LEGAL NOTICE

REGULAR MEETING –August 14, 2025

The Grant County Board of Commissioners will convene in a Regular Meeting on Thursday, August 14, 2025, at 9:00 a.m.  The meeting will take place in the Commission Meeting Room at the Grant County Administration Center, 1400 Highway 180 East, Silver City, NM 88061.  The agenda for the Regular Meeting may be altered up to seventy-two (72) hours prior to the meeting; copies can be obtained from the County Manager's Office or viewed online at www.grantcountynm.gov.

 If you are an individual with a disability who is 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 E., Silver City, New Mexico or (575) 574-0000 at least one (1) week prior to the meeting or as soon as possible. 

 The meeting will be live-streamed on the County's Facebook Page ( https://www.facebook.com/GrantCountyNM ) and available later as a recording on the County's website at www.grantcountynm.gov.  

 

The tentative agenda is as follows:

 

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS - REGULAR MEETING

August 14, 2025

9:00 AM

 

AGENDA

I. Call to Order

II. Pledge of Allegiance and Salute to Flag

III. Approval of Regular Meeting Agenda

IV. 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 online and in the County Manager's Office.

V. Presentations

a. Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) - Sheriff Raul Villanueva

VI. Gila Regional Medical Center Reports (GRMC)- Robert Whitaker, CEO

b. August Report

VII. Elected Officials' Reports

VIII. Consent Agenda

c. - July 8, 2025, Board of Commissioners Work Session Minutes

- July 10, 2025, Board of Commissioners Regular Meeting Minutes

- July 24, 2025 Board of Commissioners 2nd Regular Meeting Minutes

d. Expenditure Report

e. Indigent Claims, including Indigent Burial for August 2025

IX. New Business

f. Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) application for funding

g. Advanced Communications quote for installing repeaters and antennas for the Cliff-Gila Volunteer Fire Department, totaling $69,375.56, to be funded by County Fire Funds under State of New Mexico contract # 10-00000-20-00066AN.

h. RFP 26-01 Disaster Recovery On-Call Contractor Award

X. Agreements

i. A-25-18 New Mexico Capital Outlay Grant Agreement, Capital Appropriation Project 2025-J2984 HB450

j. A-25-19 New Mexico Capital Outlay Grant Agreement, Capital Appropriation Project 2025-J2985 HB450

k. A-25-20 Cost of Care Agreement between Counties of Grant and Bernalillo, New Mexico pertaining to the Youth Services Center

XI. Resolutions

l. R-25-53 Resolution Authorizing the Expenditure of Funds under Existing On-Call NCA Architects for PAVFD Fire Station

XII. Commissioners' Reports

XIII. Executive Session per NMSA 1978 10-15-1, (H2) Limited Personnel Matters – Grant County Manager's Office 

XIV. Any Action Necessary as a Result of Closed Executive Session

XV. Adjournment

Chris M. Ponce, Commission Chairman

By: Mary Rae McDonald, Executive Assistant