Morning
everybody. Thank you for your patience.
It is 9:05 a.m. here on uh Tuesday,
August 11th, 2026,
and we will begin our agenda for this
board of county commissioners meeting.
We start with a moment of silence and
invocation. If you will uh join me in
the moment of silence.
Thank you. Our next order is the pledge
of allegiance. If you're able to stand,
I ask that you join uh in the pledge of
allegiance
to the flag of the United States of
America and to the republic for it
stands one nationy
for all
and if you'll do a roll call determine
quum.
Commissioner Sha Jordan
present. Commissioner Kimble
present.
Commissioner Chaparo,
Vice Chair Gomedos,
Chair Sanchez
present. We do have quorum and the
commission convenes as the board of
county commissioners and the county
board of finance in open session. Uh ACM
Weir, is there any changes to the agenda
at this time?
Mr. Chair, no changes to the agenda.
Thank you.
Very good. All right. Then uh first
order of business on the agenda or next
order of business is the consent agenda
items one through five. Are there any
items that uh will be pulled for
separate consideration?
All right. Not hearing any. If I can get
a motion and a second to approve consent
agenda items one through five.
So moved.
Second.
All right. I have a motion by
Commissioner Sha Nandez, a second by
Commissioner Kimble.
If there are no questions or comments,
uh, Brandy, if you can do a roll call on
the consent agenda items.
Commissioner Shaldo Hernandez.
Yes.
Commissioner Kimell,
yes.
Chair Sanchez,
yes.
We have a few resolutions in the the
consent agenda. Item number two 2026-96.
Item number 32026-97.
Item number 42026-98
and item number 52026-99.
Thank you.
All right. Next up, we'll turn it over
to ACM Weir for employee recognition.
Thank you, Mr. Chair. Uh, good morning.
We have several service recognitions
today. Starting with Battalion Chief PJ
Bacera from our fire department. He has
10 years of service with Donana County.
Officer Charles SCS from the detention
center has 20 years of service. Officer
Nathan Franklin is also a detention
officer at our detention center and has
20 years of service. And officer
Mikuelades Reyes with 25 years of
service as our detention officer. And
Mr. Chair, last but not least, I would
like to invite Christina Ainsworth up
for a retirement recognition.
Good morning, Miss.
Good morning.
I'd like to recognize today Jim Tracy on
his retirement following 13 years of
dedicated service to the county. Jim
joined Donetta County on June 3rd, 2013
where he worked in the assessor's office
before joining community development as
a GIS mapper analyst. Throughout his
years with the county, Jim contributed
his knowledge, expertise to support the
work of community development and the
residents we serve. Though he is not
present today as he did retire on July
1st, his mother is here to accept his
award.
Um, we did want to honor him properly
and his service and commitment have been
greatly appreciated both by our
department and the residents of the
county. Um, Jim has always been great to
work with, friendly, always smiling, um,
just brightening up the room and we have
missed him. Please join us in thanking
Jim Tracy for his 13 years of service.
We hope he is already enjoying a
wonderful retirement.
This is
so this is Ruth Jim's mother and Tyler
his grandson here to accept that award.
Thank you.
Thank you. All right. Uh we'd like to
begin uh the public input portion of our
agenda. Our public input is governed
under section 5-3-H1
of the county code. Member of the
publics will be called up to provide
their input and it will be limited to
three minutes and the chair may impose a
reasonable time limit on the public
input. Based on the total number of
members signed up this morning for
public input, we will be moving forward
with uh three minutes per person. A
member of the public may not seed or
transfer their time to another member of
the public. Members of the public may
speak on items not listed as a separate
action item under the agenda for today.
And should they have comments related to
an action item, they are asked to wait
until the agenda item is up for
consideration. The commission will not
answer questions or respond to issues
mentioned under public input. Uh and in
when possible, we will work to follow up
with any concerns that may be raised
during public input.
The chair does remain the authority to
maintain order. As such, disorderly
conduct will not be allowed. There will
be warnings. We ask uh that everybody be
respectful of each other and the
speakers. Uh and if not, we will uh be
taking and breaking if there are any
disturbances.
Uh before we actually begin, I want to
address a couple of items from the last
meeting two weeks ago. Number one is
there were rumors that our public input
was coordinated
for
sir please if you would stop waving the
sign. Thank you.
the our public input was coordinated
last uh at the last meeting with Oracle
and the project Jupiter team to ensure
that they had uh signed up before
anybody else had the opportunity to sign
up. Number one, that is false. Nothing
was coordinated with the county and
Oracle and their teams.
Um, yes, they did bring they did
coordinate their own efforts to have
people here, but that was not
coordinated with the county or in
conjunction with the county. Uh, the
second item is
we try not to we do not want a repeat of
the last meeting. We don't ever want to
escalate to that level. We ask and some
of the things that led up to that event
uh were continued disturbances. Again,
we are trying to ask for respect during
this public input se uh portion of our
uh meeting. Uh but we ask that again you
are not uh disturbing the procedure and
allowing the person at the podium to
speak whether they are in support or
against whatever you may believe. So
with that, Randy, if you'll call the
first person,
Charlie McManus.
Good morning.
Thank you for respecting my right to
speak today. I'm sure a lot of us are
thinking about what happened at the last
BOCC meeting on July 28th. The actions
or should I say inactions of every one
of the commissioners was abhorentt and
led to consequences in the community
that can only be attributed to the
mismanagement of the commission by the
chair Manny Sanchez.
Every meeting that I've seen, respect is
requested by at least one commissioner,
but usually I hear it multiple times.
Your actions recently though have shown
that you don't want respect. You want
control and power. And Manny has shown
that he is willing to violate the codes
that define the responsibilities of the
BOCC and in turn violate the trust of
the community he's supposed to serve to
get it. I'm going to read a section of
that code now. Dona County Code section
5-3H2.
Members of the public may also comment
on the individual agenda items in the
order provided by for by section 5-3D of
these rules unless the agenda item is
quasi judicial in nature. Public comment
is limited to three m minutes unless
exception is made by the board. The
chair may subject to appeal by a member
limit the number of individuals speaking
on a particular side of an issue or
limit the total amount of public input
time on a specific item provided each
side is given the same amount of time
that code that code was not adhered to
at the last meeting. The number of
speakers was limited to 30 but while 30
names were called they did not let 30
people speak. In addition to that, the
majority of the speakers who were
allowed to share their comments were
directly working for Oracle on Project
Jupiter. Doesn't that feel rigged?
Because of this, the people spoke up
requesting their voices be heard and
instead of listening to the community
and respecting our rights, the community
was met with violence. This is not
acceptable and is a blatant abuse of
power. Sign the petition to remove Manny
Sanchez through the Stop Project Jupiter
Instagram page and the rest of the
board. Do what's right.
Kiki Garden.
Good morning.
Good morning. I'm not supposed to say
much.
I'm here though to stand with my friends
in calling that Manny Sanchez be removed
as chair for violating free speech and
the county code for a balanced comment.
The rest of the board who would like
another chance to do what's right, join
us in enforcing your own rules, join us.
People do not want this data center.
People do not want Project Jupiter and
you know it. People want water and air
and open space for generations. If you,
the community watching, feels a loss of
hope, you should also join us. If not
raising your voice, support those who do
because we still can.
We have a petition to remove many
Sanchez. Come see one of us to sign it.
Do it online at the stop project Jupiter
Instagram link if you don't have social
media. Come see one of us. We'll help
you. Come also to the NM New Mexico
Senator listening session tonight at
5:30 at Corbett Center. We will be
pushing for higher powers to regulate
this disaster.
If you are one of us, oh, I'm so sorry
everybody, you are one of us. You want
your children and your grandchildren to
be safe and healthy in this county. I
would love to communicate with you
personally. It's never too late to stand
on the right side of history.
Don't give away our future to AI.
Don't let our county commission sell our
future off.
I'm going to yield some more of my time
to the people who also did not get to
speak at the last board of county
commissioners meetings.
Um it's very obvious that collusion was
happening. It's very obvious that people
were prepped whether by the company
themselves or by yourself.
They were aware of their shortened time
to speak. You can go back and watch the
video.
The evidence is there.
I'm not going to take up too much more
of the public's time, but I needed to
voice that. Thank you.
Thank you,
Annie.
Bing house maybe.
you okay?
Yeah. Sorry, I was just um tripping over
the barriers that have been put up to
public comment recently. Um yeah, so I
want to start by saying and talking a
little bit about what happened and how
we felt that day. Bus loads of workers
came in. They were let into the county
building before doors opened and they
were allowed to sign up early and for
the first time public comment was
capped. And in lie of that we come and
we call for our voices to be heard
because our voices are our only power in
this room up here. This is where the
power is. You're sitting above us you
know. Um in lie of that Abigail was
thrown to the ground twice right here.
And I'm very glad to not see the
security guard Greg Maddox in here
because he initiated that violence along
with other officers. Um Abigail was then
Abigail and Kiki had to spend the night
in jail because of that. And uh Abigail
their their photos were up everywhere
and she was getting comments that she's
is she getting paid to do this? Is she
even from New Mexico? And she wrote this
and I'm reading it for her, but um
Cruises is my home. I've lived here
since I moved to America almost 18 years
ago. At one point, I was a rebel only
thinking about how much I wanted to move
to a new city. But I chose I'm so
thankful I chose and continue to live
here to live and die in this land in
this beautiful desert where everything
is alive and breathing the smell of
rain. That's why I'm in this fight.
Fighting for the place that has and
continues to nourish me and love me and
take care of me, the people, the
community, the desert. And later they
mentioned, "I think parts of myself
might not be able to come back to make
their way back, and that's okay." After
what happened, I watched her outside
thrown to the ground. Her eyebrow was
pushed against the ground. It was
bleeding. And all I could do was bend
her glasses back into place, dab the
blood from her eye, and sit with her.
That's all I could do because that
escalated to violence.
So,
Manny, you talked about the security
guards not being able to touch people.
So, why are they here? Is it
intimidation?
Is it just to hide our voices? We're not
going away. And you have not provided
any meaningful form of public
conversation, right? That that one that
we wanted turned into an open house and
job fair. We have not gotten any form of
public comment, public communication to
talk to you guys outside of this forum.
And so when you cap our voices because
we're not going away. You're silencing
us in what? We're not going to talk to
you in your office where we can't hold
you accountable.
All right? We want to have public
conversations with you. And that just
hasn't happened. Meanwhile, you're
catering to these Project Jupiter
developers. You're allowing them to get
here early, to sign up early, capping
public comment. They manufactured a
majority in that room. That probably
helps you continue to believe that you
think you represented your constituents
when the answer is you didn't.
So why are you catering to these
companies over us? Why are you letting
them get away with not reporting their
jobs for for
Thank you.
Irene Rodriguez.
Good morning.
Morning.
I'm very sad.
I'm sorry. Can you pull down the mic?
I'm very sad what happened last time
that I came to the meeting. I'm from
Southern Park. I lived all my life
there. I've been there 65 years and I
come over here hoping you guys can help
us. Southern Park is not helping us at
all. So my only solution was to come
over here. They told us go to the
county. Okay, I'll go. I honestly had
trust on all of you to help us out. I
come here. I was sitting there waiting
for you guys to call me. I wanted to
speak out and I didn't get a chance. I
asked one of the persons, "When is my
turn?" I would just see people from
Jupiter come up here, you know, saying
the good stuff. And I wanted to say
really what's going on in Southern Park
because I live it there. I've seen
people live there. I've been there many
years.
And honestly,
sir,
you could have stopped it, but you just
sat there and looked at what's going on
like a show. It's not a show, sir.
I'm telling you from my heart,
if you can't deal with this job, step
down and let somebody come and help us
out.
That's going to do for us. Not for
Jupiter, not for billionaires.
We're not billionaires. We're not We're
low-income people. And as you know, in
Southern Park, Santa Teresa, there's a
couple, okay? But most of them, us,
we're low income.
And but we have a voice
and I'm asking you please step down and
let somebody else that has a heart for
people that really needs people to help
them out. If you can't do the job, sir,
please step down. I'm asking you from
the heart. Please. Thank you.
Thank you.
Jesus var.
Good morning, county commissioners. My
name is S Bera and I'm here to uh speak
out against the Jupiter Center or the
mining center you're building out there.
Um have consideration for the human
beings that live there, the wildlife
that lives there. Uh
don't just build to make your wallet
fat. You know what I mean? Uh you're
asking for respect. Respect is earned.
Okay? It's not given.
Uh
you all had a chance to stop what
happened at the last meeting. Not one of
you stood up and said, "Hey,
put an end to this, right?" Nobody stood
up.
What's going on here? I mean,
are you needing money that badly that
you're going to kill people to get it?
Uh cuz that's what you're going to do to
my community. I mean, I I I heard um the
AI people that are building the the
place and come up here and say that
their family is doing well and they're
making good money and all this. Well,
you know what? I have a family also,
okay? I have a family that I worked hard
for,
okay? But um
I everything that I did was to better
the life of people. I used to work at
the housing authority. So I I it was for
the people. You know, it wasn't for me.
It wasn't to make my wallet fat. It was
to serve the people. You know what I
mean? Like you're supposed to remember
when you were asking for our vote and
how you said that this county was going
to be better. Is it? No, it's not.
No, it's not. I mean, you're going to go
off and kill whole bunch of wildlife,
whole bunch of humans, neighbors, and uh
my family. Okay, that's what we're
talking about here. you you're making
wrong decisions.
Uh you're cons you're putting your
wallet in front of human beings and
wildlife. That is pretty obnoxious, you
know. It's uh disgusting is the word.
Okay. And at the last meeting, you guys
were disgusting.
Okay. And then you're you're blaming the
Oracle people for busting all them
people and everything. Who runs this
this place? Pretty sure you do, right?
You make the rules, right?
Thank you,
Maren Torres.
Good morning.
Good morning. Um, first of all, I wanted
to say thank you for listening. Um, I'm
here to protest project um, Jupiter. Um,
imagine how much water from our city of
Sland Park is needed to cool project
Jupiter.
Um, I'm asking from you all to have
consideration for the Sunland Park
people and the Santa Theesa residents.
Um, another thing is our air pollution
is already bad and that worries me. Um,
let me tell you what pollution is. Um,
the meaning of pollution, pollution is
caused by harmful substances entering
the environment. And guess what? Project
Jupiter is going to be our main one. So
um this is u um uh and not only that we
also have the landfield, we have um the
cemetery um the and they create cremate
people that you know adds to our
pollution. Um and our water is just is
terrible. It's already bad. it, you
know, this we we can't have this and um
uh and the pressure is also bad. Um and
for all um and yeah um and for everybody
please read our shirt. We would
appreciate that also. Um
all right. and my sense is um we need um
leaders that um prioritize our
communities
um and their access to fresh water,
clean water, safe water, our um o over
profit and pro and um projects um for
billionaires. You know, we really ask
this. Thank you for your time and also
just this very few minutes. I love where
I live. Um, I want to raise my children
there. Um, please don't don't make it,
you know, where I won't be able to. I,
um, my community is amazing.
Um, and we are, uh, you know, we're not
rich people, but, you know, with our
sense of community and our environment,
um, I would hate to see this go. Um, I I
really ask that you have some
consideration for all that. Thank you so
much for your time.
Thank you.
Max Hill.
Good morning.
Hello. I, as well as members of my
family and friends who are unable to
attend today, have submitted several
online public comments in opposition to
project Jupiter, specifically the micro
grid construction applications. Everyone
near the construction, including people
in Los Cusus and the El Paso area and
Santa Teresa, will face negative
consequences as a direct result of the
impending environmental impact,
especially related to water resources,
electricity usage, air pollution, and
noise pollution. This is my first time
attending a commission meeting, but I am
worried we are not being listened to,
and I do think Manny Sanchez should be
removed from his position as chair.
Thank you.
Jeffrey.
Good morning.
Hi there.
My comment is on my phone.
friends, commissioners, countrymen,
lend me your ears.
I come to praise project Jupiter, not to
bury it. The servers that men build live
after them.
The aquifers are often turred with their
bones.
So let it be with Jupiter.
The noble board hath told you it brings
millions to our soil. If it was so, it
were a gracious gift, and graciously the
desert shall receive it. Here under
leave of stack and oracle, for they are
honorable firms.
So are they all all honorable men? Come
I to speak of this great campus.
It promised water tanks filled once,
then thrice refused to drink our
aquifers. Was this ambition
under the door of crowd for power rates?
Jupiter hath wept into its own micro
grid. Ambition should be made of stern
stuff.
Yet the commission says it is
beneficent. And sure, they are all
honorable men. You all did see that on
the loop. Or was it the September vote?
They thrice presented it industrial
crowns which it did thrice accept. Was
this restraint? Yet critics say it
admits by the Megaton. Sure,
they are but honorable men.
I speak not to disprove what Booster
spoke, but here I am to speak what
desert knows. You all did love the open
land once, not without cause. What a
cause withholds you then to question it.
Oh judgment, thou art fled to ser and
men have lost their reason for AI's
sake. Bear with me. My heart is in the
data center there with Jupiter. And I
must pause till the cooling loops come
back to me.
Thank you,
Sierra Edmister.
Good morning.
I'm so tired of being disappointed.
Next month will mark a year since you
guys first disappointed me. And every
month that passes, I run out of excuses
for you. Um, I really try to rack my
brain of how you guys must think that
you're doing something good for the
community.
