we just we just got them
this last week from New Mexico true um
and they're really fabulous but we'll
see maybe
highlighted yeah and I I I um Town
manager and assistant Town manager I
sent you so this week the tourism
Department put out their fiscal 26 that
they're going to the process is starting
for the grants and we were featured
prominently in there with our new videos
which was awesome so that went out to
every tourism professional in the
state all right well how about you've
got the links in the PowerPoint maybe we
could email the mayor and the mayor
proem and the counselors so we don't sit
here all night trying to get technology
to
work but uh we produce with the state so
again these are videos produced by the
state um they pay for 2/3 We Do 10c
videos 15 second videos 30 second videos
and 60c
videos and with that I will open it up
to
questions any any questions councilor
conno I always have questions for them
um the first thing that I noticed when I
looked at these sample ads is that
there's only one ad where you don't see
the person's face disabled people have
faces too and that's the first thing I
noticed was that's just some random
person's back so when you make ads that
include disabled people We Have Faces we
want to see faces if we don't see faces
that says yeah they probably don't care
about disable people so that's what
that's giving got it thank you
um how often do you change the pictures
in your ads we change them all the time
he this ad these kids are in high school
now this guy still takes pictures so if
we could update this I mean if it we use
the same family that's fine I mean they
they're attracted they'll look good in
ad but it to me seeing the same ad every
single time is getting a little bit
monotonous and also if we're paying for
ads it shouldn't be the same ad for 20
years I mean they literally it's they're
all they're both in high school the
other concern I have is again these ads
who are these people I mean I know
people in Tucson don't know them but
people that are from Silver City that
live in Tucson see those ads and like
who are these people could you I mean
there's some Attractive people in our
town
they could be in an ad you know could we continue to change Those ads a
little bit more and
please use local people especially local
people that are ethnic that's always a
concern of mine yeah please thank you
and then my last concern and question is
when articles and things are written
about events and things downtown we seem
to always talk about the same businesses
I've been approached by several business
owners down Town who would love to be
part of one of those articles and are
never approached so what is the the
process for picking who you write about
and how to the rest of the business
owners get a piece of this advertisement
so they can get some business too so we
don't write we don't write articles
about the businesses we write press
releases talking about the events and
then the news people go out and find the
different businesses so when that
there's that article about how cold it
is in Silver City in a summer in Tucson
and you're talking about I'm going to
stay the toad even though everyone knows
I'm still a fan of the toad I go there
often
myself what about the the restaurants on
the other side of the street that never
get picked up never get talked about
like is there anything we can do so that
we're spreading the love and everybody
gets a little piece of that or is it
always going to be the same business so
again we we don't we never promote local
businesses we promote the entire area so
I think what we can look at is perhaps
in the new website really highlighting
more of the local businesses but when
you're printing your your picture and
then they're giving you article time too
do you have any input into those
articles or are they just coming here
and writing whatever they want they come
and write what they want okay is there
anything we can do about that because it
really looks bad that the ethically
owned businesses downtown are never
highlighted yeah and this is a town with
more than one culture and those cultures
would like to be highlighted as well
duly noted so we will see what we can do
and would love your input as we redo the
website maybe have another set of eyes
on it right thank you thank you any
other question Council been how how big
are your print
ads typically how typically a full page
I'm sorry typically a full page a full
page okay thank
you sometimes not if it's super super
expensive but all those that we showed
you they're all full page ads and if we
can do it we'll do a double truck which
is two pages next to each other thank
you
any other
questions
comments thank You' all very much thank
you next is agenda item
12E approval SL disapproval of
resolution number
202-1550
5-01 open meetings thank you any
questions or comments from this
council do I hear a motion we need a
second counc oh do we have a
