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THE MUNICIPAL REPORTERVOL. 2014-1Published by the New Mexico Municipal LeagueThe Linda Gaume Jaramillo ScholarshipEligibility RequirementsIncreasing New Mexico’s elected officials’knowledge through education was Linda GaumeJaramillo’s passion. As the first Director of the League’sMunicipal Officials Leadership Institute (MOLI), Lindadevoted her time and energy to helping elected officialsincrease their awareness and grasp of the elements of civicduties and responsibilities needed to become more effectivepublic officials. This scholarship program honors Linda’sdedication.Full scholarships are available for elected NewMexico Municipal Officials. The purpose of thesescholarships is to permit eligible individuals with ademonstrated financial need to attend the Institute. Thescholarship amount will cover the registration fee for allthree programs beginning with Education (June), thenGovernance (September) and Leadership (November).Participants will be responsible for their owntransportation, lodging, and some meals. Scholarshiprequirements are as follows:1. Candidate must be an elected municipal officialpreferably in the beginning of their current term.2. Candidate’s municipality must be a member ingood standing with the New Mexico MunicipalLeague.If you meet this criterion, please complete thescholarship application located at hip-Application.pdf,attach a full-page narrative (typed preferred, 1.5 spaced, 12point) explaining your municipality’s financial need, howyou and your community will benefit from your enrollmentin the Municipal Officials Leadership Institute, and yourcommitment to complete all three programs andrequirements to obtain the Certified Municipal Official(CMO) designation.Return the completed packet to Tasha Martinez at theNew Mexico Municipal League before or by February 21,2014. Scholarship recipients will be notified in writing nolater than March 28, 2014. For more information, contactTasha Martinez at 800-432-2036 or tmartinez@nmml.org.January, 20142014 League Legislative PrioritiesThe New Mexico Municipal League Board ofDirectors has prioritized its 2013-2014 Resolutions andStatement of Municipal Policy for the 2014 LegislativeSession beginning in January 21.At its October 5 meeting, the Board made amendingthe phase-out of the hold harmless distribution contained inthe 2013’s House Bill 641 the League’s main priority. TheLeague will seek to allow a distribution to municipalities thatenact all of the 3/8ths percent new local gross receipts tax ifthe new tax does not generate enough revenue to equal thecurrent hold harmless distribution.Another priority will be urging the Legislature andGovernor to examine tax expenditures such as credits,exemptions and deductions for tax purposes.The League will also actively support passage of aGeneral Obligation Bond bill for 29 million for libraries inthe November, 2014 General Election.League staff will continue to monitor all legislationintroduced during the 30-day session that affects localgovernment operations.Pushing Full-Day KindergartenBy Adrienne Lu, Stateline Staff WriterIn the not too distant past, kindergarten was a placewhere children learned to color, share and play. But a higherregard for kindergarten is emerging, including a move towardall-day sessions in some states, as a growing body of researchunderscores the importance of learning in the earliest years.The percentage of kindergartners attending full-dayprograms has grown from about 10 percent in the 1970s toabout 76 percent in 2012, with a steep increase between 2002and 2006, according to Child Trends, a nonprofit researchcenter. While some programs took a hit during the recession,several states have taken action recently to expand access tofull-day kindergarten. Part-day kindergarten typically last twoor three hours, while full-day kindergarten can range fromfour to seven hours.Washington lawmakers, for example, added 50million to spending on full-day kindergarten this school year,making twice as many children eligible to attend full-dayclasses compared to last year. The state expects to offer fullday kindergarten to all students by 2017-18.Minnesota last year allocated 134 million to allowall school districts to offer full-day kindergarten, and state(Continued on page 5)