Um, and Manny, to this to this day,
that's kind of the the claim that you
have.
I just don't understand how you can't
see how this is a bad deal. Um I know
that in the past
choosing industry over environment
um has led to profits but it has also
led us in this country in this world to
exactly where we are today where
everywhere is on fire. The air is crap.
The water is crap. It's
people are dying from from climate
change. We are in a place where our
water usage in this county needs to
change as it is without project Jupiter
coming in here. So when people come up
and you know explain how project Jupiter
isn't even going to use as much as the
golf courses use, we shouldn't have golf
courses in the desert. You brought up
you know dairy and how much water it
uses. Exactly. We are a zone where this
is being done left and right by multiple
different industries and we should not
be allowing another one to come in. I
expect massive and extractive and
exploitative companies to lie to us, to
offer us shitty deals, to treat us like
we're nothing. But to see the behavior
from this board, the majority of this
board, there's definitely been some that
have been better than the others, but
gosh, last meeting and to see no one
stand up for what was very obviously
wrong,
it's so disappointing. you represent us
and gosh I don't know how many times I
and how many times all these people and
new people have to come up to tell you
and and it's not even now before it was
we will get to a point where we'll say
we told you so we are already at a point
where we're telling you so look at
everything this company has done so far
what makes you think that you can
regulate these people you can't even get
them to submit job reports and you
talking about this not being
orchestrated yeah maybe you didn't sit
with them day one and plan out how to
make it look like a majority and have
way more news people here than ever have
been here before and to have the seats
filled with people who are being paid to
be here by the project. But you know
that you knew the day before which means
you knew before you made the decision to
cut it at 30 and to cut it at 2 minutes.
And that is enough of knowing to be
complicit in the silencing of your
community.
Thank you,
Alberto Delo.
Good morning.
You don't get to slash, cut, and limit
public comment at your will.
You don't get to do so to make these
meetings smoother. This is your job.
You're all paid to be here. You're the
minority that is paid to be here.
Listening to your constituents is the
core pillar of your responsibility as
paid elected officials. There is nothing
smooth about these meetings. 9:00 a.m.
in the middle of a workday is the least
accessible
if you want to include working people,
students, parents, etc.
Without a thought, this body jumps at
any chance they get to take advantage of
any opportunity that allows them to
silence us, to limit our descent, and to
shield yourselves from accountability.
Project Jupiter has been out of
compliance. Per their contract, they
were supposed to present quarterly job
reports to this board with information
reflecting numbers of jobs generated and
where people are being hired from. The
first report was due on January and they
missed it. The second report was due in
April and they missed that one, too. The
third report was due by July 31st.
Let's be clear about what happened here
on July 28th. Project Jupiter was slated
to give a presentation on the jobs. You
all knew that they were out of
compliance.
This is also the main argument that they
have behind this project, the jobs that
it's going to bring. If they care so
much about their workers and their jobs,
why are they late on two almost three
job reports?
You knew that they had bust their
workers in early in the morning. They
got paid to come here and present the
narrative that could shield them from
accountability.
They came into the building early and
saturated the signup sheet for public
comment. You knew this.
You knew that they've been out of
compliance.
And you also knew, Manny, which side you
were favoring when you decided to limit
public comment to 30 speakers.
It was so disheartening, so
disappointing, so frustrating to know
that there were people from Sunland Park
in Santa Teresa who drove 50 minutes to
come here and you did not give them a
chance to speak on something that's
affecting them directly.
You have a lot of courage to sit there
and weaponize your incompetence to be
offended when we call out the evident
corruption that has been taking place
not just on on the 28th but throughout
last year this entire year. No one
should be arrested for exercising and
defending our freedom of speech. You are
a dishonor to public service. You are
eradicating public trust in our
government and it is a shame.
You should resign.
You should not be chair and the rest of
this body should hold him accountable.
He's not your king. You could have
stopped that. You could have objected
and you didn't.
Thank you,
Hannah Baker.
Good morning.
Good morning,
commissioners.
There was a lot left unsaid
this last county commission meeting. And
if I didn't know any better, it almost
feels like that was on purpose. But
that's a silly accusation considering
how diplomatic and respectful you've
always been through this process. So I
have a couple questions just to help me
clarify and understand.
Is public comment a privilege?
How long is it considered to be a
courtesy? How must you behave with the
public? What are your duties? What are
your responsibilities? What is within
your power? What limits you? What do you
decide uh when you uh say whose voice is
considered? Who is more important? How
do you choose who deserves respect? How
do you define respect? How do you define
decorum?
What are your moral obligations as a
citizen, as a commissioner? What made
you want this position?
Do you know your code of conduct? Do
your police officers know the law?
Who do you need to know? Why do you need
to know our legal names? Why were you
people arrested for not providing an ID
when they legally don't have to provide
one unless committing a crime? Is being
loud a crime? Is being disruptive a
crime? Is it legal to prov uh for
security, private security, to assault a
civilian? Why was there a need for
private security? Were we supposed to
believe the workers came authentically
or were they coerced? Did the county or
project Jupiter buy the workers
Starbucks? How about the shirts they
were passed out after?
What made you think we wanted Project
Jupiter to start with? If they if they
did, um, why wasn't it put to a vote,
not hidden behind an NDA? Who are the
experts uh you trust from the project?
Why are they allegedly more qualified
than those who spoke at the people's
forum? How many projected jobs will
there truly be? Where are the job
reports? Can you guarantee them? Can you
say for sure the project won't do
permanent damage? Can you say anything
for sure? What is the future for us?
What do you want to accomplish? Will
this accomplish anything for your cause?
Can you say for sure the water is
portable? Will you deny the air permit?
Will you listen to the thousands of
constituents who are putting in online
comments? What is your boundary? What is
your bottom line? When will it be
enough? Remove Manny Sanchez from chair
and the rest of the board. I urge you to
do what is right because last meeting
should be a wakeup call.
Finn McManis.
Good morning.
I've just planned a little reading of
the code for you all just to make sure
we're all on the same page.
Specifically, I want to highlight volume
one, part one of the Dona Anna County
Code, um the administrative legislation,
specifically chapter 14 on the code of
conduct. Section 14-6 Part A states that
elected officials and appointed
officials shall act according to the
highest principles of representative
democracy to ensure the county
government is worthy of public respect,
trust, and support.
Section, sorry, part B states that
elected officials and appointed
officials shall not engage in conduct
that they know or reasonably should know
is likely to create in the minds of
reasonable, objective, fair-minded
observers. The perception that they have
used their public positions improperly,
unethically, or otherwise have not
conducted themselves in accordance with
the standards of conduct in this
chapter.
I was not at the last county commission
meeting. This is my first county
commission meeting,
but I am friends with many people who
were there. And the inaction shown by
this board during the last meeting is an
unacceptable violation of your stated
code of conduct. And it calls into
question who you serve as members of
this board. Do you truly serve the
people
as public servants?
What water will you drink when pro when
project Jupiter sucks it all dry?
And now with my remaining one minute, I
want to dedicate a moment of silence for
those who were silenced by the choices
of this board last meeting.
Thank you for your time.
Abby Keer.
Good morning.
Morning.
Last meeting I was here at 7:30 a.m. and
I was not allowed to speak even though I
had signed up according to the new
rules. Public comment was given to
mostly paid pro-Jupiter speakers that
somehow were given exclusive access to
the building before the public.
Make no mistake, I support our union
workers. So, with a heavy heart, I say
this. How dare you make them choose
between this data center and clean water
and air? How dare you make them choose
between these temporary jobs and the
future of Donaana County.
Commissioners, you should have invested
in our communities, given these workers
an opportunity to build hospitals,
schools, fix abandoned buildings, roads.
What I saw in the last meeting was
nothing short of a failed leadership by
the commission chair, Manny Sanchez.
Not only did you silence my voice, but
countless others. To the ones who
traveled all the way from Sunland Park
unable to speak to those violently
arrested for exercising their First
Amendment right.
You like to talk about respect, but
respect was not given to us when the
public comment format was suddenly
changed and officers, including security
guards, were ordered to intimidate us.
To the other commissioners, you did
nothing to look out for us. This is a
democracy. Last time I checked, in the
midst of all this, a woman in the crowd
stood up and said, "Take it to a vote.
It's not just Manny's decision. Please
vote on it." and it's time to step up.
This commission is ready for a new
commission chair to take leadership.
The remaining four
the remaining four other commissioners
can vote for a new chair because frankly
Manny must step down and be removed from
his position.
His loyalty to Project Jupiter is clear
and he has been bought out. He no longer
serves the interest of the people. Look
to your neighbors, Santa Fe, Sakoro, and
Sierra. They have all passed a moratorum
on data centers.
No more delays. No more performative
talks. Ban the data center. Stop Project
Jupiter and let anterisa breathe.
Sher Reinhardt.
I am both honored and humbled.
Good morning.
Good morning. Thanks for listening.
My name is Sheri Reinhardt and I am
representing Indivisible Los Cusus.
I spoke I spoke for my two minutes at
the 728 meeting. I got lucky
at that time. I handed out ILC's
position statement opposing project
Jupiter which represents a unanimous
vote on the part of our membership.
Since that vote on July 12th,
we have formed a committee of 11 members
comprised of both ILC members plus
members from other organizations
and individuals to stop Project Jupiter.
Today, today
I am here with a simple request.
At our membership meeting this past
Sunday, one of our members had a
scathingly brilliant idea that our
membership embraced wholeheartedly.
We would like equal time that you
provided to Oracle at the 728 meeting to
present our research and reasons for
opposing project Jupiter.
This would be via a disciplined and
concise PowerPoint slide deck.
If you're immuneable to this idea, and I
hope that you are, we will need someone
assigned to us to work out the logistics
and next steps for us to make our
presentation,
comments,
questions.
The commission doesn't respond to public
input. Thank you.
I hope to hear from someone. Thank you.
Thank you,
Cindy Brown.
Good morning.
I think we need to remind you government
is for we the people.
It is an insult to your constituents
that we were not allowed to speak during
the public comments portion of the last
meeting. The rules were changed without
notice, but I suspect the projupit
people knew because they all arrived
early. Shame on all of you commissioners
for allowing that
question.
Why was the date of the air quality
permit hearing suddenly changed? Was
more money passed under the table?
This administration has not been
transparent at all. We need an
independent evaluation of the fuel cell
emissions
and um not just one that's been done by
Oracle. They cannot be trusted to obtain
an unbiased report.
Other counties in New Mexico have gotten
moratoriums on data centers. Why are we
not able to do the same? We need more
information. Instead, everything is done
in secret.
Don't forget, county commissioners
represent us, not big corporations that
can afford to buy you off. You need our
votes to keep your jobs.
Nisha.
Hi, good morning.
Good morning.
My name's Nisha. Um, thanks for letting
me speak today.
Um, I feel like we keep saying the same
things over and over again. Um, it's the
same conversations. We're talking about
water. We're talking about air
pollution, talking about jobs, we're
talking about how the community doesn't
feel heard and we keep showing up
because we're not getting good answers.
We're not getting public input from you
guys. We're not getting um a town hall
meeting. We're not getting like real
conversation. All the responses that you
have when we bring up water, when we
bring up air pollution is is benign.
It's it's not significant enough for us
to not continue to come back here
anymore. Um so I just want to make you
guys aware of this. You know, we keep
talking about water. Um, we know that
Elephant But and Cabayo are at 2% and
less. Like, it's making the news across
the world. Our water condition here,
you guys keep countering it with, you
know, the dairy, the golf courses,
whatever. The the people who who are
saying it's not a big deal, but it is a
big deal. That 2% is drastic and we
don't know what their water system is
really going to look like ultimately.
And so that's why we're here to protect
every last drop that we have and not use
it towards helping billionaires.
Santa Teresa and Sunland Park, this
whole region is in a non-attainment zone
and you guys are talking about
increasing the the pollution here by
eight times the amount of what Los Cusus
is putting out. What is a reasonable
response to that? For 1500 jobs for for
3,000 temporary jobs that we have right
now, we're less than 10% of them are
actually New Mexicans. I don't under
like it's we continue to come here
because it doesn't make sense to us and
we need you to understand like
we don't want to contribute more
pollution to the air. We already are
having a hard time breathing here.
Um,
that presentation they gave last week
was insane. That guy kept saying, "We
want to be good neighbors. We want to be
good neighbors." Thank you for asking
thoughtful questions. Thank you for
asking thoughtful questions. You
defended them. You were answering their
questions for them. That's their job.
That's not your job to do. You That last
meeting, it was so apparent that you
need to step down. It's so apparent that
you're not here to represent the people.
They were saying, that guy was saying
that they were going to reforest this
area. His concept of what the Chihuahuan
desert is so false that he thinks that
they're going to reforest. We don't have
trees here. We never had trees here.
There's no point in reforesting this
area. That shows you what little crap
they give about this area. They couldn't
even put that into the presentation.
Also,
owes owes district 2 a presentation.
Gloria Gometo needs to show up for
district 2 because those people don't
know what's being built miles away from
their home. She is failing her
constituents. She needs to hold a
meeting.
Derek Bacheco.
I'll wait till you're done. This is
interrupting my speech. Can you reset
the clock, please?
Reset the clock.
No, you can continue.
You may you may continue.
The request lines are now open.
Open the halls.
It's a perfect world.
We're living in a movie.
And I don't like this movie.
I'm not really a Terminator guy. I'm
more of a Chichin Chong kind of guy.
This is my boss right here, Mother
Earth.
If you don't do things to protect Mother
Earth, you and I aren't friends.
Commissioner, pay attention. Thank you.
I need your full attention.
I am holding a workshop for the public
for my friends, my family, my neighbors
here at Branigan Library this Thursday 6
o'clock the Roadrunner room where I will
present my new software which is a
government transparency tool that I
built using Claude code opus the latest
in technology
I've been toking maxing like a mother
this week to make sure that the people
have the information they need to make
informed decisions unlike you give to
the people.
I'm the boss now. You understand? I run
the show now. I have the data and I'm
going to make sure that everyone else
does as well. There's no more opinion.
The show's over. You understand that?
Judging by your face, I don't think you
understand that.
Sir, you're addressing the commission
chair, please. Thank you.
I'm addressing all of you.
You're stopped. input is addressed to
commission interrupting my time.
Sir, I'm just clarifying for you.
You need to step down because you keep
interrupting the public.
I need to clarify for you, sir.
You need to stop talking. Do you
understand me, Chair? Do you understand
me?
Mr. Chair, you're not addressing the
other people.
I'm I am addressing you now. You need to
zip it. www.zipit.com.
Please
everythingisper.org.
or
everything is perfect.
Ooorgg
you want to know something funny?
Greg Maddox is going to get sued
and you're going to pay
and I'm going to buy a Rolls-Royce.
PEACE.
JUAN GARCIA.
Good morning.
Good morning, Chair. Thank you, Chairman
Sanchez, for having the agitators and
disruptors removed from the July 28th
meeting. Officials like Rubio and
Stansbury and Koma Kuran and others
immediately claimed the youth weren't
allowed to speak from their playbook.
Disrupt, provoke, then claimed to be
victims. Meanwhile, the citizens who
show up following following the rules
and try to be heard, get ignored,
drowned out by childish insults and
theatrics. And I continue, the real
issue with New Mexico elections isn't
Kirks rigging votes.
It's the shady backroom deals made out
of sight long before anyone votes.
Ferrari said she retired at year's end,
but left early on KRG
from Ferrari. And I quote, "The
candidate who won our primary as a
Democrat since we are a Democratic
district I won from the past five
elections. I think that would be the
most logical Lorie Martinez to succeed.
In other words, she would be anointed
during this interim until voters have
the opportunity to choose their next
representative.
End of quote. She talks like the seat is
her property. Guess what? The seat
belongs to the people, not her. Her
words and actions say it all. Arrogance
and entitlement from the Albuquerque
Journal. and I quote,
"If nominated by the Donahana County
Commission and approved by the governor,
Martinez who could get a head start in a
somewhat controversial practice leading
up to a general election." End of quote.
When pressed on whether an appointment
to serve out the rest of Ferrari's term
would give her an advantage, Martinez
said, "The answer is, and I quote, open
to interpretation."
Would it make me would it make the
incumbent going into the general? Yeah,
obviously for a couple months, she said.
So I and I follow the quote. So I think
it depends on who you ask. She
acknowledged the appointment could give
her an edge over Solis.
Yes, I imagine it would," Martinez said,
adding,
"Incumbency has historically been a
factor in elections. Even the candidate
agrees she would get the edge on this
race." BCC,
do the right thing. Select a non non
2026 candidate for New Mexico District
37. Thank you. Thank you.
Mark Beach.
Good morning.
Good morning. I'm going to change the
subject also
and I'm going to go there a little bit
though. Um,
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
democracy. Now, it doesn't say
democracy. It says republic.
Um, this morning I was in conversation
with somebody and I said, "We the
people." Well, you have to be a leader.
You're being a leader.
Um, so
yeah. Anyway, we a couple weeks back had
another march at the death and
mutilation center over there by Mountain
View and we were counterprotest after we
were count they were protesting against
us. We weren't protesting afterwards. I
was asked if we were protesting and I
said no we weren't protesting.
Praying is how we ask God to do stuff
that we cannot do for ourselves.
