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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Good afternoon, Everyone!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Surely, you’re not wondering why in the world I’m emailing you on a Monday and the first day of the month?! It must be GO BONDS, of course.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Yep – you’ve got six – count ‘em – 6 months to get your remaining 2020 GO Bond allocation spent out and to submit your reimbursement requests to me by the April 1, 2024 deadline.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Not everyone has gotten this far in reading this email. Six library directors have deleted this email because the subject doesn’t pertain to them. Why, you ask? Because THEY have already spent out their
allocations, sent in their paperwork, and gotten their reimbursements.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Artesia Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Eunice Public Library
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Michael Nivison Public Library (Cloudcroft)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Socorro Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Vallecitos Community Center and Library<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Woolworth Community Library (Jal)
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:1.0in"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Wouldn’t you like to see your library’s name in this august list?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">As of October 2, 2023, public libraries have requested 27% of their GO Bond Allocations. Tribal public libraries have requested 15.5% of their GO Bond Allocations. Good thing we have six months left because
there’s a lot of money laying around on somebody’s table!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I look forward to hearing from many of you soon. I’m available to work w/you or your financial personnel if there’re questions or clarifications needed on any of the procedures. I’ll be back in November to
let you know how much progress was made this October.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Get busy…</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif">😊</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> and keep me busy!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Patricia<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">Patricia Moore<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ligatures:none">NEW EMAIL ADDRESS: patricia.moore@dca.nm.gov<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">GO Bond / Public Library Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">New Mexico State Library / Development Bureau<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">1209 Camino Carlos Rey / Santa Fe, NM 87507<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:none">505-476-9724 / 800-340-3890<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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