HB0004

HOUSE BILL 4

45th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2001

INTRODUCED BY

Daniel P. Silva

AN ACT

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE OPERATION OF THE STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

Section 1. SHORT TITLE.--This act may be cited as the "State Highway and Transportation Department Appropriation Act".

Section 2. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the State Highway and Transportation Department Appropriation Act:

A. "federal funds" means any payment by the United States government to state government or state agencies, except those payments made in accordance with the federal Mineral Lands Leasing Act and the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972, as amended;

B. "general fund" means that fund created by Section 6-4-2 NMSA 1978 and includes the severance tax income fund and the federal Mineral Lands Leasing Act receipts; and

C. "other state funds" means:

(1) unencumbered, nonreverting balances in state agency accounts, other than internal service funds accounts, appropriated by the State Highway and Transportation Department Appropriation Act;

(2) all revenue available to state agencies from sources other than the general fund, internal service funds, interagency transfers and federal funds; and

(3) all revenue the use of which is restricted by statute or agreement.

Section 3. FORMAT.--The general format of the appropriations set forth in the State Highway and Transportation Department Appropriation Act with respect to symbols used, column headings and stating of amounts is that used in the General Appropriation Act of 2000.

Section 4. FISCAL YEAR 2002 APPROPRIATIONS AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.--

STATE HIGHWAY AND

TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT:

A. Construction

The purpose of the construction program is to provide improvements and additions to the state's highway infrastructure, including highway planning, finance, design and construction.

Other

General State Federal

Item Fund Funds Funds Measure

(1) Appropriations:

(a) Personal services and

employee benefits 31,146.8 11,104.4 42,251.2

(b) contractual services 90,865.2 201,575.1 292,440.3

Subtotal 152,221.3 286,560.1 438,781.4

Authorized FTE: 901.1 Permanent; 15.0 Term; 32.3 Temporary

(2) Performance Standards:

(a) percent of six-year

funding compared to needs

(reported by federal fiscal

year ending 9/30) 25%

(b) project profiliograph for

new construction

(road quality and smoothness) 4.0 or less

percent of engineer's estimate 58%

(d) return on investment for

value engineering projects 113 to 1

(e) interstate construction cost

Other

General State Federal

Item Fund Funds Funds Measure

per mile

(f) national highway system construction

cost per mile

(g) contracted engineering services

as a percentage of construction costs

(h) ride quality index for interstate

highways 3.00

(i) ride quality index for

non-interstate highways 1.80

(j) percent of roads with a high volume

to capacity ratio 3.46%

(k) percent of state population

served by divided, four-lane

highways that connect interstates 73.70%

(l) percent of programmed projects

let in fiscal year 65.0%

(m) percent of final cost increase

over bid amount 4.2%

(n) total department bond indebtedness

by state fiscal year (in millions) $906.1

B. Maintenance

The purpose of the maintenance program is to provide Other

General State Federal

Item Fund Funds Funds Measure

maintenance and improvements to the state's highway infrastructure to preserve roadway integrity and maintain open highway access throughout the state system.

(1) Appropriations:

(a) personal services and

employee benefits 32,456.4 5,668.7 38,125.1

(b) contractual services 40,569.2 40,569.2

Subtotal 134,469.6 5,915.8 140,385.4

Authorized FTE: 1,084.0 Permanent; 1.0 Term; 15.8 Temporary

(2) Performance Standards:

(a) Number of miles in the adopt-a-highway program 140

(b) Shoulder miles of litter pick-up 182,000

reported on a state fiscal year basis

(d) number of statewide improved pavement

surface miles

(e) maintenance expenditures per

lane mile of combined

system wide miles

(f) number of combined system wide

miles by deficient condition 4,800

Other

General State Federal

Item Fund Funds Funds Measure

(g) customer satisfaction level at

rest areas 82%

(h) ride quality index for interstate

highways 3.00

(i) ride quality index for non-interstate

highways 1.80

(j) fiscal year maintenance expenditures

for district one

(k) fiscal year maintenance expenditures

for district two

(l) fiscal year maintenance expenditures

for district three

(m) fiscal year maintenance expenditures

for district four

(n) fiscal year maintenance expenditures

for district five

(o) fiscal year maintenance expenditures

for district six

C. Program Support

The purpose of the program support program is to provide management and administration of financial and human services, custody and maintenance of information and property and management Other

General State Federal

Item Fund Funds Funds Measure

of construction and maintenance projects.

