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new uh uh items added. And I know you have a date here of uh January 14th on uh you know to postpone the adoption of the ordinance that was already published, but I do want to state that I know that we have two newly elected officials and that week I was going to ask uh or get consensus that we changed that week of the meeting. So, we'll have our what I'm recommending is and and I know it's not on on the agenda, but you know, I'll get with you guys, but recommend that we have our council meeting on the third and fourth Wednesday just so these individuals can go for that training because it's an all all week training. Are you talking about the Molly training? Yeah, the Molly and the newly elected. Yeah.

So, so I guess Mr. Attorney, I know you've had an opportunity to work through this. Do you have any uh comments to that or?

Not necessarily. I mean, I stand for any questions that you all might have. Um, councelor um Henry brought up some valid points. We looked at the Fair Housing Act. Um, it is pretty strict. Um, I think it provides for variations. I think we've hit those variations. We've provided reasonable accommodations to not only individuals who may be suffering from substance abuse, but any individual by allowing them alternatives to to the Fair Housing Act. And so, um, to sit here and tell you that this this ordinance is 100% and it'll never get challenged and it's 100% going to win in a court of law would I would be, um, that would be absurd. I I wouldn't want to tell you that. What I want to tell you is I think we've done the best we've can the best we can in coordination with city staff to ensure that we're complying with the Human Rights Act to com that we're complying with the Fair Housing Act, that we're complying with any applicable state law, that we're providing reasonable accommodations, that we're providing um individuals with multiple opportunities to open this type of business. Um, I [clears throat] think we've done the best we can and uh, you know, I I appreciate the staff. I appreciate the community. You know, they've given us a lot of input um, to the point where we we agreed with some of the input and we we thought, okay, we need to change this language and and ensure that, you know, uh, it's appropriate. And so, um, I think I think it's it's at a point where, uh, I would love to certainly put in a thousand definitions and and define everything. Um, there are alternative definitions and, you know, Department of Health, there's alternative definitions we can look elsewhere. Uh, we reference that in the ordinance. We allow for um, further definition if needed, right? So, I think we've done the best we can. Um, obviously, it's not going to be perfect

ever. we would like to hope it would be. Um, and it's a it's a living document. So even after adoption, it's not set in stone that cannot be amended. Um, it's not set in stone that um, things might occur in the future that we need to consider amendments, right? But, um, I I I think at a it's at a point where it's it's at least adoptable and and we can continue on that way. Um, councelor, uh, is is any ordinance in the community of in the city of Las Vegas challengeable? It is.

Yeah. I just want to make sure I let that get that point out there. They're they're all challengeable. This is this is a viable ordinance. I think uh, you know, some of these things are are have already been vetted through other communities, through other through other attorneys. I think we got a solid ordinance and I think we can move forward with this. and and I will and I will mention um counselors uh I certainly don't want to get into back and forth on certain responses um but we have reached out to other municipalities and municipalities that have adopted this this exact type of ordinance to see what the legal challenges of any have there been. Um we haven't received any feedback on that. So it's not to say it can't happen. Um we certainly are prepared to defend the city if that's the case. Um and and again I think it would be absolutely absurd for me to say if this is ever challenges we're going to win. Don't worry because that's just not the way world works. Right. Before I ask questions just for the record recommendation by community development is what you have before before us and you concur as legal. I do, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Councelor Scott. Mayor, if I may, Mr. Scott,

I am a city employee in the community development department. I've anguished over what I'm going to say. Um, I'm going to kind of step down from that city employee at this time. I have an adopted 21-year-old son that I'm guardian of, and he is in a group home in Albuquerque. Saturday, we received a letter from the New Mexico Health Department informing us that there was an incident at the home in June. That home never contacted us. We knew nothing about this until we got a letter from the health department six months later. Yes, this home's licensed. Thank goodness it's licensed because the health department did a surprise inspection. That's one of the reasons I am so in favor of this ordinance is because these people will have to come to the city and get permission to locate where they locate. At that point, we have to know whether they're licensed or not. I can assure you that research that I've done, if id have known this subject was going to come up, I believe the last time we looked, the state said there were probably 16 boarding homes in Las Vegas and three were licensed. That's a problem. We talked about family with Mr. Counselor Mononttoya this evening. Family is important and we need to know our family is protected. Every person in one of those homes is somebody's child. And we need to make sure that what's happening in those homes is happening the way it should, that those people are protected. And in my opinion, this is a major step in getting there. Because as it says, if they get a conditional use permit and they violate that permit, it's going to be yanked. And we have got to ensure the safety of the people in these homes.

Thank you, Casey. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, [clears throat] Miss Lazlo Henry had sent sent me a brief email with language that she had suggested to be added to the document. Did you review that? I sent it to um uh Lucas and also to our legal counsel

and I did I I reviewed it, ma'am. And the way it would look to me is that that would also fall with the with the the licensing part uh because it's asking for fees and that that would help us uh probably put that together like the way Miss Llo Henry described it. and I'm going to sit down and talk with her some more cuz I I do want to I want to get more input on what of what she has going cuz she's she's very passionate about this.

