She would hear it over there.

Oh, I think he was drawn.

I can hear this.

And a couple of other pairs just so he didn't feel like it.

Are you on the twenty first?

Never had that happen before.

Yes, sir.

No, Lance and I go back along.

Matter of fact, you want to meet me.

You know, what am I gonna Well?

I said, what are you gonna do with them?

You can't eat five cases.

So I'm gonna go see them tomorrow.

So you're gonna come and just observe what we can.

Oh no, we need members.

Yeah.

I mean, how do you go in?

I was impressed with these.

She is a good giver.

Yes, yes, we were at she's a big donor.

Went to the nurse.

And I'm the chairman of that committee.

But we need membership.

And then it'll be the second Tuesday.

And then but we went to Gabby's our granddaughter's promotion again.

Justin was all whip.

Moving along just for you.

So talk and talk and talk.

You know how you know how I asked my six.

How do you ease?

And then I have to talk again at the end.

Good.

Put yours in the garage.

Well, I went and washed my car.

Well, I lost it a long time ago.

Coming back from the deep in thought.

You're awfully deep in thought.

Good evening, everyone.

Mayor Pro Tem and Commissioners.

City staff, members of the public.

It's so great to see you all here.

As you can tell from my suit, it was raining a little bit when I came in.

I hope it continues to do so.

Uh we can certainly be thankful for that tonight.

Uh well, before we start our meeting, uh, I will offer a prayer and I invite you to pray if you wish.

And then we will say the pledge to the United States flag and the salute to the New Mexico flag.

Let's bow.

Lord, thank you for the rain that you have sent this evening.

And uh Lord, we pray that you're glorified in that and that it would please you to send more.

Uh Lord, uh, thank you for the business before this commission tonight.

We pray for wisdom and good judgment to to handle that business well.

Lord, we pray your blessings and favor over our community.

And uh we thank you for the the many good things that we have going on and for the the many good things that we get to celebrate even tonight during presentations of our meeting.

And Lord, uh I just pray that you continue to give us your hand of protection, your hand of blessing.

I ask these things in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

Let's say the pledge to our country's flag.

I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation.

Liberty and justice.

I salute the flag of state of New Mexico.

Meeting is called to order, and just as a matter of housekeeping, uh Mayor Pro Tim and Commissioners, although I'm hearing my voice out in the speakers very well, but I was told before the meeting that we might have a problem with our audio in the room and that we all need to use our big voices.

Uh however, uh the the meeting and audio does seem to be working online was the report I got right before we started.

Could we have the roll call, please, Ms.

Foster?

Commissioner Jones.

Commissioner Porter.

Here.

Commissioner Zamora.

Here.

Commissioner Bryant.

Here.

Commissioner Cassaus.

Here.

Commissioner Tarsen.

Commissioner Paula.

Here.

Mayor Pro Tem Garza.

Here.

Mayor Morris.

Here.

Thank you, Ms.

Foster.

Yes, thank you for that.

Appreciate it very much.

Next, are there objections to how the agenda has been prepared?

Hearing and seeing no objections, the agenda is adopted and yes votes will be recorded for each of you.

Any objections to how the minutes from May 7th have been prepared for your consideration.

Hearing and seeing no objections, those minutes from May 7th are adopted and yes votes recorded for each of the members.

Next we reserve space on the agenda to recognize visitors.

Again, thank you for those of you that have come out for the meeting this evening.

We look forward to hearing from you when we reach the point in the agenda that you're here for.

If you're just here to listen along, thank you for your interest in what your uh local governing body is is looking at this evening.

We'll next move into proclamations, awards, and presentations.

And we have three planned uh pre uh presentations.

Uh the first in the printed agenda, and and you'll you'll see why this is a bit ironic in just a moment, but the first in the printed agenda was um a presentation from a local teacher, Megan Dibavec.

Uh however, she wasn't able that that's changed.

She'll present that at a later time.

However, her husband, Master Sergeant Larry Dibavec, is here uh this evening with a presentation that that he's talked with me about.

Uh and so I'll ask him, Sergeant, if you'd like to come forward now.

We're honored to have you and and uh appreciate you being here.

If you'll pull that microphone up, it looks like it needs to be.

Dust.

Sir, I'll give you the floor to talk to us about what you're here to do this evening.

Uh yes, sir.

Uh as he said, I'm serious Larry Dibovic.

Uh I was born and raised here and uh here in Clovis and all through the nineties.

Uh when the opportunity arose uh while I was active duty, I volunteered to come here, and we've been here now 11 years.

Um that my as my family grew uh here in Clovis, we grew alongside the credit uh incredible community through soccer swim, girl scouts, cub scouts, and even running as uh buddy the elf in the holiday parades uh through the years.

Uh in these experiences, my children uh have learned the value of community service and togetherness.

Uh the city and its people have always stood with us here at Canyon Air Force Base uh through the moments of celebration and in times of hardship.

They s they stand not only for those who serve, but also the families who wait, support, and sacrifice while their loved ones are deployed.

As I'm prepared for my uh what I hopeful was my last deployment that I just got home from, uh I wanted to honor the city of Clovis and its remarkable community.

So today I I'm gonna present a flag that flew aboard a special operations aircraft uh during my deployment in East Africa, where it completed 71 combat missions and totaling 325.7 hours.

The flag represents not only my service but also the steadfast support, pride, and unity of this community, and that it has shaped all my family's life.

So uh so we have the flag, and then I also had the uh flag cert that certifies that we've flown it from both the U-28s and the SI debt uh command leadership, and then on the second one is every loss member that have flown with us while we are downrange.

So wow, wow, we are humbled by that.

Thank you.

Wow, Master Sergeant, uh thank you for for this honor.

Uh commissioners, uh, mission on U-28.

Very nice.

So uh should we gather?

Tell them your name or your call.

So go back to the microphone.

Yeah, let's start a picture.

And then I'll talk a little bit more.

Yeah, would you like to gather up course?

Fred?

Oh, okay.

That's pretty nice.

Did you see my emails on you?

Uh so the story is uh all of us that are flyers, we go through a naming ceremony.

Uh and then normally it's we get our call signs from something stupid or dumb that we've done.

Uh but my call sign was because I was born and raised here, I volunteered to come back here and I've been here 23 years.

Um and then they were trying to figure out a call sign for me, and we had a Purple Heart ceremony on base, and they were trying to figure out how and who to come from the community.

And so I said, Well, I'll just message the mayor, and they're like, You don't have his number.

I was like, Yeah.

So I just text uh Mayor Morris, and he came out to our ceremony, then he came to our change of command.

So then because he was there, they all started saying, Oh, look, it's the mayor with the mayor, and they all joke that I'm going to run for mayor eventually here soon.

Uh but uh so that's how I got my call sign.

Unfortunately, it's been changed since then, but uh Mayor Morris still says that it's mayor, so that's what we go by.

Yeah.

Well, I so when I when I first when I first met him and and got the chance to hang around with him, you know, and I think it was around the time you invited me to that Purple Heart ceremony.

And uh, you know, it was my understanding that your your nickname, the mayor, was earned at least partially because of the way you promote the community in in the Air Force community, right?

And and and go to the community's defense if someone is you know not happy about you know this or that amenity that maybe we don't have.

You you're a champion for Clovis in the Air Force community.

Yes, sir.

So whenever I go to T UI, I always have, as you can see, I have purple on, so I always have Clovis somewhere else.

Uh and when generals come in, they said what's the biggest problem with Canon Air Force Base, and I don't I tell them the community is great and everything else, what's the problem is all the generals and officers that are in DC and telling that telling everybody or the rhetoric that is around saying, Oh, you're going to that base there in Canon Air Force Base when they've never been here, they don't know the community that supports us and the family and fellowship that we have at Canyon Air Force Base and with the local populace.