second Mr Mayor I second the motion to
approve our annual resolution to thank
you 2025 d01 thank you any discussion or
comments roll call please Mr
Hernandez uh Council bomo I Council
Prince I councel Snider I and councelor
Conor I thank you motion carries
unanimously next is item 12f agenda item
12f is the approval disapproval of
resolution number
202-02 a resolution to adopt an employee
recognition program policy by the Town
Council of the town of silver City M
OA thank you mayor thank you Council um
this program was initiated by uh our
fire chief Milo Lambert um he along with
uh manager Brown uh discussed some of
these outlines for employee of the month
as well as employee of the year we feel
like it's very important to um show our
gratitude for all of our employees and
so with uh the employee of the month it
would include a $200 bonus um uh
Employee of the Month certificate an
additional day of leave um their picture
to be placed on Department Billboards
and on the town website as well as a
synopsis that will be sent to all
employees within the town as well as the
Silver City Daily Press and they will be
recognized at the first initial council
meeting after their appointment and then
the employee of the year would be all of
the employees of the month would be
appointed by the department heads and
then approved by uh Mr Brown and they
would receive a $1,000 bonus as well as
an additional day of leave and they
would be placed on all Department
bulletin boards and
similarly as the employee of the month
um so ultimately there may be an
employee that could have a $1,200 bonus
so we're hoping you know to really show
our appreciation to our employees it's
um you know working as a community
living in a community is very important
and everybody really takes pride in
their work and so we really want to show
all of that appreciation to everyone
thank you are there any questions
Council count um I just want to say this
is a great idea I'm I'm really glad that
you work this out and we're going to
hopefully pass this um could I ask that
it also be put in the Grant County
beat and then um the other thing I
wanted to know was if there's a a member
of the public who thinks an employee did
a great job is there a way for them to I think it's important because they'll
be nominated by the department heads at
our department head meeting but um um
those nominations will be either
through uh the recognition of the
department head or through letters of
emails or letters sent into to uh the
department or the or the
um the website so um we'll we'll just
make sure
that any method will work yes so the
co-workers managers as well as members
of the public can send their their
recommendation to the department heads
and then we are now having uh monthly
department head meetings so during those
meetings we would discuss who would be
appointed as employee of the month and
then at the end of the year as the
employee of the
year what is the mechanism uh for a
Community member who wants to
nominates uh someone to the chair or the
head of the department how does that
occur mayor they can send it directly to
the department heads or they can send it
also to the town
clerk they actually they can send it to
any of the department heads
Administration the website just just get
it to us and we'll get it to the
department so there's some Public
Announcement that we're receiving
nominations we can actually put that on
the website nominations for employee the
month as well as our social media we
could post that as well thank you any
other Council Boma um I'm glad to see
that this is uh taking place I think I
mentioned it sometime last year that
typically when somebody
retires uh the uh people that usually
get recognized here Cil meetings are
department heads people uh that uh hold
High positions so it's nice to see that
your everyday employees might be
recognized one of the things that I
always uh when I picked up the paper I'd
see the Board of Trustees here at the
hospital they would have a picture and
they would recognize an employee that
for their years of service or when they
retired so I'm really glad this is
getting done so Chief I think it's in
the blood because you and I have
apparently the same kind of idea so
thank you for that thank
you any other questions a
comment do I hear a motion Council Cano
Mr Mayor I mve to approve of resol
resolution number 202-20
thank you is there a second Council been
gone I'll second I State any discussion
or comments roll call please Mr
hernandis uh councel bomo I councelor
Prince I councelor Snider I councelor
Conor I motion carries
unanimously next is agenda item
12g is the approval SL disapproval of
ordinance
1334 an ordinance amend mending chapter
50 traffic and vehicles by adding
section
50-4 bicycle skates scooters and
skateboards of the municipal code of the
town of Silver City New Mexico councilor
count um this is the same ordinance that
