mr. chair I believe we're streaming now
your life beautiful thank you good
morning everyone
um today is Thursday July 9th and it is
currently 1003 a.m. and we are here
today for our regularly scheduled Las
Cruces economic recovery ad hoc board
meeting so I'm gonna go ahead and call
this meeting to order I hope everyone
does have the agenda in front of them
that was sent out as well as the minutes
that were sent out as well from city
staff so first off any conflict of
interest if you'll please raise your
hand in the chat box so that way we can
get that on there
as I see none it looks like we're gonna
go ahead and move on to acceptance of
the agenda the agenda was sent out for
you and there are a couple changes to
this agenda format as you'll see we did
put the purpose of the Las Cruces
economic recovery board that was given
to us by the City Council at the top so
that we can refer back to it as we're
going on as we're going through
everything and having these discussions
but if there are any questions or
anything to the agenda or any motions to
accept the agenda we can hear those now
maybe more move to accept the agenda you
have mrs. more who move to accept the
agenda do I have a second
this is Michael Harris I'll second hello
mr. Michael we have a movement in a
second to accept the agenda as presented
any discussion on the agenda as it is
presented before us
seeing
mr. Francisco you can do a roll call
vote for us on that
certainly mr. chair sorry I was I was
mute
this is on the motion to ask sit
you
they would lose him
yeah I think we lost them okay mr. chair
this is Chris and the murkiness this
this is for a motion to approve the
agenda
ss miss Brooke Montgomery I'm here sorry
what was that I saw that my phone's
having issue Harry this is the promotion
to approve the engine that as provided
yay baby more yeah duck Cohen yay
George Miller yes Michael Harris yes Ron
Pitts Herbert yes sure Thomas
Sharon Thomas absent Veronica Archuleta
yes and Chris tchau tchau tchau
yes thanks mr. Mississippi more I
believe miss Thomas is on she just
couldn't get her sound on so just be a
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sharin are you with us okay I don't see
her coming on but motion does pass the
agenda is accepted as presented moving
on we do have two sets of minutes to
approve that we were sent I hope that
you all receive those minutes from city
staff because they did come in so we'll
review minutes for the meeting that was
held on June 25th I would entertain a
motion to accept it unless there's any
changes that we have on those minutes
well if it's hardware I motion to accept
I'll second okay so we have a motion and
a second from mr. Harris to accept the
minutes from the June 25th meeting as is
any discussion off those minutes
you'll raise your hand there's any
discussion on the minutes from the June
25th meeting
seeing none mr. francisco if you can
please do a roll call vote on the
accepting of the minutes of June 25th
yes mr. chair can you hear me well I was
having troubles connecting to the
Internet
my apologies yeah we can hear you now
excellently this is on the motion to
accept the minutes for June 22nd as
presented mr. Michael Harris yes mr.
George wheeler yes miss Sharon Thomas
yes miss Brooke Montgomery yay miss
Veronica Archuleta yes miss Rockets
Herbert yes mr. Gowen yay Miss Jane
bloom
is Jane boom is absent visually Martinez
Julie Martinez is absent miss every more
yes
mr. chair my votes yep
thank you moving on to the minutes from
meeting on July 2nd which was our last
meeting that we met if there are any
changes to team minutes as presented
before us if not I would entertain a
motion to accept the minutes
Harris all motion to accept thank you
mr. Harris
we have a motion on the floor to accept
two minutes as presented
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Ron Fitzherbert second mr. Fitzherbert
seconded the motion to accept the
minutes as presented for the July 2nd
meeting any discussion on those minutes
as seeing oh there's mr. misma summary
as seeing none mr. Francisco will you
please do a roll call vote on the
accepting of the minutes you in July 2nd
meeting mr. chair this is on the motion
to accept the minutes for July 2nd mr.
Mike as presented mr. Michael Harris yes
mr. George Miller yes miss Sharon Thomas
I recuse myself I wasn't there
recused mmm miss Brooke Montgomery
yay miss Veronica predicta mr. chair I
think I was absent on that meeting so I
I refused think I was upset Ricky wasn't
sure it was that one yes miss run kids
Herbert yes mr. Cowen yeah Ms Jane bloom
I think she's absent miss Julian
Martinez I think she's absent as well
missed anymore yes mr. chair yes
motion passes wonderful thank you
moving on to we do have an action item
on the agenda that was discussed at our
last meeting and that is on the New
Mexico the Oscars is safe for the Las
Cruces promised that we kind of went
over a couple ideas with and then also
there was the timeline that we went over
during our last meeting since this is an
actual item we are gonna be taking
action today to send this to City
Council for action through our city
manager at this time so I'm not sure
staff do we have anything besides just
the vote on presenting this to Council
or is that the only actual item that we
have on this mr. chair the suspense upon
us for the record all unless there is
any further discussion from material
that has already been discussed on the
previous meeting I think it's ready to
take it to vote wonderful well thank you
so out mr. Harris you do have your hand
raised yeah I think that there was I
think at the previous meeting we did ask
for some more
info from staff on it could go back to
the minutes to be specific about that
but I do recall that there was some
requests for like a final draft or
something before we voted on it mr. mr.
chair this is Francisco Paris mr.
Michael Harris we did make the
corrections that were proposed we also
adjusted for the I think so some of the
comments that were in there were some
adjustments as to how are we going to
propose to make this kind of a
grassroots campaign and in which case
miss Jamie Rickman last last instance
she mentioned that we would
incorporating social media instances
there was also a discussion on last time
with regards to whether this was going
to be sent via a utility bill or passive
electric and dr. Martinez last time and
answered that in order to make this a
more Swift process we could just focus
on the Las Cruces utilities and that
would also reach a very wide variety of
individuals so other than that that
there were also some other minor changes
and those have been taken into account
Thank You mr. chair
you
thank you for that mr. haire is did that
answer your question or were you wanting
yeah I think that satisfies me thank you
okay so just to kind of review really
quick we did go over a three-month
timeline for implementing the promise
the last person safe promise if you all
remember that so at this point in time
you could entertain a motion to present
this to city council to our city manager
and go from there and then we could have
discussion if there was any more
questions or concerns about what this is
exactly mr. chair give me more I move to
approve the timetable for the Las Cruces
a promise program and move it forward to
the City Council in the appropriate
channels Thank You mrs. Moore we do have
a motion to accept her to bring the
actionable items let's use it council do
I have a second it's michael harris all
second thank you mr. Harris I have a
motion and a second to bring this
actionable item to City Council any
discussion on what we are doing right
now on the loss persisting promise yes
this is Sharon Thomas
yes mrs. Thomas can we see the final
draft with the word they've made the
corrections changes I don't see why not
um let me see if that was in Mike mr.
Troy this is Francisco yeah just would
you like me to chair the screen yes it's
gonna be great and if you can just go
over a brief rundown of the changes or
made that be amazing Thank You mr. chair
Martinez for the record also the
timeline revised and the draft logos
were sent via email last night as well
wonderful thank you if we could also
have those draft logos presented that
way we can put that in there as well to
send out mr. Cho please let me know if
you are able to see my yes sir
thank you
excellent so some of the changes that
were carried are first of all there was
an impulse and inclusion of many what's
requested as well there was also a
change to include the southern New
Mexico southern foundation as part of
the outreach efforts that were gonna be
carried so as we were mentioning the
utilities from customers for the city of
Las Cruces are gonna be a company for
the 44,000 that's another one of the
changes that was mentioned as well the
incorporation or the social media
talking points right here that was also
mentioned to try to make this as much of
grassroots campaign and having some of
these partners share this promise once
it considers released it was also
incorporated as well and then it has
been adjusted to accompany that
three-month process as it was mentioned
on the last meeting as well okay and
then can you also look at that were
presented as well yes this is Martinez
for the record another change that was
incorporated in month one is to ensure
that this is a cross reference effort
with the New Mexico certified program
which is also included in the timeline
wonderful thank you for that
clarification and mr. chair please let
me know if you're able to see the
pictures of the logos for the proposed
logos that's yes that's one which is
with the black and white backgrounds
colors the second one is this one well
just let me know if you're able to see
it and if it changed on your screen as
well this one is with a blue collar can
get a kind of a ring as well as a Yellow
Sun or
in the background of the mountains and
you this is Michael Harris I do not see
the blue okay let me stop sharing
another one
you
mr. Harris please let me know if you're
able to see the blue yeah I see the blue
now this is the other one and finally
the other one is this one which is more
of a stronger collar in the background
on the blue it's just a slight variation
of the past one so we have those three
wonderful thank you for presenting those
I personally love the one with the blue
and the Sun for for sure mr. cone you do
you have your hand raised go ahead sir
Thank You mr. chair I let me get my
video on I've just got a kind of a
question I'm I'm not sure it can be
answered except I'm not sure how
effectual this campaign is at this point
this was supposed to be a grassroots
program to encourage a volunteer type
mechanism where we had consumer and
business working together kind of
working going towards a safe promise
together but now there's a mandate with
threats of fines and everything else I'm
not sure how effectual is something like
this there's certainly a certain amount
of cost at this point for this
what's the feasibility of this
grassroots now even being effectual um
thank you for your comment I think
that's a valid concern for the board
they answer as well because we're all in
this together by um I'll go ahead and
give two cents and then mr. Harrison
miss Martinez will go ahead and get with
you as well I think that this is a three
month plan we're not going to be in the
same position for the next three months
hopefully but I think that it's still an
amazing opportunity to voice our
concerns and what we're willing to do
and what we think this promise can be
for Las Cruces and I think that you know
over the implementation of the next
three months we're gonna see a lot of
different changes as this is all very
fluid right now so I think it's
definitely gonna be a very well executed
and utilized program maybe not right
this moment with the current
enforcement's and by in the near future
I definitely think this is going to be a
very well received part of our economic
recovery miss Martinez will go with you
and then mr. Harris Thank You mr. chair
Thank You mr. cone for that question
from our perspective I think this is
even more needed now than before because
we see the opportunity to continue to
educate the public and the businesses on
what is being required so it's an
opportunity for us to lower the burden
as from the code enforcement perspective
and educate the population at large of
the benefits of why this is important
for all of us to come together and
follow the guidelines that would be the
the value that I see from this campaign
and in other efforts that are being done
throughout the city mr. chair thank you
thank you for that mr. Martinez mr.
