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At its June 2 meeting, the Valencia County Commission unanimously approved a resolution asking the Belen Consolidated Schools to sell or gift the three-acre Bosque park to the county so it can continue maintaining it as a park for the community. ....
The governorâs veto pen caused some disappointment and ire in Valencia County last week, but that isnât stopping the push forward for a local health care facility. On Friday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham vetoed House Bill 240, which would have changed language in the stateâs Hospital Funding Act to allow a 24-hour emergency health care facility be licensed as a remote location of an acute care hospital. In her executive message for the veto, Lujan Grisham wrote the funds described in HB 240 were part of a property tax previously approved by Valencia County voters with the understanding that the funds would be used for specific projects. ....
A contract for a new feasibility study for a county hospital/24-hour heath care facility is half way to being executed. At Valencia County Commission meeting last month, county purchasing agent Rustin Porter told commissioners there were âsix good respondentsâ to the request for proposal the commission approved for a new study in June. While the county received $20,000 from the Legislature to fund the study, Rustin said the contractor the county was negotiating with put the cost of the study at $158,294. County Manager Danny Monette said when the commission authorized the RFP for a new study, the county requested $100,000 from the Legislature. ....
A proposed loan that would extend an existing property tax past its original end date has county taxpayers voicing their concerns to a local elected board â just not the right board. Nearly 100 people have sent written public comments to the Valencia County Commission opposing the Valencia Soil and Water Conservation Districtâs plan to borrow $540,000 from the New Mexico Finance Authority for a second building at the Whitfield Wildlife Conservation Area. The crux of their objections is the loan will extend the current quarter mill levy tax indefinitely, instead of it ending in 2023. The levy was passed in 2013 and set to run for 10 years, unless the district was indebted. ....