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Las Cruces Council Work Session - December 8th, 2025
The city’s minutes for this meeting were compared, sentence by sentence, against the transcript of the recording. Of 40 statements the minutes attribute to a named person, 40 were found in the recording.
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~2470 words of the recording have no counterpart in the minutes
Missing from the minutesThis part of the meeting left no trace in the written record. This stretch of the meeting is not reflected anywhere in the written record. Some gaps are legitimate — recesses, or a presentation summarised in one line. Others are discussion that simply did not make it in. 1 person introduce themselves by name inside this gap. It contains: “lawsuit”, “settlement”, “noncompliance”, “falsify”, “fraud”.
What the minutes say
Nothing — this passage is absent from the minutes.
What the recording says
No, she doesn't. Good afternoon. Welcome to the work session. Today is Monday, December 8th, 2025. It's approximately 1 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 that protect our interests across the globe and our courageous men and women of the Los Cruus Police and Fire Department that protect our city and keep it safe 24/7 365. Please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
~2860 words of the recording have no counterpart in the minutes
Missing from the minutesThis part of the meeting left no trace in the written record. This stretch of the meeting is not reflected anywhere in the written record. Some gaps are legitimate — recesses, or a presentation summarised in one line. Others are discussion that simply did not make it in. 1 person introduce themselves by name inside this gap. It contains: “settlement”, “falsify”, “investigation”, “discrimination”, “racist”.
What the minutes say
Nothing — this passage is absent from the minutes.
What the recording says
their policies and then we'll open it up at the end for questions. And so first up today is the airport and we'll bring up Andy Hume. Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor and counselors. Good to see you all today. My name is Andy Hume, and I have the privilege of serving as director for our airport. Uh the policy that I want to just touch on a little bit this afternoon is the rural air service enhancement grant program. Uh this was a program that was passed by the legislature
Bencomo: a negation on the recording is missing from the minutes (“don't”)
Says something differentBoth records carry the same sentence, but they disagree on a number or on whether it was negative. The same sentence appears in both records, but the recording contains “don't” where the minutes have nothing — which reverses its sense. Around: “because the thirty day is even more volatile but certainly volatile than the”.
What the minutes say
Councilor Bencomo said thank you for the staff for coming back a week after we had this conversation about legislative priorities at last week’s regular meeting where we voted on this. I think it is important that we have this conversation because even though we really are trying to move away from endorsing any one particular piece of legislation given the feedback and advice we have gotten from Larry who literally does this for a living, right, in terms of how one piece of legislation can look a certain way the first day of session and completely different by the thirty days so we are trying to do more umbrella type of sort of advocacy or support if you will like housing, public safety, and especially because the thirty day is even more volatile but certainly volatile than the sixty day. So, I do think that it is important that we are having this conversation. I think for me what felt really concerning last week was that we voted on this big sort of item on legislative priorities and what I saw on social media after Chief
What the recording says
like at this point. Right. Yeah. No, we're in speculation mode. that. Thank you. Thank you, uh, Mayor Pro. Thanks, Mayor. Thank you, Christine. And thanks to the staff for, um, coming back a week after we had this this conversation about legislative priorities um, at last week's regular meeting where we voted on this. I think, you know, I think it's important we have this conversation because even though we really are trying to move away from endorsing any one particular piece of legislation given the feedback and advice we've gotten from Larry who literally does this for a living, right, in terms of how one piece of legislation can look a certain way the first day of session and completely
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