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All right. Good evening, everybody. Today is December 6th, 2023. | 00:00:10 | |
This is a 5:00 business meeting of the Valencia County Commission. | 00:00:15 | |
And if I could have Jess and his guests please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance tonight. | 00:00:19 | |
Ideally, institute reply of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. | 00:00:31 | |
One nation under God. | 00:00:38 | |
Indivisible with liberty and justice. | 00:00:41 | |
Or. | 00:00:49 | |
All right. Thank you very much for that, Mister. | 00:00:50 | |
All right, before we move any further, if anyone has their cell phones turned on, if you could at this time, silence those. | 00:00:54 | |
Eliminating distraction for our meeting, we definitely appreciate that. | 00:01:02 | |
And I'm sure as you can tell, I'm not commissioner size, but he is. | 00:01:08 | |
Asked me to chair this meeting because he may have to leave a little bit early tonight, so. | 00:01:13 | |
Bear with me, it's been a while. | 00:01:17 | |
And I thank you for that. | 00:01:19 | |
All right. So next is the approval of the agenda. We've had this agenda for several days. | 00:01:22 | |
Is there any changes to the agenda as presented by Commissioners, Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make. | 00:01:26 | |
Motion that we move our executive session. | 00:01:35 | |
To right before we start our action items, which would be prior to item number six on our agenda if there's. | 00:01:39 | |
If the rescue Commission doesn't have an issue with that. | 00:01:46 | |
Any other changes Comm. | 00:01:50 | |
Mr. Monette no other changes, Mr. | 00:01:52 | |
All right. | 00:01:55 | |
So we have a recommendation for approval. | 00:01:56 | |
An amendment moving our executive session just before action items. | 00:01:59 | |
Is there a motion to support that so moved? I can't have a motion from Commissioner size, second from Commissioner Bozell, any | 00:02:03 | |
discussion on the motion and 2nd? | 00:02:08 | |
Commissioner Richardson, that evoked yes, Commissioner Buzzell, Commissioner Sparkman, Commissioner Size and I vote. | 00:02:14 | |
OK. Next is the approval of minutes. | 00:02:23 | |
We have two sets of minutes which I'm going to ask if we. | 00:02:25 | |
Take action on separately since I was not here for one of. | 00:02:29 | |
The first is 11/15/2023. It was a public hearing slash business meeting. | 00:02:33 | |
Those minutes have been in our pack. | 00:02:39 | |
Are there any changes to those minutes by? | 00:02:42 | |
Mr. Monette, no. | 00:02:45 | |
Mr. | 00:02:48 | |
Commissioner Brazil, I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes as presented. They have a motion to approve by Commissioner | 00:02:49 | |
Brazil, second, second by Commissioner Sparkman, any discussion on the motion and 2nd. | 00:02:54 | |
Commissioner Richardson, how do you vote? | 00:02:59 | |
Yes, Commissioner, Brazil, yes, Commissioner, sparkling. | 00:03:01 | |
Commissioner size, yes, and I will. | 00:03:04 | |
All right. Well, that gets signed. We're going to move on to. | 00:03:33 | |
Number 11/28/2023. | 00:03:39 | |
There's an ICIP workshop. | 00:03:41 | |
Those Minutes have also been in our package. Are there any changes from those Commissioners? | 00:03:44 | |
We approve as presented. We have a motion for approval from commissioner size. | 00:03:50 | |
Commissioner Bissell. | 00:03:55 | |
Any discussion on the motion and 2nd. | 00:03:56 | |
Commissioner Richardson, your vote. Yes. Commissioner Brazil, yes. Commissioner Sparkman, yes. Commissioner. Size, yes, and I will | 00:03:58 | |
abstain. | 00:04:01 | |
OK. Moving on, we have public comment. | 00:04:37 | |
I have a list here of names of folks. | 00:04:41 | |
Be speaking for public comment. | 00:04:44 | |
I'd like to run through a few of the ground rules. We've got a time limit. Your time will be started here on this clock. | 00:04:47 | |
Once you state your name. | 00:04:53 | |
Once that buzzer goes off, I'll ask you to sit down, even if you're if you have more to say. | 00:04:55 | |
You can come back at a later meeting and finish that. | 00:05:01 | |
Also, if you do have more to say, you can also e-mail those comments to. | 00:05:04 | |
Armed county manager and he'll get those input into the minutes as well. | 00:05:11 | |
If you can come up, state your name. | 00:05:15 | |
Whether you're a Blunt County resident or not. | 00:05:18 | |
And keep your comments directed to the Commission. We'd appreciate that. Don't engage anybody. | 00:05:21 | |
Audience would appreciate. | 00:05:29 | |
So our first name tonight is going to be Chase. | 00:05:32 | |
Good evening County Commission. My name is Chase Ward. I grew up just a little introduction myself. I grew up in a small farm in | 00:05:47 | |
southeastern Arizona. I attended Eastern Arizona College where I met my wife. I later attended New Mexico State University where I | 00:05:52 | |
earned my bachelor's in pre Med animal science. | 00:05:56 | |
I live at 20 Francis here in Valencia County. | 00:06:03 | |
In the short four months we have lived in our new home, we have been a target of scrutiny. The neighbors constantly are taking | 00:06:06 | |
pictures of our every move. They bought burner phones to harass me every morning I start the truck to go to and from work. | 00:06:13 | |
They've even gone as far as following. | 00:06:20 | |
To see where I go throughout. | 00:06:22 | |
We had a friend stop by who is a mobile mechanic to get some eggs. | 00:06:24 | |
Even opened a toolbox, but the neighbors snapped pictures of him and sent it. | 00:06:29 | |
And stated that we had a mechanic at our house. My father-in-law came by 1 evening with his trailer and personal truck and sure | 00:06:34 | |
enough an e-mail was seen about that as well. | 00:06:38 | |
About men being in our house, trying to load stuff and pulling the wool over the county's eyes, which is not true. | 00:06:42 | |
They have become obsessed with, obsessed with trying to prove something that. | 00:06:48 | |
Isn't true. | 00:06:52 | |
And it's made our lives miserable. We don't feel comfortable in our home. They hide behind their walls and video us. | 00:06:53 | |
Do they have pictures of our kids? I don't. | 00:06:58 | |
It's sad that a young family has buyer's remorse because of a few neighbors. They claim they are coming to the county as | 00:07:01 | |
representatives of the neighborhood to ban semi trucks, but in truth, the majority of the people who reside in Google estate | 00:07:05 | |
support us and the rest of the truckers. | 00:07:09 | |
We have a petition that was signed by 27 residents. | 00:07:14 | |
That state they do not view us as a nuisance and do not care that we park our cemetery semi truck at our home on our property. | 00:07:17 | |
One of these neighbors has even brought it upon themselves to send certified letters to other semi truck drivers in the | 00:07:26 | |
neighborhood stating that they cannot have their semis at their homes. | 00:07:30 | |
They use these certified letters as a scare tactic to bully the neighbors. They even sign it from the residents of Goodele states, | 00:07:34 | |
which is false and in my opinion, forgery. | 00:07:39 | |
The previous owners were granted permission to park one truck and one trailer. Here at 20 Francis, they were told that their case | 00:07:44 | |
was closed. Per Melissa had a mile. | 00:07:48 | |
The e-mail was sent in July of this year and should be carried over to. | 00:07:52 | |
We are currently only parking 1 semi truck at our residence. The truck I leave to work in and come home in. | 00:07:55 | |
We have a yard in Peralta. | 00:08:02 | |
That we parked the spare truck at and do mechanic work at. No dispatching or major mechanic work is done at our home. This | 00:08:05 | |
insanity has to stop. I would hope that the county commissioners, managers and directors acknowledge that we are more than | 00:08:09 | |
compliant. | 00:08:13 | |
We want nothing more than the freedom to be able to. | 00:08:17 | |
To bring our work truck home, same as every other blue collar worker that lives in good Ole estates. We just want this to stop. | 00:08:20 | |
Thank you. | 00:08:24 | |
Next will be Kaylee. | 00:08:31 | |
My name is Kaylee Ward. We wanted to introduce ourselves and give you a face to the infamous 20 Francis Rd. | 00:08:44 | |
I grew up here in Valencia County. I attended Valencia High School and I was one of the three valedictorians in 2012. I went on to | 00:08:51 | |
attend U&M on the Presidential Scholarship and graduated with my Bachelors in Nursing in 2015. | 00:08:57 | |
I'm married to Chase Ward and we have 4 beautiful children, one which joined us just this last Thursday. We volunteer at our local | 00:09:03 | |
church, at my daughter's school, and in the community with youth sports. We pride ourselves with being good people, so when we | 00:09:09 | |
hear of people slandering our name, we take offense. | 00:09:14 | |
I understand there were ill feelings by both parties before we moved in over semi trucks, but their disdain for the previous | 00:09:20 | |
owners. | 00:09:23 | |
Has been brought on us since day one. We have tried to be good neighbors. We brought them cookies and tried to introduce | 00:09:27 | |
ourselves, but they don't care. | 00:09:31 | |
The day we moved in, emails were sent to the county with allegations about us. How is it that the moment we moved in, they already | 00:09:35 | |
had strong enough dislike for us? | 00:09:39 | |
That they felt it was necessary to e-mail the county instead of coming to talk to us. | 00:09:43 | |
We have proof that they have been taking pictures of us and sending an e-mail since the day we moved in. There have been a lot of | 00:09:48 | |
claims that have been false. We had no idea that they were taking these these pictures and sending in these emails and coming to | 00:09:52 | |
these meetings to talk about us. | 00:09:57 | |
So now we would like to set some truth. | 00:10:02 | |
Daniel had a Mio claims that our realtor requested documentation from them. First of all, we did not have a realtor. We did this | 00:10:04 | |
transaction with no Realtors and these documents they claim were requested were never shown to us. | 00:10:11 | |
