CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO -- An election in Clovis to make a decision on an affordable housing issue was Tuesday night.
Supporters said that plan would fill the need for affordable housing and rental units for low-income families.
Mayor Gayla Brumfield told us one reason this issue is so hot is that the city was not allowed to donate hotel Clovis to a private investor because of a constitutional amendment.
Passing Tuesday’s issue would have given the city an exemption to do that, but the voters saw things differently.
That housing plan was turned down decisively, by almost six hundred votes after a group called the high plains patriots took up a petition that led to this election.
Mayor Brumfield told us Tuesday night she was very disappointed by the decision of the voters to turn down this housing plan.
She says Clovis, as a city, needs to lend a helping hand to its low-income families, but she also says this will not be the city's last effort.
"Well it makes me feel disappointed, I'm disappointed in that we didn't get it, and you know we've worked so hard for affordable housing, we've worked hard for our community and we've worked hard for the hotel."
mayor Brumfield says, as of tonight, she doesn't know exactly what the next step is; however, she was very emphatic when she told us, as long as she is the mayor, that hotel will not just sit there for *another* thirty years.
