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Last June, upon accepting the presidency of the New Mexico Association of Counties, District 5 Commissioner Gilbert T. Apodaca vowed to lobby hard at the state level for changing the status quo in several critical areas in which counties are unfairly expected to provide service without adequate revenue or state support.
Doña Ana County Commissioner Gilbert T. Apodaca and State Rep. Mary Helen Garcia are among the dignitaries who will be on hand Wednesday, Dec. 11, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the development and creation of the Doña Ana County Maternal Child Health Council.
Most Dona Ana County offices will be closed Thursday and Friday, Nov. 28-29, 2002, to allow employees to observe the Thanksgiving holiday.
Less than a year ago, Doña Ana County was coping with a catastrophic computer hardware failure that crippled access to information, both internally and externally. The crash inconvenienced scores of Realtors, title company employees, mortgage lenders and Internet-savvy residents who used the county’s on-line research databanks to make their lives easier.
I am proud to announce that Doña Ana County received the 2002 New Mexico Character Counts! Award for Leadership at an Oct. 18 luncheon sponsored by the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce and Albuquerque Character Counts!.
The Doña Ana County Clerk’s Office has been notified that a number of absentee ballots mailed out on Oct. 21 were held up for several days within the postal system.
Most Dona Ana County offices will be closed Monday, Nov. 11, 2002 to allow employees to observe Veterans’ Day. Emergency services and law enforcement will not be affected.
Acting on a court order from Third Judicial District Judge Robert Robles, the Doña Ana County Clerk’s office opened all absentee ballot boxes Friday, Oct. 25, 2002, and compared the coded precinct information on 424 ballots to see whether the voters voted in the correct races.
On Friday, 101 Gold will air a live radio broadcast from the Anthony Volunteer Fire Department, in cooperation with the Doña Ana County Fire Marshal’s Office and the Doña Ana County Office of Public Information and Special Projects.
Interim Doña Ana County Clerk J. Joe Martinez and his staff discovered a clerical error Oct. 23 that resulted in several dozen incorrect absentee ballots being mailed to voters.
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