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okay good afternoon everyone Welcome to
our tid board meeting of the city of Las
Cruces today is Monday April 24th it's
approximately 1 p.m for those of you who
are joining in
um hoping to see the work session that
we'll be following immediately after
this tid board meeting this is when city
council access the tax increment
development District so before we begin
I'm going to ask you please rise for the
Pledge of Allegiance please
also over the weekend we had a
gentleman defect from the county to the
City Commissioner Shannon Reynolds thank
you for joining us
no actually he's a member of our tit
board so he's an ex-officio
and uh since we normally have our pets
of the week and jobs of the week on our
work session item I'm going to ask if
it's a concurrence of the council go
ahead and let's go ahead and do that
right now and have our pets of the week
and jobs of the week because I see Amy
Felix is on
Zoom so we model so if that's okay yeah
all right so Amy you're there
hello yes I'm here okay
you want to just introduce yourself and
then introduce our pets of the week
please
good afternoon my name is Amy debelix I
am one of the adoption rescue
coordinators for the Animal Services
Center of the Messiah Valley and I'm
here to present the hits of the week and
also perfect up on the monthly topic
that I've been presenting on afterwards
which has been TNR but let me go ahead
and share my screen
there we go alrighty so first up we have
our hat of the week her name is Scarlett
her number is 59944 and she says I'm
very sweet and love head pets as soon as
he approached me with a loving hand I'm
already purring and making biscuits I
get struggled pretty easily by fast
movements and loud noises but I really
just wanted a family that will let me
feel safe and loved for the rest of my
life
you can see here she's being a little
bit of a schmooze for the camera she's
definitely a model
oh and then we also have our dog of the
week his name is Miles his number is
53028 and he says before I ended up at
the CMV I was a farm dog I enjoyed the
outdoors and was spending as much time
working and playing outside as possible
I might be a little bit shy with
strangers but just spend a little bit of
quiet time with me and I'll show you
just how much love I can offer once you
gain my trust
and we will not be having an offset
adoption event this weekend primarily
because this Saturday
um April 29th from 9am to 12 p.m we will
be at the Ivano del Cerro Community
Center in Nevada New Mexico for our
little mini vaccine membership clinic in
motto it is available only for bottle
residents so if you live in vato or you
have family members envato that have
pets that need to be vaccinated
microchipped definitely stop on by the
canine and Feline core vaccines are free
rabies vaccines the bordetella like the
chemical compost vaccines and the
microchips are only ten dollars so it's
low cost
we're trying to make it easily
accessible for the motto community so we
encourage everyone that lives in bottom
that has pets to stop on by
and then as a final touch up for the
monthly kind of topic of TNR this month
I would just like to offer some local
resources in case people have been
interested in doing TNR in their
Community but not quite sure where to
start
um broken promises Southwest is a
non-profit that we at the acmv also work
with
um partnered with
and they are a major TNR Advocate they
that's primarily what they do they offer
TNR education they can help you TNR the
animals the cats in your community as
long as the resources are available and
their time as well
they also can host sort of educational
group presentations as long as someone
reaches out to them with interest and is
able to provide the room and sort of
presentation area they do that at no
cost as long as people show up they want
to learn kind of how to TNR how to track
how to keep the traps safe for the cats
so they don't like overheat or get too
cold in extreme or weather more extreme
weather
so if you'd like to reach out you have
their email broken promises SW
comcast.net they're always willing to
help out they want to get TNR to be a
more
easily accessible
service here in the community
and then we also have the city of Las
Cruces Animal Control they offer the
loan traps to anyone in the public as
long as they come by and pick up the
trip
they have trap pickups every Monday and
they can get loaned out for the whole
week so you have a whole week to try and
track whatever that you're trying to get
you have to stop by the facility which
is at 550 Central Ridge Boulevard to
pick up the Trap if you want any more
information you can call the animal
control kind of dispatch at
575-528-4100 and then lastly of course
we also offer some teenager Services
here at the Animal Services Center for
the Messina Valley we win space or
during our surgery days allow we can
offer TNR surgeries for forty dollars
and that includes like the surgery the
microchip and the vaccinations
we also have held I believe two so far
surgery days reserved just for public
DNR and we're hoping to schedule those
more frequently as well
so would you want to if you're
interested in that specific DNR surgery
days just follow our social media we
always put a little release out to like
a press release of at least a few weeks
before we actually do the surgery and if
you're interested in that you are more
than welcome to email our spay and
neuter coordinator her name is Holly
wills and it's eight Wells at Las
cruces.gov and in the days that she is
off because she does also need days off
um we have our general email just for
General inquiries and yes CMB Las
cruces.gov
okay thank you Amy
so next we're going to go to the jobs of
the week and Irene para from our
Economic Development Department will
give us those job updates
thanks Irene
good afternoon mayor city council Irene
Potter with economic development
oh
okay we begin with the city of Las
Cruces who is hiring for a senior