That's why we went there. We went there
to pray. So, so some examples of that is
um Joshua prayed that the sun would stop
so that they could win the battle and
that is documented in China
and the Mayas have it. It's documented
all over the world about a day when the
sun stay stood still. Wish I'd had more
water.
Um,
King Hezekiah was surrounded by the
Assyrian army. He prayed. The next
morning he woke up. There was 185,000
dead Assyrians. And the king of the
Assyrian army went back to Assyria.
So,
is climate change because of human
beings? Yes. But it's not because of our
trains or our planes or our ships or our
AI centers. It's because we have turned
our back on our creator.
Yeah. Laugh, laugh. But if everybody in
here took the time to get together and
pray that the river is healed, our our
river would be healed.
Have a good day. Thank you.
Thank you.
Dave Mooney.
Good morning.
My name is Dave Mooney, represented by
Chair Sanchez, and currently very
disappointed in my representation.
Uh, briefly, I would like to mention
that despite promises from this
commission for increased transparency,
I've reached out several times to the
county office of economic development
about the jobs report from the
developers and had no response, not even
a denial.
Uh, at the last commission meeting, I
was not allowed to speak. Uh this is
because public comment was set up in a
way that did not give equal time or
opportunity to both sides of the issue
and was topped off with an unacceptable
show of force clearly meant to
intimidate.
All of this for a company that's
supposed to be bringing a bunch of jobs
to the community. But so far this year
alone, Oracle has had to lay off over
30,000 of its own employees. and they've
recently had their credit rating reduced
to just above junk bonds because they
are overleveraged on bad debt for
unprofitable data centers. This is who
you are trusting with our community.
The handling of public comment and
community discourse is nothing short of
an embarrassment and saying that we're
able to email our comments in to the
commission where they can be safely
ignored is insulting.
I would like to know if you are
comfortable with your legacy as a
commissioner because as it stands, it's
approving a project that is set to put
our state back in CO2 emissions by over
20 years and actively working to limit
your constituents free speech. Thank
you.
Thank you,
Jaden. Love
Good morning.
Okay. Uh, I want to start by saying that
New Mexico in general for ever has been
considered a sacrifice zone for so many
different projects of many different
varieties. Um, and you know, all of us
who live here and who make New Mexico a
great place want New Mexico to prosper.
Obviously, um, this is where we live.
This is where our kids will live. Um,
but projects like this don't really make
it um, they don't make the future seem
prosperous to us. Uh, if anything,
Project Jupiter terrifies me from
raising kids here and other projects
similar. Um, and on that note, I want to
say a little bit about where I grew up,
which is Valencia County. Um, because
Valencia County has projects like the
Metadata Center. Um, we have a Niagara
bottling company and places things like
that. Um, the Meta Center takes up a lot
of our water. Um, they are wanting more
water for their cooling. They have not
stopped asking for water. The bottled
water company also uh just continues to
ask for more water and there's currently
still debates about whether or not
they're going to double their water
pumping. In my lifetime, and I'm not
that old, I'm 25. Um I have watched Los
Lunis Hill dry up. I've seen the places
that they've the the higher um
communities on the hill have been
they're they've got sink holes under
them. The aquifer is being drained. Um,
and that's not to mention all of the
other things that are going on there,
such as agriculture and whatnot, which
was already there before these data
centers and billionaires needed our
money. Um, it seems dramatic to say that
I've seen these changes in my lifetime,
but I really have. Um, and it really
scares me to bring more things of this
sort into the state. Um, these companies
are predatory. They're predatory on us.
They think that we're cheap. They think
that you're cheap. um they just want our
land because they think that it's cheap.
They think it's affordable. They think
that they're just going to step all over
us and take what they want. Um and in
general, you know, they're so far have
been successful because it seems like
you have been quite cheap. Um and it's
it's just terrible. It's just terrible.
I I really don't know how you can't see
that. Um and I speak from my experience
in in Valencia. It's still a struggle.
This is still continuing to go on. All
they want is more water and all I'm
watching is everything dry up. This
picture here, it's got a roadrunner.
It's got rivers in it. It's got
mountains, a beautiful sunrise. Like
this is what New Mexico is. It might be
dry, but like that's a river. We all
value our rivers. I grew up on the Rio.
I love mosquitoes sometimes. You know,
we want them here. We need water to have
this here. We need water to continue
growing chili. We need water to
continue, you know, supporting kids in
schools. Water bottles. love them. We
need water. Um, so please stop just
giving it away.
Thank you,
Ali.
Ali
Good morning.
Good morning, Councilman. Good morning
to people out here. Last at the last
county meeting, I I did get a chance to
talk, but I have a new concern
concerning Project Jupiter.
If you have not done your due diligence
about your contracts that you signed,
last week we had a young man come to our
door who was working for Project
Jupiter. We started out with 750 jobs.
We've gone up to 1,500 jobs and he was
indicating now there's 5,000 jobs.
However,
recently I read a report that when these
men who propose and own the contracts
for project Jupiter as well as other AI
data centers, they sold their portion to
a third party which did not have to live
up to any of the obligations that you
believe that you're signing these
contracts with. So, and the reality is
that they don't have to do anything. You
signed a contract that they're going to
put $165 billion into Dana County. Well,
when they sell that part, the new people
aren't obligated to give you one cent,
which means the contracts you sign are
worth absolutely nothing. And you just
sold the people out in this county for a
promise that nobody has to live up for.
And I just hope that you look at these
things and realize that all these people
are arguing against
Project Jupiter for a reason. They
already see what you don't see, and that
is nobody's going to fulfill those
obligations, and they're going to be
left holding an empty bag. Thank you.
Jim Hoist.
Good morning. Good morning, Manny.
Uh, thank you for this opportunity to
speak.
I uh
what I see here today
tells me Americans are afraid of the
future.
We are afraid
of capital. We are afraid of technology.
We are terrified
about preserving our natural resources.
The fact that we have chosen not to
listen to each other.
The fact that we've chosen to ridicule
each other
rather than talk,
exchange ideas, exchange facts.
just have reasonable discourse.
Apparently, that's vanished.
I don't know what can be done to restore
reasonable discourse to this community.
Manny, you made a big mistake last time.
So what? You spend a few hours listening
to public comment. If a citizen comes
here to comment,
they've made a sacrifice
and the the county ought to honor that.
You should listen.
We have to listen to each other. We have
to respect each other. We have to have
some sort of confidence in the future
and in our ability to grow even though
we are experiencing difficulties.
We can't just say, "Oh, the future has
to stop. We're not ready for it." The
future doesn't stop.
It never has. It never will. And the one
thing about America is it used to dive
into the future. We used to own the
future. We claimed the future and we
ventured into it. And now we are being
told, "Oh no, we're going to have
pollution. Oh no, we're going to use
water. Well, we've been using water and
we've been having pollution
and most of us like this thing we call
the modern world.
We The water Jupiter is using
is less than one quarter of 1%.
It will not create a water crisis and it
getting rid of it will not solve a water
crisis.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Good morning.
Good morning. My name is Spencer Taylor,
resident of Donana County, LMSW MFA. Um,
and I'm here for a couple reasons. One
of them is to address this narrative
that's been pushed that only the people
who show up here every council or every
uh commission meeting are the people who
are against Jupiter and the people who
are for it can't show up. Well, I'm a
good example of how that's not true.
I've been trying to come for several
months to speak against Project Jupiter
and haven't been able to because of
school work obligations. We have a trash
president and a trash federal government
that's made a trash economy. So, we
can't sacrifice our time to come here.
And then in the few times that I've been
able to come here, the last two
meetings, there was a a list that was
instituted. So I wasn't able to sign up
when I got here. So I wasn't able to
speak. Last week, uh, we had the limit
on public comment that everyone knows
about. And there may be no formal
collusion, but you can look down the
room at that last meeting and see who's
in the room and know who the first 30
people are going to be speaking. You
were pro Jupiter in that motion. Uh,
when I was leaving the building, I saw
their bus and the comment stackers going
getting back on the bus. They backed in
a big SUV full of shirts to give
everyone to reward them. And that's just
Project Jupiter. Like they need to put
their money behind things. They need to
pay for these pieces of trash to be put
on people's doorork knobs. Like they
when when they're not here, you can see
what the makeup is. You can see what
everyone's saying when they're not here.
This is the community speaking right
now. It's not their paid biased people
coming in. And so I thought it was
funny, too. When I left that meeting, I
went home. Here's this article I see
about how technology, you know, isn't
homes and air conditioning are going to
be dangerous inside when the
temperatures rise. We are going to have
temperature rise. We're already past
1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels
for the threshold for human survival on
this planet. And you're looking at
potentially doubling the emissions for a
state in a nation that's responsible for
the large majority of emissions in on
the planet. the the technology for
project Jupiter won't work. It even if
you do Jupiter, it will be its own end
because the temperatures will be driven
so high, it won't be able to operate and
then you're going to drive property
values down since you're so interested
in economics because no one's going to
want to live here because the air
quality and the temperatures soaring
above survivable level. It's just it's
it's a lose on all levels. It's a
lose-lose lose. Like why would you want
to do it, you know? And then we also
like look at who we're electing. One of
the articles after the primaries was
Project Jupiter loses because we have
Daisy Maldonado, we have Laura Cadena,
we have Lori Martinez. You know,
speaking of which, appoint Lori Martinez
in the interim for Ferrari. Ferrari
endorsed her. Lori in the primary won
enough votes that she would win the
general election just with the primary
vote. So, put her in. District 37 needs
representation. Okay? And then stop just
stop the Jupiter thing altogether. Halt
it. Other counties are doing
moratoriums. We need one because we have
the biggest issue with data centers
right now. Stop the data center.
Thank you.
Um, this last name I'm sorry I cannot
understand the handwriting, but I'm
going to guess that Zayn Egan. Maybe
you got the last name right.
Perfect.
Okay, if you you want to help me with
your first name.
Zach.
Thank you.
Good morning.
Good morning. Um yeah, I'm just going to
read off my uh my notes here. Um so I
think it is beyond a shame what happened
at the last meeting. And I wish I could
say that this wasn't inevitable, but
what else can you expect when you allow
space for Project Jupiter to bus in
literally paid supporters, give them a
platform, and then cut off the other
speakers? The security guard who
targeted women and elders is your guys's
contractor. He represents you, and you
stood there and watched as it happened.
No objections, no push back. You
platform Project Jupiter, who once again
tries to be slick and speaks with a
snake's tongue. Their false promises and
contradictions are better outlined in
the most recent Heath Houseman article.
So, I won't reiterate more that has been
said better. And when it comes to jobs,
do you know what else creates jobs? ICE
detention centers. In fact, they
generate more long-term jobs than most
AI data centers. But we don't open our
doors to them because it would be
immoral. Just because the
Just because the injustice of AI isn't
as blatant as ICE doesn't make it any
less dangerous. Additionally, AI is
responsible for mass layoffs across the
country. In 2026 alone, there have been
over 165,000 AI related layoffs. We are
building our own demise and trading
short-term profit for long-term
destitution.
I understand that we are a poor county
and need to balance capital outlays with
the needs of the county and economic
growth, but project Jupiter and AI is
not the way. To end, I believe that we
often conflate nonviolent movement with
inaction and abiding by the law. But
that is not the history of non-violent
movement. Those who have utilized the
means of nonviolence to struggle against
injustice have been disruptors,
upsetters of the status quo. arrested
and incarcerated for their actions. They
did not follow decorum. Civil rights
were not one on decorum. Women's right
to vote was not one on decorum. Decorum
is the tool of oppression to silence and
suppress the heart of revolution.
To quote Kuame Toué, there is no such
thing as backlash. When you struggle
against oppression, it is to be expected
that those oppressing you are going to
tighten the screws of their oppression.
Thank you.
Thank you to all that participated. I
think we've reached the end of our list,
but thank you all for participating this
morning. The next item is uh commission
input.
any input?
I I did want to share one thing and I
for those that are here and even online,
we as elected officials understand
that people express
their frustration,
disappointment,
anger,
uh you know, praise, whatever it may be
with us.
And I that's part of doing this role is
that we are open to criticism.
However,
some of the concerns that I have is that
people on social media are taking this
to a point
to where well, they can say it's not
encouraging violence because they didn't
call specifically for violence.
The fact is is that there's a lot of
rhetoric online that is going to lead to
somebody getting hurt. We've already
seen
individuals in politics here in New
Mexico that have been targeted, that
have been shot at,
that continue to be uh threatened.
But here's the problem is I have to look
at at some of these and try do we have
to really understand that are they
really uh
are are there really the post is it
blood or is it spray paint or is it any
of those things
I understand that that's what you want
to do and that's fine but here's the
problem is that when it encourages
people to where they I get me and other
elected officials are doxed You are now
you are now I I'm speaking right now.
Thank you.
When they are doxing
elected officials, you are now not just
putting that elected official into
harm's way. You are putting you are
putting you're putting my you are
putting my family you are putting
I will last.
I am talking right now. I've given an
opportunity for the public to speak.
What I want to say is very simply that
the doxing of of officials number one
creates a situation that is very
dangerous not to the elected elected
official but to their family as well.
And that is something that many of you
and many of the people that are out in
public do not even consider is that it
occurs that it currently adds that. And
so I want you to understand that there's
I imagine You know what? This is enough.
No, it's not.
You will. I I will. You know what?
Oh, I'm I'm here. No, I want you. This
is not a conversation. I am explaining.
And when I see some of the folks that
are posting things on group pages that
call for people to bring guillotines
into this chambers or the gallows or
whatever it is stop and want to look at
how those on the that that are
supporters of the right and why it's
accept why it's not acceptable for them.
Why is it acceptable for us to have that
kind of rhetoric?
It is okay. It is okay to to have
criticisms. It's okay to share that
frustration,
but I personally I draw the line where
you start endangering our families.
And I think that's what it is.
Women were hurt last week. What about
that?
Thank you. I just I want you to
understand that this is what it is. I
have been reporting any of these
attempts of doxing to the FBI.
I will do what we to ensure that my
family is No, this is exactly the
respect that nobody wants to nobody
people want to take it to another level
to encourage violence against that. A
lot of the opposition have. We've seen
wanted posters. We have seen wanted
posters. We have seen people We have
seen pe We have seen people We have
We have seen people here threaten other
people in the audience
and that's the one thing that we are
asking is that we are crossing over a
line and I'm I'm this is this is we we
have respectful conversation this
morning but understand that people want
to make people want to make it okay to
wear a person's personal life where you
all can come and possibly someone could
possibly threaten our families.
There has to be a line somewhere
of decency.
Thank you.
Ma'am, that's enough. I don't This is
not time for public input. Thank you,
Mr. Chair.
Can we call a break?
Yes, we'll be taking it's uh 10:30.
We'll take a 15-minute break.
What was the message?
What are the odds?
All right. Thank you all. Uh we're going
to be starting back again with uh
continuing on with our agenda. It's
10:58 a.m.
Next item here is a county elected
officials input. Are there any county
elected officials?
Okay.
Staff input.
Jimmy Michael.
Good morning.
Is the microphone not on?
We can turn on the microphone for the
podium, please.
Good morning. Ah, there we go. All
right. Uh, Jamie Michael Countyy's
Health and Human Services Department.
Just wanted to give you all a quick
debrief. We officially ended the summer
youth programs at the community resource
centers. The pro the programming
included meals every day for the young
people um in partnership with the the
state and some federal funds. and it
included activities for the the um young
people at the community center. So um
first and most importantly, I want to
thank our staff in the department who
coordinated all of the activities.
Gladium was um key to making sure that
the funding for the meals and the um
logistics to getting the meals served
and all of our community health workers
were the ones serving the meals and
making sure the kids had a safe and fun
place to spend some time. There is a
short video that we're going to play
now, but thank you all for supporting
that program.
So, we documented over 600 unduplicated
young people that participated and they
distributed over 5,000 th000 meals over
the summer and again had multiple
activities every day. Um, Commissioner
Kimell Chapperel is always very well
attended. Um, several hundred meals
delivered each day there. And
Commissioner Sanchez, we had a huge
increase in Radium Springs. A lot of
kiddos came out to to Radium Springs um
for their meals. And um, Commissioner uh
we had a good number of kids in La Mesa.
It was the first time in La Mesa. Um,
but we did have a a good turnout there.
So again, thank you all.
Mr. Mr. Chair, we now have Denise Carter
to provide a quick update.
Good morning, chair, commissioners. I
just wanted to let you all know that the
jobs report from the project Jupiter
were submitted on time. They are now in
compliance. the overdue the two overdue
reports that had not been submitted were
submitted and we're going to be posting
the information on the project Jupiter
site on the county website this week
including the annual report through the
industrial revenue bond. Just for
clarification, the quarterly reporting
only pertains to the full-time jobs. So
that is what's tied into the um project
participation agreement. the industrial
revenue bond report. That's an annual
report. So every July 31st, that report
is due. The next quarterly report for
the full-time job reporting will be due
October 31st.
Okay. Thank you, commissioners. Any
questions?
Okay.
Thank you.
And Mr. Chair Steven Lopez, one of the
acting county managers. Just wanted to
let the board know that while we have
had some really good participation with
our food truck vendors, we are going to
be relocating them uh a little bit
further away from the main entrance so
that we can free up parking for people
who are coming into the visitor center.
Um so we're looking at putting them
right on the east west running aisle uh
of the same parking lot that they're in.