Second, my husband does not blatantly disrespect the neighborhood, as Patricia Jade Mio has declared. She claims he goes down the | 00:10:17 | |
road honking his horn, running stop signs, and disobeying the speed limit. This is all false. | 00:10:23 | |
The only times he has even honked his corn was horn was for the neighborhood kids. When he was driving by they did the universal | 00:10:29 | |
trucker sign. He has been extremely careful and safe through this neighborhood. We even have character letters from our other | 00:10:34 | |
neighbors. | 00:10:39 | |
That have been sent in regarding his safe driving. I actually find it ironic that I have proof from the neighborhood group text | 00:10:44 | |
that Patricia had a meal has admitted to not obeying the new neighborhood or the new four way stop at Loma and Francis because she | 00:10:50 | |
has not yet got used to it. They are quick to point fingers at us but they can make a joke about it about the similar situations | 00:10:56 | |
in a group in the group thread. | 00:11:01 | |
Code enforcement came to our house to test the decibels of the truck we passed in. The neighbors who were speaking against us were | 00:11:07 | |
in the street extremely upset. I have the reports from the Code enforcement officers that prove that they were speaking aggressive | 00:11:13 | |
and antique antagonistically to my husband and the officers. They said in the meeting in August that they were worried about their | 00:11:18 | |
safety and possible retaliation from us. | 00:11:24 | |
But what about the proof that we already have that they've been aggressive towards? | 00:11:30 | |
We hope and pray this can be resolved and acknowledge that we have been compliant. We want to be able to focus on our kids and | 00:11:34 | |
enjoy our new house. Thank you. | 00:11:39 | |
Next speaker will be Ben S. | 00:11:47 | |
Good evening, Commission. My name is Ben. | 00:11:57 | |
I'm a small business owner in this community and. | 00:12:01 | |
Understand the struggles of. | 00:12:04 | |
Trying to get by with different tough economic times. | 00:12:07 | |
I've been a resident of Goodele. | 00:12:12 | |
For about 17 years now, me and my wife started our young family. | 00:12:16 | |
In that neighborhood. | 00:12:20 | |
And for the most part, we've We've enjoyed the neighborhood. | 00:12:22 | |
There's things that don't. | 00:12:27 | |
Sued our our liking, but we. | 00:12:30 | |
We try to get along. I I came here to speak in favor for the Ward family. My observation of their family is they're a good, | 00:12:35 | |
wholesome family as they have presented to you. And I can attest to that by the things that I've observed in their works and their | 00:12:42 | |
deeds and their. | 00:12:49 | |
I've observed Chase Ward being nothing but respectful in our neighborhood as he drives a semi truck. | 00:12:57 | |
I see him being very cautious. I've never seen him do anything inappropriate. | 00:13:04 | |
I've not bothered at all by the noise that his truck generates and I understand just is is. I had before mentioned the | 00:13:09 | |
difficulties of raising a young family. I have 5 young daughters that I. | 00:13:16 | |
Concern for their welfare and if someones driving recklessly it upsets. | 00:13:24 | |
But that's not the case with the Word family. They're very respectful. | 00:13:29 | |
They're just trying to make a living trying to get along and it upsets me, the constant harassment that I hear them going through. | 00:13:33 | |
I have not witnessed this harassment first hand, but the things that I've I've been told by others, including the Word family, | 00:13:39 | |
upsets me. | 00:13:44 | |
See. No problem with the Word family and then trying. | 00:13:53 | |
Uh, do their job. I don't see the difference between parking a semi at your truck. | 00:13:58 | |
A semi truck at your home, then driving your plumbing truck home. Or your your your truck if it's if you're a framing contractor | 00:14:04 | |
and it happens to be a domestic truck. | 00:14:08 | |
I personally feel that we. | 00:14:15 | |
Kind of outside the city limits and that's why people go outside the city limits where they can have these freedoms and enjoy | 00:14:17 | |
being a little bit away from from your neighbors and not being right in the city. I could see a problem if if they were in the | 00:14:25 | |
city limits trying to park a semi truck there, but we're on one acre, lots over there for the most part and plenty of room. | 00:14:33 | |
Don't have a problem with the Word family at all, and I can attest everything that they've told you to be true. | 00:14:41 | |
Next will be SEAG. | 00:14:53 | |
High Commission. My name is Sky Sego, and I'd probably just say Ditto because my husband has a good voice and he's well spoken and | 00:15:01 | |
I pretty much have the same thing to say, but I'll read a letter that I did write for them. It's kind of heartbreaking. I'm a | 00:15:07 | |
nurse in our community and I do home visits for pregnant women all through their pregnancy to their babies too, and it's pretty | 00:15:13 | |
heartbreaking the harassment that they've. | 00:15:20 | |
Given especially considering that Kaylee has been pregnant through this process. | 00:15:27 | |
And I'm sure that took a toll on her pregnancy. | 00:15:32 | |
And the delivery of her. | 00:15:36 | |
So I'll just read this letter that I wrote. We are writing in regards to Chase and Kaylee Ward family who reside at 20 Francis Rd. | 00:15:40 | |
We live at 3 Lumber Rd. In the same community in Greeley Estates. | 00:15:45 | |
We have some serious concerns about what we've heard and witness going on in our neighborhood. | 00:15:50 | |
I'm also on this community. | 00:15:58 | |
And also get the minutes to this meeting just to try to stay involved in the community just because of my role, for my job. | 00:16:00 | |
Being as my husband mentioned, being small business owners ourselves, we understand the struggles of trying to make a living in a | 00:16:09 | |
difficult economy. We don't appreciate others trying to make struggles of this young family. Even more challenging, we know the | 00:16:14 | |
words are not running a business outside of their home, but understand that when cheese comes home from a long day, he should have | 00:16:20 | |
the right to drive his truck home just the way that my husband drives his truck home. | 00:16:25 | |
We feel that Chase always drives his truck respectfully and cautiously through our neighborhood. He has young children as well. I | 00:16:31 | |
don't even hear his truck, honestly. | 00:16:35 | |
But my husband also has an insulation contractor, so we have a well insulated home. | 00:16:41 | |
We've not noticed additional traffic that's moved in since they've moved in. They also don't have excessive amount of visitors or | 00:16:46 | |
traffic that's going down their Rd. that. | 00:16:51 | |
Chase and Kaylee Ward moved in our neighborhood less than a year ago. I think they mentioned four months ago, They've been kind | 00:16:58 | |
great additions to our neighborhood. We know they have wholesome values and they're good people. For example, we attended a youth | 00:17:03 | |
fundraiser and this. | 00:17:08 | |
That generous donation. | 00:17:55 | |
We believe. | 00:17:58 | |
If you consulted with like the majority of our neighbors, I'm long winded. | 00:18:00 | |
I have to say Ditto about my husband, what he said and that we think they're good people and shouldn't be harassed the way they | 00:18:06 | |
are being. | 00:18:09 | |
Thank you. | 00:18:12 | |
Next is Emmet. | 00:18:16 | |
How's it going? | 00:18:23 | |
I'm Emma McLaren, I live on 13 Francis Rd. I live right on the corner of Loma and. | 00:18:24 | |
Francis right there where all the traffic. | 00:18:29 | |
Nobody stops there, even the stop signs you guys. | 00:18:32 | |
Nobody ever does listen. | 00:18:36 | |
The. | 00:18:39 | |
I didn't even know his name until tonight. Not gonna. | 00:18:40 | |
Uh. | 00:18:43 | |
Really respectful. The whole family, I mean, since they moved in, they've been over some plight. The guy stopped one day and | 00:18:44 | |
helped my mother. | 00:18:48 | |
Load some heavy packages, saw her struggling, like overall nice. I mean the best neighbor that you could look for. | 00:18:52 | |
The semis driving. | 00:19:00 | |
There's never been an issue from them. I mean, there's. | 00:19:02 | |
It's love coming from a little guy in a car that rips through that area and no respect. | 00:19:07 | |
The semi guys all park in their yards. They're not out there revving them. They're not working them. Late hours a night, early | 00:19:12 | |
mornings. I used to work for the prison. | 00:19:16 | |
Be up at 2-3 in the morning out there, you'd hear their trucks running. | 00:19:21 | |
Barely, I mean. | 00:19:24 | |
No louder than any other vehicle that lives in that neighborhood or. | 00:19:26 | |
Driving around there for that sense as far as like the overall harassment and stuff that the neighbors. | 00:19:30 | |
His situation I heard of is the same as like I've went through personally with a few of these people that are doing this and. | 00:19:37 | |
It's never ending and. | 00:19:45 | |
For them to have to go through that, especially having new kids. I have kids. I have 4 kids. My kids are the guilty ones, making | 00:19:48 | |
them do the horn every time he comes through. | 00:19:52 | |
You know, guilty. | 00:19:57 | |
They shouldn't have to have that type of has. | 00:20:02 | |
Especially it is. | 00:20:05 | |
It's hard. It's hard starting out being a young family. | 00:20:07 | |
And. | 00:20:10 | |
Relentless. I mean, it seems like every other day I'm looking down the road and there's a code enforcement or sheriff's pulling. | 00:20:12 | |
Something no longer means up there, just continuously harass. | 00:20:20 | |
And that neighborhood's quiet and there's nobody really gives anybody any grief. Everyone's kind of helpful and helps out around | 00:20:24 | |
there. | 00:20:27 | |
Great. That's why I like living there, the last 10. | 00:20:31 | |
So. | 00:20:34 | |
I ain't got much to say other than that, like they've been great people unless they moved. | 00:20:35 | |
There's been no issues with the trucks. He parked his trucks in the yard. It's not on the road. | 00:20:40 | |
