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

SPONSOR Stapleton

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

1/22/2008

1/23/2008 HB 107

SHORT TITLE

Transportation Costs for the African American

Performing Arts Center

SB

ANALYST Leger

APPROPRIATION (dollars in thousands)

Appropriation

Recurring

or Non-Rec

Fund

Affected

FY08

FY09

$25.0

Recurring

General Fund

(Parenthesis ( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

Responses Received From

New Mexico State Fair Commission/Expo NM (SFC)

African American Performing Arts Center (AAPAC)

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

House Bill 107 appropriates $25 thousand from the general fund to the New Mexico State Fair

Commission transportation costs for transporting participants to programs or events at the

African American Performing Arts Center on the New Mexico State Fair grounds.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

The appropriation of $25 thousand contained in this bill is a recurring expense to the general

fund. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of FY09 shall revert to the

general fund.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

The African American Performing Arts Center (AAPAC) is located on the New Mexico state fair

grounds; opening its doors to the public June 2007. The mission of the AAPAC is to utilize the

sciences and the humanities to research, preserve and nurture the intellectual and cultural

histories of African American in New Mexico and the Southwest.

House Bill 107 – Page

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The funds contained in this bill will be utilized to ransport children to the AAPAC for out of

school educational programs and events offered at the AAPAC. AAPAC offers after school

classes in math and science to mid-school students. Fine arts classes are offered to elementary

and mid-school students to further the appreciation and cultural understanding of art.

According to AAPAC participants of the programs are recruited from schools that are located in

and have been identified as “pockets of poverty" in the Albuquerque Public Schools.

Participants in the AAPAC programs are from social and economic disadvantaged sections of the

community and available transportation is a key incentive to consistent attendance.

ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS

The funds appropriated in HB 107 will be budgeted and administered along with the general

fund appropriated for the operation of the AAPAC. The New Mexico State Fair Commission

(SFC) is an enterprise agency, thus generating revenue for operations. SFC does not receive

general fund money for their operations only for the operations of the AAPAC.

OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES

The African American Performing Arts Center & Exhibit Hall promotes scholastic, dramatic,

visual arts and technological programs and projects which advance the research, the preservation

and the nurturing of the intellectual and cultural histories of African Americas in New Mexico

and the Southwest.

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