City Commission - Special Meeting

Call this meeting to order on May 5th, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. Will the clerk please call the role? Okay, now I'm ready. Start over. Okay. Okay. I call this meeting to order on May 5th, 2026 at 4:00 p.m. Will the clerk please call the role?

Mayor Sharon McDonald here. Mayor Prom Josh Ren here. Commissioner Baxter Patillo here. Commissioner Steven Bernett here. Commissioner Warren Robinson here. Commissioner Al Ernnandez here. Commissioner Mark Tapley here. Madame Mayor, we have a quorum. Thank you. Um we're going to have the invocation and the pledge of allegiance. Um, our uh, city clerk is going to do the invocation and um, uh, Commissioner Bernett is going to do the pledge.

Dear heavenly father, we thank you for this beautiful day that you have um, given to us. We thank you for the clouds up above, dear Lord, and the cooler weather. Dear God, we ask that you will be with everyone here uh, represented tonight. um that you will be with a commission, dear Lord, and that you will guide them um in decisions, difficult decisions that they uh may have to make, dear Lord. Um we ask, dear God, for your blessings over them, for your blessings over city staff as well. And dear Lord, we thank you um for your love and your mercy on us. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen.

Please join me in the pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Can I get a motion for the approval of the agenda? So moved. Second.

Second. Okay. All right. It's been a motion by um Commissioner um Tapley and second by Commissioner Bernett. And the vote passes 70. And on the agenda is a motion to recess into executive close session uh pursuant to NMSA1 1978 1015-1H2 for the purpose of discussing limited personnel matters city manager transition. And uh do I have a motion?

I'll make a motion, but I have a quick thing. Can we state for the record who called this special meeting? I just asked the clerk, can we state on the record who Yes, Mayor Prom. Um the mayor called the the special meeting. Okay. Thank you. I'll make a motion to recess into exact session. Second. Okay. It's been um motion by um Mayor Pro Tim Rearen and second by Commissioner Hernandez. Did I Did I say recess or adjourn? He said recess. Okay.

Which room we going to?

Do I have a motion to reconvene into open session and read the statement related to the executive close session? So moved. Second. Okay. I'm going to put up the vote. Madame Mayor, can you please um who did the motion and who? Reverend Robinson made the motion.

Yeah, I'm getting ready to to say that. I'm just trying to get So, it was u the motion was made by Commissioner Robinson and it was second by Commissioner Bernett. Okay. As we discussed in close session, different options on the transition of the city manager. I feel um we should accept the terms of the settlement which include a 60-day termination to provide the city time to transition to a new city manager. Are we in agreement? The attorneys in there told us we need to make a motion.

You make a motion. You do. Okay. So, make the motion. For the record, can you please state um that the only things that were discussed in close session were the transition. The items that were on the agenda is to discuss in the close session for the purpose of discussing limited personnel matters to the city manager's transition

and the motion that needs to be made. I'll make a motion to accept the additional terms proposed by Dr. Stephanie Hernandez through the EEOC. Do I have a second? Second.

Okay. The motion has been made by Mayor Pro Tim Rearen and it has been second by Commissioner Bernett and we're going to put it to the vote. And it has been um passed 7 to zero. Do I have a motion to um adjourn? So moved.

Second. It has been moved by comm I mean Mayor uh Pro Tim Weirden to adjurnn and it's been second by uh Commissioner Hernandez. And it passes 70. Meeting is adjourned.