Planning and Zoning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good morning, everyone. I guess we will go ahead and get started, and we are 08:36. You're gonna have it here tonight? Can you hear us, Judy? Or

I can hear you. I've lost the oh, found the picture.

Okay. Are we good? Thumbs

up if you haven't. Awesome. Okay.

So I'll go ahead and do, roll call. We've got Judy. Present. Sylvia. Present. Rachel. Here. Hi, Matt.

Here.

Eli. Here. And then myself is here. It looks like we're missing Lauren Smith, Adriana, Jordan Redman, and Jamal Metoyer. That's fine. So we do have a form, so I'll go ahead and move on to approval of minutes from August meeting. So if those of us that were here can look at that, and

if you were not here, we'll just reclude you from the vote, but they should be attached.

See, it says You know? You were there. Yes.

And the only one not new is.

Just fine. Can click your hair now.

I move that we approve the minutes as written.

And I second. Does anybody else have any discussion? Or okay. So I'll move for a vote. Is anyone opposed?

And Jaime, you're abstaining, so it passes unanimously.

Okay.

So now we'll move on to review the strategic plan.

If we want what? Yeah. I mean,

but do you want to just table it till we have more important numbers here, or do

you wanna go over it now?

Feel like

we'd go over it now.

K. So I don't know if anybody's looked at it or has any comments or remembers. It's been a while since we talked about it. It's a lot of information. Right. A lot of numbers. I have

a I have a bunch of stuff.

Okay. Sweet.

So I just I won't do these notes in a while, but so I have on page four, there's a type of some for type of sources of strength room, SOS room. That

might actually be minutes, because I don't think we talk about sessions of.

Yeah. You're right. Okay. So Yes. On on. So page three, similar county due to new programming coordinator, Sarah Martinez. So are you the county? I am not. Not saying it all fixed there. And then, also, I have in Los Alamos County in Los Alamos County is the richest county in the state. And I think it's just that it is

Yeah.

Used to be a strike. Where is that?

Are we on page three?

Yeah. Page three still.

And the last paragraph in Los Alamos County is the county in this state. So it's the last para like, the first sentence in the last paragraph.

Mhmm. I'll just take out pen. Yeah. Pen.

And then I have notes. On page six, it says people are counting youth. In the first paragraph halfway through in the center, 2.7% of C. Blood County youth.

K.

And then on page eight, goal number two, objective three, what does consequences mean in this context? So I'm that's what I've written in myself. So page eight, goal two, objective three, Reduce alcohol related death rate consequences. Increased AWI risk. So so, yeah, what what do the consequences mean? This is just a question that I was having.

Reduce alcohol related death rate. I think there might be a typo.

I mean, there are

because I think it's to reduce death rate, just death rate.

That makes more sense to me.

Yeah. I think it's just to reduce the death rate. Yeah.

Perfect. I think that was

a

typo. There's a lot of consequences everywhere. Yeah.

Next one I have is on page nine. I see thirteen point three percent in students who drink be gore. So that'd be four? Yeah. Thirteen point three percent.

It's like one two three four five sentences down in the background as soon as you drink.

Like, over the age of 13 instead of before the age of 13. Oh. And then I on the same page, you think current drinking decreased by negative 9.4%. I was just asking, what does this mean? So how is decreasing by a negative amount?

I think the the math on

this with the negatives and the

positives is what really threw us off. Mhmm.

Prior to 23, not available. Current drinking decreased by 9.4. Female is one, and male is 5.2. The onset of alcohol per strength they age.

We couldn't take out the negative there because it is a negative up here because it's in current drinking by minus 9.4.

I'm gonna pull up IRS request. Yeah. 1 2345. I should really pull this up so everyone can join us.

What's the negative up there? The current drinking volume is

So I think we could take

out the negative in this one.

Yeah. I think it was probably just. Because up there, the negative makes sense if it was positive enough. Finished drinking.

Let me find it. Because I wanna make sure. Because there was, like, some see, wait.

Did you just have me?

So it talks about it up there, and, again, then

Down here. On a positive milk, binge, drinking, and drinking decreased by forties.

And we are going to.

Yeah. This is. So we're all on

the same page. We are looking at this negative 9% range here. We're on page nine. Let's just look at your plan. We're looking at this one right here because it is mentioned up here because it says current drinking by minus 9.4%. And then over here, it says decrease by negative 9.4. So I don't know if you want to just take out negative.

