The council also requested the committee to meet at least once every quarter. Council members also appointed McKinney, Interim City Manager Octavio Garcia, Councilman Johnny Terrazas and Mayor Ray Ortega to serve on the site selection committee for the new Pecos Municipal Law Enforcement Center. The four men will join James Parkey, president of Corplan Corrections and U.S. Marshall Billy Johnson to meet and review various sites for the new facility. The city is planning to build a new facility, which would serve as the Pecos Police Headquarters along with housing about 100 inmates for the U.S. Marshal's Service who are awaiting trial in U.S. District Court in Pecos. Florez said that 642 individuals have already cast their ballots by personal appearance, as of Monday.
Today is also the last day for voters to request ballots by mail.
The deadline to apply is 5 p.m. at the County Clerk's office in the Reeves County Courthouse. Early voting averaged about 95 people a day during the first week it was offered, election judge Norma Briceno said last week, but fewer than 50 took advantage of Saturday's early voting period at the courthouse. With no local contested races and only one major contested area race, for the 23 rd Congressional District, early voting for the election a week from today has run well below the totals for the March Democratic Party primary, but is at about the same as for the April runoff elections. Early voting will continue until Friday at 5 p.m. on the first floor of the Reeves County Courthouse. On Tuesday, Nov. 7, all 12 county polling sites will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for people to cast their ballots.