Uh, so that'll push them a little bit
further away from the main entrance and
give our visitors and guests a little
bit better access. Thank you.
Thank you.
Right. Commission appointed board report
backs
any
no I did not have any either. So all
right we'll move on to presentations.
Number six it's the Dava youth program.
And so I'd like to bring up uh Miss
Stephanie Vas.
wear my big shoes today.
We'll make it. Um well, thank you guys
for having me as commissioners and
chair. Um I've been with Dava for two
years now. I'm a little nervous because
this was a high intense group and they
come with so much passion. Um and a lot
of it hits in a lot of different ways
since we do work with uh the county. Um
but uh the county and Dava have worked
in uh health and human services with a a
grant that we not a grant a contract
that we have um with them and we focus
mainly on Radium Springs and Donana
Community Centers. But I am going to
throw in there that we do a lot of
programming um there at the visitors uh
the Dela O visitors center um in the
courtyard area and within the like
plaza. Um you guys all have a impact
report. um we don't have to go through
it slide by slide, but I wanted you guys
to have what I turn into my grants and
the people that we um interact with. Um
so I'll give a moment there to kind of
gather myself.
We don't need to speak on any of that.
Um I do need to let you guys know that
parks and wreck is like my first true
love. That's kind of where I started um
with after school program, summer camps,
things of that nature. And so, um,
working in the community centers is
really important. Um, and letting the
kids and community know that those
centers are there for them to come in
and utilize it. Um, we had, um, we've
built a really good relationship, I
feel, with the ladies over at Radium and
in Donana. And then just, um, using the
space out there, um, over at the Delo
building, um, in that area, I do want to
just turn to page six. I believe it's
like youth programming and impact
because this is you guys. Um, this is
what we do at the community centers. Um,
and I am going to be really proud that I
heard that there was numbers increased
over at Radium Springs. Um, I know
that's been a lot of work and it's been
a challenging area, but I do want to say
that that is consistency. It's showing
up for the community. Um, before I even
started with Dava, I went out there to
do um just some surveys and kind of
figure out the area. And two people made
the comment, "Oh, people come out here
all the time and never come back. Oh,
they're going to do something and they
never really do it." and I refused for
Dava to be that group. Um, so we
consistently show up. I have sat in a
building and it's nobody's there. Um,
and I do my work there, but it shows
that we're there in the community and
that we're there for them when they do
need us. Um, and we do have some
regulars. So, I'm really proud of that
that we have some regular faces. Um,
Donana Community Center is amazing. I
love being there. Um, we have a really
good uh, group that shows up there.
Something I do want to point out though
is the skate park at Radium Springs. Um,
when I first started, a couple of
comments I heard is, "I don't know why
they built this. No one's ever going to
come out here. No one comes out to the
skate park. 464 visits. They may not be
individual faces because we do see our
regulars and I absolutely love them. But
that skate park does get used. It gets
used every Sunday. Um, we are on the
lookout uh to the skate park over in
Mske. Um, you need to hit up Josh at Ka
Skate Shop. The guys go out there. We
were actually going to try to do
something this past Sunday, but there's
new concrete or something going down. I
was talking to Eric um which is really
cool to hear. Um because we've got some
ideas for that space. Um and we have
families that come from Lamesa or from
the skate park there over to Radium. So
if they're traveling and I feel like the
county has a big opportunity with skate
parks and the youth right now, so I
would jump on that. Um but I absolutely
love the programming that we do with the
kids. My heart lies in our community um
in empowering our youth. Um, so in the
next page you'll kind of just see some
highlights. Um, of course community
projects are important, but I do want to
focus on our youth leaders. Um, I call
them our Dava youth trailblazers because
they are trailing um, the path that we
will all be on and hopefully it'll be a
good one. Um, they do amazing at
checking in. They ran all of our
activities that we did Monday,
Wednesdays at Radium and Tuesday,
Thursdays in Donana. Uh, they were the
ones that did all the programming. Um,
and when it comes to our community
events, they are my setup and tearown
crew. Um, I love the youth uh being out
there. They help us. They actually give
me some ideas sometimes because I have
done this for a long time and sometimes
you just go to the things, you know, um,
and the kids actually keep you, you
know, on a little bit of a of needing to
be evolving and changing. So, um, those
are amazing events and hopefully here in
the fall you guys come out to some of
our events that we are having. Um, of
course challenges, transportation is
always something with youth. Um, but I
am soon going to be working towards
doing something about that. Um and then
uh we did extend our ages. We were
focusing a lot on middle schoolers and
high schoolers that they come with
siblings because a lot of them take care
of their siblings. So uh we did make
that expansion of all school age
children um just so we could count them
as being in the building. Um something I
do want to point out is that we do
check-ins with our youth um trailblazers
once a month and I say supporting adults
um because it can't just be mom or dad.
Sometimes it's Nina and Nino. Sometimes
it's the neighbor that gives you the
ride. Sometimes it's the older sister
that comes and checks in. So, we do once
a month supporting adult check-ins. I
absolutely love it and I kind of trick
them into hanging out with each other.
So, I love that. Um, some pictures that
we have there. Um, I ask you guys just
to check out our Facebook page. That's
normal. That's the one that I have most
control over. So, I try to post as many
pictures as I can with the kids and the
things that we're doing there. Um, but
it's all about leadership and building
confidence. That is the one thing is
that I want our kids to have confidence.
Whether you want to be sitting on the
board one day or you want to be the
trash guy for the county, you have to
have confidence and I want everyone to
play a part in their community. Um, I do
ask the youth to do reflections. Um,
they always get a little nervous about
this, but uh, when you have the time, I
would ask that you read these
reflections because I do not change
their words. I don't spellch checkck. I
don't do any of that because these are
truly what they share with us. And of
course, we have an amazing board. I
can't say thank you enough that they've
allowed me to do meaningful and
purposeful work with my community. Um,
and it's something I've done all my life
with the city, with FYI, and now with
Davis. So, um, yeah, I just wanted to
share updates with you guys because I
really am thankful. Um, and towards
this, you'll see it's all about
partnerships, and that's something that
I've learned is I can't do this on my
own, even though, you know, you're a
girl and you want to take over. Um, but
it's all about partnerships. I know I
need the county. I know I need other
nonprofits. I know I need grants, things
of that nature. Um, so I do want to keep
those community partnerships alive and
well. Um, and give those shout outs to
the ones that really do support us. And
if you guys have any questions or
anything, but I would ask that you guys
just come out and see it for yourselves.
We have an amazing murals, great
programs, and amazing kids.
Thank you.
Yes, Commissioner Kimble.
Stephanie, thank you for for coming to
us. Uh, we didn't really need proof of
what you were doing, but this is nice.
And I you were actually at a daycare
when my kids were very small and I
remember that from many years ago and
also city councelor Bill Matise asked me
to don't let her get away. She's one of
the best there is and I I wanted you to
know he was saying good things about you
as well. So it's good to see all of this
happening in in your areas. I think it's
really excellent. So thank you for
coming today and telling us.
I was going to say when I noticed you
were up here at and I watch you know on
I watch the the meeting sometimes but I
thought that was really cool that it was
you and that I know your daughter. Um, I
also did a presentation over at the
Donana Water uh with the Donana Water
Meter people because I'm trying to do
some stuff. Um, and two of the gentlemen
there had kids that used to be in my
program at Mirite. So, that's the kind
of stuff that I want you guys to know is
that I'm here and I'm not going anywhere
and and it's true passion that I have
for kids in the community. So, thank you
guys.
Thanks.
Thank and I before we before you leave,
I just want to say thank you to you and
to the whole Dava crew. Um,
we're small but mighty. We only have a
couple staff but we
I think that's that's an understatement
uh because you know you you talk about
the partnerships
and you know I think for us at the
county it's been a big piece because
from um El Park Algre to with working
with the flood commission um and
the programs at the community center.
you guys you have worked to bring the
youth out to uh when we were doing input
on the go bond revenue and for the rec
for the uh rec centers. What did what
did the
what is it that that we wanted to see?
And I think particularly it was really
cool to see the youth get involved and
give us their feedback and letting us
know what they want to see in a rec
center. Um you know the Radium Springs
like I said I think
I know I'm so excited to hear that. That
that was so cool. Yeah, it's it doesn't
happen. I think you hit hit the nail on
the head because I think so often we see
is that sometimes we create programs and
we don't get a huge turnout or you know
kind of but when they're gone it's
because they we've we've had this cycle
before where it's there and then it's
gone and then it's back and then it's
gone. So then you people don't know that
it they can't ever count on it.
of you being consistent and developing
those relationships
um are are invaluable. We appreciate it.
And um you know the last thing I know we
had uh what you did with LCPS and the
safe routes to school and our community
development team
where you know we had that uh walk to
school or the bike and walk to school
day going from Colombia all the way down
to
it was such a cool I said you guys do
some really cool stuff
seeing the the youth volunteer for that
just want to say thank you because it it
doesn't go unnoticed and in in the areas
of Donana and Radium Springs and the
Colon Colonials where we need to bring
more services,
you you fill a big gap.
Oh, thank you so much. And we just did a
tour uh last Friday. Stephen missed the
tour, but it's okay. We'll get out. Um
but it it was a tour out there and I and
this summer we actually did have two
groups um an FYI group and then a museum
group that came out. So, we are starting
to utilize it as like a field trip, a
place that they can come. um both
Colombia and Donana have reached out as
wanting to bring groups out there. So
hopefully the classroom area is what I
want to focus on so it actually has a
space that they could do that kind of
work. But um it's exciting to see and so
I hope with the fall we get a lot of
these projects going. Um, but as long as
the kids are out there and the families
are enjoying it, I think that's the most
important piece. And then everything
else kind of comes with that.
And and maybe thinking ahead, this is
too far, but you know, as we build the
rec center in near the in near Donana,
um, you know, it' be think be really
cool to see some programming to be able
to take um, and I see Mr. in it back
there cuz just just uh get put a plug in
his ear that it would be really amazing
that if you have if we have youth
programs at the rec center then you can
bring them out to the local features in
the area um as little field trips.
Yeah,
because there's so much history and so
much beautiful uh areas to go to um
where we'll be at. It' be really awesome
that is beautiful and that's actually
one of the questions that we asked of
the kids that came out for the field
trips was have you ever been out here?
do you know where Donana is? And a lot
of them know hadn't. And and it's really
cool that they get to experience that,
but at the same time, it's like you're
right here in your backyard. And I want
to be able to provide that experience
where they can do that and then go back
into the city of some sort. So, thank
you guys. I appreciate it. And hope to
see you guys all soon.
Thank you,
Commissioner.
Commissioner,
sorry,
Stephanie. Sorry. Thank you,
Commissioner. Um, we'd love to get you
on our podcast, by the way.
Sounds good on the clerk's podcast.
Thank you.
Thank you, chief deputy clerk. All
right. Uh,
then we're on the next item is a
presentation by the Donian County Parks,
Recreck, and Community Centers Master
Plan.
And we have our team by from site
southwest.
Good morning. Good morning,
commissioners, chair, uh Allison Long
and Ally Casy from Sight Southwest. We
are very excited to present uh sort of
the final parks, recreation, and
community masters uh or excuse me,
community centers master plan that we've
been working on for just about a year
now.
Right. So, uh just real quick, um good
morning. My name is Ally Casy. I'm
joined with my colleague Allison Long.
Um we work with the company Site
Southwest. We're a community planning
and landscape architecture firm and so
we were able to work with both our
planners and our landscape designers um
in this effort and also just want to
shout out that we truly could not have
done this plan without the support of
the many county departments that
participated um the county manager's
office are the newly established quality
of life department HHS the promator at
the community centers facilities
department budgeting marketing IT
communications and community development
velment. It really was a group effort
and just grateful for the support of the
county.
So, first, what are we doing? What does
this plan do? It is essentially a
countywide roadmap looking at all of the
county-owned facilities and assets. We
considered the sort of future rec,
excuse me, the future recreation centers
as you mentioned. We looked at all of
the community resource centers and
community centers across the county.
looked at different um programs and
services that are currently offered. We
evaluated all of the parks. We looked at
every mile of the trail system and
considered things like uh ADA access and
transportation accessibility to the
county facilities as well.
Our approach is grounded in both this
sort of technical piece of uh parks and
recreation but also community input. We
excuse me um thinking about this as a
road map. We're looking at sort of where
the county is today, looking to
community members to inform where we
need to go, what are the gaps, what are
services they'd like to see provided,
different amenities, and then the plan
ties together recommendations and to
carry out uh those projects and
improvements in implementation.
We had a wonderful success in our
community engagement process. Starting
back in December following the adoption
of the general obligation bond, county
uh staff hosted eight different drop-in
sessions where we saw over a hundred
residents come out to share their
preferences for the future rec centers.
We also hosted over uh 13 different
community meetings at different
community centers where we were able to
reach nearly 300 folks. Um this included
things like the senior meals and
different programs that were already uh
going on. So we were able to chat with
people where they were where they were
at. Um we engaged three of the county
school districts hearing from 50
different students and staff
for uh to excuse me to reach even more
folks. We did host a virtual meeting
which we had 17 people online for. We
pushed a project survey which received
over 100 responses and by and large we
received over well over 300 comments
just related to this process.
We were able to get uh sort of that
those numbers out be in part because of
our outreach. Working closely with
community organizations, partners, the
ladies at the community centers, we were
able to tap into sort of existing
networks of uh different community
center or trails or recreation users to
continue to spread the word. We uh also
paid for 32 different radio ads that
also um sort of shared out information
about this process and ways to get
involved. We sent a mailer to every
resident on the utility. um excuse me as
part of on the county utility services
and by the end of the project we had
nearly 3,000 folks on a list serve. So
all of our um each step of this process
was translated um and provided both
digitally and um in paper again to reach
the most folks.
And so through that process it became
very clear that safety is sort of the
number one concern in in this community.
um needing sort of uh lighting not only
to help activate spaces and sort of
prevent unwanted behavior, but also to
allow for, you know, pick up basketball
games in the evenings when it's too hot
during the day. Um with that also
thinking about um the sort of how
specific the climate in southern New
Mexico is, that would also require
things like shade, lighting, and water
access to make those spaces usable. Um
and yes, um we also heard that, you
know, there are a number of existing
county assets and folks are interested
in upgrading and improving what they
already have. Um and as well also seeing
interest in the potential for new
facilities through the general
obligation bond with the design and
build of the new recreation centers.
Overall, I mean, people just want more
to do with for themselves, with family
members, and um want to make sure that
the county facilities serve as a
welcoming environment and make sure that
people know that they um these community
centers and these public spaces are for
them. We also identified that
transportation is like is the one of the
largest barriers to participating or
accessing county uh assets. And so
noting ways that the county could sort
of um look to improve that. And then
lastly, just continuing to improve
communications about what's going on. A
lot of folks in the proc in this process
didn't necessarily know that these uh
programs or facilities or services were
available to them. And so um just
wanting to continue to share out what it
is the county is providing.
And with that, I will turn it to Allison
Long to talk about the more technical
side that informed the plan
recommendations.
Yeah, like Ally mentioned, uh we took
that community input to heart and it
translated directly into our
recommendations, but other key inputs
that came into that analysis, we did
look at it geographically. So, where are
these assets? Where are these
facilities? And we specifically
specifically looked at what percentage
of county residents are with a five, 10,
and 15 minute drive of community
centers. Uh the the short story is 75%
of county residents are within a
15-minute drive. So, you know, there's
there's a little bit of a gap there, but
also some very good coverage in terms of
a short a short distance to these
facilities. Uh we also looked at
building assessments that the county had
already conducted. We did staff and
community interviews. We uh interviewed
the commissioners as well to get that
qualitative lens of what's going on on
the ground. And then lastly, we also
looked at the National Recreation and
Parks Association organization for
benchmarking. So they have key metrics
that can kind of just help uh provide
guideposts for Donana County as your
parks and recreation system is growing
and kind of can provide some targets for
how you determine levels of service.
things like staff per 10,000 residents,
park acres per capita, and how many
residents share a playground in in a
particular community.
And so, just like uh Ally was
mentioning, a lot of what we heard made
really great recommendations and are
things that are best practices. So right
now, uh, one of the things we noticed is
that, um, you know, there's right now
there's community centers and community
resource centers, especially with the
new quality of life and recreation
department. It would be great to see
some of those services and staffing
standardized throughout the county, so
that level of service is a little more
similar for residents. Uh, of course,
people love their community centers. uh
the county is already doing improvements
regularly and just sort of emphasizing
that people really uh take ownership of
those facilities and really appreciate
having them. A few uh other ideas the
county is working on but trying to um
make it a little more consistent and
clear would be how can we incorporate
universal design in facilities and
playgrounds and trails as the county is
investing in new um new buildings, new
trails, new equipment. So, just how can
you design for all ages and abilities?
The great news is when you do that, more
people are able to access these
amenities and it benefits everyone. And
so, the county is already doing this.
Some of your brand new playgrounds have
really cool accessible equipment, which
is great. And so, it's kind of one of
those things you can do as you're
already replacing equipment as it ages
out.
Uh, this plan also covers some facility
closures and transitions. Some of the
buildings um in the in the network might
not be the best use of county investment
moving forward, but they won't be
replaced until there's already something
uh new in place to help make sure the
residents still have a place to go for
their community centers. So, our our
plan does take uh that long-term view
into consideration.
