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Show Transcript KALYN: ACTION 7 NEWS REPORTER ANGEL SALCEDO SPOKE WITH OFFICIALS ABOUT HOW OUR CITY’S INFRASTRUCTURE IS DEALING WITH THE RAIN. ANGEL: OUR STREETS ARE MAJOR AGE RANGE SYSTEM, AND WHEN THEY PLAN ON BUILDING ON TWO. IT IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWO.RD WE IT IS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWO.RD WANT THE MOISTURE, WE NEED THE RAIN, RIGHT? BUT THEN IT ALL COMES AT ONE TIME AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, YOU ARE NOT ABLTOE DRIVE FOR ABOUT 20 MINUTES BECAUSE OF ALL THE WATER. ANGELA: JOHNNY MILLER WORKS FOR THE MUNICIPAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT. WE WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW WHEN UYO GET THAT MUCH RAIN THAT QUICKLY, I DON’T KNOW OF YAN MUNICIPALITY IN THE COUNTRY THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO KEEP UP. LGEAN: HE SAYS OUR CITY’S TO DEAL WITH THE FLOODING CAN BE HAMPERED BY TRH.AS IT PREVENTS THE WATER FROM GOING INTO THE
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Albuquerque City Council members approved an ordinance on Monday night, asking voters for a new gas tax.In a narrow vote of 5-4, members voted in favor of council bill O-20-18 that would impose a gas tax of 2 cents per gallon on all gas sold at stations within city boundaries. This money would be used to rehabilitate public roads in the city.“I’m not a great advocate of raising any kind of taxes, but this is the most fair - that I’ve been speaking about publicly for 5 years at least,” said City Councilor Trudy Jones. “As our expenses go up in the city, the cost to maintain and add new roads to our city is astronomical.”“You’re always trying to keep up,” said Johnny Chandler with the Department of Municipal Development. “If we had $500 million right now at one time, that’s about how much money we would need to make every road in the city of Albuquerque as good as possible.”About $500 million is how much Chandler said the city needs. Right now, they’re on
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Sandra F. Penn emails, “I am in the North Campus Community. We are watching a lot of UNMH construction but there has been no communication to us of what is being built and what streets are being changed. Is it possible that the Journal might do a story on the hospital’s current grand plan? It would be greatly appreciated.”
Mark Rudi at University of New Mexico Health Sciences has the scoop.
“We are very excited about this project, which will help us continue to provide high quality care to New Mexicans,” he says, “The University of New Mexico Hospital Tower is an important and necessary initiative that will add much-needed capacity. The new tower will add 96 intensive care inpatient beds, 18 operating rooms and a new adult emergency department. Construction of the tower is scheduled to begin in June and is scheduled to be completed by fall of 2024.