ES-CA BOARD MEETING – APRIL 7, 2014
The ES-CA had its regularly scheduled board meeting on April 7, 2014. In attendance were the following directors: Bob Gorrell, Orin Safier, Chris Daul, Ed Majka, Tony Hull and Lynn Koch . Also attending were Scott Stevens and Dick Ulmer.
Ed Majka discussed what recent matters the Political/Legal Committee had considered at its last meeting.
• Congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham had requested to meet with the ES-CA Board and other community groups to discuss what issues were affecting Placitas. That meeting will be taking place in the near future.
• A Candidates’ forum will be held on September 20, 2014 at the Community Center. ES-CA will be inviting the candidates for State Representative, County Commissioner (District 1), County Assessor and County Sheriff to attend and address residents. More information will follow as we get closer to September.
• ES-CA is continuing to communicate with Fisher representatives to scale back their proposal for mining and future development on the site. Fisher representatives did say that they would discuss any new proposal with ES-CA, prior to submitting anything to the Town of Bernalillo.
Bob Gorrell reported on a meeting that he, Chris Daul, Ed Majka and Ed Macy had with Timothy Parker of NM DOT, concerning the I-25/US 550 Interchange. Bob reported on meeting with DOT on April 7. DOT agreed to have an outside traffic engineer review the issues raised in the ES-CA letter of March 26, 2014 to DOT. More specifically, the issues included the missing acceleration lane, signage, and general traffic patterns. DOT said that a report should be done within 60 days.
A new proposal was made to create an ES-CA Land Use Protection Trust. Bob Gorrell explained that, under ES-CA bylaws, a special trust could be created to accept and distribute monies for specific matters that are under the purview of ES-CA, such as zoning and land use. . The vote to approve was unanimous. Included in the resolution was a proposal to transfer $1,000.00 from the ES-CA general account to the new Trust. This motion was passed unanimously.
A General Meeting of ES-CA has been planned for August 2, 2014, at the Community Center. All ES-CA members are encouraged to attend. Additional information will follow.
The next meeting of the ES-CA Board is scheduled for Monday, May 5, 2014 at La Puerta Realty at 6:30 pm. The meeting is open to all ES-CA members and the public.