Clovis to examine ordinance on attendance

CLOVIS - Changes in the city's shared services cost agreement and the operating procedures of the Ethnic Affairs Committee are on tap for a Clovis city commission meeting Tuesday.

The 5:15 p.m. meeting at the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library includes an ordinance introduced to combat the lower committee's problem of low attendance that leads to meeting cancellations or no action because a quorum is not present.

Under the ordinance, the committee makeup would remain six members and one city commissioner appointed by the mayor. Changes include automatic chairmanship to the city commissioner on the committee and a clause that allows the city commission to remove any non-commissioner member for either three consecutive missed meetings or absences for 50 percent or more during any 12-month period.

The city-county agreement is also being considered at the Tuesday morning Curry County Commission meeting. The agreement still calls for the city to pay the county $130,000, but also requires the county to pay the city $35,000 a year, along with a one-time payment of $1 million.

The city will provide ambulance, fire, emergency management, pest control and library services to the county while the county will provide housing for detainees who are arrested for violating city ordinances at the Curry County Detention Center.

According to the agreement, the money paid by the county to the city will come from the county's environmental funds and then can only be used towards the Clovis Master Water Assurance Plan, while the city's payments to the county can only be used for the operation of the detention center.

In other business on Tuesday's agenda:

• The commission will present distinguished quarterly awards to Joel Gershon of the Clovis Fire Department and Ryan Oliver of the city's finance department.

• Recognition of Durwood Billington as the New Mexico Rural Water Association's wastewater plant operator of the year.

• A street closure and noise variance request 5 p.m.10 p.m. June 8, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. June 9 and 10 a.m.-9 p.m. June 10 on the 100 block of Davis Street and the block of Second Street between Edwards and Davis.

The request includes fee waivers for the street closures, three yard containers and 10 polycarts for about $800.

• An emergency budget transfer of $55,000 to replace a police unit that was totaled in a vehicle accident. The accident was not the fault of the officer, and the 2009 vehicle was totaled by the insurance company due to its age. The vehicle had about 75,000 and was not scheduled to leave the vehicle rotation for at least two more years.

• Appointment of Don Aragon to the Parks, Beautification and Recreation Committee and Randy Petty to the District 4 citizen position on the Public Works Committee.

• A pair of resolutions to condemn and authorize abatement of properties at 117 Lydia and 1121 Axtell.