who sent that uh amend amendment who
sent the
agenda valerie sherman valerie
okay i can see i can find it real quick
here i think
all right counselor your mum has started
streaming
yes yes who's calling for me
um trustee garcia um yes uh mayor mayor
but
says she's having a hard time signing
into zoom okay she said it won't take my
she said i won't take my email address
or password she's having a hard time
getting in there as well okay well as of
the moment we still do not have quorum
so we can't
uh we can't have the meeting um
i guess we can just the only thing we
can do right now is just sit tight
um we do have the d.o.t tip amendments
that are pending
i i'll have to defer to debbie
and she is here on the line with us as
to the urgency of them
but i presume that d.o.t is going to
request that we do a special meeting if
we if today's meeting does fail because
of lack of quorum but debbie if you can
please speak to that
and andrew this is commissioner sanchez
i just want to let you know i've tried
to
send i've tried to reach out here uh via
text to
um the the other commissioners uh
as well so i don't know i haven't
received a response as of yet but
uh hoping that we'll get at least one of
them on
hey thank you commissioner yes
commissioner
andrew this is debbie hudson from nmdot
and yes i i would definitely recommend
uh if you don't meet quorum that uh you
hold a special meeting
uh for the tip amendments okay thank you
debbie i appreciate that
okay um i'm texting
uh ben como and vasquez too
a counselor counselor ben cuomo notified
me that she was not going to be able
to attend this afternoon regardless i
don't know what the conflict was but she
was not able to be
not going to be able to be with us
anyway okay what about vasquez
never heard from from council vasquez
all right i'll try him um
i'm not sure where mr doolittle is he he
accepted the meeting just a few minutes
ago so
i'm i'm a little surprised he's not here
with us
and um aaron or excuse me andrew i have
trent on the line right now he's trying
to sign in
okay okay let me let me speak with him
and see if we can
ah
ah believe we have trustee johnson burek
okay thank you
and we now have mr doolittle so um
but it'll take them about a minute for
their audio to kick in
so sure but we do now have a quorum
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all right very good so trustee uh
stephanie you may take over the meeting
uh trustee johnson burak your uh mute is
still on
still muted
dominique help her out
i'm showing that she's unmuted
not sure why we're not hearing her
all the marvels of technology yes for
sure
a defaulty uh microphone on her
computer or device she's using
she can call in that counselor
or you know if you wanted to to lead the
meeting for now
until that got uh sorted out and at
least we can get
a visual confirmation if during any
votes from
uh trustee johnson burick
yes yes counselor as long as long as we
have some kind of visual
sign from the trustee that she is
consenting to the vote
um we can verbally announce that in the
record
um and and i believe that suffices
okay and so the meeting is a call to
order
and the first item on the agenda is
approval of the agenda
is there a motion
do we need to make a roll call first oh
yeah
it doesn't end the agenda but that's all
right we can do it
yes counselor um hold on i've i've got a
list
uh trustee johnson burek
she's shaking her head she's present uh
mr doolittle
is approval of the agenda ah there's
trent i see trent
so first
we're we're doing a roll call at the
moment he hasn't done the agenda but
that's all right we can do it
yes counselor um i've got a list
uh trustee johnson burek
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she's shaking her head she's present uh
mr doodle
here uh trustee garcia
here and uh commissioner sanchez
president and uh mr chair
here we do have quorum mr chair
thank you so now an approval of the
agenda
is there a motion to approve the agenda
as presented
this is commissioner sanchez i'll move
approval of the agenda
this is trustee garcia i'll second it
very good uh would the uh
roll call be made for this
motion yes mr chair trustee johnson
burek
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she's she nodded her head yes okay i saw
okay
very good thank you commissioner um mr
doolittle
yes uh trustee garcia
yes commissioner sanchez yes
mr chair yes
okay um yeah does uh
trustees johnson i know about
making a phone call in and go using a
telephone
for for the audio i've seen that done in
zooms before
you use it mr chair uh i
was in correspondence with the trustee
yesterday about using
the phone call i don't know though about
her being able to double
um double dip i guess on her account
from from multiple angles though i'm not
able to answer to the technical
side of that i don't know if dominic
aragon might be able to to speak to that
or not
it wouldn't hurt at least she could
participate um with audio
so she does she had the phone number
it would be in the uh the email that was
sent
so yes okay good all right we'll just go
ahead and do that and we'll catch up
with you
sorry we have um
on the agenda approval minutes of july
21st is there a motion to approve
this is commissioner sanchez i'll make a
motion to uh
approve the the minutes uh from the
meeting
of july 15 2020.
