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Wednesday, July 1, 2009 Peralta planning for new town hall, renovation in the worksPeralta The Town of Peralta may have a new town hall in as little as three months if everything goes as planned. The site of the new Peralta Town Hall, located at 90-A Molina Road in Peralta, could be ready for its first council meeting as soon as October. Construction manager Chico Orona presented an update on the plans and showed a proposed draft of the interior of the building at a council meeting last week. The building is currently vacant. No reconstruction or additions will be made to the space, but Peralta Mayor Bryan Olguin said there renovations would be required. The proposed draft of the new building includes a mayor's office, computer room, courtroom foyer, council chambers and courtroom, conference room, administrative room, judge's room and court staffing room. Orona said the hall will have an occupancy load of 98 people and he hopes to use the existing heating and cooling system to be more economic with the budgeted amount Peralta has for the project. Mayor Olguin said the town purchased the new town hall property for $265,000, which they received from a $415,000 legislative appropriation. Olguin said the renovation of the building will cost anywhere from $140,000 to $160,000. The council passed the planning stage of the project, and the next step is a workshop to discuss the renovations, which occurred on Tuesday night. Once the council approves the proposed draft for the renovations, the construction plans will be sent to the Construction Industries Division of New Mexico where the CID will check everything from heating and cooling to electrical. When the CID approves the plans, Orona said, the council will put the project out for a bid followed by the start of the construction process, which may take anywhere from 60 to 100 days to complete. "I think it's a great design. It's a well thought out plan. We're utilizing what we have in there (the building)," Olguin said. In other action, the council:
Anderson said that there are chronic traffic offenders in the area that speed through Peralta roads at high spends. Potential solutions sited were increased police presence, lowering speed limits, increasing the amount of stop signs, making certain roads "safety corridors" and the last resort, creating speed bumps. Anderson said a lot of crime could be solved if everyone just got to know and communicated with his or her neighbors on a regular basis. One woman in the audience recommended that the town of Peralta create a Twitter page, which is an online networking site. She said creating a Web page such Twitter is inexpensive and would be able to notify the community almost instantly if any suspicious activity was occurring in the area. "I think there is a crime issue in this area," she said. "It'd be really wrong of us to say this is not an issue. There is a lot of free technology that people know how to use where you can get information quickly."
The resolution would require that all meeting's minutes and any records pertaining to the development of Peralta never be destroyed and are archived.
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