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all right mary you're live okay good
afternoon everybody welcome to
the work session and tidboard meeting of
the las cruces city council
today is monday january 25th it's
approximately 1 pm
before we get started if you please join
me in the pledge of
i allegiance allegiance to the flag of
the united states of america
and to the republic for which it stands
one nation
under god indivisible with liberty and
justice for all
okay so as i mentioned this is for those
of you who are joining us
and hoping to see our work session of
las vegas city council that will come
immediately following this tit board
which is
the city council also acts as our board
of directors
which stands for the tax increment
development district
and so we have a few items and it could
take as little as 30 minutes to finish
and then we'll go on to our work session
okay so the first item is going to be an
action item it's going to be
item 2.1 which is approval of the
minutes from our october
26 2020 to board meeting
and i'll need a motion and a second
so moved by flores okay second avenue
a motion made by board member florida
second by board member
beta stevie christine
this is on the motion to approve the tid
board meeting
minutes from october 26 2020.
counselor beta tv yes
i'm sorry board member
board member vasquez is he absent he's
actually here
oh uh yes
board member ben cuomo yes
board member sorck
i don't think he's here he's not here
okay absent
board member flores yes
board member gandara yes
chair yes okay so we have two discussion
items first one being a financial update
and mr chris farr barb will
be presenting and craig mayfield
misspelled that chris
it's favor mr chair and actually i
believe that josh
um sowell is going to give the financial
date and then i'll give a current
projects update after that perfect
just checking to see if you pay
attention there chris
all right so josh i saw you on the
on the participant list but wasn't too
sure
yes good afternoon uh mr chair members
of the board my name is josh saffel
and on behalf of the finance department
of the city of las cruces i'd like to
present the
financial report for tid for the quarter
ended december 31st
let me get my presentation going here
so to start off with we're looking at
the tid operations fund
the fund has cash and investments of
three million six hundred ninety six
thousand seven hundred fifty eight
dollars
receivables of seven thousand nine
hundred and six dollars
and a due from state or county of thirty
two thousand six hundred and seventy one
so total assets in the fund amount to
three million seven hundred thirty seven
thousand three hundred and thirty five
dollars there is a restricted
fund balance in the same amount and that
is the total liabilities and fund
balance
looking at the budget and actual for the
tid operations
total revenues in the fund amount to one
hundred eighty one thousand one hundred
and five dollars
and total expenditures are twenty six
thousand eight hundred and sixty seven
after a transfer out of 375 000
the net change to fund balance for the
fund
was a negative two hundred twenty
thousand seven hundred and sixty two
dollars
moving to the tip products
uh cash and investments in the fund
total nine hundred and seventy thousand
six hundred and nine dollars and there
is an equal amount in restricted fund
balance of nine hundred and seventy
thousand six hundred and nine
looking at the budget and actual for the
tin projects fund
total revenues are one thousand ninety
eight dollars
and total expenditures are three
thousand seven hundred and ninety seven
dollars
so the net change in fund balance for
this fund was a negative
two thousand six hundred and ninety nine
dollars
next we have the tid street bond
projects
uh looking at the balance sheet we show
cash and investments in the fund
of five hundred thousand 263
and again an an equal amount in
restricted fund balance
finally looking at the budget and actual
for this fund total revenue
was 623 dollars there were no
expenditures in this fund
so the net change in fund balance was
the 623
and that will conclude my financial
report presentation
are there any questions
thanks josh let's see here if i can
find any questions doesn't look like so
far
okay thanks josh
looks like we're gonna go to the ted
projects over here
oh yes oh that's right we don't have um
yeah the
my little hand oh yeah
i'm gonna get some blue paint and then
put it up like this
yeah i have to confess i actually did
work it so that the hand that
didn't work so oh well gee thanks
yeah that's very nice that's very
reassuring thank you mr
sapphir i have a question um
i didn't understand anything you
presented
and um and the reason i didn't
understand is because
uh the tip is uh covers the entire
downtown area right
i mean that's the tid that we have and
um and what you presented and it may be
you know um in i mean it may be
uh yeah maybe it's it's um acceptable
uh you know
accountability or accounting principles
but i didn't understand like where the
money comes from where it goes
is there a breakdown with the different
projects like the amador
the rio grande you know things like that
so um do you have that kind of a
breakdown
and do you have an analysis as to uh
there's been a co an impact by covid
and um and i was looking at last
our last meeting october and there had
been
the reporting uh was broken down or
somehow the notes reflected that um
so can you explain
whether um we can have that information
