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on good afternoon welcome to the work
session today is Monday April 22nd um
it's approximately 1 pm. I am mayor
andrz I want to wish you all a happy
Earth
Day and we will start with a moment of
silence for our military personnel and
for our Los cruus police and Los crusis
fire department as well as they keep our
city safe
24/7 if you join me in the
pledge pled Alle to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation
under God
with liy and justice for
all okay so we'll start first with the
jobs of the week Sarah
Rainey good afternoon everyone my name
is Sarah Rainey I am the One-Stop
coordinator for the southwest region of
the Workforce Connection
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and we'll get this pulled up real
quick all right for jobs of the week for
this week of April 22nd 2024 for the
city of Los cruus we have a heavy
equipment operator for the solid waste
landfill operations that position starts
at 2028 an hour and the posting closes
on the 6th parks and parks and planning
and construction administrator is
another position for the city um the
position position starts at $72,000 a
year and it is a continuous posting at
this time for wh Sands Missile Range we
have an occupational health physici for
the Spectrum Healthcare resources that
posting closes in um actually on 7:13 so
that one's open for a while we have a
school bus driver part-time for the STS
of New Mexico they actually have several
positions open positions start at $12 an
hour and the posting closes on the 9th
we have a local delivery driver for
American beverages the the positions
starts at 2390 an hour and the posting
is open until the 17th we have a medical
management specialist for Blue Cross
Blue Shield of New Mexico posting the
position starts at 46,000 and the
posting closes on May 12th I also wanted
to add that our L Chu's office over on
Alama street is now open until 6:00 p.m
we've added an extra hour so that people
can come between that 5 and six time if
you can't if you're working and you're
coming in you want to come in and get
that extra career boost to workshops
there's going to be quite a bit
available in that last hour so please
everyone take advantage of that we want
to make sure that we're actually
available for everyone and can help you
in your career moves
so that's all I have for today thank
you thank you sir thanks for that
information yes sir next we have pets of
the week uh Amy Del
Felix hello everyone I'm Amy to Felix
with the Animal Services Center every
week I present the pets of the week so
we'll go ahead and start as always with
our cat of the week this week she's
Brier Rose her number is
74741 it says I can be shy and timid at
first but I just need some time to feel
comfortable once I open up I'm a very
affectionate girl who makes biscuits all
day and just wants to be pet by you I
can even be a little playful with toys
all I ask for my future family is that
they give me patience and let me Blossom
on my own
time and then then we also have our dog
of the week her name is Kitty her number
is 5
9769 and she says I am a sweet girl who
just wants to be loved I enjoy being L
out to the Playard so I can romp around
and play with toys but I'll always end
up coming back to you to cuddle up and
ask for belly rubs oh yeah I love belly
rubs I'm just waiting for my future
family to come by and visit me I'm sure
they'll fall in love with me and want to
take me home
immediately and then for events we do
still have our springling adoption
special so from now until the end of
April all adoptions are only $50 that
includes the sterilization like the
sputa surgery macro chipping
vaccinations and everything and then we
will actually have a tabling and
adoption event at mea Las chras this
Saturday the 27th um we'll be there from
2: to 5:00 um we'll have some
information for our table and of course
we'll have some dogs available for
adoption as well so we hope to see you
guys out there here's our social media
links um our main website is ascmv
YouTube and Spotify and apple podcast is
where we upload new episodes of our
podcast Tales from the POS side so we
encourage you all to tune in and listen
in but that is all I have thank
you all thank you
Amy okay now next we'll get to our
agenda items I just want to inform the
public that after each agenda item I
will after discussion and input that
there will be some public participation
as well it may be limited to a certain
maximum number of time per item say like
10 minutes so if you're planning on
speaking you know gather gather your
thoughts and see how many individuals
want to speak during that item so the
first item we have is a fiscal year 2024
2025 budget review and public hearings
okay good afternoon mayor mayor protm
council members my name is Jac balava
budget and Grant administrator I wanted
to real quickly in roduce the budget
team they've put a lot of hard work and
effort to get to this point so up front
we have our budget analyst to Rosio
Gamboa we have our three budget analysts
we have Vanessa Perez Charlie Fiero and
Joe Padia and then up front with us as
well is the CIP analyst Cynthia
Campo I'm going to be presenting the
City manager's proposed budget for
fy2 we're going to first start with the
theme so continuing on with the theme of
Gino the theme this year is adante Kino
so with that we're going to be lifting
our community adante conino by working
together for a more prosperous safe and
Equitable loss
cruises the proposed cover this isn't
the final cover yet we're still working
through it but the cover photo will be
from the vielas Cru photo contest they
had a see Scenic southern New Mexico
contest and the winner was Leslie bagera
so this is her photograph throughout the
budget book this year you will be seeing
um all the other submissions for the
photo contest so they will be throughout
the budget book and just they're all
capturing the beauty of Los crues
through the lens of the
community so for our proposed budget
summary we do strive toward Ward a
conservative budget um ensuring fiscal
responsibility with the conservative
budget our aim is for a balanced
budget and also meeting the needs of the
community throughout the budget um
presentation you'll see different needs
the community the community needs um and
we also follow the Strategic plan
initiatives so the Strategic plan has
six overarching themes and you'll see
those throughout with the requests
first up we have the all funds
expenditures when I when you see on the
presentation funds with an s that means
all General funds versus if it just says
general fund then it is just the fund
and so this one is referring to all the
city
funds and this is the expenditures in
millions we have our FY 24 revised which
is the current revised budget for this
fiscal year and the fy2 proposed we just
please list out any increases or
decreases by dollar amount and
percentage so you'll you'll see the top
one is the general fund we had an FY 24
revised budget of
151.000 FY 25 proposed at
166.291 per increase so we have that
list all of the funds to give us a
Citywide total of FY 24 revised 63 1.2
million FY 25 proposed 5895 million so
overall all the funds there was a
decrease of about 23.7 million with our
proposed budget which is a percent
decrease of about
3.9% again here's just the general fund
expenditures so from the revised budget
of fy2 24 at 1551.1 million to FY 25
proposed which is about 166.000 million
it is a 99.8%
increase here's our fi25 proposed City
budget broken down again by expenditures
you'll see that we have the Enterprise
funds at about 30% of the budget general
fund is sitting at about
28% and then we go down to all the other
funds
this is a summary of just the general
fund so fund
1,000 and so again we have our beginning
balance with the FY 24 Revis which is
approximately 63.2 million and the FY 25
proposed at
56.2 that was a decrease of about 7
million or
11.1% the revenues for fy2 24 revised
are currently at 140. 3 and the 2025
proposed is
146 so it's an increase of about 5.7
million
expenditures we have the FY 24 revised
at
151.000 the 2025 proposed
166.000 with an increase of about 14.9
million with the transfers in and out
they are netted on this line it's
revised at 19.6 proposed 5.8 so a
decrease about 13.8 from the general
fund
the general fund does require a 212s
reserve so with the available balance at
at the bottom including the reserve is
about 6.8 for the revised for 2025
proposed but about 1.9 million that's a
decrease of about 4.9 million or about
72% some increases to the general fund
we saw from the previous slide that it
totaled about 14.9 million from the
revised budget to the proposed fy2
budget we broke them down by the major
categories so we have personnel there
was an increase of about 10 million
operating an increase of about 7.9
million and a decrease of about 3.
million in capital and these are changes
from the FY 24
revised some considerations that were
taken for the fi25 budget these are some
considerations for salary and benefit
projections a 3 3 to 4% General wage
increase was budgeted currently
represented in bargain contracts were
Incorporated longevity was incorporated
parot increase of
05% insurance premium increases of
12% vacant for vacant positions they
were out budgeted at 50% at the employ
only health insurance level so all of
these are currently incorporated into
the budget that I just show
so where your money comes from these are
the this is again just for the general
fund these are the major Revenue sources
and the revenues are about 145. n
million with the largest about 76%
coming from gross receipts
tax where your money goes the
expenditures again for the general fund
largely are made up of um mostly made up
of personnel at 66% followed by
operating at 32% to get our total of
166.000
million these are some transfers from
the general
fund so these are different um transfers
made out of the general fund to
different sources so you'll see
facilities maintenance there's a
transfer out of
125,000 and we do go and list all of
different sources at the bottom you see
transfer in so those are transfers that
are being made into the general fund
to give us a net total transfers of
about 5.8
million for the hold harmless GRT fund
this is a summary again in millions of
the beginning balance about 14 for 2024
revised the 2025 proposed is about
8.4 with the revenues we went from 14.6
to
16.5 to the proposed
and expenditures about 1.2 million down
to half a million there the transfers
were about 21.1 for the 24 revised and
24.4 for the FY 25 proposed so giving us
an ending balance currently of
zero and this um with this the hold harm
lless will be incorporated into the
general fund next year you'll be seeing
a resolution come through
for fy2 these were new positions that
are currently
approved so we listed them by Department
the position request and the FTE
equivalency so if you see two that means
it's two positions so for the first one
we have facilities with two custodians
and that's two positions Transit a
logistics
specialist sustainability a
sustainability specialist it an
application analyst and finance
purchasing specialist all the new
positions that you're seeing were
budgeted at
50% this is a continuation of the new
positions for fire we have a licensed
clinical social worker and Logistics
specialist HR a digital compliance
specialist parks and wreck a park
maintenance worker and police three Park
Rangers so there were 13 approved new
positions currently in the budget
for fy2 the vaf amount was at set at 1
million and this is what makes up the 1
million these are the vehicles currently
approved for Community Development one
Ford Maverick
hybrid for fire one for Taurus hybrid
for it Ford
F-150 Parks has three vehicles two of
them for F250s one hondai
Kona
EV for police five Ford interceptors
hybrid Public Works one Ford F150
Lightning EV and one Ford F-150 and
quality of life a Ford Maverick hybrid
and two
F-150s our Fiscal Agent
contributions we listed this by agency
the FY 24 city of Las cr's contribution
and then the agency proposed increase
and the fy2 agency proposed city of Las
Cruz's
contribution so first we have animal
services they in FY 24 they receiv
received 2, 48,1 184 as their Fiscal
Agent contribution these are all the
city of Las Cruz's portions only they
are proposing an increase of 57,98811
million they are proposing an increase
of about
423,000
to give us a 2.8 million total this
amount is currently in the city in the
budget for Metro their fy2 24
contribution was
325,000 there was no proposed increase
and the 325 is currently in the
budget I'm going to now hand it over to
s Bosnia City Innovation strategic
administrator and she'll go over the CIP
portion thank you Jacqueline uh good
afternoon Mr Mayor city council Shan
boset for the
record so I will be introducing the
proposed
fy2 Capital Improvement program for the
city um as you know the CIP has gone
through a major um overhaul to re align
better with the city's comprehensive
plan so to that end this is the first
year that you're actually uh going to
see a set of projects come before you um
that have gone through the new process
uh so we have a new criteria set uh I
believe this was uh presented to city
council at the budget CIP Retreat on day
two um and the planning and
implementation team has basically uh
created or or tried to design a process
that's more collaborative more
transparent um and really hone in on the
critical elements of what city council
um has prioritized for the city through
the comprehensive plan um the city
Charter of course requires us to
establish a relationship between the
capital Improvement plan um or program
and the city's comprehensive plan
so this is a simplistic view um of of
what the process looked like for this
year um I will say that we are still
currently in design review phase for
some of the newer projects uh that you
should see come before you in the first
quarter um and we are um kind of uh
looking for for grace and accommodation
in in really um providing our design
Engineers with a little bit more time
time to really understand and
collaborate um and maybe tweak their
designs a little bit so that when we get
to 90% design it really meets um the the
priorities of elevate loss crues um as
as most of you may recall you had
established three new program buckets in
the CIP uh those were complete streets
active transportation and resiliency um
and the newer projects that will come
before you in the first first quarter
will actually be funded through those
three
buckets um this is just a listing um
because I did mention that that was a
little bit of an oversimplification of
the process this is just the criteria
set that we use to evaluate projects for
the capital Improvement plan funding so
there's going to be a set of operational
impacts um a set of criteria that really
contribute to the community uh and of
course
uh last but not least planning
alignment this slide is really just
capturing the changes that you see
before you uh there uh the First Column
was basically the amounts in the CIP
that were reflective of uh a snapshot on
March 15th that is what you see in your
budget book the first draft of that um
and then as budget staff uh went over
some of those changes uh the new amount
in in the column that you see dated
422 um are the new numbers the CIP like
the budget itself is also a work in
progress right now and so you're going
to see a few of these numbers change
down the line before we bring it back to
you next month I believe for adoption
oops that's not how I'm supposed to do
this
okay you know what I think this was done
for Cynthia yeah um so what I was about
to show you and actually if you want to
just come over and login um is the
spatial representation of all of the
projects in the CIP Um this can also be
made available to you later on as well
um and to the general public as well
we'll do this at some other
time so moving on this is a breakdown of
the capital funding for FY 25 by
category
um we did establish new categories for
all of the projects in the CIP uh this
is to really facilitate better
monitoring and tracking of projects and
so what you're seeing on this slide is
really carryovers and annual projects
and so these do not include the newly
funded uh or newly uh submitted projects
for
fy2 uh most of these projects were
initiated already in the previous fiscal
year um and they will receive funding to
finish out in the forthcoming
year and with that I'm going to hand
over to our CIP anal Cynthia compo for a
breakdown of the funding types and your
actual CIP program and how to kind of
read the document
thank you sh um Cynthia Campo CIP
analyst um and what we see right here it
is the list of our funding types uh for
the CIP uh we do have um various funding
types and we do uh tend to group
them uh so that we don't have a huge
list so just um to point out the major
funding types that we usually have or
that we have for the
CIP and actually I'm missing the biggest
one which is taxes um and then we have
bonds
grants um and those are the ones that
you will see the most in the document as
um as the funding sources for our
projects so just um to point out even
though this is the C this is a little
snippet of the CIP document and even
though the format uh looks pretty
similar to what we have used in the past
there have been a few changes to the
document so I will point that out as we
go through it um and kind of give you an
overview of how to read the document if
this is your first time looking at
this so I wanted to point out that on
the right corner um you will see that we
have draft as of and then the date so
again when we take it to for adoption
you um that will change to adopted and
then the date that it was adopted for so
we showed the status and the date for
that for the
document um and then again as Shan
mentioned we started using the
categories uh um when we're requesting
for the projects and this is um again
for better tracking better reporting and
um better analysis so this year we're
going to be
um demonstrating the projects under the
categories instead of the Departments
which was what was previously used but
we still do show the department the
requesting Department next to the the
project
itself and then the green column shows
the funded amount for this for the
fiscal year for the current fiscal year
and we also have five unfunded or
infrastructure need um years
and as I was mentioning with the uh with
the funds anything the funds that are in
bold are what is actually the current
funding source for that project if it's
not involed then it's a potential
funding source for that
project um also want to demonstrate um
pending funds that uh that we're going
to be receiving and as you can see this
one says the 2024 legislative
Appropriations and the amount is in the
next uh fiscal year so once we receive
the funds then it will move over to the
current fiscal
year and
um as Shan was mentioning as well we for
active Transportation being one of the
buckets for funding uh you we will also
demonstrate the amounts that were going
to be moved over to the projects that
are pending design for us to um fund
with these with active Transportation
monies and there you see the opposite
where we show that it's active
transportation and this project um is
going to be receiving a million dollars
for from active
Transportation this fiscal year we don't
have newly funded projects um everything
that is in the CIP is carryover or
annual projects so um we've provided
funds for any project that had um Gap
funding and these are
the four projects and again you'll see
that it they're going to be receiving
from resiliency complete streets Act of
Transportation um and then once the
design is approved these will be
funded new on the CIP um
again if you look at the CIP document we
um are trying to bring to to your
attention anything that is new so even
though these projects are going to be
future projects they had not been on the
CIP previously so we um we've made the
font red so they stand out and you will
see that there um and I also wanted to
point out that um I we've added an R
behind the 2024 legislative
appropriation section if it's a
reauthorization that has been approved
and that we're also waiting funds
for and um at the end of the document
you we have a glossery where we have
what the abbreviations are or I mean the
types of funding sources that we were
showing before and then also what the
highlights or the red and
italics um also
mean uh so there are actually 39 newly
requested um projects in the CIP this
year and
um we have airport city operations
equipment nonprofit
and uh if you have any questions in the
CIP document it will be in red font
I don't want to list them all out for
you and read them out
loud
um and that's all that I have if you
have any
questions any questions from
Council yes
thanks mayor thank you all so much for
the
presentation this is it on the budget
presentation okay I just wanted to make
sure I waited till the end um I do I
just have a couple of thoughts um real
