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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Stewart

DATE TYPED 3/3/05

HB 964

SHORT TITLE National Poetry Slam in Albuquerque

SB

ANALYST Hadwiger

APPROPRIATION

(in $000s)

Appropriation Contained Estimated Additional Impact Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY05

FY06

FY05

FY06

$30.0

Non-Recurring General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Cultural Affairs Department (DCA)

Tourism Department (TD)

Public Education Department (PED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 964 appropriates $30,000 from the general fund to the Cultural Affairs Department

(DCA) to help the City of Albuquerque sponsor a national poetry slam.

Significant Issues

The National Poetry Slam will be held in Albuquerque on August 10 – 13, 2005. The National

Poetry Slam was held in St. Louis in 2004, in Chicago in 2003, in Minneapolis in 2002, and in

Seattle in 2001. The National Poetry Slam attracts over 350 poets from across the United States

and from many foreign nations for competitions and hundreds of other participants and specta-

tors.

DCA noted that this event could conceivably serve as a boost to the economy and cultural envi-

ronment of the City of Albuquerque as well as the state. It could also serve to help New Mexico

gain national recognition and prestige. Individuals from around the nation would travel to Albu-

querque to compete and participate in this competition. Albuquerque and New Mexico already

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have vibrant literary traditions, and this event could help foster these longstanding traditions.

PED indicated this event might provide an extended classroom activity for our schools/teachers

and give our students an opportunity to engage in reading their own poetry to a large audience.

The Tourism Department indicated a general support for activities that promote tourism to the

state.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $30,000 contained in this bill is a non-recurring expense to the general

fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY06 would revert to

the general fund.

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

DCA would probably administer the funds as a sole source contract.

DH/yr