City Council - Regular Meeting

start getting ready. We got a few minutes. We'll have the prayer by council and you know in a pledge by council lady more if she would please. I mean as many colors as she is today. She's she's really colorful. Looks good. Okay. It's going to be quicker inside. [Music] [Music] We will call this meeting to order. The city council regular meeting on Thursday, June 12th. Councelor or excuse me, Mad, could you please call the role? Councelor Halverson here. Councelor Oessa here. Councelor Moore here. Councelor Cabin is absent today. Councelor Korn here. Councelor Cortez present. Councelor Helderbrand present. Councelor Arnold present. Council Johnson here. Council here. If you please stand for the prayer by councelor Maru and a pledge by council lady Moore. Please Father God, we come before you and give you all glory and honor. Father God, we ask you to give us the wisdom in our decisions today. Father God, we ask you bless everybody that's here. Father God, we ask for blessings over our law enforcement, Father God, our first responders, for

for our nation. Father God, we give you all the glory and honor, Father God, and thank you for all you've done for us. In your name we pray. Amen. Amen. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you everybody for coming. It's uh somewhat life. Uh so light agenda tonight. If we don't talk too much, I guess we'll get out of here pretty quick. Maybe, but maybe not. So, uh thank everybody for coming. We're missing counselor cabin, but other than that, we got a full house. So, thank you all very much. If so, the first item on the agenda is approval of the agenda. Well, council lady. Mr. Mayor, I move to put the agenda for the June 12, 2025 regular city council meeting with the following changes. Move item 25 to the consent agenda [Music] of Bandal and Kurt Harrison to the commission on page 25. 25. Yeah. Third page. Thank you. On page 148, under board and committee action, change held brand to 148. I'm sorry. So page 148 board committee action held and branded corn.

[Music] And then uh pull item number five off of the consent agenda and place it before item 24. So pull item 115 off the consent agenda and place it before item 25. And the final change is pull item number seven off the consent agenda because it's a duplicate of number eight. pull item number seven to duplicate number eight. And also item 19 is recognition man for proper disposal of the flag. That will be in next month's meeting. So you can pull item 19 as well. Um, and I believe that's all the changes we have. So, we have a on a motion by council lady uh and a second by second council Johnson. Any further discussion? All right. the clerk to call the role. Councelor Halverson, yes. Councelor Ovesa, yes. Councelor Moore, yes.

Councelor Korn, yes. Councelor Cortez, hi. Councelor Helderbrand. Hi. Councelor Arnold, yes. Councelor Johnson, yes. Councelor Marupo, yes. Motion passes 9 to 11. Motion passes 9 to 11. Okay. Okay. Next, we have the items on consent. Mr. Mayor, I move to approve the consent agenda as amended presented for the June 12th, 2025 council meeting. Second as amended. As amended. Yes, we have councelor Calver. I'll second. Well, I think we had councelor Marua. Is there any further discussion? If call the roll. Councelor Halverson. Yes. Councelor Odessa. Yes. Councelor Moore. Yes. Councelor Korn. Yes. Councelor Cortez. Hi. Councelor Helderbrand. Hi. Councelor Arnold. Yes. Councelor Johnson. Yes. And councelor motherh. Yes. Okay. Thank you. So on 14. Okay. So that takes us down to non action airport updates. Uh, this uh Thomas, you know, next time the governor comes to town, I want to get that one of those boxes to her so you can sit there. She and I'll take it. Would you like a little higher one? As long as I get the microphone, I can be good. If you were Nikita Cruise Champ, you

know, he always wanted to be a little higher so he could throw his shoe. I'd be pretty out of balance. Oh, well, do you remember him? There's not many of us who probably would in the room, but anyway. Yes, Miss Thompson. So, good evening, council members, Mr. Mayor. Pleased to be in front of you again this evening. So what I'd like to talk to you about first is some of the activities going on at the airport which are many of projects that we have that Mr. Con will be talking about in a few minutes but I just want to give you an idea of ongoing projects that are all related to air center improvements rehabilitation and new items. While he'll talk the specifics, I just want to let you know that before December, through very many grants that we've been able to achieve and receive, we'll be spending $17 million improving your airport. And we're very happy about being able to do that. And then, of course, you just approved the 5-year capital plan. Uh, and the five-year capital plan over the next five years adds another almost $50 million in projects. Now the airport portion of that we have covered through airport revenue. So we will not be asking the general fund for any money. The airport will pay for its own improvement and additions and we hope to even achieve more in the coming years to really be able to turn our airport into the best airport in the state. We have a number of pre- bids coming up as well as advertisements in the newspaper and then of course selections at the usual 2:00 at the city hall. And those will be projects for electric replacement as well as rehabilitation of a taxiway that was damaged during the CO period because they parked heavier aircraft than it

could handle. So we need to do a 4 in fill in that bud. We'll be talking about that shortly. Then I'd like to give you some more numbers. More numbers. So aircraft parking which as you folks know there's a number of aircraft parked on the airport and it fluctuates some in the last month then went up again to 205 parked aircraft that we collect per month based on size and weight. I believe with some things that are happening in the industry that number will continue to grow over the next few months. Passenger boarding in 2024 during the month of May 3,879 passengers. In 2025 for the same period, 5,713. So you can see that our passenger loads are increasing and we're leaning very hard not only on American and the flights that they have but also on attracting new carriers which we'll be back to you with some more information on that soon. Then on the strategic plan updates, we continue to seek all types of grants, federal, state, the bill grants, which are the bipartisan grants, the MAP grants, which are military airport grants, former military airport grants, as well as state grants, and every other grant we can find. We're going to collect all the money we can put here. Uh, in recent weeks, I had in-depth discussions with the senior management of the FBO at the airport. I have been very upfront with them that I'm not happy with their services. I'm not happy with their facilities and they need to do something different. I told them they need to invest capital in fixing the facilities. They need to do things like eliminate birds from their hangers that make a god awful mess. And they need to get better quality service, customer service out of their employees. There'll be several changes coming up on those

regards and I'll be reporting those as we go forward. So find is complete. Then also in the past we've talked to you about the possibility of a spaceport in Roswell and we now have a confirmed visit coming up on August the 7th. So we have 20 people coming from the spaceport organization to look and see what they could possibly do here in Brownswood. And if you would go ahead. So this is a photo we recently had which several of you attended the pylon race school which is where the pilots get certified from the new course. Those are just some of the folks that were there. Those class and the top two photos and the bottom were some of the aircraft in the jet class. Then you have to remember we had uh several aircraft here but sometimes more than one pilot gets certified in the same aircraft because pilot certification not aircraft certification. So they did some sharing which keeps their cost down as well. And in the top right picture is a briefing with the fire department. So what happens there is we bring in the emergency personnel and they learn how to safely get the pilot out of an aircraft in the case of an incident or accident. And they've learned also the things on the aircraft they don't want to mess with so that they can prevent also preventing harm. So a couple of pictures of folks going around the pylons and that was our temporary home island. But if you look at that decal on the front of that think of that 50 ft tall cuz that's what the home island will look like in September. Then this is a very interesting map. So you have 2022 on the left and 2025 on the right. And what what does that mean? Ticket sales. This is a hot word to where ticket sales. Each one of those little green dots is where tickets have been purchased. Now it doesn't say 10 tickets or 50 tickets. It's just a location of where tickets have been

purchased. Three states have not bought tickets yet. All the others have bought tickets. And that's Maine, Vermont, Mississippi. So we'll just have to get after those folks. But if you notice, there's a lot more green in 2025, especially in places like Texas and New Mexico. So, we're very pleased with that. We think we're very much on target to get probably 60,000 or more attendees here. So, tell your grocery stores, tell your gas stations, tell your neighbors. Come on out to races. There'll be traffic anyway. You might as well be out there having fun. So that's what I have for you today. And if you have any questions, be happy to answer. Any questions on this? See none. You know, I think the ticket sales is very interesting because if if they have in 22 they had 80,000 or something 85 85,000 in 2022. So if our sales are up at 20% higher than 82, I mean that can indicate that really uh uh of course a lot of these are the dieh hard people I'm sure but that always buy all the time but it shows we have a pretty good chance of having a a very respectful show. Now, we know we're going to hit that lodging wall because things are getting sold out and then as you've been informed some of the places and you've been very helpful with some of the lodging in the community that have decided to uh get what they can while they can and not really plan for future events uh which of course you've been working on. So, we don't yet know how that's going to impact people when they can't find places to stay. But with the help of city management and city departments, we have been able to create

