okay good afternoon everybody and
welcome to the work session of las
cruces city council today is Monday June
22nd 2020 approximately 1:03 p.m. before
we began if you please join me in the
Pledge of Allegiance please you know had
I believed Jennifer Martinez is here to
introduce our pet of the week
good afternoon mayor and council I'm
Jennifer Martinez with the city's
Communications Office and today I'm
going to introduce you to Leo Leo is
almost four years old he is a shy gentle
and reserved little guy he's looking for
a home that's willing to help him out
get out of his shell
he's shy at first but he forms deep
bonds he will stay by your side and
shower his humans with unfiltered gloves
as long as they are willing to do the
same the animal service center hours of
operation are Monday through Friday noon
to 6:00 p.m. and on Saturday and Sunday
noon to 5:00 p.m. and again there are
restrictions that continue so you will
be asked to call in advance to make an
appointment that number is three eight
to zero zero one eight oh eight adoption
events have been canceled until further
notice and along with those limitations
you are asked to go online to ASC M V
org slash adoptions to take a look at
some of the pets that they do have
available but cause for those pets for
adoption is $25 Animal Control is only
bringing emergency cases to the shelter
that's sicker injured animals and also
owners surrendered animals they're also
only taking emergency health
appointments from adopted or foster
animals today if I may remind you about
pet licensing pets in Las Cruces must be
registered and licensed and you can do
so through the animal service center of
the Mesilla Valley
however they are temporarily suspending
their in-person licensing so you can
call again that number three eight to
zero zero one eight and they can arrange
to have your license mail to you they
may ask for additional information for
fees the altered cuts the cost of seven
dollars per year on altered pets the
cost is $50 per year and senior citizen
with ultra pets they will be charging
you $5.00 but you will need to show
proof with a valid photo ID now the
communication office thanks you for this
opportunity to bring you up to speed on
ways that kovat 19 affects us and how
the city is responding over 19 has put a
lot of restrictions on life and while
social distancing is keeping us apart
Parks and Rec still wants to have a
spectacular 4th of July holiday so
they've arranged for a virtual Electric
Light Parade
the theme is celebrating our heroes so
decorate your car or your yard your pet
or your face or your face covering and
send pictures to CLC engage at Los
Cruces org and you will need to get
those in by next Monday there are rules
and there are prizes and we ask that you
go to lost - Cruces org slash 4th of
July to get all those all the
information on the rules and we wish you
good luck and wish you a great holiday
season coming up so get those photos in
CLC engage at loss - Bruce - cyborg
Thank You mayor thanks Jennifer
ok so the first time we have is and the
only item is one point ones
items one point one strategic business
plan accomplishments and I believe amber
Vaughn will be discussing yes good
morning mayor and council share my
screen here let me know if you can view
that yes ok ok
oh good afternoon mayor and council my
name is Amber Vaughn
I am the performance manager and today
I'll be going over the City Council
strategic plan accomplishments and
progress as well some of the key items
from the department strategic business
plans so first a little background in
July of 2017 City Council approved a
results-based strategic plan a business
plan covered years 2017 through 2022 and
had twenty citywide strategic goals
these goals were organized into four
themes a capital improvements in
infrastructure communication involvement
and follow-up economic and community
development as well as education the
first item on the strategic plan for
2017 was the Las Cruces community will
experience a greater engagement with
their city government and evidenced by
off-site City Council work sessions we
had a total of nine a to those from 2017
a four in 2018 and three and 2019 so far
we haven't been able to have any in
twenty two due to the earth 2020 due to
the pandemic we also implemented policy
review committees and the neighborhood
leadership academy and we have had 86
graduates graduates to date we had 20
enrolled in the spring of 20 let's do
two pandemic we were unable to finish
that and Jamie Rickman our community
engagement officer is working on a
virtual academy the second item in 2017
was downtown patrons will have access to
restaurants taverns music and art we
have 20 new businesses in downtown
8 and 2017 eight in 2018 and four in
the next item for it was a 2018
strategic priority and it was by January
1st of 2018 the city will offer
internships apprenticeships and
mentorship programs to the community
since 2017 the city has added eight new
co-op and interim positions in 2019 we
had 50 paid and unpaid interns and coops
and in the spring of 2020 we had 40
interns and coops working throughout the
city
the next item by July 1st of 2018 the
community will have a city approved
results-oriented plans for sidewalks
parks median landscaping and facilities
the sidewalk plan act the active
transportation plan was approved in
October of 2018 the parks master plan
was approved in November of 2018
maintenance schedules were approved in
August of 2018 the tree policy park
restroom policy and median landscaping
policy were approved in February of 2019
the facilities plan was approved in
April of 2019 and coming up is the
integrated pest management policy and
that date is to be determined the next
item the fifth item on the strategic
plan is that by July 1st 2018
information and referral services for
families and young children will be
integrated into all appropriate city
services currently a brochure is
available with this information and all
these city facilities listed on the
slide as well as on the city website
item 6a - by July 1st 2018 must cruces
city government will be managing for
results as evidenced by department and
business plans of performance-based
budgeting which both been implemented
performance reports and performance
dashboards which were delayed due to
software that are planned to be
available to council in the community
2020 of the city also working on the
alignment of employee performance as
well as implementing performance
contracting where it's applicable
in 2018 there will be 18 City led events
held in downtown and in 2018 we had 33
total events held downtown also a 2018
priority was by December 31st the Las
Cruces businesses will be able to access
all permitting and licensing services in
an effective efficient effective
customer service focused one-stop-shop
currently all development related
permits business license and
registrations are available online item
9 and 2019 the relationship between the
business community and the city will be
strengthened as evidenced by a one-stop
shop for licensing and permit permitting
which has been implemented more small
businesses locating downtown as I
mentioned earlier there have been 20 new
businesses downtown the city will have
jointly sponsored events and educational
programs currently the city works with
the Las Cruces public schools the
academic career exploration program
offering opportunities to high school
students we also in 2020 the city have
the first utilities in turn to graduate
from donee on a branch community college
and get employment with the city of Las
Cruces we also have a city mentorship
program we'll also had a goal of more
businesses locating in the West Mesa
industrial park and we have had one new
business out there another goal which is
we're still working on is the percentage
of high school and university graduates
staying locally starting in the fall of
2020 our HR department will conduct exit
interviews with the city interns and
coops to start seeing if we can track
this data we also wanted an increased in
local contracting for city services and
products our purchasing program is
working on educational work sessions for
vendors to explain the process of
working with the city and last in 2019
working with the partners the community
will have access to engaging public
transportation connecting downtown the
University and the Convention Center and
June of 2018 route 2 increased its
service stops to every 30 minutes
this gave the city the ability to
accommodate transit service for special
events downtown
in May of 2019 we extended the service
hours on our weekdays to 10:30 p.m. and
in April 20 2000 South Lawn of ad hoc
committee has created Aria okay and item
13 in 2020 the strat plan priority Wi-Fi
will be available in downtown the plaza
and mesquite neighborhood currently the
plaza has Wi-Fi available the Kline Park
project is in progress and has been
delayed a little bit due to cope it and
we have public Wi-Fi available in all