or if this is all we're going to get we
don't have
i don't know maybe i'm overreaching here
asking for something that isn't
appropriate but i i would like to see
where the money's
um you know where these deficiencies are
it looks like there's some deficiencies
right
not in accounting but in the flow of
money
so board member flores what you're
asking for
is like for example if we did a project
in the downtown
uh let's say we use tid money to build
the plaza
you wanted to see is there any money
left over
uh or if we have another project that
we're trying to do you want to see
basically
that more detail is that what you're
asking
correct thank you mr mayor thank you
yeah i i
i would like to see the individual
projects is it broken down that way to
see which
projects have been profitable
to see whether the kid is working
downtown and i understand that there
could be
a covet influence but i i would just
like to see that and
is it possible to see that do you work
it that way or
are we just left out i mean we just
stepped to our own devices to figure
out where the money is where the money
is or isn't
mr chair thank you mr mayor thank you
and answer part of that question real
quick and then let josh follow up um
so mr chair uh board member floyd i have
a
small presentation that will be updating
you on a couple of the current
actually all the current um tid projects
that'll follow
josh's financial presentation but i can
and so that that has some of the
budgetary
information um but josh can speak to
some of the additional questions
uh yes uh mr chair and uh council
councilwoman flores
um yes um i believe that we do have
that information available i don't have
it with me right now
but generally what what we present here
is just a basic summary of the basic
financials
if you do want further detail please let
us know and
i'm sure that we can um adjust the
report to where it becomes more
something more useful if you feel that
that this was not
as useful as it could have been and i'm
certain that we have that information
it's just uh
this is just the the summary format that
was was
presented yeah well for me and i and i
hope
um my colleagues share this sentiment i
think that
with the fiasco we faced last summer or
last whatever
last year uh with a potential tib
non-uh you know uh private of course not
public such as the one
that you're reporting on it would just
be really good to have that breakdown
as part of the presentation to the
entire council and that would be my ask
my request
because we really have to understand how
this is working
and um and my understanding
prior to the i mean i think october the
october report did show that
things had gone down um but um
and somehow it was covered in our in our
minutes but um
so yes mr sapple and and uh that would
be my request for the
finance department for us to fully
understand
um how this money comes in
and how it flows and how the tid really
works
because you know bottom line is bottom
line in this business
thank you thank you mr mayor mr chair
yes uh dr martinez thank you mr chair
um member of the board flores thank you
for those questions
um as mr seifol mentioned um
we can further adjust this reporting
so what i'm noting is for us to have the
the updates on the financial
component by project and by month so you
can see the trends
uh as well as the summary um one of the
things that i want to i do want to
share with you all as a reminder is
the source of funding for the tiered in
downtown is a grt
is a portion of the grt that is
generated by the businesses
in the designated area so we can we can
also bring a map so that helps
to um to set the conversation
for the geographical area that we're
talking about and
and we appreciate the input to
continue to improve the reporting
thank you dr martinez mr mayor if i may
dr martinez thank you for that because
um
it would be good to see i think if we
had that breakdown or that
as you say the trends and summaries for
the different businesses
we would be able to compare that with
past performances and then we can see
whether covet has had an impact uh and
what that impact
would be and whether we'd be it'd be
recoverable
um and because i don't i don't think
it's a
um i don't think it's a gold mine
you know with infinite you know infinite
resources
on the other hand i think that it can be
sustainable and beneficial financially
to the cities and it'd be good to see
all of that so thank you dr martinez
thank you thank you mr mayor
and if i may add one thing dr martinez i
believe there's a sunset
clause or time period that that ends
with the state
i wonder if that might also want to be
included just to give
a reminder to council of when this
expires
mr church uh thank you for for that
additional
piece actually the sunset took place um
a year ago uh leanne may have the exact
date
and and um when you see the summaries by
month
uh you're gonna see a big drop in in the
income or revenues should say from when
we had the state share
to when now only have cd share
um it's about 18 000 a month
and that that has been pretty consistent
uh surprisingly the the drops
uh the drops in revenue by month
throughout the public health
restrictions have varied
greatly by month by month
but we will certainly bring those to you
we can bring also a a
brief history of the months during the
public health
restrictions for you to see and then the
bigger picture on that
thanks dr martinez does the county's
portion sunset
or does that stay on like ours
um mr chair i believe it continues
until the ending life of the of the tid