The other thing is uh the way the agenda reads kind of gives me a little bit of heartburn because it says uh to request approval to postpone. I'm fine with that. and then to request to republish the ordinance with revisions. I would like to see all the revisions first in final form, not a draft like this. U I don't, you know, I'm fine with post, but I don't think that we should publish it quite yet. we need to take another look at it so that we can read it um where there are no errors and we know what we're reading. And I mean we're going to wait till January anyway. I don't think another uh you know can be come in in the latter uh meeting in January instead and my comments.

Thank you. Uh yeah, if I may, Councelor Casey, that was upon my recommendation and the reason I I asked that they remain in red was that so the the council could see exactly what the changes were. Um think that we should be voting on it when it still has mistakes in it is my my problem. Okay. So it's not the it's not the red letter, just the red lettering, just the mistakes that are in it. Yeah. I mean, we can we can fix the mistakes, ma'am. I I've been catching them myself as as I was looking at them. We can fix those mistakes. They're they're minor minor errors.

And I guess just for awareness, this is only for publishing. The final, you know, the final one will still be brought upon. Yeah.

Oh. Mr. Mayor, so are those errors that you're talking about that critical right now or can they be adjusted in today's meeting? Yeah, there there's a misspelling of one of the words that instead of saying the word treatment, it just says the word treat. So, we could put the ment at the end and fix it. We still have everything on word. So, okay. We can make those adjustments.

That's just a minor adjustment of one word. and and and um I know we're still in public hearing because when we come out of public hearing, Mr. C, your attorney, we can't make a motion without adjustment to the ordinance to publish it. You you could No. Okay. If you made a motion, you can make a motion um to publish with the um amendment with I'm I'm sorry, with the correction in in grammar and Yeah, sure.

Now, if it was a I I don't mean to cut you off, counselor. I certainly apologize. If it was a substantive change, you know, delete a section or add this entire section, I would probably recommend not making the motion to approve with an amendment and then coming back. But, um, a minor change like that I think is is okay with the motion. And my follow-up question is, so are you going to have any more meetings or that's it? This would be it, sir. This would be it. So, just publication and come back to Marin Council. What's up, Miss Cassandra? Could you go ahead, Mr. Mayor? Um, council, counselor, so they would come back for another public hearing when along with the adoption of it for not for any type of

not public meetings alterations to the to the document itself. Yeah. Other than today's motion. Yes, sir. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Just point of clarification. Thank you, Mr. Thank you. Um, if there's no further discussion, I'd like to get out of public hearing and go into uh regular session at this time. Second by councilman Montoya. Second by councelor Martinez. Roll call. Councelor Levi. Yes. Councelor Mononttoya. Yes. Councelor Casey. Councelor Martinez. I have a motion by councelor Mononttoya. Second by councelor Martinez. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Motion carries. Measure of the governing body. Mr. Mayor.

Councilman Mononttoya. I move that we um go ahead and approve the request to postpone the adopted of the ordinance number 25-05 to the January 14th, 2025 council meeting. Sorry, councelor 0925-09. The third meeting third week, the the number of the um the ordinance is 09 09.

Thank you. Okay. Due due to um uh substance amendments and republished ordinance number 259 with revisions including the two revisions that were mentioned by staff. Thank you, Mr. Mur. Did you get those two corrections? Treatment. What was the other one? Not sure the other ones, Mr. Mayor. And the date just the treatment and then that's it. That's it. Just treatment. Okay.

Did that motion include to republish? Yeah. Republish ordinance number 259 with various revisions and he included the revision of treatment instead of treatments. Treat treatment. Yeah. the word treatment which is corrected and Mr. Mayor, can I just we requesting the right date on this? And [clears throat]

so right now he he may So right now I have a motion with the date of January 14th. Um I I will note that January 14th we're probably going to go ahead and uh move that to postpone it to an other meeting uh based off of the consensus of the availability of all the counselors. So I wouldn't put us I would just maybe ask that just a meeting a meeting in January. That's Mr. Mayor. and you can say January 14th and we can reschedule the public hearing and I will put a notice out that it's been rescheduled. It's fine like that then. So our motion stands and am I fair in saying that attorney the way he's okay procedure seems perfect. So I have a motion by council member Montoya. Do I have a second? Second.

Second by council minister Martinez. Um, you know, I won't be here for this action next month, but you know what? Uh, I want to thank staff and the people that were involved in the discussions. Um, I think this is important. I think that, uh, no, we do have to have policies and procedures. We do have to have safety for our public as well as for residents and for the institutions that come into Las Vegas and so forth. Um I think that like the attorneys advised us um this is a working document. It can always be brought back at any given time for amendments or changes or you know if anybody opposes or or if anything that that we did wrong or or didn't do it right um can come back for for changes down the road like any other ordinance. you know, um, circumstances do change and, um, at that time we'll deal with those changes also. But thank you, uh, for working on this. Thank you very much.

