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NMML conference begins 8/30 HSD secretary talks Medicaid and Kris O’Shea, a professional speaking team/ comedic duo, are scheduled to speak at 8:30 a.m., Thursday, to be followed by John Drebinger, at 10:30 a.m., speaking on safety in the workplace. Meetings with NM Association of Chiefs of Police, NM Fire Chiefs Association, NM Municipal Attorneys Association, NM Municipal Librarians Association, NM Municipal Judges Association, NM City Management Association, NM Environmental Quality Association and NM City Management Association are on the agenda for Wednesday, as well as a joint session with the NM Municipal Clerks and Finance Officers Association and Gover nment Finance Officers Association.
Roswell will host the 54th annual conference for the Santa Fe-based New Mexico Municipal League at the Roswell Convention and Civic Center, Aug. 30 to Sept. 2. The conference will feature four workshops on different topics such as social networking, emergency preparedness and how to boost community involvement. It will also have a roundtable discussion led by several exhibitors, Wednesday, on about six educational topics of interest, including strategic planning and goal setting for mayors and city councilors, municipal financing debt markets, recycling in New Mexico and disaster recovery and business continuity. Keynote speakers T im
Council meetings to change channels
Roswell City Council meetings will now air on Channel 21, instead of Channel 11, on Cable One television. The change will go into effect by the next city council meeting on Sept. 8. Cable One Roswell General Manager David Gonzales says the move allows Channel 11 to air the community calendar and oldies music without interruption. The council will also now be able to televise special meetings in the City Council chambers in addition to its monthly business meeting, he added. Some subscribers may have to manually reprogram their menu to add the Channel 21; for others, it will reprogram automatically.
David Griego, 25, wanted for felon in possession of a firearm and failure to appear. Griego is described as 5 feet, 9 inches tall, weight 150 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. People who have information on Griego’s whereabouts are asked to call Crime Stoppers, 888-594-TIPS (8477)
2004. He said he signed up for the Navy with a friend. “I wanted to serve my country, so I signed up,” Bradley said. While in the Navy, Bradley was a boatswain’s mate and was stationed in the Persian Gulf for nine months, in 2006 and 2007. “I had a really good time,” Bradley said of his stint in the Navy. However,
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immigration court dockets and diverting DHS enforcement resources away from the individuals who pose a threat to public safety.” The Associated Press obtained a copy of the let-
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How New Mexico will meet Medicaid changes was one of the topics discussed by the state’s Human Services Department Cabinet Secretary Sidonie Squier during a visit to Roswell Regional Hospital, Thursday. “Things will change,” Squier said concerning Medicaid. She estimates that in 2014 New Mexico will begin to add between 130,000 to 175,000 new Medicaid recipients because of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which is also known as Obamacare. Even without the refor m in health care, Squier said the state will have to increase Medicaid spending by 20 percent by 2019. Also, up to 16 percent of New Mexico’s total budget will be Medicaid costs by fiscal year 2012. “Medicaid is sucking up quite a bit of money,” Squier said. “That type of growth is unsustainable.” There are steps being put into place to help the state of New Mexico meet the needs of the increasing numbers of Medicaid recipients. Known as the Medicaid Modernization Plan, Squier said these
he felt drawn to the adrenaline rush of high altitudes and helicopters, so after five years in the Navy he signed up for the Army. He’s been working with helicopters for more than a year. Bradley said he expects his Ar my experience in Afghanistan to be different from his Persian Gulf experience with the Navy. “I expect it to be a little more interesting than it was in the Gulf,” Bradley said of Afghanistan. Bradley’s family is still ter. Republicans complained that the new policy circumvents Congress. Some states are rebelling against another administration effort to control illegal immigration known as Secure Communities. The program requires that when state and local law enforcement send criminal suspects’ fingerprints to the FBI, the prints are run through an immigration database to determine the person’s immigration status. States have argued
The Roswell Police Department announced that officers will enforce traffic laws inside a school zone with zero tolerance. RPD spokesman Officer Travis Holley said, “You will get a ticket.” He said that now that school is back in session, drivers need to adhere to traf fic laws in Roswell school zones. “Any traffic violation in a school zone,
coming to terms with his departure, which is even more bitter given he has a three-year -old daughter, Jamie, and that his wife Sarah is due to give birth to a son in November. “It’s a bummer,” Bradley said. “I want to see (my son) growing up.” On the other hand, Bradley said he wants his son to “have someone to look up to and be proud of. Someday he’ll understand why I couldn’t be there.” Bradley was present when Jamie was born. His
