A JOINT RESOLUTION
GRANTING PRIOR APPROVAL TO THE PROPERTY CONTROL DIVISION OF THE GENERAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT TO LEASE LAND AT THE LOS LUNAS MEDICAL CENTER TO VALENCIA COUNTY FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSTRUCTING A NEW COURTHOUSE.
WHEREAS, Section 13-6-3 NMSA 1978 requires ratification and approval of any lease of state-owned property for more than twenty-five years; and
WHEREAS, House Joint Resolution 14 of the first session of the forty-third legislature authorized the property control division of the general services department to lease for up to forty years all or part of real property at the Los Lunas medical center to the town of Los Lunas, Valencia county or the Los Lunas school district under certain conditions; and
WHEREAS, the master use plan required by House Joint Resolution 14 of the first session of the forty-third legislature is being implemented; and
WHEREAS, the following described property, consisting of approximately six and eight-tenths acres, at the Los Lunas medical center has been identified as an appropriate location to construct a new county courthouse:
A certain parcel of land being identified as a portion of Tract 108 as the same is shown and designated on Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District Property Map Number 69, and on a plat entitled "THE LOS LUNAS HOSPITAL AND TRAINING SCHOOL FIRE DISTRICT" filed in the office of the County Clerk of Valencia County, New Mexico in Volume C11, Folio 122 on August 3, 1978, situate within the San Clemente Land Grant, Projected Section 21, Township 7 North, Range 2 East, New Mexico Principal Meridian, Valencia County, New Mexico and being more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows:
Beginning at the southwest corner of the parcel herein described, a point on curve on the northerly right-of-way line of New Mexico State Road Number 6, as the same is shown and designated on New Mexico State Highway Commission Right-of-Way Map, New Mexico Project No. IM-025-4(90)204, TPO-1335(10)32 dated May 31, 1994, whence USC&GS brass cap stamped Luna-Gallery Reference Mark No. 2 bears N 63° 35' 45" W, a distance of 476.00 feet; thence,
N 18° 17' 10" E, a distance of 524.77 feet to the northwest corner of the parcel herein described; thence,
S 71° 40' 47" E, a distance of 176.11 feet to a point on curve; thence,
Southeasterly, a distance of 125.01 feet along the arc of a curve bearing to the left (said arc having a radius of 403.79 feet and a chord which bears S 14° 12' 15" E, a distance of 124.51 feet) to a point of compound curvature; thence,
Southeasterly, a distance of 269.62 feet along the arc of a curve bearing to the left (said arc having a radius of 1683.60 feet and a chord which bears S 27° 39' 40" E, a distance of 269.33 feet) to a point on curve; thence,
S 51° 48' 18" E, a distance of 195.01 feet to the northeast corner of the parcel herein described; thence,
S 05° 15' 59" W, a distance of 239.04 feet to a point; thence,
S 38° 11' 42" W, a distance of 146.71 feet to a point on said northerly right-of-way line of New Mexico State Road Number 6; thence,
continuing along said northerly right-of-way line of New Mexico State Road Number 6:
N 51° 48' 18" W, a distance of 20.00 feet to a point; thence,
S 38° 11' 42" W, a distance of 15.00 feet to a point; thence,
N 51° 48' 18" W, a distance of 508.55 feet to a point of curvature; thence,
Northwesterly, a distance of 127.87 feet along the arc of a curve bearing to the left (said arc having a radius of 1707.02 feet and a chord which bears N 53° 57' 25" W, a distance of 127.83 feet) to a point on curve and the southwest corner and point of beginning of the parcel herein described and containing 6.8606 acres more or less; and
WHEREAS, the town of Los Lunas, Valencia county, the Los Lunas school district, the department of health and the general services department have agreed that the location should be used for a county courthouse; and
WHEREAS, the general services department has agreed that it would be in the best interest of the state for the property control division to lease the described property at the Los Lunas medical center to Valencia county for a period of ninety-nine years for the purpose of constructing a new county courthouse;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that, notwithstanding the provisions of House Joint Resolution 14 of the first session of the forty-third legislature, the property control division of the general services department is authorized to lease the described property at the Los Lunas medical center for a period not exceeding ninety-nine years to Valencia county for the sole purpose of constructing a new county courthouse; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution be transmitted to the property control division of the general services department, the board of county commissioners of Valencia county and the thirteenth judicial district court.