Do we have those online on mute, please?

Okay.

I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Armed Forces Support Committee and begin by offering a prayer saying the pledge to our United States flag and saluting our New Mexico flag.

If you'd join me in those things, please.

Heavenly Father, thank you for your goodness and mercy, your blessings.

God thank you for our military, our active duty and veterans.

And Lord, uh for the things on the agenda.

Uh this morning, we we thank you for the work going in, the the reports that we're gonna hear, and each individual contributing.

We uh we are grateful.

I ask these things in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

Amen.

And to the Republic for which one nation under God, indivisible and justice.

I salute the flag of the state of Mexico.

Thank you so much.

And now may we have a roll call, please.

Brad Bender.

Here.

Dusty Leatherwood.

Here.

Michael Miller.

Michael Morris.

Here.

Veronica Cordova.

Paul Grider.

Here.

Juan Garza.

Here.

Maylin Parker.

Okay.

And uh thank you for that, Ms.

Foster.

I believe we have Mayor Mike Davidson from Portalis online.

And he Good morning, Mayor.

Thank you for joining us.

And uh the Portalis City Council has appointed Mayor Davidson uh to the committee.

To replace Mr.

Miller, correct.

Right.

As as uh Mayor Miller is it's uh has uh retired from the public service, or at least that part of it.

Great.

So uh I would like to have you consider approval of the minutes from August 6th.

If you had the opportunity to review those, I take any uh uh corrections or objections to how they've been printed now.

And hearing and seeing none we'll adopt the minutes from August 6th and record yes votes for each of the members of the committee.

Uh next we have requests for approval of appointment of a vice chairperson to this committee.

Um there any thoughts or uh nominations for vice chair for Armed Forces Support Committee.

Mr.

Chair, I'd like to move that we um nominate Mr.

Davidson as our leadership for Protalis, um to be considered for the vice chair.

Okay, thank you.

Okay.

We have a motion and a second to appoint Mayor Mike Davidson from Portalis as the vice chair of the committee.

Um Mayor Davidson, are you willing to serve in that role?

I should.

Absolutely.

Thank you for that.

Uh any further discussion.

Hearing and seeing none, all those in favor of appointing Mayor Mike Davidson as vice chair of this committee, please say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, the same sign.

The motion is carried unanimously.

Thank you, Mayor Davidson for serving.

Uh next, we get the update from Canon Air Force Base.

Colonel McMaster is here.

Uh first uh for the uh members of the of the the team here and the our local leaders that uh joined us last night uh for the PFOS open house here, uh really appreciate the support.

Uh it was a great uh great turnout, so thank you.

Um I'm uh obviously not uh Colonel Johnston, uh Colonel Johnston, Chief Connell uh are out uh uh taking care of uh some of our nation's business for us, but uh we expect to get them uh back uh here uh real soon and hopefully uh later on even this afternoon.

So looking forward to that return.

Uh so during uh for you know Canon Air Force Base this time of year, uh coming off of the holiday, not really a break, but holiday period, we usually do what we call uh back in the saddle training.

That's kind of where we kinda come back, ease back into uh to operations, uh kind of refocus, get back to the basics if you will.

Um and so that's kind of where the focus is of of the uh the base right now, at least this week, and that's what we've been focusing on.

Uh the uh although this year I think we're we might be calling a little bit of uh you know, still in the saddle uh and at uh as uh due to the you know the last year uh and uh you know throughout the throughout the entire year our ops tempo uh never really kind of let off.

And uh in fact it kind of increased uh throughout the you know three year.

Uh with that, uh our our airmen uh out at uh the 27th Sal been providing uh unconventional uh air power uh worldwide uh at a moment's notice and again uh throughout this entire year, uh weekends, holidays, the whole whole nine yards.

But in addition to those uh you know contingency response type uh operations we've been uh been able to be a part of uh the the men and women of looking back over the last year, participated uh in in quite a few exercises uh globally.

Uh so Talisman Saber uh in Australia, uh Southern Star in Chile, uh, and uh Arctic Edge up in Alaska.

And it kind of gives you a little bit of uh an example of the global reach.

And those are not just simply the deployments we go on to, those are uh global exercises we've been supporting uh in support of the joint force.

And so uh super proud of the uh the reach we've been able to uh uh to have uh in the global impact we've been able to have with those.

Um looking back over the last year, quality of life improvements, and you've seen across uh around the base.

Uh we've opened up a new indoor playground here recently.

In fact, that was last fall.

Uh several of our outdoor playgrounds uh have received updates and we did open up a one-of-a-kind uh mini mart, you might say, over in our Chavez uh housing area.

So super excited about uh that.

Uh on the medical front, uh we've expanded our circuit rider program, and that's the bringing in specialty care uh into the uh onto the base to be able to uh help uh some of those uh unique uh and specialized uh providers uh that uh sometimes uh uh thwart uh our ability as maybe PCSN uh some members here that have kind of special needs.

And so we've expanded that and it's uh uh that uh across the board with some of our specialties.

Uh also uh increased on the child care uh front uh number of providers in our child development center.

Uh so we're expanding capacity there uh throughout the last year.

Uh super excited about uh working and partnering with the City of Clovis here uh to get access for the CATS uh transportation service.

And so that's really helped with some of our airmen that uh or or dependents that don't have uh you know access to a vehicle to get downtown, be able to do th you know, uh conduct business, do shopping and that kind of thing at a really affordable rate.

So I really appreciate the uh the help that we've had with that.

Um recently uh in fact uh it was just last month we opened up our uh CADM uh facility.

So that's our indoor shooting range uh for our security forces, but also across all of our uh members that need to go out and and shoot and qualify on you know the M18 M4 uh before deployments.

Uh and so we just opened that uh facility up uh roughly a month ago.

State of the art facility, really state of the art across the Air Force, uh one kind of a unique facility.

Uh but we're also excited about the ability to expand that to our law enforcement uh local law enforcement officers uh to be able to come out and have that as a uh kind of an alternate site for them and kind of a joint use, if you will, uh space for that.

Um for the community, uh thank you all for the incredible support over this last year.

Uh small you know uh uh things that come to mind.

Uh our uh uh Canon Appreciation Day, uh single airman Christmas party that we had this year was a huge uh huge hit.

Uh Angel Arms uh and as well as all the other things that our community has done to support uh our our airmen uh on the uh on the installation uh has been uh been incredible.

Um kind of culminated last year too with uh we had a warehouse fire down uh downtown that I think a lot of folks were are aware of uh that uh affected a lot of our airmen uh because they had trans, you know, some of our airmen had all of their uh household uh goods uh stored there temporarily while they were in the midst of a PCS.

Uh and so the community really really came together, I mean, at the at the drop of a hat uh to provide support uh for for our uh for our airmen in need, uh you know, monetary donations, furniture, clothing, all the things that you can't uh uh that really come into play uh you know during uh for for during a tragic loss like that.

Uh thanks to our uh JBC uh teammates during Veterans Week.

Uh it was a great week this year.

I know we were uh a little bit stifled with uh the the shutdown, uh but you know, obviously a great parade and uh and uh and a great week uh hosting us at their uh uh the different venues.

Uh today uh we are uh welcoming uh on to base and and I know they're gonna talk later, but the old C C old C C team uh that's here to talk uh about a our uh upcoming project throughout the next year, and so uh we're incredibly excited uh about that as well.

Uh but but what is 2026 look like as we you know kind of kick off the year?

A few things going on on base.

Um we're gonna be uh opening our uh newly refurbished airmen's attic uh here in the spring, and so that's a great opportunity for our airmen that uh in need that don't have a lot of uh that are maybe strapped for cash that need certain simple things like household appliances and you know furniture and you know baby gear and that kind of thing.

So uh we're we're we'll be opening that up again uh here early in the spring.

Uh Starbase will be uh opening uh here.

We hope I think uh believe it's uh later this month that we'll start to host our first classes and getting those fifth graders on base uh to um uh to really dive into you know STEM uh STEM type classes, but really it's exposure, you know, to our military uh men and women.

