Yeah, you could read through the comprehensive plan.

Okay, one you better read through it.

Tell me what you think needs to need.

Good evening, everyone.

We'll begin the meeting in just a moment.

Want to say uh good evening and welcome.

Uh, to the mayor pro tem the commissioners, our city manager, city attorney, everyone in the room, thank you for uh being here.

I'll offer a prayer, we'll do the Pledge of Allegiance to the United States flag, and we'll salute the state flag.

If you're a praying person, please bow with me.

Heavenly Father, thank you for your blessings for your mercy, for your goodness shown to us.

God, thank you for calling us to live and work and serve in the amazing community uh that that you have.

We thank you for Clovis and Canon Air Force Base.

Thank you for the amazing people that you've called uh to to live here, and Lord, for the privilege uh of serving uh in the roles that we do.

We thank you.

Uh God, thank you for the rain.

Thank you that you've sent sent rain.

We pray that you're glorified in that.

And uh, Lord, as we take up the business before us this evening, we pray for wisdom, for good judgment.

Thank you for the things that we can celebrate tonight.

We thank you for even the challenges that give us the opportunity to work hard together and rise up to meet them.

And as we head into Thanksgiving, Lord, lead us each to count our blessings.

We are so fortunate and so blessed.

May we give you thanks.

I ask these things in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

Join me in the pledge to our country's flag.

This is a symbol of friendship among United Coaches.

Here, Commissioner Porter.

Commissioner Garza.

Here.

Commissioner Tarsen.

Here.

Commissioner Paula.

Commissioner Zamora.

Mayor Pro Tem Bryant.

Here.

Mayor Morris.

Present.

Thank you, Ms.

Foster.

Next, I would have you consider are there objections to how the agenda has been prepared.

Can we move uh under new business request the quarterly lodges tax disbursement to consent?

We can have everyone consider doing that.

Certainly.

That would uh give us seven items in the consent agenda.

Um other recommended rearrangements or removals.

Okay.

Um objections.

Uh we we have adopted the agenda this this way with seven items and consent, and we'll take that one item out of new business and we'll record yes votes for each member, please.

Next, I would have you consider are there objections to how the November 6th meeting minutes have been prepared.

No objections, those minutes are adopted.

We'll record yes votes for each of you.

Next, we recognize visitors.

Thank you once again uh to each of you that are uh joining us here in the meeting chamber this evening.

We appreciate your attendance.

Uh it always feels good to hear from you on uh agenda items or in public comment.

So thank you uh for being here.

I want to recognize that we also have folks that can view online, city of clovis.org.

And of course our meetings are archived there, and so uh you can go back and watch one if you if you missed an item that that is important to you.

But again, thank you for being here.

And uh I know we have one celebration this evening, so we'll we'll move right into the next section of the agenda proclamations awards and presentations.

We have a planned present presentation this evening.

Um I want to make uh a presentation to the High Plains Humane Society.

And I think we have Ms.

Cook and is it Ms.

Flores that are here.

Um ladies, would would you mind can I put you on the spot?

Would you come to the podium and and uh maybe maybe you would like to tell us about things you have going on with the High Plains Humane Society as they make their way to the podium?

Uh Mayor Pro Tem, Commissioners, members of the public, you may remember, but uh the 2025 Mayor's Ball, which was held in October, uh benefited two local uh charities.

Uh one being the Salvation Army.

And uh I had the chance to attend their red kettle red kettle kickoff uh banquet last Friday, and it made sense to make their presentation there.

And so I've already given the the the big cardboard check to uh to Salvation Army.

The other uh beneficiary of the Mayor's Ball proceeds this year is High Plains Humane Society.

They're here, that's why we've invited them here so that we can present uh the funds raised to benefit uh High Plains Humane Society to these ladies.

So thanks for being here.

Uh maybe you have an event coming up or maybe you want to update us on something, uh, and then we'll do the check presentation.

Or perhaps I've put you on the spot too much, and we can just move on.

I didn't know we'd be speaking by the yeah anyway.

So yes, away with High Plains Humane Society.

This is Amy, she's our treasurer and one of our directors, and uh my name's Gay Cook, I'm the Vice President.

So High Plains Humane Society concentrates on right at present.