quick and just
clarifications um since we're on the CIP
real quick the
350,000 um we received from the state
legislature on active transportation
that we have not decided how that will
be spent yet correct or or has that been
those projects been determined
already um can I defer that to
sh Mr Mayor councelor uh mayor PM
benas for the record uh are you
referring to this year's appropriation
yes okay so um Cynthia correct me if I'm
wrong but those are going to be under
the pending um and so they will move
over once we receive the actual amount
um and at that time um we will bring the
projects forward that uh would be
proposed F okay perfect thank you so
those have not been determined yet thank
you and then I have questions on the new
positions um don't know who wants to
come up for
that I'm curious about one of the
biggest priorities for us this year is
municipal court and I'm wondering if it
was discussed about the position for a
public defender an internal public
defender C manager that's going to be on
the next one okay I just I didn't know
if it was needed to be on the bu on the
budget for
2025 thank you
it's okay Brad thank
you all right um Brad Douglas legal
department so mayor protm yes that uh
that position has certainly been
discussed and we are planning on filling
it um very very soon um I don't know if
that answers your question but that will
be happening imminently I believe okay
so is that funding going in the legal
department since I know that there was
still conversations about whether that
that person cannot report to the City
attorney to answer your question oh your
mic is off Brad there you go there we go
uh to answer your question uh the
funding will come from the legal
department that person will not report
to the City attorney to avoid any
conflict of interest or appearance of
impropriety okay thank you Brad and then
um so either for yourself for chief
Smith I noticed there is a new position
for another MSW is this is this a brand
new position then is there an expansion
can you talk about um the request for
that mayor mayor proam fire chief Jason
Smith we're requesting a licensed
clinical social worker so an LCSW uh
we're looking for someone who will
supplement our mih team as well as serve
as clinical oversight or guidance uh for
our social workers so this is a brand
new position it's one that we originally
tried to fill early on with our light
team but we were unsuccessful in filling
it uh now we feel like it's the right
time to bring that position back great
thank you so much because right now you
part of the um
clinical supervision is external right
you you seek out external supervision
that is correct mayor P thank you that's
really helpful and then my last question
was um not for chief Smith but perhaps
uh city manager or HR
or Parks even um you know when Parks and
Rec presented at the budget Retreat
around the idea for Park
Rangers
I I never imagined those Park Rangers
would be law enforcement I imagine them
being part of parks and rec staff so I'm
curious about that decision and if um
there's still an opportunity for us to
discuss what those Park the the
responsibilities of those Park Rangers
um and the model that we can use for the
park
rangers yeah mayor PRM uh mayor and city
council thank you uh Eon tomel city
manager uh we can definitely have the
discussion uh what one of the thoughts
was uh may ptim we we'll go into further
discussion on the next agenda item uh on
this as it'll be presented uh but just
real quick um there there's a
authorities if if they're not under the
police they would have the same
Authority that parks and recck staff
would have which is not much at this
time because they're dealing as as as
you hear uh with incidents in the
bathrooms and incidents right now where
we don't want our it's very difficult to
put our unsworn um staff in in that
position so that was a quick thought but
Chief story um in the next agenda item
can share more uh into detail or right
now if you would like no that's okay I'm
getting ahead of myself so I will wait
and not spoil it for everybody else so
um those are actually all my question so
thank
you thank you mayor protim um anyone
else
councel um the questions that I had was
uh some of the other increased uh with
some of the jpa that's going to be
addressed in the final agenda as
well yes the jpa will be presenting um
their proposed increases okay in the
next agenda item if did you have
questions on what was currently budgeted
or no if they're going to present those
are some of the questions on Where where
that's coming from okay that'll be
fine okay is there any uh members of the
public that have any questions or
comments at this
time ma'am if you want to come up yeah
we'll give you two
minutes and this this is on the budget
item the presentation that just took
place I believe so it's it's an advocacy
for the public library which is part of
your funding initiative is it
appropriate for me to speak to that
now yeah that'll be fine I just making
sure nothing was coming up afterwards
okay so yes this would be fine um thank
you so much if you could state your name
I will do that thank you so much my name
is Mona Charney and I am the vice
president of the friends of the Thomas
branagan Memorial Library an
organization with 244 members I am
joined today by um several members of
our board and we would like to just
offer our support for the branagan and
and Los Cruz's Library System I was
drawn to support this Library as a
passionate
believer in the indispensability of
libraries to our lives our lifestyles
and our community so I'm here today to
advocate for Los Cruz's public
libraries as you know many members of
our community have Las cruus public
library cards but today there are many
more who are looking for more than just
books today libraries can be the
heartbeat of the community they have
classes and programs for all AG story
times for children opportunities to
develop skills in computers crafting and
many other items that are of of uh
interest to our
community the library offers maker
spaces safe spaces work areas and
recreational spaces this year our
incredible library has offered over
1,300 programs serving nearly
22,000 residents the library welcomes
all who choose to use it regardless of
who they are and where they
live successful library programs depend
on two things funding levels that are
consistent with the size of the
population being served and excellent
staff our current Library staff members
are absolutely
amazing the city is estimated to have
approximately 15,000 115,000 residents
and that number is well over 200,000
when you includes residents in the
county I don't live in the city limits
but I use the library
constantly and I carry with me 17
letters of County residents like me who
have taken the time to remind you that
these resources are used by all of
us and when we make a drive to the
library we are likely to shop and eat
downtown
as well adding to the tax base of our
community so I also would urge you to
collaborate with County officials and
remind them that these resources are
available to their constituents too and
to ask that they provide more support
for Los Cruz's public
libraries I represent a tremendous
cross-section of people ma'am your your
time is up thank you thank you we
appreciate you Mr Mayor thank you very
much I app appreciate your
time yes ma'am come
on will also give you two minutes good
morning um can I just inquire whether
now is the appropriate time for my
comment before you start my clock um I
wanted to make a comment about
investment in the affordable housing
trust fund is now the appropriate time
from the general fund
yeah that that will be coming up in the
next presentation all right I'll wait
thank you is that correct yes thank you
good afternoon mayor city council Kathy
Stark I just wanted to say how utterly
disappointed I am that for what I
believe is the eth year in a row we have
not put value in our Animal Control
Officers and increasing the size of that
staff while the population continues to
grow and many of which have animals we
know um this the Staffing level for
animal control has remained stagnant and
that is extremely disappointing thank
you
you okay see no one else will go to 3.2
community
livability and will that be barar ring
com
good afternoon May mayor mayor proem and
counselors uh Barbara Beno for the
record chief administrative officer and
I'll wait for everybody to get settled
here all right so this uh
presentation was actually the impetus
for it actually came from feedback we
received at the budget Retreat and our
last budget work session to discuss the
funding uh opportunities that we might
have with the sources um identified here
our telshore fund and also the funds
that we have received from Cannabis
excise
tax the this agenda item was requested
by our mayor with the title community
livability so I just want to give a
little bit of background and take us
back to our comprehensive plan Community
livability is actually one of the three
themes of our plan along with Community
environment and Community Prosperity um
according to our comprehensive plan um
Community livability um really strives
to make at Las CIS is a safe enjoyable
place to live through neighborhoods uh
Parks and Recreation Mobility Public
Safety you see some of the items here
arts and culture or historic
preservation and public health
initiatives our telshore fund uh for
background um was established in October
of
2004 it was the Genesis of this fund was
the long-term lease for Memorial Medical
Center it was a prepaid lease we
initially received over $26
million uh for that 40-year lease then
we received at a later date the escrow
funds which had previously been withheld
just to um wait for other
um liabilities that may have needed to
be paid so we have a total Corpus of the
fund of over $30 million that we
received from that prepaid lease we
designated this fund to primarily be a
long-term investment so most of the
funds about 85% or more are invested
through the state investment Council in
in long-term um Investments those are
not uh things that we would typically
invest in for the city because we
continually have liquidity needs for for
our operating funds so again this is the
the One Fund that we have designated as
a as a long-term investment for the
city the telshore fund is currently
restricted by resolution for the
following to support the continued
physical mental developmental emotional
and social well-being safety and housing
needs of city of Las crusis residents
and to improve the lives of sick
indigent or low-income people of the
city of Los Cruses again that's the
current um proposed use of the fund
adopted by
resolution for the FY 25
budget the telshore fund expenditures
include some funding that you probably
have seen from previous budgets we have
three items that are carryovers from FY
24 uh two of which are affordable
housing projects the padrina senior
apartments and three sisters apartment
uh
projects then we have a Transit Grant
match that we're carrying over as
well three of the of the next funding um
uh priorities also come from previous
budgets funding for mono imano our um
health related public
services and um our community outreach
or sorry our street outreach program uh
for Valley Community of Hope so this
$5.5 million in in funding is currently
in our budget and again most of them are
recurring from previous
years as we thought about the community
livability
um initiative that we you know I just
read through from our um um
comprehensive plan we also thought about
what other potential projects that were
brought forward in previous work
sessions could be funded um by the
telshore fund and so some of these and
you'll you'll hear much more about this
from each one of these from the uh
departments uh that are supporting these
initiatives but funds for um op for
maintenance and Capital Improvements in
some of our Legacy Parks playground
Replacements um other parking
construction
enhancements facility maintenance our
police realtime crime Center fire
station 9 Gap funding well monitoring
and we do have some affordable housing
um projects as well pet tree Canyon
phases one and two and alador Crossing
so alog together there is a proposed
$22.8 million in expenditures from the
telshore
fund and I put together this um just a
little summary of of where we currently
are of course the market value value of
the telshore fund varies on a monthly
basis because of the investment vehicles
that we have the telshore fund um
investig invested in our most recent
valuation is 42.9 million um as I
mentioned before we had $5.5 million in
proposal you you've seen from previous
budgets and then $22.8 million in new
proposals if if we were to undertake
that level of expenditure then we could
potentially have a remaining market
value of around 14.6 million and I say
potentially because depending on the
timing and the fluctuations of the
market value that's not an exact number
it's it's kind of just an idea of where
it could be based on what we know today
about the value of the telshore fund um
so with that I'm going to turn it over
to the Departments who have brought
forward proposals uh for funding from
the from the telshore fund and I believe
I'm to start with David cido public
works thank you
Barbara good afternoon mayor and councel
David CIO your Public Works director and
I'll be going over a couple of the
requests coming out of Public Works we
do have two we have a request for
sidewalk gaps and also the
reinstallation of a monitoring will I'll
go and begin with the sidewalk Gap s we
are requesting funding in the amount of
$672,000 to actually close some of those
existing gaps that we have we are
proposing to use vendors to do these
this work it will not be staff they will
be working on other items and also we're
going to be working on filling these
gaps from a map that is being worked on
by planning and implementation in Public
Works once that is finalized that is the
priority map that we will use I have a
couple of slides to go over some
preliminary views of what that is and
I'll go over be going over a few of the
criteria that we're looking at thus
far next we do have a request in for
$275,000 and that is to reinstall a
monitoring well that was
decommissioned as part of the natatorium
construction on Solano and Hadley so as
part of that project the Environmental
Protection Agency did Grant approval of
decommissioning well number
mwg
w-03 with conditions and those
conditions were that in the future they
could request that the city reinstall a
multiport monitoring well at this point
in time that request has been received
by the city of Los cruus they have given
us a potential site which is under
review staff has comment commented back
to EPA with some clarifications and
we're awaiting their response now once
we get that response at that point with
the funding and a finalized location
we'll be able to install the well and
again the monitoring well is part of the
Grigg Griggs wall plume super fight
Sun so now moving into those preliminary
map views I'm going to have a couple
because obviously the map is too small
if I included it on one slide however
you'll see that there are some color
coordinated items based on 0 to six
there we're looking at six criteria I'll
go over a few of those that we working
to finalize and again that will set the
priority of where those gaps will
be achieved in in that order so again
you have the rankings from 0 to six and
that color coordination there and here's
the other second half of the view again
this is a preliminary map once we
finalize it that's the map we'll be
using so just to touch base on some of
those criteria that we're looking at is
we're incorporating The Pedestrian Focus
areas that are part of the active
Transportation plan and thus part of
elevate loss crues we're also looking at
areas from our 2020
census track information to Target those
areas with low to moderate incomes and
then lastly we're also looking at those
gaps that are adjacent to or within a
quarter mile of a Transit stop or other
municiple
facilities again as we move towards
finalizing this map this is the tool
will be using to identify those areas
and fill those gaps uh one note is the
criteria is one thing the implementation
of those site conditions is another so
as we go through and we rate these we'll
actually take a look in the field and
see whether those are feasible and what
I mean is do we have adequate right of
way are there obstructions in the area
that we need to install these those
may have to deal with additional funding
to be able to achieve filling that Gap
so that's part of that feasibility that
we will be looking at as well once we
finalize the map thank you for your time
and now I will turn it over to Mr
Bingham and parks and wck
that's fine we'll we'll discuss and have
questions at the end of the
presentation mayor um city council um
city manager and the public Stephen bam
Parks and Recreation
director
Parks is a great equalizer in our
community Parks don't discriminate Park
s it provide equity and um opportunity
for all
regardless of their financial
situation it something that
favors the poor just as much as the rich
as long as the parks are free and are
centrally
located as I've come here being here N9
months um one of the observations I made
early on
was that we had a number of parks that
had been built quite a long time ago
that had deferred
maintenance and that deferred
maintenance was something that
um in my opinion kept our citizens from
using those Parks fully and from
enjoying them and we discussed as a
staff a need to um improve those parks
and what parks we need to
improve and we came to the conclusion
that it was about creating a legacy for
our children for our grandchildren a
legacy for them but also a legacy as a
community and we identified 12 parks
that were mostly older Parks 12 parks
that um had significant challenges with
their deferred maintenance
needed
improvements and they were also some of
the parks um that were used the most or
we felt would be used the most if they
were in better
condition um and so we came up with the
name Legacy parks and there's numerous
issues there from issues with the
sprinklers to the turf to the sidewalks
the water fountains to
shade and um
even playgrounds that needed to be
improved
and we we looked at these and we decided
to put forth a proposal to move forward
and make improvements to Two Parks the
first is the Pioneer women's Park it's
the oldest Park in the system built in
1894 and opaka park the second oldest
Park in our city it was built in three
phes in 1953 through 1956 six and we're
requesting 2.55 million to do that
work the age of those and how much they
were used was part of the criteria in
which we used to select those two parks
but the other criteria was
that those um Parks already had some
existing grants and funding from other
sources so that we felt like we could
maximize our um impact to that area much
like the lift up where the cities bring
in in multiple resources into those
areas we felt in this case we were
getting a similar
effect the opaka park um
renovation has money for design Plaza
entry area Turf trees irrigation site
Furnishings restroom rehab playground
rehab is not included it's in another
request we have for replacing of
playgrounds um but it is one that we
would like to replace that playground
lighting rehabs bouldering features and
wayf finding
signage Pioneer women's Park also has a
um
$860,000
um grant for replacing a gazebo and um
the playground there also needs to be
replaced the part Park hardscapes and
Landscape
improvements lighting rehab and um
General Park
improvements we also was asked by the
mayor to bring forward Young Park Young
Park um is really maybe our most Central
Park in our community may be the most
used
park it could really benefit from rehabs
in the areas that we have shaded we need
a park entrance in two areas Gathering
area would like to create a food truck
Court um planners picnic areas inground
slide on a slope that we have trouble
maintaining um the grass due to the
slope we let's put in a in ground
slide um and shrubs
irrigation we also have some challenges
with Access Control there where people
get their vehicles out there and damage
the um Park driving through there
and so this is unfunded 2.4 m700 th000
for those two items com to um 3.1
million I Stanford
questions oh afterwards
yes thank you Steve
all right good afternoon mayor
counselors Brad Douglas legal for the
record uh now it's my time to stand at
the PO I tried to jump the gun a little
bit earlier um and mayor protim uh you
had a c you had a question earlier that
was a really good question and the the
city manager rightly reminded me that
the reason that that public defender
position wasn't listed as a new position
is because it's not a new position it
was actually a reclassification
uh out of the city attorney's uh one of
our
vacancies um so moving forward changes
uh that we hope to achieve in the Las
crusis Municipal Court uh it's my goal
to add two full-time prosecutors very