I guess it depends on what's it. Yeah.

I'm trying to find you

where it's

at. So I got it from the wire

stop, please.

Let's see. Another topic. Keep keep looking. Where is Sydney talking at today?

Is at Fuller Lodge. So we're doing the singing games silent. Is your sappiness with roulette?

I've never done it. Okay. I think Liz was asking me to do blackjack. Okay. She's the one to me. Okay.

Now is this this isn't

middle school?

Yeah. High school and middle school.

Before the age of 13. I'm positive.

I'm wondering. I think

she averaged it between the high school and middle school.

But, yeah, I'm not I

think we're gonna have

to go back to double check with her on that. I agree, though, that I think it's might be wrong, or it might be,

like Yeah. Something's weird, especially her middle school.

Another negative third, 43.4%.

Underlying. Yeah. That whole, like, kind of paragraph there. Okay. I think we have to go back and look at

those numbers, and I am not finding it quickly in this data of pages.

Page 11.

The very bottom so I say bottom of the page and then it quotes, fortunately, there was an increase in the number of repeat DWI convictions. And so I said this sentence by itself doesn't make sense for our point of view. Even in the broader context of the paragraph, it doesn't sound like a good thing.

So,

like, I understand that being able to actually get convictions on repeat DWI offenses is good. I think maybe we could word it differently.

Yeah. I would have got a security.

Decrease in the risk can be interpreted as a positive outcome? Or

No. No. Specifically, I say sorry.

Like, the word fortunately. Yeah.

I'm sure. Oh, there. Like, we need to I'm trying to read the whole context, so hold on. This is a decrease Remember, do you write showing unexpected outcomes? I wonder if I was supposed to say unfortunately.

I agree, Wendy. Unfortunately, because it starts out with positive note. There's a decrease in the number of DWI convictions showing unexpected outcomes. Unfortunately, there was an increase in number of repeat DWI, so maybe unfortunate. And we have to

strip it at all.

We could strike it. Spin on.

Yeah. I was like, we could probably just strike it entirely and just cut there, like, go into

the next sentence. Right?

Would it make sense in there? Can we actually put true numbers? Do we have numbers? If we increased, it there would be a thirty three percent increase if we went from three people to four. You know? I Are we looking at numbers in the 10 to twelves, or are we looking in the at numbers in the 50 to 80?

No. It was like that. It was small numbers. That's why the percentages were big. I can't remember what they were, but they were small numbers. That's why she put the percentages, which is hard, which is why I think that's where she put I don't remember. It's somewhere in

here where She knows the 12 out of the three Ten thousand.

Yeah. Yeah.

But I think, yeah, just get rid of the word, fortunately. K.

I do that. Easy. And

then so I notice on page 14. And I say we still need to come up with a vision statement. It's not happening. Yeah. So in terms of it's just that what a vision statement is is what we have.

No. We have a vision statement,

and we need to include that and update it. Okay. So that needs to be added, and we need to, like, send it to everybody.

And then on page 15, I ask, is five worded correctly? Analyzing driving and driving data to reduce drunk driving. And so I say, our driving and driving data, two separate things. It should say drinking and driving data. Analyzing drinking and driving data to reduce drunk driving. That makes sense.

Analyze.

Drinking and driving data. Yes. Yes. And

then on page 16, the same roles and responsibilities as was mentioned in the purpose and objectives.

What did you say again?

So I wrote my my I don't know. So so my notes are pretty sure as on those same roles and responsibilities as was mentioned in the purpose and objectives.

Page 13.

The purpose of the council is it's the same exact thing as we have roles and roles and responsibilities as defined by defined in bylaws. Would they be the same or version of the dictum?

I think it's it needs to be repeated because it's kind of the same.

But the guiding principles or values are more to be more of, like, the roles and response. But

Yeah. Just the question I have is maybe they should be copied and be exactly the same, but why would they need to be exactly the same?

Yeah. Why would they to be there twice? But it also says active my my last. We may wanna go back to our my last and look.

Maybe that. But I don't know if we need it twice if we said. I think we need to review that.

Mhmm.

