Work Session Meeting March 25, 2024 MINUTES Work Session Monday, March 25, 2024 @ 1:00 PM City Council Chambers, City Hall PRESENT: Councilor Yvonne Flores, Councilor Becki Graham, Councilor Becky Corran, Mayor Eric Enriquez, Councilor Cassie McClure, and Councilor William Mattiace ABSENT: Councilor Johana Bencomo 1. JOBS OF THE WEEK 1.1 Sarah Raney, Workforce Connections presented Jobs of the Week. 2. PETS OF THE WEEK 2.1 Amy Defelix, ASCMV presented Pets of the Week. 3. AGENDA ITEM 3.1 NUISANCE ABATEMENT TEAM ACTIVITY UPDATE. Larry Nichols, Director Community Development gave an overhead presentation. Battalion Chief Mike Landavazo, Fire Marshal LCFD continued overhead presentation. Larry Nichols continued overhead presentation. Councilor McClure asked does the workflow change if it’s say a contributing building in a historic area, is that something you guys look at? Page 1 of 12 Larry Nichols said yes we have several different overlays in the City, South Mesquite District overlay is one of our Historic Districts, Alameda Depot is another. With the process that we have, if we have a property in one of those districts we have a process if it’s going to go to demolition 3 City Agencies reviews that, the Building Department which involves inspectors and a building official. It involves the Utility Company looking at the utilities and how they need to be addressed. The third to review is the Historical Preservation Specialist to see if the property is either contributing or non-contributing. Councilor McClure asked say it is demolished and the land is sitting there, does that just sit there until something else happens to it or until the property owner decides to do something with it? Larry Nichols said the thing about property ownership is that it does have its privileges and if the property owner determines that they are going to have their property made available for a new structure or a new use in many cases sometimes they ask for a rezoning so they can maybe go into a commercial venture. That decision making about what happens to their property after it’s abated is the property owners. Councilor Mattiace said on the abatement policy I am new to it, I only had three months to read 7,000 pages of different laws. But you do give special consideration for the historical sites, and you do check with the Society, are they part of the reviewing panel? Larry Nichols said when a property is in a Historic District, the Historical Preservation Specialist, who is the liaison to the Historical Preservation Commission will place it on their agenda for review. It is also taken to the State Historical Preservation Office for a determination if it’s unclear through determination if it’s a contributing property or not. Councilor Corran said the places that you all showed us are hazardous and uninhabitable. I’m curious I think there are other situations where places are on the margins I guess where there in the workflow and perhaps in the nuisance abatement conversation that where people are living in those spaces. They maybe old motels like the Kilby but I think there are other parallel ones. Is there a process that accounts for those folks and potentially to support landlords in remediating things to make them habitable or are there other opportunities for them to do that and how the folks that are there, in places that are habitable. We have seen a few homes where it sounded like people were living maybe because they owned it or maybe because they were renting in a very sort of questionable situation. What are the processes when someone is living in a space that might be labeled as a nuisance or in this process? Larry Nichols said once we have received a complaint and a complaint, as I mentioned earlier it can come from several different sources. But many times the complaint comes from the people that are occupying one of these structures. The complaints are in the nature of I don’t have plumbing, or I don’t have hot water, or I don’t have heating or cooling. So with our adoption of the property maintenance code we are able now to go to the interior and see those conditions and determine how they can be addressed. It would still be the property owners expense to do that. If we Page 2 of 12 find that there are conditions that are unsafe, unsanitary, uninhabitable, then we do ask that the occupants vacate the property, until it can be abated or corrected. Councilor Corran said thank you that is actually a pretty bleak, response but I appreciate understanding what the process is for that and thank you for letting us know what the process is. Are there any supports, you mentioned the property, the interior sort of ability to go in and looking at the interior conditions. Are there any resources that exist for landlords for bringing up their places to habitable, Economic Development related resources, potential funding from I don’t know places or if you know of some places, or maybe they don’t exist? Do you have any references or avenues for that? Larry Nichols said I know that the City has I think some from the Economic Development Department. I believe also through the Housing Program they have some resources that they can apply for either grants or funding to take care of the conditions. I think I remember hearing about a number of those over the past year. So those are a couple of the avenues that are available. The NAT team doesn’t have that follow through if you will. Once we have made a determination to say, this is what you can do we have some funding available for you, a grant available for you either for relocation or for correcting the deficiencies. Councilor Graham said following on with what Councilor Corran brought up when we do have these situations where folks are living in these properties