We concentrate on low-cost spay and neuter vaccination programs, trying to keep the animals healthy in the community, vaccinate them for rabies, Pablo Distempo, all that kind of thing.

So we just had two huge events back to back, and so those are our last ones for this year, and then we're winding up to start some new ones in the new year.

We just had a vaccination clinic.

I think we gave about 1350 vaccines in two half days, 247 microchips.

And then the following week, we just brought in an organization called Helping Poor's Across Borders, which is a huge Spain neuter clinic.

Uh they brought in seven vets on the weekend.

So we had seven vets Saturday and Sunday.

We had five vets on the Friday and the Monday, and we did 484 animals spay and neuter and vaccinated one elderly dog that was too old for surgery.

Um so that's what we've been doing the last couple of weeks, so we're all tired.

We're gonna take a little bit of a break till after Christmas, I think.

But uh we still we keep a f pet food pantry where people can come and uh get pet food if they're in need of food for their pets.

That's ongoing, and we have that down at the building.

Um what else are we doing, Amy on the cut she says you got it?

And you're doing great, and and truly I I did not indicate that I would ask her to speak ahead of time.

So sorry to do that to you.

But I just thought it was a great opportunity to kind of talk about your your organization and you you all do wonderful work in the community.

I knew I knew you had had the the the clinic recently, which helped a large number of folks with uh the health of their pets.

And uh so thank you for everything you do.

And and uh, you know, you're you're also an army of volunteers to make mayor's ball happen uh each year.

So thank you for what you do for Mayor's Ball.

Thank you to everyone.

Um I have a really great uh check for for pictures, and then I have a real one.

So uh let me come down and see you with these checks.

Ms.

Cook for why you why is coming down.

Thank you so much for what you do for the animals and also for the owners of these animals.

Uh it's just it's it's great for the community.

How many times a year do you do you hold these vaccination clinics and the spay and needle programs?

We try to hold them quarterly.

So we try to do four vaccination clinics and four span neuter clinics.

This year we did three, but these last this last one was going to be so big we really couldn't do the fourth.

It was like having two and a half to three of the normal clinics.

So yeah, typically four.

What's the average number of animals that you normally the average number that you normally do?

Do we do it a clinic about two hundred and twenty?

And then the vaccines vary.

I mean, we do anywhere from twelve to close to eighteen hundred on a on a vaccination clinic.

So yeah, it's well thank you.

Thank you.

Yeah, and of course they do the shelter animals at our building, you know, the vet contracts with the city and does all the animal shelter adoptions and the feral cat program, and then we support the shelter any way we can.

We get them leashes.

I took pictures of thirteen years.

You started doing your own, so I'm backing away from that a little bit and see how but I'll still go in once in a while and help with that too.

Well, thanks for all you do.

And we provide all the vaccines for the shelter.

Yeah, we do the vaccines for the shelter as well.

So any other one for once.

I just want to say one thing.

I'm always bragging on the Humane Society.

I try to report on it when I whenever you guys have an event.

Can you give the public the address uh where to go in case they need food for their animals that you can?

Yeah, they go to 608 West 21st Street, which is where we have our building.

Uh Michelle is usually there weekdays between nine and three.

So they can just go in there and we'll help them with pet food to get them through.

So we've got dog cat food, puppy food, whatever.

So we if we don't get donations, we buy that.

So we got a five thousand dollar grant.

Got a five thousand dollar grant for pet food this year.

And then on top of that, we're spending you know a few thousand more.

So we just buy what we need and give it out when people need it.

So thank you again, Amy.

That was good info to to draw out.

So thank you uh for being here tonight and Mayor Mayor Protein Commission letting me have to find the data.

Uh the proceeds uh or the fundraising of the Mayor's Ball was another record setting here, such that we're able to get the High Plains Humane Society 6,000 42.

I think we need to start standing behind him like the cavalry does that.

I think we should get up and stand back there.

I I think we need to change our mode.

I'm gonna I'm gonna vote.

Well, Mayor, I was just thinking, one of the things the county does, and I really love it.

When you go up front to give the proclamation or give the check or they're still here, we can redo it.

Uh well, no, no, no.

But but I'd like for consideration the idea that the rest of us line up behind you so we're part of that photo to show our support, our love, our gratitude.

I really appreciate the count the way the people.

No.

Yeah, no.

Really?

Sorry to delay the meeting, friends.