So I tell them that they need to change that rhetoric to make Canon uh even better place than what it is already.

Awesome.

Well, Mayor, Master Sergeant Mayor.

Thank you.

You you have humbled us uh with with this honor, and we're gonna find uh somewhere to proudly display this flag, which you reached out to me before your deployment telling me that you had this idea that you would like to present us with the flag.

And and I said absolutely yes, and since that time I've I've been thinking about where would be appropriate for us to display that tonight, it'll just sit right here, but we'll we'll talk about where where to put it.

But uh we're just tremendously honored and humbled and and very, very proud of you and your service, and uh we thank you very much for this.

No problem.

And and uh the community will still have my families back.

Unfortunately, I found out twelve hours after I got home that I'm actually leaving for three years and uh heading to Vegas for a new assignment.

So I'll be in and out.

Um but after eleven years and ten deployments out of here, uh it's time for me to head on to a different pasture.

But I'll be back in three three, four years when I retire.

Well that's incredible.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

We're gonna miss you guys.

Thank you for the service.

Thank you so much.

Just incredible.

Thank you once again, and and so our second presentation uh this evening is uh is is an exciting one, a fun one because we get to recognize um an awesome group uh of city employees who uh contribute tremendously to uh the the well-being and the health and safety of our community and the quality of life of our community.

We're gonna present a proclamation for national public works week.

And uh public works director, Mr.

Bunch is here along with a pretty good group of public works employees, and so we're glad to have you, Mr.

Bunch.

Please share with us about uh public works.

So thank you, Mayor and Mayor Pro Tim and Commissioners.

Um I believe it was Monday of this week.

I was called by Vicky Reyes of the City Manager's office, and she said, Hey uh Clint, you want to come to the you know the com commission meeting to celebrate public works week?

I'm like, is it public works week?

She goes, Yes it is.

And I said, Okay, we will.

And uh I said, Well, if I'm gonna come, I'm gonna bring the public works employees and make the make the system run.

And I promise you none of these guys knew it was public works week either until I told them.

And and the reason for that is because these guys don't do their job for awards or recognition.

These guys do their job because they're hardworking men, they do it for the pay, and they do it for the community.

Um I'll introduce you to each one of them and uh let you know how many years they've worked with public works and what they do.

Uh first of all, I got Daniel Mays to my right.

How long have you been with City of Clovis?

I don't know.

Twenty-three years for Daniel.

He's the line maintenance supervisor for the city of Clovis.

Um he takes care of all the sewer lines and everything in in town and also is integral working on things at the plant.

Uh Mark Hill, how long you been here, Mark?

18 years total.

18 years total.

Uh he was here for a stint.

He went and ran the wastewater plant out the base for a while and came back to the city and has been a valuable asset to the city for 18 years.

Mike Chavez, uh shop superintendent.

How long you been there, Mike?

20 years.

Twenty years for Mike.

Uh Mike takes care of the shop, takes care of all the city vehicles, every unit that comes in, uh equipment.

He's him and his crew take care of everything in the city that's mechanical and more.

Jason Urban, how long have you been there, Jason?

Uh all together ten years.

Ten years.

Uh Jason is the newest member of the supervisors for the public works.

Uh he's the landfill superintendent.

He took over after Oscar Masias retired.

Uh Jason is doing a wonderful job out at the landfill.

He'd been there many years.

Uh I'm very impressed with uh how he stepped up and what he's doing.

Uh he's been in charge of the tire shredding that we've been doing uh with uh the grant that we received from a Kay Linda grant.

Um by the way, they've completed every tire we have at the landfill is now shredded.

And we did that in uh about a seven-day time frame with that machine.

So the big huge pile of tires is gone out there and we'll build them up again and we'll we'll do it again next time.

Larry Hall, everybody knows Larry Hall.

How long have you been with the city, Larry?

Twenty-nine years.

Twenty-nine years.

Uh me and Tuesday, me and Larry 29 years for me and Larry on Tuesday.

We started the same day.

You guys know that because I tell them every time, right, Justin?

Just as everybody knows what Larry does.

Larry is a jack of all trades.

He's the street superintendent, but he takes care of everything.

If I need something done, Larry is the guy that I have to call to do it because he's willing to do it, always on call.

Never takes vacation.

I love my job.

That's great.

Last week got George Guterres there.

How long you've been with the city, George?

Twenty years.

So if you look at the combined longevity of the crew here, we've got guys that stay here a long time and enjoy what they do and they and they do it well.

George, sanitation superintendent.

Takes care of sanitation in a in a great way.

Takes care of his crew, takes care of his vehicles, and is very good working with me on daily-to-day issues.

So there you go, Mayor and Commissioners, and that's public works.

Well, well, thank you for that, and thank each of you gentlemen for all your years of service and for coming out tonight on apparently short notice, according to what Mr.

Bunch just said.

But uh appreciate that.

Uh we've got a proclamation that we want to read out, and uh and that's our our humble way and a small token of saying thanks on behalf of the community.

You guys keep the community running.

Uh you take care of what most residents just assume isn't even a thing.

Uh but if you didn't do your job, uh we'd be in a world of hurt.

So thank you so much for your service for all that you do.

And uh, Mayor Pro Tem, Commissioners, any comments from you?

Mayor.

Yes.

That's uh over 120 years of service.

149 to be exact.

I was calculating in my head.

That is amazing.

You are truly awesome.

And since Larry does everything, can I have his number?

I'm surprised you don't already have it.

Thank you, guys.

Uh gentlemen, thank you for your service to the community.

It shows uh I take pride on telling people that we have an excellent public works department.

Uh and whenever somebody's complaining about the street that it needs has a pothole or whatever, I say all we gotta do is call public works and they'll take care of it.

Thank you.

Yeah, the city could not do uh what the city does without public work, so we appreciate everything you all do.

Thank you so much.

Yes, thank you for all you do.

Guys, I you you remember the old the old saying that something is something that was super versatile was called uh Swiss Army knife.

You guys are absolutely the modern-day Swiss Army knife of the city operations.

You guys do so much and so many different things.

It's it's phenomenal.

Um I'm super grateful.

Thanks you guys.

Thank you, Commissioners and Air Pro 10.

Proclamation Public Works services provided in our community are an integral part of our citizens' everyday lives.

And whereas the support of an understanding and informed citizenry is vital to the efficient operation of public work systems and programs such as water, sewers, streets, highways, public buildings, solid waste collection, and whereas the health, safety, and comfort of this community greatly depends on these facilities and services.

And whereas the quality and effectiveness of these facilities as well as their planning, design, and construction is vitally dependent upon the efforts and skill of public works officials.

And whereas the City of Clovis Public Works Department consists of six divisions, traffic, landfill, shop, sanitation, wastewater, and streets, with 70 employees.

Is that about correct, Mr.

Bush?

We're supposed to have 88, but we usually have about 68 to 70.

Okay.

Yes.

All right.

Seventy employees.

And whereas the efficiency of the qualified and dedicated personnel who staff public works departments is materially influenced by the people's attitude and understanding of the importance of the work that they perform.

And whereas the American Public Works Association has designated the theme of public works week as rooted in service, powered by community, acknowledging that the roots of service run deep in public works.

Now, therefore I, Mike Morris, Mayor of Clovis, and on behalf of the commission, declare May 17th through the 23rd, 2026, as public service week.

Excuse me, public works week in the city of Clovis.

Mayor, I'd like to add one more thing.

Commissioner Paula can go ahead and add this up.

Kevin Musick, traffic superintendent, over 40 years service.

So we're getting close to 2020.

189 years.

Okay.

189 years.

189.

Yes.

And he couldn't make it because he probably forgot to come.

