counselor where you go you got is that better they're not going to will have it we'll just do it online for now and Oh a good evening and welcome to the ninth meeting of the twenty-fourth Council this meeting is officially come to order we apologize this evening we're a few minutes late but we were working with TB to be sure we could get everybody on board tonight we know that there are a few folks who may have some cost connection interruptions this evening but our meetings will be available online and available for rebroadcast and those folks can join us a little later when they can so first of all for our roll call this evening all counselors are presently via their resume conference we begin this meeting like every meeting with a moment of silence and we'll begin this evening by asking counts from Busan to lead us legible agents in English followed by our council clerk miss Ortega who will follow and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish and so council Busan I'll turn it over to you for a moment I want to name I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for a judo padilha dad a la bandera de los Estados Unidos de america a la república que representa una nación bajo Dios indivisible a con la verdad UCC apparel todos thank you both we greatly appreciate it and we'll rotate those counselors through for our next meeting and maybe even rotate the administration and the timer to chorus while we're doing it this way there's no no press release from our office on Friday was also posted on our website and noticed on the published council agenda meeting has special procedures given the governor's declaration of a public health emergency that limits and imposes a ban on gatherings of more than five people therefore this meeting is being held via zoom video conference members of the public our city staff and the media all have the ability to view this meeting in a number of ways that includes gov TV on Comcast channel 16 on the TV website and now on YouTube live streams can be accessed from most smartphones tablets or computers and for those watching on the live stream we welcome you and thanks for joining the video recording in this and all of our council meetings are always available for viewing at any time on the City Council's website our staff will here and available by telephone anytime monday through friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to assist you if you need to locate information about one of our meeting view one of the meetings you can call 768 3100 for assistance the council accept a general public comment and comment through being specific agenda items in written form via email through 4 o'clock this afternoon those comments were distributed to all councillors earlier today and they've had a chance to review them we're going to begin this evening with proclamations and presentations and we're going to begin first with councillor Simmonds who has a proclamation recognizing asian-american a three month and I believe we have a special guest that we're going to have join us that we've invited into our zoom meeting as well so councillors Thank You mr. president this proclamation is recognizing Asian American Pacific Islander month and we have whom win the Co interim director of the New Mexico Asian Family Center as well as any lemming she's the co-chair of Asian American Association as well as the chapter leader chapter co-leader sorry for national American Pacific woman American Women's Forum and Albuquerque I can only pull up the proclamation whereas there are more than 42,000 asian-americans and Pacific Islanders living in New Mexico and are among the fastest growing and emergent emerging communities of color in New Mexico and whereas asian-americans and Pacific Islanders in New Mexico come from Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan Cambodia China India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Korea Laos Malaysia Myanmar Pakistan the Philippines Taiwan Thailand Tibet and Vietnam as well as other locations and whereas asian-americans and Pacific Islanders have worked on the railroads and in agriculture in New Mexico since the 19th century and fought bravely in World War 1 World War two the American in Vietnam conflicts the Korean sorry the Korean and Vietnam conflicts the Gulf War and in Afghanistan and Iraq and have received congressional medals of Honor and Purple Hearts and other military commendations and whereas this year presents the 55th anniversary of the passage of the federal Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 signed into law by president lyndon b johnson at the foot of the statue of liberty on october 3rd 1965 and whereas Asians and Pacific Islanders also were affected by the federal immigration Act of 1917 which designated an Asiatic bar zone of much of eastern Asia and Pacific Islands from which people could not immigrate to the United States and whereas United States Senate resolution 2:01 passed by Unanimous Consent including New Mexico senators jeff Bingaman and tom udall on October 6 2011 acknowledged that the exclusion laws were incompatible with a basic founding principle of the United States that all persons are created equal and whereas United States House of Representatives Resolution 683 expressing the regret of the House of Representatives for the passage of laws that adversely affected the Chinese in the United States including the Chinese Exclusion Act was supported by congressman Martin T Heinrich Steve Kerr's and Ben ray Lujan the resolution was placed on the suspension calendar in passed unanimously by the 112th Congress by voice vote On June 8th 2012 and whereas on October oddest fourth 2016 the City Council the of the City of Albuquerque rather the county of Bernalillo and Albuquerque chinese-american Alliance celebrated and dedicated the Imperial building plaque to commemorate the Albuquerque Chinese pioneers the history the historic Albuquerque tiny Chinatown and the contributions the Chinese have made in New Mexico and whereas on January 11th 2020 the City of Albuquerque the county of Bernalillo and Albuquerque chinese-american Alliance also celebrated the unveiling of the sculpture the view from Gold mountain commemorating the landmark historic Chinese American civil rights case territory of New Mexico versus yishun 1882 and whereas asian-americans and Pacific Islanders are contributing to our local economy with their labor in business and purchasing power and are a strong part of a narrative and historical context of our city and state with their unique culture customs and traditions too are already richly diverse culture and deserve to have their humanity in its shapes and forms be recognized via proclaimed that the council the governing body of the City of Albuquerque hereby recognized me as Asian American and Pacific Islander month Thank You councillor Sena and welcome if you know these sort of did already but if you want to introduce your guests we want to give her a chance to speak on behalf of the group that normally would be accepting this in front of us but we'll do it virtually for them maybe be able to do something in person a little later Thank You mr. president with me is any lemming any would you like to say a few words sorry my dog started barking hi so I'm Annie lemming and I'm here tonight as co-president of the Asian American Association of New Mexico also known as triple annum whose mission is to improve the social well-being of Asian Americans in New Mexico by building community networks and foster a better understanding of asian-american heritage history issues and policy I'm also part I'm also to chapter co-leader for the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum Albuquerque where an org that works toward reproductive justice as it intersects with immigrant and economic justice I'm proud that triple-a nm is hosting a virtual storytelling exhibition to highlight Asian Pacific American experiences during this pend on it I'm also proud that both orgs I mentioned and I'm part of join forces to facilitate a community mutual aid grocery card project named NM ASAP I thank you once again and it's a privilege to be here and listen to this proclamation of May as Asian Pacific Islander American month and deed Asians and Pacific Islanders have had a long-standing contention with being aggregated into one big cultural group with historical erasure and the ever plating model minority myth but even at the immediate moment I reflect on these trying times of code 19 pandemic where agents have paced being scapegoated for this virus that we have all that we have all much work to do to fight the virus that is racism and we can only do this as a collective this Proclamation could not have come at a better time to uplift the voices visibility and contributions of Asian and Pacific Islanders in every aspect of the development of this nation state and city throughout history thank you Thank You Annie and mr. president I think we have one more guest whom who is the Co interim chair of New Mexico agent family center Thank You Colin Cena and Thank You Pat to do Castle Navy for this opportunity my name is Huan Wien and I'm with New Mexico Asian Family Center and it is such an honor for me to be here in this space to to be you know you know honor as the community definitely as a community we are rapidly growing dynamic and diverse community and we are happy to be a part of you know the City of Albuquerque culture history and we continue to contribute significantly to your community and we definitely would like to have this opportunity to honor our past present and future right as a part of the city and I appreciate this opportunity that you all here and we have WT to select a month with you all and then finally look for what you you know when we can get back to you in person right and do it in a different way but this is you know very interesting time to you know receive this Proclamation via you know virtual you know this is quite interesting for me and I'm sorry I cannot have my face here because this computer doesn't have the camera I say all the barek computer for my kids because they have a lot of online learning so it's again another thing so again thank you and I appreciate you all [Music] thanks and thanks council center for bringing that forward anything else on that and we're moving on to our next proc you just want to thank my fellow councillors and recognizing the special moment for me as also a daughter of two refugees that had fled the Vietnam War being the first Asian American in City elected politics this brings me a lot of joy even though it's recognizing it virtually it's also giving space to invisibility to our communities and I just want to thank you all and thank our community partners for working with me on this Proclamation because it really goes to the community and I just want to say that I know that this month was meant for a lot of celebrations that we always hold near and dear to us and also bringing about that visibility with the Asian festival that we typically hold in May but we hope to have many more celebrations to come once things settle and hopefully we bring more visibility to not just our accomplishments but some of the issues that we face as well so I appreciate our community and having that patience and staying home when they can and doing what they can to to uplift our communities as well so and thank you again mr. president great and thanks to all of our counselors for for making time for this tonight I know it's been a little hard for us to do Proclamation so thanks God for bringing that to that note we're gonna turn it over to Council Pena who is also going to lean on route Proclamation tonight counselors as a reminder with our group proclamation it's available in your iPad and we'll go district by district to help read this but we'll begin counselor Pena would you enter this for us you're the one who brought this to us today Thank You mr. president and congratulations then that was awesome proclamation and this kind of leads into you know May is also a month for a lot of graduating seniors in our community and I just really want to thank the staff and Nancy for helping you put this together the last minute as you know so many tuitions are gonna be happening this month and unfortunately the seniors class of 2020 are really going to have some different type of celebration and we're really proud of them and as a council I wanted to put forth the proclamation just saying that we we are proud of you where we know that you're going to come up creative ways to celebrate and we're 107 behind you so with that if counselors sent up you would go ahead and lead us off Thank You councillor opinion whereas the City of Albuquerque the state of New Mexico and our nation are in the middle of a worldwide coronavirus pandemic and I think I think we lost confidence so I'm gonna pinch-hit here whereas the pandemic has required advanced stay at homeless and the closure of public and private schools to reduce the spread of virus whereas by virtue of an executive order signed by New Mexico Governor michelle lujan-grisham there is currently a ban on all large mass gatherings in New Mexico and councillor beretta I think we lost council for just a minute and so we're gonna say whereas the unprecedented circumstances have prohibited typical year in graduation ceremonies Saiva teas and celebrations during the month of May and whereas during the current situation it is necessary to create opportunities to honor our graduating seniors as it is important and councillor Gibson and the City of Albuquerque recognizes the hard work and dedication that it takes to complete high school and gain a diploma and to pursue their dreams and enjoy the endeavours of each of these individuals choose to pursue in life whereas we ask Albuquerque residents to show your support for the graduating class of 2020 and displayed on your car windows social media and whereas that would be wonderful so honor support the graduating class so congratulations all seniors out there so thank you mr. president I really appreciate that I thought it was important you know I had my daughter just got she was supposed to be in California receiving her master's this weekend so we had to get really creative and I know it's a little challenging so good luck to all those out there who were trying to make this a memorable time for them so congratulations do we lose counselor Davis mm-hmm so I think I think he'll be probably getting back to us here in just a second but it looks like the fourth item is the economic development discussion there being none oh and there is a president welcome back yeah ed we're gonna some technical stuff here cleaned up on our side Humana Bachelor then go ahead and finish that one for us it will pick up on the next one I'm sorry we're just gonna do some technical stuff to get us a little cleaner up here certainly certainly so we'll go to item five administration question and