Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
Clovis City commissioners on Tuesday funded staffing for a new food program at the city’s Hillcrest Senior Life Center.
The action is in the wake of the New Mexico Agency on Aging’s termination of the existing contract with the Curry Resident Senior Meals Association for meal services in October.
With the city taking over the Hillcrest Senior Life Center’s meal program, effective Monday, the first action commissioners took was the funding and authorizing hiring of part-time drivers for home delivery meals from the Hillcrest Senior Life Center kitchen.
The agenda outlined home delivery drivers’ pay will be $15 per hour, and their hours of work will be 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. weekdays.
“As they are part time they will not receive other city benefits,” according to the agenda packet.
There is also a “request for proposal” in progress to hire a company to prepare and serve the meals in the center and to the homebound.
City Manager Justin Howalt told commissioners there has been talk with Oak View Group 360, the company overseeing operations at the Clovis Civic Center and Curry County Events Center, and the service that provides meals to the Curry County Adult Detention Center, Summit Food Service, about taking over the food service at the Hillcrest Senior Life Center.
Commissioners approved funding for kitchen staff for the Hillcrest center through the Snelling Staffing Solutions agency of Clovis.
Also on the agenda was a proposal for the installation of 22 solar powered streetlights in the southwest part of the city in commission District 3.
The project will cost approximately $310,000. Of that sum, $200,000 came from the 2024 New Mexico Legislature. The balance will come from city cash reserves.
Howalt told commissioners the streetlights will be the first in the city owned by the city.
All other streetlights are owned by either Xcel Energy or Farmers Electric Cooperative.
The matter passed 5-0. Commissioners George Jones, Gene Porter and Gail Tarson did not attend the meeting.