Well, thank you guys very much.

Okay.

Next, we have a yet another one one last uh meaningful and important presentation, and we have the team from Mental Health Resources led by Ms.

Lacey Keith here this evening to share with us and receive a proclamation proclaiming the month of May 2026 as Mental Health Awareness Month.

Ms.

Keith.

Good evening.

Thanks for being here.

Thank you.

I continue to be just really honored to be invited here for these mental health awareness months and prevention months because it's just so meaningful for our community.

And I genuinely appreciate that the city continues to just recognize that.

Um I just want to shamelessly plug that our mental health awareness 5K is coming up May 30th.

So if you're not registered, there's still time to register.

So where will you be holding that?

We're going to be holding that at Green Acres this year.

And I've brought with me Janine Kinnison, who is our clinical supervisor, and Kara Bible, who is our COO.

Outstanding.

Well, we appreciate you ladies being here this evening to receive the proclamation.

I know you have the event coming up.

Any anything else uh of of note that that we should know about what's happening with mental health resources?

Um so I don't know if you guys have heard, but our Curry County office has been granted C C B H C status, so that's certified community behavioral health.

Um what that means is we are now expanding what we already have in place to expand crisis services, service across the lifespan.

Um we are just moving to be more comprehensive in how we care for a whole person.

Um, starting, you know, with the the mental health assessment, but also making sure that we're addressing physical health needs as needed and trying to care for folks through their entire recovery journey.

Wow, oh that's fascinating, and so glad to hear that.

What is your service area?

Do you have clients all over the region or just in the physical we have offices in four counties?

We have uh Quay, Debaca, Curry, and Roosevelt counties.

Um Clovis, we have two physical offices here with Sutter and 21st Street, and then in Portalis, Tukincarry and Fort Sumner.

Wonderful.

Well, thank you so much for the amazing service that you provide in the community and and from what it sounds, uh building on that, uh gaining uh gaining momentum and adding to what you do.

So thank you so much for that.

Mayor Pro Tim.

Commissioners, any comments?

Oh, thank you.

Keep up the Google.

Thank you.

We uh we'll consider the the 5K.

I I guess I guess an old guy like me could just go and walk, right?

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Yes.

Food trucks.

Now that's a 5K.

Walk to the food job.

Yes, you can just wander around with your coffee.

I love it.

Not competitive at all.

That's it.

Oh no.

It's okay.

Good.

Proclamation.

Whereas mental health is essential to everyone's overall health and well-being.

And whereas all Americans experience times of difficulty and stress in their lives, and whereas prevention is an effective way to reduce the burden of mental health conditions.

And there is a strong body of research that says supports specific tools that all Americans can use to better handle challenges and protect their mental health.

And whereas Mental Health America reports uh research shows one and five adults uh experience mental illness each year, and over 71,000 new Mexicans have serious mental uh illness.

That's a shocking number.

I had to do a double take on that.

71,000 new Mexicans have serious mental illness.

And whereas America's health rankings show that in New Mexico, one million three hundred and sixty-six thousand ninety-five people live in a community with a shortage of mental health professionals.

And whereas all businesses, schools, government agencies, healthcare providers, organizations, and citizens share the burden of addressing our mental health needs and have a responsibility to promote mental wellness and to support prevention efforts.

And whereas mental health resources will host a mental health awareness 5K walk and health fair on May 30th, 2026 at 2001 Mitchell or Green Acres Park.

Now therefore I, Mike Morris, Mayor of Clovis, and on behalf of the City Commission to hereby proclaim the month of May 2026 as mental health awareness month in the City of Clovis.

It doesn't have the time.

What time will it start?

8 o'clock or for the folks online.

So the check-in will start at 7.30.

The walk will start at 8 a.m.

Yes, ma'am.

Thanks for that.

Looking forward to it.

And again, uh thanks for the opportunity to highlight mental health awareness month this evening.

Appreciate you ladies very much.

Next we'll move into receipts of petitions and communications, or what we refer to as public comment.

It's during this portion of the meeting that you have the opportunity to address uh the governing body.

I'll give you a few minutes to do that.

Is there anyone here wishing to provide public comment this evening?

Yes, please.

Please come on up to the podium.

Thank you for for being here.

We look forward to your remarks.

I I would ask if if you don't mind identifying yourself, and uh then we'll start your time for three minutes.

Uh hello.

My name is Cyan Ole Geen.

Um do you need my address too?

Or no?

If you would like to provide it, please.

Um it is 108 Sandy Elaine.

Uh also living here, obviously.

Um I guess I just had a few concerns uh for our community.

Um of them is the Racino.

Are we positive we won't we're going through with that?

There's no way to stop it.

Um it just feels like I know that it's supposed to bring a lot of jobs, but it doesn't really say what jobs specifically.

And um being able to live is like very, very hard right now.

I'm not sure if people even have the money to go to a place like a racino and gamble.

Um it doesn't seem very family friendly, and it really uses up a whole lot of our water, which is already a diminishing resource here in New Mexico.

We're in a drought, and this is looking to be one of the hottest summers on record.

Um sorry.

Um I guess I also wanted to bring up um keeping public lands in public hands.

Um I'm seeing in a lot of other counties and places um government um you know buying up their land to use for um data centers and stuff.

I know that one's a little bit out there, but I ask if that does get offered to hear the county of Curry County that you guys say no and stuff like that.

Um also on the summer thing that it's gonna be one of the hottest summer.

I was wondering if um we had one of those programs.

I think I don't know the um the acronym is LIHEAP.

Um low income crap.

Sorry.

It's a program.

Low low-income home energy assistant program.

Do we have those here?

That's a good question.

And well sorry, that's a program that um helps people who can't afford ACs to get an AC during the summer so that we're not overheating and stuff like that.

Um yeah, I thought maybe instead of doing something right like the Racino that maybe we could do something like uh botanical garden um the gosh.

I'm so sorry, I'm so nervous.

You're doing you're doing wonderfully.

Don't worry about it.

You're doing great.

Um what's it called?

That that trail, the the Plains Wind Trail, I can't remember what it's called.

Um what it's actually called.

I should have written it down.

I'm so sorry.

Yeah.

You know what?

We'll just stop it there.

That's that's quite all right.

Um but yeah, those were just a couple of the concerns I have for the community.

I don't ever remember there being like an option to say if we were for or against the racino, but I might have been living out of town at that time.

Um so I'd ask before you go through it to maybe ask one more time.

Yeah.

Listen, first of all, I just wanted to say thank you for for coming and sharing what's on your mind and on your heart, and I encourage you to continue to do that.

And so thank you for being here this evening and and for those comments.

And perhaps I I should have done this before inviting public comment, but I want to make a statement now before attempting to respond to some of what you you said.

Yes, I spotted a lot.

Yeah, well, yeah, it was it was all great.

Uh but I I did want to make clear for for you and for anyone listening, uh, when we receive public comment, sometimes an idea will be introduced or a question will be asked about something that isn't on our published agenda.

And so in order to follow the open meetings act, we have to only discuss and take action on items that have been on our agenda for this meeting.

And so sometimes it can be a little unsatisfying for someone in your shoes to to ask a question and then maybe we really can't discuss too much about it this evening.

And so I just wanted to preface by saying that and just sort of remind everyone about the open meetings act.

Thank you.

And some governing bodies will choose to not respond at all to public comment.

Um I have kind of taken the liberty to uh answer public comment at times, probably making our city attorney and others nervous.

But uh I just want to make clear that we're not going to have discussion or arrive at a decision on anything that you've got that you've brought up.

But but ma'am, uh kind of working uh backwards maybe the assistance for utilities.

Uh I don't know if that specific program is available.