Harris yeah I'll pretty much echo those
sentiments this is a long-term you know
this as proposed it's got a three month
timeline it's not going to help us you
know in a month but the way that things
are going it's going to be necessary you
know certainly in four or five six
months for everyone to be on board with
this and you know also to to emphasize
that there is I mean there's nothing
that we can do right this second that's
going to like stop the cases from
increasing tomorrow
yeah those numbers are already set in
stone so all this stuff is really going
going to the future
and and I think it's it's worthwhile and
it's a good message you know bring
everyone together around it
that's all I appreciate your thumbs
Terrence and I definitely agree with you
that this is gonna be the long haul kind
of movement that were going into mr.
Cohen you know thank you I just I just
want to make it clear I this board was
to help stimulate or recover the economy
not to do any kind of enforcement of
statutes and ordinances that the city
implements we're supposed to be trying
to recover the economy within those
guidelines that they have so that's just
my concern right now I know that there's
a lot of business businesses that are
very frustrated because now they are
being forced to be in the policing mode
they're the ones getting threatened with
fines and that's putting employees in a
very dangerous spot where they're having
to confront people that may not be kind
in their response and and then what do
they do and it's the business owner that
is getting threatened so again I'm just
a little concerned that we're trying to
implement something and we were trying
to do it to where it was a voluntary
thing people will get enthused about it
hey let me jump on board on this even
those that might have been reluctant
initially but saying hey you know what
if it'll help my business it'll help
reassure people yeah I'm on board for
this and now there's a twisting of the
arm and I I know there's a sentiment out
there I've talked to a lot of folks
there they're not very happy and so it's
been and I think it's going to be a
challenge to get them to jump on board
on this on a voluntary measure
Thank You mr. Cohen duly noted missed
any more yes I I disagree with mr.
colored in the fact that I think this
safe promise is an effort to unite the
community in a grassroots effort by two
obviously being from the gym or commerce
of her concerns or was a mandate and how
we how we received I do not think the to
the safe promise campaign and the
mandates are intertwined specifically I
do believe that we all want a united
community that would be all aspects of
the individual community the citizens at
large as well as the business community
the faith-based community the nonprofit
community all of us looking to
communicate that we want to be safe I
believe this is fluid but I believe the
commitment to be a safe community is on
the forefront of everybody's businesses
want to be safe the community wants to
be safe I think this is a great program
obviously I'm behind it I support it
totally and I think there's just really
strength and commitment strength in
numbers and a way to really join our
community together as you know when the
slow goes the chamber is Las Cruces
strong I think Las Cruces is strong and
we will get through this but we I think
this is an effort across route 17
together Thank You mr. chair
and give us us more um miss Montgomery
you do have hand-raised he's got bad I
agree with Debbie more for my summary
record I think that although mandates
are going to happen and they'll be fluid
and those come from our elected
officials this is something where we're
showing our customers and our clients
that we're keeping our businesses clean
and promoting the safety of our
community as long as we when we present
this it's not presented as a mandate but
more of you're welcome to come into our
businesses we assure your safety we're
encouraging our businesses to be open in
a safe manner
so I'm along the lines with with Debbie
more thank you for that Montgomery um
and I would like to echo that again I
really do think that we're not an
enforcement board at all I don't think
we're enforcing anything this is a
voluntary program and it's a program
that shows a vested interest that's
reuniting lost cruises and you know even
Dona Ana is gonna get involved all over
the place and the sea is gonna take it
up and everything though that that's
definitely something that we can look at
um miss Thomas is raising your hand mrs.
Thomas if you can please abstain from
using the chat feature do the Open
Meetings Act where we're not using that
just because anyone on YouTube cannot
see it so please abstain from using that
becau thank you
I just want to say that we're not asking
the council to deduce this is any more
than a resolution right we're not asking
them to do it as an ordinance so I'm not
required that is correct this is not a
requirement this is a program through
the economic side of things that is just
we had a presentation the last meeting
which you are unfortunately not able to
make it to and we kind of went through
an all we can email some links to as to
what this was looking like but it's just
a promise it's a verbal promise that
also goes over the New Mexico safe
certified program as well that is a
voluntary program for any citizen any
business owner anyone to sign up and say
yes I promise to wear a mask and pretend
or act like our I promise to be safe
with the idea of I might already have
covet and go out wear a mask use hand
sanitizer wash our hands be respectful
be kind and all these things so it's
more of a voluntary thing that I will
definitely be taking part of as my
business because it just it's good
ethics is what I think it is but I'm
just pointing out that the council has
two choices to pass it as a resolution
or as an ordinance and so we're not
asking them to pass it as an ordinance
that would require anything we're only
asking them to pass it as a resolution
so I don't believe that I know that our
stavarin are raised in their hands so
Gers Aldo our friends let's go if you
like to answer that question better for
us
you
mr. tur
miss Thomas just at summer I seen also
part of the conversation from last week
because this is an administrative
process what will happen is once did
this board votes on this action item it
will go from the chair to city manager
city manager can and we have already
spoken to him mr. David monstas to
direct staff to move into implementation
and city manager will inform City
Council so there is no actual City
Council action required which would
allow us to streamline the process as
well
hey thank you for that thank you for
that Martinez does that help miss Thomas
answer your question yes thank you
Thank You mr. Harris you do have your
hand raised go ahead sir
yeah it's Michael Harris so I guess if
there's any amendments I don't know if
this would actually be an amendment or
just a suggestion that would come out of
this discussion that we've had I think
it is that if anything we should try and
speed up deployment of it you know there
there are the requirements and if we
want people to get on board voluntarily
then maybe three months from now is is a
little late and and we should just try
and move as fast as possible on it
that's all I got those same concerns sir
with that being said if there's no other
discussion as no one's really raising
their hand right now I'm gonna go ahead
and ask mr. Francisco if we can go ahead
and do a roll call vote since we do have
a motion in a second on the floor
mr. chair just to double-check who was
the second on on the motion from Miss
Debbie more I believe it was mr. Harris
yes thank you
this is on the motion to take Las Cruces
safe promise I said the program as it
has been presented today with the
adjustments as a suggestion for city
council to to implement the other proper
channels if I'm using that correctly mr.
Michael Harris yes mr. George Miller yes
miss Sharon Thomas yes miss Brooke
Montgomery miss Veronica cholita yes
miss Ron Fitzherbert yes sorry mr. Raum
Fitzherbert
mr. Kirwin yes Miss Jane bloom she's
absent miss Jolene Martinez she's absent
miss Debbie more yes mr. chair yeah
motion passes let's go so this will be
an actual item that we are taking to the
city manager to take to City Council so
first steps very exciting moving on we
do have some discussions before us today
one is New Mexico workforce connection
or I'm sorry New Mexico workforce
connections resource for workers during
coda 19 and then after that we will be
moving into the arrowhead presentation
by Miss Montgomery so we can go ahead
and have the New Mexico workforce
connections resource presentation that
would be great
mr. chair I'd like to this is van Cisco
Pettis I'd like to introduce miss
Darlene
this to the conversation which is the
person in charge of the one-stop shop at
New Mexico workforce connections in
exclusives and darling
hello everyone I'm so sorry I don't have
like a real presentation but I have
information
so as Francisco said I'm Darlene Lopez
and I'm the one-stop operator for the
New Mexico workforce connection offices
and basically what that is is the
operations manager and I kind of oversee
various elements of what's going on in
each of the workforce centers across the
southwest region including Dona Ana
County and so I just kind of want to go
over the gist of what we've been working
on and where we're at right now as far
as our services towards both employers
and individuals because we do serve both
so as I'm sure a lot of you know you
know Dona Ana County including Sunland
Park in the month of June we saw 32,000
327 unemployment claims we in the month
of June we're seeing anywhere between
100 and 300 calls coming in to the
centers each Center so we're talking
about you know quite a quite a bit
thousands of calls coming in regionally
which is a lot for some of our offices
because some of our offices are very
small we have an office in tier C
Socorro
Sunland Park Las Cruces Demi Silver City
and then we have a small satellite
office that's just for youth in
Lordsburg so what that one office only
has one person so to receive a hundred
phone calls in a week on top of
everything else you're trying to do
especially when the issues that are
being presented with are kind of novel
they're tricky they're kind of scary
questions to answer because there's so
much new information and you definitely
don't want to be caught in a situation
where where you give it wrong
information this the reason why
unemployment claims are no longer done
in our offices and this took place a
long time ago like 20 years ago they
stopped
unemployment claims in the local
workforce centers so that they could
avoid that situation so then the only
people that are actually processing
claims are in central and this is a
group of individuals that are highly
trained in understanding the laws and so
you know at the local level we help with
all sorts of other services and we do
help individuals understand their
notifications and and we help them along
with their claim and recertifications as
while they're doing their job search but
they cannot give they cannot advise
whether or not a claim is good gonna go
through they cannot actually process a
claim and that is for the protection of
the staff member because that is
considered legal advisement to assist
somebody with an unemployment claim so
to even go as far to say oh yeah that
that's that's a claim that's a claim you
should you should qualify that right
there could land somebody in a lot of
trouble because if they are wrong this
individuals livelihood was was hinged on
what you said to them so that's the
reason why that's been removed but since
Coe bid our offices actually took
probably I want to say like 90 percent
of the staff and move them over to the
UI side so we were left with kind of a
skeleton crew in our offices for the
other services we didn't stop anything
on March 16th we did go to remote remote
services so we still had some of our
offices having staff reporting to them
but there were no public access at that
point we are still no public access
right now unless there's an exception we
are seeing individuals who need testing
whether it be for a job because we do do
work keys and prove it things like that
and especially the city uses LCPD uses
and so we don't want to stand in the way
of that so we are still doing that and
of course taking abundance of precaution
but other than that we are trying to
help individuals virtually but you know
because of the fact that we do have we
do have some individuals coming into our
offices because we're trying to
create more barriers than already exist
we have been still continuing to work on
the virtual pieces we understand we have
individuals that don't have access to
the technology into the internet and
that's the reason why we have made
exceptions to allowing individuals come
into our offices but as you can imagine
as we see the fluctuations with the
unemployment claims we see fluctuations
in the offices and now we have these
individuals that were transferred over
to the other side they're actually on
the other side of a 1-800 number and so
they're no longer assisting at the local
level so even then we were able to
provide I think almost 9,000 individual
customer services in the month of I
think that was me
so we proved to ourselves that we could
be really effective even virtually and
so that was really good to see because
we knew that we needed to work on
helping the more remote areas of our of
our community and we were like how do we
do it how did we do it just couldn't
envision it and then this situation just
kind of thrust at us into a position
where we just had to figure it out and
now we know we can do it so we've been
working very closely with the economic
development here in the city of Las
Cruces but as well with the economic
development and the other areas to just