answer period councillor Poisson looks like you have some questions up first I do thank you madam vice president my questions several have number for animal welfare and recently I had a constituent say that they had found a dog and reached animal welfare and was told that they needed to make sure to keep the dog for two to three weeks until an appointment could be made for them to to turn in that pet so the constituent couldn't do that and then they were told to go ahead and release the animal so that it could be found by whomever or whatever again and I I do realize that I've talked to administration about this but I wanted to be fair and make sure that they could publicly announce to the solution and and maybe where the disconnect was so what what is the current policy for when an animal is rescued and if not what's the current policy oh I repeated myself so what's the current policy from when an animal is rescued and I know that that from my understanding changed as of today too so it'd be good for the public to know mister councilor Busan actually the policy did change just in light of the governor's recent change in in the state order but just by background early on in in the as we went into the the coal bed if you will timeline we had to downsize and basically our work at animal welfare due to the social distancing issues etc and so there were some hiccups if you will in the processing of some of these requests coming into the department and for that we've made some changes that I think will will work much better as it relates to services to the community going forward as of today there is a now a full crew of folks at animal welfare they can accept phone calls for example from for animals that have been rescued by citizens they simply just got a call either animal welfare or 3-1-1 we've increased the hours of operation all there now because we've opened up the department if you will with more staff going in and and so the policy right now is the please call animal welfare and they'll either send someone out or they will have you you can take your pet or any rescue animal to the facility and they will accept the animals thank you mister rail and mr. president if I may continue so what would people do if that does not include first surrender by owner because I know for a while they were not accepting any surrender by owners so I want to make sure that we have an alternative as that's but it sounds like that might be included now now with this counselor mr. president and counselor Busan with the Inc now the increased staff at the both facilities the west side in these facilities yes owners can come in and surrender their animals as well thank you so much and that's good news to hear and then did you do I don't know it was we're kind of stumbling sort of with the timeframe between earlier today and now but was there a press release or will there be where can people find the newest policies so that the public can know and we can all make sure that they're they're on the same page with with the opportunities for helping these animals mr. president comes from Bassani members of the council a press release is going out early tomorrow that will describe the hours and the information and give the citizens of the city a the right timelines except to make the calls and and we should have everything in place by tomorrow awesome thank you so much I I'm so glad to hear that it's something that's already being addressed and thank you for clarifying for the public my last question is I have had some constituents reach out and inform me that there have been some stores that you know well non-reusable or I'm sorry reusable bags are not an option right now stores are charging for the plastic bags that are being made available but I'm not sure if that's the way the policy should be since they're being forced to use that or not so if you can clarify mr. president and contrabass on I have both our solid waste director and our environmental health director available to answer the questions or your question specifically as it relates to the green ordinance the mayor suspended the enforcement of the green ordinance I threw his emergency declaration that goes to the middle of till May 15 so as a result of that the stores have been given the green light to use single reuse plastics in during this time and there are specific requirements under the green ordinance they should not be charging for those for those plastic bags but both mr. masked and mr. wit math Whelan are available so I'll turn it over first to to Ryan to describe that issue as it falls under the environmental health department thank you good evening and mr. president thank you for the question as it relates to any charges for that you know Brielle mention there should not be any charges for any of those bags that was part of it included in the order if there are any reports of that happening we do encourage everyone to call 3-1-1 and report that DHD and we can have an inspector go out and check on that right away to make sure that thank you very much I appreciate that because I know of two specific instances that that's happened in this last week so I will next time make sure they refer them for that I appreciate that thank you all thank you and thank you madam vice president for jumping in there in service on is that your final question you had for the administration great counselor Gibson I think you had a question for the administration I do thank you mr. president my question is directed towards family and Community Services Department regarding the housing voucher program my question is how much is left in there I understand [Music] madam vice president and president Davis and I got your question ahead of time I was having a little hard time hearing you but I think I have the answer to your question am I looking here or there there sorry so last year for Motel vouchers we spent two hundred and twenty four thousand dollars and some change and two and this year for FY 2008 actually two hundred and seventy six thousand now I want to clarify a couple things in the two seventy-six thousand for this year there's fifty five thousand that has gone to the county for the resource reentry Center and First Nations is the contractor to have helped people coming out of the resource reentry center to use a motel and my understanding we've spent just only hundreds of dollars on that so this fifty five thousand dollar contract has not been expended so if you take out that fifty five thousand for what is budgeted for this year that's two hundred and twenty one thousand for FY 2008 which i think was your question if we're on track is we've spent a hundred and eighty three thousand so for being here early May we feel like pretty much we're on track I did want to say that Family and Community Services doesn't directly administer the motel vouchers we work with a handful of contractors to connect people through case management with those that need Motel vouchers thank you so a little follow up questions then let me ask a question just a little bit different way does it appear to you that we are about where we were last year with the number of vouchers name that's the same question but I'm just wondering if I guess I'm wondering if have we served more that's the same number of people or at least number of nights per person you know this year as compared to last year council president Davis and madam vice president in terms of the actual numbers of people that have read received motel vouchers financially it appears we're about on track but I would have to do and I'm happy to do this is dig in a little bit to see exactly how many people were served last year with the money we spent and then I can find out where we're at to date so I can actually get those numbers I don't have those on hand but I can get those to you thank you thank you very much you're welcome dr. Gibson Thanks for following up for Harris you had submitted a question and then I believe council Borrego as a follow-up or a different questions councillor Harris I think we'll have to come back to council here so council Borrego you're up Thank You mr. president I don't know why but my audio keeps turning off for some strange reason I have to keep going in and manually adjusting it so I know that Matthew Whelan is in the group somewhere I think Matthew and my question is for solid waste last Saturday I went to the dump at Eagle Eagle Rock and I waited in line in my vehicle for two and a half hours to get in and I had a another friend of mine that actually went to the transfer station I guess that 100 I think it's 118th Street I'm sorry that's great council Borrego is that okay with you and you have a follow-up for any other Department and if not we'll go to councillor Harris and come back to you okay councillor Harris welcome back and believe you had a question for the administration about the public health order yes I do and thank you very much and this kind of goes to a broader concern I have is that the non-essential businesses if they're limited to curbside pickup it really is unfair to them because people can go into the big-box stores and Smiths and so forth and shop and look and and that really does put our local small businesses at a disadvantage I think they should go do the same thing and in particular I believe all of the liquor stores in the City of Albuquerque are locally owned except for total line you know a jubilation Kelly's all those are just local small businesses so in terms of the non-essential business of and assuming that might apply to liquor stores I'm asking the administration can our small businesses our liquor stores who are locally owned can they sell liquor curbside no the governor's new guidelines council president Davis councillor Harris this is one of the first questions we got on Friday so we did speak to the director of the alcohol beverage control division which is part of the regulation and licensing department of the state again we don't control this order as everyone on this call knows so alcohol sales are strictly limited to a business's premises which is usually defined in a drawing that they submit with their liquor license application and so sales may not be conducted outside of whatever they drew on that premises it usually excludes a business's parking lot of course drive up sales have been expressly prohibited in New Mexico for a long time as our deliveries so I believe the answer is unfortunately for most of our smaller liquor stores there is not a curbside option unless they have identified a larger part of their premises that happens to be outdoors now as a side note many breweries have patio areas where alcohol service is allowed and if they drew that as part of their premises when they submitted their liquor license application then they might be able to conduct curbside sales and that would include of course local distilleries that have the curbside as well they can't handle they can't handle liquor over the railing but they can hand it leave it sort of on the premises part of their outdoor patio so again we don't control that particular piece of regulation but that is what we understand from our 'old thank you I'm gonna go to counselor Bosson who raised your hand next and then we'll come back to council Borrego and director Whelan counsellor beside you mr. president I have a follow-up question miss Nair and I've heard the same thing exactly about the footprint of the property and and when you get your license so I totally understand that I've also and I've started researching but haven't found it enough yet but is I've heard that California and Texas have had the governor's have actually made an exception do to do to covet and and all of that for the purposes of this with the footprint is there any way that the administration would consider reaching out and in asking if that's a possibility or even if there's some potential hope I realized that I realized that liquor is not really or it shouldn't be everybody is top priority but this is another one of those small businesses that that you know if we can find a way to help them and find some way to keep them afloat well again they can go to these larger locations to purchase I think that it would be really nice if we could make that make something happen councilor council president Davis and councilor Poisson we'd be happy to make that request we've been regularly forwarding concerns that we hear from the small business community to the small business working group and the mayor also sits on the mayor's Council that has to do with kovin reopening so through both of those channels we will express those concerns I'm grateful thank you very much well it turns out liquor stores are a hot topic amongst counselors tonight I count sir Gibson as a follow-up yes I do Thank You mr. president and I'm just I'm just wondering because I I haven't tried to buy anything since all of this happened but would it be would it be legal to make the purchase over the phone give a credit card and then have them walk it out of this store because the sale would be over the phone you know once we got to the parking lot they would just simply taking out already purchased merchandise is that a is that a potential a solution Council President Davis councillor Gibson innovative strategy we haven't heard of someone trying this oh of course you know in our role we're just following up on an enforcement concerns and we have not heard of anyone giving this a shot again if that parking lot were included in the premises that seems like an easy to resolve question if it were not I think it would be more of a gray area but we would leave it to the state to make that interpretation thank you and before we go to council Rago I want to be sure we close out our liquor conversation councillor Pena I see you have your hand raised is this a liquor follow up or do you want to move to any topic follow up everybody wants to open they're looking for council opinion mmm you know dissimilar concern you know I can understand the concern with alcohol and you know with the footprint but if there's we can just really work towards you know talking to the governor about how we work around this because I think it gives some businesses an unfair disadvantage you know one restaurant that I have in my district is the Monte Carlo which you know everyone really supports in our community and they have a restaurant and there's providing food and then you know there's there's the breweries who are you know they have the alcohol so it seems very similar and it seems though in times of this crisis if we can understand what you know the issues with the footprint and what they applied for but it seems as though maybe we can get creative in terms of helping to open up some of our smaller local businesses like the Montecarlo council president Davis councillor Pena yes we'd be happy to discuss those concerns and then of course there is always the possibility of the legislative session and opening