city facilities next I'd like to go over
some of the highlights from our
departments and what they had in their
strategic business plans this will also
include some items that are out in the
future the people are working on and
they wanted to highlight for Council
first a little background
each department went through the process
of developing their strategic business
plan with a consultant these plans are
reviewed and updated by the departments
on an annual basis they are also
reviewed by myself the performance
manager the budget office and the city
manager's office these plans are
reported on quarterly - city management
during the quarterly budget meetings the
first department I'll go over is the
city manager's office using our tyler
3-1-1 system by December 31st 2019 we
had a goal of 90% of resident enquiries
will be received acknowledged and
assigned within seven calendar days
currently we are at 94 percent of the
fleet program within the city manager's
office had a goal of by December 31st
2020 sleep policy procedures and
management software will be in place to
allow for real-time vehicle status
reports to customers currently this
software implementation is in phase two
three phases next apartment is Community
Development accomplished they
accomplished the goal of by December
31st 2020 the community will experience
an updated comprehensive plan that
reflects the values the current and
future needs of the community and is
aligned with priorities of the city
elevate Las Cruces was approved by City
Council at February 18th of 2020 also
was part of the peak the city has been
conducting surveys and Community
Development has a goal of 65% of
outreach session participants will say
their voices were heard and as of the
last survey we took 74 of the
respondents felt their voices were heard
during those two outreach sessions
sections economic development they had a
goal of by December 31st 2020 there will
be a hundred percent increase of
businesses locating at or expanding near
the airport they have four new
for-profit businesses since January of
2018 that is for a total of eleven
for-profit businesses at the airport the
state's the sustainability program has a
goal of by 2022 the municipality will
reach 25% of renewable energy so far
they have had three solar installations
police department the animal service
center and the fire station 3 also the
city has entered into the purchase power
agreement with Mrs Coe the city's
financial services department had a goal
with it by July 1st of 2020 85% of
business processes will be written and
have standard operating procedures in
place they identified 207 SOPs needing
to be written and currently they have
158 documented they're well on their way
to completing that goal they also had a
goal that by December 1st 2020 85% of
fixed assets that were disposed of would
meet or exceed their useful life in the
current calendar year were at 88%
las cruces fire department achieved the
goal by December 2018
they will have an established mobile
integrated health care program now their
next goal is by 2020 Las Cruces Fire
Department will partner with local and
social resources to provide mobile
behavioral crisis response to the
residents of Las Cruces
they haven't increased their clap they
have increased their collaboration with
Las Cruces Police Department on home
visits also Police Department fire
department are collaborating with local
nonprofits to initiate a mobile crisis
model human resources department by
December 31st to 2018 they had a goal of
90% of the applicable data will be
accessible to the end users throughout
the city's personal database this goal
has been acheived
the next goal they have is there they're
also gonna go by December 31st to 2021
the use of the applicant tracking
software will be optimized by all
departments a currently HR is working on
with the software and the department is
to make sure we're using it efficiently
the legal department had a goal of a
hundred percent compliance with the
inspection of Public Records Act the
state records retention act and Open
Meetings Act and they have achieved that
goal they also had a goal that 60% of
city employees surveyed would report
that they agree or strongly agree that
they work in an ethical climate and as
of the 25th 2019 ethics survey 78% of
employees surveyed agreed or strongly
agreed that they were in an ethical
climate
information technology department had
some goals one of them was that they
would present by January 31st 2019 a
presentation to City Council to report
from subject matter expert on municipal
broadband strategies this has been
completed and the other item as I
mentioned earlier that by December 2020
all network connected city-owned
properties will provide free Wi-Fi
services and this has been completed
keep Las Cruces beautiful program in our
Parks and Rec Department has a goal that
annual 860 percent of their spots will
be adopted and 67% of those spots were
adopted in the last year they also have
a goal that 90% of youth development and
diversion program participants that do
not reoffended in a year and in the
third quarter they hit that at 98% Las
Cruces Police Department by the 2019
police personnel will be trained in a
modern professional police academy and
training facility in Las Cruces that
produces community specific training
that aligns with local culture the Las
Cruces Police Department has moved their
academy to the East Mesa Public Safety
complex and they also have a future goal
of by 2022 the annual property rate will
be at or below the five-year average of
46 hundred reported incidents and in
2019 those incidents 3571 Public Works
Department had a goal by 2019 that
seventy-five percent of reported
potholes will be reported within 24
hours and in FY 2083 percent of reported
potholes were repaired within 24 hours
they also had a goal of have a goal by
2021 to reduce travel time on major
corridors by 10 percent those major
corridors are east lomond Avenue East
University Avenue and North Main Street
and they have achieved approximately 18
percent improvement implementing the
nighttime
coordinating signal coordinated signal
timing plan on University Avenue a
quality of life by 2021 participation
will increase 25% in quality of life
Science and Technology programs and as
of May 2020 there has been an increase
of 46.1% another long-term goal is by
2020 to 50% of fixed route buses are
battery electric powered and the project
did kick off in January at 22 and the
bus request for proposal is scheduled
for July of 2020 and last but not least
the Utilities Department by 2020 the Las
Cruces Utilities Department will
increase its intake of green waste
tonnage by 7% from 2,800 tons to 3,000
tons and currently this fiscal year
there 2817 tons on track to meet that
goal also a hundred percent of the cost
of the peregrinos funds will be
exhausted every year before the end of
the fiscal year this has been achieved
but it does not include the additional
funds made available due to COBIT but
utilities anticipates having the money
the saw stood as well by the end of the
fiscal year thank you guys for your time
myself as well as the department
directors and key staff are available to
answer any questions Thank You amber
let's see here let's go ahead and go to
Council members to see if they have any
questions going once
Oh councillor Flores and then councillor
Ben Coleman
councillor Florida's are you there I was
thank you thank you mr. mayor so thank
you ms bond for your presentation it was
really really quick I was trying to take
notes and it was difficult but but I am
interested in knowing about the survey
that was taken about at page 17 you
reported that
74% of residents at outreach sessions
believe that they were informed as
something something to that effect
am I correct at page 17 or slide 17
mayor Councillor FLOTUS this is Android
system yes that was our community
development and it 5% of outreach
session participants who say their
voices were heard and when we did that
survey 74% of people that they felt that
their voices were heard during those
sessions thank you but how many
respondents were there 100 200 300 top
of my head I know it was more than 100
or 200 we had quite a few but I can get
that data for you okay because the
number sounds really good but you know
and then it depends I would like to see
figures that show how many if there's
been an increase in in community
participation because I know the city
holds a lot of informational events like
this the outreach sessions I know City
counselors we have our community
meetings and I mean given the given the
size of the city and the everything we
send out we still get a small turnout
relative to our population so I would
like to see those numbers and then I
would like to see what we're doing to
make sure that people are participating
at these sessions because we get a lot
of after the fact type feedback so even
though there's been opportunities for
the community or residents or