start seeing and understanding each
other so that we can work on really
braiding our resources so that we can
better serve the community not only the
businesses but the individuals
ultimately because when we're developing
strong employment opportunities we're
helping individuals as well and so in in
that those collaborations we've actually
did do a virtual job fair with along
with the city of Las Cruces and one of a
local business and then we just executed
one yesterday in the city of Deming with
a local employer there and their
economic development so it's been a
really key focus for workforce to start
just linking arms with economic
development across the region and and
really start co-branding and and making
this new system this hybrid system that
is built to support business and that we
can leverage our
different types of resources to be able
to help them move forward in recovery
and and coming back and even if that
means reach pulling and changing you
know what it is that they're providing
where we'll be here to be able to change
with them as as the environment changes
we also have been working on potentially
co-locating we've been working with
Francisco and Griselda on looking at
different areas the city of Las Cruces
may be able to allow for us to come in
and have staff in different areas
throughout the city so we're still
working on that obviously with the
rising cases we don't know what that
looks like as of right now we're looking
to re-evaluate the situation on June
15th with our partners as far as when we
want to reopen but as of right now the
soonest that we see anything changing at
all with our offices is maybe August 1st
depending on what's going on we may move
towards doing more by appointment still
but but like more versatile services not
strictly testing but as we move forward
whenever we get to move forward we know
that we're gonna still have that social
distancing requirement and so will be
limited to how many people we can serve
because people come to our offices to
use our resource area we have computers
we have a fax machine of a printer copy
machine
telephones this is the way that people
come in and file for their unemployment
and do other things with their job
search so we've really taken a huge
resource away from them by not allowing
them to come into our offices and do
that so when we do come to the point
where we can we want to be able to
stretch out a little bit and so it's
really nice that you know that that you
know the city is is is willing to work
with us and we're working together you
look at some different spaces that we
can kind of expand our resource space so
that you know even if we do have to have
social distancing we can help more
people and at any given time so you know
as we take cues from the governor on
what which direction we're moving in and
we monitored the situation we'll be
working more towards that and we're
working on that same type of thing with
economic development and the other parts
of the region as well
we recently had several meetings with
different elements of the film industry
I'm different individuals some from NMSU
some from the film las cruces board and
different aspects of it with our
partners that do offer training programs
in tuition assistance on-the-job
training and just recently as of last
month the board did agree to invest
resources we don't know exactly what
that's going to look like right now but
they have agreed that this is an
industry that we want to support so
that's one other thing that we're trying
to see how in this covent world we can
reasonably assist them and keeping the
industry growing in the direction that
it was before coated and also building
some hybrid types of certifications and
programs and to be able to support that
industry but also ensure that we have
long term employability for the
individuals so that's another thing that
we've been that we've been working on
I recorded a webinar last month with the
bridge of southern New Mexico and it's
on the New Mexico true talent and it's
basically where I went over the
resources and that we have available and
we put up on the screen our New Mexico
workforce connection website or the
state dot nm jobs dot state dhananand us
website where an individual would
register to do job search and also would
need to register it they're going to
file for unemployment and so we kind of
went through some of the basics of what
they could expect and what the value is
in doing that so that's actually on
there that's available for the public so
if they need some assistance with trying
to figure out how to get on there they
can watch that video and I kind of go
through the steps we've been working on
virtual workshop so the state has
developed a series of virtual workshops
for resume writing interview skills you
name it
navigating the virtual job search world
where some individuals have been working
the same job for 25 years they don't
know this new platform this new this new
layout is very different and so the
state is actually
doing those and we'll we're looking to
bring that to our local areas once
they've all been approved and then
you'll be able to find those on our
employee and em website and individuals
will be able to go and look at those
either watch live ones or go back and
look at old ones that were recorded and
then we're also in the process right now
I'm working on some workshops and
toolkits for employers these are going
to be you know they'll be able to find
different types of postings from CDC and
who they'll be able to find you know the
latest updates on Coe bid they'll be
able to you know get some see some
videos and printouts booklets things
like that for proper sanitation phasing
reopen and things of that nature even
you know PUA and different types of
state assistance and so we're working on
building that toolkit that'll be
available specifically for employers and
then the last thing is our awareness
campaign we are the first in our state
we are the first out of many states to
ever launch an actual professionally
driven awareness campaign so this is
very novel not only for the state as a
whole but this is novel for many many
states are my the company that I work
for they have just my supervisor load
has 14 projects all across the United
States and this is the only project
that's doing it so that's how new it is
typically they don't do that because
there's concern around advertisement
along with using federal dollars but
this is this is this is a little bit
different it's awareness because we're
trying to do is make sure that people
know we're here and they know what we
are that we're not just unemployment
that we help with employment services we
have services available to employers we
can offer up to 75% for 6 months while
somebody's in the training phase that's
reimbursable directly to the employer
and they can do whatever they want with
that money a lot of people don't know we
do that we have two ition assistants we
can help an individual
back to school or start their college
career or even maybe just get a
technical certificate we can assist with
that we have dollars for that we have
supportive services for childcare
transportation so we have so much more
to offer and we know that individuals
are very it's the same across the United
States everybody thinks of workforce as
unemployment that's the only capacity
they know us in so it was really
important for us to launch this so this
just started in April and what we have
so far is I personally recorded some
YouTube commercials so I apologize in
advance I have three different ones one
for youth one for employment services
and the other one was just kind of a
combination of just general services or
universal services that the state offers
so I will be annoying people on YouTube
when you're like trying to hit skip and
it just won't stop that's going to be me
near soon
we have billboards that are underway we
have radio commercials in the different
areas all over the region
we're on newspapers off in the different
areas in the region we have mail outs
that we're working on that will be sent
directly to people's homes for those
individuals that may not have access to
technology
we're on various forms of social media
and LinkedIn and so we're hoping that
will really start saturating the
community with information so that they
really start to get it in their heads
that this is not just on employment I
can actually go there for help to get a
job I can go there if I want to go to
college and I maxed out my my my
financial aid whatever it may be so I I
know that there's so much that we do and
I hope that you know I can come back
periodically and maybe go into more
detail on just you know particular
pieces that I can really start helping
you guys understand the the meat of what
we do I know that was a lot of
information but I will stand for
questions
thank you from so much for that amazing
verbal presentation and thank you for
that I really do appreciate it does
anyone have any questions for miss Lopez
okay mr. Harris go ahead sure thanks
this Michael Harris great presentation
thank you one question that I have had
come up like within friends and people I
know is resources for independent
contractors or people who didn't have
like a traditional job you know w2 style
job before the pandemic and a lot of
them were having problems with getting
unemployment knowing that they qualified
or even just knowing that there were
programs out there to help them so have
you seen a big uptake in being claims
from independent contractors and what
are you doing to kind of support them
yes absolutely so the the pandemic
unemployment assistance program came out
a little bit later after the addition
that that first care act package came
through so it took a little more time
for them to tweak that piece so I didn't
it didn't I don't think it became live
until maybe like the early part of me I
want to say so it took a while and
ultimately what that is is it's a
separate fund that works like
unemployment but it's not it comes it's
its care money its Care Act money but
that's specifically for those
individuals that traditionally wouldn't
wouldn't qualify they wouldn't be able
to just go on and qualify so technically
what they would do is they would
actually go on to apply for traditional
unemployment insurance and they would
get denied it would it would say you
don't qualify for it and then ultimately
when that happens they would Bend the
application for the foot pan down
pandemic unemployment assurance program
would pop up and they wouldn't say okay
you can now apply for this so they
actually do have to go through the
process of not qualifying for
traditional unemployment then they can
apply at that time then it'll ask them
were you impacted by coalbed and they
say yes and then and then that same
process would take place where it would
be reviewed they would do their
certifications for job search and and
ultimately they would be in they would
get the same type of financial
assistance now what they've done to help
with awareness is they have put out
enough fund ins of YouTube videos how
to's explaining it our cabinet secretary
bill McKinley has personally done a
bunch of them so DWS the Department of
Workforce Solutions actually has a
YouTube channel where if you just looked
up their channel you would find endless
YouTube videos some of them you know
just explaining certain things on what
it means going through some definitions
and some of them being like where it's a
screen share of the actual application
and going through it step-by-step so
that's kind of been our most effective
ways using social media and YouTube to
inform the public on on how to do it and
who qualifies and ultimately we
encourage everyone to try because you
know there's a lot of adjudication
taking place that some individuals that
may get hung up normally under normal
circumstances would be pushed through
and would qualify
during kovat okay thank you very much
thank you
mr. Miller you have your hand up back
sir thank you George Miller good
presentation I like your especially the
that you're working with the economic
development part of the city and that's
that you're partnering with them that's
it that's a huge step I think and unlike
the other programs that you're you
presented for people like the some of
the services you're giving to them
especially the people help them be
employed my question is are you how you
to be a group of people probably that
we're employed before that now will not
be how are you training people are you
working with the economic development to
create new kinds of jobs new industries
and that the big question how how are we
using this this crisis time to really
reinvent our economic growth model I
think are you working with that it looks
like
example black lives matter that some of
the demands and some of the equity
issues from that and for them poor
people from the Hispanic perspective or
disenfranchised people are we doing
anything especially to help those groups
like that yeah so actually the State
Board meeting was happening this morning
so I got to I got to here a little bit
before I jumped on this call and that
was exactly some of the stuff that they
were talking about we did actually go
out for a federal grant for what they
call dislocated workers basically
individuals that have been displaced
from their work and what basically at
the state level one at the local level
we have the ability to develop a plan
for how we're going to use that money
and the model that our state is really
pushing for is to look at those
individuals that are going to be most
highly impacted which will be females
and it will be individuals of color and
so they are focusing on using those
dollars to specifically support
entrepreneur ISM in those specific areas
those demographic areas and so locally
you know we're looking to follow suit
there's also specific monies that came
