Please join City Councilor Michael Cadigan for a frank discussion regarding New Mexico Utilities. The meeting will be held at the Open Space Visitor Center Monday, January 22, 2007 at 7pm.

The Open Space Visitor’s Center is located on Bosque Meadows Road:

From Montano and Coors:
go NORTH on Coors past traffic signals at Montano Plaza and La Orilla. Go ½ mile and the next RIGHT will be Bosque Meadows Road. Turn east and go to the end of the gravel road/ parking lot.

From Paseo del Norte:
go SOUTH on Coors past traffic signals at SIPI and Eagle Ranch Rd. Go ½ mile and the next LEFT will be Bosque Meadows Rd. Turn east and go to the end of the gravel road/ parking lot.

Please contact Mimi Aledo at 768-3189 with any questions.

City Councilor Ken Sanchez will be hosting a District One Neighborhood Association Meeting, Thursday, January 18, 2007 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the West Mesa Community Center located at 5700 Glenrio NW. There will be a number of special guests from the city to provide updates and answer questions.

For more information, please contact Elaine Romero, Policy Analyst to Councilor Sanchez @ (505)768-3183.

Albuquerque City Councilor Martin Heinrich, recently elected Chair of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, is pleased to announce the raising of the rebate amount available for converting from high-flow toilets to low-flow toilets for 2007 to $150 for each toilet for all our customers.

Residents who take advantage of the program receive a $150.00 offset on their water bill. For example, if one qualifies for a $150 rebate, and their monthly water bill is only $25, they will have a credit balance for six months. The rebate applies to the total bill for water, sewer, and refuse.

In 2008, the rebate will be reduced to $125 and in 2009 it will be decreased to $100. At the end of 2009, the toilet rebate program will end. The program decreases the rebates over a three-year period in order to encourage customers to participate this year.

Toilets are responsible for over 30% of indoor residential water use. It is estimated that there are about 200,000 high flow toilets that have not been replaced in our service area. If each of those toilets were to be converted, over 1 billion gallons of water would be saved each year in our community.

MORE INFORMATION

For further information, please contact Katherine Yuhas, Water Conservation Officer with the Albuquerque Water Conservation Hotline, at 768-3655 / TTY 768-2474.

Or, to find details about how to participate in the program, please visit Operation Low Flow’s website at http://www.abcwua.org/waterconservation/opflow.html.

The January 10, 2007 Land Use Planning and Zoning (LUPZ) committee meeting is cancelled. However, a special City Council meeting will be held that evening at 5:00 p.m. in the Vincent E. Griego Chambers located on the basement level of the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Government Center building, One Civic Plaza NW.