constituents to have input at these
sessions outreach sessions they don't
participate and then they're upset about
the outcomes so I would like to see some
more that and then the airport business
is what what were the goals for that
miss Vaughn
mayor Councillor Flores feed goals for
the airport or to increase their the
businesses locating at or expanding near
the airport from we have had four new
for-profit businesses since January 2018
ok so from 4 to 8 so we've already
accomplished four
yes yeah ok ok all right so and then as
far as the quality of life that you
reported at page 27 there were how many
battery-powered transportation public
transportation vehicles
the goal is 50% and to defer to Lynn
Gallagher she may have more information
on that thank you
can hear you Lynn barely there about now
good afternoon mayor City Council and
Gallagher director for quality of life
the electric bus project kicked off in
January and the goal for the project is
to have 50% of the fleet be electric by
the end of 2020 - we are in the process
of going through the RFP selection and
once that is completed the group will
select the the vendor and as a result of
that the goal for for reaching what
percentage will be 50% in at what date
will will change a little bit but right
now all of our current fleet is still
fuel oriented and the goal is that by
the end of 2020 to a specific
apportionment will be electric
Howard so miss Gallagher
we have no electric buses now a mayor
city council that's correct
alala okay thank you miss Gallagher and
then as far as page 24 miss Vaughn
you mentioned spots that are adopted can
you elaborate on what those spots are
and who adopts and what the process is
is it like someone who can adopt a
median on Roadrunner Parkway hook before
Lohmann counts of photos this is Amber
I'd like to defer to Sonia Delgado Parks
and Rec thank you thank you good
afternoon mayor Councillor Florida so
needed a little Parks and Recreation
Director we can adopt me some medians
but we do not adopt the medians that are
in a on an area where there's a lot of
traffic there could be some accidents we
keep those individuals away from there
and we just have city staff because they
are trained to handle those difficult
situations okay and the reason I'm
asking is because as you know miss
Delgado we've been in meetings with very
irate
residents of in live off of Parkway or a
Berliner Parkway and and everybody in
the city complains about Lomond not
being and some have I think the mayor at
one point a few years ago suggested that
they get there that they get together
and and form an organization or whatever
and build it themselves why not build it
but plant or whatever landscape it but
this is a different program altogether
and right I mean it's just an adoption
by the city and then it's something
that's coordinated but then busy streets
are are not good candidates for that
okay council Florida is correct okay
thank you and then and then I did have a
gentleman who called me who
doesn't live in my district I believe
he's in a counselor Stewie's districts
Tessa baked us Dewey and and he but he
has his business in in my district and
he he had been a sponsor with his name
and his business on it and apparently
that was taken away and I never really
found out exactly why that was done was
it for the very same reason it was on
tell shore near Missouri so is it
possible that there were people who
adopted and then that was taken away or
what do you think happened there in that
situation you know mayor Councillor
Florida's I'm not sure I'll need some
more information so I can go find that
out however we've had some individuals
who have stopped taking care of those
areas and that and that's okay that's
entirely up to them and so we removed
that sign but I can certainly if you can
give you the information I can look that
I can look into that and then follow
back up with you okay I'll try to track
it down it was a few months ago so I'll
try to track that down but I was just
curious about all of that thank you sir
if I can interrupt real quick yes Sonia
basically it was those those small signs
on a long tail shore medians and it was
responded to that that the city was
looking to do away with those little
small signs and and and basically turn
them into one larger sign with just with
various names on them as to who was
sponsoring the the the medians and so it
appears as though they went away from
those individual sponsors which you know
frankly I didn't really could understand
why I didn't really see the liability
end of it but that's that was the
response that was given that was about a
year here about a year ago yeah that was
about the time maybe it's the same when
we're talking about mayor thank you and
then I have a question back to MS bond
about the
oh gosh I have questions go the the
youth development program can anyone
speak to that and you know as I said for
me this presentation went fast it's it's
not a criticism it's just a just the
reason I'm asking so many questions is
because I barely had time to write the
page number and and the the topic who
can address the youth development
program what it what is it who benefits
do we have stats on those I mean you're
you know you're giving us stats and so
far as goals but how many you know I'd
like to have numbers and so far as how
many people were reaching out to how
many people have been involved in what
the success rate or the outcomes are do
we have any of that and a mayor-council
Flores I don't have to defer to Sonja
Delgado she may have more at that data
oh okay
mayor Councillor Florida's Sonia Delgado
Parks and Rec are you speaking about the
number of participants the stat that we
had who do not reoffending a year
correct correct
we had approximately 350 students that
were in and we had 98% of them who did
not reoffended data that we collect that
we keep track of them from a year after
they complete the program is the Riya
fence status obviously the status grades
their attendance are they participating
in school drug use pregnancy and mental
health well-being so all these things
are tracked one whole entire year after
they finish the program and we're at 98
percent that are not reoffending that
attend and successfully accomplish the
program that sounds wonderful and what
about the mental health tracking what
how do you assess that on that when your
follow-up we do have individuals who do
the intakes and so they do have
information on forms if you will that
they follow up with but I can certainly
get the specifics with regards to that
and have
sent you if you'd like I do not have
that in front of me I'm sorry and how no
it's quite all right and and what about
and how do you how do you reach out you
oh so you just go through the juvenile
system or delinquency system or
something and catch some of the juvenile
offenders is yes we work with mayor
Councillor Flores we work with the
public schools we have referrals that
come to us we have counselors that will
send referrals to us of course we work
with the courts as well we have a very
close working relationship with them and
then our team does the assessment and
then we try and figure out what's the
best course of action if they do go
through complete our program
successfully then we do track them for a
year beyond that to see how they're
doing and that's what I'm not comes from
great that's that sounds wonderful
thank you miss Delgado and I have a
question about oh the I guess it was at
page eleven there was or the slide 11
miss Vaughn there was something on
education and then there more businesses
in the West Mesa industrial park can you
go back to page 11 so I can look at that
okay oh this comes out of the Community
Development Program right I mean this is
Community Development Department
miron counselor FLOTUS this is
collaborate many departments oh I'm
sorry
who was just speaking Oh amber Vaughn
was speaking she was responding to my
question this is counselor Flores I see
so the one-stop shop comes out of
Community Development more small
business locating downtown comes is
information from economic development
and then jointly sponsored events okay
all right okay I have more questions but
I'm sure that my colleagues have
questions that are similar or may cover
some of the same questions I still have
to ask
okay thank you this Vaughn and Thank You
mr. mayor for a bit councillor been cool
excuse me and then update the student
Thank You mayor I mean Thank You amber
for the presentation I have to confer
with counsel Flores I felt like the that
went by way too quickly I would have
liked to have more in-depth presentation
about just some of you know as a new
counselor obviously I wasn't around in
2017 when some of these things were
created so I would have just liked to
see more in depth because I had a lot of
questions like how right like how and
how many on multiple things and so maybe
obviously not this round but whatever
the follow-up to this looks like perhaps
as we begin to have more of these