500 RV spots and several of those do have full we did not have in Reno. And then also uh some will have water but maybe not electric. And we've got tent camping which wasn't in place before. So we've got a lot of things, additional new things here that we didn't have in the past years. and we're hopeful that that's going to ease up on some of the lodging, but we know at some point it will definitely impact attendance. I know some of the hotels there were some individ some hotels had told uh visitors that had $100 rooms that they were going to be remodeling the rooms, so they cancelled their thing, then rerented them at 500. Uh I know one of the I know there's at least one of the hotels that came back and reinstated all the hotel room that at the lower rate and uh and so we didn't send a the city we did send a letter that expressed our displeasure with people who were gouging people and being dishonest in their villain. And some of those early reservations were for our longtime volunteers that are so critical to the success. So, we're really working hard. If you know companies, organizations, individuals that want to volunteer, please contact the races because we we certainly need volunteers in all kinds. Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much, Miss Thompson. And we have uh Mr. Kelly, did you have anything you would like to bring up about the Miss Thompson covered it all extraordinarily well, not surprisingly. Thank you very much. Thanks to the city and everything for what she expressed you've done to make this event possible. It's been good. Okay, next uh Mr. Bud Conport Advisory Commission.

Good evening, Mayor Jennings and Rosville City Councilors. The AAC had our June meeting on Tuesday, June the 3rd. We had several city employees in attendance, including the city attorney and the mayor. Uh thank you for your attendance. Some tenants were also at the meeting. Uh thank you also for your attendance. Again, we had a lengthy agenda with uh 23 items to be addressed. I'm going to go into a little more detail than Bobby did, but she had quite a few of them. Uh the first one that I want to talk about is the ADB lighting project that's still continuing on a monthly basis. Uh I came in uh on the 11:30 flight last Monday night and the runway lighting is readily seen from several m. It looks like one big beautiful runway. That was a joke, guys. [Music] I got it. Did you get it? It's all in delivery. All right. Probably was delivery. The new uh electrical lighting vault design will be advertised from June 11th to the 25th. Bids for construction are expected to be open on July the 8th. Uh completion time for the new electrical vault is expected to be in late September uh with about a 60-day build time. Uh this vault is expected to provide greater reliability to the new lighting on all the airport runways. The airport master plan, Bobby mentioned that also, uh, continues to wait FAA approval. The most recent problem

appears to be a zoning issue. The FAA is not on board with. Hopefully, this can be resolved and the project can be completed in the next couple of months. However, currently there is no time commitment for the FAA. We've been dealing with that for about three months now. The BLM loading pit taxiway project remains the same with construction expected to begin following the fire season possibly in August or early September. The apron rehabilitation project in front of the terminal building uh has a start date of July the 7th. This project will be split into two phases. The second phase will not begin until after the air races are completed to ensure that there's no negative impact on incoming attendees for the air races. The taxiway Charlie project is to repair damage. Bobby mentioned that earlier from heavy aircraft parked during CO which damaged the asphalt paving. The design engineering is almost completed. June 18 to July 2nd is the time frame for advertising the project. Uh bid opening is scheduled for July the 5th. It's expected to be a 45day project but will not be scheduled until after the air races. This is a 1.8 8 to2 million project. The terminal improvement project which consists primarily of renovation of two restroom areas is expected to begin on July 1. Uh it is expected to be completed in 60 days and should have no

negative impact on air travelers arriving or departing for the air races. The terminal flood repairs are proceeding uh both with wall repairs and carpet flooring repairs. Uh hopefully uh most repairs will be completed this month by the end of June. The Walker Aviation Museum repairs are completed and it is now open for visitation. The new taxiway Charlie extension will have a notice to proceed in early July. This is to be a 50- foot wide taxiway that will be used extensively during the air races in front of the grand stands as both a taxiway for racing aircraft and for some static display aircraft. Phase two of the Southeast Waterline project to include sewer line bids are being received. To date, the sewer line bids have been competitive and this project should continue beginning in July. We've had a a termination on that for the last three or four months while the contractors working on more critical uh infrastructure things here in city. The Challenger Drive drainage project, based upon reporting by M. Rogers, appears to be a problem that can be eliminated by digging a drainage ditch to divert water ponding from its existing problem area to move the water out onto the airfield for adequate dispersal of the water. Time frame to eliminate the problem has not yet been determined. Don Fiser reported that June 30 is the most recent date for Boeing's arrival

for testing aircraft with almost 300 people scheduled to come for Boing. However, Boeing has pushed this date into the future several times already. The final item of importance discussed, Bobby mentioned this also, and you've voted on that tonight already, was the five-year capital improvement plan for the air center. Uh, this plan includes projects totaling $42,874 from 2026 to 2030. Most of this funding is expected to be provided by federal and state government. This concludes my report and I stand for any questions. Okay. Do we have any questions of Mr. Councor or Presser? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'm just curious because we we got an email that said the jump was going to close and then the the paper said that it wasn't going to close. So, what is the uh actual situation with with the job core? Y I'm I'm not sure that we know for sure unless received some information just in the last couple days. Originally, they were not going to be funded nationwide. That was Yeah, originally that's that's what happened. Bobby's got you in. Yeah, thank you. Uh I did have another meeting with those folks today. Now that building uh evidently there was a little confusion on it. That is a fally owned building. It's not owned by the city or the airport. It is a fedally owned building. There was a stay of execution, I guess you could say, from a judge. Uh

so they were going around today getting letters of support that will be sent to the uh US government to try to continue. Uh the problem seems to be that some of the locations had issues that were inappropriate. Uh so why don't they go after those instead of all? Uh but uh it's still unknown. They have uh right now as it stands they have a quick notice for the end of this month and they've already had to place their their kids at other locations. So if they recover uh they'll have to recollect some staff and also then bring the children back. Right now it's not looking very good. Okay. Thank you. And the the other question is aliyah that that one for sure is going to be shut down. Uh the aliyah decision has not been made yet. That one's still under discussion between the contractor and the state department. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Any further questions? Yeah, as Bud just reminded me, u of course I is still under a lease with the airport and they're they're paid right now through October. They pay six months at a time. Okay. Any further questions with Mr. Okay, thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, next we have a proclamation for frontline workers.

Good evening, Mayor Jennings, members of the council. Uh tonight we have our proclamation recognizing our frontline workers uh on Mayor Jennings behalf. Thank you, Mayor. Uh my understanding is we've got several of our frontline workers in various disciplines throughout the city here with us tonight. I would ask that you come up with with uh me and stand here uh with me as I read this proclamation. Would you mind? Frontline workers. I think we've got teachers, nurses, please come on up, Charles. Come on up. You're a frontline worker. You can stand up. Thank you. Thank you. So, we've got an amazing group of people in the house tonight. I'll read this proclamation on behalf of Mayor Jennings. Whereas frontline workers are the builders of our community exercising curious curiosity, compassion, courage, and creativity to provide essential services that ensure the safety, health, and education of our residents. And whereas more than 9 million health care workers across the United States serve in hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, often placing themselves at risk to provide lifesaving care. And whereas firefighters respond to an estimated 36 million emergency calls each year, more than 800,000 sworn law enforcement officers nationwide work tirelessly to uphold the law and ensure public safety and emergency medical service personnel respond to more than 240 million calls annually. And whereas

teachers dedicate their careers to shaping the future of our communities with more than 3.7 million educators in the United States providing knowledge and guidance to our youth. And whereas the city of Roswell recognizes our valued utility workers who are on call to maintain usable roadways and ensure fresh water and sanitation systems work around the clock. And whereas all of these and other frontline workers embody the essence of builders, flexible thinkers and constructive problem solvers who respect the dignity of all people by dedicating themselves to overcoming challenges and uniting our communities. Now and therefore, I Timothy Z. Jennings, mayor of the city of Brazil, New Mexico, do hereby proclaim the month of May 2025 as frontline worker appreciation month. Signed, Timothy Z. James [Applause] you know, on behalf uh of our community, we have all kinds of frontline workers, and everybody does their job, and we all do it together. And uh we help, we make children safe, we make fresh water, we make fire departments, we make police calls, we do, everybody does a little bit. And and that's what makes the greatness of this community. and and it's when we share our time with others and make other people's lives better. And uh so on behalf of uh all the citizen and all of us out there working

