Category: Government

The City of Las Cruces invites residents ages 18 and over to join the 2025 Neighborhood Leadership Academy. This 12-week course provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the City operates.

The Assessor’s and Clerk’s Offices will close temporarily Friday, Dec. 20 for training, team building and a year-end celebration.

Paseos Verdes is a Low-Income Housing Tax Credit multi-family affordable housing development at 905 S. Campo St.

The El Paseo Road and S. Solano Drive Metropolitan Redevelopment project area represents a pivotal opportunity to transform this section of the city into a thriving pedestrian-friendly area with renewed focus on sustainable development and equitable growth. 

Roadrunner Transit has been recognized for achieving the 4th highest fixed route ridership increase. Source: City of Las Cruces (via Facebook)Photo: Courtesy As a proud member of the American Public Transportation Association, Roadrunner Transit has been recognized for achieving the 4th highest fixed route ridership increase among APTA reporting agencies providing fewer than 3 million…

The project represents a pivotal opportunity to transform these sections of our city into thriving, pedestrian-friendly communities with a renewed focus on sustainable development and equitable growth.

Realize Las Cruces, initiated in the spring of 2021, is intended to update the land development codes and implement land use policies from the Elevate Las Cruces Comprehensive Plan.

The resolution for legislative priorities was approved unanimously. Councilor Bill Mattiace did not attend Monday’s meeting.

Portions of the parking lot behind Sally-Beauty Supply, Top Crop Cannabis, Nails – Elegant Nails, and Batteries Plus will be closed between Thursday, December 5, and Monday, December 23, 2024.

Once service is restored, residents may notice discolored water due to iron, manganese and calcium deposits.

Nov. 30, 2024 is New Mexico’s Small Business Saturday Tax Holiday, when the state allows non-franchise, small businesses to deduct their sales of qualifying items from their gross receipts.

The precedent for a national Thanksgiving holiday can be attributed, in part, to the determination of one woman: Sarah Josepha Hale.

Approximately 1,800 governments, including states, cities, counties, special districts, school districts, and more have been recognized for transparency in budgeting.

Based on available records, LCU knows of 20,637 water service lines of unknown material and 15,627 water service lines that are known to be non-lead pipes.

In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday, most City of Las Cruces offices and Doña Ana County administrative offices will be closed Thursday, Nov. 28, 2024, and Friday, Nov. 29, 2024.

Monday’s unanimous vote by Councilors shifts oversight of the MPO from the City to the MPO’s governing board.

Wipes of all kinds should be thrown in the trash and not flushed down a toilet even though packaging may indicate they are are “flushable.”

The ITSNM held its annual meeting Wednesday, October 16, 2024, in Albuquerque. This year’s theme was ‘Investing in Safety.’

The City of Las Cruces invites residents ages 18 and over to join the 2025 Neighborhood Leadership Academy.

Social Security Administration offers resources to help veterans with disabilities.

All emergency services, including police and fire will operate as usual.

The GRT bump, set to take effect July 1, 2025, is anticipated to generate an additional $11 million in revenue each year and will help fund capital improvement projects throughout the City.

All qualified applications received before this deadline will be processed and paid out.

Monica Torres, economist with the City’s Economic Development Department, said business and household investment decisions could be impacted by inflation trending down and the current tax code expiring at the end of 2025.

The deadline to submit applications has been extended to 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024. Applications are available on the City’s Website.

The temporary closure will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, 2024, at all LCU offices

The proposed master plan includes recommendations to renovate and expand Thomas Branigan Memorial Library, increase the overall staffing of the library to better serve the needs of the community, increase the City’s funding of the libraries including the recommendation to form a library foundation to help secure capital and building at least three branch libraries…

The new Shopping Cart Ordinance, adopted by City Council in August 2024, makes it unlawful to remove from the premises, possess, abandon or alter a shopping cart that belongs to a retail establishment.

Work on the proposed master plan began in February 2024 and has included a series of public surveys, public meetings and internal meetings with fire personnel.

The Homeless Outreach Program was first funded in fiscal year 2021 to support Las Cruces residents who face financial hardships brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Citywide fall/winter outdoor watering restrictions began October 1.

Memorial Medical Center’s team has been working collaboratively with the City of Las Cruces to provide documentation and meet the demands of the Notice of Breach letter.

The program receives funds through the State of New Mexico Children, Youth & Families Department, Juvenile Justice Services Special Programs Unit.