Construction Industries Division Has LinksFor Certified Building Official ExamsConstruction Industries Division of the Regulations andLicensing Department has some links for exams required forCertified Building Official status. The link to the “LegalManagement Module 01” exam is html. The link for the “TechnologyModule 02” exam info is or more information, contact Clay Bailey, ActingDirector/LP Gas Bureau Chief, Construction Industries Division,Regulations and Licensing Department, (505) 269-6710,clay.bailey@state.nm.us.Belen’s Leona Vigil Receives CMC DesignationLeona Vigil, Deputy Clerk for the City of Belen, hasbeen award the prestigious Certified Municipal Clerk (CMC)designation from the International Institute of Municipal Clerks(IIMC).The CMC designation program is designed to enhancethe job performance of the Clerk in small and largemunicipalities. To earn the CMC designation, a Municipal Clerkmust attend extensive education programs. The designation alsorequires pertinent experience in a municipality. The programprepares the participants to meet the challenges of the complexrole of the municipal clerks by providing them with qualityeducation in partnership with 47 institutions of higher learning.The program has been in existence since 1970 and has helpedthousands of clerks in various municipalities.Founded in 1947, IIMC is a professional associationwith more than 10,000 members in the US, Canada and 15 othercountries. IIMC’s primary goal is to actively promote thecontinuing education and professional development of municipalclerks through extensive education programs, certification,recertification, publications, networking, annual conferences andresearch. IIMC also engages in municipal researchadministration, enhances critical professional skill developmentand fosters a spirit of mutual assistance and good fellowshipamong municipal clerks around the globe.New Mexico Municipal LeagueP.O. Box 846Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-0846(505) 982-5573(505) 984-1392 faxwww.nmml.orgPRESIDENTGloria Chavez, Mayor – TijerasPRESIDENT-ELECTLinda Calhoun, Mayor – Red RiverVICE PRESIDENTDavid Venable, Mayor – CloudcroftTREASURERRichard Cordova, Mayor – Eagle NestIMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENTMary Homan, Trustee – Los Ranchos de AlbuquerquePAST PRESIDENTSMatt White, Mayor - EuniceBarb Wiard, Mayor Pro Tem – Taos Ski ValleyEddie A. Trujillo, Judge - Las VegasBOARD OF DIRECTORSRay Alborn, Mayor - RuidosoCynthia Ann Bettison, Mayor Pro Tem – Silver CityPhilip Burch, Mayor – ArtesiaRobert Cook, Municipal Judge – Rio RanchoPresident, New Mexico Municipal Judges AssociationAngelina Cordova, Clerk/Treasurer - LoganDarren Cordova, Mayor – TaosDan Darnell, Mayor Pro Tem – FarmingtonLinda Franklin, Councilor - DemingRey Garduño, Councilor - AlbuquerqueSteve Henderson, Councilor – RoswellDavid Israelevitz, Council Vice Chair – Los AlamosMichael Kovacs, Police Chief - BloomfieldPresident, New Mexico Association of Chiefs of PoliceBobby LeDoux, Mayor – RatonFerron Lucero, Manager - ClaytonPresident, New Mexico City Management AssociationRenee Lucero, Clerk - TaosPresident, New Mexico Clerks & Finance Officers AssociationJackie McKinney, Mayor - GallupAlfonso Ortiz, Jr., Mayor – Las VegasDan Stoddard, Commissioner -- ClovisJack Torres, Mayor - BernalilloEditor . William F. FulginitiManaging Editor . Roger Makin2THE MUNICIPAL REPORTER, January, 2014

Steve Henderson Appointed to National League of Cities Human Development Steering CommitteeRoswell City Councilor Steve Henderson has been appointed to the National League of Cities (NLC) 2014 HumanDevelopment Steering Committee. The committee has the lead responsibility for developing NLC’s federal policy positions on issuesinvolving social services, children and learning, poverty and income support, employment and workforce development, equalopportunity, Social Security and seniors, individuals with disabilities, public health care, mental health parity and immigration reform.The appointment was announced by NLC President Chris Coleman, Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota.“I am pleased to serve again on this important national committee. We have a daunting task to address a vast array ofcommunity needs. Currently, the committee is working hard on immigration reform, the Main Street Fairness Act, (internet sales) andthe Workforce Development Act. (employment) These issues are vital concerns of all our citizens.” Henderson stated.As a member of the committee, Steve Henderson will play a key role in shaping NLC’s policy positions and advocate onbehalf of America’s cities and towns before Congress, the Administration and at home.Henderson is currently in his fourth term as a Roswell city councilor and serves as Finance chair. He is treasurer of theSoutheastern New Mexico Economic Development District (COG) and he also serves as a member-at-large of the New MexicoMunicipal League Board of Directors.Police Departments Receive Accreditation,Reaccreditation Certificates during Law ConferenceMembers of the Las Cruces Police Department accept their firstthree-year accreditation.Members of the Aztec Police Department receive their first threeyear reaccreditation.From left: Sally Uebelacker, Senior Manager, Sandia National Labs;NMACP President Mike Kovacs, Bloomfield Police Chief; YoungCitizen Award winners Xavier Herrera and Ashleigh Herrera,Springer; and Springer Police Chief Leon Herrera. (Photos courtesyof Marty Vigil)THE MUNICIPAL REPORTER, January, 20143

Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin Presses House for Reliable Transportation FundingBy Daniel C. Vock, Stateline Staff WriterOklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, a Republican, urged a U.S. House panel Tuesday to find money this year to pay for a long-termtransportation funding law.With transportation money scarce, Congress has relied on a series of short- and medium-term measures to keep transportationmoney flowing to states since 2009. The most recent measure, a two-year deal, is set to expire in September.The federal Highway Trust Fund, which is funded primarily by fuel taxes, is projected to run out of money in 2015 ifCongress takes no action. Chair of the National Governors Association, Fallin said states needed more stability to plan effectively.“We need certainty in our states,” she said. “When there is no permanency, no long-term vision for funding our nation’sinfrastructure that affects our states. It affects our marketplaces. It affects our employers. It affects their ability to hire to gear up forconstruction projects.”Fallin, who once served on the House Transportation and Infrastructure committee, also told her former colleagues thatnational help is needed, even though many states have raised money for transportation on their own.“States can’t pick up the load by themselves. We need to have a national vision for a national transportation infrastructuresystem,” she said.Some conservative members of Congress have pushed for states, rather than the federal government, to take on the chiefresponsibility for funding and planning transportation projects. But Stu Levinick, a group president of Caterpillar Inc., said one of thereasons why the transportation network of the United States is falling behind that of other countries is because there is not enoughnational coordination of infrastructure.As an example, he said, a state that builds a state-of-the-art port facility but does not have the highway network to let shippersbring goods in and out of the port, gains nothing.Too often, America’s infrastructure is inefficient, Levinick said, which is why 40 percent of Caterpillar’s exports and importstravel through Canadian ports rather than U.S. ports. A shipment from Montreal, he said, arrives in Illinois two or three days fasterthan a shipment coming from Norfolk, Va. Shipments from the West Coast also come faster through Canada than from California, hesaid.Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, a Democrat appearing on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, also pressed the House panelto draft a long-term bill that would last at least five or six years. He also encouraged the lawmakers to give city officials more say inhow transportation money is spent.A recent hearing marked the beginning of the House’s efforts to draft a new transportation funding policy. The committee’schair, U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, a Pennsylvania Republican, said he hoped to have a bill ready for the entire chamber by August.But there’s little consensus so far on how best to raise the money to keep the Highway Trust Fund in the black. It hasrepeatedly run out of money in recent years, as demand for new projects outpaced money brought in by federal fuel taxes. Thecountry’s gasoline tax of 18.4 cents a gallon has not increased since President Bill Clinton’s first term.Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Center on the States that provides daily reporting and analysis on trends in state policy.4THE MUNICIPAL REPORTER, January, 2014

Kindergarten . . . continued from page 1officials expect close to 95 percent of students will attend fullday programs starting in September. Currently, just over halfof kindergartners in Minnesota public school attend full-dayprograms.Indiana has provided funding for universal, voluntaryfull-day kindergarten since the 2012-13 school year. InKansas, Republican Gov. Sam Brownback has proposed afive-year 80 million plan to allow all kindergarten students toattend full-day programs.Other states also have grappled with the issue inrecent years. Last year, for example, Nevada enactedlegislation to help English-language learners that includedmoney to expand full-day kindergarten. In New Jersey,lawmakers approved legislation to study full-daykindergarten. And Maine’s legislature debated a bill thatwould have required schools to offer full-day kindergarten by2017-18, but it fell short of the two-thirds majority requiredfor passage.Starting EarlyAdvocates say publicly funded full-day kindergartenprograms help the youngest students build a strong foundationfor the rest of their learning. And while prekindergarten hasreceived significant attention in recent years, includingPresident Barack Obama’s proposal for universal preschool,some argue that full-day kindergarten is also vital. (Thepresident’s plan would encourage states to expand full-daykindergarten once preschool is available to 4-year-olds fromlow- and moderate-income households.)