librarian this position pays between
fifty one thousand and seventy three
thousand a year and is open until filled
white Sun's Missile Range is hiring for
a child and youth program assistant this
position pays 17.39 an hour and closes
on December 28th families and youth is
hiring for a facility janitor this
position pays between twenty two
thousand and twenty eight thousand
depending on experience and closes on
May 10th donana county is hiring for a
jet Port operations and maintenance
worker this position pays between 15 and
20 dollars an hour depending on
experience and closes on May 4th Ben E
Keith company is hiring for a shuttle
driver this position pays between 28 000
and 48 000 depending on experience and
closes on July 11th and Earnest
Healthcare is hiring for a patient care
technician this position pays between
twenty four thousand and twenty nine
thousand depending on experience and
closes on July 12th
the New Mexico New Mexico Workforce
Connection Center is partnering with the
New Mexico children youth and families
Department to host a mock interview
event this event will be hosted at the J
Paul Taylor Center on April 28th from 2
30 to 5. any employers that are
interested in participating can contact
Faye magsby by April 25th at faye.maxby
at cyfd.nm.gov
and just as a reminder the city is
partnering with the New Mexico Workforce
Connection office to host a quarterly
job fair this event will be held on May
3rd at the Las Cruces convention center
from 11 to 4. this is an
industry-specific event focusing on
trades engineering and Health Care
employers have until April 30th to
register
and for additional information you can
contact the local Workforce Connection
office at
575-524-6250 or visit them at their
local office at 226 South Alameda or
online at employ and m.com thank you
okay thank you Irene
okay so next we we have
approval of the minutes from the January
23rd 2023 tid board meeting move two
approved Graham
second Aveda okay made my council member
Graham second by council member Abita
Christine
from the motion to approve the minutes
from the January 23rd 2023 to board
meeting board member of beta yes board
member Graham yes board member Ben Como
yes board member Koran yes board member
Flores yes board member Gandara yes
chair yes
okay next item 2.2 tit resolution number
23-001
approve Graham
second Corin
submitted by board member Graham second
by board member Koran Chris Faber will
be discussing Chris
good afternoon members of The Tib board
I'm Chris Faber with economic
development we're going to do this a
little bit different today in that
usually I give the project update and
financials at the top but because
there's an action item here we'll do
that first and then we'll finish with
the financials and and current projects
so today we'll be going over proposed
fy24 tid projects I've worked with
various departments who have Assets in
the tid and come up with a list of
various projects that need maintenance
in the downtown tid so
then we'll do the overviews and then
current projects
okay so we'll Jump Right In I broke
these down into little categories to
make it a little bit easier to digest
first up we have downtown security and
so a couple topics of discussion have
been cameras on main street we are
working with it to install those
potentially down the road where it is in
the process of looking for potentially
new vendors before that so when that
rolls out main street cameras will be
included in that
and then overnight security patrol so
this is money budgeted to have private
security uh why way of vehicle
patrolling the downtown area from say 10
o'clock at night to six o'clock in the
morning and their function would be to
Liaison with the PD if they notice if
there's anything that needs to be you
know reported or coordinated with so
next category is Main Street kaisitas
and public art so there's a variety of
Maintenance projects there from
repairing the sidewalk pavers that have
become a little bit uneven over the
years
upgrading the electrical capacity of the
kyocita so that we can have food trucks
spread out a little bit further so for
example in the Farmers Market if you
notice all the food trucks are kind of
in one Central Area that's because there
isn't enough electrical capacity
throughout Main Street to handle the
food truck so this upgrade would allow
them to spread out food trucks without
having to use generators which the
farmers market doesn't typically allow
continued work on the shade structures
for the kaisitas
and then additional lighting for La
Placita as you know parking lot 7 is a
project we'll talk about but going back
in and retrofitting La Placita with some
additional lighting
and then providing money for quality of
life to do some public garden
maintenance and repairs
facility maintenance so new roofs for
monus rgt and Museum of Arts
some exterior and interior painting at
the Rio Grande theater
Museum security upgrades landscaping and
some remodeling of the Main Street
entrance for monus and the Museum of
Modern Art
as you know dlcp received a grant from
AARP several years back to add bike
racks we did the first round of those
last year but I believe they still have
about 20 more bike racks so we'll be
budgeting some money to install
additional bike racks within the tid
and then 1.6 million dollars for parking
run Renovations in the downtown area
Plaza maintenance so stage repairs stage
shade and Plaza Landscaping
you know that those are areas that kind
of need some some uh repair the the
grass area kind of on the north side of
the plaza and the stage needs some
repairs as well the stage shade is not
to be confused with Plaza shade project
this would be to come up with some sort
of a shade screen to help performers
when they're up on the stage we do get
complaints from the Sun coming in in the
west is sort of difficult in the summer
and then I did budget some money for
Plaza shade
the Amador Hotel
currently there is money in that account
