HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, N.M.
—
An F-22 Raptor prepares for takeoff at the end of the runway after receiving a
final inspection May 24, 2010.
New Mexico conference room
President Obama talks about education in America
A Development Plan for New Mexico's Future
SANTA FE,
NM
(By
Jon
Garrido, The Jon Garrido Network)
August 23, 2010 —
With substantial
large scale private
sector commercial,
industrial & residential
development
experience as the former Vice
President for
Planning and
Development for Valgroup formerly
the largest real
estate development
company in Arizona
with over 6,000
acres of ownership
in the Phoenix area,
and public sector
experience as the
Director of
Economic
Development
for the City of El
Paso, Texas,
Economic Development
Coordinator for the
City of Tucson,
Arizona, and
Director of
Community and
Economic Development
for the Salt River
Indian Community
adjacent to Scottsdale, Arizona,
I
have considerable
private and public
sector experience
creating jobs,
Foreign Trade Zones
(I created two: Tucson and El Paso),
and utilizing Industrial
Revenue Bonds
(former staff director of the El Paso
Industrial Development Authority) to
finance land
acquisition, build
or buy a facility
and equipment used
to attract companies
to
Texas and liaison
with New Mexico State University at Las
Cruces on development and use of an
input-output model
used to attract
companies to El Paso and Santa Teresa,
New Mexico.
(Jon
Garrido Resume)
It is with this practical professional background
and actual successful first hand experience
—
not theoretical, a 2012 tour of New Mexico towns and cities will take place to
obtain input to
supplement a book I
now writing:
A Clarion Call to Rebuild America
beginning with NM
that together will
be the foundation to
build and formulate
The New
Mexico Economic Development
Plan to create economic
growth to change New
Mexico's future for
the next 25 years.
The future of New
Mexico is economic
development but to
achieve the type
economic development
that is sustainable
requires a solid
foundation to build
on
—
education.
Significant
financial resources
must be directed to
education to attain
an educated work
force of not only
skilled labor and
technicians but also
engineers, commuter
programmers,
mathematicians,
research theorists,
and the other
multitude of
professionals to
take us through the
next 25 years.
To achieve a world
class educational
environment for New
Mexico requires
substantial revenue.
Using a old
metaphor, New
Mexicans should
mortgage the
ranch to send our
children to schools
so they can prosper
from attaining
significant incomes.
As the tide rises
from an educated
work force lifting
all of New Mexico
with increased
revenue including
the State of New
Mexico, new revenue
could be used for
debt service to
retire general
obligation bonds
sold to finance New
Mexico's new
educational thrust
from pre-K to
university PhDs from
a new concept of a
New Mexico global
university now being
conceptualized in
collaboration with
existing New Mexico
universities each
specializing in a
segment of applied
sciences.
This is significant
forward thinking to
begin a new thrust
that may not receive
elected officials'
support. If elected
officials' support
is not forthcoming,
a referendum could
be an alternative
mandate to take the
new educational
program directly to
the New Mexico
electorate for
approval thereby
by-passing the
Governor and New
Mexico State
Legislature.
A proposed New
Mexico Blueprint plan
to include the
educational
component will be a
working draft to
direct new state
programs and
services. It should
be understood by
all, the plan needs
to be flexible to
adapt to future
changes in New
Mexico. The flexible
plan used for
the next 25 years to
direct New Mexico's growth,
will create an
economic development
multi-state,
multi-national regional
hub of commerce,
community, and culture.