And then I'll just say these last three
things are uh things that we heard come
up regularly that we just wanted to
highlight. youth sports leagues and
adult adult sports leagues came up a lot
and I know that's kind of happening on
an ad hoc basis but once again uh with
your brand new quality of life
department that would be a really great
use of time to sort of formalize that
and and provide sort of a countywide uh
sports league. Ally mentioned the
signage and communications. I believe
digital marquee signs are already being
purchased for many of the community
centers which is exactly what the
residents wanted. So that was really
great to hear because uh digital
communication just doesn't work for
everyone and so really having that
physical presence is what they
requested. And then a last consideration
that we included in the plan is moving
forward when investing in your in these
county facilities, you could also start
thinking of them as resiliency hubs um
that could serve in times where we need
more emergency preparedness in the
county. So things like um heat waves or
or blackouts, facilities can be sort of
firmed up with backup generators, uh
charging stations for community members
that might be in crisis, having uh
laundry facilities,
um showers, things like that. Once
again, it's something to consider moving
forward to help make your parks and
recreation facilities really top-notch
uh moving into the future.
The second part of the recommendations
portion of this plan is a future network
map. And so on this map, there's every
uh community center and park and
baseball field. And there's a dollar
figure kind of assigned based on uh
maintenance needs or new new facility
needs. So this is kind of more of an
order of magnitude, not super precise at
this point in time, but just sort of
showing uh where in this network it's
more investment needed. And it also
brings up the fact that there's going to
be two new recreation centers which are
great, but in terms of that short
15minute drive, there are going to be
some communities that are kind of
outside of that easy access range. And
so we do call attention to um still
providing perhaps a little more
investment to chaperel and the East Mesa
community centers because they might
just be a little too far away from those
brand new facilities to access on a
regular basis. And so just making sure
kind of all quadrants of the county can
also um receive some of those brand new
facilities and investments.
And then this is this is the last thing
I'll call your attention to at the end
of this plan is of course our trusty
friend. The implementation table that
shows all of these recommendations kind
of who could be your lead county
department who else might partner within
the county time frame cost range and
some potential funding sources. So
hopefully this can become a tool for
staff and leadership as you're moving
forward. You can think of it kind of as
a menu when the timing is right. which
of these recommendations fits your
specific scenario and yeah, hopefully
have some really great reference points
for u things as your network grows. But
um
we really want to thank you working with
your community and your community
members has been such a treat and we've
really enjoyed getting getting out and
about. So thank you for having us and I
stand for questions.
Thank you. Board members questions Mr.
Chair, Commissioner Sel on this. Um,
first of all, I want to say thank you
for putting this together. I know that
you all have been working on this at the
speed of light. Uh, because we do have
our GOB bond monies that we need to
start allocating and spending, which is
both exciting and scary at the same
time. Um, but I do want to kind of talk
about because I did do a deep dive on
the on the final draft of the the master
plan and I thought it was so interesting
to see exactly what the community was
talking about when they're looking at um
new recreational facilities, outdoor
recreational facilities, what they're
wanting. And it it's kind of cool like
the top three are fitness room/fitness
classes, a therapy pool and a multi-use
room, right? And you know that's for the
indoor and then the outdoor it's water
park which we've been hearing about
forever, soccer, an outdoor splash pads,
right? And I just think it's so cool
because when we started doing these
meetings a year and some change ago,
um, you know, we are we really did go
out there. We had meetings in every
single community asking what they
wanted, what did they want to see, how
did they want us to frame this go bond
question. And overall, we came up with
two fantastic questions that really
highlighted the needs of the community.
And I I'm glad to see, you know, those
meetings and what people were asking for
um hasn't really changed a whole lot in
a year and a half. They're still wanting
the, you know, a food pantry, therapy
pools, they're wanting a fitness center.
They're wanting some place to recreate
with their family, both indoor and
outdoor. Um this is a hefty master plan.
Um, it took me several days to get
through, but I just want to say thank
you for this because you really broke
down even the simplest of definitions
of, you know, what is a community
center? Um, what is the service area of
these community centers? So that way we
can better know and our new um, quality
of life department really can understand
exactly what we're talking about in the
community. We actually now have a road
map and it's really awesome to see. Um,
so I'm really excited for this. I I just
want to say good job. I think it's great
to kind of look at the statistics that
you all were able to pull with our
current uh community centers and and
kind of where we're headed. Um, so I
just want to say thank you for putting
this together. I know it was fast. Uh, I
I know that I was dying to get this done
forever ago because it's just we can't
do anything about it. So now that we
have it, it's going to make kind of our
roadmap so much easier. So I'm so
excited. Thank you to you all and your
team and the work that you did. Um great
feedback in the community with your
meetings. People loved it, especially
the ones that you went out and talked to
the senior meal groups. They absolutely
love they always love visitors. So I'm
sure you were the highlight of their
month. Um but we just love it. So this
is great. Thank you.
Thank you, Commissioner.
Thank you. Okay,
awesome. But I just want to say thank
you for all the time you've put in. Like
I said, I think we were mentioning, you
know, getting uh the different folks
involved, the youth in particular. Um,
and I'm excited as as Commissioner Shel
on this mentioned, I think having this
to help us set that roadmap will now
allow us to start figure out where
obviously our GO bonds come in and then
where some of our additional revenue
start to start to where we can start
sprinkling in uh some of those other
funds across as we get this implemented.
But um it was it was really good. Um,
and I just I think even some I think as
as you mentioned uh Commissioner Saj
Nandez, I think one of the things that
was most enlightening for me was the
different
uh priorities based off of the
communities and it's just the reminder
of how um each one of our communities is
very you know unique and what what it is
they're looking for. But um um you know
I think for me I think when we think of
rec centers um you know I'm thinking oh
you know place to have play basketball
and have out you know a gym or things
like that. Um and the feedback we got
particularly from those at the village
of Hatch was we don't want we don't need
a basketball court. We want uh soccer
fields and fields that we can do outdoor
sports at. I thought that was um you
know such a
meaningful input and I think being able
to take that down and be able to to have
this roadmap to hopefully be able to
deliver for the for the residents what
they want is going to go a long way. So
thank you.
Thank you chair.
Thank you.
Thanks for having us.
Ryan, I don't know if you had anything
else to add or
Yes. Good morning, uh, Chair Sanchez,
Commissioner Shel Hernandez, and
Commissioner Kimell. Um, I want to thank
the Site Southwest staff for allowing me
to provide some input and learn as
quickly as I did coming onto the
position, getting out to the facilities
that we currently have. And
it was a great way for us in the quality
of life department, Eric Bransford and I
starting this out right now with just
this two to understand what's going on
in our community centers currently and
how we continue those types of services.
Uh we're working towards creating
positions to where these facilities are
going to be staffed specific hours.
we're going to get a a plan together
with how we boost what types of
programming are going on now as opposed
to waiting for the new centers to come
on board. The one thing I want to
highlight the most as you read through
the master plan for next BOCC as we um
put that up for approval is the
transportation issue. That's something
that is highlighted often as we're out
in the communities. We have these
beautiful facilities. Getting people to
the facilities is a challenge whether
it's our senior communities or it's our
youth after school, right? getting to
and from is something that we're going
to focus on extensively in these initial
days. And
the design of the facilities,
there's a plethora of new buildings that
have gone up in southern New Mexico that
can give us a good road map to see
what's gone well and some other things
that we might want to consider as we're
designing our two facilities. Um,
Artisia has a new one that's opening up.
Lovington has one that would be similar
to what our footprint is for for
building the new one. So, I would invite
anybody in the community to come out and
see what else exists in this southern
part of the state, even if it's online,
take a look at some of those things as
we're going through the design process.
And one more thing I want to highlight
is there's a meeting on August 19th at
11:30 at um Betty Mcnite Community
Center and that's in regards to the
expansion and design of the Dolores
Wright Community Center. So if there's
anybody that can attend that to hear
from those community members, those
senior members, we like to get that u
feedback as we're just about to get into
the design phase with the architecture
of firm that we have.
Thank you.
All right.
Thank you all.
To the next meeting.
Thank you, sir.
Okay.
Next up is agenda item number eight
under minutes. the regular meeting
minutes for July 28, 2026 and the BCC
work session for August 4th, 2026. I get
a motion in a second.
So moved.
Second.
I have a motion by Commission
Commissioner Sheldon Nandez, a second by
Commissioner Kimble. Are there any
changes
to the meeting minutes?
If not, uh, Randy, go do a roll call on
agenda item number eight, please.
Commissioner Sheldo Hernandez.
Yes.
Commissioner Kimble,
yes. Chair Sanchez.
Yes. Those minutes are approved. All
right. We're now under action items.
First item is agenda item number nine.
It's approve a resolution establishing a
cash management policy. And so
so moved.
Thank you. I'll second the motion.
Richardson.
Good morning, chair, commissioners. Um
Maris Richardson. This is a policy that
we drafted in the treasures office. It's
something that Eric and myself have been
working on for a couple of years. Um,
these are actually services that the
treasures office currently does. So,
departments come to us when they have
questions about merchant processing or
handling incoming payments, training
staff. So the purpose of the overall
policy is really to establish that
oversight so that the treasur's office
since we are by um and I do want to note
that the uh statute is incorrect that
it's 4432. So we will make that change.
But since we are tasked with the
oversight of the incoming funds, we
wanted to write a policy that dictated
that the treasur's office had that
oversight, but we would also provide for
departments uh the training for people
in coming provide we have an active
procedure within our office and we want
to help other department staff but it's
so that we really have that oversight
between banking services, merchant
processing, cash management and so that
departments have a point of contact so
that we are actively training staff as
they are coming in when they're managing
um all forms of payments that we
receive.
I stand for any questions.
Commissioners questions.
No, I think that's uh pretty
straightforward. Appreciate your help in
getting this uh written out and then
hopefully with with the training and
moving forward. So, but thank you so
much.
Thank you.
All right. Is there any input at this
time?
Okay. Randy, could you do a roll call on
agenda item number nine, please?
Commissioner Shell Jordan.
Yes.
Commissioner Kimble,
yes.
Chair Sanchez,
yes.
That item does have a resolution number.
The number is 2026-10.
All right. Uh, item number 10 is next is
to evaluate and award an RFP 27-00001
for inspector of general service. If I
get a motion, a second to begin
discussion.
So moved.
Second.
Okay. Have a motion by Commissioner
Sheld. There's a second by Commissioner
Kimell.
Um, I don't see
Mr. Bettis here.
Oh,
Mr. Chair, uh, if it pleases the board,
maybe we move on to the next item while
he comes down.
Okay. Well, we can do that. So, I'll
make a motion that we table agenda item
number 10 or place item number 10 on the
on the table.
So, moved.
Second.
All right. Thank you. So, we have a
motion to table agenda item number 10
for now. Uh, Brandy, if you'll do a roll
call.
Commissioner Shel Jordnandez.
Yes.
Commissioner Kimell.
Yes.
Chair Sanchez.
Yes.
All right. Agenda item number 11. It's
an approval to increase of PO26-0000220
and which ties to the DAC contract
26-199
in the amount of $91,459.15
increasing the total purchase order to
$512,68027
to cover the to cover additional social
or security guard services for sentry
duty and off-site medical overwatch for
the detention center. If I get a motion,
a second. So moved. All right. I'll
second the motion.
Director Baker,
commission chair uh commission uh
director Baker detention center. Um this
is really to and it's a little bit
messy, but originally there was the main
security uh contract that covered both
the main Edmond building as well as the
detention center. In February, we
started our own contract because we used
so much and we didn't want to eat up all
the entire county's version of it, but
inadvertently
part of the money was still being pulled
from the main one that was been in place
for years. And this is to correct that.
But when we move the extra funds that we
used to watch detainees at the hospital,
our current PO under the 199 uh
contract, uh the PO wasn't sufficient.
So we had to come and ask for approval
for that additional money to cover it.
And this is all from last fiscal year.
All right. Board any questions?
All right. Public input.
Okay. Randy, if you'll do a roll call on
agenda item number 11.
Commissioner Sha Jonandez.
Yes.
Commissioner Kimble.
Yes.
Chair Sanchez. Yes, that item is
approved.
All right. Thank you.
Thank you.
Okay. Agenda item number 12. It's the
approval of the preferred airside and
landside alternatives for the Donian
County International Jetport and
delegate signature authority to the
county manager or acting county managers
for all related documents. This
preferred alternative was selected by
the planning and advisory committee. If
I can get a motion in a second.
So moved.
Second.
All right. I have a motion by
Commissioner Shelandez, a second by
Commissioner Kimell.
Mr. Young,
morning chair, Commissioner Kim Kimble,
Commissioner Sel Hernandez. Uh, so as
you know, last November, we kicked off
with three major master plans for the
jetport. This is kind of the uh the
crown jewel in the middle of it. It's
it's pretty significant and it's
required for us to maintain our place,
if you will, with the uh FA's airport
capital improvement plan. So, it helps
us design and figure out where we want
to go and what projects will support
that. In addition to that, we're also
ongoing with a utility master plan as
things change in that area and we're
looking at what all we have up on top of
the mesa and then also a drainage. So
for the airport master plan, this piece
of it right here, um I have with me
today uh Elaine Pickering. She's the
vice president of aviation with Bohan
and Houston. They've been our engineer
of record for for quite some time time
now. She's been with the uh working on
our airport since 2020. And then in
addition is uh Wendy Reneer who is a uh
aviation planner consultant and she has
been working on the jetport for the
better part of 15 years through through
multiple engineers over the years. So
she was significantly involved in our
last master plan back in 2018. So she's
going to run us through the presentation
if you don't mind. It's it's only about
12 slides. We'll get through it and then
we're going to come back to the exhibit
which is basically what everybody's
interested in. That's kind of like what
is our vision for the future and how
will things lay out. So, I'm gonna turn
it over to Wendy right now and then I'll
be back with you in a few minutes.
Good morning. So, as Jod indicated, we
have about 10 uh 12 slides to go
through. Um it'll take about 10 minutes
and then at the end hopefully we can
answer all your questions about the
vision for the airport and what we're
putting in the master plan. I'm going to
walk you through the planning advisory
committee's uh preferred alternative.
I'm going to walk you through the uh
planning advisory committee's preferred
alternative which is basically the
proposed airside and landside
development plan for the jetport that we
are incorporating into the master plan.
We started this process by looking at
the existing airport, the aviation
demand, the facility needs, and then a
set of alternatives to address those
needs. So our goal today is that we're
taking that recommendation
as the result of this planning process
to date. So very simply, what are we
asking for today?
We're asking the board to approve the
planning advisory committee's
recommendation for airside and landside
development. That approval will allow us
to incorporate the proposed airside and
landsside development into the remaining
tasks of the master plan update, which
we'll cover at the end.
The approval is for a long-term planning
framework. In other words, what you're
approving is the vision. However,
individual projects will still go
through their normal review and approval
process as you encounter those proposals
in the coming years.
One of the things especially valuable
about where we are today is how the
preferred alternative was developed,
which was through a collaborative
planning process. Since the study began
in late 2025, we've been through several
several elements of the master plan. We
worked through the inventory, the
forecast, facility requirements, and
then the development alternatives. And
each of these elements gave us more
information.
The important point here is that the
alternatives were really the result of
the analysis that came prior to today.
The inventory helped us assess what is
there at the jetport today. The forecast
helped us understand what the demand
could look like in the future. The
facility requirements
uh helped us identify where there are
any gaps or facility needs.
And then with that information, we could
look at various alternatives and ask
what makes the most sense for the
jetport.
The planning advisory committee reviewed
the information along the way which
ultimately led to the preferred
alternative that we are presenting
today.
There have been a lot of people
contributing to the planning process.
The Jetport has been providing essential
information and direction along the way.
Our planning team has provided the
technical analysis and facilitated the
overall planning process.
FAA and New Mexico State Aviation
has been reviewing the materials for
consistency with state and federal
planning guidance. The planning advisory
committee of course has provided a
really important connection to the
people who use the Jetport and the
community around it.
So the recommendation you're seeing
today really reflects a range of
perspectives.
We want to emphasize that collaboration
has been taking place throughout the
study using various tools. We began with
the Jetport user and pilot survey which
helped us better understand the types of
operations at the Jetport and the
improvement needs from the users.
We held two public open houses where
residents, businesses, and the Jetport
users could learn about the study and
provide input.
The planning advisory committee of
course has been meeting throughout the
process for work sessions which were
discussed uh during the review of draft
chapters, working papers,
reviewing development alternatives,
working through technical questions and
basically considering what those
recommendations could mean for the
jetport.
Newsletters and email communication
helped keep people informed.
This is important because the preferred
alternative evolved through a process
with use of these various tools.
So with all of that as the foundation,
what are we really trying to accomplish
with the master plan? The vision itself
is pretty simple. We want to safely
support aviation growth while preserving
flexibility for future opportunities. We
can't predict exactly what the jetport
will look like in the next 20 to 30
years, but we can make sure that today's
decisions don't necessar unnecessarily
limit your choices for tomorrow.
This means that supporting the aviation
activity we have today while keeping
opportunities open for things like air
cargo, education, and emerging aviation
technologies is a priority. We're
planning for what we know, but we're
also protecting for what we don't know.
That vision for the jetport is carried
out generally over two planning
horizons.
