County Government

County Council Approves Four Recreation Projects

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 10, 2017 - 4:50 pm

Lisa Shin, president of the PAC ‘A Better Way For LA’ makes her feelings known at Tuesday’s County Council meeting. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

Community members pack Council Chambers for Tuesday’s County Council meeting. Photo by Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com

 

By KIRSTEN LASKEY

Los Alamos Daily Post 

kirsten@ladailypost.com 

 

Council Chambers was packed with community members eager to share their opinion Tuesday evening about Council’s proposal to spend Capital Improvement Project (CIP) funds on several recreation Read More

Traffic Division Tests School Flashing Lights Aug. 15-16

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 10, 2017 - 4:42 pm

COUNTY News:

Los Alamos County Public Works Traffic Division staff will be testing the school zone flashing lights throughout the community Aug. 15-16, in preparation for the beginning of school, which starts Thursday, Aug. 17.

Direct questions or concerns to the Public Works Department at 505.662.8150 or email lacpw@lacnm.us. Read More

Letter To The Editor: Yes Leadership Takes Courage…

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 10, 2017 - 1:58 pm
By TERRY GOLDMAN
Los Alamos

It was a great pleasure to see Tony Fox insist that the Council recognize that voting against the rec bond is not identical with voting against the rec projects. One may be fiscally conservative and still be in favor of some quality of life improvements and infrastructure development.

And while Dr. Shin is indeed correct that quantification is not precise, it is certainly clear that everyone who voted for the bond is also in favor of the projects. Now if only one in 10 fiscal conservatives are nonetheless also in favor of at least some of the rec projects, a small fraction, Read More

During County Rodeo Access To Stable Area Limited

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 9, 2017 - 6:19 pm

LAPD News:

The Los Alamos Police Department would like to remind all vendors, participants, visitors and stable owners, that during the 2017 Los Alamos County Rodeo, access to the stable area is going to be restricted. 

To enter the stables or Brewer Arena, all pedestrians and vehicles must enter off of San Ildefonso Road only. As you travel closer to the arena, you will be guided to the appropriate location for parking.

Please be safe and enjoy the 2017 rodeo activities. Read More

Los Alamos Police Blotter: Aug. 3 To Aug. 8, 2017

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 9, 2017 - 5:41 pm

LAPD News:

The following information is provided by the Los Alamos Police Department. Neither arrests nor charges indicate a conviction, and neither means that a person is guilty of the charges against them.

ALEAH B. STAHL

Aug. 3 at 10:20 a.m. / Police arrested Aleah B. Stahl, 36, of Los Alamos at 2500 Trinity Dr., on an outstanding Magistrate Court warrant.

 

 

 

TREVOR RAY MARTIN

Aug. 3 at 3:43 p.m. / Police arrested Trevor Ray Martin, 21, of Albuquerque at 2500 Trinity Dr., and charged him with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia.

 

 

MONIQUE Read More

LAPD Bomb Squad Members Participate In Last Week’s Raven’s Challenge At Camp Pendleton

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 9, 2017 - 4:11 pm

A joint-agency team of Los Alamos Police Department Bomb Squad members Cmdr. Preston Ballew and Cpl. Sheldon Simpson and U.S. Army personnel begin an explosive ordnance disposal challenge during the 2017 Raven’s Challenge competition Aug. 3 at Camp Pendleton in California. Courtesy/DoD by EJ Hersom

Los Alamos Police Deparment Bomb Squad Cmdr. Preston Ballew carries a munitions box during last week’s Raven’s Challenge at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Courtesy DoD by EJ Hersom

Los Alamos Police Cpl. Sheldon Simpson, left, and U.S. Army Sgt. Thomas Fentiman assemble a device Read More

Letter To The Editor: Three Ideas, Two Concerns On Rec Projects

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 8, 2017 - 10:23 pm
By LISA BRENNER
Los Alamos

Dear County Councilors,

 

With the upcoming discussion tonight of the continued want for recreational projects in Los Alamos I have three suggestions:
 
1)  Any LANL contract could incorporate an item from the bidder toward community development. LANL is just as interested in attracting the best and the brightest and, if it’s true that adding recreational facilities will accomplish this, then it’s appropriate for them to have some skin in the game.  It is not a “punishment” as I’ve heard a Councilor say, but
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Los Alamos Historic Preservation Advisory Board Accepting Applications For Board Vacancy

Submitted by Kirsten Laskey (ladp admin) on August 8, 2017 - 9:57 pm

HPAB News:

The Los Alamos Historic Preservation Advisory Board (HPAB) is accepting applications for one vacancy on the Board. Applicants must be Los Alamos residents. HPAB terms are for three years.

The next 36 months will be an exciting time as the Historic Preservation Advisory Board develops the Fuller Lodge Interpretive Plan. In addition, the Board will review the Historic Preservation Ordinance and Historic designations.

Previously known as the Fuller Lodge Historic Districts Advisory Board, the Board was successful in advising the capital improvement projects division on the Read More

Councilors Set To Host Booth At Saturday’s Fair

Submitted by Kirsten Laskey (ladp admin) on August 8, 2017 - 9:50 pm

​COUNTY News: 

The Los Alamos County Council will host a booth during the County Fair Saturday at Ashley Pond Park.

The booth will open after the parade ends at approximately 10:45 a.m., and residents are invited to stop by and chat until 2 p.m. with Councilors about any comments, concerns or questions.

