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Mesilla trustees approve zoning cases, retroactive subdivision resolution and water‑tank design contracts
Summary
The Mesilla Board of Trustees approved two zoning cases and a retroactive resolution to document a prior denial, and amended the consent agenda to include two purchase requisitions for water‑tank and well design totaling $81,689.72.
Mesilla’s Board of Trustees approved two Planning and Zoning cases and a retroactive resolution at its Feb. 23 meeting and amended the consent agenda to add design contracts for the town’s water tank and well projects.
The board approved PZAKC case 062088For2872, which allows the placement of a temporary storage shed on a property in the historic residential zone. The motion was moved and seconded and the clerk recorded a roll call of four yes votes for the case. The board also approved case 062090, an application from the Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces to add two windows to a parish home in the historic commercial zone; trustees moved and seconded the motion and the chair declared the case approved.
Trustees considered resolution 2026‑06, which staff described as retroactive documentation of an alternate‑summary subdivision hearing from August 2025. Planning staff told the board the hearing record showed the subdivision request was denied but the required resolution documenting that outcome was not filed. They said the resolution does not change the outcome of the prior hearing; it provides the paperwork the applicant needs and the town’s code directs staff to send the applicant a letter within 10 days of approving the resolution. The board approved resolution 2026‑06 after a motion, with one abstention recorded.
During consent agenda processing the board amended the package to include two purchase requisitions for Southern Miller and Associates for design work on the RMC water tank and well: one requisition for $63,518.91 and a second for $18,170.81. The chair opened the motion, which was seconded and passed by roll call as part of the consent agenda approval.
The board also moved the agenda and minutes corrections: trustees requested the February 12 meeting minutes be updated to reflect the absence of Trustee Galan from that meeting. A separate resolution (2026‑05) was brought forward and motioned; the transcript records the motion and a roll-call request but does not include substantive debate about that resolution’s text.
The meeting then recessed into executive (closed) session under the statute cited in the public record for limited personnel matters related to the Marshals department; trustees returned to open session and reported no action resulted from the closed session.
What happens next: staff indicated required notifications to applicants will be sent after the retroactive resolution is filed, and the water‑system design contracts will proceed as part of the consent‑agenda approvals.
