This meeting of the Albuquerque City Council Committee of the Whole was held on March 6, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 6:28 PM in the Vincent E. Griego Chambers. The purpose was to mark up R-25-117, the proposed 2025-2034 Decade Plan for Capital Improvements and the 2025 Two-Year Capital Budget, following the mayor's proposed general obligation bond program. All nine councilors were present. Public comment was not taken; it will be heard at the March 17 City Council meeting. The committee approved a substitute and numerous amendments, ultimately recommending the bill do pass, but failed to schedule it for immediate action.
The whole meeting to order. Today is the second meeting of the committee of the whole to consider the mayor's proposed 2025 general obligation bond program and the 2025 to 2034 decade plan for capital improvements. All counselors are present today with Councilor Rogers joining us on Zoom. Members of the public, city staff, and the media have the ability to view this meeting in person and on live streams through four different platforms of TV on Comcast Channel 16, the Gov TV website, YouTube, and Zoom webinar. The live streams can be accessed from most smartphones, tablets, and computers. Also, this meeting is closed captioned, and you may enable the closed captioning services on your television or device at this time. The video recording of this meeting will also remain available for viewing at any time on the City Council's website. City Council staff is available via telephone if members of the public need assistance. Finding the videos online. Please call 505 768 3100 for assistance during business hours, which are Monday through Friday from 8 to 5. We will not be taking live public comment today, given that today's meeting is for markup. At the end of today's meeting, the bill is substituted and amended, will be sent to the Monday, March 17th, City Council meeting for adoption. Public comment will be taken at the March 17th council meeting. The purpose of this meeting is to focus on the proposed committee substitute and the amendments. Okay, thank you. Um we at this time I'd like to move the committee sub. It's in your iPads and also on our dais here. Okay. Now let's see. I think they're gonna pass out the amendments. I know they're in the iPads, but I want to see it. Physical copies. Okay. Here they come. Before we start the um the going over the amendments, I just want to take this time to thank our budget staff. Um I really enjoyed working with them. Um they're a pleasure to work with, and and I'm very grateful for their service. Um, the mayor sent down a budget that listed money, uh listed money in large items in general buckets, and no projects were listed. Staff just um and we kind of started from scratch and they did an amazing job, so I'm grateful for that. The this proposed committee subs substitute is far better than what I think we originally got. We're working off a program that started with uh 25 million dollars less than we had to work with two years ago, and we were able to increase this bond package to 180 million dollars and still maintain fiscal responsibility. We try to accommodate everyone's wishes. I know we have a lot of amendments tonight, so we'll be changing and making it even better for everybody. Um let's see here. Um, we did not remove funding from GSD. Instead, we move more money into specific departments for them to rehabilitate their facilities. Our responsibility to the taxpayers is to spend their money wisely and to maintain the facilities that we have, um, the infrastructure that we have. Okay, so now we're gonna move to the amendments, madam chair, yes, we first need a vote on the committee sub. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. We just vote on it. Okay. We have to do a roll call vote. Thank you. Would you please take the roll call vote? Councilor Baca. Yes. Councilor Passan? Yes. Counselor Champagne.