Um next June, June 6th, put it on the calendars uh is gonna be the air show.

Uh so it's been about three years since Canada's hosted a um uh an air show.

So we'll we're excited about that.

The theme this year is from Normandy to now.

Uh but uh we're we hope to incorporate a lot of musical acts and some other performances as well.

Uh so that's gonna be a great uh a great time.

And and it's kind of coincides with the 250th anniversary of uh you know of our nation.

So uh good timing on uh on that as well.

Uh and then uh you know, kind of uh operationally or uh you know mission-wise, uh 2026, we anticipate is gonna be a busy year for the steadfast line.

Uh 27 South, if you you know, is is gonna be right in the thick of of things as we start to uh have uh emerging threats and emerging theaters uh and uh and we'll be uh an active uh part of that.

As we as we know, SOF is a uh uh is that flexible and adaptable uh uh unit of you know of action that can get out there on uh on short notice.

Uh and that's just exactly what we do uh from uh from Canon Air Force Base, projecting that power um at a uh uh with little notice uh and in pretty much anywhere uh globally.

And so uh we anticipate this being uh uh an active year for us, uh but but but that's what we like, right?

So that's what we're all about.

But uh but really appreciate uh the opportunity to be here to provide an update uh from what's going on out at uh Canon.

And uh thank you.

Any questions?

Yes, thank you, Colonel.

Appreciate uh you and your team carving out the time to come give an update here.

Uh and I really appreciated your well, the all of your update, but uh I appreciated the reflection on kind of some of the high points of the over the last year, the uh uh you know, the the airman party, uh the Canon Appreciation Day, and so on, just some some events that we truly think of as highlights as well.

Just a great last year, and as we look ahead, uh we're excited about the things that you have going on in in 2026.

Kind of just a practical thing I wanted uh to ask to to pull out.

Uh you talk about starting up airmen's addict again.

Uh do you are uh do you know the process for residents of Clovis to donate to that?

We uh I I know we have a process.

I'm not sure how exactly the you know the logistical uh piece of that, but we'll we'll get the word out to the community on how if that's something that uh there you know folks have a desire or uh you know feel a need or desire to uh to you know to contribute to.

Uh it's it's a great program.

It's it's kind of you know, most uh Air Force installations have something akin to that.

You know, if uh you move in, you know, young families, they move in and you know they need a toaster or a microwave or you know, a baby crib or you know, all those kind of things, uh be able to provide that to them.

Uh and then you know some most of the time it's on a loaner basis, you know, and then when they move they they drop it back off.

And so uh it's a good uh it's a good venue for that.

But we'll get the word out to the community on how we can you know how they can physically uh make donations to that if if desired.

Sounds great.

Thank you for doing that.

And we uh uh sincerely look forward to uh to all of the the activities that we'll get to join together in in 2026.

Um I have a feeling the air show is gonna be amazing.

And so we're we have that one circled.

Yeah, oh yeah.

It's uh it's gonna be a great time.

And uh and and again, the intent there is to open up uh to you know to the public, uh the get you know, gates wide open kind of thing and uh and allow folks uh you know the entire community to come out and enjoy that.

So we're super uh super excited about it.

That's great.

Any other questions from the committee or comments?

I got a comment.

Uh I know it can't be nobody knows, nobody says but I know there was uh uh uh operation took place in the Southern Hemisphere.

We uh I know special ops in different departments, but to let from me and my family we say thank y'all for whatever part was taken with whatever because we know what it took to get it done and we appreciate it.

Well thank you, Sarah.

And again, you know, from uh from the 27th hour, we're we're always uh globally where wherever that call may come or or or time uh ready to respond.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Other comments?

Questions?

Colonel, thank you so much.

Appreciate you.

All right, members of the committee, um and everyone who's here.

We're gonna move into uh the section titled Federal Updates and look for updates from our uh federal partners.

I see Ms.

Constance Williams is here uh representing Senator Luhan's office.

Ms.

Williams, would you like to provide your update?

Thank you, Mayor Morris, uh committee members.

Um happy new year and bless you.

Um I'm Constance Williams, I'm the field representative for Senator Lujan in the Portalis office.

And uh just wanted to give a brief update.

Uh Senator Luhan and Colonel Johnston did have a meeting um in mid-December um that was a good meeting.

They kind of kind of talked about expansion of um mission uh possibilities here at Canon.

Um they said had a good meeting uh on I want to say the 18th or the 19th of December, the NDAA was passed, and so um our office does have a statement on that, and so I'm just gonna kind of read through that to give you all some updates about the NDAA and its impact on Canon.

So uh it says uh Senator Ben Ray Luhan issued the following statement on the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act, which uh now heads to the President's desk.

Uh today I voted to pass the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act, which makes critical investments to ensure our armed forces remain prepared in an increasingly complex global landscape.

New Mexico's military installations and national laboratories play an essential role in safeguarding our nation, and this year's NDAA delivers the resources and support these vital facilities need um to continue protecting Americans.

This legislation makes targeted investments in our most pressing national security objectives, prioritizing well-deserved pay raises for our service members and making key investments that strengthen research and development at our national laboratories.

This NDAA reinforces both New Mexico's contributions to our national defense and security of our country.

I was proud to support and help secure these critical measures for New Mexico and the nation.

All right.

Supporting our military personnel at there is a providing of 3.8% pay raise for military service members.

Um this also requires DOD to document all service member radiation and toxic exposures, including those that occur domestically, so veterans can be seen by the VA after they've separated from the military.

Um this uh the NDAA also supports uh remotely piloted aircraft crews like those stationed at Holoman and Canon Air Force bases by recognizing their combat participation and enabling access to combat-related mental health services.

Um there's a boosting energy security um uh at our national laboratories.

Um there's an authorization of 25.9 billion dollars for the National Nuclear Security Administration to support and sustain its system integration, engineering and science programs.

Um it also also authorizes 6.9 billion for DOE, which is a Department of Energy's defense environmental cleanup activities, including 278 million for Los Alamos National Lab, 1.3 million for or 1.03 million for Sandia National Labs to support defense-related environmental cleanup and authorizations uh authorized uh authorizes 415.4 million for the waste isolation plant that's down in the Hobbes area.

Um it requires 45 million for the Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board and requires the Secretary of Energy to brief Congress on actions that can be taken to accelerate cleanup milestones uh with the state of New Mexico at Les Alamos National Laboratory, um including the Hexavalent Chromium Plume.

Um there are also protections from threats against China, which um it prohibits the Secretary of Defense from directly or indirectly acquiring computers or printers uh manufactured by covered Chinese entities, and then also protects against China buying land near U.S.

military bases, and then uh lastly, formally ending Iraq wars.

This repeals the 1991 and the 2002 authorization for use of military force for the Gulf and the Iraq wars.

Um so that is a lot.

If you would like more, you can please go to our website or you can give me a call.

Um as always, we're taking casework.

I want to say thank you to Canon for their response when we do have inquiries on different things uh from constituents, you know, in the area.

But um, thank you very much.

If you all have any questions, please let me know.

Thank you, Ms.

Williams.

We'll check for questions.

Uh any questions or comments?

Ms.

Williams, thank you.

Uh our thanks to the Senator for his support of of Canon and Clovis uh and Portalis, Roosevelt, and Curry Counties.

Um and uh thank you for prioritizing coming in today and and sharing uh a report.

It really enriches our meeting.

So thank you very much.

I want to check online for uh representatives from Senator Heinrich's office, perhaps Diane Ventura.

Ms.

Ventura, are you on?

Or Ms.

Bayer?

Okay.

We'll we'll we'll check once more before leaving that section, but I think we have Mr.

Salazar on representing Teresa Ledger Fernandez, uh the Congresswoman, Mr.

Salazar.

Good morning, Mr.

Mayor.

Can you guys hear me okay?

We can, yes, sir.

Thank you for being here.

First of all, thank you.