okay you know also is the states
okay i also failed to mention that with
us is commissioner
shannon reynolds who's our ex-official
member from the county and i just wanted
to welcome him as well
and so commissioner reynolds if you ever
have a question
if you could i right now apparently zoom
the function to raise your hand is not
available so and i only get to see about
three or four
on my screen at one time so if you have
a question just raise
your hand through the reaction you know
how they have the little hand
or whatever yeah raise your thumbs up or
whatever you have questions
thank you mr mayor i appreciate the
introduction and uh if i have a question
you're in san francisco
so yeah i'm on top of the the
hotel i'm on the top floor next to the
pool you know
now it's paid from from the bay yeah but
i don't have any
i think um i think uh dr
um martinez is correct i think we're in
it for the uh the term of the ted
i don't think we our sun sets at all
until the kids uh sun sets as far as i
know
sounds good all right thank you okay
vice chair
uh gandera has a question um
thank you mayor um yeah i um i
appreciate
um board member flores's comments i
think what would be helpful
is to see sort of a breakdown from year
to year
right um and
that would be for me really helpful um
and what covet impact we do get on a
monthly or i don't know how frequently
but um miss
barbara de leon is sent is forwarding
um our grt and the tid grt is part of
that
so that probably information would be
helpful it and then i would recommend
that
to to staff that we meet quarterly this
is a
committee that we don't meet our board
that we don't meet often enough
and it takes um
us you know some
it'd be helpful to have some refreshing
you know just refresh your course
every time just a few a slide or two
that sort of
gives some history and some you know
would be helpful josh if you would chris
um and then i have a question josh in
the
slides that you listed assets and
um liabilities
does the amador get listed as an asset
on there and as they because right it's
our
we own the building um
and how how is that working when they
put forth leases
paid towards the leases i imagine that
that gets calculated somewhere in this
in these slides if you will
i would have to check into that because
i believe that
looking at what was presented it was
primarily cash
was the record asset so um
the amador is most likely a capital
asset which was not reported in those
um funds
yeah i'd like to see that and see a
running tab of where we're at
with the lease um and how does that get
calculated in terms of its worth right
and net worth or worth if you will um
something that we probably
should should know um and any
any buildings in that area right that
that is
that is it would be helpful um to me
because i would assume that that some
means something to us and
as part of the the tid
so um thank you josh i appreciate it and
i'm looking forward to chris's
presentation
okay i don't see any other questions so
chris
hi mr chair let me um share my screen
i've got a brief presentation to
show everyone here
all right
um are you able to see that in
yes there's a bit of a bit of a here so
i'm
going to get it to go into pre here we
go here we go
sorry there's a bit of a lag here on my
end so okay so
mr chair members of the board this is
chris faber interim downtown
administrator in the economic
development department
i'm going to give you an update on just
a couple of the projects that are going
on in the tid
and using tid funds and then myself and
public works staff will be available at
the end for questions
so the first project up is parking lot 7
which
for everyone's point of reference it's
the parking lot right behind the rio
grande theater
this will be a project that includes
some landscape redesign
and rebuilding of the bathrooms
it is a tid-funded project the budgeted
amount was 488
000. the bid process um
was due on december 8th and currently
purchasing is working to select a vendor
for that
estimated timelines are a breaking
ground in mid-february
um with an estimated completion date of
june 20
june 2021 so just take a few months once
the project gets going
next is the compost redesigned study
again this is another tid funded project
for
redevelopment of the campo street area
the budgeted amount for this fiscal year
is four hundred thousand dollars
and then i've got some updates and next
steps here so currently
moles and corbit and associates is the
vendor who's working on
um the study part of what they're
looking at is an evaluation of
cultural impact architecture and
landscaping
lighting requirements traffic control
and ada compliance
in just a couple weeks ago on the 12th
we had a stakeholders meeting
and that consisted of residents and
business owners from the area
city staff members of acd and dlcp
and some of the comments that came from
that meeting were
a sense of making campo street feel more
like it's a part of downtown
both from an aesthetic standpoint and
from a pedestrian
accessibility standpoint there was a lot
of discussion about trying to find ways
to soften that
west side of the road which has a lot of
fencing and
and walls and barricades and stuff like
that related to the post office in the
courthouses so
that was the comments from the
stakeholders meeting
and um part of the next steps will be
for a public meeting
to be held in march or april
after that moles and corbin will compile
a report with all the recommendation and
comments and that'll be due to the board
in may once a final design
