If at first you don’t succeed — try again.

Bernalillo County Commissioners Steven Michael Quezada and Walt Benson will try to get a controversial resolution on the agenda for the commission’s Tuesday meeting to allow it to revisit the process to hire a county manager.

The two commissioners will need some help from their colleagues to put a new resolution on the agenda to establish a process for the selection of the county manager. In addition, they will try to get a recent memorandum from the county’s compliance officer on the agenda, which recommended the commission redo an earlier vote for a competing resolution. Current County Manager Julie Morgas Baca will retire at the end of June.

Quezada left that meeting in a huff during a discussion of that resolution introduced by Chairwoman Barbara Baca. The resolution passed without Quezada present. He also was not present when his resolution was up for discussion, and it died for a lack of a second.

In the meantime, a closed meeting of the county manager search committee that was approved at the last meeting will hold its first meeting on Thursday.

In other Bernalillo County business, commissioners are set to:

• Authorize $49.5 million in taxable industrial revenue bonds for Array Technologies, which provides support for solar farm installation and operation. Another $250,000 in Local Economic Development Act funding is set to be approved as well.
• Reallocate $9.5 million in the American Rescue Plan Act, informally known as COVID funding. Of that pot, $5.2 million will go toward improving the Rio Bravo Boulevard and Second Street intersection, $3 million will go toward improving the Alameda Drain Trail and $750,000 will be used for the South Valley Economic Development Center addition. 
• Discuss how to decriminalize mental illness by looking at “The Miami Model” which diverts defendants with mental illness away from the criminal justice system and into comprehensive community-based treatment and support services.
• Adopt the annual, nonprohibitive license tax in the unincorporated areas of the county on liquor licenses. The tax is proposed to be $250 per license, $150 per hearing and canopy tax and a $25 per day special permit.