And then next item is on page 17. And they wrote down, classically, interface with community health council so that we don't do food aid services. So what is this for? This is also almost connecting to a program services provided. Mhmm. So, yeah, I asked that. Do they have any information or studies that were pertaining to our planning council's goals? Are they concerned with community health as a whole? They are concerned with community health as a whole and should include many of the things that we find in our scope of, like, our council. Mhmm. So I guess it was just more of a comment that we should maybe interface with them.

Like, invite them to our board? Or I

don't know.

Maybe just touch base with them to start off with and see what their efforts are that would then fall within the scope of what we're doing for.

And So that's more, like, for a few like, for Yes. Not necessarily this.

Not for this, but for future, like, plans on on efforts to help the community. So the specifically, said so we don't duplicate services. And this one. So this is what what we would like my social economical trends analysis in terms of implications. Okay. I wrote down several trends and estimations mean nothing to do without any context. Can we flush these out somehow to give context and meaning? It made sense when we were talking about the strategic plan, like, when everyone was in the room. But then when I was going over it, I just couldn't remember what anything was. So

So what do you mean?

That's You just regular environmental strategies. Like, I don't know how in-depth we wanna get on this specific page, but, like, what does that mean? Do we have a place where council members can reference what we meant by this? Because, yeah, I think the whole idea was of this was that if the entire council is replaced in the next five or ten years and they're still using this DG plan, they'll be able to just look at this and know what we were trying to go for. And this doesn't seem, like, detailed enough to really guide anyone that wasn't in that room at the time.

Does that make sense? Yeah. I just oh, can we maybe flush that out and give more context to what each one of those needs and be better at guiding us or anyone else in the future.

Yeah. So, like, I guess I

would say, which ones do you feel?

So I'm I've it's been three months since I was just

Oh, okay. Because I was like, I feel like the again, need to further environmental strategies. That one, I have no idea what

we were talking about. I don't even remember it.

Mhmm. Or, like, anything, just, like, don't know how to address political and and meet the needs. Who doesn't know? We don't know.

Board. Yeah. Mhmm. So I would think

this is all regarding, like, the board or, like yeah.

So these feel more like notes for us, but not

They were kind of, like, the drugs.

It was like small housing. Mhmm.

Yeah. I think these were all just notes for us in our strategic plan.

Like, when we went through it, it was just the notes on the post

its. Mhmm.

Yep. Mhmm.

I think that's me. Like, I let them get to further environmental strategies.

Come back to that,

and figure out what we missed.

Yeah. And then my last one is on page yeah. Let's see. Buses don't run on weekends. There's a trial going on right now, which is no longer happening for Saturday bus services. You need to get people to use it, but it's that's why I asked about it. I don't know what I meant by that. Let's just don't run. Do we have a section that talks about invoices? Limited transportation.

These are just, like, weaknesses of the county.

Yeah. Maybe there was something that I wanted to add.

That maybe that's probably what you wanted to do was add that because it's not on there.

The limited transportation buses don't run on weekends time frame. 6AM preschool. Right? It is on there. Yeah. Maybe you are just wanting to promote the weekend since there was

That might be, but I just wanted us to. But, you know, that's no longer happening. Okay. That's all I have.

Did anybody else look through it or

have comments? Or In-depth notes.

Just kidding. People's faces.

Okay. Does anybody have any more comments?

No?

I'm just I think it's great. I'm really glad that we have done this, and thank you, Sarah, for getting a contractor to help us do it. I think it's really important, and I'm really hoping that our funding can kind of be guided by the plan. And I think it's gonna be a really good thing.

And so, yeah, the first, like, several pages of this is very yeah. It's, like, kind of it's numbers. It's wire. It's, like, all the stuff that we went over. Right? So it, like, it is if you're not good, like, with the numbers or, like then we'll need to go back through it and and make a few adjustments, but I think it's pretty good.

Well, that's I think that would be a great opportunity to if if anything's confusing, especially with that negative number, the negative percent

I wanna figure that out.

We should rewrite it so that it isn't so confusing because there are gonna be board members that are gonna look at this in the future and be like, what does that mean?

Yeah. We'll fix that

for sure. The whole point of this document is that it should be considered to you means you can understand. And

so, like, ultimately, I think there was three goals for us, which is to try to reduce underage drinking, reduce adult binge drinking, and then just develop just sustainable funding and resources. And so the reduced so, like, whenever we process funding or approve funding of what sort, it should fall in those categories. Like, are we doing something that is that like, when we do the events for the team center, like, yeah, that's targeted. You know, the the dances or whatever we do that's targeted towards, you know, the reducing the underage. And then our measuring tool for that, because it's what we have, is the YRS data.

