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

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ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

1/27/2007

HB 347

SHORT TITLE Albuquerque Young Children’s Health Center

SB

ANALYST McOlash

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

$300.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

Relates to Appropriation in the General Appropriation Act.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

New Mexico Higher Education Department (HED)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 347 appropriates $300,000 from the General Fund to the Board of Regents os the

University of New Mexico for expenditure in FY 2008 for operating expenses at the Young

Children’s Health Center (YCHC) in Albuquerque

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $300,000 contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the General Fund.

Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY 2008 shall revert to the

general Fund.

House Bill 347 – Page

2

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

The UNM Pediatrics Department’s Young Children's Health Center, established in 1982, is a

community based primary care pediatric clinic that provides comprehensive health care and so-

cial services to infants, children, adolescents and their families. Many of the clients live in pov-

erty and their families are socially and economically isolated. The gang prevention program at

Young Children’s Health Center is a community-based project that collaborates with agencies

and schools in the South East Heights neighborhood. The program provides services in a group

setting, which include life and social skills classes, awareness classes, experiential activities as

well as individual case management services. The gang prevention portion of the program pri-

marily focuses on late elementary and middle school aged students.

The University of New Mexico/Health Sciences Center (UNM/HSC) budget request included

$417,600 from the General Fund for operation of the YCHC. The request also included $850,234

in Other State Funds and $73,466 in Federal Contracts and Grants for a total of $1,341,300.

This proposal was not submitted to the New Mexico Higher Education Department by UNM for

review and is not included in the Department’s funding recommendation for FY08.

PERFORMANCE IMPLICATIONS

The UNM/HSC basic budget request included six performance measures for the YCHC. These

performance measures were not referenced in HB 347.

CONFLICT, DUPLICATION, COMPANIONSHIP, RELATIONSHIP

The General Appropriation Act (HB 7) includes $417,600 from the General Fund, $1,253,400 in

Other State Funds for a total of $1,671,000.

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