up some additional avenues for small business relief we hear that they might meet sometime this summer thank you first before we exhaust the topic of our package towards any other questions on that topic with the administration seeing none councilor burrito director Whelan is back would you want to pick up on your question about smaller boys I'm sorry I'm sorry council Borrego we have you unmuted but we're not able to hear you so we're gonna let Julian tinker with the knobs a second and see if what we can do here for you just a sec can you hear me now yes ma'am welcome back okay yeah I don't know what's going on with this computer but automatically keeps turning off the audio so I can't hear only part of what you guys are saying so last Saturday I went over to the I did some yard cleaning and just took a load over to Eagle Rock convenience center and I've talked to Waylon a little bit and I have a call scheduled with him but it took me two and a half hours sitting in traffic to get into the convenience center actually took me three and a half hours just to go in drop off a load and sit in traffic I also talked to a friend of mine who had the same experience except it was actually opposite they went to the hundred and eighteen convenience center and it took them a half hour to go in and get out so I just like for somebody to take a look at what is the difference I I know that they were using every other stall which is great for social distancing but you know traffic sitting on Alameda and then the turnoff into the convenience center it was bumper-to-bumper and you know I just I just really want to know why the two convenience centers are so different would one take three and a half hours and one take a half an hour so if there's a way to to look at some you know because of course with our carbon footprint we don't need cars just sitting idling for that length of time where I go there's several issues that are different between the 183 reservoir and evil wrought for one done reservoir is probably 15% besides of evil rot and they are a much much smaller facility and they're also located way up going towards the landfill so a lot of people if I head up that way two majors for the landfill the other part is evil Rockies our busiest facility I doubt we're gonna have to throw our weight on Saturday and Sunday is pretty average it's been like that pre-seed 19 we even have traffic controls in place where we get traffic permits on the weekends to control the flow of traffic a bit more however because of what going on with c19 and with people being home everybody's doing a lot of yard work so we've seen a 46% increase in our traffic and our tonnage at all three more convenience centers so your friend who went to Donna reservoir really had to wait an hour she may cream and win on a great time because the average way to done reservoir just this last Saturday was about an hour and a half we have a traffic plan for that one as well so what we've been trying to do is encouraging people to wait for green waste but was in our mess that you which started today and will go over the next two weeks telling people have you clean your yards they'll take it to our convenience centers because those are already heavily used by businesses by people who do landscaping and then you take into account the extra traffic that's coming because of t19 it's caused us to have the same type of wait times that we have on the weekends during the week we actually have people doing traffic control telling people in their cars you can go to Montana contest very little wait time and but the problem is Bobby foster road but some people just wait in line Eagle Rock and drive all the way to Bobby foster another problem with is that it's centrally located right off of for sale a little more tape and come on up Alameda it's it's a very easy facility to access and having to have social distancing we're all the opening half the stalls to give the required amount of space in between so there's several several things going on there that we're trying to address on a daily basis as as when going through this I'm super a go we're gonna back to you and check your microphone button the button right above your number eight on your people or did see if they'll take you off there me now so yeah keeps turning off I don't know why I I just would like I did see the guy that was standing there telling you kind of directing traffic there were actually two different trucks and two different guys you know it would really be nice for people that are sitting there for two hours that maybe we have some kind of signage that lets people know that it's going to be an extended wait and I'm gonna tell you this because you know some people have their kids with them and you know I mean kids have to go to the bathroom or they need a drink I mean if there's a way that we can let them know that it's going to take that amount of time to get in and out of there especially on a Saturday or Sunday because you know there's not a bathroom close by there's not you know a place to get a drink of water maybe we can hand out some water bottles there's something to somebody that needs it I mean I happen to be in an older model vehicle probably I think I was an 87 truck and you know that truck we were starting to have some problems with our clutch so you know I just if there's the way that we can make that experience a little bit more palatable Matt you and I have talked about it already but I think that it's that that is what you know standing out there if they could just have some water or something because there are people out there that are you know I saw several vehicles turn around and I you know I you know they just got out of line because they weren't going to sit there and wait that long so anyway whatever we can do to make the public a little more aware of the time and just make that experience a little bit more comfortable mr. president and councillor Abrego will will look at getting some signage out there and doing a little bit more interaction with with folks that are in line we know that this is a really high time for folks using the convenience centers and with coalbed 19 it creates even a more difficult situation because of the distancing issues but your points are well-taken let us look into that and see what we can do to communicate better with the public thank you so much Britta thanks for bringing that up and director Whalen just to follow that you mentioned our green waste really quickly and then I want to go to councillors Ben Jones and Hasan who has some follow-ups as well but our curbside green waste pickup is happening this week as well right would you remind us sort of how that works so that folks know how our city can come pick those up at their homes so Greenway started today it'll run for the next two weeks next week people you have to do is on your pickup day will have also if you have any weeds or things that are cut branches we asked as you cut them in three to four foot lengths and bundle them together and then we've already seen a tremendous amount just today of Green Wing so we are encouraging people to just put it out now if you have it great and that's a great reminder thank you I want to go I saw councillor Benton and his hand is gone by now councillor if you had another question we'll throw you back in the rotation all right I'm sorry go ahead oh yeah well sorry I thought I'd been acknowledged yeah director Whelan Hey look under the current circumstances there are a lot of weekend warriors I'm one of them we're out there you know doing our thing our property would it be better for them to come on out with their load in the middle of the week understood mr. president yeah absolutely I really understand that to the extent that people can just hang on for a while with their waste would that be helpful I mean you know obviously we don't want to create a nuisance in anyone's neighborhood but but to be to be totally honest you know for some folks you know this is something to do it's something for that for them to do they're gonna do it during this time they don't have to interact with with people socially and so forth but if it's not an essential dump should folks be encouraged to hang on to their material for a little bit longer if you want to respond or we have as well you sir we're gonna go to counselor John who's named counselor boson and back to counselor barriga counselor Johnson I think I have a little different take on this you know the city was very wise almost a decade ago to start putting in these convenient sites around in different neighborhoods instead of having to travel across the city to do this or worse yet we had more and more dumping on the streets in Arroyo's we had some real issues and and quite frankly we my husband and I are weekend warriors we even love trimming trees I love trimming everything and some of our neighbors and some of many of the people around us and I thought Ernie I've heard people ask each other how long does eternity Halla nuclide has been depending on the time of day two in three hours and they're all willing to go and do it because they understand this is the best way to do this and in reality people are working now anyway so it's kind of a good way to find something to do and you get out the fresh air so I think that of all the issues and we have in the City of Albuquerque and state of New Mexico in the United States right now we should be darn proud if this is the worst thing that we have and the City of Albuquerque and again I commend all of the administration's in the past two three administration's excuse me who worked so hard to find sites and put these in place they are a great asset to our city and I so love singing used appliances dumped their verses on the street earn in health so thank you specially councillor Jones councillor son you mr. president well I had one very simple comment which I'm going to end with but I am concerned about dumping if we were to minimize certain things but I think it would be something I don't even know if it's a possibility but would it be worthwhile for the city to just at least consider maybe doing even like a one way in I wait and I realize that's gonna extend it but wait for the whole thing and then maybe have some porta-potties or I don't know how that would be I imagine it's probably not likely to be easily enforceable for social distancing but I'm throwing it out there to try to be positive and my number one real it's like I just wanted to say thank you for making this two weeks for the green waste because you reminded me about it and I need to get some more done and I thought tomorrow was my deadline so I appreciate it and thank you great and [Music] I'm sorry go ahead thank you that in fact the Eagle Rock station has one way and the people lined up all the way that they can line up but they leave the roads open the streets open toward the local traffic so the city has already done that they are the city is doing a great job in hand lewdness and I think that you should be proud of it and very pleased that the Matthew station tell him thank you mr. president three much great thank you oil ending on a high note there any other questions for solid waste or any other departments that we haven't heard from Council Borrego I see you yes ma'am you were going to come back to me I thought I well I do appreciate on waste and the workers and and it's not a fun job trust me to go in there and wait and you know have to deal with the smell and everything else and yes there is one way in and one way out but I think what I'm suggesting is that possibly they have a sign so that people understand what the weight is going to be so that they know that you know while they're sitting in line because I did see several vehicles turn around and try to get out of line because they just you know threw their hands up in the air another thing and I don't know Matthew if you've thought about this or not but maybe you know all the A's go on a certain day ABC or whatever their last name you know so so that different you know or by zip code or something so that maybe that would help but also the guys that were sitting out there directing traffic as I mentioned if there is a way to have some cup porta-potties or you know at least give somebody a drink of water while they're sitting there because the average person that is cleaning their yard doesn't think to look on the website and say oh you know this is the average weight I mean they get in line and it's like Oh God you know so if there's just some things that we can do to make it a little better for the public so that they know what they're expecting Thank You president look at possibly putting a port-a-potty out there and as far as water we can look into what we would be able to do there but we understand I know it's a long way we'll definitely some sightings out there so that people know what to expect when they get there so thank you and and I see counselors we have counselor pinion counselor Ben neither one of had a chance to talk on this topic so we want to give them a chance to do that but remember we have a number of other items we need to get to tonight well but I do want to give counselor counselor Ben the chance to talk because they haven't had a chance to speak on this go ahead Thank You mr. president I just wanted to say since we're talking trash I just want to thank waiting for what a great job he's doing under the circumstances and just to throw a shout out for the expansion of gone reservoir thank you well said councilman really you know director Whelan's doing a great job and we're very proud of our solid waste department quick question could we extend a little bit longer likes let's say during the month of May green waste collection what would that look like is that possible is an extremely huge job for probably two to three hours a day so after two weeks they're pretty exhausted and under these circumstances we've had a lot of staff that we're short on but we do do it twice a year we do it for two weeks now and then we'll do it again in the fall time frame so okay so we'll get the word out all right thank you thank so here is you have the last word on this one and then we'll answer here very briefly I heard the director talk about that it's very crowded on weekends are there times during the week when people might be more advised to go I mean is there any time when it's reasonable or almost low comes with president and commentaries on the average there was normal Tiny's with pre sealing team yes during the week is a little bit less a lot smoother and it goes a lot quicker because people are at their jobs or they're not at home during this time we're seeing the exact same amount of traffic on Mondays and Tuesdays that we normally see on Saturday in Sundays we even have to extend an hour even staying an hour later in the afternoon because of the line at 3:45 to 3:30 we actually have to cut the line and tell people a little more and it takes