Right? So we can specifically clue in to those factors in addition to the surveys that we have the kids take. Right? And then the adult binge drinking, I don't think we really felt we haven't. We did last year where we did our one event, but we haven't really done. But, you know, that's kind of an area, I guess, you know, we kinda said that's where we'd like to maybe further grow or try to figure out

how we could do some moms. So

that's kind of it in a nutshell. And then the last few pages are those things kind of, but then they're outlined with all the things that we kind of do that may help or not help. Like, J JEP may help some funding. And we do education at the driver's classes and things like that, which we'll continue doing those things. But when we're mindful that those are, like, kind of the areas that we need to be mindful of when we're giving money and how we're giving it.

Does that make sense to everybody? Does anybody wanna add anything? Okay. So are we good to move on to the next thing?

Yeah. Okay.

So DWI prevention efforts. Sylvia, do you wanna go first? Give us any updates with Sure.

Any No.

So Juanita, Sarah, Christine, and I taught the drivers at DWI lessons. I think I heard it went great, and I think that's really important to be there. And that's maybe something for the future that we can think about. Can we expand lessons that help us prevent underage drinking first place, which then, in turn, also would prevent underage drunk drivers. Yeah.

So I think that's something we did, and we are thinking about, like, how to expand that. Also, maybe more pro like, not just for alcohol prevention, but, like, substance use prevention in general if we would push into schools. Yes. Go to grant for it's limited to tobacco, but I think if we would get it, we could expand it to other substances. It would allow us to pay student interns and then work with them to spread the message, first of all, like, in high school, but also, like, maybe push into middle and elementary schools with them.

So, yeah, we hope that we get that. We will hear in January if we got that. And then we did a webinar on vaping, and we are looking into expanding those webinars for parents, so maybe we could do one in the future as well for alcohol prevention just because we are thinking about, like, how to really reach parents. I don't know if the webinars are really effective, but at least we can reuse them on the Facebook page and in the newsletter to reach more people than maybe with an in person event. So I think that's, like, with alcohol use prevention from our side.

Yeah. It was I thought the classes were good. I think they're always good. We changed the the slideshow a little bit and added a couple of things from the feedback last year. But the other thing is is it would be nice to like what you said. I know last year they asked us to DWI to come, like, right before prom. They did some sort of Mhmm. Yeah. Substance abuse awareness and trying to make healthy choices. Right?

And so we threw something together super quickly, but it would be nice if we were a little bit I don't know if the school is planning on doing something like that again. If they are, I'd love to get it on my calendar since sooner than later just so that we're not, like, rushing.

Yeah. I had that on my to do list as well to probably check-in earlier this year so that we are not, like, drawn in at last minute. I love that. Would you be up for, like, if I asked the high school admin for, like, maybe a meeting where we can brainstorm, like,

how we

do that in a more, I don't know, evidence based

approach? Like, will you

be up for that?

Yeah. No. That's totally good. Like I said, I threw I threw away you know, I threw that together super quickly and just asked kids to kind of pledge that they would make a healthy choice, just to kinda get them interactive and thinking about it. I don't know. Again, because we didn't do a survey, I mean, I have no idea if it was effective or not.

Yeah. Good point. Yeah. I will reach out to Edmond and then see what they say, what they have maybe planned, or if we can kind of support that effort there.

Okay. Rachel, do you wanna give us updates?

Sure. So I think it's been a while. Our last meeting was in August, so I can't remember if I shared with all of you because substance use and alcohol use are frequently tied to mental health challenges, and they co occur. We have a new program at J. JAB. So it's we're now doing outpatient therapy. We can work with kids 10 to 17 and their families. And so any youth that are struggling, they can come into the program. It's free. There's no insurance billing.

It's 100% contract funded. So we're really trying to break down the barriers of people having to go to multiple providers for treatment. And along with that, they receive wraparound resource specialist care as well for referrals. And so we've seen really good results from that so far. We've seen some some complex situations and some complex mental health challenges that we're treating, but we feel that it's going really well in that program.