wife said the rambunctious tot is not old enough to thoroughly understand what a deployment implies. “I think she knows she won’t be able to talk to (her father),” Sarah said. “I’m not sure she grasps the concept of him being gone, and that far away.” Sarah Bradley said she is saddened by her husband’s departure, and said she is comforted knowing he is doing what he wants to do. “He will come back (and)
that the program puts them in the position of policing immigration, which they consider a federal responsibility. Immigrant advocacy groups have complained that people who had not yet been convicted of a crime were being caught up in the system. In June, the director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, John Morton, sent a memo to agents outlining when and how they could use discretion in immigration cases. That guidance also covered
those potentially subject to a legislative proposal, known as the DREAM Act, intended to give young illegal immigrants who go to college or serve in the military a chance at legal status. Morton also suggested that agents consider how long someone has been in the United States, whether that person’s spouse or children are U.S. citizens and whether that person has a criminal record. A senior administration official said delaying depor-
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Secretary of the New Mexico Human Services Department Sidonie Squier on a tour of Roswell Regional Hospital with the hospital’s CEO and administrator, Rod Schumacher, Thursday morning. changes must be made to a system that has been static for decades. According to the New Mexico Human Services Department website, the Medicaid Modernization Plan involves, among other goals, increasing health care to the state’s most vulnerable populations, implementing sliding scale co-payments for certain costly services, financial incentives for healthy choices, and payments based on performance targets instead of payments that are based on the number of services
provided. This was Squier’s first visit to RRH. She said the first thing she noticed about RRH is how beautiful the facility is. She also noted the friendliness of hospital staff. Rod Schumacher, CEO and administrator of RRH, gave Squier a tour of the hospital. “It’s a big deal having her here,” he said. “Much of what we are able to do depends on the Department of Health and Human Services.”
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Registration is open to both NMML members and non-members for either the full conference or just the events scheduled for Wednesday. For NMML members, early registration costs $280, late registration (after Aug. 15) costs $350 and on-site registration (after Aug. 22) costs $420, for the full conference, including all meetings and functions. For nonNMML members, early registration costs $330, late registration costs $415 and on-site registration costs $495. To register online, visit nmml.org/nmml-events, or mail in a registration form and money by Aug. 22 to New Mexico Municipal League, P.O. Box 846, Santa Fe, NM 87504, or call 800-432-2036.
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regardless of how minor will result in a citation.” The fines for speeding in a school zone start at $59 with a $4 enhancement for every mile per hour over the posted limit. He wanted to remind drivers that they also need to stop for school buses when the lights are flashing, which indicates they are loading or unloading. Traffic laws also make it
make up for missed time,” she said. Bradley’s parents Frank Bradley and Peggy Kendrick are understandably saddened by their son’s deployment and look forward to the day their son returns. “I’m very proud of him stepping up and serving his country,” Frank Bradley said. “He’s going (to Afghanistan) for a reason. We’ll be ready for him to come home.” Kendrick said she is glad she will be present for tation decisions in cases for some non-criminals would allow quicker deportation of serious criminals. The indefinite stay will not give illegal immigrants a path to legal permanent residency, but will let them apply for a work permit. “As a matter of law, they are eligible for a work authorization card, basically a taxpayer ID card, but that decision is made separately and on a case-bycase basis,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity
illegal to pass or overtake another moving vehicle in a school zone. Holley asked people to report any and all suspicious person(s) or activities in and around our schools. “If something, or someone, doesn’t seem right, then it’s probably not. The non-emergency number for the RPD is 6246770.
her grandson’s birth, and that she will take plenty of photographs in hopes that her son will not feel the distance so badly. “It makes it easier for me because he says he’s excited about it, but it’s breaking my heart,” Kendrick said of Bradley’s deployment. “But, I’m very proud of him.” Bradley plans to attend college after he returns and pursue a degree in criminology. v.kahin@roswell-record.com
because he was not authorized to discuss the change publicly. The of ficial said the change will give authorities the chance to keep some cases from even reaching the court system. The message to agents in the field, the official said, would be “you do not need to put everyone you come across in the system.” If an immigrant whose case has been stayed commits a crime or other circumstances change, that case could be reopened.
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