I. | 00:20:45 | |
And it's pretty well kept. | 00:20:45 | |
Overall great. | 00:20:48 | |
All right. Next we have Amanda Aragon. | 00:20:54 | |
Hello, my name is Amanda Aragon. I live at 26 Yano Road. I also live in Goodalla Estates. I am also one of the truck drivers | 00:21:03 | |
wives. We have two trucks at our residence, one for commercial, one for recreational. | 00:21:10 | |
We had the same situation happened to us. We moved in in 2007, In 2009 we had to go to court over the same issue. | 00:21:17 | |
We went to court, hired an attorney, won our case. | 00:21:25 | |
This has gone on long enough, like we have beat our case and now chases the next victim. I think it's inappropriate and how come | 00:21:29 | |
it's OK for? | 00:21:33 | |
That's to park our stuff there and we won our case without prejudice. | 00:21:38 | |
So it can't be revisited. So why is it OK for us to park our semis and chase not? | 00:21:42 | |
Chase has. | 00:21:48 | |
Doomed from day. | 00:21:50 | |
Whether it's. | 00:21:51 | |
Parking has. | 00:21:52 | |
His dogs, his whatever they can pick on him for, they're gonna pick on him. That is horrible. Who wants to go home to that | 00:21:54 | |
everyday? | 00:21:58 | |
It's just not right and I don't think it should be allowed. | 00:22:02 | |
This is just ridiculous. Like I said, if it's OK for one person to park their semis. | 00:22:06 | |
You can't say their grandfather did. | 00:22:12 | |
Their grandfather did now because. | 00:22:14 | |
They're here. | 00:22:17 | |
This has not. | 00:22:18 | |
So to say any commercial vehicle should not be allowed in good lay estates is wrong. | 00:22:20 | |
It's not right. How do you tell somebody what they can and can't? | 00:22:25 | |
In their. | 00:22:29 | |
I just feel it's just a bad situation and. | 00:22:31 | |
It shouldn't be allowed. It's pure harassment. | 00:22:35 | |
Them taking pictures of them. | 00:22:38 | |
Going out to their cars, going to. | 00:22:40 | |
They're constantly taking pictures. | 00:22:45 | |
It's not right. It's an invasion of privacy. It's. | 00:22:47 | |
Enough. | 00:22:51 | |
I think we need to shut it down and just be done with. | 00:22:52 | |
This has gone on for. | 00:22:55 | |
Months with the Canes, and now with the words. | 00:22:57 | |
And like I said, it happened to us in 2009 and now they're in the same situation. | 00:23:00 | |
It's. | 00:23:05 | |
How far are we going to let it go? | 00:23:07 | |
I appreciate you listening to me. | 00:23:09 | |
All right. I don't think we have two of them. | 00:23:15 | |
Mr. Siegel, you signed on both sheets. | 00:23:17 | |
OK, correct. | 00:23:21 | |
All right. | 00:23:27 | |
We thank everybody for speaking tonight. | 00:23:29 | |
We'd love to hear what's going on in the community. | 00:23:33 | |
And get your voices heard for our minutes. So thank you. | 00:23:36 | |
Next we'll move on to discussion items. These are non action items from commissioners. Are there any? | 00:23:40 | |
Discussion items you'd like to present this evening. | 00:23:46 | |
Mr. Chair, Commissioner, Brazil, I would just like to thank our. | 00:23:49 | |
State Reps and Our Senators for Coming and Listening to our. | 00:23:54 | |
It means a lot for Valencia County to get our projects approved and we need their help to do it. | 00:23:58 | |
And if anybody's on Facebook and stuff and they look at that, please call our senators and help us get our stuff funded. | 00:24:03 | |
That's how we get projects done in Valenci. | 00:24:12 | |
All right, I'd like. | 00:24:19 | |
Make a comment. | 00:24:21 | |
I just got back Sunday from St. Paul, MN, which. | 00:24:23 | |
I don't know why they keep sending me these cold places in the winter, but I attended an ACO event which is National Association | 00:24:28 | |
of Counties. I sit on the board of directors for them. | 00:24:32 | |
And it's. | 00:24:37 | |
Our annual Board of Directors. | 00:24:39 | |
I normally don't talk about a whole lot of stuff that goes on at Naco because it's all pretty available to the public. | 00:24:44 | |
Umm. | 00:24:52 | |
You can research just about anything they do. | 00:24:53 | |
I was asked to sit on a. | 00:24:56 | |
And and describe what's going on here in Valencia County. Somebody took notice. | 00:25:00 | |
And recommended that I sit on this panel. | 00:25:06 | |
Talk about what the heck's going on here, because it's going so. | 00:25:09 | |
And I was able to, really. | 00:25:13 | |
How well our employees are. | 00:25:16 | |
Taking direction from our manager. | 00:25:18 | |
What's gone on the last 10 years? How we've gone from, you know, a real hard spot. | 00:25:21 | |
To. | 00:25:27 | |
Really kind of flush with money being able to provide services and we weren't able to provide in the past and it was just a real | 00:25:29 | |
honor to be able to talk about the positive things this county, the changes that this county has gone through over the past ten | 00:25:34 | |
years or so. | 00:25:39 | |
And. | 00:25:45 | |
Like I said, I don't know who exactly took notice or recommended that I sit on. | 00:25:47 | |
Panel, but it was an absolute pleasure to be able to focus. | 00:25:52 | |
The things our employees are making us all look good for. | 00:25:56 | |
You know, we say it all the time, but thank you all very much. | 00:26:01 | |
You know, just doing. | 00:26:05 | |
Amazing job at the things you. | 00:26:07 | |
And it's getting noticed at national level, which is. | 00:26:10 | |
Pretty amazing, because. | 00:26:14 | |
There's. | 00:26:15 | |
3033 counties. | 00:26:17 | |
And. | 00:26:20 | |
4 speakers, We were one of them. | 00:26:22 | |
Umm. | 00:26:25 | |
Pretty awesome deal, so I'd like to congratulate Valencia County. | 00:26:26 | |
One's accounting employees for being spotlighted on the national level this week. | 00:26:29 | |
And with that, Mister Monet, do you have anything I'd like to start with, Mr. Montoya. | 00:26:38 | |
If I may please, Mr. Chairman. | 00:26:43 | |
Good evening, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Commission. I mean that's a perfect segue for our next item of business here. And and | 00:26:48 | |
at this moment, I just wanted to, you know, thank the Commission for continually supporting this program and all the other efforts | 00:26:54 | |
that we're making to to appreciate our employees and to go out there and recruit new employees. | 00:27:00 | |
This is coming up on our 4th. | 00:27:07 | |
Of doing employee of the month. So so it's it's really been great and and just thank you guys for supporting our employees. | 00:27:10 | |
So with that, I'd like to call up Mr. Meyer, our county assessor. | 00:27:17 | |
I don't know. And then also our employee of the month, Nevada. | 00:27:23 | |
So I just like to say a few things about. | 00:27:35 | |
She's an amazing asset to our office. When I started in January, she kind of sat in the corner and, you know, talk to people if | 00:27:39 | |
she had to. We've since moved her to the front window and she has blossomed. | 00:27:45 | |
Everybody, all the people that come in the office love her. She's as helpful as she can possibly be to everybody and. | 00:27:53 | |
I just can't say enough good words about what she's done for our office. | 00:27:59 | |
Congratulations, Nevada. And it's stories like that. You know somebody that was kind of. | 00:28:11 | |
You know, in a shell and and just through the work that we do. | 00:28:17 | |
You know, they kind of blossom become you. | 00:28:21 | |
Highlighted employee within a year, so congratulations real quick, Mr. Chairman. So when we've had holes in other departments like | 00:28:25 | |
in the manager's office, we've been able to utilize Nevada and other departments and that's really been a big asset for us to just | 00:28:31 | |
be able to shift somebody from what they're normally able to do and come help out you know in the managers or any other | 00:28:36 | |
department. So that's just one other point I wanted to put out there. | 00:28:42 | |
All right. Anything else, Mr. Monet? Mr. Chairman, if I may, I'd like to thank you for your kind words. | 00:28:50 | |
Without a supportive Commission. | 00:28:57 | |
And the great employees, it wouldn't be possible. I think we've got a great team between all of us working together, but. | 00:28:59 | |
They always say surround yourself with people a lot better than you are and you'll shine. And we have some great employees and it | 00:29:06 | |
goes without. | 00:29:10 | |
To add on to that, we will have the tree lighting right after this meeting. | 00:29:16 | |
And. | 00:29:20 | |
Commissioner Aragon's baby for eight years. | 00:29:22 | |
And. | 00:29:25 | |
Please stick around if you have time for that. There'll be coffee, hot chocolate and some snacks. | 00:29:26 | |
The county Christmas party will be tomorrow. We'll be shutting the offices at noon. We'll start serving food at 1:00. | 00:29:32 | |
And I will be out Friday and Monday, and that is all I have at this time, Mr. Chairman. | 00:29:38 | |
All right. Any other comments by commissioners? | 00:29:43 | |
OK, with that we will move, we need to go into executive session. | 00:29:48 | |
Mr. ***** could you please state the reasons for executive session tonight? | 00:29:53 | |
Certainly, Mr. Chairman, pursuant to section 1015 One H, the following matters may be discussed in closed session. | 00:29:57 | |
Under competitive sealed proposals 10/15 one H. | 00:30:06 | |
RFP 2212 Valencia County Hospital under Penny or Threatened Litigation 10/15 One H7M RGCD versus Board of County Commissioners at | 00:30:10 | |
all. | 00:30:15 | |
We need a motion to go into executive session for the state of reasons to move motion for Commissioner Brazil second, second from | 00:30:22 | |
Commissioner Richardson, any discussion on the motion and 2nd. | 00:30:27 | |
Commissioner Richardson, Eddie vote yes, Commissioner Brazil, yes, Mr. Sparkman, yes, Commissioner. Size, yes, and I will, yes. | 00:30:32 | |
Your backlight. | 00:30:44 | |
Thank you, Tess. | 00:30:48 | |
I need a motion to go back into regular session moved second. We have a motion in the second. Is there any discussion on the | 00:30:49 | |
motion and 2nd? | 00:30:53 | |
Mission Richardson. | 00:30:56 | |
