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A MEMORIAL

REQUESTING SUPPORT FOR THE SANTA FE REGIONAL

TELECOMMUNICATIONS COALITION.

WHEREAS, the Santa Fe regional telecommunications

coalition was created to organize primary telecommunications

bandwidth users in the Santa Fe region with participation from

Santa Fe county, the city of Santa Fe, Santa Fe community

college and the university of New Mexico-New Mexico lambda

rail or a successor agency or organization; and

WHEREAS, enhanced telecommunications infrastructure

meets regional and local economic development goals,

enhancement of regional emergency services, e-government,

telehealth, education and research opportunities and improved

quality of life for the Santa Fe region; and

WHEREAS, the Santa Fe regional telecommunications

coalition is a model for regional telecommunications

infrastructure initiatives that can be adopted by other

regions, counties and municipalities and support for this

model would benefit both the Santa Fe region and the state of

New Mexico;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the secretary

of information technology be requested to work with the Santa

Fe regional telecommunications coalition; and

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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the governor's science and

technology advisor be requested to work with the Santa Fe

regional telecommunications coalition to arrange for the

installation of a gateway to the New Mexico computing

applications center at Santa Fe community college as a

connection to the New Mexico lambda rail for the Santa Fe

regional telecommunications coalition region; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be

transmitted to the secretary of information technology, the

governor's science and technology advisor, the New Mexico

computing applications center at Santa Fe community college

and the Santa Fe regional telecommunications coalition.