Good evening, everyone.

It's December 15th, 2025, the 44th meeting of the 26th Council will come to order.

All counselors are going to be present this evening.

Counselor Baca is joining us a little bit late.

We're going to begin with a moment of silence, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance in English and Spanish.

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We're going to begin with proclamations and presentations.

Counselor Grow.

Thank you, Madam President.

Um, I move that the rules be suspended for the purpose of allowing more than four proclamations per counselor per calendar year.

Second.

There's a motion and a second by Councillor Champagne.

Uh is do we have Councillor Baca on Zoom or no?

Okay, so he is excused right now.

All those in favor of the rule suspension, raise your hand and say yes.

Yes.

Anyone opposed?

That passes on an eight-zero vote.

Counselor Grow.

Thank you, Madam President.

I would um this proclamation is recognizing the Foothills APD's Foothills response team.

Accepting this evening is Sergeant Doug Moore and the Foothills PRT.

Would you all come on down to the front, please?

As they make their way down to the podium, Counselor, do you want to start reading the proclamation?

Yes, thank you.

Um, thank you all for being here.

Uh, whereas the Foothills Area Command's proactive response team is led by Sergeant Doug Moore and includes Officer Antonio Hernandez, Officer Ashley Martinez Lacone, Officer Derek Maines, Officer Eric Montoya, Officer Andrew Ramanowski, and Officer Kyle Salzburg.

And whereas the mission of the proactive response team is to address low-level crimes that impact the community's comfort and sense of safety through high visibility proactive enforcement.

And whereas APD's 2025 Uniform Officer of the Year is Ashley Martinez Lacone, who earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in criminal justice at New Mexico State University, and has been with APD's Field Service Bureau since 2017, where her positive attitude, sincere desire to help others, and solid work ethic have made her a model officer, accounting for 25% of the team's enforcement statistics, and 149 felony arrests, including 134 felony warrants, 77 misdemeanors, including 149 misdemeanor warrants, uh, through November of this year, earned a medal for outstanding service after jeopardizing your own safety to save the life of a citizen in October of 2020.

And whereas APD's 2024 uniform officer of the year was Eric Montoya, who has been with APD since 19, 2019, regularly leads the team in enforcement statistics and goes above and beyond the call of duty in every task he undertakes, earning the respect of his peers, the gratitude of citizens, and in his off-duty hours, he coaches a successful junior wrestling club.

And whereas Officer Kyle Salberg has made several high-profile arrests in the last few weeks, clearing multiple narcotic trafficking warrants, removing fentanyl pills and methamphetamine from our streets, and locating and arresting a home invasion offender, he spends his days off helping the impact detective unit by conducting investigations and completing cases.

And whereas several weeks ago, Officer Andrew Ramankowski single-handedly, single-handedly arrested a member of the Aryan Brotherhood Gang with a multiple felony warrants and several bags of methamphetamines and fentanyl.

And as a result of this arrest, this gang member is back behind bars to finish serving his 20-year sentence and face the judge for his other committed crimes.

And whereas, although officers Antonio Hernandez and Derek Maines are new to the team, they are making great contributions with Officer Hernandez, recently finding a murder suspect who had been on the run for over a year.

Whereas these officers work to locate criminal activity and enforce our laws before calls for service even come in.

They have removed an incalculable number of guns and narcotics from our streets.

And their work is aiding economic development, job growth, and the sense of safety for residents and business owners in the Foothills and Northeast Heights.

Therefore, be it proclaimed that the council, the governing body of the city of Albuquerque, hereby recognize the Foothills Proactive Response Team and thanks them for their service to the citizens of Albuquerque.

Thank you.

You guys know the Foothills.

Counselor Champagne and I are very lucky to have you all serving in our area.

We see you all the time, and you know every hill and every every um arroy, and you know you know the place, and we see the evidence of what you do.

Four years ago when I came in, um there were there were a lot of things going on that people saw daily.

And in the four years that I've been uh had the pleasure of working with you all, people have also seen the change that you're making.