{"id":1053,"date":"2007-01-03T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/three-counties-to-hold-joint-meeting-on-spaceport\/"},"modified":"2007-01-03T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T21:59:00","slug":"three-counties-to-hold-joint-meeting-on-spaceport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/three-counties-to-hold-joint-meeting-on-spaceport\/","title":{"rendered":"Three counties to hold joint meeting on spaceport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RZwnbgjA8gI\/AAAAAAAAAOM\/2czw9vfwLBA\/s1600-h\/Spaceport+america.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RZwnbgjA8gI\/AAAAAAAAAOM\/2czw9vfwLBA\/s200\/Spaceport+america.gif\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5015927438530638338\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The Do\u00f1a Ana, Otero and Sierra county commissions will hold a joint session in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> later this month to discuss support for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceportamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spaceport America<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The meeting will be held Jan. 15 at 10 a.m. in the commission chambers at the <st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Government<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Center<\/st1:placetype> in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">New Mexico Economic Development Secretary Rick Homans will give a presentation on the project to members of the commissions at the meeting. Officials from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xprize.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">X Prize<\/a> will also be on hand to answer questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The meeting is designed to be a forum where views on the controversial project can be openly expressed. The three commissions involved will all be deciding in the coming months whether to hold elections on the possibility of increasing the gross receipts tax to help fund the spaceport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Do\u00f1a Ana County Commissioner Bill McCamley, a strong supporter of the project, said because the spaceport is such a new concept, it\u2019s important to discuss it publicly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cSome questions we\u2019re going to be able to answer and some questions we\u2019re not going to be able to answer, but it\u2019s important that everyone knows exactly where we are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">McCamley also said the forum will be an opportunity for the three counties to gauge the others\u2019 commitment to the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThis has to be a regional effort to succeed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The meeting was thought up by incoming Do\u00f1a Ana County Commission Chairwoman Karen Perez, who has reservations about the spaceport project and wanted a discussion to try to foster communication before the counties approve tax increase elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI won\u2019t get in the way of voters, but I think all three counties need to get together and discuss whether this is a crapshoot they want to take,\u201d Perez told me last month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Do\u00f1a Ana, Otero and Sierra county commissions will hold a joint session in Las Cruces later this month to discuss support for Spaceport America. The meeting will be held Jan. 15 at 10 a.m. in the commission chambers at the Do\u00f1a Ana County Government Center in Las Cruces. New Mexico Economic Development Secretary Rick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}