from some of that act from that package
that was targeted towards those
individuals in early release so those
individuals that would you know were
nonviolent crimes that would be released
early you know we wanted to make sure
that we started developing a plan early
on so that we could capture them as soon
as they were released and start getting
them prepared to get into the workforce
and start being productive as soon as
possible we are working with the local
board we are working with the state
we're working with the partners from the
different programs to see about braiding
the funding together so one of the
things that we're doing because we know
we're gonna need more teachers we
already had a teacher shortage and now
with the way that they're having to
break down the class sizes we need even
more and so we're working with a program
called leap and the alternative
licensure program and we're assisting
individuals who normally probably
wouldn't qualify probably couldn't
afford it probably wouldn't be able
do it to work through a hybrid program
to get them into there what is it level
one licensure I think it is and so there
are various things that we're working on
they're still in their infant phases for
some of those things but I think that
we're going to be moving at a very quick
pace to make sure that we we start
spending those dollars on the folks who
need it the most right now okay thank
you thank you for that um mr. Cohen
Thank You miss Lopez I appreciate all
the information that you've shared
I'm Doug Cowen for the record
now that the PPP money is running out
the program that you mentioned for
independent contractors you were you
tended to talk about that in the past
tenses it's still active in other words
those that were able to be remain on
payrolls during the PPP period and now
that that's expiring and and so some
businesses are cutting some other folks
loose are those programs still valid and
available for both contract labor and w2
labor yes so the pandemic unemployment
is still available people can still
apply for that I believe you know that
there's going to be some updates with
the next package that rolls out as to
how we will proceed with supporting
individuals but what we do know we do
have funding for particularly well no I
wouldn't say particularly but for the
employer for instance the the program
that I was talking about the on the job
training program this can pay for an
individual let's say either they need to
step up they are working at a certain
level and you have another position that
opens up because of Kovac maybe you have
a new demand on your business or maybe
you just had an individual because of
how
issues had to resign and could not
return even if it's an upgrade so it
could be an individual that's already
working for you but you want to move
them up and there's a skill gap there
the program that we have qualified for
both that and a new staff member where
we can compensate well reimburse the
employer for up to 75% of that
individuals wages for six months while
they're training and ultimately that's
money back in the employers pocket that
they can do whatever they want with we
don't have any stipulations around how
they spend that money how they reinvest
it you can do up to 50% of your staff on
that program so that could be
significant for for an employer that may
be shut down previously and now they're
reopening and they're having to bring
new staff on that program not only
creates a huge opportunity where it's
thousands and thousands of dollars
coming back into the employers pocket
you know and there's really no loss
there but it's also opportunities for
individuals because perhaps they
wouldn't have been considered otherwise
because they are they do have a skill
gap and so maybe they would have not
considered that individual because they
don't really want to have to invest in
someone who needs training still but
with this program it's an incentive for
an employer to choose that individual
and and go ahead and invest in them and
developing them because now there's an
incentive behind it so that program is
still available there's there's plenty
of money in that program still right now
so that's kind of a another program that
we know for a fact has absolutely no
negative side effects you know using
this program you're not going to ever
have to pay that money back you're never
gonna wind up no one's ever going to
come after you for that and we know that
for a fact because it's a program that
we've had for years so that's something
else that they can look at as well as an
alternative
thank you for that I do have a follow-up
question with that as well is that for
only current employees that you may have
or is that for bringing in new employees
as well it's both yeah I'm the only
thing it is there is a difference there
is there is one caveat it needs to it
can't be like it can't be the most
entry-level position so so basically
what this is this is supposed to be
putting people in sustainable wages so
what we want is for them to have the
potential for growth sustainability and
that they can sustain themselves on this
income so there because of the income
limits there's there's waivers we can
work with employers based you know
especially if it's a smaller employer we
have more flexibility with small
employers than with the larger employers
because we're trying to help small
business so if it's a small business and
says hey you know what I don't quite
have enough to meet that you know $14 an
hour you know but I can do 12 or I can
do 13 or whatever we can we can go out
for waivers if it's a small business to
help them out but we do want to see them
be in a you know at least a mid-range
position and ultimately be at a
sustainable way just self-sustaining
wage thank you for that I appreciate
that um do we have any other questions
or comments for mrs. Lopez
I don't see anyone but I truly
appreciate you coming here today and
educating us because I learned a lot
today I don't know about everyone else
but that I really do appreciate it for
taking the time out every day thank you
you have a great day you too next on the
agenda today we have miss Montgomery
with the arrowhead presentation miss
Montgomery if you want to go ahead and
do you have someone else on here with
you right now actually
Erica go okay perfect I work with your
head center and so will jointly present
this let me see options
okay can everybody see the presentation
yes all right perfect
so again dr. Kramer Winningham and I
work with the Arrowhead Center and this
will be a kind of short slideshow of all
the wonderful things that we do for the
economy so I'll start with the purpose
of the arrowhead Center and our purpose
is support the mission of NMSU through
enhancement of entrepreneurship and
innovation also creating economic
opportunity including community based
economic development through the state
of New Mexico we're a land-grant and a
sweet grant institution so we actually
do reach beyond BC for our services and
you can see here we do business creation
growth kind of a visual budget set of
intellectual property commercialization
like many universities we have our tech
transfer office which is our office that
works with the patents in the novel
creative research that our scientists
and engineers and faculty of and grad
students have developed and hopefully
through that tech transfer office we can
bring those innovations to
commercialization we also have education
and training and we have public/private
partnerships and some of the future
slides will up any slides we'll go over
that so for our programs and initiatives
we have first our student success and
social mobility so these are based off
the lead 2025 goals of NMSU
and we've been doing various student
success and social mobility efforts and
2005 in 2011-12 Cramer actually was the
one who started Studio G which is our
student business accelerator and we also
have what we got innovation Junior and
innovation where we reach a
best-practice curriculum for our kids
our starting even as young as pre-k to
learn about businesses and business plan
and prototyping and they get to develop
stuff and build it in hands-on learning
and show how those markets so we have a
whole curriculum for an adventure we
expect schools in Las Cruces public
schools and across and researching
creativity so researches with report for
NMSU research and Cretors I can show
them that a little bit this one is where
we support like we have programs called
launch where we take the patents and we
try to have students who might be
interested or business owners who might
be interested in NMSU patents who may
want to launch it and commercialize it
into a business
so we promote that research and
creativity and we promote connect nuts
for economic development for community
then extension and outreach supporting
NMS use outreach and economic
development goals so we partner and we
have strategic partners in Las Cruces
and dynamic counties and again across
the state and actually outside the state
and also a little bit more that later
and then believe this is protocol for on
our lease and Emma she leases robust
system alternate funding sources
organizational efficiency this really
our focus is on social mobility and how
we can reach a diverse population and
make sure that they are also able to
build their own businesses or take their
technology or even non tech businesses
to the market one of our we have a we
have quite an array of resources out
there one of them is our advisory
network we actually have about 50
professionals in our communities who
give up and volunteer 30 minute advising
sessions we have a calendar that our
clients can access on their own and meet
with those advisers to learn about
starting up their business we have for
example three patent attorneys that give
up 30 minute consultations for free we
have several accountants and the feet
who will sit down and talk about things
how do you sell online what does that
mean for Texas what kind of licenses do
you need how do you register the license
how do you brush your business with a
separate Jersey so we don't we find out
where the point is a lot of times they
are students we have community members
go through our community programs and we
find out where they are and exactly what
they need and we connect them to these
advisors and resources and funding
opportunities so we match them with
different funding opportunities that
might be cred they might be investors or
they might just be like foundations our
federal grants are from the state of
next one here's our beautiful state
so this is our reach again like I said
we're a land-grant institution and a
space client institution we have a huge
amount of resources in New Mexico even
though we see you know in the news some
people are saying otherwise we have all
this great resources for businesses and
our students at NMSU and our students
everywhere we have national labs and we
have universities that have different
capabilities and when someone comes to
us we are able to connect them to
different networks or partners that
we've made and so I'll show you these
dots that we have so the Business
Accelerator dots that's them like our
Big Spring switch all going to and thus
break that Griselda and gave my eggs
just partnered with our head Center for
Las Cruces so we have sprint that are
usually five week long I may jump ahead
if I pay too much but they go into the
needs of the business and doing
generally product market and value
proposition public market getting value
proposition so those kind of light
bluish stuffs or where we've reached
businesses or people who want to start
businesses to train them and then if you
get to the orange dot that is our K
through 12 which is our in adventure so
that's where we go into classrooms and
we teach them about business and
entrepreneurship we also have
after-school programs where they can
repeat in pitch competitions and
prototypes where they do this every week
and at the end of the year and middle
schools compete and the high schools
compete and all of these kooky judges
when they compete and they do it
virtually now but they used to come to a
negotiated rate and then we also have
summer camps so we used to have them do
a week-long summer camp and they would
sell at their local farmers market now
we're doing a last I checked it was like
126 kids are in our virtual summer camp
right now developing their business plan
and they may have to sell online but
maybe the market and then we have
university student entrepreneurship
Cramer and I work very strongly with
this so it's my presentation wings
towards it that's what we do every day
and we love it
so what we do is we connect students
with all of these resources online
training to be able to start their own
businesses and again they can take
patents that are pending at the
University and see if they want to
commercialize that or they can make
their own patents or it could be a
business that's not check at all they
can we have all types of businesses they
might do remote teaching some of them
are doing that they may actually like
make bridal gowns and cook and so we
just have all kinds of different ideas
and they really enjoy it so those kind
of darker blue dots are the universities
that were located at so we although main
campus at MSU is where we started this
we actually reach 18 campuses across the
state and we have a formal partnership
with Utah which started in February and
they're doing great
so we are just so close to you tap that
we can share our resources with them so
some of them you can feel in Santa Fe we
have benefit to meet college we're
actually working out a partnership with
the Institute of American Art we have am
UNM on their nine connects to the tech
we have silver city with JP item year we
have Eastern Expo we have all the energy
branches so we also have Navajo Tech and
we have just about just a whole lot of
