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The
Dam Site Marina rests on a perfectly calm Elephant Butte Lake Wednesday
morning. The decrease in the water level hasn’t affected the marina this
summer as it has others on the lake because it enjoys much deeper waters.
The water was so crystal clear in the calm that one could see the bottom
shelf and its varying elevations.
Photo
by Bill Johnson |
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City
looking at cuts
to
correct shortfalls
By
Fred Mramor
of
the Desert Journal
Acting
City Manager Mark Huntzinger Monday evening reported to Truth or
Consequences city commissioners that the city’s opening cash balance of
$2.2 million will not support the city’s budgeted revenues and expenses
for fiscal year 2001/02.
“We
now have to find $850,000,” Huntzinger said.
“We’re
looking at ways to analyze it and provide recommendations for cuts so that
we’ll have adequate ending cash balances in the principal accounts
(general, joint utilities, the capital improvement general and the capital
improvement joint utilities funds),” Huntzinger said.
Huntzinger
proposed personnel cuts that he expects will save the city $200,000 this
year:
1.
Postpone hiring a city manager until Nov. 17.
2.
Not filling five newly authorized positions this year (Accountant I, three
persons to run the city’s recycling center, and a third class lineman in
the electric department).
3.
Not filling six positions that were recently vacated (part-time utilities
intern, two park laborers, two weed control workers and one
water/wastewater II).
4.
Not provide any grade promotions for 31 positions except those gained
through qualifications (additional job training or certification).
City
commissioners accepted Huntzinger’s recommendations leaving him to find
another $650,000 in cuts to bring city accounts up to desired balances.
Huntzinger
said he wishes to present further recommendations to the commissioners and
that he has identified about $190,000 that could be cut from planned
capital expenditures this year and will continue to look for other
cost-saving measures.
At
Commissioner Cookie Johnson’s request, Huntzinger said he will schedule
a special budget hearing when he has enough information to present to the
commissioners.
Commissioners
Johnson and Lois Reaver-Black commended the acting city manager for the
work he has been doing on the city’s budget.
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A
bed & breakfast business eventually will open at the Dam Site
Recreation Complex as part of a 1989 contract to restore the 1918 federal
building which was used as an administrative office by the Bureau of
Reclamation during the construction of Elephant Butte Dam.
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Feds
and state help Elephant Butte business
By
Carol Main
of
the Desert Journal
A
bed and breakfast business will soon open in a federal building on New
Mexico State Park land above the Dam Site Restaurant at the southeast
corner of Elephant Butte Lake.
Dam
Site Recreation Complex owner Donna Petty said her family bought a
contract to restore the building and operate a business in it in 1989.
The
building originally was built in 1918 as an administrative center for the
Bureau of Reclamation during the construction of Elephant Butte Dam.
Petty’s
entire copmplex, including this building, is on land leased from the State
Parks and Recreation Division and the state takes a percentage of all
revenues as a condition of the lease contract.
“The
state,” Petty said, “conducted studies on the best use for the
building and they determined a bed and breakfast was right before letting
us have the contract.”
“The
building is an historical one,” Petty said, “and had to be restored in
accordance with regulations set by the NM State Historical Preservation
Society, but the construction bids were let by the federal government, and
they accepted the lowest bid, so it has taken us several years to restore
it properly while satisfying all of the agencies.”
Petty
said the original lighting fixtures have been retained throughout, as well
as most of the hardwood flooring.
“We
only had to replace the flooring,” Petty said, “in what was originally
the BOR bank and payroll room.”
The
building now houses eight suites, a lobby and a conference lounge with
many telephone computer jacks and even has central air conditioning and
heat.
Petty
said the state inspector this week found 15 pages worth of small items
that need more work so she is “shooting for a mid spring opening.”
On
checking old pictures of the building at Geronimo Springs Museum, this
reporter found the outside of the building to look today exactly as it
looked in 1918.
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FALLING
LIKE DOMINOS – The Hot Springs High School Tigers and Tularosa Wildcats
fall as they attempt to bring down the ball carrier. The Wildcats won the
game 49-0 last Friday night in Tiger Stadium.
Photo by Bill Johnson |
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Police
arrest local man
who pulls knife on
boy
Staff
Report
Truth
or Consequences police arrested William “Coty” Kenyon, 18, of
Williamsburg, on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and
conspiracy after Kenyon allegedly pulled a knife on a local teenage boy on
Tuesday.
Another
criminal complaint, also filed Thursday in the Sierra County Magistrate
Court, includes a charge of possession of paraphernalia – a blue metal
pipe that smelled strongly of marijuana that was found on Kenyon during
his arrest at about 6 p.m. Wednesday at Ralph Edwards Park, according to
city police officer James Morgan’s statement of probable cause.
The
16-year-old victim reported he was on his way to the community computer
lab on West Fourth Avenue at about 3:30 p.m. when he reached West Third
and Library Lane. He said Kenyon and another male, not known to the
victim, ran up behind him startling him, according to Officer Morgan’s
affidavit for arrest warrant.
The
victim said Kenyon pulled a knife from his pocket and pointed the blade
towards him while threatening him and calling him a rat while Kenyon’s
friend trailed behind them. Kenyon put the knife in his pocket and pulled
it out for times and told the boy he was going to kick his ass.
At
this point a teacher, Sandra Johnson, pulled up. The victim said Kenyon
called her a bitch.
Johnson
told police she could tell the victim was upset although she couldn’t
see what was happening. She said she recognized Kenyon but not the other
man. When she asked in a whisper if the victim was alright, the victim
shook his head no.
