During the public-comment portion of the Socorro City Council’s special November meeting, resident Jeremy Hendricks told the council he had submitted a packet to the city secretary around 4:00 p.m. seeking placement on next week’s agenda and asked for consideration without 'political games.' He said he was not a politician or engineer but has been learning local processes while preparing his packet and asked the council to work together on the Arterial 1 project rather than move forward with what he described as an unnecessary, taxpayer-funded undertaking.

Hendricks told the council he hopes to get more time than the standard three-minute public-comment window to present the packet and that the group behind the submission seeks a productive conversation with the council. He said, 'We're going down a road we don't need to go down' and urged elected officials not to 'tax the citizens with an unnecessary project.'

Council members accepted Hendricks’s request to place an item on a future agenda by allowing the caller who had dialed in after the meeting started to speak; the transcript records the motion to admit the late caller (moved by Councilmember Roxas and seconded by Councilmember Cordero) and the council’s voice approval. The transcript does not record any immediate staff response or an explicit scheduling decision for the full packet; Hendricks’s request for more than three minutes remains unresolved in the available record.

Edgar Carrasco also used public comment to congratulate reelected council members and to request staff help with an open-records request that, he said, is due on the 17th. The council moved on after public comment and proceeded to certify election returns and administer oaths.