universities that we print away what
this means is that we can serve
at all of them we usually have a faculty
and we have a student that works there
who is the point of contact and one
really great resource for this
partnership that we have that we love is
that when a student comes in with a need
we're able to find it at one of our
partner schools if we don't actually
have it here for example here we can do
prototyping at the engineering firming
but the Keck Center has this mat at UTEP
has a massive 3d printing Center where
they can create in metal and plastic and
use circuit boards and so if somebody
wants to build something that make
circuits we can connect them with you
test Navajo Tech University has an
advanced manufacturing facility that was
funded by the Department of Energy and
so if they need rapid prototyping we can
connect with them and get rapid
prototyping so we just have so many
resources by this partnership and we
love partnering each other we're not
pathetic an economic base studies we
also do that creamer and I do a lot of
this Kramer is going to go over after
this some of the impact particularly for
this area for us for the board meeting
but we do an economic impact studies all
over New Mexico or different like Eddy
County reports those are all on our
website so if you want to look at
various economic studies you can look at
what we put together and I will go ahead
and Kramer is going to take over with
the big night thanks Greg so these
numbers are some figures we've been
looking at trying to figure out which
parts economy were most impacted by
coronavirus and trying to figure out you
know are there some programs we can add
for specific industries or geographies
to help the recovery so so these are
definitely really interesting so I
wanted to share these this first one
here shows gross receipts for all of New
Mexico so this is revenues for all the
businesses in New Mexico they're
reported monthly by the business and
then they they kind of come out on the
leg so we've got data through April and
the darker blue line here is 2020 the
lighter blue line is 2019 I think the
odds are
raishin czar that are pretty interesting
before coronavirus the year was looking
really good we've grown a lot since 2019
and you see as of March or April
we dropped below where we were last year
so well you've had a pretty extreme drop
in April we're still where we were last
April which is pretty interesting
most of some of the other data that's
been coming out does kind of show that
the April was the bottom in terms of the
decline in economic activity so
hopefully that's true there's some more
data I can show that kind of shows that
that might be happening this next slide
here shows you you got yeah this next
slide here shows burst rates by industry
and so what I looked at here was April
20 19 OCT 20 2014 7 was a wholesale
trade
I'm 390 million from the prior month
mining that includes Milan gas utilities
maybe due to well due to probably people
working from home so businesses spending
less on utilities and and maybe some
people not paying their bill retail
trade was hit really hard manufacturing
professional science technical technical
services administrative healthcare was
hit particularly hard that's true for
dining at County as well and in terms of
percentage it seems like the one that
decline the most was arts entertainment
recreation the food service actually he
didn't fall as much as I I guess I
thought it would still a pretty dramatic
decline there you next slide so then
this one shows the gross receipts Pike
County so you can see dynamic County
here
down 27% overall the whole state was
down 16 percent month-over-month
year-over-year down only 2 percent so
again statewide the growth sheets grew
pretty dramatically Dona Ana County was
hit pretty - 20 percent so pretty close
to average for the state again these
numbers are pretty significant that's
157 million in revenue that the business
is in Donny County had declined from the
from the prior month next slide so
there's kind of a lot of information in
these and things to observe so if you
guys have any questions we can we can
pull them back up this is the data
specifically for Dona Ana County first
receipts by industry so the two biggest
industries or biggest impacts in Dona
Ana County were in construction and
health care
I mean health care one's pretty
interesting you know given we're in a
pandemic but the hospital's slowed down
quite a bit and you've read about
layoffs and things like that probably
the next biggest impacts in retail trade
and food services looks like and then
arts entertainment recreation down 85
percent that's not as big of an industry
but that declines next slide and then
this one shows again that data that I
had before was through April it was
hopefully the bottom this shows the
employment numbers from their labor
services and this data is through May so
you can see there's 75,000 non-farm
employees in Las Cruces so this is for
Las Cruces and said Dona Ana County in
March and then it declined to 66,000 so
8,000 jobs lost from March to April and
then maid brought back a thousand jobs
and the preliminary estimate and on a
national level the June data
is out and that shows job growth as well
so hopefully that trend does come back
and that really was the bottom in terms
of employment that's all the slides we
had here but again lots of information
in there as far as which industries had
been impacted and counties and things
like that so we'll continue to monitor
that and hopefully we'll be putting out
more research on that everything the
previous year changes and how we're
doing but there's a few more slides on
here that I would like to go over
another those from 10:00 in the 25 so at
the our portable they're all is also
more business space that is larger than
offices we offer students a
collaborative space where they can meet
with their clients and share it for a
very small fee the office spaces are
based on square footage and they're
pretty they're lower than the rest and
cities make it to use or conference
rooms and we get to use like our coffee
machines and there's some other objects
that you get so we promote businesses to
use this area and we also promote
businesses like we help them please for
different tech businesses that must be
building there and wing salvage run
system he's promoting more businesses
such as film to collaborate and use this
area so we are just rapidly growing with
innovation space film and then small
businesses
are there Zaytoven recovery part on here
CA las cruces funny las cruces based
business accelerator and this will i
actually have a slide on this and i'm
going to go more into that with all of
you since it directly benefits our
communities so i will reap ring that up
in a minute something that we offer that
i mentioned before were five week-long
sprints which are business accelerators
across the state it was one of the dots
on that map so we focus on the ecosystem
enhancement it's approving programming
and there's a support network usually
when we just do our regular ngon before
koban could we've pivoted ourselves we
would address things like what is your
client needs and going out and meeting
your client and giving customer
discovery interviews and making sure
that your business is providing a
product market base so that was
something that we actually do which we
took that model from the National
Science Foundation I Corps which Kramer
and I teach our API core and students
across the state can join that which is
for deep tech businesses but we took
that model and open it up for the
community so that small businesses could
join it and do something similar to find
out how they can increase their revenue
hopefully increase job creation do that
and how they can meet the market needs
and less you know more efficient use of
their money um so that was our proven
programming and our support network we
also provide mentoring through this some
of these Sprint's are identified in an
industry such as our X bridge our
experts just like everybody who had a
business in agriculture it could have
been anything from farming to we have
like some very unique farming backyard
farm soil and even with that one in
particular she is very very large hemp
plants they're like 5 feet long so we
have people with focus on Aggie that
could be also pedal so they encouraging
me to go to a fight expert if they might
be within this industry because they
will join a team that makes similar to
them and learn from each other and the
mentoring aspect on that if we do weekly
one-on-one Victoria
and we do that for four months after the
five weeks break and they project at the
farming Ranch museum for a pig
composition for $20,000 usually in
October we may not be doing that in
person this year we may do it virtually
but we won't stop doing it and I can
answer what questions or at the end of
our emails if you have more questions on
that spring but this is the one where
why kind of jumped over it because we
did pivot what happened and I've
mentioned this and another board meeting
was that our big sprint which was for
any business not like our health or deep
tech it was any small business could
apply and when the state home order have
been occurred we had 258 Apple temps
across the state and we're are used to
having you know I guess it could be 28
to 40 so we tried to quickly increased
capacity to we usually have about 15
people like teams businesses persons
break so we tried to increase our
capacity to meet as many needs as
possible but we had only had three teams
selected from Las Cruces and so first
alda and the Las Cruces Economic
Development Department along with David
Meza has now formed a partnership with
our heck Center to have a Kobe 19
solution sprint just for businesses
benefit buskers what we did was we
basically with the ones across the state
piloted a new way to reach the globe by
identifying what their needs were
through kovat we were able to bring in
expertise in those areas to prevent and
help them become more ecommerce focused
or how they give you curbside and so we
found out what their needs were and so
that's like I saying you find out what
your customer needs are we did a product
market fit and we actually changed our
base right to of hope and 19 solutions
Frank we will be having to with our
partnership with the city one of them is
going to start on August 12 and the
total I think we're probably going to do
the normal 15 teams in it and the
applications on our website so if you
know anybody that's interested
it'll the outpatient closes on July 27
so just we're going up a press release
out today today so you should see that
in the newspaper but I wanted to give
you some information in case there's
anybody out there who wants to know more
about how this works we have a regular
curriculum that we get before we have
that now recorded so they can watch it
anytime that they have time to watch the
recorded curriculum it is going to be in
a difference in the slide that you
received I just highlighted eight weeks
because we decided to expand it to three
more weeks we are having a three-week
session where they meet all of these
they meet two hours a week online so
it's one day a week for two hours online
we expand it to three more weeks due to
the city's need for more training on
e-commerce we we are looking at most the
businesses being small family-owned
traditional businesses and ones that
have have like on the statistics that we
just saw the data that I've been highly
impacted and on this we are I'll just
say a couple points they're going to
watch the videos of the teaching that we
used to do that we still deal with the
other ones but on the two-hour time
they're going to actually have an
expertise expert enough he'll come in
and present on something like I don't
know cash flow or different types of
markets and we are going to face those
presenters on the applicants and what
they need they also will get one-on-one
mentoring for 30 minutes a week but they
don't have to do that it's optional most
of the participants chose to do that and
at the end of the eight weeks we are
going to have a report for the business
to show what we found over the eight
weeks with a list of resources and links
that can continue to help them and they
will always get our services after that
they're in our head and our point it's
Monken really quick we are going on
11:30 mark if we can start wrapping up
Oh
like something else that we do is we're
making support local videos so if you
want to make a video of your business we
are pushing these videos out on social
media and on our website and then online
resources you can also contact cream are
and eye to see what they are but we do
have virtual Constitution consultation
everything that we provide is provided
virtually all of the accelerators all of
our sponsors all of our training
programs are also strong and we have
access to local state and federal
resources which we can explain more
about the grants they're out there and
that was pretty much it so on here is my
email and Cramer's emails if you're
interested to know more please write
those emails down and email us and we
will find out what you know how we can
help you with next steps and I'll go
ahead and stop sharing um I'll leave it
up for a second if you want to keep
writing
okay um thank you so much doctor or wing
ham and miss Montgomery that was a great
presentation I really do appreciate it
and with that being said I am gonna open
up with questions from the board but I
do have a couple thoughts really quick
if you guys can help me out with that as
we are trying to stimulate the lost
persons economy and get on action items
out of this committee is so you did
mention and the thing that I took out of
it was that this spirit was something
that definitely was more covered related
right now that you guys are kind of
doing but there was only a very few
amount of applicants from Las Cruces