I'm I'm uh keeping everybody from catching the virus, but I managed to catch uh here lately.

Thanks to me and today, so I didn't want to do anybody for any time the elderly.

Um not much report and uh excuse me.

There's not much to react there in terms of uh the information provided.

Do uh provided for the Congresswoman when the delegation can was up there.

Uh but we remain from this long to put in Canon in the mission.

Um we don't have a candidate date as of yet in our planning or 2026 calendar for the comments in the area and visit the Canon.

But again, I'm just reiterating the fact that the complimentary is up for understanding with a Canon Myers Mission, our military veterans, and then however who can reinforce Canada Force Basic mission through our office.

So that's my report for today.

Thank you for that report, Mr.

Salazar, and and uh we're sorry you're not feeling well, but want to thank you for thinking of us all and not bringing that virus to the meeting today.

Uh we'll check we'll check with the committee for any questions or comments for you.

The only comment I would probably say is that uh uh Colonel Master has a unique way of stealing the thunder, so I completely understand uh where you're coming from there.

So he's it it's totally understandable.

But no, thank you for for the report and always good to hear from you, Ms.

Salazar.

Thank you.

Thanks very much, Mr.

Salazar.

Uh appreciate you and and please uh feel better and we look forward to seeing you sometime soon.

Um I'll check one more time for representatives from Senator Heinrich's office, Ms.

Ventura or Ms.

Bayer.

Okay, just as well.

We certainly appreciate uh Senator Heinrich's support as well as his staff support of um all things military affairs in our communities.

So that takes us to uh section six, which is State of New Mexico Office of Military Base Planning and Support.

The uh military base planning uh uh commission's executive director, Ms.

Megan Cornet, retired Air Force Colonel, isn't that right?

Yes, sir.

And we're so glad that you're here.

Thank you for being here, and we look forward to your report.

Oh, well, Mr.

Mayor, it is wonderful to be here, and I like how you scheduled all the meetings on consecutive days for uh for my convenience.

But no, it's wonderful uh to be back in one of America's great defense communities.

Um so just thank you for the partnership.

Um the Military Base Planning Commission and my office are excited to kick off a very active year.

Um at the direction of the chairman, the lieutenant governor, the commission has taken on a much more active posture.

And so we have aligned our budget, uh made some adjustments in the operating budget for FY26 and into 27 for the commission to be much more active attending the association of defense community conferences as you do here locally, um, also doing more travel for engagement in Washington DC with our federal delegation and the Department of War officials.

Um we're just we're really excited for that.

They are also um doing two-day meetings for the rest of this fiscal year and probably into the next year, um, doing some closed meeting work sessions to develop their strategic plan to cover the next five years and um then having their typical open meetings.

So their next open meeting is um going to be aligned with Clovis Day at the Roundhouse on the 2nd to be followed by uh Military and Veterans Day at the Roundhouse on February 3rd.

And so we are grateful for our Clovis community partners that have helped us book our reservations at the same hotel, host our reception prior to your dinner, um, and that we can make sure that we maximize participation uh from the Lieutenant Governor and the Governor's Office as well as um other folks to support Clovis but also Canon Air Force Base and our other military installations.

So we're really excited about that.

And then as you know, Military and Veterans Day on the third is is typically a very large event.

The active duty military installations periodically participate.

Um but we are definitely looking for alignment, and they should be receiving their invitations from the Department of Veterans Services and the State Adjutant General to have information booths in the retunda the morning of the eighth to be then recognized on the House and Senate floors during during the floor sessions, uh be able to meet with our state representatives and senators during that time.

And then the commission will host their meeting after the ceremony at noon in the rotunda, the commission meeting will start at about 1.30 or 2 o'clock.

And that meeting will be a commander's summit.

So in recent history, it will be the first time that all four installation commanders from New Mexico present to the commission at the same time.

And so we are really looking to synchronize on some like problems that all of our installations face and find those defense and local community solutions where it is appropriate.

So I will pause there for a moment.

If there's any questions on more of the logistics.

Just one more time, the date and time of that meeting you just described.

3 February.

Okay.

It will be in a committee room at the roundhouse.

I've taken a look at the committee room we were assigned, and I think in my opinion, it's a little small, so I'm not going to give you the room number because I'm going to try to get a larger room.

That's great.

And that's at one point.

And it will be following the ceremony.

So hopefully a 130 start, but but maybe two, depending on the length of the ceremony.

Sounds like a great meeting.

So thank you.

I wanted to capture that.

Yes, sir.

Any other comments or questions for Ms.

Cornette at this time?

Go right ahead.

So I know I've briefed you before, and you have some documents before you that specify the commission's legislative priorities for this session.

So I want to give you an update on that.

And the and number one is an appropriation to the military base impact fund.

The governor did support the commission's request for 12 million dollars into that fund.

And we now, in the pre-file session, representative Debbie Saranyana has she submitted House Bill 29 for consideration, which is an $8 million appropriation.

The lieutenant governor and the commission will still be advocating for the full $12 million.

We think that's fair and it's an easy number to be fair and equitable across our defense communities and actually achieve something something really meaningful for your communities and military installations.

So we are excited to see alignment and support from both the legislature and the governor, and we just look to close the gap in the financial aspect.

So they are not related to appropriations and budget.

And there were three crime prior crime-related priorities.

One was concurrent juvenile jurisdiction to open up juvenile justice services to children who reside on military installations.

Number the next two are related.

One is military interpersonal interpersonal violence reporting, and the other is child abuse reporting.

Those have previously been introduced by Senator Cidio Lopez in Senate Bill 373 last year.

That language, since it's already drafted, it's already been vetted by the Department of War.

That bill, subject to the governor's call, will be filed by the Senator again this year.

And so that will basically just require across the state that local law enforcement agencies report to a military installation any incidents of domestic violence or child abuse.

It's a pretty simple bill, and we think that will that will move forward this year.

Those are the big pieces of legislation.

And the other ones are licensure, professional licensure compacts.

And so you've probably seen a lot of conversation about access to health care, the benefits of professional licensure for those.

We have Senator Linda Trujillo from Santa Fe.

She will pursue compacts again on the Senate side.

She has recommended too, and she's working very closely with the Governor's office.

And those will have real impact in communities such as yours.

And one is the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, which is for doctors.

And we we agree with her prioritizing that one, even though it does not necessarily support military spouse employment as directly as some of the others, but it does address a priority for the state.

And the other one she is pursuing is social work, which again is a state priority, but also is one of the compacts that is managed by the Department of War specifically for military spouse employment in that area.

You will see, though, in pre-file that uh Representative Marion Matthews from Bernalio County, she did pre-file three other professional compacts.

Um is for the inner jurisdiction psychology compact.

I probably got the name butchered there.

Um and then two others that are also health care related.

Um two of those happen to also include military spouse employment concerns.

Um we don't know.

The big ask I from the Governor's office, we believe is going to be all of the health care related compacts.

Um we think realistically that the legislature does need to prioritize, and then we understand that the governor would like them to act on those compacts in the first 15 days.

So that is concludes my update for now.

Great, great update, and thank you for taking us through the legislative priorities.

Members of the committee, you see the last item on the agenda today is consideration of a resolution supporting the Military Base Planning Commission's legislative priorities.

Um you were talking about the the first uh medical licensure compact and who who is the lawmaker that's carrying that?

Linda Trujillo, Senator Linda Trujillo.

Got it.

She formally of RLD.

So she she knows her licensing.

Okay.

Thank you for that.

So uh what questions would we have for Ms.

Cornett?

So I'm glad you brought that up as far as the compacts, because we've been down this for a number of years now, right?

This is this is way overdue, and we're really looking forward to the state using what I would like to call common sense in this in this area to get this put through.

So uh thank thank you for uh coming to us with that agenda.

Um do you see any when you're talking about that from what you are hearing, are you seeing anything?

Are you hearing from anybody uh on the other side saying that they don't think this is gonna happen?