Brazil, yes, Commissioner Sparkman, yes, and I vote yes, and let the record reflect that Commissioner size has left for the | 00:30:59 | |
evening. | 00:31:03 | |
Umm. | 00:31:08 | |
All right. Mr. Monet, could you give us a summary of the items discussed in closed session? Mr. Chairman, Commissioner, is the | 00:31:09 | |
only items discussed in executive session where competitive seal build proposals 10-15-1. | 00:31:15 | |
VCR FY22-012 Lincoln County Hospital. | 00:31:21 | |
And MRG CD This is threatening pending litigation 10-15-1 MRGCD versus BOCC. | 00:31:26 | |
And no final action was. | 00:31:37 | |
OK, we need a motion to ratify. No action was taken in the executive session. | 00:31:39 | |
The motion Commissioner Brazil, a second Commissioner Richardson. | 00:31:44 | |
Any discussion on the motion and. | 00:31:48 | |
If you're interested in how do you vote? | 00:31:50 | |
Commissioner Bedell, Commissioner Sparkman, yes. | 00:31:53 | |
And I will. | 00:31:55 | |
OK. | 00:31:58 | |
And there's no need for any action. | 00:32:00 | |
OK. | 00:32:03 | |
So moving back to action items, we have item number six consideration of an MOA with Tierra Grande Improvement Association for the | 00:32:05 | |
improvements of certain county roadways. | 00:32:10 | |
In Tierra Grande, Lena Benavides chairman. Good evening, commissioners, I'm here for consideration of an MOA for improvements to | 00:32:15 | |
Tara Grande Roadways. | 00:32:19 | |
They will be providing the county with some fun, will contribute twenty $20,000 in material to assist with some of the road | 00:32:24 | |
repairs in the Tedagonde area as we are available. | 00:32:29 | |
To do those repairs. | 00:32:35 | |
In their area. | 00:32:37 | |
And I recommend. | 00:32:39 | |
There any questions of Miss Benavides on this item? | 00:32:41 | |
None. Is there a motion, Mr. | 00:32:46 | |
Mr. Sparkler, move to approve the motion. You have a motion for approval from Commissioner Sparkman on the recommendation second, | 00:32:48 | |
second from Commissioner Brazil, any discussion on the motion and 2nd. | 00:32:54 | |
Commissioner Richardson, how do you vote yes, Commissioner Brazil, Commissioner Sparkman, and I vote yes. | 00:33:00 | |
All right, action item number seven. We have appointment of three freeholders for the county as a. | 00:33:18 | |
As Rd. viewers to evaluate the vacation of 1212 Rivas Rd. In Las Limas. | 00:33:24 | |
Again, I'm here for appointment of this Commission of three freeholders to review and evaluate the vacation request at 1212 Rivas | 00:33:31 | |
Rd. | 00:33:35 | |
The four individuals are pretty much the same, except for one is Michelle Merrill, Charles Eaton, John Clemens and Sue Moran has | 00:33:39 | |
accepted. | 00:33:44 | |
To assist us with this as well, as long as there's no confrontation because she's a PNC Commissioner, there is not. But Mr. | 00:33:51 | |
Chairman, I just wanted to set out the process if I could presume to 6754, unless Adrian already has. | 00:33:56 | |
So pursuant to the state statute, in order to vacate a road, the support of county commissioners has to appoint 3 freeholders to | 00:34:02 | |
go out and view the road and that those 3 freeholders to come back and make a report to the board either recommending vacation or | 00:34:07 | |
not recommending vacation. | 00:34:11 | |
And where is reb? | 00:34:18 | |
It's alcohol. | 00:34:21 | |
So more. | 00:34:23 | |
All right. Are there any questions, Miss Benavides, on these? | 00:34:27 | |
Freeholders we've used in the. | 00:34:31 | |
Known as their recommendation, Mr. | 00:34:34 | |
Mr. Brazil, I'd like to make a motion to approve the three or the four with the alternate. We do a motion for approval second. | 00:34:36 | |
2nd From Commissioner Richardson, any discussion on the motion and. | 00:34:43 | |
Mr. Richardson. | 00:34:48 | |
Yes, Commissioner, Brazil. | 00:34:49 | |
Commissioner Sparkman, yes, and I vote yes. Thank you, Chairman, Commissioners. | 00:34:51 | |
OK, you have one more. | 00:34:56 | |
Item number 8 is approval for a Geo bond funds in the amount of. | 00:35:01 | |
$980,391.84 and request for an additional $1 million to complete. | 00:35:06 | |
Phase one of LCR Mission Blvd. Miss Benavides. | 00:35:12 | |
Chairman, Commissioners, I have put in a. | 00:35:20 | |
For some additional funds to assist with El Settle Mission Blvd. I do request this time it be tabled. There's some issues that we | 00:35:23 | |
need to look at and some funding before we move forward on this. | 00:35:28 | |
OK. | 00:35:34 | |
Is there a motion to that effect from Commissioners? Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion to table item eight. We have a motion to | 00:35:35 | |
table from Commissioner Richardson, second from Commissioner Brazil, any discussion on the motion and. | 00:35:41 | |
Mr. Richardson, how do you vote? Yes, thank you. | 00:35:48 | |
Thanks Dan, who will revisit that at a later date. | 00:35:54 | |
Item number 9 is Approval of recognition and recording of accounts payable and Payroll disbursements. Missus Trujillo. Good | 00:35:58 | |
evening Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, I have two accounts payable and two payroll disbursements for your consideration. The first | 00:36:05 | |
accounts payable authorization is for the period October 7th through October 31st. | 00:36:11 | |
2023 in the amount of $1,687,103.42. | 00:36:18 | |
And just as. | 00:36:28 | |
To make you aware, this is all funds. It's not just from our general fund, it's ARPA. It's all the funds that we have all | 00:36:31 | |
together. These are our expenses for the month. | 00:36:35 | |
The second Accounts Payable authorization. | 00:36:40 | |
Is for the period November 1st through November 29, 2023 in the amount of $1,726,132.61. | 00:36:44 | |
And I'll continue with the payroll authorizations. The first payroll authorization is for wages paid on October 6th, 2023 in the | 00:36:58 | |
amount of 740 thousand $740,687.10. | 00:37:07 | |
And the second payroll authorization is for wages paid on October 20th, 2023 in the amount of 770 dollars $234.27. | 00:37:16 | |
And I stand for any questions on any of these items and I do recommend approval of the items, Any questions of Mrs. Trujillo on | 00:37:28 | |
these, on these items? | 00:37:33 | |
If none is there. | 00:37:39 | |
Sure. I'd like to make a motion to approve as presented. We have a motion from Commissioner Richardson, a second from Commissioner | 00:37:41 | |
Bissell, any discussion on the motion and 2nd. | 00:37:45 | |
Commissioner Richardson, how do you vote yes, Commissioner Brazil, Commissioner Sparkman, and I vote yes. | 00:37:50 | |
Hey, item number ten, approval of Resolution 2023 state. | 00:38:24 | |
Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, I'd like to bring a couple of the bars to your attention. | 00:38:29 | |
The third item down which is BMS Fund 20400 to County Roads. | 00:38:36 | |
This is the. | 00:38:43 | |
Lena just presented to you all for Tierra Grande improvements. So it is included in our bars for approval. | 00:38:44 | |
On the second page. | 00:38:53 | |
There's an item in LGBMS fund 222600 for the jail and detention. | 00:38:56 | |
And it is in the amount. | 00:39:03 | |
$700,000, and I just want to bring that to your attention. This was approved by you, all of the Board of County Commissioners. | 00:39:06 | |
On. | 00:39:15 | |
8/16/2023 which was August 16th and this is a transfer in from the general fund to complete the expansion of the detention center. | 00:39:17 | |
So this is coming before you right now as a bar to add it to our budget and other than that. | 00:39:25 | |
We had quite a few grants that we had we had to add to our. | 00:39:34 | |
Issue bars for and I stand for any questions you may have on these items. | 00:39:39 | |
OK. Any questions of Mr. Hill on this State Bar? | 00:39:44 | |
If none, is there a motion? | 00:39:50 | |
That's my question. To prove as presented. We have a motion for approval from Commissioner Brazil, second, second from | 00:39:52 | |
Commissioner Richardson. | 00:39:55 | |
Any discussion on the motion and 2nd Commissioner Richardson, any vote? Yes, Commissioner Brazil, yes, Mr. Sparkman, yes, and I | 00:39:58 | |
vote yes. | 00:40:02 | |
Mr. Chairman and Commissioners, this resolution is 2023 Dash 82. | 00:40:07 | |
All right. And finally, item number 11, approval of a resolution for local bars. | 00:40:27 | |
Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, is our standard bars moving money from one line item to another within the same fund. So they do | 00:40:33 | |
require your approval, but not. | 00:40:38 | |
The state's approval, I don't see anything unusual that we added to this, but I do stand for any questions you may have and I do | 00:40:44 | |
recommend approval of these as well. | 00:40:48 | |
Any questions, Mr. Trio, on these on these bars? | 00:40:53 | |
None. Is there a motion? | 00:40:57 | |
Let's make a motion to approve Sir motion for approval from Commissioner Brazil, second from Commissioner Richardson. | 00:40:58 | |
Any discussion on the motion? | 00:41:04 | |
Commissioner Richardson, how do you vote? Yes, Commissioner Brazil. | 00:41:06 | |
Brooklyn Yes. No. | 00:41:10 | |
Thank you all. Thank you, Mr. | 00:41:12 | |
Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, this resolution IS2023-83. | 00:41:14 | |
All right. So before we leave, I'd like to mention some upcoming Commission meetings. | 00:41:32 | |
December 20th, 2023 we have a public hearing slash business. | 00:41:38 | |
At 5:00. | 00:41:42 | |
Here in the blunt county. | 00:41:45 | |
In January 3rd, 2023, we have our reorganizational business meeting. | 00:41:47 | |
Also at 5:00. | 00:41:52 | |
Here in the Commission. | 00:41:54 | |
Right now following this meeting, we're going to have our annual Christmas tree lighting, so anybody in attendance? | 00:41:56 | |
Join us for that. | 00:42:02 | |
And if you live close, you're on Facebook Live. Come on down to the courthouse and we've got. | 00:42:04 | |
Hot chocolate and cookies, I think out there. | 00:42:11 | |
We'd love for you all to celebrate this yearly event with. | 00:42:13 | |
And are there any closing comments by fellow commissioners? | 00:42:18 | |
If not, we are adjourned. Thank you. | 00:42:23 |