Thank you.

Instead of ducking away, I think we should proudly stand behind.

And I would like to say a lot, a lot of these businesses support us, you know, Gail and uh Thomas Martin.

A lot of them support the High Plains Human Society and a lot of the events in town.

We couldn't do it without all the support.

You can.

You guys can go.

I like I like a standing in support.

So you can be in the middle of the yeah, we'll pop us all out either.

She's been hanging around early cost too much.

Yeah.

Thank you for indulging me.

All right.

Well, that does it for awards and presentations.

So we'll move into receipts of petitions and communications.

Members of the public, if you're here this evening and have something to share with the commission, we'll give you a few minutes to do that.

But first, we have a planned communication, and our assistant uh city manager, Ms.

Claire Burroughs is going to uh talk about a behavioral health survey that we all need to pay attention to.

Ms.

Burroughs.

Yes, thank you.

Um commission is I actually have with me this evening, Christian Price and Bethany Prozolski.

With uh Curry County who uh who are working with the city on lots of things to do with behavioral health, and they uh so the city of Clovis is acting as fiscal agent for the construction of the regional behavioral health facility, the horizon regional behavioral health facility, which will be finished next September.

Um Kyrie County is one of the partners in that and we are uh working with the 9th Judicial District.

And I'm gonna hand it before I say more, I'm just gonna hand it over to Christian if that's right.

Thank you, Ms.

Burroughs.

Ladies, thanks for being here.

Of course.

Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and Commission.

I apologize you don't have the best voice.

Um I will only talk a little bit.

Uh so the county took the lead as the accountable entity.

My words are also not well today.

Um for the 9th judicial district.

It is just Currie County and Roosevelt County and all of the cities combined.

And we are leading the project for the eSIM workshops and the first round of funding, which is $60,000 for each judicial district, which I believe there's 13 across the state of New Mexico.

Um it is led in part by AOC, the administrative office of the courts and UNM Health Sciences Center.

Um Health Sciences Center is who is facilitating the workshop that we are actually hosting here at the Clovis Civic Center in December.

Um that is an invite-only workshop, which all of you should have received an invitation earlier today.

Um so if you got that, please register and plan on being there.

Um there are a couple other um or not a couple, there's quite a few other um important uh stakeholders who have also received that invitation who will be there.

And that workshop is going to be looking at all the different intercepts that are involved in how a person comes involved into or comes involved with the justice system and how to divert them effectively who are struggling with mental health and substance use disorders and into treatment versus incarceration.

So that's ultimately what that workshop is is going to look at uh a gaps and needs and types of services that we need.

Uh we're going to be using the feasibility study that Initium Health that we have all partnered on previously, um the executive summary that they did a couple of years ago, um, as well as a community survey, which Bethany is going to talk a little bit about that.

So we're going to use all of that as well as that workshop to build a behavioral health response and a uh behavioral health action plan to better equip curry and Roosevelt counties to help divert individuals out of incarceration and out of the justice system and into treatment to support mental health and substance use.

So I'll pass it over to Bethany.

Great.

Thank you.

I'm gonna raise it a little bit.

Mayor, Mayor Pro Tam and Commission, my name is Bethany Brzewski.

I'm the substance use and behavioral health program manager with the county, and I'm serving as a support for logistics and just another pair of helping hands in tandem with Christian and the rest of our community partners to help make this happen in uh behavioral health region nine.

So something we are also doing to further inform the workshop that we will be having that first week of December.

We are hosting a listening session.

So that listening session will actually be facilitated through the New Mexico Alliance of Health Councils.

They will be attending virtually, I believe.

Yes, they will be facilitating it virtually.

However, there will be an in-person option for our Clovis residents at um 1100 West 21st Street in Clovis, New Mexico, as well as our Portalis Register uh residents, uh 604 East 2nd Street in Portalis.

So these are open to the community.

So that first week of December workshop is invite only, but in order for uh community voices to be heard because they of course matter, and we want to hear their input of what they would like to see the behavioral health landscape look like, their voices can be shared in that hybrid session that will be December 9th at 545 p.m.

So since that will be after our workshop the first week of December.

In the meantime, we are sharing a community behavioral health insight survey that is being shared um with our adults.

I believe you have the Spanish version tonight, but this is also the English version.

Um this has been shared with all of our community partners.