for the continued Renovations of the
hotel but I'm proposing that we dedicate
a million dollars a year out of the tid
until that project is completed
Campo street so out of the tid we
previously conducted the study and the
redesign Public Works is now ready to
move into you know the construction
phase they've asked for a million
dollars out of this fiscal year and then
we would allocate the balance in fy25 to
complete that project
all those projects there come to a total
of about 7.5 million dollars
those are your options I do want to
point out that I did make a mistake on
the resolution and put branding and
Cultural Center roof instead of the
Museum of Nature so if you do approve
this we just need to amend that so that
we can adjust that um
Chris can you put that back on the
screen please
which side mayor the one that you said
if we approve this to make we need to
make the amendment
shouldn't we have a vote on the
amendment before we move to approve this
no not necessarily well we're still in
the discussion we can discuss everything
right now
does anyone have any comment
councilman Coleman sure I'll take a
comment thanks Chris
um actually I just have one question I'm
glad that I know that since last time we
talked about the potential for security
that that might not been an option so I
really just wanted to appreciate you and
staff for continuing to look at that
option and making it happen I'm curious
if you thought about a timeline
for like getting it started and then we
think we would would it just go through
the end of the funding cycle or or is
there like you know three months four
months that kind of timeline
sure
um Mr chairman uh counselor Ben Como
um so the timeline this is proposed for
the start of the fiscal year in July
in theory this could we could use these
funds through the life of the tid which
I believe is about eight more years so
we would come back every year and just
sort of reallocate additional funds for
downtown security okay okay thank you
and then lastly
um on the shade on the Plaza shade I
know that you allocated that you put on
their 500 000 are we sort of just voting
on the number for now knowing that the
consensus sort of was we definitely
didn't want to spend a whole lot even
though there is no consensus yet on what
the actual shade is going to look like
this chair board member Ben Como yeah I
just kind of put that there you know
we'll talk a little bit more about what
we're doing this summer but I allocated
those funds not for any specific reason
but there was discussion about
independent of whether there's a shade
structure built there still needs to be
some work done on those trees which
could ultimately provide a source of
shade so um but I just wanted to get
that on the radar in case we come to a
consensus during the next fiscal year
okay thank I appreciate it
that's a mayor
anybody else
okay I got a question Chris so a while
back the council had approved naming the
Pavilion after Roberto Estrada I was
just curious that when that was going to
be coming forward
uh Mr chair I'm not I don't know the
specific details of that but I was
talking with facilities on Friday and I
believe they are planning to do an
unveiling um in the next few weeks and
so they should have more details on that
but yeah that is my understanding
Vice chair thank you mayor thank you
Chris on the Campo reconstruct we're
going to allocate a million now is that
yeah thank you for that what will be
done in there for that specific one
million dollars and is it because we
feel like we're not ready to move into
phase two phase three for the total 5
million I mean why wait
Mr chair Vice chair Gandara I think
Public Works could speak more directly
to that this was just money that they
had specifically allocated for I don't
know the phases of doing that street
reconstruction but that was kind of how
they had wanted to approach it I don't
know if
do you think it would be helpful to have
an idea in terms of what they're
thinking and so the public is chomping
at the bit for that reconstruct
good afternoon mayor councilor Pro tem
gandra Kyle arnd for the record
engineering administrator for public
works department right now the
pre-planning and the conceptual design
for compost complete I went through a
charette or they all looked at a lot of
different Alternatives and they've
selected one we're going to be moving
forward with this million dollars I'm
sorry the clerk isn't picking you up can
you speak a little bit louder can you
restate your raise the yeah yeah it's
closer to you
thank you
all right how's that now
I think that's a little bit better I
don't know if she got your name if you
want it
sure again Kyle Arend for the record
engineering administrator a public works
department
um
we've gone through the preliminary
planning the conceptual design and then
and and all selected an alternative
we'll be moving forward with this one
million dollars into final design
once we've completed the final design
which we expect will take about a year
we'll be asking for the remainder of the
funds to move into Construction
thank you and then um
Chris thank you for that Carl I
appreciate you very much
um on the Amador Hotel
the the million do we do we have a plan
about what the first aid the use of the
Amador and second what the necessary
Renovations will need to be done
chair Madam Vice chair again Public
Works could probably speak specific to
where the project is because they're the
ones overseeing it I know there are
funds there right now that they're
working from they just completed you
know the wet the windows on the west
side I don't know what the next phase of
that project is oh and here comes Tony
ask and you shall receive
good afternoon Mr chair uh board member
Canada right now the historic structures
report has been submitted to the state
was approved so now we're in the process
of submitting that for the national
recognition uh with that it comes it
comes the phasing and our next steps for
