FROM KATHY FREAS:

Update on Campbell Ranch: March 6 Appeals Hearing

On November 21, 2024, the Edgewood Planning and Zoning Commission (PZC) approved an application to allow development of 1200 acres of Campbell Ranch property, directly across from Paa Ko Communities.  On Thursday March 6, an Appeals Hearing regarding that decision will begin at 2 pm at Edgewood Town Hall, 171-A State Road 344. 

The Town Commission will hear testimony from multiple appellants on the approval, including several Paa Ko residents and Bernalillo County. They will decide to uphold, deny, or revert the decision to the PZC for further review.  Their decision affects our entire community. Visit https://edgewood-nm.civicweb.net/Portal/MeetingInformation.aspx?Id=2169 for more information.

Notification of Campbell Ranch activities and the status of the hearing can be found on the East Mountain Protection Action Coalition (EMPAC) website https://theempac.org/campbell-ranch/(please click on “read more”). EMPAC has been fighting this irresponsible development since 2021. You may also sign up to receive emails with timely information on Campbell Ranch.

Please join us in this continuing fight.

FROM EMWPA:

This coming Saturday, March 1, EMWPA will be holding our third educational outreach program. We will be updating the fire weather outlook for the 2025 wildfire season, and we will be holding an updated repeat of the very popular FREE emergency
'GO' Bag program. This will take place at the Sandia Ranger Station meeting room, starting at 9:00 am and scheduled to last until about 12:00 pm.  FYI, for those that already have the bags, you are welcome to attend. It never hurts to review this information. We only have enough GO bags (maximum 50) for 1 per family, so your RSVP is critical. We encourage you to bring your kids, since they should be aware of how to use this emergency bag.

As previously reported, we placed Molzen Corbin to produce a Preliminary Engineering Review PER for the entire Paa-Ko Communities Sewer Association system. This was based on a State Grant of $50,000 for the work. The bids were greater than the amount of the grant and Molzen Corbin was at $111K. We decided we could afford the additional monies and that this planning was badly needed so we put Molzen Corbin under contract last November. We appointed our board member Scott Verhines to manage the project as he has spent his entire career doing this kind of work. The project is going quite well, and we expect completion sometime this summer.

Earlier this year we contacted the State to see if they might help with the additional money required. The State came back to us with an offer of an additional $9K as a grant and $60K as a 20-year loan for 1% annual interest.

To be continued!

An FYI

Sometime last weekend, a large metal roadrunner (approximately 3' x 5') was stolen from a resident's front yard on Broken Arrow in the gated area at the top of Raindance.   No surveillance footage was available and a report was filed with the Sheriff's Office.

A special meeting of the Board of Directors of the Paa-Ko Sewer Association will take place on Monday, January 20 3:30 pm at the Paa-Ko Event Center.

Some of the items on the agenda are:

- Approve minutes from 11-27-24 meeting
- Report from Prodigy Builders
- Discuss, review, vote on 4th Quarter Financial Report to NM Dept. of Finance & Administration 
- Discuss, review, vote on final 2025 budget for submittal to State by 1-31-25i
- Discuss, review, vote to approve first 1-year extension of PCSA-Prodigy Builders Agreement
- Progress report from Board Member, Scott Verhines, on engineering report in process by Molzen Corbin
- Discuss, review, vote to approve additional loan funding for engineering report
- Discuss procedures for the "Septic Tank Design" process for new home construction and septic tank replacement.

To view agenda in detail, please go to READ MORE and then to DOCUMENTS