Prioritized projects include clarifier in Bosque Farms; community center in Highland Meadows

Local governments have compiled their prioritized lists of capital projects with the hopes of receiving money in the 2025 legislative session.

The Infrastructure Capital Improvement Plans for 2026 through 2030 for Valencia County agencies contain millions in requests, ranging from community centers to public safety improvements to roads.

Bosque Farms

The village of Bosque Farms is hoping to receive another $10 million for a second wastewater treatment clarifier for sludge processing. The village has received just more than $3.9 million of the $13.9 million needed for the project.

Other projects include a request for $60,000 for an arsenic removal system, $300,000 for fire and police station renovations, $1.6 million for road construction and $80,000 for improvements to the concession area at the village Little League complex.

With the exception of the clarifier project, none of the village’s projects have received funding to date.

The arsenic removal system comes in at a total cost of $5 million, the emergency services renovations are $8 million total, roads are $2 million and the Little League project is $500,000.

Valencia County

Valencia County commissioners are hoping to get a healthy allocation of funding from the Legislature in the form of capital outlay, including an additional $15 million for construction of the new hospital.

The second-ranked project is $750,000 to plan, design, construct and furnish a new multi-generational center in Highland Meadows, a community in the unincorporated part of Valencia County about 40 miles west of the village of Los Lunas. The facility will be about 3,000 square feet.

There is also a request for $500,000 for a sports complex and fair grounds facility in the county, as well as $700,000 for a flood protection plan.

Coming in a No. 5 is a $20 million request to plan, design and construction a new roadway from N.M. 47 east to Manzano Expressway.

Valencia County Older Americans Program

The top projects for the Valencia County Older Americans Program include improvements for three centers and a request for funding for a new multigenerational center on the far west side.

A request for $850,000 has been made for improvements at the Del Rio Senior Center in the city of Rio Communities. Those include expansion of the kitchen, addition of a walk-in refrigerator and freezer, renovations to the restroom and main entrance and replacing flooring.

At the Belen Senior Center, projects include exterior stucco, security upgrades to the kitchen door, hand rails at the front entrance and landscaping improvements. The county has requested $500,000 for the Belen center.

Exercise equipment, upgrades to bathroom facilities and doors to ensure Americans with Disabilities Act compliance is on the list of projects for the Meadow Lake center, as well as recreational equipment such as pool tables and ping pong tables. The request is for $500,000.

In the 2026-30 OAP ICIP, the county is also requesting $800,000 to build the center in Highland Meadows. The Legislature hasn’t allocated any funding for the project, said Melissa Jaramillo, community development director.