On Monday, May 11, 2026, at approximately 1:00 PM, the Las Cruces City Council held a work session chaired by Mayor Eric Enriquez. The meeting included presentations and discussions on the Active Transportation Plan and Vision Zero, the establishment of the City of Las Cruces Register of Cultural Properties, and proposed options for the 2026 General Obligation Bond. Council members present included McClure, Matisse, Harris, Bencomo, Coran, and Munios. Councillor Bencomo attended via Zoom after a unanimous motion.
Presenters: Kyle Arn (Interim Public Works Director), Vanessa Morales (Interim Engineering Manager), and Brent Crowt (Kimley Horn).
Presenter: Caitlin Beasley (Historic Preservation Specialist).
Presenter: Cynthia Lamillo (Capital Improvements Program Manager).
You're live. Thank you. Well, good afternoon. Welcome to the work session. Today is Monday, May 11th, two thousand twenty-six. It's approximately one PM. I'm Mayor Eric Enriquez. We will start with a moment of silence for the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces that protect our interests around the globe as well as the courageous men and women of the Las Cruzes Police and Fire Department. One nation undergo this with liberty and justice for all. Okay, we have three items on our agenda today, but before we get started, we need a motion and a second to allow counselor Bencomo to attend via Zoom. So moved. Second. This is on the motion to allow Councillor Bencomo to attend via Zoom. Counselor McClur. Yes. Counselor Matisse. Yes. Counselor Harris? Yes. Counselor Bencomo? Yes. Counselor Coran? Yes. Counselor Munios? Yes. Mayor? Yes. Okay, so item number one on the agenda is active transportation. Kyle. Mayor, Council, good afternoon. For the record, my name is Kyle Arn, your interim public works director. What you have here today is a presentation on where we're at with the active transportation plan, as well as some discussion about vision zero, which you have patiently waited for us to bring to your attention. With that, I will introduce Vanessa Morales from Merrill, the engineering manager, and she's going to introduce the rest of the team. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Today I'll be giving a brief overview of our active transportation team, our coordination efforts, and then we'll as well be going over Vision Zero. Our active transportation team within public works consists of myself, Vanessa Morales Romero. I'm currently the interim engineering and serving manager. Oscar Carrero is our main point of contact. So anything after transportation goes to him, and he routes it all to the rest of us. He's an engineer with Public Works. And then we also have Jeremy Varela, he's an associate engineer with Public Works. And he also sits on many of the meetings that we have. Natasha Bailey, who is not here today, is a senior engineer with Public Works as well. She's the project manager for our Safe Streets for All Grant. And just to go over some of the coordinate coordination efforts that we have, Parks and Rec and Community Development. We work with them monthly. We have monthly sitting meetings with them where we go over, you know, our different projects and how they align. We also have quarterly meetings with Las Cruces Public Schools and the DOT. Any DOT projects within city limits, they provide those to us and we review those, as well as the county and NMSU and the DOT. Those are all stakeholders in many of our major projects, providing input, and so we align a lot of revisions.