Community Project Funding Requests

FY2023 Community Project Funding Requests

Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies/Housing and Urban Development/Economic Development Initiatives

Project Name: Veterans Transitional Housing Campus

Recipient: New Mexico Veterans Integration Center

Address: 1301-1 Ortiz Drive SE, Albuquerque, NM 87108

Amount Requested: $300,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to build the first all-Veteran transitional housing campus in New Mexico that will include a 42-bed individual sleeping and bathroom unit for each Veteran or Veteran family. The units include 10 fully ADA-accessible rooms and 8 family rooms which support over 176 Veterans each year, representing the only Veteran-specific transitional housing program in the state. 

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies/Housing and Urban Development/Economic Development Initiatives

Project Name: Homeless Youth Center Construction

Recipient: City of Albuquerque

Address: PO Box 1293, Albuquerque NM 87103

Amount Requested: $1,500,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to initiate the development of a Homeless Youth Center in Albuquerque that would be a prototype for additional such facilities in the Albuquerque Metropolitan Area. 

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies/Justice/COPS

Project Name: Chromatograph - infrared detector (GC-IRD) instruments

Recipient: State of New Mexico, New Mexico Department of Public Safety

Address: 4491 Cerrillos Road Santa Fe, NM 87507

Amount Requested: $410,721

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to purchase three gas chromatography - infrared detector (GC-IRD) instruments to better characterize illicit fentanyl tablet submissions, emerging drugs of abuse, and other chemical unknowns. The instruments will be utilized in the Santa Fe Forensic Laboratory, Las Cruces Forensic Laboratory and Hobbs Forensic Laboratory to strengthen the Forensic Drug Chemistry Unit's capabilities for analyzing unknown substances. 

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies/Agriculture/Community Facilities Grants

Project Name: Expansion of East Mountain Food Pantry

Recipient: East Mountain Food Pantry

Address: 1342 New Mexico 333, Suite B, Tijeras, NM 87059-7351

Amount Requested: $875,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to Construct a Purpose-Built Facility for the East Mountain Food Pantry. The Pantry will acquire land and construct a purpose-built facility to enable the Pantry to more efficiently and safely provide life-sustaining food for a larger number of households in the East Mountain community who are struggling with food insecurity. 

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies/Agriculture/Community Facilities Grants

Project Name: Sandoval County Animal Shelter

Recipient: Sandoval County

Address: 1500 Idalia Road, Building D, Bernalillo, NM 87004

Amount Requested: $1,500,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to address the acute shortage of 24/7 Emergency Veterinary Care in New Mexico in general, especially after a similar facility in Santa Fe closed. This facility will help fill that gap. New Mexican students are forced to go out of state for Veterinary School which creates a brain drain in the area. This project would offer an in-state practicum option that would help create a retention bridge back to New Mexico. 

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Labor, Health, Human Services, and Related Agencies/Health Resources and Services Administration

Project Name: Behavioral Health Clinic Expansion

Recipient: First Nations Community HealthSource

Address: 5608 Zuni SE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87108

Amount Requested: $1,000,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to expand First Nations Community HealthSource’s behavioral health site to include medical, dental, cultural wellness/Traditional Healing and an array of support services to address the holistic care need of Albuquerque’s urban Indians and other underserved populations. FNCH is requesting $1 million dollars to aid in this initiative to cover the construction and design-related costs. It is anticipated that when this project is fully operational, it will increase access annually to integrated holistic care services to more than 15,000 community members who are without a medical, behavioral health or dental home. 

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Labor, Health, Human Services, and Related Agencies/Health Resources and Services Administration

Project Name: Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless Expansion

Recipient: Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless

Address: PO Box 25445, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87125

Amount Requested: $1,000,000

Project Description and Explanation: This funding will be used to acquire adjacent land to Albuquerque Health Care for the Homeless's health campus to expand access to integrated health care for an increasing number of people experiencing homelessness in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bernalillo County.

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Labor, Health, Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies/Department of Education/Innovation and Improvement

Project Name: Computing Infrastructure and Workforce Development

Recipient: University of New Mexico

Address: 1 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131

Amount Requested: $1,500,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to meet the growing demands of this cybersecurity and data science workforce, the University of New Mexico needs to modernize computational infrastructure to encompass big-data computing hardware and data storage. Additionally, funds are needed to develop curricula for new data science, high performance computing, and cybersecurity programs and to support teacher participation in professional development activities to meet the needs of the New Mexico population in data science. 

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Labor, Health, Human Services, and Related Agencies/Health Resources and Services Administration

Project Name: Mobile School Based Health Center Acquisition

Recipient: Bernalillo County

Address: 415 Silver Ave SW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102

Amount Requested: $400,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to purchase and equip two mobile School Based Health Centers that will provide preventative medical, dental, mental, and COVID-19-related health care services to four Albuquerque Public Schools campuses that serve a combined total of 2,500 students and their families. 

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Labor, Health, Human Services, and Related Agencies/Health Resources and Services Administration

Project Name: Albuquerque Sobering Center

Recipient: City of Albuquerque

Address: 400 Marquette NW, Suite 504, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102

Amount Requested: $6,800,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to renovate an existing City-owned building and to purchase associated equipment to house a maximum 60-bed medical sobering center at the centrally-located, newly acquired Gibson Health Hub facility. 

