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You You We have presented a picture of failed leadership, a picture of failed responsibility, but the past is behind us, and the future holds the promise of hope. We have presented a picture of failed responsibility, but the past is behind us, and the future holds the promise of hope.

Even as a candidate, and I seem anxious to make decisions and provide leadership for the decades ahead. I have to think that this gubernatorial election is the most important we've had in the state's history for the very reason that you just pointed out, because those decisions that are going to have to be made the next four years are going to affect the future of the state for the next several decades, and it's a very crucial area. And he won, Anaya, on the night of his election. All we need to do to make sure that we come out of this morass that we find ourselves in as a result of the national economy is to pull together the plans that we have developed throughout this campaign, to pull those plans together with people who are committed to making sure that we, in fact, utilize government as a tool for the people, and that's exactly what we're going to do. Two months later, Anaya was inaugurated New Mexico's 23rd Governor, prepared for differences of opinion, but determined to pursue his vision of improved education and economic development.

Differences of opinion, of philosophy, of approach are healthy, if those differences are mutually understood and respected, but these differences are destructive when expressed in actions that are discriminatory, prejudicial, greedy, or petty. Educational opportunity, economic growth, and social justice shall be the keystone. The enhancement of our educational opportunities cannot be limited to the traditional avenues. Rather, they must include new vistas of high technology, agriculture, engineering, research, economic, trade, and promotion. By the time of his first state of the state address, the news was bad. Unanticipated revenue shortfalls inherited from the administration of former Governor Bruce King would require a tax increase to keep the state from what Anaya would later call near bankruptcy. The result was called a maintenance budget for the state. The governor's hopes for educational and economic development were on hold.

As we open this legislative session, we must choose between conflicting courses, our changed economic circumstances dictate that our choices are limited. The wisest choice, I am convinced, requires that we eliminate all unnecessary spending and then find the needed revenues to ensure as little disruption to the lives of our citizens as is possible. This course in my judgment clearly calls for and requires a temporary tax increase. Anaya got his tax increase, but at six months into his administration, criticism was beginning to take its toll. Anaya was on the defensive, but still optimistic. The criticism that I think is unfair is that I intend to be a strong governor. I intend to run government. I don't intend for the boards and commissions to be independent. I don't intend for a cabinet secretary to be a would be governor. I don't intend to let a legislator or even the entire legislature together be the governor.

What do you expect the next six months to look like compared to the last? I think even more hectic, more fast pace. We now have the foundation in place. We're ready to blast off. But it didn't work that way. One year following his election, his popularity and the polls down, a frustrated Anaya wondered if he had not been naive about his ability to affect change. I guess I was naive enough to think that I could come into the office, lock myself up here in Santa Fe and proceed to work 20 hour days, seven days a week in a very committed way. And that everybody was going to understand and love me and follow what I was doing. Naive or not. Anaya approached his second legislative session apparently still determined, but his hopes were dashed when a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats killed a proposed educational tax increase, deadlocked with the state house of representatives and necessitated the current special session. It was a session the state's 23rd governor approached with reluctance bordering on resignation. Events seem to have taken their toll.

We have presented a picture of failed leadership, a picture of failed responsibility, but the past is behind us and a future holds the promise of hope. I'm here today to ask your help in providing the leadership New Mexicans deserve and to offer my personal pledge to demonstrate that the system can work, yet must work. My dreams for educational excellence are now simply hopes for educational survival. I hope those dreams do not become a nightmare. I will be available to consult with you on policy issues as needed. My staff is available for technical advice as needed. We will not interfere with your deliberations nor in fringe upon your process. We are here to help if you need us. God bless you. Thank you.

Thank you. One would get the idea from reading the newspapers and listening to the media reports that it's a uniform resistance against the bridges. The first thing I'd like to do is clear up an impression that it seems to me the media has created about the North Valley Neighborhood Association is that we are obstructionists and anti-growth and so forth and that's quite far from the truth.

Basic reason that I'm for the bridges because there's so many people that are going to be in this area. There's no way we can keep the area from growing. There's no way we can keep it from being a half a million and three quarters of a million and a million people. And we have to accommodate those people. And until we have some viable alternative to the automobile, we have to take care of the automobile. We support the goals of the recent ground transportation task force committee that just gave the goals to the city council and those goals are cohere or are the same as ours. They want the Corralis Bridge widened first before we make some kind of terrible mistake in building bridges we may or may not need in the future.