is approved for that project it'll be
about a six to eight month
time frame for the design to be
completed
an estimated construction cost from that
point moving forward would be about two
million dollars
and finally last project we're working
on um
is an online permitting system uh we did
update you
on this back in october um we
um had to put that aside for a little
bit while we worked on some of the covid
grant stuff
i'm not sure why there's an extra zero
there we go 20
000 yeah there we go it just looked kind
of funny to me um
and so what this will do it'll give us
an online permitting
application process for the plaza
so when people want to rent the plaza
there'll be a an easier online way to go
about
filling out those requests we actually
have a training that starts up tomorrow
we're hoping to get the user testing
phase
completed in february with a potential
go
live sometime in march but i just wanted
to remind the board that
we aren't taking permits for the
downtown and the plaza at this
time because of the cobid restrictions
but the idea is that when we are able to
do so
we will have this new permitting system
which will make it a lot easier for
city staff and for those who are
requesting the plaza to get through and
that's all i had those are all the
projects currently
owned using kid funds again i'm
available for questions
and staff from public works is also
available for questions
so thank you
thanks thanks chris see if we have any
oh that's right ken um
you sure yes ma'am or um vice chair
canada
thank you um chair mega
thanks chris um for the update um i
wondered if you could also
update the tit board um in real relation
to
the um the time the parking study
um the time parking or where or
how that is connected um to the tit i
think
that's an important um area to update
and then the arts and cultural district
i think that's also a piece of
of the puzzle and i'd i'd love to see
some
some remarks and and actually an update
at
here in the tid presentation
thank you mr chair uh board member
gondara i'll i'll speak to the acd real
quick and then i'll turn it over to dr
martinez
to speak on the parking enforcement
she's been the the point person from ed
on that project and she has
more details on that so regarding acd
they are currently have a project that
they're using cip
funds for which is the mesquite district
lighting and wayfinding study um we're
working with bohan and houston on that
and it's sort of a two a two pronged
approach for the area one
is um way finding signage and gateway
signage for
the boundaries of the district
as well as different way finding signs
and kiosks within the mesquite area
directing people either to other places
in the district or
to other areas you know in the downtown
area say a sign from
you know klein park pointing the
direction of the rio grande theater that
type of thing
um currently we are and before i
continue the other side of that
is a lighting evaluation study that's
also going on
to determine if there's additional
lighting
needs and concerns for the mesquite area
with regard to the signage we
have seen some preliminary designs that
the acv
has been reviewing for both kiosks
and the gateway signage we are hoping to
have a follow-up meeting
with um bohan and houston and the acv
board to move a little bit more forward
on those
we had to forward them some traffic
requirements with regards to signage
near roads to make sure that all of our
proposed gateway signs and kiosks don't
impair any sort of drivers
from a sort of a you know right-of-way
standpoint so
there's lots of lots of different things
going on with that particular
group and we're hoping to get more
information from from bohan and houston
here moving forward i
i spoke with them recently and they're
they're just compiling some of the
information the board provided them in
our last meeting
um and again we can have more
information made available to you by our
next board meeting
the tid meeting because we should have a
lot more a lot more developed by our
next meeting
so i'll let dr griselda speak to the
parking unless you had any additional
comments
uh board member ganda regarding the acd
i don't chris thank you so much for that
update
okay we have a question question from uh
board member ben cuomo thank you mr
claire
oh
to update us on the um parking committee
time
parking that sort of thing mr
chair member of the board gandhara
we have gone through the sac process we
have selected a vendor and we're in
final negotiations of the that contract
will come back to
city council for your voting at that
time we will all
also bring the parking enforcement
as a discussion item help us
um with direction of of timelines for
um from when we set the
the option for timing uh versus
uh charging so that's that is in the
works
uh but you will see it as a city council
item in the near future
are you muted vice chair encounter
thank you um i appreciate that what
about
um dr martinez the
parking um lot survey or
and and those kinds of things i guess
i'm just trying to find
a way that you can update the entire tid
board related to the activities
um in the tid area i don't see
another another opportunity where we
have these kinds unless there's a
workstation specific to that
mr chair uh member gandera um
for the so i believe that um
if if it's more appropriate we in the
next tip
board meeting we could have all other
downtown projects updates what we
prepared for this meeting was
tit funded projects and that is the
reason why we don't have
