CITY of ALBUQUERQUE
TWENTY FIFTH COUNCIL
COUNCIL BILL NO. R-22-90 ENACTMENT NO. ________________________
SPONSORED BY: Klarissa J. Peña, Tammy Fiebelkorn, Brook Bassan
RESOLUTION
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Establishing Federal Programming And Policy Priorities For The City Of Albuquerque For Federal Fiscal Years 2023/2024 (Peña, Fiebelkorn, Bassan)
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ESTABLISHING FEDERAL PROGRAMMING AND POLICY PRIORITIES FOR THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE FOR FEDERAL FISCAL YEARS 2023/2024.
WHEREAS, the residents of Albuquerque share common aspirations, ambitions, and purposes that form the goals, missions, and responsibilities of the City of Albuquerque; and
WHEREAS, the City of Albuquerque, the State of New Mexico and the Government of the United States of America form the commonwealth through which these aspirations are expressed, pursued and fulfilled in our community; and
WHEREAS, it is in the interest, and the desire of, the City of Albuquerque for the Federal Government to continue with and expand programs that assist local governments to improve public safety, behavioral and public health, housing, indigent care, services for the disabled, protection of the natural environment, improve and maintain critical infrastructure, and help foster sustainable economic development; and
WHEREAS, the Congress of the United States, established Community Project Fund and Congressionally Directed Spending measures in the First Session of the 118th Congress to fund public infrastructure and community-based service programs for State and Local Government; and
WHEREAS, the Administration and the City Council through research and due diligence have identified a list of federal priorities that best utilize the resources and funding programs of the Federal Government to improve the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of Albuquerque; and
WHEREAS, the Intergovernmental Legislative Relations Committee convened in December of 2022 and approved a list of projects to be submitted to the City Council as the City of Albuquerque’s Federal Priorities for Federal Grant and Congressionally Directed Funding.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL, THE GOVERNING BODY OF THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE:
SECTION 1. To further provide for the health, safety, welfare and quality of life of its residents, the City of Albuquerque entreats the Federal Government to create policies and programs that strengthen and expand the City’s responsibilities to its residents that:
• Protects the rights of all citizens.
• Fosters and preserves equity and social justice by implementing policies and programs inclusive of all persons so as to utilize the vast potential present in the diversity of our citizens.
• Develops and expands behavioral health and public safety services that better provide health care and substance abuse services, reduce recidivism through the courts and correctional system, address the needs of the homeless, offer housing assistance and mental health care, create services for the physically and mentally disabled, and institute family, child and senior care services.
• Provides funding for community policing services that develop a working relationship between the citizens who serve as police officers and the citizens they serve, so as to provide public safety through equity, justice, trust and understanding and to support the shared missions between police services and mental health and social service agencies.
• Creates a sustainable economy that generates opportunities for entrepreneurs and existing businesses while providing living wages, a safe work environment, health insurance, sick leave, and retirement benefits for employees.
• Fosters a co-existence with the natural environment to ensure a sustainable water supply, clean air, the conservation of open spaces, water courses, wildlife, and mitigation of the impacts of climate change.
• Provides all citizens access to art, civic engagement, culture, entertainment, history and literature.
• Invests in infrastructure that supports and sustains the health, housing, transportation, and ecological systems critical to sustaining a community.
SECTION 2. The City of Albuquerque encourages the New Mexico Congressional Delegation to advocate for the programs listed in the Attachment to this Resolution.
SECTION 3. That this Resolution be presented and delivered to members of the Congressional Delegation.
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