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Anthony trustees conditionally appoint Mullins as police trainee at $18.50 an hour
Summary
After an executive session on personnel, the Board reconvened and approved a conditional appointment of Mullins as a Non‑Certified Police Officer Trainee at $18.50 per hour, contingent on background checks, onboarding and academy certification by waiver; minutes record the motion as passing (3-0).
The Anthony Board of Trustees approved the conditional selection and appointment of Mullins as a Non‑Certified Police Officer Trainee, with a starting wage of $18.50 per hour, the minutes show.
The action followed a closed executive session conducted under the New Mexico Open Meetings Act (NMSA 1978 Section 10-15-1(H)(2)) to discuss limited personnel matters related to the selection and hiring of the candidate. The board reconvened in open session at 7:25 p.m., and the mayor stated for the record that no action had been taken during the executive session. After returning to open session, trustees moved to acknowledge and approve the conditional appointment; the motion was recorded as passing by roll call (3-0) but the minutes do not map individual yes/no votes to specific trustees.
The appointment is expressly conditional: it requires adoption and implementation of a provisional Non‑Certified Police Officer Trainee job description and classification, completion of all onboarding requirements, a background investigation, academy certification by waiver, and any other applicable employment requirements. The minutes state that, upon successful certification, compensation would transition to the approved Police Officer starting pay rate. The minutes do not specify a start date.
The minutes contain an internal inconsistency in the appointee’s given name: the executive session notice and the appointment text refer to the individual as Miguel Mullins in one place and as Gage Mullins in another. The minutes do not resolve which given name is correct; this article therefore references the appointee by surname only to avoid misidentification.