in unsafe conditions, what is the process for coordinating both with other departments in the City, looking at you Natalie Green or our amazing external Community Partners looking at you Executive Director Nicole Martinez of Community of Hope. How are we coordinating to find these folks a soft landing place, any kind of landing place? At what point are our partners brought in who are going to help mitigate the collateral damage of people and I recognize these are not conditions that people need to be living? However what’s that process? Larry Nichols said I probably need to defer to either the Housing group or to the Community of Hope. I can relay one experience that we had which was with the Kilby Motel. When we found that those conditions were unsafe and unoccupiable for the inhabitants we did contact the Community of Hope and they came to the site, and they spoke to the residents about having the help with the Community of Hope. Councilor Graham said how much notice were they given on that I mean the Community Partners because I think my concern, I know there were a few properties in town where I think we’re kind of on the precipice of this sort of situation, and I want us to act in good faith as much as possible and give everyone the chance to try to get their resources in place. So I guess, I just if the process is not laid out and set down I would love to see that happen somewhere in that decision tree you know collaboration with Community Partners when there are residents in these facilities or in these properties. Larry Nichols said in that one example I gave you we began the inspections and the citations on that property, I think during that whole year there were 300 calls for Page 3 of 12 service. But we did an inspection in late November, early December of that year and we listed with all of the corrections that needed to be made with the landowner, the property owner. They said they would begin to abate those, and we said we would return in 3 months, we gave them 3 months for them to be worked. We returned in 3 months and found that little or no corrections or deficiencies had been addressed. That is when we took the action, and said we need to have these occupants relocated now. That’s when we were contacted, and I believe I’m almost certain about this, but I can say I’ll defer to Community of Hope for other answers. But I know that many of those occupants said they were receiving assistance from Community of Hope to be in that location. So I think there was information with their conditions if they were not improved they would have to be relocated. Councilor Graham said ok understood. I’ll check back to see if we can get something more you know codified, written down, set in stone. Just so we make sure that everyone is having the best chance possible for good outcomes. Councilor Flores said just following up on a question Councilor Corran brought up about any sort of City Ordinance that we might have in regards to landlord/tenant. The Housing Committee when I was first on Council seven going on eight years ago working with another City Attorney. We worked on a landlord/tenant to give the landlord and tenant an equity or balance. For some reason the finger pointing game it never came to light, it never came to City Council. It was blocked and I can only speculate as to what happened. Maybe somewhere in the annals of our safe keeping of proposed legislation, or ordinance we have it somewhere. But we went through it with a fine tooth comb. At the time that and other before Covid we had many people participate in that committee. We had different people, different organizations that were represented, Nicole Martinez was there she’s the only one I see here who was present at the time insofar as community. But Rose Garcia participated, many people participated and for the life of me because things get kind of mysterious sometimes, we don’t get all the information. But we wanted to avoid the problem of someone being unhoused based on the actions of a landlord, you know a slumlord for a better word and to give the landlord or landlady their equal rights on this. I think that would be helpful. I think that would be able to give people notice. I think that would address the notice process that Councilor Corran brought up and all of that was covered, it was very well balanced. Insofar as the NAT, doesn’t NAT have money to help someone to restore their home in the event it is salvageable or is that money gone? Where did that money come from? Larry Nichols said the NAT Program funding that is available is solely devoted to demolition processing or abatement either boarded and secured or securing the property. There’s not monies, funding there for relocation. In fact we have a Council Budget request for monies for NAT Program. Councilor Flores said ok, you don’t have it now, but it has had funds designated specifically to help someone get their home up to code? Larry Nichols said not through the NAT program. Page 4 of 12 Councilor Flores said I don’t have the best memory in that regard. I just remember when David Dollahon was here and we attended several meetings, several NAT meetings. I thought there were funds so it might have been from another source. There is no source whatsoever from which someone a landlord or an owner of a home there aren’t any funds that are provided by the City to do that? Larry Nichols said I don’t have knowledge of those funds, I know there aren’t any allocated to the NAT Program. Councilor Mattiace asked the Fire Department and the codes in your department have we reviewed all the trailer parks? Are they all safe? Are they on any list for access for ambulances, their roads, their flooding, their propane the tanks and the safety of the trailer parks? Do