we talked about about a month ago it
will um make it illegal to to be riding
your wheel devices downtown um including
skateboard scooters and bicycles it
doesn't affect um use uh medical devices
in any way this is really important
because um I don't know still hear
there's at least three people in this
room that have told me stories about um
walking out of
a a a restaurant or a store downtown and
someone will come by in a skateboard or
a bike and almost take them out so
hopefully this will help pedestrians be
a little bit safer downtown as long as
they're on a sidewalk and um make
everything happier for our our
pedestrian friendly town thank you any
questions or comments Mr Mayor councelor
Prince uh as a skateboard growing up and
recognizing the importance of the
skateboarding culture towards
contributing to so many different Arts
cultural events in our community there a
certain portion of the sport there that
does require the use of being able to
access rails or to be able to use currs
and Justus as a skateboard one of the
first political movements I was ever a
part of is a skateboarding is not a cry
movement and so um I would like to make
a mo motion to strike any and all
references to skateboards and any
subsections referencing
therein any other
comments question he made a motion do we
have to ask for the second yeah hang
on count Mr Reynolds yes you would need
a second for that yeah we have a second
no second okay right so motion done okay
so can I make my motion now yes okay um
I would just like to say we do have a
skate park there are venues in Silver
City where you can use a skateboard
we're not saying no skateboards anywhere
we're just saying not on the sidewalk
please um with that I move to approve of
ordinance 1334 an ordinance amending
chapter five 50 traffic and vehicles by
adding sections 50-4 bicycle skates
scooters and
skateboards of the municipal code of the
town of Silver City New Mexico is there
a second Council I second the motion any
discussion or
comments roll call please Mr
Hernandez councelor bore I councelor
Prince n councel Snider I councelor cono
I motion carries uh 3 to one with
councelor Prince voting
no next is item
12i I'm sorry 12h right yes Che out my
numbers mixed up
here yeah next item is
12h is approval SL disapproval of a
notice of intent of ordinance
1335 an ordinance amending chapter
24 law enforcement by adding Article 4
Community Advisory Board sections
24-40 through
24-44 of the municipal code of the town
of Silver City Grant County New Mexico
councilor snid this is yours yeah uh
ordinance U 1335 was developed by the
committee called citizens for safety and
Community they have developed and
researched this ordinance numerous times
over in four years the end product of
which is an excellent ordinance a quick
overview of the ordinance is it's set up
on eight person board comprised of
community professionals including but
not limited to social workers mental
health professionals and educators
it provides for a third party being able
to bring citizens concerns to the police
department it will then follow existing
practices with Town Personnel reviewing
this concern then the town using
existing channels will send its finding
to The Advisory Board The Advisory Board
will then issue a written report to the
Town Council it provides for quarterly
Report with an analysis of crime arrest
statistics it includes opportunities for
The Advisory Board to research
Nationwide best practices gather input
from the community and research
solutions to homelessness addiction and
mental health
issues the other thing it does have in
here is um a trial period for one year
and if you think about how city
government acts this board will probably
not be really on board for a couple
months so it's only a few months that
we'd be trying it for it' be a good time
to review any things or changes that
we'd want to add or to improve this
ordinance I finally would like to say I
support Chief BDO and the police
department believe the Silver City
Police Department is doing an excellent
job the job at the police department is
constantly changing and becoming more
complex the intent of this ordinance is
to uh help navigate concerns and
increase communication transparency in
our community this ordinance can be
another tool that the police have
available for the constant constantly
changing and difficult field of law
enforcement thank you Chief p and police
officers for the job you do thank you
any comments councilor cono Mr Mayor um
I have met with Miss Bick Walter and Mr
kler several times and I have been very
impressed with the the work that they
have they and the rest of their group
have put into this however I have a few
concerns about some of the wording of
some of the different parts of this um
ordinance and for that reason I would
suggest and hope that the my fell
counselors would agree with me that we
postpone voting on this noce of intent