together, thank you all for your service. And uh and if you see somebody else, it's always nice to take a front line friend with you. Uh you know, you can see just when we had Riosa come down here, you see how everybody opened up and you know, when we had our own disaster, the people opened up all over to the neighborhood. So really anybody can be a frontline worker, but you know some you just have to help your neighbor and make the life their life a little bit better as you go through it. So thank you all very much for your dedication and thank you all for helping make our community given it the personality that it has. Thank you. [Applause] Okay, next we have Mr. Gary from the Rob Chamber of Commerce for presentation. [Music] Oh, I get the mic. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, as you know, uh, the chamber, we do ribbon cutings for groundbreings and grand openings and regrand openings and everything. And tonight, uh, we have a couple of photo boards to present to yourself and and Mr. Cole. Uh, one is the, uh, dedication to the pickle ball court that we had a while back and the other one is for the morning glory club. So, uh, good. I'll get you to come down here and let Andrea present you with the, uh, morning glory club and I'll present Mr. Cole with the pickle ball. And somebody else, Julian, if he'll take a picture, I appreciate it.

[Music] in the middle. Where are we at? You want us to look at you? Yeah. That's okay. You tell us what to do. [Music] I guess it's appropriate for me to get the morning. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Oh, that's mine. Okay. Mayor, I'd just say we pulled item 19 for next month, but we did add a new proclamation regarding General Motors. Okay. Would you like Yes, sir. We can cover that now. Is that okay? That's right. If there's a we have a small president proclamation for uh General Motors. Yes, if you can read it, please. This is uh something that our city manager, he's got a lot of talents and there's some things that were going to happen in Rland and you know, things are just better with a little competition. Absolutely. And when you have air races and things sometimes it comes up with an idea and it's got a good one here. Would you go ahead and proceed, Mr. Cole? Yes,

sir. Thank you, Mayor Jennings. Members of the council, as Mayor said, uh, every now and then we we communicate over the phone late in the evenings and and we have some great ideas. Um, so, thank you, Mayor Jennings, for allowing me to write this uh proclamation uh to General Motors. And I'll just read it here for us. City of Roswell Proclamation. Whereas the city of Roswell, New Mexico, renowned for its pioneering spirit, rich history in aviation innovation, proudly welcomes to the world to the Alien City's first annual showcasing of the fastest event in motorsports, the National Championship Air Races to be held September 2025. And whereas General Motors Company and Chevrolet have announced the 2026 Roswell Green metallic painted Corvette, a shining example of American innovation and automotive code of excellence. And whereas Roswell is a city where we believe in the spirit of competition, collaboration, and the relentless pursuit of excellence while also celebrating American ingenuity in air and land speed. Now and therefore be it proclaimed that the city of Roswell officially issues a public challenge to General Motors Company and Chevrolet to pit their 2026 Roswell Green metallic Corvette along with any other interested intergalactic visitors and competitors against an aircraft in a head-to-head race during Roswell's camp National Championship Air Races event held September mber 2025, demonstrating the frontier spirit and technological leadership found in the strength of our community and this great nation. Let it be known that Roswell

invites General Motors, Chevrolet, and the world's eyes to witness the ultimate test of speed between automobile and airplane, celebrating the excellence of competition and American innovation at its finest. In witness thereof, I hereto set my hand to cause this seal of the Roswell of the city of Roswell to be a fixed on this the 12th day of June 2025. Mayor Tim C. Jennings. [Applause] Most people don't know Boba has a connection to General Motors, but uh there was a gentleman here, Ross Malone, who is the chief counsel and the head counsel of General the General Motors Corporation in the United States, one of our own localals here. Mr. Malone was a fantastic man and he was a a really good great lawyer and he's also he was chairman of the American Bar Association but he was the head counsel of General Motors. So they should accept this challenge the way you know they won't they want to go by and use Rosville and everything else. That's great. We're all let's just get let's get that Corvette out there with 7800 horsepower and let's get out there and let it run against one of our little airplanes. we could see it and we of course we you know they they picked their vehicle we can pick ours. So it's it's something that you know gives General Motors something to do. Uh if you can imagine that really the name of the green you can Google uh General Motors uh 2026 Corvette and one of the new colors is Roswell green and u you know I guess they're probably you know everything going on with the government everybody's afraid to to challenge or bring anything out so I don't think they're going to open the

vault about at right Patterson Air Force Base where they took alien bodies. But uh anytime they can this way, this challenge will be there and hopefully we'll get a couple alien visitors to that too and we can see what they have up if they have some ships that can fly in this race and not have a crash. So, we're looking forward to it and we hope that General Motors will move right along with us and we'll have a good competition with them. And mayor, I don't know if they're watching tonight, but they might certainly be watching after the fact because we're going to send this proclamation to General Motors Company, uh, in particular, their director of marketing and their senior engineer who came up with the rozel green metallic color for the Okay. So, okay, moving right along here. The next one we have is item 20 which is a proclamation to Richard Smith. Richard D. Smith and Would you like to read it if you don't mind? Yes, sir. Oh, certainly. Mayor J Mayor Jennings and members of the council this proclamation. Whereas Richard T. Smith devoted over 30 years of distinguished service to Chadis County Flood Control Superintendent. And whereas throughout those 30 years, Mr. Smith faithfully served the residents of Roswell, Dexter, Lake Arthur, and the surrounding areas of Chavis County with honor, integrity, and sound judgment. And whereas Mr. Smith was an invaluable asset to the community, actively contributing numer to numerous organizations focused on water resource preservation, flood control, public safety, disaster recovery and watershed management while also serving on various

boards and committees to share his expertise in flood control and local water management. And whereas Mr. Smith played a pivotal role in the design and construction of Chavis County flood control building, leaving a lasting leg leg legacy of infrastructure improvement. And whereas during his tenure, Mr. Smith consistently delivered exceptional service to the citizens of Chavis County. Under his exemplary leadership, the department secured the staffing, funding, training, and technology necessary to maintain the highest standards of public service. Now, and therefore, it Z Jennings, Timothy C. Jennings, mayor of the city of Roswell, New Mexico, do hereby proclaim Thursday, June 12th, 2025 as Richard T. Smith Day. [Applause] For those of y'all who know Dick, Dick worked for the NRCS conservation district on saving our land and farmland and and helping with the uh uh ensuring that we have stable stable grounds for farming and lack of erosion and things. He did that for 25 years at the NRCS and there 30 years and then he came and he went to work at uh Chaps County Flood Office and and as as your uh head engineer at the flood department and uh I've been able to watch him for since 1974 and watch his the the years that he has put in uh in protecting the grounds and and the watershed of Chavis County. And uh I can't tell you

what a wonderful, polite, polite, honest man he was. He had the trust of every uh person inside or outside the county. And uh their flood commission had had done probably u a lot of it got destroyed in the floods, but they did probably at least 50 or 70 million worth of work in cleaning up the river beds and things. Uh when we had this storm, it could be one person has told me it's even as maybe as much as a 2,000year storm, but we certainly have we're real close to a thousand-year storm at least, if not more. Uh it's hard to keep records like that when the storm we had became here. But uh there's 10,000 acre feet of water that is uh between the Rocky Aoya Dam and and the Hondo Dam. So between that and the air base, there's 10,000 acre feet of water that can come through town. And our channel only holds the Well, the Honda channel holds,00 cubic feet per second out of out of 10,000. And that's why we saw so much peril was that there it's very difficult to come up with a plan uh to stop that flooding on the other part. The core of engineers is hopefully in January of this year they had a new thing where they work at alleviating flooding and it's extremely difficult to do because anytime you move move water downhill straight you have a huge problem because it gathers so much speed the power is not you can't stop it. So you have to have a meandering stream to get it down in a slow manner. Uh but Dick had had some ideas in there and he left some of those with us and he died uh last week.