Are you what are you kind of feeling from that direction?

So I think you see in open source reporting um that that still there is the concern of will New Mexico residents be able to receive what they're due in a case of medical malpractice.

I mean, and that's something that the state has has led in a different way.

So there is a lot of communication about um larger medical malpractice reform for the state and and different things.

I think, however, um, due to the status of federal funding for things such as rural health care, um what they've seen with grants, federal grants, um maybe not being as available as they had been in previous administrations.

Um, New Mexico needs to make sure that they are a member of compacts because being compact members is part of the grading criteria for the application for some of those federal grants.

And so I think you're gonna see a different sense of urgency as to um you know how many how much can the state afford to cover a gap in federal funding on, and that may change the narrative that we've previously encountered.

Thank you for that.

And if I may, I just want to for anybody that doesn't have a great understanding of how important this compact is.

I serve on the uh hospital board here in Clovis, and there have been opportunities where we had a really well-qualified physician or provider to come in and due to the fact that the compact held up the process, uh he in turn found another job along the way and wanted to come here but didn't want to wait.

And it was just a timing thing.

And so uh again, that's why I use the word common sense, so just so everybody understands the importance of that.

So thank you for that.

You're welcome.

Thanks, Chairman Bender, for those uh those remarks and and questions.

Any other questions?

I wanted to ask if if if you if you don't mind on the uh military-based impact fund in the resolution that we're considering, uh it says uh any money in the fund will be administered by your office and the economic development department through a grant program with only a 10 percent local match required.

So the the bill that was passed last legislative session, did it set that that cost share out on the It did.

That framework is is in the statute that was enacted.

Okay, okay.

All right.

Thank you for that.

Any other questions or comments?

Look, we appreciate you being here.

I'm glad we could schedule a bunch of meetings to you know on uh consecutive days.

So we're it's much better to be in person.

I appreciate it.

Well, we appreciate the work that you're doing from the base planning commission side of things, and and thank you for being here to report.

It makes our meeting better, and and we we thank you.

Yeah.

Mayor Morris, can I ask a quick question?

Sure.

On item two, is that going to stay on the resolution as it's going to be a priority moving to 2027, or is that something that needs to be removed?

Um Ms.

Cornet, I you you maybe don't have to come back to the podium, but you you mentioned uh item two, the concurrent juvenile jurisdiction.

Uh you mentioned that that you you're fairly certain doesn't end up being a priority, or it well, it is a priority of the base planning commission, but it's not going to make it in front of the legislature this time around.

Would you like uh did you say that first of all?

And then we'll be able to do that.

I did say that.

All right, and and should we consider uh passing the resolution with it in the resolution because it is a priority of the base planning commission?

So I it's really um obviously your decision.

I I would say that um we would not have a bill sponsor at this time and we wouldn't have very good draft language uh that we would want to put forward.

I don't remember how the resolution begins, how it lays it out.

Um so I think that's kind of important.

Is it specific to the 26th legislative session?

It does read that way.

And if it is, then I would strike concurrent juvenile jurisdiction and then we look to roll that into 27.

Okay.

You are setting the benchmark for the rest of our defense communities, so I I will make sure that they get your updated draft.

Oh well, I'm so glad to hear that part.

Thank you.

Yeah, well, appreciate that.

Thank you.

So we could consider before um as a matter of debate when we get to that item, we could consider uh striking uh number two or leaving it in, which whichever the committee decides at that point.

But if um if it's all right, we'll continue with reports and then we'll let everyone kind of think about this and then take it up in order at the end of the meeting.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Um I've received word that Ms.

Diane Ventura is on and uh ready to give a report from Senator Heinrich's office.

Ms.

Ventura, are you there?

And we'll give you the floor.

I am hearing me.

We can.

Good to good to hear from you this morning.

Uh and you have the floor.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

Um I I was looking back at the minutes, and I'm going to believe that um Ms.

Constance Williams might have reported um on the NDA uh wins from the last meeting.

Um but I'll kind of reiterate those again.

Um with the passage of the MDA Core 26.

So I know that the norms um let me see.

Hold on one second.

Um the 1920 dormitory for Canon was at 90 million.

That was secured, and then also there was 79 million for the deployment processing center of Canon as well.

So we had many wins for across New Mexico with our installations and also um our labs, um, etc.

But specifically for Canon, those those were a couple of big big wins.

They're higher dollar amounts.

And so anyway, we were we were really uh happy to see that.

So um I don't have much else.

Um after you couldn't join the call.

I mean, no few chance to kind of share out more on Aussie's side and uh and a few other things, but that's all I have for now.

Okay, thank you, Ms.

Ventura.

I appreciate you dialing in and and and checking in with us.

We're grateful for the way that you work to to support us and keep us informed out here, and we certainly want to send our thanks to the Senator.

Thank you.

We are at item seven, which would be uh Mr.

Blake Curtis's report.

I don't see Mr.

Curtis here, Air and Space Force Civic Leader Activities update.

Anyone providing that for Mr.

Curtis?

Okay.

Very good.

Next, then we have uh a base community council update from Mr.

Pyle.

Chairman Morris and Commission, just a few things to mention.

The base community council executive committee met with Colonel Johnston in November.

So we working on um several initiatives that will be coming out over the next few months.

Um but right now what we're currently working on is February 6th.

It's a Friday, it will be a luncheon.

That will be the next base community council.

Canon Air Force Base program for that will be DAF water security initiatives.

And then the community presentation of that will be community bridges.

We'll provide an update on the Horizon Behavioral Health Center, the partnership with the five counties and the three cities and kind of where that is as far as construction is going and what services will be provided and how that will work.

We are also working, as I mentioned, um following the meeting with Colonel Johnston on some additional initiatives.

We're hoping at the February 6th BCC to have those initiatives shared and start pushing those out that we'll be working on.

The registration link for the February 6th BCC will go out next week.

Also, the following BCC will be um April 24th.

It will be a breakfast out at Cannon.

Um we have two presentations currently scheduled for that for the community.

We have the New Mexico Department of Transportation, District 2 engineer will be here.

He will update the community as far as the infrastructure projects that are planned in Currie and Roosevelt counties, as well as an update on the plans for um the highway from Greer to Fort Sumner, as well as the Texaco and Farwell Overpass will be part of his presentation.

Also we'll have our update on the improvements going on at Clovis Airport at that BCC meeting, and that again is April 24th.

It will be a breakfast.

We are also in the process currently planning a general membership meeting.

There's some items that the general membership, that is the voting members of the BCC.

We're currently setting at approximately 25 voting members and some items that we need to take action on.

So that will be scheduled sometime in the spring, and we'll get information going out on that.

And that's the update from the BCC unless you have any questions.

Thank you.

Questions for Base Community Council.

Any of you participating in that.

Okay.

I was just curious.

Mr.

Pyle, thank you.

Appreciate your service there and your time this morning to give us a report.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next, we have reports from entities supporting military and veterans.

First up, the Clovis Committee of 50 report, Mr.

Sid Strebeck.

Mr.

Strewback, good morning.

Good morning, uh Mr.

Chairman, Commissioners.

I was thinking my devotional this morning was on being a better listener and saying less.

And so I've been listening, and most of the things that I would have to tell you have already been covered by the uh great speakers we have had before.

But uh the there's no question that the fourth quarter is the busiest time in terms of community activities, uh the things going on at Canon when I look at Colonel McMasters and Colonel Johnson and think of all the things that they have on their schedule, and then you mix in a little bit of uh uh overseas action or you know uh that that kind of I don't know how they do it all.

But anyway, we've had a great uh we had a great season.

Uh a couple of things that I will just add to the things that have already been said is uh Angel Arms, the fact that we took that over this year, and Tammy Waters is the chair, and she shed a budget of sixty thousand dollars.

And uh and and we raised sixty thousand dollars and sent uh I'm not sure what the final number was, but a lot of airmen got to go home for the holidays when they couldn't have afforded it otherwise.