strategic planning conversations once we
have a new city manager you know if we
if we have this presentation again I
would like to see more in depth
information similarly to council
tortoise I had the question about youth
development of the youth development
program about property crime a crime ray
and how what are like what are the tools
and tactics we use to reduce some of
those things as opposed to just some of
the layer like yes we're meeting it no
we're not meeting it and then
additionally if we're not meeting it I'd
love to understand where some of the
barriers are where some of the
challenges are to some of these goals
that I just feel like I didn't hear
today and then maybe just well so let me
back up these strategic goals were set
by the council in 2017 and the permit
directors or who was involved in
creating these mayor Councillor Bencomo
this is amber bond this was done with
the council at in 2017 and I believe the
city management staff at that time the
directors were not in the meeting okay
so I don't know you know what it'll look
like moving forward obviously I think
like I said there's been talk about
having this another one of these
strategic planning sessions once we have
a new permanent city manager so I'm
excited to have those conversations and
then honestly I just want to throw out
there I don't have a I mean I I think
maybe I'll just ask maybe directly you
amber or David an email for some
follow-ups the good thing too is that
councillor about this Judy and I have
been doing a lot of onboarding with
departments and some of this information
has been presented to us as well which
has been very helpful but I think moving
forward I mean I would love to
understand like or set some like long
term like what are these goals leading
up to right like we've said these you
know short-term goals what is to what
end right and I think as we move forward
what has really stuck with me in the
last couple of weeks of conversations
we've had council meetings is is our
extremely high poverty rate and that
wondering how as we move forward in
strategic planning that every goal is
somehow related at reducing that 24%
poverty rate and improving people's
quality of life
in a meaningful way so that's really all
I had to say mayor thank you thank you
sir
councillor abate thus to be in there and
Thank You amber
um I'm gonna go for if you could pull up
slide 11 please that would be great and
I had a question I know that we were
tracking the increased local contracting
for city services do we have a number on
what that percentage that we're
currently at now counselor but this too
vague mayor this is amber I would have
to defer to financial services director
Terry or Alfredo but check along
whichever is participating they may have
more information on that
Thank You mayor and councillors I'm
going to have to go back and research
that with Alex Lila in purchasing
because I don't get off the top of my
head I'm sorry okay um did now I know we
were looking for an increase did we have
a specific number set in the strategic
plan on what we were looking for for
that local purchasing mayor Councillor
about this do they know there was no
number this is Amber bond Performance
Manager there was no number set within
that strategic priority it was just we
wanted an increase okay and what was the
percentage that we were at when we
started this process student manor
Barbara de Lyonne may have more
information on this or we may need to
research that I'm not sure what
percentage was off the top of my head
okay
yes I'd be curious to see where we
started with and where we're at now
just to see what we've been doing and
then once again I think councillor
Bencomo kind of mentioned you know
if we're doing well what is working and
if there are struggles if there are
issues what are those barriers that we
can work on in the future but yes I
would be very interested in having some
of those numbers please the next one is
for slide six and it is about our
demographics on our interns for the cope
and co-ops did we have any of the
breakdowns on for our for our interns
males females which departments that
they were in mayor Councillor I bet this
this is amber bond you to defer to Joe
Richards our HR director she may have
more information on that Thank You mr.
mayor councillors this is Joe Richards
human resources director I don't have
those statistics right now but I can
certainly get you that information
that'd be wonderful and then to also see
the areas in which the interns are
available to work out and then to see if
we are also I always say quality with
that so wondering how many female
applicants that were singing and perhaps
even more zones or not considered
traditional I would just love to see
what that looks like
yes ma'am I'm absolutely and my last
question for now is about slide 20 with
our mobile health service and thank you
and that's um how many calls have we
been able to utilize in since the start
of this program mayor Councillor I'll
defer to Sam Devon performance manager
I'll defer to chief and recast see if he
has that information thank you good
afternoon mayor and council Eric and
Regas fire chief I can tell you that
with our mobile integrate
health program that Paul Ford is a
coordinator he's done in the last two
and a half years 864 calls is what what
he's been on those are the initial and
then the follow ups okay thank you
and this goes a little bit beyond just
the strategic accomplishments but for
for knowledge it'd be interesting to see
what in the last few months since the
emergency health order how many calls
you've all been receiving and been able
to work with this univis and perhaps
that's something that can be answered
later but to see if this department has
been able to do to handle the probably
the influx of calls and if they are
seeing any sort of influx during the
last few months
o counselors to be we we have during
this last quarter with the coronavirus
we the mobile integration mobile
integrated health program has also taken
on some of the high-risk clients from
the seniors program so the call volume
did increase with the resources that
were needed for those clients we had to
bring paramedics offline and on their
days off to assist in the program so we
do have some numbers will have to
tabulate those as far as how much
resource we put into that and how much
of an increase those calls did it go up
during this time okay thank you very
much I appreciate that and the work that
they're doing and those are all the
questions that I have for now
I'm mayor thank you thank you now serve
ascus Thank You mayor
thank you to my colleagues for asking
some great questions you know I think
this process of setting up a strategic
plan with measurable outcomes that are
I think meant to be community driven in
terms of the impact that they have in
our communities department by department
are good benchmarks for which to aspire
to that aren't by any means I think
comprehensive in terms of what all the
departments do and other impacts that
they have in our community but they are
I think some some key measurable
outcomes in in determining success of
how we're serving the community by
Department and so in that respect I
think you know I think it's good to
continue to do these council Bencomo
mentioned I'm not being involved with
the drafting of these I don't think I
was either I came on board prior to
these really being finalized but did get
to start the review process when I came
on board as a city councilor and I've
been waiting anxiously to to kind of
revisit these when the time comes for us
to set some new strategic goals and so I
do I do look forward to that I do want
to make sure that perhaps there's a way
for us to measure the community support
and community impact as it as it as it
comes to these particular goals on the
next round of our strategic plan you
know just to make sure that we are in
line I think especially with our
constituents and our districts and in
terms of you know what they'd like to
see prioritized and so hopefully the
next time we get to work on these
strategic goals we can come up with a
good process building on a process that
really seeks and facilitates the input
of our community and probably now
honestly is more aligned with our
elevate las cruces plan right what parts
of that plan can we can we prioritize
that can be done in the short term and
medium term and long term so I mean
overall I think we've done a pretty good
job at measuring all these and you know
thank all the departments for you know
for sticking to the plan and continuing
to to look at improvements in other
areas well while also focusing on these
plans it's so I don't have any
particular questions at this point
I do just look forward to figuring out
how to center petite goals in the future
that this council can agree to that is
that is in line with community wants and
needs and and then working with with a
new city manager hopefully to be able to
build that out so thank you thank you to
