Around $27.3 million in new funding may soon be available for a series of building and infrastructure projects on the campuses of Eastern New Mexico University.
The New Mexico Higher Education Department is recommending that state lawmakers, when they meet in January for the 2024 legislative session, approve funding for five separate and long-planned ENMU projects.
The largest capital outlay request, at $12 million, is for construction of a new student academic services building at the school’s main Portales campus. That funding would go for the planning, design, and building of the structure.
The main campus may also see construction of the phase one work on a new $15 million Agriculture Science and Art annex building for which lawmakers are being asked to approve $5 million.
Up to $5.3 million may be allotted for the $7.1 million construction of an addition to the Aircraft Maintenance Technology building on the school’s Roswell campus. Another $2 million will target the construction of a health sciences center, also in Roswell.
Plans to demolish one structure and build a new $6 million workforce training facility on ENMU’s Ruidoso campus may also be in line for a $3 million capital outlay.
The three ENMU campuses enjoy a total enrollment of more than 7,200 students.
By Garry Boulard