us another two hours to get everybody else that's already been in line to the center thank you not seeing any other questions we appreciate those directors and the administration for being available to answer those constituent concerns and counselor concerns vice-president Gibson turn it over to you I think you have two items for the journal tonight going to move the approval of the April 13th Journal and counselors as a reminder we'll ask you to raise your hand to give us a second and I saw counselor Sinha first and so we have a motion in a second seeing no discussion I'll ask Miss Ortega to call the roll call vote for the approval of the April 30 Journal yes counselor Benton yes come through Pena yes counselor pass on counselor the sign yes okay counselor Borrego yes counselor Davis yes counselor Gibson yes counselor Jones yes counselor Harris yes that passes unanimously thank you good counselors madam vice president yes I'll move approval for the April 20th Journal and a second by show of hands I see counselor Sena again thank you I'm miss Ortega Cancer Center yes counselor Benton yes counsel Pena yes counselor Busan counselor Borrego yes counselor Davis yes counselor Gibson yes counselor Jones yes Harris yes unanimously thank you you keep miss Ortega Thank You counselors for that next we're gonna move to communications and introductions counselor Busan we were having a hard time hearing you there so Julian's gonna work with you just a second but I know you have some matters on the next item so we'll get to you in just a second but are there any changes to the letter of introduction in councilor Bassano Harris whoever wants to take this for our 40 contrabass on is that you to introduce it or possibly counsel Harris okay I move that the rules be suspended for the purpose of placing our forty on tonight's agenda for final action our 40 is directing the mayor to evaluate and amend the city no man for the city as appropriate on the public health borders requiring the continued broad closure of businesses and facilities in response to statewide public health emergency and in councillors we have some amendments that would soften this about directing to just ago she able to go home because of the the Supreme Court case regarding the grants mayor so I realized that the governor's order controls however I think that the City of Albuquerque should should have more control over great and I see a show of hands counselor downs I assume that's for the second and so will clear that and for discussion on the motion to suspend the rule 40 on tonight's agenda for final action councilors any questions or discussion on that item and comfortable zone are you wanting to jump in here as well Julian's gonna work with you I think trying that mic button there on top of your number 8 key and see if that will reset you other councillors on this item seeing that I just want to take a privilege for a second while we're waiting on other councils to jump in here just say the immediate action requests for tonight excuse me yeah the media action West for tonight I think it's premature I think we've seen that the governor is starting to loosen those rules and I'm not I'm not confident yet that we ought to be asking for something different in the City of Albuquerque that we're doing in the rest of New Mexico we understand that we've been fortunate in Bernalillo County that most folks following the rules we've limited our impact to a lot of families here but the rest of New Mexico counts on our health care workers in our health care system and those folks still need a break and so I'm just not sure yet I appreciate that they're making some other ID forward but in terms of time I mean I won't be able to support early for us to begin pressing concerns about whether the City of Albuquerque could move forward contrary I see councillor Benton and then councillor Harris bouncer Benton for coming Thank You mr. president yeah I will not support this motion I certainly would have no issue discussing such matters but not as an immediate action thank you you sure councillor Harris yes thank you and the immediate action is just to immediately start a conversation to immediately have the mayor start working with the governor to look at the needs of the City of Albuquerque just as it's totally inappropriate for the president or would be totally appropriate for the United States to tell the governor what to do I think it's inappropriate for the City of Albuquerque not to exercise more control and we have a very sophisticated professional city government and there are just so many things about this border that I think need to be loosened up now because these people are losing their businesses now if these the small mom-and-pop operations I mean they have a very thin profit margin they probably only have about a month worth of profit margin that they can lose or they're totally out of business forever so I just don't understand why we wouldn't want to just start discussing this because really all it would do is put the mayor in position out the council's direction to to start negotiating with with the governor to recognize that the City of Albuquerque is a unique place the City of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County if you look at the coab it numbers for over a month we've been perfectly flat and one of the things that I think is unfortunate about this is that it does not recognize that private enterprise that our business community are capable of using the same social distancing measures that are used in the big-box stores in fact they could probably even be safer so I think that we should start looking at this and just you know having some pride in our own City having some pride in our own government ability to get involved in this discussion which is really all we're asking for an immediate tax basis a councillor Busan will try you again really quickly and then we'll go to councillor Pena for comment well we're gonna call it we're gonna conference you in by phone so we'll give you a call and we'll be able to put you in that way councillor Pena while we're waiting on councillor Busan I know this is her legislation so we want to give her a chance to comment councillor Pena then councillor Benton and then we'll go to councillor bass on this evening I understand but I did work with councillor Sean to actually stop in the language to really just talk about with the collaboration and to to actually encourage so so that it wasn't a strong of language but so that it kind of creates a pathway but if it's like I said if it's not the will of the council to move this to here this this evening I understand thank you okay ma'am next up we have councillor Benton and then councillor Harris to respond and we're gonna loop Council to sign in through another portal here that's forbidden yeah Thank You mr. president yeah yeah absolutely legitimate issues for us to be discussing so I appreciate people ringing these things forward yeah the executive in this case is in the position of having to make some quick decisions and those are tough decisions it isn't that we should not be discussing this now my personal view is the top issue right now should be protocol protocol protocol that's all that people should be talking about forget all the rest of yeah we all agree that we want our businesses to reopen so what is a protocol by which a small business as opposed to some business or all of them together collectively to have certain expectations in order to reorder and that's in my mind fairly simple Thank You mr. president Thank You counsel then for what it's worth I agree I don't think this is a conversation we shouldn't have and it's not sure it's the time and I'm not sure it's the role of the mayor and negotiate with the governor over public health pieces but having filled that gap I do see counsel Hassan has joined us to a different screen so we're gonna try it again counselor Busan are you can we finally hear from you instead of talking about you I hope so can you hear me okay move backgrounds thank you Thank You mr. president sorry about that uh you know I have to say that this is I feel like the most opportune time to call on the mayor to have these conversations specifically to the governor we all know that in two weeks so many things can change and this is not about backing anyone into a corner this isn't about any kind of demands this is about being proactive and just like what councilor Ben was saying with protocol we're not quite aware of the protocol and and I know that also those for the mayor and the governor too because of the rapidly changing dynamic that we have however that's not to say we can't have a flexible plan and the mayor and the governor you know with with some collaboration can't say all right here's a plan a if this may happen or plan B but that way we can have some expectation as a city and our business owners and the students here can have some kind of plan so that they know all right we're working this out and we should start working for the P P P P E and we should start making sure that if to find out if our employees want to come back you know just different different questions that can really help give some of the the opportunity to these people so that we can have the equity we can have the fairness and we can start being proactive rather than reactive this is not saying just Gold gusto and open up everything this is saying you know let's treat Albuquerque different than Hidalgo County or Mora or you know even McKinley and be aware of our city here and start making some proactive plans for that so I think that timing is of the essence and I really I really do hope that that you will consider that you and as a reminder the motion on the floor will be for suspending the rules for the purpose of creating our 40 on the agenda for final action tonight otherwise it be placed on our next ring Euler meeting agenda I see next up councillor Jones and then councillor Harris and assuming no other questions I'm gonna like councillor Harris be the one to use that as as close comes for Jones and then councillor Harris and encourage them there from what we hear on the streets because it might be different from what some of the things that the administration or the mirrors here Union it is time to start talking about what we're going to do then try to give some direction we've we have some very desperate small business owners out there who are not going to survive this and I would like to keep that number as small as possible and keep we are very City based on small business it's great every time we get one of those big companies in but it's our small business owners really hire the people and provide we need as much as anything so I I do think this is worth hearing I don't know what I hope you can if not I hope they would be able to bring it up in in two weeks and here is the next deal to me I think do you think this is something that we even have come public input and public talk about thank you ma'am councillor Harrison councillor basan I'll let you guys both close and then we'll move to a vote on the motion to suspend anyway Thank You mr. president and one quick clarification so if this motion fails it gets heard and two weeks is that correct miss Ortega is gonna weigh in here I think normally it would look to the appropriate committee but we practiced surgery musics expertise was for us to just refer all of these meetings to our next sure it's essentially as your stated councillor Davis which is that if a bill is introduced for immediate action and fails to receive the necessary votes to consider it or if it's not moved for immediate action that the bill receives a referral to the appropriate standing committee but as councillor Davis stated we could hold this over if you would be agreeable to that given the current situation and us not holding committees at the moment yeah absolutely and that's been the agreement with all of our councillors is any councillors priority bill that they won't replace we would blur in a regular meeting agenda while our committees are suspended and we've done that in the past so I think we'll continue that at least do our next few meetings until we come back to committee so absolutely if the motion fails tonight for immediate action at your request we would just place it on a hold over for our next week and I think that it's comfortable on my request but thank you just very briefly the we're not asking what to immediate action for anything to actually happen today but just for an urgent recognition that it's time to really start talking and really start trying to get some autonomy for the City of Albuquerque sort of I'm sorry council here so to clarify are you keeping your motion on the floor for the suspension of the rules or are you just asking for a holdup yes I am but if it fails I just want to make sure it's going to happen got it councillor pasanda those are the move to a vote my computer now ah Thank You mr. president I just want to make sure to point out that on here in this you can hear me right sorry I want to make sure okay thank you I just want to make sure to remind everyone to that with this bill some of its already now happening even after just creating it just one week ago this is how fast things are happening so I don't really see how it's going to be going too far against the grain but it's kind of proving the point that time is of the essence with that and it's not saying that we're gonna tell the mayor what to do it's not saying councils in charge of making the decisions this is just saying let's make sure that the mayor collaborates with the governor to ensure that Albuquerque is treated autonomously like councillor Harris said so and if we don't do immediate action I guess it could still not happen if you all hate the idea thank you ma'am the administration the opportunity to respond but I see mr. Eyre says no they don't need to respond on this and so I'm gonna ask miss or take it to call the roll call it as a reminder but you two-thirds version of councillors are six votes in order to place this on tonight's agenda for cancer center no councillor Benton no councillor Pena no councillor Busan yes councillor burrito burrito she said no I think thank you no thank you councillor Davis no councillor Gibson was that a yes counselor yes Thank You councillor Jones yes councillor Harris yes that fails on a four five vote so the item will be on the May 18 council agenda thank you mr. chicken I'm sober I go I believe you have another matter for a rule suspension can you hear me canary yes ma'am I'm having some technical difficulties here I moved that the rules be suspended for the purpose of placing em - - on tonight's agenda for final action em - is urging the City of Albuquerque to consider alternative and safe methods to reopen non-essential businesses thank you and do we have a second I see council Busan is second and two councillor Harris the second as well council Borrego you want to