Meeting audio files are now available:

Audio files from the October 20, 2015 P&Z meeting and the October 21, 2015 Town Council meeting can be listened to/downloaded at the town website's agenda center. 

Listen to audio from recent town meetings:

Audio from the September 16, 2015 Town Council meeting is now available for listening/downloading at the town website. The re-hearing of the variance request for Marietta Court which took place at the September 22, 2015 P&Z meeting is available as well. I save copies which are stored offline to save space on Drive. 

Town Meeting Information

The September 15 public (re)hearing for several requested variances initially considered by P&Z on August 18, 2015 has been rescheduled to September 22, 2015.  The change was made in order to allow sufficient time for advertisement and notification of the hearing.

The agenda and packet for the September 9, 2015 Town Council meeting is available at the town website. I have placed a copy on Drive.  The numbers below refer to page numbers of the packet which is supplied as a single PDF:

1.    Agenda
2.    Draft Minutes Town Council August 5, 2015
9.    Draft Minutes Town Council August 19, 2015
17.  Draft Minutes Town Council August 22, 2015 (Special Meeting)
19.  Draft Minutes P&Z August 18, 2015
25.  Draft Minutes P&Z September 1, 2015
29.  Document from Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee concerning appointment of new members.
30.  Town of Edgewood proposed ordinance 2015-07 concerning an economic development project for a Comfort Inn; providing for infrastructure and associated costs.
33.  Project Participation Agreement pursuant to Ordinance 2015-07
43.  Section from the Personnel Ordinance 2003-5 regarding hiring procedures
44. Section from August 6, 2014 Council minutes regarding hiring procedures
45. Letter regarding the hiring of Ms. Rebecca Sanchez as town Secretary-Receptionist
46. Letter regarding a recommendation to hire Saul Urbina as a police officer.
47. Letter from Rick Lopez, Director of the Local Government Division of the State of New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration.  Note the cautionary paragraph near the end of the letter: "Due to estimated expenditures and transfers exceeding estimated revenue, the General Fund cash balance is being depleted. Careful monitoring and aggressive revenue collections is recommended to avoid financial problems in the future."

A preliminary Town Council Agenda for September 16, 2015 is also available with packet information to follow at a later date. A copy can be found on Drive. 

The audio from the September 1, 2015 P&Z meeting is now available for listening/downloading at the town website. 

Links to audio for recent town meetings

Tuesday August 18, 2015 P&Z regular meeting and public hearing for height, setback, and sign variances on Marietta Court. 

Wednesday August 19, 2015 Town Council meeting: Part 1 Part 2

Recent town meeting information:

Audio for the July 7, 2015 P&Z meeting is now available for listening to/downloading from the town website. Meeting packet information with an addendum as well as audio for the July 15, 2015 council meeting is also available. I am also storing copies of meeting audios offline to conserve space on Drive.

P&Z audio is available:

The audio from the March 17, 2015 meeting is now available for listening/downloading at the town website.  A copy will be archived offline. 

From the ToE Agenda Center:

Audio of the P&Z meeting of 03/03/2015 and the Council audio for 03/04/2015 are now available at the town website. I am storing copies of meeting audios offline to save space. 

A preliminary agenda for the March 17, 2015 P&Z meeting has been published.  A copy of the agenda is also available on Drive. The agenda posted should be considered to be provisional in nature and subject to change until the 72 hour deadline for publication of the final product. I will post links to the packet information, including the final agenda, as soon as it becomes available. 

From the Town of Edgewood Agenda Center:

The audio from the February 3, 2015 P&Z meeting is now available at the town website.  I keep copies of meeting audios but store them offline to conserve space.  In the event you find the link to the town website no longer works, please contact me for a copy of the MP3.

The town has plans to post the audio from the February 4, 2015 council meeting later this week.  I will edit this post to add a link as soon as the information is available. [ETA 02/12/2015: Link to council audio.]

In addition, the preliminary agenda for the February 18, 2015 council meeting has been published.  A copy is also available on Drive. 