In the near term, we're focused on, you
know, improving safety, supporting
existing demand, and providing
facilities that support the aviation
activity that is there today and around
the corner. But when we look farther
into the future, the planning horizon
becomes much broader.
We're looking at protecting land for
future aviation development, supporting
regional economic growth, and preserving
opportunities such as the future air
cargo. We don't have to know exactly
which opportunity will develop first.
What we can do is protect the space and
the flexibility to respond when those
opportunities become clearer. So, we're
planning for today's needs while
protecting tomorrow's possibilities.
So, let's look at what this means on the
air side, which is generally the
airfield. First, the existing runway
1028 remains the jetport's primary
runway and there are no changes
recommended. The per preferred
alternative does add a crosswind runway
523 to improve safety and seasonal wind
coverage.
This provides an alternate runway as
well when runway 1028 is unavailable.
And then looking further in farther into
the future, we preserve the corridor for
a potential runway 321, something that
was protected during the last master
plan as well. The important point here
is that these are really two different
planning horizons. Runway 523 addresses
a more immediate need while 321
preserves a much longer term opportunity
particularly for potential air future
air cargo that is longhaul and heavier.
So we're not proposing to build 321
today but we're still protecting the
opportunity so a future county doesn't
have to start over if that need
eventually develops. And finally, the
preferred alternative includes a soft
field landing strip which serves the
recreational and soft field aircraft
operations which Jetport users have
requested.
So again the theme is flexibility.
This addresses the needs we can identify
today while preserving opportunities for
tomorrow.
The same idea carries over to the
landside development. We have
opportunities for hanger expansion,
corporate aviation, MRO, air cargo,
another FBO, aviation education,
helicopter operations, and advanced air
mobility. We also have areas that are
identified for compatible commercial
development, additional long-term
aviation development, access roads, and
of course, supporting infrastructure.
The important point here is that the
jetport has the ability to accommodate
different types of development over
time. Having land available allows the
jetport to be strategic rather than
reactive. That's a powerful position for
any airport to be in.
And this exhibit brings all of those
airside and landside ideas together.
This is where you can really see the
value of the planning uh of planning
ahead. The projects shown in blue
represent future development that would
generally occur as aviation demand grows
and earlier than the 15 20 plus year
time frame. The projects shown in gold
represent the ultimate development
concept, things that could occur much
farther into the future if they're ever
needed. Instead of seeing this as one
giant construction project, it's more of
a menu of future opportunities.
The exhibit shows existing runway 1028,
the proposed crosswind 523 there in
blue,
and then the preserved runway 321
corridor which is there in the gold.
We also have areas for of course
hangers, corporate aviation, air cargo,
MRO, aviation education and other
aviation related development.
We also identify property needs such as
the BLM land, state land office property
and private property. Some of the land
is for near-term development while other
property is for protecting the long-term
development opportunities and that is
again the real value of the preferred
alternative.
So, we've now looked at the preferred
alternative from both the airside and
the landside perspectives, bringing all
of those pieces together into one
long-term development concept. The next
question is what remains to be done for
the master plan? And there are really
three main pieces which we've identified
in the slide. will complete chapter 5
implementation that takes the preferred
alternative and looks more closely at
the priorities of the various projects,
potential funding sources, total costs,
and phasing.
Second, we will prepare an airport
layout plan drawing set for FAA review
and approval. This is an important step
because this is how you maintain
eligibility for future FAA funding of
your proposed development.
And finally, we'll bring all the
completed chapters and supporting
material together into the comprehensive
master plan for county adoption. So
today's approval gives us that direction
we need to proceed. That brings us back
to the decision before you today to
approve the preferred alternative. If
approved, we'll move forward with the
remaining work and complete the master
plan based on this preferred
alternative.
So with that, we respectfully request
the board's approval and adoption of the
planning advisory committee's preferred
alternative.
Thank you.
Thank you. Board member questions.
Commissioner Kimble.
Mr. Chair, I just I think this is very
well thought out. I spent a day out
there with Jody at the at the Jetport
looking around at everything. I think
this is very well thought out and it it
all makes sense and it it seemed, you
know, a good idea at the time when we
talked about all this when I was out
there and I I think this is a good plan.
Thank you, Commissioner Sh. Did you have
any
um
not really a lot to say on this. I think
this is a great uh tool and resource to
have. I'm really glad that we got this
done. I know that it was a huge
undertaking. Um, but I know we've been
talking about this for the last three
and a half years since I've been on the
commission. So, this is long overdue and
if we really want this area to thrive
and become a hub for what it's doing
already. Um, you know, I think it's
really interesting. A lot of people
actually don't know that this that the
Jetport exists. I'm like, why do you
think your FedEx packages always say
destination
New Mexico? And then I get to tell them
why it says that. But, you know, we
really do want to see this growth. This
is the next step. Um, I'm really excited
to see that. So, thank you for your hard
work on this, guys.
Absolutely.
Thank you. And I I just echo the same
sentiments. I think it's always nice to
see what the next phases are, how we're
thinking about growing, especially given
um the growth that we've seen in the in
the area with uh the industrial in the
industrial area as well. So, um
providing alternative to uh El Paso
airport. um I think makes all the sense
in the world and appreciate I think with
some of the plans that we've had with
the the improvements to runway 1028 um
and this is like just keeps adding on to
the next the next phase. So I appreciate
the work being done here for revision
for the jetport.
Absolutely. We appreciate that very much
and it there's going to be a few of
these. I mean Wendy really hit on the
near term. I think the landscape you
know that's changed around the whole
cargo. I think we've really got some
opportunities here to kickstart that and
I hope to be back within the next couple
of months to present some opportunities
that I think will probably be in our
best interest to uh to move us forward.
Um I know that it was brought up at some
others. We we have long wanted and we
have some excellent opportunities for
potentially a hotel which could could
get us back into uh you know the county
getting back into that realm. So, I'm
hopeful that some of those things will
see them flourish and kind of take off
here uh in the real near-term from an
economic development perspective. And
then again, the airside piece of that,
we're just we'll continue to push it.
But appreciate y'all's y'all's time
today.
Thank you, Jody.
Any uh public input on the master plan?
Okay, Brandy, if you'll do a roll call
on agenda item number 12.
Commissioner Sha Jordan.
Yes.
Commissioner Kimble.
Chair Sanchez.
Yes.
All right. That is approved. I see uh
Mr. Pett is here with us. So if it's if
there are no objections, I'll uh I'd
like to take like to make a motion that
we pull item number 10 from the table
for discussion. If I can get a second.
So moved.
All right. Right. So, I have a motion to
take to remove from the table agenda
item number 10 for consideration. It's
been seconded. Brandy, if you'll do a
roll call on the motion to remove from
the table.
Commissioner Shawandez.
Yes.
Commissioner Campbell.
Yes.
Chair Sanchez.
Yes. Okay. So, we'll uh be talking on
agenda item number 10, which is to
evaluate and award RFP 27-00001
for Inspector General Service. Uh so
with that I'd like to invite Mr. Michael
Perez uh to come up and present.
Good afternoon.
Good afternoon chair. Good afternoon
commission.
So yes we are here today to select the
awardee for the inspector general
services. I did request that we could go
into close session for this as the
discussion prior to making contract
award should be confidential.
I agree.
Okay.
Uh I did create I I was under the
impression that the item was going to be
removed. I did create the item after
close session to come out to make the
award, but yeah, that close session
would have to occur first.
All right. Hold on one second. I was
trying to
Mr. Chair, you you are it is noticed in
the close session language that uh you
are able to go in for this purpose. So,
uh you just need to have a motion in a
second from the board to go into close
session for consideration of this item.
No problem. I'm just trying to I was
trying to see which unfortunately I'm
trying to open the open meetings act
here on my computer so that way I can
get the exact uh clause that allows us
to go into close session.
Mr. Chair,
yes.
Can we table this again and finish the
rest of the approvals and then do this?
That's fine. I'm I'm okay with that.
Michael,
sorry, Michael.
Chair, commissioners. Yes, that's that's
fine.
Okay, Mr. Chair, I move that we
table this until later on in the agenda.
Second.
All right. So, I have a motion to second
table agenda item number 10. Uh I'm
sorry, Brandy.
All right, Brandy, if you'll do a roll
call to table uh the item.
Okay. Um, Commissioner Shjoandez,
yes.
Commissioner Kimble,
yes.
Commissioner Sanchez,
yes. All right. So, we place that back
on the table.
All right. Agenda item number 13 is to
approve a resolution establishing
community monitoring committee related
to project Jupiter. If I can get a
motion in a second.
So moved.
Second.
All right. I have a motion by
Commissioner Sto. Second by Commissioner
Kimble. Um uh commissioners, I know this
resolution uh that's before us. We did
have a presentation during the uh work
session last week uh to discuss what
this would potentially look like. And uh
in its current form uh there are some
key points to the way the resolution is
worded. Um in particular
the
key items here that uh and I'm just
picking this out of the resolution. So
under the now therefore under page two
which is page 344 of our agenda, we
would create the community monitoring
committee related to project Jupiter uh
which will be comprised of two
appointees from each district with an
11th member being appointed by the chair
um to create a odd number. Uh we would
direct county management to assist in
the po posting of an interest form uh
with attendant advertisement for
residents who are interested in serving
in the committee and then collect and
distribute all submissions to the
appropriate commissioners no later than
August 31st uh so that the commissioners
can evaluate make their appointments no
later than September uh the 4th. Now, I
think the only question I have is if we
do that,
if we're trying to do it by the 4th, do
we have to vote on it?
And if that was the case, would we look
to do it on
the ETH?
The ETH?
Mr. Chair, I'm not sure what you mean by
vote on. Are you talking about making
the appointments during an open meeting?
Correct.
Because if it if we have to make the
appointments in an open meeting, then we
would probably do that on the ETH.
Do we have to Well, I guess we do.
Yeah.
I I just I I know normally it's when we
do when we anybody like on a on a
commission or a committee,
we do that in open session.
Some So, Mr. Chair, yes. Um the reason
that the September 4th date was selected
was for the purposes of the 72-hour
notice for the Open Meetings Act on
getting on the agenda.
Got it. Okay.
So, I think as long as we understand
that that's where it is, but we would, I
guess, ratify that on the ETH, then I
think we'll be okay. Um, we would then
authorize committee membership to
establish bylaws and elect their own
officers.
We direct county management to
communicate with the project Jupiter
companies to request their cooperation
with the committee and their
participation uh in the information
forums and then um direct county
management to provide logistical support
to the committee to include arranging
for meeting locations, advertising,
video recordings, Spanish interpreters,
court reporters, a website to post
information uh refreshments for the
information forums and either utilizing
existing funds within the county
manager's office or they and or we can
uh request a special allocation of funds
um by the board for this specific
purpose. So that's kind of in a nutshell
everything that this is going to be
doing. Um I don't know if there's any
questions, comments.
Mr. Chair, I have an amendment.
Okay.
I would like to add directs the county
management to hire an attorney to serve
as an adviser to the committee.
Okay.
I'll uh
I I can second that amendment.
Okay. So, we have a motion, a second for
an amendment to uh Direct County
Management to hire a
an attorney to serve as an adviser to
the committee.
Okay. Um
contracted. Should we? It would be a
contract.
Not one of our staff.
Okay. Not a staff member. Not one of our
staff attorney. Okay.
But we would contract with the attorney.
Okay. Perfect. Okay. Uh is there any
other comments on the proposed
amendment?
Uh public input on the proposed
amendment.
No.
Okay.
Okay. So, this will be this will be
public input if we're good on just the
just the amendment portion of this.
Just the amendment to add an attorney.
Yeah. Yeah. And then and then when we
come back, we'll we'll open it up for
public input for the uh item as amended.
Yes.
Okay.
Good afternoon.
Afternoon, Jim Hurst. Uh yes, we should
have an attorney. If we're going to have
a committee, we should have an attorney.
Thank you.
All right. There are no other public
input at this time. Uh Brandon, if you
do a roll call on the uh proposed
amendment,
Commissioner Shawandez.
Yes.
Commissioner Kimell,
yes.
Commissioner Sanch or Chair Sanchez,
yes.
Okay. So, that uh amendment is approved.
Uh now we're back to No, I
was say so we're back to the uh item as
amended. Is there any other comments?
Mr. Chair, I do have a question.
Um, so on the last page of the
resolution, we do have item number five,
which directs county management to
provide logistical support to the
committee to include arranging for
meeting locations, advertising, video
recordings, Spanish interpreters, court
reporters, a website to post information
refreshments for the information forms,
etc. Either utilizing existing funds
within the county manager's office or
through anyway, as it says. My question
is so the court reporter would then be
in charge of the meeting minutes for
this committee. Is that correct?
Yes. Like a trans they would be just
collecting the transcript and
so they would just transcript and that
would be the published meeting minutes.
Okay.
And I think part of it part of it was is
uh the importance of trying to make sure
that um not just did we have the video
uh the a video audio portion of it but
you also had uh everything clearly
documented and who was speaking at that
time. So
perfect. I think that is great. That
answers my question.
Okay. Um All right, then I'll open up
for public uh input on the agenda item
as amended.
Yeah. Uh line up or Yeah. One at a time.
Yes. Hello. Um
um thank you for allowing um public
comment on this portion. Um,
I just have to say I have to reiterate
um before this board that I don't have
full confidence in um in any decisions
being made. Um we will be watching
obviously um the community that has
already been organized. the community
has been that has been organized in
response to your organizational
failures, your information providing uh
to the community or failure to do so.
And so
one way or the other we will be present
at the table. Um I'm not saying myself
um it wouldn't it wouldn't be myself,
but we want um thank you Susie Kimell
for bringing up having an attorney in
the room. Um I do appreciate you. um and
your practical interjections. Um so
as as a level as possible a review as I
can muster um of this action,
I'm deeply deeply mistrustful
and
um
I guess we'll just be keeping you on
your toes, right? So
whenever whenever these meetings are
happening, whenever these information
sessions are happening, we as the actual
organized community will not allow for
even the appearance of misinformation.
We will not stand for
for disingenuous conversation. Um we
will not stand for company talking
points in any of these information
sessions. Um given that these community
members will be it seems like primarily
um in conversation with company partners
with private entities um we the public
the UN anyways so um thank you for that
amendment thank you for some oversight
um it could always be better and so I
don't have any particular amendments at
this point I would say that um the
community should be involved in these in
these appointments of these committee
members. Um, I don't like that it's
being overseen by yourself, Manny
Sanchez. Um,
because again, you have proven to be
deeply distressful. You have proven to
be disingenuous.
Um, despite the words that you say, um,
they do not line up with the actions
that you have taken. And so that's all I
have to say on the matter.
Jim Hurst again. Uh I speak in favor of
the committee. Um there are facts in
this debate.
There really are numbers. There's
numbers on how much water it will use.
There's numbers on the public investment
in IRBs, which of course are none. There
are real ideas that can be proven to be
true or false.
And to have a body of citizens
empowered to um make conclusions
about ideas,
about propositions, about whether or not
um
ideas are true or false
would be a great uh improvement in the
current I want it, you don't want it.
We're good people, you're bad people,
all that kind of stuff. We should be
able to cut the crap and figure out
what's true and make wise decisions. So,
thank you.
Thank you.
Hello, commissioners. My name is
Yavanni. Um, I uh would like to say um
that well first of all I'm the campaign
manager for the New Mexico Dream Team
and uh the Dream Team supports this uh
uh resolution and the amendment by
Commissioner Kimell. Thank you very
much. Um,
that being said, uh, we are still wary
of, uh, institutional capture of
organized, uh, community members, um,
and what this means, what this could
mean on your part, uh, Chair Sanchez,
uh, to, uh, shape the conversation and
control the narrative in ways that
you've made explicit and implicit
before. Um, so all that being said, what
I'm trying to get at is that, you know,
um, you better not be appointing someone
from like Tessa Vieta from Beta or a
Solipek or something like that, you
know, who has a vested interest in, uh,
in the in obscuring the facts of this
uh, project. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Hello, Sierra Admister. Um yeah, I just
want to echo that I do support this um
but also the weariness that exists
because time and time again um we have
been shown that any uh talk of any to
sort of transparency has ended in a
complete lack of it and a slap in the
face to the community members like the
job fair thing. So, I'm really hoping
this isn't a waste of time because it's
going to take time to organize this.
It's going to take time to appoint
people. These are going to be extra
meetings that we're having to attend if
they're open to the public. So, this is
a whole other thing that we're adding to
a long list of things that we're all
doing and have been doing for the past
11 months. And so just like with the the
job fair having to wait months because
apparently they needed that much time
and then it being changed last minute
and then us even going and not even
disrupting it and it being a complete
farce. Um, I'm just hoping that this
isn't another one of those situations
where it's something that we're excited
about and it ends up being a complete
sham and and just trying to um divert us
somewhere else in in a contained space
that you have more control over. So, I
really urge you guys to allow this to be
a space for um the proper like
cross-examination type conversations.
And and again, I want to echo the thanks
of offering an attorney for um uh to to
help along the way because these are
these are things that we need. And so, I
am excited about that um potential. But
yeah, I just really please don't be
fooling us with this and please like
back it up with with action. Um because
I think through these meetings um you'll
see some things that maybe are are
you're less likely to listen to when
we're standing down here. Um, and I
really do hope that there's some teeth
to this and if there is if there are
discussions that are found and if there
are things that are um brought to to
light that there's something that can be
done about about it and it's not just a
bunch of people talking about how messed
up this project is because there's
already groups that do that and meet and
talk. The point is that there have been
shady things and nothing has been done
about it. So, I really hope that there's
things that can be done um coming out of
this if you know shade more shady things
are are found out about these companies.
