[LWVNM Action] Summary of last night's meeting

[Judy Williams]

Thanks, Jeanne.  The $75 million is for produced water.  But we can discuss
later.  Tom Solomon has a list of reasons why we should oppose it.  Judy

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 10:18 AM Jeanne Logsdon <jlogsdon at unm.edu> wrote:

> Yes, I was at the meeting, Judy. I didn’t bring up the “strategic water
> reserve” that the Governor previously championed because she has apparently
> dropped this idea in favor of a $75 mil program to achieve another water
> objective. I don’t think we know enough now to decide whether to oppose or
> support, but we do need to monitor.
>
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> I did speak up about the importance of funding to implement water
> legislation that we supported in the past 5 years. This is the NM Water
> Advocates plan. I have been in touch with Norm Gaume about the specific
> bills that might be offered, and which legislators will sponsor them. I was
> glad to see that several other Action Committee members are in favor of
> Environment as a priority category.
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> Let’s stay in touch about which bills are likely to be pre-filed.
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>
> Jeanne
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> *From:* Action <action-bounces at mailman.swcp.com> *On Behalf Of *Judy
> Williams via Action
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 12, 2024 10:05 AM
> *To:* LWVNM Action <action at mailman.swcp.com>
> *Cc:* Judy Williams <jkwilliams24 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [LWVNM Action] Summary of last night's meeting
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> Thanks for the notes.  I'm wondering, was Jeanne Logsdon there?  I was
> hoping she would mention the "Strategic Water Reserve."  I really wanted us
> to oppose the $75 million and whatever other related bills arise.
>
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> Was there any discussion?
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> Hannah and I will meet with Katharine Clark and the GIS people next
> Wednesday, and will discuss her GIS bill.  If it's good we will probably
> want to support it.   Judy
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> On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 10:11 AM Akkana Peck via Action <
> action at mailman.swcp.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for a good meeting last night. Here's a summary, for those who
> couldn't make it:
>
> Regular Action meetings during the session will be on Wednesdays at 6pm.
>
> We have a long list of possible priorities; we have to pick three as our
> top priorities to be approved by the LWVNM board. That doesn't mean we
> won't continue to advocate for our secondary priorities!
>
> Some priority areas, with a few bills we think might be discussed in this
> session:
>
> Voting, Elections and Good Government
>     Redistricting – for now
>     Salary Commission – paid legislature
> Environment
>     gas & oil royalty rates – also supports education
>     Water issues – funding to implement past bills, aquifer mapping,
> surface water permitting, non-hunted wildlife
> Health Care
>     Medicaid Forward
>     Healthcare workforce
>     Oversight of insurance & provider consolidation
> Added at the meeting:
>   Immigration: stop sharing of data with ICE. Look at SB135 (2024).
>   Education: keep immigration raids out of schools
>   Housing
>
> If you have other areas you think should be considered, please post it to
> this list, and describe types of bills you expect to see that our positions
> cover. Remember, we can't advocate for anything that isn't covered by our
> positions:
> https://www.lwvnm.org/positions.html
>
> Our next Action meeting will be Wed, Dec 18 at 6pm, to finalize the
> priority list.
>
> Thanks, everybody!
>
>         ...Akkana
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