All right.
All right. Good afternoon everybody. The
time is 4:31 here on Friday, August
14th, 2026.
and we will be calling this special
meeting for the Donana Board of County
Commissioners to order. The first item
on our agenda will be a moment of
silence and invocation. So, if y'all
will join me for that
right, thank you.
And then next is a pledge of allegiance.
And if you're able to stand and join uh
join in, please ask.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America to the republic
for it stands nationy
and justice for all.
Thank you. And uh April, if you can do a
roll call to determine quorum.
Christopher Sjo Hernandez. Commissioner
here. Present.
Commissioner Kimell
present.
Commissioner Chapado
present.
Vice Chair Gomez
and Chair Sanchez
present. We do have quorum. The
commission convenes as the board of
county commissioners and the county
board of finance in open session. We do
have one action item that is an item
number one. to award a purchase order
and contract for external fiscal agent
to Southeastern New Mexico Economic
Development District pursuant to DFA
requirement for amount for an amount up
to $489,000
and authorize the acting county managers
to sign all relevant documents. If I can
get a motion in a second to begin
discussion
so moved Kimble.
Second, Mr. Chair, uh, Commissioner
Shelder Hernandez.
Thank you. So, we have a motion by
Commissioner Kimell, a second by
Commissioner Sjro Nandez. With that,
I'll turn it over to you, Mr. Pettis.
Chair, thank you, Commissioners. Yes,
today we are voting on getting a fiscal
agent as required by the DFA. Uh, there
was one change I'd like to note.
On the second to the last page, there
was an error on the contractor side. So,
we changed that. The contractor, the
point of contact for the Southeastern
New Mexico Economic Development District
Council of Governments shall be Dora
Bautista, executive director,
uh, with an address of 1600 South East
Maine or Maine, Sweet D, Roswell, New
Mexico, 880
88203.
Uh, this item is being brought to the
commission as a stipulation with our DFA
requirements. Um,
the county is asking for the the board
or the commission to pass a resolution
or pass an action approval granting the
signature authority to the county
manager.
Thank you, Mr. Pettis. Commissioners,
any questions, comments?
I don't have any.
Thank you, Commissioner. Okay. Um, I did
just for
Oh, sorry. Commissioner Kimble, did you
Sorry. Did you have some?
No, this is uh Susana Chaparo. No
questions. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Commissioner Chaparo.
Okay. Um just for clarity purposes, I
know Michael um one of the things we
did, I know as a county is we were
looking to uh ensure we were meeting
this requirement as per DFA uh that we
did look at several other agencies. Um I
don't know if you might be able to
provide at least I think uh when we had
been provided an update that uh some
were not able to uh address because of
the size of uh the amount we were
needing and so on. I don't know if you
can provide at least a little bit of
detail about that.
So I could provide slight detail. Um
this wasn't one of the activities that I
was carrying over but one of the
entities that we did reach out to did
provide us a quote for 20%. So that
would be 20% of each grant. Um
the current grant load as noted on the
packet is about 108
or appropriations and that would equate
to close to 15 to $20 million. So this
is a significant savings at the
$489,000.
But I would like to note that we may
come back to the board as we get
appropriations from the state. would
need to increase that dollar amount to
account for the fiscal agent charges for
those added
y appropriations.
Okay. No, I just wanted to just like I
said for the public's notice, I
understand that this was there was due
diligence to try to identify what would
be the least cost option um and what was
available to us and we had looked at I
think several uh options and so this was
truly the best option based off of the
cost as you noted. Um, and so just
wanted to make sure we capture that in
in the uh record. So,
yes, sure.
Okay. All right. If there are no uh
questions or comments, um, April, I'll
ask if you do a roll call vote.
Commissioner Kimble,
yes.
Commissioner Chapato,
yes.
Vice Chair Gomez,
um, Chair Sanchez,
yes. And we also need Commissioner Shel
Nandez.
It's okay. I vote yes.
I'm sorry.
Okay. With a vote four to zero, uh,
agenda item one is passed. And with
that, that is actually the end of our,
uh, meeting. So, if there are no
objections, we will call this meeting
adjourned at 4:36 p.m. Thank you all.
And uh we will see you all on August
25th for our next scheduled border
county commissioner meetings at 9:00
a.m. here at the government center um on
Motel.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all. Have a wonderful weekend.
Bye.