“Full-day kindergarten is so important,” saidMaryLee Allen, director of child welfare and mental health atthe Children’s Defense Fund. “There’s been research thatshows that children who have access to full-day kindergartenare more prepared for school and making that transition tofirst grade.”Some research has shown that attendance in full-day(as opposed to part-day) kindergarten is linked to higher levelsof early reading skills, although the impact may not lastbeyond kindergarten. Some studies also show a correlationbetween full-day kindergarten and improved math skills.Other research, however, suggests the impact of full-daykindergarten compared to part-day is minimal.Clare McCann, a policy analyst with the NewAmerica Foundation, said that the Common Core StateStandards, a set of English and math standards for students inkindergarten through 12th grades voluntarily adopted by mostof the 50 states, are also driving interest in expanding full-daykindergarten.“The standards are so rigorous, I think schooldistricts and educators are feeling like it might be difficult tomeet those standards if they’re not allowed more time withchildren and more time learning,” McCann said.The recent emphasis nationwide on early learning inprekindergarten through third grade, including a push to makesure children are reading by the third grade, has alsocontributed to a demand for full-day kindergarten, experts say.THE MUNICIPAL REPORTER, January, 2014Requirements VaryPolicies regarding kindergarten remain a hodgepodgeacross the country. As of last year, only 15 states andWashington, D.C., require students to attend any kindergarten,according to Emily Workman, a policy analyst with theEducation Commission of the States. Some states requireschool districts to offer kindergarten but may not requirestudents to attend. Thirty-four states require school districts tooffer half-day kindergarten and 11 states and the District ofColumbia require school districts to offer full-daykindergarten. But six states — Alaska, Idaho, Michigan, NewJersey, Pennsylvania and New York — don’t require schooldistricts to offer kindergarten at all, Allen said.A number of states have seen school districts scaleback on full-day kindergarten because of the recession. InPennsylvania, where student enrollment in full-daykindergarten grew from 35 percent to 68 percent from 2004 to2011, at least two dozen school districts have shifted fromfull-day kindergarten to part-day after funding dropped in2011.Arizona eliminated all state funding for full-daykindergarten in 2010, after increasing money for the full-dayprograms in all school districts between 2005 and 2009,according to a report by the Foundation for ChildDevelopment.To pay for full-day kindergarten, school districts canraise taxes, charge parents tuition or use temporary funds,such as grants. But advocates of full-day kindergarten saynone of the options is ideal because they may restrict thenumber of children who can attend full-day programs.Unequal AccessCharging tuition for full-day kindergarten raisesquestions of unequal access, according to Kristie Kauerz, anexpert in early education policy at the University ofWashington. She noted in a Foundation for ChildDevelopment report, which she authored, that Ohio’s SupremeCourt ruled that schools may not charge parents for full-daykindergarten, while Oregon’s attorney general has said schooldistricts do not have the authority to collect tuition for full-daykindergarten.In Minnesota, Charlene Briner, chief of staff for thestate Department of Education, said Democratic Gov. MarkDayton and Education Commissioner Brenda Casselliuspushed for the expansion of full-day kindergarten out of aconcern that every family should have access to it, regardlessof zip code or socioeconomic background. Some schooldistricts in Minnesota were charging families tuition of 300to 1,200 a year for full-day kindergarten.“Being able to go to an all-day program because your familycan afford it wasn’t consistent with the view that an equitableopportunity should be had by all children,” Briner said.Stateline is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news service of the Pew Centeron the States that provides daily reporting and analysis on trends instate policy.5

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