very soon uh one of those would be
dedicated to DWI and uh potentially
domestic violence prosecutions we're
trying to get our numbers up in the
latter area with regard to the DWI
prosecutions um we already do if I may
say so myself we already do an excellent
job with our DWI prosecutions uh uh when
compared to other state and Municipal
agencies so we are punching well above
our weight class with regard to that and
we look forward to Growing our team and
continuing that success uh the purpose
of the other prosecutor would be to
relieve our uh LCPD officers from their
in-person courtroom obligations the last
thing that we want uh as police officers
to be queued up uh waiting in the docket
when they're Prosecuting some of their
own Petty misdemeanor cases uh my goal
or rather our goal uh I should say is to
have those police officers freed up so
that they can spend their time doing
what we think of as traditional police
work whether it be community outreach
community policing uh traffic
enforcement
Etc um and then we have our full-time
public defender that will be on site I'm
really excited about this um we will
have a full-time public defender and uh
that represents a couple of notable
changes that will benefit the city uh
the first of which would be uh a sizable
um cost savings initiative because it
will be economically much more feasible
but also it would represent uh to our
Indigent defendants uh no Gap in in
service no Gap in representation and
that would bring us at or even exceeding
the level of service being provided by
our state and federal counterparts so
I'm pretty excited about that um ankle
monitoring Services uh that will assist
and that will be a case-by casee basis
not everybody is going to put on be put
on ankle monitoring or GPS monitoring
that'll be a caseby case basis where our
uh municipal court judge or judges will
have to to decide that that's a level of
care uh that that individual requires
that will assist in protecting the
community at large and identifying when
clients require a higher level of care
if there's an issue with uh possible
substance abuse if there's an
exclusionary Zone where the uh accused
should not be as part of their
conditions of release we will be able to
monitor uh those persons and to address
those issues as they arise
um I'm excited about the partnership
program between our Municipal Court uh
with input from LCPD and the housing and
neighborhood uh revitalization line of
business Natalie Green has been very
very helpful with regard to that so I
wanted to give her a shout out um and
then of course funding for services
provided by our nonprofit Partners uh I
I do want to add that our municipal
court has added a new case manager uh
that person will be a point of contact
between the individuals seeking Services
a and our Community Partners they'll be
able to identify needs it will be a very
needs-based uh intensive program and we
are again I don't mean to repeat myself
but we're we're looking to reduce
recidivism and to kind of approach a
holistic approach of treatment for
clients on a case-by Case basis and so
that would include of course counseling
uh treatment for Substance Abuse and
Mental Health dis disorders mat
appointments which stands for uh medical
assisted treatment home visits harm
reduction income and housing support and
even transportation to and from clinics
as needed medication management and I
believe our case manager and additional
staff at Municipal Court would also be
assisting those in applying for Medicaid
who qualify for it and who desperately
need it and that is my presentation and
I'll be back if there are any questions
thank
you good afternoon mayor council Jeremy
story police chief the realtime crime
which I've been talking about for a
while so I'll try to summarize it as
quickly as as I can the funding that
we've received from both the state and
our federal Partners is being used to
improve or establish technology within
the city itself the the city as a whole
right now our unfunded needs are to be
able to be able to launch the realtime
crime Center are the things you see
listed below so it's Mo it's all the
things I need to happen within the
police station to really get the center
up and running these are one time costs
$400,000 would be for renovations of
both our intelligence section in our
crime scene area which would also make
it a quad lab that we'd be able to do
more processing in the lab area $200,000
for construction of the realtime crime
Center area servers and server cooling
equipment and then $500,000 to equip and
install the realtime crime Center in
that space to include all
equipment these are some renderings of
what the actual Center in the police
department would look like the video
monitoring wall um on that back wall and
then all the
workstations for staffing needs these
would be out of the general fund but
just to tie it all together commission
Sergeant will oversee the realtime crime
Center that position already exists two
realtime crime Center technicians are
being reclassified right now from bacon
positions um for cost savings to the
city and then three additional positions
will be added this year at 50% to help
round it
out and just as a a separate note really
this isn't from tore fund but city
manager wanted me to mention the park
rangers and mayor protim you already
asked about it we've asked for three
park ranger positions um to be added to
this year's budget these are uniform
sworn but non-commission personnel with
limited enforcement uh authori so think
Police Service Aid codes Animal Control
similar enforcement capability and they
ultimately increase the safety and
utilization of our Parks if our Parks
aren't safe all the improvements we do
are for not because people will not use
them um and people are scared to go to
them a lot of the associations that um
are already not coming to our Parks
because of safety concerns we'll
hopefully come back as a side note I was
in MA Arizona with my wife a couple
weeks ago now and we went to a park and
they had like a a Citywide fair with all
the Departments and so the park rangers
were there so I went to talk to them um
and kind of get the rundown on how they
run their program they've been around
for a long time since the 80s at one
point they had 35 Park Rangers 2008 2009
the recession hit and they went all the
way down to three and they're back up to
16 but they were telling me the park
that we were in that day a year and a
half before that you could not go with
your family it was infested with drugs
um and gangs and violence and that day
you would have never known it because it
was a beautiful Park there's tons of
people everywhere and that's the goal
that we want here that's what we want to
emulate and all the the models we've
seen Nationwide are very similar they
have limited enforcement Authority they
have a uniform presence for deterrence
um and they act as that kind of in
between a police officer and a security
guard and so they do other things
including education um they do a lot of
community outreach but they ultimately
are there to try to keep the park safe
and deal with the issues we're seeing
right now
and I will turn over to
Natalie good afternoon Mr Mayor members
of council Natalie Green housing
revitalization administrator we have uh
three items on the budget request the
first is to finance the development
loans for the peach tree Canyon
apartments that would include both phase
one and phase two for a total of 288
units uh there is a pre-commitment for
phase one in the amount of 4 million
which will be closing on within the next
60 days and then we anticipate phase two
later in the year um in the amount of 6
million we are also requesting Gap
funding for the Amador Crossing
Apartments so we've received uh a
commitment from the state for just under
6 million we do anticipate that the
total cost of development will be around
four uh we are currently applying for
other sources to reduce the gap in the
commitments from the city um but we'll
also be uh looking at some of those
value engineering to make sure uh cost
stay reasonable and with that I'll pass
it on to
Chris good afternoon mayor city council
Chris favor Economic Development deputy
director and we're going to touch on the
Cannabis excise tax and some proposed
uses for M Redevelopment so just to
recap um the tax applies to retail sales
of non medical cannabis products uh the
sales uh commenced April 1st
2022 and tax is currently 12% Rising 1
percentage increment starting July 1st
2025 with a maximum of 18% July 1st 2030
to date Revenue we've received is about
1.5 million and we're we're proposing
$400,000 from that fund to jumpstart MRA
programming and what can that MRA
programming look like so here's a few
examples of some things that we can do
so last summer uh Council uh updated the
city's uh Lita program which is the
Local Economic Development act program
uh and so to to include retail as an
option so funding those uh retail
programs uh with this funding is
possible POS with the
MRA we could also look at matching Grant
programs for commercial and
revitalization public private
Partnerships uh another thing we could
look at doing is small business support
programming specifically cannabis
businesses struggle because of the
federal restrictions on cannabis they
are not eligible for a lot of the same
free business services that other
businesses are so there's a gap there
that some of these funds could help fill
uh and potentially funding could be used
to pay for future MRA planning so as
everybody knows in March of 2023 Council
adopted the ELO South Solano MRA which
we are currently going through the early
stages of the planning process uh and
right on the heels of that uh Council
also adopted the West Picacho MRA in
which we are in the very very early
stages of that planning process so by
late 2024 we will have two M under
planning and council could look to adopt
um you know a couple more of those um
proposed MRA areas from the designation
report that was done uh in 2023 or
excuse me 2022 and presented to Council
in 2023 so those are just a few options
for how to use the Cannabis
funds okay big finish so how do we
continue the momentum so manager put
forward an aggressive approach through
the fy2 budget and recommendations for
funding from the telshore fund and
cannabis revenues and those are all a
good start but what we really need to do
is establish a funding source for
sustainable Capital
Improvements so first we need to
identify what are the needs and so
working with staff and I believe Steven
mentioned this earlier when talking
about
Parks previously there's been a strategy
of deferred maintenance and so that has
caught up to some of the city facilities
and so we're looking to overcome some of
those obstacles and move forward with a
more proactive approach and all the
while looking to increase quality of
life opportunities for all residents and
those would be in the areas of Public
Safety police and fire Street
improvements Park improvements and then
public facility improvements as
well so what are some potential ways
that we can generate that extra Revenue
well we already have an aggressive
Capital outway approach but as we know
legislators prefer to fund the last mile
of projects right so if you come to them
and say we need you know Gap funding to
get us across the Finish Line they're
more inclined to provide that funding
another option is property tax increases
and the the the problem with the
property tax increase would be that it
doesn't share the tax burden with
everyone who enjoys amenities again as
stepen mentioned before and as David
mentioned with streets visitors people
passing through the community they take
advantages of our services as well go
bonds so we have a successful go Bond
campaign over the last few years but as
Council knows that's a limited amount
every four years another option to look
at would be a potential GRT increase
which would include contributions from
residents tourists and people passing
through the
community so how do we get there so we
need to consider bold options to set Los
Cruis up for future success and so under
that we're recommending a bump in the
local portion of the
GRT and so doing that could actually
generate up to 20 additional 20 million
additional dollars per year for these
particular Capital
programs uh there's money that could be
generated simply through ordinance and
there's additional monies that could be
generated through a public
referendum and to sort of give you a
sense of what that increase would look
like for the general resident that's
about a 56 Cent uh per $100 increase on
goods and services Council would also
have the option to restrict a portion of
that for specific use if they wanted
to and with that I will turn it over for
discussion I'm sure there's no question
so yeah thank you thank you Chris um
questions uh councelor fles yes I'd like
to ask Mr s a question thank you thank
you
Chris hello good afternoon um so on the
um the well replacement at the uh by the
nitorum when we put in that request for
the funds would it have been possible to
ask for funds to uh replace the
well I mean would that be part of the
project because actually it was you had
to remove it in order to build so would
that have been Kosher for lack of a
better
word mayor council Flores David CIO
Public Works director again for the
record that is an excellent question at
the time that this project was ongoing
EPA said that they may request that the
well get reinstalled so at that point in
time we didn't think it was feasible to
actually budget for well that may not
have been asked for to be reinstalled so
at that point we did not however we did
identify costs for those back when we
understood that they gave approval for
the
decommissioning now at this point in
time we have no budget for that we
understood what the cost may be and as a
matter of fact it has actually increased
over time great thank you so much for
your response thank you for your answer
thank you Mr Mayor
any other comments
anyone or question coren did
you I have many many
comments okay great I I did have one
quick question now for you David thank
you um oh actually while you're here
maybe I will ask a question thank you
for thank you everyone for your
presentations um really quickly how much
does one block of site
walk T cost just don't I listen when you
tell me I can site this for roads but I
can't for sidewalks just mayor counselor
corn that's going to vary greatly
whether how many Drive pads are on there
but I'll give you somewhat of an
estimate we did have a request uh I
would want to say about maybe a month
and a half ago and we went out and did
that estimate and to do that stretch of
block with the curb gutter it needed to
be replaced fill in the sidewalk and the
drive pads that came out to
$110,000 okay thank you I'll just use
that number and put it in my brain as
what one block of of sidewalk costs may
or may not be accurate going forward but
I like to have a number thank you thanks
sorry you got stuck with that my next
question is actually for Natalie
um
please um I I recently learned that
when affordable housing projects are on
on the books they they have the waiver
of of of um impact fees on those on
those projects and I um sort of came to
realize that that means that someone has
to pay for those for
those um things like utility hookups and
perhaps Park related impact fees and
other things
um do those get added into the project
and would those be part of these
projects in this
request Mr Mayor councelor Karan the way
the program currently Works affordable
housing is eligible for an impact waiver
we consult with the fee affected
departments and then make them whole um
so it comes from our budget and then we
would pay for either Parks or Public
Safety impact fees uh because utilities
is an Enterprise that will always get
paid by some source of funding we are
looking to uh retool that program and
ask for out andout waivers but we also
recognize that that has an impact to
departments who rely on that pit funds
for for revenue or or the public safety
that relies on those uh impact fees for
programming okay so these that's not
part of these correct we have not
included impact fee waivers in the
budgeted amounts okay thank
you um those are the two main questions
that I have and I'll defer to you all
and I'm sure other folks have other
inputs but thank
you councilor
Grant thanks mayor thanks everyone um
Chief story just two quick questions for
you um in regard to the park
ranger program um would that would
deployment of those of those personnel
kind of based on a floating
hotspot kind of model it's a good
question mayor counselor Graham
obviously there's a lot that's still in
development but that is my idea is that
we concentrate the Rangers in the areas
that need them the most and that would
be based on um kind of a a rolling
hotspot map or issues that come up so
during the day they would go to
different Park spend some time but they
may go back to a park if if an issue
develops okay thank you for that that
and I think I've asked you this before
but I don't know if it's if I've set it
out on the record um would these
Personnel be available for our multi-use
Trails I'm never quite sure where our
multi-use trails are classified but is
that a
possibility mayor council Graham I'm not
opposed to that and I don't think parks
and W I don't want to speak for him but
I don't think they would be opposed
either and if the program grows if it's
successful then it would be easier to
incorporate more parks and more uh areas
and the Downtown Plaza is technically
considered a park so they could also be
used for certain events or certain times
downtown that's interesting I didn't I
didn't realize that um and then finally
I guess I'm still in the multi-use trail
frame of mind um the non-sworn
employees um do they have like basic
first aid training do mayor counselor
Graham uh all of our and we've probably
haven't done the best job historically
but in recent times all of our animal
control codes and PSA do a full first
aid but they also do trauma care
training okay that would include the
park rangers clearly I've fallen off my
bike on a multi-use trail I did not
require anyone to render aid but it just
made me think about it thank you so much
thank you that's all I have thank you
mayor thank you uh councelor fles thank
you I have a question for Miss Green
I have a question about um whether do
you have any idea what um the uh rent
would be at the peach tree Canyon and at
Amador Crossing what um what uh what
what would be the affordability
indicators and for whom what
population Mr Mayor councilor flotes for
peach tree Canyon uh we have the ability
to go up to 80% of area median income
given the the level of funding sources
the rents would be based on whether
they're a one-bedroom two bedroom or
three bedroom but they are typically
below fair market value um I don't have
those numbers off the top of my head but
I can send that chart um a one-bedroom
sits at about 7
750 um$ 700 $715 for a one bedroom it
it's around there but the market rate
for $100 so it's well below that market
and then all affordable housing projects
have an affordability restriction so
they will stay affordable for anywhere
to 30 to 40 years and so those rents
will be restricted for that period of
time great thank you so much thank you
Mr
Mayor go ahead May pro thank you and I
just want to thank you mayor and the
staff for putting together this
community livability
presentation um it's
both really powerful and really telling
and kind of exposing the tremendous
needs that we have at the city which is
I guess why I'm not surprised the last
addition to the presentation um which
I'm sure I'm surprised that I didn't
hear a general gasp in the audience
though I think um I'm sure that is
coming but I think it's a really
important conversation for us to
continue to have given the needs that
were discussed here and given that the
telshore fund is not um a fund that is
has a consistent Revenue stream once
that is gone that will be gone and I
think we all have to just deeply
understand um what that means um and so
just so that I'm clear um bar Barbara
Barbara Barbara van oh there she is
sorry
Barbara you're usually right over there
just so that I'm clear every
presentation here was for a request to
come out of the telshore fund correct no
okay
um yes that's right mayor mayor proem uh
Barbara Ben k for the record no there
were some items that we spoke about here
that were actually budgeted out of the
general fund okay the legal uh programs
for example and the police realtime
crime Center Tech uh those new tech
positions are budgeted out of the
general fund as well so there was kind
of a mixture okay great thank you I did
want to make sure that we were um being
clear on that and then obviously the
cannabis for the Mr yes thank you for
Municipal Court then um the additional
so the the PD was we said the the public
defender was a reclassification so
that's covered there and then the case
manager was also a reclassification I
believe correct so those are covered and
