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Redline · August 12, 2024

Las Cruces Council Work Session - August 12, 2024

The city’s minutes for this meeting were compared, sentence by sentence, against the transcript of the recording. Of 9 statements the minutes attribute to a named person, 8 were found in the recording.

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1,184words in the minutes
13,135words on the recording
10,665spoken words with no counterpart

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What the recording says

e e e [Music] you're live good afternoon everyone thank you for joining us today for our city council work session today's August 12th uh 2024 it's approximately 1 p.m. uh if you all join me for if we could stand for a moment of silence for our men and women of the military and our police and fire that protect our City 247 if you join us in the pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands

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each year just a little brief history on the commission uh the historical preservation commission was created in 2019 uh to assist in implementing the historical preservation ordinance and the plan the commission uh is primary duties and interests is a protection of the and preservation of historical buildings as they are an essential component of our City's Heritage they have um they collaborate uh with the Community Development Department and the city manager's office to advise the city on historical districts and create uh cultural properties uh we Community

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provide to us through relationships and and other fundraising mechanisms to provide you with a $600,000 marketing campaign and that's above and beyond the other aspects that I mentioned the services that we do offer that we bring to the table here so let me kind of let you know the good news and then

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Los Cruses makes it a very strong case for that the fact that you also it's a city-owned Industrial Park primarily and provides you the flexibility to be more Nimble than the private sector that adds some some opportunities as well to attract other customers and then thirdly when when companies look at the area

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in a moment but we hit our goals in this area the other side of our contract was a little bit more challenging than we displayed on the marketing side we actually had goals of 300 jobs to be creative with 10 million in payroll and 17 million in capital investment we weren't able to

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expanding and building industrial space much quicker than we are in New Mexico overall and much quicker than we are in donana County but in lie of having existing space that requires a company to take a strategic approach to actually build their own space and normally you have to have development Partners ready to

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uh this came from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Al Paso Branch July 2024 southern New Mexico demon demonstrates impressive economic Vitality with the latest employment figures showing 2.8% growth compared to the previous year outpacing both state and National averages this growth underscores the Region's attractiveness for business and Workforce Development Las Cruses

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and economically thriving downtown um one thing I would say about Downtown Los cruus this year it that it is thriving um but it's also fragile and we're going to talk about why those two things are both true so business activity so in the past we have just reported um businesses lost and businesses

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talk about downtown um all day long I have the slide deck ready will ready to travel um I have spoken to the Coalition of conservatives in action I have spoken to Rotary I speak every um city council meeting um anytime I'm at the county so just really getting our face and our message

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what the ordinance is we've gotten cases in front of us where the public says well code said it was okay and it's in complete violation of the the code so we need to get the word out and hopefully and I'm hoping that we get the specialist in that will do that to educate

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heavy equipment operator the position starts at 16 1 an hour and the posting closes in September for Kids Quest Academy we have a contractual lead child care teacher the position starts at $13 an hour and closes on September 1st we also have an accountant senior at NMSU for 53,000 a year and the

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Tik Tok is where we'll upload some highlights some events going on and then YouTube and Spotify and apple podcast is where we will upload episodes of tales from the PO side which is our podcast that is all I have thank you all right thank you Amy next our our agenda items uh 3.1

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from Economic Development partners and Elizabeth ters will introduce all right good afternoon mayor and city council my name is Elizabeth teters uh every year we have our Economic Development Partners given up update to city council um we decided to split it up into two different work sessions this year so last month was um farmers market and film

Hear it at 8:23Speaker as recorded: Elizabeth Teters Uh

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me today so in case there some questions that he needs to answer I have him here for so thank you uh first um I know you we're all aware of each other but kind of I always like to give a reintroduction uh mita's Mission we're about growing the economic BAS based and economic based opportunities for uh for the entire region the New Mexico borderplex region which is donana county Los cruus and then all the communities within the within the county as well um I say this

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below um and in some cases they died on the vine which just sometimes happened unfortunately more of them did than resulted in in actually locate locating here um and then then a couple got delayed we were expecting um by all means that they were going to uh uh uh make an announcement that

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deployed it's not tax dollars or or public dollars but it was a needed tool that uh in order for us to be competitive against other markets it was a needed tool we had to have here to complement what the state could bring to the table another tool that we built this past year specifically is our automate up program uh it was a pilot program this year and we're looking to move it into full launch now as we speak uh but the premise of the program was

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69 individuals across multiple certifications so we actually gave out 159 certifications and we did that with a grant from the New Mexico Economic Development Department we did that for $25,000 uh so this brings us to the relationship we have this coming year right now with uh the city of Los Cruses as we're

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by the time you start building you'll probably have at least and that's that's one of the most important lessons we've learned this past year and we've have that lesson because we've been watching Santa Teresa for a long time you know 12 13 years ago when foxcon came and built their facility on the other side of the Border we thought that was going to be the Catalyst that was going to drive drive supply chain to our area didn't happen when Union Pacific came and invested their $500

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What the minutes say

Councilor Flores asked what was that investment? Was there a report on that? A lot of this data has been in the making. Do you work closely with Elizabeth and Chris on this?

What the recording says

point in seeing what's here for Las Cruses and and do you work closely with Elizabeth and Chris on this mayor City councelor yes we do work very closely with

Hear it at 39:09Speaker as recorded: Flores3 AGENDA ITEM 3.1 ANNUAL UPDATES FROM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS

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I'm the permanent executive director um in the past we have had two employees but looks like for now and in the foreseeable future we are a one woman show as far as staff um our executive board is John Muno um he's here with us today of electronic caregiver um Dr Jeffrey Stewart who owns MVB Pharmacy and Dr Christen Morehead who was our secretary um she is outgoing I put that on the slide just to make her know for sure that we were not signing her up

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the term of the loan about $450 um so we did this we announced our microloan recipient in June since then I have had five requests for micr loans uh right now we have the funding for a three-year cycle so if all of our people are five years on a three-year term it kind

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