If you would like a copy, I know Miss Uh Claire Burroughs will be able to provide that to you.

Um but this is a survey, and all the same questions that will be asked in that listening uh session December 9th are asked here.

It is an open response.

It is translated, of course, in English and Spanish.

There's an opportunity for an open feedback.

These questions include identifying what's going well in our community, what could improve gaps, barriers, things like that, and also what success for behavioral health could look like in behavioral health region.

So that is all included in our survey for adults.

Yes.

We are also, those are the youth listening sessions and that uh all the surveys will help inform the workshop and the hybrid listening session will help further inform the regional plan that we will have there.

But I can stand for any questions.

And we are always here to be a support and a resource.

Well we thank you for being uh a support and a resource and appreciate the the collaboration and the partnership between the city and county on this and many other things uh at this stage.

But uh this is an important work.

We appreciate you being here to share with us the information that we needed.

What questions do we have or comments for these ladies?

Thank you for late.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate that.

Ms.

Burroughs was any any other thoughts on the behavioral health uh survey.

Um I pretend commissioners uh uh no not particularly, thank you.

Um they just it's and they're just doing a great job.

I mean we have a wonderful partnership.

Judge Myra is just is wonderful in spearheading all of this with Judge Cross.

Um we have great working relationship with the county on lots of different things.

Uh we're working on another grant uh for the FF furniture fixtures and equipment for the uh for the new horizon behavioral health facility.

Carrie's partnering with us on that.

Um of course, like Christian said and uh Bethany, this is going to bring other funding to the to the area to help behave you know address behavioral health and keep moving the uh behavioral health needle um in and addressing those needs for area residents, canon Airfoce and so on.

Thank you.

Good ma'am.

And then I do have I do have something else which is on the um I would uh I would very much like to introduce uh Alexis Hobbes to this evening uh Maymour Proterminate Commissioners.

Um Alexis is our new grants coordinator for the for the city.

Uh she's been with us almost a week now.

Um, Ms.

Hobbs, welcome.

Hi guys, I'm Alexis.

I just moved to Clovis about six months ago from St.

Petersburg, Florida.

Uh my husband's stationed here at Canon, like most of a lot of people are.

Um I'm very excited to be joining the city.

So if you guys need anything, please reach out.

We will.

It's a pleasure to meet you, and thank you to you and your your husband for your service.

And we're so glad that you could join the team at the city, and we look forward to working with you.

Thanks.

And Alexis is just joining us from the magistrate court, and she's just working on her MOS's degree in business administration.

So, thank you.

And then I just have one more communication.

Keep them coming, Ms.

Burroughs.

Mayor Mayor.

Pro Tim Commissioners.

I just wanted to touch base with you guys.

We're we uh the city re received a grant for animal welfare to help reduce overpopulation disease, uh euthanasia, and part of that is we want to have an adoption event this Saturday, the 22nd from 10 to 2.

Uh part of that grant money is reduction of the adoption fees to encourage people to adopt animals.

So there is based on the requirement of the grant, you have to have certain income requirements.

Uh less than 200% of the federal current poverty guidelines.

And so if you meet those, that requirement, you can adopt an animal from the city at a reduced rate.

And we hope that this program will help encourage people to come out and adopt animals.

Uh the grant also provides training and other funding for our trap and release program.

But uh we hope to have several events.

We have one in November, one in December, and one in February.

So that's great.

Let people, the public know we have advertised it, but we just wanted to tell you guys specifically about it.

Yeah, thanks for that, Deputy Chief.

I have seen that several places and uh to the point that I I've actually been mentioning it places that I go this week and uh so thank you uh for communicating that.

But since you have since you're here and you brought it up, what what what could the rate be reduced to?

Do you think that's going to be roughly half?

Okay.

So it takes up the fees in half.

Don't know the exact numbers, but it's gonna be exactly half.

Okay.

And so that does encourages because the adoption fees goes into getting the animals vaccinated and spater neutered through a local VEB.

So it is an expensive process.

But half half price will be very helpful to a lot of people.

Yeah, it's outstanding.

Thanks.

Uh thanks for doing that, and and it's a great opportunity for uh for folks to go out and add a furry family member to their family.

So thanks for this.

Appreciate you.

Thank you.

All right.

Are there other communications, Ms.

Burroughs?