then the request for the ankle monitors
would that be a brand new request out of
the is a new request and that is
budgeted out of the general fund okay
I'm wondering
about that from oh from the general fund
I'm sorry oh okay okay great I was about
to be like I don't
know um okay that's good thank you and
then obviously you know I think we want
to bring um judge filosa back for a
fuller presentation on municipal court
and their needs and just wondering if
they know about this request and if
they're yeah then if they're sort of set
up to to handle a program for absolutely
so we reached out to the judge and staff
over at mun court and they provided us
with the particulars and the estimate
for the funding required to support that
program great thank you Barbara do you
remember I talked about this during my
comments a while ago about um the at the
state level many of the court fees are
going away this July um did that come up
in your conversation with the judge and
if are how are we planning for that um
it does it has not come up in the
conversation so that um I don't have any
information about that I'm not sure if
um city manager or legal has any
information about that but I have not
had that conversation that's okay if
it's not for today I do just want to put
it back on everybody's radar that some
of those fees are going away and we'll
either have to supplement or by adoption
adopt them ourselves I'm generally not
necessarily in favor of of that and
making it a debtor's court but I I think
that is an important consideration for
municipal court and their
budget
um I guess on for Public Works on the
sidewalk gaps you know we just finished
the CIP presentation where we talked
about the potential 350,000 that is
coming from the state legislature this
year I know that it was about 600 plus
th000 that you mentioned was the need
for that David but I'm wondering if that
that's a pretty good chunk right to get
us started I'm wondering if that could
be something that we can
consider mayor mayor
protim that that is a great question
I would only state that monies coming
into the active Transportation bucket
also include other installations that
may or may not have a funding source and
therefore that's why we made the request
okay thank you David that that was my
only question for you um on Parks and
wreck Mr bangham thank you for your
presentation
again I I really appreciate your your
presentation on the three parks on the
three Legacy Parks I
think um I may get some emails from this
on my brand new constituents Pioneer
Park is the newest Park in District 4 um
and I know there's a ton of advocacy
that goes on for Pioneer Park and um
it's a beloved Park it's a beautiful
Park and I definitely support
investments in that in the
infrastructure there however just a tiny
little
asterisk I think Parks like abadaka Park
and Young Park are parks that are highly
utilized by a lot of families and I
loved how you started this about the
great equalizers and who uses parks and
um who they should be for right and so I
I do um I guess I would I would ask us
to honestly prioritize abadaka and Young
Park as we talk about these major
Renovations and the needs and who they
will the needs will impact the most not
because I don't love pioneer Park and I
don't see the need for it but I just see
a much much greater need for both of
those parks and I'm wondering if you've
like how if you're asking us for
guidance on prioritization I know the
the cost for both of those Parks is
quite tremendous and so I'm just um
wondering if you could speak a little
bit more about um the prior prioritizing
those
Parks the the reason we um I agree with
you that um Young Park has a greater
need
um
but we were the target where we were
trying to come in financially where we
felt like we could get
support um we we felt if we prioritize
Young Park we could only do one
Park the the other reason is is because
um Pioneer has a lot of money 860,000 in
a
grant and um as we W looked at there's
three parks that we have master planned
that we've gotten budgeting number on
them and they come out to about 400 to
$460,000 an acre to do a full renovation
of a park and I've checked out in the
industry and that number is um something
that the other directors that I've
talked to are seeing and so it was
important for us to hit parks where
there were grants so that we could get a
greater impact on that park because we
didn't feel that it was viable to put
$460,000 per acre into these older
Parks the the other thing is is um the
reason we chose Pioneer is we thought we
could um go in there with a little bit
less money there and put more toward
opid DOA it didn't quite work out that
way as the numbers came in pretty
similar but we also felt like
pioneer with it being the oldest Park a
his Historic Park a park um built in the
1800s at the um push of a women's
organization who saw a need for it and
we felt like with it being such a
historic park there was a need for that
Park to be the class of the
system and so I I would be fully
supportive and on board in um moving
over to Young Park I think Park will
take a little bit longer for planning
we're further along in the planning
stages with um Pioneer than young and so
but I I agree with your sentiment it
it's needed more and that's why we
actually had plans to bring young back
this following
year thank you and then here's my
additional consideration you know as you
were talking and we're talking about
Park Rangers and we're talking about
potentially you know parks that see a
greater
um threat to safety
I I mean I don't I don't want to go out
on olymp because I don't know for sure
maybe Chief can help us um determine
which of these Parks perhaps sees more
of that and I imagine Young Park is one
of those parks at the top of the list I
don't want us to say we're only going to
invest in enforcement in Young Park but
we're not going to invest in the needs
of young Park in terms of infrastructure
that are equally as important for public
safety for usability and those kinds of
things right so for me those are like a
really important balance to keep in mind
as we're talking about um how we look at
Public Safety and how we invest in it
and I think even if it takes some phases
to get to the needs for young Park um as
you're coming to us for requests I that
is at least my preference my preference
is that we focus on the two parks that
serve the most people and that have the
highest needs and I love your sentiment
Pioneer Park again I love that Park I
love that community and I just see the
needs being much much greater for these
two other Parks you're accurate the need
there in young is much greater yes thank
you you I if I may add a couple
things um Parks and Recreation industry
has been late to the table on research
and putting things out there but um
Parks not only serve to be the great
equal
but they are research is showing that
they're one of the best things for
reducing mental health challenges and
one of the things for reducing crime and
if you have safe Parks you have safe
neighborhoods but if you have dangerous
Parks it bleeds over into your
neighborhoods thank you thank you I
appreciate that um chief on the realtime
crime Center I I have a ton of question
I don't think this is the right format
or Forum but I have a lot of questions
just about um just surveillance
technology and how we best reduce can
best reduce the potential harms of
surveillance Technologies on communities
like racial profiling and those kinds of
things and I I believe that that can be
done through policy but I'm wondering if
um there is going to be in the future a
specific work session on real-time crime
Center how that's going to work how the
community can ask questions and be
involved uh mayor mayor Pro I don't have
the answer the work session but on the
town hall this Thursday one of the
things we're going to talk about is
realtime crime Center the realtime crime
Center and some of those concerns but
just quickly to address them um
obviously there's a balance to it and so
some of the things that we do to uh
ensure that that balance is kept in
order is one limiting access to those
that need it two is auditing procedures
so that we're making sure that we're
we're monitoring that the data is being
retrieved um for the proper purposes and
everything has an audit Trail these days
which is a good a good thing for us
proper policy um and so there's a lot of
mechanisms in place or that will be in
place to help to help make sure that
that stays in Balance thank you Chief I
think one of my biggest in just my
research around some of these kinds of
tools is around data collection some of
the biggest questions I have like how
long we keep data for when we share it
with other entities like the data
sharing agreement you know I
particularly have concerns with just
sharing data with entities like ice for
example and so I just I have a ton of
questions around that and I don't want
to come to the town hall and take up
time myself from the community members
so I guess my request would be that we
have a work session let me just mention
data retention is the one I missed so
retention periods again have to be
balanced so that we are able to solve
crimes and hold people accountable for
for victims right but also not keep data
longer where it becomes a concern and so
the retention rates that we have set now
are 30 days for license plate readers
which I think is a very reasonable
amount and 7 days will be for all video
so a week is what we plan on setting it
at which is not a lot of time it means
people have to move fast if there's a
crime but it also helps uh assuage those
those spheres that we're keeping data
for a long time we can go back and put
something together we should okay thank
you Chief maybe what I'll do too is
email you some questions but I I get
again I think it's really important that
the community understand all of these
and I'm glad that you're having a town
hall thank
you um
um okay I'm almost done on the MRA um
Chris this for
you I think it's really important that
we start talking about future planning
for the mras I always love telling
people this can you remind us how many
mras Albuquerque has right now mayor
mayor protm I believe they have about 21
right so they have a whole office for
Metropolitan Redevelopment is very much
a part of how they move their Economic
Development strategy forward in the City
of Albuquerque I love that and I think
for me again when we talk about public
safety and Community safety um
revitalization of areas that have long
been neglected is such an important part
of that and so Albuquerque set up when
July 1st hits this year that all of
those 20 areas will begin collecting um
their own revenues correct mayor mayor
proia so if you're referring to the
change in the state statute yes
beginning July 1st you can start your
Baseline collections so in order to
implement the potential tax increment
you need to do a 12 Monon uh collection
to see what that Baseline is it's very
similar to what we did with the downtown
tid and so that Baseline um as you saw
in the data I provided to you on the tid
today anything above that up to 75% of
those revenues go back into the MRA 25%
back into the general fund so yeah we
will be starting at a minimum our
collection on the two new masas that
were established um and then anything
additional Council wants to look at
which I think is great and I'm really
excited about that and I think it's so
important for us for future planning of
future MRA designations which I think
they're there was like 10 12 Chris from
the report mayor mayor proem the
designation report actually identified
six areas so we had the ELO South Solano
West Picacho there was also an East
Solano telshore area uh there was the
abadaka blueprint area and then probably
the two other areas that were high need
were the Amador proximo area which is
just you know west of here down towards
Valley and then of course the original
MOS townside area so those those four
are the ones that were
identified um and so you know we picked
the first two to move forward with thank
you Chris will you send can you
recirculate that report amongst Council
there's obviously new council members
that I think would be really good to see
that I would love for us to see um city
manager and mayor for us to move forward
with
um just even even if we don't have go
out to rfps for the new mras but just
establishing them that way they start
that that Baseline collection and we're
prepared for the future I think that's
really really smart so thank you for
bringing that forward Chris sure and
mayor mayor proen that could be done by
resolution we could bring that back
referencing the designation report and
just have Council designate those
remaining areas as an MRA just so we can
start that Baseline collection and then
plan future planning initiatives in
those areas as as time and and finances
permit I think in that planning I mean I
think if we establish those other four
that'd be great and then in that
conversation we could determine how we
want to which of those are priorities
which of those we want to do third third
fourth fifth um Etc so we're not
tackling them all at once thank you
Chris actually um just on the GRT this
might be for you or for Leanne um can
you talk more specifically about what it
is right now percentage the height of
it and then okay there we go oh you were
prepared thank you um so those are what
it is right now correct yeah this is um
I worked with uh Dr Tois City's
Economist um to put together some
current um GRT collections from around
the state and this kind of just shows
you as things stand today where where
the GRT rests uh you can see some cities
above where we are currently and a
couple cities blow obviously this isn't
all of them these are some Regional ones
and of course the larger cities
throughout New Mexico I I wish I had had
this slide at my community meeting a
couple of weeks ago because someone was
adamant that we had the highest in the
state and I was like I don't think so
ma'am and now there's the data um Chris
so then um can you just talk about then
the council author a little bit more and
then what would need to go out to
referendum for the community to vote
on certainly so Council via ordinance
has the authority to uh increase um the
GRT um that would generate approximately
$9 million per year um the out to
referendum option would generate
potentially another $1
million um on on top of that so that's
where you know you're looking at your
$20 million a year um generated through
those two options okay thank you
I'm I think part of what yeah part of
what you said on this slide was about
bold options and bold can sometimes be
scary and I think we're in a Time coming
out of Co that inflation is high I think
that there's important considerations to
to make and to have conversations with
the public around um just how expensive
everything is right now right like those
those things are true but they're also
then true for the city right they're
much it's much more expensive to fix a
sidewalk it's much more expensive to fix
a park now as well and so I think those
are all important conversations we need
to be having with our
constituents
um for this conversation to move forward
I think it's really important that we do
town halls and community outreach
meetings is that something that um St
has talked about or is that something
that you all need guidance on today uh
mayor mayor protm probably a little bit
of both so City manager's office has
discussed bringing this back to Council
in the form of a work session
specifically on this topic in early June
um there is a timeline that we would
need to adhere to if we're going to get
this on the ballot in November which
means we have to have a consensus by
early August so working backwards from
that timeline um early June to bring
this back for further discussion and
then if Council wants to add additional
public um comment opportunities uh we
could certainly look to to accommodate
that during that time frame as well
Chris this might be coming out of
leftfield but do you have data on
property
taxes I don't have a lot of detail on
that I'm sure Leanne can I do know that
there is an option via ordinance that um
the council can act you know to increase
property taxes under their taxing
Authority I believe that number is
somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 ion
but I know lean could probably provide
more details on that if she would like
to good job she's giving you a thumbs up
um but the property tax what that
differs from GRT is the split with the
county
correct that is correct but I believe
that that's I believe that's our that
would be our for us okay okay that would
I see okay um I guess if we do a work
session on the GRT I would I would love
to understand all of our options
certainly on the T
um and what that could mean because so
if we go to referendum and let's say the
voters approve it
then um that's the max right like that
can never be increased again unless it
goes back to referendum or how does that
work mayor mayor protemps I believe that
would cap out our taxing Authority at
the local level if we go out to
referendum for the full amount unless
there were some changes at the state
level okay which I think is an important
consideration for sure okay thank you
Chris um those are all my questions and
I'm sure if I have more I will get them
over to staff thank you very
much councilor
M yeah Steve can I ask you some
questions H going going through the
PowerPoint uh maybe you could tell me
number one the the revenue for the
parks uh I've only been around three or
four months but have a memory back 17
years ago is that develop fees
developers fees for Parks impact fees um
councelor matis you're referring to park
impact fees yes um currently the park
impact fee um is
$2,600 per unit we are currently doing a
study um the park impact fees have not
been raised my is my understanding for a
decade okay and then in your PowerPoint
you mentioned about a strategy for
deferred
maintenance why was that done was that
the lack of impact fees lack of
leadership lack of
money impact fees can only be used to um
maintain the S same level of um
Service as the Ser um community grows
and so if your current level of service
is 3.79 Acres of um Parks you can't use
Park impact fees to increase your level
of service it has to remain the the same
for that vehicle there are other
vehicles but that vehicle can't increase
it um your next question I believe is
why are
parks um got the challenges they are I I
think historically um our Parks people
have worked very hard with the work they
have done but I as I look at it our um
funding is um lower than you know the
greater portion of people we're in the
lower quartile of funding in Parks when
you look at the funding per resident
okay and you mentioned about pivoting
from the Deferred maintenance strategy
uh can I get the particulars on the
pivoting I I I think I've made a bold
request I've been told it's a bold
request something that
um I think is more than the council
historically have received knife put
forward a request to um try to really
attack these issues in our parks where
there's deferred maintenance and let's
restore our Parks let's try to make them
look like they're new inviting Etc and
that's the pivot no I I think you made a
very good point in the last four or five
years with the crime increases I I Know
Chief story and the previous Chiefs the
crime that's in the the parks
particularly Aida Park and others if the
parks are not safe if they don't have
ranges if they don't look good same
thing with neighborhoods abandoned
buildings yes if you have that type of
look you're going to attract or have
increases in crime and thank you for
that statement thank you thank
you all I think the city manager had a
comment
first I apologize um mayor mayor PM City
councelor uh city council Eon Tom city
manager uh councelor matis just wanted
to uh share a thought as as stepen
Bingham you had you had uh question what
what is happening uh from our
previous uh from from from prior times
of deferred maintenance happening in in
Parks parks and W um what I know from
the short time that I've been here is
our parks and wreck have been um and
previously they have been
uh challenged with a very tight budget
which they haven't been funded with and
that's what it comes down to they have
done the best that they uh that they
could but uh not given the resources and
funding resources and so I just wanted
to share as as your um as constituents
will ask you what has happened uh in
this past and when you were previously
mayor as well that's why we shared uh
the the the the option to have the Bold
uh challenge of additional revenues uh
at this time which was uh not done prior
uh because with additional funds uh
there's potential to hit some of the
goals that uh you and Council may have
for for Park so just wanted to make that
comment thank
you Mr city manager Mr Connie thank you
very
much councelor Flores thank you Mr Mayor
I have a question for Barbara bomo or
maybe Leanne the
