Redline · January 20, 2026
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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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
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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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your life. Well, good afternoon everyone. Welcome to city council meeting. Today is Tuesday, January 20th, 2026. It's approximately 1 pm. I'm Mayor Eric Enriquez. Before we start, I want to mention that we have the American Sign Language interpreters up front and available at every regular city council meeting. Uh we will start with a moment of silence for the brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces as they protect our interests around the globe as well as our courageous men and women of the
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Schools. On behalf of our entire school community, we would like to sincerely thank you for the proclamation recognizing our school during Catholic Schools Week. Catholic Schools Week is a special time to celebrate us and our faith, to celebrate our faith and our education and our commitment serving others. Receiving this proclamation from our city makes the celebration even more meaningful. It it reminds us that our school is not just a place where we learn in the classroom, but also a place where we encouraged to be responsible
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any item on the agenda? None. None. None. Next is public participation will allow up to three minutes, no pending litigation or items on the non-consent agenda. And Katrina will usher you to the podium. Good afternoon, mayor and council members. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. During the global war on terror, I
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into the overview of adjustments, I just want to share a few reminders. The adjustments presented today are primarily going to focus on reconciling our fund balances to the ACT for that was just approved. Um the data on this presentation is a summary of all of the adjustments requested, but if you would like detailed information, please refer to your packets. We are increasing our general fund revenues by about $9.8 million to match current revenue trends. We are also adjusting some of our transfers coming out of the
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additional funding into the capital improvement projects. Uh some of those ones have received uh grants and some of them have just been allocated additional funding to continue moving forward. We have the Pioneer Women's Park improvement. This relate to multiple general improvements such as bar benches and just um the gazebo as well. So this project will have an hour of 741 fire station 4 remodel that includes everything major major improvements like the bathrooms will have an increase that will total of 550,000 100,000 electric buses has an
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administrator to give us an update on this project. Good afternoon Mr. Mayor, members of council. Natalie Green for the record. Poss veres represents the first of our catalytic projects, major catalytic projects in the El Paso Salano. It is an 80 unit low-income housing tax credit. It has already been awarded a 9% um allocation through housing New Mexico. They are in their final underwriting and will close on their uh capital stack um we anticipate the first week of April. Um so the city city staff or housing
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relatively low ask of 500,000 in waiverss, it'll uh leverage 18 million in private uh investment for the development of this project if it's awarded um 9% tax credits. The project is called the Golden Sands at Messia Valley. It uh the developer is TWWG Development. They are proposing a 60unit senior affordable housing complex made up of onebedrooms and two bedrooms. Again, that target area median income is 60%. Um it would be for seniors 55 and over and does have a veterans preference. It amenities will include