He just had a heart attack and reosa and uh but he was extremely an extremely dedicated person. So if I thought this would be a nice thing we could do to thank him after the fact. It worked until he was probably 80 83 years old. I mean, you would just work for Holly. Um, and you know, it's great. It's great to see someone who loves their job and works well with all the people they're involved with. So, all our citizens. So, thank you all for allowing me to have this today for for uh Mr. Smith and we will have it as they're going to have a service next Saturday, I believe, at the club. U anybody would care to go. Anybody have any comments about Mr. if they know him as well. Like say something that's fine. If not, we'll move right along. But thank you all very much. Next, we have the Main Street Report from Miss Barbara. Good afternoon, mayor, city councilors. It's kind of different to see you guys in this environment, but I kind of like it. You know, we're a little bit closer to you guys. Uh, number one thing, but number two, thank you, Chad, wherever you went to talk about that green corvette. Uh, you know, I don't know if you guys read it or not, but it says Roswell Green Metallic. The new color is a vibrant alien inspired green, drawing inspiration from the town of Roswell, New Mexico. known as a UFO known for its UFO sightings. So that's very cool that's out there. So we along with you guys are um putting some feelers out there talking to a few people. We would

like them to bring a huge at least send us a huge poster of the car for photo opportunities to the UFO Festival this year. So let's keep our fingers crossed for that one. Okay. So uh you have already been given your report that was my written report and that covers July of 2024 to May of 2025 and that includes the disclosure of our financial status. It also includes an overview of the operations conducted during the preceding year and future operations. We currently have nine board members and two exeicios on our board with one of those exeicios being our own city councelor Juliana Halverson which is always a fantastic addition to anything that she's a part of. So we're excited to have her. uh in 2024, Main Street Roswell is designated as a Main Street America accredited program and along with that for our accreditation, we are also able to apply for technical assistance and during and this is free technical assistance. Everything from leadership meetings, online presence, monthly meetings and just uh all type of technical specialists are available to us. And the value of those, and they're for free, mind you, but the value for this last year was $23,23. Uh, in 2024, Main Street Roswell took over helping out and putting together the UFO festival. For many years, Main Street Roswell did the UFO festival and then we moved over to the Alienfest and did that for a few years. But last year in 2024, the city of Roswell um along with Main Street, we agreed to work on the 2024 UFO Festival together. Um and this year we are also working together

on the 2025 UFO Festival. And a big thank you to TJ Conurs and the group in uh in that department and also to Todd for Sigville, the Hobbit. He is helping us this year with the uh he's helping us with the parade. He's also helping us with the costume contest since he knows a thing or two about costumes. So, we're going to he's going to lend us his expertise with uh with some u you know judges and things like that. So, we're really excited to have him be a part of this of us this year. We continue our work on the wayfinding project and we look forward to seeing that thing happening really soon. Uh we also just finished on June the 5th and thank you to many of you that attended the grand the groundbreaking ceremony for the cultural uh the Chhattis County cultural plaza that was held at the location. I was so impressed to see that they've already turned the ground. Uh it's going to be they're ahead of schedule a little bit. So you might see that come to pass before the end of this year. They said they're hoping to have it before hopefully by 2026, but they're pushing for the end of 2025. So, that's an exciting venue that's coming within the Main Street District that's going to be available not just for Main Street, but anyone in the community that's looking for a venue. And as Mr. Uh, Bill Williams talked about during the declaration, it'll be another area that will have bathrooms that might be available during events, which is something that we really, really need. So, we're really excited to have them within the district. Um, let me see. So, just a couple of quick things. Uh, we are going to be working, Main Street Russell is working on a a regranting program. And to explain to you a little bit about that, the green granting program is basically we're going to

start uh putting aside some of the money that we get from uh events and different uh type of money, especially events and even some of the money that we receive from the city of Roswell to be able to turn around and regrant it back to the main street district. So if somebody needs something, maybe they need a new facade, maybe they do need paint, maybe they need interior type things, uh we can work together with them. And this will be a local grant through Main Street Roswell. So we'll have a local team of people uh jurying the applications. Some of it will be uh fully uh sponsoring or funding some of the projects. Some of them will be matching grants. So, we're real excited about that. That's something we're just rolling out uh right now putting together. Uh we are also working on a rebranding of the Main Street of Main Street, not the district itself, but Main Street, the organization. We're looking at our bylaws. We're looking at our missions and our visions and we're going to come up with a new look. And some of you probably, as a matter of fact, the lady I'm working with is with New Mexico Main Street. Her name is Robin. And we have sent many of you uh surveys. If you have not received a survey, let me know and I'll make sure you get one. From that survey that gives you guys the opportunity to tell us what you would like to see the main street district look like, how you would like the organization to, you know, what you want us to do differently. Um, and from those surveys, as a matter of fact, right now, I was just told this week by New Mexico Main Street that we received way over a hundred replies already from those surveys. So, that's really really exciting to know. Um anyway, we do have some new businesses that have come up and uh we'll talk about that a little bit more, but I

think that the really exciting part is the fact that we have uh received and like our um our businesses have done interior and exterior improvements and rehabilitations totaling somewhere around 190,000. And this is money that people in the district are putting into their own businesses, which is really, really exciting because they're taking um ownership of their district and and putting their own money into it. So, right now, I would like to show you a really short video that Miss Juliana put together based on our report, and I hope you enjoy it because it's fantastic. So, thank you. Welcome to Main Street Roswell's 2024 2025 annual report. Together with the city of Roswell, we've made great strides in revitalizing our historic downtown, celebrating our past while shaping a vibrant economic future. [Music] Over the past year, we've worked handinand with city leaders, community members, and local businesses to build a destination we're all proud to call home. In October 2024, Main Street Roswell was officially recognized as a Main Street America accredited program, giving us access to $23,000 in technical services from New Mexico Main Street, from leadership training to marketing support. Our impact is powered by the people. Nearly 2,000 volunteer hours, a value of over $38,000 were given by residents, civic groups, and our dedicated board members. Financially, we secured important grants and continued long-term projects like the wayfinding plan where we received

$100,000 from destination forward for planning and design and $400,000 in capital outlay funding and the Chavez County Cultural Plaza, which received a great blocks grant of 2.1 million, as well as Chavez County receiving a grant over $200,000. The groundbreaking was held on June 5th, 2025. Business is booming downtown. Eight new businesses joined our district, and more than $190,000 in private investment went into interior and exterior building improvements, from coffee shops to museums. Our events drew locals and tourists alike. The UFO Festival, Chili Cheese Festival, Holiday Light Celebration, and the Farmers Market brought life and laughter to downtown Roswell. We hosted nine stakeholder meetings, both in person and online, to keep our community connected and informed, and we're just getting started. Our plans for 2025 include expanding the wayfinding project, exploring new matching grants for business improvements, installing a district sound system for events, partnering on redevelopment ideas for underused spaces like the Engle building. Main Street Roswell thrives because of you. Thank you to our volunteers, businesses, partners, and the city of Roswell for investing in our downtown's future. Together we are transforming Roswell. [Music] And that's a half. I did bring some posters for you. So if anybody posters, they're up there in the front. But thank you to Miss for any questions. We have any questions, Miss Gold?