staff and thank you to Council for the
great presentation I mean for the great
questions on this presentation it would
be good maybe to have some of this data
available as a public information
document beyond a PowerPoint just so
that if we don't already perhaps on our
website or in another location that that
we can also make this information easily
accessible to the public so that they
can look at some of the things that have
been accomplished and perhaps some of
that data or links to the reports that
councillors have asked for can be
included in that in that document Thank
You mayor
Thank You councillor Mayor Pro Tem gun
that up
Thank You mayor I appreciate my
colleagues here um you know as a person
who did participate in this process I
thought it was a good process in that we
were very transparent with the council
then and the public it was an open
meeting we invited folks to come and
participate in this process we received
some dialogue and for me this was always
our the council strategic plan moving
forward for your over a year right from
2017 to 2022
I certainly had envisioned this process
at one of collapse
being very collaborative and coronated
and communicative to the public and and
with that said I think you see some
overarching goals if you will around
communication community participation
and and with Jamie
Rickman's programming and in terms of
I felt like it was really through very
fast
but you know with that we developed the
ask las cruces app really trying to
engage people that have the opportunity
online and/or to call in to let people
know all sorts of things that are
happening from potholes to graffiti to
you know to and and I think that ask Las
Cruces has been actually very
instrumental and then streamline mean
those those reports if you will and how
quickly and effective and efficiently
staff has to meet the needs right and
the demands of the of the citizenry and
so then next for me it was also a
document that encouraged and a moral
document if you will right that quality
I've to that council at that point in
time to continue on into 22 was
extremely important that being said
there were things like you know helping
businesses come to the downtown more
activity in the downtown more free
activity in the downtown things like
building on a children's museum all the
work that engaged was doing as it
related to children and parents of
developing a one-stop shop be it the
museum's and so I would have loved to
have heard specifically about the that
ensuring that folks had a space or a
place to be able to capture resources
this wasn't said and I think what's
happening in what we're finding is that
you see a lot of the department heads
directors on to include our city manager
not the same and so how are we moving
and re-educating or re-emphasis
sizing the importance of peak
performance and these the council
directives if you will as it relates to
to this so i agree it was
and I would have liked to have seen a
little more detailed information and
with that I also want folks to realize
that we were we were also building on
the strengths that we already have as a
community to the point of things like
building our Wi-Fi infrastructure and
and so amber and I don't know I
mentioned this and I'll say it publicly
the the Wi-Fi and the plaza is a great
thing but I think that the council then
spoke to the Wi-Fi really north-to-south
right in the downtown area
encouraging not only business but people
to come to the downtown area many of us
have gone and visited other places and
see that there's free Wi-Fi and so it
was an incentive not only for people to
come to the downtown but to to help
businesses come to the downtown so
although I'm very appreciative of the
plaza I think there was a
miscommunication in my mind about what
the Wi-Fi was and I get the idea that
anti donation is a problem but I I also
would like sort of an update on the
client park and and reason behind
picking client Park in that area
specifically is we have kids that are
sitting out at the senior centers trying
to get on Wi-Fi to do various things and
so we know that in our inner more
impoverished communities that is an
access problem and we're finding that
out more and more with Colvin so I I
appreciate that but what I'm also
looking for is what are the what were
the positives that each department saw
in term
of figuring out how to meet these
strategic plan goals and objectives what
was the pitfalls also we had talked
about a dashboard so there wouldn't be
any question from counselors that you
could go to the dashboard find out any
look at the the strategic plan and say
basically where is everything at and
where do we need since similar to like
the go bond right where you see the
percentages of completion I would hope
that we could move in that direction
lastly I I would like to see where are
we with the 21 and the 22 goals um and
did you identify that I'm sorry if you
did it was a pretty fast and furious
presentation and I just like to remind
you know staff you know some of us do
leave live and breathe it everyday
others of us don't it's not on our
expertise so I'm asking you to be
mindful of that and and present things
in a way that we're able to grasp and
understand it so that then we can
articulate the good work that I know you
all are doing with that said mayor I'll
I'll ask for that answer
mayor gamba this is amber barn I know I
do not have in this presentation the FY
21 and 22 goals and where we're at with
those I will definitely get that to you
over from that as for the department
dashboards and the strategic plan
dashboards that is we did cut up a
contract with open gov and we're in the
process of making that go that did get
too delayed we've done bad software last
time and I apologize for that and we
were working towards that and hope to
have that up and running September of
this year okay what about the 2020
strategic priorities and each of those
did you highlight any you did for the
the Wi-Fi and things that are being that
are in progress but are there other
things and again I'd
I'm looking at the one stop shop for
parents and children to be able to
receive information as it relates to
child care and such I didn't really see
anything on that mayor-council they're
gone that us the are you talking about
this one this is amber gone again the
resource I wasn't sure I'm not I know
that I know that and I'm I'm I have it
up here is the resource brochure which
maybe my colleagues are not aware we
contracted or I shouldn't say that we
work with New Mexico State University
the dual program at Social Work and the
other program helped formulate this they
came twice to assist us there was
meaningful data that supported next
steps my hope and desire was that we
would continue to work with them to help
us to help us move through not only
developing a brochure that you a hand
you know someone can take away but also
online but the various things because
there were focus groups done with staff
and sort of next steps in the in as it
relates to the possibilities of
structuring the Health and Human
Services Department and so I guess this
were in a conundrum right I think we
have a lot of new people who aren't as
aware of the historical knowledge but
how do we move forward with that as we
are moving to hiring new folks to get on
up to speed with that because this is
all important work that you all have
done I didn't do it I'm happy to to
articulate and tell folks I'm proud of
the work that you all have done it out
it as much as I can but we're sort of in
a spot where there's a barrier in terms
of how information is going back and
forth so how do we work through that
miss amber David Dolan Arbit mayor this
is Dave
sinem city measure Thank You mayor
pro-tem for that question in those
comments I think specifically for this
one item the resource and information
brochure the way I understood that item
is as it's written there and the follow
up our main thing was to have something
available that would be on the city
website or have a pamphlet that we could
pass out and if people would have an
opportunity to look at that one document
and get an idea of what resources are
available throughout the community the
one thing that we did need to continue
to do with the group from NMSU
and unfortunately with the changes that
everybody's run to we weren't able to
get those students back for this
upcoming semester but what we want to do
is update that brochure so that it
remains current because there are
several of those agencies that change or
these the contacts change with respect
to the additional requests potential
human health and human services type
items that might be something that we
start looking into as we be in our
planning for the next strategic plan
that council is going to put together
and that will lead close to what
councilor Bencomo was talking about
earlier with the items that she would be
looking for so I think definitely that
item it should be jotted down which I've
done and that becomes something that we