Thank you.
I just wanted to thank you guys for
supporting this. I really appreciate it.
uh and not just I appreciate it for for
for all of us. My question is this in
the timeline that you presented and
sometimes it's hard to hear back there
so maybe I got it wrong that we're going
to submit these applications
and then we're going to pick people
before we ask Oracle and the other
developers to participate. And so I'm
sitting here going cart before the horse
cuz we're going to do all this work
uh before we even know if Oracle and the
other developers are willing and able
and want to participate in this. So my
suggestion would be as a lifelong
technical project manager that we alter
the timeline and talk to these
developers first and make sure that
they're on board with all of this before
we go to the extent of having people
apply and appointing a committee and all
of this stuff and then they say no or
they're not going to show up or they're
going to send their number four person
which is another one My concerns again
having worked for technical companies 40
years of my life, you know, they send
their number fifth person, you know, to
go and, you know, sit in and and deal
with it. So that would be my suggestion.
You can take it, you can leave it, but
Thank you.
Okay. Thank you.
Hello. For the record, my name is
Alberto Campo. Um, I am an organizer
with New Mexico Dream Team as well. Um,
I want to echo the thanks to Sus Kimbo
for offering that amendment. I think I
think it helps makes this proposal feel
like it has more direction. I also want
to thank uh Lynn Moore for all the work
that she's done in putting this together
and bringing it forth. Um, I do have
also concerns. Um my main issue with the
representatives of the these companies
is that they have refused to meet us on
our own terms. Um any time that we've
had any effort to facilitate a space
like that that is not completely
controlled by the representatives of
this project. Um it has been hijacked.
Um for example, the public forum that we
were asking for turned into a career
fair. um they showed up here on July
28th and it was our one opportunity to
kind of engage the representatives
directly as well and that was also
hijacked. Um and so I I am I am wary of
this. Um I hope you guys understand why
we it's hard right now to trust the
appointments that the county will make.
Um and I do want to echo the the the
need for some sort of um
you guys are the regulatory body and
this project has not been regulated. um
the excuse of the of oh if we say no to
this they're going to go to Texas and
Texas is not going to regulate them. But
I don't see any any evidence that we've
been regulating them. And so I don't
want to echo the other concerns. I don't
want this to be just a room where we can
go and address all of the concerns that
we've had and race for the last year and
end up with no regulatory power to do
something about it. And so, um, that is
my concern, um, that it's not just a pro
a project that the county is taking to
divert the responsibility of regulating
this project into community members. Um,
yeah, I think this is a good way to get
people space to um, have to address
this. Um, I don't like that the presence
of the corp of the representatives of
Project Jupiter seems to be like an
optional thing. Like we'll invite them
and then if they don't show up, we'll
then we'll see. I'm like, we we need
consequences. We need regulation. That's
why you guys are here. Um, and if you're
going to put it on us to give us some
regulatory power. Thank you.
Hi, my name is Annie Zinghouse. Um,
yeah, first I I want this. I think this
is a good idea. Thank you, Lynn Moore,
for doing all that. Um, so yeah, I guess
I just have questions too, right? Like
we asked questions. Um, I really
appreciated the questions you guys asked
when they presented and you know, we
asked questions at the open house and
we're not even receiving information.
And so I hope that this this committee
has the chance to ask these questions,
but then it's, you know, it's I guess my
question is how do we get them to give
us answers because they're giving us
what they want, but it's their own spin.
Like they're not using our drinking
water, but they're pulling from the same
aquafer that like the utility does. So
the difference of portable and
non-potable, just because they don't
treat it, it's not our drinking water.
And so anyways, I guess like what is the
process of accountability? like if we're
not getting these questions answered,
what can this committee do? Can we push
further? And if we are getting these
answers and and they're like faulty and
whatever, like then how do we where is
that relationship coming back to the
county and the IRB and figuring out how
to have more accountability? Like what
what comes out of the committee in that
sense, I guess, is my question, right?
Um, yeah, like can does this committee
have the power to pull teeth and and
then if we do, what do we do with that?
And how can we like use that to help
hold them accountable and put some more
regulation or whatever that turns into?
So, yeah.
Hi, my name is Dylan Ray. It's been a
minute. Um, but I'm glad to be back um
to speak and I'm sorry I couldn't be
here earlier because I would have had
more to say, but you know, restrictions.
Um, anyway, on this topic, um, I will
say in my own opinion that while I don't
oppose this proposal, I don't find any
reason to thank you all for it. Um, to
me, this feels much like every other
conversation concerning regulation of
this project, pretty theoretical and
hollow.
Um, and also it is very apparent to me
that this decision while it's claiming
to be community centered is one that is
made in an effort to push this project
forward and this community has made it
very clear that we do not want this
project. So while again I'm not opposing
this, I do support any regulations of
this project as it continues to move
forward, it is still a massive
disappointment and I am disappointed in
not only you Mr. chair but your board as
a whole. So that's my input.
Hi uh Anisha Matanovich. Um I support
this uh new group that's being proposed.
Appreciate you all having the
conversation about it. Um I wish that uh
Gloria Gomed's district would have more
weight. Um they're more directly
affected by this project. Um I realize
that we can't really change the details
of this right now, but it would be
important to consider those constituents
uh higher. Um and the last thing I want
to say is that I hope that these
representatives of Oracle and OpenAI and
Stack um actually show up. Um they've
disappointed us in the past and we have
no reason to believe that they won't
continue to do that. So um just wanted
to put that out there. Thank you.
Thank you.
Chair Sanchez and Commissioners, I'm
Lynn Moore. I appreciate the opportunity
to talk with you about my community
monitoring committee proposal following
our work session discussion last week.
Thank you for considering it for
approval. In my view, it's clearly in
the public interest to approve it and
give it a try. It's a solid plan which
has been demonstrated to be remarkably
effective in Nebraska and Pennsylvania
where I worked as an environmental
consultant.
Through this study committee concept,
Project Jupiter companies can provide
factual information and keep their
promises of transparency and engagement
with the community. This will provide
them an occasion to take on what they've
termed disinformation. An important key
is that the Project Jupiter
representatives provide their
presentation materials in English and
Spanish at least four days ahead of the
meeting along with any other
nonsensitive documents requested by the
committee. Once received, these
materials will be posted to the county's
Project Jupiter website so that everyone
can review them prior to the meeting.
Cooperation with this aspect will
demonstrate the degree of commitment
these project Jupiter companies have to
working with all interested citizens so
that some in-depth analysis prior to the
meeting can occur which will allow
committee members and the public to
prepare more informed questions for
discussion. These meetings will allow
citizens to engage in brief segments of
dialogue to follow up their questions as
needed to achieve a fuller understanding
of what the companies have been doing,
are doing, and will be doing in Donana
County related to that meeting selected
topic. This will also give citizens an
opportunity to understand precisely how
and why the project Jupiter plans have
changed in the past year. In turn, these
meetings will give the Project Jupiter
companies valuable time to provide fully
responsive answers to all the questions
posed during the meetings. From the
first moment word of Project Jupiter
became public in Donana County about a
year ago, the public has hungered for
more substantive information and
far-reaching factual information than
has been available. This community
monitoring committee concept is intended
to assuage that hunger to a considerable
degree. As a citizen-led study
committee, which also hears from
experts, citizens will be able to
research without restraint to discover
countless important details about the
project that will affect their lives and
livelihoods in critical ways far into
the future. As important, the community
monitoring committee concept encourages
and helps guide robust discussion among
all community members. This robust s
discussion also will be encouraged
during the meeting breaks when folks are
able to chat with each other while they
partake of tasty desserts in the lobby
intended to feed both their bodily
hunger as well as their intellectual
hunger. Thank you for this opportunity
to
THANK YOU.
I'M STEVE FISHMAN and former chair of
the public regulation commission and um
thank you Mr. Chair and commissioners
for hearing our comments. Um I think all
of the comments that we just heard are
well placed. It's uh very easy for
committees to go sideways and not get
things accomplished. It's very easy for
in any like project Jupiter to refuse to
give information. Uh that being said, I
think we'd be foolish not to give it a
try. And um I think that Lynn's done a
great job of putting together a
structure that gives uh the committee
appropriate resources, but also um keeps
the pressure on Project Jupiter to let
us know stuff. And I think one thing
that we've all learned as a result of
Project Jupiter is as a state,
New Mexico
from a regulatory standpoint and from a
policy standpoint did not have its act
together in terms of how to approach
data centers. And at the very least,
what we can get this from this committee
is probably some good insights into how
to do a better job of that at both the
local level um and at the state level
for that matter. Um and I think it's
imperative for the committee itself
to um not put itself um in the position
of being dependent on project Jupiter.
we can pull in independent experts. We
can have discussions even if project
Jupiter um is not going along. But at
the same time, we can have that public
pressure that hopefully brings them to
the table um over time. Um we don't we
shouldn't be in the position of asking
them permission to have a monitoring
committee. We're going to have it. They
can cooperate as much as they want or as
little as they want, but the committee
should go ahead and examine all of the
issues that that people have to look at.
I think it's incumbent
um on the commission and it's your you
know it's the challenge that you guys
have is to make folks feel comfortable
that in who we appoint to the commission
that it's people who can work with other
people but who represent all sides of
the issues and uh I think the way we all
learn is we go through that debate and
um
you know we we do that constructive
conversation that you all have been
doing ever since the project Jupiter
comments uh left us. We all have that
capability and you know I've been seeing
it in this meeting after we moved on to
other items. So let's do it here as well
and thank you for guys for considering
this idea.
Thank you.
Good afternoon.
I'm Joanne Bingle and this community
monitoring committee concept has great
merit and it will provide a muchneeded
study committee for everyone who's
interested in Project Jupiter's actions
and their plans. Its setup seems to have
addressed all the important features
being led by interested citizens from a
variety of perspectives providing an
opportunity for indepth examination and
discussion of key issues with one main
issue per meeting rotating the meeting
locations around the county and
providing solid wellressearched
information on the project Jupiter page
of the county website which is managed
by qualified ified committee members.
Convening these meetings on Saturday
afternoons is a very good idea. This
will allow most folks with weekday jobs
to be able to participate. It's critical
that this citizens monitoring committee
not be and not be seen as controlled by
either the either the county commission
or project Jupiter representatives. The
format as presented today achieves that
goal and as explained the county's role
is relatively limited. The county
appoints committee members, provides
logistical and underwriting support and
requests that pro project Jupiter
representatives cooperate fully with the
committee. It is the citizens on the
committee who research information and
determine what subject is studied at
each meeting to select and invite the
experts and carry out well-prepared
questioning that helps enlighten
everyone. Of course, commission members
can and should attend all the meetings
possible so they can also ask questions
and learn right along with the rest of
us. In addition, commissioners can help
us gain knowledge from their incisive
questions,
as well as letting us know if what we
are hearing is different from what
they've been told previously in private
conversations with Project Jupiter
representatives. For those of us who are
interested in serving on the community
monitoring committee, it will be an
excellent opportunity to learn about
significant components regarding Project
Jupiter and its implications for our
Diana County community and we'll be able
to share that information with everyone
who is interested.
This concept is a refreshing change from
the meetings Project Jupiter has held,
regardless of what they are called,
which avoid giving straight answers and
which continually seek to divert
attention away from the hard questions
that people want answered. Whatever the
truth is, the public deserves to know
it, and I expect that this committee
will help accomplish that. Thank you.
Thank you.
Is there any other public input?
Thank you all for your uh thoughts. Uh
board members, any last questions? I I
did want to just say a couple of things
and I think to um Miss Reinhardt, uh you
know, the question that you had whether
to delay and
uh the timeline a little bit to make
sure that the project Jupiter companies
would participate. Um I I think
one of the approaches we had is that as
we're working on creating the committee
um I think as as uh former PRC
commissioner uh uh Fishman had noted you
know the hope is is that yes they you
know I think it's very clear they don't
contractually have to obligate or
obligated to participate but I think
this is an excellent opportunity for
them to participate because of um I I
think is is was brought up where if
they're trying to work on trying to get
the information out to the public, um
it's direct and not necessarily
utilizing
uh other parties in which to get that
information out, whether that's through
social media or canvasers. This is
direct opportunity for them to get that
information out. So, I think um from
what I can tell, I think they're they
they may have some as as they're as the
bylaws are being made, they may have
some requests in how the meetings are
scheduled, it's particularly around um
existing regulatory
uh meetings that are going on. So, for
example, with their air permit meeting
coming in, things like that, they may
ask that if they are to be going on that
they visit uh other topics other than
specifically the air permit at that
time, but they do seem to have an
interest in possibly part I should say
it sounds like there is an interest in
participating um having that ability to
share the information out. So I I can't
speak for them, but it did seem like
they they could be that they were
leaning in that direction of of
participating with the community.
So
I'm just saying.
Yeah.
Correct.
Yeah,
absolutely. And I think that's so I
think as we go through and start
creating the committee, I think that'll
hopefully open up as everything's
forming together that they're in that
conver hopefully in the conversation to
to get where we're going. Um I think we
as per the work session that we had last
week I think uh Miss Moore made it very
clear and I think as people are saying
is this is something while yes we are
appointing people to be on the committee
um it it is important that it feel like
or that the commission specifically not
have direct influence and allows them
the ability to uh
operate independently.
uh with this so like I said
understanding how with the other
comments that were brought up with the
concern of trust and the ability to
answer questions um that is I think
where from the commission we've we are
supportive of that piece of it as well.
So, um, just wanted to to share those
thoughts. And so, um, hopeful that, you
know, I think has been brought up of
how, uh, some of these attempts have
gone to try to get information out. Um,
I I am supportive of trying to go in
this direction as some of the other
commissioners have have said as well.
Um, and you know, we can re evaluate,
but it is for the desire of the
commission to share that information
directly, share the facts with the
community. um and hopefully foster more
um discussion around um around those
facts and uh even from feedback from the
subject matter experts that may be
selected to participate as well.
So if there no other comments then Randy
for a roll call on agenda item number 13
as amended.
Commissioner Shaw Jordan on this.
Yes.
Commissioner Kimell.
Yes.
Chair Sanchez.
Yes. That item does have a resolution
number. The number is 20126-101.
Thank you.
All right. Uh, next up is agenda item
number 14. It's approve a resolution
designating the al alternate
representative for the New Mexico County
Insurance Authority, NMCIA.
So moved.
I have a motion by Commissioner Shelon
Nandez. I'll second the motion.
Miss Wear.
Good morning, Mr. Chair. Commissioners,
I'm before you today to request the
appointment of an alternate member to
the New Mexico County Insurance
Authority Board. Um, as a class A
county, we have two representatives. One
is a voting member and one is an
alternate to that position. Um, I am
your voting member at this time and due
to a staffing change, we have a vacancy
for our alternate member. So management
is proposing that um chief HR officer
Meg Haynes be appointed as our alternate
as she oversees and is responsible for
risk management for the county.
And I'll stand for any questions
questions.
Okay. Any comments?
All right.
Uh does Meg want it?
Does Meg want to do it?
I was like, "Wait a minute."
Okay, we got a nod. All right, if there
are no uh comments, questions, and
Brandon, if you do a roll call on agenda
item 14.
Thank you.
Commissioner Sha Jordan,
yes.
Commissioner Kimell,
yes.
Chair Sanchez,
yes.
That item does have a resolution number
2026-102.
All righty. Thank you, Brandy. Agenda
item number 15. It's a resolution
designating the property at 605 Sunny
Lane as a danger and menace to the
health and safety and welfare of the
general public. If I can get a motion in
a second to begin discussion, please.
So moved.
Oh, second. Sorry.
Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner
Kimble. All right.
Good morning, Mr. Chair. Or good
afternoon, actually. Um, this property
has been in a state of um neglect for
quite some time. You can see even on the
aerial there's debris that you can see.
Um,
codes officers have attempted since
November of 2025 to contact property
owners and have some progress made on
the property and there has not been any.
It has in fact gotten worse. So, um,
these are just photos of the property.
You can see it's not just debris that
the property owner probably left. It's
now become also a place where people are
doing illegal dumping.
And so this one includes um demolition
of a structure, not just the the debris
on the property. You can see the
structures falling by itself. So it is a
danger.
So this resolution would include the
removal of the unsafe structures as well
as the solid waste.
Um, and so we do recommend abatement of
this property.
Would you like me to go ahead and
present all of them and then you can
take action individually? No. Okay.
Okay. Do you have questions on this
property?
Nope.
All righty. If there are no questions
and uh or in public input, friend,
she step out. I I can do I mean I'll do
a roll call if that's all right. All
right. I I don't mind doing it.
All right. If there are no questions or
comments, we'll do a roll call vote.
Commissioner Kimble,
yes.
Commissioner Shajro Nandez,
yes.
All right. Uh I Commissioner Sanchez, I
vote yes. And with that, it's approved.
Three to zero. I think uh we'll get the
resolution number from her when she
returns. All right. Next item is agenda
number 16. It's a resolution designating
the property at 599
Sunny Lane as a danger amend to the
health, safety, and welfare of the
general public. If I can get a motion.
