The Governing Body of Rio Rancho met on May 28, 2026, at 6:00 PM in Council Chambers to adopt the FY2027 balanced budget, the Infrastructure and Capital Improvement Plan (ICIP) for FY2027-2031, the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Fourth Annual Action Plan, and to award the Barbara Loop Reconstruction Project. All items were approved unanimously (6-0).
The following items were approved unanimously (6-0):
One nation under our individual liberty justice world. Please remain standing so we can I'd like to take a moment of silence to celebrate our hard working personnel, the public safety personnel, as well as our military personnel. We've got a lot of folks overseas that are in a very dangerous situation. So please take a moment of silence. Thank you. You may be received. A couple of housekeeping items. Please silence all electronic devices while attending the governing body meeting. For the record, I will announce the names of the governing body members when I say your name. Please acknowledge your presence by saying present. Councilor Dabson. Present. Councilor Denantine. Present. Counselor Tyler. Present. Councilor Culbright. Present. Councilor List. Present. And the district four seat remains vacant. I'm working on interviews for that for those who are interested. Proclamations and awards of merit. We have none this evening. Public forum. Each comment will be limited to two minutes and no more than two hours in total be allotted for public forum comments at any meeting. I see we have one speaker signed up, Mr. Stephen Van Horn. Good evening, Mr. Mayor Counselors. I uh wanted to bring a item in the uh observer the uh to your attention. I did make a copy of it for each of you. Uh the articles about Cassion lands agreement with Department of War. And um it's uh very short article. The last sentence on the first page I've highlighted. It says to further encourage Castillon's self-funded facility expansion, the department is actively seeking the necessary authorization and appropriations to purchase over 12,000 black beard missiles for five years. The Department of War release dates. When the CEO was here and and was explaining to us what the demands are going to be for the rocket plant, one of the things he said, I think many of you were there at these uh discussions. He said their intent is a target of 1,000 missiles produced per year, and they intended to start that in one year. It's interesting, I think that what the Department of War is saying is they actually wanted to do way more than that. 12,000 missiles in five years, that's more than double the production that the CEO was saying they want to target. That's the first thing to note. The second thing is this first phrase to further encourage Castillo's cell-funded facility expansion. If you consider that, you see the Department of War is already trying to encourage them to expand likely their facility so they can produce this much raised target that they want to achieve. Since the city is already committed to provide water outside of our city zones, and we have a policy that we don't provide water. Are you contemplating what this may do as far as their demand in the future? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Van Horn. Is there anyone else signed up to speak?