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Bulldogs prepare for Aug. 23 season opener against Carlsbad

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Bulldogs prepare for Aug. 23 season opener against Carlsbad

Mike Smith
Artesia Daily Press

Aug. 8 varsity and junior student-athletes of the Artesia High School football team gathered for team pictures at the Bulldog Bowl.

The annual team photo was taken on opening day for the Artesia Public Schools as students reported for the 2024-2025 academic year.

The Bulldogs are the defending 2023 New Mexico 5A state champions. Artesia defeated Roswell last year 35-21 in the title game.

Artesia opens the 2024 campaign Aug. 23 against the Carlsbad Cavemen at Bulldog Bowl.

The Bulldogs clubbed the Cavemen last year 55-7 in Carlsbad.

Mike Smith can be reached via phone at 575-308-8734.

Eddy County Fairgrounds being upgraded with indoor livestock facility

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Eddy County Fairgrounds being upgraded with indoor livestock facility


By Mike Smith
El Rito Media

Demolition work started last week at the Eddy County Fairgrounds in Artesia for a new livestock barn and multi-use building, fair officials said.

A long-standing cattle barn with wash basins and restrooms were in the process of being torn down making way for a new indoor multi-use facility with an estimated cost of $25 million presented earlier this year to the Eddy County Board of County Commissioners.

The Eddy County Fair Board estimated work on the new facility would start in September and should be complete by 2026.

Eddy County 4-H Extension Agent Wayne Shockey said the new building would be a benefit for animals, parents, youths and others invested in the livestock shows.

During this year’s Eddy County Fair which ran July 23 through July 27 sweltering temperatures greeted participants as preparations took place in open air livestock pens and portable air conditioners tried to keep animals and people comfortable.

Shockey said the new facility would have indoor air conditioning.

“I’m excited to see that coming,” he said.

Shockey said enrollment in Eddy County’s 4-H programs was “pretty steady” during this years fair. He said some areas in the 4-H program needed improvement.

4-H is a national youth development organization with nearly six million participates across the United States, according to the group’s website.

“The 4-H program in New Mexico is under the control of New Mexico State University, specifically the Cooperative Extension Service. Local Extension Agents coordinate county 4-H programs,” noted the Eddy County Extension Service website.

Eddy County has 10 4-H clubs in all areas of the county, per the Extension Service website.

A closer look at the 2024 Eddy County Fair

An estimated 25,000 people visited the fairgrounds during last months fair, said Jon Putman, of the Eddy County Fair Board in a report to the Eddy County Board of County Commissioners Aug. 6.

“It went really well, with about 145 livestock exhibitors with about 500 animals,” he said.

Putnam said a carnival at this year’s fair might have led to an uptick in visitors compared to previous fairs.

Commissioners praised Putnam and other Fair Board members.

“The fair did an absolutely fantastic job,” said District 2 Commissioner Jon Henry. “Really appreciated it this year, it was great to see the carnival back. Always glad to see the support of our community and all those kids and what they get accomplished out there.”

District 1 Commissioner Ernie Carlson thanked the Fair Board for continuing to grow the event.

“I think that’s a great honor and a great thing for the guys that served on the Fair Board that worked so hard to put it on,” he said.

County Commission Chair Bo Bowen said the fair was a yearly high point for all Eddy County residents, including the junior livestock sale which raised a reported $1.2 million this year.

“That’s unreal. If you go around the state, that just doesn’t happen. That’s just something to be proud of. We have a lot of good people supporting a lot of great kids in our county,” Bowen said.

Mike Smith can be reached via phone at 575-308-8734 or by email at msmith@currentargus.com and via X @MSmithartesianm.

Yard of Week

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Yard of Week

This lush and plush oasis is the proud work of Tommy Taylor at 1515 Northgate Place. The lush carpet of Fescue just highlights the Spanish Broom, Indian Broom and Purple Sage that encircle an old iron pot of Blanket flowers. Congratulations, an enjoy all of the colors from that cute front porch.

City of Artesia Comprehensive Plan Public Meeting

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Artesia—The City of Artesia is holding the third public meeting for the Artesia Comprehensive Plan on Thursday, August 22, 2024, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM at the Artesia Recreation Center at 612 N. Eighth Street. Consensus Planning, the City’s consultant, will be presenting the draft Comprehensive Plan, a 20-year framework for how Artesia should grow and develop.