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Barbara. Thank you, Juliana, for your part in that. Okay, moving right along. Next, we have our employee out of state travel. Uh, I don't know if there it's in your folder and 123. There's I don't know if Chief Besares to explain these, but if you look in your folder, there are 10 officers that are going to uh train and then we have Uh Steve Chavis has Mr. Fuller is going to go I believe Daniel for he's going for the National Fire Academy and would you care like to say anything in behalf of your officers you're sending uh to the out of state travel? Good evening, mayor, counselors. Um, our out of state travel for the start of the next fiscal year consists of in actually in June, Randy Rodriguez, Anna Romero, Crystal Gonzalez, and Nick Bumman, all our SRO's in the schools. Um, going to a uh or went to a full scale emergency exercise in Leach, Texas. Brings back beneficial training. We don't get to do that a lot over here. We do have some training during the summer with the teachers, but in love with a lot more resources. They had a full scale exercise with all their entities over there. So, it's valuable training to bring back in case of an incident here in Roswell. The same four SRO's that'll be going July 5th through July 11th in Greatvine, Texas is the National Association of School Resource Officers Conference. Every year they have breakout sessions at these conferences and they can actually gain certifications um to further their SRO duties. Um the

last one July 19th through the 23rd sending officer Joel Wares and Officer Eric Castillo to basic sniper school. Um we've lost some people on the SWAT team in the last year and a half. So we're needing to get a few more snipers in case we have barricaded subjects and emergency situations. So, we're going to be going to the basic sniper school. Not a lot going on in the state as far as that kind of training, so we had to find one out of state. I stand for any questions. Any questions? One thing on your on the the training you had in Lock on Atkins Middle School full scale emergency exercise. you know, for I think most everybody knows that we're going to probably use the old Nancy Lopez school as a full-scale training exercise in cooperation with New Mexico State Police. So that would probably be very beneficial to have this training here and it's uh we worked real well with the school boards and working to get that together and it's uh be a good deal and um so these out of state trainings are really valuable for up to date. It's we will be the state police will own it. Um, but you know, we'll be able to uh utilize it at all times and we'll be the only only uh town in the uh state where a law enforcement agency actually owns a school to train in full time. So, it'll be very beneficial for all the agencies around here. [Music] Okay. Uh, Chief Javis, did you would you care to enlighten anything on what we're going to send Mr. Fuller? who goes to the National Academy, which is a pretty big honor as well. I think Mr. Mayor, council members, uh, Deputy Chief Fuller submitted his application for Emittsburg, Maryland to go to the

officer training academy and was accepted and so he'll be attending that to get some uh some further officer training. Not not very many people attend this uh this course. So, it's a pretty big honor for for for him to get accepted and uh it'll be it'll be good a good leadership class for him that he can bring back and and share with with some of the uh the other leadership of the city. So, I think it'll be a good opportunity for him. We're pretty proud of him for that. Okay. Thank you. Any questions of the chief fire department? And then next week, I don't know if anybody's here to speak for it, but for Mr. rectal and plane are going to go to the IT radio computer interface dispatch. So that's always good because dispatch is we have we're doing more and more to work together with dispatch and dispatching people and getting them there quick. So that's really good. Okay, next we have public participation on the agenda. We had no one sign up. Would anyone care to say anything about any item that come before the council or any item who got three minutes care? Would anyone care to say anything? No. Okay. Last time. Anyone care to say anything? Okay. Seeing none. Okay. Next, we'll go to item 23, public hearing on ordinance number 25- 03 under 23. Okay. Yes. So, we need a a motion on 1503 that will be by Councilman Hilderbrand. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move that we hold a public hearing proposed ordinance 25-03, an ordinance for the sale of real property and approval for the city of

Roswell to enter into a purchase and sale contract with Amazon.com Services LLC. Second. Okay, we have a motion by councelor Hbrand, second by council lady. Okay, would you Okay, go ahead. Thank you, mayor, council. So, I'm here to present, of course, ordinance 25003, sale of a property to Amazon, um, to enter into purchase and sale contract with Amazon.com Services LLC. The city owned a partial property that has been unused and vacant since 1988. Property is located uh, right there at the corner of Sunset and Monsdale. We have about 30.29 acres there. Uh, Amazon is looking to carve off $7.53 acres at an appraised value of $60,240. City management has reviewed the site and the city has no plans to develop there. So, the city attorney has also reviewed the purchase and sale contract from Amazon.com services. Uh, this item was submitted to legal for its review. The legal committee was the first to consider this item and approved it at 30 on the meeting on April 24th and then asended to full study council for the right to advertise the public hearing of a vote to 10 uh back on May 8th, 2025 at the city council meeting to arrive here today to hold a public hearing for the ordinance 253 the sale of real property and the approval for the city to enter into a purchase and sale contract with Amazon.com. services stand for questions. Okay, there are any questions? Council lady, just real quick, um, if they do approve this, do you know when they plan to start building or construction facility and when they plan to open? We do have a a representative here from Amazon tonight that might be

able to speak a little bit more in tune to that. Hi, good afternoon. Uh, good evening, mayor, council members, members of the public staff. So, I'm Getta, senior economic development manager for Southwest US. Have a quick presentation. Maybe I could answer that specific question in in a bit. Uh, but just to kind of provide a bit of context as to what we're looking to do here. So, earlier this spring, we announced a a $4 billion investment and then to expand our delivery network in small cities and towns across the country. Uh, this new facility in Rothel that we're looking to open as part of this specific investment. Uh this location is ideal to support faster delivery, better service for our customers and is conveniently located in an area that uh that that supports this type of commercial activity. And so we hope to accommodate uh um this type of facility to to support um the work that we're currently doing um in the city. Um, so here one of the things I wanted to provide is just a bit of an overview of kind of what our logistics network looks like so you understand where this specific uh facility fits in. And so at Amazon we want to focus on being that customer centric company and we focus on promoting that last mile delivery. And so throughout the last couple of years we've been moving to um to improving our our delivery network. And so just provide a bit of a life cycle of package kind of the your package starts usually in an inbound cross is where it comes from the ports. We have one of these in Los Lunas uh near Albuquerque. Then from there it goes to one of our fulfillment centers. We have one in in Albuquerque proper um actually in Bernolino County. Um that's where the product actually sits. Those are these are the facilities that are maybe 1 million to 2 million square ft in size. Um from there it goes to a sort center. We actually have one just right up the street from the site. And from there, what we do is that we basically

break it down by zip code to ship it out to different destinations throughout the state and kind of throughout the region as a whole. Um, the one thing that we're looking to do again trying to be that customercentric company is really control our own destiny. In certain areas where we don't have a delivery station, we've used thirdparty partners like USPS or UPS. Uh but at that point once we kind of hand over the package it becomes a little bit uh more difficult to really understand where that package is kind of moving through the process. And so through this $4 billion investment that we're doing throughout the US for for 2026 we hope to expand and kind of these smaller communities to provide the same level of service that folks in more urban areas are are used to experience so prime members are able to kind of experience that same level of support. And so this area in in that we're looking to um to develop. Next slide, please. Thank you. We're looking to launch this in uh in April of 26. It's a little bit convoluted here, but this just kind of shows a little bit of a the circulation elements that we have in terms of the on-site operations and what have you. So again, as indicated, it's a 7.9 uh acre parcel. The building itself is about 11,800 ft², but this provides just a general overview of how um truck movements, vehicle movements, van movements are on the site. But hoping to open our doors and hoping to to host you all there for potential ribbon cutting um once that date comes. But we're looking at roughly right now April um 2026. So I know we've been working with staff and and what have you just kind of worked through the due diligence phase. So hoping to get started as soon as uh possible um just so we could uh uh hit the ground running and um move forward. If you could hit the next slide as well. I also want to talk a little bit about just kind of the the economic impact that this will bring and just to provide a high level in New Mexico as a whole. We already invested since 2010 about 1.6 billion uh into New

Mexico and infrastructure and compensation to our employees, 1.4 4 billion to the state GDP and we have roughly about 3,000 or so full and part-time employees. This is a figure as from 2024, early 2024. Um, and then again, we have that multiplier effect through our operations. I think right now we're looking at roughly close to 4,000 indirect jobs supported through direct hires or kind of a lot of the other support businesses that that are that come along with it. this specific facility in Roswell, we're going to inject about 10 million or so in new investment. Uh we anticipate about 70 jobs between full and part-time jobs that are going to be created. 50 associate employees and about 20 odd or so delivery service partners. These are our drivers uh that that provide that delivery service to us. Again, indirect job creation through the construction and and related investments, induce sales tax um as well. And then one of the things that's really neat about Amazon is the creation of a entrepreneurial opportunity. So the way that Amazon functions and or the third for our last mile delivery network is that we utilize delivery service partners which someone with as little as $10,000 could open up a a logistics company and and basically deliver on our behalf. They hire their own specific staff. We help them with the coaching. We help them kind of move the business along. And then we also utilize what's called Amazon Flex. Uh, so think of a Uber and Lyft model where folks sign up for an app. These are the folks that can sign up for an app. These are this great for folks that just want to make a couple extra bucks, students or retirees actually that just want to have something to do. They pick up a route and unlike an Uber and Lift model is which is a little bit more feast or famine. They're guaranteed their route 4 hours a day. They can pick up as many routes as they want to do, you know, or what days. And so they have that uh they enjoy that flexibility to be able to deliver on our behalf. Um, and then the other thing I wanted to talk about is