the other ones that that you're asking
that we usually discuss
in the parking committee meetings um so
if that's
that's the the preference from
from the board we could do that for our
next
meeting for for the parking lot
uh just briefly updates that we
that have been in discussion items with
the parking committee
is the visibility study was completed
and um at this time the next step would
be
for funding to be determined
um for next stages of the project
and so um
i don't know if you want us to go in
further detail uh member gander
yeah thank you dr martinez um it would
be helpful i think i just
again i as i said before i don't see a
an easy in the past i i think mandy
um has updated us not only on tid funded
projects but
projects that were happening in within
the tid that i think would be helpful
to the board to hear and understand and
just get an update i know you're not
prepared to do that
today i'm okay with you bringing it back
um
you know in the next time to update us
with
you know part of a presentation or
that we decide um that it's something
that needs a
a work session
thank you mr mr chair
um board member gandala thank you for
that input
um and and we'll we'll figure out the
best way to
bring those updates to the to the entire
body
uh as per your request
okay anybody else
oh yes uh remember vince sorry about
that yes okay thank you chair
um chris or dr martinez can you remind
me
are we not paying for the shade
structures through the tid
mr chair board remember that that was
as of right now that is not the case um
that was
something we had presented as a possible
pure priority at the october meeting
um and so we were planning to discuss uh
at an upcoming tip meeting um future
priorities from the tit and that
that was on that list presented in
october but as of right now there is no
tid funds that have been dedicated to
that project
okay um yeah i definitely don't remember
october at this point but um
do we i mean is that going to be up for
discussion then at the next
tid meeting or at this point the
chairs are being it
it's through the city of las cruces
mr chair remember it's something that
we can certainly look at um and you can
look at
with with um using kid funds for that
but as of right now no determination has
been made but we can certainly
put a list of potential priorities
together included in our presentation
for the next meeting
so the board can start to figure out how
to prioritize
any upcoming and upcoming projects
okay thank you
thanks board member ben como i'm glad
you reminded us of that
so i i do recall of the meeting in fact
it was like a little bit over a million
dollars and it seemed like
we could use a tit money or we could try
to find some other monies
so chris is it fair to say that this
project has stopped
and there's no movement on it
mr chair yeah currently at this time
after the presentation back in the fall
where the architects presented some of
the different options
i know there was some discussion about
an element to it some a solar component
to it
but there hasn't been any other
requests made to the architect to
incorporate those i think
at this point it was a matter of
determining a funding source before
moving forward but dr martinez might
have some more information on that if
i'm wrong
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that's that's the current status
um that discussion took place before
city council and one of the options that
was
considered was through acd we
we staff have discussed that with acd
and unfortunately that's not
one of through the discussion
of other priorities that's not one that
that made it to this
uh according to the funding available
through acv
and um at this point we will have to
decide
uh as as mr favor mentioned um next
next update we're planning to bring
those priorities
for um for tip board to act upon
and for you to define based on the
funding available
what are those uh items that you you
want to
fund via the tid as i mentioned before
the the biggest contribution or revenue
into the tid
took place when when we had the state
share uh
coming through and therefore um the
funding that we have is an accumulation
of of
previous periods rather than fast
growing currently
and so with that in place we would bring
the the funding available
uh currently the projects that that are
in the works
that would um require funding from tid
and then the the priorities that
that we have discussed up to this point
for you to select which ones
would make it um via tip
versus other funding sources
so ifo you know this probably took place
right around the time you were thinking
of coming here
so can you uh obviously with covet
and things have slowed down and we don't
have social gatherings but
had this had that not been the case we
really wanted to have some type of a
shade structure
by this coming summer so can you make
this a priority to kind of make sure
that that council has some information
even if it's
and i don't know i would think christine
it's allowed to have this disclosed at a
city council meeting
uh just some type of an update because
that's something there that
you know i think council really wanted
to have this
this shade has eluded us for two years
you know and um and uh it's something
there
that that really is something not just
the council wants but you know the
public wants it gets pretty hot
um i can't remember when you we moved
down you moved down here in september
i think and yeah so you haven't you
haven't felt
the july june and july heat so
i know you're always there nice and cool
