Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
During Thursday’s regular meeting the Clovis city commission unanimously adopted an ordinance for a project participation agreement between the city, Mid Frisian Dairy, LLC. and Freanna, LLC.
Freanna is acquiring surplus equipment the city has stored for years. The company, which purchased the Froze Fruit building, will repair and upgrade the equipment while increasing the company’s number of employees from 20 to 25.
Clovis Industrial Development Director Chase Gentry endorsed the effort in sharing particulars with the commission.
“We have been working with the folks from Freanna for a few months and they are very excited,” he said. “They bought the old Froze Fruit building, having put about $1 million into that facility. They’re excited about getting some of the surplus equipment to use in the facility as they expand. We feel it’s good use for the equipment, which has been in storage at the Parks Department for a few years.”
Gentry said it would be a three year contractual agreement in which Freanna, LLC. would pay $500 per year to the city then own the property in three years if it met contract requirements.
“I think this is a win-win situation for us,” said Mayor Pro Tem Juan Garza upon making the motion to approve the measure.
In other meeting actions, the commission approved action to submit an application for financial assistance to the New Mexico Water Trust Board in the amount of $2.8 million. Officials said the project type fall under Water Conservation or Treatment, Recycling and Reuse.
The project would include:
• Extend the effluent reuse pipeline from Yucca Junior High School at the intersection of Sycamore St. and 14th St. to Clovis High School at the interaction of Thornton St. and 21st St.
• Extend the pipeline to City Park, Parkview Elementary School, Bell Park, Marshall Junior High School, Green Acres Park, Robbie Pierce Complex, James Bickley Elementary School, Clovis High School, Dennis Chavez Park, Cameo Elementary School and Gattis Junior High School.
• Installation valves, hydrants, end user connection points and surfacing restoration for all of the above.
