Village of Los Lunas Council Agendas\Minutes

VILLAGE OF LOS LUNAS REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2025 – 6:00 P.M. COUNCIL CHAMBERS – 660 MAIN STREET LOS LUNAS, NM 87031 ATTENTION: Village Council meetings are also streamed live via Microsoft TEAMS. You may connect with codes that are available on our website (www.loslunasnm.gov) and/or https://www.loslunasnm.gov/meeting. PLEASE TURN OFF OR MUTE ALL ELECTRONIC DEVICES DURING THE MEETING. YOUR COOPERATION IS APPRECIATED. The Village of Los Lunas Council is pleased to have residents of the community take time to attend Village Council Meetings. Attendance and participation is encouraged. Individuals wishing to be heard during Public Input and Public Hearing proceedings are encouraged to be prepared and will be limited to three (3) minutes in order to allow everyone the opportunity to be heard. PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE CONSTRUCTIVE AND DEVOID OF CHARACTER ASSASSINATION. Questions raised on non-agenda items may be answered at a later date in order to facilitate proper research. Written comments are welcome and should be given to the Village Administrator prior to the start of the meeting. Written materials will not be accepted during regular agenda items in the interest of time. ∗ CALL MEETING TO ORDER. ∗ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. ∗ PUBLIC INPUT FORUM. CHAD MATHESON 1. ALBUQUERQUE REGIONAL ECONOMIC ALLIANCE (AREA) UPDATES AND PRESENTATION TAB 1. ACTION REQUESTED OF COUNCIL: Informational. BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE: AREA is a 501(c)(3) public charity that leads and executes strategies designed to grow and diversify the economic base of the greater Albuquerque/metro region, creating a prosperous, diverse and inclusive economy and elevating the standard of living for all. The Village of Los Lunas are active partners with AREA, including committee and board representation. This presentation to provide annual update and overview of AREA’s work with the village. 2. EXECUTIVE SESSION – pursuant to NMSA 1978 Section §10-15-1(H), the following matters may be discussed in closed session: TAB 2. a) Hire Parks Technician I – Parks Division /Parks & Recreation Department b) Hire Fire Engineer / EMT – Fire Department c) Hire 2 Police Officers – Police Department 3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES. TAB 3. a) Minutes from November 6, 2025, Council Meeting. 4. ADJOURNMENT. If you are an individual with a disability who needs a reader, ampli�ier, quali�ied sign language interpreter, or any other form of auxiliary aid or service to attend or participate in the hearing or meeting, please contact the Deputy Clerk �ive (5) days prior to council meeting at 839-3840.  INTERNAL AGENDA REQUEST FORM DATE OF COUNCIL MEETING _____Thursday, November 20, 2025____ (AGENDA REQUESTS ARE DUE TUESDAY @ NOON ONE WEEK PRIOR TO COUNCIL MEETING) AGENDA TITLE: Albuquerque Regional Economic Alliance (AREA) Updates and Presentation ACTION REQUESTED OF COUNCIL: Informational Only BACKGROUND AND RATIONALE: (Please do not use all caps in this section) AREA is a 501(c)(3) public charity that leads and executes strategies designed to grow and diversify the economic base of the greater Albuquerque/metro region, creating a prosperous, diverse and inclusive economy and elevating the standard of living for all. The Village of Los Lunas are active partners with AREA, including committee and board representation. This presentation to provide annual update and overview of AREA’s work with the village. PRESENTER(S): ______Victoria Archuleta, Sr. Economic Developer________________  MINUTES VILLAGE OF LOS LUNAS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2025 The Board of Trustees of the Village of Los Lunas, County of Valencia, and State of New Mexico met Thursday, November 6, 2025 in regular session at 6:00PM. Roll call was taken, and the following were present: Mayor Charles Griego, Councilman Christopher Ortiz, Councilman Gino Romero (Joined via Teams), Councilman James Runyon, and Councilman Cruz Munoz. The meeting was conducted in person and recorded through TEAMs. Mayor: Charles Griego Mayor Pro Tem: Gino Romero Council: Christopher Ortiz Cruz Munoz James Runyon Also present were: Gregory D. Martin, Debra Sanchez, Craig Donohue, and Luis Brown. In accordance with Ordinance 114A, the following agenda was prepared and circulated as required: 1. PRESENTATION: STATE LEDA FUNDING. 2. RESOLUTION 26-01: VILLAGE OF LOS LUNAS OPEN MEETINGS AND 2026 COUNCIL MEETING DATES AND HOLIDAY SCHEDULE. 3. EASEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE VILLAGE OF LOS LUNAS AND VERO NETWORKS. 4. EXECUTIVE SESSION: a. Hire Streets Maintenance Worker III – Streets Division / Public Works Department. b. Hire Laboratory Technician – Wastewater Division / Public Works Department. c. Hire 2-PT Recreation Aides – Recreation Division / Parks and Recreation Department. 