in utah but
welcome to las cruces in uh july and
august okay uh board member flores are
you waving at me or you have a question
yes i'm waving at you i've got nothing
better to do than to wave at you
um thank you miss mayor and thank you
for asking mr pealey to
look into this because we did have what
i wanted to share
and i think a lot of us already know
this but just to refresh everybody's
memory
is that we did have a presentation last
fall
um i believe counselor ben como
was there and i think councillor
um uh
gandara maybe it was another one but
anyways a presentation
or it wasn't last fall it was
oh my gosh when was it i really lost
track of time but we did have a
presentation by a firm
architects um or it was a ted board
meeting
was it a ted board meeting where they
did the no no it was open to the public
it was at night it was on the second
floor
we we saw one at the council too i mean
you know
one it hasn't been the tip board i would
think yeah well
anyway but there are a lot of people
from the public
there are a lot of people from the
public there and
um and so i think that we owe it to
ourselves
and definitely to the to our public to
the residents
at least an update as to what's going on
are we moving forward or not
and yes everybody wants a structure and
then we had
it was where we all voted for the
structure that we liked the most
for um whatever reason you know
either the design or the practicality
and i remember
yes it was uh mayor pratim gandara who
or maybe i'm confusing with another one
uh who requested solar panels there was
questions about solar panels so
um i think we really need to move on
that i mean there's a million and one
other things you have to move on
but um that that one seems to have been
left dangling you know in the you know
in the wings so i'd like to see uh some
movement on this thank you mr mayor
mr mayor is that the board member
vasquez
it is thank you and i don't have my
camera on just because i'm driving
so i i don't want to uh apologize for
that i don't want to put myself in
danger there but i do just have some
questions and comments if now's okay
sure absolutely
thank you mayor um yes so i uh
thank you so much chris for that
presentation i just have a couple of
quick comments and questions uh one is
i'm excited that that parking lot and
those bathrooms are
are finally getting that much needed
remodel
um and i know those bathrooms get heavy
use
by the public during farmers market and
other downtown events and so
um uh was just gonna ask you about
the capacity there are you are you
increasing the size
of those of those restrooms chris as
part of that um
of tearing the old ones down um i know
there's i always see
lines uh there when there's big events
so i'm just wondering about the design
on those
uh councilman vasquez i'm gonna let
public works answer the questions
specific to the redesign of those
bathrooms that they've got more of the
technical information on it than i do
okay thank you chris
dave or tony
thank you chair thank you board member
vasquez for the question
i couldn't get the the unmute button
uh to show up to answer but uh to answer
your question
board member vasquez and for the record
david sedillo public works director
uh we should be increasing those i will
have to confirm the design but
the last time that we looked at it there
was to be
more capacity to address the usage in
that area
what i will do is follow up with staff
to get the exact number
of those bathrooms for each the women's
and the men's
okay great thank you uh yeah i just
don't want to miss that opportunity to
do that now
i think that was one of the challenges
with the current public restrooms there
and the big events that happen is um
you know they get they get filled up
pretty quickly and i know with more
businesses that are inviting more folks
uh into our downtown i think it's just a
smart thing
to do now to make sure we have bathrooms
that are adequate for the
the population of people will be serving
especially during those large events so
thank you for
for paying attention to that um chris
i have another question slash request
so you know i've honestly been surprised
at how
white those walls on the post office
have been able to stay for so long
um just because you know they're they're
kind of a perfect canvas there for
for ours one way or another and
with the redesign of campo street i
don't know if that includes like a one
percent
project from public art um that i think
we're supposed to have on
on most of our capital projects now um
but i'm just wondering uh one does does
that project have that one percent for
public art and then two
i would love to maybe approach the post
office
or you know the federal government
to see about using that the outside of
that
wall that encloses what were once all
those
all those great um usps trucks that
that were in use when we still had a
male center hub in las cruces but
anyhow that big wraparound white wall i
think would be
an amazing place to tell the story of
las cruces or have a local artist
interpret
some beautiful part of our history and
it could be another
you know big cultural attraction an
artist attraction for
uh for the city and it also would add
that public art component to campo
street
um so yeah just that question is is does
that have a public art component
included uh as part of that one percent
for public art
and then two um you know i guess the
council or
others are in agreement you know in
terms of approaching the post office
to see if we could use that exterior