other dollar brain um so could either of
you
explain uh for purposes of educating our
our everybody especially our our
uh our public as to how the telshore
fund works because uh it was reported
that the there's quite it's there's like
uh
35 here it is
um there's 35 $30 million 30 plus
million um the Corpus is that amount
could you please um explain what the
Corpus is how it has to be protected and
the limitations on using the Corpus
thank you absolutely thank thank you
mayor and councelor FLOTUS Barbara bomo
for the record so the telshore fund
Corpus that we spoke about earlier and I
apologize I'm going to go right to the
bigger slide there um essentially
represents the funds that we received
from the prepaid lease so that's the
body of funds that we received that we
could then invest those long-term
Investments that we have made have
yielded a higher Market value overall uh
for that investment for the telshore
fund and that's why when we talk about
what's currently in the fund we talk
about the market value being
42.9 million currently we started uh
with the $30 million actually we started
with $26 million in 2004 and received
the additional funds more recently but
in total we received $30 million to
invest and to utilize previously the
council has adopted resolutions to
identify a certain amount of money to be
um um spent for the health related
Public Services uh programs uh that was
$600,000 a year and I think I I have
that listed
here the previous
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slide one more here we go the health
related Public Services here of $600,000
that actually I believe believe it it
started out at something like $300,000
and it was intended to be a portion of
the appreciation of the fund every year
so that we could uh retain the the
Corpus of the funds but spend some of
the investment increase on programming
um and so that's one particular
resolution for recurring funds from from
the telshore fund but obviously the the
other things that you see is approved
from the telshore fund always come to to
council for consideration Council has um
the control of what is earmarked to be
spent from the fund within the uh
required usage that you have also
predesignated by by resolution as well
so that is that is something the
Restriction of the fund is by Council
through resolution and then effectively
as you have you know designated funds to
be spent um they come to you by
resolution and and that's what I'm
showing here with these previous
proposals as an example of what's been
previously um approved by Council from
the fund does that answer your question
um sort of kind of sort of um and the
the funds that are
um ass set
or distributed to different
organizations are their limitations on
the kind of um
organization it is does it have to be a
501c3 um and I yeah and that sort of
stuff okay thank you so with respect to
the health related Public Services
actually I'm going to ask Natalie to
come up and speak a little bit about
that because there are requirements and
of course there is a committee that
makes recommendations to the council
about what to spend the money on and who
to receive those
funds thank you Mr Mayor councelor
flotes so there the main three
eligibility criteria for a nonprofit
providing Services Under health related
Public Services is that they need to
provide Direct Services to the sick and
Indigent that meet the definition of
continued physical mental developmental
emotional and social well-being in
addition to that they do need to be a
registered 501c3 providing services
within the city limits and they need to
have um a basic level of internal
controls to demonstrate um that they're
providing those Direct Services that
they have you know functioning
accounting systems um audited financial
statements or or a audit um again in
order to to provide that
transparency um back to council and the
and the citizens that were spending
their money wisely so the biggest thing
is again Direct Services to demonstrated
Direct Services to the sick and Indigent
or low-income thank you Miss green Miss
bomo
um can you explain again or um why we
keep the Corpus why we don't uh Pierce
as accountants say the the
Corpus yes uh mayor and councelor flotes
and and this is certainly at the
council's discretion but may poen
mentioned earlier that there is no more
Revenue for the telshore funds we
received this as a prepaid um 40-year
lease payment uh for Memorial Medical
Center we don't receive funds on a
regular basis on an annual basis it was
a one-time prepaid lease and then with
the later addition of the escrow funds
that came forward so there's not a re a
regular Revenue stream into the telshore
fund um so with that I know that um
previous councils have been very
cognizant
of maintaining the Corpus of the funds
because um again we we don't have
something to replenish that fund um I
think mayor PM uh said earlier you know
when that fund is gone there's there's
nothing to to replace it so that's why
there's been you know quite a bit of
thought with respect to the types of
expenditures and the amounts of
expenditures that have previously come
forward and been contemplated by the
council
and the fund the um fund is
growing it's it there's it's there's an
a not automatic but there is an
investment growing in the Corpus so we
have been very fortunate in our
investments again I mentioned that the
telshore funds are designated as
long-term Investments that is the only
fund we have with that designation that
allows us to invest through the state
investment Council we have had good
years for investing we have had very
lean years for investing just like you
might have with your personal
Investments as well but overall and of
course over 20 years uh the Investments
have done well and previously as I
mentioned we had been spending fairly
small amounts from the telshore fund
limited to that 300K distribution up to
um most recently 600k and now we've
we've had we've seen some some larger
projects be funded out of the telshore
fund thank you very much m m thank you
mayor
mayor councelor m m Momo I could
remember in 2004 we had a
counselor um Wesley strain and he
required that the use of those funds use
a majority vote is that still in place
or has that been
changed um mayor and counselor mat
the use of the fund still requires a
majority vote here at Council okay to
approve those expenditures we would
typically bring them to you during the
budget development process however there
are times when during the year we have
brought forward proposals for use of the
funds it always comes to council and
always requires a majority vote thank
you he was a banker so he was worried
about it being
raid thank
you councilor Ken so I just to this
bigger question which is you're asking
us to spend the telshire fund on things
that because we've differ not you
personally collectively what this means
is we've we're facing deferred
maintenance that has caught up to us
among another a number of other things
that we haven't funded this is asking us
to consider those projects as using the
telar fund to fund those projects which
would result in a lower Corpus that
exists in the state investment Council
which has its own I think um I would
argue should have a different investment
strategy for it in any case but but uh
that's not what we're talking about here
but I think one of the things that I
would ask is it's I think this is coming
to us because we're open to this and we
understand that we're at a point where
public health and safety are
fundamentally important and that we
should fund them um what I would ask is
if we did head in this direction those
organizations that have come to rely on
the funds that we've been dispersing um
that that not I I know that then that
would also be eating into the Corpus so
I'm acknowledging that that would be
that that has historically been the
investment profits that we've used to
fund that
um I I think that we should at a minimum
if we consider using the telar fund the
Corpus of the telar fund for some of
these projects I would ask that we also
consider a sustainability plan for those
organizations that we've been funding
for a long time through the telare fund
with the with the investment Revenue
those
$600,000 um I
wouldn't I don't think that we should
and and I think that we
have been putting the Cannabis Revenue
into the telshire fund no or in a
separate fund we considered that as one
as one place but I would just ask that
we consider holding harmless in the
speak of how we spend money th those
that process um and not say if we're
doing this then that will end I guess
would be my ask is if we're considering
tapping into the Corpus that are ongoing
investment in health and public services
organizations either have a planned
phase out or um a different approach
those things being funded in a different
way or figuring out a different way to
fund that but I would ask that we hold
that harmless in this conversation for
at least several years to to figure out
a way to to keep funding it so that
would just be my ask ask as we consider
this um which would be a different
approach from what we've done in the
past thank you counselor anyone
else okay I guess um yeah a lot of lot
of questions a lot of things to digest
um I would say definitely what I'm in
favor of is that we spend the telshore
fund to to get caught up with a lot of
things that have been neglected as as
our Parks um definitely in favor of the
municipal courts and that's already
pretty much been budgeted though the the
real time crime Center and all is I feel
I've seen it in another municipality
it's going on 10 years already that's
it's been in existence I think we're
just we're just behind and we need to
get caught up with a lot of things so we
need to spend some money uh for our
Public Safety and for the greater good
of our community uh
Chris
um the the funding sources that we have
you've already mentioned like U the ARA
was a one-time funding source correct
mayor that is correct yes one time our
bond is every four years correct uh
grants is really left up to chance mayor
yes I mean uh outside of capital Outlet
yeah it's up to the Departments to work
with the Grants Department to identify
those funding options for those specific
projects correct yeah and then our
impact fees tid all of those are really
limited and you know for certain
projects only limited use and then the
tid in just areas correct mayor that is
correct the tid is limited in in Project
type and uh within the geographic bounds
of the tid and then you mentioned the
legislative funding when we ask what we
have request
you you wrote it down as uh near the
mile how did you how did you reference
that Mr Mayor I referred to it as
funding The Last Mile so we hear from
them that they they like to come in you
know get us across the Finish Line yeah
and and I usually write when I've heard
from legislators is they want to see
projects that are that are almost 80%
complete is is what they're looking for
when we go and request so I I I feel
that because of the timing and because
of certain items that are on on the list
for this uh Community livability there's
some projects here I think we can carve
a little bit more so that we make sure
that you know we do spend uh
responsibly and uh we we carve out some
of those things like anything that's gap
funded is to me is is something that we
move forward with it but then we go and
ask for legislative funding because then
we're at that 80% or The Last Mile uh
the the other thing is is the timing of
the parks if we if we're looking at
doing apaka and Young Park if we if we
say we're going to put funds there which
I'm all for I think it's a it's a great
thing Steve thank you but what kind of
time frame are we looking at we can't
have both parks being worked on at the
same time can we I mean I'll ask Steve
what what his thoughts are on on the
time
frame I I believe you could have both
parks being worked on at the same time I
don't believe we could move quick enough
to um do Young Park in this next budget
I I think the planning that needs to
occur there preludes it now to be done
in this coming
budget but logistically doing both at
the same time I don't see a problem with
that okay and then the the other one is
like pioneer you said has already
800,000 in grant money yeah 860,000
grant money that has been put forth for
the Gazebo and there's already a master
plan on that and so and the type of
things we need to do there are things
that the planning um lead time is less
so we move more quickly yeah and so with
that that could also be another one that
the 80% or The Last Mile that maybe
could be an an ask at the uh legislative
funding that we start looking at what
are those projects that are almost
complete and that would that would would
help
okay mayor I wanted to add that for the
last two years we've actually focused on
um what we called Finish Line projects
and requesting those to the state
legislature in fact fire station 9 was
on the list for this year as well
because we just had a little bit more
that was needed unfortunately we only
got
$100,000 uh from the state towards that
last bit but that just points out the
with respect to that funding source we
can we can be targeted we can be
strategic we can uh try to understand
the priorities of the legislators
legislators um but it certainly doesn't
guarantee the the receipt of that
funding either and also wanted to uh
just mention with respect to the bond
cycling for geo Bond it's every four
years but for the rest of our bond
cycling it's every three
years okay thank
you okay may Pro thank you so much um I
just I had one more thought around other
funding options um this really for
anybody Barbara probably you might know
more and Leanne perhaps around any of
the recent the recent
legislature um given that we have all of
this historic
revenues um I know that there was
certain funding pots uh through the
legislative session some on like
homelessness initiatives I'm wondering
ing if those kind what are the options
that we can tap into at the state level
that can also help fund some of these
projects like I think um this homeless
initiative as my understanding was very
Broad and so could we tap into it to
help support project light for example
or to help support the increase of um
msia Valley Community of Hope Outreach
um I know that there is a ton of money
that was set aside for law enforcement
is that something we can tap into to
then help fill whatever the spending is
for the real-time crime Center like are
those some of the strategies that we're
going to be looking at employing as well
so mayor mayor poam um you're absolutely
right and with respect to the funding
available at the at the state we have
seen it go into different pots as you're
saying and the governor has different
initiatives for certain things and for
affordable housing uh for example um and
Public Safety Etc and so that is part of
what we we need to strategize on with
respect to the funding needs that we
have and then the funds that are
available out there that's part of what
our lobbyists help us to do both at the
state and the federal level to look at
what our needs are and then what the
potential funding sources are along with
the timing of those those funding
sources so you're absolutely right that
will not end um with with any new
funding that we uh get here I think in
Natalie's presentation she noted that
even for some of her projects she's
still applying for other funding sources
uh for some of the affordable housing
projects we're always going to continue
to do that whether it's you know grants
or at the state or federal level as well
the state is just it's become a little
bit more complex with the with the
different funding buckets that they have
and the different processes uh for
obtaining those funds uh but we we've
done that for years and we'll just
expand that effort as well and continue
it are those funds and this may depend
on the pot I guess but are any of those
funds able to say let's say we spent 1.5
I forget how much Chief story yes for
the real-time crime Center one let's say
one 1 million 1.1 right um we pay for
that out of telshore and then we know
that there's money at the state level
for those kinds of projects are we able
to sort of ask for that fund to
reimburse ourselves typically not I will
say that's typically not the case that
funds that we get um that they can be
used to reimburse us for funds already
spent we only have that situation in
very
specific um times for example with the
taxable bond that we just issued for
affordable housing we can reimburse
ourselves uh for that for example but it
typically has not been the case with
funds from the state I guess I would
rather make sure that we expend all of
those options and make sure that there
isn't money already out there that we
can be utilizing um instead of um going
this route but if not I think it's we
talk about this all the time about the
Giant
uh Permanent Fund that the state has
that gets tapped into rarely I mean for
like a decade Advocates fought to get 1%
of that to go to childhood education and
right so like there is all of these
battles and I guess I don't want us to
get stuck in the same cycle with our
telshore fund that we tout this giant
portion of money but then we're not
using it when we need it the most and so
um it's definitely a tricky balance but
I think it's an important one that we
have to talk about and I think that's
what we're doing here today um and then
the other last the last thing I was
going to say in terms of pots of money I
believe that I recently saw an article
around the the department of the
Interior also having a pot of money for
parks and park improvements and those
kinds of things so I I don't know if um
that's old or or that is still an option
for us as well typically at the I don't
know that particular funding source but
typically from the federal um uh
resources for for Parks they've been at
state parks designated Parks not not
typically city parks but we'd have to
look at that um I think that you know as
you mentioned it's it's it's tough to
try to balance all the different funding
sources and uh but that's what we need
to do is just to have that strategy at
at the state level even I I was just
reading this morning and I passed along
an article to our finance team that
there's some discussion about what level
of reserves the state should hold and
potentially reducing that because they
have set aside so many different pots of
money for so many different things
besides uh the the main rainy day fund
if you will and so looking at it in its
totality really begs the question about
whether they should be requiring that
higher level of Reserve that they have
that could potentially free up more
funds as well uh for the local
government's uh projects so you know
lots of things in the works and and
certainly because of the request that we
received we wanted to be thoughtful and
bring this forward to you all today our
next step is to bring the budget forward
for adoption May 20th so that's why
we're we're looking for guidance as to
whether or not we should bring this um
entire proposal forward on May 20th as
we as we uh work our way towards
adoption of the fy2 budget okay thanks
Barbara Mr Mayor yes Council fres thank
you I have a question Barbara not a
question would you please share with us
how much money is in the Permanent
Fund oh at the state I mean it's
sticking as we speak but muscle menes I
will have to send that to you I don't
have that on 50 it's like billions 50
billion you're saying okay exct I didn't
know the exact thank you Chris yeah it's
like $50
billion that's all I've got to say thank
you
okay so I guess finalizing what what I
what I wanted to share was on the MRA
using the canabus excise tax I I
definitely support that we need to kick
those off and get those going and then
start looking at the future and
identifying other places um the I guess
the the questions moving forward and how
to continue I think really the the GRT
um look looking at those taxes and see
what the the Community having T Town H
Town Hall meetings and just public input
uh no different than what we do with the
goo Bond um meetings and and things
would would be good to see what
direction I'm not in favor of the
property tax as I feel that just stays
here the GRT we have the sports complex
now coming up we have uh different
sporting events we can have tourism we
can have events and and we can get that
shared with tourism and different uh
visitors that come to our community
commun to help us uh replenish the funds
that we spend um but that's something to
look at in more discussion on that but
definitely we we have to do something
since our funding sources are limited
and how we can continue especially get
these Capital Improvement projects off
the ground and and building a safer and
better Community um giving direction I
would say I'm I'm looking at uh yes we
do spend the tailore fund I'm looking at
my colleagues to say if that's some
direction that we're looking at at
moving forward in that in that direction
maybe carving out some of the items and