look into with our next strategic plan
development thank you thanks David
anything else
Amir Pro temple no Mara am I one of the
last ones I wasn't sure I didn't want to
I felt like I don't know Saussure casa
yeah yeah I just wanted to give a little
bit of history and how important I
thought being on council then was
developing this and how we sort of bring
people in are the new council to that
and and I'm with them I think we need to
see a little more detail and I would
like to have heard from the directors
specifically as as a member was rolling
it out thank you thank you councillor
sword
Thank You mr. mayor to start with I'd
like to concur with the rest of the
council didn't make a lot of good points
asking good questions and I concur with
them and on those points and questions
those the same things I was I'm
concerned about it was a rather quick
presentation I would not be opposed to
having a stop at each slide just in case
there was a one or two questions on that
particular slide as we go through and
and you know I do take it take it one
step at a time so to speak but that way
not all of them would of course be asked
questions on him but just give him the
chance so some more detail in some areas
would have been nice like some of you
said I saw some thought that you know we
aren't perfect we don't always achieve
our goals that we we set out some of the
goals we had weren't fairly lofty and I
would appreciate if there was some
shortcomings to point out if not all of
them just a few of them or one or two of
them just to see where we were we're at
if we didn't quite reach a goal that's
fine we'll just keep on going
um the dashboard again I'm glad that
mayor pro-tem pointed that out I always
liked dashboards also but you know we've
done a lot in the last three years in
this city there was a lot of big
projects and and things done we did so
it's just not the strategic plan it was
a lot of things to go with it the
comprehensive plan was mentioned the Geo
bond was mentioned it was another big
project that we just you know he got
down the last three years so we've done
a lot and I congratulate the staff for
getting those things done two and done
successfully but just the same I'm
looking to the future
as changes that we've had in the city in
the last three years and we need to have
with new city councilors especially we
need to have another look at our plans
for the future and so I'm looking
forward to the strategic plan retreat we
call it a retreat new city councilors
and and going through a future the the
ones in 20 to 22 timeframe there again
are pretty loud just to pick out one the
Las Cruces airport terminal will be
renovated to accommodate 20,000
employments per year I don't know where
we are on that but that doesn't that's
not what I would expect to be told today
but just as an example of what we've got
going in the future
and last but not least our not least but
last but we also were talking about more
transportation opportunities a rail from
Las Cruces to El Paso okay so mr. mayor
I'm that's it I'm good
thank you Thank You councillor Flores
did you have another comment yes yes I
do mr. mayor if I may please thank you
so the other question I have is the Oh
at page 25 there was something about
LCPD and the training and let me get
this out of the way here there so you
know it it's it's wonderful that we have
that this police personnel will be
trained I've been out there I saw what
the training is like I saw the truth the
SWAT team and the that big looks like a
military something whatever at any rate
the Academy is there but the question
that comes up that is definitely trying
at this point is the amount of training
and and I am Not sure that there are any
real I mean this is a what almost the
accomplishment for LCPD seems to be form
and not substance and I'm just wondering
if there are any strategic plan for LC
PDF is I don't know if it's indicated I
don't know it's appropriate I don't know
but I do know this that there has to be
there has to be we have to be looking at
not necess that the the kind of training
that that officers are getting but also
frequent training i one of my neighbours
is a retired airforce big honcho dear
neighbor and he was saying that you know
the training is probably very good
training he says but you know it has to
be consistent it has to be over and over
and over again so I hope that our
facilities are East Mesa public safety
complex has that potential to to be
training our officers frequently and I
don't you know just just like reminders
or whatever or yeah I'm not I'm not
privy to the kind of training that goes
on the details but I would like to see
some of that I know that this is a big
topic that we covered last week at last
week's meeting but that's something I
would like to see and I'd like to have
some measurables in the future in that
regard so does anybody I don't know if
it's the city manager or the police
chief who would be able to respond to
what I'm saying I don't know if chief
Gallagher's here but maybe to be chief
there's oh oh
deputy chief Dominguez hello are you
Galloway Las Cruces police chief oh he
is here I thought the ice ice eyes name
hello chief so did you hear my comment
and can you did yeah and I recognize
that specific incident
I'm sorry more that result speaks more
towards the facility than the actual
training let me talk a little bit about
training the facility itself though is
much better than we did have it was the
facility that they were trained in was
an old double-wide trailer which was
totally inadequate I mean a lot of
history a lot of pride for the LCPD to
have that Kadim II will only to one of I
think it's for police departments in the
state that run our own Academy and the
only one this small that runs their own
Academy there was talk after back about
possibly funding from the governor to
establish a regional training facility
in this part of the state obviously with
the current budget shortfall I think
that has gone by the wayside but we
would still be very interested in
pursuing that to maybe get a more
consistent and consistence the best word
training for all officers in this part
of the state I think that would be good
as far as our training the state
requires I believe about 16 hours or 16
weeks of training that's what they do
with for their officers if you send an
officer up to Santa Fe to get trained
they'll get about 16 weeks of training
we provide anywhere from 22 to 24 weeks
of training so we provide a significant
amount more than is required some of
that is bringing in members of the
community to speak to our officers a lot
of that is our crisis intervention
training one of our other goals or
strategic results we had that wasn't
included in the slide was that 70% of
our officers would have the advanced
crisis intervention training if you
remember eight the state requires
officers get forty hours in that
training we've asked that we've set a
goal of 70% of officers getting 80 hours
of that training we have gotten 92% of
our officers getting that amount of
training today and the reason it's not a
hundred percent is because it's been
proven that that training the second
part of it the advanced crisis
intervention
is more effective when an officer has
some time as a police officer we can't
give it to them immediately when they're
in the adamant as soon as probably in
this year I would imagine if not early
next year we'll get close to 100% as far
as that training goes we are of course
open to you guys in our training as as
conditions change we're always looking
at it looking for best practices and
trends or their other departments doing
what is the International Association of
Chief of Police
recommending and what is our community
saying well chief thank you so much for
that and I think I think our community
has spoken and is speaking and speaking
loudly and and I'm so glad that my my
neighbor shared that all the all the
training all as good as training can be
it isn't good it doesn't have any effect
if it isn't consistent and often so I I
know nothing so I'm just only I'm only
sharing this one person's he had a lot
of success and the different assignments
he had or whatever they're called and
and just makes sense to me it's one of
those practice makes perfect type of
thing it's like I've been trying brownie
recipes and it's like no this didn't
work here let me try it over and over so
over a period of two weeks I tried out
three brownie recipes and but it was
constant you know was that practice to
see you know where do I add more
chocolate or what do i do cocoa do i do
bittersweet so I mean I don't mean to
simplify the importance or minimize the
importance but that's how I see it I it
made sense to me when my neighbor said
that so I don't know if that's in the in
the cards for our Police Department but
I would really like to see that because
my experience my personal experience and
I've shared this before is a positive
one the statistics don't speak very well