I'm not sure if it is or isn't, but I do know that there is utility assistance and uh as well as uh in the past uh nonprofit organizations have provided air conditioners for residents that that need them and and have difficulty affording them.

And so um what I would say is I think we probably have the things that you were asking about available in our community.

I think it would be because you've brought it up.

I think it's important that that I follow up and others follow up to make sure, and then if we can publicize that for the good of the community, we will.

Um the racino I I want to address that simply by saying uh that is not the action of the city of Clovis nor of Currie County.

Uh that is the action of a of a private business owner, a private developer making the decision to invest in such an establishment in our community.

And so it wouldn't be unlike someone deciding to bring a fast food restaurant to Clovis.

There's he's that developer is seeing a business opportunity.

He's a legal licensed business and he's he's choosing to invest here.

I'm just worried it's going to become another ugly abandoned building because no one will be able to afford to spend time there.

And and I and I appreciate uh your your comment and and and your opinion and view of that, but I I just wanted to make sure that you understand it's not something we're deciding to do or not do.

Um I did actually have some questions on the agenda.

I see number eight um is an award for 500,000 from the U.S.

Department of Homeland Security for helping to build um infrastructure and stuff.

I I'm just a little bit cautious whenever it comes to the federal government government, especially with everything going on.

Um so I just can't help but feel that there's something a little too good to be true, you know.

Um and I see that we're demolishing a lot of buildings on the introduction of and adoption of resolution and ordinances.

Is there any way um we can repurpose those buildings to be low-income housings?

Um please please hang around for the discussion on on those uh so that you you kind of hear what we're doing there and and have a have an understanding.

But uh I appreciate your questions and your interest, and I hope that you will continue uh to attend meetings.

And I welcome questions.

If you like, uh my contact information is easily discoverable.

You can also ask questions of the uh city manager, city manager and and and manager's office staff if you like that that's available to you.

Um but thank you for being here.

Appreciate everything you have had to say.

We take it all under consideration and and to the last question.

Again, we'll be there in just a few minutes, and you'll you'll I think you'll you'll see a lot more about about those items.

So thank you.

Thank you very much for your time.

Mayor, if Mayor, if I may.

Yes, sir.

I just would like to make one call.

Is it Ms.

Holging?

Yes, sir.

I I I commend you.

Um I I came up to the podium before I was a commissioner.

Uh a couple of times in my 40s, and I was incredibly nervous.

And so I know the courage it takes to come up and talk into a microphone like that.

So first I just want to say thank you for doing that, and I agree with the mayor.

Don't stop doing that.

Um if you don't already know that the majority of the commission our contact information is publicly available on our website.

And myself included, uh, my personal cell phone is posted on there.

So if you ever have any questions or you want.

Please feel free to call.

Um I don't know anybody up here that would not take your call or at least attempt to call you back.

Um if you if you call and you don't get one of us, leave a message, would you?

Yes, of course.

I know I know I always can email and stuff.

I just I think it's better to be face to face.

I agree.

And if you if you want to reach out to me, I'm happy to meet with you in person at City Hall.

Uh and uh but also I I do I encourage you to continue to attend meetings.

So thanks for being here.

I hope I'll be able to come to more.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Have a good night.

Anyone else public comment?

All right.

We will move on in the agenda then.

Next we have the consent agenda.

The consent agenda uh is is used to handle many items uh with one motion.

If any of these items does not meet with unanimous approval uh for the consent agenda, we'll take it out and hear it under the regular agenda.

You have uh let's see, 13 proposed items in the consent agenda this evening.

The first is request for approval of adoption of ordinance number 2259-2026, changing an RS7 residential single family district to a RM residential multifamily district at 1106 West 2nd Street.

Item two, request for approval of adoption of resolution number 337-2026 relating to the conditional use of a residence for a group child care home located at 2604 Gidding Street.

Item three, request for approval of adoption of resolution number three three seven eight two thousand twenty-six, granting approval of the replat of block three, lot fourteen in the Ryerson edition of the City of Clovis.

Item four, request for approval of adoption of resolution number three three seven nine-2026, granting approval of the replat of lot four and or excuse me, lot three and lot four in block fourteen of the rain tree edition, unit fifteen.

Item five, request for approval of quarterly lodging tax disbursements.

Item six, request for approval to award RFP 26022005 city attorney services to Harmon, Barnett, and Morris.

Item seven, request for approval of noise variants for or from 9 p.m.

to 11 p.m.

on Saturday, July 26th for the first annual T Arena truck show at 1300 West Brady.

Item eight is request for approval to apply for and accept if awarded grant funding in the in an amount not to exceed $500,000 from the United States Department of Homeland Securities FY25, building resilient infrastructure and communities brick program.

Item nine, request for approval to apply for and accept if awarded grant funding in an amount not to exceed $50,000 from the New Mexico Board of Veterinary Medicines SPA and Neuter Grant Program.

Item 10, request for approval to apply for and accept if awarded grant funding in funding in an amount not to exceed 400,000 from the Department of Justice's Rural Violent Crime Reduction Initiative.

Item 11, request for approval to accept notice of award in an amount of 447,743 from nonmetro area agency on aging to continue senior meal uh the senior meals at Hillcrest Senior Life Center.

Item 12, request for approval to of increase of $6,200 to lodgers tax promotional for additional smoke on the water items.

Item 13 request for approval of quote from K Barnett and Sons for paving on Purdue, Cameo, and Dartmouth.

That is the proposed consent agenda.

Is there a motion?

So moved.

Second.

Motion for approval of the consent agenda from Commissioner Porter.

Second came from Commissioner Garza.

Please vote.

And we have Commissioner Jones on the phone.

So I'll ask Commissioner Jones for his vote.

Yes.

Mr.

Jones, Commissioner Jones has voted yes.

And we can't vote.

Okay, so I have a yes from Commissioner Jones for the rest of you in the room here.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, the same sign?

The voters you and sorry.

No, I was not an objection.

I'm bottoming.

Okay, so we have a unanimous vote.

The motion is carried.

The items have been placed on the consent agenda.

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

Motion from Commissioner Cassals.

Second from Commissioner Paula.

And maybe your voting system is working, so please vote.

I just want to be really clear on this last vote.

So I'm going to ask for an acclamation again.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, the same sign.

You are unanimous on the approval of all items on the consent agenda.

We'll try the voting system again here in just a moment.

We are on to introduction and adoption of ordinances and resolutions.

The first three items uh this evening, I would propose that you consider uh all at once.

Uh they are request for approval of adoption of resolution number 3374, 3375, 3376.

Uh each authorizing the abatement of an unsafe building or structure.

One is 917 El Casias and the second is 918 East Grand.

The third is 1001 Sunrise Boulevard.

Uh each of these uh are uh you're being asked to consider demolition of the building or structure.

And uh our city attorney uh can give the explanation uh on uh or any explanation that he has on these now.

Mr.

Morris.

Thank you, Mayor.

And if I may, I just want to say, you know, thank you to the commissioners, uh Mayor Pro Tem and uh Mayor.

You know, it's it's been seven years that I've been doing this, and I was a little nervous because someone put against me for the first time in decades uh for the RFP.

We may have glossed over it in consent, but you did award a new four-year contract for s for our firm's services, and so you know I I don't usually say anything.

I don't think during the renewals I've ever said anything, but I just I wanted to tell you that I'm incredibly grateful.

Um I have something going that very few attorneys do, and that I have my own firm.

That's very important to me, something I'm proud of that I want to maintain.

But I also get to be the city attorney and and to do this, you know, maybe not quite full time, but as my primary job is uh it's incredibly enjoyable.

Um it's hard work, it's stress, but it's a different kind of stress than I was doing seven years ago when I was in court all day every day.

It's much more enjoyable.

