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You're Well, good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the work session. Today is Monday, June 8th, 2026. It's approximately 100 p.m. I'm Mayor Eric Enriquez. 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 from the Los Cusus Police and Fire Department as they protect our city 247 365. If you join me in the pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of
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Councilor McClure said truth be told I am a little all over in this one, so I will see how it goes. I guess the first one I will go with is the downtown vibrancy versus auto-oriented development. I don’t know if this is something that came up in our conversation, those were our one on ones but it was always interesting and piping down to perception is
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and and in the neighborhoods. So, thank you. Thank you, councelor Mccclure. Truth be told, I'm I'm a little all over in this one, so I don't Let's see how it goes. Um, so I guess the first one I'll go with is the downtown vibrancy versus autooriented development. Um, I don't know if this is something that came up in our conversations that was sort of one-on-one, but it was always interesting to me and and go piping down to perception is the idea
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Councilor Mattiace said this ordinance is a long time coming. I have seen the abandoned buildings and the blight has grown over the last 15/17 years and so when you build a new city like Northrise. I call that the other city because what happens in the older part of the city this happens, businesses go out of business and then they just leave an abandoned building and the weeds grow. I have seen that on El Paseo so with that said I think you ought to remove the exemption for government buildings.
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questions were answered. So, thanks, Council Matise. Thank you, Bo. Uh, this ordinance is a long time coming. Uh, you know, I I've seen the abandoned buildings and the blight, you know, has grown over the last uh 15, 17 years. And and so when you build a new city like Northrise, you know, I call that the other city because what happens is in the older part of the city, the this happens. You know, businesses go out of business and they just leave a an abandoned building and they they don't do the weeds grow. I've seen that on El Paso. So, with that said, I you
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city management identify priorities, align budgets, and make choices about what realistically can be implemented in the next two to five years. And that time horizon is really important. So, Los Cusus, as you all know, already has long-term vision documents, including Elevate Los Cusus. But the purpose of this strategic plan is different. It's
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the uh needs assessment. Uh so just wanted to flag what will happen next uh in sort of a a big picture way. So today uh Janelle is going to facilitate a discussion where you sort of react to what you saw and and we talk about you know what we need to go to the public to talk about uh later on in the summer. Uh and you'll help us sort of refine that today. Then, um, at the end of July, we're going to do a bunch of
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phase and address a lot of what you've brought up here and take this to the residents of Los Cusus to get their input. Um, and so I my job is to prove to you that we were listening uh and just reflect back to you uh that what we heard and give you an opportunity to say like, "Oh, I've thought of something in the process of sitting here and listening. If you want to add to it, uh we're here to um just make sure that we capture
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So allowing some leniency for properties that may still be going through a legal a legal process. um property secure and subject to probate or litigation. One of the biggest challenges that we deal with is when we do identify a property that is um you know say a NAT property right now there may
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you know the institutions of higher education that are helping the city do more with less and sort of implement um all of these big ideas and this great vision. Uh we were also really struck by uh how innovative city uh department directors are. Uh you see a lot of times in municipal governments a lot of folks are just like well this is the way we've always done it. It's the way we're always going to do it. there was such a spirit of like innovation and adaptability
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poverty and unemployment in the city is too high. So it's it's not about sort of whether the economy is stable, but how is that stability sort of translating into broad-based opportunities for residents in terms of infrastructure? Again, I'm not telling you anything you don't know, but much of the city's infrastructure is aging uh and maintenance and replacement needs are ongoing and increasing. And at the same time, there's growth in other areas of the city, rising costs, energy demand, there's water constraints, climate impacts are all adding
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isn't an eitheror question. It's not you know do you do one or the other. It's a it's again about in a strategic plan how do you do sequencing? How do you do funding? How do you do sustainability? Um obviously public safety is a is a big thing that came up. Um and again, you know, crime rates in Los Cusus remain higher than national averages, but you know, crime rates are going down. The city is getting safer. Um and at the same time, residents are seeing and
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yeah but it was it was a representative sample they did you know we we felt really good about the data they did all the waiting and the you know stratified sample and all of that and so we felt really comfortable with that data Okay, thanks. That's good background. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay, we can begin with a discussion. Thank you. Shorter than her. All right. Hello, Mayor Council. It's good to see all of you again. And um as Britney mentioned, we now want to t move
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residents feel some sort of ownership over the process and what we're doing? Um, councelor Harris gave us a recommendation to ask what kind of job opportunities folks and educational opportunities would uh people would want to see in Los Cusus. Uh, councilors Ben Ko and Karan emphasized the need to like really make sure that we're not just engaging people who always participate. um how do we reach people that um who who are not um always at the table, having a balance of folks who are really engaged
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time and attention. All right. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thanks. Next on the agenda is item 1.2 vacant and abandoned property ordinance. Chris Favor Good afternoon, mayor, council. Again, Chris Faver with Community Development here to do a work session on vacant and abandoned property maintenance ordinance in advance of bringing this to adoption later this summer. So before we get too far into it, I just want to say thank you to the NAT team which has been helping us facilitate a lot of this and to legal
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that process to happen if a property is actively listed or marketed for sale at no more than 130% of fair market value. Uh so we don't want to incentivize a situation where someone just lists the property for sale at an unreasonable amount of money just to say they qualify for an exemption. Has to be a good faith effort to to actually try and sell that property. and then working with uh historic preservation specialists to find a way to make sure that we're helping historic properties um