New Mexico Register / Volume XXXII, Issue 24 / December 28, 2021

This is an amendment to 4.5.9 NMAC, Sections 10, 11 and 14, effective 12/28/2021.

4.5.9.10 FUNDING SOURCE: Special grants may be funded with federal funds, state funds, and any other funds available to the state librarian and not otherwise restricted. Use of state funds for special grants shall not reduce state grants-in-aid. [No more than twenty-five percent (25%) of federal funds received by the state library shall be used for special grants.]

[4.5.9.10 NMAC - N, 7/1/2015; A/E, 7/1/2021; A, 12/28/2021]

4.5.9.11 ELIGIBILITY: Public libraries and developing libraries that are eligible for state grants-in-aid in a given fiscal year are also eligible for special grants, unless the grant guidelines [otherwise restrict the library’s eligibility] provide otherwise.

[4.5.9.11 NMAC - N, 7/1/2015; A/E, 7/1/2021; A, 12/28/2021]

4.5.9.14 TRANSFER OF FUNDS: Special grants shall only transfer to the grant recipient after the grant recipient signs a contract, agreeing to the terms applicable to the applicable special library program. [The state library will reimburse grant recipients for expenses documented in their state-library approved budget for the special library program.]

[4.5.9.14 NMAC - N, 7/1/2015; A/E, 7/1/2021; A, 12/28/2021]