just uh the opportunities this this brings for sellers. So 60% of Amazon's product is by third party sellers. And so in New Mexico as a whole, we have about 1,500 um New Mexico based independent sellers. Uh most of which are are small and medium businesses. And so um these are folks that are already selling on Amazon and you know help hope to expand by providing this availability for um last mile delivery as well. So, a little bit of a more deeper explanation because I know when folks think of as Amazon, there's a a variety of building typologies that could come in and sometimes folks think of the larger fulfillment centers and are a little bit concerned about potential, you know, truck trips and things of that nature. This is more akin of your local post office. And so, I'm here to answer any questions. So, thank you for your time. Um, other than Roswell, I guess you did in all of Chaz County, did any other counties ground to produce? We usually, this specific model has a little bit of a longer stand time from our our actual delivery site. So, usually we drive out about an hour out and work our way back in. So, it depends on just it varies day by day, but usually that's on average the model. So, it depending on how many shipments folks receive u per day, but an average throughout these types of facilities is usually an hour out. That be like Artisia, Carl's bed, an hour way out. Yeah, I would say so. [Music] 30 minutes. Any further questions? I just want to say thank you. No, no, no. Well, I want to thank uh the team. They've been extremely helpful in helping us move through this process. So kudos to the team and to city leadership and obviously also to our economic development uh regional organization that's been helping us move this project

along. We look forward to seeing your ads in our football programs and things. No, absolutely. At the end of the day, you know, we're looking to be a property owner here. So we're going to be one of your corporate citizens here as well. So full distribution center. There you go. If you build it, they will come. If you need an airport distribution system, we can work that out. We have a lot of hanger space that we're working on right now to occupy and it's set up right on the edge so you can have all kinds of fly in traffic and then truck it out from there. We're really here and waiting and Miss Thompson's already got your lease ready. Happy infrastructure. There you go. Happy to discuss further. Thank you again. Thank you. Okay. Any further discussions? Seeing none, if the clerk to call the role. And I remind you take six members. Councelor Halverson, yes. Councelor Odessa, yes. Councelor Moore, yes. Councelor Korn, yes. Councelor Cortez, hi. Councelor Henbrand, hi. Councelor Arnold, yes. Councelor Johnson, yes. Councelor Motor, heck yes. I vote nine affirmative with nine to negative and council from cabin excuse. Thank you. I guess we'll have a deal here pretty quick. Okay. Next we go to new business items. We'll go to item five uh first and that is uh item five on the calendar. That's dispatch uh councelor Korn. prayer. Let me find it here.

It's page 17. [Music] Okay. Is to I don't want you to finish somewhere. Okay. Well, we have Okay. Okay, for item five, this is authorization for the facilities for the ratification of purchase order number 22501835-03 for professional services for temporary service to assist in dispatching uh staffing for the consolidated dispatch in the amount of $345,0008 [Music] uh $345,858.13. [Music] uh to include a budget adjustment of $286,858.13. Council Korn move we authorize the application field 2250183503. Okay, we have a motion by council corn and second by second council Arnold. Okay, let's see. Yes, Mr. Mayor and council members, as you know, we've been clinically short and dispatched for quite some time. HR helped us because we were reaching um critical mass. We reached out to various temporary agencies to try to get some help. Unfortunately, they couldn't provide candidates with the certifications needed to dispatch emergency services. So, we submitted a soul source request to for Get Rescue 911, which is a vendor who specializes in certified dispatchers to support center like ours. Um that was that soul source request was approved with no protest. A budget adjustment was approved by council in December of 2024 under resolution 24-56

to fully fund the contract. Following that approval purchase order 22501835 was issued in the amount of $279,000. Unfortunately, our staffing problems continued. We had a couple recruits that washed out training and we had a full-timer that went to field work in EMS. So, we uh amended a change order in the amount of $66,858.13 that was funded by a transfer from line item 11014656642904 which was non- capital equipment. It was intended for equipment but with the staffing shortage I've had to shift priorities. So, we just moved land. The form wise PO amount was taken forward for ratification. The item was scheduled and heard by public safety committee in April, then forwarded to the finance committee for May. Due to timing, it was placed on the June committee finance agenda where it was approved uh to come before full council. This um so I am here tonight to respectfully request that you ratify PO22501835 for the entire amount of 345,84813. Uh this will ensure compliance with um procurement policy and it acknowledges the city's commitment to maintaining uninterrupted emergency to stuck services during the period of high turnover and recruitment. This is just a ratification request. There's no need for further educ. Okay, we have have questions for members of the committee. Councilman press. Hey, Mr. prayer or uh clarification. I was the one that asked to have this one pulled from the consent agenda. Uh because I have some questions. Yes, sir. Several questions.

Uh you know, just out of curiosity, how long have you been the the dispatch manager? How long? How long? Since October of 2019. 2019. Yes, sir. Okay. And I wanted a clarification on the on the dispatch report. I'm assuming you're the one that that created it. Is that the That's the consolidated dispatch 4656. the the number of employees and their salaries and steps and that kind of stuff. Uh HR prepared. I'm sorry. HR prepared. Oh, okay. Then I guess I have to address my questions to HR. Yes, sir. I mean the the report is self-explanatory but there's one item that I need just clarification for my own my own mind on column number three it's title position and then it it identifies all the classifications and on the emergency communication dispatcher uh there's six positions that have names in parenthesis. What what does that those are those are terminations either voluntary or um involuntary. So the names in parenthesis HR puts those there so that they can keep track of who vacated the position to help them keep track. So those are ones that have vacated the position. Okay.

Uh and then the the report indicates you have a total of 23 positions listed. Of the 23 positions, only 12 positions are classified as emergency communication dispatchers. 124 dispatchers. Yes, sir. We have four supervisors. And and and out of these uh 12 positions, only three are identified as vacant. Three of the dispatch positions are vacant. I have not hired any administrative personnel. I I don't want to do that until I've got my four full because right now all my admin people are working consoles. So, I didn't want to hire someone that wasn't able to dispatch and leave a dispatch position open. So, the reason that I'm I'm asking that question is because the contract says we're asking for five contractors. So, does that mean that it's going to be three dispatchers plus two additional other other positions? No, sir. I have we've hired five recruits. It will be about 9 months until they can dispatch. So, the five that we've requested will be actually be filling dispatch positions while we send the five that we've hired to the academy and get them certified. They won't be ready. It's like a police officer. they can't dispatch in the state of New Mexico until they're certified and and trained. Okay. And and uh also according to the contract with Rescue 911, as as I understand it, the city will be paying a total of 264,000 for five contractors for a total of 960 hours for 6 months. And and I think you just answered the

the the question on that one. So you'll have people at least two of them hired, but two of them are going to come and replace them while they are in training. Yes, sir. We will I think I understand your question. We're going to wean off of the service as the dispatchers get released to to work. So, that's a worst case scenario with the hours. Um, because we just can't tell if they're going to make it all the way through the training, but as they get released, we will send the contractors back. I hope I understood your question correctly. Oh, you did. Thank you. And and it looks like we've had this problem for quite a while. Yes, sir. CO hit two months after I got here, and it's it's it's been a challenge. Yes, sir. because it seems like we only have like two individuals that I I would imagine have been here more than 5 years because they're on step 18 and 11. Yes, sir. And everybody else is on one two three. Yes, sir. Unfortunately, it's it's a industry issue. The reason the actual reason I found out about Rescue 911 is because uh Aloro Tarosa Basin was in the same situation and they used them. So, they recommended them. So we're it New Mexico is having a a big problem, but it is nationwide right now. It's very hard. So what what what would you say the average vacancy per month is uh on a on an average like vacant positions? Vacant positions in the dispatch only not not the other supporting. So for for just dispatch positions because like I said I've kept the admin positions. I haven't hired the admin positions. Just dispatch, we've we've maintained about seven for quite some time. Right now, we're at

