Plans are underway for an upgrading of a wood shop that is a part of the Onate Mountain High School in Las Cruces.
The project for the facility, formerly known as the Onate High School, has received $300,000 in state funds.
Those funds are part of a larger $28.2 million in capital outlay spending approved earlier this year for Dona Ana County by members of the New Mexico State Legislature and signed into law by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham.
Located at 5700 Mesa Grande Drive, the Onate Mountain High School has an emphasis on workforce training, including metals and woods technology within the school’s residential construction courses.
Among the other Dona Ana capital outlay projects securing funding is work on the Brahman diversion channel, which received $3.1 million; and a new warehouse facility and central office for the Lower Rio Grande Public Water Works Authority.
The name of the Onate High School was changed last summer after students and residents complained that the Spanish conquistador Juan de Onate had violently seized land belonging to Native Americans in the 14th century and should not be so honored.
By Garry Boulard