By JORDAN ARCHUNDE Daily Press Intern The Silver City Town Council reviewed its nuisance ordinance at Tuesday night’s regular meeting, with an eye to correcting issues with the existing law. Much of the language in the revision is a restructuring of the existing law, but the proposal would also allow the Town Council itself to act as a hearing board for nuisance law violations, rather than just citing violators into …
Members of the Silver City Town Council made short work of an even shorter agenda, which after revision at the beginning of the session included only one action item the award of a bid to rehabilitate the second of three water storage tanks above Chloride Flats west of Silver City. The nearly $1 million bid, awarded to D&R Tank Company of Albuquerque, will fund work on the south tank …
Silver City councilors approved a notice of intent to adopt an ordinance that will formally remove the last of the town’s independent election laws from the books, replacing them with verbiage that conforms with the state’s 2018 Local Election Act, and also revisited the town’s mask mandate at their regular meeting Tuesday night. Silver City proudly ran its own elections until this year, when the departure of longtime Town Clerk …
Most of the leadership of Grant County’s local governments will look familiar following Tuesday’s consolidated local election, where voters also strongly endorsed school mill levies in both Grant County school districts. The Cobre Schools 2 mill levy won with 62 percent of the vote, 507 in favor and 307 against. The 70 percent of voters in favor of Silver Schools’ 1.5 mill levy made for an even more lopsided vote, …