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The public and reporters may attend, record, and document the meeting in full. On the agenda at Branch Realty Commercial Advisers are: 1) Fiscal Watch Reports, 2) Budget Adjustment Request, 3) Capital Projects Updates, and 4) Residence Hall Update.
The discussion at Branch Realty Commercial Advisers will set the financial decisions for the full Board of Regents Meeting on The NNMC Board of Regents will hold a Finance Committee Meeting in Santa Fe at Branch Realty Commercial Advisers on Tuesday, February 24th at 5pm. This meeting, held hidden away from Rio Arriba County and the Española Valley community at Regent Michael Branch's place of business, is subject to the NM Open Meetings Act. Thursday, February 26th (see full agenda at top right), where the Regents will vote on a tuition hike and will unveil their Plan B (or is it Plan G) for building dormitories for out-of-state students as NNMC's enrollment continues to decline precipitously. Regent Michael Branch, whose term expired on December 31, 2014, tightly controls the Finance Committee and the Board of Regents. Branch's Commercial Real Estate company's ties to the multimillion dollar dorm development project (projected by NNMC Administration and no-bid consultants to cost over $16 million) is yet to be revealed.
Branch Realty Commercial Advisers is located at: 228 S. St. Francis Drive. Bldg E, Santa Fe, NM 87501. The meeting will be held in the Conference Room. Call (505) 984-8100 for directions, or call the NNMC main switchboard and request Assistant to the President, Amy Peña, who generates agendas and public notices. Ms. Peña fulfills requests for full public agendas and meeting details. NNMC main switchboard: (505) 747-2140. Assistant to NNMC President Barcelo, Amy Peña email contact: amy.pena@nnmc.edu
February 24th UPDATE: When contacted by at NNMC by phone, VP of Finance Assistant Brandi Cordova confirmed at 2:37pm that the Board of Regents Finance Committee Meeting at Branch Realty was not publicly announced, explaining: "Oh, that meeting was not announced so I am not at liberty to share that information."
In clear violation of the Open Meetings Act, the Board of Regents Finance meeting was held as scheduled at Branch Realty with NNMC Administrators and Board of Regents members in attendance. The public was barred from entry at 5pm by VP of Institutional Advancement, Ricky Serna. At left is the internally distributed meeting agenda.
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[1] Download or view full text of New Mexico’s Open Meetings Act online at: http://www.nmag.gov/consumer/publications/openmeetingsactcomplianceguide