this is trustee garcia
i think it's july 21st on my agenda
am i got the wrong agenda no it's for uh
today the 18th mr chair you're correct
it is the
the the last minutes were uh from from
july
okay 21st uh july july 15th
oh so it's a misprint
i'm not sure which agenda you're looking
at the one i've got says the 15th
this is for a oh oh i
see what i got here the bicycle and
pedestrian facilities
advisory committee never mind wrong
agenda
i'll have to go buy something else um
uh what i'll do is is just ask uh andrew
uh what's the next time on the agenda
rather than take all the time to try to
find it
um i had it in my window for the
browser at one time and it's not there
anymore i must have about
10 things there lots of irons in the
fire here so
uh andrew what's next on the agenda
uh calling the role for the vote on the
approval of the minutes so i will go
ahead and do that now
mr chair uh trustee johnson burek
okay i saw i saw trustee johnson burick
nod her head yes
mr doolittle yes uh
trustee garcia yes
uh commissioner sanchez yes mr chair
yes the motion passes mr chair
thank you
oh i think
okay uh what's next on the agenda andrew
uh just bear with me for one second mr
chair i want to see
if trustee johnson buried sound is now
working
i don't think so oh no we hear you we
hear you we hear you
we hear you i get the calling
we do hear you but we're going to have
to keep you muted unless you're
specifically speaking because we're
getting a lot of feedback
so um just just keep that in mind
that's right we do hear your trusty
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you are heard trustee johnson all right
mr chair at this time i would like to
uh introduce mr dominic loya who's going
to do the presentation
for the uh tip amendments
thank you
good afternoon ladies and gentlemen of
the policy committee
just one second i will have the
powerpoint presentation up for you
uh so today we will be looking at
resolution 20-07 it's a resolution
amending the 2020 to 2025
uh transportation improvement program uh
dominic
could you hold on for just a second i've
not got yours your slides up
um does anybody else have
have dominic's slides visible no
ah one second let me see it did not
share them
share screen
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ah all right uh i have them now mr chair
okay proceed alrighty we're gonna be
looking at
three amendments today
uh one second there we go
uh the first is tl00130 for federal
fiscal year 2020. it's for roadrunner
transit
for the operation and maintenance center
they're looking to add a new funding
source and adjust funding allocations to
the project
the second is lc00271
it's for uh nmdot for fiscal year
2023 for the u.s 70 corridor phase 5
this will be for bridge replacement
roadway reconstruction pavement
preservation ada and intersection
improvements
the change is increasing funds from 1.6
uh
by 1.6 million in federal fiscal year
2023 for a new project total of
12.6 million and the third one
is lc00290 for federal fiscal years
2022 and 2023 also by
nmdot this is for the university
multimodal project
for construction of a multi-use path
along along university avenue
the amendment to the project scope to
include multi-modal and road rate
improvements
increase construction funds from 8.6
million in federal physical
uh to 8.6 million in federal fiscal year
and to 3.4 million in federal fiscal
year 2023
okay we we are requesting uh approval
of this series of tip amendments to be
did recommend
approval on july 21st and tack
recommended approval on august 6th uh
for questions we do have on the line
uh mr mike bartholomew for roadrunner
transit as well as
miss debbie hudson for nmdot perhaps
maybe we should have an amendment or a
motion to approve these amendments first
before we
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transportation improvement program
yeah thank you manny um we have to keep
our microphones
off because there's a lot of background
noise when there's more than
two microphones on at the same time
maybe even more than one
i'll be white listening for that um so
yeah
is there a second to the motion okay
this is true
oh it's trent i see okay he's the noisy
one
okay that's fine thank you and any
questions or comments from
the committee
i'm sorry uh the chair can we go back
one slide
or mr lawyer can you go back one slide
okay i just wanted to make sure i
i don't know why when i was switching
between windows here i missed the uh
this
university multimodal project i just
wanted to make sure it matched the
uh packet in the in the agenda i'm good
mission
i'm good chair very good
any other questions or comments
hearing none i'll call for a vote
andrew thank you mr chair uh
let me see here uh trustee johnson burek
you can raise your hand if you can't
ah i saw okay the trustee voted yes uh
mr doolittle yes
trustee garcia yes commissioner sanchez
yes mr chair yes
okay passes mr chair andrew
the next item on the agenda mr chair is
the bylaws amendment presentation if you
will
bear with me just a moment it's now my
turn to share my screen
okay thank you
all right before i begin can everybody
see see this
