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Las Cruces Council Meeting - August 5, 2024
The city’s minutes for this meeting were compared, sentence by sentence, against the transcript of the recording. Of 172 statements the minutes attribute to a named person, 172 were found in the recording.
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~1430 words of the recording have no counterpart in the minutes
Missing from the minutesThis part of the meeting left no trace in the written record. This stretch of the meeting is not reflected anywhere in the written record. Some gaps are legitimate — recesses, or a presentation summarised in one line. Others are discussion that simply did not make it in. 1 person introduce themselves by name inside this gap. It contains: “resign”, “lead”, “contamination”, “cancer”, “condemnation”.
What the minutes say
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What the recording says
e e e [Music] you're on good afternoon everyone good afternoon thank thank you for joining us today for our city council meeting today's August 5th 2024 if you'd all please uh stand and join me in a moment of silence for our brave men and women of the military and for our police and fire that protect us 247 365 councelor McClure if you'll lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance Al of the United States of America to the for it stands one nation God indivisible liy and
~2730 words of the recording have no counterpart in the minutes
Missing from the minutesThis part of the meeting left no trace in the written record. This stretch of the meeting is not reflected anywhere in the written record. Some gaps are legitimate — recesses, or a presentation summarised in one line. Others are discussion that simply did not make it in. 1 person introduce themselves by name inside this gap. It contains: “settlement”, “illegal”, “fraud”, “conflict of interest”, “racist”.
What the minutes say
Nothing — this passage is absent from the minutes.
What the recording says
Sunland Park msia Hatch and Anthony so in 2023 mvda received over 351,000 phone calls of those 351,000 phone calls to uh 328,000 required incidences for dispatch for law enforcement fire or EMS the reason I want to bring this up is you'll notice that approximately 81% of those of those requests were for law enforcement dispatches so in response to the extreme amount of calls that come into our Center one of the things that we're looking at doing that we have now implemented as of last month is
Fred Huff: the minutes negate a sentence the recording does not (“nobody”)
Says something differentBoth records carry the same sentence, but they disagree on a number or on whether it was negative. The same sentence appears in both records, but the minutes contain “nobody” where the recording has no negation. Around: “shopping carts that are just out there nobody is using them they are”.
What the minutes say
Fred Huff, Member of the Public said as you all well know I live over in the Burn Lake area and for the last several years I have been watching quite a few shopping carts go through that area and I think you all are aware that last year I came and talked about the encampments that were set up there at Burn Lake and while they were there I saw a lot of strange stuff in these shopping carts and a lot of it was stolen, stolen goods and I asked these people, I said they are stolen goods what do you do with them? Our fence is over at Coach Light Inn, we take them over there and sell them and so it was basically a constant convoy behind our house of these shopping carts full of stolen goods. Well, several months ago the Police Department did something about that at the Coach Light Inn. Guess what happened to the convoy behind our house? It went away. So, I think a lot of people are missing the real point of what Chief Story is trying to do here. These and I am going to use the word abandoned shopping carts because that is what I have talked about whenever I have talked about this issue. These abandoned shopping carts that are just out there nobody is using them, they are sitting on the s
What the recording says
don't think that it's fair for them to get criminalized or the police to spend time on punishing them for having a cart thank [Applause] you my name is Fred Huff and as you all well know I live over in the burn Lake area and for the last several years I've been watching quite a few shopping carts go through that area and I think you all are aware that last year we I came and talked about the encampments that were set up there at burn Lake and while they were there I saw a lot of strange stuff in these shopping carts and a lot of it was stolen stolen goods and I asked these people I says where do you take these stolen goods what do you do with them oh our fence is over at coach light end we t
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