Regular Board of County Commissioners Meeting - Oct 13 2026

Regular Santa Fe County Board of County Commissioners meeting, October 13, 2026 (the metadata timestamp falls on October 14 UTC). The board approved several procurement and capital-related items: a feasibility-services agreement with Architectural Research Consultants for the adult detention center (the contract amount was not stated in the transcript); a $337,617.82 agreement, excluding New Mexico gross receipts tax, with FBT Architects doing business as Groundwork Studios for Romero Park Phase 3 landscape architectural design, funded by general obligation bonds and solicited through an RFP; and two kitchen-renovation contracts, each capped at $1 million including applicable costs, with Road Runner Plaster and Drywall LLC for Camino de Jacobo and AGM Construction and Environmental for the Santa Cruz/Vía Esperanza housing community. The housing renovations are funded by a $2 million state grant and cover roughly 50 units in each neighborhood; the second project also includes new appliances. The board also approved the order of the county’s Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plan, with discussion of pursuing $1.865 million for a clerk’s warehouse project.

The board accepted a $5 million capital outlay grant for infrastructure serving the 600-unit, affordable-housing component of the Tierra Contenta Phase 3A development, and authorized a nonbinding response to a state RFI seeking up to $10 million to preserve 222 affordable homes at two apartment complexes; any resulting funding agreement would return to the board for approval. It also approved a $58,762 state grant for public Wi-Fi in county public-housing communities, with service required for five years and operating costs estimated at no more than $100,000 over that period. Separately, the county manager reported submitting a state capacity-building grant application to help fund additional firefighters and sheriff’s deputies. The board approved these motions and authorizations; no vendor selection or contract amount was stated for the detention-center feasibility agreement.