yes it's joey okay very good thank you
mr chair i appreciate that
um as everybody is aware uh we are in
an ongoing uh public health emergency
which
is currently prohibiting uh this npo
uh from engaging in our traditional
in-person
public meetings the current version of
the mpo bylaws
has specific language prohibiting
telephonic voting under most
circumstances
and even in the circumstances wherein it
is permitted uh it limits telephonic
voting to only one member of the policy
committee at the meeting
um there was a lot of concern that staff
and
and i spoke with trustee johnson bureau
in the early days of the pandemic
about this there was concern on the part
of staff
that it would not be possible under our
bylaws
to have any kind of virtual meeting
obviously the virtual meeting idea was
it was a very early one
as a response to the pandemic but i was
concerned that we were not going to be
able to participate in that due to the
bylaws restriction
uh as a result of that mpo staff
consulted with the city of las cruces
legal department who serves as the legal
counsel for this npo
city of las cruces legal informed the
npo staff
that the attorney the state attorney
general's office
open government division had issued an
advisory
uh that at this point i'm sure everybody
in your
respective capacities that your
jurisdictions are aware of
that basically gave guidance for how the
virtual meetings could be conducted
and that it was the opinion of the city
of las cruces legal department that that
took
precedence over the npo bylaws
i relayed this information to trustee
johnson buric and we were both in
agreement that hey this is great because
this means that we were able to come
back to life
and and resume business and so that is
what we have been doing
over the past couple of months however
all that being said
um mpo staff believes it best that we go
ahead and take this opportunity
now that the bot that the mtp uh is
concluded
um to go ahead and amend the mpo bylaws
to better respond to the current
situation
and anticipate future issues we do
the language that's on your screen i
won't read it because it is a bit
tedious and verbose but that is
the proposed amendment that we that mpo
staff is suggesting that we put into the
mpo bylaws that would be
under policy committee section three
i'll beg everyone's pardon i forgot the
section three subsection f subsection
four
um this would be the proposed amendment
to the bylaws
um i do mr chair have a piece
of public comment that i need to uh read
with regards to this if i
may be given permission to do so at this
time
the comment is from mr george pearson
who is the chair of the bicycle and
pedestrian facilities advisory committee
and his comment reads as follows hello
andrew and trustee johnson burek i
noticed the discussion item
regarding the bylaw changes and the
recommended update to account for the
public health emergency
and the need for virtual committee
meetings it is not clear to me that the
suggested change also applies to the
tack in the b
pack the bylaws has a separate meeting
section for policy committee and for the
tac and b
pack i don't have a clear suggestion as
to how this should be addressed this
suggested edition could be worded to be
clear that it applies to the attack in
the b
pack or the meeting section for tech and
bpac could also have similar wording
added
given the format for the meeting please
consider this as a public comment
either during the first comment period
or during the discussion item
i thought it best to read it through the
to read it through the discussion item
uh the the staff mpo staff does have a
bigger pardon mpo staff does have a
response to that
uh mr pearson is correct uh in that
the language does not directly reference
the tack in the b
pack the reason for that though is the
bylaws are actually silent as to whether
the tac and the b
pack can meet telephonically and so the
interpretation of staff
and the city legal department is there
is no impediment there
for those committees to meet
telephonically there is a specific
impediment in the bylaws
with regard to the policy committee
that's why this language
that staff is proposing does not address
the tack and the b
pack or at least that's the rationale
behind why staff is making this proposal
we do intend once the impending jpa
process is concluded
to uh address the bylaws in a more
comprehensive manner
and so this is intended to be kind of a
short-term
fix for the situation anticipating a
future review of the bylaws in greater
detail
uh with that um
i stand for any questions this is not an
action item today
so i just want to make that clear we
will be bringing it for action
at the september policy committee
meeting but if anybody has any comments
or suggestions about the bylaws
now would be the time to let staff know
okay mr chair this is trent i have a
quick question
yes trent go ahead um andrew could you
um do me a favor and go back to the
slide with the proposed language
can you do that certainly give me just a
moment i have to re-share my screen
um while you're doing that the the only
concern that i have
is the language very specifically says
the governor