5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: a. Minutes from October 23, 2025, Council Meeting 6. ADJOURNMENT. • CALL MEETING TO ORDER. At 6:00PM, Mayor Griego brought the meeting to order and welcomed the audience. • PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. Mayor Griego asked Steven Walker to lead the Council and TEAMS participants in the Pledge of Allegiance. • PUBLIC INPUT FORUM. Mayor Griego asked if there was anyone who wanted to speak to the council who did not have an agenda item. Victoria Archuleta approached the podium. She wanted to introduce Ryan Bedders with the company Pacific Fusion – they are new to town. They are a logistics lead for Pacific Fusion. They will be doing some light manufacturing and some real groundbreaking scientific research. 1. PRESENTATION: STATE LEDA FUNDING. Mr. Mark Roper presented item one. The main item that he wanted to talk about this evening was about the LEDA Gross Receipts tax share component of the local Economic Development Act. The reason this is now part of the New Mexico Statute on lead, a local Economic Development Act, is wholly and solely because of the Village of Los Lunas. When we did the meta project, Project Kudo in 2015, the Village of Los Lunas kind of thought outside of the box. They recognized that this was a very big project and it was going to create a lot of gross receipts tax revenue simply because of the construction. So as part of that agreement with Meta, they agreed to share a portion of their gross receipts tax generated by the construction of that meta project back to the project. Meta took all that money, the $10 million from the state, the grocery tax generated by the construction that the village was putting in and gave it all back to the village for community bene�it. We expanded the wastewater treatment plant, we drilled a new well, we added some water and wastewater lines, and we put in a traf�ic light. the staff literally had to collect from the contractors and MENA helped him with this. Everybody's monthly grocery receipts tax report that they submitted to the state and then they had to sit down on their Excel spreadsheet and calculate, OK. This is how much they sent to the state, the state keeps that portion, the county gets this share. Here's how much we're going to see in about 45 to 60 days when this disbursement comes back to the village and then we agreed to share this percentage back to the project. It was a lot of work but well worth it. The state thought that this was a really a great out- of-the-box, thinking that we needed to put this in statute to take away some of those hard things on all the staff time, make, create a function within Taxation Revenue Department to do their share, but also to be able to share the state's portion. Know the grocery receipts tax back to big projects like this, so that's how this idea was born. And it really did come from the village and their out-of- the-box thinking. So how it how it now reads in statute, is that any project in excess of $350 million is eligible for what we call grocery seats tax share. Now that's construction cost it doesn't count equipment purchases, it doesn't count other items. It is just construction costs. The other portion that we had to put in there is that all taxing authorities have to agree to do this in order for it  to happen. We thought this was an important clause. So now the money goes back to the project, the company. Now we all we all know and hope that everybody's like meta and gives it all back to us so we can do community improvements, but it's not a requirement. So it's de�initely something that you can negotiate with the company when you're entering into this agreement. How that 50% is handled, but in theory the 50% goes to the company. So that's a good deal for the company. Why do we do this? Well, number one, it makes us competitive. And when we're dealing for projects this big, there's other states willing to do things and these types of things make it competitive. The thing I really like about this is that we're not giving any money up front. It's still a very huge bene�it to the public entities and I said if you have a great partner like we like we had with Project Kudo that we all know now is META and they give it all back to the community. I think we were talking it's $22 million Ish between the States 10 and the village share of their grocery receipts tax on this project that we put back into the Community because of that meta project. Councilman Romero was just wondering like for some of the like smaller construction projects, I mean is there any talk. Mr. Roper explained again, understand they have to be LEDA eligible company �irst and foremost. So there’s not any construction project, it’s a LEDA eligible company that is investing this amount of capital and that is going to provide long term full-time jobs. Council thanked Mr. Roper for his presentation. 