HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 13

53rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2018

INTRODUCED BY

Monica Youngblood and Jacob R. Candelaria

 

 

 

 

 

A JOINT MEMORIAL

RECOGNIZING THE NATIONAL HISPANIC CULTURAL CENTER FOR BECOMING THE MOST-VISITED HISPANIC OR LATINO CULTURAL INSTITUTION IN THE UNITED STATES.

 

     WHEREAS, the national Hispanic cultural center, the principal facility of the Hispanic cultural division of the cultural affairs department, opened in October 2000 and is devoted to the preservation, promotion and advancement of Hispanic arts, culture and humanities; and

     WHEREAS, the national Hispanic cultural center mounts over seven hundred events and many exhibits each year in its three theaters, art museum, library, classrooms and open spaces; and

     WHEREAS, over the past eighteen years, the national Hispanic cultural center has served over two million five hundred fifty thousand people at its campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico; and

     WHEREAS, in fiscal year 2017, the national Hispanic cultural center served over two hundred twenty-six thousand people on its campus and a total of two hundred eighty thousand people through on-site and off-site offerings combined; and

     WHEREAS, twenty-four thousand of those served by the national Hispanic cultural center in fiscal year 2017 were school-aged children who visited the center for educational programming with their schools and families; and

     WHEREAS, more than twenty-two thousand eight hundred of those served by the national Hispanic cultural center are overnight visitors to Albuquerque who contribute more than six million six hundred thousand dollars ($6,600,000) to the tourism economy of Bernalillo county annually in connection with their visits to the center; and

     WHEREAS, with its fiscal year 2017 visitorship, the national Hispanic cultural center is now the most-visited Hispanic or Latino cultural institution in the United States by more than twenty thousand people;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the national Hispanic cultural center be recognized for its achievement in becoming the most-visited Hispanic or Latino cultural institution in the United States; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be transmitted to the secretary of cultural affairs and to the board of directors of the national Hispanic cultural center.

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