Staff from the Community Development Department will be on hand to answer questions and to demonstrate their new Citizen Portal software, and there will be information on the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, the citizen/business/organization-based Discoveries Action Team, Read More

Letter To The Editor: About That Rec Bond Issue

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 8, 2017 - 2:29 pm
By DELIA CRUZ-MURPHY
Los Alamos

As a parent, I have already lived through not having a: splash pad, a rec pool, or improvements to the ice rink. When it comes down to it you get creative with things to do with your kid(s) when living in Los Alamos. There are plenty of things you can do, take them to: one of the many great parks in Los Alamos, go to the Reservoir, go hiking in the Jemez, go hiking around town as we have some really great trails, take them to the Genoveva Chavez Community Center in Santa Fe, take them to the Kids Museum in Santa Fe, try the rock wall at the YMCA, or the Rock wall in Santa Fe.

I have seen Read More

Letter To The Editor: Election Results Matter

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 8, 2017 - 2:28 pm
By KHALIL SPENCER
Los Alamos
 
I’m a little surprised that Megan Fox thinks the 47 percent to 53 percent vote against the Rec. bond was not really a defeat (link). Six percentage points matter. To put it in perspective, Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in the NM popular vote 48 percent to 40 percent. By Ms. Fox’s logic, it would be “a little bit of a stretch” to say that Ms. Clinton won NM’s electoral votes.
 
As far as the Rec Bond, it was defeated, period. What that means is no bond issue for these projects, a narrow question. Whether Council considers
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Letter To The Editor: No Means No

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 8, 2017 - 2:01 pm
By GRAHAM MARK
Los Alamos
 
Dear Council,
 
Please do not continue planning or funding county projects that were voted down in the last election. Incredibly, the “No” vote is being re-interpreted by believers in alternative facts to mean “OK.” Funding was one issue in that election, and financing seems the only issue being considered today, as if that’s all that matters. But there are other things in life than money—for example, representative democracy.
 
You, the council, should not get to override the voting population. The county as a whole spoke last fall. It is dishonest
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Letter To The Editor: Follow Up On Rec Projects Issue

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 8, 2017 - 1:41 pm
By ROBERT PELAK
Los Alamos
 
In recent letters to the Los Alamos Daily Post, Joyce Anderson, Stephanie Nakhleh and Megan Fox have each suggested that a subset of the recreation bond projects should be undertaken despite the rejection by the public of the bond needed to finance them. They each offer slightly different interpretations on the meaning of the “no” vote. Did it mean that people only wanted one or some but not all of the projects? Did they want none of the projects because of the increase in future maintenance costs? Did they just not want to finance the projects with a
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Letter To The Editor: Timing Of Proposal Divisive

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 8, 2017 - 1:30 pm
By ELLEN WALTON
Los Alamos

 

The recent defeated recreation bond issue and subsequent proposal by Councilors O’Leary and Chrobocinski to go ahead with some of the projects in that bond has become unnecessarily divisive. It is impossible for anyone to interpret exactly what that bond election said about the voters’ view on each project. The outcome of the vote on the ballot issue presented to us said that we reject a tax increase to fund a large group of recreation projects.

 

We also know that the bond issue for the proposed leisure pool or now alternatively named multi-generational Read More

DWI Planning Council To Meet Thursday

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 8, 2017 - 12:33 pm

COUNTY News: 

The next Los Alamos County DWI Planning Council Meeting is at 8:30 a.m. Thursday in Room 110 at the Los Alamos County Municipal Building at 1000 Central Ave. 

The meeting is open to the public.

Agenda:
 
I. Call to Order
 
II. Public Comment
 
III. Introductions
 
IV. Business

a. District Attorney Marco Serna visit

b. Summer Concert Safe Ride Report

c. Remaining Summer Concerts – sign up!

V. Approval of minutes from previous meeting: 6/8/17
 
VI. Coordinator’s Report

a. FY17 Q4 Distribution Report

b. FY18 Distribution & Grant Budget Review Read More

Chapman: Quick Notes On The Sheriff/Police Question

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 8, 2017 - 12:30 pm
By Ralph E. Chapman
Bon Vivant Paleontologist

Things have become amazingly convoluted in the letters to The Daily Post with all the odd twists and turns related to the question of what the Sheriff’s duties should be, if anything. I will not wade heavily into this area but have some observations.

For a time when I lived back East, a nearby County had both professional and volunteer fire departments whose coverage would, at times, apparently overlap. What a surprise that they often did not get along and, sometimes, would both show up at a fire scene. In the confusion, they would argue vehemently over Read More

Letter To The Editor: Responsible Local Government Listens To Their Voters

Submitted by Carol A. Clark on August 7, 2017 - 8:26 pm
By MEGAN FOX
Los Alamos

I’d like to weigh in from the “other side” on this Rec Bond topic.

To say the Rec Bond was “defeated” last year is a bit of a stretch. It was nearly a tie, 47 percent of those who voted were in favor of proceeding with all Rec Bond projects and the associated costs, and 53 percent of those who voted were opposed, for a variety of reasons. Many of those who opposed were in favor of improving or building some of the proposed Rec Bond projects, but were opposed to the huge bundle of all the projects together.

Some voters who voted against the Rec Bond were in favor of all the projects, but didn’t

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