Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Monday *City of Clovis Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee – 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Prior to the meeting, the board will meet at 4 p.m. Bob Spencer Field to tour that area and Hillcrest Park. Information: 575-763-9654 *City of Portales Planning and Zoning meeting – 5:30 p.m., Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Tuesday *Curry County Commission – 1:30 p.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Giddi...
The Portales City Council voted on Tuesday to place a regional behavioral health facility within the top five of the city’s Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan (ICIP) priorities for 2025 to 2029. City Manager Sarah Austin insisted that the project be one of their top priorities due to several other local commission and councils placing the project as a top priority in their own ICIP request. “That’s to be in collaboration with the other entities,” she said. “They are asking for that (the regional behavioral health fa...
Monday *Clovis Astronomy Club – 7 p.m., Room 101, Clovis Community College, 417 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Use west parking lot entrance. Information: 757-846-7509 Tuesday *Roosevelt County Commission - 9 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 Wednesday *Portales City Council special executive session – 4:30 p.m., Council Chambers, Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Thursday *Let’s Talk: Chat with the Portales City Manag...
Monday *Ribbon cutting – 10 a.m., new Portales City Hall, 1028 W. Community Way, Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Tuesday *Curry County Commission – 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry County Administration Complex, 417 Gidding St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-6016 *Portales City Council - 5:30 p.m., Council Chambers, Memorial Building, 200 E. 7th St., Portales. Information: 575-356-6662 Wednesday *Eastern Plains Council of Governments – 10 a.m., EPCOG office, 418 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-762-7714 *Frie...
CLOVIS -- The city of Clovis is seeking applications for one representative to serve on the Civil Aviation Board, the city announced in an email. The aviation board meets quarterly at 5:30 p.m. on the first Tuesday of that month at the North Annex, Clovis-Carver Library. It makes recommendations to the Clovis City Commission about expansions, improvements, facilities and policies governing the operation of the airport. Mor information and applications forms are available by contacting the Clovis City Manager's office at...
A gathering of representatives from five New Mexico counties came “closer to consensus” Wednesday on where to locate a 48-bed regional behavioral health facility but reached no decision, according to James Corbett, a principal with Initium Health, the Colorado “public benefit corporation” that is coordinating efforts to establish the mental health facility. A public benefit corporation is a “relatively new corporate designation” that “ allows benefit to be a charter purpose of an organization and differentiates it from a tra...
The Clovis City Commission voted on Thursday to make a regional behavioral health facility as their top priority for the city’s Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan (ICIP) for 2025-2029. The plan was put together and presented by Clovis Assistant City Manager Claire Burroughes. The push to make the behavioral health facility priority one was led by Commissioner Helen Casaus. The commission had agreed to place the project higher, removing the drainage improvements on Purdue and Cameo Street from the number one spot and m...
Clovis Assistant City Manager Claire Burroughes gathered city commissioners and Clovis residents on Monday to provide input on what projects they believed should be included in the city’s Infrastructure and Capital Improvement Plan. She said the goal of the meeting was to see what the public sees as needs for the city and to input that information into the list of ICIP projects or possibly rearrange items for higher priority before it is presented to the Clovis City Commission on Thursday. Burroughes said that Monday’s mee...
The City of Clovis Commission will be starting the fiscal year 2024 with a $67 million cash balance in the budget, which is $7 million more than what was predicted in the preliminary budget that was hosted in May, said City Finance Director LeighAnn Melancon told the Clovis City Commission Monday in a special meeting. At Monday’s meeting the City of Clovis Commission approved the 2023 fiscal year end financial report and fiscal year 2024’s final budget, as presented by Melancon. The final report for fiscal 2023 approved on Mo...
PORTALES -- As of Tuesday, conditions that brought about Portales’ Stage 3 Water Emergency had not changed, and may have been getting worse. That’s what John DeSha, the city’s public utilities director, told the city council at Tuesday’s regular council meeting. Despite cooperation from “99 out of 100” among city residents on conservation measures, he said, the city is still down 100 gallons per minute from the water emergency’s start in late June. “Until we can develop more production,” DeSha said, “the situation won’t chang...
Monday *Roosevelt County Commission special meeting - 11 a.m., Commission Room, Roosevelt County Courthouse, 109 W. First St., Portales. Information: 575-356-5307 *Clovis City Commission special meeting – 3 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-769-7828 *Clovis-Carver Library Board – 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: Margaret Hinchee at 575-769-7840 Wednesday *Clovis Community College Board of Trustees – 8 a.m.,...
A “significant transition” in agriculture was a key topic in discussions about Roosevelt County’s final annual budget during Thursday’s regular Roosevelt County Commission meeting. “The lack of water and with the struggles of water that we’re facing, we do not have the same agricultural elements within our county that we once did. We don’t have the farming. We don’t have the dry land farming, we don’t have the irrigated (farming). Our crop rotations have changed, it’s just have been a significant shift,” County Mana...
The Clovis City Commission will hold a special meeting at 3 p.m. Monday to decide whether to approve adoption of fiscal year end results and adoption of a final budget for fiscal year 2024. Fiscal year 2023 ended June 30. Fiscal year 2024 began July 1 and will end on June 30, 2024. The meeting will b held in the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Library....
