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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Directors,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">I would like to announce that the Purchase Orders for your 2018 GO Bond allocations are now available. These will be emailed out to you individually, later today. If you have a personal email address where
you’d rather receive your PO, please let me know that address.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Please share these documents and any other GO Bond-related correspondence with the finance staff that you work with in your Tribal Administration, or with your fiscal agent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Your 2018 GO Bond allocations is available to you until April 1, 2022. All reimbursement requests must be in to the State Library ninety days prior to the GO Bonds Reversion Date of June 30<sup>th</sup>,
2022. Ninety days prior is April 1, 2022. Your 2016 GO Bond allocation must be spent before you can access your 2018 GO Bond allocation,
<u>unless</u> you need to combine dollars for a large project. Contact me for further details.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"> <i>Note that the bill language for the 2018 GO Bonds includes</i></span><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">:
</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121">“…</span><em><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">for equipment, library furniture, fixtures and supplemental library resource acquisitions, including print, non-print and
electronic resources, collaborative library resources and information technology projects, and for the purchase and installation of broadband internet equipment and infrastructure….”<o:p></o:p></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#212121"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">The <a href="http://www.nmcpr.state.nm.us/nmac/parts/title04/04.005.0008.htm">
NMAC 4.5.8</a> which governs the General Obligation Bonds provides definitions for the
<i><u>library resources</u></i> and <i><u>equipment</u></i>. The <b>Guidance Sheet</b>, which can be found on the State Library website,
<a href="http://nmstatelibrary.org/services-for-nm-libraries/funding-libraries/go-bonds/2018-gobs">
http://nmstatelibrary.org/services-for-nm-libraries/funding-libraries/go-bonds/2018-gobs</a>, provides further information on eligible purchases.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Please don’t hesitate to contact me w/any questions or needed clarifications. I am always ready to work directly with Tribal finance staff when needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#403152">Patricia<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#403152">Patricia Moore<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#403152">G.O. Bond and Technology Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#403152">NM State Library - Development Bureau<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#403152">505.476.9724 // 800.340.3890<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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