Matthew Lovato

This 2025 Local Hazard Mitigation Plan Update for Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, serves as a roadmap to reduce long-term risk from natural and human-caused hazards. The plan outlines goals and objectives for identifying, prioritizing, and mitigating hazards, while enhancing community resilience over the next five years (2025-2029). It details the planning process, regional profile, development trends, capability assessment, and hazard identification and risk assessment, including dam failure, drought, extreme heat, flood, landslide, severe weather, severe winter weather, and wildfire. The update emphasizes stakeholder collaboration, public involvement, and compliance with federal requirements to foster a safer future for all citizens.

The agenda includes presentations such as a certificate of appreciation to building maintenance staff, updates from the Health Resources Services Administration on a Rural Health Network Planning Grant, and information on Health and Human Services events. Action items involve hearings for a Wine Wholesalers Liquor License Request, review of the budget report for April 2015, and vouchers for a specific period. There are also requests for approval to submit an Office of Minority Health Partnership Grant and to publish an Affordable Housing Ordinance. Several resolutions are on the agenda, addressing legal nonconforming lots, historically narrow roadways, HOY contract amendments, interim budget approval, budget adjustments, revision of the classification schedule, and the Manhattan Project National Historical Park. Additionally, there is an executive session planned, proclamations for Los Alamos National Laboratory Community Educational Investments and Big Brothers Big Sisters, reports from the County Manager and Commissioners, and announcements regarding upcoming meetings.

The agenda includes the approval of minutes from previous meetings, public comment, proclamations including the County Day of Prayer, and a hearing for an ordinance authorizing the issuance and sale of general obligation bonds for constructing a skilled nursing facility and rehabilitation hospital. Also listed are discussions and potential actions regarding a professional services RFP for the RAC STOP Program and authorization for the County Manager to negotiate the purchase of land and a water well, potentially including the use of eminent domain. An executive session is scheduled to evaluate the County Manager's performance and goals.

The agenda includes approval of minutes from the previous meeting, discussion of a revised personnel classification schedule, presentations from various organizations, financial matters including budget and cash reports, and a review of vouchers. Resolutions for consideration include amending the dedication of county gross receipts tax and adjusting precinct boundaries. The agenda also covers out-of-state travel requests and an executive session.

The resolution calls for a special school district election to be held on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, to submit to the voters the question of renewing the Public School Capital Improvements Tax. The tax would authorize the district to continue imposing a property tax of $2.00 per each $1,000.00 of net taxable property value for the property tax years 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028, 2029 and 2030 for capital improvements in the District, and in the McCurdy State-Chartered School.