(Editor’s Note: The following agendas should be considered draft agendas until 72 hours prior to the meetings.) 

  

Valencia Regional Emergency Communications Center finance subcommittee 

When: 10 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 15, 123 Don Pasqual NW, Los Lunas 

Agenda highlight: Fiscal year 2024 mid-year budget update 

 

Also on the agenda 

  • NENA staffing recommendation
  • Fiscal year 2025 preliminary budget

  

Valencia Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors 

When: 4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 15, at Whitfield Wildlife Conservation Area visitors’ center, 2424 N.M. 47 

Agenda highlight: Consideration of Dan Goodman Scholarship 

 

Also on the agenda 

  • Public comments
  • District staff monthly report
  • Updates from NMDA, MRGCD and Friends of Whitfield
  • Isleta Reach Stewardship Association update
  • VSWCD’s new membership to the MRG Endangered Species Collaborative Program
  • Pedestrian bridge updates
  • Land of Enchantment Legacy Fund update
  • Discussion of VSWCD district working committee board assignments
  • Consideration of January expenditures and beginning cash balance 
  • Review of three capital outlay appropriations AmeriCorps VISTA two pending applications, NM Youth Conservation Corps and EDA Building Economy Resiliency in the aftermath of the Big Hole fire 

  

Mountain icon Logo Business Template VectorRio Communities Planning and Zoning Commission 

When: 4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 15, in the council chambers, 360 Rio Communities Blvd., Rio Communities 

Agenda highlight: Consideration election of officers 

 

Also on the agenda 

  • Public comment
  • Consideration of the city’s Open Meeting Act resolution
  • Consideration of recommendation to city council request of zone change by Playa Vista Group for Commercial 2 zoning
  • Consideration of recommendation to city council request of zone change by Playa Vista Group for Business Manufacturing zoning
  • General commission discussion and future agenda items
  • Rio Holdings plat

  

Los Lunas Village Council special meeting 

When: 6 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 15, in the council chambers, 660 Main St., Los Lunas 

Agenda highlight: Zoning code update 

 

Also on the agenda 

  • Discussion of work completed to date, including project kickoff, meeting and work sessions and draft revisions
  • Discussion of notable code adjustments
  • General discussion

  

Bosque Farms Village Council 

When: 5:45 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 15, in the council chambers, 1455 W. Bosque Loop, Bosque Farms 

Agenda highlight: Clerk/administrator update on sewer spill 

 

Also on the agenda 

  • Executive session to discuss hiring a police officer and utilities director on administrative leave
  • Mayor and councilors report
  • Treasurer’s report
  • Non-agenda items
  • Consideration of annexations of 950 McNew Lane
  • Consideration of MOU with Pueblo of Isleta
  • Consideration of appointment to the personnel board
  • Consideration of appointment to the planning and zoning commission
  • Consideration of hiring a police officer
  • Consideration of emergency medical services MOU with Peralta

  

Belen City Council 

When: 6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 20, at city hall, 100 S. Main St., Belen 

Agenda highlight: Consideration of applying to the New Mexico Finance Department to amend Drinking Water State Revolving Loan Fund to increase the present grant amount for the replacement of the waterline in Aragon Road 

 

Also on the agenda 

  • Public comment
  • Consideration of memorandum of agreement with Art in the Park
  • City manager’s report
  • Communication from city council

  

Belen Historic Property Review Board 

When: 3 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 20, at the Belen Harvey House Museum, 104 N. First St. 

Agenda highlight: Consideration of amending Belen Harvey House National Register nomination to “national significance” 

 

Also on the agenda 

  • Introduction of new members
  • Election of interim officer(s)
  • Revision of application forms
  • Revision of BHPRB website
  • Certified local government/grant

  

Los Lunas Board of Education work session 

When: 3 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 20, at the Central Office Boardroom, 116 Luna Ave., Los Lunas 

Agenda highlight: Work session topics include a five-year master plan, PSFA rankings and boundary study 

  

UNM-Valencia Advisory Board 

When: 6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 20, in the Arts & Sciences Building, Room A101, 280 La Entrada Road, Tome 

