0001|                    HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 77
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0002|     42ND LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION,
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0003|     1996
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0004|                         INTRODUCED BY
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0005|                      JAMES ROGER MADALENA
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0010|     
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0011|                        A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0012|     REQUESTING GUBERNATORIAL DESIGNATION OF THE SANTA ANA SOCCER
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0013|     TOURNAMENT COMPLEX AS THE OFFICIAL SOCCER TOURNAMENT COMPLEX IN
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0014|     NEW MEXICO.
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0015|     
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0016|       WHEREAS, soccer is the number one participation sport among
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0017|     children in New Mexico; and
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0018|       WHEREAS, soccer is played by a growing number of adults;
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0019|     and
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0020|       WHEREAS, soccer is played competitively among children and
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0021|     adults in New Mexico; and
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0022|       WHEREAS, hosting national, regional and state soccer
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0023|     tournaments is a source of substantial economic benefit for
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0024|     Sandoval and Bernalillo counties and the state of New Mexico;
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0025|     and
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0001|       WHEREAS, phase I of the New Mexico soccer tournament
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0002|     complex in Santa Ana has been completed, consisting of eight
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0003|     soccer fields, two of which are lighted; and
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0004|       WHEREAS, the New Mexico legislature appropriated six
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0005|     hundred thousand dollars ($600,000), which has been matched by
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0006|     Sandoval county and private contributions; and
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0007|       WHEREAS, the phase II construction will include fourteen
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0008|     additional soccer fields, six of them lighted, and is expected
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0009|     to be completed by 1998; and
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0010|       WHEREAS, the Santa Ana soccer tournament complex is the
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0011|     only appropriate facility in the state for holding major soccer
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0012|     tournaments;
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0013|       NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0014|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the governor be requested to designate
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0015|     the Santa Ana soccer tournament complex in Sandoval county as
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0016|     the official soccer tournament complex for the state of New
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0017|     Mexico; and
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0018|       BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be sent
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0019|     to the county commissions of both Bernalillo and Sandoval
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0020|     counties, the mayor and city council of Albuquerque, the mayor
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0021|     and town council of the town of Bernalillo, the mayor and city
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0022|     council of Rio Rancho, the pueblo of Santa Ana, the secretary of
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0023|     economic development and the secretary of tourism.
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0024|                                                       State of New Mexico
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0025|                    House of Representatives
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0001|   
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0002|                    FORTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE
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0003|                      SECOND SESSION, 1996
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0006|                                             February 13, 1996
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0007|   
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0009|   Mr. Speaker:
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0010|   
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0011|       Your GOVERNMENT AND URBAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, to
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0012|   whom has been referred
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0013|   
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0014|                   HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 77
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0016|                                 has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0017|   recommendation that it DO PASS.
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0018|   
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0019|                                Respectfully submitted,
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0020|   
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0023|                                <u>                                 
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<u></u>0024| <u>  </u>                            Lynda M. Lovejoy, Chairwoman
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0002|   Adopted <u>                    </u>    Not Adopted <u>                     
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0004|            (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
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0006|                      Date <u>            </u>
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0008|   The roll call vote was<u> 6 </u> For<u> 0 </u> Against
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0009|   Yes:          6
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0010|   Excused: Gentry, Hobbs, Macko, Pederson, Taylor, J.G.
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0011|   Absent:  None
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0015|   HJ077GU1
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