Roosevelt County commissioners on Tuesday heard a presentation from Jodi Diaz, executive director of the Roosevelt County Community Development Corporation.
Diaz outlined the RCCDC’s business retention and development activities of the past months.
Diaz noted her team has worked to bring a Gus Macker basketball tournament to Portales in 2025.
Commissioner Dennis Lopez expressed concern over lack of business growth in the Roosevelt County/Portales area.
“Clovis continues to grow, but we only get a little bit (of growth),” Lopez said.
Diaz said the situation is about population.
“Clovis is about 40,000, our population is 12,000 to 18,000. We’re not in those parameters to attract attention,” Diaz said.
In other business, Lopez gave a presentation on work being planned on improving area railroad crossings by the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad.
One crossing in particular that needs attention is the Boston Avenue crossing, according to Lopez.
He also reported on an uptick in work being done in the area by the New Mexico Department of Transportation, something that wasn’t common in the past.
Roosevelt County Clerk Mandi Park addressed allegations from an anonymous source of election fraud involving Roosevelt County from four years ago.
Park said a news article, allegedly from a Torrance County publication, was sent anonymously to each of the five county commissioners.
Park told commissioners the article alleged complaints against Roosevelt and Torrance County along with the Attorney General’s Office, but assured commissioners “there are no such complaints filed in the Attorney General’s office.”
Park also told commissioners she did not know the accuser.
“I did the job I was elected to do according to the statute,” Park told commissioners.
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