0001| HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 42
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0002| 43RD LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - SECOND SESSION, 1998
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0003| INTRODUCED BY
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0004| NICK L. SALAZAR
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0010| A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011| SUPPORTING LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY'S SCHOOL-TO-WORK
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0012| EFFORTS.
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0014| WHEREAS, Los Alamos national laboratory, the university
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0015| of California, the United States department of energy and
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0016| their business partners have made significant efforts to
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0017| stimulate economic activity in northern New Mexico; and
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0018| WHEREAS, part of that economic activity has resulted in
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0019| the development of the Los Alamos research park, which will
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0020| attract high technology businesses to northern New Mexico and
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0021| generate an increased number of job choices; and
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0022| WHEREAS, the state of New Mexico recently allocated
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0023| seventeen million dollars ($17,000,000) to promote work force
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0024| development, which is an essential component of successful
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0025| economic development measures; and
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0001| WHEREAS, Los Alamos national laboratory has been actively
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0002| conducting educational work force development programs at
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0003| elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels for many years
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0004| to help increase student interest in math, science and
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0005| technology; and
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0006| WHEREAS, Los Alamos national laboratory also works
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0007| directly with regional two-year community colleges to help
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0008| develop curriculum and to educate faculty in areas of
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0009| technology useful to the laboratory work force and beneficial
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0010| to citizens seeking employment with the laboratory; and
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0011| WHEREAS, the laboratory also hires over five hundred
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0012| undergraduate student interns each summer, providing them with
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0013| experience in the fields of math, science and engineering and
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0014| many of those students return after graduation to work
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0015| permanently for the laboratory;
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0016| NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0017| STATE OF NEW MEXICO that schools, colleges and nonprofit
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0018| entities in northern New Mexico that receive work force
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0019| development funds coordinate their efforts in working with the
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0020| laboratory and its business partners to assess the types of
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0021| employment available through the laboratory, the skills
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0022| necessary for that employment and to continue nurturing
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0023| interests of students from kindergarten through high school in
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0024| these jobs and skills; and
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0025| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that regional higher education
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0001| institutions in northern New Mexico, particularly northern New
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0002| Mexico community college, Santa Fe community college and the
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0003| university of New Mexico at Los Alamos continue to focus their
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0004| curriculum development on skills and knowledge that will lead
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0005| directly to employment at the laboratory; and
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0006| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the regional higher education
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0007| institutions and Los Alamos national laboratory present the
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0008| efforts of their cooperation and curriculum coordination to
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0009| the economic development, science and technology committee no
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0010| later than October 1, 1998; and
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0011| BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0012| sent to the presidents of northern New Mexico community
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0013| college, Santa Fe community college and the university of New
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0014| Mexico at Los Alamos, the director of Los Alamos national
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0015| laboratory, the commission on higher education and the
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0016| legislative education study committee.
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