NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY SECURES CAPITAL OUTLAY FUNDING

Nearly two dozen New Mexico State University facility and infrastructure projects have been approved for funding by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham.

Those projects comprise around $4.2 million in funding out of a total of $6.1 million initially passed by state lawmakers in this year’s regular session of the New Mexico State Legislature.

The largest ticket item is seeing $2 million for the phase two renovation of the New Mexico Department of Agriculture’s research facility on NMSU’s Las Cruces campus.

Additional approved funding includes $400,000 for the planning and design of the Creative Media Institute; $575,000 for lighting at the school’s soccer complex; and $250,000 for the renovation of the school’s Autism Diagnostic Center.

Some $1 million has also been given a green light for a new scoreboard and videos services at the school’s Pan American Center; while the Alamogordo campus is receiving $400,000 for an elevator replacement project at the David H. Townsend Library.

The school’s popular Sunspot Solar Observatory in the town of Sunspot is additionally receiving $100,000, mostly for facility renovation work.
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The Governor vetoed both $732,000 in spending for improvements to the school’s Water Research and Education Lab and $800,000 for an expansion of NMSU’s weather network service.

​By Garry Boulard

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