Funding has been secured on the state level for a project that will see the construction of a new police station in the city of Farmington.
Members of the New Mexico State Legislature have approved a capital outlay of $3 million to get the facility built, one of nearly fifty projects approved for San Juan County.
Altogether, lawmakers, and subsequently Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, gave a thumbs-up to nearly $28 million in new projects for the state’s most northwestern county.
Those projects include the replacement of a main water tank in the city of Aztec, which is receiving $2.5 million; and the replacement of a Bloomfield Irrigation District siphon, securing just over $2.9 million in funding.
Other San Juan big ticket items: the construction of a new dorm for Navajo Preparatory School in Farmington, with $1.9 million in funding; $1 million for the building of an incident command center in Shiprock; and $840,000 for the building of a heating and cooling system at the San Juan Regional Medical Center, also in Farmington.
Just under $2 million is going for the improvements to County Road 4990, which runs east to west through the city of Bloomfield.
By Garry Boulard