We currently have 22 kids in the program, so we'll be able to probably accept a few more. And after that, we may need to look at, can we expand funding if there's more of a need? In addition to that, we are funding our team movie nights in collaboration with SALA. Those initially started on Fridays. They've now moved to Saturday evenings, which is a big prevention effort because when you have kids at SALA and they're there together having a good time, they're not out in the canyons.

They're not at a house party drinking. So we have anywhere between usually twenty and fifty that attend those. Usually, it depends on if there's a new release movie. And if there is, then we see more folks join. Like, last week, we did five nights at Freddy's, and there were 50 kids that came, which was awesome. So we're gonna continue that. We're doing free virtual reality at the second Saturday of every month. And then we're also looking at doing some food and drink some free food and drink for the kids. We're working on some possible sponsorships around that to even bring more kids through the door. Sylvia, I'm really glad you brought up the lunch and learn webinars.

We had J Jobs clinical director participate in one on the warning signs of suicide, which I feel like was a really good education for parents. There were a lot of parents there as well. And I felt like there was so much good real life information that could be applied. And so I'm really glad to hear the schools will be continuing that.

And I think that's all for me, Deb.

For that again. Like, that was really great. Like, maybe we can also do more about mental health care access or something like that, which then down the line, that all prevents drinking and substance use. Yes.

You said you do the second Saturday of every month virtual what is it?

Virtual reality.

What is that?

Reality. So Alan has it set up. There's one one of the spaces where there's a big screen, and they're able to it's a game different games that they play, and they can just go in there, and it's open before the movie. And I think they're fifteen minute slots. And so kids can go in, and there are several kids that can play for fifteen minute blocks. And if they wanna try it, have them come the second Saturday so that they can try it for free. And then the other weeks, he does have it there. There is a cost. I wanna say, I think it's maybe $10 or $15 to play when it we don't sponsor it. But, yeah, if they wanna try it, have them come down on that second Saturday.

Perfect. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. Likely. Nice.

Sarah? The only thing I really have is the participation in driver's ed when it comes to prevention efforts. I've been really busy with everything else that I haven't even thought about making out a new banner or anything like that to promote the message that I really wanted to do seasonally. So, hopefully, we'll get that going and have more prevention efforts soon.

And then I just was now thinking when Eli's talking, like, I don't know why we don't have him in this section section to give us updates on, like, Teen Center and stuff. So let's Eli, do you have anything?

So, actually, we're working with JJ Abramen interfacing with Lisa about helping out with the theme movie nights. And so I think the idea is that once a month, we'll be, like, going along with the theme of the movie to have, like, a pre party. And so we wanna try to do is for every movie, have some kind of activity that might be tied into it, but just not officially do it every every Saturday. But try to get interest drummed up from the teams that are there at the teen centers and then go over the movie after that. So

That sounds awesome.

Hopefully, that'll that'll help increase the numbers so that it's higher for every now everyone and not just new release movies. The funny thing is is yesterday, we had our team council meeting, and they were asking us to suggest horror movies over the those teen movies. And I was like, well, they just did one last week.

Mhmm.

So hopefully hopefully, they'll be going more yeah.

And what time is the movie? At 08:30? Okay.

So the pre party would start at, like, 06:30 or something. Sometime that afternoon. Okay. Cool. That's cool. I like that idea.

What else are we gonna so not so much I guess it's not really for DWI stuff. But

Go ahead.

Guess one of the things that we're trying to do to help build resiliency, and we're not sure if we're gonna do it yet, we might need a search for funding, but we had a a couple of I can't remember the name of the university, but, like, I think it's St. John's graduates that are wanting to do a program with us that focuses around teaching teens more about, like, the language arts kind of outside of things and using the Saint Saint John's method of teaching where they have a kind of a council of of people that's guided by the instructor, but it's mostly the discussion of, like, Plato or Shakespeare or anything like that is is more just a discussion amongst peers. And the idea is that it helps build confidence in oneself because the instructor is supposed to instill that confidence by saying that's a great idea. Let's expand on it. And so they talk about so you might have, like, a 16 year old kid that didn't think that they were really that interested in, like, these great works of literature art.

But then when they have when they have their viewpoint on it, like, whether this part was lame or that part was really cool, the instructor, like, I don't know, like, raises them up and encourages that that line of thought, and the whole group discusses it. And so it ends up making people more willing to, like, voice their opinions and be more confident in themselves that their opinion matters. And so the whole the the outcome that we want from this is we want these kids to be more resilient and more well rounded as humans, especially when they before they go to college. So Super. It's a really cool idea. It's funny because they came and talked to us for, like, two hours, and afterwards, with me and Misty, we're like, we wanna be a part of that.

