Truth about the WWTP crisis and solution
It's serious, but City Manager Gary Whitehead, with his forthrightness and depth of detail in reporting foibles and fixes and fund raising efforts, instills confidence that the city can handle the problems.
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Defeat of Socorro data center has some worrying about relocation to Sierra County’s Spaceport America
Some locals want to see Sierra County moratorium on computer data centers. County commission chairman threatens to eject proponents for applauding at public comment period.
T or C shadow play of characters line up against whistleblower Sean Barnes
Nepotism requires that city staff pretend the city is an equal opportunity employer while muzzling criticism of leaders. Real talk about the mayor's relations and their fitness to hold their city positions is a fireable offense.
“We’re on our own” — Sierra County Emergency Services Administrator Ryan Williams, referring to FEMA funding
Local and state cooperation will be key in delivering help and recovering from disaster–and a brand new hazard mitigation plan lays out what’s needed.
T or C Municipal Airport seeks a new layout plan for future growth and funding
A new airport layout plan is needed, but nearly $600,000 worth? Why spend time and money on future growth and development if there is no water out there and new water appropriations are limited due to a closed basin? Shouldn't water availability be studied first?
T or C City Commission opens floodgate to tiny homes
The city commission hasn't bothered to pass an ordinance on tiny homes. Now it's granted an owner a variance to have one in the special Riverside neighborhood, making zero findings of fact, leaving the field wide open for others who want a tiny home.
T or C budget – a city dependent on utility fees while it chases the future
Lewis Carroll's search for the snark---sailing across the ocean with a blank map in pursuit of what may be illusory--is similar to the city budget and its blank underpinnings and deficit spending. Yet talk of expansion is rife. The city commission evidently believes in snarks.
City commission’s “goals” and interim budget show preoccupation with circuses over bread
Serious governance and fiscal oversight is still taking a back seat to chasing "quality of life" projects.
Is T or C’s budget going back to milking the utilities?
Is the over $5 million to be transferred out of the utilities, as proposed in the interim budget, to pay for "bread and circuses?" Yes. But in what proportion? In ancient Roman senators' flagrancy, as Juvenal satirized?
Supreme Court decides Texas v. NM
A couple of days ago, the Supreme Court approved the Special Master’s Fourth Interim Report on the case known as “No. 141 Original Texas v. New Mexico and Colorado.”
Early monsoon season?
Kingston had a nice rain. Maybe the monsoons are beginning: a hopeful weather report from the National Weather Service.
Mr. Smith goes to Washington, or in this case, Mr. Whitehead goes to Santa Fe
What the city's future and functionality will be rests largely in the ICIP process. The city needs to up its game in this area to include harnessing the community's support and power. City Manager Gary Whitehead already has game, thank goodness.