A government board led by Gov. Susana
Martinez will provide part of the money to furnish a new Santa Fe courthouse, which could sit vacant
for months before judges can move in next year.
The State Board of Finance
approved $250,000 Wednesday to buy some furniture for the $60 million 1st
Judicial District courthouse, which will be completed this month. Administrative
Office of the Courts Director Arthur Pepin says the building can't be occupied
without an additional $400,000 for furniture and $200,000 for computer
equipment.
Money will be requested from Santa Fe County,
which paid for construction, but the courthouse will sit vacant until summer if
the judiciary has to wait for the Legislature to finance the furnishings.
Martinez vetoed nearly
$1.4 million for courthouse furnishings earlier this year.
Gov. board to pay part of courthouse furniture costs
KRQE - Year after year New Mexico is at or near the top of list for accidental deaths per capita. We're talking drug overdoses, falling down stairs, any kind of accident you can imagine. But some of them are odd. The office of the medical investigator determines the causes of death for more than a thousand people every year. “New Mexico leads the nation in both injury death and unintentional injury deaths,” State Epidemiologist, Dr. Michael Landen, said. Last year the office of the medical investigator handled more than 15 hundred accidental deaths. “For drug overdose we are looking at 500 a year for motor vehicle deaths and falls we are looking at about 300 a year,” said Landen. So why does New Mexico rank so high? “There are probably many reasons but two that stand out are high rates of poverty and significant problems of substance abuse in New Mexico,” said Landen. Read More News New Mexico
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