we have any in Las Cruces that have come on the abatement list? Larry Nichols said we have had complaints from some tenants of trailer and mobile homes. I don’t know that we done a complete trailer park inspection, just kind of an overall inspection. I would maybe ask Officer Roach to rely on some of his experience if he might recall any of those type of inspections that were done. Officer Michael Roach, Supervisor Codes Department said in reference to any inspections in trailer parks in specific, I don’t know of any that have been done. I don’t know of any inspections per se directly to a trailer park as a whole. Typically for the NAT Program we’re looking specifically at the individual locations or plats. We don’t have anything on the NAT list that I’m aware of in a trailer park specifically the NAT Program is looking into. Mayor Enriquez said I just wanted to add that through my experience with the NAT Program, the NAT team. There’s two separate issues we’re discussing here. Those structures that are occupied and those that are unoccupied. When we look at unoccupied, vacant and abandoned buildings that’s when we’re looking at the abatement. That’s when we’re looking at the demolition because of the unwanted fires, of the illegal entry, of the illegal uses and crime that take place. The police department also gets numerous calls and responds to and codes. Those are the ones that are the worst case scenario and so when we get to the situation where the residents or the occupancy is occupied. In that case it develops into a more sensitive and takes more precautions and notifications and things of that. Just because there has been some lessons learned along the way I will turn it over to our acting City Manager so he can respond to some of those issues. Because I agree with Council we don’t want people displaced and things of that nature, but the Nuisance Abatement is definitely there for vacant and abandoned buildings that present a hazard to our community and our responders. Ikani Taumoepeau, Assistant City Manager said Councilor Graham you mentioned a very critical question on how we approach occupied buildings and other Councilors as well that’s a great question. What we have done in learning from the past is we’ve and thanks to Nicole Martinez who’s presented to the Health PRC she presented a presentation back in the fall it was a dialog on how to address unsheltered homelessness and encampments. After watching that presentation, Nicole and I, we’ve talked I appreciate her entertaining me to meet with her to see and to really Page 5 of 12 explain what the presentation is and the philosophies and the principles of it, is something that we’ve discussed in that meeting, and we’ve met with police. We’ve met with fire. We’ve met with Community Development on how we can implement the same philosophies. On how we approach encampments is the same philosophy on how we approach one of the motels in town that we’re dealing with so we can learn from what we’ve done in the past. In talking with Nicole we’re talking about timelines, she preferred more time but she’s said if we can give her a least thirty days for her team to share the resources with those so we can find a soft landing. Find another housing opportunity she’s mentioned some grant opportunities that other municipalities have won in the past so we’re looking into that and other opportunities on how we can find transition funds for those in occupied facilities to find them another transition when it comes to housing. This isn’t something that in NAT I want to make it clear that staff is very cognizant and aware that these individuals they have to go to a place of shelter, so we do understand the levers at hand, we’re very sensitive to that. We’re becoming more aware thanks to Nicole and her partners as we’re working through this. I just wanted to let Council be aware that those are things we definitely do have to codify. We are working on that. We appreciate the partners, such as Nicole to enlighten us and make sure we find a place that’s right for everyone. Nicole Martinez, Director of Mesilla Valley Community of Hope said I feel that this is sort of a related topic although housing could take its own work session. So I think just tying into what we’re talking about. We’re really on a tipping edge of not having enough affordable housing units in our community. This tipping point of having even more people being unhoused in our community. So we’re really aware of our housing opportunities and sometimes it means places that we might not think meet our own standards but do pass inspections. Then from that point on sometimes if we have residents that have big challenges the units might deteriorate somewhat, so I did want to point out that there are City ARPA funds that the Community of Hope applied for and was awarded. In those situations you’re doing possibly abatement on an occupied apartment complex we have said for anybody that is using a Community of Hope voucher that we can use our ARPA funding to mitigate that risk to the client and the landlord. I know there are some properties right now being looked at, there haven’t been great timeline notices, so I think this is just a call to say like let’s give some more notice to Community of Hope if these are units where they might have residents there and where possibly Community of Hope could help that landlord bring the units up to code. We would love to be able to do that especially if it was our residents that caused any of those damages. That’s what the ARPA funding was for so we could keep them there. I realize that it doesn’t mean it could bring all of the units up to standard but those are case by case scenarios seeing how many of them aren’t passing inspection and how many we can