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Labor, Health, Human Services, and Related Agencies/Health Resources and Services Administration

Project Name: Albuquerque Adult Learning Center Expansion

Recipient: Albuquerque Adult Learning Center

Address: 1500 Walter St SE Suite 220, Albuquerque, NM 87102

Amount Requested: $600,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to create a visible space that invests in diverse people with high needs, fortifies relationships, streamlines administrative operations, and promotes efficiency and more equitable referrals for services in the neighborhood and metro area.

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies/Agriculture/Community Facilities Grants

Project Name: Mountainair Waste Water Facility

Recipient: Town of Mountainair

Address: 105 E Broadway, PO Box 115, Mountainair, New Mexico 87036

Amount Requested: $2,500,000

Project Description and Explanation: This proposed project would make necessary improvements to the Town's wastewater treatment facilities, a basic public service benefiting the entire population of Mountainair.

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies/Agriculture/Community Facilities Grants

Project Name: Families First Economic Justice Project

Recipient: Partnership for Community Action

Address: 722 Isleta SW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87105

Amount Requested: $650,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding for the Families First Economic Justice Project will facilitate a multiracial, cross generational coalition of Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) community leaders to address systemic inequities in economic development, asset building, and access to capital in a post-COVID-19 world.

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies/Agriculture/Community Facilities Grants

Project Name: EMS and Fire Station

Recipient: Pueblo of Sandia

Address: 481 Sandia Loop, Bernalillo, New Mexico 87004

Amount Requested: $1,500,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to benefit its Fire and EMS facility by decreasing response times and increasing quality services to the community administered by the Pueblo.

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies/Agriculture/Community Facilities Grants

Project Name: Mobile Crisis Team

Recipient: State of New Mexico, Human Services Department

Address: 490 Old Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Amount Requested: $2,800,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to provide acute mental health crisis stabilization at home or in the community within a maximum of 90 minutes. A two-member team operates 24/7/365, providing crisis intervention, screening and assessment, referrals to time limited follow up services.

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FY2023 NDAA Project Funding Requests

Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Air Force

Project Name: Future Academic Space Research Program

Recipient: Kirtland Air Force Base

Address: 2050 Wyoming Blvd. SE, B20684, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117

Amount Requested: $680,000

Project Description and Explanation:COSMIAC is asking for project funds for its Future Academic Space Research (FASR) program. COSMIAC’s role is to promote innovations in advanced technology that can be used for aerospace and military applications. COSMIAC focuses on hiring sophomore minority students from the School of Engineering. The purpose of the FASR program specifically is to support the growth of the COSMIAC facilities for new students, staff, and faculty for space enterprise research. The program also includes a STEM component, designed to create the engineering workforce of tomorrow. Funds for the FASR program would be used to provide students with necessary supplies. 

Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Military Construction, Defense-Wide

Project Name: Microgrid Demonstration Project

Recipient: Kirtland Air Force Base

Address: 2050 Wyoming Blvd. SE, B20684, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117

Amount Requested: $5,000,000

Project Description and Explanation: Additional funding to enable the expansion of an existing microgriddemonstration project on the grounds of Kirtland Air Force Base, to increase installation energy and cyber resilience. Microgrid demonstration projects, like the one located on the grounds of Kirtland Air Force Base, enhance overall Air Force and Department of Defense readiness by increasing mission assurance while lowering costs to the Department and increasing cyber security resilience.

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation, Air Force

Project Name: New Space Ignitor

Recipient: Kirtland Air Force Base

Address: 2050 Wyoming Blvd. SE, B20684, Kirtland AFB, NM 87117

Amount Requested: $3,200,000

Project Description and Explanation: The NewSpace Ignitor is a concept to develop and build a comprehensive small satellite test and evaluation center in New Mexico. The concept is to build a facility that would allow developers of small satellites to test out new concepts and equipment rapidly and at low cost. This would be done in a fully integrated facility capable of conducting thermal vacuum and vibration testing, electronic equipment calibration, software simulation, and component testing and checkout. Currently, much of this testing is done at separate facilities throughout the country adding time, cost, and complexity to the testing.

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FY2022 Community Project Funding Requests

Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies/Justice/Byrne Justice Assistance Grants

Project Name: Trauma Recovery Center for Victims of Violent Crime

Recipient: City of Albuquerque, Albuquerque Police Department

Address: 1 Civic Plaza, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87102.

Amount Requested: $1,000,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to initiate the development of a Trauma Recovery Center to serve victims of violent crime. The gap between the number of people who experience violent crime and those who receive help, beyond the resolution of their case, is large and even larger for communities of color and other under-served and unserved victims of violent crime. The Trauma Recovery Center model provides assertive outreach and engagement to engage crime victims in services. Trauma Recovery Center model evaluations have found that participants engage more in services than others in similar situations and show more improvement in overall health.

Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Labor, Health, Human Services, and Related Agencies/Department of Education/Innovation and Improvement

Project Name: Restoring to Health Implementation Program

Recipient: Youth Development Inc

Address: 3411 Candelaria Rd. NE, Suite J, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87107.

Amount Requested: $850,000

Project Description and Explanation: This demonstration project will allow for a comprehensive parenting/child innovative program that is cultural competency with multi-generational approach to community programming ensuring the root of the cause of difficulty with parenting, child raising, poverty and behavioral health are monitored intensively by case management. The program will support Native American Indian youth and their parents with a direct programming initiative focusing on trauma, employment, behavioral health, toxic stress implication and healthcare access, care, and treatment, and producing superior outcomes.

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies/Agriculture/ReConnect Program

Project Name: Moriarty fire facility

Recipient: City of Moriarty

Address: 201 Broadway Street, Moriarty, New Mexico, 87035.

Amount Requested: $7,000,000

Project Description and Explanation: The fire facility in Moriarty is an aged building, but services the region for all services and has recently increased personnel to necessitate increased space and operations. With the recent emergency order, the fire department has been instrumental in vaccine distribution and aid to the community and region and with a new facility, could be invaluable to the city of Moriarty and the entire region.

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Labor, Health, Human Services, and Related Agencies/Health Resources and Services Administration/Program Management

Project Title: Renovation of Research Facilities

Recipient: The University of New Mexico

Address: Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87131.

Amount Requested: $1,500,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to renovate outdated research labs. Renovated state-of-the-art facilities enable new discoveries and treatments improving lifespan and quality of life for the state and US. These aging facilities create significant challenges in the operational capabilities of infrastructure, the design of facilities to support current research models and the ability to support growth in research programs. When both the quantity and age of wet laboratory research space is compared with a range of peer state university health sciences centers, it is clear, HSC facilities are significantly older resulting in 1) older models of research facilities; 2) higher maintenance and operating costs; and 3) reduced competitiveness in the ability to use space as a tool for recruiting and retaining top research teams.

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Financial Services and General Government/Small Business Administration/Small Business Initiatives

Project Title: Adelante Development Center Expansion

Recipient: Adelante Development Center

Address: 3900 Osuna Rd NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87109.

Amount Requested: $1,000,000

Project Description and Explanation: Adelante seeks to increase jobs for people with disabilities through expansion of current Adelante- operated businesses, specifically DiverseIT, and expansion of supported employment services (EmployAbility) for people with disabilities and seniors. If the request is fully funded, Adelante will explore potential development of new, Adelante-operated businesses such as lands keeping and maintenance or hydroponic farming as a business. In addition to the expansion of DiverseIT, Adelante will explore two new business opportunities with the goal to provide jobs and training to 10 individuals. This may be through a set up for hydroponic farming or to create a landscaping training business to compliment the contracts we already have through our Facility Support Services.

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies/Housing and Urban Development/Economic Development Initiatives

Project Title: Daniel Webster Park

Recipient: City of Albuquerque

Address: 1 Civic Plaza, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87102.

Amount Requested: $500,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to complete Phases 3 and 4 of Daniel Webster Park, named after an Albuquerque police officer, shot and killed in the line of duty. Federal funds will be used for construction, including site preparation, creation of green spaces and installation of play equipment and innovative features that comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that will serve children with a wide range of ability challenges.  No park of this type exists in Albuquerque. Completion of Daniel Webster Par will improve and support economic development in an under-served neighborhood. Daniel Webster Park will be an example to the nation of how to lift people up through parks, bring them together and create a more just and equitable society and communities.

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies/Housing and Urban Development/Economic Development Initiatives

Project Title: IPCC Indian Pueblo Community Center and Kitchen

Recipient: Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

Address: 2401 12^th Street NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87104.

Amount Requested: $1,032,800

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to complete the IPOC and IPK and further the mission of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center has been honoring New Mexico’s Pueblos since 1976.  The IPCC is owned and operated by the 19 Pueblos and provides a unique educational experience to the thousands of visitors each year.  The IPCC includes a 10,000 square foot museum of the history and artifacts of traditional Pueblo cultures and their contemporary art for more than 40 years.  The Indian Pueblo Kitchen and the Indian Pueblo Opportunity Center are two projects designed with the IPCC’s core mission in mind: to preserve and perpetuate Pueblo culture while providing opportunities for the Pueblo people to better their lives.

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Subcommittee/Agency/Account: Labor, Health, Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies/Department of Education/Innovation and Improvement

Project Name: Roots Conservatory

Recipient: New Mexico Black Leadership Counsil

Address: 1258 Ortiz SE, #304, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87108.

Amount Requested: $125,000

Project Description and Explanation: The funding would be used to support the delivery of the Roots Conservatory (RC) Initiative, which entails the Roots Summer Leadership Academy (RSLA) and Roots Explorers Program (REP). The Roots Conservatory's multicultural, year-round programming is geared towards engaging primarily Black youth ages 8-16 and other youth of color. The purpose of the Roots Conservatory Initiative is to integrate arts and asset-based models of engagement that equip the youth served with meaningful tools and skills to develop strong resilience, leadership, and self-esteem that will prepare them for success academically, physically, emotionally, and socially.