Or is that I'm sorry.

Just kidding, you a little bit there.

But uh are there other communications?

If you're here and just have something to share uh with the commission, we would give you the opportunity to do that now.

We'd like to have your name and address for the record.

We'll give you a couple of minutes.

Okay.

Uh Ray Sherau, 512 Prairie View Drive.

Um I just wanted to express on something from the last meeting on the uh I'm not sure exactly how you word it, but about the taking miners into protective custody.

Okay.

I I grew up in Phoenix, well, Peoria really, um, and I covered the whole valley when I was a teenager.

And it was really uh quite an education.

I was out way past midnight almost every night.

Um I just wonder where this came from.

Why did we need to remind the police that they have this ability to take minors into protective custody?

Well, uh I guess I would direct you back to you know to the previous meeting that you're referring to and and and the resolution itself.

You know, uh a resolution is going to through the recitals talk about the purpose for that.

But uh I and I wouldn't want to speak for her, but uh Commissioner Debbie Zamora was was the one that really asked for that to be placed on the agenda.

And uh knowing her and and uh hearing her talk about it, I think it was just out of caring for young people in our community and and and sort of encouraging uh families to know where their kids are uh late at night and uh um and ru and and reminding everyone that our police department does have some tools uh and some options when they are encountering you know minors uh at late hours in the evening, and so it was as simple as that.

Okay.

I just wanted to say that I have been here for four years, and I've actually had a lot of contact with the police officers here, and I think that they've done a great job.

I don't feel harassed by them.

I don't feel that they're you know they're very lenient on understanding.

And I just wanted to let them know what a great job that they're doing.

That's very nice of you.

Thanks.

Thank you.

Anyone else have public comment this evening?

No?

Okay.

All right, very good.

We'll move on in the agenda uh and take up the consent agenda, Mayor Pro Tim Commissioners.

You have the opportunity to deal with seven items all at once uh this evening with the consent agenda.

Item one uh is request for approval of adoption of resolution number three three four five-2025 DFA budget changes.

Item two is request for approval of adoption of resolution number three three four six-2025 relating to the conditional use of a home for short-term rental within the Western Hills edition.

Block two, lot twenty-six, plus one foot of lot twenty-five.

The address of this location is two thousand thirty-seven Hull Street in Clovis, New Mexico.

Item three is request for approval of adoption of resolution number three three four seven-two thousand twenty-five relating to the conditional use of a home for a short-term rental within Cheyenne Meadows Unit 2, block nine, lot seven.

The address of this request is 3028 Cheyenne Drive, Clovis, New Mexico.

Item 4, request for approval of adoption of ordinance number 2251-2025, changing an RS 7 residential single family district to a CG commercial general district in the Malden uh tracked 16 lot 9 address is 7 uh excuse me 1705 Axtel Street.

Item five is request for approval of task order with CDM Smith to perform a groundwater evaluation for the Clovis Regional Solid Waste Facility.

And item six is request for approval of proposal from Nick Griego and Sans for Civic Center drainage and door repairs.

Item seven, request for approval of quarterly lodgers tax disbursements.

That is the proposed consent agenda.

Is there a motion?

Second motion for approval from Commissioner Garza.

Second from Commissioner Porter.

Please vote.

Commissioner Jones, are you voting online or do I need your voice vote?

Okay, please give it a.

Yeah, thank you, sir.

Mine is no work.

Okay, we're having some difficulties.

Uh so we're gonna do acclamation.

I already have a yes from Commissioner Jones.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, the same sign.

We have none opposed.

The vote is unanimous.

The items have been placed.

I would now entertain a motion to approve or acknowledge all items.

So move.

Secret from Commissioner Cassal.

Second from the Mayor Pro Tim.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, the same sign.

The motion is carried unanimously.

Thank you.

And uh that does it for action items this evening.

We'll move into reports of boards, officers, and committees.

Is there a report from Planning and Zoning Commission which met at 3 p.m.

on Wednesday, November 12th.

Commissioner Garza.

Yes, uh thank you, Mayor.

Um we do have a short meeting, and uh what uh uh is of interest here is uh conditional use request for short-term rentals.

Uh Air and Bs, Airbnbs, Airbnbs.

So I think they're gonna start popping up and becoming uh norm in the community.

So uh we're be working on it.

