Redline · January 5, 2026
Las Cruces Council Meeting - January 5th, 2026
The city’s minutes for this meeting were compared, sentence by sentence, against the transcript of the recording. Of 56 statements the minutes attribute to a named person, 56 were found in the recording.
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Music] You're live. Sorry. Good afternoon. Uh, welcome to city council meeting. Happy new year to everyone. Today is Monday, January 5th, 2026. It's approximately 1 p.m. I am Mayor Eric Enriquez. Before we start, I want to mention that we have an ASL American Sign Language interpreters up front. And if you all stand, please join me in a moment of silence for the brave men and women of our armed forces and also for our local Los Cusus Police and Fire Department, the courageous men and women
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you and um onward John. Yes sir. Next is public participation. Uh we'll allow up to three minutes. No pending litigations. No items on the non-consent. uh Katrina will be coming up and ushering those that um wish to speak. Please remember to speak clearly, state your name, and be respectful. Thanks. Mayor, City Council
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are here today. I am here today. Ma'am, can you can you bring the microphone closer? Sorry. Thank you. It's kind of intimidating. No, you're fine. Just so they can get recorded. I'm here today to provide an update on the spay and program um that we have going on with the city. As many
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Councelor Karan, yes. Councelor Munoz, yes. And mayor, yes. Next is item 8.5, resolution number 26-087, a resolution approving a reimbursement agreement between the city of Los Cruus and New Mexico Valencio. Good afternoon, mayor, uh, members of city council. Let me open this presentation. Hold on. Move to approve. Second. Okay, when you're ready. I apologize. I have the worst vision on Earth. So, give me a second. There we go. Uh, today I am bringing forward a reimbursement for a neighborhood park. Um, as many of you
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in full force and effect and shall not expire until a successor agreement is signed." Section 45 of that same CBA states, "The employer and the association may upon mutual agreement and negotiation place in effect a memorandum of understanding which may change provisions of disagreement or address matters which may become issues of mutual concern from time to time. The city of Los Cusus submitted anou to the union in accordance with section 45 of the CBA. So some details on theou itself. So, theou included a 5% pay
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resolution authorizing the city of Los Cusus to accept grant awards for various city departments. Move to approve. Second. Good afternoon, mayor, counselors, city staff, community members. My name is Gabriella Prattz. I'm the city's grant manager, and I bring before you a resolution to approve budget adjustments in this fiscal year for 22 grants. So, you're bear with me today. It's going to be long. We are uh in addition we have a couple of uh grants that are not capital outlay but the remaining is most of the
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a capital outlay grant from NMDFA to the city manager's office housing and neighborhood services and with the assistance of public works. These are for improvements to the Messia Valley uh valley resource campus. In this particular case, it's to support the design, engineering, and construction of roadway and pedestrian improvements at the campus. The next grant is made to the city manager's office airport. It is from the New Mexico Department of Transportation Aviation Division. This is the third amendment to the rural air service expansion program or as
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The award of $970,000 has two purposes. One is to plan, design and construct the renovation and expansion of the library itself and also to purchase and outfit a new bookmobile to serve Las Cruises in Dona Anana County. So in areas where people may not have direct access or quick access to a library, this will allow the library and the other quality of life programs to come to them. There's also an uh adjustment to the vehicle acquisition list. So I will seed to Merc uh Mercedes to
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originally approved to purchase two Elgen Broom Bear Street sweepers to replace existing Johnson sweepers. The approved amount for these replacements was $416,331. Updated quotes now reflect a total of $421,667. Updating the vehicle acquis acquisition list to this new amount will allow the purchase to proceed replacing the ex existing sweepers will improve street maintenance and reduce ongoing repair costs. The additional funding required is available within the current public works budget. The fire department was originally approved for 36,000 to replace a Ford Taurus with a Ford Maverick
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as part of this is subject to reimbursement. um to provide a little bit more information about the location of the subdivision. Uh if you all are familiar with Rinkanatada Boulevard as well as Settler's Pass, this is sort of sandwiched in between and is north of the Ring Cone Hills um subdivision. And you can see uh that this is in district 5 and uh the park in question is sort of located right here. This is a neighborhood park. Um, this particular park, uh, we worked with the