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LAS CRUCES – The county is calling on the state to provide “adequate funding” to operations at Spaceport America and to stop relying on excess gross receipts tax revenue to cover its operational costs. The move comes on the heels of a forensic audit report which accused the spaceport’s former director, Dan Hicks, of misusing tax dollars among other allegations of violating criminal and administrative statutes.
At its Dec. 8 meeting, the Doña Ana County Commission unanimously approved a resolution that calls on the state to stop allowing excess GRT revenue to pay for spaceport expenses the county argues it had not pledged to cover.