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A JOINT MEMORIAL
DECLARING FEBRUARY 12, 2007 AS "NEW MEXICO APPRENTICESHIP
DAY" AT THE LEGISLATURE.
WHEREAS, apprenticeship programs offer significant
economic benefit to New Mexico by producing highly skilled
workers; and
WHEREAS, apprenticeship programs offer individuals the
opportunity for training and employment experience in over
eight hundred skilled trades; and
WHEREAS, forty-four organizations, including businesses,
business associations and unions, sponsor apprenticeship
programs in New Mexico; and
WHEREAS, approximately two thousand individuals
participate as apprentices in these programs; and
WHEREAS, apprenticeship programs are almost exclusively
funded by the industries they serve;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
STATE OF NEW MEXICO that February 12, 2007 be declared "New
Mexico Apprenticeship Day" at the legislature and that
organizations sponsoring apprenticeship programs be
recognized for their service to the citizens of New Mexico;
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all New Mexicans be
encouraged to support apprenticeship programs that are