the process so as we move forward we
have we have a separate project manager
on board uh Dr Cooper who's helping us
proceed and phase this out so we're
making the right steps forward on this
project so are you saying that we have
to wait to get the national approval
before we move forward and then I guess
I'm asking what those specific
Renovations will look like so I think
part of the issue here at least is
you know really what is the total cost
and what is it you know for and what is
the plan for the Amador I mean I know
what you know I see Heather in the Miss
Pollard in the audience and whatnot but
I think the public and Council you know
should be aware
um very specifically about what those
next steps are going to look like
timeline and what exactly is going to be
done with the money
um Mr chair board member Gandara right
now the first steps is to complete the
outside envelope of the building we just
did the west side of it and now we're
going to proceed uh with the East Side
we've done the roof we're working the
roof right now once you get that entire
envelope sealed and then we can start to
phase out the inside and kind of go from
there so the next big steps is to do the
same thing to the east side that we do
to the west side
so the exterior envelope and then um to
answer your other question we do not
have to wait for that National
recognition registry that just kind of
was a big mouse milestone for us but now
with that being submitted we can
continue with the process of the phasing
based on that recommendation and the
phasing is entirely the next steps I
guess after the east side is completed
the phasing will happen enter inside the
interior
um and is there a set things to be done
like what sort of things are you looking
at
Mr chair board member uh like I said the
outsides first then on the inside is
going to look at the structural aspect
of it and then go from there again we
got to phase it out for that one million
dollars a year so it's not going to be a
full design it's going to be the
architect kind of Designing certain
aspects of it so you can go out to bid
and get those done so it's going to be
um I would say probably about another
five six year phase
okay all right thank you thank you
I think
I think um they're not the shading Chris
I've heard from the group that you
convened about taking a lot of time to
discuss the tree canopy and feeling like
there is a standstill and it feels like
there's not consensus yet about what to
do there
what needs to happen is it Council
giving you the direction consists with
counsel what is it that needs to happen
in order to move around you know in
terms of getting that shade structure
Mr chair the board member Gondola so
um when we did have that group together
and we discussed a variety of options
which I think I presented at the January
meeting the consensus of that group was
trees would be the preferred option for
shade
what we are trying to do this summer is
we're going to do a pilot program where
we put a large tent on a portion of the
plaza and I'll discuss that a little bit
later but that's more of a a sort of a
temporary
project to try and just get some shade
out there in the short term in the long
term
I don't know that there's been a
consensus on if we are looking to do
something Beyond just putting up a tent
every summer and so probably have to get
back with with City manager's office and
see how this project went with the 10 to
see if it was sufficient for
the needs of the events that was kind of
the big the big issue was not doing
something on the Plaza that would
interrupt and interfere with what the
events are doing and some of their
concerns we think we have a plan that
will will do that but it's it's you know
it's a short-term you know the 10 goes
up in June comes down in mid-october
type thing
um
ultimately I think the trees do need to
be replanted I think those could be a
long-term source of shade
whether that's enough shade I don't know
um but you know I think just kind of
getting back with City manager's office
and talking about some potential
long-term options is kind of the next
steps and and I've had some of those
discussions with some ideas but nothing
has really been flushed out beyond what
I've already presented to the board
okay and and so will you be planting
more mature trees in the next
that's a conversation fall I guess or
whenever the more appropriate time to
plant trees Mr chair board member
Gondola yeah that's a conversation we'll
need to have with public work excuse me
with Parks because a lot of things would
have to be coordinated on you know
there's a lot of work that would need to
be done to the plaza to allow for that
to happen so there's there's a real
critical issue of timing there so we're
not disruptive of you know summer
rentals and holiday events so so you
know if we get this approved moving
forward those will be the next you know
conversations we have as recommendations
for either you know the trees on the on
the Plaza and or a more long-term shade
solution
Chris it so this pilot that you're going
to do with the putting up the tents in
an area and then putting and you know
taking them down
what sort of evaluation will you have
are you doing surveying with folks that
rent the rent it or you're going to put
out if you come to the plaza and use the
shades what how do you feel about I mean
how are you going to read sort of sure
the the pilot
Mr chair board member Gondola so
there'll be a variety of things we take
into consideration
the two big concerns from the event
planner standpoint were line of sight to
and from the stage and the ability for
individual vendors to set up tents on
the Plaza so
we actually looked at an option that
almost covered the entire Plaza with the
tent
but because it's concrete and not grass
there was some issues related to how you
secure it so that it's not an eyesore
and there was still a lot of line of
sight issues there so
what we ultimately settled on was doing
a tent it's about 40 by 60.