seeing what can be funded in other ways
but definitely taking a step forward and
no different than what Steve said with
the parks is is making a bold statement
making a bold statement and said we need
to spend some to to get a better quality
of uh or Community livability as it's as
it's documented
mayor yes mayor appr thank you I thank
you Barbara I think that's a good point
that if you're asking for feedback right
now or guidance on how we should move
forward with this so always interesting
when you're there ready to say yes or no
it's a little bit scarier than just
talking about it every other time when
the price tag is right in front of you
is a little bit different um I would
argue though that I think given that
there are potentials for other fund
other funding sources for some of these
but I I do believe that there's a couple
that to me feel like key like critical
things that we can do right now to me
that is Park improvements young
especially young in apaka park for me
feels really critical the realtime crime
Center and Amador Crossings to me those
those are the kinds of things that I
feel like people would see an immediate
like what would our constituents see as
an immediate
change as an immediate investment as an
immediate um change and I think those
are definitely some of the pieces that I
think for me feel the most critical if
we say well we only have a couple of
weeks to decide before the May budget
session and the rest can certainly we
can take our time to decide how we want
to move forward with those and try to
find potentially funding sources for
others um so that's at least where I'm
at right
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now thank you mayor proam anyone else
anything I want to
add I'm gonna strongly ask that we
consider the pach street
Canyon housing housing developments as
well as part of our commitment to that
and I think um that's a place where we
can really leverage a ton of money in a
public private partnership that's really
important so I don't want to get lost
off the list um mayor and councelor
Karan I believe that those two were
already adopted by resolution by the
council so the commitment has been made
for those two
projects okay at this time any members
of the public that would like to ask
questions or have any
comments yeah please come
forward we'll give you two
minutes it's fine
thank you um mayor and councel um thank
you for the opportunity to provide
public input my name is Beth Bardwell
and I'm here today speaking on behalf of
the League of Women Voters of southern
New Mexico we respectfully ask the city
council to make an incremental precedent
setting investment of General funds in
the affordable housing trust fund the
city supports construction of affordable
hous through telshore funds and more
recent ly through Geo bonds but has
never dedicated a portion of the city's
General funds in the affordable housing
trust fund the trust fund is a proactive
tool to increase affordable housing that
the city council created back in
2010 the trust fund is like a bank
account from which money could be used
for various one-time affordable housing
Needs Trust Fund dollars are needed to
help affordable housing developers
offset the cost of City assessed impact
fees for City Water Wastewater parks and
other City infrastructure it could be
used to pay for one-time costs for
necessary reports and other work
products to help developers keep their
affordable housing projects moving
expeditiously through the development
pipeline it could be used to pay for
specialized grant writers to secure
significant public and private dollars
to support locally driven strategies to
plan and provide for more housing like a
HUD Choice neighborhood planning Grant
there's widespread support for the city
to increase affordable housing as
evidenced by 65% of City voters who
supported the city issuing the
2022 Geo bond for affordable housing we
ask the city to Leverage The telshore
and geobond funding investments in
affordable housing by making a precedent
setting
investment of General funds in the trust
fund as well thank
you thank
you
nothing good afternoon uh mayor and
everyone um my name is Yoli Diaz on
about June 2022 I provided the city a
request to use tore funds and cannabis
tax especially since many people say
that cannabis is medicine towards a
healthc care fund I understand there are
many needs believe me I understand prior
to the lease of the hospital there were
no issues in accessing healthc Care at
MMC that I'm aware of as a nonprofit or
government hospital my understanding is
that they are required to provide
charity care that is a tradeoff for not
paying taxes now I understand MMC was
losing Millions after Mountain View
opened and the result was a City and
County voting to lease the hospital I
would like to add that I'm concerned for
the residents of doniana County who have
been had denials and delays to need at
hospital care at Memorial Medical Center
this is nothing new because I've
officially been advocating for residents
and had a joint meeting with both city
and county leaders mayor M gashima and
County Manager Mia since October 2021
when I checked in recollection in
October 2021 there was $46 million in
the telshire fund through today April
22nd 2024 there has been no solution it
is unknown how many residents had had
issues but I will say whether it is 5 10
or 1,000 more per year one is one too
many the teler fund was derived from the
receipts of the prepaid rent of Memorial
Medical Center the lease involved in
asset purchase which basically means
that MMC folks own the visic items but
at minimum city of Los crusis still owns
the land for whatever reason there is no
quit there's a quick claim Dee on fil by
Donan County it's on a 40-year lease
with a little more than 21 years to go
the original intention to use the
appreciation of the fund was to fund
programs but to not touch the Corpus
thus allowed this would allow the fund
to exist in perpetuity so I am
disappointed that you're considering and
extinguishing this fund from what I
heard earlier this very important fund
and I'm disappointed that access to
needed healthcare does not seem to be a
priority thank
you thank you y
my name is Donna Striker i' just like
some clarification of something I just
heard did I hear that a resolution has
already been passed to provide the
funding for two of the projects Amador
Crossing or three sisters which one I
just want to make sure I understand
before I say so it was Peach Tree Canyon
Peach
okay um I just have one thing I'd like
to say um I've been meetings on Amador
Crossing and they want $10 million for
the project total six a little less than
6 million is coming from Capital llay 4
million from telshore fund I was in the
construction lending industry for many
many years in the industry for 49 years
25 of it was construction lending $10
million for 50 units is over $200,000 a
unit I'd like to know where that number
came from I have nothing no problem with
low to moderate income housing what I
have a problem with is a $10 million
project where I have seen no numbers you
don't have numbers because there's no
RFP you can't issue the RFP until you
have plans and specs so I'd like to see
the plans ins specs and I'd like to know
we're $10
million for 50 units it's a beautiful
project I saw the renderings it's
beautiful it's brilliant I loved what I
saw but I do not support $10
million for 50 units it's not acceptable
I need to understand the numbers and I
think you guys should like to understand
the numbers as well thank
you thank you
Donna good afternoon uh city council
mayor city manager I'm Jennifer cry and
I am a member of the library board
branagan Library board so I'm not here
for the tore fund but I am here for
livability quality of life
life parks are so important but the
library is on the front
line over 50,000 people have library
cards you want a bang for your buck you
got to enable the library to expand
and uh just reach out to more citizens I
can't think of anything as much as I
like lions I think abadaka has so much
potential but you got to support the
library so I don't know where that
funding comes from because the agenda
items are a little
obscure but
please support the library and I you
have supported them but they need to
grow they need they need to expand it's
another case of an old building that's
gradually declining so please support
the library thank you thank
you good afternoon mayor members of the
council my name is stali Wilson I'm here
on behalf of the ACLU of New Mexico and
I'm here to express some concerns
regarding the proposed real-time crime
Center and its potential impact on civil
liberties um unchecked government
surveillance has throughout history
encroached upon the the Privacy rights
of ordinary citizens and any discussion
surrounding the acquisition or
utilization of new surveillance
Technologies must explicitly address
their potentials to erode civil
liberties we're seeing that the
indiscriminate use of surveillance
Technologies in policing are turning our
communities and particularly poor
communities and communities of colors
into human fish tanks and virtual
prisons where residents are treated like
prospective criminals and monitored and
scrutinized and stigmatized
247 these um these conditions exacerbate
the very problems that they're purported
to that they're purported to solve by by
further eroding the trust between law
enforcement and the community and by
worsening societal inequities by
disproportionately targeting people of
color poor people politically unpopular
groups and other historically
marginalized groups and so we urge the
city council to consider the profound
civil liberties implications of this
proposed real time real realtime crime
Center despite the very catchy name and
hard to
say it's imperative that any decision
regarding surveillance Technologies
prioritizes transparency Community
involvement and safeguards against the
unjust targeting of marginalized
communities so thank you for your
attention okay thank you
mayor mayor protim counselors um I'm
Jamie borod I am the regional chair of
the United States tennis Association for
southern New Mexico and I'm here today
to express on behalf of the tennis
community the strong support for the
addition of the three Park Rangers at
our Parks uh I've played at Lions Park
for many years I've participated and and
put on both youth events and adult
events and I personally have experienced
extreme safety conditions for both
myself and for the Youth so uh I support
the addition and I also really
appreciate the addition of the security
guards that have been added when we have
activities at our at Lions it has
already made a difference and people
feeling comfortable coming out and using
the park so thank you very
much all right thank
you is there anyone
else okay we'll move to the next uh
agenda item the budget review for joint
power
agreements did you want to
good afternoon mayor city council um my
name is Sergeant Gabriel Adas I'm a
sergeant with the Los cruus Police
Department I'm currently assigned to as
a commander of Los cruus doniana County
Metro narcotics
um before I go over our B budget
proposal um due to the
unique
yeah the unique type of work that we do
I wanted to kind of give you some an
overview of what we do the personel we
have over at Metro narcotics and uh some
of the activities that we do throughout
uh the fiscal year of
2023 um so the Personnel at Metron
narcotic consists of three
sergeants including myself from Las crus
PD one sergeant from doniana County
Sheriff office and the one from New
Mexico State Police which is currently
vacant uh we currently have 12 agent
positions five with the Los Cruses
Police Department five with the doniana
sheriff's office with three vacancies at
this time and two with New Mexico State
Police with one vacancy anticipation
that it'll be filled next month we also
have three FBI agents that are assigned
to the task
force um we do have a civilian staff as
well I administrative assistance which
is a Los cruus Police Department
position we have an Evidence Tech which
is a doniana sheriff's office position
two accounting techs which are high to
funded positions with one vacant at this
time and an equipment Tech which is a
high to funded position as
well so operationally wise uh Los crus
donana County Metro narcotics we
participated in approximately 340
investigations and
2023 uh those include undercover
operations search warrants Highway
interdiction follow-ups on information
call out investigations and surveillance
operations our seizures for the year of
2023 we seized 84 pounds of
methampetamine
78.54 lb of marijuana 23.8 lb of cocaine
46 gr or .9 lb of heroin approximately
$85,900 pills of fenel 73 firearms and
$61 9912 of US
currency and these are some of the
investigations that the agents have done
uh that year of
2023 our activity for that year 23 we
had
2251 arrests 38 search warrants 64
undercover operations and 279 callout
investigations uh from Las cruus Police
Department doniana Sheriff's Office and
the adult probation
office okay now going into our budget
our total budget Remains the Same is
$681,000
86 sorry uh city of Las crusis uh puts
in $325
543 doniana County puts $325
$543 and a Federal grant under FBI Safe
Streets puts in
30,000 our Personnel budget uh which in
uh covered standby on call pay overtime
fringe benefits which Medicare Social
Security Dental Health Workman comp in
life and disability is
$282,700
our operating budget and I don't want to
cause any confusion because I put some
red increases we increases our budget
within what we already have we didn't
ask for any more money we just moved
money within what we already had so our
operating budget is
$38,600 software print and copy fees
minor equipment uniform and safety wear
apparel telephone and cell phones
auditing and financial services vehicle
repair and maintenance fuel travel and
liability in property and workman's to
comp uh
premiums we also um are going to buy uh
hopefully two more vehicles for Rolling
equipment so that's
$805 and that's again for new vehicles
we didn't ask for any other money so
that concludes my
presentation any
questions okay since uh we have them up
here we can go ahead uh councilor
mlar hi just at curiosity where does
that $600,000 go that you sees I'm just
curious so our federal partners because
we do we are T ta task force offers FBI
they take the seizure and it goes to
them and they go through the process
thank
you anyone else we
get Sergeant aranas uh just with the
daso
vacancies so they have did you say two
or three they have three at this time
three vacancies so when they're doing
their their contributions or funding is
it based on what they expend or I mean
you get that 300,000 Plus or is it based
on how much they spend no we get
regardless so it goes and what we don't
use goes into a funding expense that we
can dip into if we have to for other
expenses down the road okay is it just a
shortage on their staff or overall I I I
don't know to be exact I know they have
some promotional things going and they
have to test for the position and I know
from what I understand they will be
testing in May don't you know uh I'm not
100% sure on that but as soon as they
get the process and get uh deputy lined
up to come over and they'll possibly
give me some uh agents okay thank you I
one more question for the go ahead May
thank you Sergeant
um the list on your seizures on the
marijuana
seizures given that cannabis is now
legal obviously know there's still folks
operating outside of that in the black
market can you talk a little bit more
about that like how much time do you
think you all are sort of spending
addressing that so those seizures that
are listed for 2023 are majority of it
are from two cases where other narcotics
were found and those subjects were
charged federally I see marijuana is
still illegal under the federal law so
um those cases were not charged at the
state level okay but they're not like
random people in Los Cruses necessarily
these were two big cases these are the
bigger cases where they're selling
cocaine uh methamphetamine I see
marijuana they're pretty much a One-Stop
shop thank you for clarification and
then can you just we I just had recently
somebody ask us you know we don't hear
anything about merro narcotics did you
defund them like all of these things can
you just talk a little bit about why
your operations aren't you know overtly
public um we work we're officers and
deputies in the community that we work
in and a lot of these guys do undercover
operations um due to that fact a lot of
our investigations are continuously and
ongoing um a good example is we have an
investigation that's been going on for 3
years it's an inter International drug
trafficking organization I don't want to
get too far into it but because of the
safety of the agents and the safety of
the people that work at Metro narcotics
we try to keep lowkey for those reasons
yeah thank you so much for that I
appreciate
it councilor
M you know eight and a half years at the
New Mexico border Authority down at
Santa Teresa U I notice you're not
getting much Federal funding and most of
the fenal that's coming across is coming
from from the open borders so why isn't
there more participation of funding from
the federal government for your program
um city council matis so we do get
Federal funding uh we do have a
supplement supplemental funding that
comes from Haida okay so I don't um I
was just looking at that 30,000 yeah so
that uh is particularly for our um
Operation Safe Streets with the FBI for
violent crime okay and narcotics all you
know is usually connected to violent
crime so but we do get high of
supplemental funding um I don't go over
that because I believe they present
theirs um when they come out in front of
you but I only present what we get um
from the local from Las crus Police
Department the Sheriff's Office can I
ask you Sergeant do you have sufficient
funding we do have suff sufficient
funding but that's something that I've
been monitoring and from the uh people
that I presented to last year uh because
of the cost of things Rising um because
of uh the the increase in Pay I would
anticipate in the next three years or so
that we will have to ask for more money
um but um I I am continuing monitoring
that and right now we're good but I
would anticipate the next 3 to 5 years
it's a possibility um that I'll have to
present to the board if I'm still here
to increase the budget so we'll see um
when that that time comes well thank you
for your efficiency and your honesty
I've never seen anyone come and not ask
for a budget increase every year thank
you thank
you all right thank you sergeant and
yeah you'll be here
yes next we have merda and this is
Jennifer Goram intrum executive director
sh representing for
us good afternoon
Council um I'm sorry as stated my name
is Jennifer gorm I am interim direct
executive director for msia Valley
Regional dispatch Authority so as you
may know as I was here last week
accepting a proclamation on behalf of
National Public Safety
telecommunications week and so at the
same time you were identified as MDA is
the 911 dispatch Center for doniana
County which incorporates all of doniana
County the city of Las Cruses Sunland
Park msia Hatch and the City of
Anthony in 2023 I need to correct this
top number MDA received
351,000 phone calls resulting in
328,000 122
dispatches um 20 approximately 266,000
of those were law enforcement related
dispatches just under 38,000 were fire
dispatches and under 25,000 were EMS
dispatches so I have a little bit of
some anomalies to show in the difference
between fiscal 24 and fiscal 25
the original budget that MDA was
adopting in fiscal 24 was closer to the
$5.8
million we did take an influx of just
under $1.8 million from our our Reserve
fund to fund some additional projects so
this is why you're going to see that we
have total expenses but to give a
realistic nature of based upon what mvda
asked for last year versus what we're
asking for for this year you'll see the
bottom
line last during the current year we did
fund two large projects one was the a
new radio system a 700 megahertz radio
system the cost of that project was $1.6
Million however we've also since then
had toest invest approximately $150,000
in additional equipment and then we had
a $200,000 project that was for AV
project so an upgrade to our current our
current
facility this year we are asking for a
budget of 3 point just I'm sorry just
over 3 point I'm sorry $6.3 million it
is a 9.4
9.43% increase to give you an idea of
that our expenditures 78% of our
expenditures cover Personnel costs with
the remaining
22% um for operating costs the although
the overall budget increases
99.4% the Personnel expenses are
estimated to be an increase of 6.04%
the 6.4 incorporates contractual
longevities with our Union and also
Healthcare
increases the operational
expenses um equate to
23.5% that is primarily due to
additional maintenance agreements for
our new radio system and for our new
emergency medical dispatch protocols
