HOUSE CAPITAL OUTLAY REQUEST 430

STATE OF NEW MEXICO

46TH LEGISLATURE - FIRST SESSION - 2003

REQUESTED BY Luciano "Lucky" Varela

FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS AT INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

I request that the following capital outlay projects be funded:

• to the commission on higher education

four hundred eighty-seven thousand dollars ($487,000) to upgrade the information technology infrastructure at Santa Fe community college in Santa Fe county;

two hundred seventy-six thousand three hundred dollars ($276,300) to upgrade the information technology network infrastructure at New Mexico institute of mining and technology in Socorro in Socorro county;

one hundred seventy thousand four hundred dollars ($170,400) to replace the information technology network infrastructure at the main campus of Clovis community college in Clovis in Curry county;

four hundred forty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars ($447,900) to upgrade the New Mexico higher education intranet core infrastructure through New Mexico institute of mining and technology in Socorro in Socorro county;

one million one hundred eighty thousand dollars ($1,180,000) to improve campus and statewide outreach infrastructure for statewide online education and resources at the university of New Mexico in Albuquerque in Bernalillo county;

ninety-three thousand seven hundred dollars ($93,700) for portable computers and presentation equipment to extend information technology into classrooms at western New Mexico university branch campuses in Deming, Gallup and Truth or Consequences and the main campus in Silver City in Grant county;

six hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($625,000) to repair or replace network infrastructure and purchase, install and build a fiber optic network to handle the distribution of data, voice and video at the Portales campus of eastern New Mexico university in Roosevelt county;

seven hundred fifty-four thousand dollars ($754,000) to upgrade the information technology network infrastructure at New Mexico state university branch campuses and the main campus in Las Cruces in Dona Ana county;

three hundred forty-nine thousand six hundred dollars ($349,600) for distance education infrastructure to develop a programming and research methodology course at New Mexico institute of mining and technology in Socorro in Socorro county;

three hundred thirteen thousand dollars ($313,000) to upgrade and extend the information technology network on the El Rito campus of northern New Mexico state school in Rio Arriba county; and

one million two hundred thousand dollars ($1,200,000) for information technology upgrades, as part of the joint administrative software initiative, to administrative systems at five community colleges through Santa Fe community college in Santa Fe county.