HOUSE CAPITAL OUTLAY REQUEST 130 
                                
                      STATE OF NEW MEXICO
            43RD LEGISLATURE - SECOND SESSION, 1998

                           REQUESTED BY
                          DANICE PICRAUX               





FOR EXTENDED LEARNING PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

     I request that the following capital outlay projects be funded:

                    to the board of regents of northern New Mexico state school:
          
                    two hundred fifty-seven thousand three hundred sixty dollars ($257,360) to
          purchase and install equipment, construct facilities and make enhancements for
          the extended learning network in northern New Mexico;

                    to the community college board of Clovis community college:
          
                    one million one hundred forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars ($1,147,500)
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          to purchase, install and upgrade equipment; construct facilities and expand the
          extended learning network in northeast New Mexico;

                    to the board of regents of New Mexico highlands university:
          
                    four hundred twenty-eight thousand two hundred dollars ($428,200) to purchase
          and install equipment and construct improvements to New Mexico highlands
          university's extended learning facilities in San Miguel and Santa Fe counties;

                    to the board of regents of western New Mexico university:
          
                    one hundred twenty-seven thousand eight hundred twenty-one dollars
          ($127,821) to purchase and install equipment and construct facilities for an
          extended learning network in Catron, Grant, Hidalgo, Luna and Sierra counties;
          and







                    to the board of regents of New Mexico state university:
          
          A.  one hundred sixty-nine thousand dollars ($169,000) to purchase and install
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equipment and construct improvements to New Mexico state university's extended learning
facilities in Otero county; and

          B.  nine hundred sixteen thousand nine hundred one dollars ($916,901) to
purchase and install equipment and construct telecommunications and classroom facilities for
the electronic distance education network statewide.