but those statistics
so have are born from a lot of objective
conditions that we live in today so and
it's a question of our Police Department
really being equipped to handle all that
well chief Gallagher remember about a
year two years ago we went for that
what's it called that over it was over
at dACC and how the the firearms
simulator yeah yeah I mean I died in
about one second I think the only
survivor was the mayor and everybody
else died because I you're in a
situation and I had already seen other
people go before me and see what they
had done or or was it after we were kept
I don't know how it was but but it it
isn't a you know the simulator I don't
see I don't know what training is all
about but it seems to me that even a
constant simulator type thing would be
helpful because there were there was a
trick there was one where I know that I
held back on on on shooting but the
mayor didn't and and that was the one
where the trip at the end was it the
video changed a little and he did have a
person who though we did have a gun and
but the mayor shot him so you know it's
stuff like that and I'm not trying to in
any way again simplify the heart you
know the difficult situations that
police officers are law enforcement is
put in in those stressful situations but
again it seems to me that we really have
to have that as a goal we have to have
systems that are going to have good
outcomes so thank you very much chief
Gallagher and and I did have another
question and mr. mayor um let's see
oh so miss Vaughn did open with a little
bit of background
say that we had our off-site meetings
which in my humble opinion are worthless
and the reason is because I attended
some before I became a city councilor
and I think we got two and twenty
seventeen and I went to them and the
only people that were there were staff
and the whole crew that had to move City
Hall over to the location and one of
them was at the Aquatic Center the
Hadley whatever the one on Hadley in
Solano and so are we going to continue
with those or what is C that's the thing
too about this presentation we did this
but there wasn't any real assessment as
to where do we go from here or are we
going to follow up with say like
off-site meetings all right so tell us
or floor to submit let me just share
this with you I appreciate you and and
the others
councillor Sora can appreciate this and
you and the others who you know you have
some members of the public who come to
these meetings and criticize us for not
having night meetings and and this and
that you know since I've been on council
since 2001 we used to have night
meetings and and then we went to day
meetings and then we start doing these
quarterly meetings and what I'm trying
to get at is you're absolutely right you
the ones who go to council meetings are
they go regardless at the time and and
it doesn't increase it doesn't increase
participation unless they have to be on
the on the agenda what I'm trying to get
at is that's why they elect us to take
care of City business their business
plus you know you know they're busy
running their households working maybe
some of them to jobs you know and they
hope that they elect someone that will
at least represent their concerns and
their views that's why we have email and
and take phone calls and things of this
nature so what I'm trying to say is and
every so often we go through this and
then council members realize you know
what this doesn't increase it anything
we gotta just stay put you know with
with with zoom what we're doing here I
think
I would wager that we have more
participation at least more people
watching this then then the old way
kewal CLC to channel 20 because not
everybody had cable a lot of people
probably have more internet or access to
Internet then say cable you know because
I've noticed the emails of increase and
I think they have more access to it
which is good that's what you want and
if they see something they usually tend
to say something and so I think that
that I guess what I'm trying to get it
is I'm ok but I would prefer to just
stay put at City Hall when the time
comes I agree and then it's no excuse me
but still have the night meetings every
quarter but not necessarily move around
around yeah yeah I thought that that's
that's good I agree with that mr. mayor
thank you and then so I'm glad we
address that and what about policy I
think amber said that this in her
introduction that there was a to read
this was to revise policy or policy
implementation as well and I think that
yeah it's time to really look at all of
this again especially with our new
counselors who will hopefully serve more
than one term and we'll be able to carry
on the information such as gilfs org
counselor sort and merit m'gann that i
have done we need to review that and
then of the three items that she
mentioned there was the Leadership
Academy that was implemented and I think
in what would I have seen and heard from
people who participated
it was very it's been very successful
and I think that yeah I think that we
should definitely continue with that and
I don't think there was any measurement
for that I don't think that was part of
me well it was part of the strategic
plan so but and I think that
I mean if I was to just evaluate that
I'd say it's a hundred percent
successful because a hundred percent of
the or I know there were a few students
who couldn't complete for one reason or
another but so maybe it was a 98%
success story maybe 99 but thank you mr.
mayor
there are other questions but I'll just
start them to the city manager and and
the department people Thank You mr. fair
thank you Mayor Pro Tem did you just
forget to put your hand down here I just
wanted to ask what in terms of the
mentoring program the program I think I
recall it of amber talked about part of
the reason that we did that we paint so
in utilities one of the things that I
understood was they were having trouble
recruiting and retaining and that water
treatment facility correct me if I'm
wrong dr. Garcia or that represents the
area and so we worked on pain their
schooling and they would come back and
then pay pts back if you will by working
for us and so I was and and seen that
article in the in the newspaper and was
was awesome to see how that in in
process right that that helping a an
entity that normally has trouble with
the positions retaining recruiting these
positions and so my question is how is
HR moving forward in these cups and the
internships because often what I have
found in talking to our NMSU students
they weren't aware that even the city
would be an option for any of the
director you know for any of our
departments so I know that there was a
survey that was spoken of but how would
we move forward in
recruiting and animus you how would we
working with the Chancellor and the
president because that's one of their
goals is keeping people local right
keeping the students graduating them and
keeping them local so how are we working
with the university to collaboratively
to ensure that that take place Airport
MI I know you mentioned dr. Garcia and I
know he's here but I know we've only met
her once but she has attended our
meetings and that's a deputy director
Delilah Walsh so maybe she may want to
chime in but also and I know that the
Community College still I think still
has that that program because I know
that's where a lot of times we would get
they would offering an associate's
degree in wastewater management which
was working out really good I don't know
if that's still moving in that same
direction but mr. Perron miss Walsh
knows all that okay I think she's here
so yes did you would you want to speak
to that Thank You mr. mayor Mayor Pro
Tem Gandara Delilah Walsh assistant
utilities director we've actually had
quite great success with the internship
program we just started it our first
intern graduated after the spring
semester transition to a regular
full-time employee we have number so
they each only have a I believe two
classes left and they filed for their
degree certification so we'll be
transitioning those three in addition to
that I'm very excited that our newest
intern has will be coming out of LCPs
program and that's their alternative
education to get more hands-on work and
he's transitioning from aces to DAC sees
water technology program and we're
hoping to get him started as an intern
in the fall semester so in addition to
that we're also expanding we've talked
to dr. Terry mound with dACC to look at
other programs like in the plumbing
program to expand the internships and
I've also been working with Mary
DeLorenzo with animus use extension and
edge program and dr. Medina with the
Masters of Public Administration program
to see if we can identify more
opportunities for our staff with
the utility as well as recruitment
opportunities thank you so much yes
should be free interrupt him it looks
like David and Joe had also a couple
comments they wanted to say David my
Estes and Joe Richards yes thank you
