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The Las Cruces City Council met in a work session Monday to discuss the city’s new police auditing contract as well as hear from the City Art Board.
Members of the police auditing group OIR introduced themselves to the Las Cruces City Council during Monday’s work session. The council approved a contract with the auditing company, which will report findings on a semi-annual basis, in February.
Councilor Gabe Vasquez says he hopes that OIR will identify complaint trends and develop a clear narrative so that action steps can be taken when necessary.
“In our previous relationship with our police auditor, the presentations to council, I would say left a little bit to be desired, in terms of identifying the trends of just the types of complaints and whether they were substantiated or unsubstantiated,” Vasquez said.
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The Las Cruces City Council is reviewing proposed code changes that would direct homes with septic tanks to connect to the city’s sewer system.
Hundreds of houses could be required to move onto the city sewer system if a proposed council ordinance is adopted. The Las Cruces City Council reviewed the ordinance, which would modify the current municipal code to include mandatory sewer hook-ups, during a work session Monday.
Interim Assistant Utilities Director Adrienne Widmer says the switch from septic tanks was proposed in order to prevent sewage contamination.
“The plan was developed to determine the potential of contamination from leached wastewater from septic tanks into our water supply,” Widmer said. “Based on that plan, nearly 2,000 parcels with septic tank locations were identified.”
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LAS CRUCES – The city will look to create a process by which unowned cats are trapped, sterilized and released back into the community as a means of reducing the flourishing local population of stray and feral felines.
While the overall goal will be to reduce the cat population over the next several years, supporters of the move see it as a more humane process than euthanasia.
On Monday, Las Cruces city councilors agreed during a work session to fast-track a resolution to start such a program rather than wait for it to be implemented as part of a larger overhaul of the city s animal control ordinance.
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Las Cruces City Councilors reviewed proposed ordinance revisions for the Animal Service Center of the Mesilla Valley during Monday’s work session.
Animal Service Center of the Mesilla Valley Executive Director Clint Thacker outlined proposed revisions to the current animal control ordinance, which would include eliminating the pet licensing requirement, in favor of relying on microchipping. Historically, licensing has been required to ensure animals receive the rabies vaccine, something Thacker says can be regulated differently.
“Now people are starting to question, ‘What do I get out of my license?’ The answer really is maybe another form of ID, is what we get out of it, because the actual rabies [shot] is still required by law,” Thacker said. “So, what we re stating is you can take and remove the license part out of it, have the microchip, the animal control officers will still be able to enforce not having a rabies [shot].”