Agenda highlight: Chancellor’s update on planning and development, and institutional effectiveness 

 

Also on the agenda 

  • Consideration of Open Meeting Resolution
  • Updates from Instruction, Enrollment Management and Student Success, and Business Operations departments
  • Updates from Faculty Assembly, Student Government and Staff Association

  

Valencia Association of Local Elected Officials 

When: 6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 20, at the Bosque Farms Village Hall Council chambers, 1455 Bosque Loop, Bosque Farms 

Agenda highlight: Katherine Roberts, author of “From Los Pinos to Bosque Farms 

  

Los Lunas Board of Education 

When: 6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 20, in the central office boardroom, 119 Luna Ave. SE, Los Lunas 

Agenda highlight: Presentation of Los Lunas Schools annual audit for fiscal year 2023 

 

Also on the agenda 

  • Public comment
  • Update on construction projects
  • Report on 2024 budget time line
  • Superintendent’s report
  • Consideration of Open Meetings Act resolution
  • Consideration of annual preventative maintenance plan
  • Consideration of NMSBA and LLS student achievement recognition award recipient
  • Consideration of finance committee items
  • Consideration of board member requests for topics for upcoming board work sessions and meetings
  • Board commendations

  

Peralta Planning and Zoning Commission

When: 6 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 20, at Peralta Town Hall, 90 A Molina  

Agenda highlight: Consideration of renewal for conditional use, Mitchell and Lindsay Cox, 4 Dove Court, elderly parents living in a recreational vehicle 

 

Also on the agenda 

  • Selection of planning and zoning chairperson and second chairperson

  

Valencia County Commission 

When: 5 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 21, at the county administrative building 444 Luna Ave. SE, Los Lunas 

Agenda highlight: Consideration of fiscal year 2023 audit 

 

Also on the agenda 

  • Public comment
  • Public hearing on a zone change request from rural residential to community commercial for future commercial development on the corner of Morris Road and Shawn Drive
  • Public hearing of a zone change request from planned development district to neighborhood commercial on the corner of Sutherland Boulevard and N.M. 47
  • Consideration of findings of fact, conclusions of law and decision for zone change 2022-131
  • Consideration of findings of fact, conclusions of law and decision for zone change 2023-21
  • Consideration of findings of fact, conclusions of law and decision for zone change 2023-27
  • Consideration of intergovernmental services agreement with the 13th Judicial District Court to provide court security for the Los Lunas and Belen magistrate courts
  • Consideration of memorandum of agreement with the city of Rio Communities for law enforcement services
  • Consideration of memorandum of agreement to provide for a bargaining unit member’s wages to be paid at an overtime rate when paid by an outside entity
  • Consideration of a ratification of an intergovernmental with the 13th Judicial District Attorney’s Office for overtime reimbursement to reduce the warrant backlog
  • Consideration of the El Rio Sol transmission line community benefits agreement
  • Executive session to discuss zone changes 2023-89 and 2023-94; request for proposals for a hospital, and Manzanita and Military well
  • Consideration of zone changes 2023-89 and 2023-94

   

Los Lunas Planning and Zoning Commission 

When: 6 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 21, at village hall, 660 Main St. SW, Los Lunas 

Agenda highlight: Public hearing and consideration of a conditional use permit for Jesus Zuniga at 773 Cinder Lane, Los Lunas, for the purpose of allowing motor vehicle sales, vehicle maintenance and repair 

  

Also on the agenda 

  • Commission updates
  • Community development activity report
  • Code enforcement issues

Los Lunas Village Council

When: 6 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 22, in the council chambers, 660 Main St., Los Lunas

Agenda highlight: Public hearing and consideration of revision to the personnel ordinance regarding collective bargaining

 

Also on the agenda
• Public input forum
• Consideration of destruction of public records, specifically IPRA requests
• Executive session to discuss hiring a truck driver/equipment operator for the streets department, and two street laborers

  

City of Belen Council workshop 

When: 1 p.m., Friday, Feb. 23, at city hall, 100 S. Main St., Belen 

Agenda highlight: Discussion of city priorities 

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