that was chosen is that something that
we can increase with funding or is that
something that we can do with the City
Council's help since that sounds like a
really good thing for this committee to
be focusing on is that is it a funding
issue or is it a selection issue but
each sprint only has about 15 businesses
so that'd be 30
I'll let yourself go ahead and speak on
that all right thank you mister miss
Montgomery and dr. Winningham this is
Lucia Martinez for the record mr. chair
currently we have funded 30 participants
I split into two cohorts and the reason
behind that it was the funding
limitation from the front of the
economic development departments
perspective so a recommendation that
that this board could do could be to
increase that available funding for the
purposes of additional participants and
and that's that would be something that
we could further explore with with with
Arrowhead Center and also be cognizant
of their capacity as well but I believe
in my conversations with getting Hansen
the director for the center that she is
she's able to adapt and
and provide the services as we plan for
more participants thank you for that uh
so that and it does sound like it's a
funding issue and if they're willing I
think that's something that we should
definitely be looking at is the board is
maybe putting forth a recommendation to
City Council to say hey this program has
limited funds but it is directly
affecting the business community with
copic related issues and it is a five
week program I believe I'm pulling up
okay so it is a five week program you
stated I had sent that to you but
actually for the copay for Las Cruces it
was funny for eight weeks
okay so then with that being said I
think this might be a really good action
item for the board as a whole to start
looking at if this is something that we
can definitely go through I do have a
question about that accelerator program
so it is three weeks of e-commerce
e-commerce so if there was an additional
funding would that be something that we
could look at because not every business
has an e-commerce side so that might be
something that we could do within do
another group of two and have two
directions with that maybe I mean this
is totally your all's ballgame this is
not mine at all but just kind of
thinking about the time limitations as
as we go forth but I definitely think
providing more funding for this through
the city to get more business as
involved this is the first I'm hearing
of it so I'm really excited by this
because it's something that I think is
really useable here's all you do you
have your handout though yes mr. chair
so that the type of training that our
area was providing was five weeks and
with shifting to the digital world that
they did
was adding the three weeks that would
allow businesses to explore additional
markets in that would be the e-commerce
component for the discussions that we
have had in the the interest that we saw
from the business community here in Las
Cruces
they had 43 applicants in in the
statewide application that they had had
and only three were able to be admitted
because of capacity so that's how the
genesis of the conversation of Las
Cruces focus and so based on those
applications we have identified two
different areas of focus one with the
service type of business which is
usually not something that its
participates in business accelerators
and then the other option is just a more
mom and pop that they can establish a
website that they can establish channels
of distribution that they haven't
considered yet
another big component was that before
this this statewide group participated
the COPE the cohorts where I believe 20
or 25 it has decreased the size of the
cohort to be able to have more of the
one-on-one coaching which they found to
be most crucial for business owners to
have the opportunity to have that more
customized attention and personalized
one-on-one conversation to be adapted to
their needs so we could definitely if
the recommendation from the board would
be to have additional funding for more
marketing efforts we could definitely
work with airheads in it to craft other
type of curriculum that may be more
adaptable and maybe a faster a shorter
period thank you for that I appreciate
that very much mr. Cohen you do have
your hand raised sir
thank you Doug Carolyn do we have any
stats on success
or any models that could be presented to
show how that program has stimulated the
economy even if it was before Kovac so
we could see how well it impacts the
economy and and then substantiate the
idea of adding more funding to it yeah
there's some data on F we've been
running that program since I think 2017
with funding from New Mexico gas Co and
so that's about ten cohorts of 75 teams
and over those three years on average
each one of those ventures create
created two to three direct jobs so then
that leads to you know a total impact
about four to five jobs when you do the
economic impact analysis and on average
each team raised about $20,000 and
follow-on funding so the the research
that they get because the program is all
about market research they talk to their
customers to get insights and that puts
them in a position to raise follow-on
funding and expand and so there's a lot
of value they get out of the the program
in terms of access to resources but the
insights that they get doing that
customer research are really really
valuable
thinking I appreciate that and that's
that's huge for a small business
especially someone that is just starting
out miss Montgomery cream everything we
can email to and I know what you're
saying Chris about the sprint with the
e-commerce I think that was something
that was asked a lot to be had noticed
but if we do our you know maybe I'll do
a survey again we may be able to go back
to the five week or we could do an eight
week or do like something specific that
we see is a new need so maybe with
something coming out there's a new need
on training and we could provide that
we're pretty flexible because we have
such a wide range of advisors on that
advisory network who can actually come
in and speak so we have a selection of
people who can help the businesses um
the program with market research
component you can add a lot of things on
to that so we do it for specific
industries or you know that's part of
the reason we're doing the research on
which industries are impacted to see you
know is there a way to tailor the
program or maybe give preference to
industries that have been impacted oh
the most with that so it's it's flexible
in terms of meeting it you know various
goals but the core of that program with
the market research is just really
impactful for the businesses awesome I
think this is a great direction that we
can take this board to make the next
action so uh I if there's any other
questions please do raise your hand
folks and then I do really quick I'm
sorry guys I know this is your part of
the discussion but miss Lopez if you're
still on if you could unmute really
quick um are you still there miss Lopez
oh thank you okay I'm so really quick
just because we are looking for action
items that we can present to the City
Council on from this board and I know
that we didn't really come up with any
action
for what we can do in conjunction with
workforce but I was making some notes
and I definitely wanted to see really
quick notes is there any kind of
thoughts that we could work with you all
in a partnership with the city of Las
Cruces that we could put forth whether
you know I was really interested in the
training side of things
and I did bring that up a little bit so
is there something that you can think of
on your side that we could partner with
you on that would definitely help the
Las Cruces force as well as you know
maybe with retraining displaced workers
or anything like that is there something
that you can think of that would help us
make some decisions here well as you
know Griselda has been working on the
EDA grant and I have been attending
those meetings as well and that's a
great starting point because it's
helping us not only develop what we
could potentially do with that
particular grant in conjunction with
what the workforce has available but
it's also helping us really shape some
ideas for other initiatives and I've had
this discussion with Griselda before you
know I think that you know last year we
actually expended all three million of
our on-the-job training dollars and
needed to ask the board for more money
and so we know that there's a need we
know that we can we know that we can
expand on that and we can help more
people especially for the alternative
licensure program that's where we really
got put in a jam was the alternative
licensure program and then also the
agricultural thing that they were doing
at NMSU you know we really did want to
be able to say yeah you know get 30
people and we'll just fund them and it
was like I think it was going to be 2000
like 2,800 or something per student and
that was like room and board 40 hours of
training six certificates boot in one
week and they were working together with
State Farm and I mean not State Farm
Farm Bureau and other agricultural
players so there were like jobs being
lined up it was gonna be a great program
and then code it just came in coop Udall
over it so we plan to pick that back up
we do the board has already said let's
put some money aside we want to pick
that up but there are plenty of
initiatives like that that if I could be
a hero I could be a superhero and I
could I could go and partner with
Community Action Agency if I could go
and partner with them when they have
projects going on and they're like man
we wish that you could just say yes and
just give us what we need to to
financially support this training or
whatever those would be the kinds of
projects that would be really cool if
just to even say okay we're willing to
say yes to collaborate we don't know on
what right now but we're saying yes we
want to hear it that would be a start
because the next time we have an agency
a school or business say you know this
is what we'd like to do what we need the
training and we need the finances and
then if we could come together and
figure out how we can pull those
resources together to get it done
that would be awesome I'm there I'm
there with you board members do we have
any ideas of what actual items we can do
with these to create organizations that
we could go forth well Chris all that
have you presented the the EDA ideas to
this board yet mr. chair goes to the
mechanist for the record learning thank
you very much for your presentation no
we have not covered that since it's
still in the works but a little bit of
background for for everybody here on
this call and
people listening we started a
conversation related to workforce
development opportunities first through
the workforce talent collaborative which
is a community-based meeting that we
have every month and it's it's calm its
form of just different organizations
from NMSU to the Las Cruces public
school the city and others including
including employers and and the economic
development administration cares Act
made funding available for efforts to
alleviate the negative impact of the
current situation and we've been having
conversations on how we can come
together as a community not just the
city alone but in partnership with
workforce connections work for solutions
da Jana Community College and Community
Action Agency those are the ones that
are that we have been talking to and
first identifying the core problem to to
the more severe impact to the displaced
work in our community and then from
there we moved into discussing possible
ways to address that through this
partnership and so as we speak our
grants team is working on identifying
possible strategies leveraging from the
discussion that we have had we've had
two of them very rich discussions and
then defining a scope of work that we
can discuss with the regional EDA
representative and then get more
feedback on whether or not that's a
program that they would be interested in
funding darling however since it is a
grant application it would be a it will
have to follow the process the ability
that it's upon us here through the the
board it's a more timely implementation
of any initiatives and I think that's
where the board chair is coming
from on possible opportunities that can
be implemented faster okay yeah
absolutely so along those lines um I
know I know that we definitely need to
do some work on understanding the leap
program for the teachers so that might
be something because I had someone
reached out to me yesterday and I know
that there we have certain limitations
of fortunately which bit with these
federal dollars we have a lot of
limitations you know they have to have
prove that they have exhausted all other
ways of getting money they have to have
applied for FAFSA got their denial or
got you know the notification that
they're getting less than what their
need is and they also have to prove that
the school doesn't have any to any title
one funding and that's where we get
stuck is that a lot of the schools do
have title 1 funding and so they can't
say that so we get in a pickle and I
think that we are in a process somewhere
of trying to get over that so that we
can make an exception because we're in a
crisis but we're not there yet
and so that might be somewhere where the
city could help us to be able to serve
those people yeah I think that's what
it's about I really do miss Debbie more
Debbie more girls versus Chamber of
Commerce um my comments I think are I
want to caution this board that we
complement programs out there not
duplicate them so what I'm kind of
hearing in the discussion today and have
heard it on the board is we've talked
about business development business
assistance we talked about workforce
development workforce assistance and I
think an actionable item would be mr.