The diversity of work, uh it's much more family friendly being able to be there for my kids and school pickups and drop-offs and uh and just the you know, a lot of attorneys kind of shy away from novelty, they want to be an expert in one thing, but it it suits me really well being able to do something different and research some new federal statute or some new issue or problem that we try and solve.

I just love it.

And I feel like I I'm sort of you know cheating or something, being able to do both and getting this award.

And I am gonna you know ride this wave as long as you guys will let me.

Um but I I just want to let you know that I I really do feel blessed and lucky to be doing this.

And I I make you know, I just maybe self-serving since it's already been awarded, but I want you to know too.

I I make the city my number one priority.

I mean, there's not been a call, text or email from any of you or you know, city administration in 70 years that I haven't answered or immediately returned.

Um I you know plan to keep give making it my number one priority and uh again doing it as long as you guys will will let me do it.

So again, I'm thankful and appreciative.

Wanted to say that.

Well, thank thank you for saying that.

And and um, you know, for for everyone's benefit that may not be tracking.

We we approved uh uh Mr.

Morris's agreement.

Uh it was item six in the consent agenda, and and he used the phrase glossed over and and uh per perhaps that was the case.

Maybe we should have had it on discussion so that so that we could so that we could talk about it, make it sweat, but uh but no, uh really really appreciate what you've had to say there.

Morris's agreement uh it was item six in the consent agenda and and he used the phrase glossed over and and uh per perhaps that was the case maybe we should have had it on discussion so that so that we could so that we could talk about it make him sweat but uh but no uh really really appreciate what you've had to say there uh and I would say that uh uh you know I let's see I've been around for uh you know six and a half uh years or so of of your your tenure here and I I sure enjoy working with you and and and it's clear that you enjoy it uh and uh we're we're very fortunate to have such a dedicated city attorney and so uh thank you for for what you've had to say but uh you know back at you we're we're we're really proud to have you so thank you for the work that you do and speaking of the work that you do let's get back to business we have uh uh these three resolutions uh pertaining to uh potential demolish demolition of uh unsafe buildings by by resolution um and I've already read the addresses so Mr.

Morris please tell us what you will about these sure uh thank you and and maybe to answer the lady's question directly these uh these items are routinely placed on the agenda when we have a building or structure that not only is incapable of being repaired or not feasible meaning that the repairs would be so expensive and costly and cumbersome it'd be easier and cheaper to tear it down and rebuild it but also these structures are a danger to the public health safety and welfare um they all have routinely housed vagrants they're all dangerous to be to occupy in fact the three on the agenda this evening all have pretty significant fire damage and structural damage to the walls and roof where they're just they're dangerous um and so that's the reason for for the demolition of these they wouldn't be able to be refurbished at least not these three particular properties for certain um first one is 917 El Cacias it's a residential structure owned by Maria Rodriguez as you can see it's been badly damaged and a fire is unsecured um is in disrepair same thing with 918 East Grand that's a residential mobile home uh but also suffered severe fire damage it's unsecured uh the property owner of that structure is come and dwell LLC and then lastly 1001 sunrise there was a partial fire the remaining structure the residential structure is so badly damaged to the walls and roof etceters again that it's in danger of collapse and the danger to the public health safety and welfare so the Department of Building Safety has received complaints about these properties has identified them and then placed them on the agenda or asked me to draft resolutions and place them on the agenda for you consider demolishing them.

Part of the demolition is they'll remove all the rubbish related debris and everything clean the lot and property up and restore it to kind of a vacant condition if these items are approved then we start by serving notice of the resolution to the property owners and giving them the opportunity to remedy the situation if they don't want to or they don't respond then the city will go ahead and go forward.

And so with that I would be happy to answer any questions mayor.

Thank you for that is there discussion or questions about these mayor I move for adoption of resolution number 3374 3375 and 3376 2026.

That's second thank you we have a proper motion for approval of all three resolutions from Commissioner Paula and a second from the mayor pro Tim Garza.

Further discussion on the item since some of you are already voting I guess not I'll go ahead and call the vote please vote.

So as yesterday we'll have to talk about how to time everything again.

Commissioner Jones your vote please we have a yes from Commissioner Jones on the phone right here.

Is everyone else in they are so the vote is unanimous the motion is carried and resolutions as discussed have been approved next and last in this section we have request item four request for approval of introduction of an ordinance relating to massage business licenses amending city code section 504050 and creating new code section 504070 and we're gonna go back to uh our city attorney for some direction on this one I guess before I hand it off to him I would say that I've received concerns as well as others have received concerns about possible uh inappropriate behavior occurring uh at uh massage establishments in our community um I uh visited with uh the city manager the chief of police and eventually uh uh the city attorney about uh about what could be done what uh what ability does the local governing body have to regulate uh such a business and um to uh the city attorney's comments earlier uh we gave it to the city attorney and he began researching the the matter and uh after um I don't know probably six weeks or more of work and research uh what you have before you is um uh a draft uh recommended uh or at least recommended by me for your approval this evening.

Uh we gave it to the city attorney, and he began researching the the matter.

And uh after um I don't know, probably six weeks or more of work and research, uh what you have before you is um uh a draft uh recommended uh or at least recommended by me for your approval this evening.

Mr.

Morris, would you like to talk about what you've prepared?

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

Um yes, this has been a little little while in the works.

It's something Ms.

Burroughs has been asking me about for probably more than six months.

Um and part of the lag and the research and delay was uh reaching out to other cities to see if anyone else had done this.

Um I know Santa Fe has is in the process of drafting an ordinance, but theirs really hasn't even made it to paper yet.

Uh they're still waiting.

And so um, but yeah, it's it's not just a possibility, mayor.

If you talk to law enforcement, including Chief Trone or uh the federal agents that were involved in citing the one establishment on Prince Street, uh they'll tell you it's an it's absolutely happening.

There's a number of verified reports from a number of different businesses uh here in Clovis.

And so uh the ordinance is well, it's an attempt to help that in a couple of ways that I'll get into.

But what it does, you know, it's pretty simple.

I sent you an explanation with you know five or six other ordinances.

We are certainly not the first across the country to do this.

Lots of other cities have enacted similar ordinances.

But this one is pretty simple in that it just requires massage businesses to get a business license.

Uh right now, the vast majority of businesses in the city simply need a business registration.

Uh business registration is very simple, it's just a form, it's a $35 annual fee, and then you can operate your business.

There are, I believe, nine businesses that need nine types of businesses that need a license.

Uh pawn shops, cannabis businesses are two of them.

And a license is something that you get in lieu of, not on top of, but instead of the business registration.

And so if this ordinance is passed, it would, I guess, transition massage businesses from needing a registration to needing a license.

There would be a $50 license fee instead of the $35 registration fee.

And it essentially imposes some conditions on the businesses.

It require an application.

The application itself would require information about the employees that work there.

And I think the most important piece of the the ordinance is it requires them to show us their state license.

In my research, I found that there is a very broad definition of massage and massage therapy in state law.

Basically, any type of massage that's given for money is called massage therapy per state statute and requires a state license.

And so when I learned that, I I sought about I went to go see about maybe making a complaint to the state RLD about some of the businesses that we know had been problems and and had criminal activity.

And I learned we really don't have a way to make a complaint to the state because we don't have a way to ask these people for their licenses.

And so I think that's the number one goal of the ordinance is it requires them to show us the state license, state issued license for every person, employee, owner, operator, whoever is giving massages for money.

But the second piece to that is it also employs some kind of common sense requirements that is um that you saw in some of the other ordinances, hours of operation.

A lot of times the illegal establishments or the establishments that are up front for illegal activity will be open 24 hours and have some of the illicit activity applying occurring late at night.

So it imposes hours of operation from 6 a.m.

to 11 p.m., which I hope is wouldn't impact any legitimate massage businesses.

