Over the course of the 2023 New Mexico State Fair, officers from the Albuquerque Police Department's Southeast and Foothills Proactive Response Teams conducted many successful operations.
That piece should be done by this fall.
But when the city council recently rewrote the $140 million infrastructure plan going to voters in November, it cut $4 million of the $9 million Mayor Tim Keller had proposed for the project. That leaves the second phase – a complete replacement of the existing building and the addition of a large community room and energy efficient systems – up in the air.
“We’re able to totally finish phase 1 and make it usable, and that’s great. But (for) phase 2 we’ll need the entire amount of money whenever it’s available,” Keller said Monday at a news conference touting the project.