Yeah. Superb.

Superb. Nice.

Alright. So the next step is DWI treatment. I know Jordan's not here. Did Adriana send you any Yeah. She said she's not here either. Both of them are not reset. Did she send anything?

She did not. That's the time. Okay.

So then we will be at you, Jaime. Do you wanna give us some updates?

I can try. Unfortunately, I don't have numbers in front of me. I was looking over some of what Jamuel said back in the August meeting, and I don't remember the last time I actually gave you guys numbers. But I know that for the month of June, I myself had five or six DWI arrests. I think for that month, it was a total of either six or seven. Don't quote me on that.

Well I

I don't believe there was anything for July. It might have been one or two for August, but I don't I don't know what drug arrest he was speaking about on Llano. But I I have had, two drug DUIs so far that I can recall. One of them, I did have, it was weed. It was also mushrooms.

He had been using mushrooms. And there was another one which was closer to the main hill, which was wheat as well, and that was a 18 year old. And that one actually, I think both of them were 18. We have had at least one or two, underage as far as drinking. Trying to think here.

We recently just finished, Jamona and I teaching DRE school, which was back in, October. We had our field certifications done in San Francisco, last month. And I wanna say we had about 13 people pass, which was not very much. It was kind of a small class, but we had a a few people who fell through. Let's see.

I can't really think much off the top of my mind if you guys have any questions. I

guess my question would be, you said that there were a couple of 18 year olds that you caught with pot. Is that an increase, or is that normal, like, having two or so a month for that age range, I guess?

Well, I I can't I can't recall the last time we had any officer arrest, you know, five, six people in one month for for impaired driving in general. But I wanna say one was May, and the other one was June. So, I mean, it was yeah. I mean, that's it seems to be kind of normal. I mean, the fact that these ones weren't alcohol based and they were drug related.

The one back in August, that was the only one that was alcohol related. And I I I can't recall off the top of my head if there were any other juveniles that were under the age. But weed weed is definitely something that we're seeing a lot more of, definitely, and not just here. I mean, we've gotten in the last couple months, we've been called out to help state police in Rio Riva with some of their cases. But they just got a new DRE, so that call volume might be going down. Who knows?

Anybody else have any questions? DRE?

Drug recognition expert.

Thank you.

Anything else?

Not at the moment.

Monica, do you wanna go? Alright. So my November numbers my numbers usually fluctuate between one and two of my cases. So for November for November, I had zero new cases that came in. I have active magistrate cases. I currently have 12. Pretrial magistrate, I have zero. Probation municipal, I have 10, and pretrial municipal, I have eight. I currently have zero warrants for magistrate. I have two warrants for municipal and two pretrial municipal warrants that I currently have.

And one of them actually for my probation once just came in yesterday, so now it's down to one.

Yeah.

I don't have very much. We've been still working and trying to get some more in providers to do inpatient as well as outpatient. We currently are working with a new one. He's through Espanola, Santa Fe area, and I've used him already a couple times, and that's gotten well so far.

So What's the problem?

His name is Ambrose. It's ACB. ACB. So, yeah, it's him and another guy that are kind of doing either intakes and counseling, but then finding so they don't necessarily have a facility, but they kinda work alongside with Monica to try to get with open beds and get them into a a facility quickly. Yes.

And so but, yeah, it's been very nice. They went into the jail and did an intake for us and without any trouble, which is sometimes Typical. Difficult in itself just to get someone in the jail. So that was really a good a huge win.

Go for it, Rachel.

Yeah. I just wanted to share. Thank you, Monica, for reminding me of that. We're gonna be actually hopefully working with Ambrose and his team, and we will be offering our space for a youth IOP that we're hoping will start in January. So if the court or if anybody has youth that they wanna make referrals for, We'll have a handful of youth that we'll probably be referring, but there will be openings, and we wanna host that at our space.

So that'll be a meeting with Ambrose and Elijah today to let them see the space, to talk more about specifics. But once I know more, I can certainly share it with you, Sarah, and you, Juanita, and anybody else who needs that information. It sounds like maybe insurance will not matter that anybody that needs the service can just get it, but I will more information will be forthcoming.