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Minutes/Exhibits | Minutes Document |
All right. Good evening, everybody. Today is December 6th, 2023. | 00:00:10 | |
This is a 5:00 business meeting of the Valencia County Commission. | 00:00:15 | |
And if I could have Jess and his guests please lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance tonight. | 00:00:19 | |
Ideally, institute reply of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands. | 00:00:31 | |
One nation under God. | 00:00:38 | |
Indivisible with liberty and justice. | 00:00:41 | |
Or. | 00:00:49 | |
All right. Thank you very much for that, Mister. | 00:00:50 | |
All right, before we move any further, if anyone has their cell phones turned on, if you could at this time, silence those. | 00:00:54 | |
Eliminating distraction for our meeting, we definitely appreciate that. | 00:01:02 | |
And I'm sure as you can tell, I'm not commissioner size, but he is. | 00:01:08 | |
Asked me to chair this meeting because he may have to leave a little bit early tonight, so. | 00:01:13 | |
Bear with me, it's been a while. | 00:01:17 | |
And I thank you for that. | 00:01:19 | |
All right. So next is the approval of the agenda. We've had this agenda for several days. | 00:01:22 | |
Is there any changes to the agenda as presented by Commissioners, Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make. | 00:01:26 | |
Motion that we move our executive session. | 00:01:35 | |
To right before we start our action items, which would be prior to item number six on our agenda if there's. | 00:01:39 | |
If the rescue Commission doesn't have an issue with that. | 00:01:46 | |
Any other changes Comm. | 00:01:50 | |
Mr. Monette no other changes, Mr. | 00:01:52 | |
All right. | 00:01:55 | |
So we have a recommendation for approval. | 00:01:56 | |
An amendment moving our executive session just before action items. | 00:01:59 | |
Is there a motion to support that so moved? I can't have a motion from Commissioner size, second from Commissioner Bozell, any | 00:02:03 | |
discussion on the motion and 2nd? | 00:02:08 | |
Commissioner Richardson, that evoked yes, Commissioner Buzzell, Commissioner Sparkman, Commissioner Size and I vote. | 00:02:14 | |
OK. Next is the approval of minutes. | 00:02:23 | |
We have two sets of minutes which I'm going to ask if we. | 00:02:25 | |
Take action on separately since I was not here for one of. | 00:02:29 | |
The first is 11/15/2023. It was a public hearing slash business meeting. | 00:02:33 | |
Those minutes have been in our pack. | 00:02:39 | |
Are there any changes to those minutes by? | 00:02:42 | |
Mr. Monette, no. | 00:02:45 | |
Mr. | 00:02:48 | |
Commissioner Brazil, I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes as presented. They have a motion to approve by Commissioner | 00:02:49 | |
Brazil, second, second by Commissioner Sparkman, any discussion on the motion and 2nd. | 00:02:54 | |
Commissioner Richardson, how do you vote? | 00:02:59 | |
Yes, Commissioner, Brazil, yes, Commissioner, sparkling. | 00:03:01 | |
Commissioner size, yes, and I will. | 00:03:04 | |
All right. Well, that gets signed. We're going to move on to. | 00:03:33 | |
Number 11/28/2023. | 00:03:39 | |
There's an ICIP workshop. | 00:03:41 | |
Those Minutes have also been in our package. Are there any changes from those Commissioners? | 00:03:44 | |
We approve as presented. We have a motion for approval from commissioner size. | 00:03:50 | |
Commissioner Bissell. | 00:03:55 | |
Any discussion on the motion and 2nd. | 00:03:56 | |
Commissioner Richardson, your vote. Yes. Commissioner Brazil, yes. Commissioner Sparkman, yes. Commissioner. Size, yes, and I will | 00:03:58 | |
abstain. | 00:04:01 | |
OK. Moving on, we have public comment. | 00:04:37 | |
I have a list here of names of folks. | 00:04:41 | |
Be speaking for public comment. | 00:04:44 | |
I'd like to run through a few of the ground rules. We've got a time limit. Your time will be started here on this clock. | 00:04:47 | |
Once you state your name. | 00:04:53 | |
Once that buzzer goes off, I'll ask you to sit down, even if you're if you have more to say. | 00:04:55 | |
You can come back at a later meeting and finish that. | 00:05:01 | |
Also, if you do have more to say, you can also e-mail those comments to. | 00:05:04 | |
Armed county manager and he'll get those input into the minutes as well. | 00:05:11 | |
If you can come up, state your name. | 00:05:15 | |
Whether you're a Blunt County resident or not. | 00:05:18 | |
And keep your comments directed to the Commission. We'd appreciate that. Don't engage anybody. | 00:05:21 | |
Audience would appreciate. | 00:05:29 | |
So our first name tonight is going to be Chase. | 00:05:32 | |
Good evening County Commission. My name is Chase Ward. I grew up just a little introduction myself. I grew up in a small farm in | 00:05:47 | |
southeastern Arizona. I attended Eastern Arizona College where I met my wife. I later attended New Mexico State University where I | 00:05:52 | |
earned my bachelor's in pre Med animal science. | 00:05:56 | |
I live at 20 Francis here in Valencia County. | 00:06:03 | |
In the short four months we have lived in our new home, we have been a target of scrutiny. The neighbors constantly are taking | 00:06:06 | |
pictures of our every move. They bought burner phones to harass me every morning I start the truck to go to and from work. | 00:06:13 | |
They've even gone as far as following. | 00:06:20 | |
To see where I go throughout. | 00:06:22 | |
We had a friend stop by who is a mobile mechanic to get some eggs. | 00:06:24 | |
Even opened a toolbox, but the neighbors snapped pictures of him and sent it. | 00:06:29 | |
And stated that we had a mechanic at our house. My father-in-law came by 1 evening with his trailer and personal truck and sure | 00:06:34 | |
enough an e-mail was seen about that as well. | 00:06:38 | |
About men being in our house, trying to load stuff and pulling the wool over the county's eyes, which is not true. | 00:06:42 | |
They have become obsessed with, obsessed with trying to prove something that. | 00:06:48 | |
Isn't true. | 00:06:52 | |
And it's made our lives miserable. We don't feel comfortable in our home. They hide behind their walls and video us. | 00:06:53 | |
Do they have pictures of our kids? I don't. | 00:06:58 | |
It's sad that a young family has buyer's remorse because of a few neighbors. They claim they are coming to the county as | 00:07:01 | |
representatives of the neighborhood to ban semi trucks, but in truth, the majority of the people who reside in Google estate | 00:07:05 | |
support us and the rest of the truckers. | 00:07:09 | |
We have a petition that was signed by 27 residents. | 00:07:14 | |
That state they do not view us as a nuisance and do not care that we park our cemetery semi truck at our home on our property. | 00:07:17 | |
One of these neighbors has even brought it upon themselves to send certified letters to other semi truck drivers in the | 00:07:26 | |
neighborhood stating that they cannot have their semis at their homes. | 00:07:30 | |
They use these certified letters as a scare tactic to bully the neighbors. They even sign it from the residents of Goodele states, | 00:07:34 | |
which is false and in my opinion, forgery. | 00:07:39 | |
The previous owners were granted permission to park one truck and one trailer. Here at 20 Francis, they were told that their case | 00:07:44 | |
was closed. Per Melissa had a mile. | 00:07:48 | |
The e-mail was sent in July of this year and should be carried over to. | 00:07:52 | |
We are currently only parking 1 semi truck at our residence. The truck I leave to work in and come home in. | 00:07:55 | |
We have a yard in Peralta. | 00:08:02 | |
That we parked the spare truck at and do mechanic work at. No dispatching or major mechanic work is done at our home. This | 00:08:05 | |
insanity has to stop. I would hope that the county commissioners, managers and directors acknowledge that we are more than | 00:08:09 | |
compliant. | 00:08:13 | |
We want nothing more than the freedom to be able to. | 00:08:17 | |
To bring our work truck home, same as every other blue collar worker that lives in good Ole estates. We just want this to stop. | 00:08:20 | |
Thank you. | 00:08:24 | |
Next will be Kaylee. | 00:08:31 | |
My name is Kaylee Ward. We wanted to introduce ourselves and give you a face to the infamous 20 Francis Rd. | 00:08:44 | |
I grew up here in Valencia County. I attended Valencia High School and I was one of the three valedictorians in 2012. I went on to | 00:08:51 | |
attend U&M on the Presidential Scholarship and graduated with my Bachelors in Nursing in 2015. | 00:08:57 | |
I'm married to Chase Ward and we have 4 beautiful children, one which joined us just this last Thursday. We volunteer at our local | 00:09:03 | |
church, at my daughter's school, and in the community with youth sports. We pride ourselves with being good people, so when we | 00:09:09 | |
hear of people slandering our name, we take offense. | 00:09:14 | |
I understand there were ill feelings by both parties before we moved in over semi trucks, but their disdain for the previous | 00:09:20 | |
owners. | 00:09:23 | |
Has been brought on us since day one. We have tried to be good neighbors. We brought them cookies and tried to introduce | 00:09:27 | |
ourselves, but they don't care. | 00:09:31 | |
The day we moved in, emails were sent to the county with allegations about us. How is it that the moment we moved in, they already | 00:09:35 | |
had strong enough dislike for us? | 00:09:39 | |
That they felt it was necessary to e-mail the county instead of coming to talk to us. | 00:09:43 | |
We have proof that they have been taking pictures of us and sending an e-mail since the day we moved in. There have been a lot of | 00:09:48 | |
claims that have been false. We had no idea that they were taking these these pictures and sending in these emails and coming to | 00:09:52 | |
these meetings to talk about us. | 00:09:57 | |
So now we would like to set some truth. | 00:10:02 | |
Daniel had a Mio claims that our realtor requested documentation from them. First of all, we did not have a realtor. We did this | 00:10:04 | |