Meeting Audios:

The attempt to record Tuesday's P&Z meeting was not successful; I will post a link to the minutes when they are made available.  The town clerk is out of the office until next week which means that Wednesday's Council meeting audio is not yet available.  I will post a link if/when it's provided. 

P&Z audio for 11/18/2014

The audio from last night's P&Z meeting is now available through the ToE website.  In response to a recent question:  I am archiving meeting audio files but am not putting them on Drive in order to save space.  I will keep back-ups available elsewhere in case the town archive goes away. 

Latest information from Edgewood P&Z:

The agenda for the November 18, 2014 commission meeting is now available at the ToE website.  A copy is also available on Drive.  The audio for the November 4, 2014 meeting can be listened to or downloaded from the website. 

Latest P&Z audio:

P&Z audio for April 15, 2014 is now available at the ToE website. This was a routine meeting, but I am posting the link because of the public comment section which begins at about 9 minutes and 38 seconds into the meeting.  Former commission chairman, John Bassett, provided the staff and commission photographs of the Sandia Airpark North subdivision in support of his contention that subdivision improvements agreements should be in place prior to the granting of a final subdivision plat.The photographs shown to the commission were taken in Edgewood at the Sandia Airpark North subdivision about 20 months ago. The appearance of the open trenches is essentially unchanged since that time. 

When the preliminary plat was approved in 2005, the town's policies on development review were still being formed. The commission had discussed optimal timing of subdivision improvement agreements with the town's attorney, David Henderson, prior to hearings on this matter. (See P& Z minutes for May 2, 2005.)  The preliminary plat was approved on October 17, 2005, and a conditional final plat was approved on February 20, 2006. A subdivision improvements agreement was approved on November 20, 2006 pending review of the town's attorney.  Sometime after the November 2006 decision, the applicant encountered problems securing funding. It appears that the conditions placed upon the final plat approval were never met, because the commission voted to extend the preliminary plat on September 10, 2007.  This was done after the Commission was informed that the applicant had secured funding for installation of infrastructure. The subdivision was granted a second final plat by the Town of Edgewood on April 7, 2008 after the commission was told that an agreement had been reached for installation of the required improvements. 

However, the work never progressed further than the digging of trenches for utilities before work stopped on the project. The open trenches remain to this day and are a potential liability to the town. The proposed changes to the subdivision ordinance would drop the requirement that execution of such agreements be undertaken prior to approval of the final plat.

I believe the history of this subdivision provides a useful illustration of problems which may arise from approval of a final plat prior to completion of the development agreement. The history of this subdivision also serves as an illustration of why it is unwise to place substantive conditions on final plat approvals.  (Photos provided by John Bassett)

These open trenches in Sandia Airpark North resulted after the town approved a final plat before securing an adequate subdivision improvements agreement.

A different view of the Sandia Airpark North subdivision in Edgewood which has been sitting idle for a number of years.

P&Z audio for 04/01/2014 is now available:

The meeting is posted in three parts:  The opening of the meeting which lasted approximately two minutes, the 38 minute public hearing, and the final section of the meeting which runs just under 12 minutes. 

Audio for last night's P&Z meeting is now available at the Town Website

Follow this link to listen to the February 18, 2014 Commission meeting which included a workshop on the ordinance revisions. The meeting lasted approximately 1 hour and 47 minutes. 

Audio for the Tuesday January 21, 2014 P&Z meeting has been posted at the new ToE website

A link to the audio appears on this page. A player is embedded onsite which permits listening to the files without installing an app or downloading. 

Audio from this week's Commission and Regular Council Meetings

2014 01 07 P&Z Regular Meeting MP3 (Contains an address to the Commission by Edgewood Mayor Brad Hill about master plans.)
2014 01 08 Regular Council Meeting MP3 (See the agenda and council packet for the list of topics covered and documents referred to at the meeting.)

This document gives general instructions for downloading the files to listen on your computer.  Several people tell me they have used the instructions successfully. If you have a Google account, are signed in, and have installed one of Google's audio player apps, you may also listen that way. If neither of those things work, please contact me via the e-mail address listed on the profile page.