Well,

good afternoon and welcome to the work session.

Today is Monday, October 26, 2026.

It's approximately 1 p.m.

I'm Mayor Eric Enriquez.

We'll start with a moment of silence for the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces as they protect our interests around the globe, as well as the courageous men and women of the Las Cruces Police Department and the Las Cruces Fire Department as they keep our city safe 24-735.

If

you join me in the pledge.

Okay, we'll get started with item one point one discussion of future use options for the Amador property.

Elizabeth.

Yes.

Today we're going to be talking about Amador Live.

We're going to be tackling this with different departments to show that we're kind of working together and working on coming up with a great solution and next steps for this property.

So the goal is to activate the Amador immediately while working towards its long-term vision as a vibrant downtown destination.

I've been working with this property for over a year now.

A lot of what I've been hearing is that people want to rent it out for events, especially the outdoor area.

Or they want individual spaces.

And then we're going to be introducing private event rentals.

We'll use the process we use for the plaza to be able to lead rent out the space, starting with outdoor space.

And then we have figured out to do phase renovations, starting with the broken spark spoke area and the five seven five bar and the roof.

We have the greater chamber of commerce.

And

with that, I'll turn it over to Rochelle.

Hello, Mayor, Council.

So envisioning the future of Amador Live.

We want to generate greater downtown visibility and activity, and we want it to serve as an economic catalyst.

And how do we do

that?

So by utilizing the complex, it will create a more vibrant downtown, attracting more visitation to the area.

It will serve as an economic catalyst by driving individuals.

And in return sales to other downtown businesses, retail, restaurants, bars, as well as serve as a marketable tourism asset.

It will also create an avenue for other small businesses to flourish through pop-ups and education on how to grow their businesses.

So we've heard actually when we've had like the holiday markets last year, it turned into those vendors coming to us asking how do we get a storefront, how do we uh grow our business just by having that opportunity there.

So again, how do we accomplish this?

Um immediate short range usage.

We already have planned some holiday pop-ups.

We have one in November, and then we're gonna have a three-day uh holiday pop-up in December.

We want to start a second Friday market because we have the first Friday market, and then I believe there's another venue in the area that has a third Friday market, and then we also want to do uh food truck Sundays to bring people downtown.

Um sorry.

So

we'll have local vendors, we'll have food trucks, we'll have live entertainment.

Um, and then after the first of the year, we also want to look into the long-term regular programming, expand to include uh more entertainment, movie nights, daytime cafes, rental for large-scale events, um, such as weddings, conferences, um, and working with our individual partners, uh, city internally and externally.

I think by doing that and creating constant activity at the center, uh, it just itself will create the vibrancy that we want downtown.

Thank

you.

Good

afternoon, Mayor and Council, David Sedio, public works director, and I'll be sharing with you the building's renovation needs as we go through.

So it has two needs.

So it has some items that are not code compliant when the structure was built, and also just your regular everyday maintenance items that an asset or a facility will experience over time.

We'd want to make sure that we get those up before we open the building up to these services.

So we're kind of moving and separated those out into two categories for both an exterior and an interior portion of the building.

Those items for the exterior would include items such as the building's envelope, stuck old walls, the roof, doors, windows, those types of things to make sure that anything that was included in there either gets repaired adequately or replaced.

One of those items replaced for the non-come code compliant items is the exterior doors.

Those applications seem to be of a residential installation, then a commercial application.

So we'd look to correct some of those items.

Other things that wouldn't be included for the exterior along with the grounds or some repairs to the cinder block or some rock wall around the complex.

There are some items that we do need to take care of that are listed there.

Lastly, as Elizabeth mentioned, there are some outdoor spaces.

This would include the upstairs, like a patio area along that's on the second floor.

There are some repairs that are needed for both the railing and the deck that are a little bit more extensive, and then some finishes for that.