transaction with no Realtors and these documents they claim were requested were never shown to us. | 00:10:11 | |
Second, my husband does not blatantly disrespect the neighborhood, as Patricia Jade Mio has declared. She claims he goes down the | 00:10:17 | |
road honking his horn, running stop signs, and disobeying the speed limit. This is all false. | 00:10:23 | |
The only times he has even honked his corn was horn was for the neighborhood kids. When he was driving by they did the universal | 00:10:29 | |
trucker sign. He has been extremely careful and safe through this neighborhood. We even have character letters from our other | 00:10:34 | |
neighbors. | 00:10:39 | |
That have been sent in regarding his safe driving. I actually find it ironic that I have proof from the neighborhood group text | 00:10:44 | |
that Patricia had a meal has admitted to not obeying the new neighborhood or the new four way stop at Loma and Francis because she | 00:10:50 | |
has not yet got used to it. They are quick to point fingers at us but they can make a joke about it about the similar situations | 00:10:56 | |
in a group in the group thread. | 00:11:01 | |
Code enforcement came to our house to test the decibels of the truck we passed in. The neighbors who were speaking against us were | 00:11:07 | |
in the street extremely upset. I have the reports from the Code enforcement officers that prove that they were speaking aggressive | 00:11:13 | |
and antique antagonistically to my husband and the officers. They said in the meeting in August that they were worried about their | 00:11:18 | |
safety and possible retaliation from us. | 00:11:24 | |
But what about the proof that we already have that they've been aggressive towards? | 00:11:30 | |
We hope and pray this can be resolved and acknowledge that we have been compliant. We want to be able to focus on our kids and | 00:11:34 | |
enjoy our new house. Thank you. | 00:11:39 | |
Next speaker will be Ben S. | 00:11:47 | |
Good evening, Commission. My name is Ben. | 00:11:57 | |
I'm a small business owner in this community and. | 00:12:01 | |
Understand the struggles of. | 00:12:04 | |
Trying to get by with different tough economic times. | 00:12:07 | |
I've been a resident of Goodele. | 00:12:12 | |
For about 17 years now, me and my wife started our young family. | 00:12:16 | |
In that neighborhood. | 00:12:20 | |
And for the most part, we've We've enjoyed the neighborhood. | 00:12:22 | |
There's things that don't. | 00:12:27 | |
Sued our our liking, but we. | 00:12:30 | |
We try to get along. I I came here to speak in favor for the Ward family. My observation of their family is they're a good, | 00:12:35 | |
wholesome family as they have presented to you. And I can attest to that by the things that I've observed in their works and their | 00:12:42 | |
deeds and their. | 00:12:49 | |
I've observed Chase Ward being nothing but respectful in our neighborhood as he drives a semi truck. | 00:12:57 | |
I see him being very cautious. I've never seen him do anything inappropriate. | 00:13:04 | |
I've not bothered at all by the noise that his truck generates and I understand just is is. I had before mentioned the | 00:13:09 | |
difficulties of raising a young family. I have 5 young daughters that I. | 00:13:16 | |
Concern for their welfare and if someones driving recklessly it upsets. | 00:13:24 | |
But that's not the case with the Word family. They're very respectful. | 00:13:29 | |
They're just trying to make a living trying to get along and it upsets me, the constant harassment that I hear them going through. | 00:13:33 | |
I have not witnessed this harassment first hand, but the things that I've I've been told by others, including the Word family, | 00:13:39 | |
upsets me. | 00:13:44 | |
See. No problem with the Word family and then trying. | 00:13:53 | |
Uh, do their job. I don't see the difference between parking a semi at your truck. | 00:13:58 | |
A semi truck at your home, then driving your plumbing truck home. Or your your your truck if it's if you're a framing contractor | 00:14:04 | |
and it happens to be a domestic truck. | 00:14:08 | |
I personally feel that we. | 00:14:15 | |
Kind of outside the city limits and that's why people go outside the city limits where they can have these freedoms and enjoy | 00:14:17 | |
being a little bit away from from your neighbors and not being right in the city. I could see a problem if if they were in the | 00:14:25 | |
city limits trying to park a semi truck there, but we're on one acre, lots over there for the most part and plenty of room. | 00:14:33 | |
Don't have a problem with the Word family at all, and I can attest everything that they've told you to be true. | 00:14:41 | |
Next will be SEAG. | 00:14:53 | |
High Commission. My name is Sky Sego, and I'd probably just say Ditto because my husband has a good voice and he's well spoken and | 00:15:01 | |
I pretty much have the same thing to say, but I'll read a letter that I did write for them. It's kind of heartbreaking. I'm a | 00:15:07 | |
nurse in our community and I do home visits for pregnant women all through their pregnancy to their babies too, and it's pretty | 00:15:13 | |
heartbreaking the harassment that they've. | 00:15:20 | |
Given especially considering that Kaylee has been pregnant through this process. | 00:15:27 | |
And I'm sure that took a toll on her pregnancy. | 00:15:32 | |
And the delivery of her. | 00:15:36 | |
So I'll just read this letter that I wrote. We are writing in regards to Chase and Kaylee Ward family who reside at 20 Francis Rd. | 00:15:40 | |
We live at 3 Lumber Rd. In the same community in Greeley Estates. | 00:15:45 | |
We have some serious concerns about what we've heard and witness going on in our neighborhood. | 00:15:50 | |
I'm also on this community. | 00:15:58 | |
And also get the minutes to this meeting just to try to stay involved in the community just because of my role, for my job. | 00:16:00 | |
Being as my husband mentioned, being small business owners ourselves, we understand the struggles of trying to make a living in a | 00:16:09 | |
difficult economy. We don't appreciate others trying to make struggles of this young family. Even more challenging, we know the | 00:16:14 | |
words are not running a business outside of their home, but understand that when cheese comes home from a long day, he should have | 00:16:20 | |
the right to drive his truck home just the way that my husband drives his truck home. | 00:16:25 | |
We feel that Chase always drives his truck respectfully and cautiously through our neighborhood. He has young children as well. I | 00:16:31 | |
don't even hear his truck, honestly. | 00:16:35 | |
But my husband also has an insulation contractor, so we have a well insulated home. | 00:16:41 | |
We've not noticed additional traffic that's moved in since they've moved in. They also don't have excessive amount of visitors or | 00:16:46 | |
traffic that's going down their Rd. that. | 00:16:51 | |
Chase and Kaylee Ward moved in our neighborhood less than a year ago. I think they mentioned four months ago, They've been kind | 00:16:58 | |
great additions to our neighborhood. We know they have wholesome values and they're good people. For example, we attended a youth | 00:17:03 | |
fundraiser and this. | 00:17:08 | |
That generous donation. | 00:17:55 | |
We believe. | 00:17:58 | |
If you consulted with like the majority of our neighbors, I'm long winded. | 00:18:00 | |
I have to say Ditto about my husband, what he said and that we think they're good people and shouldn't be harassed the way they | 00:18:06 | |
are being. | 00:18:09 | |
Thank you. | 00:18:12 | |
Next is Emmet. | 00:18:16 | |
How's it going? | 00:18:23 | |
I'm Emma McLaren, I live on 13 Francis Rd. I live right on the corner of Loma and. | 00:18:24 | |
Francis right there where all the traffic. | 00:18:29 | |
Nobody stops there, even the stop signs you guys. | 00:18:32 | |
Nobody ever does listen. | 00:18:36 | |
The. | 00:18:39 | |
I didn't even know his name until tonight. Not gonna. | 00:18:40 | |
Uh. | 00:18:43 | |
Really respectful. The whole family, I mean, since they moved in, they've been over some plight. The guy stopped one day and | 00:18:44 | |
helped my mother. | 00:18:48 | |
Load some heavy packages, saw her struggling, like overall nice. I mean the best neighbor that you could look for. | 00:18:52 | |
The semis driving. | 00:19:00 | |
There's never been an issue from them. I mean, there's. | 00:19:02 | |
It's love coming from a little guy in a car that rips through that area and no respect. | 00:19:07 | |
The semi guys all park in their yards. They're not out there revving them. They're not working them. Late hours a night, early | 00:19:12 | |
mornings. I used to work for the prison. | 00:19:16 | |
Be up at 2-3 in the morning out there, you'd hear their trucks running. | 00:19:21 | |
Barely, I mean. | 00:19:24 | |
No louder than any other vehicle that lives in that neighborhood or. | 00:19:26 | |
Driving around there for that sense as far as like the overall harassment and stuff that the neighbors. | 00:19:30 | |
His situation I heard of is the same as like I've went through personally with a few of these people that are doing this and. | 00:19:37 | |
It's never ending and. | 00:19:45 | |
For them to have to go through that, especially having new kids. I have kids. I have 4 kids. My kids are the guilty ones, making | 00:19:48 | |
them do the horn every time he comes through. | 00:19:52 | |
You know, guilty. | 00:19:57 | |
They shouldn't have to have that type of has. | 00:20:02 | |
Especially it is. | 00:20:05 | |
It's hard. It's hard starting out being a young family. | 00:20:07 | |
And. | 00:20:10 | |
Relentless. I mean, it seems like every other day I'm looking down the road and there's a code enforcement or sheriff's pulling. | 00:20:12 | |
Something no longer means up there, just continuously harass. | 00:20:20 | |
And that neighborhood's quiet and there's nobody really gives anybody any grief. Everyone's kind of helpful and helps out around | 00:20:24 | |
there. | 00:20:27 | |
Great. That's why I like living there, the last 10. | 00:20:31 | |
So. | 00:20:34 | |
I ain't got much to say other than that, like they've been great people unless they moved. | 00:20:35 | |