And we just had great participation and want to remind everyone that uh Denver Air Connection uh is a great partner on that because they didn't charge us anything for flying those airmen from Clovis to Denver or Dallas to get in another connection.

And you know, you just you just think about the supporters we've had.

And uh Colonel McMaster has talked about the the fire we had at the Cessville Moving and Storage and Southwest Cheese has stepped up and uh giving money to that.

We just got great community partners that just and our role is really just to kind of put all those together.

And the only other thing is we've added, we've expanded our five and thrive.

Uh and won't go into great detail, but we've added uh energy and natural resources as a committee, and uh Ladonna Clayton has heading that up.

And because that's something we need to make sure that we're listening and any developments, anything that needs to to happen that we're letting our members know that we're coordinating with uh Canon to make sure there's no uh nothing dropped there.

But so those are really the highlights and and just thanks for letting us be a part of this.

Yes, sir.

Well, thank you.

Any questions?

Thank you for your report.

Questions for a committee of 50.

Just thank you for everything you do for our airmen.

Yeah.

Thank you for supporting the airmen.

Next, we have a report from Portalis Military Affairs, Ms.

Robbins.

President of PMAC.

Good morning.

Good morning, and happy new year to everyone.

Okay, I'm having her pass out.

Coming this last year, we have going forward, we have redesigned and a new brochure for people in Portalis Military Fairs.

So that has happened, and then I want to report on last year the New Mexico Appreciation Game Day at Portalis, the Telgating, which um it got kind of rained out, but we still had estimated 100 people show up, and then Western Bank sponsored it and gave out a hundred four hundred t-shirts, and they wanted more, and I'm going.

Okay, that was successful.

Then we also we have a community tour, which started out as a spouses tour.

Now we changed it to community so that it just didn't involve the spouses.

We did this quarterly, and we normally have 15 people participate.

The last tour, what we had was 15 people participate, but only five showed up, which was very disappointing, and there was no they didn't call the base or let us know.

So going forward, we're going to do go it back to two a year, and our next one will be at the end of March, beginning of April.

And we will get that.

We are in the process of planning that.

Then uh what we also continue to do is there's not a lot of things going around Patalis, but the Williams Livestock Ranch, which is Sarah Williams, has always has these little events that support the sergeants or different people at her ranch, and we've continued, we provided the hamburgers of hot dogs, the food to help her support the military as a little gesture because she's they're always out there.

I meet more military people at her events than I ever do.

Then going forward for this year.

I just passed out this Friday is the uh military appreciation game at Eastern.

It's Saturday, and I put a rough thing, but our promotion for this Saturday, as I put put out there, is we are giving out, I just purchased these for all the military people show up.

Our theme is going to be your lifesaver.

So we're going to have packets of lifesavers to every time the military just to see.

And this is a uh it's in design in progress.

It was a last-minute thing, but that is going on this Saturday.

And then our next PMAC meeting is January the 22nd, Thursday at 5.30.

And in this meeting, we will talk about our goal for a new PMAC recruitment campaign.

And um our slogan will be stand with these who those who serve you, right here in Portalis.

And thank you.

And that's all I have.

Any questions?

Questions, committee members.

I'd like to make a comment that if you come to the game this um Saturday at 1.30 for the women and the men who are both having a really good season with Eastern, and our girls are actually ranked in the top 20 for D2.

And then the nice thing about the game is I know uh the AD, and Aaron, the um the vice president to AD, what are these titles all?

But they have now had four like 50 or 75 chairs on the floor, and then there is a hospitality suite right off the basketball floor, which has food for everybody who attends.

And I think I talked to Kevin, and depending on who shows up, that they will get escort some of those people to so they can have the seats on the floor, which why I don't know anybody wants to sit on the floor to watch basketball.

But then the ones on the floor get the free food, and they are applying for to have to also serve liquor and this little hospitality suite during the basketball games.

So for us who've been around, having liquor at a basketball game is pretty much progress.

Ms.

Robbins, thank you for taking time to come and share with us some of the great things that PMAC is doing to support the airmen.

We're grateful for that.

Appreciate you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next is there.

Sorry.

Next is there a report from Joint Veterans Council.

Uh Roosevelt Portalis, Curry Clovis.

Good morning, sir.

Thank you for being here.

Good morning.

I would like to just put a few past incidents and future incidents that Joint Veterans Council is involved with.

My name is Vernon Luce.

I'm the president of Joints Council and also commander of the FW Post 3280.

And this past few months contributing to the City of Clovis, the Joint Veterans Council, the group was heavy and participating with the Fire Department's Halloween giveaway.

And also we were contributing to the Airmen's single single Airmen's Christmas party.

And uh one of our groups, the Eagles, took 100 kids to Walmart and gave them each two hundred dollars for do shopping for themselves and their family.

Oh nice.

And also uh the Colonel is aware there was a group of ROTC university students came to Cannon.

Post 3280 posted a meal for them, and American Legion 117 posted a meal for them another day.

So we were very proud to participate with those ROTC kids.

Also uh our next big deal will be Memorial Day.

We always have a Memorial Day program out at the cemetery on Atlanta, Escado, and uh over 2,000 flags are placed on veterans' graves on both cemeteries.

And so you'll be getting more update on that.

And anyway, the veterans clubs, Eagles, the Elks, the VFW, and both American legions is very heavily involved in both the city and the Air Force base.

And we just uh donated to a kid in uh Grady, was nominated for a uh nice trip to Washington DC.

We helped fund that trip for that Grady student.

So outstanding.

Any questions?

Well, we we may have some, but I I just wanted to comment that you know when you say that uh all of the the veteran groups are are very involved.

You you certainly are.

We uh we can't miss it.

You uh you you're involved and and we're grateful for that and thank you for the events that you host that we're allowed to to participate in and join in with you and in supporting veterans.

So thank you for all that you do.

Yeah.

Questions or comments.

Thank you, Mr.

Luce.

No bread pudding, Dusty.

Come on.

That would be a good fundraiser.

Next, we'd like to have a report from employer supportive guard and reserve, Mr.

Griego.

Thank you.

Make sure I don't knock this up.

Good morning, uh Mayor, committee members, uh, staff, members of the audience.

Uh I am Willie Gregel.

I am currently the uh state chair for the uh Employer Support Guard and Reserve here in New Mexico.

Uh just real quick I'm not sure if the slides.

Okay.

IT, do we have Mr.

Griego's slides.

That's okay.

That's okay.

Uh I'll kind of just kind of talk to some of the slides.

There you go.

Nope.

Nope, that's not them.

Uh sorry, Mr.

Griego.

Oh no, no, that's okay.

I probably should have done this a long time ago just when I first introduced myself with Employer Support Guard and the Reserve, just kind of get an idea of what we do visually.

You can see it on there versus me talking because uh uh with the employer support guard and reserve.

I know a lot of it doesn't apply to like the active duty personnel.

Some it does some because they have reserve components that train with them.

But anyway, so we are a Department of Defense, I guess slash war program now.

Uh been around since 1972.

And basically our mission is to promote supportive work environments, okay.

Here in New Mexico, we currently have about 25 active volunteers throughout the whole state.

And uh, you know, what we like to say our core mission is is that we educate and inform.

Uh we recognize and we mediate.

So a lot of you know here that within Curry County or anywhere with New Mexico is that there are a lot of reserve component members that work for certain employers, whether it be in the government, private, public sector, that sometimes they are taken away for federal and state missions and stuff like that.

And we know the challenges employers have when they have to lose their great employees to go out and when they have to serve you know their military duties and stuff here.

So our program, a lot we like to say is that you know, part of it's we go out every year, we're required to give annual briefs to the uh formations, whether it be in the reserves or in the uh the uh National Guard, Air or Army.

And uh when we give these briefs to the service members, you know, we always kind of go over their rules and responsibilities that fall that fall under USERA, which is the Uniform Service Employment Reemployment Rights Act that was uh uh put in by Congress in 1994 to protect service members when they got deployed or taken away from military duty from sometimes being fired from their employers because they were away and stuff like that here.

