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Dossier · Who's Who
Christopher Schaljo-Hernandez
The county commission chair who presided over the September 19, 2025 IRB vote and signed the final agreements privately afterward, the central allegation of the Open Meetings Act suit.
At a glance
- Current role
- Commission Chair, Doña Ana County Commission[2]
- Category
- Elected official
- Jurisdiction
- Doña Ana County
- Verification
- confirmed — Two independent accounts agree
- In the record
- 4 sources · 3 connections · 3 dated entries
- Record id
- PJP4
Key facts
- 2025-08-26Signed the August 26, 2025 IRB inducement resolution as chair.[2]
- 2025-09-19Chaired the September 19, 2025 IRB approval and its closed session.[1]
- 2025-10-30Signed the final agreements outside public session on October 30, 2025; the package had grown from 359 pages to 1,583, and the word 'potable' had been added to the water cap.[3]
- The private signing after the vote is the central allegation of the Open Meetings Act suit.[1]
- 2026-06-02Not seeking reelection in 2026; Daisy Maldonado won the Democratic primary for the open seat.[4]
The record
Commission Chair, Dist 1 (D, elected 2022); signed the final 1,583-page agreements privately AFTER the Sept 19 2025 vote — central OMA allegation. Not seeking reelection in 2026 — the District 1 seat he holds, from which he chaired the $165B vote and signed the final agreements, is open in November.
Relationships · 3
In the timeline · 3
Dated entries in the record that involve this party. Appearing here is not an allegation — it means the graph draws an edge from this dossier to that event.
Sources · 4
- 1.filingNM Environmental Law Center — Open Meetings Act complaint recounting Chair Schaljo-Hernandez's closed-session motions (Feb. 6, 2026) ↗
- 2.primary-sourceDoña Ana County — IRB inducement resolution signed by Chair Christopher Schaljo-Hernandez (Aug. 26, 2025, mirrored at haussamen.com) ↗
- 3.newsHeath Haussamen — final Project Jupiter agreements grew exponentially after the vote (Dec. 18, 2025) ↗
- 4.newsOrgan Mountain News — Maldonado wins the D1 Democratic primary (Jun 3 2026) ↗
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