Redline · August 18, 2025
Las Cruces Council Meeting - August 18th, 2025
The city’s minutes for this meeting were compared, sentence by sentence, against the transcript of the recording. Of 46 statements the minutes attribute to a named person, 46 were found in the recording.
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~1820 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. 2 people introduce themselves by name inside this gap. It contains: “conflict of interest”, “resign”, “lead”, “contamination”, “cancer”.
What the minutes say
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What the recording says
Music] cancelled. You're live. You're live. Good afternoon. Welcome to city council meeting. Today is Monday, August 18th, 2025. It's approximately 100 p.m. I am Mayor Eric Enriquez. Before we start, I want to mention that we have Do we have them today? I don't see them. the uh American Sign Language. I don't see them here today. Okay, they're not here today. So, if you'll all rise and join me, we'll start with a moment of silence for the brave men and women of the United States
Jamie Michaels: a negation on the recording is missing from the minutes (“not”)
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 “not” where the minutes have nothing — which reverses its sense. Around: “is probably some reason why they are in the home with their parents”.
What the minutes say
Jamie Michaels said if they are in the care system there is probably some reason why they are in the home with their parents so we would work with CYFD and other early childhood providers in the community to provide the type of services that they need in the home or that the family needs knowing that the root cause of a lot of this is substance use for the parents.
What the recording says
program with the children. Yes, absolutely. Um obviously if they're in the care system, there um is probably some reason why they are not in the the home with their um with their parents. So, we would work with CYFD and other um early childhood providers in the community to provide the type of services that they need um in the home or that the family needs, knowing that the root cause of a lot of this is substance use for the the parents. Thank you. Anyone
Chris Faivre: a negation on the recording is missing from the minutes (“shouldn'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 “shouldn't” where the minutes have nothing — which reverses its sense. Around: “longer but i will admit it probably should have taken this long”.
What the minutes say
Chris Faivre said I think there was a couple of things specific to this property that made it take a little bit longer, but I will admit it probably should have taken this long.
What the recording says
long to get to where we are given the deterioration of the property? And I say this because I can think of at least three properties in District 4 that look very similar to this one. Great question, Mayor. Mayor Prom. So, I think there was a couple things specific to this property that maybe made it take a little bit longer, but I will admit it probably shouldn't have taken this long. The first one was we were trying to identify potential owners because
“noncompliance” is said 1× on the recording and never appears in the minutes
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What the minutes say
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What the recording says
interest with any item on the agenda? None. Next is public participation will allow up to three minutes. no pending litigations or items on the non-consent. Um Katrina here will assist you and usher you to the podium, but we want to start first by allowing uh Jose Gyos, Joe Gyos, uh new director of
“Sal Gomez” introduces themselves on the recording and is not named in the minutes
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What the minutes say
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What the recording says
another big hand. [Music] [Applause] [Music] put me on the spot here. All right, guys. Hi there. My name is Sal Gomez. I'm the head coach of the NM Texas Majors. Um, well, I mean, to put it in perspective, we we set a goal to be one of the first New Mexico based teams to travel to Coopertown, New
“Jose Gyos” introduces themselves on the recording and is not named in the minutes
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What the minutes say
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What the recording says
Good afternoon, Mayor Pro uh Enriquez, May, Mayor Proam Bencom, and all the city council members. So, my name is Jose Gyos. I am a newly hired executive director for the South Central Solid Waste Authority. Uh thank you again. Thank you for this uh opportunity to introduce myself. Uh a little bit about myself and about the organization for
~910 words of the recording have no counterpart in the minutes
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What the recording says
city council. Uh, Barbara Ben Como for the record to speak with you today about recommendations for the expenditure of opioid settlement funds. And I also want to rec recognize to her with me today. We have um Jamie Michael who is the Donana County director of health and human services as she has been uh a partner through this coordinated process with the county. And then we have Wes Smith uh LCFD case manager who's also been assisting and forming these uh recommendations. So I want to thank them
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would have $2 million going to the community um $2 million in treatment and prevention programs for which community providers could propose um uh programs. The proposal today for the city is to allocate $2.9 million of the 3.8 8 million that we have received um for this first trunch of expenditures. Next week, the county commission is going to hear a similar proposal to spend $4.3 million of their funding, which also equates to about 30% of their expected uh distribution. So that a total of $7.3 million would
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What the minutes say
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What the recording says
DARE in the fifth grade, and I have an amazing story I can tell you guys after council. So, anyway, so we're here to talk about a debatement of a structure at 414 East May Avenue. Um, I do have uh the resident who live next door, members of codes um and fire and our uh uh historic preservation specialist here uh if there's questions for them. So, a little bit of background. This property is in the Mosquite uh original town district. Uh it was built in 1915. It