HOUSE BILL 5

48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2008

INTRODUCED BY

Mimi Stewart

AN ACT

MAKING APPROPRIATIONS AND AUTHORIZING EXPENDITURES FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISH.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     Section 1. SHORT TITLE.--This act may be cited as the "Department of Game and Fish Appropriation Act".

     Section 2. DEFINITION.--As used in the Department of Game and Fish Appropriation Act, "federal funds" means payments by the United States government to state government or state agencies, except those payments made in accordance with the federal Mineral Leasing Act and the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972.

     Section 3. FORMAT.--The general format of the appropriations set forth in the Department of Game and Fish Appropriation Act, with respect to symbols used, column headings and stating of amounts, is that used in the General Appropriation Act of 2007.

     Section 4. FISCAL YEAR 2009 APPROPRIATIONS.--

                                  Internal

                         Other   Svc.Funds/

                General  State   Interagency   Federal  Total/

Item            Fund     Funds   Transfer      Funds    Target

DEPARTMENT OF GAME AND FISH

(1) Sport hunting and fishing:

The purpose of the sport hunting and fishing program is to provide a statewide system for hunting activities and self-sustaining and hatchery-supported fisheries, taking into account hunter safety, quality hunts, high demand areas, guides and outfitters and quotas and ensuring that local and financial interests receive consideration.

Appropriations:

(a) Personal services

and employee

    benefits   10.0               7,074.3     5,687.9 12,772.2

(b) Contractual services            691.3       598.9  1,290.2

(c) Other      85.0               3,563.0     1,890.2  5,538.2

(d) Other financing uses         124.3       373.0    497.3

Authorized FTE: 193.00 Permanent; 2.00 Term; 2.00 Temp

Performance Measures:

(a) Outcome: Angler opportunity and success              80%

                                  Internal

                         Other   Svc.Funds/

                General  State   Interagency   Federal  Total/

Item            Fund     Funds   Transfer      Funds    Target

(b) Outcome: Number of days of elk hunting            165,000

(c) Outcome: Percent of public hunting licenses

drawn by New Mexico hunters80%

(d) Output: Annual output of fish from the

department's hatchery system, in pounds 425,000

(2) Conservation services:

The purpose of the conservation services program is to provide information and technical guidance to any person wishing to conserve and enhance wildlife habitat and recover indigenous species of threatened and endangered wildlife.

Appropriations:

(a) Personal

services and

     employee

     benefits   198.1                808.2    1,551.2  2,557.5

(b) Contractual 20.0                517.6    1,002.8  1,540.4

(c) Other       20.0     5.0      2,676.4      946.0  3,647.4

Authorized FTE: 32.00 Permanent; 8.00 Term; .50 Temp

Performance Measures:

(a) Output: Number of threatened and endangered

     species studied and involved in the

                                  Internal

                         Other   Svc.Funds/

                General  State   Interagency   Federal  Total/

Item            Fund     Funds   Transfer      Funds    Target

    recovery plan process                                   35

(b) Outcome: Number of acres of wildlife habitat

conserved, enhanced or positively affected

statewide100,000

(3) Wildlife depredation and nuisance abatement:

The purpose of the wildlife depredation and nuisance abatement program is to provide complaint administration and intervention processes to private landowners, leaseholders and other New Mexicans so they may be relieved of and precluded from property damage, annoyance or risks to public safety caused by protected wildlife.

Appropriations:

(a) Personal services and

employee benefits339.1339.1

(b) Contractual services             128.7               128.7

(c) Other                            727.3               727.3

Authorized FTE: 5.00 Permanent

Performance Measures:

(a) Outcome: Percent of depredation

complaints resolved within one year95%

(4) Administration:

                                  Internal

                         Other   Svc.Funds/

                General  State   Interagency   Federal  Total/

Item            Fund     Funds   Transfer      Funds    Target

The purpose of the administration program is to provide an adequate and flexible system of direction, oversight, accountability and support to all divisions so they may successfully attain planned outcomes for all department programs.

Appropriations:

(a) Personal services and

employee benefits4,340.9110.84,451.7

(b) Contractual services             568.7      17.5     586.2

(c) Other                          2,123.0     110.0   2,233.0

Authorized FTE: 59.00 Permanent; 1.00 Term

Performance Measures:

(for program support)

(a) Percent of special

    hunt applications processed

    without error:                                        99.8%

Subtotal        333.1     5.0     23,682.8   12,288.3 36,309.2

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