um but knowing that we you know being
down in the south we've had
our own separate issues um that limits
us just to a governor's order but what
if the governor
releases some restrictions but the mayor
for instance
has others implemented just for our
region should that be
a little more lenient other than
specific to the governor
uh mr doolittle that is a very good
point
i think probably we should uh
we should take that into consideration
uh staff
will go back and we'll revise the um
we'll revise the text of the bylaws to
to make that accommodation we will have
we obviously we do have to tie it to the
actions of specific jurisdictions
um so the only uh i guess the county com
i i am unaware actually and maybe
commissioner sanchez could speak to this
i don't know if the county commission
can declare a state of emergency or how
that
uh process would be delegated i know
that that the mayor of las cruces can
can
can so declare such a state and i
believe
that the mayor of messiah can declare
such a state as well but we do
i do want to note for the record that
mayor barasa has joined us
so mayor barasa can can speak to that
issue as well but i
i would ask commissioner sanchez what
the status with regard to the county
declaring a state of emergency would be
thank you andrew uh so uh
right yes so the comm the commission can
declare a state of emergency uh as
we we we have along with the with the
city
have have a emergency declaration
for the public health emergency as well
but yes
since we don't have the figurehead as
say the mayor can where he can do a
emergency order it would have to be the
board of county commissioners as a whole
would declare that uh emergency
thank you commissioner mr chair real
quick i guess
could it be could it be written just as
vaguely as to say in the event that a
state of emergency
is declared that prevents you know
in-person meetings or something along
that line
um that way it would be just it could be
specific to our region
i like that language myself uh trent
good
yeah and and i'll second that i believe
it it'll
if you could do wording that might say
the the meanest you know any
municipality or local government within
the jurisdiction
of the messiah valley mpo uh that way
then you don't have to specifically
state
the all the municipalities in the county
specifically
okay uh we will revise the proposed text
in that vein we'll send it around to
the entire policy committee for review
before it goes into the packet
for next month's meeting just to ensure
that everybody
is in agreement and if there are any
final suggestions
okay thank you andrew that's good
any other comments questions
see none nobody's raising their hand by
the way i
i'm watching the hand raising going here
but that's okay we can get along without
raising hands if you don't want to
that's fine
um so andrew what's next on the agenda
uh thank you uh mr chair um the next
item that we have on the agenda is a
discussion about the impending
joint powers agreement let me go ahead
and start can everybody see the slide
yes okay thank you mr chair um
the joint powers agreement is the
document that creates the messiah valley
npo this is to some extent going to be
a a rehash of the presentation that was
given on this topic
last year late last year to the policy
committee
it is a document that creates the
messiah valley npo
it was originally an agreement between
the city of las cruces the town of
messiah and dona ana county
it is the federally required document
for the npo it is the document that
governs the small npos el paso
being a large npo has a slightly
different uh
means via which their operations are are
established and carried out
last year as most of the committee
members who are with us will remember
the new mexico department of
transportation and the federal highway
administration
jointly notified the messiah valley npo
of their expectation that our joint
powers agreement will be
renegotiated after the adoption of
the 2020 mtp they had initially
requested that we take up the jpa sooner
but i
requested that since we were well into
the process
of working on what ultimately became
mobility 2045
that we be given a grace period until
after the mtp
was done you know before we looked at
the jpa
fhwa and nmdot agreed to that grace
period
however mobility 2045 has now been
adopted
which now means that renegotiating the
joint powers agreement is now the
highest priority of this npo
um the jpa must be adopted by the city
of las cruces the dona ana county
commission
and the town of messiah board of
trustees after these
entities adopt the document it is then
submitted to the
state of new mexico department of
finance and administration for approval
by the state
as an aside all amendments to the jpa
must also
go through the same process i will note
that the federal highway administration
and the federal transit administration
do not directly participate
in the process other than ultimately
having
an oversight over the activities of all
the mpos in the state and also
the activities of nmdot
the current gpa was renegotiated in the
latter part of 2012
um and was adopted in the first half of
2013.
