Section 22-24-5.6 - Outstanding deficiencies at certain state educational institutions. - New Mexico Statutes

22-24-5.6. Outstanding deficiencies at certain state educational institutions.

A.     In consultation with the higher education department and the applicable board of regents, and after reviewing the existing five-year facilities plan and the facilities condition assessment, the public school facilities authority shall verify the assessed outstanding health, safety or infrastructure deficiencies at the New Mexico school for the blind and visually impaired and the New Mexico school for the deaf and shall develop a plan to correct the deficiencies. 

B.     The council may approve allocations from the fund and, working with the higher education department and the applicable board of regents, enter into construction contracts to correct the deficiencies. 

C.     The council shall establish oversight functions for the public school facilities authority and such other guidelines and conditions as it deems necessary to ensure that the allocations from the fund pursuant to this section are expended in the most prudent manner possible and consistent with the original purpose. 

D.     As used in the Public School Capital Outlay Act, "public school capital outlay project", "capital outlay project" or "project" includes a program for the correction of deficiencies at the New Mexico school for the blind and visually impaired or at the New Mexico school for the deaf pursuant to this section. 

E.     As used in Sections 22-24-5.1, 22-24-5.3 and 22-24-5.5 NMSA 1978 and in Paragraph (10) of Subsection B of Section 22-24-5 NMSA 1978, "school district" includes the New Mexico school for the blind and visually impaired and the New Mexico school for the deaf.