Roll call, please. Councelor Martinez, yes. Councelor Casey, no. Councelor Mononttoya, Councelor Lei, yes. I have a motion by councelor Mononttoya, second by councelor Martinez. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Motion carries. I appreciate you guys. Mr. City manager. Thank you. Moving on to our next business item, request approval of a contract between the city of Las Vegas and Novo Solutions. We have our city manager, Mr. Robert Aaya.

Um, mayor and councel, I would just like to say we've gone through a process internally and I'm going to defer to Miss Louie and Mr. SC to speak to that process. uh we have a recommendation for uh this software solution that will help us in many ways but I'll defer to Miss Ludy. Hello M.

Thank you mayor and councel. Uh so our uh goal with this was to improve the process for handling requests and uh complaints that come to the city. Currently, uh, these come in through phone calls, um, individual conversations, emails, texts, um, and we needed a better way to track these and make sure that they're completed. And so we were trying to find something that would be a comprehensive solution that would better suit our needs um, than the the current solution that we have, which is my civic, which is only for um, citizen engagement. And so we were trying to loop in all of our departments and be able to track the things that we are working on. Do you want to talk about the process?

Uh yes, good evening mayor and council. Um so we had many working groups uh collaborative sessions that included uh smaller groups and then we included all the directors. We had scheduled demos from um my civic text my gov and noo solutions. And in that in those meetings that's where we went through the discussion and the usability as well as the citizen portal which uh also allows for the citizen engagement. Um, so if a a resident has a complaint, they can upload this work ticket and it can be tracked through the entire process from the initial engagement to the quality control uh process and we can upload pictures. It'll automatically send a notification to the resident letting them know this situation or their concern has been addressed and how it has been concerned. Um

and so uh in addition to work order management, there's also asset management. And so there's um like our roads, our facilities, our fleet, signage, things like that. All of those things can be tracked. We can uh look at the age of the the infrastructure and and uh track when it needs to be replaced, when it needs uh repairs. We can create tickets based on those. Uh we can also capture labor and materials costs per work order. There's also uh a code enforcement piece. So if there we can upload our ordinances and if there's violations then uh letters can be issued out of that and it actually builds the letter for you and it references the ordinance. There's also a lot of uh analytics and reporting that we can pull out of there as well as dashboard so we can track costs, trends and all of that will help with decision making. the uh the system is very customizable. So, it's it's very usable out of the box, but we'll be able to customize it for our our needs. Uh and then I I don't want to um speak for you, but as you spoke with uh other municipalities that have implemented this uh one of the they had a lot of really good things to say um including their uh their customer support and so we would have a lot of support through the implementation process as well as when uh this would be operationalized. Mr. Mayor, members of the council, uh I would just add that uh this system doesn't replace onetoone contact with our teams and our individual employees throughout the city. Uh this is a tool and a resource that will track everything that we do uh and implement data that we could work on and work and build upon and improve upon our systems and workflows internally. But it it's also data sets that will come to mayor and council associated with their particular ward. What's happened in

their ward? What requests are pending? Where are they at? Are they done? Are they not done? Who's doing them? What is the status? So it, like I said, it doesn't replace the onetoone contact, but it does augment information and data sets uh so that we uh have more information on what we're doing citywide and and the what, where, when, how, and and why. And also, uh those tools with cost and asset inventory are are also uh very helpful. So that's what I would add,

Mr. Mayor. Councilman Martinez. So, I'm I'm kind of thinking about what you're talking about and, you know, how this process could work. But I I kind of see a couple of good benefits. you know, when you start talking about wards and you know, just for example, just you know, any street in our community, if it's a street that's in my ward, you know, that I that I serve and you've put you put a a a dollar amount to repairs to a street, basically it's telling you to replace the asphalt in that street. You know what I mean? So, I I see a lot of good with that. Now, I don't know if if this kind of a software would also work in benefit to to help, you know, uh offset crime. I don't know. I'm just thinking that on top of my head. Uh, I'm thinking that as far as target areas and and problem areas in our community and what we need to do and what we need to how do we fix if you get so many complaints here, well, what do we do? You did mention the uh the piece that mentioned uh uh you know, code enforcement and so forth. So, I guess this tool can be used in several different manners. Okay. So, I I'm just It sounds like something I'd be interested in at least. Uh I think we should look at it definitely. And if it's going to help us, we're going to we're the beneficiaries of this program at the end because it'll be helpful. It's a big tool. You said equipment, you know, you know, not only streets and so forth, but equipment for our community that we provide services with every day. you know, tracking uh, you know, trash trucks that are out

there in the community, greater, anything that needs sounds like a very useful tool and I I think uh if I guess it could be used in all those fashions, I think it's a great tool.

