Tuesday, June 7, 2011

More stimulus millions earmarked for Albuquerque - New Mexico Business Weekly:

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Irene Garcia, chief operating officer with the city of saidthe state’s largest municipalityh now anticipates being allocated about $44 million, up from $30.1 million in March. Some this moneuy comes from sources where the city has applier forthe money, but has not yet receivedc it. But Garcia said officials are confideny they will getthe funds. Much of this is due to new grante from the Department of suchas $933,000 for counselint services and a liaison program for thosee with substance abuse problems. Anothefr $826,000 will go to hiring temporaru staff for the SouthwestBorder Program, which focuses on fightinyg narcotics trafficking.
Another $951,000 is coming to the statre Environment Department to retrofit heavyu equipment to runmore cleanly. And the city got $5 millio n rather than $3.2 million, for energy efficiency programs. Thosew funds will be used to put solard panels on parking garage structureswith plug-in capacity for hybrid The city also plans to purchases more hybrid vehicles.

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