that'll go in the area between the the
water feature and the Sundial this
should allow no line of sight issues for
majority of the plaza and potentially
even from within that tent and it'll
still allow events to set up little
tents on the Plaza for their events and
so it won't interfere with either of
those So the plan is to just you know
work with the event planners over the
summer see how that goes see if that
worked for them address the shade needs
also working with PDN codes to see if
having the shade there creates any extra
burden for them or any unforeseen
problems
um and and that that'll be a big concern
there and then we'll kind of reevaluate
maybe it's a situation we're just doing
this tent every summer is the solution
um and and we can make that evaluation
um later this fall okay
camera there and it's moved around the
city and some of this money
will that be
I didn't see it in terms I would like to
advocate for more of a permanent one
specific to that downtown area I think
we saw a real huge change in the mid you
know mitigating the crime and different
things that were happening there some of
this money being used for that
Mr chair board member Gondola I didn't
budget specifically for one of those I
know those are
PD operates those cameras
what I would say is I feel like I
budgeted high on a lot of these projects
and so if there's the potential to have
extra money we can address that at a
future tip board meeting to say here's
what it will cost here's some available
money in the tid and we can go ahead and
you know do a resolution for something
like that down the road thank you Chris
I I would recommend to the board that
this show up already in the budget I
think we've seen some good results and
it would just make sense in terms of the
camera and the security guards and the
overnight Security is to have that in
addition to and that would be my
recommendation moving forward thank you
mayor thanks Chris Mr chair board member
Gondola just one more point on that so
we are budgeting money to do the
security cameras up and down Main Street
and I I've been working with it I told
them we'd like to see about 10 cameras
so I'm hoping that once the city has
moved forward with the vendor for next
fiscal year for the cameras that that'll
sort of provide you know a solution to
some of what that other camera was
helping out with as well so
I've got board member Reynolds and then
board member Flores
Chris about the security cameras
you're going to put 10 of them up and
down Main Street I assume coming from
like Amador all the way over to the city
the city building is that correct
um Mr chairman board member Reynolds I
don't know the specific locations only
because a lot of it has to do with the
current infrastructure for that on the
Plaza and downtown area and so I've been
working with I.T to sort of figure out
what the current infrastructure will
allow if it goes beyond
if the capacity or the need exceeds the
capacity and that'll be something that
we would have to address but I mean
ideally we would like to have them from
Bowman to the roundabout yes okay
specifically what um what what is the
purpose of the cameras what are you
trying to accomplish I think I missed
probably this discussion last time but
what are you trying to accomplish with
the cameras exactly Mr chairman board
member Reynolds I think just added
security there's been a lot of concerns
about vandalism over the last couple
years downtown and I think the cameras
would just provide a potentially a
deterrent and then also a tool for PD if
there is an incident of vandalism where
they would potentially have it on camera
and that could help them assist with you
know apprehending whoever was you know
causing all the trouble so Chris so is
all the vandalism happening only on Main
Street or is it also happening on water
and other streets Mr chair board member
Reynolds uh you know it's it's not just
on Main Street but I know that there's
the infrastructure required to operate
the cameras is on Main Street currently
so again we would have to expand that
infrastructure Beyond Main Street in
order to have cameras go beyond Main
Street proper at this time Chris the
reason I asked this question is because
if we're going to make an investment in
security I think as I think
counselor Gondor has pointed out with
the hamburger Hotel it would be
important that we identify what we're
trying to accomplish and actually put in
a kind of a phased approach to
accomplish everything so that we don't
say okay we've got this it's convenient
this we can do but it doesn't really
address a complete problem and so I
think that for my sake myself personally
I'd like to see a plan that says here's
the whole problem here's the first phase
of what we can do and here's what we
ultimately try one need to accomplish
downtown to actually solve the problem
that's the way I would like to see it I
don't know about the rest of the board
so so even though we're going to spend
maybe a hundred thousand dollars for uh
or a hundred thousand one or two fifty
hundred thousand for the cameras 250.
