Board of Commission Regular Meeting 10- 20- 26

Taos County Board of Commissioners regular meeting, October 20, 2026. The commission approved Resolution 2026-44 supporting the New Mexico counties’ 2027 legislative priorities, including requests for full funding of certain county obligations and state replacement of revenue lost to disabled veterans’ property-tax exemptions. Procurement actions included approval of a roughly $67,000 Chevrolet Tahoe purchase for the Treasurer’s Office through a state price agreement; the department’s existing vehicle is to be reassigned to another department. Commissioners also approved a $62,000 change order for testing and evaluation of the historic courthouse murals—not the restoration itself—and a parking-lot change order covering milling, regrading, recompaction, and new asphalt. The parking-lot change-order amount was not clear in the transcript.

The meeting also recognized staff promotions and the appointment of a new Public Works director. A lodgers’ tax grant review of 22 proposals was announced for October 27, with recommendations to be developed for later commission consideration; no grant awards were made at this meeting. Public comment raised a question about $22.5 million reportedly lost in hospital reconstruction funding, but the transcript records no response or action on that matter.