The Rio Rancho City Council convened on January 22, 2026, presided over by Deputy Mayor Lennon Time, with Counselors Dabson, Tyler, Weimer, Colbreth, and Colbreth (online) in attendance. The meeting proceeded with a moment of silence, public comments regarding water safety, and the approval of the Consent Calendar. The primary discussion centered on Resolution 5, the Fiscal Year 2026 Mid-Year Budget Adjustments, which received unanimous approval. The Deputy Mayor also delivered a City Manager's Report highlighting upcoming hiring events, library activities, and a civic admonition against election misinformation.
Uh Counselor Tyler, could you lead us? I point to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. As we always do, we'll start with a moment of silence for all of our workers in the community, emergency response in our city and across this state. Thank you very much. You may be seated. Please take this opportunity to silence all electronic devices while in here for the governing body meeting. I'll be running the meeting tonight as the mayor is not able to be here. I'm going to go ahead and uh announce the uh folks that are in the room. We should have counselor uh list joining us online shortly. And so when I say your name, please acknowledge your presence by saying present. Counselor Dabson? Present. Counselor Tyler. Present. Counselor Weimer. Present. Counselor Colbreth. Present. And we don't see Counselor List yet. If she comes in, I will make sure to announce her at that time as well. Okay, uh, we don't have any uh proclamations or awards of merit at this time. However, we do have one signed up for public forum, and that would be Mr. Van Horn, and we'll give you uh two minutes there, sir. Thank you so much for signing up to speak tonight. Good evening, counselors. Yes, sir. I uh would like to speak to you this evening about the uh the next consumer confidence report, the the water quality report that should be coming out this week or see this month. And um this page in this report, it tells about the the issues of using tap water if you're immune compromised or if you're undergoing chemotherapy, or if you have had transplants or HIV AIDS or other immune system disorders, if you're elderly or an infant with uh risk of infection, it's a precaution saying you should probably use bottled water, you should not use top water. Well, what I gave you is out of this paper that's up north. I happen to be in Santa Fe, and on page seven of this paper, is this announcement by the New Mexico Department of Health that's cautioning private well owners in Mora County to have all their water tested because they've they're finding out four years later that the fire suppression chemicals they were using for the Hermit Peak Fire is contaminating the groundwater in those wells and they can't use it. The reason why I'm telling you this is this picture on this page that's saying be careful about using tap water. If all you do is scan this and you see the pictures of these happy smiling faces, everything seems okay. And I was taken by this is Department of Health. How they if you look at the graphic, it's saying be careful, don't drink the water in this case if you're a private well owner, but this would be something I would ask that you would consider that you put in this water quality as a visual warning, right? If you need to be concerned and draw attention to the possibility that you could be harmed. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Van Horn. Okay, ums by counselors at this time. Uh I just wanted to say that we got the new uh for the first of 2026 um city newsletter here, and a great job again by the team putting this together. Wanted to highlight it because in there there's some road improvements to talk about uh all throughout the city and major roadways also gives a really helpful property tax breakdown. I thought was really great, and then city budget, kind of how are you spending your money, and then also uh those new uh photo enforcement speed vans that everything that you need to know about and slowing down so that you don't get a hundred dollar fine. And so uh that's something really cool. Also, all of the election day stuff is in there, which is really helpful, and uh so pick up one of those if you don't have one already, and there's probably already one in your mailbox, or you can get them at any of the uh public facilities around town here. Moving on to the consent calendar. Uh I'll take a motion on the consent calendar. To approve the consent calendar. Very good. Uh any discussion on the consent calendar.