So but like I said, a lot of our mission here, so part of our programs is we do military outreach, which are the briefs that I talked about.

And when we do the briefs, we always encourage the service members that if they have great supervisor employers that support them while they're gone away from their job, uh, because again we know the challenges when they're gone, they have to replace them in this and that here, is that hey, we have an awards program that they can nominate their employers or supervisors for we as the program can go out and present these and recognize them, thank them for their support what they do for our uh reserve commander uh reserve component members.

Uh we do employer outreach.

Okay, we have certain functions we do like boss lifts, luncheons, breakfast with the boss.

Uh I've talked to Claire, she's gonna help us out.

We're gonna get it going this year.

We're gonna try to have a a luncheon.

We're gonna sit up here with Curry County, Clovis Portalis, where we can uh sponsor an event to bring employers in, whether it be from the government, private sector, public sector, some of these that hire our reserve component employees, and kind of just give them an overall brief of what's going on, and then plus to thank them for what they do to support our reserve component members.

And then we have our ombudsman program.

That's our mediation program.

We got trained ombudsmans uh that are trained from our national office that kind of resolve these conflicts they have between the employers and the reserve components, you know, when they're taken away from their duty.

You know, what's great about that program is free of charge.

You know, they don't have to get lawyers, they don't have to go to the department of labor or this and that.

Usually we have about a ninety percent probably resolve rate that with our ombudsman that can kind of take care of these problems and educate the employers and the uh reserve component members to get them back to where you know the m the reserve member doesn't have to worry about losing a job if he's deployed, you know, whether it be state duty or or federal duty.

Uh I was hoping to have one of the slides up because in 2025 uh there was a lot of events that we did.

I mean, we're kind of like strained sometimes a little bit with because of the shutdown and uh and this and that and possibly maybe another shutdown at the end of the month.

But anyway, but but you know, we presented probably over 130 awards within New Mexico.

We probably engaged with over 1,300 employers uh with our program and our volunteers.

So uh it just we had a good success rate for the amount of volunteers that we have.

Uh some of the events that we're gonna do this year right now, right now we have a boss lift uh scheduled for 27 February at Kortland Air Force Base uh where the United States Naval Naval Reserve is gonna host it for us.

Okay, that's what we're bringing uh they're bringing in the rear admiral, we'll have our command staff from the New Mexico National Guard.

Well, they'll come and talk to the employers, kind of talk to them about what's going on with the military right now on the reserve side, and then also where we'll have static displays and give them rides on a one of our aviation helicopters and again present some awards and then again thank them for their support, you know, because that's what ESGR is employer support.

Sometimes people kind of get mixed up where think we're a military entity.

But uh, but with that, also we got military appreciation today uh on February 3rd.

I think one of the ladies mentioned that events going on at the Capitol.

We support that, we'll go down there and set up there.

Uh but the biggest thing I want to take away when I want to leave with you all here is that I know Claire's been great uh with the communication and and the help that we have for Curry County.

We used to have some good volunteers here, but you know, they went on to bigger and better things, or they've been around, I mean they were doing it for decades.

You know, it was just time for it to release the reins and give it to somebody else here.

But uh our volunteer outreach program, okay.

So we're looking for volunteers within Curry County that can be part of our program.

Uh that if they want to do something that I think is really fulfilling because uh it's something like myself, it's my time to give back because I'm a retired veteran and this and that here, but I love to give back to the community.

It helps me get to know the employers that I probably didn't know when I was in formations as a senior leader, but uh the biggest thing is like I said, is that if I can just get people within the community, the government entity, public, private sector, uh active duties kind of we can't use active duty personnel for volunteers, but we can use our spouses and families if they want to get into a program that that's kind of just fulfilling to help out in some type of form with the reserves and the military.

So with that, on behalf of our National Office uh mayor, uh John uh John Sampa, our national chair, our executive director, Captain Bess, United States Navy.

Um want to thank you for allowing ESUR to be part of this committee and stuff like that.

And then on behalf of our reserve component members and stuff like that.

Thank you for having us here to be part of the Curry County on the Armed Forces Committee and hopefully uh in the future we can build some great relationships and get some uh outreach events going on here so we can get to get so we can better know you know the employers here within this area here.

So with that, if you have any questions, sir, uh well we appreciate uh we appreciate your investment in uh attending these meetings and and providing the uh information that you do.

And and I just know that this year is the year we'll we'll get that that of that luncheon that we want to do together and and uh the city of Clovis stands ready to to work with you on that and make that happen and increase the awareness of of the program in our our community.

Yeah.

And just a quick alibi I wanted to mention.

So the numbers, so I think we talked about it last time.

So I believe the last data showed about over 7,000, you know, with the reserve components and the uh National Guard uh personnel within the state of New Mexico.

Uh I I know New Mexico National Guard is sending about 3300, both the air and the Army.

So if you kind of do the math, you can kind of get an idea of where the reserve components uh are at.

There, but currently now I can tell you with the New Mexico National Guard, there's about 600 personnel are deployed right now, uh, whether it be overseas or whether it be state missions.

And one of the units, you know, you have a written center here in Clovis, so they fall under one of the headquarters in Roswell, which is also deployed at this time right now here.

So just want you to be if you're not aware of that and stuff like that.

So thank you for that.

Okay.

Thank you.

Mr.

Gregor.

That's all I have.

Thank you, sir.

We're at item 12, which is Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation Grant.

Um we have some guests here today uh with Matrix Design.

Ms.

Burroughs.

Yes, uh good morning, Mr.

Chairman, Vice Chairman, members of the Armed Forces Support Committee.

Um I'm pleased, delighted to bring to you this morning from Washington, um Ms.

Patricia Gray with the Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation.

Um as you know, on your behalf of the City of Clovis has uh submitted a military installation, uh resiliency review grant application, which was a successful um in the amount of 525,000 dollars.

And um we are kicking that off today uh with being out at Canon Air Force Base, met with the wing commander vice wing commander Colonel McMasters and his team this morning, had a windshield tour of the base, stopped at a couple other locations.

So we're we're moving forward and we're gonna be meeting throughout the day today.

So I'm just gonna hand it over to Ms.

Gray to uh speak with you this morning and then Matrix Design, which is the company that uh we have hired on your behalf.

Um is going to give you a presentation of what they're going to do.

Thank you.

Thank you for that.

Good morning, Ms.

Gray.

Good morning.

Thank you for having me out.

Happy to be here.

I'm grateful to work on this project.

So just wanted to give a little bit of background on the context of our program and and how we got to an award with the city of Clovis.

So Old CC provides technical and financial assistance to communities that work with installations across the country.

So this was a nomination in 2024 from the installation based upon needs for issues related to drinking water, high wind issues, um natural threats like that, encroachment.

Those fall under our installation readiness program.

So we do have a program authority that allows us to work on some of these complicated issues that cross fence line boundaries in a collaborative way.

So this project that matrix a little brief um does cover a lot of separate subsreds, but initially that's how the project came to be.

We did have the award in 2025.

I'm the project manager, and hopefully we'll serve us in that role through the life of the grant and the project.

Um our role isn't to tell you what to do, how to do it, or to make any specific prescriptions.

It's a collaborative environment between communities and the installation, and it's really up to the grantee in this case the city of Clovis to lead that effort.

I just monitor from a scope perspective and making sure things stay within our program authority.

But very happy to be here.

Appreciate the the tour this morning and the mission brief.

This is my first time out to the area, and I'm excited that this is gonna be a great opportunity for everybody.

So thank you.

Thank you, Ms.

Gray.

We appreciate your support.

Morning, sir.

Morning, Mr.

Chair, members of the committee, appreciate the time.

Appreciate the opportunity to be here.

And a lot of thank yous going around, but also I'll thank Colonel McMaster and the Canon team for hosting us this morning.

The mission brief was well-timed and needed to kind of kick things off.

And the installation tour was fantastic.