It also prohibits sleeping on the premises.

Uh I found from law enforcement that the majority of these illicit businesses actually have the workers sleeping on the premises for several reasons.

And so this would prohibit that.

Uh it would also require, I think I mentioned this a log of employees and their information and names.

And so that's that's helpful for a few reasons.

One, I think just having these requirements may discourage these businesses, get them out, or keep them from opening up.

Uh but then also if if we have these requirements and we can find that they've violated them, then we could take action to revoke their business license and shut them down if we wanted to.

I think the ideal path is just uh because from what I've heard from our you know law enforcement here and on our federal partners that none of the illegal establishments, none of those workers have a state license.

And so if we can just simply find out who doesn't have a state license, report them to the state, and and I do know that the state does take action because I've I've monitored that.

I've seen that they have a board that takes action on complaints and they shut businesses down.

I don't know how long the process is, but it there is a process that works.

So I think that's the goal is to identify those businesses and then have then report them to the state, but also to have that second piece where we have a license we can revoke.

Overarching goal, I think, and is to not entangle or encumber or disadvantage any legitimate massage businesses that are open here in Clovis, because we have several.

And so that's you know, you don't want to put too many regulations in the ordinance to where you affect those people, but you also want to have enough to where you there's some teeth to it.

So I think that's that's the goal.

This would be the first one, as I know that would ever be passed in New Mexico if we pass it, and I think an important tool, and maybe something the others will use to uh to help this this issue.

And so uh I would be happy to answer any questions, Mayor.

Uh I did receive a comment from Mr.

Howalt and Commissioner Paul that I think is a very good comment uh about a change that I think I need to make, and that is to the the portion of the ordinance that that prohibits sleeping at the massage business.

You know, we do allow home occupation massage businesses.

There's at least one home occupation, you know, there's there's a permit process, you have to go through P and Z, but at least one home occupation massage business.

So certainly we wouldn't want to you know shut them down or affect them.

Uh so I do think we ought to add a caveat in there that says their prohibition on sleeping does not include any approved home occupation massage business.

With that, I would have to answer questions.

Thank you for that and uh appreciate your your work on this.

And you know, I think the I think the product of of your research and and and your work uh well notwithstanding the one uh edit that that has been suggested, which I think makes sense, but I think this is us taking if if if you all agreed and approved this, I believe this would be uh the City of Clovis taking action uh to well all of the action that we can uh uh related to this.

You have folks that are choosing to uh engage in um you know prostitution, human trafficking, unlawful sexual activity, and other criminal conduct uh through the these establishments.

Um this would be Clovis saying uh not here, right?

So um I I definitely appreciate the the effort that went into this.

Uh I think it's key that uh in number five uh that that this would permit uh the City of Clovis uh Department of Building Safety, uh police department and fire department uh to uh inspect and and look for uh the license being displayed as it's supposed to be, but also uh to determine compliance with all applicable laws and ordinances and regulations and um and hold accountable those that may be operating without a license and conducting illegal activity uh right here in our community.

And uh so those were just my comments, but what questions or concerns do you have, Commissioners?

So mayor, I don't have a concern or questions at this time, and this is just for introduction, so we will have 30 days to uh add or delete or whatever is necessary to make it happen.

And with that, I move for approval.

Okay, second.

We have a motion for approval from Mayor Pro Tem Garza.

I heard the second from Commissioner Porter.

Any further discussion on the items hearing and seeing none, it's been properly moved and seconded that you would approve introduction of the ordinance relating to massage business licenses and doing the amendments to the code as described.

Please vote.

Commissioner Jones, your vote, please.

Yes.

I hear a yes from Commissioner Jones on the phone.

That would have us at a unanimous vote, and the motion has carried the ordinance has been introduced.

We have nothing in unfinished business, and we have one item, and it's uh kind of important one in new business.

It is uh request for approval and submission uh submission of the preliminary budget for fiscal year 2027.

Ms.

Malanson, our finance director.

Thank you, Mayor.

Mayor Pro Tem and Commissioners, and let me first start off by thanking the department directors.

Um they were we sent it out early, they were efficient, they got it back.

So this year we don't have to have a special meeting for this.

So I appreciate their efforts and helping us get this done timely.

And once we're done, everything is ready.

I need a signature on a couple letters from the mayor, and it is ready, so we will upload it to DFA tomorrow, unless there are any changes that I need to make at the last minute.

So this is the preliminary budget.

It is required to be submitted to DFA by June 1st of each year, and then it will be approved, and this will be our starting point for July 1.

July final budget is at the end of July once we're closed and make all the necessary changes.

And again, department directors and their knowledge of using the Munis software over the last several years has also made it much easier for everybody in getting these things done.

Capital outlay within departments are covered by the decreases in expenditures, except for a couple of them.

During our year as I present the gross receipts tax revenue information, and we have managed to maintain at least a 20% above budget city manager and I decided that it was time to make that increase in revenue.

So we did always Don Clifton still rings in my head.

Conservative approach.

So we have only increased that revenue by 10%, and we will, of course, monitor that throughout the year.

Property tax has been calculated using the 2025 final valuations and the mill levy for the loan payment for the water authority loan is in there.

The transfer of the one mill is established for debt service for that project.

And at this point, we're about three million dollars ahead on our possible on our payments when it does come time to make those payments.

So there's no increase to the department.

We're just changing a couple of the positions.

We will continue the hundred thousand dollar transfer from general fund to recreation to assist with the Clover School's youth athletic program and the one-time fundings that I mentioned in capital outlay fire department through FAA with their aircraft, their aircraft service vehicle that they have at the airport.

They are requiring a foam cart for the purple foam that has to be used out there.

So we have funded them a water softener and emergency management is requested and we approved the Starlink Wi-Fi connection for them if they ever do in doing any type of emergency action.

Information technology has been allocated funds to continue and hopefully complete all of the door securities.

Our computer replacement plan, which includes the laptops for the police department, and additional software to maintain our security so that we are safe from the dark web.

And also their savings in any calculation of workmen's comp will be used to outlook to those residential projects.

All general revenue that's specific to a department or fund will be maintained in Fund 63, which is your parks user fees, the rentals of the pavilions, the zoo, municipal court funds, police fees, anything that is special and above that is designated, and then they have the ability to use those throughout the year.

We did the additional 30,000 that was approved earlier for the fireworks display and all the events for the 4th of July.

The salary increases related to the approval that you did at the May 7th Commission meeting will be reflected in the payroll budget for the final budget.

This one was already ready when we approved that one.

And there are no additional funds at this point in time budgeted for any raises for 2027.

And if they're at that time, and obviously Mr.

Hull won't bring those to the commission for approval.

Grant revenue, the only grant revenue in the preliminary budget is your designated the transit system, the fire marshal, the law enforcement, those that we know and are continuing.

All final grant expenditures will be in the final budget with remaining balances at as of July 1st.

Touchstone and the Civic Center will submit their budgets during the final phase.

So the money that you see in here is still last year's final budgeted numbers.

And of course, actual cash balances, updated revenues and expenditures, any carryovers from the final once we close out 2026 will be added into this budget.

Our preliminary ending general fund cash is $8 million, a little over $8 million.

The state required minimum reserve is $3 million.

And then our designated funds from general fund are at $3.2 million.

So we do have our beginning cash of $78.6 million.

We have estimated budgeted revenues of $71.3 million.

Our expenditures are $82.8 million, leaving us an estimated cash for the entire city at $67 million.

I'm happy to answer any questions on that.

And if not, then we'll move on to the presentation.

So I have a clarifying question.

When you talk about the grant funding, and you you said that that what we're looking at here is is kind of our normal grant funding.

Correct.

Right.

Those are operate.

Basically, the ones that are in here are the operational grants.

