Gallup City and Community Meet & Greet at El Morro Events Center

The City of Gallup is scheduling a City + Community Meet & Greet at the El Morro Events Center, 210 S. 2nd St., on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026, from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., giving residents a one-hour opportunity to meet staff from the Electric, Public Works and Planning & Zoning departments. The event appears as a Civic Alert on the city site and as a Public Notice in the Gallup "What's Happening" feed.

VisitGallup’s event listing frames the meeting as part of a monthly engagement effort and invites broad participation, stating, "City of Gallup invites the community to connect, ask questions, and help launch monthly Community Meetings." The same VisitGallup posting adds, "Join us for a City of Gallup Meet & Greet and connect directly with City departments," and also includes the line, "This event is the second monthly Community Meeting, creating a space for residents to ask questions, share concerns, and stay informed." The Gallup municipal notice lists the event title as "Public Notice - City + Community Meet and Greet" and identifies the City of Gallup as the organizer.

Logistics published by VisitGallup list the El Morro Events Center address as 210 S. 2nd St., Gallup, NM 87301, and note that the facility opened in 2015 as a multi-purpose meeting venue. The VisitGallup listing provides a mapped location and tourism contact information - 505-863-1227 and TOURISM@GALLUPNM.GOV - in its footer. The city’s online Civic Alerts appear on a page path shown as CivicAlerts.aspx in the municipal site navigation.

Municipal postings on the city's "What's Happening" feed also include an emergency alert for a scheduled water outage on Rico Street and NM Highway 118 on the afternoon of Feb. 18, 2026. The emergency notice does not state whether the Rico Street - NM Hwy 118 outage will affect the El Morro Events Center or attendees at the 5:30 p.m. meet-and-greet; Gallupnm and VisitGallup provide no operational linkage between the two notices.

VisitGallup’s copy contains two directly quoted framings - an appeal to "help launch monthly Community Meetings" and the assertion that "This event is the second monthly Community Meeting" - language that leaves the series' status unclear in published listings. City of Gallup communications have posted the Civic Alert and the Public Notice, and municipal and tourism pages list the event time, location and participating departments, but the city has not published an agenda, names of attending staff, press arrangements, or whether the meeting is the inaugural session in the series. Reporters and residents seeking clarification can contact the tourism office at 505-863-1227 or TOURISM@GALLUPNM.GOV and consult the City of Gallup Civic Alerts for updates.