Both
Kenyon and the other man left the area at that time and the victim told
the teacher that Kenyon had pulled a knife on him and threatened to beat
him up.
The
aggravated assault and conspiracy charges are fourth degree felonies.
The
magistrate court set no bond until Kenyon’s first appearance, which was
still pending as of presstime Thursday.
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Man threatens woman with car, then with gun
A
criminal complaint filed recently in the Sierra County Magistrate Court
accuses an Organ, NM man of threatening a woman with a motor vehicle
before pulling a handgun on her the night of Aug. 15 in downtown Truth or
Consequences.
Sgt. Ron Wrye of the T
or C Police Department said in the affidavit for arrest warrant on
Lawrence Franco, 47, that he was approached by Virginia Alvarez Dunn at
Broadway and Mims Street at 9:15 p.m. As she cried and shook, she
explained that her ex-daughter-in-law’s new boyfriend – Franco –
followed her into town from her church near Broadway and Mercury Street.
With the truck following
too closely or just inches behind her rear bumper, her first impression
was a reckless or drunk driver, according to the affidavit. The truck then
moved up on her left side and repeatedly swerved toward her vehicle,
causing her to swerve to the shoulder on the right side of the road. The
truck then sped up, passed her and once in front of her the driver kept
braking in an effort to get her to stop.
After that maneuver
failed, the truck then came up on her left side and again swerved toward
her. At that point she recognized the driver as being Larry Franco.
She told Sgt. Wrye that
Franco appeared very angry as he leaned all the way onto the passenger
side of his vehicle shouting profanities at her. While calling her names
and threatening to kill Dunn, Franco also allegedly held up a handgun and
ordered her to stop her car. With gun in hand he made a jerking motion as
if firing the gun, according to the affidavit. The gun threat occurred in
the area of the Veterans Center in the 900 block of South Broadway where
Franco suddenly turned his vehicle around and headed west.
Dunn told police that
earlier the same evening at about 8 p.m. she had an altercation with her
ex-daughter-in-law, Sheryl Alvarez, at Dunn’s residence on North Pine
Street.
Dunn told police she
believed the reason for Franco’s threats was the result of her reporting
the earlier incident with Alvarez to the police.
Sgt. Wrye filed the
complaint Aug. 22 in the Sierra County Magistrate Court. Two counts of
aggravated assault with deadly weapons – the truck and handgun, both
fourth degree felonies – were leveled against Franco.
Franco posted $10,000
cash surety bond and was released from the custody of the county jail.
Arraignment in magistrate court is pending.
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Stuck
Blazer results
in
arrests for auto theft
Sierra
County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested two people for auto theft and
related charges after the 1999 Chevrolet Blazer they were traveling in got
stuck on restricted Bureau of Reclamation land near the dirt dam at
Elephant Butte Lake last Saturday evening.
Criminal
complaints were filed Monday in the Sierra County Magistrate Court against
Brandon Lee Kincaid, 25, of Portola, CA, and Samantha Lee Dalfavero, 18,
of Sparks, NV.
Charges filed
against Kincaid include three counts of conspiracy, two counts each of
tampering with a motor vehicle and possession of stolen credit cards, and
a count each of receiving or transferring a stolen motor vehicle, criminal
trespass, fraudulent use of a credit card $300 or less, and possession of
stolen property over $250.
Charges leveled
against Dalfavero include three counts of conspiracy and a count each of
receiving or transferring a stolen motor vehicle, tampering with a motor
vehicle, criminal trespass, fraudulent use of a credit card and possession
of stolen property over $250.
The 11 counts
for Kincaid and eight counts for Dalfavero range from misdemeanors to
fourth degree felonies, punishable by a prison sentence not to exceed 18
months per conviction on each count.
Sheriff’s
Deputy James Coulter was dispatched to the dirt dam area at about 5:10
p.m. Aug. 25, and was advised by a state park ranger it was just outside
Elephant Butte Lake State Park.
Coulter found
the stuck four-wheel-drive Blazer behind a locked gate on Bureau of
Reclamation land where signs posted the fact that entry was prohibited,
according to the deputy’s statement of probable cause. Coulter also saw
two people in the area and when he asked them who drove Kincaid replied he
did, according to the statement. Also, the Blazer had damage including
numerous scratches on both sides, dented fenders and a flat tire.
During the
field inquiry, police learned from central dispatch that the car belonging
to Darlene Embrey had been stolen out of California.
Police then
arrested the pair on charges of possession of a stolen motor vehicle and
trespassing and took them to the Sheriff’s Office where they reportedly
told other deputies that they were stopping in Sierra County to visit some
of her family before continuing on to Houston, TX, to visit her
grandparents.
With only
pocket change and the use of credit cards to pay for the trip, both
suspects told deputies Dalfavero found a checkbook, having a balance more
than $250, in the Blazer, according to the deputy’s statement.
Kincaid
allegedly told deputies he discovered the credit cards in the vehicle and
admitted to using them for gas, oil and groceries on the trip, which took
them from their starting point in Reno, NV, to Sierra County, according to
the statement.
The only local
purchase on the credit card was for $9.55 in gasoline at the Texaco on
North Date Street, Deputy Coulter said under oath.
Kincaid was
arraigned in magistrate court Tuesday and Dalfavero was arraigned
Wednesday. Preliminary hearings for both defendants were set on a trailing
docket starting at 9 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, in the magistrate court.
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