I'll defer to Joe first and then if
there's anything after she spoken we can
get back to me okay Joe mr. mayor City
Council Joe Richards human resources
director yes we are actively working
with both the branch and MSU for
recruiting and with their co-op programs
we've also been working with the bridge
of southern New Mexico staff have been
working closely with them to recruit for
different opportunities as well which I
think dr. Martinez also jumped in here
you want to defer to her David my
assistant yes sir I sure well let her go
ahead this is David Matz's Thank You
mayor this is Griselda Martinez economic
development director for the record to
add to what miss Richards mentioned we
will have a update to you all City
Council members on the efforts that
we've been working on collaborative
between the workforce telling
collaborative and all the members well
the the highlights will be among a few
members but it will provide some
additional details to what you're seeing
in the presentation today and that will
be sometime in July okay great thank you
David - do you have anything you wanted
a very good thank you mayor David - yes
I will just add one small piece of both
Joe and descends I hate on that there is
a job fair that NMSU will put on it's a
partnership with Workforce Solutions and
we typically will send staff from each
of the departments who hire co-ops
specifically in the engineering
departments in some and other
departments throughout the city
with the staff there they will go to
these job fairs and work on getting the
information out to the students there
about their potential to get on as a
co-op with the city of Las Cruces and
then as many of you might know because
we've talked about it several times
sometimes those co-op positions turn
into full-time positions with the city
afterwards thank you very good thank you
Thank You mayor pro-tem thank you I am I
just appreciate each and every one of
you I think this is something to be very
proud of that the city does very well in
terms of of them locating and recruiting
retaining high school and university
graduates to sort of then recruit them
into working with the city all in the
effort of keeping our our wonderful
talent here in here in town and so just
from my point merit the best the New
Mexico State University is also looking
at sort of a survey of sorts and and
rather than do our own individual may be
working together with New Mexico State
University partnering right to do the
survey together would be helpful that's
it thank you thank you before I get to
councilor bait this to be so Dalila you
mentioned a mary d lorenzo is that the
one who used to work for the association
of counties years ago sir yes mr. mayor
she is she runs the edge program
nice okay sir bait to steuby Thank You
mayor
to follow up on something I actually
want to say that I truly have
appreciated the the nighttime work
sessions it was one of the only ways
that I was able to participate before I
coming on to Council was to be able to
do something that was more on and after
hours things so I know that it I know
that it varies and I know that people
participate at different stages and
times but when they do feel like they
have a vested interest in the subject
matter or they feel welcome to
participate there there's more
opportunities so I do really want to
encourage us to take
those at least nighttime work sessions
but see what we can do to expand that
public participation and offering it at
different times is very beneficial to
those that can't make our one o'clock
meetings even if they are at work and
you know can't listen in or tuned in but
can can still participate so I I do very
much think that they're beneficial for
our community to keep in and greatly
appreciated that opportunity to
participate in those fashions and want
to make sure that my constituents have
those same opportunities thank you also
I wasn't looking to get rid of those
just a lot of times that some of the
concerns when we go to different places
it's so hard for the the Internet
service the the voice quality even the
film quality let's know keeping those
but keeping them possibly when I'm comes
at City Hall there that'd be great
you know you keeping them about at City
Hall is fine having them at night I'm
personally I am a fan of having regular
meetings at night too from time to time
to allow for that participation but I I
do agree you know we do want to make
sure that it's accessible for those
other reasons too but yeah I do think
that the night time is great thank you
thank you okay
so amber is there any more information
you want to share with us here Council
no but that is all I have for today
thank you David that is that pretty much
it I mean we don't have anything else I
know we just had one item on the agenda
but I think I'm like a fish out of water
here it's 2:30 and I'm not used to
ending that work session this early
hello mayor David molasses no we didn't
have anything else on the agenda this
was it so if there are no further
questions on this one
I want to thank staff for their work on
the presentation it was quite a bit of
information to put together thank
Council for their questions on
additional items several departments and
several staff members
were involved to get together for what
you had in front of you now but we can
work on some additional items as may be
necessary so thank you Mary okay thank
you wouldn't be wouldn't be the the same
without the less mana eleventh-hour
question from Telstra Florida's yes
well it's that you can believe mr.
mayest us because uh he I thought he was
going to say yes and we will be working
with the on the new strategic plan or be
addressing what's coming for twenty one
twenty two that's that's the part of the
strategic plan we still have to pursue
so any word on that or is that in an
appropriate question not inappropriate
but not indicated at this time mr.
Mathis yes mayor Councillor potes David
Maestas appreciate the question that is
one of the questions I was referring to
when I said I had jotted down notes and
taken out information from counsel as
they brought items up and that was one
of the things that was brought up so
definitely we will be looking into that
and then providing a response to counsel
for it great Thank You mr. Mathis thank
you very much welcome thank you
Mayor Pro Tem did you have a closing
comment do i I'm hoping that my
recommendation would be food have a
session where we look at the 22 22
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strategic goals or strategies and a kind
of update rather than wait I know I know
that that this is that stuff is maybe
we're waiting for the new city manager
I'm not sure but I don't know that this
is helpful to us I think we need to to
come back and now that we have staff
that has reviewed the from the beginning
to current or at least 2019 that we
should look at 2020 through 2022 and to
be
oh we lost you we can we can designate a
work session I was looking at the
schedule and we've got a few open slots
there may pretend so I have no problem
with that one last thing I don't suppose
David we've gotten our gross receipts
tax report in by T chance should need
any day now is interested to see how
that was looking yes mayor
we actually have received their gross
receipts tax report I don't have a final
breakdown I was going to sit down with
our budget Department and our economists
for their interpretation but the numbers
were generally better than what we were
we were projecting the cogut impact
would be
you might recall the for the month of
now in the month of June that would have
been for April which was the full I
think was okay we're in the full month
now right that's what the month before
we were down just 1% when we were
projecting like 3% yeah and so this one
here is the is the big one here because
I think this will pretty much will be
the one of the toughest ones will suffer
is this this report here that you're
about ready to say yes sir and you got
that correct and the projection from
staff for the full month which would
have been April was approximately 18 to
19 percent is what we thought the impact
might be and the gross receipts that
came in was quite a bit less than that
more on the magnitude of a drop of about
8% instead of the drop of 19% that we
really I produced so how much
dollar-wise was that that is the part
mayor that I will have to look up for
you to get Organa I figured about half a
mil which you know in the ballpark
that's we can easily easily take care of
that but that's great I think you are
close with that number mayor good okay
great Wow fantastic news okay well that
ends in a good note
thank you for that that's that's really
good and it'll las cruces economy that's
great ok entertain a motion to adjourn
move to adjourn this is zorg second
motion made by councilor stork second by
councilor Vasquez that we adjourn all
those in favor signify by saying aye aye
we're Juran's 2:36 p.m. thanks good
thank you
Thank You mr. mayor you haebang
you