Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
The Clovis city commission will spend today deciding its top five priorities for potential capital outlay from the state.
The commission will meet at 5:15 p.m. for its regular meeting, with the annual Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan on the agenda.
The ICIP is a list submitted annually to the state to help legislators and the governor’s office determine where best to send any money the state may receive from oil and gas revenues.
Some of the ongoing projects that have received funding include the Ute Water pipeline regional project, the city’s effluent reuse system, street improvements (specifically Seventh Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard), a municipal airport fuel island and a new Clovis senior center.
The meeting will be preceded by a 4:45 p.m. executive session covering the acquisition or disposal of property.
Also on the agenda:
• A presentation regarding the animal shelter.
• Approval for the third annual “Boo in the Zoo” event. The zoo would be open 1 p.m.-5 p.m. on Oct. 28 with admission reduced to $1 per person. Last year’s event had 4,544 people. The zoo normally makes around $600 at the gate on Sundays.
• A request to waive dumping fees at the regional landfill from noon Oct. 12 to noon Oct. 15 in affiliation with the Oct. 13 Trek for Trash cleanup event. Residential customers may dump up to nine passenger vehicle tires per household.
• Street closures for a church block party 4 p.m.-8 p.m. Sunday on Gidding between Grand and Fourth and 7:30 p.m.-9 p.m. Oct. 6 on Main Street from the 900 block to Greene Acres Park. Both parties are requesting a waiver of the $150 street closure fee.
• A “Samaritan House Block Party” Oct. 13 at Seventh and Wallace streets. Organizers request usage of a city stage and two sets of bleachers, with a waiver of the $250 in fees.
n A request to waive ambulance standby fees for Clovis High home football games. The total charge would be $1,265, or $253 per game.
• A $606,871.84 contract with ENGIE Services for heating, ventilation and air conditioning replacement at Clovis City Hall. The city budgeted $497,725 for the work, and would take the remaining amount from cash reserves.
