The university’s recruitment efforts are aimed mostly at increasing the number of students who live on campus, Caldwell said.
This year, she said, only about 324 students are living on campus, compared to about 600 who lived on campus in 2018.
• Authorized John DeSha, the city’s director of public works, to submit an application for $50,000 to update the city’s comprehensive plan through the New Mexico Department of Finance and Administration.
• Authorized the city public works department to apply for $41,884.79 in state funds for improvements to Fifth Street between Main Street to State Route 88.
The properties include a dilapidated mobile home in the 200 block of 10th Street, and two plots located in the 1600 block of Fir Street, which city inspectors found to be “covered with ruins, rubbish, wreckage, or debris.” Melvin Hightower, owner of all three properties, said the city’s deadline will not give him time to complete the clearing operations.