explain your motion or explain the legislation yes I do basically what this is and I'm trying to find it here if you give me in a second I'm having some serious technical difficulties but basically what it is is it's a memorial that researches other areas of the country and what they've done in terms of opening new businesses and some safe and effective ways of opening businesses and basically it's it's a memorial so it's not it's giving guidelines to our community of and there's been quite a bit of research that's gone into this and I give thanks to Jeff Hertz and Susan V Hill and Stephanie and some other folks that have contributed Chris Mullin dress but what it does is it sets out some ideas that they've done in other cities that the American Planning Association there's some policies in there it also looks at the white paper that the governor and the legislature recently passed that talks about safe alternatives for opening businesses and so there's quite a bit of information in here and actually I have a floor substitute that I'm presenting tonight so really I'm asking that the floor substitute be adopted and there is quite a bit of information in your on your iPads or in your computers that describes the governor's or orders and it gives you a chronology of all her orders it gives you an analysis of the white paper from the legislature and then or from the Finance Committee and then also it gives you the the analysis of the different cities in the country and some safe possible alternatives that we could look at not telling us this is not saying that these are in stone it's basically saying here are some alternatives that could be looked at when we do open when it is safe so it's not setting a date for when we would open and there is I would move the floor substitute no get council Borrego and we'll do that as soon as we if we get this item on our final on for final action this evening the motion on the floor currently that is a has a number of seconds is to suspend the rules for placing that item on tonight's agenda I want to give the administration an opportunity to respond to this one as well I should have done that first in the last one and then we'll go to councillors for questions and councillors you think you up by raising your hand so any comment from the administer hey we're just getting our video on but I'll start talking in the meantime so you're good okay great council council president Davis councillor beau Draco I'm not sure that we've seen the floor substitute but the original version of the bill that we saw requests or encourages boards and commissions to evaluate the options related to opening up non-essential businesses and so you know those boards and commissions represent a a broad cross-section of the city we see no harm in them talking about what is clearly the most important issue of the day Thank You Man and seeing no other questions I think the privilege and just ask Council for a goal and you mentioned this in your mention but I want to clarify it just be sure that I understand the as I see it the difference in these two resolutions the one we've looked at just a minute ago from other councillors and yours yours doesn't set a specific date or encourage us to specifically perhaps change the governor's state orders but it does encourage the city to begin preparing for when and if those orders are lifted how businesses could adapt is that right yes that's correct and it gives some guidelines that have been used you know from some professional organizations or have been recommended and so it really doesn't it's not a resolution it's a memorial Camille and I case I'll be supporting it councillors other questions other comments hearing none council Borrego to close on the motion to suspend the rule okay so I'm clear are we going to vote on the memorial first and then the floor substitute so this will only be to place your memorial on the agenda later for us to consider your floor substitute and final action this is only for the introduction to tonight's agenda and so the vote YES tonight thank you just to clarify thank you the vote tonight will be to place M 2 on tonight's agenda for further debate and consideration to the floor sub and other amendments so seeing no other questions count madam miss Ortega to take the roll call of councilors 2/3 councillors president needed to vote yes in order to place this widget yes councillor Benton yes councillor Pena yes councillor Busan yes Canterbury go yes councillor Davis yeah councillor Gibson no councillor Jones councillor Jones no thank you councillor Harris I'm gonna say yes although I'd like to use discuss it at the same time but yes got it that passes on a seven to two vote mr. Chia and so that Adam will be added to our agenda for later discussion councillor Harris did you want to discuss your vote there or just to have an opportunity to discuss the memorial later in the agenda no that's fine that's fine but thank you mr. president Thanks just wanna check counselors see no other changes to the letter of introduction madam vice president I saw I apologize I'll move approval of the letter of introduction and for expedience sake I see councillor Benton is gonna second that one miss Ortega take the roll call vote the letter come through Sena yes come through Benton yes counselor Pena yes counselor pass on yes Canterbury go yes counselor Davis yes counselor Gibson yes answer Jones yes counselor Harris yes Thank You Lane 0u mr. JK Thank You counselors and now we move on to reports of committees as we mentioned our committees are suspended so there are none moving to the furrows and withdrawals that evening counselor Benton I believe you have our 29 Thank You mr. president in the matter of our 29 considering whether our 20-5 was determined that a nuisance substandard dwelling or structure in need of abatement at 1 1 1 to iron Avenue Southwest 8 7 102 should be enforced or rescinded and moved to furrow until May 8 and counselor just to clarify that's gonna be May 18th right you may have said it I just came across differently Oh move deferral until May 18th and mr. president if I could yes this is dragging out and I'm just gonna say without any prejudice to any side of this case that the people who are trying to prolong and discuss further this matter it's on them to get the city their packet of information it's not you know it's not a reverse the expectation and responsibility they need to get those documents to us and to suddenly say oh well we tried to send them last week and oh you didn't get them that's not an OK method of communication of something that's important so they need to just probably send stop by FedEx to the city and hardcopy since apparently there's some problem with key communication on this matter and we need to get on with this so I'm moving for Elmo free deferral but but not for longer than these two weeks counselor for that application I see counselor Owens is offering a second I believe for the deferral and just for those following at home we have a member of the public is invited to join us just for this discussion miss Jeanette Whittaker but because this map this question is up for deferral tonight miss Whittaker is not able to speak as for our rules but if we have a further discussion on this item later in the agenda we'll invite to participate the public comment but we wanted to be sure that the property owner was able to participate tonight to be sure to see what happened for this process counselors any other discussion on this item I explained that poorly about miss Whittaker but she's our property owner and just watching to see what we're doing with this tonight account for seeing miss Ortega to take the roll please on the matter for deferral until May 18 councillors Hannah yes sir Benton yes come to Pena yes councillor Poisson yes Canterbury go yes councillor Davis yes councillor Gibson yes councillor Jones yes councillor Harris yes 9 0 thank you give miss Ortega and miss Whittaker the that matters deferred it to our May 18th meeting and so we'll invite you back and change you've been working with mr. Melendez and our staff to to be scheduled for those meetings and so we'll look forward to seeing you in two weeks next up there are a number of councilors including myself on this next matter but councillor Harris you've spearheaded this and so m1 why don't you take it mister brother I will move it a firown' until june 1st of m1 which urges the United States Congress to amend the National Trail System Act designating the route 66 National Historic Trail I have a motion and I'm sure there's a second from councillor Harris and miss Ortega Cancer Center yes come to Benton yes mr. Pena yes comfortable sign yes Canterbury go yes counselor Davis yes counselor Gibson yes counselor Jones yes counselor Harris yes 9:0 Thank You great seeing other items for deferral for withdrawals going once going twice seeing none we'll move on to the consent agenda are there any changes to the consent agenda council Borrego I believe you had a technical item about one of these issues is that right yeah there was an amendment and trying to find my script here let's see relating to our 2030s says the technical amendment yes I'm trying to find my script give me one second okay we'll take it off consent for a minute we'll come back and visit that as an individual item are there any other requests to change the consent agenda seeing none I know we have a number of folks watching at home who are being nominated and by the mayor or council to serve on city boards and commissions thanks for putting up with us a little longer this evening before we got to you and thanks for watching from home we welcome to our city and our willingness to serve councilor pareto before we go so basically what we are doing here is we are amending this particular item r35 go on the amendment is in your iPad's so I move I'm I guess I need a motion to approve this amendment we will let's take the motion on the floor to approve the consent agenda without your item without 2035 and then we'll come back to yours councillors in motion to approve the consent agenda as amended removing our 2035 miss Ortega and then we'll come back to councilor Vega thank you council Busan for this councilors Dana yes councillor Benton yes contra Pena yes driba son yes counselor Borrego yes counselor Davis yes cancer Gibson yes counselor Jones yes counselor Harris yes 9:0 thank you thank you I'm sorry counsel Borrego we just wanted to get that motion of return to you for our 2035 yes mr. president counselors this is a approving an amendment which is in your iPad's to our 35 and I make a motion that we approve the amendment and I see a second from councillor basan any discussion from the administration or councilors on amendment for our third thing did that Leon that we heard there thank you sir we appreciate it everybody was scrambling just to double-check so councillor Ben is that a second no mr. president it was a procedural question I mean this is councillor Benton you went back to mute would you unmute yourself and just give us that question again um yeah beg pardon was this don't we have to move the bill I didn't know there was a motion a second in the bill or was there did I miss that I'm sorry you're right down sir I took counsel beret goes motion during the middle of the last and so I just rolled it into this to keep us off I'll suck at the motion on the bill thank you and so we have a motion and a second on the bill and we have a motion and a second on the amendment it's the technical cleanup that mr. Espinoza explained from animal welfare I just clarifies the name of the granting organization from the Dennis Prinz foundation to PetSmart Charities is there any other questions councillors on this amendment and thanks council Perego for working us through that right there we go number one to r-25 yes counselors yes cancer Benton yes culture Pena yes counselor Poisson yes Canterbury go yes counselor Davis yes counselor Gibson yes counselor Jones yes counselor Harris yes thank you that's nice on that amendment number one thank you in council Borrego we're back on our 20:35 as amended for your close your support on the original bill Thank You mr. Tager we take the rope over 35 isn't it counselor sino yes comforter Benton yes counselor Pena yes counselor Hasan yes Canterbury go Canterbury go yes counselor Davis yes counselor Gibson yes counter Jones yes counselor Harris yes that bill passes unanimously as amended thank you Thank You mr. chair Thank You counselors normally we would go to public comment as was stated earlier our in-person public comment is not being taken this evening due to the governor's public health water but again focusing in their comments in advance of this meeting and mr. Moya distributed those to counselors and we're available for review earlier this evening I know we got almost more than a dozen I think more or less today on various items the counselors got to see for announcements counselors if you're up Q yourself up we're gonna go counselor Gibson counselor Jones counselor Benton and will so we'll start with counselor Gibson announcement Thank You mr. president the finance of government Operations Committee scheduled for Monday May 11th is cancelled counselor Jones loves mr. president the land use planning and zoning committee meeting scheduled for Wednesday May 13th council been Public Safety the Public Safety Committee meeting scheduled for May 11th is cancelled thank you now there's any other announcements seeing none we move to the next item which is public hearings in this matter which is ac21 I'm gonna make a motion for deferral but before I do that councilor Sinha needs to make an announcement and I believe you'll recusal and you mr. president I am recusing myself on this letter thank you and I have I'm gonna make a motion of the for a deferral until June 1st if we can get a second I'm just gonna ask mr. Melendez so we can queue them up here just to explain what this is and remind us why we're deferring it and then we'll move to discussion if needed councillor Menon is the second mr. Melendez if you're on tat with us could you just remind us why we've deferred this in the past and why we're doing this again today absolutely mr. president this appeal deals with a property on the west side known as the pool property the council has seen this property before in the form of a site plan that came before you you remanded that to the environmental Planning Commission the environmental Planning Commission has acted on that and now it is coming back to Council for a subsequent appeal this is a declaratory ruling related to that remand and so since they are so closely related it would be appropriate to probably hear these together we anticipate that that that will be possible by the June 1st meeting we expect the lujo will hear the site plan matter probably soon to the middle of this month and be available for June 1st so that these matters can be consolidated before