LEGAL NOTICE
Regular Meeting – January 11, 2018

The Grant County Board of Commissioners will convene in a Regular Meeting on Thursday, January 11, 2018, at 9:00 a.m. The meeting will take place in the Commission Meeting Room at the Grant County Administration Center located at 1400 Highway 180 East, Silver City, NM 88061. The agenda for this meeting may be altered up to thirty-six (36) hours prior to the meeting; copies can be obtained from the County Manager’s Office or viewed online at www.grantcountynm.com. If you are an individual with a disability in need of a reader, amplifier, qualified sign language interpreter or any other form of auxiliary aide or service to attend or participate in the hearing or meeting, please contact the Grant County Manager at 1400 Highway 180 East, Silver City, New Mexico at least one (1) week prior to the meeting or as soon as possible. The tentative agenda is as follows:

I. Call to Order
II. Pledge of Allegiance & Salute to State Flag
III. Approval of Regular Meeting Agenda
IV. Election and Approval of 2018 Chairperson and Vice Chairperson
V. Gila Regional Medical Center Reports – Taffy Arias
VI. Public Input
• During this portion of our meeting, we welcome your suggestions and want to hear your concerns. This is not a question and answer period; speakers will be limited to five (5) minutes. Any individual who would like to discuss an item in more depth may request to be placed on a future agenda. Request forms are available in the County Manager’s Office.
VII. Minutes
a. Approve/Disapprove December 19, 2017, Work Session Meeting Minutes
b. Approve/Disapprove December 21, 2017, Regular Meeting Minutes
VIII. Financial Reports
c. Approve/Disapprove January 4, 2018, Expenditure Report
IX. New Business
d. High Desert Humane Society Annual Report – Heidi Ogas
e. Value Tracking Generating Tax Revenue Presentation for Grant County – Raul Turrieta
f. Approve/Disapprove 2018 Committee Assignments
g. Approve/Disapprove County Manager Entering an Agreement for Professional Legal Services with Drinker Biddle and Reath, LLP - Verbal
h. Approve/Disapprove the 2018 Volunteer Fire and Rescue Annual Elections of Officers (Consent Agenda):
1. Cliff/Gila
2. Fort Bayard
3. Lower Mimbres
4. Pinos Altos
5. Santa Rita
6. Sapillo
7. Tyrone
8. Upper Mimbres
9. Whiskey Creek
i. Approve/Disapprove the Annual Service Report and EMS Fund Act Local Funding Program Application for Fiscal Year 2018 (Consent Agenda Item):
1. Gila Regional
2. Gila Valley
3. Pinos Altos
4. Tyrone White Signal District 1
5. Tyrone Flying A and Wind Canyon District 2
6. Tyrone Hachita District 3
7. Whiskey Creek
X. Resolutions
j. Approve/Disapprove Revised Resolution No. R-17-58; Statement of Vacation of Turnerville Subdivision Plat
k. Approve/Disapprove Resolution No. R-18-01; Open Meetings Act for 2018
l. Approve/Disapprove Resolution R-18-02; A Resolution Approving Two Grant County Airport Ground Lease Agreements
XI. Bids and Requests for Proposals (RFP)
m. Approve/Disapprove RFP 18-02; Mine Aggregate Pit for Grant County
XII. Recess as the Grant County Board of Commissioners and Convene as the Grant County Health Care Claims Board
n. Approve/Disapprove December 2017, Health Plan Claims (Indigent Fund) in the amount of $13,944.77
XIII. Adjourn as the Grant County Health Care Claims Board and Reconvene as the Grant County Board of Commissioners
XIV. Elected Officials’ Reports
XV. Commissioners’ Reports
XVI. Adjournment
Brett Kasten, Commission Chairman
By: (s) Bernadette L. Coleman, Executive Assistant