until we have a work session I think a
work session is really important so that
we can have a a dialogue between the
four of us instead of you know I ask my
two questions you ask your two questions
you know so we can we can have a
conversation before we pass this um I
really believe that a vote on this may
be changed if
we vote between voting on it now and if
we can work on it and make it a little
bit more acceptable hopefully at work
session we'd have Mr kler Miss
bookwalter uh Mr laramore everyone else
who's an interested party in this here
so if we had questions for them they
would be able to answer them um so I
would propose that we do that we um
postpone this until we can have a work
session so that's a motion um well I I'd
like to be able to discuss it yeah I
think we need to get the best ordinance
we can get
um I think if we're going to do this
work session it should be immediate you
know not put it off and like I said get the members of
the citizens uh for community and safety
involved and discuss it I I do think
that this
ordinance has been reviewed many many
times
and I I don't I'm I'm open to
improvements but I don't know how many
more improvements there can be and with
the trial
period it you know it it does give a
good opportunity that maybe down the
road we could review it then Mr chairman
yes um as for interal procedure where we
put through a notice of intent and then
we set time to vote on it we do I
believe have a process in place for
being able to review and amend this uh
for that then and with the ability then
for us to always be able to go back and
have to review and amend this should any
issues emerge um so far I think that
this has been very maturely developed I
think that it is extremely manageable
and as far as being able to ensure then
that we do have a process for review I
do believe we already have those tool
sets in place so Council so my response
to that would be that if you pass notice
intent to the intent is to pass this
ordinance
if we make substantial revisions to that
correct me if I'm wrong Mr Reynolds we
will have to do another notice of intent
for the new draft and that will continue
to to push things back um I'm just going
to directly say it if we're voting for
the notice of intent tonight I will vote
no would there be would there be some
way something hang on please please
address through the uh through the uh
mayor would there be something that we
could amend in the ordinance as is
and and make a change
tonight that that you were thinking of
two things a I believe we need to go
through it and I don't want to really
make this court audience sit here for
another four or five hours which I think
it could actually potentially end up
being and be if clear me if I'm wrong Mr
Reynolds but we can't do that
parliamentary procedure correctly okay
any any substantial change to the
ordinance you're going to have to re
advertise it repost it and start all
over again um the only changes that
would be permitted um would be like like
uh typos and things of that nature so no
you can't make any substantial changes
without having to go through the the
process again of re advertising it
Council agree I think I think we need to
look at uh uh bring this uh to a work
session so we get a little bit more
input allow more U people in the
community to voice their for or against
it um so I I I I like the idea of
postponing it Mr Mayor councilor Prince
I'm still unclear as to how our process
then for being able to review
legislation before it comes before a
vote uh would in any way be damaged by
this I do believe we have a substantial
enough uh ordinance at this point and I
would be concerned that if there is
going to be a substantial change and
it's going to be one then that would
require that would then need to be
brought up at the appropriate meeting as
it stands right now this is a notice of
intent for us to go through that process
I still don't understand how we wouldn't
be able to revise or review this and if
it is substantial we would just need to
be moved to another meeting still by
following through a normal process
Council P Council cono Mr Mayor I move
to um postpone until a work session can
be held um the notice of intent of
ordinance 1335 on ordinance amending
chapter 24 law enforcement by adding
article um four Community Advisory Board
sections 20 4-40 through
24-44 of the municipal code of the town
of Silver City Grant County New Mexico
is there a second I'll second as stated
Council vano any
discussion I have a few things to say
um when I read uh from one of our
previous meetings exhibit a and I think
you might
have submitted
that yes I would just like to read the
first
paragraph this evening I want to clarify
information about a group that is making
a proposal for a Citizens Advisory
Board I appreciate and fully support
Chief patio and the police department
recently there has been an incorrect
reference made about a police oversight
