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Las Cruces Council Meeting - July 7th, 2025
The city’s minutes for this meeting were compared, sentence by sentence, against the transcript of the recording. Of 48 statements the minutes attribute to a named person, 48 were found in the recording.
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~1170 words of the recording have no counterpart in the minutes
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What the recording says
Music] You are now live. Well, good afternoon everyone and welcome to the city council meeting. Today is Monday, July 7th, 2025. It's approximately 100 p.m. I'm Mayor Eric Enriquez. Before we start, I want to mention that we have the ASL American Sign Language interpreters available. And 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 Los Cruus Police
Flores: 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: “were in the house because it was a crime scene or under investigation”.
What the minutes say
Councilor Flores asked if there is a mistake, a typo, we have to do an amendment? I just want to say that 40 hours’ leave is insufficient for members of our LCPD. I shared this before where I attended a symposium for lack of a better word for all county, local, police enforcement and it was over a period of a day or two or maybe three days and I sat through that and heard the author of a book whose name I don’t remember and I don’t remember the book but my point here is for you all to go out and buy that book and read it but my point is believe me when I tell you that police officers don’t have it easy at all and I have met some police officers, not necessarily here but one of them is a nephew of mine who was police officer for LAPD and he left, he said I will never become a police officer again. He went into law school. I want to thank the LCPD for their efforts, for their work. When my mother died, she died at home and they were in the house because it was a crime scene or under investigation and the other person that stood there the whole night was Chief Enriquez. I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s and everything was anti-cops you know, we called them pigs and my father was appalled
What the recording says
But I just want to say that um yeah, because the 40 hours leave is is insufficient uh for members of of the rally uh LCPD. I uh shared this before uh where I attended a um symposium for lack of a better word for all um county local uh police enforcement and um and it was a over a period of a day or two or maybe three days but um and I sat through that and uh heard uh the author of a book whose name I don't remember and I remember the book. I'm sorry. But um but my point here isn't for you all to go out and buy that book and read it. But my point is, believe me when I tell you that um police officers um don't have it easy at all. And I've met some police officers, I uh not not necessarily her
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any remaining personal leave balances at the end of the year. That'll be paid with the last pay period of the year up to 80 hours at a ratio of 40 or 4:1, sorry. Um, and the same would apply for employees who retire completing at least 50 50% or more of the year. They would also have the option to cash in any remaining personal leave balances at the same ratio of 4:1. So, with that said, I give you your council options, but I do have
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multi-use trail loop, the bike park, and the east Mesa road and drainage. I want to point out that the university multi multi-use trail loop, the grant itself was for $412,000, but we have an internal adjustment of $68,000. That's why we're reflecting it in this um PowerPoint presentation. But the net balance for that project goes to the 987,000. Bike Park has 2 million and East Mesa roads and drainage 4,369,000. These are three projects that are receiving additional funding and they're all from the roof program. So we
“noncompliance” is said 3× on the recording and never appears in the minutes
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start here on the left side in the front row. Uh allow up to three minutes no pending litigation or items that are on the non-consent and Trina will usher you up to the podium. [Music] Mayor, council, all the folks here today and those watching online. I'm Lynn Moore. Los Cusus utilities activities regarding
“Lucas Hearnen” introduces themselves on the recording and is not named in the minutes
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to speak? I'll give you two minutes. Come on up. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, city council. My name is Lucas Hearnen. For the record, this is from the city of Los Cusus'US website, specifically on Elevate Los Cusus. The city's comprehensive plan is an overarching policy document serving as guide for the future growth and development of our community
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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: “investigation”, “contamination”, “asbestos”, “cancer”, “condemnation”.
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to both resolutions concurrently. Councelor Mccclure, yes. Councelor Matise, yes. Councelor Graham is absent. Councelor Karan, yes. Councelor Flores, yes. Councelor Beno, yes. Mayor, yes. Okay. Good afternoon, Mayor and City Council. For the record, I'm Blair Flores with economic development department. Joining me today is Ally Casy um from Site Southwest, who will be presenting virtually. We're here to revisit the El Paso and Sal Solano MRA plan which we had previously presented during the June 23rd city council work session. I'd like to provide a brief recap
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