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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Economic development was the star of the show during Monday’s Albuquerque City Council meeting, with most of the votes centering on large projects that sailed through without dissent.
“This is a great agenda,” Councilor Diane Gibson remarked at one point. “I wish we had agendas like this every single meeting.”
El Encanto better known to most of us as the tortilla-making, chile-processing Bueno Foods had two pieces of business on the agenda. The council approved both: $10 million in tax-exempt, city industrial revenue bonds and the city’s management of Bueno’s state-funded $500,000 Local Economic Development Act grant.
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By Cedar Attanasio, Associated Press
Middle and high school students will learn remotely indefinitely in New Mexico while the freeze on limited K-3 and special education programs will end sooner in January than education officials previously said.
The minority of elementary schools that have opened hybrid learning programs can resume on Jan. 18. K-3 and special education students can return to a 5:1 student-teacher ratio earlier that month.
In back-to-back presentations to the Legislature and members of the media Friday, the Public Education Department says it is engaging more absentee students and accounting for more of the 12,000 students it had reported as “missing” from public school rolls.
Albuquerque to consider smaller emergency homeless shelters
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ALBUQUERQUE – City officials in New Mexico have scrapped a plan to build one large 300-bed homeless shelter and are now considering a series of smaller facilities with at least 100 beds each throughout the community.
Mayor Tim Keller did not identify on Thursday how many emergency shelter beds would be included in one of the locations it is attempting to buy, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
Keller said the plan was “fluid” because the city has not yet purchased the former Lovelace hospital in Albuquerque.