Trustees to hear about consolidating police, fire dispatching

By Jim Maniaci
Cibola County Bureau

MILAN — Consolidating the many separate emergency departments' dispatching services will be one of the topics the Board of Trustees will hear at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Village Hall meeting room.

Citizens are invited to the meeting and to speak briefly to the trustees; however, the board cannot take action on a specific matter from a citizen unless it already is on the agenda for action.

The Cibola Regional Communications Center Committee will make the presentation about combining the village's police and fire radio services with those of the city of Grants and the county of Cibola, similar to what the city of Gallup and county of McKinley have done for many years with their police, fire, sheriff's and ambulance departments and companies.

Only a few action items are on the agenda, including a cash transfer from the general fund to the street fund. Old business carried over from the last month's meeting includes amending the traffic ordinance to include the latest changes from the New Mexico Legislature and reviewing bids for the swimming pool improvements.

Local attorney Bruce Boynton also will discuss the agenda does not list any action about extending a water line into Valle Verde Estates.

A presentation is scheduled by Edward L. Smith Sr., candidate for State Representative District 5.

In addition to awarding the employee of the month, trustees will be asked to accept the minutes of Aug. 25, the cash disbursements for August, the municipal court cash journal for August, and to hear Interim Manager Carlos Montoya's report, then trustees will give their comments.

Although an executive session is listed, no particular items are listed.

— To contact reporter Jim Maniaci, telephone (505) 285-6184 or (505) 870-7775 (cellular).