For the March 7 Santa Fe municipal election, SFR called up candidates in the City Council District 3 race to test their knowledge. The rules for Pop Quiz
are as follows: No research allowed and if they call back later with the right answer, too bad. To see who answered correctly (or came closest), check out our answer key below.
Questions:
1. "Cash Investment," "Utility Customer Service" and "Purchasing" are divisions in what city department?
2. How long can a Santa Fe library card holder check out a new book (less than a year old)? Other books?
3. How many divisions are there in the Public Works Department and how many can you name?
4. What is the fee for an individual user card granting residents access to the Municipal Recreation Complex?
5. As far as city economic planning is concerned, what parts of town do the acronyms BCD and AC/RAC refer to?
6. What city employee handles the enforcement of the city's Living Wage and No Smoking ordinances?
7. What is the stated goal of the recently adopted plan involving the Santa Fe Center for Community Sustainability?
8. When was the Santa Fe Municipal Airport founded and how many runways are served?
9. Name at least three types of records that are filed in the City Clerk's Office.
10. If you had to spend a summer herding sheep in the Sangre de Cristo mountains with one current District 3 City Councilor representative would you choose David Coss or Miguel Chavez and why?
Answers:
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Carmichael Dominguez, 35, is a cartographer for the State Department of Transportation.
1. I'd be guessing, but probably Water.
2. I would have to say two weeks to a month.
3. That's a good question. Let's see, Public Works would be roads, parks, sewer and refuse, water and…let me think…uh…I'll just leave it at that.
4. To be honest with you, I don't know what the cost is. If I had to guess, it would be $15 to $25.
5. I think AC/RAC is Arts and Culture and…Residential Arts and Culture. BCD I'd say is the Business City District.
6. Um…the city attorney?
7. That's a tough question. I don't know the answer to that.
8. I think it has two runways but it was founded before I was born, so I couldn't give you a date, but before 1970.
9. Um, liquor licenses, the [files for] candidate elections and…uh…the minutes of the meetings.
10. To be honest with you, I'd share it with both of them. I have a tremendous amount of respect for both of them. It would be both of them or none. I think we would all work well together.
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Anna Hansen, 57, is the owner of Dakini Design, a graphic design and event planning firm.
1. The City Clerk's Office.
2. Two weeks.
3. I believe there's seven but I'm not positive. Maybe five. There's metropolitan planning, transportation...uh…public works, water…trash and garbage collection, sewer…and recycling.
4. Five dollars.
5. Uh…I don't know.
6. I'll say the city manager.
7. It's a group that consists of local energy and Santa Fe Community College… and their primary goal is to create energy efficiency and renewable energy and sustainability.
8. It was founded before I came here in 1973, so I'd say it was founded in the '60s and it has, I believe, three runways.
9. Office for candidacy…non-native petition for candidacy…and uh…voter, um, certificate of voter, let me think of the right word…and verification of voter registration candidacy.
10. [Laughs] If I had to spend the summer in the mountains, I'd choose David Coss because he was the Land Use commissioner.
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Louis R Montaño, 78, is a retired New Mexico Department of Labor employee.
1. I've been out of this for some time, but I assume it's under the City Clerk.
2. Well, I think 30 days but I've never checked out books except when I was a student many, many years ago.
3. Of the professional staff, there's the road crews, road maintenance and the sanitation department and, uh, everything pertaining to roads is in that department. That's about it.
4. I understand it was $50, I don't know if that's it now. And then you pay a fee each time you go.
5. Well, I think AC/RAC is rural and the other is more downtown.
6. This is a fairly new one for me, but I would assume it would fall under the category of the…well, frankly, I just don't know.
7. I assume their goal is to not be dependent on the gross-receipts tax and to sustain itself on other areas of revenue.
8. I don't know the year, but I assume it was in the '50s. And I think there are four runways. But I've never landed in Santa Fe so it's hard for me to say.
9. Well, there's the voting records. Then there's the records pertaining to candidates filing for mayor and City Council.
10. I wouldn't choose neither one of them. When I used to go camping, I camped by myself. When I directed the Boys Club we went with our scout troops and camping groups. Once in a while I'd camp out with a brother [of mine]. We'd pitch a tent and go fishing.
SFR Key:
1. Finance Department.
2. Seven days; 28 days.
3. Six: engineering; property control; solid waste management; streets; drainage and fleet management; transit and transportation operations.
4. $25.
5. Business Capitol District and Arts and Crafts/Residential Arts and Crafts Districts.
6. City Manager Mike Lujan.
7. To make Santa Fe the "water conservation and clean energy capital of the US."
8. 1941; three runways.
9. Resolutions, bills and ordinances; City Council meeting minutes; committee minutes; contracts and leases; Santa Fe city code; weekly meeting list; municipal election records; business licenses.
