There will be a District Court hearing at 9 a.m. Aug. 4 addressing an ongoing dispute between Socorro County’s treasurer and board of commissioners about tax billing software.
At the Socorro City Council Meeting Monday night, Mayor Ravi Bhasker said the state’s attorney general’s office ruled that the customary “short-term salary adjustment” given to employees in November violated New Mexico’s constitutional anti-donation clause.
County Finance Director Michael Steininger said making the salary increase conditional on future services would put it in compliance with the state’s anti-donation clause.
A new billboard north of Socorro promotes the story of Elfego Baca, best remembered for surviving unscathed his single-handed standoff against an estimated 80 Texas cowboys in Catron County.
A woman in Polvadera reported at 11 p.m. that her brother had come home drunk and started to beat her. She said she did not know why he hit her and stated that he told her not to report it and that if she did, he would kill her. Officers noted physical evidence of her being battered.
The group of college students, one of three cross-country teams participating in the Journey of Hope, spent time in Socorro entertaining and educating local children on the various disabilities experienced by many Americans.
The commission Wednesday also postponed action on Baca’s proposal, which is for the county to purchase an upgrade to her current DataNow software, which runs on a 19-year-old MS-DOS system.
According to the civil complaint, Julia E. Gabaldon said Eileen Gabaldon’s death could have been avoided and was caused by negligence on the part of Socorro police officer Michael Gonzales and Sheriff’s deputies Michael Silva, Adrian Tapia and Steven Hall.
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