0001|                       HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 42
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0002|     43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                           NICK L. SALAZAR
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     SUPPORTING LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY'S SCHOOL-TO-WORK
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0012|     EFFORTS.
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0013|     
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0014|          WHEREAS, Los Alamos national laboratory, the university
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0015|     of California, the United States department of energy and
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0016|     their business partners have made significant efforts to
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0017|     stimulate economic activity in northern New Mexico; and
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0018|          WHEREAS, part of that economic activity has resulted in
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0019|     the development of the Los Alamos research park, which will
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0020|     attract high technology businesses to northern New Mexico and
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0021|     generate an increased number of job choices; and
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0022|          WHEREAS, the state of New Mexico recently allocated
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0023|     seventeen million dollars ($17,000,000) to promote work force
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0024|     development, which is an essential component of successful
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0025|     economic development measures; and
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0001|          WHEREAS, Los Alamos national laboratory has been actively
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0002|     conducting educational work force development programs at
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0003|     elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels for many years
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0004|     to help increase student interest in math, science and
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0005|     technology; and
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0006|          WHEREAS, Los Alamos national laboratory also works
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0007|     directly with regional two-year community colleges to help
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0008|     develop curriculum and to educate faculty in areas of
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0009|     technology useful to the laboratory work force and beneficial
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0010|     to citizens seeking employment with the laboratory; and
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0011|          WHEREAS, the laboratory also hires over five hundred
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0012|     undergraduate student interns each summer, providing them with
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0013|     experience in the fields of math, science and engineering and
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0014|     many of those students return after graduation to work
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0015|     permanently for the laboratory;
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0016|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0017|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that schools, colleges and nonprofit
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0018|     entities in northern New Mexico that receive work force
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0019|     development funds coordinate their efforts in working with the
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0020|     laboratory and its business partners to assess the types of
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0021|     employment available through the laboratory, the skills
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0022|     necessary for that employment and to continue nurturing
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0023|     interests of students from kindergarten through high school in
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0024|     these jobs and skills; and
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0025|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that regional higher education
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0001|     institutions in northern New Mexico, particularly northern New
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0002|     Mexico community college, Santa Fe community college and the
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0003|     university of New Mexico at Los Alamos continue to focus their
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0004|     curriculum development on skills and knowledge that will lead
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0005|     directly to employment at the laboratory; and
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0006|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the regional higher education
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0007|     institutions and Los Alamos national laboratory present the
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0008|     efforts of their cooperation and curriculum coordination to
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0009|     the economic development, science and technology committee no
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0010|     later than October 1, 1998; and
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0011|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0012|     sent to the presidents of northern New Mexico community
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0013|     college, Santa Fe community college and the university of New
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0014|     Mexico at Los Alamos, the director of Los Alamos national
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0015|     laboratory, the commission on higher education and the
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0016|     legislative education study committee.
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