PUBLIC SCHOOL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ($2.00 MILL) TAX QUESTION

Shall the Board of Education of the Hobbs Municipal School District No. 16, County of Lea, State of New Mexico, be authorized to impose a property tax of $2.00 on each $1,000.00 of net taxable value of the property allocated to the District under the Property Tax Code for the property tax years 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, and 2032 for capital improvements in the District including payments made with respect to lease-purchase arrangements as defined in the Education Technology Equipment Act [Chapter 6, Article 15A NMSA 1978], or the Public School Lease Purchase Act [Chapter 22, Article 26A NMSA 1978], but excluding any other debt service expenses, for: (1) erecting, remodeling, making additions to, providing equipment for or furnishing public school buildings, including teacher housing, and pre-kindergarten classroom facilities; (2) purchasing or improving public school or pre-kindergarten grounds; (3) maintenance of public school buildings, including teacher housing, or public school or pre-kindergarten grounds, including the purchasing or repairing of maintenance equipment and participating in the facility information management system as required by the Public School Capital Outlay Act [Chapter 22, Article 24 NMSA 1978] and including payments under contracts with regional education cooperatives for maintenance support services and expenditures for technical training and certification for maintenance and facilities management personnel, but excluding salary expenses of District employees; (4) purchasing activity vehicles for transporting students to extracurricular school activities; (5) purchasing computer software and hardware for student use in public school classrooms; and (6) purchasing and installing education technology improvements, excluding salary expenses of District employees, but including tools used in the educational process that constitute learning and administrative resources, and that may also include: (a) satellite, copper and fiber-optic transmission; computer and network connection devices; digital communication equipment, including voice, video and data equipment; servers; switches; portable media devices, such as discs and drives to contain data for electronic storage and playback; and the purchase or lease of software licenses or other technologies and services, maintenance, equipment and computer infrastructure information, techniques and tools used to implement technology in schools and related facilities; and (b) improvements, alterations and modifications to, or expansions of, existing buildings or tangible personal property necessary or advisable to house or otherwise accommodate any of the tools listed in this paragraph?

PUBLIC SCHOOL BUILDINGS ($4.00 MILL) TAX QUESTION

"Shall the Board of Education of the Hobbs Municipal School District No. 16, County of Lea, State of New Mexico, be authorized to impose a property tax of $4.00 on each $1,000.00 of net taxable value of the property allocated to the District under the Property Tax Code for the property tax years of 2027, 2028, 2029, 2030, 2031, and 2032 for the purpose of the following capital improvements to public schools in the District: expenditures, including payments made with respect to lease-purchase arrangements as defined in the Education Technology Equipment Act [Chapter 6, Article 15A, NMSA 1978] but excluding any other debt service expenses, for: A) erecting, remodeling, making additions to, providing equipment for or furnishing public school buildings, including teacher housing and pre-kindergarten classrooms belonging to the District or charter school located in the District; B) payments made pursuant to a financing agreement entered into by the District or a charter school for the leasing of a building or other real property with an option to purchase for a price that is reduced according to payments made; C) purchasing or improving public school grounds; D) purchasing activity vehicles for transporting students to and from extracurricular school activities; provided that this authorization for expenditure does not apply to school districts with a student MEM greater than sixty thousand; E) administering the projects undertaken pursuant to Subsections A) and C) of this section, including expenditures for facility maintenance software, project management software, project oversight and District personnel specifically related to administration of projects funded by the Public School Buildings Act; provided that such expenditures shall not exceed five percent of the total project costs; and F) purchasing and installing education technology improvements, excluding salary expenses of District employees, but including tools used in the educational process that constitute learning and administrative resources, and that may also include: (1) satellite, copper and fiber optic transmission; computer and network connection devices; digital communication equipment, including voice, video and data equipment; servers; switches; portable media devices, such as discs and drives to contain data for electronic storage and playback; and purchase or lease of software licenses or other technologies and services, maintenance, equipment and computer infrastructure information, techniques and tools used to implement technology in schools and related facilities; and (2) improvements, alterations and modifications to, or expansions of, existing buildings or tangible personal property necessary or advisable to house or otherwise accommodate any of the tools listed in this subsection?