If we have somebody that we feel, like, needed a referral, but maybe didn't have an assessment or something like that, is that required, or how does that work? Like, if I was like, oh, this person could make we wanna refer them, but we don't actually know if they need IOP or how does that work?

I'm gonna talk more with Ambrose today, but my understanding is that they start everything with an assessment. And then they make a level of care determination based on what their needs are. And so I'll find out more, Juanita, and I'll give that information to both of you, Sarah and Juanita.

Perfect. Thank you. Yep.

Cool. Anything else? Anything else?

Lauren's not here, and she did not give us an update. So we'll go on to me. I don't think I have anything really

just that the one thing

I wanted is like, we have we had planned our event last year, and we haven't really talked about doing one this year. I don't know if we're interested in trying to do one. This fiscal year, we did have money set aside for it.

It was for the adult? Yeah.

For the adults. Oh my goodness. Why can't like, from the beginning of this movie, what did we call it? We called it a Festival. Yeah. But we called it a sober event. Right? Sober. That's what it was. Sorry. It was substance free. Substance free something. So I don't know if anyone has any thoughts about that. Or I know that our DFA lady had asked about it. Just because I'm in the hawk hangout mode and we have just been doing this, I don't know if adults, like, 18 to 20 would do a silent disco and if we, like, did an event, like, again at Sola and had I don't know.

I I know some adults would. I don't know. Like, again, it's, like, a small age range, but that is the age range we usually are trying to target. I don't know. I I just was on my mind in the last week.

I don't I haven't really put a ton of thought into it, but that was, like, just because that's where my mind was, and then I was thinking we needed to do a sober event. And then I was like, I wonder if we did do, like, an adult silent disco and maybe in conjunction with something else. I don't know. I'm open for thoughts, ideas, or we're thinking we don't wanna do that or if we wanna do something different. I feel like we need to try to do something just in line with our our and maybe we need to brainstorm more. Maybe we talk about we put it on the agenda again, you guys think about it for a month, and we talk about it at the next meeting. I don't I don't just I don't want it to just go away and us not do it again for the year.

What was the participation, the last one?

Because I think we had 60 something. Yeah. I felt like that was a good number for our first one. And I do know that a lot of like, as I was talking to people and mingling, having it at Salla and the pizza was a draw because people didn't know about it, but they were there to get their pizza. And so then they, like, came inside, and they're like, what's happening? And so then they were like they kinda came in. So to which is fine. You know? That's what we want. Right? Like, it was twofold. So I don't know. What are people's thoughts?

I think doing something would be really cool, but I'm almost wondering because I know I know that we all have so many hats that we wear and that we're very busy, and I don't know if this is appropriate or, like, what the what we would need to do or what people think about it. But I'm almost wondering if that could be something that eventually a provider could bid on to provide. Like, I'm thinking Wolf and Mermaid. Like, I know that through my collaborations with them, they now have an outreach, like a a person who's doing more event planning that they've hired. I'm thinking I know Samasdot does a lot of substance free events out there, and I'm wondering if if maybe there's a way that we could put something either out to bid or I don't know.

Maybe it doesn't even need to go out to bid because of the amount of the of of what it would take to do it. But I'm thinking that if we could do something like that, it takes it off our plates, but also rejuvenates businesses in the community and gives them funding and exposure. I don't know. I mean, that was just an idea I was thinking about.

I like that idea. I can talk to procurement about an informal bid and see because this might fall into the informal bid where we could just say, like, hey. We're gonna DWI is looking for sponsors to host a event, and so they could we can send it out to, like, you said, to whoop and mermaid or whatever. Generally, it's it's a and then it is a smaller amount of money, but I have to remember the the rules on it, and I don't. But then anyone can put in for it, and we can award it that way, and it is a little quicker.

I could ask procurement and get back to us at the next meeting to see what if that's a quick feasible way, or do we just, you know, go to them and say, hey. Is someone interested in doing an event or collaborating on event like we did this last time before the June

and see what people say?

Yeah. Because I think it certainly falls within our strategic priorities. And I think that with the I I don't even know what it would cost, but maybe there could even be multiple events, you know, depending on the cost of it. And so maybe more could even get done.

Right. That's a good idea. I like that idea. Does anybody else have any other thoughts or ideas?

Sweet.

Okay. So we will move on to Sarah.