And we have a we have a process for folks to apply for uh uh for that type of use uh stance.

Yes.

Um but that's correct, Mayor.

Mayor Pro Tim and Commissioners, and so obviously you approved two conditional use permits this evening uh for short term rentals, which is part of our code.

And so um what we don't have in place right now is necessarily like a licensing process for those uh for us to maintain and keep track of them.

Uh we don't have uh process of for considerations if you know if there needs to be a fee, they need to be paying lodgers tax, and so we're working uh staff is working towards putting together recommendations for uh planning and zoning consideration, and then ultimately the city commission's uh consideration as we move forward, and as more uh short-term rentals become prevalent within our community.

We have 40-ish uh short-term rentals currently within our uh community, and so uh we just need to make sure that uh we need to get processes in place other than the conditional use through zoning uh to to try and if we want to, as we so chose to regulate that type of business.

Yeah, th thanks for that explanation and and and Commissioner Garza for for you know pointing that out because I do believe that was the first time I had seen that request on the agenda.

Right.

And I think it's uh it's a good thing to have, but we need to keep an eye on it a little bit.

For sure.

Yes.

That's all I have.

Thanks for that report, Commissioner.

Appreciate that very much.

Uh well, I may be coming right back to you for lodgers tax uh disbursements or lodgers tax advisory board.

Yes, uh thank you.

Um we had a toll request of of uh 240,000 dollars uh which uh we only were able to recommend uh 56,000, which you all approve.

Uh 56,000 is uh not including the Music Festival, which they will come back because of uh uh the timing of it uh is uh not happening until later in the year, next year.

So they have uh a chance to come back for that.

But we're gonna have a lot of activity going on uh the beginning of the year.

So uh more uh grocery seats should be coming into the community.

That's great.

Thanks.

Thanks for that.

Um appreciate your service in both of those places, Commissioner.

Well, thank you.

Uh uh.

Well, we we appreciate you.

Uh next, uh senior services committee met uh earlier today at uh 130, uh right here in this room.

Um the uh senior services committee uh um we we had planned and and per the agenda we we were uh asking for approval of appointment of a vice chair uh for for that committee.

We had three uh three committee members absent and and uh uh the committee members that were there thought it best to wait until we had uh more of the committee uh on hand.

I suggested we just make one of the ones that was absent to the vice chair.

I mean that's what happens, right?

Trying to make a joke there, guys.

We'll we'll keep moving.

All right.

So um so what we did uh do though was uh approve a uh a recommendation regarding Hillcrest senior meal site program policies and procedures which need to be uh looked at by uh city management and and eventually make their way to non-metro triple A.

Uh speaking of senior meals, uh I'll I'll not uh try to give you uh you know regurgitate all of the reports that we heard again.

Senior services committees uh oftentimes are a really impressive uh those meetings are impressive when we hear about all the activities happening uh in the community serving uh seniors, but uh to just relay some info about the senior meal site, which I know some of you are more familiar with than I am, and you may know these things.

But uh first quarter, so uh fiscal year 26 first quarter, uh so um uh you know, the the quarter that just ended, uh there were 400 and 429 unique seniors who dined in the dining room.

Uh and for a total of 7,074 meals served in the dining room uh in uh during the first quarter.

Uh there are 126 uh unique uh home delivery uh seniors or seniors that receive their meals through home delivery.

A total number of meals, those home delivery, which guys you may know this or maybe you don't, but uh they get a hot meal at lunch, and in many cases they also get a frozen meal delivered at that same time that they can warm up later.

Uh but the total meals in the first quarter for FY26, 22,428.

So the the meal site is doing a great job and really serving a lot of meals to citizens in our community.

Uh there's uh a couple of exciting things happening at Hillcrest Senior Life Center, as you know uh tomorrow they're uh celebrating Thanksgiving dinner, and uh I think some of you uh are going to be volunteering and waiting tables at the senior center.

Is that right?

Yeah, okay.

That'll be fun.

And that'll be nice practice for December 19th because that's when they'll be doing the Christmas dinner, and we'll we'll want to go out and and uh serve our seniors that day as well.

So that was senior services today.

Uh thanks for letting me update you on that.

Um after senior services, the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority Board met, and so I I really want to share that because there was some great news out of that meeting today.

Packed agenda, by the way.