for the 100 000 for the cameras
uh I'd like to see a plan that actually
says how are we going to really address
the issue with the cameras downtown what
else do we need to do do we need to put
them on the on the buildings and ask the
owners to allow us to put them on the
rear of the buildings do we need to put
in more infrastructure what exactly do
we need to accomplish at the city to
actually address the issue
that's what I'd like to see sure okay a
second question
uh for the Amador Hotel you mentioned
that the million dollars I think the
other gentleman did the million dollars
was actually for the east side but I
think he hinted that it was only going
to be for the planning is that correct
Mr chairman board member Reynolds
Reynolds um I don't know specifically
that that's entirely for the east side
or for planning what you know what we're
doing is we've got about two million
dollars there right now so this was just
an effort to provide a continuous
funding Stream So that as Public Works
goes through the various stages of
planning and then construction that
there will be money available for those
for those projects but Tony could speak
specifically to what that next round of
funds will be used for but I don't think
it's earmarked specifically for just
planning thank you Chris yes Tony please
Mr chairman board member
um
when I mentioned the east side it's that
was that's our next phase of
construction these one million dollars
that are going to come every year that's
proposed it's just going to be based on
the next phase of the project so when I
mentioned the east side that would be
the next part to enclose the envelope of
the entire building
okay do we have a plan do we have an
idea of exactly how much this is totally
going to cost us in an anticipated
timeline did I miss that
uh
Mr chair board member no we have not
stated that in this meeting but based on
what was uh said earlier was about five
to six years to finish the project we
hope sooner but that is just based on
one million dollars a year okay so five
to six years we're talking about you you
believe the six million dollars
additional dollars will actually
complete the project both structurally
inside outside parking lot everything
I am hoping a lot less but on the
conservative route based on the past
couple years that we've been going that
is what I say yes sir okay thank you
thank you mayor thank you board member
Flores
so um
a lot of these the allocations are still
tentative and subject to
um
the allocations for specific projects
are not dollar specific at this point
right
Mr chair board member Flores
um
yes and no so I've worked with a variety
of the Departments to get rough
estimates for some of these projects
some of these are Standalone projects
for example the sidewalk paver repair
that would just be coming in and just
you know taking care of that as a
standalone project where it's compost
Street and and the Amador hotel are
funding for an ongoing project but some
are again Standalone and some are not
and specific to the Amador Hotel
the allocation of that money is what is
the source of that money
the chair is it just t-i-dd revenue
board member photos yes this is all just
tid revenues yes for that project
it's all done
Mr chair board member flood is yeah I
mean that's the idea is to dedicate a
million dollars a year to the completion
of the project Public Works is
estimating you know five to six years
for completion so yeah potentially
another six million dollars yes oh six
million I I figured five years one
million was five but um do you think
that that's going to be sufficient
it just seems like it's been an
expensive project and I was just
wondering if there's other sources of
funding to assure that it is restored
Mr chair board member FLOTUS
um
there's potentially other sources
certainly
um you know having it on the National
Registry does make it eligible for new
grant funding and so there's always a
variety of you know private grants
things of that nature that could be
contributed I should clarify what I said
before we're only talking about
allocating tent funds now but previously
there was estate funds as part of this
project so there have been CIP funds
dedicated to this project in the past
but this is just the allocation of tid
revenues but certainly there are other
other avenues to to find grant funding
for a project like this at this point
Chris do you have any idea what the
Total Restoration cost would be
or any ballpark figure from our
Anthropologist do we have a
archaeologist or something in the city
where is she
I think maybe she's an architect but is
focus is on restoration
she's not here Mr chairman board member
Flores no our architecture Devi is not
here today however I I can go back for
the past couple years and see what has
been expended and what our future
expenses are and get the information to
you all it'd be great to have that
information in terms of looking at CIP
money and how we go about getting that
just in case the the allocation we have
now runs out
if you could do that Tony and Chris that
would be wonderful because I would like
to mention we've also had quite a bit of
capital outlay money that the foundation
has went out for and received so that
has been a big contributor to the
success we've had so far so do you know
how much that is at this point off top
of my head no man but I can't get that
for you okay thank you so much Tony
thank you
Chris Tony before you leave can I just
ask you a quick question can you can you
talk about the foundation I have have
you or any of the other engineers in the
city looked at the foundation has it
been solidified is it is it good
uh Mr chair not the Amador Foundation
but the foundation of the building
because Miss Paul I'm sorry
I'm sorry amateur Hotel yeah okay
um yes we've we've looked at the
foundation
um I believe about five years ago six
years ago we went and we did some of the
columns we exposed the columns that were
inside the building and noticed that a
lot of those are just floating they're
just being uh carried by the ceiling and
they're just floating so we had we had
to go in there and we do the interior
foundation for a lot of those columns
but in your opinion it's good now the
foundation okay great thanks
okay any other questions or comments
from Council
okay so I just have a couple
just want to address it's really
primarily to address board member
Reynolds and then board member of
Florida's or really anyone in the public
so board member Reynolds I I have to
apologize I I know that you are a
ex-official member of our of our tid
board and I probably should forward you
the different various emails that I
received that remember very many
Council back you know City Council
Members receive as far as all the
activity that's going on down there
and there's a lot of frustrated business