We abandoned the Corralis Road corridor years ago as a viable corridor for building up of additional lanes or lane or lanes. And the reason we did is because there's so many people that live on schools, church and other things that it's better to go where you don't have that much that you're tearing up. The sequence of bridge building is the important thing right now. And if we make a bridge, if we build a bridge right now that may or may not be good for the city for the air of the city and for the planning of the city. It's going to be there and it's going to be used. Whereas if we can widen the Corralis Bridge now, it's already there, it won't do any more damage. And then we will buy enough time probably to return to the century to handle the east west traffic problems. And I think it's short-sighted in the long run for these people to be so opposed to the bridges because most of the meruri ended up in down Rio Grande Boulevard.

To be un-Rio Grande Boulevard as long as I have, you will see the tremendous changes in the amount of traffic. And if we don't have the bridges, what we're going to have is three, four, five, lane, six, lane Rio Grande Boulevard. East west carters are not the answer that what the answer is, is more north south carters on the west mesa. And we have not only improving cores but making a whole new quarter, west of cores that can get people from Rio Rancho to where about 70% of them work south of I-40. You're going to have the vehicles traveling like they do down the south alley, two, three, six, eight miles additional every day in order to get tuned from wherever they're going. And I think that that is a pollution creator if automobiles make pollution, just go any extra miles.

Plus stopping and sitting there with an engine running, but the cars are not going anywhere while they're waiting to get across some congested bridge. I'd like to see some kind of transportation master plan that would be adhered to rather than subverted every time that somebody wants to come in and put a factory or get a variance in zoning. As they did at the west end of El Pueblo, the city fought that change in zoning all the way to the Supreme Court and now they're supporting the bridge, which will make that shopping center of viable entity. One of the things the North Valley Neighborhood Association would like to see happen is that the money from House Bill 136 be spent immediately on widening the Corralis Carter. Had the State Highway Department done that last year as the legislature instructed them to do, we'd probably be a year away from a new east west corridor. We are going to meet next week to see with our board to see exactly where we can file suit.

Whether we're going to file suit over the environmental impact statement, or whether we're going to file suit for instance the way from a new east west corridor. We are going to meet next week to see with our board to see exactly where we can file suit. We're in the process of now a process right now of planning for the 83 projects to begin as we're looking again at our program at the successes and failures the way we can make it better the way we can streamline the process more and get even more people in the community involved. We are beginning with some public meetings with the arts board, the arts community and the general public. Then we'll go into the planning process of working with city departments with neighborhood organizations and selecting sites and type of art.

Albuquerque voters approved the 1% for art program in 1979. The first piece, Dawn Light by Ed Vega, was in place in the mini park along San Mateo in 1980. In another early project, bus stops were converted to art stops along the Filchicone Transit and Pedestrian Way on Lomas bringing the artworks even closer to the street. With variety in art, one of the program's goals, a collection of illustrations inspired by Don Quixote was commissioned for the special collections library. The illustrations are to be used as a teaching tool to involve children with books and art. Children are also the focus of the new sculpture, lioness and cubs by Una Hahnbury, soon to be dedicated at the Rio Grande Zoo in conjunction with the new carnivore cages. The Albuquerque Art Museum recently unveiled two very different pieces. Doug Hyde's sandstone and marble sculpture walk in beauty stands in an interior courtyard and floating maces, a fountain by Jesus Morales, can be seen in the sculpture garden.

The city's 1% project, Southwest Paita, a sculpture by Luis Jimenez, brought great opposition from its would-be old town neighbors, but will be erected this fall in Martinez town. Nor does local public patronage of the arts have a copyright on controversy. This national endowment for the arts funded sculpture by Bruce Nauman for the UNM campus has been rejected by the campus planning committee, at issue is something called its appropriateness. Apparently, appropriateness is in the eye of the beholder. Dennis Alpinheim's sculpture, dreams and nightmares, journey of a broken weave, has been approved by both the UNM campus planning committee and the city's 1% jury. We feel very good about the program because they're actually one of our interesting things we just found out and that too long ago was both Santa Fe, the state or Santa Fe, the state of New Mexico and Santa Fe City government are considering 1% for our programs based on the success of this program. Even though we're still planning to improve the program and we want to make it even better, we feel good that it does have that kind of reputation.

Thank you very much. .