Alright. We are wrapping up quarter two. So quarter two report will be due for me at the January. We had our meeting for the f y twenty seven application already, so I am now getting everything started with that. The f y twenty seven, it looks like we have a $5,000 decrease. It went from 86,000 this year for f '26 to 81,000 for FY '27. So it is gonna be a little tighter next year with the budget. But we are looking at going in front of council January 27

to have

the resolution approved as well as the, random of understanding and, the statement of assurances so everything's already in motion the moment that meeting ended. So I'm on top of it. Attached to this is the FY '26 distribution at a glance. I only have distribution because there's not much happening in the grant currently. It seems I get zeros from Rackstop when they send me invoices, so I don't think a lot of Los Alamos clients are going down at this time, which is different.

We are still we're not even halfway through our budget yet, but this is up to November. We have supplies, money for community wellness and outreach, operating costs. I think that $5.00 two's for something. The contractual services is our law enforcement, and they already I've already gotten two or three saturation patrols. So law enforcement is out there looking for DWIs.

And yeah. So that's distribution and then attaches the quarter one report if you wanted to review it. For FY '26, we'll have the quarter two report probably in February's meeting attached to February's meeting. I also have attached next year's planning council meeting dates. So we're looking at January 8 as our first meeting in 2026, and then the dates are listed there.

I've already sent this to the executive assistant, and she should have those ready for us in the calendar here pretty soon. And if you need me to send you a PDF of just that, let me know. I can just send out an email and be like, here's the dates, or just keep looking at your calendar with the calendar invite. Calendar. K.

Other than that, that's that's it. The application is due February 26. I will be reaching out to people for letters of support because I need a minimum of three, maximum of five. I'm gonna shoot for five letters of support because I'm an overachiever like that. Obnoxious. So look out to that email. You, Rachel, Sylvia,

each other, Lauren.

Just start getting letters. K? Well, let's let's stay on my end. Do you have anything to add?

Do you have any questions for Sarah?

Yes. Got it. Nope.

So does anybody else have anything for Roundtable or information they wanna share

or last last thoughts, concerns?

I guess I just wanted to talk about, like, how how we plan on making sure that we have a quorum and actually have meetings instead of going three months without one.

Yeah.

Like, what can we do about that, and how do we want to tackle it?

Are you guys good with this time still, or does this is there a better time? Or

this is good for me too.

I know Jaime brought that up at our last, like, almost meeting, making it at maybe a later time in the afternoon, but I don't Jaime, are you gonna stay on this shift, or

are you moving to a different?

Well, my plan or hopes is to jump over to that traffic unit, which would put me on a regular day schedule, I would be on duty every single time we have meetings. So, I mean, I would love to be able to change the time to something a little bit earlier in the afternoon, but I don't you know, I would hate for it to have to change back or any of that. I don't know. It hard for me to really say on that one. Obviously, it's just be going with what you guys are are able to do, what you guys are comfortable with.

I know for Lauren, she says, just send me a calendar invite, and I'll make it work. She's always like, if it's there, I work around it. So

if it works.

I mean, this works like, if we're gonna do it on a Thursday or Tuesday afternoons, any like, morning is really the only available spot I have.

We do hot hangouts and stuff.

Because, yeah, hot hangouts and, yeah, just different things like courts and so I I don't know. Now I do know, like, with holidays and stuff, maybe that's I know what we hit, but it did seem like it was more than that because it was September, October, and November, which is November is obviously kind of but September and October, maybe we just hit a strange We kinda get a blue. Does January 8 look okay for everybody as of now for the people that are here?

Yeah. And I wanted to say for the schools, also mornings work better because in the afternoons, we have wind temps and everything. So

Okay. Rachel?

Not be able to attend the eighth. I have an all day training that I have to go to, so, unfortunately, I won't be able to make it.

Okay. So we'll check with Lauren. And I think Lauren said she just couldn't be here this month. I think she had training. Yeah. She had training, And Adriana usually is here. So I think if it's just you, Rachel, then I think we're probably good. Judy, are you good for the eighth, or are you out of town?

I'm actually in town for that one.

That's right. Alright. So I

think we're good as long as we can get Lauren and Adriana for next month, and maybe we just kinda talk about like, set these dates, but then maybe talk about it at the end of our meetings. Thank you for bringing that up because it is a concern. Alright. So I guess we'll go ahead and adjourn at 09:37.