The Comprehensive Plan addresses land use, economic development, housing and neighborhoods, transportation, community facilities and services, infrastructure, hazard mitigation, and implementation.

Please review the draft Comprehensive Plan prior to the meeting. The draft Comprehensive Plan can be viewed and downloaded from the project website at:

https://artesiacomprehensiveplan.com

 We look forward to sharing the draft Comprehensive Plan with the Artesia community.

For more information about the public meeting or the Comprehensive Plan, please contact Byron Landfair at blandfair@artesianm.com or Jackie Fishman (Principal, Consensus Planning) at fishman@consensusplanning.com

Our Upside-Down World

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By Tom Wright

Guest Opinion

Few politicians are offering real words of wisdom today. It was Abraham Lincoln who told us, “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” The following is a partial transcript of thoughts published on X from “The Executioner” podcast. It is worth repeating because it depicts progressive problems currently afflicting us. If we don’t start voting differently, Lincoln’s words will be prophetic. I have added some thoughts of my own.

All are the result of the progressive wing of the Democrat party, which is in power nationally and in New Mexico. I am stunned at how progressives stole power from mainstream moderate New Mexican Democrats. Below are statements and observations I have either heard or read but unattributed specifically. “If a guy pretends to be a woman, you must pretend with him. When biological males compete against women in women’s sports, we are told to accept the outcome as fair. It is un-American to take the census to count the number of Americans are in America

Russians influencing our elections is bad, but illegals voting in our elections is good. • It is cool for Joe Biden to blackmail the president of Ukraine, but if President Trump inquirers about it, it is an impeachable offence. • People who have never owned slaves must pay reparations to people who have never been slaves. • People who have never been to college must pay the debt of college students who took out loans for their college. • Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you must be able to prove your dog is vaccinated. Irish doctors and German engineers who want to immigrate to the United States must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gangbangers who jump the southern fence are welcome, given a cell phone, a loaded debit card and housed.

• Five billion dollars for border security are too expensive, but $1.25 trillion for healthcare is not.

• If you use the term “illegal alien,” you are slandering the undocumented alien who entered the country illegally. They must commit a crime before they are considered illegal.

• If you cheat to get into college, you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the United States, you can go to college for free.

• People who say there is no such thing as gender are demanding there be a female president.

• We see other countries going socialist and collapsing, but it seems to be a great plan for us. Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, but others are not held responsible for things they are doing right now.

• Criminals are caught and released but stopping them from hurting more people is bad and a violation of their rights.

• Nothing makes sense anymore. No morals, no values and no civility. People died from a Chinese virus, but it is racist to refer to it as Chinese, even though it began in China. Sorry if you contracted the German measles as a kid, your parents should have called it Rubella or the three-day measles. Pointing out this hypocrisy somehow makes us racist.

• We are clearly living in an upside-down world where right is wrong and wrong is right, where moral is immoral and immoral is moral. Where good is evil and evil is good. Where truth becomes a lie, and a lie becomes the truth. Where executing murderers is evil, but killing babies is A-OK.”

If you are under 30, the above may sound normal. If you are under 30, I am amazed you are reading a newspaper. World politics are changing. More than ever before, this next election will be about our future. Only your vote can reverse this deceitfulness

From the Publisher

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From the Publisher

Dave Shabaz

It’s hard to believe that I moved to Eddy County four weeks ago today. I had all of my things packed up by a moving company and spent my first night here on July 16, 2024. I spent two and a half weeks living in a hotel, waiting for my things to arrive. I will never use a moving company ever again. The only reason I did this time was because on March 19 of this year, I had my right hip replaced, so I wasn’t going to lift anything myself, at least not yet.

Once I arrived here, I felt one thing that made me know that I picked the right spot to live. Well, I guess it was what I didn’t feel, humidity! I spent the past five years living in Texas, first in Northeast Texas and then the last year living in South Texas. Even after five years there, I never got acclimated to the humidity. I was born in Chicago but moved to Central California when I was 10-years old. I thought I knew what humidity was, but then I moved to the South and it changed my mind forever.