it came into force on july 19th of 2013
the process by which that the current
jpa
was done the negotiating was done by a
designated subcommittee with one
representative from each jurisdiction
the city the city the county and the
town
at that time nmdot was not a voting
member of the policy committee they did
not directly
participate in the renegotiation it was
that jpa
that made nmdot be a voting member of
the policy committee
um just a couple of concerns that have
been raised
in the recent past with regard to the
jpa
fhwa specifically spoke to mpo staff
about their concern about the lack of
internal conflict resolution provisions
within the text of the current jpa
they're also concerned about the lack of
mandatory triggers for jpa review or
renegotiation also within the past
couple of years policy committee members
have expressed some concerns about what
the role
of the policy committee will be
with regard to the hiring processes of
npo staff
um i have to say that
this is kind of going to be brand new
territory certainly for me uh most of
the policy committee
uh has turned over since the last jpa
was renegotiated
i believe that councillor sorg and mayor
berasa are the only members who are
standing
uh still on the policy committee who are
there
i do i am aware of the fact that late
last year
uh councillor sorg said that the city
council had specifically designated him
to be
the representative of the city
when it comes to the jpa renegotiation
process
we will need a similar designation from
both the town and the county as to who's
going to fulfill that
role um and that's kind of the step
we're at right now
as far as who the representatives are
going to be uh with that i stand for any
questions
okay um does anybody have a question
mr doolittle do you like that i use my
raised hand button
yes um thank you mr chair
um the only thing i would like to remind
the the committee as
andrew mentioned um there had been some
discussion about the hiring
um of that position but the other thing
that we also talked about was
the evaluation and what role we played
and how much input we had um so just as
a reminder that's something else that i
think the
the subcommittee or however we decide to
move forward with the jpa
um also considers and discussing
including
um so that we have an opportunity to to
evaluate andrew and his staff
um but other than that uh mr chair
that's all i've got thank you
okay very good and i i apologize for not
recognizing the great mayor of la mesa
miss is with us
at the meeting now and so um i just
wanted to make sure everybody
for the record knows that okay thank you
councillor scott sark i appreciate that
and i
my apologies for being late i was having
technical difficulties
uh understandable it happens all the
time nowadays
uh okay mr sanchez commissioner
there we go so many buttons here to
navigate
um so andrew i just wanted to to verify
uh so we just need uh the county i guess
us as the county commissioners to
determine who the the
uh point of contact will be for this
for these discussions uh commissioner
yes and i i apologize there there's one
thing i i failed to mention
um i guess it should also be asked to
the policy committee if the consensus of
the committee is that they would prefer
to delegate this to
a subcommittee within the policy
committee
i'm from the discussion that we've had
already i don't think that there's any
desire to change that but
commissioner to to your question yes we
would need the county commission
to uh officially tap who it is that they
want to represent them in the
negotiating process
and same thing for the town of messiah
as well
presuming mr doodle since he's the the
incumbent from
representing the d.o.t vote mr doolittle
is going to be the one representing
nmdot
uh although i guess if if mr doolittle
so desired he could have somebody else
represent the d.o.t in the discussion as
well
okay okay just wanted to make sure so i
knew what uh
i guess i can take that back with with
us to the county and
make sure we're doing our part here okay
mr mr chair if i may uh
i would just like to say i'll go ahead
and in the immediate future reach out to
each one
of the jurisdictional delegations
individually just to ensure that
everybody is making progress
on the on the decision uh and i guess
counselor
uh with respect to your to your status i
assume that you are still the designated
negotiating party for the city of las
cruces
that's a question i yes i am asking i
want to make sure that i know
for a fact yes um
as far as i know i haven't heard any
changes okay
so uh mayor barraza has a hand up
yes thank you counselor
um okay i'm just trying to get
first let me clarify uh is uh trustee
johnson bureau chairperson
uh not chairing the meeting and uh
commissioner
i mean counselor sergio well yeah just
because
her her microphone isn't working okay
very good that way i know who to address
uh to whom okay my concern is
um as i'm looking at the slide that's
before me
uh on the computer it says the policy
committee members have expressed
concerns about the role of the policy
committee within the hiring processes
