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(A) It is the policy of the city to use cable channel 30 for a reasonable amount of programming of debates and interviews for candidates in municipal elections; such programming shall offer equal exposure to all candidates on the ballot for Councillor and for Mayor, but the amount of air time for each mayoral candidate may be greater than the amount for each Councillor candidate.
(B) It is the policy of the city to use cable channel 30 for a reasonable amount of programming on ballot issues other than the election of municipal officials; however, channel 30 will not be used to urge passage or non-passage of such issues.
(Res. 120-1989, approved 8-22-89)
(A) It is the policy of the city to support development and maintenance of a city's Home Page on the World Wide Web for fast and easy access of its citizens to government information and services.
(B) It Is further the policy of the city to locate computers in many of its facilities for the access of those residents without online services.
(C) The Mayor and Council agree to support the ongoing continuation of the project for easy accessibility to City Hall and government services.
(Res. 61-1996, approved 6-7-96)
(A) It is the policy of the city to actively abate the public nuisance of premises using drive-up windows for the sale of alcoholic beverages to minors and intoxicated persons. This policy of abatement shall be to abate only the nuisance of the drive-up window rather than the entire premises.
(B) The City Attorney is directed to initiate actions to abate all such public nuisances where the Superintendent of Licensing and Regulations has revoked or suspended a liquor license or has imposed a fine upon the licensee for violating the prohibition against selling, serving, or delivering alcoholic beverages to a minor or intoxicated person through a drive-up window. The City Attorney is directed to commence such abatement actions following the effective date of the revocation, suspension, or fine at the completion of the administrative proceedings and hearings provided to the licensee by the Department of Public Safety.
(C) The Mayor shall establish a reporting and monitoring mechanism so that the City Attorney is informed, at least on a monthly basis, of actions taken by the New Mexico Department of Regulation and Licensing to enforce the Liquor Control Act with regard to the sale or service of an alcoholic beverage to an intoxicated person or to a minor through a drive-up window.
(D) The City Attorney shall review cases occurring since the adoption into law of Resolution No. 106-1995 in which the Superintendent of Licensing and Regulation has revoked or suspended a liquor license or has imposed a fine upon a licensee for violation of the prohibition against selling, serving, or delivering alcoholic beverages to a minor or intoxicated person through a drive-up window. Each case review shall determine whether the conditions established in Resolution No. 106-1995 have been met with regard to the City Attorney initiating legal action to abate such public nuisance.
(E) In those cases in which it has been determined that nuisance abatement action is called for by city law, the City Attorney shall initiate such action in a timely way in District Court.
(F) The City Attorney shall review all such cases to determine whether there is a basis for establishing in court that drive-up windows in the city constitute a nuisance, per se, to be abated through their closure.
(Res. 106-1995, approved 8-25-95; Am. Res. 137-1996, approved 12-3-96)
Cross-reference:
(A) The Drought Management Strategy is hereby adopted as the City's Drought Management Plan.
(B) The Mayor is directed to implement the policies and drought measures identified in the Strategy.
(C) The Mayor is directed to report to the City Council once a drought is declared and as each subsequent stage of drought is declared.
(Res. 33-203, adopted 5-25-03)
(A) The effective implementation of the Workforce Housing Opportunity Act is the policy of the City of Albuquerque. It is hereby acknowledged that in order to achieve the production of housing to serve the city workforce an inter-related set of organizations and interests must work collaboratively to utilize the scarce resources available to carry out this policy.
(B) The amount of Seventy Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000) is hereby appropriated from the unreserved fund balance of the General Fund to the Department of Family and Community Services (DFCS) for the Workforce Housing Plan and Needs Assessment as required by the Workforce Housing Opportunity Act. The Plan will serve as the affordable housing component of the Five Year Consolidated Plan.
(C) The Mayor is requested to develop a package of incentives to support the goals of the Workforce Housing Opportunity Act including but not limited to: a density bonus, fast-tracking of development review for Workforce Housing Projects and Subdivisions, fee waivers and an ombudsman program. After review and analysis by the appropriate City agencies and Commissions the Mayor shall make recommendations to the Council for legislation as needed.
(D) The amount of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($250,000) is hereby appropriated from the unreserved fund balance of the General Fund to the Department of Family and Community Services for the purpose of providing research and legal services as needed to set up the Workforce Housing Trust Fund, developing a collaborative model of decision-making for DFCS and the non-profit housing developers: increasing capacity of the housing delivery system to utilize City and non-City available resources; supporting a coalition of non-profit housing development organizations; developing recommendations for expanding operating funding for non-profit housing developers; involving constituencies being served to participate in development and policy-making; enhancing the capacity for non-profits to carry out their role as advocates and developing a system of accountability all for City agencies and non-profit housing development organizations. Recommendations and principles resulting from this work shall be considered for inclusion in the Workforce Housing Plan.
(E) The Mayor is hereby requested to initiate a model Workforce Housing project meeting the requirements of the Workforce Housing Opportunity Act on City owned land to demonstrate collaboration among the City, non-profit housing development organizations, private sector builders and the neighborhood(s), the utilization of quality design as applied to mixed-use and mixed-income development and the leveraging of non-City resources to creatively finance the project.
(F) The Affordable Housing Committee is hereby requested to determine a means by which housing lost to use by low income families as the result of actions by the City Nuisance Abatement Team can be replaced or rehabilitated and that such actions be made a high priority in the Workforce Housing Plan.
(G) The City hereby requests the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Authority to implement a program where its Utility Expansion Charge is waived for projects meeting the requirements of the Workforce Housing Opportunity Act.
(H) The amount of Seventy Five Thousand Dollars ($75,000) is hereby appropriated from the unreserved fund balance of the General Fund to the Department of Family and Community Services to develop and implement, in collaboration with the UNM School of Architecture and Planning and the City Planning Department, a community educational program supporting the Workforce Housing Opportunity Act.
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4-7-1 Five-year goals
4-7-2 One-year objectives for Fiscal Year 2007
4-7-3 One-year objectives for Fiscal Year 2008
4-7-4 One-year objectives for Fiscal Year 2009
4-7-5 One-year objectives for Fiscal Year 2010
4-7-6 One-year objectives for Fiscal Year 2011
4-7-7 One-year objectives for Fiscal Year 2012
4-7-8 One-year objectives for Fiscal Year 2013
4-7-9 One-year objectives for Fiscal Year 2014
4-7-10 One-year objectives for Fiscal Year 2020
4-7-11 One-year objectives for Fiscal Year 2021
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