Regionalization Collaboration Task Force Program/RCTFP

RCTFP promotes  sustainability to  help build and maintain capacity.  

RCTFP provides professional services in the areas of managerial, secretarial and operational services. Collaboratively RCTFP  works to help communities, provide safe, clean affordable water for the health, safety, peace, and general welfare of New Mexico, residents and visitors, all while training, updating and improving water and wastewater facilities

Regionalization Collaborative, Task Force Program initiative helps bring community public water systems/CPWS together and helps  provide managerial secretarial and operational services while training local residents in  local community public water systems  by helping them build capacity and resiliency by offering said services ar an affordable price

 “Meaning CPWS can and shall be able maintain more than what they are currently able to at  now just 0.5%  of their total available income to invest in improvements and updates to their facilities and aging failing infrastructure.) There  should be a determination of what is an acceptable available minimum level of investment from  CPWS I would lean toward a percentage greater than 30%.”   Subsidies would provide adequate funding for the Operational, secretarial and managerial services to community Public Water systems for the health, safety, peace and general welfare of American citizens.  With  the backing of subsidies provided through New Mexico’s Newly passed anti-donation clause that provides funding for new businesses and new hires, new facilities and new structures  RCTFP facilities  can be built in regions throughout New Mexico.  

RCTFP facilities services will be provided to communities in need of rebuilding their capacity and rebuilding their aging failing infrastructure, and will be a safeguard for every CPWS incase of times of sudden, death injury, illness, or vacancy, due to operator, secretarial or managerial offices absence because of family matters, and or displacement, or better work opportunities or necessity of moving to a different location and because of vacancy created because of (this needs work) decisions or personal decisions to move on somewhere else, the regionalization collaboration, task force program will provide temporary services on an as needed basis

Plan of Action:

Create New Non-Profit Business: Regionalization

Collaboration Task Force Program:

Create new facilities, purchase of real property, hire new staff, build / purchase equipment inventory and begin building and recruiting people in all regions of New Mexico 

Create business model as described above

Provide services at an affordable price so as to promote and create sustainability and resiliency for all community public water systems 

Funding will be provided through: 

FUNDING FROM ARTICLE IX NEW MEXICO CONSTITUTION SECTION 14 SUBSECTION:  D.     

NEW TRAINING CENTER BUILDINGS AND NEW INFRASTRUCTURE , NEW HIRES, NEW BUSINESS, NEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES BY PROVIDING LAND, BUILDINGS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE FOR FACILITIES TO SUPPORT NEW EXPANDING BUSINESS IF THIS ASSISTANCE IS GRANTED PURSUANT TO GENERAL IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION THAT IS APPROVED By A MAJORITY VOTE OF THOSE ELECTED TO EACH HOUSE OF LEGISLATURE . THE IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION SHALL INCLUDE ADEQUATE SAFEGUARD TO PROTECT PUBLIC MONEY OR OTHER RESOURCES USED FOR THE PURPOSE AUTHORIZED IN THIS LEGISLATION SHALL FURTHER PROVIDE THAT: 

 FUNDING PROVIDED  BY ARTICLE IX NEW MEXICO CONSTITUTION SECTION 14   SUBSECTION:    H.

Nothing in this section prohibits the state from expending state funds or resources for the purpose of providing essential services primarily for residential purposes if the assistance is granted pursuant to general implementing legislation approved by a majority vote of those elected to each house of the legislature. The implementing legislation shall provide for accessibility to essential services primarily for residential purposes and include safeguards to protect public money and other public resources used for the purposes authorized in this subsection. As used in this subsection, "essential services" means infrastructure that allows internet, energy, water, wastewater or other similar services as provided by law.

This has real opportunity for  business investors to provide professional services and technical services paid for by the taxpayer through to ensure essential services to meet capacity of any community required to maintain state and federal regulations who by electing by popular vote in favor for professional services provided by Regionalization Collaboration Task Force  programs funded by the taxpayer ARTICLE IX NEW MEXICO CONSTITUTION SECTION 14   SUBSECTION :    H. to ensure safe clean affordable water in a training program that provides sustainability and resiliency to community public water systems that will save possibly hundreds of millions of dollars. The  Office of Inspector General’s 2018 Report stated that hundreds of millions of dollars were lost in overpaid invoices due to United States Environmental Protection Agency 50% vacancy  nation wide since fiscal year 2000

This is the Regionalization Collaborative Task Force Program we need in place to utilize the essential services and resource  to improve and develop local capacity, ,resiliency and sustainability provided through and by the  Regionalization Collaboration Task Force Program 

New Mexico communities are currently only able to invest  in infrastructure improvements and updates to community public water systems at just a 1/2 of percentage each fiscal year (according to Southwest Environmental Finance Center) and would need to build projects that would last up to 200 years in order to be resilient enough to last its life expectancy at this current rate of service investment.  We need help facilitate affordable funding to help communities invest more to improve and increase productive services through legislative efforts in providing affordable funding and technical assistance to enhance essential services at the local level  to promote and facilitate managerial, secretarial, operational and financial capacity for the safety, health, peace and general welfare of the people. 

Collaborating opportunities promote and incentivize communities by helping CPWS meet state and federal compliance requirements required by and through state and federal regulations in providing services that will facilitate CPWS ability to provide safe clean affordable water without over burdening the rate payers and stake holders.  

Additional regulations continue each legislative session and as Secretary James Kenny spoke to the Senate Finance Committee in the last 2023 legislative session where he said (and I paraphrase) if all these Bills that are being presented to the legislature today were to pass, the state would have over 380 million dollars in unfunded mandates in addition to what unfunded mandates that are already in the current statute.  

Funding source for Regionalization Collaboration Taskforce Program can be funded through Article IX, Section 14, Subsection H. Nothing in this section prohibits the state from expending state funds or resources for the purpose of providing essential services primarily for residential purposes if the assistance is granted pursuant to general implementing legislation approved by a majority vote of those elected to each House of the Legislature. The implementing legislation shall provide for accessibility to essential services primarily for residential purposes and include safeguards to protect public money and other public resources used for the purposes authorized in this subsection. As used in this subsection, "essential services" means infrastructure that allows internet, energy, water, wastewater or other similar services as provided by law.!

Funding provided by Subsection d.

Nothing in this section prohibits the state or a county or municipality from creating new job opportunities by providing land, buildings or infrastructure for facilities to support new or expanding businesses if this assistance is granted pursuant to general implementing legislation that is approved by a majority vote of those elected to each house of the legislature. The implementing legislation shall include adequate safeguards to protect public money or other resources used for the purposes authorized in this subsection. The implementing legislation shall further provide that:

(1) each specific county or municipal project providing assistance pursuant to this subsection need not be approved by the Legislature but shall be approved by the county or municipality pursuant to procedures provided in the implementing legislation; and

(2) each specific state project providing assistance pursuant to this subsection shall be approved by law.

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Proposal to all counties elected officials: operators, certified public accountants, project manager regional program

Additional funding can be provided by State Revolving Funds/SRF where administrative allocations can be used by like agencies, entities or nonprofit organizations (information concerning funding from SRF’s can be found in Clean Water State Revolving Fund/CWSRF  Intended Use Plan/IUPand the  Drinking Water State Revolving Fund DWSRF’s  IUP