So moved.
All right, I'll second the motion.
All right, Christina. Oh.
Lost her.
All right. Do you affirm the testimony
you're about to give is the truth under
penalty of law?
I do.
Thank you. And I guess I didn't have
these all listed. said, "Are we supposed
to do all of these?" Is
the hearing?
They need different resolution numbers.
Yeah.
Yes. I I believe so, sir.
I swear swearing them in was
My apologies. Yes, we should have sworn
in.
Okay. So, do you mind real quick,
Christina?
Christina,
do you swear to affirm the testimony you
you gave and will be giving as a truth
under penalty of law?
I do.
Thank you. All right.
And uh Brandy, we we did approve agenda
item uh 1530 and so we'll have to get
the resolution number when you get a
chance on that one.
I can do that right now.
Okay. Real quick. Yeah.
Okay. So item where were we at? Number
15.
15 is going to be
um 2026-03.
Okay. Thank you. All right,
I'll turn it back over to you,
chair, commissioners. I'm Jonathan
Davis, environmental codes.
Uh these are going to be the applicable
state statute and ordinances. Uh the
first one is the municipal state statute
given the municipal this uh the city is
basically the power to do abatement. the
county is adoption of that they're
allowed to do what the cities can do.
The next state statute is going to be
refues given the definition of garbage
and rubbish. Garbage is uh your food
waste and rubbish is going to be your
solid objects. Then we get into the
county ordinances which is accumulation
disposition.
28712 the flow and control is
designating that the that the county is
designating certain areas for landfills
and how uh rubbish or solid wastes to be
disposed in the county. 146 is for the
building dangerous. This is for our
abatement process.
Uh the property today that we're going
to discuss is 599
Sunny Lane. The property owners is 5200
Messa LLC. The registered agent in it is
Nicholas Caukins. It's zoned for D1 low
uh density residential. This property is
going to be directly east of the
previous property of 6005 Sunny Lane and
with the same owner. Uh this is the
location. So the nearest or the biggest
uh street is going to be Los and the
closest intersection is going to be
Sunny Lane and Johnson Lane.
This is an overall aerial of the
property itself.
Uh the property has been in violation
since March 31st of 2026. A notice of
violation was in mailed that date. Uh
progress check was conducted June 17th
of 2026. Uh that's where I learned that
the trash had been buried. I met with
Nicholas Caukins on June 18th, 2026.
There he informed me they hired a
contractor to remove the uh trash. Um
and that was not the case.
So on March 31st, this is the property.
So we're going to be looking south
southwest on the pictures. The one to
the to the left is going to be the
property. Uh if we want to use the
electrical lines is the somewhat marker
of the two property lines. 6 uh 5999 Sun
Lane is going to be towards the left of
those power lines.
Um the second photograph is going to be
looking at it. If you if you can see
that there's dirt and then the trash is
on top and then there's nothing
underneath.
These are the photographs uh once again
taken on June 17th. Uh this is the same
property. So this is going to be the
middle of the property. Um and to the
right of it, you can kind of see what
they've done with the trash. The second
photograph to the right is going to be
the trash where they pushed it off to
the side and then they then buried the
trash.
Uh so what we're going to do for the
project is that we're going to remove
all the solid waste, the garbage and
rubbish. Uh so the contractors are going
to basically have to remove the trash
and the trash that is buried. They're
going to have to dig it up. Uh based on
the findings of fact and staff analysts,
the staff recommends the baitment of
Sunny Lane. And I stand for questions.
Thank you. Any questions?
Sure. What does it cost us to do that?
So, the county has never done something
where they're going to have to bury it
or pick up buried trash. So, we're
estimated about $75,000.
Wow. And we put a lean on the property.
What will happen is we'll give them an
opportunity uh to pay the lean uh the
lean off and then if they're unable to
do so then that's when we can foreclose
on the lean through the help of the
county attorney and that process will be
started through district court.
I I thought it would be expensive. That
looks like a bunch of work. But I I'm
sure the neighbors are going to be so
glad. It's just been collecting trash
out there forever. This is good. for for
at least uh his father owned the they
own the surrounding properties of uh
Johnson Lane the mobile home park there
and then they own the mobile home park
off Los Tourist. So a lot of the stuff
is going to be old mobile homes that are
taken apart and putting and burying
there. Um and then along with the trash
from the the neighborhood there.
Wow. Thank you.
All right. There's no other questions or
comments. Randy, if you do a roll call
on item 16, please.
Commissioner Sha Jordan on this.
Yes.
Commissioner Kimble.
Yes.
Chair Sanchez.
Yes.
That does have a resolution number. The
number is 2026-104.
All right. Uh item number 17. It's a
resolution designating the property at
110 Harper Road as a danger in menace to
the health and safety and welfare of the
general public. Make a motion in a
second.
So moved.
All right. Motion by Commissioner
Sultandez. I'll second the motion. All
right. Turn it back over to you, Dr.
Davis. And by the way, I'll just remind
you that you're still under oath.
Yes.
Jonathan Davis, environmental codes
chair commission.
Once again, these are going to be the
applicable uh city statues and
ordinance. The one that's going to be
removed is the 287 to 12 uh for the the
other ordinance. The new one that's
going to be added is going to be for the
prohibited acts which is outlines uh
inoperable vehicles. So junk vehicles,
vehicles taken apart. Uh as defined is
not able to operate on the highway
legally.
So the address is going to be one Harper
Road. The owner is Leonard Haney. It's
zone for T4 general neighborhood.
So, it's going to be located off of
South Main Street. The closest
intersection is going to be Harper and
South Main.
This is the overall of the property
itself of 110 Harper Road. Uh so, the
case synopsis is that the property has
been in violation since July 2023.
Uh, a notice of violation was then
mailed out July 19th of 2023. I then
took over the case. The notice of
violation I mailed was January 27th,
and I posted the notice on January 28th.
A notice of unsafe occupancy was posted
at the property March 25th of 2026. On
the March 27th, El Paso Electric then
disconnected the ser electrical services
to the property. I then filed criminal
charges on April 10th, 2026. That court
proceeding is uh still going on.
These are the photographs I took on
January 27th. This is going to be from
the on Harper Road itself looking at the
property looking south. So, as you can
see in there, you're going to see the uh
rubbish, which is going to be the solid
objects and the inoperable vehicles. Uh
at this time there's approximately that
I can count there's six inoperable
vehicles on the property.
Uh this is the notice that was posted uh
on the property on the 25th uh showing
at the property and then showing from
the street. As you can see on the
photograph, you can see more uh solid
waste on the property along with the
inoperable vehicles. And once again,
inoperable vehicle can be anything
that's self-propelled. So, uh, a
tractor, a lawn mower, and this
four-wheeler will be considered in an
operable vehicles.
Uh, this is the property as of July
2026. Uh, as you can see, it's in the
same condition as when I initially
started the investigation. Uh, I will
state that the white mustang has been
removed and the an RV that was on the
property has been removed thus far.
Uh so will occur on this is there'll be
the removal removal of all inoperable
objects or inoperable vehicles and the
removal of solid waste and garbage and
rubbish from the property.
Uh based on the findings of facts and
staff analyst staff recommends the
abatement of 110 Harper Road
and I stand for questions.
Mr. Chair.
Yes.
Why the long wait? I mean you just got
assigned to it. So what happened? Was
there not a staff person doing this?
Because this is not the first three that
had a long wait. So, I'm just wondering,
are we doing better now? Are we staffed?
Are we
I like to see these things taken out.
Mr. Chair and Commissioner Kimble, it it
it's several different um reasons. I
guess it um one of the major ones was
that we have never had this much staff
and so we do have more officers now. Um
it was two fiscal years ago that we were
allocated um several more positions in
that division. Um we also had a couple
of retirements um people that were
working on projects and there was a lag
some lag time and having them reassigned
for reasons of you know ramping up
staff. Um but there there's also so many
properties throughout the county,
right?
And so prioritizing them, figuring out
which ones are are need to be abated
first. Um as well as not having
necessarily allocated funding year after
year. And so more recently, we have been
encouraged and we have been allocated
funding to do these projects. And so
we're trying to be more aggressive now
that we have more staff. Okay, that's
what I wanted to hear that we're they're
doing more of it now because I'm I'm
seeing more just in the last couple of
months and I really appreciate it. Thank
Thank you.
Thank you, Commissioner Kim. Any other
questions? No.
Randy, if you do a roll call on agenda
items number 17.
Commissioner Shaw Jodandez.
Yes.
Commissioner Kimble.
Yes.
Chair Sanchez.
Yes.
That does have a resolution number. The
number is 20126-105.
Thank you.
All right. The agenda item number 18 is
a resolution designating the property at
8409/0411
South Main Street as a danger in Menace
to the health and safety and welfare of
the general public. I get a motion and
second. So moved.
Second.
All right.
Chair Commission Jonathan Davis,
environmental codes officer.
Once again, these are going to be the
state statutes and ordinances. We've
already went through uh what they are.
They haven't changed. Uh so the address,
so there's going to be two addresses on
here. It's the same property. So it's
going to be 8409 South Main Street, 8411
South Main Street. The owner is Fernand
Fernando Chicon and Ivon Chicon. The
zoning is T4 General Neighborhood. This
is the overall area of the property. Uh
the closest intersection is going to be
South Main Street and Harper Road.
Uh this is the overall aerial of the
property.
So the case synopsis uh there's a fire
at the house at the main house on
January 5th of 2025. Uh a day later
there was a fire at the accessory
accessory dwelling building on January
6th. Uh the property came into I was
notified of this and then the property
came into violation on January 21st of
2025. They mailed the notices on the
same date. I posted a notice of
violation on March 19th of 2025.
The notice of violation was mailed to
the mortgage company on June 23rd, 2025.
A preservation company then reached out
to me on July 22nd, 2025. They basically
stated that the home is occupied, so
they couldn't do anything.
I then located the uh a son Brock Chon
on January 21st, 2026. There I learned
that Fernando and Ivon Chicon had have
passed.
Uh Fernando passed from the fire. He got
the burns and got sent to Lick and uh
they determined that he had cancer.
Uh what I learned there is that he
supposed to put the property into
probate. I checked with the probate
court here along with district court and
there's nothing has been filed since
then.
uh unsafe uh notice was mailed to the
mortgage company on July 20th 2026 is
for the two buildings that are on the
property. On July 29th of 2026, senior
inspector Riley Roman did inspection of
the two buildings and recommended uh
stated that they're unsafe and
recommended demolition of the property
for the two.
So this is January 21st, 2025. This is
the first photograph is going to be an
overall view. As you can see that the
roof is coming down and then if you go
to the right you can see that the roof
is completely collapsed. In the left
photograph you can see that there's a
pile of tires consisting with the solid
waste.
This is the property as of July 7th
2026.
There, as you can see that the mo the
home is still standing. However, the
roof is still damaged. On the right, you
can see the accessory accessory dwelling
that is on there uh that is still in the
same condition as it was a year and a
half ago.
These are some photographs of the of the
uh of the house itself and the accessory
dwelling. These were taken by Inspector
Roman.
So the what are we going to do with the
project? We're remove all the inoperable
vehicles from the property. remove all
solid waste which is going to consist of
garbage and rubbish and remove all of
the unsafe structures that are on the
property.
Based on the findings of fact and staff
analysts, uh the we recommend that the
abatement of 8409 South Main and 8411
South Maine.
Um I I will add that we completed a
request for proposal that's currently
live that'll end at the beginning of
September and it should go up for
approval uh with you guys up at the
middle of
the end of September. as should be. This
will allow us, one of the problems that
we were having is that we were unable to
get three bids for the properties. Uh so
we have to resort to the request for
proposal so that way we could speed
these along faster than what I'm
currently doing.
Chair.
Yes, sir. The and I don't know how the
resolution's written out, but according
to the agenda, it's 8409 and 0411. So
just we need to verify that the agenda
the resolution itself is 8411 not 0411.
Oh 8409 and 841.
Oh
sorry. I think that's what threw me off
a little but uh let's see.
The resolution reads property at 8409
South Main Street and 8411 South Main
Street.
Okay. So, it's just the agenda that was
off a little bit.
Okay.
Yep. Okay. Thank you, Brandy.
Yes, sir.
And I'll stand for questions.
No questions.
All right. There are no questions. And
uh Randy, we'll do a roll call on agenda
item number 18.
Commissioner Sheland.
Yes.
Commissioner Kimble.
Yes.
Chair Sanchez.
Yes.
That does have a resolution number. The
number is 2026-106.
Wait.
All right. Uh, any followup? Commission
input?
Oh, I think we're done. Thank you.
Oh, sorry.
We're good.
Thank you.
All right. Commission input, follow-up,
second chance.
All right. And correspondents.
We have one Samuel Ramos versus Kim
Stewart and Don County Commissioners.
Thank you. All right. Then uh like to
make a motion that the commission
convene in close session regarding
limited personnel matters pertaining to
the quality of life department.
Discussion related to acting county
managers, discussion related to
oversight consultant, discussion related
to the county attorney position, and
discussion pertaining to discuss DFA's
order to appoint a fiscal agent, a
competitive sealed proposals pertaining
to RFP 27-00001
for Inspectoral General Service,
acquisition or disposal of real property
water rights, and attorney client
privilege pertaining to threatened or
pending litigation in the matter of city
of Los Cusus and Dona County versus
Apollo Global Management Lifeoint Health
and Memorial Medical Center case number
226-CV-01280-JR
GJF NM Fog versus Donana County Board of
Commissioners and Donana County Records
discussion D-307 CV-2026-01788
Thomas Hill versus Board of County
Commissioners of Donana County case
number D-307-CV-2023-00831
Lenor Rodriguez versus Government
Center/donian County/CCCMSI
WCA
uh number 26-0000321
Jeremy Monsanades versus James Provencio
at all D- or case number
D-307-CV-2023-1527
Spartan Construction of New Mexico LLC
versus Board of County Commissioners of
Donena County, New Mexico and it all
case number D- -307-CV-2025
Z3299
and the city of Los Cusus and Don County
versus the loss of Alama LLC, American
Linen Supply of New Mexico, Rosson
Leasing Limited Liability Company and
Chisums Village uh Plaza LLC known as
the Griggs Walnut Super Fund Litigation
Case number 217-CV-0089
809-J
JCH-GBW
as authorized by the Open Meetings Act
sections 10-15-1H
and 8.
So moved.
All right.
Uh I'll I'll second that motion.
Thank you. Next time we're going to I'm
going to get a relay to read read all
this in.
Stephen let Stephen read it in his
voice.
All right. Uh we have a motion a second
to go into close session as stated. If I
can get a roll call vote. Randy.
Commissioner Shelnandez.
Yes.
Commissioner Kimbell.
Yes.
Chair Sanchez.
Yes. Well, that uh that is the motion's
approved. So, at 10:03 p.m. we go into
close session and uh we will be back in
a little while.
Are we ready to go?
We're good. We're back on.
All righty. It is 3:16 p.m. here on
Tuesday, August 11th. Let the record Oh,
we're back in open session. Let the
record reflect that the only items noted
or discussed during close session were
the many items noted in the motion to go
into close session. And with that, um, I
would like to make a motion that we
remove from the table agenda item number
10 to evaluate and award RFP 27-00001
for Inspector General Service. If I can
get a second on that motion.
Second.
All right. I have a second by
Commissioner Shelro Nandez. Randy, if
you'll do a roll call to remove
item 10 or pull item 10 from the table.
Commissioner Sha Jordan.
Yes.
Commissioner Kimbell.
Yes.
Chair Sanchez.
Yes. And with that, uh, Michael, I turn
it back to you,
chair. Commissioners, thank you. So I
would like to
put a award for request for proposal
RFP27-00001
for Inspector General Services to Baker
Tilly Advisory Group in an amount not to
exceed $271,000
excluding applicable gross receipts tax.
Along with that, um, if I could just
read this quick summary I came up with a
request for proposal 27-001.
Inspector General Services was issued to
solicit interest was advertised in the
Sunu's Albuquerque Journal in USA Today.
Two firms responded pursuant to New
Mexico procurement code 13-1-117
and MSA198.
The purchasing department requests
approval to award RFP27-001
to Baker Tilly Advisory Group LLC.
Additionally, we are requesting
authorization for the county manager to
have a signature authority over the
related contract documents, amendments,
and renewals.
Okay.
So, given all of that and the motion, I
know it's been as we're looking to
approve this, is there Mr. Chair, I
would like to make a motion that we
award uh Baker Tilly Advisory Group LP
for the uh 27-00001
Inspector General Services RFP.
Second.
Okay. So, I have a motion and a second
to approve Baker Tilly Advisory Group LP
is the uh awardee for 27 RFP 27-00001.
Right. Is there any other comments,
questions?
Randy, if you do a roll call on the
motion.
Commissioner Sha Jordan,
yes.
Commissioner Kimble,
yes.
Chair Sanchez,
yes.
All right. Thank you, Michael.
Thank you.
And I think with that, we have reached
the end of our agenda. Uh otherwise, we
will uh be our next scheduled meeting is
August 25th, 2026. Uh, no. That's
um,
but there may be a special notice of a
special meeting coming out uh, shortly.
So, keep an eye out for that. All right.
Thank you all so much. We'll call this
meeting, if there are no objections,
we'll call this meeting adjourned at
3:19 p.m. Thank you.