Grant County commissioners heard a bevy of reports during their work session Tuesday, and held a long discussion during commissioner comments regarding the just-proposed legislative disbursement of the state’s federal American Rescue Plan Act funds. House Bill 2, a general appropriations bill introduced during the special session of the New Mexico Legislature which began Monday, proposes transferring remaining ARPA money to the general fund, and would appropriate roughly $462 million …
There is $91.2 million in the N.M. Unit Fund as of Sept. 30, a roughly $10 million increase over last year, according to a New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission report delivered to the state Legislature on Thursday. ISC Director Rolf Schmidt-Petersen told the Daily Press that the fund’s growth was “thanks to investment returns.” The original $66 million N.M. Unit Fund was created as part of the 2004 federal Arizona …
As it contemplates a separate application process for water projects which may be eligible for funding through the approximately $82 million N.M. Unit Fund, the New Mexico Water Trust Board is seeking comments from residents, governments and quasi-governmental organizations like ditch associations, mutual domestic water associations and watershed districts within the four southwest New Mexico counties of Grant, Hidalgo, Catron and Luna. According to Southwest New Mexico Council …
With the assistance of the Southwest New Mexico Council of Governments, Gila Regional Medical Center has dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s on two applications for a combined $1.6 million in federal grant money for two new ambulances and, separately, a variety of hospital equipment. The grants are administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture under its Emergency Rural Health Care Grant Program, which allocated a total of $3 …
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