owners some have actually moved because
of the vandalism that's taking place and
all the other crime okay and so
it was determined through some
interpretation that we can utilize tid
money to pay for the security and I
wanted to bring this out because I know
there's going to be other businesses
around the city saying hey welcome you
can't do that for ours well it's because
this is a special funding that's been
utilized and it's and it's just in that
area okay so I wanted to put that up and
then the camera concept really came
about when
um Veterans Park was getting vandalized
a lot and when we put cameras up there
it literally stopped and so you've asked
some great questions but I think the
mere fact that there are cameras out
there and then when you go into Veterans
Park it says you know this the cameras
are on you and I guess it has some kind
of effect for people who don't want to
be you know seen or photographed so so
those two things those two combinations
and then the fact that they'll work with
LCPD as far as what they can see so I
just wanted to kind of point that out
but I'll try to remember to forward you
the email so you can uh you can see that
and have a now getting back to the
Amador Hotel
so I think in in the and I don't know
did you know that this used to be the
county managers complex okay so way back
way back then and then of course when
they built the government center I think
in mid 2003 four or five in that
ballpark
the county wanted to give it away
they couldn't give it away they wanted
to give away to the Chamber of Commerce
and they said no way we're not touching
that and and we really didn't the city
didn't want it either but it is a piece
of history and so of course we took it
over I'll admit I wasn't the the biggest
supporter of it but I will tell you this
much and that was when I wanted to
verify from from Tony is that if there's
one area and then of course it's
downtown so we see it all the time
they're constantly doing work on there
and I've been in there several times and
it's actually coming along quite well
and so it's kind of it's this building I
think was built in mid-1800s so it's
think of a remodel a job you know you
you never know what you're coming across
you're you think it's one thing and they
open up and go wow there's another new
room in here with this you know so then
they have to come back so it's a it's a
project and so I just wanted to and I'm
glad that Chris mentioned it because
there were some grants there there is a
foundation they did get State
Legislative these and so
I think once it's it's finished it'll
really help our the Amador patio and
Grill because then they'll really feed
off of one another so I I guess what I'm
trying to say is I I'm good with it I
think it's come along well and we don't
want to turn back now
so those were my only comments I had
okay
are there any members of the public who
wish to say something have any comment
on on this first item
have they Pollard
let's see you were the 2022 person of
the year weren't you or was it 2021 I
don't you want so many awards you can't
remember well thank you
mayor and Council
name please uh Heather Pollard I'm
president of the Amador Hotel foundation
and I've been working for the last 20
something years on the downtown
um
and the Rio Grande theater and various
projects in the community I have to tell
you that the amateur hotel has been the
most challenging we built La Casa we
built hospice we saved the Rio Grande
theater we got the plaza we opened Main
Street this has been the most
challenging and it has been 16 years I
think it's been 14 for me when it's
finished in five years I'm not going to
tell you how old I'm going to be but you
can guess I want to thank each one of
you you've all been through the hotel I
know sometimes it's it's dismaying it's
it's a huge challenge but it is the
history of downtown the amateur family
wore the the first family they were
devout Catholics they were Hispanic they
were political they were educated
they've really put Las Cruces on the map
and not only just for the amateur hotel
but the fact that this will be a meeting
place a place where we can have weddings
and Quinceaneras and just about anything
you'd want it's I think it's just going
to be a jewel in the Crown Ford for
downtown and I appreciate each and every
one of you I've worked with many of you
um some of you are new I've worked with
city council for
38 years and this is the most
challenging I just want to thank you on
behalf of the Amador foundation for your
support and your beliefs thank you
thank you heather okay so if there's
nothing further
Christine mayor we need to amend the
resolution oh that's right just making
sure you would pay attention so
is there an amendment
mayor I moved to amend the resolution to
read
um
the new roof for the Museum of Nature
and Science
to remove the new roof for Ben branic
and Cultural Center replacement Museum
of Nature and Science sure yes all right
second
okay motion made by board member pangomo
second by board member Flores
Christine on the amendment
this is an emotion to amend resolution
23-001 to remove the new roof from the
Brannigan cultural seminar and replace
it with the Museum of Nature and Science
board member abeda yes board member
Graham yes board member Ben Comal yes
board member Koran yes board member
Flores yes board member gandada yes and
chair yes okay now we're on the main
motion so no further questions
Chris
so um thank you Mr Mr chair Chris is
there any allocation or anything
in the making for Brannigan Cultural
Center which is also pretty dilapidated
Mr chair board member Flores yes and
I'll be discussing that at a slide
further on in this presentation great
thank you very much thank you Mr
chairman
if there's nothing further Christine
this is on the motion to approve
resolution
23-001 as amended board member of beta
yes board member Graham yes board member
Ben Comal yes board member Koran yes
board member Flores
yes board member Gandara yes and chair
yes
okay now we're going to go to discussion
items first one is 3.1 the financial
update and Chris Faber
thank you Mr chair okay so we'll run
through the financials real quick this
is the year to date you can see the
monthly collections the tit has been
doing extremely well which is why we
have the money to fund a lot of these
projects and and move forward with
funding here in the future you can see
here to date we're at almost five
million dollars and this is through
March so I anticipate that we'll exceed
five million dollars easily through the
end of this fiscal year if not approach
six million dollars
so here's the three different funds
within the tid 2815 has a balance of
about 8.3 million
42.70 2.6 and 42.71 just a little over
seven hundred thousand dollars bringing
