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Votes at a glance: Key Colfax County decisions Jan. 14, 2025
Summary
The Colfax County Board of County Commissioners conducted a range of votes on Jan. 14, adopting several resolutions, approving a tower permit with conditions and declining to pursue a low-income property tax rebate.
The Colfax County Board of County Commissioners conducted a range of votes on Jan. 14. Below is a concise summary of formal actions recorded in the meeting transcript.
Votes at a glance
- Approve expenditures (agenda item 9): approved by roll call.
- Resolution 2025-01 (Open Meetings Act notice rules): adopted by roll call.
- Resolution 2025-02 (Adopt state procurement code): adopted by roll call.
- Resolution 2025-03 (Liquor license fee for 2025): adopted by roll call; fee set at $2.50 per license (collected by county clerk).
- Resolution 2025-04 (Working hours for county employees for 2025): adopted by roll call; schedule and department variants were approved.
- Resolution 2025-05 (Fee schedule for Colfax County): consideration was postponed to the next meeting to correct items and add wireless-tower fees.
- Wireless tower application, Eagle Tail Mesa (agenda item 12): approved with requirement that the applicant install perimeter fencing and maintain bond/insurance; motion carried by roll call.
- Driving-While-Intoxicated (DWI) GRAMA agreement amendment (item 13): approval granted to accept additional $40,000 for the DWI program.
- BMDC request to move per diem to training (item 14): commission authorized the warden to overdraw the training line item and later reconcile by budget adjustment.
- Hiring and personnel items: Hiring of a new E911 coordinator/indigent clerk (item 15) was discussed; commissioners postponed vote pending further review. Treasurer salary adjustments (item 17) were postponed for additional information.
- Property tax rebate resolution (item 16, NMSA 7-2-14.3): commission moved to not approve publication of notice or to pursue adoption of the ordinance at this time; motion carried.
- Multiple appointments to regional boards and committees (items 26–31): commissioners appointed voting members and alternates to regional transportation, insurance pool, North Central Economic Development District, workers’ compensation board and other regional bodies; motions carried by roll call.
- County attorney contract review and evaluation (item 34): commissioners voted to postpone action and seek further documentation and a second legal opinion before any change to the county attorney contract.
- Manager evaluation and personnel action: following closed-session review, the commission authorized hiring outside counsel (not to exceed $5,000) to review the county manager's contract and directed that use of the county attorney for manager-related matters be cleared through the chair or commissioner Trujillo due to budget considerations.
Several items were struck from the agenda or postponed due to Open Meetings Act concerns; commissioners emphasized the need to follow publication and notice requirements going forward.