My 35+ year newspaper career has taken me all over this great land of ours. After living in Southern California for about seven years, I moved to North Carolina and it was there I felt true humidity. When my family back in California would complain about the heat, I would tell them, “You need to shut up right now.” They obviously know that I’m very sarcastic and that I was kidding, but I definitely didn’t want to hear about their “heat” problem when I was experiencing what I considered to be hell on earth. I would joke that during my first summer in North Carolina, I wanted to jump off an overpass to escape the humidity. Then I moved to Texas and it really didn’t get much better, especially in South Texas.

Here in New Mexico, when it’s 102 outside, I’m walking around with a smile on my face. It’s absolutely pleasant because of where I’ve been recently. You see, it’s all about perspective. For those who know me well, they laughed out loud when I told them that I moved to the city where “all the bats live.” You see, I’ve never been a big fan of bats. I’ve been known to refer to them as, “flying rats with rabies,” which is why those who know me, are really enjoying this.

So, what I’ve decided to do is to get educated on bats, which I’ve been slowly doing. I’ve learned that they have vital purposes that they serve, for both agriculture and the environment, which I did not know. I’m also scheduling a trip to the Carlsbad Caverns, which is a huge step for me. I’ll be writing all about my experiences there, which should be entertaining for our readers. I don’t know if this is a gift or a curse, but I’ve always been able to find humor in literally any situation, and you’ll see that when you read my columns.

I’ll be turning 62 next week, so I think it’s time for me to face my fears head on and I love new experiences. You’ll read about how much I loved the Caverns or you’ll read about how a chubby, grown man was seen running out of the caverns screaming like a 12-year old girl at a One Direction concert…J. Like I said, either way, it will be entertaining for everyone.

Dave Shabaz is publisher of the Carlsbad Current-Argus and Artesia Daily Press.

Artesia Public Schools welcome students for new school year

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Artesia Public Schools welcome students for new school year

By Mike Smith
Artesia Daily Press

The 2024-2025 academic year for the Artesia Public Schools started Aug. 8.

At Artesia High School, students were welcomed with breakfast burritos and water handed out by Artesia Public Schools superintendent Darian Jaramillo, Artesia Public Schools director of facilities and maintenance Scott Simer, and Artesia Public Schools assistant superintendent of elementary education Tammy Davis.

After a quick breakfast and greetings by district and Artesia High School personnel, students attended a back to school assembly before heading to classrooms for the start of the new academic year.

Mike Smith can be reached via phone at 575-308-8734.

Any Job is a Good Job

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By: Javier Sanchez

The American dream seems to be dying.  No matter how you define it—whether it means owning a home or making it big—advancing in America seems harder to achieve.  A parent’s ultimate goal has always been to see their child prosper more than they did.  Upward economic mobility means giving your child the tools to be better off.  It doesn’t always work.  But why?  What makes mobility possible and why do we fail?  After over a decade of research, economists at Harvard published a paper last week that gives insight to the poverty trap and a way out.  If our city and state are to improve, we must concentrate on one thing:  jobs.  

 According to a Wall Street Journal article that summarized Raj Chetty’s findings from the Harvard group, researchers found that when employment among poor parents of children in a community improves, those children are better off economically as adults.  This was across all races.  Importantly, research showed that the employment level of the general community around them played a role in their future outcomes.  Success breeds success it seems.  The dynamic works in reverse as well.  In communities where employment levels deteriorated, child outcomes dropped.    

 It is noteworthy that these results came from the general employment level.  In other words, it had less to do with the “kind” of job than it did just having a job.  For all of the chatter that says we need “good” jobs or “well-paying” jobs, research does not support claims that these kinds of characteristics improve a child’s upward mobility.  The thing that mattered most was absolute job growth and whether parents of children worked at all.  Keeping a job was crucial and families that valued having and holding a job did better than families that didn’t.    

 Which leads us to how we compare to the rest of the country.  The labor force participation rate is the number of people between the ages of 16 and 64 actively engaged in work or looking for work—basically our work force.  As a whole, the US labor force participation rate (LFPR) has remained steady at 62.7%.  For the state of New Mexico, that rate comes in at a beleaguered 57.3% ranking us 48th in the country. When you go to a local hardware or grocery store, restaurant or anywhere and can’t get service, now you know why.    

