Archeological Review Committee 24/09/2026

The City of Santa Fe Archaeological Review Committee met on October 7, 2026. No contract awards, vendor selections, or budget decisions were identified; the committee reviewed archaeological documentation and monitoring plans associated with utility and communications infrastructure projects. It approved a revised archaeological monitoring report for a City Public Utilities Department project, subject to edits; approved a monitoring plan for approximately 2,000 feet of new waterline, subject to requested edits; and approved plans for a Homewise electrical-line project and a fiber-optic project, also with requested edits. The committee approved a broader projectwide monitoring framework for Easy Fiber, with the record describing a large fiber installation, though the transcript’s footage figures are garbled.

The committee postponed a PNM conduit monitoring report until November 19, 2026, for further clarification and revisions. It denied a request to exempt a roughly 980-foot PNM electrical-conduit project from a monitoring plan and required the applicant to proceed with a monitoring plan. Members also discussed a park improvement project whose drainage scope remained unclear, and raised potential code clarification concerning archaeological review of trenching; no code change was adopted. These decisions establish review requirements for future infrastructure work but do not themselves authorize spending or award contracts.