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Tracking capital outlay spending: The numbers don’t always add up
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There are lots of numbers about capital outlay spending in the Department of Finance and Administration’s database, and they often conflict with one another.
New Mexico In Depth (https://nmindepth.com/series/new-mexicos-capital-dilemma-sidebars/)
There are lots of numbers about capital outlay spending in the Department of Finance and Administration’s database, and they often conflict with one another.
An explanation on how New Mexico In Depth selected the projects to analyze.
Top 10 individual New Mexico capital outlay project appropriations, 2010-2014:
$27.5 million for the Paseo Del Norte/Interstate 25 interchange (this is one of three appropriations for the interchange totaling more than $30 million)
$20.5 million for the renovation of Farris Engineering Building, University of New Mexico
$19.2 million for the renovation of Jett Hall, New Mexico State University
$19 million for demolition and renovation of Hardman and Jacobs Hall, New Mexico State University
New Mexico’s Capital Dilemma
Read the other articles in this series:
Explore our database of capital outlay projects
Analysis: Weaknesses mar NM’s capital outlay system
New Mexico’s Capital Dilemma methodology
$18 million for a geology facility, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
$17.3 million for Southwest Regional Spaceport (this is a 2012 reauthorization of a 2007 project, with some of the money forwarded to a 2014 project)
$16 million for Clark Hall renovation, University of New Mexico
$15 million for Chemistry Department facility construction, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
$13.6 million for Human Services Department information technology
$12 million for Health Science Center health education building, University of New Mexico
Bottom 10 individual New Mexico capital outlay project project appropriations, 2010-2014
$500 for equipment at the Ena Mitchell Senior & Wellness Citizens Center in Lordsburg
$570 for meals equipment at the Vaughn Senior Center
$840 for equipment at the Mora Senior Center
$900 for meals equipment at the Melrose Senior Center
(tie) $1,000 each for equipment at the Hobbs Senior Center, the Grants Senior Center and the Mitten Rock Senior Center
$1,100 for meals equipment at the Eunice Senior Center
$1,140 for equipment at the Ramah and Thoreau senior centers in McKinley County
(tie) $1,300 for equipment at the Clayton Senior Center and Logan Senior Center