Republican Billings casts lone vote against ‘divisive’ resolution - Commissioners vote to condemn Herrell move
In a 4-1 vote Thursday, Grant County commissioners adopted a resolution that “condemns the votes of [U.S.] Rep. Yvette Herrell objecting to the certification of the electoral votes of the State of Arizona and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” with the commission’s lone Republican member, Billy Billings, casting the single vote against the measure.
Most of Thursday’s livestreamed commission meeting was consumed by public comments. County Manager Charlene Webb and her executive assistant, Taysha Walter, read almost 100 comments into the record over a period of one and a half hours, and, with near-unanimity, public input strongly supported passage of the resolution to condemn Herrell’s actions.
Last week, Silver City and the New Mexico Office of Natural Resources Trustee announced an agreement that will provide $1.3 million to extend municipal sewer service to as many as 27 homes in the Indian Hills neighborhood currently served by individual septic systems. The approximately 3,900 lineal feet of new 8-inch sewer pipe will start where the Blackhawk Road sewer extension terminates a project also funded by settlement dollars along Cain Drive between Grandview Road and Blackhawk Road, then run east along Cain, stopping just short of Swan Street and also extending north up Arrowhead Road from Cain until just before Arrowhead takes a 90 degree turn. The town of Silver City will operate and maintain the system, which will also include a lift station to pump sewage to the existing gravity line along Cain just west of Grandview. ※We will waive the connection fee for one year” should residents choose to install at their own expense their own connecting sewer line, Si