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Las Cruces Council Work Session - May 11, 2026
The city’s minutes for this meeting were compared, sentence by sentence, against the transcript of the recording. Of 37 statements the minutes attribute to a named person, 37 were found in the recording.
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~1300 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: “lawsuit”, “immigration”.
What the minutes say
Nothing — this passage is absent from the minutes.
What the recording says
team. Good afternoon, mayor and council. Today I'll be giving a brief overview of our active transportation team, our coordination efforts, and then we'll as well be going over Vision Zero. Our active transportation team within public works consists of myself, Vanessa Morales Romero. I'm currently the interim engineering and surveying manager. Oscar Cadetto is our main point of contact. So, anything active transportation goes to him, and he routes it all to the rest of us. He's an engineer with public works. And then we also have Jeremy Varela
Brent Crowther: the minutes negate a sentence the recording does not (“doesn't”)
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 “doesn't” where the recording has no negation. Around: “the development to the safety action plan doesn't bring all stakeholders together”.
What the minutes say
Brent Crowther said absolutely. Part of the development to the Safety Action Plan doesn’t bring all stakeholders together. We have been working on a project in a different state and law enforcement has been our committee and the corridors that are identified within the Safety Action Plan have been referred to law enforcement then they can help prioritize enforcement on those corridors where there are seeing a higher frequency of crashes.
What the recording says
Are you talking about to understand that data to collab- cooperate with law enforcement? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Uh part of the development of the safety action plan does it bring all stakeholders together. Uh we've been working on a on a project in the different state, and law enforcement has been our committee, and the the corridors that are identified within the safety action plan have been referred to law enforcement, then they can help prioritize enforcement on those those corridors where they're seeing a higher frequency of crashes. And then another collaboration effort, I believe it was uh slides 11
Mattiace: a negation on the recording is missing from the minutes (“don't”)
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 recording contains “don't” where the minutes have nothing — which reverses its sense. Around: “i think he has been stopped i think 17 times in dona ana”.
What the minutes say
Councilor Mattiace asked in another collaboration effort, I believe it was slide 11, maybe if you could bring it back to 11? The one where it showed the alcohol where I think it was 30 something percent alcohol and then 22% alcohol and 37% drugs. Will there be a collaborative effort and can the council help like with our judges and sentencing and making sure for some reason I have a friend and I think he has been stopped I think 17 times in Dona Ana County, can that be addressed as well?
What the recording says
effort, I believe it was uh slides 11, maybe if you could bring it back to 11. Um Uh maybe the one where showed the alcohol, how uh I think it was 30-something percent alcohol, and then uh 22% alcohol and 37% uh drugs. Is that Will there be a collaborative effort, and can the council help like with our with our judges and uh sentencing and and making sure you know, for some reason I I have a a friend, and I think he's been stopped, I don't know, 17 times um in in Doña Ana County. Can Can that be addressed as well? Yeah, the safety action plan
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