So if you can go to the next one for me, please.

Prior to that, I had the privilege of serving on active duty in the Air Force for 24 and a half years.

So with me is Scott Wiley, kind of a new join to Matrix as well, but also a 24 and a half year Air Force veteran as well.

So both of us are excited and actually getting out on the installation kind of refilled our tanks a little bit when it comes to you know, I guess going back to our days in uniform.

If you can please go to the next one.

So as I mentioned, uh Matrix Design Group, where your primary consultants, Scott and I will be your primary points of contact throughout this effort.

iParametrics is a partner of ours.

Um and I'll get into the kind of the further details of the scope, but uh they're uh they're a nationally recognized expert in coordinating uh tabletop exercises and City Light and Power is another expert partner that we have on the team.

Um to again I'll I'll get to it here in a minute, but as far as kind of energy energy security goes.

If you can go to the next one.

Our project partners are all in this room.

Um, represented on the committee itself uh as well as the wing.

So uh as I think Miss Gray alluded to, the city of Clovis was uh is the grantee will act as the fiscal agent as we work through it.

But um again, I'll I'll probably say it five times throughout the next couple of slides, but the collaboration across all of the organizations is key.

Uh and it the intent is to be collaborative and involve all stakeholders.

Next, please.

Ms.

Gray also alluded to this.

Uh it's been mentioned that it's a federal grant.

Um and it with us on board, it it's a it's an opportunity for a third party to come in and give a third-party look uh in and readiness review into some key areas that I'll touch on here in a minute.

Um it looks at mission critical resources uh and infrastructure in this case um to sp to make sure make sure that recommendations are made uh because what it isn't is a mandate or the final report that comes out of it, a directive in any way, and Miss Gray alluded to that as well.

And it's also not getting into kind of what you would consider your traditional hardcore engineering design or um things of that nature.

Next.

Why it matters.

Uh we had a great conversation this morning after the mission brief.

And while there may be a fence around the installation, um the installation is an integral part of the community, whether it's the airmen on the installation that live in the community or you know, the in honestly, in the in the first few hours this morning, um the strength of the partnership um between the community and the installation is is palpable just in the discussion.

So uh excited about that because it it matters because not only uh yeah, as I'm I'm saying the same thing like three times over, but um the installation and the community are intertwined in a way that um they they work together.

The the mission depends on the community, and the community depends in on a way on the on the installation.

Next.

Okay, so what you probably care about.

I think this was uh brought up in the in the previous committee meeting.

Um but we started on one January officially, it'll be a 13-month period of performance.

Uh I'm gonna skip the the key areas for one second, just to mention that currently our plan will be quarterly updates to the committee on progress.

Um progress made and and way forward.

So the key areas mentioned up here, water, that's availability, capacity, uh, and sustainability over time, land use, um, not just gate access, but encroachment, zoning around the installation, things of that nature.

Energy.

I alluded to that with our city light and power experts on the team, security, um, and yeah.

Missions need power to uh happen.

So that is is kind of obvious.

So that is is kind of obvious on the infrastructure side, uh aviation access, but uh wastewater specifically with a with a water treatment plan on the installation, um a key piece of infrastructure in that regard, and as well as a tabletop exercise I mentioned.

So the final readiness plan will cover all of these areas and provide a comprehensive list of kind of observations and recommendations for implementation or a follow-on implementation plan uh down the road.

Our collaborative approach uh and I'll go back to uh my excitement of the the uh good partnerships that we've seen um since since being here over the last 24 to 48 hours.

Um but what I'll say here is establishing the government structure and the data collection, critical points up front.

Um we anticipate that happening over the next three to four months prior to then uh the they're not kind of in series, right?

Things will be working in parallel in some regard, but um government structure governance structure and data collection is key up front.

Uh there will be threats and vulnerabilities assessments and then the tabletop exercise we're currently targeting for possibly the August time frame.

Um and that because that'll incorporate a lot of the findings uh up front.

And in the end, uh I alluded to the prioritized action plan that'll contain a list of recommendations within kind of those five key areas that I mentioned previously.

Needs and next steps.

This is where I just leave you with a couple things, and and maybe the fifth or sixth time that I I've mentioned collaboration is key.

It involves all stakeholders.

You know, this isn't like you know, we just go out and sit in on Canon Air Force Base and meet with leadership and kind of then come out with a report and issue it to you know the the com the community members and and representatives here.

Uh it's collaborative with the community and the installation throughout the entire process.

Um and the stakeholder engagement uh is a critical piece of that.

So we will be uh actually later today meet starting to build that list of technical experts in in those various areas, uh building that governance structure, which I think Miss Burroughs may actually come back up here after after me and talk to you know maybe the top of that structure in a second.

Um but those technical SMEs will be key in their participation.

I'll just say thank you up front for that because it's it's a key piece of of the process.

Um that is all I have, unless there is any other questions for me.

Well, Mr.

Bartholomew, thank you for for being here.

Um I'm grateful for the enthusiasm that I sense from you as you talk about uh you know embarking on this.

Uh I'm glad that the partnership is palpitable.

Uh we we are uh we are so proud of our our partnership here.

And um, you know, you talked about uh I think without saying the word, but interdependence.

You know, we we recognize an interdependence, whether you're Roosevelt, Portalis, Clovis, or Curry County, uh there's an interdependence uh here uh between the the 27th CAW and the residents of this region and uh we we recognize that and we we we value that and uh not just interdependence but shared priorities, right?

Because what's good for Canon Air Force Base is good for Portalis.

It's good for Clovis and so on, and and um we're willing partners and stakeholders, and so we're excited about this plan.

Uh we're excited to get going on it.

It's really the the kind of the crowning achievement of this committee uh since standing this committee up, we've been working this direction, right?

And uh so this is an exciting day.

I'm glad I'm glad we're here at the beginning.

We're ready to go.

So thank you.

Thank you.

And Mr.

Chairman, Vice Chairman, members of the support committee, um, there's a structure as we move forward.

Um I've been talking with uh with Matrix, um, with Old C C and we would very much like you to be the steering committee for this, because you know, Roosevelt County, Curry County, Portalis, Clovis, this is you know, this is the group.

And um we felt that this would be a great group because you are the elected officials, you're the ones that are right at the forefront of all of this.

So rather than appoint other you know an unelected officials to this, if you would be the steering committee, that would be wonderful from our that would be our recommendation.

And then just to add to that, um if and I'm I haven't spoken to this uh uh Colonel McMasters, but if somebody from the base would also serve, of course that would be an ex officio capacity, because I don't believe you guys can vote.

But if you would also be a member of that steering committee, if you don't mind, and if that would be okay with you, that's how we'd how we would do it.

And that way you'd all collaborate together and be involved at the at the you know at a high level.

And then we would have a technical committee which will consist of the managers and myself from the various from your from your uh counties and and municipalities.

And then um the mission support group commander um uh Colonel Churchill, his representative would also serve on that technical committee.

That's what uh recommendation to you is that that's well, Ms.

Burroughs, I think all of your recommendations are exactly right on that this committee would be the steering committee is entirely appropriate because that's the spirit of this committee.

Mr.

Mr.

Vice Chairman online uh uh and members of the committee.

Uh when we had our first meeting and we talked about the vision for the committee, it was that, right?

That we would uh representing each of the four governing bodies of the area supporting canon, we would come together quarterly to get these reports and to understand to the greatest extent possible what uh what steps we need to take to better support the readiness at uh at Canon.

And uh so it's entirely appropriate that we would be the steering committee.

Uh I think I've just made a pretty good case for it.

However, maybe you disagree.

Uh thoughts on that committee.

I definitely am for that.

Okay.

Thanks for that.

I'm good with that.

Okay.

Very good.

Uh and Ms.

Burroughs, I thought it was really slick to ask Colonel McMaster in a meeting like that.

You know, that was great.

On the spot.

If you're going to surprise someone with a request, do it in front of a group of people, right?

They're all about shock at all.