the total to 11.7 million dollars so the
tit is doing very well with with funds
that's my financial update
board member Abita yes thank you mayor
thank you
curious on the increase in February that
was
quite drastic
yeah Mr chair board member made the
um I did notice that one and also
November as well we've seen
revenues
on a monthly basis really go up starting
in about 2020 and I think a lot of that
has to do with some of the changes in
the gross receipts Collections and here
in the state of New Mexico
specifically why it was so high in
February I I don't have any more
information I wish I did it's a little
difficult to track down a lot of details
specific to the tid from the state these
are just sort of the numbers that are
reported back to us but yes that was
that was quite a windfall for a short
month
um and I was just curious if you know
any of the programming that we do in the
downtown you know events or things like
that if that could ever be tracked to
help increase during those months if
we're drawing in more people different
individuals so I'm just curious if we're
trying to like match any of those
Mr chair board member yeah the state
does sort of provide kind of a industry
breakdown and if any of the board has
not seen that I can certainly make that
available it's sort of an ongoing
um analysis that they do it it's sort of
it it works well at a higher industry
level and as you sort of get down it the
numbers get a little fuzzy but it sort
of does kind of tell you generally where
where things are and so I can certainly
make that available to you guys so for
your reference and we could certainly
discuss that at a future tid meeting as
well okay thank you and thank you mayor
board members I just want to make a note
if this follows the the Contour of the
grocery sheets ties then there's a
two-month lag
and so it's probably December which is
Christmas and that's just an assumption
but
um it'll make more sense that it's
December that it's Counting
so my theory was it was Valentine's
during that time and so
okay yours makes better sense there you
go
okay any other questions
okay and lastly Uh current and future
tid projects so as we discussed before
we will be putting a 40 by 60 tent on
the Plaza it'll go up on June 1st it'll
come down October 15th it'll be
available to anyone using the plaza
anyone renting the plaza so any you know
any events taking place during that time
will have access to that tent it'll be
between the splash pad and the Sundial
and again addressing the the major
concerns that event planners had with
line of sight
and the space to put smaller vendor
tents so we feel like this
accomplishes all of those we did I I can
tell you we did have some
robust discussions regarding options we
did look at a huge tent that would cover
almost the entire Plaza
the problem is when you're trying to
hold something
that size down on a concrete surface
you're bringing in really really huge
blocks to weight it down and at some
point it just sort of becomes more of a
a problem than a solution so we feel
like this is a good sort of test pilot
for this program it could be an ongoing
solution moving forward if it works
really well but I should be able to
report back at the October tid board
meeting as to how well that was received
I promise you one of these days I'll
come back and tell you the parking lot 7
is complete but they are still working
on it there's been a lot of issues with
the utilities underground which has
really slowed things down so Public
Works has been working to really get
this squared away with our utilities
department
I think things are on track and so we
should be seeing resolution to this
sometime in this spring
so future tid projects so as you can see
turn currented balance is about 11
almost 12 million dollars we're
budgeting about seven and a half million
dollars for projects and tid revenues
are coming in pretty steadily so
um questions about how to spend that
money moving forward are you know are
things that we will need to talk about
uh over the next couple years
to board member flores's question about
the Brannigan library and Cultural
Center I have met with quality of life
there are there is a plan for a lot of
renovations to be done there and
certainly the tid funds are available
for that so those are things that we'll
be looking at over the next fiscal year
moving into the you know fy25 for some
of those projects additionally I did
meet with Public Works regarding any of
the streets that fall within the tid a
lot of those were sort of on their plan
for work but there the funding wasn't
there so this does provide a funding
source for Alameda Lowman Amador and
Campo south of Amador all within the
boundaries of the tid so these are just
a couple of things to put on the radar
moving forward as these kind of develop
with these departments I will certainly
come back to you later in the fiscal
year with with plans on how the future
tid revenues could be used and perhaps
at a later tid meeting we can actually
just have a discussion about ideas for
future Ted projects but just wanted to
put those out there that we are working
with other departments that have needs
within the tid and these funds are
certainly available
and that's my presentation
thank you Chris
did you want to ask Chris that question
sure why not
it's Chris
um you know the LA esperanzas group has
approached us about the road diet
specific to the Amador and Lowman area
and you know reducing a lane there is
could that be something that we'd look
at doing for the future projects that
you listed
Mr chair board member Gandara providing
funding for some like that certainly as
long as it's within the boundaries
beyond that that would be a pup you know
a public works project to to get into
but if that's a decision that the board
decides to make or the counselor or
however that would shake out certainly
those funds could be allocated for that
yeah okay
it's a good idea Vice chair Ghana
perhaps if it was to represent a fifth
of the project maybe a fifth of that
could be used for that so
okay anything else before we
close does anyone have any questions in
the audience on any item that we
discussed
all right
thank you for that I appreciate that
Chris with if there's nothing further
entertain a motion to adjourn
I'm sorry who made the motion
board member beta second by board member
Ben Cuomo that we adjourn
Christine
let's send a motion to adjourn the tid
board meeting board member of beta yes
board member Graham yes board member Ben
Como yes board member Quran yes board
member of Flores yes board member
Gandara yes chair yes okay we are
adjourned as the tid board the taxi
increment development District give us a
couple minutes for those of you on
watching or here in the audience and
we'll switch over to the
city council and we begin our work
session