improve. I just want to make sure that everybody knows that there is that funding for our vouchers. Councilor McClure I believe last week talked about one of her constituents talking about the rising rents and we a just seeing that repeatedly. We’ve had several apartment complexes that we’ve been working with raise their rents, doubling the rents with only a few months’ notice, pricing many of the people out so units that were once $550 are now going for $850. Anybody on Social Security for the first Disability is getting $943, so well outside of what they can afford. We’re not just talking a couple of complexes anymore, we’re talking about at least eight complexes that we know of that are 100’s of units. We’re really interested in keeping what we have and bringing it up to code Page 6 of 12 and working as best as we can. Making sure that we have appropriate timelines to find other avenues if we need to. I appreciate the reaching out that we do get so we can help with that so maybe if there is something we can do and there are meetings being had even including Housing Department in those meetings within CLC and making sure they’re aware and at those meetings so they can work with us directly as well. We want to be as helpful as possible, of course we also need to call on our Legislators to make sure that we are meeting fair market rents so that we can get some improvements and raise that ceiling for the fair market rents so we can use our vouchers. Because we are really at risk of turning away hundreds of dollars that we apply for every year for vouchers and when those leave the City it’s really competitive and hard to get those back. We’re looking at losing staffing, looking at losing tons of rental assistance that we’ve been really successful in getting from HUD and MFA and the VA and the City of Las Cruces. Just a note too, sometimes we’re using City funded housing vouchers through the Tenant Based Rental Assistance Program on some of the properties that need some improvements and that’s when we’d really look towards our landlords mitigation funds through ARPA to help improve those conditions. Martha Rodriguez, President of Las Esperanza’s said a neighborhood organization in the Mesquite Historic District and I’m here to just offer a word of caution to all of us. Number one of course is to make sure that people who live in those properties do find a resource to find another location and I think that it would be important to include that in the process. Because right now I don’t see anything in writing that says ok we’re going to do this if somebody’s going to be unhoused, then we’re going to do this, this is the process we’re going to take. The second important part that is the reason that I’m here, is that we want to make sure that Historic Preservation is also up there for all of us in this City. It just makes me so upset and so sad to see buildings that can be restored destroyed. My husband and I restore historic properties. I’m sorry I lost the picture I wanted to show it at least to the Mayor. I wanted to show you a property that was about to be demolished, it was in horrible condition, it was secure though so there wasn’t anybody living there or going in there because the property was secured. We were able to restore that property and it’s beautiful now. I really wanted you to see these pictures. Every time we destroy one of those historic properties we destroy our history. I mean look at Mesilla, people go to Mesilla, they are drawn to Mesilla. Why? Because of their beautiful preserved historic properties. It is not necessarily because of the food because we have wonderful restaurants here in Las Cruces, we have really good food here too. People go over there to that little town. Why? Because they know how to preserve their history, they know how to preserve their historic properties. Please I encourage you, on this process that we saw today we didn’t see anything about historic preservation, even though when asked the response was yes we go to the Historic Preservation person, liaison but it’s not in the process. I don’t see it written in the process so if somebody is not there that doesn’t know what the process is then they go and look at the process it’s not part of the steps that are taken for these historic properties. There no steps there to talk about unhoused people that are going to be unhoused. Those two things I encourage you to please ask, put them in the process. Because otherwise we have no assurance that those historic properties are going to be preserved if at all possible and those people who are going to be unhoused are not going to be left out in the cold. Page 7 of 12 Deb Dennis, Member of the Public said I’m really delighted with the discussion today and the questions that are being asked and I’m very much encouraged by suggestions that I’m hearing from Council. I’d simply like to encourage what I’ve heard. One thing I’d like to do real quickly is distinguish between vacant housing and occupied. Understandably there’s great concern for individuals in occupied housing that is undergoing abatement. Our concern with historic preservation has to do with the vacant and abandoned housing. Because what ends up happening is people don’t pay their property taxes and fall in arear, the City acquires the property and then they let it sit. I gave you an example already of what’s happening at 643 East Picacho. What happens is that once the City owns it and they say it needs abatement as with 643 East Picacho they board it up and then they say well the property owner isn’t abating it, so we’ll just go ahead and demolish it. As you know I’ve pointed it out that in Chapter 2 they’re saying that City owned property does not have to go through the Historic Preservation