the council at that time Thank You mr. Molloy under his councilors any questions about the motion for deferral seeing none mr. Ortega would you take the roll call vote on the motion to defer ac21 until June 1st dr. Benton yes dr. pena yes contrabass on yes Canterbury go yes Chancellor Davis yeah counselor Gibson you councillor Jones yes councillor Harris yes it's here with councillor Senna recused Thank You Nicki miss Ortega and we're gonna buy councilor senator back with us and there she is thank you very much next up we have approvals there are none moving on to final actions our first item up tonight is our 24 establishing our programming and policy priorities for the city for FY 21 I'll move a new pass and a second from councillor Pena and others and I believe councillor Pena you have amendments that you'd like to offer and so I'll turn the floor over to you Thank You mr. president can hear me yeah I think so okay good so I have floor made amid number one this is oh I guess I could read it into the record first so on page one after nine 14 is or its following whereas on April 20th the City Council passed resolution 20 our twin are 2036 urging the United States Congress to amend or enact provisions of the Kerr's Act to allow for reimbursement to local governments for the recapture your Blas revenues to the corona virus pandemic and and then on page 1 after 916 insert the following section 1 the City of Albuquerque urges the United States Congress to amend or enact provisions of the Care Act or an act other legislation that would allow for reimbursement to local governments for the recapture of lobster revenues due to the corona virus pandemic and remember the subsequent sections accordingly this amendment adds language to the federal priorities bail supporting federal legislation that allows cities to recover lost revenues June 2 the corona corona virus health emergency as passed by the council via resolution r 2036 Thank You councillor Pena and councillors just to follow along for the of you following along in your iPad's the Pena amendment number two is actually floor amendment number one for this discussion that she just read into the record anyway but we need is second for that amendment I'll make it works for me counselor Bosson thank you for following it counts of burglary of a question or do you have it just second okay great thanks and heads up to the administration I just want to ask mr. Nayar if you have any comments on any of these items since you're part of our intergovernmental relations committee but councillors any discussion on painting a floor amendment number one and any comment from the administration council president Davis we are in support of the bill we had started work on the federal priorities before we started sort of a journey in that committee so this is in keeping with those discussions and we do favor the amendment of course as all of you know revenue replacement is the number one issue for all cities right now thank you thank you councilor opinion I believe you'll get a unanimous vote for a revenue replacement but councilor pan you to close thank you I purchase your support and with via this amendment actually makes it our number one priority as part of our federal package so thank you that's great thanks for clarifying [Music] that's resenha yes Cantor Benton yes counter Pena yes counselor Poisson yes Canterbury go yes councilor Davis yes councilor Gibson yes councilor Jones yes councillor Harris yes 9-0 an amendment number one thank you Thank You councillor Pena for a minute number two thank you for member amendment number two is on the exhibit titled federal fiscal year 2020 one district grant request for congressional appropriation and starts following parity the southwest may sartorial and collector street lighting funding to infill street lights on in arterial and collector streets on the southwest Mesa the explanation for this amendment is in the adequacies and the city's development process created serious infrastructure deficiencies on the south west mesa including a dearth of lighting on almost all arterial and collector streets impairing the safety of the users of these roadways to correct this deficiency the city is working to assemble the needed funding through the city state and federal funds this amendment reiterates that the effort to fund these streetlights is a federal priety for the city Thank You councillor Pena do we have a second for amendment number two I think that's councillor barega jumping in there thank you councilors any questions or discussion on amendment number two seeing that miss Ortega for the roll call vote counts for sena yes come to Benton yes come to Pena yes councillor pass on yes Canterbury go yes councillor Davis yes councillor Gibson yes councillor Jones yes councillor Harris yes unanimous for a minute number two that's our pain is that the only there only to amendment you have that is that right okay great councillors any other discussion or amendments on our federal priorities legislation any comment from the administration before we close under they already expressed their support you hearing none we will that was my bill so your support mr. Ortega Transfer Center yes Cantor Benton yes Cantor Pena yes come to pass on yes Canterbury go yes counselor Davis yes counselor Gibson yes counselor Jones yes councillor Harris yes that passes unanimously as amended PD mr. Jacob and councillors we're gonna move on to our 34 counselor Senate can I put you on the spot would you introduce our 34 for us because I know our other co-sponsor councillor vasana I submit minutes but would you move our 34 for us to begin Thank You mr. president our 34 is approving and authorizing the request of direct funding from the US Secretary of the Treasury and providing for an appropriation to the Finance and Administration department in fiscal year 2020 and 2021 we have a motion and several seconds including update council opinion for that one and counselor bassam I believe before we get started on the other discussion you have an amendment that's in iPads and so I'm gonna call it floor number one Thank You mr. president um for amendment number one to our 2034 is on page 2 section 2 line 3 removed the term estimated and on page 2 section 2 line 4 replace 150 million dollars with 150 million three hundred and sixty four thousand four hundred and sixty one dollars this change is because this is the actual amount received from the US Treasury secretary of the Treasury so we wanted it to be accurate Misun and that's for minute number two one do we have a second and I see counselor Gibson I'll take that one and thank you very much again this is a technical cleanup that just clarifies exactly how much money the City of Albuquerque was final they appropriated under the cares Act and thanks counselor Busan for helping us get this right any discussion from councilors are comments from the administration I know miss Martinez is available as well to answer any questions about this funding and maybe I'll ask either the administrator mr. Nayar or miss Martinez either one just to clarify for folks following along at home this is actually the amount the city received from the Treasury transferred to us I believe last week if I recall but there are still some limitations on how these dollars can be used so they're not immediately available to us is that right yes we are awaiting further clarification and guidance from the Treasury on exactly how we can use those funds thank you and just a clarification miss Martinez do you know roughly what how much we anticipate in terms of the reimbursable expenses we've tracked so far that that we believe will be eligible to be claimed against the fund we track so far three million 3.1 million dollars of expenses indirect Cohen response related expenses one thing to be clear about is that we have several four sources of funding some from different agencies this is one source of funding with its own eligibility rules but we also have funding from HUD and other FTA and so what the the city is doing now with the help from our department and leadership remark Department is putting together sort of a game plan on how to use all the different sources to to best meet the city's needs and I just wanted to clarify that this is the not the only source of funding for our response to the code big emergency thank you miss Martinez and I'm glad you're here tonight oh it took us a little bit do you but thanks for being able to clarify that counselors any other questions or comments from the administration seeing none and we did pass the amendment is that right miss Tortelli we did okay so on the motion to approve counselor besides a floor amendment number one all those in favor say yes missus or take it councillor Sena yes counter Benton yes contra Pena yes come to pass on yes Canterbury go yes counselor Davis councillor Gibson yes councillor Jones yes councillor Harris yes unanimous on floor amendment number one Thank You councillor senator close Thank You mr. president I think we all know the urgency and the need for their federal funding especially as it relates to some of the revenues that we were talking about and hopefully that you can get better guidance on how we can spend this money so I urge your support thank you thank you seeing no other discussion Kent I miss Ortega to call the roll call counselor said oh yes counter Benton yes counter Pena yes counter pass on yes Canterbury go yes counselor Davis yes counselor Gibson yes counselor Jones yes counselor Paris Chancellor Harris yes thank you that passes unanimously as amended thank you next up our 37 is approve who's the first amendments to the resolution approving the formation of Mesa del Sol tax increment development districts one through five pursuant to the tax increment for development active and do pass I see I'll take councillor Gibson's hand for that one for a second thank you also there's technical cleanups just relating to how the Mesa del Sol district complies with cleanups to state law any other discussion or questions on this item see none heard your support mr. Ortega all those in favor yes counselor Sena yes councillor Benton yes cancer pena yes counter Poisson yes counselor Borrego yes counselor Davis councillor Gibson yes councillor Jones yes councillor Harris yes passes unanimously thank you oh it's really painless Thank You councillor Benton introduce our 39 today mr. president our 39 is adopting the fiscal year 2021 urban enhancement trust fund program and appropriating funds for the urban enhancement programs projects iMovie do pass Thank You Ian councillors I think I saw some seconds but I was distracted when I were in just a second no there's several including take councillor Jones for this one thank you we don't use you very often for that so I want to first to councillor Benton I believe you have you account service I have some amendments and so why don't we take those first and then we'll go to the administration bill in the program thank you the administration can basically customers come from beside if I don't want to speak for her but but from my standpoint the administration spread the peanut butter very thinly across a lot of wonderful organizations that we have in our city I think that was the right call this year so strongly in support of this amendment I think that is the motion introduced for amendment number one councillor basan you want to mention and make this second I will definitely make the second and I do I agree with councillor Benton and I know that the administration has set up a committee to really work hard on this and I think that it's really nice to admire and appreciate when people put in hard work to try to help as many people as possible so I urge your support as well Thank You counselors any other discussion on floor amendment number one and for those following along at home we might not have access to it this just lists the actual projects that were finally approved or recommended by the administration and that are so to be approved by this legislation it's three hundred and ten thousand eight hundred seventy dollars for the new substitute or the new amendment seeing none all those in favor of a floor amendment number one say yes miss Ortega yes Cantor Benton yes come to Pena yes come to pass son yes Canterbury go yes councillor Davis councillor Gibson yes councillor Jones yes councillor Harris yes amendment one passes unanimously thank you councilors been animist on on the bill and I want to give the administration a chance to respond I see dr. Sanchez has been waiting patiently as well to dr. Sanchez you still there in the budget conference room if you want to comment or tell us any more about this program and how you all came to this this year and then I'll take you back to councillors for questions funding I don't have much to say but I would really like publicly to commend our sherry Bruggeman and the you ETF committee that worked very hard very fast to review a lot of proposals and turn this around very our arts and cultural organizations in the community so I appreciate your support and I also appreciate all of the members of the you ETF committee they worked hard and fast thank you thank you and let me just add my my thanks and appreciation they really did work hard and as we're watching and seeing how councillor Gibson and councillor Santa and the administration are working to figure out how to use the emergency funds for other nonprofit I think this is a great model and shows that you can really get these money out quickly and to a lot of organizations quickly and so thanks for working through those details so counselors other discussion or questions for the administration on this item before we go back to the sponsors going once going twice seeing none we'll go to councillor Busan and then councillor been to close things president when you look at the list you know and and it's too long for us to read out the list on the amendment but it's a testament to the kind of organizations arts and cultural organizations in our city who who work tirelessly for no money except an occasional grant like these and that do so well you know it's just on every level the highest quality of art and drama music and then the cultural preservation that is so important to us as a community that we know that the stories that we have is a community to keep all of that alive these are it's a great list of organization that again it's a testament to our city and so I think the administration in this case did I call it that's that sounds pretty easy it ain't cool governmental this way we spread the peanut butter thinly but but the fact is there's so many great organizations and yes I've got more than others because they're doing an incredible job and others you know it's really nice to see such a broad spectrum of people to take on their work in our community and for us to give them a little bit of help so so thanks to everybody who's involved in it and urge