The meeting covered several presentations and discussions, including the Landlord Engagement Program, a video game addressing gender equity, a guaranteed payment for attendance program for homeless students, after-school programs, and a strategic plan for opioid settlement funds. A subcommittee was formed to refine the opioid settlement plan.
This meeting of the local government coordinating commission will come to order. I'm Chair Councillor Nicole Rogers. Commissioner Benson, Member Armijo, and APS Member Jackson are excused from this evening. Councillor Grout and APS member Benavidez are attending via Zoom. All other members are present with me. Sorry, I love in person versus Zoom, so thank you all for coming in person. So we'll start off with a moment of silence, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance, led by Tammy February. Councillor Febalcore. Madam Chair, I don't say the Pledge of Allegiance. For those watching on the live stream, thank you so much for watching. Move approval of the August twenty-second meeting minutes. Awesome. Move by Councillor February, second by Commissioner Barboa. Commissioner Barboa? Yes. Commissioner Benson. Councillor February? Yes. Councillor Grout. Yes. Commissioner Olivis. Yes. Councillor Rogers? Yes. Yes. I apologize. Commissioner Bachet. Yes. That's ananimous. Thank you so much. So we'll we do have individuals signed up for public comment, so we'll have two minutes for public comment. Mr. Cornelius, take it away. Marcus Porter, followed by Charles Aragon. Madam Chair, committee members, thank you for having this open uh public comment. Uh I'm Marcus Porter from the New Mexico Black Leadership Council. I'm a advocacy and civic engagement of my violence uh prevention coordinator with me as well. Uh, we were lucky enough to be able to host the listening session uh for this, and I I can see a lot of the ideas there. So I really do appreciate that from vital strategies. Um, I really want to talk a little bit about as we think about what to do with this money using the strategy, the different things mentioned. Uh guaranteed basic income is something that has been proven all over the country. Um, it's been piloted in New Mexico several times, and it's uh it's easy to not know that because even though it's happened so much, everything's been a little siloed. So I think if we have a really fulsome approach to tackling guaranteed basic income and whatever forms it may uh be determined to be helpful, uh it'll have a better outcome. We all know again that it's been tested everywhere. So if we can do that, if we can put a little thought behind maybe expanding or putting support behind these type of initiatives, I think that would be great. Um, last thing I will say is that prevention is very important. I'm glad that it was there because if someone's educated beforehand about the resources available, they're much more likely to pursue those resources if they're in that situation. Resource navigation is next to impossible if you're currently dealing with the trauma of being on the street or being addicted to a substance. Um, and the people who are left behind in these opioid deaths. We had someone that came in, we do triage at N MBLC.