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Las Cruces Council Meeting - January 20, 2026
The city’s minutes for this meeting were compared, sentence by sentence, against the transcript of the recording. Of 35 statements the minutes attribute to a named person, 35 were found in the recording.
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~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: “racist”, “contamination”, “condemnation”, “deportation”.
What the minutes say
Nothing — this passage is absent from the minutes.
What the recording says
um Elaine McKenna, Hail Huber, Gabby Buckman, Joanie Newcomer. Thank you. What? You can play the video. Good afternoon. Um, mayor and uh council members. Um, let's see. Here is their our first slide. Um, thank you for the introduction, Katrina. Let me start off here. First, I'm going to talk about what Sister Cities is because I know some of you are are new to City Council. And I just want to give a brief rundown of what we do. We had an exchange and we went um I'm
~2080 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”, “liability”, “investigation”, “resign”, “racist”.
What the minutes say
Nothing — this passage is absent from the minutes.
What the recording says
My name is Josie Trevino. I'm the controller for the city of Los Cruus. Today we will be presenting the fiscal year 2025 audit results and those are for the dates of July 1st, 2024 to June 30th, 2025. [snorts] Before we proceed, I would like to extend a special thank you to all the ini individuals who contributed to the audit process with particular uh recognition to accounting and treasury for their diligence and preparation for the FY25 audit. They're probably behind me and they're probably all wearing
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