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0002|                    SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 67
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0003|     42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND
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0004|     SESSION, 1996
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0005|                         INTRODUCED BY
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0006|                          GLORIA HOWES
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0011|     
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0012|                        A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0013|     REQUESTING THE STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT AND
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0014|     THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND
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0015|     ADMINISTRATION TO STUDY THE STATE'S ADMINISTRATION OF THE LOCAL
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0016|     GOVERNMENTS ROAD FUND PROGRAM RELATIVE TO FUNDING, APPROVAL OF
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0017|     PROJECTS, CONSTRUCTION, FINAL ACCEPTANCE AND REPORTING.
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0018|       
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0019|       WHEREAS, the legislature of the state of New Mexico is
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0020|     committed to advancing the state's economic development by
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0021|     improving the state's highway and transportation system; and
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0022|       WHEREAS, the legislature appropriates approximately twenty
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0023|     million dollars ($20,000,000) annually, based upon projections
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0024|     of available revenues, to the state highway and transportation
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0025|     department to be distributed to local government entities in
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0001|     accordance with a predetermined funding formula, administered on
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0002|     a reimbursement basis; and
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0003|       WHEREAS, the number of requests for projects from local
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0004|     governments is increasing annually;
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0005|       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0006|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the state highway and transportation
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0007|     department and the local government division of the department
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0008|     of finance and administration be requested to study methods of
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0009|     administering the state's local governments road fund program;
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0010|     and
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0011|       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the study, as part of the
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0012|     review of the overall administration of the program:
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0013|            A.  determine whether the state highway and
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0014|     transportation department should continue to administer the
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0015|     program or whether the authority and responsibility should be
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0016|     with the local government division of the department of finance
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0017|     and administration;
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0018|            B.  review the concept of administering the local
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0019|     governments road fund as a grant program;
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0020|            C.  review the process of granting match and
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0021|     equipment waivers to local entities demonstrating financial
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0022|     hardships;
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0023|            D.  review the requirement for a local match of the
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0024|     school bus route program;
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0025|            E.  review the redistribution of uncommitted,
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0001|     unencumbered or unexpended balances remaining in the program;
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0002|            F.  review the process of granting time limit
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0003|     extensions to contracts or the need for time limits on
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0004|     contracts; and
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0005|            G.  review the current planning process and the need
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0006|     for long-range five-year plans; and
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0007|       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the study examine provisions of
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0008|     the Procurement Code and other constitutional and statutory
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0009|     provisions that hinder or help the process of administering the
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0010|     local governments road fund program in the most efficient and
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0011|     cost-effective manner; and
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0012|       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the state highway and
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0013|     transportation department and the local government division of
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0014|     the department of finance and administration report their
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0015|     findings and recommendations to the first session of the forty-third legislature; and
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0016|       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0017|     transmitted to the secretaries of highway and transportation and
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0018|     finance and administration.
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0019|                                - 3 -    
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0020|   
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0021|                    FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0022|                      SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0023|   
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0025|                                              February 3, 1996
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0002|   Mr. President:
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0003|   
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0004|     Your RULES COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred
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0005|   
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0006|                    SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 67
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0007|   
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0008|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0009|   recommendation that it DO PASS.
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0011|                              Respectfully submitted,
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0012|   
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0015|                              __________________________________
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0016|                              Gloria Howes, Chairman 
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0020|   Adopted_______________________ Not Adopted_______________________
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0021|             (Chief Clerk)                          (Chief Clerk)
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0025|                     Date ________________________
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0003|   The roll call vote was <u> 6 </u> For <u> 0 </u> Against
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0004|   Yes:  6
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0005|   No:        0
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0006|   Excused:   EJennings, Wray, Donisthorpe
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0007|   Absent:    0
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0010|   SJ067RU1
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