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Redline · May 19, 2025

Las Cruces Council Meeting - May 19th, 2025

The city’s minutes for this meeting were compared, sentence by sentence, against the transcript of the recording. Of 64 statements the minutes attribute to a named person, 64 were found in the recording.

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87match score /100
17,586words in the minutes
29,878words on the recording
9,490spoken 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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What the recording says

Music] You're live. Well, good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the city council meeting. Today is Monday, May 19th, 2025. It's approximately 1 p.m. I'm Mayor Eric Enriquez. Before we start, I want to mention that we have a ASL American Sign Language interpreter up front if needed. 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 the courageous men and women of the Los Cusus

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go ahead and help me give them another round of applause, please? So, these individuals show up day in day out. Rain, shine, dust, wind, ice, snow, pandemic, you name it. Because of that, they provide the best possible service to our community for a better quality of life. That way, all of us in

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in the '90s, but I have heard from people say they remember seeing it earlier than 2005. The eagle looks as if it was carved into a dead tree in that location or they might have sunk it into the ground. It's hard to tell. Here you can see in more detail. The assessment

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does state that anyone can have a ordinance reconsidered if they file a petition within 30 days of adoption. So the charter also states that initiative and referendum petitions must have a total of 15% of the last two elections cast for city council. So for this petition that came out to 3,240 valid signatures. And the other thing that the charter states is that the council will have the final o determination and approval regarding the sufficiency of a petition. So the timeline for this petition, the original petition

Vote recorded for Yvonne, who the minutes do not list as present

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What the minutes say

amend the MVEDA funding back to $250,000 RESULT: DEFEATED. AYES: William Mattiace

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8 RESOLUTION(S) AND/OR ORDINANCE(S) FOR DISCUSSION 8.1 RESOLUTION NO. 25-137

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agenda? None. Flores. None. None. Grant. None. Next is public participation. We'll allow up to three minutes. No pending litigation or items that are on non-consent. Katrina will come up and help usher you to the podium. Please state your name and speak clearly into the microphone, please. Thanks for your help. Mayor, council, and

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I'm here today to bring a resolution to accept various internal budget adjustments. Before we dive into the overview of the budget adjustments, I'd like to share a few reminders, um, the adjustments presented today will primarily focus on updating available balances within our budget. And the following slides only provide a summary of the adjustments requested, but if you would like further detail, please refer to your packets. Fire station 4 located on Missouri and Telshore has a roof leak. We are requesting that budget be set aside in

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Council Dominic Susi. So this is for uh for the station 4 uh re- roof. Um, as you guys can see in the pictures, the roof is in pretty rough shape. Um, we've got leaks to multiple dorms and multiple areas of the kitchen. Uh, those leaks are are displacing firefighters at this point. So, um, when the when it rains or sometimes when it snows, we can guarantee that that roof leak is going to come through and and follow the duct work and go into various dorm rooms

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event. We'll start off with all funds expenditures. These are all the funds in the city broken down by fund type. On the first column, we have the FY25 adopted. What that means is this is the amount that you'll see that was adopted in last year's budget. And this is if you refer back to the FY25 budget book. These are the adopted amounts that you will show. The FY25 RBI column is next. What we mean by FY2 by revised is it's the current budget in FY25. So

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year 2031. Move to approve grant. Second Okay, good afternoon, mayor, city council. My name is Cynthia Lamo, CIP manager with planning and implementation, and I'm here to uh present the FY26231 capital improvements program document. So, I first want to start talking about what are capital improvements, what is actually in the CIP program. So capital projects are long-term investment which includes and it's not limited to when we do an acquisition of land for a public purpose such as buying property for park construction or rehabilitation of infrastructure

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consistency of attaining sustainable growth with our community. This is a snapshot of the actual document and as you can see we have made some minor uh template revisions to the documents. Hopefully they will facilitate reading the document. It's categorized. It's categorized by the CIP categories. We include the department and the green column is our funded column. Our outer years are are unfunded and this is how we communicate to the community the needs of our city for infrastructure projects. The last column are our funding sources. Those

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of two public artworks. Move to approve. Graham. Second. Corin. Go ahead when you're ready. Good afternoon. My name is Cesy Basconel. Um I should say mayor and council members. My name is Cesy Basconel and I am here um to present the city art board's recommendation for de accessioning two public art pieces. And I promise those are the

Hear it at 1:54:01Speaker as recorded: Cesy Basconel

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to be hearing in my presentation. Um, this is the first time we have felt the need to come to council to DXession any of our public art. DXessioning is an important decision that must be determined by the city art board after careful review. According to the public art master plan, deexessioning is a procedure to formally and permanently remove an artwork from the city of Los Cru's public art collection by selling, donating, or destroying it. Murals don't necessarily fall under this um this procedure, but because it

“Jim Hearnst” introduces themselves on the recording and is not named in the minutes

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we can build the base out of rock. Thank you. Anyone? Yes. In the blue shirt. Uh my name is Jim Hearnst. Uh this matter belongs before a court. I have no idea uh what representations are being made and no way to judge their veracity. They are not made under oath. They are not sworn. Uh they're not cross-examined

Hear it at 2:18:26Speaker as recorded: Jim Hearnst

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