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

SPONSOR M. P. Garcia

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

1/22/08

HB 13

SHORT TITLE South Valley Incorporation Transition Facilitator

SB

ANALYST Propst

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY08

FY09

$45.0

Non-Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

Department of Finance and Administration (DFA)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 13, Making an Appropriation for a South Valley Incorporation Transition Facilitator,

appropriates $45 thousand from the general fund to the Department of Finance and

Administration for the purpose of contracting with a transition facilitator to facilitate the

transition of political authority from Bernalillo County to a newly incorporated municipality in

the South Valley of Bernalillo County.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $45 thousand contained in this bill is a non-recurring expense to the general

fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY10 shall revert to the

general fund.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

DFA notes that the Albuquerque Tribune reported the following:

Albuquerque Tribune (Tuesday, October 30, 2007) “Albuquerque's South Valley ponders self-

government:"

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Advisory committee consists of about a dozen South Valley members who are looking into

incorporating the area. Lee Reynis, director of the University of New Mexico's Bureau of

Business and Economics Research, is conducting the analysis of gross-receipts tax base and

comparing it to the costs associated with the services provided to the area by Bernalillo County.

"By spring, Reynis is expected to present the group with results showing whether an

incorporated South Valley would have enough self-generated revenues to afford providing the

same level of services it receives now." "A campaign in 1996 to create a South Valley County

was defeated by voters 80 percent to 20 percent."

CONFLICT

HB 11, HB 12

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