proposal this is not what is being
discussed rather there is a group called
citizens for safety and community that
has been working on a proposal for four
years for a Citizens Advisory
Board I commend you councelor Snider for
those comments
and I want to tell you that I agree with
the concept of an Advisory
board but as I read this
noi it doesn't sound that much like an
Advisory
Board and I would like the council to
have some time and I agree that it needs
to be
soon where we can sit down and talk
about these issues because you know I
don't want to have a split vote I don't
mind breaking a tie but I want us to try
to work together a little bit and come
up with something that we can all feel
good about rather than either are it may
come down to that at that some point but
I'd like to give it a try I want to see
if we can work through this as a council
remember what I said in my comments
about the council that we work together
well and I want to see if we can do that
and so um I I will vote in favor of u a
work
session so uh Mr herandez you want to do
a roll call Ver well we made a
motion uh councel bomo hi councelor
Prince
abstain councelor Snider I councelor
Conor
I so the motion pass passes 3 2 one an
abstention is a vote of no right Mr
Reynolds yes it has
to pass it it basically we have the
vote when do we think we can get this
work
session well that's one thing we can do
is set a date for a work session doesn't
Mr SEO usually do that so it'll be when
he returns Mr SEO is usually the one
that makes sure we all have the same
schedule and yeah yeah so when he
returns to
work yeah can we do that as soon as
possible Mr Hernandez I believe he
returns on Monday so he'll give you guys
a call on Monday could Mr Hernandez uh
coordinate the work session so that we
could get it because next week we're going to have the uh
Prospectors in Santa Fe that's two weeks from now remember we
also have to follow the 72-hour rule so
even if he decides to do it tomorrow it
can't be done by next before next week
because it has to be in the newspaper
tomorrow afternoon right but if we start the
process next Monday then it would be the
end of next week instead of at the
beginning um mayor and
Council I can have Randy try to
coordinate something thank you okay
thank you yes mayor one quick question
uh I was asked by someone in the
audience if during a work session if
there's an opportunity for public
give I think we can yeah okay thank you
and I I would like some members of the
citizen advisory committee to be able to
give their input and as far
as it would be good to have the uh that
whole committee here if
possible and if we could also have the
police Union represented huh if we could
also have the police Union represented
please exactly
yeah
okay so I forgot where we're at did we
pass that we passed
it though our meeting is postponed until
a later date has coordinated between Mr
Hernandez and the
council item I
uh 12i is the approval SL
disapproval of cancelling January 28
2025 regular Town council meeting and
this is because uh the most of the Town
Council I think as well as other Town
officials will be in Santa Fe for the
legislative session do I uh is there any
questions or
comments do I hear a motion mayor I move
to to approve the Cil cing of the
January 2825 regular Town council
meeting is there a
second Council Prince I second the
approval of cancellation of the January
28 2025 regular Town council
meeting all in favor say I I oppos nay
motion
carries next is
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item uh 12i guess the approval SL
disapproval of closed executive session
pursuant to nmsa
1978 sections 10-15 d i H6 for meetings
subject to the attorney client privilege
pertaining to threatened or pending
litigation in which the public body is
or may become a
participant do I hear a motion Mr mayor
council conell I move to approve of
session executive session pursuant to
nmsa 1978 section
10-156 for meeting subject to the
attorney client privilege pertaining to
threatened or pending litigation in
which the public body is or may become a
participant after 5 minute recess thank
you is there a
second Council Snider I second motion
thank you roll call please Mr Sadia
councelor Beno councelor Prince hi
councelor Snider hi councelor con
hi motion carries we will meet in the
Red Room after a 10-minute
break we're back in
session no no matters other than those
included in the motion to go into
executive session we discuss Mr
Hernandez would you please conduct a
roll call vote so that each council
member can affirm that no matters were
discussed other than what was included
in the original motion yes uh Council B
I approve councelor Prince I councelor
Snider I counc con I thank you motion
carries unanimously this this concludes
the agenda items I'll entertain a motion
to adjin Mr Mayor is there a second a
second all in favor say I I we're hereby
Aur