On March 10, 2022, Pete Dinelli  was the speaker at the Morning Meeting for All Del Sol Rotarians.  Pete has had a 40 year career in Public Service including being an Assistant District Attorney, Alderman and Director of Public Safety. He has also been an Assistant City Attorney. Pete is a licensed attorney and has also served as an Assistant Attorney General. He currently is in the private practice of law.

 

 He has his own blog, Pete Dinelli.com.  His talk was about the background that led up to the Consent Decree between  the City of Albuquerque and the US Department of Justice relating to issues with the Albuquerque Police Department. He gave a very thorough history of the issues going back to 2005 when two APD Officers were killed by mentally ill John Hyde.  Pete said this had a profound effect on many aspects of the Departments relationship with mentally ill persons.  He said that the incident switched the Departments focus from Community Policing to a "Survival Mode" which led up to the decree. He said that it has effected morale on the department and helped precipitate a drop in uniformed strength from 1100 officers to 850 officers.  

 

It was a very interesting presentation on an important topic.

 

Greg Hallstrom, chair of the Ramps Project said that  next Saturday the team will meet at the Ramps warehouse to assemble five ramps.  

 

On Tuesday, March 15 at 7:00AM at Jimmys Cafe and on ZOOM the RDS Board will have its Regular monthly meeting.  All Red Badge Members are reminded that they need to attend a Board Meeting as part of their Blue Badge requirements.

 

Also on Tuesday at 5:30pm at Nexus Brewery and on ZOOM, Chris Glidden will be the featured speaker on the Nepal Project which she will be visiting for two months. It promises to be a very interesting meeting.

 

On Thursday, March 17 at 7:00AM at  Jimmy's Cafe the featured speaker will by Danny Gonzalez, Head Football Coach of the UNM Lobo Football Team.  This promise to be an exceptional program of interest to all Rotarians especially Lobo fans.

 

All members are reminded to get their table reservations for the Charity Ball into Ron Hensley, their sponsorships in to Willie Edwards and their  Auction Items in to Nicole Schedlbauer.  The Ball date is April 23, 2022