Um but um we met out in our our member community of Texaco, and um during that meeting we were able to approve uh the employment contract for an executive director.

Uh you you you may know, but uh that position has been vacant since July 24th.

And um we we hired uh the board unanimously approved a contract with a gentleman named Mark Howell.

He resides in Portalis and um was one of the two finalists and um and is the right guy for the job in the in the board uh approved his contract.

So we're excited to be onboarding him and and uh kind of turning a page at the authority in terms of of leadership and and and it's just an exciting time.

Uh we also uh uh very important uh document and policy uh established today.

Uh we established a groundwater tie-in policy.

There's been a lot of talk for uh a decade or more about um utilizing the water authorities infrastructure uh as it's put in place uh to move groundwater.

The the phrase interim uh groundwater inter and interim groundwater pipeline uh was was kind of adopted at one point along the way.

Um we don't use that phrase, but that's the concept.

Uh and so we now have a policy that outlines the strict and they are strict because it's important that we protect the the infrastructure and we protect the integrity of the water authority, but we have some some criteria, some standards and requirements that would have to be met, uh some conditions under which we could do that.

We could use, for example, finish water one, which is in place to move groundwater in if if if uh Epcore and the City of Clovis are able to find groundwater out in in that in that part of the world, or uh you know, the Tex Collateral, for example.

So we want to be a partner, but but uh a tenant, and a really important tenant of our policy is that those those considerations will only be undertaken when initiated by the member of our authority, the member municipality would have to make the request for that, and then all of the the criteria and standards would have to be met.

Um let's see, we approved an easement agreement on raw water one B, raw water one B is a section of the pipeline in Quay County off of the cap.

Um incidentally, we are out to bid on raw water one A and uh moving through that process and and you know very very excited to be doing so.

Uh and of course we had a uh a project uh progress update and and so on, but but the the real news, uh the the groundwater tie-in policy, that's big.

Um and and perhaps bigger.

We have an executive director at the water authority once again, and so excited for that.

Uh any other reports before I go to uh Ms.

Malanson for the monthly investment report.

Ms.

Melancin, monthly investment report.

Thank you, Mayor Mayor Pro Tim and Commissioners.

Um October.

So we are in the second quarter now.

We started our month at 78.7 million, ending at 77.4 million.

Brief overview, General Fund 1, 14.5 million ending cash, fund two, solid waste 2.1 million, economic development gross receipts fund 64, 8.3 million, our water quarter percent fund 66, 6.6 million, special streets fund 75, 1.3 million, and our American Rescue Plan Fund 94.

We are down to the 1.5 million, with the majority of that being reserved for the animal shelter.

So that funding is almost gone.

Uh brief overview.

We have a little over 15 million in our local banks.

We have our 10 million CD and our 52.3 million in the state investment pool.

Our interest for the month was 240,000.

Our year to date for the four months is just a little over a million compared to 730,000 at this time last year.

State pool was 4.27, which is down from 4.34 and significantly lower than this time last year at 5.33.

So we continue to watch that.

Hot off the press.

Gross receipts came in this afternoon.

We are 2.54% above this time last year.

We are just at 2.5 percent above act in actual compared to last year at this time, and we are a little over 22 percent over budget at this point.

And we were actually, with that, we were actually down 210 filers this period.

So happy to answer any questions, and those were all sent to you this afternoon.

Okay, thank you for that.

Down 210 filers, uh, but um that number obviously fluctuates because we have uh online retail establishments that are coming on every month.

And so down down 210 filers isn't really uh no, and really four there was a decrease of 145 in retail, and yet we were up about 72,000.

So maybe fewer online as we per continue to receive more retail in town.

I see.

Well, thank you for that report.

Appreciate it.

Any questions for Ms.

Melancin?

All right.

Thanks very much.

Uh future agenda items, Ms.

Foster or Ms.

Burroughs?

Yes, thank you.

May I pray time and commission is the only item I have currently is the approval of the old C C grant, the Office of Local Defense Department Commun Cooperation.

Get out in a minute.

And uh uh with an agreement for matrix design.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

Um upcoming meetings, uh, local emergency management planning committee will meet at 3 p.m.

on uh December 3rd, and the next City Commission meeting will be on Thursday, December 4th at 5.15 p.m.

Anything else for the good of the order?

We are adjourned.