 A community that doesn’t value employment will produce children worse off than they are now.  Every thing we do as politicians, leaders and members of our community ought to be geared toward one thing:  job creation.  Our government needs to remove disincentives to work and improve job creation.  Seemingly well-intentioned laws that protect workers or supposedly improve working conditions often do the polar opposite.  They make employers think twice about hiring or expanding and put the brakes on economic growth.  I was told once by a local New Mexico State Representative that she wanted to create “real” jobs, not restaurant jobs.  As a restaurant owner in northern New Mexico you can imagine I was insulated.  Not for my sake.  But for the sake of the 70 employees who depend on restaurant work for their livelihoods.  Work by the way, that according to Harvard research, has a better chance of improving the economic mobility for their children.    

 According to the publication, counties in and around Santa Fe, Española, Las Vegas and Taos all saw negative job growth from 2004-2013 putting northern counties on track to produce worsening future outcomes for our children unless we do something.  With the exception of Roswell and Farmington, almost all of New Mexico falls behind.  It isn’t without irony that these areas rich in natural resources come under attack by some politicians wanting to get rid of gas-powered cars and trucks yet take credit for budget surpluses created by the oil and gas industry.    

 The research is clear:  every ounce of our being ought to be directed toward job creation.  Any job is a good job.  So long as it’s an honest job and you work hard at it.  We can’t afford to strangle job growth with disincentives to work or put up deterrents to hiring.  Politicians don’t create jobs even though they love to say they do.  People and entrepreneurs do.  A community thriving with ideas, easy access to an educated workforce and a solid plan will do more to pull us out of the poverty trap and create the upward mobility our children deserve.    

Javier Sanchez is an El Rito Media columnist, former northern New Mexico mayor, and restaurant owner.

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All’s Fair When it Comes to HealthcareWorker Recruiting

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All’s Fair When it Comes to HealthcareWorker Recruiting


By: Sherry Robinson
All She Wrote

Around Houston Medical Center are six billboards inviting its employees to come to New Mexico, where they will be “Free to Provide.” The message is repeated in full page ads in the Sunday editions of dailies in San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston.

New Mexico’s governor and state Health Department are taking advantage of turmoil in the Texas medical community caused by changes in abortion laws to recruit healthcare workers.

Our shortage of practitioners is well known; some rural hospitals have closed their obstetrics wards. And how is your personal access to healthcare? My own gynecologist is pressed to see his patients and still try to answer their questions. I’m lucky to have a few minutes of attention.

 

However, for some people this is a touchy subject. The campaign, paid for by taxpayers, could just bring more abortion doctors, say critics.

Let’s look at this.

Texas has a problem. Its ban on abortions after the sixth week has been in effect since 2021. After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade, the Texas law became a near-total ban on abortion. The Texas Supreme Court upheld the ban in May when a group of women sued over emergency exceptions. Some patients have been outspoken about the law’s impact when they’ve had complications.

In a letter accompanying the ads, the governor informs providers that New Mexico permits abortions and protects medical practitioners who administer them. And she wades into the controversy, telling them: “When you pledged to dedicate your lives to medicine, you did so with the understanding that the health and well-being of your patients would always be your priority. You took your oath with patients––not politicians––in mind.”

The Free to Provide website doesn’t mention abortion specifically but does provide information about jobs of all kinds across the state, as well as scholarship opportunities, and even some tourist information about destinations and cultural events. How many doctors or nurses or therapists or whatever, who are ten years from retirement, might come visit with an eye toward practicing here and then retiring in place?

Health Department Secretary Patrick Allen made that point when he wrote recently that New Mexico needs healthcare providers. “By that, I mean all sorts of medical professionals – general practitioners, dentists, obstetricians, gynecologists, behavioral health experts, pediatricians, surgeons, nurses, neurologists, and psychiatrists, among others.”

I would add that when we talk about crime, including the mentally ill people who are repeat offenders, and the subject turns to treatment, as it did during the special legislative session, we don’t have the professionals who can treat them.

 Hospitals, clinics and other employers don’t see it as abortion recruiting. More than 100 of them are participating in the campaign and posting job opportunities, Allen wrote.

