The Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners is seeking applications from residents who want to serve on a committee that will help it decide how to spend the county’s portion of the spaceport gross receipts tax.
One-fourth of the quarter-percent tax increase approved by voters in April will be returned to the county for use on spaceport-related activities. The commission intends to use it for education in math, science and business that relates to the aerospace industry.
In June, commissioners created a nine-member advisory committee comprised of representatives from each of Doña Ana County’s three school districts and New Mexico State University’s Education and Engineering colleges, as well as a representative of the aerospace industry, a commissioner and two members of the public.
The Spaceport Educational Advisory Committee will make recommendations to the commission about how to allocate the funding to the Hatch,
Applications must include a letter of interest, a current résumé and three letters of recommendation. The deadline to submit applications is 2 p.m. on July 18. Application packets must be sent to the attention of Jess Williams by fax at (505) 525-5948 or hand-delivered to the