The Clovis City Commission on Thursday heard from residents concerned about living conditions at the Lo Lomas Apartments. Two women who led the discussion brought along several residents who shared their experiences with the management of the apartments, saying they felt threatened and neglected. “Who are we as Clovis to leave them like this?” one of the women asked the commission. Conditions cited included elderly residents living with mold in their apartments and no air conditioning. The property is a 55-unit housing com...
Smarter, cheaper solutions to water problem Several weeks ago, I wrote a letter questioning the lack of common sense associated with the Eastern New Mexico Water Utility Authority’s quest to build a pipeline to Ute Lake. It pointed out that ENMWUA was planning to spend a minimum of $800 million to build the pipeline to a lake that could be dry in two years. It provided as an example the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority that supplies water to Amarillo and Lubbock. Although CRMWA historically relied on water from L...
One month after Clovis’ mayor accused him of lying about attending a taxpayer-funded training session in Santa Fe, Clovis City Commissioner David Bryant responded to the allegations early Saturday morning. “Yes,” Bryant wrote in a Facebook message to The News, “I attended” the seminar hosted June 5-7 by the New Mexico Municipal League. Bryant also suggested he is looking into legal action regarding the mayor’s accusation. “I’ve contacted legal with the City and outside legal as well on the matter,” he wrote in his statement....
On this date ... 1960: Babe Ruth League all-stars from Portales included Stan Lehman, Clois Jeffries, Johnny Hooper and Tinker Wood. The 15 boys selected were scheduled to participate in a district tournament late in the month. 1960: Portales’ Lester Bayless returned home after a lousy weekend to some good news. The bad news began on a Friday morning when he lost $100 in cash, somewhere between First Federal Savings and Loan and Compton’s Store for Men. Bayless hoped his fortunes might improve with a weekend fishing tri...
Buying a piece of property for use as a new space for Clovis’ animal control operations is on the agenda for Thursday’s regular Clovis City Commission meeting. The agenda calls for a “real estate purchase agreement for 516 Ash and 517 Hickory streets” between the city and Zia Holdings Corporation/Eastern New Mexico Rehabilitation. Commissioners meet at 5:15 p.m. in the North Annex of the Clovis-Carver Public Library. City Manager Justin Howalt makes the case for the acquisition in the notes in the city’s agenda packet, writin...
Monday *City of Clovis Parks, Recreation, and Beautification Committee – 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 Tuesday *Clovis Civil Aviation Board — 5:30 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main, Clovis. Information: Amanda Brungart at 575-763-9618 Wednesday *Clovis Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) — 1 p.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library. Information: 575-769-7828 *City of Clovis Finance Committee – 2 p.m., Clovis City Ha...
The Roosevelt County Commission expressed concern Tuesday morning about rumors that the county commission is not paying the city of Portales for services. Commissioner Tina Dixon brought up the rumors during Tuesday’s regular commission meeting as commissions came to a decision to approve providing the city a notice of detention billing requirements. Dixon did not identify who is making these claims, but insisted they need to be put to a stop. “There are comments being made that the county is not paying their bills to the...
Clovis City Commissioner David Bryant has responded to allegations he failed to attend a taxpayer-funded seminar in Santa Fe last month. “(Y)es,” he wrote in a Facebook message to reporter Grant McGee at 4:53 a.m. Saturday, “I attended, as another commissioner pointed out, and yes I’ve attended every session of the program over my attendance at two separate offerings.” Bryant did not immediately respond to questions about his statement as of 8:15 a.m. Saturday. We put our Sunday newspapers together on Friday nights so they ca...
When I was a much younger preacher, I was occasionally asked to offer an invocation, a prayer, at the opening of my hometown’s City Commission meetings. Once my part was done, I often stayed around for a while just as an interested citizen to see what was going on that might be interesting. On a few rare occasions, I found myself at a meeting where “condemnation hearings” were on the agenda, and they were indeed interesting. The city couldn’t condemn (and order torn down) s...
Monday *City of Clovis Water Policy Advisory Committee – 8:30 a.m., North Annex, Clovis-Carver Public Library, 701 N. Main St., Clovis. Information: 575-763-9654 *Portales Municipal Schools board - 6 p.m., Board Room, L.C. Cozzens Administrative Offices, 501 S. Abilene, Portales. Information: 575-356-7000 *Clovis Astronomy Club – 7 p.m., Room 101, Clovis Community College, 417 Schepps Blvd., Clovis. Use west parking lot entrance. Information: 757-846-7509 Tuesday *Curry County Commission – 9 a.m., Commission Chambers, Curry...
Clovis Mayor Mike Morris on Thursday once again called on City Commissioner David Bryant to resign amid allegations he failed to attend a training session the city paid for him to attend. Morris first made the allegation public on June 23 and promised to bring it up again the next time commissioners met, which was Thursday. Morris claims Bryant engaged in a “misuse of public funds” since he stayed in a hotel at city expense where the training was held. Bryant was absent from Thursday’s meeting. He offered no expla...
The nation celebrates freedom on Tuesday and Clovis-Portales will join in with fireworks displays starting at 9 p.m. in both communities. Clovis hosts its annual “Smoke on the Water” at Greene Acres Park. Activities begin at 11 a.m. with a basketball tournament, skateboarding contest, music and more until the light show begins at dark. “This year is probably going to be the biggest that Clovis has seen,” said Cari Kelly with Global One Media, sponsor of the event. “I’ve been talking with our fireworks shooter, and he’s pu...
