A two-year college based in Farmington, New Mexico is receiving more than $2.7 million in state funding for a variety of campus projects.
Earlier this year members of the New Mexico State Legislature approved two separate capital outlay projects for San Juan College, which is located at 4601 College Boulevard and has an enrollment of more than 5,800 students.
The first outlay of $1.6 million will target work at the Henderson Fine Arts Center, which serves as the home to the school’s fine and performing art departments and houses an 800-seat auditorium.
The $1.6 million will go for the planning, design and replace of the building’s roof.
A second outlay of $1.1 million will fund general improvements on the school’s south campus, located at 800 S. Hutton Road.
Both outlays were signed into law by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham.
Other big-ticket items that were submitted to the legislature by the New Mexico Higher Education Department and subsequently approved by the Governor include the just under $1.1 million for the planning, designing, and construction of infrastructure improvements and upgrades to emergency evacuation routes at Santa Fe Community College.
Nearly $1.1 million was approved for the design and construction of a building housing the applied technology program on the Rio Rancho campus of Central New Mexico Community College.
Exactly $850,000 was approved for the planning, design, and renovation of the Advanced Technology Center on the main Albuquerque campus of CNM, along with nearly $463,000 to upgrade student services facilities, also on CNM’s main campus.
Lujan Grisham additionally approved $800,000 for the campus-wide replacement of heating and air conditioning systems at the Southeast New Mexico College in Carlsbad; along with $750,000 to plan, design and build facilities housing the Allied Health program at Luna Community College in Las Vegas.
All the higher education capital outlay funding, by law, is scheduled to be spent between this year and 2027.
By Garry Boulard