wall for for public art if that would be
possible
mr chair board member vasquez i'll i'll
um
double check or have public works come
in on this i don't believe at this point
because the money was just for
a study at this point i don't know if
there was
money allocated um for public art
at this point i think that would
probably be um
at the construction phase but i'll let
uh tony
i see turn his microphone off i'll let
tony comment on that
mr chair uh board member vasquez at this
point the project for
compost is considering uh different
aspects of planning and design for
gumball
for pedestrian access lighting
art funny for art has not been dedicated
for
horizontal construction this is usually
set aside on vertical construction
as part of these projects so at this
point
there is no consideration well i don't
say consideration but
art has not been part of the the
discussion with the consultant right now
it's just for uh
room and access along compo well that is
something we can definitely
include in the final design of the
project as we move forward so
i appreciate the comment yeah and that
was uh tony
trevino speaking deputy director of
public works
oh sorry here okay
thank you tony thank you chris yeah i
mean how cool would it be to unveil that
project that street with a big public
art component
uh attached to it i think that's what we
have to kind of think about
uh just not just the streetscape but
what we want to do in building community
and i think that would be a really great
new attraction to the downtown
um as having a really great public art
component and it would draw pedestrians
to campo street anyway which i think
would be
which i think would be good for um some
of our businesses that are located there
anyway um so thanks for thinking about
that and for giving it some thought
um and then lastly i just have a
question about
uh this wasn't on your project list but
this is a question i had asked
previously
um actually probably about this time
last year
and i think we funded those downtown
kiosks
uh that are operated by visit las cruces
uh with using tid money and one of them
was broken i think the one at the
visitor center
was was not operational and so i i know
during coven we really don't probably
want
people touching screens and stuff right
now anyway but
i'm just wondering if you could give an
update on the kiosks
in addition to them being operational if
they have been
um in use and maybe perhaps we can put
those at a later discussion for
a downtown work session because i'm
really curious to see
if those actually worked out for us
because i know there was a vendor
cost the maintenance cost we had to go
through the vendor to update them
it seemed like a lot of hoops to jump
through and a lot of money attached to
those things that
um i i wasn't sure how how it was
if it was going to work or not but um
but first i guess the question is just
are the kiosks
uh working now and if so have they been
shut down because of coven
chris favor for the record uh mr chair
counselor vasquez unless uh dr
um martinez has an update on that i'll
have to get back to you on that the last
i heard they were
they were looking to get that repaired
but i don't know what the latest is on
that
um unless dr martinez has an update
mr chair member vasquez
to be a hundred percent accurate we'll
send a follow-up
on that via email um
the one that it's placed in this las
cruces is
used quite often it has been repaired
it took a while for us to finalize those
repairs but
it has been repaired that the data um
that would be the piece that will have
to follow up with you all
um to to understand that the usage
and and what those um the preferred
options are
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there there is um um i'm gonna
defer this piece to rochelle miller
hernandez our director for visit las
cruces
uh for her to spend expanding to
specific to the kiosks
um a new app that uh will be coming live
soon if that's okay mr chair
sure absolutely say
thank you dr martinez i i appreciate
that i know when
uh at the time um direct former director
san felipo
kind of sold council on this project he
promised a lot of things and i just want
to make sure that we're getting an
accurate update in terms of
what the cost of these machines have
been if they've been if they've been
running okay or
if staff's been encountering problems um
how much we're spending on that monthly
vendor fee and
i i just think it's important because i
know
like i said he they were sold a lot of
things on that and i think council
really wanted them to work out but it'd
be great to just get an evaluation
looking back at it i think a couple
years down the road so
thank you dr martinez thank you chris
and thank you mr chair
you board member vasquez anybody else
okay sounds good so i believe that
concludes the
updates then huh chris yes that's all i
had mr chair
okay so there's nothing further
entertain a motion to adjourn the tit
board
need a second i mean a motion and a
second please so
notice okay okay
motion made by board member florida
second by vice chair gandala that we
adjourn
christine
this is on the motion to adjourn the ted
board meeting
board member aveda stevie yes
board members yes
yes
christine can you hear uh board member
vasquez
yes i heard him i was waiting for board
member ben como
oh we didn't hear that
apologies board member sorg
yes board member
flores yes
board member gandara yes
and chair yes okay so the tit board
is adjourned as of 1 52 pm
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