SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 7

52nd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2015

INTRODUCED BY

Nancy Rodriguez

A JOINT RESOLUTION

RATIFYING AND APPROVING THE DISPOSAL BY NEGOTIATED SALE OR DONATION OF REAL PROPERTY IN SANTA FE COUNTY.

     WHEREAS, Section 13-6-2 NMSA 1978 provides that a state agency may sell or otherwise dispose of real property by negotiated sale or donation to a school district; and

     WHEREAS, Section 13-6-3 NMSA 1978 effectively requires that any such disposal of real property for consideration of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) or more shall be subject to the ratification and approval of the state legislature prior to such disposal becoming effective; and

     WHEREAS, the general services department has title to approximately eleven acres of land that is located north of Siringo road in Santa Fe, Santa Fe county, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as Lots A, B and D, as shown on the plat of survey entitled Boundary Easement Survey Plat of Tracts A, B, C & D, recorded as Document No. 1605161 in Plat Book 719, Page 047, records of Santa Fe county, New Mexico, and Tract 3, as shown on the plat of survey entitled Lot Line Adjustment Plat of College of Santa Fe and NM State Property Control, recorded in Book 343, Page 046, records of Santa Fe county, New Mexico (collectively referred to as the "property"); and

     WHEREAS, the New Mexico school for the arts, a residential statewide state-chartered high school created by the legislature and included as a school district pursuant to Section 22-24-3 NMSA 1978, has need for all or a portion of the property that is not needed by the general services department to build a permanent campus for the school; and

     WHEREAS, the New Mexico school for the arts has worked closely with the general services department to identify this property as the appropriate site for the school's permanent campus; and

     WHEREAS, the New Mexico school for the arts presented to the capitol buildings planning commission, at its meeting held on October 22, 2014, a proposal for the transfer of the property to the school, and the secretary of general services indicated that the state has no other use for the property;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the proposed transfer to the New Mexico school for the arts of the real property comprising approximately eleven acres that is located north of Siringo road in Santa Fe, Santa Fe county, New Mexico, and is more particularly described as Lots A, B and D, as shown on the plat of survey entitled Boundary Easement Survey Plat of Tracts A, B, C & D, recorded as Document No. 1605161 in Plat Book 719, Page 047, records of Santa Fe county, New Mexico, and Tract 3, as shown on the plat of survey entitled Lot Line Adjustment Plat of College of Santa Fe and NM State Property Control, recorded in Book 343, Page 046, records of Santa Fe county, New Mexico, (collectively referred to as the "property") is hereby ratified and approved pursuant to the provisions of Section 13-6-3 NMSA 1978, subject to the conditions of this resolution; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the property has been appraised by an appraiser that was mutually agreeable to the general services department and the New Mexico school for the arts and was approved by the property tax division of the taxation and revenue department, and the appraisal shall be reviewed and validated by the property tax division; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the general services department shall transfer the property to the New Mexico school for the arts pursuant to the terms of a written agreement made by and between the general services department and the New Mexico school for the arts as directed by the fifty-second legislature, first session; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be transmitted to the president of the governing council of the New Mexico school for the arts and the secretary of general services.

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