So when we when we approve the final budget, it will have the budgeted grant dollars, for example, for the airport terminal building.

Correct.

And horizon behavioral health and so on into all of the remaining ones, and then of course any that we know are in the process of being approved as we have them approved.

We do take the position that until we have a signed grant agreement, it does not go into the budget.

So it present prevents any early spending, and then we have to reallocate funding in order to cover something.

That makes good sense.

Until you have that grant agreement, you you don't want to count it as as yours.

But once you do have it, then we go ahead and bring it into the budget and consider it as revenue.

Correct.

Correct.

The revenue and the expenditure would be in there at that point in time as a budget change.

Even if that grant will span two or more fiscal years to to completely expend it.

For example, the airport terminal building, when did let's see, that started in doesn't matter.

It's going to span more than one fiscal year.

Correct.

Yeah.

Okay.

But rather than guessing and then having to go back and adjust, it's just easier to wait, know what my final number is, know where we are, actual expenditures moving forward and what the actual revenue is, because there's always that overlap.

If we do a request at the very end of the year, we have additional revenue that we know will be coming in that we'll have to offset.

Right.

Yeah, thanks for that.

And I don't know why I'm just zeroed in on the grant funding, but I I think that you know we it has its own column, and I think that's important.

But especially when we get to the final budget, that that is going to that'll make the revenue number a lot larger.

Yes.

Uh and and so it's just important, I think, for the public as well as all of us to understand, you know, that because of grant success, our budgeted revenues are going to appear really large, uh, but we need to look at, you know, the expenditures as well.

Uh revenue of $39 million, right?

Versus whatever it's going to end up being in that final budget.

Sorry.

Uh sorry to bog us down on that.

Other questions for Ms.

Melanson?

Okay.

Yep.

See if I can use this thing.

Yep.

I think they advanced it for you.

Okay.

Or it works.

Or I advanced it too far.

Yes.

Okay.

So again, budgeted beginning cash and our revenue.

You can see for our various ones that we use, our general fund, our special revenues, our grant specific, that number will definitely change for the final budget, our enterprise funds, which are solid waste, wastewater, airport, and the golf course, our internal services, our workmen's comp and our unemployment, and then all of our debt service, of which one of those we will pay off this year.

Nice.

So this one you all do receive.

Um is updated for this month.

This is just our gross receipts receipts activity.

You can see that for this year, we are we are above from last year.

We're about right now about four a little over almost 30 percent, which I'll present later on in the meeting for my other meeting.

debt service of which one of those we will pay off this year nice so this one you all do receive um it is updated for this month this is just our gross receipts receipts activity you can see that for this year we are we are above from last year we're about right now about four are toward a little over almost 30 percent which I'll present later on in the meeting for my other meeting and then our budgeted ending expenditures and our cash balances again for each of those types of our revenues our specific ones that we have to maintain and then your comparison of and as we know because our departments do such a fine job of finding the best deals and taking care of the money we always have savings that will help us carry forward into further years again just showing our cash our estimated cash and again our we know our cash balances our beginning balances will go up just we'll have actual true numbers for the final budget and our budgeted taxes so the 39 million is what's actually budgeted at this point which is the breakdown between gross receipts our property tax our franchise our cannabis excise tax lodgers tax the gasoline tax our payment in lieu of taxes that we receive for a couple of our economic development programs and then our motor vehicle fees and this year the excise tax for cannabis is at 14 percent and we receive one third of that 14 percent so the question always comes up and again as we're adding now our short-term rentals the lodgers tax that's the breakdown 1.5 goes into the nonpromotional which takes care of things like fireworks and the sound stage that we're anxiously awaiting our promotional which takes care of all of the events that are brought forth through lodgers tax and then the dedicated two facilities is the remaining 1.5 percent and then just because everyone loves a good chart and a pie chart to see our taxes obviously the majority of them are our gross receipts taxes and then we do have our franchise our property all of some of our smaller ones but without gross receipts we do not function and this one just to give you your the sample the gross receipts our 7.9375 the state receives 3.65% of that the county receives 0.875 so that leaves us with the 3.4125 and again our example of a $10 purchase there may be 79 cents in gross receipts we receive 34 cents of it and this one just shows all of our designated the room how it's broken out with the gross receipts majority of it going to general fund and then of course our drainage our special streets the Utewater program our capital outlay projects and our economic development and this one just shows our ending our beginning cash our ending cash our revenue our expenditures we're as close as close to even as we can be and then your revenue so you can see the majority of our revenue is our taxes and license our service charges which are all of our building permits anything to do with all of our enterprise funds those types of things our grants right now at 3 million we know that number will go up significantly for the final and then all the other which is interest um various other revenues that we receive of the 7.6 million and then our expenses again are the majority of our expenses do go towards personnel services at 37 million our operating expenses 29 capital outlay 11 and then our debt service payments of 4 million and then to show how those bonds are broken up our road bonds which that will change we do have a new road bond our parks improvements the golf course and wastewater has several I guess one of those is close to being paid off and then the affluent for all of the loan grants that we've received over the years for those and revenue non-designated for general is the 34 million the subsidized is 5.7 giving us about 40 million in non-designated and then we designate for our debt our enterprise our grants the funds that are set up by ordinance our internal and then our bonds that we'll be receiving this year.

And revenue non-designated for general is the $34 million.

The subsidized is $5.7, giving us about 40 million in non-designated, and then we designate for our debt, our enterprise, our grants, the funds that are set up by ordinance, our internal, and then our bonds.

That we will be receiving this year.

And then our expenditures again $37 million, $11 million that we subsidize through general fund, and then our debt enterprise, our grant, the ordinance setup departments, and then our internal services.

And this one just shows salary, is of course the majority of our personnel services.

And then you have a portion for your Social Security and FICA, our medical insurance of $6.5 million, retirement $3.6, and then other, which is workman's comp, unemployment, retiree health care.

And this one, a shout out to the a little plug for the police department.

We did put in their new starting salary for the recruit officer.

So just to give you an example, if you were and you chose Para, your total personnel benefits with benefits is a little over $76 million.

That's with no overtime figured in there, which gives you about a $36 hourly pay.

And then we show it with ICT.

We just want to make sure that that's $76,000.

You said million.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

We are talking about a lot of numbers.

There are a lot of numbers up there.

$76,000.

And then of course we just used a heavy equipment operator and an office specialist just to give you an idea of what their salary, what their annual salary is compared to what their actual, then their their total personnel benefits on top of it.

Just as a reminder of the value of the benefits that the city does provide to our employees.

Well, that is a good illustration.

And you and that was an announcement of what was agreed upon for the PD starting pay.

I mean, wasn't that negotiated just very recently?

So they agreed to uh well that the recruits are outside of collective bargaining.

Oh, I forgot about that.

Okay.

All right.

And that was from the the compensation study.

Correct.

So $25.77 an hour starting recruit.

Okay.

So then this one just shows all of our budget expenses by department, mainly general fund, or the ones that general does subsidize.

We don't include anything to do with our enterprise funds or our internal revenue funds.

So the 44 million, and of course, you can see being the largest departments are fire, and our police departments do have the largest budgets.

And then we took it one step further looking at these budgets, and then the next slide shows your budget expenses versus your salary.

So the brown is your salary, the blue is your operating expenses.

So when you look at that, we have the majority of the funding does go towards salaries to personnel, and then we trust our departments to work on very, very strict budgets.

And that's it.

Well, thank you.

Excellent presentation of the proposed budget.

Mayor Pro Tim and Commissioners, what questions do you have?

Mr.

Howalt, did you have anything to add?

Thank you, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tim and Commissioners.

I too would just I I know that Leanne thanked the department directors and everybody for getting those in on time and uh their knowledge in the software systems that we're using is definitely expanded and makes it much faster.