Commission or any process to be demolished. The real concern of the vacant properties that are City owned in Historic Districts or simply historic properties. Because the other interesting thing about the ordinance is it does not include as you might think all historic property, only properties that are in Historic Districts. So they very cheerfully went out the weekend before Christmas and destroyed a 1920 home on North Tornillo why because they can, it’s not in a Historic District. So as long as a property is not in an Historic District the City Development thinks it can do anything they want with it without consultation, as what happened with this North Tornillo property. What I’d like to come back to and is more important is let’s find funding for adaptive reuse. Community Development, NAT everything they do is focused on demolition let’s find funding for them to do something other than demolition. I would like to suggest let’s put the experience and the expertise of Economic Development and specifically the experience of the Neighborhood Services Program together with Community Development and get them working to find the funding and the programing so that houses don’t have to be demolished but they can be adapted for reuse. Councilor Flores said you said that if property isn’t in an Historic District no consideration is given to that particular property. Who makes that decision the State or the City? Deb Dennis said that’s correct, the City. If the property is outside a Historic District, the Historic Preservation Commission is not permitted to make any recommendations regarding what happens to a historic property. Councilor Flores asked if the property is determined to be historic shouldn’t it be protected by the Historic Preservation Act or laws or whatever they’re called of the State? Wouldn’t that supersede whatever the City might have, I would imagine it would. Deb Dennis said it has to be on the State Register. In this particular case on North Tornillo it was an historic home, but it was not to the level that it was on the State Register. This is part of the problems if you go back and you look at the transcript from November 6th having to do with 643 East Picacho property you were told initially that oh no it’s not in the Historic District, so we don’t have to consult, we don’t have to run it through the Historic Preservation Commission, and they had not. Yet it was on public input that we were able to tell you that, one it was in an Historic District and two Page 8 of 12 it did require a consultation by State Law and so Council tabled the issue until February 5th to allow the Historic Preservation Specialist time to consult with Santa Fe with the New Mexico State Historic Preservation Division. Councilor Flores asked what was the outcome? Deb Dennis said well we got here on February 5th and Mayor Pro Tem Bencomo said we’ll table the issue indefinitely and you voted, and it’s been tabled indefinitely. Mr. Nichols said we’ve taken it off the agenda, we’ve boarded up the house and we’re going to leave it sit. So we have no opportunity to speak to the idea of adaptive reuse. Community Development was asking for $28,000 dollars to demolish that house and if you look at the photos, I’m sorry it’s not in the condition they describe. The neglect is of the City’s own doing, it abandoned the property. That is what’s so outrageous about this. Councilor Flores asked is the City the owner? Deb Dennis said yes, the City has been the owner since 2004. It had been part of the weed and seed program. Dolores Archuleta, Member of the Public said I was born and raised in a Historic District and that is the reason I’m here. I see so many homes that are still there. I’ll tell you a little story. A little boy close to 329 East May where we were born, was choking on a piece of tortilla. The mother said to get my mother to get over there to take care of it because she couldn’t handle it. She got the tortilla out and saved his life, that was my husband. Now the buildings are still there, they’ve been vacant for years and years but why do we continue to get new Councilors in, every time and do the same thing over and over again. It’s not your fault, I don’t know who’s fault or should we blame anybody, it’s a big issue. But we need to get this done, please. Thank you. Judy Berryman, Member of the Public said I would like to make a couple of clarifications just for questions that were answered. As part of the Historic Preservation Commission we have been attempting to have Chapter 40 and now Chapter 2 revised to include all Historic resources to be protected. Currently under Chapter 40 and currently under Chapter 2 only properties that are in a recognized Historic District can be put before the HPC so in this case we are very handicapped in terms of trying to protect historic properties. The second huge concern I have with the NAT Program is that there doesn’t seem to be very much community input or community members on the NAT Team. I think that would be very beneficial. When we talk about that they will contact the Historic Preservation Officer that doesn’t necessarily mean that the HPC will have an opportunity to review the property that may be demolished. I am also concerned with the NAT budget, everything is oriented to demolition as earlier said before let’s find some other alternatives. Certainly Historic Districts, Historic resources are being ignored in terms of economic reliability. As was mentioned before people come into an area because of Historic resources but if we can’t respect the Historic resources by not having protection and ordinances then stuff like Realize Las Cruces, Chapter 40, Chapter 2 they really mean nothing. My final remark is in Chapter 2 we’ve been trying to have changes