OF THE CITY OF RUIDOSO DOWNS
OCTOBER 22, 2002
The Council of the City of Ruidoso Downs met in regular session on October 22, 2002. Mayor Pro-tem Garrett called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. and asked Jim Kalvelage to lead the Pledge of Allegiance. Upon roll call, the following were present:
Councilor
Miller Councilor Garrett
Councilor Olivo Councilor Morales
Mayor Miller could not attend but there was a quorum.
Also present were:
Annette
Wallace, Secretary
Dan Bryant,
City Attorney
Tom Armstrong, CE/BI/AC
Robert Logan, Chief of Police
APPROVAL OF AGENDA
Motion was made by Councilor Olivo to
approve the Agenda. Second by Councilor Morales. Roll call being: Councilor
Miller, Aye; Councilor Olivo, Aye; Councilor Morales, Aye; Councilor Garrett,
Aye. Motion carried.
APPROVAL OF CONSENT AGENDA
Motion was made by Councilor Miller and
seconded by Councilor Olivo to approve the Consent Agenda. Roll call being:
Councilor Miller, Aye; Councilor Olivo, Aye; Councilor Morales, Aye; Councilor
Garrett, Aye.
Motion carried.
MINUTES
Motion was made by Councilor Miller and seconded by
Councilor Olivo to approve the Minutes of the Special Meeting on October 2,
2002. Roll call being: Councilor Miller, Aye; Councilor Olivo, Aye; Councilor
Morales, Aye; Councilor Garrett, Aye.
Motion carried.
Motion was made by Councilor Miller and
seconded by Councilor Olivo to approve the Minutes of the Regular Meeting on
October 8, 2002. Roll call being: Councilor Miller, Aye; Councilor Olivo, Aye; Councilor Morales, Aye;
Councilor Garrett, Aye.
Motion carried.
Motion was made by Councilor Miller and
seconded by Councilor Olivo to approve the Accounts Payables. Roll call being:
Councilor Miller, Aye; Councilor Olivo, Aye; Councilor Morales, Aye; Councilor Garrett,
Aye.
Motion carried.
Mayor Pro-tem Garrett said next on the
agenda, Connie Stone, Rural Addresser and Patsy Sanchez, Planning Director in
consideration of agreement on road name changes to be made to avoid duplication
throughout the county and consideration of agreement for the natural flow of addresses
between jurisdictions. Patsy Sanchez
said Connie Stone could not be here tonight so she will give the presentation
for her. The County of Lincoln has two Public Safety Answering Points. One is
at the Sheriff's Department in Carrizozo and the other is at the Ruidoso Police
Department. As you know for E-911 to work, we have to find the address
immediately and when we have duplication in road names, it speaks for itself.
It can cause confusion and perhaps delay. My office loads names and addresses
into a data base which assigns emergency service numbers to each address. Let's
say you live a block away from this person but the Hondo ambulance comes to
here and the Ruidoso ambulance comes to here, the Emergency Service Number
tells the dispatch which ambulance or which police department or which fire
department to send automatically. That is why we are trying to avoid all duplications.
As you saw from my letter, we have two memorandums of understanding that we
would like to request of you. The first one is that you work with us so there
are no duplicates or confusing names. Also, I don't know if
Ruidoso Downs has any but we would like to
keep Lincoln Street in Lincoln, White Oaks in White Oaks, Nogal in Nogal and
not have them somewhere else in the county. Secondly, we have the other
memorandum of understanding that we would like for you to consider and that is
in your ET zone. I realize that you don't have your ET zone yet but when it
does come up in order for the sequence of numbers to follow naturally. The one
1 can recall is Spring Road. It begins in the city and it ends in the county.
That is why there is an ET zone for proper growth. If you have any questions,
I'll be happy to try to answer them.
Mayor Pro-tem Garrett said I know there
are some streets with the same names; we have changed some of them but not all
of them.
Mrs. Sanchez said she brought a list of
street names. I highlighted 35-1 and 35-0. Tile " I" means it is in
the city limits and the "0" means it is outside; some of them may be
beyond your ET zone.
Mayor Pro-tem Garrett asked if anyone had
any questions. Mayor Pro-tem Garrett then asked for a motion.
Motion was made by Councilor Morales to
approve both the memorandum of understanding with the county and the ET zone.
Seconded by Councilor Olivo. Roll call being: Councilor Miller, Aye; Councilor
Olivo/ Aye; Councilor Morales, Aye; Councilor Garrett, Aye. Motion carried.
Motion
was made by Councilor Miller and seconded by Councilor Olivo to approve the
Precinct Board, Alternate, Translator, Absent Voter Board and Early Voter Board
for Special Municipal Election to be held on December 10, 2002. Roll call
being: Councilor Miller, Aye; Councilor Olivo, Aye; Councilor Morales, Aye;
Councilor Garrett, Aye. Motion carried.
