Voting Record; City Council Meeting Jan. 4, 2010

EC-09-582 Contract for BioPark Sister Cities Rose Garden Sculpture
Motion: Approve
Voted: Against
Status: Failed

O-09-94
F/S Authorizing The Issuance and Sale of The City of Albuquerque, New Mexico Taxable Industrial Revenue Bond (SUMCO Phoenix Corporation Project) Series 2010 In The Maximum Principal Amount of $10,000,000 (O'Malley, by request)
Motion: Do Pass as Substituted
Voted: For
Status: Passed

R-09-359 Adjusting Fiscal Year 2009 Appropriation For Certain Funds In Program Strategies To Provide For Actual Expenditures and Adjusting Fiscal Year 2010 Appropriations (Harris, by request)
Motion: Do Pass
Voted: For
Status: Passed

R-09-362 Nuisance Abatement at 813 John St. SE (Benton, by request)
Motion: Do Pass
Voted: For
Status: Passed

R-09-364 Relating To Capital Projects; Creating A Mill Pond Road NW Development Project In The Transportation Infrastructure Tax Fund 340 (O'Malley)
Motion: Do Pass
Voted: For
Status: Passed

R-09-17 Creating A Neighborhood Traffic Management Policy Study Group To Examine Implementation Standards For Traffic Calming Measures Within Residential Neighborhoods (Jones, Benton)
Motion: Do Pass as Amended
Voted: For
Status: Passed

R-09-18 Extending a Moratorium Established In R-07-338 On Roadway Facility Projects and The Issuance of Building Permits For Significant Construction or Demolition Along 4th Street NW Between Marble Avenue and Solar Road and Extending The Applicability of The Interim Design Regulations Until April 5, 2010 or Until Final Consideration By The City Council of The North 4th Street Rank III Corridor Plan or The Lifting of This Moratorium By The City Council, Whichever Shall First Occur; Expanding The Moratorium To Prohibit The Approval of Zone Changes (O'Malley)
Motion: Do Pass
Voted: For
Status: Passed

R-09-19 F/S Establishing A Legislative Policy For The City of Albuquerque For The 2010 Legislative Session of The New Mexico Legislature (Sanchez)
Motion: Do Pass
Voted: For
Status: Passed

R-09-15 Authorizing The City of Albuquerque To Submit Proposals To The MidRegion Council of Governments For Consideration of Federal Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) Funding In The Proposed FY 2010 To FY 2015 Transportation Improvement Program For The Albuquerque Metropolitan Planning Area As Required By Council Bill No. O-07-89 (O'Malley, Cook)
Motion:Do Pass as Amended
Voted: For
Status: Passed

OC-10-1 Contract with Bruce Thompson for Legal Services
Motion: Approve
Voted: For
Status: Passed

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Transborder Press Conference and Fundraiser; Thurs, Jan. 7th

WHO: Families of feminicide victims and missing women of Albuquerque, NM, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua

WHAT: A joint press release to raise awareness around the issue of the widespread unsolved murders of women in Mexico and New Mexico

WHEN: Thursday, January 7^th, 2010:

4:00 p.m: PRESS CONFERENCE by families from Albuquerque and Ciudad Juárez

6:30 p.m: Two mothers from Ciudad Juárez will talk about their experience with grassroots organizing and their search for justice following the disappearance and murder of their daughters.

WHERE: The Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice, 202 Harvard SE; Albuquerque, 87106

FUNDRAISER AND PUBLIC PRESENTATION

Ms. Paula Flores Bonilla, Ciudad Juárez resident, will present on her community advocacy work in Juárez stemming from her daughter’s murder in 1998. She will share information about the Fundación María Sagrario's new projects: a community center, a library, and work with youth in the area, in the hopes that funds can be raised to support its ongoing work.

Ms. Irma Monrreal will discuss the verdict of her hearing before the InterAmerican Court in Santiago de Chile. Irma’s daughter Esmeralda Herrera was one of the victims of the cotton field murders in 2001.

In Santiago, three mothers from Juárez gave testimony about their daughters’ cases. Subsequently, the court ruled that Mexico was negligent in these feminicides.

Our Precious Angels of Albuquerque is an organization designed to provide emotional support for the families involved with the West Mesa murder victims. Another mission of the group is to assist in the search for other missing women in the Albuquerque area to locate family members of the missing women in order to provide emotional support to them.

This event has been organized by the Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice and Amigos de las Mujeres de Juarez of Las Cruces, NM.

For more information, please call Cecilia at (505) 268-9557