five down. We're we're at three now. It just takes so long to get them trained before we can put them on the floor because I also noticed that you have a training coordinator vacancy. I Yeah, right. I'm I just put in paperwork to put someone in that position to help me. I've been doing it. Is that is that position a true trainer? It's a it's a training coordinator. So, it's someone who does training who trains training personnel so that they can train. It's a state actual position in the training department. A state position. If you you're certified as a training state. Yes, sir. I'm sorry. And what I don't know if this is a question for you or not u but I noticed on on the contract itself I don't even have it here it talked about a uh uh it had a couple of notations and then one of them indicated something about overtime and and holiday pay. But in the contract itself, I I don't see anything to cover over time. Is that above and beyond what the the contract says? It it's part of the hours. It's just a different rate is my understanding. Um, so we've got the the contract if they work like for instance on Memorial Day, if that is their shift because they work a shift just like a normal dispatcher would. If their their um shift falls on that day, they don't get they um holiday pay like like a full-time person would. So, their rate is higher if they work on the actual

holiday. But if if they consider to be paid over time, the I don't have the the actual contract here, but And here it is. So, if I may, it might help with this. We turn in the time sheet to get rescue 911 with the hours that they work and what days they are, and then we're build based on the hours we submit to them. But there's a there's a not there's a couple of notations. One of them says by monthly invoice will reflect any optional overtime hours per employee in a rears. What exactly does that if if they work overtime that are not submitted is my understanding but they we haven't run into that somebody has hours in a rears we have not had that happen that would be the time sheet was not correct is my understanding but the time sheets are are submitted weekly so they're kept pretty accurate yeah and the overtime holiday pay will be paid at $82 an hour instead of 55. It's quite expensive. They're they're paid not to be at home. They don't have medical benefits and things like that. So, it is it is expensive. I would like to get them. They're they're helping. They're wonderful, but I would like to get them out of here as fast as I can. I don't believe uh you know, I was having a hard time with this because I'm not a uh u proponent of privatization and then to me this is kind of like the first step of going down that road and I hope we don't. Um but you know if I hadn't been at a breaking point I

wouldn't have gone that direction. We we were at a breaking point. My team my team knows that they get paid more than they do and they're okay with it because they were that exhausted. Yeah, that that was another one of my questions. Yeah, we had that conversation. We made the decision as a team to try to bring some. So, we've got six months with this contract. We're we're at the end of this one. This we're at the end of this one. This one ends in August. So we're this is the second this is the this is a ratification request for the budget adjustment that was done in December. I guess I'm lost. Are are we It looks like we already approved one contract for 6 months. Yes, sir. So this is the second time. Are you are you are you talking about the budget request for fiscal 26? No, I'm just talking about the contract. Oh, no. This is just this is the original. No, this is not additional. This is a ratification request for the original. I I did put a request to keep them for another 6 months in the fiscal year 20 26 because my recruits won't be ready until about January. Okay. But this is not the full. So, the 345,000 I I don't need further money on that. We we I found what I needed from the from my budget cuz my my question was was or is at the end of these six months of this contract. Yes, sir. What is the plan in place to not do another contract? I'm expecting to need six more months because my recruits won't be ready until January because they have to go to the

state academy August and September and if they don't get into that one it might be November. Um recruitment is is a big thing. Um we are starting a program in the high schools in the fall where they'll graduate as emergency telecommunicators. So they'll have 40 hours of high school training that they get high school credit for introducing them to the industry. So maybe bring some interest in the community. So we'll get applications and good candidates and um I'm working on a a pay plan that might make us competitive with big county and any county. Well, you know, personally, I I think uh as a council, we need to look at uh and it's not just this decisions, it's throughout the the city that we really need to look at at the salaries because I mean, we've done it for the police, we've done it for the fire, uh and the and the I appreciate We we can't compete with the surrounding counties right now. So my next question to you is is to get your your opinion as to what do you believe the problem is that that we're not able to re recruit and retain. The high school is very shallow here. Um you have to be able to pass an extensive background check. it if you have to go we go to the law enforcement academy. So the backgrounds here are just like as if you were going into law enforcement and that unfortunately gets a lot of candidates that do not qualify. That's why we're trying to go into the high schools to get them early before maybe they get into trouble so that we can get them interested, get them get them under

our wing so we can guide them into the future. I I think I think the youth are maybe the future of it. you know, and I think there's there's a there's a lot of reasons why people don't stay on the job, you know, but I I think we do have to look at several things, several factors to see if some of those are not contributing to the fact that they're leaving. Yes, sir. and uh I thank you for your service and your people because I think they are the backbones of the police department and the fire department. We appreciate your support. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Council Lee Albertson. So, um, Miss Counselor and other counselors that are here, she since I've been a counselor on public safety, Miss Bess has been coming to me every meeting saying, you know, she's having trouble getting people hired. So, this is an ongoing problem. And I know Miss Best, Miss Harry, have been working a lot of overtime, crazy hours, trying to fill in for their people. And in the finance committee meeting, I did talk to uh city manager about possibly trying because we talked about we vote today that we could use the emergency tax for salaries because I think that's a big problem not just with dispatchers who would fire. We can't like she said we can't compete with like any county. So I've asked Chad to look at increasing the salaries so we can be competitive but not even even higher than the other so we can start stealing from them. Um because this is just not dispatch. This is not by calling emergency services. It's across the city with every department, you know, not being paid enough. But our emergency services are critical and if we don't have the proper people and I

don't like paying this kind of money and I know you have to. That's that's the problem. Well, it's very counsel, you know, and I I uh I appreciate that and and but sometimes when you look at the numbers, if you look at the number that are still on the contract, some of these individuals that are coming in are making a lot more money money than probably some of the supervisors that are sir. And I didn't bring that up in the plans committee, but I did ask her. I'm worried about our other employees, you know, cuz up to $82 an hour, but she said she did talk to her other staff and they Yeah, we we did. I I had a discussion before we made the decision to ask for them and they I worked 27 straight days in December. So, my and that's because my team just didn't have anything left in them. They're they're tired. And you said you did get one of these contractors that kept this coming over to us now, right? Too. No, ma'am. I'm not sure where that came from. Oh, there's one that wants to wants to, but I don't I don't believe it. Okay. I don't believe that's going to happen. But your concerns are things we brought up in finance meeting because it is they do have they do have a non-compete club. They can't take any of mine. Yeah. That's good. I made sure of that. Well, good luck to you. And if I may, councelor Corn doesn't have to tell me twice my plan's almost finished. Any further questions? You know, as somebody who's called dispatch for a number of things, when you're out and you see things, it's amazing the knowledge what they have and and how well these individuals work. Uh it's it's a real blessing having a

consolidated dispatch where one group controls it all. And I know uh when uh Neil Ro called me at 1212 on uh on the 19th in that flood uh when I called dispatch I got Eddie County dispatch that was number 261 and that's because these guys were so overwhelmed. That's how far back I was. Uh so I thank you very much for your dedication to your job and uh and thank you because you know I've called dispatch from everything from a water leak uh because they all know who to call to get it pops up on the screen. Yeah. So you know they they they do a really good job and and uh and if you see an accident or something I mean it's it's it's good to do. And it's good to know. And then if you call the state police now, you go all the way to uh Los Cru's 382 256, [Music] right? But I mean, that's where you go when you call the state police. So, u you know, and it's not your 6227200. It's that's dispatch. You go in there when you have something. So, these individuals do a good job and I it's a real it's a good job. Uh, and a lot of people just like being at home and being in charge of helping people. So, thank you all very much and your team and uh be nice sometime we'll be able to go have lunch with them all or something sometime, but thank you all. Okay, so we have a motion by Councilman K and a second by Council Arnold. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, the clerk will call the role.

Councelor Halverson, yes. Councelor Oesa, yes. Councelor Moore, yes. Councelor Korn, yes. Councelor Cortez, hi. Councelor Helen, hi. Councelor Arnold, yes. Councelor Johnson, yes. Councelor Maro, yes. Motion passes. Okay. Thank you very much, ma'am. And next we have item 2. No, we have to do 20 24. Approve the con the option flood mitigation project to constructors in the amount of 7 and a half million plus which includes a gross receipts tax. Council for Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move to approve the board of the Hopson Flood Mitigation Project Contractors Incorporated. Second have a motion by councelor Korn and a second by councelor Johnson. Okay. Okay. Mr. engineer, our new engineer. Welcome to welcome in your new title and your new job. Don't goof it up. Thank you, sir. Mr. Mayor and counselors, uh, this item is to consider approval of the award of the Hopson floods mitigation project to constructors incorporated in the amount of 7,513,529.3, [Music] which includes GRT. We received bids on May 13th, uh, 2025 for that project. A bid tabulation is in your packet. Uh we received three bids on the project. Funding is per the water trust board agreement WPF5949.

