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Governor Puts All Counties In Least-Restrictive Virus Status – Associated Press Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday issued a new public health order
Governor Puts All Counties In Least-Restrictive Virus Status – Associated Press
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Wednesday issued a new public health order that places each of New Mexico s 33 counties in the least-restrictive category when it comes to pandemic-related mandates.
While state officials pointed to the decreased risk of COVID-19 transmission statewide, Lujan Grisham s administration acknowledged that five rural counties would have slipped back into the more restrictive yellow category within the state s color-coded risk system had it not been for the new health order.
The governor has set a goal of ending the color-coded system at the end of June, as long as 60% of residents are fully vaccinated by then.
The Las Cruces Public Schools Board of Education has chosen an internal candidate for its next leader.
Interim Superintendent Ralph Ramos will be awarded a contract for the job, allowing “interim” to be removed from his title. The contract is two years, ending June 2, 2023. Ramos will make $180,000 a year.
Ramos was a Las Cruces middle school principal before he was chosen to lead the district.
The other finalist for the position was Dr. Oscar Rico, an administrator with the Canutillo Independent School District.
School Board member Terrie Dallman introduced a motion to delay the decision until next week. But the resolution did not receive a vote after no one on the board seconded her motion. Dallman was the lone school board member to vote against appointing Ramos as Superintendent.