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Some Of West Mesa Neighborhood Association Accomplishments To Date

  • West Mesa was one of the four original Citizens Advisory Team members involved in development of the West Central Metropolitan Redevelopment Area Plan which is now called The Atrisco, West Central and Old Coors Redevelopment Plan.

  • We host and coordinate the annual Christmas Albuquerque Police Department Appreciation Day for all police officers on the Westside Area Command going on twelve years now.

  • We provided more than 90 Thanksgiving turkey food baskets to needy families in the Southwest Mesa in 2008 and we have been doing this for the past 11 years.

  • We assisted Capt. Candelaria and Pete Dinelli, city Nuisance Abatement Task Force leader, in closing Louie's and the Star flea markets.

  • We were instrumental in getting American Legion Post 72 to present a new American flag to Capt. Conrad Candelaria for the official opening of Albuquerque Police Department's remodeled Shawn McWethy Police Substation. We also paid for the APD Westside Area Command Flag.

  • By the end of the 2004 legislative session, we had gathered about $600,000 from the Legislature, and some from the city, toward renovating the old West Mesa Community Center. We started this effort in 1997.
       
  • We obtained a memorial from the City Council for support of a 400-acre national cemetery at the corner of Paseo Del Volcan and Central SW at the top of Nine Mile Hill. West Mesa provided most of the administrative details to Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., and her staff, and the site was one of three sites in New Mexico selected by the Veterans Administration. Mr. John Pena, Pat Hurley Neighborhood Association was part of the initial team that got the effort going.
       
  • We were involved in obtaining the arches on West Central near the Rio Grande and 64th Street.
       
  • We were on the Citizen Cruiser Patrol for APD's Westside Area Command on West Central from the Rio Grande to Unser Boulevard and some side streets off Central Avenue from 1997 to 2006.
       
  • We convinced the city to eliminate the crossovers on Coors Boulevard from Central Avenue to Interstate 40.
       
  • We convinced the city to reduce the speed on Coors Boulevard to 40 mph between Fortuna Road NW and I-40.
       
  • We obtained funding from the Legislature for APD Westside Area Command, Los Volcanes Senior Center and for West Mesa High School, John Adams Middle School and Lavaland Elementary School.
       
  • We provided two police bikes to APD Westside Area Command.
       
  • We convinced the city to install 99 new street lights in our neighborhood through the Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design program.
       
  • We convinced the city to install a number of four-way stop signs and traffic signals on 86th Street SW.
       
  • We were instrumental in closing down the Relax Motel at 5501 Central NW.
       
       
  • I am sure other neighborhood associations near or adjacent to our area do good things for their areas and have accomplishments equal to West Mesa, and I do not want to diminish their deeds in any way. The intent of listing our achievements is only to illustrate that we attend to our neighborhood needs, have accomplished quite a bit and do not toot our own horn very much.