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The West Las Vegas school board doesn’t record its meetings, unlike most governing bodies.

Some members like that policy; others question it.

“I have visited other institutions where they record their public meetings, I was wondering why we don’t. We have to be accountable for everything we say at these board meetings,” said member David Romero, who asked that the school board consider the issue.

Member Kenny Lujan said all meetings in the past used to be recorded, but he said nobody knows why the practice stopped.

It’s extremely rare that both the Administrator of the Year and Music Educator of the Year would be from the same district, and even more rare that they come from the same town and the same school, officials said.

West Las Vegas High School Principal Gene Parson and Choir Director Arnell David Arellanes were honored by the New Mexico Music Educators Association during the summer break. Parson was named Administrator of the Year, and Arellanes as Music Educator of the Year. This was the third nomination for both.

A few months ago, the city attorney suggested that the utilities director and a councilman may have taken part in corruption by adjusting customers’ bills.  

But a draft of an audit report commissioned to investigate this issue doesn’t indicate any criminal wrongdoing by either former Utilities Director George DuFour or the councilman, later identified as Andrew Feldman.

Connie Kemm went to the Plaza Hotel to have lunch with a co-worker last week. When they left, she found an orange marking on her tire.

That marking signaled the city’s new effort to check whether motorists are parking for more than 90 minutes in downtown areas.

Kemm didn’t get a ticket because she stayed there for less than the time limit. But she wasn’t happy with the marking.

“I was annoyed that anyone would mark my tire while it was parked in a legal parking area,” she said.