I don’t think most people want New Mexico to become the abortion capital of the nation, but Texas has pushed us in that direction. According to the Guttmacher Institute, 14,200 patients from Texas came here for abortions last year. That was a 260% increase since 2020. We might sympathize with the Texas women, but that kind of increase puts pressure on New Mexico’s already thin healthcare system.

Patrick Allen may be avoiding politics, but his boss isn’t. The governor’s letter was a poke in the eye to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. He poked back, calling the campaign a political stunt and bragging on his state’s economic successes. “People and businesses vote with their feet,” he said, warning our governor to pay attention to New Mexico problems.

Abbott, who is no stranger to political stunts, has inflamed border issues. But that’s a whole ’nother column

Artesia City Council votes to allow authorized alcohol on city property

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Rebecca Hauschild
Artesia Daily Press

The Artesia City Council passed an ordinance that will regulate the consumption of alcoholic beverages on city-owned property at the Artesia City Council meeting on Tuesday, August 13th.

 

The current ordinance does not allow alcohol consumption on City property under any circumstance whereas the new ordinance will allow it when authorized by a resolution.

 

“So basically, what this is— if a person is holding an event and wants to use a piece of City property, like Jaycee Park, Heritage Park, or the Balloons and Tunes events on Eagle Draw, the current ordinance does not allow us to have alcohol sales on City Property,” said Byron Landfair, Infrastructure Director. “This will allow it by resolution. So the Council gets to decide on a case-by-case basis.”

 

“There will be an application process,” said City Attorney Cass Tabor. “It will have all the requirements and restrictions and once the application gets past there then it comes back to the Council for a resolution.”

 

“It’s not a free for all,” said Mayor Jon Henry. “The only folks that can serve alcohol will have a licensed establishment that will allow their license to be used and they are responsible for the serving, the servers, IDs, etc. That falls on that on them just as if they are walking into their establishment whether it be a bar, restaurant, or whatever. It’s their license and their responsibility.”

 

The Council also held a deliberation on the proposed transfer of a liquor license for the 7-Eleven store 104 N. First St., Artesia, NM. After an evaluation of the request, the council voted in favor of approving the liquor license transfer.

 

The Council adopted Resolution 1878 formally opposing the New Mexico Construction Industries Commission’s proposed mandate for Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) installations in all new residential and commercial buildings built after July 30, 2024.

 

“One of the main issues is that this legislation passed the Senate but died in the House,” said Mayor Henry. “This was never voted on in the House to actually become law. An outside agency was the one who put this into place. We see this as a huge impact for residential buildings and huge impact for commercial.”

 

“The current interpretation of this rule is the average cost per house is going to be somewhere around $1,000,” said Landfair. “You must have a 220-amp service to do this. And it would be required for level three remodels.” If it’s interpreted differently the cost could go up to $5,000 to $7,000. “For commercial five to seven percent of your parking must have EV chargers on it. One charger can do two spaces. That cost can be anywhere from $4,000 to $12,000 depending on size of the parking lot. The other interpretation would be another $2,000 to $7,000.”

 

“I fear rolling blackouts if adding all these EVs,” said Henry. “I fear for those folks that do need their electricity work like those on oxygen or the elderly.” 

 

Landfair shared that the state is scheduled to an inspection of the new splashpad on August 15. If they issue the permit the City will be able to open the splashpad shortly thereafter. The contracts are out on 26th Street and the City is waiting on their return.

 

The Council passed an ordinance amending fees for traffic violations, many of which went from $25 to $75. “We have not changed any of the penalty assessments (fees) in a very long time,” said City Clerk Summer Valverde. “Pretty much everything was raised by $50 per assessment.”

 

“This does put us closer to our neighbors, but we are still below them,” said Councilor Wade Nelson.

 

The Council granted a variance to construct a fence on a 15-foot public right-of-way at the southeast corner of 7th Street and Dallas Avenue. The property is owned by Jace & Isela Ragland.

 

The month of July 2024 saw a positive safety record with zero OSHA recordable injuries, according to Artesia HR Director Jerry Conde. However, there was one worker’s compensation injury reported. Additionally, three accidents involving city vehicles occurred during the same period.

 

The Council approved a resolution amending the classification plan to convert the Accounts Payable Clerk position from part-time to full-time status.

 

The Council also approved the Firefighter Recruitment Fund Grant Agreement resolution authorizing the allocation of funds to support the recruitment of new firefighters.

