SANTA FE – The Legislative Finance Committee will hold its May meeting in Las Cruces with an agenda that includes reports on evaluations of the unemployment insurance system and the state Department of Information Technology, higher education’s role in preparing work-ready college students, and federal stimulus funds for childcare providers and others, along with local issues. Here is a statement from the finance committee:
“The committee is excited to get back on the road and into the communities of New Mexico after a year of remote meetings. Zoom makes the work doable but nothing is better than hearing directly from people throughout the state about the local and state issues that are important to them,” said Chairwoman Patty Lundstrom, D-Gallup.
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LAS CRUCES – The City of Las Cruces, citing the county s declining daily coronavirus case numbers and increasing inoculations against COVID-19, has ordered most employees to return to in-person work. The parking lot’s a lot more full today, City Manager Ifo Pili said during the Las Cruces City Council meeting Monday. More full today as it s been, definitely been since I ve been here.
The city s return-to-work plan, which began to be implemented May 3, is a phased approach which requires employees who previously were able to work remotely to come to work on site at least three days a week.
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LAS CRUCES – Doña Ana County Commission Chair Manny Sanchez has sent a letter to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham requesting the county receive a greater allotment of the state s vaccine distribution.
While the county entered Yellow Level restrictions Wednesday due to COVID-19 test positivity falling below 5 percent for 14 days, Sanchez still said he worries about cases being spread from neighboring Texas, which was allowed to open fully March 10.
Last week, Sanchez said he planned to propose a resolution before the county commission making the request for more vaccines, but he instead opted to do it through a letter sent March 10.