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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 Mesa Road pathway extended, several Belen streets to be pavedBelen Roads and pathways were on the minds of the Belen City Council Monday as members approved construction proposals. The walking path along Mesa Road will be expanded to run from Reinken to north of Aragon Road and along Camino Del Llano to Morningside. A contract for $571,843 was awarded to Mountain State Constructors of Albuquerque. The work will include a trail, benches, lighting and street improvements. Councilor Terese Ulivarri asked if light poles could be set back a little farther from the street than the already completed portion of the road. "I can see the poles being hit," she said. She also noted that the trail might be moved a little farther from the traffic, too, for the safety of pedestrians. "I don't like walking close to the street, especially when it rains. You get splashed," she said. City Manager Sally Garley said she would look into that possibility. Meanwhile, the council learned that the state and city will spend $160,000 to pave or repave several streets including Michigan, Mesita, Ross from Main to 10th, 11th and Seventh from Bernard to Dillon and Court Street. Meanwhile, the council also approved amendments to its personnel ordinance for personnel, safety and loss policies and procedures. The new amendments would:
The council heard from Mary Feldblum, executive director of the Health Security for New Mexicans Campaign, about legislation the group is supporting that would create a New Mexico Health Care Plan. That act, which will be introduced again in 2007, would set up a health insurance plan that would cover almost all New Mexicans except federal retirees, active-duty and retired military and a few others. "It's still a work in progress," Feldblum said, as she asked the council for its support of the concept. Implementation of the plan would take three years during which the cost of the plan, individual premiums and employer contributions and other factors would be discussed in the first year. After the legislature and governor approved the financing, the second and third year would include development of the plan and a timetable for when it would go into affect. She predicted it would "stabilize health care cost." The plan would be run by a commission on which no elected official or cabinet member would sit. "It would become, I think, a model for other states," Feldblum said. In other action, the council:
The event has been termed Belen Cares and Sherry said the league hopes that name can be used in future fund-raisers in the city.
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