made and the critical part in Page 9 of 12 Chapter 2 is that it gives carte blanche for the City to abolish, to demolish any Historic structure that is owned by the City. That would be under their Section 2F which needs to be changed. So I thank you for the opportunity and I’m open to any questions if you have any. Jo Ruprecht, Member of the Public said after speaking a lot the last 18 months about Historic Preservation, much of what I’ve learned in the City about Historic Preservation came from trying to save the Trost Clubhouse at the former Las Cruces Country Club property. In that process I was trying to negotiate between the developers and between the City, which did not own the building, had never owned the building. But also had let it fall into disrepair and become a greater nuisance then it might have been because they allowed the owners to experience a protracted period where they did not have to maintain that property, they didn’t have to board it and so when Dr. Nichols talks about three levels of seriousness of a property. The City has in the past even with private properties, Dr. Dennis has focused on City owned properties as well. They have allowed situations that could have been handled at Level 1 or Level 2 to progress to the point where it is a disaster, it is an emergency. That happened with the Trost Clubhouse they were able to demonstrate that they had x number of fires and calls out at that property. The property was still sound because they could cite the number of fire calls. It made it very difficult to argue against the points that the City tried to make on that so the developers could have their way with it. What I want to comment on here is when Dr. Nichols speaks about the processes involved that counts on two basic things, very basic things. One is the processes are articulated clearly and succinctly so people can pick up a folder someplace and see here’s what the process is whether that’s you as Councilors or us as the public or some out of town owner. There has to be an articulation of the process and it has to be accessible in some way the people can encounter it and use it. I appreciate the suggestion that came from the Councilors in this regard. The other thing is that one of the things that you and we rely on is the honesty and trustworthiness and diligence of City staff and in this respect while Dr. Nichols is talking about his process he is neglecting how the current Historic Preservation Specialist is essentially not doing his job and he is sometimes doing that by omission and he is sometimes doing that by obfuscation and in the case of the most recent situations he’s done it by lying and then by being handled by Community Development to the sense of detriment to the building. I can document this to you Dr. Nichols and I don’t know how to handle this other than to call it out. Mayor Enriquez said I just want to again reiterate that the whole nuisance abatement is really worst case scenario. There are some steps and some things that we need to look at as a City and to work on. But to the Council that voted in the Property Maintenance Code thank you. That’s a huge step as Miss Archuleta came up and said why do we continue and continue, that was one of the big ones. The International Codes were adopted back in 2003 and this is 2021 code of the Property Maintenance Code that’s how you get from Level 3 to Level 2 to Level 1 is now having a code that will help, our City staff, Codes Enforcement, Police, Fire and Community Development address those issues with landlords and property owners. Thank you that was a huge step in going in the right direction to avoiding the worst case scenarios that we’re addressing now. Page 10 of 12 Councilor Flores asked Mr. Nichols if I recall correctly there was a person who was designated to take care of NAT and in meetings that we had she would be present. Does that position still exist? She was I think the community liaison and I think she was an employee of the City. Larry Nichols said the history of the NAT had to do with initially, as I mentioned when Mr. Dollahon introduced the programming to acquire housing properties for developing affordable housing. I don’t ever recall that a person was designated as a leader or taking leadership on the NAT program until the City Manager’s office asked me to take the lead on a program that we now have in place. Councilor Flores said there was a woman who was designated, and I don’t know the history. Mayor Enriquez said you are correct, Kim Peralta she was assigned and was under legal in somewhat of a case manager position that pretty much kept track of everything and you are correct. That no longer exists, they changed it. It used to be the Neighborhood Action Team, now it’s Nuisance Abatement Team so there’s a different direction, that’s where it’s at. That’s what kind of the update was today, to update us all on what’s going on now and moving forward. Larry Nichols said Councilor Flores that is correct. Miss Peralta was a legal assistant that made sure the City’s legalese in acquiring property were the correct measures to take. But she wasn’t doing inspections and that sort of thing. Councilor Mattiace said I am a new Councilor but just for the record and the truth as the former Mayor I fully supported the Mesquite and Alameda Districts when they became reality. 3.2 GO BOND QUARTERLY UPDATE 4. ADJOURNMENT 4.1 Councilor Becki Graham moved, seconded by Councilor Becky Corran, to Adjourn at 2:27 p.m. RESULT: Carried MOVER: Councilor Becki Graham SECONDER: Councilor Becky Corran AYES: Councilor Yvonne Flores, Councilor Becki Graham, Councilor Becky Corran, Mayor Eric Enriquez, Councilor Cassie McClure, and Councilor William Mattiace Mayor Page 11 of 12 City Clerk Page 12 of 12