
The meeting will open as an organizational meeting with the oath of office being administered to newly reelected mayor Benny Jasso and councilmen David Sanchez and Victor Cruz.
The councilors also will elect a mayor pro-tem, approve mayoral appointments to commissions, committees and boards, and approve a roster of city employees.
Agenda items include a resolution with the New Mexico Department of Transportation to provide Municipal Arterial Program funds for Florida Street drainage improvements, a Memorandum of Understanding with the Interstate Stream Commission to be the second fiscal agent for the New Mexico Central Arizona Project Entity, a quasi-judicial public hearing for a zone change on a five-acre parcel of land at the northwest corner of Eighth Street and Arrington Road, a subdivision request for the same location, and a proclamation for World Down Syndrome Day.
A discussion also is scheduled to consider an ordinance increasing the city councilors’ salaries.
And the councilors will meet in closed session to discuss the purchase, acquisition or disposal of real property in the Deming Industrial Park.
The meeting is set to begin at 6 p.m. Monday, March 12th, in the council chambers of the John Strand Municipal Building, 309 S. Gold Ave.
Excluding the closed session on real property, the meeting will be open to the public.