of mpo staff i mean has that been
clarified being that i jumped into the
meeting late
what the role is of the policy committee
members
so that i have an idea what the
expectation is
and who to recommend to our board who
would be
our person from the town of macia
representing the town
um thank you mr chairman
and madam mayor um no we we need
the the town to go ahead and make a
nomination
uh as to who the town wishes to
represent
uh it uh on as as part of the the jpa
negotiating process so so we do
we're and we're not asking for it today
it doesn't need to be done
right now um just sometime in the near
future honestly
what probably needs to take place is
once i hear from all of the
jurisdictions that
um that that that they have have made a
determination about who they want to
to participate in the negotiating the
policy committee as a whole
because we do have the provision back to
the bylaws again
but we do have the provision within the
bylaws for the policy committee to
designate a subcommittee
once we have the the names from the
jurisdictions
the policy committee at that point
probably then needs to officially have a
vote
to delegate that subcommittee to carry
on
the joint powers agreement negotiation
thank you so much no it definitely
clarifies
uh my concerns going through my mind
thank you
very good any others
let's move on to the next uh discussion
item mr way then
i apologize mr chair i was having
problems getting myself unmuted again
the next item is the quality assurance
review presentation
this one is going to be
very short the quality assurance review
is the annual process by which the new
mexico department of transportation
evaluates the performance of
this npo and all the other mpos
throughout the state of new mexico
um it's it is not an audit uh i do want
to specifically say that but
it it it is a process that has some
audit-like features
um and and it definitely has uh some
serious teeth behind it
if an mpo is found to be uh in
deficiency
in some area or other however i am
pleased to report
that other than the need to renegotiate
the joint powers agreement which we are
already starting the process on that
um the cia valley mpo had a clean
quality assurance review in 2020
we're in good standing with the state
and the feds as of right now
now that we have the the mtp done so
this is something that we certainly want
to carry forward
uh but uh we're clean as of right now so
i'll stand for any questions
very good mr way um good job thank you
any questions from committee
and i will note mr chair that we do have
the qar
in the meeting packet for today's
meeting so anyone who wants to review
that document in detail can do so
okay thank you
see none let's move on to the next item
on the agenda
for that item mr chair i would like to
reintroduce mr dominic loya who's going
to present on us
on a change with regards to the
statewide transportation improvement
program
two dominic's here
good afternoon again uh one second let
me go ahead and
pull up the presentation
can everybody hear them alright and see
the screen
yes the screen is fine
for the record this is dominick loygan
transportation planner for the uh
messier valley mpo
so last year uh nm.conductor review
process for the state uh mpos
to uh uh
sorry uh to uh check the viability of
implementing a four-year
transportation improvement program all
the new mexican mpos didn't uh concur
with the initiative a four year cycle
after the uh we began the implementation
though uh
nmdot determined that it was going uh
that a four year cycle uh could not
proceed
in your packets in the last two pages on
page
pages 58 and 59 we have a letter from
the uh deputy secretary uh mr justin
reese
as to why they would not uh they felt a
two-year cycle would be better
and why we would be staying with a
two-year cycle so what that means for us
is that uh the upwp that we just
uh adopted we will need to do an
amendment for it
uh as a result of the change to add in a
tip development
uh section we did announce this uh
last week at the uh technical advisory
committee to begin the uh 30-day comment
period on it
and we will be bringing this forward
within uh
the next few meetings for uh
an actual amendment uh and i will now
stand for any comments and questions
okay anyone
oh i pushed the wrong button so i got a
request for permission from the meeting
host
no um i don't know how that came
up on my screen but anyway i don't see
any hands up um so let's proceed on to
the next
item uh andrew thank you mr chair the
next item is the nmdot update
thank you andrew thank you mr chair um i
really don't have much that changed from
last month
this month we continue to do final punch
list work on the university i mean on uh
valley drive in the us 70 i-25 project
real minor stuff at this point for the
most part just
minimal impacts but we are finished with
both of those
um the one if you haven't had an
opportunity to drive through is the
university i-25
um we've placed the deck um basically
and the girders on the new bridge over
um i-25 um they are working on the
the brand new bridge that will take
