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Redline · May 18, 2026

Las Cruces Council Meeting - May 18, 2026

The city’s minutes for this meeting were compared, sentence by sentence, against the transcript of the recording. Of 55 statements the minutes attribute to a named person, 55 were found in the recording.

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19,375words in the minutes
30,790words on the recording
8,970spoken words with no counterpart

Watch the recording · Read the minutes as text · The city’s original PDF · checked 8/14/2026

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~2990 words of the recording have no counterpart in the minutes

Missing from the minutes

This 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: “lawsuit”, “conflict of interest”, “investigation”, “resign”, “racist”.

What the minutes say

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What the recording says

we restrict it to each one getting only a two-minute comment? That's a good point. Yeah. Stand in front. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. All right. Do we have everybody? I think we do. Um All right. Whereas public works professionals focus on infrastructure, facilities, and services that are of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities and to public health, high quality of life and well-being of people of Los Cusus. And whereas these infrastructure facilities and services could not be provided without the dedicated efforts of public works professionals

Lucas Herndon: a negation on the recording is missing from the minutes (“without”)

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Both 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 recording contains “without” where the minutes have nothing — which reverses its sense. Around: “being drafted here and voted on apparently with out a slide or a”.

What the minutes say

Lucas Herndon, Member of the Public said I would like to say out loud that it is disheartening to sit through this presentation and watch a presentation about services being cut after we have spent almost full year talking about how to spend the GRT money to the benefit of this community and then to look through the budget as being drafted here and voted on apparently with out a slide or a presentation from the Chief about what the cops are giving up. Where is the slide? Where is the slide about where they are not getting a racetrack? Where is the slide about where they are not getting their new vehicles that get 20 miles to the gallon speaking to the point earlier about fuel crisis. How is this city going to come to the voters and ask us to vote on a bond for the library which I very much support, library folks don’t come for me. I am here for the library, but when you are asking us to fund this new library with cut services what is the point? It has been said many times in different ways that a budget is a moral document and the morals of this city council moving this budget as approved today on the backs of workers with a 1% raise meanwhile the cops continue to get their raises

What the recording says

Hernand for the record. Um, I would like to just say out loud that it is disheartening to sit through this presentation and watch a presentation about services being cut after we've spent the last almost full year talking about how to spend the GRT money to the benefit of this community. And then to look through the budget um as being uh drafted here and voted on apparently um without a slide or a presentation from the chief about what the cops are giving up. Where's that slide? Where's the slide about how they're not getting a racetrack? Where's the slide about how they're not getting their new vehicles that get 20 miles to the gallon? Speaking ear to the point earlier about fuel crisis. Ho

Hear it at 2:52:10Speaker as recorded: Lucas Herndon7 RESOLUTION(S) AND/OR ORDINANCE(S) FOR DISCUSSION 7.1 RESOLUTION NO. 26-142

Corran: a negation on the recording is missing from the minutes (“not”)

Says something different

Both 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 recording contains “not” where the minutes have nothing — which reverses its sense. Around: “and i know you are pretty nerdy affectionately i say i know you”.

What the minutes say

Councilor Corran said I really appreciate the weight of all of the unfunded projects and also the process that we use to determine how we are going to fund things, the updates that come and some things that have no funding whatsoever and I think streets is the place where I have seen this the most. I was wondering and I know you are pretty nerdy, affectionately I say, I know you really like data and are always thinking about this and I appreciate the way that you think about that but I was wondering if you might be able to at some point when we are doing CIP updates or something in the next however long, forever, there could be some kind of cost, some

What the recording says

I was wondering I I really appreciate the weight of all the unfunded projects and also the process that we use to determine how we're going to fund things, the updates that come and some things that have no funding whatsoever. So, I was and I think streets is the place where I've seen this the most, but I was wondering and I know you're pretty nerdy, not to like affectionately I say. I know that you um really like data and are always thinking about this and I appreciate the way that you think about that, but I was wondering if you might be able to at some point when we're doing CIP updates or something in the next however long, forever if you want to do this forever, we do it almost every

Hear it at 3:12:11Speaker as recorded: Corran7 RESOLUTION(S) AND/OR ORDINANCE(S) FOR DISCUSSION 7.1 RESOLUTION NO. 26-142

“harassment” is said 1× on the recording and never appears in the minutes

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What the minutes say

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What the recording says

position where you can see me. Thank you. [applause] Sorry. Did anyone want to say anything? Huh? No. Okay, very good. Well, thank you, Councelor Harrison. Thank you, public works for all that you do. We really appreciate you. Next is a departmental highlights and first is parks and recreation. Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor, Mayor

Parks is recorded absent but is named 16× on the recording

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What the minutes say

ABSENT: Parks

What the recording says

you, public works for all that you do. We really appreciate you. Next is a departmental highlights and first is parks and recreation. Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor, Mayor Prom, members of the council and staff. For the record, my name is Jake Gut Gutierrez. still

“foreclosure” is said 1× on the recording and never appears in the minutes

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What the recording says

do. You can always call us, but currently we are urgently in need of kitten fosters and bottle baby fosters to help us get these fragile animals out of the shelter and into a safe and temporary home where they can grow, stabilize, and thrive. If you're already an approved foster and you're willing to

“litigation” is said 1× on the recording and never appears in the minutes

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What the minutes say

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What the recording says

known conflict of interest with any item on the agenda? None. No. None. Next is public participation. We'll allow up to three minutes. No pending litigation or items on the non-consent. Please uh come forward and state your name clearly and Katrina will usher you to the podium. [clears throat] Mayor counselors, my name is

“noncompliance” is said 1× on the recording and never appears in the minutes

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What the minutes say

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What the recording says

any item on the agenda? None. No. None. Next is public participation. We'll allow up to three minutes. No pending litigation or items on the non-consent. Please uh come forward and state your name clearly and Katrina will usher you to the podium. [clears throat] Mayor counselors, my name is Michael Hayes. I live in

~4940 words of the recording have no counterpart in the minutes

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This 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: “liability”, “investigation”, “resign”, “racist”, “copper”.

What the minutes say

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What the recording says

the budget until we have uh grant agreements. So those funds will increase throughout the year as we receive the grants. Additionally, internal internal service fund decreased because we did move the fleet department and function into the general fund. You can see here for the general fund which I will be speaking in much greater length later in the presentation but there is a 2.2% increase from our current fiscal year 26 revised budget going from 167.5 million to our proposed of 167.9 million. Again, for those of you

“Sierra Edmister” introduces themselves on the recording and is not named in the minutes

Speaker not named

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What the minutes say

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What the recording says

racetrack, they get their new cars with not a blink from anybody on this council. Shameful. Hello, my name is Sierra Edmister. Um, yeah, I would like to echo the disappointment. Um, I know everyone is disappointed in seeing these cuts to quality of life. Um, and yeah, again, I would also like to echo the fact that it's just

Hear it at 2:54:00Speaker as recorded: Sierra Edmister

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This 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: “investigation”, “deportation”.

What the minutes say

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What the recording says

the projects have available to move forward. We then list the five next years of unfunded needs. These are needs that we have not been able to secure funding for. Lastly, the LA column identify potential funding sources. So, the proposed F2732 CIP has 311 projects. As we mentioned, CAP is six years, one year funded and five unfunded. So, we do that uh add addition. We're talking about a program that has $1.7 billion. But out of that, the funded amount is for this fiscal year is $210 million

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