Mr. Mayor, Councilman Martinez, uh, I spent a va a large amount of my career in in housing authority management and uh, multi and single family housing management. uh this resource is not uh very different than a structured work order type system that not only tracks your overall work progress but allocates the resources that you're investing in each individual area or respective projects. So it would in fact cover uh allocating what we spent in streets uh what we're allocating in dealing with any uh other waterline breaks. It it covers the whole gamut of the city and provides uh fixed data sets right that are rolled up in a comprehensive manner. And so uh we're going to learn from it and and we're going to have to build upon it. It's not going to be the be all end all. It's not going to replace people, but it will be a mechanism for us to provide data, information, costs as we make decisions oriented around budgets, oriented around areas of need. And so, uh, that's I think you're right on point with your questions.

Thank you. Thank you, Senator Casey. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Trying to look for the page where I had the question. Um it says onetime fee for uh configuration and implementation and all that and then there was another fee for uh the annual fee is 18,400. So those two items together come up to the total fiscal impact of 24,300. Okay. Then um thank you. The the question that I have, I'm always concerned about how um I think this is it sounds like a wonderful program, but does it include training for residents that want to, you know, uh use this to submit requests because right now they can't even uh find the city council meetings on the website and so I have to tell them, you know, go to the city website. It's las vegasnm.gov and then have to do step by step with them. And so I am concerned, you know, people want to participate and be able to uh make requests directly to the city, but they can't maneuver uh the system. So I'm just concerned about how this will work. uh so that people can actually use it instead of getting frustrated and saying forget it you know I'm not going to even bother. So those are the kinds of questions that I have in my mind because I get so many phone calls like that I mean on a regular basis. So how would how would that work and how will they get uh trained to learn how to use it?

Yes ma'am. Thank you uh for that question. Um so we did when we did receive the demo they did give us the basic layout of their citizen portal and it is completely customizable. We can make it as generic as we would like or add to it. Um we can also um provide give there will be a city link as well as a you can download the app for Android or uh Apple um software and then if if the request to fill it out online is too hard we've already talked about making um howto's you know where to go on the city website uh how to access the link how to access the service request portion for their concern and if they are unable due to not having a computer assets or uh software on their phone uh they can contact the city and then we can input the request for them.

I was just going to say uh took a while to get there but you did a good job getting there. The bottom line is that and I dealt with this in the housing authorities is that those individuals that need assistance, we will we will assist our staff will assist in inputting the work orders into the process chain so that they're able to get the work into the system. And so what we're doing now is we have an array of tracking systems that can differ be different department by department. This rolls up that information into one comprehensive unit. Is that accurate, Miss Ludy?

My my question really is more of does this uh program I don't know what it is. Software. Yeah, software provide like a stepbystep tutorial that somebody that can actually find it on the website where it says, "Okay, step one to make a request, you know, do blah blah blah. Click on this. Does it do that or not? And can you um program it to do that?

Councelor Casey. Uh I'm not sure that it has it built in automatically, but we can customize it and either work with the vendor to have them develop that information or we can develop it ourselves. And then I think the big part will be the communication from the city to our citizens. I think that's something that to me is a concern because I mean I think it's wonderful to you know monitor vehicle inventory and all those other things that it does but the people out there need to benefit from this too. And I would like to see them be able to use it without getting frustrated and saying forget it now it's even harder to get anybody at the city than it was before. And I don't want that to happen. And I want this to be a successful way for people to feel confident that they can contact whatever department they want to contact or make a request for building the pothole or whatever it is. And is there any uh way that if there's an emergency that they could use this or not? Like let's say that somebody's uh water line broke or they can smell a gas leak in their house. Uh can they report it and get a response right away or not?

Uh yes, ma'am. So in the case if there is a water leak, they can isolate where the leak is and they can draw a a graph of That's not what I mean. Will the people be able to report it and get and get a response right away? If if I may, it depends on how we implement and adopt it. Uh for a gas leak, that's a kind of a major emergency that shouldn't go through a ticketing system like this, and it should probably I I believe the process would be reporting it to 911. Correct. Okay.

