Work could begin on the installation of new stadium lighting and the building of a new weight room on the main Albuquerque campus of the University of New Mexico.
Funding for the projects, approved by members of the New Mexico State Legislature, has now been signed into law by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham.
UNM is also receiving $700,000 in support for work on the school’s outdoor stadium, The Pit.
Altogether, New Mexico’s largest institute of higher learning secured around $5 million coming out of Santa Fe to fund half a dozen facility projects. School officials had earlier requested $14 million for 13 individual projects.
The state’s second largest school, the Las Cruces-based New Mexico State University, has been approved for around $2.4 million in capital outlay funding. That funding will go for the building of new football turf and improvements to an existing softball facility.
NMSU officials had earlier asked for $15 million in capital outlay funding for nearly ten projects, including the building of new football locker room facilities.
By Garry Boulard