But she forgot to make herself and all the time and efforts that uh she puts into actually uh taking what they've done, marking it up, and then getting it put in and then put it in a format that is presented to you guys.

So uh just really wanted to say thank you to Leanne.

And then as well, thank you to all of our departments and directors for uh all the work that they do throughout the year to manage their budgets.

They do a fantastic job as you can see.

And and we have we do work on tight budgets, and so it's not something that they take lightly uh to be able to get the work that they do done.

So thank you guys.

Thank you for that.

And and and yes, thank you, Ms.

Malanson.

Make a motion to approve.

Okay, we have a motion for approval coming from Commissioner Bryant.

Second from Mayor Pro Tim Garza.

Further discussion.

Hearing and seeing none, it's been properly moved and seconded that you would approve submission of the preliminary budget for FY27.

Please vote.

All those in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

I heard an aye from Commissioner Jones on the phone.

Uh all those opposed, the same sign.

The vote is unanimous and the motion has carried.

Thank you.

That concludes our action items this evening.

We'll now take reports.

Is there a report from Lodgers Tax Advisory Board?

Yes, thank you, Mayor.

Um had seven requests uh the last meeting and for a total of 147,000.

We recommended uh 55,000, which has been approved.

Um requests, we have uh the Curry County Fair and the High Plain Junior Rodeo, which will bring uh hopefully a lot of people into the community.

Um this is the end of the fiscal year, so um uh next meeting will start a new cycle.

And it's gonna be a vicious one because we have more people applying for funding.

So it's gonna be fun.

Well, we have a lot happening in our community and so a lot of folks applying for those dollars to promote what's happening.

Right.

That's good.

Tough job uh being on Lodger Stacks Board, though.

Thanks for that report.

Uh did you want to also talk to us about planning and zoning?

Uh it's been a lot of activity uh with minor uh requests uh for replats and uh some changes, which uh is for uh a couple of those are for duplexes and uh uh hopefully uh some improvements to the neighborhoods when they build something and make it look a little better.

Um that's all I have.

Thank you for that.

Is there a report from senior services?

Ordinarily I would give that, but uh I had to be absent from that meeting.

Ms.

Burroughs.

Yes, uh thank you, Mayor Mayor Pro Tem and Commissioners.

Um we had a good meeting.

Uh the uh Baba Regan, the senior services director advised that they served 312 seniors in the dining room uh for congregate and 96 seniors um daily for homebound meals for a total um I think of 5,386 for the month.

They received the New Mexico groan uh grant that they had applied for for $15,000, which they used to purchase food from places like Foot Family Meets and and others.

And the Hillcrest uh Senior Life Center gave an update about various activities that they were doing um during the month of June.

I know Mayor Pro Tem you attend their daily for the meals or quite often.

Um Casa uh advised that they were having some challenges with their buses, needed to buy some uh well do some upgrades to their buses.

They provide more than 50 rides a day.

Uh 50 plus Olympics um advised that uh they had were just down at a few people this year for the senior um Olympics, 50 plus Olympics, but everything had uh was going and had gone all alright with that.

Um just lots of good reports from all the different departments, which I'll forward the minutes to you.

Great, thank you for that.

Appreciate the report.

Is there a report from Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee?

Thank you, Mayor.

We uh met on Monday evening, and we this time we met at the zoo.

Um for those who aren't aware, the zoo is undergoing a master plan.

And we met on Tuesday to discuss the master plan.

So we thought it might be fun to meet at the zoo.

So in fact, we got a private tour after our meeting from Stephanie, which was lovely.

Uh while we were meeting before our tour, we uh discussed a new implementation for uh mural waivers.

There's lots of beautiful murals around town, and we want to give credit to the artist, but we also need to be able to maintain the murals, you know, as they age and be able to touch them up.

So that's gonna come back up at our next meeting.

Uh we did discuss uh adding another soccer field, and Commissioner Garza, you might want to let Walter know this.

I believe we're gonna add another field on the south side of where the two current fields are.

Okay.

Uh they're getting so much use, which is wonderful with the new lighting there uh that the grass is just in tough shape.

But there's no way to rotate people around and still allow play.

So that third field will allow us to go in there and fix the grass up, kind of shut one field off at a time and rotate.

Cool.

And then I believe we're also going to do some more lighting, not quite as extensive as the lighting that we do now have there now, but it'll add enough lights where we can in the evening they can definitely practice and play there also.

So that's kind of exciting.

Um Roy Walker is getting a new floor in Gym 2.

Uh the pickleball league that I did participate in was wonderful.

Amy did a great job running that league.

Um there were 60 people that played between Monday night and Tuesday night.

And so she's gonna do another league in the fall.

Uh Potter Pool, I think was scheduled to open this weekend, but I think they pushed it off uh to the following weekend.

I think they're having a little bit of trouble there getting it up and going.

But Potter Pool and the splash pad is going to extend their hours this summer.

They're gonna uh run seven days a week and into the evening to allow more people to come after work and swim and and play.

Um the Aquatic Center is going to be shut down beginning this Saturday to allow for replastering of the entire pool, which will be a great addition.

So everyone can get out in the sun here and play at Potter Pool and the splash pad.

Um we've got new lighting going on at all of our baseball fields.

Some have been done and some are in the works here, so that's great for those kiddos.

Um we've got the restrooms at Hillcrest Park up and running.

We've got new disc golf signs at Ned Houck Park, and we have got a tremendous amount of new playground equipment that's gonna be going in at Ned Houck and several other parks here in town uh starting as soon as we get the funding.

So good news for the parks.

Yes, great news.

Thank you for that report.

And lastly, in reports, unless there are others uh that you have, uh, we'll go back to Ms.

Melanson for the monthly investment report.

Thank you again.

Mayor Mayor Pro Tim and Commissioners.

April, we are 10 months through the year.

We started our cash at 82.7 million, ending at 80 million.

There were several terminal payments that were made that we had not received reimbursements on for this month.

Uh brief overview, General Fund 1, 14.9 million, our solid waste fund two, 2.6 million, wastewater fund 10, a little over 5 million, colonial golf course fund 19, a little over a million.

Our capital outlay quarter percent fund 65 million, our economic development gross receipts fund 64, 8.7 million, our water quarter percent fund 66, 8.1 million, and drainage fund 88, 2.4 million.

We have 17.6 million in the bank, our 10 million dollars CD, and 52.3 million in the state investment pool.

Our interest earned for this month was 213,000, and that's a typo that should say year to date 10 months is 2.1 million compared to 2.5 million this time last year.

State pool was down just a little bit.

We're still at the 3.66 compared to 4.33 last year.

And when I checked the uh overnight rate today, it is down 3.484, so it took a significant drop.

Still above three though.

Gross receipts we did receive.

We are a little over four percent above this time last year, 11% four-year average, and um 21 and a half percent above budget.

We had 6,044 reporters, which was down 116 from last year.

So to be on a positive, even though we had fewer reporters, the funding was there.

And happy to answer your questions.

Thank you.

Excellent report.

Questions?

Doesn't look like it.

Um future agenda items.

Ms.

Foster.

Mayor, Mayor Burrow Time Commissioners.

I have three future agenda items.

The first one is a presentation of keys to the city to Colonel Johnston and Colonel McMasters.

The second is a presentation of proclamation proclaiming June 14th through 20th as Dragon Main Week.

And the third one is a request for approval of adoption of resolution number 3380 2026 granting approval of the replat of the Wheeler Garrett part of Hilltop Shopping Center.

Thank you, ma'am.

Evidently, we do not have committee meetings between now and our next city commission meeting, which will be on June 4th at 5 15 P.M.

And with that, we are adjourned.

Thank you all.