The balance available on that agreement is 8,551,262. Uh that water trust board agreement is 87% grant. It's 13% loan. Uh so using that breakdown on the award to constructors uh that would mean of the constructor's award 6,536,77026 [Music] would be grant and $976,758.77 would be loan. Uh just a little bit of background on the project. The funding agreement was approved by city council April 2024. We issued an RFP for design at the end of April 2024. Nicholls was selected to perform the design in July 2024. The design was completed in March 2025. Got the bid March 23rd, 2025. And again, like I said, bids were received back May 15th, 2025. And Constructors Incorporated is the low bid. We'll stand for questions. Any questions? Mr. Johnson, Council Johnson. Yes. Um 13% loan. remind everybody what the uh percentage rate is on that. Uh 0.25%. Right. Awesome. Thank you. And the term of that loan, James, I'm sorry, sir. The lethal loan 20 years, uh the repayment schedule goes out to 2045. 20 years. 20 years. That's pretty good. I kind of has $48,000 a year. Yeah, that's good. as counc Mr. Mayor, if you look and we amended it in this meeting, I voted against this project and let me explain what my concern is. I think this is a great project.

Problem is need to be done for three decades. And right now, right now, the budget will be passed and of course I know it's all fluid and we've got revenue of $130.5 million and our total debt is 71 and that that includes this project although I'm not sure what the bottom final figure is really going to be because we just put $600,000 change on the water towers. So this is fuzzy math if you will cuz we don't have the bottom line. So my calculations are correct and our revenue to debt ratio is 55%. I figured it right. And every year, every this next year, we're going to pay out just $6.5 million for all of our indebtedness. Now, you might ask, which funds this coming out? Well, some of our indebtedness goes to our to our various enterprise funds. Some of these general fund, this was a general fund debt that's coming off. So I just didn't throw up that. So I'm really concerned. And the other thing is we we're we're not responsible for this. Mr. Mayor, we've got a the gross receipts tax series that was done back in 2015 has a final maturity date of of August 1st, 27, 2027.

Well, that's still down the road. And the payment on that one's around $350,000. The next project that we're going to pay off is August of 2029. That was trulated back in February of 18. And that's airport And the bill on that for this year is right out of court. And I'm just concerned. This is a great project. It's a lot different than the water towers. We we that's what we can all count on cuz we did it. But that was an emergency. Nobody can tell me how much water we lost while those tanks out there have been leaking. Therefore, we can't equate back to the amount of money we spend pumping that water out there on the ground out there on six mile hill. We don't know. Nobody knows. I'm trying to get people to figure out how to calculate it. There's many things out there as I guess we got the first one out. Now, when's that complete? The first tank will be done in July, in July. So, that's a good thing. And that's actually going to save us a little wear and tear on our pumps and all the infrastructure that that takes the abuse. So, that's why I've opposed this. This is a must do right now kind of propos. I think it's correct proposal. I've been waiting through that creek every time it rains out there for a long long time and I'd like to see it fixed. I think it's great

great idea but it's been playing in need for a long long time and I just concerned about our financial situation. That's all. Thank you councelor K. Any further comment? Seeing none is the clerk to call the role. Councelor Halverson. Yes. Councelor Oropesa. Yes. Councelor Moore. Yes. Councelor Korn. No. Councelor Cortez. Yes. Councelor Helenbrand. Hi. Councelor Arnold. Yes. Councelor Johnson. Yes. Councelor. No. [Music] Okay. vote of 7 to two. The motion is due and passed. I remind you that we I should have said this before. We have to have six votes to pass that. Okay. So, thank you very much. Hope you enjoyed your new position. Okay. So, next we have we did 25 to consent. Next we have ordinance 26. This is ordinance 25-04 to authorize the advertise for public hearing to consider the ordinance of 25-04 amending chapter 7 regarding mobile food established and itinerant vendors. Councilman Hilder Brand. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move that we authorize to advertise for the public hearing to consider proposed ordinance 25-04 for amending chapter 7 regarding mobile food establishments. Go right ahead. This we're just moving to advertise. Correct. Correct. Sit down. Second.

Okay. We have a motion to excuse me. Council lady Arnold second. He was in such a rush he didn't even wait to stop it. Yes. So, okay. On a motion to uh to advertise this for a public hearing. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, the clerk will call the role and take six. Councelor Halverson, yes. Councelor Ovesa, yes. Councelor Moore, yes. Councelor Korn, yes. Councelor Cortez, hi. Councelor Helenbrand, hi. Council Arnold, yes. Council Johnson, yes. Council 101, yes. 109 and affirming not a item 26 and do we pass to public hearing. Mr. Cole, would you please stand up and give us all your announcements in five words or less? Yes, every members of the council. I'll make it brief tonight. Uh great uh job with our frontline workers uh this evening. I think the main thing uh is you're going to be seeing a couple of things coming down the pipeline as we get closer to our new fiscal year, start of our new fiscal year, July one. Um as we are speaking, uh inspections continue to go forward with FEMA. Uh we've got several projects moving through the phases within their portal. Um those inspections are anticipated to continue for the next three weeks. uh this week uh was parks and recreation building. Uh so those things are moving forward. Uh we will be putting together and of course we're working with state homeland security a grant applica or not a an application for uh zero interest revolving loan funds uh through the state. Senate Bill 31 would be the reference point on that. We'll be ready for that when it's available. We want to be first in line. of course we'll be

sharing with Maros so Las Vegas other communities that have been on it. Um so we'll be moving those forward. Another topic of interest uh that you'll be seeing an application uh submitted from the city of Roswell um water trust board at the state of New Mexico level has received $366 million through legislative appropriation for the new fiscal year starting July 1. Um I have asked Mr. Valdez, our water superintendent, uh to get in place from his master plan a priority list that would peel off at least $10 million of projects that we can submit for and start doing that on an annual basis to replace Roswell's infrastructure uh that sorely needs to be replaced. I think that's both manageable in terms of projects we can finish and projects that we can be awarded. And once we get that cycle very similar to the school district with its construction, uh we show some success, more money will come, more projects will come. And that's what I have here tonight. Can I tell you how um the uh the brand Oh, yes. I was going to keep it brief. So, let me uh I drove by the other day, we've got some really good news on Brimham Stadium. not not some good news. So, I think it's important uh the mayor uh the city attorney uh and I reached out to uh the Roswell Independent School District School Board. And I think it's important that we thank our school board um for uh pushing this forward to get the Roswell Independent School District maintenance department out there to clear the trash and debris that accumulated during the flood. Uh so last week, I believe it was, they sent out seven uh trucks with their maintenance and groundskeeping crews. Uh they have

cleared off that debris. So you'll notice that when you're passing by, the debris has been removed. They have not mowed. That's understandable. Uh they are working with their insurer. They lease that facility from the city of Roswell for $1 per year. Per their lease contract, very similar to the Wool Bowl by the way. uh $1 per year. They are required to keep up with the maintenance and repairs of that facility. So part of that is clearing debris. The other part is clearing metal objects, uh small fragments that might be in the ground and addressing the sprinkler systems, etc. Their insurance company has emailed back and forth with Mr. Ita and I uh and they are bidding out the contracts for those repairs uh right now. So kudos to the school board in particular, Mr. uh Edwards for his help in moving that forward. Uh we'll continue to press that issue so we can get our room stadium back. and uh mayor and I would like to visit with the school board members with regard to scheduling uh New Mexico Military Institute uh football games over at um Wool Bullet in coordination with Rosw schools going forward. Thank you. Yes, sir. Any further comment? Seeing none, uh Mr. Burus is going to uh if you all had noticed he had a problem with the pooling. He's going to instruct his people about being sure you turn off the pumps before you shut the valves. And uh he's going to work on that. He's going to send them the pump school and so everything will be good and I don't Is there anything else to come before the council? Seeing none, we stand a journ. Thank you all for being here. [Music]