A2 Friday, August 1, 2014 Jones wins Poultry Broiler competition
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Winning Poultry Broiler Champion on Wednesday was 10-year-old Addison Jones. Addison is home-schooled, and she is a member of Farm Buddies 4-H Club. She showed a total of nine birds at this year’s Chaves County 4-H & FFA Fair. She also shows dairy heifers and she plans on returning for the Eastern New Mexico State Fair in October. Addison started showing at the age of nine, and this was her second year to compete.
McCarty is Poultry Broiler reserve champ
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Poultry Broiler Pen Reserve Champion Payton McCarty, 10, attends Military Heights Elementary School in Roswell and also won Poultry Best of Barn on Wednesday at the Chaves County 4-H & FFA Fair.
McCarty is Poultry Best of Barn champion
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processing plants buy milk from other sources then process it into commercial milk. The milk processing plant is operated by Jeff Sapp, Cruz said. The dairy, however, is operated by Gerald Greathouse, and it will continue to operate. It is just the milk bottling and processing portion of the operation that is closing. The men jointly own the corporation. “We never bought milk from another dairy; our milk from the night before was on the shelf the next morning, and it was fresh milk, more or less from your own backyard,” Cruz said. “Anybody under age of 40 grew up on this stuff.” Nature’s Dairy also provided fresh milk to school districts across the region. Roswell schools, as well as schools in Dexter, Hagerman, Artesia, Carlsbad, Lake Arthur, Capitan and Hondo all were customers of Nature’s Dairy, Cruz said. New Mexico Military Institute also was a customer.
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match the expense side with revenue,” Henderson said. The $110,332,668 budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year is funded by $91,560,053 of anticipated revenues, and $18,772,615 of carry-over funds from the city’s 2013-14 budget. Henderson said the city’s gross receipts tax collections have increased a total of about 4.5 percent over the past five years. “This budget is stretching the imagination of revenues,” Henderson said. “I don’t think they’ll be there, but I hope I’m wrong.” Mayor Dennis Kintigh said the city’s GRT collections have increased an average of 2.15 percent over the last three years. City Councilor Juan Oropesa, who was the other city councilor who voted against the budget Tuesday, said at Thursday’s meeting he understood the city was “at the edge of a cliff right now” regarding Thursday’s deadline to submit a final budget to state officials. Oropesa said not passing a budget Thursday would compromise the community and city councilors. Oropesa said since Tuesday night he had met with some of the city’s department heads and was reas-
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Roswell Daily Record The dairy bottled the last of its milk on Wednesday, and finished delivering the last shipment to stores and restaurants on Thursday, Cruz said. “Our milk was fresh, and it would go beyond the expiration dates because of the freshness,” Cruz said. “We also took care of all stores and restaurants in the area. We had stores in Ruidoso, Carlsbad, even in Texas.” Nature’s Dairy also provided milk for the Far mers Country Market labels for many years, Cruz said. “I have been here all that time, and it seems like we had that label forever.” The owners of Farmers Country Market store chain wanted to bring in their private label, Shurfine, so they stopped purchasing Nature’s Dairy milk, Cruz said. “That was the last straw,” she said. No corporate contact information for Far mers Country Market was available. A manager at a Roswell Farmers Country Market store said he was not allowed to give out the corporate phone number over the phone. Even though she is out of a job, Cruz said she and the other employ-
sured their spending requests were needed. Oropesa said he had not gotten the proposed budget in time to ask sufficient questions. He asked for more time for budget deliberations next year, and a workshop where city councilors could question department heads. “I will support the budget for this year,” Oropesa said. Kintigh said Oropesa was “spot on” about the time constraints placed on the City Council to approve a final budget by July 31 of every year. Kintigh, a former state representative, said state elected leaders deliberate for months in their budgetary process. “At the very least, I don’t believe we should be required to have the budget to the state until midAugust,” Kintigh said. City Councilor Caleb Grant, chairman of the City Council’s Finance Committee, also said time constraints are a result of state policies, not city policies. “I believe this budget will help us create some momentum for Roswell,” Grant said. “This is a good budget. This is a solid budget to help meet the needs of the city.” City Councilor Art Sandoval, who voted for the budget Thursday, said he
ees have no hard feelings toward Nature’s Dairy management. “These are good people, and it is hard to find a job that you are going to stick with this long,” she said. “There are no hard feelings here because we all know how much they struggled to keep us all in a job.” Employee Zoey Sota said she could find another job, but didn’t know if she could find such a good group of co-workers anywhere else. “It really is more than just a job, working here. We are all really close. I am going to miss all the friends I have made here.” Sota said Sapp has worked hard to find jobs for the employees who are being laid off from the dairy. “I’m just thankful that I had the opportunity to work for a company like this,” she said. “He (Sapp) tried his best, and we don’t have any bad feelings, we’re like a family. There never was much turnover, they take care of you like a family. “We know he has done his best to keep us all in a job,” Cruz said. “Still, it’s tough to let go.”
had questions about why the city was adding three positions in the police department when there are a handful of vacancies in the police department. Sandoval said he had met with Police Chief Phil Smith and received an explanation. “I think the overall budget is pretty effective,” Sandoval said after the meeting. The $110,332,668 budget adds three police officers, one animal control officer and a part-time custodian to the city’s 600employee workforce. Sandoval, the dean of students at Mesa Middle School, said the three new police officers funded in the budget for school resource officers would be beneficial to the Roswell school district. Sandoval said he wants to increase the size of the city’s police department, but he said each new police officer costs the city about $100,000 annually for wages and benefits. Sandoval said he would have supported the budget if he had been able to attend Tuesday’s meeting. “I think, overall, it was prepared pretty well for the most part and I’m glad that it passed,” Sandoval said of the budget. After Thursday’s meeting,
Oropesa explained why he changed his vote. “I had concer ns with some items with the budget that weren’t clear in my head Tuesday,” Oropesa told the newspaper. “They were gracious enough to explain to me why these items were necessary. It made sense. I have a lot of respect for Councilor Henderson because he’s been doing it for a long time. It’s something that we can live with.” The budget entails $35,769,315 for personnel costs, $32,768,593 for operating expenses, and $41,794,760 for capital projects. The $110,332,668 budget is a 21.68 percent increase over the city’s $90,674,116 budget in the 2013-14 fiscal year. Grant said the spending increase is due to special projects and infrastructure improvements. “There are some additional projects in this year’s budget, as far as water projects and emergency repairs, and also there’s a big project down at the airport,” Grant said. The city’s estimated cash reserves are projected to increase about $3 million by the end of the 2014-15 fiscal year.
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