 

Fire Chief Kevin Hope reported the Deputy Chief Position has been filled and just completed the division chief promotional process. The selection has been made. Battalion chief’s testing will be held next week, and lieutenants testing after.

 

A public hearing has been scheduled for September 10, 2024, to discuss the Park Place Subdivision Annexation Plat. The proposed annexation will rezone the area to General Residential (R-2) district and includes property south of 2519 W. Hermosa Drive, east of 26th Street. The property in question is 16.963 acres owned by Fairacres, LLC.

 

Two park shelter usage requests were approved. Susan Molina was granted permission to use the Guadalupe Park East Shelter for a family reunion on September 1 and Yadira Mendoza’s was granted permission to use Jaycee Park West Shelter and bathrooms for a family cookout on August 17th.

 

The Council approved the consent agenda with the following items:

– Bid to Constructors, Inc. for the ATS TWY rehabilitation project at the Artesia Municipal Airport

– The 2024/2025 outside request PSAs to:

Artesia Advocacy/Chaves County CASA PSA 08132024-1 for $25,000

Artesia Paws and Claws PSA 08132024-2 for $9,981

Artesia Clean & Beautiful PSA 08132024-3 for $55,000

Artesia Main Street PSA 08132024-4

– For Downtown & Community Revitalization Services not to exceed $25,000

– For Main Street holiday expenses for $25,000

– For Main Street maintenance expenses for $88,000

– For Greenway project expenses for $73,000

– Artesia Department of Development PSA 08132024-5 for $35,000

– Greater Artesia Foundation/dba My Neighborhood PSA 08132024-6 for $16,000

– The hiring of:

Mary Lou Kochaniec, Police Corporal/Detective, at $6,532.93 p/mo

Gregory Brittelle, Fire Firefighter, at $4,940.13 p/mo

Stephan Drake, Cert. Police Officer, at $4,860.26 p/mo

Josh Stites, Fire Deputy Chief, at $8,550.59 p/mo

-The demotion of David Bailey, Police Community Service, at $3,182.40 p/mo

– The transfer of Catalina Franco, Police Evidence Tech, at $3,251.73 p/mo

– The exits of:

Kristi Perkins, IT/IT Tech, effective 7/19/2024.

Lionel Barrera, Solid Waste/Equipment Operator, effective 7/23/2024.

Zane Brown, Police/Detective Certified, effective 7/29/2024.

Marc Nason, Fire/Deputy Chief, effective 7/31/2024

Victoria Thompson, Senior Center/Van Driver, 8/01/2024.

Dakota Corbell, Fire/Battalion Chief/Medic, effective 8/02/2024.

Jacob Roberson, Facilities Maintenance/Community Improvement Tech, effective 8/06/2024.

Kenneth Kilness, Fire/Lieutenant/Medic, effective 8/17/2024

Mario Samaniego Fire/Certified Firefighter, effective 8/21/24

– Travel and training as follows:

Police – one employee to attend Conducting Pre-Employment Background Investigations in Albuquerque, NM.

Police – one employee to attend the Report Writing and Courtroom Testimony in Roswell, NM.

Wastewater – two employees to attend NM Water & Wastewater Association 2024 “Fred Ragsdale Memorial” Central School in Albuquerque, NM.

Wastewater – two employees to attend the 2024 New Mexico Wastewater Association SE Section Workshop in Roswell, NM.

Police – one employee to attend NMML Conference and Chief’s Association Meeting in Clovis, NM.

Police – one employee to attend the Fall CJIS Working Group Meetings in Pittsburg, PA.

Fire – one employee to attend the EMRTC Response to Bombing Incidents Residential in Socorro, NM.

Police – one employee to attend the Handgun Red Dot Instructor Course in Hobbs, NM.

Police – one employee to attend the Persons with Mental Illness Instructor Course in Albuquerque, NM.

Police – one employee to attend the Fort Bliss – Military Community Hiring Event in El Paso, TX.

Police – two employees to attend the NMPET Conference in Albuquerque, NM

Legislative – one councilor to attend the NMML Annual Conference in Clovis, NM.

– Annual agreement with Southeastern New Mexico Economic Development District/COG.

 

 

 

 

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