2. RESOLUTION 26-01: VILLAGE OF LOS LUNAS OPEN MEETINGS AND 2026 COUNCIL MEETING DATES AND HOLIDAY SCHEDULE. Mr. Gregory D. Martin presented item two. Here to present the Open Meetings Resolution 26-01 and the 2026 council meeting dates and holiday schedule for the Village of Los Lunas - same resolution but the dates have changed. This presents the open meetings resolution as required by state law. Mayor Griego asked if there was anything else – there was none. Mayor Griego asked for a motion from Council. APPROVAL: Motion to approve resolution 26-01. MOVED: Councilman Runyon SECONDED: Councilman Munoz CARRIED: Motion passed on vote of: 4 (Councilman Romero – yes; Councilman Ortiz – yes; Councilman Runyon – yes; Councilman Munoz - yes) FOR AND 0 AGAINST. 3. EASEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE VILLAGE OF LOS LUNAS AND VERO NETWORKS. Mr. Luis Brown presented item three. As the IT director, I bring before you an easement agreement that has been requested and negotiated with Vero Networks to build essentially what we call a middle mile fiber network. This is not a network to provide service to residents or businesses within the village. They're building a loop to service the Albuquerque area, and they primarily concentrate on marketing to schools. So there is a chance in the future that they will want to expand and offer fiber to local, you know, schools and entities. And when that happens, there would be a need for a separate agreement, a license agreement as we did with EZ Fiber. In this case, they're offering in exchange for the easement agreement and to use village easements and some village property for their pathway, two strands of fiber for us to communicate between our admin building our fire station, 1 Nexus and Lift Station 12, which essentially goes back to the IT building on the east side. Councilman Ortiz asked which property this was. Luis replied, So it is crossing well six site to get to the street Camino rustica where they come around and go down Camelot to Main Street and then it then it's going to use our easement, our utility easement near Goldenrod St. on the east side. They're actually boring under the river, as we did with our water line and they're following that water line easement. Mayor Griego asked if there was anything else – there was none. Mayor Griego asked for a motion from Council. APPROVAL: Motion to approve easement agreement. MOVED: Councilman Romero SECONDED: Councilman Runyon CARRIED: Motion passed on vote of: 4 (Councilman Romero – yes; Councilman Ortiz – yes; Councilman Runyon – yes; Councilman Munoz - yes) FOR AND 0 AGAINST. 4. EXECUTIVE SESSION. Mayor Griego announced that the Council would be going into executive session pursuant to NMSA 1978 Section 10-15-1(H), the following matters may be discussed in a closed session: hiring of a Streets Maintenance Worker III; hiring of Laboratory Technician; and hiring of 2-PT Receation Aides. APPROVAL: Motion to approve MOVED: Councilman Ortiz SECONDED: Councilman Runyon CARRIED: Motion passed on a vote of 4 (Councilman Romero – yes; Councilman Ortiz – yes; Councilman Runyon – Yes; Councilman Munoz - yes) FOR AND 0 AGAINST. 6:27PM At 6:44PM, Mayor Griego asked for a motion from Council to reconvene after discussion: hiring of a Streets Maintenance Worker III; hiring of Laboratory Technician; and hiring of 2-PT Receation Aides. APPROVAL: Motion to approve. MOVED: Councilman Runyon SECONDED: Councilman Munoz  CARRIED: Motion passed on a vote of 4 (Councilman Romero – yes; Councilman Ortiz – yes; Councilman Runyon – Yes; Councilman Munoz - yes) FOR AND 0 AGAINST. Regarding the Street Maintenance Worker III – Mayor Griego recommended Alissa Lovato. APPROVAL: Motion to approve. MOVED: Councilman Romero SECONDED: Councilman Runyon CARRIED: Motion passed on a vote of 4 (Councilman Romero -yes; Councilman Ortiz – yes; Councilman Runyon – yes; Council Munoz - yes) FOR AND 0 AGAINST. Regarding the WWTP Lab Technician – Mayor Griego recommended Jacob Lovato. APPROVAL: Motion to approve. MOVED: Councilman Runyon SECONDED: Councilman Munoz CARRIED: Motion passed on a vote of 4 (Councilman Romero -yes; Councilman Ortiz – yes; Councilman Runyon – yes; Council Munoz - yes) FOR AND 0 AGAINST. Regarding the PT Recreation Aide – Mayor Griego recommended Jake Bush. APPROVAL: Motion to approve. MOVED: Councilman Ortiz SECONDED: Councilman Runyon CARRIED: Motion passed on a vote of 4 (Councilman Romero -yes; Councilman Ortiz – yes; Councilman Runyon – yes; Council Munoz - yes) FOR AND 0 AGAINST. Regarding the PT Recreation Aide – Mayor Griego recommended Dominique Lucero. APPROVAL: Motion to approve. MOVED: Councilman Ortiz SECONDED: Councilman Runyon CARRIED: Motion passed on a vote of 4 (Councilman Romero -yes; Councilman Ortiz – yes; Councilman Runyon – yes; Council Munoz - yes) FOR AND 0 AGAINST. 5. MINUTES. Mayor Griego asked if there were corrections to the Council minutes of October 23, 2025 – there were none. APPROVAL: Motion to approve. MOVED: Councilman Ortiz SECONDED: Councilman Runyon CARRIED: Motion passed on vote of 4 (Councilman Romero – yes; Councilman Ortiz – yes; Councilman Runyon – yes; Councilman Munoz - yes) FOR AND 0 AGAINST. 6. ADJOURNMENT. Council meeting adjourned at 6:46 PM. ____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ Gregory D. Martin, Village Administrator Charles Griego, Mayor