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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Economic development was the star of the show during Monday’s Albuquerque City Council meeting, with most of the votes centering on large projects that sailed through without dissent.
“This is a great agenda,” Councilor Diane Gibson remarked at one point. “I wish we had agendas like this every single meeting.”
El Encanto better known to most of us as the tortilla-making, chile-processing Bueno Foods had two pieces of business on the agenda. The council approved both: $10 million in tax-exempt, city industrial revenue bonds and the city’s management of Bueno’s state-funded $500,000 Local Economic Development Act grant.
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• Transition some services from police to other agencies in a new Community Safety Department.
• And oversee a Fire Rescue department that seems to be functioning just fine, thank you.
If the Keller administration has a plan for how this would work and why it’s needed, it hasn’t done much to share that information. In fact it came as a surprise to some Albuquerque city councilors when they learned last week the city had posted a job description for the new position.
Council President Pat Davis hadn’t heard about the proposal – although he’s not necessarily opposed. “I think we need to do whatever it takes to get this train back on track. It’s got to be the right person who understands policing and won’t get cannibalized by APD’s culture.”