OTERO COUNTY
DWI OFFENDERS SUPERVISION PROGRAM
1000 New York Avenue Suite 109
Alamogordo, New Mexico, 88310
Phone (575) 434-8849 Fax (575) 443-2941
www.oterocountydwi.com
DWI Planning Council Minutes
April 14, 2011
I. Call to Order by Sharon Hodges, Chair at 2:05 p.m.
II. Introduction of Board Members: Members present were: Sharon Hodges
(Chair); Steve Odom (Vice Chair); Denise Syling; Sgt. Tracy Corbett; and
John Bernitz
III. Introduction of DWI Staff: HR introduced Margot Sykes and Valerie
Pendergrass. Everyone else from the department was working.
IV. Determination of Quorum: 5 council members must be present for a quorum and
there were 5 present. Determined by Valerie Pendergrass.
V. People in Attendance: 12 people were in attendance along with 5 Council
members totaling 17 people present.
VI. Old Business
a. Review and approval of minutes from March 10, 2011. It was moved by
Steve Odom that the minutes be accepted as written and a second by
Tracy Corbett. Motion carried.
VII. New Business
a. Review March 2011 Stats:
DWI Stats: Number of contacts with DWI clients this month: Includes Phone/Walk-
Ins/Court: 822; Number of drug screens administered by DWI staff: 22 , negative: 17 ,
positive: 5; Number of DWI offenders entered in the ADE Data Base: 18; Number of DWI
offenders currently being tracked (Active): 265;Number of clients that were closed
Successfully: 8 Unsuccessfully: 5 Dismissed: 1; Number of community service hours
completed this month: 72; Number of clients who failed to attend a sentenced activity:
Number of Bench Warrants filed in courts by DWI Staff : 3; Number of Court
Arraignments/Pre-trial conferences attended by DWI staff: 12; Number of Screenings/Pre
Sentence Screenings (drug/alcohol) this month: 11; Number of Sentencing/Intakes this
month: 18; HR advised that he felt the community service hours were much higher, but
somehow not reported.
Teen Court Stats: Number of community outreach prevention activities hosted by
DWI staff: 2; Number of school based DWI/Substance Abuse prevention activities: 2;
Number of schools which prevention activities occurred: 2; Number of students who
attended prevention activities: 356; Number of MIP (Minor in Possession) Alcohol/Drug
cases: 4 (3marijuana, 1 alcohol); Number of Minor Traffic cases: 10; Number of Minor
Criminal cases: 13; Number of Teen Court offenders active: 45 Pending: 14 ; Number
of Teen Court community service hours served: 226; Number of Teen Court
completions: 21; Number of teens referred back (Unsuccessful) to referral agency: 1
b. Review of Quarterly Stats:
c. Legislative Action: DUI Program cuts: The DWI Supervision unit had about
$20,000 cut from the Otero County budget to help finance the Drug court program, other
counties had much more taken from them all together there was $800,000 taken from the
DWI budget to finance the Drug Court Program.
1. Sharon Hodges asked about drug bust money. Drug Bust money is
Federal.
2. The question was asked what the county does for this program. HR
explained that this program is totally funded by the alcohol tax.
3. Sharon Hodges suggested that we develop a dialogue with the
commissioners, the program can’t afford to lose staff. DWI is paying the
county $10,000 a year for rent it was suggested that we possibly
approach the commission on reducing or eliminating that cost to help
with the loss to Drug Court since the county does help some programs.
HR doesn’t want to raise fees.
4. HR was requested to get a budget for the meeting next month. He will
have it for the meeting next month.
5. How successful is the DWI program at collecting it’s fees? We do quite
well. Not everyone pays, but most do. We can’t pull from the clients
commissary fund in jail.
VIII. Open Discussion
a. It was brought to the attention of the council that there would be a
program being help at Grace Methodist Church by Victor
DeNoble… he will be giving a speech on the brain call “Don’t buy
the lie.” It will be from 1-3 for professional and 5-8 for youth,
parents and public. Just need to show up you don’t need
reservations. They are feeing everyone dinner.
b. Saturday at the High School the Walk like MADD
c. VIP going on tonight.. Doors open at 6:30 meeting starts at 7:00
IX. Adjourned at 2:35 p.m