On Monday, August 18, 2025, at approximately 1:00 PM, the Las Cruces City Council met under the leadership of Mayor Eric Enriquez. The meeting included presentations, public comments, and action on several resolutions, including opioid settlement funding, a nuisance abatement, and professional service agreements. The council also heard a closed session statement and received updates on utility lead and copper compliance.
Your life. Good afternoon. Welcome to City Council meeting. Today is Monday, August 18th, 2025. It's approximately one PM. I am Mayor Eric Enriquez. Before we start, I want to mention that we have. Do we have them today? I don't see them. The American Sign Language. I don't see them here today. Okay, they're not here today. So if you all rise and join me, we'll start with a moment of silence for the brave men and women of the United States Armed Force as they protect our interests, and as well as the courageous men and women of the Las Cruces and Police Department who keep our city safe twenty-four-seven three sixty-five. Please join me in the pledge. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God. So the first item is presentations of certificates and proclamations. So we first want to recognize with a certificate of excellence to certify proudly presented to the New Mexico, Texas major baseball team in honor of their outstanding performance and recognition of their high standards of excellence. This certificate is issued in recognition of civic interest and of expression of appreciation by the mayor on behalf of the citizens of the city of Las Cruces, dated this eighteenth day of August, twenty twenty five. So I have a list of players here. The team showed great sportsmanship, determination, and gave up in reaching their goal of playing hard and winning this tournament. And we wanted to recognize them and congratulate them for their huge accomplishment and their undefeated championship victory. So congratulations to you, coach, and to all the players. I'll give the coach a minute to say a few words, but let's give him another big hand. All right, guys, hi there. My name's Sal Gomez. I'm the head coach of the NM Texas Majors. Um, I mean, to put it in perspective, we we set a goal to be one of the first New Mexico based teams to travel to Cooperstown, New York, and you know we we set a goal and expectation to let's finish in the top ten. And all of a sudden, our first two game two pool play games, one both of those. Next two won both of those. Next two won both of those. We're sitting six and oh in pool play, watching uh a national team called ZT Prospects, and say, all right, we're tired for run differential, and they ended up allowing a couple more runs, what put us in the first place seat. And when I found out that there's never been a number one first seed to win the tournament, I was like, oh no, I don't want to be number one thief. Uh but you know, these boys and lady did not let that phase them. Um we opened up with bracket play, and we there was a couple of times we were down, but I just told them, hey, I and I preached to them. I I've been coaching the majority of these kids since they were four and seven years old. So we've been together for a while. And uh, but every time we were down, I just told them, hey, baseball's like life. Sometimes it's gonna beat you down, sometimes it's gonna put you down, but you got one choice, and it's the battle back. And out of those two games that we're battling from the back, we came back and took it down. So it was such an amazing experience for the team for the family members to go and experience. Uh, they've all said it, it's nothing there isn't nothing like it out there, you know. So I'm proud to bring it home to New Mexico in Las Cruces and represent it just like how we said we set four records total. Number no, there's never been a number one seed to win it, never a team to go undefeated and win it. There's never been a girl on a baseball team to go and win it. And what was the last one, guys? Come on. No number one seed. First New Mexico team. Come on.