LEPC

no quorum quorum achieved mid-mtg

• Forest Service Presentation

• Apache Canyon will be dealt with; USFS wants fuel to go to the public

• Corona: firewood largely won’t be available

• Fall/Winter Prescribed Burns

• possible closures heading to Capilla Peak/New Canyon

• Agenda approved

• Minutes June approved; 1 abstain (Brogowski)

• Minutes July approved; 1 abstain (Brogowski)

• No membership applications

• Update bylaws regarding non-profit status and create payment disbursement policy

• Event updates

• Estancia Watershed Discovery event from UNM

• Go Bags event 

• Agency updates 

• Youth conservation organization

• New people - introduction to LEPC; offer of training facilitation 

• Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCD) Presentation

• CPSWCD - Claunch-Pinto SWCD - Dee Tarr

• Result of dust bowl; state agency to work w federal Soil and Water Conservation Service; CPSWCD formed 1931; 

• soil and water plan approved by Interstate Streams Commission; applied for watershed protection money

• What are the limitations on use of money given to CPSWCD? Can it create or encourage water-wise businesses instead of water-intensive ones? Fire-wise vs. Fire-risk creation; Can it be used to provide improved comms between orgs?

• Work under a MOA

• since 2003

• Brought in $12 million for hazardous fuel reduction; wildfire clearing; and structure work; 

• working w Edgewood SWCD and Chilili on project; Hwy 337 to Hwy 55

• Wood will go to Chilili land grant from project

• Hwy 55 - CPSWCD, ETSWCD, NMDOT, and NMSWO - clearing fire hazard wood; wood will be given to the land grants; will go through land grants; Mountainair; Torrance County Line

• If there was ever a fire on the south end of the Manzano Mountains; the would not be able to stop that fire at I-40; that’s a lot of burnt acreage; 

• May 2024 presentation helpful

• request documents that provide a timeline of wildfires from USFS 

• Trigo Fire; Blue UNKNOWN fire; UNKNOWN fire

• 1.2 million to spend; correction 3 million to spend; 

• Could get FEMA mitigation money

• Can get us - incl Dispatch - “beautiful maps”

• presentation sign-ups - Dispatch could do a presentation on the history of wildfires and other disasters here in Torrance County 

• Rescue Task Force - cross-training for police and fire; i.e., active shooter training

• Would like to implement that here; (Estancia PD chief, I believe?)