Nearly one hundred senior recreation centers across the state of New Mexico are in line for a series of facility upgrades, depending upon the fortunes of a big bond proposal in the November election.
Altogether, some $30.7 million will be spent in funding heading for the New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department on the way to being allotted for the various projects.
Those projects were earlier approved by members of the New Mexico State Legislature.
Among the largest projects, some $3.1 million is slated for the planning and construction work at the Rio Bravo Senior Center, located at 3910 Isleta Boulevard in Albuquerque.
Just over $3 million will go for upgrade work at the Sage Cafe center, located at 6121 Reynolds Drive in Las Cruces; while exactly $1.5 million is slated for work at the Barelas Senior Center, at 714 7th Street SW near downtown Albuquerque.
Smaller projects to be funded via the general obligation bond, which will appear as bond question number one on the November ballot, include $48,000 for renovations to the South Valley Multipurpose Senior Center at 2008 Larrazola Road SW in Albuquerque; and $29,000 targeting code compliance work, among other things, at the Navajo Nation’s Chichiltah Senior Center in Gallup.
Created by state lawmakers in 2004, the New Mexico Aging and Long-Term Services Department is tasked with, among other things, encouraging “healthy and productive aging,” and oversees a vast statewide network of 240 senior centers of various sizes and missions.
By Garry Boulard
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