There's been no issues with the trucks. He parked his trucks in the yard. It's not on the road. | 00:20:40 | |
I. | 00:20:45 | |
And it's pretty well kept. | 00:20:45 | |
Overall great. | 00:20:48 | |
All right. Next we have Amanda Aragon. | 00:20:54 | |
Hello, my name is Amanda Aragon. I live at 26 Yano Road. I also live in Goodalla Estates. I am also one of the truck drivers | 00:21:03 | |
wives. We have two trucks at our residence, one for commercial, one for recreational. | 00:21:10 | |
We had the same situation happened to us. We moved in in 2007, In 2009 we had to go to court over the same issue. | 00:21:17 | |
We went to court, hired an attorney, won our case. | 00:21:25 | |
This has gone on long enough, like we have beat our case and now chases the next victim. I think it's inappropriate and how come | 00:21:29 | |
it's OK for? | 00:21:33 | |
That's to park our stuff there and we won our case without prejudice. | 00:21:38 | |
So it can't be revisited. So why is it OK for us to park our semis and chase not? | 00:21:42 | |
Chase has. | 00:21:48 | |
Doomed from day. | 00:21:50 | |
Whether it's. | 00:21:51 | |
Parking has. | 00:21:52 | |
His dogs, his whatever they can pick on him for, they're gonna pick on him. That is horrible. Who wants to go home to that | 00:21:54 | |
everyday? | 00:21:58 | |
It's just not right and I don't think it should be allowed. | 00:22:02 | |
This is just ridiculous. Like I said, if it's OK for one person to park their semis. | 00:22:06 | |
You can't say their grandfather did. | 00:22:12 | |
Their grandfather did now because. | 00:22:14 | |
They're here. | 00:22:17 | |
This has not. | 00:22:18 | |
So to say any commercial vehicle should not be allowed in good lay estates is wrong. | 00:22:20 | |
It's not right. How do you tell somebody what they can and can't? | 00:22:25 | |
In their. | 00:22:29 | |
I just feel it's just a bad situation and. | 00:22:31 | |
It shouldn't be allowed. It's pure harassment. | 00:22:35 | |
Them taking pictures of them. | 00:22:38 | |
Going out to their cars, going to. | 00:22:40 | |
They're constantly taking pictures. | 00:22:45 | |
It's not right. It's an invasion of privacy. It's. | 00:22:47 | |
Enough. | 00:22:51 | |
I think we need to shut it down and just be done with. | 00:22:52 | |
This has gone on for. | 00:22:55 | |
Months with the Canes, and now with the words. | 00:22:57 | |
And like I said, it happened to us in 2009 and now they're in the same situation. | 00:23:00 | |
It's. | 00:23:05 | |
How far are we going to let it go? | 00:23:07 | |
I appreciate you listening to me. | 00:23:09 | |
All right. I don't think we have two of them. | 00:23:15 | |
Mr. Siegel, you signed on both sheets. | 00:23:17 | |
OK, correct. | 00:23:21 | |
All right. | 00:23:27 | |
We thank everybody for speaking tonight. | 00:23:29 | |
We'd love to hear what's going on in the community. | 00:23:33 | |
And get your voices heard for our minutes. So thank you. | 00:23:36 | |
Next we'll move on to discussion items. These are non action items from commissioners. Are there any? | 00:23:40 | |
Discussion items you'd like to present this evening. | 00:23:46 | |
Mr. Chair, Commissioner, Brazil, I would just like to thank our. | 00:23:49 | |
State Reps and Our Senators for Coming and Listening to our. | 00:23:54 | |
It means a lot for Valencia County to get our projects approved and we need their help to do it. | 00:23:58 | |
And if anybody's on Facebook and stuff and they look at that, please call our senators and help us get our stuff funded. | 00:24:03 | |
That's how we get projects done in Valenci. | 00:24:12 | |
All right, I'd like. | 00:24:19 | |
Make a comment. | 00:24:21 | |
I just got back Sunday from St. Paul, MN, which. | 00:24:23 | |
I don't know why they keep sending me these cold places in the winter, but I attended an ACO event which is National Association | 00:24:28 | |
of Counties. I sit on the board of directors for them. | 00:24:32 | |
And it's. | 00:24:37 | |
Our annual Board of Directors. | 00:24:39 | |
I normally don't talk about a whole lot of stuff that goes on at Naco because it's all pretty available to the public. | 00:24:44 | |
Umm. | 00:24:52 | |
You can research just about anything they do. | 00:24:53 | |
I was asked to sit on a. | 00:24:56 | |
And and describe what's going on here in Valencia County. Somebody took notice. | 00:25:00 | |
And recommended that I sit on this panel. | 00:25:06 | |
Talk about what the heck's going on here, because it's going so. | 00:25:09 | |
And I was able to, really. | 00:25:13 | |
How well our employees are. | 00:25:16 | |
Taking direction from our manager. | 00:25:18 | |
What's gone on the last 10 years? How we've gone from, you know, a real hard spot. | 00:25:21 | |
To. | 00:25:27 | |
Really kind of flush with money being able to provide services and we weren't able to provide in the past and it was just a real | 00:25:29 | |
honor to be able to talk about the positive things this county, the changes that this county has gone through over the past ten | 00:25:34 | |
years or so. | 00:25:39 | |
And. | 00:25:45 | |
Like I said, I don't know who exactly took notice or recommended that I sit on. | 00:25:47 | |
Panel, but it was an absolute pleasure to be able to focus. | 00:25:52 | |
The things our employees are making us all look good for. | 00:25:56 | |
You know, we say it all the time, but thank you all very much. | 00:26:01 | |
You know, just doing. | 00:26:05 | |
Amazing job at the things you. | 00:26:07 | |
And it's getting noticed at national level, which is. | 00:26:10 | |
Pretty amazing, because. | 00:26:14 | |
There's. | 00:26:15 | |
3033 counties. | 00:26:17 | |
And. | 00:26:20 | |
4 speakers, We were one of them. | 00:26:22 | |
Umm. | 00:26:25 | |
Pretty awesome deal, so I'd like to congratulate Valencia County. | 00:26:26 | |
One's accounting employees for being spotlighted on the national level this week. | 00:26:29 | |
And with that, Mister Monet, do you have anything I'd like to start with, Mr. Montoya. | 00:26:38 | |
If I may please, Mr. Chairman. | 00:26:43 | |
Good evening, Mr. Chairman, Members of the Commission. I mean that's a perfect segue for our next item of business here. And and | 00:26:48 | |
at this moment, I just wanted to, you know, thank the Commission for continually supporting this program and all the other efforts | 00:26:54 | |
that we're making to to appreciate our employees and to go out there and recruit new employees. | 00:27:00 | |
This is coming up on our 4th. | 00:27:07 | |
Of doing employee of the month. So so it's it's really been great and and just thank you guys for supporting our employees. | 00:27:10 | |
So with that, I'd like to call up Mr. Meyer, our county assessor. | 00:27:17 | |
I don't know. And then also our employee of the month, Nevada. | 00:27:23 | |
So I just like to say a few things about. | 00:27:35 | |
She's an amazing asset to our office. When I started in January, she kind of sat in the corner and, you know, talk to people if | 00:27:39 | |
she had to. We've since moved her to the front window and she has blossomed. | 00:27:45 | |
Everybody, all the people that come in the office love her. She's as helpful as she can possibly be to everybody and. | 00:27:53 | |
I just can't say enough good words about what she's done for our office. | 00:27:59 | |
Congratulations, Nevada. And it's stories like that. You know somebody that was kind of. | 00:28:11 | |
You know, in a shell and and just through the work that we do. | 00:28:17 | |
You know, they kind of blossom become you. | 00:28:21 | |
Highlighted employee within a year, so congratulations real quick, Mr. Chairman. So when we've had holes in other departments like | 00:28:25 | |
in the manager's office, we've been able to utilize Nevada and other departments and that's really been a big asset for us to just | 00:28:31 | |
be able to shift somebody from what they're normally able to do and come help out you know in the managers or any other | 00:28:36 | |
department. So that's just one other point I wanted to put out there. | 00:28:42 | |
All right. Anything else, Mr. Monet? Mr. Chairman, if I may, I'd like to thank you for your kind words. | 00:28:50 | |
Without a supportive Commission. | 00:28:57 | |
And the great employees, it wouldn't be possible. I think we've got a great team between all of us working together, but. | 00:28:59 | |
They always say surround yourself with people a lot better than you are and you'll shine. And we have some great employees and it | 00:29:06 | |
goes without. | 00:29:10 | |
To add on to that, we will have the tree lighting right after this meeting. | 00:29:16 | |
And. | 00:29:20 | |
Commissioner Aragon's baby for eight years. | 00:29:22 | |
And. | 00:29:25 | |
Please stick around if you have time for that. There'll be coffee, hot chocolate and some snacks. | 00:29:26 | |
The county Christmas party will be tomorrow. We'll be shutting the offices at noon. We'll start serving food at 1:00. | 00:29:32 | |
And I will be out Friday and Monday, and that is all I have at this time, Mr. Chairman. | 00:29:38 | |
All right. Any other comments by commissioners? | 00:29:43 | |
OK, with that we will move, we need to go into executive session. | 00:29:48 | |
Mr. ***** could you please state the reasons for executive session tonight? | 00:29:53 | |
Certainly, Mr. Chairman, pursuant to section 1015 One H, the following matters may be discussed in closed session. | 00:29:57 | |
Under competitive sealed proposals 10/15 one H. | 00:30:06 | |
RFP 2212 Valencia County Hospital under Penny or Threatened Litigation 10/15 One H7M RGCD versus Board of County Commissioners at | 00:30:10 | |
all. | 00:30:15 | |
We need a motion to go into executive session for the state of reasons to move motion for Commissioner Brazil second, second from | 00:30:22 | |
Commissioner Richardson, any discussion on the motion and 2nd. | 00:30:27 | |
Commissioner Richardson, Eddie vote yes, Commissioner Brazil, yes, Mr. Sparkman, yes, Commissioner. Size, yes, and I will, yes. | 00:30:32 | |
Your backlight. | 00:30:44 | |
Thank you, Tess. | 00:30:48 | |
I need a motion to go back into regular session moved second. We have a motion in the second. Is there any discussion on the | 00:30:49 | |
motion and 2nd? | 00:30:53 | |
Mission Richardson. | 00:30:56 | |