Um and then for water leaks, uh I think there's some procedural things we need to discuss across departments. Um, and so discuss with the water department what is the the best way to report a water leak so that it is responded to quickly. Um, because otherwise people will have to have eyes on this system at all times and if that's the process that's fine. Um, we just need to make sure we agree on it. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

So, so, so she kind of asked a couple questions that uh, and I'll tie it into my question. when you talk about customization of and I don't know if it's dashboards or how it may be I think that's important on response time and you know depending on what's reported right but

what I want to add to my question is is there an opportunity to create a dashboard or however reporting system where uh you know we as a governing body now can and I know each one of us probably has our list of todos to the city manager So, we put that list, it's tracked, so when we come and we meet with the city manager, we don't have to pull our notebooks out from, you know, uh, and I'm going, you know, with managers in the past and and things like that. You know, I know councilman has a book from years and years of of requests. But I guess this question would be this question would be is now we don't have to bring that documentation. We could just come meet with him. He pulls it up. It's dated. Okay. Well, we're we're on step A. were instead B that was taken care of. Is that kind of what we're looking at even for us as a governing body that we could re you know report instead of

Yes, that is correct. Um and in fact as we you know if this is approved as we move toward implementation getting a list of everything that you know leadership would like to see uh would be very helpful so that we're we're building it into the system right away and not kind of coming back later and and making edits. Mr.

Mr. Mayor, thank you very much. You know what? Uh, on the audience, we have a gentleman by the name of Igor Stancherich from Casia and he works in management for General Mills. This company makes cereals, candy bars, you name it. Right now, they have two projects across 20 countries that what they're working on worldwide. He works from home and others in his company work from home but they communicate because they have programs such as this one. This proposal is the most basic of them all. CMMs, computerized maintenance management system, the fundamental elements that the shady should have, you know, uh it's important to be able to communicate and like the mayor said, the city manager gets bombarded not with four, you're going to be getting bombarded with eight people pretty soon. How you handle that? you know this system you wouldn't even have to come and see the city manager it's all putting it in he would respondse the directors would respond when the projects got completed and the whole works it's it's it's a it's a right hand to everybody and as far as our constituents you know those that really care they will learn how to use it they learned how to use the other one that we had what was it a 311 system and now we have another system with the PD that uh I think that we're paying for is the is the other one that first do

okay well anyway the thing is that this is a tool another additional tool for the whole community the whole city to just invest in it will save time it will save money and if there's no further discussion Mr. I'm just going to cut it short and and u move that we approve of this contract between city of Las Vegas and Novo Solutions. And I'm glad it doesn't say Nova instead. Thank you, Mr. Chair. By Councilman Mononttoya, second by Councilman Martinez. Roll call. Councelor Leardi. Yes. Councelor Casey. Yes. Councelor Mononttoya. Councelor Martinez.

A motion by councelor Mononttoya. Second by councelor Martinez. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Motion carries. Next item, request approval of resolution number 2555 accepting a match waiver in the amount of 21,523 through the New Mexico Department of Transportation match waiver program for project number L400725 awarded for Rididge Runner Road Reconstruction Project. We have a public works director, Mr. Arnel Lopez.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move that we approve resolution number 2255 accepting the match waiver amount of 21,523 with the New Mexico Department of Transportation match waiver program for project number L400725 awarded for Rich Runner Road reconstruction project Casey second by Councilman Mononttoya. Roll call. Councelor Casey. Councelor Martinez. Yes. Councelor Levi. Councelor Mononttoya. I have a motion by councelor Casey, a second by councelor Mononttoya. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Motion carries.

Quick note, Mr. Lopez, thank you and your staff for applying for this funding. You know, uh, we made up there a couple of times in the last what, eight months. Uh, and I'm glad this is finally getting done. We have like probably 300 residents and surround people from surrounding areas that work in that area that go in and out to different departments that are stationed in that area. And I'm glad that you addressed it in a timely manner and and that it's going to get done. Thank you, councelor Casey.

Moving on to item number five, request approval of resolution number 2556 accepting a match waiver in the amount of 77,89525. This is a New Mexico Department of Transportation Metro River Program for project number LP40071 awarded for Commerce Street reconstruction project. Mr. Mayor, Mr. Casey, I move approval of resolution 556 accepting the match waiver and the amount of 77,895. Second, Mr. Mayor, a motion by councelor Casey. Second by councel. Roll call. Councelor Mononttoya. Yes. Councelor Martinez. Yes. Councelor Casey. Yes. Councelor Lee. Yes. I have a motion by councelor Casey, a second by councelor Levi. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Motion carries.

Moving on to number six. Request approval to accept the amended grant language from the New Mexico Department of Transportation Aviation Department for the game fencing project. Mr. Lopez, yes, Mr. Arnold Lopez.

