New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 2 - PUBLIC FINANCE
Chapter 110 - LOCAL GOVERNMENT GRANTS
Part 2 - SMALL CITIES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
Section 2.110.2.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. "Asset management" means a systematic process of maintaining, upgrading, and operating physical assets cost-effectively. It combines engineering principles with sound business practices and economic theory, and it provides tools to facilitate a more organized, logical approach to decision making. It is a planning process that ensures the most value from each asset with a plan to rehabilitate and replace them when necessary. An accurate and up-to-date asset management plan will help communities comply with the government accounting standards board's statement #34 (GASB 34), an accounting standard for publicly owned systems.

B. "Blighted area" means, pursuant to the Metropolitan Redevelopment Act, Section 3-60A-4 NMSA 1978 (as amended), "an area within the area of operation other than a slum area that, because of the presence of a substantial number of deteriorated or deteriorating structures, predominance of defective or inadequate street layout, faulty lot layout in relation to size, adequacy, accessibility or usefulness, unsanitary or unsafe conditions, deterioration of site or other improvements, diversity of ownership, tax or special assessment delinquency exceeding the fair value of the land, defective or unusual conditions of title, improper subdivision or lack of adequate housing facilities in the area or obsolete or impractical planning and platting or an area where a significant number of commercial or mercantile businesses have closed or significantly reduced their operations due to the economic losses or loss of profit due to operating in the area, low levels of commercial or industrial activity or redevelopment or any combination of such factors, substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth and economic health and well-being of a municipality or locale within a municipality or an area that retards the provisions of housing accommodations or constitutes an economic or social burden and is a menace to the public health, safety, morals or welfare in its present condition and use."

C. "CDBG" means the small cities community development block grant program.

D. "Council" means the New Mexico community development council.

E. "Council of governments" means a regional association of municipalities, counties and special districts formed to provide planning and other services to its member organization.

F. "Department" means the department of finance and administration.

G. "Division" means the local government division.

H. "Economic development" means an activity that improves a community's economic base by using private and public investments that provide expanded business activity, jobs, personal income and increased local revenues in a defined geographic area.

I. "Federal rules" means code of federal regulations, housing and urban development 24 CFR Part 570 which governs the CDBG program.

J. "ICIP" means an infrastructure capital improvement plan. An ICIP is a planning document developed by a unit of local government, water association, or land grant/merced that includes capital improvement priorities over a five year period and is developed and updated annually. An ICIP includes policy direction, funding time frames, estimated costs, justifications, and details of each specific infrastructure capital improvement project proposed, by year, over the five year period.

K. "Land grant/merced" means a political subdivision of the state organized under Section 49-1-1 through 49-1-23 NMSA 1978, Land Grants General Provisions.

L. "Low and moderate income person" means a member of a household whose income would qualify as "very low income" under the Section 8 housing assistance payments program. Section 8 limits are based on fifty percent of the county median income. Similarly, CDBG moderate income is based on Section 8 "lower income" limits, which are generally tied to eighty percent of the county median low and moderate income.

M. "Non-rural" means a county or an incorporated municipality that does not meet the definition of rural.

N. "Program income" means amounts earned by a unit of general local government or its sub recipient that were generated from the use of CDBG funds.

O. "Rural" means a county with a population of less than 25,000 and an incorporated municipality with a population of less than 3,000. For purposes of determining population a unit of local government, water association, or land grant/merced must use Attachment I at the end of 2.110.2 NMAC.

P. "SBA" means the United States small business administration.

Q. "Set-aside" means a portion of all CDBG funding received by the CDBG program that is annually allocated by the council to be used only for certain set-aside categories that are chosen by the council.

R. "Slum area" means, pursuant to the Metropolitan Redevelopment Act, Section 3-60A-4 NMSA 1978 (as amended), "an area within the area of operation in which numerous buildings, improvements and structures, whether residential or non-residential, which, by reason of its dilapidation, deterioration, age, obsolescence or inadequate provision for ventilation, light, air, sanitation or open spaces, high density of population, overcrowding or the existence of conditions that endanger life or property by fire or other causes, is conducive to ill health, transmission of disease, infant mortality, juvenile delinquency or crime and is detrimental to the public health, safety, morals or welfare."

S. "Units of local government" means an incorporated municipality or county.

T. "Water association" means political subdivisions of the state organized under Section 3-29-1 through Section 3-29-20 NMSA 1978, the "Sanitary Projects Act" or Section 73-21-1 through Section 73-21-55 NMSA 1978, the "Water and Sanitation District Act".