Brazil, yes, Commissioner Sparkman, yes, and I vote yes, and let the record reflect that Commissioner size has left for the | 00:30:59 | |
evening. | 00:31:03 | |
Umm. | 00:31:08 | |
All right. Mr. Monet, could you give us a summary of the items discussed in closed session? Mr. Chairman, Commissioner, is the | 00:31:09 | |
only items discussed in executive session where competitive seal build proposals 10-15-1. | 00:31:15 | |
VCR FY22-012 Lincoln County Hospital. | 00:31:21 | |
And MRG CD This is threatening pending litigation 10-15-1 MRGCD versus BOCC. | 00:31:26 | |
And no final action was. | 00:31:37 | |
OK, we need a motion to ratify. No action was taken in the executive session. | 00:31:39 | |
The motion Commissioner Brazil, a second Commissioner Richardson. | 00:31:44 | |
Any discussion on the motion and. | 00:31:48 | |
If you're interested in how do you vote? | 00:31:50 | |
Commissioner Bedell, Commissioner Sparkman, yes. | 00:31:53 | |
And I will. | 00:31:55 | |
OK. | 00:31:58 | |
And there's no need for any action. | 00:32:00 | |
OK. | 00:32:03 | |
So moving back to action items, we have item number six consideration of an MOA with Tierra Grande Improvement Association for the | 00:32:05 | |
improvements of certain county roadways. | 00:32:10 | |
In Tierra Grande, Lena Benavides chairman. Good evening, commissioners, I'm here for consideration of an MOA for improvements to | 00:32:15 | |
Tara Grande Roadways. | 00:32:19 | |
They will be providing the county with some fun, will contribute twenty $20,000 in material to assist with some of the road | 00:32:24 | |
repairs in the Tedagonde area as we are available. | 00:32:29 | |
To do those repairs. | 00:32:35 | |
In their area. | 00:32:37 | |
And I recommend. | 00:32:39 | |
There any questions of Miss Benavides on this item? | 00:32:41 | |
None. Is there a motion, Mr. | 00:32:46 | |
Mr. Sparkler, move to approve the motion. You have a motion for approval from Commissioner Sparkman on the recommendation second, | 00:32:48 | |
second from Commissioner Brazil, any discussion on the motion and 2nd. | 00:32:54 | |
Commissioner Richardson, how do you vote yes, Commissioner Brazil, Commissioner Sparkman, and I vote yes. | 00:33:00 | |
All right, action item number seven. We have appointment of three freeholders for the county as a. | 00:33:18 | |
As Rd. viewers to evaluate the vacation of 1212 Rivas Rd. In Las Limas. | 00:33:24 | |
Again, I'm here for appointment of this Commission of three freeholders to review and evaluate the vacation request at 1212 Rivas | 00:33:31 | |
Rd. | 00:33:35 | |
The four individuals are pretty much the same, except for one is Michelle Merrill, Charles Eaton, John Clemens and Sue Moran has | 00:33:39 | |
accepted. | 00:33:44 | |
To assist us with this as well, as long as there's no confrontation because she's a PNC Commissioner, there is not. But Mr. | 00:33:51 | |
Chairman, I just wanted to set out the process if I could presume to 6754, unless Adrian already has. | 00:33:56 | |
So pursuant to the state statute, in order to vacate a road, the support of county commissioners has to appoint 3 freeholders to | 00:34:02 | |
go out and view the road and that those 3 freeholders to come back and make a report to the board either recommending vacation or | 00:34:07 | |
not recommending vacation. | 00:34:11 | |
And where is reb? | 00:34:18 | |
It's alcohol. | 00:34:21 | |
So more. | 00:34:23 | |
All right. Are there any questions, Miss Benavides, on these? | 00:34:27 | |
Freeholders we've used in the. | 00:34:31 | |
Known as their recommendation, Mr. | 00:34:34 | |
Mr. Brazil, I'd like to make a motion to approve the three or the four with the alternate. We do a motion for approval second. | 00:34:36 | |
2nd From Commissioner Richardson, any discussion on the motion and. | 00:34:43 | |
Mr. Richardson. | 00:34:48 | |
Yes, Commissioner, Brazil. | 00:34:49 | |
Commissioner Sparkman, yes, and I vote yes. Thank you, Chairman, Commissioners. | 00:34:51 | |
OK, you have one more. | 00:34:56 | |
Item number 8 is approval for a Geo bond funds in the amount of. | 00:35:01 | |
$980,391.84 and request for an additional $1 million to complete. | 00:35:06 | |
Phase one of LCR Mission Blvd. Miss Benavides. | 00:35:12 | |
Chairman, Commissioners, I have put in a. | 00:35:20 | |
For some additional funds to assist with El Settle Mission Blvd. I do request this time it be tabled. There's some issues that we | 00:35:23 | |
need to look at and some funding before we move forward on this. | 00:35:28 | |
OK. | 00:35:34 | |
Is there a motion to that effect from Commissioners? Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion to table item eight. We have a motion to | 00:35:35 | |
table from Commissioner Richardson, second from Commissioner Brazil, any discussion on the motion and. | 00:35:41 | |
Mr. Richardson, how do you vote? Yes, thank you. | 00:35:48 | |
Thanks Dan, who will revisit that at a later date. | 00:35:54 | |
Item number 9 is Approval of recognition and recording of accounts payable and Payroll disbursements. Missus Trujillo. Good | 00:35:58 | |
evening Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, I have two accounts payable and two payroll disbursements for your consideration. The first | 00:36:05 | |
accounts payable authorization is for the period October 7th through October 31st. | 00:36:11 | |
2023 in the amount of $1,687,103.42. | 00:36:18 | |
And just as. | 00:36:28 | |
To make you aware, this is all funds. It's not just from our general fund, it's ARPA. It's all the funds that we have all | 00:36:31 | |
together. These are our expenses for the month. | 00:36:35 | |
The second Accounts Payable authorization. | 00:36:40 | |
Is for the period November 1st through November 29, 2023 in the amount of $1,726,132.61. | 00:36:44 | |
And I'll continue with the payroll authorizations. The first payroll authorization is for wages paid on October 6th, 2023 in the | 00:36:58 | |
amount of 740 thousand $740,687.10. | 00:37:07 | |
And the second payroll authorization is for wages paid on October 20th, 2023 in the amount of 770 dollars $234.27. | 00:37:16 | |
And I stand for any questions on any of these items and I do recommend approval of the items, Any questions of Mrs. Trujillo on | 00:37:28 | |
these, on these items? | 00:37:33 | |
If none is there. | 00:37:39 | |
Sure. I'd like to make a motion to approve as presented. We have a motion from Commissioner Richardson, a second from Commissioner | 00:37:41 | |
Bissell, any discussion on the motion and 2nd. | 00:37:45 | |
Commissioner Richardson, how do you vote yes, Commissioner Brazil, Commissioner Sparkman, and I vote yes. | 00:37:50 | |
Hey, item number ten, approval of Resolution 2023 state. | 00:38:24 | |
Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, I'd like to bring a couple of the bars to your attention. | 00:38:29 | |
The third item down which is BMS Fund 20400 to County Roads. | 00:38:36 | |
This is the. | 00:38:43 | |
Lena just presented to you all for Tierra Grande improvements. So it is included in our bars for approval. | 00:38:44 | |
On the second page. | 00:38:53 | |
There's an item in LGBMS fund 222600 for the jail and detention. | 00:38:56 | |
And it is in the amount. | 00:39:03 | |
$700,000, and I just want to bring that to your attention. This was approved by you, all of the Board of County Commissioners. | 00:39:06 | |
On. | 00:39:15 | |
8/16/2023 which was August 16th and this is a transfer in from the general fund to complete the expansion of the detention center. | 00:39:17 | |
So this is coming before you right now as a bar to add it to our budget and other than that. | 00:39:25 | |
We had quite a few grants that we had we had to add to our. | 00:39:34 | |
Issue bars for and I stand for any questions you may have on these items. | 00:39:39 | |
OK. Any questions of Mr. Hill on this State Bar? | 00:39:44 | |
If none, is there a motion? | 00:39:50 | |
That's my question. To prove as presented. We have a motion for approval from Commissioner Brazil, second, second from | 00:39:52 | |
Commissioner Richardson. | 00:39:55 | |
Any discussion on the motion and 2nd Commissioner Richardson, any vote? Yes, Commissioner Brazil, yes, Mr. Sparkman, yes, and I | 00:39:58 | |
vote yes. | 00:40:02 | |
Mr. Chairman and Commissioners, this resolution is 2023 Dash 82. | 00:40:07 | |
All right. And finally, item number 11, approval of a resolution for local bars. | 00:40:27 | |
Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, is our standard bars moving money from one line item to another within the same fund. So they do | 00:40:33 | |
require your approval, but not. | 00:40:38 | |
The state's approval, I don't see anything unusual that we added to this, but I do stand for any questions you may have and I do | 00:40:44 | |
recommend approval of these as well. | 00:40:48 | |
Any questions, Mr. Trio, on these on these bars? | 00:40:53 | |
None. Is there a motion? | 00:40:57 | |
Let's make a motion to approve Sir motion for approval from Commissioner Brazil, second from Commissioner Richardson. | 00:40:58 | |
Any discussion on the motion? | 00:41:04 | |
Commissioner Richardson, how do you vote? Yes, Commissioner Brazil. | 00:41:06 | |
Brooklyn Yes. No. | 00:41:10 | |
Thank you all. Thank you, Mr. | 00:41:12 | |
Mr. Chairman, Commissioners, this resolution IS2023-83. | 00:41:14 | |
All right. So before we leave, I'd like to mention some upcoming Commission meetings. | 00:41:32 | |
December 20th, 2023 we have a public hearing slash business. | 00:41:38 | |
At 5:00. | 00:41:42 | |
Here in the blunt county. | 00:41:45 | |
In January 3rd, 2023, we have our reorganizational business meeting. | 00:41:47 | |
Also at 5:00. | 00:41:52 | |
Here in the Commission. | 00:41:54 | |
Right now following this meeting, we're going to have our annual Christmas tree lighting, so anybody in attendance? | 00:41:56 | |
Join us for that. | 00:42:02 | |
And if you live close, you're on Facebook Live. Come on down to the courthouse and we've got. | 00:42:04 | |
Hot chocolate and cookies, I think out there. | 00:42:11 | |
We'd love for you all to celebrate this yearly event with. | 00:42:13 | |
And are there any closing comments by fellow commissioners? | 00:42:18 | |
If not, we are adjourned. Thank you. | 00:42:23 |