On the Sunday news program Eye on New Mexico, Michael Cadigan said that the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority will welcome public comment of issues facing the board. The board has control over local water projects in the City of Albuquerque and the County of Bernalillo. He said at present that the general voting public does not attend meetings. The board is made up of these members: Deanna A. Archuleta, Chair; Isaac Benton, Vice-Chair; Tim Cummins; Michael J. Cadigan; Albuquerque City Mayor Martin Chavez; Trudy Jones; Teresa Cordova; and Pablo R. Rael, “Ex-Officio.” Michael Cadigan pointed out in his interview that Mayor Chavez had not been attending meetings of the board. The website for the board is: http://www.abcwua.org/index.html. With water being a major issue here in the City of Albuquerque and the Southwest, I think it would be a good idea for voters to start attending these meetings and expressing their concerns about issues like the San Juan-Chama Drinking Water Project. The project made the news locally because of fungus found in bottled water given out free to the public. The board plans to pipe this water into Albuquerque homes starting this fall. Michael Cadigan said that the problem was in the bottling of the water and not in the process of how the water is treated. The Board has sent samples of the water to a lab for testing. Mayor Chavez is asking the state to prevent the water from being used until it is clear that the fungus was not a problem with the processing of the river water. Meetings for the board are open to the public and notice of these meetings must be provided to the public.
Board 2008 Schedule of Meetings January 17, 2008; February 27, 2008; March 19, 2008; April 16, 2008; May 21, 2008; June 18, 2008; August 20, 2008; September 17, 2008; October 15, 2008; November 19, 2008; December 17, 2008
Time and place: 5:00 pm in the Vincent E.Griego Chambers, basement of One Civic Plaza Government Center.
While I would be very interested in attending one of these meetings I already have a meeting at 6:00 pm on the third Thursday of each month and I don’t get out of my day job until 5:30 pm so unless the board decides to change the time and date of the meetings in the future; I just can not make the meetings. Maybe Michael Cadigan would like to contact the Democratic Party of Bernalillo County in the future to be a speaker about this issue. I get the feeling that it might be one that voters would find interesting.
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