Legislative Committee

Chair	Ruben F. Aragon	New Mexico Highlands University, Thomas C. Donnelly Library
Secretary	Poppy Johnson-Renvall	Central New Mexico Community College
	Holly Shipp Buchanan	University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
	Barbara Lovato-Gassman	University of New Mexico - Valencia
	Elizabeth Titus	New Mexico State University, Library
	Melveta Walker	Eastern New Mexico University

Priorities:

1. Provide updates for the 2012 initiative.
2. The need to begin advocating for the 2012 GO Bond.
3. Address concerns to State Legislators regarding the distribution of GO Bonds equability between academic, public, school and tribal libraries.
4. To recommend that the tribal libraries be folded into the other categories to assure equitable distribution.
5. Determine our charges for 2011-12.

Proposed 2012 Charges:

1. Advocate (NM Legislature, Council of Presidents, Higher Education Department, etc.) for the New Mexico libraries GO Bond initiative for the 2010 legislative session.
2. Advocate with the Higher Education Department for an increase in the inflationary percentage of the funding formula.
3. Discuss, review, and begin to push for a legislative line item supplemental funding for New Mexico academic libraries.
4. Increase the level of collaboration with NMLA on legislative matters impacting academic libraries in New Mexico.
5. Investigate and recommend to NMCAL members a potential collaborative project that could be funded out of biennial GO Bonds as a NMCAL-wide initiative.