(1) Appropriations:

(a) personal services and

employee benefits 29,098.7 1,135.0 30,233.7

(b) contractual services 2,336.4 2,336.4

(d) other 16,831.1 15.4 16,846.5

Subtotal 56,881.6 1,150.4 58,032.0

Authorized FTE: 590.0 Permanent; 3.4 Temporary

(2) Performance Standards:

(a) level of employee turnover 3.75%

(b) number of workers'

compensation claims 143

in less than thirty days 97%

(d) percent of employee files

that contain performance

appraisal development

plans completed by employees'

anniversary dates

(e) ratio of formal personnel

grievance and litigation

Other

General State Federal

Item Fund Funds Funds Measure

actions to total employees

(f) percent of employees who

are generally satisfied

working at the department

as measured by an independent

annual survey 72%

(g) amount of general liability

loss experience 440,000

(h) number of current and

prior year unresolved audit

findings/number of prior

year findings resolved

D. Aviation

The purpose of the aviation program is to promote, develop, maintain and protect air transportation infrastructure that provides for safe and efficient airborne movement of people, goods and services within the state and provides access to the global aviation network.

(1) Appropriations:

(a) personal services and

employee benefits 376.6 376.6

(b) contractual services 184.0 184.0

Other

General State Federal

Item Fund Funds Funds Measure

Subtotal 1,932.6 127.0 2,059.6

Authorized FTE: 7.0 Permanent

(2) Performance Standards:

(a) fiscal year total dollar

amount of airport

projects completed

(b) percent of administrative

and overhead costs

to total program/project

funding 36.9%

of airport deficiencies identified

E. Traffic Safety

The purpose of the traffic safety program is to coordinate a statewide educational effort to provide accurate information about dangerous patterns and habits of travel and allocate funding for traffic safety initiatives for safer public travel.

(1) Appropriations:

(a) personal services and

employee benefits 430.5 300.7 731.2

(b) other 3,610.2 5,309.2 8,919.4

Other

General State Federal

Item Fund Funds Funds Measure

Subtotal 4,040.7 5,609.9 9,650.6

Authorized FTE: 14.0 Permanent; 3.0 Term

(2) Performance Standards:

(a) percent of contracts and

grants that include

performance contracting provisions

(b) percent of administrative and

overhead costs to total

program/project funding 14.2%

by the public 89%

(d) head-on crashes per one

hundred million vehicle

miles traveled 2.18

(e) alcohol-involved traffic

fatalities per one hundred

million vehicle miles traveled 0.77

(h) total alcohol-involved fatalities 190

(g) fatalities per one

hundred million vehicle

miles traveled 1.69

(h) total fatalities 455

Other

General State Federal

Item Fund Funds Funds Measure

F. Public Transportation

The purpose of the public transportation program is to develop a coordinated public mass transportation program to increase transportation alternatives to citizens so they are not restricted to traveling by personal automobiles.

(1) Appropriations:

(a) personal services and

employee benefits 373.4 118.7 492.1

(b) other 99.9 5,985.3 6,085.2

Subtotal 473.3 6,104.0 6,577.3

Authorized FTE: 7.0 Permanent; 2.0 Term

(2) Performance Standards:

(a) annual percent increase in

urban public transportation

ridership 0.0015%

(b) annual percent increase

in rural public transportation

ridership 0.0022%

work participants

using public transportation

(d) percent of administrative and

Other

General State Federal

Item Fund Funds Funds Measure

overhead costs to total

program/project funding 9.5%

TOTAL STATE HIGHWAY AND

TRANSPORTATION

DEPARTMENT 350,019.1 305,467.2 655,486.3.

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