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

SPONSOR Garcia, M.P.

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2-20-2007

HB 1161

SHORT TITLE Atrisco Land Grant Mural Project

SB

ANALYST Dearing

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY07

FY08

$25.0

Recurring

Genera Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Cultural Affairs Department (CAD)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 1161 appropriates $25 thousand from the general fund to Cultural Affairs department

for contracting with artist to provide murals for the 300

th

anniversary of the Atrisco land grant

commemoration project.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $25 thousand contained in House Bill 1161 is a recurring expense to the

General Fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY08 shall

revert to the General Fund.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

The Atrisco neighborhood in Albuquerque is one of the city’s oldest sub-communities. House

Bill 622 from the 2006 legislative session appropriated ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for the

New Mexico national Hispanic cultural center to purchase and install equipment and furnishings

for the Atrisco tricentennial pictorial and artifact display in Albuquerque in Bernalillo county.

House Bill 1161 – Page

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However, according to the Cultural Affairs department, the intended location for the exhibit

mentioned in House Bill 622, an Atrisco community center, has yet to be constructed. It is not

understood from language in the House Bill 1161 where the murals that are to be contracted will

be commissioned. The location for the proposed murals is not stated in the language of the bill.

It is the Cultural Affairs department’s understanding that for state funds to be used for the

creation of murals, the site for the artwork would have to be state, county or city-owned

property, rather than private property.

The department also points out the language in the bill specifying that the appropriation is

intended to “contract with a muralist from the south valley." This language appears to refer to a

sole source artist selection process. Typically, these kinds of public art projects are managed

through an open and competitive artist selection process.

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

The department would conduct an request for proposal (RFP) process in order to accomplish the

initiative outlined in the bill.

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