Mayor Pro-tern Garrett said next on the
agenda, consideration to appoint Public Works Director. Mayor Pro-tem Garrett recommended
for appointment Mr. Kenneth Mosley. They went through the application process
and he is the person they have chosen. 1 would like the Board to ratify that.
Motion was made by Councilor Miller and
seconded by Councilor Olivo to hire Kenneth Mosley as the Public Works
Director.
Councilor Morales said I have stated my
position earlier that I did not feel we needed a public works director and I
still maintain that position. However, 1 will go with the consensus of award as
far as Mr. Mosley. I have known Mr. Mosley personally and I can't say anything
but good things about him although I am still against the position. 1 am not
against Mr. Mosey and I wanted that clarified.
Roll call being: Councilor Miller, Aye;
Councilor Olivo, Aye; Councilor Morales, Aye; Councilor Garrett, Aye. Motion
carried.
Councilor Olivo asked if we are going to
hear from Mr. Mosley. Mayor Pro-tem Garrett asked Mr. Mosley to please stand up.
She then introduced him and welcomed him to the city.
Mr. Mosley said
thank you and is looking forward to working with this administration and staff.
I am honored to be the first public works director.
Motion was made by Councilor Miller and
seconded by Councilor Olivo to approve rescheduling the City Council regular
meeting from Tuesday, November 12, 2002 to Monday, November 4, 2002. Roll call
being: Councilor Miller, Aye; Councilor Olivo, Aye; Councilor Morales, Aye;
Councilor Garrett, Aye. Motion carried.
Motion was made by Councilor Miller and
seconded by Councilor Olivo to award Bid No. 03-005, Pole Mounted Christmas
Lights. Roll call being: Councilor Miller, Aye; Councilor Olivo, Aye; Councilor
Morales, Aye; Councilor Garrett, Aye. Motion carried.
Mayor-Pro-tem Garrett said next on the
agenda, consider action on unauthorized purchase. She said evidently these were
purchases made from Artesia Fire Equipment, Inc.which were not followed by the
procurement rules before we actually had those instated. The recommendation of staff
was to go ahead, since we had received the good, to pay the bill. They feel it
is under control and we are following the proper procedures now and this won't
happen again.
Motion was made by Councilor Morales and
seconded by Councilor Olivo to approve the unauthorized purchases from Artesia
Fire Equipment. Roll call being: Councilor Miller, Aye; Councilor Olivo, Aye;
Councilor Morales, Aye; Councilor Garrett, Aye. Motion carried.
PUBLIC INPUT
Joe Blaney said he has a couple of
questions. We had an ad that came out in the paper last week and I asked the Mayor
about it. He had no idea what I was talking about. I have been trying to get
information out of John ever since and I have not been able to get that. We
have been led to believe for the past year that this money was already applied
for and we were following the drainage plan that we have already paid for as
recommended. Now we are asking for public input in writing to be sent to
Bob and Bob knew nothing about it. Mayor Pro-tem Garrett said it is a request
for information because it is in the flood plain as far the residence residing
in the flood plain. Councilor Olivo asked if it has to do with the survey taken
over there. Mr. Blaney said we paid for a drainage plan, we finally decided to
go with engineer's recommendation and now it sounds like we are going to change
it. Mayor Pro-tem Garrett asked if this is not just a legal requirement of CDBG.
Attorney Bryant answered yes because it is in the 100 year flood zone, it may
also be required in our FEMA Ordinance to get their comments before we
finalize. It is my
belief that this advertisement is simply
one of the last steps in the process to complete the design phase and get the
project on the ground and rolling. It is not starting something new or starting
over in any sense; it is simply completing a step on a check list.
Mr. Blaney asked what grants are we
applying for next month then. Terri Mosley said we are applying for two
separate grants and the deadline is November 11th. One of them is for the
construction of the drainage project and that is what we are gathering this
information for. Mr. Blaney said he thought we had applied for that last year.
Ms. Mosley said these are some steps we had to go through. Mayor Pro-tem
Garrett said we agreed on some of the things we would do and the two
projects we chose were the drainage plan and water. We had all of those CDBG
hearings to make a list so we could choose. You still have to go through all
the little hoops.
Mr. Blaney said the other thing we were
told, when got the final budget back we could put a fence around the seven
acres. Mayor Pro-tem Garrett said she would find out and let him know. It may
be a hold up because of the ditch there. Councilor Miller said they are
cleaning up down there.
There was no executive session.
Motion was made by Councilor Miller and
seconded by Councilor Olivo to adjourn at 5:40 p.m. Motion passed unanimously.
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Susan
Garrett, Mayor Pro-tern
ATTEST;
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Annette Wallace/
Secretary