Funding has now been secured for the construction completion of a new school on the main Albuquerque campus of Central New Mexico Community College.
Members of the New Mexico State Legislature several weeks ago voted in favor of a $7.3 million dollar capital outlay to fund the completion of the Applied Technology facilities.
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has subsequently signed that legislation into law.
The language in what was House Bill 505 specifically requires the $7.3 million to be spent to “plan, design, construction, furnish and equip” the Applied Technologies project.
Last fall voters in New Mexico approved a nearly $216 million general obligation bond, with some $15 million targeting the new trades and applied technology facility at CNM.
The school, which was launched in 1964 and has a current enrollment of around 22,000 students, has in recent months has seen additional new construction in the form of a 43,000 square foot Student Services Building, with work launching earlier this year.
By Garry Boulard