Yes, please. Thank you for that opportunity, mayor and council. This one's a little bit more complicated. So, you know, initially when when uh you know, we had the issues of of aircraft hitting elk out there at the facility, you know, on the runway, um we took it very seriously and we and we and and we took action immediately. you know, I reached out to um Game and Fish first of all and requested is there any opportunity for you guys providing a game fence, you know, for protection of of aircraft and more importantly uh human life and uh they were unable to to finance that that request. So, we acted further and we went out to both federal aviation and state aviation. So we applied for for two opportunities of grants from each one. Okay. So um I mean we are so fortunate that that both of them funded us and uh so so we went with the federal um side of it to fund the project entirely with small um you know um matches from the city and from the state. So we selected to go with with the federal aviation for funding. So, we took the step a little bit further and we reached out to um the state side of it and and the fact that we were already granted but didn't need it, you know, we we requested if we could utilize it within the airport, you know, property and and operation for for additional things needed out there and we are fortunate enough that that they they you know, approved that. Okay. So now this basically this agreement is an amendment to read a little bit different and and what it's going to read, [clears throat] you know, as you can see there is it starts off the city of Las

Vegas Municipal Airport is requesting an amendment to the grant agreement awarded for the design and construction of the game um proof property fence. The original grant agreement was fully funded by NMDOT or yes aviation division for the intention of plan design and construct of the game fence. However, due to recent funding developments, the original funding source was changed from the New Mexico aviation to federal aviation committing to fund the entire project. the city has, you know, accepted a grant agreement from from the federal side in the amount of 1,69,699. Okay. The the amount previously allocated by NM do um state aviation under the grant was 1.3 million 400 or or 46,796. So, um that's basically where we're at. and and and they did approve it. And what we plan on doing out there is is um redoing our fuel farm. You know, it's antiquated is in dire need of upgrading the entire fuel system out there. So, that's one of the purchases that that we're going to do. Another one is a fuel truck and able to, you know, um fuel air aircraft as well. Um our fuel truck is is very old. Um half the time it doesn't work. We put a lot of money into it. So, in dire need of replacement, um some snow removal equipment and and some more uh mowing equipment for for maintenance of of the airport. And then depending on what those amounts come in at, you know, we we um will hopefully have additional money. The balance that we have to that we can spend is 1.3 or yeah, 1.3 million. So that is 1,32,135

is available to us for additional needs out there at the airport. So that's that's basically the amendment. I stand for questions. Uh this is for Mr. Madrid. Do we have the uh 10% matching funds available? Yes, we do. counc. Okay. If there aren't any like to make a motion to um approve. I may um mayor and councel. So the city's match is a 1% match just for the record.

Councelor Casey, do I have a second? Second, ma, you had a question. You know what, Mr. Mayor? Um this went before the airport committee various times. Uh we saw all the needs and the problems that they had sweeping the runways and also with the fuel system. I mean it was always down and there was always I was having to call somebody from out of out of out of the city limits

to come and fix him and stuff like that. Uh we all know what happened to the accident about the elk running into the runway and so forth. So uh Mr. Lopez did not hesitate on doing what [clears throat] he had to do on applying for this funding. Um I think this is a win-win situation and uh it's just for public safety and the safety of our investments at the airport and for uh us to keep up the airport. I mean, we've done a lot of things at the airport this last year's, you know, put in new lighting, new signage, the whole works. I mean, uh I think the only thing left there is probably be uh renovating the old uh what is it that old hanger, but you guys will deal with that down the road, but this is a good thing. Thank you, Miss Madame Casey, for making the motion.

Local. Councelor Levi, yes. Councelor Mononttoya, yes. Councelor Casey. Councelor Martinez. I have a motion by councelor Casey, a second by councelor Mononttoya. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Motion carries.

Mr. Mayor, may I just make another comment? I just would like to report that uh the game fence is currently probably about 35% complete. The project is moving pretty fast and we've secured, you know, a good portion of it already. And then if I may, um just offer, you know, for public works, thank you to to Councilman Mononttoya for always supporting our projects. and uh and staff and and uh not not just supporting projects in your ward, but but citywide. And that goes for all council, but thank you and we appreciate what what you've done for us. Thank you.

And I'm just going to make a little comment. I know it's going to we've been here a long time, but I'm going to call you Arnold Moneybagg Lopez.

You seem to always seem to always get money. So, Moving on to the next item. Request approval for the water tank project task order number 395823-3. Compensation for engineering design services during the design phase in the amount of a lump sum of 1,153,48310 and that's including the New Mexico GRT. We have our water director, Mr. Travis Martinez. Uh, mayor, council, um, we, uh, submit this, uh, task order for consideration of approval under contract 395823 between C Las Vegas and Moles and Corbin for professional engineering associated with the water tank project as authorized under the agreement of engineering services. This task order formally incorporates the following cost proposals and scope examinations for planning design phases and your guys's uh packet. Attachment one is planning services scope of work and the attachment two is the design services scope of work. The way the compensation structure works is a lump sum of 825,600 not to exceed with an additional lump sum of engineering services that is not to exceed 70,000 and that's going to be for topographic survey and aerial imagery standard hourly rates with maximum NEES and you're going to have your geotechnical report and soil testing that's 56,000 grant funding application assistance that they're going to be providing is $15. 15,000 50,000 for easement survey easement services surveys I'm sorry estimated six properties are going to have to do in

this project with an additional 50,000 subsurface utility engineering subtotal engineering cost 1,66,600 with total NMGRT is at 8.1458% comes out to a total of $1,153,48310 This task order enables Moles and Corbin Associates to com complete the final design and supporting technical work for three new water storage tanks and associated system improvements that have been identified in the design analysis report the D that has been provided. The improvements include Camp Luna tank, another one at 2 million gallons with the mixer and blower improvements. uh water line to the airport with a a tank at 2 million with the water line extension and booster pump stations and Aribo tank at 2 million with waterline extensions and easement requirements. These uh capital improvements are critical to system reliability, regulatory compliance, improve pressure zone and future operational capacity of city's water system.

