These materials will help you jump start passage of this transformative tool.

Municipalities

• Model Ordinance
• Sample Ballot Questions
• Sample Resolution

Counties

• Model Ordinance
• Sample Ballot Questions
• Sample Resolutions

“Public support” includes the provision of:

• Land, buildings or other infrastructure
• New broadband infrastructure that does not serve a public facility
• Public-works improvements essential to the location or expansion of a qualifying entity (THINK SITE READINESS)
• Direct loans or grants for land, buildings or infrastructure
• Technical assistance to cultural facilities
• Loan guarantees securing the cost of land, buildings or infrastructure
• Grants for public-works infrastructure improvements essential to the location or expansion of a qualifying entity (THINK SITE READINESS)
• Grants or subsidies to cultural facilities
• Land for a publicly held industrial park (THINK SITE READINESS)
• Land for a publicly owned cultural facility
• Construction of a building for use by a qualifying entity

“Qualifying entities” are:

• • Those that manufacture, process or assemble manufactured products or agricultural products
  • Commercial enterprises for storing, warehousing, distributing or selling products of agriculture, mining or industry
  • Restaurants and lodgers
  • Indian nations, tribes or pueblos or federally chartered tribal corporations
  • Telecommunications sales enterprises
  • Facilities for farmers’ markets
  • Metropolitan redevelopment project developers
  • Cultural facilities
  • Retail businesses
    • in municipalities with populations of 15,000 or less; or
    • in municipalities with populations of more than 15,000 if the project does not receive state backing; or
    • in a county’s unincorporated area

Resources
One Community at a Time: Strengthening New Mexico by Boosting Local Economic Development (White Paper)

House Bill 479 (2019): Excerpt of LEDA LOGRT-pertinent pages from the legislation that became law