your support thank you can I break the rules a minute in just now ask director Sanchez have these organizations been notified that they were recommended to the council or how would they learn finally that they've been awarded you know as soon as possible but we several of these organizations will be actually great work thank you and miss Ortega we moved to you for the roll call but would you just explain to folks where they could find a final list and it'll be available on the city's website and the council's website with the legislation and then move over yes that's correct my staff and I will work diligently tomorrow to get this amendment incorporated into the bill and the folks watching can expect to see this bill and legend of business day tomorrow or early Wednesday thank you ma'am would you call the roll bouncer sent him yes counter Benton yes hunter Pena yes counter basan yes Canterbury go yes counselor Davis councillor Gibson yes counselor Jones yes councillor Harris yes that passes unanimously as amended thank you thank you everyone and director Sanchez thanks to your team and sherry and you ETF and thanks to the sponsors for helping us with that up we have councillor Borrego with m2 memorial number two Thank You mr. president and I was just gonna mention one of the urban enhancement trust fund projects that I worked on a long time ago it was the Chevy on a stick on Gibson and sandpit San Mateo so there's a lot of projects around the city that are great projects so I did find my notes I'm sorry about that and I wanted to move em 20 - - and what it is is urging the City of Albuquerque to consider alternative and safe methods to reopen non-essential businesses and basically what the memorial does is it provides an overview of risk restrictive safety measures in place as instructed by the New Mexico governor the New Mexico State Department of Health and in Mexico finance department and they are killers declarations on the matter of Copa 19 with the intent of beginning steps toward reopening through creative APA American Planning Association inspired reopening measures and with consideration of all due caution as described by existence state and local government orders declarations and recommendations it also looks at the Albuquerque Code of Ordinances chapter 11 morals and code article 3 human rights section declaration of policy 11 - 3 - to the memorial calls on City of Albuquerque Code of Ordinances that indicates businesses should reopen in an equitable way and it provides the city with direction and expands upon the governor's April 30th update and reopen non-essential businesses by equipping equipping businesses with alternative innovative approaches and program programs for conducting businesses that are based upon what other cities have started doing over the past couple of weeks it urges the following City departments to start considering addressing how to administer it administer implement these programs and the exhibits because there are several exhibits and there's a floor substitute and then there are exhibits that basically talk about the lay of the land and what we could possibly do this is not directing us to do this is the same what we could do we could in terms of phasing and how different types of businesses are phasing it also exhibit to provides models from other cities establishing alternative innovative programs that is an example of that would be some restaurants that are using their parking lots to do the social distancing logistics of administering these alternative innovative programs and then the staff analysis on specific benefits in the floor amendment so I would move that particular bill and then I would like to talk a little bit about the floor amendments and how it changes what it changed in the original bill give me I'm so first up let's take a motion to approve m2 and I see councillor Poisson I think is that you as a second counselor will take that and then so councillor Borrego we now have the move the motion to approve your floor sub for m2 pads need a second for that one really quickly from some councillor somewhere I see councillor Busan and councillor Pena so we'll take that as well so have a motion in a second on the floor sub so discussion on the floor so councillor Thank You mr. president so the source basically referenced the change references city ordinances and it regulates market to ensure fair equitable trade and it removes any references to home roll we have started a discussion with regard to home rule under councilor bosons no bill that may be considered in the future and so we just removed it from this reference because we didn't think it was appropriate it also amends the exhibit 1 and basically the amendment is regarding state measures by business type exhibit 2 outdoor alternative markets and e-commerce licensing flexibility and that would actually and it could actually be related to the liquor issue that was discussed tonight so I moved the floor amendment number 1 for for substitute number one and I'm gonna let miss Yarra just for a minute I know the Miss Nayar has a question about the floor sub and this yaar you helped draft this a little bit today so I'm gonna put that I think I'm sorry great miss Knight did you have a question about the floor so I just received it from Miss Fiamma so thank you for sharing that with us just reading it right now thank you great we'll come back to in just a minute as we let other counters ask but councillors any questions or debate on motion to approve the floor sub seeing none councillor Johnson Thank You mr. president I just think before we vote on something you tear it sometimes people aren't in the audience in their home and they're watching you they don't know what they're doing in reality this has no effect other than saying we're going to tell the mayor or something that this does not cause something to happen it does not cause a vote it doesn't cause any legal obligation to do anything it's just pointing out some things that the council would you like to see the mayor in the administration address we don't I just that needs to be made public is sometimes they hear something like this on TV or in a newspaper snippet you think this is something that we have voted to make happen and in fact this is a suggestion to the administration thank you I'm so gun that's an important question council Brailler do you want to respond but I my understanding no I I think counselor Jones is very clear is that it gives suggested guidelines for when we do move forward in opening our businesses and it does look at some models from other cities and looks at some American Planning Association guidelines if you ma'am and to that point I just want to point out in the floor substitute which is so very similar to the original page 3 line 23 24 and 25 reference that those considerations are done following appropriate public health and safety considerations of the public welfare mandated by the state of New Mexico Public Health Department and I think that's an important distinction that this is still follows those state guidelines but prepares us for afterwards and so I appreciate that counselors any other discussion on the motion to approve the floor sub seeing none I'm sorry counselor Gipson go ahead um Thank You mr. president so I appreciate the work that's been put into this so Thank You counselor before I go and you know I am a big believer in sharing best practices I have seen that save a lot of money and and really contribute to a either a workplace or or or a you know project that that a group of people have been working on but right now we don't I mean we have some ideas you know and some things that really have proven to be really helpful but I have and I've gone through these well while we've been talking and I don't see it very much here there's there's a couple of examples but other other than that I haven't seen anything that we haven't either done here already or we've considered we've talked about it's under consideration so I'm not so sure how useful this would be when in particularly when we could probably replace it with you know just a conversation with planning for example the the examples that I did see here that I so far I haven't heard anything about it might have been maybe it has been discussed already but the reopening business and parking lots for dining actually we have talked about that this is under additional resources and the flexible zoning which I think he referred to and you talked about this might be a potential way to to extend sales for small liquor stores so I don't mean this to sound like a really strong criticism is just that I think you know I think that it's probably I don't know more than what we really needed seems like could be an email sorry thank you thanks counselor Gibbs then I want to go to councillor Senna who has a question on the floor substitute and then like councillor beret go to respond to both of those if they're something to respond to counselor so it comes first yeah I just had a technical question as I'm pulling it up on my iPad I don't see it in here can we clarify with the crystal as to which one that we're looking at or what its label does yes Cantor Davis councillor Sena it would be labeled as m2 proposed floor substitute and then it also has two exhibits so it would be in the subfolder where the memorials are located Thank You mr. Rosen Thank You crystal so any other questions on the question of proving the floor substitute from the sponsor seeing none I'm sorry council Gregor did you want to respond I did want to respond to councillor Gibson because if you look at exhibit 1 there are substantial information in that exhibit from other states and there's it's a breakdown of many different types of businesses and while it's not a complete breakdown it's it's got we have Alaska Arizona California Colorado so it's a comparative analysis and if you go across the chart in that particular area we talk about new essential businesses that as they refer to them and so there's a comparative analysis throughout that chart that talks about what they have allowed and what they have not allowed and so I think it gives us a good basis for you know how to proceed and even though we don't I mean it's not as Chancellor Jones notes mentioned it's not something that we have to do but it certainly gives us some supporting documentation as to how we move forward way restrictions are lifted for Senate for the quick Thank You mr. president and my question is in coming across a lot of this research I think the research just you know very in-depth so my question is if any unions or employee right workers rights were also evaluated in what processes and how they were involved in some of the reopening discussions and other states and cities if that was also evaluated count councillor Davis go ahead so counselor Sena if you look at the original bill it talks about the health safety and general welfare so as we move so bird that would definitely be something that we would take into consideration and we would ask you know the staff to ensure that those restrictions are not restrictions but for lack of a better word those guidelines would be followed thank you seeing no other discussion council Borrego I believe we'll move on for the vote to approve the floor sub and then we have an additional amendment and we want to go around for from the administration so miss Ortega will you take the roll call vote on approving the floor substitute for Memorial - yes sir councilor Santa yes cancer Benton yes cancer Pena yes can to pass on yes Canterbury go yes cancer Davis yes councillor Gibson yes cancer Jones yes councillor Harris yes that's 9 0 on the floor sub-q I believe next up is gonna be a another amendment from councillors Poisson and Pena councilors are you gonna present that and if so I'm going to ask Julian I believe to share that on screens because I'm not sure I don't believe in iPads for councillors to review but I'll defer to councillors Posada opinion can you hear me can you hear me yes thank you absolutely I'm not sure if I if we were going to move it forward it actually kind of mirrors the resolution that we had for intro this evening unfortunately I didn't give the word to put it for immediate action this evening and what what that resolution does and I guess maybe this is a question for mr. Melendez just asking that if we put this in the Memorial which I don't think it does but just confirmation it doesn't move the resolutions for the next council meeting mr. president councilors know that being a separate bill and having a separate function in the form of a resolution I would not in any way anything you do to this memorial would not in any way any other piece of legislation that you're considering later in the form of a resolution okay thank you well then I would like to move it forward and this kind of just piggy backs on what counsel but I go I really appreciate her Memorial I don't think it's just an email I think it's actually something that helps to provide guidance and it says that this council really supports that type of guidance and and this is actually an amendment that gives a little bit of instruction in terms of how we partner also with the community so before I go on to read the amendment councilor Poisson did you want to add anything to that I think you said it very well I think that you know this is something that we're all trying hard to be sure to represent and do good things for people so I think that it's very important that we do what we can thank you thank you thank you so I will read the amendment into the record on page three strikes line 15 through 17 and replace what the following City of Albuquerque section 1 City Council expressed support for the businesses of the City of Albuquerque and urges the mayor mayor's administration boards and committees to and advisory councils that are addressing the coab in 19 health crisis to on page three after line 25 insert the following section to the City Council requested the mayor to work with local businesses business leaders to establish and distributed standardized health guidelines for businesses to follow in to ensure continued protection of the public health and safety against the spread of cold with 19 once restrictions are lifted on section 3 the council the City Council requests that the mayor establish a program to provide resources to business businesses for the purchase of health screening and other equipment needed to implement reopening protocols which comply with appropriate health regulations and directives so the explanation for this is this amendment adds language to the bill that requested the mayor work with other boards of commission that advisory councils to develop and distribute standardized health guidelines for businesses to follow during the reopening phase if further requests that the mayor establish a program to help fund a purchase of needed items for businesses to effectively implement the health