place um where trevis goes
underneath university so they're working
on that and then they've also placed the
curving gutter for the roundabout on the
south side
um right there at the pan am parking lot
so they continue to move very quickly um
you know we're kind of lucky with this
pandemic that the traffic has been
extremely minimal allowing us to do some
pretty creative things to
to stay on top of work but other than
that mr chair i don't have much else
it's just kind of business as usual for
us but i'll stand for any questions if
anybody has anything
thank you very much mr little also i
would
add to that it might be um
a disappointment but it would be a very
big beneficial to that project
if there's no football season and having
a football game on the weekend
okay just throwing that out there
mr chair real quick if i may um you know
just to address that comment
specifically
um i know things are a little bit
different but when we bid the project we
actually
coordinated with nmsu for all their
major activities
um again i know the concerts and things
have been have been cancelled and
postponed those kinds of things
um we worked with las cruces public
schools on their graduation ceremonies
so all of those really important dates
at least at the time
we may have to revisit it now but all
those important dates were included in
the contract
to minimize those impacts so we were
going to have as many lanes open
people not working those kinds of things
um
again it's going to change because of
the pandemic but we did have a little
bit of
of forethought to to put us in so
thank you well done yes well done that's
great awesome
any uh manny chance commissioner sanchez
thank you chair uh trent uh i just did i
did want to say i've noticed
uh that that the progress that y'all
have made
uh along with the university project and
i applaud you all and i guess that's the
silver lining as you'd mention of the
pandemic is uh the
the ability to to have or at least
having less traffic
other than that i just wanted to
compliment you on your office i
i love uh the the borders and
and everything behind you there
we have turned my daughter's playrooms
into an office so the only quiet place
believe it or not
i i i can i i was like with with the
kiddos around
uh and and going virtual at least to
start the school year it's uh
we we've tried to find new places in in
which uh we can do we can conduct these
zoom meetings or webex meetings whether
they may be so
uh i i totally understand but uh no i
appreciate everything the dot is doing
and i've seen progress around town
and so i just wanted to to thank you all
for all your efforts uh trent
very good nanny that's i agree with that
you on that okay uh is there anything
else on the agenda then uh
mr way i think thank you mr chair
uh yes the next item is committee and
staff comments
we do uh mpo staff does have one comment
it's kind of a bittersweet one
uh but today was miss valerie sherman's
last day in the office with us
she's been with us for nearly two years
now she obtained a position as a senior
planner down in texas
so we're really excited for her this is
a big promotion for her
really looking forward to good things in
her career coming up but we are sad to
see
her uh leave the mpo um
but but big things in store for her
we're just glad that she didn't leave
until after the mtp was done
uh we would not have wanted to have
dealt with that so
we are currently in the process of
rewriting the job description a little
bit as the last time that we hired for
the associate planner position
um it was it was a different position
than what we have it
uh doing now and so we're working on a
rewrite i hope to have that rewrite done
uh by the end of next week um and then
hopefully have the position posted
uh soon certainly hopefully before the
end of this month so
uh my optimistic time frame is we'll
hopefully have the position filled in
about four months but it may be five to
six we know we all know how these things
go sometimes but
uh we are we're going to miss valerie
but we're very excited for her as well
okay very good well our best wishes to
valerie then
uh as she goes to texas
okay i'm about to lose my voice so i'm
gonna
keep quiet and only during the meeting
that's it so
is is there there's somebody else that
needs to
have a comment go ahead
you guys still can't hear me can you yes
we can hear you it's
it's staticky but we can
stephanie i know well i was just testing
it because i think it's still because i
called into the zoom so i'm just like
going to have to get my microphone on my
computer
looked at but i was just gonna uh
comment on trent's uh
choice of his office too that
commissioner sanchez mentioned so
yeah and and i wanted to thank you uh
councillor sword for for stepping in so
hopefully this will all be resolved by
this meeting okay very good
thank you and so
uh if there's no further comments i'll
take a motion to have the
meeting adjourned this
is uh commissioner sanchez i'll move the
adjourn
second without objection i'll call the
meeting adjourned
having everyone we really appreciate it
thank you thanks gil yeah