Mr. Mayor,

Mr. Mayor Council, I'd like to add a few uh comments tied to the water project. Uh this is a project we had discussion about and received guidance to move forward. Um, this project has to continue to re uh have compliance with the state of New Mexico, New Mexico environment department and there has been some uh discussions about the project and I just wanted say a few things on the record associated with the what the city has done. Uh so through Molson Corbin uh there's a couple principles Jonah and uh Doug that have uh collectively have 41 years of work. Uh Mr. Doug Alvin uh has that work directly working with the city of Las Vegas on uh water projects that run the gamut from water line distribution to water tanks to water tank refurbishments. uh connected to cabin site, connected to Valencia, connected to our overall distribution uh system. Um another comment that that we received some input on uh as to has the city taken a look at raw water and raw water storage. And so, uh, just on the record, we have within our Bradner, uh, storage reservoir 300 acre 300 acre feet of water, which equates to 97,755,300 gallons at Bradner. And our Peterson has 200 acre feet of water for a total of 65,17 gallons, 107,200 gallons. So, um, also, uh, the city based on the fire impacts, based on flooding, uh, had to invest and spend $8,543,000

to $8,543,21830 uh to deal with water hauling associated with the challenges from from those effects. Uh these storage tanks will advance the storage as you all know and provide an additional 5 days of capacity uh direct correlation to the challenges that have been faced postfire. And so I just wanted to say those on the record. We stand for any other questions.

You guys look at the D that I provided. It's just a breakdown of what Moles and Corbin did. If you read the second page, why additional water storage is needed. There's some points in there that the city manager just said. The increased storage for drought contingencies, backup supply in case water treatment outages outages or wildfire related impacts. Improve fire suppression capacity, reduction of dead-end water lines, which improves circulation and water quality. Reduction in disinfection byproducts, especially in the east side zones, and better pressure stability across all three pressure zones, one, two, and three. I stand for any questions.

Council. Casey. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just wanted to uh thank Mr. Martinez for always providing information that is easy to read, track, and understand. And uh I really appreciate that because it doesn't have a lot of superer suppl. So, I appreciate it very much and I think um you've done a great job in in putting everything together, explaining everything. Uh the [clears throat]

uh report from Moltz and Corbin is also very uh useful to us I think on the council to be able to feel comfortable about what is is uh the what the tanks are going to provide for the citizens of Las Vegas and provide for uh possible emergencies that might occur. So I want to thank you for all of that. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. Yeah, Mr. Mayor, I just want to I just want to mention that, you know, here we are working on fencing at, you know, at our at our airport and, you know, getting water to that location is such an important piece and creating these distribution lines that, like you mentioned, are not deadend lines and and we have circulation within our community loop systems as, as I've always mentioned, very important, I I read somewhere here that uh these water lines, I don't know if they're additional. I I can't remember. I I just read it uh yesterday, but like 83,000 gallons of water lines. Is that is that an accurate statement to say? Did I read that property in here? The water lines actually contain that much water uh in our system. It was like 83,000 or something. I I know I read it in here. I was trying to find it. Uh, well, I'm trying to get that in my head, but just to give you some some little backup on there, the city of Las Vegas has 121 miles of water line, and

it's not enough, right? [laughter] 83,000. No, I I I read something in reference to the gallons of water that would be in those lines. But nevertheless, it's such an important piece, especially if we're trying to structure the airport area and, you know, it gives us an opportunity for growth. It, you know, it's not, it's something that's not going to happen maybe right away, but it gives beneficial water source to an area that didn't have it. Yes, sir. So, and it helps our distribution within our community. So again, as uh councelor Casey mentioned, I do appreciate everything you've you've put on this document.

Water, water, water. You know, this subject was started by the mayor and myself probably about a year and a half ago and we were ignored by two different administrations. I'm glad that finally somebody listened. [clears throat] This is what's is needed in order for Las Vegas to survive for the future storage of water for Las Vegas. The tanks that we have and the locations that we have them in are good. But this additional tanks, three of them, what eight million gallons per tank or so or something like that.