Yeah, so that makes a that makes a great steering committee.

So uh write on on those recommendations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh I would like to give one brief comment, if I may.

Um Mr.

Bartholomew, just I couldn't help but to come back to this, but seeing that you're a retired colonel uh and retired mass sergeant, correct?

Major, sir.

Uh sorry.

And so what a what a neat opportunity this is for our base, knowing that you guys know the red tape better than anyone else being involved in this, right?

And you can do you take I mean I I would assume like you take a sense of pride being back in the situation, right?

And being a part of the base and and knowing what you can offer and help.

Uh I can't help but say it gives me great excitement to know that y'all are the ones heading that up.

So I just really wanted to say thank you for from my side.

So sorry.

And Matrix Design is uh long, well established company that does this kind of work and we're we're excited to be working with them and um and they have a lot of tenure in the military with a lot of their folk that work for them.

So that's that's exciting too.

So um with your permission then to go forward with that, then the what they'll do is um, as they said, was to go in the next you know three or four months and start to go do all that data analysis and and so on.

We all we as the technical committee will support them in that activity.

Um and then at your next meeting, which if we held it on in May, they would then update you and and work with you on the next things that needed to happen if that's meets with your approval.

Any objections to what Ms.

Burroughs has laid out?

All sounds great, right on.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

Looking forward to getting going.

All right.

That has us at uh item 13, which which really takes us back to the Military Based Planning Commission uh report and specifically the Military Base Planning Commission's 2026 legislative priorities.

Um I thought it was in in entirely appropriate that we would consider uh adopting a resolution in support of those priorities.

Uh is there any discussion?

Perhaps you would like to strike number two as we mentioned earlier.

I don't know if we need to make a motion, but I would make a motion if that's the case that we proceed with this and strike number two from that resolution.

Thank you for that motion.

And I heard a second.

Yeah we we now have two seconds to that motion, so appreciate that.

Um Mayor Davidson, I I I don't want to ignore you.

I'd like to give you the opportunity if you had any comments.

No, sir.

Thank you.

I fully support.

Wonderful.

Thank you for that.

Well, it's been properly moved and seconded that we would adopt uh a resolution supporting legislative priorities of the New Mexico Military Base Planning Commission during the 26th legislative session.

Without any further or not seeing any further discussion, uh all those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, the same sign.

The motion has carried unanimously.

Thank you.

And we'll get the um change made to that resolution and get it signed, get it to Ms.

Cornett uh so that she can uh express or convey our support uh as she uh lobbies the the legislature.

So that has us at for the good of the order and and for good of the order, we would take any public input if there is any now.

Mr.

Sherylan?

Mr.

Carolyn, good to see you.

Caesar, uh Commission.

Uh I just wanted to take this opportunity uh to uh kind of advise you guys of something that uh I took upon myself um because I really didn't know how to do it.

Uh so I actually reached out to our Congresswoman's office uh in regards to uh basic allowance for housing uh in rural uh New Mexico, specifically Canon Air Force Base, uh, but how it's actually a systemic problem uh across rural installations throughout the total force in the nation.

Um in talking with her, uh I've ended up having meetings with the Association of Defense Communities, uh executive director, uh you know, Mayor Morris, Claire, Justin.

Um I've garnished a support of uh the Military Family Advisory Network, Association of Defense Communities uh is supportive.

I've had uh meeting with uh Canons based leadership uh and I have uh another I'm expecting another meeting uh when Colonel Johnston uh returns.

Um I also have a meeting coming up with the National Five and Thrive co-founder, uh their uh chief uh uh their COO and then also their director of development.

Um but I wanted to make make it aware that the housing profiles that the DOD requires or that how they calculate BH is not applicable in a rural area.

Uh so for a technical sergeant uh E6 with dependents, they are not supposed to be able to live in a house.

They're supposed to be able to rent a three-bedroom townhouse or duplex.

I don't know of any, and if there is, they are few and far between three bedroom and uh townhouses or duplexes in Clovis, Mexico.

And so the way that BH gets calculated is wrong.

Uh so I'm not necessarily advocating that we increase BAH.

I'm just saying that the mathematical equation that we're using is not applicable in rural areas.

And so I just wanted to bring it to uh you know this this commission's attention that I've I've escalated this.

Uh you know, I've had uh multiple conversations uh with uh the New Mexico uh Base Planning Commission uh director.

Um and I have a few more things going.

Um I just sent uh the executive director for the Association of Defense Communities a nine-page uh proposal uh and for him to review uh and it is to add language into the National Defense Authorization Act because in the the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act, Section 624, it lists improvements to basic allowance for housing.

And it talks about how the methodology is possibly not correct and it's it's flawed.

And so they actually have they're looking and doing pilot testing on new methodology, but it doesn't address rural installations.

And so I really want them to take a look at rural installations uh because uh sixteen of the lowest 25 BAHs for this year, sixteen of the installations are rural military bases.

And I don't believe that uh that's systemically correct.

I I can't believe that.

Um I think that there's a mathematical uh error, and I don't think that it's anything that any one person has done wrong.

I think that they are doing the math the way that the math is supposed to be done right now.

And I'm just kind of pushing for them to not uh not change BAH but to rewrite the equation on how BAH is calculated in a rural area.

So I just wanted to make you guys aware.

Um so that way when this is being brought up, it's not a shock and awe to all the leaders of our communities.

Thank thank you.

It's appropriate that you update this this group so that we can all uh track what what you're doing.

Uh I understand you've provided uh you you mentioned the meeting uh that uh the city, myself and the city were involved in with you and ADC.

Um you have now provided your white paper to to us, right?

Okay so keep in mind I was a lieutenant paramedic closed fire department for 12 years.

My bachelor's degree is in chemistry.

Okay.

I flew for aero care for four years and I do mortgages.

So writing a proposal for potentially Congress members to review uh that is well outside of my wheelhouse.

I've I've done the best that I can and uh truthfully I'm sure it's really good.

We'll see.

We'll see we'll let Claire be the judge.

We'll let her give me a grade.

But I uh I provided a draft the you know my most recent draft um I've rewritten it about you know 15 times um but um it's uh well thanks for that and uh thanks for taking this initiative and um we're we're looking for where we can you know supplement you you you and your effort on on this and I'm glad that you're talking with our congressional delegates about it and uh and and everyone that you mentioned so thanks for updating us of course on your work because and I don't think that it's a the the communities have failed I think that the infrastructure we've you know that we just built the apartment complex I think that the infrastructure process is in place and that we have the right goals um but the long term goals don't help the service members today that are feeling that financial pain of trying to find safe and affordable housing in our in our communities and so I think that we have the right long term objectives but I think that there needs to be a short term uh solution as well along with long term goals so but thank you thank you thank you sir uh anyone else have something to share with our committee Mr.

Chair yes first I'd like to make an apology for waiting so long but I didn't notice when she come in but uh medal could you please stand up is our new manager at Roosevelt County and I'm very proud to introduce her to this committee.

Well thank you Commissioner Greyer thanks for um for introducing uh Ms.

Forger and and uh you guys sure got a good one when you I know when you got her so if she cares to come up and speak that's fine.

Yeah any anyone else public comment uh for the good of the order all right um do we have a suggested time and date for next meeting Ms.

Burroughs um Mr.

Chairman Vice Chairman members of the Enfluence Support Committee I'm suggesting maybe May the 20th if that would work for everybody please um at 10 a.m that would be in at the city of Portalis if that works for for the city of Portales it does.

Yep I know um and you probably checked this in setting that up but I think Association of Defense Communities is in May this year in DC.

It's not on the schedule at the moment May 11 through 15 so I okay it's the it's the week prior to that.

So this will work.

May 20th very good so we will plan to meet and obviously if that needs to be re rearranged we'll work that out but we'll plan to meet um 10 a.m May 20th down in Portalis uh for our next meeting and I thank you every one of you for uh your contributions here today and uh certainly we thank our active military and veterans in in our community thank you very much we're adjourned