chair is that we kind of piece asked the
City Council to support some of these
that are already in place ie was the
SPDC where
that are actually helping them helping
ie businesses navigate their new
recovery what they look like doing many
keep providing many training and
resources that darling that was an
excellent presentation on what workforce
is doing and workforce collaborative so
I think there's some pieces in place
both for the employee or the business
community and employee that one of our
action items could be have the city
support those things in place and
obviously Griselda and her team is doing
a good job of trying to navigate or
other role in the city it is in that
regard and then I think maybe the next
piece of this would be specifically for
the city is there some ordinances that
can be either deferred either be
relooked at as part of a true action
item that maybe the city can look at
moving forward that can also help
business and my last remark mr. chair is
that I just heard a lot about business
we've heard a little bit about workforce
as it pertains today to the employee but
I think we also need to talk go back to
the inclusive economic development term
that we've heard occasionally is that
how we get support the city of what
they've already done and give them
action items moving further
that's my comments Thank You mr. chair
that sorry I appreciate that Debbie I
really do think that it is gonna be
about supporting the current ones and
that's why I do like I don't know if
Debbie if we're on the same page with
this
but that this sprint I do like because
it is a Kerwin and they have catered it
to co-ed if you're on the same page with
me W on that please do let me know
because I would like to start getting
something rolling like that for sure
mr. chair yes I would be on the same
page that there I think that's one piece
of the puzzle that's out there right now
that are very directly tied to coverage
sorry I just while we were on the call
I've got some text about a couple more
programs I've been made aware of that
can possibly have grant
yes I'm not on board with that but again
I I'm not asking for the city to
reinvent these wills I'm asking the City
Council to embrace and partner with all
of us who are trying to help the
community
thank you all so just a quick question
then we'll go to mr. Miller and then mr.
Cohen as well with Arrowhead I know of
the hon Institute out of U temple on I
know what they could do do you guys
partner with them at all and is there
any programs that they've been doing
that mimic what you all are doing or is
there any work work between the two
that's going on right now yeah probably
the best partnership we have right now
is our studio G program which is for
student entrepreneurs that one just
opened up at you tab we also have a Hunt
Center at Arrowhead Center and so we've
got support from hunts as well and so
we've got promoted RI core programs the
hunt sponsorship program there's some
business competitions at ETF that are
they're opening up but I think what's
really exciting about that partnership
etf's done a great job with our studio G
program it just opened up down there
this spring they've already had almost a
hundred ventures joint just in the last
four months so yeah really good
partnerships there and we're looking
forward to being able to share programs
and basically what that does is it just
creates more opportunities for student
entrepreneurs and both schools wonderful
thank you I appreciate that acknowledge
mr. Miller George Miller for the record
yes I think we've got some wonderful
ideas of specific programs that are out
there I like to put this thing and back
into an overall maybe a framework I
don't want to give the city council a
shotgun approach to some of that some of
the ideas some pieces that might work
it's better to put something I would
think into a framework that's where we
were coming from with this inclusive
economic recovery that occurs when and
that some of the things that would have
been mentioned here contribute to that
but provides some opportunity for all
residents and especially historically
excluded populations to benefit
contribute to the economic economic
prosperity and so that's we're still
hearing a lot of things for businesses
some of the things we've talked about
today will affect those kind of people
and so the we're still missing some I
think no crook framework to present this
to the council that yeah there's some
business programs that we think about
potential but there's other kinds of
things that probably we need to address
and I think the board asked me last time
to kind of look into some of those
things that would be for an inclusive
recovery model might be and so I've got
some of those ideas and we can put I
would like to put that on the agenda for
next time if we don't have time to do
that does that make sense what yes okay
with the nickname crisis then what
happens is that these certain
populations get driven down even further
into poverty or exclusion and if you
don't have programs that actually
address those kind of people it's going
to you know there's several cities that
are embraces Los Angeles I think Tampa
or Orlando and Nashville and when
Nashville did there they've been won
awards for their economic development
and they've really got to be one of the
places that people is our to live but
they they still are having problems with
their poverty and all the other issues
that really can drain the economic
drivers for the city and so they
to go back and remodel that maybe
they've embraced this inclusive model
and so there's there's some things that
I think we'll still miss the board if we
don't we don't put a framework that says
we have all the voices and elect the EBA
approach I think I've heard that was at
least you're trying to get a community
perspective and so this helps we can do
more of that I think and that's included
in this kind of model okay thank you for
that I'm mr. Cohen thank you it's a duck
Alan I've got two things maybe we could
look at to take action on one of them
could be there was a lot of information
good information given today from two
different agencies of which much of that
information I had no idea was out there
and you know I'm pretty active in things
going on in our community I'm wondering
if something that couldn't be done is
some type of directory or late liaison
situation where somebody could go to a
site or make a phone call and get a list
of these different programs and who is
it that we contact in order to engage in
these programs I think there's a lot of
help out there that already exists we
don't need to reinvent it we don't even
need to suggest that it exists because
it's already in operation we just need
to figure out how to help people find it
and to be more engaged with it and so if
we could come up with an action to
either create a directory or some type
of lays on in the city's office where
they would be able to put all this
information together in one spot and
then help people find that information
the second thing I think we ought to
take action on is Miss Moore has already
mentioned it and perhaps I could even
make it a motion on it and that is to
ask the City Council to re-examine some
of the mandates just reexamine them take
another look at
the impact is having and it can have and
so forth thank you for that Miss Moore
you do have your Henry's more girls
whose chambers mr. Kalin I wasn't ruined
I'm not talking about specific mandates
for covet I was referring to long term
potential ordinances that could possibly
help us as they recover so I wasn't
particular talking if that's what you're
talking about the mandates just for
point of clarification I would mr. chair
I think I agree I totally agree with mr.
Miller I've seen several examples of
recovery plans for cities the the
indexes that have topics
perhaps staff could research some of
these and I'd be happy to forward some
of them to staff to kind of give us a
framework of topics then we can fill in
the blanks that we can then go forward
as because I believe yeah the reason I
was so Pro safe promises I know the
atmosphere we're living in right now and
we need that cohesive grassroots but I
totally agree with you mr. Miller that a
piecemeal approach is not what needs to
be we need to figure out what our index
is how we're going to fill in the blanks
that's all that and how partnerships
work in that and so on I think that's a
really good idea and mr. chair I would
just ask staff perhaps they can get some
ideas I can turn it forward some ideas
that I've seen I'm mr. Miller obviously
you you can have some too there's lots
of recovery plans out there with good
impactful indexes that we can fill in
and make it our own Thank You mr. chair
thank you I appreciate that mr. Harris
all right I'll be quick since it is
already noon so when we are trying to
fill in the blanks for recovery plans
and all this I think that it's also
important for us to maybe hear from some
of the state public health people and
you know we can suggest
save promises and and recovery plans all
we want but one thing that I think we
need to know is what are what are
reasonable
you know actions that people can take
and specifically we have just the only
data that we really have to go on as a
public is case counts that are
increasing day to day and so I think it
would be really good to know why and if
they've done any contact tracing you
know where are people getting sick etc
because you know we can make these
recommendations and say oh we should
support restaurants or we should support
bars or whatever but you know without
the underlying data to make those
decisions I think we we might be
shooting in the dark abyss so something
to talk about for for future if we can
find someone who might be able to to
elucidate those points for us wonderful
thank you for those comments as it's 12
o'clock we need to start moving on and
getting some concrete ideas I know that
mr. Miller I well this part of the
meeting right now is still going over
what we were given and presented today
is there any other comments questions or
concerns about the two presentations
that we had today from Arrowhead result
and also from workforce as I see no
one's hands going up or any other kind
of questions or comments for these
individuals once again I want to say
thank you for coming on today I really
do appreciate the information that we
were given I think it was just things
that I didn't even know existed in our
community resources and such and I
really do say thank you for that um so
we're gonna go ahead and move on to the
next part of the meeting and hopefully
we can get through this pretty quickly
because we all have jobs that we have to
get to so moving on we're gonna get into
future topic discussions we have had a
lot of conversations about what's going
on and where we want to go mr. Miller we
did talk about finding someone did you
find that individual that can present to
us on this topic I'm not an expert I
have some slides that kind of have some
general frameworks for the what an
inclusive recovery program could be
economic recovery but the city may have
somebody more with expertise I would ask
that I'm there's a person at Brooks
Brookings Institute that's kind of
helping to develop it across the country
doesn't expertise and I would or how to
approach someone from one of the cities
that's doing it already that maybe they
could just do a 20 minute presentation
so I would try if that's ok with the
board
reach out to those people otherwise we
can do it internally I think it seems
like there's expertise maybe in the city
or here so for next week I would put I
would put at least the topic gun for
discussion either and have some when
from it with expertise come in or at
least what the city knows already or I
can bring some slides I already have
some prepared okay so you're asking the
city staff to find people to prevent on
this or you have slides is that correct
yes or I cannot invite them and if they
prefer either miss Martinez you do have
your own reason them yes mister if it's
okay with you we can coordinate with mr.