Six six mill

six million gallons total. That will help Las Vegas by six days of storage more or less. Depends on the use. You know, the only thing that I would caution may and council is on the six properties that Mr. Martinez mentioned that we need to get a rightaway for for the pipeline is I would caution because I know that when we did the water line to Medite from the reservoirs all across 518, we landed up paying a land owner I think it was 20 water taps and we gave him 20 years to utilize it. He used one or two in those 20 years. They came back to us in 20 years and they wanted to redo that contract. We allowed him one more year to use 10 taps. So I would suggest that on this rideways that we pay for the rightway instead of exchanging it for water. Um because I would hate to do another real ranchel in a certain area where this locations were going to happen. This is for gravity flow and this is to circulate the water through the whole community and these are like the city manager said what the engineers recommend. And um if if mayor if there's no more discussion on this then Mr. Ley

thank you Mr. to the city manager. It's a great idea. We always people always talk about water sources of 50, 60 years and we're getting water tanks in there that we need them. We need them for our community for ourselves and that's going to make us great because we're this still a small town and we talk about water always and we're getting it done. Thank you for take putting that amendment on the the charter and go from there. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would move for the approval of the water tank project task order number two 3958-23-3. Second,

compensating for engineering design services during the design phase in the amount of lump sump of 1,153,48310 including New Mexico gross receipt tax reimburseable. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Motion by Councilman Montoya. Second by councelor Martinez. Roll call. Councelor Casey. Councelor Le, Councelor Mononttoya. Councelor Martinez. Yes. Have a motion by councelor Mononttoya. Second by councelor Martinez. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Motion carries. Hi. Tonight, I hope this is accurate. Uh, Mr. Travis Martinez. Happy birthday on behalf of Mayor Council. And I think Councelor Casey will lead us in happy birthday for Travis. Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, that's fine. All right. So any serve video

[singing] Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear. Happy birthday to you. [laughter] Mr. Mayor, uh, Councilman Martinez. Yeah, Travis. Uh, I just wanted to mention that on page four of seven is where it says the system will have 58,000 gallons of water in pipe. It's on page 40 of seven on the very top. Is that for the airport?

No, it's not. I don't think it's talking about that specifically. It's just I just wanted to bring it to your attention. page four on the very first paragraph.

Okay, I'll get back to that. So, I sort of read stuff too. Thank you, Mr. City Manager. Is uh any of this refundable through FEMA? Mr. Uh, mayor, Councilman Montoya, uh, we can bring Deb Sulzer up uh, to to maybe help with it, but uh, this is this is a permanent fix, but although it is direct, there is some direct correlation uh, is there potential within the would it be the claims office? Yep.

Thank you, Mayor Council, Mr. Annayia. Yes, we have submitted we've submitted a claim in the claims office. This is part of the the $40 million that we're pursuing to get the rest of the 140. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you, D. Moving on to the next item. Request approval for out of state travel for Lieutenant David Varela on January 20 20th through the 21st, 2026 to Eagle River, Wisconsin. What's the pleasure of the council? Approval for out of state travel for Lieutenant David VMA. Second as well. Motion by councelor Casey. Second by Councilman Levari. Roll call. Councelor Mononttoya. Councelor Martinez. Yes.

Councelor Casey. Councelor Levi. Have a motion by councelor Casey. A second by councelor Levi. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Motion carries. First chief. No. [laughter]

Sorry. Moving on to our next item. Request approval to accept project agreement from the New Mexico Department of Transportation Traffic Safety Division. The amount of $18,192. It's the pleasure of the council. Councilman Leari, Mr. U, you have anything on the proposal funding for the our nights or anything down south grand or anything like that? What was that?

Do you have anything on this proposal for any additional lights or anything on 12 grant after those big accidents we had there? Uh, no. This is for our our traffic uh grant money that we received through the DOT. Yes, sir. Yes. This this is what pays the overtime uh for NDWI step and buckle up. Mayor, I move that we approve the project agreement department of transportation traffic safety division in the amount of $18,192. Motion by councelor Casey, second by Councilman Levari. We'll call Martinez. Yes. Councelor Casey.

Yes. Councelor Mononttoya. Yes. Councelor Lei. Yes. Have a motion by councelor Casey, a second by councelor Levi. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Motion carries. Thank you. Moving on to our final item, request approval to award and enter into contract with AECOM Technical Services Incorporated for RFP 202604 for dams and reservoirs engineering services. Mr. Martinez,

Mayor Councel,

um, it was actually pretty good. Um, this contract expires. The city of Las Vegas has a contract. [laughter] [snorts] This is just a renewal of the contract and we have to have the contract in by the end of the month so that way we can keep the Peterson Dam project going. I move that we approve the award and enter into contract with ACOM technical services incorporated for RFP number 26 uh 2026-04 for dams and reservoirs engineering services by councelor Casey. Second by councilman Levari. Roll call.

Councelor Mononttoya. Councelor Martinez. Yes. Councelor Casey. Yes. Councelor Levi. I have a motion by councelor Casey. A second by councelor Lei. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Motion carries. We journ motion by councelor Casey, second by councilman. Before I hit the gavl, councilman, merry Christmas everybody.