which with priority dispatch in addition
to annual increases for service
agreements
the way our system is based upon our
joint Powers agreement we take the $6.3
million we subtract out any other
revenues that we have outside of um
agency contributions so we do have some
alarm Revenue that comes from the city
of Las cruus as fault alarm ordinance
that was put into place over a dozen
years
ago you'll notice that the revenue from
the alarm project has decreased over the
years and that's actually a good idea
that's a good a good thing that that
means that we're not we're not um
assessing fines or fees for
non-performance and non-compliance
within the
program we also do receive some funds
back from NMSU and Sierra dispatch just
to offset the cost of CAD maintenance
that we monitor for them which is our
computer A dispatch program we also have
a small lease agreement based upon one
of our radio towers we have some
placement um on that site with a local
uh telecommunication
vendor we also have other reimbursed
expenses that is primarily for IA that
would come through that is not requested
in a digital
format the 30,000 from the Department of
Finance is the only flow of funds that
come through mda's budget directly and
this is for reimbursement for training
costs Murda does receive a substantial
fund um from Department of Finance but
it does not directly throw flow through
our budget that is primarily for the
fund maintenance of our 911
system this year we are we have
requested that our board utilize
$300,000 out of our fund balance you'll
notice that the year prior it shows that
we utilized $2.4
million because the original budget was
to utilize $620,000 out of the fund
balance in addition we did take about
1.8 for those large scale projects so
this year we're requesting $300,000 to
come out of the fund balance um a lot of
that comes from the fact that two years
ago we did do significant wage increases
and the desire of the MDA board at that
time was to stagger the contribution
increases from the different entities so
that it wouldn't be such a huge impact
at day one with the wage
increases so we take the $6.3 million um
anticipated expenses we subtract out the
$465,000 in revenue from other sources
and then we're going to get what the
contributions are required from our
agencies
so this year's contribution on the
request on behalf of the city of Las
Cruses is a is a contribution of 2.8
million that is a 17.58%
increase you will notice though that our
as stated prior our number of dispatches
has also increased um so we went from in
2022 315,000 calls for dispatch where in
2023 we had 328,000
that's some of the expenses as
well I am sure there's some additional
questions and I stand stand for
those any
questions all right thank you gentlemen
good afternoon mayor members of the
council my name is Andrew Ray and I am
the no officer for the msia valley M and
today the Los crus City staff asked me
to come and give a brief presentation to
the city council about the mo a little
bit about our operations and where our
funding comes
from so Metropolitan uh planning
organizations or mpos are federally
mandated State designated planning
agencies that exist in all metropolitan
areas across the United States that are
above 50,000 in
population there are approximately 410
npos throughout the entirety of the
United States and there are five npos
within the state of New Mexico those
npos are the mid region no which is the
Albuquerque no here msia Valley no the
Santa Fe no the Farmington no and what
surprises a lot of people but the El
Paso no as well is also a New Mexico n
they straddle both uh within New Mexico
and uh in Texas New Mexico side because
of the way the travel sheds work Sunland
Park City of Anthony just south of
burino all of that area Falls within the
El Paso no and just broadly speaking um
noos exist to fulfill the federal
planning requ requirements of 23 CFR uh
45300 and 49 uh USC
5303 um just in brief there are a number
of federal planning requirements at the
npos that oos must perform that is part
of that um some documents and some
ongoing work projects that must be
performed but MOS are also intended we
were created in the
1960s um really to put it very simply we
are designed to prevent Bridges and
Roads to Nowhere with one of the federal
mandates is that we are to ensure that
we have an integrated and coherent
Transportation Network within our
planning area and also to prevent the
sort of abuses that State Highway
departments were conducting in the 50s
and the early 60s where they would just
put Transportation facilities right
through neighborhoods without taking
into any consideration the uh the
context of the
area um getting into a little bit more
the details of the federal regs uh 23
cfr450 that is the Federal Highway uh uh
regulations that cover the
mpos um we will often refer to those uh
kind of in a shorthand to section uh 112
money that's actually a lower subsection
down within
45300 and then uh 49 USC
5303 uh those funds that covers the
transit uh Transit planning function and
we'll frequently refer to those as 5303
funds as it stands right now uh this no
specifically uh bringing it down kind of
from the general to the specific this no
is uh solely funded through two federal
grants that we receive based on these
two
regulations um we are looking at uh we
have actually submitted an application
just this month for some additional uh
Federal funding don't know if we're
going to get that but we're certainly
hoping um but I will say that this is
normal for small npos such as ours there
are two tiers of npos El Paso and
Albuquerque are the so-called large npos
or tmas Mia Valley Santa Fe and
Farmington within New Mexico we small
mpos and it's normal for small mpos to
only have these two particular funding
sources um as part of the federal
funding though um there are local match
monies that are required um and our
member jurisdictions here within msia
Valley and poo are the city of Los
Cruses danana County and the town of
msia MDOT is also a voting member on our
governing board but they do not the
state does not support this no
financially on a consistent
basis um just to kind of give a little
bit of overview of what we are using our
money for in this particular uh fiscal
year historically msia Valley NPO has
been housed administratively within the
city of Los cruus um as I know a number
of the city councilors are aware from
time served on the no in 2022 the city
did initiate a process to
administratively separate the no from
the city um that process is currently
underway um under the current proposed
agreement that we're working on the city
of Los cruus will remain as the Fiscal
Agent for the N so basically the Fiscal
Agent role is um shocking as it may
sound the no has no money we never do
what we have is spending Authority from
the federal government so it's necessary
for a Fiscal Agent to pay our upfront
costs and then seek reimbursement from
the federal government and that's the
role that the city intends to continue
to perform according to the current
draft um so as aside from the the salary
most of the current noo operational
budget is being allocated for transition
costs such as Furniture acquisition uh
new rent uh for our new office space etc
etc so getting it down to the actual
dollar amounts um and I do want to start
off by highlighting that I know that I
call this Federal fiscal year 2024 as
opposed to City fiscal that's the reason
the reason for that is because the no
effectively operates off of the federal
fiscal year rather than on the state
city fiscal year we receive our grants
on the federal fiscal year and so
there's always a little bit of juggling
that has to go on between due to the
fact that we straddle both fiscal year
so as far as doing a comprehensive
report as to what the actual dollar
amount that we use the most accurate
that I can use is the federal fiscal so
that's what uh I have here on the slide
and we're still in federal fiscal 2024
for this so I do want to um highlight
here that the federal match share for
the fhwa money is 14.56% so that leaves
85.44 per of the money to be provided by
the federal government that the city of
Los cruus is able to seek reimbursement
for we also have a match split for the
fhwa section 112 money that is based on
the uh the census so for the 2020 census
these are the brand new numbers the city
of Las cruus had
65.5% of the the total M population
within the city limits Nana County 33.5
and then the town of msia 1% and
according to the jpa that we have for
this
no uh the population determines how the
match is split among the member
jurisdictions and then the other pot of
money that receive the section 5303
money this one is a lot easier to
calculate in some respects because this
one is uh the more normal 8020 split
between the federal and the local share
and because historically um city of Las
crusis houses roadr Runner Transit which
for a long long time was the only
Transit operating service within the no
city of Los Cruz has historically paid
100% of the transit match that's not the
case now with the existence of the South
Central Regional Transit District but um
that's just not reallocating that match
split for the transit funds has just not
been a topic that the board um has uh
broached um during uh during my time
ever since the RTD came into Creations
so that's very short overview uh of the
n and where our funds come come from but
that concludes my presentation and I
will stand now for any
questions Council Flores thank you uh
thank you for your
presentation um I'm somewhat mystified
about the um and you did mention that
because of the
ACD we um we have a less of a Quote
Match share
unquote um
I don't understand exactly um I
understand how the
scrtd I'm on that board we have it it's
a regional transit so I'm the
representative there but um what exactly
what's it what is it that we are
funding uh with uh your organ with the
what yeah what exactly is it I mean I
mean there we have the Road Runner so
you have jurisdiction over that is that
it it's a jur jurisdictional thing or
what uh Mr mayor council Flores it's a
very good question um basically we are
here to provide the federally mandated
Transportation Planning function so
while we work with Mr Bartholomew in
transit we don't oversee or engage in
with it in that manner we provide the
federally mandated planning function for
Road Runner excuse me for interrupting
but in thinking about this I do think
sometimes um it seems to me that that
sort of uh the uh statutory requirement
for certain uh criteria to be reported
to the feds uh would be accomplished uh
by the uh information that Mr barthol
has and and why is it that we're linked
up with uh
Texas uh I'm with El Paso probably but
what I'll answer the first question uh
first um with regard to Mr bartholomy 's
a different um there's a different
category of reporting that Mr
Bartholomew has to do versus what the no
does Mr Bartholomew is on the operation
side and obviously there's planning
activities that go along with that but
there's a different category of
regulatory
response in section 5303 that the no is
specifically tasked with doing that Mr
Bartholomew is not um specific planning
documents such as the Metropolitan
transportation plan um which we're
working on right now the unified
planning work program which is the uh
the task list that the npos are required
to work on um on a bial basis documents
of that nature are the specific purview
of the no and Mr Bartholomew and
Roadrunner do not work on that okay so
you're a an oversight agency no we're
planning we we don't we don't oversee
the activities we just receive the
inputs from member jurisdictions as far
as the activities and do the planning
and the reporting to the federal
government on the basis of
that so do you actually submit plans to
Mr Bartholomew or other U municipalities
uh it's it's rather the reverse uh Mr
Bartholomew and our member jurisdictions
they give their information to the mo
and we consolidate that into our various
planning documents and then that's uh
both distributed to the public and also
sent to the state and to the federal
government as why wouldn't the FDA have
uh you know that function hold that
function I just don't understand the
function of the no I mean just because
there is the FTA to report to well it's
because again the different categories
of work products that Congress has
created and versus the the distinction
of what the the operator itself in this
case Road Runner performs versus the the
work that the N performs again the MTP
upw P the transportation Improvement
program etc those are the those are the
activities that the no engages in as
opposed to the activities that Mr
Bartholomew engages in and actually
providing the transit service so it's a
um federally mandated
um function yes they're they're all
federally mandated functions that the
noo performs yes yeah well thank you
very much and I guess just to ask answer
your second question with regard to El
Paso it's because of the travel shed
most of the tra most of the traffic from
Sunland Park uh Anthony New Mexico those
go into El Paso and for that reason it's
part of the El Paso urban area as
opposed to ours because most of that
traffic does not come to the north um
that's the reason why Tech that's why El
Paso m is in New Mexico NP as well well
then do you compare that travel data
with the
SCD we we work with the SCD and the SCD
also straddles both States
um so yes yes we do we
do okay thank you thank you Mr
Mayor thank you anyone
else thank you Andrew thank you Mr Mayor
thank you very much good afternoon mayor
councel specifically councelor matis
it's good to see you it's been a long
long time since you've looked at one of
my budgets almost 20 years
so say thank God for our vitamin exactly
um Mr Mayor councel my name is Patrick
peek I'm the executive director of the
South Central Solid Waste Authority I am
one of the only jpa that doesn't come
before you and ask for money uh all of
our funds are derived by our services so
to be clear I'm not asking for more
money from the city
council so when I put this presentation
together there's three of you that
actually have heard parts of this
presentation three times but when I put
together my budget earlier in the year I
kind of look at some factors of what I
you know what we're doing with our
budget coming in um budget factors and
assumptions I have to assume certain
things are going to happen on you know
going to we'll talk about those um I can
only be successful as my employee so I
always want to look at our human
resources and what we're doing with the
employees uh looking at the big picture
of our infrastructure planning expenses
I hate to say are pretty flat I really
don't have a lot of control in the
corporate world we talk about variable
expenses but our variable expenses like
fuel just seem to go up and then finally
we're going to look at our Capital needs
so this is kind of the main goals that
we're going to talk about
today so when I'm looking at my budget
factors coming in I'm going to be
looking at my Revenue requirements and
what are we're going to need and I'll
work through a lot of spreadsheets uh
Renee Reese is my budget analyst and he
and I start to spend time with this in
December um but we are looking overall
at a 5% price increase um and that's
primarily due to changes in compensation
since the city went to a $15 per hour
minimum wage we've been trying to build
that because of the fact that we have
rates that and so we've been building
towards that for the last two and a half
years so we're looking at our
compensation and then obviously what
inflation is doing us because uh repairs
and maintenance are just eating our
lunch we have a fuel Rider that goes in
so we set our fuel price so for fy2 our
fuel price is
$318 if that fuel price goes above 10%
if we see a 30% spike in fuel like we
did a few years ago we can put a fuel
Rider in once it drops down we take that
fuel Rider out all it is is a is a cost
uh Rec recovery we don't leave it in
it's not a lot of Corporations set that
at 99 but we set it every March when
we're doing the budget we look at what
the fuel price is if it's going to go
10% above that we have the capability of
recovering that e extra cost um the
biggest driver for revenue is the amount
of waste that we're
handling um I have to look at this
year's waste we're not meeting our
projections we're only going to handle
about 195,000 tons so we're down 6% in
our Revenue
and then just going in as well as far as
HR and Personnel I had a a salary study
done that said that our entry level
needs to go up 5% so we're looking at a
5% increase for um laborers cashiers
truck drivers mechanics janitors those
people are going to get a 5% increase
the rest of the administrative staff are
going to get 2.5 because that's what the
salary survey
said so assumptions as I come in to the
year you know this is my looking at my
magic
ball I don't think that we're going to
handle more than 200,000 tons in FY 25
and that may sound like a huge number to
you but according to the Consultants you
know projections we should be close to
250,000 tons but I think that we're
going to continue to see a shrinkage in
the amount of waste that's generated in
the area we're adjusting our entry level
position so if anybody has somebody that
wants to be a paper picker or labor
general labor we pay them 1447 an hour
and just give me a call I can put them
out the with out in the landfill in in a
moment's
notice I think the econom is going to be
flat coming into the fall as we come
into the elections I don't I think
there's a lot of indecisiveness about
interest rates and and where the country
is going and I think that'll be get
resolved one way or another during the
national election so I'm not going to
predict any big bump or big decline I'm
trying to be neutral on that and then
one of the things that I decided to do I
I heard two presentations by two
different Consultants last year that
said the difference between the Tipping
fee at a transfer station and the
Tipping fee at the landfill should be
about
$20 and when I first got here for years
it was six well I'm going to maintain
the Tipping fee at the cor Leos landfill
so that people that go directly to the
landfill instead of going through the
transfer station to get our 2024 pricing
and that's right at about $50 a ton if
you're going to go into the transfer
station I think uh $64 is about where
we're going to hit this year once we do
the math I purposely didn't do the math
on this because I didn't want to throw
tons of numbers and spreadsheets up
there but that's then again there has to
be a benefit fit to a customer that's
going to go directly up there and I know
the city of Los Cru is the Solid Waste
Department we have been sending their
trucks up there a lot and that's
specifically so that they can see some
savings because I know we've hit them so
we're going to hold that price at
coros
so early December we start talking about
you know our re our human resources and
how many new employees we want and I
normally go out to my staff and I get a
huge list everybody in the world wants
to add staff this year we're going to
add six positions I'll talk about four
on this um we need additional drivers we
have more demand for our services than
we can provide right now and we have
drivers that are farming us for overtime
so we're going to add some drivers so
that we can cut excessive overtime one
of my staff has asked for the light
equipment operator at the transfer
station Amador and this is a stepping
stone so that we can develop a labor or
a transfer station ATT tenant they can
learn to run Bobcats and forklifts and
smaller equipment as a stepping stone
before we put them into bulldozers and
dirt loaders and dump trucks so he's
asked for that position and I agree with
that because we've started a bulk waste
area so that we can take couches and
telephone poles and and not run those
through the main body of the transfer
station because the new Machinery that
we have in there just doesn't handle the
bulky stuff like the old one
did um we receive about a half a million
a year in capital outl grants and so I'm
asking for a grant administrator person
to come in and help manage those grants
and do the reporting probably 50% of
that time would be just for the grants
just to maintain and make sure that
we're you know up to up to on our
reporting because right now I do all
that work I write the grants I
administer all the grants I do all that
internally and I'm not going to be here
forever because I have white
hair um so having said that one of the
other Keys is how do we develop our
staff it's interesting Mr re just showed
me he went upstairs and picked up a
check for $1,000 because we actually
have a reimbursement program and one of
our uh employees went and got his CDL
and we gave him $1,000
for the cover's tuition to go through
the classes now at doniana Branch
Community College so we're continuing to
promote that type of training
utilization of LMS up to 10% of
employees time I can I will give them up