Miller offline and make sure that we're
collaborating on the best option I'm not
aware of somebody within the city with
the level of expertise of the Brooklyn's
Institute but we can definitely reach
out to them together and and find out
what the best option may be for a person
tation or more materials wonderful I
think that is a great idea um let's go
ahead and get that done as you know we
are needing to start talking about those
things so that was one pardon sorry that
was why I'm thing that we haven't an
idea for a discussion item so with that
being said we would need a motion to
have that on the agenda for the next
meeting to be a discussion item and then
also if there's anything else that we
need to talk to you've already sent one
thing to the City Council as a board so
that is good but we need you know these
things are taking two to three weeks to
get in front of the City Council um so
there needs to be some actions being
taken in my honest opinion with this
board
anyone else
well maybe it would be a good idea if on
the next the next meeting I will between
now and then try to get as much
information as I can on the leap
our alternative licensure and see to get
some concrete information on where where
the gap is between what we can do and
and what's stopping us from serving some
folks and then and then maybe at that
point when we really can't identify
firmly where the lack is then we can
present that as a basis for for how the
city might be able to assist us in
reaching more folks wonderful that that
sounds amazing
I would definitely appreciate that more
than you know so we have two great
discussion items that we're going to try
to come up with a plan here so we need
to definitely be taking a look at that
ice Sharon Thomas yes ma'am I've read
some articles about cities who are using
their GIS staff global information
system set to map where all the
businesses are that are open and what
kind of services they're offering and
they just keep updating it all the time
so that it's easy to go to the city and
be able to look on the map where the
businesses are and what you know whether
they're doing take out what what how to
get in touch with them what you know how
to help all the businesses very easily
quickly and I don't know if the GIS
staff at the city could do that but I
suspect they could here we have another
idea to get more so as to be directory
knowing which I believe mr. Cohen
referred to as well um so we have that
on the table as a possible topic or
actionable
we bring forward and you know other
items that we could think of that oh I'm
being told that Google Maps actually has
that program in place for what is open
and what services they offer so that
might be a double we can look at in the
time being and see if there's anything
there that is well that's something the
city could use is that Google program
right yeah definitely miss Montgomery
hours like it happening I don't know who
and I don't know if it was up-to-date or
if you're talking about the same thing
else to speak to that because I've been
working every day all day long except
for right now um I have actually gotten
a lot of automated call from Google
asking me to update through voice
recognition what is going on at the
business so they're asking me questions
like what services I have and all this
stuff that cater to the business and
they're going in and updating your
Google profile so I know that is
something that they are on top of in
doing because I've got 18 phone calls in
the last two weeks off of Google's
automated voice assistant I'm sorry do
you know that they are doing that that
is one thing mr. Francisco thank you so
cherry the only thing that I want to
provide some extra information with
regards to the GIS department it's in a
department but they unit within the
cities so the city the only thing that I
would think of that is that we do have
geo localization for businesses however
we do not know or we do not have
information of necessarily what are the
hours of operation that they may have
there's about three thousand businesses
in the city so that would imply us
calling three thousand different
individuals to see what are the hours of
which it is open some of them may answer
some of them may not necessarily want to
speak to the city so III think that it
is it is and of course I'm not part of
the jail's department but I think it
would be a lengthy process to provide
some of this however if you consider
that this is worth the time considering
we we can definitely I do consider that
it this is involves a full-on research
project so I just wanted to have that in
consideration with regards to this so I
just want to say that out in Seattle the
GIS department put out an application
for businesses to send in their
information to be part of this program
and they they got 300 right away and the
next week they got 300 more so it spread
and it's been really popular
however if Google is already doing this
kind of work then you know it might be
better to just encourage our local
businesses to be part of the Google
program and have a link to that from the
city website there a couple different
ways of looking in thank you for that
yeah I'm actually playing with Google as
we talk and it kind of does what we're
looking for we'll just have to look and
see if it expands in the near future mr.
Cohen you do have your Henry sir thank
you Kalin I when I mentioned the
director I wasn't really talking about
what businesses are open and such I what
I was talking about was the programs
that we heard from today they have a lot
of information there there's a lot of
pieces to their programs that I didn't
even know existed and I'm certain
there's a lot of employers and potential
employees they don't even know where to
start and if there was like a one-stop
shop where
they could get into a directory or make
a phone call and then that information
could be disseminated you know you need
to call this agency this is their
program or they can read about it
whatever but I'm just thinking somehow
another put together a directory of some
sort where people can find these very
specific helpful programs thank you for
that mr. Harris before we get to you I
believe miss Martinez has their hand
raised and I also just want to point out
if we do go to the Las Cruces website
and we go under there's a whole
resources for small business and workers
section that kind of does this exact
same okay Chris alders shaking her head
yes like this is what she was gonna say
but there is this whole section where it
goes over every single possible thing
and they also do updates so it's also
like a blog type of style so like the
last thing that they posted was NMS use
Arrowhead Center partners with the city
of Las Cruces to spotlight local
business and then it goes through the
link and then also all the links are
there for the Chamber's for the IEDC for
the SBDC workforce solutions by local
New Mexico economic development
department and all that kind of stuff
but Griselda if you want to speak to
that because I think that's kind of what
we're looking at right now mr. cherrick
a descender Martinez for the record yes
I wanted to point board to what you just
mentioned online as well as with the
eblasts
system that we have implemented when
this whole situation started we have
been featuring partners in the community
where we send information to businesses
highlighting the different services
available for them so basically a little
snapshot of what we heard today has been
going out to all 3,000 businesses for
the last two weeks
herve thank you I'm so Oh with that
being said maybe that's something that
we can highlight as a funding issue for
marketing and do something with that
highlight the fact that that has already
been done by the economics side of the
city mr. Harris
thank you Michael Harris I just kind of
wanted to maybe circle back to the the
things that we wanted to put as
discussion items for next week
I see three things funding for arrowhead
sprints looking at the various recovery
plans from other cities that might you
know be available to fill in the blanks
and then a presentation about what
inclusive recovery means and I suppose
the only other the the fourth one that I
would add to next meeting or maybe the
meeting after would be you know getting
some input from public health officials
that we haven't heard yet and so anyway
I just had written those things in my
notes I wanted to make sure that
everyone else was on the same page that
those were the discussion topics that we
might be talking about next time thank
you for that point of clarification and
also with the whole discussion on like
the directory of resources I'm on the
greater Chamber of Las Cruces website as
well and they have a fantastic set of
information there as well that can help
you out with what they have available
and other services throughout different
organizations within the southwest
region that gears towards economic
development as well as anything like
that so that is also another resource
and it's also linked on city's website
so we can definitely check that box and
maybe look at more funding ways or more
ways to get that out into the public
realm with that being said mr. Harris
thank you so much for bringing that
point of clarification to the board so
let's go ahead and get them to put
discussion items on the next agenda for
this it sounds like we have three and if
mr. Harris if you want to take away
shirk Michael Harris I would motion to
put those three items on the discussion
items for next week okay so we have a
motion on the floor to bring those three
discussion items it looks like inclusive
economic mr. Miller if you can help me
out here inclusive economic recovery
okay
inclusive economic recovery discussion
is number one discussion item number two
is going to be from miss Lopez to
highlight what we can do in conjunction
with the city with those programs and
then the Scotch in item number three is
going to be if we can get someone from
the health side of things to present to
us and I would really like it to be
someone that is accredited and official
and well versed and what's going on at
the state level of kovat and not just
unfortunately someone that's not well
versed because that's misinformation and
I don't want our board can be given
misinformation uncoated because that is
not helping anyone right now so with
those things three things being said we
have a motion a second discussion raise
your hand if you have any seeing no and
mr. Francisco if you'll please do a roll
call vote to get these discussion items
on because I'm very late for work
certainly mr. chair this is on the
motion to put the three discussion items
that were just discussed for future
discussion on the July 16th meeting mr.
Michael Harris yes mr. George Miller yes
miss Sharon Thomas yes miss Brooke
Montgomery miss Veronique Archuleta
I think is absent
mr. run Fitzherbert yes
mr. duck camera yes
think miss jane bloom nature's absent
miss Jolene Martinez I think she's
absent is there be more yes mr. chair
yes motion does pass we have our three
discussion items pending what
information we can get in the meantime
with that being said any one motion for
adjournment so move drunk the turbot
thank you so much um meeting adjourn and
have a great afternoon everyone thank
you for joining us today thanks bye