guidelines your council opinion will take that as a motion for floor amendment number one and I take the council to sign I assume yep there's our second and so councillors we're gonna be on the discussion for for amendment number one and for those of you need to follow along I think mr. Moya has made that language available for folks to be able to see here and so I'll ask of TV to try to make a point to share that at some point share mr. Moya screen when they had a chance councilors excuse me I'm gonna go back to the show of hands for debate but give me just a minute because I have to swap screens in order to do that sir Ben go ahead I'm sorry counselor Benton you have your hand raised for a question and then I'm gonna go to counselor Sena and counselor brulee go counselor Benton you're still muted if you could try yourself one more time yeah all right welcome you know it's mean it yeah I just wanted to say that with regard to all of these issues they're important issues in times like these the executive decision is is largely you know the call but I totally agree with the need for protocol for all sorts of businesses and so that means different protocols for different businesses and we do need to listen to the experts who are the folks who are out there in the trenches operating their businesses so for that in that sense I support this but you know sometimes I feel like what we need to do as counselors is really a squash continue to ask questions as we do about about how the administration intends to establish protocols because everyone is different right a liquor store is different for my hardware store etc and going from there so I'm in support of the bill but I think we need to have a broader discussion and I appreciate the pressure the administration is under that doesn't mean they have all the answers so we do we try to broaden the discussion but but yeah I think protocols for every different situation is a big task and we need to get after that thank you Thank You councillor Benton next up I see councillor suna then councillor Borrego and seeing no others I recognize myself after that and then we go to the administration and then come back to the sponsor so first up councillor Center Thank You mr. president just in looking at the amendment and thinking about how to give some directions and suggestions to the mayor and thinking about what we are looking at to open I also would like to have some discussion about how businesses can also tap into federal resources right now to tap into reimbursement for paid sick leave you know we have the family first federal bill that passed that's granting over $5,000 a week for those that have been directly impacted by Co mid-nineteen and I just hope that business is know to tap into that and if we're thinking of guidelines and suggestions how the marry can help businesses supply and look at keeping ease I would hope that we're also making resources available to businesses to know that there's also paid sick leave and family leave due to the emergency that were working so I hope that some of that language would be added more considerations become sorsa counselor Borrego and then I'll go to myself if we don't have any other counselors and then back to the sponsors and we want to give the administration a chance to comment as well so counselor I was gonna say that I think that this is a great amendment and but I do have a question about it does this when you talk about offering assistance to businesses are you are you also referring to like hand sanitizers pee bees wash stations and things like that is that or I mean we don't have a limited list here I'm just asking the question is are those things that you were all considering mr. president go ahead Kyle's opinion okay thank you um yes counselor counselor but angle so just to explain a little bit about even the resolution that I have moving forward it'll be at the next council meeting but adding this to your memorial is just talking to a lot of the business owners out there in the community there's some large employers who are out there who are saying that you know they've been preparing since day one for reopening and they've been able to secure some of the things that are out there right now that are very scarce and hard to get a hold of like masks and thermometers and they were saying that you know it would be great for the City of Albuquerque to be able to partner with them where they have access to some of these items to create and for the lack of a back of a better word I was telling councillor Hasan is that to create some care packages for some of these small businesses to ensure that they're able to open in a timely manner and so that they are able to be able to access some of these items needed to to open and that way everyone's successful and we continue to do great in the City of Albuquerque has been stated time and time again is that the governor's doing a great job the mayor is doing a great job and this is really kind of the business community coming together with us to try to help us do that and just to follow up mr. president I did listen in today on a webinar with the Hispano chamber and they the county mentioned that they're also interested in the same type of assistance to small businesses so I think you know this is really on the right track and I will be supporting this amendment mr. president if you don't mind me saying you know I'm councillor Senna I think her considerations are important as well and she can do that Vienna met yeah an amendment mm-hmm great before we do that I will go to the administration miss Nayar I think you've had a chance to look at the amendment and so I want to give you a chance to comment since there's some language in the amendment that would request the mayor or the administration that take certain action it's not as I read it an actual resolution that will require such but it's an urgent you would like to comment on the proposed demand or Thank You Council President Davis and councilors you know the basic Memorial makes a lot of sense to us again as it engages the larger community through boards and commissions a lot of what is in the amendment are either things that we are already doing or things that may a little concern that they may over promise and I'll give you a couple of examples so in terms of guidelines for business openings we expect the Centers for Disease Control has already put out extensive guidelines on what is going to be required when business is open including sanitation practices contact tracing quarantine and isolation affecting both employees customers and the premises themselves so I just want to be clear that this the city would follow those federal and state guidelines and is not likely to be promulgating a whole bunch of new stuff on our own we also don't have when we have a great team in environmental health that includes an epidemiologist but we just don't have the quite the resources to undertake what we know the federal government the state government are already doing also with regard to the PPE you know absolutely agree this is going to be an issue and love the idea of funding it just want to be really clear that the issue right now is supply chain so the governor has indicated that municipalities in the state would be expected to have 14 days of PPE on hand before the next level of restrictions are relaxed and we are working really hard to get there but we're not there yet and so the idea of us then being able to supply other outside entities other than hospitals and our fellow governments with PPE is is again it's a it's a wonderful concept but don't want to over promise in that regard as far as technical assistance to businesses please do refer them to our small business office we're talking to 1020 businesses a day on how to access the federal money federal program state programs and of course our own programs so that resource exists already and we had a huge volume of calls early on in March in the first half of the vapor but those calls have started to trail out we've done webinars we've done joint webinars with the state but certainly if there's a any segment of the economy or part of town that you don't think has really gotten access to that small business office please do let us know and we'll make sure to connect folks with our small business office and those resources Thank You mr. president Thank You mr. IRA council pana respond and I have a question and then we'll come back to the sponsors again okay so I just want to add to that in terms of the guidelines in my in the resolution that I have for next council meeting it actually talks about that is following and we obviously we can't make up new guidelines are due and make additional guidelines maybe I should have been more clear in terms of putting forth something that was clear about how we how we market the openings for businesses to be successful in terms of how we market what the guidelines are because I've been told by several small businesses is that what's happening is that there's so many guidelines so many restrictions that the City of Albuquerque should be able to have a process as to where it helps the community kind of simplify that and understand it so maybe that should be more along the lines of how we educate the community thank you and I just want to see no other comments let me just ask I think the memorial itself is good I like the floor substitute I think it's right as I said I think it sets the right path that it starts getting our boards and commissions and ensures that we're think couraging them to participate in this process so that it's not a top-down approach and thinking ahead I share that I sure miss Meyer is concerned only that the amendment is written so far it does exactly what we would asked which is asking the mayor to work with local business leaders to establish those protocols and share them but to establish and distribute them for for all of those business I think maybe a little unwieldy at the moment when we don't have that data yet I'm just looking through the budget I was looking and found there's about 5,000 new business registrations just in the city alone last year and I think that might figuring out how to make those adaptable to all of those businesses would be complicated no not on wieldy for perhaps our small business advisory committee and I share a concern that maybe the public doesn't understand the difference between a memorial and a resolution or an ordinance and it does sort of set it it may set an expectation that the city is going to start providing PPE for businesses to provide curbside service for example and so I'm not sure they're there rightly placed here but I would support these as goals for the resolution that the councillors have proposed that we'll be discussing at our next meeting I think those would be rightly placed and I think with a couple with that interim time to work with the administration on how to do that we could figure out what that would look like and so I think they would be better placed there I'm not sure I'd support the amendment is written right now but I do think we can get those goals to the other legislation that the councillors are talking about so I would support it there but maybe not for this one but I'm open to other discussion and so any other discussion from counselors or the sponsors councilor Bretagne I could certainly be persuaded otherwise but I just that's why I'm thinking at the moment going once going twice accounts are paying in a canvas on to close on floor amendment number one to floor sub memorial to are your support everybody it's well said urge your support I think we need to do what we can with any kind of guidelines and being proactive thank you miss Ortega to take the roll on floor amendment number one cancer center no councillor Benton no counter Pena yes councillor Poisson yes councillor Borrego yes councillor Davis no counter Gibson yes councillor Jones yes councillor Harris yes that passes on a 6-3 vote queue and councillor Borrego we're back on your bill as substituted and amended aired your support was any other discussion and I want to throw it back to mr. Iyer for any comment from the administration and on the bill I substitute it and now amended before we go to a final thanks to miss Ortega we have staff that remind us of things even though she wrote it down for me and I didn't read it we do need to make a motion first council break I'll let you make that motion but I think we need to make a motion to move that we suspend the rules for the purpose of allowing this to be adopted at the same meeting is which is substituted so in other words we have to take one additional motion where we need two-thirds of councilors to approve for a final vote tonight otherwise miss Ortega I believe this would go on our next meeting agenda mr. president I'm sorry I would like to make a motion that we approve this for final action tonight M - thank you and councillor Pena is a second counselor any discussion on the motion to suspend the rules for the purpose of allowing this to be adopted this evening it does require six votes missus or ticket counter Sena yes councillor Benton yes come through Pena yes contrabass on yes counter Borrego yes counselor Davis yes mr. Gibson yes counselor Jones no councillor Harris yes that pass is on an eight to one vote mr. Sherr mr. Rago we are back on final adoption of m2 I urge your support I just wanted to say before we vote on this that this is definitely up not a one-size-fits-all for the public there's a lot of other uses out there that are not included in these exhibits and you know that would have to be analyzed and reviewed by the staff and you know we are we cannot be the end-all and Beall but I think there's it's a good place for us to start and hopefully by May 16th we will be at that place thank you miss Ortega counter Santa yes counter Benton no counter Pena yes counter Poisson yes Canterbury go yes counselor Davis yes cancer Gibson no counselor Jones no counselor Harris yes that passes on a 6-3 vote as substituted as amended Thank You mr. Hagen thank you everybody for through that with us and thank you to the administration today we have a lot of directors and a lot of staff from the administration here and thank you for being prepared and ready to go we're finally sort of figuring this out some of you know we had some new tech things today that we were trying out to standardize and we'll continue to work on some of those to be sure we don't lose anybody in the conversation gov TB came back with us back to Comcast during our conversation during our meeting tonight but if as a reminder if there was an item on the agenda that you missed and weren't able to see at home tonight our meetings are available online at our City Council website and you can call us here at seven six eight 3100 to learn more about how you can see this there being no further business the City Council meeting is adjourned thank you all have a good night you you