SENATE BILL 87

50th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - second session, 2012

INTRODUCED BY

Mary Jane M. Garcia

AN ACT

RELATING TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; CREATING THE FRONTIER COMMUNITIES PROGRAM; MAKING AN APPROPRIATION.

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

     SECTION 1. Section 3-60B-4 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 1985, Chapter 88, Section 4, as amended) is amended to read:

     "3-60B-4. MAIN STREET PROGRAM--CREATED--COORDINATOR--POWERS AND DUTIES.--

          A. There is created the "main street program" in the economic development department. The secretary of [the] economic development [department] shall employ a coordinator to oversee the program.

          B. The coordinator shall:

                (1) carry out state responsibilities pursuant to contract with the national main street center of the national trust for historic preservation;

                (2) coordinate activities of the program in consultation with the historic preservation division of the [office of] cultural affairs department;

                (3) advise the New Mexico community development council on the development of criteria for requests for proposals and selection of local government grantees for the program to be funded through community development block grants;

                (4) monitor the progress of main street projects;

                (5) assist local main street project managers; [and]

                (6) assist in the development of the frontier communities program; and

                [(6)] (7) perform other duties necessary to carry out the provisions of the Main Street Act."

     SECTION 2. APPROPRIATION.--One hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) is appropriated from the general fund to the economic development department for expenditure in fiscal year 2013 for the main street program to develop a frontier communities program. The frontier communities program shall utilize the technical assistance, services and resources of the main street program to establish a community economic development partnership program tailored to the needs of incorporated villages and towns with populations under five thousand focused on their village plazas, squares and town centers. Any unexpended or unencumbered balance remaining at the end of fiscal year 2013 shall revert to the general fund.

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