to four hours a week just to do training
just so they can do you know but they
have to have a plan they have to be a
roll in the class but we have to
continue to develop it because in the
utility industry we have a huge shortage
everybody wants to be a lawyer an
accountant but nobody wants to be a
wastewater operator or a trash person or
you know where there's huge shortage
when it comes to employees so we're
contining take the employees that we
have and we're trying to promote
internal training and grow our Workforce
that
way okay now for the big stuff so in FY
2025 we have some big jobs ahead of us
right now we have successfully done an
RFP and gone out to bid for and the the
design and improvements to the Los cruus
recycling center if you remember a few
years ago fredman recycling used to do
everything well they shut down and
almost went bankrupt and if Waste
Connections which is another big waste
company El Paso hadn't come in and
bought their their recycling facility in
El Paso which is where all of our
recycling goes we wouldn't have a
recycling program so to move some eggs
out of one basket we're going to
redesign the recycling center we're
going to bring in some sorting and some
infrastructure here so that we can
maintain that but also put a stronger
educational uh emphasis on that program
so that kids understand what the impact
is if you if you've noticed in the last
three years you should have seen a much
more robust education and advertising
campaign so people understand you know
what they're doing with recycling makes
a difference so we're going to be doing
that that's out for RFP I've negotiated
the contract with the um Molen Corbin
and then a company out of New York are
going to do the work on that and that's
going to kick off and that's going to be
a huge project I have Capital outlay
money to pay for all that the design and
planning then once we get into the
building we'll see where we have to go
with that same thing um or same
process um is to build a new transfer
station on the East Mesa off a Homan
Road it's about three we have 40 acres
of land that we've leased from the state
land office for 40 years we're going to
develop a new transfer station up there
um we're just now negotiating the fees
there it's a little over $600,000 design
that facility permit it get it up get it
up to speed so we can move forward with
that in the next couple years the cruus
is growing and so I've stepped out of
the footprint of the city of Los cruus a
little bit but we have to look for the
future develop a site up there so
there's a new transfer station uh that
we'll be working
on Amador Avenue and the coros Landfield
I have their 10-year permit reviews um
those are big jobs that are going to
take a little time and some money with
engineering we have to do those every 10
years
and then another thing that's very
exciting and I'll kick this off the
first part of me is we just selected the
vendor is we're going to start working
on a 30-year Regional Solid Waste
Management plan what are we going to do
with the solid waste that's generated in
our region for the next 30 years are we
going to landfill it we going to
incinerate it are we going to make poof
it disappears are we going you know what
are we going to do so that's an exciting
thing the existing plan that we've had
um was done in
1992 so it's time to change and that's
what created the solid Wass Authority
back in 1992 so it's time to redo that
plan and then kind of another fun thing
that we're building is um or we're
working on is we're working with a a
land owner to build a Fleet Maintenance
building on Hadley right by the bus
station we'll be putting in our own
Fleet Maintenance Shop and that's a huge
project and that's uh that's been fun to
work with and the board's excited and my
staff is very excited about having a a a
maintenance shop because we don't have a
shop we've always outsourc stuff are
worked in the dirt so building that
maintenance facility is going to be
pretty pretty important to my
staff so as I said all of our money
comes from our services and the fees and
what we're doing so this is kind of a
breakdown of how our budget Works we're
going to look at a little very small
organic growth and for you for those of
you that haven't done budgets in the
corporate world they talk about just
natural growth things are going to
change they're going to grow and it used
to be 3% um every year which is what
when I was in the corporate waste bus
business they they assume a 3% organic
growth well I don't think it's going to
be 3% this year I think it's going to be
you know like 5,000 tons I don't think
it's going to be very high um and so
that's you know that's our project our
projection so General operations which
are tipping fees from the landfill
administrative cost our total budget and
revenue is about $ 11.7 million the
recycling fund is $4.3 million in
Revenue um and pretty it's pretty much
the same in expenses
Sunland Park we do curbside collection
in Sunland Park for those of you that
don't know that uh the revenue
generation will be about 1.3 million on
that and then as I've said we have about
$2 million in state outlay in loans and
grants that we'll be spending in 25 that
are in the budget so collectively and
this is where I have to give a shout out
to Mayor mati because he was the mayor
when they hired me and I think our
budget was $3
million so our fy2 budget will be 20 5
million overall um and we'll we
basically operate as a nonprofit so we
really won't spend or we really won't
put a lot of money into the bank that's
you know our our revenue is matched to
our
expenses and with that i' stand for any
questions because I let's wait you know
what there it is I knew that I saw that
on Ma expensive there there we go 12%
growth in Personnel we're going to keep
our operational expenses flat um we're
modeling $4 a g G for diesel and then
the biggest thing is that Maintenance
Shop will come in and hopefully we'll be
able to Flatline our repairs and
maintenance because we have Renee do you
remember off the top of the head 10 and
some
assets I have 40 trucks on I have 40
trucks on the road at any time so we
have a tons of ton of assets three
mechanics uh fleet manager clerks so
that's all going to move over to that
Fleet Maintenance Shop and and they've
done great job in the last couple years
as we've grown that department to
stabilize and maintain and Flatline our
repairs and
maintenance okay Capital outlay
according to the last um cost of service
review we did a few years ago I'm
supposed to be spending $2 million a
year in capital um the good thing is the
supply chain is opened up and I do
expect trucks in the next to be
delivered in the next 12 months they
were taking 24 to 18 months to get stuff
in so we have two brand new side loaders
coming in for the recycling program uh
we have five trucks that will be paid
from a paid out of a VW uh Grand
agreement that we got from the state a
grant settlement from the VW debacle a
few years ago we got $600 and some
thousand out of that so we have five
trucks on that order with that money we
have four walking Flor trailers two are
carryovers that's still the one that's
taking a long time to get trailers
loosened up but we have uh we expect the
first two in August and then we'll get
the other two other two later in the
year probably about a year from now so
we have four walk-in floor trailers
that'll hit uh landfill loaders anytime
you see yellow equipment just think
$400,000 because that's the minimal cost
so we need a loader at the landfill and
then at the transfer station we need a
small loader and an excavator and those
going to replace existing items that are
over 10 years old so that's the capital
list that's come out it was a lot longer
when I asked for you know my staff what
they wanted what their wish was list was
for equipment but that's what we have on
the on the W uh Capital outlay list or
not excuse me not outlay but the capital
request list this
year and I think that's our budget in a
nutshell if you want to talk
specifically there's three members of
the South Central board up there you
guys just approved the budget last
Thursday so you should remember all this
and you got 300 pages so go from there
but Mr Mayor I would stand for any
questions from the Council on our
budget any
questions I think we're good thank you
all right Best For Last
thank
you good afternoon Clint ther executive
director of Animal Service Center msia
Valley and I stand between you and the
door so we could just slap an approval
on this and we'll be done
all right was worth a try thank you very
much for this opportunity to come and
talk to you today I uh present to you
the budget for the fiscal year um
proposed budget for the Animal Service
Center missia Valley we approach this at
two different ways uh I first uh we pay
attention to the community and what they
wanted and we also talked to our
departments and goals they had so the
community as you know and if you don't
know you will soon spay and neuter
services are at an alltime the need for
them is at an all-time high uh we are
veterinarians are an a nationwide
shortage so we're trying really hard to
uh meet those needs so we heard the
community on that the next one is a live
release rate a live release rate is the
percentage of the animals leaving your
Center or leaving the shelter alive and
the community wants to see an increase
in that live release rate through uh the
community quests and also through our
fy2 goals for our departments we were
able to make this budget that you're
looking at now so on the executive side
we need to obtain our comp our
compensation study funding that we were
able to have and we'll get more into it
a little bit the admin uh looking to
meet our supply needs medical they're
stating that we can have a increase of
44.5% in surgeries alone that's over
1,800 surgeries that we're looking at to
increase and then kennel our biggest
thing there is we need to meet the
minimum time uh that is set by the
veterinarian shelter shelter
veterinarian guidelines that are
there so the first thing I want to talk
about is the comp study we did a
compensation study around December went
to the board in uh March the ascmv board
or I'm sorry it wasn't in March it was
in February and then funded they
approved it and funded in March
so we were able to uh fund it from March
until June the end of June and then we
are requesting uh or the fundings
required because we need to have that
money to cover it for the rest of the
next coming year so
$237,000 is what you're looking at to
fund that comp
study our increase in spay neuters this
is like I said this is going to help us
meet the goal between the uh community
and also the department but it does come
at some cost we need to have uh the
proper Staffing and all also the
purchasing or the equipment to be able
to do these things so a vet surgical
assistant is what we're requesting the
31,800 that is at 50% funded that's
following the city guidelines or the
city recommendation that also includes
the uh 50% for the uh benefits that are
coming on that's why it's a lower amount
than you would think but there are some
supplies that need to be purchased so
all the surgical packs company the
autoclave that cleans them uh the vet
table for to do surgeries Etc all comes
at a cost the we want to send also to a
specific ASPCA or equivalent training
for efficiency when it comes to spay and
neutering and that's where the whole vet
class or the vet Department that they
can uh go through that and see where
would be best to streamline the spay and
neuter process so if we want to increase
our spay and neuter by 44.5% which is
again over 1,800 surgeries it's going to
cost
$147,000 currently according to the
shelter veterinarian guidelines there is
a standard where a minimum of 140 daily
hours is to be spent per animal or
contact some type of
interaction between the two uh person
and animal we are currently when fully
staffed with our animal caregivers we
are currently at
141 however that's fully staffed we've
been fully staffed one time in my six
years uh with and that's going to change
next week because it just barely
happened we're all filled up for our
positions and then somebody is moving on
so that's the way it works but we are uh
with the four new animal caregivers that
this request is this will give us the
coverage we need when somebody calls in
sick or somebody goes on vacation and so
on so the total for those for new
positions again funded at 50% of
benefits and salary is
$126,000 training and networking is uh
vital for all four departments this year
we want to be able to have our
co-workers uh feel validated in what
they're doing and what I mean by that is
is when you're attending ation
conference and the instructor or the
person giving the class says how many
are you in this this certain situation
you raise your hand and four or five
other people raise your hands and right
there you feel validated of the problem
or the issue or maybe even the success
that you're having and it's important
for our co-workers to feel that so they
can go and talk to those individuals
Network and see what they're doing that
works well and see what we're doing
that's working well it also works as a
reward system to send these individuals
out to the uh out of state training and
also to know the best practices that are
happening because it is changing often
for our animal
care so to do the math everything if you
separate the budget into Personnel or
above the line and then operations below
the line everything above that line
absolutely everything our increase ask
is
$654,000 now that comes as an increase
uh because of the uh comp study and also
of the uh individuals that we're
bringing on is a large uh portion of
that operating is also there that's an
increase of
$198,000 and then we turned in or not
having we spent out some of our Capital
funds or all the capital funds so the
total ask for a fiscal year is $720,000
now for uh the budget amount how we came
up with the amount that we're asking for
from the city for funding so you take
our approved budget of 4.4 million and
then we got some grants last year so we
add those to the grants and our amended
budget was 4.7 million and then you take
so the 4.7 million we're working with
and you add in our fiscal year 25
requests that's the 720 that we just
figured that gives us the budget request
of the 5.46 five million
and then you take the 5.46 5 and you
subtract out our Revenue that we're
going to be making of the 53,000 that
gives you the $5.1 million and you split
that in two between the city and the
county that's 2.5 million
each so where did we come up so it's a
it's a million doll increase so the
question has been in the past if you're
increasing by$ 720 why is it a million
dollar and the answer is you we take our
the 720,000 was our request and then we
had some shortfall funds we had the
budget I'm sorry the um grant money the
21,000 that was all spent out so that
needs to be that's a shortfall needs to
be funded and then there is some dis
discrepancy between our fiscal year 24
funding with the um expenses and the
revenues of
$81,000 and then our revenue from the
ascmv it dropped about
$1,900 so that's what gives you the one
1.0 million or the
1,5 we have
there so what do you get for the $1
million well we're going to increase our
surgeries by
44.5% you get a higher level of customer
service with those four customer or four
animal caregivers we're asking people
are going to be seeing animals more
efficiently the time per animal is in
compliance as a minimum will be in
compliance so that will be increased
later years uh
the the capability of having our staff
feel validated and also the most
upto-date training is there the funding
of our compassion I'm sorry our
competitive wages is going to be
completed and then our overall increase
in our salaries and benefits utilities
running two business or two buildings
now our utilities went up significantly
just electrical loan was was a large
cost uh supplies our admin charge went
up because we are implementing some uh
random drug testing for us and also the
insurance that we carry on the ascmv not
health insurance not those but just our
insurance also increased as well but in
total we're looking at a
$57,000 increase that you saw in the
earlier presentation for us with the ask
of $2.55 six
million and entertain for any
questions any
questions
no thank you thank
you was that the last presentation okay
at this time if there's anyone from the
public that has any com comments or
questions okay this time uh city manager
you had some
comments yes I did thank you mayor
Enrique mayor proen Ben and City
councilors iopo uh city manager for the
record I just uh would be remissed if I
didn't take this opportunity uh to share
a few things and I'll tie it into this
agenda item uh thank you first off to
Leanne Jacqueline and the budget team
who's here today um I have come during
this time of transition EO was here last
year and uh now he's been gone about a
month uh 3 days 30 seconds but who's
counting um not I but I've been adopted
into the the the family especially the
budget family and so there's been a lot
of great things that I have learned from
from them so thank you thank you to
Barbara and Sonia for your direction and
budget guidance uh thank you to HR Joe
and JC and to the team running uh
numbers last minute when we need them
and uh thank you to all the Departments
we have the department heads that are
not all here today uh but I I'm sure
they're watching um I this is how it it
Loops in to the jpas and and the
discussion I have asked our executive
team to squeeze their
budgets because we weren't balancing our
budgets so when it's presented to you
there's been late nights there's been
early mornings staff is coming in 4 5
trying to make this work uh what you're
presented is a balanced budget but it's
because I have asked them not just once
um but because we've
had um we've
had we've had um some some surprises
which typically happens during budget
come up and the budget wasn't balancing
so not once but twice we have come
within this past month to department
heads to squeeze again and we've asked
them to come down 3% of their budget
we've asked them to look at critical if
they have any um anything that wasn't
critical and only put the critical on
there so we've went from 30 million
requests down to about uh a little under
five million
request and we've had departments who've
had
Milli millions in request requests
coming in for uh a small percentage of
that so I just wanted to share that with
you uh Council because I would be remiss
if I didn't share that we are we we are
forecasting revenues uh flattening as
well uh we have our forecasters saying
that it'll dip uh by 2% next year again
it's just like forecasting the weather
we don't know but that's that's what
we're paid to do is be conservative and
so we haven't included this from my
understanding what you're seeing the jpa
the additional request especially for
the animal shelter it's not in the
budget we haven't asked them to decrease
and that that's where I'm coming in
we've asked all the Departments to
squeeze by 3% we've asked everyone to
look once look twice and then come here
and present to you we do understand um
Clint's doing a great job uh but I just
wanted to present uh to you all that uh
typically what we ask is them to come to
council to present it first and then you
share your thoughts and then they go
back to the board um I believe uh they
they went to the board and and and came
to you but we've asked them to come to
you first present it because what we're
asking your guidance is what would you
like us to do um we've done all that
we've could to balance the budget um we
know that there's there's needs in the
animal shelter uh but right now it's the
same balancing that we're trying to do
we can only balance so much because we
need your Des Des s we need to hear from
you you tell us but if you if you tell
us to um if you tell us to fully fund uh
what some of the jpas are asking then
we're going to have to squeeze somewhere
else we're going to have to balance the
levers and so I just this is something
that happens as as you know uh but I I
had to let you I I had to share that
there's been a lot of work put into this
budget it's a balanced budget right now
but uh but there's levers that have to
move uh as I mentioned before just
wanted bring that to your attention
thank you mayor and city
council any other comments
anyone no well thank you I thank you for
that econ I I feel I feel that if if
that's what the city organizations are
doing it should be the same for the jpa
if you're asking for a 3% reduction then
everybody should be looking at that to
try to tr try to reduce and try to have
cut wherever they can so thank you for
that information appreciate that
um I look for a motion to
adjourn move to
adjourn seconded
cour this is on a motion to adjourn the
meeting councelor mclair yes counselor
matis yes councelor Graham yes councelor
Karan yes councelor Flores yes councelor
Beno yes mayor yes thank you