Redline · January 22, 2024
Las Cruces Council Work Session - Jan 22, 2024
The city’s minutes for this meeting were compared, sentence by sentence, against the transcript of the recording. Of 25 statements the minutes attribute to a named person, 25 were found in the recording.
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~1040 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: “investigation”, “eviction”, “deportation”.
What the minutes say
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What the recording says
Music] you're on yeah good afternoon Welcome to our work session again Monday January 22nd it is approximately 1:16 p.m. and so we'll go ahead and start our meeting the first thing we have is pets of the week first it's okay we'll get you in a minute let me adjust this all righty hello everyone my name is Amy def Felix with the Animal Services Center of the missia valley and I'll present the pets of the week always start with our cat of the week
“surveillance” is said 1× on the recording and never appears in the minutes
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What the recording says
record um first line item for the Department was smart technology and we were allocated $200,000 with this funds we purchased four units these are surveillance trailers and they are solar powered they have a 360° camera angle and with a call down feature and what this allows us to do is uh deploy these
“lawsuit” is said 2× on the recording and never appears in the minutes
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asked questions such as uh impacts with covid on the household um uh we we reached out to the local moderate income um we also looked at our uh 2008 uh septic tank replace replacement uh uh master plan where it indicates the priority level of getting these uh septics replaced so if they were
“fine” is said 1× on the recording and never appears in the minutes
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passed back in 2021 that required households to connect to sewer if there's sewer put into the roadway um that ordinance doesn't have any any fines or penalties but it's still an ordinance that's in place so they they moved up the list uh by it's these last two streets uh I I can't even
“penalty” is said 1× on the recording and never appears in the minutes
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What the recording says
in 2021 that required households to connect to sewer if there's sewer put into the roadway um that ordinance doesn't have any any fines or penalties but it's still an ordinance that's in place so they they moved up the list uh by it's these last two streets uh I I can't even see them
“copper” is said 1× on the recording and never appears in the minutes
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What the recording says
and Las crusis utilities to borrow against Energy savings for energy efficient upgrades and a power a purchase power agreement to buy solar at a cheaper price from a third part party lowering our uh El Paso Electric bills and now we're up to 25% of our Municipal energy coming from solar so Council also
“Amy Def Felix” introduces themselves on the recording and is not named in the minutes
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What the minutes say
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What the recording says
first it's okay we'll get you in a minute let me adjust this all righty hello everyone my name is Amy def Felix with the Animal Services Center of the missia valley and I'll present the pets of the week always start with our cat of the week and this week his name is Percy his number is 71304 and
~4680 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. It contains: “lawsuit”, “fine”, “penalty”, “investigation”, “racist”.
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What the recording says
to 940,000 and those contracts are also in progress and there will be details on those further on in the slide as well and then the storefront repair grant program this is to help small businesses the allocation was 400,000 and it was spent and obligated at 21% and the balance is 318,000 the administrative category helps the city cover some of their costs related to administering these contracts that's 478,000 it was spent in OB at at 10% and the balance is 430,000 and then the totals for all
~1690 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. It contains: “lawsuit”, “investigation”, “copper”, “contamination”, “cancer”.
What the minutes say
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What the recording says
mayor hello mayor Council City management staff and everyone else who's still here my name is Lisa Lorac I'm the sustainability officer for the city of Las Cruses I'm here for a sustainability quarterly report although this is a quarterly report instead of talking about one topic I'm going to present what we have accomplished over the past 12 years and where we're headed so to make sure that we're all on the same page I want to Define sustainability sustainability tries to navigate in a Sweet Spot Not only