Curry Commission approves tax rate

The Curry County Commission held a special session Wednesday, the main purpose was the annual routine action to issue instructions to County Assessor Candace London on tax rates received by the county Sept. 1. from Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and state Finance and Administration Secretary Deborah Romero.

The action item was approved unanimously by the commissioners.

After the special session London said the imposition of the rates was very routine and the rates “were not anything that was unexpected.”

“The only thing that went up significantly was the City of Clovis imposing the additional 1 mill for the Ute Pipeline project,” London said.

In other business the workings of how the commissioners take action on a request to close a road was demonstrated over a request to close a one-mile stretch of CR 11 from CR R to CR S.

The request was in a letter from Doug Carpenter of Carpenter Farms to County Road superintendent Walon Jones.

Carpenter wrote “Carpenter is about the only one that uses this road.”

In his letter Carpenter continued, “The road is a safety hazard to the public.”

Carpenter said if the money is spent to make the road safe, in two years it will only be back in the same condition.

“The sand from the road will have harmed our crops and cost us dearly,” Carpenter wrote.

Once commissioners voted to take action, to look into closing the road, they then had to appoint a committee of freeholders, three viewers and two alternates, to look into closing or not closing the one mile stretch of road, reporting their findings to county commissioners.